“So why would we be giving $60 billion to a country in Ukraine that is destroying the Christian faith, persecuting Christians and killing them,”
Christian Congressman Greene
A couple of hours after I posted this prophetic post, the Bill to aid three nations passed!
“Democracy and freedom will always have global significance and will never fail as long as America helps to protect it,” he said. “The vital US aid bill passed today by the House will keep the war from expanding, save thousands and thousands of lives, and help both of our nations to become stronger. Just peace and security can only be attained through strength. We hope that bills will be supported in the Senate and sent to President Biden’s desk. Thank you, America!”
Battle between Proto-ProtestantHussites and Catholic Crusaders; Jena Codex, 15th century
On this day, April 20, 2024 I found the World Voluntary Alliance. Many Jews and Right-wing Christians are contributing to institutions that support their agenda, including their church’s that encourage members to run for public office – as a Republicans! This article says Jews contribute to Israel because they own a “emotional attachment”. Its more than that. All American Jews own dual citizenship, that comes with an obligation to join the IDF – and fight for Israel ! This constitute a Bloodline.
I want to contribute to My Bloodline, and preserve the Roots of My Ancestors. My great grandfather, Wenzel Anton Prescowitz immigrated from Bohemia to Connecticut. Did the Prescowitz line fight the Papal Army. Did WE defend Prague from Catholics Knights, who were armed with the alms of simple Christians, who may not have believed murdering heretics was – Christian? The Protestant Religion sprang from the Victories over the Pope. The Protestant Queen of England appointed Sea Captains to intercept the Habsburg ships laden with gold this family stole from Native Americans – and was used to build an Armada that would kill Christians, and put Elizabeth’s head on a pike.
Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene – is beyond being dangerously ignorant! Soon the Democrats will help the Speaker of the House vote money to give military aid to Israel and Ukraine. Why not contribute directly to this Alliance that incudes the UK? Consider the British Defense Staff Washington. If you contribute to this Alliance you will own Dual Citizenship of your choice. You will get a certificate. Ten minutes ago I made a monogram. Very impressive.
John Presco
President: World Voluntary Alliance
EXTRA! At 8:15 I had breakfast while watching the news. John Sawyer ex-head of M16 spoke about the Russian Threat, as did the Jewish President of Ukraine about military aid and the double standard with Israel, that was defended from Iranian rockets, while Putin’s rockets have destroyed half of his country of 40 million. There are 7 million Jews in Israel.
President Eisenhower and Reagan would arrest Greene – and others – for high treason, because many American Christians back Putin – because Trump backs him. Putin is firing rockets at the citizens of Ukraine in hope Trump – and his Christian Crusaders – get back in power. Christians are all over the world, and see themselves as the United World Front For Jesus. UWFFJ
Two days ago, the Czech Republic made an alliance with Ukraine.
This kind of philanthropy is a traditional expression of emotional attachment to Israel that is shared by Jews of many different backgrounds and denominations. About 2 in 3 American Jews personally feel connected to Israel, according to recent research.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene once again does Putin’s bidding: “This is a war on Christianity. The Ukrainian government is attacking Christians…Russia is not doing that. They are not attacking Christianity. As a matter of fact, they seem to be protecting it.”
“So why would we be giving $60 billion to a country in Ukraine that is destroying the Christian faith, persecuting Christians and killing them, ended their elections (they’re not even allowed to vote out [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelensky even if they wanted to, totally shut down the free and fair press, and have silenced the people in their country and is now drafting young and younger men so they can be slaughtered on the battlefield? I don’t think Americans support that.”
Mikhail Troitskiy, professor of practice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, disagreed with Greene’s characterization.
Ukraine and the Czech Republic have begun negotiations on a draft bilateral security agreement, the Presidential Office said on April 18.
In lieu of NATO membership, Kyiv is seeking to sign similar agreements with as many of its Western allies as possible as it fights Russia’s full-scale invasion.
So far, nine have been signed with Latvia, Finland, the U.K., Germany, France, Denmark, Canada, Italy, and the Netherlands.
“The Czech Republic demonstrates continued leadership in supporting Ukraine and encourages other partners to implement bold and important initiatives, including the supply of ammunition to our country,” Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Ihor Zhovkva said.
“We also feel the Czech Republic’s strong support on the path to Ukraine’s future membership in the EU and NATO.”
Negotiations with the Czech Republic are being conducted by a Ukrainian delegation headed by the head of the Presidential Office, Andriy Yermak.
She went to on to say she’s “not praising Vladimir Putin or Russia in any way,” but added that “it’s clear and obvious” and that Christians are also being attacked in the U.S. and in other countries.
https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-applauds-russia-protecting-christianity-1888145
Is US Jewish giving to Israeli causes significant?
Yes. Nonprofits in Israel say they get an estimated US billion a year in donations from other countries. Over half of that is from Jewish organizations and individuals in North America, mostly the United States. Jewish federations, regional organizations that give collectively to causes in the U.S. and in foreign countries, private family foundations and donor-advised funds provide the lion’s share of this money.
