The following video is a parody on the Socialist Marxist proponents who are seeking to destroy everything that has allowed us in the West to be one of the most prosperous generations that have ever lived. However, we do admit there have been some mistakes along the way but it is a fact socialism has never worked. Cuba, the USSR and Venezuela are three examples. Watch, enjoy, laugh and share.
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Where Civil War battles were once fought there is a new battle being fought ‘…on the farms surrounding Culpeper, Va., about an hour outside Washington, D.C., and in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Now, a new conflict is underway, as members of the local community push back against energy providers attempting to cover Culpeper—and other parts of rural Virginia—with solar facilities, sometimes thousands of acres in size.
The push for solar in Virginia is part of a nationwide effort to ramp up several fashionable renewable energy sources in the United States. To attract energy providers, federal, state, and local governments offer generous tax credits and subsidies for solar and wind facilities.
Virginia’s General Assembly voted in 2016 to subsidize solar and wind energy with an 80 percent sales and use tax exemption for machinery, tools, and equipment for public service corporations, following a number of legislative pushes for clean energy in the state. It was a successful strategy: Since the decision, solar providers have gained approval to set up shop in Spotsylvania, Chesterfield, Accomack, and other communities. The proposed solar facility in Culpeper, operated by the California-based Cricket Solar, will cover 800 acres of land intended for agricultural use and is set to produce 80 megawatts of power for the county.
But a growing body of research shows that, in the long run, solar isn’t efficient enough to justify the land used and the money spent to make it a primary energy source. Doug Orye, an industrial electrical engineer who operates a farm near Culpeper, said he fears that solar companies moving into Virginia are using up land that would be better served for agricultural use.
“We’re destroying huge amounts of land for a system that, at best, is 20 percent efficient,” he told the Washington Free Beacon, explaining that for their cost, solar facilities produce an almost negligible amount of energy.
Orye added that in his experience, solar works best in small-scale situations, such as panels installed on private rooftops and sheds. For larger scale projects, though, the area solar panels cover coupled with their fickle nature—such as the impossibility of use on rainy days or at night—makes them not worth a hefty investment from government entities.’ https://freebeacon.com/issues/virginias-push-for-solar-panels-offers-few-rays-of-hope/
The Left-leaning Greenies have several agendas of which one is to bankrupt Western nations through wasting billions on so-called renewables. Here in Australia, we are fighting the same battles these fruit loop Green environmentalists are pushing there in the US of A.
Sadly, here in Australia, both major parties have swallowed the kool-aid. We don’t have a Donald Trump that hasn’t partaken of the kool-aid thinking that these ignorant renewable greenies believe are the answer to whatever catastrophe they are prophesying. This renewable obsession is a religion to these people. They, or at least they seem to believe they can save the earth from whatever they falsely believe we humans are doing to it. Their biggest enemy here in Australia is coal. Even though the exporting of coal brings billions of dollars into the Australian economy and provides thousands of jobs these eco-rodents are bound and determined to cease coal being mined and exported.
If the renewable fruit loop Australian Labor Party wins May 18, 2019, Australian Federal Election burning the furniture to keep warm this winter may be the average man’s only option.
‘“The philosophy of Karl Marx, when applied, has created some of the greatest episodes of human suffering in all of history,” Marion Smith, director of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, said in stunned response to the announcement that European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker will join in a celebration of Marx’s 200th birthday on May 5, in Trier, Germany. Trier was where Marx was born and raised.
Juncker (shown) is slated to give a speech at the unveiling of a statue of Marx in Trier. The statue was a gift from the Communist government of China. Juncker’s participation will give the event a lot of stature, considering that he heads the European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union (EU). And it perhaps will also serve to illustrate the totalitarian mindset at the top of the EU.
