Sign after sign after sign...

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...ing-nation/ar-AAhiLW1?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=UE07DHP
This is so sad, is there no way to help these people?

 

Persecution of Christianity is here! It will only get worse.

So sad.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...rcibly-dragged-air-force-ceremony-saying-god/

 

Well we knew the persecution would come within and from the military soon enough and this is just the tip of the iceberg. I feel for God loving service men and women today. What will they do?

 

Sad indeed, but a reality to all of us soon enough. People have been warned, stock up..... at least for 6 months minimum.

 

Twisted — A Catholic Bishop Blames Christianity for a Muslim Murdering 50 in Orlando
The cock crows for Bishop Lynch of St. Petersburg.
https://stream.org/catholic-bishop-blames-christianity-muslim-murdering-50-orlando/

 

Anybody want to bet that Lynch does NOT vote for the Party of Unlimited Abortion & Perversion every two years?

GOD SAVE ALL HERE!!

 

Not to put too fine a point on it, but the biggest sign of the times is right in front of our face, but many refuse to see it.
View attachment 5048

 

Well, that sign is accurate, he's doing a much better job than I.

 

Yeah....whatta guy!

TERRI SCHIAVO’S FAMILY COMMENTS ON BP. LYNCH RETIREMENT

"As a Catholic myself, any criticism I offer of Bishop Lynch is rooted in my love for, and obedience to, the role of any bishop in shepherding the faithful," Schindler begins. "That being said, Bishop Lynch has been a poor moral leader."

"The worst thing that can happen when you've got your hand out for help is for someone to spit in it," he continued. "In my family's experience, Bishop Lynch was like the man spitting in the hand of a person in need."

Schindler recalled his families' pleas to the bishop for support or for a public statement regarding the immorality of depriving his sister of food and water — an end-of-life practice condemned by Church teaching — which were met instead with "weak platitudes that served to endorse an estranged husband's death wish for his wife."

According to Schindler, he will never forget "one of [Bp. Lynch's] boldest statements, issued in the weeks leading up to [his] sister’s death." Lynch "didn’t call for mercy for Terri," he recalls, "or for the continuation of basic care, but, unbelievably, for my family and those fighting for my sister to 'step back a little and allow some mediation in these final hours' with those seeking to end my sister's life. They were only her 'final hours' because men like him regarded her right to life as negotiable rather than absolute."

"It remains a spiritual struggle," Schindler admits, "for me to come to terms with what this man did and failed to do as my bishop during the most brutal years in my sister’s life."

"Bishop Lynch visited my daughter just once, for a few moments," asserts Terri's mother, Mary Schindler. "And at a key moment in my daughter's legal defense, Bishop Lynch allowed a local priest named Fr. Gerard Murphy to testify — against my daughter. Father Murphy admitted his testimony was contrary to Catholic teaching, and that he had permission from Bishop Lynch to share it. As a mother, I take comfort in the fact that God knows all the ways that Bishop Lynch failed my daughter."

http://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/terri-schiavos-family-comments-on-bp.-lynch-retirement

And this was what I remembered most when the Bishop's name came up here:

Bishop Lynch further insulted Terri and abused his authority by forbidding his priests to speak up for her or to minister to her at the hospice.

 

The Breitbart article below has graphic images of what is going on behind the lines in ISIS controlled territory taken from an online jihadi forum.

I am posting the article to show the continuing deterioration of the Middle East. I have only included one picture (non-graphic). The full article is posted at: http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/...usual-international-forces-close-strongholds/

"As Iraqi and international forces make preparations ahead of a final offensive on Mosul, the Islamic State’s stronghold in Iraq, and Russian forces continue their assault on Raqqa, IS’s Syrian “capital,” the radical organization’s propaganda apparatus is apparently trying to maintain an image of business as usual in its under-siege fiefdom.


IS published pictures of busy markets, stoning of suspected prostitutes, execution of a suspected traitor (above), and amputation of the legs of those who committed “immorality.”


In the IS-controlled Dijla region in Iraq, four suspected prostitutes were pictured being stoned in what the organization called “a religious commandment.” In the pictures, an IS operative is seen standing next to a pile of rocks and reading out the “indictment” in front of an angry mob, while the bystanders are then invited to stone the convicts, probably to death.




