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NBC News Thinks Getting Microchipped Sounds Super-Convenient
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We've written numerous times before about the upcoming push for personal microchips on this website. Thousands of people in Sweden are voluntarily getting "chipped." Daisy Luther wrote that many Americans wouldn't be far behind." And experts have claimed that one day in the not-too-distant future that "everyone" will be microchipped.
And it looks like the push is on. A while back, Brandon Turbeville wrote about the UK's pro-microchipping coverage. And now, NBC News published a pro-microchipping video, gushing over the "convenience" of having your keys, your money, and your ID all placed in your hand in a device about the size of a grain of rice.
Are we literally at a place in humanity in which carrying a wallet is too much trouble? Heaven help those who feel that way if they ever have to acquire their own food and water.

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Civil Unrest Spreads Across The World - Will The US Be Next?
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All over the globe, the mood is turning sour.  Anger and frustration are bubbling over, and protests are becoming violent in major cities all across the planet.  In some cases economic pain is driving the protests and in other cases political matters are motivating the protesters, and it has been a very long time since we have seen so many angry protests happening all over the world simultaneously.  

Unfortunately, many believe that what we have seen so far is just the beginning.  Global economic conditions are rapidly deteriorating, and as economic pain intensifies that is only going to make everyone more frustrated.  And here in the United States, the drama surrounding the potential impeachment of Donald Trump is going to greatly escalate the political tensions that are already deeply dividing this country.  
No matter how things turn out, a large percentage of the population is likely to be deeply frustrated with the result, and that could very easily lead to tremendous civil unrest.
But before we get to Trump, let's take a look at what has been going on around the rest of the world first.  In Chile, we are witnessing violent protests unlike anything that we have seen in decades...
Three people died in a fire in a supermarket being ransacked in the Chilean capital early Sunday, as protests sparked by anger over social and economic conditions rocked one of Latin America's most stable countries.
Santiago's Mayor Karla Rubilar told reporters two people burned to death in the blaze and another later died in hospital, after the huge store controlled by US retail chain Walmart was looted.
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Confessions Of A Kanye Skeptic: Welcoming The Lost With the Spirit Of Christ
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Two close friends and I were recently discussing Kanye West's profession of Christianity, and one of them confessed that his initial reaction to the news resembled a dismissive gag. Mine, too.
Leaving aside West's unsavory lyrical legacy and life choices, the rap artist has a track record of taking up odd and counter-intuitive hobbies. Who can forget his MAGA hat phase, not nine months gone? Surely Christianity is just his latest gimmick to earn attention. We shouldn't take him seriously. Pearls before swine, you know.
My friend admitted that what shut his mouth in the Job-ian sense was the name of Kanye's new album: "Jesus Is King." Of the three of us, only one is a fan of the genre. I'm not likely to ever listen to any of the songs, except by accident. But as my friend put it after hearing that title, "Okay Kanye, you've got my attention."

Our discussion soon drifted closer to home. We have a longtime mutual friend who was raised in church but has spent the last five years professing atheism and living (or attempting to live) a profligate life. The nature of our group has always involved affectionate teasing, but at times, we probably stepped over the line with this prodigal pal.
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The Percentage Of Christians In America Has Hit An All-Time Low
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The decline of the Christian faith in the United States continues to accelerate, and the latest numbers that we just got are absolutely staggering.  
Most European countries are already considered to be "post-Christian" nations, and the U.S. appears to be headed down the exact same path.  But when America was originally founded, it is estimated that 98 percent of the colonists were Christians.  

The Christian faith played a critical role in the development of our form of government, and down throughout history every generation of Americans was overwhelmingly Christian.  But now things are changing in a major way.  

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Supreme Court Declines To Hear Case Promoting Islam In Public School
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The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the case of a Christian high school student in Maryland who, despite threats of receiving a failing grade, refused to deny her faith by making a written profession of the Muslim conversion prayer known as the shahada.
The shahada states, "There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah."
Caleigh Wood, an eleventh-grader in La Plata High School, a public school in La Plata, Maryland, was represented in the case by the Thomas More Law Center, nonprofit public interest law firm know for defending First Amendment rights - particularly those that violate the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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As part of the school's "World History" curriculum, the La Plata High School high school students were taught extensively about Islam and required to list the benefits of the religion.
Wood and other students were forced to view a series of pro-Islamic PowerPoint slides, including one that stated, "Most Muslims' faith is stronger than the average Christian."
The curriculum also taught:
"Islam at heart is a peaceful religion."
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Erdogan's Summit With Putin Should Ring Alarm Bells For NATO
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With Turkey seemingly intent on forging an ever-closer relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the time has come to give serious consideration to Ankara's continued membership of the NATO alliance.
When the Turks first became members of NATO back in 1952, it was because their country was seen as a vital bulwark against the Soviet Union. Having Turkey in NATO meant it was easier to monitor the activities of the Soviet Black Sea fleet, and limited Moscow's ability to spread its tentacles into eastern Europe and the Middle East.
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Now, thanks to the increasingly anti-Western conduct of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, none of these considerations remains relevant.
These days, the Soviet Union might be no more, but Russia under Mr Putin's autocratic rule is just as determined to undermine the West and its allies, and Mr Erdogan, to judge by his successful summit with the Russian leader on October 22 at the Black Sea city of Sochi, is proving to be Moscow's useful idiot in accomplishing these goals.
Relations between Ankara and Moscow have improved considerably since Turkish warplanes shot down a Russian military jet that had strayed into Turkish air space in 2015.
Thanks to the close rapport that exists between Mr Putin and Mr Erdogan, Russia's Black Sea fleet is able to operate freely, to the extent that Russian warships based in the area were used to attack rebel forces in Syria fighting the regime of President Bashir al-Assad.
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Warren Shows Her Progressive Credentials By Bashing Israel
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The Democratic presidential hopeful, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, has suggested that she would consider cutting military aid to Israel to force it to halt construction of settlements in the disputed territorie
"It is the official policy of the United States of America to support a two-state solution, and if Israel is moving in the opposite direction then everything is on the table," she said. To ensure that no one failed to understand her threat, she repeated her final phrase.
Her comment furnished more evidence that Warren resembles British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in her far-left and Israel-bashing views. This threatens to harm not only the sole democratic U.S. ally in the Middle East, but also the interests and security of America itself.
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Democrat Candidates Push LGBT Activism Front & Center
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Don't blame me for writing yet another article on LGBT issues. Blame Beto. Or Booker. Or Biden. Or Buttigieg. Or Warren.
The Democratic presidential candidates are pushing this agenda, and quite aggressively at that.
They're the ones talking about what the Bible allegedly says and does not say about homosexuality.
They're the ones threatening our religious liberties.
They're the ones wanting to indoctrinate our children.
All we're doing is responding.
They're the ones telling us we don't have the right to our biblically based beliefs.
They're the ones pushing a radical, revisionist agenda.
They're the ones telling hundreds of millions of people that the explicit teachings of Scripture must be ignored and that the church (and synagogue) have been wrong on these issues for 2,000 years.
If you'd rather not read about this in the news every day, don't blame me. Blame them.
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Next Generation Weapons & The New World Order
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In World War I, generals who studied Napoleon sent waves of troops into a barrage of machine gun fire. The rapid-fire weapons mowed down thousands in minutes. Was this necessary? No. Thousands of young men died all because their commanders focused on fighting the last war. They didn't adjust to new developments and new technologies. 
In World War II, the Polish army defended itself from Nazi and Soviet invaders with horse-mounted troops. They also focused on fighting the last war and were quickly defeated. A few years later, World War II ended when the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan. 
Ever since, most people have held the belief World War III will start the same way World War II ended. Anyone who believes this makes the same mistake as those who came before them. They prepare to fight the last war.
Complacency is the Enemy
Our tendency to focus on the past creates a sense of familiarity and comfort, and comfort breeds complacency. When it comes to warfare, complacency is the enemy. For over seventy years, Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) prevented all-out nuclear war between the major powers. The world emerged from the Cold War intact. Following decades of uncertainty, nuclear war never came. We didn't destroy ourselves. This lulled many into a false sense of security, and complacency set in.
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Democrats Plan To Target Churches Opposed To LGTB Rights Laid Bare
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As those of you who read my rundown last week will know, the Democratic Party formally came out of the closet last week at the CNN LGBTQ Town Hall. They promised everything that was requested and more--Joe Biden almost took a lunge at Anderson Cooper at one point--and made it clear (if it wasn't already) that they have chosen their side in the culture war. 
The gay marriage debate is not about "equal rights" or "tolerance" or anything like that. It is about one side winning, and the other side losing. And in this case, the winners want to crush the losers, and the Democratic Party is eager to help.
This is not a surprise, in some ways. After all, same-sex marriage was only legalized across the US in 2015 and already we've got bakers, photographers, and other professionals being driven out of business, LGBTQ education being installed in schools right across the country, drag queens reading stories to children in public libraries, and transgender 9-year-olds showing up on CNN to wild applause and the warm support of Democrat who should be old enough to know better. 
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China's War On The Bible: If You Can't Ban It, Alter It
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A recent article at WORLD Magazine reported how the Chinese-language app called "WeDevote" recently surpassed 10 million downloads.
That number, as well as the overall success of "WeDevote," is even more remarkable given the back story, one that illustrates Beijing's ongoing war on the Bible.
"WeDevote" is a Bible-reading and devotional app known for its "aesthetically-pleasing" design and respect for copyright laws, a rarity in China. The month after its launch, China's biggest app store listed WeDevote as a "Recommended App" right on its homepage.
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The Communist Party's crackdown on Christianity in recent years meant that both the app and its developers faced increasing government scrutiny. Eventually, they were given a choice: shut down the app or face jail time.
Well, a third option, transferring ownership of the app to a Hong Kong-based company, provided a temporary respite from the ultimatum, but the government has now banned "WeDevote" from Chinese app stores. Though the developers are actively seeking some kind of work-around, it's a struggle to get the app in the hands of users on the mainland.
The government's shut down of "WeDevote" is part of a disturbing trend. Last year, China banned online Bible sales. Of course, that doesn't mean Bibles are unavailable in China. Chinese publishers continue to print Chinese-language Bibles. Some are exported, of course, but plenty remain in China.
That's good news. The bad news is that soon, at least spiritually speaking, Chinese-language copies of the Bible may not be worth the paper they're printed on. According to the Guardian, the Communist Party has plans "for 'retranslating and annotating' the Bible," in order to "establish a 'correct understanding' of the text."
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Next Generation Weapons & The New World Order
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In World War I, generals who studied Napoleon sent waves of troops into a barrage of machine gun fire. The rapid-fire weapons mowed down thousands in minutes. Was this necessary? No. Thousands of young men died all because their commanders focused on fighting the last war. They didn't adjust to new developments and new technologies. 