Historically, U.S. Jewish giving to Israeli causes and other forms of financial support for Israel, such as purchases of Israeli bonds, have been motivated by religious, national and cultural traditions.
U.S. Jewish giving to Israeli causes has been significant since the country’s founding 75 years ago in 1948. These donations have supported secular and faith-based programming and organizations, sustained community institutions, funded the work of advocacy organizations and met social and educational needs.
This kind of philanthropy is a traditional expression of emotional attachment to Israel that is shared by Jews of many different backgrounds and denominations. About 2 in 3 American Jews personally feel connected to Israel, according to recent research.
Multiple factors influence the amount of money U.S. Jews give to Israeli causes, including changes to American tax laws regarding donations to overseas organizations. In recent years, Israel’s increasingly conservative social and religious policies – which clash with the liberal politics of most American Jews – have contributed to a decline in giving.
Do wars and other major conflicts usually affect Jewish giving to Israel?
Traditionally, more American Jews have donated to Israeli causes during emergencies, military operations and environmental disasters, and they’ve given more money amid crises.
But those spikes in giving have gotten smaller over the past two decades, and American Jewish giving to Israel has declined in general.
https://news.yahoo.com/israel-getting-surge-donations-us-122005524.html
On the left, U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson speaks during a news conference with House Republican leadership on February 29, 2024 in Washington, DC. On the right, Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks to reporters outside of the U.S. Capitol Building on March 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. Johnson on Thursday responded to Greene’s recent attacks about his job performance. Photos by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images© Photos by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
Marjorie Taylor Greene has introduced an amendment to a foreign aid bill to require members of Congress who vote in favor of providing aid to Ukraine to join the country’s military.
The Republican Georgia congresswoman proposed amendments to the long-negotiated foreign aid bills for Ukraine and Israel on Wednesday night, after House Speaker Mike Johnson told representatives that they would vote on three separate bills. A further bill is being put forward for the Indo-Pacific region, including military funding for Taiwan.
Marjorie Taylor Greene during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol, on Feb. 6, 2024.© Provided by MSNBC
Greene and her fellow ideologues may want to tread carefully. There is a growing backlash on the Christian right against the move to oust Johnson. While Greene’s MAGA influencer antics garner significant media attention, people with longtime clout in the evangelical political trenches, including Johnson himself, have been waging a quiet but scathing war against her in Christian media. The GOP’s evangelical base — vital to Republican hopes in the fall — is hearing that Greene is groundlessly attacking a godly man and imperiling the party’s election chances, thus bringing (in Johnson’s words) the Democrats’ “crazy woke agenda” closer to fruition.
Johnson himself struck first, appearing on the Christian Broadcasting Network with David Brody, a popular evangelical reporter known for nabbing newsy interviews with Washington insiders. The speaker pushed back at Greene’s attacks on his faith, including a tirade on X, railing against Johnson’s supposedly un-Christian capitulation to big government spending: “@SpeakerJohnson you can’t follow Christ and fund full term abortion clinics,” Greene wrote. Never mind that there is no federal funding for abortion, nor is there such a thing as a “full-term abortion.” Greene’s aim was to one-up Johnson as the most ardent Christian patriot in the room.
As recently as last month, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was still sensitive about the whole “Jewish space lasers” thing.
You may recall — who are we kidding, you do recall — that, soon after she was first elected to the House in 2020, Media Matters uncovered a 2018 Facebook post in which Greene theorized that a massive California wildfire had been sparked by a “laser beam or a light beam” being sent down from space as PG&E (and its Rothschild-connected leadership) sought a cleaner form of energy or to build a high-speed train or both. It was, in short, convoluted, in the way that making up nonsense tends to be.
Imposter Christianity and National Jesus
Posted on July 25, 2022 by Royal Rosamond Press
Come unto me – and kneel!
- Former President Donald Trump said Saturday “Americans kneel to God” alone.
- His comments come as the concept of Christian nationalism grows among the far right.
- GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert recently said “the church is supposed to direct the government.”
Why would Jesus be interested in forming a Democracy – from his thrown in Heaven? Jesus is not God, as millions of Crashionialists believe. There is not evidence – Jesus died for our sins. He never says he did – or is going to! Jesus backed the rule of thousands of Monarchist who oppressed the common people, and could care less if they were without sin. Guilty Sinners paid for their fantastic cathedrals.
CRASH – Christian Republicans Against Secular Honesty.
The Crashites believe in being dishonest. Lying is permitted when crashing our secular government and replacing it with a Supreme Crashite Demagogue, like Trump. Some of my Liberal friends fell for this Great Con Game. White National Crashites do not want Jesus to be – INTERNATIONAL – anymore. They want him down in Alabama, down on his knees, praying to Robert E. Lee, who was not for a Christian Nation – AND SLAVES BEING SET FREE! How about women owning the right to vote? Did Jesus die on the cross – for that right?
