His mother used magical flowers.
His parents performed special rituals over his life.
He was trained to acquire the fourth degree of sorcery.
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Prophecy News Watch : The latest Palestinian public opinion poll, however, presents a disturbing picture.
By Khaled Abu Toameh/Gatestone Institute
August 24, 2026
The survey, conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) in the West Bank and Gaza Strip between August 5 and 8, 2026, reveals that although support for Hamas has declined, the fundamental political attitudes that have plagued Palestinian society for decades remain largely intact.
Hamas remains a major political force; convicted terrorists and Hamas leaders remain popular candidates for the Palestinian Authority (PA) presidency; overwhelming majorities oppose the unconditional disarmament of Hamas; and Iran, Hezbollah, and the Houthis in Yemen
continue to enjoy remarkably high approval ratings.
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Demon Buster : HAITI AND VOODOO – Voodoo. Misconceptions about voodoo have given Haiti a reputation for sorcery and zombies.
Popular images of voodoo have ignored the religion’s basis as a domestic cult of family spirits. Adherents of voodoo do not perceive themselves as members of a separate religion; they consider themselves Roman Catholics. In fact, the word for voodoo does not even exist in rural Haiti. The Creole word vodoun refers to a kind of dance and in some areas to a category of spirits. Roman Catholics who are active voodooists say that they serve the spirits, but they do not consider that practice as something outside of Roman Catholicism. Haitians also distinguish between the service of family spirits and the practice of magic and sorcery.
The belief system of voodoo revolves around family spirits (often called loua or miste) who are inherited through maternal and paternal lines. Loua protect their children from misfortune. In return, families# must feed the loua through periodic rituals in which food, drink, and other gifts are offered to the spirits Continue reading “Demon Buster : HAITI AND VOODOO – Voodoo. Misconceptions about voodoo have given Haiti a reputation for sorcery and zombies.”
Prophecy News Watch : Privacy Doesn’t Disappear All At Once
The most significant changes in technology usually arrive gradually.
First cameras moved into our phones.
Then phones became constant companions.
Then social media transformed private moments into public entertainment.
Now the camera may move directly onto the face, accompanied by artificial intelligence capable of understanding more of what it sees.
Each individual step can appear relatively harmless.
Together they point toward something much more consequential.
The greatest danger of AI glasses is not simply that someone might record you.
It is that we may be building a culture where everyone increasingly assumes they are being recorded–and begins behaving accordingly.
Once that happens, something fundamental changes about human interaction.
Conversations become performances. Strangers become suspicious of one another. Embarrassing moments cease to disappear. Consent becomes harder to establish, and ordinary people become involuntary participants in someone else’s content stream.
The school hallway is only one warning.
The larger issue is a future in which no encounter is necessarily private, no reaction is guaranteed to remain fleeting and every moment of everyday life has the potential to become content.
That may prove to be one of the most consequential prices society pays for putting artificial intelligence directly in front of our eyes.
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Demon Buster : HAITI AND VOODOO – U.S. Library Of Congress. Haiti Religion Roman Catholicism is the official religion of Haiti, but voodoo may be considered the country’s national religion.
The majority of Haitians believe in and practice at least some aspects of voodoo.
Most voodooists believe that their religion can coexist with Catholicism.
Most Protestants, however, strongly oppose voodoo.
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Accuweather : Woman dies in fast-moving B.C. wildfire as thousands evacuate
By Darryl Coote, UPI
Published Aug 12, 2026 11:08 AM PDT |
Updated Aug 12, 2026 11:08 AM PDT
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police confirmed Sunday the death of an 80-year-old woman who suddenly died while attempting to flee her Meadow Valley home with a member of her family because of the fast-moving fire.
Authorities in western Canada announced Sunday that a woman died while evacuating her home as several wildfires tear through southern British Columbia, where a state of emergency was declared over the weekend and thousands have been forced to evacuate.
The Bald Range fire, raging south of Kelowna, is one of more than 100 blazes burning in the province, mostly in the south, according to provincial information, which shows 46 were labeled out of control. Nearly four dozen evacuation orders and 51 alerts have been issued.
At 13,618 hectares, the Bald Range fire was among the largest and was labeled “out of control,” meaning officials expect it to spread, as of early Monday.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police confirmed Sunday the death of an 80-year-old woman who suddenly died while attempting to flee her Meadow Valley home with a member of her family because of the fast-moving fire.
Though the B.C. Coroners Service will be conducting an investigation to confirm the nature of the woman’s death, “police believe her death to be a result of the wildfire,” the RCMP said in a statement.
“I am deeply saddened by the news from the RCMP that a woman lost her life during the Bald Range wildfire evacuation,” B.C. Premier David Eby said in a statement.
“My heart goes out to her family, friends, neighbors and all those who knew her and will miss her.”
The RCMP said the fire was reported to authorities at 5:15 p.m. PDT Friday. About eight hours later, they received a report of a sudden death from a witness in Meadow Valley.
“This wildfire has been a deeply traumatic event for all those in the region,” Supt. Beth McAndie, officer in charge of the Penticton South Okanagan Similkameen Regional RCMP Detachment, said in a statement.
“Officers are working closely and providing full supports to the impacted family, who are asking for privacy at this time.”
It was the only known wildfire fatality in B.C. as of early Monday.
Eby declared a state of emergency on Saturday. Moreth 12,000 residents of Summerland were under evacuation orders, as were another 8,000 in nearby Peachland.
