The things that are seen are Temporary, but the things that are unseen are Eternal.
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John Jones retweeted
British Islamic scholar Abu Waleed said, “We transform the UK into an Islamic state, and will impose humiliating laws on Christians and other non-Muslims to make them want to convert to Islam.”
Abu Waleed lives in council housing in Hounslow, West London. He doesn’t work and claims benefits for himself, his wife, and their three disabled children - paid for by British taxpayers.
John Jones retweeted
41-year-old Ukrainian Defender Mykola Andriichuk died defending Ukraine. As people came to his funeral, a stork arrived and bid farewell to the Warrior, too.
Eternal memory to Ukrainian Hero.
📹: tetjana1783
John Jones retweeted
As a Bishop, I cannot stay silent. I have today drafted and sent an open letter to His Majesty King Charles III, the text of which reads as follows:
To:
His Majesty, Charles III,
King of the United Kingdom and the Realms,
Supreme Governor of the Church of England,
Bearer of the ancient title Defender of the Faith.
Your Majesty,
I write to you neither as a politician nor as a commentator, but as one of your loyal subjects who, as a bishop of Christ’s Church, cannot remain silent while the Christian foundations of this kingdom are steadily dismantled.
Sir, there are moments in the life of a nation when silence becomes a form of betrayal. If I refused to speak to Your Majesty now, this would be such a moment.
For more than a thousand years the Crown of this realm has stood in solemn covenant with the Christian faith.
The laws of this land were shaped by it.
The liberties of our people were nurtured by it.
The conscience of our civilisation was formed by it.
From the abbeys of medieval England to the parish churches of our villages, from the preaching of the Reformers to the missionary zeal that carried the Gospel to the ends of the earth, the Christian faith has not merely influenced Britain — it has defined her.
Yet today that inheritance is being quietly but deliberately eroded. Across the institutions of this nation there is a growing hostility toward the faith that built them.
Christian belief is mocked in the public square. Christian morality is dismissed as intolerance. Christian institutions are pressured to surrender doctrine in order to conform to the ideology of the age.
Within the very Church that bears the name of England, voices have arisen that appear more eager to mirror the spirit of the age than to proclaim the eternal truth of the Gospel.
Meanwhile, beyond the walls of our churches, powerful political movements openly speak of removing Christianity from its historic place within the life of this nation.
What would once have been whispered is now proclaimed openly: that Britain must become a post-Christian state.
It is in this context that I write to you, Your Majesty. For the British Crown does not stand apart from this crisis.
The Sovereign of this realm bears a title that is not merely historic but sacred in its origin and meaning: Defender of the Faith. Those words are not decorative. They are a charge.
They speak of a monarch whose duty is not merely to preside over the ceremonies of the Church, but to stand as a guardian of the Christian inheritance of the nation.
Yet many among your subjects now ask, with increasing anxiety: “Who will defend that inheritance today?”
They see a nation drifting from its foundations. And they ask whether the Crown will remain silent while that inheritance is dismantled.
Your Majesty, may I be so bold as to observe that your coronation oath was not a poetic formality. It was a solemn vow made before Almighty God to maintain and preserve the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law.
Those words bind the conscience of the sovereign. They remind the Crown that its authority is not merely constitutional but moral. The monarch is not merely a symbol of national continuity, but a custodian of the spiritual inheritance that shaped this realm.
History records moments when kings and emperors were confronted by the Church and reminded that their authority was accountable before God. In the fourth century Ambrose of Milan stood before the Emperor Theodosius I and reminded him that even the ruler of an empire must bow before the moral law of Christ.
That tradition of prophetic witness has never disappeared. Nor should it. For when rulers forget the foundations upon which their authority rests, the Church must speak — not with hostility, but with holy clarity.
And so, I write to say this, Your Majesty: The Christian character of this nation is under profound and accelerating assault.
If the Crown does not stand visibly and courageously in defence of that inheritance, history will record that the guardians of Britain’s institutions watched in silence as the foundations were removed.
The issue before us is not nostalgia. It is civilisation. Remove Christianity from the story of Britain and you do not create a neutral society — you create a moral vacuum. And history teaches us that moral vacuums are never left empty for long.
Your Majesty now stands at a crossroads that few monarchs in modern history have faced.
For the erosion of Britain’s Christian inheritance will not ultimately be judged by speeches made in Parliament or debates in the press. It will be judged by whether those entrusted with the guardianship of our ancient institutions chose to defend them — or merely preside over their quiet surrender.
