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Let the Headlines Speak
Aug 2nd, 2019
Daily NewsFrom the Internet
Categories: Today's Headlines

Goliath’s City Is More Than Myth
Until this summer, decades of excavations at the ancient Philistine city of Gath had failed to uncover structural remains from the time of young David’s famous victory against Goliath. Now, as if by chance, excavations have uncovered a hitherto unknown layer at biblical Gath (Tell es-Safi). The initial results show that this older city is better and, let’s say, more gigantic than anything discovered so far.

Intel says Osama bin Laden’s son is dead, NBC News reports
The United States has obtained intelligence that the son of former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is reportedly dead, according to NBC News. NBC cited three anonymous U.S. officials who said the U.S. has obtained intel that Hamza bin Laden is dead, NBC first reported on Wednesday. Hamza’s death is not confirmed, nor are the circumstances of his death known.

Pro-Third Temple Politician: Prepare for War
Responding to reports of an upcoming Israeli-Arab Peace summit hosted by the Trump administration, former MK Moshe Feiglin said that the result of this initiative will be a “war. Moshe Feiglin, a former parliament member and current head of the Zehut party took to social media saying that the “outcome of Trump’s upcoming Peace summit, like all previous peace summits, will be a war”. “To comprehend this, one must understand that the objective of a “Palestinian” is not sovereignty (for this non-nation) in Israel but rather the elimination of Jewish sovereignty” Feiglin added.

Sen. Rand Paul to Ilhan Omar: I’ll fund ticket to Somalia
“Well, she came here and we fed her, we clothed her, she got welfare, she got [schooling], she got healthcare, and then, lo and behold, she has the honor of actually winning a seat in Congress, and she says we’re a terrible country?” Rand said about Omar. “I think that’s about as ungrateful as you can get.”

Top Rabbi In Israel: We Must Build The Third Temple
The former Rabbi of the Old City of Jerusalem and one of the leading rabbis in Israel today said in an interview: “we must do everything in our power to build the Temple”. …the Rabbi stated that despite delays by Israel’s High Court, explicitly stated that we must do everything in our power to build it and not wait for it to fall from the sky.

European Superstate: A Massive Expansion Of Central Power Coming Soon
Former German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen has been narrowly confirmed as the next President of the European Commission, the powerful administrative arm of the European Union. An examination of von der Leyen’s policy proposals, reveals that she is calling for a massive expansion of top-down powers of the European Commission. Her proposals would substantially increase the role of Brussels in virtually all aspects of economic and social life in Europe — all at the expense of national sovereignty. She wants to build a centralized, undemocratic, updated form of Communism that will render [obsolete] nation state parliaments, where the state controls everything, where nation state parliaments will cease to have any relevance at all.

Human-animal hybrids to be developed in Japan after ban controversially lifted
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. But opponents have raised concerns that scientists are playing God.

Drug-Resistant Superbug Spreading Throughout European Hospitals
The spread of Klebsiella pneumoniae is “extremely concerning” according to reserarchers with the Sanger Institute, who warn that other bacteria could become similarly resistant to “last resort” drugs known as carbapenems ‘because of the unique way bacteria have sex.’ “The alarming thing is these bacteria are resistant to one of the key last-line antibiotics,” said Dr. Sophia David of the Sanger Institute, adding “The infections are associated with a high mortality rate.”

Church of the Apostles discovered near Sea of Galilee, archaeologists say
The Church of the Apostles, which is said to have been built over the house of Jesus’ disciples Peter and Andrew, has been discovered near Israel’s Sea of Galilee, according to a team of American and Israeli archaeologists.

Rouhani says ‘childish’ of U.S. to sanction Iran foreign minister Zarif 
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani accused the United States of “childish behavior” on Thursday over Washington’s sanctioning of Iran’s foreign minister amid rising tensions between the two countries. The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. Washington has previously proposed unconditional talks with Tehran.

