IN the NEWS - And More....

It has been continuing---the massive weird global natural calamities--crammed into a small window of time of the last few weeks.

For nation shall rise against nation,

and kingdom against kingdom:

and there shall be famines,

and pestilences,

and earthquakes,

in divers places.

All these are the beginning of sorrows.

And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars:

And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, ...and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

Matthew 24:7,8,6/Luke 21:11

Brazil: Tsunami hits Rio and surrounding area---with no earthquake or storm!

Spain: Canary Islands rumbled by 700 tremors around a volcano. Massive hailstorm hits Spain.

China: Beijing flooded again and city moves several inches.

Typhoon hits again. More flooding elsewhere in China. Sinkholes swallow up cars on the streets of Wuhan. Chikungunya fever outbreak likely due to mosquitos multiplying due to all the water from the floods. Hail pounds several provinces. Landslides in Hunan.

Australia: rare snowstorm in New South Wales of 20 inches of snow. Periphery of area flooded. Perth hit by a rare tornado.

Britain: Major storm knocks out power in parts of Scotland.

Turkey: Record heatwave.

Iraq: Record heatwave and most of country loses electricity. (125F)

Japan: Record rainfall. Record heatwave.

India: Mudslides sweep away villages.

Russia: Massive floods, mudslides and tornados ravage the south. Volcanic eruptions back east.

South Korea: Record flooding now in the south.

Burma: Flash Floods on border with China.

Italy: Mt. Etna slowly sliding towards the sea--picking up pace. Massive hailstorm.

Taiwan: Record rainfall triggers another round of flash flooding.

U.S.A.: Flash Floods in North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and Pennsylvania. Quakes in New Jersey and off the coast of NYC.

SUN: A geomagnetic Storm may be responsible for the shifting tectonic plates that caused last weeks mega quake, tsunami, and tilted the earth slightly.

IN the NEWS - There was More....

It has been continuing---the massive weird global natural calamities--crammed into a small window of time of the last few weeks.

For nation shall rise against nation,

and kingdom against kingdom:

and there shall be famines,

and pestilences,

and earthquakes,

in divers places.

All these are the beginning of sorrows.

And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars:

And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, ...and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

Matthew 24:7,8,6/Luke 21:11

Russia: Earthquake (6th most powerful on record) off the coast triggering a tsunami followed by a volcanic eruption.

Brazil: Cyclone floods the coast.

India: Massive floods.

Italy: More quake rumblings near Naples and a wildfire swept part of Sardinia.

China: Powerful hail storms, another typhoon, more floods. Streets

opened up swallowing cars and buses. Most drinking water in country contaminated by fecal matter due to all the flooding. One part of the north received in a years worth of rain in 24 hours.

Nigeria: Massive flooding.

Fiji: Earthquake nearby.

New Zealand: Nearby quake.

Indonesia: 2 Nearby quakes.

U.S.A.: Massive flooding again in New York City, New Jersey and Maryland. Quake in L.A. Solar flare interferes with radio waves in

Hawaii. Underwater volcano near Oregon has quake swarm of 300 quakes. Flash flooding pounds New Mexico in same area already pounded.

--Rumors of Wars-- Besides the rumor going around that China wants to start WW3 by invading Taiwan---now a rumor is making the rounds China wants to start a war with Vietnam.

--From "the heavens"-- Now NASA says an asteroid MIGHT hit the moon in 2032 and cause a moon dust storm to fall upon the earth.

WARS: Russia-Ukraine. Middle east. Sudanese civil war. Thai-Cambodia conflict. Terrorists still slaughtering Christians across Nigeria this week.

Days of the Dead and "Ghosts" vs. God

"Although many affirm that Samhain was the origin of modern-day Halloween, it is significant to note how many cultures throughout the world have celebrated a “day of the dead” (often with sacrifices), occurring at the end of summer and fall. There seem to be too many parallels to call these similar celebrations a coincidence.

For example, in the Americas, there is the Mexican Day of the Dead

(El Día de los Muertos) that goes back to the ancient festival of the dead celebrated by Aztecs and the more-ancient Olmecs. 

Brazilians also celebrate Finados (Day of the Dead). Bolivia has the Day of the Skulls (Día de los Natitas).

In Asia, there are similar festivals. For example, the Chinese celebrated the Ghost Festival, which was a day to pay homage to dead ancestors. 

The Japanese celebrated something similar called O-bon or merely Bon. 

Even Vietnam has a variant of the Ghost Festival called Tet Trung Nguyen. 