John Presco
Trump Says ‘Americans Kneel to God’ As Christian Nationalism Grows in GOP (businessinsider.com)
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks at the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit held in Tampa, Florida, on Saturday. (Photo: Joe Raedle via Getty Images)
The Republican Party’s primary focus this year should be on making the political party one of Christian nationalism, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Saturday.
“We need to be the party of nationalism and I’m a Christian, and I say it proudly, we should be Christian nationalists,” she said in an interview with the conservative Next News Network while attending the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit in Florida.
Greene, who is known for her vocal religious beliefs and for imposing them on others, said the Republican Party should conform to Christianity to make it easier to identify with and sway Christian voters.
Early Crashites doing the Holy Work of the Emperor of the Universe!
Patriot Front is on the march. It’s selling a story about whiteness. (msn.com)
Over the Fourth of July weekend, more than 100 members of the white-supremacist group Patriot Front marched along Boston’s Freedom Trail, wearing uniforms and carrying flags, riot shields and signs reading “Reclaim America.” Just a few weeks earlier, the group tried to disrupt a Pride event in Idaho. In Boston, the group allegedly assaulted a Black passerby trying to record them with his phone. In Idaho, 31 white men were charged with conspiracy to riot.
An ‘imposter Christianity’ is threatening American democracy – CNN
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Says GOP ‘Should Be Christian Nationalists’ Party (yahoo.com)
Trump Says ‘Americans Kneel to God’ As Christian Nationalism Grows in GOP (businessinsider.com)
British Defence Staff USA
Posted on August 2, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
Treacherous Republican-Christians, and their disgraced ex-president, tried to end our alliance with Britain, formed by the artist , Winston Churchill.
John Presco
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President Donald Trump’s order to assassinate Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani has triggered a major rupture between the US and its historically closest ally, the UK.
In remarkably outspoken comments, UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said in an interview published Sunday that Trump’s isolationist foreign-policy stance had prompted the UK to look for alternative allies.
“I worry if the United States withdraws from its leadership around the world,” he told The Sunday Times.
He added: “The assumptions of 2010 that we were always going to be part of a US coalition is really just not where we are going to be.”
The comments came after Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government distanced itself from the attack that killed Soleimani, with UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab labeling it a “dangerous escalation” that risked a conflict in which “terrorists would be the only winners.”
A spokesman for Johnson was also quick to condemn Trump’s threats to target Iranian cultural sites, if carried out, as a breach of international law and possibly a war crime.
The UK is now openly threatening to tear up its long-standing defense partnership with the US.
The US ‘withdraws from its leadership’ of the world under Trump
Wallace told The Sunday Times that the UK was increasingly looking for alternative international allies.
“Over the last year we’ve had the US pullout from Syria, the statement by Donald Trump on Iraq where he said NATO should take over and do more in the Middle East,” Wallace said.
“The assumptions of 2010 that we were always going to be part of a US coalition is really just not where we are going to be.”
Wallace said the UK would need to reduce its dependence on US military assets.
“We are very dependent on American air cover and American intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets,” he said. “We need to diversify our assets.”
Wallace told the paper that the UK would increasingly need to turn to other allies that more closely shared the UK’s interests.
A supporter of then-President Donald Trump prays outside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in Washington.
An ‘imposter Christianity’ is threatening American democracy
Analysis by John Blake, CNN
Updated 12:46 PM ET, Sun July 24, 2022
(CNN)Three men, eyes closed and heads bowed, pray before a rough-hewn wooden cross. Another man wraps his arms around a massive Bible pressed against his chest like a shield. All throughout the crowd, people wave “Jesus Saves” banners and pump their fists toward the sky.
At first glance, these snapshots look like scenes from an outdoor church rally. But this event wasn’t a revival; it was what some call a Christian revolt. These were photos of people who stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, during an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The insurrection marked the first time many Americans realized the US is facing a burgeoning White Christian nationalist movement. This movement uses Christian language to cloak sexism and hostility to Black people and non-White immigrants in its quest to create a White Christian America.
A report from a team of clergy, scholars and advocates — sponsored by two groups that advocate for the separation of church and state — concluded that this ideology was used to “bolster, justify and intensify” the attack on the US Capitol.
Demonstrators pray outside the US Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2021.
Much of the House January 6 committee’s focus so far has been on right-wing extremist groups. But there are plenty of other Americans who have adopted teachings of the White Christian nationalists who stormed the Capitol — often without knowing it, scholars, historians, sociologists and clergy say.
White Christian nationalist beliefs have infiltrated the religious mainstream so thoroughly that virtually any conservative Christian pastor who tries to challenge its ideology risks their career, says Kristin Kobes Du Mez, author of the New York Times bestseller, “Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation.”
“These ideas are so widespread that any individual pastor or Christian leader who tries to turn the tide and say, ‘Let’s look again at Jesus and scripture,’ are going to be tossed aside,” she says.
The ideas are also insidious because many sound like expressions of Christian piety or harmless references to US history. But White Christian nationalists interpret these ideas in ways that are potentially violent and heretical. Their movement is not only anti-democratic, it contradicts the life and teachings of Jesus, some clergy, scholars and historians say.
