Friday, September 13, 2024

This Weekend in History - September 14 & 15

            A special thanks to Wikipedia.org for following historical information. The sermons I have chosen from Sermonaudio.com

September 14

1763Seneca warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Devil's Hole during Pontiac's War.
Recommended sermons and podcasts: 
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2022Death of Queen Elizabeth II: The Queen's coffin is taken from Buckingham Palace, placed on a gun carriage of The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery and moved in a procession to Westminster Hall for her lying in state over the next four days with the queue of mourners stretching for miles along the River Thames.[12][13]

Recommended sermons and podcasts: The Passing Of Our Beloved Queen - And the Reality of Death, Judgment and Eternity, by Dr. Ian Brown (2022)
 
September 15

  1. 1762 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Signal Hill.[2]
  1. 1776 – American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip's Bay during the New York Campaign.[3]
Recommended video: The John Birch Society: What You're Not Supposed to Know 

    1. 2008 – Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
    Recommended sermons and podcasts: 
     
    Michael Burry saw the financial meltdown of 2008 coming. The book The Big Short tells the story. The following quotes are from The Big Short, which told the story of the financial meltdown in 2008 and who profited from it:
    “Being short in 2007 and making money from it was fun, because we were short bad guys. In 2008 it was the entire financial system that was at risk. We were still short, but you don’t want the system to crash. It's sort of like the flood’s about to happen, and you’re Noah. You’re on the ark, ya, you’re okay, but you’re not happy looking out at the flood. That’s not a happy moment for Noah.”

    Second quote: “In early October 2008 after the U.S. government had stepped in to say it would...absorb all the losses in the financial system and prevent any big Wall Street firm from failing.”

    Third quote: “Maybe the best definition of investing is gambling with the odds in your favor. The people on the short side of the subprime mortgage market had gambled with the odds in their favor. The people on the other side – the entire financial system, essentially – had gambled with the odds against them. What’s strange and complicated about it is that pretty much all the important people on both sides left the table rich.”

    And the last quote: “The world’s most highly paid financiers had been totally discredited; without government intervention, every single one of them would have lost his job. And yet those same financiers were using the government to enrich themselves. I can understand why Goldman Sachs would want to be included in the conversation about what to do about Wall Street. What I can’t understand is why anyone would listen to them” 

      Russia Threatens US with Nuclear War by Christmas

        Russia Threatens US with Nuclear War by Christmas - msn.com ---------------------- Recommended reading:  Report Warn Risk of Nuclear War ...