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By 711 Europe and the Frankish warlords were facing a graver threat than ever before. Bands of Northern African, nominally Muslim raiders had begun a steady incursion throughout the West, loosely unified under the banner of the Umayyads. Having already taken and plundered the Christian territories of the Goths, their eyes now fell upon the Frankish kingdom in Gaul, by now the greatest power in Europe. It would be a formidable prize if taken. But fortunately for the Franks, their leader was the greatest of their warlords since the rise of Clovis I: the mighty Charles Martel. Finally, the two great hosts - Charles with his allies from Aquitaine and the Umayyads under the leadership of Abd al-Rahman al-Ghafiqi. A world shaking, spear shattering, blood-letting battle would ensue, the outcome of which would come to determine the future of Europe. Join Tom and Dominic as they discuss the build up to, climax, and aftermath of the Battle of Tours - one of the most important battles in Western history, which would prove the making of the Franks, and pave the road to the ascent of Charlemagne. _______ Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Producer: Theo Young-Smith Assistant Producer: Tabby Syrett + Aaliyah Akude Executive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The President for SAT-7 USA, Rex Rogers, shared about the overall ministry, which concentrates on using satellite television (as well as the Internet) to reach multiple countries in the Middle East for Christ; one such country is the Northern African nation of Algeria, where there is a crisis among Christian churches. You can learn more at sat7usa.org. 

The President for SAT-7 USA, Rex Rogers, shared about the overall ministry, which concentrates on using satellite television (as well as the Internet) to reach multiple countries in the Middle East for Christ; one such country is the Northern African nation of Algeria, where there is a crisis among Christian churches. You can learn more at sat7usa.org. 

Ethiopia has a unique place in Northern African history. This episode explores some of the more unique mysteries and legends of the region and how they connect with The Black Madonna Become a Patron for the channel at https://www.patreon.com/TheBlackMadonnaSpeaks To receive the materials from Stephanie Georgieff's presentations in South Africa and Namibia, please make a $100 donation to https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BlackMadonnaHeart #divinefeminine #sacredfeminine #virginmary #ourlady  #blackmadonna  #anthroposophy #ethiopia #presterjohn #parcival #middleages #medieval --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stephanie-georgieff/support

Wongel Zelalem reports on Black Tunisian activist Khawla Ksiksi saying they are experiencing more racism the president criticised sub-Saharan migrants. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/africandiasporanews/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/africandiasporanews/support

The Northern African tale of Aicha, the demon slayer, comes from modern-day Algeria and Morocco. Aicha is brave, beautiful, smart, capable and sometimes magical- literally. She rejects a lazy prince, tricks a cannibal and is cursed to wander the earth restlessly. Will she break her curse? Come find out more about this fascinating heroine to close off Women's History Month!  Enjoying the Podcast? We want to hear from you! Leave us a review on Podchaser or follow us on Goodpods and tell us what story you would like us to cover next! Show notes can be found on our website at: www.talesfromtheenchantedforest.com  You can also find us on: Twitter @FromEnchanted Mastodon Instagram   TikTok