Samuel Perry, a professor of religious studies at the University of Oklahoma who is authority on the ideology, calls it an “imposter Christianity.”
Here are three key beliefs often tied to White Christian nationalism.
A belief that the US was founded as a Christian nation
One of the banners spotted at the January 6 insurrection was a replica of the American flag with the caption, “Jesus is My Savior, Trump is My President.”
Erasing the line separating piety from politics is a key characteristic of White Christian nationalism. Many want to reduce or erase the separation of church and state, say those who study the movement.
One of the most popular beliefs among White Christian nationalists is that the US was founded as a Christian nation; the Founding Fathers were all orthodox, evangelical Christians; and God has chosen the US for a special role in history.
This painting chronicles lawmakers’ signing of the Constitution of the United States in 1787.
These beliefs are growing among Christians, according to a survey last year by the Barna Group, a company that conducts surveys about faith and culture for communities of faith and nonprofits. The group found that an “increasing number of American Christians believe strongly” that the US is a Christian nation, has not oppressed minorities, and has been chosen by God to lead the world.
But the notion that the US was founded as a Christian nation is bad history and bad theology, says Philip Gorski, a sociologist at Yale University and co-author of “The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy.”
“It’s a half truth, a mythological version of American history,” Gorski says.
Some Founding Fathers did view the founding of the nation through a Biblical lens, Gorski says. (Every state constitution contains a reference to God or the divine.)
But many did not. And virtually none of them could be classified as evangelical Christians. They were a collection of atheists, Unitarians, Deists, and liberal Protestants and other denominations.
A Trump supporter holds a Bible as he gathers with others outside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
The Constitution also says nothing about God, the Bible or the Ten Commandments, Gorski says. And saying the US was founded as a Christian nation ignores the fact that much of its initial wealth was derived from slave labor and land stolen from Native Americans, he says.
For evidence that the United States was founded as a secular nation, look no further than the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli, an agreement the US negotiated with a country in present-day Libya to end the practice of pirates attacking American ships. It was ratified unanimously by a Senate still half-filled with signers of the Constitution and declared, “the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on Christian religion.”
Does this mean that any White Christian who salutes the flag and says they love their country is a Christian nationalist? No, not at all, historians say. A White Christian who says they love America and its values and institutions is not the same thing as a White Christian nationalist, scholars say.
Gorski also notes that many devout Black Americans have exhibited a form of patriotism that does not degenerate into Christian nationalism.
American social reformer and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, circa 1880.
Gorski points to examples of the 19th century abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, and the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Both were devout Christians who expressed admiration for America and its founding documents. But their patriotism also meant that “they challenged the nation to live up to its highest principles, to become a place of freedom, equality, justice and inclusion,” he says.
The patriotism of White Christian nationalists, on the other hand, is a form of racial tribalism, Gorski says.
“It’s a ‘My tribe. ‘We [White people] were here first. This is our country, and we don’t like people who are trying to change it or people who are different’ form of nationalism,” Gorski says.
A belief in a ‘Warrior Christ’
Videos from the January 6 attack show a chaotic, tear-gas-soaked scene at the Capitol that looked more like a medieval battle. Insurrectionists punched police officers, used flagpoles as spears and smashed officers’ faces against doors while a mob chanted, “Fight for Trump!” The attack left five people dead and nearly 140 law enforcement officers injured.
The incongruity of people carrying “Jesus Saves” signs while joining a mob whose members are pummeling police officers leads to an obvious question: How can White Christian nationalists who claim to follow Jesus, the “Prince of Peace” who renounced violence in the Gospels, support a violent insurrection?
A protester holds up a Bible amid the crowd storming the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington on January 6, 2021.
That’s because they follow a different Jesus than the one depicted in the Gospels, says Du Mez, who is also a professor of history and gender studies at Calvin University — a Christian school — in Michigan. They follow the Jesus depicted in the Book of Revelation, the warrior with eyes like “flames of fire” and “a robe dipped in blood” who led the armies of heaven on white horses in a final, triumphant battle against the forces of the antichrist.
White Christian nationalists have refashioned Jesus into a kick-butt savior who is willing to smite enemies to restore America to a Christian nation by force, if necessary, Du Mez and others say.
While warlike language like putting on “the full armor of God” has long been common in Christian sermons and hymns, it has largely been interpreted as metaphorical. But many White Christian nationalists take that language literally.
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That was clear on January 6. Some insurrectionists wore caps emblazoned with “God, Guns, Trump” and chanted that the blood of Jesus was washing Congress clean. One wrote “In God We Trust” on a set of gallows erected at the Capitol.
“They want the warrior Christ who wields a bloody sword and defeats his enemies,” says Du Mez. “They want to battle with that Jesus. That Jesus brings peace, but only after he slays his enemies.”
And that Jesus sanctions the use of righteous violence if a government opposes God, she says.
