Watch a two part video documentary about Martin Luther who founded the Protestant branch of Christianity

[Note:  This documentary is not yet on the “History of the World in Videos” article.  I recommend watching the interesting “The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance” documentary series before the videos in this article— especially this episode that explains the circumstances of the corrupt Popes that triggered the Protestant reformation.]

“Martin Luther: Driven to Defiance” (Part 1 of 2)

Following is from the video page:

A 2002 PBS Biography Documentary narrated by Liam Neeson as part of Empires Special Series.

Few if any men have changed the course of history like Martin Luther.  In less than ten years, this fevered German monk plunged a knife into the heart of an empire that had ruled for a thousand years, and set in motion a train of revolution, war and conflict that would reshape Western civilization, and lift it out of the Dark Ages.

Martin Luther was born into a world dominated by the Catholic Church, which holds spiritual dominion over all the nations of Europe.  For the keenly spiritual Luther, the Church’s promise of salvation is irresistible – caught in a thunderstorm, terrified by the possibility of imminent death, he vows to become a monk.  But after entering the monastery, Luther becomes increasingly doubtful that the Church can actually offer him salvation at all.  His views crystallize even further with a trip to Rome, where he finds that the capital of Catholicism is swamped in corruption.

Wracked by despair, Luther finally finds release in the pages of the Bible, when he discovers that it is not the Church, but his own individual faith that will guarantee his salvation.  With this revelation, he turns on the Church, attacking its practice of selling Indulgences in the famous 95 Theses.

 

“Martin Luther: The Reluctant Revolutionary” (Part 2 of 2)

Following is from the video page:

When an obscure monk named Martin Luther nailed 95 Theses – 95 stinging rebukes – attacking the mighty Catholic Church, and its head, Pope Leo X to the door of Wittenberg Cathedral he unleashed a tornado.  It was a hurricane of violence and revolution that raged across Europe, and changed the face of a continent forever.   The Catholic Church brought all its considerable power to bear to try and muzzle Luther, including accusations of heresy and excommunication.  But protected by his local ruler, Frederick the Wise, Luther continued to write ever more radical critiques of the Church, and to develop a whole new system of faith, one that puts the freedom of the individual believer above the rituals of the Church.

His ideas spread like wildfire, aided by the newly invented printing press.  Finally he’s called before the German imperial parliament, in the city of Worms, and told he must recant.  Risking torture and execution, Luther nevertheless refused and proclaimed his inalienable right to believe what he wished.

Convinced he would not survive the trip to Worms but with absolute faith he declared, “I am not afraid, for God’s Will will (sic) be done, and I rejoice to suffer in so noble a cause.”

Luther finally died in the year 1543, seized by a crippling heart attack but he held onto his righteousness and rage until the very end.

“When I die, I want to be a ghost… So I can continue to pester the bishops, priests and godless monks until that they have more trouble with a dead Luther than they could have had before with a thousand living ones.”

About the “History of the World in Videos” article on NOITV

I was looking through the “History of the World in Videos” article on NOITV recently, it contains a lot of interesting information.   I want to eventually develop it more and add more videos to it.  For example I think it needs more information about Central and South America, Canada, and ancient Mesopotamia, and there isn’t any information about space exploration.

One of my favorite documentaries in it is the History Channel “Barbarians II” series that was created in 2007, which explains how power shifted from the Roman Empire to kingdoms in mainland Europe.  It is a shame that some of those episodes are no longer available to watch on Amazon streaming, I’m looking into finding those episodes to post them myself.

There is a newer “woke” version of that series on YouTube, however each of its episodes are twice as long and I don’t think they are nearly as interesting.  It includes annoying guest commentary by people like Neil deGrasse Tyson and Al Sharpton where they actually even mention the Black Lives Matter organization as some sort of a comparison!  The new video series was created during the BLM rioting and kneeling at football games, etc.  In fact the History Channel even updated the online artwork for the original non-woke Barbarians II series to feature a black man as being representative of what happened!

