Note - It is important to note that this assessment and nine-page document was created before the July 13th attack on an ICE facility in Tacoma, Washington, by a man armed with a rifle, and incendiary devices that he threw at both the facility and nearby propane tanks, at one point setting a vehicle on fire. The man was shot and killed by law enforcement in the midst of his attack. The report, which is embedded below, also assesses "The AE threat to Arizona will likely grow in intensity and frequency in the near mid-term." According to the footnote added, mid-term is considered to be within "6-12 months." On page three of the FBI Phoenix document, under the heading of "Anarchist Extremists Likely Are Increasingly Using Firearms To Further Operational Goals and during Confrontations with Opposition Groups in Arizona," they base their assessment on "recent reporting indicating the AEs are training with and seeking firearms for 'direct action' and countering opposition groups, including government entities." They specify a number of those reports, highlighting public statements by both Antifa and Border Liberation Front (BFL): The first example cited was that BFL organizers planned for camps in Texas and Arizona to serve as staging platforms for on-site armed support of the migrant caravans. BFL also planned training in fighting and combat, and encouraged members ot bring personally owned firearms. In that same section they reference previous reports which revealed they intended to "purchase firearms from a Mexico-based cartel associate." The next example cited was an Antifa training seminar in April 2018, in Flagstaff Arizona, where "individuals from multiple AE and anarchist-leaning groups received firearm familiarization training," further noting that the trainers had various firearms on display. The footnote on page three describes Antifa, stating "Anti-racist characterize themselves as part of a greater anti-fascist network, commonly referred to by both members and opponents as Antifa. Antifa has included violence in the past against those individuals or groups it opposes, including white supremacists, others perceived as racist, and political groups."  The last example they cite references the group called Redneck Revolt, stating that they fundraised for firearm purchases with offers to "act as armed security for various protests and armed components of Antifa protests." Read the document below before we move along to the attempts to designate Antifa groups as domestic terrorists. (If you appreciate stories like this, please consider donating to ANP to help keep us in this battle for the future of America.) THE LOGISTICAL PROBLEMS OF DESIGNATING ANTIFA AS A DOMESTIC TERROR GROUP On July 18, 2019, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. and Ted Cruz, introduced Senate Resolution 279 (S.Res. 279), titled "Calling for the designation of Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization." In the Senate resolution they listed samples of violence conducted by Antifa groups, then asking the U.S. Senate resolve the following:

In conspiratorial circles, it’s long been rumored that Walmarts across the country would become FEMA camps after an epic disaster. Some folks even suggested that once you were in the camp, you would not be able to leave. Sort of like those old roach motel commercials. If you’re not familiar with it, here’s the Wikipedia link for a general overview of the FEMA camp theory. And here are 16 mindblowing facts about Walmart and its arguable quest for world domination. While the FEMA camp theory has some holes in it, a long-time employee of Walmart contacted me to tell me about a direct link between Walmart and the government. We’ll call him Frank. (I generally hate those “unnamed source” articles, but occasionally the option to reveal a source just isn’t there.) Some people will dismiss this article because I promised not to disclose the gentleman’s name or the store where he works. That’s totally up to you. Now, according to what Frank told me, it looks like Walmart’s world domination plan may not have anything to do with housing people after all. The italicized text is Frank’s own words.  The connection between Walmart and the government So where do I start? I still work for Walmart, but I’m not sure for how much longer. I’ve been employed by them for 25+ years, but may not survive the next restructuring. I have seen many things and have witnessed a clear connection between Walmart and the government. Remember after the tragedy of September eleventh all the Walmart TVs had the “if you see something say something” commercials playing 24-7. That’s an example of those connections I was talking about. Going back to the early to mid-1990s, the US military studied Walmart logistics system and implemented that technology in their own logistics network. Walmart is a facilitator. We’ll talk more about those logistics in a moment. How everything came to be made in China Why do you think everything is made in China? Walmart approached China in the ’90s to build products. Then they went to the vendors telling them we want you to build your items in China. That way you can make more $ and give us a cheaper price. We know people and will introduce you. This has influenced other large American businesses. Then other companies followed suit. The same goes for managing their employees. What Walmart does, other companies follow. Here’s how Walmart is tied into national preparedness Now let’s apply that philosophy to preparedness. Walmart wants more business, right? Well, if you’re the only store open after a disaster you will have business up the ying-yang. Walmart’s logistics network is coast to coast with its own trucks, warehouses, supply networks, and retail stores. If the power goes down and Walmarts still can operate (with government help and security) how much money will they make? I don’t buy into the Walmart FEMA camp theory. However, I do believe Walmarts will be used as a distribution hub in local communities for essential goods like food and medicine. All of this would be under government control and protection. Need your prescription after an EMP? Stand in line at Walmart with Humvees keeping order. Then there is the psychological aspect. After hurricanes local governments want the Walmarts to be the first businesses to reopen. Why is that? To restore a sense of normalcy to communities and get people to move on. Walmart will most certainly be part of a post-event world. Their warehouses will collect goods, their trucks will deliver under government security, and their stores will provide the distribution place for your food and medicine. All under the watchful eye of the authorities.  How Walmart could play a key role in restoring order There is also market saturation. Many communities have a Walmart, but larger cities have several at key locations along major highways and intersections. Perfect places for checkpoints to keep things under control. There are Walmarts everywhere so they could be the face of restoring order. Let me also touch on civil unrest. If an area is acting up, they’ll close the Walmart to force compliance. The camera systems in stores are everywhere and those images pop up everywhere. How many times have you seen a picture of someone stealing or something and have seen this person on FB or some other platform? So that system could be used to identify trouble makers and is, therefore, an intelligence-gathering device. This system is already well known to local law enforcement as a tool of identification. The connections are already in place. Remember, Walmart is a facilitator. I believe the things I have mentioned are one major event from becoming a reality. The systems are in place and the planning becomes more refined every day. What if you could only buy supplies in one store? Imagine a world in which there was only one place you could get supplies. This store is backed and secured by the United States military. This store still has cameras everywhere, it has all the essential supplies like food, medicine, hardware, winter coats. If Frank is right about all this, imagine the level of control that kind of monopoly could provide. If you don’t behave, you can’t get into the store to get the things your family needs. You will be surveilled constantly when you’re in the store. (Heck, you’re already surveilled constantly in Walmart.) Maybe while everyone has been worried about Big Tech and Amazon controlling the country, what we should have been worried about is Walmart. Perhaps Walmart has been quietly positioning itself to be the only source of food, medicine, and supplies available in the aftermath of a national SHTF event. Talk about power. They wouldn’t need FEMA camps if all the merchandise available is owned by one company and that company is in cahoots with the government. What people can do to avoid the power play I’ve been writing for years about the value of storing food and being producers instead of consumers. I have published articles by Selco about barter and trade. In a situation like this, the black market will almost certainly arise, and quickly. The ability to be self-reliant will never be more important than during a time in which distribution is centralized. When you must have a certain life-saving supply, like antibiotics for your child, you will have no option but to comply with the rules of those who hold that merchandise. It’s a chilling thought, isn’t it? What do you think? In a massive SHTF event, do you believe that Walmart would be the only official distributor of necessary supplies? Do you believe they’re already working with the government? Please share your thoughts in the comments below.

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https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-09-06/leprosy-could-be-next-public-health-crisis-hit-los-angeles 

China may turn out to be a major wildcard for the silver market and price in the future. There are two parts of the equation in regards to the Chinese silver market that are explained in my newest video update. Also, after the silver price shot up to $19.75 rather quickly, what’s next for the shiny metal?  Some analysts are suggesting that the silver price is overbought on a weekly basis and may experience a significant correction. While it is normal for an asset price to correct after a large run-up, the precious metals seem to be heading into NEW TERRITORY. Sure, the silver price could experience a correction after shooting up $5.50 over the past few months, but it could also remain overbought for an extended period, very similar to its price action in late 2010. I explain these in my newest video update, The China Silver Wildcard & What’s Next For The Silver Price: One of the important aspects discussed in the video is China’s heavy reliance on the Base Metal Mining Industry to supply the overwhelming majority of its silver needs. The chart below shows how Asia, mostly China, receives only 3% of its silver mine supply from primary silver production. Why is the data in this chart relevant? Again, I explain it in the video with several more charts why China could be a Major Wildcard for the silver market and price moving forward. Lastly, I would also appreciate my followers to consider supporting the SRSrocco Report either through PayPal or Patreon. I want to thank all those who already support the website and youtube channel. It takes a great deal of time to put together this information which I don’t believe you can find anywhere else on the internet. If you are new to the SRSrocco Report, please consider subscribing to my: SRSrocco Report Youtube Channel.

If you’re interested in the backstory on Jeffrey Epstein—a story largely ignored by the corporate media—read Whitney Webb’s How the CIA, Mossad and “the Epstein Network” are Exploiting Mass Shootings to Create an Orwellian Nightmare. The subhead reads: “Following another catastrophic mass shooting or crisis event, Orwellian ‘solutions’ are set to be foisted on a frightened American public by the very network connected, not only to Jeffrey Epstein, but to a litany of crimes and a frightening history of plans to crush internal dissent in the United States.”   Webb mentions convicted felon Oliver North: Perhaps most disturbing of all, whatever technological solution is adopted by the Trump administration [to address mass shootings], it is set to use a controversial database first developed as part of a secretive U.S. government program that involved notorious Iran-Contra figures like Oliver North as a means of tracking and flagging potential American dissidents for increased surveillance and detention in the event of a vaguely defined “national emergency.” North and associates used PROMIS (Prosecutors Management Information Systems) software to build this database. The software has a rather colorful past. “The PROMIS software was created by INSLAW Inc., a company owned by a former NSA intelligence officer named William Hamilton,” writes Ed Encho. The software was modified for espionage purposes to include a ‘back door’ that could be used for spying on those that it was sold to… It is important to keep in mind the period when PROMIS was stolen in the early 1980’s and the fact that the technology boom was still years in the future which should give one an idea to just how far advanced and therefore how important that it was to those who would use it in order to promote a sinister agenda.  Richard Fricker writes for WIRED: Designed as case-management software for federal prosecutors, PROMIS has the ability to combine disparate databases, and to track people by their involvement with the legal system. Hamilton and others now claim that the DOJ has modified PROMIS to monitor intelligence operations, agents and targets, instead of legal cases. North’s “sinister agenda,” in addition to covertly working with the Nicaraguan Contras to overthrow the Sandinista government, included Rex-84, a classified plan to round-up and intern political dissidents. This was exposed by the Miami Herald in 1987. One of Lt. Col. Oliver North’s first National Security Council assignments involved helping the government’s chief crisis-management agency update its secret wartime contingency plans, according to sources familiar with North’s work. The sources, one present and two former government officials, said that until 1984 North collaborated with the Federal Emergency Management Agency in revising two crisis- management contingency documents and staging national emergency simulations. During the hearings on Iran-Contra in 1987, then Rep. Jack Brooks questioned North directly on Rex-84. [Congressman Jack] Brooks: Colonel North, in your work at the N.S.C. were you not assigned, at one time, to work on plans for the continuity of government in the event of a major disaster? Brendan Sullivan [North’s counsel, agitatedly]: Mr. Chairman? [Senator Daniel] Inouye: I believe that question touches upon a highly sensitive and classified area so may I request that you not touch upon that? Brooks: I was particularly concerned, Mr. Chairman, because I read in Miami papers, and several others, that there had been a plan developed, by that same agency, a contingency plan in the event of emergency, that would suspend the American constitution. And I was deeply concerned about it and wondered if that was an area in which he had worked. I believe that it was and I wanted to get his confirmation. Inouye: May I most respectfully request that that matter not be touched upon at this stage. If we wish to get into this, I’m certain arrangements can be made for an executive session. The “highly sensitive and classified” plan to identify and target political activists is not a new or innovative concept. It began in earnest with the FBI’s cross-referenced “ADEX” list in the 1960s. The FBI, then known as the General Intelligence Division (GID), began indexing names shortly after the First World War. The “reserve Index” of this voluminous list (more than 10 million people were indexed by 1939) set aside people who would be “arrested and held” in case of a national emergency. The system was tweaked with the “Custodial Detention List” (also known as the “Alien Enemy Control” list) used to round-up Japanese-Americans during the Second World War.  Since that time, the government has combined its numerous lists of potential detainees and whittled it down slightly to eight million people. The revised list is codenamed Main Core. The government has added names to this list since the 1980s when North was plotting his Continuity of Government plan to suspend the Constitution. Michael Snyder writes: It turns out that the U.S. government is not just gathering information on all of us. The truth is that the U.S. government has used this information to create a list of threats to national security that the government would potentially watch, question or even detain during a national crisis. If you have ever been publicly critical of the government, there is a very good chance that you are on that list. Christopher Ketchum of Radar Magazine writes: There exists a database of Americans, who, often for the slightest and most trivial reason, are considered unfriendly, and who, in a time of panic, might be incarcerated. The database can identify and locate perceived ‘enemies of the state’ almost instantaneously.” He and other sources tell Radar that the database is sometimes referred to by the code name Main Core. One knowledgeable source claims that 8 million Americans are now listed in Main Core as potentially suspect. In the event of a national emergency, these people could be subject to everything from heightened surveillance and tracking to direct questioning and possibly even detention. Whitney Webb has done an exemplary job of connecting the dots on the Epstein case. She painstakingly links the efforts of US and Israeli intelligence to track and target political activists (in the case of Israel, Palestinians). Israel, like the CIA, has spent a lot of time and money underwriting tech startups. The objective is to create a surveillance system focused on “pre-crime,” that is to say using social media, the internet, email, cellphone tracking, and other data to form a profile of potential enemies of the state and their political behavior—for instance, organizing a boycott of Israel or revealing the manifest crimes of the United States government. Israeli and US tech companies, Webb writes, are “marketing themselves as ‘technological’ solutions to mass shootings while also doubling as covert tools for mass data collection and extraction, the end result is a massive surveillance system so complete and so dystopian that even George Orwell himself could not have predicted it.”

https://kurtnimmo.blog/2019/09/08/israel-and-us-introduce-tech-solutions-to-destroy-political-activists/ 

As followers of this website, it is clear that a Red Dawn invasion of a weakened invasion is planned. We are now witnessing the unveiling of domestic terrorism on a larger scale designed to weaken America. Meanwhile, south of our border, the Russians have moved in heavy armor in large numbers and are awaiting a sufficiently weakened America before attacking. This report exposes the beginnings of this two-pronged action. MS-13 is on the loose and the Russians are moving tanks into Nicaragua after signing a naval agreement with Ortega. The following is a report that is multifaceted and the content is very disturbing. This report contains some elements that I have been warning about for years. Some of my revelations related to the growing military threat in Central America have been met by a few with extreme derision. The critics of the Red Dawn threat, south of our border, will literally have heart attacks with the revelations that are going to be coming out over a period of time. Paul Preston, the President of New California and myself are literally getting proof that the threat that will one day attempt to militarily cross our southern border has been preceded by a domestic terror threat of unthinkable violence. Over the past year, Marilyn Rupar, Alexandra Daley and myself have uncovered incontrovertible proof that the Mexican drug cartel interests in this country are controlled by the Communist Chinese. In the past, I have also revealed from a high level confidential informant that when the United States is sufficiently weakened, Russia and China, under the UN flag, will attack the United States. Both nations have a plethora of 5th column paramilitary forces already inside of the country. The three of us have linked these interests into the Democratic Party as has former Congresswoman, Cynthia McKinney and former Congressman, Alan West, along with researcher, Trevor Louden. All point to the covert places in place inside of the United States that largely gained entrance to this country in the last Central American migration five years ago. Even the most unaware are cognizant of the fact that the UN and prominent globalists, such as George Soros, are involved. We know key Democratic figures, through the CALEXIT affiliations are involved. Even disgraced FBI Director, Comey, stated on July 4, 2017, that ISIS has a presence on all 50 states. In 2014-15, I detailed, though insider information about how this government, under Obama, was facilitating the entry into this country by hitmen from the cartels and we called them MS-13.   Paul Preston and the Growing Domestic Threat to the United States On Labor Day, Paul Preston was doing show prep for his popular radio show when he received a call before 5:00 am from a law enforcement listener of my show who was located in the Santa Barbara area. Like many in the media, Paul was just beginning to follow the burning boat story on local TV channels from Los Angeles when his law enforcement listener surprised him with his stunning revelations. In a nearly two hour phone call with Paul on Sunday, September 9th, he revealed to me that this source was impeccable and had never been wrong. The source revealed that the burning dive boat, the Conception, was blown up as a “hit” on several people in the boat. From my conversation with Paul, I have narrowed it down to three individuals. One figure, to be named later, had Epstein connections. Personally, I am sold on this connection without more information. However, the other two alleged targets of this terrorist attack have my attention. Paul Preston revealed the following both to me on the previously mentioned phone call and on his website: The hit centered around M.S. 13 the international cartel gang that arose in Los Angeles in the late 1980s who were taking out people involved in human trafficking and drug smuggling. In later conversations it was revealed there was a money laundering element involving two of the victims. We broadcast that morning that the fire may have been a hit by M.S. 13 and there would be more information coming. By noon time I was getting calls that news sources around the nation were stopping their coverage of the story except those in the local area. For example, Fox and CNN literally stopped covering this event. Local TV did not, but the national media did. Even Drudge pulled back information on the event from his website. Please keep in mind that as I relate the following, I am reminded of the fate of the battleship Maine. This was another instance in which a ship was blown up, along with all the enlisted men and only the officers survived. In the case of the Conception, the crew survived, except for one missing crewman who many suspect was a participant in the crime. Subsequently and based on new information, Paul Preston posted a Facebook post to Agenda 21 Radio on Friday September 6, 2019. Preston immediately posted this to his website:

In July 2018- Russian snipers literally BLEW THE BRAINS out of protesters heads with Dragunov guns  (their brains had to be picked up from the streets) As one can see from the information originally posted, the report came from a tweet which showed Russian tanks parading in a military parade in the capital city of Nicaragua at a military parade. The following is a presentation of three short Youtube videos by the people who posted the tweet. This is extremely concerning. In a very concerning discovery, Nicaragua and Russia have a signed mutual defense pact which involves their respective Naval forces. The first thing that came to mind is that a weakened America will not just be attacked through the southern border, there could be an amphibious attack as well from the Gulf, with the help of the Cubans and one the coast of California where one has to wonder if Diane Feinstein and Kamala Harris will be there to greet them when they land. Conclusion Why would the Russians be parading their tanks in Nicaragua? Wouldn't it be cheaper just to send a delegation? It would be but that is not the objective. The clear objective is to hide these tanks in plain sight. They can only be there for one purpose and it is not to participate in parades. Let me play the role of Captain Obvious. The domestic coordination of Russian troop build up in this hemisphere coordinated with the emergence of 5th column terrorist activity within the United States cannot be dismissed as coincidence. This is the beginning of the take down of America. I personally suspect that these forces along with riots, which will be artificially created (eg Antifa) along with embedded terrorists and embedded Chinese are about to unleashed upon America in advance of the election that the Deep State democrats will learn that they cannot win. Armed revolution with the combined forces of foreign militaries and domestic terrorists will comprise the Red Dawn force. For those that have read my previous articles on Red Dawn would agree that the threat is taking shape in a clear and definable manner

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/new-phase-red-dawn-preparation-and-activity-has-commenced 

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/activism-conspiracy-religion/alien-disclosure-taking-place-branson-week

The recent gun control moves by Walmart and Kroger are the continuation of a larger program by the Left to impose gun control through major corporations whose sway and sphere of control is almost comparable to that of monopolies. In my recent pamphlet, Thought Control Inc, I discussed how the project had begun with big banks and financial institutions. It was the spring of ’18. March for Our Lives had held its signature event in Washington D.C. without making much of an impact. Blue states and cities already suffered from rigid gun control. And in red states and cities, politicians on both sides of the aisle had learned the hard way that the Bill of Rights had some passionate supporters.  But two days earlier, Citigroup, the 4th largest bank in the country, had announced that it was unilaterally imposing its own gun control regulations by requiring that its “small business, commercial and institutional clients, and credit card partners” implement its favored restrictions on firearms sales. Next month, Bank of America, the 2nd largest bank, fired its own shot at the Second Amendment by announcing that it would refuse to underwrite securities for companies that manufacture what its vice chairman called “military-style firearms.” Even as the campaign to pressure elected officials into imposing gun control was losing ground, the financial industry was subverting the political system. At the intersection of March for Our Lives, Citigroup, and Bank of America lay the hidden hand of the 10th wealthiest man in America. When donors wrote checks to the photogenic teens clamoring for a gun ban, the money was routed to the “March For Our Lives—Everytown Support Fund.” Everytown had been formed out of two of Michael Bloomberg’s gun control front groups. Ed Skyler, the Citi exec who announced the gun control policy, had been Bloomberg’s former Deputy Mayor. And Bank of America made its announcement to Bloomberg, the billionaire finance industry titan’s eponymous news service. Michael Bloomberg had set up multiple front groups and spent hundreds of millions on buying elections with little to show for it. But in this coup against the Second Amendment, he and his fellow industry titans bypassed the voters in a plot to deprive hundreds of millions of Americans of their civil rights by attacking the firearms retailers and manufacturers that utilizing those rights depended on. “What if the finance industry — credit card companies like Visa, Mastercard, and American Express; credit card processors like First Data; and banks like JPMorgan Chase JPM, and Wells Fargo were to effectively set new rules for the sales of guns in America?” Andrew Ross Sorkin had written in a New York Times column. “Collectively, they have more leverage over the gun industry than any lawmaker.” Sorkin, who had coordinated part of the boycott, was laying out a vision of financial monopolies banding together to wipe out the Bill of Rights. The vision was integral to Thought Control, Inc., as a whole. Earlier, BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, had announced that it was pressuring gun manufacturers to adopt its gun control policies. In its press release, it boasted that Dick’s Sporting Goods “will no longer sell assault-style rifles” and that Walmart and Kroger had imposed age limits. “We will monitor these and other companies to assess their policies and practices in light of evolving societal expectations,” it warned. These social expectations were not those of Americans. The voters of the country could express those directly. Instead, they were the social expectations of a powerful elite imposing its will on the public. A number of the statements by the most powerful financial institutions in the country claimed that they had to act because elected officials had failed to pass the laws that met with their approval. “We have waited for our grief to turn into action and see our nation adopt common-sense measures that would help prevent firearms from getting into the wrong hands. That action has sadly never come,” Ed Skyler at Citigroup declared. Skyler then proposed to “convene those in the financial services industry” and “leverage collective action to encourage responsible practices by all who sell firearms.” In plainer terms, the financial services industry would form a cartel to sideline the voters, and Citigroup, Bank of America, BlackRock, and other industry titans would determine our laws and our rights. Bank of America and Citigroup’s assault on the Bill of Rights was not, as some argued, free enterprise. Not only did the country’s biggest banks wield abusive monopolistic powers, but they had employed their political influence to generate massive bailouts, $45 billion in loans, a $100 billion guarantee[3] against losses on toxic assets for BOA, and $476 billion in loans and guarantees for Citigroup. Bloomberg’s own gun control efforts had their origins in government resources misappropriated during his tenure as New York’s mayor. The economic coup against the Second Amendment was not capitalism in action. Instead, it was the fusion of industry monopolies empowered by government officials enforcing a social agenda while bypassing the voters by routing it through powerful firms. And it was backed by pressure from elected officials opposed to the Bill of Rights. At a House hearing titled “Holding Megabanks Accountable,” Rep Carolyn Maloney blasted Wells Fargo CEO Timothy Sloan for not having followed the example of other banks that had gone “above and beyond the law” by imposing her idea of “common-sense gun safety policies” on its customers. “I believe in corporate responsibility,” Rep. Maloney declared. “I’m proud of the two banks who’ve come up and said we don’t want to finance gun slaughter.” “There’s more than one way to skin a cat, and not everything has to be done through legislation explicitly,” Rep. Ocasio-Cortez said. “We can also use the tools that we have here to pressure change in other ways as well.” What Democrat elected and unelected officials had not been able to accomplish in any of the three branches of government, their covert fourth branch of private sector powerhouses could achieve. The Obama administration had already used Bank of America and Citigroup to route a fortune to its political allies. Bank of America had been hit with $16.6 billion in fines while Citigroup faced a $7 billion tab.[2] Hundreds of millions of dollars were instead diverted, at a favorable rate, to left-wing groups. In the spring of ’18, the Democrats had lost their grip on all three branches of government. But the fourth branch was still operating, and it had gone to war against the Bill of Rights. The Obama administration had eroded the boundaries between government and the private financial sector. The financial institutions that benefited from this blurring of the lines are conspiring against the Bill of Rights. You can find the Thought Control Inc, pamphlet, which discusses how major corporations are going after the Bill of Rights, at the Freedom Center here.

https://www.infowars.com/this-is-it-repeal-of-the-second-amendment-is-coming-dems-believe/ 

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etc You are going to see Babylon fall in twenty-four hours.  You will see the west coast 

all the way from Canada to Mexico fall off into the ocean.  I talked to you about the fault 

that shall be opened because America is going to divide Israel again. etc.

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https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/5-things-to-help-you-easily-understand-the-big-one/628849998

https://www.infowars.com/hellbound-for-destruction-abortionists-admit-in-court-to-keeping-babies-alive-to-later-harvest-their-organs/ 

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https://thecommonsenseshow.com/activism-conspiracy-health/communist-chinese-and-democratic-party-allies-are-engaged-plot-has-murdered-70000-americans

A New Year’s Day Politico headline encapsulated the dread filling the political world: “Yes, 2019 Is the Year You Were Worrying About.” Markets are rattled by a looming trade war with China, a Fed that seems determined to relegate prosperity to America’s rearview mirror, and a level of instability in Washington rivaled in American history only by the runup to the Civil War…. Any of these things could translate into a full-blown recession…. Meanwhile, the rest of the world remains dependent on the teetering American economy for their prosperity. The North Korea denuclearization deal seems to be falling apart before it even begins…. China is building weapons designed to destroy US aircraft carriers…. The overall buildup of the Chinese military is one of the largest ever undertaken. It includes a heavy emphasis on space weapons and the destruction of the digital infrastructure that America and the West depend on for their very survival…. Russia remains a nuclear superpower, and its President, Vladimir Putin, seems determined to build a new generation of exotic superweapons.  In Washington, a power base entrenched for generations is intent on bringing down this President. They may or may not have legitimate legal arguments against him. We will see as reports finally surface in 2019. But instability in Washington — with fault on both sides — was the hallmark of 2018 and looks to grow even worse in the new year. Bible prophecy is being fulfilled in dramatic, even spectacular ways. That’s good news because it means that the return of Jesus is getting closer. But the Bible makes it clear that the buildup to Christ’s return will be anything but pleasant. At some point, those of us who are in Christ will be raptured out of here. But between now and the rapture, difficulties will increase. America’s power and influence may be destroyed even sooner than we had imagined.  What about you? What about your family, neighbors, and friends? What about your church and community? What happens now? What happens to you and those you love? Here’s the thing to remember. Psalm 23 still applies. “The Lord is my shepherd.” He’s still my shepherd, even in the end times. “I shall not want.” He still provides for my needs even in economic hard times. “He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters. He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake.” It’s all still true. And if things become extremely bad, remember verses 4-6. “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You have anointed my head with oil; My cup overflows. Surely goodness and lovingkindness will follow me all the days of my life.” I don’t know what will happen in 2019. But I know goodness and mercy will follow me. And if you’re in Christ, they will follow you, too. I believe we will continue to see a fulfillment of the general trends laid out in scripture. Yet, even with that, Jesus said there would be an ebb and flow like with the labor pains of childbirth. That means we can’t make precise, year-by-year predictions. But if you are in Christ, I know a great deal about your future. The big one is this. You’re headed for heaven! The 23rd Psalm ends with an eternal beginning. “And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.”

The drone attack against an IDF Humvee by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad over the weekend was a dangerous escalation by the Gazan terrorist group. But it wasn’t the first time. In late May, PIJ used a drone to drop a mortar shell on a tank stationed at the border. The attack, during a violent flare-up between Israel and terrorist organizations in Gaza, was filmed by the group and later released on social media.  Read More Related Articles

Recommended by In the video, small explosions can be seen on and next to the tank, with Arabic captions reading “your defenses are nothing to us.”

A few days before, a drone armed with explosives launched from the northern part of the Gaza Strip landed in the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council. While no one was injured in any of the attacks, the incident over the weekend was a warning to the IDF: terrorist groups in the blockaded coastal enclave are continuing to innovate and find new weapons to attack Israel’s military. Beginning in late March 2018, during the “March of Return” protests, Hamas began using kites, balloons and condoms to burn Israeli land. It was a cheap but effective tool that Israel had trouble containing. Close to a year and a half later, incendiary balloons are still being flown across the border, frustrating the military and first responders who rush to the scene to put out the flames. Now drones are the new “it.” This weekend’s attack is a wake-up call that Israel must take seriously because drones, like rockets, pose threats not only to troops but to the thousands of residents who live in communities near the border. This time, an IDF Humvee was lightly damaged by an improvised explosive device dropped by the drone. And Israel hit back hard, first shelling the cell that launched the drone, and then striking Hamas targets across the northern and central Gaza Strip for close to an hour. In comparison, five rockets were launched toward southern Israel communities the night before, leading Israel to strike several Hamas targets. The military understands the threat, and it understands that a rocket attack on southern communities is an indiscriminate attack on civilians, while the drone attacked a military target. While there were no injuries or casualties in either event, both need to be met with an iron fist. Hamas and other terrorist groups in the Strip have been working for years to improve their drone capabilities, both by smuggling in civilian drones and by manufacturing them locally. Israel, for its part, has worked to thwart Hamas from increasing their drone arsenal, stopping them at border crossings and, according to foreign reports, eliminating Hamas operatives involved in their drone program. In February 2017, a Hamas drone that was making its way toward Israel from the Gaza Strip fell into the sea after being shot down by an Israeli F-16. The previous year, Hamas’s chief drone expert and engineer, Mohamed Zouari, was gunned down in his car near his home in the Tunisian city of Sfax in an operation blamed on the Mossad. In 2012, during Operation Pillar of Defense, the IDF said it struck Hamas facilities in Gaza that were being used to develop drones capable of carrying explosives. Then-GOC southern commander Maj.-Gen. Tal Russo said at the time that the IDF destroyed “advanced weaponry like the development of a UAV that isn’t used for photography, but for attacks deep inside Israel.” The IDF has been dealing with this phenomenon for years, and with the increase of small easily operable drones that can be bought cheaply online from anywhere in the world, the threat is only increasing. And while they are cheap, they are difficult to spot and intercept even for skilled sharpshooters, making them the perfect weapon for terrorists. Dozens of civilian companies have been working to provide solutions to intercept drones, and the air force is said to be testing several different technologies to intercept or hack drones with the aim of integrating them in the coming months. In the meantime, the men and women on the ground who are the first at the scene, even before the military, are getting frustrated.  Eyal Hajabi, chief security officer at the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council, told The Jerusalem Post that the threat posed by drones is something that has increased over the past few months and is likely not limited to military targets. “They stopped launching balloons and started with drones,” said Hajabi. “Since 2018, we have not had any quiet. [There are] rockets, tunnels, anti-tank, kites and now drones. For the rockets, we have the Iron Dome. [For] tunnels, we have an underground barrier. For anti-tank missiles, we have more barriers, but for the threat of kites – which is so primitive – we don’t have a solution, and now we have the drone threat, which is new and dangerous.” And for Hajabi, this is not a threat that only targets the military. “The moment they succeed against the military, they will try to target communities,” he said. “Wherever they find a target, they will want to strike. We can’t say that these drones are targeting only military jeeps or positions, but if groups in Gaza can fire hundreds of rockets toward civilian communities, who is to say that they won’t send drones to communities?” Just like the incendiary kites and balloons that wreaked havoc on Israel’s South, the threat of drones needs to be dealt with before one of them hits its mark, killing Israeli troops or civilians and dragging Israel into another war with the Gaza Strip.

https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Drones-Give-Militants-New-Precision-Weapon-In-Gaza-Conflict-601029 

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"Scariest Thing You'll Read All Day": Report Sounds Alarm Over Brain-Reading Technology and Neurocapitalism

"Your brain, the final privacy frontier, may not be private much longer."

