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31 December / New Year's Eve

Saints,

May God bless you and keep you in this new year.  We may now be very close to the catching up of the Bride and the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.  Huge events are breaking everywhere and in every ken of knowledge and experience.  I had only a few pieces set aside until I read this morning's headlines from the NYTimes, and later in the day, the horrific video they posted in the afternoon.  Do not watch this video without preparing in prayer, if at all.  You don't need to.  I found myself virtually screaming and cursing at the evil devils taking hold of these men, caught up in a religious mob spirit/murder.  But, we need to take earnest heed to the hour we are in.  

Now, with so much material, I have decided to send this off on New Year's Eve.  I may have another shorter version by Sunday, my usual publication day.  God willing.  Maranatha.  The days are short!  Rest in Jesus.

your brother in him,

T.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/classic-apps/techno-skeptics-objection-growing-louder/2015/12/26/e83cf658-617a-11e5-8e9e-dce8a2a2a679_story.html
Techno-skeptics’ objection growing louder
Astra Taylor’s iPhone has a cracked screen. She has bandaged it with clear packing tape and plans to use the phone until it disintegrates. She objects to the planned obsolescence of today’s gadgetry, and to the way the big tech companies pressure customers to upgrade.

Taylor, 36, is a documentary filmmaker, musician and political activist. She’s also an emerging star in the world of technology criticism. She’s not paranoid, but she keeps duct tape over the camera lens on her laptop computer — because, as everyone knows, these gadgets can be taken over by nefarious agents of all kinds.

Taylor is a 21st-century digital dissenter. She’s one of the many technophiles unhappy about the way the tech revolution has played out. … ...

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A Review of "AI Anxiety" —
From Asimov through Kurzweil and the googleverse, the 'bots are coming!…to get us!?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2015/12/27/aianxiety/
The AI Anxiety
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Who needs people?

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3018162/emerging-technology/the-dark-side-of-the-coming-chatbot-revolution.html
For many, messaging app-based chatbots will replace search engines and virtual assistants. And friends.

Artificial intelligence is coming to a messaging app near you.

Google has been working on a messaging-based chat bot for a year, according to The Wall Street Journal. The newspaper described the service as a Google Now-like virtual assistant that you could send messages to and get the answers back as messages.

It's not clear whether this service would be available within Google's Hangouts or Messenger service, whether it could be available on other platforms, such as over SMS, or whether it would be a new messaging service. One source told the Journal that Google would open up its chatbot as an extensible platform, which means other companies could build special-purpose chatbots based on Google's data.

The Journal had no information about a launch date or name for the service, but did say the project is being headed by longtime Googler, Nick Fox.

An A.I. chatbot makes sense for Google. Consumers are increasingly going mobile and searching (pun intended) for an alternative to search. Current alternatives, such as Google's own Google Now or its competitors -- Siri, Cortana, Alexa and others -- all suffer from imperfect voice recognition. And in their state of evolution, they can be unsatisfying to use.

John Underkoffler, the CEO of Oblong Industrie (and creator of the Minority Report and Iron Man user interfaces), told me recently that "we haven't built a good feedback system yet" (for voice assistants) that keeps you informed in real time about how well the system is understanding you. Virtual assistants also require a conscious decision to stop doing the current task and actively seek out the virtual assistant, which is a reflex many users haven't developed. … ...
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The End of Gender Sanity/Modesty/Chastity by Law in New York City —

See the whole story at—
http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/December30/301.html#pLjFLleadp0Jyx7J.99
You Could Be Fined 250,000 Dollars If You Offend A Transgender Woman In New York City

Political correctness is officially out of control in New York City. According to brand new rules that were just issued by the New York City Commission on Human Rights, you could potentially be fined $250,000 if you purposely offend someone that is transgender. 
This includes such offenses as calling a transgender woman “him” when she wants to be called “her”, or not allowing a transgender woman to use the women’s bathroom. These guidelines are particularly focused on the behavior of landlords, employers and businesses, but they will undoubtedly create a chilling effect on speech all throughout New York City.  Needless to say, these new regulations will result in a flood of litigation as transgender individuals exercise their new “rights”. According to the New York City Commission on Human Rights, employers must now use “an individual’s preferred name, pronoun and title” when referring to that person. 
And some of the pronouns that were given as examples by the Commission were only recently introduced to the English language and many people don’t even know how to pronounce them. The following comes directly from the new “guidelines”…  The NYCHRL requires employers and covered entities to use an individual’s preferred name, pronoun and title (e.g., Ms./Mrs.) regardless of the individual’s sex assigned at birth, anatomy, gender, medical history, appearance, or the sex indicated on the individual’s identification. Most individuals and many transgender people use female or male pronouns and titles.  Some transgender and gender non-conforming people prefer to use pronouns other than he/him/his or she/her/hers, such as they/them/theirs or ze/hir.   All facilities in New York City will now also be required to allow transgender individuals to use whatever bathrooms and locker rooms they prefer. Here is more from the new “guidelines”…  The NYCHRL requires that individuals be permitted to use single-sex facilities, such as bathrooms or locker rooms, and participate in single-sex programs, consistent with their gender, regardless of their sex assigned at birth, anatomy, medical history, appearance, or the sex indicated on their identification. … ...
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A quick round up on the last day of 2015—
God save you in this new year!
The first six below are from today, the last day of the year, read right out of the NYTimes for December 31, almost like a table of contents for the world!

Do we rejoice at trouble?  Of course not.  We grieve, and like everyone else who is hanging on, we tighten our grip.  BUT, unlike the world which has no hope, we know these are the signs of the End of the Age.  The Prince of Peace will set all right when he comes; in that, we can and do rejoice!  Until then, let us proclaim his salvation at every opportunity…even making opportunity.  Salvation is still person by person, one at a time; nothing else will do, and you, Christian, are God's Chosen Instrument to shine forth the Gospel.  Let us make the most of the new year, "redeeming the time," for the days are short….and evil.
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Though it is our duty to reduce suffering by the advances of knowledge, every time we cure diseases, others arrive and are unmasked to take their place!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/31/world/americas/alarm-spreads-in-brazil-over-a-virus-and-a-surge-in-malformed-infants.html?emc=edit_th_20151231&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
'Alarm Spreads in Brazil Over a Virus and a Surge in Malformed Infants
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — A little-known virus spread by mosquitoes is causing one of the most alarming health crises to hit Brazil in decades, officials here warn: thousands of cases of brain damage, in which babies are born with unusually small heads. … …
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Global Climate Change Coming Home to Roost?  "Coincidence or not, every kind of trouble that the experts have been warning about for years seems to be occurring at once."
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/31/science/climate-chaos-across-the-map.html?emc=edit_th_20151231&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Climate Chaos, Across the Map
What is going on with the weather?

With tornado outbreaks in the South, Christmas temperatures that sent trees into bloom in Central Park, drought in parts of Africa and historic floods drowning the old industrial cities of England, 2015 is closing with a string of weather anomalies all over the world.

The year, expected to be the hottest on record, may be over at midnight Thursday, but the trouble will not be. Rain in the central United States has been so heavy that major floods are beginning along the Mississippi River and are likely to intensify in coming weeks. California may lurch from drought to flood by late winter. Most serious, millions of people could be threatened by a developing food shortage in southern Africa. … …
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/31/us/missouri-flooding-st-louis-mississippi.html?emc=edit_th_20151231&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Record Floods Affect Millions in the Midwest
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Is Chicago experiencing a mass schizophrenic psychosis — trying to celebrate a public New Year while its black population and an incapable and unequipped government writhe in a dance of anarchic agony?
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/31/opinion/what-should-chicago-celebrate.html?emc=edit_th_20151231&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
What Should Chicago Celebrate?
As some Chicagoans protest, others party. And the city's facade of stability is falling apart.
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Drunken police orgy in Brussels as officers "unwind" from their terror watch?

Brussels Police Investigate Reports of Police Orgy Amid Terror Alert
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Bill Cosby, "America's Dad," finally charged criminally in one of dozens of date-rape-drugged allegations—

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/31/business/media/bill-cosby-charged-in-sexual-assault-case.html?emc=edit_th_20151231&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Bill Cosby Charged in Sexual Assault Case
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Admittedly, this is a pretty fun, Seinfeld/Obama urbane session between stand-up improvisation artists.  Enjoy.  Wasn't it Nero that fiddled while Rome burned?  (and then blamed the Christians!)

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-obama-stars-jerry-seinfelds-comedians-cars-coffee/story?id=36024132

https://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/obama-tells-jerry-seinfeld-a-pretty-sizable-percentage-of-world-leaders-are-out-of-their-minds/

The video episode:   http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/president-barack-obama-just-tell-him-you-re-the-president
President Obama Stars in Jerry Seinfeld’s ‘Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee'
Best quote, about 14 minutes in:
"How many world leaders do you think are just completely out of their minds?" asks Seinfeld.
"A pretty sizable percentage," quips the President.

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BEWARE 2016:  Global Terror Attacks Promised.  ISIS is actively trying to spark the Apocalypse.   Having only the devil's lying spirit, they get their prophecy only partly right, believing that there will be a huge battle between Islam and the world at Dabiq in Syria.  In biblical fact, Ezekiel 38 and 39, the Infidel armies under Russia's and Persia's guidance will attack Israel.  This battle will begin a war that will end seven years later at another battle, the last one of this Age, Armageddon, northwest of Jerusalem, and when the Son of God will return to Earth to win this final battle and stop the planet's and its' citizens' destruction. The cannon fodder of Islam, the hordes of Gog and Magog, in the first battle will be given "to the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air" to devour at a place ever after called "Hamongog," or the hordes of Gog.  This is an area across Jordan in Israel and up against the mountains to the east of the Jordan Valley:  Ezekiel 39:4, 11.  In the final battle, blood will flood down the Valley of Megiddo to the Mediterranean at a depth of flow of four to six feet deep:  Rev.  14:20.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/630316/ISIS-secret-plot-world-masterplan-2016-final-battle
ISIS plotting 'to slaughter THOUSANDS' in 2016 in bid to spark huge FINAL BATTLE with West
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If you have any remaining doubt about that megalithic false religion of the Middle East, you will not after you watch this video from Afghanistan.  This is a crowd stoning and murder of one of their own, a woman, falsely accused of burning their holy book.  They are satanic dogs of hell.  May God save a few, but most will burn in eternal fire.  THIS IS A REAL VIDEO OF A REAL AND TERRIBLE MURDER.  DO NOT WATCH WITHOUT FORETHOUGHT AND PRAYER.  THIS IS REAL AND TERRIBLE!  

Get ready, the jihadis want a worldwide bloodbath for 2016.  Maranatha, may God keep us.

This has just been published by the NYTimes on December 31.

http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000004108808/the-killing-of-farkhunda.html?em_pos=medium&emc=edit_fs_20151231&nl=video&nlid=69381998

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27 December

Saints,

Breaking News as I publish this issue this Sunday morning.  A tangle of unheard-of-Christmas-tornadoes in Dallas finds cars thrown from one freeway down onto another…and much more damage…with multiple deaths.  Meanwhile, in the surrounding SW region, blizzards bury some areas, floods wash away others, and in Ventura, California a sudden fire storm chases people from their homes as we are shown an infernal scene of high wind driven fire.  In the last news cycle, too, terrible fires sweep southeastern Australia, while across "two ponds"  (the Pacific and Atlantic) horrendous, high volume floods wash away antique British structures with sudden appearing white water rivers.  Besides all the human evil under its own judgments, has the whole planet turned to "vomit out its inhabitants" as the old prophets of Israel described the arrival of natural judgments?  

Meanwhile, here in the East Coast regions, at least one more day of "summer" bathes us.  If you have watched the national weather maps over the last few weeks, you can not fail to notice that a band of potent weather, producing all kinds of effects, slashes across the country from southwest to northeast, like the lash of a whip laid across the back of the country as El Nino meets the Arctic Jet Stream.  For the moment, those of us to the east of it hover in a strange summer-like condition with the cherry blossoms of Washington, D.C. blooming, but it is an eerie enjoyment as we wonder, what next?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/27/us/tornadoes-and-deaths-are-reported-in-dallas-as-storms-continue-in-south.html?emc=edit_th_20151227&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Eight Dead as Tornadoes Strike the Dallas Area

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As one who may not vote at all in this election after I also could not bring myself to vote in the last presidential election either, though I do have some citizenship conscience to vote, and as one who eschews politics, nevertheless, I post this to expose the PC twits –

Once Trump mentioned the NY/NJ muslims celebrating 9/11, I started thinking I remembered it too, right at the time of 9/11, but I wasn't sure but what I was yielding to the power of suggestion.  Now, PolitiFacts, while calling Trump a liar for remembering "thousands dancing in the streets" (maybe excitable hyperbole but not necessarily lying) NOW ADMITS to "The Fox hosts asked Trump him (sic--himself) about the controversy. They noted that NJ Advance Media investigated Trump's claims and found that while some people likely did celebrate the 9/11 attacks, they didn't number in the "thousands," as Trump had said. NJ Advance Media found evidence of only "two modest celebrations that amounted to dozens of people at two locations."  What do they mean with the "spin-doctoring" use of "modest"?  How is anything modest that celebrates mass murder?  And what does "dozens of people at two locations" mean?  Eight dozen (96) is nearly a hundred…times…two locations could easily become several hundred…or two multiplied mobs of cheering muslims over the nearly 3000 deaths at The Twin Towers.  I can forgive Trump hyperbolically calling that "thousands dancing in the streets over the Twin Towers."

http://www.aol.com/article/2015/12/22/donald-trump-unloads-on-politifact-after-it-awards-him-lie-of-t/21286930/
Donald Trump unloads on PolitiFact after it awards him 'Lie of the Year'
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(23 Dec.)
Wow!  It's great now…to do without snow up here in Vermont and to have flower-bloomin' weather all up the east coast, but what will July be like?  Is this the real deal of climate change?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/23/nyregion/white-christmas-not-a-chance-in-an-unusually-balmy-new-york.html?emc=edit_th_20151223&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Unseasonable Greetings in a New York Searching for Jack Frost
Say one New Yorker interviewee — “Maybe it’s the kind of wonderful thing where the lamb lies down with the lion, but maybe it is the end of the world.”
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One of the apparent diseases of the terminal decadence (as this Age ends) now afflicts Muslims too.  These wouldn't last long in ISIS controlled areas.   Wonder how long Indonesia will tolerate them?  All the way up till this NYTimes exposure?  May some of them be saved and turn from their sick transgenderism, a practice which God specifically forbids.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/23/world/asia/indonesia-transgender-muslim.html?emc=edit_th_20151223&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998

Transgender Muslims Find a Home for Prayer in Indonesia
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Another step down the road to "creating" living Artificial Intelligence?   "And he had power to give life to the image of the beast."  (Rev 13:15) 

http://www.gizmag.com/cyborg-biologically-powered-chip/40815/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=56481f10d2-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-56481f10d2-91592265
Scientists create world's first biologically powered computer chip
The dream of melding biological and man-made machinery is now a little more real with the announcement that Columbia Engineering researchers have successfully harnessed a chemical energy-producing biological process to power a solid state CMOS integrated circuit. … ...
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Ho! Ho! Horrendous!  You gotta see these robot reindeer….as the cyborgs prepare to take over.  Oh, Fringe! with its Sci-Fi "Massive Dynamics" in Boston, and in real life, "Boston Dynamics," makes its fans shudder as new realities dawn!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3371369/Boston-Dynamics-reveals-Santa-s-robot-reindeer.html
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(24 Dec.)
Poisoning Our Children —
http://www.nytimes.com/video/fashion/100000004108956/meet-6-lgbt-comic-book-characters.html?emc=edit_th_20151224&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
L.G.B.T. and Superpowered
It’s a golden age for queer characters in comic books. Some popular figures, like Iceman, have finally come out of the closet. Others are being brought to life as lesbian or transgender.

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France Wakes Up, But It's Not Pretty —
http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/europe/100000004097797/raids-in-france-one-month-in.html?emc=edit_th_20151224&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
A State of Terror
In response to the Paris attacks last month, France declared a state of emergency that has resulted in more than 2,700 raids of homes and businesses, hundreds of arrests and even the closing of some mosques.

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"Today's Update" for December 24 from bereancall.org
Just a reminder from the bros. at bereancall.org— The Force is not our God, but is a dualism concept for making all that we can muse about into "god."  It is the source, the power, "the force" for all the supernatural stuff that is SPECIFICALLY NOT of our Great and Personal God, but is making nature into a god to be manipulated to get one's way.  It is the juice, the power, the fuel of all paganism and witchcraft.  So, if you're going to see it as "a great adventure movie of epic proportions," etc. remember that all the ads, all the hype, all the music themes, and so on (and on and on!) are "casting spells on you" of massive crowd acceptance, popularity, etc, but/and they will teach you wrongly too.  Our God created all things, and yes the KJV says he created evil, but this means catastrophe not moral evil or sin.  God cannot sin; He cannot lie.  These are his choices, and He has made them.  He does allow for the possibility of sin, of turning against Him so that his sentient conscious creatures, men and angels, are not robots but living, choosing beings made to have fellowship with Him as they choose, to be allowed to ascend, worshipfully, into his presence and companionship and friendship.   How much better is this than diddling around with some amoral "force" (which is a Lie from the beginning)?

GERMAN CHURCH CELEBRATES "STAR WARS" AT A SUNDAY SERVICE

The force is strong in Berlin. A church in the German capital invited "Star Wars" fans to attend a special service Sunday themed on the sci-fi blockbuster in an attempt to attract more young people into the pews. About 500 people heeded the call and attended the service, some carrying light saber props or wearing Darth Vader masks. It was more than twice as many as usually come to Zion Church on a Sunday.

"We were very happy to see so many people in the church today," said Protestant pastor Lucas Ludewig after the service. "It's great that there are subjects that people are interested in. They trust us to make them part of the church service without making it too Christian or too Star Wars, but to find a good compromise. "With the film's theme song - played on the church's organ - still echoing around the rafters, the 30-year-old said he came up with the idea of the "Star Wars" service while talking with fellow pastor Ulrike Garve, 29, about how much they were looking forward to the seventh instalment in the franchise "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," which opened Friday.

"'Star Wars' picks up religious images, including Christian images and maybe some from other religions," said Ludewig. "In doing so, it shows that the Bible and the Church are part of our culture that keeps being reworked and reinterpreted.

Churchgoer Jonathan Wonneberger, dressed as a Jawa trader, described the service as a welcome change from tradition. "You don't have to take everything that's religious too seriously. Of course you have to treat it with respect, but when there's a global event like Star Wars, it's ok to jump on the bandwagon," he said.

Scott McGuire, sporting a Chewbacca costume, said he planned to go see the movie later. "I think the whole question of God is very interesting, but getting up early on a Sunday is one of those things. But for something like this, I'll go," he said.

(Jordans, "German church celebrates 'Star Wars' at a Sunday service," AP, Dec. 20, 2015).

[TBC: Way back in November, 1998, Dave Hunt commented, "I remember when the film Star Wars first appeared. Rabi Maharaj (the ex-guru whose story is told in Death of a Guru ) and I went to check it out together. We sat there poking one another in astonishment as evidence piled upon evidence that this was pure witchcraft and Eastern mysticism and that its creator, George Lucas, knew exactly what he was doing. 
"The Force is obviously the 'god' of Star Wars . One thought remained after the action had faded from the screen: 'May the Force be with you.' We saw that on T-shirts and bumper stickers. A whole generation began to believe in this impersonal Force that can be used to empower one to do magic feats but holds no one accountable, as does the personal God of the Bible.
"This is the Force of witchcraft with a dark and light side: black magic and white magic. Darth Vader and Obi Wan Kenobi were the followers of 'the old religion,' as one of Vader's soldiers reminded him. The 'old religion,' of course, is 'wicca,' or witchcraft. The Force with its Dark and Light side is amoral. There is no right or wrong, just alternative sides of the Force."]
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Case in point:  We must cling to the Word and follow it with devoted care for "many antichrists shall come and shall deceive many."  The spirit of Antichrist here manifests in a new New Age leader operating in Jewish semantics, but also having a major "satyr-ist" problem, eh?  The Christian also, pursuing the Word earnestly, will find that antichrists are not just the big figures of evil in history, Hitler, al-Baghdadi, Imin, Stalin, etc., but also there are many little movements of error by small leaders, by men with personal agendas "who will lead many off after them," such that even false pastors of relatively small groups can, themselves, be in the shoes of the spirit of antichrist.  If Christ were not keeping those who are his, who will hear his voice only, we would all be deceived, for deception, by its very nature, must be very convincing and promising.  Thank God He does keep his elect!  Paul exhorts, "Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/26/us/marc-gafni-center-for-integral-wisdom.html?emc=edit_th_20151226&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
A Spiritual Leader Gains Stature, Trailed by a Troubled Past
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And here's a movement of the spirit of antchrist, of heresy and error, right within so called charismatic Christianity! —  "The NAR — The New Apostolic Reformation"
(Berean Call radio transcript for the week)
What's New about the New Apostolic Reformation? with Chris Quintana (pt 1)	
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Gary: Welcome to Search the Scriptures 24.7, a radio ministry of The Berean Call, featuring T.A. McMahon. I'm Gary Carmichael. We're gad you could be here. In today's program, Tom begins a two-part series with guest Chris Quintana as they address the question: What's new in the New Apostolic Reformation? Here's TBC executive director, Tom McMahon.

Tom: Thanks, Gary. Our topic for this week and next is the development in Christendom called the New Apostolic Reformation. We'll also refer to it by its initials, NAR, as we discuss, again, this New Apostolic Reformation movement.
Joining me to talk about this widespread movement within Christianity is Chris Quintana. Chris is the pastor of Calvary Chapel Cypress, which is located in Orange County, California. And Chris has been featured in the video series Wide Is the Gate, which is an apologetic documentary that deals with trends in the church that have undermined biblical faith and have drawn many Christians away from the Word of God. Chris, welcome to Search the Scriptures 24/7.

Chris: Well, thank you. It's great to be on the show again. I enjoy the time with you!

Tom: Chris, from my perspective, the New Apostolic Reformation, the NAR, is like - it's like a huge spider web that is connected to a host of movements and ministries, and it's entangled millions of Christians, both professing and true Christians. So, what I want to do is simplify, as we talk about this, I want us to simplify the movement as much as possible so our listeners don't go away from our two sessions confused, and because of its complications, it can become pretty confusing.

So, let's start with some basics in brief. NAR. Well, according to its title, it's "new; it's "apostolic"; and it's a "reformation." Now, Chris, would you comment on each term and tell us who came up with the term (I mean we can talk about that later) but just "new"? "Apostolic"? "Reformation"? How are we to understand these things?

Chris: Well, boy! Even the question - it's tough to just make a real concise answer to it. In the title itself - you can't go to the book New Apostolic Reformation and learn all about because it's kind of in the eye of the beholder. So, like you were saying, it's very broad, a big picture. This idea that it's something that's new and it's apostolic, and that is being grabbed from the apostles of the first century - the ones that were with Jesus. I've heard one of the people - actually more than one of the people in it - say that since it's new, it's this outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the last days, and the mandate that they now have as the "new apostles" - it's bringing about the next "reformation." And so, it's a reforming of the church; it has an apostolic authority, according to them, and that apostolic authority is shown because they do these "signs and wonders" and a number of other things, a variety of teachings, and what not.
So, it is new, or what we would call it, it's neo-charismatic stuff. It's a new branch of the charismatic movement that we see, but they say that "We're a new work of this apostolic ministry," then they start talking about being prophets and apostles, and all of the rest of it.

Tom: Yeah, so, again, just as you said, the title, when you get to it, it's pretty misleading. It's not new, right? These things have been going on for a long time - we'll get into that. It's not apostolic. They claim to be at the level of the twelve apostles, and it's a "reformation." It's not a reformation! It's nothing like what we would term "the reformation." It's just them imposing new things, or bringing new things, into Christendom. But, Chris, in general - and we can get to the particulars later - from what you've said and what I just said, what's the movement's overall goal or objective? Or do they have one?

Chris: Well, in the broadest of terms, it's to usher in the Kingdom of God. And they're going to do it through - if they're apostles, they're not going to do it sheepishly, when you hear what they've got to say. They consider themselves to be the conquering "Warrior Bride," using their own words. In fact, the current issue of Charisma magazine has a picture of Cindy Jacobs, and it says, "A Prophetic Army Rising Up." And so, she's one of the more recognizable people that's talking about this, but it's supposed to be this army [that] is being raised up, and it's to subdue the earth, and once the earth is subdued, then Jesus returns. That's how the thinking goes.

Tom: Yeah, now, again, I know we have to be brief about some of these things so we can get to all the issues that we want to cover, but briefly, what's the NAR's game plan to achieve its objective?

Chris: And, it depends on who you ask. If you ask Mike Bickel, he believes that it's going to be done through a worship movement. And so, the IHOP movement is focusing on worship, and some of them believe that there are dominion places that are just, you know, these localities around the world that they need to claim dominion over and take spiritual authority over. See, there's your apostles. And so, if they're apostles, then they can claim some kind of spiritual authority even over geographical areas, governments, you name it - they're going to take authority over it. And that's how they prepare the world for the return of Jesus. So that's what they're focused on doing.

Tom: And again, part of the game plan are things that are new in the sense that they're not biblical, and we haven't heard of them. "Strategic level spiritual warfare?" We'll talk about that and certainly the guy who promoted that the most and is the leader, C. Peter Wagner. But we'll get to him in a bit. But, Chris, I compared the NAR to a spider web, which I think it fits on many levels, especially regarding its contact points. Now, I'm going to mention some contacts, and you alluded to them - you know, we've got Cindy Jacobs or Mike Bickel or their ministries doing this and doing that. But I'm going to mention in general some contacts, and you briefly fill in the connection. In other words, just give us a sense of how the Word Faith movement relates, or the Signs and Wonders movement. Well, let's start with the Word Faith. How is that a part of this?

Chris: You know, you've been watching this for a long time, Tom, and what we do know by watching - and let's just use the words "the charismatic movement" - we see one thing happen that's new, and it's exciting, and people gather around it, and like anything else, it really deals much with the emotions. After a while, it gets kind of mundane, and what used to be exciting is no longer exciting. So, what we notice is the same kind of charismatic thing, God doing the supernatural and all the rest of it, then people started looking at, well, where are we in the end times, and so how do we work that into it?
So, this is the miraculous, the supernatural, all of that stuff from the Word Faith movement, which they claimed was the supernatural work of God. Think about Rodney Howard-Browne and the "holy laughter," and all of that stuff. Those people are all mixed in the same thing. So the guys like Kenneth Copeland, they were the ones - he was there, I believe - in that group that was just praying for Donald Trump, in that whole bunch that was there. So it just morphs from one thing to the next. The Word Faith movement is just, again, the signs and wonders, the miraculous stuff, and because of a really strange eschatological view of things, how everything wraps up in the world. And now, they think somehow they have a stake in making it all take place.

Tom: And, I agree, Chris, and in these movements, even though you could put them all in a bag and pull one out and you wouldn't know which is which, because they overlap one another in their approaches to these things, but when I think about the Word Faith, hey, what have they done? What have they brought to this approach, to this movement in general? Well, they've put aside the written Word of God, and they've pushed ahead of that, trumping that (no pun intended here)...

Chris: [laughs]

Tom: ...but what they've done is they say that hearing from God through the Rhema, then that supersedes the written Word. So now, we've got a problem, okay? Signs and wonders - just as you've articulated - we've got this all over the place: signs and wonders now prove, they undergird and underscore that that's the way we need to go, through signs and wonders. So that supersedes, again, the Word of God and what the Word of God says, plus it just goes way beyond what the Scriptures teach. Healing and prosperity - well, "pick your contact point" - they're into this. Certainly "prosperity" is a big deal among all the people you've mentioned, Charisma magazine - that would be one of their publishing supports for all of these people in all of this. But let's talk for a minute about - and you mentioned it earlier - Kingdom Dominion. Just give us a couple of lines defining what that's about.

Chris: Sure, and again, this is...they look at the world and they see it's troubled. Okay, great. Don't we all? Well, they also see that there is this one part of the Bible that they'll agree with that there is a forever kingdom, and there is the Millennium that takes place. Some believe that it's a literal thousand years. Other ones believe it's like what you find in many Christian churches, and there's differences among all of those kinds of things. What makes them unique and different is they believe that they have the specific role, through the authority that they have, they are going to bring it about. So this "dominion" means that it was lost in Eden. The devil came in, tempted, man fell, sin came in, then there was the curse. They believe that they're going to restore that. So, sometimes it's an interesting thing, if you think about it, they call themselves the New Apostolic Reformation, but some people would actually call it a "Restoration," as well.

So they're going to "restore" by "taking dominion" - speaking dominion over governments and countries and places. They're going to, once again, reestablish the kingdom of God on earth, and each one of them has their own little weird twist on it, but, again, like you pointed out, it's not a biblical thing. Well, then, people can go ahead and make it whatever they want to because ultimately they're the authority.

And if I could just point out, one of the things that you mentioned by the Word Faith, that whole movement that we saw, the prosperity and the healing, at its core, mankind becomes sovereign, even over God, because they can speak their reality into existence.

So if you and I were watching this in the early nineties, and then saying, "We're going to speak prosperity. We're going to speak healing. We're going to speak wealth. We're going to speak this, that, and the other thing." Well, what's the natural progression of that but "We're going to speak the kingdom of God into existence and we're going to go and subdue. That's dominion.

Tom: Right. Totally man-focused. Even though they use terminology that might make you not think that. But in practice, that's what it is.

Chris: If I could throw in one thing quick - if I think of Kenneth Copeland, and he has back behind [on] his stage "JESUS IS LORD," well, maybe not. Because if you can speak your reality into existence, then you're the sovereign. So that's paying lip service to the Lordship of Jesus because He is not...you're not subject to His will. He's subject to yours because you're going to speak it into existence. He becomes just kind of a bellhop.

Tom: Yeah, you see, at best, this is not only the doctrine of men; this is extra-biblical information at best, and at worst it's doctrines of demons. You can't get away from that. So, Chris, the other aspect of the Kingdom Dominionism is [that] Jesus cannot return (this is why I say it's man-focused]; they would say "Yeah, we have to do these things because Jesus cannot return until we take over the earth. We take dominion. We clean up the earth's act, and so on." That's, again, so contrary to the Scriptures, it's staggering that those who profess to be Bible-believing Christians or Christians would buy into this.

Chris: You know, and unfortunately, it's because people begin to trust whoever it is that's saying what they're saying without every vetting it against the Scripture. So, when the Word of God quits being the ultimate and final authority, and you start to believe the teachings of man without validating them, it's one thing to have a differing view on something that is, really, you know, it's debatable. But when you're going to go ahead and bring up and make doctrine out of whole cloth that are not only not taught in Scripture but they're actually spoken against in Scripture, the people that are sitting there listening to it, and buying into it, have not done their due diligence to compare the teaching of what they're hearing against the Word of God that is supposed to have final authority. But I've heard more than one of these people say, "Even if you can't prove it through the Scriptures, just remember that the ...Paul position - we're the new apostles; we're the new prophets, under a totally different mandate. I've heard one say that it even exceeds the mandate that the original apostles had because we have history and we are in the end times. And there's this brand new outpouring of the Holy Spirit. This is why we're different than even they.

Tom: And you've also heard them say, "Look, we are gods under God." Well, they say... "Wait a minute. We're talking about a god with small 'g.'"   But this is blasphemy to the max.

Chris: Oh, yeah! I remember hearing Kenneth Copeland say that. He said, "Every time that I read in the Bible where God says, 'I Am,' I just smile and say, 'Yeah, I am, too.'" And God is so gracious, He didn't just strike him down at that time. That's just blasphemy!

Tom: Without a doubt! Chris, give our listeners a little background about the roots of the New Apostolic Reformation, and let's start with the so-called movement of the Holy Spirit in the forties in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Chris: Ah yeah! We became kind of familiar with terms like the "Manifest Sons of God," "The Latter Rain," these are descriptions of this work that allegedly God was doing through his "end-time prophet," a guy named William Branham, and interestingly enough, even to these days, guys like Todd Bentley - he's a big proponent of the same kind of angelic ministry that was supposed to be going on with William Branham. Todd Bentley says that the same angels that were visiting this prophetic movement to William Branham, is now speaking with him. And so, this continuation of this alleged end times outpouring and this angelic, prophetic healing ministry; Branham, coming out of a Pentecostal background was labeled by them as being a heretic, but he was claiming to get divine revelation, and angels were visiting him, giving him prophecies, and he was supposed to have not only a prophetic movement, a forerunner of Jesus, allegedly, and he had some supposed healing ministry. So that was when we saw it in its modern - I guess you could say - in its modernized form. The Kansas City Prophets came out of that, and I'm sure we'll get to that stuff in due course.

Tom: Well, again, William Branham, all someone needs to do is just check out his theology. It is so heretical across the board, and I think that's why the Assemblies of God, especially related to the Latter Rain, Manifest Sons of God, at least back then, in the '50s, they said, "No, this is not of God." They rejected it. But since, because of how this is filtered out - or how this has been distributed among so many different groups and so on, it's been massaged around, and now it's come back and much of it being accepted by the Assemblies of God.

Chris: I had some fun with the people at church the other day. I said, "Basically, the devil is pretty good about just rewrapping the same old tired lie, and we're sometimes just not quick enough on the uptake to recognize that it's nothing new, and I likened it to the fruitcake that is just repackaged and sent around the world. And I think the original fruitcake is probably still out there. The same stuff that Branham was saying, somebody else will pick up on it and put a little new spin on it, but it really is nothing new. It's exactly what Solomon told us in Ecclesiastes: "There is nothing new under the sun." But why bother coming up with something brand new, if you're the devil, when we'll fall for the same stuff under a different wrapper?

Tom: Right. Right. Now, the official, or at least unofficial leader of the NAR today is C. Peter Wagner. Now, as -Chris, I know you're aware - back in the late nineties I did a two-part article on the new spiritual warfare strategies, and this was a whole thrust by C. Peter Wagner, who, by the way, was a professor of missions and church growth at Fuller Theological Seminary - Seminary School of World Missions - and he was involved there with promoting signs and wonders with John Wimber of the Vineyard movement. But his whole thrust, which is exactly what we're talking about here, only in spades - more of it - but his Strategic Level Spiritual Warfare, because that's the battle here. That's what they're telling us, whether it be deliverance ministries or, you know, we have to stand up and fight the Adversary every day; there are strategies involved, encounters with demons - but the techniques, such as territorial spirits, spiritual mapping, tearing down strongholds, identification repentance, prayer walking, prayer journeys, prayer expeditions - all of these kinds of things have become techniques for Christians, supposedly - you know, give me chapter and verse for this. You won't find it. But the sad part is that not just back when he got started in the nineties with the spiritual warfare strategies, this has preoccupied believers in a bogus approach to dealing with what's going on today in the world.

Yeah, the world, the flesh, and the devil - we're always going to be in battle with that, but it's a defensive battle. It's not something that we can use our technologies to win over. So what's your take on C. Peter Wagner?

Chris: You know, it's such an interesting thing - and you and I have talked about this off of the show - there's nothing that tells us who really the author of it is, because you and I have had conversations about the very...what we would consider the old-line conservative denominations, and they're moving into a more experiential kind of Christianity in their mystical pursuit of meditation and prayer. And here we have, on the other extreme end of it, you have guys like C. Peter Wagner and all the people moving in the NAR, it's still experiential, but it's highly charismatic. It's not old, it's not the "tried and true" Middle Ages mysticism of Catholicism; this is the alive, charismatic, signs and wonders, miraculous kind of stuff, but it's still completely experiential. Both camps will basically point to the experience as evidence of its validity. It doesn't matter what you do in showing them how it's scripturally inaccurate. That doesn't matter. The experience trumps the Word of God. And so, in both cases, whether it's what we would consider the "old-line" conservative protestant, even Catholic, view of things; this is the total opposite in the charismatic signs and wonders side, but it's still experiential, and that is the be-all and the end-all pursuit is to get to the experience. C. Peter Wagner is a great example. He's the guy who's credited with coining the phrase the New Apostolic Reformation, and then you just laid out the litany of all of these practices...

Tom: Overrides anything from the Scriptures. See, you can't be a Berean. You can't really hold these things up to the Scriptures, because they say, "Oh, no, no. We're way past that. We're into this..." So that puts anybody who falls for this, or who buys into it, in an incredibly vulnerable position. You're looking to men. You're looking to - as you pointed out, Chris - to experiences. Or you're going by feelings. Once that happens, you're in serious trouble, because "feelings can't be wrong." In other words, what they may be "feeling" about can be dead wrong, but hey, your feelings are your feelings, and my feelings are my feelings. In other words, it's subjective because it's so incredibly experiential and that - talk about a strategy! You want a strategy of the Adversary - that's a major one! "Remove them!" You know, "Yea, hath God said?" Satan starts with Eve in the Garden of Eden, and so on.

Now, Chris, we've got about a minute and a half. The Lord willing, when we come back for next week's program, I want to talk about some of these individuals; I want to deal with Bethel, with IHOP, which we've talked about - the influence that this has on young people, which is staggering and tragic, in my view. Well, we've got a lot to deal with. So, Chris, thanks for being with me on this program, and we look forward to picking up where we left off.
Chris: Thanks, Tom, great time. Thank you. I appreciate it very, very much.	
	
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Occasionally, there's an unexpected and unforeseen side to "becoming a node of the 'borg" with your head and your mind being stuck in a cell phone!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3374444/Man-plummeted-60-feet-death-Christmas-Day-distracted-cell-phone-San-Diego-cliffs.html

Man 'walks off cliff and plummets 60 feet to his death on Christmas Day while distracted by his cell phone'
	•	The victim was at Sunset Cliffs when he plummeted 60 feet 
	•	He was declared dead at the scene  
	•	Bill Bender with San Diego Lifeguards said 'He was looking down at the device in his hands'

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Peter said of Jesus,
"Neither is there salvation in any other:
For there is none other name under heaven given among men,
whereby we must be saved."
(Acts 4:12)

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20 December

Saints,

I remember being handed an almost, at that time, underground book around 1980 called "The Cosmic Trigger of the Illuminati."  It was written by Robert Anton Wilson (nee Bobby Ed Wilson) and with the forward by Timothy Leary.  Anyone not carefully watching Leary would think the book was a piece of insanity.  Maybe even those watching carefully would wonder why they were and also consider the work insane.  I do not presently have a copy of the book, but I believe it is the same writing in which Leary "volunteered" and wanted to be the antichrist and considered himself the heir of Aleister Crowley who proudly called himself "the wickedest man alive."  In these same passages, Leary made a "serious advocacy"  (if anything about Leary is to be called serious or "sirius"(!) ) that a group of elite pilgrims, adventurers, frontier-spirited folk should make plans to get off the planet permanently due to the impending "alien invasion" by Christ, known of as his Second Coming to us who believe, and a thing they would loathe and hate and try to get away from so they could continue their rebellious advance into "godhood" elsewhere.

It may be that this plan far precedes the 1977 publish date of this book, but it interesting to see this plan earnestly postulated by this time.  Now, with many billionaires like Musk anticipating an apocalyptic situation arriving on Earth, mere desert and mountain sanctuaries, remote and approachable only by small aircraft, private helicopters, etc. may not seem good enough.  Illuminists are aware of Holy Scripture and of a time coming when even caves in the earth--bunkers and fortresses--will not be sufficient to hide them from the Wrath of the Lamb, and some have indeed and again set their sights on planetary escape.  Be careful, you don't get volunteered as a trekkie or a "star war-rior", as many will, to become early mass astronauts as they will happily sacrifice you to go before them to work out the kinks.  And do not be surprised to find out in the days ahead that space exploration is way beyond what has been reported in the news today.  Engines far more efficient than rockets may already be pushing hidden agendas around the planetary belt.  I reported, some blog issues back, on a new engine that could reach the moon in four hours.  This sure beats the old rockets that did the job in the 70's.  Also, with such a plethora of private billionaires now, there is no lack of money to be spent on private and secret efforts.  Other new "plasma" engines and similar techno-esoterica are hiding in the hangars of the ultra rich.

Are Musk, Hawking, Zuckerberg, and other "boy geniuses," suddenly turned into multibillionaires, the darlings of the Illuminists and the Luciferians who put them forward with their bright ideas and pay the way for them?  As Lewis noted, many of them may have already had to bow to Lucifer in some "objective room" somewhere to get what they so magically seem to have gotten.

I am so glad I know the Living God who will indeed invade the very territory He first created, to take it back from his rebelling, created but usurping son and his dupes.  What fools they be who think they can escape by merely scooting over to another planet, or even to another solar system, etc. when God can (and will) fold up the very heavens like an old garment when the Time comes!  But this might be an allowance for them to make their try as it appears there may be a space invasion of Earth by them returning at the end of the Millennium in Revelation 20:9?  It is also possible that God allowed some of the Nephilim to escape Earth to Mars in the days of the Flood.  Noah and his family were saved by the Ark, and all other flesh on the face of the Earth perished, but a contingent of part human / part angel / part other species Nephilim may have been allowed to escape to Mars (or elsewhere) as we see evidence of civilization there--the Plains of Cydonia, the orbiting hollow spheres(?) of Phobos and Demos (the ultra thin in density — like hollow ships — Martian moons), etc.  With the work of new Nephilim now popping out worldwide via "inspired" (think about that word) scientists--CRISPR-Cas9 married to AI intelligence and cyborgery, etc.--God may be allowing them to make their try now as well as at the end of the Millennium--Psalm 2, they give him something to laugh at as He unhurriedly meters out the Plan of the Ages!

Saints, what a great calling and Time and ministry and divine privilege to be called to watch in these days!  See Musk, below, warning about "religious extremism";   but read instead "the real Apocalypse and the Second Coming of Christ." ?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3359076/We-Mars-World-War-Three-kicks-Elon-Musk-warns-religious-extremism-nuclear-attacks-prevent-landing-red-planet.html

'We must get to Mars before World War Three kicks off:' Elon Musk warns religious extremism and nuclear attacks will prevent us landing on the red planet
	•	Elon Musk said he will announce new plans for a mission to Mars next year
	•	He fears there is a limited window when technology for a mission will exist
	•	A third World War or religious extremism could turn people anti-technology
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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SCI_ASTRONAUTS_NEEDED?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-12-14-13-50-04
NASA WANT AD:  ASTRONAUTS NEEDED TO HELP GET TO MARS
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http://www.newsweek.com/2015/12/25/mars-colonies-rich-people-404681.html
Star Wars’ Class Wars: Is Mars the Escape Hatch for the 1 Percent?

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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_NIRELAND_PREACHER_CHARGED?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-12-14-10-21-20
EVANGELICAL PREACHER ON TRIAL AFTER BRANDING ISLAM 'SATANIC'

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Oh, how I do try to stay out of politics (so that I can focus on the spiritual witness of Christ, Who's Kingdom is not of this world), but this is too good to pass up.  I have been a secret admirer of Putin for some time….for just doing what he says he is going to do and being a straight talker!

Mind you, I am willing to be a patriot to my homeland, and I can remember the days of the Soviet Union and "the communist threat," and I am no fan of such.  I was raised on the far right, switched to the far left in college rebellion years, tried out all the center views and finally left politics pretty much behind (except for backing moral issues in the public arena at times since) when I was called and turned to follow Christ according to the radical dictates of his Word--though I need his grace every moment to carry this cross.  I am not "for" Putin or Russia, but I am not against Russia either, and I sorrow that many Russians and many others will die in the days ahead when Ezekiel's battle, and, after that, Armageddon must come.  It is just nice to see a leader who leads, who isn't afraid to be a man and a male.  At least Putin backs his friends (while we call them his client states) and went in and has honestly continued backing Syria.  We, on the other hand, can no longer be trusted to do anything we say, by all of the middle eastern states, including even Israel…and we spent "five billion" training "five soldiers" (or so) among "the approved rebels," who all handed over their weapons to ISIS the second we sent them out.  How's that for being fools?  How do you hold your head up, John Kerry?

Oh my, America is in such a pathetic, iffy, sodomite state of girls being boys and boys becoming girls whereas in Russia that's still against the law…so, when there, shut up, take off your drag, and go home or go to jail.  Here, it is almost against the law to even question the sodomite agenda.  And it is more that a sexual issue.  We have become weak and stupid, morally decrepit and physically decayed (decadent) through many such sinful "liberal democraticisms".  We have become a neurotic nation of leaders who cannot make any decision, or call anything what it is.  No wonder people are ready for Trump.  God save us!  It won't be Trump who saves, but God could use him or another if any repentance would come upon the land.  But, will it?  We refuse to call our enemies enemies though they patently and blatantly and continually assure that they want to kill us and will kill us and do kill us, but we blacken and derogate anyone who does speak out as "stupid, hateful islamophobes."  Also, it is almost illegal to possess your original gender or to prefer it.  We are descending into a black hole of complete national mental breakdown.  We now find our babies are born autistic because their mothers are pickled on antidepressants, and we find (see recent blogs) that 2 out of three who are on antidepressants aren't even technically "depressed," except that the whole nation is in a blue funk of depression, living on pills or "checked out" on various "alternate realities" from sports addiction idiocy to digital worlds and paranormal states.  It is surely "the days of Noah again," and, yes, in spite of all the people who have "checked out" we also see violence and mass murder raging daily in our streets, our neighborhoods, even our own back yards.  Will anyone repent?

So, yeah, "Go Putin!" and may God save you and many Russians before the big mistake, to which you are also "called," of trying to destroy Israel.

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/76412252-a26d-11e5-8d70-42b68cfae6e4.html#axzz3uUmR52sQ
Vladimir Putin offers Donald Trump fans a glimpse of the possible
The Russian leader offers a glimpse of a president unstymied by Congress, writes Courtney Weaver

On a blustery evening, a crowd of thousands gather at a political rally, many eager to explain to me why their country needs a strong leader, is right to take a more aggressive stance on the world stage and should be respected and feared by other nations.

It’s a scene not unlike those I have covered over the past five years as a correspondent for the FT in Russia. Only this time I have not come to see the adoring fans of Vladmir Putin. I am in Macon, Georgia, and the man we are waiting for is Donald Trump. … ...

Follow up on 18 December, thanks Matt Drudge —
Putin votes Trump!  Oh my, what to think?!?  The head of Rosh promotes a US presidential candidate!  What kind of science fiction movie are we living in?
http://news.yahoo.com/putin-calls-trump-outstanding-talented-man-agencies-005747627.html
Putin calls Trump 'outstanding, talented'
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Another UK preacher legally assaulted as a "homophobe" —  but we win this one (as it appears this is persecution by a Shariah law judge against a Christian using homophobia as an excuse.  Will the UK come awake?)

from WND via prophecynewswatch.com
http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/December17/171.html
Preacher convicted of quoting Bible, now high court jumps in

An appeals judge in the United Kingdom has issued a stunning reversal of a lower court judge's blast at the Bible over a street preacher who quoted Leviticus in explaining the Christian perspective on homosexuality.
According to officials with Christian Concern, which fought in court on behalf of street preacher Michael Overd, it was Taunton Crown Court Circuit Judge David Ticehurst who upheld Overd's appeal.
He ruled the government "failed to provide sufficient evidence to justify the conviction," the organization reported.
Overd had been convicted by a judge, Shamim Ahmed Qureshi, who also serves with the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal, the overseer of the nation's Shariah courts.
Qureshi had taken the "extraordinary step" of determining and announcing in court which Bible verses "it was appropriate for Mr. Overd to use in his public explanation of the Bible's teaching on homosexual practice," the organization reported.
Overd, in a statement released by Christian Concern, said the case never should have come to trial.

"The court was faced with the farcical situation of a witness telling the judge that he couldn't even remember what I had said, but simply asserting that it was ‘homophobic' – as though the mere assertion that something is ‘homophobic' is enough to curtail free speech," he said.
"In this country, we are now in the ludicrous situation where the slightest accusation of a ‘phobia,' be it ‘homophobia' or "Islamophobia,' is enough to paralyze rational action by the police and authorities. The highly politicized dogma of ‘phobias' now too often results in trumped up charges and legal action.
"There is a chilling effect," he said.
 WND reported earlier in 2015 when the case developed.
Overd was convicted and fined by Qureshi, who told him he should not have referenced Leviticus chapter 20 in explaining the biblical view on homosexuality, but "clearly indicated that he could have used chapter 18 of the book."
Overd had been taking part in street preaching activities in Taunton, Somerset, at the time. Homosexuals filed the complaint, alleging Overd had "offended" them.
Overd, 50, was fined $300 and ordered to pay compensation and costs totaling $1,800.
He explained at the time he was approached by people with questions while he was preaching. Then they filed a complaint over his answr.
"I have been ordered to pay compensation for causing ‘emotional pain' to someone who approached me aggressively demanding to debate the issue," said Overd at the time. "There was no harm, injury or theft, just a simple disagreement over theology which I have now been fined for."

Qureshi, who according to a 2009 article in "The Brief," chronicling the rise of Shariah law in Britain, serves with the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal, the overseer of the nation's Shariah courts, said it was impermissible to reference Leviticus 20:13 because it discusses the death penalty.

Overd took issue with Qureshi dictating which passages from the Bible were lawful for him to use.
"I am amazed that the judge sees it as his role to dictate which parts of the Bible can and can't be preached," he said then. "I did not quote the full text of Leviticus 20 or make reference to the death penalty, but the judge is telling me that I should use other parts of the Bible. This is not free speech but censorship. The judge is redacting the Bible."
Andrew Williams, chief of the Christian Legal Centre, said, "Public debate is becoming more superficial and fragile. People feel that certain things can't be said. That is dangerous. It prevents us from challenging ideas, beliefs and behavior that need to be challenged. It may make some people feel more comforetable, but it doesn't make the country safer."
Williams continued, "Mike's case highlights problems that will only get worse if the government ploughs on with its flawed ‘Coungter-Extremism Streategy." Islamic terrorism needs to be tackled, but giving the government far-reaching powers to clamp down on all sorts of beliefs that it doesn't like is dangerous."
Added Overd, "Reasonable, law-abiding people now feel that they can't say certain things and that is dangerous. Totalitarian regimes develop when ordinary people feel that there are certain things that can't be said."
  The BBC noted Ticehurst awarded costs in favor of Overd, who lives in Creech St. Michael.
WND reported when the case develop that Qureshi also criticized Over's preaching style and training.
"In my view he enjoys coaxing people into asking him questions so that he can reply loudly into the microphone to answer them. The only semblance of civilized conversation is when they commend him, if they disagree he shouts them down," he charged.
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Judgment comes to Billy Graham's campus in Wheaton, Illinois —  What must he and son Franklin be thinking?  Interestingly, professing Christian western women, for the most part, have apostasized from covering their heads in church, the only place they are instructed and commanded by the apostle to do so…but "judgment must begin at the house of God."

NO, Larycia, we do not follow the same Book nor the same God!  If it is not simpleton foolishness that fills your head, then it is the spirit of the interloper, the spy, the fifth columnist, the occupant of the Trojan Horse!

http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/December16/161.html
Non-Muslims encouraged to wear Islamic head scarf at school
excerpt:  Meanwhile, Wheaton College professor Larycia Hawkins announced on her Facebook page Dec. 11 she would be wearing a hijab during Advent to show "religious solidarity with Muslims." Wheaton is a private, evangelical Christian college in Wheaton, Illinois.

"I stand in religious solidarity with Muslims because they, like me, a Christian, are people of the book. And as Pope Francis stated last week, we worship the same God," Hawkins said.

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Some backbone in Virginia!  "We don't want our kids forced to recite Islamic lines," etc. — as has been insidiously happening here and there around the country.  "Your religion clearly and strongly supports and advocates the mass murder of Christians and Jews and anyone who doesn't bow and agree with every impulse you have.  Why should we help you?"

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ISLAMIC_TEACHING_SCHOOLS_CLOSED?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-12-17-18-45-59  
COUNTY CLOSES SCHOOLS OVER RESPONSE TO LESSON ON ISLAM
VERONA, Va. (AP) -- Security concerns have prompted officials in a Virginia county to close schools after parental objections to a world geography lesson that included Islam.
Augusta County School Board President Eric Bond announced Thursday that schools would be closed Friday.
Bond says the decision was made "out of an abundance of caution" after consulting with law enforcement. He says there was no specific threat to students but did not elaborate on the safety concerns.
Media outlets report that a Riverheads High School teacher last week asked students to complete an assignment that included practicing calligraphy and writing a Muslim statement of faith. Students weren't asked to translate the statement or recite it.
Bond says that the school district received "voluminous" phone calls and emails about the lesson. … ...
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The Spreading Madness  —  Three Instances  (Thanks, Matt Drudge)

http://nypost.com/2015/12/18/pc-students-at-lena-dunhams-college-offended-by-lack-of-fried-chicken/
Students at Lena Dunham’s college offended by lack of fried chicken
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/12059161/Politically-correct-universities-are-killing-free-speech.html
Politically correct universities 'are killing free speech'
British universities have become too politically correct and are stifling free speech by banning anything that causes the least offence to anyone, academics argue
British universities have become too politically correct and are stifling free speech by banning anything that causes the least offence to anyone, a group of leading academics warns on Saturday.
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http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/12/18/projector-breaks-during-late-night-showing-of-star-wars-crowd-goes-crazy/
Viral Video Captures Moment When Projector Breaks During Late-Night Showing Of ‘Star Wars’; Crowd Goes Crazy

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 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: 
because he trusteth in thee.
(Isaiah 26:3)

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13 December
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Saints,

All the nations finally got together, after the Paris massacre, and voted that the Earth is warming or the climate changing or "whatever," and promised to do something about it.  One wonders how much carbon was emitted in getting them all together and how much hot air (and methane) was generated by the conference itself.

Media overnight can't seem to make up its mind whether the conference conclusions were "binding" or "non-binding," but the fact is the Chinese, for example, only promise to get down to thinking about actions to take after 2030, etc., etc., etc.

The whole thing seems to be the work of a bunch of sanctimonious blowhards.

According to another NYTimes story this morning that opinion alone makes me and this blog in danger of being labelled "hate crime."  One can no longer think outside of any PC dogma without becoming a hate criminal.  It is illegal to think, consider, analyze, or "discriminate"  which in its original, non-discriminatory meaning meant simply to analyze and understand.  "Diversity" means believing exactly what we are told, and if I am "diverse" from that opinion then I am no longer "tolerated."  Whew, talk about a machine mentality!

The devil is certainly on the rampage, but it is because he knows his time is short and his days are numbered.  His system (the world) is full of iniquity (evil imbalances needed to make it work), but it is a frankenstein monster with arms and legs and nose, etc. always ready to fall off at an inconvenient moment.  Is it any wonder his puppet, the son of the most low (the Antichrist), will rage around?  He will be one very frustrated dude…when so little of his schemes work at all in a crumbling world.

Much more this week on CRISPR-Cas9.  God wisely tells us all we need to know about the enemy's kingdom:  There is one; it is evil; there are many followers of the devil in it.  From the Scriptures we know there are fallen angels; we know there are devils, and demons, and unclean spirits, but we do not know if they are all merely rankings of fallen angels, or if they are also living sparks of corrupted spirit ("unclean spirits" of the New Testament) from the experiments and the progeny of the fallen angels mixing with men, animals, and plants, etc. (silicon chips, implants and cyborgs, etc.) or not.  For sure, if we mix together a horse and a man and come up with a centaur, it will be a fearsome freak with the strength of a horse and the processing power of a man.  But, at its best, it will also have two spines and probably one awful and continuous backache as a man twisted upright from waist up.  How can it ever be without pain?  And if so, how can it be, even at its very best, a creature always racked by pain? …and therefore pretty grumpy and not a model of patience, kindness, temperance, etc.?

Satan's kingdom, however horrible results it may engender, will fall…for "greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world."  Praise the name of our Almighty God!  Let us take a tight grip on faith, batten down the hatches, and face what we must.  We are sons of the Most High!  He will prevail and has told us all we need to know about what will happen from millennia before it occurs!

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(6 Dec)
True science will honor the God of the Bible and acknowledge Him in its discoveries, but the present atheistic, evolutionary science will only cynically acknowledge a false religiosity to suit and foster its agenda.  It is extreme hubris to think that we can "save the Earth" by our puny efforts though we are to be the best stewards of Creation that we can be.  But it is only God Himself, returning in the Person of his Son that will "destroy those who are destroying the earth" in Revelation 11:18.  The battle is far bigger than any human investigation or effort at self-improvement, and those who cynically enlist "the religious" are serving the spirit of Antichrist.  This pope may well be the False Prophet who spiritually empowers the Antichrist.  Time will tell.  Says our Lord, "What I say unto you, I say unto all, watch."

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_CLIMATE_COUNTDOWN_GOD_FACTOR?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-12-06-15-15-25
SCIENTISTS ENLIST THE BIG GUN TO GET CLIMATE ACTION:  FAITH
PARIS (AP) -- The cold hard numbers of science haven't spurred the world to curb runaway global warming. So as climate negotiators struggle in Paris, some scientists who appealed to the rational brain are enlisting what many would consider a higher power: the majesty of faith.

It's not God versus science, but followers of God and science together trying to save humanity and the planet, they say.

Physicist John Schellnhuber, founder of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, said he has been coming to these international talks for 11 years and essentially seen negotiators throw up their hands and say "sorry guys we tried our best." And no one protested. But this time, with the power of Pope Francis' encyclical earlier this year calling global warming a moral issue and an even more energized interfaith community, Schellnhuber feels the world's faithful are watching and will hold world leaders accountable. … ...
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(13 Dec)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/world/europe/climate-change-accord-paris.html?emc=edit_th_20151213&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Nations Approve Landmark Climate Accord in Paris
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Be careful what you google, but then it's probably too late now; you are already profiled….
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/opinion/sunday/the-rise-of-hate-search.html?emc=edit_th_20151213&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
The Rise of Hate Search
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(9 Dec)
Once again, scientists are catching up to those who read and believe the Bible!  (1997, Peter Jennings suggested:  Egyptian gods and Greek mythology may turn out to be based in reality — and so come on the times the Lord called "as in the days of Noah".)

http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/read/someone-will-eventually-use-crispr-to-try-to-make-a-dragon-or-unicorn
Someone will eventually use CRISPR to Try to Make a Dragon or Unicorn
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http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/read/geneticists-are-concerned-transhumanists-will-use-crispr-on-themselves?trk_source=popular
Geneticists Are Concerned Transhumanists Will Use CRISPR on Themselves
Geneticists developing powerful genome editing tools are worried that transhumanists will try to use them on themselves before they’re deemed safe and effective for use in humans, which could undermine the future of technologies, such as CRISPR/Cas9, that allow for specific, targeted DNA editing.

Many of the biggest names in the field are at the International Summit on Human Gene Editing, where they are trying to reach a consensus on when, how, and for what purposes humans should edit their own DNA (or the DNA of an embryo).
CRISPR holds promise in the potential eradication of diseases like HIV, Huntington’s, and Alzheimer’s, and could be used to prevent children from being born mentally impaired. The scientific community seems to generally agree that using CRISPR to potentially prevent disease is ethically OK as long as the technology overall is deemed safe for use in humans. Things get sticky, however, when you consider that gene editing could theoretically be used down the line to create designer babies, to prevent premature aging, or to stimulate muscle growth, among myriad other applications.

Transhumanists, many of whom believe science can be used to ultimately conquer death, look at CRISPR as an important part of the toolkit we can use to transcend our natural bodies. Since as early as 2004, transhumanist groups have opposed the idea of bans on human genetic editing research. Zoltan Istvan, who is running for president as a Transhumanist candidate (and who writes an occasional column for Motherboard), says CRISPR holds great promise for the human race.

“Despite some people saying CRISPR technology could lead to dangerous outcomes for the human race, the positive possibilities far outweigh any dangers,” Istvan told me in an email. “With this type of gene editing tech we have a chance to wipe out hereditary diseases and conditions that plague humanity. And we could also modify the human being to be much stronger and functional than it is. CRISPR could be one of the most important scientific advancements of the 21st Century. We should embrace it.”

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A globetrotting brother named Dave sends this one along though it is reaped from our own New Yorker Magazine.   Want more color, background, and lay explanation on this whole brave new world of gene-splicing and CRISPR-Cas9?  This is an extensive read, but it has a lot of need-to-know for those who believe "as in the days of Noah" are upon us —

I have frequently mentioned the woman scientist who discovered the splicing potentials that have led to the explosion of interest, research and development of CRISPR-Cas9 and related bio-technologies.  She is Jennifer Doudna of UC Berkeley, and many feel she is in line for a Nobel prize.  In earlier blog posts here, I have mentioned that she found the original bacteria from which she deduced the process in a deep dark mine's water pools;  truly a "creature from the black lagoon" as I quipped.  Now, see her fearsome dream, excerpted here, and in detail in the piece, about a "pig Hitler" arising to claim the use of this technology.  She is the one who has begged the bio-tech global community to put a moratorium on continuing down this path, but watchers tend to think "the cat is out of the bag."

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/16/the-gene-hackers
The Gene Hackers
A powerful new technology enables us to manipulate our DNA more easily than ever before.
BY MICHAEL SPECTER 

Two tiny excerpts from an extensive piece —

“The social dangers of creating genetically modified human beings cannot be overstated.”

(Doudna) The promise of her work on CRISPR, however, has persuaded her to remain in the lab. She told me that she was constantly amazed by its potential, but when I asked if she had ever wondered whether the powerful new tool might do more harm than good she looked uncomfortable. “I lie in bed almost every night and ask myself that question,” she said. “When I’m ninety, will I look back and be glad about what we have accomplished with this technology? Or will I wish I’d never discovered how it works?”

Her eyes narrowed, and she lowered her voice almost to a whisper. “I have never said this in public, but it will show you where my psyche is,” she said. “I had a dream recently, and in my dream”—she mentioned the name of a leading scientific researcher—“had come to see me and said, ‘I have somebody very powerful with me who I want you to meet, and I want you to explain to him how this technology functions.’ So I said, Sure, who is it? It was Adolf Hitler. I was really horrified, but I went into a room and there was Hitler. He had a pig face and I could only see him from behind and he was taking notes and he said, ‘I want to understand the uses and implications of this amazing technology.’ I woke up in a cold sweat. And that dream has haunted me from that day. Because suppose somebody like Hitler had access to this—we can only imagine the kind of horrible uses he could put it to.”

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December 7, 2015 bereancall.org daily update	
PASTORS IN INDIA BEATEN AND JAILED SIMPLY FOR PRAYING IN THEIR OWN HOMES [Excerpts]
Evangelicals in India are calling on Christian leaders in the UK to pressure the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit this week to intervene to help persecuted Christians in India. 

Christians are being beaten and killed in India and the influence of hardline Hindus has increased since Modi's government was elected in summer last year....Vijesh Lall, secretary of the Freedom and Development Commission of the Evangelical Fellowship of India, told Christian Today: "The situation has deteriorated in the north. It is not just Christians. It is other minorities and civil society being affected as well."

He described one incident where Christian pastors were beaten and jailed simply for praying together in a private house.

"The Christians on the ground are fearful and have been for quite some time. People used to attack Christians if they evangelised on the street. Now Christians are not even safe if they are praying in their own homes.

"In one incident not long ago about 35 kilometres from Delhi, 13 pastors were gathered in the house of another pastor. They were praying. It was prayer meeting. There was no preaching or evangelising. They were attacked and beaten. They were taken to the police station where they were told: 'This is a Hindu nation. Your kind of prayers are not allowed.' They were released later that day after many hours in custody." He conceded that the Modi had on at least two different occasions said everyone in the country will have freedom of religion. "But nothing seems to be happening on the ground."

Last year there were 147 anti-Christian incidents and already this year to the end of October there have been 130.

"I do not see a bright future unless the Prime Minister really does something. He's there in your country now. Maybe people can try and talk to him about this," he pleaded. Of the population of 1.21 billion, about 2.3 per cent are Christian, between 25 million and 27 million.
(Ruth Gledhill, "Pastors in India beaten and jailed simply for praying in their own homes," Christian Today Online, November 13, 2015)
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Many Middle East enemies of Israel insist ancient Israel is only a myth!  

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/09/world/middleeast/magdala-stone-israel-judaism.html?emc=edit_th_20151209&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
A Carved Stone Block Upends Assumptions About Ancient Judaism	
	
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Social Media:  Is it just the amassed Sin Nature, ever refined and concentrated?
A thoughtful piece about the digital mess the world is in—
(And what over-smart idiots think we will solve the world's problems by brain implants, 'borged humans, artificial intelligence, and eternal life through algorithms?  They mean hell, don't they?)
  
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/10/technology/shut-down-internet-donald-trump-hillary-clinton.html?emc=edit_th_20151210&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
The Internet’s Loop of Action and Reaction Is Worsening
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Is SkyNet already awake?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/10/opinion/the-end-of-work.html
The End of Work?
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The birth of "living computers"? —  "And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast."  Rev. 13:15

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/12042781/Google-D-Wave-quantum-computer-is-100-million-times-faster-than-your-PC.html
Google’s new quantum computer is '100 million times faster than your PC'
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And will the Beast cull out individuals and scattered groups with digitally-linked (SkyNet) killer 'bots (among many ways)?    "…as many as will not worship the image of the beast shall be killed."  (Rev 13:15 again)
http://www.wsj.com/articles/autonomous-weaponized-robots-not-just-science-fiction-1449763884
Autonomous Weaponized Robots: Not Just Science Fiction
Robotics expert Noel Sharkey describes a confluence of developing technologies that could endanger our lives and our rights
Noel Sharkey is emeritus professor of robotics and artificial intelligence at the University of Sheffield in England.
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(11 Dec)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/11/science/an-advance-in-artificial-intelligence-rivals-human-vision-abilities.html?emc=edit_th_20151211&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
A Learning Advance in Artificial Intelligence Rivals Human Abilities
Computer researchers reported artificial-intelligence advances on Thursday that surpassed human capabilities for a narrow set of vision-related tasks.

The improvements are noteworthy because so-called machine-vision systems are becoming commonplace in many aspects of life, including car-safety systems that detect pedestrians and bicyclists, as well as in video game controls, Internet search and factory robots. … ...

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(10 Dec)
In the last installment of this blog, I raised the issue of "what happened to the third shooter?"  Whew, glad somebody else noticed…

As we are "living in a science fiction movie" these days, one wonders if he popped through a dimensional gate, was an embedded US agent attempting to keep his cover and allowed to pass through the SWAT teams, or was a jihadi who promised lots of info if he talked and has been hidden and removed from the news as part of his deal, OR, is the whole thing a hallucination among the few who watch and listen carefully to the media?  What a day to watch and wait upon the Lord!

http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/December10/102.html#3UAxMqYOsWX6iYWx.99
Eyewitnesses insist '3 shooters' in San Bernardino

A week after the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, that killed 14 people and left 21 injured, some are wondering whatever happened to the supposed third shooter that witnesses say shot up the Inland Regional Center.
The two Muslim suspects who were killed in a police shootout have been identified as Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, who were reportedly planning the deadly assault a year in advance. 
But witnesses on the day of the Dec. 2 massacre insisted there were three shooters.
Like the reporting you see here? 

Sally Abdelmageed, who worked inside the center where the attack occurred, claimed in an interview broadcast on CBS News that there were three assailants.
"I heard shots fired and it was from – you know – an automatic weapon," Abdelmageed told the network, adding it was all "very unusual. Why would we hear shots? As we looked out the window a second set of shots goes off [...] and we saw a man fall to the floor. Then we just looked and we saw three men dressed in all black, military attire, with vests on. They were holding assault rifles. As soon as they opened up the doors to building three [...] one of them [...] started to shoot into the room."

In her description of the perpetrators, Abdelmageed said she "couldn't see a face, he had a black hat on [...] black cargo pants, the kind with the big puffy pockets on the side [...] long sleeve shirt [...] gloves [...] huge assault rifle [...] six magazines [...] I just saw three dressed exactly the same."
"You are certain you saw three men?" the reporter asked her again.
"Yes," she stressed. "It looked like their skin color was white. They look like they were athletic build and they appeared to be tall."

A second witness, Juan Fernandez, confirmed Abdelmageed's description of events, telling reporters he also saw "three white men in military fatigues" who "took off" in a "black Impala or SUV."
At the American Spectator, writer Arnold Ahlert noted in a column focusing on the third shooter: "Since then? Nothing. Certainly eyewitness accounts are notoriously unreliable, but isn't that precisely the reason one might expect the media to clarify the discrepancies between their original reporting and the current status quo?"
Ahlert continued:
As bad as that lack of closure is, the second question is far more troublesome: why did the FBI abandon their investigation of the townhouse rented by the terrorists and allow media access to it only two days after the shooting – and leave shredded documents behind? Former NYPD Det. Harry Houck illuminates the insanity. "This apartment clearly is full of evidence," he explained. "I don't see any fingerprint dust on the walls where they went in there and checked for fingerprints for other people that might have been connected to these two. You've got documents laying all over the place – you've got shredded documents that need to be taken out of there and put together to see what was shredded," Houck added. "You have passports, driver's licenses – now you have thousands of fingerprints all over inside this crime scene."
The explanation offered by David Bowdich, assistant director of the FBI's Los Angeles office, strains credulity. "Once the residents have the apartment and we're not in it anymore, we don't control it," he said. "Once we turn that location back over to the occupants of that residence or once we board it up, anyone who goes in at that point, that's got nothing to do with us."
Houck wasn't buying it. "I tell you I am so shocked. This is detective 101 for crying out loud," he insisted. "It looks like there are dozens of people in there totally destroying a crime scene which is still vital in this investigation because we don't know how many other people that they were connected with in this thing. There might be tons of fingerprints in there that we need to look at to see if there is any kind of connection to those fingerprints or some people that may be on a watch list or something else."

"Something stinks here," Ahlert concluded. "Given the track record of Islamic terror denialism embraced by the Obama administration – along with innumerable examples of media malfeasance protecting that approach – the unmistakable odor of a coverup, or an orchestrated disinformation campaign, hangs heavy in the air."
Ahlert's analysis caught the attention of radio host Rush Limbaugh on Wednesday, who also has been wondering about the third shooter since watching news reports last week.
"This was not, you know, an oddball terrorist couple. This was a cell," said Limbaugh.
"They had a lot of people gathering ammunition, working on planning, driving other people around. It's not what we've been told it is. It was not a couple 'radicalized' who met on a dating site. The active theory now is that it was an arranged marriage by terrormasters and that they had, after the arranged marriage, a mission, and the San Bernardino attack was the mission – and it may have been more, we don't know. Third shooter? Who, what, when, where, why? Is there one? Was there one? Two witnesses said they saw one. The media reported third shooter. But nobody's had any interest in tracking a shooter down."

Just two days after the California carnage, Stu Tarlowe asked the same question about the purported third shooter in a column for WND.
"So, what gives, America? Did that third suspect drop off the edge of the earth?" Tarlowe wrote. "Did he or she disappear in the same way that our ability and willingness to recognize and identify a terrorist act when we see it seems to have disappeared? Or have we collectively forgotten how to count? Have we now become a nation of the arithmetically challenged, the journalistically challenged and the cognitively challenged?
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Well, this should make everyone on all sides of the Second Amendment debate a little happier!  (49 to go and the district of Columbia!  On this I would have to agree with Mr. Obama that this is "logical")

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/11/nyregion/connecticut-to-ban-gun-sales-to-those-on-federal-terrorism-lists.html?emc=edit_na_20151210&nlid=69381998&ref=cta&_r=0
Connecticut to Ban Gun Sales to Those on Federal Terrorism Lists

With the mass shooting in California last week focusing attention on terrorism and guns, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy of Connecticut announced on Thursday that he would sign an executive order that would bar people on federal terrorism watch lists from buying firearms in the state.

Mr. Malloy said Connecticut would become the first state in the nation to have such a measure. … ...
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Wow, this observer is not a lover of crowds anyway, nor do I, as at one time, need to absorb all knowledge I can find and thus now abhor false holy books and just can't stomach reading this religion's ones, but I do recall something about "stoning the devil" as the hajj crowds circle the big black cube (showing my ignorance here) in Mecca or wherever it is.  As it is satan who is behind "ila," the synthetic god synthesized from the old pagan arab desert and moon gods and goddesses, he sure manages to exact revenge for this stoning and to reap a bloody human sacrifice from his confused, circling followers every year.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/11/world/middleeast/death-toll-from-hajj-stampede.html?emc=edit_th_20151211&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Death Toll From Hajj Stampede Reaches 2,411 in New Estimate
The latest figure, 2,411, reported by The Associated Press, was based on what the agency described as its updated compilation from state news reports and official remarks from 36 of the more than 180 countries where pilgrims had traveled from. If confirmed, the toll would make the stampede the worst in the history of the hajj, the annual five-day pilgrimage that Muslims aspire to complete at least once.

The A.P. and other global news agencies, including Reuters and Agence France-Presse, have been periodically increasing their estimated death tolls since the Sept. 24 stampede, based on the same general methodologies of compiling official figures from the victims’ home countries.

The Saudis, by contrast, have asserted almost from the beginning that 769 pilgrims died in the stampede, which took place about three miles east of Mecca, when crowds became trapped on narrow streets. While the Saudi king, Salman, ordered an immediate investigation, there has been no update on its progress.

Nor has there been any clarity from the Saudis regarding the initial contradictory accounts of what happened. Some officials at first appeared to blame the victims saying they did not follow instructions, but witnesses described exits closed inexplicably that might have induced a panic. (italic bold emphases added)

A virtual news blackout on the disaster has prevailed in Saudi Arabia's news media since.  … …

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12 December,  11:10 a.m. — The New York Times uses a "Breaking News Alert" format to stuff into my mailbox a link to a "Special Report" to an outsize hack of pure propaganda to further inflate its infatuation with "transgenderalism."

What vomit.  Yet, it would seem they care not and operate under a Profound Cynicism that merely to say the words often enough will do.  What pathetic crap.  God save the poor subject of the story from the error of his ways.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/us/kricket-nimmons-transgender-surgery.html?emc=edit_na_20151212&nlid=69381998&ref=cta

'A Whole New Being'  How Kricket Nimmons Seized the Transgender Moment 
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For the oppression of the poor, 
for the sighing of the needy, 
now will I arise, saith the LORD; 
I will set him in safety 
from him that puffeth at him.
(Psalm 12:5)

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6 December

Saints,

(3 Dec)
Some commentary on the shootings of 2 December—

One of the things that amazes me the most is watching the media hold its breath and pretend not to profile the shooters' names as Muslim jihadis.  I don't want to profile every Muslim either, and I realize many do not want to engage in the warlike call of true, primitive Islam, but Islam, being what it is, if the radicals should get the upper hand, many of the less radical will suddenly go along with them in approving of the slaughter of non-Muslims and/or their own "apostates";  Islam is a deeply suicidal and murderous "faith."  It is also deeply ingrained in the arabic, Muslim mindset, even as a taught, "indoctrinated" doctrine to deceive the infidels with peace and doublespeak until they are lined up for the slaughter.  We are engaged in an intractable religious war, no matter how much the secularists and the government managers of the people would like to deny it.  It will end with Ezekiel's battle where God Himself will judge the hordes of Islam with a massive and perhaps final slaughter, but meantime, they are killing Christians in their own lands and are now attacking the people of "the at least nominally Christian" American culture.

Also, one of the themes of this blog has been to watch the sayings of the prophet, better known also as the apostle, Paul.  He speaks clearly in the Pastoral Epistles: the Timothys and Titus, of events that will occur in the last days.  I have spoken often of the increase of mass murder in our society, reporting it first as "the mass murder of the month," then "mass murder of the week," etc., but, now, even the President as well as the media are acknowledging the nearly daily reports of mass murders — which they are defining as four or more killed in any one instance.

I am not prophesying (though as a Christian with the baptism of the Holy Spirit, I do sometime prophesy--within the checks and balances of the Canon of Scripture), but I am only reporting on the words of the Bible Prophets, both Old and New Testament.  In particular, Paul said,  "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.  For men shall be lovers of their own selves (self-deifying humanist self-lovers), covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers (heretics of false religions as well as religion haters, apostates of the true Faith, and the lost fools called atheists), disobedient to parents (losing all underpinnings of societal, cultural, historic respect), unthankful (acknowledging no one but themselves), unholy (given over to the unclean), without natural affection (given over to the sodomite mosh-pit of stimulating their pleasure-center nerve endings in any way they can invent), trucebreakers (looking to insurrect at any opportunity), false accusers (purveyors of lies and "alternate realities"), incontinent (insane), fierce (highly charged with hatred), despisers of those that are good (biting the hands of the Christians and others who offer them care and help), traitors (untrustworthy by design and intent), heady (proud of their altered realities), high-minded (proudly justifying themselves as righteous in their evil doing and being "proud" of their sins), lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God (the sodomite hordes partying till their own extinction), having a form or godliness (Islam, New Age, Occult, Apostate Christianity) but denying the power thereof (refusing to receive the plain meaning of the Holy Scriptures).  From such, said Paul, turn away. (2 Tim 3).  In these days, we must turn away from the evil of these distractions (even as we remain evangelical and willing to share the biblical Gospel), and we must fix our eyes on Jesus (not the church, not the saints—other Christians— but Jesus himself) if we are going to endure…Hebrews 12.

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As I am about to publish with the "send" button":  Addenda for 6 December:  Too many whom I know in Christian circles, exercise an American freedom that may not be a Christian one:  the bashing and trashing of our leaders as a part of our political freedom.  I am also tempted and may sometimes privately yell at the television or exchange foment with one friend or another, BUT the Word says we are to pray for those in secular authority over us, as they are appointed by God.  Tonight, our American President will address the nation on the terrorist situation facing us.  I pray to God that the President will be under conviction to speak the truth to the American people, that he will put truth over policy, management, and control, that he himself will awaken to the difference between truth and policy, between Islam and Christ.  May God save him and his loved ones also;  and the lives of our other leaders and their loved ones too, and may God pour grace and mercy on America for the sake of the Christians here and for the sake of the Glory of his Name.

As I press the "send" button, another terrorist attack is being reported as happening overnight in the London subways where a man attacks others with a knife while screaming, "This is for Syria!"  How can he have missed that the UK and Europe have opened their arms to far too many refugees? …the spirit of islam seems always to blame everyone else for its own sins.  May God yet save many out of it.
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(2 Dec)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/03/us/san-bernardino-shooting.html emc=edit_th_20151203&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
San Bernardino Shooting Kills at Least 14; Two Suspects Are Dead

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — A heavily armed man and woman terrorized this city on Wednesday, killing at least 14 people and wounding at least 17 at a social services center before leading the police on a manhunt culminating in a shootout that left the two suspects dead, the authorities said.

Panic, chaos and rumor gripped this largely working-class community about 60 miles east of Los Angeles as the attackers carried out the nation’s worst mass shooting since the assault on an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., nearly three years ago.

Chief Jarrod Burguan of the San Bernardino Police Department identified the two suspects as Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27. Mr. Farook was born in the United States. Family members say they were married and had a 6-month-old daughter. … ...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/03/us/how-often-do-mass-shootings-occur-on-average-every-day-records-show.html?emc=edit_th_20151203&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
How Often Do Mass Shootings Occur? On Average, Every Day, Records Show
More than one a day.

That is how often, on average, shootings that left four or more people wounded or dead occurred in the United States this year, according to compilations of episodes derived from news reports.

Including the worst mass shooting of the year, which unfolded horrifically on Wednesday in San Bernardino, Calif., a total of 462 people have died and 1,314 have been wounded in such attacks this year, many of which occurred on streets or in public settings, the databases indicate. … ...

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(Sat., 5 Nov curiosity)
I asked the chief search engine,  "What happened to news of the third assailant in the San Bernardino massacre?"   I initially received a report unrelated to my question, and the report was topped by a video that initially said, "We are sorry, but this video is not available in your area."  Continuing to surf, I found no more comment about the very early reports that a third person had "done a roll" away from the vehicle and was "still at large."

I have no idea what the truth is, and I am not offering any speculations, but those, like me, who watch the news closely will find that notable claims and supposedly factual reportings sometimes suddenly disappear, never to be mentioned again, in succeeding news cycles.  At the least, one could watch such events as a way of observing "news management" in our "free society."

Similarly, I don't advocate politically, but upon hearing Trump's claim that NJ Muslims were dancing in the streets after 9/11, my own memory began to recall hearing similar news stories at that time.  Of course, I could just be a subject of the power of suggestion.  If anyone wants to look into the matter, small town library "morgues" of old national and local newspapers for that date and the several days after, might yet yield results.  If papers from those days have been purged (removed), that would also be an interesting indicator.

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Will the debating of pundits and experts halt human genetic engineering?  The woman scientist who discovered CRISPR-Cas9 ("cut-and-paste" DNA editing) has begged and beseeched for a worldwide moratorium to evade the inevitable monstrosities feared.  Here it is, but then look at the next story down!

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/nov/28/gene-editing-weapon-against-disease-or-ethical-nightmare
Top biologists debate ban on gene-editing
Delegates at a crucial scientific summit this week are expected to debate a ban on the use of the controversial technique of gene-editing. Hundreds of the world’s leading biologists will gather in Washington to discuss the procedure, in which genes are removed from or added to human embryos.

Some researchers say gene-editing of humans could have unpredictable effects on future generations and is ethically unacceptable. They also warn that the technology could be used to create lineages of “enhanced” humans and want all work in the area halted until its implications are fully assessed. … …
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But, like we've noted in recent posts, Pandora has probably already opened the box, and the cat is probably already out of the bag!

http://news.yahoo.com/china-clone-factory-scientist-eyes-human-replication-061141389.html;_ylt=AwrXgiJen11WCkIAvoLQtDMD
China 'clone factory' scientist eyes human replication
Beijing (AFP) - The Chinese scientist behind the world's biggest cloning factory has technology advanced enough to replicate humans, he told AFP, and is only holding off for fear of the public reaction.

Boyalife Group and its partners are building the giant plant in the northern Chinese port of Tianjin, where it is due to go into production within the next seven months and aims for an output of one million cloned cows a year by 2020.

But cattle are only the beginning of chief executive Xu Xiaochun's ambitions.
In the factory pipeline are also thoroughbred racehorses, as well as pet and police dogs, specialised in searching and sniffing.

Boyalife is already working with its South Korean partner Sooam and the Chinese Academy of Sciences to improve primate cloning capacity to create better test animals for disease research.
And it is a short biological step from monkeys to humans -- potentially raising a host of moral and ethical controversies.

"The technology is already there," Xu said. "If this is allowed, I don't think there are other companies better than Boyalife that make better technology."

The firm does not currently engage in human cloning activities, Xu said, adding that it has to be "self-restrained" because of possible adverse reaction.
But social values can change, he pointed out, citing changing views of homosexuality and suggesting that in time humans could have more choices about their own reproduction. … ...
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(Dec 4 follow up)
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-gene-editing-ban-20151203-story.html
International gene editing conference declines to ban eventual use in humans
An international conference on gene editing on Thursday left the door open to future use, in humans, of new techniques that alter an organism's genetic architecture in ways that carry forward to future generations.

With questions of safety, need and ethics still unanswered, the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine; the United Kingdom's Royal Society; and the Chinese Academy of Science agreed that "it would be irresponsible to proceed with any clinical use of germline editing."

Issuing a statement on the final day of a three-day colloquy, the gathered scientists did not close the door on the eventual clinical use of such "germline editing," in which the DNA of eggs, sperm or embryos are altered in ways that would be carried by all of the cells of a resulting child and passed on to subsequent generations as part of the human gene pool. … ...

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Indeed, TERMINATOR speculators and fans, individual robots are not the problem, but the problem is that they (and we) will be tied to a global "Skynet."  Interestingly, many humans want to be 'borged and become virtually the same as their robot buddies.  How can one not see the link to St. John's prophecy from 1900 years ago, that an "image of the beast" would be brought to apparent life and would rule the Earth, killing anyone who disagreed with it — perhaps killing them through a global network of individual Terminators under its control?  These chilling and very specific and detailed prophecies should prove to any honest investigator that there is a God Who stands outside of Time and is warning us to side with Him in the things that are coming!  Do not take the mark of the beast, nor his controlling implants!  You will lose your humanity, your individuality, your personhood, yes, your very soul!  Bow earnestly and fully to Christ now and from now on instead!

http://www.techworm.net/2015/11/robot-taught-to-disobey-commands-could-mark-the-era-of-self-aware-ai.html
Is this the beginning of the end for humanity as we speak?
Recently, researchers from Tufts University in Massachusetts are training robots to understand the same sensation of human beings when making a decision. In this way, they will, or will not obey the commands of the human beings, which is something to be worried about. While this could be thought of as a clever approach in order to operate futuristic machines verbally without having to operate them manually, training robots to disobey commands is not exactly a smart thing to do.

If anyone has paid even an ounce of attention to the ‘Terminator’ series, then they will realize that all of humanity was wiped out since Artificial Intelligence or AI started becoming self-aware and wiped out the entire human race in order to preserve its existence. … …
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Talk about "vain hope"!  A belch of static is heralded as alien contact, but who will talk with the God Who is near?

(it may well be that "extraterrestrials" are about to appear, but they are more likely extradimensionals, fallen angels, who can spin a good yarn about distant light years and may even be able to go that far at the blink of a thought, but who are also actually just finding ways to enter and manifest in our worlds and dimensions to take us captive to their wills and to prepare the final invasion which is the Great Tribulation and Armageddon?)

http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/622515/Did-scientists-pick-first-intelligent-radio-waves-distant-alien-planet-Australia-telescope

Did scientists just pick up the first intelligent radio waves from a distant ALIEN planet?
ASTRONOMERS have picked up five mysterious unidentified radio signals that could originate from OUTSIDE the Milky Way. … ...

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(3 Dec)
Apparently, the slaughter at Armageddon's battlefield will be "gender neutral" —

Lucifer, the devil, prepares his "equality" of harvest through such as this US Secretary of Defense, also a pro-sodomite, intent on filling the military with them too!

It is not hard to imagine the suffering of these women soldiers if captured by, for instance, jihadi militants.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_WOMEN_IN_COMBAT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-12-03-11-37-07
CARTER TELLING MILITARY TO OPEN  ALL COMBAT JOBS TO WOMEN
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Associated Press has learned that Defense Secretary Ash Carter will order the military to open all combat jobs to women, and is giving the armed services until Jan. 1 to submit plans to make the historic change.
Carter's announcement is expected later Thursday.

It rebuffs arguments from the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman that the Marine Corps should be allowed to exclude women from certain front-line combat jobs, citing studies showing that mixed-gender units aren't as capable as all-male units.
A senior defense official says all the services will have to begin putting plans in place by April 1. … ...

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"To arms!  To arms!" cried Paul Revere — 

The "arming to the teeth of America"? …urges "Sheriff Joe."  No matter which side of the Second Amendment you come down on, it looks like a bloodbath is in progress and with much more at hand.  

Jihadi propaganda paying off?

Closing excerpt:  "But how do you tell the good guys from the bad guys"  (when the SWAT cops show up and everybody's already shooting)!

http://www.kpho.com/story/30644963/arpaio-calls-on-250k-armed-citizens-to-stop-terrorism-and-mass-shootings

Arpaio calls on 250K armed citizens to stop terrorism and mass shootings

Draw your weapons. 
That's what Sheriff Joe Arpaio is urging nearly a quarter-million Arizona gun owners to do to fight terrorism and mass shooters. 