In Korea, there is Chuseok or Hankawi, in which deceased ancestors are ritualized. 

In Nepal, there is the cow pilgrimage called Gia Jatra to honor the recently deceased. 

In the Philippines, there is the Day of the Dead (Araw ng mga Patay), where tombs are cleaned and repainted. 

Death is a terrible reality for all of us—not something to celebrate or treat as fun. 

*Death is the punishment for sin. 

Since all of us are sinners (Romans 3:23), we must realize that death is coming. 

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23)." 

AIG

ARCHAEOLOGY: Roaming Pre-Flood Brazil

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. Genesis 7:12

"A new genus and species of silesaurid being named Gondwanax

paraisensis has been identified from the fossilized remains discovered in Southern Brazil. Most authors agree that silesaurids are the sister-group to Dinosauria, forming the clade Silesauridae. 

The newly-discovered silesaurid species lived in what is now Brazil. The animal’s skeletal remains were recovered from the Santa Maria Formation in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil." 

SciNews

ARCHAEOLOGY: 2 Cases

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; 1 Corinthians 1:27

"Twice now this year, researchers have noticed man-made etchings in rock that indicate possible awareness of extinct creatures. In the belief system of evolutionists and their requisite millions of years, such awareness is impossible, and so they come up with other explanations. 

Q: Why do they rule out eyewitness experiences of these creatures living among them?

The assumption of deep time leads to rejecting any explanation that infers overlap of humans with creatures that went extinct tens or

hundreds of millions of years ago. Those who doubt deep time, by contrast, can be more open minded about that possibility.

South African rock art possibly inspired by long-extinct species (18 Sept 2024, Science Daily). Dicynodonts (“two dog tooth”) are members of a motley group of pre-dinosaurian tetrapods classified as therapsids and synapsids. Today they are only known by their fossilized bones. South Africa is particularly rich in fossils of dicynodonts, some of which protrude from the ground. No other living land animal has their characteristic downward-curved tusks. It was a big surprise, therefore, when Julien Benoit of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg found petroglyphs (rock art) resembling dicynodonts.

"The Horned Serpent panel is a section of rock wall featuring artwork of animals and other cultural elements associated with the San people of South Africa, originally painted between 1821 and 1835. Among the painted figures is a long-bodied animal with downward-turned tusks which doesn’t match any known modern species in the area."

Benoit published the evidence in PLoS One, supplying photographs of the rock art that Benoit thinks resemble dicynodonts, and artist’s depictions of the creatures. As an evolutionist, how does he explain this? He speculates that the San people found fossil dicynodonts and depicted them in their rock art. This is curious, given that dicynodonts were not even recognized until Richard Owen named them in 1845.

"There is archaeological evidence that the San people might have collected fossils and incorporated them into their artwork, but the extent of indigenous knowledge of paleontology is poorly understood across Africa.

Further research into indigenous cultures might shed more light on how humans around the world have incorporated fossils into their culture."

It’s not an unreasonable speculation; even young-earth creationists

might find it doubtful to think that dicynodonts were walking around in 1821 to 1835 without more eyewitness reports by colonizers and missionaries. The point, again, is that Benoit cannot even consider it as a possibility the artists drew a living dicynodont.

"The ethnographic, archaeological, and palaeontological evidence are consistent with the hypothesis that the Horned Serpent panel could possibly depict a dicynodont…. This would imply that the San may have i) discovered dicynodont fossils, ii) interpreted them as long-extinct species, iii) made a painting of one of them at La Belle France, and iv) integrated them into their worldview."

---His explanation requires that the San people were fairly good at paleontology, able to depict what a creature looked like from its bones. Update 21 Sept 2024: Benoit wrote an article at The Conversation reposted at Live Science that gives additional details. He says that the 1835 date is “at the latest” but that “the San have inhabited the area for thousands of years.” This could make the petroglyph much, much earlier. Benoit claims that dicynodonts lived 265 to 200 million Darwin Years ago and were the dominant species in the area. The artists portrayed the creature as covered with bumps; Benoit shows a fossil of mummified skin of a dicynodont covered with bumps—really 250 million years old? He ruled out other creatures that the petroglyphs might represent. Walruses have downward tusks but never lived in sub-Saharan Africa, he says. A San myth spoke of “enormous brutes” that lived in their area. If the petroglyph depicts a dicynodont, it was drawn in the “death pose” common to many fossils. Others have commented that the “dinosaur death pose” (arched neck, body bent like a banana) represented suffocation by drowning (16 Feb 2012). A Flood, perhaps?

