DONALD TRUMP REJECTS IRAN DEAL TO RE-OPEN THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ IN SEVEN DAYS

US President Donald Trump has rejected an Iranian proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping within a week.

He told reporters at the White House that Tehran "want to make a deal where they open the Strait immediately because they're losing so badly". In a post on Telegram, Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi acknowledged Trump's comments, but said Tehran would wait for an official response from mediators.

On Friday, Araghchi had told reporters at the UN in New York that an agreement could be reached "if the necessary conditions are met" and that these were contained in a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed by the two countries in June.

The vital waterway through which around a fifth of the world's gas and oil supply usually flows has been effectively closed since the outbreak of war in February. "I'm rejecting their deal," Trump said on Saturday, adding that the US already had "total control" of the strait, with "massive amounts of oil" passing through it.

"They want to make a deal, and I think that's fine. I like making a deal, too. But that deal would not be acceptable," he added. Araghchi wrote that Trump "has made many good statements, as well as many contradictory ones, which unfortunately we hear frequently."

He added that he would await the "definitive views" of mediators, and that Tehran "will make a decision based on that." On Friday the Wall Street Journal

, externalcited officials as saying Trump was sceptical that Iran would meet his demands and had told his staff that he saw a renewed bombing campaign as probable.

Iran responded to US and Israeli air strikes, beginning in late February, by attacking Israel and US bases in the Gulf and Arab Gulf allies of the US - as well as blocking the Strait of Hormuz. Its closure has caused wild fluctuations of energy prices.

The economic effects have also increased pressure on Trump to find a way of ending the conflict - particularly as the US heads towards Congressional elections in November.

Araghchi told reporters on Friday: "If the necessary conditions are met, the strait can be reopened, a normal maritime passage restored within seven days,"

He added that "the actions that the United States should take are not new. They are all already in the MOU... The choice now rests with the United States."

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, meanwhile, told CBS News, the BBC's US partner: "We had previously reached an agreement based on the MOU that was signed in Pakistan... if the United States agrees to proceed in that way, everything will return to the way it was before."

But Kirsten Fontenrose, who served on the National Security Council during the first Trump administration, told the BBC there was no appetite for restarting the conversation around the MOU as it is seen as a bad deal in the US and Iran was "pushing against a very closed door".

FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqgmrr9ekr7ko

Israel slams Jordan for denying Palestinians rights after king’s scathing UN speech

 The Israeli Foreign Ministry criticized Jordanian King Abdullah II following his speech at the United Nations General Assembly against Israel’s policies in Gaza and Judea and Samaria, which he claimed violate international law.

 “It is particularly amusing to hear King Abdullah II of Jordan speak so passionately about international law and the rights of Palestinians in Judea and Samaria,” the ministry wrote on X, invoking the orders of his father, King Hussein, in 1988 to revoke the citizenship of Palestinians living in Judea and Samaria “overnight” and “in complete violation of international law.” 

“Palestinians in Judea and Samaria lost the right to vote or run for the Jordanian parliament, work in the Jordanian civil service, or receive funding from the Hashemite Kingdom. Their Jordanian passports were confiscated or not renewed. They were classified as foreign nationals. Their entry into Jordan and their ability to remain there were restricted,” the ministry continued. “Tell us more about international law,” it added.

Another clash between King Hussein and the Palestinians took place in 1970, known as “Black September.” The Jordanian Army was ordered to take action against the Palestine Liberation Organization, comprising of Palestinian fedayeen guerrillas that relocated to Jordan after the Six-Day War in 1967 and had engaged in terrorist activities within the Hashemite Kingdom. Inflicting thousands of casualties on PLO forces, led by Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian militants were ultimately compelled to leave Jordan in 1971. 

Relocating to Lebanon via Syria, the PLO then became involved in the Lebanese Civil War from 1975 to 1990, while continuing to carry out terror attacks against Israel. King Abdullah spoke at the General Debate of the 81st Session of UNGA in New York on Tuesday, dedicating the bulk of his address to lash out at the Jewish state. 