On Tuesday, the so-called "Toughest Sheriff in America" said he cannot guarantee the public's safety and called on them to take matters into their own hands if necessary.  

"I'm just talking about the areas where you have large crowds and someone pulls out the gun and starts shooting. Maybe somebody with a concealed weapon takes the guy down," Arpaio said. 
Specifically, Arpaio was looking to the 250,000 Arizonans who carry concealed weapons permits to help keep the peace. 
But there are some in law enforcement who are calling this a bad idea. 

Steve Henry, chief deputy of the Pinal County Sheriff's Office, said untrained gun owners could add to chaotic situations at big events, increasing the risk to innocent bystanders. 

"Sometimes it's not proper to pull the trigger because the collateral damage is not worth it," Henry said. "We don't want to walk into a gun fight between anybody, much less a gun fight where people are untrained."
Arpaio's comments came in the wake of terrorist attacks in Paris, Beirut and Mali. 

As such, the percentage of Americans who think a terrorist strike is somewhat or very likely to occur in the homeland in the next few months has skyrocketed. 
According to a CBS poll, 69 percent of Americans believe an attack is imminent. … ...
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Whoops, not just Sheriff Joe in Arizona;  here's a county merely two hours from NYC, probably more conservative than the Big Apple, but this is still amazing coming from NY State!
Oh, Lord, protect those who will trust in you as you instruct in Psalm 91.  Is the whole planet now going into "tilt mode"?

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/12/03/ulster-county-sheriff-carry-guns/
Ulster County Sheriff: All Licensed Handgun Owners Should Carry Them
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – All licensed handgun owners in Ulster County should carry their pistols.

That’s the message Thursday from the Ulster County Sheriff.

Ulster County is located about two hours north of New York City.

“In light of recent events that have occurred in the United States and around the world I want to encourage citizens of Ulster County who are licensed to carry a firearm to please do so,” wrote Sheriff Paul J. Van Blarcum in a Facebook post. “I urge you to responsibly take advantage of your legal right to carry a firearm. To ensure the safety of yourself and others, make sure you are comfortable and proficient with your weapon, and knowledgeable of the laws in New York State with regards to carrying a weapon and when it is legal to use it.” … ...

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European secular leaders begin to assess the plight of Christians there and globally from jihadists—

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/12/03/european-parliament-president-christians-not-safe-europe/
In a high-level meeting on religious persecution in Brussels, the President of the European Parliament (EP) said that Europe cannot afford to continue ignoring the fate of Christians, who are “clearly the most persecuted group” in the world.
In Wednesday’s meeting, EP President Martin Schulz said that the persecution of Christians is “undervalued” and does not receive enough attention, which has also meant that it “hasn’t been properly addressed.”
Schulz’s concerns were echoed by EP Vice President Antonio Tajani, who warned that Europe sometimes “falls into the temptation of thinking we can ignore this task,” referring to the protection Christians throughout the world who suffer persecution.
Speakers cited the work of Open Doors, a human rights organization that monitors the persecution of Christians, noting that 150 million Christians worldwide suffer torture, rape and arbitrary imprisonment. Christians in Iraq, Somalia, Syria, Pakistan, North Korea and Nigeria are among those hardest hit.

The Open Doors repot  for 2015 found that “Islamic extremism is by far the most significant persecution engine” of Christians in the world today and that “40 of the 50 countries on the World Watch List are affected by this kind of persecution.”
For Islamists, Tajani said, Christians are the new “crusaders” of Europe, and because of Islamic persecution in the Middle East more than 70 percent of Christians have fled Iraq since 2003, with another 700 thousand Christians who have been forced to leave their home in Syria since the outbreak of civil war.

“Each month 200 churches and places of worship in the world are attacked and destroyed. Every day and in every region of the world, there are new cases of persecution against Christians,” said Tajani.
“No religious community is as subject to hatred, violence and systematic aggression as the Christians,” he said.

Tajani suggested that where radicalized religion is the problem, religion can also be the solution. “In the name of religion, we have an obligation to condemn all those who show contempt for life and kill in the name of God,” he said. “Whoever shoots in the name of God, shoot against God.”

Another speaker, auxiliary bishop Jean Kockerols of Brussels, said that the idea that Christians are intruders in certain Muslim-dominated countries must be debunked, since the Christian presence in the Middle East and the Indian sub-continent “dates back to centuries before the spread of the Koran.”

“The West must break the silence on the persecution of Christians in the world,” said Taiani, and Europe must promote “a model of society in opposition to religious radicalism and brutal and criminal projects, such as creating an Islamic caliphate in Iraq and Syria and then extending its tentacles into to Libya.”

“It should shake us up,” said Schulz, “that on our continent, Christians are not safe. … ...
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Saints,  As I have mentioned here and there in this blog, I feel that a prophetic scripture, Revelation 6:8, is often overlooked by prophecy teachers and watchers, but it continues to rear its head;  this scripture teaches us that one of the means of judgment and death in the Tribulation period will be by animals.  The verse says this will affect one fourth of the Earth.  Could this be the civilized West and America where we are less used to facing wild beasts and tend to think of them as cuddly and endangered?  This should be seen as a different prophecy than the declaration that God will send the birds of the air and the beasts of the field to clean up the carcasses of those who die in battle in Israel which Ezekiel prophesies in detail in 38 and 39.  This appears to be direct attacks and killing by animals.  We are seeing it dramatically increase here in the West from mountain bikers being pulled down in the California wilds by mountain lions, to increase of bear and shark attacks, zoo animal attacks, dog attacks, alien species like boa constrictors taking over the Everglades, etc.

We can only believe, wait, and see, and take heed and watch and exercise new care, but I have run into a Netflix franchise of a televised series that ran in a recent season.  It is called "ZOO," and its prescient theme (for the present zeitgeist of cultural America) is that the animals have raised up a killing rebellion against their human overlords.  I doubt I will watch the whole series, but plots and subplots seem to indicate that GMO animal feeds are contributing to this "new consciousness" of the animals.  This has a certain plausibility as mad cow disease was traced to "food supplements" given to British cows which were ground up bones, etc. of their own kind, forcing cannibalism on these herbivorous creatures.  What other GMOs running amok in animal populations, or germ-line genetic modifications getting out into the general population of various species could cause a madness to take over various species?  The US government has just approved a new GM salmon that will grow twice as fast as natural salmon.  While supposedly confined to several salmon farms, what will happen when this germ-line change jumps into the natural environment (for example)?

Want to look further?:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_(TV_series)   /  view the Netflix series at Netflix for subscribers  /  read the Skywatchtv.com book, "Dead Pets Don't Lie" by Ardis and Howell about GMO enhanced and cannibalistic pet foods.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/623808/Monkeys-killer-priest-stoned
Priest stoned to death by MONKEYS which have already killed two other men
A PRIEST was killed when a group of monkeys attacked him with house bricks.
Munna Mishra was sweeping the porch of his home when a troop of the creatures began dropping stones onto him from the roof above.
Severely injured, Mr Mishra was rushed to hospital by his family but died a short while later.
Officials in India’s Mirchai Gali region said the “nuisance” monkeys had now killed three people and added that women and children had also been attacked by the creatures brandishing stones.
Villagers in Patna said the animals are causing a lot of distress to families who are afraid of being assaulted by the creatures.
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http://woodtv.com/2015/12/02/pit-bulls-kill-4-year-old-boy-in-detroit/
Pit bulls kill 4-year-old boy in Detroit
DETROIT (AP) — A pack of pit bulls yanked a 4-year-old Detroit boy from his mother, dragged him away and mauled him to death Wednesday, police said.
The boy died from his injuries after the attack in his neighborhood. Police killed three dogs and had a fourth pit bull in custody, Sgt. Cassandra Lewis said.

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The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; 
Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: 
Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: 
And I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

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29 November

Saints,

"On that bright and cheerful morning when the dead in Christ shall rise, 
and the morning breaks eternal bright and fair.  
When the saved of Earth shall gather over on the other shore, 
and the roll is called up yonder, I'll be there!"

That's enough!  Let us stand to and finish the war, never ceasing from prayer, watching and praying, lifting up high praises for every victory, plucking from the fire whom we can, and calling upon the Lord to lead our every breath, standing in continual repentance as we have need, not excusing ourselves but receiving grace, and clearing the way for attentiveness to His Will over and over again and in as much as we can find to do and be.  Thank God for his Spirit, ever ready to breathe new life into us whenever we can remember to call out and often even when we cannot focus or remember.  Salvation is of the Lord Jesus.  Blessed be He!

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A few updates back, I noted that Pauline McCafferky, the Scottish nurse who contracted ebola while serving in Africa, had had a relapse.  The Lord has mercifully lifted her up again, but I wondered aloud then if the same relapse impulse about the organism would cause a similar re-emergence in Africa.  May God answer the many prayers that would turn it aside.

http://news.yahoo.com/liberia-monitors-over-150-ebola-contacts-virus-emerges-135253611.html;_ylt=AwrXoCBQ6FFWmWEAA0DQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTByMXM3OWtoBGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwM4BHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzcg--

Liberia monitors over 150 Ebola contacts as virus re-emerges

MONROVIA (Reuters) - Liberia has placed 153 people under surveillance as it seeks to control a new Ebola outbreak in the capital more than two months after the country was declared free of the virus, health officials said. … …

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Rapidly changing times for a liberal, secular society which has kindly tolerated all religions -- until now.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/religious-liberties-under-strain-for-muslims-in-france/2015/11/22/83054c06-912f-11e5-befa-99ceebcbb272_story.html
Religious liberties under strain for Muslims in France
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The beasts of nature about to run amok?   "…and power was given unto them…to kill with the beasts of the field.." Rev. 6:8

http://www.wmcactionnews5.com/story/30573866/millions-of-spiders-infest-mid-south-neighborhood
Millions of spiders infest Mid-South neighborhood

MEMPHIS, TN (WMC)  Residents on May Street and Chelsea Avenue said their neighborhood has been infested with spiders. The eight legged problem is causing headaches for the homeowners. 
Photos of the nearly half-mile long spider web show the extent of habitation by the spiders. The web looks like frost, or maybe morning dew, covering the grass across the road from several homes. 

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Will it come down to the Israelis driving the Palestinians into the sea?  Will this be a final trigger to bring the hordes of Islam in Ezekiel 38 & 39?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/23/world/middleeast/israel-palestinians-west-bank-stabbings.html?emc=edit_th_20151123&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Israeli Woman and 3 Palestinian Attackers Killed in West Bank
JERUSALEM — Three Palestinians who each attacked Israeli Jews in separate episodes across the occupied West Bank on Sunday, were shot dead by Israeli civilians and soldiers, officials and witnesses said. One Israeli woman was killed in the attacks.
		
		The father of one of the Palestinians attackers, a 16-year-old girl, said she had been preparing for martyrdom and asked him to donate her organs.
The slain Israeli woman, identified by news sites as Hadar Buchris, age 20 or 21, was stabbed at an intersection in the Etzion settlement block south of Jerusalem. The attack occurred near where an American studying in Israel was killed along with two other people by a Palestinian gunman on Thursday, and where three Israeli teenagers were abducted in 2014 and later murdered. … …

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For years biblical Christians have been pointing out the demonic spirits of false religion in yoga, but now the PC crowd is upset it about it too.  Wow.  "Now, them's some odd bedfellows"!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/university-yoga-class-suspended-over-cultural-appropriation-dispute-a6744426.html
University yoga class suspended over 'cultural appropriation' dispute
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oops…the first big oops (well, since the Americans bombed the Doctors without Borders hospital).  Turkey shoots down a Russian fighter.  Is Turkey Ezekiel's Togarmah?  Or is Turkey also a part of the long shadow of Gog and Magog?  In either case, before the battle of Ezekiel's chapters 38 and 39 arrive, must not Russia and Turkey become allies?   What a mess is transpiring over Syria!  Some are suggesting WW3 is beginning with the various nations gathering and all wanting to bomb ISIS.  Everyone is afraid of making mistakes and taking down other participating combatants by an accident that could create new enmities.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/25/world/europe/turkey-syria-russia-military-plane.html?emc=edit_na_20151124&nlid=69381998&ref=cta&_r=0

ISTANBUL — Turkish fighter jets on patrol near the Syrian border on Tuesday shot down a Russian warplane that Turkey said had violated its airspace, a long-feared escalation that could further strain relations between Russia and the West.

The Turkish prime minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, ordered the Foreign Ministry to consult with NATO and the United Nations, his office said in a statement, without elaborating. NATO announced that it would hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday in Brussels to discuss the episode.

In his first remarks on the incident, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia confirmed that an F-16 Turkish fighter jet had shot down the Russian plane, a Sukhoi Su-24, with an air-to-air missile. But he insisted that the Russian jet had been in Syrian airspace at the time and had never threatened Turkey’s territory. … ...

(25 Nov)
see also:  http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/25/opinion/one-jet-closer-to-a-wider-confrontation.html?emc=edit_th_20151125&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
One Jet Closer to a Wider Confrontation
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(25 Nov)
People are being conned, coaxed, coerced and convinced that they are mentally defective.  How much easier to confess having a sinful nature by birth and dealing with it in the light and with the help of God's saving grace? (And women, as "the weaker vessel" are yet more susceptible statistically, the cited psychiatrist herself notes.)

Today's Update (bereancall.org)	
STUDY: MORE THAN TWO-THIRDS OF PATIENTS ON ANTI-DEPRESSANTS NOT DEPRESSED [Excerpts]
 
A new study shows that more than two-thirds - some 69 percent - of patients using anti-depressants do not actually meet the criteria for depressive disorder. The study, which appears in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, finds that many individuals who are prescribed and take antidepressant medications may not actually have a depressive disorder, and that such drugs are often used by patients who do not meet the diagnostic criteria of depression.

According to the research, among the users of antidepressant medications, 69 percent never met the diagnostic criteria for major depressive disorder (MDD), and 38 percent also never met those for obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, social phobia, or generalized anxiety disorder - for which the antidepressant medications are sometimes prescribed.

Other factors, however, unrelated to depression, were found to be associated with the use of antidepressants.

"Caucasian ethnicity, recent or current physical problems (eg, loss of bladder control, hypertension, and back pain), and recent mental health facility visits were associated with antidepressant use in addition to mental disorders," say the researchers.

As previously reported, psychiatrist Dr. Julie Holland penned an op-ed in the New York Times earlier this year in which she cited that at least one of every four women in America is now on psychiatric medication, as opposed to one of every seven men, a situation Holland described as "insane."

Holland observed that women are emotional and sensitive by design - qualities that are generally "a sign of health, not disease."  According to Holland, "women are nearly twice as likely to receive a diagnosis of depression or anxiety disorder than men are." Her concern is that the uptick in prescriptions for psychiatric medications is "creating a new normal, encouraging more women to seek chemical assistance."

Women have learned that their normal feelings of sadness and anxiety - while they may be uncomfortable - are symptoms of pathology," Holland wrote. "We need to ... appreciate them as a healthy, adaptive part of our biology."

From the Breitbart website October 23, 2015 

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Update on Anonymous —  Problems, Issues, Complexities with Cyber-Guerilla-Warfare
Well, at least, they're not making them happy!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/26/world/europe/anonymous-hackers-fight-isis-but-reactions-are-mixed.html?emc=edit_th_20151126&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998

Anonymous Hackers Fight ISIS but Reactions Are Mixed
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They don't call it dope for nothing —

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/nov/27/smoking-high-strength-cannabis-skunk-may-damage-nerves-brain

Smoking high-strength cannabis may damage nerve fibres in brain
High-strength cannabis may damage nerve fibres that handle the flow of messages across the two halves of the brain, scientists claim. Brain scans of people who regularly smoked strong skunk-like cannabis revealed subtle differences in the white matter that connects the left and right hemispheres and carries signals from one side of the brain to the other. … ...

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(Sat. 28 Nov.)
A Sad Aside to this week's rosters of public murders and mass attacks:   A Christian ministering as a co-pastor at a Colorado Springs Hope Chapel (a Jesus-Movement-era new church denomination like Calvary Chapels) is gunned down on his day job as a police officer at the abortion clinic shooting there on Friday.

What a mixture of madness as PP blames the clandestine videos about their butchery and sale of human body parts as part of the modus operandi for the attack against them.  They forget that shedding innocent blood makes them liable for divine judgment — "They that live by the butchering scalpel and forceps shall die by them too" to paraphrase the Lord's words. Violence draws violence.

True Christians do not use physical aggression to bring in the Kingdom of God, but God will judge all men, both in the present and in the future.  May God comfort the loved ones of those killed in this attack and show forth his truth and mercy even to the PP workers and "patients" and to the deranged shooter and his family too.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/28/us/garrett-swasey-officer-killed-in-colorado-is-recalled-for-courage-and-faith.html?emc=edit_th_20151128&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Garrett Swasey, Officer Killed in Colorado, Is Recalled for Courage and Faith

Garrett Swasey, 44, the University of Colorado Colorado Springs police officer who was shot and killed while responding to a shooting at a Planned Parenthood office, was described by his fellow church members and friends as a courageous man and loving father who drew strength and inspiration from his Christian faith.

He was married, with two young children, and had been on the campus police force for six years. He also spent seven years as a co-pastor at Hope Chapel in Colorado Springs. “Here’s a guy who worked full time as a police officer, and then gave a great amount of time to his local church and didn’t get a dime for it,” said Scott Dontanville, a co-pastor who knew Officer Swasey for 15 years. “He did it because it was the thing that he felt he needed to do. … ...	
	
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"Let us labor for the Master from the dawn till setting sun.  
Let us tell of all his wondrous love and care.  
Then when all of life is over, and our work on Earth is done, 
and the roll is called up yonder, 
we'll be there!
(James M. Black, 1893)
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November 22

Saints,

Let us use all spiritual prudence to preserve our lives and the lives of those given to our direct prayer charge, our families, friends, fellow saints.  More than that, let us take every opportunity when we hear of news of disasters, wars, plagues and terror to stop and pray specifically for God to spare life and teach men salvation through his constant mercy.  I have seen too many incidents of late of God specifically deferring destruction after praying for his mercy to be applied, whether on levels of masses of folk (we instantly prayed for the deliverance of the 170 in Mali and the massacre was stopped at 18-20) or for deliverances such as Pauline Cafferkey, the Scottish nurse who needed yet a second deliverance from Ebola.  Our prayers have no more power than any saved saints who will pray in faith; let us all pray night and day as we have never done before, stopping at any need we hear to lift matters before the Lord.  After this, WATCH, and your faith will be strengthened when you see God hear you for individuals as well as for nations and peoples.  We have more power than we can imagine through submissive, attentive willingness to pray.

''Fear not for I am with you…my rod and my staff, they shall comfort you…for I prepare a table before you in the presence of your enemies.  Surely my goodness and mercy shall follow you all the days of your life…and you shall dwell in the house of the LORD for ever and ever.''

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Youtube of the week--   
A young GI in Korea uses present digital media --a hand held smart phone-- to preach and prophesy by the Holy Ghost.  Had enough of slick religious media?  Have a listen; inspiring!  GO YE THEREFORE, INTO ALL THE WORLD AND...PREACH!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gavSabf5lkQ
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Anonymous joins battle –
Early in the week, the infamous, international, underground, high-level hacker group, ANONYMOUS,  threatened war on ISIS for the Paris massacre.  They are no one to be messed with and have disrupted digital networks, etc. as ''Robin Hoods'' against overgrown, over-reaching Western corporations, government agencies, etc., but with ISIS, they seem to have struck a nerve in the terror network and ISIS threatens them, calling them idiots.   What a day to watch and pray! 

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/620788/ISIS-anonymous-paris-islamic-state-isil-IS-twitte
Islamic State HITS BACK at Anonymous in chilling threat to hacker group
ISLAMIC State has hit back at hacking group Anonymous as the brutal terror organisation claimed to be “owners of the virtual world”.

In a message on an encrypted chat app, the depraved terror group encouraged supporters to update their profile pictures with the image of a black shoe print on the French flag.
The sickening message was followed by a chilling threat, written only in Arabic, promising to strike back at the masked computer association.

It comes after the infamous cyber gang claimed responsibility for deleting more than 5,500 Twitter account linked to the abhorrent extremists.
Rachel Bryson, from the anti-extremist think tank Quilliam, warned that a retaliation from ISIS should be expected.

The researcher said the message “states that there will be something coming and that we should stay tuned and watch out”.

She added: “I don’t know if it is literally declaring virtual war on Anonymous, but it is promising a response… They are definitely trying to taunt Anonymous with this.

“Writing a post is easy, it’s doing a strong response that will be the thing to watch for.”

Anonymous was already shaken after pro-ISIS social media accounts referred to members of the activist group as “idiots” and shared instructions on how to avoid being hacked by the collective.
They had previously threatened to wipe ISIS off the internet in their "biggest operation ever".

ISIS have become highly skilled in their use of social media as a key driver ground for recruitment and propaganda. 

The savage jihadi militants are now desperately rushing to protect a key propaganda operation from the hackers.

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War!  With Paris, proof that international jihad has military cells in multiple countries?  
Is an insane ''competition'' evolving between jihadist groups?
(20 Nov)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/21/world/africa/mali-hotel-attack-radisson.html?emc=edit_na_20151120&nlid=69381998&ref=cta&_r=0
Hostages Seized in Attack on Radisson Hotel in Mali	
DAKAR, Senegal — At least two gunmen stormed a Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, Mail , on Friday morning and seized 140 guests and 30 staff members as hostages, according to the company that runs the hotel.

Northern Mali fell under the control of Islamist militants in 2012, but a French-led offensive ousted them in 2013, although remnants of the group have staged a number of attacks on Unite Nations peacekeepers and Malian forces.

The hotel is known as a popular place for foreigners to stay in Bamako, a city with a population approaching two million that is the capital of Mali, and French and American citizens were among those taken hostage. … ...

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/20/world/middleeast/palestinian-stabs-israelis-in-tel-aviv.html?emc=edit_th_20151120&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
5 Killed in Tel Aviv and West Bank by Palestinian Attackers
JERUSALEM — Five people were killed on Thursday in two stabbing and shooting attacks carried out by Palestinian assailants in Tel Aviv and the West Bank, according to the Israeli authorities, in a renewed burst of deadly violence that came after a few days of relative calm.The fatalities included three Israelis, an 18-year-old American yeshiva student and a Palestinian passer-by.

In the first attack, a Palestinian from the West Bank stabbed Israelis at the entrance of a store that served as an informal synagogue in Tel Aviv, killing two Israeli men and wounding a third. Witnesses said the attacker had then tried to force his way into the prayer room, but worshipers blocked the door.

Soon after, in the Etzion settlement bloc in the West Bank, a Palestinian man opened fire with a submachine gun from a car as he passed vehicles stopped in traffic. He then crashed his car into another vehicle, according to witnesses and police reports. Three people were killed and several others were injured. … ...

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Sanger, even the name coincidentally means bloody en francais, par example, sang froid > cold blood.  Should there be celebration for the jezebel priestesses of Baal, Moloch, Dagon in their child sacrifices?  Is she chief among them for the extent of the genocide she initiated?  This woman, Sanger, fits, in my opinion, the biblical definition of a Witch, a blasphemous, bloody and blood covered JEZEBEL of the worst order as she is responsible for massive genocide in the modern world, a eugenicist who would ''weed out the underclasses'' like the presently modern transhumanists  she is to me a witch queen priestess of Baal and of Moloch and Dagon and follower of the other "hosts of the heaven,' the many baals or masters, the fallen angels, the pantheons of false gods.  Almost certainly, she dwells now in hell where she belongs.  Why is it we celebrate her as noble in the Smithsonian?

from The Berean Call Update for 19 November
http://www.onenewsnow.com/culture/2015/10/20/sangers-views-embracedin-nazi-era-germany
SANGER'S VIEWS EMBRACED...IN NAZI-ERA GERMANY

A campaign to remove the bust of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger from the Smithsonian Museum is gaining momentum. 

A group of black pastors recently launched a campaign to convince the Smithsonian to remove Sanger's bust, citing her efforts to use birth control to stop minorities from giving birth.

U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert tells OneNewsNow that Sanger believed in eliminating or reducing certain populations to create a thoroughbred race. "It was an idea that was also adopted by the Nazis of World War Two," Gohmert points out.
Sanger, he says, "believed if you were feebleminded, or if you were poor and your progeny were going to be poor, then we needed to either segregate you so you could not reproduce or sterilize you."

Blackgenocide.org, a pro-life group, documented Sanger's efforts in a lengthy story on its website. Among its findings, the group reported Sanger's participation in the Eugenics movement to rid the world of "inferior races" that she saw as "human weeds."

A brief biography about Sanger, cited by the website, is entitled "Killer Angel." Despite her documented past, the Sanger bust is in the "Struggle for Justice" exhibit.

Sanger founded the American Birth Control League, which later changed its name to Planned Parenthood. 

"I just can't imagine that this is somebody that we ought to teach children, and teach future generations, that is someone that we memorialize," Gohmert says. Gohmert and other members of Congress have signed a a letter sent to the Smithsonian demanding the removal of Sanger from the exhibit.
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Lest we fear too much that the Beast and the internet, etc. will swallow us whole, let us remember that God will preserve his word, every jot and tittle, says the Lord.  The internet is already filled with the Scriptures in tens of trillions of incidents!  God will keep us!  Now, a New Testament fragment turns up on EBay with an opening bid of $99!  The Beast will finally turn out to be one very frustrated fellow as the real God will be found turning up in every corner of his convoluted schemes…to undo them!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/21/books/greek-new-testament-papyrus-is-discovered-on-ebay.html?emc=edit_th_20151121&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Greek New Testament Papyrus Is Discovered on eBay

Last January, Geoffrey Smith, a scholar of early Christianity at the University of Texas, noticed something startling: an eBay listing for an ancient Greek papyrus fragment of the Gospel of John — with an opening bid of only $99.  … …
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Iran salivating and strategizing on taking the Temple Mount again, sets up a mock invasion and capture.  We must not forget that their ''Al Quds'' troop force means ''the Jerusalem force.''  They can barely contain from rushing to their judgment on the mountains of Israel when God judges Persia, Rosh, and all their allies upon the mountains east of the Jordan, Ezekiel 38 & 39, after they have tried to invade Jerusalem.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20151121/ml--iran-israel-802f84ed57.html
Iran Guard simulates capture of Al Aqsa Mosque
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Thousands of paramilitary forces from the country's powerful Revolutionary Guard have held a war game simulating the capture of Jerusalem's Al Aqsa Mosque from Israeli control.
Iran's state media reported Saturday that the forces stormed and "liberated" a replica of the mosque in the exercise. They say that 120 brigades from the Basij, the paramilitary unit of the Guard, participated in Friday's exercise outside the holy city of Qom in central Iran.

The symbolic operations were backed up by Guard helicopters, drones and Tucano planes that bombed hypothetical enemy positions before ground troops captured the replica of the mosque set up at the top of a mountain.

In a common mistake, the Guard set up a replica of the gold-topped Dome of the Rock instead of the nearby mosque. Official photos showed one of the troops going to the top of the dome and waving an Iranian flag and a red-colored flag, a symbol of martyrdom.

The hilltop compound, which is holy to Jews and Muslims, has been at the heart of weeks of unrest between Israel and the Palestinians. Muslims call the spot the Noble Sanctuary, and the mosque is Islam's third holiest site after Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia. Jews revere the spot as the Temple Mount — home to the biblical Temples and the holiest site in Judaism.
The current round of fighting was sparked in part by rumors that Israel was plotting to take over the site — a charge that Israel vehemently denies. Clashes outside the mosque erupted in September and quickly spread across Israel and into the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, who heads the Guard's aerospace division, said his force deployed Shahed-121, or Witness-129, drones during the war games. The drone, unveiled in 2013, has a range of 1,700 kilometers (1,050 miles), a 24-hour nonstop flight capability and can carry eight bombs or missiles.

Even so, the exercise appeared to be largely for show. Iranian commanders have not said how they would be able to deploy large numbers of forces against Israel, located 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) away, or overcome Israel's powerful and technologically advanced military.

Iran, Israel's arch-enemy, frequently expresses solidarity with the Palestinians and holds an annual "Jerusalem Day" each year on the last Friday of the fasting month of Ramadan. Iran does not recognize Israel, has called for its destruction and supports anti-Israel militants across the Middle East.
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''Fear not little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.''
Luke 12:32

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4 October, 2015

Saints,

The rate of change is/has quickly exceeded human capacity to adjust.  We are in a swirling sea —  Europe, at first welcoming, is now overcome by refugees fleeing insane murderers.  Even liberal Angela Merkel is beginning to hand-wring at the onslaught…and the new hordes grow restless and criminal.  What will happen?  Implosions? Explosions?  Expulsions or Invasions?  

"Signs in the heavens" with new science revelations that may topple all of our previous theories and foundations?  Rivers on Mars?  CERN opening gates to other dimensions?

Persia (Iran, adding Hezbollah, its client) and Rosh (Russia with it tributaries — Tubal, Meschech, Gog and Magog et al) now venture joint troops and equipment on the ground and in the air in Syria.  The US "mistakenly" bumbles and bombs a Doctors without Borders hospital in Afghanistan.

The first Christian Martyrs in America are murdered, shot point blank, upon confessing Christ at a little school in Oregon by a devil-possessed young man, eager to get commended in hell…and not even a jihadi.

If you would keep your head, your spirit, your life and the lives of your loved ones, keep your eyes on God.  The shrieking babble, the clanging, ceaseless bells of hell, the uprushing onslaught of the dark forces, opened up through the sewer gates of Sodom, will drown you unless you have your eyes fixed on Jesus.  If ever you must be a "full time disciple" rather than a comfortably affirming religionist and pew-sitter, NOW is the time.

God save us.

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On down the road to Ezekiel 38 and 39—

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/29/world/middleeast/obama-and-putin-clash-at-un-on-mideast-crisis.html?emc=edit_th_20150929&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Obama and Putin Clash at U.N. on Mideast Crisis
UNITED NATIONS — After circling each other for the past year, President Obama and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia squared off on Monday at the United Nations in dueling speeches that presented starkly different views on the Syrian crisis and how to bring stability to the Middle East.

President Obama made a forceful defense of diplomacy and the system of rules represented by the international body, but in a veiled reference to Mr. Putin, he warned that “dangerous currents risk pulling us back into a darker, more disordered world.”

Mr. Putin talked about mounting a broad effort to support Syria's, Bashar al-Assad, as the best bulwark against the spread of the Islamic State and other radical groups, even though the White House has said Mr. Assad has to leave power if there is to be a political solution in Syria. … …

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Not just water on Mars, but RIVERS on Mars!  Readers following this blog for some time will see me speculating that signs in the heavens may not just be supernovas or black holes imploding or asteroid strikes, or even arriving aliens, etc., but may ALSO be discoveries that we are allowed by God to make that will utterly shift our science paradigms…perhaps, for instance, completely destroying the foundations of evolution, etc.  As mentioned often, all my growing up years, and, hey, I'm still alive(!), we were taught that space was a dry, dusty vacuum…but just in the last few years we have discovered, "Water, water, everywhere!"  Vast bodies of it just hang in interstellar space, almost infinitely bigger than our whole portion of oceans, seas, and rivers here ("the waters above the firmament" told to us by God from the beginning (Gen 1:6-7), though we "could not hear it").

How does this begin to shift our paradigm?  With rivers on Mars, we may soon find out, for instance, that some Nephilim may have been allowed to escape the Flood by starships, worm holes, or other means not yet known to us.  Or, we may find that the angels had some physical dominions granted to them also and their war with God resulted in the devastation of Mars  (By Ezekiel {28:14}, God tells us Satan "walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire";  what are the planets of our solar system but stones of fire?)  Not saying these ponderings go beyond speculation, but revelations like these would so rewrite our understandings of history and cosmology as to nearly undo human knowledge.  Some scientists, even now, and as reported in earlier blog entries, feel that the space out beyond us may be a digital illusion, and that we are living in a divine "holodeck," and that our reality becomes reality as we reach out and find more, and it is not there at all until we "find" it.

God will blow the mind of man, and the prophets tell of a time, when he will take off the infinite depths of space as though they were a two-dimensional garment, fold them up and put them away like a well-worn cloak, and get out a whole new set, a New Heavens and New Earth.  What will that do to the foolish pride of man when space itself is torn open to reveal the Face of God?  Meanwhile, we find out more about Mars than we could have imagined.  Are we already there?  Is the public being withheld from such mind bending discoveries so that widespread panic is held in check?  Instead, will we be there soon to find unimaginable intelligences or ancient traces of them, or bring back viruses that will "invade" us without cure or transmogrify us into "Martians" ourselves?

With the early modern telescopes in the late 1800's, man discovered "canals" on Mars.  Since then, we see unmistakeable signs of a city or a base on the Plains of Cydonia.  We see orbiting moons, Phobos and Demos — "fear and demons" above the sight lines of that Plain that may be hollow ships  (Long have radio wave probes shown them to be thin not dense).  What next?

We are daily now at the thresholds of many doors ready to open.  Hang tight and trust the revelations of Scriptures, carefully held and examined.  God is bigger than any "aliens" that manage to open gates from the fallen spiritual dimensions.  His Word is sure.  Search it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/29/science/space/mars-life-liquid-water.html?emc=edit_th_20150929&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
NASA Confirms Signs of Water Flowing on Mars, Possible Niches for Life
Scientists have for the first time confirmed liquid water flowing on the surface of present-day Mars , a finding that will add to speculation that life, if it ever arose there, could persist now.

“This is tremendously exciting,” James L. Green, the director of NASA's planetary science division, said during a news conference on Monday. “We haven’t been able to answer the question, ‘Does life exist beyond Earth?’  But following the water is a critical element of that. We now have, I think, great opportunities in the right locations on Mars to thoroughly investigate that.”

That represents a shift in tone for NASA, where officials have repeatedly played down the notion that the dusty and desolate landscape of Mars could be inhabited today. … …

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When one's non-violent political opinions or spiritual views become viewed as criminal, where are we?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/29/us/stingray-covert-electronic-surveillance-prompts-calls-for-transparency.html?emc=edit_th_20150929&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Covert Electronic Surveillance Prompts Calls for Transparency
Law enforcement officials across the United States have become enamored of the StingRay, an electronic surveillance device that can covertly track criminal suspects and is being used with little public disclosure and often under uncertain legal authority. Now, though, some states are pushing back, and are requiring the police to get a court order and local consent before turning to the high-tech tool. … ...

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Spiritual Warfare can be "Zany"!  How does one parse this?:  A severely fundamentalistic sect, the so-called Apostolics, who may be "oneness" or anti-Trinitarian, but are certainly vigorously anti-Roman Catholic, have this woman, Kim Davis, who has stood up against the sodomite invasions of our culture and our country---Good for Her!---but now being met by the Pope, of all people, a pope sending peace and acceptance signals to the sodomites but now also lauding the right of civil disobedience to such as Kim, giving her rosaries to boot.  What will her group do with those?  (She gave them to her parents who remain Catholic.)  
Oh, my.  In these last days, we had better be searching the Word continually to keep us on the straight and narrow way!
(By the end of the week, the Vatican has backpedaled heavily on the pope's meeting with Kim.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/us/county-clerk-kim-davis-who-denied-gay-couples-visited-pope.html?emc=edit_th_20150930&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Kim Davis, Kentucky Clerk, Is Said to Have Met Pope
 Pope Francis met secretly in Washington last week with Kim Davis, the county clerk in Kentucky who defied a court order to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, her lawyer said in a telephone interview Tuesday night. Francis gave her rosaries and told her to “stay strong,” the lawyer said.

Ms. Davis and her husband, Joe, were sneaked into the Vatican Embassy by car on Thursday afternoon, according to Ms. Davis’s lawyer, Mathew D. Staver. The couple met for about 15 minutes with the pope, who was accompanied by security, aides and photographers. Mr. Staver said he expected to receive photographs of the meeting from the Vatican soon. … ...

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1 Oct., on into the week—

Rosh (Russia) and Persia (Iran) begin troop collaborations in Syria;  Russia drafts 150,000 new conscripts;  Iran pulls in Hezbollah proxies from Lebanon along with its own troops.  Ezekiel 38 & 39?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3255876/Russia-pouring-gasoline-fire-Syria-s-civil-war-says-America-Putin-defies-West-drops-bombs-non-ISIS-forces-fighting-Assad.html
Putin signs decree drafting 150,000 conscripts into the Russian military... as Iran and Hezbollah prepare major ground offensive in Syria with air support from Moscow's bombers 
	•	Russia launched airstrikes on rebel groups in Syria for second day straight
	•	Country accused of targeting moderate rebels backed by U.S and not ISIS
	•	Moscow foreign minister Lavrov has rejected the 'rumours' as 'unfounded' 
	•	Hundreds of Iranian and Hezbollah troops 'set to launch ground offensive'

Vladimir Putin has conscripted 150,000 new troops into the Russian army as the country unleashed a new wave of airstrikes in Syria - while and Iran and Islamist group Hezbollah prepare for a major ground offensive.
Hundreds of Iranian troops have arrived in Syria over the last ten days, backed by the country's Lebanese allies, Hezbollah, and rebel fighters from Iraq and Afghanistan, two Lebanese sources claimed today. ... …

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1 Oct., evening media news time—
Jihad arrives at Oregon community college?  Of networks monitored only PBS mentioned at the time that the shooter asked people their religion before shooting them.  Let's see if the networks will speak much of this?  And, as of late evening, they are not yet releasing his name.  Will it be that most popular of all boys' name in the Middle East outside of Israel?  Will the Administration acknowledge jihad or just "gun violence"?
Friday a.m. CBS update>  No, it appears the gunman is a western-named British import, but seized by the spirit of antichrist nonetheless.  It seems to be stalking everywhere.  Pray for protection:  Isa. 26:20.
By Sunday morning, a correspondent has written to remind me that this is the first day of the present battles that Christians have been martyred for their faith on American soil.

http://nypost.com/2015/10/01/oregon-gunman-singled-out-christians-during-rampage/
Oregon gunman singled out Christians during rampage

The gunman who opened fire at an Oregon community college was forcing people to stand up and state their religion before he began blasting away at them, survivors said Thursday.

A woman who claimed to have a grandmother inside a writing class in Snyder Hall, where a portion the massacre unfolded, described the scene in a tweet.

“The shooter was lining people up and asking if they were Christian,” she wrote. “If they said yes, then they were shot in the head. If they said no, or didn’t answer, they were shot in the legs. … ...

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2 Oct—
Vatican issues different story regarding Kim Davis

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/03/world/europe/pope-francis-kim-davis-meeting.html?emc=edit_na_20151002&nlid=69381998&ref=cta&_r=0
Pope Francis’ Meeting Wasn’t an Endorsement of Kim Davis’s Views, Vatican Says
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Kurzweil advocates jumping into the loony-bin of brain implants;  "godlike"?  Heard that before?  Said Satan to Adam and Eve, "Ye shall be as gods…"

http://www.cnet.com/news/google-exec-with-robots-in-our-brains-well-be-godlike/
Google exec: With robots in our brains, we'll be godlike
Futurist and Google exec (underlining added) Ray Kurzweil thinks that once we have robotic implants, we'll be funnier, sexier and more loving. Because that's what artificial intelligence can do for you.
(The reporter concludes this often tongue-in-cheek report with, "Lord, help us" !)
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In the onslaught of mayhem that signals the collapse of our society, police, in the front lines against the madness of Sin and Crime, and sometimes themselves "popping" under the pressure and going berserk, are now turning increasingly to repentance and faith and asking God to cover them.  The atheist babblers of "Freedom from Religion," are, of course, whining and sniveling as usual, but as they are presently going to hell, let them babble on.  (May God save some from among them, it is my duty to pray.)  May God also bring a wave of repentance among police and among those they serve.  Could it be that many will begin to ignore the hellish attacks via the courts, etc., and simply proclaim themselves to trust in God?  Can widespread public repentance shut down the devil-babbling atheists?  God save us;  God save America!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/us/police-agencies-defy-critics-and-show-in-god-we-trust.html?emc=edit_th_20151004&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Police Agencies Defy Critics and Show ‘In God We Trust’
CEDARTOWN, Ga. — The chief deputy to Sheriff Johnny Moats of Polk County appeared in an office doorway one morning this month with a message he knew would delight his boss: Another Georgia lawman had heeded Sheriff Moats’s suggestion to add “In God We Trust” decals to official vehicles.

It was a small part of what has emerged as a big moment for the national motto, which has long been cherished by many Christians, criticized by those who say it infringes on the separation of church and state, overlooked by plenty and safeguarded by courts. In recent months, dozens of Southern and Midwestern law enforcement agencies have added the axiom to squad cars, usually to the vexation of vocal, often distant critics, and at the personal expense of sheriffs, police chiefs or rank-and-file employees.

“If it’s on my money and it’s on the state flag, I can put it on a patrol car,” said Sheriff Moats, who wrote to Georgia’s sheriffs this year to promote the motto’s placement on law enforcement vehicles. “Just about every single day, I have another sheriff calling and saying, ‘I’ve done it’ or ‘Can you send me a picture of your patrol car?’ ” … …
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"For He shall give his angels charge over thee, 
to keep thee in all thy ways."
Psalm 91: 11

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27 September

Saints,

I stood at my window a little after 5 this morning and watched the final "blood moon" of the Tetrad set over the Adirondacks to the west.  At evening, it had its super size, and upon viewing it during saunters in the middle of the night, but it remained quite white until nearing its setting, and then indeed, it took on quite a red glow along with its super size.  I am not sure I ever watched a full moon set before.  It was almost like the sun setting except through a strong filter, especially when its size seemed the same as the sun which, at this time of year, sets at the same point on the horizon.  I remain uncertain as to the prophetic significance of this, and so just watch and wait, for many other signs all over the world, in space, throughout human cultures and struggles, with the climate raging, etc.  portend a great change and the End of the Age.  This Tetrad, finishing this a.m. with the passing of Sukkot or the Feast of Tabernacles, is not the "moon turning to blood" of the prophets Joel and John for that is late in the Tribulation, but it could be a portent and omen.  Its promoters speak of historical events for Israel occurring during these blood moons, the Spanish eviction of the Jews, the founding of Israel in 1948 and the war either of 1967 or 1973.  Because I am no physical cosmologist,  I do not know if other occurrences were not met with prophetic signs or how many other variables are not known or mentioned.  I am leery to trust promoters as "Figures don't lie, but liars can figure."  Unless, I am ready on a topic to do careful, comprehensive, and exhaustive research, and if it is a potent matter, as this, then I can only watch and wait and consider.  But the Scriptures are full of precise prophecies that I can cling to and examine and learn more of over time, and for the rest, I watch and wait.

Let us search the Scriptures in everything for they have the power of Life in them, and said Jesus, "They testify of me."

***
(21 Sept.)
When a religion depends on heavy self-righteousness and extreme works it will stir up great passions of the fleshly nature, but flesh is flesh and reality sinks in after awhile.  How much better to know the grace and mercy of the true God, Yahweh, for his people and his provision of his own Son Jesus to pay for the sins of mankind.  How much more this stirs up to gentle, peaceable, charitable but very zealous works and service than does the fanatical zeal of the flesh.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/world/europe/isis-defectors-reveal-disillusionment.html?emc=edit_th_20150921&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
ISIS Defectors Reveal Disillusionment
LONDON — A small but growing number of defectors from the Islamic State are risking reprisals and imprisonment to speak out about their disillusionment with the extremist group, according to a research organization that tracks former and current militants. 

The Islamic State considers defectors as apostates, and most of the hundreds thought to have left the group have gone into hiding. … ...
***

This is an essay by our Governor in the State of Vermont, a very liberal man in a very liberal state.  If he can see this, who can not?  Our state is also one of the first to legalize euthanasia by choice.  Some European countries now also offer this "choice" for children to choose.    Talk about a slippery slope!  Get the poor little things addled with opiates and then convince them the best way out is to end their young lives!  "Offences must come, but woe unto him by whom they come.  It were better for him that a millstone were tied around his neck, and he was cast into the sea, than to offend one of these little ones."

Governor Shumlin, when I go out on the streets here in Vermont to sing "prescriptive blues," I sometimes put up one of my little signs that says, "Helping the Governor," and this is in appreciation for your stand.   But you must add virtue to your truth.  The answer is spiritual not merely political.   Men, Women, Children must know their God through Christ to escape the terror.  See the horror, and be saved, O Governor!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/opinion/oxycontin-is-not-for-kids.html?emc=edit_th_20150921&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
OxyContin Is Not for Kids
By PETER SHUMLIN SEPT. 21, 2015
Montpelier, Vt. — A YEAR and a half ago, I stood up before Vermonters and devoted my State of the State address to speaking about the opiate and heroin crisis affecting my state. Despite our best efforts since, this is not a battle we are winning. Now the Food and Drug Administration is recklessly making the problem worse with its decision to approve OxyContin for use by children  as young as 11 years old.

I was horrified when I learned of the F.D.A.’s decision last month. In the past 18 months, my state has invested millions of dollars in battling the threat that opiate abuse poses to families and our communities. We united behind the view that addiction is primarily a health care issue and that users need treatment, not prison cells. But Vermont continues to face the enormous personal and economic toll of drug abuse, just as the rest of the country does. … …

***
Whew!  That army of locust/scorpions that will come up out of the bottomless pit during the Tribulation MAY be entirely demonic, or it MAY be some kind of genetically altered physical creatures, "half-demonic," inspired by the science of Nephilim/Satanic influence, but the stuff we humans, DARPA, etc. are inventing NOW is sure a good imitation of it, at the least.  We have drones that will fly in algorithmic formations by the thousands or more at one time,  and recently small drones that can be equipped with Tasers and tear gas, aimed at crowd control and individual knock down, and now, here we are equipping the big, bad drones (at first) with weaponized lasers.  How much longer can things go on before some kind of apocalypse turns loose?  

http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2015/09/drones-armed-high-energy-lasers-may-arrive-2017/121583/?oref=d-river
Drones Armed With High-Energy Lasers May Arrive In 2017
Flying military robots armed with high-energy lasers? It’s a future that is exciting, terrifying — and perhaps just two years away.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., or GA-ASI,  the San Diego-based company that makes the Predator and Reaper drones, is undertaking a privately funded study to integrate a 150-kilowatt solid-state laser onto its Avenger (née Predator-C) drone. If the company succeeds, a drone with a high-energy laser will be a reality at some point in 2017, company executives told Defense One. … ...
***
Here it comes:  "Mental Health" (placid "hive mind"?) for those 'borged into the Beast/AI with their smarter and smarter phones…

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/09/22/is-depression-treatable-with-a-mobile-phone-app?emc=edit_ty_20150922&nl=opinion&nlid=69381998
Is Depression Treatable with a Mobile Phone App?
Thousands of new mobile phone apps have popped up to treat symptoms of depression and anxiety.  Though many claim to employ clinically sound methods, critics say that human interaction is key to mental health care. … ...
***
O, Gosh and Golly.  Did this poor soul miss all the beheadings, tortures, crucifixions, rapes, and the steady announcements that anyone not adhering earnestly to Islam shall be slaughtered?  Please, friend editorialist, go live with ISIS for awhile (though we shall soon probably not hear anymore from you).  This is not about being left or right, democrat or republican.  This is about being a fool.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/23/opinion/the-republican-attack-on-muslims.html?emc=edit_ty_20150923&nl=opinion&nlid=69381998
The Republican Attack on Muslims

The Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson is drawing criticism over the bigoted comments he has been making recently about Muslims. It is well deserved, and is not a matter of “P.C. culture,” as Mr. Carson has claimed.   Nor does Mr. Carson represent some minor fringe element in the Republican Party.

This latest sordid mess to arise from the G.O.P. nomination contest touches on bedrock American values, constitutional principles and American history. It reflects a pernicious habit among the leaders of the Republican Party to play with fire by pandering to an angry, disaffected and heavily white base by demonizing selected minorities. Muslims are just the current target. … ...
***
(Sept. 24)

It has happened before if not repeatedly, hundreds trampled as 2 million worshippers circle at the Hajj in Mecca.  But just last week, hundreds were also killed when a huge crane was hurled by rain, wind, and lightning storm through the ceiling of the Grand Mosque there.  Coincidence? "Act of Nature"?  "Act of God"?  "The Reaping of a Satanic Sacrifice?  Reviewing Scripture, we see that "the earthquake in Uzziah's reign" was not accounted judgment, but we also, know, if we believe in the Omnipotence of God, that ALL things are in his power.  Yet, Jesus also said in considering disasters, "but except you repent, you shall all likewise perish," speaking to the mortal situation of all men.

We should consider that repressive regimes always imprison "political prisoners" and often torment and torture them. This is like unto a satanic sacrifice for the leader(s), made to obtain and keep power.  Islam's god is not our God.  Does their god, and at other Hajj and mosque catastrophes, take a little of his "due," "a sacrifice," in slaughtering some of his adherents?

The count now is 310 dead with 100's more injured…(ongoing count assessment, now 453 dead, 719 injured…)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/25/world/middleeast/mecca-stampede.html?emc=edit_na_20150924&nlid=69381998&ref=cta&_r=0
Stampede near Mecca leaves at least 220 dead

***update

BEIRUT, Lebanon — At least 453 people were killed, and 719 were injured, in a stampede near Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Thursday morning.

The deaths occurred around 9 a.m., on the first day of Eid al-Adha, one of the holiest holidays in the Muslim calendar, and as millions of Muslims were making their pilgrimage, or hajj, to Mecca. The accident took place at the intersection of two roads in Mina, causing many to fall and others to panic, according to Saudi Arabia’s civil defense directorate.

Saudi authorities reported the deaths on Twitter and said that two medical centers had been opened in Mina to treat the injured. More than 4,000 emergency workers were sent to the scene, and hundreds of people were taken to four hospitals.

The stampede occurred less than two weeks after a large construction crane toppled and crashed into the Grand Mosque in Mecca, killing at least 111 people and injuring 394 others.

The accident on Thursday, witnesses reported on social media, occurred around the area where pilgrims go to perform a ritual — the Stoning of the Devil, a re-enactment of a story from the Quran involving the Prophet Abraham — that takes place during the hajj. … …
***
Will European political unity, open borders, and other perks of the EU now collapse under the invasion?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/23/world/europe/european-union-ministers-migrants-refugees.html?emc=edit_th_20150923&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Plan on Migrants Strains the Limits of Europe’s Unity
LONDON — After weeks of indecision, the European Union voted on Tuesday to distribute 120,000 asylum seekers among member states, a plan meant to display unity in the face of the largest movement of refugees on the Continent since World War II.

Instead, the decision — forced through by a majority vote, over the bitter objections of four eastern members — did as much to underline the bloc’s widening divisions, even over a modest step that barely addresses the crisis. … ...

***
Cyborg update;  Damaged nervous system / natural neural network augmented by digital one;  paralyzed man walks with his own legs and muscles, no exoskeleton, with reconnections made by an artificial neural net—

http://www.gizmag.com/paralyzed-man-brainswaves-walk/39550/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=4c421e16e9-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-4c421e16e9-91592265
Paralyzed man uses own brainwaves to walk again – no exoskeleton required

A man suffering complete paralysis in both legs has regained the ability to walk again using electrical signals generated by his own brain. Unlike similar efforts that have seen paralyzed subjects walk again by using their own brainwaves to manually control robotic limbs, the researchers say this is the first time a person with complete paralysis in both legs due to spinal cord injury was able to walk again under his own power and demonstrates the potential for noninvasive therapies to restore control over paralyzed limbs.
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"Hijrah" means Jihad (Holy War) by Emigration!
(For those who like to read, see two case-in-point stories and a related story below Hal's letter, from today's, 25 Sep, NYTimes)

I still follow Hal Lindsey, premier professor emeritus among living prophecy teachers, and I receive his weekly newsletter.  He has this week some deep insights on present manifestations of the war:  the Muslim invasion of the West, and the cowing of the West to global climate socialism.  Here is his newsletter in full, as I cannot link to his email of it directly for you—

September 25th, 2015
This week on 'The Hal Lindsey Report'
The refugee crisis in Europe grows uglier by the day. Mobs of angry migrants, many of whom are fleeing the Syrian civil war, are encountering resistance from the European nations they are seeking to enter. 

The influx of refugees and migrants, most of whom are Muslim, threatens to overwhelm existing European abilities to cope with the human tsunami. 

Peter Szijjarto, Hungary's Foreign Minister, recently said that it is not an exaggeration that there might be as many as 35 million migrants flooding Europe and the West. 

The image of 35 million angry, rioting migrants, shouting "Allahu Akbar!" and demanding free entry raises an awful question that leaders in Europe and the United States do not seem ready to address: When does a migration become an invasion? 

"Hijrah" means "jihad by emigration." The Koran teaches immigration as a way to spread Islam. (Emphasis added by NTF editor)

Already, the imam at Al-Aqsa Mosque on Temple Mount in Jerusalem is threatening Europe. Imam Sheikh Muhammad Ayed recently admonished his congregation, "Europe has become old and decrepit and needs human reinforcement... Soon, we will trample them underfoot... we shall conquer their countries!" 

In February, ISIS threatened to send 500,000 migrants into Europe. They even published a booklet for potential jihadists with information on how to move to Libya, then from there emigrate more easily into Europe. But now, they are passing directly into Europe via Turkey. 

Even though some writers have criticized European nations for resisting this flood of Muslim refugees by comparing them to the Jewish refugees prior to World War Two, the analogy is flawed. The Jews in the 1930s were fleeing those who were murdering them because they were Jews. Most of today's refugees from Syria and other Middle Eastern nations are running from the results of Islam. 

But they're not running from Islam itself. 

Instead, they're carrying the destructive religion of Mohammed with them. They're bringing with them the very thing that made their lives miserable in the first place - the false religion of Islam! 

In 1478, Spanish monarchs Ferdinand II and Isabella I established a tribunal now commonly known as "The Spanish Inquisition." It was a futile attempt to maintain Catholic orthodoxy by intimidation and torture. 

Historians now see The Inquisition as one of the darkest chapters in human history. 

Well, there's a new religion on the scene and a new inquisition on the horizon. And it's not happening in Europe, but right here in the United States. 

The religion is Scientism, especially as it relates to man-made climate change. And the tribunal may well be a collaboration between insecure (and dishonest?) climate change scientists and power-hungry politicians. 

Do you think I'm just being an alarmist? Consider this. Recently, 20 prominent climate change scientists and professionals wrote a letter to President Obama and U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch. They asked the President to utilize RICO laws to find, prosecute, and punish other scientists and organizations who do not believe as they do. 

RICO stands for "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act." This is the law that Congress passed many years ago to fight organized crime. 

In other words, these scientists are asking the government of the United States of America to launch a New Inquisition. And you just thought we lived in an "enlightened" age! Obviously, human nature remains the same. 

But even more frightening is the fact that these scientists were not the first to think of this cowardly and unconstitutional ploy. A sitting U.S. Senator, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, beat them to the sucker punch. In a Washington Post editorial, Senator Whitehouse accused the fossil fuel industry of funding research that directly contradicts conventional climate science. 

Hey, forget about free speech or freedom of opinion. He thinks that anyone who doesn't see things his way is only in it for the money. Never mind that the climate scientists who toe the elitist line clean up with grants, university tenure, publishing contracts, plum teaching positions, and mega-dollar research projects. 

Peer pressure in the academic community is almost unbearable. That's why even though huge numbers of reputable scientists do not believe in man-made climate change, you seldom hear about them. They fear for their jobs. 

And they fear condemnation and ostracization by the complicit mainstream media. 

Ironically, even Pope Francis, who is currently pushing man-made climate change right here in the United States, is contributing to the New Inquisition. By joining with the world's elitists to promote this bogus catastrophe, the pope is contributing forcefully to changing world opinion on this trumped-up power grab. 

The upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris on November 30, may turn out to be a major milestone on the road to one-world government. 

Remember, this is not just about climate. This is ultimately about control. If enough people buy into the false premise, they will relinquish control to international governing bodies who will then control the world's corporations and countries through taxation and regulatory mechanisms. 

Did you ever think that one-world government might actually come into existence by virtue of its ability to tax you for exhaling or drinking water? 

The Apostle Paul warned that in the last days, "perilous times will come." He could have also added "bizarre," and "strange" to that description! 

These are those times! 

But, do not fear. God Himself, in one of the strongest promises given in the Bible declared that man cannot and will not change the climate on earth. He said, "While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, And cold and heat, And summer and winter, And day and night SHALL NOT CEASE!" 

Personally, I choose to stand on the promises of the Architect of the Universe, the Creator of the earth and the heavens. If He says that man cannot change the order of things, including the climate, then I believe Him.

God Bless,

Hal Lindsey 
***
Is a widespread religious invasion and religious war an arriving likelihood?	
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/26/us/refugee-crisis-in-syria-raises-fears-in-south-carolina.html?emc=edit_th_20150926&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Refugee Crisis in Syria Raises Fears in South Carolina

DUNCAN, S.C. — The worried citizens gathered in the high school cafeteria, about 200 strong. Patriotic songs played on the stereo, a man in a blue blazer from the John Birch Society hovered by a well-stocked literature table, and Lauren L. Martel, a lawyer from Hilton Head, told the crowd that 25 Syrian refugees were already living among them.

“The U.N. calls it ‘refugee resettlement’ — the Muslims call it hijra (emphasis added), migration,” said another speaker, Jim McMillan, a local businessman. “They don’t plan to assimilate, they don’t plan to take on our culture. They plan to change the way of American life.” … …
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/26/world/europe/no-end-in-sight-to-tide-of-migrants-entering-europe-un-says.html?emc=edit_th_20150926&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
No End in Sight to Tide of Migrants Entering Europe, U.N. Says
LONDON — The flood of Syrian refugees pouring into the heart of Europe is unlikely to ease anytime soon, and worsening conditions in Iraq could send new waves of displaced people onto the Continent, United Nations officials warned on Friday.

“I don’t see it stopping,” Amin Awad, director of the Middle East and North Africa division of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, told reporters in Geneva. If anything, he said, the thousands of refugees arriving daily at the borders of European countries may be “the tip of the iceberg.”
The warnings came as the impact of the European Union’s decision on Tuesday to apportion 120,000 migrants among member countries — in some cases, against their leaders’ wishes — continued to ripple across the Continent.

Perhaps the most vitriolic demonstrations were in Finland, which abstained from the vote on Tuesday. Images of a protester wearing a robe and hood protester wearing a robe and hood resembling those of the Ku Klux Klan
ricocheted across the Internet on Friday. … …
*
A biblical prediction on outcome:  If jihad is waged by emigration, "Hijrah," then there will come a time when suddenly Muslim men spread across the western countries, will rise in anger, in haste, and in group spirit and group mind to return suddenly to the Middle East to destroy Israel in Ezekiel's battle.  Once there, they will become confused and maddened all the more by the hand of God and will turn on one another (38:21) to finish off Islam.  Islam will essentially be finished as a world force at this time, but among the women and the survivors, will be hidden the seed of the final rise of Gog and Magog to come at the end of the Millennium when God will finally cleanse the new heavens and the new earth of any manifestation of false religion.  

The seed of this present prediction, based on the ancient text, is the magnetic, lemming-like attraction ISIS has generated to pull in many jihadis from the West and from the world around it.

		http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/26/world/middleeast/hajj-stampede-mecca-saudi-arabia.html?emc=edit_th_20150926&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998/
		Hajj Tragedy Inflames Schisms During a Pilgrimage
		BEIRUT, Lebanon — For the two million Muslims from across the world performing the hajj in Saudi Arabia this year, the annual pilgrimage is a time to forget the differences in race, sect, wealth and even nationality that divide believers and focus instead on their equality before God.
		
		But when tragedy strikes, as with the massive crush that killed more than 700 pilgrims near a holy site on Thursday, those differences come rushing back to the surface.
		
		A Saudi official blamed the tragedy on African pilgrims, prompting accusations of racism.  Iran fired up its state apparatus to lambast Saudi Arabia, its sectarian and regional rival, over its crowd management. And some questioned Saudi Arabia’s right to solely oversee sites of pre-eminent importance to the world’s nearly 1.6 billion Muslims. … …
		
		***
		"The LORD bless thee and keep thee. 
		 The LORD make his face shine upon thee and give thee peace."

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20 September

Saints,

We are charged along with Timothy to "Fight the good fight of faith" (1, 6:12) "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine…" (2, 4:3) so we are to "Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season…" (2, 4:2).  These words though directed to a young pastor are words taken up by every "evangelical," those who profess to obey the Great Commission given to all the saints:  "And Jesus came and spake unto them saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.  Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name  of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all  all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world."  (Mt: 28:19ff.)  

We have enough to do; let us keep busy!

***
(13 Sept.), Sunday

Germany, having taken the most liberal and welcoming tack in Europe, now begins to implode under the sheer quantity of migrant refugees —

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/14/world/europe/germany-emergency-measures-european-migrant-crisis.html?emc=edit_na_20150913&nlid=69381998&ref=cta&_r=0
Germany Announces Emergency Border Controls Amid Migrant Crisis

VIENNA — Germany announced on Sunday that it was invoking emergency powers to start protecting its borders, seemingly reaching a point of overload after greeting with open arms tens of thousands of migrants pouring into Europe, and urging other European nations to do the same.
At a news conference Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière said that Germany would reinstate controls at its southern border with Austria, after thousands of migrants have entered the country in recent weeks.

The announcement followed a meeting to discuss the refugee crisis, after the flood of people from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and other troubled areas into Munich and other Eastern German cities continued unabated for the second weekend in a row.

A total of 12,200 migrants came to Munich on Saturday, according to the German police, The Associated Press reported. On Sunday morning alone, 700 people arrived at Munich’s main train station, the federal police spokesman Simon Hegewald told The A.P. … …
***
Apocalyse Now?  "Youtube of the week"
Scheduled and expected events occurring in the time horizon of this month and next—
Slick little list of 27:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ03_m50T-M
***
Biting hard on the Shemitah analyses and the Blood Moons Eclipse Sequence, Mormons, long known as "preppers," are also convinced the Sept/Oct span will see catastrophe  (Not that I'm Not!), but we hold steady in the face of many previous apocalyptic expectations as far back in modern times as "the Great Disappointment" of 1843, the more recent prognostications by the fundamentalist radio empire for first May and then October of 2011, the Mayan Calendar debacle, and even Y2K.  Another group, long being rumored to have bought a hollowed out mountain—old mines—in Montana, and filled it with provisions and preparations for the End is the so-called "Church Universal and Triumphant," founded by a New Age channeling "prophetess," Elizabeth Clare Prophet, in the cult era of the 60's and '70's (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Universal_and_Triumphant)

http://www.sltrib.com/home/2935776-155/some-mormons-stocking-up-amid-fears
Some Mormons stocking up amid fears that doomsday could come this month
Mixing a brew of biblical prophecies, the Hebrew calendar, a volatile economy, world politics, a reported near-death experience and astronomical occurrences, hordes of Utahns have become convinced that calamitous events are imminent — maybe by month's end — and are taking every precaution.
They are called "preppers" and are buying up food-storage kits, flashlights, blankets and tents. Some are even bracing to leave their homes — if need be. … ...
***

(14 Sept.)
Clashes at the Al Aqsa Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount are looking more and more like open war; police armed with overhead shields for 3-4 police at a time to keep them from rocks hurled from above make the scene look like ancient warfare against a city's walls.  Whew.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israeli-police-palestinians-clash-jerusalem-holy-site-n426541
Israeli Police, Palestinians Clash at Jerusalem Holy Site
***

Ever notice the de-sensitizing effect of broadcast media news?  …when they show horrific scenes such as these swift California fires erasing whole towns…and then fade in and out with a little "la-la" music to a sports or human interest story?  Just how hypnotized do "they" want us to be?  Are we already far more entranced into a matrix mind, a hive mind, than we realize?

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CALIFORNIA_WILDFIRES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-09-13-10-23-44
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA WILDFIRE KILLS 1, DESTROYS 400 HOMES
MIDDLETOWN, Calif. (AP) -- Some 400 homes were among the hundreds of structures destroyed as fast-moving wildfires raged through communities in Northern California, leaving at least one person dead and sending residents fleeing along roads where some buildings and vehicles were still in flames. … …
***
(15 Sept.)
CBS This Morning —
With California city Middletown now burned down, the count of  homes lost is now over 750
In Utah, a wall of water washes away fundamentalist Mormon women and children
Overnight, another refugee boat overturns killing 22;  at the newly closed Hungarian border, masses mill;  Germany and Austria rethink the welcome of the flood of refugees and recommence "border control"
A busload of Mexican tourists is killed as Egyptian soldiers mistake them for marauding jihadis

"And I will…put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army…Be thou prepared…Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land…(Said of Rosh — Russia — leading her allies in the invasion first of the Middle East and then of Israel (verses 10, 11), Ezekiel 38 —

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/15/world/middleeast/russian-moves-in-syria-widen-role-in-mideast.html?emc=edit_th_20150915&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Russian Moves in Syria Widen Role in Mideast
WASHINGTON — Russia has sent some of its most modern battle tanks to a new air base in Syria in what American officials said Monday was part of an escalating buildup that could give Moscow its most significant military foothold in the Middle East in decades.

Pentagon officials said that the Russian weapons and equipment that had arrived suggested that the Kremlin’s plan is to turn the airfield south of Latakia in western Syria into a major hub that could be used to bring in military supplies for the government of President Bashar al-Assad. It might also serve as a staging area for airstrikes in support of Syrian government forces.

“We have seen movement of people and things that would suggest the air base south of Latakia could be used as a forward air operating base,” Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said Monday. … ...
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(17 Sept.)
An absolutely huge, 8.3, earthquake hits Chile, nestled along the Pacific Ring of Fire.  Fortunately, mortal casualties are few.  Will we hear about this beyond today's news' cycle, or have huge earthquakes become so common now, we are numb, hardened, desensitized to them?
(A day later, a brother and friend, working in one of the Orange County beach towns tells me his phone woke him up all night with tsunami warnings.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/world/americas/chile-earthquake.html?emc=edit_th_20150917&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Chileans Seek High Ground After Earthquake; 5 Are Dead
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"Most Reverends," "Archbishops," and "Primates," (yes, I know that's another ecclesiastical title, but I can't help picturing apes, baboons, and chimpanzees regaled in clerical finery), together with other robed and mitered individuals in the photo meet "to discuss why so much money is poured into keeping everybody in the boat but no one is rowing it anywhere."  And this in the name of Jesus who told us clearly not to use ecclesiastical titles (Matthew 23:8-10; see also Job 32:20-21), but to take the role of servants  (Matthew 20:25-28).  C.S. Lewis, Queen Victoria, and many other noble Anglican Christians, mission workers of the past, etc. must be spinning in their graves at the mosh-pit of sodomites that the Anglican Church strives to become.  The statement “Our authority as a church is dispersed, and is ultimately found in Scripture, properly interpreted.” seems to mean, "…we specialize in making the Scriptures say whatever we want to make them say…"???  What a sad mess.  Many believing Anglicans have taken the Scriptures' advice:  "Flee from the wrath which is to come…" and "Come ye out of her my people, and touch not the unclean thing…"

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/world/europe/meeting-of-anglican-leaders-could-lead-to-a-looser-federation.html?emc=edit_th_20150917&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Meeting of Anglican Leaders Could Lead to a Looser Federation
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The doctrines of the Nephilim;  CRISPR-Cas 9 experiments on humans begin in Britain—"As it was in the days of Noah…"

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/ivf-embryos-to-be-genetically-manipulated-as-scientists-investigate-repeated-miscarriages-10506064.html
IVF embryos to be genetically manipulated as scientists investigate repeated miscarriages
The genetic manipulation of human IVF embryos is set to start in Britain for the first time following a licence application by scientists who want to understand why some women suffer repeated miscarriages.

If the research licence is granted by the Government’s fertility watchdog it will be only the second known occasion in the world where the chromosomes of human embryos have been genetically manipulated using a revolutionary gene-editing technique called Crispr/Cas9.

When Chinese scientists announced earlier this year that they had genetically altered “spare” human IVF embryos using Crispr/Cas9 for research purposes, there was deep concern among many who thought that they had gone too far – the US Government later imposed a moratorium on federally-funded research in America. … …
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Many "radical fundamentalists" (by which I narrowly mean people who believe the Word of God is actually exactly that) from St. John himself in his revelation of the whore of Babylon to the Reformers' Martin Luther and many, many Bible readers and teachers have taught that the Papacy is ultimately the harlot seated on the seven hills of Rome, the seat of the spirit of antichrist and particularly of his "spiritual sidekick," The False Prophet.  Is the final Pope the False Prophet?  Interestingly, even many people of Roman Catholic persuasion believe this may be so.  Nothing through the centuries has denied or lessened this view, rather it has been reinforced.  Recent unveilings and discussions of the so-called "Prophecy of the Popes" from 1139 A.D. by Archibishop Malachy of Ireland  (though of infinitely less credibility than the Canon of Scripture) also contribute to conservative Catholic watching and discomfort on this subject.  There, Francis is listed as the last Pope.  (Recent prophecy watchers point out the converging significance of this month, with many potentially prophetic events occurring and to issues such as that America was a Protestant, anti-papal country within living memory, that no Pope has ever spoken to a joint session of Congress before, that this is preceded by an initial visit to Havana and accompanied by a socialist agenda of visitation here, that Francis is the 266th Pope since the count began, and the last Pope named in Malachy's Prophecy of the Popes.  The congressional session will also occur on the 266th day of his papacy, the average time listed for the gestation of a human child--is the beast birthed in him at this time?  etc…a grinning grandpa devil awaiting the swooning hysteria of the masses, the religious flesh as a multitude?

Here is a secular discussion, courtesy of the NYTimes editors which surveys the actions of Francis—

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/09/17/how-radical-is-pope-francis?emc=edit_ty_20150918&nl=opinion&nlid=69381998

How Radical Is Pope Francis?
(excerpt from the lead): 
 The Republican leaders of the House and Senate may squirm a bit, though, when he addresses a joint session of Congress. After decades of a conservative papal vision, the pope’s call to fight inequality and climate change has inspired many progressives, but infuriated conservatives. Is he focusing on issues at the center of Catholic teaching, or has he abandoned core Catholic beliefs to promote a liberal agenda?

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Famous mystique of the Eastern mind?  "Enigma wrapped in riddle"?  Which way will Japan go when time for the Kings of the East to march across Euphrates?  Recently, blogwise, I wondered aloud if they would have any population left to go…with 8 million homes standing vacant across their nation, but now Shinzo Abe rattles new powers of military adventurism — readying to go forth on the offense when his country has purposefully had only defensive capacity since WW2 —

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/19/world/asia/japan-parliament-passes-legislation-combat-role-for-military.html?emc=edit_th_20150919&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Japan’s Parliament Approves Overseas Combat Role for Military
TOKYO — In a middle-of-the night vote that capped a tumultuous struggle with opposition parties in Parliament, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan secured final passage of legislation on Saturday authorizing overseas combat missions for his country’s military, overturning a decades-old policy of reserving the use of force for self-defense. … …

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"…heavy handed bureaucracy" stealing people's water in "the land of the free and the home of the brave"…?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/19/us/regulatory-war-fought-over-a-wyoming-familys-pond.html?emc=edit_th_20150919&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Family Pond Boils at Center of a ‘Regulatory War’ in Wyoming
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At a moment when Beloved Leader has put forth an avowed and open sodomite to "lead" the nation's forces, are the Marines the last ones left with any sense whatsoever?
God created Gender for Humanity, and He wants its' distinction honored.  Period.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/19/us/gender-integration-of-marines-brings-out-unusually-public-discord.html?emc=edit_th_20150919&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Gender Integration of Marines Brings Out Unusually Public Discord
The Marine Corps and its civilian leadership at the Pentagon are squaring off in an unusually public dispute over whether integrating women into the corps’s all-male combat units will undermine the units’ effectiveness, or whether the male-dominated Marine leadership is cherry-picking justifications to keep women out.

The military is facing a deadline set by the Obama administration to integrate women into all combat jobs by 2016 or ask for specific exemptions. The Marines, with a 93 percent male force dominated by infantry, are widely seen as the branch with the hardest integration task. The Marine Corps has the most units closed to women and still trains male and female recruits separately. … …
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"Uncle Sam's mistress" stands with her fangs dripping and gore up to her elbows with the fruit of child sacrifice in the abominations of "genetic science experiments."  Can anyone stop her?  God, please cast her in the fire!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/19/us/planned-parenthood-government-funding.html?emc=edit_th_20150919&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
House Republicans Vote to Stop Funding Planned Parenthood
WASHINGTON — House Republicans vented their rage against Planned Parenthood on Friday, voting to block all federal financing for the organization, which they accused of profiting from the sale of aborted fetuses for medical research. It was unclear, however, if the vote would mollify conservative lawmakers who have threatened to force a government shutdown over the abortion issue.

Neither the Planned Parenthood bill, which passed 241 to 187, nor a second anti-abortion measure approved on Friday has any chance of becoming law because of opposition from Senate Democrats and President Obama. But the deep emotion expressed by Republican lawmakers during debate underscored the challenge facing party leaders in the days ahead. … …
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"Come out of her, my people, and touch not the unclean thing."

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13 September

Saints,

Here is a short blog update after my Special Edition of the 14th Anniversary of  "9/11") —How can we overlook the destruction of the "Great Mosque" in Mecca on the very 14th anniversary of 9/11, and yet who in the press will dare to make any connection or observation?  But God will.  Let us stay close to him and "watch" as he commands and instructs.
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Noticeable — On the 14th anniversary of "9/11," but to utterly rule it as a "judgment," one would have to factor mass deaths around other religions' buildings too.  Much of established Christian religiosity is also so apostate and false that it is a wonder many more of our own buildings have not fallen down!   Said Jesus, "Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all the Galileans, because they suffered such things?  I tell you, Nay: but except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish" (Luke 13:2-3). May God turn more people to Christ through this disaster.  May some among the 200+ injured and some among the families of the dead see the True God's hand here and repent and begin to proclaim Him instead!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/12/world/middleeast/crane-crash-grand-mosque-mecca.html?emc=edit_na_20150911&nlid=69381998&ref=cta&_r=0
Crane Crashes into Saudi Mosque, Killing Dozens
A large construction crane crashed into the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca on Friday as it was packed with worshipers during a heavy rainstorm, and the authorities there said at least 87 people had been killed.

The accident happened as the Saudi authorities were in the midst of extensive preparations for the hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, one of the holiest sites in Islam, which begins in the next few weeks. … …
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And now, how long until "required suicide" "for reasons of social conscience," etc. arrives?
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/12/us/california-legislature-approves-assisted-suicide.html?emc=edit_na_20150911&nlid=69381998&ref=cta&_r=0
California Legislature Approves Assisted Suicide
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Boycott Office Depot?

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/09/11/office-depot-defends-employees-refusal-to-make-copies-of-anti-abortion-hate-material/
Office Depot Defends Employees’ Refusal To Make Copies Of Anti-Abortion ‘Hate Material’
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(12 Sept.)
Saturday morning update  —  A warning to Islam?  "God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance."   Everyone human will die (with few exceptions and the exception of the obediently watching Christians at the Rapture), and this is a universal judgment on original sin, and that because of  original sin we all sin personally and individually, YET, there will come judgments on peoples and nations and false religions and namers of the true Faith who do so in hypocrisy.  If "9/11" was a wake up call to America, this judgment by a Bin Laden crane, is a forewarning to Islam of the God-ordained and executed slaughter of its huge armies in the battle of Ezekiel 38 and 39 (along with Russia, Persia, et al).  Note that lightning strikes the area (the crane, the mosque) right before the crane topples.  Is God also judging America with lightning strikes creating most of the raging wildfires at present in the American West?  Are all these things and much more around our world, the voice of God in preparation and warning for the Day of the Lord?  Are these not "the beginnings of sorrows"?  (Matthew 24:8)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3231117/At-62-people-dead-crane-collapses-Grand-Mosque-Mecca.html
Carnage in Mecca: At least 107 people killed and 238 injured after Bin Laden firm crane collapses on Grand Mosque during freak lightning storm 
	•	Upsetting pictures show bodies strewn across floor after crane's boom crashed straight through the Mosque ceiling
	•	Accident struck while millions of Muslims are in the holy city for annual hajj pilgrimage which starts later this month
	•	Authorities had issued extreme weather warnings and earlier photos capture mosque being struck by lightning
	•	Crane part of massive project to increase the area of the mosque so it can accommodate 2.2 million people at once 
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This is the insanity of Political Correctness run amok.  And this is what machine intelligence, the AI of the Beast, will do to us with it, misinterpreting every silly human frailty as a crime or something to correct with mechanical perfection.  For some years now, family courts have been using a program called The Family Wizard to oversee visitation and other issues.  How would you like that "helping" with your family troubles?  Welcome to life run by algorithms! (oddly related story:  Robot Boss Oversees Human Workers:  http://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/robot-boss-oversees-human-workers )

https://reason.com/blog/2015/09/11/teen-boy-kissed-girl-on-a-dare-now-he-fa
Teen Boy Kissed Girl on a Dare.  Now He Faces Assault Charges.
Pikesville Middle School 13-year-old charge with second-degree assault.

A Pikesville, Maryland, 13-year-old will be charged with second-degree assault for kissing a 14-year-old girl on a dare. The "assault" happened at Pikesville Middle School on Friday. Police were called to the scene.  (ed. comment:  If  he had kissed another boy would he be celebrated instead for his "rights" and his "great bravery"?)
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(12 Sept, evening update via Drudge)
At least 345 people, more than 1/10 of those killed at Ground Zero, Twin Towers, directly affected by storm winds and one lightning strike in this catastrophe—

http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/mecca-crane-collapse-act-of-god-engineer_1795339.html
Mecca crane collapse `act of God`: Engineer
Mecca: The collapse of a construction crane that killed 107 people at Mecca`s Grand Mosque was "an act of God" and not due to a technical fault, an engineer for the developer said Saturday.

The massive red and white crane, which crashed into the court of the mosque during a rainstorm and high winds Friday, also injured around 200 people. … …
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P.S.  True to form, the NYTimes' headlines this Sunday morning find the Mosque disaster completely purged from thought or mention.  Amazing.
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Maranatha! An early Christian greeting:
  "Come, Lord Jesus!"
or
"The Lord is at hand!"
—Used in NT Greek in 1Cor. 16:22:  "If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha" (accursed at the Lord's coming)—
(and conversely, blessed be those who watch obediently in faith!)

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11 September / an edition of this NTF blog for the 14th anniversary of the "9/11 attack"

Saints, 

Today is twice seven years since the 9/11 attack, and this month is full of apparent prophetic convergences such that the prophetic watching community is buzzing with all kinds of revelations and speculations.  Whatever may prove to be true, we are told often by Jesus and the Apostles to "WATCH"!  I admit I haven't been very fair to Cahn and his Shemitah (7 year periods) with his books beginning with the Harbinger and going on the the Shemitah.  Frankly, I just can't yet bring myself to wade through the Shemitah book.  I subjectively see it as a couple of hundred pages of text that could be said in two or three pages and with many charts and illustrations, some so obvious they seem not to need to be said, and with others so obscure, they are indecipherable to someone already having trouble focusing on his themes.  Surely, repentance needs to be strongly preached, and I commend him for this, but if he and others like him have mixed motives of looking for personal fame and fortune, I don't have time to waste.  My chief and admittedly prejudicial and early concerns and objections include that we may no longer know how far off either the Jewish or the Gregorian calendars have drifted, and it would seem we are at the mercy of speculators who use many numbers to push their propositions.  Beside that, does God deal with the US the same as with Israel?  Do we have Shemitahs too?  Is 9/11/01 related to this for us?  If so, this second series of 7's which completes with this anniversary may be significant.  We can be sure of God's own directive to us:  WATCH!  But this is to watch at all times, and if not so, we will become cynical and cease to WATCH when human prognostications and analyses fail.  This would be a trick of Satan.  The occult Jewish Kabbalah (which like Scientology is presently very popular with hollywood types) claims to see a hidden message coded into Scripture (many times not at all comparable or relevant to the plain meanings of the texts) and has some very seductive revelations, but it is occult and the realm of Satan---himself enough of a theologian to try to take on Jesus Himself in the temptations in the wilderness (!) (see Ezekiel 8 to see the spirit behind ancient Kabbalists).  It is true the Scriptures have unending depth and we are to "mine" them throughout our journey as Christians in this life, BUT we are not to "divine" by them by the prideful means of secret knowledges only available to the initiates, the infinite "number crunchers," code trackers, etc.  The Scriptures are an open book; deep, yes, but not occulted, and not a source for prideful discoveries but for divine revelations from God to humble us before him.

More murder in the streets this morning as the whole of America turns back into something worse than the Wild West at its worst.  The Marines finish a study this morning proving that men and women are not equal in combat.  Thank God, we may be able to hold on to the God-honoring distinctive of gender a little longer by means of such secular admittances.  

I may have a brief Sunday edition on the 13th, but wanted to get this to you as the 11th breaks on us here in the US.

I doubt if many readers read every word here.  Brethren in other nations may also find US news not as relevant, but that is why I give short briefs, reminding of Scriptural prophecies and applications, before most entries, then give the lead or pertinent excerpt and the URL link for those who want to check the source more fully.

Pray for me.  I pray for you.  God has taught us in the very "Lord's prayer" to PRAY DAILY FOR DELIVERANCE FROM EVIL.  The War presses harder and harder.  Let us pray more and more for our own protection, for those given to us closely to shepherd by prayer, and for whatsoever on the world stage the Spirit brings to our spirits that we should pause and pray for…or continue in prayer for.  God keep you.

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Some "youtubes of the week"—

Be careful, sickening transhuman hybrids are shown here.  I have no idea of the veracity of this youtube, but it also, as do all youtubes, leads to others.  Be wise, be careful, but be aware of this time we are living in, and the extreme change of pace occurring. Our first centaurs and satyrs, and far worse monsters, could already be here and merely hidden from view at this time.  Consider that the "unclean spirits" mentioned in the New Testament may not be only fallen angels, but could be the spirits of the variants of the corrupted ("unclean") genetics introduced by the fallen angels and their initially half-human progeny before the Flood, the Nephilim, some of whom were reportedly said by Enoch to be still allowed to afflict mankind while others were put into the Abyss.  And what else did they make or pervert?  Did they "create" the dinosaurs destroyed by the Flood, the mythological beasts and beings remembered in Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Canaanite cultures, etc? : 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-acQz_wBx7E

DisCERNing ‪C E R N:  the Opening of the Abyss?‬  Having failed earlier, another attempt to bring it to full power is scheduled this month...On the "Stargate" CERN, the LHC, Large Hadron Collider:  
https://www.youtube.com/watchv=e62z5zJjp2I	

Tom Horn thinks UNICEF (a long time globalIst UN organization for care of children) is preparing to introduce, desensitize, and create empathy for alien and hybrid beings to the the world's children.  What do you think?  Watch UNICEF's own video which he posts:  http://www.supernaturalworldview.com/2015/09/02/is-the-vatican-laying-the-ground-for-et-integration/

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The Burning Man Festival — Vanity Fair, the Village of the Fools and the City of the Damned, a burning man is a symbol apropos!

It is reported that Leary gave his own little children Acid; and also that some of them turned to Christ after their father's influence lifted (though these may be "Christian Urban Myths").  One daughter, Susan, committed suicide in prison after shooting her cohort twice in the head while he slept (http://articles.latimes.com/1990-09-07/local/me-694_1_timothy-leary).  It is not known if she was tripping at the time.  In my own "mythological list" on the subject (old readings and notes I can't source now) Leary "volunteered" to become the next antichrist, to take the place of Aleister Crowley, and said he would "go laughing into hell."  Who's laughing now?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2015/09/06/susan-sarandon-burning-man-timothy-leary-ashes-lsd/71801664/
Susan Sarandon carried LSD guru Timothy Leary's ashes in a Burning Man ceremony
BLACK ROCK DESERT, Nev. — Timothy Leary, the late father of LSD, was memorialized at Burning Man after a fantastic procession and burning of his ashes in the Black Rock Desert.
It was a spectacle that not even he probably could have imagined, as actress Susan Sarandon led a march with his ashes into a temporary church built as an art installation in the desert for the week-long festival.
The church was scheduled to burn as part of the event on Saturday after the "man", a giant wooden structure, burned. … ...
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Israel in the midst of warring terrorists —
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/07/world/middleeast/netanyahu-rejects-calls-to-accept-syrian-refugees.html?emc=edit_th_20150907&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Netanyahu Rejects Calls for Israel to Accept Syrian Refugees
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Remember Kim in your prayers — ("…as if in prison with her…")

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/07/us/jailed-kentucky-clerk-starts-federal-appeal.html?emc=edit_th_20150907&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Jailed Kentucky Clerk Starts Federal Appeal
The Kentucky county clerk who was jailed for defying a federal court order to issue marriage licenses to gay couples has begun the process of appealing the judge’s ruling that landed her there, her lawyers said on Sunday.

Kim Davis, the Rowan County clerk, who said her Christian faith prohibited her from authorizing same-sex marriages, was jailed Thursday for contempt of court. On Sunday, her lawyers filed a notice of appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati, on the grounds that her right to due process had been violated, they said. … …
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Boiling Point worldwide?
http://news.yahoo.com/islamophobic-anti-semitic-hate-crimes-soar-london-104933795.html;_ylt=AwrXgSOlf.1VkHwAChbQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTByc3RzMXFjBGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwM0BHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzcg--
Islamophobic, anti-Semitic hate crimes soar in London
London (AFP) - Islamophobic and anti-Semitic hate crimes in London have soared over the last year, official figures released on Monday showed, with global events apparently contributing to the rise.

Police recorded 816 Islamophobic offences in the 12 months to July, up more than 70 percent from 478 in the previous 12 months.
Anti-Semitic crime surged 93 percent over the same period, with 499 incidents recorded compared with 258 the previous year.
London's Metropolitan Police said "world events" may have contributed  (emphasis added, note the profundity of this admission) to the increase, while there was also a rise in incidents on holy days when Muslim and Jewish communities were more "visible". … ...
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We are in a war; more to come —

8 Sept  — Breaking News Alert, NYTimes, 1:06 P.M.
Judge frees Kim Davis, Kentucky clerk jailed in gay marriage dispute	
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 1:06 PM EDT	
	
The clerk of Rowan County, Ky., who was jailed last week after she defied a court’s order that she issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, has been ordered released.	
The clerk, Kim Davis, has been held for contempt of court since Thursday, but on Tuesday, the judge who sent her to jail, David L. Bunning of Federal District Court, ruled that she should be freed from a county detention center in Grayson, Ky.	
Although a Supreme Court decision in June legalized same-sex marriage throughout the United States, Ms. Davis said her beliefs as an Apostolic Christian kept her from sanctioning any such nuptials. Judge Bunning said last month that Ms. Davis had to issue the licenses, but she maintained her resistance and was sent to jail.	
Ms. Davis’s argument and eventual incarceration have resonated deeply among Christian conservatives, many of whom fear an erosion of religious liberty, and transformed the clerk of a rural Kentucky county into an unyielding symbol of opposition to same-sex marriage.	
Ms. Davis’s deputies began processing licenses after she was detained. In a signal of the possible courtroom battles to come, Ms. Davis’s lawyers have questioned whether those licenses are valid, but Rowan County officials have insisted they will be recognized.
	
