From Vox Popoli: Hal Turner has confirmed that the US military is now attacking Iran. In what appears to be an obvious escalation, it bombed freshwater storage tanks, which suggests that the Iranians will soon be targeting water supplies and desalination facilities in Israel and the Gulf States.

CONFIRMED! The US is attacking Iran, on Trump’s orders.

Intense fighter jet activity has been reported right now over Basrah, in southern Iraq, in several areas of northern Iraq, and in southern Syria. U.S. Fighter jets accompanied by air-refueling tankers.

UPDATE 7:00 PM EDT —

Iranian opposition sources are reporting preliminary details on the targets allegedly struck by U.S. forces in Iran a short while ago:

Sirik Naval Base

Jask Naval Base

Air defense systems in Bandar Abbas

Coastal missile battery in Minab

Coastal missile battery on Qeshm Island

Port facilities on Qeshm Island

The reported strikes are taking place in the vicinity of the Strait of Hormuz.

UPDATE 7:11 PM EDT —

Now being told the “first wave” of US attacks has completed. Earlier, I was told there “would be several waves of US attacks.

Iran response already on the way – drones launched. Missile launches expected within minutes.

UPDATE 7:46 PM EDT —

During its attack, the United States reportedly struck TWO (2) Fresh-water Storage Tanks in Sirik, Iran.

If this is verified, then the US has just given Iran the green light to do the exact same thing to countries hosting US military bases.

7:52 PM EDT — The attack upon drinking water storage tanks is now CONFIRMED by IRIB which reports all drinking water in the District of Sirik is now cut-off.

As a result of what the U.S. has just done, Iran has warned it will immediately place all regional Gulf energy infrastructure under continuous missile fire, and with this US attack, water desalination infrastructure which the Gulf depends on for over 90%, will specifically become major targets.

The moment any of the desalination plants in these GCC countries are hit, they will effectively cease to exist as functioning states.

It’s a sad day when one hopes that one’s own country is defeated, but when that country has been consumed by evil, defeating it is the only solution, either by a foreign enemy or by a revolt by the people. The USA is no stranger to committing war crimes. I fear that when what goes around comes around, the American people will rue the day they allowed their government to drift into such evil. We will rue the day we did nothing.

Related: Read Zerohedge: The Iranian leadership has concluded, it seems, that compromise will likely not be forthcoming, and that it is better to cut the “negotiations” rather “than continue the pointless bad-faith negotiations with a deceitful and decrepit American regime,” as the New York Times has termed the Iran “negotiations” — suggesting that the “deal chaos” is not a singular glitch by Trump confined to the Iran issue, but rather is a consistent pattern of dysfunctionality repeating itself across virtually all of Trump’s “peace” initiatives.

Note: The topic of some of my posts have resulted in emotional outbursts in the comments section. For that reason I decided it might be well to elaborate on the subject that seems to cause such emotional trauma in hopes that better understanding can be had. I make no claims of truth, only of what I’ve learned.

I spent many years studying church history, world history, the Bible and various competing commentaries. I’ve read countless books on the subjects from different beliefs and perspectives. In preparing a lecture for a World Religion class I was teaching, I developed the following graphic that provides a “Cliff’s Notes” summary of how the Christian ‘church’ grew from one Century to the next.

One can see by examining the graphic, that Christianity, as we know it today, evolved over many Centuries. One of the primary goals of the Church’s early adherents was establishing a universal religion that would cement control over the masses. With that goal in mind, the Bible was produced in the Fourth Century. The ‘books’ contained within it were selected by men from hundreds of Scriptures circulating at the time in order to establish one Holy Book for all. One will also note that the religion was developed from the top down by the authorities and imposed on the Folk, often at sword point. Do your own research and you’ll confirm what you see here.

I found it ironic that what was originally called The Way, a way of living taught by Yeshua/Jesus, developed into a religion with doctrines developed by men, well beyond Jesus’ teaching. Christianity developed in a ‘pagan’ world and since there was then no Christian Church, or even a thing called ‘Christianity,’ everyone, including followers of The Way, those following the organic teachings of Jesus, would, by todays standards, have been considered ‘pagan.’

David highlighted the words of Thomas Paine in a recent post, “churches are human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.” Paine declared, “My own mind is my own church.” As a Deist, Paine obviously accepted a Creator, but rejected organized religion of any stripe and walked with the Divine in his own way. He rejected what he considered myth and the history of an alien people to resort to reason. He employed critical thinking.

The Old Testament, the story of the Hebrews, was their story; a story of an ethnic people. African people have their story, as do Native Americans and yes, Europeans and their descendants. Every ethnic people group developed their own understanding of the Divine based on their unique cultures and experiences in the world. Naming Christianity the universal state religion was fundamental in the consolidation of Empire, and once that was established all ethnic faiths were to be destroyed. The church declared that anything that was not Christian was ‘Pagan’ so as to create a binary to be eliminated.

There are many flavors of Pagan, just as there are many flavors of ‘Christian.’ I’ll be the first to condemn many, if not most of what passes as ‘pagan.’ Following The Old Ways of the Europeans is not Wicca, it’s not Satanism, it’s not New Age, it’s not Muslim, Zionist, or anything else. These are all ‘pagan’ from a Christian perspective, but they’re not the ethnic faith of our Germanic ancestors. That faith embraces reverence for our ancestors, seeing the Divine in nature, and gaining insights from the myths of our ancestral Gods.

So, why do I offer this post? It’s an attempt, perhaps a naive attempt, to convince those Christians who ridicule, condemn, and insult those who hold to The Old Ways of our pre-Christian European ancestors that we are not of the devil, do not worship the devil, and that our virtues, ethics, and appreciation for the Divine are not so different from yours. We have a lot in common. We share essentially the same morals as you, but discard the doctrines developed over Centuries to control us and we reject what we consider a foreign religion. We simply have a different way of connecting with the Divine. It is my hope that the Christian reader will at least have gained a better understanding of the history of their religion and a bit more tolerance for those of us who no longer share it.