19 June 2025

Supreme Court rules states can protect children from ‘gender transitions’ in landmark decision
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Wednesday in favor of a Tennessee law that bans mutilating transgender surgeries and drugs for minors, handing a major victory to conservatives.

Israel Intensifies Strikes on Iran as Trump Delays Decision
Israel continues to attack Iran at the same time as the US President Donald Trump does not seem to be able to make up his mind whether he should draw the US into the war. From a European perspective, France is planning to present a European peace initiative.

How should Evangelicals pray for Israel as it fights an apocalyptic, genocidal death cult in Tehran hell-bent on pursuing a Second Holocaust? 
Make no mistake: Israel is fighting a war of survival. The general in charge of U.S. Central Command – CENTCOM – testified to Congress last week that Iranian scientists were just one week away from enriching enough military-grade uranium to build their first nuclear bomb. And three weeks away from building ten fully operational nuclear bombs.

18th Century Kabbalist Predicted Current War as Final Battle of Gog and Magog
Iran has threatened Israel with a nuclear genocide for decades, so it was appropriate that when Israel launched a preemptive strike to eliminate this existential threat, it should be given a Biblical name: Operation Rising Lion. The official tasked with assigning this name was probably familiar with the prophecy in Numbers. Still, he certainly did not know of the Kabbalistic references to the aptly named IDF operation in the skies over Iran and how it implied this would be the War of Gog and Magog; the last war before the final redemption. “And there will also be some of them who will increase their desire to go up and fight with Israel. And to them it is said: ‘And the Lord will go out and fight with those nations,’ (Zechariah 14:3). And this is: “Behold, the people as a lion will rise up, and the lion will exalt himself,”

‘Islamic Republic is collapsing’ – Former Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi says transitional plan is ready for post-regime government 
In the speech, Pahlavi said, “The Islamic Republic has reached its end and is in the process of collapsing.” The former crown prince, who is popular among many expatriate Iranians in the West, referred to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as “a frightened rat” who is “hiding underground.”

Total surrender? Iranian delegation reportedly in Oman – but regime says it ‘won’t grovel at White House gates’ 
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday confirmed that the Iranian regime has offered to send representatives to the White House but appeared to dismiss the chances for negotiations. “It’s very late for talking,” he told reporters, repeating his demand for Iran’s “unconditional surrender.”“Then we go blow up all the nuclear stuff [in Iran],” he said. Reuters reported on Wednesday evening that an Iranian delegation and three Iranian planes had landed in Oman to start negotiations to stop the Israeli strikes. Asked whether he would order the U.S. military to strike Iran, he said cryptically, “I may do it. I may not do it. Nobody knows what I’m going to do.”

Earthquake Hits Iranian Nuclear Facility: Israeli Airstrike Blamed
On Monday morning, it was reported that two earthquakes hit Iran. A strong 4.3-magnitude earthquake was recorded in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, near the border with Pakistan. Meanwhile, a magnitude 2.5 earthquake struck 18 miles away from Qom, Qom Province, on Sunday at 11:35 p.m. local time. Explosions followed the relatively light quake. The quake and explosions followed an Israeli Air Force strike in the area.

USS Gerald R. Ford to deploy to Mediterranean amid Israel-Iran tensions
Deployment marks third U.S. carrier group positioned near Iran as military buildup intensifies. The United States is preparing to send its most advanced aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, to the Mediterranean Sea, marking the latest in a series of major military movements amid escalating tensions between Israel and Iran,

Israel tweets Mossad link in response to Iranian social media pleas
The tweet included a link and advised people to only contact the Mossad using an external VPN. In a surprising social media post, the Israeli military’s Farsi X feed tweeted a call for Iranians to contact the Mossad intelligence agency on Wednesday. The Farsi account, which goes by the handle @IDFFarsi, said it received many inquiries from Iranian citizens that would be more appropriate for the Mossad.

Israeli jets continue striking Iranian targets in escalating offensive
Israel targets Iran’s police HQ and nuclear-related sites; Katz says campaign will continue to hit “symbols of the regime.” Israeli airstrikes intensified across Iran on Wednesday, with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announcing a fresh wave of attacks that included the destruction of Iran’s police headquarters in Tehran and facilities linked to its nuclear and missile programs.

