…present religious authorities exalt to the highest esteem and respect an enclosure as the site of the Temple that was in Jesus’ day the chief architectural symbol of Rome’s claim to imperial world power. … Even the worshippers at the “Wailing Wall” are directing their present devotions and venerations to a Roman edifice that their ancestors in Herod’s time held in utter contempt.[9]
In 70 AD, Herod’s Temple was leveled to the ground by the Romans, fulfilling Jesus’s prediction for this “den of thieves” (Mark 11:17): “There will not be one stone left upon another that will not be thrown down” (Mark 13:2). Whether Jesus really said that, or the prophecy was attributed to him in hindsight, the person who included it in his gospel in the early 70s AD would not have put it in those terms if it had been proven false.
The utter destruction of the temple is confirmed by another eyewitness, the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus. The words he ascribes to Eleazar, the Jewish commander at Masada, around 73 AD, make clear that nothing was left of the city but the Roman fort:
Where is this city that was believed to have God himself inhabiting therein? It is now demolished to the very foundations, and it has nothing left but that monument of it preserved, I mean the camp of those [the Romans] that hath destroyed it. (Jewish War, VII, 8, 379)
According to Josephus, every stone of the Temple was overturned because it contained huge amounts of gold, which melted during the fire and descended into the cracks of the stone foundations. The Tenth Legion had the Jewish captives dig up every stone to recover the gold (Jewish War, VI, 6, 1). All the gold recovered from the Temple and from various hiding places (64 according to the Copper Scroll), was instrumental to the ascension of Vespasian and Titus on the imperial throne.
I have not yet watched this but am posting it because I highly support doubting the holocaust because it is extremely doubtful, and because it is illegal to doubt it, which is so absurd it is a gross affront to any rational mind. ABN
This has been a popular anti-immigration, anti-woke image in Japan and elsewhere.
Japan adapted to the challenging innovations of the West in the 19th Century.
At first, they experienced disorientation and self-doubt, but resolved to face the new world they saw coming by adapting to it while preserving their own civilization.
They were the most successful nation in the world to do this.
Today, they appear again to be the most successful nation in the world at resisting a demise similar to that of the West by not throwing open their borders to replace their own people and civilization.
The Japanese elite, though not flawless, is loyal enough to its citizenry to avoid national suicide. ABN
My ancestors lived as white slaves in a backward part of Europe which was colonized for hundreds of years. My people have made contributions to Western civilization, but they pale compared to Western and Southern Europe. So I kind of think like this guy. Be grateful to those who invented science, technology, working economies and political systems, and made them truly great. Western, Central and Southern European men created the modern world, made billions of people worldwide healthier, wealthier and freer than they ever had been. Ask anyone from any other part of the world do you want to go live like your ancestors centuries ago? No honest person ever says yes unless they are living in a fantasy. ABN
‘I am hereby canceling all executive orders, and anything else that was not directly signed by Crooked Joe Biden, because the people who operated the autopen did so illegally,’ Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday.
‘Joe Biden was not involved in the autopen process and, if he says he was, he will be brought up on charges of perjury.’
Presidents may legally undo executive orders signed by their predecessors, including pardons, however there is no legal mechanism to retract clemency after it is granted.
The Democrat’s only hand-signed pardon during his final months in office was also his most pivotal – the order signed for his recovering cocaine-addict son, Hunter.
This is the kind of behavior we see every single day from that cult. The same arrogant, entitled mindset that has created friction with every society they’ve tried to dominate. It’s naïve to pretend this mentality suddenly appeared in 2025. The pattern has been consistent for centuries: the same supremacist rhetoric, the same hostility toward outsiders, the same inability to coexist without trying to control the narrative.
What people like Levine say openly today is so grotesque and dehumanizing that it’s waking up more and more people to the reality of this ideology and the damage it causes. The more they double down on this misanthropic superiority complex, the more resistance they will create.
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