This is what the History Channel wants people to think a “Barbarian” looks like.

This is the original artwork for the 2007 Barbarians II DVD.

It is true that one of the many Barbarian leaders in history who was named Hannibal was “somewhat” black, however.  (link, and link)

 

This opening scene in Ridley Scott’s movie Gladiator is a good depiction of what Barbarians actually looked like.

The current “border crisis” between Texas and the U.S. federal government is mostly a charade

This video explains that while the news media has been reporting a “crisis” happening between Texas and the U.S. federal government where the U.S. has been cutting through barbed wire that Texas has been putting up, portions of the “border wall” are actually open for migrants to cross through starting as close as half a mile from where the controversy exists.

[Note though that there are still questions of states rights vs. federal rights when it comes to immigration enforcement.  Actually I think it would be preferable for federal rights to have precedence in immigration issues since it would combat the harmful policies of “sanctuary cities” and “sanctuary states” once the federal legislation has been corrected (which is possible if an awakening will happen).

I believe the most effective deterrents to illegal immigration are to stop allowing migrants to apply for amnesty, ending the policy of birthright citizenship for illegal migrants, erecting a physical barrier that is actually effective, and deporting new migrants who illegally come into the country after those policies have been implemented.]

Mark Dice explains the border showdown between Texas and the federal government

In this video, Mark Dice explains the situation of the U.S. federal government attempting to tear down barbed wire barriers in a Texas state park where the state of Texas has been trying to impede the flow of illegal migrants coming over the border, along with other issues.

Dice explains that such a tactic of states is nothing new, where Democrat states allow “sanctuary cities” that interfere with the operations of the Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to stop them from deporting illegal migrants.

He also explains the dangers of the situation of unvetted people coming over the border; the ease it is for anyone to claim asylum; the fact that such migrants are given asylum hearings as far away as ten years from now or more; the fact that there are at least 30 million illegal migrants in the country now; he explains Joe Biden’s plan to give a path of citizenship to all of the illegal migrants that are in the country; he explains California’s plan to give free health care to illegal migrants; and he shows video clips of politicians such a Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Chuck Shumer who previously spoke against illegal immigration.

Migrants are going door-to-door in New York City asking for money

This video explains that migrants are panhandling door-to-door in New York city neighborhoods.  [Note: Mayor Eric Adams shouldn’t be let off the hook because he has started speaking against the migration agenda.  He allowed it to happen for years knowing what the result was going to be. (link)]

 

Image from Wikipedia.

Many people across the U.S. post signs in their yards that say, “WE BELIEVE: Black Lives Matter, No Human is Illegal, Love is Love, Science is Real, etc, etc..”  I wonder how people living in those houses would respond to random migrants constantly knocking on their doors asking for money and to be taken into their homes to be housed.

 

This article on the website Border Hawk News explains that migrants are congregating and leaving a mess in the many local parks and neighborhoods in Manhattan such as Tompkins Square Park.

 

This video says the migrants living in New York City are being evicted from the (expensive) hotels where they have been housed for over a year.  I think many of such migrants will end up being distributed to towns across the United States and to areas such as the West coast.

Nearly 12,000 incoming illegal migrants have been processed in the Tucson sector of Arizona in the past week

(Click on the image to view its video.)

Following is a summary of this Breitbart article:

[Note the original article uses the Border Patrol’s term “apprehended” which I think creates an inaccurate impression of what is happening, so instead I’m using the phrase “being processed” where the migrants are usually signed up for asylum hearings in the future and in the meantime they are usually released into the interior of the U.S.]

The Tucson, Arizona Sector Chief Patrol Agent John Modlin posted a video which explains that the Border Patrol processed nearly 12,000 illegal migrants during the past week in that area, which is up from just under 10,000 one week earlier.