Similar pictures from Raqqa show the execution of a presumed collaborator with the US-led coalition or “the Crusader coalition” in IS’s words. Here too, after being read the “sentence” in front of an angry mob, the convict is crucified and stabbed in his chest, then shot in the head.

After the crucifixion, the body of the deceased is left hanging with a sign attached to him, saying: “This is the spy Muhamad Adnan, who gave away information about houses and military barracks with a view of having them bombed and their Muslim dwellers killed.”

In pictures emanating from Afghanistan’s Khorasan region, which is partly controlled by IS, the organization’s members are seen amputating the limbs of men suspected of “disturbing the peace on earth.”


It is unclear what offense they committed, but they were punished “in keeping with Sharia law,” the statement said.

But in Mosul, the “capital of the caliphate” in Iraq, IS labors to emphasize that life goes on as usual with pictures of the city’s busy markets, whose stalls are filled with fresh produce.

 

lots of strife between US/NATO and Russia over taking out Assad....US ready to move in and Russia stating this is an act of war against Russia....this could be the powder keg ready to blow....stay tuned. Escalating as I write.

 

To think I came over to this forum from the one about Pope Francis because I thought it might be less distressing! And the word 'like' is rather a misnomer in these cases.

May the Lord God have mercy on us all.

 

Donna, where are you reading about this? The stories I see mostly focus on Trump firing his campaign manager and the Orlando 911 tapes.

 

I saw this earlier but I figured you might have become tired of my Russia news articles, I guess I skipped the big one:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-raps-russia-over-airstrikes-in-syria-1466355926

PS - I am not certain that this is what Donna has mentioned but it is the latest that I have seen.

Oops, here's 2 more:
http://dailysignal.com/2016/06/20/nato-sends-clear-message-to-putin/
http://www.inquisitr.com/3224904/3224904/

 

U.S. and Russian Jets Clash Over Syria

American and Russian fighter jets had a tense showdown in the skies above Syria as the Russians dropped bombs on U.S.-backed rebels.

U.S. and Russian fighter jets bloodlessly tangled in the air over Syria on June 16 as the American pilots tried and failed to stop the Russians from bombing U.S.-backed rebels in southern Syria near the border with Jordan.

The aerial close encounter underscores just how chaotic Syria’s skies have become as Russia and the U.S.-led coalition work at cross-purposes, each dropping bombs in support of separate factions in the five-year-old civil war.

The near-clash also highlights the escalating risk of American and Russian forces actually coming to blows over Syria, potentially sparking a much wider conflict between the world’s leading nuclear powers.

The incident began when at least two twin-engine Su-34 bombers, some of Moscow’s most advanced warplanes, struck what the Pentagon described as a “border garrison” housing around 200 U.S.-supported rebels in At Tanf on the Syrian side of the Syria-Jordan border.

The rebels had been “conducting counter-ISIL operations in the area,” the Pentagon stated on June 18, using an alternative acronym for ISIS.

The United States and its allies in Syria clearly did not expect the air strike. The rebels in At Tanf are party to a shaky ceasefire agreement between rebel forces and the regime of Syrian president Bashar Al Assad—and, by extension, the Russian military contingent backing Al Assad. The Los Angeles Times reported that Russian planes had not previously been active over At Tanf.

The Su-34s’ initial strike wounded, and perhaps killed, some of the rebels in At Tanf.

The U.S. Navy scrambled F/A-18 fighters to intercept the Russians, the Los Angeles Times reported. The Navy has deployed two aircraft carriers to the region for strikes on ISIS. As the F/A-18s approached the Su-34s, officials with U.S. Central Command—which oversees America’s wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan—used a special hotline to contact their Russian counterparts directing Russia’s own intervention in Syria.

Arriving over At Tanf, the American pilots apparently spoke directly to the Russian aviators. “Pilots CAN communicate with one another on a communications channel set up to avoid air accidents,” Central Command confirmed in a statement to The Daily Beast.

Washington and Moscow had established the hotline as part of a so-called Safety of Flight Memorandum of Understanding that the two governments signed in October specifically in order to avoid the kind of aerial confrontation that occurred over Syria last week.

With the American jets flying close enough to visually identify the Su-34s, the Russians departed the air space over At Tanf. Some time shortly thereafter, the F/A-18s ran low on fuel and left the area in order to link up with an aerial tanker. That’s when the Su-34s reportedly returned to At Tanf—and bombed the rebels again.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the second strike killed first-responders assisting survivors of the first bombing run.