Hackers take control of Iranian state media, broadcast anti-regime messages
Hackers reportedly hijack Iranian state TV, airing footage of anti-regime protests and urging citizens to rise up. The attack follows an Israeli airstrike on the broadcaster’s headquarters earlier in the week.

Iran army chief Ali Shademani assassinated in secret mountain compound near Tehran
The IDF waited for dozens of senior IRGC officers to move to the “secret” location, in the mountains outside of Tehran, and then killed them all at the same time. New details were revealed on Wednesday night about the killing of Maj.-Gen. Ali Shademani, the Iranian military’s wartime chief of staff, on Monday. The Israel Air Force assassinated his predecessor last Friday.

Tucker Carlson ‘begged’ evangelical leader to apologize for calling him an antisemite
Tucker Carlson “begged” evangelical Christian Zionist leader Laurie Cardoza-Moore to apologize for calling him an antisemite, she revealed exclusively to the Jerusalem Post on Wednesday. Carlson’s request centered on an op-ed penned by Cardoza-Moore in the Jerusalem Post in February of this year, in which she commented on a picture of Carlson with President Donald Trump and Elon Musk at the White House by saying “Tucker Carlson’s antisemitism does not reflect the values of the Trump administration.” She then asked Trump to ban Carlson from the White House over his “blatant antisemitism.”

Israeli Foreign Minister Slams Turkey’s Erdogan for Defending Iran, Comparing Netanyahu to Hitler
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar condemned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday for once again comparing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler and accusing Israel of committing “state terrorism” in its campaign against Iran. “The sultan, in his own eyes, in yet another inflammatory speech, continues to incite against Israel and against the Israeli prime minister,” Sa’ar wrote in a post on X.

US Military Ready to Carry Out Any Trump Decisions on Iran, Hegseth Says
The US military is ready to carry out any decision that President Donald Trump may make on Iran, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday, suggesting that the US direction could become clearer in the coming days. Testifying before a Senate committee, Hegseth was very cautious in his public testimony, declining to say whether the Pentagon had prepared strike options against Iran.

Diplomatic source: Macron acting with duplicity toward Israel
Amid growing tensions between Israel and France, a diplomatic source on Wednesday evening criticized French President Emmanuel Macron, accusing him of acting with duplicity toward the State of Israel. “On one hand, he appears to support Israel’s right to defend its citizens,” the source told Arutz Sheva- Israel National News. “Yet at the same time, he advances diplomatic initiatives to establish Palestinian sovereignty – without addressing the fundamental contradiction in this dual approach.”

Iran sends second missile volley, no casualties; Trump OKs strike, awaits Iran’s move | Live updates 
The IDF reported Wednesday overnight that at 2:21 a.m., sirens warning of a hostile UAV were activated in the Jordan Valley at the communities of Argaman, Hamra, Mekhora, and Hemdat. The Home Front Command later reported that the incident involving a drone infiltration had ended. Donald Trump told senior aides late Tuesday that he approved attack plans for Iran but has withheld a final order to see if Tehran would abandon its nuclear program, … Donald Trump said late on Wednesday that he has not closed the door on a meeting with Iran. ‘I may do that,’ he said ahead of a scheduled meeting at the White House, to discuss Israel’s operation. ‘A deal could still be done.’

‘Iranian pilots fled on sight’: Israeli Air Force pilot reveals details from first strike over Iran
‘Fighting 1,500 km from home isn’t a walk in the park,’ says IAF pilot Maj. N’ of the first strike in Iran; ‘We saw Iranian jets take off—then flee and vanish, and we stayed two hours and could’ve gone back—again and again’ “This is my correction for October 7—this time we were the initiators,” says Maj N. (31), an F-15 pilot from Squadron 133, one of the first to take part in the unprecedented Israeli airstrikes over Iran at the start of Operation Rising Lion Now, he shares what it was like to wait for the green light, the challenges of flying deep into enemy territory, and the deeply personal sense of “correction” for the failure that launched the war.

IDF: Iran fired 1,000 drones at Israel, none hit targets; over 400 missiles launched 
In addition to the missile barrage, Iran launched roughly 1,000 drones at Israeli territory but only about 100 breached Israeli airspace—and none successfully hit their targets.