IDF officer, two soldiers injured in exchange of fire at the Gaza border 
An IDF officer and two soldiers were injured and a Hamas militant killed in an exchange of fire at the border with the Gaza Strip on early Thursday morning, the IDF confirmed. According to IDF Spokesperson Brig.-Gen. Ronen Manelis, the initial investigation into the incident has found that the Palestinan was identified by troops at 2am approaching the border fence in the area of Kissufim in southern Israel.

Hamza Bin Laden ‘killed in air strike’
Hamza Bin Laden, the son of al-Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden, died in an air strike, US media outlets report, citing intelligence officials. The place and date of death were unclear. The Pentagon did not comment. Bin Laden, thought to be aged about 30, had released audio and video messages calling for attacks on the US and other countries.

Brexit: £2.1bn extra for no-deal planning
The government has announced an extra £2.1bn of funding to prepare for a no-deal Brexit – doubling the amount of money it has set aside this year. The plans include more border force officers and upgrades to transport infrastructure at ports. There will also be more money to ease traffic congestion in Kent and tackle queues created by delays at the border.

Flood of illegal migrants to the border outpaces last two years with 1.1M expected in fiscal year 2019
Federal law enforcement…are expected to encounter 1.1 million people trying to cross illegally by the end of the fiscal year Sept. 30, despite Mexico’s assistance… Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Ron Johnson forecast the 1.1 million figure…based off the number of people arrested for illegally entering between border crossings and those who presented at ports of entry but were deemed ineligible for admittance.

White House aide denies peace summit planned for Camp David
A senior White House official denied Wednesday that President Donald Trump is planning a summit of Arab leaders at Camp David to unveil his self-styled “deal of the century” for Middle East peace. The plan to hold the summit was first revealed in Ynet’s sister publication Yedioth Ahronoth on Wednesday morning.

Trump firms up plan to import medicines; pharma companies resist
The Trump administration took a step Wednesday toward allowing importation of medicines from Canada…as a way to bring cheaper prescription drugs to Americans, but the pharmaceutical industry was quick to resist the move. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said it and the Food and Drug Administration will propose a rule that will allow it to authorize states and other groups to pursue pilot projects…to importing drugs from Canada.

Fed cuts interest rates, signals it may not need to do more
The Federal Reserve cut interest rates on Wednesday, but…said the move might not be the start of a lengthy campaign to shore up the economy against risks including global weakness. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell cited signs of a global slowdown, simmering U.S. trade tensions and a desire to boost too-low inflation in explaining the central bank’s decision to lower borrowing costs for the first time since 2008…

HUGE! Joe diGenova: Declassification Process Will Start THIS WEEK, by Wednesday — Criminal Investigation of Senior Obama DOJ and FBI Officials!! (AUDIO)
…During his interview diGenova announced the declassification process will begin this week. AG Bill Barr is getting it ready to come out. Joe diGenova added that this is a criminal investigation of senior DOJ and FBI officials under Obama.

Siberian Wildfires Swell to Crimea-Sized Area, Authorities Say Extinguishing Them Is ‘Pointless’
Massive wildfires sweeping through Russia have spread to an area the size of annexed Crimea as regional authorities have been slow to declare emergencies and firefighting efforts have been scaled back.

Minnesota Weather: Temperatures Dip To 37 Degrees In International Falls, Breaking 121-Year-Old Record 
While the calendar says Minnesota is in the middle of summer, it felt like fall in northern Minnesota on Tuesday morning. A new daily low-temperature record was set in International Falls, where the mercury dipped to 37 degrees, breaking the record (38 degrees) set back in 1898.

Two hurricanes, one a Category 3, are moving toward Hawaii 
Two hurricanes, one of them a Category 3, are moving toward the Hawaiian islands — one heading straight for the island chain and another tracking slightly south.