How's the craic? It's another Irish night at Hearts of Oak as David Vance joins us afresh to give us his honest and often scathing appraisals on the talking points, from the news and his social media this past week. Under the microscope this episode..... - The Invasion: Illegal channel migration expanding. - Tribunal due to rule on Shamima Begum's citizenship case. - Florida issues new guidance to doctors telling them to warn patients they could suffer a heart attack after taking experimental Covid jab. - Better late than never: Past COVID infection 'as good as vaccines' at preventing severe illness. - Brexit: The betrayal of Northern Ireland beckons? - Trump statement on Sturgeon's resignation in Scotland. - Those prosecuted for silently praying outside an abortion clinic are cleared after arrest by police sparked fury. - Lolz. ‘Chinese spy balloon' shot down over Alaska last week may have belonged to US amateur ballooning group. - Net Zero Bollocks: Log burner rule change in England could land users with £300 fines. - LGBT-BS 24/7: Trans NHS - Food inflation skyrockets in the UK. Pureblood David Vance will not submit, and he will not comply. He used to be disgusted but now he tries to be amused! In the battle for truth and liberty, David chooses the front line, he has been writing and talking politics for a long time and is a published author, political commentator and podcaster extraordinaire! If the Covid 19 plandemic taught him one lesson it is that critical reasoning and a healthy contempt for the mainstream media are desirable armoury in the fight against tyranny. Follow and support David on the following links. Website: https://davidvance.net/ GETTR: https://gettr.com/user/davidvance Twitter: https://twitter.com/DVATW?s=20&t=vaRYl6wCZ4_ZLJ9DB0xpXQ TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@thedavidvance Locals: https://thedavidvance.locals.com/ BrandNewTube: https://brandnewtube.com/@TheDavidVanceChannel Podcast: https://vancedavidatw.podbean.com/ Originally broadcast as a live news review 18.2.23 *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art https://theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com/ and follow him on GETTR https://gettr.com/user/BoschFawstin To sign up for our weekly email, find our social media, podcasts, video and livestream platforms... https://heartsofoak.org/connect/ Please like, subscribe and share! Links to stories and articles in this episode..... Immigration VIDEO https://twitter.com/DVATW/status/1626855689162293248 Begum citizenship https://www.greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk/news/national/23329140.tribunal-rule-shamima-begums-citizenship-case-next-week/ Florida https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11760449/Florida-tells-doctors-warn-patients-suffer-HEART-ATTACK-Covid-shot.html COVID https://news.sky.com/story/past-covid-infection-as-good-as-vaccines-at-preventing-severe-illness-12812415 Northern Ireland https://twitter.com/DVATW/status/1626295465275797506?s=20 Trump's statement https://twitter.com/DVATW/status/1625982414563549185?s=20 Silently praying https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11758387/Catholic-woman-prosecuted-silently-praying-outside-abortion-clinic-CLEARED.html Spy balloon https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/21429410/chinese-spy-balloon-shot-alaska-us-amateur-ballooning-group/?utm_source=sharebar_app&utm_medium=sharebar_app&utm_campaign=sharebar_app_article Net Zero https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64261624 Trans NHS https://twitter.com/DVATW/status/1626692265698553858?s=20 Inflation https://twitter.com/DVATW/status/1626650756399960074?s=20 [0:22] Thank you for joining us. David Vance, thank you for coming on this evening to share your wisdom. [0:27] My pleasure. And don't forget, you're also streaming on Twitter as well. [0:33] We're on my Twitter and your Twitter, our Twitter. Two Twitters become one. [0:42] The wonders of technology. We'll pull in comments as they appear on the side. And as always, lots happening. I don't know if we will get through the stories. David, I noticed you had a [0:59] great guest. I'm sure all your guests are great. But Christina Bobb you had on recently. Do you want to just mention that just to give people a flavour of what they may have missed? Well, very, very simple. It's kind of ironic. A lovely guest, a really good person. Christina, as you know, is an attorney to the Donald Trump 2024 campaign. She was involved back in 2020 as well. She'd written a book, Peter, about essentially the shenanigans concerning 2020 and the lessons to be drawn from that so that 2024 isn't a repeat of 2020. So we had a great conversation. She made a lot of good points. I mean, she's very much on the, ball and then I got an email the next day from our good friends at YouTube saying you're not allowed to discuss the 2020 election. How dare you? We're taking this video off our site and, and we're giving you a seven day strike. Take that Christina Bobb, take that David Vance, take that Donald Trump. This is the cancer that is [2:01] Google slash YouTube. So yeah, what can you say, Peter? You're having a civilized conversation. Christina is a very, I mean, she's an attorney, so she knows how to speak in non-inflammatory terms and kind of fact-based questioning, but that's not allowed, which tells me that the scandal of 2020, Is so great that over in YouTube and Google, they're just not prepared to countenance, you know, so [2:29] maybe with our friend, Wachiki, having left the building, maybe Google, I don't know if it's, going to write itself or not, but anyway, Trump won.   Exactly. Yeah, you should know better, David, than streaming it. Come on.   I'm reckless. Well, the thing is, Facebook, I streamed it there, It was fine. But YouTube, oh no, you can't do that one. So yeah, I think I'll be very [2:57] selective what I bothered streaming. In fact, actually, Peter, I might not even stream. I might, just do shorts over in YouTube because it's such a, it's such a censorious assess, but there's not a good content on it. Don't get me wrong. But for people like me that want to get out more, that's challenging stuff. But it's the first strike I've had in quite a while. So there you go. [3:23] Well let's jump into some of the stories and let's have a look at immigration and let's see if I can play this. My producer is away at the moment so it'll just be me. Let me see if I can pull this up. [3:39] For the people smugglers, increased police activity around Dunkirk and Calais has made, their regular launch points more difficult to operate from. French authorities are also busy erecting miles of extra security fencing around those beaches and that's driving the small boats further south. For years the criminal gangs have predominantly used the shortest route, to the UK, pushing off first from the beaches around Calais, then expanding to include areas near Dunkirk. While occasional boats have been launched farther south, in the past six months this route using beaches near Boulogne has seen a significant spike in activity. And for maritime... David, well, this is obviously immigration. This was GB News covering it, talking about the difficulties of these poor individuals not being able to go the shortest route. And we've been really selfish in telling them they have to go slightly further. But yeah, you'd posted at this. Tell us your, your thoughts. Because GP news is really the only one that highlight this issue. [4:49] Yeah, it's only a matter of time to off come declare that any conversation on this is off limits, Peter. But yeah, I mean, it's seen that and the thing that struck me is number one, oh, how awful that they're being forced around the French coast a bit. I mean, the right place to, push them would be right round and down to Spain so that they then have to head back across the Mediterranean to Northern African shores where many of them come from. But yeah, I mean, the way the way the media would have you believe, you know, the sheer inhumanity of it, why, don't we build a bridge so they, you know, or a slide so they can just slide across the English Channel. It's all farcical anyway. I couldn't care less where their, you know, their start-off point is. It should never, ever end with them landing on British shores is what I think. I think our obligation is to stop every boat from wherever it comes, with these criminal gangs, Peter, driving it, and then these, frankly, criminals who are on it. [5:53] Because if you partake in a criminal act, I'm afraid that makes you a criminal. It doesn't have any other walk of life, but apparently not to these poor, disadvantaged, vulnerable men of military age coming across the channel in the dinghies. So yeah, it's interesting what's happening. Also by the way, in that video, did you see the fence that the French are putting up? .It's a bit two foot tall. I mean, you could step over it. That's stopping nobody unless they are very vertically challenged. So most people are going right over that fence or right through that fence. And this is what we're paying millions and millions to the French. Better pay the French nothing, have a strong naval presence that actually stops the boats and stops them coming here. Because once they get here, it's all over for us. you know it's straight to hotels in Knowsley or wherever else they can be found. But David, I thought the short fences were really quite racist because they're claiming that anyone who's a foreigner is very short and us Brits are very tall. [6:57] That's right. Yes. It's more racism. I'm glad you can see the racism here because it's important, we keep our eyes spotted for this. Yeah. It's kind of like it's such a shell operation from the French. I mean, they're doing the bare minimum. And I mean, ultimately, whether it's, you know, whether it's Calais or whether it's a bit further along, what does it matter? If they come here, they're in, so we have to stop them coming here. And of course, this is a serious point, as you know, and I'm sure those watching this understand, there's absolutely no desire on, the part of British political class to stop any of them. I mean, I've seen Nigel Farage talk about this and he's right about this. There's just no desire. They don't want to know. And as you also know, the only way we can really stop it anyway is if we leave the ECHR, if we invoke our own sovereignty, and as I say, if we actually do something, but we're too scared, to do it. Our politicians are too scared to do it. So yeah, it's going to be a slightly more southern sort of starting point for them, but the finishing point is always the same, the UK. Yeah. [8:05] Well, let's look on to actually not people coming here, but people leaving and then not being able to get back. And if only they were all like Shamima Begum in that we would strip them off the right to stay. But this is, I think, shocking to most people, tribunal to rule on Shamima Begum's citizenship case next week. So she's in this legal battle with the government demanding, no, I know I'm a terrorist and I went off with ISIS but hey, I'm actually just a nice girl now, if they're right. But it's such a waste of time and money, it's madness.   It is Peter, it's all of that and worse. So I think there's a fair chance that Islamic bride Shamima Begum will be permitted back into the UK. You've seen, I'm sure people may have seen over the past couple of weeks. [8:58] Stories going out about her almost treating her like she's a model, a kind of a fashion icon. [9:05] This is the same lady who did say that she felt that the Manchester Arena bombing, that terrible event that happened back in 2017 was justified. She said that. Same lady who said, I mean, when you think of, I mean, I put a podcast out on this today, because I was contrasting. So Shamima Beggum being treated by the parts of the media as a fashion icon is kind of shocking. And yet she sympathized with the bomber, the Jihadi, who killed all those kids and their, moms and dads. So awful stuff. And at the same time, and this is where I draw the contrast, and this is why, yes, I I do hate the British establishment. Morrissey, the singer Morrissey, then releases an album or tries to release an album, the title track of which, is specifically about the rage he felt over the bombing at that Manchester Arena. And well, what's happened to him? Well, it's not being released. That's what's happened to him. [10:11] So he's taken a view, which I think many people will feel, looking back at events like that, we shouldn't look back. They say, don't look back in anger. Morrissey says, we should look back in anger. And I say that as well. But he's non-persona, he's cancelled. Meanwhile, I reckon there's a fair chance that Shamima Begum will come back to the UK, and be hailed as some kind of new woman, strong, empowered woman coming back to bring much needed diversity, which no doubt she picked up in the Islamic State camps to the UK. Oh, what joy. [10:48] Diversity, that's what we're missing. Before I jump on to some of our COVID stories, let me just pull up some of the comments here. I've got the Gettr tab open. So Tiger Boy 1985, first on Evening Peter and David. Then Canadian Mom 1997, Evening Peter and David. Biotech Babe, Chris Davis 33, Melismac. We have, I'm trying to, there are lots, yep, there are lots of you there. So I'm scrolling, scrolling. Thank you for, few picture comments there. Thank you for joining us. And I hope we'll provide some entertainment for you as the evening progresses. So let's stay on, let's jump on to COVID, from immigration to COVID. And is this really quite an unusual story? A story of course David that we thought should have been there right at the beginning, but anti-lockdown Florida, I don't know if the Daily Mail are saying that's good or bad, anyway, issues controversial new guidance to doctors telling them to warn patients they could suffer heart attack after COVID shot. So the Florida Health have put out a release telling doctors to issue these warnings. [12:07] It's quite an unusual story, quite an unusual thing happening now. What do you, this obviously caught your eye. Well it did because I mean again the rank hypocrisy of the plagiarists in the Daily Mail. [12:21] I use the word plagiarist advisedly because it plagiarized me during the week. [12:26] So yeah, anti-lockdown Florida. Well, so is that pejorative? Can they not just say Florida? Do they have to put that in? There's the first point. The second point, it made me laugh this actually, you know, the issue of controversial new guidance. What's controversial about it? It's fact-based, no doubt about it, that we know empirically, no argument that the COVID jabs can cause [12:51] cardiovascular events such as heart attacks. So we know that. So, you know, I don't understand where the Daily Mail is coming from that, you know, they could cause heart attacks. Of course, they do cause heart attacks. We know that. But maybe Peter, I like the broader picture is perhaps, beyond the remit of the awful Daily Mail, is that this dam that is breaking, I've been going on about this now, I think the last time we talked as well, I think more and more as the weeks go by, the months go by they can't hold back. They just can't hold back the truth coming out about the jabs, about the adverse reactions, about all the horrors, the stuff that we were talking about, we were shouting about, back at the end of 2020 before they even started the jabs. We warned. And now, yeah, the Daily Mail, and I think this is, see, this is the function of organizations like the Daily Mail. They go ahead of the game a little bit to start maybe, you know, preparing people for the awful reality that, that the jabs do cause heart attacks and the jabs do everything but give you that which you were told. So I thought it was an interesting headline. So maybe the Daily Mail is just softening people up for whenever we get more and more stories, more and more information and we can see exactly what has been going on for two years. So I thought it was a significant headline, although I do dispute much of what the Daily Mail actually says. [14:21] Oh yeah, let me just bring up one of the graphs they also included, which again, this shows the adverse reactions and they actually say this is a 1700% increase. Now, it would be good if they had actually led with that instead of including that away at the beginning. Because they've given the reason and yeah, you're right, they're seemingly attacking, the officials in Florida. But yet they include the data that shows the reasons why. Again, it doesn't make sense. The story, the headline doesn't really connect with the truth they give. That's right. Exactly, Peter. And all the way through this, we've argued from a position of facts and data, because, I think that's the only basis for argument really, because if it's just opinion, one, man's opinion is another man's poison. But when you look at the data, like that chart you just put up, I mean... You know, and there's more and more of this coming out. I mean, if you look at excess deaths. [15:24] which we've all been talking about, it's unstoppable now. I think Germany, I put up a thing today, Germany sitting at 50 percent excess deaths. Do you know? And I mean, and I take, there's no pleasure at all in being proven right. But by the same token, there's no pleasure about, being ignored when you're trying to do the right thing and warn people. So yeah, I mean, you know, it looks, wow, it looks like something happened in 2021. In fact, actually, if you look at Germany, which is even worse, you can actually see the big spikes in excess deaths and all these events, coincide with the first jab, the second jab and the booster jab. It's clear as day. And, you know, know, I think that they're at the point now where they know this just absolute deluge of information is going to overwhelm the defences they have stuck up for the past couple of years. So at least Peter, we've been on the right side throughout this. And I just feel sorry for people who, you know, who went along, who believed the authorities. And we have to be careful not to be, you know, too sort of patronising to them. I feel bad for them, because a lot of them have woken up themselves and said, whoa, no more of this for us. Mind you, if you're in Canada and you say that, you're not getting an organ transplant. [16:44] I saw that, pure evil from Trudeau. [16:48] So that was the Daily Mail wakening up, and this is Sky News wakening up. Past COVID infection, as good as vaccines at preventing severe illness. While the research suggests that natural immunity could be just as good as vaccines are preventing serious illness from COVID-19 infection, the study's authors encourage people to still get vaccinated to avoid any complications from the initial infection. David, unpack this.   Yeah, well, you see, yeah, this is interesting, this one, Peter, because, what they're trying to say is that natural immunity is as good as anything that the vaccines give. That's what they're trying to say. But at the same time, still encourage people to take the vaccines because sky like the BBC, like all mainstream media are 100% in the pocket of the government one way or another. So that's why they're saying that. But you see, I've got an issue with, I've always got issues with these things. I've got an issue with this because I dispute the fact that natural immunity is the important thing. That's what we all have. [18:02] And it's a really good defence mechanism. But they're trying to suggest that, yeah, it's as good as anything the vaccines give you. No, it's much better because the vaccines don't give you any immunity. The vaccines weaken your immune system. They call all these adverse reactions we've just been chatting about. So even in a way, Peter, I can't accept this bit of it, where they're saying, oh, the two jabs isn't any better than having natural immunity. It's way worse. It's way worse because natural immunity, what you've got, what I've got, which a lot of people watching this will have, it's not going to give us myocarditis or Bell's palsy or cripple us or give us infertility issues. None of those things from natural immunity. But, if you take an experimental mRNA jab, then there's a very good chance you might get potentially some of those things. So, you know, yeah, again, I think it's all softness up. So natural immunity. I remember the conversations. Don't you, way back with Fauci and this one and the likes of Chris Whitty, when people did bring up the, you know, the whole thing about, well, you know, natural immunity is very strong and I remember them looking straight into the camera [19:15] and lying and say, no, no, no, no, no, the vaccines, the super duper vaccines are much better. They're, you know, and you look back in it now, and sometimes it's like we've lived through a complete nightmare. And we lived through it. And we were awake and throughout it, you know, and you look back at what they were those guys were saying, and now they're confounded by the very story you put up and that's sky running it, by the way, who were big shells for the jab. So yeah, ultimately it's just interesting to watch this, isn't it? They are big shills. The weird thing is that it talks about the studies, their 65 surveys, but they said it was partially funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. I thought that was a weird comment to include in the story. [20:05] Yeah. Yeah. I wonder, is that Sky covering their backsides? Uncle Bill phones them up and says, what's this? What are you trying to put out? I don't know. It was strange. But I mean, again, it's just ultimately as we both believe and many people watching believe, truth will out and the truth is emerging all the time. And so, you know, all of a sudden, yeah, natural immunity. Oh, it's really quite good. And these vaccines, well, maybe they're not what we told you they were. Maybe they're not. And you give it six months and give it a year. And I just think this is just going to, you know, that's why they have to distract us, Peter. That's why I think with these kind of stories breaking, that's why you've got UFOs over the United States. That's where I, that's why I also think, you know, we have disappearing women near the riverbank in the United Kingdom. I think it's distraction politics. Don't look there, look over there. So they're losing, you know, Zelensky and Ukraine, they're absolutely losing to Russia. So let's not talk about that. And then the COVID truth is emerging, let's not talk about that. Well, no, let's do talk about that. And I'm not, you know, and forget their silly youthful stories, their silly spy balloons and also bizarre stories about missing women. Right. They're not again the myths that just utterly bonkers that story and being the main story and it's random. It just, yeah. [21:33] But anyway, we're enough down the rabbit hole, so let's continue. Yeah, yeah, we can go a lot further than that. We'll go there. Northern Ireland. [21:46] That we are told that it's all going to come good here. GB News reporting Rishi Sunak is saying don't worry, that major announcement coming up. But you don't really buy this. Your comment was the betrayal of Northern Ireland beckons. Yeah, of course it does. I don't believe any of that. No, no. So this is obviously with regard to the Northern Ireland protocol and the fact that the DUP, won't go back into government until essentially the border of the Irish sea is removed. And, we have Sunak and the EU in cahoots with each other. And I think he came over here, Peter, on Friday, Sunak, for a flying visit. And I think that was to try, I mean, all the pro-EU parties seem really happy about it. They're real happy about it. DUP, I think, with good [22:40] reason or asking a lot of sort of we'll have to wait to see all the details. I think what the, see my theory about all of this is that the British government and Boris Johnson, they left Northern Ireland in the single market and subject to the ECJ for a good reason and that was that by leaving, a part of the UK in those areas that that created friction. How do you solve that friction? Well, if the rest of the UK was to be closer linked to the single market and closer linked to the ECJ, then there wouldn't be a problem at all. And I do think that's the end game. I don't know, they're not going to get to it, but that's where they want to get this one. So I reckon I've been here before so often in matters Northern Ireland, they play this game, you know, will there be a deal? Won't there be a deal? Oh, it's one minute to midnight. Oh, you know, all this stuff, all it's all theatre, it's all sort of media hype. And they'll come out with something and they'll try and bounce the DUP in it if they can. And I would hope, and I've spoken to DUP friends and said to them, you know, I think you should stick to what you've said all along. Northern Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom. We shouldn't be treated any differently, no better, but no worse. We shouldn't have borders between us and the rest of our, you know, our fellow British citizens. And so if Sunak [24:06] can't respect that, then we should with all due respect tell the Prime Minister to go and do one because we're not interested. And it looks like there is some Brexiteer resistance within the, Conservative Party still that is similarly inclined to that mindset. So in other words, you know, Prime Minister, treat this part of the UK like everywhere else. Don't try and do [24:28] You know, sort of dodgy deals with the European Union. But yet I think he will try and do a dodgy deal with the European Union. [24:36] Well, what are your thoughts, because obviously following Northern Ireland politics, being, Northern Irish, but watching it from afar over here in London, Jeffrey Donaldson seems to be someone who is invisible. I mean, Arlene Foster was always out there on the media. And my perception is the DUP are completely silent, that they may be very vocal in Northern Ireland, but actually the message doesn't seem to be getting out there. Is that a fair assessment? [25:11] Well, they've got no media friends, you see, that's the problem. So if you take to the local media, the Northern Irish media, I mean, the only time the DUP has come on is to be beaten up. I have sympathies for the DUP. Like for example, like last, I mean here's a small example of the, utter cynicism of the media and the politicians towards the DUP. So they tried to push through a law called Dáithí's Law last week, Dáithí's Law, named after a little six-year-old boy who needed organ transplant. And this law would basically, if it was enabled in Northern Ireland, mean that [25:52] just like the rest of the UK, you would be automatically, the government would have first dabs to your body if you die. At the moment, we've got the much better position where we're naturally opted out, we have to opt in. So that's how it should be. Because there's no way the government should be able to claim that, which it does in England, Scotland and Wales. So that's a position. And what this law would do is bring us in line with the rest of the UK. And of course, it plays on the heartstrings, little boys, you know, they're going to die if they don't get the organ transplant. And the only way that can happen is if the DUP go back into the assembly, appoint a speaker and then enact the law. So to be fair to the DUP, they stood against that bit of emotional blackmail this week. So although Peter they're silent in media terms, [26:46] there's a relative strength still there. And I think electorally, they don't fear an election, unlike the conservatives. So there's good reason for them, hopefully not to cave. But like all political parties, you know this from yourself, there's a spectrum of opinion within each party. So there'll be some people in the DUP saying, well, maybe if it's not too bad a deal, we should go that way. But I think the fear of them then being seen to have compromised and sold out would mean that they'd be punished in the May council elections. So I think the DUP will probably dismiss whatever it is Rishi Sunak and the European Union have, plans. But it does tell you plenty that Sunak's in league with the EU. What more can I say?   