You may preside over the quiet dissolution of Britain’s Christian identity. Or you may rise to the ancient responsibility entrusted to the Crown and speak with clarity about the faith that built this kingdom. The first path requires little courage. The second will require a great deal. But it is the path that history honours.
Your Majesty’s subjects are not asking for religious coercion. They are asking for leadership. They are asking that the sovereign who bears the title Defender of the Faith remember what that title means.
They are asking that the Crown hear the growing cry of anguish from Christians across this land who feel that the spiritual inheritance of their nation is being surrendered without resistance. And they are asking whether the Crown will stand with them.
For the faith that shaped Britain is not merely a cultural ornament. It is the wellspring from which our laws, our liberties, and our moral imagination have flowed. If it is cast aside, the nation will discover — too late — that it has severed itself from the very roots that sustained it.
Your Majesty, to many the Crown is a symbol of authority. But before God it is also a symbol of stewardship. And stewardship carries with it the duty to defend what has been entrusted.
May Almighty God grant Your Majesty the wisdom to discern this hour, and the courage to fulfil the sacred duty entrusted to the Crown.
Yours faithfully,
Bishop Ceirion H. Dewar FSHC
Missionary Bishop
Diocese of Providence
Confessing Anglican Church
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John Jones retweeted
Hillary Clinton:
"The Trump admin's position towards Ukraine is disgraceful.. The effort that Putin & Trump are making to profit off the misery & death of the Ukrainian people is a historic error & corrupt to the nth degree.. He's betrayed the West. He's betrayed human values."
John Jones retweeted
Russia thought moving their prized $1.2 billion hypersonic missile convoy deep inside their territory was safe... big mistake!
Ukraine patiently tracked every mile using thermal signatures, jammed radars with electronic warfare, and unleashed massive drone swarms to overwhelm S-400, Pantsir, and TOR defenses. Decoy waves exhausted interceptors first—then the real FPV killers struck the climate-controlled trucks! A single precision hit ignited solid rocket fuel, setting off a domino explosion that wiped out 120 Kalibr missiles in seconds. The blast lit up the Volga highway like fireworks, registered as a 2.3 magnitude quake, and crippled Russia's hypersonic arsenal for years! This masterclass in asymmetric warfare just proved billion-dollar weapons can fall to smart, low-cost drones. Game-changing moment—Ukraine strikes back harder! What do you think: total humiliation for Putin?
Tyndale's Bible introduced new words into English such as Passover and scapegoat. Tyndale's choices such as “overseer” instead of “bishop” and “repent” instead of “do penance” brought critical response from Catholic Church, which led to his eventual death and execution.
John Jones retweeted
More details emerged of the terrible Russian strike on Bohodukhiv.
A whole family gone, pregnant mom in hospital with multiple injuries.
The family was trapped under the rubble after the Russian strike. Dad, two toddler boys and a little girl killed by Russian terrorism.
Their mom is 35 weeks pregnant, she's in hospital with a blast injury, traumatic brain injury, acubarotrauma, and thermal burns. Doctors are fighting for her life.
This is what Russia does to Ukrainians - destroys. It must be stopped.
Every day, there's new grief in Ukraine caused by Russia.
Russia killed three kids: two 1-year-old boys and a 2-year-old girl, and a 34-year-old man in a drone strike on a residential area in Bohodukhiv, Kharkiv region. Two more people were injured, including a 35-year-old pregnant woman.
The Russian drone struck a home, completely destroying it.
Russians also attacked Vilniansk, Zaporizhzhia region, with drones. Two women, aged 19 and 77, were injured. Private houses were destroyed and damaged.
Russia continues to terrorize Ukrainian civilians.
John Jones retweeted
For the past few days, the world has been reading with disgust the new information about the Epstein files.
To be honest, with the horrors happening to Ukraine, this information about sex crimes, violence and pedophilia brings you down even more. On the other hand, this just confirms my firm belief that us adults must fight for our kids and their safe future.
There are people who will always believe that money, status and power give them the right to treat other people like things - to buy them, assault them sexually, torture, kill.
This evil must be punished because if it's not, it changes the norm and legitimizes deviant behavior as lifestyle of the elites.
Within this logic, civilization retreats to a way of life where slavery was an institution, not a crime: the strong ones take whatever they want, the weak keep silent, and the law protects status, not dignity.