“If you deem somebody in power to be working against the goals of a Christian America, then you should not submit to that authority and you should displace that authority,” she says. “Because the stakes are so high, the ends justify the means.”
Supporters of then-President Donald Trump gather on the Ellipse near the White House to hear him speak on January 6, 2021.
That ends-justify-the means approach is a key part of White Christian nationalism, says Du Mez. It’s why so many rallied behind former President Trump on January 6. She says he embodies a “militant White masculinity” that condones callous displays of power and appeals to Christian nationalists.
But with few exceptions, White Christian nationalists do not accept this “militant masculinity” when exhibited by Black, Middle Eastern and Latino men, Du Mez writes in “Jesus and John Wayne.” Aggression by people of color “is seen as a threat to the stability of home and nation,” she writes.
Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson echoed this double standard last year when he said on a radio talk show that he never really felt threatened by the mostly White mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6.
“Now, had … President Trump won the election and those were tens of thousands of Black Lives Matter and Antifa protesters, I might have been a little concerned,” Johnson said.
Johnson later elaborated, saying “there was nothing racial about my comments– nothing whatsoever.”
This embrace of a warrior Christ has shaped some White evangelicals’ attitudes on issues ranging from political violence to gun safety laws.
A survey last year by the Public Religion Research Institute revealed that of all respondents, White evangelicals were the religious group most likely to agree with the statement, “true American patriots might have to resort to violence in order to save the country.”
There are also some White Christian nationalists who believe the Second Amendment was handed down by God.
Gun rights activists carrying semi-automatic firearms pose for a photograph in the state Capitol Building on January 31, 2020, in Frankfort, Kentucky.
Samuel Perry, co-author of “Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States,” wrote in a recent essay that among Americans surveyed who believe “The federal government should declare the United States a Christian nation,” over two-thirds rejected the idea that the federal government should enact stricter gun laws.”
“The more you line up with Christian nationalism, the less likely you are to support gun control,” wrote Perry. “Guns are practically an element of worship in the church of white Christian nationalism.”
A belief there’s such a person as a ‘real American’
In the 2008 presidential election, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin introduced a new term to the political discourse. She talked about “the real America” and the “pro-America areas of this great nation.” Since then, many conservative political candidates have used the term “real Americans” to draw contrasts between their supporters and their opposition.
Such language has been co-opted into a worldview held by many White Christian nationalists: The nation is divided between “real Americans” and other citizens who don’t deserve the same rights, experts on White Christian nationalism say.
Republican vice presidential nominee Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Gorski, author of “The Flag and the Cross,” says he found in his research a strong correlation between White Christian nationalism and support for gerrymandering—an electoral process where politicians manipulate district lines to favor one party or, some critics say, race over another. He found similar support among White Christian nationalists for the Electoral College, which gives disproportionate political power to many rural, largely White areas of the country.
When White Christian nationalists claim an election was stolen, they are reflecting the belief that some votes don’t count, he says.
“It’s the idea that we are the people, and our vote should count, and you’re not the people, and… you don’t really deserve to have a voice,” Gorski says. “It doesn’t matter what the voting machines say, because we know that all real Americans voted for Donald Trump.”
Why White Christian nationalism is a threat to democracy
Those who want the US to become a Christian nation face a huge obstacle: Most Americans don’t subscribe to their vision of America.
The mainstreaming of White Christian nationalism comes as a growing number of Americans are rejecting organized religion. For the first time in the US last year, membership in communities of worship fell below 50%. Belief in God is at an all-time low, according to a recent Gallup poll.
A parishioner bows his head to pray while celebrating midnight Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on December 24, 2021, in New York City.
Add to that the country’s growing racial and religious diversity. People who identify as White alone declined for the first time since the census began in 1790, and the majority of Americans under 18 are now people of color.
On the surface, White Christian nationalism should not be on the ascent in America.
So White Christian nationalists look for salvation from two sources.
One is the emboldened conservative majority on the US Supreme Court, where recent decisions overturning Roe vs. Wade and protecting school prayer offer them hope.
Critics, on the other hand, say the high court is eroding the separation of church and state.
Not all Christians who support the high court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade and its school prayer decision are White nationalists. For example, plenty of Roman Catholics of all races support racial justice yet also backed the overturning of Roe.
But White Christian nationalists are inspired by those decisions because one of their central goals is to erase the separation of church and state in the US.
A recent study concluded that five of the justices on the Supreme Court are the “most pro-religion since at least World War II,” and that the six conservative justices are “all Christian, mostly Catholic,” and “religiously devout.”
The sun sets in front of the Supreme Court on June 28, 2022, in Washington. A Supreme Court decision last month overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling and erased a federal right to an abortion.
While some Americans fear the dangers of one-party rule, others like Pamela Paul, a columnist, warn of the Supreme Court instituting one-religion rule.
“With their brand of religious dogma losing its purchase, they’re imposing it on the country themselves,” she wrote in a recent New York Times editorial.
Gorski, the historian, says White Christian nationalism represents a grave threat to democracy because it defines “we the people” in a way that excludes many Americans.
