This little piece was shared to me by my good friend Philip Restino. Phil has been in the forefront of both the 9/11 Truth movement, and for exposing the truth about Israel’s attack on the USS Liberty. It is relevant, given that we are devoting a special day to “thanking the troops,” instead of questioning the wars.
Phil Restino with former Rep. Cynthia McKinney and Brent Bracewell
“When the 'voice of God' was heard: My Word” Original from The Orlando Sentinel
“I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind. Armistice Day has become Veterans’ Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans’ Day is not. So I will throw Veterans’ Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don’t want to throw away any sacred things.”
World War I, the “war to end all wars,” ended when the armistice between the Allied Nations and Germany was signed on Nov. 11, 1918. On May 13, 1938, the U.S. Congress made Nov. 11 a legal holiday: “a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated and known as ‘Armistice Day.'”
However, on June 1, 1954, Congress changed the name Armistice Day to Veterans Day, as new U.S. military interventions began to increase around the world.
American novelist and World War II veteran Kurt Vonnegut wrote about his war experiences and his time as an American prisoner of war surviving the horrific fire-bombing of the German city of Dresden in his famous novel “Slaughterhouse-Five.” Years later, Vonnegut reflected on the U.S. government’s changing the official recognition of Nov. 11th from Armistice Day to Veterans Day in the following way:
“When I was a boy, all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another.
“I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind. Armistice Day has become Veterans’ Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans’ Day is not. So I will throw Veterans’ Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don’t want to throw away any sacred things.”
This substitution politicized the day by changing the focus from peace to war in its celebrating and honoring military veterans and the wars they served in. Sadly, it’s too often political rhetoric and patriotic symbols being used to thank our veterans rather than genuine compensation and care for their sacrifices and service.
Let us reconsider the original intent of the Nov. 11 remembrance, where a solemn silence and ringing of church bells in nations around the world recognized the pledge for peace agreed to on that morning in November 1918, when the “voice of God” was heard.
Philip C. Restino Jr. is co-chairman of the Central Florida chapter of Veterans For Peace.
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Genesis 6:11, 13 (KJV)
(Note: This column was written before the results of the mid-term elections were known.)
The Creator-God who destroyed the Noahic antediluvian world made it clear that the primary reason for the colossal destruction of the universal flood on the earth was due to the gravest abomination that the nations of men can commit—the national sin most odious to God, the corrupt wickedness most hated by God: violence, the excessive, pervasive murder of our fellow human beings, the unrestrained immoral wars of aggression......
While Barack Obama and Joe Biden did nothing to reverse America’s bloodlust (especially Biden, who led America into a genocidal partnership with the most demonic, bloodthirsty, murderous man in the 21st century, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu), neither of these men had endeared themselves to evangelical Christians. In truth, the wars of Obama and Biden were the one thing that evangelicals actually liked about these two Democrats.
Enter Donald Trump.
Trump will go down in history as the greatest warmonger of the early 21st century. He will also go down in history as the U.S. president most controlled by a foreign government (Israel).
But the greatest disaster of Donald Trump is that he drug the vast majority of evangelicals (approximately 80% of them) into the hell of war with him. He turned peacemakers into warmongers.
Obviously, a tectonic shift of this nature doesn’t happen overnight or even in twenty-six years. It has been germinating since, well, since 1948, when the State of Zionist Israel came into existence. And, actually, it began in 1909 when Cyrus Scofield published the Zionist-inspired and Zionist-financed Scofield Reference Bible. But it took the advent of the Zionist state in 1948 to bring Scofieldism to cult status, especially after 1967 and the Israeli war of aggression against its Arab neighbors that historians call The Six-Day War.
Israel’s victory in that war cemented its “chosen people” status in the hearts and minds of evangelicals. And even Israel’s attempted sinking of the USS Liberty, killing 34 U.S. Sailors and Marines and wounding 70% of the ship’s crew, would not be enough to awaken evangelicals to the demonic nature of the Zionist state.
Therefore, by the time G.W. Bush came along, evangelicals were already Christian Zionists. But Bush made them Christian Zionist warmongers. And now Donald Trump has turned Christian Zionist warmongers into Christian Zionist Nationalist warmongers. And uber warmongers, at that.
Christian Zionist White Nationalist Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth wears his warmongering soul in Crusader tattoos all over his body for all to see. That Trump would pick such a warmongering bigot as America’s Secretary of Defense is a visible testament to the warmongering heart of Donald Trump.
And, of course, Trump’s continuance of the U.S. proxy war in Ukraine and his partnership of the genocides in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon, and his wars of aggression against Yemen and Iran have proven to the entire world that he is a demonic, Zionist-controlled warmonger of the highest (or lowest, depending on how you use the term) order.
Let me be clear. The problem is not that Bush and Trump were warmongers. Many U.S. presidents in both parties throughout the 20th century were warmongers. The problem is that Bush and especially Trump wrapped themselves in the Christian flag and had the almost universal support of evangelical Christians.
