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Sep 3rd, 2019
Daily NewsFrom the Internet
Categories: Today's Headlines

New Study Confirms: People Aren’t Born Gay
The findings that were published on Thursday, were based on the genomes of almost 500,000 people, support the results of earlier, smaller studies while confirming the suspicions of a lot of scientists: although sexual preferences possess a genetic component, no single gene has a significant effect on sexual behaviors. “There is no ‘gay gene’,” said lead study author Andrea Ganna, a geneticist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

After Firing the First Shot, Lebanon Begs U.S, France to Save them from Israel
On Sunday, the prime minister of Lebanon asked the United States and France to intervene after the Hezbollah terror organization fired anti-tank missiles at an Israeli patrol vehicle, leading to the retaliatory fire by the IDF reports TOI. PM Saad Hariri got in touch with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and French President Emmanuel Macron’s diplomatic team in an effort to urge immediate intervention by their countries as well as “the international community is facing the developments on the southern border,” Hariri said in a statement.

Nations Invited for Animal Sacrifice on Mount of Olives Renewing Noah’s Covenant
On September 25, the 5,780th anniversary of the day on which Jewish tradition holds the world was created, the Sanhedrin is holding a conference for the emerging Organization of 70 Nations. The conference will culminate in an animal sacrifice made by representatives of the nations on the Mount of Olives in which they will renew the covenant made by Noah upon leaving the Ark.

ICC to reopen war crimes probe against Israel – breaking 
The International Criminal Court’s top appeals chamber on Monday reopened the case of war crimes allegations relating to the 2010 Mavi Marmara flotilla. After years of attempting to go after top Israeli political and military officials…the split decision of the ICC Appeals Chamber keeps the case alive, although it does not mean that Israel will lose.

Modernized Israel-Canada free trade agreement enters into force 
A modernized and expanded Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement (CIFTA) entered into force on Sunday following ratification by both governments, widening the sectors of trade cooperation between the countries. Under the upgraded agreement, Israelis will enjoy tariff-free or reduced tariff access to the Canadian market to sell food items including grain products, fresh vegetables and fruit, wines and more.

Hamas chief pens letter to Iranian supreme leader, praising administrative support 
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh penned a letter to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei praising the Iranian government for their “extensive” support of the Hamas-ruled Gaza coastal enclave, according to Khamenei’s official website. Haniyeh conveyed his “utter joy [for] Iran’s readiness to equip the resistance for whatever it needs to discharge its duty” to Khamenei adding that he thanks God for his presence.

Brexit: Government wants to purge Tory rebels, says ex-minister Gauke
The government is trying to “purge” Tory rebels who oppose it over Brexit, ex-Justice Secretary David Gauke says. A senior source from the whips’ office – which ensures MPs vote on party lines – said those who voted to block no deal would be expelled and deselected. The threat came as opposition MPs prepared to introduce legislation in an effort to avoid no deal.

Argentina imposes currency controls to support economy
Argentina has imposed currency controls in an attempt to stabilise markets as the country faces a deepening financial crisis. The government will restrict foreign currency purchases following a sharp drop in the value of the peso. Firms will have to seek central bank permission to sell pesos to buy foreign currency and to make transfers abroad.

Hezbollah fires rockets into Israel from Lebanon
The Lebanese Shia Muslim militant group Hezbollah has fired several anti-tank rockets into northern Israel in retaliation for a reported Israeli drone attack in Beirut last week. Israeli military sources confirmed rockets had been fired at an Israeli army base and military vehicles. The Israeli army responded by attacking targets in southern Lebanon.

Xinhua warns ‘end is coming’ for Hong Kong protesters
China issued a stern warning to Hong Kong protesters as well as the West on Sunday, reiterating that it will not tolerate any attempt to undermine Chinese sovereignty over the city. “The end is coming for those attempting to disrupt Hong Kong and antagonize China,” stated a commentary piece published by the state’s Xinhua News Agency.

Governments Shut Down the Internet to Stifle Critics. Citizens Pay the Price.
When Zimbabwe turned off the internet during a recent crackdown, Obert Masaraure, a prominent government critic, had no way of knowing when it was safe to emerge from hiding. He waited one day, then another. On the third day he broke cover, hoping that a wave of arrests had come to an end. He was seized at home by soldiers 12 hours later.

Iran warns of ‘strong step’ from atomic deal if no new terms
Iran will “take a strong step” away from its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers if Europe cannot offer the country new terms by a deadline at the end of this week, a government spokesman said…as top Iranian diplomats traveled to France and Russia for last-minute talks. The comments from Ali Rabiei reinforced the deadline Iran had set for Friday for Europe to offer it a way to sell its crude oil on the global market.

