TRUMP WARNS RUSSIA OVER JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES This is fake news BEWARE

[Evacuated]

@bruceq  "Has this been flagged as fake news?" Remember my comment soon after the original post was made? You acted very quickly to affirm this and well done to you.

I for one found all your press postings re background on the Russian trial of our brothers very useful and informative, especially those about Alexander Dvorkin's activity.

Such an emotive and contraversial a subject as that regarding the treatment of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia is bound to draw all sorts of attention from friend and foe alike. This will of course include that of the fake news mongers, who exploit the heightened interest in a sort of duping excercise that ranges in level from that of schoolboy prank to downright slanderous lies.

Here's an example of a photo used in fake news that duped many to believe it was a picture of our 2017 Russian mail campaign letters, when in fact it pictures a completely unrelated and much earlier mail out as the context reveals!

Don't let a few misunderstood remarks cause you to take offence and withdraw your contribution to the Forum!

[The Librarian]

@bruceq You did a fine job. 

I actually prefer to know the truth about even the fake news stories that are popping up all over the net.

It is good we have a record that can stay up for anyone researching a story.

In no way was I trying to discourage you. I actually think you do a good service by enabling myriads of fact-checkers.

Agape!

[ARchiv@L]

fake or not fake ...... all of YOU, you do a very good job with "watching" the news ....

thanks everyone !

 

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adding another comment is ..... do you know that everyone copies from this forum ??

you are doing an excellent work !!

 

[bruceq]

14 hours ago, Queen Esther said:

@bruceq  I am sorry, maybe any misunderstanding here.....  I am a sister,  mostly showing alot love for us all,  ask our Librarian, he is knowing me since many years !  Yes, we must be careful with such of reports, thats normal.  Our website has so many topics / areas,  we can post alot things. Enjoy it my brother,  all is ok.    Agape love from Germany ❤️

Thank you very much

[Queen Esther]

You are welcome, dear brother.  Btw. I saw yesterday the same Fake-post from here above on FB too....  We all believed its a real photo with many JW letters !  Its really so sad with all these Fake-reports on the Internet ;-(  I will now be still more careful !  We all knowing the 'yellow - press'  since many many years,  but these Fakes in our current, bad time, example Trump and JW....  should be an alarm for us !   Satan is all around and playing very good against us. But Jehovah is watching over the Earth and has HIS perfect plan, also with Russia, Eritrea etc. Nobody is knowing HIS wise ways, but HE always was doing the best for HIS folk !  We not need these Fake-News,  bec. Jehovah is in our nearness and has really ALL under control ;-))  The best feeling we can have❤️  HE is our father and will fight for us.  Agape love to all Brothers and Sisters ???

[Bible Speaks]

Thank you  my Brothers and Sisters you warm my heart. We are all stressed and know the end is in Jehovah's perfect timing! We must be unified and strong to help others. Some live in fear everyday. You are proving yourselves children of your Father in Heaven and letting Christ now lead us. Are we not grateful we can speak so right now? Perhaps soon we might not be able to speak. Prayers around the earth we need for Satan is on a rampage and his "hooks" in his jaw make him angrier so speak the Love of the Christ and Jehovah for this we will prove ourselves children of a just and God of Loyal Love. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[Anna]

What is incredible to me, is that fake news is allowed to pose as real news. This particular piece was very well disguised, posing as Fox News, and easily overlooked that it was not. It was a lot simpler in the days before the  internet to identify physical newspapers, because all papers were well known, and  tabloids in particular were know for sensationalism. I never forget the headline in one in the UK: "Man raped by giant cabbage". You know ANY kind of news from THAT newspaper is for entertainment only.

With online news it's a little bit more difficult if you are not familiar with all the news website as there are so many, and new ones are popping up all the time. This particular one had apparently only been in operation for a few months. So you can't be blamed for making a mistake @bruceq. I fell for it too at first.

[Bible Speaks]

@Anna @bruceq 

We are so grateful for all your hard work! We know propaganda will come. The opposers need to stir up false ideas. We must always think of Bible prophecy it will all come true. Man will try to be like Jesus said, blind guides they are, both will fall in the pit. Jehovah's Word is always true. He never lies. 

The father, or originator, of lying is Satan the Devil. (Joh 8:44) His lie conveyed by means of a serpent to the first woman Eve ultimately brought death to her and to her husband Adam. (Ge 3:1-5, 16-19) 

That first lie was rooted in selfishness and wrong desire. It was designed to divert the love and obedience of the first human pair to the liar, who had presented himself as an angel of light, a benefactor. (Compare 2Co 11:14.) 

All other malicious lies uttered since that time have likewise been a reflection of selfishness and wrong desire. People have told lies to escape deserved punishment, to profit at the expense of others, and to gain or maintain certain advantages, material rewards, or the praise of men.

Especially serious have been the religious lies, as they have endangered the future life of persons deceived by them. Said Jesus Christ: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you traverse sea and dry land to make one proselyte, and when he becomes one you make him a subject for Gehenna twice as much so as yourselves.” (Mt 23:15) 

The exchange of God’s truth for “the lie,” the falsehood of idolatry, can cause a person to become a practicer of what is degrading and vile.—Ro 1:24-32.

Jehovah God cannot lie (Nu 23:19; Heb 6:13-18), and he hates “a false tongue.” (Pr 6:16-19)

Thank you so much for helping others! The Truth will be known. 

Agape, Bible Speaks

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[Evacuated]

3 hours ago, Anna said:

I fell for it too at first.

Yes it is a challenge. BUT..... if we're gonna use this medium.... then....we all need to up our game don't we? I mean, there's no lock that a man can make that a man can't pick......is there???  

