Quantum - The Wee Flea Podcast

Quantum 26 - Zimbabwe; the Netherlands; Catholic Kids and Group Hate; Lady Gaga and Mike Pence; Tony's Flypast; Parliamentary Prayer; Macedonia; Socialism in Australia; David Bowie and the Internet

• Zimbabwe –

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0002220 - from 2:38 - David Coulthard

 

2) The Netherlands - https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jan/18/death-on-demand-has-euthanasia-gone-too-far-netherlands-assisted-dying?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX1RoZUxvbmdSZWFkLTE5MDExOQ%3D%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=TheLongRead&CMP=longread_email

http://www.dennyburk.com/dutch-pastors-face-possible-criminal-investigation-for-signing-the-nashville-statement/

3) America – Catholic Kids and Group Hate.. https://quillette.com/2019/01/20/truth-and-disfavored-identities/?fbclid=IwAR2h6ED7ViM9uy6aMmTO-oshMWf7dvcIpNNcla1jN38a7MYbG9Pq1H6ooeM

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/the-covington-catholic-bonfire-at-the-stake/ 

4) Lady Gaga and Mike Pence - https://www.christianpost.com/news/lady-gaga-calls-herself-christian-slams-mike-pence-as-worst-christian.html?utm_source=The+Christian+Post+List&utm_campaign=2f6d3d73c9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_01_22_05_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_dce2601630-2f6d3d73c9-2509241

Judas - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wagn8Wrmzuc

5) Tony and the Flypast. - https://twitter.com/bbcbreakfast/status/1087627217541189632?s=12

6) Prayer in parliament – Sunday –  John Lennox

http://archbishopcranmer.com/parliamentary-prayers-impose-exclude/

7) Riots in Greece – https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1075198/greece-riots-macedonia-riots-protests-police-tear-gas-athens 

8) Socialist Utopia in Australia - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/17/socialist-utopia-2050-what-could-life-in-australia-be-like-after-the-failure-of-capitalism?CMP=share_btn_link

 

Bowie on the Internet – in 1999 - https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/status/1083298716700815360

“The potential of what the internet to society both good and bad is unimaginable….its an alien lifeform

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quantum 25: Parliament and Brexit; Gillette and Toxic Masculinity; Cuomo and Abortion; Bishop Curry; John Finnis and Oxford students; LGBT Depression; Andy Murray

• EU and Parliament 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p062plkt 

2) Toxic Masculinity….

https://gillette.com/en-us/the-best-men-can-be 

https://www.christianpost.com/news/apa-issues-guidelines-calling-traditional-masculinity-harmful-to-men-boys.html?utm_source=The+Christian+Post+List&utm_campaign=889d8ed269-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_01_08_05_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_dce2601630-889d8ed269-2509241 

3) Abortion - Cuomo

https://www.christianpost.com/news/new-york-gov-cuomo-no-budget-unless-abortion-made-legal-for-any-reason-until-birth.html?utm_source=The+Christian+Post+List&utm_campaign=58159311c6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_01_10_06_41&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_dce2601630-58159311c6-2509241

4) Bishop Curry and Anglicanism

https://www.christianpost.com/news/episcopal-church-head-michael-curry-punishes-ny-bishop-who-wont-allow-gay-marriage-in-diocese.html?utm_source=The+Christian+Post+List&utm_campaign=af468895af-

http://archbishopcranmer.com/anglican-ambassador-to-rome-denies-the-resurrection-of-christ/?fbclid=IwAR3p8AScc4_4Oy0ET9cGtZ3BjTo-Lf-WcDEu1NWNKlN_MlUtXibVqr74nPE

5) John Finnis

 

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/is-john-finnis-the-bravest-don-in-oxford

6) LGBT depression –

7) Andy Murray

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/46867066

 

Quote of the week – From an Uncivil Brexit.

"The system always wins – rebooting the system? The vision wasn’t flawed…its people that are flawed – the politicians – they did it crap they ruined it…there is a systems failure in this country and across the West…we are languishing..we are drifting without a vision or a purpose..what do you do when there is a systems failure? You reset…that’s all I did. What did they do? What did all of you do? You rebooted the same operating system. The same tired old politics of short termism and self serving small thinking bullshit. 

