David Jones

President Trump read 2 Chronicles 7:11-22 from the Oval Office today. When was the last time a sitting president opened a Bible and read it to the nation? I’ll give you a moment to think about that.

Vrabel really stood in front of the media and said a player posting a bible verse needed to be educated ... then stood in front of the same press and took zero accountability for hurting his family and distracting his team. Which of those two issues has been a bigger distraction?

When Andrew Jackson killed the Second Bank of the United States in 1836, America entered its longest period of economic growth in history. No central bank. No monetary manipulation. No artificial credit expansion. Just hard money and free markets doing what they do best. Jackson understood that central banking represented the ultimate marriage of state power and financial privilege. The Second Bank held a monopoly on federal deposits, could suspend specie payments at will, and effectively controlled the money supply of the entire nation. When Jackson vetoed its recharter, he declared it "a hydra of corruption, dangerous to our liberties." He was right. What followed destroyed every modern myth about the necessity of central banking. From 1836 to 1913, the United States experienced unprecedented economic expansion with no Federal Reserve, no deposit insurance, and no lender of last resort. Real wages doubled. Industrial production exploded. Immigration soared as people fled the monetary chaos of Europe for American opportunity. Banks competed on reputation and actual reserves, not government guarantees. The panics that did occur were sharp but brief. Markets cleared quickly without government intervention. Bad investments liquidated fast. Resources moved to productive uses. Compare this to our modern system of perpetual bailouts, zombie banks, and asset bubbles that never fully deflate. Wall Street spent 77 years lobbying to recreate central banking, finally succeeding with the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. They sold it as stability and progress. What Americans got was the Great Depression, endless boom-bust cycles, and a dollar worth 4 cents of its original value. Jackson's corpse is spinning in its grave while your purchasing power evaporates by design. The time has come to end the Fed... and the ECB.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 ÚLTIMA HORA: Trump insta a la República Islámica a liberar a las 8 mujeres que están a punto de ser ahorcadas por exigir libertad. La ONU y demás organizaciones de derechos humanos no han dicho una palabra. El único defensor de derechos humanos en el mundo es Donald Trump.

Among Catholic priests who were ordained in the late 1960s: 68% describe their theology as progressive. 16% said it was conservative. Among priests ordained in the last few years: 2% describe their theology as progressive. 84% said it was conservative.