A remarkable assemblage of petroglyphs and dinosaur footprints in Northeast Brazil (Troiano et al., Nature Scientific Reports, 19 March 2024). This example is more subjective, yet interesting, since everyone is fascinated by dinosaurs. A location in Brazil has numerous fossilized dinosaur tracks in rock, made by both theropods and sauropods. Leonardo P. Troiano and three colleagues have found a “remarkable assemblage of petroglyphs” that appear to be associated with the dinosaur tracks.

"The three prominent outcrops feature fossilized footprints of theropod, sauropod, and iguanodontian dinosaurs from the Early

Cretaceous Period. Adjacent to these dinosaur tracks, indigenous petroglyphs adorn the surface. The petroglyphs, mainly characterized by circular motifs, maintain a striking resemblance to other petroglyphs found in the states of Paraíba and Rio Grande do Norte. This study primarily endeavors to delineate the site’s major characteristics while concentrating on the relationship between the dinosaur footprints and the petroglyphs."

*How does he know they are Cretaceous rocks? Because they have Cretaceous dinosaur tracks in them. How does he know the dinosaur tracks are Cretaceous? Because they are found in Cretaceous rocks, dummy!

Since everyone “knows” that humans and dinosaurs did not co-exist, the team needed an explanation. Once again, they reasoned that early peoples who lived in Brazil must have been good paleontologists.

"The petroglyphs represent a unique and significant record, given

their direct association with dinosaur fossil tracks. This ensemble of archaeological and paleontological evidence unequivocally indicates that human populations during the pre-colonial period interacted with and likely assimilated the fossil record, incorporating such record into their graphical expression, a cultural one, and consequently integrating it into its collective identity. Particularly noteworthy is the evident intentionality in creating petroglyphs near the footprints, revealing active engagement with the fossil material, suggesting that these traces not only caught the attention of the native community but were meaningful and became integrated into their knowledge repertoire."

Readers can look at the photos and drawings in this open-access paper and draw their own conclusions. Most of the petroglyphs do not resemble the tracks (circles, rectangles, and nets), but are drawn near them, often in the same rock exposure next to the footprints. The team believes that the juxtaposition of the art in rock containing dinosaur tracks establishes the pre-colonial people’s interest in the tracks.

Q: What did the artists think they were drawing? They never heard the word dinosaur, obviously, since the word was not even invented until Richard Owen coined it in 1841.

So there’s the two cases: evolutionary scientists unable to consider the possibility that early peoples saw extinct creatures. 

The interesting thing in these two cases is how they could not even consider the alternative explanation, that people actually witnessed creatures alive then that are extinct today. Creationists, not beholden to deep time, can consider that possibility. They may reject it and agree with the evolutionists’ explanations in these particular cases. But they are not required by their worldview to do so." 

CEH

IN the NEWS - Latin America Is Running Out of Water

Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.... for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

Luje 21:10,11/Matthew 24:6

"Traffic through the Panama Canal is nearly half-capacity these days. Normally, 40 ships take the world’s greatest shortcut through its locks each day. Last week, the Canal Authority reduced daily

passages to 25, while predicting further cuts to 18 by February. The immediate cause is Panama’s driest October since recordkeeping began in 1950. 

Panama is not the only Latin American country currently facing water scarcity. To the contrary, the entire region is in the grips of a dry spell. A historic drought is ravaging Brazil's Amazon, with a record 3,858 fires ripping through the state of Amazonas this month. 

With their “river highway” drained, riverine communities face emergency-level shortages in food, medicine and drinking water, while endangered river dolphins and other species are dying en masse. 

Meanwhile, farmers from the Dominican Republic to Argentina are reporting millions of dollars in crop losses. The Dominican Republic sealed its border with Haiti over a water dispute. 

Mexico City is rationing water due to reservoirs at historic lows at the end of what is supposed to be its rainy season. Water supplies stored in the glaciers of the Andes are receding, reducing their ability to replenish drainage basins and aquifers with meltwater during warmer, drier months, leading western Bolivia to ration water. 

Central Chile is buckling under 14 years of consecutive drought, which analysts have taken to calling a “mega drought.” 

Warmer surface waters block upwelling of nutrient-rich, cold waters from the ocean’s depths. Fewer nitrates and phosphates reach the surface, reducing the phytoplankton population. That in turn ripples up the food chain. Fish stocks plummet as species die or migrate, wreaking havoc on communities that depend on them for their livelihoods." MS

IN the NEWS - "Sunday" bubbling up everywhere

But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies... 2 Peter 2:1

 

 “The Christian world is honoring a false sabbath, and we are to show them its true character and foundation. We must make it plain to them that they are honoring a manmade institution in place of that which God Himself has sanctified” (Review and Herald, January 31, 1893).