You mentioned the story and I read that story and how it came across to me over here was that because an agreement has not been reached, obviously no one can get any transplants anymore, so the whole health system must have stopped. And that's how you get all these people dying because they can't get any transplants. So now you've explained, actually I completely understand. [28:00] What the truth is, but it shows how the media spin it. Well, it absolutely does. I mean, this is the same media that was spinning because of the energy hikes and the government brought out £600 payments to help alleviate. People were saying, oh, unless the assemblies, Northern Ireland Stormont Assembly is put, back in place, no one's going to get anything. We got it all before anyone else in the UK. This is why I'm a great advocate for not having government. I've learned that by not having a functioning government here, things get done better and faster and without the same sort of political grandstanding and all the rest of it. So my sincere hope is that the the assembly is not restored and we continue in Limbo. It's great. [28:44] Now one politician you do like, we all like and miss is this man here, Mr. Donald Trump. This was a, I hadn't actually seen the statement until I saw it on your Twitter page and it, is beautiful. Let me just read this is the statement on, I was going to say the death of Nicola Sturgeon, resignation of Nicola Sturgeon. And Trump says, good riddance to failed, woke, extremist, Nicola Sturgeon of Scotland. This crazed leftist symbol. Oh, it is absolutely beautiful. And this is what we are missing. Trump actually causing chaos in the White House. It's superb. It was the best bet. The whole thing about her resignation. This was the best. But this is the language, this is what makes people love Trump, I think. It certainly makes us love Trump because he absolutely didn't hold back at all. And he mentions, I mean, he's aware of the gender recognition reform, but he's aware of all of that stuff. I thought it was brilliant, Peter. Beautiful, as you say. Absolutely fantastic. And you compare that actually how Trump responded to her resignation to how Rishi Sunak responded saying, Oh, we would like to thank her for her service, blah, blah, blah. [30:09] I thought, you know, there was Trump. I mean, the only thing is he did bring up his golf course. I mean, he can't help these things, can he? Leave your golf, leave your golf course out of it. [30:19] I appreciate probably the SNP weren't helpful to him, but please. There's a difference. But it was otherwise 100 percent brilliant. And that's what we we missed. Those mean tweets. It's about time Donald Trump got himself onto Twitter, because if he's going to get elected, he needs that audience. I agree. He needs to be everywhere as you and I are. So moving on to continuing the politics line, a piece of good news. And I think last week when I had Lewis Brackpool on, I think we just touched on this, mentioned this because it had just come out, but it's all come out now. And this is, you've interviewed her before David. Catholic woman prosecuted for silently praying outside abortion clinic is cleared after arrest by police sparked fury among supporters who condemned thought crime. It's also very good news, but it doesn't really clear up what actually are people's rights or not. But tell us about this because you've spoken to her, you've had Victoria or Isabel on.   Isabel, yeah, yeah. I had Isabel on for a chat there. The thing is, the background is pretty obvious. Was arrested for praying in the vicinity of an abortion clinic, silently. [31:40] And the very fact that that can happen in the UK should cause everyone great concern, you know. And when I spoke with Isabel, I mean, she knew that she was going to be taken to court this month, and they've dropped the case. Because they obviously decided on the balance of evidence that they probably couldn't get her on it. But I'm relieved about that because although having said that, as I did say to her at the time, When she was interviewed by the police and the policeman said to her, are you praying? Do you remember that? And she said, I might be. I might be. And on the basis of her saying, I might be, that's when the arrest was made. Now that's probably illegitimate. Had she said, yes, I was praying, then on the basis of the restriction order, because restriction order does actually say you're not allowed to do anything that could be perceived. So listen, it's a good news story. Let's not take it. I'm so happy for Isabel. I'm sure it's a lot of relief from her. But these kind of orders that they are definitely experimenting with, and maybe this one, they didn't get this one away, but there'll be somebody else and it'll be someone, innocuous, someone like Isabel who's a really decent person, a prayerful person, someone who, [33:04] you know, you couldn't fault the thing that she said. When I did the stream with her, I mean, the response from my viewers, Peter, was universally, this is such a courageous, brave, lady, but why is she being, why is she being, why was she arrested and why is she being prosecuted? And a lot of people outside the UK can't believe that it could happen, but it did. And we need to make sure that, you know, things like this don't reoccur. But ultimately, I'm happy that it's a good result for Isabel. But I hope other people could do it. Like if someone wanted to go and do pray outside an abortion clinic tomorrow, what would happen? And I guess, you know, I don't know. [33:43] It all points back to the politicization of her place and how the police operate in the country. And I think that's a big problem still.   No, it is, it is. And of course all this happening under conservative government, as I do always like to point out, so much for that. And this is, again, this isn't a story about, pro-life or pro-choice, it's a story about freedom of speech and the right to stand on a corner and to pray. So it is about those fundamental freedoms and it's not necessarily about the whole abortion debate. [34:17] It's really exactly, it's not about the abortion debate at all really. I mean if people want to have a silent prayer in the vicinity of, and we talked about this at the time, it's such an, incredibly stupid law. I can't believe that they conceived of this and that councils and whatnot are using it to create these situations around different places, you know. But yeah, it's just and saying, I mean, you mentioned the fact that it's happening under a conservative, government. No, it's not because this isn't a conservative government. These bunch of imposters in the conservative party, almost unilaterally, not maybe all of them, but almost unilaterally, are fake conservatives. I mean, they haven't conservative bone in their body. They don't care about free speech. They don't care about all the things which I reckon that all the patriotic people who would have in times gone by, sort of, were the Conservative Party, believing. They don't care about any of those things. It's all about power, it's all about [35:20] control, it's all about stamping down on free speech. And, you know, so, yeah, so they're not, I just wanted to correct you, they're not really conservatives, they're imposter conservatives. Conservative in name only.   In name only. Cheetos, yeah. Cheetos Peter, yeah. So let's go, you touched on the balloon UFOs, let's touch because there have been new revelations David. And the new revelation is, according to The Sun, that the Chinese spy balloon shot over Alaska last week may have belonged to US amateur ballooning group. I mean this just changes the whole story.   I know, it's clown world. It's absolute clown world. I think with the release of the Epstein papers, which we've now seen all the details on, I, think having narratives like this, which did dominate the media, I mean, it was amazing. And then here we go, Peter, as you say, you've got it up on the screen there. It may have belonged to the US amateur ballooning group. So you know, what he sent up, what was it? [36:24] I can't remember what the aircraft was.   It was an F-22 they sent up, a very expensive trip, a very expensive trip actually. To shoot down a 32-inch balloon. So just a small balloon. [36:40] Yeah, as I pointed out, the real balloon problem is in the White House. It's not up in the 40,000 feet or whatever these balloons were. But yeah, you had all this madness going on in the past week or so, and all these objects being shot down, as you say, at extreme expense. And the White House even initially saying, well, we don't know about the balloons. We don't know where these objects, where they come from. ET phone home. And so they were almost going with the, it could be extra-terrestrial story. And then because that was so ludicrous, then they started to back away from that. And then it was China, China, China. But actually, Peter, what's interesting is back in 2017, 2018, the US was boasting about the fact that it was trialling, [37:30] I don't understand this balloons. I mean, are we going back in time? I mean, do you know what I mean? We got satellites. What do we want balloons for? They were doing balloons as well. So, I mean, it doesn't surprise me that this could be a US balloon. [37:46] I don't know why the Chinese would be wanting to use that kind of tech. But then other people have said, oh, the one that was shot down over the Atlantic, you know, when it got the one that was spotted over Montana by a farmer, how come Norad or how come no US intelligence services were able to tell us about it, but a farmer was able to spot it and make its way all across the, states before being shot down. Some people have said, well, it actually had anti-gravity. I mean, what do you believe? It could go to Mach 5 and have anti-gravity. And I'm thinking, well, if it could do that, how come they shot it down? So I don't know. Look, anything coming out, of the white house, your best advice is just don't believe it. [38:35] I mean, Mach 5, that would be what, three and a half thousand miles an hour. That's the fastest balloon. I don't know if balloons can travel three and a half thousand miles an hour. [38:46] Yeah. I mean, I'll tell you that Phileas Fogg would be envious. He'd be around the world in 80 minutes, never mind 80 days if he was doing that kind of speed. But we still don't really know exactly what went on other than its distraction politics and that's honestly what I really think this whole story was about. It was so bizarre the media all jumped on it Peter as you know over here Rishi Sunak declared that oh yeah there's any of those balloons over the UK I'll not hesitate to send up the, well whatever we've got left of the RAF to shoot them down so I mean your guess is as good as mine what it actually was. But it definitely was a distraction. [39:33] It was. If this was a 32 inch balloon, hobbyist balloon, then it was not the massive thing. But I'll just give you a... So an F-22 being a plane buff, the F-22 Rapture, it actually is around $85,000 per hour to fly it. So that's all it costs. It's a very expensive trip to shut down a hobbyist balloon. That's the first. But I saw a CNN story and the CNN story was they had secretly got into China and secretly gone to somewhere 300 miles away from Beijing to a secret air base and it was making these, balloons and there were all these big... This was a massive investigation by CNN. What? Yeah, it doesn't add up.   Yeah, listen, that's why nobody watches CNN. CNN is a stealth news channel. It doesn't actually have any viewers. It puts out this garbage, probably again to try and prop up the White House fantasy about this here. [40:46] Honestly, I would have thought that China has the technology if it wants to spy. I mean, look, for goodness sake, how many Americans have got TikTok on their phone? If you want to spy, if that's your thing, and I'm sure the Chinese do it, but I'm sure the Americans do it too. If they want to spy, you can do it through a mobile phone. You don't need to put balloons, but I do find the balloon just on the tech side of things. So we're going back. I mean, what next? Pigeons, are we gonna have spy pigeons, that have little cameras attached to them and they've been trained to fly over US military bases, shoot down the pigeons, spot the pigeon, those of a certain age will remember that. Wonderful cartoons, spot the pigeon. So yeah, it's all mad, it's insanity. Again, that's the times in which we live.   Don't give Biden any ideas. He'll be releasing the pigeons. [41:37] This is a story which actually is about two and a half weeks old, but you read posts and I think it's, I don't know if I covered it, so it's good to highlight what is happening. And there's a bit and I didn't realize. And this is log burner rule change in England, could land users with £300 fine. And actually you scroll down and it says that households in England, you're safe over there in Northern Ireland, you can emit your five grams of smoke per hour. But households in England could face fines up to £300 and even criminal records. So, a criminal record. So you've got all these illegal immigrants coming in, you've got all the grooming gangs, and yet the focus from the government is that you can't emit more than three grams of smoke per hour. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, how much hot air does the government emit per hour? This is ridiculous. English people have been burning wood, Peter, since time immemorial. I mean, and these wooden, these burners like that in the picture there that you've got above there in the story. I mean, lots of people have got these. My sister has these in, one of these in her house. And [42:59] people, if anything, were actually encouraged to get these. And now, as you say, you could end up, with a criminal record because you're burning logs in your home to keep warm. And of course, I wonder is this because they want to squeeze us in energy so you can't afford your gas if you're using gas or if you're using oil, you can't afford your oil. So what we're going to do is we're going to just corner off the wood. Don't think you'll go into the forest and forage wood and then use that no no no because we're going to be tracking your smoke emissions and if, they're above X amount as you say then that's a fine. We'll empower the local council to you know to have a never mind a traffic warden, a smoke warden, someone who will go around checking for you know tell-tale signs, coming from your chimney or whatever and yeah slap you with a fine and maybe you could end up with a criminal record because you want to stay warm? [44:01] Are you kidding me? But anyway, yeah, I thought that was, you know, it's another one of these ones, it's England, so it's not here for me. But undoubtedly, you know, when these lunatics get these ideas, they spread out like 15 minute cities. Same idea. Yeah, there was another one on Net Zero and I didn't include although I meant to, which was a post you put up about the cost of breakfasts and talked about a cost of 22% and anyone who goes to buy butter or eggs or milk knows the crazy cost. And I guess we're told that's how we're winning this war. how we're beating Russia by actually meaning we can no longer afford to buy food, butter literally has doubled in the last year as of eggs. And it just, again, I don't think it's us that are winning. Talking to Callum on Thursday and he's just back from his Russia trip. So it seems a Russia winning and not us. Yeah, take that Putin. doubling our inflation, we're going to make it impossible to have, as you say, eggs and [45:11] butter and milk and all these staple foods. And this is why you see that my argument in this as well is that the inflation figures that they play around with are so deceptive. Ordinary people know that [45:26] If they go to, yeah, look, you go to the supermarket, you do your grocery shop, that's when you know what real inflation is. And there you have Peter, you've put it up on the screen, I can see, you know, all these things. Look at the double digit inflation way, way up, 20 plus percent and above. And that's all inflicted on British families by the government's insane sanctions against Putin, which have had this kind of blowback. And we're paying it. And Callum's right. I just put out Russian exports have gone up. Russian imports have gone down. Their economy is much more balanced. [46:11] Specifically Europe, Western Europe, it's committing economic hari-kari to, well, not really to teach Putin a lesson because Putin's happy, I would have thought he sees the state that we're all in. But I feel bad for people who, you know, on fixed income, say pensioners, who have to go to the supermarket. And you mentioned butter there. Like, where are they going to find all that extra money from? Not from their pensions. So where? Well, they don't. So what they do is they scrape and save and they try and make do with less. And that's where my anger against the government comes from. I think of the people, disadvantaged people, the people on fixed incomes, the elderly people, and they live in the real world. You go to the supermarket, Peter, like you have to get your food. And at the same time, they're being hit by huge heating bills. And this is all to teach Putin a lesson. I mean, the only lesson is we should never have gone along with sanctions against Russia. Absolute stupidity but then there's a globalist agenda in place there as we all know. [47:18] But we're all suffering, but of course I'm so glad that Rishi Sunak doesn't have to suffer because I'm sure he doesn't worry if bread's gone up from 80p to £1.50. I'm sure it doesn't really take a dent in his budget. Well if you're married to a billionairess, it probably is something you're going to be able to cope with, you know. But yeah, exactly. I mean, this shows you the detachment of [47:41] a lot of the politicians from ordinary working families, or indeed retired families, either which way. It shows you that they cannot appreciate what must be going through many ordinary people's, household budgets. Like how the hell do we cope with this? How do I feed my kids? How do I do this, that and the other? Because as you showed there, Peter, those are real price increases. So whenever, the BBC tells us, oh, good news, the ONS said inflation is down to 10.1%. Do me a favour. No, we're not buying that. That's another thing we're not buying. We know that on things that really matter to people like food, it's double digit all the way up 20, 30%. And that's not likely to go down anytime soon. Because remember, energy costs and food manufacturing is a big, element of the final bill. So that's why businesses reflect a lot of this in the end price. They have to or they go bust. And they're not being given the level of subsidy, by the way, that they need. So I just think this will stay here for a good bit of, you know, maybe the rest of this year. [48:48] Well, it's good that there wasn't a fixed income. Maybe pensioners will be helping the war by dying of hunger or will die by freezing. That all helps Rishi Sunak. Yeah. The rest of them. It's very noble of them. Yeah. A sacrifice which Rishi wants them to do.   So, onto the NHS. A friend of mine actually didn't, we talked and he was going to go and see the doctor and didn't go because of his concern that he would be forced to have a jab. And if you're maybe older or less mobile, that is a concern. But this is the other concern that you go and this thing appears in front of you. Now that is some mug shot. Oh, that is some mugshot. And this is John Harrell Trans NHS. Just wanted to say how lovely all my colleagues have been in treating me just as one of the, girls. These people used to get help. [49:47] They did and they still need help, but they're not getting it. Instead they're being indulged. I mean, look at this. Just read the rest of that out for everyone there, Peter. So in treating me just one of the girls in my new NHS post, interesting time with one young female patient who wanted to be treated by a female and I felt I need to explain I was a trans female. She's just said, that is fine. You're female. And he wanted a female nurse to treat me. Yeah, things that never happened. Does anyone actually believe that? If I was in an NHS bed and something like that came towards me, honestly, I would be right out of that bed, out of that ward and away down the road. There's no way. But yeah, I mean, NHS trans nurse. And by the way, she says to that, she's got a new NHS post. So this is our wonderful NHS in action, putting people who I would say have got some form of, at least I'll be polite, cognitive dissonance, to put it politely, or mental issues in some regards, it shouldn't be [50:59] treating people, Peter. They should be being treated, I think. But hey, what can you say? That's the NHS. It's good to know what the NHS priorities are, trans nurses. Well worth your taxes.   But David, it is good that you obviously commented if that... thing came along then suddenly it feels much better. Actually it does help with the healing process. It does, it picks it up. Honestly if I was a death door and I seen that angel of death coming towards me I would be gone. So as you say, maybe it's a miracle cure they're going to introduce one of those in every NHS ward and watch those bed occupancy rates go down through the floor as, As everyone legs it. [51:45] David, let's just want to face off for the clip you put up. And the weird thing, this is this is the really weird thing. [51:54] I was looking at this this afternoon and I thought, did I look at this because David tweeted it? I know because you tweeted three hours ago. So I was looking at it completely differently, having a little chuckle. And that is a Monty Python sketch. Oh, yeah. I just thought I would play it as we finish because it is good to end on humour. I'm a little bit confused why I was looking at that as you were as well separately. [52:24] So let's just play this. I think there's a longer for this is just one minute. I'll play this in 60 seconds. But I'll play this. [52:36] Give me a moment. [52:39] I want to be a woman. From now on, I want you all to call me Loretta. What? [52:46] It's my right as a man. Well, why'd you want to be Loretta, Stan? [52:53] I want to have babies. You want to have babies? It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them. But you can't have babies. Don't you oppress me. I'm not oppressing you, Stan. You haven't got a womb. [53:07] Where's the foetus going to gestate? You going to keep it in a box? [53:14] Here, I've got an idea. Suppose you agree that he can't actually have babies, not having a womb, which is nobody's fault, not even the Romans. [53:23] But that he can have the right to have babies. [53:26] Good idea, Judith. We shall fight the oppressors for your right to have babies, brother. Sister, sorry. What's the point? [53:34] What? What's the point of fighting for his right to have babies when he can't have babies? [53:41] It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression. Symbolic of his struggle against reality. Symbolic of his struggle against reality. Great line. Yeah, yeah. We're not going to top that one, Peter. That is the first line. [53:58] No. Yeah, but yeah, that came up on my TikTok, actually. That's where I saw that one. Because I like comedy stuff too, you know. And wasn't that prophetic though? the Pythons did that. So that's from obviously the life of Brian, which came out in 1981, or maybe 79. 79, yeah. Yeah, 79. And I remember going to see that movie way back then, you know, as a child. And it was really, you know, it was really funny and people thought, well, you would never actually have conversations like that. And then 2023, you talked about the trans nurse, you know, and you realize that we are living in a post-Monty Python world whereby the surreal is now being made. We have to believe that it's real. But the payoff from John Cleese is excellent. It's symbolic of his struggle against reality.   Let me put just some comment at the end on GETTR, Tommy AU, you, Canadian mom 1997, Huckle3229 Hisalways Vicky and more. Thank you for tuning in David. Thank you for joining us as always. No, my absolute pleasure. I was having a good laugh. I do think Peter in times of darkness, [55:19] and you know, pressures in all kinds of ways, it's healthy for us to all to laugh, to laugh at the oppressors, to laugh at the tyrants, to laugh at all of this madness. I think it keeps us sane. So I think this has been good for my mental health as well. So thank you for the opportunity and thanks for all the viewers. I recognise a lot of those names. Thank you folks for being here with, Peter as well. I make sure you support Peter by and also make sure you see me on Monday night in in my study at 8 p.m. When we're gonna be talking actually, Peter, with a lovely lady that you and I both met three weeks ago, Charlotte.   Ah, Charlotte, yes.   Because in Countess of Burnley she... [56:05] Baroness of Burnley.   Baroness of Burnley, yeah. Yeah, Charlotte's coming on for an hour of giggles on Monday night, so we'll keep the humour motif going I think for as long as we can.   She's good fun. The viewers will enjoy it. So you can watch either, you can watch that live and then flick over to Hearts of Oak or vice versa, whichever you so wish. So everything is there. But David, thanks for coming on. Thank you so much. Thanks, Peter.   And thank you to all our viewers. Or if you're downloading this listening on the go as a podcast on Podbean or any of the podcasting apps. Thank you so much for listening. And we'll be back with you on Monday with John Waters looking at what's happening in Ireland with the immigration invasion, which one in four hotels are now booked up by immigrants. So it's lovely hospitality has now gone out of control and destroying the country. So tune in for that on Monday. Do you know Peter, Peter, just popping in. I was down in Dublin myself just about a week ago. And did you get a free hotel as well? Well, I was going to say, I was trying, there's a couple of what I would call business hotels where people meet up for coffees and have a chat. [57:22] They're all closed. They are closed and they're only open. They're, they're, they're for essentially, um, well, yeah, the, uh, the immigrants. So it's amazing what's happening. So that should be a great chat with John on Monday night. Look forward to that. And then Charlotte with David also on Monday. So I wish you, our viewers, listeners, wonderful rest of your Saturday. Good weekend. And we'll see you on Monday.  