In World War II, the Polish army defended itself from Nazi and Soviet invaders with horse-mounted troops. They also focused on fighting the last war and were quickly defeated. A few years later, World War II ended when the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan. 

Ever since, most people have held the belief World War III will start the same way World War II ended. Anyone who believes this makes the same mistake as those who came before them. They prepare to fight the last war.
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Complacency is the Enemy
Our tendency to focus on the past creates a sense of familiarity and comfort, and comfort breeds complacency. When it comes to warfare, complacency is the enemy. For over seventy years, Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) prevented all-out nuclear war between the major powers. The world emerged from the Cold War intact. Following decades of uncertainty, nuclear war never came. We didn't destroy ourselves. This lulled many into a false sense of security, and complacency set in. 

The majority of people now think World War III is unwinnable. They think possession of nuclear weapons make a nation invulnerable. Because they do, they think World War III will never happen. They're wrong.

The global stability of the post-war era is coming to an end. With the exception of a few moments such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, you have to go back to the years just before World War II to find a time when the world was more dangerous than it is right now. Why do I say that? Again, complacency. 
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The War For Our Youth - Why Creation Still Matters
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This country today is engaged in the greatest war it has ever been in. It's not a war being fought with guns and bombs; it is a war of ideologies. It is a war of worldviews. It is a war for the very heart and soul of this nation. And, if we lose this war, we will lose America. That is what is at stake.

Before the United States Marine Corp sends our troops to the battlefield, we sit down and do a briefing. It's called a Five Paragraph Order. I'm going to give you three of those things today: What is our situation? What is our mission? How are we going to execute this mission for nothing less than victory?

We brief our soldiers to protect their lives. I do so now because there are many spiritual lives being lost in America today. They're called our youth. They are being stolen from us.
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What Is Our Situation?

In our briefing, let's start with part one — our situation. We're being told by the public education system, universities, the news media, and unfortunately many church leaders, that parts of the Bible are not relevant anymore and that we need to reinvent God's Word. So, with this situation, in order to understand how to fight this battle, we've got to know what battle it is we are fighting in. What kind of things are we up against?
Let's start with a case study right out of 1 Corinthians 1:23. "But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block..." Notice preaching the cross and the resurrection to the Jews was a stumbling block. But, look at the second part of that verse, "...unto the Greeks the cross and the resurrection are foolishness." Why the difference? If we don't understand this difference, you're not going to know how to fight this battle. Why the difference?
In Acts 2, Peter is preaching to the Jews, and he preaches the cross and the resurrection, but they only call it a stumbling block. Why? Because the Jews had a common foundation and a common background. They believed in Moses and the prophets. They understood that there was a Creator God, so it was just a stumbling block. But, when Paul preaches the cross and the resurrection to the Greeks, they see it as foolishness. Why? Because they do not understand Moses and the prophets, and they don't believe in a Creator God.
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When Israel's Enemies Endorse A Jewish Candidate
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At a time when his presidential campaign seemed about to go on life support, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was thrilled to get a boost from his party's rock stars. Just days after returning to the campaign trail after suffering a heart attack, the 78-year-old avowed Socialist received a much-needed shot in the arm when he received the endorsement of Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.).

Another member of the so-called "Squad" of Democratic left-wingers, Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib, initially said she would join in the endorsement but pulled back at the last moment, apparently still undecided about whether she would instead back Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren for the 2020 presidential nomination.
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Tlaib's dithering notwithstanding, the announcement that Omar--one of the country's leading opponents of Israel, as well as someone who has engaged in egregious anti-Semitic rhetoric--is "feeling the Bern" and putting her not inconsiderable influence behind his campaign is significant.
Many Democrats, including party chairman Tom Perez, have referred to AOC and the other three squad members (Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley being the fourth) as the "future of the Democratic Party." 
The willingness of so many to herald the fact that the most virulent backers of the anti-Semitic BDS movement chose him out of the huge Democratic field as their candidate makes it clear that efforts by pro-Israel members of the party to marginalize Omar and Tlaib have failed.
Nor is Omar the only Israel-hater that Sanders has embraced. As I wrote back in September, Sanders had no compunction about appointing BDS poster girl Linda Sarsour as one of his official campaign surrogates. 
Sarsour has attacked Jewish women for supporting Israel and engaged in her own list of anti-Semitic actions, including support for a hatemonger like the Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan during her time as a leader of the anti-Trump Women's March activist group.
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Trump's Mideast Moves Show Why Israeli Deterrence Is Crucial
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U.S. President Donald Trump's latest Mideast decisions cast Israeli airstrikes in Syria and (reportedly) Iraq in a different light. Previously, these airstrikes seemed to be aimed solely at preventing Iran from establishing military infrastructure in both countries that could threaten Israel. 

But it now turns out they were also sending an important deterrent message: If Tehran attacks Israel, Jerusalem will have no qualms about striking back.

The conventional wisdom has been that even if these airstrikes were necessary for Israel's defense, they posed a real risk of escalation. And obviously, that remains a possibility.
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But given Trump's latest moves, they may actually be making war less likely by letting Tehran know that Jerusalem--unlike, say, Saudi Arabia--won't sit with folded hands if it suffers a significant Iranian attack like last month's strike on Saudi oil facilities. 
The realization that Israel has both the ability and the will to hit back hard might well deter Iran from launching such a strike, even though it now knows that it wouldn't be risking an American response.
For this reason, much of the rhetoric about how Trump's recent decisions will affect Israel is overblown, even though the decisions themselves are unequivocally horrible. Strategically, the U.S. withdrawal from northern Syria abandons that area to very bad actors (Turkey and/or Iran). 
It's also a moral atrocity, as it abandons the Kurds to Turkey's tender mercies despite their having been America's most loyal and effective partner against the Islamic State. And it signals the world that Washington won't protect its allies, thereby reducing the incentive to be an American ally. Trump's inaction after Iran destroyed half of Saudi Arabia's oil processing capacity sent a similar message.
But even though Israel is always worse off when America looks weak or unreliable in the Mideast, it's in a very different position from either Saudi Arabia or the Kurds because it has always insisted on defending itself by itself rather than expecting American soldiers to fight on its behalf.
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Democrat Candidates Push LGBT Activism Front & Center
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Don't blame me for writing yet another article on LGBT issues. Blame Beto. Or Booker. Or Biden. Or Buttigieg. Or Warren.
The democratic presidential candidates are pushing this agenda, and quite aggressively at that.
They're the ones talking about what the Bible allegedly says and does not say about homosexuality.
They're the ones threatening our religious liberties.
They're the ones wanting to indoctrinate our children.
All we're doing is responding.
They're the ones telling us we don't have the right to our biblically based beliefs.
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China's War On The Bible: If You Can't Ban It, Alter It
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A recent article at WORLD Magazine reported how the Chinese-language app called "WeDevote" recently surpassed 10 million downloads.
That number, as well as the overall success of "WeDevote," is even more remarkable given the back story, one that illustrates Beijing's ongoing war on the Bible.
"WeDevote" is a Bible-reading and devotional app known for its "aesthetically-pleasing" design and respect for copyright laws, a rarity in China. The month after its launch, China's biggest app store listed WeDevote as a "Recommended App" right on its homepage.
The Communist Party's crackdown on Christianity in recent years meant that both the app and its developers faced increasing government scrutiny. Eventually, they were given a choice: shut down the app or face jail time.
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'Ideas Are More Powerful Than Guns' - Why The Military Isn't Enough
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Whether fighting Islamist terrorism, white supremacy or Antifa, the military isn't enough.

It an undisputed fact that the United States has the most powerful military in the world. The latest estimates suggest it could take on at least one full-fledged war while maintaining smaller operations around the globe, although it may struggle to conduct a second war simultaneously.

With all that might, why is the war on terror dragging on?
Asymmetric Warfare is a Different Kind Of War
In conventional warfare, the main goal is to take and hold territory. Pitched battles, towns and cities and control of the skies are the name of the game. In asymmetric warfare, the guerrilla side aims to bleed out the occupying power through small-scale attacks.
Today it is very difficult for all but the most sophisticated terrorists to take out American soldiers. But it is trivially easy to shoot up a group of civilians at a cafe or a nightclub.
"The fundamental aim of asymmetrical warfare is to find a way round the adversary's military strength by discovering and exploiting, in the extreme, its weaknesses," Toni Pfanner, editor-in-chief of the International Review of the Red Cross wrote back in 2005.
"Weaker parties have realized that, particularly in modern societies, to strike 'soft targets' causes the greatest damage. Consequently, civilian targets frequently replace military ones."
Since that article was written, Pfanner's thesis has been proven time and again.
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'Smokescreening' - Israel's False Friends
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Smokescreening, the false pretense of friendship toward Israel, is a common practice. Practitioners include US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, former US president Barack Obama, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. 
There is also a mirror phenomenon in which Israeli leaders identify smokescreeners as friends, as when Israeli president Reuven Rivlin called German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier a "true friend of Israel."
Smokescreening is a widespread activity in both politics and society, yet it is mainly looked at as an individual hypocrisy rather than analyzed as a systematic phenomenon. Israel is regularly subjected to smokescreening.
Sanders is a super-smokescreener. He claims he is 100 percent pro-Israel and says Israel has every right in the world to exist in peace and security and not be subjected to terrorist attacks. He also says the US must be more "evenhanded" in how it approaches the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 
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18 Facts About The US National Debt That Are Almost Too Hard To Believe

Lawmakers continue to spend as if they are children in a candy store with no limit on their parents' credit card. What remains unfathomable to many voters is how much money $22.5 trillion (our current debt) truly is. Here are some facts to bring it into perspective.
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The Biblical Edom Unearthed: Not A Myth, A Historical Reality

Over the years, many scholars doubted the Edomites even existed, at least as described in those biblical accounts. Well, these scholars were mistaken. Recently, a team excavating in Israel's Timna Valley found evidence of a "thriving and wealthy society" dating back to the 12th century before Christ.
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No Place To Hide: DHS' New HART Database Uses Scars, Tattoos, & Voice ID

The new system called the Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology System, or HART, will allow the agency to look beyond the three types of biometric data it uses today--face, iris and fingerprint--to identify people through a variety of other characteristics, like palm prints, scars, tattoos, physical markings and even their voices.
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Breaking News Updates - September 30, 2019
 Trans-Faith Takes Over The Church: Transgender Pastors & Renaming Ceremonies
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A pandemic of perversion has engulfed our society as LGBTQ activists demand that we bow down at the altar of moral relativism. But, instead of providing clear Biblical answers to this cultural chaos, many churches have fallen in league with them by aligning the Gospel message to conform with this twisted mindset. 
From non-binary deacons that refuse to accept that they are either men or women to hyper-sexual, church-sponsored drag shows, to transgender baptisms and renaming ceremonies, the assault on Biblical values has intensified. 
The Gospel of Jesus Christ is a message of compassion and salvation but, in some churches, that message has been warped to take the shape of explicit support and even promotion of gender confusion and sin rather than an ethic of faithful marriage between men and women.
The Bible sternly warns against leading little ones astray: "But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea" (Matthew 18.6).
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Killing The Unborn, Confessing To Plants
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I'm all for environmental stewardship. There's something to be said for a biblically-based ecology. But I find it beyond ironic that a staunchly liberal seminary which supports a woman's "right" to abortion held a special chapel service to make confession to plants. So, it's fine to take the lives of unborn babies in the womb, but we must confess our sins to the plants. May God help us.
On September 17, Union Theological Seminary tweeted, "Today in chapel, we confessed to plants. Together, we held our grief, joy, regret, hope, guilt and sorrow in prayer; offering them to the beings who sustain us but whose gift we too often fail to honor.
"What do you confess to the plants in your life?" they asked.
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The Iranian Axis: Israel's New Existential Challenge
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The creation of an Iranian military/terrorist axis along Israel's northern and southern borders, comprising Syria, Hezbollah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad, lays the groundwork for the long-term multi-frontal attrition of the Jewish state.
The Arab upheavals of the past decade, especially the Syrian civil war, have given Israel a much-needed strategic respite, leading many Israeli security experts to the conviction that the Jewish state no longer faces an existential threat.
But as this war draws to a close, a new existential challenge is rapidly emerging along Israel's northern and southern borders: a military-terrorist axis led by Iran.
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Ignorance About History Makes A Comeback For America’s Youth
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New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), a member of "The Squad," is getting some  flack for claiming that millennials are more "informed" and "willing to go to the streets" than the Greatest Generation that endured the Great Depression and won World War II.
She also opined that her own generation "actually takes time to read and understand our history, the history of the labor movement, history of civil rights, history of economics, history of the United States, history of colonialism, and they're not afraid to have those conversations."
Understandably, she left out the Holocaust, given her ill-informed equation of US immigrant detention camps with German concentration camps. The popularity of AOC's ignorance is partly explained by a poll, commissioned by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany released on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
It showed that two-thirds of American millennials surveyed could not identify what Auschwitz is, and that 23 percent haven't heard of the Holocaust or are not sure whether they've heard of it -- twice the percentage of US adults as a whole.
It is often said that the best cure for ignorance -- and contempt for what your parents think -- has always been experience. Even the Greatest Generation had to learn. 
Many as teenagers were attracted to the isolationist "America First" movement of the 1930s. That was before Pearl Harbor and the horrors of World War II taught them a bitter lesson about the necessity of fighting totalitarianism. That life-changing lesson carried over after World War II into the Cold War.
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Turkey Seeks To Go Nuclear - Another Trigger For Ezekiel 38?
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During the 17 years he has ruled NATO-member Turkey, the country's Islamist strongman, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has rarely missed an opportunity stealthily to convert Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's secular, pro-Western establishment into a rogue state hostile to Western interests. 