 

"Sunday rest has become the go-to answer to all of society’s ills.

Labor shortages have been a real problem since the pandemic, the Russian-Ukraine war, supply shortages, the high cost of fuel, and the high demand for supplies. These developments have undoubtedly resulted in an unparalleled labor shortage for companies. So, what is the answer? Rest on Sunday. Unfortunately, the entire world is looking for Sunday to save them.

FedEx is an international shipping conglomerate. And they have found a solution to their labor shortages. They will have to stop making deliveries on Sundays in rural America, nationwide. Starting August 15, 2022, FedEx will stop delivering on Sunday in rural markets across the country. 

 

Iceland’s huge grocery chain chose to close all of its stores early on Sunday to allow workers to watch the Women’s EURO 2022 final, which took place on Sunday, July 31, 2022. 

.... the grocery stores announced that they would close at 4:00 p.m. When “supermarket giant Iceland” announced that it would close early on Sunday, this “sparked demand for a change in the law” as customers called on the supermarket chain to close down every Sunday. The “overwhelming” response from customers also prompted calls to close all food stores on Sunday, including ASDA, Tesco, Aldi, Lidl, Morrisons, M&S, and Sainsbury’s.

 

A chain of grocery stores has teamed up with the entertainment industry to promote Sunday as a family day. The Festa do Peão is one of the most famous rodeo events in Brazil and features bull riding, horses, and different shows. During their annual 10-day celebration, the organizers of this event found that Sundays had the lowest attendance numbers. So the organizers joined up with a grocery store company to come up with a “Family Sunday” campaign. 

 

The Leicester Mercury is a British regional newspaper for the city of Leicester and the neighboring counties. They are supporting the 10-point plan by the International Energy Agency to reduce the global demand for oil. The plan includes enforcing a ban on driving cars in cities every Sunday....

On June 27, 2022, Loop News published an article denouncing the Cayman Islands’ restrictive Sunday closing laws as arbitrary and discriminatory and has called for them to be repealed. Every now and then, you will see a news report that gets it right. Not everyone is just repeating what the majority is saying and doing, simply because it is the most convenient course of action." AdventMessenger

On The Streets Of Babylon: Carnival Time on the Streets

Babylon is fallen, is fallen,..

Come out of her, my people,
Revelation 14:8/18:4

There seems to be "Carnival" celebrated on the Streets of Babylon...

 

"An alleged congregation has caused controversy in Brazil because it celebrated carnival inside the church and allowed young boys and girls wearing costumes and exchanged their clothes among them all....the Youth of Christ Church went viral through social media

when they recorded young people screaming, dancing and playing inside the temple wearing costumes and masks, but the detail is that the boys wore girls’ clothes and vice versa; most of them were children not older than 15 years.

Within the Vista Alegre neighborhood, south of Rio de Janeiro, the celebration took place within the activities of “Acampateen 2k22”, promoted by the congregation during the carnival season.

According to the reports from the site, they found that the camp had dozens of young people who met for a whole week to play games, do sports and swim in a pool, but that at certain times they worship, praise and pray.

In one of those days, the “game” was that the young boys would dress as girls and vice versa, a dynamic in which even the musicians participated in addition to having masks alluding to the carnival." Bibliatodo

Creation Moment 12/5/2021 - Baby with "Tail"? Evolution or the Groaning of Creation?

"Baby recently born in Brazil with “human tail with a ball at the end of it” though it is far from evidence of human evolution or a vestigial organ.

“Shocking human tail surgically removed from newborn,” the headlines proclaimed. According to news reports, a baby boy was recently born in Brazil with a “human tail with a ball at the end of it.” The report even went so far as to call this a “real human tail”—but is that what it really is?

Well, the article states (note how evolutionary the terminology sounds—really, what they call a “tail” isn’t a tail at all but the critically important coccyx where the muscles will attach later in development):

Around the fourth week of gestation, most of us start to grow a tail while in the womb, but it usually disappears by the eighth week, eventually morphing into the tailbone, otherwise known as the coccyx.

And, of course, at the end of the article, it links back to our supposed evolutionary history,

It is thought our ancestors originally had some form of a tail, but we evolved as a species over time without the need for the organ, so we no longer grow them.

