Houthis threaten 'swift, painful' response if US assists Saudi strikes in Yemen

Houthis threaten 'swift, painful' response if US assists Saudi strikes in Yemen

SHIR PERETS, REUTERS

The Iran-backed Houthis threatened on Monday to launch a "swift and painful response" against the US and its regional interests if Washington joined Saudi Arabia's military campaign in Yemen, Houthi political bureau member Mohammed al-Bukhaiti told AFP. 

"If the US becomes involved in the aggression against Yemen, we will not deliberate over the decision to respond; rather, there will be a swift and painful response targeting the US and all its interests in the region," Bukhaiti said.

His warning came following US President Donald Trump’s comments weighing American involvement following the recent deadly attacks on Saudi infrastructure, including a strike on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on Saturday that killed 13 people and wounded hundreds more. The attack was the deadliest on Saudi soil in more than a decade.

Trump said the airport attack was "not acceptable" and indicated that Washington was considering joining Saudi strikes against the Houthis, after reportedly rejecting earlier requests for military assistance from Riyadh.

Authorities also extended the closure of Riyadh's international airport until Saturday and suspended operations at King Khalid International Airport to "allow for the completion of procedures to ensure the safety and operational readiness of the airport's facilities," the Saudi civil aviation authority said in a statement.

Late on Monday, the Houthis said they had attacked the airport with a ballistic missile, shortly after Saudi Arabia said it had intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile fired by the group towards Riyadh.

The Houthis also said in a statement that they targeted an airbase in Khamis Mushait in the kingdom's southwest with a drone. There was no immediate Saudi confirmation.

A Notice to Airmen issued on Monday showed King Khalid International Airport will stay closed until October 17.

The attacks have also raised worries over civil aviation becoming a target in armed conflict.

"This level of sustained intense attack on civil aviation is unprecedented," said Mark Zee, founder of OPSGROUP, a membership-based organization that provides aviation safety advice.

"I think this requires us to rethink how we view the current risk picture, and tread very carefully," he said.

Noah’s Ark Researcher Reveals DEATH Threats, Stunning New Radar Findings

Noah’s Ark Researcher Reveals DEATH Threats, Stunning New Radar Findings

Billy Hallowell

The founder of an organization digging at a site in Turkey he believes could unveil the real-life Noah’s Ark has reportedly faced terrifying death threats and a burglary of his apartment.

Andrew Jones, founder of Noah’s Ark Scans, said it took years to get a permit from the Turkish government to be able to dig. 

“For our efforts, it’s taken years, if not decades,” he said. “When you’re trying to get a permit, you have to work under a Turkish university, and it’s not just under the Turkish university; you’re working with a Turkish professor.”

Jones continued, “So here’s someone who’s going to say, ‘OK. I’m going to put my reputation on the line looking for Noah’s Ark, and then I’m going to go ahead and get go through the obstacles, and the time,’ and anything else being thrown at him or her to get a permit done.”

In addition to finding people willing to put their reputations on the line, Jones said you also need to have funding, which can be another barrier. Jones said he and his team had to act quickly once the permit was approved.

“It was the start of this year when we got the permit,” he said. “We had one month to basically fundraise, get organized, get people involved.”

Challenges still abound. The professor involved in the Noah’s Ark Scans project is reportedly being called a “traitor” to Turkey by some, with his atheist and agnostic friends also piling on.

Jones, too, has faced some challenges. He’s unsure whether the Noah’s Ark expedition sparked problems for him, but, months ago, he started having people pound on his door in the middle of the night earlier this year while issuing threats to kill him.

While motives are difficult to know, Jones said the chaos started after his team announced they received a permit.

“We made the mistake of announcing we had a permit,” he said. “In regards to like physical threats or robbery, I’ve never had that issue until this happened.”

The people pounding on the door in the middle of the night were “making threats and cursing in English.”

“They were targeting someone who they thought spoke English,” he said. “It wasn’t Turkish they were speaking. They were saying, ‘F you, and I’m going to kill you.'”

Jones called a friend to come over and examine the situation, but they never found the culprit. Then, just days later, it happened again. The Noah’s Ark Scans founder inevitably decided to leave the apartment altogether and stay with a friend out of abundance of caution.