Erdogan now wants to make it a rogue state with nuclear weapons.
"They say we can't have nuclear-tipped missiles, though some have them. This, I can't accept," Erdogan said in a September 4 speech, rejecting calls to prevent his country from acquiring nuclear weapons while conveniently forgetting that Turkey has signed the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty in 1980. 
In other words, Turkey's elected leader publicly declares that he intends to breach an international treaty signed by his country. Turkey is also a signatory to the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, which bans all nuclear detonations, for any purpose.
This is not, in fact, the first time Erdogan has voiced an eagerness to make Turkey a nuclear-armed state. As early as 2008 -- when he was the poster child of naïve Western statesmen and intellectuals who believed he was a reformist democrat -- Erdogan said: "Countries that oppose Iran's nuclear weapons should not have nuclear weapons themselves." Despite his use of the plural "countries," Erdogan was apparently pointing his finger at the country he hates the most: Israel.
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Is Bible Prophecy A Distraction To Real Ministry?
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I just got back from a Mission trip to Haiti last night. If you're not familiar with the conditions there, they are terrible. Everything there is broken. The government, the culture, the land, the economy, the health of the people. Everything.
It's almost as if the land itself if cursed. Even satellite images like the one above (Haiti at left, the Dominical Republic across the border at right) tell a story. Generations of corruption and greed, voodoo practice, a lack of vision, and a lack of education, have kept this country among the poorest in the world. I have been to some of the poorest areas of Brazil and the Dominican Republic but I've never seen the level of poverty and brokenness that I saw in Haiti.
It has an official 80% unemployment rate, but it's really worse than that. Even someone selling vegetables once a week is considered "employed". It's probably more like a 95%+ unemployment rate by real numbers. Most people in the villages eat once every other day. Starvation and malnutrition are common place.
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Pop Stars Deceiving Millions Of Girls Into Celebrating Abortion
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As the battle lines over abortion become starker and progressives double down on support for feticide from conception until birth, abortion activists have been rallying all of the cultural forces at their disposal to combat the wave of state-level pro-life laws passing across the United States. 
Unlike the pro-life movement, the abortion industry has a not-so-secret weapon: Pop stars and rock musicians who are worshipped by millions of young girls across the continent and hang onto their every word. For many girls, these stars are their role models--and those role models are making it very clear that killing pre-born children in the womb is something to celebrate.
Selena Gomez, the formerly squeaky-clean Disney star who once wore a purity ring to let her fans know that she was waiting for marriage, has long swapped out that piece of jewelry with something very different: A "1973" necklace to "honor" Roe v. Wade, the abortion decision that resulted in the destruction of more than fifty million pre-born children in the womb and counting. 
Miley Cyrus, her fellow once-straitlaced Disney alumni, posted a photograph of herself to Instagram wielding an enormous cake with the words "Abortion is Healthcare" written across it with pink icing, her jaws gaping wide to take an enormous bite. 
Both pop stars are now singing a distinctly different tune--and millions of young girls are listening.
Many pop stars have begun to openly campaign against protections for pre-born children in the womb, with Ariana Grande, Lizzo, Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa, Demi Lovato, and Lady Gaga all signing a letter produced by Planned Parenthood (which facilitates hundreds of thousands of abortions every year) titled "Bans Off My Body." 
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Drone Warfare/Terrorism Only Just Beginning
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The vulnerability of infrastructure to drone terrorism was just laid bare this week as ten drones launched by Iran-backed militants sparked a huge fire at the world's largest oil processing facility and a major oilfield in Saudi Arabia where over 5 percent of the world's daily supply is produced.
Yemen's Houthi rebels, considered an Iranian proxy force in the region, have claimed responsibility for the attacks at Abqaiq in Buqayq, which contains the world's largest oil processing plant, and Khurais, which contains the country's second largest oilfield.  
The fires have now been brought under control but the disruption is still expected to have an impact on oil prices around the world as the flow of oil is disrupted with some estimates suggesting 50% of Saudi output could be temporarily affected.   
Last week Hamas militants used a drone to drop a bomb on the Israeli side of the Gaza-Israel perimeter fence hitting a military vehicle, marking the first time an attack occurred with a drone piloted from Gaza.
During the same time period Hezbollah shot down an Israeli drone performing reconnaissance over Lebanon and last month Iran shot down a US drone flying over the Strait of Hormuz, almost sparking a larger conflict.
Drone and anti-drone conflict is on the rise worldwide and many experts fear the use of weaponized drones by lone individuals or small groups--some acting as proxies of nation-states, on US soil is only a matter of time.
The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI have declared unmanned aerial systems, or drones, as one of the greatest national security threats to America -- rating it as severe a concern as cybersecurity hacks, critical infrastructure attacks, and terrorism.
Civilian drones pose a "steadily escalating threat," as the devices are likely to be used by terrorists, criminal groups or drug cartels to carry out attacks in the U.S., FBI Director Christopher Wray previously told a Senate committee.
"The FBI assesses that, given their retail availability, lack of verified identification requirement to procure, general ease of use, and prior use overseas," drones will be used in an attack in the U.S. including "a mass gathering," Wray said.
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Pop Stars Deceiving Millions Of Girls Into Celebrating Abortion
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As the battle lines over abortion become starker and progressives double down on support for feticide from conception until birth, abortion activists have been rallying all of the cultural forces at their disposal to combat the wave of state-level pro-life laws passing across the United States. 
Unlike the pro-life movement, the abortion industry has a not-so-secret weapon: Pop stars and rock musicians who are worshipped by millions of young girls across the continent and hang onto their every word. For many girls, these stars are their role models--and those role models are making it very clear that killing pre-born children in the womb is something to celebrate.
Selena Gomez, the formerly squeaky-clean Disney star who once wore a purity ring to let her fans know that she was waiting for marriage, has long swapped out that piece of jewelry with something very different: A "1973" necklace to "honor" Roe v. Wade, the abortion decision that resulted in the destruction of more than fifty million pre-born children in the womb and counting. 
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Some Good News On The Front Lines Of The Culture Wars
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Until Jesus returns and sets up His perfect kingdom, the culture wars will continue to rage, and there will be many setbacks along the way. But that doesn't mean there won't be some real victories as well. Let's focus on some positive, recent news.
1) The Number of Abortions in America Continues to Drop.
To be sure, this news is hardly all positive, since hundreds of thousands of babies are still aborted every year in the USA. How excited would we be about a hypothetical headline during World War II that stated, "The number of Jews being slaughtered is declining"? Or, in 1850 in America, "The number of slaves is less today than 20 years ago"?
At the same time, one less abortion means one less baby killed in the womb, and for that, we rejoice.
According to the latest reports, "The number and rate of abortions across the United States have plunged to their lowest levels since the procedure became legal nationwide in 1973, according to new figures released Wednesday" (meaning, September 18, 2019).
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Could Benny Gantz Make The Left Love Israel Again?
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News Image BY JONATHAN TOBIN/JNS.ORG SEPTEMBER 20, 2019 
The results from Israel's second attempt at electing a government in 2019 are like a jigsaw puzzle whose pieces don't fit. There's no getting around the fact that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was the big loser. But it's also true that Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz didn't exactly win either. 
Though the Blue and White Party is now the largest and leads Likud by two Knesset seats, the parties that will recommend Gantz for prime minister still fall short of a majority, even if the Arab ones are included in the total.
In order for Israel to get a unity government and avoid a third election within a year--an unthinkable disaster that would probably produce an even more dismal result for Netanyahu if he tries to go that route--Blue and White is going to have to go back on its promise not to join a coalition with Netanyahu.
Alternately, the Likud members of Knesset would have to abandon their pledge not to dump the prime minister. Other scenarios involving the haredi parties joining forces with their secular foes or choosing to govern with anti-Zionist Arab parties remain equally implausible.
But let's assume for the sake of argument that by some feat of political magic--or further misjudgments and hubris on the part of Netanyahu that brought the Jewish state all these months of chaos--Gantz does find a way to get the 61 votes that will enable him to govern.
If so, we can be sure that such a turn of events will be greeted with hosannas by the international media and Israel's American critics, both Jewish and non-Jewish. Few figures on the world stage have been as thoroughly demonized as Netanyahu. 
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The Political Downfall Of Israel's Right-Wing
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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fighting for his political career as he continues to get battered by a complicated parliamentary system that he has led for the past 10 years--13 years in total.
Throughout his tenure, a high percentage of Israel's electorate has consistently supported and voted for Netanyahu's Likud Party, with more than 1 million Israelis voting this week for Likud. The high number of votes is significant because they were cast despite of, or perhaps in response to, the ongoing charges against him by Israel's attorney general, Avichai Mandelblit.
In addition to Netanyahu's pending legal woes, it's the right-wing flank--Netanyahu's natural coalition partners--that has been imploding and defecting, now leaving the prime minister short of a parliamentary majority.
In November 2018, a year before the government's term was to end, Avigdor Lieberman resigned his post as defense minister and pulled his six-mandate Yisrael Beiteinu Party out of a stable, right-wing and religious coalition totaling 67 mandates. Lieberman charged that the government (of which he was part) was reacting too weakly to ongoing conflict with Gaza at Netanyahu's instruction.
Lieberman's resignation left the government with a 61-mandate right-wing majority. Rather than continue to lead a narrow government until elections pre-scheduled for November 2019, Netanyahu called early elections in the spring in an effort to strengthen his mandate to continue leading the country while at the same time fighting corruption charges.
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Drone Warfare/Terrorism Only Just Beginning
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The vulnerability of infrastructure to drone terrorism was just laid bare this week as ten drones launched by Iran-backed militants sparked a huge fire at the world's largest oil processing facility and a major oilfield in Saudi Arabia where over 5 percent of the world's daily supply is produced.
Yemen's Houthi rebels, considered an Iranian proxy force in the region, have claimed responsibility for the attacks at Abqaiq in Buqayq, which contains the world's largest oil processing plant, and Khurais, which contains the country's second largest oilfield.  
The fires have now been brought under control but the disruption is still expected to have an impact on oil prices around the world as the flow of oil is disrupted with some estimates suggesting 50% of Saudi output could be temporarily affected.   
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This Is What Social Media Is Doing To Us
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Scientific study after scientific study is showing that too much time on social media can be extremely harmful both mentally and physically.  But even though most of us know this, very few of us actually alter our behavior in a meaningful way.  
When Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and other major social media platforms first emerged, we welcomed them with open arms.  They were a lot of fun and they allowed us to interact with family, friends and society as a whole in ways that we had never been able to do before.  
But they were also extremely addictive, and they rapidly became transformed into dumping grounds for just about everything toxic, negative and malevolent that you can possibly imagine.  Today, many of us spend far more time on social media than we do with real people, and as you will see below, that has enormous implications for our future.
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Hong Kong's Lesson For Beijing... And The West
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News Image BY JOHN STONESTREET/BREAKPOINT.ORG SEPTEMBER 15, 2019 
Last week, the government of Hong Kong finally withdrew a proposed extradition law that sparked mass protests which have rocked the territory and rattled Beijing for weeks.
However, if Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam thought that withdrawing the extradition law would end the protests, she was mistaken. Over the weekend, demonstrators continued to rally, march, and wave the U.S. flag, while chanting "Resist Beijing, Liberate Hong Kong!" and--get this--"Pray for us, U.S., pray for us!"
Their chants highlight not only a Christian dimension in their protests, but the potential impact they believe Christianity can have on the Communist Party's dictatorial rule, both in Hong Kong and throughout China.
While the protests were initially sparked by the extradition law, it's clear that deep dissatisfaction with life under Beijing is keeping the flames burning, especially as the Communist Party attempts to strengthen its grip over Hong Kong. 
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Presbyterian Church Goes Full Nazi With New Boycott
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At the Presbyterian Church's 223rd General Assembly in June 2018, commissioners passed an overture calling on Real Estate Maximums (REMAX), an American international real estate company, to end the sale and rental of homes and apartments in the all of Judea and Samaria.
Presbyterian Council Letter: Pure Racism
This initiative was finally acted upon when Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II, Stated Clerk of the Office of the General Assembly of the PC(USA), sent a letter to RE/MAX asking that the company stop operating in Judea, Samaria, and sections of eastern Jerusalem. The letter cited "reputational risks" the company would face should they continue to operate in these areas. 
The Jerusalemite Initiative, a nonprofit organization to empower Arabic speaking Israeli Jerusalemites Christians, wrote a letter Rev. Nelson, protesting the move, describing it as "a display of complete ignorance."
"I'm writing to you as an Arabic-speaking Israeli Christian from the Greek Orthodox Church. I was born and raised in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem and studied at Christian schools in Beit Jala and Bethlehem," Elias Zarina, the Christian Arab co-founder of the Jerusalemite Initiative, wrote. "As a non-Jewish Israeli, I can assure you that any call to boycott any company working in Israel affects and harms also Christians, Muslims and other minorities who live in Israel and are part of the economy, labor market and Israeli society.
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The Prophecy Puzzle: Putting The Pieces Together
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Everyone recognizes that world conditions are disintegrating at an unprecedented rate, but many don't see these conditions as signs of the end-times. And I understand why. 
For the most part people don't have a blueprint or a clear picture of what the world will look like. The thousands of prophecies are scattered all over Scripture so it is difficult to piece it all together and get a clear picture unless you take the necessary time to study them. 
That is the purpose of this post. Think of this post as the box top of a 1000 piece puzzle. Without the box top, the puzzle pieces seem completely random and disconnected. But with the box top we have a clear picture of what we are supposed to be piecing together.
I could easily get caught in the weeds because prophecy related details are developing at an unprecedented rate, but I want to keep this post as simple as I can. With that in mind, I've tried to share the most compelling broad strokes of last days Bible prophecy as I paint this picture. 
So, here is a description of the prophetic last days box top. The context or specific time frame mentioned for these prophecies all relate to the end of the age.
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What Does Bolton's Exit Mean For U.S. Policy On Israel & Iran?
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With John Bolton ousted as national security advisor on Tuesday, questions remain regarding the Trump administration's posture on both the U.S.-Israel relationship and the Iranian threat.
U.S. President Donald Trump and John Bolton share a strategic vision of leveraging American economic and military power, especially maximum sanctions pressure and targeted power projection to achieve international security objectives," Washington-based geopolitical strategist John Sitilides told JNS. "John Bolton possesses superb situational awareness skills and a first-rate analytical intellect on national-security priorities."
However, he continued, Bolton's "policy options and recommendations were frequently misaligned with President Trump's agenda to end protracted wars, diminish the risk of launching new wars and emphasize diplomatic incentives, as well as deterrents in persuading U.S. adversaries such as China, Iran, North Korea and the Taliban to change their hostile behaviors and policies."
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Israel's Long, Multi-Front Struggle Against Iran
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If you're an Israeli mother, then as the school year began on Sunday the thought uppermost in your mind was likely: Will my children be safe in the coming days? Are the bomb shelters ready? Have the teachers been trained to respond to alerts?
At the back of every Israeli mother's mind is a strange phrase: "Color Red." Echoing from loudspeakers, radios, and TVs, this phrase warns residents of towns in the western Negev that they have 15 seconds to seek shelter from incoming rockets. Heard thousands of times in recent years, it has become etched into the Israeli subconscious.
Israel's Iron Dome defense system often manages to stop the missiles from Gaza, but the threat grows more acute and sophisticated daily, not only in southern Israel but also in the north.
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Hong Kong's Christians Fear Chinese Persecution Is Coming
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For months now, the world has been transfixed by the stunning images streaming out of Hong Kong. 
There are photographs showing endless masses of people packing the streets, lit up by the omni-present cellphone screens glowing in the darkness, videos of masked young men pulling down facial recognition towers and flashing laser pointers at the police to foil this Orwellian technology, and footage of protestors slamming smoking tear gas canisters into thermoses of mud to neutralize them. 
The protests have now been going on without pause since March, and on June 9 as many as a million people marched through the streets--as much as one-seventh of Hong Kong's population.
To summarize the situation for those who haven't been following these events, Hong Kong is a former British colony that was handed over to the People's Republic of China in 1997 under a deal that would grant this "special administrative state" a "high degree of autonomy" until at least 2047. 
This policy was known as "one country, two systems," and Hong Kong maintained its own judicial, legislative, and executive powers that operate independently of China's pseudo-Communist system.
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The Convergence Of Prophetic Signs & Connecting The Prophetic Dots
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I'm a child of the 70's and it was definitely a different era. Video games were just entering the scene and we didn't have cell phones, so we had other activities to keep us busy. Most of them were outdoor activities, so we wouldn't break the house or drive our parents crazy, but there were a few indoor activities that were popular in my generation as well. Two that come to mind are: Connect the Dots, and Paint By Numbers.
I loved Connect the Dots because at first it just looked like a bunch of random dots on a page. But as we drew lines from each numbered dot to the next one, a picture would begin to emerge. What at first seemed like unconnected and completely random dots formed into a very clear picture right before our eyes.