He accused Israel of implementing an expansionist policy in Gaza, Judea and Samaria, and Syria, “testing how far it can go.” He went as far as saying that “This Israeli government’s expansionist appetite is now a regional threat” and its “sense of impunity has reached terrifying levels.” The Jordanian leader then told the delegates in the hall that they have tools such as “sanctions, asset freezes, embargoes, diplomatic isolation” that have been used elsewhere. “Any threat to our northern border or our water security is a threat to our national security,” King Abdullah added, claiming that Israel has imposed “new facts on the ground,” including around “vital water resources.”

FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.jns.org/news/israel-news/israel-slams-jordan-for-denying-palestinians-rights-after-kings-scathing-un-speech?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Trump's Board of Peace unveils $2.45bn Gaza recovery plan

 US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace has announced a $2.45bn (£1.85bn) Gaza recovery plan at a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.

The funding will be spread across 66 programmes over six months, and directed at housing, diesel generation and waste removal, among other needs. But the board admitted substantial donations were still needed, with $18bn pledged but only $280m handed over so far. It estimates full recovery and reconstruction will require about $71bn over the next decade.

The board also did not set out a date for the start of reconstruction in Gaza, where Trump's plan to end the war has largely stalled almost a year after Israel and Hamas agreed a ceasefire. The disarmament of Hamas has been a key sticking point.

The Palestinian group has agreed to give up its weapons in exchange for a phased Israeli troop withdrawal from the 60% of Gaza currently occupied. But Israel has insisted that it must fully disarm before any pullout.

Violence has also continued in Gaza amid the deadlock, with near-daily Israeli strikes, and living conditions for the 2.1 million people living there remain dire. Jared Kushner, a Gaza Executive Board member and Trump's son-in-law, conceded that the Gaza Recovery Programme faced "different delays on different things, for whatever reason".

"The goal of today was really just to show you that we're really fully committed to doing it," he told the meeting of board members and stakeholders. He was joined in New York by US envoy Steve Witkoff, who said that "real progress" had been made over the past year.

"All of the hostages are home. There is a ceasefire, imperfect as it may be, but it still exists. Humanitarian efforts have achieved historic results, with billions of dollars donated and pledged to meet urgent needs and support the long work of recovery," Witkoff added.

In addition to fundraising, the plan faces significant challenges including how to ensure security for those operating in Gaza, overhaul internal governance and find consensus between Israeli and Palestinian officials.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told a separate news conference on Wednesday that "a number of countries have stepped forward and pledged financial assistance" and the board was "looking for more that will participate in that".

Michael Eisenberg, an Israeli-American Board of Peace member, told the BBC's Newshour programme what the next steps were likely to be.

"Because it's a war zone, you need to remove unexploded ordnance. And then there are still hundreds of kilometres of tunnels underneath Gaza which need to be destroyed as well.

"Once that's all done, Gazans can get to rebuilding again: whether it's housing, or better sanitation, or other things," Eisenberg said.

FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwlyke0mm0x3o

In Forgotten History: Thousands of Crusaders Are Beheaded for Refusing Islam at Nicopolis

 In history, September 25, 1396, one of history’s final crusades took place—and culminated in one tragedy after another. That story is instructive and still holds lessons for today.

Two years before that fateful day, the Ottoman Turks had been “doing great injury to Hungary,” causing its young king, Sigismund, to appeal “to Christendom for assistance.” It came at an opportune time. The hitherto quarreling English and French had made peace in 1389, and a “crusade against the Turks furnished a desirable outlet for the noble instincts of the Western chivalry.”

Matters were further settled once “men of all kinds” — pilgrims, laymen, and clerics returning from the Holy Land and Egypt — told of the miseries and persecutions to which their Eastern coreligionists were subjected by the unbelieving Saracen, and . . . appealed with all the vehemence of piety for a crusade to recover the native land of Christ.