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit news.nathanwinograd.orgThese are some of the stories making headlines in animal protection:Subscribers can also listen to the podcast above, which includes extended commentary on many of the issues, including the emergence of Critical Race Theory in the humane movement and how it threatens to upend more than a century of progress in animal welfare and animal rights.For those who want to skip the news and go straight to the main discussion, it begins at the 21:05 mark.Utah animal lovers announced planned protests against the use of the gas chamber at North Utah Valley Animal Shelter. The pound admitted that cats who hide in the corner of their cages are gassed to death, often on the same day they come in. The pound also gasses “very friendly” dogs despite rescue groups ready, willing, and able to place them.There is no progressive sheltering agency of any scope or stature willing to philosophically embrace gas systems for the killing of animals. When the chamber is filled with gas, the animals inside gasp for breath, feel a searing pain in their lungs, and often claw at the chamber door or throw themselves against the sides in a desperate attempt to escape.A bill to ban the gas chamber in Utah failed for the ninth year in a row because of opposition from regressive pound directors and their allies.Similarly, in May of 2021, the Green River City Council in Wyoming was asked to vote on getting rid of the gas chamber to kill animals at its local pound. Not one city councilmember seconded the motion and it failed to pass. But after a series of public protests by local citizens, the Mayor directed staff to come up with a plan to replace gas killing. That was nine months ago and the city pound is still gassing animals. The Chief of Police who oversees the pound says “the police department is in the process of working towards removing the gas chamber” but refused to indicate how long it would continue to take. In addition to offering one excuse after another, he said pound staff who gas animals to death care about them and treat them “fairly,” a claim no one really believes.A new California law requires multi-family housing developments financed by taxpayers to be pet-friendly. Specifically, any low-income housing built in the state with funding from the Department of Housing and Community Development or by giving developers tax credits must allow residents to share their homes with pets.According to the California Senate analysis, A lack of pet friendly housing options has put some pet owners in a position of choosing between keeping their household pet or keeping a roof over their head... This puts emotional strain on families, disproportionately low-income households, and burdens county shelters. A lack of pet friendly housing options is regularly cited as a reason that families relinquish their pet to local shelters.While the new law allows reasonable restrictions, such as the number of animals a resident may have, it does not allow landlords to ban breeds, limit the weight of pets (often used as a proxy for breed restrictions), or charge a “pet rent” or additional “pet security deposit.”As more people turn to rescue and adoption and more shelters embrace progressive policies, the number of communities placing over 95% and as high as 99% of the animals is increasing.* Montrose County, CO, reported a 99% placement rate for dogs, 90% for cats, and 96% for other small animals.These communities and national data prove that animals are not dying in pounds because there are too many, too few homes, or people don't want the animals. They are dying because people in those pounds are killing them. Replace those people, implement the No Kill Equation, and we can be a No Kill nation today.Israel's “Future Meat Technologies has produced its first cultivated lamb – that looks, cooks and tastes like the real thing…” Cultured meat is made from a one time draw of stem cells. The stem cells are then replicated in a laboratory and grown in an animal-free medium to produce real meat from animals without killing. According to company officials, The reason Future Meat's cultivated lamb is indistinguishable from conventional lamb is because it is, first and foremost, real meat. It sizzles, sears and tastes just like people expect — and it's amazing. It is also amazing because the exploitation, neglect, abuse, and killing of animals for food is the greatest source of suffering on the planet. “Lamb is the primary meat source for several countries throughout the Middle East, Northern African and parts of Asia. Europe consumes the most lamb in the world,” although Future Meat indicated it is also preparing to offer it in the U.S. Meanwhile, Bond Pet Foods announced it will begin feeding trials of its “nature-identical” chicken meat protein in early 2023. The chicken is made through precision fermentation, which does not require killing chickens. Bond announced “a partnership with Hill's Pet Nutrition to develop a craft meat protein for its product portfolio” and said its meat proteins will be ready for commercialization within two years.