We Just Witnessed 3 Major Developments That Could Easily Lead To Global War
There is so much apathy in our society today, and so little knowledge about foreign affairs… most people simply do not grasp the importance of the drama that is playing out right in front of our eyes…

79-Year-Old Woman Was Just Sentenced To Prison For Feeding Stray Cats 
“It began in 2017 with me feeding stray kitties. I used to have a neighbor that had a couple cats and he moved away so he left them,” Segula said. “I would always feed them and care for them because I was worried about them and I’m a cat lover. Once my neighbors got upset about it, they called the animal warden.”

The Camp Pendleton Affair Demonstrates Every Federal Agency Has Been Infiltrated by the Deep State
…Surprised? Why should America be surprised? The Democratic Party has forsaken its once mainstay base of inner-city residents in favor of representing the illegal immigrants that are flooding into our country. Leaving out the decent human beings that illegally cross our border, we are witnessing drug dealers, child-sex-traffickers, hardcore terrorists, the hitmen from MS-13, ISIS, etc., crossing our border in force.

Yet Another Freight Company Unexpectedly Ceases Operations And Closes Its Doors
This closure marks the seventh freight company to shut down in 2019 alone…

MORE LIES: Liberal Media Runs Story About Seesaws on Border Wall that Allow Children in US and Mexico to Play Together — Close-Up Shot Shows THEY’RE ALL ADULTS
NBC News ran a lovely story about how a liberal architect was able to build seesaws on the border that allow children from Mexico to play with children from the US. How sweet. It was a plug for open borders. But when you look at a closeup they’re all adult liberal activists on the seesaws.

Study traces location of major nuclear release in 2017 to southern Urals
…”This must have been a sizeable, yet undeclared nuclear accident,” study authors said. The study presents the most compelling monitoring dataset of this release, comprising 1 100 atmospheric and 200 deposition data points from the Eurasian region. The data suggest a release from a nuclear reprocessing facility located in the Southern Urals, possibly from the Mayak nuclear complex.

Creation Of Human And Animal Embryo Hybrids Set To Begin In Japan After Government Gives Green Light To Controversial Stem Cell Experiments
Remember all those crazy, nutty conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones who warned about the coming ‘pig men’ and ‘human animal chimeras’? Well, Alex Jones is a nut, and is wrong about a whole lot of things, but he was right about this one. Transhumanism is a thing, and it’s coming soon to a theater near you, only in real life and not on the screen. The ‘pig man’ from Seinfeld may well turn out to be more prophecy than comedy.

The Laodicean Evangelical Professing Christian Church Is Turning Gay And Embracing LGBTQ+ Movement As The Great Falling Away Nearly Complete
…one of the problems with such a vast expanse of news and information is the news cycle is so short that we forget the older stuff and new stuff comes in. Such is the case with the incredible rush by the Laodicean professing Christian church to 1). embrace the LGBTQ+P for Pedophile community and affirm them in that lifestyle, and 2). pastors and other Laodicean church leaders who have actually come out as gay. There have been a lot of these stories, but as time goes on we forget

Child porn investigation ensnares Miami-Dade County day care
Police and the Department of Homeland Security launched an early-morning raid Monday on a family-run day care in the Miami-Dade County area as part of a child pornography investigation.

Beauty Salons Being Shut Down for Refusing Wax Services to Transgenders
Aug 2nd, 2019
CommentaryJOHN STONESTREET/BREAKPOINT.ORG
Categories: Moral Decline

You might think this is another story about transgender activism. And in a way, it is. But at an even deeper level, this is a story about postmodernism. Stick with me on this.

Canada's National Post recently reported that a British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal heard the case of Jessica Yaniv, who accused a home beauty salon owner of illegal discrimination. 

The owner refused to give Yaniv a Brazilian wax. If you don't know that term, it means the complete removal of hair from, well, sensitive areas.

Yaniv is a transgender woman. In other words, Yaniv is biologically and anatomically male, identifies as a woman, and has not undergone any kind of surgical transition.

Salon owner Marcia Da Silva normally offers this service to women. 

She told the tribunal that she has no problem with LGBT individuals, and that she'd even be okay offering her services to a biological man who'd already surgically transitioned. 