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer Published on Friday, August 30, 2019 by Common Dreams

A Vox report that swiftly sparked alarm across the internet Friday outlined how, "in the era of neurocapitalism, your brain needs new rights," following recent revelations that Facebook and Elon Musk's Neuralink are developing technologies to read people's minds. As Vox's Sigal Samuel reported:  Mark Zuckerberg's company is funding research on brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that can pick up thoughts directly from your neurons and translate them into words. The researchers say they've already built an algorithm that can decode words from brain activity in real time.  And Musk's company has created flexible "threads" that can be implanted into a brain and could one day allow you to control your smartphone or computer with just your thoughts. Musk wants to start testing in humans by the end of next year. Considering those and other companies' advances and ambitions, Samuel warned that "your brain, the final privacy frontier, may not be private much longer" and laid out how existing laws are not equipped to handle how these emerging technologies could "interfere with rights that are so basic that we may not even think of them as rights, like our ability to determine where our selves end and machines begin." Samuel interviewed neuroethicist Marcello Ienca, a researcher at ETH Zurich who published a paper in 2017 detailing four human rights for the neurotechnology age that he believes need to be protected by law. Ienca told Samuel, "I'm very concerned about the commercialization of brain data in the consumer market." "And I'm not talking about a farfetched future. We already have consumer neurotech, with people trading their brain data for services from private companies," he said, pointing to video games that use brain activity and wearable devices that monitor human activities such as sleep. "I'm tempted to call it neurocapitalism." The Vox report broke down the four rights that, according to Ienca, policymakers need to urgently safeguard with new legislation: The right to cognitive liberty: You should have the right to freely decide you want to use a given neurotechnology or to refuse it.  The right to mental privacy: You should have the right to seclude your brain data or to publicly share it.  The right to mental integrity: You should have the right not to be harmed physically or psychologically by neurotechnology. The right to psychological continuity: You should have the right to be protected from alterations to your sense of self that you did not authorize. "Brain data is the ultimate refuge of privacy. When that goes, everything goes," Ienca said. "And once brain data is collected on a large scale, it's going to be very hard to reverse the process." Samuel's report generated concerned commentary on Twitter, with readers calling the piece "the scariest thing you'll read all day" and declaring, "I do not want to live in this future." Tech reporter Benjamin Powers tweeted, "So how long until this is co-opted for national security purposes?" Ienca, in his interview with Samuel, noted that the Defense Department's advanced research agency is assessing how neurotechnologies could be used on soldiers. As he explained, "there is already military-funded research to see if we can monitor decreases in attention levels and concentration, with hybrid BCIs that can 'read' deficits in attention levels and 'write' to the brain to increase alertness through neuromodulation. There are DARPA-funded projects that attempt to do so." Such technologies raise concerns about abuse not only by governments but also by corporations. Journalist Noah Kulwin compared brain-reading tech to self-driving cars, suggesting that the former "can't possibly work as presently marketed," and given that governments aren't prepared with human rights protections, companies will be empowered to "do a bunch of unregulated experimentation." Our work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Feel free to republish and share widely.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/30/scariest-thing-youll-read-all-day-report-sounds-alarm-over-brain-reading-technology 

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Greyerz Issues An Important Short Term Warning And Says The Price Of Silver Is Going To Skyrocket

September 02, 2019

As the world edges closer to the next crisis, today the man who has become legendary for his predictions on QE and historic moves in currencies just issued an important short term warning and said that the price of silver is set to skyrocket. Silver Will Skyrocket In Coming Years

September 3 (King World News) – Egon von Greyerz: “There is one spectacular investment opportunity today that virtually no one talks about. It represents less than 0.1% of global financial assets. This investment has a potential upside of 36x or 3,500%. The downside is extremely limited since supply is finite and demand strong. It is selling at around production cost and has a real intrinsic value. It has also been money for thousands of years. Yes, I am of course talking about silver. It is probably one of the most undervalued investments that you can buy today. Since the top in 2011 at $50, silver went as low as $14 in 2015. But we must remember that silver was $4 in 2002. Many investors have been burnt by silver, buying high and selling low. I have heard of investors who bought at $50 as they expected a breakout above the 1980 high, which was $50. A fall of up to 70% since then obviously hurts, but fortunately all silver investors will be amply rewarded in coming years, whatever their buying price was… Listen to the greatest Egon von Greyerz audio interview ever by CLICKING HERE OR ON THE IMAGE BELOW. Silver’s $4 Surge Is Nothing Compared To What Is Coming If you hold silver today, or if you intend to buy, you are now looking at one of those times in history when an investment is likely to make spectacular gains for an extended period of several years. At some point, probably this year, silver will move up several dollars and later tens of dollars. Over the next 5 years silver could exceed $500.  But let me warn you, silver is not for widows and orphans. The move up will also see periods of vicious corrections that will keep you awake at night if you are a nervous investor. Thus, there will be massive volatility, so the gains will also involve regular pains. That is why it is definitively better to buy now before the real move starts. We have already seen a $4 move from the lows at the end of June, but that is nothing compared to what is coming. Silver’s $4 Surge Since June Is Just The Beginning Don’t wait for normal pullbacks because they might not come or they may come from much higher levels. So although we will see massive volatility in silver, most of the surprises will be on the upside. There will be periods when all technical indicators are screaming overbought but the price continues to run. But don’t forget that there will also be vicious corrections. So why I am so certain that silver will move up now? I have often stated that the real upturn in the precious metals would always be led by silver. Once gold broke the 6 year Maginot resistance line at $1,350 in late June, this was the signal for the metals getting out of the starting blocks. That break was the signal and the gold/silver ratio peaked a few days later at 94 (see chart below). Gold/Silver Ratio Peaked At 94/1 As silver is now going up faster than gold, the ratio is coming down fast and has, so far, tumbled 13%. But that is just the beginning. I expect that ratio to first come down to the 2011 low at 30. This means silver will go up 3x faster than gold (ratio moving from 94 to 30). If we take an example that gold will reach an intermediate top at say $2,000, and the gold/silver ratio then reaches 30, that would mean a silver price of $66. The long term historical average of the ratio is 15. That corresponds pretty well to the quantity of silver to gold in the ground which is 19 times, and to the quantity of silver to gold mined which is 9, (9 ounces of silver mined for every one ounce of gold). TARGET: The Gold/Silver Ratio Will Collapse To 15/1 $667 Silver

If we take our long term forecast for gold, which is at least $10,000 in today’s money, and apply the gold/silver historical ratio of 15, we get a silver price of $667 which is quite possible. GoldChartsRUS has produced a silver chart adjusted for real inflation (Shadow Statistics inflation index), which produces an adjusted silver price of $840 in 1980 instead of the actual peak price of $50. Thus, a price of $667 is certainly possible in the next 5 years. We May See $667 – $840 Silver In The Next 5 Years There Will Be No Physical Silver Available We must remember that the futures markets are totally manipulated with chronic and massive short positions. Just the silver shorts in New York and China represent more than one year’s silver worth of production. Once the futures market breaks, there will be no physical silver available. Silver demand is now increasing dramatically and the ETFs have seen an increase of 125 million ounces in the last month. That equals 500 million per year which is 50% of annual production. Investment silver is normally around 30% of demand with the rest being industrial use and silverware. Thus, there is not enough silver for this elevated demand and we must question if the ETFs are actually getting the deliveries of physical silver or just paper promises. I would not count on the promise that they are getting physical silver. Where Is All Of The Gold Coming From?

There is a similar situation in gold. Since June, gold ETFs, Published Repositories and Mutual Funds, increased their gold holdings by 250 tonnes, which is a record since 2016. The question is, where is the gold coming from to meet this increased demand? Swiss refiners are still reporting very slow business and high stock levels. They are seeing material coming back from the Far East, including China and Thailand. The same is true with many bullion banks which are reporting unusually high stocks. We would clearly have expected the Swiss refiners, who produce 70% of all the gold bars in the world, to reflect the increase in demand from ETFs and other sources. I can only assume that the ETFs are not actually getting physical deliveries but are just buying paper gold with an undertaking by the bullion bank to deliver physical. This confirms my strong opinion that no one should ever buy gold or silver ETFs. All you get is a piece of paper that you own x ounces of gold. Most ETF prospectuses state that they don’t have to hold the physical. And judging by the slow business and high stock levels of refiners and bullion banks, the ETFs seem to top up their paper stock rather than the physical.  Even if the ETFs do hold physical metals, it is still within the banking system with all of the risks that involves. Investors in ETFs don’t have their own bars, so they have no  access to their gold. The gold is not insured and it is subject to all the risks of the financial system, especially if the ETF only has a paper claim on the bank it bought the gold or silver from. Gold Has Had A Spectacular Year  Gold has had a spectacular year so far and outperformed virtually all major investment classes. In 2019, gold is up 20% in US dollars, 24% in Euros, 25% in UK Pounds and 15% in Yen. In August we have seen strong moves in gold. Gold took off when the Maginot Line was broken at $1,350 back in June.  Gold Has Surged Strongly Since Breaking The Gold Maginot Line At $1,350 When The Paper Market Breaks The lack of physical demand confirms what we have always known, namely that the gold price is determined by the paper market. So in spite of the best year for gold since 2009, it is not yet reflected in the physical market. In one way this situation makes the coming price move in gold and silver even more bullish. Futures exchanges and bullion banks are clearly accumulating even bigger short paper positions in gold and silver. When the paper market breaks there will be absolute panic in the physical market with gold going up by $1000s and silver by $10s. That will definitively happen in the next few years but it could happen at any time. I have given some potential price projections in this article. They are by no means meant to be sensational since I believe they are very realistic. But remember that you are not buying gold or silver for short term price gains and therefore price targets are unimportant. Physical precious metals are bought for wealth preservation purposes. You buy and own physical gold and silver as insurance against a totally rotten and manipulated financial system which is unlikely to survive in its present form. If you don’t already own gold and silver, buy now. Don’t be greedy and wait for pullbacks. If you wait for pullbacks you might miss the boat totally, which doesn’t just mean losing a potential investment gain. Instead, it means that you will be totally unprotected and unprepared for what is going to hit the world in coming years. Even if you have to pay up when buying in the near term, that is totally irrelevant. In a few years gold and silver will be multiples of what they are now being quoted. And if you store it in the safest vaults and jurisdictions you will be able to sleep well at night. IMPORTANT SHORT TERM WARNING It looks like this week we could see the perfect storm starting in global markets. It will be of a much greater magnitude than Hurricane Dorian, which is now reaching the US. The technical picture of markets tell us that major moves could start this week. The trigger could be a geopolitical event like the Hong Kong riots or some financial event. What we could see this week are stock markets beginning a major fall that will lead to a crash. More importantly, gold and silver as well as platinum are now poised for major moves higher starting this week. All of these moves will last for many years, but this week could be the beginning. Whether the moves start this week or a bit later, investors should prepare themselves for the biggest wealth destruction ever taking place over the next few years…For those who would like to read more of Egon von Greyerz’s fantastic articles CLICK HERE. One Of The Greats Says Gold Headed To $1,800 READ THIS NEXT! GOLD UPDATE: One Of The Greats Says Despite Volatility Gold Bull Is Headed To $1,800 CLICK HERE TO READ More articles to follow… In the meantime, other important releases… What A Wipeout, Hedge Fund Gold Bets Increase, China Can Play The Game…But They Are Losing, Plus A Reality Check CLICK HERE TO READ This Is What Is Really Driving The Price Of Gold Higher CLICK HERE TO READ Bullion Banks And Commercials Remain Near All-Time Record Short The Gold Market! CLICK HERE TO READ A Look At Where Things Stand In The Gold & Silver Markets CLICK HERE TO READ

https://kingworldnews.com/greyerz-says-the-price-of-silver-is-going-to-skyrocket-and-issues-an-important-short-term-update/ 

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Beware of the torpedo that can be directed from over two thousand miles away and yet hit its target.  Beware of the missiles that shall come, beware of the destruction of Babylon in the twenty-four hour period.  Watch out for the earthquakes, they’re coming, they’re coming, they’re coming, the next time that it shakes at all in Alaska will be your sign that it has come and it shall go clear to Mexico and you shall see as the Great Lakes empty out and the water flows down into New Orleans, and all, all the restrainers break.  For they thought they got away with what they got away with, but I warned them, beware, beware, beware.      

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Major Slow-Slip Event in Puget Sound Increases Risk of Big Earthquakes Near Seattle Along the Cascadia Subduction Zone

By Strange Sounds - Sep 2, 2019

A major seismic event is underway, and scientists at the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network are saying the Puget Sound could be at a higher risk for earthquakes.  The event is called a slow-slip event and brings tiny tremors in the region that could potentially lead to a larger earthquake at the Cascadia subduction zone. Steve Malone, a professor emeritus with PNSN, thinks the first tremor of this ETS cycle began Aug. 11 just south of San Juan Island. The last two quakes stronger than M1.0 of the slow-slip event, a M2.5 and M2.4, hit today, September 2, 2019. Back in July, the area suffered a 4.6 magnitude quake, the largest in the region in some time. It was strong enough for most people to feel but did not cause any damage. “Over this week the tremor has on average gotten stronger and more frequent but is not yet as near-continuous as during some previous ETS events,” Malone wrote. “Thus far I have not been convinced that the GPS data is yet showing displacements consistent with a full-blown ETS, but then it is early in the sequence, and I am just a seismologist. If this activity continues as I expect it likely will then it likely will spread a bit farther south but it should mostly head to the northwest.“ The slow slip event is a semi-regular occurrence happening once every 14 months or so, according to scientific records and notes. Small tremors are a good reminder to make sure you and your family are prepared for the next earthquake. When the ‘Big One” Hits the Cascadia Subduction Zone, It’s Game-Over for Seattle Local media outlets in Western Washington have been talking a lot lately about the Cascadia Subduction Zone. A recently published simulation shows how the state would be impacted by a magnitude 9 earthquake: For one, large tsunami waves would barrel in and out of the Washington coast, including through inland waterways that connect to Seattle and its surrounding communities. Though the size of these waves would certainly vary, Washington’s Chief Hazards Geologist Corina Forson notes that they would generally be “incredibly tall,” and thus devastating. Another concern is what’s known as trough, which is when water levels suddenly recede following an earthquake, following their rapid return ashore. “That’s one of the things we struggle with messaging,” Forson told KING5, which used the example of the massive 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that pulled water out from the beach before sending it roaring back, killing many. “When you see the water recede, that could be an indication that the tsunami wave is coming,” she adds. Another concern is the fact that the Cascadia Subduction Zone is located right next to the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate, which plunges underneath the North American plate. A large section of the Juan de Fuca plate is missing underneath central Oregon, or rather tearing apart and splitting the plate, which has raised more concerns about how a cascading seismic event might impact both states. Apart from the Cascadia, Seattle is also threatened by the seismically active Seattle Fault and South Whidbey Island Fault. So just be ready, because those three fault lines are overdue for a large earthquake.

https://pnsn.org/tremor/tremor-log/ets-event-of-summer-2019 

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/seismologists-seismic-event-underway-that-could-increase-risk-of-large-earthquake-in-region/978035722 

https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/disaster/tsunami-simulations-for-washington-show-what-could-happen-after-90-earthquake/281-840f6210-5744-4c0d-b773-bf11a28123d9 

https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-09-01-cascadia-subduction-zone-about-to-blow.html 

https://strangesounds.org/2019/09/puget-sound-slow-slip-event-cascadia-earthquake.html 

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Democrats Declare War On Religion In New Resolution - If You Hate God, The Democrat Party Wants You And If You Love God, They Hate You

September 1, 2019 By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine

Once again the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has made it clear they prefer Godless voters or as they dub these individuals, the "Religiously Unaffiliated Demographic," calling them their "largest religious group within the Democratic Party." Aside from the fact that to be "religiously unaffiliated" is the exact opposite of a "religious group," Democrats have again decided to publicly alienate all religious voters by actually passing a "Resolution Regarding the Religiously Unaffiliated Demographic," at the DNC's summer meeting, which is the exact title of said resolution. While the resolution itself is embedded below, one specific statement beginning the second line of the resolution, says everything we need to know about the "values" of today's Democrats: WHEREAS, religiously unaffiliated Americans overwhelmingly share the Democratic Party’s values, with 70% voting for Democrats in 2018, 80% supporting same-sex marriage, and 61% saying immigrants make American society stronger; Not only are they admitting that the Democrat party shares the values of those that are religiously unaffiliated or God haters, but also in the resolution they take a hard shot at those that believe in "Religious liberty." WHEREAS, those most loudly claiming that morals, values, and patriotism must be defined by their particular religious views have used those religious views, with misplaced claims of “religious liberty,” to justify public policy that has threatened the civil rights and liberties of many Americans, including but not limited to the LGBT community, women, and ethnic and religious/nonreligious minorities; The last passage being highlighted makes it clear that they are sucking up to the non-religious voters because they need their votes, and they plan a specific "outreach" to those Godless voters just to get them to the polls for the 2020 elections. WHEREAS, nonreligious Americans made up 17% of the electorate in 2018 and have the potential to deliver millions more votes for Democrats in 2020 with targeted outreach to further increase turnout of nonreligious voters. Read the entire resolution below: (If you appreciate stories like this, please consider donating to ANP to help keep us in this battle for the future of America.)  

DNC Resolution on the Nonreligious Demographic uploaded by All News Pipeline on Scribd

The timing of this DNC resolution closely aligns with a new shocking report showing that the persecution of Christians globally is approaching genocide. This resolution is also being hailed by the Secular Coalition For America, which describes itself as "the nation's premier advocacy organization representing atheists, humanists, agnostics, and other nontheists." In their piece cheering the resolution, they state the DNC "embraced American nonbelievers for the first time, adopting a resolution that recognizes their contributions to society and to the Democratic Party." DEMOCRATS HISTORY OF HATING GOD It is interesting that this resolution went largely unreported until Fox News reported on it Friday, while reminding readers of other instances of Democrats showing disdain for God and those of faith: In 2012, the last election Democrats won, a headline from the convention read: "Democrats boo God." In 2016, attendees heckled a preacher during the opening prayer. And on Saturday, Democrats took a shot at believers who use "religious liberty" to threaten the civil rights of LGBTQ Americans. It is also quite noteworthy that the resolution specifically highlighted the LGBT community, as we now see reports that according to the Satanic Temple which promotes a secular humanist agenda, more than 50 percent of their membership identify as LGBT. Going back to the Fox News paragraph quote above, where Democrats booed God, the backstory there is that in 2012 the Democrats deliberately removed the word "God" from their entire platform, which Republicans made sure the public found out about, which in turn forced Democrats to rapidly revise their platform to include God and Jerusalem again, and when they announced it, attendees did boo. The boos were not so much aimed at the word God, but even worse, after three attempts to get two-thirds of the attendees to vote to allow the word God back into the platform, and acknowledge Jerusalem, Antonio Villaraigosa, who was running the convention, finally just claimed they had the two-thirds majority (which they did not) and implemented the changes, and that is when the attendees that vote no started booing.  Watch the spectacle below: At least back then they were pretending to respect their religious voters, but just seven years later, they are now celebrating their non-believing base while criticizing those of faith. THEY CAN'T HAVE THEIR CAKE AND EAT IT TOO One probable reason that media shied away from reporting the DNC resolution which champions non-believers, while trying to claim that non-believers are some type of "religious group," and why the Democrats themselves didn't publicly hail their own resolution with anybody but those groups, is because should another portion of their base find out about it, they would lose many more voters than they will gain by aligning themselves with God haters.  In 2016, 89 percent of the African American vote went to Hillary Clinton, and historically over the past decades, blacks overwhelmingly voted for Democrats. According to Pew Research, 79 percent of African Americans are Christian. The breakdown is 53 percent Historically Black Protestant, 14 percent Evangelical Protestant, 5 percent Catholic, 4 percent Mainline Protestant, 2 percent Jehovah Witness, and 1 percent listed as Other Christian. BOTTOM LINE - MAKE THIS RESOLUTION GO VIRAL! As stated in the DNC resolution only 17 percent of the American electorate was made up of nonreligious voters in 2018, while Pew tells us 79 percent of African Americans consider themselves Christians, and the DNC has decided they want the nonreligious more than they want their African American base, but apparently they think they can hide this from those same voters. This resolution should be viral, Americans should all be made aware that the DNC has just publicly admitted that nonbelievers, the "religiously unaffiliated," are more closely aligned with their "values" than those in their base that believe in God.  Make no mistake, the Democrats have just admitted that they have picked a side in the battle between good and evil, and they have chosen to reject God. http://allnewspipeline.com/Godless_Party_Of_Satanists.php 

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Muslim-Catholic document on world peace “full of outrageously false and misleading statements”

Sep 2, 2019 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer

All that this dialogue has led to is Christian leaders being quiet about Muslim persecution of Christians, for fear of offending their dialogue partners. Has this been reciprocated by Muslims? Have Muslim spokesmen stopped being critical of Christians and Christianity? Of course not. The “dialogue” is all dawah on one side and Useful Idiots, eager to be deceived, on the other. Robert McManus, Roman Catholic Bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts, said it on February 8, 2013 as he was suppressing a planned talk (by me) at a Catholic conference on that persecution: “Talk about extreme, militant Islamists and the atrocities that they have perpetrated globally might undercut the positive achievements that we Catholics have attained in our inter-religious dialogue with devout Muslims.”  Remember that Mohamed Atta, about the plane he had hijacked on September 11, 2001, told passengers over the intercom: “Stay quiet and you’ll be OK.” The Catholic Church appears to have adopted that statement as its policy regarding Muslim persecution of Christians.  “Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14) “Pope Francis Praises New Interreligious Initiative for World Peace,” by William Mahoney, ChurchMilitant, August 28, 2019: VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) – Pope Francis lauded a new initiative Monday to implement a joint interreligious document on world peace that he and the grand imam of al-Azhar signed in February. The initiative, a higher committee established in Abu Dhabi Aug. 19 to ensure the objectives of the “Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together” are met, includes Vatican and Muslim officials. This ‘Document on Human Fraternity’ is full of outrageously false and misleading statements. Tweet Pope Francis praised the new initiative in a press release from the Holy See on Wednesday: Although sadly evil, hatred and division often make news, there is a hidden sea of goodness that is growing and leads us to hope in dialogue, reciprocal knowledge and the possibility of building, together with the followers of other religions and all men and women of good will, a world of fraternity and peace. Church Militant spoke with Robert Spencer, the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, about the document and this new initiative. “This ‘Document on Human Fraternity’ is full of outrageously false and misleading statements,” he said. “One is the claim that terrorism is due to ‘an accumulation of incorrect interpretations of religious texts and to policies linked to hunger, poverty, injustice, oppression and pride.'” Spencer explained how this claim about terrorism is false and misleading: If terrorists’ interpretations of Islamic religious texts are incorrect, then so are the interpretations of those texts by all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence, all of which, without exception, teach the necessity of the Islamic community worldwide to wage war against unbelievers and subjugate them under the hegemony of Islamic law. Bishop Miguel Guixot, president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and a member of the higher committee, offered a different interpretation of “Document on Human Fraternity” in an interview with Vatican News: I think the Abu Dhabi declaration is a global appeal to the ‘civilization of love’ that contrasts with those who want a clash of civilizations! Prayer, dialogue, respect and solidarity are the only winning weapons against terrorism, fundamentalism and all kinds of war and violence. They are weapons that are part of the spiritual arsenals of all religions. Peace is a precious good, an aspiration that lives in the heart of every man, a believer or not, and which should inspire every human action. Spencer disagrees that dialogue is a winning weapon against terrorism: “Pope Francis’ much-vaunted ‘dialogue’ has never saved one Christian from being persecuted by Muslims, or prevented one church from being destroyed by jihadis. Nor will it ever do these things, as it is based on fantasy and wishful thinking, not on reality.”…

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/09/muslim-catholic-document-on-world-peace-full-of-outrageously-false-and-misleading-statements 

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28 Aug Never Surrender Your Guns by Jim Davidson

Posted at 05:25h in Uncategorized by Bill

Publisher’s Note: Civil wars are always a suicide pact between the usually unwitting proponents before the war gets hot. All civil wars, as all wars in history, are conflicts over self-determination. Most wars are fought between rival plantation combines. That may be the hard truth but it doesn’t mean it ain’t coming. Communism is a human software virus based on greed, envy and a conviction that Darwinian violence is the sole arbiter of how human societies are regulated. Like all such economically illiterate and morally depraved creeds, they fail. They always fail; hence, it must spread to the next victim-host to be devoured, driven into the stone-age and stack piles of corpses. Rinse and repeat. Have you discovered that a political opponent is ALWAYS someone who wishes to employ cajoling, fining, threatening, bullying, kidnapping, caging, maiming and killing to render your obedience to their most heart-felt desires? Politics is dead simple. It calls to mind the words of William Pitt the Younger in a November 1783 speech to the House of Commons: Necessity is “the plea for every infringement of human freedom,” he said. “It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.” There is nothing commies will do that praises free markets. Seen and unseen: Every Amazon van may take 25 vehicles off the road – saving lives, saving time, saving energy, saving money. If you ignore gains and count only losses, the universe is truly tragic. Grownups can see the whole story, not just the grisly and boring parts. I am a Lovecraft fan since my youth and thought this examination of the collectivist singularity is quite compelling. Cthulhu pursues a globalist schedule that would bring all humanity under his dominion. He works by bribery on the basis of psychotic resentment, offering to his minions the prospect of sexual abandon without consequence and the license to murder. The four hundred foot tall squid-faced monster advertises his dark docket as a radiant future. His followers will need to break a few eggs, but the omelet will justify itself deliciously. It is in the nature of a fantastic imagination such as Lovecraft’s to penetrate into the remote spaces of the human condition and therefore to be applicable and relevant beyond its historical limitations. The author of The Call only infrequently celebrated the higher or transcendent propensities of Homo sapiens, but as a student of baseness and cultural regression, he knew well of what he wrote. The sheaf of documents inherited by Professor Angell’s nephew has a counterpart in the contemporary world. Any Internet news-portal such as, say, the Drudge Report, will open through its hyperlinks a window on the Maenadism, entirely out of bounds, of the prevailing cultural, social, and political scenes. That the hysteria and malice of the times stylize themselves as “Wokeness,” as the equivalent of an accession to consciousness, is all the more ironic given the Left’s actual lockstep ideological conformism and its actual restriction of expression to a rigorously limited set of accusations and denouncements. Cthulhu only awakens to the degree that he can change humanity into a sleepwalking horde that has ceded its mental and moral independence to the calendar of its own servitude. So-called comedienne Kathy Griffin presaged these (for the lack of a better term) developments back in May of 2017 when she appeared in photographs and a video clip carrying a simulacrum of the severed head of Donald Trump. Euripides’ tragedy The Bacchae undoubtedly lies beyond Griffin’s ken, but she might have been auditioning for the role of Agave who in a fever of religious inebriation rips the head of her own son from its body – all under the inspiration of that god of lynching, Dionysus. But no – not auditioning for the role; rather, reverting under a self-granted license to the savage behavior of the original Dionysus Cult, of which the Cthulhu Cult is a literary representation. The government supremacists now embrace “the savage behavior of the original Dionysus Cult, of which the Cthulhu Cult is a literary representation”.

Read the rest; read the whole thing. R’lyeh rising indeed… Guns, who doesn’t want to discuss guns? I had a brain zephyr the other day and thought that one of the reasons the communists are so frightened by suppressors isn’t simply the wicked image the media has promulgated but it short-circuits stealth training on rifles if the usual suspects manage to deny private long arms to Helots on the plantation. If you aren’t stocking up on 80% lowers and associated lower parts kits (LPK), you are missing out on a terrific opportunity to make sure your children and grandchildren have the tools in the future. A Finnish truck driver is kind enough to make his truck a mobile history lesson. In other news, another badged sadist gets away with maiming an infant, again. The robed cross-dressers gave yet another pass to violent mischief by their coproach enforcers. We’ll see more of this as the Flaming 20’s begin. On to Jim’s splendid essay. -BB “Participating in a gun buyback program because you think that criminals have too many guns is like having yourself castrated because you think your neighbors have too many kids.” – Clint Eastwood “Being disarmed, among the other harm it brings you, causes you to be despised.” ~ Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, 1513 The current flavour of gun control that seems to impress the socialists, communists, and leftists is “red flag laws.” Taking away the right to keep and bear arms appears to meet with the approval of President Trump, numerous politicians, and even various federal judges. In response to a question about red flag laws, I recently posted these thoughts on Twitter: Violates privacy, free speech, free press, remain silent, confront witnesses, due process, counsel, privacy, requirements for warrants to issue, and that’s off the top of my head. A few minutes later, I noted that it violates privacy twice. You’ll be able to supply the amendments in the Bill of Rights yourself if you wish. Clearly, to me, red flag laws are a terrible evil. Been SWATted One of the many reasons I feel that way is because a neighbour of mine decided it was her privilege to call the sheriff’s department, for which she worked in an administrative capacity (and for whom, I gather, her husband worked as as confidential informant), misreport a number of things and have a SWAT team show up outside my home. When I walked out of my house about 9 pm that evening in April 2017, there were three laser range finder dots on my chest. One error on my part or one exclamation or even perhaps a sneeze on the part of the watch commander, and my heart would have been blown out the back of my chest. After some time in jail, hiring a bail bondsman, hiring an attorney, selling my house to pay for the legal expenses involved, and a number of hearings, the prosecutor moved to dismiss the case. Subsequently, the prosecutor also moved to expunge the arrest record. There are parts of the world where it is still possible to find people in the law enforcement community who can experience embarrassment when they are misled by their noses to do mistaken things. Nevertheless, I cannot recommend the experience. Being arrested was amongst the many reasons I stopped voting after February 1991, it was among the many reasons I searched the world for a free country, it was one of the reasons I re-located, briefly, to Somalia. The United States has not been a free country in a very long time. Your Guns Why shouldn’t you ever surrender your guns? Quite simple, really. They are the main line of defence for individual liberty in the world. Anyone who wants to take away your guns wants you to be a victim of crime, either by street criminals or by the government or by both. Victim disarmament is inexcusable, unjustiable, and despicable. No one who ever says anything in favour of disarming people has any good intentions, and such people should be, at least, ostracised. Here, in graphical terms, is why: Those who pretend that they want gun control for some good reason are either fools or liars, and neither one recommends close further contact with them. Every government, from the United States which disarmed Native Americans to Turkey before World War One, to Germany and Russia before World War Two, to China after World War Two, and on and on, every government which has disarmed its people has then rounded people up and put them in camps. You cannot trust people in government, so you had best keep your hands on your weapons. Which Guns? My friend Bill Buppert runs ZeroGov.com  which is a great site for information on the topic. A person to follow on Twitter who is the “village armourer” for Bill and others, is Twitter.com/thefreerifleman  Skip. You can also get a lot of good information on guns from Boston’s Gun Bible. Anything I say here derives from my own experiences, or from reading Boston’s book, or from discussions and reading of Bill and Skip’s thoughts on the topic. Any errors are exclusively my own. You want a rifle. If you have only one gun, if you have not yet bought any and you want to go get a gun, go get a rifle. Get a semi-auto rifle with an adequate calibre with which you can hit a target at 100 yards or greater. Get a rifle with the capacity to hold a magazine with more than ten rounds because rate of fire and time before empty are critical issues in you surviving in a firefight. And get ten or more magazines, and plenty of ammo for your rifle.  Why? Your rifle is your main weapon for self-defence. It should be the one you practice with the most. It should be familiar to you. You should fire it weekly or more often, whenever you can get to a gun range. You should be highly trained with it. You should know how to clean it, and maintain it. There are many rifles, but your rifle is your own. It is your best friend. It can save your life. A handgun, as Boston says in his gun bible, is a tool for getting you back to your rifle. I myself have said that a knife is a tool for getting you to your handgun. These are things you should have with you, I believe, and not ever be far from. What sort of rifle is best? I think the rifle you are familiar with is always best. But, I also agree with Skip and Bill, who point out that the main weapon likely to be brought against Americans by the police, the military, and other forces of oppression, is the AR-15 or M-16. Therefore it makes sense to be able to use the identical calibre of bullet and the same magazines, as well as be able to pick up discarded weapons from a battlefield to continue fighting. For similar reasons, a good calibre of handgun is the 9mm. And a good style of 9mm semi-auto handgun is the Glock. Again, why? Because it is very frequently carried by police and other minions of the state, because being able to use the same calibre of ammo and the same magazines, or pick up a weapon from a battlefield to continue fighting is potentially going to save your life. These are serious considerations, and you don’t want to be unarmed. Ever. Swallwell’s Nukes A recent (and I gather now former) candidate for the Democrat nomination for president in 2020, Eric Swallwell, is a gun grabber from some jurisdiction in California. Not long ago, he said on Twitter that in the event of a confrontation with American gun owners, the national government would use nuclear weapons. Here is that post: But, keep in mind, the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Lebanon, the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Kosovo, Mali, Yemen, and Syria involving USA military forces have been largely free of nuclear weapons. Yes, “depleted uranium” rounds were used for their greater density and additional danger. Yes, the USA government knowingly allowed radioactive fallout from nuclear tests in the Western desert to fall on civilian populations in, e.g., Utah, and did not warn those people they were being irradiated. Yes, the USA government did nuke Aleutian islanders. Yes, the USA nuked two cities in Japan in 1945, and remains the only national government to have used nuclear weapons against civilian populations during war. Nevertheless, it is very unlikely that even Swallwell would be able to deploy nuclear weapons against American cities. Nor would the use of nukes cause Americans to surrender, especially not Americans in any of the mountain states in Appalachia, the Ozarks, or the Rockies. In order to hold territory, infantry is required, not strategic bombing. In order to hold territory, the will of the enemy to resist must be eliminated. And, with about 200 million American homes having one or more guns within them, the number of people likely to resist is very, very high. In past essays, I’ve estimated that as many as 110 to 125 million Americans do not vote, do not file income tax paperwork, and do not answer the census, among other ways in which they have withdrawn from participating in the system which oppresses them and robs them on a daily basis with taxes, regulations, and evil machinations. I believe that approximately that number would resist, or give support to those in resistance. In order for an occupied territory to be “pacified” various strategists, dating back to Clausewitz, have suggested that as many as 20 soldiers are required for every person in resistance to the occupation. Examples of very successful resistance groups include the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the revolt at the death camp Sobibor, and the aforementioned wars in Lebanon, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Mali, Somalia, etc. Is it possible to find two billion troops to set against 100 million resisting Americans? Almost certainly yes, though only at great expense and with considerable difficulty. Nor would the presence of occupying troops from foreign countries reduce the number of Americans in resistance. Not more than 80 million Americans are committed to the communist-socialist doctrines and even some of these might find circumstances persuasive reasons to change their ideology. Moving, say, 100 million Chinese troops to the United States would be costly, and would arguably destabilise China which is not exactly a bastion of stability right now, as evidenced in Hong Kong. The people of Hong Kong know that they are going to be harvested for organs, as were the Falun Gong, if they give up their protests. Where? I believe the places where Americans are most free to own guns, the bright green or “constitutional carry” states are the best places to be in or near when things come to a head. Your mileage may vary. The deep blue states are “shall issue” though concealed carry permits are not much honoured in, say, Chicago. You’ll have the greatest difficulty in Hawai’i and New Jersey, which have other difficulties. Islands are very difficult logistically. And extremely urban environments are where one goes to locate large numbers of communists and socialists (but I repeat myself). The red and yellow locations on the map above impose the most against gun owners. Are you safe in the rest of the country? Very clearly not. Those in power have a psychotic desire to destroy freedom and imprison the population to their dark designs. If you are going to do one thing this year that you haven’t done in the past, find a few friends and neighbours and train with them. Train to get to each other’s homes quickly. Train to be in communication in the face of a cell phone disruption, which can be imposed on any location by law enforcement. Train to be in communication and train to help one another. The lives you save may be your own. Can the American people win against those who seek to disarm, imprison, and enslave us? Yes. Besides, do you have any rational choice? If you give up your guns, or if you stop resisting, you too will be sent to a death camp. You would become a supply of organs for medical tourists to the United States. So, never surrender.