UK considers deploying drones to the Gulf amid Iran tensions
The United Kingdom is considering deploying British drones to the Gulf amid tensions with Iran, Sky News reported early on Monday. UK’s Royal Air Force (RAF) has a number of Reaper drones based in nearby Kuwait and flying over Iraq and Syria. These could be re-tasked if the decision to deploy drones to the Gulf is taken, Sky News said.

Very deep M6.7 earthquake hits 34 km (21 miles) NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji
A very deep earthquake registered by the USGS as M6.7 hit Fiji region at 15:54 UTC on September 1, 2019. The agency is reporting a depth of 604 km (375 miles). EMSC is reporting M6.7 at a depth of 608 km (377 miles). The epicenter was located 34 km (21 miles) NNE of Ndoi Island and 335 km (208 miles) SE of Levuka, Fiji. There are about 900 people living within 100 km (62 miles).

Satanic Temple Reveals Campaign Targeting Evangelicals
… the requirements involved with joining the Temple saying: “A commitment to Satan is not required to join the Temple, although a commitment to trolling anti-LGBT evangelicals is desirable.” The Satanic temple leader also admitted that well over 50% of the temple’s members are gay saying: “It would be a conservative estimate to say that more than 50 percent of our membership is LGBTQ.”

Netanyahu’s Main Rival Envisions Third Temple Being Built following Elections
Head of the Blue and White party, MK Benny Gantz expressed his concerns regarding the recent deal that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made with pro-3rd Temple politician Moshe Feiglin saying: “He will get us all high and we’ll wake up to a (Third) Temple” , …

Breaking: Anti-Tank Missile Fired from Lebanon into Israel
In what could be the casus belli for another war between Israel and Lebanon, the IDF spokespersons unit has cleared for publication that an anti-tank guided missile has just been fired from Lebanon into Israeli territory on Sunday.

Boris Johnson warns rebel MPs: back me or be sacked
Boris Johnson has delivered an ultimatum to Philip Hammond and other rebel Tory MPs, warning they would be expelled from the party if they join forces with Jeremy Corbyn to try to halt a no-deal Brexit this week. In a plan agreed to by a dozen whips and Mr Johnson at a lunch in Chequers, any Tory MP who defies Number 10 will lose the party whip and be banned from standing in the next general election.

Bernie Sanders and the 10th commandment
To a serious, practicing Jew, the fact that Bernie Sanders makes use of his Jewish birthright, is somewhat disturbing. Senator Sanders has done almost nothing Jewish throughout his entire life. His disdain for Israel, his recent support for Linda Sarsour, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, his hatred of Prime Minister Netanyahu, makes him much more of a “Sonay Yisrael—an Israel hater,” than a supporter of the Jewish state.

On Israel’s borders, drone rivalries play out
On August 24, Israel struck what it said was an attempt to stop an Iranian force from launching a cross-border drone attack from a Syrian village. A day later, two drones which Lebanon said were Israeli crashed in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut, an area dominated by Israel’s longtime foe, the Iranian-backed Shia terror group Hezbollah. The Lebanese army later fired at a number of Israeli drones. On Saturday, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah vowed that Israel “must pay a price” for the alleged August 25 strike. On Sunday, Iran unveiled what it said was a new reconnaissance and attack drone with a range of more than 1,000 kilometers (620 miles).

Hurricane Dorian Crawling Over Northwestern Bahamas as a Category 5; Hurricane Warning Issued in Florida
A life-threatening storm surge of up to 23 feet is possible there.Wind gusts over 220 mph are possible in parts of the northwestern Bahamas.A hurricane warning and a storm surge warning have been issued for a part of Florida’s east coast.Dorian is a threat for the Southeast from Florida to North Carolina this week.

Over 30,000 scientists say ‘Catastrophic Man-Made Global Warming’ is a complete hoax and science lie
The highly-politicized climate change debate rages on as we approach the crucial 2016 U.S. presidential election, despite an ever-growing body of evidence revealing the fact that “catastrophic man-made global warming” is nothing more than an elaborate hoax.