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Whew!  Hate to touch this one, but it must be done.   This is clearly written by a secularist, and she shows some ignorance or bigotry about biblical sexuality and marriage issues, but she also hits on some truths of Scripture that are not all popular in present Protestant piety.  Too many times, dogma (interpretation) is preferred over plain Scripture teaching and assessing, comparing texts, etc., and biblical righteousness is replaced with what a "group spirit" approves and upon agreed-upon religious righteousness, even if it flies in the face of the Bible.  Saints, I have for a long time been surveying the situations of "MDR," (Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage) and the other manifestations and issues of marriage that are arising in our culture, and that are also actualities in the biblical record.  I have trembled at having to discuss these things, and I am sure to get some harsh feedback and condemnation.  I don't have answers for many issues, but I feel I must also point out the true teachings of the Bible and how they are offset, neglected, ignored, even rejected by "religious piety" and human dogma.  Please see an expanding consideration (to be posted soon), with collected media commentaries, etc. on a biblically evolving consideration of these issues on my teaching page on the website (ntfellowship.net), under "MDR, etc."

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/what-marriage-would-look-like-if-we-actually-followed-the-bible-10484198.html

see also her chart of biblical models:  https://bostonbravery.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/bible-marriage.jpg
What marriage would look like if we actually followed the Bible
Social conservatives who object to marriage licenses for gay couples claim to defend “Christian marriage,” meaning one man paired with one woman for life, which they say is prescribed by God in the Bible.

But in fact, Bible writers give the divine thumbs-up to many kinds of sexual union or marriage.  They also use several literary devices to signal God’s approval for one or another sexual liaison: The law or a prophet might prescribe it, Jesus might endorse it, or God might reward it with the greatest of all blessings: boy babies who go on to become powerful men.
While the approved list does include one man coupled with one woman, the Bible explicitly endorses polygamy and sexual slavery, providing detailed regulations for each; and at times it also rewards rape and incest.  (Reviewer's continued notes:  I do not believe the Bible anywhere condones sexual slavery, but commands the proper tender care and provision, the taking to wife, of those women taken as spoils in battle, etc.  Neither does it condone incest, though, possibly due to less genetic corruption, it allowed such as Abraham and Sarah [half-siblings? who were in covenantal marriage] BEFORE the institution of the Mosaic Law.  Lot's daughters were shown mercy [incest] as was Hagar [legitimate concubinage], but their nations have often been thorns in the side of Israel since, though all will be forgiven and forgotten in the Millennium.  If Lot's daughters sinned, though their reasonings and actions took place before the Mosaic Law forbidding incest, it was not a conscious sin to Lot, whose only sin in the matter if it was one, was to be too drunk to notice either their separate arrivals or departures from his bed.)

The Bible nowhere acknowledges or approves any kind of homosexuality, "homosexual marriage," bestiality, adultery, by specificity, etc. but rather utterly and consistently condemns such things.
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How to get through the times coming upon us —
(from The Daily Spark online)
But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

- Matthew 6:33	
	
When we look at these words of Jesus, we immediately find them to be the most revolutionary that human ears have ever heard. “…seek first the kingdom of God….”

Even the most spiritually-minded of us argue the exact opposite, saying, “But I must live; I must make a certain amount of money; I must be clothed; I must be fed.”

The great concern of our lives is not the kingdom of God but how we are going to take care of ourselves to live.

Jesus reversed the order by telling us to get the right relationship with God first, maintaining it as the primary concern of our lives, and never to place our concern on taking care of the other things of life.

- Oswald Chambers

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My dear friends—

In this time,  you must suspect every prophet (or other minister of the Lord),  especially those adept at media (and selling books, DVDs, etc.), of being false prophets, and they outnumber the true, sometimes it seems, by a 100 to 1!

To boot, none of us has perfect revelation yet, but we do have enough to save us and keep us in salvation, and that revealed to us by God in his own Holy Word, but we must take our charge very seriously and soberly, for the devil, in the guise of ear-tickling false workers, seeks whom he may destroy!

Today's Update (The Berean Call for 8 September)
MAKING GOD'S PEOPLE TRUST IN A LIE

How false prophets work—

"Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah, the Prophet, Hear now Hananiah; The Lord hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie" (Jeremiah 28:15).

Of course it is no wonder that Hananiah was better received. Hananiah's "word' was uplifting, and encouraging. To a people already partially humiliated by a deportation of their own nobility and a stripping of the vessels of their holy temple - Hananiah a priest proclaimed in God's name that "I have broken the yoke of the King of Babylon. Within two full years will I bring again into this place  all of the vessels of the Lord's House..."(Jeremiah 28:2-3). Such confidence!

Part of the problem with Hananiah's message is that there is no consideration of the fact that it was sin and backsliding that caused that humiliation (which he so boldly prophesied a reversal of). There was no mention of repentance, no vindication of God's charges against the people, no connection between the people's suffering and the wrath of the God of the covenant. He merely prophesied peace and restoration and victory. He preached a God of Love, but love only.

Contrast that encouraging Word with the one given to the "weeping prophet," Jeremiah, that Judah would go into captivity for seventy years (Jer. 29:10), and that Nebuchadnezzar, a pagan king was God's servant (Jer. 25:9), and, adding insult to injury - that the best recourse was to see in the Babylonian invasion and captivity the good hand of God and to humbly submit to it.  Does that sound like faith and confidence? Where is the patriotism in that?

Jeremiah, too, preached a God of Love, but as all true prophets do, he correctly showed forth the Love of God in its true context, which is the Holiness of God. Indeed, God is Love and God is Holy. His love is Holy love.  God is Sovereign. There would be a restoration, but on God's terms and by God's own means. The problem Jeremiah's contemporaries had with his preaching was that it wasn't man centered.

Pastor Bill Randles ("Making God's People Trust in a Lie")	
	
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Hillary gets "sorrier," going from "I'm sorry everyone got confused about this," to just plain, "I'm  sorry."  (This reviewer will stay out of politics otherwise.)
NYTimes Breaking News Alert for 8 September —
'I'm sorry' about private email server, Hillary Clinton says	
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 5:06 PM EDT	
	
Hillary Rodham Clinton apologized Tuesday for using a private email server while she was secretary of state, calling it a “mistake” – uttering words that many of her allies had wanted to hear from her in hopes of quelling the controversy that has dogged her presidential candidacy for weeks.	
Mrs. Clinton made the comment in an interview with David Muir of ABC News that was set to air in full Tuesday evening. The network released a clip late Tuesday afternoon.	
Her remarks came just a day after she told The Associated Press that she did not need to apologize, saying, “What I did was allowed.” In an interview on NBC News last Friday, Mrs. Clinton said she was “sorry” that people were confused by the issue. … ...
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(9 Sept.)
Under Federal threat to withdraw funds, "Christian" colleges begin to turn to antichristian accommodation—
via The Berean Call —

http://www.onenewsnow.com/education/2015/08/11/christian-schools-falling-in-line-after-supreme-court-decision

CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS FALL IN LINE AFTER SUPREME COURT DECISION

Some Christian colleges and universities have begun to capitulate following the US Supreme Court's decision to redefine marriage. 

Hope College, Belmont University, and Baylor University have all changed some policies to accommodate homosexual students and employees.

Cultural analyst Laurie Higgins of the Illinois Family Institute says parents need to do some "serious investigating" before sending their children to what they believe is a conservative college that is theologically orthodox.  

Reporting on Baylor, The Washington Post said its board of regents dropped the words "homosexual acts" and other sexual references from the school's new sexual misconduct policy.

An official with the school told the Post the language was changed to reflect Baylor's "caring community." 

Baylor, located in Waco, Texas, is a private Baptist university.

The same story said Hope College in Michigan and Belmont in Nashville will provide benefits for same-sex couples following the Supreme Court decision.

Belmont, a nondenominational school, will offer benefits to "all legally married couples," a school spokesman told Christianity Today. 

Higgins predicts this is just the beginning. Other schools will undoubtedly do the same, she predicts. "Because the homsexual community will not tolerate religious freedom..."
 
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(10 Sept.)
"Star-people" found?  NYTimes Breaking News Alert, 5:01 a.m, 10 September:  Piles of bones of a proposed new species, Homo Naledi ("star" in local dialect) found deep in a cave in South Africa.  Evolutionists encouraged, but to the Christian investigator could this be either a hidden Nephilim burial chamber or a place where they hid away their genetic experiments with humanity?  Entrances to the chamber are so tiny, lengthy, and difficult whoever put the bodies there had to have made great effort to do so.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/11/science/south-africa-fossils-new-species-human-ancestor-homo-naledi.html?mtrref=undefined&assetType=nyt_now&mtrref=www.nytimes.com&gwh=77DF182D143BD00E7F4A945BBB105BFD&gwt=pay&assetType=nyt_now
South Africa fossils reveal new species of human ancestor, scientists say	
Thursday, September 10, 2015 5:01 AM EDT	
	
Acting on a tip from spelunkers two years ago, scientists in South Africa discovered what the cavers had only dimly glimpsed through a crack in a limestone wall deep in the Rising Star cave: lots and lots of old bones.	
The remains covered the earthen floor beyond the narrow opening. This was, the scientists concluded, a large, dark chamber for the dead of a previously unidentified species of the early human lineage — Homo naledi.	
The new hominin species was announced on Thursday by an international team of more than 60 scientists led by Lee R. Berger, an American paleoanthropologist who is a professor of human evolution studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. The species name, H. naledi, refers to the cave where the bones lay undisturbed for so long; “naledi” means “star” in the local Sesotho language. … ...
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Will this historic month yet see the long predicted global financial collapse?  Will the communist government of China be able to force its stock markets not to make mistakes?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/10/world/asia/in-china-a-forceful-crackdown-in-response-to-stock-market-crisis.html?emc=edit_th_20150910&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
China’s Response to Stock Plunge Rattles Traders

BEIJING — The police have been dropping in on investment firms and downloading their transaction records. Senior executives at China'a biggest investment bank have been arrested on suspicion of illegal trading. A business journalist has been detained and shown apologizing on national television for writing an article that could have hurt the market.
The Communist Party’s response to China’s months-long stock market crisis has been swift and forceful. In addition to spending as much as $235 billion to buy shares and bolster prices, the authorities have imposed a range of extraordinary restrictions on the sale of stocks — and backed them with the full weight of a security apparatus usually more focused on political dissent than equity trades.

The strategy appears to have succeeded, at least for now, in softening the impact of the Chinese market’s biggest rout since the global financial crisis of 2008. But the new limits on trading and the efforts by the police and regulators to enforce them have unsettled investors at home and abroad who are unsure exactly what types of transactions are being banned or criminalized. … …
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via the Berean Call for 10 September, Daily Update —
New appearances of the spirit of antichrist in American Christendom—
(Beck is a darling to many political conservatives but is a Mormon.   The NAR is a word/faith--"name it and claim it"--charismatic cult; they join forces in ecumenical bliss.)

http://www.worldviewweekend.com/news/article/why-david-barton-100-wrong-tell-glenn-beck-third-great-awakening-has-begun

WHY IS DAVID BARTON 100 PERCENT WRONG TO TELL GLENN BECK THE THIRD GREAT AWAKENING HAS BEGUN? [Excerpts]
 
Since 2010 we have seen Glenn Beck and proponents of the New Apostolic Reformation together. To mark the five-year anniversary of his 8/28/2010 rally in D.C., for instance, Glenn Beck held an 8/28 rally in Birmingham, Alabama in 2015 called Restoring Unity. This time the event was actually co-sponsored with NAR proponent Jim Lowe. Lowe's website states that he is the pastor of The Guiding Light Church in Birmingham, but what jumped out at me in his bio was the following:

"On May 6, 2003, James L. Lowe Jr. was ordained as a bishop by the International Communion of Charismatic Churches and Bishop Earl Paulk in the Cathedral at Chapel Hills-Decatur, Georgia." 

The late Paulk was one of the most radical of the Word of Faith/New Apostolic Reformation leaders. [We] warned that it was only a matter of time before Mormons, the Word of Faith, and NAR got together in their joint love of another Jesus, a different gospel, and their radical dominion theology. Paulk promoted the Manifested Sons of God theology, also called Omega Children, Joel's Army, and Overcoming Bride. 

Jewel Grewe...has been researching the Manifested Sons of God theology since the early 1980s. She and her husband, like many within the AOG, became concerned when this heresy began to surface in more and more churches. In 1991, Jewel [reported on] "Joel's Army," in which she correctly identifies four problems with the Manifested Sons of God heresy: 

"The claim to perfection through progressive revelations beyond Scriptures; The written Word of God is held in low esteem and experiential knowledge very high; The Word of God is perceived as a symbolic book; The claim that the 'god-man' dwells in every member and is waiting to be discovered and manifest by the believers." 

Paulk, who died in 2009 after being the pastor of a large Pentecostal church in Georgia, held this view on the Manifested Sons of God: 

"Jesus Christ has now done all He can do, and He waits at the right hand of His Father, until you and I as sons of God, become manifest and make this world His footstool. He is waiting for us to say 'Jesus, we have made the kingdoms of this world the Kingdom of our God, and we are ruling and reigning in Your world. Even so, come Lord Jesus.'"

The quest for global dominion and cultural renewal is why NAR proponents are interested in ecumenicalism. Paulk describes his ecumenical strategy this way: 

"What would a meeting be like which brought together liberal evangelicals, such as we are, conservative theologians, represented by Holiness groups and Southern Baptists, and Catholics. Seventh-Day Adventists, and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints? Many of these groups have become so different that we almost regard them as enemies, rather than as brothers and sisters in the faith. How can we step over these walls that have been built so high?"

This brings us to the August 31st, 2015 headline on Glenn Beck's website that read: "David Barton tells Glenn he thinks the Third Great Awakening has now begun." Glenn on his radio program explained that he [and] David Barton were having a conversation [where] David Barton announced to Glenn that the third great awakening was under way. Here is how Glenn explained this conversation:

"I think this is - I think we're at the beginning. I flew back with David Barton yesterday. And David said, just matter-of-factly, he said, we're in the awakening. And I said, I leaned up and I said, hold on. What did you just say. And he said, we're in the awakening. And I said, the third great awakening? And he said, oh, yeah. I truly believe it's happening now. That's great that's great. He's the one that told me about the great awakening. He's like, we need the great awakening to happen. And we had people of all different faiths walking together."

Glenn continued: "So we had people from all different faiths. One of the leaders from the Southern Baptist Convention was there. Leaders from all different churches were there. Pastors, priests. All marching together."

David Barton could not be more wrong! You cannot have a Biblical revival or Biblical, spiritual awakening when people like Barton and Beck are proclaiming false theology and uniting in unbiblical, spiritual enterprises that God's Word declares will bring the opposite of God's blessing as described in 2 Corinthians 6:14-17. It appears as though Paulk got his wish as we now see so-called evangelicals, Mormons, Catholics, and numerous false religions uniting. Despite what David Barton might think, what took place in Alabama at Mormon Glenn Beck's events are not signs of a Biblical awakening but further evidence that God has given over America as described in Romans 1.

The late Vance Havner warned about proclamations from people like David Barton and Glenn Beck when he warned: "I am more afraid of false revival than of no revival - a false revival with a false gospel, false evangelists, false converts, false joy. It will seem so genuine that it would deceive, if possible, the very elect. Many church leaders will endorse it. Other good people will be afraid to oppose it for fear that they might be fighting against God."
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(11 Sept.  14 year anniversary of the Twin Towers, "Shemitah"?)
Is even our (USA) allegiance fading, via the new Iran deal?  Israel alone? …that God himself may prove he is her defender — stated over and over again in Ezekiel 38 & 39

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/11/world/influential-pro-israel-group-suffers-stinging-political-defeat.html?emc=edit_th_20150911&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Influential Pro-Israel Group Suffers Stinging Political Defeat
WASHINGTON — Officials at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee knew the odds were against them in the fight to block President Obama's  nuclear deal with Iran from surviving a congressional vote. But the influential pro-Israel group threw itself into a nearly $30 million advertising and lobbying effort to kill the accord anyway.

On Thursday, the committee, known as Aipac, was handed a stinging defeat. After Mr. Obama mustered enough Democratic backing in the Senate to halt a vote on a resolution of disapproval against the deal, a group known for its political clout saw its power and reputation in Washington diminished.

“They failed — they couldn’t even get a vote,” said Clifford Kupchan, an Iran expert and the chairman of the Eurasia Group, a consulting firm, who noted that Aipac had gone “all in” and tried everything to stop the deal. “It’s among the biggest setbacks for Aipac in recent memory.” … ...
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From a dream last night:  "Go see Matthew 1:20-21"  While I lay in a daze, I thought, "What is that, the middle of the genealogy?" etc.  Finally, after wrestling to keep sleeping for some time, I found my little bedside flashlight and my glasses and looked to see in the Bible which stays beside my head.  How sweet and simple!  "But while he thought on these things, behold the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife:  for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.  And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS:  for he shall save his people from their sins."	

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6 September

Saints,

The world system seems to be raging itself to pieces, and that very rapidly.  We must support mercy for the floods of refugees, no matter what our politics.  These human beings, their aged and their infants, are literally running from swords and guns that seem to have no discernment at all, but only want to kill all flesh in their reach.  Yes, many fleeing Syrians are still Islamic and we risk that they will turn on us, but also, they will not quickly forget what radical Islam has done to them.  May God turn many of them to Christ, and let many Christians among those receiving them be "home missionaries" to show them active mercy. 

ISIS is the fetus of the great army that will gather from all over Islam's reach to the great battle of Ezekiel.  This week, Russia and Iran continue and escalate their orchestration of the Middle East.  Ezekiel's War may well turn nuclear as he speaks of "fire falling on them that dwell carelessly in the isles," (39:6) a term signifying unknown distant lands in his day.  If we think to wait on Iran's nuclear capability and this ridiculous pact that pretends to hinder it, we may err, for Pakistan which is 98% Islamic has even now about 200 nuclear tipped missiles, and other actors (Russia, China, North Korea) could lend them at any time.  BUT A WORD OF HOPE:  WHAT AN EXCELLENT TIME FOR THE LORD HIMSELF TO RESCUE HIS PEOPLE BY THE RAPTURE when these nukes are on their way to various cities of the world!  One can hope that this would be the very latest hour we should have to wait for "the blessed hope"!

Meanwhile, here, a professing sister is locked up for conscientious objection, as a public servant, against the floods of the sodomites.  It is interesting to note that these infiltrators and activists could have gone to many other sites to receive their "marriage licenses," but chose instead to attack her, coming in from miles around to target her, and the press played to it wholeheartedly making them sound like sadly abused people.  I pray that she be able to stand, that her faith would be perfected and grow (as she is an "Apostolic Christian," — and may be non-Trinitarian), and that the Lord will make her a standard bearer against this flood of degenerate abominations calling itself marriage.

May God make you a fiery prayer warrior from this day and until the End.
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"And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;  Even the Spirit of truth;  whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him:  but ye know him;  for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.  I will not leave you comfortless:  I will come to you."
John 14:16-18

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Some movements of the week—

(31 Aug)
I find that I have been culturally trained to be aghast at irreverence toward antiquities, but ISIS has given me a dash of cold water in the face in the light of its destruction of the Temple of Baal at Palmyra.  Baal is, after all, the chief of all the baals--which means "masters"--and, biblically signifies the pantheon of gods that the fallen angels invented as avatars of themselves in order to rule man and secure his rebellion against the true Master--God, Yahweh.  Are we not supposed to smash idols?  Do they not at least have this right?

Being of a Western mind, yet devoted to the revelation of Scripture, I guess I would be inclined to let the building stand as an educational edifice of antiquity but remove any statuary from a central or exalted place in said building, put it in a museum and, demote it to a statuary relic only, and preserve it "for art and history's sake," and this is what the Western mind, under the influence of Christian conscience has done, but, then again, we might be wrong about this?  "That shalt not raise unto thee any graven image to bow thyself down thereto."

May God, as He did with Paul, save some from among this insane evil entity ISIS, and turn them into his true servants and preachers, with or without the temples of antiquity.  We must pray for our enemies.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/31/world/middleeast/isis-damages-a-temple-in-palmyra.html?emc=edit_th_20150831&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
ISIS Damages Temple of Baal in Palmyra

A week after reports of destruction by Islamic State militants in the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria, fighters severely damaged the Temple of Baal there, one of the oldest and culturally significant in the region, according to activists.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an activist and monitoring group based in Britain, said Sunday that Islamic State fighters had destroyed part of the nearly 2,000-year-old temple. … …
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Some lawmakers with humane concerns resist the "borg-ing" of children into the AI Cloud—
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/31/technology/tools-for-tailored-learning-may-expose-students-personal-details.html?emc=edit_th_20150831&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Tools for Tailored Learning May Expose Students’ Personal Details
excerpt:
…The activity stands in stark contrast to legislative interest just two years ago, when Oklahoma was the only state to pass such legislation. It also provides a clear indication of the rapid adoption of learning apps in classrooms — and of concerns that these novel technologies generate a trove of new data about students that could be used in unforeseen ways.

Many of the new tools are designed to tailor learning to each child. To achieve that sort of customization, the software may collect and analyze a vast array of details about the habits and activities of individual students. … …
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O, what plot of his own making may this man have to wake up to?  (Let us hope not!)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/31/movies/wes-craven-a-master-of-slasher-horror-films-dies-at-76.html?emc=edit_th_20150831&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Wes Craven, a Master of Slasher Horror Films, Dies at 76
closing quote:  He added: “Horror movies have to show us something that hasn’t been shown before so that the audience is completely taken aback. You see, it’s not just that people want to be scared; people are scared.”
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Whew!  Yet another manifestation of tech (see last blog on taser-toting police drones to bring down criminals or control crowds) that sounds more like the scorpion locusts arising out of the Bottomless Pit in the Book of Revelation.  How many levels of teasing, joshing, cuteness, or serious revelation, or accident of metaphor to call them "Gremlins"?  Now, countless more people can have their very own death drone aiming at them!

http://www.gizmag.com/darpa-gremlins-drones/39164/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=0be2a4a578-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-0be2a4a578-91592265
Gremlins in the works: DARPA's vision for future air operations
The United States boasts some of the most advanced multi-mission combat aircraft in the world, but this can be a liability as well as an asset. True, each aircraft can outperform an entire squadron of a few decades ago, but they're also very expensive, incredibly complex, and not exactly expendable. For these reasons DARPA has launched the Gremlins program, which aims to develop swarms of cheaper, smarter aircraft that can be deployed and collected in midair.
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(1 Sept)
Something we see by prophecy (2 Tim. 3:1-4, Gen. 6:11, Mt. 24:37), statisticians are catching up on too (as well as the ever ravenous media, of course).  Our country, cultures, and society are experiencing exponentially mounting rage and chaos.  Maranatha! Come quickly and Save us, O Lord!
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/01/us/murder-rates-rising-sharply-in-many-us-cities.html?emc=edit_th_20150901&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Murder Rates Rising Sharply in Many U.S. Cities
MILWAUKEE — Cities across the nation are seeing a startling rise in murders after years of declines, and few places have witnessed a shift as precipitous as this city. With the summer not yet over, 104 people have been killed this year — after 86 homicides in all of 2014.

More than 30 other cities have also reported increases in violence from a year ago. In New Orleans, 120 people had been killed by late August, compared with 98 during the same period a year earlier. In Baltimore, homicides had hit 215, up from 138 at the same point in 2014. In Washington, the toll was 105, compared with 73 people a year ago. And in St. Louis, 136 people had been killed this year, a 60 percent rise from the 85 murders the city had by the same time last year. … …
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Blah, blah, blah.  Psychology is not a science as soon as it postulates beyond statistics and observable norms, and the great majority of its working theories are just that!  Einstein's definition of insanity:  Doing something over and over again and expecting different results.  Psychology cannot make consistent sense of its results!  How much better to search the Word of God to minister to the souls of men.  Ever heard the old quip about the Christian Scientist (reality deniers) in hell?  "There is no hell, and I'm not hot!"  So, it is when psychology tries to logically justify itself — down one rabbit hole after another.  The only trouble is that these "experts" become the tools of human management and despotism in "advanced" societies.

If someone cannot operate sanely/safely in society or is a demonstrated danger, then society has the right to contain them, but if a person can function without improper violence in a society but has his or her own ideas and "marches to a different drummer," that has always been considered "Liberty!", and is our God-given blessing of individuality.  But if, for instance, a public figure is to be attacked, publish the "psychoanalysis" on him of the shrinks and turn that loose on him in the media!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/01/opinion/psychology-is-not-in-crisis.html?emc=edit_th_20150901&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998

The Opinion Pages | OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
Psychology Is Not in Crisis
Boston — IS psychology in the midst of a research crisis?

An initiative called the Reproducibility Project at the University of Virginia recently reran 100 psychology experiments and found that over 60 percent of them failed to replicate — that is, their findings did not hold up the second time around. The results, published last week in Science, have generated alarm (and in some cases, confirmed suspicions) that the field of psychology is in poor shape. … …
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"The new morality":  "Don't create any emotional response, no matter what!  Here, take your little pink pill and go back to sleep!  Shhh!"

http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/September01/013.html
UK Seeking Crackdown On Street Preachers: It Is ‘Improper’ To ‘Talk About Morality’
A city councilman in the U.K. who is seeking to crack down on street preachers, buskers and those who engage in commerce in the public streets says that preachers are wrong to talk about morality in the open air and to make their hearers feel “insecure” with their preaching. … …
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Today's Update (The Berean Call)	
Concerning Origins

The Bible not only claims to be a revelation from the infinite Creator but it gives a very detailed history concerning origins, to enable us to come to right conclusions. No other book does this. If this book is what it claims to be, then we have a revelation from an omnipotent God, who gives us the history we need to know so we can interpret the evidence of the present correctly.

For instance, the Bible gives us an account of the origin of space, time, matter, earth, dry land, water, plants, stars, sun, moon, sea creatures, flying creatures, land animals, humans, marriage, the seven-day week, clothing, sin, death, languages, nations, and much more! We learn about the Tower of Babel and the global Flood of Noah's day. No evolutionist book covers all these topics. No other book does this, not the Koran or any Hindu book. Only the Bible gives such a detailed account of history.

If the Bible is really what it claims to be, a revelation from an omnipotent Creator, then the history that is revealed to us will make sense of the evidence of the present, and observational (empirical) science should confirm this history - and it does!

--Ken Ham
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(2 Sept.)
Two ways to look at this — as the headline sells it, OR, that a faltering economy will bring on first "saber rattling," and then a military solution.  Way back in 1967, Mao bragged he could field an army of 200 million, quoted Hal Lindsey.  This is the exact figure given in Revelation for the size of the army of the kings of the East.  If Chinese official pride is ever endangered, the leaders will fall back on its immense population size — and sheer bully ability — if other pride factors are in recession.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/02/world/asia/as-economy-falters-military-parade-offers-chance-to-burnish-chinas-image.html?emc=edit_th_20150902&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
As China’s Economy Falters, Military Parade Offers Chance to Burnish Image
BEIJING — Few things distract an anxious nation in economic trouble quite like a jaw-dropping military parade featuring a cavalcade of gleaming high-tech weaponry, 12,000 goose-stepping soldiers and fighter jets filling the skies with synchronized plumes of candy-colored smoke.
 China celebrates a new national holiday on Thursday, honoring the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II with events across the country, a three-day holiday and a martial spectacle that will rumble through the ceremonial heart of the capital. President Xi Jinping ordered up the festivities long before the latest round of economic news, but the timing could hardly be better for the Communist Party as it grapples with a slumping stock market and fears that a slowdown could spur social unrest. … …
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The War goes on—Busted for singing "Amazing Grace."  The Constitution guarantees the "free exercise of religion," not the "freedom from religion" of these atheists

http://www.11alive.com/story/news/local/2015/09/01/school-district-investigating-mass-baptism-football-practice/71515306/
School district investigating mass baptism at football practice
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(3 Sept.)
A little hard to believe —
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/03/world/asia/beijing-turns-into-ghost-town-as-it-gears-up-for-military-parade.html?emc=edit_na_20150902&nlid=69381998&ref=cta&_r=0
China Announces Cuts of 300,000 Troops at Military Parade Showing Its Might
BEIJING — President Xi Jinping of China announced on Thursday that he would reduce the country’s military personnel by 300,000, using a parade marking 70 years since the end of World War II to present the People’s Liberation Army as a force for peace and regional stability.

The Chinese military has more than two million members, and Mr. Xi has embarked on an accelerated modernization of the armed forces, which would shift spending from the traditional land forces to more advanced sea and air forces, which require fewer but better trained personnel. … ...
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Yes, folks, in these last days we are going to find that Zombies have become real.  Even a year or two back, a Zombie in Florida was arrested from chewing the face off another living man.  Shiploads of bales of pot are not enough for our loathsome enemy; now he must produce a sicker, cheap knock-off too— (May God and his servants yet pluck a few from this fire.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/03/nyregion/k2-a-potent-drug-casts-a-shadow-over-an-east-harlem-block.html?emc=edit_th_20150903&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
K2, a Potent Drug, Casts a Shadow Over an East Harlem Block

It was early afternoon when the man with the twitching legs was dragged from the ground into an ambulance. Another man selling books washed away the vomit.

A man named Charlie Medina sat at the same spot a few days later, unable to remember his name before he fell into a trance with his jaw open and his eyes dilated.
And the lovers. They were unable to find a room. One pulled off the other’s shirt and her bra, then started to kiss her bruised breasts while a small crowd gathered to watch.
The people here on this stretch of 125th Street in East Harlem may change, but the drug remains the same: K2, also called synthetic marijuana, a potent mix of herbs and chemicals that has become widely used among homeless people in New York City.

A joint of K2 goes for a dollar or two, far cheaper than food. Many bodegas on 125th Street sell it. A marijuana joint, by comparison, costs about $5. Crowds of up to 80 or 100 homeless people come in on buses from a nearby shelter on Randalls Island, drawn by heroin recovery clinics nearby, and spend the day there under the influence of this cheaper narcotic. The block between Park and Lexington Avenues appears at times to be a street of zombies. … ...
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On the front lines against the sodomites —  Pray for Kim Davis and Liberty Counsel

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/03/us/kentucky-rowan-county-clerk-kim-davis-denies-marriage-license.html?emc=edit_th_20150903&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Kentucky Clerk Who Said ‘No’ to Gay Couples Won’t Be Alone in Court
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Will the US-brokered Iran deal, now buffered from Congressional veto, be the trigger for the horrendous war of Ezekiel 38 &39, the first campaign of Armageddon?

http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/September03/033.html
Iran Deal Will Trigger Major War In Middle East
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10,000 worldwide already in "the cyborg club" of chipped humans—

http://news.yahoo.com/cyborgs-keys-yesterday-114442441.html
For these 'cyborgs', keys are so yesterday
Berlin (AFP) - Punching in security codes to deactivate the alarm at his store became a thing of the past for Jowan Oesterlund when he implanted a chip into his hand about 18 months ago.  ...

***
(5 Sept.)
While the tragedy of genocide-escaping refugees continues to flood Europe, Rosh (Russia) continues adventuring by sustaining Assad in Syria, and Persia (Iran) cooperates in the same venture.  We are in the days of the great war, very possibly nuclear, that Ezekiel prophesies with chapters 38 and 39.

This war, while still a prelude to Armageddon, may signal the latest date for the Rapture as God snatches out his people while Islamic nukes (Pakistan, 98% Islamic, has as many as 200 NOW) are on their way to "fall on them that dwell carelessly in the isles" — the distant lands in Ezekiel's day.

ISIS also presages the lemming-like gathering of Islamic hordes as the cannon fodder for this battle orchestrated by Rosh and Persia.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/05/world/middleeast/russian-moves-in-syria-pose-concerns-for-us.html?emc=edit_th_20150905&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Russian Moves in Syria Pose Concerns for U.S.

WASHINGTON — Russia has sent a military advance team toSyria and is taking other steps the United States fears may signal that President Vladmir V. Putin  is planning to vastly expand his military support for President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, administration officials said Friday. … …
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(6 Sept.)
Theatre review—

One thing we must expect in these last days is intense inspection and public display, 
and for those wanting to discount our doctrines, the means will often be to expose our every weakness and failure.  I suppose it has always been so, but it will be no more pleasant here at the End of the Age.  Perhaps, it is the nature of the Cross.  Christianity is also a very open communion;  all kinds of tares (weeds) are mixed with the good seed…and even the good seed has its bad days.  Thank God for true grace.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/theater/lucas-hnaths-the-christians-tackles-a-schism-among-the-flock.html?emc=edit_th_20150906&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Lucas Hnath’s ‘The Christians’ Tackles a Schism Among the Flock
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A case in point, considering the review of Mr. Hnath above.  Kim Davis is an "Apostolic Christian," and this may indicate "oneness" people who do not accept the  primary doctrine of the Trinity.  Nevertheless, I pray for her, that the Lord perfect her faith, as He may be choosing her for a shield and a standard (battle flag) for the saints:  "When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD will lift up a standard against him."  Isaiah 59 —

WASHINGTON — Kim Davis did more than register a protest when she went to jail last week after defying a federal court order to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. Ms. Davis, the clerk in Rowan County, Ky., also helped unravel an uneasy détente in the nation’s culture wars that had prevailed since the Supreme Court declared a constitutional right to same-sex marriage in June.

Some Republican presidential aspirants rushed to the defense of Ms. Davis, a Democrat, and other public employees who say sanctioning same-sex marriage undermines their religious freedom. Her resistance seems certain to generate a burst of new legislation aimed at carving out exemptions for such employees, and it could spur others to risk jail in states like Alabama, where religious objections are strong. … ...

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"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves:  it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast."
Ephesians 2:8-9	

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30 August

Saints,

Genesis 6 tells us that "God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually"(6), "The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence"(11).  It is implied that the pre-flood world was a full one, like ours with our 7 to 8 billion, maybe more then.  Under the influence of the "alien invader" Sin, and of the "corrupted" gene stock of the Nephilim, half-human, half-fallen angel, maybe also "half" animal and even plant DNA, man had fallen to looting and killing his fellowman en masse in the urge to dominate all others, as his new "father" Lucifer taught he and Eve at the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.  The ensuing global "civilization" may well have been as advanced or even moreso than ours, with the technical revelations and teachings of the fallen angels unabated to Man.

But now, with Sin alone being strong enough to undo the planet, whether or not actual Nephilim appear again (tho' likely they are), we see an earth again filled with terrible violence.  Refugees are dying by the dozens, even hundreds, fleeing from that entrance of darkness on the planet called ISIS.  And the violence pours forth like something that can no longer be contained on many other fronts too.  Daily we see disgruntled employees killing co-workers and bosses, and we see policemen shot execution style with no provocation or other interaction with those who walk up suddenly and shoot them.  Cultural and race wars seethe, boiling over every little while….daily now?

Like Lot, we MUST "vex our souls" daily to remain aloof from the psychotic pressures of the approaching Great Tribulation as we struggle throughout this preliminary time period which Jesus calls "the beginning of sorrows."  We must not merely be happy with, "Oh, here's my check; everythings ok!"   We must give ourselves to watching and prayer, praying for our loved ones given to us close to our hearts, and for others as we hear of their needs.  God would will that we should even pray for those we only hear of in the news, for He chooses to act through the prayers of watching saints.  We must hold and continue by faith until He calls us up and the war is won for us.  Even then, it will be us, the bride of Christ, who come back as a white horsed army (Rev. 19:14) with him to finish the matter at Armageddon and to be the mercy givers and teachers of those who survive.  Let us live out our "profession" until then, giving all diligence to the situation and to being God's agents until our job is done.

God keep you this week by the power of the Blood of the Lamb.  "For they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death" (Rev. 12:11) —  Compare Jesus' requirement:  "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.  For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.  For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?  Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?  (Mt. 16:24-26).
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Like Barbarians and Vandals breaching the walls of Rome?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/24/world/europe/europe-ponders-terror-threat-to-soft-targets.html?emc=edit_th_20150824&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Europe Facing New Uncertainty in Terrorism Fight
PARIS — Two days after a young Moroccan man was thwarted from an apparent plan to cause carnage on a Paris-bound express train, European officials confronted the deepening quandary of what additional steps they could take in the face of such attacks on soft targets, short of paralyzing public spaces or even more intrusive surveillance.

Enhanced security and surveillance measures had already filtered out the young man, Ayoub El Khazzani, 26. But he was one of thousands of Europeans who had come on the radar of authorities as potential threats after traveling to Syria.

The sheer number of militant suspects combined with a widening field of potential targets have presented European officials with what they concede is a nearly insurmountable surveillance task. The scale of the challenge, security experts fear, may leave the Continent entering a new climate of uncertainty, with added risk attached to seemingly mundane endeavors, like taking a train. … ...

internal excerpt:
“We are now faced with unpredictable terrorism,” said Jean-Charles Brisard, a French security consultant and terrorism expert. “Terrorists henceforth will be choosing soft targets, those where there is little security,” he said. “And that’s why he chose a train — because there is little security.”
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Will Japan not be among the Kings of the East due to sheer depopulation?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/24/world/a-sprawl-of-abandoned-homes-in-tokyo-suburbs.html?emc=edit_th_20150824&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
A Sprawl of Ghost Homes in Aging Tokyo Suburbs
YOKOSUKA, Japan — Ever since her elderly neighbor moved a decade ago, Yoriko Haneda has done what she can to keep the empty house she left behind from becoming an eyesore. Ms. Haneda regularly trims its shrubs and clips its narrow strip of grass, maintaining its perfect view of the sea.

The volunteer yard work has not extended to the house two doors down, however. That one is vacant, too, and overgrown with bamboo. In fact, dozens of houses in this hillside neighborhood about an hour’s drive from Tokyo are abandoned.

“There are empty houses everywhere, places where nobody’s lived for 20 years, and more are cropping up all the time,” said Ms. Haneda, 77, complaining that thieves had broken into her neighbor’s house twice and that a typhoon had damaged the roof of the one next to it.

Despite a deeply rooted national aversion to waste, discarded homes are spreading across Japan like a blight in a garden. Long-term vacancy rates have climbed significantly higher than in the United States or Europe, and some eight million dwellings are now unoccupied, according to a government count. Nearly half of them have been forsaken completely — neither for sale nor for rent, they simply sit there, in varying states of disrepair. … …
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(Aug 24)
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/14f5ff550e69ce64
The Dow dropped more than 1000 points in the first minutes of trading	
Monday, August 24, 2015 9:41 AM EDT	
	
The global market turmoil continued on Monday, as stocks fell sharply in the United States, Europe and Asia, led by another big sell-off in China. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped more than 1,000 points in the first minutes of trading.	
Investors’ concerns over China’s economic slowdown and a souring view of emerging economies have rattled financial markets around the world in recent days, and showed no signs of letting up. … …
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(Aug 25)
Rosh (Russia) will have "the hook in the jaw to draw you forth to battle" of Ezekiel 38:4.  Could economic collapse be a "hook in the jaw" to bring forth the 200 million man army of  "the kings of the East" to cross Euphrates to the great battlefield of Megiddo (Armageddon, Revelation 9:14ff; 16:12) which will follow the combined defeat of allied Rosh, Persia (Iran), and the converging hordes of Islam? (Ezekiel 38 & 39)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/26/business/dealbook/daily-stock-market-activity.html?emc=edit_th_20150825&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Global Markets Rebound Despite Continued Sell-Off in China
HONG KONG — After a three-day rout that erased nearly $3 trillion in value from stocks globally, markets other than China’s on Tuesday showed signs that selling pressures were easing.

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=82d6df7977&view=lg&msg=14f640a81ba7e7c1
China, Japan and Europe Are Flashing Economic Warning Signs
World leaders need to come up with credible policies quickly to energize the sputtering global economy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/25/business/dealbook/a-warning-on-china-seems-prescient.html?emc=edit_th_20150825&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
A Warning on China Seems Prescient
…Mr. Rogoff, a professor of economics at Harvard University, accurately predicted the eurozone debt crisis and for years has been telling anyone who would listen that China posed the next big threat to the global economy. He is starting to look right, again. … ...
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(Aug 26)
Worse and Worse / The Daily Slaughter / The Press in imminent danger right here in Virginia, USA, not Syria, not ISIS!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/us/wdbj7-virginia-journalists-shot-during-live-broadcast.html?emc=edit_na_20150826&nlid=69381998&ref=cta&_r=0
Virginia TV Reporter and Cameraman Shot During Live Broadcast
...another "Breaking News Alert" by the NYTimes a little later…
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/us/wdbj7-virginia-journalists-shot-during-live-broadcast.html?emc=edit_na_20150826&nlid=69381998&ref=cta&_r=0
Bryce Williams, Suspect in Virginia News Crew Shooting, Dies
BEDFORD, Va. — A former reporter who was fired by a Virginia television station shot and killed two of the station’s journalists as they broadcast live on Wednesday morning, officials said, recording the act on video himself, and then posting the video online. He later took his own life, officials said. … …

In the last days, says St. Paul, men shall be fierce, incontinent (insane), 2 Tim 3;1ff.  Someone else "pops" under the increasing tribulation, New Testament Greek for "pressure," in this society gone mad.  Maranatha!  Come, Lord Jesus!  Please help your people keep our stability and "deliver us from evil daily" as you have taught us to pray.
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War of spirit comes to US?

http://www.wnd.com/2015/08/slain-christians-head-allegedly-bashed-by-muslim-refugees/
SLAIN CHRISTIAN'S HEAD ALLEGEDLY BASHED BY MUSLIM 'REFUGEES'
Blood-splattered Bible found lying next to victim

A judge on Monday unsealed the court documents of a grisly murder of a Christian man, allegedly at the hands of three Muslim immigrants in Portland, Maine.
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Shades of things to come — like the lethal locust hordes that will ascend out of the Abyss?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/26/first-state-legalizes-armed-drones-for-cops-thanks-to-a-lobbyist.html
First State Legalizes Taser Drones for Cops, Thanks to a Lobbyist
North Dakota police will be free to fire ‘less than lethal’ weapons from the air thanks to the influence of Big Drone.

It is now legal for law enforcement in North Dakota to fly drones armed with everything from Tasers to tear gas thanks to a last-minute push by a pro-police lobbyist. … …
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(27 Aug)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/business/international/china-falters-and-the-global-economy-is-forced-to-adapt.html?emc=edit_th_20150827&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
China Falters, and the Global Economy Is Forced to Adapt
With deepening economic fears about China, multinational corporations and countries are having to respond to a new reality as a once sure bet becomes uncertain.
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To the American saints:  We see terrible times upon our land, now the very vale of Sodom, and with judgments daily falling like rain, BUT let us remember also the agonies abroad.  People are literally running for their lives from Syria and those abodes where a satan dwells, ISIS and other bloodthirsty jihadis, and they are dying in waves, facing drownings at sea, razor wire barriers, brutal immigration tactics, even starvation and dehydration in the elements .  

I can't take a stand on the politics of immigration, but the US is ceasing also to be what it has always been, due to the floods of immigrants here. It is just too many too quickly and society is breaking down under the load.  Europe is perhaps even more taxed as people beg for the sheltering mercy of a slightly more civilized and merciful West, but we must be merciful to Christians in need, and even help the Muslims who will leave their radical jihad doctrines behind, and who also only want to escape the ISIS devil.

Lord, please send the mercy givers in among these folks, and bearing the message of the Gospel, the Lamb of God who has died and risen for the sins of the world…and for the troubles of death that stalk these folk.

NYTimes Breaking News Alert, 27 August
More @
 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/28/world/europe/bodies-austria-truck-migrant-crisis.html?emc=edit_na_20150827&nlid=69381998&ref=cta&_r=0
Up to 50 found dead in abandoned truck in Austria, police say	
Thursday, August 27, 2015 8:27 AM EDT	
	
The partly decomposing bodies of at least 20 people assumed to be migrants being smuggled across Europe were found in a truck abandoned on a highway east of Vienna on Thursday, the police said.	
The death toll could be as high as 50, said Hans-Peter Doskozil, director of police in the eastern state of Burgenland, speaking at a news conference live on the public broadcast. … …
(Later reports indicate as many as 70 may have been stuffed into the death truck.)
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Oops, now there's a good excuse to bring in the Mark of the Beast, Mr. Christie!
(Don't think the Right and the Republicans can't open the door for the Beast too.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/30/us/politics/christie-proposes-immigrant-tracker-similar-to-fedex.html?emc=edit_th_20150830&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Chris Christie Proposes Tracking Immigrants the Way FedEx Tracks Packages
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey said on Saturday that if he were elected president he would combat illegal immigration by creating a system to track foreign visitors the way  FedEx tracks packages.

Mr. Christie, who is far back in the pack of candidates for the Republican presidential nomination, said at a campaign event in New Hampshire that he would ask the chief executive of FedEx, Frederick W. Smith, to devise the tracking system.
Immigration has become a top issue in the Republican campaign, with the front-runner, Donald J. Trump, having vowed to deport the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the country and to build a wall along the United States’ southern border.

“At any moment, FedEx can tell you where that package is. It’s on the truck. It’s at the station. It’s on the airplane,” Mr. Christie told the crowd in Laconia, N.H. “Yet we let people come to this country with visas, and the minute they come in, we lose track of them.”

He added: “We need to have a system that tracks you from the moment you come in.” … 

…Mr. Christie did not say specifically how a system would track people the same way packages are tracked by FedEx, which scans a bar code on the package at each step of its delivery.

A FedEx spokeswoman declined to comment on Mr. Christie’s remarks.
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"And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead.  And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not, I am the First and the Last."
Revelation 1: 17	

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23 August

Saints,

Is the End of the Age now here?  The internet is exploding with reports of impending revelations of alien helpers arriving, of genetic mutations and cyborgery creating a "new humanity," of tetrads of blood moons and a final super one arriving in September in close juxtaposition with Yom Kippur / The Day of Atonement and Judgment. A French Foreign Minister who also happens to also be a Bilderberger Illuminist has warned 475+ days ago that we have "500 days" until "climate chaos" hits, and that, taken literally, will conclude, interestingly enough, on September 23.  A "prophecy" in biblical mathematics by no less than Sir Isaac Newton has surfaced in which he warns of End of the Age signs arriving on that day, and perhaps a "climate chaos" day brought on by a massive asteroid collision.  Conspiricists warn that leaders are keeping revelations from the people, and only hinting and providing subliminal clues in order to prep the people.  Others are counting our actual space exploration capacities and the reports of new impulse engines hidden from the public and able to get around the planetary system quickly are surfacing, and that we have had bases on Mars for some time now.

I admit to the obvious—of being prone to monitor these suggestions and designed trends, etc., BUT the Lord the Holy Spirit quickly reminds me that we have suffered an "alien invasion" long ago, when Sin Itself entered our world and was brought to our temptation and Fall by the Old, "Alien" Serpent Himself.  Will Nephilim and their monsters, "space brothers," satyrs and centaurs and monster chimeras come?  Maybe, but we must remember, that we, humanity, are already prone to becoming monsters of evil unless we have accepted the cross of Christ into our lives.

I believe we should watch these things and search the Scriptures concerning them, but we don't know how far off-the-mark either present Jewish or Gregorian calendars are and what dates have been hidden by the passage of time.  We don't really know when Shemitah cycles start or end, etc.  What we do know is that God has told us that we will know the "times and the seasons" but not "the hour or the day," and we have been given a very perfect prescription:  "What I say unto you, I say unto all, Watch" (Mk. 13:37). This is the true Christian's life, in all eras, for since Christians oppose the world system, we will, in all centuries, be able to see its apocalyptic nature.  It will end. It is doomed to end.  It could have ended in any century of the church.  Yet, as time unfolds, we see the fullness of the Plan of God open before us.  Our job is to watch and to pray.  By this, one relatively small band of the obedient will escape the hour of temptation coming on the earth (Rev 3:10), and we have the Lord's instructions for how to be in that band, Luke 21:36.

God has liberally given us all we need to know.  Yes, it is appropriate to watch events and carefully speculate, but there will be (and are) massive programs of disinformation breaking along with all the prophetic speculation.  How many will grow cynical if nothing happens on the 23rd of September?  We must stay with what we are sure of, the Word of God, and just watch carefully on all the rest.  Do not let your eyes get so full of glitter about Illuminati and Nephilim, about the arrival of the Greys, and the revelations of a solar system wide civilization or even just bases to which NASA is now invited, or about newfound pyramids on Mars, or the possibility that the CERN SuperCollider will open dimensional doorways (wormholes as a Stargate)--the Abyss--when it comes up to full power in September, etc. so that you forget the key and underlying issues.  Keep your eyes on Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Lord of the New Covenant, and fight the good fight against Sin (the great invasion), and the rest will only confirm it.  Take our eyes off the Answer, and the questions will lead you down a rabbit hole of wild disinformation and endless rounds of speculation.  But, if you will keep your eyes always on him and his will and purposes, then, yes, watch as the great Signs come on.  Indeed, it could be very close.  Daily, we have Jihadi attacks now, as the great war takes shape, tonight, Friday the 21st, in France (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/22/world/europe/americans-foil-gunman-on-french-train-officials-say.html?emc=edit_na_20150821&nlid=69381998&ref=cta).  The American West is burning and tonight is declared a Federal Disaster Zone.  There are not enough firefighters, and government is calling for ordinary people to step in and volunteer.  The Dow fell over 500 points today and over 1000 for the week.  The Chinese economy is collapsing, and a pundit on national news tonight said, "However bad you have heard it is, it is worse."

Maranatha!  Come, Lord Jesus!

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(Aug 18)
Caught dripping with gore, will PP be stopped by a remnant of those righteously aghast?  Lord Jesus, we pray you would halt the evil one's work in this matter.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/18/us/states-move-to-cut-funds-for-planned-parenthood.html?emc=edit_th_20150818&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
States Move to Cut Funds for Planned Parenthood
WASHINGTON — With Congress in summer recess into September, anti-abortion officials in a number of Republican-controlled states are rushing to halt public funding for Planned Parenthood or to investigate it in reaction to hidden-camera videos claiming that it profits from fetal tissue sales. … …
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The Beast will be a relentless taskmaster…when, as some wired-up athletes now embrace…one's blood pressure, eye movements, respiration rate, etc. are monitored right alongside one's productivity charting, etc.  Will a dose of Adderal be injected automatically when the morning coffee is insufficient to jiggle the algorithmic charting into an efficient place?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/18/technology/data-crunching-is-coming-to-help-your-boss-manage-your-time.html?emc=edit_th_20150818&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Data-Crunching Is Coming to Help Your Boss Manage Your Time
You might be at work, but that hardly means you are working.

Mitesh Bohra thought that projects at his software company, InfoBeans, were taking too long. “Something was supposed to be done in a thousand hours and it would end up taking 1,500,” he said. “We were racking our brains to figure out where the time went.”

Increasingly, bosses have an answer. A new generation of workplace technology is allowing white-collar jobs to be tracked, tweaked and managed in ways that were difficult even a few years ago. Employers of all types — old-line manufacturers, nonprofits, universities, digital start-ups and retailers — are using an increasingly wide range of tools to monitor workers’ efforts, help them focus, cheer them on and just make sure they show up on time. … …
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Following up on the last blog update, where Hal Lindsey cites Iran's elite "Quds Force" as translating to "the Jerusalem Force":  The evil lords of Persian rulership continue to program soldiers for the impending war to take Jerusalem (Quds) and eradicate Israel.  As noted, God has a different plan, Ezekiel 38 & 39.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/08/18/israel-must-be-obliterated-new-iranian-video-imagines-muslim-invasion-of-jerusalem/
‘Israel Must Be Obliterated’: New Iranian Video Imagines Muslim Invasion of Jerusalem
A new video out of Iran presents the imagined scenario of Jerusalem being conquered by a military alliance of the country’s Revolutionary Guard forces and Hezbollah and Hamas terrorists, a Jewish news site reported Tuesday.

Quoting the Middle East terrorism research organization the Investigative Project, the Algemeiner reported that the video was released two weeks after the Iran nuclear deal was announced.

The video showed the fighters preparing for battle with their gear, headbands, shoes and weapons, then descending on Jerusalem.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly pointed to Iran’s continued sponsorship of international terrorist groups including Hezbollah and to its dedication to destroying Israel as two reasons he believes the deal is dangerous for Israel. … ...
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—Drudging for gold!  We are "fearfully and wonderfully made," but also "every idle word that men shall speak, they shall be held accountable for"…makes me so thankful to be under the grace of the Savior, for otherwise I should perish from all the thoughts of my own fallen heart, but for his mercy!

Will we eventually be shown that all the secrets of the universe are stored in our own DNA?  That resurrection body will be equipped to leap across universes at the speed of glorified thought!

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/single-dna-molecule-could-store-information-for-a-million-years-following-scientific-breakthrough-10459560.html
Single DNA molecule could store information for a million years following scientific breakthrough
Scientists have developed a way of storing vast quantities of information for up to a million years in a single molecule of DNA.

The breakthrough could lead to digital archives of everything from ancient texts to Wikipedia changes being stored in the form of DNA that could in theory survive for hundreds of thousands of years without any loss of data. … …
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StarGate of the Abyss Opening?  CERN going to full power in September.
(Are there beings locked in chambers below the surface of the Earth?  …for instance, Rev. 9:14)
(CERN, built 300 feet deep under the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva reportedly sits over a site of ancient Apollo (the destroyer of Revelation) worship.  It's "logo," out front of the chief entrance building, a statue of the Hindu god Shiva, the god of destruction, doing his dance of destruction with necklaces of human skulls around his neck.  Why would such an horrific hindu idol become the logo for a supposed scientific venture?)

Saints,

There is considerable brou-ha-ha, scuttlebutt, etc. going on online about September 13-23 by speakers such as Cahn (for whom the jury is still out from my point of view), Horn, and others:  financial collapse, alien contact, asteroid strikes, rehearsal of a prophecy or investigation by Sir Isaac Newton concerning the 23rd of September, 2015, etc., etc.  Get your surfing nimble on.  Here's a related youtube.  Set your eyes on the Jesus of the Bible; other ones may come on strong and soon and multitudes will follow:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFCsguoDpY4
See also:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HdeVTm5G5k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_1421038825&feature=iv&src_vid=UiUrevq2Ko0&v=U7BU3SmyZC8

I believe we must be vary wary of the internet revelations.  Self-proclaimed Illuminatists and others of their ilk are coming out of the closet, making open statements, supposedly, promoting the second coming as a revelation of Illuminism and other luciferic doctrines parading as good.  In one video, the hiphop artist Jay-Z is quoted as saying, "Life begins when the church dies."  There will be open revelations but many of them may be disinformation viruses.  We must not go beyond the Bible in setting dates, or in following any other Jesus than the One who has taught his way and done his redemptive work as recorded in the New Testament.

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(Aug. 19)
"to foster inclusiveness"  — NYTimes editorial propaganda at its best (worst?)  A Trojan Horse continues its insidious infiltration into Italian society.  Note the wheedling tone...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/19/world/europe/venice-childrens-books-ban.html?emc=edit_th_20150819&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Book Ban in Venice Ignites a Gay Rights Battle
VENICE — As subversive books go, many of the 49 children’s tales hardly seem seditious.

There is the story of the male dog who aspired to be a ballerina. The one about the little boy who wanted to be a princess, and a princess who wanted to be a soccer player. The tale of the penguin egg hatched and adopted by two male penguins (based on a real story at the Central Park Zoo in New York). And another about a little boy who learns to live with a physical disability, metaphorically depicted as a little saucepan that bangs around in his wake. … …
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While tending to recognize that the Second Amendment may protect us from despots, nevertheless, America has become armed to the teeth.  Ammo is often sold-out as soon as shipments arrive, and any new political attempt at gun control sees gun sales soar.  There is no place left to hide.  At the same time, nurtured populations of savage beasts continues so that one cannot go into the woods in many places without defensive weaponry  (Here in Vermont, we first saw moose return though the Fish and Game pooh-poohed sightings at the beginning.  Now, mountain lion sightings and perhaps wolf sightings have begun.)  Meanwhile, paranoid right-wingers will be willing to "shoot first and ask questions later" as the forests and wilds fill up with hyper-civilized idiots trotting through them like wired up cyborgs...as well as bears, wolves, mountain lions, pythons, "protected" rattlesnakes, etc.  Another "meanwhile," Jade Helm goes on until September 15-23(?), and the whole country remains an ammunition magazine ready to explode like the dry tinder burning off the face of the Northwest.  Whew, what a time…and it is also "the new normal" for weekly to daily mass murders as people with guns "pop."  Come, Lord Jesus!  As in the days of Noah, the whole earth is again filled with violence!  Please, Lord, hide and protect those who call upon your name, and our loved ones.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/19/us/a-culture-clash-over-guns-infiltrates-the-backcountry.html?emc=edit_th_20150819&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
In Quiet Woods, a Clamorous Gun Debate
SARATOGA SPRINGS, Utah — As a lover of ancient rock art, Steve Acerson usually roams Utah’s backcountry searching for images of hunters and rams carved on boulders and canyon walls. But one morning, on a hillside speckled with those prehistoric petroglyphs, he was also finding signs of a younger civilization: Shotgun shells. Bullets. Shredded juniper trees. Exploded cans of spray paint. … ...

“It’s all been shot,” he said. “It’s just destroying everything.”

America’s cultural divide over guns has gone into the woods. As growing numbers of hikers and backpackers flood national forests and backcountry trails searching for solitude, they are increasingly clashing with recreational target shooters, out for the weekend to plug rounds into trees, targets and mountainsides.

Hiking groups and conservationists say policies that broadly allow shooting and a scarcity of enforcement officers have turned many national forests and millions of Western acres run by the Bureau of Land Management into free-fire zones. People complain about finding shot-up couches and cars deep in forests, or of being pinned down by gunfire where a hiking or biking trail crosses a makeshift target range.  … ...
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(Aug 21)
Transhumanism.  Isn't' it really "De-Humanism" or "In-Humanism"?  Will humans become just plug and play Intelligence platforms?  Will future computers be soulless, grown human brains (with maybe the support systems of comatose bodies in "Matrix" tanks)?  Will these be nodes of the Beast?

http://www.gizmag.com/scientists-most-complete-brain-organoid/39002/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=b6a55795af-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-b6a55795af-91592265
Brain model with maturity of 5-week-old fetus grown in a lab
Researchers at Ohio State University (OSU) have grown a nearly complete human brain equivalent in size and structure to that of a five-week old fetus. Called a "brain organoid," it was bioengineered using adult human skin cells and is the most advanced human brain model yet created in a laboratory.

The lab-grown fetal brain model is the result of four years of research by Rene Anand, professor of biological chemistry and pharmacology at OSU, and Susan McKay, a research associate in biological chemistry and pharmacology, aimed at finding a better alternative to conventional rodent studies.

Its purpose is not only to provide scientists with a better research model, but also to avoid ethical concerns regarding fetal tissue research, which have been highlighted in recent weeks by allegations of illegal organ harvesting at US abortion clinics.

The organoid was developed by starting with adult skin cells and coaxing them to revert to pluripotent cells, which are a form of stem cell that can form any other type of cell in the body. These are used to build up specific tissues and then entire organs by recreating features of an in utero environment.
In this case, Anand's proprietary method produced a model fetal brain in 12 weeks that's about the size of a pencil eraser with specific structures and 99 percent of the genes normally present in a 5-week-old fetal human brain.
"If we let it go to 16 or 20 weeks, that might complete it, filling in that 1 percent of missing genes," says Anand.

More advanced than previous brain models, it has all the major brain regions, a spinal cord, multiple cell types, signaling circuitry, and a retina, but lacks a vascular system, so its growth potential is limited. However, it does exhibit axons, dendrites, astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, and microglia, and can transmit chemical signals throughout its structure as would a natural brain. … ...

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Evening news reports the stock market took a greater than 500 point fall on the Dow today, and over a 1000 point fall for the week.   An impending Chinese crash is credited for such temblors in the American market.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/22/business/dealbook/global-markets-fall-for-second-day.html?emc=edit_na_20150821&nlid=69381998&ref=cta&_r=0
Stocks Plunge Sharply for a Second Day on Wall Street
Stock prices around the world continued to plunge on Friday, threatening to end one of the longest bull runs in the history of the United States stock market.
A searing six-year rally in United States stocks had advanced into the summer months, shrugging off challenges like the dispute over Greece’s debt that nearly led to the country crashing out of the euro. But in the last two weeks, world markets tumbled as investors grew increasingly concerned about economic conditions in China, which unexpectedly devalued its currency last week, and the outlook for the economies of other large developing countries. … ...

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Kings of the East Rising?

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_CHINA_MILITARY_PARADE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-08-21-06-34-13
MORE THAN 10 COUNTRIES TO JOIN CHINA'S MILITARY PARADE

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"And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared."  
(Rev. 16:12)
"And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand (200 million)."
(Rev. 9:16)

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"And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh."
Luke 21:28

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16 August

"I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence" (Isaiah 62:6).

Christians,

We grow weary, and like Moses, often need someone to hold up our arms.  I have put away former series of prophetic newsletters out of sheer exhaustion, and explained when I stopped the last one "that so much is going on, so much judgment and tribulation news is happening that I cannot keep up with it!" …and suggested "taking cover" as directed in Isaiah 26:20, hunkering down, and watching/waiting/praying it out,  BUT, after a short hiatus, the Lord the Spirit said, "I want you to do this.  Continue."  So, I picked up and went on.

I started this blog/watch/newsletter for a handful of personal friends, acquaintances, co-laborers, and I have made no effort whatsoever to expand the base.  I am not trying to "sell books," or pursue an outward ambition, but whether the Lord or the mere vagaries of a computer driven world gone "viral," this little effort is now read in 84 countries, flung all over the globe.  I don't suggest thousands and millions are reading, but a steady trickle of discovery and recognition of spiritual edification for those called to be watchers.  Jesus teaches me that he often turned away from multitudes (fleshly hoopla) to speak with those "who had ears to hear."

When the above verse came along through a ministry I monitor, it came like a battle order reminder.  Let us hold to the course without complaining and do the work of the Gospel at every opportunity, also looking and watching for opportunity.  The hour is short; surely we are a chosen generation to be allowed the privilege of witnessing God's prophetic Word coming to pass on the Earth in this our day.

"Keep the Faith, once delivered to the saints."  "Let the redeemed of the LORD say so!"

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News, this week…

(Aug. 11)
After I passed along a piece titled…

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/06/technology/personaltech/diving-headfirst-into-the-internet-of-things.html?emc=edit_th_20150806&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Diving Headfirst Into the Internet of Things
…in the last blog update, 

a NYTimes editorialist has some good second thoughts.  Again, I don't want my toaster, refrigerator, toilet? thinking for me.  I want to think for myself!
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/11/opinion/zeynep-tufekci-why-smart-objects-may-be-a-dumb-idea.html?emc=edit_th_20150811&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Why ‘Smart’ Objects May Be a Dumb Idea
excerpts:  "…a fast-motion train wreck in privacy and security." …"Connecting everyday objects to this shaky, insecure base will create the Internet of Hacked Things. This is irresponsible and potentially catastrophic."
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(Aug 12)
And we thought Van Gogh was crazy for cutting off his own ear?  2 Tim 3:1 ff. "In the last days, men shall be…insane."
http://news.yahoo.com/australian-artist-connect-ear-arm-091835660.html
Australian artist to connect 'ear' on arm to web
Sydney (AFP) - An Australian artist and academic plans to connect an ear which he has been growing for years on his arm to the Internet so people can hear and track his movements.

The project by a professor from Curtin University in Western Australia, known as Stelarc, is his latest in a series of artworks exploring the boundaries of blending robotics, prosthetics and the human body.
"Increasingly now, people are becoming Internet portals of experience... imagine if I could hear with the ears of someone in New York, imagine if I at the same time, could see with the eyes of someone in London," he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. … …
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The mindless, insulated removal from reality of hyper-civilized humans in the last days.  We cannot live with dangerous wild animals no matter how cute we may think they are.  A judgment  for the last days is proclaimed in Revelation 6:8:  "Death and hell will kill…with the beasts of the earth…"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11796903/Mother-grizzly-bear-and-her-cubs-may-face-death-if-DNA-test-proves-she-killed-hiker.html
Mother grizzly bear and her cubs may face death if DNA test proves she killed hiker
Nature lovers are protesting to Yellowstone National Park that the bear was just defending her young
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Here it is, exclusionary persecution by the state for Christian servants working with inmates in Kentucky prisons over the LGBTetc. / sodomite reign that has come to the USA—
www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/August12/125.html#SI7MoKAjuLJ7qKqQ.99
The Christian Purge Has Begun: Chaplains Banned From Preaching That Homosexuality Is A Sin
It wasn’t so much a choice as it was a demand.

Chaplain David Wells was told he could either sign a state-mandated document promising to never tell inmates that homosexuality is “sinful” or else the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice would revoke his credentials.

“We could not sign that paper,” Chaplain Wells told me in a telephone call from his home in Kentucky. “It broke my heart.”

The Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice revoked his volunteer credentials as an ordained minister – ending 13 years of ministry to underage inmates at the Warren County Regional Juvenile Detention Center.

Chaplain David Wells was told he could either sign a state-mandated document promising to never tell inmates that homosexuality is “sinful” or else the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice would revoke his credentials.

“We sincerely appreciate your years of service and dedication to the youth served by this facility,” wrote Superintendent Gene Wade in a letter to Wells. “However, due to your decision, based on your religious convictions, that you cannot comply with the requirements outlined in DJJ Policy 912, Section IV, Paragraph H, regarding the treatment of LGBTQI youth, I must terminate your involvement as a religious volunteer.”

Wells said that every volunteer in their church received the letter – as did a Baptist church in a nearby community.

The Kentucky regulation clearly states that volunteers working with juveniles “shall not refer to juveniles by using derogatory language in a manner that conveys bias towards or hatred of the LGBTQI community. DJJ staff, volunteers, interns and contractors shall not imply or tell LGBTQI juveniles that they are abnormal, deviant, sinful or that they can or should change their sexual orientation or gender identity.”

For years, Wells and his team have conducted volunteer worship services and counseling to troubled young people – many of whom have been abused.

“I sat across the table from a 16-year-old boy who was weeping and broken over the life he was in,” Wells said. “He had been abused as a child and turned to alcohol and drugs to cope. He wanted to know if there was any hope for him.”

Wells said he had been abused as a young child – so he knew he could answer this young man’s question.

“I was able to look at him and tell him the saving power of Jesus Christ that delivered me – could deliver him,” he said.

But under the state’s 2014 anti-discrimination policy, Wells would not be allowed to have such a discussion should it delve into LGBT issues.

“They told us we could not preach that homosexuality is a sin – period,” Wells told me. “We would not have even been able to read Bible verses that dealt with LGBT issues.”

For the record, Wells said they’ve never used hateful or derogatory comments when dealing with the young inmates.

“They are defining hateful or derogatory as meaning what the Bible says about homosexuality,” he told me.

Mat Staver, the founder of Liberty Counsel, is representing Wells. He said the state’s ban on Biblical counseling is unconstitutional religious discrimination. 

“There is no question there is a purging underway,” Staver told me. “The dissenters in the recent Supreme Court decision on gay marriage warned us this would happen.”

Staver is demanding the state immediately reinstate Wells as well as the other volunteer ministers.

“By restricting speech which volunteers are allowed to use while ministering to youth detainees, the State of Kentucky and the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice have violated the protections given to private speech through the First Amendment and the Kentucky Constitution,” Staver wrote in his letter to state officials.

He said the policy “requires affirmation of homosexuality as a precondition for ministers providing spiritual guidance to troubled youth, and singles out a particular theological viewpoint as expressly disfavored by the State of Kentucky.”

In other words – Kentucky has a religious litmus test when it comes to homosexuality – and according to the Lexington Herald-Leader – they aren’t going to back down.

The DJJ told the newspaper that the regulation “is neutral as to religion and requires respectful language toward youth by all staff, contractors and volunteers.”

State Sen. Gerald Neal, a Democrat, dared Christians to challenge the law in court. 

“I’m just disappointed that the agendas by some are so narrow that they disregard the rights of others,” he told the newspaper. “Let them sue and let the courts settle it.”

Among those backing Wells is the American Pastors Network.

“Pastors and all Americans must wake up to the reality of expanding efforts to cleanse our nation of all moral truth,” APN President Sam Rohrer said in a statement. “When pastors and all Christians…are forced by government agents to renounce sharing the very reality of sin, they are in fact being prohibited from sharing the healing and life-changing potential of redemption.”

Folks, I warned you this would happen. The Christian purge has begun – and it’s only a matter of time before all of us will be forced to make the same decision Chaplain Wells had to make.

Will you follow God or the government?
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(Aug 13)
Could it be that there is an issue of Nature Itself here that just can't be overcome, even with great and sustained artifice?
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/13/opinion/lets-expose-the-gender-pay-gap.html?emc=edit_th_20150813&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Let’s Expose the Gender Pay Gap
(excerpts):  More than a half-century after President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act of 1963, the gap between what men and women earn has defied every effort to close it. And it can’t be explained away as a statistical glitch, a function of women preferring lower-paying industries or choosing to take time off for kids. … …

It’s not that men are intentionally discriminating against women — far from it. I’ve spent the past year interviewing male executives for a book about men and women in the workplace. A vast majority of them are fair-minded guys who want women to succeed. They’re absolutely certain that they don’t have a gender problem themselves; it must be some other guys who do. Yet they’re leaders of companies that pay men more than women for the same jobs.

Women are trying mightily to close that chasm on their own. Linda Babcock, an economist at Carnegie Mellon and co-author of the book "Women Don't Ask," has found that one reason for the disparity is that men are four times more likely to ask for a raise than women are, and that when women do ask, we ask for 30 percent less. And so women are told we need to lean in, to demand to be paid what we’re worth. It’s excellent advice — except it isn’t enough. … …
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Return to the Dark Ages — Isis brings back slavery and forced concubinage as official cultural norms—
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/14/world/middleeast/isis-enshrines-a-theology-of-rape.html?emc=edit_na_20150813&nlid=69381998&ref=cta&_r=0
ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape
Claiming the Quran’s support, the Islamic State codifies sex slavery in
conquered regions of Iraq and Syria and uses the practice as a recruiting tool.
(excerpt):
...The systematic rape of women and girls from the Yazidi religious minority has become deeply enmeshed in the organization and the radical theology of the Islamic State in the year since the group announced it was reviving slavery as an institution. Interviews with 21 women and girls who recently escaped the Islamic State, as well as an examination of the group’s official communications, illuminate how the practice has been enshrined in the group’s core tenets. … …
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Artificial Evolution?   See Musk, Hawking and others warning the UN of impending, self-learning Terminators, as noted in recent blog posts here.  Sooner than we think if an artificial evolution is put in place?   How fast, can it, like SkyNet, become self-aware…with computer "generations" accelerating by the microsecond?

http://www.gizmag.com/evolution-machine-mother-robot/38903/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=6de059040d-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-6de059040d-91592265
The evolution machine: Mother robot makes each child better than the last
It was only last month that futurists Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking warned about the dangers of intelligent machines, and a new research project led by the University of Cambridge won't do much to put their minds at ease. Scientists have created a mother robot that can not only build its own children robots, but mimic the process of natural selection to improve their capabilities with each generation.
The process begins with a robotic arm and a set of five plastic cubes with motors inside. Each cube features a unique "genome" made up of a combination of between one and five genes. This genome gives each cube its own set of attributes, relating to its shape, construction and motor commands.
The thinking is that just as species in nature mutate and genes are deleted, added and merged to adapt to different environments, the mother robot would facilitate its own version of evolution. Given only a single command to build a robot capable of movement, without any human intervention or computer simulation, the mother robot did just that.
The robotic overlord was put to use across five separate experiments, in which it designed, created and then tested generations consisting of ten children. It then tested their performance by measuring how far each child was capable of traveling within a certain amount of time. The best performing children advanced to the next generation unchanged, while new genomes were formed for slower ones in the group through mutation and merging genes.
This technique proved a success. The researchers report that the information gathered from each test drove the evolution of the following generation. So much so, that the robots in the final generation moved with an average speed of more than twice that of the fastest robots in the first generation. The mother was able to boost their performance by improving the design and inventing new shapes and gait patterns, including some designs that humans would not have been able to conjure up.
The overall aim of the project is to uncover ways robotics can receive a boost from aspects of the natural world. This means both through more intelligent machines and shaping the way that they move. These smart little blue cubes don't look likely to mount a challenge to mankind any time soon, but do indicate how robots, when left to their own devices, may be better at crafting machines than we are in the not too distant future.
"Natural selection is basically reproduction, assessment, reproduction, assessment and so on," says lead researcher Dr Fumiya Iida of Cambridge’s Department of Engineering. "That’s essentially what this robot is doing, we can actually watch the improvement and diversification of the species."
The research findings were published in the journal PLOS One.
The short video below provides a glimpse of the robot building robot in action.
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(Aug 14)
For years now, internet pundits, conspiracy theorists, and those selling books and DVDs, have a running 6 month cycle of predictive economic collapse.  Yet it will come in its time.  We must remember, "God has everything under control," the Beast must rise and the Mark, and a season of utterly repressive economics and worldwide control.  But "He who restrains will restrain until he be taken out of the way"  — the antichrist cannot rise until God allows him— by lifting the restraining power of the Holy Spirit off the Earth with the heavenly departure of the believing Church.

http://www.nyimes.com/2015/08/14/business/dealbook/chinas-renminbi-devaluation-may-initiate-new-phase-in-global-currency-war.html?emc=edit_th_20150814&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
China’s Renminbi Devaluation May Initiate New Phase in Global Currency War
For years, China looked like the principled noncombatant. As other countries, seeking to secure an economic advantage, let the value of their currencies slide on international markets, China held firm on the value of its money.

But this week, China jumped into the fray. In a surprise decision on Tuesday, the country’s authorities began sharply devaluing its currency, the renminbi. While the plunge paused on Friday, the renminbi was still down 4.4 percent against the dollar this week, a huge drop for China.

The abrupt move opens a new phase in what some analysts see as a long-raging global currency war, a development that could leave the United States exposed and undermine efforts to pull the world economy out of the doldrums. … ...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/14/business/international/china-devalues-its-currency-renminbi-for-a-third-consecutive-day.html?emc=edit_th_20150814&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
China Seeks to Calm Markets as It Devalues Currency for 3rd Consecutive Day
HONG KONG —  China on Thursday sought to calm fears that the country’s depreciating currency had set off, as authorities defended the devaluation decision.

The country’s central bank has pushed the value of the currency lower for three consecutive days. Since Tuesday, the currency, the renminbi, has fallen 4.4 percent, the biggest drop in decades.

While China said the move was aimed to make the currency more market-oriented, it has raised concerns that the already slowing economy was in deeper trouble. The sharp and sudden fall has also prompted questions about whether the country’s leadership can manage the slowdown. … …
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Skywatchtv.com's Daily News Update by Derek Gilbert for August 13:  Video confirms that Planned Parenthood is supplying brains from aborted babies to create humanized mice for laboratory use.
What horrors, to take the cells of butchered human children and create monster mice!  And what happens when such experimenters move beyond mice to bulls, lions, horses--satyrs, centaurs, minotaurs, "lionlike men" (2 Sam. 23:20, I Chron. 11:22) and cyborg mix creations?  Truth be known, these are probably already in the works.

Skywatch news' list also posts this:  A largely horrified public has watched five videos on the selling of aborted babies—sacrificed to the gods of “scientific research.” The heartless defenders of their dismemberment for profit, claim that it contributes to “life-saving research.” Aside from the fact that scientific experimentation on murder victims is immoral, realize also that this is not just about real science. Aborted babies have been used for such things as testing flavor enhancers for food companies and creating anti-aging creams. Developing products such as cosmetics and flavor enhancers are to science as lemon drops and potato chips are to fruits and vegetables […] Debi Vinnedge… called for a boycott of companies that used Senomyx flavor enhancers because they were developed using fetal tissue…

Are we being forced into cannibalism without knowing it?  Shades of the old sci-fi movie with Charleton Heston, Soylent Green.  Come, Lord Jesus, and deliver us!
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August 14th, 2015
This week on 'The Hal Lindsey Report'  (Their "Jerusalem Force" being prepared for battle by Persia)
The coming alliance between Russia and Iran represents one of the pivotal points in Bible prophecy. We've seen them flirting with one another for years, but it is now becoming something more. 
Last week, the second most important man in Iran visited Russia. It wasn't the president, Hassan Rouhani. It was the leader of the notorious Quds Force, General Qassem Soleimani. 
First of all, why did Vladimir Putin want to see the terrorist-in-chief of the world's chief terrorist nation? Second, why would Putin break an international law that he signed-off on to see this man? 
The United Nations has sanctions in place to prohibit Soleimani from traveling outside Iran, yet Russia, who voted for the sanction in the UN Security Council, openly invited him to Moscow. 
Could there be a clue in the English translation of the name of that notorious organization, Quds Force. It translates to "Jerusalem Force." (boldface added, prep for Battle of Ezekiel 38&39!)
In the last few days, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, has openly questioned why Soleimani was welcomed to Russia in violation of international sanctions. 
This will get interesting. The Bible very specifically names an alliance between Russia and a group of Muslim nations led by Persia, or modern Iran, as an aggressor against Israel. Now, Russia and the leader of a terrorist organization from Iran apparently dedicated to the destruction of Israel are getting chummy! 

Folks, this isn't just prophecy, these are today's headlines! … …
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Watching Robotics?  As we try to play God in creating a species after our likeness…Watch "Jules;"  amazing progress— "Mr. Data," — all that's needed is more memory and more intricate algorithms and speed to set this new "species" in place.

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-08/14/uncanny-valley-robot-videos
These Uncanny Valley robots will really creep you out
Designed and built by Hanson Robotics Inc., Jules is a conversational character robot with a gleamingly bald head and the stilted voice of an English gentleman. A sophisticated AI creation, he's made from a pliable, lightweight material called Frubber, which enables him to expressively move his face just like a real human. Jules can also boast of having a "statistically perfect face" -- which not many of us mere mortals can lay claim to. He's also capable of having a "natural, interactive" conversation if you're so inclined. And Jules isn't alone. Creator David Hanson has modelled an entire family of humanoids, including Alice, Han and -- in honour of the great physicist himself – the Albert Einstein Hubo. … ...
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(Aug 15 —NYTimes' Breaking News Alert)
Big Brother:  Got us comin' and goin'!  Thanks, Ed, for at least cluing us in!
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/us/politics/att-helped-nsa-spy-on-an-array-of-internet-traffic.html?emc=edit_na_20150815&nlid=69381998&ref=cta&_r=0
AT&T Helped N.S.A. Spy on an Array of Internet Traffic
The National Security Agency's ability to spy on vast quantities of Internet traffic passing through the United States has relied on its extraordinary, decades-long partnership with a single company: the telecom giant AT&T.

While it has been long known that American telecommunications companies worked closely with the spy agency, newly disclosed N.S.A. documents show that the relationship with AT&T has been considered unique and especially productive. One document described it as “highly collaborative,” while another lauded the company’s “extreme willingness to help.”

AT&T’s cooperation has involved a broad range of classified activities, according to the documents, which date from 2003 to 2013. AT&T has given the N.S.A. access, through several methods covered under different legal rules, to billions of emails as they have flowed across its domestic networks. It provided technical assistance in carrying out a secret court order permitting the wiretapping of all Internet communications at the United Nations headquarters, a customer of AT&T.
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Interesting secular study "on the power of religion."  It reminds me of the old pop book and studies like "The Power of Prayer on Plants,"  etc.  Biblically, prayer has no inherent power of its own; this would be psychic phenomena, sympathetic magic, the false "faith formulas" of the name-it-and-claim-it heresies, etc., but Christians have power in prayer through WHO they pray to!  There is power in the name of Jesus when we seek him according to HIS will!  Same with religious assemblies; the adherent may "get a buzz" (maybe even lower his blood pressure) from various "group spirit activities" and "corporate religious spirits," but only the honored and sought-for Presence of the Holy Spirit and the Word make a truly Christian Church.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2015/08/14/want-sustained-happiness-get-religion-study-suggests/
Want ‘sustained happiness’? Get religion, study suggests
A new study suggests that joining a religious group could do more for someone’s “sustained happiness” than other forms of social participation, such as volunteering, playing sports or taking a class.

A study in the American Journal of Epidemiology by researchers at the London School of Economics and Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands found that the secret to sustained happiness lies in participation in religion.

“The church appears to play a very important social role in keeping depression at bay and also as a coping mechanism during periods of illness in later life,” Mauricio Avendano, an epidemiologist at LSE and an author of the study, said in a statement. “It is not clear to us how much this is about religion per se, or whether it may be about the sense of belonging and not being socially isolated.”… …

… ...The researchers noted that it is unclear whether the benefits of participating in a religious organization are connected to being in the religious community, or to the faith itself. … …(yep, a secular study! ed. comments)

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"When the Enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him."
Isaiah the Prophet, 59:19b

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9 August

(2 Aug)
Wow, we hit the week running.  ABC Nightly News for Sunday night headlines two church bombings, only a few miles apart, In New Mexico.  Sure, we have had churches attacked before, in the Civil Rights movement, and the recent race-based Charleston church mass shooting, BUT this is the era of ISIS.  We shall have to see what more news is brought on this through this week.  Or, will it be hushed-up right away?
(3 Aug)  
Not a word in Monday morning's NYTimes' headlines...
…a slight mention in evening news broadcasts, NBC, and the matter appears to be dismissed?
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Miscreant Famines of the Tribulation? —
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-sound-alarm-over-supercharged-gm-organisms-which-could-spread-in-the-wild-and-cause-environmental-disasters-10434010.html
'Gene drive': Scientists sound alarm over supercharged GM organisms which could spread in the wild and cause environmental disasters
A powerful new technique for generating “supercharged” genetically modified organisms that can spread rapidly in the wild has caused alarm among scientists who fear that it may be misused, accidentally or deliberately, and cause a health emergency or environmental disaster.

The development of so-called “gene drive” technology promises to revolutionise medicine and agriculture because it can in theory stop the spread of mosquito-borne illnesses, such as malaria and yellow fever, as well as eliminate crop pests and invasive species such as rats and cane toads.

However, scientists at the forefront of the development believe that in the wrong hands gene-drive technology poses a serious threat to the environment and human health if accidentally or deliberately released from a laboratory without adequate safeguards. Some believe it could even be used as a terrorist bio-weapon directed against people or livestock because gene drives – which enable GM genes to spread rapidly like a viral infection within a population – will eventually be easy and cheap to generate. … …
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(4 Aug)
The Sacred Scriptures have always recognized the right and necessity for women to be able to work too, and they often labored near the men in harvests, the gleanings of Ruth, for example, and the Scriptures also encouraged them to do well in business and in wisdom and career like "the Proverbs 31 woman"…but based out of a different assembly, and out of the home first, and a difference in calling and assignment.  God established Gender and wants it honored and distinguished.  

Industrial (and now post-modern digital) Revolution or no Industrial Revolution, things don't work as well when this is denied or forced to go away.  Here, we see that men work better at one temperature and women better at another.  So, the women are cold for the men to work effectively.  But, if we turn up the temperature, the women are warmer, but the men are falling asleep.   How much better it would be to let God's ways work…and while it is difficult to do so in this diabolically driven society, there are still ways to find the better way for each individual or group who will defer to God's ways.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/04/science/chilly-at-work-a-decades-old-formula-may-be-to-blame.html?emc=edit_th_20150804&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Chilly at Work? Office Formula Was Devised for Men
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(5 Aug)
Official Persecution in China — "the offense of the Cross"
http://news.yahoo.com/severe-crackdown-china-church-crosses-draws-backlash-051713909.html
Severe crackdown in China on church crosses draws backlash
LOWER DAFEI VILLAGE, China (AP) — About a dozen Catholics wept and sang hymns outside their church as a man climbed to the top of the building and sliced off its steel cross with a cutting torch. It toppled with a thud.
"Aren't you ashamed of what you have done?" a teary woman yelled at the more than 100 security guards, who along with police and government workers kept the parishioners of Lower Dafei Catholic Church from protecting the symbol of their faith. The guards, who stood with shields and batons in the sun for nearly two hours, looked indifferent.

"Doesn't the government give us the right to religious freedom? Why are they taking down our symbol without any explanation?" another parishioner said hours earlier, as government workers arrived to build the scaffolding to reach the cross.

"We have violated no law. We do not oppose the government," said the parishioner, who gave his name only as Chen for fear of retaliation from authorities. "We have been good, law-abiding citizens."
Authorities in southeastern Zhejiang province are believed to be under a two-month deadline to remove crosses from the spires, vaults, roofs and wall arches of the 4,000 or so churches that dot the landscape of this economically thriving region.

In a rare move, even China's semiofficial Christian associations — which are supposed to ensure the ruling Communist Party's control over Protestant and Catholic groups — have denounced the campaign as unconstitutional and humiliating. They have warned that it could risk turning the faithful into enemies of the party. … ...