THAT’S the problem!
Even nominal Christians and people of no faith looked to Jesus’ teachings of love, joy and peace as a beacon of hope. Most people in evangelical churches didn’t begin life in a Christian home (many did, of course). Most of them came to Christ during a time of personal crisis or grief or disorientation. Most men must come to the end of themselves in order to find Christ. The point is, when that moment came, they were ready to accept Christ for themselves, because in their subconscious, they believed that the message of Christ was a loving, hopeful message.
Bush and especially Trump turned Christ’s message of love, joy and peace into a message of bombs, hate and death. And people by the millions have been walking away from the evangelical/Zionist version of Christianity ever since.
If the report above is accurate and 100,000 evangelical churches close during the next decade, that will equate to almost one-third of all the evangelical churches in the country. ONE-THIRD!
How far will this go before evangelicals fall out of love with WAR? The answer to that question will determine how soon evangelicalism falls back in favor with peace-loving people (which most people by nature are), churched and unchurched.
On February 1840, a dark shadow fell over Damascus. On February 5, Father Thomas, a Capuchin friar who had lived in the city for decades, vanished with his Muslim servant, Ibrahim Amara, after visiting the Jewish quarter. Accusers claimed that Jews had murdered both men for ritual purposes. French consul Ulysse de Ratti-Menton backed the charge, and Sherif Pasha, the Egyptian governor of Damascus, ordered the arrests. Authorities detained a Jewish barber, who named seven prominent men under torture, and then arrested those men too.
Interrogators tortured the prisoners. At least two of them died in custody, and Rabbi Moses Abulafia converted to Islam to escape the torment. Officials also seized 63 Jewish boys and held them as hostages to pressure their parents into confessing. The scandal quickly drew in the European powers, whose attention was occupied by the Oriental Crisis of 1840. Muhammad Ali, the ruler of Egypt, had rebelled against his nominal sovereign, the Ottoman Sultan. France backed Muhammad Ali, while Britain and Austria worked to preserve Ottoman power.
News of the Damascus accusations crossed the Atlantic slowly and reached the United States in the summer of 1840. American Jewry then numbered no more than 15,000 people, with no national organization and no recognized leader to speak for it. Yet the reports from Syria sparked the first organized protest by American Jews on behalf of their embattled brethren abroad. Meetings and petitions spread through synagogues in New York, Philadelphia, Richmond, and Cincinnati, and the organizers lobbied President Martin Van Buren to intervene
The Damascus Affair exposes a brutal reality. Jewish power is not an accident of history but the product of persistent agitation. The gravest error made by the early architects of this Republic was the granting of civic breathing room to an organized minority with a biological predilection for racial solidarity and often working against the interests of the state-building majority. They mistook tolerance for harmony and failed to see that they were nurturing the very hands that would one day tighten around the throat of the nation.
Sadly, Western nations are currently reaping the harvest of that misplaced benevolence.
Sometimes - and quite often - the comments are more edifying than the article itself......
By Claudio Grass
November 10, 2026
A new undercover documentary has just been released that strips away the carefully maintained illusions surrounding Europe’s migration crisis. Produced by the investigative outfit Muckraker and titled “Replacing Europe”, the film follows the West African route from the smuggling hubs of Mauritania, through the Canary Islands and mainland Spain, across the French border, and onward toward the Channel to reach the UK. What it actually shows are not scenes of a humanitarian emergency, wartime chaos or active and urgent threats, but it instead documents a carefully managed pipeline, sustained by taxpayer money, NGOs, international organizations and governments that publicly claim to be trying to stop the flow while quietly doing everything they can to ensure it continues.
The film’s most striking admissions come directly from people inside the system. A worker for the UN’s International Organisation for Migration states on camera that Spain deliberately allows the boats to keep arriving because the European Union funding that follows is too lucrative to miss out on. A major Catholic NGO, ACCEM, which received roughly €225 million in 2024, the overwhelming majority from the Spanish state, is shown organizing the transfer of arrivals from the islands to the mainland, housing them and providing monthly allowances. Activists paint literal trails of footsteps on pavements to guide migrants to evade Spanish police and find their way into France. Publicly funded shelters then process them onward with minimal documentation. The overall picture is one of institutional incentives that reward volume rather than control....
This article was originally published at Forum Geopolitica.
November 10, 2026
The ruling elite typically aims to accumulate an immense amount of wealth, which often can only be obtained by extracting it from a large number of people, hence requiring each of those people sacrifices their quality of life to meet the elite’s needs. An excellent meme, in turn, synopsizes the challenge ruling elites seeking this excessive wealth and power have faced throughout history:
Since it is not economically feasible to directly force an entire population into submission (e.g., the estimates I’ve found put 3-5% of the population as the maximum number of soldiers a society can afford to support), a variety of other tactics have been reused throughout history to keep the population compliant. These include: