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Aug 13th, 2019
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Israel Would “Spark War” By Joining US Flotilla In Gulf: Iran’s Navy Chief
Follows separate threat that “smoke will rise from Tel Aviv” as Israel mulls support to proposed joint maritime coalition in Persian Gulf.

Hong Kong airport shuts down amid pro-democracy protest
One of the world’s busiest airports canceled all flights after thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators crowded into Hong Kong’s main terminal Monday, while the central government in Beijing issued an ominous characterization of the protest movement as something approaching “terrorism.”

More Bad News Out Of Beijing: China’s Credit Engine Breaks Down
It’s been a bad year for China, and it’s only getting worse.

White House approves rule that penalizes immigrants who use forms of welfare like food stamps
The Trump administration announced a new “public charge” rule Monday, which takes into account immigrants’ use of government benefits when deciding whether to award them permanent status.

“Heads Must Roll”: Outrage Grows Over Epstein’s Mysterious Suicide
“Heads must roll,” said Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse (R), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee in a blistering Saturday letter to AG Barr. “Every single person in the Justice Department — from your Main Justice headquarters staff all the way to the night-shift jailer — knew that this man was a suicide risk, and that his dark secrets couldn’t be allowed to die with him,”

Scalise: Trump No More Responsible for El Paso Than ‘Bernie Sanders Is for My Shooting’
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) said President Donald Trump’s was no more responsible for the mass shooting in El Paso, TX than Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was for one of his supporters shooting a Republican baseball practice in 2017, which severely wounded Scalise.

Pope Francis Proposes ‘Europe First’ Against Populist Nationalism
“The thinking must be ‘Europe first, then each one of us,’” the pope said in a wide-ranging interview with the Italian daily La Stampa. “‘Each one of us’ is not secondary, it is important, but Europe counts more.” “Never forget that ‘the whole is greater than the parts.’ Globalization, unity, should not be conceived as a sphere, but as a polyhedron: each people retains its identity in unity with others,” he said.

City Denies Permit For Straight Pride Parade, Tells Organizers To Find New Venue
Reeves says straight pride organizers can apply for another permit to hold the event at an alternative site not in a residential area and will still have to ensure they have proper insurance. Don Grundmann, the outspoken organizer of the National Straight Pride Coalition, said he is being set up to fail. “My presumption is that were being set up to be told that the bureaucratic process won’t be completed in time,” Grundmann said.

Epstein death: ‘The word around the street is the Clintons did it’
On Saturday afternoon, President Trump retweeted messages insinuating the Clintons may have had some sort of connection to Epstein’s sudden death. One read: “BREAKING: Documents were unsealed yesterday revealing that top Democrats, including Bill Clinton, took private trips to Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘pedophilia island.’” JefferyEpstein had information on Bill Clinton & now he’s dead.

Islamic Jihad, Hamas threaten Israel after Jews ascend Temple Mount
Police were forced to storm the Temple Mount, firing stun grenades in an attempt to disperse crowds of Muslims protesting against the gathering of Jews at the entrance to the mount who wanted to enter to mark Tisha Be’av, the day commemorating the destruction of the First and Second Temples. According to police figures, 1,729 Jewish worshipers ascended the Temple Mount Sunday.

Sixth-generation fighters and the future of air supremacy
Not surprisingly, sixth-generation fighters are the next technological level after today’s fifth-generation fighters like the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter, which is a stealthy, high-performance, multi-role aircraft that is most notable for its ability to use high-speed data links to directly share information from sensors and avionics.

Ohio defunds Planned Parenthood, funnels $7.5M to life-affirming pregnancy centers
…As Planned Parenthood is being defunded of $1.5 million in annual state funds this year, pro-life pregnancy centers are being allocated $7.5 million in Ohio’s state budget. Taken together, these two changes represent a bold stride for protecting unborn lives and supporting women’s well-being at the state level…

Yet Another Mass Shooting Leaves 6 Wounded
…but where are the Democratic Party nominees and the news media crews?

Hepatitis A vaccine: Outbreak spreads, shadows opioid epidemic
Since 2016, the virus has spawned outbreaks in at least 29 states, starting with Michigan and California. It’s sickened more than 23,600 people, sent the majority to the hospital and killed more than 230. All but California’s and Utah’s outbreaks are ongoing, and experts expect to eventually see the virus seep into every state.

India floods: Death toll reaches 95 as monsoon rains force hundreds of thousands to flee homes
The death toll from floods in India’s states of Karnataka, Kerala and Maharashtra rose to 95, official figures showed on Saturday, as heavy rain and landslides forced hundreds of thousands to evacuate their homes.

Japan: Third tropical cyclone set to hit country in as many weeks
Krosa is expected to be the third tropical cyclone to hit Japan in the wake of Typhoon Francisco and Tropical Storm Nari.

The West Coast is a literal toilet: 80% of coastal areas infected with toxic feces (biosludge), warns Dr. Drew
California is experiencing a homelessness crisis of unprecedented proportions, and it is now endangering the health and safety of every single person living in the state, particularly those who live in coastal areas.

Billionaire George Soros Exposed, Had Secret Access To Highest Levels Of Government 
Soros got caught – now Democrats are taking a big hit! For decades, Democrats have condemned Republicans for being influenced by big donors—well isn’t this ironic! All along, Democrats have been catering to one super-rich liberal. A man by the name of George Soros.

Muslims Clash with Israeli Police at Jerusalem Holy Site
Muslim worshippers and Israeli police clashed Sunday at a major Jerusalem holy site during prayers marking the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha.

San Francisco saw 150 percent spike in fentanyl-related deaths last year, report says
The number of deaths from fentanyl overdoses in San Francisco jumped by nearly 150 percent last year, according to a report by the city’s public health department made public this week.

Gay Hollywood Designer Describes Dramatic ‘Damascus Road’ Conversion to Christianity
…If you would’ve told him that one day he’d be a devoted Christian who adhered to the Biblical view of sexuality and be a Christian author, he very well might’ve thrown his coffee at you. But that’s exactly – and miraculously – what happened.

Illinois Passes Law Forcing All State Schools To Begin Teaching LGBTQ+P For Pedophile History Lessons To ‘Neutralize Religion’ In The Classroom
I hate to be the one to tell you, Christian, but we are losing the battle against the forces of rising darkness here in America, with more ground lost each and every day. Illinois is not the only state to force schools to begin teaching LGBTQ+P for Pedophile history lessons, and within 2 years, there will not be a state that does not have that as a requirement. When that happens, on what basis then do you stop such wickedness like Drag Queen Story Hour from taking place in your public library? The answer is you can’t, and you won’t legally be able to do anything about it.

Texodus: Why are Texas Republicans in Congress bolting for the exits, and what does it mean for 2020?
Four rapid-fire retirement announcements by Texas Republicans in Congress have prompted fresh soul-searching for a political party that’s seeing its decades-long dominance in the Lone Star State start to teeter.

Trade War Chaos Collapses Farm Equipment Sales Across Midwest
“Overall, this is a perfect storm for US farmers” 

California Curriculum Shows the Price of Complacency About Bds
Aug 13th, 2019
CommentaryJONATHAN TOBIN/JNS.ORG
Categories: The Nation Of Israel

As far as leftist critics of the push against BDS is concerned, the effort to focus on it is out of proportion to any actual danger, and they think it distracts Jews from dealing with other threats that are more urgent and important.

The notion that BDS poses no real menace to the Jewish community is utterly bogus. Proof of that comes from California where, as a JNS feature pointed out, an anti-Israel and anti-Semitic ethnic-studies curriculum being promulgated by the state of California has illustrated just where complacency about BDS can lead us.

The ethnic-studies model that has been proposed and is currently under review by the California Department of Education remains a watershed moment for the BDS movement. On the one hand, the proposal completely ignores the history and contributions of Jews as an ethnic and religious group in the United States. 

On the other, it fully embraces a course of study about Arabs that views the Palestinian war on Israel solely from the point of view of those who wish to destroy the Jewish state.

Should this proposal be accepted by California and become part of a course to offer every high school student in the nation's most populous state, it would mean that Jews would be erased as a group from America's mosaic of immigrant groups while playing the role of bloodthirsty villains victimizing Palestinians.

Perhaps the most astonishing aspect of this curriculum is that it makes no effort to conceal or soft-pedal its bias against Jews. Israel is depicted as a colonial settler state whose creation was a "disaster" (the nakba), and those who fight against it, including figures who are open about their anti-Semitism such as Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), activist Linda Sarsour and the late academic Edward Said are heroes and role models to be emulated.