Paint By Numbers, on the other hand, was less appealing to me. You could already make out the picture, and the only goal was to mind-numbingly paint all of the 1's blue, all of the 2's red, all of the 3's white. You get the picture (pun intended). 
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Israel Facing Possible War On Multiple Fronts
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The big news in Israel is not that Iran attempted to send kamikaze drones into Israeli territory last week or that Israel targeted that terrorist cell in Syria; these are not completely out of the ordinary or even unexpected. 

Rather, what was quite the unusual occurrence took place in central Israel when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered officials from the security establishment to brief his chief rival, former Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Benny Gantz, who serves as leader of the Blue and White Party.
Why so? It's a rare move to brief a rival like Gantz and a possible signal that Israel may be readying itself for a major conflict on one or more fronts. 
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Parental Rights Under Fire: Gender Transitions Easier Than Tonsillectomies
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Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has famously compared having an abortion with getting your tonsils out. It's not a fair analogy at all. 

Minors always need parental consent for a tonsillectomy, but in many parts of the country, a teenage girl can notify school officials she's pregnant and walk into an abortion clinic without her parents ever knowing.
In fact, teenagers need permission from parents for nearly any medical procedure, and even before getting a tattoo or body piercing. 
However, whenever a choice has to do with sex and gender, increasingly parents are being left out in the cold, and the results are both distressing and infuriating.
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Netanyahu To Make Pro-3rd Temple Politician Top Official
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It has been confirmed that Zehut (Identity) party leader Moshe Feiglin will order his party, Zehut, to step down in the current election to join Netanyahu's Likud party who will make him a "high ranking official" in the PM's next government.

Moshe Feiglin's Zehut was the only party head in the current elections who openly calls for building the third Temple and has placed it on his party's platform. The catch was that Feiglin's Zehut party had to drop out of the race.
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Breaking News Updates - August 26, 2019
 
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The Push To Kill Cash - Next Up Is Australia
 
Australia's proposed cash transaction ban for 2020, the continuing removal of higher denomination bills from several world economies, and the creation of centralized, state cryptocurrencies by governments worldwide cannot be ignored.
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People Without A Purpose: Why Young Brits Have Lost Hope
 
Results of a new nationwide survey of 1,500 Brits has revealed a stunning 89 percent of those aged 16 to 29 said their lives lack meaning and purpose.
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Understanding The Times Conference 2019
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Speakers Include: Jan Markell, Amir Tsarfati, J.D. Farag, Jack Hibbs, Robert Jeffress, Laurie Cardoza-Moore
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Dangerous Trends - Churches Promoting Self Happiness Over God's Holiness
 
The contrast between the contemporary American gospel and the biblical gospel is this: The contemporary American version says, "This is who I am. This is how I feel. And God is here to please me." The biblical version says, "This is who God is. This is how He feels. And I am here to please God."
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How Will Netflix Portray Israel's Most Famous Spy?
 
HBO recently turned the tragic murder of three young Israelis in 2014 that led in part to the IDF invasion of Gaza into a piece of anti-Israel propaganda. Now we will have an opportunity to see if Netflix can do any better with it's examination of Israeli Mossad hero Eli Cohen in The Spy, a six episode series coming September 6th.
 
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New Movie Has Blue State Elitists Hunting Red State Trump Supporters For Sport
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Violent ads for a movie about blue state elitists hunting red state Trump supporters for sport called "The Hunt", have been pulled in the aftermath of the mass shootings.  Studio executives say that they fear the tragedies will eclipse the ultra-dark and violent satire.
TV station ESPN has yanked the trailer without waiting for Universal to make up its mind, opting not to air the clip at all in the next few weeks, according to a source at the station. 
While one Universal insider claimed the studio was standing by producer Jason Blum, who has turned out successful films including the Purge series and Get Out, they characterized the situation as "fluid" and warned things could change "if people think we're being exploitative rather than opinionated."
While many worry about the ads for this movie causing more mass shootings, perhaps we should all be worried about those who created this movie and the thin and violent line we are walking on as a society. 
The film begins with 12 strangers who wake up in a clearing with no idea where they are or how they got there. They soon discover they are "prey" at an exclusive resort called The Manor, where the Liberal uber-wealthy come to hunt human beings--although Hilary Swank's high-end executive (who masterminded the whole thing) scoffs that they should hardly be considered "beings."
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Preparing For Long Term Crisis? Chinese Suddenly Stocking Up On Everything
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Does China believe that we are on the verge of a major global crisis?  
The communist Chinese government has always been very big into planning, and it appears that they have decided that now is the time to hoard food, gold and other commodities.  
Of course in recent days the fact that China is completely cutting off U.S. agricultural imports has made headlines all over the globe, but at the same time China is dramatically increasing the amount of food that it is importing from the rest of the world.  
The end result is actually a substantial surge in Chinese imports, and this is starting to show up in the official numbers.  For example, we just learned that Chinese soybean imports in July were actually up 8 percent compared to last year...
China's soybean imports in July rose 8% from a year earlier, to their highest level in almost a year, customs data showed on Thursday, as importers increased their purchases of Brazilian beans on higher crush margins.
As I discussed the other day, China had already been drastically reducing soybean imports from the United States even before this recent announcement that U.S. agricultural imports were being cut off completely.  
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Hamas: The Circle Of Fire Around Israel Is Expanding
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As Egypt, the United Nations and other parties are pursuing their efforts to prevent an all-out military confrontation in the Gaza Strip, Hamas and its allies are forging ahead in their development of various types of weapons with which to attack Israel.
The Iranian-backed Islamic Jihad, the second largest armed group in the Gaza Strip after Hamas, recently revealed how it has managed to upgrade the rocket launchers that are being used to attack Israel.
According to the Islamic Jihad's military wing, Al-Quds Brigades, it began developing its rocket launchers in 2007, when Hamas violently seized control of the Gaza Strip after overthrowing the regime of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
Twelve years seems like a good time to take stock. What are the achievements of Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip? They boast about three: improving military capabilities, smuggling weapons and investing millions of dollars in constructing terror tunnels. Iran's money goes to the Hamas and Islamic Jihad war machine -- nothing else. Not hospitals, not schools, and not jobs for unemployed Palestinians.
Take, for example, a report released this week by Islamic Jihad's Al-Quds Brigades, which presents the development of rocket launchers as one of the group's major achievements in the past 12 years. "The rocket launchers of the Al-Quds Brigades will remain one of the most important elements of the power we possess," the report boasts. "The rockets will continue to serve as a nightmare haunting the leaders of the [Israeli] enemy."
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The New Normal - Earthquakes In Diverse Places As Kansas & Oklahoma Shake
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For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. Matt 24:7

What are we supposed to think when rather large earthquakes start happening in places that aren't supposed to have large earthquakes?  2019 has been quite a year for seismic activity already, and I understand that we should expect to see earthquakes in diverse places, but if someone told me that the U.S. was just hit by a significant quake one of the last places that I would check would be Kansas.  

The state of Kansas is certainly known for a lot of things, but earthquakes are not one of them, and that is why what we just witnessed is so startling.  

According to the Kansas City Star, one county in central Kansas alone has been hit by 11 quakes within the past five days...

A county in central Kansas experienced a pretty shocking uptick in seismic activity last week -- 11 earthquakes in five days.
It started with a magnitude-2.4 earthquake Wednesday morning just 2 1/2 miles southwest of Hutchinson, Kansas, in Reno County, according to the United States Geological Survey.
There would be 10 more before the week was out.
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What We Learn From Public Disavowals Of Christianity
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Last week, following the high profile falling away from faith of Joshua Harris, former Hillsong singer and songwriter Marty Sampson posted this on Instagram: "Time for some real talk...I'm genuinely losing my faith...and it doesn't bother me."

The next day he deleted this post and clarified that he hasn't fully renounced Christianity, at least not yet. Still, he admitted, his faith was quite shaky. He then reiterated his doubts and said that "the majority of a typical Christian's life is not spent considering these things" because they fall into the "too hard basket."

Sampson's claims, I'm sad to say, are not uncommon among young evangelicals. And let me just say this as directly and bluntly as I can: they reveal a failure on the part of the church to take the difficult but essential task of faith formation seriously enough.
As I read through his description of what was happening, I thought to myself, "Which faith is he falling away from?" His words reveal a lot.
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Democrats Let Radicals Take The Steering Wheel
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Taking the blame for actions undertaken by their governments is part of every ambassador's job. So it's hardly surprising that Ron Dermer, Israel's ambassador to the United States, and David Friedman, the American ambassador to Israel, are being made the scapegoats for the fiasco in which the Jewish state denied entry to two members of the U.S. Congress.

Yet reports that senior leaders of the Democratic Party are considering a formal motion of censure for Dermer and Friedman in the House of Representatives are troubling and not just because such a measure would be deeply unjust to the two men, as well as patently absurd. 

It's that influential Democrats, including some who have been firm supporters of Israel, are so intimidated by Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), and other left-wing members and sympathizers of the so-called "Squad," that they are willing to ignore the bad faith and anti-Semitism of these radicals.
The fact that House Democrats feel obliged to legitimize the efforts of the two BDS-supporting congresswomen rather than simply expressing dismay about the decision marks another step down the road towards a breach between their party and Israel.
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The Palestinians, Happiness, & The 'Occupation'
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It might sound frivolous to attempt to measure happiness. Still, for a Columbia University think tank and two respectable Canadian policy institutes, the measuring of happiness and the ranking of states by a happiness score is serious business.