Epstein's criminal activity was not just a system of sexual exploitation, it had all the signs of a system to compromise influential people. This system was beneficial to the interests of special services, in particular the Russian ones, namely the FSB, and there are reasons to believe that either Epstein acted as a managed asset, or, at the very least, as an "access point" through which Russians could gain access and materials.
Special services have described the "honey trap" as a working method with several key steps: seduction → compromising situation → hidden recording → blackmail/control.
If we look at Epstein's circle, compromising behavior was not an accident but a model there: closed meetings, sexual services, access control, dependence and silence. It's not surprising at all to see Russians there: according to calculations, Putin's name is mentioned in 1,056 documents, and Moscow is mentioned over 9,600 times in the published files.
First, there's a documented financial trace: NYFDS of the state of new York has recorded in materials regarding a fine of Deutsche Bank that the bank has allowed Epstein's payments to a "Russian model" and a "Russian PR agent", with compliance closing down alerts regarding this as "normal for this client".
Second, Epstein had direct contact with Russian special services. According to Dossier Center, Epstein had "close contacts" with Sergey Belyakov, an official described as a graduate of the FSB academy; their relations included practical issues of influence, contacts and problem solving with Russian models and intermediaries. That's exactly what an operational bridge between a criminal compromise platform and state special services looks like: interaction through people with the relevant training and access instead of direct contact.
Third, a whole infrastructure of "soft access" of the Russian special services to Epstein existed. In the publications made from the newly released files, Maria Drokova (Masha Bucher), a "talented" woman once kissed by Putin, is mentioned over 1,600 times in the Epstein files. Drokova took part in a Russian "Nashi" ("Ours") youth movement since 2005, and she "kissed Putin" at a youth event in 2009. She was also awarded an "For services to the Fatherland" order in Russia. In 2010, Drokova moved to the United States where she founded a venture company with a $30 million capital. She worked with Epstein as a PR assistant.
There are a lot of other episodes that demonstrate the presence of Russian women in Epstein's circle and the "services" he provided for his "friends."
Belarusian contact persons were an integral part of the Russian access infrastructure to Epstein; cooperation of Belarus and Russian special services is systemic and close. Epstein got numerous Belarus visas and "definitely attended" the country together with Karina Shuliak, his Belarus partner, including visits to her parents. Two payment orders, signed by Epstein, were mentioned in the media: $10,000 (on January 14, 2013) and $20,000 (October 15, 2013) to an address in Minsk that is the same as the address of the Shuliak family.
Epstein's actions were motivated by power and money. He created a system of: a) access to targets; b)being able to keep records; c) exploitation channels.
Epstein ran a machine to create compromising information. It existed for years, grew and involved the most influential people in the whole world.
Epstein was not just a criminal. He operated a platform that fit perfectly to create compromising information/situations.
Considering all the facts, it is quite possible that its owners and architects could have been the Russian special services.
John Jones retweeted
We are deeply grateful to everyone who helps Ukrainians survive this brutal winter. We are not alone in this horror.
Marat from Kazakhstan has opened up a yurt with heating for the residents of Desniansky district in Kyiv, hit very hard by Russian attacks on energy infrastructure.
He cooks Kazakh dishes and gives the people from that area a chance to enjoy a hot meal and drink.
Thank you, Marat! Thank you, everyone who stands with Ukraine!
📹: amb_victormayko/Threads
A genocide against Ukrainians is unfolding right now.
It already has a name: "Kholodomor" (exhaustion through cold)
This crime is being deliberately committed by Russia.
In legal terms, it has a clear definition - genocide.
Under Article II of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, one of the defining acts of genocide is:
"Deliberately inflicting on a group of people conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part."
Many Ukrainian cities - Kyiv foremost among them - have been without electricity, heating, and water for the second week in a row, amid severe frosts.
What does this mean?
It means people are being condemned to death by Russia.
