Viva Conscience, No to Collective Cowardice

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Today we shudder as we recall the United Nations forced to endure deceptive and divisive mumbo-jumbo from international criminal elements in the form of a speech by the 47th president of the United States.  We can hold our commitment to truth and justice evermore tightly as the nations begin to distance themselves from the horrors of the US-Israel partnership.  Viva the conscious quest for global peace and progress!



80 years ago the United Nations Charter was a hit.  77 years ago the Palestinian Problem began with the declaration of an independent Israel.  60 years ago an African leader summarized the optimism and challenges faced by what he called “mankind’s best hope”.  Two years ago the government of South Africa brought action in the International Court of Justice against Israel.
Two days ago, with his ship severely listing, Captain Taco, polluted the UN podium and further added to the mountain of evidence that his dictatorial quest is on life support.  Two days ago, Mr. Mahmoud Abbas, head of the Palestinian Authority, spoke at the UN virtually because Captain Taco refused visas to the Palestinian President (affecting 80 Palestinian representatives).

Here is the concluding portion of the speech of the venerable Haile Selassie I on June 27, 1965, when the UN Charter was 20 years old.

To Find Solutions


The activities of the United Nations Organization can raise the living standards of people throughout the world. However, how could it be possible for this great task to be accomplished satisfactorily when some states do not implement the decisions of the Organization? How could that last hope of mankind achieve its noble objective when some states are pursuing their own selfish ends of defying the authority of the international organization?  Does it not mean that, if the solutions to the problems facing the world are not founded by the organization, and if these, when found, are not accepted by all member states, the international body is growing weaker and weaker? We feel that the United Nations in its efforts to provide a body of international law and to secure its respect as fallen short of expectation.

What course of action should the small nations pursue vis a vis the prevailing constitutional framework of the United Nations Organization and the existing international situation?  Small nations ought to refrain from making themselves tools for igniting friction between the Great Powers. Receiving development aid and other forms of foreign assistance should not be conditioned by obligations to take sides. In order to achieve this goal, they must not only adhere to a policy of political non-alignment but they should also oppose and proscribe consistently all small conflicts brought about, and to be brought about, by the prevailing international cold war.  At the time when We are striving hard to hold the arms race, We are convinced that a nuclear war would devastate the whole world. However, we must work together for the ending of the little wars which are consuming the energies of the small nations and decimating our people.


The untenable doctrine of racial supremacy, being a threat to the maintenance of international decent security as well as a serious set-back for establishing a salubrious atmosphere of understanding and corporation in the world, we must work together against the philosophy of racism.


Has U. N. the Authority?


I still like the nation’s organization with 30 for achieving these ends? Is the organization showing the zealous Spirit to pursue these ends consistently? If it has no authority for doing these things, are we ready and willing to invest it with enough power for the organization to carry out its task satisfactorily? If we are to survive the Organization has also got to survive. If the touch to survive, it should be strengthened. And, to strengthen its structure, the Organization must get the requisite  authority. The weak must not be mauled or molested by the strong. All states are feeling conditions entitling them to membership should be admitted to the organization. Because peace cannot reign in an atmosphere reeking with poverty and hunger, We [sic] should explore and strengthen the means of feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, and enlightening the illiterate.
Today the Great Powers should also wake up to the realization of the fact that the key to their destiny and future happiness does not lie in their own hands alone. There is no peace without cooperation. Be it known that the principles enshrined in the Charter and the resolutions adopted by the Organization are not there only for the small nations to respect and implement. In efforts being made to ease the gravity of world problems, the small nations should have a say. Their voices should be heard. An atmosphere of mutual trust and confidence cannot be established when the rights of small nations are not accorded the same respect as those of the Big Powers. In order to accomplish these tasks, it is essential to rouse the conscience of mankind. Anyway, strength and mutual trust are two indispensable qualities for achieving the common goal.  Even if there is strength, the common ground of mutual confidence must be established. To establish this, we must work diligently. Once we are able to do what is humanly possible, the rest could be left to the Almighty God. So that man whom He has created in his own image may not be destroyed, let us repose our faith in God.
(June 27th 1965)

International Criminal Elements will not prevail.

But not without the heart

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What could you do more of?

I could be more of a conduit for the love that never falls down on the job.  This means that for all the people to whom I have said “I love you” more would be ways to make that love felt, that is perceptible, not necessarily felt like food, clothing, presence and money. Very often just knowing that someone cares is a grand booster to a good day. I just want to elevate my loving.

Signaling the End of Injustice

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Israel has been propped up by America veto and bullying in the face of an ever-growing global recognition that both Israel and the United States are reckless, careless and cruel.  Israel starves children, renders people homeless repeatedly under gunfire and missile launches, commits war crimes, violates UN resolutions repeatedly,  and vows to erase its enemy from the face of the globe.  Israel’s sworn enemy, an equally reckless, careless and cruel Islamic brotherhood, dares to call itself a government, but sheep’s clothing no longer hides the tyrants of the 21st century. The Permanent Five of the United Nations Security Council are guilty of subjecting the Occupied Territories of Palestine to decades of inhumane treatment. The jig is up.  Democracy can no longer be used by Israel and its backers as cover to ensure the support of nations.  Here comes Canada, Australia, the U.K., New Zealand and Portugal saying “no more” to Hamas and to any Israeli government that rejects international law.

