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DISTRESS OF NATIONS

“Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people” (Proverbs 14:34).

“Moral integrity and obedience to God uplift societies, while sin brings disgrace and decline.”

Apostasy and Doctrines of Demons

10 Ways LGBTQ+ Ideology Is Reshaping the Church. Walk into certain churches today, and you may encounter something almost unrecognizable to Christians in the same denominations a generation ago. Rainbow flags in the sanctuary. Pastors in Pride-colored vestments. Queer hymns and transgender themes. Rainbow bread at Communion. Celebrating trans name changes, etc.

Pervasive Perversion

German “Transgender” Elite Police Officer Confesses to Rape of Teen Girl, ETC. A senior German police officer, said to have decided to become transgender after witnessing a terrorist attack, made a partial confession to allegations including rape of a 15-year-old girl, possessing a Kalashnikov-type rifle, and possessing child and animal sex abuse videos.

Surveillance/Orwellian Society

Mark Zuckerberg addresses panic about killer AI – and gives warning to rival companies. An Anthropic researcher said he quit his job due to AI dangers. That led to widespread worry about artificial intelligence systems. Increasingly, AI firm leaders appear to back calls to slow down AI development’s pace so developers can spend more time ensuring the systems are safe, not racing ahead and putting the world in danger.

Southport attack victims and survivors suffer ‘unacceptable’ data breach. Gov’t staff looked up details on computers of victims, survivors, & witnesses of the Southport attack when they had no right. Prison & courts chiefs are investigating how the breach was allowed to happen. PM Burnham asked Lord Chancellor to investigate. Info included sensitive, personal data & was deemed “likely to result in high risk” to rights & freedoms of the involved.

Plague, Pestilence, and Plandemics

Florida: Fourth person dies after contacting ‘flesh-eating’ bacteria linked to raw oysters. Data show 21 recorded cases of the waterborne bacteria this year. Besides this one in Broward County, earlier deaths were reported in Bay, Palm Beach, and Marion counties. Vibrio vulnificus naturally thrives in warm coastal waters and is commonly contracted by eating raw shellfish or exposing open wounds to contaminated water.

New York: Another new cluster of deadly lung disease breaks out, killing two and infecting 14. New York City is battling another cluster of Legionnaires’ disease – this time in the Bronx – after a summer cluster on the Upper East Side infected 94 & killed 11. Legionnaires’ disease is caused by Legionella bacteria, which thrives in warm, damp locations. Common sources include central air conditioning systems, hot tubs, water fountains, and large building plumbing systems.

Third person dies after mosquito is reportedly trapped on plane to Germany in ‘airport malaria’ phenomenon. It was unclear where the flights departed from. The third person – and an airport worker who also died from the disease in August – had not traveled to a malaria-endemic region. Six Frankfurt Airport employees also contracted the tropical disease.

Economic and Food Insecurity

Federal Reserve hikes interest rates for first time since 2023 amid stubborn inflation. Inflation has been driven recently by higher energy prices. Fed policymakers voted 12-0 to raise the federal funds rate from a range of 3.5% to 3.75% to a new target rate of 3.75% to 4% despite Trump’s demand for a cut. The 25-basis-point increase marks the first interest rate hike since July 2023 and comes after the Fed left rates unchanged at its first five meetings this year.

Majority of Americans are tired all the time – and Gen Z women most of all, CDC study finds. Nearly 3/4ths of Americans are fatigued, and some feel it more than others, according to a new analysis. Over 16% of 27,000 US adults said they felt exhausted or very tired “most days” or “every day.” Gen Z and millennials reported this more than other age groups, and women were more likely to report frequent fatigue. The highest levels were among women aged 18–34.

Weather Events

The 2026 fire season is on pace to be biggest in a decade. We’re not out of summer, but 2026’s wildfire season is already on track to break records for the year and to be the most destructive wildfire season in over a decade in total area burned. As of this week, there have been more wildfires across the U.S., burning more square miles, than at this point in the last 10 years.

Indonesia begins operation to right capsized ship in Java Sea as 129 remain missing. The Virgo Transport 8 was carrying 243 people on a 20-hour voyage from East Java to South Kalimantan when it capsized in bad weather early on Sunday. Rescuers had not been able to find more survivors or bodies until the fifth day of the search due to strong currents and large waves, so authorities decided to right the ship to make rescue operations easier.

Wars and Rumors of Wars

Vance: US cannot let its Mideast foreign policy be subservient to Israel. US Vice President Vance said Washington can’t let its Middle East policies be “subservient” to those of Israel, and must place its own interests first. Vance said he thinks that more than any president in the last 40 years, he’s shown willingness to part ways with Netanyahu when he feels the interests of Americans are different from the interests of the government of Israel.

Trump tells NewsNation ‘we’ll see’ on whether to ‘annihilate’ Iran. When asked what he wants to see from Iran before making that decision, Trump said Tehran is looking to reach an agreement. “Right now, they want to make a deal,” Trump said, adding he believes Iran is “losing in every way” financially and militarily.

Trump Signs Sweeping Russia Sanctions Bill, Aiming to Choke Off Moscow’s Funds for Ukraine War. It´s meant to starve Putin of the resources Moscow needs to continue its war in Ukraine after invading its neighbor over four years ago. The bill sanctions Russian officials, banks, and a shadow fleet of tankers that keeps Russian energy moving. It also directs Trump to impose up to 100% tariffs on the top five importers of Russian oil or natural gas.