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Get rid of mosquitoes forever?  Sounds good, but one little genetic misstep and we could also create monster insects and other monstrosities and wreck planetary eco-systems.  "Beware the ides" of CRISPR-Cas9!
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/caution-urged-over-editing-dna-in-wildlife/
Caution Urged over Editing DNA in Wildlife
Rapid alteration of gene pools could fight disease—and harm ecosystems
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"Going to the movies" obtaining all new cultural definitions—
(5 Aug - National Evening New Broadcasts (PBS/NBC/CBS et al)
"I can't believe it happened again!",  moviegoer in Antioch, Tennessee this afternoon after a yet another new movie theater shooter is shot by police
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A sharp rebuke by a native Zimbabwean scientist over the American idiots threatening to kill people over a dead lion…too much Disney Lion King, no sense whatsoever of reality —
(I personally am not attracted to killing as pure sport;  at least, use the meat, use the product, deliver villages from man-eaters, yes, even realize that much preservation of species is paid for by the hunting community, but my opinion is much stronger about the "civilized idiots" who want to kill a man for killing a lion.  Maybe they should spend some time in a lion compound with their ideology?)  This Zimbabwean also marvels at the idiocy in this matter.  (See also, last blog, of 2 August.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/opinion/in-zimbabwe-we-dont-cry-for-lions.html?emc=edit_th_20150805&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
In Zimbabwe, We Don’t Cry for Lions
By GOODWELL NZOUAUG. 4, 2015(excerpt):  The American tendency to romanticize animals that have been given actual names and to jump onto a hashtag train has turned an ordinary situation — there were 800 lions legally killed over a decade by well-heeled foreigners who shelled out serious money to prove their prowess — into what seems to my Zimbabwean eyes an absurdist circus.
PETA is calling for the hunter to be hanged.  Zimbabwean politicians are accusing the United States of staging Cecil’s killing as a “ploy” to make our country look bad. And Americans who can’t find Zimbabwe on a map are applauding the nation’s demand for the extradition of the dentist, unaware that a baby elephant was reportedly slaughtered for our president’s most recent birthday banquet.
We Zimbabweans are left shaking our heads, wondering why Americans care more about African animals than about African people.  Don’t tell us what to do with our animals when you allowed your own mountain lions to be hunted to near extinction in the eastern United States. Don’t bemoan the clear-cutting of our forests when you turned yours into concrete jungles.  And please, don’t offer me condolences about Cecil unless you’re also willing to offer me condolences for villagers killed or left hungry by his brethren, by political violence, or by hunger.
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Wow, I really don't want my toothbrush telling me how to brush, nor my toaster ratting out my jelly usage to Big Brother.  If I go for a run, I want to listen to my body not an algorithm coaching me /scolding me / prodding me through electronics pasted or elasticed to my skin and muscles (or worse yet, implanted), etc.  NOPE!
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/06/technology/personaltech/diving-headfirst-into-the-internet-of-things.html?emc=edit_th_20150806&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Diving Headfirst Into the Internet of Things
Just because you can do something, does it mean you should?
That question may come to mind when considering the Internet of Things — the idea that one day, products of virtually all kinds will be connected to the Internet and integrated.
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Hmmm, some hopeful human pushback against the Beast? (But, what must come, must come.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/06/technology/personaltech/right-to-be-forgotten-online-is-poised-to-spread.html?emc=edit_th_20150806&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Online Could Spread
More than a year ago, in a decision that stunned many American Internet companies, Europe’s highest court ruled that search engines were required to grant an unusual right — the “right to be forgotten.” Privacy advocates cheered the decision by the European Court of Justice, which seemed to offer citizens some recourse to what had become a growing menace of modern life: The Internet never forgets, and, in its robotic zeal to collect and organize every scrap of data about everyone, it was beginning to wreak havoc on personal privacy. … …

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Khameini comes late to the book publishing business.  An earlier writer, 2600 years earlier, God speaking through Ezekiel, tells what he is going to do to Iran (Persia) for attacking Jerusalem:  "I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured."  (39:4)

http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/August06/064.html
Iran Publishes Book On How To Outwit US And Destroy Israel

While Secretary of State John Kerry and President Obama do their best to paper over the brutality of the Iranian regime and force through a nuclear agreement, Iran’s religious leader has another issue on his mind: The destruction of Israel.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has published a new book called “Palestine,” a 416-page screed against the Jewish state. A blurb on the back cover credits Khamenei as “The flagbearer of Jihad to liberate Jerusalem.” … ...
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Sabre-rattling on the left in the UK to equate Christians with jihadis.  Persecution.

 http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/August06/062.html#OAzv6xz5RIQL5iol.99
MP: Use Anti-Terror Powers On Christian Teachers Who Say Gay Marriage Is ‘Wrong'

New banning orders intended to clamp down on hate preachers and terrorist propagandists should be used against Christian teachers who teach children that gay marriage is “wrong”, a Tory MP has argued.
Mark Spencer called for those who use their position in the classroom to teach traditionalist views on marriage to be subject to “Extremism Disruption Orders” (EDOs), tough new restrictions planned by David Cameron and Theresa May to curb radicalisation by jihadists.
In a letter to a constituent, Mr Spencer, the MP for Sherwood in Nottinghamshire, insisted that Christian teachers were still “perfectly entitled” to express their views on same-sex marriage – but only “in some situations”.
Christian campaigners said Mr Spencer’s remarks confirmed what they had previously warned: that those who believe marriage should only be between a man and a woman would now be “branded extremists”.
The National Secular Society, which supports same-sex marriage, said the proposed banning orders could be one of the biggest threats to freedom of expression ever seen in the UK.
David Cameron outlined the counter-extremism plans after the General Election
Ministers have signaled that the orders, expected to be a key plank of the Government planned new Counter-Extremism Bill, would be used not only curb the activities of radical Islamist clerics but those who promote other views deemed to go against “British values”. … …
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Why repent when you can just erase?  (But, oh the "total recall" that could jump out to bite you when you least expect it!)

http://www.gizmag.com/compound-selectively-erase-drug-associated-memories/38804/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=3808de65ec-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-3808de65ec-91592265
New therapy to help addicts put memories of meth use behind them
Even after a lengthy period of abstinence, putting lingering memories of methamphetamine use to rest is a difficult and often impossible task for former users. Therapies are available to help people stay clean, but for many the lure remains irresistible with incredibly high relapse rates of more than 90 percent, according to the National Instituter on Drug Abuse.  But a research team is hoping to help addicts stay away from the devastating drug for good by developing a way to safely erase drug-associated memories.

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute made an exciting breakthrough in 2013. They found that by inhibiting a protein called actin they could selectively delete memories associated with drug use, while leaving other long term memories, such as fear or food reward intact. But there was a slight problem. Because actin also happens to be critical for a functioning human body, even one dose of a drug that generally inhibited its activity would most likely prove fatal.

Through a new study, the same researchers have now identified an approach they say can selectively target actin in the brain of animals, without posing a danger to the rest of the body. It involves a molecular motor called nonmuscle myosin II (NMII) that supports memory formation. The team found by using a compound called blebbistatin, which inhibits NMII, they were able to affect the long-term storage of drug-associated memories. … ...
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"If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.  Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth.  For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God."  Colossians 3:1-3

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2 August

Saints,

Says Peter to us as regards the ever-present battle with the world and its system of iniquity:  "Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:  but rejoice inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy"…and…"Humble yourself therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.  Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:  Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world."

May God direct our every step this week:  "Blessed is the man who walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, not standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful, but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in his law he doth meditate day and night.  And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that bringeth forth his fruit in his season…"
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(26 July)

Bye-bye Boy Scouts!  (as membership drops away).  The Boy Scouts turn to full sodomite allowances.  Could any believers now let their sons sit under/be cruised/groomed by such leaders?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/us/boy-scouts-end-nationwide-ban-on-gay-leaders.html?emc=edit_na_20150727&nlid=69381998&ref=cta
Boy Scouts End Nationwide Ban on Gay Leaders
Seeking to resolve an issue that threatened to tear apart the organization and expose it to crippling lawsuits, the Boy Scouts of America on Monday ended its nationwide ban on openly gay adult leaders. … …

(Monday morning, the 28th, CBS reports that the Mormon Church, the largest sponsor of Scout groups, is weighing withdrawing their affiliation and support.)

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(28 July)
Two of the chief minds of the secular scientific intelligentsia warn of the impending and GRIM, GRIM future of humanity (for those not taken up in the Rapture) as we "evolve" to commit humanity's suicide by the AI 'bots we are inventing.  Read between the lines, "years not decades" means we are on the verge NOW.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/technology/elon-musk-and-stephen-hawking-among-hundreds-to-urge-ban-on-military-robots.html?emc=edit_th_20150728&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking Among Hundreds to Urge Ban on Military Robots

 Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking, along with hundreds of artificial intelligence researchers and experts, are calling for a worldwide ban on so-called autonomous weapons, warning that they could set off a revolution in weaponry comparable to gunpowder and nuclear arms.
 In a letter unveiled as researchers gathered at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Buenos Aires on Monday, the signatories argued that the deployment of robots capable of killing while untethered to human operators is “feasible within years, not decades.” If development is not cut off, it is only a matter of time before the weapons end up in the hands of terrorists and warlords, they said.

Unlike drones, which require a person to remotely pilot the craft and make targeting decisions, the autonomous weapons would search for and engage targets on their own. Unlike nuclear weapons, they could be made with raw materials that all significant military powers could afford and obtain, making them easier to mass-produce, the authors argued.

The weapons could reduce military casualties by keeping human soldiers off battlefields, but they could also lower the threshold for going to battle, the letter said. “If any major military power pushes ahead with A.I. weapon development, a global arms race is virtually inevitable, and the endpoint of this technological trajectory is obvious: autonomous weapons will become the Kalashnikovs of tomorrow,” it said. … ...
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The Time has actually arrived to try to ban TERMINATORS worldwide, UN is advised by such as Hawking, Musk, Wozniak, Chomsky and hundreds more in related fields—

http://www.gizmag.com/open-letter-un-weaponized-artificial-intelligence/38645/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=24767c5ad8-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-24767c5ad8-91592265
Open letter petitions UN to ban the development on weaponized AI
The Future of Life Institute has presented an open letter signed by over 1,000 robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) researchers urging the United Nations to impose a ban on the development of weaponized AI with the capability to target and kill without meaningful human intervention. The letter was presented at the 2015 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), and is backed with the endorsements of a number of prominent scientists and industry leaders, including Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, and Noam Chomsky.

To some, armed and autonomous AI could seem a fanciful concept confined to the realm of video games and sci-fi. However, the chilling warning contained within the newly released open letter insists that the technology will be readily available within years, not decades, and that action must be taken now if we are to prevent the birth of a new paradigm of modern warfare.

Consider now the implications of this. According to the open letter, many now consider weaponized AI to be the third revolution in modern warfare, after gunpowder and nuclear arms. However, for the previous two there have always been powerful disincentives to utilize the technology. For rifles to be used in the field, you need a soldier to wield the weapon, and this in turn meant putting a soldier's life at risk.

With the nuclear revolution you had to consider the costly and difficult nature of acquiring the materials and expertize required to make a bomb, not to mention the monstrous loss of life and international condemnation that would inevitably follow the deployment of such a weapon and the threat of mutually assured destruction (MAD). These deterrent factors have resulted in only two bombs being detonated in conflict over the course of the nuclear era to date.

The true danger of an AI war machine is that it lacks these bars to conflict. AI could replace the need to risk a soldier's life in the field, and its deployment would not bring down the ire of the international community in the same way as the launch of an ICBM. Furthermore, according to the open letter, armed AI drones with the capacity to hunt and kill persons independent of human command would be cheap and relatively easy to mass produce.

The technology will have the overall effect of making a military incursion less costly and more appealing, essentially lowering the threshold for conflict (ed. comment, essentially ceaseless, automatic war). Furthermore, taking the kill decision out of the hands of human being does by its nature remove the element of human compassion and a reasoning process which, at least in the foreseeable future, is unmatchable by a mere machine.

Another chilling aspect of weaponized AI tech that the letter highlights is the potential of such military equipment to make its way into the hands of despots and warlords who wouldn't think twice about deploying the machines as a tool to check discontent, or even perform ethnic cleansing.

“Many of the leading scientists in our field have put their names to this cause," says professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and NICTA Toby Walsh. "With this Open Letter, we hope to bring awareness to a dire subject that, without a doubt, will have a vicious impact on the whole of mankind. We can get it right at this early stage, or we can stand idly by and witness the birth of a new era of warfare. Frankly, that’s not something many of us want to see. Our call to action is simple: ban offensive autonomous weapons, and in doing so, securing a safe future for us all.”
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Later on 28 July, Tom Horn, skywatchtv.com, and author of Exo Vaticanus and Petrus Romanus, has a "quote for the day" confirming my assessment of the "here and nowness" of Musk's and Hawking's "few years" concerns:

Today at SkyWatch TV Online there are several very important entries including "US Defense Department, Army Research Lab, Institute for Defense Analysis, And Select Academia Publish New Report Confirming Upcoming INHUMAN Documentary—Admit 'Physically And Mentally Augmented, Genetically Modified Supersoldiers' ARE UNDER DESIGN FOR EXOTIC WARFARE."   (Yes, here and now!)

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Ok, some conspiratorial fun!  Several times now something like space ships have been spotted around the solar system.  NASA reportedly recently clipped off video feed to avoid showing an unknown ship leaving Earth.  A while back, a tri-pointed ship was photographed among the inner planets.  Structures like bases seem to show up on the Moon, and, of course, there are the Plains of Cydonia on Mars which seem to evince an ancient civilization.  

Even moving at the crawl of 25,000 mph (four million, two hundred thousand miles per week), our present (reported) rocketry speed limits, Mars would only be a few weeks off at its nearest (33.9 million miles / 4.220 = 8.03 weeks).  Just who's to say, we are not already there, and the news is concealed from the public?  Why?  Maybe because long nurtured public paradigms like evolution have been blown completely away by finds in the interplanetary belts.  Do we already have Impulse Engine craft running around out there, maybe teamed up with alien technologies reputedly afoot on our planet, with even a previous Canadian Defense chief speaking of four species already on our planet?  Hmmm?  Yo, X-Files!

Occasional huge rockets are launched from Vandenburg without explanation, missions classified.  The Russians tried to launch exploratory probes to Phobos and Demos, the seemingly hollow spheres orbiting Mars, but the mission was batted out of preparatory Earth orbit with no explanation as to how.  

"There will be signs in the heavens," said Jesus.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/11769030/Impossible-rocket-drive-works-and-could-get-to-Moon-in-four-hours.html

'Impossible' rocket drive works and could get to Moon in four hours
The British designed EM Drive actually works and would dramatically speed up space travel, scientists have confirmed

Interplanetary travel could be a step closer after scientists confirmed that an electromagnetic propulsion drive, which is fast enough to get to the Moon in four hours, actually works.

The EM Drive was developed by the British inventor Roger Shawyer nearly 15 years ago but was ridiculed at the time as being scientifically impossible.

It produces thrust by using solar power to generate multiple microwaves that move back and forth in an enclosed chamber. This means that until something fails or wears down, theoretically the engine could keep running forever without the need for rocket fuel.

The drive, which has been likened to Star Trek's Impulse Drive, has left scientists scratching their heads because it defies one of the fundamental concepts of physics – the conservation of momentum – which states that if something is propelled forward, something must be pushed in the opposite direction. So the forces inside the chamber should cancel each other out.

However in recent years Nasa has confirmed that they believe it works and this week Martin Tajmar, a professor and chair for Space Systems at Dresden University of Technology in Germany also showed that it produces thrust.

The drive is capable of producing thrust several thousand times greater than a standard photon rocket and could get to Mars within 70 days or Pluto within 18 months. A trip to Alpha Centauri, which would take tens of thousands of years to reach right now, could be reached in just 100 years.

"Our test campaign cannot confirm or refute the claims of the EM Drive but intends to independently assess possible side-effects in the measurements methods used so far," said Prof Tajmar in anew
"Nevertheless, we do observe thrust close to the actual predictions after eliminating many possible error sources that should warrant further investigation into the phenomena."

"Our measurements reveal thrusts as expected from previous claims after carefully studying thermal and electromagnetic interferences.
"If true, this could certainly revolutionise space travel."

Shawyer also claims that he is just a few months away from publishing new results confirming that his drive works in a peer reviewed journal.

However scientists still have no idea how it actually works. NASA suggested that it could have something to do with the technology manipulating subatomic particles which constantly pop in and out of existence in empty space.
Prof Tajmer presented his findings to the 2015 American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics' Propulsion and Energy Forum and Exposition the week. 

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"Thync" for "Synchronized Thinking"?  I did a heads-up (no pun intended) first review for Thync in the 'blog for June 7.  Now, the uber-geeks at gizmag are gushing again over this Beast Buzz?  Beast Peace? Beast Bliss?  Widespread "bliss-out" ahead with no drugs, just give your head over to the Beast?  There will come a season for the Mark Takers when they will want to die, but the Beast will have made such nodes of them, it won't let them!  Don't take the Mark.  Better to think for yourself under the guidance of the Word and not some silicon chip sorcerer sucking on your forehead!

http://www.gizmag.com/thync-review/38662/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=d3b3e48ed0-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-d3b3e48ed0-91592265
Thync Review:  Where we just say yes to a drug-like, brain-zapping wearable
(excerpt):
After using Thync every day for the last week and a half, I'm convinced that it's one of the most exciting new tech products of 2015. Like taking a hit of Mary Jane, it can push me from an anxious, over-thinking mood to one where I'm cool, collected and laid-back like a THC-infused Rastafarian. And if I'm feeling sluggish or unmotivated, Thync can also peel that layer away, like the sun burning a morning fog off of my consciousness. … …
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(July 30)

http://theapologeticsgroup.com/featured/this-viral-meme-is-wreaking-havoc-on-christian-minds/?utm_source=wysija&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The+Apologetics+Group+_Viral+Meme+Is+Wreaking+Havoc+on+Christian+Minds&utm_source=wysija&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The+Apologetics+Group+_This+Viral+Meme+Is+Wreaking+Havoc+on+Christian+Minds

THIS VIRAL MEME IS WREAKING HAVOC ON CHRISTIAN MINDS by Eric Holmberg of The Apologetics Group

The argument starts out by putting us on the defensive:  does not God love and forgive and "accept" homosexuals(?), and then it ends up having us accept them into our fellowship without repentance as they are "born that way" and "can't help it."

We are under full-fledged assault and many evangelicals will cave, and the rest will be ostracized and condemned by many.  Will we hold to the Scripture, "speaking the truth in love"?
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Scottish Weather Goes Bonkers; Like recent Colorado activity, there is snow in late July, and in Scotland "Gritters" (sand trucks) are out!
http://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/scotland-s-weather-snow-forecast-as-gritters-seen-1-3843824
Scotland’s weather: Snow forecast as gritters seen
OUTDOORS enthusiasts and holidaymakers heading out to enjoy Scotland’s landscapes would be wise to pack everything from sunscreen and midge repellent to wellies and waterproofs in one of the most dismal summers in living memory. But hats, scarves and gloves – in July?

The winter woollies alert comes as forecasters predict the country will be hit by unseasonably cold conditions, with the possibility of snow in some of the most scenic parts of the country

And if that wasn’t bad enough, a gritter was also spotted yesterday on the A90.

It’s the second time this month snow has been forecast.

The latest extreme weather stands in stark contrast to the scorching start of the month, which saw thermometers shoot up to 30C in Inverness and the north-west Highlands.

But the Mountain Weather Information Service is now warning of showers, hail and plunging temperatures across most mountain areas until the weekend, with rain turning to snow on the highest peaks.

The coldest spells are expected in the Highlands today, with thermometers dipping below freezing in certain spots. Frost will form in some valleys and corries overnight. … ...
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"Despite my uneasiness with it, the science has saved countless lives."  This subheadline of the story sums up the gross, blind hypocrisy of the abortion industry and its supporters.  The question that is sanitized away is, "How many millions of lives has it cost?"  …innocent lives with no choice in the matter.  There might be conscientious reason to salvage the bodies of children who die after everything has been done to save them, and thus to help the research to help the living, but murder factories for the profit of researchers?  Those who accept such shall be the citizens of eternal fire.  Your "uneasiness," editorialist, is but the beginning of the grating, insane, everlasting ringing of the bells of Hell, woman.  Repent of your support for the infant slaughter industry of "planned parenthood."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/30/opinion/the-case-for-fetal-cell-research.html?emc=edit_th_20150730&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
The Case for Fetal-Cell Research
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We are stewards to preserve and be kind to animals, but they have no souls.  Everyone who carries on overmuch over Cecil, he would have happily made a meal of if the occasion arose.  When animals die, the spirit dissolves and returns to God who can make any quantity of any species he wants at any time with only a thought.  But humans have eternal souls, and yet these bleeding hearts who anthropomorphize animals, rage over his wrongful targeting by a hunter and crew but ignore the slaughter of countless human children!  These are what are called "damned fools."

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/07/29/we_cry_over_the_death_of_cecil_the_lion_but_shrug_off_planned_parenthood
Drudging—Says Limbaugh:
We Cry Over the Death of Cecil the Lion, But Shrug Off Planned Parenthood?
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You fine him; you scold him and shame him; you may make him do some time over harming an endangered species, but you don't kill a human over an animal!  What has happened to the collective sanity?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/30/us/cecil-the-lion-walter-palmer.html?emc=edit_th_20150730&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Killer of Cecil the Lion Finds Out That He Is a Target Now, of Internet Vigilantism
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Vanity Fair Robots
\http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/30/fashion/fashion-finds-a-more-perfect-model-robots.html?emc=edit_th_20150730&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998#
Fashion Finds a More Perfect Model: The Robot

(July 31)

"We all need to do what we can!"  One Jewish man sets out to do what he can to rescue Syrian Christians—

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/syrian-christians-and-the-english-jew/2015/07/30/6642f9d0-36f6-11e5-9739-170df8af8eb9_story.html?postshare=251438325309008
Syrian Christians and the English Jew

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26 July

"Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body."  Hebrews 13:3

Saints, 

While demon possession keeps popping up via social media transmission in sudden lone wolves here in the western countries, and true peril begins for us too; nevertheless, the suffering of Christians in the Middle East and Africa is often beyond our ken. Their world is demolished.  While they may practice certain ancient doctrines or carry icons that we may find strange and unacceptable, they nonetheless are dying for their association with the name of Jesus.  We must remember them in prayer and suffer with them…even for our own sakes…that we be awake and aware of what is going on…though we live in a society that would mollify us, rock us to sleep in spells of pleasure and promises of false paradises of transhumanism and trances of fleshly ease and drugged unconcern.

If you have time this week, read this lengthy account from the NYTimes on some of the Christian suffering happening.  Be awake!  Be filled with merciful prayers for these other saints of Christ.
(The End of Christianity in the Middle East by Eliza Griswold, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/magazine/is-this-the-end-of-christianity-in-the-middle-east.html )

"Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need."  Hebrews 4:16

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(20 July)
Indeed, "there is nothing hid that shall not he revealed…and everything shall come to the light…"  but that is the Lord's domain of judgment, and this is the increasingly ubiquitous attempt of Big Brother / The Antichrist and World System to view and record everything you do and think.  In a sin-sick world some privacy is a panacea and a refuge, but the devil, desiring to imitate God's omnipresence, omniscience, and omnipotence, will try to bring those attributes into our world as part of his plan for full dominion over the material world.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/20/technology/a-light-bulb-goes-on-over-the-mall.html?emc=edit_th_20150720&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
“We’re obviously excited about the intelligent environment future …"  (underlining added)
A Light Bulb Goes On, Over the Mall
Among the many promises of the Internet of Things — a network of Wi-Fi-connected devices and equipment managed with smartphones — is the automation of everyday life, whether finding a parking space or discovering a discounted blouse at the mall or lighting the streets when day shifts to dusk.
But public lighting, it turns out, offers more than illumination.

Using a combination of LEDs and big data technology, public lighting is the potential backbone of a system that could use billions of fixtures to collect data about traffic congestion at an intersection or a consumer walking down the cereal aisle, to name just a couple of applications. … ...

(Concluding lines: Executives say they are excited by the prospect of broader adoption of these tracking abilities, but privacy advocates have raised concerns about the technology racing ahead of considerations about how to use it responsibly. Mr. Reece acknowledged that concern, saying that most retailers were designing their programs so that shoppers would opt in.

“It’s still a lot of test pilots at this stage,” he said, adding that retailers were experimenting to find the right balance of access. “There’s a fine line between being helpful and being creepy.”)
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Reports of a major swell of international piracy assaulting the high seas.  Another excuse for global dictatorship?
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/20/world/middleeast/murder-at-sea-captured-on-video-but-killers-go-free.html?emc=edit_th_20150720&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
MURDER AT SEA: CAPTURED ON VIDEO, BUT KILLERS GO FREE
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(21 July)
We grow numb to the media phrase/ "meme," "SUICIDE BOMBING," where suddenly and unexpectedly, a few to dozens of human beings are suddenly slaughtered as planetwide terror and war advance.  Here it moves into Turkey, supposedly a Western ally and a NATO member, which has not seen such a bombing since 2013.  "At least 30 die…and more than a hundred are wounded."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/21/world/europe/suruc-turkey-syria-explosion.html?emc=edit_th_20150721&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Turkey Says Suicide Bombing Kills at Least 30 in Suruc, Near Syria
ISTANBUL — A suicide bombing struck a cultural center in a Turkish town near the Syrian border on Monday, killing at least 30 and wounding more than 100 in an attack that Turkey’s prime minister suggested had been plotted by the Islamic State.

The assault, in the town of Suruc, was the deadliest in Turkey in more than two years. If the Islamic State is confirmed to be behind the assault, it would be the organization’s first mass killing of civilians in Turkey and the worst spillover in deadly violence from Syria's civil war. … ...
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(22 July)  
Following up on story tagged in last newsletter blog—
We must not forget, by reason of familiarity, that the pleasant and positive wording of "planned parenthood" is a tidy euphemism for a human slaughterhouse, sanitized, in our midst.  We must "fight the good fight of faith" against it, warning and sounding the trumpet without tiring.  Its' evil is among the judgments falling on the US and wherever else it has set its claws.  (May God save Mr. Daleiden.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/22/us/with-planned-parenthood-videos-activist-ignites-abortion-issue.html?emc=edit_th_20150722&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
With Planned Parenthood Videos, Activist Ignites Abortion Issue

WASHINGTON — David Daleiden would only reluctantly talk about himself: “I don’t think I’m the story,” he said by phone on Tuesday. But he is the man behind the story and the hidden camera — the anti-abortion activist who has provoked a storm with his video stings alleging that Planned Parenthood clinics are selling tissue from aborted fetuses for profit, a charge the group denies.

On Tuesday, for a second time in two weeks, a video appeared online showing a Planned Parenthood official in California discussing over lunch the price of providing fetal parts to a man and woman who are never shown on camera, but who are posing as buyers from a firm that procures tissue for medical researchers. Once again, Planned Parenthood condemned the scam for deceptively characterizing its handling fees to cover expenses, which are legal, as illegal profiteering.

The man off camera, just as in the first video, is Mr. Daleiden. And, he said in the interview, more episodes are coming. Planned Parenthood’s recent prediction that he must have “thousands of hours of videotape” from infiltrating its clinics for two and a half years is “probably an accurate estimate,” Mr. Daleiden, 26, said. He guessed he had enough recordings for perhaps a dozen videos that he can release at the rate of one a week for the next few months.

The time frame all but ensures political tumult ahead. The videos will coincide with the Republican-controlled Congress’s final weeks of work on spending bills needed to finance the government after the Oct. 1 start of the next fiscal year. The first videos have already given impetus to conservatives’ push to hold those bills hostage unless they are amended to eliminate money for Planned Parenthood and other family planning programs. The risk, as in past years, is a government shutdown. … ...

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4 News Updates at Skywatchtv.com.  Bookmark this site for regular updates on transgenics, transhumanism, merging with machine intelligence, etc.  (Imagine yourself with permanent neural wiring additions, new synthetic DNA strands, etc. that make you virtually a "god," able to communicate telepathically, see beyond the bounds of the five senses, etc. —but only to find that you are now the tool of inhuman intelligences who have possessed you by "enhancing" your own physical, biological nature by physical implants into your being and body — demonic possession by physical and irreversible means?  Divine being now?  Heaven?  No, try absolute hell on earth while still in your mortal body…and no longer any hope of salvation:  "Whoever takes the mark of the Beast will be cast into the lake [of eternal] fire.")  Don't Take The Mark!

Inhuman—

—From these developments comes the distant groaning of a “fearful unknown” in which the architecture of the human brain—as transformed by current and future cybernetic inventions—begins to act in ways that borderline the supernatural. Consider experimental telepathy, which involves mind-to-mind thought transference that allows people to communicate without the use of speaking audibly.

—Professor Yuval Noah Harari at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind says the merging of man and machine will be the “greatest evolution in biology.” “I think it is likely Homo sapiens will upgrade themselves into some idea of a divine being, either through biological manipulation or genetic engineering of by the creation of cyborgs, part organic part non-organic.

—Neuroscientists funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed an ultra-thin, minimally invasive device for controlling brain cells with drugs and light, and demonstrated that the device allows for wireless brain control by remotely drugging and controlling…

—Everybody knows what the words “synthetic” and “biology” mean, but when you put them together, the phrase “synthetic biology” means nothing to all but a handful of Israeli scientists. Just as semiconductors were developed as early as the late 19th century, “plastics” were declared the “next big thing” 50 years ago and nanotechnology two decades ago, synthetic biology is predicted to have a massive impact on our lives…
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Today's Update / The Berean Call (bereancall.org) 21 July

It goes without saying that the original Worldwide Church of God has impacted the lives of countless human beings around the world in many countries. The same can be said for many other church organizations. The common denominator for all these groups is that the "head" of all such groups is NOT Jesus Christ, but human beings who usurp the place of Jesus Christ in the lives of the people. The name of God, or the name of Jesus Christ, or the name of Jehovah, or other names that people associate with God, are always used as the source and "legitimacy" of these cults.

The great common error that millions of human beings make in life, is in following self-appointed "spiritual" leaders, who proclaim "authority" from heaven. It often results in such great disillusionment, that many turn from God altogether and become bitter atheists, while some even commit suicide, and many others go to their grave never knowing the freedom from spiritual bondage, that Jesus Christ proclaimed (Luke 4:18). It is a mystery of life as to why so many human beings are seduced by deception and yield their lives to magnetic personalities that rob them of the real truth in Jesus Christ.
 
--Van Robison (former follower of Herbert W. Armstrong, the false prophet and founder of the Worldwide Church of God)
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http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2015/July/Kenyan-Pastors-to-Obama-Dont-Bring-The-Gay-Talk-Here-/
Kenyan Pastors to Obama: Don't Bring 'The Gay Talk' Here
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Next wave of terror on western nations?  Getting more and more like the killer, flying scorpion/locusts of the Book of Revelation—
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/593187/Islamic-State-Isis-drones-bomb-crowds-football-festivals-Britain
Islamic State threat: Isis plotting to use drones to bomb crowds at major British events
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Young man under investigation for making the obvious experiment of arming a  cheap, publicly available drone
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/man-illegally-straps-handgun-to-a-drone
Update: FAA launches investigation into teenager’s gun-wielding drone video

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(24 July)

"Theatre Shooting," a new cultural meme (or what we used to call a cliche?)?  The bodies from the last mass shooting in Chattanooga, by Islamic, sudden, social media terrorist, are still being buried, when a new mass shooting hits Lafayette, Louisiana…in a theatre…like the initial one in Colorado.  Here, the shooter, an as yet to be named middle aged white man, ends the affair with a single suicide shot as police arrive.

St. Paul, in the KJV translation, said the last days would be characterized by people waxing "incontinent," and this does not mean bladder incontinence but mental incontinence or insanity.  Today, right and left, people are "popping" under the pressure of increasing tribulation.

Takeaway wisdom?  Keep your loved ones in daily prayer for physical protection.  Consider carefully what massed public events you will participate in—as "going to the movies"—takes on new meaning.  Case and be aware of your surroundings in mass events and know your exits, having more than one exit route in mind…and keep your back to the wall and watch the doors as the old wisdom used to say.  And…keep yourself in the peace of Christ which "passes understanding" lest you might also "pop."

http://www.cbsnews.com/live/?ftag=CNMe94798
CBS This Morning announces a new theatre shooting overnight—
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http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/nasa-discovers-planet-similar-to-earth/
CBS This Morning also announces the find of a new ("M-Class" for trekkies) earth-like planet, Kepler 459b.

As the commentator notes, a decade or so ago, we knew of only nine planets, now we know of hundreds and are finding more regularly.  Living on Kepler would not work for us as we would be twice the weight, but it appears to be in "the goldilocks zone" where ambient temperatures and liquid water might be found, and its' year length is nearly the same as ours.

The Word seems to indicate that many signs in the heavens will be a part of the End of the Age, and then the start of the New, the Millennium.  Kepler 459b is a "mere" 1400 light years away, but Millennial mortals, under the guidance of the resurrected saints, may have access to "stargates" and other instant transportation…once our enemy can no longer use them as he attempts to do now in invading our physical universe…and we could well see the far flung empires of science fiction as the future of yet mortal humanity until the End of Time at the end of the Millennium…when full Eternity dawns for all the saints in Christ, the saved mortals then joining us as Eternal Beings.  Great things lie ahead for those who love our God, while those who perish will find their "hearts failing for fear at the things coming (down) upon the Earth."
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Tom Horn, see skywatchtv.com, also reports that  NASA scientists have found a very remote planet of our system that has a completely atypical orbit from our standard nine, making a very long loop outside our nine concentric orbits, but then passing through our orbits on its lower or perigee loop.  It may have been on its outer loop for all the millennia of human civilization, but may pass back to come near us in the future.  Occultists and UFO cultists feel they have long had knowledge of this planet and they call it Niburu or Planet X from their occult sources of "space brothers," "ascended councils," and other mediumistic bilgewater from the dark side.  They have made many claims of a collision with Earth on this perigee descent, but we do know from the Word that several large asteroid collisions with Earth will occur during the Tribulation.  (I count at least nine in the Book of Revelation.)
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Were the fearsome monsters we call dinosaurs God's creation or the genetic manipulation/miscreants of Nephilim science (the part-human, part-fallen angel supermen giants before the Flood)?  We may find out as present scientists proceed toward recreating dinosaurs.  Big mistake?  Imagine Jurassic Park as a worldwide outbreak of Tyrannosauri loose!  

The Lord Jesus said it would be as in the days of Noah when it was time for him to return…in part to "destroy them that destroy the Earth" in Revelation 11:18.

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/weird-science/how-researchers-are-looking-ahead-dawn-dino-chicken-n363521
Researchers Say They're Getting Closer to Creating a Dino-Chicken
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http://sciencefiction.com/2015/06/14/one-step-closer-jurassic-world-cloned-dinosaur/
We're One Step Closer to a 'Jurassic World' Cloned Dinosaur	
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ISIS is certainly getting the world's attention as even the US slowly wakes up to its nasty bite.  Here, Turkey begins military action agains ISIS after attacks on its' territory.  Turkey is central to the shadow of Magog, and will come with Rosh (Russia) and Persia (Iran) and the hordes of Muslim cannon fodder to the battle against Israel foreseen by Ezekiel in chapters 38 and 39, but for now the nations then allied fight among themselves, and though they ally for battle then, at the end of that battle as God Himself decisively defeats them, they will turn again upon each other to finish off his work in their own judgment.  This not to speak any word at all against the Turkish people or even the nation, for God sets the nations, and anyone who turns to Christ there is our brother, fully received.  But God will work his plan among all the nations and no one will set his will at nought.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/25/world/europe/turkey-isis-syria-airstrikes.html?emc=edit_th_20150725&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Turkey, Anticipating Attack, Strikes 3 ISIS Targets in Syria With Jets
ISTANBUL — Turkish fighter jets struck three Islamic State targets in Syria on Friday in an effort to pre-empt a planned attack on Turkey, a senior Turkish government official said.
The airstrikes came the day after Turkey engaged in its first reported direct combat with the Islamic State militant group, and gave permission for staffed American warplanes to conduct strikes against the group from two Turkish air bases. … ...
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"Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, 
that we may obtain mercy, 
and find grace to help 
in time of need." 
 Hebrews 4:16

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19 July

Saints,

Dark clouds continue to gather from every direction.  Even literally, the weather and "nature" continue to try to blow the heartland to pieces and wash away the residue in floods while our West continues to burn.  People everywhere are suddenly made homeless by physical events, and we can barely remember that untold thousands still huddle under tarps in Nepal, and Haiti? Pakistan? Afghanistan? (earthquakes)…and elsewhere people fleeing a worldwide outbreak of volcanoes…all ancient history already!  Meanwhile in nearly every other area of human experience, judgment hounds the heels of depravity as the very fabric of human civilization begins to fail, rapidly and badly.  And now the Army is ready to take in cross-dressers and those who want to mutilate their gender to let them assault the very senses, and yes even the very bunks, of our soldiers.  How much lower does their morale have to sink before there is no spirit left in them?

Cried Paul Revere, "The British are coming!  The British are coming!"  But, now we must say, "ISIS is here, is here!" as the invasion erupts from within with young men and women of Islam being suddenly seized by demons, sent through the trojan horse of social media, to instantly rise and kill.  Frankly, it almost doesn't seem like news anymore to hear of another sudden jihadi, shown from an old photo as a smiling placid young man, arising to kill four of our soldiers.  "What, only four this time?"

Says our Lord Jesus, "And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh."  (Luke 21:28)

I pray God we will know by the Spirit when to "duck and cover" (Isa 26:20) and when to shine with all fervent ferocity as "a city set on a hill."  Maranatha!  Come, Lord Jesus!  "Pray the Lord of the harvest that he will send forth laborers into the harvest, for the fields are white (ready) to be harvested."  Witness to others at every opportunity, in season, and out of season (welcome or not) "if by any means you may be enabled to pull some out of the fire…"

Let God's Salvation rescue his people!

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(13 July / Monday morning)

Greece apparently pulls off its gamble in a very high stakes poker game, bending the richer EU countries to its will over their fear of the collapse of whole Euro system.  Whew, dodged a bullet, but they are still flying thick across the trenches of the world's economic battlegrounds—

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/14/world/europe/greece-debt-plan.html?emc=edit_th_20150713&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
European Leaders Reach Agreement to Resolve Greek Debt Crisis
BRUSSELS — European leaders said Monday morning that they had reached a deal meant to resolve Greece's debt crisis and avert a historic fracture in the Continent’s common currency project.

“EuroSummit has unanimously reached agreement,” Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, wrote on his Twitter account shortly before 9 a.m. on Monday. The new bailout for Greece would involve “serious reforms” and “financial support,” he wrote. … …
(18 July—as the week roils to its end, the mess reasserts itself, and the EU continues to wobble like a drunk…!)
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Will the Iran deal also get dialed back a notch?  Some are saying negotiations are 99% resolved.  Will it be a good week for this weary old world?  Neither the Saudis nor the Jews think so, refusing to trust Iran in any way.   Is Uncle Sam just one big sucker?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/13/world/middleeast/iran-nuclear-talks.html?emc=edit_th_20150713&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Iran Nuclear Talks Are Nearing a Deal With Fewer Obstacles
VIENNA — Negotiators from Iran and six world powers are down to a small number of remaining disputes for a historic deal that would limit Tehran’s nuclear ability for more than a decade in return for sanctions relief, diplomats said on Sunday. … ...
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"It just don't work right!"  Gender is one of the strongest attributes of humanity.  There is a place for its strong honor and operation, but there is a place to be as free from its demands as possible, and soldiering is one instance of that place.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/13/us/marine-commanders-firing-stirs-debate-on-integration-of-women-in-corps.html?emc=edit_th_20150713&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Marine Commander’s Firing Stirs Debate on Integration of Women in Corps
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Of passing interest to certain folk—
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/13/business/media/at-comic-con-faith-based-entertainment-stays-in-the-shadows.html?emc=edit_th_20150713&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
At Comic-Con, Faith-Based Entertainment Stays in the Shadows
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Uh-oh, more criminalizing of any message of repentance as causing "emotional harm" and being "cyber-bullying.  The word "discrimination" has been semantically sabotaged as a whipping boy of the puerile, leftist and progressive press and culture.  The word "Discrimination" is also useable positively.  If you don't have enough discrimination to know when to step out into the street you will get run over.  Without careful discrimination there could be no advance in science, or even of knowledge.  Without the ability to discriminate we can not tell what is good or bad for us, or how to fathom out spiritual faith.  When we are not allowed to call sin sin, the human race will have no way to know what is a moral cesspool and what is good and moral and salvational help.  The cloned, genetically altered, computer-enhanced and microchipped, genderless, drug-altered reality of mindless beings is what the Enemy of our Souls wants in these last days.  Let the real humans, and the Christians of God stand against it.  "Let the redeemed of the LORD say so!"  Psalm 107

prophecynewswatch.com/2015/July13/133.html#BSBKetqJcjKDZ2QZ.99
Sharing Scripture Online Could Be Criminal Offense Under New New Zealand Cyberbullying Law

New Zealand’s government has passed the Harmful Digital Communications Bill, which declares that cyberbullying is a criminal offense.

That’s a good thing, right? Wait a minute, Christian. Not so fast. Read between the lines:

Anyone using digital communications like Facebook, Twitter or other apps in a way that causes “serious emotional distress” is considered to be breaking the law and could face a number of punishments. Posts that are deemed to be racist, sexist, speaking badly of someone’s sexual orientation or a disability, or showing religious intolerance are all covered by the bill.

That means someone could report your post or comment by simply saying they were hurt by what you said.

Ramifications of committing the newly-declared crimes include mediation, fines of up to $33,900 (US) or even time in jail. If business are found guilty of infringing, fines of up to $134,000 (US) can be imposed.

It has also been made an offense to incite suicide in any way, and doing so could land you with a three-year jail sentence. Oftentimes Leftists tell Christians that because we stand for the biblical definition of marriage between one man and one woman, and that all sexual sin is sin, we incite young people who are gender confused to end their lives.

Web publishers can opt in to a safe-harbor provision, protecting them from liability (and arguably also crimping free speech) if they agree to take down allegedly offending material on demand or at least within a grace period of 48 hours.

Anyone who shares Scripture or articles about biblical truth could fall under these laws. Your religious freedoms as you knew them could be shredded, if legislation like this is ever passed in America.
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Is Russia now more righteous than the United States? (Perhaps God is mercifully awakening many believers before the armies of Rosh drive south to their destruction in the attack upon Israel?)  Homosexuality is also condemned in Russia while made heroic here in the new sodomite America.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/World/2015/Jul-13/306474-russia-blocks-atheist-webpage-over-insulting-believers.ashx
Russia blocks atheist webpage over 'insulting' believers
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The entities of the fallen spiritual world have many powers that we cannot see and that give many advantages over us, though they are restrained by God's permissible will.  See the attacks on Job.  Nevertheless, Satan desires to attain to the attributes of God:  omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence.  He also wants to escape from God's power over him; to do this, among many ways, he also wants to invade our realm and take full control of us, and even create beings between us and his fallen angels, beings that are in full rebellion against God and are altered from his original Creation.  This happened before the Flood and resulted in the Nephilim, possibly even the dinosaurs, and other monstrosities and perversions of Creation.  Part of his bridge and gateways to take physical possession of our realm is to obtain to functional, physical omnipresence, omniscience, and omnipotence over us directly…through our own manipulated help and deception.  This is what the universal and ubiquitous surveillance society is all about, or what is behind it.  It is not enough that he and his can sneak around behind us and out of our sight, invisible to us, and suggest and work on people to sin one against another; he also wants direct control of our physical realm as a place to set up his kingdom in defiance of God.  This is what the End of the Age is all about, and why biblical Christians can take hope from all the details supplied to us by biblical prophecy.  God comforts us with his true omnipotence, his all knowingness from outside of Time, as we face these last battles and last days.

http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/July14/143.htm
US Company Gives Glimpse Into Future Of Government Surveillance
A small private firm in the US has developed a surveillance system of Orwellian proportions that could very well be the future of big brother.  Thirty kilometres above a chosen city, a plane hangs out of sight of the thousands of people scurrying below — continuously circling the metropolis underneath. Every second, the plane takes a photo of the entire city and all the happenings within a 64sq km radius. The images are beamed down to a control centre where they create what is akin to a real-time Google map of everything taking place.  When a crime occurs, teams of analysts simply scroll back in time to the scene of the incident and identify those involved. From that point, they can follow the target by clicking forward through the images to the present moment and pinpoint their location.  Ostensibly, surveillance is about preventing and prosecuting crimes — and while it’s only been used in a handful of cities, Persistent Surveillance Systems (PSS) are designed to do just that.
The times it has been used on US soil, the tool has allowed authorities to solve crimes in a matter of minutes. … ...
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Along the same lines — modus operandi and philosophy of building the fascist state of the final Big Brother —
www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/July15/154.html#wTF4cf4srEDiDaWu.99
U.S. Schools Begin Scanning Students' Thumbprints For 'Tracking Purposes'

One of the most effective methods of creating a surveillance state, authoritarian society, fascist nation or whatever one wishes to call it, is to inform children at an early age that they have no individual privacy rights. Take a child and reinforce the notion that everything he or she does, every activity participated in, will be tracked, monitored and recorded by a central authority. Make these practices seem like normal everyday routine, and you're well on your way to totally controlling them as they reach adulthood. … ...
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Drudging up —
Angela Merkel makes a little more sense than the US on "gay marriage."  (At this point, nearly the whole world makes more sense!)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/angela-merkel-gay-marriage-vote-germany-10389762.html
Angela Merkel doesn't believe in gay marriage – 'I don't want discrimination... but I make a difference at some point'
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Thousands of Kenyans plan to march naked before Mr. Obama to show him the difference between male and female and to rebuke the sodomite spirit coming out of American culture—
(Not exactly a Christian testimony, but they do seem intent on making the point to keep US debauchery out of Africa.  Even prostitutes there are protesting how low the US sinks!)
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/186649-kenya-gears-for-mass-nude-protest-against-obamas-aggressive-gay-stance.html
Kenya gears for mass nude protest against Obama’s “aggressive” gay stance
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Ok, here's a wild speculation by someone (me) who knows very little about astronomy.  Of course, in the overall scheme of things, I know only a shade less than the most proficient astronomers (because we all know next to nothing!)  I muse, from reading the Word of God and believing it.  The Word says, "There was a war in heaven and the devil and his angels fought against God and his angels…"  Could this war have been not only in another dimension of what are several "heavens," or could it also have been in interplanetary space, the "heavens"of space?  If so, could it be that Pluto has no craters because it is positioned so far outside the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter?  Could it be that most? many? all? of the asteroids come from there…many still held there by the power of their orbit around the sun, while others eventually "fall" toward the sun because of its, and the inner planets, gravitational pull?  Could this asteroid belt be the remains of an exploded planet, exploded by the ferocity of that war?  Could the more inner and/or closer planets (and their moons) to this former battleground planet have all/most? of their planetary cratering from asteroid hits from this explosion both then and since?

In Job, we are told that Satan once walked up and down between the stones of fire?  What are these stones of fire?  Planets, with their inner engines of spinning magma certainly would qualify.

Meanwhile, "scientists" quickly inform us that Pluto has so few craters because it is "only a 100 million years old."  But this could serve as a double dose of malarky, both throwing off any thoughts similar to mine here and reinforcing the babel that the universe is 14 billion years old, another ploy of the one who deceives us?  "…only a 100 million," chuckle.  God created the Earth but a few thousand years ago, and apparently the heavens only shortly before that, but what a story the devil's propaganda machine hath wrought!

Also, note that quick admission that Pluto is full of water/ice when only a brief generation back, "scientists" declared space a dry, dusty, empty vacuum.  How great things of knowledge are going to break on us rapidly here as the Age ends, when God through Daniel so wryly said simply that at the time of the End, "knowledge shall increase." 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/16/science/pluto-flyby-photos-reveal-mountains.html?emc=edit_th_20150716&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Pluto’s Portrait From New Horizons: Ice Mountains and No Craters
LAUREL, Md. — The first close-up image of Pluto has revealed mountains as tall as the Rockies, and an absence of craters — discoveries that, to their delight, baffled scientists working on NASA’s New Horizons mission and provided punctuation for a journey nine and a half years in the making. … …
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The satanic gore machine of butchered infants behind the mask of Planned Parenthood.  May God expose it thoroughly:  "Fetal tissue," a euphemism for butchered children.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/16/us/house-republicans-to-investigate-planned-parenthood-over-fetal-tissue.html?emc=edit_th_20150716&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=6938199
House Republicans to Investigate Planned Parenthood Over Fetal Tissue
WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders on Wednesday announced a congressional investigation of Planned Parenthood, a day after anti-abortion activists released a video of an unsuspecting official from the organization explaining how it provides fetal tissue to researchers.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/16/us/in-texas-a-military-exercise-is-met-by-some-with-suspicion.html?emc=edit_th_20150716&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
As Jade Helm 15 Military Exercise Begins, Texans Keep Watch ‘Just in Case’
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forwarded from The Berean Call Daily Update for 16 July.  Can the tribulation hour be far off when crucifixions and beheadings have returned?  May God save many facing martyrdom who fail to satisfy the infidel religion even though they be in it.  May they call on Jesus, as did the thief, in their hour of martyrdom, and be saved.

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/07/08/isis-crucifies-dozens-for-breaking-ramadan-fast/
ISIS CRUCIFIES DOZENS FOR BREAKING RAMADAN FAST
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(17 July)
Sadly, and fearsomely, this is becoming almost daily news as ISIS invades America.  Frankly, are we even shocked?  Satan has, since the beginning of his work among humans, used every form of subtle suggestion, whisper, psychology, propaganda, etc. to manipulate man, a race fallen into original sin, BUT, he yet looks for doorways for more direct physical control, greater entrances into the physical world.  "Star gates" and other means, genetic manipulation, etc. are opening and being employed by his forces everywhere, but currently "social media" is proving a boon of a gateway to him too.  He is enabled through the darkness of a religion he has engineered to stir up untraceable and unexpected combatants to pop up and appear right in the midst of our people--to suddenly kill us.  Come, Lord Jesus!  And until then, protect us by the powers of Psalm 91.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/17/us/chattanooga-tennessee-shooting.html?emc=edit_th_20150717&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Gunman Kills 4 Marines at Military Site in Chattanooga
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Ethnically, the Japanese were/are feared by their neighbors for their military ability.  They were a fierce, dedicated, sophisticated, technical force in WW2, but they swore off militarism after losing.  Will they rise again, with political winds yet to be seen, to be among the the "kings of the East" when they march to Armageddon?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/17/world/asia/japans-lower-house-passes-bills-giving-military-freer-hand-to-fight.html?emc=edit_th_20150717&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Japan Moves to Allow Military Combat for First Time in 70 Years

TOKYO — Defying broad public opposition and large demonstrations, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won a crucial vote in Parliament on Thursday for legislation that would give Japan’s military limited powers to fight in foreign conflicts for the first time since World War II.

Mr. Abe’s party and its allies in the lower house of Parliament approved the package of 11 security-related bills after opposition lawmakers walked out in protest and as demonstrators chanted noisily outside, despite a gathering typhoon. The upper chamber, which Mr. Abe’s coalition also controls, is all but certain to endorse the legislation as well.

The vote was the culmination of months of contentious debate in a society that has long embraced pacifism to atone for wartime aggression. It was a significant victory for Mr. Abe, a conservative politician who has devotedhis career to moving Japan beyond guilt over its militarist past and toward his vision of a “normal country” with a larger role in global affairs.

Mr. Abe has pressed this agenda, though, against the wishes of much of the Japanese public, and his moves have generated unease across Asia, especially in countries Japan once occupied and where its troops committed atrocities. Final passage of the bills would represent a break from the strictly defensive stance maintained by the Japanese military in the decades since the war.

Critics, including a majority of Japanese constitutional specialists, say the legislation violates the country's postwar charter, which renounces war. But the legislation is supported by the United States, Japan’s wartime foe turned ally and protector, which has welcomed a larger role for Tokyo in regional security as a counterweight to a more assertive China. … …
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ISIS begins to attempt naval warfare—
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/17/world/africa/isis-affiliate-sinai-province-claims-ship-attack.html?emc=edit_th_20150717&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Egypt ISIS Affiliate Claims Destruction of Naval Vessel

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"Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored."

("The prophetess," Julia Ward Howe, 1861)

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12 July

Saints,

I make sure I am up early Sunday mornings to watch Jack Van Impe on over the air old fashioned television.  (We have no cable where i am, and I refuse to pay to watch satellite tv!)  They announce this morning that they are now viewable by cellphone App anytime, anywhere worldwide.  Of course, like any other humans (even self included!), there may be a few points I am not so sure about or in agreement with, but, in most every point, they carefully and steadily warn of the end of the Age, and the need to be prepared through the personal knowledge of Christ.  Jack, who is in his '80's, has been out for several weeks, recovering from surgeries.  Please remember him/them in prayer.  Also, join me for a moment personally, in lifting up a favorite cousin and believer, a sister in Christ, who is facing serious health attacks on several fronts.

Rexella Van Impe and her guest this morning have pointed out the real and strong incursion of ISIS into America, and also the likelihood of antichristian persecution spreading even throughout our country and at the hands of our own society…and not just "later," but NOW.  I was out just yesterday doing street concerts and banter preaching in two local area parks, and, so far, I am allowed this constitutional right, though some are already questioning.  Yet, there is a strong sense on the street, and by many, that something is badly out of kilter.  If ever there is a time to witness and to plead with folks to listen, this is it.  "The fields are white with harvest; pray ye the Lord of the harvest that he will send out laborers…to gather."

The gathering shadows of great fear and terror are on the land, but here is what our Lord says,  "Let  not your heart be troubled:  ye believe in God, believe also in me…"  "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace.  In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; for I have overcome the world."

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5 July—

Could this be the straw that breaks the camel's back, a domino effect that will bring down the present EU (and maybe the whole world) in utter financial collapse to usher in the kingdom/financial system of the beast?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/06/world/europe/greek-referendum-debt-crisis-vote.html?emc=edit_na_20150705&nlid=69381998&ref=cta&_r=0
Early Returns Show Greeks Reject Terms of E.U. Bailout
ATHENS — Greek voters appeared to decisively reject a bailout deal offered by the country’s creditors two weeks ago, an outcome that could redefine the country’s place in Europe and shake the Continent’s financial stability.

As celebrants began to gather in Athens’s central Syntagma Square, the Interior Ministry projected that more than 60 percent of the voters had said no to a deal that would have imposed greater austerity measures on the beleaguered country.

With 40 percent of the vote in, the actual count tracked the projections, with 61 percent voting no and 39 percent yes, the Interior Ministry said. … ...

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Losing individuality, personality, personal responsibility, and the power of individual choice through micro-chipping…plans of Bill and Melinda Gates to "help" the world?

http://news.thewindowsclub.com/bill-gates-foundation-working-birth-control-chip-78981/
Bill Gates Foundation working on “Birth Control Chip”

Bill Gates and Melinda Foundation is working on a birth control chip that can be remote controlled. The birth control chip can be implanted into people’s body – in hip, inside arms or even beneath the back – and can be used for 16 years. The research on birth control chip was kept a secret until now, before the spokesperson for Bill Gates and Melinda Foundation confirmed that the beta testing for the birth control chip would be starting towards the end of this year and that they need volunteers to assist in real life testing of the chip.

The birth control chip is the brain child of a professor, Robert Langer, from Massachussets Institute of Technology. Bill Gates and Melinda foundation has funded the research and the prototype is ready for human testing. The chips will be ready for sale by the year 2018 according to Robert Langer. The institute’s Chip Foundation and Bill Gates’ foundation have been working on the birth control chip for past three years.
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8 July—
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend,"  Arabic/Islamic proverb and modus operandi —
Islam is called a religion of death as the highest goal of its adherents is to be martyred in jihad.  What hope of life is there for them? Thus, they love and prefer to fight and die.  They prove this in hating and killing one another too, so that if they should achieve world dominance, they would then kill off each other…and the last man standing would be the devil…the real god of their religion.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/08/world/europe/islamic-battalions-stocked-with-chechens-aid-ukraine-in-war-with-rebels.html?emc=edit_th_20150708&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Islamic Battalions, Stocked With Chechens, Aid Ukraine in War With Rebels

MARIUPOL, Ukraine — Wearing camouflage, with a bushy salt-and-pepper beard flowing over his chest and a bowie knife sheathed prominently in his belt, the man cut a fearsome figure in the nearly empty restaurant. Waiters hovered apprehensively near the kitchen, and try as he might, the man who calls himself “Muslim,” a former Chechen warlord, could not wave them over for more tea.

Even for Ukrainians hardened by more than a year of war here against Russian-backed separatists, the appearance of Islamic combatants, mostly Chechens, in towns near the front lines comes as something of a surprise — and for many of the Ukrainians, a welcome one.

“We like to fight the Russians,” said the Chechen, who refused to give his real name. “We always fight the Russians.”
He commands one of three volunteer Islamic battalions out of about 30 volunteer units in total fighting now in eastern Ukraine. The Islamic battalions are deployed to the hottest zones, which is why the Chechen was here. … …

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"Line in sand" pushed back a few days for Greece by incredulous Europeans —

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/08/business/international/greece-debt-eurozone-meeting.html?emc=edit_th_20150708&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Greece Given Until Sunday to Settle Debt Crisis or Face Disaster

BRUSSELS — Frustrated European leaders gave Greece until Sunday to reach an agreement to save its collapsing economy from catastrophe after an emergency summit meeting here on Tuesday ended without the Athens government offering a substantive new proposal to resolve its debt crisis.

“The situation is really critical and unfortunately we can’t exclude the black scenarios of no agreement,” said Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, warning that those possibilities included “the bankruptcy of Greece and the insolvency of its banking system” and great pain for the Greek people. Also looming ever larger was the prospect of Greece leaving the European currency union. … ...

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Is the World wobbling like a top running out of momentum? (This, right after the plunge and communist government freeze of the Chinese Stock Market!)

NYTimes Breaking News, 8 July —

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/09/business/dealbook/new-york-stock-exchange-suspends-trading.html
New York Stock Exchange Suspends Trading
The New York Stock Exchange unexpectedly shut down trading in all of its listed stocks late Wednesday morning.

The exchange did not immediately give an explanation for what caused the shutdown. Later, on Twitter, the exchange said: “The issue we are experiencing is an internal technical issue and is not the result of a cyberbreach.”

The New York Stock Exchange, which is now owned by Intercontinental Exchange, has had, like other stock exchanges, technical difficulties in the past, but the scale of the problem on Wednesday has little precedent. … ...
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http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/July07/071.html#E1StXUQledsfCd5S.99
Guess What Happened The Last Time The Chinese Stock Market Crashed Like This?
(Ans:  Crash of 2008)
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9 July—
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/09/business/international/stock-sell-off-unabated-in-china.html?emc=edit_th_20150709&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
China’s Efforts Fail to Contain Market Plunge
SHANGHAI — As the Chinese stock market slumps, the country’s government has stepped in boldly, unveiling a series of measures to prop up shares. But those efforts have done little to stabilize the market, with stocks continuing to slide on Wednesday.

The losses create a political and economic challenge for the nation’s leadership.

Beijing could face social unrest if the sell-off accelerates, since tens of millions of ordinary investors have plowed their savings into the market. The psychological toll on investors, in turn, could erode consumer confidence, dragging down growth in the already slowing economy. … ...
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No less than the prestigious (and non-political) American College of Pediatricians rebukes and laments the SCOTUS decision to make parent couples out of homosexuals—
Forward by The Berean Call, Today's Update for July 8

http://eaglerising.com/20240/the-american-college-of-pediatricians-calls-supreme-court-ruling-a-tragic-day-for-americas-children/#4wPC65YQbglP8vyr.99
The American College of Pediatricians Calls Supreme Court Ruling “A Tragic Day for America’s Children”

[On June 26] the President of the American College of Pediatricians, Dr. Michelle Cretella, ripped the Supreme Court's decision to force every state in America to allow gay marriage. Dr. Cretella argues that,"[T]his is a tragic day for America's children. The SCOTUS has just undermined the single greatest pro-child institution in the history of mankind: the natural family. Just as it did in the joint Roe v Wade and Doe v Bolton decisions, the SCOTUS has elevated and enshrined the wants of adults over the needs of children."
 
At their website, the College has posted a wealth of information and scientific evidence that same-sex marriage is destructive to children and that children do best in natural families. In April, the College posted the following press release to their website, urging the Supreme Court to protect America's children.
 
The American College of Pediatricians urges the Supreme Court of the United States to consider the well-being of children in the case before them this week to legalize same-sex marriage.  While the debate over the legitimacy of same-sex marriage can be viewed from many perspectives, there should be little debate about the effects it has upon children: Same-sex marriage deliberately deprives the child of a mother or a father, and is therefore
detrimental. The College advocates for children in this debate from an objective position grounded in scientific evidence.
 
President, Michelle Cretella, states "The court must understand the gravity of their decision in its impact upon children around the world.  Every child needs a mother and a father.  Same-sex marriage directly disenfranchises children of this right." 

There is unequivocal evidence of the fundamental value of the married, father-mother family unit to the optimal development of the child. For more information, including a link to the Amicus Brief filed with the Supreme Court, visit the Same-Sex Marriage page on the College website.  
 
Despite being certified by almost all major social science scholarly associations-indeed, in part because of this-the alleged scientific consensus that having two parents of the same sex is innocuous for child well-being is almost wholly without basis. All but a handful of the studies cited in support draw on small, non-random samples which cannot be extrapolated to the same-sex population at large. This limitation is repeatedly acknowledged in scientific meetings and journals, but ignored when asserted as settled findings in public or judicial advocacy.
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Drudging up—
Jade Helm begins in a few days.  Are the rightwing conspiracy freaks right or not?  Martial law practice? The invasion of Texas? Time will tell.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/07/08/jade-helm-15-heavily-scrutinized-military-exercise-to-open-without-media-access/
Jade Helm 15, heavily scrutinized military exercise, to open without media access
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via prophecynewswatch.com—
The persecution of being excluded from society, certifications, recognitions begins in Canada for those who do not accept the sodomite state and state of affairs.

http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/July09/093.html#qU2uzPMdz46s3REw.99

Christian Law School Forced To Support Homosexuality If It Wants Accreditation
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Genetic Mutant?
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/587954/Giant-sea-creature-Russia-beak-fur-mutant-Sakhalin-Island
Huge, dolphin-like creature with fur(?!) washes up on Siberian beach
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Hope in the midst of NY City—
 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/10/nyregion/central-park-festival-to-highlight-new-yorks-vibrant-evangelical-movement.html?emc=edit_th_20150710&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
An Evangelical Revival in the Heart of New York
The sky-blue walls of the former Vaudeville theater thundered with faith on Sunday morning in Corona, Queens. Some 600 worshipers rose to join the Latino band in song, shaking their tambourines, heads and hands in electric rapture.

The capacity crowd quieted when the pastor, Victor Tiburcio, took his place on stage, in front of a backdrop designed to look like the New York skyline and lit up like the set of a late-night talk show. Instead, it was the altar for his Pentecostal megachurch Aliento de Vida (Breath of Life), which Mr. Tiburcio and his wife, Hattie, immigrants from the Dominican Republic, opened in Queens 12 years ago.

Pastor Tiburcio had an important message for his congregation.
“We will have tickets for everybody here,” he said in Spanish, prompting more clapping.

The free tickets were for the festival this Saturday in Central Park featuring Luis Palau, one of the world’s leading evangelical Christian figures, whose event is expected to draw 60,000 people to the Great Lawn. For months it has been promoted not only in churches, but also on billboards, on the radio and in the subways, and it promises to be the largest evangelical Christian gathering in New York since the Rev. Billy Graham led a crusade in Queens 10 years ago. … ...
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Comic-Con agitators/promoters "witness" for the Antichrist and the Rise of the Beast alongside Christian witnessers—

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/comic-con-christian-activists-disrupted-807671
Comic-Con: Christian Activists Disrupted By "Beast Rises" A&E Promoters

New promotional materials for the 'Omen' prequel 'Damien' were handed out alongside the real religious protestors known to frequent the convention.

A&E's new series Damien is using a very unusual approach to get noticed at Comic-Con.

A team promoting the upcoming horror series took to the streets Thursday alongside the religious protestors usually camped out across the street from the San Diego Convention Center. However, instead of saying "Jesus saves" and "Jesus Will Rise," posters and shirts for the series read "From Flames, Damien Will Rise" and "The Beast Rises."

Additionally, street teams are handing out stickers, pins with three sixes and pamphlets directing convention-goers to visit www.ItsAllforYou.com, a site that warns visitors, "He is the only way to deal with the coming end" — not a far cry from some of the other religious-themed materials handed at the Con every year. … …
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By Saturday the 11th, Greece goes schizophrenic (or has its' bluff called?)
"A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways."  —The Apostle James
Greece’s Parliament Approves Prime Minister’s Bailout Plan
ATHENS — Setting the stage for a pivotal deal with Europe, the Greek Parliament early Saturday approved Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's proposal for a three-year, $59 billion rescue package with harsh austerity terms that was remarkably similar to the one Greek voters rejected in a referendum less than a week ago.

With a Sunday deadline looming for a decision on the bailout, a crunch point that all sides see as Greece's last chance to avoid bankruptcy and stay in the euro currency zone, the plan passed by an overwhelming margin. … ...

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By Sunday morning, June 11, press time for the blog, the teeter totter teeters and the spinning top continues its devolving wobble—
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/12/business/greece-debt-plan-at-next-crucial-stage-as-finance-ministers-meet.html?emc=edit_th_20150712&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Meeting on Greece Debt Breaks Up With No Deal
BRUSSELS — A meeting of European finance ministers broke up late Saturday with no agreement on whether Greece should be granted its third bailout since 2010, reflecting deep divides over whether the Athens government can be trusted to repay huge new loans and leaving the Continent hours from what could be a historic rupture.

The finance ministers planned to reconvene on Sunday, just before European national leaders are scheduled to meet in Brussels for what they have said would be a final decision on whether Greece should qualify for a new aid package, a step aimed at determining whether the country can remain in the euro currency union.

The failure by the finance ministers to reach an agreement, after nearly nine hours of talks, belied the optimism that followed the approval early Saturday by the Greek Parliament of a package of pension cuts, higher taxes and other policy changes long sought by Greece’s international creditors. In a remarkable turnabout, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had pushed the package through the legislature despite having led his country into a referendum six days earlier that overwhelmingly rejected much the same terms. … …
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The continuing theft of our children from us by a "blind justice" big brother world—
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/12/opinion/sunday/the-new-child-abuse-panic.html?emc=edit_th_20150712&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
The New Child Abuse Panic
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — FEW things are tougher for a parent than dealing with a child’s serious medical condition, particularly if it is complicated and hard to diagnose. The parent has to make hard choices about treatment, navigating conflicting advice from doctors or even rejecting one doctor’s opinion and seeking another.
Recently, the situation of these parents has gotten even harder. Some doctors and hospitals have begun to level a radical new charge — “medical child abuse” — against parents who, they say, get unnecessary or excessive treatment for their kids. That this care is usually ordered by other doctors hasn’t protected parents from these loaded accusations.
Although most of these cases have nothing to do with real child abuse, credulous child welfare officials have too often supported the doctors, threatened parents with loss of custody, and even removed kids from their homes — simply because the parents disagreed with the doctor’s plan of care. … ...	

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5 July 

Saints, 

The quote below is from The Berean Call,  July 1 update newsletter.  I have dropped them a line asking for the attribution of this quote and have yet to hear back.  It sounds like it could be one of the Puritan fathers, but is sure is a good prescription for survival as a Christian and disciple in this time.  Face it, the attacks are going to come from every direction and by every means.  If you can be offended, you will be offended…and so we will all suffer some kinds of persecution if we choose to live righteously for Christ.  It is a "promise" given to us by Paul in 2 Tim. 3:12.  And if we do notice, then we will also be charged with having "a persecution complex."  Can't win!  But Christ has won for us.  Blessed be he!  Let us be about his business!

"The Lord has given to every man his work. It is his business to do it, and the devil's business to hinder him-if he can. So, sure as God gives a man a work to do, Satan will try to hinder him. He may present other things more promising; he may allure you by worldly prospect; he may assault you with slander, torment you with false accusations, set you to work defending your character, employ pious persons to lie about you, editors to assail you, and excellent men to slander you. You may have Pilate and Herod, Ananias and Caiaphas all combined against you, and Judas standing by to sell you for 30 pieces of silver. And you may wonder why all these things have come to pass. Can you not see that the whole thing is brought about through the craft of the devil, to draw you off from your work and hinder your obedience to Christ? Keep about your work. Do not flinch because the lion roars. Do not stop to stone the devil's dogs. Do not fool around your time chasing the devil's rabbits. Do your work; let liars lie; let sectarians quarrel; let editors publish; let the devil do his worst. But see to it that nothing hinders you from fulfilling the work God has given you."

(A copy of this is going to be framed and hung over my desk!)
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29 June:  Fringe and not-so-fringe financial pundits have been looking ahead to June for months as a watershed time for the world economy, and it may indeed be that we have crossed "the continental divide" of world finance this month, and will accelerate, possibly very rapidly down the other side?  Greece is about to default, and Europe stands quaking in the implications, but, here Monday morning, the US territory of Puerto Rico, standing off in the Atlantic, is about to go the way of Greece.   What next?

Puerto Ricans fleeing the island for the States —  Island for sale?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/29/business/dealbook/puerto-ricos-governor-says-islands-debts-are-not-payable.html?emc=edit_na_20150628&nlid=69381998&ref=cta&_r=0
Puerto Rico’s Governor Says Island’s Debts Are ‘Not Payable’
Puerto Rico’s governor, saying he needs to pull the island out of a “death spiral,” has concluded that the commonwealth cannot pay its roughly $72 billion in debts, an admission that will probably have wide-reaching financial repercussions.

The governor, Alejandro García Padilla, and senior members of his staff said in an interview last week that they would probably seek significant concessions from as many as all of the island’s creditors, which could include deferring some debt payments for as long as five years or extending the timetable for repayment.

“The debt is not payable,” Mr. García Padilla said. “There is no other option. I would love to have an easier option. This is not politics, this is math.” … ...

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/29/world/europe/greece-will-shut-banks-in-fallout-from-debt-crisis.html?emc=edit_th_20150629&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Greece Will Shut Banks in Fallout From Debt Crisis
ATHENS — Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced Sunday night that Greece's banks would be closed as of Monday, as the fallout from ruptured debt negotiations with the nation’s creditors began inflicting pain on ordinary people while raising alarm in Washington, Brussels and Berlin.
The emergency measures escalated the confused and unpredictable state of a crisis that some analysts say could ripple through global financial markets and undercut European unity. Most Asian markets opened lower on Monday. … …

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Who will stand and who will cave?  The biblical and New Testament view will not allow anyone who claims to be a homosexual to abide in the congregation without repentance of that claim and admission.  No one is "born homosexual."  We are all born in original sin and events, maybe even genetic predispositions--though there is to this day no true scientific proof of that--lead us into to our own particular individual sins.  And conversion requires that we face them, denounce them, and strive to leave them behind, calling on God.  One could say all murderers and pedophiles are "born that way" and need a civil rights movement and a new Supreme Court, but it is manifestly not so…and God alone is the Real Supreme Court.  Neither can one be a true Christian and a professing homosexual, even one "choosing celibacy."  "Such were some of you," said St. Paul, "but you have been cleansed;  you have been set apart…"

One thing is certain: those "Christians" and "churches" who cave will become immediate media darlings, while those who don't will be marginalized, mocked, denigrated, and ultimately persecuted.  It is a time for the test of Faith.  May God strengthen us.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/29/us/with-same-sex-decision-evangelical-churches-address-new-reality.html?emc=edit_th_20150629&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
With Same-Sex Decision, Evangelical Churches Address New Reality
The dramatic shift in public opinion, and now in the nation’s laws, has left evangelical Protestants, who make up about a quarter of the American population, in an uncomfortable position. Out of step with the broader society, and often derided as discriminatory or hateful, many are feeling under siege as they try to live out their understanding of biblical teachings, and worry that a changing legal landscape on gay rights will inevitably lead to constraints on religious freedom.
But the challenges are not only external. To a degree that is rarely acknowledged in the public square, many evangelical churches are also grappling with internal questions. Especially in and around large urban areas, pastors increasingly report that some openly gay and lesbian Christians are opting to worship in evangelical congregations (“more and more are coming to our church,” Mr. Allison said) and that heterosexual worshipers are struggling over the church’s posture because friends or family members are gay.

“There is a growing desire on the part of some, even within the church, to combine their Christian faith with the acceptance of homosexual practice,” the Wheaton Bible statement acknowledged.

The result has been an obvious change in tone and emphasis — but not teaching or policy — at many churches. Almost all evangelical churches oppose same-sex marriage, and many do not allow gays and lesbians to serve in leadership positions unless they are celibate. Some pastors, however, now either minimize their preaching on the subject or speak of homosexuality in carefully contextualized sermons emphasizing that everyone is a sinner and that Christians should love and welcome all. … ...
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Drudge harvesting: 

The NYTimes's editors should be chagrined to learn that "transgender," one of their favorites words, is "so yesterday!"  Now, the antichrist spirit wants to turn its' poor hapless fools into a whole blend or continuum of gender, non-gender, etc.  What ultimate misery for each deluded adherent.   "God created them male and female" and expects us to honor his assignments.  What is outside of that will end in torment.

https://fortune.com/2015/06/29/gender-fluid-binary-companies/

Transgender is yesterday's news: How companies are grappling with the 'no gender' society
Facebook now offers more than 50 ways for users to identify their gender. Says one exec, “Gender neutral is kind of the new thing.” … …
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"Slouch(ing) toward Bethlehem, waiting to be born…" W. B. Yeats, on the dark spirit of this world's system.  St. John on the Beast" — "And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed." (Rev. 13:15).

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11703662/Threat-from-Artificial-Intelligence-not-just-Hollywood-fantasy.html
Threat from Artificial Intelligence not just Hollywood fantasy
From the dystopian writings of Aldous Huxley and HG Wells to the sinister and apocalyptic vision of modern Hollywood blockbusters, the rise of the machines has long terrified mankind.
But it now seems that the brave new world of science-fiction could become all too real.

An Oxford academic is warning that humanity runs the risk of creating super intelligent computers that eventually destroy us all, even when specifically instructed not to harm people.

Dr Stuart Armstrong, of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, has predicted a future where machines run by artificial intelligence become so indispensable in human lives they eventually make us redundant and take over.

And he says his alarming vision could happen as soon as the next few decades.

Dr Armstrong said: "Humans steer the future not because we're the strongest or the fastest, but because we're the smartest.
"When machines become smarter than humans, we'll be handing them the steering wheel." … …

(He does, of course, not factor in God's interventions.  It is really He not we that hold the steering wheel: Rev. 11:18:  "…he will destroy them which destroy the earth."  In the end, the image of the Beast will be but melted down slag piles of silicon, and the Beast Himself, the antichrist, tossed unceremoniously into the Lake of Fire.)
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First "argument" between man and AI machine?
Surf the "dialog" here—
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/06/26/artificial-intelligence-machine-gets-testy-with-its-programmers/
Artificial Intelligence Machine Gets Testy With Its Programmer
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The western, woman scientist who discovered CRISPR-Cas9 from bacteria deep in a mine, and then has desperately called for a worldwide ethical moratorium on the work does so from a point of view of Western nee Christian ethics;  traditional oriental values are not the same and genetic research on humans toward a "new man", super-soldiers, monster chimeras of half man, half beast, etc. races forward—
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/30/science/a-scientific-ethical-divide-between-china-and-west.html?emc=edit_th_20150630&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
A Scientific Ethical Divide Between China and West

(excerpt):
“The ‘red line’ in the West and in China are not too similar,” Deng Rui, a medical ethicist at Shanxi Medical University, said in a telephone interview. “Ethics are a question of culture, and that is about tradition, especially where it touches on human life.”

“Confucian thinking says that someone becomes a person after they are born. That is different from the United States or other countries with a Christian influence, where because of religion they may feel research on embryos is not O.K.”
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2 July:  "…distress of nations, with perplexity," (Luke 21:25)...handwringing, confusion, decay, devolution…

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/02/world/europe/mixed-messages-and-no-progress-in-greek-crisis.html?emc=edit_th_20150702&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Mixed Messages and No Progress in Greek Crisis

BRUSSELS — Bewildered Greeks, not to speak of people throughout Europe and the world, could be forgiven for wondering who, if anyone, is in charge.
In the past few days, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece has blown up negotiations with European creditors on staving off default, then retreated and accepted more or less the same terms, only to have European leaders tell him the offer had expired.
Greeks are supposed to vote on a referendum this weekend, but no one there or elsewhere seems sure what they will be asked, or what the consequences will be for voting yes or no.

And European leaders here and in Berlin and Paris have been saying distinct — sometimes directly contradictory — things about whether there is a bailout deal for Greece still on the table, and whether they want Greece to hold its referendum before they can renew discussions about it.

The ancient Greek term for all this is khaos, and the vast chasm or void of coherent decision making appears to extend well beyond its borders. The crisis appears to simultaneously vindicate critics’ complaints that Greece’s left-wing governing party, Syriza, is flailing about with wild gambits, but also that Europe, led primarily by the German leader Angela Merkel, is obsessed with rules and procedures that have resulted in a long string of emergency meetings but no clear plan for addressing the Greek debt crisis. … ...
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…by Saturday the Fourth
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/04/us/despair-and-anger-as-puerto-ricans-cope-with-debt-crisis.html?emc=edit_th_20150704&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Despair and Anger as Puerto Ricans Cope With Debt Crisis
excerpt:  “People don’t even answer you when you tell them, ‘Buenos dias,’ ” said Ibrahim Baker, 55, on Wednesday as he stood at the cash register of the bakery he has owned for 25 years. “Everyone is depressed.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/04/world/europe/alexis-tsipras-greece-debt-crisis-referendum.html?emc=edit_th_20150704&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
In Greek Referendum Campaign, a Barrage of Doomsday Ads
ATHENS — The ads come close to suggesting that the apocalypse could be just around the corner if Greeks make the wrong choice in a referendum on Sunday.
Against a blue background, a cheery cartoon rendering of an A.T.M. appears and an announcer asks: Will there be cash on Monday?
A big red “X” crosses it out. Will there be gasoline? Will there be medicine? Will pensions be paid? As the ad continues, a dozen such questions are answered with a resounding “no,” before the tagline appears urging voters to say yes in Sunday’s referendum. … …
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Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
Isaiah 26:3

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28 June — Yes, it's been quite a month / pivoting down into the Abyss?

Saints,

It's been quite a week.  Wake up to a new America, a  new normal, both sodomite and also subject to vicious terrorist attacks.  All national holidays are now met with fear of attacks.  Even all the "protected" sharks are getting in on the act with beach attacks skyrocketing.   The President sings Amazing Grace to the initial chuckle of others on the eulogy platform, for the Charleston 9, before they saw he was serious.

26 June — Two NYTimes' "Breaking News Alerts" arrive in my mailbox;  though on different subjects, they do seem to be logical companions — as Western Civilization sinks ever lower in the water, like an old ship going down, cabin by cabin, deck by deck—

	The Supreme Court's slim majority sodomizes the country. (Wouidn't want to be the five approving justices on God's Judgment Day.) /  Terrorists carry out widespread multiple attacks on three continents in one day.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/27/us/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage.html?emc=edit_na_20150626&nlid=69381998&ref=cta&_r=0
Gay Marriage Supporters Win Supreme Court Victory
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/27/world/middleeast/terror-attacks-france-tunisia-kuwait.html?emc=edit_na_20150626&nlid=69381998&ref=cta
Terrorist Attacks on 3 Continents Kill Dozens
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Saturday night, the 27th:  huge gay rally in Berlin follows US Supreme Court announcement;  Greece ready to domino/topple EU and Western economies?

http://news.yahoo.com/huge-crowds-berlin-gay-pride-historic-us-ruling-171617322.html;_ylt=AwrXnCd1BY9VijEA9FvQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTBzdmVvZmlwBGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMxMAR2dGlkAwRzZWMDc3I-
Huge crowds for Berlin Gay Pride after historic US ruling

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-27/greeks-line-up-at-banks-and-drain-atms-after-tsipras-calls-vote
Greeks Line Up at Banks and Drain ATMs as Tsipras Calls Vote
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The old Cold War returns and heats up rapidly with NATO deploying weaponry all across the front with Russia.  Is this "the hook in the jaw" to divert/ bring forth Rosh/Russia to the great battle in the Middle East — Ezekiel 38 & 39?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/24/world/europe/nato-returns-its-attention-to-an-old-foe-russia.html?emc=edit_th_20150624&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
NATO Refocuses on the Kremlin, Its Original Foe
CAMP ADAZI, Latvia — After years of facing threats far beyond its borders, NATO is now reinvigorating plans to confront a much larger and more aggressive threat from its past: Moscow.

This seismic shift has been apparent in military training exercises in this former Soviet republic, which is now a NATO member and on the alliance’s eastern flank, bordering Russia.

On a recent day, Latvian soldiers conducted a simulated attack on dug-in enemy positions in a pine forest here as two United States A-10 attack planes roared overhead and opened fire with 30-millimeter cannons.

Two days before, a B-52 dropped nine dummy bombs radioed in by the Latvians on the ground — all just 180 miles from the Russian border.

The symbolism of the B-52s, stalwarts of the Cold War arsenal, was lost on no one. The bombers’ main mission once was to deliver a nuclear knockout punch to Soviet forces, but they were put to use for the first time over Latvia to show resolve on the new front between NATO and Russia, the heir of the Soviet war machine. … …
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Cat and Mouse?  Iranian (Persian) duplicity as standard policy?
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/24/world/middleeast/irans-supreme-leader-stiffens-his-position-on-nuclear-talks.html?emc=edit_th_20150624&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Iran’s Supreme Leader Seems to Pull Back on Nuclear Talks
TEHRAN — With exactly a week left before the deadline for a final agreement to limit Iran's nuclear program, the country’s supreme leader appeared to undercut several of the central agreements his negotiators have already reached with the West.

In a speech broadcast live on Iran state television, the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, demanded that most sanctions be lifted before Tehran has dismantled part of its nuclear infrastructure and before international inspectors verify that the country is beginning to meet its commitments. He also ruled out any freeze on Iran’s sensitive nuclear enrichment for as long as a decade, as a preliminary understanding announced in April stipulates, and he repeated his refusal to allow inspections of Iranian military sites.

American officials said they would not be baited into a public debate with the ayatollah, who has the final word on nuclear matters. But with Western foreign ministers already hinting that the negotiations may go past the June 30 deadline, both American and European officials have said in recent weeks that they are increasingly concerned about the possible effects of the ayatollah’s statements. … …
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/24/world/asia/pakistan-says-more-than-600-have-died-in-heat-wave.html?emc=edit_th_20150624&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Karachi Heat Wave Death Toll Tops 650 During Ramadan Fast
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StarGate coming true?  Media propaganda preparation?  Watch this video!  I have long wondered why NASA sent its Rover to craters and wasteland to explore for evolution-affirming microbes and minerals when the Plains of Cydonia beckon with questions of intelligent life?  Maybe now they just can't dodge it any longer — signs turning up even where Rover roves?  Watch skywatchtv.com and read ExoVaticana to prepare for the "fearsome signs in the heavens" and the things which "will come down upon the earth" in the days ahead (and read your Bible!)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/586163/Is-PYRAMID-found-in-NASA-Mars-video-proof-of-alien-civilisation-on-Red-Planet
Is PYRAMID found by NASA Curiosity Rover PROOF of alien civilisation on Red Planet?
ALIEN searchers claim to have found a replica of one of Egypt's Great Pyramids in official NASA images of Mars, sparking suggestions an ancient civilisation once lived on the Red Planet. … … (Nephilim outpost after the Flood?)
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...a satanic cancer spreads, but God will do major surgery on it at the battle of Ezekiel 38 and 39—

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/27/world/europe/french-factory-lyon-attack-isis.html?emc=edit_na_20150626&nlid=69381998&ref=cta
Suspected Terrorist Attack at Factory Near Lyon, France, Kills One
Attackers stormed a factory near Lyon, France, on Friday, killing at least one person in what the authorities said appeared to be a terrorist incident.

French news reports said that a car carrying two people had driven onto the grounds of an industrial-gas plant in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, southeast of Lyon, and set off an explosion. One of the attackers reportedly waved an Islamic State flag during the attack.

News reports said that there was a decapitated body at the scene. The police provided no details other than to confirm that at least one person was dead and that several others had been wounded. … … (Other early reports say the decapitated head was put on a pike of a nearby or surrounding fence by these barbarians.)

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As predicted, they are not going to quit; the sodomites are like an invading army—in a sense like Islam—that cannot be pacified with less than an utter takeover—and all this with a false "civil rights' struggle" to defend an egregious sin, abominable to the God the Bible.  But, "when the enemy comes in like a flood, the LORD will raise up a standard against him."  (Isa 59)  The time of God's witness to the nations, on many fronts, is at hand and happening.  He "notices" those who suffer at the hands of evil.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/us/gay-rights-leaders-push-for-federal-civil-rights-protections.html?emc=edit_th_20150628&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0

Next Fight for Gay Rights: Bias in Jobs and Housing
(We will have you!)
Exhilarated by the Supreme Court’s endorsement of same-sex marriage, gay rights leaders have turned their sights to what they see as the next big battle: obtaining federal, state and local legal protections in employment, housing, commerce and other arenas, just like those barring discrimination based on race, religion, sex and national origin.

The proposals pit advocates against many of the same religious conservatives who opposed legalizing same-sex marriage, and who now see the protection of what they call religious liberty as their most urgent task. These opponents argue that antidiscrimination laws will inevitably be used to force religious people and institutions to violate their beliefs, whether by providing services for same-sex weddings or by employing gay men and lesbians in church-related jobs. … …

Many See a Victory for Children, Too
An abomination to pollute children:  http://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000003767426/a-victory-for-children-too.html?emc=edit_th_20150628&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998

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"When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him."
Isaiah the Prophet (59:19b)

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21 June  	Happy Father's Day!

Saints,

We watch and pray.  Pray that God will intervene with the soon-coming Supreme Court ruling.  If the sodomites (LGBT, etc.) gain free access to roam the land, ferreting out any who might disagree, we will shortly be seeing biblical Christianity made illegal, outlawed, and our own children carted off to their uses.  This is nearly upon us.  Even more frightening than persecution by the world will be the "accommodation" made by the many churches who will adjust their doctrine to preserve themselves.  We enter the time when "many will be offended," and "many will betray many."  They will glaze over under the influence of "the unholy Comforter," the spirit of antichrist and label adherents of the Bible as "hate criminals," throwbacks, and those who must be reeducated, by law and force if needed — even though we only proclaim the saving power and the mercy of the Lamb of God.  Many will cave, turn, and betray.

God help us, and God defend us.  May he help us to know when to hide (Isa. 26:20) and when to shine forth as the city on a hill and the candle not made to be under the bushel (Sermon on the Mount, Mt. 5:14-16).  (See especially the article below on what is happening with "gender education" in Italy right now.)

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How to pay good money to go stark, raving mad?  Mixing virtual reality with real time reality?  You think "jet-lag" may make you feel tired, grumpy, and disoriented from mixing time zones?  Try the "psychosis-lag" of mixing realities…

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/15/business/virtual-reality-headsets-raise-very-real-concerns.html?emc=edit_th_20150615&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Virtual Reality Headsets Raise Very Real Concerns
(excerpt):

...That makes the thousands of developers and early adopters, who already have prototype virtual reality headsets, effectively lab rats for these devices. They’re the ones figuring out how to navigate their real-life surroundings when their vision of the real world is shut out.
They’re learning which virtual reality experiences are fun, which are creepy and which might make people nauseated from motion sickness.

Etiquette around social forms of virtual reality is already taking shape since this technology has the potential to turn some of the more noxious forms of online behavior into something far more menacing. … ...

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A small but strange conjunction and coincidence of two End of the Age prophecies occurs: dangerous wild animals roam the streets (Rev. 6:8) of Tbilisi, which is the domain of Tubal, an ally of the war that will descend on Israel in Ezekiel 38:2.  The local Orthodox Patriarch seems to feel it is a madness of judgment on the land—
(boldface added)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/15/world/europe/zoo-animals-on-the-loose-in-tbilisi-after-flooding.html?emc=edit_th_20150615&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Zoo Animals on the Loose in Tbilisi After Flooding
MOSCOW — Residents of Tbilisi, Georgia, were warned to stay off the streets on Sunday lest they encounter one of the lions, tigers, bears or other beasts set free from the city zoo after floodwaters devastated the center of the capital.

At least 12 people died in the floods and 24 were reported missing, according to Davit Narmania, the mayor of Tbilisi. “Not all the animals that fled from the zoo have been caught yet,” the mayor was quoted as saying by Russia’s Interfax news agency. “Therefore I would ask the population to avoid moving around the city except in cases of acute need.”

It was not immediately clear how many animals remained on the loose and how many had been killed in the floods. A burbling stream that feeds through a narrow gorge in parts of downtown Tbilisi turned into a raging torrent and burst its banks after heavy rains on Saturday night, local news reports said.
Images from the city underscored the anarchy. One showed people herding a hippopotamus along a street choked with mud, after it had been hit by a tranquilizer dart. Others revealed the corpses of animals amid the debris of wrecked cars and buildings. And a bear was pictured perched above the roiling waters on an air-conditioning unit.