Israel’s rabbinical courts begin to recognize DNA tests, potentially opening gateway to proving Jewishness
‘Scientists are reluctant to deal with this since it’s reminiscent of what Nazis did,’ says researcher whose work paved path for use of DNA testing as proof of Jewish heritage

Dorian, Still Heading West, Batters Northwest Bahamas With 185 MPH Winds
Category 5 Hurricane Dorian, in no hurry to clear the Northwest Bahamas, gave the Abaco Islands a prolonged, punishing blow on Sunday. Grand Bahama Island is in line for similar treatment on Monday as Dorian slows to a crawl. The hurricane is still projected to arc dangerously close to the Southeast U.S. coast as this week unfolds.

How IDF maneuver tricked Hezbollah
The IDF ‘evacuated wounded soldiers’ to create a ‘fog’ in Lebanon and confuse Hezbollah while carrying out a massive assault.

Pelosi Reveals Dems Plan To Take Away Constitutional Right On Sept 4
Since Democrats regained control of the House of Representatives last November, they haven’t accomplished anything. Democrats have passed several far-left proposals that have no shot of passing on a bipartisan basis in the U.S. Senate. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi just announced that Democrats will try to take away a Constitutional right from Americans on Sept. 4.

Is the Cascadia Subduction Zone about to blow?
The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN) is reporting a major seismic event that’s currently underway throughout the region, which could indicate that the Puget Sound area near Seattle is on the verge of some shake, rattle, and roll.

Life Begins at Conception | American Center for Law and Justice
It’s a major development in the fight for unborn babies. Finally – for the first time ever – the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has made it the official policy of the United States that life begins at conception.

2019 the hardest year for U.S. farmers, survey says
Most farmers agree that 2019 is the hardest year they’ve experienced after extreme Midwest weather and catastrophic floods resulted in the historically delayed planting season, according to a survey conducted by Farm Futures.

There’s Danger Ahead for Your Children
Gender identity re-training now begins in Kindergarten, and you’re not allowed to opt your child out. As early as fourth grade—but no later than ninth grade—your child will discuss and learn the details of every imaginable sexual behavior.

RED FLAG INSANITY: Pro-Trump Former Marine Has Guns Confiscated to Protect ANTIFA Terrorists
A Trump supporter in Oregon was stripped of his firearms under the state’s red flag laws for declaring that his rights wouldn’t be trampled upon by ANTIFA terrorists who have rampaged throughout Portland during the summer.

Election 2020: will America be the New China?
Sep 3rd, 2019
WarningROGER L. SIMON - PJ Media
Categories: Commentary

As brave Hong Kongers protest the totalitarian communist Chinese regime in the streets and at the airport of their city, the mood here in the West, even in the United States, seems to be going in the opposite direction.

I'm not just referring to the violent so-called anarchists of Antifa, who often turn out to be emotionally disturbed community college instructors behind their Guy Fawkes masks, but to the larger zeitgeist. From Big Tech to Hollywood to our media to our campuses to the campaign rhetoric of virtually every Democratic candidate, we are moving toward a homogenization of thought and action that is, well, Chinese communist in style and ultimately in content.

Chairman Mao said, "Let a hundred schools of thought contend," knowing full well whose would prevail. We're no longer even paying that kind of lip service. Some form of political correctness has dominated our major institutions for years with minimal pushback.

Except for the election of Donald Trump, which was considered a horrifying aberration by our elites. How could such a vulgarian rise to such power? (No matter that they themselves were equally, if not more, reprehensible, as the Epstein revelations demonstrate.)

Because Trump's policies were often arguably good and sometimes even conventionally so, attacks on him concentrated on his personality. That was especially true because his very persona upended that unifying and totalitarian (what else?) impulse toward political correctness.

So an American Cultural Revolution—not that distant from the original Chinese one, except so far no dunce caps—has been put in place by those various elites of the Academic-Hollywood-Media Complex. Actually, it's been in place for a long time; only now it is escalating and approaching a point of no return.

Writers and thinkers are ghettoized. Only approved Republican pundits are allowed space, at least for long, in mainstream newspapers or television shows. The arts have become almost entirely off-limits to the right. Conservative professors are an endangered species at our universities, if not already extinct.

That is why it is no accident that you see Democrat proposals on the 2020 campaign trail that could have been taken from Lenin's playbook. They are just part of this metastasizing zeitgeist. That these ideas have failed over and over is of no consequence. They sound good.

Don't look at China or the Soviet Union or Cambodia or Cuba or Venezuela or North Korea or the entire Eastern Bloc when it was communist, not to mention Angola, Mozambique, and Ethiopia plus many others that all flirted with socialism/communism uniformly to disastrous ends. Look at Denmark! And please ignore that that extremely homogeneous country has a tiny population roughly half the size Los Angeles County's and that they have been becoming less socialist themselves in their actual policies. We can use the land of Hans Christian Anderson as our model.