Q: But what’s really going on here? 

A: As an unborn child develops in his or her mother’s womb, the end of the spine sticks out noticeably early in development. This has nothing to do with evolution—it’s never going to develop into an actual tail. Rather, the supposed “tail-like” appearance is because the muscles and limbs have yet to develop. Once they do, they surround the coccyx, and it ends up inside the child’s body.

 It’s an abnormality in embryonic development (as a result of our groaning world because of our sin, according to For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. Romans 8:22)." AIG

IN the NEWS - Yeah, like your really surprised Francis.....

 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
Genesis 13:3

"Pope Francis accepted the resignation of a Brazilian bishop

Wednesday after video showed the bishop apparently engaged in sexual misconduct. The resignation came after the bishop had been investigated twice previously for allegations of misconduct.

An announcement in the August 18 Vatican news bulletin said that Pope Francis had accepted the resignation of Bishop Tomé Ferreira da Silva of the Diocese of São José do Rio Preto, and appointed the local metropolitan Archbishop Moacir Silva of Ribeirão Preto to serve as temporary administrator of the diocese.

Ferreira offered his resignation to the pope on Saturday, after local media reported Friday on a video which appeared to show the bishop exposing himself during a video call with another man.....during which the bishop is allegedly engaged in an act of self-gratification. 

 In 2015, Ferreira was accused of having an affair with a young man working as his driver, and of ignoring credible accusations of abuse of minors against local priests. The bishop was also accused of financial mismanagement of the diocese. 

In 2018, the bishop was investigated again, this time following allegations that he failed to act after being given information about the sexual abuse of minors by local priests.

That investigation was triggered by the 2017 arrest of a local priest who was found in possession of child pornography on his mobile phone, as well as cards listing the personal data of local minors. The priest was arrested after a complaint by the mother of a 17 year old boy, who was concerned about her son’s frequent stays at the priest’s residence." Pillar

IN the NEWS - Southern Brazil under Snow?

While parts of the World Bake and Burn---southern Brazil is under Snow...Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? Job 38:22

"Parts of Brazil are recovering from a potent Antarctic outbreak that

seized control of the weather for much of the past week. Wednesday featured heavy snowfall accompanied by bitterly cold temperatures in dozens of cities across southern Brazil.

Hardest hit was Rio Grande do Sul, a Brazilian state just north of Uruguay, where the surprise snowfall blanketed a number of major cities." WP

IN the NEWS - Ecumenical Coronavirus?

Come out of her, my people... Revelation 18:4

"Brazil’s famous Christ the Redeemer statue was lit up with the flags of nations affected by the Chinese coronavirus Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro.

Wednesday evening, officials projected the colorful flags onto the statue during a mass led by the Archbishop of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Dom Orani Tempesta.
Video footage of the event showed images of the continents and the words “Pray Together” in several different languages also projected onto the Christ.
Thursday, Twitter users expressed their thoughts about the show of solidarity and thanked Brazil for the display."
Breitbart

IN the NEWS - Sea goddeesses in the 21st Century?

And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. (Romans 1:23) Apparently even sea goddesses.

"Worshippers of the sea goddess Yemanja gathered in Copacabana

Beach in Rio de Janeiro to honor the so-called Queen of the Sea.
The followers of Brazil’s Afro-Brazilian Candomble and Umbanda faiths were singing, playing drums, and dancing during the traditional New Year tribute.
Mostly dressed in white, some worshippers launched their offerings to the sea, many carried in small boats with flowers, and bowls with candles, fruits, perfume and some drinks.
Umbanda is an Afro-Brazilian religion that blends African traditions with Roman Catholicism and indigenous American beliefs."
AfricaNews

On the Streets of Babylon: Mistress of Evil spotted on the Streets generating a fanbase

Babylon is fallen, is fallen,... 
Come out of her, my people,
Revelation 14:8/18:4

There seem to be some "fans of  the Mistress of Evil" on the Streets of Babylon...


"We now know a bit more about what happened after the pagan ceremony of the “Pago à la tierra” (“Payment to the Earth”) in the Vatican gardens under Pope Francis’ very eyes.
The next evening, on Saturday, October 5, the group of “indigenous” Amazonians -- wearing feathers, t-shirts and trendy sports shoes -- and their friends went to the church of Santa Maria in Traspontina in the middle of the Via della Conciliazione for a prayer vigil for the Synod on the Amazon.

