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Sounding More Like A King, Pope Francis Lashes Out With Another Stinging Critique Of Global Capitalism
In a sweeping critique of global finance released by the Vatican on Thursday, the Holy See Pope Francis singled out derivatives including credit-default swaps for particular scorn. “A ticking time bomb,” the Vatican called them. The unusual rebuke of credit swap derivatives rarely reach the level of religious doctrine.
Warren Buffett once called them “financial weapons of mass destruction.” Now Pope Francis, of all people, is taking aim at derivatives.
“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 18:3 (KJV)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Pope Francis, who rarely misses a chance to miss the chance to preach the gospel of the grace of God, never misses the chance to pontificate on such biblical topics like global capitalism, credit default swaps and income redistribution. Not finding those topics in your King James Bible? Well, they’re not there, just like the office of a pope, a ruling class of priests, and a magic cookie that becomes the ‘body of Christ’ aren’t there either. Ruling over Babylon is not enough for Francis, he desires to be the king that Revelation 17 says the Roman pope will be. 2018
In a sweeping critique of global finance released by the Vatican on Thursday, the Holy See singled out derivatives including credit-default swaps for particular scorn. “A ticking time bomb,” the Vatican called them. The unusual rebuke — derivatives rarely reach the level of religious doctrine — is in keeping with Francis’s skeptical view of unbridled global capitalism.
“The market of CDS, in the wake of the economic crisis of 2007, was imposing enough to represent almost the equivalent of the GDP of the entire world. The spread of such a kind of contract without proper limits has encouraged the growth of a finance of chance, and of gambling on the failure of others, which is unacceptable from the ethical point of view,” the Vatican said in the document.
The critique echoes comments made by Buffett in 2003, when he criticized the “unchecked” expansion of the derivatives market. Francis has been a critic of Wall Street in the past. He has called for regulating speculative financial practices and reining in the “absolute power” of the financial system, which he said would bring more crises.
The Vatican said that in certain areas of the derivatives markets there’s an “ethical void which becomes more serious as these products are negotiated on the so-called markets with less regulation (over the counter) and are exposed more to the markets regulated by chance, if not by fraud, and thus take away vital life-lines and investments to the real economy.”
A similar assessment can be “applied for those uses of credit default swap (CDS: they are particular insurance contracts for the risk of bankruptcy) that permit gambling at the risk of the bankruptcy of a third party, even to those who haven’t taken any such risk of credit earlier, and really to repeat such operations on the same event, which is absolutely not consented to by the normal pact or insurance,” according to the document.
Income inequality is a priority concern for Francis, who has made humility a distinguishing feature of his papacy. He refused to live in the opulent Apostolic Palace, choosing a guest house for Church officials near St. Peter’s Basilica instead. He uses an old Ford Focus to get around the Vatican and Rome. source
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Glory Fellowship Church And Orphanage In Kisii Kenya were told no by The Gideons, and now turn to us for Bibles
We had a couple stop into the Bookstore a few weeks ago, they’re connected to The Gideons, and they told us of a pastor in Kenya who had reached out in need of Bibles for his church and orphanage, and The Gideons International told him that they could not send him the Bibles he asked for as their policy did not allow for it. Evidentially, the Gideons only supply Bibles to schools, not churches or orphanges. Hmm. With no where to turn, and after hearing of our Free Bible Program, they asked if we could step in and do something to help them. We assured them we could, and Lord willing, that we would.
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THE PROPHECY NEWS PODCAST: Trump’s America First Agenda Has Now Become State-Directed Capitalism As Washington Takes Equity Stakes In Major Corporations
Washington Is Becoming Shareholder, Regulator, Banker And Broker Under Trump As State-Directed Capitalism Replaces The Free Market Economy With Government Control
Back in 2010, author Ian Bremmer warned “We are no longer in a global, free-market economy. There are now two systems out there. There is a free-market system, largely in the developed world. There is a state-directed capitalist system in China, Russia and the Persian Gulf. The systems are mutually incompatible. When your principal actors are multinational corporations in the private sector and they rely for their growth on unfettered access to global markets, and state capitalist systems don’t do that, you are going to have a problem. And we are just at the beginning of that problem.” Here in 2026, that is starting to look like a prophecy that is now being fulfilled under Donald Trump with the rise of state-directed capitalism, the antithesis of America First. That warning shot to Trump’s ear back in 2024 at the rally in Butler, PA, is now paying big dividends for the Deep State.