But the sad truth is we are already halfway to our Chinese-ification. Google, et al., have done it for us. Chairman Mao could never have dreamed of their success. To the Great Helmsman, power, as he wrote in the Little Red Book, stemmed from the barrel of a gun. How first half of the 20th century of him. Power these days begins with the click of a search engine. Without our even being aware of it, we are being told what to think. We already have "social credit scores," just like our Chinese brothers and sisters. It's practically over. Caught between Google—the super-government—and our own all-seeing secular government, the citizen as an individual is vanishing.

Apocalyptic as it may sound, if you love freedom, election 2020 is becoming the last chance to stem the tide. I hate to place my hopes in the Great Vulgarian—or in any single man or woman for that matter—but at this point, there is no alternative, not even remotely. In any case, judging a politician by his or her personality is a boring and subjective enterprise. With Western civilization in the balance, voting against a candidate because you think a tweet is crude is nothing short of idiotic.

Democrats Pass Resolution Applauding nonreligious Americans, Criticizing Churchgoers
Sep 3rd, 2019
CommentaryMichael Foust ChristianHeadlines
Categories: Moral Decline

The Democratic National Committee passed a first-of-its-kind resolution Saturday recognizing the “ethical soundness” and “importance” of religiously unaffiliated Americans while contending such voters “share the Democratic Party’s values.”

The resolution – passed at the DNC’s summer meeting – was championed by the Secular Coalition of America, an organization that lobbies on behalf of atheists, agnostics and humanists in public policy. The coalition said it was the first time the party had “embraced American nonbelievers.” It passed unanimously absent one abstention, the coalition said. 

“[T]he religiously unaffiliated demographic represents the largest religious group within the Democratic Party, growing from 19% in 2007 to one in three today,” the resolution says. “... [T]he Democratic Party is an inclusive organization that recognizes that morals, values, and patriotism are not unique to any particular religion, and are not necessarily reliant on having a religious worldview at all.” 

The religiously unaffiliated, the resolution asserts, “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.” 

The resolution says the DNC recognizes the “value, ethical soundness, and importance of the religiously unaffiliated demographic, a group of Americans who contribute in innumerable ways to the arts, sciences, medicine, business, law, the military, their communities, the success of the Party and prosperity of the Nation.”

It also says the DNC recognizes that “religiously unaffiliated Americans are a group that, as much as any other, advocates for rational public policy based on sound science and universal humanistic values and should be represented, included, and heard by the Party”

Further, the resolution criticizes religious Americans: “[T]hose 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.”

Secular and atheist groups applauded the resolution. 

“America was founded as a secular government charged with representing and protecting the freedoms of people of all faiths and none – I am proud to see the Democratic Party take that to heart by bringing secular Americans into the fold,” said Sarah Levin, director of governmental affairs for the Secular Coalition for America.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation said it is “optimistic that the DNC resolution is a sign of bigger and better things to come for freethinkers.”

Call Me not Naomi, Call Me Mara - Ruth 1:20
Sep 3rd, 2019
Morning MeditationF.B. Meyer
Categories: Commentary;Inspirational;Book Study

So she spoke, as many have spoken since, not knowing that God's ways are ways of pleasantness and all His paths peace, when they are not isolated from the plan of our life, but considered as parts of the whole. We cannot pronounce on any part of God's dealing with us until the entire plan has been allowed to work itself out. How grieved God's Spirit must be, who is lovingly doing His best, when He hears these words of murmuring and complaint! Let us lift the vail, and notice the pleasant things in Naomi's life.

True, her husband and sons were dead; but their deaths in a foreign land had left her free to come back to her people and her God; to nestle again under the wings of Jehovah; and to share the advantages of the Tabernacle.

True, Orpah had gone back. Mahlon and Chilion were both buried in Moab; but she had Ruth, who was better to her than seven sons.

True, she had no male child to perpetuate her name; but the little Obed would, within a few months, be nestling in her aged arms, and laughing into her withered face.

True, she was very poor; but it was through her poverty that Ruth was brought first into contact with that good man, Boaz; and, beside, there was yet a little patrimony which pertained to her.

Yes, Naomi, like thousands more, thou must take back thy words. Thou didst deal bitterly with thine own happiness in leaving the Land of Promise for Moab; but God dealt pleasantly with thee in thy return and latter end. "Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear Him, upon them that hope in His mercy."