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News review for week ending Friday 28th September 2018

“But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death,” Revelation 21:8.

Archaeologists to unearth Siege of Derry secrets

“Protestants should do a little digging into their history. Were they to, they would be less inclined to listen to the Ecumenists and such detractors of what Protestantism has done for our land and reject their singing of the praises of popery!!”

UKIP leader Gerard Batten links sexual grooming of girls to Islam

Michael Portillo warns May must FORGET her plan and accept one of THESE two options

Don’t be bullied by Brussels into a compromise on the border, DUP’s Dodds urges Prime Minister

Theresa May’s FINEST HOUR: Furious PM goes to war with EU for ‘making a mockery’ of UK

‘Steely resolve at the 11th hour’ Rees-Mogg praises PM for standing up to EU BULLIES

Journalist’s tweet that British ‘don’t give a monkey’s’ about Northern Ireland riles MEP Nicholson

PM ‘will never agree’ to NI customs border

Ministers urged to ditch Chequers and embrace ‘Brexit prize’ by think tank

Brexit LATEST: Brexiteers unveil ALTERNATIVE Brexit plan to rival Theresa May – IN FULL

There is no possible compromise between May and her Brexiter MPs

Pound SOARS as May rallies Cabinet and Trump while German growth PLUMMETS

No-deal Brexit ‘could lead to NI electricity blackouts (across Northern Ireland, government officials have warned)’

No-deal Brexit ‘could cause NI blackouts’

Boris Johnson urges Theresa May to ‘chuck Chequers’ and sets out Brexit plan in scathing article

Sinn Féin to take seats on reconstituted Policing Board

“Nothing epitomises what Isaiah 5:20 means (“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”) than this arrangement!!!

People are sleep walking into a Northern Ireland governed by apologists for terror and murder, says sister of Edgar Graham

(Ulster Unionist MLA and Queen’s University lecturer, shot dead at point blank range by the IRA in December 1983 at the age of 29, near the university.)

Northern Ireland legacy proposals run risk of disappointing victims of the Troubles

Legacy Scandal: ‘There is an urgent need for an inquiry into paramilitary beatings of children,’ says Liam Kennedy

Legacy Scandal: ‘Collusion is a meaningless term used to smear security force actions,’ says Doug Beattie

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Silence over Mairia Cahill from the Left and women’s organisations is deafening

Eighth Amendment repealed as Irish President signs bill into law

Ireland to vote on removing blasphemy as an offence

Arlene Foster: DUP leader denies there was ‘party narrative’ over RHI

RHI inquiry: Foster challenged on green scheme problems

RHI updates: Martin McGuinness knew of RHI whistleblower concerns, Arlene Foster says

Arlene Foster says she was ‘unaware’ if DUP donors’ benefit from RHI

RHI players whose witness statements have just been divulged – Arlene Foster, Richard Bullick, Conor Murphy, Stephen Harron, David Gordon and Ciaran O’Connor

RHI inquiry live: Ministers are ‘thrown in at the deep end’

Cash-for-ash: inquiry chair criticises how advisers appointed

Ex-minister told lies over flawed green scheme, says DUP head of press

RHI Inquiry: DUP’s director of communications starts giving evidence

RHI Inquiry: DUP routinely broke law on lucrative Spad jobs

RHI: DUP communications chief Robinson appointed straight out of uni at age 22 – cannot remember if there was application to complete

Ex-DUP Spad Stephen Brimstone heats home with non-domestic RHI

RHI Inquiry: John Robinson contradicts DUP Spad brother-in-law’s evidence

RHI: DUP advisor Brimstone says civil servants were in the dark over his Stormont role

Top DUP man feared Spad probe will ‘not end well’

Former DUP Spad Stephen Brimstone challenged over RHI shed

RHI: Spad’s (Stephen Brimstone) answer to BBC’s Nolan highly misleading, says chair

RHI: Top DUP official denies seeking to keep flawed green scheme open

RHI Inquiry: Top DUP man Timothy Johnston feared Spad probe will ‘not end well’

RHI Inquiry: Timothy Johnston denies role at top of DUP special adviser hierarchy

Top Spad (Timothy Johnston) privately asked for Foster’s RHI files before scheme was exposed

RHI: Wilson (Sammy, MP) ‘appalled at Bell’s lack of preparation for Stormont meeting’

“The deceit and chicanery uncovered amongst professing Christians in this ‘Enquiry’ brings no honour to the DUP or Ulster and shames all true Christians!!