Never surrender your guns. Jim Davidson is an author, actor, entrepreneur, and gun owner. You can find him online. jim@resilientways.net 

https://zerogov.com/never-surrender-your-guns-by-jim-davidson/ 

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The 'Freaks And Misfits' Of Antifa Want Civil War And 'Revolution' As More Than 50 Members Arrested In August With Five Indicted On Felony Riot Charges So Far

September 2, 2019 By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine

It appears Portland, Oregon authorities have finally decided to start doing their jobs of arresting the violent thugs that created chaos during the August 17 rally and counter-protest by Antifa, dubbed "Freaks, Hippies, Weirdos, Twerps, Misfits," by Big League Politics, as Independent Journalist Andy Ngo, one of the only reporters that has documented the Antifa violence consistently since 2016, explains what Antifa's endgame truly is, which is civil war and revolution. Top those arrests off with another 36 arrested in Boston after attempting to violently disrupt the Straight Pride Parade on August 31, and it appears that Antifa groups are finally being exposed publicly for exactly what they are, domestic terrorists. ANTIFA BELIEVES IT IS PUSHING AMERICA TOWARDS CIVIL WAR We'll start with a recent warning from Andy Ngo, known for his relentless coverage of Antifa. Recently Ngo was brutally attacked by Antifa thugs, which in turn resulted in the gay, Asian, Independent Journalist being hospitalized for a brain bleed. Ngo sat down with Breitbart News’s James Delingpole to discuss Antifa's ideology and their endgame goal to foment a civil war in America, stating the group is "trying to agitate for a revolution." There is a symbiotic relationship between extreme anarchists and hardcore communists. And the violence they do on the street is towards furthering their war. They are actually trying to agitate for a revolution. So from the outside is may seem like stupid street violence and vandalism but they really believe that we are living in the latter days of fascism,” Ngo said. “The conflict is going to happen in the future by bringing these brutal forms of violence, either against the state, individuals, or property. Instead of inching closer and closer to that final, climatic battle, it’s going to make us run quicker there.” Ngo argued that Americans should not allow “Antifa” to falsely declare that they are society’s guardians against fascism. “We have authorities or academics have the frameworks for researching violent extremist ideologies and I’d like to see that applied to Antifa. I think, in some ways, how they organize has many parallels to Islamism,” Ngo continued. “So I don’t see them as just a benign movement of so-called antifascists. I mean, I don’t even give them that propaganda win of calling them antifascists. I say “Antifa” because I want to separate that from antifascism, which to the average person would sound like a very noble thing.” Listen to the entire segment below: (If you appreciate stories like this, please consider donating to ANP to help keep us in this battle for the future of America.) 

PROOF THAT ANTIFA'S VIOLENCE IS PREMEDITATED

Ahead of the Straight Pride Parade and the planned counter-protest by Antifa groups, a fundraiser was set up by Solidarity Against Hate- Boston, who describe themselves as Antifa. The title of the fundraiser was "Solidarity Against Hate Legal Defense Fund," with a goal of collecting $2,500 dollars in "preparation for possible unplanned arrests." Note the fundraiser was set up before the actual event, showing the group preplans their violence. The description for the fundraiser (H/T Big Leagure Politics) shown below: “Known fascists and white supremacists, under the front organization Super Happy Fun America, are descending on Boston for “Straight Pride” on Saturday, 8/31. As we have for the last 3 years, Boston will repel them with beautiful and bold direct action! In preparation for possible unplanned arrests, we are raising $2500 to cover any legal fees, as well as supplies for jail support (rides home, food, changes of clothes, etc).” Emphasis mine. "Direct Action" refers to planned harassment, intimidation and/or violence against their opponents. While the original goal as shown in a screen shot from BLP was $2,500, it was later upped to $15K as shown on their Fundrazr page, and nearly 700 contributors ultimately donated $24,652. The very fact that they were raising bail money for arrests during an event that hadn't even occurred yet, as well as the use of the "direct action" phrase in the fundraising statement itself, is ample evidence that Antifa violence is premeditated, and fits right in with Andy Ngo's assertion that the goal of Antifa and the violence that occurs at every event they decide to counter protest, is for the specific purpose of inciting a civil war, or a revolution. The bail money was assuredly needed as we mentioned at the beginning of this article, 36 Antifa thugs were arrested, and four law enforcement officers were injured as the Antifa groups attempted to stop the parade from taking place. Also noted by observers, the "counter-protesters," aka Antifa groups, were handing out flyers that said "Straight Sex IS RAPE," and "Sex with whites is white supremacy." And they have the nerve to call Trump supporters racist? Newsflash to these little Antifa terrorists, THAT sign is racist. 15 ANTIFA GOONS ARRESTED FOR PORTLAND VIOLENCE FROM AUGUST 17 Portland authorities are still arresting people that attacked a bus with cement, hammers, and other weapons on August 17, 2019. nOn August 30, 2019, KOIN.com News reported that another two men had been arrested for their actions in Portland, Oregon earlier in August, bringing the total to 15. Five of them have already been indicted on felony riot charges. Portland finally cracking down on these Antifa groups is significant as the Mayor, Ted Wheeler has often been severely criticized for forcing his police officers to stand down, allowing these communist anarchists to literally take over the streets without repercussions. Maybe he is finally getting tired of being seen as an Antifa supporter himself. BOTTOM LINE In total, for August, more than 50 Antifa terrorists were arrested from the Portland counter-protest and the Boston event.  With Antifa openly calling for violence with their "direct action" calls, along with the warning from Ngo about what Antifa's end game truly is, being revolution and civil war, the U.S. government needs to figure out a way to classify the groups that have called for violence, advertised an event that ended up becoming violent or obtaining riot status, and those collecting bail money in advance, showing they are pre-planning the violence, as domestic terrorist groups. In the video below published by Andy Ngo, readers will see the man in the image at the top of this article, wearing the shirt that says "Beta Cuck 4 Lyfe" attacking the bus and throwing a hammer inside at around the 1:54 minute mark. In the video beneath that, the same man can be seen as part of the group surrounding and chasing a man and his daughter through the streets of Portland.

http://allnewspipeline.com/Antifa_Endgame_Civil_War_15_Arrested_Riot_Charges.php

Scribe note: In today's world you better make sure that you pray over your food.

1 Tim 4:4-5  4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: 5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. (KJV)

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More Than 12 TONS of Beef Recalled Because It’s “Unfit for Human Consumption”

According to Food Safety News:

Chino, CA-based American Beef Packers, Inc. late Saturday recalled approximately 24,428 pounds of raw beef products that are deemed unfit for human consumption, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). FSIS inspection personnel retained the carcass and collected a sample for further analysis. Prior to test results being received, the carcass was erroneously released and further processed into raw intact and non-intact beef products, which were distributed in commerce. (source) These items would most likely be found in freezers, as the meat was processed and packaged on August 21, 2019. According to the USDA, nobody has reported any adverse reactions to the meat, but it still should not be consumed. The products have the establishment number “EST. 34741” inside the USDA mark of inspection. If you’re wondering why on earth there have been so many recalls lately, this article has some answers.

A list of the potentially contaminated products Here’s what to look for in your freezer, as per the USDA:

Bulk pack combo bins containing “AMERICAN BEEF PACKERS 85 BONELESS BEEF CHUCKS” with LOT NO.110 and BIN No. 85 and BIN No. 86.

Bulk pack combo bins containing “AMERICAN BEEF PACKERS 90 BONELESS BEEF” with LOT NO. 110 and BIN No. 81, BIN No. 82 and BIN No. 83.

Bulk pack combo bins containing “AMERICAN BEEF PACKERS 85 BONELESS BEEF” with LOT NO. 25-110 and BIN No. 84 and LOT NO 110 and BIN No. 88.

Cases containing “AMERICAN BEEF PACKERS RIBEYE 8/10 #1” with codes BT190821-1178, BT190821-1185, BT190821-1188, BT190821-1190, and BT190821-1194.

66.2-lb. case containing “AMERICAN BEEF PACKERS RIBEYE 10 UP #1” with code BT190821-1186.

Bulk pack combo bin containing “AMERICAN BEEF PACKERS 90 BONELESS BEEF SIRLOINS” with LOT NO. 24-110 and BIN No. 80.

Cases containing “AMERICAN BEEF PACKERS TERDERLOIN 4 UP” with codes BT190821-1160, BT190821-1161, BT190821-1162, BT190821-1163, BT190821-1167, BT190821-1168, BT190821-1169, and BT190821-1170.

Cases containing “AMERICAN BEEF PACKERS RIBEYE 10 UP” with codes BT190821-1187 and BT190821-1192.

Cases containing “AMERICAN BEEF PACKERS TENDERLOIN 3/4” with codes BT190821-1155, BT190821-1157, BT190821-1171, BT190821-1200, BT190821-1201, BT190821-1202, BT190821-1203, BT190821-1204, and BT190821-1205.

50-lb. cases containing “AMERICAN BEEF PACKERS DESC: BEEF FOR FURTHER PROCESSING 75/25” with lot code 08347412719.

Many of the packaged items were shipped to “federal establishments in California and Oregon” but it’s recommended that everyone take a peek into their freezers for this mysteriously contaminated meat.  The firm notified FSIS on Aug. 30, 2019 that a carcass that was pending laboratory results had been erroneously released and further processed into raw intact and non-intact beef products.  There have been no confirmed reports of adverse reactions due to consumption of these products. Anyone concerned about a reaction should contact a healthcare provider.  FSIS is concerned that some product may be frozen and consumers’ refrigerators or freezers or both. Consumers who have purchased these products are urged not to consume them. These products should be thrown away or returned to the place of purchase. (source)  We don’t know about you, but we’re sure curious what “unfit for human consumption” means.  About the Author Daisy Luther Daisy Luther is a coffee-swigging, gun-toting blogger who writes about current events, preparedness, frugality, voluntaryism, and the pursuit of liberty on her website, The Organic Prepper. She is widely republished across alternative media and she curates all the most important news links on her aggregate site, PreppersDailyNews.com. Daisy is the best-selling author of 4 books and lives in the mountains of Virginia with her two daughters and an ever-growing menagerie. You can find her on Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter.

https://www.theorganicprepper.com/beef-recalled-unfit-for-human-consumption/ 

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Is a Replay of Tiananmen Coming in Hong Kong? Larry Diamond

There may not be much time to avert a tragedy.

With the arrests earlier today in Hong Kong of the youthful pro-democracy activists Joshua Wong and Agnes Chow, a harsh crackdown by Beijing on the popular movement seems increasingly likely. Since the protests erupted in June, the Hong Kong authorities have not exactly acted with restraint. More than 800 protestors have been arrested, and, The Guardian reported on August 12, peaceful protesters have repeatedly been attacked with tear gas, rubber bullets, and other projectiles and weapons. Unable to contain the relentless and ever-shifting popular mobilization through conventional policing methods, the communist authorities in Beijing have turned to local Hong Kong mafia groups, the so called “triad” gangs, to terrorize peaceful demonstrators. Yet nothing has silenced the people of Hong Kong, who, since June 9, have used a fluid and decentralized array of tactics to press their demands: permanent withdrawal of the proposed Hong Kong bill that would enable Beijing to obtain the extradition of anyone in Hong Kong; fulfillment of Beijing’s obligation to allow the people of Hong Kong to democratically elect their own government; and accountability for multiple acts of police brutality.  The current movement lacks the clear leadership and organization of the 2014 Umbrella Movement (in part to avoid leaving leaders as clear targets for persecution). And unfortunately, some radicalized elements of the movement have turned to violent tactics to fight the police—a battle against a massive authoritarian state that they cannot possibly win with rocks, sticks, and firebombs but might with strict and sustained adherence to proven methods of nonviolent resistance. The crisis could have been de-escalated many weeks ago if Hong Kong’s stubborn and politically inept Chief Executive, Carrie Lam—who owes her loyalty to the Communist Party bosses in Beijing and not to her own people—had offered to negotiate with representatives of the pro-democracy movement. Instead, she only conceded to table (not permanently withdraw) the extradition bill, while street demonstrations, blockades, airport shutdowns, and gestures of resistance as delicate as protest symbols on baked goods have made Hong Kong an ongoing civic battleground and a metaphor for today’s global struggle for liberty. Now, nearly three months of crisis appears headed toward a tragic denouement. Writing from Hong Kong on Wednesday, the New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof (who shared a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Tiananmen Democracy Movement in 1989) poignantly shared a sense of foreboding that is growing among journalists, policymakers, and intelligence analysts: “There are so many parallels to the Tiananmen student democracy movement that I covered in China 30 years ago—and I wonder if Beijing may ultimately deploy troops, perhaps from the paramilitary People’s Armed Police, to crush these protests as well.” Earlier this month, China’s leaders amassed thousands of paramilitary personnel from the People’s Armed Police in a sports stadium in Shenzen (just over the border from Hong Kong). The spectacle appeared to be a warning to the people of Hong Kong, and the world. Now Beijing is upping the ante. Yesterday it sent a fresh detachment of People’s Liberation Army troops into Hong Kong, along with armored personnel carriers, army trucks, patrol boats, and armed helicopters. If these deployments were “routine,” as Beijing dubiously claimed, the threats to “resolutely implement the ‘one country, two systems’ principle” carried a menacing tone. If Beijing had implemented this principle, Hong Kong’s once-vaunted rule of law would not now be under mounting assault, and its people would be fully and freely choosing their own leaders and representatives.

With the 70th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party’s revolutionary conquest of China rapidly approaching on October 1, the odds are increasing of a violent crackdown (possibly in stages, beginning with the removal of leading voices for peaceful democratic change, such as Joshua Wong and Agnes Chow, or perhaps sooner and more brutally). There may not be much time left to avert a tragedy. The United States, the UK, and other leading democracies must make clear to China’s leaders (particularly through private channels) that violent repression in Hong Kong will bring severe and long-lasting consequences. At a minimum, we should use the Global Magnitsky Act to impose targeted sanctions (including financial penalties and visa bans) on individuals responsible for the repression, like those a former Treasury Department official has already proposed applying to Chinese officials responsible for the ongoing grave violations of the Uighur minority in Xinjiang Province. While the trade war is dangerous enough as it is, Beijing’s leaders must know that a violent crackdown in Hong Kong would obstruct any possibility of a return to a more normal relationship with Western democracies. And we must prepare now to wage and win a battle for global public opinion to make the PRC pay a very heavy price in esteem should it use force to suppress peaceful protestors in Hong Kong. At the same time, in the dwindling time that may be left, we should reach out to diverse elements of the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, urging strict adherence to non-violence and a willingness to negotiate and compromise. Being careful to avoid any language that might be seen to justify or excuse a crackdown, foreign friends of the Hong Kong democracy movement should try to deflate dangerous illusions. Kristof concluded his column on Wednesday with this haunting reflection: “In the run-up to the massacres of 1989, idealistic protesters often told me that their cause was invincible. And then I watched tanks roll over righteousness.”

Published on: August 30, 2019

Larry Diamond is senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He coordinates the democracy program of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) within the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI).

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China’s Space Dream is America’s Nightmare

by Brandon J. Weichert (September 2019)

If you look up at the moon tonight, understand that you are not looking at a primordial rock that has orbited above our heads, rearing its pale, pockmarked face every night, since the dawn of humanity. Instead, you are looking at a treasure trove of natural resources. As you stare up at the pale, dimpled, and ancient face of Earth’s only natural satellite, understand that there is a Chinese rover roaming the previously-unexplored dark side (the part that permanently faces away from Earth) of the lunar surface, testing the soil to determine whether or not China might be able to strip mine the moon. Should Beijing conclude that the moon is home to a bevy of abundant, untapped natural resources, then China’s space program will return to the moon, and exploit those natural resources for China’s benefit before anyone else can. In fact, as you will see throughout this piece, China’s space ambitions are expansive, compelling, and a direct (and enduring) threat to the United States. For, it is not only in the area of space mining that China envisions becoming the dominant player. China also seeks to acquire true military parity with the United States in orbit of Earth; by building the capability to damage or destroy vulnerable American satellites and by potentially placing weapon systems—disguised as civilian systems—in orbit. Understanding Space Nationalism in China The Chinese view space quite differently from their American rivals. China’s space vision is a cold, clear-eyed, nationalist mission for space exploration and, inevitably, exploitation. As I’ve written recently, the Chinese leadership cares “little for the betterment of humanity.” They do not go into space possessed of the same airy, globalist notions that so many American policymakers have been imbued with. What’s more, the Chinese have a far more realistic—even cynical—view of space than most American leaders do. Theirs is a belief that nationalism will empower China’s rise in the strategic domain of space. And, once ensconced as the dominant force in the strategic high ground of space, the Chinese will be able to have control over the other terrestrial strategic domains of space (land, sea, air, and cyberspace).

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The Chinese leadership fundamentally believes that space is an unpossessed resource waiting to be conquered by the nation (or group of nations) that have the gumption to take it before other states can. The cynicism of Chinese leaders when it comes to space is in their belief that China must do everything it can—including weaponizing space—to prevent China’s rivals (read, the United States) from denying space to them. Or, as Ye Peijian, the head of China’s lunar mission, said in December of last year: The universe is an ocean, the moon is the Diaoyu Islands, Mars is Huangyan Island. If we don’t go there now even though we’re capable of doing so, then we will be blamed by our descendants. If others go there, then they will take over, and you won’t be able to go even if you want to. This is reason enough [to go to the moon]. The Chinese want space. Why wouldn’t they want space? Think about it: the solar system is replete with celestial bodies that, while lacking life in the way that Earth possesses, it has a treasure trove of mineable natural resources. The moon is believed to be home to vital commodities, such as magnesium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and titanium to just name a few. Further, the moon is believed to proffer new age commodities, such as Rare Earth Minerals (these are minerals that are hard to reach via mining on Earth, making them very expensive), as well as an isotope known as Helium-3 (He-3). Many scientists believe that He-3 can be used as an efficient, non-radioactive fuel source for nuclear fusion. Scientists claim that just 25 tons of refined He-3 harvested from the lunar surface could power the European Union or the United States cleanly for a year. Not only is the moon potentially the next Persian Gulf of natural resources, but the millions of asteroids that separate the inner solar system (the sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars) from the outer solar system (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto) offer trillions of dollars- worth of opportunity for the nation-state or corporation that can claim them. There are asteroids nearby that are believed to house pure gold, for instance. There are asteroids that possess a host of other, valuable natural resources, any of which, if mined, could lead to the rise of the world’s first trillionaire. Right now, because of investments that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has made into their space program, it is China, not the United States, which would likely directly benefit from these stunning developments.  China’s Space Dream Indeed, over the years, the Chinese government has identified space as a primary zone of technological and economic development, but more importantly, as an arena of strategic competition—specifically between itself and the United States. Going back to 1957, when the Soviet Union launched humanity’s first satellite, Sputnik, into orbit, Mao Zedong, the founder of the Chinese Communist Party, vowed that his nation would build satellites as well. By the 1970s, China launched their first satellite into orbit. There was a delay between that launch and when China placed their first people into orbit—that came in 2003—but since the rise of Xi Jinping to the Chinese presidency in 2012, China’s “space dream” has been put into overdrive. President Xi has claimed that his “space dream” is a cornerstone of his overall push to make China stronger (the “China Dream” program). In many ways, China has attained its greatest space achievements since Xi’s rise to power—from placing not one, but two, temporary space stations in orbit since 2011, to landing the world’s first rover on the dark side of the moon. Xi has outlined what the space dream looks like. According to Xi: Developing the space program and turning the country into a space power is the space dream that we have continuously pursued. First, on a national prestige level, the plan entails China finally catching up with the United States and the Russian Federation “after years of belatedly matching their space milestones.” As you will see, however, China’s sheer commitment and their consistent investment in their space program (as well as the technologies that undergird a national space program) imply that they will not only match American and Russian space capabilities within the next few years, but they will quickly leapfrog the Russians and Americans in space as well.

Second, on the practical application side, China is keen on assembling parts of their new, modular space station—the Tianhe-1—in space within the next year. Since 2011, when the Chinese launched the Tiangong-1, their first rudimentary space station in Earth orbit, Chinese taikonauts have honed their space stations skills. After the Tiangong-1 crashed to the Earth in 2017, the Chinese already had placed their slightly more advanced, Tiangong-2 in orbit. Now that Tiangong-2’s mission is nearly complete, Beijing believes it is ready for a more permanent structure in orbit. The Tianhe-1 will be of a similar, modular design to that of the International Space Station (ISS). And, like the ISS, the Chinese are inviting other nations to partake in the program—except for the United States (this is considered payback for when the Clinton Administration refused to allow the Chinese to take part in the ISS out of understandable fears that China would engage in technology theft, if they were granted access to the advanced ISS). China hopes to have their station assembled in orbit by 2022 when the station’s first Chinese residents are expected to arrive. The irony is that the Tianhe-1 is expected to become operational at precisely the moment that the ISS reaches the end of its lifespan. In essence, then, the United States’ only permanent space station will be gone while China becomes the only nation to possess a space station in orbit—and the Americans will be explicitly barred from having access to that station to boot! This moment will be akin to the moment in 2011 when America’s space shuttle program was terminated by the Obama Administration, leaving the United States without an indigenous manned spaceflight program for the first time since the 1960s. The Chinese Academy of Space Technology has also outlined the details of how China plans to build a permanent settlement on the lunar surface. The facility will be built in the mid-2020s and will be run by artificial intelligence robots until Chinese taikonauts are sent to manage it. Presently, China’s leadership believes that their people will be living on the moon by the end of the decade. China has endured setbacks in their space program that bears noting. Namely, their entire lunar and space station program is on hold until the technical kinks of their potent Long March V rocket can be worked out. There has already been a yearlong delay after a version of the rocket crashed into the Pacific Ocean shortly after liftoff from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan Province last year due to an oxygen supply problem. This type of heavy-lift rocket, similar to the old NASA Saturn V rockets, is the only way China could get the large and heavy modules for the Tianhe-1 into Earth orbit; they are the only way that China could launch certain sensitive, heavier military satellites into high Earth orbit; these rockets are also the only way to get sample return missions to the moon, and eventually, Chinese taikonauts to the moon. The oxygen-supply problem that the previous launch of the Long March V rocket experienced occurred because of a turbofan failure in the rocket engine. The Chinese have since worked that out and are now streamlining the production of the next phase of the Long March 5. It is believed that the next test will occur before 2019 ends. This last technical hurdle will be overcome, one way or the other. China is simply committed to their cause more than we understand. This is an oddity, because the United States was trailing their Soviet rivals in the early phases of the Space Race during the Cold War. Yet, the United States refused to cede the strategic high ground of space. Instead, the Americans intensified their investment in their national space program and greatly expanded its national investment in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) programs that would help the nation achieve its goal of becoming a space power. Although the Americans neither placed the first satellite in orbit nor the first man in orbit, the United States did prevail in putting the first men on the moon. By the time that the Americans achieved this, the Soviets were relegated to a similar place that the Americans today are relegated: the sidelines. The Reds of yesteryear could only place satellites and cosmonauts in Earth’s orbit, leaving the far more impressive deep space exploration missions to their American rivals. Embarrassingly, it is from the sidelines today where American and Western scientists continue laughing at the Chinese, without taking note of the fact that the United States abandoned its own heavy-lift rockets—the Saturn V—in favor of the cheaper and weaker rockets needed to place the space shuttle in low-Earth orbit (LEO) more than 30 years ago. The capabilities to return to space beyond Earth’s orbit are almost gone, meaning that the U.S. will be playing catch-up to the Chinese soon. In the Second Space Race, China is playing the upstart Americans while the United States is, sadly, playing the Soviet Union. American Military Power Relies on Satellites