Not only does BDS--a movement grounded in the anti-Semitic effort to deny legitimacy to and destroy the one Jewish state on the planet--get favorable treatment, but the curriculum also includes mentions of anti-Semitic songs. 

Its effort to fight stereotypes is predicated on the notion that any attempt to call attention to anti-Israel terrorism and efforts to eliminate the Jewish state is a form of prejudice, rather than a statement of the facts about a conflict the Palestinians refuse to end.

The curriculum is a product not merely of the successful efforts of a handful of influential anti-Israel academics, but of the intersectional ideology that spawned them, which treats the war on the Jewish state as analogous to the struggle for civil rights in the United States.

What impact would such a curriculum have on Jewish students?

As is the case on college campuses where BDS efforts have spread, Jews will be faced with a situation where to speak out in favor of Jewish rights and the Jewish state will subject them to opprobrium, isolation and bullying from both teachers and students. A hostile atmosphere will be created where Jewish identity is treated as inherently suspect, if not proof of white privilege that must be disavowed in order to find acceptance.

But as bad as the environment may be on some campuses where such sentiments prevail, it would be even worse for high school students, who are even more poorly equipped to fight back against this kind of anti-Semitism than those in college.

Fortunately, activists and state legislators have sounded the alarm about this proposal. The ethnic-studies courses that the state will be promulgating in California as a result of a 2016 law require a period of public comment and review before being finally approved next year. 

Given the uproar, it is to be hoped that state officials will realize the mistake that they've made. This should mean that Jews won't be ignored in the new curriculum, and that the Arab-American studies will no longer read like Hamas propaganda.

But the larger point here is that the curriculum explodes the idea that BDS is irrelevant to the safety of American Jews.

Should American high school students be subjected to state-mandated courses that demonize Jews and Jewish rights while extolling those who promote anti-Semitism and commit violence against Jews, it will put a target on the back of every Jewish kid in the state, especially those who have the temerity to stand up against this pernicious campaign of hate.

While Americans should celebrate the great diversity of our nation, what is happening in California demonstrates how intersectional ideology can weaponize the term in order to trash Jews and Israel.

The exceptionalism that sets the United States apart from virtually every other nation on the planet is rooted in the fact that the vast majority of Americans are sympathetic to the Jewish people and Zionism. It is also because the government, in the words of George Washington in his 1790 letter to the Jewish community of Newport, R.I., gives to "bigotry, no sanction, to persecution no assistance," with respect to the Jews.

The proposed California curriculum's support for BDS would give the lie to that pledge.

The curriculum must not only be rejected; the controversy itself should also serve as a wakeup call to Jews and decent persons of all faiths. The real lesson is that the need to fight BDS and its left-wing variant of anti-Semitism is no minor issue and, in fact, must be a priority if we are to preserve the promise of American liberty.

Abraham Went Down into Egypt Pt. 2
Aug 13th, 2019
Morning MeditationF.B. Meyer
Categories: Inspirational;Book Study

How often do professing Christians adopt a hurt and injured tone in speaking of God's dealings with them! They look back upon a sunny past, and complain that it was better with them before they entered the wicket gate and commenced to tread the narrow way. Since that moment they have met with nothing but disaster. They had no famines in Ur or Charran; but now, in the Land of Promise, they are put to sore straits and are driven to their wits' end. The trader has met with bad debts, which sorely embarrass him; the capitalist has been disappointed in several of his most promising investments; the farmer has been disheartened by a succession of bad seasons. And they complain that the service of God has brought them misfortune rather than a blessing.

But is not this the point to be borne in mind on the other side? These misfortunes would probably have come in any case; and how much less tolerable would they have been had there not been the new sweet consciousness that God had now become the refuge of the soul! Besides this, God our Father does not undertake to repay His children in the base coin of this lower world. Spiritual grace will ever be its own reward. Purity, truth, gentleness, devotion, have no equivalent in the ore drawn from the mines of Peru, nor in the pearls of the sea; but in the happy consciousness of the heart at peace with God, and rejoicing in His smile. Had God pledged Himself to give His servants an unbroken run of prosperity, how many more counterfeit Christians would there be! Well is it that He has made no such promise; though it is certainly true that "godliness has the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come." Do not be surprised if a famine meets you. It is no proof of your Father's anger, but is permitted to come to test you -- or to root you deeper, as the whirlwind makes the tree grapple its roots deeper into the soil.  - F.B. Meyer