How Representative Is The G7 Of The World It’s Trying To Lead?
U.S. President Donald Trump was also present on Monday, meeting with the summit’s host, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer before discussing the conflict between Iran and Israel with all present G7 leaders. After agreeing on a joint statement calling for peace and stability in the Middle East and condemning Iran as “the principal source of regional instability and terror”, Trump abruptly left the summit Monday night. … while the Group of Seven, as the G7 is officially called, still claims a global leadership role, experts are questioning the bloc’s relevance against the backdrop of a rapidly evolving global economy.

Device Linked To Alleged Political Assassin Travelled To High-Risk Countries, Raising Red Flags Over NGO Ties
Tracking Connections to MN Assassin We geofenced Boelter’s family farm and found a unique device. We followed that device for the last 3 years – located in places like Africa, Nepal, and Washington, DC. We are releasing our data to the public in the interest of transparency,” Oversight Project wrote in an X post. “What’s more interesting is the amount of international travel linked to this device … like visists to Africa, Nepal, Turkey, India, and Dubai,” This device activity seems to comport with Boelter’s suspicious international NGO connections. And why was there talk of a manifesto but now that is apparently being covered up? So many questions need to be answered before this politically-motivated murder tears the country apart with speculative finger pointing. Great work by Oversight Project . We are releasing our data to the public in the interest of transparency.

“They Have No Humanity” – Martin Armstrong Slams Neocons “Trying To Drag Trump Into World War III”
We all know Ukraine is out of control with no peace deal in sight, and now the Middle East is blowing up too. “I think Trump has been kind of snookered into this…” I am concerned this drags in Russia and also China…

Water levels in Huaiji, Guangdong reaches highest on record, prompting Level I emergency
Huaiji County, Guangdong, faced its largest flood since records began, with Suijiang Huaiji Station recording a peak water level of 55.22 meters (181.17 feet) on June 18, 2025, prompting a county-wide shutdown. Rescue operations saved dozens as floodwaters inundated the region.

The U.S. Is Sending More Warships Towards Israel
The USS Gerald R. Ford, the U.S. Navy’s largest and newest aircraft carrier, is set to be deployed to the Mediterranean. This move—which relocates a significant U.S. military asset—comes as tensions between Israel, located on the Mediterranean coast, and Iran escalate, with mutual airstrikes ongoing.

COVID Pandemic Interventions, Not the Virus, Drove Spikes in Excess Mortality
Deaths during the first “peak” of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted from medical and government interventions, not a circulating respiratory virus, Canadian researchers concluded in a paper posted Monday on Preprints web site. Those interventions resulted in the deaths of primarily elderly and poor people, researchers with the Canadian nonprofit Correlation: Research in the Public Interest said.

The 23 Of Sivan: The Day of Impossible Miracles Is Upon Us
Tomorrow (June 19) marks a notably auspicious day on the Jewish calendar. Its timing and significance can not be more miraculous in this war against Iran. Jews and non jews alike, all over the world, will be doing some special things. The timing today is strikingly relevant: Israel is engaged in conflict with Iran, the modern-day Persia. Oftentimes miracles are hidden. Just as in the Purim story, where God’s name is absent from any of the book of Esther, indicating hidden miracles, this day reminds us that divine providence often operates behind the scenes in the world’s unfolding events.

Trump Preps Iran Strikes, Claims ‘Total Control’ of Iranian Airspace—and Says the U.S. Knows Where the Ayatollah Is Hiding
Iranian leaders are quickly running out of time as President Trump has just ended his Situation Room meeting and has announced that we have “total control” of Iranian airspace while proclaiming we know exactly where the Ayatollah is hiding.

England and Wales: FoI response reveals that foreigners account for up to a third of convictions for sexual assaults on women
It’s not only rape gangs operating in the UK that have a “significant proportion” of suspects who are foreign nationals, who groom and rape girls as young as 10 years old. A response to a Freedom of Information Act request has revealed that foreign nationals commit sexual assault on women and girls over the age of 16 in England and Wales at a rate of 2.24 times higher than British men. Last year, foreign nationals made up between 28% and 34% of “sexual assault on a female” convictions in England and Wales.

Japan Releases Bombshell Vax vs. Unvax Data on 18 Million People
A COVID vaccine database covering 18 million citizens has just been released for the first time. After reviewing the data, a top professor warned: “The more doses you get, the sooner you’re likely to die.” The most terrifying finding was a deadly spike just 3 to 4 months after the final shot.