There are, of course, more pressing strategic concerns behind China’s increased interest in space development. Presently, the United States enjoys what’s known by military experts as “Full-Spectrum Dominance.” In essence, the United States military has overwhelming superiority over any potential adversary in the major strategic domains of land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. Or, at least, that is what the Pentagon has striven for since the end of the Cold War. As one Air Force officer once remarked to me, “The last thing any American should want is to have their military enter into a fair fight with the enemy.” By investing in systems and strategies meant to ensure that the United States remained as the preeminent military power, it was assumed that no other rival would dare risk challenging American might, because doing so would lead to their ultimate destruction. Yet, there is a fundamental flaw in this perception. For a country like the United States to have the kind of “Full-Spectrum Dominance” that its military leaders desire, it must maintain a massive, bloated force. Today’s U.S. military is a relatively small expeditionary force. At 315 million citizens, the military accounts for less than one percent of America’s total population. And, at the height of the Second World War, the military had roughly 16 million men under arms. In 2015, the Department of Defense reported that 1.4 million Americans on active duty in the Armed Forces. Ever since its terrible experience in the Vietnam War, the United States is understandably reticent to embrace a national draft in the event of a war. Since the Nixon Administration, the country has preferred its relatively small all-volunteer force. There are many merits to a force like this. One of the downsides, however, is the fact that such a small and mobile force, operating far over-the-horizon (away from North America)—across multiple strategic domains, against rivals that are closer to their home territories and with traditional larger forces—means that the United States must rely on more advanced technology to give them an edge in combat. Nearly all Americans agree that the U.S. military is the most-advanced, best-trained, and well-funded force in the world (possibly in history). And, many intuitively understand that America’s incredible military capabilities derive from its possession of advanced technology, which allows its far flung forces to operate in tandem; communicate instantaneously with each other and with their combatant commands; as well as allow for the American forces to move at greater speeds than their bloated, less-advanced enemies. What few comprehend, though, is that satellites are the unseen and unsung, relatively small (both in quantity and in physical size), workhorses of the U.S. military. Roughly 70 percent of the U.S. Army’s weapons systems, for instance, rely on satellites to function properly. America’s dominance in satellites explains how a relatively small invasion force of around 150,000 U.S. soldiers and Marines could take Iraq in 2003 in a little more than a month. But what happens when those satellites are removed from the strategic equation? This is a question that, until very recently, few American policymakers seriously pondered. The Chinese, on the other hand, have been asking themselves this very question since they witnessed America’s “first space war,” better known as Desert Storm, in 1991. At that time, China had possessed a large military that was armed primarily with Soviet-type weapons. They also hewed closely to Soviet military strategy (despite the fact that, by Desert Storm, China had become a Soviet rival). Similarly, Saddam Hussein’s Iraq was brimming with Soviet military technology and its officer corps was well-versed in Soviet military strategy. On the eve of the U.S. attack on Iraqi forces in Kuwait, Saddam’s military was the fourth-largest in the world. Saddam was so confident that he could resist any American-led offensive that he vowed that his forces would engage in the “mother-of-all battles” against the Americans and that his forces would visit the same humiliation upon the U.S. military that the forces of North Vietnam did. The Americans, though, had other plans. Namely, since the Vietnam War, the Pentagon had assiduously built its force to fight a direct confrontation against the Soviet Union in the Fulda Gap (a small patch of territory that separated West and East Germany that would have become the site of any potential Soviet invasion of Western Europe). To accomplish victory against a Soviet-type foe, the Americans had enhanced their capability to rapidly mass and to be highly-mobile force—one in which its land, sea, and air forces were integrated, allowing for quick, precision-strikes that would cripple the Soviets. The secret lynchpin in this strategy were America’s burgeoning satellite constellations. These tiny jewels in the night sky provided continual, up-to-date situational awareness for American forces engaged in combat operations. When American tanks moved rapidly upon Saddam’s forces through the desert—something that few planners at the time believed possible—taking Saddam’s forces by surprise in General Norman H. Schwarzkopf’s famous “Left Hook,” it was made possible thanks to America’s rudimentary Global Positioning System (GPS). American satellites also made it possible to conduct the precision airstrikes against Saddam’s forces which utterly debilitated the Iraqi military. As Fred Kaplan outlined in Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War, U.S. intelligence had learned in the run-up to Desert Storm that Saddam Hussein had hired Western telecommunication firms to install fiber-optic cable linking Baghdad, Basra, and Kuwait City. They identified the location of these communications cables and destroyed them in the opening wave of air attacks against Iraq. American intelligence, though, knew that Saddam could migrate his communications traffic to a backup communications channel he had established which ran off microwave transmissions. With this knowledge in hand, the National Security Agency was able to park one of its covert “spy-in-the-sky” satellites over Iraq, and with its receiver, U.S. intelligence was able to eavesdrop on every Iraqi communication that was sent during Desert Storm. In Kaplan’s words, “At every step [the NSA and American combat commanders] knew exactly what Saddam and his generals were saying and where their soldiers were moving.” Thanks to this generational leap in technology that the United States had enjoyed (courtesy of the Reagan era arms build-up), the United States was able to get ahead of its enemy and keep the Iraqis in a state of confusion as U.S. forces overran them. It is unlikely that Desert Storm could be fought today, given the proliferation of cyberspace and counterspace capabilities. In 1991, the United States was the unchallenged space power. It could easily—and stealthily—sneak its sensitive satellite into an orbit directly above its enemy’s home and simply listen in. Today, the Chinese (as well as the Russians, and quite possibly even the Iranians and North Koreans) have made considerable investments into building the capabilities that would make such high-tech American tactics useless. In fact, when China witnessed the American success in Desert Storm; how the Americans cut through a Soviet-style military like a hot knife through butter, they were forced to reassess their own capabilities. Size did not matter so much as speed. And, speed was only effective so long as China’s rival, in this case, the United States, was left deaf, dumb, and blind. Beijing no longer felt that their military was capable of deterring future aggression from the Americans, So, following Desert Storm, the Chinese embarked on a reappraisal of their entire national defense strategy. It was the Taiwan Strait Crisis of 1996, followed on by the NATO bombing of the Chinese embassy in Serbia in 1999 during the Kosovo Air War, that convinced the Chinese leadership that the United States was their number one threat. In each case, American military prowess was buttressed by America’s satellite constellations—with devastating consequences for China’s grand strategy. In the first instance of the Taiwan Strait Crisis, the Clinton Administration decided to deploy two U.S. Navy aircraft carriers through the narrow strait separating mainland China from independent Taiwan. At that time, Beijing’s leadership strove to intimidate Taiwan into not electing a president that Beijing viewed as a separatist leader. Although Taiwan has maintained their independence since 1949, the tiny island is not officially recognized as a sovereign state by China’s leadership. Instead, China views Taiwan as nothing more than a rebellious, breakaway province—similar to how the Union viewed the Confederacy during the American Civil War. After weeks of launching rockets across the strait going into the Taiwanese presidential elections, Washington suddenly deployed two aircraft carriers in response. This humiliated China and showed to the world just how impotent China was in the face of American threats. Ultimately, the show of American force prompted China to abandon their brinkmanship and allow the Taiwanese presidential election to move forward without further interference. In the second instance, a NATO warplane bombed the Chinese embassy in Serbia’s capital. Washington insists to this day that it was an accident; certain maps of the city had not been updated to indicate that China’s consulate had moved locations. What NATO believed was a Serbian military installation was, in fact, the Chinese consulate. After it was bombed, days of intense protest against the United States broke out in China—notably at the U.S. embassy in Beijing, but also in the Chinese province of Chengdu, where the U.S. consul’s house was set on fire. The Chinese have never forgiven the Americans for these two incidents. Later, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the Chinese were again taken by surprise by American military prowess. American forces landed in Afghanistan and in a handful of months destabilized the Taliban regime there with a small contingent of forces, armed mainly with small arms, lots of cash (to buy the locals off), and satellite phones to coordinate precision airstrikes against the more numerous Taliban and al Qaeda forces. American space power is a key threat to Beijing’s vision for a world order which orbits the new Chinese empire rather than the old American imperium. Following former President George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq in 2003, Chinese leaders fretted that his Wilsonian commitment to making the world safe for democracy would lead the United States to embrace ever-increasing-levels of regime change missions through unpredictable unilateralism and preemption. Eventually, China’s leaders feared that this missionary zeal would bring about a spasmodic mission to turn China into California, much as the United States was committed to turning Iraq into Idaho. Beijing’s authoritarian regime could not simply allow for the United States to continue its quixotic quest to topple global autocracies. The Satellite War with China After years of studying the American military giant, though, Chinese leaders have determined there were significant gaps in America’s defensive systems. Namely, the potent (but relatively small) all-volunteer U.S. military was made capable by its reliance on satellites. China figured if they could remove that advantage, the Americans would be made impotent. Don’t laugh this off. Few people realize just how important a handful of U.S. military satellites operating in what’s known as geostationary orbit (GEO) are. In this high orbit, at 26,199 miles above the center of the Earth, a few constellations of large, unwieldy military communications, surveillance, and early missile warning satellites provide the bulk of America’s strategic benefits. There are other constellations, of course, in lower orbits, but these constellations in GEO are critical assets providing the U.S. military with the bulk of its advantages. In this one constellation, the Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) constellation, which is paid for by the United States Air Force, but its payload is managed by the United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command (USASMDC/ARSTRAT), there is a large component of America’s military communications capabilities. The problem is that the existing satellites in the constellation are bulky and expensive. Their high orbit also means that the Air Force must launch replacement satellites in the constellation on special rockets (ironically, rockets powered by the Russian-built RD-180 engine), meaning that it is a cost-prohibitive endeavor to replace or add more satellites to this constellation. So, at 10 units, the WGS is a relatively small and undefended constellation of satellites that are highly important for the United States to maintain its global military posture. Similarly, the Navy maintains the Multiple User Objective System (MUOS), this small handful of satellites keep the U.S. Navy linked together around the world. Remove even a few of these systems and the entire Navy is thrown into disarray. Because these satellites are so far away from Earth, and because these satellites are so large and expensive to launch, there are few spares available. If a rival actor, like China, were to launch a blinding or other form of damaging attack upon these satellites, the ability for the U.S. military and its allies to mount effective defenses against a Chinese attack against, perhaps, Taiwan, would be negated. Current plans for defending Taiwan have the indigenous, U.S.-armed Taiwanese fighting valiantly to hold the island against an invading Chinese force until the Americans eventually intervened against China. Presently, Taiwan has the advantage over their Chinese cousins. But, Beijing has made serious investments into developing the skills necessary to launch a massive invasion across the narrow Taiwan Strait and to conduct a successful invasion of Taiwan. China’s soldiers routinely train for such a terrible event. Taiwan’s forces, no matter how well-armed, could not hope to defend Taiwan indefinitely against an invading Chinese force. The arrival of superior U.S. forces into such a conflict is almost a fait accompli under Washington’s current posture. At the very least, Chinese leaders understand that Washington would be tempted to “do something” in the face of their aggression against one of America’s oldest allies in the region. China’s leadership asks itself, though: what would the Americans do if their military superiority was removed even before Washington could deploy forces to back-up the besieged Taiwanese? What if American forces operating in the expansive Asia-Pacific (or, Indo-Pacific, as Pentagon planners have taken to calling it) were rendered deaf, dumb, and blind with a silent Chinese attack on a key U.S. satellite constellation, such as MUOS or WGS? Would the United States risk its expensive military assets in a battle for an island that China was poised to take, if their technological supremacy was removed? Herein lies the allure of “counterspace” weapons for China’s leadership. With counterspace weapons, Beijing’s goal is to simply disconnect America’s highly-integrated military; to remove the expeditionary force’s ability to expedite its movements in a coordinated manner. As it stands, places like Taiwan, the Philippines, or Japan are all much closer to mainland China. With America’s military spread throughout the world (and its center of focus still, unfortunately, in the Middle East), China understands that it can successfully act boldly only if America’s ability to mass forces against them in a timely manner is mitigated. And, let’s face it, the Chinese are not concerned about U.S. military movements in Syria or in Venezuela as much as they are about U.S. actions in what they perceive to be their own sphere of influence, the Asia-Pacific. If the “breakaway province” of Taiwan expects to remain free of Chinese rule, then they will need a strong U.S. military presence ready to protect them. But, if the United States cannot effectively project its military power over-the-horizon in the vastness of the Pacific Ocean because key satellite constellations, such as the MUOS constellation, have been disabled or destroyed in orbit, then the Chinese have the time and advantages to assert their will over tiny Taiwan. Decades ago, the great U.S. Air Force Colonel John Boyd, a hellraising, dog-fighter who made minced meat out of both his enemies in the unfriendly skies over North Korea, as well as his superior officers who strove to stymie his brilliance with mindless bureaucracy, coined the term “OODA Loop.” It is an acronym that stands for, “Observe-Orient-Decide-Act.” In today’s PowerPoint-crazy military, many officers I know are sick-to-death of this phrase. They lament that its true meaning has been lost in the alphabet soup of Washington’s bureaucratic landscape. At its core, though, the theory was based on observations that Boyd himself had made while dogfighting Communists in MiG Alley and is usually meant to apply to the operational level of military campaigns. Without getting too far into the art of the OODA Loop, a key component of this theory has to do with acting faster than one’s opponents. America’s space power allowed it to observe, orient, decide, and act at a faster pace than any of its rivals of the last 30 years. Remove that space power and the United States cannot complete the OODA Loop in a timely manner. This slow-down means that a rival, like China, can get out ahead of the United States; that Beijing can effectively outmaneuver and complete the OODA Loop faster than the Americans who created the term to begin with. And, in today’s, high-tech environment, being outpaced by one’s competitors is the death knell of any endeavor. As Boyd observed: Most violent gunmen think that because they have the gun, people will do what they say and will just hide. They don’t expect someone to come charging after them. By closing the gap, you’re resetting your adversary’s Loop because now they have to re-orient themselves to an unexpected change in the environment. You’re making them have an ‘uhhhh…’ moment. By causing the reset, you’ve slowed him down, even if it’s just by a few seconds, which gives you more time to complete your OODA Loop and win the battle. The Chinese have watched the United States display its military power for decades. They have assessed that, as a whole, the U.S. military is virtually incapable of defeat under current conditions. Although, once one probes deeper beneath the surface of all of those bristling American defenses, there are a handful of technical weaknesses that a country, well-versed in high-technology, such as China, can exploit. After all, Achilles was only as strong as his heel…and America’s Achilles’ Heel is undoubtedly its weak posture in space. Like the person suddenly acting against the demands of a violent gunmen, China’s ability to blind, dazzle, and destroy key American satellites will give their forces the time they need to overcome whatever defenses the United States might be able to muster in the face of Chinese provocations against an ally like Taiwan. Beidou: China’s Replacement for America’s GPS Another aspect of the satellite war between China and the United States is over global Position, Navigation, and Tracking (PNT) capabilities as represented by America’s Global Positioning System (GPS). The current GPS is an American system that was initiated by the U.S. military in 1978 to facilitate precision-strike capabilities for its military forces operating in distant theaters of operations. Inevitably, like the internet, GPS became a must-have component of the civilian economy. Like much of the rest of the world, China utilized America’s GPS network. Yet, going back to the 1980s, Beijing was never comfortable with this arrangement. In the 1990s, China invested in developing its own GPS system. This move was in keeping with the general predilection of Chinese leaders to first imitate a technologically superior foe, like the United States, then to gain parity with that rival—while becoming self-sufficient—and then to ultimately defeat that enemy with a more advanced version of the technology they had initially replicated. In the process, the imitation leads to innovation. China’s version of the GPS constellation is Beidou (the Chinese word for the “Big Dipper”). No longer will China’s military be beholden to the American-dominated GPS network to conduct their own precision-strike capabilities. Beidou’s initial deployment has already allowed for Beijing to have total coverage in the Asia-Pacific. By 2020, it is believed that Beidou will have global coverage—providing China with an unprecedented global strike capability. Undoubtedly, China is building out its cruise and ballistic missiles with both GPS and Beidou capabilities. In the event that the United States deprives China access of its own GPS network, then, China’s military planners would not have to worry about losing precision-guided weapons capabilities. Instead, they would simply “switch” their forces off the American system and onto their own. Further, by making itself more self-sufficient in the vital PNT area, Beijing has reduced the threat that American disruption of these critical tools in a time of crisis between China and the United States, posed to Chinese forces. What’s more, China’s obsessive quest to create an indigenous high-tech supply chain, has allowed for Beidou to be totally supported by Chinese manufacturers and Chinese technical experts. The Chinese firm, Alibaba and the state-owned enterprise, China North Industries Corporation (NORINCO), formed a joint venture worth more than $300 million “to build applications and technology to support and work with the Beidou system.” What’s more, this conglomerate has spread its tentacles to other Asian countries—even Taiwan—by getting China’s various neighbors to accept Beidou interfaces. With these downstream technologies, Chinese hackers could conceivably “track” smartphone users through “embedded malware in devices containing Chinese-manufactured satellite navigation chips, and thus pose an information security risk to Taiwan.” And, in the event that China did decide to wage open war upon their Taiwanese neighbors, the ability to use Beidou-related systems to track and launch precision-guided decapitation strikes against key Taiwanese leaders would pose a grave security risk to Taiwan’s defense. There is also the issue of Beidou becoming the basis of a Eurasian-wide PNT network that would displace the American GPS. China is seeking to build the greatest infrastructure project in history, known in Beijing as the “One-Belt-One-Road” Initiative. This program seeks to united as much of Eurasia and Africa together through land-based and maritime, Chinese-dominated trading routes. Should this ambitious program come to fruition, then it would create an economic zone that could outstrip the productive capacity of the United States. Beidou is set to become the PNT network of this burgeoning economic mega-zone—something that will only enhance Chinese power and prestige, at the expense of the United States. Yet again, it is in space where this competition is most directly occurring…and it is in space where all but a handful of policy analysts like myself are ignoring these critical developments. The Pentagon Slows Everything Down Related to the issue of the Sino-American “satellite war” is the fact that the United States military has proven adept at exploiting its clear advantages in the strategic domain of space over the decades. Yet, at the same time the United States was coming to rely on satellites at increasing levels, the methods for designing and deploying critical satellite systems have remained virtually unchanged over the decades. Technology has rapidly advanced since the heady days of the Cold War. Don’t tell the government that, though, because until the rise of the Trump Administration, the protocols for acquiring new satellites were cumbersome and wholly ineffective in today’s highly-competitive, fast-moving strategic environment. As was mentioned above, military satellites tend to be heavier than their civilian counterparts and, because many of them are placed in higher orbits around Earth than their civilian counterparts, they must be launched on special rockets. After a vicious corporate war between two of America’s biggest defense contractors, Boeing and Lockheed Martin, the Pentagon chose to unite the two defense contractors into a joint venture overseen by the Air Force: the United Launch Alliance. This joint venture works closely with the military to launch military-grade satellites in what they believe are cost-effective ways. But they are not. Fact is, the Department of Defense needs to take steps to make their critical functions far more redundant than they presently are. They also need to ensure that the cost of launches are much lower than they are—otherwise key satellite constellations will go without timely upgrades; they will rely on older, easy-to-hack operating systems; and such sensitive systems will be unable to survive the kind of counterspace attack that China (and others, like Russia) might attempt against these satellite constellations. In fact, things are so bad at the Pentagon that a retired Air Force general, Thomas D. Taverney, coined the way the Pentagon acquires its satellites as the “Vicious Cycle of Satellite Acquisition.” Some solutions include making most DoD satellites less advanced and also making them more compatible with civilian systems. This would, in turn, not only allow for the Pentagon to migrate key functions over to civilian satellites should a constellation, like the WGS or MUOS constellation be disrupted by attack, but it would also mean replacements could be more easily replicated and deployed. Also, making DoD systems more compatible with civilian ones would mean that special rockets would not be needed. Since military satellites tend to be heavier because the Pentagon tries to throw as many capabilities as it can into one satellite—known as bundling—they require more fuel to launch into orbit, making them more expensive than their civilian counterpart. But, making these systems less advanced, smaller, and more compatible with the civilian systems would mean they could ride-share on ordinary civilian rockets, reducing costs. There is also a desire to increase the size of the satellite constellations themselves. Instead of a key network, like the WGS constellation, possessing a paltry sum of 14 satellite units, the Pentagon should increase the number, thereby making it harder for the Chinese to degrade and destroy in a “bolt-from-the-blue” attack on America’s satellites. By implementing the reforms that I spoke about in the paragraph above, you could effectively accomplish this goal in a quicker amount of time for cheaper. Also, making these systems more compatible with civilian satellites—creating what’s known as “mixed constellations”—would prevent a Chinese surprise attack in space from being as devastating as it presently would be. A key reason the government doesn’t want to even think about changing its unwieldy space architecture is simply because current conditions make it too expensive to conduct meaningful space operations. The Chinese, though, are interested in developing ways to negate America’s advantages in space meaning that their strategy is far cheaper than America’s need to preserve its position in space by making its satellite architecture more survivable. Plus, when it comes to cost, Beijing is willing the pay any cost and bear any burden if it means having the capability to thwart their American foes on the other, terrestrial strategic domains. Elon Musk and other smaller businesses seeking to work with the Pentagon have had an uphill struggle. The opaque defense bureaucracy likes working with the bloated defense contractors it has always worked with (Lockheed, Boeing, Northrup Gruman, etc). Yet, Elon Musk’s SpaceX has proven that it can launch assets into space for far cheaper than their bigger rivals can. It should be a mission priority for any military officer operating in national security space policy to significantly reduce the cost of space operations. Cutting much bureaucracy; opening the military satellite business up to other smaller businesses that the Pentagon does not have a long history of dealing with; and making U.S. military satellites smaller, less advanced, and more compatible with civilian satellites will go a long way in achieving this goal.             China’s Counterspace Weapons

Presently, the People’s Republic of China has crafted a suite of counterspace capabilities that should leave every American worried. Beijing has invested in conventional anti-satellite weapons (ASAT). These are missiles that are launched and can knock out satellites passing by in low-earth orbit (LEO). Not only do these missiles destroy targeted satellites, but it often creates a debris field that scatters outward and threatens other satellite constellations in nearby orbits. If you’ve ever seen the 2013 Sandra Bullock film, Gravity, you’d have an idea of what high-velocity, cascading debris caused by an explosion in space can do to satellite constellations and space stations in orbit (it’s called the “Kessler Syndrome”). Chinese scientists have also posited the notion of installing a laser system on the bottom of their space station. They suggested doing so in order to assist in the clearing of dangerous space debris that human beings have created during the decades they’ve used space. Of course, like nuclear technology or the internet, space technology can be dual-use. A laser used to remove dangerous debris that threatens everyone in orbit could also be used to target the optical gear on American surveillance satellites and temporarily blind them. Many U.S. satellites can only be repaired remotely from the ground. When a satellite is disabled by a laser (or other technical glitch), the satellite tends to go into a power-reserve mode and wait for a ground operator to effect repairs remotely. The Chinese know this and understand fully that even an attack that temporarily blinds of U.S. satellite would buy Chinese forces operating elsewhere the time they needed to complete whatever nefarious mission they were on. Then, there is the threat of space stalkers. A technology that I believe the Russians have developed, the space stalker is a particularly galling piece of technology. It is a tiny, fast-moving, hard-to-track satellite with grappling claws that is theoretically launched in GEO. Once in high Earth orbit, it tailgates behind sensitive U.S. satellites, like those units belonging to the WGS constellation, and will use its grappling arms to physically push the American satellite out of orbit. Do this to enough satellites in this constellation, and you’ve just rendered the U.S. Army deaf and blind. A similar attack on the Navy’s MUOS constellation would have painfully similar results. Recently, reports circulated that U.S. sailors were having to be re-trained to navigate their warships by stars because the military had stopped training sailors in this basic maritime method of navigation (Christopher Columbus guided his ships using this tried-and-true method). It was (rightly) assumed that the sailors were relying too much on technology and that they had allowed real sailing talent to atrophy. The Chinese know this, and they’ve made plans to use these new weaknesses in the U.S. military to their advantage. Blinding or destroying a key navigation and communication satellite constellation, would do more than simply render a U.S. warship or unit militarily ineffective; it might very well cause its destruction before ever coming into contact with the enemy. China has also had the gumption to invest in new technologies that many in the West scoff at. Things like the EmDrive or the Quantum Internet satellite, Micius. In the case of the former, a British satellite engineer, Robert Shawyer, created a propulsion system meant for U.S. and British satellites that created thrust from nothing. This violated Newtonian physics causing the West to pooh-pooh it. China was more willing to try this unconventional propulsion than the British or the Americans. Some (myself included) worry that China successfully tested this technology in space already. If it works as advertised, then, the EmDrive would allow a manned spaceship to travel from the Earth to Mars in 70 days. Closer to home, it would allow satellites to have even stealthier maneuverability that would make them harder to track, disrupt, or destroy. Or, it could allow for Chinese orbital weapons to float above our heads, hanging like a Damocles’ Sword, without ever being detected. With China’s quantum internet satellite, no one in the West believed it was possible. The Chinese wanted a more secure form of instantaneous communication than what currently existed. So, their scientists used the theory of quantum entanglement to create an “un-hackable” communications network that will not only give China a key strategic advantage over the Americans, but if it is embraced by the rest of the world, it could become an alternative to today’s U.S.-created internet. The strategic consequences of these advances are staggering. Sadly, few in the West are paying attention. President Trump’s space force cannot come soon enough. When China Rules Space… The Chinese have a plan for domination. They recognize the United States as their number one rival and are making moves to remove that perceived threat. Space is integral to their plans. In the near-term, the Chinese recognize the strategic advantages that America’s dominant place in space has afforded Washington over the years. More ominously, however, Beijing has identified the inherent weaknesses of America’s space architecture—and how that weakness will translate down to the rest of the force. China has made plans to exploit this weakness with terminal intensity. Once the Americans have been displaced in orbit, the Chinese can then focus on fulfilling their industrial needs by coopting as much of the natural resources in the surrounding space as they can. Chinese behavior in Africa and in the South and East China Seas can give one a decent snapshot of where the Chinese are headed. As noted above, Beijing’s leaders have already given us a clue as to what they are thinking: monopolization of rare resources for national gain.

Read more in New English Review:

• Sally Rooney's Palpable Designs

• Piped Music In Public Spaces: Pollution Unchecked

• Race, Race, Race, Race, Race

If space is a multi-trillion-dollar zone of economic activity, as many believe, then the country that captures the greatest share of those exploitable resources before any other country can will have decisive advantages on Earth. Imagine what China could do with the money made from their space mining endeavors in terms of military modernization and internal political stabilization. The Chinese Communist Party’s vice-grip on power would be assured for at least another century, and the threat to the West would only grow to new, unmanageable levels. For far too long American policymakers have ignored space. Now, the warning lights in Washington are flashing red…but few are paying attention. The Chinese know what they want; they have a strategy to get what they want—and that means knocking the United States out of orbit and preventing America from benefiting from the budding space mining industry. In every way imaginable, the Chinese have a clear-eyed understanding of space and how best to use it to accomplish their goals on Earth. Few, if any, U.S. policymakers appear to. While the president’s space force concept is one I fully support, the D.C. bureaucracy has worked assiduously to stymie and undermine this program. Yes, it is coming online. Unfortunately, it is not an independent force and will likely be too small and too beholden to the Air Force to make much of a difference. China, meanwhile, has already reorganized their forces to fight a space war. Unless a Manhattan Project for a national military and economic space program is undertaken, the United States will surely lose its vaunted position in the strategic high ground to China (or another rising power). These other countries simply want space too much for it to be left in the ambivalent hands of America. If the United States loses space, and if it is not willing to fight to reclaim it, then America will become just another middling power on its way out, while being bullied by stronger, more resolved countries. In essence, you might not be interested in space, but space is interested in you. Failure to understand the importance of space to both the military and to the economy will be America’s undoing.

https://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm?frm=189812&sec_id=189812 

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etc. The storms will be far greater than the storms you have seen before, more hurricanes, more tornadoes, more typhoons, more cyclones, more tidal waves, more earthquakes, more flooding, more mudslides, oh, the trouble, the trouble, the trouble that shall come.  At times you may wonder what is taking place, and I say unto you, get into my word, look in my word, know what Jeremiah has said, know what Ezekiel has said, know what Joel told you etc

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Forecasters monitoring 4 tropical disturbances in Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico

Hurricane Center

Johari Canty

(WSVN) - As Hurricane Dorian hits the Bahamas and slowly crawls west, the National Hurricane Center is keeping an eye on four other tropical disturbances in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. The first disturbance is located about 300 miles west of the Cabo Verde Islands. At 80%, it has a high chance of forming into a tropical depression over the next 48 hours, and a 90% chance of forming over the next five days. It is currently moving generally northwestward across the eastern tropical Atlantic ocean.  The second disturbance is located over the south-central Gulf of Mexico. The disturbance has 60% chance of forming through the next 48 hours and a 70% chance of forming through the next five days.  This system is moving westward toward the coast of Mexico. The third disturbance is located several hundred miles south-southeast of Bermuda. This system is slowly moving northward or north-northwestward, and forecasters have given it a low chance at 30% of forming through the next 48 hours, and a medium chance at 40% of forming through the next five days. The final disturbance is a tropical wave that is forecasted to emerge over the Atlantic between Africa and the Cabo Verde Islands. Though this disturbance currently has no chance of forming over the next 48 hours is still has a 40% chance of forming over the next five days. This is the latest data on these disturbances as of 2 p.m., Monday.

https://wsvn.com/news/us-world/forecasters-monitoring-4-tropical-disturbances-in-atlantic-gulf-of-mexico/ 

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Strong and Very Deep M6.7 Earthquake Hits Fiji, No Tsunami Warnings

By Strange Sounds - Sep 1, 2019

A strong but very deep earthquake hit 34km NNE of Ndoi Island in the Republic of Fiji, in the South Pacific Ocean, on September 1, 2019.

The very deep earthquake struck at a depth of more than 600 km (373 miles) at 3:54 p.m. UTC. No tsunami warnings have been issued. Somebody reported feeling it on the USGS homepage. That is really amazing I would say! Take care! And be prepared!

https://strangesounds.org/2019/09/fiji-strong-earthquake-september2019-map.html 

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The Mighty Mekong River Is Almost Dry in the Middle of the Rainy Season

By Strange Sounds - Sep 2, 2019

This is the worst ecological disaster in history of the of Mekong region.

A severe drought that has caused water levels in Southeast Asia’s Mekong River to drop to their lowest in more than 100 years could have devastating consequences for fish, as well as the tens of millions of people living and working along the river, experts warn. The crisis began when critical monsoon rains, which usually start in late May in the Mekong region, failed to arrive. Dry conditions persisted well into July. At that time, observers say, the situation was made worse by hydropower dam operators upstream, in China and Laos, withholding water for their own purposes. Although the rains finally began to fall in the last week in much of the river basin, with water levels now slowly rising, experts warn that the potential damage from the drought could be worse than in 2016, when another drought caused forest fires around Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia and widespread disruptions to food production. Many rice farmers in the region have been unable to plant their main crop, raising fears of a heavily diminished harvest this fall. Less water flow could also have a devastating impact on fish reproduction in the Mekong River basin. This is normally the time when fish use rising water levels as a cue to spawn and to disperse their young, but there is little evidence of this happening so far this year. Perhaps even more alarming, experts expect that droughts and disruptions to the water flow of the Mekong will become more common, and they warn that it could eventually lead to the collapse of the entire ecosystem. “With the completion of more mainstream dams and the cumulative effects of climate change, that tipping point” for when the Mekong can no longer sustain these changes “may be coming closer,” says Brian Eyler, the Southeast Asia program director at the Stimson Center in Washington, D.C. Originating in the Tibetan highlands, the Mekong River flows through six Asian countries, including China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, before emptying into the South China Sea. The river basin is home to the largest inland fishery in the world and more than 60 million people depend on it for their livelihoods. Few rivers in the world rise and fall with the seasons as much as the Mekong, which can drop up to 40 feet in some places at the end of the dry season. When the monsoon rains arrive, they normally produce a flood pulse that brings with it sediment essential to agriculture as well as enormous amounts of larvae and tiny fish, including many critically endangered species such as the Mekong giant catfish, that are swept into the Tonle Sap Lake and other floodplains where they can mature. Every year, scientists have been collecting samples of these tiny fish and larvae on the Mekong River near Phnom Penh, Cambodia. However, so far this year, sub-normal water levels have produced no flood pulse, and the researchers have not seen any dispersal of fish larvae. “Without the flood pulse, fish may delay or skip spawning,” says Zeb Hogan, a National Geographic Explorer and fish biologist at the University of Nevada, Reno, who leads a USAID project called Wonders of the Mekong. “For rare and endangered species, this situation threatens their survival, and for commercially important fish species, future harvests could be significantly reduced.”  According to Peng Bun Ngor, a fish ecologist with the Cambodian Fisheries Administration, the low river flow also forces brood fishes to concentrate in spaces where they become more vulnerable to being captured by fishers. “This adds to the existing problem of low recruitment,” he says. Dam Politics  This year, the dry conditions in the Mekong region persisted due to warm Pacific Ocean currents known as the El Niño effect. “I have no doubt that this present drought is caused by the shift in world weather patterns as the result of global change, especially warming trends, and it would not be surprising if it lasted several more years,” says Peter Moyle, a biology professor emeritus at the University of California, Davis. Moyle and others say dams on the upper parts of the Mekong are contributing to the degradation of the entire river system. “Dams collect sediment, block fish migrations, and create reservoirs that support a fraction of the fisheries that the equivalent reach of flowing water would support,” he says, adding that the dams will worsen the effects of drought. China, which operates 11 dams along the main stem of the Mekong (or Lancang, as it’s known in China), has come under particular criticism for how it operates its dams in secrecy without much regard for water flow downstream It is not a member of the intergovernmental Mekong River Commission, which was set up in 1995 to facilitate regional dialogue in the lower Mekong River basin. China’s decision to halve the water released from its Jinghong Dam for two weeks in July, due to “grid maintenance,” is believed to have contributed in large part to this year’s historically low water levels in the Mekong River. Chinese promises to release more dam water in the future have only served to raise worries over the extent to which China controls the river flow in the Mekong. “This highlights underlying inequities among Mekong basin countries,” says Sarah Null, a professor at Utah State University in the Department of Watershed Sciences. “Richer nations reap more benefits of hydropower dams, including economic benefits and increased energy supply, while poorer nations are more affected by environmental degradation and reduced food security.” ‘Battery of Asia’ Many experts are particularly concerned about the environmental impact of Laos’ plans to turn itself into “the battery of Southeast Asia” by building dozens of hydroelectric dams on the Mekong and its tributaries and selling power to neighboring countries. Earlier this month, at the same time China reduced the water output from the Jinghong Dam, Laos conducted trials on the giant Xayaburi dam in the northern part of the country, its first hydropower project on the main stem of the Mekong, scheduled to go online in October this year. The trials may have further disrupted the Mekong River’s flow. One of the poorest countries in the region, Laos already has close to 50 hydroplants operating on various Mekong tributaries and more than 50 planned or under construction, several of them along the main stem of the Mekong. Last year a dam collapsed in southern Laos, flooding large areas and killing dozens of people. Environmentalists have long warned that the Lao projects carry environmental costs that are not fully appreciated or factored in to the decision-making. “There is a system of total anarchy for hydropolitics and hydropower in the region,” says Eyler, who is the author of the book Last Days of the Mighty Mekong. “There was no overall vision for what the ‘battery of asia’ would look like, and now there is no vision for how that battery will operate.” Still, there are signs that some countries in the Mekong basin are moving toward alternative forms of energy. Officials in Cambodia have expressed doubts about its plans for two, Chinese-constructed dams on the Mekong River in the northern part of the country, as Cambodia aims to instead increase its solar energy production. Hogan says the Mekong must avoid the fate of other heavily dammed rivers, like the Colorado in the U.S., which has seen a complete alteration of its natural hydrography and the near total failure of spawning and recruitment of most native fish. He points out that while the Mekong basin has proven remarkably resilient for many years, it is now facing unprecedented pressures. “The accelerating pace of change, coupled with cumulative impacts of transboundary stressors, and the impending impacts of climate change, point to a fear that the river, which is the lifeblood of most of Southeast Asia, will gradually lose function until it no longer supports the huge diversity of wildlife and millions of people that depend on it,” he says. Yep! All Mekong governments should collaborate to prevent any aspects of natural disasters, ecosystem collapses and natural ressources along the river that boosts their economy and the lives of millions of people.

https://thediplomat.com/2019/08/something-is-very-wrong-on-the-mekong-river/ 

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/07/mekong-river-lowest-levels-100-years-food-shortages/ 

https://strangesounds.org/2019/09/mekong-river-drying-up-disaster-video.html 

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etc. For the disasters that shall take place are many, the flooding shall be far greater than in times past, the mudslides far greater than in times past, the earthquakes shall be more numerous and far greater than in times past. The tornadoes, oh the savageness of the tornadoes that shall rip across the land, the straight winds, the hurricanes, the forest fires, the volcanoes shall erupt, the rising of the sea level that will be marked not in inches but in feet. etc.. 

LAW ENFORCEMENT  More than 1,000 state sworn law enforcement officers are on standby for potential deployment.

The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) has prepared its emergency response equipment and resources for staging as the storm approaches the state.

FHP has activated 12-hour Alpha/Bravo shifts for approximately 1,400 Troopers in the Eastern portions of the state.

FHP deployed three aircraft to monitor traffic over I-75, I-95 and Florida’s Turnpike.

FHP has 68 Quick Reaction Force (QRF) Troopers on standby for pre-deployment.

FHP is also in contact with its local law enforcement and transportation partners to identify and assist with any local needs before, during and after the storm.

FHP is providing 2 Troopers for security at each of the 8 Service Plazas on the Florida Turnpike to expedite service at the fuel pumps.

FHP continues to deploy aircraft to monitor traffic over I-95.

Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles Florida Licensing on Wheels (FLOW) mobiles have been prepared and are ready to deploy and serve impacted customers immediately following the storm.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is preparing officers and resources for potential deployments in the coming days. They are using a variety of specialized equipment, including shallow draft boats, ATVs, airboats and four-wheel drive vehicles.

FDLE’s mutual aid team is leading Florida’s law enforcement response coordinating more than 30 missions including fuel delivery escorts and identifying pre-staging areas.

FDLE is pre-positioning logistics teams along Florida’s East Coast who are ready to respond after the storm makes landfall.

FDLE is pre-positioning a mobile communications team to ensure emergency communications continue following the storm.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has more than 800 officers and resources prepared for potential deployment wherever they are needed. They have a variety of specialized equipment, including, aircraft, shallow draft boats, ATVs, airboats and four-wheel drive vehicles to assist with recovery.

TRANSPORTATION & PUBLIC WORKS

Governor DeSantis has directed the suspension of tolls on Florida’s Turnpike Mainline, and selected toll roads across the state. The tolls suspension include the following:

Alligator Alley

The Turnpike Mainline (SR 91), including the Homestead Extension (SR 821)

Sawgrass Expressway (SR 869)

Beachline Expressway (SR 528)

Orlando Beltway (SR 417 and SR 429)

I-595 Express

I-95 Express

I-75 Express

The Governor has also directed the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) to monitor traffic flow to determine the opening of shoulders along major highways. The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) will assist in the direction of traffic if shoulders are opened.

There are currently no bridge closures as this time. The U.S. Coast Guard makes decisions on movable bridges based on wind speeds. Bridges will remain open for maritime and vehicle traffic as long as safety considerations allow. The Coast Guard continues to monitor the situation and will make adjustments as needed.

All available lanes will remain open on the interstate system.

FDOT is operating the I-595 express lanes in the westbound direction until Hurricane Dorian has passed. Eastbound traffic will continue to use the general-purpose eastbound lanes throughout this period. GEORGIA In the state of Georgia, based on information from GEMA, Gov. Kemp will issue issue an executive order for mandatory evacuations of the six Georgia counties East of I-95 starting at Noon today. Will also order “contraflow” on I-16 starting at 8 AM Tuesday. The Storm Surge Watch has been extended northward along the Georgia coast to the Savannah River. The Hurricane Watch has been extended northward to Altamaha Sound in Georgia. NEW 3:45 PM EDT -- The Richmond County Schools System will be closed Tuesday, Sept 3 through Thursday, Sept. 5 in an effort to support evacuees from Savannah-Chatham County affected by Hurricane Dorian. The Richmond County School System will received medical evacuees today with the general population scheduled to arrive tomorrow. NEW 5:22 PM EDT -- Hurricane Watch Now for the Entire Georgia Coastline Storm Surge Warning has been extended northward to Altamaha Sound in Georgia VIRGINIA Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has declared a state of emergency as forecasters. Although forecasters predict that Florida, Georgia, and North and South Carolinas will be hit hardest as the storm makes its way north, parts of Virginia may be affected as well. “Potential impacts from Hurricane Dorian include coastal and inland flooding, storm surge, damaging winds and prolonged power outages,” the governor’s office wrote in a statement.

