{"id":351682,"date":"2018-03-11T06:16:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T05:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/end-times-coming\/"},"modified":"2018-03-11T06:16:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T05:16:37","slug":"end-times-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/end-times-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"End Times Coming?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_100391\" style=\"max-width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100391\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-08-at-5.56.58-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"340\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by olavXO | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Donald Trump has been losing it a lot lately, mentally decomposing.\u00a0 The more he does, the more likely it becomes that the world will end with a bang.\u00a0 We cannot rule out a whimper, however \u2013 not with the Commander-in-Chief\u2019s mind, what there is of it, fluttering hither and yon.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe Providence has something more Biblical in store.<\/p>\n<p>In the Book of <em>Revelation<\/em>, six hundred sixty-six is \u201cthe mark of the beast.\u201d\u00a0 For some two thousand years, that number has been associated with the Anti-Christ and with what evangelicals nowadays call \u201cthe end times.\u201d\u00a0 The number 666 figures in esoteric mystical and satanic practices, and in the folk traditions of peoples throughout Christendom.\u00a0 It is a point of reference in the popular culture of our time.<\/p>\n<p>How ironic therefore that the address of the skyscraper office building that is playing such a prominent role in Jared Kushner\u2019s fall from grace is 666 Fifth Avenue!<\/p>\n<p>The demonic connotations of that building\u2019s address have been part of the folklore surrounding it from the time that Tishman Realty and Construction, a far bigger deal than the Trump Organization, had the office tower built in the late fifties.\u00a0 Tishman had no problem renting out office and retail space on that account; in those saner times, Christian eschatology was less commercially and politically consequential than it has since become.<\/p>\n<p>The Kushner Real Estate Group, which under Jared\u2019s leadership acquired 666 in 2007,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/03\/09\/end-times-coming\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by olavXO | CC BY 2.0 Donald Trump has been losing it a lot lately, mentally decomposing.\u00a0 The more he does, the more likely it becomes that the world will end with a bang.\u00a0 We cannot rule out a whimper, however \u2013 not with the Commander-in-Chief\u2019s mind, what there is of it, fluttering hither [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-351682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}