[Bible Speaks]

Maybe this is the "pushing" foretold in the Bible? 

The expression “time of the end” is also used in association with particular developments in connection with human government. Daniel 11:40 reads: “In the time of the end the king ofthe south will engage with [the king of the north] in a pushing, and against him the king ofthe north will storm with chariots and with horsemen and with many ships.” Thereafter the prophecy discusses the actions of the “king ofthe north” and indicates that he will come to his end. (Da 11:41-45) Thus “the time of the end” here is evidently to be understood as a period culminated by the destruction of “the king ofthe north.” Lending confirmation to this is the fact that “the king of the north” is earlier portrayed as persecuting God’s servants, those “having insight,” until “the time of the end,” that is, until his time of the end.—Da 11:33-35.

Another feature associated with “the time of the end” is the standing up of “a king fierce in countenance” that would range himself against “the Prince of princes,” finally to be broken or destroyed. This “king” was to stand up in the final part of the kingdoms that sprang from the four parts into which the Grecian Empire was to be divided. (Da 8:8-25) Since “the king of the north” and “the king of the south” came from the same source, it logically follows that the “king fierce in countenance” corresponds to one of these ‘kings’ in his “time of the end.”

(CNN)North Korea has staged its largest ever military drill to mark the founding of the country's army, amid rising tensions with the West.

A statement from the South Korean military said the live-fire exercises were in the Wonsan region in the east of the country Tuesday afternoon, but gave no details on what kinds of weapons and military units took part in the drill.

On Wednesday, CNN was told by a North Korean government official with knowledge of the event that it was the largest ever drill conducted by the country's military and involved 300 artillery guns.

 

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gave the order to start the demonstration, where the large-caliber self-propelled guns lined up along the coast opened fire, state news agency KCNA reported Wednesday.

In a statement from the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff, South Korea said it was monitoring the situation and remained "firmly prepared."

"Our military is closely monitoring the North Korean military's movements," said the statement.

Military exercises such as the one undertaken by North Korea are not unprecedented and it was always likely there would have been a show of military force on Armed Forces Day. This year is the 85th anniversary of the founding of North Korean army.

But the timing, as the US increases its military presence in the area, allows North Korea to remind its opponents that it could cause crippling damage with conventional artillery to highly populated areas in South Korea.

In a statement after the artillery drills were confirmed, the South Korean President's Office said an emergency meeting had been held to discuss the situation.

Separately, envoys from South Korea, Japan and the US have been meeting in Tokyo to discuss North Korea's refusal to abandon its nuclear program.

North Korea's drills coincided with military exercises held by US and South Korean navies in the Yellow Sea, off the western coast of the Korean Peninsula.

Earlier Tuesday, a US submarine made a port call in South Korea in what US officials said was a show of force amid mounting tensions in the region. 

 

A CNN team in North Korea said citizens in the streets of Pyongyang were celebrating Armed Forces Day, with no visible signs of tension. 

 

Message to Seoul?

 

 

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Alex Neill, a senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies Asia, told CNN the artillery drill was likely to be a message to Seoul.

"It's important for the DPRK to remind the South that very large swathes of the South Korean population are within artillery range of the North," he said, using the official name for North Korea.

"So it is a sign that if the North is provoked or there is preemptive action, then a lot of Seoul and its suburbs would be within artillery range of the North."

Neill said nuclear and chemical weapons could also be delivered via artillery strikes.

"As (North Korea has) one of the largest stockpiles of chemical weapons, again artillery can be used for that. Sarin gas doesn't have to be dropped," he said.

 

Trump: North Korea is 'a real threat'

 

Relations between North Korea and the US and South Korea have deteriorated in recent months, as the rhetoric and military posturing on both sides has increased.

There have been occasions in the past when political tensions have reached crisis point -- most recently in April 2013 -- but Trump's firm rhetoric on North Korea in recent weeks is unusual for a US leader.

Fears have also mounted in recent weeks that North Korea could soon conduct a sixth nuclear test or another missile launch.

On Monday, US President Donald Trump said the status quo with nuclear-armed North Korea was unacceptable, calling for new sanctions on the country.

"This is a real threat to the world, whether we want to talk about it or not," Trump said at a lunch for ambassadors of countries who sit on the Security Council.

"North Korea's a big world problem, and it's a problem we have to finally solve. People put blindfolds on for decades and now it's time to solve the problem."

The Trump administration has taken the unusual step of calling the entire US Senate to a meeting at the White House, for a briefing on North Korea with the US secretaries of Defense and State.

Some analysts voiced concerns Trump was backing himself into a corner with his fierce rhetoric on North Korea, leading both countries to a point where "bad things are going to happen."

 

USS Vinson deployed as tensions build

 

Earlier this month, the Trump administration announced it would be sending the USS Vinson, an aircraft carrier, to the Korean Peninsula, after US officials said they anticipated a fresh round of nuclear tests and missile launches. 

Its deployment was met with threats by the North Koreans.

State-run newspaper Rodong Sinmun said over the weekend in an editorial the country could sink a "nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with a single strike."

North Korea held an enormous military parade held to celebrate the anniversary of the birth of the country's founder, Kim Il Sung on April 15. 

Prior to the celebrations, satellite images had shown the rogue state could be preparing for another nuclear test.

In the end, no nuclear test was held that day, but a performance on the Day of the Sun still showed a propaganda video where missiles struck the United States and a US flag was left in flames.

CNN's Tim Schwarz in Pyongyang contributed to this report.

 

 

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[Anna]

2 hours ago, Eoin Joyce said:

we all need to up our game

Trust no one, trust nothing

 

[Evacuated]

Media confirmation:

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/apr/28/blog-posting/reports-trump-offered-asylum-russian-jehovahs-witn/