I’m as bad as the rest of them but that’s what the system does, the virus…it infects, but I was hoping, just praying that someone, anyone with the minimalist amount of (swearing) imagination or vision or aspiration could see that there was the opportunity for something to actually happen for someone to step in and do something to make a change…."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quantum 24: China and the Dark Side of the Moon; The Yellow Vests; Trans; Soubry and Nazis; : Rahaf; Billy Connolly; The Iolaire

• 1) China – Threats to Taiwan….https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-46733174

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/25141597?ns_mchannel=email&ns_source=newsdaily_newsletter&ns_campaign=NEWS_NLB_Wk1_Thurs_3_January&ns_linkname=bbcnews_chinamoon_newsscience_chinamoon&ns_fee=0

• 2) The Yellow Vests - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46788751

  

3) BBC how Trans people choose their names -

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-46567954

Using He and She could be offensive - https://www.christian.org.uk/news/nhs-tells-staff-using-he-and-she-could-be-offensive/

Drag Queens in libraries - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-46753018

http://travisalabanza.co.uk/burgerz-2/

4) Rahaf - https://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/immigration/saudi-woman-rahaf-mohammed-alqunun-declared-a-refugee-by-un/news-story/098993901f29a382acf6ce38478ab974?utm_source=The%20Australian&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=BreakingNews 

5) Attacking politicians - Anna Soubry –https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jan/08/pressure-grows-on-police-to-act-over-nazi-slurs-against-anna-soubry

Nigel Farage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0YaM1TUfzk  

6) Billy Connolly - https://www.thenational.scot/news/17332798.billy-connolly-admits-he-is-near-the-end-but-isnt-scared-of-dying/

7) The Iolaire - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-46633716

Quote of the Week - The only truly acceptable contemporary Christianity for Western political culture now seems to be a Christianity which doesn’t mention God and which subscribes to conventional elite wisdom on policy issues (page 226).

https://theweeflea.com/2019/01/07/god-is-good-for-you-a-defence-of-christianity-in-troubled-times-greg-sheridan/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quantum 23 - Predictions for 2019

This is a follow up to Quantum 22 which looked at what happened last year - now we look ahead. 

1) ) We will continue to live in a confused culture -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSaS6NGvH6U

There will be growing gender confusion and a pushback against the Transgender ideology – 

https://www.spiked-online.com/2018/12/26/the-year-of-trans-tyranny/

  

2) Immigration –

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06vy1pq (from the beginning?) 

3) Turmoil in the EU –https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/protesters-are-violent-racist-hate-filled-liars-says-macron-xrf5wsr0w

4) In politics Brexit will not happen in any meaningful form –  

5) The SNP will pay the price for focusing on Brexit.

6) The Battle for Marriage and Family will continue -

http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/how-taiwans-silent-majority-blocked-same-sex-marriage-momentum 

7) Education - http://www.sconews.co.uk/news/57102/political-leaders-issue-christmas-messages-to-catholic-community-and-all-scotlands-christians/ 

8) China will face a turbulent year – BBC Sunday – https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0001sxk 

9) The battle for democracy

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-01/stan-grant-2019-the-end-of-history/10675572

 

 

10) Atheism will decline and a spiritual hole will be left - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/atheism-is-down-as-uk-gets-spiritual-z00nxczn7

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUv7sYBXEFw&t=58s

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quantum 22 - 2018 - End of Year Review

Quantum 22 – Review of 2018

10) A BitterSweet Day - https://theweeflea.com/2018/12/10/a-bittersweet-day-the-end-of-an-era/ 

9) The End of Scottish Indy - https://theweeflea.com/2018/10/16/the-end-of-scottish-independence/

8) Ireland Regresses - https://theweeflea.com/2018/05/27/ireland-regresses-sunday-bloody-sunday/

7) The Dark Side of Transgender Ideology - https://theweeflea.com/2018/11/12/the-dark-side-of-transgenderism/

6) 12 Rules for Life - https://theweeflea.com/2018/01/25/12-rules-for-life-a-christian-perspective/

5) A Revolutionary Question for the Church - https://theweeflea.com/2018/09/10/a-revolutionary-question-for-the-evangelical-church/

4) Bishop Curry - https://theweeflea.com/2018/05/21/bishop-michael-currys-sermon-a-distorted-gospel-divides-the-church/

3) Undivided - https://theweeflea.com/2018/06/25/undivided-an-open-letter-to-vicky-beeching/

2) The Hate Police - https://theweeflea.com/2018/10/02/the-hate-police-are-now-here/

1) America’s Disgrace - https://theweeflea.com/2018/09/28/americas-disgrace/

 

Quote of the Year: “Christians are always more short-sighted than they realize. They are often unable to tell, for instance, where their Christian principles leave off and their cultural perspectives begin. What many of them fail to ask themselves is, ‘where are we coming from and what is our own context?”