Sinn Féin sues DUP over whistleblower note claim

Protestant boxer who believes he missed out on Commonwealth Games because of his religion awarded £8,500

DUP’s Ian Paisley asked council to pay for £1,500 table at dinner – council chief ’embarrassed’ over attendance

DUP man breaks party lines but council votes against lighting up town hall for Pride

Rebel DUP man slams ‘bigotry and intolerance’ faced by LGBT people

Free Presbyterians hit out at proposal to light up town hall for Pride

Letter of the day: Councillors urged to reject discriminatory proposal to light town hall with rainbow colours on Pride Day

“We are thankful for the stand taken by the Free Presbyterian ministers in the Ards and North Down Borough Council area which doubtless helped to see this hideous proposal rejected. The stance of DUP man, Tom Smith, is unbiblical and indeed, antiGod!!!”

€253m still outstanding on (Irish Roman) Catholic Church abuse compensation promise

German (R C) bishop apologises to survivors of clerical abuse

“Apologies ONLY because they were found out!!!

Girlguiding says girls not at risk from trans inclusion

“This perversion is invading every corner of society, promoted by a determined few”

Protestantism still wielding a big influence on global education: Report

“ ‘ . . . contemporary Protestantism, in contrast to historical Protestantism, does not affect schooling.’ That is a statement every gospel minister and every Christian parent should note and consider!!!”

How British prisons became a breeding ground for Islamist extremism

Fall in strength and fitness of 10-year-olds, study shows

“Evolution at work no doubt!!!!”

Skripal suspect ‘was made Hero of Russia’ by President Putin

Theresa May: Russia ‘flagrantly’ violating international norms

“No lie like a Russian lie!!!”

Legislation providing for abortion goes before (Irish) Cabinet

Gregory Campbell: ‘Compensation system not fair to terror victims’

Tory MPs who back abortion reform visiting Belfast

News review for week ending Friday 21st September 2018.

“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation,” 2 Peter 3:3-4.

Michael Gove apologises for attending Ian Paisley dinner

MI6 believed former Labour leader Foot ‘was KGB agent’

Soviet Union PAID Michael Foot forcing him to reveal KGB links to Queen

“They sure must have been short of spies!!!”

UUP leader: The plans to deal with the past appease the IRA and will be used to paint the security forces as villains

SF’s paper says IRA ‘stood their ground’ in Ballymurphy Massacre

“Thus contradicting their propaganda from the past!!!”

The God conclusion: leading mathematician John Lennox takes on atheism

“This is an interesting story for Ulster readers, many of us having little knowledge of this man!!”

Internal probe finds no evidence of PSNI breach after ‘leak of data’ to loyalists

United Ireland would see living standards in Republic fall by 15%

United Ireland would ‘permanently reduce’ living standards of those in Republic

“Oh boy! That should quell the enthusiasm of those ‘united Irelanders’ who have grown fat on government benefits!!”

‘Scotch-Irish’ influence on US democracy

“I am pleased that there is mention in this article of the Presbyterianism of these folk from Ulster. I have no doubt that it was the Bible ethics instilled in them by old-time Presbyterianism, rather than racial identity, that gave them their steely fortitude of character!”

Police treating Narrow Water memorial vandalism as a ‘hate crime’

Councillor ‘saw memorial vandals kick wreaths around like a football’

Councillor ‘saw Narrow Water memorial vandals kick wreaths around like a football’

Cliftonville (football club) to ban fans involved in attack on memorial to soldiers killed by IRA

“This is but Irish Republicanism showing again its bitter hatred of all things British as they were taught to do by Sinn Fein/IRA, whose condemnations should to be treated with contempt!!”

Revealed: why 40,000 Protestants fled Ireland in four years

“It is likely that most readers never heard of such an event. It has to be said that Protestantism in the Republic of Ireland is almost entirely ecumenical and thus no longer seen as a ‘threat’ to popery!!”