The next day, senior U.S. Defense Department officials organized an “extraordinary” video conference with Russian counterparts to discuss the incident. The meeting included Acting Assistant Secretary for International Security Affairs Elissa Slotkin and U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, a strategic planner on the Pentagon’s joint staff, plus unspecified Russian Ministry of Defense officials.


“Department officials expressed strong concerns about the attack on the coalition-supported counter-ISIL forces at the At Tanf garrison, which included forces that are participants in the cessation of hostilities in Syria, and emphasized that those concerns would be addressed through ongoing diplomatic discussions on the cessation of hostilities,” Defense Department spokesman Peter Cook explained in a statement.

"Regarding safety, department officials conveyed that Russia’s continued strikes at At Tanf, even after U.S. attempts to inform Russian forces through proper channels of on-going coalition air support to the counter-ISIL forces, created safety concerns for U.S. and coalition forces,” Cook continued. “Department officials requested Russian responses to address those concerns.”

Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov confirmed, via the country’s state-owned media, that the teleconference took place—but he did not specify the results of the “extraordinary” meeting.

Russian warplanes had previously shadowed planes belonging to the U.S.-led coalition over Syria, but the coalition always described the Russians’ behavior as “professional.” By contrast, in April Russian Su-24 bombers repeatedly buzzed the U.S. Navy warship USS Donald Cook while the vessel sailed in international waters in the Black Sea. A Pentagon spokesman called the Russians’ actions in that incident “provocative and unprofessional.”

The Kremlin should be keenly aware of the potential for unwanted—and potentially destabilizing—bloodshed that exists in the air over Syria. In November, a Russian Su-24 bomber flying a mission over Syria strayed over the Syria-Turkey border into Turkey—and a Turkish F-16 fighterpromptly shot it down.

The two Russian crew members ejected. One flier died when Syrian rebels on the ground opened fire on his parachute. Russian, Syrian, and Iranian forces launched a complex rescue mission that ultimately retrieved the surviving pilot. One Russian marine died and a helicopter was destroyed during that operation.

The fallout from the November incident continues, with Russia and Turkey exchanging threats—and Moscow imposing economic sanctions on Ankarra including limits on some food imports to Russia from Turkey.

It’s not clear how close the U.S. fighters came to attacking and potentially shooting down the Su-34s over At Tanf. Central Command declined to say what the rules of engagement are for American pilots flying over Syria. “ROE are actually specifics that we don’t get into,” Central Command said in a statement.

The last time a U.S. military warplane shot down a Russian—actually, Soviet—plane was in 1953, over Korea or China, depending on which historians you believe. The last time a Russian or Soviet warplane shot down an American aircraft was in 1970, when a U.S. Army plane strayed over Armenia.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/19/u-s-and-russian-jets-clash-over-syria.html

 

It's sickening to watch the American military provide air cover for these Islamic Mujahideen (oops, I mean "moderate Syrian Rebels"). Thank God for Putin and the Christian-protecting Assad who has the support of the Catholic bishops in Syria.

 

If we attack Assad, I will be ashamed to be American.

 

Russian General Staff: It is Russian patience, not US’, that waning over Syria

MOSCOW, June 20.

It is Russia’s patience - and not the United States’ - that is waning over the situation in Syria, the chief of Russia’s General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, has told the media.

Earlier, US Secretary of State, John Kerry said that while the Syrian President, Bashar Assad and Russia were demanding strict compliance with ceasefire in the whole territory of Syria, the Syrian government troops were pushing ahead with their operation to recapture Aleppo. He remarked that Russia should be aware that patience on Assad’s Syria was wearing thin.

"If anyone’s patience on Syria is waning, it is our patience, not the United States’. We are in full compliance with our obligations to maintain ceasefire and ensure national reconciliation in Syria. In the meantime, the American side always has problems with the ‘opposition under its control," Gerasimov said.

"Whenever we hear claims from the Pentagon we use communication lines not professionally, it gets clear that they are either ignorant of the existing channels of interaction or get wrong information," Gerasimov said. He pointed to the Russian-US rapid reaction center in Geneva and the hot line for the prevention of incidents in the airspace over Syria.