On Monday, October 7, the European “première” of Maleficent, Mistress of Evil took place in the new gigantic auditorium that is situated at its base, covering the large “Via” with fans wearing the evil Queen’s horned headdress.
At Santa Maria in Traspontina, the multi-colored blanket used in the Vatican garden was deployed at the foot of the altar, which was itself covered by a hand-crafted net; other rainbow nets were visible in the sanctuary. A ritual to the Pachamama – “Mother Earth” – was once more celebrated after the objects that had strewn it in the Vatican gardens.
The objects included at least one of the two wooden figurines of naked pregnant women crouching, seen the day before in the Vatican gardens, either a pagan fertility symbol or a nude “Our Lady of the Amazon”."
Lifesite

IN the NEWS - Macron (& others) Bearing False Witness

Thou shalt not bear false witness... Exodus 20:16

Macron of France was bearing false witness against Brazil over the Amazon Fires by using an old picture to bash Brazil...and others by PURPOSLY Mischaracterizing the Amazon Fires for POLITICAL PROPAGANDA for their Green Religion....

"The G-7 nations pledged Monday about $40 million to help fight fires in the Amazon rainforest in response to the outcry from celebrities, media outlets and leaders like French President Emmanuel Macron, who said the blazes represented an “international crisis.”

Climate scientist Roy Spencer had another term for the fires: “normal agriculture.”

“I think the media focus on this is misplaced and exaggerated, as is virtually every weather-related story that appears these days,” said Mr. Spencer, a respected former NASA scientist.
“The driest years in Brazil will have the most fires set by farmers,” the professor at the University of Alabama at Huntsville said in an email. “That isn’t a climate story, it’s normal agriculture in a country where 50 million people living in poverty are trying to survive.”

After finding last week that the Amazon fire activity “has been close to average in comparison to the last 15 years,” the NASA Observatory said Saturday that there has been a slight “uptick,” making 2019 “the most active fire year in that region since 2010.”

Data from the Global Fire Emissions Database of Amazon Region

fire activity dating back to 2003 showed 2019 falling somewhere in the middle of the pack, with the number of fires as of Saturday at nearly 110,000.
Dan Nepstad, president of the Earth Innovation Institute, told Forbes that the number of 2019 fires is 7% above the average of the last 10 years, even as deforestation fell by 70% from 2004-12 in the Brazilian Amazon.  About 80% of the Amazon rainforest is intact, and half is protected under Brazilian federal law.

@The photos you probably saw weren’t of today’s fires in Brazil.
@Amazon isn’t the “lungs of the world”.
@Deforestation is 75% below 2004 peak.
@Forest fires not increasing.
@Fires 7% more than decadal average.

Such facts run counter to the widespread narrative depicting the Amazon going up in flames and on the brink of deforestation, thanks to the pro-development policies of President Jair Bolsonaro, the so-called “Brazilian Donald Trump” who took office in January.

In addition to Mr. Macron, liberal celebrities such as Madonna, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cristiano Ronaldo, Jaden Smith and Shakira have stoked alarm about the fires on social media. 
Also going viral are photos declared fake by fact-checkers at such media outlets as Agence France-Presse and Mother Jones, which noted that Mr. Macron tweeted an image taken in 2003.

Also going viral was the errant claim that the Amazon produces 20% of the earth’s oxygen, as tweeted by Mr. Macron and Rep. Ro Khanna, California Democrat.
But even Penn State climate scientist Michael E. Mann, a leader of the global-warming movement, said that was too high. 
In fact, Mr. Mann tweeted, even 6% would probably be too high, because “plants both photosynthesize and respire.”

Most but not all of the Amazon basin is in Brazil, which has six of the 10 Amazon districts.  Three others are in Bolivia and one is in Peru, but Bolivian President Evo Morales, a socialist, has received none of the international condemnation heaped on the conservative Mr. Bolsonaro.
In 2015, Mr. Morales told a crowd at the World People’s Conference on Climate Change that, “Capitalism is Mother Earth’s cancer.”
“The fires in Bolivia are being ignored by the media because Bolivia’s government is socialist and does not fit the narrative of evil ‘right-wing,’” Mr. Morano said. “Bolivia is protected from media criticism because they are the politically correct political leaders.”

The incidence of fire was higher from 2003 to 2007 and in 2010, during the administration of former Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a member of the Workers’ Party, although he received little in the way of international backlash."
Fulcrum7

As one can see from this NASA Map of the Fires...they are NOT just in Brazil...
Nor just in the Amazon......SHAME on "Christians" who have played along with, or 
sympathize with Politicizing yearly Forest Fires by Bearing False Witness...