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/news-nation/hurricane-has-not-turned-still-heading-to-florida 

In 760 BC, one of the most important cities in the most powerful empire of its time, repented of its sin and turned to God. The case proves once and for all that no one should take credit when God works through him or her. God took extraordinary measures just to get Jonah to go to Nineveh. The prophet was used greatly, but not the way he wanted to be used. He didn’t want the people to repent or the city to be saved. His message was hard, and there was nothing winsome in his presentation of it. But the people did repent, and Nineveh’s well-earned destruction was put off for more than a century. Many evangelical Christians see Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency as a similar reprieve for the United States. Let’s suppose, for a moment, that President Trump is right on all the big policy positions he took in the campaign. I’m not saying it’s true, but try to imagine that President Trump will take the smartest possible positions on the economy, immigration, tax reform, the budget, environmental protection, foreign policy, security against terror, and the use of military power. No human is right all the time, but to prove a point, let’s take that leap of imagination and say that he is right on all these matters of policy. Would that make us like Nineveh? Would that be our reprieve? No. Nineveh repented. Ninevites felt sorry for their sin, and they turned to God for their answers. Has America done that? Maybe you don’t think the United States deserves God’s judgment. After all, we’re not nearly as bad as some other countries. While that’s true, we need to remember the words of Jesus in Luke 12:48. “For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required.” (NKJV) Except for the nation of Israel — the original recipients of God’s word — no nation ever received more from the hand of God than the United States of America. That places the US at the highest level of responsibility before God. When Trump was sworn into office, did abortions stop? Almost sixty million unborn humans have been killed since Roe v. Wade. Sixty million is the population of New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago… times four!  A theme runs through scripture. If you want to see God’s anger, harm the little ones. In Jeremiah 32:35, God said, “And they built the high places of Baal which are in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Moloch, which I did not command them, nor did it come into My mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.” Moloch was a pagan idol. They thought they could appease him by sacrificing their children in his fires. Unthinkable as that sounds, the United States is not as different as you might hope. America sacrifices her children, too — not on the altar of a pagan god, but on the altar of convenience and self-centeredness. Did the election of Donald Trump change that? I hope so, but I’ve seen lots of anti-abortion presidents over the years, and it hasn’t stopped abortion. We harm the little ones in another way as well. We teach them the religion of humanism. We ingrain it in them. We teach them to disregard God and see the state as the provider of all good things. Our schools teach our little ones that there is no right and wrong, that all is relative. Schools ridicule God, the Bible, and those who believe in them. In talking about such harm to children, Jesus did not mince words. “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it is better for him that a heavy millstone be hung around his neck, and that he be drowned in the depth of the sea.” (Matthew 18:6 NASB) Sexual perversions and blood-soaked violence in the name of entertainment pours out of America every day, and floods the world. We are ripe for God’s judgment in these and hundreds of other areas. Can God use Donald Trump to help turn this country around? Yes, God can. So, pray for the new President. But don’t look to him for your hope. Look to God. May each of us who know the Lord, humble ourselves before Him, and pray for our nation, our families, our churches, our communities, and ourselves. Did you pray for Donald Trump when he was running for President? It is human nature to stop praying for him now that he has entered that office. But that would be a terrible mistake. If you love America, now is our time to pray for him as never before.

Lam’s remarks are consistent with a Reuters report published on Friday that revealed how leaders in Beijing are effectively calling the shots on handling the crisis in Hong Kong. The Chinese government rejected a recent proposal by Lam to defuse the conflict that included withdrawing the extradition bill altogether, three people with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. Asked about the report, China’s Foreign Ministry said that the central government “supports, respects and understands” Lam’s decision to suspend the bill. The Global Times, a nationalistic tabloid published by the Communist Party’s official People’s Daily, denounced it as “fake.” As protests escalated, Lam suspended the bill on June 15. Several weeks later, on July 9, she announced that it was “dead.” That failed to mollify the protesters, who expanded their demands to include an inquiry into police violence and democratic reform. Many have also called for an end to what they see as meddling by Beijing in the affairs of Hong Kong. The tone of Lam’s comments in the recording is at odds with her more steely public visage. At times, she can be heard choking up as she reveals the personal impact of the three-month crisis. “For a chief executive to have caused this huge havoc to Hong Kong is unforgivable,” she said. Lam told the meeting that the leadership in Beijing was aware of the potential damage to China’s reputation that would arise from sending troops into Hong Kong to quell the protests. “They know that the price would be too huge to pay,” she said. “They care about the country’s international profile,” she said. “It has taken China a long time to build up to that sort of international profile and to have some say, not only being a big economy but a responsible big economy, so to forsake all those positive developments is clearly not on their agenda.” But she said China was “willing to play long” to ride out the unrest, even if it meant economic pain for the city, including a drop in tourism and losing out on capital inflows such as initial public offerings. ‘BIGGEST SADNESS’ Lam also spoke about the importance of the rule of law in Hong Kong and restoring stability to the city of more than seven million, as well as the need to improve efforts to get the government’s message out. At the end, applause can be heard on the recording.  While Lam said that now was not the time for “self-pity,” she spoke about her profound frustration with not being able “to reduce the pressure on my frontline police officers,” or to provide a political solution to “pacify the large number of peaceful protesters who are so angry with the government, with me in particular.” Her inability “to offer a political situation in order to relieve the tension,” she said, was the source of her “biggest sadness.” Lam also spoke about the impact the crisis has had on her daily life.  “Nowadays it is extremely difficult for me to go out,” she said. “I have not been on the streets, not in shopping malls, can’t go to a hair salon. I can’t do anything because my whereabouts will be spread around social media.” If she were to appear in public, she said, “you could expect a big crowd of black T-shirts and black-masked young people waiting for me.” Many of the protesters wear black at demonstrations. After enjoying relatively high popularity in the initial part of her tenure, Lam is now the least popular of any of the four leaders who have run Hong Kong since its handover from British to Chinese rule in 1997, according to veteran pollster Robert Chung, who runs the Public Opinion Research Institute. HONG KONG ‘IS NOT DEAD YET’ Lam was chosen as city leader in March 2017, vowing to “unite society” and heal divisions in Hong Kong, which remains by far the freest city under Chinese rule. Under the “one country, two systems” formula agreed with Britain, Hong Kong enjoys an array of personal freedoms that don’t exist in mainland China. One of the most cherished of those freedoms is the city’s British-style system of independent courts and rule of law. The protesters say the extradition law would erode that bulwark of liberty. According to a biography on the Hong Kong government website, Lam, a devout Catholic, attended St Francis’ Canossian College. Her mother, who took care of seven family members on a daily basis, was her role model and inspiration, the biography said. An election manifesto said Lam came from a “grassroots” family and did her homework on a bunk-bed. After studying sociology at the University of Hong Kong, she went on to a distinguished career as a civil servant in Hong Kong. She was elected city leader in March 2017 by a 1,200-member election committee stacked with Beijing loyalists. In her early days as leader, Lam pushed through a series of controversial government policies, drawing public criticism in Hong Kong but winning praise from Chinese leader Xi Jinping. On July 1, 2017, the day she was sworn in, Lam donned a white hard hat as she walked with Xi to inspect the new Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge, which physically links Hong Kong to mainland China. Critics say the bridge could further weaken Hong Kong’s autonomy by deepening its physical links with southern China. The effective expulsion last year of Financial Times editor Victor Mallet, whose visa wasn’t renewed after he hosted an event at the city’s Foreign Correspondents’ Club with the leader of the pro-independence Hong Kong National Party, also drew condemnation at home and abroad. Lam and her government later came under fire for banning the party and the disqualification of pro-democracy lawmakers. Xi praised Lam’s leadership during a visit to Beijing in December 2018. “The central government fully endorses the work of Chief Executive Lam” and the Hong Kong government, Xi said, according to a report in the state news agency Xinhua. Pollster Robert Chung said Lam’s success in pushing through many controversial proposals bolstered her belief she would be able to ram through the extradition bill. “All these things made her feel so confident, and when we had the first demonstration, she still thought, ‘Don’t worry, I’ll get it through in two days and things will be over,’” Chung said. “But she was totally wrong.” At the meeting last week, Lam said the extradition bill was her doing and was meant to “plug legal loopholes in Hong Kong’s system.” “This is not something instructed, coerced by the central government,” she said. She expressed deep regrets about her push to pass the bill. “This has proven to be very unwise given the circumstances,” she said. “And this huge degree of fear and anxiety amongst people of Hong Kong vis-à-vis the mainland of China, which we were not sensitive enough to feel and grasp.” She gave her audience a gloomy outlook. The police, she said, would continue to arrest those responsible for “this escalating violence,” a group that the government initially estimated numbered between one thousand and two thousand. It would be “naïve,” she said, to “paint you a rosy picture, that things will be fine.” She did, however, express hope in the city’s ultimate “resurrection.” “Hong Kong is not dead yet. Maybe she is very, very sick, but she is not dead yet,” she said.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-protests-carrielam-specialre-idUSKCN1VN1DU 

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A war for words

By Greg Garner, Voices Contributor CP Current Page: Voices | Saturday, August 31, 2019

It could be argued that we are in a culture war. To be honest, I do not believe that the faithful Christian – if we are to use the term “war” – has ever really NOT been in a culture war. 1 John 3:13 reminds us, “Do not be surprised, brethren, if the world hates you.” Not being a Biblical scholar could make exegeting the above text tricky but “hates you” sounds pretty bad. Much like there are opposing sides or views. John provides some context in the preceding verses comparing the brothers Cain and Able. One was evil. One was righteous. One was full of love. The other not so much. We are to be the brother that “loves one another.” The “one another’s” can be tough. It’s a headache at times within the family of God. When we try to “one another” those outside of the body of Christ it can get downright ugly. Who reading this has ever hesitated sharing with a friend or family Biblical truths because you were afraid you would be labeled. I know I struggle with this. I often go through 5-6 drafts before I submit a piece due to my “fear” that I will sound uncaring or intolerant. So back to the “culture war.” What do we know about wars? Well, for starters there is an agenda. Each side wants to win. Each side has tactics and plans, they employ offensive and defensive measures to ensure a victory. Satan loves to twist truths, just ask Eve. Satan loves to distract, just ask Adam. Those tactics worked then and they work today. I have to wonder if we are in a war not of words but for words? Important words. Words that shape society, direct conversations and drive behavior. And we the Christian must ask ourselves, “do words matter?” Are certain words in a constant state of change, merely reflecting the values of the people who populate a given culture or sub-culture? Or, are some words prescriptive? Unchanging? Immutable? Take for example the word “tolerant.” A couple of generations ago, if you were “tolerant” that meant you graciously accepted a person but not all their behaviors. Cousin Eddie who always asks for money at the family reunion can attend, just not engage in specific behaviors, i.e., asking for money. Eddie is loved. Eddie’s soliciting of money is not. Eddie can be a really nice chap but engage in awful practices. And at one time we could rightly divide the two. Today this has changed. Tolerance no longer means graciously accepting a person but not certain behaviors. It often means blind acceptance and even outright endorsement of all behaviors. In our modern lexicon this is called “identity politics.” Self-awareness or self-identification and one’s behavior is so intertwined that addressing an action – regardless of its moral merit – is viewed as a personal attack. This is most evident in our ongoing discussions involving gender and sexuality. If a Christian denounces such behavior a typical response is the claim of intolerance. And tolerance is a funny word in a world bereft of absolutes. If no standard exist we have no real moral obligation to tolerate anything we don’t like. Granted, even in an amoral world actions can be legal or illegal; but never right or wrong, good or bad. If one wants to be intolerant of my intolerance would that not make them intolerant as well. And if I am intolerant and they are intolerant, where does that leave us? Gender, sexuality or marriage can be swallowed up as well by this black hole of ambiguity. Can a person truly be gender-less? Does that even logically make sense? Can marriage be self-defined or self-determined? By doing so, do we not erase every standard of conduct? That is why the words we use are so vital. Words inform our actions, shape our laws, and define our character; however, when words lose their meaning catastrophe awaits. The danger lurking in the aftermath of a society that has jettisoned reason, logic and absolutes from the picture stalks more than just the religious or the “conservative.” If sexuality is an amoral decision that rests in the heart of the individual who then holds the moral high ground when a disagreement comes up? What are we to do? This new norm makes apologetics and evangelism difficult. We are informed by Paul in his second letter to Timothy, “Remind them of these things, and solemnly charge them in the presence of God not to wrangle about words, which is useless and leads to the ruin of the hearers.” The Greek word employed by Paul is, logomacheo and it is a compound of logos (a word statement or speech) and machomai (battle or fight). The caution here is one of wisdom and avoiding senseless debates, not silent indifference. Paul continues, “Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.” The Christian should always allow Scripture to speak for itself. Our duty is not to change a mind but to ensure we “accurately handle the word of truth” and present The Truth in such a way that God is honored. I must remind myself that while I love the written word and wholeheartedly believe in the power of words, God is the One who provides meaning to all of our most noble ideals. We use words like loving, pure and holy when describing Jesus; yet, I would not understand the true meaning of those words or grasp their concepts were it not for God. In reality, I would not know what love is if it was not compared to the unconditional love of God. I could not put my head around the practice of forgiveness had not been modeled for me on the cross. Jesus brings meaning to all of those words the we elevate to prominence in our societies. Our most noble deeds, eloquent thoughts and grandest ideals are borrowed from the character and nature of God. To redefine these words to fit our base desires is an act of rebellion and pride. It is imperative for the Christian to train themselves to rightly divide His truth and accurately handle the Word of God, not flinching in the face of pressure or condemnation but celebrating the life-changing power of God’s word.

https://www.christianpost.com/voice/a-war-for-words.html  

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More Millennials believe in E.T. than believe in God

By David Brockett - August 27, 2019

Maybe it’s all of the flying saucer home videos on YouTube, the 3,228 UFO sightings reported in 2018, or maybe the Trekkies have just won more people over, but survey after survey finds 60% of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life. A few years back a National Geographic study reported 70% said they believed that extraterrestrials had already visited the earth. Overall, about 55% of American adults believe in God as presented in the Bible. That number is propped up by the over-sixty crowd with 66% holding their faith. Millennials, however, come in around 40%, with the other 60% betting on E.T. or nothing. With a millennial church attendance drop-out rate of almost 60 percent, it doesn’t seem likely that God is going to be making a comeback with this group anytime soon. Perhaps these young people are looking towards outer space to fill a vacuum in their spiritual lives. Either the church failed them, or something just pulled them away…it doesn’t really matter—they’re gone now. So, who cares and why am I reading this? Can we assume that the current moral decay in our society is related to so many people abandoning their religious values, and having nothing to replace them? It’s kind of hard to put much stock in the Ten Commandments if you don’t believe in the author. And can we assume that a nation without a good moral foundation is likely to fall into chaos? I say yes to both assumptions. Recent surveys on declining attitudes regarding families and marriage show an alarming long-term downward trend. The family is the bedrock of any society. Our Constitution is built upon the belief in inalienable rights, which pre-supposes a God. If we remove “God” from God-given rights, what are we left with? That’s correct, our rights would now flow from the government. How will we ever return to the principles on which this nation was founded if our collective belief in God vanishes?? Is there a conspiracy to degrade moral behavior in our society?  Certainly, there is no place for God in the Communist Doctrine, and atheism among the masses would be an advantage. Did the conspirators get rid of God to make it easier to convert people to communism, or did the political indoctrination do it all on its own? It’s hard to say because a large portion of non-believers aren’t particularly politically active and not influenced by anything as direct as political recruitment. If we look to China and its crack-down on religion it’s plain that adherence to anything other than the Party credo can’t be tolerated without risking political destabilization; there are no official Gods in China, other than their Party leader. What’s the advantage of creating religious turmoil in America? A divided nation teeters on the razor’s edge. Religion can either divide or unite. Atheists don’t mingle well with true believers, and distrust hampers either side from working together. 

White Democrat respondents to this survey were less likely to believe in the God of the Bible (32%) than Republicans (70%). That difference alone could explain the gap in dealing with abortion. As more and more of our young people turn their backs on the church and look to the stars for answers, there will be no reply to guide them or the nation they inherit. If this trend continues, where will the moral foundation this nation was built upon come from? Is there an alternative to religion that will help maintain the dreams of our forefathers? Perhaps one day in the distant future this argument will be settled and people will be asking, “What would E.T. do?” David Brockett is a Vietnam veteran, USMC officer and pilot. As a civilian, he worked in healthcare as a counselor and hospital administrator. He also writes articles on politics and current events. He and his wife divide their time between their home state of Texas, and Idaho.

https://dcdirtylaundry.com/more-millennials-believe-in-e-t-than-believe-in-god/  

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FIRE HIM! Houston Police Officer converts to Islam (which contradicts his oath of office as a police officer) while dressed in his uniform

August 27, 2019 by BareNakedIslam

A RAIR Foundation USA investigation has uncovered video footage of Officer Kyle, a Houston Police officer converting to a Islam while in uniform, inside the notorious terror-linked Clear Lake Islamic Center in Houston, Texas. The United West The leadership of the mosque has openly dismissed the official designation that it is a terrorist organization, and has repeatedly made disturbing comments about women, gay people, sharia, pedophilia, domestic abuse, child marriages, “honor” killings, and polygamy. It is more than disturbing that a police officer, who took a pledge to defend and uphold America’s Constitution, would be associated with an organization whose views are antithetical to the Constitution. Thank you to retired Georgia Police Chief, David Bores, for his comments that define how Sharia will compromise Officer Kyle’s ability to uphold the law and for contacting Officer Kyle for comment. David is also Co-Founder of Sharia Crime Stoppers.

https://barenakedislam.com/2019/08/27/fire-him-houston-police-officer-converts-to-islam-which-contradicts-his-oath-of-office-as-a-police-officer-while-dressed-in-his-uniform/ 

Bottom line: The economy is in swift decline. Most indicators show this. It is undeniable. Anyone who says otherwise is either willfully ignorant or has an agenda of their own. I believe there is a well organized and directed propaganda push in the past few months designed to trick conservatives into denying that a recession is happening. Trump has incessantly attached himself and his administration to the market bubble, making him an obvious scapegoat when it all comes crashing down. But, the globalists also need his conservative supporters to take the blame as well. The more conservatives deny the reality of the crash, the more culpable and the more crazy they appear as the crash progresses. Lie #3: Trump Is Secretly Battling The Bankers And Bringing Down Their System From Within I see it all the time – the lie that Trump is a secret agent for the liberty movement and that he's going to take down the banking control grid and the Federal Reserve. Not only this, but once he takes it all down, a new and beautiful sound money Utopia will be instituted. To anyone with any sense of reality, this all sounds insane, but I would say from my observations that around 25% of the liberty movement actually believes it. First, to believe this requires people to ignore certain facts. For example, the Trump cult often argues that because he has publicly attacked the Fed, this means he is exposing them to taking the blame for the crash they have created. So, to reiterate, there are people within the movement who claim the recession threat is fake, while there are others who claim that the crash is happening and it's a good thing. Both of these groups are wrong. If Trump was trying to expose the Fed as the perpetrator of the crash, then why would he consistently take credit for the market bubble, as well as the fraudulent GDP and unemployment numbers? These are the SAME STATS Trump argued were fake during his election campaign. Instead of setting the Fed up for a fall, he has only set himself up for a fall. And remember, more than half the US and most of the world sits on the left end of the political spectrum. Many of them are ardent socialists. The only people that will be blaming the Federal Reserve and central banks after the crash will be a minority of conservatives. And, if we continue to defend Trump, a controlled puppet who is intent on embracing the bubble, then who will listen to us in the end? I am also seeing a shift in Trump's behavior lately which borders on unstable. I think this is merely an act; part of his role in the globalist screenplay as an increasingly unpredictable and dangerous political opportunist. I'll set aside his "chosen one" comment to the press as being sarcasm, but what about his proclamation “ordering” US corporations out of China, which would require the declaration of a state of emergency or a declaration of war, and his recent claims of reopened trade talks with China of which there is no evidence so far to support. This might seem bizarre, but I'm reminded that Trump has a history in theatrics. It is my belief that Trump is acting more and more erratic on purpose, and this only serves the globalist agenda, not the liberty movement. Lie #4: China Is The Enemy We Should Be Focused On Set aside the fact that both America's elites and China's elites are globalists in rhetoric and policy and work toward the same goal of a one world monetary system and one world government. The trade war is not at all what it seems. Many conservatives have been so bamboozled by trade war hype and “patriotic” fervor that it's as if they have forgotten all about the primary threat: The global elites. The trade war has achieved absolutely nothing in terms of forwarding US interests or America's economy. Even the main argument for the trade war, shrinking the trade deficit, has failed as the deficit continues to expand. The only thing the trade war has achieved is a perfect distraction for the public as central banks like the Fed maintain tight liquidity conditions in an effort to deliberately deflate the Everything Bubble. If Trump was trying to bring down the banking syndicate and expose the Fed, then he should not have pursued a trade war at this time. I would note once again that EVERY TIME the Fed makes a policy announcement that goes against what the investment world wants and causes a market downturn, Trump makes a trade war announcement which take all attention away from the central bank. Lately, Trump barely waits an hour before taking these actions. How exactly does this hurt the central bankers and the globalists? The answer is that it doesn't. Whether or not trade conditions with China are unfair is irrelevant. The conflict is taking all attention away from central banks and international banks and the economic crisis they have been fostering for over ten years. If Trump was actually anti-globalist then he would have targeted globalist institutions first, and set aside the China issue for later. As it stands, even if Trump ended the trade war tomorrow it doesn't matter. He would still be blamed for triggering a crash in fundamentals. And, for those that argue that Trump's trade war moves are meant to force the Fed to start issuing more QE and save stocks, I can only point out that the Fed has no intention of doing this and they made that clear in July and at Jackson Hole. And, if it were actually the case that Trump is trying to “force the Fed into a corner”, then the strategy is a poor one. All the Fed has to do is sit and wait, allowing markets to tank until Trump is out of office after the 2020 elections. The same goes for China and the trade war. There is no incentive for them to capitulate to Trump for the next year. But this is all an academic discussion because Trump is not working against the globalists, he's working for them. Lie #5: An Inflationary Or Stagflationary Crash Would Be Good For The Public This is perhaps the most absurd disinformation argument I've been seeing lately, and I think it is meant to appeal to Trump supporters who are realizing that a crash is indeed taking place and that Trump is playing a part in the downturn. In order to reconcile this reality with their desperate need to believe that Trump is a hero on a white horse coming to save them, they buy into the idea that Trump is actually crashing everything on purpose to undermine the banking elites. They argue that by bringing down the dollar, or the Fed, Trump is setting the stage for a new US monetary system. They also argue that an inflationary crash would "erase all debts" and the slate will be "wiped clean" in some kind of jubilee. Unfortunately, this is not going to happen. First, in every single inflationary or stagflationary crash in history, the public suffered a decade or more of poverty, starvation, sometimes civil war, and sometimes the break-up of their nation. There is no joy to be found in an economic collapse. Second, debt jubilees are rare. What is more likely to happen is that debts will be adjusted to match monetary inflation. This is what happened during the hyperinflationary crisis in Weimar, Germany, and it has happened during many other inflationary crash events. Also, debts are generally not erased. Instead, the debts are reinstated once a new monetary system is established. Third, the Fed is NOT the core of globalist power. The Fed is nothing more than a branch of the franchise. Jerome Powell manages the most popular McDonalds outlet in the chain, but he's certainly not the CEO. He takes his orders from people above him, just as Trump does. The real base of power for the globalists is in their international institutions, like the IMF, the BIS, the UN and World Bank. It is also in their think tanks and working groups, like Bilderberg, or the World Government Summit which is held annually in the United Arab Emirates and is comprised of corporate and political leaders from around the globe devising strategies to build a one world government. But hey, there's no organized conspiracy for world government, right? The elites just openly talk about it at summits on world government... Fourth, the crash is far more beneficial to the globalists than people seem to realize. They WANT to bring down the old system, and with it the concept of borders, nations, and decentralized economies. They openly plan to install a new global monetary system, a cashless society and eventually global government. In order to do this, they need a catastrophe large enough to cause the public to accept their new world order. They aren't afraid of a crash, they have been engineering one. The most vital pieces in this puzzle are the liberty movement and sovereignty champions. If we remain skeptical of the Trojan Horses (like Trump) that are handed to us, and critical when the president and other supposed leaders take actions which are irrational or unconstitutional, then we can more easily argue that we had nothing to do with disasters like the financial implosion that follow. We can maintain momentum for the liberty movement and gather more people to our side instead of losing people due to a tarnished image. No one man encompasses the fight for freedom. No one man owns that. It belongs to us all.  There will be people who will argue that this is all "conjecture and theory", but they would have to ignore the mountain of evidence to the contrary. They will say that the media hates Trump and so do the globalists, but they won't be able to come up with a rational explanation as to why Trump is so insistent on surrounding himself with those same globalists and elites, or why his actions constantly provide cover for the crisis the elites have set in motion. The people who push the narrative that Trump is a secret agent fighting a Game of Thrones war against the globalists are only hurting themselves and other sovereignty proponents. The more cognitive dissonance they spread in the name of defending Trump, the more unhinged they will seem when the fantasy falls apart. This is exactly what the elites want. If you would like to support the work that Alt-Market does while also receiving content on advanced tactics for defeating the globalist agenda, subscribe to our exclusive newsletter The Wild Bunch Dispatch. Learn more about it HERE. With global tensions spiking, thousands of Americans are moving their IRA or 401(k) into an IRA backed by physical gold. Now, thanks to a little-known IRS Tax Law, you can too. Learn how with a free info kit on gold from Birch Gold Group. It reveals how physical precious metals can protect your savings, and how to open a Gold IRA. Click here to get your free Info Kit on Gold. 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Some of the mystical blue-green lakes of the Lacandon jungle in southern Mexico are drying up this year. The Metzabok lake, which normally covers 220 acres (89 hectares), dried up completely this month, leaving cracked mud where the translucent waters normally reflect the surrounding jungle and Lacandon Indians travel by canoe. We are familiar with Mexican rivers and lakes suddenly disappearing underground in cracks or sinkholes. But now, lagoons in the jungle are completely drying up, evaporating, disappearing. Experts say, this strange phenomenon is the result of an extended drought and rising temperatures in the region. Moreover, about 350 Lacandones, an indigenous group that still uses traditional dress of long hair and white cotton tunics, depend on tourism, fish and water from the lake and 20 other jungle lagoons nearby for their livelihood. In recent days they worked with biologists to capture and transfer crocodiles, fish and turtles from the dried-up lake to those nearby that still have water. The area is part of a nature preserve known as Naha-Metzabok, and the Lacandones have preserved the surrounding jungle for decades by avoiding the slash-and-burn agriculture and cattle ranching. Some of the older Lacandones remember that the Metzabok lake (the name means “The god of thunder” in the Maya language) had dried up once ago, in the 1950s. But experts worry that such episodes will become more frequent as rainfall declines and peak temperatures rise in the area, located just a few dozen miles from the Guatemalan border.  Mexico’s National Water Commission lists most of the Lacandon jungle as being in a “moderate drought” situation, but some areas whose waters normally feed the lagoons are listed as “severe to extreme” drought. Since the jungle lakes are fed by groundwater flows, not rivers, the situation may take some time to recover. Several Lagoons May Disappear in Mexico But it is not just Metzabok lake that has suffered. Adrián Méndez Barrera, a biologist who serves are regional director for Mexico’s National Commission for Protected Nature Areas, said he knowns of six lagoons outside the nature reserve that have dried up. “Rainfall over the last four years has been down by about 30%,” Méndez Barrera said. “On the other hand, we have seen average maximum temperatures rise from 30 degrees to 34 degrees (86 to 93 Fahrenheit). These two factors have a combined effect.” “The lakes are not very deep,” he noted, “and we are seeing a high level of evaporation.“ The better-known Lagunas de Montebello lakes are also suffering. The main lake in that area — also located in southern Chiapas state — is 60 meters (yards) below its average high-water mark this year. “I don’t know if the lakes are going to recover, or if this (drought) is going to become a more frequent and more widely-seen experience,” Méndez Barrera said. Rivers and lakes have disappear into cracks and sinkholes in Mexico. They are now flowing again. Please, send some rain to southern Mexico. These mystical jungle lagoons need a revival… https://www.yahoo.com/news/mexico-sees-jungle-lakes-evaporate-163225856.html 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7401725/Satellite-photos-North-Korea-building-new-submarine.html 

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The B-2 Spirit is the U.S. Air Force's deadliest and most expensive plane - a Cold Warrior's invention which has since been used to bomb the Taliban and ISIS. Each of the 20 operational B-2s is valued at $2.1 billion, and putting one in the air costs an estimated $135,000 an hour, and cannot function in the rain. On board its flight crew of two can stay in the air for 33 hours, at the controls of a plane designed to sneak into Soviet territory unseen to drop nuclear bombs, then return to the U.S. in a single flight.  The B-2s were first designed under the Carter administration, came close to being canceled, and finally took flight for the first time in 1989, just as the Soviet Union they were supposed to fight was collapsing, entering Air Force service in 1997. They have been used to fight in Kosovo, where they bombed Serbian forces as NATO moved in to counter ethnic cleansing of the Muslim Albanian minority, and in the war on terror, taking out Taliban targets in Afghanistan and most recently ISIS positions in Syria. All are currently based at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, meaning that the one designated to fly over the Mall is flying 1,042miles to D.C. for the spectacle. If it flies low enough it will be visible from the ground, but it is almost invisible on radar, with its stealth design making it look like a pigeon on radar screens. SPECIFICATIONS: Aircrew: 2 Top speed: 628mph Range: 6,000 nautical miles, and refuels approximately every six hours Length: 69ft Wingspan: 172ft Weight: 158,100lbs

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7400679/Moment-three-stealth-bombers-make-night-time-landing-Air-Force-base-Gloucestershire.html 

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https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-27/can-american-drone-swarms-beat-russias-anti-missile-systems 

https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2018/01/08/drone-swarm-tactics-get-tryout-for-infantry-to-use-in-urban-battlespace/