New York bishop laments LGBT flag ripped from church while allowing blasphemous ‘pride’ Mass
During a subsequent, blasphemous “pride” Mass at the church, Pastor Father Fred Daley, who describes himself as a “gay priest,” quoted from a letter from the bishop of Syracuse, Douglas J. Lucia, in which the prelate condemned the flag’s removal and burning…During the All Saints parish so-called “Pride Mass,”…Daley told the congregation they were celebrating “Pride Weekend.” “The rainbow is a beautiful, beautiful symbol of God’s diversity – and we’re called to celebrate God’s diversity,” said Fr. Daley, blasphemously suggesting that homosexuality and “transgenderism” is willed by God.

UK votes to decriminalize abortion
The United Kingdom Parliament has voted to decriminalize abortion, in a move all but guaranteed to open the floodgates to unlimited abortion-on-demand.

Americans warned to urgently evacuate Israel by air and sea as Iran crisis deepens
U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee announced evacuation flights and cruise ship departures for those wishing to leave Israel after last week’s voluntary evacuation notice. “Urgent notice! American citizens wanting to leave Israel- US Embassy in Israel is working on evacuation flights & cruise ship departures,” he wrote in an X post on Wednesday

WATCH: The pro-life ad that angered abortion advocates in Portugal
A pro-life TV advert funded and launched by conservative entrepreneur and multimillionaire Miguel Milhão in Portugal has sparked widespread debate – and vicious backlash from abortion activists.

US moves its newest super carrier — USS Gerald Ford — to Mediterranean as massive military hardware buildup near Iran continues
The US Navy’s newest and biggest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, is set be deployed to the Mediterranean, according to a report. It’s the latest public movement of military hardware to the region as the Iran-Israel conflict ratchets up. The USS Ford, America’s flagship 1,100-foot nuclear-powered carrier, is expected to be sent to Europe as soon as next week, making it the third US aircraft carrier group in the region, CNN’s senior national reporter Zachary Cohen reported on Wednesday.

Over 200 Christians Killed In Three Days ‘Well-Coordinated’ Attacks By Muslim Militants In Nigeria
More than 200 Christian civilians, including children and the elderly, were killed in coordinated attacks carried out by armed Fulani militants in Nigeria’s Middle Belt, just before and after the country’s Democracy Day holiday.

Air force jets hit centrifuge production site in Tehran, weapons factories in overnight Iran strikes
Over 50 jets took part in overnight operations that included strikes on an Iranian centrifuge production site and several weapon-production facilities, the military says.

China is attempting to usher in a “multi-polar international monetary system”
China’s central bank governor expects a new global currency order to emerge with the renminbi competing in a “multi-polar international monetary system.” The new multi-polar, also stylised as multipolar, monetary system is controlled by the same interests that controlled the previous international monetary system.  The monetary system may change but the power brokers stay the same.

Electric vehicles collect huge amounts of data including psychological, genetic and health information
A recent investigative report on Channel 5 explored the data security and privacy risks of electric cars. According to a cybersecurity campaigner, electric vehicles capture and store a huge amount of data, including location details, facial expressions, and genetic and health information, which are shared with various organisations, including data brokers. A computer engineer highlighted cybersecurity failures in EV chargers.  Using the example of one brand of charger, he explained how hackers are able to easily steal the EV owner’s wi-fi password.

5g-the-untold-story-documentary-health-risks-wireless-radiation‘5G — The Untold Story’: New Documentary Spotlights Health Hazards of Wireless Radiation
“5G — The Untold Story,” the world’s first documentary on the real-world health effects of 5G, garnered hundreds of views within hours of its June 11 premiere on YouTube. The film features interviews with previously healthy residents of Stockholm, Sweden, who experienced serious health problems within days of having 5G antennas activated near their homes. Symptoms included insomnia, headaches, fatigue, tinnitus and heart palpitations.

Future Forum 2050: Western Voices Amplify Russia’s Imperial Ambitions Amid Civilian Slaughter in Ukraine
Russian bombs dropped on Ukrainian civilians, including on a maternity ward, as Western figures in Moscow peddled “Multipolarity”—a Kremlin scheme to spark civil war and chaos in the West, enabling Russia and China to dominate the world.

On War and Peace :: By Terry James

Many years ago, I read War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, the Russian writer considered one of the great literary masters of the novelist sort. His masterpiece, portraying in great detail Napoleon Bonaparte’s war-making on Czarist Russia is, once you have the courage to get into it, spellbinding. At least it was in my case.