Description: In this episode, Harper discusses how racism and xenophobia play a role in countries' responses to refugee crises. By comparing the current Ukrainian refugee crisis and the ongoing responses to Syrian, Arab, and Northern African refugees, Harper shows how different the reaction to the refugee crisis has been. Organization: https://www.raicestexas.org/ Sources: https://bit.ly/37U2htg

This is the second and final episode as our guest narrates his survival ordeal going through the Saraha desert. The Sahara desert is in Northern African and spans Countries like Niger, Chad and Libya. With an area of 9,200,000 square kilometres (3,600,000 sq mi), it is the largest hot desert in the world.  Our guests faith, strong will and survival determination - against all odds - helped his crossover to Europe through the route less traveled successful. A lesson for people who are insisting on leaving the motherland at all costs....have you counted the costs? Do you have what it takes and even if you do, are you built for the journey? 

In this episode, our guest narrates his survival ordeal through the Saraha desert. The Sahara desert is in Northern African and spans Countries like Niger, Chad and Libya. With an area of 9,200,000 square kilometres (3,600,000 sq mi), it is the largest hot desert in the world.  Our guests faith, strong will and survival determination - against all odds - helped his crossover to Europe through the route less traveled successful. A lesson for people who are insisting on leaving the motherland at all costs....have you counted the costs? Do you have what it takes and even if you do, are you built for the journey? 

Join us for the ultimate Italian cooking holiday November 1st - 6th 2022 in Puglia, Italy! With this course, Drs. Mike Roizen and Michael Crupain, along with Silvestro Silvestori of the Awaiting Table Cookery School, the oldest in all of Puglia, have teamed to help you to learn experience the true Mediterranean lifestyle, learn the science behind what makes it so special, and hopefully add years to your life.In the old world, geography drives cuisine and because of it, farm animals have never thrived in the Salento. With very few hills, there is no cooling air to console potential livestock from the almost Northern African summer heat. The flat, sunny fields have always been better suited for growing the world's most healthful foods--pulses, fruits, and vegetables. And lots and lots of olives, nearly all species used to make olive oil. So slowly, imperceptibly, over countless generations, loving mothers and wives figured out ingenious ways to apply their Italian culinary genius to the humblest of plant-based ingredients. Today this naturally healthy cuisine is considered by Italians to be the most delicious in all of the country. Silvestro has devoted his life to preserving this culinary tradition and teaching it to visitors from all over the world.

Join us for the ultimate Italian cooking holiday November 1st - 6th 2022 in Puglia, Italy!Join us for the ultimate Italian cooking holiday November 1st - 6th 2022 in Puglia, Italy! With this course, Drs. Mike Roizen and Michael Crupain, along with Silvestro Silvestori of the Awaiting Table Cookery School, the oldest in all of Puglia, have teamed to help you to learn experience the true Mediterranean lifestyle, learn the science behind what makes it so special, and hopefully add years to your life.In the old world, geography drives cuisine and because of it, farm animals have never thrived in the Salento. With very few hills, there is no cooling air to console potential livestock from the almost Northern African summer heat. The flat, sunny fields have always been better suited for growing the world's most healthful foods--pulses, fruits, and vegetables. And lots and lots of olives, nearly all species used to make olive oil. So slowly, imperceptibly, over countless generations, loving mothers and wives figured out ingenious ways to apply their Italian culinary genius to the humblest of plant-based ingredients. Today this naturally healthy cuisine is considered by Italians to be the most delicious in all of the country. Silvestro has devoted his life to preserving this culinary tradition and teaching it to visitors from all over the world.

Join us for the ultimate Italian cooking holiday November 1st - 6th 2022 in Puglia, Italy!Join us for the ultimate Italian cooking holiday November 1st - 6th 2022 in Puglia, Italy! With this course, Drs. Mike Roizen and Michael Crupain, along with Silvestro Silvestori of the Awaiting Table Cookery School, the oldest in all of Puglia, have teamed to help you to learn experience the true Mediterranean lifestyle, learn the science behind what makes it so special, and hopefully add years to your life.In the old world, geography drives cuisine and because of it, farm animals have never thrived in the Salento. With very few hills, there is no cooling air to console potential livestock from the almost Northern African summer heat. The flat, sunny fields have always been better suited for growing the world's most healthful foods--pulses, fruits, and vegetables. And lots and lots of olives, nearly all species used to make olive oil. So slowly, imperceptibly, over countless generations, loving mothers and wives figured out ingenious ways to apply their Italian culinary genius to the humblest of plant-based ingredients. Today this naturally healthy cuisine is considered by Italians to be the most delicious in all of the country. Silvestro has devoted his life to preserving this culinary tradition and teaching it to visitors from all over the world.

I was born in the 60's.  I say Black and White. Are these words politically correct? I am not sure I stopped keeping score. This episode is not about the pioneers who paved the way, and made and built ways out of no ways.  It's a snippet about a Nigerian, Cameroon, Congo, Western Bantu, Ivory Coast, Ghana, , Benin, Togo, Ireland, Senegal, Southern Bantu, Northern African, East Asian, Germanic Europe, and Mali, Black Girl from the ghetto. Me, and my journey from the 1960's and the people, and situations that influenced the woman I grew to be.  Black History Month 2022. Herstory. Thanks for listening, liking, sharing, and subscribing. I appreciate your support, your suggestions and comments.   You can contact me on IG: @tina_romie, and email: Tromiepodcast50@gmail.com   Enjoy life!  #Nigerian, #Cameroon, #Congo, #Westernbantu, #Ivorycoast, #Ghana, #Benin, #Togo, #Ireland, #Senegal, #Southernbantu, #Northernafrican, #Eastasian, #Germaniceurope, and #Mali #Blackgirl #black #ghetto #Oprah #60s #2022 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sonia-poteat/message

Moving into the 3rd century, Gene gives us an overview of two major figures- Irenaeus and Tertullian. Irenaeus was born and raised in Smyrna and was a student of Polycarp. Tertullian, raised in Carthage and from Northern African decent, was a Christian scholar and prolific writer.

On October 25, 2021 military officers in Sudan staged a coup and took the capital. Sudan's coup follows coups in Chad, Guinea, and two in Mali. Madagascar and the Central African Republic experienced a failed attempt each. For the past twenty years coups were becoming rare in the African continent, and they were never condoned or encouraged by members of the African Union, or the international community. But now, there is an uptick in strongmen in uniform toppling democratic processes. Why, and why now? A long-standing expert on democratic institutions in Northern African and the Middle East, Milica Panic shares her thoughts about what is going on in Sudan, and the growing threats to democracies in the region. Milica Panic is an accomplished program leader with more than 20 years of experience designing and managing complex governance programs, including deep experience working across both sub-Saharan Africa and the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa). Beginning her career as a peace activist in her native Serbia, Milica went on to design and implement programs focused on women's political inclusion in South-East Europe, Russia and Palestine for Norwegian People's Aid. Later she led governance and civil society programs for the International Republican Institute in Iraq, Sudan and South Sudan, before serving as IRI's deputy regional director for Africa. Before joining Pact, Milica worked with DAI, where she served as a director on the project delivery team. Between 2016 and 2021, Milica was COP for the USAID Liberia Accountability and Voice Initiative, a project renowned for its innovative approaches to network building, adaptive management and politically smart programming. Follow Dr. Bob on Twitter: @ProfessorHuish Check out the work of Pact: https://www.pactworld.org

Kniffen and Mehrabian discuss the impact of trade on Northern African and Indian Ocean Regions in tandem with the movement of religion, gold, salt, and other ideas and philosophies.

Today's live cooking episode finds me in the kitchen making the popular Northern African spiced tomato stew and egg dish. For complete show notes on this episode, visit http://kitchencounterpodcast.com/143 Connect with the show at: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kitchencounterpodcast Twitter: @TKCpodcast Email: feedback@kitchencounterpodcast.com Leave a rating and review at: http://kitchencounterpodcast.com/itunes Available on Apple Podcasts and Google Play Music

David DuByne creator of the ADAPT 2030 channel on YouTube discusses societal changes as our Earth shifts to a cooler climate as the Eddy Grand Solar Minimum intensifies, a 400-year cycle in our Sun which will affect crop production, the economy and everyone on our planet. This is a timeline for what you can expect from now to 2023. People talking to people to find solutions because corporate media MSM has dropped the ball What happens when large amounts of people pull their money from banks to prepare for the Grand Solar Minimum? As food prices spike with global crop losses how much information flow will be censored? Australia begins to import a million tons of wheat Grand Solar Minimum crop loss intensity happening years ahead of schedule South Africa and Zimbabwe food scarcity and politics taking farms off line MSM’s non-participation in the Grand Solar Minimum conversation Northern African nations all time record grain crop production Non-Participation in the Grand Solar Minimum conversation by the MSM Roman grain grow belts are becoming wet again in North Africa Antarctic fronts rolling far north into Australia, NZ and South Africa is highly unusual Ice Sheets growing on Antarctica Mammoth Mtn extends ski season to August 2019, record snow **ADAPT 2030 Climate Revolution**  https://payhip.com/b/3sVi **Support the ADAPT 2030 Mini Ice Age Conversations Podcast by Visiting my Sponsors: True Leaf Market Heirloom and Organic Seeds My Patriot Supply Long Term & Emergency Food  ADAPT 2030 AMAZON SHOP ADAPT 2030 (PATREON) **ADAPT 2030 Social Media**  ADAPT 2030 YouTube Channel OilSeedCrops.org  HOME Page

March, 2011. A NATO coalition led by France put an end to Muamar el Gaddafi's rule. In Libya, Arab Spring had it's biggest achievement: they overthrew the dictator who had been leading the country during 40 years. It felt like his defeat would open a better future. 8 years later, things in Libya couldn't be worse. So what can we learn from Libya's intervention? Is a military attack the best way to overthrow a tyrant? What Western powers wanted in this Northern African country? In this video we will answer to all of those questions.