During the first three reporting periods in January, Tucson agents processed nearly 35,000 migrants (which is about 1,662 per day).  During the same period last year, about 10,200 were processed (which was about 486 per day).

Unofficial reports for December show that about 80,000 were processed by Tucson agents (which was about 2,500 per day).

2,500 year old lost cities have been discovered in Ecuador (Updated)

A new type of laser mapping technology known as LIDAR reveals lost cities in the foothills of the Ecuadorian Andes.

[UPDATE: This is actually summarized from this AP article:]

A cluster of lost cities has been reported as discovered in Ecuador, South America, which were established around 500 B.C. and were habituated for about 1,000 years.  The area is estimated to have been home to at least 10,000 farmers and perhaps as many as 30,000 at its peak.

Recent mapping by laser-sensor LIDAR technology reveals the lost cities which was a dense network of settlements and roadways in the forested foothills of the Andes.

The settlements date to about the same time period as the Roman Empire, and it predates the Aztec, Incan, and Mayan civilizations.  [Note: But it does not predate the much older Caral pyramids in Peru that date to about the same time period as the Egyptian pyramids.]

Earthen mounds and buried roads in the area were first noticed more than two decades ago by the archeologist Stéphen Rostain, who said he initially was not sure of how it all fit together.  He has recently reported his findings in the journal Science.

The people who inhabited the area are called the “Upano.” Instead of building with stone as the Incans and Mayans did, they built with mud in an elaborate system of organized labor.

The buildings were residential and ceremonial and they were erected on more than 6,000 earthen mounds, where they were surrounded by agricultural fields with drainage canals.  The largest roads were 10 meters wide and stretched for 6 to 12 miles.

[Note: January 21, 2024— I’m very impressed with Native American culture, I think it is amazing how they accomplished what they did without having contact with other cultures.  See the videos on this page.  This video is one of my favorites (personally I recommend watching the second one in the series that I linked to here before the first one.)]

A black rapper has announced a baby shower for five different women that he has impregnated

This video explains that a New York rapper announced a baby shower for five different women that he has impregnated.

I think it is almost a certainty that those kids will be paid for with welfare money if for no other reason than they will be able to get away with it, but even if not almost all of many others in similar situations are paid for that way.

Many black people have been conditioned to think of themselves as being victims such as by BLM propaganda for example, and as a result many use it to rationalize behavior such as his.

The people who run the world actually see dysfunctional mentalities such as his as being ideal for the coming New World Order.

“Watch: Iranian National Who Illegally Entered U.S. Issues Dire Warning About Biden’s Open Borders”

Following is from this Infowars article:

An Iranian national who illegally entered the United States from the open southern border gave a dire warning about the future of America’s national security should it go to war with China or Iran.

The Iranian national told journalist Ben Bergquam in Jacumba, California, that terrorist sleeper cells have likely already exploited the collapsed border and positioned themselves for attacks should a conflict break out with China or Iran.

“If an incident between U.S. and China occur in Taiwan, what will these people do?” the man asked as he pointed to the many other illegal aliens around him.

“Are they on the side of the U.S. or will they take China’s side?  I don’t know.  And no one knows.”

The Iranian national described the route he took to reach the U.S. southern border, and said potential terrorists are likely using a similar route.

“I come to Turkey, Turkey to Mexico, Mexico to United States,” he said.

“What would prevent a terrorist from doing the same thing?”  Bergquam asked.

“Nothing.  Exactly.  Nothing,” the man said.

The man went on to say that Joe Biden is a clear and present danger not just for the U.S., but for the entire world due to his destructive inflationary spending policies which could trigger a worldwide recession.

“If the U.S. falls, everyone falls,” he said.

This comes just days after an Iranian national with terrorism ties was apprehended crossing the U.S. at the northern border at a Niagara Falls port of entry.

 

Of course, Alex Jones recently warned of terrorist sleeper cells embedding themselves in the U.S. using the open border to sneak in amid Israel’s conflict with Hamas.