This is what is happening:
▪️ Elderly people cannot leave their apartments to buy food or water because elevators do not work - or because they are physically unable to walk down the stairs;
▪️ No communication: mobile phones are dead, there is no way to call for help or an ambulance;
▪️ Sick people cannot use life-sustaining medical equipment because there is no electricity at home;
▪️ Mothers of small kids carry their children and strollers up staircases in high-rise buildings - along with water and food;
▪️ No hot meals and no possibility to cook food at home;
▪️ Sewer system failures, creating critical and dangerous conditions;
▪️ Illness caused by extreme cold and the inability to stay warm;
▪️ Children cannot attend schools because there is no heating. Distance learning is also impossible without electricity;
▪️ Kindergartens are closed, mothers cannot work, earn money to feed their children;
▪️ Stray animals are freezing to death on the streets;
▪️ Even pets are dying from the cold - parrots, aquarium fish, animals kept in terrariums;
▪️ Animals in zoos are freezing;
▪️ Collections of rare plants in Kyiv’s botanical gardens have frozen and died;
▪️ Small businesses are earning nothing, forced to spend money on generators and fuel - causing direct losses to the economy;
▪️ Severe harm to the environment and public health due to the constant operation of massive numbers of generators;
▪️ Public transport functions far worse due to power outages; electric transport does not operate at all, leaving people unable to reach work, doctors, or essential services;
▪️ Burst pipes and freezing temperatures are destroying homes, making them uninhabitable;
▪️ Hospitals are forced to cancel planned surgeries, operating in emergency mode and at full capacity;
▪️ Rates of depression, anxiety disorders, and burnout are sharply increasing.
Russia wants to make large Ukrainian cities uninhabitable.
This is a humanitarian catastrophe deliberately caused by Russia.
John Jones retweeted
Instead of sending Ukraine only $100 million in long-range missiles to destroy the Iskander-M factory, the West is wasting several billions of dollars to repair infrastructure destroyed by Iskanders and billions of dollars in air defense missiles to shoot them down.
All the West needed to do was allow for Ukraine 🇺🇦 to buy missiles to strike two factories, which would cease Iskander-M missile production and motor production
Russia is allowed to strike all factories in Ukraine with missiles using dozens of Western components but Ukraine striking a Russian factory producing ballistic missiles striking it’s infrastructure is a major escalation according to the West
It’s led Russia to become the #1 ballistic missile producer in the World, producing over 70 Iskander-M ballistic missiles per month, and now they have developed an Iskander-M ballistic missile which could reach 20 NATO countries. It poses the largest missile threat to the West, and nothing is being done about it.
Additionally, Ukraine is only being sent a handful of PAC-3 MSE/CRI missiles every month, or sometimes none at all, which means many Ukrainian Patriot systems are either not being used or have a small number of missiles to fire, leading to almost every Iskander launched at a target outside of Kyiv, not being shot down. Russia has realized that Ukraine does not have the air defenses needed to stop Iskander-M missiles and is not allowed the buy missiles to strike the factories. As a result Russia capitalized on the West’s inaction and weakness, and China is helping them out.
Instead of sending Ukraine $100 million in long-range missiles to destroy the Iskander-M factory, the West is wasting several billions of dollars to repair infrastructure destroyed by Iskanders and billions of dollars in air defense missiles to shoot them down. Then people in the West complain about why so much money is being spent on Ukraine and the war not changing. Because the West is wasting more money to shoot down the missiles instead of destroying factories for 1/100th of the cost. If this was Israel, the US would’ve bombed every single Iranian missile factory by now, with hundreds of their own Tomahawk missiles and B-2 bombers, but because the US appeases Russia for the past 3 decades, they are okay with allowing the #1 missile threat to NATO and Ukraine to continue growing at an alarming rate.
John Jones retweeted
Astronaut Bruce McCandless high above the Earth during an amazing untethered spacewalk far from the safety of the space shuttle.
John Jones retweeted
How is the situation in Kyiv?
Not very good. It is very cold, currently minus 8°C, dropping to minus 15°C at night, and ice is everywhere.
Kyiv is now living with power outages of up to 20 hours a day. Some buildings have no power at all. As of now, almost 60% of the capital is without power.
The heating situation in Kyiv is critical - 4,200 apartment buildings are currently without heating, and it will take weeks to restore heating in some of them. That is, provided there are no new strikes.
Kyivvodokanal reported that the capital's water supply has been fully restored. At the same time, water is supplied to the upper floors of high-rises by separate booster pumps, which do not work without electricity, so there may be no water there if there is no electricity.
Russia is killing and torturing the civilian population in an attempt to render Kyiv uninhabitable.
📹: oleof05/TikTok
As of the evening, more than a million consumers in Kyiv are without electricity, and a large number of homes are without heating following a Russian attack.
The video shows a Kyiv family with children making their way up to the 22nd floor of a residential building without electricity, heating, or water (the elevator isn’t working).