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The 20th century was to have belonged to the United States. The 21st century was promised to China. Both countries were tasked to help usher in a path toward one world government and a one world planned socialist economy. Former President, HW Bush, called it the “New World Order” as he was the first to use the term on the world stage. If the millennials were ever taught real economics in their post-secondary educations in America’s liberal-controlled state universities, they would see right through the fallacy of socialism in any form. The Maoist version of the centrally planned economy has miserably failed to produce efficient growth and has even caused China to fall far behind not only the industrialized nations of the West but also the new industrial powers of Asia, namely Japan, who just inked a super trade deal with the United States, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and not coincidentally, Hong Kong. The Attempted Closing of the South China Sea By this time, China was to be the globalist darling emerging on to the world’s power scene as the dominant power in Asia. However, the Chinese could not even master the abovementioned nations. Subsequently, the Chinese did what communists do best, they tried to bully their neighbors as they attempted to close the South China to international trade. Their military unable to project any dominance created artificial Islands and turned them into a type of stationary aircraft carrier. The attempt was laughable and was widely chastised among military experts. Aircraft carriers are effective because they are mobile and in combination with planes that they carry, all targets of military airpower are potentially in range. So, this feeble attempt to project Chinese military power in response to a failing economy, was laughable and ate up precious Chinese resources! And when China attempted to blockade passage, President Trump sent in the US Navy and China did what confronted bullies frequently do, they ran for cover. In short, China’s attempt at projecting world-class military power has been dragged down by a pervasive third world status in their people’s standard of living. Poverty permeates the Chinese financial landscape. Their economic prowess is largely cosmetic as we have witnessed in the wasted construction of the Chinese so-called “ghost cities”. “Build It and They Will Come” That phrase may work in a Kevin Costner movie, but it failed miserably for the Chinese Communist Party as they attempted to become an urban industrialized economy. Chinese political refugee and Princeton University professor, Cheng Xiaonong, stated in that in lots of places in China, farmers are being forcibly relocated at gun point and forced to relocate to urban areas. Cheng said, “[Party chief] Bo Xilai has been promoting a policy of moving farmers into towns, building apartments and moving forcibly relocated farmers into these stack and pack apartments and treating this as urbanization.” Cheng said urbanization isn’t about calculating how many farmers are relocated into cities, but about farmers being able to move into the city and gaining some measure of sustainable employment and adequate living conditions. But the projected factory jobs did not come because China is a failed economy. These relocated farmers, without the prospect of jobs is a recipe for economic and social disaster. Soon, there will be tens of millions of Chinese totally dependent on government handouts to survive. This is the power that governments strive to obtain because it gives them total control. This Chinese scene is reminiscent of the Agenda 21 inspired movie, Hunger Games. Cheng makes the same observations as many other Chinese experts as he added that "urbanization is generally accompanied by economic growth as was the case in the US. In other countries, urbanization happens naturally, but in mainland China, urbanization is the result of the Chinese regime forcefully pushing farmers off of their land." Since the Chinese are not industrialized to the point which would justify the mass movement of 1 million people per month into its ghost towns, any reasonable person would be asking the question, why? Do you remember Mr. too-big-to-fail, Hank Paulson, when he told Congress that if we, the American taxpayer, did not bail out Wall Street, there would be an economic collapse and we would have martial law and the rest as they say, is history. And bailout after bailout has come and gone and the net effect is that the American economy is in a tailspin. And the Chinese are taking advice from him? That's like taking advice from Dr. Kevorkian on how to preserve life. Another key globalist, Dominic Barton, the global managing director of McKinsey & CO, and he too sounds like a Paulson clone as recently stated, "The good news is that there is an underlying force of growth and that's urbanization. What we're basically seeing is more we than 250,000 people moving from rural areas to cities every week." The late Maurice strong and of course, George Soros, were also players in this mass migration movement. Job demand is not fueling urbanization. Urbanization did not result in industrial growth which would subsequently push job demand as the globalists hoped. But you see, the globalists had another goal for China, and the realization of this urbanization goal, in part, fueled the economic demise of China. The globalists second goal undid the first goal. Make no mistake about it, the Chinese with the backing of globalist corporations like Goldman Sachs, were engaged in a full-blown Agenda 21 relocation of its civilian population from rural areas to the stack and pack of their mega-cities. From the outside looking in, it looks like a beta test for the stack and pack policies that are planned and have been somewhat implemented under the Obama administration. If a Democratic socialist (eg Biden, Harris, Warren) the onslaught against rural America will look a lot like China did in the past decade. In short, the globalist desire to implement stack and pack Agenda 21 policies wrecked the Chinese economy along with the Chinese central planning schemes which never work. Today, all of China’s economic zones are economically under water. There are clear lessons that Americans should be wary of. First, socialism NEVER works. Second, central planning NEVER works. One has to understand the Chinese ghost cities phenomenon to understand the Beijing vs Hong Kong dilemma of today. Hong Kong  The Chinese are beyond broke. Yesterday, I interviewed economist Robert Kudla and he cited some interesting Chinese and American economic statistics: The IIF, in 2017, stated that Chinese debt to GDP percentage topped 300%. Yesterday, on my radio show, Kudla stated that the 2019 figures for China is now a whopping 487%!!! That means that for every Chinese product produced, the cost of making that product is almost 5 times the value of the product. Coincidentally, last evening, I was driving and listened to about 10 minutes of Glenn Beck and he quoted the same statistic. In comparison, Kudla stated that the United States has a 68% debt to GDP ratio, which is bad enough. The Chinese just printed $60 trillion dollars of their cash to service the debt. The entire world has only $70 trillion total in cash. China is on the verge of becoming the next Venezuela, where they just reported, this past spring, a million percent inflation rate. The global economy will be impacted by this as well unless of course, nobody accepts Chinese currency, which is what I am predicting will happen. We are already seeing this in the EU. Their negative interest rates are forcing EU investors to seek foreign investments and they are certainly not going to the Chinese for investment. Subsequently, the EU investors are buying US bonds and other financial instruments in great numbers and this is helping to fuel the sustainability of the American stock market. Trump’s deal with Britain further undermines EU economic security and drive a further dagger into the heart of the Chinese economy. Add to that, the Trump sanctions against China and they are about ready to cry uncle, or as we will discuss, go to war.  Trump is waging a brilliant war of attrition against the Chinese economy. Those of you who say Trump is a dedicated globalist are not paying attention. Trump is picking up where the globalist failed Chinese ghost cities left off. Trump is using the Walmart model of economic subjugation. When Walmart moves into a mid-size or smaller community, they undersell all of their competition and drive the local businesses into bankruptcy. The behemoth Walmart can sustain losses longer than any small business. And when all the businesses are bankrupted by Walmart’s policies of attrition, they raise their prices higher than the customers were paying before Walmart move in. This is, in effect, what Trump is doing to China. He is waging a war of attrition and America’s runway is longer than China’s. Trump has been criticized in his economic approach to China. The MSM say that he is killing the American farmer since China won’t buy American agricultural products. Checkmate! Trump just inked a major trade deal with Japan and Japan will be picking up the slack for the American farmer by buying American food. Major Chinese trading partner, Brazil who is headed by Trump II, wants in on this agricultural action as well. Again, Checkmate globalists To keep its head above water, China desperately needs to plunder the resources of Taiwan and Hong Kong. For the foreseeable future, Taiwan is unobtainable for all the obvious reasons. However, Hong Kong represents booty that China needs. History In the Making The CHICOMS are in a dilemma. They desperately need Hong Kong’s profitable economy. However, Hong Kong wants to be a mini-United States and enjoy both civil liberties and economic freedom. The CHICOMS are indeed caught between a rock and a hard place. If they Chinese move into Hong Kong and enact Tiananmen Square 2.0, they face unquestionable condemnation from the international community and many crippling trade sanctions will occur. Even Russia would be hard-pressed to stand by China if they enact a slaughter of the Hong Kong protesters. Oh, the Chinese will enact martial law. They will be brutal in the streets and they will arrest thousands, but genocide is not in the cards, unless, of course, the Chinese don’t care about the international community and they intend on going to war anyway. The Chinese Military Threat Can the Chinese hope to win a war against the United States and ultimately the West. The answer is an absolute no! Yes, they have nuclear weapons, but even if they were to launch a successful first strike and take out all of America’s nuclear silos (an impossibility), they would still have to contend with our allies and our 72 nuclear submarines each armed with 8 to 24 nuclear missiles each capable of taking out a major city. What about conventional warfare. Beyond Vietnam, Hong Kong and possibly Taiwan (protected by the US), they cannot win anything about a regional conflict. This is true because the Chinese cannot project their military power. They are deficient in space-based weapons, they are deficient in aircraft carriers and they are deficient in a prolonged air war because they lack spare parts on a level needed to sustain a war. Conclusion The Chinese and their globalist sponsors have been effectively thwarted for the time being. This, in part, explains the incessant attacks upon Trump by the MSM on an everyday basis. The accusations are becoming more desperate (eg CNN airing a guest. Psychiatrist Brian Seltzer, without correction, stated the Trump had murdered more people than Hitler, Mao and Stalin.  For now, the pivotal point in the future of the planet revolves around the events in Hong Kong. How aggressive will China get? Are they willing to start WWIII?  We are in for a wild ride. And I want to reiterate an important point. No matter what your issue with this President is (eg lack of confrontation with social media), Trump is the only thing standing between you and the New World Order.   

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/activism-agenda-21-conspiracy/future-world-pivots-events-hong-kong 

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-25/chinas-hypersonic-missile-threatens-regional-stability-analyst-warns 

A double standard is the application of different sets of principles for situations that are, in principle, the same, and is often used to describe freedom that is given to one party over another. A double-standard arises when two or more people, circumstances, or events are treated differently even though they should be treated the same way. This August 27th story that was the lead story over at the Daily Mail most of the day Tuesday is the perfect lead-in to this ANP story as the DM reported that dozens of Jeffrey Epstein's victims appeared in a Manhattan court where they lambasted the 'coward' for 'escaping justice by committing suicide' before the Judge in the case closed it for good. And while this will not be a story about Epstein and will instead partially focus upon this August 22nd story over at DC Dirty Laundry titled "Swamp Justice: The Evil Never Pay" as well as upon some remarks recently made by two different 'Democratic operatives' that not only prove most Democrats aren't playing with a full deck in 2019 but they somehow insanely believe themselves to be 'first class citizens' while all Republicans, Conservatives, Christians and President Trump supporters are somehow 'below them', Epstein is a perfect example of 'evil never paying' while remarks made by those two 'Dem operatives' prove that Democrats are playing by a double standard that could eventually lead to either outright tyranny in America or to their own destruction. As this new Zero Hedge story reports, a very early Epstein accuser had her reports of sexual abuse by the monster completely ignored by the FBI and the NYPD, thus helping to ensure a cycle of abuse continuing for a countless number of innocent young girls and women, a cycle of abuse and coverups that point directly to Bill Clinton's White House and the DOJ/FBI apparatus that was established under his reign with Clinton president from 1993 to 2001, flying on Epstein's 'lolita express' many times dating back to at least 2002 while ditching his Secret Service on Epstein flights while underage girls were aboard. As the DC Dirty Laundry story asks in their first sentence, "Have you ever tried to hold on to a reptile?". They then answered: "They’re slippery, and they squirm and twist until they’re out of your grasp. You may even get a nasty bite for your efforts. Well, the creatures in the Washington DC swamp are no different. How slippery are they, you ask? Too slippery for the US Justice Department, if history is a witness." Reporting then that the sordid tales of 'bigwigs' escaping 'consequences' are so well-known that very few Americans expect anybody at all to be held accountable for the Russian-collusion treason or FISA-gate or 'Epstein-gate' for that matter, they then dropped the bombshell we didn't want to read but pretty much already understood: "The culprits don’t expect to face any consequences either. There’s a reason that DC-connected swamp crooks expect to slip the noose—it’s called the US Justice Department." And should the treasonists and the 'Epstein-cult' escape justice to go on into the dark night to launch further coups against America in the future and/or further traffic underage sex victims as most expect, American's will finally have absolute proof that there are apparently two different 'rules of law' in America, one that applies to 'the elite' and one that applies to the rest of us. Yet, as Matt Taibbi, a contributing editor for Rolling Stone magazine had bluntly and correctly stated, “When the rule of law doesn’t apply to everybody, then you don’t really have the rule of law anymore.” Others have bluntly stated: "if the rule of law doesn't apply to everybody, it doesn't apply to anybody." And while we'd never recommend that people go out and violate the law just because 'it doesn't apply equally to everybody', we're falling headfirst into tyranny when it doesn't with 'elite Democrats' such as Bill and Hillary long being 'hands off' to the long arm of Justice no matter how many evil crimes or murders they've had committed to cover up their crimes being the very proof we need that 'America has fallen' and much darker times await us in the future should they be continued to be allowed to get away with everything they've done behind the backs of Americans, completely unreported by the mainstream media. (If you appreciate stories like this, please consider donating to ANP to help keep us in this battle for the future of America.) According to this new story by Jamie White over at Infowars, the mainstream media's rhetoric has reached dangerous new levels after Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin went on MSNBC and called for Democrats to figuratively “burn down the Republican Party” after the 2020 election, leaving "no survivors". “It’s not only that Trump has to lose, but that all his enablers have to lose — we have to collectively, in essence, burn down the Republican party,” Rubin said on “AM Joy.”  “We have to level them because if there are survivors — if there are people who weather this storm, they will do it again — will take this as confirmation that, ‘Hey, it just pays to ride the wave — look at me, I’ve made it through.'” Rubin also suggested that Democrats continue to behave like they did last year when former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders got mobbed by a leftist gang in a chicken restaurant, actually going on air and saying Democrats must continue “shunning these people” and “shaming these people.” And with another msm guest, a psychiatrist for that matter, going on CNN the very same day as Rubin's outburst and insanely claiming that President Trump had "murdered 'millions' more people than Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong", and CNN host Brian Stelter refusing to push back upon that lie, it's easy to see where this is headed with the remaining masses who still get their news from the msm dumbed down to the absolute core by the democratic/globalist propaganda being spewed by their 'talking heads'. With Rubin also saying on MSNBC as heard in the 1st video at the bottom of this story: “Shaming these people is a statement of moral indignation that these people are not fit for polite society”, it's no wonder that the entire msm apparatus is now looked at by most Americans as a running joke, peddling bogus, over-the-top talking points and outrageous lies while outing themselves as the America-hating, enemy of the American people communists they are. As Susan Duclos had reported in this August 26th ANP story, while Democrats and the mainstream media have long used Saul Alinsky's tactics against their political enemies, turnabout is always fair play and the slimestream media journalists are about to get a taste of their own medicine. As Susan had reported, with liberal journalists expressing outrage that Conservatives would actually go back through their old tweets and out them for things they may have said years ago, how come it's totally ok for those same liberal journalists to do likewise to Conservatives but they get their panties all bunched up in a wad when it's done to them? Once again proving what absolute and utter hypocrites many of them are, as Susan mentioned, what unfolds in the coming weeks could be huge as leftists words from years ago quite literally blow up in their own faces.   From The Resurgent in a piece titled "Trump Will Use Alinsky Tactics Against Alinskyite Journalists":

For those of us that like to observe human interactions, whether it is in comment sections, chat forums, social media or even then examples caught on video, there seems to be an "anger" problem where something will occur and someone will get "triggered" and act in a way that can be diplomatically described as a severe overreaction, or if one is a little more blunt, their response is an indication of some type of mental issue. While anger is not a political issue, we all get angry over something or other, there does seem to be a huge difference between conservatives and liberals in regards to their reactions over triggering issues. PHYSICAL ATTACKS, PARANOIA, AND PUBLIC MELTDOWNS For example, when was the last time you heard of a conservative physically attacking a liberal over an item of clothing or because of their political affiliation? Yet, each month there are local news stories, some of which get national attention where liberals are attacking innocent citizens over a red Make America Great Again hat. The latest example was in Portland, Oregon, last Saturday, when two men attacked another man who was out with his wife, for nothing more than his hat "triggered them." Granted, this is Portland we are talking about where the radical left group Antifa practically owns the streets, and the couple deliberately decided to have the man wear the hat to see "what kind of reaction it would generate," but people should be able to wear whatever they want, where they want, because this is America and free speech is guaranteed, including clothing choices, according to the courts. This is the type of over-the-top behavior we have been noticing more and more of throughout the nation, where just seeing law enforcement officers sitting peacefully in a Starbucks, having coffee, triggers someone so much they make a stink and somehow the establishment, Starbucks, thinks the appropriate response is to ask the police to move or leave, rather than the triggered freak? Or when a gentlemanly act of trying to help a liberal op-ed writer for Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Narratively, BuzzFeed, take her luggage down from a compartment on an airplane, has her so up in arms that she tweets "Saying, “No thank you, I got it,” to the middle-aged white man on the airplane who offered—and began—to take my suitcase out of the overhead compartment for me was a quickly calculated act of resistance." After over 30K comments in her thread made it clear that she sounded like an ungrateful witch, she then claimed it was "tongue-in-cheek," and of course she is a "victim" because some of those responding were big ole meanieheads to her. Before moving along with other examples, let us take a look at what almost anyone would call a serious anger problem. The claim from the video title is this woman was denied a "McFlurry," at McDonalds, but since their is no context or related articles, I have no clue if that claim is correct, but what we can say, definitively, is this woman needs some serious help. (If you appreciate stories like this, please consider donating to ANP to help keep us in this battle for the future of America.) Next up, a band called Confederate Railroad is facing backlash because of their name and decor, where triggered liberals are forcing venues to cancel their upcoming performances with the claim that logo that depicts a steam train flying dual Confederate flags and is “a symbol of division and racism.” We use this example because the band's singer, Danny Shirley, offers the perfect response to the idiocy that has infected half the nation: "I am who I am. We do what we do. I’ve been performing for more than 43 years and, hell, I’ve never seen anything like this,” he said. “Through that time me and the boys have been out playing for and connecting with audiences around the world with everyone having a good time. That’s what brings people together.”  “Lately, there have been a few officials who decided they didn’t want anyone to see us. But I’ve truly been humbled and overwhelmed by the outcry from the fans and our fellow artists saying they really do want to see us,” he continued. “Look, if you don’t want to come see us, that’s your choice. We’re listening to you. You’ll just miss out on a damn good time. To the fans who have stuck with us over the years though, thank you very much! You know who we are. We look forward to seeing you again soon.”  “I am who I am. We will keep doing what we do. The name of my band ain’t gonna change,” Shirley concluded. “If you’ve never seen us before, maybe this is the time to come out and see what this is all about.” That ladies and gentlemen is how every company, organization and person should be responding to the triggered nation, where every joke, every song, every word written is somehow a reason for extreme rage. BOTTOM LINE - THE SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT AND 'SNOWFLAKE' BEHAVIOR IS GETTING WORSE There is no better, clear example of the sense of entitlement and "snowflake" behavior getting worse, than the recent Democrat Socialist 2019 annual meeting, which frankly was treated by conservatives as more of an entertainment than anything else, but the mindset, the constant reference to "comrades," and the mentality of insisting that everyone should tailor their "chattering," actions (no clapping because it causes anxiety!), and the sheer childishness of the attendees, should be a wake up call to everyone. Exit Question: If this group of people, supposedly all on the same side, cannot stop triggering each other, how on earth do they deal with the real world without being triggered morning, noon and night?

In 760 BC, one of the most important cities in the most powerful empire of its time, repented of its sin and turned to God. The case proves once and for all that no one should take credit when God works through him or her. God took extraordinary measures just to get Jonah to go to Nineveh. The prophet was used greatly, but not the way he wanted to be used. He didn’t want the people to repent or the city to be saved. His message was hard, and there was nothing winsome in his presentation of it. But the people did repent, and Nineveh’s well-earned destruction was put off for more than a century. Many evangelical Christians see Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency as a similar reprieve for the United States. Let’s suppose, for a moment, that President Trump is right on all the big policy positions he took in the campaign. I’m not saying it’s true, but try to imagine that President Trump will take the smartest possible positions on the economy, immigration, tax reform, the budget, environmental protection, foreign policy, security against terror, and the use of military power. No human is right all the time, but to prove a point, let’s take that leap of imagination and say that he is right on all these matters of policy.  Would that make us like Nineveh? Would that be our reprieve? No. Nineveh repented. Ninevites felt sorry for their sin, and they turned to God for their answers. Has America done that? Maybe you don’t think the United States deserves God’s judgment. After all, we’re not nearly as bad as some other countries. While that’s true, we need to remember the words of Jesus in Luke 12:48. “For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required.” (NKJV) Except for the nation of Israel — the original recipients of God’s word — no nation ever received more from the hand of God than the United States of America. That places the US at the highest level of responsibility before God. When Trump was sworn into office, did abortions stop? Almost sixty million unborn humans have been killed since Roe v. Wade. Sixty million is the population of New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago… times four!

A theme runs through scripture. If you want to see God’s anger, harm the little ones. In Jeremiah 32:35, God said, “And they built the high places of Baal which are in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Moloch, which I did not command them, nor did it come into My mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.” Moloch was a pagan idol. They thought they could appease him by sacrificing their children in his fires. Unthinkable as that sounds, the United States is not as different as you might hope. America sacrifices her children, too — not on the altar of a pagan god, but on the altar of convenience and self-centeredness. Did the election of Donald Trump change that? I hope so, but I’ve seen lots of anti-abortion presidents over the years, and it hasn’t stopped abortion. We harm the little ones in another way as well. We teach them the religion of humanism. We ingrain it in them. We teach them to disregard God and see the state as the provider of all good things. Our schools teach our little ones that there is no right and wrong, that all is relative. Schools ridicule God, the Bible, and those who believe in them. In talking about such harm to children, Jesus did not mince words. “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it is better for him that a heavy millstone be hung around his neck, and that he be drowned in the depth of the sea.” (Matthew 18:6 NASB) Sexual perversions and blood-soaked violence in the name of entertainment pours out of America every day, and floods the world. We are ripe for God’s judgment in these and hundreds of other areas. Can God use Donald Trump to help turn this country around? Yes, God can. So, pray for the new President. But don’t look to him for your hope. Look to God. May each of us who know the Lord, humble ourselves before Him, and pray for our nation, our families, our churches, our communities, and ourselves. Did you pray for Donald Trump when he was running for President? It is human nature to stop praying for him now that he has entered that office. But that would be a terrible mistake. If you love America, now is our time to pray for him as never before.

https://www.hallindsey.com/ww-1-21-2017/  

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The Press and the President

By Hal Lindsey

On Wednesday, Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona made a much-hyped speech on the floor of the US Senate. He told the media what he would say, long before he actually said it. The speech’s rollout was orchestrated for maximum public impact. But, as these things go, the press showed far more interest in the hype than in the speech itself. Days before he took to the Senate floor, Flake told the news media that he would defend them against Donald Trump’s attacks. He even announced, well before the speech, that he would compare Trump to Soviet dictator and mass murderer, Joseph Stalin. Remember that Stalin was directly responsible for the murders of 40 million people — even more than Adolf Hitler. Flake focused his outrage on the President’s statement calling the mainstream media, “the enemy of the people.” “It is a testament to the condition of our democracy,” Flake said, “that our own president uses words infamously spoken by Josef Stalin to describe his enemies. It bears noting that so fraught with malice was the phrase ‘enemy of the people,’ that even Nikita Khrushchev forbade its use, telling the Soviet Communist Party that the phrase had been introduced by Stalin for the purpose of ‘annihilating such individuals’ who disagreed with the supreme leader.” Does Senator Flake really think President Trump plans on “annihilating” individuals with his criticism of the press? Who would that be? Certainly not the press. In the quote above, Flake did something even more bizarre. He held up Nikita Khrushchev as a model. How did Khrushchev treat dissident members of the press? He didn’t call them “enemies of the state.” Instead, he sent them to concentration camps. He executed them. Does anyone other than Jeff Flake think Khrushchev should be held up as a model when it comes to how a President should treat the press? Flake called the free press “the guardian of democracy.” To some extent, I agree. And because I agree, it is a sobering statement. To see what I mean, just look at the sorry state of the free press. Senator Flake said of America, “From our very beginnings, our freedom has been predicated on truth.” Again, the scary thing is that he’s right. In a government “of the people” and “by the people,” it is essential that people hear an accurate account of the news. Instead, we get biased opinion, and exaggeration. It’s all about getting Internet clicks, and pushing a political agenda. Too often, these goals require members of the press to circumvent truth. I’m not talking about opinion journalism. There’s an important role for that. But we also need the straight reporter who simply gives the facts. These days, such journalists are in short supply. At one point in the speech, Senator Flake began to confuse the “news media” with “truth.” He spoke of “the damage done by the sustained attack on the truth.” That conflation of terms shows a misunderstanding of truth. He said, “No president will ever have dominion over objective reality.” Of course not. Neither does the New York Times. Perhaps the most laughably ironic line in the speech was this one. “No politician will ever get to tell us what the truth is and is not.” Here he stands, a politician on the floor of the Senate, telling us his version of what the truth is and is not — while saying that, “No politician will ever get to tell us what the truth is and is not.” Politicians do get to tell us what they think is true. They do it incessantly. They complain when they don’t like what the media says about them, or their policies. They try to set us straight when other politicians say things they don’t like — just as Mr. Flake did in his speech. Lately several people in the media have quoted Thomas Jefferson saying, “The only security of all is in a free press.” But he later said, “Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.” Historian Joseph Ellis said of Jefferson, “In his second term, in response to serious criticism from the New England newspapers… he instructed the state attorney generals in New England to prosecute the newspaper editors for sedition.” President Trump criticizes the media. Yes, he once called them the “enemy of the people.” But lies really do hurt people. They are the enemy of democracy. And the media lie. They do it in many ways, and they do it on a regular basis. More effectively than anyone in memory, Donald Trump fights back. I assume Senator Flake does not really believe “the press” and “truth” are synonymous. He obviously sees the important, irreplaceable role of a free press in a free society. His speech implied that he believes in transparency. Anyone who believes that the press is fallible, yet important, should be happy when the press receives blistering criticism for its lies, and biases. Commentators keep saying that President Trump is unpatriotic for attacking the press. But when the press lies, isn’t it highly patriotic to attack those lies? I don’t agree with everything President Trump says on this issue. But there is nothing more American than criticizing the press. If you don’t agree, just ask Washington, Jefferson, or Lincoln. Jesus said, “The truth shall make you free.” In this case, here’s the truth. Many in the news media are willing to lie for their own economic and political purposes.

https://www.hallindsey.com/ww-1-19-2018/  

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etc. You are seeing the pressure that the whole world is putting on my people Israel and only the true Christians are standing with them now, etc

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Hezbollah planning 'calculated strike' against Israel, but not war

A reaction "is being arranged in a way which wouldn't lead to a war that neither Hezbollah nor Israel wants."

By REUTERS August 27, 2019 19:11 3 minute read.

Hezbollah is preparing a "calculated strike" against its enemy Israel after suspected Israeli drones crashed in Beirut but it aims to avoid a new war, two sources allied to Hezbollah told Reuters on Tuesday. A reaction "is being arranged in a way which wouldn't lead to a war" that Hezbollah does not want, one of the sources said. "The direction now is for a calculated strike, but how matters develop, that's another thing." Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah should "calm down" after Nasrallah said the Iranian-backed movement would respond to the crash of two drones in a Beirut suburb. In a speech on Sunday, Nasrallah described the drones, including one that had exploded, as the first Israeli attack in Lebanon since the two sides fought a month-long war in 2006. "I say to the Israeli army on the border from tonight, stand guard. Wait for us one, two, three, four days," Nasrallah said. One of the drones exploded near the ground, causing some damage to Hezbollah's media center in the southern suburbs of the capital which it dominates. Israeli officials have declined to comment when asked if Israel was responsible. "I heard what Nasrallah said. I suggest to Nasrallah to calm down. He knows well that Israel knows how to defend itself and to pay back its enemies," Netanyahu said in a speech. Precise details about where the drones were fired from have yet to emerge. Hezbollah has said the two drones were rigged with explosives after its experts took apart the first drone. Asked if Israel attacked any ground targets in Lebanon in recent days, Regional Cooperation Minister Tzachi Hanegbi, a member of Netanyahu's security cabinet, told Israeli Army Radio: "We of course did not respond to the accusations leveled at us. On their face, these things seem weird and intriguing. The media have reported this fact - that these are allegations that have no basis." Lebanon's Higher Defence Council, which includes the president, prime minister and army commander, convened on Tuesday and said the Lebanese have "the right to defend themselves against any attack." Israel deems the heavily armed Shi'ite Hezbollah movement the biggest threat across its border. In their 2006 war nearly 1,200 people, mostly civilians, died in Lebanon and 158 people died in Israel, mostly soldiers. Regional sources say that Israel and Hezbollah have formed an unwritten understanding that while they can exchange fire within Syria, any attacks within Lebanon or Israel are to be avoided lest they escalate to war. Israel has grown alarmed by the rising influence of its foe Iran during the war in neighboring Syria, where Tehran and Hezbollah provide military help to Damascus. Tehran also has wide sway in Iraq, where a grouping of Iraq's mostly Shi'ite Muslim paramilitary groups, many of which are backed by Iran, have blamed recent blasts at their weapons depots and bases on the United States and Israel. Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Monday his country had a right to defend itself, likening Israeli drone strikes to a "declaration of war." Late on Saturday, Israeli air strikes killed two Lebanese Hezbollah fighters in Syria. Israel, which regularly strikes Iranian-linked targets in Syria, said it hit a compound controlled by Iran's Revolutionary Guards Quds force, accusing it of planning killer drone attacks. Netanyahu also issued warnings to Lebanon and Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds force, which the Israeli leader said aspires to destroy Israel. "Watch what you say, and moreover be careful about what you do," Netanyahu said. Andrea Tenenti, spokesman for the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) that patrols the border with Israel, said the situation in the area remains quiet. "UNIFIL continues to work with the parties to ensure that there are no misunderstandings or incidents that may endanger the cessation of hostilities," Tenenti told Lebanon's state news agency NNA, referring to a U.N. Security Council resolution that called for an end to the fighting in 2006. In public comments during a visit on Sunday to Israel's north, where he met army commanders, Netanyahu appeared to hold out the prospect of targeting Lebanon directly for attack if Hezbollah struck Israel. "Any country that allows its territory to be used for aggression against Israel will face the consequences, and I repeat: the country will face the consequences," he said.

https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Hezbollah-planning-calculated-strike-against-Israel-after-attacks-599843 

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Japan says North Korea developing warheads to penetrate missile defenses

3 Min Read August 27, 2019 / 2:50 AM / Updated a day ago

TOKYO (Reuters) - Pyongyang appears to be developing warheads to penetrate a ballistic missile shield defending Japan, the country’s defense chief said on Tuesday, pointing to the irregular trajectories of the latest missiles launched by North Korea. Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya told a news conference Japan believes the rockets were a new short-range ballistic missile, according to a ministry spokesman who confirmed his comments carried by domestic media. Recent short-range missile tests by Pyongyang have stoked alarm in neighboring Japan even as U.S. President Donald Trump has dismissed the launches as unimportant. The United Nations Security Council discussed North Korea’s actions behind closed-doors on Tuesday at the request of Germany, France and Britain. The three countries condemned Pyongyang’s “repeated provocative launches” as violations of Security Council resolutions. “International sanctions must remain in place and be fully and strictly enforced until North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs are dismantled. It is vital that the Security Council shows unity in upholding its resolutions,” Germany, Britain and France said in a joint statement after the meeting. Saturday’s test firings came a day after Seoul said it was ending a military intelligence-sharing pact with Tokyo, amid a worsening spat over wartime forced labor. Iwaya and other Japanese officials called Seoul’s decision “irrational” as the threat posed by North Korea grows. Japan and the United States have Aegis destroyers deployed in the Sea of Japan armed with interceptor missiles designed to destroy warheads in space. Japan also plans to build two land-based Aegis batteries to bolster its ballistic missile shield. Those defense systems, however, are designed to counter projectiles on regular and therefore, predictable, trajectories, and any variation in flight path would make interception trickier. Detailed analysis of the latest North Korean launches was underway with the United States, an official of South Korea’s defense ministry said on Tuesday. Reporting by Tim Kelly in Tokyo; Additional reporting by Hyonhee Shin in Seoul and Michelle Nichols at the United Nations; Editing by Clarence Fernandez and Tom Brown

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-japan/japan-says-north-korea-developing-warheads-to-penetrate-missile-defenses-idUSKCN1VH0IV 

A federal judge blocked the new heartbeat law in Missouri on Tuesday, allowing the abortion industry to continue destroying unborn babies’ lives in the state. U.S. District Judge Howard Sachs’ order stops the state from enforcing most parts of the law, which prohibits abortions after 8 weeks when an unborn baby’s heartbeat is detectable, St. Louis Public Radio reports. However, his preliminary injunction does allow the state to enforce the non-discrimination section of the law, which protects unborn babies from being aborted because of their sex, race or a Down syndrome diagnosis, the report states. The law was slated to go into effect Wednesday, but Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union sued to block it. The Missouri Stands For the Unborn Act (HB 126) prohibits abortions after 8 weeks, once an unborn baby’s heartbeat is detectable. However, it also includes incremental stages to ban abortions after 14 weeks, 18 weeks or 20 weeks if the earlier bans are overturned. In addition, it requires that both parents be notified before an underage girl has an abortion. It also includes a ban on discriminatory abortions based on an unborn baby’s sex, race or Down syndrome diagnosis, as well as a complete abortion ban once Roe v. Wade is overturned. Gov. Mike Parson signed it into law in May. Sachs blocked each of the incremental bans as well as the 8-week ban. “The various sections specifying prohibitions on abortions at various weeks prior to viability cannot be allowed to go into effect on August 28, as scheduled,” he wrote in his decision, The Hill reports. LifeNews depends on the support of readers like you to combat the pro-abortion media. Please donate now.  Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins said the lawsuit shows Planned Parenthood’s true nature. “This case in Missouri shows Americans all they need to know about the unscrupulous, predatory abortion lobby, headed by Planned Parenthood,” Hawkins said. “… the abortion lobby consistently does an end run around voters to go straight to agenda-driven judges. “Despite the fact that Missouri’s one abortion facility, a Planned Parenthood, has documented issues that cause harm to women, a judge has shamefully allowed it to continue operating without a license,” she continued. “This kind of blatant disregard for the people of America to have a voice on abortion policy is a result of the activism of the Supreme Court and will continue to motivate Americans at the ballot box.” The ACLU filed the lawsuit earlier this month after its attempt at a voter referendum petition to overturn the law failed. Earlier this week, the ACLU argued that the law would ban “the vast majority of pre-viability abortions” and prevent women from accessing “medical care,” the AP reports. It asked Sachs for a preliminary injunction to block the state from enforcing the law until the case can go to trial. Lawyers for the state said Missouri wants to protect unborn babies’ lives as well as women’s. They also argued that Planned Parenthood does not have standing to sue the state. According to the Missouri health department, 3,903 abortions were done in the state in 2017, and 119 of those were babies killed after 20 weeks. Polling released earlier this year by the Susan B. Anthony List found that 82 percent of Missouri voters – including 66 percent of Democrats, 83 percent of independents, 83 percent of women, and 61 percent of self-described pro-choice voters – support a law prohibiting late-term abortions (only 18 percent support allowing late-term abortions). The ACLU, Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion groups are involved in similar lawsuits in Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana and Ohio. The Supreme Court took away the states’ ability to protect unborn babies from abortion under Roe v. Wade, and instead allowed abortion on demand through all nine months of pregnancy. Roe made the United States one of only seven countries in the world that allows elective abortions after 20 weeks. Some pro-lifers have renewed hope that the new conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court will uphold an abortion ban and overturn Roe v. Wade. Others, however, are hesitant because of concerns about losing the court battle and being forced to reimburse pro-abortion groups for their legal fees.  It also is difficult to predict if the high court would take the case – especially after it recently refused to hear two other abortion-related cases.

https://www.lifenews.com/2019/08/27/judge-blocks-missouri-law-banning-abortions-on-babies-with-beating-hearts/ 

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has urged the United States to take the first step towards dialogue by lifting sanctions against Iran. "Without this step, this lock will not be unlocked," Mr Rouhani said.  He spoke a day after President Donald Trump said he was open to a meeting if the circumstances were right. Tensions between the US and Iran have escalated since Mr Trump abandoned a deal limiting Iran's nuclear activities last year and reinstated sanctions. He wants a new agreement that would place indefinite curbs on Iran's nuclear programme and also halt its development of ballistic missiles. Iran has refused.