Groningen Feminist Network is a group of people, inclusive of all genders, sexualities, backgrounds, ethnicities, abilities and opinions with the belief in common that equality is the ideal to strive for. You can visit GFN every Wednesday at 20:00hrs @ Jimmy’s in Groningen to join in on a weekly meetup in where discussion takes place on feminist topics. In collaboration with Zomaar Radio the GFN Podcast team releases their podcasts online! In this episode you can listen to discussion on the topic of Fighting Cis-Centric Feminism, a Shit Stirr and Monthly Favourites out of the community. Hosts of this podcast are: George Pypstra, Michiel Teeuw, Veerle Ros and Milly Manganiello. *Shownote: The mention of ZWART in the podcast, of Atlas Contact is Sub-Saharan in stead of Northern African. https://groningenfeministnetwork.wordpress.com/ https://www.facebook.com/GroningenFemNet/ Recorded on 25th of July 2018 in the Zomaar Radio studio in Vera, Groningen.

While scrolling through some linkedin folks I found Jessica Goldstein’s lecture she did at the RCA. About a week before, one of my friends sent me a link to her and said she might be good to interview. So I did. Jessica is part of the Nu Spice family business, with her partner in crime being her father. She’s grown up in the food industry all of her life but she first decided to work in an electronics firm’s marketing company. But after a few weeks, she hated it and decided to go all in for the food industry. That means hustling small buisnesses, reading the USDA Standards and Labeling guideline page to page, and enjoying and analyzing every part of her food. One of my favorite things about Jessica is her ability to describe flavors in such a way, that both the technical minded and the culinary minded would just melt. You’ll hear a couple of great food descriptions within this interview such as when I ask her what she had for dinner yesterday. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Sponsor This episode is sponsored by FoodGrads, an interactive platform for the Food & Beverage Industry, which focuses on closing the gap between students and employers with a broader mission to attract and retain people to a meaningful career in food. From Food Scientists to Farmers, Chefs to Plant Managers, QA Technicians to Dieticians, or Marketing and Sales, no matter what your passion--there's something for everyone in Food—and they will help you find it. Join FoodGrads for support, mentorship and guidance to start your career. Just go to foodgrads.com Housekeeping If you like what you heard, like us on facebook or write a review on itunes. It helps wonders. I am also inviting you to sign up on our email list at myfoodjobrocks.com. I am doing this new thing called the 5 course meal where I send you 5 pieces of hand picked content and deliver it every Friday morning. Like a meal kit… If you have any questions or suggestions on how to improve the podcast, don’t be afraid to email me at podcast@myfoodjobrocks.com Knowledge Bombs How Jessica went from marketing to food The dynamic between Jessica and her father in the family business How Jessica learns and keeps learning about food science Question Summary The influences in how to where you got to where you are today: Grandfather owned food business in New York, Grandpa sold it, father worked in food industry and then bought it. Jessica decided to step in and modernized the business after she hated her marketing job Popular in Cuba: no Cubano's, after the age of seven, people don’t eat dairy What do you tell people when you first meet them?: I play with your food, I design flavor profiles for food manufacturers Education: Jessica has a masters in food science and bachelors in creative writing and psychology Nu Spice’s niche: medium sized meat manufacturers who want to develop new flavors Important Skills for developing: Know the customer’s consumer. Whole foods customer has a different perspective than Food City How did you learn food science vocabulary?: My suppliers educate me. Also learning to educate people on this vocabulary Important skills for selling: It’s a people business. People buy from people that they like Food Trends and Technology: Veggie Burgers, Safeway launches Beyond Meat burgers Who is feeding the world?: Monsanto (despite their controversy) is feeding the world in poor places Food trends: Northern African flavors, stews, Horesus hue – Paprika paste, savory, fermentation such as sriracha and miso Favorite Book: Modernist Cuisine. You can download it on a tablet Be creative and innovation is everywhere What was the most amazing thing you ate last?: Stuffed Artichoke Butterflies Advice in the food industry: You need to love food Other Links RCA Conference James Calvetti Meats Nu Products Seasoning Company or Nu Spice – Family owned business Hoboken, New Jersey LG Electronics Marketing Department Thai Basil Sweet Basil Red basil USDA Standards and Labeling Guidelines book Bone Marrow and bread Bone Marrow in Hawaii where you take a shot in the bone Life is too short to eat the same thing twice Standards of Identity Top-Note

This episode is a conversation with Sara Poli, an Italian Professor of European and International Law at the University of Pisa, about the uncertainty within the European Union today. She discusses the question of Member States retaining sovereign powers while simultaneously addressing the need for a common response to major security challenges caused by the migration crisis. Poli speaks on the volatility in the European periphery of the Middle East and Northern African, and the need for the EU to emphasize solidarity with one another and involve themselves in conflict resolution efforts in the Neighborhood. (Date of interview: May 17, 2016)

World Policy Institute — British journalist Nicholas Jubber discusses his new World Policy e-book, Abandoned: Life for Mali's Nomads in the Wake of War, with host David Alpern. Jubber describes how Malian nomads serve as the last bulwarks against jihadism in the war-torn Northern African country.