A special police team was sent to the neighborhoods around the zoo to hunt for the roaming animals, according to local television reports.
Some of the animals were killed when they could not be captured, the report said, including six wolves found on the grounds of a children’s hospital, as well as a bear and a hyena. Some residents expressed indignation at those killings, but officials said some animals were too aggressive to be captured.

The director of the zoo, Zurab Gurielidze, called for an investigation into the killing of the animals. “If an animal attacked people, it’s one thing,” he was quoted as saying by Interfax. “I know that no order was issued to kill animals. Some policemen exceeded their authority.”

Zoo workers were quoted as saying that a full animal census was impossible because parts of the zoo remained under water, but a popular albino lion called Sumba was found shot dead on the grounds.

Helicopters were swooping low over the city to try to spot the animals. Those missing after the flood included 20 wolves, eight lions, and several tigers and jaguars, Interfax reported. Only three of 17 penguins survived, the news agency said.

One person who died while trying to save the animals, Guliko Chitadze, a 25-year veteran of the Tbilisi Zoo, had her arm amputated in late May after she was attacked by a tiger, Interfax said.

At a Sunday Mass, Patriarch Ilia II, the head of the Georgian Orthodox Church, told worshipers that the broad assault against the church by the country’s former Communist rulers lay at the root of the disaster.  “When Communists came to us in this country, they ordered that all crosses and bells of the churches be melted down and the money used to build the zoo,” the patriarch said, Interfax reported. “Therefore, the zoo should have not been built there,” he said. “Many didn’t know this, but sin will not go without punishment.”

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If you're following the Transhumanist agenda, you should brace yourself, and check out Tom Horn's skywatchtv.com.  Brace yourself for an onslaught of sensationalistic presentation, but then the whole realm of what is happening in genetic "transmogrification" is pretty horrendously sensate.  A late release —

skywatchtv.com
INHUMAN – PART TWO: ENHANCED HUMANS & THE NEW (NEPHILIM) ARMS RACE

As the director of the Future of Humanity Institute and a professor of philosophy at Oxford University, Nick Bostrom (www.NickBostrom.com) is a leading advocate of transhumanism who, as a young man, was heavily influenced by the works of Friedrich Nietzsche (from whom the phrase “God is dead” derives) and Goethe, the author of Faust. Nietzsche was the originator of the übermensch or “Overman” that Adolf Hitler dreamed of engineering, and the “entity” that man—who is nothing more than a rope “tied between beast and Overman, a rope over an abyss”—according to Nietzsche, will eventually evolve into. Like the ancient Watchers before him (Watchers, remember, were fallen angels that mingled human dna with animals and their seed to produce Nephilim. More on this will be discussed later), Bostrom envisions giving life to Nietzsche’s Overman (posthumans) by remanufacturing men with animals, plants, and other synthetic life-forms through the use of modern sciences including recombinant dna technology, germ-line engineering, and transgenics (in which the genetic structure of one species is altered by the transfer of genes from another). Given that molecular biologists classify the functions of genes within native species yet remain unsure in most cases how a gene’s coding might react from one species to another, one should expect the genetic structure of the modified animal/humans to be changed in physical appearance, sensory modalities, disease propensity, personality, behavior traits, and more as a result of these modifications.
Despite these unknowns, such genetic tinkering as depicted in the movie Splice is already taking place in thousands of research laboratories around the world, including the United States, Britain, and Australia, where animal eggs are being used to create hybrid human embryos from which stem-cell lines can be produced for medical research. Not counting synthetic biology, where entirely new forms of life are being brewed, there is no limit to the number of human-animal concoctions currently under development within openly contracted as well as top-secret science facilities. A team at Newcastle and Durham universities in the United Kingdom recently illustrated this when they announced plans to create “hybrid rabbit and human embryos, as well as other ‘chimera’ embryos mixing human and cow genes.” The same researchers more alarmingly have already managed to reanimate tissue “from dead human cells in another breakthrough which was heralded as a way of overcoming ethical dilemmas over using living embryos for medical research.”[i] In the United States, similar studies led Irv Weissman, director of Stanford University’s Institute of Cancer/Stem Cell Biology and Medicine in California, to create mice with partly human brains, causing some ethicists to raise the issue of “humanized animals” in the future that could become “self aware” as a result of genetic modification. Even former president of the United States, George W. Bush, in his January 31, 2006, State of the Union address, called for legislation to “prohibit…creating human-animal hybrids, and buying, selling, or patenting human embryos.” His words mostly fell on deaf ears, and now “the chimera, or combination of species, is a subject of serious discussion in certain scientific circles,” writes senior counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, Joseph Infranco. “We are well beyond the science fiction of H. G. Wells’ tormented hybrids in the Island of Doctor Moreau; we are in a time where scientists are seriously contemplating the creation of human-animal hybrids.”[ii] When describing the benefits of man-with-beast combinations in his online thesis, “Transhumanist Values,” Bostrom cites how animals have “sonar, magnetic orientation, or sensors for electricity and vibration,” among other extrahuman abilities. He goes on to include how the range of sensory modalities for transhumans would not be limited to those among animals, and that there is “no fundamental block to adding, say, a capacity to see infrared radiation or to perceive radio signals and perhaps to add some kind of telepathic sense by augmenting our brains,”[iii] a position verified by the U.S. National Science Foundation and Department of Commerce in the report, Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance.
Bostrom and the U.S. government are correct in that the animal kingdom has levels of perception beyond human. Some animals can “sense” earthquakes and “smell” tumors. Others, like dogs, can hear sounds as high as 40,000 Hz—and dolphins can hear even higher. It is also known that at least some animals see wavelengths beyond normal human capacity. This is where things start getting interesting, perhaps even supernatural, as Bostrom may understand and anticipate. According to the biblical story of Balaam’s donkey, certain animals see into the spirit world. Contemporary and secular studies likewise indicate animals may at times be reacting to intelligence beyond normal human perception. Will this have peculiar consequences for enhanced humans with animal dna? Elsewhere in this series, we will describe how opening supernatural gateways that exist within the mind can be achieved through altered mental states induced by psychoactive drugs such as dmt and absinthe. Do transhumanists and/or military scientists imagine a more stable pathway or connection with the beyond—the ability to see into other dimensions or the spirit world—as a result of brain enhancement through integrating men with beasts? Do they envision reopening the portions of the mind that some scholars believe were closed off following the fall of man? Late philosopher and scientist Terrance McKenna, originator of “Novelty Theory,” speculated that brain enhancement following Technological Singularity might accomplish this very thing—contact with other-dimensional beings. More recently, at Arizona State University (asu), where the Templeton Foundation has been funding a long series of pro-transhumanist lectures titled “Facing the Challenges of Transhumanism: Religion, Science, Technology,”[iv] some of the instructors agree that radical alteration of Homo sapiens could open a door to unseen intelligence. Consequently, in 2009, asu launched another study, this time to explore discovery of—and communication with—“entities.” Called the Sophia project (after the Greek goddess), the express purpose of this university study is to verify communication “with deceased people, spirit guides, angels, otherworldly entities/extraterrestrials, and/or a Universal Intelligence/God.”[v] Imagine what this could mean if government laboratories with unlimited budgets working beyond congressional review were to decode the gene functions that lead animals to have preternatural capabilities of sense, smell, and sight, and then blended them with Homo sapiens. Among other things, something that perhaps Darpa (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has envisioned for years could be created for use against entire populations—genetically engineered “Nephilim agents” that appear to be human but that hypothetically see and even interact with invisible forces. Overnight, the rules for spiritual warfare as well as regular warfare would take on an unprecedented (at least in modern times) dimension.

And this is no mere fear mongering by sensationalists; here is the former chairman on the President's Council on Bioethics—

While the former chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics, Leon Kass, does not elaborate on issues of spiritual warfare, he provided a status report on how real and how imminent the dangers of Grin technologies could be in the hands of transhumanists. In the introduction to his book, Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenges of Bioethics, Kass warned:
Human nature itself lies on the operating table, ready for alteration, for eugenic and psychic “enhancement,” for wholesale redesign. In leading laboratories, academic and industrial, new creators are confidently amassing their powers and quietly honing their skills, while on the street their evangelists [transhumanists] are zealously prophesying a posthuman future. For anyone who cares about preserving our humanity, the time has come for paying attention.[vi]
The warning by Kass of the potential hazards of emerging technologies coupled with transhumanist aspirations is not an overreaction. One law school in the United Kingdom where students are taught crime-scene investigation is already discussing the need to add classes in the future devoted to analyzing crime scenes committed by posthumans. The requirement for such specially trained law enforcement personnel will arise due to part-human, part-animal beings possessing behavior patterns not consistent with present-day profiling or forensics understanding. Add to this other unknowns such as “memory transference” (an entirely new field of study suggesting that complex behavior patterns and even memories can be transferred from donors of large human organs to their recipients), and the potential for tomorrow’s human-animal chimera issues multiplies. How would the memories, behavior patterns, and instincts, for instance, of a wolf affect the mind of a human? That such unprecedented questions will have to be dealt with sooner than later has already been illustrated in animal-to-animal experiments, including those conducted by Evan Balaban at McGill University in Montreal, where sections of brain from embryonic quails were transplanted into the brains of chickens, and the resultant chickens exhibited head bobs and vocal trills unique to quail.[vii] The implication from this field of study alone proves that complex behavior patterns can be transferred from one species to another, strongly suggesting that transhumans will likely bear unintended behavior and appetite disorders that could literally produce lycanthropes (werewolves) and other nightmarish Nephilim traits.
As troubling as those thoughts are, some in government and science communities believe these dangers could be just the tip of the iceberg. One-on-one, interpersonal malevolence by human-animals might quickly be overshadowed by global acts of swarm violence. The seriousness of this for the conceivable future is significant enough that a recent House Foreign Affairs (hfa) committee chaired by California Democrat Brad Sherman, best known for his expertise on the spread of nuclear weapons and terrorism, is among a number of government panels currently studying the implications of genetic modification and human-transforming technologies related to future terrorism. Congressional Quarterly columnist Mark Stencel listened to the hfa committee hearings and wrote in his March 15, 2009, article, “Futurist: Genes without Borders,” that the conference “sounded more like a Hollywood pitch for a sci-fi thriller than a sober discussion of scientific reality…with talk of biotech’s potential for creating supersoldiers, superintelligence, and superanimals [that could become] agents of unprecedented lethal force.”[viii] George Annas, Lori Andrews, and Rosario Isasi were even more apocalyptic in their American Journal of Law and Medicine article, “Protecting the Endangered Human: Toward an International Treaty Prohibiting Cloning and Inheritable Alterations,” when they wrote:
The new species, or “posthuman,” will likely view the old “normal” humans as inferior, even savages, and fit for slavery or slaughter. The normals, on the other hand, may see the posthumans as a threat and if they can, may engage in a preemptive strike by killing the posthumans before they themselves are killed or enslaved by them. It is ultimately this predictable potential for genocide that makes species-altering experiments potential weapons of mass destruction, and makes the unaccountable genetic engineer a potential bioterrorist.[ix]
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If it weren't such a serious issue of men and women destroying their own souls through this perversion, it would instead be almost comical how often—virtually daily—the NYTimes works to put this word, this new cultural meme, this propaganda issue before its' readers, 16 June —

Beyond Caitlyn (Bruce!) Jenner Lies a Long Struggle by Transgender People
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/15/us/beyond-caitlyn-jenner-lies-a-long-struggle-by-transgender-people.html?emc=edit_th_20150616&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
By now, most Americans are probably familiar with the rights movement known by the initials L.G.B.T., but they may have a better sense of the L.G.B. part — lesbian, gay, bisexual. The T, for transgender, has eluded many people. That, however, may be quickly changing with a string of developments in recent years, not the least being the emergence this month of Caitlyn (Bruce) Jenner, a transgender woman who was a public figure for four decades as Bruce Jenner, Olympic decathlon champion and reality-show personality. … ...
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Government mandated national Hinduism:  Yoga for government employees.  The darkness of national Hinduism clashes with local Muslims and turns a "yoga day" into a kind of national holiday, US style.  Most strange.  Hinduism is one of many spin-offs, but a predominant one, from ancient Babylon, and its practices (yoga, the poster child!) are figuring prominently in the One World Religion that is forming, but, oh, what a mess of conflicting ideologies the antichrist will have to try to deal with;  for many, it will be "to the guillotine!" one supposes.

Yoga is not for Christians to practice.  Get your exercise, stretching, etc. without adding that name, which calls to the attention of the demon gods of Hinduism.

Modi’s Yoga Day Grips India, and ‘Om’ Meets ‘Ouch!’
NEW DELHI — On a sticky morning last week, Deputy Commissioner Chandra Shekhar Sahukar of India's Agriculture Ministry (animal husbandry department, small ruminant section) found himself in a yoga class for the first time in his 57 years, miserably grasping his ankle.

In his bag he carried a photocopy of a memorandum advising senior officials to familiarize themselves with certain postures ahead of International Yoga Day this Sunday, when they will take part in a mass outdoor yoga session scheduled to begin at 7 a.m. The session is intended to qualify for the Guinness Book of World Records, the memo says, warning, “If some officials turn up without practice, there will be risk of the record claim being affected.”

At the front of the room, the instructor was folding and unfolding himself like a pocketknife, and pointedly reminding members of the class that they would soon be performing under the scrutiny of “Modi-saab.” When he asked the students to press their faces to their knees, Mr. Sahukar — whose professional duties, he noted later, include “a lot of sitting” — could keep silent no longer.

“It’s not touching!” he exclaimed. “I can’t bend anymore!” … …

…Bal Mukund Singh, the yoga instructor, ended the class by urging his students to become Hanuman, the monkey god, and then watched as they dispersed to the offices where they would spend their days handling dusty file folders and eating fritters.
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Wow!  What hard times are coming!  It is illegal to catch the rain coming off your roof in the State of Colorado!  When will how many sips of water you drink each day be regulated?  The Tribulation which the Lord must send on the Earth will, in the end, demand everyone's full attention, right down to water on the tongue!  Better to be ready to go now, earnestly watching for the Lord's catching up of the saints!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/16/us/a-thirsty-colorado-battles-over-the-destiny-of-its-raindrops-drought.html?emc=edit_th_20150616&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
A Thirsty Colorado Is Battling Over Who Owns Raindrops
DENVER — When Jason Story bought an old soy sauce barrel to collect the rain dripping from his downspout, he figured he had found an environmentally friendly way to water his garden’s beets and spinach. But under the quirks of Western water rules, where raindrops are claimed even as they tumble from the sky, he became a water outlaw. … …
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The absurdist propaganda campaign by NYT editorial staff to keep the meme "thansgender" before us from day to day, 17 June —
(Listed not once but twice in the line up of the day's stories)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/nyregion/transgender-minors-gender-reassignment-surgery.html?emc=edit_th_20150617&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
The New Girl in School: Transgender Surgery at 18
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What Italian heterosexual parents are facing in the brainwashing and officialized sexual molestation of their children — The children are about to be forced to experiment in changing gender roles and cross dressing, and are then taught to touch each other's genitals to "understand" the difference.  If our Supreme Court utterly franchises sodomite marriages this month, the raping evil behind it all will be showing up here in the same ways against our children and ourselves.  Thus begins the real persecution of those who would remain in the Created Order which honors God's gender assignments.
via Drudge—
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/06/17/italian-families-protest-forced-cross-dressing-of-schoolchildren/
ITALIAN FAMILIES PROTEST FORCED CROSS-DRESSING OF SCHOOLCHILDREN
Parents from the north of Italy have organized a massive demonstration, called “Defend Our Children,” against gender ideology in schools, which will be held this Saturday in the Saint John Lateran Square in Rome. The demonstrators will be protesting Italian educational programs that are meant to blur the sexual identity of children.

In the northern Italian city of Trieste, parents are in uproar over a taxpayer-funded elementary school program that includes dressing little boys as girls and girls as boys to overcome so-called “gender stereotypes.” Schools are calling the exercise “the game of respect,” which purportedly adopts many guidelines from the European standards on sex education, attributed to the World Health Organization.

The so-called “game of respect” consists in a box containing several cards, presenting the figures of different working roles: male and female housewives and husbands, male and female plumbers and firefighters, with the figures represented in exactly the same way to show that males and females are completely interchangeable.
There is also a card with a game called “If he were she and she were he,” where boys and girls are expected to exchange the clothes they are wearing: the boy dresses as a girl and the girl as a boy, and they discuss how they feel in that new “role.”

Parents are especially up in arms over the school district’s attempt to conceal the program and its contents from them. The father of one of the children, Amedeo Rossetti, said that in early February, he attended a PTA meeting where the program for the second semester was presented. When Rossetti posed specific questions on issues of gender, school administrators categorically denied the presence of gender-based activities at the school.

One of the goals of the protesters is the enforcement of European art. 26 regarding “informed consent,” whereby parents can ask the school to be informed before their children are introduced to courses with themes like those regarding gender theory.

Parents are also protesting a sex education program for kindergarten students intended to highlight the similarities and differences between boys’ and girls’ bodies. The program involves one child lying down and the others placing their hand first on the child’s heart to feel how it beats, then on the diaphragm to feel it rise and fall. The text reads that “obviously in the genital area children can see that they are made differently from one another.” Though the text does not specifically state that the children are to touch each other in the genital area, parents are complaining that it is “understood.” … ...
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a changing of the guard to the spirit of Sodom...

forwarded from the Berean Call for 17 June—
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/06/09/army-refuses-to-provide-honor-guard-for-church-s-july-4th-celebration.html
ARMY REFUSES TO PROVIDE HONOR GUARD FOR CHURCH'S JULY 4TH CELEBRATION  
 
For nearly two decades, the U.S. Army has provided an honor guard for an Independence Day celebration at a Baptist church that predates the founding of the nation. But this year - that tradition has come to an end.
 
Officials at Fort Gordon say they will not be able to send an honor guard to a July 5th service at Abilene Baptist Church because it violates a military policy banning any involvement in a religious service.
 
"While there are conditions under which the Army can participate in events conducted at a house of worship, we cannot participate in the context of a religious service," Public Affairs Officer J.C. Mathews told me.
 
He said officials at Fort Gordon as well as the Office of the Staff Judge Advocate reviewed the church's request and determined they were in fact holding a "religious service."
 
"As a result, the Army is not permitted to take part," Mathews said. 
That policy would be an offense to most churches in America - but it is especially offensive when you consider the Army just refused to provide an honor guard for a church whose first pastor was a chaplain in the Revolutionary Army.
 
Last year the Department of Defense gave permission for an honor guard to participate in Washington, D.C.'s gay pride parade - a historic first. An honor guard is also expected to march in the 2015 Capital Pride parade.
 
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Some watchers feel this is a grab for OneWorld socialism and certainly outside the usual realm of papal commentary—
Note the "individual lifestyles," (…means YOU! --bolded by me in the piece below) which some predict means putting us all in mud huts eating grass or some kind of universally issued "food."  Remember "Soylent Green"? (wiki it if desired)

Breaking News, NYTimes, 18 June, 6:02 AM EDT
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/19/world/europe/pope-francis-in-sweeping-encyclical-calls-for-swift-action-on-climate-change.html?emc=edit_na_20150618&nlid=69381998&ref=cta&_r=0

Pope Francis, in Sweeping Encyclical, Calls for Swift Action on Climate Change
Pope Francis on Thursday called for a radical transformation of politics, economics and individual lifestyles to confront environmental degradation and climate change, as his much-awaited papal encyclical blended a biting critique of consumerism and irresponsible development with a plea for swift and unified global action.
The vision that Francis outlined in the 184-page encyclical is sweeping in ambition and scope: He described a relentless exploitation and destruction of the environment, which he blamed on apathy, the reckless pursuit of profits, excessive faith in technology, and political shortsightedness. The most vulnerable victims are the world’s poorest people, he declared, who are being dislocated and disregarded.
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18 June / The Daily Madness continues—

African-Americans, being the more oppressed, we expect them to react, but, as the tribulation/pressure increases, white turns on black too.  It is in our sin nature to fear "the other," to fear the unfamiliar, "xenophobia"--the fear of the stranger.  We must expect any one "will" to be set against another "will" or another set of values…or 
another race, etc.  Since the Fall, the "little god" in us, our Will, does not like to be crossed by any other Will…and so murder and war, racism, genocide, outbreaks of mass murder continue until the Prince of Peace reigns.

May God have had this prayer meeting centered in the Christ the Savior of the Bible so that these murdered churchgoers are now with him.  May the shooter also seek mercy as his incarceration goes on now for his whole life.  

We need to keep in prayer for the safety of our loved ones,and be watchful in the Spirit.  Just last evening, my son and I witnessed bare chested teenagers raging a car around a mall parking lot, and leaping out in a highly energized frenzy.  We had to wonder if shooting was about to break out…and this is in rural Vermont, "where such things never happen."  So, it goes all over our nation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/19/us/charleston-church-shooting.html?emc=edit_na_20150618&nlid=69381998&ref=cta&_r=0
Charleston Church Shooting Suspect Is Captured
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The NYTimes Editorial Board finds a quote that hits the problem (universal sin) right on the head .  Unfortunately, xenophobia, the fear of the different, will manifest as racism and many other -isms until the Prince of Peace returns, yet, we must always seek to overcome.  The best way, until then, is by proclaiming the coming King and his ways.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/20/opinion/the-nation-needs-more-than-mourning-after-charleston.html?emc=edit_th_20150620&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
 Beyond Mourning for Charleston
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
The tragedy of racism and violence will not end without, in the words of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., "continuous struggle."	
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For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.    
—Paul to the Romans (8:18)	

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13 June

Saturday evening —

Saints,

As I prepare for a day of ministry tomorrow in a village a few hours away, I send off this blog update on Saturday evening.  Today, as I sang in a local park, I advanced the end of an old Dylan tune to, "There's a slow train comin', comin' round the bend…There's a slow train comin', comin' into the station because we're at the time or the End."  People sense it even if they are not believers.  I can see them mulling.

I used to report on outbreaks of crazy violence, then stopped because there were just too many…then started again as the Holy Spirit prompted me to continue warning and waking.  Tonight's news:  America's culture wars turn "real" again as a citizen, and not even a jihadi, "loses it" and opens up heavy automatic weapons fire and bomb attack on the Dallas Police HQ Station.

In an immediate interview, his father, weeping, says, "Anyone can reach a point…"  Turns out the courts had wrenched this man's children away from him some time back, and he had been unable to deal with it…Tribulation…ever increasing pressure.  Call upon the Holy Spirit daily; He is the Comforter.

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I am a Zionist because of biblical prophecy concerning Jerusalem, etc., but this is not a blank check to Judaism.  Neither Jew nor Gentile will be saved without believing the Savior according to his revelation of himself.  Yet, the prophesied events surrounding physical Jerusalem will occur.  Nations and Peoples that take the adversarial position against God's Will will suffer his wrath.

Breaking News NYTimes, 8 June, 2015 1051 A.M. EDT

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/09/us/politics/supreme-court-backs-white-house-on-jerusalem-passport-dispute.html?emc=edit_th_20150609&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Supreme Court Backs White House on Jerusalem Passport Dispute

In an important separation-of-powers decision, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that Congress may not require the State Department to indicate in passports that Jerusalem is part of Israel.	
The vote was 6 to 3, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel A. Alito Jr. dissenting.	
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, writing for five justices, said the question of the status of Jerusalem is “a delicate subject.” But he said the Constitution conferred exclusive authority on the president to recognize foreign governments.

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Tilt!
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/06/09/world/migrants-global-refugee-crisis-mediterranean-ukraine-syria-rohingya-malaysia-iraq.html?emc=edit_th_20150609&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
The Global Struggle to Respond to the Worst Refugee Crisis in Generations
By PATRICK BOEHLER and SERGIO PEÇANHA JUNE 8, 2015
Eleven million people were uprooted by violence last year, most propelled by conflict in Syria, Iraq, Ukraine and Afghanistan. Conflict and extreme poverty have also pushed tens of thousands out of parts of sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. Here’s a look at the international response to what has become the worst migration crisis since World War II , according to the United Nations. … ...

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"The Fifth Column," (Insidious Infiltration / the propaganda machine) forwards a conversation that uses the term "gay Christian."  There is no such thing; the term is oxymoronic,  But not to pick on the sodomites alone, neither is there a "Christian fornicator" or a "Christian adulterer."  "Such were some of you," said Paul, "but you have been cleansed, you have been set apart (sanctified)."  We all may yet experience many temptations of many kinds, and we even stumble and fall, but nonetheless, if we truly know Christ we will not live for nor identify with the things he has called sin, nor will we contribute to another's destruction whom we claim to "love."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/09/us/some-evangelicals-take-new-look-at-bibles-stance-on-gays.html?emc=edit_th_20150609&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Evangelicals Open Door to Debate on Gay Rights

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Day after day, the babel monster that lives in the hearts and minds of some NYT editorialists rehashes their presently favorite word and meme:  "transgender"  (…and the citizens of Troy curiously rolled the big wooden horse into their city).

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/09/opinion/what-doctors-say-about-transgender-troops.html?emc=edit_th_20150609&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998

What Doctors Say About Transgender Troops
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
The administration should listen to the medical profession when it says there is no valid reason to bar transgender people from service.
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Says renowned secular futurist Victor Vinge, credited with the term "Singularity" as assigned to the takeover by Artificial Intelligence —
(Can the biblical end of the Age be far off?)

"Within thirty years, we while have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.  Shortly after, the human era will be ended."
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http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/June09/092.html/

This year, the Bilderberg Group is meeting from June 11th to June 14th at the Interalpen Hotel which is near the city of Telfs, Austria … (These are the elitists, including such as Kissinger in time past, whose reputed goal at present, among many OneWorld goals, is to chip all citizens by 2017.)

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Now, just by monitoring the free WiFi signals in an area, your presence can be recognized and counted, even if you are carrying no electronic device yourself!

http://www.gizmag.com/wi-fi-signals-used-to-perform-a-head-count/37934/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=a95404a0cf-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-a95404a0cf-91592265

WiFi Signals Used To Perform a Head Count

Having previously used WiFi signals to look through walls, a team of researchers in professor Yasamin Mostofi's lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has now turned the wireless signals to the task of counting the number of people walking in a particular area – even if they aren't carrying any Wi-Fi-enabled devices.

The technology is basically the same as that previously used by Mostofi's team to look through walls. But rather than identifying the position and outline of stationary objects within a walled structure, the changes in the strength of the sent and received Wi-Fi signals was used to estimate how many people were walking in a given area. … ...
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Small but real, "holding action" victories against darkness—

NYTimes, Breaking News, 9 June, 4:13 PM

Court Upholds Texas Measures That Imperil Abortion Clinics

A federal appellate court upheld some of the toughest provisions of a Texas abortion law on Tuesday, putting 13 of the state’s abortion clinics at risk of permanently shutting their doors, which would leave the nation’s second-most populous state with eight abortion providers.	
The appellate court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans, sided for the most part with Texas and the abortion law the Republican-dominated Legislature passed in 2013, known as House Bill 2. It ruled that Texas can require all abortion clinics in the state to meet the same building, equipment and staffing standards as hospital-style surgical centers. Thirteen clinics whose facilities do not meet the new standards could be forced to close, leaving many regions without abortion clinics.
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I don't usually note obits as they have little to do with the prophetic scenario, other than that we all die until the time of the Resurrection comes, but this artist affects the lives of all of who work and write online, and like my notes when "Mr. Spock," Leonard Nimoy, passed away, it is worthy of note from my POV.  (Optima font, bold)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/10/arts/design/hermann-zapf-96-dies-designer-whose-letters-are-found-everywhere.html?emc=edit_th_20150610&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Hermann Zapf, 96, Dies; Designer Whose Letters Are Found Everywhere

Hermann Zapf, whose calling in life — “to create beautiful letters,” as one of his students put it — found expression in lush, steady-handed calligraphy and in subtly inventive typefaces that have brought words to readers on paper, on signposts, on monuments and on computer screens for more than half a century, died on Thursday at his home in Darmstadt, Germany. He was 96. … …
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Exactly what is going to happen in Ezekiel 38:21, told us by our God 2600 years beforehand — 

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2015/06/10/269371/mideasts-worst-case-a-big-war.html	

	

Mideast’s worst case: A ‘big war’ pitting Shia Muslims against Sunni
ISTANBUL — The Middle East crisis that peaked one year ago Wednesday when the Islamic State captured Mosul may result in the breakup of Iraq and an indefinite continuation of a war in Syria that’s already out of control, analysts say.
Yet still worse things could happen.
“The conditions are very much like 1914,” says Michael Stephens of the Royal United Service Institute in London. “All it will take is one little spark, and Iran and Saudi Arabia will go at each other, believing they are fighting a defensive war.”
Hiwa Osman, an Iraqi Kurdish commentator, was even more blunt: “The whole region is braced for the big war, the war that has not yet happened, the Shiite-Sunni war.”… ...

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A good word of encouragement to those of us not yet under physical persecution from those who are —

http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/June11/114.html#hgl20DX5p9pAmfjv.99
Iraq: Despite Thousands Fleeing ISIS, Churches Are Full Of New Believers

Hundreds of thousands of Christians have been forced to flee Iraq as Islamic State continues to tighten its grip, but still people are turning to Jesus, a church leader has told Christian Today.  Rev Sami Dagher, president and founder of all Alliance churches in Lebanon, has churches all across the Middle East, including 22 in Syria, six in Lebanon, and three in Iraq – one each in Dahuk, Irbil, and Baghdad. He also has two Bible schools, one in Beirut and another in the Nuba Mountains in Sudan, and is just starting a church in Cairo.  Having been working and leading churches in Iraq since 1990, Dagher has seen significant changes in the region. He lived there under the reign of Saddam Hussein, and was once able to give a Bible to the dictator, who sent a gold watch in return and a letter thanking Dagher for his gift. At that time, it was illegal to open churches, so Dagher started one congregation under the pretence of it being a nursery, and encouraged Christians to eat together when they met, so if they got caught praying by the police they could say they were just thanking God for the food.  Since ISIS began gaining influence in Iraq, life has got even worse for Christians and swathes have been forced to convert to Islam, leave their homes or risk being killed. Many are now refugees in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, but there are also believed to be around 2.8 million internally displaced Iraqis, some in makeshift camps but many living in abandoned schools and other buildings. Dagher's ministry has partnered with Samaritan's Purse to provide food, aid and shelter to some of those most in need in places such as Irbil and Dahuk.  According to the BBC's Lyse Doucet in Baghdad last September, ISIS militants were closing in on the city, and the Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East then reported that jihadists were "less than 2km away". However, it has as so far remained free from ISIS control.  Dagher estimates that 80 per cent of his original church congregation in Baghdad have left, but "the church is still full with new people coming," he says.  "We have about 400 people every Sunday in Baghdad, and about 30 per cent of those are from different religions." Currently, 73 people who have converted to Christianity are waiting to be baptised in the church.  Christians in Iraq are afraid of ISIS, Dagher added, but many Muslims are coming to Christ, despite the risk. "They are seeking to see the truth, and they can't find that truth maybe in their religion." While orthodox churches in the Middle East do not allow Muslims to worship there, the evangelical churches have opened their doors.  Kevin Sutter, president of Youth With A Mission (YWAM) Frontier Missions, recently claimed that there is a spiritual revival happening among Muslims in the Middle East, and though Dagher said that the word "revival" may be too strong, many Muslims are becoming disillusioned with their faith, and looking to the Church for answers.  "They see people who will put a bomb around themselves and go kill themselves and others and say 'Allahu Akbar' [God is great]. They see a man take another man, cutting [off] his head with a knife and saying 'Allahu Akbar'. They can't really understand...how can they do it in the name of Allah?" he explained. "They want to find the truth."  A YWAM worker also reportedly met an ISIS militant who had become a Christian. "I'm not surprised," Dagher responded to this story. "God can do miracles."  The Middle East is a dangerous place for him to be, but despite having a British wife and children, and therefore able to move to the UK, Dagher – who is now 79 years old – says he will continue to plant churches until "they put me six feet underground".  "The Holy Spirit has given me the courage to stay and shepherd, and bring light to a dark place," he says. "We have titles in the word of God, and one of the titles we have [is that] we are ambassadors for Christ...we have the ministry of reconciliation. If all the ministers leave Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, who is going to reconcile people to God? Who is going?  "We also have another title – we are the light of the world. Syria is a dark place, Iraq is a dark place, Lebanon is a dark place, Kurdistan is a dark place and the light is leaving it – who is going to shine there?  "According to God, we have to shine in the dark place, and if it's dark, one candle will make a difference."
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Ok, as a theologically-minded apologist, everything about this makes me nervous, BUT Jesus did say,  "Unless you become as a little child, you shall not inherit the kingdom of heaven."  Also, the gifts of the Holy Spirit are true, and there is no biblical reason to discount them for today, quite the contrary,  "These things are for you and for your children and for all those that are afar off…" (in time, into the future by the context), Acts 2:39.  The gifts are only "not for today" when they are disbelieved and refused. Brazil has terrible poverties, much demonic activity, much roman/pagan/heathen mixture, and great need for spiritual help.  How strange that even Jesus would allow such manifestations as the healing pool of Siloam, or would put spittle-made mud on someone's eyes to open them, or spit on someone's tongue to loose it!

Sure, we have to watch the theology as this could be an Elmer Gantry or Marjoe scam, but it could also be the mercy of the Lord Jesus to a greatly needy people who will receive it.  "Unless you believe, you will not see."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/magazine/the-child-preachers-of-brazil.html?_r=0
The Child Preachers of Brazil
The youngest evangelists in the country’s Pentecostal churches try to balance the demands of their youth with those of their faith.

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Caution:  There are nude female robots in this video.

Prostitution is an old evil that makes humans into nothing more than a marketable commodity of flesh.  Robot sex combined with Virtual Reality scenarios and AI instant programming algorithms will meld humans into a digitized demonality of cybernetic succubi and incubi (male and female demonic experiences) that will further remove us from our humanity, entrance and poison us.  It is becoming frighteningly real.

The "uncanny valley" describes making 'bots just too human, and here is discussed the right blend of fake humanity without completely freaking out the human participant.  Dark days of cyber-psychosis ahead.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/12/technology/robotica-sex-robot-realdoll.html?emc=edit_th_20150612&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Sex Dolls That Talk Back
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Goading Rosh?
Saturday evening, NYT breaking news alert—
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/world/europe/us-poised-to-put-heavy-weaponry-in-east-europe.html?emc=edit_na_20150613&nlid=69381998&_r=0
U.S. Poised to Put Heavy Weaponry in East Europe
RIGA, Latvia — In a significant move to deter possible Russian aggression in Europe, the Pentagon is poised to store battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and other heavy weapons for as many as 5,000 American troops in several Baltic and Eastern European countries, American and allied officials say.
The proposal, if approved, would represent the first time since the end of the Cold War that the United States has stationed heavy military equipment in the newer NATO  member nations in Eastern Europe that had once been part of the Soviet sphere of influence.  Russia's annexation of Crimea and the war in eastern Ukraine have caused alarm and prompted new military planning in NATO capitals. … …
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The LORD bless you and keep you.  The LORD make his face to shine upon you, and give you peace.

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7 June

Saints,

Though I have mentioned it frequently, it is such an astute word choice in the Greek New Testament that it is worth it to mention it again, even often:  the definition of the Greek word transliterated to English as "tribulation."  The word means pressure, and it is exactly how the forces of darkness do their part to herd humanity to the terror-filled agenda of the end of the Age.  One cannot fault the Big Governments of the world for trying to protect their populaces and own interests and agendas while the unfolding and exponential growth of biblically prophesied "terrorism" rages round the globe.  But the ordinary citizens must pay the cost in enslavement, loss of liberty AND terror and societal mayhem as these two opposing powers wrestle with one another.  We are caught in the jaws of the pliers of agony until the prophesied End comes:  The first two stories leading off the week and the month of June are about the squeezing pliers of tribulation.

This month of June may also register high on the scale of unfolding prophecy as the Supreme Court threatens to unleash an increasingly violent and hateful "right" of the sodomites on our people—and to unleash an agenda to label any contrary opinion as "hate speech" and to denigrate and persecute anyone who will not accept this new agenda.  Christians are the chief ones in the crosshairs, and it may soon be illegal to have a biblical opinion about the issue.

Also, pundits from many quarters have been looking ahead to June, 2015 for months as a watershed time for new economic difficulties.

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Are we near the end of the US constitutional civil liberty of the First Amendment?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/01/opinion/dont-censor-my-commute.html?emc=edit_th_20150601&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Don’t Censor My Commute

SUBWAY platforms and bus shelters have become the newest targets of political correctness.

The mass transit agencies in Washington, New York and Philadelphia have all moved to ban political advertising, in response to the American Freedom Defense Initiative, a group known for criticizing Islam.

In Philadelphia, a federal judge in March ordered the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority to accept a bus ad from the group that shows a 1941 meeting of Adolf Hitler and a Palestinian Arab nationalist leader, Haj Amin al-Husseini, with the line: “Islamic Jew-Hatred: It’s in the Quran.” On Thursday, after the ads came down, the agency banned future advertising “expressing or advocating an opinion, position or viewpoint about economic, political, religious, historical or social issues.” … …

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A momentary pause in the increasingly ubiquitous surveillance since 9/11—

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/01/us/a-gap-in-surveillance-but-ways-around-it.html?emc=edit_th_20150601&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
A Gap in Surveillance, but Ways Around It
WASHINGTON — For the first time since the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Americans will again be free to place phone calls — to friends, lovers, business associates, political groups, doctors and pizza restaurants — without having logs of those contacts vacuumed up in bulk by the National Security Agency.

And for the first time in nearly 14 years, if government agents identify new phone numbers that they suspect are linked to terrorism, they will have to subpoena phone companies for associated calling records and wait for the response to see if anyone in the United States has been in contact with that number. The N.S.A. can no longer simply query its database for the information.
This unusual situation may last only a few days, until Congress can reach an accommodation over three counterterrorism laws that expired at 12:01 a.m. Monday.

Nonetheless, the fact that Congress allowed the laws to lapse — the most important of them is the purported legal basis for the bulk records collection program — is an extraordinary moment in the story of the tensions between post-9/11 policies and privacy rights. It has led to heated warnings in the political realm about exposing the country to heightened risk of attack. … ...

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Here it is!  Stay happy, productive, calm, energized all the time…no drugs…straight, wireless, cyborg interface to your brain.  Why think when you can "Thync"?  Let the 'Borg do it for you!  Connects right through your shirt pocket internet device — phone, tablet, whatever…(Here come de Beast! …one big "happy," busy hive-mind together! and oblivious of reality?)

http://www.gizmag.com/thync-hands-on-2/37820/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=2bde5e1e6a-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-2bde5e1e6a-91592265

Thync mood-changing wearable officially launches — we go hands-on (again)

Excerpt—

...My second Thync session has the wearable batting 1.000, as the device's two different modes left me feeling a meditative calm and an inspired energy – just as they're supposed to.

When we used Thync at CES, our best analogy was that it was a bit like a safe, digital version of drugs. The calm mode (or "calm vibes," as Thync describes it) left us feeling us a bit like we'd just smoked a joint, and the energy mode led to more of a stimulated clarity – as if a mental fog we weren't even aware of had been lifted.

The second time around, those descriptions still hold true. I felt the calm mode almost immediately, as I sunk into an extremely pleasant state that felt a bit like I'd been meditating for half an hour (or, if you prefer, paying a visit to Willie Nelson's tour bus).

After a short break, I used Thync again in the energizing mode. These changes weren't immediately obvious, but they became evident in my behavior. After energizing, I was talking more often – and more loudly – with greater expression and animation. This mode felt a bit less like I was slipping into a different state of mind, but it affected me nonetheless.

Like when I used Thync at CES, I left the latest meeting feeling about as ideal as one can feel going out into the world: a zen-like calm and presence combined with the inspired motivation a young adult might feel on their first day of college (and by the way, I'm nearly two decades removed from that day). … …

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Even before any rulings by the Supreme Court this month, "policy" decisions may be forcing the sodomite (LGBT) agenda on "faith based" groups—

http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/June03/034.html#vHIg78A4wYX4aF8v.99

Obama To Force Faith-Based Grant Recipients To Hire LGBTs
The Obama Administration is poised to require faith-based recipients of federal grants to accept applications from LGBT individuals, according to a report published today by the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam).

By executive order last summer, President Obama amended the Johnson-era federal order on non-discrimination in hiring by federal contractors to include non-discrimination based on “sexual orientation and gender identity.” That order has roiled faith-based groups.

A confidential source tells C-Fam that the White House has directed federal agencies to include “sexual orientation and gender identity” as protected classes in all grant agreements.

What’s more, there are substantially more grant recipients than federal contract recipients. A law professor who works on these issues said, “For every contract recipient there are 50 receiving grants.”

The Johnson-era order was amended in 2002 by President George Bush to include a religious exemption so that faith-based groups would not be forced to hire those in opposition to their teachings. It is unclear whether grant recipients have similar protections. And even those protections are under assault by those who want all such exemptions ended.

According to C-Fam, federal agencies are now being pressured to make this change without a subsequent executive order and that the State Department legal office is telling the White House that this is not a legal matter but a matter of policy.

C-Fam’s source also said that some agencies are hesitant but because of pressure from the White House they are reluctant to object.

Faith-based groups, still grappling with the contracting question, are being caught off guard by this new policy on grants. None of the groups contacted by C-Fam were aware of the new policy.

The office of Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore, who also heads the Bishop’s committee on religious freedom, wouldn’t comment. Neither would Anthony Picarello, General Counsel of the Catholic Bishop’s Conference. Catholic agencies would be hit particularly hard by such a change.

At the time of the executive order last summer, two Bishop-Chairmen of the USCCB said the order was “unprecedented and extreme and should be opposed.”

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Something we have been specifically praying for, that among the jihadis, some, even many, would repent and turn to preach Jesus as the persecuting Pharisee, Saul of Tarsus, did —

http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/June04/045.html#Uh1KtZf0UgJviGL4.99
ISIS Fighter Who 'Enjoyed' Killing Christians Wants To Follow Jesus After Dreaming of Man In White Who Told Him 'You Are Killing My People'
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"Eternal LIfe through better bio-chemistry" (to paraphrase an ad slogan from the '60's)  Are we to become a reptilian species that can regrow its own tail?  The good and the benefit are always pointed out first, and sure why shouldn't an amputee get a new and natural DNA limb, but what of the long term implications of "plug and play" humans?  At what point do we lose the value of individual life as we become technologically reproducible bio-cyborgs?

http://www.gizmag.com/decellularization-rat-limb-transplant/37857/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=6c3521bc96-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-6c3521bc96-91592265
Scientists come a step closer to "regrowing" limbs
Currently, recipients of arm or leg transplants need to take immunosuppressive drugs for the rest of their lives, in order to keep the donated parts from being rejected. If we could grow our own replacement limbs, however, that wouldn't be necessary. And while we do already possess the progenitor cells needed to grow such parts, what's been lacking is a method of assembling them into the form of the desired limb. Now, however, scientists have created a shortcut of sorts – they've stripped the cells from one rat's forelimb and replaced them with live cells from another rat, creating a functioning limb that the second rat's immune system won't reject. … …

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For all you quantum ponderers out there, Are we really only living in a divinely created hologram or holodeck?  Does God keep physical reality just one step ahead of us?  or at least observed and apparent reality?  If so, is part of the purpose that we get to help design our own domain, the universe, especially after the Fall has lifted and the Curse is removed?

http://www.gizmag.com/quantum-theory-reality-anu/37866/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=6c3521bc96-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-6c3521bc96-91592265
Experiment suggest that reality doesn't exist until we measure it

Researchers working at the Australian National University (ANU) have conducted an experiment that helps bolster the ever-growing evidence surrounding the weird causal properties inherent in quantum theory. In short, they have shown that reality does not actually exist until it is measured – at atomic scales, at least.

Associate Professor Andrew Truscott and his PhD student, Roman Khakimov, of ANU's Research School of Physics and Engineering conducted a version of John Archibald Wheeler's delayed-choice thought experiment – a variation of the classic double-slit experiment, where light is shown to display characteristics of both waves and particles – where an object moving through open space is provided the opportunity (some would say "a choice") to behave like a particle or a wave.

In this instance, however, the ANU team replicated Wheeler's experiment using multiple atoms, which was much more difficult to do than a test using photons. This extra difficulty is due to the fact that, as they have mass, atoms tend to interfere with each other, which can theoretically influence the results.

"An atom is a much more classical particle," Associate Professor Truscott said. "For the theory to hold with a single atom is significant because it proves that it works for particles with mass."
To carry out the experiment, the ANU team initially trapped a collection of helium atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate (a medium in which a dilute gas is cooled to temperatures very close to absolute zero), and then forcibly ejected them from their containment until there was only a single atom left behind.

This remaining atom was then released to pass through a pair of counter-propagating laser beams (that is, beams moving in opposite directions), which created a pattern to act as a crossroads for the atom in the same way that a solid diffusion grating would act to scatter light.

After this, another laser-generated grating was randomly added and used to recombine the routes offered to the atom. This second grating then indiscriminately produced either constructive or destructive interference as if the atom had journeyed on both paths. Conversely, when the second light grating was not randomly added, no interference would be introduced, and the atom would behave as if it had followed only one path.

However, and this is the really weird part, the arbitrary number generated to determine if the grating was added or not was only generated after the atom had passed through the crossroads. But, when the atom was measured at the end of its path – before the random number was generated – it already displayed the wave or particle characteristics applied by the grating after it had completed its journey.
According to Truscott, this means that if one chooses to believe that the atom really did take a particular path or paths, then one also has to accept that a future measurement is affecting the atom's past.
"The atoms did not travel from A to B. It was only when they were measured at the end of the journey that their wave-like or particle-like behavior was brought into existence," said Truscott. "It proves that measurement is everything. At the quantum level, reality does not exist if you are not looking at it.”

Even though the findings of the experiment add to the perceived weirdness of quantum theory, the results also validate it. But, even without regard to the weird aspects, quantum physics almost certainly governs the world at the atomic level, and this existence has enabled the development of quantum technologies ranging from cryptography to solar cells. 
From an everyday point of view, our minds perceive that an object should behave like a wave or a particle, quite independently of how it is measured. However, as this experiment supports, quantum physics predicts that it doesn’t seem to matter if a particle or object should show wave-like behavior or particle-like behavior; it all depends on how it is actually measured at the end of its journey.
"Quantum physics' predictions about interference seem odd enough when applied to light, which seems more like a wave, but to have done the experiment with atoms, which are complicated things that have mass and interact with electric fields and so on, adds to the weirdness," said Roman Khakimov.

The first time ever that Wheeler's delayed-choice experiment has been conducted using a single atom, the quantum weirdness represented by this experiment much more closely approaches the macro world in which humans perceive reality, which adds to the significance of the findings.
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And, hand in hand with the above piece, take a look at this excerpted forward via The Berean Call for 4 June, 2015 —
SCIENTIFIC SUICIDE [Excerpts]  
 
The cover of the April 4-10, 2015 issue of New Scientist magazine reads "Belief: They drive everything we do. But our beliefs are built on...nothing."1 This is an amazing statement by a magazine, supposedly dedicated to science, in that it presents its readers with a philosophical conundrum. How can scientists, who must depend on a strict belief in logic and order, make such a statement? More specifically, do the people who built an entire mythological edifice on the tenuous hypothesis of macroevolution really believe in nothing?
 
To better understand this we should first define "belief." What exactly is belief that it should be held in such derision by a subset of men and women? Merriam Webster defines belief as: 1. A state or habit of mind in which trust or confidence is placed in some person or thing; 2. Something believed; especially: a tenet or body of tenets held by a group; 3. A conviction of the truth of some statement or the reality of some being or phenomenon especially when based on examination of evidence. 2  
 
According to these definitions all human beings, including all scientists, practice belief in some form or another. Some place their belief in a philosophical system, some in a person, some in money, some in hedonistic enterprises, and some in science; although this particular belief should properly be called by another name-naturalism.
 
When these scientists drive their automobiles from one place to another, they believe the other drivers will stay on their side of the road. They believe multiverses may exist, they believe our universe sprang out of nothing, and that the vast wealth of information necessary to power and orchestrate macroevolution simply happened.
 
People simply cannot function without some form of deep-seated belief-a trust in something outside themselves. Indeed, any human being whose beliefs are truly built on nothing would in essence be little more than a brute beast.3 The idea that the universe sprang out of absolute nothingness4 is simply intellectual nonsense that defies logic and all the known laws of science.
 
"Our beliefs are built on...nothing." Why is the idea behind this statement so deadly for science in particular? Science in its essence is a systematic methodology for investigating natural phenomena. This definition presumes that natural phenomena are reproducible, rational, and orderly. If one assumes that natural phenomena is all there is, i.e., that science encompasses all knowledge, then, science and truth become fully interchangeable. For the secularist this seems to mean that they dismiss anything which cannot be observationally verified [such as] as superstition or myth-but ironically this is a presupposition based on an assumption, not based on scientific proof.
 
Unfortunately, the secular scientists contradict their own assumptions when they accept the Big Bang theory and macroevolution as fact without observational evidence to support those beliefs. This point of view, naturalism, is the perspective driving the thesis statement of the New Science cover article. Naturalism is a fundamental pillar for all the variants of Secular Humanist philosophy such as socialism, communism, fascism, and Marxism. However, there is an underlying problem with this point of view. If the natural world is all there is, where do order, logic, mathematics, morality, ethics, justice, and love come from? How do we know that the extortionist, scam artist, or mass murderer is wrong in his beliefs? How do we know right from wrong? If we came from chance processes, how can we even trust our own thinking?
 
If we take the philosophy of naturalism to its logical conclusion it leads to anarchy and nihilism-concepts totally alien to science. Naturalism is oblivious to the very principles upon which true science rests.
 
References
1. Don't believe in belief. New Scientist. Posted April 1, 2015, accessed April 10, 2015.
2. Definition for belief. Merriam-Webster online. Posted on merriam-webster.com , accessed April 10, 2015.
3. 2 Peter 2:12.
4. Krauss, L. 2012. A Universe from Nothing. New York, NY: Free Press.	
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Edward Snowden's editorial leads the NYTimes' choice for 5 June—He tells us that even as you read the editorial a note is made by the superpowers of surveillance that you have taken interest.  Sorry, too late now.  I am thankful for Snowden and the Resistance, but God's Word says the Beast will rule for a little while before He destroys it forever.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/opinion/edward-snowden-the-world-says-no-to-surveillance.html?emc=edit_th_20150605&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Edward Snowden: The World Says No to Surveillance

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/technology/consumers-conflicted-over-data-mining-policies-report-finds.html?emc=edit_th_20150605&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Sharing Data, but Not Happily
Should consumers be able to control how companies collect and use their personal data?

At a dinner honoring privacy advocates this week in Washington, Timothy D. Cook, the chief executive of Apple, gave a speech in which he endorsed this simple idea. Yet his argument leveled a direct challenge to the premise behind much of the Internet industry — the proposition that people blithely cede their digital bread crumbs to companies in exchange for free or reduced-priced services subsidized by advertising.

"You might like these so-called free services," Mr. Cook said during the event held by EPIC, a nonprofit research center. “But we don’t think they’re worth having your email or your search history or now even your family photos data-mined and sold off for God knows what advertising purpose.”

Now a study from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania has come to a similar conclusion: Many Americans do not think the trade-off of their data for personalized services, giveaways or discounts is a fair deal either. The findings are likely to fuel the debate among tech executives and federal regulators over whether companies should give consumers more control over the information collected about them.

In the survey, which is scheduled to be made public on Friday, 55 percent of respondents disagreed or strongly disagreed that “it’s O.K. if a store where I shop uses information it has about me to create a picture of me that improves the services they provide for me.”

About seven in 10 people also disagreed that it was fair for a store to monitor their online activities in exchange for free Wi-Fi while at the store. And 91 percent of respondents disagreed that it was fair for companies to collect information about them without their knowledge in exchange for a discount.

“Companies are saying that people give up their data because they understand they are getting something for those data,” said  Joseph Turow, a professor at Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication and the lead author of the study. “But what is really going on is a sense of resignation. Americans feel that they have no control over what companies do with their information or how they collect it.” … …
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The NYTimes seems determined to transgender us to death.  It is relentless, day after day.  It is not enough to force "gay marriage" on a people who did not want it, and then tell them that statistics say they do want it, but now we need a new poster child, transgenderism.   God created us male and female, and we are to honor him in his assignments however much our sin and the Curse and the Fall may trouble us.  It is not acceptable to him for us to try to change genders.  It is an affront to his Creation, and those who live in it risk damning themselves eternally.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/opinion/transgender-at-war-and-in-love.html?emc=edit_th_20150605&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
‘Transgender, at War and in Love’
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Keeping up with the gender wars (including the "cross-border incursions" of transgenderism!), the NYT on Sunday morning, cites the counterpoint opinions of a "Terf"  —a “trans exclusionary radical feminist," or, in other words, a feminist upset with Bruce Jenner and all the other daily nonsense pouring out about transgenderism in the latest propaganda babel campaign …"an insult to women."  Amen. Sister.  She looks in rather excruciating detail at the unfolding situation from a far left vantage point.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/opinion/sunday/what-makes-a-woman.html?emc=edit_th_20150607&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
What Makes a Woman?
By ELINOR BURKETTJUNE 6, 2015
Do women and men have different brains?

Back when Lawrence H. Summers was president of Harvard and suggested that they did, the reaction was swift and merciless. Pundits branded him sexist. Faculty members deemed him a troglodyte. Alumni withheld donations.

But when Bruce Jenner said much the same thing in an April interview with Diane Sawyer, he was lionized for his bravery, even for his progressivism.
“My brain is much more female than it is male,” he told her, explaining how he knew that he was transgender.

This was the prelude to a new photo spread and interview in Vanity Fair that offered us a glimpse into Caitlyn Jenner’s idea of a woman: a cleavage-boosting corset, sultry poses, thick mascara and the prospect of regular “girls’ nights” of banter about hair and makeup. Ms. Jenner was greeted with even more thunderous applause. ESPN announced it would give Ms. Jenner an award for courage. President Obama also praised her. Not to be outdone, Chelsea Manning hopped on Ms. Jenner’s gender train on Twitter, gushing, “I am so much more aware of my emotions; much more sensitive emotionally (and physically).”… … (much more consideration follows).
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And on and on, daily, the NYT babel grows—

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/business/media/transgender-childrens-books-fill-a-void-and-break-a-taboo.html?emc=edit_th_20150607&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Transgender Children’s Books Fill a Void and Break a Taboo
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Close to home for this observer—

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/us/in-vermont-frustrations-mount-over-affordable-care-act.html?emc=edit_th_20150605&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
In Vermont, Frustrations Mount Over Affordable Care Act

BURLINGTON, Vt. — Just a few years ago, lawmakers in this left-leaning state viewed President Obama’s Affordable Care Act as little more than a pit stop on the road to a far more ambitious goal: single-payer, universal health care for all residents.

Then things unraveled. The online insurance marketplace that Vermont built to enroll people in private coverage under the law had extensive technical failures. The problems soured public and legislative enthusiasm for sweeping health care changes just as Gov. Peter Shumlin needed to build support for his complex single-payer plan. Finally, Mr. Shumlin, a Democrat, shelved the plan in December, citing the high cost to taxpayers. He called the decision “the greatest disappointment of my political life.” … ...

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The LORD be with you…the LORD make his face to shine upon you and give you peace.

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31 May

Saints,

Do we take any pleasure in seeing the world falling apart around us?  Of course not!  And, yes, the world systems, its ways, and its results have always been in a state of "apocalyptic tension" with God's principles and his people.  Yet, when Peter says that in the last days, scoffers shall come saying, Where is the promise of his coming?  Since the father's fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation,  See 2 Peter 2:3-6, he also cites that this itself is a prophecy and a sign on their own impending destruction.

No, we lament the state of the world!  How can we do otherwise when ISIS terrorists now have multiple known bases and training centers in various places around our own nation?!  But, we look at these things as SURE signs of the purity and perfectness of biblical prophecy, whose end, after the many great tribulations we face, is the COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST AND THE SETTING UP OF HIS ETERNAL KINGDOM!!!  Thus, we can encourage ourselves and become comforted by the sure words of biblical prophecy that all these things must come to bring in the rule of our Lord!  And we can watch, as we are fervently told to do, with hope and joy that the return of the Lord Jesus is near!

May God keep us and help us lead others to him in these terrible days…for the Coming of our Lord to rescue us draws ever nearer.

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Are we about to be completely overrun by the "needs" of the 2%?  Pray that the Supreme Court will be stopped by God Himself, if necessary, from forcing sodomy on America.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/243129-rubio-real-and-present-danger-that-christianity-will-be
Rubio: 'Real and present danger' that Christianity will be labeled 'hate speech'
Christianity is facing a "real and present danger" in the United States due to growing acceptance for gay marriage, Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Marco Rubio said.

"We are at the water's edge of the argument that mainstream Christian teaching is hate speech. Because today, we've reached the point in our society where, if you do not support same-sex marriage, you are labeled a homophobe and a hater," the Florida Republican told CBN News. 

Rubio said the "next step is to argue that the teachings of mainstream Christianity, the catechism of the Catholic Church, is hate speech, and that's a real and present danger." 

The comments are the latest in a series of remarks on gay marriage that have put the presidential contender under the media spotlight. 
Rubio said earlier this year,  also during an interview with CBN News, that it's "ridiculous and absurd" to believe that there is a constitutional right to same-sex marriage.  

Those remarks came ahead of the Supreme Court hearing oral arguments in a case that could lead to same-sex couples being able to marry in all 50 states. 

He added in his earlier interview that his stance against same-sex marriage "is not a policy against anyone." 
Rubio's opposition to gay marriage puts him at odds with a majority of Americans ahead of the 2016 presidential election, but in line with the Republican Party. 

Fifty-eight percent of Americans support same-sex marriage, according to a Quinnipiac University Poll released earlier this year, but 59 percent of Republicans are opposed to it.
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Greer, bitter old feminist?  But "Hanoi Jane," on the other hand, did make a conversion and confession of Christian Faith some years back.  

What's wrong with looking good for a man?  

What's the difference between a feminist and a witch?  (Rhetorical Question).  But Greer does have some new insight, and is seeing that the abortion industry may amount to oppression of women by the big money interests of "egg farmers."  God save them both.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/hay-festival/11626572/Germaine-Greer-vs-Jane-Fonda-Poor-old-Jane-has-a-replacement-hip-but-not-a-replacement-brain.html

Germaine Greer vs Jane Fonda: 'Poor old Jane has a replacement hip but not a replacement brain'
Germaine Greer says Jane Fonda has spent a fortune on surgery but should stop pretending to be young

Germaine Greer has ridiculed Jane Fonda for suggesting women should try to stay young in order to attract men, suggesting the actress could add a brain transplant to her list of surgical enhancements.

Greer said she was incredulous to read Fonda’s comments, made in an interview with the Telegraph. The two women are of a similar age – Greer is 76, and Fonda 77 – but have very different views on the ageing process. … ...

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Where the world and the Kingdom of God meet:  strife, stress…and…entertainment.  

God and his angels reach down continually to speak to the lost of this world…and pull them up and out with "pre-evangelism," speaking of goodness and hope and suggesting the possibilities of redemption for people caught in all kinds of lies and alternate realities of this world.

Biblical evangelicals and Christians often stand aghast at how far short of the truth and the biblical message, the world's resulting musings on religion often fall.  And, surely, we must cry out for accurate truth at every opportunity, but we can come off as very strident, unwilling to nurse the "bruised reed" or nurture the "smoking flax" (things Isaiah [42:3] prophesied Christ would do [Mt. 12:20]).

It's a tough call, and we have to make it continually.  Personally, being a dedicated student of the Word, I can stand less and less for dramatic portrayals of it, but what of those with far less Bible experience?  Do I shut them down, or do I look for opportunity to expand on the truth with them?  After reading the reviews on the recent Russell Crowe film, NOAH, I decided not to even bother to watch it.  But, when it finally showed up on Netflix, in a bored moment, I watched it.  Surely, it was far from biblically accurate.  Yet, when I let it be the mythic science fiction that it was written to be, there were many moral meditations, and ways to turn a conversation about it to the truth and the truths of the story.  For one thing, presented as a part of the action and adventure, there was an active meditation on the Nephilim, the monsters and genetic mutants created between human DNA and fallen angel manipulations of it….yes, done in a fantastic way, but still offering an opening to discuss the issue, and an issue of our times…with unbelievers.

It seems we should take every opportunity, "in season, out of season," said Paul, "being all things to all men if by any means we might save any…" and using every means and illustration at our disposal.  So, messy that it is, let us know the Word and then bring it gently into the religious discussions and musings of the world when its interest is piqued.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_BRAZIL_HOLY_NOVELA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-05-29-08-13-50

BIBLICAL SOAP OPERA ENJOYING UNGODLY SUCCESS IN BRAZIL
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- The actress agonizes on her deathbed, her hair and makeup impeccable, as the hunky male lead clutches her hand. Tears pour down his face while her eyelids flutter to a final close.

The scene oozes with over-the-top drama that makes Brazil's prime-time soap operas as much of a national institution as soccer or Carnival. However, in this case, the actors aren't playing wealthy sophisticates with complicated sex lives, but rather characters out of the Old Testament.

Set in ancient Egypt and loosely based on the story of Moses, "The Ten Commandments" is billed as Brazil's first biblical soap opera. Swathed in Egyptian robes and sporting lapis lazuli jewelry and Cleopatra wigs, some of the characters are based on biblical or other historic figures, while others are invented. … ...

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IMHO ("h" = honest&humble), putting women in with men in combat situations is one of the stupidest manifestations of the general end of the Age's cultural and civil decline into final catastrophe.  It dehumanizes the men; it dehumanizes the women and degrades them to the necessary roughness camaraderie necessary for the men themselves to be able to endure.  I am not denying to the feminists that some women can rise to the occasion, and even in Scripture, as least once, a woman helped defend her city by dropping a rock on an adversary's* head, but there are very humanizing reasons why we sometimes, and for some occasions, have the genders together--family, procreation, romantic and marital love, and other occasions when they need to be separated to do what each gender does better without the interference of the other.  Because gender is so strong, we need much time to devote to its joined purposes, but because of that same strength, we also need times to be free from its powers.  This is also why a mixed culture of sodomites and normal heterosexuals will not mix right or work well in the long run.  What man wants some other male ogling him or sizing him up for sex when he is in the mode of hanging with his own gender, and being about the other business of it, and away from the demands of gender as sexuality?

God will use our damned errors, as a society, world, and race of men (humans) to also judge us.  Armageddon will flow with blood to the horses' bridles, and it looks like a significant proportion of the blood and guts will be that of western women.  They could have stayed home to at least be protected until their homes and cities were overrun, and then fought off the rapists and protected their children with fierceness as long as they could, while their men had tried to protect them--and home and family--by the blocking actions of the battlefield.  But, no, many of the poor fools will get to be disemboweled, their limbs and breasts blown to bits, the blank, torn stares of the finer feminine features of their corpses spread across the battlefield with the men.  Indeed, hell itself will be the final dehumanizing of the damned, and there will be no more pleasure in gender, nor reserve and respect for it, but all will moan and rot together, naked, stupefied, and with nothing of sexuality or gender attraction left, but only an endless howling in horror together, alone, and yet horrified by the end of loathing humanity in the lake of fire all around them.  Why is repentance so hard for those who insist on perishing?

*Abimelech, the first--disorderly, self-appointed--king of Israel, Gideon's son who slew many of his brothers to rule (Judges 9:53).  See also, Judges 5 when Deborah strengthened a timid man for battle and another brave woman, Jael,  killed an enemy king hiding in her tent with a nail she hammered through his head! 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/25/health/while-at-war-female-soldiers-fight-to-belong.html?emc=edit_th_20150525&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
While at War, Female Soldiers Fight to Belong

The day’s work was in full swing, the men in the platoon needed a break, and one of them began imitating his leader’s style of walking. Head down, elbows flapping, legs flying forward, he soon had the other soldiers laughing and calling out modifications:
Swing your arms out more!
No, really throw your legs out!
Don’t forget to look like you’re about to punch somebody!
The “rhino walk,” they called it, and it was a way to ease the tension of long days in southern Kandahar Province. The platoon leader loved it, too, at first. “I thought the rhino walk was funny, and totally true; they got me,” Lt. Courtney Wilson, who served in Afghanistant in 2010 and 2011, said in a recent interview.

But by the time she was in her bunk, she wondered. “Was it just being funny, or were they getting exasperated with me? That was the hard part,” she said. “I started feeling a little like it was me versus them. I was worried the men didn’t like me. I wasn’t sure if they were making me one of the guys, or completely disrespecting and making fun of me.”

In the months to come, that sense of exclusion would deepen into depression. Halfway through her deployment, she sent an email to a friend at home saying she was determined not to kill herself.

Entering a Man’s World
One of the biggest adjustments the United States military attempted during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars was cultural: the integration of women into an intensely male world. Women made up about 15 percent of the force during these two wars, compared with 7 percent in the Persian Gulf war of 1991, and they saw more combat in greater numbers than ever before.

Yet even though women distinguished themselves as leaders and enlisted soldiers, many of them describe struggling with feeling they do not quite belong. For men, the bonds of unconditional love among fellow combatants — that lifeblood of male military culture — are sustaining. But in dozens of interviews with women who served, they often said such deep emotional sustenance eluded them. … …

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And they want to make "super-soldiers" out of our boys (and girls? see above) with drug cocktails, genetic modifications, and cyborg enhancements?  What crazed de-humans will they build, the present circumstance here being evidence—

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/us/13drugs.html?action=click&contentCollection=Health&module=RelatedCoverage&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article&gwh=42EE038F30AA569656AF80499DF2A28A&gwt=pay
For Some Troops, Powerful Drug Cocktails Have Deadly Results

Airman Mena died instead in his Albuquerque apartment, on July 21, 2009, five months after leaving the Air Force on a medical discharge. A toxicologist found eight prescription medications in his blood, including three antidepressants, a sedative,  a sleeping pill and two potent painkillers.

Yet his death was no suicide, the medical examiner concluded. What killed Airman Mena was not an overdose of any one drug, but the interaction of many. He was 23.
After a decade of treating thousands of wounded troops, the military’s medical system is awash in prescription drugs — and the results have sometimes been deadly.

By some estimates, well over 300,000 troops have returned from Iraq or Afghanistan with P.T.S.D., depression, traumatic brain injury or some combination of those. The Pentagon has looked to pharmacology to treat those complex problems, following the lead of civilian medicine. As a result, psychiatric drugs have been used more widely across the military than in any previous war.

But those medications, along with narcotic painkillers, are being increasingly linked to a rising tide of other problems, among them drug dependency, suicide and fatal accidents — sometimes from the interaction of the drugs themselves. An Army report on suicide released last year documented the problem, saying one-third of the force was on at least one prescription medication.

“Prescription drug use is on the rise,” the report said, noting that medications were involved in one-third of the record 162 suicides by active-duty soldiers in 2009. An additional 101 soldiers died accidentally from the toxic mixing of prescription drugs from 2006 to 2009.

“I’m not a doctor, but there is something inside that tells me the fewer of these things we prescribe, the better off we’ll be,” Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli, the vice chief of staff of the Army who has led efforts on suicide, said in an interview. … …

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Just last blog edition, I linked to a story of an armless man with new Terminator 2 style brainwave driven arms.  Now, other researchers are building artificial legs that do not have to have conscious thought for them to react but will pick up subconscious, autonomic brain waves in restoring natural walking ability.  Of course, they will require IMPLANTABLE electronic controls.  

Ah, the world of cybernetic implants will "help" us in every way!  Why even think?  Just let hive-consciousness of the Borg do that for you!  For that matter, why not make these legs superstrong?  super-fast?  Hmmm, why not just replace real, working arms and legs of flesh and bone and make a super-soldier, etc?  What new hell will this be?

http://www.gizmag.com/ossur-first-mind-controlled-bionic-leg-prosthesis/37614/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=894271c00d-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-894271c00d-91592265
Breakthrough bionic leg prosthesis controlled by subconscious thoughts

Biomedical engineering company Össur has announced the successful development of a thought controlled bionic prosthetic leg. The new technology uses implanted sensors sending wireless signals to the artificial limb's built-in computer, enabling subconscious, real-time control and faster, more natural responses and movements.

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There's an old saying among politicos, pollsters, and the observant man on the street:  "Figures don't lie, but liars can figure."  The "gay propaganda machine" will go to any length to achieve its goals of approved universal sodomy.  See the last blog entry noting it has convinced the average citizen that 25% of the population is gay when the true figures show well less than 4% engage in their practices.

Name-makers, academic climbers throw money around to make a survey work for them, and are now being caught, amazingly, by the horns of integrity—

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/26/science/maligned-study-on-gay-marriage-is-shaking-trust.html?emc=edit_th_20150526&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0

Maligned Study on Gay Unions Is Shaking Trust
He was a graduate student who seemingly had it all: drive, a big idea and the financial backing to pay for a sprawling study to test it.

In 2012, as same-sex marriage advocates were working to build support in California, Michael LaCour, a political science researcher at the University of Californai, Los Angeles, asked a critical question: Can canvassers with a personal stake in an issue — in this case, gay men and women — actually sway voters’ opinions in a lasting way?

He would need an influential partner to help frame, interpret and place into context his findings — to produce an authoritative scientific answer. And he went to one of the giants in the field, Donald P. Green, a Columbia University professor and co-author of a widely used text on field experiments. … ...

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Tuesday a.m. —  "Largest floods in history" wash over Texas while both Texas and Oklahoma are also assaulted by tornados.  One upside, officials say, amongst the missing and the dead, the long and severe drought is actually broken by the amount of water into the groundwater supply.
By Saturday a.m., they continue unabated.
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Very predictable to observers of human nature & students of prophecy but still very scary. Chipping, about to become the next thing after tattoos and piercings and other body mods (adding horns, etc.) ? —

http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/May26/265.html#jmHxMCVXL8qOCxf4.99l

Transhumanism Marches On As "Human Chipping" Becomes Trendy
Undergoing a somewhat painful injection to have a microchip implanted into your hand might not be something most sane individuals would ever consider doing voluntarily, but for a growing number of people, it has actually become a fashionable trend.

As I reported in an earlier article, some companies are now encouraging their employees to have RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) chips implanted under their skin.

Presumably, these implants are given to employees so that they can use them to open office doors and operate copy machines, but it would seem obvious that there is a deeper agenda at hand: getting people used to the idea of having tracking devices implanted into their bodies.

The implications are profoundly disturbing, and it's hard to believe that anyone would go along with such a program. Nevertheless, not only do many individuals seem to accept the idea, there are actually a growing number of people who wholeheartedly embrace it.

In an age where tattoos, piercings and other types of body modification are common, it's perhaps not too surprising that young people, in an attempt to appear "cool" and ahead of the times, might see chip implants as an attractive idea.

There are also those who support the idea of "transhumanism," which the Oxford Dictionary defines as "the belief or theory that the human race can evolve beyond its current physical and mental limitations, especially by means of science and technology."

Whether or not there is any merit in the concept of transhumanism is a subject open to debate, but the bottom line is that those who go along with the idea of having a chip implanted are not what I would consider an "evolution" of the human race, but rather the opposite.

This is essentially allowing ourselves to be treated like cattle or migratory animals involved in an experiment.

In my earlier article, I mentioned the growing popularity of what are being called "implant parties," where participants allow the insertion of RFID chips into their hands. The implants are inserted in the fleshy area between the thumb and the forefinger.

These implant parties appear to be growing in popularity, according to reports in the media. Hannes Sjoblad, the organizer of a recent implant party in Sweden who also happens to be the co-founder of a "biohacking" group called BioNyfiken, said that more than 300 people in Copenhagen have had chips implanted since September of last year.

The supplier of the chips used in Sweden is located in the United States. Amal Graafstra, who founded the website DangerousThings.com, where the chips are sold, says that the popularity of these devices is a worldwide phenomenon: "I sold about 4,000 of these chips over the past year, most of them in the U.S., the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland and Belgium. And even a few in France."

At least Graafstra seems to be concerned about the possible health risks involved. He said, "I realized when I was talking to suppliers that people were implanting themselves with chips created for livestock or industries, which sometimes contain toxic substances and metals!"

Graafstra claims that the chips he sells are made with "safe material and procedures."

"Unlike RFID chips for livestock, mine are made so that human flesh doesn't stick to it, which means they can easily be removed," he says.

Health risks aside, I find it somewhat ironic that many of the very people who are embracing this technology would presumably be among the first to protest the use of these types of devices by governments to track and monitor citizens.

You can bet that is exactly what Big Brother has in mind.

Chips, anyone?
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Not left, not right, just the truth.  Are we a free society or not?  What if every media outlet published Mohammed cartoons?

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/05/26/afdis-new-free-speech-bus-and-train-ad-campaign-featuring-muhammad-cartoon/

AFDI’S NEW FREE SPEECH BUS AND TRAIN AD CAMPAIGN FEATURING MUHAMMAD CARTOON

(By Saturday a.m., the event was over, and Islamists vs. anti-Islamists had a stand off in the streets that fortunately remained bloodless.  Will America continue to allow free speech, or will the Islamists cower everyone?)
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Hmmm, the "good ideas" of God, and why I live in the country if possible—

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/05/26/viewing-nature-can-help-your-brain-work-better-study-finds/
Just looking at nature can help your brain work better, study finds
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8.5 earthquake from very deep, 400 miles, to more shallow, typical ones rattle Japan again—

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_JAPAN_EARTHQUAKE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-05-30-07-58-53
POWERFUL QUAKE STRIKES OFF JAPAN; NO TSUNAMI WARNING
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Oh! Get serious!  How many normal guy prisoners, heterosexual men, will suddenly get the urge to be transgender to get placed in a women's prison?!

https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/rio-allow-transgender-inmates-choose-male-female-prison-164907661.html

Rio to allow transgender inmates to choose male or female prison
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"The Recovery Industry" — "You must have relapses to stay in the program" —  A cycle of enslavement.

We don't want to get hung up in semantics.  Recovery is a good word, but if it is not identical to biblical repentance, it is only a cycle of "good works" in which there is no lasting salvation.  AA, the first "recovery program" was designed by spiritualists (seance/tablelifter/knockers/ectoplasm), "Bill W," etc.  There is no salvation in it, only an endless admission of problem and a system of "management" almost as bad as the problem and very directly tied to it.  Christ sets us free from sin so that we may say, "I was such and such, but now I am no longer that.  Yes, I may have temptations and even failures, but Christ has made me new and given me the power of a new creature."  The Recovery Model says, "I am and always will be an addict, but, see, here's my 20 year pin, and meet my sponsor."  This is an anti-gospel that must always keeps it association with "the problem."

Of course, "the money industry," graft, corruption, the trafficking of souls will accompany this, just like the pusher on the street;  to wit —

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/31/nyregion/three-quarter-housing-a-choice-for-recovering-addicts-or-homelessness.html?emc=edit_th_20150531&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=1

A Choice for Recovering Addicts:  Relapse or Homelessness

After a lifetime of abusing drugs, Horace Bush decided at age 62 that getting clean had become a matter of life or death. So Mr. Bush, a homeless man who still tucked in his T-shirts and ironed his jeans, moved to a flophouse in Brooklyn that was supposed to help people like him, cramming into a bedroom the size of a parking space with three other men.

Mr. Bush signed up for a drug-treatment program and emerged nine months later determined to stay sober. But the man who ran the house, Yury Baumblit, a longtime hustler and two-time felon, had other ideas.

Mr. Baumblit got kickbacks on the Medicaid fees paid to the outpatient treatment programs that he forced all his tenants to attend, residents and former employees said. So he gave Mr. Bush a choice: If he wanted to stay, he would have to relapse and enroll in another program. Otherwise, his bed would be given away.“‘Do what you do’ — that’s what he told me,” Mr. Bush recalled.

Mr. Bush, rail-thin with sad eyes, wanted to avoid the streets and homeless shelters at all costs. He turned to his self-medication of choice: beer, with a chaser of heroin and crack cocaine. Then he enrolled in a new program chosen by Mr. Baumblit.

In the past two and a half years, Mr. Bush has gone through four programs, just to hold onto his upper bunk bed. … …

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May God keep you at rest in Christ this week:  "Looking unto Jesus, the Author and the Finisher of our Faith, Who, for the Joy set before him, endured the Cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the Throne of God." (Hebrews 12:2)

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24 May / Memorial Day Weekend

This Memorial Day, may our gracious and long-suffering God grant a little more time for America.  The country is sinking into, without exaggeration, a moral cesspool.  Judgment is falling like rain.  The country came close to dissolution in the Civil War when more Americans were killed than in any other war, yet now our danger is greater.  We will fall, but like Abraham pleading for Sodom, spare, O Lord, yet a little longer.  If America is not a Christian nation, remember that it has allowed the Christians to proclaim Christ freely, and it has listened often to the conscience they have oft stirred in the nation in helping the poor and the needy, the disaster-stricken and the war-torn around the world.  Spare, O Lord, and grant yet that more of the people here may yet turn to you as the disasters pour down upon their heads, and deliver your people in the midst of them from the same judgments.  Succor and show forth your merciful provision for those under flood and fire and hail and whirlwind and ocean tempest, for those being drug down to hell by cocaine and heroin and bodily perversions, for those racing frantically who know not where they are going in their haste, for many needy souls.

Saints, I will be opening my street singing ministry in St. Albans today and in Swanton tomorrow with "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and an exhortation to repent before I turn to my blues tunes and banter style preaching.  Please pray for me that I will be received and protected and that some hearts will consider the matters.  Thank you.
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Unbelievable, Unearthly Scenes of Hell belching forth in Chile—
Scroll down to note video of apparent UFO near the ominous, strangely shaped ash clouds (though explained away as such, one of the phenomena doesn't look like a cloud to me either!)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3088077/Apocalyptic-skies-return-Chile-second-volcano-erupts-entire-landscape-bathed-blood-red.html
Apocalyptic skies return above Chile after second volcano erupts and entire landscape is bathed in blood red 
	•	More astonishing images of a volcanic eruption have emerged from Chile, this time from Villarrica in southern Chile
	•	Villarrica, located around 460 miles south of the capital Santiago, is among the most active in South America
	•	Britain's Met Office said that the clouds wrapped around the volcano are lenticular clouds, often mistaken for UFOs
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A feel-good piece for the technologically challenged (all of us humans by comparison) —

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/20/opinion/why-robots-will-always-need-us.html?emc=edit_th_20150520&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Why Robots Will Always Need Us
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Amazing, breaking advances in human/cyborg/robot interfaces as a man with no arms is given Terminator 2-style robotic, mind-controlled arms—a video—

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/21/technology/a-bionic-approach-to-prosthetics-controlled-by-thought.html?emc=edit_th_20150521&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998

Robotica—
Prosthetic Limbs, Controlled by Thought
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From Drudge: On the lighter side —  Grandma shoots robot.  It had to happen eventually; first police 'bot shot!  (The robot's condition is unknown.)
http://www.reviewjournal.com/trending/the-feed/70-year-old-woman-shoots-robot-arrested-after-22-hour-standoff
70-year-old woman shoots robot, is arrested after 22-hour standoff
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Can any Christian parents let their young sons join "the new Boy Scouts" knowing their sons may be getting groomed and cruised by homosexual Scout leaders?  We are again in the days of Lot, the rise and rule and then the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

21 May NYTimes Breaking News—

Boy Scouts' President Calls for End to Ban on Gay Leaders
The president of the Boy Scouts of America on Thursday called for an end to the group’s blanket ban on gay adult leaders, warning Scout executives that “we must deal with the world as it is, not as we might wish it to be,” and that “any other alternative will be the end of us as a national movement.”	
At the same time, religious organizations that sponsor a majority of local Scout troops, including Mormons and Roman Catholics, should remain free to set their own policies for leaders, said the president, Robert M. Gates, the former director of the C.I.A.  and the former secretary of defense (bolding added.  What conspiratorial nefariousness in high places is afoot here?)	
Mr. Gates called for the changes at an annual national meeting of the group, in Atlanta. He said that he was not yet making a formal proposal but that the Scouts’ governing body should take up the issue formally at a future meeting.
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Famous last words?  (like Neville Chamberlain's assurances that Hitler wouldn't invade Czechoslovakia?) —

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/22/opinion/calm-down-isis-isnt-winning.html?emc=edit_th_20150522&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Calm Down. ISIS Isn’t Winning.

WASHINGTON — THE fall of the Iraqi city of Ramadi on Sunday, and of the Syrian city of Palmyra on Wednesday, is a big gain for the Islamic State, but not an utter disaster, as many observers fear. … …
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…versus the unfolding reality —

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/22/opinion/the-escalation-of-unauthorized-wars.html?emc=edit_th_20150522&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
The Escalation of Unauthorized Wars

It seems like ages ago now. But it’s worth remembering how America’s latest war in the Middle East began.

In early August, shortly after militants from the Islamic State had taken over Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, President Obama authorized a volley of airstrikes. The goal then was to save the Yazidis, an ethnic minority, who were being slaughtered and displaced by Islamic State militants, and to prevent the terrorist group from slipping into the semiautonomous Kurdish region in the north. The White House described it as an urgent, limited intervention that was necessary to avoid genocide.

“As commander in chief, I will not allow the United States to be dragged into another war in Iraq,” President Obama said at the time. Those words were suspect then. They seem preposterous now.

Over the past nine months, the United States and a small network of allies have carried out more than 4,050 strikes in Iraq and Syria in an attempt to weaken the Islamic State, a stunningly resilient terrorist group that poses an enormous menace to the region and the West. As of April 9, the war had cost American taxpayers more than $2.1 billion, or roughly $8.6 million per day, according to the latest data released by the Pentagon. … …(bolding added)
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The amazing effect of media campaign propaganda, from <4% to "1 in 4"!

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-05-22/americans-vastly-overestimate-size-of-lgbt-population

Americans vastly overestimate size of LGBT population

Same-sex marriage is one of the fastest-moving social issues in U.S. history , having become legal in state after state as Americans cheer it in ever-growing numbers. But one thing is slightly off-kilter: Americans seem to have absolutely no idea just how many lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people are out there.

In fact, they think that 23 percent of Americans, or almost one in four, are LGBT, a Gallup survey released Thursday revealed. That's way off: The polling organization most recently found that less than 4 percent self-identify that way.

A third of people surveyed believed that LGBT made up more than 25 percent of the population. Just 9 percent of those in the survey correctly stated that they thought the group made up less than 5 percent of the population. … …
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"An idle mind is the devil's playground."  Eastern meditation that empties or voids the mind is counterproductive.  True Christian meditation is deep and lasting, conceptual and prayerful, inquisitive and investigational thought and reflection on the Scriptures and the issues addressed and the revelations given there. (see end of newsletter)*

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3092572/The-dark-meditation-mindfulness-Treatment-trigger-mania-depression-psychosis-new-book-claims.html
The dark side of meditation and mindfulness: Treatment can trigger mania, depression and psychosis, new book claims
	•	Theory is that techniques help relieve stress and live for the moment
	•	But 60% of us have apparently suffered at least one negative side effect
	•	Experts: Shortage of rigorous statistical studies into the negative effects of meditation is a 'scandal'

Meditation and mindfulness is promoted by celebrities including Gwyneth Paltrow and Russell Brand, who boast of its power to help people put stress out of their minds and live for the moment.

But the treatment can itself trigger mania, depression, hallucinations and psychosis, psychological studies in the UK and US have found.

The practice is part of a growing movement based on ancient Eastern traditions of meditation.

However, 60 per cent of people who had been on a meditation retreat had suffered at least one negative side effect, including panic, depression and confusion, a study in the US found.

And one in 14 of them suffered ‘profoundly adverse effects’, according to Miguel Farias, head of the brain, belief and behaviour research group at Coventry University and Catherine Wikholm, a researcher in clinical psychology at the University of Surrey.
The shortage of rigorous statistical studies into the negative effects of meditation was a ‘scandal’, Dr Farias told The Times.  He said: ‘The assumption of the majority of both TM [transcendental meditation] and mindfulness researchers is that meditation can only do one good. … ...

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Drudge reports on what I would call a terrible demonic possession of self-cannibalism at the far end of meth addiction.  Is there any doubt that pharmakeia (drug entrancement) is sorcery as the KJV calls it in Rev. 18:23?

http://www.news.com.au/national/ice-addict-gouged-out-eyes-and-ate-them/story-e6frfkp9-1227365119730
Ice addict ‘gouged out eyes and ate them’

AN ice addict in a hospital emergency department gouged out his own eyeballs and ate them, a Federal Liberal MP has revealed. 
The horrific story was revealed yesterday at an Ice Summit on the Central Coast organised by the Express Advocate to address the epidemic in the region.

Dobell Federal Liberal MP Karen McNamara relayed the story as she opened the summit before a packed auditorium this morning.

“There is nothing at all recreational about this drug,” Ms McNamara said. (bolding added)

“Let me tell you a story that demonstrates this ... about a young boy taken into an emergency department for treatment who gouged out his own eyeballs and ate them,” she said.

“We have to get these kinds of stories out to young people — this is not a recreational drug,” she said.

A spokeswoman for Ms McNamara later said the incident occurred at John Hunter Hospital at Newcastle and that she was in the room when the story was related to Ms McNamara by a frontline emergency services officer who wished to remain anonymous.
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Wow!  What on Earth is wrong here?  I am not right nor left nor middle— not polltical, but what is left for African-Americans but fear and riot and race war?

NYTimes Breaking News, Saturday, 23 May, 11:05 a.m.

Cleveland Officer Who Fired 49 Shots at
Unarmed Black Couple in 2012 Is Acquitted of Manslaughter
A Cleveland police officer who climbed onto the hood of a car and fired repeatedly at its unarmed occupants in 2012 was acquitted of manslaughter on Saturday by an Ohio judge.	
The trial of the officer, Michael Brelo, played out amid broader questions about how the police interact with African-Americans and use force, in Cleveland and across the country.	
Officer Brelo was one of several officers who shot at Timothy Russell and his passenger, Malissa Williams, during a chase through the Cleveland area on Nov. 29, 2012. Police officers fired 137 rounds at the car, prosecutors have said, including 49 by Officer Brelo.	
Other officers stopped firing after Mr. Russell’s Chevy Malibu was surrounded by the police and came to a stop, but prosecutors said Officer Brelo climbed onto the car’s hood and fired at least 15 rounds from close range, including the fatal shots.	
Mr. Russell and Ms. Williams, who were black, died of their wounds. Officer Brelo, 31, is white. Prosecutors said Officer Brelo’s actions crossed the line from justifiable to reckless when he climbed onto the car’s hood.	

	
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*Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be frontlets between your eyes.  And ye shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.  And thou shalt write them upon the doorposts of thine house, and upon thy gates:  That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.  (Deuteronomy 11:18ff)	

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17 May

Saints,

There are Christians around everywhere who are sound asleep and get very upset if you suggest they wake up; even a little nudge may get a fierce reaction.  They will persecute you and put you out of their churches if you even want to discuss the Word of God in any way that disturbs their happy, somnolent social habits and practices.  The truly personally converted Christian will find that all too often, "the devil goes to church" and many false prophets, shepherds, etc. only soothe the sheep and sing them lullabies but fail to warn them of the truth or of the signs of the times.  But, when and if hardship comes, both the "deceivers and those being deceived" (2 Tim. 3:13) will be the first to be found for whom "the love of many has grown cold" and "many shall betray many."  This will be shocking and surprising to the truly converted soul, but that soul will endure because it is wired straight to the Master.  It may not be a pleasant experience to suffer at the hands of presumed brethren, but it is marvelously bracing, like cold water on a sleepy face, and it will get your attention.  For the moment, "things" go on almost seemingly peaceful for many of us; yet, any careful examination of world events shows us that we must not dwell in a state of being lulled asleep.  May God grant those who call upon him in truth, READINESS!  "Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man." (Luke 21:36)

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May 10 — "Extreme Weather" needs a new term — "Unbelievable Extreme Weather"?  "Unprecedented Extreme Weather"?  This morning, NBC's astutely pert weather woman, Dylan Dreyer, notes that in her years of reporting, she has never had to report a snow storm and a tropical storm assaulting the US at the same time  — from the blizzard in Colorado and South Dakota to the first tropical storm of the season, Ana, coming ashore in the Carolinas.  And, in between, banks and rows of potent tornadoes, floods, and softball-sized hail!   May God preserve all those who call upon his name in the name of his only begotten Son!

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NOTE —  The upcoming Middle East War, prophesied by Ezekiel 2600 years ago, says that  "Sheba and Dedan," current areas of Saudi Arabia and Sunni Arab nations of the region will sit out — not participate — in the attempt to destroy Israel.  Instead, they will say to Persia (Iran) and the jihadi allies from across the region, all led by Russia,  "What are you doing?"  (see Ezekiel 38:13)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/11/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-king-wont-attend-camp-david-meeting.html?emc=edit_na_20150510&nlid=69381998&_r=0

NY TIMES BREAKING NEWS

Sunday, May 10, 2015   5:38 PM EDT
Amid Tensions, Saudi King Will Skip Meeting of Gulf Leaders in Washington
Saudi Arabia announced on Sunday that its new monarch, King Salman, would not be attending meetings at the White House with President Obama or a summit gathering at Camp David this week, in an apparent signal of its continued displeasure with the administration over United States’ relations with Iran, its rising regional adversary.
As recently as Friday, the White House said that King Salman would be coming to “resume consultations on a wide range of regional and bilateral issues,” according to Eric Schultz, a White House spokesman.
But on Sunday, the state-run Saudi Press Agency said that the king would instead send Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, the Saudi interior minister. The agency said the summit meeting would overlap with a five-day cease-fire in Yemen that is scheduled to start on Tuesday to allow for the delivery of humanitarian aid.
Arab officials said they viewed the king’s failure to attend the meeting as a sign of disappointment with what the White House was willing to give as reassurance that the United States would back its Arab allies against a rising Iran.

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Cuban Communism bows to "the last pope"? "Petrus Romanus?" "the False Prophet"?

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_VATICAN_CUBA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-05-10-09-16-12
Castro:  Pope So Impressive I Might Return to Church

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Cuban President Raul Castro paid a call Sunday on Pope Francis at the Vatican to thank him for working for Cuban-U.S. detente - and said he was so impressed by the pontiff he is considering a return to the Catholic church's fold. … ...

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Almost time to go / be forced underground?  The sodomite spirit of the Age / "Zeitgiest "has promoted a vast propaganda campaign that has nearly brainwashed America into criminalizing biblical Christians and exalting evildoing.  I recently reported on the NYTimes' Bruni's suggestion to force Christians and churches to accept homosexuality and other sodomite practices and to delete from the Bible anything that might suggest otherwise.  An astute friend mentioned to me the likelihood of 501 C 3s (Federal non-profit status) being revoked for non-compliance if the Supreme Court enfranchises the sodomite views, and here, cited in the Berean Call for 11 May, are more ramifications —
PRAY THAT THE COURT WILL NOT TAKE THESE ACTIONS!

http://www.christianpost.com/news/dear-churches-in-america-prepare-to-be-treated-like-1st-century-christians-in-rome-138025/#E85Lu6eGDsrct7A9.99
May 11, 2015 / forwarded from The Berean Call	
Today's Update	
DEAR CHURCHES IN AMERICA: PREPARE TO BE TREATED LIKE 1ST CENTURY CHRISTIANS IN ROME
 
The United States Supreme Court may soon liberate the biblically conservative church from old "prejudices" that should have long ago been "jettisoned," forcing it into "rightly bowing to the enlightenments of modernity," in the words of a recent writer in The New York Times.
 
Homosexuality must be removed from the "sin list" and...traditional marriage proponents must be forced "to do things they don't want to do." Sadly, this crusade will be like the Marxist "liberation" movements that promised to "free" people, but really were about control and suppression.
 
The culmination may come as the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on same-sex marriage cases beginning April 28. By July 1 the Court possibly will issue an official ruling regarding the constitutional right to homosexual marriage.
 
The Court's decision may impact the form of biblically based churches dramatically. Churches that hold to a strict and conservative interpretation of the Bible's teaching about gender and marriage may find themselves "Romanized".
The elites of first century Rome would not allow the church an institutional presence in society. "The Christian churches were associations which were not legally authorized, and the Roman authorities, always suspicious of organizations which might prove seditious, regarded them with jaundiced eye..."
 
In our time this means local churches that do not embrace same-sex marriage would find their legal status shaky or non-existent, as well as parachurch groups, conservative Christian colleges, church-based humanitarian agencies, and all other religious institutions - Christian and otherwise - supporting the traditional view of marriage.
 
Journalist Ben Shapiro notes that there is already a movement on the state level "to revoke non-profit status for religious organizations that do not abide by same-sex marriage." The Supreme Court's decision could make churches refusing to comply "private institutions engaging in commerce," and therefore subject to laws already in place. Refusal to perform a same-sex wedding would put a church out of business.
 
Current trends seem to flow against conservative religious institutions. All the elites that set and propagate cultural consensus are aligned in support of same-sex marriage - the Entertainment Establishment, Information Establishment, Academic Establishment, and Political Establishment. Much of the legal community is on board. Despite a tower of briefs supporting same-sex marriage, there are no major law firms willing to argue against it, reported the New York Times April 11.
 
Big business has also rallied. Apple and Wal-Mart were among the major corporations opposing moves in Indiana and Arkansas to secure freedom for business owners to follow their religious convictions. Reuters reported that 379 corporations including Google, American Airlines, Goldman Sachs, and Johnson & Johnson have signed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting same-sex marriage.
 
It's not surprising, therefore, that public support leans toward same-sex marriage. When Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican presidential candidate, told a CNN interviewer that he supported the right of states to determine marriage policies, Jake Tapper, the CNN host, informed Rubio that he is "the candidate of yesterday" since polls show 61 percent of GOP voters under 30 support same-sex marriage.
 
Previously, I wrote in The Christian Post about the process by which the prophetic voice is silenced in a culture: Marginalization, caricaturization, vilification, criminalization, elimination.
 
We have reached the stage of vilification - conservative Christians are now regarded by the consensus establishments as the villains in "transformed" America. The Supreme Court may well take us to the criminalization stage.
The biblical church therefore must learn to live as the first century Christians did in Rome.
 
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"CRISPR-Cas9"  Memorize this acronym.  It is about to change human history.  I have been reporting on it since I first heard of it some months back.  What follows is a mix of human interest story and explained scientific discovery.  CRISPR stands for “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats” and is a discovery made in--are you ready for this?--"unusual microbes that lived in a highly acidic abandoned mine."  Creature of the black lagoon, eh?  Better than science fiction!  The observation of these microbes has led to a "relatively simple" way of re-writing DNA.  The upside is the possible cure of many human ills, but right behind it comes the downside:  the creation of all kinds of monsters.

This brilliant lady and her associates first discovered this, and then she has drawn back in horror and asked the scientific world to put heavy ethical restrictions on it, BUT Pandora's Box seems to have already been opened, not to be closed again, or in more modern idiom,  "the cat is out of the bag!"  When Jesus said, It would be "as in the days of Noah" when he would come again, he didn't specifically say the Nephilim--the mixed breeds of fallen angel, human, and other biologies--would take shape again, but he only spoke of humanity's wicked sameness with those who lived before the Flood, when "the earth was full of violence."  Nevertheless, the Nephilim have reappeared in history since the Flood.  See Numbers 13:33 for starters; also see my piece on them on the website teaching page.  Many others investigators and commentators, some taking maybe too many liberties, are also writing about them.  CRISPR-Cas9 may be a revealed doorway or "stargate" for the reentrance by the Nephilim and their fallen angel fathers to this material world and to our planet in particular.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/science/jennifer-doudna-crispr-cas9-genetic-engineering.html?emc=edit_th_20150512&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Jennifer Doudna, a Pioneer Who Helped Simplify Genome Editing

Take the time and read the piece, but here are a few lifted excerpts:

As simple as "cut and paste"?
Three years ago, Dr. Doudna, a biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley, helped make one of the most monumental discoveries in biology: a relatively easy way to alter any organism’s DNA, just as a computer user can edit a word in a document.
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While everyone welcomes Crispr-Cas9 as a strategy to treat disease, many scientists are worried that it could also be used to alter genes in human embryos, sperm or eggs in ways that can be passed from generation to generation.
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On Cas9:  In a eureka moment, the scientists realized that this cellular defense system might be used to edit genomes, not just kill viruses.
A specific sequence of guide RNA could be made to attach to a spot virtually anywhere on the genome, and the Cas9 protein would cleave the DNA at that spot. Then pieces of the DNA could be deleted or added, just as a film editor might cut a film and splice in new frames.
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(A photo of the monkeys has them looking haunted and otherworldly in my admittedly subjective opinion)—
Even before the dust settles, researchers are moving ahead. While contending with the patents, Dr. Doudna began hearing reports that researchers were trying to use Crispr-Cas9 to make inheritable DNA changes in embryos. Genetically altered monkeys had already been created in China using the technique.
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She organized a meeting of leading biologists in Napa, Calif., in January. In a subsequent commentary published in Science, the group called for a moratorium on attempts to create altered babies, though they said basic research on inheritable changes should still be done.
Dr. Doudna said it was not practical to prohibit basic research. “You can’t really put a lid on it, even if you wanted to,” she said. She and others are trying to organize a bigger international meeting with participants from companies and governments as well as universities, possibly to set new guidelines.

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12 May, 6:45 a.m.  Breaking News — another major quake, 7.3, hits Nepal this morning —

http://www.aol.com/article/2015/05/12/another-major-quake-hits-nepal-epicenter-near-china-border/21182217/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D-59381817

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"And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared."  (Rev. 16:12)
"Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.  And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.   And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand…" (200 million)  Rev. 9:14ff, Mao Tse-Tung bragged he could field an army of exactly this number as long ago as 1967. Source:  The Late Great Planet Earth

Dronelike flying army?  — Rev. 9:3, etc.

http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/May12/122.html
China Preparing For Drone Warfare

China’s military plans to produce nearly 42,000 land-based and sea-based unmanned weapons and sensor platforms as part of its continuing, large-scale military buildup, the Pentagon’s annual report on the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) disclosed Friday.
China currently operates several armed and unarmed drone aircraft and is developing long-range range unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for both intelligence gathering and bombing attacks.
“The acquisition and development of longer-range UAVs will increase China’s ability to conduct long-range reconnaissance and strike operations,” the report said.
China’s ability to use drones is increasing and the report said China “plans to produce upwards of 41,800 land- and sea-based unmanned systems, worth about $10.5 billion, between 2014 and 2023.”

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I am always extremely "tickled pink" when I consider God's comment through Daniel that at the time of the end "knowledge shall increase."  What wonderful understatement! … but to God the sum of all (human) knowledge is no big deal.  Yet, as the Age ends we are seeing an explosion in human knowledge that is utterly unparalleled in all of history, even all of history put together.  Moore saw this coming in 1965 when he postulated the future based on the then new concepts of microcircuits, and it holds true till today…

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/13/opinion/thomas-friedman-moores-law-turns-50.html?emc=edit_th_20150513&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Moore’s Law Turns 50

excerpt:

…Intel engineers did a rough calculation of what would happen had a 1971 Volkswagen Beetle improved at the same rate as microchips did under Moore’s Law: “Here are the numbers: [Today] you would be able to go with that car 300,000 miles per hour. You would get two million miles per gallon of gas, and all that for the mere cost of 4 cents! Now, you’d still be stuck on the [Highway] 101 getting here tonight, but, boy, in every opening you’d be going 300,000 miles an hour!”… …
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13 May — Building the Beast?

http://www.gizmag.com/electronic-memristor-memory-mimics-brain/37454/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=9d32ec3809-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-9d32ec3809-91592265

Electronic memory may bring bionic brain one step closer

Using a matrix of nano-sized memristors, researchers working at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) and the University of California, Santa Barbara claim to have constructed the world’s first electronic memory cell that effectively mimics the analog process of the human brain. By storing memories as multiple threads of varying information, rather than a collection of ones and zeroes, scientists believe that this device may prove to be the first step towards creating a completely artificial, bionic brain.

Working at the MicroNano Research Facility of RMIT, the researchers believe that the breakthrough not only carries them closer to reproducing key aspects of the human brain electronically, but could also one day assist in providing effective treatments for neurological conditions – such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases – by studying such diseases outside the body using artificial brains. Eventually, even cybernetic implants could conceivably be developed from this technology. … ...

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Big Brother dealt a setback?

Breaking News / New York Times
13 May, 2015 5:48 P.M.
House Votes to End N.S.A.'s Bulk Collection of Phone Data
The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved legislation to end the federal government’s bulk collection of phone records, exerting enormous pressure on Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, who insists that existing dragnet sweeps continue in defiance of many of those in his Republican Party.
Under the bipartisan bill, which passed, the Patriot Act would be changed to prohibit bulk collection by the National Security Agency of metadata charting telephone calls made by Americans. In addition, the legislation would bar permitting bulk collection of records using other tools like so-called national security letters, which are a kind of administrative subpoena.

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Rome, full of decadence (decay, rot), fell when the Barbarians and Vandals overran it, as is the case with the West now—

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/05/france-memorial-for-jew-murdered-by-quran-quoting-muslims-smashed

May 13, 2015	
Today's Update (Berean Call)	
FRANCE: MEMORIAL FOR JEW MURDERED BY QUR'AN-QUOTING MUSLIMS SMASHED [Excerpts]  
 
The mayor of a Paris suburb has voiced his outrage after memorial plaque honoring Ilan Halimi - a young Jewish man tortured to death by a Muslim gang in 2006 - was desecrated by unidentified vandals.
 
The Wall Street Journal reported back in 2006 that Halimi was found "stumbling in a field near the railroad tracks in the Essonne region south of Paris. Handcuffed, naked, with four-fifths of his body covered with bruises, stab wounds and serious burns, Ilan died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. Soon after, police provided more details. The victim had been kidnapped Jan. 20 and held for 24 days by a gang from the banlieues, the poor suburban projects that ring the French capital, who eluded capture while repeatedly contacting Ilan's family with ransom demands....Ilan's uncle Rafi Halimi told reporters that the gang phoned the family on several occasions and made them listen to the recitation of verses from the Quran, while Ilan's tortured screams could be heard in the background."  
 
At his trial, Fofana smirked at Halimi's relatives and shouted, "Allahu akbar!"
The glass-and-stone plaque was found smashed at 18:00 on May 2 in Bagneux, a southern suburb of the French capital, according to Le Figaro, and has since been removed for repairs.
 
Bagneux mayor Marie-Hélène Amiable described the vandalism as "outrageous, unacceptable, I am extremely shocked."
 
Ilan Halimi, a Jewish cellphone salesman, was kidnapped in Bagneux on 21 January 2006 by an anti-Semitic Muslim gang calling itself "The Barbarians..."
He was held for 24 days in an apartment building, where, bound and with his head covered entirely in duct tape apart from a small gap for his mouth, he was subjected to a horrifying ordeal of beatings and torture, while gang members attempted to extract a 450,000 Euro ransom from his family.
 
The brutal murder triggered widespread fears over rising levels of violent anti-Semitism and extremism emanating from France's large Muslim community - fears which only continued to grow after several other deadly attacks against Jews by Muslims in the subsequent years....	
	
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(14 May, also Israel's 67th birthday) Historically, many fundamentalist Protestants, those who regard the Bible as the Sacred Word of God, have pointed to the papacy as that institution which will provide the affirming partner, the sidekick, if you will, to the Antichrist, the one called by the prophecies, "the false prophet."  Read Revelation; surf "the prophecy of the Popes," and surf, even at Amazon, the book "Petrus Romanus" by Horn and Putnam.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/14/world/middleeast/vatican-to-recognize-palestinian-state-in-new-treaty.html?emc=edit_th_20150514&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Vatican to Recognize Palestinian State in New Treaty

JERUSALEM — The Vatican announced Wednesday that it would soon sign a treaty that includes recognition of the “state of Palestine,” lending significant symbolic weight to an intensifying Palestinian push for international support for sovereignty that bypasses the paralyzed negotiations with Israel.

Palestinian leaders celebrated the Holy See’s endorsement as particularly important, given the international stature of Pope Francis. For Israelis, it was an emotional blow, since Francis has deep relationships with Jews dating back decades, and Christians are critical backers of their enterprise.

“The Vatican is not just a state. The Vatican represents hundreds of millions of Christians worldwide, including Palestinians, and has vast moral significance,” said Husam Zomlot, a senior Palestinian foreign-affairs official.

Israel's Foreign Ministry said it was “disappointed” by the Vatican’s decision, and that the recognition would “not advance the peace process.” That echoed similar statements after a wave of European Parliamentary resolutions on Palestinian statehood last fall, but some Israeli analysts said the Vatican’s step hurt more. … …

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Here it comes!  though we don't know how long it will take, yet prophetic progress occurs continually —

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/14/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-promises-to-match-iran-in-nuclear-capability.html?emc=edit_th_20150514&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998	
	
Saudi Arabia Promises to Match Iran in Nuclear Capability
WASHINGTON — When President Obama began making the case for a deal with Iran that would delay its ability to assemble an atomic weapon, his first argument was that a nuclear-armed Iran would set off a “free-for-all” of proliferation in the Arab world. “It is almost certain that other players in the region would feel it necessary to get their own nuclear weapons ,” he said in 2012.

Now, as he gathered Arab leaders over dinner at the White House on Wednesday  and prepared to meet with them at Camp David on Thursday, he faced a perverse consequence: Saudi Arabia and many of the smaller Arab states are now vowing to match whatever nuclear enrichment capability Iran is permitted to retain

“We can’t sit back and be nowhere as Iran is allowed to retain much of its capability and amass its research,” one of the Arab leaders preparing to meet Mr. Obama said on Monday, declining to be named until he made his case directly to the president. Prince Turki bin Faisal, the 70-year-old former Saudi intelligence chief, has been touring the world with the same message. … …
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Without bees, no food.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/14/us/honeybees-mysterious-die-off-appears-to-worsen.html?
emc=edit_th_20150514&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Sharp Spike in Honeybee Deaths Deepens a Worrisome Trend
A prolonged and mysterious die-off of the nation’s honeybees, a trend worrisome both to beekeepers and to farmers who depend on the insects to pollinate their crops, apparently worsened last year.

In an annual survey released on Wednesday by the Bee Informed Partnership, a consortium of universities and research laboratories, about 5,000 beekeepers reported losing 42.1 percent of their colonies in the 12-month period that ended in April. That is well above the 34.2 percent loss reported for the same period in 2013 and 2014, and it is the second-highest loss recorded since year-round surveys began in 2010. … …
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Sunday morning top off —

'Nuf said —

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/world/europe/in-vatican-abbas-is-praised-as-angel-of-peace.html?emc=edit_th_20150517&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
In Vatican, Abbas Is Praised as ‘Angel of Peace’
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/world/middleeast/egyptian-court-sentences-ousted-president-morsi-to-death.html?emc=edit_th_20150517&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Egyptian Court Sentences Ousted President Morsi to Death
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A fascinating anthropological look at the inherent, even tribal differences, in the genders, some good, some bad, but all interesting.  God "made them male and female," and humanity can pontificate and gripe on and on about it, even deny it, but it still remains, and no one is comfortable or efficiently functional if we can't have strong gender identification, for the sake of joining together, and strong gender separation for the need to escape from its demands.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/opinion/sunday/poor-little-rich-women.html?emc=edit_th_20150517&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Poor Little Rich Women
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Let us come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Hebrews 4:16

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10 May

Saints,

It's a "brave new world" out there!  Thanks be to God that though the adversary can plan and advance in all quarters, yet he is leashed and cannot go beyond what God allows.  A season will arrive, when "he who letteth (restrains) will let (restrain) until he be taken out of the way."  This scripture is from 2 Thessalonians 2:6, and though some have interpreted "he" as the Roman Empire, etc., the natural, logical, biblical inference is that this refers to God withdrawing his Holy Spirit from the Earth for the time of the Great Tribulation.  He leaves by taking up the believers who are indwelt by him in the "blessed hope" (Titus 2:13) which is the Rapture of the Church.  Neither do we need worry about identifying the Antichrist, for he will be "revealed" in his season (2 Thess. 2: 3, 8), apparently finally and for sure at the time of "the abomination of desolation" (Matthew 24:15), when as Paul notes to the Thessalonians, "Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God, sitteth in the temple of God (sitting down between the cast cherubim on the mercy seat of a recovered or copied Ark of the Covenant in the Holy of Holies of the rebuilt Temple in Jerusalem), shewing himself that he is God." (2 Thess. 2:4)  Many indications of the spirit of Antichrist are all around us, but it has ever been so as St. John notes in 1 John 4:1-4 and 2 John 7.  And so we need not worry about identifying him yet; he may come from any political faction, from any country (so far as we can now tell) and from any religion, Jew, Christian, Mohammeden, etc. though he will worship only "the God of forces'" (Dan. 11:38), the devil.  Meanwhile, his spirit shall ever think to "change times and laws," and he and his shall endeavor to rewrite Scripture, apostasize the Church, and bring in such things as Transgenderism (and many other errors and abominations) and many professing religionists, even "christian" ones shall turn and follow his ways.  "The love of many shall grow cold" and "many shall betray many," said Jesus, and this was referring not to the worldly but to the supposed believers.  We will not make it though by having our eyes on men, on the church, etc., but ONLY by having a direct, individual, personal knowledge and relationship with Jesus Christ Himself, saturated and believing in his Word, and walking constantly in and with his Spirit…and even then, "…if it were possible, even the very elect would be deceived."   Take heed!  Follow only the biblical Christ, for false Christs, even false "Jesusus," shall appear and shall deceive many.   Only he can keep us, but we must desire to let him.

God keep you this week, by the blood of the Lamb of God, who died and rose again for you.

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(Apologies for some narrow column formatting I couldn't get out of some of the pasted texts, which corrupted following ones too.)

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"As in the days of Noah…"  Nephilim erupting again?

Will the new CRISPR-Cas9 technology herald the birth of monstrosities soon?  What is "soon" ? Once, it could mean several years, but at today's pace, "soon" could mean already at hand or in progress!

http://www.latimes.com/science/la-sci-gene-editing-embryo-20150503-story.html#page=1
DNA editing takes a serious step forward -- for better or worse
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Does jihadist, urban/guerrilla warfare now begin in America, "the land of the free and the home of the brave," where we have constitutional rights to free speech, the right of peaceable assembly and divergent opinions?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/04/us/gunmen-killed-after-firing-on-anti-islam-groups-event.htm

NYTIMES BREAKING NEWS ALERT, SUNDAY NIGHT, 10:58 P.M. (3 May)

Excerpt from larger article:  Ms. Geller described Sunday’s event as pro-free speech, and said that Muslims had become a “special class” that Americans were no longer allowed to offend.
“The media is self-enforcing a Shariah,” she said, referring to Islamic law. “Under the Shariah you cannot criticize or offend Islam.”

Two Killed in Texas After Firing on Anti-Islamist Group's Event

Two gunmen were killed after they opened fire Sunday evening outside an event hosted by an anti-Islamist group in Garland, Tex., featuring cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, local officials said. According to the authorities, the two assailants shot a private security guard and were, in turn, shot and killed by police officers.	
Officials did not give the identities of the gunmen or the security officer and did not assign a motive for the attack.	
The shooting began shortly before 7 p.m. outside the Curtis Culwell Center, where organizers were hosting the Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest, an event run by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, ananti-Islamist organization based in New York.

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An interesting across-politics view of US history, for such a day as this—

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/05/opinion/should-jackson-stay-on-the-dollar20-bill.html?emc=edit_th_20150505&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998

Should Jackson Stay on the $20 Bill?
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In this day and age of cybernetic implants and virtual realities, do the old, even ancient, psychedelics have a place in society too?  Some Norwegians think so and are seeking the legalization of LSD and other psychedelics as beneficial therapies.  But they unlock the doors into other spiritual realms, fallen ones, not allowed by God, who calls their use "pharmakeia" or sorcery.  Upon first coming to Christ in the time of the Jesus Movement, many former devotees changed the acronym of LSD which stands for Lysergic Acid Di-Ethylamide-25 to Lucifer's Satanic Deception.  

Christian "Urban legends" have it that some of Timothy Leary's own, young children were taken tripping by their father, who also purportedly was volunteering to the dark lords to become the antichrist (his work with RA Wilson, "Cosmic Trigger of the Illuminati"), and that his children ended up turning to Christ and being saved after their experiences at their father's hands.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/05/world/europe/an-uphill-campaign-in-norway-to-promote-lsd-as-a-human-right.html?emc=edit_th_20150505&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Odd Push in Drug-Averse Norway: LSD Is O.K.
(excerpt):
...Eager to sidestep the tight rules in Norway, Mr. Johansen and his supporters tap into a more freewheeling side of this button-down Nordic nation and point to a long tradition of nature-worshiping shamans, particularly among Norway’s indigenous Sami people.

Also lending a hand are the Vikings, who, at least according to fans of psychedelic drugs, ate hallucinogenic mushrooms to pep them up before battle.

Cato Nystad, a 39-year-old drum maker, EmmaSofia supporter and organizer of traditional ceremonies that involve psychedelic potions, said many Norwegians wanted to get in touch with their wilder, more spiritual sides. …

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There is a massive propaganda campaign all across US media to rob people of their God-given Gender Identity and to replace them with confused, suicidal people weakened even from the essential bases of their humanity…and then to call them "brave," "pioneers," "persecuted," etc.  Can the end of humanity as we know it be far off?  Must Christ indeed come soon to stop the final destruction of the human race?  Indeed, is not this carefully stoked confusion a form of mass demonic possession/entrancement?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/04/opinion/the-quest-for-transgender-equality.html?emc=edit_ty_20150504&nl=opinion&nlid=69381998&_r=0

The Quest for Transgender Equality
(Lead):  A generation ago, transgender Americans were widely regarded as deviants, unfit for dignified workplaces, a disgrace for families. Those who confided in relatives were, by and large, pitied and shunned. For most, transitioning on the job was tantamount to career suicide. Medical procedures to align a person’s body with that person’s gender identity — an internal sense of being male, female or something else — were a fringe specialty, available only to a few who paid out of pocket.
Coming out meant going through life as a pariah.

Being transgender today remains unreasonably and unnecessarily hard. But it is far from hopeless. More Americans who have wrestled with gender identity are transitioning openly, propelling a civil rights movement that has struggled even as gays and lesbians have reached irreversible momentum in their fight for equality.   Those coming out now are doing so with trepidation, realizing that while pockets of tolerance are expanding, discriminatory policies and hostile, uninformed attitudes remain widespread.
They deserve to come out in a nation where stories of compassion and support vastly outnumber those that end with a suicide note. The tide is shifting, but far too slowly, while lives, careers and dreams hang in the balance. … …(etc. ad nauseum).

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Now, the French run to catch up to the Americans and the Brits.  Charlie Hebdo drives them into the arms of Big Brother and his Beast.  Tribulation in the Greek means pressure; pressure must have something to push against to be effective, so like a pair of pliers, the dark lords use terrorists on one side and Big Brother on the other to bring the populaces into quaking, stressed subservience.  May God save us by the glorious "blessed hope" of the Rapture!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/06/world/europe/french-legislators-approve-sweeping-intelligence-bill.html?emc=edit_th_20150506&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Lawmakers in France Move to Vastly Expand Surveillance
PARIS — At a moment when American lawmakers are reconsidering the broad surveillance powers assumed by the government after Sept. 11, the lower house of the French Parliament took a long stride in the opposite direction Tuesday, overwhelmingly approving a bill that could give the authorities their most intrusive domestic spying abilities ever, with almost no judicial oversight.

The bill, in the works since last year, now goes to the Senate, where it seems likely to pass, having been given new impetus in reaction to the terrorist attacks in and around Paris in January. Those attacks, which included the offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a kosher grocery, left 17 people dead.

As the authorities struggle to keep up with the hundreds of French citizens who travel to and from battlefields in Iraq and Syria  to wage jihad, often lured over the Internet, the new steps would give the intelligence services the right to gather potentially unlimited electronic data. … ...
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Progress toward Terminator 2, "living tissue over metal endoskeleton"…?

http://phys.org/news/2015-05-squishier-robot-synthetic-gel-internal.html	

	
Toward a squishier robot: Engineers design synthetic gel that changes shape and moves via its own internal energy
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Huge military exercise, Jade Helm, has many Americans from Governor Rick Perry to Texas Congressmen, to even Chuck Norris and dozens of targeted citizens, characterized as "terrorists" for the sake of the exercise, WORRIED!  Property rights overrun?  practice for martial law?  ...governing bodies are even questioning with concern…what gives?

http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/louie-gohmert-gets-why-some-texans-are-worried-about-a-military-takeover-20150505

Louie Gohmert Gets Why Some Texans Are Worried About a Military Takeover
The Texas congressman is joining others in his state calling for the Pentagon to alter the Jade Helm 15 military exercises.

May 5, 2015 U.S. Special Operations Command is  preparing to launch a five-month, multi-state exercise across private and public land to prepare Army special forces for threats anywhere in the world. Or at least that's what the Pentagon would want you to believe. Officials and citizens in Texas, one of the states involved, see something potentially more nefarious in the exercise, dubbed Jade Helm 15. And now Rep. Louie Gohmert is joining them."Over the past few weeks, my office has been inundated with calls referring to the Jade Helm 15 military exercise scheduled to take place between July 15 and September 15, 2015," Gohmert said in a Tuesday statement.  "This military practice has some concerned that the U.S. Army is preparing for modern-day martial law. Certainly, I can understand these concerns.""When leaders within the current administration believe that major threats to the country include those who support the Constitution, are military veterans, or even 'cling to guns or religion,' patriotic Americans have reason to be concerned," Gohmert wrote.The congressman took particular issue with the layout and labels of the Pentagon map for the exercise. "Once I observed the map depicting 'hostile,' 'permissive,' and 'uncertain' states and locations, I was rather appalled that the hostile areas amazingly have a Republican majority, 'cling to their guns and religion,' and believe in the sanctity of the United States Constitution." Gohmert called on the Pentagon to change the map, the names on the map, and said "the tone of the exercise needs to be completely revamped so the federal government is not intentionally practicing war against its own states." … …
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I suppose this would be the place for some conspiracy theorist to surmise that there are already human bases on Mars, probably hidden on the Plains of Cydonia, and this is preparatory propaganda for the people?  Ok, what next?
A Russian probe attempt to one of the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Demos, mysteriously failed a year or so back.  Phobos and Demos (Fear and Demons) read so thin in density by our radio wave probes that many have speculated they are ancient, hollow ships, parked in orbit…though this theory is now pooh-poohed, and they are said to be cinder-like bodies.  Shouldn't be too long before we know…"there shall be great signs in the heavens…such that men's hearts shall fail them for the things coming (down) upon the earth…"

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/241046-nasa-head-humanity-closer-than-ever-to-mars
NASA: Humanity closer to reaching Mars

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"Fearfully and wonderfully made…"

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/07/health/premature-babies-22-weeks-viability-study.html?emc=edit_th_20150507&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Premature Babies May Survive at 22 Weeks if Treated, Study Finds

A small number of very premature babies are surviving earlier outside the womb than doctors once thought possible, a new study has documented, raising questions about how aggressively they should be treated and posing implications for the debate about abortion
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The study, of thousands of premature births, found that a tiny minority of babies born at 22 weeks who were medically treated survived with few health problems, although the vast majority died or suffered serious health issues. Leading medical groups had already been discussing whether to lower the consensus on the age of viability, now cited by most medical experts as 24 weeks.

The Supreme Court has said that states must allow abortion if a fetus is not viable outside the womb, and changing that standard could therefore raise questions about when abortion is legal. … …
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7 May—A "fender-bender" slowdown for the BigBrother monolith of the NSA?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/08/us/nsa-phone-records-collection-ruled-illegal-by-appeals-court.html?emc=edit_th_20150508&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
N.S.A. Collection of Bulk Call Data Is Ruled Illegal
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court in New York ruled on Thursday that the once-secret National Security Agency program that is systematically collecting Americans’ phone records in bulk is illegal. The decision comes as a fight in Congress is intensifying over whether to end and replace the program, or to extend it without changes.

In a 97-page ruling, a three-judge panel for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that a provision of the U.S.A. Patriot Act, known as Section 215, cannot be legitimately interpreted to allow the bulk collection of domestic calling records.

The provision of the act used to justify the bulk data program is to expire June 1, and the ruling is certain to increase tension that has been building in Congress. … ...

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Ah, the upcoming benefits of being personally microchipped!  (The benefits are always paraded first, eh?)

http://www.kens5.com/story/news/2015/05/07/tracking-kids-via-microchip-cant-be-far-off-says-expert/70986060/
Tracking kids via microchip 'can't be far off,' says expert

It's a thought that is just a little too Orwellian for most people -- putting a microchip inside your body. But there are people who are doing just that already.
For most of those who have, it's a matter of convenience. Now, they can log onto their computer, lock or unlock their front door, or even start their car with a wave of a microchip implanted in their hand.
Now let's take the technology one step further.

What if you could implant a chip in your child which could help bring him or her home in the event they were lost or worse -- kidnapped?
Experts are working on that possibility right now. There are already working on products you can buy, like watches or bracelets or tracking bug,s to drop into a backpack which can be tracked by GPS. But tracking a microchip, placed inside a human body is another matter.

"I just might be one of those mothers who would do it", says Trish Dickerson. Her 3 and a half-year-old son, Elliott, never stops. … ...

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Synthetic Humans?  If sperm can be created from nearly any other bodily cells, then certainly eggs will be too.  Is this another route to cloning fully "synthetic humans"?  Will God supply souls for such, or will the "souls" be from another source?  Are the demons, by the doctrines (teachings) of the Nephilim, uncovering to human scientists how to provide human bodies for their demon teachers to inhabit?   Strange days…"as in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." (Matt. 24)   "…there were giants (Nephilim/supermen/part fallen angel, part human and biological) in the earth in those days…and the earth was filled with violence." (Gen. 6)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3073787/World-SPERM-grown-lab-time-Scientists-claim-breakthrough-hope-infertile-men.html

World first as SPERM is grown in a lab for the first time: Scientists claim breakthrough could give hope to infertile men
	•	Scientists: We have made 'fully-functioning' semen from genetic material 
	•	Kallistem laboratory in France says it will soon carry out human trials
	•	Breakthrough could help thousands of men who cannot produce sperm 
	•	Experts met claims with scepticism, as findings have not been verified

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3 May

Saints,

Prophecy investigators often say the US does not show up in End of the Age prophecies, but "the great eagle" which helps save Israel in the Book of Revelation might be America.  C.S. Lewis said that each nation was like "a Britain from above and a Britain from beneath,"  some would be regenerated, others would rush to perdition.  Here in America, the spirit of Sodom is threatening to take over.  The will of a handful of wealthiy propagandists and media is crushing the constitutional will of the people.  What used to be called "race riots" is now becoming a vested movement in city after city…and who can blame the downtrodden when they must fear even letting their children play outside?  And police, who are 99% committed to "serve and protect," are betrayed by a small element of evil brutalizers and killers among them.

Will America go out in a blaze of glory, protecting the innocent among us and around the world, guarding the physical elect of Israel, and remembering righteousness, or will she further descend into the blood and gore of oppression and perversion?  Let the saints watch and pray!  And let us stand for righteousness, plucking some out of the fire, as we prepare to meet the Lord.

P.S.  Please pray for me as, today, I begin a summer of  street witnessing, singing and preaching, distributing literature and Bibles.  Thank you.

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Yes, "Black Lives Matter"!  If we neglect the cry of the downtrodden, we destroy ourselves —

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/us/sandtown-winchester-baltimore-home-to-a-lot-of-freddie-grays.html?emc=edit_th_20150503&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Hard but Hopeful Home to 'Lot of Freddies'

BALTIMORE — The teenagers stood inside Sun Deli and Grocery, ordered iced tea and fruit punch through the bulletproof glass and casually divided the marijuana they planned to sell, unconcerned that it was broad daylight or that other people were present.

Then a man in his 20s stepped into the tiny shop and handed them small plastic bags of white powder — evidently heroin or cocaine destined for this city’s thriving corner drug trade. Scrawled on the deli wall were the words “no snitching.”
“You don’t be selling fast enough,” the man chided one 15-year-old boy in a blue polo shirt and khaki pants, the uniform of his high school. “I need $2,000. I’m going to Disney World next week.”

It was a stark glimpse of the hazardous world of young people in Sandtown-Winchester, the West Baltimore neighborhood where Freddie Gray came of age and where police officers chased him down, loaded him in a van and took him for a ride that proved fatal.

Now Sandtown, as it is called by its 9,000 residents, is the improbable focus of national attention, the setting for the latest on a list of police-violence cases that over nine months have inflamed tensions in black communities in Ferguson, Mo.; Cleveland; New York City; and North Charleston, S.C. … ...

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 http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/April28/285.html#wA8eZIKiE2zhbWoK.99
Sentencing Of Christians Explodes 10,000% In China
China’s sentencing of Christians exploded more than 10,000 percent from 2013 to 2014, according to a new report from China Aid Association, an organization that exposes religious freedom and human rights abuses.

The group’s annual report notes that it tracks six categories of religious persecution, and since it obtains information directly from Christians inside China, most of its information concerns the Christian house church movement.

The “Year of ‘Persecution and Endurance’” report said persecution rose, sometimes dramatically, in all six categories studied.

For example, the number of citizens sentenced for their beliefs rose from 12 in 2013 to 1,274 in 2014, up 10,516.67 percent.

The organization collected information on 572 cases of religious persecution, an increase of 300 percent.

“Of the 17,884 people who were persecuted for their religion, more than 1,592 were church leaders, which represents a 140.89 percent increase over the previous year. The 2,994 people who were detained constituted an increase of 103.67 percent over the previous year. The CPC sentenced 1,274 people, a 10,516.67 percent jump over 2013.”

China Aid reported, “Comparing the data in the above six categories – total number of religious persecution cases, total number of people persecuted for their religion, number of people detained, number of people sentenced, total number of severe abuse cases, and the number of individuals in severe abuse cases — the overall situation of persecution can be statistically represented as being 152.74 percent worse than in 2013, 250.85 percent worse than in 2012, 296.64 percent worse than in 2011, 465.19 percent worse than in 2010, 549.48 percent worse than in 2009, 673.31 percent worse than in 2008 and 1,331.76 percent worse than in 2007.” … ...
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If you are a US citizen who believes in praying for his country, NOW would be a good time.  Pray that God will not let these justices sleep until they choose to protect America from the Spirit of Sodom.  It does not look good, but God slew the Assyrians when it did not look good either.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/30/us/gender-bias-could-tip-chief-justice-roberts-into-ruling-for-gay-marriage.html?emc=edit_th_20150430&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998

Gender Bias Issue Could Tip Chief Justice Roberts Into Ruling for Gay Marriage
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Remember the Borg on StarTrek TNG?  Now, it arrives, cutely packaged to appeal; first the "Smart Watch," and then breaking now, and just a few months or couple of years out, bodily integrated technology and interface with the 'Net,  "Boldly going where no Beast has gone before"?

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/sensors-shrink-watch-wearables-disappear-170929276--sector.html
As sensors shrink, watch as 'wearables' disappear
(Reuters) - Forget 'wearables', and even 'hearables'. The next big thing in mobile devices: 'disappearables'.
Even as the new Apple Watch piques consumer interest in wrist-worn devices, the pace of innovation and the tumbling cost, and size, of components will make wearables smaller - so small, some in the industry say, that no one will see them.

Within five years, wearables like the Watch could be overtaken by hearables - devices with tiny chips and sensors that can fit inside your ear. They, in turn, could be superseded by disappearables - technology tucked inside your clothing, or even inside your body.

"In five years, when we look back, everything we see (now) will absolutely be classified as toys, as the first very basic steps of getting this right," says Nikolaj Hviid, the man behind smart earbuds called the Dash. … ...

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The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty;  He will save, He will rejoice over thee with Joy!
Zephaniah 3:17

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26 April

Saints, 

A huge earthquake strikes Nepal, even Mt. Everest, killing untold numbers; planetwide, volcanoes are erupting in unprecedented numbers;  stateside, we create our own earthquake problems with fracking, and, have you noticed, the television news media and internet news pages and services are falling all over themselves to proclaim for "all the brave children who are coming forward as transgenders," and all the famous men turning themselves into "women."  The core is rotten, the people are deeply weakened by perversion, and ready to be taken down by anything that might tickle their perverted fantasies.

But, "Let the redeemed of the LORD say so!"  And says the Lord, "Come out of her, my people!"

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Key words — "more than"

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/26/world/asia/nepal-earthquake-katmandu.html?emc=edit_th_20150426&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Earthquake Devastates Nepal, Killing More Than 1,900
NEW DELHI — A powerful earthquake shook Nepal on Saturday near its capital, Katmandu, killing more than 1,900 people, flattening sections of the city’s historic center, and trapping dozens of sightseers in a 200-foot watchtower that came crashing down into a pile of bricks.

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Judgment Day Dawning?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3043849/Mystery-surrounds-spate-huge-dust-storms-world-year-grounded-flights-blotted-sun.html
Mystery of the dust storms sweeping the world: Experts baffled by spate of 'haboobs' which have brought travel chaos and turned day into night in cities thousands of miles from deserts 
	•	Footage showed an unusual 'apocalyptic' dust storm hitting Belarus
	•	China has suffered four massive sandstorms since the start of the year 
	•	Half of dust in atmosphere today is due to human activity, said Nasa 
This year has seen a rash of massive dust storms around the world that have led to travel chaos and blocked out sunlight - but experts cannot pinpoint the reason behind the spate. … …

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Since I posted this, US ships have blockaded and turned back the Iranian convoy — for now.

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/239295-us-officials-concerned-about-iranian-convoy-headed-towards-yemen
Iranian ship convoy moves toward Yemen, alarming US officials

U.S. military officials are concerned that Iran's support for Houthi rebels in Yemen could spark a confrontation with Saudi Arabia and plunge the region into sectarian war. 

Iran is sending an armada of seven to nine ships — some with weapons — toward Yemen in a potential attempt to resupply the Shia Houthi rebels, according to two U.S. defense officials. 
Officials fear the move could lead to a showdown with the U.S. or other members of a Saudi-led coalition, which is enforcing a naval blockade of Yemen and is conducting its fourth week of airstrikes against the Houthis. 
Iran sent a destroyer and another vessel to waters near Yemen last week but said it was part of a routine counter-piracy mission. 
What's unusual about the new deployment, which set out this week, is that the Iranians are not trying to conceal it, officials said. Instead, they appear to be trying to "communicate it" to the U.S. and its allies in the Gulf. 
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A terrible disaster is unfolding at sea in the Mediterranean as thousands, fleeing ISIS, the Syrian War, Boko Haram, Libya, the rest of terrorist Africa, etc. drown in their efforts to get to safety.  May God have mercy on them and deliver them, especially those who call upon Almighty Yahweh and his Son Jesus—

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/20/world/europe/italy-migrants-capsized-boat-off-libya.html?emc=edit_th_20150420&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Hundreds of Migrants Are Feared Dead as Ship Capsizes Off Libyan Coast

ROME — Hundreds of people were feared dead on Sunday after a ship crowded with migrants capsized and sank in the Mediterranean, as the authorities described a grisly scene of bodies floating and submerging in the warm waters, with the majority of the dead apparently trapped in the ship at the bottom of the sea.

The fatal shipwreck may prove to be the Mediterranean’s deadliest migrant disaster ever and is only the latest tragedy in Europe’s migration crisis. Warmer spring weather has unleashed a torrent of smuggler boats, mostly from Libya, bearing migrants and refugees, from the Middle East and Africa, often fleeing war and poverty for a foothold in Europe.

Death at sea has become a grimly common occurrence: Even before this weekend’s sinking, humanitarian groups estimated that 900 migrants had already died this year, compared with 90 during the same period a year ago. That figure could rise sharply, as officials estimate that 700 people may have drowned in the weekend disaster. … …
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/20/world/middleeast/isis-video-purports-to-show-killing-of-ethiopian-christians.html?emc=edit_th_20150420&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
ISIS Video Appears to Show Executions of Ethiopian Christians in Libya
CAIRO — The Islamic State released a video on Sunday that appears to show fighters from its branches in southern and eastern Libya executing dozens of Ethiopian Christians, some by beheading and others by shooting.

Prefaced by extensive speeches and interviews that appear to take place in the Islamic State’s strongholds in Syria and Iraq, the video of the killings, if confirmed, would be the first evidence that the group’s leaders in those countries are coordinating with fighters under the group’s banner in those parts of Libya , compounding fears of its expansion across the Mediterranean. … …
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The "culture war" between sodomites and conservative religious establishments will soon bloom into more than a "culture war"  "Beware the ides of June," when the Supreme Court upsets the rule of history, morality, natural order, and Faith in the name of fake civil rights?  May God yet twist the vote against the rise of the 2 or 3 percent who are sodomites, but who want control of the vast majority.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/20/us/gays-and-christians-two-faces-of-tourism-are-clashing-in-arkansas.html?emc=edit_th_20150420&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998

In Arkansas, Gay Rights Ordinance Highlights Clash Between Two Faces of Tourism

EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. — The Rev. Randall Christy was sitting in the amphitheater of “The Great Passion Play" Friday afternoon, two weeks before opening night. Below him, amid a stage set meant to evoke ancient Jerusalem, a cast member in a baseball cap took Pontius Pilate’s horse-drawn chariot on a practice run.
But Mr. Christy was speaking about more contemporary troubles nearby, in the gay-friendly little tourist town over the hill.

Mr. Christy and his allies here contend that Christian visitors are the foundation of the tourism trade in Eureka Springs, a Victorian-era spa town of 2,100 residents in northwest Arkansas near the Missouri border. For nearly five decades, those visitors have flocked to the Passion Play, the seasonal outdoor depiction of Jesus’ final days that is presented in this 4,000-seat amphitheater. But in recent years, Mr. Christy said, those tourists have become more reluctant to visit Eureka Springs because of efforts to promote the town as the “Gay Capital of the Ozarks.”

“I think that is a mistake,” said Mr. Christy, the pastor of Union Valley Baptist Church in Ada, Okla., and founder of a gospel radio network who has operated the nonprofit Passion Play  since late 2012. “Family vacation destination should be the thrust of this town again.”
As the Supreme Court prepares to consider same-sex marriage cases, there are few places where the struggle between traditional values and gay rights is playing out as starkly as it has in Eureka Springs, a Bible Belt city that is both a haven for social liberals and a famous destination for the devout. It is a city perhaps most famous for a seven-story-tall hillside statue called “Christ of the Ozarks,” erected in 1966 by the Passion Play’s founder Gerald L. K. Smith, an anti-Semitic preacher and political organizer. But it is also a city that created a domestic partners registry in 2007 and where gays have long been welcomed in keeping with an unofficial mantra that Eureka Springs is a place “where misfits fit.” … …

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Recently, I noted  (opening notes of 29 March and other stories about the situation in Yemen) that escalating and foreboding events emanating from Persia might finally force Israel to attack the nuclear facilities there.  Here's more reasoning —Rosh (Russia) now ready to arm and defend Persia (Iran) from such a specific attack with a new "Iron Dome" of its own about to be given to Iran.

http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/April21/213.html
Russian Interference Leaves Israel No Choice But To Attack

The Obama Doctrine – scorn your friends, reward your enemies – has finally reaped the whirlwind, namely Russia and its pledge to provide Iran with an array of the most advanced “defensive” missiles on earth. This leaves Israel with no choice except to act BEFORE those missiles are deployed. 

Israel must attack to remove those nukes before it’s too late.

If it was difficult to successfully strike Iran’s nuclear facilities today, tomorrow will be near impossible. So the scientific experts tell us.

It’s been explained that the S-300 Surface-to-Air Missile System would provide Iran with an impenetrable shield.

If anything, Russia’s move has clarified the situation. Israel’s duty to defend itself has never been more urgent and an attack scaled to wipe out Iran’s nuclear emplacements would likewise be a favor to any number of Sunni states that tremble from Iran’s Shiite encroachments throughout the Arab world.

Jordan’s King Abdullah II told Fox News’ Bret Baier that somebody better do something, quick, seeing Iran on the prowl throughout the Middle East and beyond: “You’ve got to connect all these dots together. All these issues are areas of instability,” declared Abdullah in connection to Iran’s heavy footprints throughout the region.

He cited Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan and Pakistan and his own country as being at risk. … ...

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Saints, The vast, practically infinite, memory capacity of our combined worldwide computer linkage, coupled with intense and meticulous profiling algorithms means BB knows way more about you, factually, than you can even remember about yourself, but "IT" does, and can nuance you and even predict both your immediate future actions and your long term path.  The only solution is to stay in the Holy Spirit and in the Word, and effectually "preach to (and by) the damn thing."

Excerpt — Then things got even creepier when Schmidt said, “We don’t need you to type at all because we know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less guess what you’re thinking about.” Then he paused and asked, “Is that over the line?”  —Eric Schmidt, Google Chairman

http://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/2015/04/20/why-google-is-new-evil-empire/
Why Google Is the New Evil Empire

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/239487-google-will-let-you-see-everything-youve-ever-searched
Google will let you see everything you’ve ever searched

“Create an archive of your search history data,” the Web company promises.
In a few moments, it sends an email with downloadable cache of data about people’s past searches.

To find everything they’ve ever searched for, users should go to Google Web History, click the gear icon and click “Download.”

Google is famous for keeping discreet tabs on how people browse the Internet in order to market ads back to them and point them toward the websites, videos and services they want.

Now, it’s possible for the average Web user to get a slice of some of that information.
Over the weekend, an unofficial Google blog highlighted a new feature that the Internet giant had quietly rolled out to let people download their entire Google search histories. 

The archive won’t work for people who have altered their privacy settings, and only records searches that occurred while logged in to Google, such as through Gmail.

Still, the archive is a demonstration of how much information Google quietly retains about its users. The company is by no means unique in compiling scores of data about people’s browsing habits, but its size has made it a target for privacy advocates who fear companies having access to vast amounts of personal information.

In addition to Google, companies known as data brokers — which make a business out of compiling dossiers on consumers in order to sell use for advertising — have come under scrutiny from Capitol Hill and Washington regulators, who fear that people’s privacy is not being adequately protected.
That search history can also be useful to the government, in order to track down potential terrorists or criminals. Among other things, federal agents are able to subpoena lists of search histories from companies like Google during the course of an investigation. 

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How long till computers are granted "personhood status" like some animals now are…as we descend into planet wide madness?  Hey, be nice to animals, but they are not humans!  You are not a "dog mom" as a recently sighted Vermont bumper sticker tells me.  Think about that, sister; what does that really make you?

http://thesmokinggun.com/buster/colorado/colorado-computer-killer-786520
"Fed Up" Colorado Man, 38, Busted For Killing His Computer In Cold Blood

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So much for contact lenses!  Just get new artificially grown/3D biologically printed eyes, optic nerve wiring and all!   Yes, folks, we're on the way to eternal life through "better chemistry," genetics, cyborgery, and 3D printed biological parts.  One little problem, you can't use these technologies to fix the SIN NATURE, and the longer we live as patchwork cyborgs the nastier we are going to get.  I'll take my Eternal LIfe via the Resurrection provided by the Lamb of God, not by the gory, transhuman "sciences" of the devil!

http://www.gizmag.com/mhox-3d-bioprinted-synthetic-eye-concept/37113/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=ae45271c02-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-ae45271c02-91592265
Italian company hopes to market synthetic eyeballs
(my italics added)
Imagine being able to see in black and white or with an Instagram-like filter, or to have what you see through your eyes transmitted wirelessly, simply by swallowing a pill. Or imagine having vision so sharp and accurate that your visual acuity is on par with the most sight-adept people in the world. Italian research studio Mhox hopes to one day make this a reality with its EYE concept, which would offer 3D bioprinted eyes that replace your existing eyeballs.

It sounds like science fiction, and in many ways it is, with a projected availability of around January 2027. But the concept provides a fascinating glimpse of the future of human enhancement (translate > transhumanism > capture of humanity by evil, offering good toys first), which may eventually go far beyond enhanced eyeballs to provide super strength and athletic performance as well as a direct line from your brain to the internet.  (I don't want my brain connected to the Internet!)

EYE (short for Enhance Your Eye) will come in three models: EYE Heal, EYE Enhance, and EYE Advance. The former would simply replace the defective eyes of the blind and visually impaired ,while the latter two would offer enhancements such as filters, wireless communication, and high-acuity ("up to 15/10") vision. All three versions will be customizable in shape and retina color.

It will all be made possible by 3D bioprinting, with different bio-inks providing the different types of cells and organic tissue required, all of which will automatically gather together. Or so goes the theory. Keep in mind that at this stage EYE is entirely conceptual, a design based on speculative near-future technology.
As for how these synthetic eyes would get into your head, Mhox partner and lead designer Filippo Nasetti told Dezeen that subjects would have their natural eyes surgically removed in favor of a new organic component called the deck. This deck would connect muscle fibers from the synthetic eye to the optical nerves in the brain, and it would allow new eyes to be swapped and upgraded easily.

Mhox hopes that the EYE project will spark some controversy to stir discussion about the future of technology augmenting and enhancing the human body. "We believe it challenges the contemporary concepts of natural and synthetic," he says, noting that such technologies hold great promise as well as risk.

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As the time of the End of the Age nears, said the Lord, there would be "earthquakes in diverse places."  Who'd have thought mankind himself would start many of them?  Who know whats sleeping giants we awake from far underground?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/us-maps-areas-of-increased-earthquakes-from-human-activity.html?emc=edit_th_20150424&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
U.S. Maps Pinpoint Earthquakes Linked to Quest for Oil and Gas

The United States Geological Survey on Thursday released its first comprehensive assessment of the link between thousands of earthquakes and oil and gas operations, identifying and mapping 17 regions where quakes have occurred.

The report was the agency’s broadest statement yet on a danger that has grown along with the nation’s energy production.

By far the hardest-hit state, the report said, is Oklahoma, where earthquakes are hundreds of times more common  than they were until a few years ago because of the disposal of wastewater left over from extracting fuels and from drilling wells by injecting water into the earth. … …

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Barely are the words of dire warning out of the mouth of the woman who "invented" the horrific new gene technology acronymed CRISPR, than the experiments begin.  We enter the Age of Human Monsters, ready to corrupt the whole gene pool "as in the days of Noah."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/health/chinese-scientists-edit-genes-of-human-embryos-raising-concerns.html?emc=edit_th_20150424&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Chinese Scientists Edit Genes of Human Embryos, Raising Concerns

The experiment with human embryos was dreaded, yet widely anticipated. Scientists somewhere, researchers said, were trying to edit genes with a technique that would permanently alter the DNA of every cell so any changes would be passed on from generation to generation.
Those concerns drove leading researchers to issue urgent calls in major scientific journals last month to halt such work on human embryos, at least until it could be proved safe and until society decided if it was ethical.

Now, scientists in China report that they tried it.

The experiment failed, in precisely the ways that had been feared.

The Chinese researchers did not plan to produce a baby — they used defective human embryos — but did hope to end up with an embryo with a precisely altered gene in every cell but no other inadvertent DNA damage. None of the 85 human embryos they injected fulfilled those criteria. In almost every case, either the embryo died or the gene was not altered. Even the four embryos in which the targeted gene was edited had problems. Some of the embryo cells overrode the editing, resulting in embryos that were genetic mosaics. And speckled over their DNA was a sort of collateral damage — DNA mutations caused by the editing attempt.

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19 April

Saints,

Are you ready to meet the Lord?  The next year or two may bridge the gap.  Things to expect:  "The love of many growing cold"…  "many betraying many" as many professing Christians cave and compromise and "modify" the words of the Lord to suit their situation or to please the times.  All of us will feel and are feeling a need for self-protection and an isolation brought on by the huge looming threats from every direction.  I call upon the Lord to help me stand and stay true, for I am too small to stand without his constant strengthening.  "Behold, his soul that is lifted up is not upright in him, but the just shall live by faith," prophesied Habakkuk.  So, it must ever be.

God strengthen us this week in the fellowship of the Blood of the Lamb.

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"…the technology is impossible to stop."

Big Brother, aka the Beast, wants to imitate God's omniscience.  It is nearly in place with 245 million omni-presence cameras worldwide, increasing at the present rate of 15% per year, according to this piece.

It virtually rewires the brain to need to learn that you are often on camera and your every movement and expression are being poured into the Cloud of Unlimited Memory for analysis and profiling, and even predicting your future actions, path of movement, etc…

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-0411-cameras-everywhere-20150412-story.html#page=1
In a cameras-everywhere culture, science fiction becomes reality
Science fiction writer David Brin calls it "a tsunami of lights" — a future where tiny cameras are everywhere, lighting up everything we do, and even predicting what we'll do next.

Unlike George Orwell's novel "1984," where only Big Brother controlled the cameras, in 2015, cheap, mobile technology has turned everyone into a watcher.

A snowboarder with a GoPro can post a YouTube video of a friend's 540-degree McTwist in the halfpipe. But also — as happened recently — a Penn State fraternity can upload Facebook photos of partially naked, sleeping college women.  A San Jose homeowner cowers behind a locked door while she watches an intruder stroll through her home on a surveillance video. A man launches a drone to spy on his neighbor tanning by her pool. Pet owners monitor their dogs.

With each technological advance, more of our lives — from the humdrum to the hyper-dramatic — is being caught on camera.

That includes the police, whose actions can be recorded by anyone with a camera phone. In South Carolina, a cellphone video released last week showed a police officer firing eight shots at a fleeing man's back. In San Bernardino County, news choppers captured footage of deputies punching and kicking a man as he lay face-down on the ground with his hands behind his back.

"Painting a picture that cameras are everywhere and anywhere is pretty provocative," said Ryan Martin, a technology analyst at 451 Research, but it can also present opportunities to increase accountability and improve safety.

There are 245 million surveillance cameras installed worldwide, according to research firm IHS, and the number increases by 15% a year. … ...

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Bruni's and Gold's "abominations that make desolate."  The sodomites, sensing their propaganda victories, begin to discover the vile and violent evil behind their agenda—

prophecynewswatch.com/2015/April13/134.html#j5If5rRmdFjmxhfB.99
Christian Churches ‘Must Be Made’ To Affirm Homosexuality, Says New York Times Columnist

A New York Times columnist and a corporate leader have agreed that Christian churches “must” be convinced, or coerced, to change their teachings on sexual morality and abandon an “ossified” doctrinal teaching that sex outside heterosexual marriage is immoral.

Frank Bruni wrote that traditional Christianity – whether among evangelicals, Catholics, or Orthodox – provides the greatest resistance to normalizing homosexuality in the United States in a recent column in the New York Times.

“Homosexuality and Christianity don’t have to be in conflict in any church anywhere,” Bruni insisted. “The continued view of gays, lesbians and bisexuals as sinners is a decision. It’s a choice. It prioritizes scattered passages of ancient texts over all that has been learned since — as if time had stood still, as if the advances of science and knowledge meant nothing.”

Bruni quoted furniture tycoon Mitchell Gold, who has used his millions to found a liberal pressure group Faith in America, writing that Gold believes Christian churches “must be made 'to take homosexuality off the sin list.'”

“His commandment is worthy — and warranted,” Bruni added.

The column sparked outrage at the notion that a successful businessman and an op-ed writer could induce the Christian Church to ignore a 2,000-year-old dogma.

Noting Bruni's column at The American Conservative, Rod Dreher wrote that he would find a conservative columnist lecturing liberal denominations that they “must” change their moral theology equally “appalling” as an act of imposition.

“But of course nobody on that side seems to have the slightest doubt about their cause, their motives, or their methods. None,” he wrote. “In a holy war, there is no room for doubt.”

A number of mainline Protestant churches have, in effect, taken Gold's advice, condoning – if not celebrating – homosexuality and allowing sexually active homosexuals to be ordained as pastors.

The Episcopal Church saw its membership decline by half-a-million people between 2002 and 2012. After changing its views of homosexuals, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) lost more than 600,000 people – in excess of 12 percent of its total members – in just three years. The first mainline church to allow for homosexual ordination, the United Church of Christ (UCC), lost 350 congregations within three years of its 2004 decision.

But even refraining from calling same-sex relations a sin – or, in the words of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, “intrinsically disordered” – is not enough for the modern LGBT movement.

“The LGBT militants are not asking to be left alone,” said former Reagan administration adviser Pat Buchanan, a co-founder of The American Conservative. “They are demanding that we accept the morality of homosexuality and same-sex marriages, and manifest that acceptance, under pain of law and sanctions, in our daily lives.”

Buchanan said during an interview with WND.com that orthodox Christian churches must have one response to demands that they alter their teachings to fit the modern zeitgeist: “The answer is no. If it comes to civil disobedience, so be it.”

Buchanan's statement came as a number of prominent evangelical Christian leaders have called for open acts of nonviolent resistance if the Supreme Court forces states to accept homosexual “marriages” this summer.

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forwarded from The Berean Call for 13 April—

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-says-it-wont-rule-out-building-nuclear-weapons-10139229.html
SAUDI ARABIA SAYS IT WON'T RULE OUT BUILDING NUCLEAR WEAPONS
 
[Excerpts] Saudi Arabia will not rule out building or acquiring nuclear weapons, the country's ambassador to the United States has indicated. Asked whether Saudi Arabia would ever build nuclear weapons in an interview with US news channel CNN, Adel Al-Jubeir said the subject was "not something we would discuss publicly".

Western intelligence agencies believe that the Saudi monarchy paid for up to 60% of Pakistan's nuclear program in return for the ability to buy warheads for itself at short notice, the Guardian newspaper reported in 2010. The two countries maintain close relations and are sometimes said to have a special relationship; they currently have close military ties and conduct joint exercises.
 
The Saudi Arabian regime also already possesses medium-range ballistic missiles in the form of the Royal Saudi Strategic Missile Force.
 
In 2012 the Saudi Arabian government threatened to acquire nuclear weapons were neighbouring regional power Iran ever to do so.
 
"Politically, it would be completely unacceptable to have Iran with a nuclear capability and not the kingdom," a senior Saudi source told The Times newspaper at the time.
 
[TBC (commentary): Iran has made no secret of its desire to destroy Israel, though Saudi Arabia has no trouble seeing Iran's threat to the entire region. Nevertheless, the Lord has stated emphatically in Scripture that He will defend Israel who he has gathered again into the land: "In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem. The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah. In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them" (Zechariah 12:4-8).]	
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http://jimbakkershow.com/video/ready-now-expo-spring-2015-day-14/

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"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."

"…yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service."   John 16:2

http://news.yahoo.com/aid-agency-says-41-migrants-feared-dead-sea-142032667.html
Police: Muslims threw Christians overboard during Med voyage

ROME (AP) — Italy's migration crisis took on a deadly new twist Thursday as police in Sicily reported that Muslim migrants had thrown 12 Christians overboard during a recent crossing from Libya, and an aid group said another 41 were feared drowned in a separate incident.

Palermo police said they had detained 15 people suspected in the high seas assault, which they learned of while interviewing tearful survivors from Nigeria and Ghana who had arrived in Palermo Wednesday morning after being rescued at sea by the ship Ellensborg.

The 15 were accused of multiple homicide aggravated by religious hatred, police said in a statement.
The survivors said they had boarded a rubber boat April 14 on the Libyan coast with 105 passengers aboard, part of the wave of migrants taking advantage of calm seas and warm weather to make the risky crossing from Libya, where most smuggling operations originate.
During the crossing, the migrants from Nigeria and Ghana — believed to be Christians — were threatened with being abandoned at sea by some 15 other passengers from the Ivory Coast, Senegal, Mali and Guinea Bissau.
Eventually the threat was carried out and 12 were pushed overboard. The statement said the motive was that the victims "professed the Christian faith while the aggressors were Muslim."

The surviving Christians, the statement said, only managed to stay on board by forming a "human chain" to resist the assault. … ...

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Is the war at the door?

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/04/isis-camp-a-few-miles-from-texas-mexican-authorities-confirm/
ISIS Camp a Few Miles from Texas, Mexican Authorities Confirm
ISIS is operating a camp just a few miles from El Paso, Texas, according to Judicial Watch sources that include a Mexican Army field grade officer and a Mexican Federal Police Inspector.
The exact location where the terrorist group has established its base is around eight miles from the U.S. border in an area known as “Anapra” situated just west of Ciudad Juárez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Another ISIS cell to the west of Ciudad Juárez, in Puerto Palomas, targets the New Mexico towns of Columbus and Deming for easy access to the United States, the same knowledgeable sources confirm.

During the course of a joint operation last week, Mexican Army and federal law enforcement officials discovered documents in Arabic and Urdu, as well as “plans” of Fort Bliss – the sprawling military installation that houses the US Army’s 1st Armored Division. Muslim prayer rugs were recovered with the documents during the operation.
Law enforcement and intelligence sources report the area around Anapra is dominated by the Vicente Carrillo Fuentes Cartel (“Juárez Cartel”), La Línea (the enforcement arm of the cartel) and the Barrio Azteca (a gang originally formed in the jails of El Paso). Cartel control of the Anapra area make it an extremely dangerous and hostile operating environment for Mexican Army and Federal Police operations.

According to these same sources, “coyotes” engaged in human smuggling – and working for Juárez Cartel – help move ISIS terrorists through the desert and across the border between Santa Teresa and Sunland Park, New Mexico. To the east of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, cartel-backed “coyotes” are also smuggling ISIS terrorists through the porous border between Acala and Fort Hancock, Texas. These specific areas were targeted for exploitation by ISIS because of their understaffed municipal and county police forces, and the relative safe-havens the areas provide for the unchecked large-scale drug smuggling that was already ongoing.

Mexican intelligence sources report that ISIS intends to exploit the railways and airport facilities in the vicinity of Santa Teresa, NM (a US port-of-entry). The sources also say that ISIS has “spotters” located in the East Potrillo Mountains of New Mexico (largely managed by the Bureau of Land Management) to assist with terrorist border crossing operations. ISIS is conducting reconnaissance of regional universities; the White Sands Missile Range; government facilities in Alamogordo, NM; Ft. Bliss; and the electrical power facilities near Anapra and Chaparral, NM.

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Arms Merchants:  rubbing their hands together in greedy anticipation as the Middle East arms up for the coming big war prophesied by Ezekiel 2600 years ago?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/world/middleeast/sale-of-us-arms-fuels-the-wars-of-arab-states.html?emc=edit_th_20150419&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Sale of U.S. Arms Fuels the Wars of Arab States
WASHINGTON — To wage war in Yemen, Saudi Arabia is using F-15 fighter jets bought from Boeing. Pilots from the United Arab Emirates are flying Lockheed Martin's F-16 to bomb both Yemen and Syria. Soon, the Emirates are expected to complete a deal with General Atomics for a fleet of Predator drones to run spying missions in their neighborhood.

As the Middle East descends into proxy wars, sectarian conflicts and battles against terrorist networks, countries in the region that have stockpiled American military hardware are now actually using it and wanting more. The result is a boom for American defense contractors looking for foreign business in an era of shrinking Pentagon budgets — but also the prospect of a dangerous new arms race in a region where the map of alliances has been sharply redrawn.

Last week, defense industry officials told Congress that they were expecting within days a request from Arab allies fighting the Islamic State — Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Jordan and Egypt — to buy thousands of American-made missiles, bombs and other weapons, replenishing an arsenal that has been depleted over the past year. … …

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Adderal sinks its fangs into the workforce.

Since the mid-60's, in our culture, drugs have been the first wave of turning people in cyborg like clones, honing their attention, through addiction, to their dark spiritual overlords.  Today, though implants and actual cyborgery, the new CRISPR technology, etc. move beyond mere chemical sorcery, speed drugs still demand a following—

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/us/workers-seeking-productivity-in-a-pill-are-abusing-adhd-drugs.html?emc=edit_th_20150419&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Workers Seeking Productivity in a Pill Are Abusing A.D.H.D. Drugs
Fading fast at 11 p.m., Elizabeth texted her dealer and waited just 30 minutes for him to reach her third-floor New York apartment. She handed him a wad of twenties and fifties, received a tattered envelope of pills, and returned to her computer.

Her PowerPoint needed another four hours. Investors in her health-technology start-up wanted re-crunched numbers, a presentation begged for bullet points and emails from global developers would keep arriving well past midnight.

She gulped down one pill — pale orange, like baby aspirin — and then, reconsidering, took one of the pinks, too.
“O.K., now I can work,” Elizabeth exhaled. Several minutes later, she felt her brain snap to attention. She pushed her glasses up her nose and churned until 7 a.m. Only then did she sleep for 90 minutes, before arriving at her office at 9.

The pills were versions of the drug Adderall, an amphetamine-based stimulant prescribed for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder that many college students have long used illicitly while studying. Now, experts say, stimulant abuse is graduating into the work force. … ...

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Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.  
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored…

—Julia Ward Howe—

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12 April

Saints,

It is so good to see Spring finally arriving here in the northernmost areas of the yankee northeast.  Though there is pestilence and plague, famine, whirlwinds, firestorms, droughts, wars and rumors of wars, and a world filled with violence, with the whole world turning against God's people, yet "springtime and harvest will continue" until the End of the Age.  This has been God's promise since the judgment of the Flood, and I thank him for the assurance that despite the rages of the god of this world, our God, Yahweh, and his Son, Yeshua/Jesus, and his Holy Spirit made and sustain the whole world…without end.  Amen.

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NYTimes' David Brooks, on picking the next president in hope (excerpt) — comparing to Lincoln!
(Groan, 16 months or more of listening to presidential media babble nonstop.  Shoot your television?)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/07/opinion/david-brooks-what-candidates-need.html?emc=edit_th_20150407&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0

What Candidates Need

...Lincoln developed his fundamental vision in a way that seems to refute our contemporary educational practices. Today we pile on years of education. We assign hundreds of books over the years. We cluster our students on campuses with people with similar grades and test scores

Lincoln had very little formal education. He was not cloistered on a campus but spent his formative years in daily contact with an astounding array of characters. If his social experience was wide, his literary experience was narrow. He read fewer books over his entire formative life than many contemporary students do in a single year. In literary terms, he preferred depth to breadth; grasp to reach. He intensely read Shakespeare, the King James Bible, “The Pilgrim’s Progress” and Parson Weems’s “The Life of Washington.”
This education gave him a moral vision that emerged from life, not from reading. … …
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Two on the Brave New World of Robot Overlords—

Ready for driverless cars?  Try this on:  pilotless passenger planes!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/07/science/planes-without-pilots.html?emc=edit_th_20150407&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Planes Without Pilots

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Mounting evidence that the co-pilot crashed a Germanwings plane into a French mountain has prompted a global debate about how to better screen crewmembers for mental illness and how to ensure that no one is left alone in the cockpit.
But among many aviation experts, the discussion has taken a different turn. How many human pilots, some wonder, are really necessary aboard commercial planes?  One? None?

Advances in sensor technology, computing and artificial intelligence are making human pilots less necessary than ever in the cockpit. Already, government agencies are experimenting with replacing the co-pilot, perhaps even both pilots on cargo planes, with robots or remote operators. … ...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/07/upshot/if-algorithms-know-all-how-much-should-humans-help.html?emc=edit_th_20150407&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&abt=0002&abg=0
If Algorithms Know All, How Much Should Humans Help?

Armies of the finest minds in computer science have dedicated themselves to improving the odds of making a sale. The Internet-era abundance of data and clever software has opened the door to tailored marketing, targeted advertising and personalized product recommendations.
Shake your head if you like, but that’s no small thing. Just look at the technology-driven shake-up in the advertising, media and retail industries.
This automated decision-making is designed to take the human out of the equation, but it is an all-too-human impulse to want someone looking over the result spewed out of the computer. Many data quants see marketing as a low-risk — and, yes, lucrative — petri dish in which to hone the tools of an emerging science. “What happens if my algorithm is wrong? Someone sees the wrong ad,” said Claudia Perlich, a data scientist who works for an ad-targeting start-up. “What’s the harm? It’s not a false positive for breast cancer.”
But the stakes are rising as the methods and mind-set of data science spread across the economy and society. Big companies and start-ups are beginning to use the technology in decisions like medical diagnosis, crime prevention and loan approvals. The application of data science to such fields raises questions of when close human supervision of an algorithm’s results is needed. … …

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Iran "warns" (threatens) the Sunni Arabs/Saudi Arabia —

www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/April07/075.html#jtJzzJ3zltXsui0L.99
Shiite/Sunni War In Yemen Could Inflame Entire Middle East
A senior Iranian official has warned Saudi Arabia that it is endangering the entire Middle East with its U.S.-supported aerial bombardment of Iranian-backed al-Houthi positions in neighboring Yemen. … ...
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Gettin' crazy out there!  Intricate humanoid robots fascinate the Japanese—
video included: decadent human meets robot doppleganger!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3028762/Unnervingly-real-android-popular-presenter-transvestite-world-host-TV-show.html

'Unnervingly real' android of popular presenter transvestite becomes the first in world to host its own TV show
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Talk about sticking your nose where it doesn't belong!  I might agree that psychotherapy techniques are often virtually worthless.  Even the APA long has confessed that any older wiser person giving good common sense counsel has the same or better statistical results than "psychotherapy," even when used by purported "Christian psychotherapists,"  but true and biblical Christians MUST INSIST on the right and necessity to preach conversion to any sinner of any stripe.  Here's a case of mis-applied Christianity being rebuked by a secular leader, of the spirit of antichrist, and the true message of conversion by the Gospel ending up being the real target!  Persecution, denial of First Amendment Rights flows from such sources.

"Breaking News Alert,"  The NYTimes, Wednesday, April 8, 2015 8:06 PM EDT

Obama to Call for End to 'Conversion' Therapies for Gay and Transgender Youth

President Obama will call for an end to psychiatric therapies aimed at “repairing” gay, lesbian and transgender youth, White House officials said. His decision on the sensitive issue is the latest example of his continuing embrace of gay rights.
In a statement to be posted on Wednesday evening alongside a WhiteHouse.gov petition begun in honor of a transgender teenager, Leelah Alcorn, who committed suicide, Mr. Obama will condemn the psychiatric practice, sometimes called “conversion” or “reparative” therapy, which is supported by some socially conservative organizations and religious doctors.
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Hmmm?

http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/April09/091.html
Obama's Iran Deal Falls On Ominous Bible Date

When President Obama announced a “framework” nuclear agreement with Iran – which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns threatens the very existence of his nation – few noticed the significance of the date.

On the Jewish calendar this year, April 1 coincided with Nisan 13, the date in history when a Persian king signed an agreement calling for the destruction of the Jews.

“King Obama has issued his decree putting the Jewish nation at risk of annihilation on the very same day that King Ahasuerus’ scribes came together and issued their statement to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language and sent letters by posts into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day.”

The ominous historical reference comes from Mark Biltz, pastor of El-Shaddai Ministries in Bonney Lake, Washington, and author of “The Feasts of the Lord,” “Blood Moons” and “Studies in our Hebrew Roots.” … ...
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Acts 2:20,  Revelation 6:12?   Usually, when we think of "blood on the moon," we think of it turning blood red, and this is the most likely meaning.  I once heard a saint speculate that it could also mean, after flesh and blood stepped onto the moon.  Whether that has any bearing or not, it has been so since July 20, 1969.  Here's an interesting story, I hope it is more than urban myth, about the first events on the moon, a communion with the Maker of the Moon!

What was the first liquid and food consumed on the moon?  I ’m betting that most are unaware of this story.
 
Forty-five years ago, two human beings changed history by walking on the surface of the moon.   But, what happened before Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong exited the Lunar Module is perhaps even more amazing, if only because so few people know about it. I ’ m talking about the fact that Buzz Aldrin took communion on the surface of the moon. Some months after his return, he wrote about it in Guideposts magazine.
 
The background to the story is that Aldrin was an elder at his Presbyterian Church in Texas during this period in his life; and, knowing that he would soon be doing something unprecedented in human history, he felt that he should mark the occasion somehow . He asked his minister to help him .And so the minister consecrated a communion wafer and a small vial of communion wine. Buzz Aldrin took them with him out of the Earth's orbit and onto the surface of the moon.   He and Armstrong had only been on the lunar surface for a few minutes when Aldrin made the following public statement:
 
“ This is the LM (Lunar Module) pilot.   I'd like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way. ”  He then ended radio communication, and there, on the silent surface of the moon, 250,000 miles from home, he read a verse from the Gospel of John,   and he took communion.
 
Here is his own account of what happened:       "In the radio blackout, I opened the little plastic packages which contained the bread and the wine. I poured the wine into the chalice our church had given me.   In the one-sixth gravity of the moon, the wine slowly curled and gracefully came up the side of the cup.   Then I read the scripture ”
 
               'I am the vine, you are the branches.
             Whosoever abides in me will bring forth much   fruit . ..
              Apart from me you can do nothing.'
 
"I had intended to read my communion passage back to Earth, but at the last minute [they] had requested that I not do this. NASA was already embroiled in a legal battle with Madelyn Murray O'Hare, the celebrated opponent of religion, over the Apollo 8 crew ’ s reading from Genesis while orbiting the moon at Christmas.   I agreed reluctantly."
 
"I ate the tiny Host and swallowed the wine. I gave thanks for the intelligence and spirit that had brought two young pilots to the Sea of Tranquility.   It was interesting for me to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the moon and the very first food eaten there were the communion elements."
 
"And, of course, it's interesting to think that some of the first words spoken on the moon were the words of Jesus Christ, who made the Earth and the moon - and who, in the immortal words of Dante, is Himself the "Love that moves the Sun and other stars."
 
How many of you knew this?   Too bad this type of news doesn't travel as fast as the bad does.
 
Share it if you've felt God's love.
 
Jesus said, "If you are ashamed of me, I will be ashamed of you before My Father on Judgment Day."
 
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May the Holy Spirit help you keep your eyes on 
Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our Faith, 
in this week ahead.

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5 April		HAPPY RESURRECTION DAY!

Saints,

There is an old saying that I heard in the days of our revival, the Jesus Movement of the late '60s and early '70s;  "Born once, die twice;  born twice, die once."  For we who are born-again have already passed from death unto life spiritually, and we must only face the death of the body while we await the Resurrection.  Jesus said, "Fear not them who can kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do, but rather fear him, who having killed the body, can cast both body and soul into hell."

We have this wonderful relationship with Almighty God where we both utterly Fear and utterly Love him at the same time.  This is incomprehensible to the world for they rightly link fear with something hated, an enemy.  But God, with the Resurrection of Christ has shown us the Awesome Power of Everlasting LIfe which he holds in his hand and gives us freely in Christ.  We rightly quake, in our mortality, at the unfathomable revelation of his power, and yet we are given our place in it by the Resurrection of Christ.  The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit LOVE US!

We MUST take note this Easter/Resurrection Day/Passover of the Darkness that has come down over the face of the Earth.  Over the next two years, we may well witness whatever part of the Apocalypse comes before we are caught up to be with the Lord.  It may well be that the next time we celebrate the Passover (Easter, Resurrection Day), it will be before the Throne of the Almighty.  Meanwhile, brothers and sisters along the front lines are being murdered daily by the forces of darkness and the rise of the spirit of antichrist, 150 Christians just murdered in Kenya, in the now nearly daily news stories.  We must watch and pray as we have never done before if we are to be ready at the Master's hand.

Jesus Christ Himself, in his Old Testament appearances — theophanies — sent of the Father, appeared to Moses, Aaron, and the Elders of Israel to prepare them for the testing of Israel in the desert.  It is the same Jesus who appears in the Book of Revelation, upon his Throne:

Exodus 24:9-10:  And they SAW (the pre-incarnate Jesus Christ, for no man can SEE the Father) the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness."

Revelation 4: 2,3:  And immediately I was in the spirit; and, behold a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.  And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald."

LET US LEAP FOR JOY AT THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST AND OURSELVES PARTICIPANTS.  GOD HAS "PASSED OVER" US, AND WE ARE SAVED FROM HIS WRATH BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB OF GOD "WHO TAKETH AWAY THE SINS OF THE WORLD!"

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The Kenyan Massacre of young Christians —

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/03/world/africa/garissa-university-college-shooting-in-kenya.html?_r=0
Somali Militants Kill 147 at Kenyan University
NAIROBI, Kenya — Somali militants burst into a university in eastern Kenya on Thursday and killed nearly 150 students in the worst terrorist attack since the 1998 bombing of the United States Embassy here, laying bare the nation’s continuing vulnerability after years of battling Islamist extremism.
A small group of militants, most likely between four and 10, roved from dorm to dorm, separating Christian from Muslim students and killing the Christians, the authorities said. Students described being awakened before dawn by the sound of gunfire and fleeing for their lives as masked attackers closed in.

Officials said that by the time Kenyan commandos cornered and killed the attackers on an upper floor, 147 people lay dead. … ...

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The blood moons continue, promising a major show in Australia —

http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2015/03/total-lunar-eclipse-in-australia-4-april-2015?utm_source=exacttarget&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=12423&utm_content=74217&user_id=656142b20a2f716239d26d9dd830c85cb8dc325f

The last total lunar eclipse to be seen in Australia for three years will show a blood moon for Easter

AUSTRALIANS ARE IN for an extra Easter show with the last of the three 2014-15 total lunar eclipses playing out on Saturday night, 4 April 2015.
All of Australia will be able to see at least most of the total eclipse, with those watching from the eastern half of the country being able to see the whole total eclipse, because it begins after sunset. (See times below)

The moon is in the north-eastern sky (in the constellation Virgo) and will be above the horizon, so with good weather, the eclipse should be completely visible.

The lunar eclipse — when the moon passes through the Earth's shadow — is also visible from parts of North America, the Pacific, New Zealand and eastern Asia. … ...
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It looks like pretty much whatever happens with the US/Iranian nuclear talks, that a nuclear arms race is at hand in the Middle East.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/world/middleeast/saudis-make-own-moves-as-us-and-iran-talk.html?emc=edit_th_20150331&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0

As U.S. and Iran Seek Nuclear Deal, Saudi Arabia Makes Its Own Moves
(Excerpts):
With another major aid recipient, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia is also expected to step up its efforts to develop a nuclear bomb, potentially setting off an arms race in the region. …

“Taking matters into our own hands is the name of the game today,” said Jamal Khashoggi, a veteran Saudi journalist and former adviser to the government. “A deal will open up the Saudi appetite and the Turkish appetite for more nuclear programs. But for the time being Saudi Arabia is moving ahead with its operations to pull the carpet out from underneath the Iranians in our region.” 

With the approach of a self-imposed Tuesday night deadline for the framework of a nuclear deal between Iran and the Western powers, the talks themselves are already changing the dynamics of regional politics. … …

Unless Iran pulls back, “you will see more direct Arab responses and you will see a higher level of geopolitical tension in the whole region,” argued Nabil Fahmy, a veteran Egyptian diplomat and former foreign minister.

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The war goes on, and the faithful continue the battle—

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/01/us/politics/arizona-doctors-must-say-that-abortions-with-drugs-may-be-reversed.html?emc=edit_th_20150401&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Arizona Doctors Must Say That Abortions With Drugs May Be Reversed

PHOENIX — Once again, Arizona finds itself on the frontier of anti-abortion legislation: Late Monday, it became the first state to pass a law requiring doctors who perform drug-induced abortions to tell women that the procedure may be reversible, an assertion that most doctors say is wrong.
The provision is part of a broader law signed by Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican, meant to prevent plans offered in Arizona through the federal health care exchange from providing coverage for most abortions.

Opponents of abortion see the provision — in which doctors must explain to women having early-stage pill-induced abortions “that it may be possible to reverse the effects of a medical abortion” — as opening up a new avenue in anti-abortion legislation nationwide.

Most doctors say the science behind the legislation is unproven or erroneous. It is based largely on the research of Dr. George Delgado, who said he was able to save the pregnancies of a number of women after they had started, but not completed, the two-step process involved in such an abortion.

As is usually the case in abortion politics, the talk on both sides is forceful. … ...

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Here is another manifestation of the rising spirit of antichrist in America…and to so many it will look so plausible, so reasonable, so gracious.  (This is not new, and even in his time, John said, "Many antichrists have already come," and in America, old movements like the Unitarian/Universalists, The Unity School of Christianity, Christian Science, etc. have arisen.  But. there will come a compulsion upon many, "a strong delusion" as the Day approaches —

"Discrimination" is not always a dirty word except in utter "Political Correctness."  Discrimination can also mean discernment, ability to understand differences, assess, qualify, etc.  It is one of the rational faculties of the human mind.  Without any ability to discriminate, we don't know when to walk into the street or not; nor how to reject spoiled food, etc., etc.  We become mindless.  This is the tragedy affecting whole human herds at this point.  Read the Bible and believe it, or be led down into a mindless hell…a "mosh pit" of flesh and blood, perversion, antithesis, sickness and decay…death, gore, and destruction.  Yes, one of the cool words of the last couple of generations has been, "Wow, man, that's really DECADENT," without the users stopping to realize they are delightfully approving of DECAY(decay-dent) or ROT!

www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/April01/014.html#D7hP0jZ0BUX3kiak.99
New Trend: ‘Radically Inclusive’ Churches That Embrace All Religions And All Lifestyles

If you want as many people to attend your church as possible, why limit yourself to just Christians? All over America, “radically inclusive” churches that embrace all religions and all lifestyles are starting to pop up. 

Church services that incorporate elements of Hinduism, Islam, native American religions and even Wicca are becoming increasingly common. And even if you don’t believe anything at all, that is okay with these churches too. 

In fact, as you will see below, one Presbyterian minister in Oregon is even inviting people to “bring their own god” to church. But if these churches don’t really stand for anything at all, what is their purpose? And what does the popularity of these churches say about the future of religion in America? … ...
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www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/April01/015.html#lyCKzsoZBk27x6O6.99

Islamic State Attack On Italy Coming

The Islamic State terrorist group likely will launch an attack on Italy within weeks, not months, according to a senior Libyan government official.

Aref Ali Nayed, Libya’s ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, said in an interview that one likely method of attack would be to use stolen Libyan airliners now believed to be in the hands of Islamists in Libya.