In 1942, the Japanese rounded up all Chinese men in Singapore. They were filtering out the healthy young ones to execute. Lee Kuan Yew was 18. A guard pointed at him and said: "Go to that lorry." He knew what that meant. The lorry went to the beaches. The beaches meant machine guns. He asked: "Can I collect my other things?" They said yes. He walked away, found his family's gardener, and hid in his quarters for two days. When they changed the screening inspectors, he tried again. This time, he got through. The ones sent to that lorry were taken to the beaches and shot. Somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 didn't survive. 60 years later, he sat down at Harvard to explain how he built Singapore from a tiny island into one of the wealthiest nations on Earth: On what the war did to him: "We lived in happy, placid colonial Singapore in the 1920s and 30s. The British Empire would have lasted another thousand years, so we thought." Then the Japanese came. In less than one and a half months, the British collapsed. "Three and a half years of hell. Butchery. Brutality. Many didn't survive. I was fortunate. I did." "But it changed us." "What right did they have to do this to us? Why did the British let us down so badly?" When the war ended, Lee went to Cambridge to study law. But he was watching with different eyes. "Can they govern me better than I can govern myself? Because they scooted when the Japanese came in. And why shouldn't I be running the place?" On learning languages to lead: Lee was the best speaker in English. But only 20% of Singapore spoke English. The masses spoke Hokkien, Mandarin, and Malay. "So every day at lunchtime, instead of having lunch, I would sit down with a Hokkien teacher and laboriously and painfully learn to convert my Mandarin into Hokkien." "Had I not mastered that, the battle would be lost by default." His first speech in Hokkien, the kids laughed at him. "I said, please don't laugh. Help me. I'm trying to get you to understanding." By 6 months, he could get his ideas across. By 2 years, he was fluent. "Believe it or not, at the end of two years I could speak better than most of them." "That came respect." It showed two things: how determined he was, and how sincere. Here was a man doing all these other things and still learning their language just to talk to them. On fighting the Communists: The Communists had been organizing since 1923. The year Lee was born. "Here we were in the 1950s trying to beat them. And they are professionals at organization." They had elimination squads. Guerrillas in the jungle. Killer squads in the towns. Lee stood up and said no. "They denied that they were Communists. 'We're just left-wing socialists.' So I did a series of 12 broadcasts to set the scene. And I made it in three languages." English. Malay. Mandarin. 20 minutes each. "When I finished each broadcast, the director of the station couldn't see me. Went into the room and found me lying on the floor trying to recover my breath." "But it was a fight for survival. Life or death." On where trust comes from: "It's difficult to establish trust in times of calm. You just say, 'Well, it's an argument, therefore I'm a better guy than you.'" "But when the chips are down and you can get eliminated in a very unpleasant way and you show that you're prepared for it and you'll fight for them, it makes a difference." "Without that trust, we could not have built Singapore." On IQ vs EQ: Harvard asked him: would you prefer high IQ or high EQ in a leader? "IQ, you can get beautiful paper done. Complex formulas worked out. Elegant solutions." "But when you've got to get a team to work and put that formula into practice, you're dealing with human beings." "If you're not good at EQ, you can't sense that A doesn't get on with B, and you put them in the same team. It's no good." He rated his own EQ as 7 or 8 out of 10. His IQ as "maybe 120." But he had colleagues who could sense a person instantly. "He shook hands with the man and said, 'I recoiled when I felt his palm. Evil man.' And he was. How does he know? I don't know." "So I learned whenever I had to do interviews to choose people, I would get people who are very good at seeing through a candidate." On corruption: Singapore in the 1950s was full of deals, bribes, and organized crime. "When we took over, we decided that this was the critical factor. If we did not make it so that every dollar put in at the top reaches the ground as one dollar, we're not going to succeed." "We came in and made a symbolic act. We dressed in white shirts, white trousers, and said we will be what we represent." He put the anti-corruption bureau under his personal portfolio. "I gave the director the authority to investigate everybody and everything. All ministers. Including myself." One of his own colleagues took half a million in bribes. When the investigation started, he asked to see Lee. "I said, if I see you then I'll be a witness in court. So best not see me. Better see your lawyer." The man committed suicide. Left a note saying: "As an oriental gentleman who believes in honor, I have to pay the supreme price." "It's a heavy price. But it reminds every minister that there are no exceptions." On consistency: Lee had three journalists analyze 40 years of his speeches. He asked them: what was the dominant theme? All three said the same thing: consistency. "What I said at the beginning, throughout all that period, the theme stayed loud and clear." "That made it simple. Because you know where you stand with me. And you know what I want to do." On delivering results: "We deliver the homes, the schools, the jobs, the hospitals." "Today, 98% of our people own their own homes. The smallest would be about $100,000 US. The biggest about $300,000." "Once you own that amount of assets, you are not in favor of risking it with a crazy government. Your assets will go down in value." "But that was planned." Why? Because Singapore is small. Everyone does national service. If you're going to fight, you better be fighting for something you own. "So we give everybody a stake." On changing culture slowly: Lee wanted Singapore to speak English. But he couldn't force it. "Had I passed a law and said you will all learn English, we would have had mayhem. Riots." Instead, he let parents watch who got the best jobs. The jobs were already there, from the multinationals and banks. They all used English. "They watched and saw who got the best jobs. And they switched." It took 16 years. "I did not want to have said 16 years. Because in those 16 years I lost 20,000 Chinese graduates who had poor jobs. I wanted to make it shorter. I couldn't. I would have run into flack." On whether leadership can be taught: Lee quoted Isaac Singer, the Nobel Prize winner for Yiddish literature. Someone asked Singer: "Can you make a writer write great literature?" He paused. Then said: "If he has the writer in him, I will make him a good writer in a shorter time." Lee's version: "Can you make a leader of anybody? I don't think so." "He must have some of the ingredients. He must have that high energy level. He must have the ability to project himself, his ideas. He must have the desire, almost instinctively, to say 'let's do something better.' Of wanting to do something for his fellow men and not just for himself and his family." "You can't teach those things. He's either got it or he hasn't got it." "But if he's got that, then you can save him a lot of trouble." On sustaining yourself: Harvard asked how he managed despair over decades of leadership. "If your message is one of despair, then you should not be a leader. You must give people hope." "But there are moments when you feel very down. Either because you're physically down, or emotionally down, or because the world has turned adverse against you." "When you are in that condition, the first thing you do is get a good night's sleep. Then get a swim or chase a ball. Get the cobwebs out of your mind." "If you're not fit, you're going to make mistakes. Physically fit. You must stay physically and mentally fit." In his later years, he learned to meditate. "At the end of 20 minutes to half an hour, my pulse rate can go down from 100 to about 60. You can feel yourself subside. You still your mind. You empty your mind." "Then when you are rested, you resume quietly. You still got the same problems. Maybe you sleep on it. Come back. Look at it for a few days. Then decide." This 2 hour Harvard interview will teach you more about leadership than every business book you've read combined. Bookmark & give it 2 hours this weekend, no matter what.