China firm gave Iran lifeline to collect Hormuz tolls before pulling plug amid US warning. Iran’s sanctioned Persian Gulf Straits Authority (PGSA) regained secure online access for four days after a Shanghai-based internet security firm provided and then revoked its web credentials, enabling Tehran to vet vessels, collect Strait of Hormuz tolls and operate despite U.S. digital restrictions, global internet monitors said.

Saudi Arabia facing ‘biggest threat’ ever to oil production as Iran-proxy Houthis launch attacks, expert says. Hussain Abdul-Hussain, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said the situation is escalating in the Middle East as Iran “likely instigated the Houthis to force a blockade on Saudi Arabia.”

Calls for Peace and Security

Israel, Morocco, US agree to advance Abraham Accords at New York summit. Israel’s Foreign Minister Sa’ar, Morocco’s Foreign Minister Bourita, and US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz held a trilateral diplomatic summit in New York Wednesday and agreed on a series of measures to upgrade relations between Israel and Morocco and advance the Abraham Accords.

“Free” “Palestine”

It’s almost comical to delve into the history of the currently ridiculous “Free Palestine” movement, populated as it is by know-nothings and mental knuckle-draggers. Needless to say, a hallmark of this illiterate bunch is that they see themselves as so sophisticated.

As usual, they are too clever by half.

First of all, they believe “Palestine,” that mythical place like Shangri-La, is in the grip of devilish Jews. The medieval-level Jew-hatred oozing from these pores (think actor Mark Ruffalo and musician Roger Waters) is lost on them. It seems they really believe they are advocating for a downtrodden community, when in fact it is made up of murderous goblins. It is documented (remember the Arabs live-streaming murder on October 7?), satanic, and disorienting to anyone still possessing a healthy soul.

It almost goes without saying that Hollywood is populated with people so stupid, one wonders how they can drive, wash clothes, and eat food. On a basic level, they are hapless dopes.

So then, it’s a given they know nothing of history. For them, history only goes back about five minutes. They don’t know for example that a hundred years ago, Palestinians were Jews, too. Anyone living in then-Palestine. The currency had three languages: English, Arabic, and Hebrew. In fact, there is no mention in history of “Palestinian Arabs” until after 1967, when the Arabs got a wedgie from the IDF. Look it up yourself. Check the NYT archives and you will only see “Palestinians” (read: Arabs) after the Six Day War. That’s when the Soviets schooled Yasser Arafat in terrorist propaganda. Can’t defeat Israel on the battlefield? Create the “Palestinians.”

None of the new-generation “artists” knows any of this. They also haven’t been to Israel. They’re too self-absorbed in their own embarrassing careers to know better. Ruffalo? He’s as dumb as a box of iron skeleton keys the Arabs claim go to homes lived-in by Jews.

So it would come as some surprise that past Hollywood artists had a different take on this. I just finished reading a terrific article by Rafael Medoff, who does know the history. Get a load of this:

“The rapper Macklemore is not the first cultural celebrity to champion the cause of ‘Free Palestine.’ But when many of America’s leading celebrities called for a ‘Free Palestine’ eighty years ago this week, they were talking about freeing Palestine from British occupation, in order to establish a Jewish state.

“The pro-Zionist play ‘A Flag is Born’ debuted on Broadway in September 1946, starring a sensational young actor named Marlon Brando. The play was organized by the American League for a Free Palestine (AFLP), a political action committee better known as the Bergson Group.

“Hundreds of thousands of Holocaust survivors were languishing in postwar Europe in the autumn of 1946, and the British were preventing them from reaching the Holy Land. Academy Award-winning screen writer Ben Hecht authored ‘A Flag is Born’ to promote the cause of Jewish immigration and statehood.”

Originally, a Free Palestine meant wresting control from brutal British rule. Actually, it would have meant taking control from the Romans. The Jews were successful with the former, but not with the latter. That’s why it took 1,900 years to form a Jewish state, which was done in 1948.

That’s what “Free Palestine” historically meant. Not a group of killer Arab thugs wanting a 23^rd Arab state in the Middle East and leaving the Jews to wander the earth again.

Further from Medoff:

“As a gesture of solidarity, Brando and his colleagues performed in ‘Flag is Born’ for the minimum Actors’ Guild wage. Brando championed the Jewish cause offstage, too. He became, as he put it, ‘a kind of traveling salesman’ for the ALFP, giving speeches around the country about the international community’s abandonment of the Jews during the Holocaust and the need for a Jewish state.

“Brando was just one of many stars of stage and screen who were active in the American League for a Free Palestine. Among those whose names appeared on the many full-page newspaper ads that the AFLP sponsored, or who took part in the group’s other activities, were:

— comedians Harpo Marx, Carl Reiner, Jerry Lewis, Sid Caesar and Phil Silvers;

— actors Vincent Price, Jimmy Durante, Charles Blackmer (“The Great Gatsby”), Cedric Hardwicke (“The Ten Commandments”), Canada Lee (“Cry, the Beloved Country”), Harry Davenport (“Gone With the Wind”), and Katherine Warren (“The Big Sleep”);

— singers Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, pianist Vladimir Horowitz, and conductor Leonard Bernstein;

— David O. Selznick, producer of “Gone With the Wind”; Edward Buzzell, director of the Marx Brothers movies; and famed Broadway producer Max Gordon.”

Wow. What a different world we live in.

Realize this: our culture is crumbling. In yesteryear, many artists rallied to the Jewish cause if for no other reason than the Holocaust was next-level horror. The current crop of idiots—true idiots—do not live in reality.

And they’re happy about it.

Jimfletcher761@gmail.com

20 Sept 2026

20 Sep 2026