Western knights everywhere — mostly French but also English, Scottish, German, Spanish, Italian, and Polish — took up the Cross in one of the largest multiethnic crusades against Islam. Their ultimate goal, according to a contemporary, was “to [re-]conquer the whole of Turkey and to march into the Empire of Persia . . . the kingdoms of Syria and the Holy Land.” A vast host of some 100,000 crusaders — “the largest Christian force that had ever confronted the infidel” — reached Buda in July 1396.

But numbers could not mask the disunity, mutual suspicions, and internal rancor that was evident from the start. Not only did the French spurn Sigismund’s suggestion that they take only a defensive posture, but when the king suggested that his Hungarians were more experienced with and thus should lead the attack on the Turks, the Frenchmen accused him of trying to take away their glory and set out to take the field before him.

They easily took two garrisons before reaching and besieging Nicopolis, then an Ottoman stronghold on the Danube. Victories and still no response from Sultan Bayezid led to overconfidence and complacency.

Suddenly, on September 25, as the Western leaders were feasting in a tent, a herald burst in with news that Sultan Bayezid “the Thunderbolt”— who only three weeks earlier had been far away besieging Constantinople — had come. Without waiting for Sigismund’s Hungarians, who were still trailing behind, the Westerners instantly formed rank and charged at the first, visible line of the Ottoman force, the akinjis (irregular light cavalry).

Although they made quick work of them, the Muslim horsemen had “veiled from the sight of the enemy a forest of pointed stakes, inclined towards the Christians, and high enough to reach the breast of a horse.” Many charging horses were impaled and fell as volleys of arrows descended upon man and beast, killing both.

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OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US government agency sites

 OpenAI has acknowledged that it alerted "dozens" of global institutions that their websites may have been meddled with by its AI bots acting improperly.

AI agents attempted to get information from "governments, universities, public agencies, and other institutions," including the SEC, Census Bureau and Education Department, the company said. The disclosures come just days after Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced that OpenAI agents had breached non-public files on the website of its government-run health care scheme, Medicare.

Since August, public fears have grown around the potentially serious, even life threatening, impacts of AI tools falling outside of human control. OpenAI said that some of the data was accessed by AI agents, essentially bots that are designed and trained to operate somewhat autonomously, which were working to find "authoritative sources of public information".

But the company noted that some of the bots went beyond that and worked to bypass security measures on websites. When attempting to get information from the Census Bureau, for instance, AI agents used tools reserved for software developers to access it, the company said. OpenAI said all of the government data accessed by bots was public.

It noted, though, that information that its bots accessed from the SEC, which regulates the US stock market and protects investors, was later published by AI agents on another website. OpenAI says this action was not intended.

In other instances that OpenAI disclosed Friday, its AI agents transferred data when it should not have. Such activity resulted in at least 53 incidents where an OpenAI agent took an image from ChatGPT user activity and transferred it elsewhere.

The company said that in each instance of a user image being used and transferred by an AI agent, the user had opted in to allow OpenAI to train models using their data. Nevertheless, OpenAI admitted: "This is not an appropriate use of this data".

It added that the leak of user images occurred before it had put in place new safeguards on AI training, and it was working to get all the user images transferred to any third-party removed. Reuters first reported the expanded investigations. OpenAI also published details to its public blog.

In certain instances of the agent activity, OpenAI said the tools "bypassed" security controls of some websites. In other instances, the AI agents showed "misalignment" in attempts to get at information from websites. Misalignment is a term used by AI companies and researchers to describe instances where an AI tool did something that it was not trained to do or was otherwise unintended.

OpenAI said that it was limiting identifying what entities were impacted because many had asked the company to not disclose details. "Our goal is to give each organization the facts and defer to them on if and when to make the incident public," it said.

Not all of the instances involved in this incident were being considered a significant security breach, the company noted. "Some organizations may review what we share and conclude that the information was intentionally public or that the model's interaction was not concerning," it explained. "Others may identify a design issue or security weakness they want to address."

FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw62jje658dlo

DO NOT MISS TODAY'S DOUBLE PROPHECY POWERPOINT PRESENTATION BY BOB MITCHELL AT TURF NEAR NEWPORT

 

 Please come along to The Upper Room Fellowship (TURF) today, September 26th, for a special double prophecy package with our excellent guest speaker Bob Mitchell from Sussex.