Feigned Israeli Outrage and Defiance

Hamas, the supposed government of Gaza, can zip its lips, as its method is clear as day.  Israel lost its civility from day one, by not recognizing the rights of other human beings.  The standard Israeli response is totally expected.  “We will block the pathway to self-determination”.  “There will be no Palestinian state in [Canaan]”. Both the religious messengers of Zionist Israel and the political standard bearers have egg on their faces as Israel tries to convince the world that wrong is right. Netanyahu thinks that his virulent lies are great soundbytes.  It is all an act.  Even his name –  Netanyahu – is an act. A whole lot more of Hamas’ and Netanyahu’s coalition’s passion is pure drama for a captive audience.

The United Nations Awakes with the Power of Youth

We cannot expect a credible solution to the Palestinian Problem from the criminal elders who have made deals with the former colonial powers and are lobbying for trade deals.  They are seriously compromised.  The lives of the Jewish and Palestinian people are valuable even when the Netanyahu government has another standard. The United States is like Egypt of old, a broken reed. There is no longer a moral ground for supporting the brutal Occupation by Israel.  Any  reliance on US military power is misplaced. Bye, bye Israeli credibility! Hamas and Zionism are toast. Long live free and Palestine!

Israeli Crimes on top of Israelite Prostitution

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With a clear head we should try saying something that commends the physical descendants of Abraham in the land of Canaan. Let us remember that the wisest king of Israel married foreigners from east, north and south of his kingdom and worshipped their gods. On the scores sheet for monotheism, failure is written in all caps and in bold letters. Let us remember that a lack of humility kept Moses from “carrying water” for his people.

What it means to be faithful

The people addressed in pentateuch and by the prophets of the Bible have no reason whatever to even try to fabricate a narrative that says they were faithful to their god. That is not to say that they have not been instrumental in preserving for the world the documents of sacred revelation.  That is a service of faithfulness.  On the other hand, it is obvious that unbelief and a deep sleep have been the hallmark of the people’s experience. 

Wisdom’s foil

Wisdom will only be beholden to the evaluation and derision of her children.  Who can deny that Solomon was the wisest king in the Bible record, but he is also the most persistent idolater of the sons of Israel.  Solomon is also the husband of more foreign wives than there are days in a year.  It is nothing more than a foil when the followers of Moses and Jesus keep telling us that the wise are they who promise obedience and have not only a record of failure but have been indicted for rebellion.

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of [by] her children. (Matthew 11:19)

Israelite rebellion is not sugar coated

But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them. (Isaiah 63:10)

But as for Israel He says, “All the day long I have stretched out My hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.” (Romans 10:21)

Jesus’ evaluation

“Did not Moses give you the Law, and yet none of you carries out the Law? Why do you seek to kill Me?” (John 7:19)

Wisdom’s children do not need anyone telling them what who or what wisdom is.

Red Flag Drooping

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What personality trait in people raises a red flag with you?

In conversation, people who talk incessantly then expect you to do the same.

Questions being answered which were not asked. Deaf listeners.

Physicians who do not heal themselves, i.e. are not examples of healthy living or fitness.

Plutocrat heads of state who keep their people impoverished and enslaved and unlearned. Uncaring shepherds.

People fixing things that are in perfect working order.

Oh no! Satan’s dead!

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“A city set on a hill cannot be hid” is one of the iconic sayings of Yeshua of Nazareth.  It addresses the unmistakable visibility of anything he causes to stand up. If Christ said you are light, you will stand out as light.  You do not have to imagine how many people contradict that statement with their speculations and their surmising.  “Oh my God Satan’s dead” is an exclamation that we are going to hear in the bye and bye, but a more confusing exclamation addresses the destruction of the Devil’s work: more confusing because people want to act as if it’s not true.

Works destroyed

It is finished (spoken by Yeshua from the cross) is another saying opposed by people who think they’re pretty smart. All the people who want to send demons to hell, and they want to literally kill demons are obviously in the grip of a demonic delusion. Christ has allowed the appropriate amount of demons to run loose in the world, while the others are under house arrest in Tartarus (2 Peter 2:4).  The text indicates that defeated angels are reserved for judgment (κρίσις, krisis), i.e. their condition – tartarused – is not final.

The extent to which we can take “destroyed the works of the devil” is not a mystery.  Are we willing to apply what the text says?

7) Little children, make sure no one deceives you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous; 8) the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil. (1 John 3:7-8)

How was sin – the perennial work of the devil – destroyed if not by the cross, and why does Christian occupation with sin, as if it has not been decisively routed, continue as a tool for discrimination and doctrinal terrorism by those who see themselves as victorious over sin?