At the same time Gerasimov recalled that the Russian Defense Ministry had for three months supplied the United States with the locations of Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra targets, but the "US partners are still undecided whether there are opposition forces and where there are ‘turncoats’ from international terrorist organizations."

"As a result terrorists in Syria actively regain strength and tensions soar again. It cannot continue this way indefinitely," Grasimov said.

"In their opinion missile bombardments of Syrian government troops and communities by militants should be considered by all as ‘insignificant violations’ of the ceasefire. But any proportionate response to the militants by the Syrian military are at once declared as disproportionate strikes on the opposition," Gerasimov said.
http://tass.ru/en/politics/883602

 

I belong to a "Conspiracy website".....its a hot button tonight....people from all over the world collecting info and sharing what they know/see/ etc.....it's ramping up big time

 

I think the last link that I posted might be it:

http://www.inquisitr.com/3224904/3224904/
Is NATO Inciting A Possible War Between The U.S. And Russia? 6/20/2016 by Teri Webster
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) appears to be inciting a possible war between the U.S. and Russia.

It’s happening because NATO on Tuesday agreed that cyber attacks from Russia are considered an act of war.

Russian hackers reportedly broke into an unclassified Pentagon computer, as well as NATO’s computer network, according to the Associated Press.


The Hillary Clinton state department emails are also playing a part, Zero Hedge reported. The fiasco involved Clinton placing U.S. State Department communications on her “unsecured home computer.”

NATO is maintaining that, since Russian hackers copied emails containing state secrets, it could be construed as an attack against the U.S, according to Zero Hedge.

If Obama declared it a Russian invasion of the U.S., it would “trigger NATO’s mutual-defense clause” that requires all NATO nations to join with the U.S. in going to war against Russia,” Zero Hedge reported.

<img src="http://cdn.inquisitr.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/cyber.jpg" />
[Photo by Joe Raedle, Getty Images]
The foolishness and potentially devastating consequences of such a move was not lost on Frank-Walter Steinmeier, foreign minister of NATO member Germany. He described the policy as “warmongering.”


Talk show host Alex Jones of Infowars.com, agreed.

“The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, in its 60-plus year history, has never put out a statement as broad or as bold or as dangerous as their statement claiming any cyber attacks – any hack attacks – they believe are coming from the land mass area originating on the Internet from Russia, or any Russian-held territories, will be seen as physical acts of war against any NATO member nation or NATO itself or the United States,” Jones said during Sunday’s broadcast.

Jones said he is pro-human and is against any entity attempting to bring about a nuclear war.

“NATO has become a global army,” he said, adding that it has also been affiliated with various terrorist groups, including ISIS. “They’ve been using it as a proxy army in Libya, in Syria, Egypt and Iraq.”

At the end of World War II, NATO emerged from the Nazi Germany power structure and merged with the West, said Jones.

“I’m not saying the New World Order is a Nazi conspiracy, I’m simply saying it’s an inculcation of those different Nazi and collaborator intelligence networks with Western intelligence networks, under and OSS/CIA 1947 National Security Act umbrella,” he said.

“And it’s been operating above the law ever since.”

NATO is the “heart of the world government project,” he said. “And it’s sucking the energy, the money and the livelihood out of all of the different member-states, that are in the E.U. (European Union) and controlled militarily by NATO which is the U.N. (United Nations) army.”

Despite its own corruption and problems, Russia is not the biggest threat, Jones said.

“It’s a very parasitic organization,” said Jones. “So when we hear NATO wants to start a war with Russia, regardless of any problems Russia has or any geopolitical activities they may be involved in, Russia is not one-one hundredth…of the threat to human life than the globalist Anglo-American world government, eugenics-based project.”

Troops from Britain, the U.S. and Germany have been massing in various areas bordering Russia, he said.

“This is very, very dangerous,” Jones said.

<img src="http://cdn.inquisitr.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/bomb.jpg" />[Photo by Three Lions, Getty Images]

Russia announced in May that it is testing a nuclear weapon capable of destroying an entire country in seconds. NATO military experts had nicknamed the missile “Satan II,” the Mirror reported.

What is believed to be the world’s most deadly nuclear missile is also capable of eluding radar detection in other nations.

Current defense technology would not be able to stop it.

[Photo by Paul O’Driscoll/Getty Images]