Judging by the top and bottom countries on the list of 157 states for which scores were recorded, their findings seem plausible.

Finland, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, New Zealand, and Canada boast the highest happiness scores. The list ranks countries by positive characteristics like GDP per capita, the Human Development Index (the aggregate of economic, educational, and life expectancy data), and human freedom and democracy.

The same countries also rank lowest in characteristics universally judged to be adverse to human quality of life, such as crime rate, traffic accidents measured by death and injury, and suicide rate. (The widespread belief that Scandinavian countries suffer from high suicide rates is far from accurate.)
Nor do the states with the lowest happiness scores generate much surprise. Haiti, Botswana, Yemen, Rwanda, Tanzania, Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, and South Sudan are all known for their lack of democracy, rampant corruption, and very low levels of economic welfare. 

Most are also notable for their political instability, which -- in the case of Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, and South Sudan -- can be characterized as long-term, full-scale civil wars.
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The Resurrection Of Socialism In America
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The Socialist Party of America was founded in 1901. It received support from trade unionists, progressive social reformers, populist farmers, and various immigrant groups. But it never did well at the polls, particularly in presidential elections. And its staunch opposition to American involvement in World War I resulted in a large number of defections.
The best showing ever for a Socialist ticket was in 1912, when their candidate, Eugene Debs, received 901,551 total votes, or 6% of the popular vote. In 1920 Debs ran again, this time from prison, and received 913,693 votes, 3.4% of the total.
Socialism rebounded in the 1930s during the Great Depression under the leadership of Norman Thomas, but President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal policies, which introduced America to Welfare-Statism, prevented Socialism from gathering much steam. Later, the party's opposition to American involvement in World War II cost it much of its support.
The party stopped running presidential candidates after 1956 when its nominee won fewer than 6,000 votes. The party decided, instead, to focus its efforts on educational programs. In the early 1970s the party splintered into three main groups, and the original party changed its name to Social Democrats, USA.
The Resurrection of Socialism in America
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World Vision's Deal With The Devil
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World Vision, a multi-billion dollar international charity founded on evangelical Christian principles, has made quite a few deals with the devil. A new terror-funding scandal seems to implicate the organization every few years.

Last month, documents obtained from the U.S. Treasury via the Freedom of Information Act revealed how World Vision used funds from the United Nations to bankroll the Islamic Relief Agency (ISRA), a designated terror finance charity based in Sudan that has raised millions for al-Qaeda in the past. 

This news comes after revelations that World Vision provided U.S. taxpayer dollars to the al-Qaeda-linked group. Moreover, World Vision allegedly sought to strong-arm Treasury into allowing the ISRA project to continue, soliciting congressmen to intervene and threatening litigation.

World Vision has a history of ignoring finance risks. In 2016, Mohammed El Halabi, head of World Vision's Gaza operations, confessed to redirecting $50 million to the terrorist group Hamas. In 2012, World Vision diverted $1.68 million of Australian government aid to a fake Palestinian charity established by the PFLP terror group.

World Vision maintains a strong New York presence, where supporters have largely turned a blind eye to the group's sinister activities. World Vision's partners include three of New York's biggest evangelical churches: Redeemer, Hillsong, and Times Square Church, along with local civil society and non-governmental groups, including Operation Exodus, Crossroads Tabernacle Church, Real Life Church, South Bronx United, Manhattan Bible Church, and Hope for New York.
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End Which Occupation?
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It seems that just about everyone wants to "end the occupation" in Israel.
The call rings out from the editorial pages of The New York Times and The Washington Post, from pro-Palestinian NGOs, from progressive Jewish organizations, and from presidential candidates. 
Ask someone at random what Israel should do to resolve the longstanding Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and perhaps the answer you're most likely to get is "end the occupation."
It sounds simple enough -- but which occupation are they talking about?
For most Westerners, the answer is obvious: the occupation of the West Bank (acquired by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War).
As it turns out, however, it's not that simple. Contrary to the Western view, for most Palestinians, the occupation is not limited to the West Bank, but consists of "historic Palestine," which includes the whole of Israel.
For many -- if not most -- Palestinians, the occupation began in 1948 when Israel was born, and only continued in 1967 when Israel took over the West Bank. Therefore, they won't be satisfied by anything less than the elimination of the State of Israel.
Don't just take my word for it. Listen to the Palestinians themselves.
In a speech on Palestinian TV in October 2013, Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Mahmoud Abbas stated: "All Palestinian land is occupied -- Gaza is occupied, the West Bank is occupied, the 1948 lands [i.e. Israel] are occupied, and Jerusalem is occupied."
A June 2019 survey of Palestinians conducted by the Palestine Center for Public Opinion confirms the Palestinian perception of the occupation. When asked about ending the conflict with Israel permanently, only 30 percent of West Bankers would approve of a two-state solution. The majority say "the conflict should not end, and resistance should continue until all of historic Palestine is liberated."
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Palestinians: If Israel left the West Bank and Gaza, would there be peace with Israel?
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This stunning video vividly illustrates Palestinians' understanding of the occupation. Palestinians were asked "if Israel left the West Bank and Gaza, would there be peace with Israel?" 
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Congresswoman Tlaib's Israel Trip Hosts Tell You Everything You Need To Know
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First, they praised the terrorist who murdered a US senator's niece. Then they were chosen by Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) to organize her now-cancelled trip to Israel. 

Tlaib's outrageous choice of the pro-terrorist group Miftah to run her trip is a slap in the face of the United States Congress, and deserves to be investigated by the House Ethics Committee.

The fact that Rep. Tlaib chose Miftah to organize her trip is no secret; it was widely reported by major news media outlets. The problem is that nobody is explaining what "Miftah" really is. 
The New York Times, for example, reported only that Miftah is a group "that promotes 'global awareness and knowledge of Palestinian realities.'"
Ironically, one the "Palestinian realities" of which Miftah reminds us is that the Palestinian Authority (PA) regards Palestinian Arab murderers of American citizens as heroes.
The official Miftah website features an essay by one of the group's leaders, Ms. Johara Baker, profusely praising Dalal Mughrabi, the murderer of Gail Rubin, the niece of the late US Senator Abraham Ribicoff, Democrat of Connecticut.
Ms. Baker is not some minor figure at Miftah. At the time she wrote her article praising Mughrabi, she was identified as the group's "Director of the Media and Information Department." Elsewhere on the Miftah website, she is listed with other titles. 
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Breaking News Updates - August 15, 2019
 
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A Powerful Response To The Chorus Of Christian Leaders Renouncing Their Faith
 
John Cooper, lead singer for the Christian band Skillet, posted a powerful response on Facebook to the growing number of Christian leaders who have renounced their faith in recent weeks. The most notable of late was Joshua Harris ( I Kissed Dating Goodbye) and Hillsong songwriter Marty Sampson.
Cooper directly addressed the reasons given by Sampson for renouncing his Christian faith before highlighting the need for Christians to stay grounded in truth-driven faith over an emotion-driven one.  Read the powerful post below:
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Christian Missions Change Direction: The Task Of Reconverting The West
 
A century ago over ninety percent of the world's Christians lived in Europe and the Americas, and less than six percent in Africa and Asia. Today, over a third of all Christians hail from those continents and they have started sending missionaries of their own back to the increasingly irreligious West.
 Within a few generations of Christ death, the Christian faith had spread across much of the known world--from India to North Africa to furthest reaches of the Roman Empire and into the barbarian lands of Northern Europe. 
Yet up until a hundred years or so ago, for all kinds of historical and sociological reasons, Christianity became a predominantly Western religion.
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The Dismantling of Reality - LGBTQ Organizations War On Society
 
LGBTQ organizations are quietly going about their work dismantling ethical norms, making a mockery of education, dismantling women's sports and destroying parental authority.
 Virtually every week, there seems to be another issue that preoccupies the country. But while our attention is focused on President Donald Trump, Google, Charlottesville, Russia, impeachment, Jeffrey Epstein, the next elections, racism, a trade war with China, the #MeToo movement or something else, LGBTQ organizations are quietly going about their work dismantling ethical norms, making a mockery of education, ruining innocent people's lives and destroying children's innocence. 
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Training The Next Generation To Hate - Gaza Summer Camps For Kids
Videos have now emerged of children at summer camp with young boys going through military training, running obstacle courses and crawling under barbed wire with what appears to be live fire overhead.
Many parents of my age remember striving to be able to send their children to summer camp. Now, as grandparents, we see our own children doing the same. 
I believed then, as I do now, that summer camp is a time when children make new friendships--many of which last into their adult years--grow emotionally and learn what we call "people skills."
Somewhere in the boxes that accumulated over the years in our basement are videotapes of our five children at summer camp. We see our kids in various activities--playing baseball and basketball, jumping into the pool, holding the rabbits in the "nature shack," and, the mother of all activities, "color war." 