But she was not comfortable working on male body parts. 

She was so shaken by the incident, she chose to shut down her business. And she's not the first victim.

Apparently, Yaniv is something of an activist. He's filed over a dozen civil rights complaints against salons who refused to wax him. 

According to the National Post, while some of these cases have been dropped or settled, Da Silva's case went to hearing, where Yaniv compared her to a Neo-Nazi, and said that if she wasn't forced to give him the wax he wanted, it would set a "dangerous" precedent.

Now, we could talk about how this circus is the inevitable result of LGBT ideology, and how, once again, the "how will my private choice affect you?" line has been demonstrated false. 

To paraphrase one popular Twitter user, we sure escalated quickly from "bake my cake."

It's important to notice that the crusade of this narcissistic individual is based on the same claim made by those who sued Jack Philips: that a business should not discriminate based on sexual orientation or gender identity. 

Well, if that's really a principle courts and tribunals want to enforce, it won't just apply to gay wedding cakes. It will mean compelling beauty salon owners to do and see things in way that amounts to a sexual violation.

While transgenderism is certainly one of the branches bearing this new troubling fruit of violating other's consciences, decency, and innocence, it's not the root. The root idea is an older idea: postmodernism.

At its heart, postmodernism posits that neither revelation nor reason can give us the story of reality. 

In fact, according to postmodernism, there is no universal, discernible story of reality. Truth is a social construct for the postmodernist, even observable truths like male and female. 

External, seemingly objective facts are, to the postmodernist, clouded by our endless interpretations, which are shaped by our own experiences and cultural biases, and whatever meanings we want to attach to them.

Postmodernists hold that certain viewpoints and interpretations have been oppressed and disempowered. 

So, for the last few decades, there's been a concerted effort to elevate and prioritize those viewpoints, whether they correspond to reality or not.

This is how people like Marcia Da Silva find themselves dragged before human rights tribunals for not landscaping male genitalia. 

Somehow, in a strange ideological twist of reality, she is the oppressor, and Yaniv is the oppressed. 

This is exactly what's happened wherever a postmodern worldview has been applied - in the name of elevating a viewpoint, another one is oppressed.

Of course, Yaniv may have never even read a postmodern philosopher. 

But bad ideas can become entrenched and unquestioned in our minds and our culture in all kinds of ways. 

And as long as we're committed to reality being something individuals can never really know, but can always remake and impose on others, the victims of these bad ideas will continue to multiply, and the demands will become ever more nakedly absurd.

A Sacrifice of Peace - Offering - Leviticus 3:1
Aug 2nd, 2019
Morning MeditationF. B. Meyer
Categories: Commentary;Inspirational;Book Study

In the burnt-offering the priest burnt all, but in the peace-offering a part only was burned, "the fat, kidneys, and caul." The inner parts were consumed as God's portion, whilst Aaron and his sons fed on the breast and the shoulder. In that feast God and the priests participated; and it is an emblem of our participation in the joy of God, over the person and work of Jesus.

Think of this blessed feast with God. We who were once far off in the wicked and hostile imaginings, are now made nigh; we sit at God's table as His children, and hear Him say, Let us make merry and be glad; this My son was dead, and is alive again.

We have Peace with God. - We are justified by faith in Jesus. In Him we stand before God, accepted and beloved. The curse is exchanged for blessing; distance for presence; the husks of the swine for the fatted calf. The past is forever under the blood; above us is the clear heaven of God's love.

We have the Peace of God. - The very peace that fills our Father's heart, undisturbed by the storms of care and strife which sweeps this lower world, is ours also. We sit in heavenly places; His peace, like a sentry, keeps our hearts and minds against molestation; the peace of God rules in us, bringing every thought into subjection to itself. We have perfect peace because our mind is stayed on Him.

We have the God of Peace. - According to the Apostle's fervent hope and prayer, He is with us. Not the gift, but the Giver; not I, but He; not the river only, but the source. We may well open our doors to admit such a guest, in having whom we received the Author and Giver of concord, unity, and unbroken rest.