Last night audience in Belfast too polite to complain about lack of Rule Britannia and BBC takes this as acquiescence

“It is ‘Rule Irish Republic’ as far as the BBC is concerned and, sadly, all too many do acquiescence in this!!”

RHI Inquiry ‘highlights DUP opposition to kerbs on Spads’

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Sinn Fein colluded over RHI while pretending that its hands were clean

RHI Inquiry: Sir Patrick Coghlin hails ‘refreshing honesty’ of man who admits he didn’t do enough

“The DUP vote by its MLA’s in 2015, alongside Sinn Fein on this issue, makes them all bear the shame that is emerging from this Inquiry!!”

God is NOT a man: Calls grow for emphasis on ‘FEMININE nature of God’ – ‘Don’t use HE’

“Proof, if proof was needed, that the Church of England is utterly apostate and in ignorance of God’s TRUTH!

“And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us,” Matthew 1:21-23.

DUP sweating over (BBC’s) Stephen Nolan’s secret RHI tapes

Ian Paisley: DUP MP keeps seat after recall petition

Sinn Fein MLA removes Tweet ahead of Paisley recall petition close

Suzanne Breen: TUV, UUP and Alliance assisted MP Paisley in retaining seat

DUP lifts Ian Paisley suspension after 57-day ban

Paisley petition of recall: Sinn Fein’s O’Neill says DUP endorsing ‘gross lack of integrity’

Paisley petition of recall: Opinions remain polarised in Ballymena

DUP man defies party to back gay Pride event

DUP man claims move to light up Ards town hall for Pride ‘an Alliance stunt’

DUP councillor’s vote for LGBT motion ‘no longer a surprise’

“Sinn Fein comments are a case of the ‘kettle calling the pot black’! What hog-wash is spouted both for and against support for sodomy!!! There is a great reluctance to simply take the Bible’ position on this perversion! The DUP’s reaction to this disgraceful support for sodomite perversion will show where it really stands on this immorality!!”

Brexit: PM says ‘it’s either my deal or no deal’

Chequers deal means ‘FOREIGN RULE’ – Boris Johnson makes SHOCKING Brexit claim

The risk of a sudden Irish Sea border is rising as Brexit ‘no deal’ nears

EU to secure Theresa May’s leadership with MAJOR Brexit concession over Irish border

It is the EU’s turn to compromise on Brexit, says Dominic Raab

Theresa May’s EU withdrawal plan a ‘non-starter’, warns former Brexit minister

Embarrassing rebuff for PM in Salzburg

Can Theresa May survive her Salzburg humiliation?

Brexit: ‘We’re no closer to withdrawal agreement says Varadkar

Brexit: No border in Irish Sea – Jeremy Corbyn

Don’t buy the Brexit hype: it’s a border in the Irish Sea or the customs union

UK minister says no-deal Brexit unless EU softens position on border

“The Dublin government are seeking to advance their hopes of a ‘United Ireland’ by attempting to make the ‘new’ border the northeast sea coast and so, in effect, remove the present land border between the north and south of Ireland and also ‘move’ Northern Ireland out of the UK.

How comforting to rest on the truth that “every purpose of the LORD shall be performed,” (Jeremiah 51:29) with regards the future of the coming kingdom of Antichrist of which the EU is but an embryo!

Dutch Catholic church accused of widespread sexual abuse cover-up

Decades of sex abuse uncovered at Rhu children’s home, Argyll, Scotland

Ex-priest Daniel Curran sentenced for indecent assault

“These reports being true, then we must see how the wickedness of today’s perverted morality has been nurtured secretly for many decades!!

Labour MP calls for ban on early foetus gender test

Giants of Israeli politics both sprang from Belfast’s tiny Jewish community

Columba McVeigh: Fifth search gives new hope to family of Disappeared victim

Columba McVeigh’s family hopeful as new dig begins for Disappeared victim

‘I pray this torment will end’ – sister of missing Columba McVeigh as new dig begins today
“This another search in this ongoing tragic saga doubtless will be watched in hope by the family but it also serves to highlight yet again the cruel wickedness of murderous Sinn Fein/IRA!!”

Commons to vote on relaxing abortion law in Northern Ireland

“These enemies of righteousness continue in their attempts to legalise the murder of unborn children in Northern Ireland as it is in the rest of the UK!!”