The extent of the damage from the Bald Range fire was not immediately clear, but Eby said Saturday that “there have been significant losses of home and property.”
“To people in affected areas: If you are under an evacuation order, leave immediately,” he said in a statement. “These orders are issued to save lives. The conditions of this fire are extremely dangerous and are changing minute by minute.”
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KSL News : Philippine student livestreamed fatal school shooting before taking own life, official says
By Karen Lema and Nestor Corrales, Reuters |
Updated – Aug. 18, 2026 at 9:33 a.m. |
Posted – Aug. 18, 2026 at 8:07
MANILA, Philippines — A student livestreamed himself shooting and killing another student in a classroom in the southern Philippines on Tuesday before taking his own life, an official said, in the second school attack in the country in less than two months.
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ordered law enforcement agencies to investigate and to determine measures to be taken to prevent violence in schools.
“Our schools are where we entrust our children to learn, to grow and to dream about the lives ahead of them. They must also be among the safest places in our country,” Marcos said in a statement.
The shooting took place at a school attached to the privately-run Ateneo de Zamboanga University in the city of Zamboanga, where the gunman brought a pistol and a rifle onto the school campus and fired at students inside the classroom, according to a preliminary police report.
Zamboanga Mayor Khymer Adan Olaso told DZBB radio that authorities confirmed the gunman live-streamed the attack through a body-worn camera.
Reuters verified a livestream video of the shooter in the school. The video shows him entering one classroom and opening fire. He then changed weapons, entered the second classroom and fired more rounds. A student is seen lying on the ground in unclear condition.
The motive was not immediately clear, but a senior customs official told reporters that the shooter used a .40-caliber pistol issued by the Bureau of Customs to the student’s father, a customs official who has since been relieved from his post. A second weapon recovered from the scene was a licensed personal firearm also owned by the shooter’s father, the official said.
Video aired by GMA News, with images blurred, showed chaotic scenes inside a classroom with students ducking for cover as several gunshots rang out.
The victim was a male 10th grade student, police said. The gunman, a ninth grade student, killed himself, police said.
Two others were wounded.
The victim was found on the fourth floor of the school, while the gunman was later found dead on the fifth floor after taking his own life, city councilor Frederick Atilano said, citing police information.
The school is a five-story building on a 19.8-acre site that houses the university’s grade school and junior high school students, according to its website.
Several students were treated for injuries suffered during the panic to escape, but no other deaths were reported, he said, adding that classes have been suspended.
Social media footage verified by Reuters showed students from the school running out of the campus building while at least four gunshots were heard in the background.
The shooting followed an attack in June at a public high school in Tacloban City in the central Philippines in which at least three students were killed and about 20 others injured when two of their schoolmates opened fire on campus.
School shootings are rare in the Philippines, which has relatively strict gun ownership regulations, including background checks and psychological evaluation requirements, although illegal firearms remain in circulation.
The incident came less than 10 days after a high-profile incident in Thailand, where a student went on a shooting rampage at a school on the outskirts of the capital Bangkok.
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Fox News : Support hotline numbers for victims of sexual and domestic abuse are provided at the end of each section and at the back of the booklet.
By Louis Casiano Fox News
Published August 19, 2026 8:23pm EDT
Nearly 70,000 illegal immigrants and foreign criminals have been returned or deported from the United Kingdom since the Labour Party came to power in July 2024, the BBC reported.
“Instead of trying to train these mainly young, male illegal immigrants to behave in a civilized way towards women, they should be deported,” Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said.
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Prophecy News Watch: The Loss Of Social Obscurity
Privacy has never meant that nobody can see us in public.
Something subtler has traditionally protected everyday life: obscurity.
You could walk through a restaurant, attend a church service, shop at a store or have an awkward conversation without assuming that the moment would permanently follow you.
Someone might remember what happened.
But usually there was no searchable video archive of it.
AI glasses threaten that social expectation.
Imagine a world in which every stranger may be wearing a camera capable of recording what they see. Add facial recognition, automated analysis and AI-generated memory systems, and ordinary life begins looking very different.
Every employee becomes recordable.
Every disagreement becomes uploadable.
Every embarrassing reaction becomes shareable.
Every stranger becomes a potential broadcaster.
And increasingly, the person wearing the glasses may not even need to decide consciously which moments to preserve. Artificial intelligence can begin helping make that choice.
Fox News : The section on domestic abuse warns of arrest and prison time for committing physical or emotional abuse against a partner.
By Louis Casiano Fox News
Published August 19, 2026 8:23pm EDT
“We expect everyone who comes to the U.K. to abide by our laws,” a Home Office spokesperson told GB News. “If they do not, they will face consequences, including the refusal of their asylum claim and removal from the U.K.”
“Returns of failed asylum seekers have reached their highest level since 2010 under this government,” the spokesperson added.
The booklet notes that asylum seekers are expected to “treat your partner and family with respect,” “let them make their own choices,” and “never physically or verbally abuse or control them.”
In public, one must not direct sexual comments at people, even if they think it’s appropriate, follow someone or block their path to refrain from whistling or making kissing noises at someone, it states.
A section on consent adds that both people must consent to sex without threat or pressure and that anyone can change their mind at any time.
“If you have sex with someone without their consent, this is called rape. Rape is a serious crime in the U.K. You could go to prison, lose your support and accommodation, and it will affect your asylum claim,” the document states.
Anyone under the age of 16 is considered a child and cannot legally consent to sex, according to the guidance.
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