A Generation of School Teachers Who See Their Jobs As Political Advocacy
Aug 2nd, 2019
CommentaryMICHAEL BROWN/ASKDRBROWN.ORG
Categories: Warning

If you ever wondered if our children's educational system was politically biased, then look no further than the National Education Association (NEA). It is unashamedly leftist, aggressively for abortion, decidedly pro-LGBT, and unapologetically hostile to those who dare challenge the status quo. 

Still, we are sometimes blissfully (and even willfully) ignorant of just how politicized our children's schools can be. But this email, sent to me by a school teacher, the wife of a Facebook friend, will help shock us back to reality. (We'll call her Sarah.)

Sadly, I have heard an endless stream of similar stories for years now. This is just the freshest in my mind.

Sarah copied a tweet from another teacher, then wrote:

Hello Dr. Brown. This is what has happened to my profession. Please note the rainbow flag and how many likes this received. I can tell you that this not isolated. I'm a K-6 teacher who has taught public school in Florida, Nevada, and California. It is pervasive. 

I now teach through a public virtual charter school which allows parents more voice. At my last teaching position before I moved to the charter, the principal called a staff meeting where he told us that we would teach LGBTQ "inclusion" beginning in Kindergarten, that he believed one of our Pre-K students may be LGBTQ because for "Dress like a prince or princess day" she wanted to be a prince. 

Also in this staff meeting he let us know that if a student OR a parent had a problem with us teaching LGBTQ that we should send them to the principal's office so he could "tell them how they are wrong". Can you imagine being a Christian Kindergartner being sent to the principal's office to be bullied into LGBTQ submission? This is why I encourage everyone I speak with to homeschool, or choose an alternative form of schooling if they can.

Yes, this is the kind of pressure Sarah was under teaching in an elementary school. (One first-grade teacher talked to me about the pro-LGBT pressure she was under, explaining that to resist it was to lose her job -- teaching first grade!) Can you imagine what the atmosphere is like in high-schools?

A Teacher Who Sees His Job as Political Advocacy

The tweet Sarah was referring to was posted by Jed Dearbury and read:

"New teachers, I'm sorry if we veteran educators have misguided you about the profession. It's not about cute classrooms & trendy ideas. It's political. It's advocacy. It's the front line of battle for the future of our nation. Go no further if you're not ready."

Related Dearybury tweets included: "If your definition of teacher leadership doesn't include actively being a voice for marginalized students, it's past time to rewrite your philosophy."

And, "If the reason you don't like to speak up on social justice issues on social media is because this account is your 'professional educator' account, Guess what... professional educators should be advocating for social justice because students are counting you to do so."

Now, I fully understand that, from Dearbury's perspective, he is doing the right thing. The noble thing. The courageous thing.

He believes it is his duty, along with the duty of other educators, to get political and to advocate for social justice causes, not just in the classroom but on social media and elsewhere.

And I imagine that if he and I ever sat down together, he would explain to me why teachers must stand up for perceived LGBT rights and other socially divisive causes. In his words, "It's the front line of battle for the future of our nation."

I understand he feels that way, and I have no desire to demonize him as a person.

I simply reject his premises, categorically and from the heart.

Liberal Indoctrination Doesn't Belong at School

First, parents are not sending their children to school to be indoctrinated by politically correct teachers. They're not sending their kids to discover the definition of gender queer. Or to hear a revisionist retelling of American history. Or to understand the evils of toxic masculinity. Or to master the intricacies of intersectionality.

They're sending their kids to learn to read and write and do math. To get a grasp of geography and science and world literature. To learn about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln (without speculating on their sexuality -- yes, there are gay activists who want to claim both of them as gay!).

Second, the educational industry has no business pressuring teachers or students or parents to conform to its leftist ideologies.

Really now, why on earth should the NEA take a public stance on abortion, for example? What does this have to do with the so-called three R's?