“Marxist states like the Soviet Union and Communist China are responsible for more than one hundred million deaths as a result of their insane quest to implement Marx’s utopian ideas in practice,” Smith said.’ https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/28934-eu-commission-president-juncker-set-to-honor-karl-marx
THE HAND OF GOD – It sustained Peter Rumachik through years of Soviet persecution
“If you don’t stop praying to God, weil keep you in prison for the rest of your life!”
‘This was one of many threats that Soviet wardens snarled at their Christian prisoner, Peter Rumachik. However, Pastor Rumachik believed in obeying God, not his atheist captors. He continued praying in the prison camps, and the Lord answered prayer. Today he openly preaches in Dyedovsk in the Moscow region of Russia.
Pastor Peter Rumachik was born near Brest, Russia, in 1931. Remembering his childhood, he shares that, although his mother wasn’t an educated woman, “she had a very sincere faith in God and constantly prayed to Him about me and all the other children.” But even as a child Peter could see that life for Christians wasn’t easy in his country. In his teen years he decided that someday he would follow Christ—but not until he was 50 or 60 years old.
Then, when he was 18, the suicide of a close friend shook Peter’s thinking. He realized that he needed something worth living for if he didn’t want to end up as hopeless as his friend. About three months later, while walking through a frozen forest, he felt moved to get down on his knees in the snow. There, he repented of his sins and asked God to cleanse his heart. At the same time he determined to serve God for the rest of his life, even though he knew that believers were sometimes arrested as criminals.
Four years of duty in the Red Army followed. When he was discharged from the military, Peter married a Christian woman named Luba in 1953. Pondering their decades together many years later, he remarks, “What a great joy it is when two married people believe in God, when their children can see that they have the same philosophy and outlook on life and the same relationship to God!”
Two years later, in 1955, Peter was ordained to the ministry in the city of Dyedovsk.
Nikita Krushchev took over leadership of the Soviet Union, persecution of Christians temporarily halted. So in 1956 Peter, his wife, and several Christian men redeemed the time to start a new church. “Many thirsty souls listened to the Gospel and received Christ,” he recalls with happiness. In time, however, policemen began attending services to spy on the believers. Then, like a returning tide, persecution resumed. The authorities forbade Christians to meet for worship, but God’s people—heeding a higher call— continued to gather in private homes and apartments. In 1961, Peter and four other leaders in his church were tried and sentenced to five years of exile in Siberia.
Even while in Siberian exile, however, Peter looked for opportunities to serve God. Confined to a village called Lesnikov, Peter heard that several elderly women were Christians. He located these ladies and learned that they had been without a pastor for 11 years. “Brother Peter, the fact that you’re here is an answer to our prayers,” they told him. So they began worshiping together. Later, Luba and the children joined Peter for his five-year-term of exile, and they joined in sharing about their Christian faith. Before long, other villagers professed faith in the Lord too.
When a local official warned that the authorities would ship Peter north to the Arctic Circle if he didn’t cease holding services, Peter replied, “Are you aware of the fact that I’m here by the will of God?”
“I wasn’t aware of that,” the man answered.
Peter continued, “I’m here by the will of God. Now, if I’ve fulfilled the task He has for me here, then He’ll allow you to send me above the Arctic Circle. But if I haven’t completed my mission, and you prohibit my activities as you are talking about doing, then God Himself will have to deal with you.”
Amazingly, the man agreed to leave Peter alone. When the Rumachiks were allowed to return home from Siberia, they left behind a growing church that had ties with congregations in other villages.
Back home in Dyedovsk, Peter and his family attended church, but the persecution was far from ended. “The church essentially met underground,” Peter explains. “Police units would burst into services held in private homes, forcefully take people out, and throw them into the back of trucks. Then they would take them and drop them off on some uninhabited road in the forest some 30 to 50 kilometers outside the city.”
Before long, Peter was arrested again and locked in a prison with criminals. “The life of the church was like the waves of the sea, always churning back and forth,” Peter recalls. “At one point, the persecution would subside momentarily only to redouble its fervor again. The goals of the Communist powers, however, always remained the same—to wipe out the existence of the church.”