https://rbministries.com.au/a-videoarticle-world-latest-prophetic-news-presentation-friday-august-23rd-2019/ 

NORTH CAROLINA (Mark Price/Charlotte Observer) - A series of Special Forces military training exercises -- including gunfire with blanks -- is being staged across 21 North Carolina counties starting Aug. 30, and the Army is telling the public not to be alarmed at the suspicious-looking activity. Known as Robin Sage training, the unconventional warfare exercises can be likened to live-action role playing in the extreme, with hostile engagement playing out between Special Forces students, volunteer civilians and soldiers out of Fort Bragg. It continues through Sept. 12, said a press release. Heavily populated counties like Wake, Cumberland and Union counties are among training sites, according to the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center at Fort Bragg. The students will match wits with more seasoned soldiers, who will “act as realistic opposing forces and guerrilla freedom fighters,” officials said in a release. Advance notice has become a critical part of the program since one soldier was killed and another wounded in 2002 by a Moore County deputy who mistook the exercises for criminal activity. A similar Fort Bragg military exercise in 1997 created panic in Charlotte, when uptown residents were terrified by the sounds of 100 commandos attacking a warehouse. The “urban warfare” assault incorporated helicopters and “simulated bombs and gunfire,” the Charlotte Observer reported. The exercises starting next week will involve engagements against a fictitious country known as Pineland, officials said. Staging areas will be largely on private land in 10 of the 21 counties, but the others may feel some impact, officials said. The 21 counties include Alamance, Anson, Cabarrus, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson, Davie, Guilford, Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Montgomery, Moore, Randolph, Richmond, Robeson, Rowan, Scotland, Stanly, Union and Wake counties, officials said.  Local law enforcement agencies and government officials have been alerted, a release said. “Residents may hear blank gunfire and see occasional flares. Controls are in place to ensure there is no risk to persons or property,” officials said. “Residents with concerns should contact local law enforcement officials, who will immediately contact exercise control officials.” Unconventional warfare tactics call for the students to “wear civilian clothes,” but the public will be able to identify them by “a distinctive brown armband,” officials said. Vehicles will be labeled, too, along with training areas, a release noted. “Robin Sage is the U.S. military’s premiere unconventional warfare exercise and the final test of over a year’s worth of training for aspiring Special Forces soldiers,” according to the press release. “Candidates are placed in an environment of political instability characterized by armed conflict, forcing Soldiers to analyze and solve problems to meet the challenges of this ‘real-world’ training.”

https://www.wbtv.com/2019/08/21/secretive-warfare-training-being-staged-north-carolina-counties-army-says/ 

Marilyn Rupar forwarded me information that I have confirmed with a private sources that “The CJNG (New Generation Jalisco Cartel) is now the most brutal of all the cartels and they have even surpassed the Sinaloas or ISIS. Mexico is attempting to adopt the persona as a country which follows the rule of law. However, the Mexican National Guard (GN), the Mexican Federal Police (FN) and all branches of the military and their associates. drive around Mexico in their vehicles making an appearance of law and order, but there is no law. There is no order, as Marilyn put it. “Mexico is now completely LAWLESS”. And the Mexican proxy forces, beholding to the Chinese and the UN, are leading the way at destabilizing America. The Mexican media is the same as MSNBC and the rest of the American MSM. They have a few reports showing the police/military doing periodic and infrequent drug busts, but it is all for show. This is the cost of doing business for the cartels. And the cartels are are growing in power. Mexican president, AMLO, has supposedly increased his law enforcement and military on the highways and communities, however the Mexican cartels continue to decapitate, dismember, kidnap, extort, and terrorize towns for hours and days at a time with shoot outs that kills innocent civilians. The AMLO fix is in as there are no reports of the authorities reining in the cartels. And since the Cartels are imitating law enforcement in Mexico, and BP and military in the US, it is logical to assume the same is getting ready to happen here. In a recent border war event this past week, the GN and police were parked outside of a town while the cartels had a massive shoot out for many hours...bullets flying everywhere...It was an open shoot out in the street while the towns people hunkered down in their homes as reported by Borderland Beat. Here is where every American should become very concerned. The cartels now wearing military uniforms. These events are building upon the previous CSS reports showing how we will be invaded at our southern border. Let’s connect some dots. Who is behind the mass immigration into the United States which includes, in part, ISIS, Africans, Cubans, MS-13, and the cartels? It is George Soros and the United Nations and their Migration Pact. Who is behind the increasingly sophistication of ANTIFA? Again, it is George Soros. And every American should grow concerned at ANTIFA’s growing level of organization. They are uniformed and act in concert with each other. I have intel which also states that some in their ranks are being trained in chemical and biological attacks. At its core ANTIFA is linked, in purpose, with the UN, the cartels, the Mexican National Guard (NG) in their pursuit to take America down. Remember, as I have documented several times on this site, the NG was trained by the United Nations. What a coincidence! Or, I should say, what a coordinated effort the US is facing in trying to maintain its sovereignty. Further, I have documented on this site, that this past July, that Wei Fenghe, the Chinese Defense Minister told the CCP that they planned to occupy the US and exterminate as many Americans as possible. Also, along these lines, Marilyn Rupar and myself have published convincing evidence that the drug cartels answer to China. China is also involved in CALEXIT, the illegal attempt for California to withdraw from the United States and this would economically cripple the country’s food supply and retail economy I asked a senior law enforcement official why the Mexicans were imitating American LEO’s. He told me that their infiltration would allow them to set up concentric rings around a terrorist event, while appearing to be official first responders, and then kill as many of the first responders as possible. I believe, based on these revelations, the false flag shootings will soon move to terrorist events and these infiltrators will rear their ugly heads. What is going on in America today, is an orchestrated plot to take this country down. It’s hard to take this country down because we are so powerful, so immense in our scope. People have asked me: How many plots are there to bring down the US? 50? 100? 500? The answer is that there is a seemingly unlimited amount of ways that we are being attacked and will be attacked in the future.  The propensity of the NG to imitate America Border Patrol and military personnel is simply one way to produce mass mayhem. Many of us in the alt media have said that we are in a revolution, it’s just that the mass killing has not started, but its about to. Too many dots are connecting and they all point to bringing America down piece by piece. Again, this is death by a thousand cuts.

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/activism-agenda-21-conspiracy/death-thousand-cuts-brought-you-soros-antifa-cartels-and-un 

President Donald Trump tweeted out unrestrained praise of himself Wednesday by a conservative radio host who said Israeli Jews revere him 'like he is the second coming of God.' The president blasted out the praise of him just hours after he set off a furor by saying any American Jews who vote for Democrats are 'disloyal' – drawing howls of protest from Jewish groups who said the comments resurrected 'dual loyalty' tropes. “Thank you to Wayne Allyn Root for the very nice words,' Trump began, quoting the author and host who has promoted conspiracies about President Barack Obama and other topics. 'President Trump is the greatest President for Jews and for Israel in the history of the world, not just America, he is the best President for Israel in the history of the world...and the Jewish people in Israel love him...like he’s the King of Israel,' Trump's tweet continued. 'They love him like he is the second coming of God...But American Jews don’t know him or like him. They don’t even know what they’re doing or saying anymore. It makes no sense! But that’s OK, if he keeps doing what he’s doing, he’s good for...all Jews, Blacks, Gays, everyone. And importantly, he’s good for everyone in America who wants a job,' Trump continued, quoting Root. Then the president added: 'Wow!,' and attached the Twitter handles of favorite outlets NewsMax, Fox and Friends, and OANN. Trump blasted out the praise after critics decried the president for weaponizing anti-Semitism and exercising the offensive trope that questions the loyalty of Jewish citizens. His heated tirade questioning Jewish Democrats comes as an attack on liberal 'Squad' members Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar after they were barred from entering Israel for their outspoken support of boycotts against the nation and support of Palestine. In his heated Oval Office remarks Tuesday, Trump said: 'I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat, I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or a great disloyalty.' 'Five years ago, the concept of even talking about this - even three years ago - of cutting off aid to Israel because of two people that hate Israel and hate Jewish people - I can't believe we're even having this conversation.'  'Where has the Democratic Party gone? Where have they gone where they are defending these two people over the state of Israel?' he added, alluding that Jewish people who vote for Democrats are anti-Israel. Trump has also called squad members the 'face' of the Democratic party. Many evangelical Christians have embraced the idea that the return of Jews to the biblical land of Israel is in keeping with a Biblical prophecy and signals the second coming of Jesus Christ. Jews are monotheists who don't believe in the second coming, which is described in the New Testament, not the Hebrew bible.  Root has backed numerous conspiracy theories, including one previously pushed by Trump that Obama wasn't born in the United States, and a conspiracy theory that the murder of former Democratic staffer Seth Rich was orchestrated by Democrats during the campaign. On Tuesday night, an outraged Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is Jewish and is running for president on the Democratic ticket, slammed the president for his remarks while speaking at a rally in Sioux Falls. Iowa. 'Let me say this to the President. I am a proud Jewish person and I have no concerns about voting Democratic and in fact I intend to vote for a Jewish man to become the next president of the United States,' Sanders said to uproarious applause. Other Jewish groups also slammed the president. 'It's unclear who @POTUS is claiming Jews would be 'disloyal' to, but charges of disloyalty have long been used to attack Jews. As we've said before, it's possible to engage in the democratic process without these claims. It's long overdue to stop using Jews as a political football,' Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt tweeted Tuesday evening. 'Yet another example of @realDonaldTrump continuing to weaponize and politicize anti-Semitism. At a time when anti-Semitic incidents have increased - due to the president's emboldening of white nationalism - Trump is repeating an anti-Semitic trope,' Halie Soifer, executive director of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, tweeted Tuesday. 'Trump needs a reality check. We live in a democracy, and Jewish support for the Republican Party has been halved in the past four years,' she added. The Jewish Democratic Council of America said: 'Today's remarks are another example of [Trump] weaponizing & politicizing anti-Semitism for perceived political gain. It won't work.' 'A reminder that the Tree of Life synagogue shooter murdered 11 Jews on Shabbos because of their congregation's social justice work and support for immigrant rights. the President's labeling of liberal Jews as disloyal is a validation of this kind of violence. It's chilling,' one Twitter user said. On the flip side, the Republican Jewish Coalition defended Trump's statement on Tuesday. 'President Trump is right, it shows a great deal of disloyalty to oneself to defend a party that protects/emboldens people that hate you for your religion,' the group said. Trump's comments sparked outrage within the Jewish community, even though his own daughter Ivanka, son-in-law Jared Kushner, and their children are Jewish. The president's remarks saying that Jewish Americans should vote Republican, contradict facts that show that Democrats have secured the Jewish vote overwhelmingly in the past elections. Hillary Clinton won the Jewish vote with 71 per cent in the 2016 election and Jewish voters went for Democratic candidates by 79 per cent in the 2018 midterms. The voting bloc has long favored Democrats. According to Pew Research, Democratic presidential candidates have won the Jewish vote by strong double digits going back to Al Gore in 2000. Trump has previously suggested that Jewish Americans have a dual loyalty to the US and Israel. When speaking to the Republican Jewish Coalition in April he said Benjamin Netanyahu was 'your prime minister'.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7379429/Trump-boasts-Israeli-Jews-love-like-second-coming-God-quotes-conspiracy-theorist.html 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7378849/Japan-warns-North-Korea-miniaturized-nukes.html 

https://justusaknight.com/2019/08/21/its-here-the-great-terror-has-arrived-history-warned-us-and-we-let-stalins-purge-begin-anyway/ 

https://gunsinthenews.com/heres-what-trumps-red-flag-laws-really-look-like-connecticut-mans-firearms-seized-because-his-son-shared-a-meme-on-facebook/ 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7379255/China-one-CCTV-camera-TWO-PEOPLE-year.html 

In order to avoid having two separate navies, one on the East Coast and one on the West, the United States invested in completing the Panama Canal. It was operational in 1916, allowing our East and West coast fleets to support each other. Today modern warships, large cargo containers, and cruise ships can traverse the forty-eight-mile long shortcut. The Canal is a crucial link in our foreign trade and military strategy. Should we lose it, even for a short while, it would be catastrophic.  The first traitor In 1977, U.S. President Jimmy Carter signed a treaty which agreed to return 60% of the Canal Zone to Panama by 1999. The canal and remaining territory, known as the Canal Area, was returned to Panama at noon on December 31, 1999.  So, what’s the big problem? Prior to signing over the canal, President Carter was cautioned of the folly of this action. His top military brass warned him the Canal was our Achille’s heel, and it would cost tens of thousands of American military lives if it had to be retaken from an enemy. Blocking or sabotaging the canal entrances or locks would require the Atlantic Fleet to sail around the southern tip of South America in order to provide reinforcements for the Pacific Command on the West Coast. This detour would be over 8,000 miles and could take up to fourteen days, rather than a three-four day crossing via the Caribbean and through the canal. The second traitor

CHARLOTTE, N.C.—Consider the number of daily headlines that have something to do with sex: sex trafficking charges that take down high-powered executives, sexual harassment allegations against entertainers, sexual assault, pornography, the LGBTQ agenda, pedophilia, marriage infidelity. The list, laments author and national radio host Dr. Michael Brown, goes on and on. What’s behind this sexual seduction of America? Brown’s newly released book, “Jezebel’s War with America: The Plot to Destroy Our Country and What We Can Do to Turn the Tide,” is creating buzz and initiating important conversations. In his newest work, Brown details how the same evil spirit of the biblical figure Jezebel is alive and well today—and how her spirit is evident through the permutation of all things sexual in our society. “Queen Jezebel was an incredibly evil and demonically controlled woman, but the same demonic powers that operated through her 3,000 years ago are operating today in America once again,” Brown says “She was a seductress, according to the Bible and ancient Jewish tradition, and we see the same spirit of sexual seduction alive and well and thriving in America today. There is more porn available than at any time in human history. There are websites encouraging adultery and every type of sexual perversion. Children as young as 8 years old are having their first encounter with pornography today. This is the hyper-sexualization of our culture. You can hardly go to a news website or a sports website without seeing racy pictures. You can hardly go to a checkout counter in a store without being exposed to almost naked photos. You can hardly open your emails without sexual invitations popping up in your junk folder. And modesty is all but gone. Every part of the body must be shown. Flesh must be displayed. Almost nothing can be hidden or covered. After all, sex sells! That is the spirit of Jezebel at work.” Released earlier this month, “Jezebel’s War with America” focuses on the fact that the spirit of the biblical figure Jezebel is at work through a fascination with witchcraft and sorcery, radical feminism coupled with the extreme pro-abortion movement, along with other spiritual and cultural forces in an attempt destroy America. Brown’s eye-opening book not only unveils a satanic plot, beginning with an all-out assault on the church, but it will equip every believer with tools to defeat the enemy in their own personal lives as well as in the nation. All hope is not lost, however, Brown says, and there are action steps the faithful can take to defeat Jezebel. And it involves more than “getting mad.” “It’s easy to get mad at people, at them,” Brown says. “The media is not fair. The courts are biased. The schools are brainwashing our kids. The porn industry is evil. Hollywood is pumping out trash. The internet giants are anti-Christian. LGBT activists are taking away our rights. We all have our list of grievances. We all have our pet peeves. And many of them are quite valid. We do have reason to be grieved, and people are responsible for their actions. At the same time, our real enemies are spiritual. Our biggest battle is with satanic powers. And that is a major reason I wrote ‘Jezebel’s War with America’—to help us connect the dots and to help us see that there is a related, integrated coalition of demonic forces attacking our nation, and those forces have the characteristics of Jezebel. “How, then, do we defeat Jezebel on a national level?” he asks. “Obviously, if we want to help others, we must get our own houses in order. As some of us said years ago during court battles over the public display of the Ten Commandments, the biggest problem is not that we’ve taken these commandments out of our schools; it’s that we removed them first from our hearts and homes. So first, we get our own houses in order. Then we turn to the nation.” Dr. Michael L. Brown is founder and president of AskDrBrown Ministries and president of FIRE School of Ministry. The author of more than 35 books, including “Saving a Sick America” (2017), he is also the host of the nationally syndicated daily talk radio show “The Line of Fire,” as well as the host of shows on GOD TV, NRBTV and METV. His syndicated columns appear on many leading websites, and his scholarly publications range from biblical commentaries to articles in Semitic journals and theological dictionaries. He has served as an adjunct or visiting professor at seven leading seminaries and has debated gay activists, agnostic professors and Orthodox rabbis on university campuses.

After being devastated by wildfires last year, California has gone through several months of being relatively fire-free.  But as we head into the heat of late summer, the state is ready to burn. When the ignition happens, experts warn, it could cause wildfires more intense and destructive than anything California has experienced. Here’s one version of what that could look like: Sometime in the coming days or weeks a storm originating from warm moist air in Mexico becomes drier and more lightning-prone as it heads north. Over California the skies suddenly begin crackling with electricity. “We can have thousands of lightning strikes in just a couple of hours time, in many cases they’re in concentrated areas,” said Jessica Gardetto, a spokesperson with the National Interagency Fire Center. That lightning could easily blast into some of the 147 million trees that have died in recent years because of the California drought and invasive pine beetles. What begins as a small fire could be quickly fanned into something ferocious by strong winds brought along with the storm. The resulting wildfire would roar through vegetation dried out by several weeks of hot summer temperatures until it’s so big that any community in its way can potentially be burned to the ground. Last year saw a wave of horrific fires hit the state. Most notably, the Camp Fire killed 85 people — making it the deadliest fire in California history — and destroyed the town of Paradise. To the south, the Woolsey Fire devastated a stretch of coast that included the wealthy enclave of Malibu. The casualties and damage were such that some called it the worst fire season California had ever had. This Year Could Be Just As Bad “The potential is there to have similar fire activity as last year and the year before,” Gardetto said. “It just all depends on those weather factors lining up to create that unfortunate perfect storm.“ That perfect storm may seem pretty far away to many California residents. From January to early August in 2018, over 3,600 wildfires charred about 615,000 acres across the state, according to statistics from the fire protection agency Cal Fire. This year during the same period only 22,900 acres have burned — the 2,900 wildfires responsible for that damage have been smaller and less destructive. “So far it’s been a mild season,” said Amy Head, a Cal Fire battalion chief. One reason for that is an unusually wet winter with record-breaking amounts of rain and precipitation. The snowpack in California is 33 percent higher than last year. High humidity has additionally caused soil moisture to be 40 percent above average. Aside from a few short periods of extreme heat, California’s summer hasn’t been as scorching as previous years’. “It’s been a good break for all of us because we’ve kind of been going nonstop for many years now,” Head explained. “It’s given us a chance to catch our breath.“ But Head and other experts know that the potential this year for another Camp Fire–style blaze — which destroyed around 18,800 structures and caused $16.5 billion in damage — is all too real. Heavy precipitation earlier this year created a “super bloom” of vegetation that is now drying out in the August heat, creating tinder that could feed a massive fire. “We’re at a breaking point now,” Southern California Edison fire scientist Tom Rolinski told the Palm Springs Desert Sun in August. CoreLogic fire specialist Tom Jeffery earlier this summer explained to the New York Times that “all of the factors that contributed to previous fires are still there…There’s no reason to think that we can’t replicate or — I hate to say this — we could potentially exceed what we saw in the past fires.“ So even with this year’s milder conditions, California is not out of the woods. And I am waiting ready for the first devastating fires. Read More:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjw89z/california-wildfire-season-2019-could-flare-up 

https://strangesounds.org/2019/08/california-wildfire-season-2019-worst-ever.html  

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Put your money, your time, your efforts into what I tell you to do, for I will cause you to have a victory such as you have never seen. And it shall be so clear, yes; it shall be so clear what you are all to do. Yes, for I shall speak to you, my power shall be awesome and miracles shall come to pass. It shall not be the fake gold or the fake feathers or the false shaking or the animal noises or the falling under the power and not coming away with permanent results or changed lives. My prophetic shall speak concerning things to come in a clear concise manner that no one shall want to miss or read second hand. For they will want to hear it under the anointing of the prophets and to receive the anointing of the prophet that shall manifest miracles, signs and wonders. People shall now see the signs of the last days like never before. Not only in a strange and confusing weather, the heat, the drought, the floods, the forest fires, the volcanoes, lack of jobs, shortage of money, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, sandstorms, straight wind, electrical storms, electrical shortages, hail, locusts, pestilence’s, the sicknesses, terrorists attacks, wars, the uniting of the false church under the false prophet, the rise of the anti-christ, the riots, the crime, the drugs, alcoholism, great open gay activities and movies, more open sex on TV, more street people, homeless, lack of crops, food shortages, great fear in those who do not know me. No peace as my word says for the world. The UN taking more control, martial law established, rationing and many more disasters that shall now begin to come. etc.

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August heat records tumble in Phoenix Arizona as the mercury nudges toward 122 deg F (50 deg C)

Phoenix has broken another record - and not the good kind.

Wednesday, 21 August 2019

The National Weather Service tweeted that Phoenix had broken its heat record for Aug. 20 on Tuesday afternoon, reaching a high of 113 deg F (45 deg C) just after 2 p.m.

The previous record was 112 deg F (44.4 deg C) in 1986.

Isaac Smith, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, told The Arizona Republic that the unusually high temperatures were due to a high-pressure system. Smith said this was the second time Phoenix saw record-breaking heat this month, with the previous being on Aug. 5 with a high of 115 deg F (46 deg C), breaking the previous 114-degree record high in 1969. He added that Wednesday had an even better chance of breaking its temperature record.  The old record for Aug. 21 is currently from 2007 at 110 deg F (43.3 deg C), Smith said. Wednesday's current forecast is 114 degrees. Smith advised people to limit the time they spend outside as much as possible. "Other than staying hydrated, everybody should limit their outdoor activities and make sure they don't overexert themselves in the heat," Smith said. He also advised people to always check the backseat of their vehicle to avoid leaving children or pets inside. Extreme Weather Home Page Posted by Gary Walton at 1:32 pm

http://www.thebigwobble.org/2019/08/august-heat-records-tumble-in-phoenix.html 

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The Long Trail Of Dead Bodies & False Flags That Follow Around Bill & Hillary Clinton & The Globalists Wherever They Go Point To Unimaginable Corruption And Gargantuan Cover-ups

- Globalism, Mysterious Deaths & False Flag Terrorism Have Long Gone Hand In Hand!

By William B. Stoecker - All News Pipeline August 21, 2019

“The decedent shot himself in the back of the head seventeen times with a long-barreled, single shot shotgun. A clear case of suicide.” No one with over two brain cells operating (at least a third of the US population) would believe such a story, but the Jeffrey Epstein “suicide” narrative is just as absurd. When the noted abuser of underage girls was arrested, most of us patriots simply assumed that he would be murdered (unless his death was faked and he was helped to escape!!!!) before implicating the Clintons and most of the rest of America’s aristocracy. In fact, many of us predicted that he would be “arkancided,” the fate of many on the long trail of bodies behind the Demonic Duo (Slick and the Witch), beginning while they were still in Arkansas. Consider the known facts, which most of the talking heads of the slimestream media and even some at Fox are chalking up to coincidence and human error. Epstein was a prisoner in the Special Housing Unit of the New York City Metropolitan Correctional Center, controlled by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. He was housed with a powerfully muscled mass murderer, despite being a prisoner whose life needed to be carefully protected so that he could testify against his accomplices. This is not what honorable, competent prison officials would do, but it is something people who wanted him dead would do, to prevent him from testifying against them. He was either injured in a suicide attempt or assaulted by his cellmate, who was then apparently transferred out, and it appears Epstein may have been given a new cellmate (the facts thus far made public in this case are few and far between). Then this man was also transferred out, and Epstein was taken off suicide watch, supposedly at the request of his lawyers…obeying such requests in a case like this also violates standard prison protocol. Even if he was to be spared the discomfort of 24 hours per day of bright lighting and a guard staring at him nonstop, he should have been in a room with a low bed, but apparently was left with a two-tiered bunk, from which it might be possible (just barely) to hang himself. He was apparently given regular bedsheets, with which it is possible (again, just barely) for a prisoner to hang himself, instead of fragile, easily torn paper sheets. The video cameras in the corridor were all pointed away from his cell, so no videotape record of his manner of death exists (or will be made public). This is right up there with the cameras that failed to record the invisible airliner that allegedly hit the Pentagon on 9/11 and then evaporated. Already, we have far exceeded the bounds of coincidence and mistakes…but wait; there’s more. Other prisoners heard screaming from his cell at about the time he is alleged to have died. The NYC Chief Medical Examiner, Barbara Sampson, allegedly did an autopsy, “aided” by the ancient Dr. Michael Baden, who had helped cover up the truth about the JFK assassination. Swell. Despite admitting that Epstein had some broken vertebrae and a broken hyoid bone, they predictably pronounced it as a clear case of suicide. That, too, we expected, for in America everything has become completely predictable. The problem is that, as the pathologist Cyril Wecht and others have pointed out, a broken hyoid bone is generally more consistent with murder by strangulation than with hanging. Also, it would be difficult to do the damage by throwing oneself off a bunk less than six fleet off the floor (a bunk that shouldn’t have been there to begin with). And it would be even more difficult to do with relatively soft and bulky bedsheets. In fact, combining the bedsheets with the low height of the bunk, it would be practically impossible. (If you appreciate stories like this, please consider donating to ANP to help keep us in this battle for the future of America.) But then, it is also impossible for the first three steel framed buildings in history to collapse due to fire to do so on 9/11/2001 right next to one another. And would you believe that all three collapsed straight down in their own footprints, a feat almost impossible to achieve save by carefully planned controlled demolition? No, we no longer believe. Nothing the government says (even under Trump) and nothing the slimestream media say can be believed. We’ve seen all this before…over and over and over, year after year after year. To the few facts that are leaking out regarding Epstein’s ties to the Clintons and others of the elite, we also have the evidence regarding the NXIVM sex cult, which involved the wealthy Bronfmans, the Comet Ping Pong business, and earlier revelations about the elites’ “love” of children, much of which was revealed years ago in John DeCamp’s book The Franklin Cover-Up. The suspicious “suicides” include the death of Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, and George de Mohrenschildt, former associate of Lee Harvey Oswald, who allegedly shot himself on 3/29/77, just before he was scheduled to be interviewed by the House Select Committee on Assassinations. Frank Olsen, working for the CIA’s MK Ultra mind control program, allegedly jumped from a high rise hotel window…which is how Forrestal died. Investigative reporter Danny Casolaro was beginning to expose the true nature of the deep state when he allegedly sliced his wrists multiple times (!) and the documents he had vanished into thin air. Investigative Reporter Gary Webb, investigating possible cocaine smuggling by the CIA, supposedly shot himself twice in the head. Clinton crony Vince Foster allegedly shot himself in a park in D.C with an unregistered gun no one knew he owned. His clothing was covered with carpet fibers, and a visitor to the park claimed to have seen two men driving a car with Arkansas plates carrying something long and heavy (Foster’s body?) wrapped in a carpet. This is just part of the evidence in the Foster case, and of course the Demonic Duo’s body count included many others. Mary Mahoney, a former White House intern who was about to go public with her account of sexual encounters with Slick Willy, was shot dead, along with several co-workers, in the coffee shop where she worked…and there was no robbery. Slick’s Treasury Secretary Ron Brown was being investigated for corruption and had threatened to testify against Clinton when he died in a mysterious plane crash, along with the crew and the other passengers. Seth Rich worked for the DNC and there is considerable evidence that it was he, not the Russians, who leaked some of their files, and he was shot dead in DC…and, again, there was no robbery. And almost all of the mass shootings in recent years are very, very suspicious. When students at Columbine High School in Colorado were being gunned down, the police waited outside for a long time, allowing the murders to continue. The same thing happened with the Stoneman Douglas high school shooting in Florida, when a cowardly sheriff’s deputy who was assigned to the school waited outside while students and staff he knew personally were gunned down by a punk about whom both the intrepid FBI and the local Demoncrap sheriff had received multiple warnings. The videos taken from a helicopter at the time of the Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut showed an unidentified man (not the one alleged to be the perpetrator) in camouflage in the woods behind the school. He was never identified, and there are many other unanswered questions (and that is an understatement) regarding this tragedy. The one picture released from the video of the alleged El Paso mass murderer shows him carrying one, and only one, thirty round AK-47 magazine, with which he allegedly shot nearly fifty people. Apparently the police and the media critters are unable to do grade school arithmetic. There are still questions regarding the Aurora, Colorado theater shooting, not the least of which is the unknown source for the money the shooter used to buy all his weapons and military gear, and the expertise to set bombs in his apartment, and the witnesses who claimed to see more than one shooter, or an unidentified man opening the emergency fire exit of the theater. And let’s not forget that the pattern of evidence surrounding the JFK assassination clearly proves a conspiracy, and that every media outlet (save for the History Channel, who ran a pretty honest mini- series on it years ago) and every leading political figure, CIA Director, and FBI Director has been involved, directly or indirectly, in the cover-up. The same is true of the RFK and MLK shootings, and the shooting of George Wallace. These killings changed the course of America history.