Introduction It still amazes me as I think about it, just the significance of the moment in redemptive history as this young rabbi sits on the rocky hillside overlooking Jerusalem surrounded by just a small handful of ordinary men, and makes an extraordinary prediction concerning human history. This one verse that we're looking at today, Matthew 24:14, “This gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.” That prediction that Christ made on that hillside would be one of the costliest predictions that Jesus ever made. It would cost the lives of thousands and thousands of his choice followers over two millennia in the years to come. It would bring pain and disease and injuries, and tears and torture and blood and tragic funerals, and incalculable sorrow to those who would see that it happened. The preaching of the gospel in every nation has been incalculably expensive. And examples are bound from church history, and we ought to immerse ourselves in them for our own edification, lest we think too highly of ourselves and our own achievements. Immerse yourself in church history. These are your brothers and sisters, you're part of a royal family. October 8, 1732, a sailing vessel pulled away from the wharf in Copenhagen, Denmark. On board were John Leonard Dobber, a potter, and David Nitschmann, a carpenter, who were leaving the security of their jobs and their families in Copenhagen to become the first Moravian missionaries. In a prayer meeting, they had both felt the strong call of the spirit to come and minister the gospel to the slaves of sugar plantations at St. Thomas, in the West Indies. They knew the only way to reach them would be to enslave themselves, to become slaves themselves, to reach these lost people. One of the men left a wife and children begging him on the wharf not to go - reconsider and stay. But the call and the heart of God for these slaves in the West Indies was even greater than that pull, the pull of home. And as the ship pulled away from the docks, these men lifted the cry and those waiting on the wharf heard it: “May the lamb that was slain receive the reward of his suffering.” Amen to that. May Jesus get what he deserves for dying on the cross. And that became the resonating heartbeat of the Moravian missions movement, and the cost they paid was very high. So also the cost of Adoniram Judson who buried two different wives and six children in five different locations for the cause of the gospel, whose sorrow over the shocking loss, sudden loss of his wife Ann was so profound that he dug his own grave and stared into it for weeks in deep despondency waiting for God to kill him, but pulled out of it and led hundreds, even thousands of Burmese to faith in Christ. He laid his life on the line to fulfill that aspect of Jesus' prediction that we're looking at today; this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in Burma as a testimony of that nation, then the end will come. That spirit, that drive to fulfill the Great Commission was in the volunteers of the student volunteer movement, the early part of the 19th century. You've heard of them, they're the ones that pack their belongings in their own coffins because tropical illness made the life expectancy somewhere between 18 months and two years. So why waste extra baggage with boxes? They just packed their stuff in their own coffins and they died for the gospel from fevers. That same spirit motivated William Borden, who was a 1909 graduate of Yale University, heir to the Borden family fortune, was converted to Christianity, gave his life to become a missionary to the Muslims in China. He never made it. He died of spinal meningitis during his training in Egypt. His grieving parents were given his Bible, in it they found in one place the words, “No reserve.” Nothing held back. And next to those words “No reserve” was a date placed shortly after he had renounced his family fortune in favor of missions. And at a later point, he had written the words “No retreat.” That was dated shortly after he was diagnosed with meningitis, and just before he died, “No regrets.” What a spirit! I want that spirit in me, I want that spirit in this church. No reserve, no retreats, no regrets, everything for the gospel. That's the kind of commitment it takes to fulfill Jesus' prediction. Now, how is it that Jesus sitting on that rocky mountainside overlooking Jerusalem could predict that 20 centuries of his followers would be willing to make these kinds of sacrifices to get it done? That's the focus of the sermon today. Basically, in a nutshell, what I'm gonna say is only the sovereign power of the Holy Spirit over the hearts of the followers of Jesus to lay down their lives for people that have never met would make these words come true. And that kind of sovereign power is at work still today. I'd like to see it at work in this church, as it has been, and I wanna see it continue to work here, that we might help fulfill Jesus' prediction. That's what this sermon is about. The context of Matthew 24:14: Jesus had made a prediction, a shocking prediction of the destruction of the temple. Not one stone left on another, every one would be thrown down. The disciples come to Jesus privately on the Mount of Olives, they ask him about it. “Tell us,” they said, “when will this happen? And what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” And so Jesus begins teaching them about the end of the world, about the destruction of Jerusalem and other things, Matthew 24, the rest of the chapter, and then on into 25, really, it's all of a unit. Speaking about the end of the world and the second coming of Christ and the way that we are to prepare for it. Last week, we looked at the first section. In my opinion, Matthew 24:4-14 describes the events on earth between the first and second comings of Christ. What will life be like between those two events, the first coming of Christ and the second coming of Christ? He begins in verse 4 and 5 with a warning against false Christs, false prophets, false teaching. Verses 6-8, he talks about what he calls the beginning of birth pangs: wars, rumors of wars, famines and earthquakes in various places. These kinds of things. General convulsions of a sin-sick planet, that it would be a difficult place to live. And then in verses 9-13, I think he's talking about the specific sufferings of the people of God, what kinds of trials and temptations and sufferings are gonna come on his followers themselves. They'll be hated by all people on account of him. They're gonna be arrested, they're gonna be persecuted, they're gonna be put to death. Some are gonna betray and turn away from the faith and betray their own brothers and sisters in Christ. And there is a need in verse 13 to stand firm to the end. Only those people who stand firm to the end will be saved. And then he gives this one verse, “This gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.” And this is, in its context, a sign of the coming of Jesus Christ, the steady irresistible advance of the gospel of Jesus Christ is evidence and proof of the same day coming back of Christ. The fact that we can see the progress that's happening right in front of us. And friends, it's accelerating. In our own lifetimes it's going faster and faster, it's exciting, what a thrilling time to be alive, but it's evidence of signs of Jesus' return. The advance of the gospel. Not a Command But a Prophecy Christ’s Saving Purpose Now, as we come to verse 14, one of the central points I wanna make is that this is not a command but a prophecy. There's no word of command here. Now, Jesus came into the world, we were told, to seek and to save the lost. Very plain. He came into the world as a rescue mission, that we were lost, we had no hope. Luke 19:10, “The Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost.” Came to save us from our sins. That's why he came the first time. It's why he shed his blood on the cross, that's why he died. It's also why he's waiting to return, he's waiting for the second coming so that individuals may be saved, so that people can repent and come to faith in Christ. That's why he's waiting. 2 Peter 3 teaches us this in verse 9, “The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.” And then in that same chapter, in verse 15, “Bear in mind,” said Peter, “that our Lord's patience means salvation.” There are specific elect people, they were chosen before the foundation of the world, the Bible teaches us, and the gospel has to reach them. Paul says he'll endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they too may hear the gospel and be saved. That's why the Lord's waiting. It's not for no purpose. It's to get this work done. The gospel work. Many Commands for Evangelism Now, I said this, this is not a command in verse 14, I'll say more about that in a moment, but there are many commands concerning the Great Commission. All you have to do is go to the end of this gospel, the most famous of all of the commissioning statements. “All authority in heaven and earth has been given to me.” Verse 18 and following, “Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I've commanded you, and surely I'm with you always to the very end of the age.” There's the command. Commands are not lacking, we're commanded to go, commanded to make disciples, we're commanded to baptize them, we're commanded to teach them to obey everything. And this command was going to be across all the eras of church history. “Surely, I am with you always to the very end of the age.” It's a lasting, abiding command on the church and on you individually, and me too. So there's the command also in Mark 16:15-16, “He said to them, ‘Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved but whoever does not believe will be condemned.’” So there's the command. We have it in Matthew 28, we have it in Mark 16. At the end of the book of Romans, Paul speaks specifically of the command to take the gospel. He speaks of “the command of the eternal God, so that all nations might believe and obey him.” There's the word command even. There's no doubt about it, we are commanded to do this. And if we love Jesus we'll obey him. The Lesson of the Commands: We Have an Obligation And the lesson of the command then is that we have an obligation to the lost. Paul speaks of this obligation, the sense of being a debtor, we owe something. In Romans 1:14-16 he says, “I'm obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish.” I owe them a debt. “That is why I'm so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are at Rome. I'm not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes.” So Paul says, “I owe Greeks and I owe non-Greeks, I owe everybody the gospel.” And so this is not in any way paying Jesus back for what he did in saving him. We're not saved on a mortgage payment plan, friends. And you pay it off in installments with good works, that is faulty thinking, that's not the debt. Paul owes other human beings the gospel, and he's going to discharge it by preaching, that's the lesson of the commands. We should not feel any less an obligation. In 1792, William Carey, the father, so-called, of the modern Protestant missions movement wrote a tract entitled this, “An Inquiry into The Obligation of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens.” Carey was there arguing against the passive view of the sovereignty of God, that because God is sovereign and he can do everything without human agency, that we don't need to do anything. And if God wants to convert the heathen, he can do it on his own time and in his own way. He's writing against that view, though he himself believed in the absolute sovereignty of God, he still said, “We need to use means.” We ought to do stuff, that’s the 21st century version of “Use means." We have to do stuff to get the heathen, the lost people converted, we have to get - in Carey's day - we have to get on ships and sail to India and set up a mission station and study the Hindu languages, and we have to preach the gospel plainly to them in those Hindu languages, and we need to translate the Bible into their native languages, and we need to set up a press to print those Bibles, and we need to teach them how to read their own language so that they can understand the Bible, we need to do all of... Those are the means. We need to use means to the conversion of the heathen, but we have an obligation to do it. This is NOT a command... it is a Sovereign Declaration Okay, that's the lesson of the commands. But I already said that this verse isn't a command. This is not a command here, this is a statement of future fact, it's a sovereign statement of future fact. “This gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.” And I'm celebrating that sovereign declaration with you today. It's going to happen. Absolutely, certainly going to happen. He is not telling his apostles something they should do, he's telling them something that will most certainly happen. That's what he's telling them. Something that will most certainly come to pass. It is absolutely certain. In effect, Jesus was saying that witnesses filled with the burning heart of love for Christ and the lost, filled with the Holy Spirit, will travel over the burning sands of the desert and through forbidding rocky and snowy mountain passes, and they’ll go across the seemingly endless, boundless waves of the South Pacific to cannibal filled islands there, and they will be willing to pay this price to get the gospel preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations. This will absolutely happen. The Prophecy Explained Message: “This Gospel of the Kingdom” Now, what I wanna do is I wanna go very carefully word by word, phrase by phrase, through this one, this one verse, and explain it to you. First, the message. “This gospel of the kingdom.” This gospel. The word “gospel” comes straight over from the Greek language meaning “good news.” I'm not gonna break the Greek word apart, but literally, it's got a prefix and a central root that means “good news.” And this good news of the kingdom, this good news of the kingdom, the idea is of a king, sovereign, who sits on a throne and rules, the King of the kingdom of heaven is really the unifying theme of the gospel of Matthew. Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. From the very beginning of Matthew's gospel, the genealogy and right on through, we get a sense of the right Jesus has to rule over us and rule in this world, the kingdom, Christ himself, the centerpiece of that kingdom. And that is the good news, the good news is the King. The good news is God Almighty seated on a throne. That's good news. Jesus said earlier in Matthew's Gospel, “Come to me all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you.” And I explained when I preached on that passage, the yoke represents Jesus' right to rule over your life. His kingly authority to govern you and move you right or left, or have you go straight. The kingly rule of Jesus. “Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you'll find rest for your souls, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” Jesus is inviting you to come into the kingdom with those words. There'd be no sense in me preaching on this one verse without inviting any who have never trusted in Christ to come and trust in Jesus. Take that stubborn neck of yours, that stiff neck of yours that's been rebelling against God all these years. We all know about that. We still struggle with our own stiff necks; we're all the same. Put it under Jesus' yoke and you'll never regret it. Come to Jesus, follow him. Let his blood shed on the cross be sufficient for all of your acts of rebellion. Past, present and future. Come to Jesus. This is the kingdom, this is the good news, because what you're gonna find when you come into the kingdom is the perfection of the king, and how good and delightful he is, and how wonderful it will be to sit at his table and to talk with him and to obey his commands. It's good news, the kingdom. And I love what it says, "this gospel of the kingdom.” This one that's going on right in front of you. He's speaking to men who are unique in redemptive history, they were the apostles, they were the eyewitnesses of his glory, Peter calls himself. They saw things you and I didn't see, they heard things with their own ears we don't get to hear. They were the eyewitnesses. They were the first link in the chain of church history, right to Jesus, the incarnation. And they saw what he did and what he said, they heard his words. When the woman anoints him with expensive perfume, he says, “Wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.” So there was a sense of, there were little camcorders, little recorders, taking in the history of Jesus, taking in the events of his life, just being there. And don't worry about them forgetting, because it says in John 14, “The Spirit, the Comforter, the Counselor, will come and he will remind you of everything I said to you.” Ordinarily, they may have been very forgetful individuals. Not when it came to Jesus' words and actions; they remembered everything, wrote it down for us. This gospel, the one about Jesus, that's the message. Method: “Will be Preached” What is the method? Well, it's going to be preached, it's going to be proclaimed by word, messengers are gonna go and they're gonna stand up in front of people and speak words about Jesus, and without that, no one gets saved. It says in Romans 10, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. How then can they call on the one in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in one of whom they've never heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written, ‘How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news.’” The good news about Jesus, the good news. Somebody's gotta go and tell him a biography, they gotta go and tell them about Jesus, who he is. They don't know who he is, never heard of him. Some people have to go and they have to preach this message, because “faith comes by hearing,” it says there in Romans 10:17, it's got to be preached, it's got to be proclaimed. Nowadays, there are some so-called “new evangelicals” who have a heart for social work, a heart for the urban scene, a heart for decaying cities and physical suffering they see brought about by sin, and they ought to because Jesus had a far greater heart for those things that they did. But they're saying foolish things, some of them, like this one: “Preach the gospel. Use words, if necessary.” Where in the world did that come from? We're told St. Francis of Assisi said it, he disavows all knowledge of it, according to the internet anyway. “He never said it,” he says, or at least some Catholic scholars are saying he never said it. Well, it doesn't matter whether he said or not, some evangelical so called are saying it. You wanna know what they're saying? Just let the gospel ethic, just the good life that comes from being a Christian, just so shine around the people of your lives that they're just gonna get saved by watching you, how good you are. Well, to start, I would suggest, if you're married, just ask your spouse if that's gonna cut it. Alright? Am I just so good that people just by watching me are just gonna wanna come into the kingdom? And that will end your career right there on that one. “Preach the gospel. Use words, if necessary.” Let's try this one on for size: “Feed starving children. Use food if necessary.” Friends, the food is necessary to feed the starving children, and the words are necessary to get these people saved. We've got to proclaim this message, we've gotta tell them about Jesus, we've gotta speak to them. That's the method that God has chosen, the preaching of the gospel, and he's got reasons for doing it, but I don't have time to say it, it just humbles us to just hear a preached message and believe it, and we get saved. Scope: “In the Whole World” Thirdly, look at the scope. It's going to be done in the whole world. In the whole world. Jesus' eyes are on the whole world. Sitting on that rocky Mount of Olives looking out over Jerusalem before his death, he's thinking about the whole world. Yes, he was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel, but his heart was always for the whole world. Now, the Greek word here means “the inhabited world,” the places where people live. I believe that sin, the curse of sin has made some uninhabitable places of the world. I don't think it was that way from the beginning, but it's that way now. And so therefore, this is not talking about uninhabited places, but actually the Greek here intensifies it, “the whole of the inhabited world. The gospel is going to be preached in the whole of the inhabited world, not a single inhabited place will be missed. The earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. So there's no strategy needed for the uninhabited portions of the world, you don't need to go to Antarctica, you don't need to go to Northern Greenland, you don't need to go to the seabed of the Pacific Ocean and preach to those nasty-looking creatures down there. We're going where people are living their lives, the inhabited world, that's where we're going, and we're going to preach to them. Purpose: “As a Testimony to All Nations” And what is the purpose? Well, it's going to be preached as a testimony, it says, to all nations. The word testimony, in my mind at least, brings the sense of a court trial, some kind of a proof's given, this kind of thing. It's an effort to persuade. And so the proclamation is going to be an effort to persuade, to prove something, to perhaps reluctant audience. And the nature of the proof has to do with the identity of the King, King Jesus. Who is he? What did he do? And of their need to repent and come into the kingdom. They need to have a testimony about this, the evidence of the deity of Christ, the proof of his miracles, the testimony of eyewitnesses who saw him physically, bodily, raised from the dead on the third day. We're gonna give testimony about these things, we're going to give persuasions. The evidence that the prophets brought forth that Jesus didn't suddenly appear on the stage of redemptive history, but his coming was long expected. Come thou long expected Jesus. He came in fulfillment of the prophets. We've got to bring all of this evidence out and reason with people, and explain and prove from the scriptures that Jesus is the Christ. There's a testimony there, and it's going to be given, it says, to all nations. Again, we have this Greek word “ethne” from which we get “ethnic,” it has to do with the understanding that we in missions have come to really relatively recently, that it's not enough to go just to the political nations, like the political nation of India. William Carey brought the Gospel to the political nation of India, years, centuries ago. But Donald McGavran, a missionary there, a very careful observer of cultures and languages and customs and habits, said, “You know, there are just thousands of different people groups or identifiable ethnic groups, ethnes, so to speak, here in India. We've got to take the gospel to each one of them.” And so there is this understanding that we're going to cultural, linguistic, identifiable people groups. And they need to hear the gospel. Jesus is saying they will. Jesus is saying they're going to hear. Every ethnic group on the face of the earth is going to have a clear proclamation of the testimony of the Gospel. Result: “And Then, the End will Come” And what is the result? Then the end will come. The end will come. For us who have believed in Jesus, it's a good end. For those who have not believed in Jesus, a dreadful end, more than you can possibly imagine, but the end is going to come. We're not going on like this forever. The end is coming. The Power Behind the Prophecy The Absolute Sovereignty of God Alright, well, that's word by word, through the verse. Let me talk now about the power behind this prophecy, there is a power behind these words. These are not idle words spoken by some man sitting on a rock. This is the Sovereign God telling us what he's going to do. The absolute sovereignty of God. Only God, in my opinion, can make any kind of certain statement about the future; none of us can. I mean, that's even down to the small details of weather, or who wins a sporting event or other things like that, only God knows really. But how much more is it true that only a great God can make a great proclamation like this and make it come true? The sheer number of things that would have to happen to make this occur are boggling to the mind. No one missionary could do all this. No one generation of missionaries could do all this. It was too immense even for the faith-filled and faithful apostles to achieve, too big a job for them. Christ is predicting the mobilization of generation after generation of men and women who will be willing to lay down their lives for the cause of the gospel. Christ knows full well that some of these servants will die in the effort, they will fall into the ground and die, in the language of John 12. He knows that, and what Christ is stating here is, no matter how high the cost, this is going to get done. The Power of the Holy Spirit over Human Hearts So how can that happen? How can he be so certain? How can we know that this most certainly will come to pass? The sovereign power of Almighty God guarantees this. And specifically, the link down to earth is the power of the Spirit of God over individual human hearts to turn them from sin and selfishness and get them to do his will. And I think that's powerful. That he can do that. Acts 1:8, “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you.” And you're not going to be able to live the way you used to be living. You're not gonna do the same things you used to be doing. When the Holy Spirit comes on you, you're going to be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. You will go when the Spirit comes on you. Take a minute, and I wasn't gonna do this, but look over in Ezekiel 2. I think this may be the simplest statement you'll find in the whole Bible about this power that I'm referring to here, the power of this sovereign Spirit of God over your heart and mine. Look at Ezekiel 2:1-2. “He said to me,” this is Ezekiel, “he said to me, ‘Son of man’” - that was God's name for Ezekiel - “‘son of man, stand up on your feet, and I will speak to you.’” Verse 2, “As he spoke, the Spirit came into me and raised me to my feet.” That's about as simple, mathematical as you're ever gonna get. The command comes, “Stand up on your feet.” The Spirit enters, and he found himself standing on his feet. That's the first step of the missionary journey right there. I'm praying that the Holy Spirit will come on us and get us to stand on our feet, and to do the things that God has commanded us to do. And he has that power. And there is a mysterious combination between the command, “Son of man, stand on your feet,” and the Spirit coming and empowering obedience to that command. It’s a mystery, you can't have the one without the other. We have to have the sense of the command of our king, but then the power of the Holy Spirit to make it so. So go back to Matthew 24:14, but I think this is the display of it, the Holy Spirit has the power to transform our selfish hearts and turn them to God and to others. He has that power. THe Power to Thrust Out Laborers … Even at Great Cost Jesus, in Matthew 9, “When he saw the crowds, that they were harassed and helpless like sheep without a shepherd, he said to his disciples, ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out laborers into his harvest field.’” Well, the words “send out” in the NIV are a bit tame. “Ekballo” is the Greek word. “Throw them out.” Alright, it's the same word used for casting out demons, the same kind of power that can cast out a demon can thrust out laborers into the harvest field. Amen and Amen. He has the power to come on you and get you to change the whole way you live, so that from then on, you're doing something different. Change your career, you change your life, you change the direction and the flow of your life, and you do something different from then on. Now, here he's saying, “Ask the Lord of the harvest to do it.” So he's involving us in God sending out the Holy Spirit to do that. It's just amazing how deep and mysterious all this is, but we are to pray to the Lord of the harvest saying, “God send them out, drive out those laborers into the harvest field." A Holy Compulsion And so I think what we're talking about here is a holy compulsion that just comes over you, you're just compelled by the Spirit, as Paul refers to in Acts 20. “And now compelled by the Spirit, I'm going to Jerusalem.” There's a compulsion of the spirit. There are examples of this over and over in the Bible. Look, for example, at Jeremiah 20. Don't turn there now, but in Jeremiah 20, Jeremiah comes to God and says, “Oh Lord, you deceived me about my job description, you never told me how awful it would be to do this job.” Aside, I'll say it again. I think Jeremiah had the hardest ministry in the Old Testament. I would rather be anybody in the Old Testament than Jeremiah. What a tough, tough job to be there, to be the one to turn out the lights on Jerusalem when the Babylonians were done with the place, to sit there over the hill and weep over it, as flames are just dying out and the smoke is rising and everyone's dead or gone. And you get to be the one to predict it and be there when it happens. And to be hated by the ones you are... Tough ministry. But at any rate, Jeremiah goes back to his employer, back to God and says, “You deceived me, oh, Lord.” But then he goes on and says this, “If I say I will not mention him or speak anymore in his name, his word is like a fire in my heart. It's like a fire shut up in my bones. I'm weary of holding it in. Indeed, I cannot hold it in.” That's a compulsion that comes over you by the Spirit, you can't do anything but this work of God. So also the Apostle Paul. His work was linked together with his salvation. “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?” “Who are you, Lord?” “I am Jesus, the one that you're persecuting. Now, get up and go into the city and you'll be told what you must do.” Well, the word “must” became pretty obvious to Paul immediately what that meant. He had no choice. And so in 1 Corinthians 9:16, he says, “Yet when I preach the gospel, I cannot boast, for I am compelled to preach. Woe unto me if I do not preach!” That's a compulsion of the spirit that comes on And how does it work? Well, I've thought about this and I think it works by love. I really think what happens is the Spirit comes and moves love in our hearts. 2 Corinthians 5:14-15, it says, “For the love of Christ constrains us” - or compels us or controls us, different ways to translate that - “because we have concluded this, that one died for all, and therefore all have died, that he who died for all should no longer live for themselves, that we should no longer live for ourselves, but for him who died for us.” Basically, there's a kind of lifestyle I'm proclaiming here today, lifestyle of full on flat out obedience to the Great Commission in whatever role God has for you. And the alternative is that you should live for yourself. Those are your two options. I really believe it. It really just comes down to that. And Paul is saying that we should no longer live for ourselves, but for him who died for us and was raised again. Well, what moves him to do it? The love of Christ constrains us. Now, I meditated on that phrase, it's a little tricky, and I think it may even be meant to be. What is this love of Christ constrains us mean? Is it the love we have for Jesus or is it the love that Jesus displayed in his life for sinners? How about both? How about we don't choose? How about we love Christ so much we want to get on a ship and go and say, “May the lamb get what he deserves,” that we can live like that. I just love Jesus, am filled with the love that I have, that Jesus get what he deserves. The love of Christ, the love we have for Jesus. Or could it be the kind of love that Jesus displayed for sinners in dying on the cross for them? I wanna live like that. I think it's both. But in any case, it constrains us. The same Greek word is used in Luke 12:50. Jesus speaking about his own crucifixion, “I have a baptism to be baptized with. And how constrained I am until it's finished. I can't turn to the right or the left, I've got to finish this work.” Well, again and again in church history, servants of Christ have spoken like constrained people. They've talked like this. Hudson Taylor is a prime example. He was called to be a missionary to China. He went there, he had some very indifferent experiences with the mission agencies. The missionaries were all on the coastline of China, none of them venturing out much into Chinese society, they're living comfortable lives in the mission stations, and he was becoming disillusioned. He decided to go native, go inland to become kind of as Chinese as he possibly could be. He went with the Chinese hairstyle and garb and all that, so much that people that saw him and knew before thought, they didn't recognize him at all, thought he was just a Chinese man. The mission group there rejected his methods entirely and his zeal, they didn't want any part of him, so he went back to England for many reasons, but to raise support. And then he says this, he was just thinking about the inland regions of China. On Sunday, June 25th, 1865, he said, “Unable to bear the sight of a congregation of a thousand or more Christian people rejoicing in their own security while millions were perishing for lack of knowledge. I wandered out on the sands alone,” listen, “in great spiritual agony. And there the Lord conquered my unbelief.” He had seen a map of China, and he called it the accusing map of China, had huge sections of the country, none of them had ever heard of Jesus, called it the accusing map. And this was the burden on him, the inland regions. “In great spiritual agony, and there the Lord conquered my unbelief, and I surrendered myself to God for this service. I told him that all of the responsibility as to issues and consequences must rest with him; that as his servant it was mine to obey and follow him, his to direct, to care for, to guide those who might labor with me. Need I say that the peace of God at once flowed into my heart. It was indescribable.” So there's a man constrained. He lived the rest of his life for this one burden, and that was to bring the Gospel to the inland regions of China. The Prophecy Fulfilled: Already and Not Yet Now, this prediction of Jesus, is it fulfilled? Can I say the words with great joy? Almost, almost, but not yet. I know it's not yet 'cause we're here. Jesus hasn't come back yet. He said, “And then the end will come.” The end hasn't come, there's still work to be done Already: Huge Portions of the World Reached with the Gospel But there's less work to be done now, a lot less than there was 50 years ago. The progress has been astonishing. Friends, this isn't a losing battle. If you're a bandwagon person, this is the bandwagon to jump on, this is the one to pitch in on and get involved. This is the one to invest your life in. This one. This is going to win. It's amazing, there's not a geographical nation on earth that doesn't have a vibrant church. That could not have been said 25 years ago. I mean, all of the United Nations type nations, all of them have witnesses. That was not true when I was in college. The Berlin Wall was still standing then, there were countries like Albania, others like Mongolia, Morocco, some of those Northern African nations, Muslim nations, there were no churches there, that's no longer the case. Praise God. And then once Donald McGavran gave the idea of the unreached people groups, they started counting them, and the count down's been going down. 24,000 in 1950, the estimate was. When I was in college, the number was 17,000. In 1992, it was down to 11,000. In '96 estimates put it around 9,000. It's about half of what it was when I was in college. Today, joshuaproject.net, who keeps track of these things, puts the number at 6,644. It just keeps coming down. And many, many local churches have adopted unreached people groups and have just made it their focus to be sure that there's a Gospel Church planted in that unreached people group. It's just incredible the kinds of things that are happening, I don't have time to go through the statistics. Bottom line is the church is exploding and growing all the time. Listen to this, in A.D 100, there were 360 non-Christians, estimate, 360 non-Christians for every one believer. Today, the number is seven to one. Get this one, this is even better, I love this. In A.D 100, it was estimated that there were 12 unreached people groups per local church congregation. Today there are 500 local congregations for every unreached people group. See, all we need to do is get the other 499 congregations together and choose an unreached people group and go reach them. Boy, they're gonna be overwhelmed when all 500 churches show up to reach that one unreached people group. Not Yet: The Work Still to Do Friends, this is a doable task, but there's still work to be done, there's still just four billion people have never heard the name of Jesus. Most of them, the 10/40 window, the longitude lines there, the 10/40 latitude lines, the 10/40 window. Muslim nations, India, China, there's a lot of work to be done, and it's still true that Americans spend... American evangelicals spend more money on dog food than they do on missions. May it never be. Applications Rejoice in the Sovereignty of Christ Bottom line, can I say this just application, let's rejoice in the sovereignty of Christ, let's see what he's achieved already, let's give him the praise and the glory of 20 centuries of astonishing achievement. Say, to God be the glory for what you have done. To God be the glory for raising up men and women who are willing to lay down their lives for the Gospel. Be Confident in the Final Outcome And be confident, very confident in the final outcome: he's going to win. Pray Confidently for More Laborers for this Vast Harvest Based on Matthew 9, pray confidently to the Lord of the harvest to send out, thrust out, laborers into the harvest field. Pray it a lot, pray it fervently. Pray it confidently. But you know what might happen if you start praying that prayer, you know what might happen? He might actually send you out into the harvest field. Pray for it. Draw near to God every single day. Draw Near to God Daily If you don't have a heart for the nations, if you don't have a heart for missions, it's because you're distant spiritually from God, this is his heart, he's made it plain everywhere. Kevin quoted, I think it was Psalm 67, that's God's heart, that the nations might praise him. If that's not your heart, you're distant from God. Draw near to God, fix your relationship with God first, repent of known sin. Have your quiet times, draw close to him, and say, “Lord, give me a heart for the nations, and give me a heart for the lost coworker that's in the next cubicle.” It's all of a piece. It's all together. So draw close and ask God to give you an unreached people group to pray for. Go to joshuaproject.net and choose one. You get to pick the continent. I mean, whatever you want, go pick one and pray for it for the rest of the year, 2010. Be Earnest Not to Be Left Out And this is the one that convicted me the most, it is absolutely guaranteed, absolutely guaranteed that Jesus will finish this, that this promise will take place, but it's not guaranteed that I'll have anything to do with it. There's no Bible verse that tells me that, I, Andy Davis, will have anything to do with Matthew 24:14, or you. There's no guarantee that FBC Durham will be having anything to do with this at all 20 years from now. We have got to be faithful. We have got to say to the Lord, “Make me... Please don't pass me by, please don't leave me behind, please don't, as you move on ahead in success and triumph, leave me out. I wanna be part of it, Lord. Give me a burden, give me a heart after the nations, give me a heart after missions, so that I can be part of what you're doing in the world. And make sure that my local church is part of it, too. I don't wanna go to a church that's not not doing this, I'll leave that church. I wanna be a part of a church where this command is our command. This prediction is our command, we are moving out based on this, praying for unreached people groups, praying for the missionaries we have sent out.” Pray for FBC to be a Launching Pad for Missions Pray that FBC would be a launching pad for missions. We've seen a lot of brothers and sisters go out from here. Heavenly, what a joy. But I would say the overwhelming majority, if not all of them, came in here with a preconceived or pre-sense of call to the missions, and what we did was, we tried to shepherd that and be good stewards of it and furthered it long. Praise God that that happened. But I'd like to see someone who comes in here even today, without even any thought of missions, and then through the ministry of the church, through the influence of other brothers and sisters in Christ, develop that call and we launch them out in five years. That would be awesome. Wouldn't that be great? Pray that that would happen in this church. Close with me in prayer.

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