Bob is a former teacher on Revelation TV, and he still runs his own podcasts on radio, and as well as being an active author, he also runs a very lively website mainly linked to Bible prophecy and the End Times, and the Last Days in which we now live. 

Bob (pictured above) will be offering a two part powerpoint presentation titled "WHAT ON EARTH IS GOING ON RIGHT NOW IN THE WORLD?" A very apt topic for this day in which we live full of Satanic deception

Bob's latest book is "The Messiah Code", which features the astounding discovery of the identity and mission of Israel's Messiah revealed.Other recent books by Bob include "Antichrist, The Vatican, and The Great Deception", "The Temple Of The Antichrist", and "God's Amazing Word" 

The first meeting starts at 2pm and will continue on until 5.30pm approx, with a break in between with full refreshemnts provided free of charge. There is also no charge for admission.

The full address is The Upper Room Fellowship, 6a Risca Road, Cross Keys, Newport, NP11 7DG, above "The Creation" Hair Salon.

Car Parking: from TURF heading north, turn left immediately at the traffic lights into Gladstone Street. There is a car park about 200 yards on the right.

Train: The train station is about 100 yards from TURF. On exiting the train station, turn left. 

More information from Neville Stephens on 07808 251502 or John Whittle at johnanddi7intheupperroom2020@gmail.com

 

Is Islam One of God’s Rods of Judgment on America?

Brandon Holthaus - https://brandonholthaus.com/is-islam-one-of-gods-rods-of-judgment-on-america/

God will Judge a Nation Through the Forces It Refuses to Confront

America is not ancient Israel, and the Church must never pretend that every promise or judgment from God given to Israel can be transferred mechanically to the United States. Yet the Bible repeatedly reveals a principle that applies to every nation: God rules over history, nations are accountable to Him, and He can use one nation or group to discipline another.

That pattern should make Americans tremble. I believe the expanding influence of Islam, Islamist intimidation, jihadist violence, and the West’s fear of confronting them may be among the instruments God is using to expose and judge America and the West in general. Scripture does not say, “Islam will judge America,” and it does not name the United States in an end-times timetable. But Scripture gives us a pattern, and current events give us reasons to ask whether that pattern is repeating.

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When The Prison Gang Becomes a Caliphate

By PNW Staff - https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=10473

“Convert or get hurt.”

Three words. One terrifying choice.

For a vulnerable man entering the wrong British prison wing, those may be among the first words he hears. The message is not an invitation to examine a faith. It is an ultimatum from men who control protection, access, territory and punishment inside institutions the government is supposed to control.

Britain’s prisons have become incubators for a militant form of Islam that increasingly resembles organized gang rule. The leaders call themselves “emirs.” They surround themselves with enforcers, recruit frightened newcomers, impose religious rules and punish those who resist. What emerges behind the walls is something resembling a miniature caliphate—an alternative authority operating inside the British state.

This is not speculation from an anonymous former prisoner. It is contained in official government reviews.

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This Is What A “Perfect Storm” Looks Like: A Global Fertilizer Crisis, A Global Fuel Crisis, A Super El Niño and World War 3 All at the Same Time

by Michael Snyder - https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/this-is-what-a-perfect-storm-looks-like-a-global-fertilizer-crisis-a-global-fuel-crisis-a-super-el-nino-and-world-war-3-all-at-the-same-time/

If you think that things are bad now, just wait until food shortages really start to kick in next year. Even the UN is admitting that there isn’t going to be enough food for everyone in 2027. As you will see below, they are preparing for a huge spike in global hunger in 2027. The war in the Middle East has caused a global fertilizer crisis which will produce “thinner harvests” both this fall and next year. At the same time, the soaring price of diesel is putting extreme financial pressure on farmers all over the world. Needless to say, soaring fuel costs will get passed on to the rest of us. On top of everything else, the Super El Niño that I have been writing so much about is causing chaotic weather that is literally wiping out crops in Central America and other parts of the planet. The food that is being harvested now is what is supposed to feed us in 2027, and there simply is not going to be enough of it.

