I will not take credit for the "cease fire" points below as I saw it in the comment section on the Conservative Tree House. However, read them and you will see the scope and scale of what this means:
"THE REAL CEASEFIRE DEAL….
Ceasefire
1- The United States gained a two-week window to control the oil and gas market and confront the Islamic Republic from a higher and better position.
2- The Islamic Republic lost its card to create a crisis in the oil and gas market.
3- Trump’s threat to destroy power plants and bridges elevated the threats from the United States and Israel to the level of threats against the survival of the Islamic Republic, forcing the regime to retreat.
4- This retreat is like the retreat after the final defeats in the war with Iraq, when the regime was forced to accept Resolution 598 to avoid collapse.
5- The retreat under pressure is similar to the acceptance of the JCPOA in 2015 due to fear of economic collapse during that period.
6- Trump intends to include four main conditions in any agreement, which again means the surrender of the Islamic Republic. The four conditions are: halting enrichment, halting the ballistic missile program, cutting support for proxies, and handing over enriched uranium.
7- If the Islamic Republic accepts these conditions, it is surrender; if it does not, the likelihood of war restarting is very high.
8- The Islamic Republic has lost Khamenei and a very large number of its commanders and officials, making this top level of the government structure fragile, while the Islamic Republic has not been able to kill any of the commanders and officials of the United States and Israel.
9- The IRGC Navy commander was killed, and the force itself was severely damaged and cannot be rebuilt anytime soon.
10- The Islamic Republic’s air force has been almost completely destroyed, with many bases and aircraft demolished.
11- The country’s air defense has been almost completely destroyed and is ineffective.
12- The country’s skies are still under the control of the United States and Israel.
13- Most petrochemical industries, as a source of foreign currency revenue, have been destroyed.
14- Many military industries across the country have been destroyed.
15- Many Basij headquarters and bases have been destroyed.
16- Police command centers in the provinces and many police stations have been demolished.
17- The Minister of Intelligence and many of the main managers of this ministry have been killed.
18- The head of the IRGC Intelligence Organization has been killed.
19- The head and deputy of Faraja Intelligence have been killed. Overall, it is a major intelligence failure.
20- The head and deputy of the Basij have been killed.
21- The Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces has been killed.
22- Shamkhani, Secretary of the Defense Council, has been killed. The council was unsuccessful in managing the war.
23- The IRGC Commander-in-Chief has been killed.
24- Two heads of the Sepand Organization, responsible for building nuclear weapons for the regime, have been killed.
25- The Minister of Defense has been killed.
26- The Gulf Cooperation Council member states have joined the ranks of the enemies of the Islamic Republic.
27- The route to bypass sanctions through Dubai has been shut down.
28- Friendship with Qatar has been lost and turned into enmity.
29- The country’s economy is facing a wave of accumulated demands from the war period and war damages that were deferred during the war and are now flooding the government.
30- The people of Iran, as the most important opposing force against the Islamic Republic, still demand the overthrow of the regime, and after the January massacre, a sea of blood, hatred, and anger has been created between the people and the regime.
31- The ceasefire does not yet mean the end of the war.
32- The Islamic Republic has become even more discredited in the eyes of the people because it abandoned the people and civilians during the war.
33- The Islamic Republic calls these things victory because it hasn’t fallen yet.
34- Politics has many ups and downs; patience is required.
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Comment was posted by Eric.
It's written better than ANY White House news releases on this subject.
https://t.co/hhuR1sbhKS
@ProtecttheFaith@JoaoMMXIV Yes, they believe the Catholic faith as taught until the 1960s. Any novelty is heresy because nothing can contradict what came before it.
That's a direct rejection of Red Francis 1.0 and 2.0. I don't mind. We follow the deposit of faith, the Catholic Church has been following for 2 millenia, and not men who are willing to do everything to be like this world.
The last pontiff and this one are prime examples of community organizers, social agitators.
The SSPX have just issued a profession of faith rejecting modern errors.
It's an amazing and beautiful expression of the Faith and rejection of the errors promulgated by the conciliar churzh
It is a much needed expression of total fidelity to the Deposit of Faith
It should be the basis of ongoing adult catechesis throughout the Church
The @SSPXEN have done the faithful a great service
Looking down from heaven Pope St. Pius X must be thrilled
Salus animarum suprema lex
https://t.co/l8oUgCy3R8
Letter of Saint Athanasius to his flock:
May God console you! ...What saddens you ...is the fact that others have occupied the churches by violence, while during this time you are on the outside. It is a fact that they have the premises—but you have the apostolic Faith.
They can occupy our churches, but they are outside the true Faith. You remain outside the places of worship, but the Faith dwells within you. Let us consider: what is more important, the place or the Faith? The true Faith, obviously. Who has lost and who has won in this struggle—the one who keeps the premises or the one who keeps the Faith?
True, the premises are good when the apostolic Faith is preached there; they are holy if everything takes place there in a holy way. ...You are the ones who are happy: you who remain within the church by your faith, who hold firmly to the foundations of the Faith which has come down to you from apostolic Tradition. And if an execrable jealousy has tried to shake it on a number of occasions, it has not succeeded. They are the ones who have broken away from it in the present crisis.
No one, ever, will prevail against your faith, beloved brothers. And we believe that God will give us our churches back some day.
Thus, the more violently they try to occupy the places of worship, the more they separate themselves from the Church. They claim that they represent the Church; but in reality, they are the ones who are expelling themselves from it and going astray.
Even if Catholics faithful to Tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ.
Ex-Communist Bella Dodd spoke in the 1950s about the Communist Party placing over 1000 men into American seminaries in the early 20th century.
The Communist idea was to destroy the faith of the people and to use the institution of the Church to destroy the faith by promoting a pseudo-religion that resembled Catholicism, but was not.
Once the faith was destroyed, a guilt complex would be introduced into the Church that would label the Church as being oppressive, authoritarian, and full of prejudice.
It would denigrate the Church as arrogant for believing it held the truth. This would lead to Church leaders who were ashamed of the Church and thus proclaimed their "openness to the world."
Their attitudes would become flexible toward all religions and philosophies.
They would then exploit this radical openness to undermine the Church itself.
If you look at the state of the world today and the state of the Church and even Christianity in general in the West, there can be no doubt at the success of this agenda.
The longer you wait to get married, the worse your remaining options get.
It’s basic supply and demand.
The best partners pair off early.
Waiting till the end is like showing up to a garage sale at closing time: only the broken dusty stuff nobody wanted is left.
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I am not sure if this is still on the books (it was in the 1980s at least), you were not allowed to entered in US if you declared yourself to be a communist.
Communists and Muslims were forbidden from holding public offices because they are antithetical to the US Constitution and freedoms it affords. By the same token US Constitution is not a suicide pack. Those two groups use it to subvert it from within because they know, people would not follow them otherwise.
So yeah, they should be banned.
Defiant sodomites welcomed and celebrated
Faithful clergy, religious and laity of the SSPX unwelcome and demonised
Tell me again how this is the Catholic Church?
Defiant sodomites welcomed and celebrated
Faithful clergy, religious and laity of the SSPX unwelcome and demonised
Tell me again how this is the Catholic Church?