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@DrShayPhD I asked chat GPT to either verify or discredit each of the teachings. The response .. this list is a common polemical timeline—it mixes partial truths, wrong dates, and misunderstandings of development vs. invention. I’ll go line-by-line and mark each: Check for yourself.

Roman Catholic Teachings Not Found in the Bible and a Timeline of when they were Added. 1. 300 AD: Prayers for the dead. 2. 300 AD: Making the sign of the cross. 3. 375 AD: Veneration of angels and dead saints. 4. 375 AD: Use of images in worship. 5. 394 AD: The Mass as a daily celebration. 6. 431 AD: The exaltation of Mary as the “Mother of God.” 7. 526 AD: Extreme Unction, or last rites. 8. 593 AD: Doctrine of purgatory. 9. 600 AD: Prayers to Mary and dead saints. 10. 786 AD: Worship of the cross, images, and relics 11. 995 AD: Canonization of dead saints. 12. 1079 AD: Celibacy of the priesthood. 13. 1090 AD: The rosary. 14. 1090 AD: Indulgences. 15. 1215 AD: Transubstantiation. 16. 1215 AD: Confession of sins to a priest. 17. 1220 AD: Adoration of the wafer, called the body of Christ. 18. 1416 AD: The cup forbidden to the people. 19. 1439 AD: Purgatory proclaimed as dogma. 20. 1439 AD: The seven sacraments confirmed. 21. 1545 AD: Tradition established as equal with the Bible. 22. 1546 AD: Apocryphal books added to the Bible. 23. 1854 AD: The Immaculate Conception of Mary. 24. 1870 AD: Infallibility of the pope in matters of faith and morals. 25. 1950 AD: The bodily assumption of the Virgin Mary. 26. 1965 AD: Mary proclaimed “Mother of the Church.”

@DrShayPhD #19 Purgatory....GPT 593 – Gregory the Great develops/popularizes the idea 1274 (Lyons II) – Officially affirmed 1439 (Florence) – Clearly defined 1545–63 (Trent) – Definitively reaffirmed

Cardinal Timothy Dolan said: “Donald Trump has been abused, degraded, lied about, and undermined from the moment he took office. He stands for every American, and has stood like a lion against a pack of jackals for four years. God Bless Trump.” Do you agree with Cardinal Dolan’s statement about Trump? A. Agree B. Disagree

For two centuries, the Ottoman Empire had pushed westward, swallowing kingdoms whole. Vienna was on the brink of collapse, the gate to all of Europe was about to fall open. Then, over the ridge of the Kahlenberg hill, came the largest cavalry charge in recorded history. 🔸By 1683, the Ottoman Empire was the most powerful military force on earth. Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa marched with more than 150,000 soldiers toward Vienna, pulling with him over 300 cannons and a supply chain that stretched back to Constantinople. 🔸On July 14th, the Ottomans surrounded Vienna and began digging. They ran tunnels beneath the city walls, packed them with gunpowder, and detonated them one by one. The city's 12,000 - 15,000 defenders watched their walls crumble from the inside out. 🔸After two months under siege, Vienna was dying. Food had run out, disease was spreading through the streets, and the garrison had lost a third of its men. The city's commander, Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, sent desperate messengers through enemy lines begging for relief. 🔸Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I had spent weeks negotiating one of the most unlikely alliances in European history. Catholic Austria, Protestant German princes, and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth agreed to set aside their rivalries and march together. King Jan III Sobieski of Poland would lead them. 🔸Jan Sobieski was already a legend before Vienna. He had spent his career fighting the Ottomans on Poland's eastern frontier, and the Turks called him the "Lion of Lechistan." When the Pope personally wrote to him asking for help, Sobieski mobilized 74,000 men and began the march south. 🔸On the evening of September 11th, the allied commanders gathered on the Kahlenberg hill overlooking Vienna. Below them, the Ottoman camp stretched across the plain like a city of its own, with silk tents, horse herds, and cooking fires as far as the eye could see. Sobieski turned to his son and said: "Tomorrow we fight." 🔸The battle opened at dawn on September 12th with infantry clashing in the woods and ravines below the hill. For eight hours the fighting ground on, neither side breaking. Then, at around four in the afternoon, Sobieski ordered his cavalry to the ridge. 🔸The Polish Winged Hussars were the most feared heavy cavalry in the world. They rode massive warhorses, carried 16-foot lances, and wore wooden frames on their backs that held enormous eagle and ostrich feathers. At full gallop, the wings created a roaring sound that witnesses said was unlike anything they had ever heard. 🔸18,000 horsemen crested the hill and began riding downhill toward the Ottoman camp. Sobieski led from the front with 3,000 of his Polish Winged Hussars. The ground shook. The Ottoman lines, which had held all day, looked up to see a wall of horses, lances, and screaming wings descending on them at full speed. The formation collapsed almost immediately. 🔸The battle raged for 15 hours after which the Ottoman army was in full retreat. Kara Mustafa abandoned his command tent, his treasury, his artillery, and the green banner of the Prophet Muhammad. The Poles captured so much coffee from the Ottoman camp that it is credited with introducing the coffeehouse culture to Vienna. 🔸Kara Mustafa fled to Belgrade, where he was executed by order of the Sultan three months later. The Ottoman Empire never again threatened central Europe with the same force. The siege of Vienna is now considered the high-water mark of Ottoman expansion into the West. 🔸On the evening of the victory, Sobieski wrote a letter to the Pope. In it, he borrowed the words of Julius Caesar and wrote: "I came, I saw, God conquered." He had just saved Western Europe. He sent the letter before the bodies were even cleared from the field. 🔸The Winged Hussars charged for the last time at Vienna, and they won the most consequential cavalry battle in modern history. Within a generation, the age of mounted shock warfare would be over forever. Most people have never heard of the Battle of Vienna or of Jan Sobieski (he will receive his own card in due time). I believe it is vital you are now part of the group that does. History has a way of burying the moments that changed everything. Europe was about to fall. These men ensured it didn't. Thanks for sticking with me. Tomorrow I've got another fantastic story lined up for you.

Half a million proud Christian Polish patriots flooded the streets, proudly declaring Poland a Christian nation — and making it crystal clear that Islam has no place here. Should we learn from Poland? A. Yep B. No.

🇺🇸President Trump stuns America by announcing America will re-dedicate itself to God on May 17th 2026 WE'RE GOING TO REDEDICATE AMERICA AS ONE NATION UNDER GOD CHRIST IS KING 🙏

Decades ago Pope John Paul II and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger fought hard against Communists and Socialists within the Church who were using Marxist ideology to form what is now called Liberation Theology — a politicization of the Gospel. Cardinal Ratzinger knew it posed a threat to the distinction between Church and State. link in reply

Pope Leo XIV has done more damage to the Catholic Church because of personal politics than any Pope in modern times!

“In some respects, it’s better for Catholics now that Francis is gone. But the damage is done. Early in his tenure, I referred to it as “The Kamikaze Papacy,” because it looked to me like he was drawing as much of the office’s power as he could in order to destroy that very office. And he largely succeeded. There is a smoldering crater where the papacy used to be. And his successor will almost certainly not be better. If anything, he will quite likely be less overt, more subtle, and have an even longer tenure. Even Francis’s allies were not fans of his boorish, bull-in-a-china-shop ways. He lacked tact and refinement, and he rewarded allies and punished enemies in a way that was incredibly gauche. He also stacked the deck with the Cardinal electors, so despite the fantasy that the Holy Spirit will work some miracle, the odds are ominously bad. If you think I’m kidding, the numbers don’t lie: he elevated 108 of the 135 cardinal electors. That’s roughly 80%. He chose the kind of men who would continue on the path he blazed. The Church has already been remade in his image. There is no going back.” skojecfile.steveskojec.com/p/pope-francis…

@CollinRugg Where was the Cross that he saw?

NEW: Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who says he is not religious, says he broke down in tears when he saw the Cross after getting back to Earth. Wiseman: "I'm not really a religious person, but there was just no other avenue for me to explain anything..." Victor Glover: "The only thing I would add is I am a religious person, but everything else is the same."