📹: Liudmyla Voitesiak / Facebook
John Jones retweeted
🚨🇮🇷 A MESSAGE FROM SOMEONE WHO JUST GOT OUT OF IRAN
A young Iranian guy just crossed from Iran into Turkey and recorded a message for the world.
He says people outside Iran have no idea how bad it really is.
Not arrests. Not beatings. Killings.
He says protesters are being shot straight in the chest. Not warning shots. Not accidents. Deliberate.
Over and over.
According to him, the death toll people see online is nowhere close to reality. Bodies disappear.
Families stay quiet. Fear fills the gaps.
People inside can’t speak. People outside aren’t seeing it.
That silence is doing a lot of work right now.
Source: @visegrad24
John Jones retweeted
This is what the night sky on Mars looks like.
At night, Mars reveals a breathtaking sky filled with more visible stars than on Earth. Because the Martian atmosphere is extremely thin, the stars appear sharper, brighter, and more intense, with little distortion.
Mars is also home to two tiny moons, Phobos and Deimos. Phobos races across the sky in just a few hours, rising in the west and setting in the east, while Deimos drifts slowly overhead, glowing faintly like a distant star.
The Martian sky is not completely black. It often carries a soft brownish, dusty tint, shaped by fine particles suspended in the air.
Near sunset, the horizon can glow with a subtle blue halo, creating one of the most beautiful sights in the solar system. And on clear nights, the Milky Way stretches brilliantly across the sky, far brighter than what we see from Earth.
John Jones retweeted
In the European Parliament, the interpreter and some of the audience could not hold back tears during the speech of 11-year-old Roman Oleksiv from Lviv.
On December 10, Roman came to Brussels for a presentation of documentaries about Ukrainian children to tell his story to MEPs and urge them to "never give up" because "when we are together, we are strong."
Roman survived a Russian missile strike on Vinnytsia on July 14, 2022, which killed his mom. He underwent 36 surgeries and lengthy rehabilitation due to severe burns and injuries.
📹: Radio Liberty
Roman Oleksiv, 8, is a victim of a Russian missile strike on Vinnytsia on July 14, 2022. He suffered burns to almost half of his body.
Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital l in Dresden performed three surgeries a week to help Roman recover. There, for the first time since his injury, he opened his eyes and took his first steps.
Now, Roman and his dad have returned to Lviv, where he will undergo rehabilitation in the burn unit at St. Nicholas Hospital. A team of doctors works hard to restore the boy's arm and foot. Roman dreams of returning to playing the accordion and organizing a concert for his doctors once he is well.
Roman's mom, who was killed on that terrible day of the strike, will no longer be there to hear his music.
📷&✒️: Liudmyla Onishchenko/Facebook
John Jones retweeted
The wall near St. Michael’s Monastery in Kyiv.
Here are the faces of the Heroes who gave their lives for Ukraine.
Here are ordinary people who did not want war - they wanted to live. But when Russians came to kill us, they stood up to defend their country.
This is the price Ukraine is paying.
Ukraine deserves peace.
📹: Oleg Kiy
The current situation concerning negotiations:
The US negotiations strategy looks like separate agreements first with the Russians, then with Ukrainians. The negotiations are taking place without the EU being present.
It looks like China is starting to get itself included in negotiations. The visit of China's foreign minister to Moscow just before the arrival of Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner was obviously not an accident.
Sustainable peace in Europe is impossible without China, so China's interests must also be taken into account.
Ukraine is going through a political and economic crisis but retains stability institutionally and on the frontlines. Ukrainian military production complex is developing and growing. Ukrainian Defense Forces continue to inflict damage inside Russia.
For Europe, the most efficient strategy today is a victory over Russia. In a world where respect is based on force, the aggressor's defeat will become a signal other countries will watch out for - starting with Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Europe still hopes for a chance of reform, dialogue, gradual improvement in Russia. Ukraine is fighting for our current survival - for ourselves and for Europe. Ukraine needs weapons, sanctions against Russia, clear security guarantees. However, the West keeps believing that it can avoid a direct attack by continuing to act like in previous years. Everything points to this strategy not being a viable one.
Ukraine's defense is impossible without a strong Ukraine.
Ukraine is the key player and the point of strength for Europe today. Don't let us bleed out and become the martyr.
Otherwise, another great war will become unavoidable. The West is not ready for this scenario mentally or materially. Alas, it's the most probable one if Ukraine is destroyed or given to Russia.
Don't think that Russia's strength is infinite.
It's always darkest before dawn.