“And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.” Luke 4:5-7 (KJB)
On this episode of the Prophecy News Podcast, 16 years ago Ian Bremmer warned that the world was no longer operating under one global free-market system. He said there were now two systems: the free-market system of the United States and other western nations, and the state-capitalist system of China, Russia, and the Persian Gulf. Sixteen years later, under Trump, America is not merely confronting that system, Washington is busy adopting it. Government equity stakes, national-security industrial policy, strategic corporate ownership, and taxpayer-backed national champions are exactly the mechanics of state-directed capitalism. The latest reports say the Trump administration is moving beyond traditional grants, loans, and tax credits and is now taking direct equity stakes in strategic companies. Today’s reporting says the Commerce Department is backing a roughly $2 billion quantum-computing initiative involving equity stakes or minority-investment arrangements across companies including IBM, Intel, US Steel, GlobalFoundries, Quantinuum, PsiQuantum, Atom Computing, Rigetti, D-Wave, Infleqtion, and Diraq. State-directed capitalism is ripped straight out of the Council on Foreign Relations playbook going back as far as 2016 when Trump first became president. The global economic model is shifting under our feet. The same state-capitalist machinery once associated with China and Russia is now being repackaged in America with patriotic language and labeled as ‘America First’. This is where we are on Day 2,258 of 15 Days To Flatten The Curve!
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WORLD WAR TRUMP! DJT Started A War He Cannot Control As Iran Now Defies Him Over Its Enriched Uranium, Daring The United States To Stop Them
World War Trump Lit The Fuse In Iran But Tehran’s Defiant Refusal To Surrender Its Enriched Uranium Shows He Cannot Control The Coming Explosion
President Trump may have launched this war believing that overwhelming military force, diplomatic pressure, and Israeli coordination would bend Iran to Washington’s will. But today’s Reuters report shows something far more sobering. World War Trump, I’m sorry, Operation Epic Fury, has already moved beyond Trump’s control. As we have long told you, beneath the braggidocio and bluster from the Department of War, no one in the Trump administration seems to have any understanding at all of the Islamic mindset. Someone please tell the president that the only way this ends is with a ‘boots on the ground’ military intevention, and going in and taking the enriched uranium ourselves. That’s it, and Thank for your attention in this matter!
“Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.” Psalm 146:3 (KJB)
Iran’s Supreme Leader has reportedly ordered that Iran’s enriched uranium must remain inside Iran, rejecting a central U.S. demand that the stockpile be removed from the country as part of any ceasefire or nuclear settlement. That is not negotiation, that is open defiance. Reuters reported the directive was confirmed by two senior Iranian officials, and markets immediately reacted, with oil spiking and U.S. stock futures falling on fears the conflict could escalate further. And there it is. Trump started the fire, but he certainly doesn’t own the flames. Trump can order strikes, and he can issue threats. He can stand behind podiums and announce ultimatums. He can say what Iran “must” do, what Israel “requires,” and what America “will not allow.” But the moment the missiles fly, the war becomes a living thing — fed by nationalism, religion, retaliation, oil markets, terror proxies, wounded pride, military calculations, and spiritual darkness. No president controls all of that, and now, it’s out of control.
This is the great delusion of modern American power: that Washington can bomb its way into obedience, threaten its way into peace, and sanction its way into surrender. But Iran is not responding like a defeated regime. Iran is responding like a regime that believes time, geography, fanaticism, and escalation are on its side. And you know what? It is. Trump demanded the uranium leave Iran,and Iran answered. They said “no”. That single word exposes the whole fantasy. Because if Trump cannot force Iran to surrender its enriched uranium after launching a war to stop Iran’s nuclear program, then what exactly has the war accomplished? If Iran keeps the stockpile, keeps the infrastructure hidden or hardened, keeps the ideology burning, and keeps the Strait of Hormuz hanging over the world economy like a sword, then Trump is not dictating the outcome — he is reacting to it.
Trump, Hegseth and the Department of War have consistiently lied to the American people about the true cost and toll of this war, and Congress must step in and hold them accountable
This war was sold as strength, but strength without control becomes chaos. Strength without a clean endgame becomes a trap. Strength without wisdom becomes exactly what the Bible says it is, the arm of flesh. Iran’s defiance also reveals how little leverage Trump truly has. If he escalates, oil prices can explode, American forces across the region become targets, Israel is pulled deeper into a widening war, and global markets start pricing in a Middle East firestorm. If he backs down, Iran claims victory and keeps the very uranium Washington demanded be removed. If he negotiates, Tehran stalls. If he bombs again, Tehran retaliates. Every door opens into another room of consequences.
The Supreme Leader is not merely defying Trump personally. He is defying the entire premise of the war. The premise was that force would compel Iran to give up the key nuclear leverage it has spent decades building. Instead, Iran is now publicly hardening its red line while the world watches Trump discover that starting a war is far easier than ending one. From a prophetic perspective, this is exactly the type of Middle East madness we have warned about for years. The kings and rulers of the earth imagine themselves to be moving the pieces, but the board is bigger than they are. Iran, Israel, America, oil, nuclear weapons, Islamic ideology, military alliances, and global panic are all converging in a region God has placed at the center of end-times events. Trump may have started the war, but as you can clearly see, he is absolutely not the author of it’s ending.
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