“The horrific video showing 21 Coptic Christians beheaded in Libya contained a direct threat from ISIS to Rome,” said Mr. Nayed, using an acronym for the terrorist group. “The threat of ISIS to Italy could become a reality in a matter of weeks rather than months.”

The Islamic State could use two attack methods, the ambassador said. The first would be for Libya-based terrorists to infiltrate Italy by using one of the many boats carrying undocumented Libyans to Italy. Once in Italy, the terrorists could regroup and carry out an attack.

“Second, ISIS could weaponize a civilian airliner or small military aircraft in Libya, loading it with explosives and/or chemical weapons.” Mr. Nayed said. “Rome is one hour from the ISIS-controlled airport in Sirte.”

U.S. intelligence agencies warned in September that Islamist militias in Libya have taken control of nearly a dozen commercial jetliners that remain unaccounted for. … ...
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New patent issued for robot personality.  Invest a robot with the personality of a dead family member or friend and keep them around "forever" —
A scary, infernal version of eternal life?   See Luke 16:19ff., the dead man in hell:  How much more the torment to know that a digital clone of yourself is lying to your friends and family members that you are fine and life goes on…la, la, la...?

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-04/01/google-robot-personalities

Google Patents Customisable Robot Personalities

Do you like your robots subservient and complimentary, or glib and a little bit cheeky? A patent that has just been awarded to Google suggests that either could be possible and that we could potentially download different personality types from the cloud.

In fact, if you can't choose what kind of personality you want for your future robo-pal, it's highly possible that it might be able to choose for you. It would do this by accessing your devices and learning about you, before configuring a tailored personality based on that information. In addition it could use speech and facial recognition to personalise its interactions with you. … ...
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Which way will America go?  Out in a blaze of glory, defending the Gospel, the Truth, and Good, or down into the Toilet of Sodom in the propagandized "civil rights" covering moral crime and offense against the Almighty?  Possibly both ways, as Lewis said,  "There is an England (read America) below, and an England above."  It is is interesting that the location of Sodom and Gomorrah is in the "vale (valley) of Siddim," a place of "slime pits" (Gen 14) that became the Dead Sea.  Here, America leaps off the cliff into the slime though people of faith tried to stop it.  We are now like Lot, NEEDING ANGELIC RESCUE!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/03/us/rights-laws-quickly-fall-into-retreat.html?emc=edit_th_20150403&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Religion Laws Quickly Fall Into Retreat in Indiana and Arkansas
(some key words underlined, shifting winds, indeed, read "a shift of spirit"…)

INDIANAPOLIS — Roman Catholic nuns and brothers in robes along with conservative activists and lawmakers, all surrounded Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana last week as he signed what was billed as a religious freedom law. Smiling and proud, some of them had cheered the bill as a way to protect religious business owners from having to provide cakes and flowers to same-sex weddings.

But on Thursday, as the state’s top Republican legislative leaders here announced they were changing the law to specify that it will not authorize discrimination because of sexual orientation or gender identity, a far different cast stood behind them, including a prominent gay businessman and corporate leaders from Eli Lilly, the Indiana Pacers and the Indiana Chamber of Commerce.
And this time, the mood was tense: There were simple nods of support, no wide smiles.

The shift in Indiana has played out with remarkable speed, and under the shadow of a soon-to-arrive Final Four men’s basketball tournament and the national attention that promises. For a place that a little more than a year ago appeared headed toward enshrining a same-sex marriage ban in its Constitution, the winds have shifted swiftly, leaving some conservative Christian leaders unsettled and uncertain about what may come next for state laws focused on what is called religious freedom and the alliance that adopted that phrase as its battle cry. … …
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A quote by John Boehner, Speaker of the House—
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/boehner-israel-jerusalem-isil-netanyahu-iran-116600.html

“I wouldn’t have believed that I would be involved in as much foreign policy as I am today,” Boehner said in his hotel near Jerusalem’s Old City. “And it certainly isn’t by choice. It’s just that the world is on fire. And I don’t think enough Americans or enough people in the administration understand how serious the problems that we’re facing in the world are.” (underlining added)

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Blood Moons explained by NASA; very interesting…  From the moon, it will appear as though the whole earth is circled in blood, or as the piece says, it is as if all the sunrises and sunsets on earth were happening at the same time all around the great sphere of the Earth….Spiritual significance?…we shall see.  (Thus, the shadow of Earth cast onto the moon will make it appear to us in a sunset pink/orange/blood color too.)

Said Credence Clearwater Revival many years ago…
I see a bad moon rising.
I see trouble on the way.
I see earthquakes and lightnin'.
I see bad times today.

Say the Holy Scriptures, "There shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars…"

http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2015/04/02/lunar-eclipse-blood-moon/70831278/
see included video—
Sky spectacle: Lunar eclipse to feature 'blood moon'

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Imagine a sky full of small, prowling, orchestrated drones, humming in a terrible cacophony and dropping munitions, spraying chemicals, laser-zapping everyone below them, guided by a massive military AI program.  Whew, the locust-scorpions of Revelation?  Not yet, but it's about TO BE HERE NOW and testing in India…

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/Now-drones-to-be-used-to-disperse-mobs-in-Lucknow/articleshow/46794530.cms

Now, drones to be used to disperse mobs in Lucknow

LUCKNOW: Drones will soon perform a special task in the state capital apart from functioning as eyes in the sky with the Lucknow Police planning to use them for dispersing mobs. 

These little unmanned mini-choppers are already in use in various sensitive parts of Uttar Pradesh for taking aerial snaps, but for the first time the hi-tech gadget will be used to control unruly crowds.

"We have purchased five drone cameras with capacity of lifting two kg weight. They can be used to shower pepper powder on an unruly mob in case of any trouble," Senior Superintendent of Police Yashasvi Yadav told PTI here today. … ...

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"…give diligence to make your calling and election sure…For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ."  (2 Peter 1:10, 11)

Let the redeemed of the LORD say so!  (Psalm 107)

Do not think because you are small and seemingly powerless in the face of such worldwide evil, that God will not hear your prayers, even about very big things, or that your voice cannot contribute to the salvation of persons and nations.  God showed up in a tiny backwater, leftover kingdom, subject to Rome, and took 12 half-baked men and turned the world upside down.  Do your part!  "Be instant, in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine (truth)."  Paul to Timothy

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29 March

Saints, 

What an unsolvable mess and miasma continues to devolve the Middle East!  The US finds itself uncomfortably allied with Iran in taking back Tikrit and against the devil called ISIS, but now, the Shi'ite Persians of Iran are getting way too uncomfortably close for the Sunni Arabs of Saudi Arabia by their assistance to Shi'ite terrorists in overthrowing the pro-western and pro-Saudi government of Yemen (biblical Teman —region of Sheba and the Sabaens, their city being twin with Dedan, still recognized as a name of the Saudi capital, see Ezekiel 38:13).  Yesterday, the 26th, Saudi royals engineered the escape of, and then physically and publicly embraced, the pro-Western Yemeni president from the rebel takeover.

Meanwhile, Israeli PM Netanyahu has just "beat Obama," and his PR political forces who "participated," in the Israeli election, and is saying, along with John Bolton's recent essay in the NYTimes, that Iran must be stopped from getting a nuclear bomb, while American powers (Kerry as Chamberlain pacifying Hitler?) seem to want to cajole an agreement at any cost.

A seeming maximum moment may be arriving for Israel to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities.  If things continue to devolve in Yemen, even the Saudis will welcome and will back such an attack.  The Middle East is "wired" for upcoming nuclear confrontation on multiple fronts.  If Iran gets the bomb, the Saudis, the Egyptians, the Turks will have to arm with them too, in self defense.  They may well be able to buy them from the Pakistanis and the North Koreans (or even the Russians (Rosh) or by black market from "the -istans) and forego their own development programs.  Meanwhile, radical Islam across the Middle East is actively anticipating and trying to trigger the onset of their version of Armageddon.  They may get what they hope for.  Ezekiel's battle looms.

Followers of Jesus should watch and pray with fervency and sobriety.  Said Jesus, "And take heed to yourselves lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting (excess), and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares…"  (Luke 21: 34)

May God cover his people, those who call upon his Name in Faith this week (and until He comes).

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Arabians and Persians getting way too close to each other for comfort;  Saudi Arabia batters Shi'ite Houthis from the air, vowing they will not allow them to get any closer to Saudi borders—

http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-egypt-president-backs-joint-arab-military-force-20150328-story.html
Ousted Yemeni president backs Saudi airstrikes on Houthi militants

As airstrikes and ground battles continued across Yemen on Saturday, defiant words were uttered by regional leaders at an Arab summit in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el Sheik.
Ousted Yemeni President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi said Saudi Arabia-led airstrikes must continue until Shiite Muslim Houthi militants, who drove him from power, agree to surrender. He branded the Houthis as “stooges of Iran” and directly blamed the Islamic Republic for creating chaos in Yemen and forcing him to flee.

Saudi Arabia's King Salman said the military operation against the Houthis would not stop until Yemen was stable and secure. It will continue “until it achieves its goals for the Yemen people to achieve security,” he said.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi, meanwhile, endorsed the creation of a joint military force, saying the Arab world was at a crucial crossroad and facing unprecedented difficulties.
“The challenges are grave,” Sisi told the Arab leaders, like Salman not mentioning Iran by name. “It is a huge responsibility, heavy and burdensome.”

A Houthi spokesman countered Saturday that Hadi was a “puppet” of the United States and Saudi Arabia.
“Yemenis may not have great and strong weapons like Saudi Arabia and their allies, but they have strength, and faith in God will win this battle,” said Dhaif Allah Shami of the Houthi political office.
In Tehran, a government TV station reported that thousands of people took to the streets of Sana to voice their readiness to confront Saudi aggression. The station also reported Houthi militias moving toward the border of Saudi Arabia. … ...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/27/world/middleeast/a-policy-puzzle-of-us-goals-and-alliances-in-the-middle-east.html?emc=edit_th_20150327&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0

A Policy Puzzle of U.S. Goals and Alliances in the Middle East

WASHINGTON — Already struggling to navigate the chaos engulfing much of the Middle East, the United States is now dipping its toe into another conflict.

In Yemen, the Obama administration is supporting a Saudi-led military campaign to dislodge Iranian-backed Houthi rebels despite the risks of an escalating regional fight with Iran.

But in Iraq and Syria, the United States is on the same side as Iran in the fight against the Islamic State, contributing airstrikes to an Iranian-supported offensive on Tikrit on Thursday even while jostling with Iran for position in leading the operation. … ...

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Spy vs. Spy?  Charge vs. Countercharge;  the long reach of the American political system?  didn't work…

http://thehill.com/policy/international/236565-netanyahu-pollster-obama-role-in-election-larger-than-reported
Netanyahu pollster: Obama role in election larger than reported

President Obama's role during the Israeli elections was larger than reported, according to a pollster for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party.

"What was not well reported in the American media is that President Obama and his allies were playing in the election to defeat Prime Minister Netanyahu," John McLaughlin, a Republican strategist, said in an interview on John Catsimatidis's "The Cats Roundtable" radio show broadcast Sunday on AM 970 in New York.

"There was money moving that included taxpayer U.S. dollars, through non-profit organizations. And there were various liberal groups in the United States that were raising millions to fund a campaign called V15 against Prime Minister Netanyahu," McLaughlin said.
He noted an effort to oust Netanyahu was guided by former Obama political operative Jeremy Bird and that V15, or Victory 15, ads hurt Netanyahu in the polls. McLaughlin said the Israeli leader rebounded after delivering a speech to Congress early this month, prompting more critical ads.

V15 was viewed as part of a broader campaign to oust Netanyahu. The group was linked to Washington-based nonprofit OneVoice Movement, which reportedly received $350,000 in State Department grants. Money to OneVoice stopped flowing in November, officials said, before the Israeli elections.

After Netanyahu's win, V15 co-founder Nimrod Dweck said in an interview with Ronan Farrow aired on MSNBC's "Jose Diaz-Balart" that "not a single cent" of State Department or taxpayer money had gone to their campaign. … ...

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http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/March24/241.html#Ie41kt1gz13tjV3u.99

Obama Left PM "With Impression US Will Abandon Israel At UN"

President Barack Obama’s supposed congratulatory call to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last Thursday, two days after the Likud leader triumphed in Israel’s elections, was actually a bitter 30-minute conversation, Israel’s two main TV news stations reported Friday night.

Quoting unnamed Israeli sources, they said the president made clear he didn’t believe Netanyahu was genuinely supportive of a two-state solution to the Palestinian conflict, and that he indicated that the US would no longer automatically support Israel at the United Nations.

According to a Channel 10 read out on the call, indeed, Obama left Netanyahu with “the impression that he intends to abandon Israel at the UN.”

The United States has actually been considering a reevaluation of ties with Israel, including its automatic support for the Jewish state at the United Nations Security Council, for at least four months, the Israeli sources also told Channel 2. Although the White House claims the reassessment was prompted by Netanyahu’s remarks on Monday in which he rejected the establishment of a Palestinian state — and which he walked back Thursday — that is not the case, according to the officials.

The threat to reassess relations was reported widely this week and, according to the TV reports, was issued directly to Netanyahu on Thursday by Obama in the call.

During the 30-minute conversation, described as “difficult” by Channel 2, Obama made clear to the prime minister that the US was reconsidering its support for Israel at the UN as well as its approach to Israeli-Palestinian peace in light of Netanyahu’s pre-election comments rejecting the establishment of a Palestinian state. … …

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We must mourn the passing of every Jewish child, and…of every Arab child, and every Syrian child, and, yes, of every Muslim child.  Death is our final enemy.

One of these young ones was named Yeshua or Yehoshua, the same name as our transliterations of Jesus and Joshua.  He had a sister named Sarah, for the mother of the faithful, and all the children's names reflected the glory of God.  Who knows but what God took them before the age of accountability that they might be with him?

Bible readers learn to love the Jews as the people first chosen by God to bear witness of his mercy.  But, we must remember that no Jew obtains heaven through the practice of Judaism;  neither does any Christian enter heaven by merely practicing the outward forms of Christianity.  Only the personal knowledge of Christ and obedience to the Gospel in good faith finds the narrow way to Heaven.  Jesus said, "I am the away, the truth, and the life.  No man cometh unto the Father but by me."

May God open the eyes of many Jews unto their Messiah who has come and will come again and save many.  We know from Zechariah's prophecy (13:8-9) that at the time of the end, two of every three will perish without God that the other third may be found at the feet of Messiah Yeshua worshipping their Savior, and becoming the Israel that is finally saved.

May the grieving weary father, may his wounded wife and daughter, together find the comfort of Messiah as they recover from this terrible tragedy.   "It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.  Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better."  Eccl. 7:2-3.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/23/nyregion/funerals-for-7-victims-of-brooklyn-fire.html?emc=edit_th_20150323&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0

Thousands Join Brooklyn Father Mourning 7 With ‘Faces of Angels’

The mourners pushed toward the funeral chapel, row after row of black hats and black coats bowed toward the Brooklyn asphalt.

The voice drawing them, projected for blocks through crackling speakers, soared and plunged in unfettered anguish, occasionally dissolving into sobs. It was Gabriel Sassoon, who had lost seven of his children in a middle-of-the-night blaze on the Jewish day of rest.

The children died in minutes. And on Sunday, on a wind-whipped corner in Borough Park, thousands came to remember them in a brief, intense funeral, grappling with lives interrupted at a moment of renewal. … ...

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Are the computer screen, the internet, and above all the smart phone becoming "the methods of choice" for youth suicide?  A prominent child shrink seems to think so…

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/children/11486167/Are-smartphones-making-our-children-mentally-ill.html
Are smartphones making our children mentally ill?
Leading child psychotherapist Julie Lynn Evans believes easy and constant access to the internet is harming youngsters

Excerpt:  “Something is clearly happening,” she says, “because I am seeing the evidence in the numbers of depressive, anorexic, cutting children who come to see me. And it always has something to do with the computer, the Internet and the smartphone.”

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What a joke!

http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/March27/272.html#qXI86FXSAC4kC3XW.99
No Bias Here - UN Condemns Only Israel As Violator Of Woman's Rights

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When does "equal rights" for the sodomites become moral and spiritual rape for those who choose not to descend into their mess?  
Though a rhetorical question, the answer is—when the country, the nation, and the society are nearing their end.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/28/us/politics/indiana-law-denounced-as-invitation-to-discriminate-against-gays.html?emc=edit_th_20150328&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0

Indiana Law Denounced as Invitation to Discriminate Against Gays

An Indiana law that could make it easier for religious conservatives to refuse service to gay couples touched off storms of protest on Friday from the worlds of arts, business and college athletics and opened an emotional new debate in the emerging campaign for president.

Passage of the Republican-led measure, described by advocates as protecting basic religious freedom, drew fierce denunciations from technology companies, threats of a boycott from actors and expressions of dismay from the NCAA, which is based in Indianapolis and will hold its men’s basketball Final Four games there beginning next weekend.

“We are especially concerned about how this legislation could affect our student-athletes and employees,” said the president of the N.C.A.A., Mark Emmert.

By Friday afternoon, influential national leaders, including Hillary Rodham Clinton and Tim Cook, the chief executive of Apple, had weighed in against the law, calling it a disappointing invitation to discriminate.

But Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana, a Republican who has not ruled out a 2016 presidential run, defended the law as an overdue protection when “many feel their religious liberty is under attack by government action.” … …
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"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee."
Isaiah the prophet, 26:3

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22 March

Saints,

We need to count it a privilege to be awake to see and understand these things that are coming upon the Earth.  We are those upon whom the End of Age comes, and we are called to be witnesses and to "do exploits."  Let us use every opportunity —turn every bad news story to advantage — to warn people that God's Prophets and his Messiah are speaking the Truth of Salvation to them.  "Jesus saith unto him,  I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.  No man cometh unto the Father but by me."  and Peter's echo, "Neither is there salvation in any other.  For there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved."

God strengthen your sanity, your peace, your resolve, and your purpose in the week ahead, and until He comes.

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"…for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth…" Genesis 6:12

Here, the very discoverer of these techniques (the new "CRISPR" technology) recoils in fear.  These now "easy to do" discoveries are the re-emergence of "the doctrines of the Nephilim," the genetically-mutated, hybrid giants, part man, part other biologies, and part fallen angel that roamed and filled the Earth, bringing on the judgment of the Flood when Noah and his small band were found to be the only non-germline-affected pure humans left.

Though a plea is made to stand back from these things, the piece ends with the admission of the inevitable:  “You have to have this discussion because people are gearing up to do this.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/20/science/biologists-call-for-halt-to-gene-editing-technique-in-humans.html?emc=edit_th_20150320&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0

Scientists Seek Ban on Method of Editing the Human Genome

A group of leading biologists on Thursday called for a worldwide moratorium on use of a new genome-editing technique that would alter human DNA in a way that can be inherited.
The biologists fear that the new technique is so effective and easy to use that some physicians may push ahead before its safety can be assessed. They also want the public to understand the ethical issues surrounding the technique, which could be used to cure genetic diseases, but also to enhance qualities like beauty or intelligence. The latter is a path that many ethicists believe should never be taken.

“You could exert control over human heredity with this technique, and that is why we are raising the issue,” said David Baltimore, a former president of the California Institute of Technology and a member of the group whose paper on the topic was published in the journal Science.

Ethicists, for decades, have been concerned about the dangers of altering the human germline — meaning to make changes to human sperm, eggs or embryos that will last through the life of the individual and be passed on to future generations. Until now, these worries have been theoretical. But a technique invented in 2012 makes it possible to edit the genome precisely and with much greater ease. The technique has already been used to edit the genomes of mice, rats and monkeys, and few doubt that it would work the same way in people. … ...

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Another story on the new CRISPR technology—

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/genetically-engineering-mosquitoes-to-end-malaria-could-have-unintended-consequences-10120902.html
Genetically engineering mosquitoes to end malaria could have 'unintended consequences'

A new way of creating genetically modified insects could wipe out many mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria within a few years but it could also unleash potentially devastating unintended consequences, scientists have warned. … ...

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I am not sure and can only watch as to what to make of these signs in the sky.  We are to watch...

prophecynewswatch.com/2015/March20/201.html#rCY4KCbzpkli27g0.99
Sign Of Judgment? Total Solar Eclipse On March 20th Falls In The Middle Of The Four Blood Red Moons

The total solar eclipse on March 20th falls on Nisan 1, which is the first day of the first month of the Biblical calendar. According to Jewish tradition, a solar eclipse on Nisan 1 is a sign of judgment. And this has certainly been true in the past. For example, there was a solar eclipse on Nisan 1 in 70 AD. Later that year, the Romans attacked Jerusalem and completely destroyed the Temple. 
What makes all of this even more interesting is the fact that the solar eclipse on March 20th falls right in the middle of the blood moon tetrad… ...
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"And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the LORD God:  every man's sword shall be against his brother."  	(the doom of Islam)																				—Ezekiel 38:21

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/21/world/middleeast/suicide-attacks-at-shiite-mosques-in-yemen.html?emc=edit_th_20150321&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Suicide Attacks at Mosques in Yemen Kill More Than 130

Concluding Excerpt:  The threat of civil war also poses multiple challenges to the Obama administration, which only a few months ago held out Yemen’s negotiated transition from autocracy to an elected president as a model for post-revolutionary Arab states.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/21/world/middleeast/white-house-antagonism-toward-netanyahu-grows.html?emc=edit_th_20150321&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
White House Antagonism Toward Netanyahu Grows

WASHINGTON — The White House is stepping up its antagonism toward Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu despite his victory in this week’s elections, signaling that it is in no rush to repair a historic rift between the United States and Israel 
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The sharpened tone indicates that the Obama administration may be re-evaluating its relationship with its closest ally in the Middle East, having lost patience with Mr. Netanyahu in the closing days of an election campaign in which he spotlighted deep disagreements with President Obama over a Palestinian state and a nuclear deal with Iran.

“You reach a tipping point,” said Daniel C. Kurtzer, a former American ambassador to Israel and Egypt. “It’s the culmination of six and a half years of frustration, including some direct hits at the president’s prestige and the office of the presidency.”
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An astounding review of the nation's intellectual climate on campuses:  it has ceased to exist in a neurotic blend of fears and insane insistence on puerile lack of discriminating and discerning thought in favor or thumb-sucking, happy puppies, and pouty passive aggressives.  What a vomitous mess of lemmings being paraded to perdition! —

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/opinion/sunday/judith-shulevitz-hiding-from-scary-ideas.html?emc=edit_th_20150322&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
In College and Hiding From Scary Ideas
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I try to stay as far away from politics as I can.  I have enough iniquity to deal with in dealing daily with my own transgressional nature of the flesh, and can only find a cure in the Cross, that I don't need to surf for more by being heavily engaged in politics.  But, it is the world, and on it goes.  Often US Christians assume right wing-ism and Christianity are close if not the same.  Too often, they are not, and there are as many despots on the right as on the left…and as many crooked politicians.  Nevertheless, it is ok we trend toward conservatisms that honor God and his "ancient paths" as long as we leave alone conservatisms that honor greed and the iniquities of "The Establishment."

Here's a piece which trolls around in the usual sludge methods of American politicking, but it is an introduction to this plain-spoken, trumanesque kind of guy, Ben Carson, an African-American Evangelical Christian who goes around saying true and obvious things whether people like it or not.  Could God, would God raise up such a man for an hour such as this?  It is worth watching and praying.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/magazine/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-ben-carson.html?emc=edit_th_20150322&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Ben Carson?
His chances of victory are minuscule, but he and other hard-right candidates will still be a headache for the G.O.P. in the 2016 primaries. Can mainstream Republicans stop him? Should they try?
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Never satisfied, until the whole world is sodomite?  Hijacking St. Patrick, but still "outraged"?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/18/nyregion/new-york-city-st-patricks-day-parade-first-gay-group.html?emc=edit_th_20150318&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0

St. Patrick’s Day Parade Includes First Gay Group, but Dismay Remains

As the St. Patrick’s Day Parade wound down Tuesday afternoon, gray clouds gathered above and most spectators straggled away. But that did not diminish the enthusiasm of one group that proudly marched up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, spangled with green sashes, to make history in the emerald tide: It was the first, and only, gay organization allowed in the parade.

The group, Out@NBCUniversal, a delegation of about 100 employees from NBCUniversal, which televised the parade, seemed excited to march, often breaking out into peals of laughter, cheers and rounds of applause.

After decades of conflict and debate, the parade’s organizers announced in September that they would lift the ban on openly gay groups marching under their own banners in the parade, which is as much a celebration of Ireland and Irish culture as it is of St. Patrick himself.

But the change has been far more limited than the parade’s critics had hoped for.  Craig Robinson, NBCUniversal’s chief diversity officer, said his group, which included gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual marchers, along with their straight allies, was thrilled to be making history. But for them, too, it was only a small step toward the ultimate goal of inclusion. … ...

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18  March NTF 'blog / midweek update

A midweek update with the win by Bibi as a NYT breaking news alert overnight—

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Saints,

I found myself praying earnestly for Bibi, who to me is a King David to his people, though I had no certain knowledge of God's will on the matter…as it may be time to replace this defender with one who will betray or weaken Israel in the oncoming "time of Jacob's trouble."

I thank God though that Bibi has prevailed for now, and I remind us not to neglect to pray for things that might seem to be beyond our ken: the family, the local church, etc.— for "the ken" of our prayers is only limited by what we neglect.  Make a real difference in the battle of this world—PRAY!  ("without ceasing," 1 Thes. 5:17, "Continu(ing)…with thanksgiving" in Colossians 4:2, "not faint(ing)" in Luke 18:1.

NYTimes Breaking News Alert, 12:17am, Wednesday, 18 March—
Netanyahu Soundly Defeats Chief Rival in Israeli Elections
After a bruising campaign focused on his failings, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel won a clear victory in Tuesday’s elections and seemed all but certain to form a new government and serve a fourth term, though he offended many voters and alienated allies in the process.
With 99.5 percent of the ballots counted, the YNet news site reported Wednesday morning that Mr. Netanyahu’s Likud Party had captured 29 or 30 of the 120 seats in Parliament, sweeping past his chief rival, the center-left Zionist Union alliance, which got 24 seats.

FYI —  In case you didn't know, though the Temple records of genealogy were lost when Titus sacked and burned the Temple in 70AD, Jews with the last name "Cohen" and variants like Cohn, Kahan, etc., are of the priestly tribe of Levi, cohen meaning "priest."  From these, the new priesthood is being gathered.

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via Skywatchtv.com—
http://skywatchtv.com/2015/03/12/for-the-third-and-final-temple-which-antichrist-will-soon-desecrate-the-jewish-altar-has-been-rebuilt-and-is-ready-to-begin-service/
For The Third And Final Temple (Which Antichrist Will Desecrate), The Jewish Altar Has Been Rebuilt And Is Ready To Begin Service

The Temple Institute in Jerusalem has announced that it has finished building an altar suitable for the Temple service. The altar, which took several years to build, can be operational at little more than a moment’s notice, reported Matzav Haruach magazine. The Temple Institute is committed to preparing all the necessary clothing and tools for the rebuilt Holy Temple in Jerusalem. In addition, the institute operates an educational center for visitors and a preparatory training program for members of the priestly family who wish to be ready to serve as soon as the Temple is rebuilt. The altar is a central component to the Biblical sacrificial service…

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The world is turning upside down and backwards.  A woman is punished for complaining of a man in the woman's locker room!

Planet Fitness Revokes Woman's Gym Membership After She Complains About a Man Using Women's Locker Room

via prophecy newswatch.com   prophecynewswatch.com/2015/March16/164.html#m37lordg4Ixd3pGO.99

Planet Fitness has revoked a Michigan woman's gym membership because she filed a complaint with the company after seeing a man walk into the women's locker room. The national franchise said the woman is now banned from the chain on the grounds that she violated the company's "judgement free" conduct policy.

Yvette Cormier, who was a member at the Midland, Michigan, Planet Fitness location, told CBS affiliate WNEM about how she lost her membership after voicing her safety concerns when a man walked into the women's locker room as she was getting undressed.

"I was stunned and shocked. He totally looked like a man. He was not dressed like a woman at all," Cormier recalled. "This is very unprofessional and very scary."

Not being aware of the corporation's all-inclusive policy that allows people who identify as transgender to use bathrooms and locker rooms designated for the opposite sex, Cormier was informed of the gym's guidelines, which she had unknowingly violated upon complaining to the front desk staff and later the corporate offices.

"They proceeded to tell me that they have to embrace whatever sex someone thinks they are and that they are allowed to use whatever restroom that they would want to use," Cormier said. … ...
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NYTimes Breaking News Alert, 8:22 pm, Tuesday, 17 March—

(In all fairness, this is not all Presbyterians but the liberal branch, PCUSA (which "allegedly" has now decided to reside in Sodom — in a metaphor, at least)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/18/us/presbyterians-give-final-approval-for-same-sex-marriage.html?emc=edit_na_20150317&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Presbyterians Give Final Approval for Same-Sex Marriage

After three decades of debate over its stance on homosexuality, members of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted on Tuesday to change the definition of marriage in the church’s constitution to include same-sex marriage.	
The final approval by a majority of the church’s 171 regional bodies, known as presbyteries, enshrines a change recommended last year by the church’s General Assembly. The vote amends the church’s constitution to broaden marriage from being between “a man and a woman” to “two people, traditionally a man and a woman.”

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15 March

Saints,

I love God's sense of understatement when he says through Daniel (12:4) that at the time of the end knowledge shall "increase."  It means so little to Him Who knows all things, but to us it is more like "explode!" (and a nuclear explosion at that!)  We are besieged by information and revelations daily even hourly now as this Age comes roaring toward its conclusion…causing trouble, panicking governments and powers that be, causing awe and even sometimes delight.  We're in something far bigger than we know what to do with.   How wonderful it is to rest in the hands of Jesus, Who made it all and knows it all, even all the things of the End from the time of the Beginning!  Praise his Name!

(Please excuse some big gaps in my text layout below.  I could not find a way to get some of the text layout coding out of several pieces on down the list, and it seemed to affect other pieces for a while after that.)
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An essay by the founder of Wikipedia on the extent to which NSA (Big Brother) is profiling every users' reading.  A lawsuit with the ACLU is now pending and here announced —

Big Brother wants to know you better than you know yourself, for what you may read in a curious moment and then forget, he remembers in digital files to guide your buying and selling, to judge you and manage you, to lead your thoughts, make memories and take them away and profile you beyond the nth degree.  I will put my confidence in the Lord.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/opinion/stop-spying-on-wikipedia-users.html?emc=edit_th_20150310&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Stop Spying on Wikipedia Users

(excerpts):

...As a result, whenever someone overseas views or edits a Wikipedia page, it’s likely that the N.S.A. is tracking that activity — including the content of what was read or typed, as well as other information that can be linked to the person’s physical location and possible identity. These activities are sensitive and private: They can reveal everything from a person’s political and religious beliefs to sexual orientation and medical conditions. … …

… Privacy is an essential right. It makes freedom of expression possible, and sustains freedom of inquiry and association. It empowers us to read, write and communicate in confidence, without fear of persecution. Knowledge flourishes where privacy is protected.
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The culture wars and the sin wars in France — some hope from a thoroughly offended populace?  God put adultery right up there in the Top Ten.  It disgusts him.  It is a stench of personal disparagement and betrayal and of societal decay and collapse.

Enough is enough, say the French—

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/world/europe/in-france-gleeden-an-extramarital-dating-site-unsettles-the-land-of-discreet-affairs.html?emc=edit_th_20150310&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998

Extramarital Dating Site Unsettles the Land of Discreet Affairs
(lead):
PARIS — In a country recently transfixed by the trial of a famous politician that revealed details of his orgy escapades, and where the president was found to be cheating on his live-in partner, an ad promoting extramarital affairs might not seem like such a big deal.

But even in famously libertine France, the latest advertising campaign — evoking the temptations of Eve with a partly eaten apple — for a dating website geared to married women looking for affairs has spawned a backlash and a national debate. … …
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Revive or Die!  An excellent moral survey by David Brooks of the NYT —

es.com/2015/03/10/opinion/david-brooks-the-cost-of-relativism.html?emc=edit_th_20150310&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
The Cost of Relativism
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Ezekiel's "hook in the jaw to draw you forth" for Rosh/Russia?

via prophecynewswatch.com     http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/March10/102.html
Russia’s Anti-American Fever Goes Beyond The Soviet Era’s
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Is there any way this doesn't qualify for a trance/entrancement?

Texting Woman Walks Into Path Of Train, Survives, Police Say
LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) -- Police say a 27-year-old woman who was texting walked into the path of a freight train, was clipped and thrown into the air, but survived.
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How the INIQUITY (inequalities, the pride of leaders trying to con the people, etc.—which St. Paul listed among the Mysteries) of this world and its systems and politics works.  Sometimes, indeed, "the man on the street" can be as dumb as a doorpost, but often the common sense of the populace sniffs out cons from above and rejects them….God's equalizing protection?

Here, with me blocking out the actual subject matter (see the link if you want to know) is a case in point among the Scots —

Parting Excerpt:  

...Conservative MSP Alex Johnstone said: “Survey after survey shows there are no real differences between Scotland and England when it comes to attitudes on ___________.

“Despite this, the SNP spent the entire referendum campaign trying to fool people into thinking the opposite." (typical! underlining added)

http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/top-stories/immigration-scots-no-more-tolerant-than-english-1-3714620
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I really don't know what to think about this, having friends who are persuaded for total Christian pacifism, but we  have been praying for the safekeeping of Christians in the blood bath zones, and Jesus did seem to speak of reasonable self-defense when he asked, "How many swords have ye?"  This I know, these are our professed brothers and sisters in Syria, dying because they name the name of Jesus.  May God direct—
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/12/us/disenchanted-by-civilian-life-veterans-volunteer-to-fight-isis.html?emc=edit_th_20150312&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Unsettled at Home, Veterans Volunteer to Fight ISISExcerpt:  “More than anything, they don’t like ISIS  and want to help,” said Matthew VanDyke , an American filmmaker who has spent time this winter with four American veterans covertly training a militia of Assyrian Christians in northern Iraq to resist the Islamic State.  (underlining added)
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If people weren't suffering over false religions and atheism, this would almost be funny!  The Maoists demanding that the reincarnationists continue to reincarnate!  Ho, ho ho!  "If satan's kingdom be divided against itself, can it stand," said Jesus rhetorically.  In a word, "no."
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/12/world/asia/chinas-tensions-with-dalai-lama-spill-into-the-afterlife.html?emc=edit_th_20150312&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
China’s Tensions With Dalai Lama Spill Into the Afterlife
Excerpt:  The idea of Communist Party officials defending the precepts of reincarnation and hurling accusations of heresy at the Dalai Lama might have Marx turning in his grave. The party is committed to atheism in its ranks, though it accepts religious belief in the public. And President Xi Jinping has declared his fealty to Marxist-Leninist dialectical materialism.
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"Resistance is Futile"?
Read more at http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/March12/124.html#FX8QPEJkOz6D3P6D.9
A New Way To Be Human: The Plan Is To Replace Existing Humans With ‘Transhuman’ Hybrids

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What "a waterfall" of revelations continues to pour forth from the world of technical observation/science concerning the state of the physical universe!  As I have said on this blog many times,  I was raised in a world of high school science which pictured space as a dry, cold, dusty vacuum.  Now, within my short life, and mostly in the last decade, we are finding "Water! Water! Everywhere!"  Now, a moon of Jupiter appears to be covered in warm oceans, only topped with ice!  Other recent findings I've noted, find bodies of water so huge and just floating in the cosmos, that they make all of Earth's waters seem a mere "drop in the bucket."

Two scriptures come to mind:  Genesis 1:7:  "And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so."  AND, "There shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars…"  Luke 21:25 ff.  Yes, these signs may include fearsome arrival of fallen cherubim "space brothers," etc., but they may also be simply vast revelations of things being far different than we expected or have been propagandized by satan and the world system to believe…such things as will cause us awestruck, speechless wonder, and, on the downside, will indeed cause many men's "hearts to fail for looking after those things which are coming on the earth."

The Mormons, a heretical cult, may be right about this one thing:  the mortals of the Millennium may indeed be allowed to form great galactic empires, with so many habitable paradise planets that every man may have as many as he pleases!  For sure, there's a lot out there we haven't seen yet!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/13/science/space/suddenly-it-seems-water-is-everywhere-in-solar-system.html?emc=edit_th_20150313&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Suddenly, It Seems, Water Is Everywhere in Solar System

Oceans trapped under ice appear to be pretty common in the solar system and one of them, on a small moon of Saturn’s, appears to be quite hot.

This week in the journal Nature, an international team of scientists reported evidence for hydrothermal vents on the Saturnian moon Enceladus, with temperatures of its rocky core surpassing 194 degrees Fahrenheit (90 degrees Celsius) in spots. The discovery, if confirmed, would make Enceladus the only place other than Earth where such chemical reactions between rock and heated water are known to be occurring today — and for many scientists, it would make Enceladus a most promising place to look for life. …

…“Surprising is the understatement,” Christopher P. McKay, a planetary scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., said of the multitude of watery moons. … …

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The NYTimes' Timothy Egan takes a look at the sad, borged mess happening to western and global humanity as the new smart watches dump us deeper into the sewer of transhumanism—

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/13/opinion/apple-watch-digital-dog-collar.html?emc=edit_th_20150313&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Digital Dog Collar

I hate the new Apple Watch. Hate what it will do to conversation, to the pace of the day, to my friends, to myself. I hate that it will enable the things that already make life so incremental, now-based and hyper-connected. That, and make things far worse.

No, my animus for Apple’s smartwatch — excuse me, wearable technology — is for what it will do to us. Things are too complicated as it is. At dinner with friends, or in a meeting that I’m supposed to care about, when can I look at my phone? Who’s phone-ignore worthy, and who’s not? At what point is looking down rude? And how long into a conversation till all sides get to call a truce and take a screen dive?

I say this as an information obsessive. I wish I could say recovering information obsessive. Like most of us, I’m in need of digital detox, not a fresh hit. Those restroom breaks at restaurants were not about bladder relief. God knows how many times I’ve sneaked away from the table just to peek at a football score, a “Daily Show” clip, a text, a photo or email, my Amazon book number. What a miserable wretch. But it could be worse: I have a friend who texts while skiing. … …
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An update on the horror of Syria; remember to pray for our brothers and sister there.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/world/an-ever-bleaker-syria-from-all-vantage-points.html?emc=edit_th_20150315&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0

An Ever-Bleaker Syria, From All Vantage Points
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Government helicopters rained barrel bombs on villages across Syria last week, killing civilians and demolishing homes.  Hundreds of combatants died in battles that failed to move the front lines. And activists spread videos  of hungry, war-weary Syrians through social media.

“We can’t move. We can’t walk,” a languid old man says in one video  shot near the capital, Damascus. “This situation won’t work.” … …
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In today's, 15 March, NYTimes, Ross Douthat on the collapse of American Morality…and the Consequences —

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/opinion/sunday/ross-douthat-for-poorer-and-richer.html?emc=edit_th_20150315&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
For Poorer and Richer
…But the basic point is this: In a substantially poorer American past with a much thinner safety net, lower-income Americans found a way to cultivate monogamy, fidelity, sobriety and thrift to an extent that they have not in our richer, higher-spending present.

So however much money matters, something else is clearly going on. … …

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"Stay" your mind on the Lord this day/ this week, who will keep you in perfect peace as you look to him.

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8 March

Saints,

Said Yeats of post world war 20th century,  "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"  (I believe he was speaking of the spirit of antichrist.)  Said Thomas Paine of the times of the American Revolution,  "These are the times that try men's souls."  We do not know when Christ will come, but it will be in an hour such as this.  

Said Solomon, "It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to heart.  Sorrow is better than laughter:  for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better."   Said Jesus and his apostles often:  "Watch and be sober."  Dour Scot Presbyterians of old maintained that it was better to be sober in thought and reflection than to be frivolous and of the fools.  While some mocked, they stood. (Psalm 1)

I love good humor, and a good joke, and certainly to be happy.  But if no respite can be had in these days, my real comfort lies in knowing the One Who from outside Time tells me what is going to happen and how to be ready for it:  "Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man."  (Luke 21:36)  "But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear."  (I Peter 3:15)  "Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth."  (Rev. 3:10)
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"An example of "discerning of spirits":  This is a spirit that "worketh in the children of disobedience." (Eph. 2:2)

http://wwlp.com/2015/02/28/man-with-a-666-tattoo-stabs-guy-in-church/
Man with a 666 tattoo stabs man in church
This is the town's first ever murder case
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Some of the horrors awaiting the human race in "Transhumanist Paradise" —
Note the boringly trivial propaganda attempts to make it sound like a good thing ("For all those folks out there who don't have bodies, take someone else's!)

http://www.gizmag.com/human-head-transplants/36315/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=64a461433f-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-64a461433f-91592265

Scientist claims that human head transplants could be a reality by 2017
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2976614/Is-satnav-harming-brain-Scientists-warn-use-modern-technology-linked-memory-loss-depression-later-life.html

Is your satnav harming your brain? Scientists warn over-use of modern technology may be linked to memory loss and depression in later life
	•	Modern technology has taken the strain off our brains
	•	Growing scientific evidence suggests our brains may prematurely fail
	•	By using satnavs, we wither away our 'caveman' ability

Can't recall a friend's phone number? Press the speed dial on your mobile. Don't know the way to their house? Use a satnav. Modern technology has taken the strain off our brains with the answers to so many problems available at the click of a button.

But is there a dark side to all this convenience? Growing scientific evidence suggests a future where our brains may prematurely fail in later life through under-use, thanks to Mother Nature's rule that we 'use it or lose it'.

You might describe this new threat to our mental health as 'e-mentia' - memory-related problems, and even depression, linked to our overuse of new technology. … ...

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This is an old story that I had heard was relegated to the category of "urban myth"?  Not so?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11446094/Half-of-human-Aids-came-from-gorillas.html

Half of human AIDS came from gorillas
Scientists identified pre-cursor of HIV virus in gorillas in Cameroon

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A rise in American anti-Semitism all across the political spectrum and the generations, here trying to occur among the student government of UCLA? —
as the BDS movement (Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions movement) is often questioned as a fifth column islamic attack.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/06/us/debate-on-a-jewish-student-at-ucla.html?emc=edit_th_20150306&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
In U.C.L.A. Debate Over Jewish Student, Echoes on Campus of Old Biases
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"A  TV man" goes off on the morally corrupt, personally depressing "wasteland" of Social Media —

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michael-wolff-social-media-is-779431
Michael Wolff: Social Media Is "Great Wasteland" of Modern Age
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A Little More on the passing of "Mr. Spock," Leonard Nimoy —

Thanks for bearing with me.  This kind, noble "son of Abraham" brought into his chief role a blend of himself and the evolving design of his character, a being with a sense of fairness and justice, decency and honesty in the name of "logic" that our generations needed for role modeling.  In one of his wonderful, sublime paradoxes, he said of himself, in a 1977 book, "I am not Spock,"  then in 1990, wrote another one, "I am Spock."  He set a good example of humble lifelong growth and increasing wisdom, both in his chief character and in himself.  I hope he came to consider and follow Christ to Eternal LIfe as he contemplated the issues and revelations of his native faith of Judaism:  "Live long and prosper."

Correspondents have sent in good videos on him;  here's one well worth the watching for fans  (I thought I had a couple more, but they have disappeared back into the digital void -- lost the URLs! 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1d83XOORP0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Many others can be found on youtube, etc.): 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyiWkWcR86I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfiyh1h3FPg

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1 March

"Live long and prosper,"  Mr. Spock!

First, Two Things, forgive me, from our cultural media—

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Good-by, Mr. Spock!  How many among Americans and indeed people all around the world will not lament and feel real grief over the passing of Leonard Nimoy?

For me, it is only "outed" now that his famous hand sign was a sign of Jewish blessing —are the Jews the Vulcans? — that he himself suggested to fit into an early screen plot and the director accepted.  For more on this, check this video — http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/television/leonard-nimoy-spock-of-star-trek-dies-at-83.html?emc=edit_th_20150228&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0 — wait through an ad in the middle and see the second part especially.  (It is the hand sign for the Hebrew letter "Shin" which begin both the words Shaddai for God and Shekinah for his glory!)

I admit to shedding a tear for this memorable actor (hupocrites in the Greek, our "hypocrite," in the sense of a professional player to act a story) who has been a hero to many in his role for his "logic" or insistence on pure, unfettered truth.  With this famous, now revealed as Jewish, hand sign, which he mentions people on the street have been signing back to him from the first weeks after that early episode and for 50 years since, often also went the blessing which leaves me with hope for him, "Live long and prosper," Mr. Spock.  Eighty-three is a ripe age to be plucked from the tree and he has certainly enjoyed material, intellectual, and artistic prosperity.   I, as one who has learned some secrets from Isaiah 65:24 and from Matthew 6:8, let him go with this prayer and hope — that his earthly journey led him to know Messiah Jesus before it came to its end.  May his family all yet find the same consolation.

excerpt from the accompanying story —

His religious upbringing also influenced the characterization of Spock. The character’s split-fingered salute, he often explained, had been his idea: He based it on the kohanic blessing (kohan or cohen means priest in Hebrew), a manual (hand) approximation of the Hebrew letter shin, which is the first letter in Shaddai, one of the Hebrew names for God.

“To this day, I sense Vulcan speech patterns, Vulcan social attitudes and even Vulcan patterns of logic and emotional suppression in my behavior,” Mr. Nimoy wrote years after the original series ended.

But that wasn’t such a bad thing, he discovered. “Given the choice,” he wrote, “if I had to be someone else, I would be Spock.”

(He wrote, among many, two books, one in 1977 titled, "I am not Spock," and another in 1990 titled, "I am Spock."  Paradoxical BUT "Logical.")

(This is pretty good too, on "the Nerdist Channel":  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QxprD3Ii2M)

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And —

O My Schwarzenegger Goodness!  This sounds just like that classic, '90's Sci-Fi movie with Ahnold, TOTAL RECALL (only it's now becoming reality):

"The holiday of the future will still provide memories of strolls along sunny beaches, the sensation of sand between your toes and the peaceful rush of the ocean, but there will be one crucial difference.

You won't have ever actually been away - in fact you might not have even left your home.

Instead, people will download memories to their brains to make them feel as if they have been on a sun-kissed holiday.
That’s just one of the many realities we could face as we learn to manipulate the human mind, US physicist Dr Michio Kaku told MailOnline in an exclusive interview."

NO!  THANK YOU VERY MUCH!  I PREFER REALITY, MISERABLE THOUGH IT MAY OCCASIONALLY BE!  I WANT MY HEAVEN TO BE FROM THE LORD,  NOT SOME TECHIE MESSING WITH MY BRAIN!!!

Pop "Star Trekkie"  theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku (who also styles himself to look like he belongs in a Federation Counsel meeting in a Star Trek movie) pumps a new book pushing Transhuman goodies done dirt cheap— (just look at all the trouble it got Ahnold in!)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2965072/Will-holidays-soon-uploaded-MINDS-Dr-Michio-Kaku-reveals-use-brains-50-years.html

Will holidays soon be uploaded to our MINDS? 
Dr Michio Kaku reveals how we could use our brains in the next 50 years
	•	US physicist Dr Michio Kaku was speaking exclusively to MailOnline
	•	He revealed his theories on how we may control our brains in the future
	•	Include implanting 'memories' to make us think we've been on holiday
	•	Could also send our minds to distant worlds to control surrogate robots
	•	We'll be able to manipulate our surroundings with 'programmable matter'
	•	Creature from the another world would think that we were 'sorcerers'

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Saints,

Never give up on the church though the temptation incited by hypocrites, partisans, clergymen, lazy, excusing, apostate saints, etc. may be strong.  But the Lord has ordained the Church though he often rebukes, admonishes, and punishes the church…just as he does the individual sons whom he chastens too.  Look at his stern words to the messaged churches in Revelation, and look at Paul's oft warnings to the Corinthians, the Galatians, etc.  

Never forget, "the devil also goes to church," and the Lord has made it a place of outworking in this era;  it is not yet the fullness of the Kingdom of God and certainly not of the Kingdom of Heaven.  Some other sayings have come to mind below this quote of Hugh Latimer's, who was martyred by Bloody Mary in the wars of religion in England:  via Berean Call:

And now I would ask a strange question: who is the most diligent bishop and prelate in all England that passes all the rest in doing his office? I can tell for I know him who it is; I know him well. But now I think I see you listening and hearkening that I should name him. There is one that passes all the others, and is the most diligent prelate and preacher in all England. And will you know who it is? I will tell you: it is the devil. He is the most diligent preacher of all other; he is never out of his diocese; he is never from his [pastoral area of responsibility]; you shall never find him unoccupied; he is ever in his parish; he keeps residence at all times; ye shall never find him out of the way, call for him when you will he is ever at home; the [most] diligent preacher in all the realm; he is ever at his plow; no lording nor loitering can hinder him; he is ever applying his business, ye shall never find him idle...And his office is to hinder religion, to maintain superstition, to set up idolatry, to teach all kind of popery. He is ready as he can be wished for to set forth his plow; to devise as many ways as can be to deface and obscure God's glory...O that our prelates would be as diligent to sow the corn of good doctrine as Satan is to sow cockle and darnel [tares].

Hugh Latimer, sometime Bishop of Worcester, Martyr, 1555 (Cambridge University Press, 1844), pp. 70-1, burned as a heretic along with Nicholas Ridley during the reign of Mary (1553-1558), Oxford, on 16 October 1555.

This reminds me of two more sayings, one fairly current in our generation:  "Fellowship with the saints above, now that will be glory;  fellowship with the saints below, Now, that's another story!"

And one also from a measured antiquity, a quote by Daniel Defoe, the author of Robinson Crusoe:   

"Wherever God erects a house of prayer,
The devil always builds a chapel there.
And 'twill be found upon examination,
The latter has the largest congregation."

TAKE HEART, THE GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL, though they shall continue to try until this Age ends.
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Been saved after getting tatts?  Worse yet, did you get them as early expressions of faith, but then wake up to the still active moral law of the Old Testament — against marking up the body — when you read the New Testament's revelation that our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit?

Take heart, here comes a new way to get rid of tattoos (short of a miracle)!  No, not lasering them out, but a cream that convinces your white blood cells to eat the ink!  How about that!  Hopefully, no side effects;  it's headed toward being on the market —

http://www.gizmag.com/new-tattoo-removal-cream-results-in-gain-with-no-pain/36107/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=64b8a1c638-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-64b8a1c638-91592265

New cream painlessly removes tattoos
As more people get tattooed, more of those people regret having done so. The tattoo removal business is huge, generating around $75 million in the US alone. Laser ablation is the most common removal method, but now a 27-year-old PhD student in Canada has come up with a cream that promises a gentler, safer method to get rid of undesired tattoos. … …

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Doctrines of the Nephilim (in the name of science)  — early stage revelations? — at least as far as the public is being informed —  "humanized mice"  (see the hybrid embryo at the link…mouse as monster.)

http://www.gizmag.com/hare5-big-mouse-brain/36255/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=64b8a1c638-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-64b8a1c638-91592265
	
Check out the big brain on the genetically modified mouse

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In a recent blog update (22 Feb), I reported on a new Gallup Poll that cited Vermont as "the most godless state in the Union."  Is our "heroin epidemic" (Governor Shumlin's own words) part of the fruit?  Is the ensuing campaign a lame "works trip," a "band-aid patch" where only repentance will deliver?

Well, glad they are trying, but the results with Christ are so much better, both in this life and in the life to come!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/26/us/as-vermont-tackles-heroin-addiction-progress-is-measured-in-baby-steps.html?emc=edit_th_20150226&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998

Vermont Tackles Heroin, With Progress in Baby Steps

Excerpts—    In 2014, Gov. Peter Shumlin devoted his State of the State address to what he called a “full-blown heroin crisis” in Vermont. The State Legislature enacted many of his initiatives, including giving one-time grants to addiction clinics to help them reduce the size of their waiting lists. The Central Vermont Addiction Medicine clinic here used its share of the grant to extend the hours of its lone doctor. Counselors reached out to people on the waiting list, moving active needle-users like Mr. Kenney and pregnant women to the top. … …

“This is by no means ‘mission accomplished,’ ” Mr. Shumlin said in an interview recently. “We have a lot more work to do. But I’m proud of the progress we’re making as a state and as a region.”

Still, a year after Mr. Shumlin’s call to arms, progress can be measured only in baby steps. As aggressively as Vermont is attacking opioid addiction, the number of deaths from heroin is going up, not down.

Preliminary data from the state Health Department shows that the number of deaths involving heroin reached 35 in 2014, an increase of 66 percent from 21 deaths in 2013. (Deaths from prescription opioids stayed the same.)… …
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"Which way will you turn while feeling that our love's not your concern?"  (George Harrison, commenting on principle, long ago now.)  When faced with the various issues of apostasy  -- clever and seemingly right to the Flesh nature--but departures nonetheless, will we go with the Spirit and the Word or with the desires and reasonings of the Flesh?  A case in point:

Forwarded from The Berean Call with the original link:  http://barbwire.com/2015/02/16/0655-megachurch-pastor-prayerfully-allows-practicing-homosexuals-leadership/#

MEGACHURCH PASTOR PRAYERFULLY ALLOWS GAYS INTO LEADERSHIP 

Is the Bible Belt coming unbuckled? Stan Mitchell, pastor of the GracePoint megachurch in Franklin Tennessee, has apparently taken his Bible belt off altogether.

Mitchell told his congregation - a congregation that includes superstar singer-songwriter Carrie Underwood - that practicing homosexuals can be card-carrying members of his Bible-believing protestant church and can even hold their gay weddings in the sanctuary. … …
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More of Sodom's moral incursions into the professing RCC churches—

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/us/archbishop-cordileone-of-san-francisco-defends-changes.html?emc=edit_th_20150227&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Morals Clause in Catholic Schools Roils Bay Area
Archbishop Cordileone of San Francisco Defends Changes
SAN FRANCISCO — It is the issue that is stirring San Francisco: The archbishop has specified that teachers at four Bay Area Catholic high schools cannot publicly challenge the church’s teachings that homosexual acts are “contrary to natural law,” that contraception is “intrinsically evil” and that embryonic stem cell research is “a crime.” He also wants to designate teachers as part of the “ministry,” which could, under a 2012 Supreme Court ruling, strip them of protection under federal anti-discrimination laws.
In this city that helped give birth to the gay rights movement, the backlash has been fierce. A top concern is that gay teachers could be fired. … ...
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"Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving,"  said Paul to the Colossians.  Lord Jesus, please hide and protect those who call upon your name this day and every day.  Give your grace to the Pesh Merga, let their fighting prowess be immense by your instrumentality — to help deliver the saints — and convert many Kurds and many others as they witness the devil's evil attack against those who stand under you.

Captive numbers rise from 70 to 287 since last report—

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/world/middleeast/more-assyrian-christians-captured-as-isis-attacks-villages-in-syria.html?emc=edit_th_20150227&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
ISIS Onslaught Engulfs Assyrian Christians as Militants Destroy Ancient Art
ISTANBUL — The reports are like something out of a distant era of ancient conquests: entire villages emptied, with hundreds taken prisoner, others kept as slaves; the destruction of irreplaceable works of art; a tax on religious minorities, payable in gold.
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As mentioned in an earlier blog post here, here's more on an Obama man and his coordination of a team in Tel Aviv to defeat Benjamin Netanyahu in the upcoming election there— 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/28/us/politics/former-obama-campaign-aide-now-works-to-oust-netanyahu.html?emc=edit_th_20150228&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998

Former Obama Campaign Aide Now Works to Oust Netanyahu
WASHINGTON — Jeremy Bird, the architect of the grass-roots and online organizing efforts that powered President Obama's  presidential campaigns from Chicago, is advising a similar operation in Tel Aviv. But this time it is focused on ousting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.

His consulting work for the group V15 — an independent Israeli organization that does not support specific candidates but is campaigning to replace Israel’s current government — has added yet another political layer to the diplomatic mess surrounding Mr. Netanyahu’s decision to address a joint meeting of Congress next week on Iran.
The White House has argued that Mr. Netanyahu’s plan to deliver the speech on March 3, two weeks before the Israeli elections, is harming the United States-Israel relationship by injecting partisanship. Republicans contend it is Mr. Obama who is playing politics and cite the work of Mr. Bird as proof that the president is quietly rooting for the defeat of his Israeli counterpart. … …
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— a quote by Mr. Netanyahu as he prepares to come to Washington today for the upcoming speech to Congress:

The prime minister noted the timing, saying that just as Jews on Purim remember the attempt in Persia in antiquity to destroy the Jews, “it is the same Persia with a regime that is waving the banner of destroying the state of the Jews. The means by which they intend on implementing this threat is with many atomic bombs.”
 
— a quote by Ezekiel 2600 years ago:  "Behold, I am against thee…Persia."  See 38:3&5.

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Netanyahu-I-respect-Obama-but-its-my-duty-to-ensure-the-security-of-Israel-392496
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24 February - - - URGENT PRAYER NEED!!!  PLEASE JOIN IN PRAYER NOW AND CONTINUE IN PRAYER, COL. 4:2

Saints,

An immediate and urgent prayer need prompts a brief, mid-week blog update.  Remember, God hears our prayers, made in Faith, even for situations far away where we have no direct or personal contact.  We must pray for these folk who are precious to the Lord and to one another.

Lord Jesus,

We ask you to intervene and deliver our brethren in Syria this morning from these forces of darkness which have abducted them.  Please deliver them Lord!  Teach them also to hide themselves and to escape such abductions.  Please use the PeshMerga to aid in their deliverance and show the PeshMerga fighters that you are working with them so that many of them may also turn to you.

Lord, please answer above and beyond what we think to ask.  Please preserve our other brothers and sisters throughout the Middle East; help us to grow every more prayerfully mindful of their distress and hear our prayers for them:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/24/us-mideast-crisis-christians-idUSKBN0LS0MH20150224
Islamic State in Syria abducts at least 90 from Christian villages: monitor

(Reuters) - Islamic State militants have abducted at least 90 people from Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria, a monitoring group that tracks violence in Syria said on Tuesday.

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the militants carried out dawn raids on rural villages inhabited by the ancient Christian minority west of Hasaka, a city mainly held by the Kurds.

Syrian Kurdish militia have renewed their assault on the militants, launching two offensives against them in northeast Syria on Sunday, helped from U.S.-led air strikes and Iraqi peshmerga who have been shelling Islamic State-held territory from their side of the nearby border.

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NYTimes Breaking News , Monday, February 23, 2015 1:18 PM EST — 
Jury awards against terrorism by Palestinian governments by US Courts total nearly 2/3 billion —

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/24/nyregion/damages-awarded-in-terror-case-against-palestinian-groups.html?emc=edit_na_20150223&nlid=69381998&_r=0

Huge Jury Award Against Palestinian Groups in Terrorism Case
The Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization were found liable on Monday by a jury in Manhattan for their role in knowingly supporting six terrorist attacks in Israel between 2002 and 2004 in which Americans were killed and injured.	
The jury in Federal District Court in Manhattan awarded $218.5 million in damages, a number that is automatically tripled to $655.5 million under the special terrorism law under which the case was brought.	
The verdict ended a decade-long legal battle to hold the Palestinian organizations responsible for the terrorist acts. And while the decision was a huge victory for the dozens of plaintiffs, it also could serve to strengthen the Israeli claim that the supposedly more moderate Palestinian forces are directly tied to terrorism.	
The financial implications of the verdict for the defendants were not immediately clear. The Palestinian Authority, led by Mahmoud Abbas, had serious financial troubles even before Israel, as punishment for the Palestinians’ move in December to join the International Criminal Court, began withholding more than $100 million a month in tax revenue it collects on the Palestinians’ behalf.	
The verdict came in the seventh week of a civil trial in which the jury had heard emotional testimony from survivors of suicide bombings and other attacks in Jerusalem, in which a total of 33 people were killed and more than 450 were injured. … ...

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With two-mother-one-father babies announced as permissible science in the UK recently, and with the Italian parliament begging the British parliament to rethink the permission, now two-dad babies are coming too…or maybe with bits-and-pieces contributions from many "parents."  Is this the end of humanity?  

What godless beings may these creatures become?  (mindless, programmable, AI "enhanced", soulless or demon-housed human bodies for "super-soldiers," etc.?)  As before the Flood, "All flesh has corrupted his way upon the earth."  (Gen. 6:12)

http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/two-father-babies-could-become-a-reality--ekMezeg1pe
Two father babies could become a reality

Children may be born with parents of the same sex following a breakthrough which scientists believe paves the way for “two dad” families.

Researchers from Cambridge University and Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science say they have shown for the first time that human egg and sperm cells can be made from stem cells in the skin of two adults. It raises the possibility a baby could be “manufactured” in a dish, The Sunday Times reported.

Any such technique would help infertile couples but will also raise serious ethical questions. Details of the research, funded by the Wellcome Trust, were published in the journal Cell. “We have succeeded in the first and most important step of this process, which is to show we can make these very early human stem cells in a dish,” Azim Surani, professor of physiology and reproduction, said.

Allan Pacey, an infertility expert at Sheffield University, said the research could help make sperm for men who had survived childhood cancer.	

	

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22 February   …for more, visit ntfellowship.net

Lord Jesus,
    
We thank you for the lives of the 21 Christians who died because they are associated with your name.  Knowing that you can answer before we ask, we ask that you would have comforted each of them and prepared them for martyrdom.  May each one have had his eyes on you.  Please comfort their families with knowing this was a true martyrdom and not the suicide insanity of those who oppose you and hate us.  Help us not to hate them, but convert some of them Lord, to your name's glory, as you converted Saul, who also persecuted the Church, and made him the greatest preacher of the Gospel to the Gentiles.  Raise up, O Lord, the voices of repentant jihadis to proclaim your Gospel and the errors of following God falsely.

Help us to soberly consider the loss of our brothers and to grow more fervent in prayer and watchfulness that you may preserve us and our loved ones and all those who also call upon your name in the very face of the great evil as it rages around the Middle East.

Come, Lord Jesus, we also await the Vengeance that you will bring with the flaming fire of your final anger.  Amen.

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Having observed carefully the prophecies of the various allies against Israel in the upcoming war of which Ezekiel gives many minute details (chs. 38 & 39),  I have had to wonder how Libya and Ethiopia will join the fray against Israel — with Egypt, which will not involve itself, in the way of their direct land access to the battleground.  Will Egypt grant temporary passage?  Will they simply be overrun by the lemming-like convergence of the gathering armies?  Will the LIbyans instead take to the sea, entering by way of the Gaza Strip or by Lebanon?  Will the Ethiopians come up the arm of the Red Sea and enter by way of the Sinai, even now presently a problem to Egypt where terrorists roam?  Or will they come through Yemen (biblical Teman), also a terrorist haven?  Or will the Saudis, to the north of Yemen and between Yemen and Israel, block their paths?  

What a Day to watch for the hand of our Almighty God as He disposes as He will!  The End of the Matter:  the founding of a Great City of the Dead, Hamongog (the multitudes of Gog) against the mountains of Jordan at the eastern wall of the Jordan Valley, above which runs the ancient road of the kings.  Seven years it will take to bury the remains.  Are these the same seven years as the span of the Great Tribulation?  Ezekiel notes that passersby will be instructed to set up markers when they find unburied bones; sounds similar to a possible nuclear clean-up;  we shall see.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/17/world/middleeast/isis-egypt-libya-airstrikes.html?emc=edit_th_20150217&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998

Egypt Launches Airstrike in Libya Against ISIS Branch

CAIRO — Egypt conducted an airstrike against an Islamist stronghold in Libya on Monday in retaliation for the beheading of at least a dozen Egyptian Christians by a local franchise of the Islamic State, in Cairo’s deepest reach yet into the chaos that has engulfed its neighbor.
Hinting at possible further action, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt said in a statement that he had convened “a continuous session” of his National Defense Council to monitor events in Libya and to weigh additional measures. But the strike itself, hitting in the Libyan town of Derna at dawn, was a new turn in the breakdown of regional order in the aftermath of the Arab Spring revolts and the Islamic State’s emergence. … …
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Early downsides speculated for the new Transhumans—
Cyber/bio-engineered mindless zombies?

http://www.infowars.com/expert-future-hackers-could-wipe-peoples-memories/

EXPERT: FUTURE HACKERS COULD WIPE PEOPLE’S MEMORIES
Neurohackers could kidnap hostages and threaten to delete their AI-enhanced brains, warns former FBI futurist

A top futurist and former advisor to the FBI and Interpol warns that criminal hackers could one day kidnap people with AI-enhanced brains and threaten to wipe their memories in return for a ransom.

Marc Goodman, who has also worked with the US Secret Service, told Singularity Hub of his concerns about mind reading and neurohacking.

Asked to imagine the weirdest future crime scenario, Goodman responded, “I think holding people’s memories hostage in demand of an extortion payment would be a fairly horrific crime. Of course, this is all theoretical now. We do not have the capacity to do this. But I thoroughly believe it will be forthcoming.”

Goodman also pointed to recent experiments with EEG technology which illustrated how brain waves could be read to obtain someone’s credit card pin number 30% of the time.
“I think we’ll see more of that, which could lead to all kinds of problems. Forget memorizing passwords—somebody could just pull that data from a brain scan,” said Goodman.
The futurist also pointed to new treatments for veterans suffering with PTSD that can isolate and minimize bad memories.

“Once organized crime figures out how to do this, I could see a horrific scenario wherein somebody is kidnapped and threatened that unless they pay an exorbitant sum, their lifelong memories of their wife or daughter would be erased,” warned Goodman.
As we reported last week, dead elites are planning to live on in cyberspace by uploading their cloned brains to computer systems which will eventually take the form of artificially intelligent robots.

Martine Rothblatt, the transgender founder of Sirius and America’s highest paid female CEO, has developed a rudimentary version of the technology, uploading a clone of her partner’s personality to a robot head called Bina 48.
Rothblatt predicts that within 20 years, mind clones will be humanity’s biggest invention. Whether or not most people will be able to afford such technology is another matter.

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A nifty, little summary of the present surveillance situation by John W. Whitehead—

http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/February19/192.html#X9FeEV8RWYI3gycP.99

Creepy, Calculating And Controlling: All The Ways Big Brother Is Watching You
 “You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”—George Orwell, 1984

Today, there’s little room for indiscretions, imperfections, or acts of independence—especially not when the government can listen in on your phone calls, monitor your driving habits, track your movements, scrutinize your purchases and peer through the walls of your home. 

That’s because technology—specifically the technology employed by the government against the American citizenry—has upped the stakes dramatically so that there’s little we do that is not known by the government.

In such an environment, you’re either a paragon of virtue, or you’re a criminal.

If you haven’t figured it out yet, we’re all criminals. This is the creepy, calculating yet diabolical genius of the American police state: the very technology we hailed as revolutionary and liberating has become our prison, jailer, probation officer, Big Brother and Father Knows Best all rolled into one.

Consider that on any given day, the average American going about his daily business will be monitored, surveilled, spied on and tracked in more than 20 different ways, by both government and corporate eyes and ears. 

A byproduct of this new age in which we live, whether you’re walking through a store, driving your car, checking email, or talking to friends and family on the phone, you can be sure that some government agency, whether the NSA or some other entity, is listening in and tracking your behavior. 

As I point out in my book, A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, this doesn’t even begin to touch on the corporate trackers that monitor your purchases, web browsing, Facebook posts and other activities taking place in the cyber sphere.

For example, police have been using Stingray devices mounted on their cruisers to intercept cell phone calls and text messages without court-issued search warrants. Thwarting efforts to learn how and when these devices are being used against an unsuspecting populace, the FBI is insisting that any inquiries about the use of the technology be routed to the agency “in order to allow sufficient time for the FBI to intervene to protect the equipment/technology and information from disclosure and potential compromise.”

Doppler radar devices, which can detect human breathing and movement within in a home, are already being employed by the police to deliver arrest warrants and are being challenged in court. 

One case in particular, United States v Denson, examines how the Fourth Amendment interacts with the government’s use of radar technology to peer inside a suspect’s home. As Judge Neil Gorsuch recognizes in the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeal’s ruling in the case, “New technologies bring with them not only new opportunities for law enforcement to catch criminals but also new risks for abuse and new ways to invade constitutional rights.”

License plate readers, yet another law enforcement spying device made possible through funding by the Department of Homeland Security, can record up to 1800 license plates per minute. However, it seems these surveillance cameras can also photograph those inside a moving car. 

Recent reports indicate that the Drug Enforcement Administration has been using the cameras in conjunction with facial recognition software to build a “vehicle surveillance database” of the nation’s cars, drivers and passengers.

Sidewalk and “public space” cameras, sold to gullible communities as a sure-fire means of fighting crime, is yet another DHS program that is blanketing small and large towns alike with government-funded and monitored surveillance cameras. 

It’s all part of a public-private partnership that gives government officials access to all manner of surveillance cameras, on sidewalks, on buildings, on buses, even those installed on private property.

Couple these surveillance cameras with facial recognition and behavior-sensing technology and you have the makings of “pre-crime” cameras, which scan your mannerisms, compare you to pre-set parameters for “normal” behavior, and alert the police if you trigger any computerized alarms as being “suspicious.”

Capitalizing on a series of notorious abductions of college-aged students, several states are pushing to expand their biometric and DNA databases by requiring that anyone accused of a misdemeanor have their DNA collected and catalogued. 

However, technology is already available that allows the government to collect biometrics such as fingerprints from a distance, without a person’s cooperation or knowledge. One system can actually scan and identify a fingerprint from nearly 20 feet away.

Radar guns have long been the speed cop’s best friend, allowing him to hide out by the side of the road, identify speeding cars, and then radio ahead to a police car, which does the dirty work of pulling the driver over and issuing a ticket. 

Never mind that what this cop is really doing is using an electronic device to search your car without a search warrant, violating the Fourth Amendment and probable cause. Yet because it’s a cash cow for police and the governments they report to, it’s a practice that is not only allowed but encouraged. 

Indeed, developers are hard at work on a radar gun that can actually show if you or someone in your car is texting. No word yet on whether the technology will also be able to detect the contents of that text message.

It’s a sure bet that anything the government welcomes (and funds) too enthusiastically is bound to be a Trojan horse full of nasty surprises. Case in point: police body cameras. Hailed as the easy fix solution to police abuses, these body cameras—made possible by funding from the Department of Justice—will turn police officers into roving surveillance cameras. 

Of course, if you try to request access to that footage, you’ll find yourself being led a merry and costly chase through miles of red tape, bureaucratic footmen and unhelpful courts.

The “internet of things” refers to the growing number of “smart” appliances and electronic devices now connected to the internet and capable of interacting with each other and being controlled remotely. 

These range from thermostats and coffee makers to cars and TVs. Of course, there’s a price to pay for such easy control and access. That price amounts to relinquishing ultimate control of and access to your home to the government and its corporate partners. 

For example, while Samsung’s Smart TVs are capable of “listening” to what you say, thereby allow users to control the TV using voice commands, it also records everything you say and relays it to a third party.

Then again, the government doesn’t really need to spy on you using your smart TV when the FBI can remotely activate the microphone on your cellphone and record your conversations. The FBI can also do the same thing to laptop computers without the owner knowing any better.

Government surveillance of social media such as Twitter and Facebook is on the rise. Americans have become so accustomed to the government overstepping its limits that most don’t even seem all that bothered anymore about the fact that the government is spying on our emails and listening in on our phone calls.

Drones, which will begin to take to the skies en masse this year, will be the converging point for all of the weapons and technology already available to law enforcement agencies. This means drones that can listen in on your phone calls, see through the walls of your home, scan your biometrics, photograph you and track your movements, and even corral you with sophisticated weaponry.

And then there’s the Internet and cell phone kill switch, which enables the government to shut down Internet and cell phone communications without Americans being given any warning. It’s a practice that has been used before in the U.S., albeit in a limited fashion. 

In 2005, cell service was disabled in four major New York tunnels (reportedly to avert potential bomb detonations via cell phone). In 2009, those attending President Obama’s inauguration had their cell signals blocked (again, same rationale). And in 2011, San Francisco commuters had their cell phone signals shut down (this time, to thwart any possible protests over a police shooting of a homeless man).

It’s a given that the government’s tactics are always more advanced than we know, so there’s no knowing what new technologies are already being deployed against without our knowledge. Certainly, by the time we learn about a particular method of surveillance or new technological gadget, it’s a sure bet that the government has been using it covertly for years already. And if other governments are using a particular technology, you can bet that our government used it first. 

For instance, back in 2011, it was reported that the government of Tunisia was not only monitoring the emails of its citizens but was actually altering the contents of those emails in order to thwart dissidents. How much do you want to bet that government agents have already employed such tactics in the U.S.?

Apart from the obvious dangers posed by a government that feels justified and empowered to spy on its people and use its ever-expanding arsenal of weapons and technology to monitor and control them, we’re approaching a time in which we will be forced to choose between obeying the dictates of the government—i.e., the law, or whatever a government officials deems the law to be—and maintaining our individuality, integrity and independence.

When people talk about privacy, they mistakenly assume it protects only that which is hidden behind a wall or under one’s clothing. The courts have fostered this misunderstanding with their constantly shifting delineation of what constitutes an “expectation of privacy.” And technology has furthered muddied the waters.

However, privacy is so much more than what you do or say behind locked doors. It is a way of living one’s life firm in the belief that you are the master of your life, and barring any immediate danger to another person (which is far different from the carefully crafted threats to national security the government uses to justify its actions), it’s no one’s business what you read, what you say, where you go, whom you spend your time with, and how you spend your money.

Unfortunately, privacy as we once knew it is dead.

We now find ourselves in the unenviable position of being monitored, managed and controlled by our technology, which answers not to us but to our government and corporate rulers. This is the fact-is-stranger-than-fiction lesson that is being pounded into us on a daily basis.

Thus, to be an individual today, to not conform, to have even a shred of privacy, and to live beyond the reach of the government’s roaming eyes and technological spies, one must not only be a rebel but rebel.

Even when you rebel and take your stand, there is rarely a happy ending awaiting you. You are rendered an outlaw. This is the message in almost every dystopian work of fiction, from classic writers such as George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Philip K. Dick and Ray Bradbury to more contemporary voices such as Margaret Atwood, Lois Lowry and Suzanne Collins.

How do you survive in the American police state?

We’re running out of options. As Philip K. Dick, the visionary who gave us Minority Report and Blade Runner, advised:

“If, as it seems, we are in the process of becoming a totalitarian society in which the state apparatus is all-powerful, the ethics most important for the survival of the true, free, human individual would be: cheat, lie, evade, fake it, be elsewhere, forge documents, build improved electronic gadgets in your garage that’ll outwit the gadgets used by the authorities.”

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A New Gallup Poll finds Vermont, my home state, "the most godless state in the Union."

http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/18/whats-the-most-godless-state/?emc=edit_ty_20150219&nl=opinion&nlid=69381998&_r=0

What’s the Most Godless State?
By THE EDITORS  date published FEBRUARY 18, 2015 11:22 AM

Only 17% attend services of any kind here, not that going to church makes you any more of a Christian than walking into a garage makes you a car or climbing into a cookie jar makes you a cookie.

It is best to have a call to Vermont unless you just happen to get converted out of the masses of pagans here.  I have seen many "church planters" and such come here and then tuck tail and run within a year.  I am not native to Vermont but came to Christ when Jesus People came here from California as to a dark mission field and preached on the streets in the 1970s.  It was a glorious time, and when I heard the message I left off following Satan in the guise of Timothy Leary and other antichrists of that era and began to follow Christ.  Then later, He called me back here to live for him and preach to these "damned yankees" and hang out among them and be of them except for the damned part.   The scenery is great, but often the mindset and the politics are fueled by the fires of perdition.

All I can say is this, quoting C.T. Studd, the British evangelist of yesteryear:  "Some folks want to live within the sound of church and chapel bell.  As for me, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell."

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Transhumanism in all its errant forms is not new, only buried in history to emerge here and there like Hitler's SS Eugenics Madness.  Solomon said, "There is nothing new under the sun."  The Book of Genesis declares that the need for the Flood was that "all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth."  Here we are again, with Transhumanism, a final revival of the doctrines of the Nephilim, the perverted creatures, part fallen man, part fallen angel, and possibly even part animal and part plant.  Once these genetic perversions get into the gene pool, they will again "corrupt all flesh."  These Italian MPs, in speaking to their British counterparts, seem to have a sense of this danger.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/559628/Three-parent-babies-risk-human-race-says-Italian-MPs
Three-parent babies could risk the future of the human race, warn 55 Italian MPs
THREE-PARENT babies could risk the future of the human race by "modifying genetic heritage in an irreversible way", warned 55 Italian MPs.

(excerpts):  In a strongly worded letter to The Times, the Italian MPs wrote that the legalisation of such a technique "could have uncontrollable and unforeseeable consequences, affecting future generations and modifying genetic heritage in an irreversible way, inevitably affecting the human species as a whole". … …

…Meanwhile, 50 MEPs have declared that by allowing three-parent babies, Britain is therefore breaching EU law and has "violated human dignity".

The MEPs - including Slovakian MEP Miroslav Mikolask - wrote to Prime Minister David Cameron to urge him to withdraw the legislation.

The open letter read: "We are writing to you to express our profound concern at the intention of the UK to permit the modification of the human genome.
"Your proposals violate the fundamental standards of human dignity and integrity of the person. Modification of the genome is unethical and cannot be permitted.
"These proposals put the UK out in front of a race to the bottom so far as standards of human dignity are concerned." … ...

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16 February / Brief Update / Immediate Christian Martyrdom of Egyptian Coptic Christians in LIbya

(Correction:  I said in yesterday's blog that the latest terrorist assassinations occurred in Norway.  Instead, they were in Copenhagen, Denmark.)

Saints,  Very serious times are upon us; we need to pray to be awake, watching, and cooperating with the Holy Spirit with our prayers.

Spiritual Madness in Libya as 21 Coptic Christian brothers are martyred by beheading—  (May God comfort and prepare the Copts to withstand ISIS, and comfort the families of our brothers.)

	Says ISIS: “A Message Signed With Blood to the Nation(s) of the Cross” 

	 “It is another thing to capture a bunch of Egyptian Copts and kill them and see it as some of part of a grand, final-days battle.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/16/world/middleeast/islamic-state-video-beheadings-of-21-egyptian-christians.html?emc=edit_th_20150216&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Islamic State Video Shows Beheadings of Egyptian Christians in Libya

Prophetic Notes on this story—

Beheadings, a murder and mass murder technique to be used in the Great Tribulation is now in full resurgence, a technique considered too barbaric for civilized nations since the French Revolution.

ISIS views itself as an army of the Apocalypse.

It seems the gathering of the "hordes of Gog," something we have been looking for for a long time, is now advancing rapidly with new arms and tentacles of ISIS forming continually (Nigeria and LIbya in recent reports), and with the psychotic lemmings of the West pouring in also to form this great, mindless or "hive mind" army.

Note: Egypt will NOT join the Arab nations allied with Persia, Rosh and Meshech in the rush to this battle (noticeably absent from the list in Ezekiel 38 & 39), being reserved as "king of the south" for Armageddon itself (Dan. 11).  Notice how Egypt has overthrown the Islamic Brotherhood and is now persecuting its followers.  As of this morning, 16 February, Egypt has begun, just overnight since the martyrdoms yesterday, fierce airstrikes against ISIS in Libya.  Jordan, as a nation, will also apparently restrain itself from any massive joining with the demon lord called ISIS.  Since, a few days back, the Jordanian pilot was executed by being burned alive in a cage, Jordan has been air bombing ISIS targets in Syria.  Jordan the children of Lot, Amon (Amman, Jordan) and Moab (and Esau, Edom in the south), for their reserve and relative brotherly charity toward Israel will even escape the invasion of Antichrist when it comes (Dan 11:41).  Egypt, Saudi Arabia and neighbors (Sheba and Dedan) will also stand back from ISIS and the hordes for the time being (Ezekiel 38:13).

Keep watch also for the destruction of Damascus which must occur before Armageddon (Isaiah 17:1 ff, Jeremiah 49: 23-27, Amos 1: 3-6).  
Hezbollah in Lebanon and nearby areas of Syria have Israel on high alert even now.  

Netanyahu has called to Jews in Europe to take cover in Israel since the assassinations in Denmark yesterday.

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15 February

Saints,

As I scan the network news before heading off to church in zero weather with a howling north wind, the world sure seems to be on an apocalyptic roller coaster.  Since yesterday, a mom, having just finished giving her teenage daughter a driving lesson on a big parking lot is gunned down by someone experiencing road rage at her.  Whew, we must watch for people about to pop in these psychotic days…and we must watch ourselves lest it "get to us" too.  Meanwhile, in Norway, another violent lone wolf jidhadi shoots up a free speech seminar, killing one but missing one of the cartoonists who has been lampooning "the prophet."  (Maybe if the whole western world did so en masse, it might distract the psychos or bring the matter on to a head?)  Shortly after, another sympathizer shoots up a synagogue in Norway, killing a guard.  Netanyahu advises Jews to leave Europe and get to Israel.

Weatherwise, Boston is yet again deluged with massive and seemingly apocalyptic snow and wind storms.  News media can barely seem to keep up, and the wording change to "extreme weather reports" seems very old yet or "yesterday" now when it is one huge natural event after another.

Pray God hide you and your loved ones from evil, and pray for all the saints, but also contrarily ask his help that we should be the light of the world and the city set on a hill in these days.  In one sense, it is as it has always been — all generations die off 100% (until the blessed Rapture arrives).  In spiritual vision, the whole earth is like a huge bowl continually overflowing with the deaths of human beings ever pouring over all around the rim.  Who will risk sharing the Gospel with those perishing?  We must.  Each and every believer, for we are called earnestly so to do with those around us who are heading closer to the edge in every passing moment.  Do not leave the job only for "the professionals" and the clergy.  "Do the work of an evangelist."  Share your Faith earnestly at all opportunities.  "Look," said Jesus, "the fields are white to the harvest.  Pray ye the Lord of the harvest that he will send laborers…"

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A savage media battle erupts in Israel as Netanyahu's election draws near.  What a brutal world where world leaders are described as "paranoics who need hospitalization."

Other recents news reports a whole team of media experts hired for past Obama campaigns has been sent to Israel to work against Netayahu's reelection efforts.

Yet other recent news finds adversaries psychoanalyzing Vladmir Putin as having Asperger's Syndrome.

When the Fifth Edition of of the DSM (the "bible" of the shrink profession, The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) was published last year, the editor of the Fourth Edition, no blushing rose of conservatism himself, resigned, saying the new edition made every human the victim of one mental disorder or another!   What a world!  What shall we do?  Go about life quietly tending our own business and looking to the Lord in everything.  This, of course, will also be labelled a mental disorder when convenient to one's pseudo-sophisticated adversaries, but it is still probably the best strategy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/10/world/netanyahu-throws-a-punch-in-israels-newspaper-war.html?emc=edit_th_20150210&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Netanyahu Throws a Punch in Israel’s Newspaper War

JERUSALEM — The gloves came off in Israel on Monday as a fierce newspaper war exploded into the country’s harsh election campaign.
The two most widely circulated papers, Yediot Aharonot and Israel Hayom, have been in a dogfight since Israel Hayom, a free paper backed by the American billionaire Sheldon Adelson, began publishing in 2007. Derided as a cheerleading mouthpiece for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the free paper has cut deeply into the formerly dominant readership and advertising revenue of Yediot Aharonot, which is critical of Mr. Netanyahu.

Now the prime minister himself has more than joined the fray. He posted a withering Facebook post on Monday accusing Yediot’s publisher of “an orchestrated and ridiculous campaign of slander” against him, his Likud Party and Mr. Adelson’s paper. Yediot’s leading columnist, Nahum Barnea, responded in a radio interview by calling Mr. Netanyahu a paranoiac who “needs hospitalization.” … …
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Be not deceived; God is not mocked.  Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap—
God deliver Mr. Williams if he be falsely accused, but if not, here is a case where we are reminded that neither the rich, nor the famous and acclaimed, nor the household names, and those who have a manufactured appearance of integrity and righteousness will escape the judgment of the Truth to which we are all subject—

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/10/business/media/under-fire-brian-williams-loses-lofty-spot-on-a-trustworthiness-scale.html?emc=edit_th_20150210&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Under Fire, Brian Williams Loses Lofty Spot on a Trustworthiness Scale

If Brian Williams’s future as the anchor of “NBC Nightly News” rests on his trustworthiness and ratings, new research delivered some sobering news on Monday.
Before Mr. Williams apologized for exaggerating an account of a forced helicopter landing during the Iraq war, he ranked as the 23rd-most-trusted person in the country — on par with Denzel Washington, Warren E. Buffett and Robin Roberts. On Monday, he ranked as No. 835. … ...

(follow up, 11 Feb:  Williams sidelined for 6 months without pay by NBC)
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The same paranoia evinced by the citizens of Orwell's 1984 is now yours free with recent model digital TVs—

Need to have a private conversation these days?  Take the batteries our of your cell phone and leave any other mobile devices behind, exit your house where any possible number of circuits--TV, desktop computer, "internet of things" sensors, etc. are capable of forwarding conversation; be sure you are not near eavesdropping streetlight poles or under surveillance if in the city and keep your voice low and your face turned away from surveillance angles.  Great life, eh? 
 