“The United States cannot be both a truly multiracial democracy — a people of people and a nation of nations — and a white Christian nation at the same time,” Gorski wrote in “The Flag and the Cross.” “This is why white Christian nationalism has become a serious threat to American democracy, perhaps the most serious threat it now faces.”
The other source of hope for White Christian nationalists is a former occupant of the White House. Their devotion to him is illustrated by one of most striking images from the January 6 insurrection: A sign depicting a Nordic-looking Jesus wearing a red “Make America Great Again” hat.
If Trump returns to the presidency, some White Christian nationalists may interpret his political resurrection as divine intervention. His support among White evangelicals increased from 2016 to 2020.
And what the men carrying wooden crosses among the Capitol mob couldn’t achieve on January 6, they might yet accomplish in 2024.
The Royal Janitor ‘The Rebirth of Ukrania’
Posted on February 26, 2022 by Royal Rosamond Press
The Royal Janitor
by
John Presco
Copyright 2022
When Starfish heard Putin invaded the Ukraine, she stood as still as a tree. She could not move. Her eyes were locked on a target way in the distance. Then, like an ancient spell poured in a crystal canister, her eyes filled with a deep, deep blue rage.
“Ukrania!” Miriam Starfish Christling whispered like a cold Siberian wind. “Ukrania!”
Natitude, shuddered, and shook the chill out of her shoulders. Then, she deftly opened a drawer in her desk, that contained a stun gun.
Ukrnania was Miriam’s father’s mother who came to stay with Ivan and his family before she died. Her father wanted to go to the Ukraine and see her before she died, but, no one was allowed in due to the trouble of 2014. Miriam was fifteen when her grandmother – went home. She was buried on a hill that had a great view of Mount Shasta. A month later, the butane tank explosion took her parents off the planet. Starfish surmised Ukrania took her son….home. She was so alone…there.
Now, there came a shuddering that began at Starfish’s feet and traveled up her long limbs. She gulped in a large breath of air – and let out a long piercing howl, that caused Natitude to take a good grip of the stun gun. The Wizard jumped off his leather couch where he had been taking a nap, and ran to his desk where he got out his pistol – and a dart gun that he bought after seeing Starfish freakout over his white unicorn he used in his infamous psychologic test – that she failed – BIG TIME! As an explanation Starfish told the Wizard she descends from a long line of Berserks who lived in Kyiv, who traced their linage to Herald Hardrada.
“So….Are you a Berserk”
“Yes! In the old days I would have been in the Verangian Guard.”
“Really! Well, we do have a opening for a bodyguard!”
“I’ll take it!”
Going down the hall toward the sound of the howling wolf, the Wizard began to shake all over. “What the hell am I doing. She will kill me!”
When Victoria Rosemond Bond saw the Wizard and Natiticude creeping up behind Starfish, with pointed weapons of some kind, she deftly approached her, took her shuddering head in her palms, looked into her raging grey eyes and…..
“STOP IT!…….BAD DOG!”
And a calm came over the room. Then, The Three (as the would later be called – rushed to the door and blocked it! A call would be made to all the airports to not let Starfish get on – any flight. Then, came a call from M16. BAD would was going to Ukraine. And off The Four went.
“And we will live how we want, manage our life, live our lives and bring up our kids.”
Mr Bilyy is well prepared to take on the Russians, having received military training in his youth.
He will be heading to the frontline along with his 21-year-old son.
Many foreigners from all around the world have travelled to Ukraine to help the country defend its sovereignty and democracy.”
MEANWHILE……. at CPAC, the worship of the Golden Idol, has begun! Is that Tinkerbell’s wand?