 

 

 

 

Quantum 21: Banned from the Mall; Swimming in Stornoway; Referendums; Was Jesus Funny? Saudi Arabia and Yemen; Mary's Boy Child; The Chinese Church

1) Christmas at Thistle shopping mall in Stirling - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXqBd3Wi7Mk&feature=youtu.be 

2) Stornoway Sabbath Swimming - Catriona Murray. Friday 7:45. GMS - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0001kfh

https://posttenebraslux.co.uk/2018/12/18/journalism-satan-and-sunday-opening/

3) Referendums - Ireland abortion - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0001mmm

4)Was Jesus funny? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0001md1 

5) Saudi Arabia and Yemen - https://unherd.com/2018/12/how-britain-profits-from-yemens-pain/ 

6) Mary’s Boychild - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0001mcb

7) The Chinese Church - https://www.premierchristianity.com/Blog/I-will-be-executed-but-I-will-not-plead-guilty.-Read-this-astonishing-letter-by-an-imprisoned-Chinese-pastor?utm_source=Premier%20Christian%20Media&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10130517_Ignite%2018%2F12%2F18&utm_content=Chinese%20pastor&dm_i=16DQ,614R9,KFBMV3,NNFLE,1

 

Quantum 20- Dr Dennis Mugwabe; Brexit; Censorship and Hate Speech; Transgender and the Church; :Abortion; Christmas Carols; Veggie Tales; Tyson Fury

Dr Denis Mugwabe - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfY3QD1aKBA

Brexit - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0001hww

 

Dennis Skinner - https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=79&v=3LSI53T-OHU

Censorship and Hate Speech –

https://unherd.com/2018/12/twitters-dangerous-approach-to-hate-speech/

https://www.christianconcern.com/our-issues/church-and-state/government-refuses-to-say-evangelism-isnt-hate-speech?fbclid=IwAR0DFgEGAoqAVX3XS0vdVYTqPIYsxLaUdcrO6SmYHtvXVcAtmF2jfkZY_v8

 Trans and the Church - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0001hvq

 Abortion – https://www.lifenews.com/2018/12/05/ireland-votes-to-allow-girls-under-16-to-have-abortions-without-parental-consent/?fbclid=IwAR3ERtZAp2cAkNn824YLDsNPFS4TxE9VN4-CKE4KbEdcjdGhLbKlYoj74dA

https://freedomproject.com/the-newman-report/920-yale-to-get-vending-machine-for-abortion-drugs

Christmas Carols – https://www.premierchristianity.com/Blog/Keith-Kristyn-Getty-reveal-their-10-favourite-Christmas-carols?utm_source=Premier%20Christian%20Media&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10107783_Ignite%2011%2F12%2F18&utm_content=Keith%20%26%20Kristyn&dm_i=16DQ,60N7R,619D6D,NLA1W,1

Fairy Tale of New York - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8

Veggie Tales - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbw4nsNpqzA

Tyson Fury - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LamGWNy4kg (from 21 min_)

 Claire Fox - https://www.facebook.com/167658653645162/posts/527641830980174/

 Quote “ I am told quite frequently that a failure to leave will lead to riots on the streets. No it won’t. It will lead only to a sullen acceptance that once again, you can’t beat the establishment. It will always win in the end” (Rod Liddle) .

Rom. 8:37    No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. (Paul)

Quantum 19 - French Riots; Spain and Italy; UN MIgration Compact; Apple Censorship; Veganophobia; The Lord of the Rings; George Bush; Roger Scruton; Sex and Gender; Fury Boxing; Brexit

1) France and the Macron Riots - https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/12/emmanuel-macron-has-united-france-against-him/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Evening%20_Blend_03122018&utm_campaign=Evening_Blend

2) The EU – Andalusia and Italy - The EU in the UK –

. https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-b6gka-51d2627

 3) UN Migration Compact and Vegans and Islamaphobia Goging to Scottish Parliament https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAl2onqFLMs&feature=youtu.be&t=70&fbclid=IwAR1oZoGxtfjfiy-4nOj6AcrxKOdJ1pr38rO6kowyDPKnSYQcC8wp90x9CKE

4) Apple Censorship - https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1069783830033162240

5) Chick Fil – A - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/new-jersey-university-blacklists-chick-fil-a-over-christian-corporate-value?utm_content=buffer6993c&utm_medium=WCDM%2BBuffer&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=WCDM

 6) Veganophobia - https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/bringing-home-bacon-vegan-offensive-idom-shareena-hamzah-phrases-animals-a8664796.html

 7) Orcs – Lord of the Rings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up9nJLkxzlk

 8)  George Bush - https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/12/mourn-bush-sr-but-dont-celebrate-him-for-what-he-did-to-america-and-the-world/

9)  Point of View – Sunday – Roger Scruton - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0001ccq (from 3 min doubts about Islam – and labels)

10) Sex, Gender and Sport - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001f05

£80,000 on Trans prisoner - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/19/trans-murderer-serving-life-will-receive-80k-gender-reassignment/?fbclid=IwAR0_IT18ODqmpFL_UPM605VDM3ESpcTn59X-MDa1enG_Kxg9ERx7CWT1SEE