Sadly, some individuals opted to avoid harassment and stopped worshiping. But other believers clung to hopes for a brighter day. Even when they couldn’t foresee a time of freedom when they could openly proclaim the Gospel, these believers continued praying for a change.
In all, Peter Rumachik ended up serving five terms (more than 18 years) in the Soviet penal system for boldly living his Christian faith. He admits that his health often deteriorated and that he frequently reached the end of his physical strength. But he doesn’t credit his survival to his own stamina. Rather, he notes that when the challenges were greatest, God intervened. “Even when I was in solitary, I was always aware of the presence of God, of His miraculous and wonderful help; I always saw His saving hand.”
Sometimes the convicts questioned why he was in prison. After all, if God were real, wasn’t He powerful enough to protect Peter? He replied, “I am here to serve the Lord. No one would willingly put himself in these kinds of situations. So God has brought me along this path so that you might be able to hear about Him while I am here in prison.” And occasionally a prisoner—or even one of the camp guards—would take an interest in listening as the imprisoned pastor shared his faith.
When Pastor Rumachik was released in 1987, he had no guarantee that he wouldn’t be re-arrested. After all, in the past his days of freedom seemed more like brief lulls between inevitable arrests and sentences. But God was at work. In an answer to countless prayers, the Soviet Union changed and eventually collapsed, and Peter has since remained a free man.
Today, Pastor Peter Rumachik is still active as a pastor of a church in Dyedovsk, Russia. In addition, with the aid of American believers, God has blessed him with several opportunities to visit the United States to raise funds to help construct more Russian churches.
Pondering the transformation of his homeland and the evangelistic opportunities it has spawned, soft-spoken Peter is pressed for words. But his reply points to the source that sustained him through years of persecution and that fuels his spiritual passion more than ever:
“Praise be to our Lord for all things! Alleluia, amen.” http://rusbaptist.stunda.org/engl/rum.htm
January 2017 Video Update from Sam Slobodian on Vimeo.
<p><a href=”https://vimeo.com/119470355″>February 2015</a> from <a href=”https://vimeo.com/user37287229″>Sam Slobodian</a> on <a href=”https://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p>
‘Dyedovsk, Russia This is the location of a building program being spearheaded by Pastor Peter Rumachik, whom many of you are acquainted with. He is the Russian pastor who spent 18 years in Russia’s notorious Gulag prisons for his leadership in the unregistered Baptist churches during the Soviet Era. We have worked with Pastor Rumachik for many years. Though approaching 84 years, brother Peter is able to continue in ministry. This
building project is in the final stages so the church is able to fully use the building except for the third floor, which is designated for future needs. Please pray for brother Peter’s health, specifically that the medication prescribed by the doctors for a recent issue would enable him to avoid surgery and for the workman in the church that are doing
all of the construction.’ https://whatyareckon.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/51b9d-03-slobodianreport2015.pdf
“Fidel Castro’s recent death evoked conflicting assessments of his legacy from world leaders, but college students are no more prepared than prime ministers to justify their support for the Cuban dictator.
President-Elect Donald Trump, for example, referred to Castro as a “brutal dictator,” whereas Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called him a “remarkable leader.”
In order to gauge millennial feelings on the passing of the authoritarian Cuban leader, Campus Reform asked students at American University which political figure they viewed more favorably: Castro or Trump.”
While several students identified the repressive elements of Castro’s regime, such as jailing and murdering his political opponents, few were willing to say that this made them view him less favorably than Donald Trump.” http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=8455
“The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to
directly involve the very survival of the Republic. Are we going to preserve the religious base to our origin, our growth and our progress, or yield to the devious assaults of atheistic or other anti-religious forces? Are we going to maintain our present course toward State Socialism with Communism just beyond or reverse the present trend and regain our hold upon our heritage of liberty and freedom?”
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