Sinn Fein’s runner for Irish president Liadh Ni Riada ‘unsuitable’ for post by IRA victim’s son

Áras hopeful Liadh Ní Riada is ‘unsuitable to represent the country’ – says son of IRA victim

“From the highest to the lowest, within the ranks of Sinn Fein/IRA, there has been united support for terrorism, as the statements of this candidate shows!!”

Mary Lou McDonald says Sinn Fein records not available on Mairia Cahill’s alleged abuser

“Should not be too hard to ask the likes of Gerry Adams, who would have known the rapist, if he was a member of Sinn Fein. Simply, more lies and and fairy tales!!

Middle East ON BRINK: Iran in furious Israel attack and insists UN ‘takes firm action’

Russia blames Israel after military plane shot down off Syria

“Shot down by a Syrian missile but Russia says it’s Israel’s fault!! 🤨

No legacy contact from Dublin to widow of Garda murdered by IRA

“Dublin has ever shown itself ready to criticise and condemn Ulster for not doing that which it fails to do at home!!!”

Plot to kill Garda chief Drew Harris (ex-PSNI senior officer) at murdered father’s grave

Belfast councillor Jolene Bunting suspended from duties ‘for criticising Islam’

“We do not know what this lady said but it is here officially described as ‘criticising. The word ‘criticising’ means ‘to indicate the faults of (someone or something) in a disapproving way’.What has happened to this councillor ought to alarm those who value ‘free speech’ and who feel it is very necessary to ‘criticise error of every kind!!

Alliance councillor ‘pot kettle black’ over Jonathan Bell pub claims criticism

Nelson McCausland: History of Scotch-Irish in US shows unionists have nothing to fear from equality

Westminster to examine NI’s abortion laws

“From ‘friend’ and ‘foe’ alike there comes this attack upon every attempt to legislate aright and defend the unborn from murder!

Ungodly politicians have brought the blood of innocents upon the nation, “Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls,” Ezekiel 22:27.”

Reporting the Troubles: Massacre at Darkley – and the nature of certainty

News review for week ending Friday 14th September 2018

“To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them,” Isaiah 8:20.

Fresh call for smacking to be outlawed in the home

(Scotland’s First Minister) Sturgeon backs ban on parents smacking children

“Hardly surprising since every other ‘anti-Bible’ policy has been embraced by our nation in its downward plunge!!”

PSNI raid an ‘attempt to intimidate journalists’

“It would be wise to withhold comments until it is seen whether or not the journalists are found guilty of the theft of documents!!”

BBC admits ‘we get climate change coverage wrong too often’

“Indeed!!!”

PM retains confidence in Karen Bradley despite lack of NI electoral knowledge

Prime Minister retains confidence in Karen Bradley despite lack of Northern Ireland electoral knowledge

“There are very few who would consider her any wiser now!!!”

RHI inquiry (Continued): (Arlene Foster, Stormont First Minister) Foster ordered me to keep scheme open says Bell – ‘I knew I’d have to sacrifice my political career’

RHI scandal: Claims Bell told Spad ‘if you wag your finger at me again I will break it’ during heated row

RHI: Timothy Johnston delayed RHI cost controls, claims ex-DUP Spad

DUP Spad: Arlene Foster didn’t tell the full RHI story

Drunk DUP minister Jonathan Bell slept in New York bar, then was ejected, says Spad

DUP minister ‘had career-ending dossier on DUP private lives’

RHI inquiry: Politics a grubby world, says ex-DUP special adviser

DUP Spad: Arlene Foster didn’t tell the full RHI story

Key DUP spad ‘more powerful than Nigel Dodds’

RHI: Peter Robinson saw admitting guilt as weakness, says ex-DUP Spad

Spad: Sinn Fein demanded RHI stay open for two weeks

Minister (Jonathan Bell) knowingly misled Assembly when he knew RHI disastrous, says Spad

Parties colluded to stop Spads bill, claims Jim Allister

I changed RHI document to defend Foster… but not to point finger of blame at Bell

RHI inquiry ‘doesn’t reflect well on DUP’ – Paul Frew (DUP MLA)

Foster’s Spad believed DUP ‘destroyed’ him

RHI: Former Spad can’t recall if he warned Foster about ‘tsunami’ of applications

DUP leader Foster ‘asked for loyalty’ of MLAs during one-to-one meetings amid RHI criticism: report

Suzanne Breen: DUP will struggle to recover from devastating RHI revelations

“In the light of these shameful revelations surely a day of reckoning is drawing near for the DUP!!!

