Wednesday News Update 6/4/25
For this reason the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God's law—indeed it cannot, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
As you saw the iron mixed with clay, so will they mix with one another in marriage, but they will not hold together, just as iron does not mix with clay.
-Dan 2:43, NRSV
This is a week that may upset a few of my readers. There’s some stuff in the Big, Beautiful Bill (BBB) which cannot be described in any other way than, taking away our liberties. For all of those who will instantly want to defend Donald Trump, I voted for Donald Trump and I want him to do the best for the country. It’s entirely possible that he doesn’t even know some of the minutia which is included in the bill, but there are some very bad parts of the bill. Please, just read what I’m saying and agree or disagree. We need to be able to stand on our convictions while disagreeing with the people we normally agree with. I love you all.
One World Government (Rev 13:3)
US Front
Anna Paulina Luna is proving herself to be one of the most sincere members of congress when it comes to actually putting the good of the country first. She is keeping the people updated on the progress of bringing DOGE legislation to the floor, calling out ambivelance from GOP leadership, and threatening no-votes on anything which GOP leadership (Mike Johnson) wants to do instead of codifying DOGE cuts.
Two Chinese nationals have been charged with smuggling into the US the fungus, fusarium graminearum. One of them has been apprehended while her partner was able to flee the country to China. This fungus is highly toxic and is considered an agent of agroterrorism. The two arrested are scientists who work for the University of Michigan. I’m sure they would say that they brought the fungus into the country for research purposes but this would normally happen through legal channels. This did not happen in a legal way.
The Big, Beautiful Bill (BBB) includes language which disallows any US state from creating language pertaining to AI, and only the Federal government can legislate any portion of AI. Meanwhile, reports are now coming out that we are within 6 months of attaining the Singularity with human/AI interface. This is happening at the same time the WH has tapped Palantir to create a database which is intended to track every US citizen. What is going on?
WarPig Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) recently traveled to Ukraine where they met with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, as well as traveling to Paris to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron. While there, the two spent $1M in taxpayer money just to be there. While at a press briefing in Paris the two did their best to beat the drums of war, proclaiming that their cartoonish caricature of a bad guy ‘Putin’ is “preparing for more war”. Lindsey Graham has never seen a war that he didn’t like and he was famously caught on camera, giddily telling Vlodomir Zelenskyy that the Ukrainians killing Russians was the best money the US has ever spent.
Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs has vetoed a bill which would have blocked China from purchasing land next to US military bases. Now would be a good time to check how much money she’s getting from China…
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) has come out and said that Donald Trump is “not delight that Elon did a 180”.
The truth is that Elon probably feels a bit slighted after he did all that work to cut spending and the Build Back Better (BBB) bill – sorry, it’s the other BBB bill, the Big Beautiful Bill (BBB) – is looking to add the most to the deficit of any spending bill in history.
A group of hackers have leaked information on 86M AT&T customers, including the Social Security numbers of almost 44M users. This is after 184M passwords were hacked from Google and Apple. If you have an account on the internet, it’s probably been hacked in the past week.
Global Agenda
The UK has pledged to increase the drones it will be giving to Ukraine tenfold, increasing the total from 10k in 2024 to 100k in 2025. This is a message to Russia, after Ukraine drones just knocked out 30-50% of Russia’s nuclear bombers.
The UN Security Council met to vote on a resolution which would have the affect of forcing Israel to immediately end its military actions in Gaza. The US vetoed the resolution, forcing the vote to fail as they are a permanent member of the UN Security Council with the ability to veto resolutions. The other 14 members of the Security Council voted in favor of the resolution.
White Horse: False Prophets and the Antichrist (Rev 6:2; Matt 24:4-5, 11)
To Include One World Religion Type Stuff (Rev 17)
TransMaoism
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed the Navy to rename the ship which had previously been named to honor gay icon, Harvey Milk. While Milk had been in the Navy, and served on a submarine during the Korean War and held the rank of Lieutenant (Junior Grade) before being forced to resign and accept “other than honorable” discharge in 1955 due to his being an openly gay man. Other than, there doesn’t appear to be anything notable about his service which lead a naval vessel having been named after him.
Sesame Street entered into June by celebrating “Pride Month” with a post on social media. I remember when Sesame Street wasn’t focused on who people had sex with.
Cynthia Erivo defended her casting as Jesus in an upcoming production of Jesus Christ Superstar at the Hollywood Bowl by saying, “Why not? You can’t please everyone.” Erivo is a queer black woman.
Red Horse: Wars & Rumors of Wars (Rev 6:3-4; Matt 24:6)
Middle East Hodgepodge
After Iran rejected the last nuclear deal, word started leaking about a new proposal from the US which would allow Iran to continue enriching uranium and wouldn’t have them dismantling any part of the program they already have. The leaked new deal appears to have a decent amount of credibility but within a few hours of the deal leaking, Donald Trump came out saying there is no world where Iran will continue to enrich uranium. There’s also some reporting which is indicating that this proposal which allows Iran to enrich uranium is the proposal that Iran was rejecting. If this is the case, and Iran still rejected the deal, they are either deadest against a deal or they are the one with the stronger hand, because the deal the Trump admin would be proposing would be pretty much the same thing as the one they had previously called the worst deal of all time, which the Obama admin had negotiated with Iran. Meanwhile, discussing this same plane, Iranian officials have been reported to say that the whole proposal is “incoherent and disjointed”. To be fair, if it reads in a way that some are able to say that Iran would be able to enrich uranium, while others can read it to say that Iran would never be allowed to enrich uranium, then it would be fair to say that it is incoherent and disjointed.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has stated, “US proposal for nuclear deal 100% contradicts our principle of power.” This is after there was a proposal which would’ve allowed Iran to enrich uranium up to 3% in country for a collective middle east nuclear power hub. Khamenei went on to say, “The US proposal for a regional uranium enrichment corporation goes against our national independence”.
Rockets were fired into northern Israel from Syria. It seems unlikely that these were actually fired BY Syria, but you can bet that Israel will be responding heavily into Syria.
Gog & Magog (Ezekiel 38-39)
Ukraine, fresh off of their massive strike on the Russian nuclear fleet, has now bombed the bridge support structure on the Crimean bridge. Thus far, the bridge is still serviceable but it was closed down for a few hours and you can bet that Ukraine will not stop there.
The Days of Noah (Gen 6:4; Matt 24:37)
The cover of this week’s Time Magazine features an image of OpenAI’s ‘The Orb’. The Orb is an AI tool which will scan you eye (biometric) and verify who you are and be able to allow you to interact on the internet (at this point). I don’t want to be the “Slippery Slope” guy but this is an EXTREME slippery slope.