I have two volumes—each a different English translation, and each well into the thousands of pages. I’ve read both and have gone back to read portions again and again.

I say “once you have the courage to get into it” because it’s an ancient report of a long-ago war, and dedicating oneself to such a daunting read indeed takes courage–or something like it. There is a long-time stigma attached to reading overly long tomes, and War and Peace is almost always the one held up as the example of the long-winded reads.

However, the book is a brilliant, although fictional, accounting of man waging war at its most terrible and personal, yet most fascinating, level. Yet we think of such wars of the distant past—such conflicts—as irrelevant to life today. It’s all history. We must deal with now…and with the future. We have our own threats—and they’re potentially globally destructive—so we find it unproductive, a waste of time, to live the lives of characters of antiquity such as Prince Andrei Nikolayevich and Natasha Rostova. Wars of our own time are everywhere we look, and they genuinely and in real time threaten our own existence.

War and Peace is simply too close to home, and most today shy away from dwelling on the reports of actual conflicts and the efforts at peaceful resolution.

But matters of war and peace within God’s prophetic Word cannot, for the Christian who is commanded to examine the future through that Word, be avoided, if obeying Heaven’s instruction. Jesus said: “What I say unto one, I say unto all. Watch” (Mark 13:37).

The Lord was talking about the signals of His coming again to watch for as the end of the age approaches. He said, for example, that there will be “wars and rumors of war.” We who are in God’s family are to watch, therefore, for these prophesied wars and rumors of war. I believe this warning by Jesus, the Greatest of all Prophets, points to wars and rumors of war as being most profound as an end-of-the-age indicator, second only to the nation of Israel itself.

God’s Word also states that at the same time there are wars and rumors thereof, there will be a great cry for peace and safetyAs a matter of fact, we’re told that when there is that end-times cry for peace and safety, we can expect sudden destruction to fall (“For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape” [1 Thessalonians 5:3]).

A recent news article indicates proliferating signals, I think, of the growing global call for peace and safety.

Pope Leo XIV and Russian President Vladimir Putin had a phone call today, with the Pope asking Putin to “make a gesture that would promote peace,” while emphasizing dialogue.

Earlier today Russian news outlets reported that Leo and Putin had spoken by phone, but it was not until a little after 9 p.m. Rome time that the Holy See Press Office confirmed the news.

statement issued by the Vatican read:

During the phone call, in addition to matters of mutual interest, special attention was paid to the situation in Ukraine and peace.

The Pope made an appeal for Russia to make a gesture that would promote peace, stressed the importance of dialogue for the realization of positive contacts between the parties and seek[ing] solutions to the conflict…

In his first address to the world and the Church on his first Sunday appearance after the election, Pope Leo called for an end to global conflicts. “Never again war,” he urged, citing the conflicts in Ukraine, Gaza, and Pakistan by name. (“Pope Leo holds first phone call with Vladimir Putin, urges him to ‘promote peace’,” Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent, LifeSite, June 4, 2025)

The dichotomy of war and peace has been a constant exigency in humankind’s history since the disobedience of Adam in the Garden of Eden. I heard recently that there have been no more than 268 years of peace in all of recorded history. Certainly there has been no such lack of wars and rumors of war that I’ve known during my lifetime. Nor can I find any such periods of absence of war in my admittedly less than stellar academic study of humanity’s long history. I’ll just have to trust the statistic, which I heard from Dr. David Jeremiah, who said the 268 years of peace number came from an article in the New York Times.

Again, the Word of God tells the reason for the war that rages and moves humanity toward Armageddon. The war in fallen humankind began in Eden, and it will end at Armageddon.

“From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not” (James 4:1-2).

There is no peace in this fallen world other than the peace the Lord Jesus Christ gives upon salvation of souls. The Lord said:

“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give it to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid” (John 14:27).

The person who doesn’t know Jesus Christ as Savior can’t find the peace of which Jesus spoke, unless, as James in the Scripture above says, the person “asks.” One has only to ask to receive God’s forgiveness and achieve the inner peace the Holy Spirit gives when He comes to live within the believer.

Here again is how to come to that moment of peace Jesus promises to all who but “ask”:

“That if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and will believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart man believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:9-10).