His mission to find the Ark hasn’t stopped, and he has no plans to halt. Watch the video for the full story on where the expedition currently stands:

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THE SILENCING OF OUR BLESSED HOPE

THE SILENCING OF OUR BLESSED HOPE

Jonathan Brentner

An expression dating back to 1512 is: “Throwing out the baby with bath water.” The idea is that if you think part of something is bad, don’t throw it all away.

Is that not what many pastors do today? Because they fear the negative results of mentioning the dreaded word “Rapture” from the pulpit, they refuse to talk about what happens when Jesus appears: our bodily transformation. The essence of our “blessed hope” goes out the window along with any mention of Jesus’ appearing. Most churches effectively silence our biblical hope in Jesus’ appearing.

I have heard several Gospel presentations where the pastor never once said the words “eternal life,” or, if he did, he quickly glossed over it as something secondary to the gospel. Citing John 3:16 in a closing prayer does little to correct this problem, as by then, most people are focused on lunch.

In the New Testament, we find a far different emphasis than what we hear in most churches today, even those that profess to be Bible-believing.

MARTHA’S BELIEF IN THE RESURRECTION

Even before any New Testament book was written, Jesus' followers believed in a future resurrection. We see this in Martha’s assertion of faith after her brother Lazarus' death. When Jesus told her that her brother would “rise again” (John 11:23), she responded: “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day” (11:24). Even in the midst of her grief, she clung to the hope of her brother’s bodily resurrection.

In the Gospel of John, the phrase “eternal life” appears seventeen times. Martha understood what Jesus’ oft-repeated promise meant for her brother. He would raise him from the dead to everlasting life with a new body.

Jesus emphasized our hope beyond the grave in John 5:24: “Truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.” Is it any wonder that Paul so vigorously defends the resurrection of believers throughout 1 Corinthians 15? In the chapter's concluding verses, the apostle gives us further revelation about our future resurrection life. He will give us immortal and imperishable bodies (1 Corinthians 15:47-55). Please also note that Paul includes believers alive at the time of the Rapture.

In Philippians 3:20-21, Paul explains that our glorious transformation happens when Jesus appears, aka the Rapture. That’s the essence of Jesus’ promise: He gives eternal life to all who believe. And we will fully experience it at His return. This is the substance of our hope, the future tense of the gospel.

IMMORTAL AND INCORRUPTIBLE BODIES

Earlier in 1 Corinthians 15, Paul leaves no doubt as to the utmost importance of this promise of eternal life: “If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied” (v. 19). If this is true, and it is, where’s the justification for not even mentioning eternal life when presenting the gospel? Both the Lord Jesus and the apostle Paul emphasized that our hope lies beyond this vale of tears.

Take away what happens to us when Jesus appears and “we are of all people most to be pitied.” The Greek word for “pitied” carries with it the connotation of being “miserable.” I fear that describes many Christians whose focus all their future aspirations on what lies ahead for them in this life rather than on their hope beyond it. Such an anticipation invariably leads to great disappointment.

The glorious truth for us as New Testament saints begins in the next verse with Paul’s declaration that “Christ has been raised from the dead” (v. 20). His line of reasoning in the next several verses leads directly to 1 Corinthians 15:51-53, where he sums up our forever hope with the exciting details of our bodily resurrection as New Testament saints.:

Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.

In language that others cannot possibly misconstrue or misunderstand to signify anything other than our future transformation or resurrection, the apostle says time is coming when Jesus will raise the dead with imperishable bodies and gloriously transform believers still alive at His appearing.

Those who say that 1 Corinthians 15:47-57 refers to what happened to us when we became believers are false teachers. And yes, besides reading this errant interpretation, I heard one pastor say these verses refer to our past, to what happens at the time of our redemption. Such teaching lies far outside the Christian faith.

Because Jesus rose from the dead, our over-the-top blissful hope is that someday we will possess a glorious body like that of our Savior. In Philippians 3:20-21, Paul writes about an “excited anticipation” of Jesus’ appearing. The word he used for “await” signifies a yearning of the soul for the time that Jesus raises the dead in Christ and wholly transforms us with immortality.

THE ESSENCE OF OUR BLESSED HOPE

Living forever in resurrected bodies like our Savior's is our blessed hope, the one Paul wrote about in Titus 2:11-14. The Rapture is a biblical doctrine. According to several New Testament texts, it's when our faith in the unseen becomes our experience.