Harald became extremely rich during his time in the east, and secured the wealth collected in Constantinople by shipments to Kyivan Rus’ for safekeeping (with Yaroslav the Wise acting as safekeeper for his fortune).[52] The sagas note that aside from the significant spoils of battle he had retained, he had participated three times in polutasvarf (loosely translated as “palace-plunder”),[53] a term which implies either the pillaging of the palace exchequer on the death of the emperor, or perhaps the disbursement of funds to the Varangians by the new emperor in order to ensure their loyalty.[54] It is likely that the money Harald made while serving in Constantinople allowed him to fund his claim for the crown of Norway.[53] If he participated in polutasvarf three times, these occasions must have been the deaths of Romanos III, Michael IV, and Michael V, in which Harald would have opportunities, beyond his legitimate revenues, to carry off immense wealth.[55]
After Zoe had been restored to the throne in June 1042 together with Constantine IX, Harald requested to be allowed to return to Norway. Although Zoe refused to allow this, Harald managed to escape into the Bosphorus with two ships and some loyal followers. Although the second ship was destroyed by the Byzantine cross-strait iron chains, Harald’s ship sailed safely into the Black Sea after successfully manoeuvring over the barrier.[51] Despite this, Kekaumenos lauds the “loyalty and love” Harald had for the empire, which he reportedly maintained even after he returned to Norway and became king.[56] Following his escape from Constantinople, Harald arrived back in Kyivan Rus’ later in 1042.[57] During his second stay there, he married Elisabeth (referred to in Scandinavian sources as Ellisif), daughter of Yaroslav the Wise and granddaughter of the Swedish king Olof Skötkonung.[53][58] Shortly after Harald’s arrival in Kyiv, Yaroslav attacked Constantinople, and it is considered likely that Harald provided him with valuable information about the state of the empire.[59]
It is possible that the marriage with Elisiv had been agreed to already during Harald’s first time in Rus’, or that they at least had been acquainted. During his service in the Byzantine Empire, Harald composed a love poem which included the verse “Yet the goddess in Gardarike / will not accept my gold rings”[60] (whom Snorri Sturluson identifies with Elisiv), although Morkinskinna claims that Harald had to remind Yaroslav of the promised marriage when he returned to Kyiv.[61] According to the same source, Harald had spoken with Yaroslav during his first time in Rus’, requesting to marry Elisiv, only to be rejected because he was not yet wealthy enough.[62] It is in any case significant that Harald was allowed to marry the daughter of Yaroslav, since his other children were married to figures such as Henry I of France, Andrew I of Hungary and the daughter of Constantine IX.[59]
Russo-Ukrainian War – Wikipedia
Admiral McCraven and the Ghost Fleet
Posted on October 18, 2019 by Royal Rosamond Press
After I posted my last post, I turned on CNN and heard about Admiral McRaven say Trumped is destroying our nation from within. Alas, Victoria Bond’s dream of the Ghost Fleet – has come true!
There is no doubt I am a prophet. How I do it needs to be studied. I am a untapped assets to my Country.
John Presco
President Donald Trump needs to step up and provide America with the leadership it needs — or else someone better suited should take over as commander in chief, according to retired Adm. William McRaven.
McRaven, who oversaw the Navy SEAL raid that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in 2011, said the rhetoric and acts he witnessed at a change of command ceremony at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, and an annual gala for the Office of Strategic Services Society reminded him “why our future may be in peril.”
“What struck me was the stark contrast between the words and deeds heralded at those events — and the words and deeds emanating from the White House,” McRaven wrote in an op-ed Thursday published in the New York Times.
The change of command ceremony, between two generals McRaven said he served with for 20 years, portray solid character and understand the gravity of their responsibility leading their soldiers and had confidence in American values they have defended during their careers.
“They had faith that these values were worth sacrificing everything for — including, if necessary, their lives,” said McRaven, a SEAL who led Joint Special Operations Command before becoming the commander of U.S. Special Operations Command in 2011. He retired in 2014.
Victoria’s Dream of the Ghost Fleet
Posted on July 20, 2019by Royal Rosamond Press
Irene Victoria Easton-Christensen……The Face that launched a thousand ships.
John
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/20/middleeast/iran-tanker-seizure-intl-hnk/index.html
Royal Navy sends out missile destroyer in major show of force
THE ROYAL NAVY has sent out a missile destroyer in a major show of force as Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine.
By JON KING
13:42, Fri, Feb 25, 2022 | UPDATED: 16:24, Fri, Feb 25, 2022
HMS Diamond has left Portsmouth Naval Base on PM’s orders
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HMS Diamond left Portsmouth Naval Base as part of the UK’s response to support Nato countries in eastern Europe. The Type 45 destroyer is set to join offshore patrol vessel HMS Trent in the eastern Mediterranean with four additional RAF Typhoon jets being deployed to Cyprus to take part in Nato patrols in eastern Europe. Hundreds of troops have also been deployed to Estonia and Poland.
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Diamond has been deployed by the UK Government to be on standby in the Mediterranean in case it is required as part of a wider Nato force.
It had originally been set to leave on February 17 but its departure was delayed by Storm Eunice with further delays due to the warship needing minor repairs.
The problems meant that all of the navy’s £6 billion fleet of Type 45s were alongside at the same time, with four vessels in Portsmouth and two in Birkenhead.
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HMS Diamond has left Portsmouth Naval Base (Image: PA)
HMS Diamond, a Type 45 destroyer, is seen in Portsmouth Naval Base before departing. (Image: Getty)
Diamond’s sister ship HMS Defender will sail later on Friday for a short period at sea prior to returning to base ahead of deployment to a major sea exercise off Norway which will also involve aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales.
Families of Diamond’s crew waved them off from the harbour walls including the family of Chief Petty Officer Sean Baldwin, 35, from Havant, Hampshire.
His children could be heard calling out “Love you Daddy” as the warship sailed past.
His mother, Beverley Baldwin, said: “We are really proud of all of them. We are quite apprehensive and worried and we’ve just got to support him and hope they all come back safe.”
John Dee – Sea Lord of The Ghost Fleet
Posted on September 11, 2018by Royal Rosamond Press
My psychic visions are coming true. Russia’s navy is back. Is America and NATO ready?
by Task and Purpose
The Navy says tackling this threat requires a shift in mentality across the force.