I am just glad that Dr Paisley is not alive to see just how far down the party he foolishly led into power-sharing has descended!”

DUP MLA Jim Wells warns NI firms who back gay marriage

Coca Cola, law firms and banks join call for same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland

““There needs to be a public backlash against these arrogant commercial dictators!

As the Scriptures teaches, big business and devotees of immorality will dominate society at the end of this age!!

‘And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies,’ Revelation 18:1-3.”

‘Teach religion and worldviews instead of RE’

Call for atheism to be included in religious education

“Anything but the Bible is the ‘religious’ education that most favour today!!!”

Divorce news ‘won’t mar’ any Johnson leadership bid, colleagues insist

Boris Johnson compares Chequers deal to ‘suicide vest’

Brexit plan: 80 MPs will reject Chequers deal, says ex-minister

80 Tory MPs prepared to vote against PM’s Chequers plan, says ex-Brexit minister Steve Baker

PM ‘risks catastrophic split’ if she sticks to Chequers plan for Brexit

Conservatives turn on Boris Johnson over Brexit ‘suicide vest’ jibe at Theresa May

Boris Johnson ‘suicide vest’ jibe ‘spot on’: Sammy Wilson, DUP MP.

DUP’s Sammy Wilson backs Boris Johnson over his Brexit ‘suicide vest’ remark

‘Downing Street unit is ATTACKING Brexiteers’ – Iain Duncan Smith makes SHOCKING claim

“It is not just the ‘Brexit plan’, but the general direction of British politics which indicates the suicidal direction it has taken!!!”

Abortion in Northern Ireland is a matter for Stormont, not for Scotland.

Second council accused over Ian Paisley dinner

Second council under investigation over Ian Paisley constituency dinner payment

‘Irexit Freedom’ group aiming to take Republic out of EU

Victims: The jury is still out on the DUP over legacy

Ex-UDR man’s legacy submission

Paratroopers’ trial for murder of Official IRA man put back

Doug Beattie: More civil cases should taken against republican leaders

Legacy Scandal: ‘Perhaps Dublin will now help victims of terrorist torture,’ says Jim Nicholson

Kingsmills massacre coroner reassures frustrated families

Victims: The jury is still out on the DUP over legacy

“Better still if the DUP were to press for terrorists and their supporters to be excluded from government instead of joining with them in a coalition!!!”

Documents dating back to the Siege of Derry uncovered

Chinese officials burn bibles, close churches, force Christian to denounce faith amid ‘escalating’ crackdown

“Not all that is called ‘Christian’ by the media is true Bible Christianity, nevertheless this report indicates the rising tide of opposition to all that claim to be Christian!!”

‘Paramilitary-style shootings measured and justified’, republican gunmen tell Stacey Dooley in BBC documentary

“This ‘human’ belongs to a group which is opposed to Sinn Fein/IRA entering power-sharing as it entails a recognition of a British institution. However, what he says is exactly what Sinn Fein/IRA have always believed regarding their shootings and murders!!!!”

Theresa May’s future under pressure as Brexiteer wagons circle

‘No-deal’ Brexit means no £39bn divorce bill, Dominic Raab warns EU

‘If May can’t deliver Brexit, she MUST go’ – Julia Hartley-Brewer BLASTS Prime Minister

Ex-DUP minister Wells has ‘grave concerns’ over pill that can prevent HIV

TUV: Contrasting policing of bonfires and NW attacks

PSNI failed women over IRA sex abuse claims

Watchdog condemns PSNI over Cahill sex abuse case

Máiría Cahill rejects ‘inadequate’ Sinn Féin apology

“Speaking of apologies – Did Miss Cahill ever apologise for her support of Sinn Fein/IRA and its murderous 30+ year campaign??”

Chile Church scandal: ‘How I escaped the priest who abused me for decades’

German (Roman) Catholic priests ‘abused thousands of children’

Cars, laptops and a ranch: how Brazil (RC)bishop allegedly misused church funds