Beyond deception

The puritans and reformers of the 21st century can be found giving themselves outlandish names.  Whatever happened to simplicity? Since when was “Church of Christ in Mecca” not perfectly acceptable? Or when did churches stop being named after Christ/God and the locality? Their experience is beyond being deceived: they commit to deceive others to assert their inventions.

The benchmarks of evil’s augmentation are extant in the hub of deception; deceiving and being deceived, planôntes kai planômenoi.

But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

2 Timothy 3:13

They say we, believers, are not alive, but merely on life support. Since Christ has disarmed the

When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions,

Colossians 2:13

They have a lineup of arguments to show that there still decrees that block the path of the justified.

having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. (Colossians 2:14)

We are sure we died with Christ but they would have us live as always subject to some other authority.

If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as, (Colossians 2:20) “Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!” (Colossians 2:21)

On top of that, another witness of the Lord Jesus Christ, John, tells us that Christ destroyed the works of the devil, and so it is mindboggingly pathetic that people choose freedom and soon forget it.  While “Satan is dead” is something you might hear from the preachers of prosperity and positive thinking, the truth is that until our faith brings us to die once for all with Christ and until we rely exclusively on the apostolic witness we will never awake to life in Christ. The real surprise is in the “Oh no!” to the death of the person you used to be.  There is no going back to the works of the darkness and tradition.  You’re dead!  I’m dead!

Why do they keep pushing law and order?

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Criminal, crooked and perverse powerbrokers keep trying to terrorize people into robots of a cultural revolution. The failure of Israel’s encounter with law and prophets has not impressed the fundamentalist and conservative fronts.  Are not Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome in tatters after God gave them authority over large swathes of humanity? Legislation and enforcement work for God because he is pure and absolute order.   Divine harmony and balance expose the needs of all creatures.  Principles, character and natural law need neither writings nor proclamation. Gravity and reward are evident in the Messianic revelation, so let the followers of Moses and all the neo-Pharisees commit suicide with their ball and chain religions, and pretend that their life is anything more than a name.

“To the angel of the church in Sardis write:  He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars, says this: ‘I know your deeds, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead.

Covering their tracks

Today’s law-abiding citizen in North America and the Caribbean is a descendant of the first century Pharisee.  A massive con is their primary occupation.  They vainly hope that God is impressed with their rituals, festivals, long robes, wordy prayers, recital of supposed sacred texts, and well-rehearsed dramatics. According to Jeremiah:

  • They steal
  • They murder
  • They commit adultery
  • They swear falsely
  • They offer sacrifices to Baal
  • They walk after other gods
  • They go to their sacred gatherings
  • They  say, ‘We are immune!’

“Law and order” is a catch phrase used by governments for signaling that enforcing laws and policies take precedence over the will of the people, and often in defiance of statistics and the felt needs of the population.  They talk about reducing crime as they plot the demise of the poor.  They plot  cruelty to migrants and refugees in the name of security and self-defense.  They strain out flies and swallow camels.  They massacre the starving, render hundreds of thousands homeless and then complain that they are under attack.  Gaza, a Philistine city and stronghold, has entered the consciousness of 21st century people as a place where Jewish criminality goes to die.   What are the odds that Israeli politicians did not know that the Philistines captured and detained an Israelite hero until his death at his own hand?

Criminality and vice abound in church and state

Only the fascist and nationalist mentality in the Israeli leadership and settler community could have prevented Israel’s depravity because they are responsible.  Invoking the holocaust is close to becoming like the boy who cried wolf once too often.  There is no excuse for denying people inalienable rights, and calling oneself a democracy in a sea of authoritarianism delivers little credit when democracy is merely a tool to cling to Western support.  Democracy in some countries is merely an attempt to bring everyone to the table, essentially to the voting booth.  However, there is no sense of the distance needed to be separate from the despicable ideologies held by the disparate groups.  If it is only by having all viewpoints and political stripes represented in leadership that there can be genuine democracy then we are affirmimg solidarity with the perennial villains and despots.  When a society descends to a level where males can drag a female to the city square we can conclude that gross darkness has enveloped the people.  Wickedness in high places is neither strange nor infrequent.

“Law and order” is the cry of bankrupt people, all of whom will admit that law in its iconic and Jewish expression did not stabilize any society on the planet.  Those who use law as the paramount divine demand will soon commit themselves to ending free speech, defend at all costs the subjugation of women, girls and children, and among them will be the cream of the crop of Christians, Muslims, Jews, and the ungodly.

Demoniac homicidal genocidal maniacs

People like the criminal heads of Israel and the United States are the international poster boys for people whose overwhelming delusion is they have to kill innocent people they have labelled as evil.  Law and order as public policy never made a sustained contribution to genuinely strong leadership anywhere on earth.

People are reversing the meaning of human, public, private, citizen, patriot, felon, and migrant, and they are comfortable inventing alternate truths such as Israel is a chaste virgin, and Black people in America are the beneficiaries of the transatlantic slave trade.  Religious people are in the same boat: the experts, the mediocre and the extremists are getting ready to announce the equality of Jesus, Moses, Muhammad Ali, and whatsizname!  Talk about scrambling up the downside.