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Violent Anti-Conservative Movie "The Hunt" Release Cancelled... For Now
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Last week, we reported that Universal Studios was releasing an inflammatory movie called "The Hunt," in which "liberal elites" hunted and brutally murdered so-called "MAGA types." 
After a massive public outcry, Universal today announced that they've canceled their plans to release the "satirical film" in September. 
This comes after the studio temporarily halted marketing following two politically motivated mass shootings in one weekend.
The statement from Universal
The official website for the movie has only the following statement.
While Universal Pictures had already paused the marketing campaign for The Hunt, after thoughtful consideration, the studio has decided to cancel our plans to release the film. We stand by our filmmakers and will continue to distribute films in partnership with bold and visionary creators, like those associated with this satirical social thriller, but we understand that now is not the right time to release this film.
Variety reports:
Insiders tell Variety that the studio came to the decision alongside "The Hunt" filmmakers. They also said it was a tough decision for the company, but studio leadership ultimately determined that the film could wait. 
Perhaps their decision had something to do with all the people who vowed to boycott the film - and even other films by Universal - after hearing about the outrageously divisive plot of the movie.
What was the movie about?
The "satirical" movie was initially titled Red State vs. Blue State.
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Was There A Way For The Church To Avoid The Culture Wars?
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Was there a different course the Church in America could have taken to avoid the culture wars? A way to focus on the gospel and transcend controversial moral and political issues? Personally, I would much rather write about Torah than about Trump, about Christ than about culture, about the Holy Spirit than about homosexuality.
Is it possible that, as followers of Jesus, we could have bypassed today's divisive social issues and simply concentrated on the gospel? Or is this making a false dichotomy between gospel and culture?
Without a doubt, our voice should be loudest and clearest when it comes to preaching Jesus as Savior and Lord. Our witness should be strongest when it comes to doing good and demonstrating our faith by our works.
But does that mean that we cannot be good witnesses while standing for justice and righteousness and equity?
Show Me The Scripture Where We're Not Supposed to Be Helping Save Lives
Certainly, we must transcend partisan politics.
We cannot be pawns of a program or a party. We are God's servants, with ultimate allegiance to Him, and all other allegiances must be secondary to that.
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Celebrities Lead Charge To Normalize Transgenderism For Young Children
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Earlier this week, I took a brief look at how the mainstream media is teaming up with celebrities to normalize transgenderism and to make it appear as if things that we would all be stunned by a mere decade ago are not only acceptable, but downright laudable. 
One of those things, for example, would be parents raising small children as transgender, and embarking on treatments that will have a long-lasting (and probably devastating) effect on them. The media is carefully profiling these new family arrangements (as well as highlighting the fictitious presence of "pregnant men" and other absurdities that the trans activists are demanding that we accept.) 
Here's an example from The Sun:
Parents of two transgender children who were aged five and eight when they transitioned insist their kids are happier than ever. James, 11, and his little sister Olivia, 7, live with their supportive parents, Ben and Sara Kaplan, in Berkeley, California, US. The family say they are sharing their story with the hope of normalising the narrative surrounding trans children - in a country where only 0.3 percent of adults are transgender, according to a 2011 study.
That number, by the way, is spiking so fast that in Great Britain the government of the United Kingdom is launching an investigation into why. But notice here that these parents have decided to come to the media, have their family extensively photographed, and then explain modestly that they are doing this because they see themselves as culture warriors hoping to "normalize the narrative surrounding trans children." I'm sure that'll cost them some party invitations in Berkeley. More:
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Record Number Of Jews Visit Temple Mount On Tisha B'Av Despite Muslim Protests
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Riots erupted on the Temple Mount Sunday, as Muslims celebrating Eid al-Adha ("Festival of Sacrifice") attempted to prevent Jews from entering. Police ultimately pushed back against the protesters to allow a record-breaking number of Jews to visit the site.
Hundreds of Jews lined up to visit the Temple Mount on the morning of Tisha B'Av, the day on which Jews mourn the destruction of the Temples in Jerusalem as well as a series of calamities which befell the Jewish people throughout history on the same date.
However, local Islamic authorities on Friday had urged Muslims to converge on the site on Sunday in the hope of preventing Jews from praying there.
"This decision comes after the organizations of the alleged Temple requested the occupation government to allow Jews to break into Al-Aqsa during Eid," the Higher Islamic Commission, the Council for Wakf and Islamic Affairs and the Supreme Council of Fatwa said in a joint statement on Friday
Mufti of Jerusalem Sheikh Mohamed Hussein also announced Friday that the Eid prayers in Al-Aqsa would be delayed for an hour, to start at 7:30 a.m. instead of 6:30 a.m. on Sunday, with the aim of hindering Jewish access to the site.
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New Movie Has Blue State Elitists Hunting Red State Trump Supporters For Sport
"Why would anyone think it's a great idea to have a movie about hunting down someone who doesn't agree with them politically? It's remarkable that the left blames Donald Trump's rhetoric for violence, then literally spends millions to normalize the killing of people based on politics".
Violent ads for a movie about blue state elitists hunting red state Trump supporters for sport called "The Hunt", have been pulled in the aftermath of the mass shootings.  Studio executives say that they fear the tragedies will eclipse the ultra-dark and violent satire.
TV station ESPN has yanked the trailer without waiting for Universal to make up its mind, opting not to air the clip at all in the next few weeks, according to a source at the station. 
While one Universal insider claimed the studio was standing by producer Jason Blum, who has turned out successful films including the Purge series and Get Out, they characterized the situation as "fluid" and warned things could change "if people think we're being exploitative rather than opinionated."
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Temple Institute To Jews Worldwide: Build The 3rd Temple
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The Temple Institute has released a powerful new video to awaken world Jewry and reframe the traditional period of mourning into one of preparation for the rebuilding of the Third Holy Temple. 
Although millions of Jews worldwide will fast on the Ninth of Av (observed this year on August 11st) and strictly adhere to the other halachic requirements of mourning the destruction of the two Holy Temples, for too many the concept of rebuilding the Temple is like a far-away dream. These are the people the Temple Institute wishes to awaken from their slumber.
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3 Major Developments Happening Right Now That Could Lead To Global War
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It has been a seemingly quiet summer in America so far, but meanwhile we are witnessing major developments on the other side of the globe that could change everything.  We are so close to war, and yet most people have absolutely no idea what is happening.  
In fact, if you showed most Americans a blank map of the world, they couldn't even pick out Iran, Hong Kong or North Korea.  
There is so much apathy in our society today, and so little knowledge about foreign affairs, and so most people simply do not grasp the importance of the drama that is playing out right in front of our eyes.  
But if a major war does erupt, none of our lives are ever going to be the same again.  So I am going to keep writing about these things, because I believe that we have reached an absolutely critical juncture in our history.
Let's start with a stunning new development in the Middle East.
Even though most Americans do not realize it, Israel and Iran are already shooting at each other.  Israel has been striking Iranian military targets inside Syria for months, but now the rules of engagement have apparently changed, because in recent days the IDF has started conducting airstrikes against Iranian targets inside Iraq...
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Preparing For Long Term Crisis? Chinese Suddenly Stocking Up On Everything
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Does China believe that we are on the verge of a major global crisis?  
The communist Chinese government has always been very big into planning, and it appears that they have decided that now is the time to hoard food, gold and other commodities.  
Of course in recent days the fact that China is completely cutting off U.S. agricultural imports has made headlines all over the globe, but at the same time China is dramatically increasing the amount of food that it is importing from the rest of the world.  
The end result is actually a substantial surge in Chinese imports, and this is starting to show up in the official numbers.  For example, we just learned that Chinese soybean imports in July were actually up 8 percent compared to last year...
China's soybean imports in July rose 8% from a year earlier, to their highest level in almost a year, customs data showed on Thursday, as importers increased their purchases of Brazilian beans on higher crush margins.
As I discussed the other day, China had already been drastically reducing soybean imports from the United States even before this recent announcement that U.S. agricultural imports were being cut off completely.  
So American farmers were definitely not benefiting from this Chinese import boom, and now that China has decided not to buy any of our crops it is going to be a "devastating blow" for our farmers...
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Temple Institute To Jews Worldwide: Build The 3rd Temple
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The Temple Institute has released a powerful new video to awaken world Jewry and reframe the traditional period of mourning into one of preparation for the rebuilding of the Third Holy Temple. 
Although millions of Jews worldwide will fast on the Ninth of Av (observed this year on August 11st) and strictly adhere to the other halachic requirements of mourning the destruction of the two Holy Temples, for too many the concept of rebuilding the Temple is like a far-away dream. These are the people the Temple Institute wishes to awaken from their slumber.
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LGBT Movement Goes Beyond Acceptance To Seeking Totalitarian Power
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As the culture wars heat up between the American Left and Right, progressive journalists are increasingly falling back on a powerful and succinct statement to push the public into a nostalgia for the Obama years: This isn't normal.
None of this, they write and tweet and blog endlessly, is "normal": Not the erratic presidential tweets, not the belligerent presidential tone, and not what they claim is Trump's "treasonous" behavior. I'm not unsympathetic to many of the arguments being made about civility, decorum, and the rest of the things that keep George Will up at night. But I do think that the media are engaging in a sophisticated game of gaslighting in the meantime.
What the media is doing while shrieking about our vanishing standards of normalcy is waging an all-out war on the idea of the male-female gender binary itself. While they are highlighting the abnormal nature of a president who tweets out spur-of-the-moment policy, they are pushing child drag queens and transgender children and pregnant "men" and "women" with penises as if these things were not an absolutely revolutionary attack on the social fabric of the West. 
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Cities Without Children: The Cost Of Our Urban Idols
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Yesterday, I told you about a district in northern India where, according to reports, not a single girl was born for three months. The main cause of the shocking gender imbalance we see around the world, and especially in India, is sex-selective abortion. 
In reaction, some of us may be tempted to think, "well, what do you expect from people who worship idols with blue skin and elephant heads?"
That would be exactly the wrong reaction. After all, Western countries have idols, too. Worshiping our idols also coincides with a lack of children, and not just baby girls.
Recently in The Atlantic, Derek Thompson points out that, despite a decade-long economic and cultural boom in our cities, America's urban rebirth is missing actual births. In fact, if current trends continue, the future of American cities is virtually childless.
Take New York City. Last year, for the first time in forty years, the Big Apple's population shrank during a non-recession year. Since at least 2011, the number of babies born in the five boroughs has declined by nine percent. 
In Manhattan, it's dropped 15 percent--again, despite a pronounced economic recovery. At this rate, says Thompson, the city's infant population will halve in thirty years.
Of course, part of this has to do with the rising cost of living in America's cities. Increasingly, the only people who can afford to move there are "rich, college-educated whites without children."
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Turkeys March West Comes To An End As It Embraces Russia, China
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Ironically, it was an anti-Islamist, Kemalist Turkish general who first suggested that Turkey should align its foreign policy with the rising powers of Eurasia -- all of Europe plus Asia. 
It was just eight months before President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) first came to power, and since then, has remained undefeated. The U.S. at the time was busy with the final touches on the military operation that would oust Iraq's dictator, Saddam Hussein, in March 2003.
General Tuncay Kılınç, the powerful secretary general of Turkey's National Security Council, said that Turkey should seek an alternative alliance with Russia and Iran. In November 2002, Erdoğan's AKP came to power, pledging to pursue pro-EU, pro-West, liberal governance, and wrongly accusing Kemalist ideology of being an obstacle against liberal democracy -- an incredible political story, to judge it 17 years later. 
Few observers back then warned that Erdoğan's pro-West façade was fake and his deep adherence to political Islam, an enemy of the Western civilization, would one day urge him to seek non-Western alliances.
Ostensibly, the S-400 vs. F-35 conflict between NATO allies Turkey and the United States is a matter of East-West military disputes, reminiscent of several others the world observed during the cold war. It is not.
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Anti-Semitism is increasing around the world, just as we are told to expect in the Scriptures. As this age draws to a close, we are told that the nations will turn against Israel, and that Jerusalem will become a stumbling block to the peoples.