The Russian and Chinese navies have become increasingly active in the North Atlantic over the last five years, necessitating a return to a “competitive mindset” among U.S. Navy commanders, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson said Monday.“We’re talking about more [activity] than we’ve seen in 25 years,” Richardson said of Russian naval movements in the North Atlantic in an interview with Voice of America, adding that the Chinese Navy “is certainly a pacing competition for us in terms of the naval threat.”
Vice Adm. Charles A. Richard, the new head of U.S. Submarine Forces and Allied Submarine Command, put it more bluntly when he assumed command on August 3: “Prepare for battle!”
The Creative Royal Fleet Sets Sail
Posted on April 16, 2018by Royal Rosamond Press
Here are the vessels that Sir Caspar John served upon. He was born into a artistic family. I would like see the College of Defence Studies founded by the Artist, Sir Winston Churchill, expanded to include Creative People in Britain and the U.S. As a rule artists, writers, and musicians do not take slaves, gas people, and loot other people’s art. Hitler did all three. He was a bad artist who cost the world many lives, and a trillion dollars to put him down. We took back the art he stole and put it in sacred public places. I support Theresa May’s strike against Assad, who gassed his own people.
Below are the warships that Sir Ian Easton served on.
Jon Presco
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China’s interpretation of the law of the sea within what it claims to be its own waters has long clashed with that of maritime powers and the majority of members of the international community. The United States regularly asserts maritime rights and freedoms under its “freedom of navigation” program, much to Beijing’s chagrin.
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Lynn Kuok
Former Brookings Expert
Senior Research Fellow – University of Cambridge
But as other maritime powers join the United States in taking steps to defend maritime rights—a British Royal Navy warship makes its way through the South China Sea this month—it is in China’s interests to learn from the Soviet example. As the Soviet navy transitioned from a “reactive coastal fleet” to a “proactive, expansionist, blue-water navy,” the Soviet attitude towards the law of the sea changed. It moved from one that sought to limit maritime freedoms to one that joined hands with naval powers, including its Cold War foe, the United States, to push for protection of such freedoms. A similar shift would help boost China’s international reputation, as well as protect and advance its interests across the globe.
Maritime powers join hands
British Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson confirmed last month that a Royal Navy warship would sail through the South China Sea in March on its way back from Australia to the United Kingdom to assert navigation rights in waters Beijing claims. The HMS Sutherland left Sydney for the South China Sea on March 15, undertaking training with the Australian navy in the meantime. It is not clear what rights, exactly, the United Kingdom will assert—Williamson declined to say whether it would exercise rights to innocent passage within 12-nautical miles of disputed land territories or wider freedoms outside of territorial seas.
What is clear, however, is that in taking steps to assert rights vested under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) in the South China Sea, the United Kingdom joins other maritime powers in guarding against their erosion. In June 2016, the French minister of defense underscored his country’s commitment to the principles of freedom of navigation and overflight and the navy’s intention to continue to pass through the waters of the region several times a year. In the first half of 2016, French navy vessels deployed to the region three times.
U.S. Freedom of Navigation program
The United States, for its part, regularly asserts maritime rights vested under UNCLOS under its “freedom of navigation” program. The program’s name is a bit of a misnomer since it protects more than the right to navigate from point A to point B. It defends a whole basket of rights and freedoms, including the right of warships to exercise innocent passage within territorial seas without prior notification or authorization, and the freedom to conduct military activities, including surveillance and reconnaissance, outside of territorial seas. The U.S. freedom of navigation program also pushes back against excessive maritime claims that limit rights and freedoms of warships and warplanes. In the past year, U.S. forces under the freedom of navigation program challenged China’s claims to a territorial sea from offshore features not entitled to one under UNCLOS.
Given its wide scope, it is more accurate to describe the program as a “freedoms of the seas” or “excessive maritime claims” program. More accurate terminology would make it more difficult for China to sidestep real disagreements over legitimate rights and freedoms under UNCLOS. Beijing suggests that the United States and others invent concerns over “freedom of navigation,” but its argument only has superficial validity if we take “freedom of navigation” in its narrowest sense. Still, the term “freedom of navigation” operations, or “FONOPS,” has stuck. From October 1, 2016, to September 30, 2017, the United States conducted freedom of navigation operations to challenge the excessive maritime claims of 22 countries around the world.
Victoria Bond had many dreams of a Ghost Fleet. I mentioned John Dee in July. Now it is clear…….Here comes the Royal Navy John Dee founded!
I have been working on a transition from my Bond book, to my Tolkien book. Now I see a movie about John Dee. I was born to write the screenplay and be the Art Director. I will title this move ‘Sea Lord’. My kindred, William and Peter Rosenberg, will be in this movie, and so will be Krumlov castle. My Bohemian Royalty is coming to California! Will, Dee and the Rosebergs sail on Drake’s the Golden Hind? Here we have Merlin in Oregon where a film maker claims the British Empire began! Everything is coming up roses for me – and my tales! I am in the catbird seat! I fought wiccans for a another magicians memorial – and won!
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