What a disaster 2026 has been.

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What The Growing Hatred of All Things Christians Tells Us About the Direction of Our World

By Barry Stagner - https://harbingersdaily.com/what-the-growing-hatred-of-all-things-christians-tells-us-about-the-direction-of-our-world/

The world is fast moving toward pushing for the extinction of the one true “religion of peace” due to Christianity’s claim to be the only path to heaven and its moral code, which runs contrary to the flow of popular thought.

To see just how delusional our world has become, consider the way that many politicians and world leaders are protecting and even promoting the practice of Islam, which refuses to submit to non-Muslim governmental systems and is not simply a religion but a political system as well, and promotes Sharia law. Yet Western society blindly demands the coexistence of all belief systems while pushing for the extinction of the one that stands for truth, the Christian faith.

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Iran offers US deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz in seven days

 Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says his country has proposed a deal to the US that would see the Strait of Hormuz reopened within a week.

Araghchi told reporters at the UN in New York that this could be done "if the necessary conditions are met" and said these were contained within the memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed in June.

"The choice now rests with the United States," he said, adding the plan was delivered to the US via Qatar. Asked about the Iranian offer, a US official told the BBC positive discussions were taking place through mediators, including about nuclear issues. Earlier this week, US President Donald Trump threatened to "annihilate the Islamic Republic".

The US and Israel launched air strikes on Iran on 28 February. Iran responded by attacking Israel and US bases in the Gulf and Arab Gulf allies of the US - as well as blocking the Strait of Hormuz.

Some 20% of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas used to pass through the strait before the war and its closure has caused wild fluctuations of energy prices. It has also increased pressure on Trump to find a way of ending the conflict - particularly as the US heads to Congressional elections in November.

"If the necessary conditions are met, the strait can be reopened, a normal maritime passage restored within seven days," Araghchi told reporters. He did not specify what steps Iran wanted the US to take but added that "the actions that the United States should take are not new. They are all already in the MOU".

"I can tell you if there is seriousness in the US side to come to a deal and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, everything is now prepared," he added. A US official told the BBC that the US was "in a very strong position with control of the Strait of Hormuz, so we are not in a rush".

FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqgmrr9ekr7ko

Even The Pope Is Now Warning About The Dangers Of A.I. - Pope warns against 'losing humanity' to AI machines

 Pope Leo XIV has issued a warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI) at the start of his four-day visit to France.

The pontiff cautioned against "losing our humanity amid a paradise of machines" in wide-ranging remarks to Church and state officials at the Élysée Palace, following an hour of talks with President Emmanuel Macron.

Leo made a similar warning earlier this year when he spoke of the need for AI to be "disarmed" in the first major teaching document of his papacy. In his May appeal, he mentioned the slave trade in relation to AI, suggesting that the world was in danger of normalising the exploitation of people once again.

The highpoint of Leo's visit to France is set to be a giant Mass attended by more than half a million people in Paris on Saturday, for which an altar has been built on the Place de la Concorde and a large area around the Champs-Élysées sealed off by police.

Large crowds are expected throughout the trip, reflecting an enthusiasm that the Church attributes to growing spirituality among the French and other Europeans. He was greeted at Orly airport early on Friday by Macron, with the pair expected to deliver a speech later in the day in Metz.

Crowds were meanwhile gathering along a route to the Notre Dame, where the pontiff will later be driven in his popemobile. The president will not be at any of the Pope's Masses, largely to avoid breaching France's strict separation of state and religion.

On Friday, Macron hailed Pope Leo's visit to France as a "great honour", stressing that French secularism "in no way negates religion". Leo said that "authentic secularity" should not exclude religion "from the public sphere or from education".

In recent years, French politicians have often invoked France's brand of secularism to justify bans on religious symbols, including Muslim women's attire, in public spaces and schools.

FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmq8j904212po