John Mason - https://www.christian.org.uk/news/snp-criticised-from-within-over-push-for-gender-self-declaration/?fbclid=IwAR1_oGA9AKklFmAgXbs_AxCishi8f-Tup-nF0QQQzPT12hGxoF9QX7xCkEc

11) The Holocaust - https://www.cufi.org.uk/news/shocking-new-poll-shows-a-third-of-europeans-know-nothing-or-little-about-holocaust/

12) Fury and Wilder - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WORU4neE3hg

Quote of the week – GK Chesterton “At least five times the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. In each of these five cases, it was the dog that died.”

Quantum 18 - China; Taiwan; Christmas in Brunei; Censorship ; Transmania; Rainbow Badges in the NHS; Anti-Semitism in Hungary; The Ukrainian Holocaust; John Allen Chau

• China - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-21/beijing-to-judge-every-resident-based-on-behavior-by-end-of-2020

  Taiwan – Rejects SSM - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-46329877

 

• Christmas – a)Brunei - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/brunei-cancels-christmas-sultan-warns-those-celebrating-could-face-up-to-five-years-in-jail-a6782561.html?fbclid=IwAR0W6Sef4Tp1AacdVeCe8wUCB6mxX3_TiMTNQjPS3yXI_vDumVbsA1dmSdw

 Martyn Lewis - https://www.facebook.com/mrmartinlewis/videos/10155478443616540/

• Censorship

1. Derby Cathedral –-

https://youtu.be/rzdyRSV3Ago

https://www.premier.org.uk/News/UK/Cathedral-denies-banning-vicar-from-preaching-at-carol-service

 Glasgow and Aberdeen Unis - https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/11/the-real-reason-pro-life-students-arent-welcome-at-glasgow-university/

Vagina Monologues - https://nypost.com/2018/11/20/now-the-pc-police-have-come-for-the-vagina-monologues/

 Jean Hackett - https://twitter.com/jeanhatchet/status/1067784361225924609?s=12

• Transamania – Piers Morgan - https://twitter.com/i/status/1067390060977418240 
• Rainbow badges -
• Anti-Semitism in Hungary - https://www.commentarymagazine.com/anti-semitism/jews-anti-semitism-europe-east-west/
• Ukrainian Holocaust –

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00018qp (first wee bit from 1:45 min)….Memorial. Russia and Ukraine today.

https://www.dispropaganda.com/single-post/2016/12/18/Joseph-Stalin-the-greatest-mass-murderer-of-all-time?fbclid=IwAR0kbEY6tSWkWZKW_kZBaYzsrjpLGGMSLg44Y7l3w9stMe8juvmTT9KrLas

• John Allen Chau - https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/11/it-is-time-we-civilised-the-sentinelese-people/

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00017z6 from 37 minutes – Neil DM Macleod

"Give me Scotland or I die" - John Knox

 

 

Quantum 17 - St Helens Bishopsgate; Michael Veitch; Islamic Prayer in Blackburn Cathedral; Dawkins and Children; Transgender Rights; Marrying a Ghost

St Helens Bishopgates and Bible studies in the City with William Taylor - https://www.facebook.com/501565301/posts/10161149698290302/

  

Pastor Michael Vitch in Scottish Parliament. - https://www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/time-for-reflection-october-30-2018?fbclid=IwAR1zNPc8VxWe0TzdL2c5aXA470lnOVPmlyUIHF2Py77VZtXrB6vUKj93o5g

Islamic Prayer in Blackburn Cathedral 

https://www.julesgomes.com/single-post/Blackburn-Cathedral-is-Muslim-territory-after-Islamic-call-to-prayer?fbclid=IwAR3GqGrtzm1g_5E3l3v-8uIxwabxYqlQmjz2dKvGGXlnD0WBgdtYSA-AmQ8

IS religion good for children – Richard Dawkins - https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/is-religion-good-for-children-1.3674350

 

Transgender rights – Channel 4 –

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/11/dozens-major-companies-just-warned-trump-not-mess-transgender-rights/

https://www.ft.com/content/d1c4c06c-e6a2-11e8-8a85-04b8afea6ea3

https://theweeflea.com/2018/11/19/gender-and-trauma-the-dark-side-of-transgender-part-2/

 Spiritism - https://nypost.com/2018/10/30/woman-who-had-sex-with-20-ghosts-is-now-engaged-to-a-spirit/

“It is more rational to believe in God than to believe there is no God. Belief in God is much more rationally appealing than atheism. The resting place of the mind, its natural equilibrium, as it were, is belief” Greg Sheridan God is Good for You.