We will spend eternity in gloriously transformed bodies that will never experience pain, sickness, aging, or death. They will be like our Savior's. The “redemption of our bodies,” which happens at the time of the Rapture, was the hope that the apostles proclaimed to the world (Romans 8:23-25). It was not an afterthought, but something fully explained along with the saving message of the cross.

The problem I have with preaching today is that it effectively silences the truths revealed in 1 Corinthians 15:51-55 and Philippians 3:20-21. Of course, pastors in Bible-believing churches do not deny our “blessed hope” (Titus 2:11-14). However, they effectively silence it by changing it into a nebulous Second Coming whereby all bible prophecy awaiting fulfillment starts with Revelation 20:11,

Maranatha!

The Net Zero Illusion: Canada’s Self-Destructive Climate Policy

Canada is a carbon sink but climate change fanatics want to decarbonise Canada to make it “net zero”; how does this make any sense?

Rhoda Wilson

For those who believe in the climate change scam: Canada’s forests act as a carbon sink and absorb 2.4 more carbon than the country produces.  Canada is, therefore, in the negative as far as “net zero” accounting goes.

Despite this, Net Zero fanatics are pursuing “net zero” policies which will destroy Canada’s economy while making a few people very rich.

The Net Zero Illusion: Canada’s Self-Destructive Climate Policy

Murray Lytle

By 2050, Canada will be net zero and carbon neutral. This is very good news because, otherwise, we will all turn crispy and die. That, at least, is the argument of our political class. We must “decarbonise” our fuel sources at a cost of perhaps trillions of dollars to avoid this grisly outcome.

Our efforts, in fact, will make a negligible dent in the world’s carbon exchange, but as our standard of living continuously deteriorates, we can take solace in the fact that “we have done our bit.” Not only have our elbows come up in unison to destroy a once-profitable trade relationship with the world’s largest consumer market that sits virtually at our doorstep, but we can smugly peer out of our unlit, unheated homes and feel superior to the Americans. That is worth something.

But I have a couple of questions.

What does the term “decarbonised hydrocarbons” mean? From my research, it seems we are going to buy credits from carbon exchanges operated by companies in the corporate sector like, you know, Brookfield Asset Management or something. These credits will allow us to produce more hydrocarbons to collect more carbon dioxide and stick more of it in the ground. But who is going to produce oil and gas in Canada when we self-impose such expensive environmental overheads? It seems like there might be only one winner in this scenario. And what is going to happen to all that pressurised carbon dioxide that has been pumped into the ground? Oh, right … trust the science.

[Related: Eco-Fascist Mark Carney is Trying to Control the World Through Green Finance and Carney will impose the Globalists’ climate change scam on Canadians]

The other question is, what if it turns out that Canada’s massive forests are already sequestering the relatively puny amounts of carbon dioxide that we produce? A concept that seems to be all but forgotten in the debate is that carbon dioxide is plant food. Forests are full of trees, which are plants, and they like to eat carbon dioxide. 

Sadly, however, Natural Resources Canada tells us that forest fires, insect blights, overcutting and, of course, climate change have made Canada a net source of carbon dioxide emissions rather than a net sink of carbon absorption. This is not good. But their website is full of tentative language: would, might, will lead to and predicted. In fact, if I recall correctly, when I accessed the website in 2016, Canadian forests were considered a carbon sink. Funny how things change over time.

The news, however, is not all bad. A compelling 2023 study came to my attention through a recent Friends of Science email. It analysed carbon dioxide concentrations using data from NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite (OCO-2) and ground-based measurements collected at sites worldwide. By modelling natural carbon capture (forests and other biomass) and carbon dioxide emissions to calculate net carbon exchange, the study authors concluded that Canada’s forests were removing all the carbon dioxide produced in the country plus 140% more. This is good news, right? 

Canada’s forests are removing 2.4 times as much carbon dioxide as is produced within the country, which means that Canada is already net zero and then some. Although my excitement is moderated by the knowledge that this conclusion is based on a model, the study authors have accounted for the variability of their assumptions. However, isn’t the global warming argument itself based on modelling that assumes that carbon dioxide is not plant food but rather the thermometer of the Earth? And wasn’t the popular CMIP6* family of models recently determined to be too hot to match reality?

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