“It’s clear that Hezbollah and Hamas have tens of thousands of men and women as sleeper cells that are, quote, ‘other than Mexican,’ that the Border Patrol lists every month, tens of thousands coming across the Texas and Arizona and California sectors,” Jones told Tucker Carlson.

“And it’s an easy equation to predict that there’s a wide probability that Hezbollah and Hamas, at some point, are going to attack sports stadiums.  They’re going to attack colleges.  They’re going to attack synagogues.  They’re going to shoot up mass gatherings if they’re given the order by Iran, if we go to war with Iran.”

“And then when this happens, our government won’t get in trouble for dissolving the border and letting these people come in, just like on 9/11, our government clearly had prior knowledge.  There was clearly a major stand-down that went on.  And the government got more power, [and] more control.  And now they’re not pointing the homeland security apparatus at the Russians like they did in the Cold War or the Islamists after 9/11,” he added.

Even FBI Director Christopher Wray admitted to Congress in October that Hamas could launch a surprise attack inside America as they did inside Israel on Oct. 7.

 

[Editor’s Note— Iran is actually covertly controlled by the same political Establishment that controls the Biden administration (link, and link), however a danger of people being aware of that is the fact that it can lead to people believing that it makes the country “not be a threat,” since most people do not understand the actual insidious nature of the Illuminati global elite.

Contrary to what some might think, Iran was not subjugated by the elite in order to “protect” the West or anyone else, but rather it was done in order to eventually make use of the country as a weapon against the West in order to help usher in the elite’s totalitarian New World Order.]

Trump is promising to fix the illegal immigration issues in the U.S. if he is elected

In this video of Trump speaking in Iowa, he says “As soon as I take the oath of office, I’ll terminate every open border policy of the Biden administration and begin the largest deportation operation in American history.”  The video is from this Tweet.

What Trump is saying sounds much like his rhetoric last time.  In his last term he did do some things about the immigration problems, but also he didn’t do a lot of what he said he was going to do.   He often explained away the situations such as saying, “I would have started refusing asylum to people illegally entering the U.S., but an Obama-appointed federal judge told me that I can’t do that, etc..” (link)  (Note: I think in that case Trump should have went ahead and simply stopped giving the asylum anyway even though a judge said that he couldn’t do that— he could have then let the judge try to sue him and have it turn into a national media issue.)

Even if Trump does win, it will not be for an entire year— while thousands of migrants are pouring over the border every day and they are given court dates for asylum hearings in the distant future, and in the meantime they are being distributed across the U.S. and signed up for welfare benefits.

It won’t be practical or usually even preferable to deport people unless they are completely undocumented or commit crimes.  Most of the illegal immigrants are in the U.S. awaiting their asylum trials which will take place years from now while in the meantime they are working, collecting welfare, and having kids.  So of course Trump will not realistically be able to deport them.  Also sanctuary cities and states such as California would never allow deportations in even the most extreme of cases anyway.

Trump stressing “deportations” in his rhetoric are apparently a part of his divisive persona that will enable the Establishment media and celebrities to pretend as if they are inflamed by what he is saying.

Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” plan was a step in the right direction, but it wasn’t implemented until later in his administration, it still allowed the migrants to wait for asylum hearings, and it easily allowed the flow of immigration to start up again after Biden stole the election.  And Trump’s supposed “wall” was actually simple to cut through and for anyone to crawl over with ladders.

Despite my issues with him, I do think Trump is much preferable to Biden.  He can be effective as long as his supporters don’t unquestioningly trust him while sitting around waiting for him to do everything as they did last time.  All presidents and almost all other politicians serve the same group of global elite individuals and they are required to do whatever they are told to do, so you can only count on a certain amount of cooperation from most politicians.

Without people knowing that the voting machines are rigged and the extent of all the other problems the United States will soon disappear.

Also see the article “A Summary of Immigration Issues in the United States.”