Not only the mass shootings, but also events like the bombing of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City appear to have been false flags carried out by the deep state thugs working for our corrupt elites. It is a fact that the BATF mysteriously left the building, with no one left to man their office, just before the bombing, lied and claimed that they were still there but survived to help others escape, and, when caught in the lie, refused ever to give any explanation. The government almost lost their case against McVey because they refused to call the witnesses who saw McVey in the company of an unidentified man of Middle Eastern appearance, and they refused to look into McVey’s obvious ties to the Elohim City neo-Nazi group. Seismographs recorded more than one explosion, and retired USAG General Partin, an explosives expert, stated publicly that the bomb, while powerful, could not have done that much damage. And all of this is only part of the evidence that the government has lied to us about this tragedy. There are many, many problems with the official account of the Boston Marathon bombing. As for 9/11, any one of several facts, like the vertical collapse of the buildings or the vanishing airliner with no wings or engine that allegedly hit the Pentagon, proves it was all an inside job. And, in every case, every media outlet and every political leader since (including Trump) have refused to tell the truth or even to investigate the bombings. Unless we patriots take extreme action (if you know what I mean, and I think you do - Dr. Ben Carson understands!) (ANP: Of course, we will never encourage nor advocate 'unlawful' or 'unjustified' violence though sadly, Civil War may one day be inevitable in America), the murder of citizens who know too much will continue, along with their 'staged bombings and mass shootings'. The government will continue to refuse to punish illegal aliens and other criminals (especially the wealthy and powerful ones) while routinely railroading innocent Americans into prison and/or confiscating our property. The tech companies will continue to censor opposing opinion more and more.' Illegal and legal aliens will continue to invade us by the millions, wrecking our economy, committing more and more crime and acts of terrorism, and bringing in a multitude of diseases, including drug-resistant TB and leprosy. There will be more and more “homeless,” literally turning our once great cities into cesspools of garbage and human waste. Inevitably, epidemics will spread, including bubonic plague. Antifa and BM (Black Lives Matter) will grow ever more violent, and the government will attempt to disarm, not the thugs, but the law-abiding citizens. And Trump will not save us. He has not drained the swamp and prosecuted the Witch Hillary and others for obvious and easily provable crimes…he has staffed his regime with establishment types, RINOs and neocons. His FBI, headed by his appointee, the sleazy Christopher Wray, sent an army and a news crew to arrest Trump loyalist Roger Stone, and Trump has done nothing to help Stone or to reform or rein in the corrupt and murderous FBI. Trump ultimately controls the Bureau of Prisons that enabled Epstein’s “suicide.” But the obvious murder of Epstein was one crime too many. And the Demoncraps and the media are out of the closet now, revealing their true nature through the ravings of the “squad” and the utterly insane proposals of the Demoncrap Presidential hopefuls. Antifa’s violence is beginning to anger more and more of the relatively sane citizens. Millions of patriots, perhaps a third or more of the US population, are completely disillusioned and more or less fully aware of what has been going on. We are armed; our patience has been exhausted; and our rage is growing. There will be a reckoning.

http://allnewspipeline.com/Globalism_Mysterious_Deaths_And_False_Flags_Go_Hand_In_Hand.php 

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MSM Declares War On Independent Media - NBC Targets 'The Epoch Times' Who Has 'Biggest Social Media Following Of Any News Outlet'

By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine August 21, 2019

NBC News has been working for months, if not longer, on a hit piece against the website The Epoch Times, an independent media outlet that NBC describes as "By the numbers, there is no bigger advocate of President Donald Trump on Facebook," stating in their sub-header "The Epoch Times now wields one of the biggest social media followings of any news outlet." Between the sub-header and the very first sentence of their hit piece, we see the motive behind NBC News' desire to discredit the Epoch Times, but looking further into the piece, specifically the second and third paragraphs, we see why they chose The Epoch Times to start their campaign to destroy Independent Media. The small New York-based nonprofit news outlet has spent more than $1.5 million on about 11,000 pro-Trump advertisements in the last six months, according to data from Facebook’s advertising archive — more than any organization outside of the Trump campaign itself, and more than most Democratic presidential candidates have spent on their own campaigns. Those video ads — in which unidentified spokespeople thumb through a newspaper to praise Trump, peddle conspiracy theories about the “Deep State,” and criticize “fake news” media — strike a familiar tone in the online conservative news ecosystem. The Epoch Times looks like many of the conservative outlets that have gained followings in recent years. Wait? The 'deep state' is a conspiracy theory? After the news that has been exposed over the last three years and the subsequent "Russian Collusion hoax," that was set into motion by that very entity, with even liberal mainstream media outlets using the term "deep state," how does NBC call it a conspiracy theory? As we have spent years documenting the cornucopia of actual fake news pushed by the liberal establishment media, with stories changed stealthily after proven wrong, editors notes and corrections on others explaining what they got wrong, many changed headlines and even complete retractions and the deletion of entirely false and inaccurate articles, calling the "fake news media" a conspiracy theory is also fake news in my opinion. Another possible reason they are targeting The Epoch Times is they believe President Trump is a "a key ally in the anti-communist fight," and the liberal establishment media seems to be all on board with the Democrats' communist agenda. (If you appreciate stories like this, please consider donating to ANP to help keep us in this battle for the future of America.) NBC NEWS SENDS 'INAPPROPRIATE' QUESTIONS TO THE EPOCH TIMES

While the NBC News piece was published on Tuesday, August 20, 2019, they apparently have been working on this project since before June 20, 2019, as The Epoch Times published a piece on June 20, updated again on July 22, 2019, regarding the "Inappropriate Questions" they were sent by two reporters for NBC News. The NBC reporters questioned the religious beliefs of some of our staff members, sought to discredit their beliefs, attacked our journalism based on personal opinion rather than objective analysis, and even sought out information on the personal lives of our staff. In responding to NBC with this open letter, we are not only defending The Epoch Times, but also journalism itself, freedom of the press, and freedom of belief. As a fast-growing independent media, we proudly uphold the highest standards of journalism. The Epoch Times was founded in 2000 with the goal of bringing truthful and uncensored news to people around the world. Our founders personally experienced the horrors of communism in China. In our reporting, we have continually exposed the crimes of communism against humanity. For doing this, we have sustained ongoing attacks. Ten of our staff members were arrested in China and given prison terms ranging from three to 10 years. A few clear examples are offered by The Epoch Times of those inappropriate questions, such as "Is the Epoch Times predominantly staffed by volunteers? Do some Epoch Times interns, volunteers, or employees live in a shared home?" Really???? Frankly The Epoch Times handled that question with far more diplomacy than I would have because my instant response would have "what on earth makes you SOB's think that is any of your business?" Another question quoted was "Much of the Epoch Times’ recent coverage has focused on the promotion of President Trump’s policies, interviews with surrogates, and a 'deep state' conspiracy to 'spy' on his campaign during the 2016 election. Do you feel like this is a fair characterization and do you consider the Epoch Times to be pro-Trump?" Since we know from publicly available information that members of the Obama administration's intelligence agencies did, indeed, spy on President Trump's campaign, the "tone" of that question is apparently part of the liberal media's refusal to admit the truth of what has already been exposed, and what is expected to be exposed when the DOJ's Inspector General releases his long-awaited report on the FISA abuses that opened the door to said spying on the Trump campaign. Attorney General Bill Barr openly stated in his congressional testimony that he believed spying did occur and is now running an investigation into whether that spying was adequately predicated. Other questions cited was to do with the religion of the The Epoch Times' staff writers and owners, which frankly is no ones business. Never have we at ANP determined whether to use a source, quote a person, or cite a website based solely on their religion. If they source their information, provide links to verify the information is correct, then the religion of the writer or owner of a website, should not come into play.  NBC'S SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN TO DISCREDIT EPOCH TIMES

NBC's official Twitter account then put out a series of tweets to promote their hit piece against Epoch Times, in what the website Twitchy called "a conspiracy-filled thread." On August 20, at 12:27 pm they started with "By the numbers, there is no bigger advocate of President Trump on Facebook than The Epoch Times. But despite its growing reach, little is publicly known about the precise ownership, origins or influences of the nonprofit news outlet." 15 minutes later, at 12:42 pm, they continued "The Epoch Times has spent more than $1.5 million on pro-Trump advertisements in the last 6 months — more than any organization outside of the Trump campaign. High engagement has made it a Trump family favorite and a key component of the president's re-election campaign." 12 minutes later, at 12:54 pm, they kept going, stating "At the same time, its network of news sites and YouTube channels has made it a powerful conduit for conspiracy theories, including anti-vaccination propaganda and QAnon, to reach the main stream." They continued along in the same manner for a total of eight promotionals for just the one article, showing their intent to attempt to discredit a popular Independent News website for no other reason than it is pro-Trump and has a massive following on social media, which would help President Trump in his re-election efforts. EPOCH TIMES RESPONDS  Following the publishing of the NBC News hit piece, the Epoch Times hit back stating their piece was "riddled with inaccuracies, blatant errors, and misrepresentations." More: Seeing the success of The Epoch Times as America’s fastest-growing newspaper, NBC News has published a hit piece that is riddled with inaccuracies, blatant errors, and misrepresentations. For example, NBC News mischaracterizes our subscription campaigns for our print newspaper. We provided a statement to NBC News in June to clarify this, but they chose to ignore it—against well-established journalistic practices. While The Epoch Times has been at the forefront of covering the actions taken by officials in the Obama administration who targeted the Trump campaign during the 2016 election, NBC News is refusing to look at verifiable evidence and simply dismisses the reporting as a “conspiracy theory.” This comes from an outlet that misled the American public for more than two years with false claims that President Donald Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election. Read the entire response over at The Epoch Times. BOTTOM LINE - ESTABLISHMENT MEDIA HAS DECLARED WAR

First it was big tech deplatforming people like Alex Jones, Laura Loomer and others. Social media giants shadow banned, suspended accounts and censored Independent Media in an attempt to limit the reach of those that do not toe the "official narrative" line. The MSM took their shots at Independent Media collectively, putting hundreds of websites on "lists" calling them Russian propaganda, or adding them to list alongside of of actual "fake news" and hoax websites, hoping to discredit Independent Media by association. Now the MSM is directly targeting an Independent News outlet that they admit "wields one of the biggest social media followings of any news outlet," all because they are a "advocate of President Donald Trump." After losing control of the narrative and their ability to influence voters in 2016, the liberal establishment media is determined to wrest that control back, and they do not care how many or who they have to destroy to do it. They have declared war and Independent Media readers can help by sharing their favorite IM websites, whether it is via email, on social media, and/or in comment sections, just as they did in 2016 to bypass the lies and distortions the establishment media was pushing. They can also wear a "Fake News Is The Enemy Of The People" T Shirt.

http://allnewspipeline.com/MSM_Targets_Pro_Trump_Epoch_Times_For_Destruction.php 

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Incredibly Sick, Federally-Funded Experiments Are Happening Behind Closed Doors In Secret Laboratories All Over America

August 20, 2019 by Michael Snyder

Some of the things that are being done in the name of “scientific research” are almost too horrifying to talk about. But it is vitally important that we shine a light on these practices, because most Americans don’t realize what is really going on. Normally when we talk about crime, the primary focus is on the drug abuse and violence in the urban areas of our major cities. But the truth is that often the worst crimes are committed by “doctors”, “scientists” and “researchers” wearing white lab coats. The experiments that I am about to share with you are incredibly disgusting, and I apologize for this in advance, but the only way that they will stop is if they are fully exposed. And since these experiments are funded by our tax dollars, the nation as a whole will ultimately be held accountable for the great evil that is taking place. Earlier this year, the Trump administration ended “all internal National Institutes of Health (NIH) experimentation using aborted human fetal tissue”, and when that happened many came to the conclusion that the problem had been solved… This summer, the Trump Administration made the commendable decision to terminate all internal National Institutes of Health (NIH) experimentation using aborted human fetal tissue. It also canceled a controversial $2 million contract between the NIH and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) which required two healthy human fetuses per month from elective abortions to be used for disturbing and unnecessary taxpayer-funded medical experimentation on animals. Unfortunately, the experiments that were canceled represented only a very small fraction of the federally-funded human fetal tissue experimentation that is going on around the nation. The White Coat Waste Project and Pro-Life San Francisco teamed up to investigate, and they just shared what they discovered in a joint op-ed in the Washington Examiner… Our organizations — White Coat Waste Project and Pro-Life San Francisco — recently analyzed NIH spending data and related scientific publications. Unfortunately, we’ve discovered that the canceled projects are just the tip of the iceberg. While the administration’s June decision ended NIH’s internal human fetal tissue experiments and the UCSF contract it funded, it did not halt another 200 projects outside of NIH using human fetal tissue that received a combined $115 million in taxpayer funds from NIH in 2018. 115 million dollars is an enormous amount of money, and a tremendous amount of good could be done with a sum that large. But instead, that money is being used to conduct extremely sick experiments in secret laboratories all over the United States…  Here’s how it works: First, babies are terminated at abortion clinics in university-affiliated hospitals. The remains of these unwanted children are harvested for research. College professors, eternally hungry for lucrative federal grants, solicit NIH funds earmarked for nightmarish human fetal tissue research on animals. Its big business, which is why it’s no surprise that UCSF has openly stated their hostility to any restrictions on fetal tissue research. For instance, at UCSF, the abortion training capital of the US, experimenters recently used a $2 million government slush fund to transplant intestines removed from 18-24 week-old aborted fetuses onto the backs of 6 to 8-week-old mice. In other bizarre Frankenstein study funded by taxpayers, UCSF implanted intact reproductive tracts from 9.5 to 22-week-old human fetuses, including from a pair of aborted twins, into mice dosed with synthetic estrogen. Before we proceed, let me ask you a question. What do you think a nation that does such things deserves? And nobody in the federal government can claim ignorance, because these practices have been debated on Capitol Hill repeatedly. In fact, during a congressional hearing last December the director of the NIH openly defended these practices… But addressing Congress in December, NIH director Francis Collins defended the practice. He said: “There is strong evidence that scientific benefits come from fetal tissue research, [which] can be done with an ethical framework.”  They all know what is going on, and yet this funding keeps getting approved on the federal level year after year no matter which political party is in power. Overseas, the experiments are even more bizarre. For example, over in China a team of scientists recently made headlines all over the world after they created “a hybrid human-monkey embryo”… Scientists have successfully formed a hybrid human-monkey embryo – with the experiment taking place in China to avoid “legal issues”. Researchers led by scientist Juan Carlos Izpisúa spliced together the genes to grow a monkey with human cells. We are talking about “Planet of the Apes” type stuff, and it is happening right out in the open. And as time goes on, criminals in lab coats will be combining human genetic material with all sorts of different creatures. In fact, the Japanese government has now officially approved the creation of “rat-human hybrids”… Human-animal hybrids are to be developed in embryo form in Japan after the government approved controversial stem-cell research. Human cells will be grown in rat and mouse embryos, then brought to term in a surrogate animal, as part of experiments set to be carried out at the University of Tokyo. Supporters say the work – led by renowned geneticist Hiromitsu Nakauchi – could be a vital first step towards eventually growing organs that can then be transplanted into people in need. Of course it is theoretically possible to combine the genetic material of dozens of different creatures into one “super creature”, and given enough time it is inevitable that scientists would cook up all sorts of bizarre hybrids in their labs. As I have repeatedly warned my readers, just about every sort of evil that you can possibly imagine is exploding all over the world, and what I have talked about in this article is definitely a great evil. If we really want to deal with the evil that is plaguing America, I would suggest that the streets of our inner cities are not the first place to start. Sadly, the truth is that many of our politicians, scientists and “researchers” are a much bigger problem, and it is probably extremely unlikely that they will ever be held fully accountable for the atrocities that they have been committing.

About the author: Michael Snyder is a nationally-syndicated writer, media personality and political activist. He is the author of four books including Get Prepared Now, The Beginning Of The End and Living A Life That Really Matters. His articles are originally published on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News. From there, his articles are republished on dozens of other prominent websites. If you would like to republish his articles, please feel free to do so. The more people that see this information the better, and we need to wake more people up while there is still time.

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After a brief lull, the so-called “stabbing intifada” in Israel came roaring back this week. Israel has an array of sophisticated security precautions in place. They even deployed the IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) in Jerusalem. But security forces always have limitations. Pundits usually tell us that the answer to violence is to eliminate guns from the equation. But even if the Israelis could do that, they still couldn’t get rid of knives, cars, Molotov cocktails, rocks, bombs, or bare hands. The centerpiece of this uprising is the knife, something you can’t outlaw. Knives are among the most basic humans tools, and they’re everywhere. Jesus taught that murder is not just an action, but an attitude of the heart (Matthew 5:21-22). Police can scan faces, set up metal detectors, use radiation detection equipment, bomb-sniffing dogs, and create heavily guarded checkpoints, but killers will still get into populated areas. The murder is not in their guns, but in their hearts. They will find rocks. They will drive cars into pedestrians. They will find and use knives. Against all reason, Palestinians keep on initiating attacks that result in more security checkpoints, more walls, and more scrutiny. It’s like “suicide by cop.” They keep coming at the Israelis until they get shot. Their continued attacks destroy their freedoms and opportunities for financial prosperity. How can it be worth giving up all that just to kill unknown Jews as they walk down a street? Social scientists usually attribute the current wave of violence to economics, most often a lack of jobs. Yet, as Joseph Farah asks in a World Net Daily column this week, “If conditions for Arabs are so bad in Israel, why is the Arab population exploding?” He points out that “In 1949, the Arab population of Israel was about 160,000. Today, it is over 1.2 million.” Rank and file Arabs have more freedom and greater opportunity in Israel than anywhere else in the region. That’s why their numbers have grown so dramatically. Their arbitrary violence against Jews winds up hurting everyone, but especially the Palestinians themselves. So why do they stay on the offensive?  The root problem is not economic, but religious. Muslims hate Jews as a matter of religious obligation. Secular Europe cannot fathom this fact, and even Americans find it difficult to grasp. Large numbers of Palestinians are willing to let their children die as suicide bombers. It’s not that they don’t love their children. They do. But Islam comes first. The Temple Mount stands as ground zero for the current unrest. If that sounds familiar it’s because it has happened many times before. Those 35 acres of ground intensify emotions on both sides like nothing else. Jews would at least like to pray there — an idea that is anathema to the Muslims. That small plot of land has inspired so much fear and rage among Muslims that in October, U.S. News and World Report ran an editorial by Ben Caspit calling on Israel to completely close the Temple Mount to Jews. Caspit wrote, “Israel has no intention of taking control of the Al-Aqsa Mosque or changing the status quo involving the Temple Mount. The Palestinians, however, are more attentive to conspiracy theories based on statements by the messianic Israeli right. The thing is, the messianics stand at a great distance from the government, and anyone who relates to their words as a scenario soon to unfold is simply manipulating facts. None of this is important at the moment, however, because the Palestinians are convinced that Israel plans on usurping Al-Aqsa.” The Muslim hysteria about Jews rebuilding the Temple may not be as farfetched as Caspit claims. A poll taken in 2010 showed that 49% of Israelis want to see the Temple rebuilt. Only 23% said it shouldn’t happen. The rest were undecided. Whether they believe it’s possible or not, Palestinian leaders use fear of a rebuilt Jewish Temple to stir up their constituents to the point of violence. Even proposals to rebuild the temple without harming the mosques draws a frenzy of rage from the Muslims. No matter what Israel the promises, they fully expect the Jews to destroy the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque. It’s interesting that so many Palestinians are convinced that there will be another Jewish Temple on the site. Few of them know it, but they’re agreeing with the Bible. It says that before the mid-point of the seven-year period known as Daniel’s 70th Week, the temple will be rebuilt and sacrifices will be offered again. Daniel 11:31 says that forces from the Antichrist “will arise, desecrate the sanctuary fortress, and do away with the regular sacrifice. And they will set up the abomination of desolation.” [NASB] To “do away with the regular sacrifice,” and to “set up the abomination of desolation” requires that the temple be rebuilt. In the meantime, to understand the Temple Mount hysteria among Muslims, we need to understand the spiritual dimensions of the problem. This is not just a real estate dispute. It is about principalities and powers. Satan will stir anyone he can, as much as he can, in an attempt to keep the holy place in a state of desecration. But he cannot stop God’s plan. The mighty can never defeat the Almighty. Unbelieving religious Jews will rebuild the false temple and offer false animal sacrifices during the first part of the Tribulation. (Daniel 11:31) Then the “man of lawlessness”, the Antichrist, will desecrate that false temple of God by taking his seat in the Holy of Holies, displaying himself as being God. (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 NASB) That event will start the last half of the Tribulation. That will start 3½ years of the greatest horrors yet known to mankind. It will end with the visible Coming of THE ALMIGHTY, the Lord Jesus Christ. He will rule for 1000 years of peace. Then is the last Judgment of all unbelievers of all Ages. He will then establish forever the New Heaven and Earth.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has upgraded its estimate of North Korea’s nuclear weapons capability in an upcoming annual Defence White Paper, saying it seems Pyongyang has achieved the miniaturization of warheads, the Yomiuri newspaper said in an unsourced report on Wednesday. That compares with the assessment in last year’s report in which the government said it was possible North Korea had achieved miniaturization, the Japanese daily said without citing sources. The report, to be approved at a Cabinet meeting in mid-September, will maintain the assessment that North Korea’s military activities pose a “serious and imminent threat”, the Yomiuri said. North Korea’s ability to build nuclear warheads small enough to fit on its ballistic missiles has been widely accepted for several years, but the Japanese report highlights the lack of progress on denuclearisation talks aimed at curtailing the program, said Vipin Narang, a nuclear affairs expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States. “It is Japan that is most threatened, and probably the primary target of such a capability,” he said. “So openly acknowledging it underscores Tokyo’s acute fears that North Korea’s nuclear program continues to grow unabated with no foreseeable plan to slow its growth, let alone eliminate them.” South Korea’s 2018 Defence White Paper, released in January, reported that North Korea’s ability to miniaturize nuclear weapons “appears to have reached a considerable level. According to South Korean media reports late last year, the South Korean intelligence agency told lawmakers that North Korea had continued to miniaturize nuclear warheads even after the Singapore summit between Trump and Kim in June 2018. At that time, North Korea committed “to work toward complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula” and destroyed some tunnels and buildings at its Punggye-ri nuclear test site. But a second Trump-Kim meeting in February collapsed without an agreement, and North Korea has since resumed missile tests. U.S. envoy on North Korea Stephen Biegun was in Seoul this week to meet with South Korean officials, and said he was prepared to engage with North Korea “as soon as we hear from our counterparts.” American officials have concluded for years that North Korea had likely produced miniaturized nuclear warheads. A leaked report by the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2017 concluded that North Korea had successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can fit inside its missiles, according to The Washington Post.  In last year’s Defence White Paper, Japan said “miniaturizing a nuclear weapon small enough to be mounted on a ballistic missile requires a considerably high degree of technological capacity,” and that “it is possible that North Korea has achieved the miniaturization of nuclear weapons and has developed nuclear warheads.” Reporting by Chris Gallagher and Linda Sieg in Tokyo, and Josh Smith in Seoul. Writing by Malcolm Foster; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore

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NORTH Korea’s nuclear programme is feared to be leaking toxic waste which could be contaminating 400,000 people — risking cancer and horrible birth defects. Disturbing photos appear to reveal how a uranium plant in the north of the country is spilling huge amounts of toxic waste into a river which provides water to drink and for crops. The potential radioactive leak was discovered by eagle-eyed US-based researcher Jacob Bogle. By examining satellite images of the Pyongsan uranium site, Mr Bogle believes a horror has been unfolding which has been covered up by the highly secretive and insular state. But he thinks the catastrophe may soon be hard to hide because the toxic leak is now flowing into the Yellow Sea the country shares with neighbouring South Korea and China. This could ultimately affect an estimated 600million people and end up being the world’s worst man-made disaster. In the photos, a pipeline built to carry toxic water from the facility to a nearby waste reservoir appears to be leaking into a river instead, which in turn empties into the Yellow Sea. Mr Bogle said: “I was able to review high-resolution historical satellite imagery for multiple years going back to 2003. “Each of the images shows an ever-growing pile of leaked material on either end of the pipe that takes waste material from the plant to an unlined reservoir. “Some of the images also show fluids being actively spilled directly into the river. “The plant is one of two declared uranium milling facilities in the country. It takes low-quality coal and processes it to create yellowcake, which then contains around 80 per cent uranium. “The extraction and milling requires multiple chemical processes and leaves behind a very toxic mix of waste materials. “That toxic waste is then sent to the nearby reservoir, leaking and travelling into the Ryesong River in the process.” The poisonous sludge has been building up for years in the reservoir, but it appears to have been leaking Credit: Michael Havis  MILLIONS MORE AT RISK The plant lies roughly 60miles south of the North Korean capital, Pyongyang.  Mr Bogle estimates that, within just 9.3miles of the Ryesong, there could be as many as 400,000 people drinking the river water or eat the crops fed by it. The Ryesong ultimately empties into the Han River estuary, which in turn flows into the Yellow Sea between China and North Korea. Some 600 million people could be at risk. Mr Bogle said: “The waste material will contain everything that is left over from the coal and any contaminated water. “Uranium milling produces radium, which is radioactive, and that will be sent through the leaking pipe along with the other contaminants like lead, arsenic, vanadium, and other heavy metals. “The radium will decay into the gas radon, which will enter the atmosphere each time the plant runs. “While the other materials will leak into any groundwater sources and of course be carried downriver.” He continued: “Defector testimony from other nuclear-related sites like Yongbyon and the nuclear-test mountain report major health effects, such as cancer, respiratory problems, and birth defects. “There is no reason to suspect the people near Pyongsan are immune to the effects of radon and heavy metals. “Radon will be carried throughout the area and can cause lung cancer. “Lead and arsenic poisoning can cause neurological problems, especially among children. “At dangerous levels, the other heavy metals can cause a wide range of health problems.”  The plant was constructed in the 1980s – and though imagery of the site is only available from 2003 onwards, Mr Bogle says that even in those early photos the leak is visible. “So it has been ongoing for at least 16 years,” he said. To get an idea of just how much could have leaked in that time, Mr Bogle has also analysed the buildup of waste in the nearby reservoir. Mr Bogle estimates that the sludge pile there grew by 18,000 square metres in just three years, from 2016 to 20 “The leak only occurs whenever the plant is in production,” he said. “But given the enormous growth of the sludge pile within the reservoir, it wouldn't be an aggressive estimate to suggest that at least hundreds of gallons of contaminated material are spilled into the river each day the plant runs.” Because of the closed-off nature of North Korea, the leak can’t be verified on the ground. But Mr Bogle, whose map of the country is freely downloadable at accessdprk.com, believes the available evidence is clear. Despite promising US President Donald Trump that he was giving up his nuclear weapons programme, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has been forging ahead with his ambitions to be a global power. Last week, Kim was photographed looking overjoyed after his fifth round of ballistic missile tests in less than three weeks.

Chinese military has declared it would take them just 10 minutes to reach Hong Kong as the financial hub braces for more demonstrations over the coming weekend. Thousands of Chinese military personnel waving red flags paraded at a sports stadium in a city across the border from Hong Kong today, according witnesses, a day after the chilling warning was issued. Armoured vehicles were also seen inside the stadium in Shenzhen when the event was taking place as concerns build that China may intervene to end 10 weeks of unrest in Hong Kong. Parking spaces at the stadium were filled with more than 100 dark-painted paramilitary vehicles, including troop trucks, armoured personnel carriers, buses and jeeps. At least three were armoured wheel-loaders, and two vehicles carried water cannons. Satellite images taken on Tuesday showed Beijing had apparently assembled some 500 armoured vehicles to a sports centre in Shenzhen across the harbour from Hong Kong. Three senior Hong Kong police officers said Thursday that they are not aware of any plans for Chinese forces to join efforts to quell mass demonstrations in the territory. The officers added that they are unsure whether they would be informed ahead of time if Chinese paramilitary or army forces were deployed in Hong Kong. They agreed to speak to a group of reporters for foreign media only on the condition of anonymity. The United States said yesterday that it was concerned about movements of Chinese forces on the border with Hong Kong and urged Beijing to honor the territory's autonomy. But U.S. President Trump praised Chinese President Xi Jinping, calling him a 'great leader' and saying he could quickly resolve the unrest in Hong Kong if he wanted to. He also suggested trade talks with China could wait until tensions in Hong Kong eased. He tweeted: 'Of course China wants to make a deal. Let them work humanely with Hong Kong first!' Protests were planned across several districts of Hong Kong from Thursday, including a teachers rally, and one organised by animal lovers upset that their pets were being tear-gassed. The Civil Human Rights Front, which organised million-strong marches in June, set another protest for Sunday. The protesters have five demands, including the complete withdrawal of a now-suspended extradition bill that would have allowed criminal suspects to be sent for trial in mainland Chinese courts. China reiterated on Wednesday that Hong Kong's protests were 'near terrorism' as more street clashes followed ugly and chaotic scenes at the airport two days ago, when protesters set upon two men they suspected of being government sympathisers. Seventeen people were arrested on Wednesday, bringing the total number detained since June to 748, police told a news conference, adding that police stations have been surrounded and attacked 76 times during the crisis. Police tactics are toughening after 10 weeks of increasingly violent confrontations between police and protesters have plunged Hong Kong into its worst crisis since it reverted from British to Chinese rule in 1997. The land force of the Eastern Theater Command of China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) yesterday condemned the violent acts from Hong Kong demonstrators. In a social media post, the troop also shared a picture showing military trucks parked outside Shenzhen Bay Sports Centre. The sports centre, nicknamed 'Silkworm Stadium' for its design, looks out to Hong Kong across Shenzhen Bay. 'The Silkworm Stadium near Shenzhen Bay is situated 56 kilometres (35 miles) from Hong Kong Airport and it takes 10 minutes to reach Hong Kong from here,' the post warned. Eastern Theater Command is one of the five military regions in China. Its jurisdiction does not include Guangdong, the province where Shenzhen is. The post in question has since been removed from Chinese messaging platform WeChat. Hong Kong has been rocked by protests over the past two months against a proposed bill that would allow people to be extradited from the city to stand trial in Communist Party-controlled courts in mainland China. The mass display of opposition to the bill has morphed into a wider pro-democracy movement that has thrown down the most significant challenge to Beijing's authority since the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997. The unrest escalated dramatically this week after anti-riot police officers stormed Hong Kong International Airport and fired pepper spray at protesters during bloody clashes. China's Hong Kong Liaison office said yesterday that anti-government protesters were no different to 'terrorists' after two mainland Chinese citizens were attacked by demonstrators at the airport on Tuesday 'for being undercover agents'. State-run media reported this week that the elements of the People's Armed Police (PAP), which is under the command of the Central Military Commission, were assembling in Shenzhen.  Some of the personnel inside the Shenzhen stadium on Thursday had armed police insignias on their camouflage fatigues, according to the AFP reporter. The security forces could be seen moving in formation inside the stadium, and occasionally running, while others rode around outside on motorbikes. Outside the stadium - which is around seven kilometres (4.5 miles) from Hong Kong - there were also dozens of trucks and armoured personnel carriers. 'I don't know why they're here, but it could be related to Hong Kong,' a ticket vendor at the stadium told AFP. The People's Daily and Global Times, two of the most powerful state-run media outlets, published videos on Monday of what it said was the PAP assembling in Shenzhen. The Global Times editor-in-chief, Hu Xijin, said the military presence in Shenzhen was a sign that China was prepared to intervene in Hong Kong. 'If they do not pull back from the cliff and continue to push the situation further beyond the critical point, the power of the state may come to Hong Kong at any time,' Hu wrote. U.S. President Donald Trump also said Tuesday American intelligence had confirmed Chinese troop movements toward the Hong Kong border. 'I hope it works out for everybody including China. I hope it works out peacefully, nobody gets hurt, nobody gets killed,' Trump said. Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, a semi-autonomous Chinese city, have staged 10 weeks of relentless protests to demand greater rights and liberties. The Asian financial hub has been governed under a 'one country, two systems' legal framework since its handover to China from Britain in 1997. Hong Kong allows far greater civil liberties than those on the mainland, but the protesters say those freedoms are eroding as mainland Chinese interference grows. The protests, which have become increasingly violent and led to Hong Kong's airport being paralysed for two days this week, have become the biggest threat to China's rule since the handover.  The Chinese military has not interfered in Hong Kong since the handover but it can should it be called on by the city's government to maintain 'public order'. James Char, a military expert at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, said the deployment to Shenzhen was both to project an image of domestic strength as well as 'a carefully calculated message to the protesters to think twice about growing or continuing with their recent intensified demonstrations'. 'We can be certain the regime understands that sending in troops to Hong Kong will inflame the protests and the protesters' anti-China grievances,' he said. The PAP are in charge of 'handling riots, turmoil, seriously violent, criminal activities, terrorist attacks and other societal security incidents', the People's Daily said in text accompanying its video on Monday. Chinese authorities have on two occasions this week linked violent protests in Hong Kong to 'terrorism'. They have consistently described protesters as 'rioters'.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7359385/Chinese-military-warns-hit-Hong-Kong-TEN-MINUTES.html 

Stories on biometrics use cases from flight boarding to onboarding, and surveillance to aid delivery made up the most-read news on Biometric Update this week. The industry continues to navigate privacy and communication issues, but also to show strong momentum. A draft of a major tender for cloud biometrics has been published by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), with an estimated $960 million blanket purchase agreement (BPA). CBP is upgrading its system to process passenger applications with facial recognition as part of its Biometric Entry procedure. The aviation industry is ready to embrace a single biometrics-based token for all touchpoints in the traveler journey, and deployments, mostly on trial basis, kept up their pace this week. A blog post from APEX (Airline Passenger Experience Association) checks in on the attitudes of people in Asia to facial recognition in airports, and finds that despite some critical voices, IBM’s “Future of Identity Report” shows 78 percent of people in the APAC region are comfortable using biometric authentication today, and 94 percent are interested in using them in the future. Biometric passports and easing border control with biometrics were also prominent among the week’s top digital ID stories from Africa. The market for facial recognition remote customer onboarding options is becoming more crowded, with Keesing, Konfirmi, and IDnow joining the fray. On the other end of the computer vision spectrum, ZDNet spotted an image recognition accuracy study of tech giants’ offerings by Perficient Digital, which showed Google taking top spot. Perhaps more interestingly, three out of four systems beat humans for tags with greater than 90 percent confidence. In more controversial facial recognition news, the technology has been deployed to London’s 67-acre Kings Cross estate, though apparently on a limited basis. In response, the AI Panel of public relations professional body CIPR urges companies to be transparent about their use of facial biometrics. “The only way to address the growing public concerns on facial recognition is through ethical, up-front communication,” states Panel deputy chair Kerry Sheehan. “Public safety benefits derived from facial recognition technologies will not be gained if issues around public trust are not addressed.” Sheehan notes the raft of existing concerns, and the lack of a law on the books in the UK to address the technology, saying it “should never be rolled out ‘by the back door’.” “Facial recognition technology has and will deliver significant improvements to society and the economy – but the benefits will only be realised if the public concerns are addressed, and that process starts with open communication.” The World Economic Forum reprints a profile of Microsoft AI ethics head Tim O’Brien and his role, as an increasing number of companies considering ethical issues related to artificial intelligence. Ever AI is distancing itself from its photo storage app roots by rebranding as Paravision, just as the company claims the top spot in the Child Exp category of NIST’s FRVT. A different idea for how to collect sensitive data is put forward by LunaDNA, which Forbes reports is offering stock interests for genomes on a ‘data sharing’ basis. Digital privacy concerns are even rising is China, according to an AsiaOne report, where declining to share personal information can prevent individuals from being able to view a restaurant menu or purchase a movie ticket. Earnings reports are rolling in, and Egis Technology’s 28 percent year-over-year revenue gain received a lot of attention this week. Mobile biometrics companies could receive a continued boost from Google’s rollout of biometric authentication for its services on Android, though the initial launch is modest in scope.  HYPR’s use of biometrics and decentralized data to replace passwords and data honeypots, and Samsung NEXT’s belief in the technology as the most cost-effective way for businesses to defeat hackers and protect customer data are discussed in a company blog post. Mastercard, meanwhile, is going after mobile payments with a solution leveraging behavioral biometrics in India, a partnership with mobile payment app Mezu, and the Apple Card, which will feature on-device biometrics and also require a one-time code. The UNHCR’s biometric registration program for Rohingya refugees has surpassed half a million people, which also makes it more than halfway to completion. The agency has now launched its biometrics-based Global Distribution Tool to improve aid delivery efficiency. The World Bank has published an article outlining the potential benefits of inclusive and trusted digital ID for the world’s most vulnerable people. ID4D Group-supported projects including Morocco’s new digital ID and National Population Registry (NPR) and the careful balance they must strike to deliver their intended benefits without introducing new harms are discussed, and examples given in the style of ID4D’s hashtag campaign #EveryID Has a Story. “IDs are taken for granted by those who have them,” says World Bank Vice President for Infrastructure Makhtar Diop. “But lack of identification creates barriers for each individual affected and for the countries they live in.” A major risk made headlines this week, as the discovery of a vulnerability in the BioStar 2 biometric access control system by vpnMentor seems to have come in time to prevent a major leak of unencrypted biometric data.

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