Instead of being afraid or hostile towards those who rage against Israel, it's important for us to know how to explain the truth about God's heart and plans for his people and his land.
America In Decline: US Hits All Time Low Fertility Rate
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According to the National Center for Health Statistics, the fertility rate in the United States has never been lower than it is right now.  Unlike some of our other problems, this is not an immediate crisis because we definitely have plenty of people.  
The population of the U.S. is currently well over 300 million, and more immigrants keep pouring in with each passing day.  
So we are in no danger of running out of people, but the fact that Americans are choosing to have so few babies is yet another symptom of the social decay that is eating away at our nation like cancer.  
From a very early age, young Americans are being trained not to value marriage, parenthood and the traditional family unit.  
As a result, we are on an extremely self-destructive path, and there is no way that we are going to have a positive future as a country unless we change course.
The fertility rate in the U.S. has been in decline for many years, and just when you thought that it couldn't possibly go any lower, it did...
The general fertility rate in the United States continued to decline last year, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.
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Before you download an app or a PDF, do you read the Terms and Conditions? If not, you may be unintentionally signing up for trouble, like millions of users have after agreeing to the Terms of Service of FaceApp. 
The viral app allows people to change facial expressions, looks, and their age. But in exchange, the company owns all the rights to the images. 
Since its launch, more than 150 million people have downloaded FaceApp from Google Play. In fact, the app is now the top-ranked app on the iOS App Store in 121 countries, according to App Annie.
Based on the Terms of Service, people still own their own "user content" (read: their face). But, FaceApp also owns a never-ending and irrevocable royalty-free license to do anything they want with the photograph. That includes in front of whoever they wish.
The condition reads:
You grant FaceApp a perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully-paid, transferable sub-licensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, publicly perform and display your User Content and any name, username or likeness provided in connection with your User Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed, without compensation to you. 
When you post or otherwise share User Content on or through our Services, you understand that your User Content and any associated information (such as your [username], location or profile photo) will be visible to the public.
Selling your face isn't likely to cause life-altering repercussions. However, as PhoneArena's Peter Kostadinov said, "You might end up on a billboard somewhere in Moscow, but your face will most likely end up training some AI facial-recognition algorithm."
FaceApp isn't the only company to collect user's data. Facebook has been doing the same for years. As a result, we now know that the data that is collected is rarely used for assumed purposes. 
Furthermore, that data is not always stored securely, which can make the average individual vulnerable to hackers and identity theft.
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Apple is just as guilty of collecting information. Forbes reports:
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Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) say that they are going to Israel and "Palestine" in order "to learn" about the region. Israel has granted the women permission to enter the country, notwithstanding the overwhelming evidence that their trip has only one purpose: to strengthen the hand of people and organizations that share these women's desire to attack Israel, the nation-state of the Jewish people.
But just because Israel has let them in doesn't mean its leaders have to sit passively by while Tlaib and Omar use the country as a backdrop for their personally designed advertisements for Hamas and Hezbollah; their accusations of apartheid, genocide, and all other things repugnant; and their program to eliminate Jewish self-determination.
On the contrary, as any fair-minded person knows, none of the things these women claim to believe about Israel is actually correct. So Israel has this one potent weapon on its side: the truth. Israel should use it with these two hate-filled politicians. Israel should invite these American officials to the places that make it absolutely clear that everything important they claim to believe about Israel and its enemies is wrong.
Here's a suggested itinerary:
The SodaStream factory. Moved from the disputed territories because of vicious BDS movement protests, where it employed more than 100 Arabs working alongside Jews -- at wages far in excess of what Arabs could earn in Jordan, Gaza, Egypt, or any Arab town in the territories themselves -- SodaStream insisted on continuing to employ as many of its Arab workers as possible in its new factory inside the Green Line. Efforts by those boycotting Israel had exactly one effect on these people: They helped to dis-employ dozens of Arabs who are not able to reach the new location.
The Hamas tunnels. Let Israel help Tlaib and Omar "learn" by seeing firsthand what Hamas has done with millions of dollars it poached from international aid sent to Gaza, which was instead spent constructing tunnels designed for use by Hamas "fighters" -- men trained not to confront enemy combatants, but to invade towns inside Israel proper and murder civilians in cold blood. While they're at it, they might want to visit the thousands of dunams of scorched Israeli farmland caused by the weekly "peaceful protests" along Gaza's border with Israel.
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Why Hezbollah Truly Threatens Israel
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Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah recently issued a new threat to Israel's cities and sensitive sites, boasting of his terror organization's ability to hit targets deep inside the country.
The threats came in a televised speech, serving as a reminder of the ambitious arms race that the Shiite terror army is engaged in, with the massive assistance of its state sponsor Iran.
The Lebanese Hezbollah is the world's most heavily armed non-state actor, and its surface-to-surface firepower arsenal -- estimated at around 150,000 projectiles -- is larger than most state armies.
The IDF's main war preparations focus on the offensive and defensive operations needed to deal with this threat.
On July 12, Nasrallah told the Al-Manar television station, which is affiliated with his terror organization, that Hezbollah has improved its offensive capabilities. Displaying a map, he threatened strikes on strategic Israeli targets including Ben-Gurion International Airport, the Dimona nuclear facility, a power plant in Hadera, Ashdod sea port, and ammonia tanks in the city of Haifa. Hezbollah makes no distinction between civilian and military targets, and has made the goal of terrorizing Israeli civilians a top priority in future wars.
Nasrallah also threatened to hit the IDF headquarters in the heart of Tel Aviv, as well as a series of air force bases.
Hezbollah built up its arsenal by smuggling projectiles into 200 southern Lebanese villages, as well as launch sites in the Bekaa Valley in east Lebanon. It therefore has embedded its firepower in the heart of Lebanese communities, turning Lebanese civilians into human shields if Israel needs to target launch sites and bases.
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Losing Trust: Americans Don't Trust The Govt, The Media, Or Each Other
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Americans are losing trust in each other, in the government, and in the media, according to a concerning new survey.
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that conducts public opinion polls and social science research and informs the public about issues, attitudes, and trends shaping the world. The organization recently published a new report called Trust and Distrust in America, which reveals that Americans think declining trust in the government and in each other is making it harder to solve important problems.
Confidence in the government and in each other is shrinking.
"Two-thirds of adults think other Americans have little or no confidence in the federal government. Majorities believe the public's confidence in the U.S. government and in each other is shrinking, and most believe a shortage of trust in government and in other citizens makes it harder to solve some of the nation's key problems," the report states.
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Putting Social Media Giants Into Biblical Perspective
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As I write this article, I am awaiting the verdict of my appeal to YouTube after receiving the first strike in our channel's history. Yet, in my heart, I do not feel that I am being tested. I feel that YouTube is being tested.
Allow me to explain.
It's common to refer to the social media giants -- Google and YouTube and Facebook and Twitter and their associates -- as the "masters of the universe." (From another angle, we could add Amazon into this mix.)
They have incredible reach and power, and they can make you or break you at their whim. They can bring down (or promote) individuals or organizations. And, if Dr. Robert Epstein's congressional testimony is accurate, they have the potential to influence presidential elections.
That is power. That is influence. That is dominance.
Their Time of Testing
Right now, my ministry relies heavily on social media to get our message out to millions of people every week. This includes our daily radio show (which we also livestream on YouTube and Facebook), our daily op-ed pieces, our latest videos, our gospel tweets, and more.
Shut down one of these outlets, and we feel it immediately.
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Summer Camps For The Next Generation Of Terrorists
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No one is born a terrorist or a jihadist fighter, it must be learned, and Hamas understands this all too well. Hamas recently announced the opening of its annual summer training camp for children that attracts an average of 100,000 children and teenagers each year. 
The month-long terrorist training camps, each of which runs for about a week, are funded and organized by Hamas, the Palestinian Authority and formerly the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). This year's theme will be the Great March of Return, according to promotional information published by Hamas.
The slogan for this year's summer camps is "I am returning to my homeland" and the central purpose is to indoctrinate Palestinian youths with the "concept of return" as well as provide them with the tools to continue their attacks on Israel into the next generation. 
Photos posted in promotional material on the camps' Facebook page show maps labeled with the pre-1948 names for cities now inside Israel. Children sit in rapt attention as they are taught that they have an ancestral right to return to Israel as a conquering force. 
Open to both girls and boys, each camp is an intensive week of indoctrination in religious jihadist ideology centered on the destruction of Israel and sessions of military training in guerilla warfare and urban combat tactics. In addition to previous years' lessons in using assault weapons, abducting civilians, setting IED's and attacking IDF positions to take hostages, this year the campers will take part in activities inspired by the Great March of Return. 
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Palestinian Factions Prepare For The Day After Abbas
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In the West Bank, a number of factions, militias and armed terror organizations have been thinking for a while now about the day after the leadership of Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas comes to an end.
Competition over the question of who will fill in the power vacuum that will be left behind has ignited a power struggle, though it is one that has so far largely raged beneath the surface and away from the spotlight.
In addition to Hamas's plans to exploit the instability to strengthen its presence, elements within the rival Fatah camp could also find themselves in a face-off against one another.
"Leaders do not like to raise successors," Professor Boaz Ganor, founder and executive director of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Herzliya, told JNS. "It apparently is seen as 'bad luck' that shortens the political life of the leader when a new leader grows in his shadow. 
This is the explanation for why Abbas has been and is making a large effort to prevent any Fatah senior Fatah operative from standing out and to be thought of as a 'natural successor' for the leadership."
Ganor recalled that Abbas's predecessor, Yasser Arafat, operated in a similar manner, appointing several deputies and preventing any of them from amassing too much power, even encouraging occasional rivalries between them.
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