I expect God to be watching me and thank him constantly for his mercy for my "inherited" transgressional nature, but the devil and his puppet—the Beast and its increasingly ubiquitous AI pseudo-omnipresence, NOT SO MUCH!  Looking forward to them going to hell--or back to melted down silicon--where they belong, instead of profiling me and condemning me for every itch, scratch, and grumpy moment from their supposedly superior lifeform self-assigned status!  Amen.

http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/February10/103.html#8cBoDAo3IH2QI9XU.99

Today In Creepy Privacy Policies, Samsung’s Eavesdropping TV

As the number of connected devices — aka the Internet of Things, aka the sensornet — proliferates so too does the number of devices leaning on voice recognition technology as an interface to allow for hands free control.  Last fall, for instance, Amazon revealed a connected speaker with a Siri-style assistant that can perform tasks like adding items to your ecommerce shopping basket on command. Internet connected ‘smart TVs’ which let couch-potatoes channel-hop by talking at their screen, rather than mashing the buttons of a physical remote control are even more common — despite dubious utility to the user. The clear consumer electronics trajectory is for more devices with embedded ears that can hear what their owners are saying. And, behind those ears, the server-side brains to data-mine our conversations for advertising intelligence.  The potential privacy intrusion of voice-activated services is massive. Samsung, which makes a series of Internet connected TVs, has a supplementary privacy policy covering its Smart TVs which includes the following section on voice recognition:  You can control your SmartTV, and use many of its features, with voice commands. If you enable Voice Recognition, you can interact with your Smart TV using your voice. To provide you the Voice Recognition feature, some voice commands may be transmitted (along with information about your device, including device identifiers) to a third-party service that converts speech to text or to the extent necessary to provide the Voice Recognition features to you. 
In addition, Samsung may collect and your device may capture voice commands and associated texts so that we can provide you with Voice Recognition features and evaluate and improve the features. Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party through your use of Voice Recognition.  As an Electronic Frontier Foundation activist pointed out earlier today, via Twitter, the concept of a TV screen that might be snooping on your private conversations — and thus broadcasting a chilling effect by inculcating self-censorship within its viewers — is straight out of George Orwell’s 1984:  The Samsung example is just the latest privacy-related concern involving smart TVs — many of which routinely require users to agree to having their viewing data sent back to the TV maker and shared by them with advertisers and others simply in order for them to gain access to the service. But the clarity of wording in Samsung’s privacy policy is impressive — given it amounts to a warning not to talk about private stuff in front of your telescreen because multiple unknown entities can listen in.  Creepy, tech-fueled privacy intrusions are rarely detailed as clearly as that. So full marks to Samsung for clarity. Albeit, as per usual, these warnings are contained within the most overlooked type of document on the Internet so will easily go unnoticed by the average user.  If the SmartTV owner does realize how ridiculous this is, Samsung does at least allow them to disable the eavesdropping voice recognition ‘feature’, and instead use a more limited set of predefined ‘voice commands’ — and in that instance says it does not harvest their spoken words.  However it will still gather usage info and any other text-based inputs for data mining purposes, as it also notes further down in the policy. So an entire opt-out of being tracked is not part of this very expensive package.  If you do not enable Voice Recognition, you will not be able to use interactive voice recognition features, although you may be able to control your TV using certain predefined voice commands. While Samsung will not collect your spoken word, Samsung may still collect associated texts and other usage data so that we can evaluate the performance of the feature and improve it.  You may disable Voice Recognition data collection at any time by visiting the “settings” menu. However, this may prevent you from using all of the Voice Recognition features.   An Internet connected TV that eavesdrops on the stuff you say when you’re sitting on the sofa is just the latest overreaching privacy intrusion to come to light in the tech sphere.  It’s unlikely to be the worst, and sure won’t be the last. But as more of these egregious, overreaching policies come to light — and as more of the objects with which we are surrounded in our homes, cars and lives are networked up and brought online, and thus given (at very least) the technical ability to snoop on us — there is a growing imperative to clean up the darker corners of the digital commerce sphere. To set some boundaries on what is and is not acceptable. Or risk growing consumer mistrust.  When all the objects in your home have networked ears that are fine-tuned for commercial intelligence gathering, where will you go to talk about “personal” or “sensitive” stuff?

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Around liberal enclaves, college towns, etc., one often sees this bumper sticker or fence art.  Didn't go down too well in France where jihadis took offence.   Apparently, they don't want to "CO-EXIST"? —

See photo here of typical and familiar street art:

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/02/french-artists-calls-for-peace-end-in-brutal-beating-by-local-muslims/
French Artist’s Calls For Peace End in Brutal Beating By Local Muslims
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Fringe Fans—  ("apocalypse humor / drama" series of high repute among its ardent fans, now on Netflix)
"Massive Dynamics"  of Boston in Fringe has a real counterpart, the real Boston Dynamics, and they have a new doggy robot puppy:  

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2946682/Here-Spot-Google-reveals-smaller-version-robo-dog-walk-trot-climb-steps-KICKED.html

Brings a whole new level of meaning to kicking the dog!

Imagine this thing coming at you, all wrapped in some battlefield demonic doggy costume so as to scare you into subjection, and if not, to spray you with napalm or machine gun fire or, maybe, with personnel sized rockets!  I am SOOOO glad the Lord is coming back for such an hour as this!
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Transgendering, the presently flowering form of Transhumanism, and the collapse of gendered humanity as we know it—
A case in point, Bryn Mawr, a renowned woman's college, will now accept men changing to women, but because it is a "woman's college" will not accept women changing to men?!

http://freebeacon.com/issues/bryn-mawr-changes-admission-guidelines-to-accept-transwomen/

Bryn Mawr Changes Admission Guidelines To Accept Transwomen
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Former and potentially future Clinton Chief of Staff and senior Obama advisor "wants to believe" and quotes X-Files' chief character, Fox Muldur, "The Truth is Out There."  For a serious biblical examination of the phenomenon read Tom Horn's Exovaticana.   Said Jesus,  "There shall be signs in the heavens…so as to… "cause men's heart to fail for fear at the things coming upon the earth."

http://news.yahoo.com/outgoing-obama-adviser-john-podesta-s-biggest-regret-of-2014--keeping-america-in-the-dark-about-ufos-234149498.html
Obama adviser John Podesta's biggest regret: Keeping America in dark about UFOs
Outgoing senior Obama adviser John Podesta reflected on his latest White House stint Friday, listing his favorite moments and biggest regrets from the past year. Chief among them: depriving the American people of the truth about UFOs. … …
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Just from reading the Bible and its prophecies of the time of the End of the Age and projecting and meditating on the propaganda Antichrist will put forward, I have been predicting an artificial "eternal life" for many years now.  Every day the promise comes closer between cyborg "enhancement" of humans and genetic technology--eugenics--the carrot of "eternal life" is being held out to the elite, and secular geniuses like Kurzweil are heavily invested as well as are many "transhumanists" and "spiritual progressives."  What they don't see is the torment of living on and on in a sin-sick and evil world without a cure for that evil, and some of them may well end up in life extension programs that will be a living hell…maybe not even able to tell by the end whether they are yet in the real and final hell yet.  Horrible.  God lowered man's lifetime from nearly 1000 years to 120 and then to 70 for a reason…mercy!  Let the redeemed be redeemed and say so!  (see Psalm 107), but why live to 500, to be ever tormented by the wickedness of this world, becoming ever more wicked in response to it, and then still dying, all the more horribly, at the end? No matter now much life extension, mortality (death!) hangs over humanity.  Only the Savior can give the real Eternal LIfe!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11413041/How-Silicon-Valley-is-trying-to-cure-ageing.html
How Silicon Valley is trying to cure ageing
Death has always been considered one of life's only real certainties, but now some of the world's top scientists are challenging the assumption

Humanity has long been in search of the mythical Fountain of Youth, from Alexander the Great to knights of the Crusades.
But now Silicon Valley scientists believe they are on the cusp of discovering the cause of ageing, which will help them achieve the unthinkable: find a cure.
Earlier this year, doctor and investor Joon Yun launched the Palo Alto Longevity Prize, offering $1 million (£650,000) to anyone who could “hack the code of life” and come up with a way to keep us young.
“It’s always been said that there’s two certainties in life: death and taxation, but death isn’t looking so certain anymore,” says Stuart Kim, one of 50 world-class advisers on the prize board and a professor in Developmental Biology and Genetics at Stanford University.
He believes ageing is simply a medical problem for which a solution can be found. … …

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8 February      —     for more, ntfellowship.net

Saints,

In the days that are upon us, anything that is NOT a mindless "inclusivity/diversity"  (in which "everything goes" EXCEPT Christian Faith) IS BECOMING A CRIME OR A "THOUGHT CRIME" OR "HATE CRIME."  You can worship Thor, create ungendered or mixed gendered post humans in laboratory wombs, have your teeth filed to fangs and have horns implanted on your forehead, or have yourself or your "wife" 's brain cloned and downloaded into an android avatar;  you just can't worship Jesus Christ or declare him the Maker of Heaven and Earth and the Redeemer of mankind who stands knocking at the door of every human heart, offering solace and salvation to whosoever will.  Yet, this is the one thing we must do to share eternal life and enjoy the blessings of Heaven.  And, in the midst of the Infernal (fiery) Madness that is descending/ascending on the planet, we who believe must ever renew our zeal, calling, and purpose to pull other human souls out of this terrible fire that consumes the planet.  Let us know and then live for the Lord Jesus with all of our hearts, minds, souls, and strength, calling on his Comforter to help us in our tiny, frightened, weak states-of-being to yet "do exploits" of salvation.  "Come, Lord Jesus!"   "Preach the Word;  be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.  For the time will come (is come!) when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;  And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables… (2 Tim. 4:2-4)

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The Christian-era Norse folk, upon being evangelized, converted for a reason:  they saw a great Light and that Light was Christ.  Here we see the idiots of the last days of the final apostasy going back to Thor and the gang.  Except they repent, many will obtain to the demonic darkness and oppression and  possession they seek...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/02/iceland-temple-norse-gods-1000-years
Iceland to build first temple to Norse gods since Viking age
A modern version of Norse paganism has been gaining popularity in recent years as followers see the stories as metaphors for life not worship of the gods…
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Said Solomon, "There is nothing new under the sun."  These are the doctrines of the Nephilim, and of their fallen angel fathers, surfacing again.  If less than 3 DNA strains are involved, an empty, DNA-less egg only involved as the third contributor, then perhaps God will allow a soul to be formed in his will, but if this is a Nephilim-produced "hybrid soul" then it will not be truly human and able to be saved, but will rather advance into a cynical, human-hating, proud, raging devil in a partly human and human-appearing body.  The End of the Age draws on: "As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man," Matthew 24,  "And the whole earth was filled with violence," Genesis 3.
BUT — Excerpt from article below:  "It results in babies with 0.1% of their DNA from the second woman and is a permanent change that would be passed down through the generations."   and so, "...all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth."  Gen. 3
via Matt Drudge—
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-31069173
MPs say yes to three-person babies
MPs have voted in favour of the creation of babies with DNA from two women and one man, in an historic move.
The UK is now set to become the first country to introduce laws to allow the creation of babies from three people.
In a free vote in the Commons, 382 MPs were in favour and 128 against the technique that stops genetic diseases being passed from mother to child.
During the debate, ministers said the technique was "light at the end of a dark tunnel" for families.
A further vote is required in the House of Lords. It everything goes ahead then the first such baby could be born next year.
Proponents said the backing was "good news for progressive medicine" but critics say they will continue to fight against the technique that they say raises too many ethical and safety concerns.
Estimates suggest 150 three-person babies could be born each year.
Prime Minister David Cameron said: "We're not playing god here, we're just making sure that two parents who want a healthy baby can have one." … ...
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How to actually look like a demon too:  skin stretching, iris dyeing, sub-dermal implants (horns, etc.)…next gen beyond tatts…
Watch the video—
Human appearance modifications —
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31070333
Tattoos and other types of 'body modification' explained
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Ok, knowledge is moving at exponential rates of increase like the prophet Daniel divinely understated (12:4), but just when I "get used to that," quantum breakthroughs occur, and now "a man turned woman," also the founder of Sirius Radio, named for the "Dogstar" Sirius, a most important star to occultists and named as the home of both Lucifer and Isis, blends together his transhumanist technologies, mixed with LGBT post-gender humanity, and clones "his" "wife's" brain and installs it in an AI robot device.
Are we awake yet?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-02-04/see-future-of-artificial-intelligence-in-mind-clone-robot
via Drudge
Mind Clones? —
See Future of Artificial Intelligence in Mind Clone Robot
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Tales of The End? —
Transhumanism as a new norm of business in the near future?
http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/the-workplace-of-2040-mind-control-holograms-and-biohacking-are-the-future-of-business/story-fnkgbb6w-1227209479412
The workplace of 2040: Mind control, holograms and biohacking are the future of business

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The President gets into some trouble blasting the Crusades in his speech to the National Prayer Breakfast —
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/07/us/obama-trying-to-add-context-to-speech-faces-backlash-over-crusades.html?emc=edit_th_20150207&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Obama, Trying to Add Context to Speech, Faces Backlash Over ‘Crusades’
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR  FEB. 6, 2015
excerpts:  
...But the conversation quickly moved beyond the usual suspects. Many of the commentators on Friday came to the defense of the Crusades, arguing that the brutal sweeps through Europe were a reaction to previous Muslim advances.

Mr. Asbridge, who has written a series of histories of the period, said that view of the Crusades is held by relatively few historians. Most believe, he said, that the Christian Crusades were attempts to reclaim sacred territories, rather than reaction to Muslim actions more than 450 years earlier.

“I don’t necessarily have a problem with President Obama attempting to remind people that there is a history of violence by Christians,” he said. “But we have to be very careful about judging behavior in medieval times by current standards.”

Deborah E. Lipstadt, a professor of modern Jewish history at Emory University, said the president’s remarks seemed to be an attempt to avoid alienating Muslims by blaming their religion for groups like ISIS.  She said the remarks at the prayer breakfast will rightly bolster critics who insist that Mr. Obama should simply say that the United States is at war with Islam.

“He has bent over backwards to try to separate this from Islam,” Ms. Lipstadt said. “Sometimes people try to keep an open mind. And when you have too open a mind, your brains can fall out.” … …

“So the president believes that when we fall short of that, we need to be honest with ourselves and look inward and hold ourselves accountable,” Mr. Schultz said. “What I think the president was trying to say is, over the course of human history, there are times where extremists pervert their own religion to justify violence.”

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1 February  /   for more, visit ntfellowship.net

Saints,

NEVER,  EVER NEGLECT TO PRAY…and raise your eyes to ever wider scopes of prayer.  Yes, pray for your loved ones and those put directly in your charge, but be sensitive to the spirit of prayer which is the Holy Spirit.  I prayed earnestly for this young woman to live when she was at the point of death.  I had only heard of her through the news stories.  Was it my prayers that contributed through God's hearing to her recovery?  We could certainly pooh-pooh that as there were likely scores of others, especially her family, her religious society, etc. that were praying also.  But, what a thrill it is, knowing that I too prayed, to see her raised up to life again, and may she quickly recall to give thanks to God and know him through this mortal test she has been through.

The Lord has been speaking to me of late to be quick to pray when I hear of need, whoever it is, however far away they are, however little I may know them otherwise or will ever hear of them again, or ever be recognized for having prayed by anyone else but God.  That is good enough!  Through this recognition, God has been moving upon my spiritual sense of empathy to pray for the little infant set on fire by her mother and left in the middle of the street, and for other such terrors befalling people, here and there, one at time, or in great social tragedies like Syria.

We must try to realize the power we have through going to the Throne of Grace in prayer.  In WW2, Rees Howell in Wales, raised up a "prayer college" to address the needs of the War, and it ended up becoming a spiritual "situation room" that helped end the war with the Allied victory.  Want power with God?  PRAY WITHOUT CEASING.  (And how rewarding it is to see someone in a distant land for whom you have prayed be lifted up to life by it.  As for the little abandoned girl child, she is alive but with second and third degree burns all over her body.  My prayer is that God will heal her, comfort her for being so terribly unwanted, and raise her up to be a tried comforter and spiritual servant to others who suffer similarly.

http://www.scotsman.com/news/health/ebola-nurse-pauline-cafferkey-happy-to-be-alive-1-3670222
Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey ‘happy to be alive’
(lead):
PAULINE Cafferkey, the Scottish nurse who faced a fight for her life after contracting the deadly Ebola virus while working for a charity in Sierra Leone, was discharged from hospital yesterday after making a full recovery.
In an exclusive interview with Scotland on Sunday before she left the Royal Free Hospital in London, Cafferkey admitted that at her lowest point she believed she would die and told her doctors: “That’s it. I’ve had enough. I can’t carry on any more.”… ...
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Nothing like Good News!  And Thanks be to God for it!
"Man proposes; God disposes." (?)  While it may be that the people themselves had to quickly learn techniques and methods for containing the outbreak of the Ebola Plague, it is noteworthy that no one who does not acknowledge God knows why the deadly plague has suddenly eased.  God still speaks to the nations and will be heard when He wishes.  In like manner, he punished David with a plague upon Israel until He had made the point he wished to make, and then the plague immediately abated.  PRAISE TO THE MERCY OF ALMIGHTY GOD!!!  (And note the photo in the piece where the people say, "Thanks be to God!" for his mercy.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/world/as-ebola-ebbs-in-africa-focus-turns-from-death-to-life.html?emc=edit_th_20150201&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
As Ebola Ebbs in Africa, Focus Turns From Death to Life
(excerpts):
MONROVIA, Liberia — Life is edging back to normal after the deadliest Ebola outbreak in history. …
…Experts are trying to understand how the disease, which has defied the ominous predictions of the world’s top infectious disease researchers, appears to be extinguishing itself with surprising swiftness. … …
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From a man deeply involved in digital realities, comes a stark and very insightful assessment of where many in our world spend much if not all their time…increasingly entangled in layers of alternate realities.  As users enter further and further into games that lead them into emotional, mental, psychological, and even physical reactions in dark worlds of intrigue, terror, monstrosity and bloody and savage murder and rapine behavior, is it going too far to wonder if "Tech" will lead/has lead/is leading them into what I would call mass demonic possession?  The Matrix isn't Heaven, baby, and it might just be a doorway to Hell.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/26/business/media/unease-for-what-microsofts-hololens-will-mean-for-our-screen-obsessed-lives.html?_r=0
Unease for What Microsoft’s HoloLens Will Mean for Our Screen-Obsessed Lives
a few excerpts —
...But something about Microsoft’s new technology creeps me out, and it probably has less to do with the threat of holograms populating our everyday lives and more to do with something I’ve been watching on a different screen.
“Black Mirror” is a three-season, seven-part anthology series, which first appeared in 2011 on Channel 4 in Britain and recently became available on Netflix, eliciting a lot of provocative chatter stateside. The show shares DNA with “The Twilight Zone,” but is very much about the present future we are living through.
Created by Charlie Brooker, a former video game reviewer, a writer for The Guardian and the host of his own television show, the series uses technology as a way to reflect on who we are becoming in the increasingly screen-infested environments we move through. The black mirror of the title refers to the blank screens that live on our walls, on our desks and in our pockets. … …
...I am not some sad-eyed romantic for a pretechnological age. I have five tablets, four remotes on my night stand and three screens in my backpack. Our lives have been enriched by the Internet and all the devices that allow us to play there, at least to a point.
But “Black Mirror” asks fundamental questions about where this is all headed, not by creating an improbable dystopian future, but by hitting us right where we live. Its world is just one click away from the one in front of us. … …
…In one of the more heart-rending episodes, a woman can’t resist reconstructing and tragically falling for an avatar of her deceased partner. … …
…In all of the episodes, the act of watching — not doing — implicates the viewer. … …
…In 2013, the movie “Her” made quite a splash by positing how a man, played by Joaquin Phoenix, could fall in love with an operating system. Now Annapurna Pictures, the production company that made the film, is forming a division to create virtual reality content. In this case, life imitates, well, an imitation of life. … …
What is it about our current reality that is so insufficient that we feel compelled to augment or improve it? I understand why people bury themselves in their phones on elevator rides, on subways and in the queue for coffee, but it has gotten to the point where even our distractions require distractions. No media viewing experience seems complete without a second screen, where we can yammer with our friends on social media or in instant messages about what we are watching.
Every form of media is now companion media, none meriting a single, acute focus. We are either the most bored people in the history of our species or the ubiquity of distractions has made us act that way. As Mr. Brooker said in a column he wrote for The Guardian several years ago, “If technology is a drug — and it does feel like a drug — then what, precisely, are the side effects?”
The individual need for placation and augmentation plays out in ways big and small. Because my daughters are grown, I used to worry about my friend’s younger children becoming bored when they stopped by to visit. Not anymore. The children are made to look up long enough to greet me, then they resume interacting with the screens in their hands.
And it’s not just those raised on screens who are prone to distraction. As adults, we make “friends” who are not actually friends, develop “followers” composed of people who would not follow us out of a room, and “like” things whether we really like them or not. We no longer even have to come up with a good line at a bar to meet someone. We already know he or she swiped right after seeing us on Tinder, so the social risk is low. … …
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A follow-up on recent pieces (25 January NTF blog update) about islamic apocalyptic expectations upon the death of King Abdullah.  It unfolds quickly —
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/new-saudi-king-ascends-to-the-throne-as-terrorism-threat-grows/2015/01/25/34c1eb60-9c3b-11e4-86a3-1b56f64925f6_story.html
New Saudi king ascends to the throne as terrorism threat grows
Excerpts:  Except for Syria and Iraq, where the Islamic State controls territory, no country is more directly threatened by Islamist militants than Saudi Arabia, which the extremists regard as a traitor to Islam for Riyadh’s close associations with the United States and the West. …
No king of Saudi Arabia has ascended to the throne amid more regional turmoil than King Salman, who was crowned Friday upon the death of his brother King Abdullah.
With war raging in Syria and tensions with Iran increasing, Saudi Arabia is threatened by a disintegration of the national government in Yemen across its southern border and by the Islamic State militants who are dominating the Iraqi desert just over its northern border.
Salman indirectly mentioned the threat of rising violence and regional instability on Friday in his first speech to the Saudi people, saying that “the Arab and Islamic nation is in dire need today to be united and maintain solidarity.”
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I HAVE FOUND THE ARK OF THE COVENANT!  It has been hiding in plain sight for 1900+ years!  There it is right in the Book of Revelation, chapter 11, verse 19:  "And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament…"

Here another watcher and adventurer and seeker, another Indiana Jones, is looking for the Ark on the Earth and in Jerusalem.  We assume so easily that the earthly Ark cannot be what is mentioned in chapter 19, but we do not have reason to know that.  God himself could have, as well and as easily, "beamed up" the Ark when the Babylonians invaded the Temple in 586.  It is and was after all a spiritual instrument made manifest, so WHY NOT?  How many things in Scripture which have before been long assumed as symbolic, spiritual, or aethereal have ultimately turned out also to be literal and physical too as well as spiritual?

http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/January27/273.html
Meet The “Jewish Indiana Jones” Searching For The Lost Ark Of The Covenant

The Ark of the Covenant has inspired a whole sector of humanity to chase after one of the world’s most treasured – and missing – items. In what is known today as the Lost Ark, the search continues for Judaism’s most holy and significant artifact of religious and historical importance.
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Hey! Mister, leave my brain alone!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2927410/The-real-life-Matrix-MIT-researchers-reveal-interface-allow-computer-plug-brain.html
The real-life Matrix: MIT researchers reveal interface that can allow a computer to plug into the brain 

It has been the holy grail of science fiction - an interface that allows us to plug our brain into a computer.
Now, researchers at MIT have revealed new fibres less than a width of a hair that could make it a reality.
They say their system that could deliver optical signals and drugs directly into the brain, along with electrical readouts to continuously monitor the effects of the various inputs.

'We're building neural interfaces that will interact with tissues in a more organic way than devices that have been used previously,' said MIT's Polina Anikeeva, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering.
The human brain's complexity makes it extremely challenging to study not only because of its sheer size, but also because of the variety of signaling methods it uses simultaneously.
Conventional neural probes are designed to record a single type of signaling, limiting the information that can be derived from the brain at any point in time. 
Now researchers at MIT may have found a way to change that.
By producing complex fibers that could be less than the width of a hair, they have created a system that could deliver optical signals and drugs directly into the brain, along with simultaneous electrical readout to continuously monitor the effects of the various inputs. … …
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Ezekiel's hook digging deeper into the jaw of Rosh (38:4)?  Alienation between Russia and the West grows on all fronts, including cultural and artistic…

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/world/europe/leviathan-arussian-movie-gets-applause-in-hollywood-but-scorn-at-home.html?emc=edit_th_20150128&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Russian Movie ‘Leviathan’ Gets Applause in Hollywood but Scorn at Home
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Christianity becoming a crime, starting with our children? —

http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/January28/285.html
UK Christian School Shut Down For Having ‘Discriminatory Views’ Toward Other Faiths

A Christian school in the UK is being shut down and another under scrutiny after investigators quizzed random students and found them to have “discriminatory views” toward others.

According to reports, last November, members of the Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED) visited Durham Free School for an inspection, and declared the educational institution to be substandard.

“Leaders are failing to prepare students for life in modern Britain,” said lead inspector Joan Hewitt. “Some students hold discriminatory views of other people who have different faiths, values or beliefs from themselves.”

One of the inspectors had reportedly asked one 12-year-old boy what a Muslim is, and the child responded by making references to terrorist activity. OFSTED saw this as being problematic.

As a result of the findings, Education Secretary Nicky Morgan announced that she was cutting funding to the school, which is now expected to shut down.

Grindon Hall Christian School had also been visited by OFSTED, and in addition to questioning children about their knowledge of other religions, investigators quizzed the youth about sexuality. Based on the children’s answers, the school was labeled as being intolerant and placed under further scrutiny.

“Several parents complained to me about what they saw as intrusive and deeply personal questioning of their children in the group sessions,” wrote Principal Chris Gray in a complaint to the organization. “It has been reported back to me that children aged 6- 9 were asked whether they knew anything about Diwali and whether they were familiar with the Torah.”

“In addition, I have also heard reports of primary school children being asked if they knew of any boys or girls who thought they were in the ‘wrong body,’” he continued. “Another parent has complained to me in writing that her ten year old daughter was asked if she knew what lesbians did. Pupils were embarrassed and surprised to be asked questions about sexuality.”

Gray said that he thought perhaps the school was being purposefully targeted because it is Christian.

“It is now well known that the manner in which inspectors questioned our pupils in November was hostile, inappropriate and raises serious safeguarding issues,” he stated. “OFSTED’s approach to us was negative at every stage, as if the data collected had to fit a predetermined outcome.”

Simon Calvert of the Christian Institute made similar statements in light of the report out of Durham Free School and Grindon Hall Christian School.

“The government’s British values regime is twisting OFSTED’s priorities out of all proportion,” he commented to reporters. “Inspectors are asking all kinds of invasive questions and then issuing reports that the parents whose children attend the school don’t recognize.”

But OFSTED denies any wrongdoing in the matter, stating that it interviewed its investigators and found no impropriety.

“To date, we have found no evidence to indicate that inspectors failed to act with care and sensitivity and to ask age-appropriate questions when they spoke to pupils, as they are trained to do,” it said in a statement. “In reaching their conclusions about the effectiveness of the school’s work inspectors considered a wide range of evidence. Discussions with students formed just a part of the evidence.”

However, according to the BBC, Osfted also criticized the schools for not addressing what it called “prejudice-based bullying” and students who speak negatively about homosexuality and those of other faiths.

Durham Free School and Grindon Hall Christian School continue to disagree with how they are being characterized by the government organization. Students and supporters of Durham Free School have been launching various “save our school” efforts as they believe it is rather the government that is being discriminatory in its actions.

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As a Christian who considers that God's New Testament Call is that all believers consider themselves "full-time" disciples and ministers of Christ and of God, of the Word and the Spirit and of testimony — a "priesthood of all believers," I believe there is some worthy thinking here.

I commend the thinking of this piece for those who must also interface with the far more common "clergy/laity model," though I must see this "establishment model" as often a work of the flesh or a compromise with the flesh.  I do believe that some may be set apart to do nothing but labor in the Word, and, consequently, I am willing to interface to some degree with traditional models of clergy/laity, but really they are nearly always comprised by religious flesh exalting itself either in the clergy or in the laity or both.  I agree, far more servants of the Lord should be willing to earn their bread by secular labor, especially since that is what "the laity" are "supposed to do" anyway, when biblically, they are as much a part of the priesthood of all believers as clergy.  So, let "the clergy" go to work too, at least to some reasonable degree.  There are some new dangers in one given pastoral ability in the Word to go and work in the secular world, but there are "religious establishment" dangers in only living in "the ivory tower," too…not only for themselves but for the whole church they serve…clergy becomes exalted and glorified, laity become lazy and ineffectual, expecting to be spoon-fed and never grow up in the Word or service but only acting as kind of busy "club members" at best.

I admit I don't understand point 7;  it may be merely a grammatical flaw in the writer's logic or in my reading of it.

http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/January30/305.html#s1L7KizdroBJZ5Eh.99
Eight Reasons Why Some Full-time Pastors and Staff Should Go Bivocational
Some of you reading this post may need to get a new job. At least you may need to get an additional job.  Without a doubt, many churches will always need full-time vocational pastors and church staff. I am not suggesting all of you, even the majority of you, should go bivocational. But I do believe more of you should consider this path. Allow me to offer eight reasons why:
1. A secular or marketplace job will put you in the middle of culture on a regular basis. Opportunities to develop relationships with non-believers will be greater. Opportunities to minister to people who would not set foot in a church will be greater as well.
2. Full-time pastors and church staff often get missionally stale in their “holy huddles.” Perhaps the best way to break out of that Christian-only huddle is to be employed in a secular position.
3. Smaller churches are increasingly unable to afford full-time pastors or staff. I have written on this site a few times about the flow of people from smaller churches to larger churches. As resources depart from the smaller churches, so do their ability to pay a pastor or staff person full-time. But these churches still need pastors.
4. The digital world is offering more opportunities for flexible secular jobs than ever. I recently spoke to an IT professional who is also a pastor of a church. He spends about 25 hours a week in his IT job. He has declined good full-time opportunities in secular jobs because he wants to stay a tentmaker. I spoke to another staff person of a church who is an entrepreneur in the digital world. Those kinds of opportunities are growing every day.
5. More churches are moving toward multiple teaching/preaching pastors. What was once common in large churches is now becoming increasingly common in medium and small churches. Many of these teaching pastors are in churches that cannot afford a second full-time pastor.
6. More churches would like to expand staff, but don’t have the resources to do so. This issue is similar to #5 above, but here it refers to bivocational positions other than a lead pastor or teaching pastor. By the way, this approach allows church leaders to “raise up” people within their own churches—people they know and trust.
7. A bivocational pastor or church staff can have greater freedom than a person in a full-time role. One of the “secrets” of church life is that many pastors and church staff are hindered from leading because their jobs would be in jeopardy. That is an unpleasant but clear and present reality. If a pastor or staff person has a job with other income, he or she may feel the freedom to move forward without succumbing to such pressure.
8. A bivocational pastor or staff person has transferrable skills. A number of full-time church leaders have never worked outside of vocational ministry. They don’t understand the business and secular world. Bivocational ministers have secular skills they can use in their churches. They also have skills to support themselves if they find themselves no longer employed with their churches.
Bivocational ministry is a clear and definitive trend in church life. Some of the reasons for its growth are not that healthy. But many are. It is a great opportunity to make a greater difference in this culture in which we live. It is really a great opportunity to be a missionary on the field.
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Ready or Not?  Here it comes!
via Drudge—
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31042477
Office puts chips under staff's skin
Want to gain entry to your office, get on a bus, or perhaps buy a sandwich? We're all getting used to swiping a card to do all these things. But at Epicenter, a new hi-tech office block in Sweden, they are trying a different approach - a chip under the skin.
Felicio de Costa, whose company is one of the tenants, arrives at the front door and holds his hand against it to gain entry. Inside he does the same thing to get into the office space he rents, and he can also wave his hand to operate the photocopier.
That's all because he has a tiny RFID (radio-frequency identification) chip, about the size of a grain of rice, implanted in his hand. Soon, others among the 700 people expected to occupy the complex will also be offered the chance to be chipped. Along with access to doors and photocopiers, they're promised further services in the longer run, including the ability to pay in the cafe with a touch of a hand.
On the day of the building's official opening, the developer's chief executive was, himself, chipped live on stage. And I decided that if was to get to grips with this technology, I had to bite the bullet - and get chipped too. … ...
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All around the world,  this story reports that a Christian is now martyred for his or her faith every five minutes.  Surely, the Day of the Lord draws near.  In numbers, we are now way beyond the persecutions of the early church, the Coliseum, etc.   May God grant his people hiding places (Isa. 26:20) and for those who must be martyred great and speedy grace in overflowing abundance.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/raymond-ibrahim/a-thousand-churches-destroyed-in-nigeria/
A Thousand Churches Destroyed in Nigeria

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25 January    /    for more, visit ntfellowship.net

Saints,
Last blog update, I mentioned the strange coincidence of the people of the nations insisting on identifying and staying with the acronym of ISIS (Islamic State in Syria)  for the new so-called Islamic State even though world leaders and media have often tried to encourage the other acronym of ISIL (Islamic State in the Levant [MIddle East]).  I mentioned the odd coincidence this being the same as the name of the ancient Egyptian goddess, Isis, known for her terrible powers in the underworld and her association with Set and Satan and with "the dogstar," Sirius. 
More has been put into my hands since I spoke.  (Read Tom Horn's Forbidden Gates.)
Here below, see more on ISIS and its apocalyptic beliefs, also on the zeitgeist (time ghost, spirit of the Age) presently affecting Turkey, which is a principal seat of Gog of the land of Magog who will ally with Rosh and Meschech, the principal spirits of Russia and Moscow — home of the Muscovites or Meshechites — in the upcoming massive invasion of Israel.
This piece and the next one are direct forwards from prophecynewswatch.com, a service for which I am thankful.  Check them out.
http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/January19/192.html
Warning: Nations Turning 'Against Israel'
The nations of the world are turning against Israel. But that’s in accordance with ancient biblical prophecy, according to documentary filmmaker and New York Times bestselling author Joel Richardson.  “Satan is using men like puppets to effect his purposes, to thwart the plans of God,” Richardson said. “And so it’s not just in the radical Islamic community; it’s throughout Europe. The nations are turning against Israel. They said it would never happen again. The Bible said it would happen again before the return of Jesus.”  Richardson went on the radio show “Point of View” this week to discuss his blockbuster new documentary, “End Times Eyewitness,” produced by WND Films. His work shows how ancient biblical prophecies signaling the return of the Messiah are being fulfilled.  The movie also was just named as an official selection for the 2015 Christian Worldview Film Festival.  Richardson is the bestselling author of “The Islamic Antichrist” and the author of the soon-to-be-published “When a Jew Rules the World.”  One such prophecy Richardson discussed says that the nations will turn against Israel. Richardson told “Point of View” host Kerby Anderson it is clearly happening today, and the devil himself is behind it.  The Bible also speaks of an Antichrist who will rise up in the last days. Richardson said he believes the Antichrist will be a Muslim. In fact, the biblical description of the Antichrist closely resembles the Islamic Mahdi, who Muslims believe will come to rule the world before the Day of Judgment.  “When you look at the Islamic traditions concerning the Mahdi, he has many striking similarities to the biblical Antichrist,” Richardson said. “They actually teach that he will rule the world specifically from the Temple Mount, exactly as the Bible says the Antichrist will set up his seat, in the seat of God on the Temple Mount, proclaiming himself as God.”  Richardson interviewed global Christian leaders, pastors, theologians and missionaries for “End Times Eyewitness.” He also featured testimonies from some of the most prominent Islamic scholars in the world and leading Jewish thinkers, including:  Rabbi Yehuda Glick, the Temple activist shot in an assassination attempt;
Adnan Oktar, the bestselling author in the Muslim world and host of a big TV show in Turkey, who is promoting the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem. He states the Muslim messianic “Mahdi” figure is alive and well on planet Earth and that he is in communication with angels about his imminent appearance to the world; 
Sheik Ekrima Said Sabri, the son of the late and notorious grand mufti of Jerusalem, who explains the Islamic eschatological belief that Jesus will return to lead a caliphate and require Christians to convert to Islam.
Richardson said there are strong signs that the Antichrist will arise out of Turkey. He sees the current nationalistic frenzy in Turkey as evidence that the country may be living under the Antichrist already.  “I can’t even convey to Americans the level of nationalism and nationalistic fervor that is emerging out of Turkey,” Richardson said. “This desire to revive the glory days of the Ottoman Empire, and it’s mingled with Islamism.”  Muslims not only await the Mahdi but also believe Jesus Christ will return at the end of time. However, they believe he will come back as a Muslim who will tell Christians they’ve been following the wrong faith all along.  “And so in many ways, the Jesus of Islamic eschatology has many similarities to the biblical false prophet that’s referenced in Revelation 13,” Richardson said.  Richardson said Muslims take their prophecies very seriously.  “If we are simply tracking what’s going on in the world, especially the Islamic world, which is supremely relevant to the nation of Israel, then we need to recognize how much the Islamic world is being guided by these prophecies and really how apocalyptic the Muslim world has become,” he said.  According to Richardson, ISIS is fighting so passionately because it believes it is fulfilling Islamic end-times prophecy.  “ISIS is a thoroughly apocalyptically driven movement, and they believe these prophecies are guiding them,” Richardson said. “They believe they’re in the last days, and that’s often why they have such a make-it-or-break-it fervor. This is the final game to them.”  Richardson wants people to know that biblical prophecy is not all about misery. The Bible speaks of revivals in Egypt and Assyria, and Richardson said those may already be taking place.  Assyria is roughly the region that ISIS now controls. Richardson said the displaced peoples of that region are turning toward Christianity.  “From what I hear, there’s revivals breaking out in the refugee camps, because they’ve seen the true face of Islam,” he said. “And so despite all that ISIS is doing – and despite all that Satan is doing – the Lord raises up a standard as well.”  Richardson said he also saw the Lord beginning to move the people of Egypt.  “When I was there with the Egyptian church, they were just ecstatic despite the difficulties, despite the persecution, at the things that the Lord was doing,” he said. “Everybody, universally – I mean, they were happening that day that I was there. They said, ‘We have never seen Muslims coming to faith like we have the past month.’ And this was a year ago.”  Richardson made clear that prophecy is not just about the end times and the earth’s destruction. It can also help Christians share the gospel, the “good news.”  “We need to recognize that biblical prophecy is not all doom and gloom,” he said. “There’s strategic information that we can gain from it as we are trying to fulfill our primary mandate, which is proclamation of the gospel of the kingdom.”
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Unquestionably, Islam offers spiritually-sourced prophecies of the end times, but they are not of the Holy Spirit.  Yet, some coming things will be seen, supplied by other spirits.  It is likely their Mahdi is a partial vision of the Antichrist, but being deceived in foundational truth about God, they will receive him as a savior.  It may be that in Daniel's vision of the giant of empires with two legs that one leg may be apostate Christianity led by the Roman Whore of Babylon, and the other leg may be Islam, which has many of the forms of Abrahamic religion and a strong sense of Apocalypse, but without the knowledge of the True God, Yahweh, and his Eternal Son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 

In the above piece, we see many Syrians and many Egyptians turning to Jesus as they see the stark face of who Allah really is.  Praise the Lord Jesus for that.

*(POST SCRIPT:  SINCE THIS PIECE WAS PUT IN MY LINE UP FOR THIS WEEK, KING ABDULLAH HAS DIED AT 90 ON JANUARY 22, 2015.
See also, The Interesting LIfe and Times of King Abdullah): http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/23/world/middleeast/king-abdullah-who-nudged-saudi-arabia-forward-dies-at-90.html?emc=edit_th_20150123&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998  

Also, now that the king is dead, watch Bahrain.  Shi'ite prophecies, spiritually discerned but not of the Holy Spirit, expect war to rise that will see Iran invade Israel.  The Holy Spirit paints the true picture through Ezekiel, but they have been allowed to see enough to lead them to destruction:  http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/January22/226.html

 http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/January19/191.html#9l4jDXADDEbeTmCZ.99
Death Of Saudi King Could Set Stage For Islamic End Times Frenzy In 2015

In the last two years, media outlets have published conflicting reports on Saudi King Abdullah's health. Just last week, Saudi Arabia's Royal Court announced that the king has pneumonia and is temporarily using a breathing tube.   In fact, every time the king's health deteriorates, news agencies speculate on what will become of the Saudi dynasty and its leadership after the king's death. But some Shiite scholars think differently about the matter, believing that Abdullah's death will mark the beginning of a chain of great events that will shock the world.
Some Shiite scholars believe that the Saudi king's death will signal the resurrection of the Mahdi and the beginning of the end-times.  Abdullah, the 10th son of King Abdulaziz, was born Aug. 1, 1924. His mother, Fahda bint Asi Al Shuraim, was a member of the Al Rashid family, longtime rivals of the Al Saud family and a historic dynasty in the Arabian Peninsula that ruled the emirate of Jabal Shammar. Abdullah ascended to the throne in 2005 following the death of his half-brother King Fahd, though power was already in his hands.  According to Shiite hadiths, after the death of a king named Abdullah in the Hijaz — a western region of present-day Saudi Arabia — no successor to the throne would be accepted, and disagreements would escalate and persist until the rise of Imam Mahdi.  The Shiites believe that divine Imams are heirs to the political and religious Ummah, or Islamic nation. These 12 imams are successors to the Prophet Muhammad and to the head of the caliphate, with Mahdi being the final Imam who disappeared, or went into occultation. Mahdi will be revealed only in the end-times, along with Jesus, to deliver peace to the world.  According to the book "250 Signs Until the Appearance of Imam Mahdi," Prophet Muhammad said: “On doomsday, a man who is carrying the name of an animal ascends to the throne, after which a man named Abdullah comes to the power. Whoever informs me of his death, I will inform him of the rise [of Mahdi]. After Abdullah passes away, for several days and months, the government will appear.”  A seminary teacher based in Qom told Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity, "The animal-named man can be King Fahd because one meaning of Fahd’s [name] is rapacious animal and cheetah, which matches what Prophet Muhammad said."  The Bahar al-Anvar, a book of hadiths, quotes the sixth Shiite Imam Sadegh as saying: "When Abdullah dies, people will agree on no one, and this issue will be kept alive till the rise of Imam [Mahdi]. An age of a hundred-year reign comes to an end, and an age of a [kingdom lasting] a few days and months arrives."  The Shiite scholar in Qom said, "Currently, there is a possibility of a power struggle in Saudi Arabia, as King Abdullah has tried to make up the new post of deputy crown prince. Actually, with regard to [this], if Prince Salman becomes the king and Muqrin bin Abdulaziz is named the crown prince, the next deputy crown prince will be Mutaib bin Abdullah, so we can expect tensions between King Abdullah's sons and Salman's brothers to escalate after Abdullah passes away."  In 2012, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was named crown prince, and two years later, Muqrin bin Abdulaziz was introduced as deputy crown prince.  According to Al-Akhbar newspaper, past tradition dictated that the interior minister would be the most likely candidate for second deputy prime minister, and after that, the post of crown prince. But after upgrading the status of the National Guard, which is chaired by Mutaib bin Abdullah, and turning it into a ministry on par with the ministries of defense and interior, King Abdullah’s wing in the royal family is well-positioned to be a strong contender for the throne.  The Qom seminary teacher said that according to some hadiths, leaders in the Hijaz will hide news of the king's death for 40 days. Based on Abdullah's deteriorating health situation, this could have happened by now.  Some believe that the rise of terrorist groups in the Levant, along with their black flags, is another sign of Mahdi's resurrection.  The Nahj al-Balagh, a collection of the first Shiite Imam Ali's sayings, quotes the imam as saying: “When you witness black flags, don’t move, because their calls are void and null and you shouldn’t help them. Their heart is like iron fillings, and they don’t honor their promise. Their names and monikers are taken from the names of cities.”  The Qom-based scholar explained the quotation, “Black flags can suggest the Islamic State, which is killing hundreds of innocent people in the region with brutality, and [regarding people named after cities], I can mention Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi or Omar al-Chechen.”  He added, “Many in the seminary of Qom believe that the rise of Imam Mahdi is imminent. Even important figures in the seminary have expressed their hope for this event to happen and has called for our readiness to help him.”  “What’s happening in the region is very similar to what our Imams have predicted about preconditions for the rise of Imam Mahdi, so the moment of truth may have come.”  Historian Muhammad Hossein Rajabi Davani told an Iranian newspaper: “With respect to promises in Shiite hadiths, we are certainly experiencing doomsday, but doomsday has no time frame and it’s not known when it begins and ends.”  Yet, certain Shiite narratives and hadiths contradict the aforementioned narratives, suggesting different signs for the rise of Imam Mahdi. Today, however, many are speculating about the events that will follow the Saudi king's death, as well as its impact on global developments. With the death of King Abdullah, according to some analyses, stability in Riyadh may come to an end, setting off a chain of prophecies and the resurrection of Mahdi.
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Via Drudge—
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/01/19/police-radar-see-through-walls/22007615/
New police radars can 'see' inside homes

WASHINGTON — At least 50 U.S. law enforcement agencies have secretly equipped their officers with radar devices that allow them to effectively peer through the walls of houses to see whether anyone is inside, a practice raising new concerns about the extent of government surveillance.
Those agencies, including the FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service, began deploying the radar systems more than two years ago with little notice to the courts and no public disclosure of when or how they would be used. The technology raises legal and privacy issues because the U.S. Supreme Court has said officers generally cannot use high-tech sensors to tell them about the inside of a person's house without first obtaining a search warrant.
The radars work like finely tuned motion detectors, using radio waves to zero in on movements as slight as human breathing from a distance of more than 50 feet. They can detect whether anyone is inside of a house, where they are and whether they are moving. … ...

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Iran caught in clandestine war with Israel just above her northern border, with the collateral death of an Iranian general there—
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/20/world/middleeast/iran-says-one-of-its-generals-was-killed-in-israeli-strike-in-syria.html?emc=edit_th_20150120&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Iran Confirms Israeli Airstrike in Southern Syria Killed One of Its Generals
By ANNE BARNARD JAN. 19, 2015

BEIRUT, Lebanon —Iran confirmed Monday that one of its generals was among the dead in an Israeli airstrike that also killed several Hezbollah fighters in southern Syria on Sunday, an announcement that added to the tension and unpredictability in the region after the strike.
The attack placed Israel in a direct battlefield confrontation on Syrian soil with its longtime enemies Iran and Hezbollah. And it put pressure on Hezbollah to respond militarily, risking further escalation on the outskirts of Syria's chaotic civil war. … ...
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Hmmm, some watchers might consider this a classic case of alien abduction, DNA harvesting.  Around the world, many mysterious, unsolved animal slaughters have occurred where animals are left, sometimes whole herds, with precise, laser like surgical removal of various vital organs,  Another scenario could involve satanic ritual and sacrifice.
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/Dozens-of-Dogs-Possibly-Stolen-Out-of-Wise-County-289537771.html
Heartbreaking Mystery: 40 Dogs Disappear in Texas County
40 dogs reported missing in single county since November
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18 January      NTF blog update — for more, visit ntfellowship.net

Saints,

Much news in many areas this week as the Change of the Ages unfolds before us!

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First —
O! Lord Jesus, please receive these little ones!

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2015/01/17/woman-allegedly-sets-baby-on-fire-in-pemberton-new-jersey/
Woman Allegedly Sets Baby On Fire In Pemberton, New Jersey
January 17, 2015 8:49 AM
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A child kills herself in a foster home, asking forgiveness—"I'm sorry for what I do."

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2015/01/15/police-close-case-on-minnesota-6-year-olds-hanging-death/
Police: 6-Year-Old’s Hanging Death, Suicide Or Accident?
BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. (AP) — Police in Minnesota have closed their investigation of a 6-year-old girl’s hanging death by ruling out foul play, and said the evidence points to an accident or suicide.

Kendrea Johnson was found unconscious in a bedroom of her foster home in Brooklyn Park with a jump rope around her neck Dec. 27. There were no witnesses in the room.

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If Elton John wants to make Pope Francis a saint right now, what does that mean?  Is this pontiff indeed the sidekick to the messiah of the present citizens of Sodom (the False Prophet of the Antichrist)?  Is the "prophecy of the popes" (surf it) true?  No matter, the Scriptures are true.

http://www.showbiz411.com/2014/10/29/elton-john-tells-crowd-of-stars-and-donors-pope-francis-is-my-hero
Elton John Tells Crowd of Stars and Donors:  "Pope Francis is My Hero — Make him a saint already!"
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Update on my 4 January 'blog report; the NYTimes on this situation of religious persecution in America.  "Diversity" is only for those with the "politically correct" agenda!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/12/us/atlanta-mayor-kasim-reeds-dismissal-of-fire-chief-kelvin-cochran-ignites-religious-bias-debate.html?emc=edit_th_20150112&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Religious Bias Issues Debated After Atlanta Mayor’s Dismissal of Fire Chief
ATLANTA — Mayor Kasim Reed’s decision to dismiss his fire chief last week for giving co-workers copies of a Christian self-help book condemning homosexuality is fanning new kinds of legal and political flames in this city, where deeply held religious convictions exist in a kind of defining tension with a reputation for New South tolerance. … …
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Wild and crazy, Spy vs. Spy stuff—
Turkey and Russia play denial games about jihadi terrorism in France and the West.  Is a spirit moving that will draw forth the alliance between Rosh and Meschech and Gog and the land of Magog — Russia and Turkey and the shadow that has long lain in an arc to the north of Israel,  Ezekiel 38 and 39?  Will they empathize with the jihadis and provide a paternal cover for them?  Rosh will lead the hordes of Middle Eastern jihadis and other allies in that battle, declares Ezekiel, speaking for the Almighty.

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/8e9e4ac6-9a6e-11e4-8426-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3OfFumoPN

Russian and Turkish conspiracy theories swirl after Paris attacks

Barely 24 hours after Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey’s prime minister, joined millions marching in Paris to pay tribute to the 17 people killed by Islamist extremists, the country’s president struck a much more confrontational tone.
“The duplicity of the west is obvious,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at a press conference on Monday evening. “As Muslims we have never sided with terror or massacres: racism, hate speech, Islamophobia are behind these massacres.”

“The culprits are clear: French citizens undertook this massacre and Muslims were blamed for it,” he added.
Although political leaders in Turkey have repeatedly condemned the attacks on the Charlie Hebdo magazine, a Jewish supermarket and a policewoman, a parallel narrative has emerged in the country, with conspiracy theorists blaming the murders on foreign intelligence agencies rather than radical Islamists. … …

A similar phenomenon has occurred in Russia, which sent Sergei Lavrov, foreign minister, to Sunday’s march. … …

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from the NYT obits—

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/13/world/middleeast/joan-peters-journalist-who-wrote-on-israeli-palestinian-conflict-dies-at-78.html?emc=edit_th_20150113&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998

Joan Peters, Journalist Who Wrote on Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Dies at 78
Joan Peters, a journalist whose 1984 book, "From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine,"  drew accolades and also outrage by arguing that claims of a historical Palestinian homeland in Israel were invented, died on Jan. 5 at her home in Chicago. She was 78.
The cause was a cerebral embolism, her husband, William Caro, said.
In her first chapter, Ms. Peters wrote that she had originally intended “From Time Immemorial” to be “solely an investigation of the current plight of the ‘Arab refugees.’ ” But over seven years of research and writing, the books’ character changed completely.
Ms. Peters cited historical documents showing that Arab settlers had flocked to Palestine beginning in the late 1800s, often drawn there by economic opportunities in areas that were being developed by Jewish settlers; they had not, she wrote, inhabited the land “from time immemorial." … … ...
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More on "the internet of things"  (see blog update for 11 January, "FTC chairwoman notes concerns" ) — Forget about Big Brother, your toaster is watching you!

http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/January13/134.html

Experts Forecast The End of Privacy As We Know It

"Every object will become a spy," said Privacy.me's Neivert.

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Are you an "extremist"?  If you are reading this, some algorithm has already concluded that you are!  Only those who give up the right of independent thought will escape that moniker in the days breaking on us now—

(You may be thinking an extremist means a jihadi, but here in the US, it may mean you too, for even thinking that!)

http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/January13/131.html
Obama Declares War On ‘Extremism’ – Are You An ‘Extremist’ According To His Definition?

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After Abbas marches with world leaders in Paris after the jihadist massacre there, and with Netanyahu a few persons over in the row, is this what he now authorizes? ...Murder and slaughter by car, by brick and stick, knife and gun by any and all of the Palestinian populace?  Will Israel be forced to evict the Palestinians in the end?

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/joseph-klein/the-car-intifada/

via The Berean Call
January 14, 2015

"The Car Intifada"
Hamas leaders have urged their followers to use their cars and knives to spill as much Jewish blood as possible. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called on Palestinians to stop Jews from visiting the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the holiest site in Judaism as well as the location of the Islamic Al Aqsa complex, by using "all means" necessary.
 
The calls for violence by top Palestinian authorities have been enthusiastically answered by thugs in the streets. Six Israelis have been killed in terror attacks in the last thirty days - not by rockets this time, but by cars and knives wielded as murder weapons against Israeli soldiers and civilians alike, including women and children.
 
On October 22nd, a member of Hamas rammed his car into pedestrians in Jerusalem, killing a three-month-old girl. [A week prior to this], a Palestinian Jerusalem resident also turned his vehicle into a killing machine. An Israeli was killed and 13 others wounded when he aimed his vehicle at a group of people waiting at a light rail station. On the same day, yet another Palestinian ran into and wounded three Israeli soldiers near Jerusalem.
 
Leaders of Abbas's party, Fatah, and of Hamas, Abbas's partners in the so-called Palestinian "unity" government, shrugged their shoulders and said the attacks were perfectly "natural" or "normal" responses to Israeli policies. Indeed, they regard the killers as heroes.
 
As Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor said to reporters at UN headquarters in New York on November 10th: 

A person doesn't just wake up one day and decide to stab someone or ram his car into a crowd of people. These attacks are the results of years of anti-Israel indoctrination and the glorification of so-called martyrs. The incitement is everywhere. In schools, mosques and media, the Palestinian Authority is glorifying terrorists and celebrating attacks on Jews and Israelis.
 
Palestinians flocking to social media celebrated what they are calling the "Car Intifada." A video of a new song with that catchy title, for example, appears on the MoslimMan.Rok Facebook page. It has become a hit that has Palestinians happily singing along to lyrics such as "Run over the two-month-old baby - that is how we get them."
 
As reported by Palestinian Media Watch, another song popular on Palestinian social media included the words: 

Run [them] over, destroy, annihilate, blow them up; Don't let the Zionist live long... Today, the entire people demands a hero willing to fight with weapons. He began fighting with a car, running them over like rabbits.
 
Palestinian Media Watch also reported on a cartoon appearing on one of Fatah's official Facebook pages ("Fatah-The Main Page"), which carried the label "the run over organization" and urged people to "Hit the gas at 199 [km/h] for Al-Aqsa." On another Facebook page, "The National Liberation Movement - Fatah," a cartoon is posted showing a car going after three fleeing stereotyped Jews wearing hats with the Star of David.
 
The car may be the Palestinians' murder weapon of choice these days, but anything they can use to kill Jews, including women and children, will suffice. After all, they are just following the directions of their leaders. One of Hamas's leaders said just last week, during a television interview, that even a Palestinian "who owns nothing but his faith has a kitchen in his house in which he has a knife." It is his duty to "grab his knife and confront the Zionist enemy."
 
Is it any surprise that in separate knifing incidents on November 10th, an Israeli soldier and a woman were stabbed to death by Palestinians practicing their "faith"? The soldier was killed in Tel Aviv by a Palestinian illegally there to look for work. The woman was killed at a traffic circle in the West Bank after the Palestinian murderer had tried and failed to run over people waiting at a bus station.

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Here it comes!  The tactics to isolate and criminalize Israel before the world, and for defending herself against the Gaza attack by the Philistines (Palestinians)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/17/world/middleeast/international-criminal-court-israel-palestinian-war-crimes-inquiry.html?emc=edit_th_20150117&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Court to Look Into Possible Israeli War Crimes in Palestinian Territories
By RICK GLADSTONE and ISABEL KERSHNERJAN. 16, 201

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court opened a preliminary examination on Friday of possible war crimes committed in the Palestinian territories, the first formal step that could lead to charges against Israelis.
Palestinian officials welcomed the announcement of the inquiry by the court’s chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda  who described it as required procedure. Israeli officials reacted furiously, calling it an inflammatory action in the protracted dispute with the Palestinians over Israeli-occupied lands.
Israel's foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, said he would recommend that his government not cooperate with the inquiry. He also said Israel would seek to disband the court, which he described as an anti-Israel institution that “embodies hypocrisy and grants a tailwind to terrorism.”… ...
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First, Revelation 8:9:  "And the third part of the creatures that were in the sea died…", then…16:3, "and every living soul died in the sea."  

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/16/science/earth/study-raises-alarm-for-health-of-ocean-life.html?emc=edit_th_20150116&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0
Ocean Life Faces Mass Extinction, Broad Study Says
JAN. 15, 2015
A team of scientists, in a groundbreaking analysis of data from hundreds of sources, has concluded that humans are on the verge of causing unprecedented damage to the oceans and the animals living in them. … ...
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Hmmm…who to believe?  Others are saying polar sea ice is increasing?  Why I don't trust politics, right, left, or center.  "Figures don't lie, but liars can figure," the very stuff of which propaganda is made.  This we know, the Lord is coming back, in part, "to destroy them which destroy the Earth," in Revelation 11:18!

Breaking News Alert, NYTimes   January 16, 2015
2014 Was Hottest Year on Earth in Recorded History
Last year was the hottest in earth’s recorded history, scientists reported on Friday, underscoring scientific warnings about the risks of runaway emissions and undermining claims by climate-change contrarians that global warming had somehow stopped.	
Extreme heat blanketed Alaska and much of the western United States last year. Several European countries set temperature records. And the ocean surface was unusually warm virtually everywhere except around Antarctica, the scientists said, providing the energy that fueled damaging Pacific storms.	
In the annals of climatology, 2014 now surpasses 2010 as the warmest year in a global temperature record that stretches back to 1880. … ...

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—" As in the days of Lot…(the Lord) destroyed them all (in Sodom)…"  
(Luke 17: 28-29)  USA...United Sodomite America?  PRAY with me that the justices will proclaim righteousness instead of debauchery and decadence (decay, rot).

Breaking News Alert, NYTimes   January 16, 2015
 Supreme Court to Decide Whether Same-Sex Couples Nationwide Can Marry
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether all 50 states must allow gay and lesbian couples to marry. The court’s announcement made it likely that it would resolve one of the great civil rights questions of the age before its current term ends in June.	
The justices ducked the issue in October, refusing to hear appeals from rulings allowing same-sex marriage in five states. That surprise action delivered a tacit victory for gay rights, immediately expanding the number of states with same-sex marriage to 24 from 19, along with the District of Columbia.	
Largely as a consequence of the Supreme Court’s failure to act in October, the number of states allowing same-sex marriage has since grown to 36, and more than 70 percent of Americans live in places where gay couples can marry. … ...	
	
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WOW!  God save us from them, and them from themselves.  May many of Ishmael's and Esau's children yet find peace in the only Savior.

Surely the End of the Age is manifesting as Gog and Magog rise and infidel hordes arise to writhe in the agonies of Terror.

Sent from a favorite cousin; thanks, bro!
A few of these analogies may be weak as Hindus do terribly persecute Christians in India, and Catholics and Protestants have opposed in Ireland, but the sheer magnitude of these reports and analogies speaks volumes!  AWAKE!!!  WORLD WAR 3 ADVANCES HOURLY!!!

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Tell me again:  Why is profiling wrong?
 
A Short List of the Ones You May Have Heard About:
The Shoe Bomber was a Muslim  The Beltway Snipers were Muslims  The Fort Hood Shooter was a Muslim  The Underwear Bomber was a Muslim  The U.S.S. Cole Bombers were Muslims  The Madrid Train Bombers were Muslims  The Bali Nightclub Bombers were Muslims  The London Subway Bombers were Muslims  The Moscow Theatre Attackers were Muslims  The Boston Marathon Bombers were Muslims  The Pan-Am flight #93 Bombers were Muslims  The Air France Entebbe Hijackers were Muslims  The Iranian Embassy Takeover, was by Muslims  The Beirut U.S. Embassy bombers were Muslims  The Libyan U.S. Embassy Attack was by Musiims ... The Buenos Aires Suicide Bombers were Muslims  The Israeli Olympic Team Attackers were Muslims  The Kenyan U.S, Embassy Bombers were Muslims  The Saudi, Khobar Towers Bombers were Muslims  The Beirut Marine Barracks bombers were Muslims  The Besian Russian School Attackers were Muslims  The first World Trade Center Bombers were Muslims  The Bombay & Mumbai India Attackers were Muslims  The Achille Lauro Cruise Ship Hijackers were Muslims  The September 11th 2001 Airline Hijackers were Muslims  Also, Consider:
 Buddhists living with Hindus = No Problem Hindus living with Christians = No Problem Hindus living with Jews = No Problem Christians living with Shintos = No Problem Shintos living with Confucians = No Problem Confusians living with Baha'is = No Problem Baha'is living with Jews = No Problem Jews living with Atheists = No Problem Atheists living with Buddhists = No Problem Buddhists living with Sikhs = No Problem Sikhs living with Hindus = No Problem Hindus living with Baha'is = No Problem Baha'is living with Christians = No Problem Christians living with Jews = No Problem Jews living with Buddhists = No Problem Buddhists living with Shintos = No Problem Shintos living with Atheists = No Problem Atheists living with Confucians = No Problem Confusians living with Hindus = No Problem
However:  Muslims living with Hindus = Problem Muslims living with Buddhists = Problem Muslims living with Christians = Problem Muslims living with Jews = Problem Muslims living with Sikhs = Problem Muslims living with Baha'is = Problem Muslims living with Shintos = Problem Muslims living with Atheists = Problem
 MUSLIMS LIVING WITH MUSLIMS = BIG PROBLEM  Thus, This Naturally Leads To:
 They’re not happy in Gaza  They're not happy in Egypt They're not happy in Libya They're not happy in Morocco They're not happy in Iran They're not happy in Iraq They're not happy in Yemen They're not happy in Afghanistan They're not happy in Pakistan They're not happy in Syria They're not happy in Lebanon They're not happy in Nigeria They're not happy in Kenya They're not happy in Sudan
 So -  Where Are Muslims Happy?
 They're happy in Australia They're happy in England They're happy in Belgium They're happy in France They're happy in Italy They're happy in Germany They're happy in Sweden They're happy in the USA & Canada They're happy in Norway & India
 They're happy in almost every country that is Not Islamic. And who do they blame? Not Islam... Not their leadership... Not themselves... THEY BLAME THE COUNTRIES THEY ARE HAPPY IN. They want to change the countries they're happy in, to be like the countries they came from where they were unhappy and eventually got hammered.   Islamic Jihad: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION ISIS: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION Al-Qaeda: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION Taliban: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION Hamas: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION Hezbollah: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION Boko Haram: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION Al-Nusra: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION Abu Sayyaf: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION Al-Badr: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION Muslim Brotherhood: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION Lashkar-e-Taiba: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION Palestine Liberation Front: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION Ansaru: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION Jemaah Islamiyah: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION Abdullah Azzam Brigades: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION

Anyone seeing a pattern?
 	
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The terrible reality of instant hell? "…and as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment."  "The rich man lifted up his eyes in hell…"

http://www.aol.com/article/2015/01/16/dying-oklahoma-inmates-last-words-stir-questions/21131142/
Dying Oklahoma inmate's last words stir questions

"It feels like acid."…and…"My body is on fire." … …

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Once again, better to believe The Book not human anecdotes, neither going beyond it nor neglecting any point given to us.  Thank God that this young man upon studying the Scriptures for himself has earnestly repented of a money-making, attention-grabbing, lying fantasy —

http://www.aol.com/article/2015/01/16/boy-who-inspired-book-says-he-lied/21130761/
Boy who wrote book that he went to Heaven repents…
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Just for fun!  Ever notice that closing your eyes will help you think and remember better?  Now, somebody has proven it statistically!
"…made in the image of God," so many wonders in us!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150116085606.htm

Closing your eyes boosts memory recall, new study finds

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God rest you in Christ and in the Comfort of the Holy Ghost this week.

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11 January

Saints,

Today (Sunday), France has "declared war on radical Islam."   The US leadership still gets all nervous about associating terrorism with a religion, but the French, now keeping only the one adjective "radical" with it, have identified this enemy of all Western civilization, and 1.3 million of them marched in the streets today to take a stand against it with the very leaders, arm in arm, declaring "France has declared war on radical Islam."  One commentator (among many in recent days) had correctly identified the current situation as a "clash of civilizations,"  and the instigators of said clash will have nothing less than maximum bloodshed.  The French are finally correct in their assessment.  We must prayerfully watch and wait in the days ahead.

I am more than willing to attribute the naming of ISIS as the coincidental acronym for "the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria," but it is interesting to note how many of the Western leaders have kept trying to change the acronym to ISIL,  "the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant."  Yet the name ISIS seems to have stuck among the people of the nations.

From the first time I heard it, I could not help but immediately think of the ancient Egyptian goddess of the same name.  While the connection by this acronym seems noticeable, it would also appear to be entirely accidental.  Nevertheless, it is interesting to see some of the background mythology of Isis.  Her astrological star and home are the "dog star" Sirius, and other ancient occultists and pagans have identified that as Lucifer's home and throne too.  No provable connection with these terrorists, but certainly an interesting coincidence and anomaly for note by those seeking to know the spiritual movements behind outward events.

I have mentioned several times in this blog how I listened in on a media shot of a crowd scene in Tahrir Square in the recent times of the Egyptian revolution in the so-called "Arab spring" (we don't hear that term much now, do we?).  The camera zoomed in on a woman shouting in the Square.  She was dressed modestly, long dress and head covering, like a native of Egypt, and at first assumption, one would have taken her for an islamic woman, and her chant and cry were strongly of Arab accent, but upon listening carefully, she was crying out with great emotional fervor, over and over again in English, as though she were a prophetess to warn the West, "Allah is Satan!  Allah is Satan!"  Now a year or two later, we see ISIS raging.  At the least, it is all pause for meditation.

Some quick surfing; note, several of these are pro-pagan; use care.

ISIS?  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/universo/esp_sirio09.htm
	Sirius was the most important star in the sky to the ancient Egyptians. The ancient Egyptian calendar was based on the rising of Sirius. It is established for certain that Sirius was sometimes identified by the ancient Egyptians with their chief goddess Isis.
http://mirrorofisis.freeyellow.com/id63.html   
	…a neo-pagan take on Isis and Sirius rising in the spring
http://robertbauval.co.uk/articles/articles/egstarbeth3.html
	"The Egyptian Star of Bethlehem"  Isis and her tryst with her brother Osiris brought forth Horus, whom Set (Satan) hounded.  This Isis myth, and others like it, were included in the paganising of early Christianity in the Roman Harlot,  the pagans comparing the birth of Christ to the pagan myths and exalting Mary as an Isis figure.

Her star is Sirius, also known as "the Dog Star," and by the Masons proclaimed as the throne of Lucifer.  Modern followers have apparently surreptitiously named radio satellite services after Sirius, and a major car company has taken the constellation in which Sirius resides for its brand name logo.  The "dog days" of August are also named after the supposed astrological influences of the "dog star."

http://www.siriusrising.com/myth.htm    
	Another pagan take on Sirius

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sothis
	Sothis is Sirius, and this wiki piece looks at its significance, noting even the ancient association with the Hindi goddess, Kali, a witch/demon/major goddess, the wife of Shiva the Destroyer, and a creature with a chain of human skulls around her neck.  

All the false religions and myths started in Babylon and so Egypt, India, the Greeks, etc. all had variants of the same stories of gods and goddesses.

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Tit for Tat?   Last week: The PA applies to the UN, is denied; joins the International Criminal Court to bring war crimes charges against Israel, and now Israel cuts off their monthly allowance.  Next?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/world/middleeast/tensions-mount-as-israel-freezes-revenue-meant-for-palestinians.html?emc=edit_th_20150104&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Tensions Mount as Israel Freezes Revenue Meant for Palestinians
By JODI RUDOREN, JAN. 3, 2015

JERUSALEM — Israel is withholding $127 million in tax revenue it collects for the Palestinian Authority in response to its move last week to join the International Criminal Court, further escalating tensions with a step that could have serious repercussions for both sides. … ...
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Ah, Conspiracy Theories — from one of the below commentators—"79 percent of Americans believe the government is keeping secret information about U.F.O.s." (Yeah, probably me too!)
Like many people in our day and age, I find a number of conspiracy theories interesting and engaging, and like many who watch any media at all, I find a certain "food for thought" in such shows as The X-Files and Fringe (big fan!).
So, when I saw this NYTimes editorial discussion on the nature of conspiracy theories,  I am drawn in to reading through the commentary of the several contributors.  But, when I got to the end of this guy's thinking, Cass R. Sunstein,  I found myself chuckling, then laughing, then guffawing, and finally belly laughing at his final astute paragraph, especially the last lines—Here they are, italicized by me:
"Conspiracy theories are especially likely to spread within isolated communities and social networks, including those online. Most people do not know the causes of horrible events, and so we tend to rely on those we trust. If a few people within a network — call them “conspiracy entrepreneurs” — point to an alleged conspiracy, others within that network might well follow them. After a while, people can become committed to that belief and treat official denials as yet additional evidence of conspiracy, leading to the conspiracists’ triumphant question: Why would they deny it if it weren’t true?"
How can any conspiracy theory be finally beat when the very arguments and proofs against it are held up as further proof of its truth!!!??? ha! ha! ha!  This blasted human condition!!!
I write on the present and unfolding evidence of biblical prophecy being literal in fulfillment, or at least nearly so depending on context and the stated intent of the prophet and the Almighty behind him speaking through him.  But the topics of The End of the Age are ripe for mistreatment by theorists and people with agendas or looking to make a buck with a book or video.
What we do know, if we receive the Scriptures as fully authoritative, is that we have a subtle spiritual enemy, Satan, who leads a vast army of underling spiritual enemies, a vast army who will take any advantage, pull any dirty trick, do any dirty deed whether low minded or high minded, and will infiltrate, deceive, misrepresent with malicious intent at any and every turn.  It is any wonder, humanity at large, is willing to consider every possibility…and Satan will even take advantage of that with campaigns of disinformation, issue lie up twisted lie, levels of "truth," etc., even theological arguments within the Scriptures, "hath God said?", etc., etc.  Conspiracy theories suit his game.
As Cheney and CIA types intone:  We know some things.  We don't know others.  Sometimes, we know what we don't know.  Sometimes, we don't know what we don't know.  Sometimes, we don't know what we don't know what we don't know, etc….like the various levels of "Top Secret" up to such things as "don't even acknowledge existence of a program/black OP," or "can't even talk about not knowing, etc."   What a world Satan has created.
But, we have the Word, with the Spirit to teach us it rightly (John 14:26, 1 John 2:27, etc.), and so I find the divine strength to press on, watching the times carefully, and examining the Way ahead carefully…even in such matters as conspiracy theories…and with practice, it gets a little easier to spot the scams and the con artists sooner.  See Hebrews 5:13-14.  Said Paul also, "Lest Satan should get an advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices…" (2 Cor. 2:11)
Read the NYTimes discussion at—
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/01/04/are-conspiracy-theories-all-bad-17/conspiracy-theorists-have-suspicious-and-sometimes-paranoid-natures
 Are Conspiracy Theories All Bad?
What role does skepticism and suspicion of power play in society?

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THOUGHT FOR THE NEW YEAR! 
 
'IS YOUR BRAIN SHRINKING BECAUSE OF STRESS?'
 
"Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?" (Matthew 6:25).
 
If stress is an everyday part of your life, or if some past trauma has continued to haunt your thoughts every day, you may be losing part of your brain. Several studies have linked such constant or obsessive stress with a shrinking of the part of your brain called the hippocampus. Studies show that under such conditions this part of the brain can become 25 percent smaller than normal. These findings should get our attention since we use the hippocampus for long term memory and conscious memory. This is the same part of the brain attacked by Alzheimer's disease.
 
The good news is that once we remove the stress, or deal constructively with past trauma, the hippocampus returns, with time, to normal size. Several theories have been offered by researchers to explain why the hippocampus shrinks under stress; however, other researchers are not convinced that stress causes the shrinkage.
 
Is it possible for a Christian to avoid the damage that stress produces? Look at all that Paul endured for the sake of the Gospel, and yet all of his writings show no evidence of unusual memory loss, which is common when one is under constant stress. One way to avoid stress damage is to remove the cause of the stress. If that's not possible, another strategy is to learn how to deal with past traumatic events. And what better way to do this than to remind ourselves of the Lord's past faithfulness to us, and, in prayer, commend all our fears and stress into His hands. Science is learning that life is indeed more than food and clothing.
 
http://www.creationmoments.com/radio/transcripts/your-brain-shrinking-because-stress

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I could never become a Mormon, not because of their past polygamy, which technically is not unbiblical, but because of their Christology—what they believe about who Jesus is, and their adding to the Scriptures with their "Doctrines and Covenants," etc., but in Christian speculation they "could" (emphasis could) be right about all of us having our own planet at some point in the future.
At present, I think the Scripture teaches that the whole of the material universe was made for man, and while that may seem an oversize chunk for us to bite off now, it may not seem so formidable when we can travel at the speed of thought and have the powers of the angels and even of God granted to us.
At present, I don't believe there are any EBEs (Extraterrestrial Biological Entities) created by God.  SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial LIfe), though funded by vast secular think tanks and funds, even, I believe, government funding CONTINUES TO COME UP EMPTY HANDED in its radio wave search of the cosmos.  Word has it, they are pretty long in the face about it and pretty much sheepishly admitting there seems to be no traffic way out there.
But around this planet, there continues to be a veritable buzz of UFO activity and some of it may be manifestly physical—or slipping in and out of dimensions, the physical being one of them.  It could well be that modern Nephilim, part fallen angel/part hybridized from human/animal/plant DNA could well soon appear as "Extraterrestrials."  They may have colonized as far as Mars where there is strong statistical analysis of evidences that intelligent building activity has occurred.  They may well be part of the "space invasion" that will bring on the reign of antichrist. (Recommended reading, Exovaticana by Tom Horn & Chris Putnam)  Yet, when all that is over, we may still all get our own planet or planets, as many, no doubt, as we have need of!
Fun to consider and to speculate in a holy way; it should drive us to the Scriptures and keep us watching and waiting on the Lord!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/07/science/space/as-ranks-of-goldilocks-planets-grow-astronomers-consider-whats-next.html?emc=edit_th_20150107&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998&_r=0

So Many Earth-Like Planets, So Few Telescopes
By DENNIS OVERBYE JAN. 6, 2015

It’s a big universe, but it’s full of small planets.
Astronomers announced on Tuesday that they had found eight new planets orbiting their stars at distances compatible with liquid water, bringing the total number of potentially habitable planets in the just-right “Goldilocks” zone to a dozen or two, depending on how the habitable zone of a star is defined. … ...
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Welcome to the coming total personal control of each of us by the Beast, as the head of the FTC, expresses concerns that even bodily privacy in very intimate detail is now becoming the purview of the Internet, the Cloud, the AI, and, yes, even of hackers!  via "the internet of things."   
"Resistance is futile," famously said Locutus the captured and cyborged Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek TNG.  Our turn next?

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/06/ces-f-t-c-chairwoman-notes-concerns-raised-by-connected-devices/?emc=edit_th_20150107&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
CES: F.T.C. Chairwoman Notes Concerns Raised by Connected Devices
By DAVID S. JOACHIM  JANUARY 6, 2015 4:00 PM

The head of the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday offered a prescription for protecting consumer data collected by Internet-connected gadgets like wearable fitness trackers and “smart home” devices, previewing themes of a coming report by the agency on Internet privacy and security.
“In the not-too-distant future, many, if not most, aspects of our everyday lives will be digitally observed and stored,” Edith Ramirez, the chairwoman of the F.T.C., wrote in remarks for a speech Tuesday afternoon at the International CES technology industry event in Las Vegas. “That data trove will contain a wealth of revealing information that, when patched together, will present a deeply personal and startlingly complete picture of each of us.”
The F.T.C. has been scrutinizing the data collection practices of the technology industry for their effect on consumer privacy. For example, Ms. Ramirez has spoken publicly about the merits of “privacy by design,” in which privacy controls are built into a product from the outset instead of as an afterthought.
Notably, she used her speech on Tuesday to expand that principle to data security, warning that, beyond the series of public hacking attacks affecting Sony and other companies last year, 2015 would be the year that “smart-home hacking” became a realistic threat.
“Any device that is connected to the Internet is at risk of being hijacked,” said Ms. Ramirez, who added that the large number of Internet-connected devices would “increase the number of access points” for hackers.
Ms. Ramirez seemed to be directing her remarks at the start-ups that are making most of the products — like fitness trackers and glucose monitors — driving the so-called Internet of Things. … ...
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Unprecedented anti-assassination security for Obama's trip to India's Republic Day, first such US Presidential visit in history for this annual national Indian civic gala—

http://zeenews.india.com/news/india/obamas-india-visit-us-secret-service-to-deploy-surveillance-satellites_1525636.html
Obama's India visit: US Secret Service to deploy surveillance satellites
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 - 13:30

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Update on the Temple Mount, simmering—

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/11328893/Hardline-Israelis-anger-Palestinians-by-trying-to-reclaim-prayer-rights-at-Jerusalems-most-famous-holy-site.html
Hardline Israelis anger Palestinians by trying to reclaim prayer rights at Jerusalem's most famous holy site
As Muslims and Jews assert ownership over the Jerusalem's most famous holy site, some fear the competing beliefs risk igniting a full-scale religious conflict
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The daily slaughter — Lord, spare those who trust in you, and use the terror to call others everywhere to you.
Breaking News, The New York Times, Wednesday, 7:36 p.m.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/08/world/europe/charlie-hebdo-paris-shooting.html?emc=edit_na_20150107

Suspects Identified in Attack on French Newspaper

Officials said late Wednesday that the suspects in an assault on a satirical newspaper in Paris had been identified as two brothers, Said and Cherif Kouachi, 32 and 34, and Hamyd Mourad, 18.	
A manhunt for the suspects continues across Paris after the brazen and methodical slaughter at the paper, Charlie Hebdo, left 12 people dead, including the top editor, prominent cartoonists and police officers. It was among the deadliest attacks in postwar France.	
The assault threatened to deepen the distrust of France’s large Muslim population, coming at a time when Islamic radicalism has become a central concern of security officials across Europe.

See also—
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/08/world/europe/paris-attack-reflects-a-dangerous-moment-for-europe.html?emc=edit_th_20150108&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
‘Dangerous Moment’ for Europe, as Fear and Resentment Grow	
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Even Musk and Hawking seem to be warning, "Here come de Beast!"

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/3d2c2f12-99e9-11e4-93c1-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3OZ9FWYm9
Scientists and investors warn on AI

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4 January, 2015

Saints,

Prepare!  Prepare!  Prepare!  Writers like Cahn say prepare for major financial earthquakes in 2015, possibly around September.  Many other warnings and rumblings are occurring.  Yet the price of gasoline should be dropping even faster than it is, and some liberal secularists are trumpeting that things are getting "better and better" in all kinds of ways around the planet, and that great peace and prosperity are at hand.  Nothing wrong with some good news, if true, and enjoy the price of gas while you can!

But maybe they have forgotten the jihadists' slaughters of thousands per week. etc?  But how do we prepare?  It is not about excess food storage or building an armory in the basement.  It is about hungering and thirsting for righteousness, for obedience to God, the Word, and the Spirit, and a little of the other too if possible:  "Have ye any swords?"  "Yea, Lord, two."  "That is sufficient."  Above all WATCH and PRAY.  Be ready in spirit, for though you might arm for Armageddon, only one stray bullet will end your preparations, and if you have too much food, others will besiege you.  Our hope is in the Lord, not in the arm of the flesh.

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Think real persecution, degradation, malice and intimidation against Christians is not yet truly in the West, here, the United States and Canada? THINK AGAIN!

http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2014/December29/294.html

Your Christian Faith Could Cost Your Job

He seemed like a shoe in for the job of Director of Public Health for the state of Georgia. A medical doctor and PhD, Dr. Eric Walsh had been thoroughly vetted for the position in over 100 pages of documentation praising the doctor being hired by the agency. That is, until Dr. Walsh’s Christian sermons were uncovered.

In a law suit filed by Liberty Institute on behalf of Dr. Walsh, it is alleged that Department of Public Health, DPH, Human Resource decision-makers decided not to hire the doctor after viewing You Tube recordings of his sermons. Dr. Walsh’s Christian faith and his sermons came under investigation following complaints about his Christian beliefs, one complaint coming from the co-chair of the county Democratic Party and a gay activist who threatened to arrange protests if Walsh was hired by the state agency.

Subsequently, several high-ranking employees of the DPH listened to the sermons and decided to withdraw their offer of employment to Dr. Walsh. Believing that the offer was withdrawn solely because of his Christian beliefs, Dr. Walsh filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, EEOC. Under United States law, discrimination in hiring based upon religious beliefs is unlawful according to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Increasingly, the careers of American military personnel are threatened because of their Christian convictions. After Senior Master Sgt. Phillip Monk objected to the planned punishment of a Lackland Air Force base instructor’s religious objections to homosexuality, Monk was also questioned about his personal views on the practice. Following this inquiry, Staff Sgt. Monk states,” I was relieved of my position because I do not agree with my commander’s position on gay marriage. We have been told that if you publicly say that homosexuality is wrong, you are in violation of Air Force policy.”

The Liberty Institute has also filed a religious discrimination lawsuit on behalf of Monk. The accusations against Monk are a court-martial offense, which means this 19-year veteran, with an otherwise spotless military record, if convicted, could face discharge from the military, solely for expressing his Christian principles.

In British Columbia, Canada, Bethany Paquette applied for a position with Amaruk Wilderness Corp., as a wilderness guide in Canada’s North country. An avid outdoor adventurer, Bethany was a qualified applicant and an experienced river-rafting guide, with a biology degree from Trinity Western University, a Christian college that requires adherence to the Christian conviction of traditional marriage and sexual morality.

Bethany was shocked when she received an e-mail that not only rejected her as an applicant, but went on to denigrate her Christian convictions and Trinity Western University, stating that unlike Trinity Western University, Amaruk Wilderness Adventures “embraces diversity and the right of people to sleep with or marry whoever they want.” 

In subsequent e-mails, representatives of the company went on to blame Christianity for most of the world’s problems and to make derogatory remarks concerning Jesus Christ. In response to the degrading e-mails, Paquette retained an attorney who has presented her case to the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal based upon Canada’s anti-religious discrimination laws. Paquette’s lawyer, Jeffery Trotter, is asking the tribunal to send "a really strong message" that "it is not acceptable to discriminate based on what somebody believes or where they went to school and that it is not 'open season' on Christians in Canada.”

These stories represent a few of the instances of Christians facing discrimination by employers or potential employers based on their beliefs, but these represent only a few of such allegations and pending lawsuits. Stories reporting employers denying workers the right to wear crosses, honor the Sabbath, share their Christian faith, and of course, the stories of Christian merchants facing litigation for refusing to bake cakes, cater, or perform wedding ceremonies for same sex unions, have become common in the Western press.

In fact, according to a Tananbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding’s study from 2013, six out of ten white evangelical Christian’s say that discrimination against Christians is just as prevalent as is discrimination against minority religions, and one in three evangelicals report having experienced or having witnessed such discrimination. In the present dismal Western job market, this sort of discrimination can cause Christians to experience real anxiety.

Organizations like the Alliance Defending Freedom, and the Christian Legal Defense, the the American Center for Law and Justice and the Liberty Institute, are busy defending Christians against illegal workplace discrimination in the U.S. and in other nations as well. Since the persecution of Christian’s was predicted by Jesus Christ, we can expect employment discrimination, as part of that promised persecution, to intensify as the the culture becomes increasingly secularized and opposed to Jesus Christ and His followers. (John 15:20)

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The age-old trouble of "living a lie" — worse yet, maintaining many lies or "alternate realities" — is keeping up with it (them), keeping them straight, and not getting all tangled up in them.  Now Facebook and all its spin-offs gives you the power to make a real mess of your stories and get way-deep caught up in them yourself.  Do you really need Facebook?  There is enough trouble in this real world without buying into manufactured neuroses and fears.  Tune out today!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11315319/Lying-on-Facebook-profiles-can-implant-false-memories-experts-warn.html

Lying on Facebook profiles can implant false memories, experts warn
A fifth of young people admit their online profile bears little resemblance to reality

Embellishing the truth to impress friends on sites like Facebook may implant false memories, psychologists have warned.
A fifth of young people admit their online profile bears little resemblance to reality, and that their recollection of past events has been distorted by their own fabrications.
Young adults, aged between 18 and 24, say they frequently lie about their relationships, promotions at work and holidays.
Previous research has suggested that social networks are damaging to autobiographical memory.
Psychologist Dr Richard Sherry, a founding member of the Society for Neuropsychoanalysis, said, warned that it could also lead to feelings of shame and worthlessness.

"Being competitive and wanting to put our best face forward - seeking support or empathy from our peers- is entirely understandable,” said Dr Sherry.
"However, the dark side of this social conformity is when we deeply lose ourselves or negate what authentically and compassionately feels to be 'us'; to the degree that we no longer recognise the experience, our voice, the memory or even the view of ourselves.
"When this starts to happen, feelings of guilt and distaste towards ourselves can create a cognitive trap of alienation and possibly even a sense of disconnection and paranoia.”… …

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What a wonderfully reasoned story from the Wall Street Journal about the necessary existence of God, as science itself begins to draw the conclusions of an Infinite Designer!  Thanks, brother David for sending this one along.

Jesus said there would be signs and wonders, even fearful revelations, in the heavens, and that the powers of the heavens would be shaken as the End of the Age dawns.  Will even the atheistic mockers be brought to quaking knees as God reveals unimaginable secrets in these last days?  No, there are probably not extraterrestrial biological entities (EBEs)--it's looking like the whole of the physical universe is made for us, even if that is but a grand eventuality for now, but there are transdimensional beings, the hosts of the heavens, that will help conclude this Age with a grand cosmic war of mighty dimensions, all centered on the salvation that took place on the Earth on an old, rugged cross, 2000 years ago now.  Meanwhile, in the physical realm recent discoveries of free-floating bodies of water, vastly bigger than all of Earth's waters put together are being found by advanced spectroscopes, etc., and "M Class" planets, even if not yet ready for "terraforming" are being catalogued by the dozens.  Remember, your high school science classes declared the whole universe a dry, vacuous state with only gas blobs, stars, and rocky materials, planets, asteroids, space dust, etc. floating around in Infinity?  Now, we know there's enough pure water out there to furnish infinite planets!  And think of the yet bigger revelations about to appear!

God will bring the whole of mankind to its knees, confessing his power in trembling, some to salvation and some not by simply sending the largest earthquake to ever hit the Earth, apparently shaking the whole planet when He stops Rosh, Gog and Magog, Persia et al at Ezekiel's battle, when they come to destroy Israel--so that all on the face of the Earth know He lives and reigns.  How much bigger things yet are about to seen in the heavens?

http://www.wsj.com/articles/eric-metaxas-science-increasingly-makes-the-case-for-god-1419544568

Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God
The odds of life existing on another planet grow ever longer. Intelligent design, anyone?

By ERIC METAXAS
Dec. 25, 2014 4:56 p.m. ET

In 1966 Time magazine ran a cover story asking: Is God Dead? Many have accepted the cultural narrative that he’s obsolete—that as science progresses, there is less need for a “God” to explain the universe. Yet it turns out that the rumors of God’s death were premature. More amazing is that the relatively recent case for his existence comes from a surprising place—science itself.
Here’s the story: The same year Time featured the now-famous headline, the astronomer Carl Sagan announced that there were two important criteria for a planet to support life: The right kind of star, and a planet the right distance from that star. Given the roughly octillion—1 followed by 27 zeros—planets in the universe, there should have been about septillion—1 followed by 24 zeros—planets capable of supporting life.
With such spectacular odds, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, a large, expensive collection of private and publicly funded projects launched in the 1960s, was sure to turn up something soon. Scientists listened with a vast radio telescopic network for signals that resembled coded intelligence and were not merely random. But as years passed, the silence from the rest of the universe was deafening. Congress defunded SETI in 1993, but the search continues with private funds. As of 2014, researches have discovered precisely bubkis—0 followed by nothing.
What happened? As our knowledge of the universe increased, it became clear that there were far more factors necessary for life than Sagan supposed. His two parameters grew to 10 and then 20 and then 50, and so the number of potentially life-supporting planets decreased accordingly. The number dropped to a few thousand planets and kept on plummeting.
Even SETI proponents acknowledged the problem. Peter Schenkel wrote in a 2006 piece for Skeptical Inquirer magazine: “In light of new findings and insights, it seems appropriate to put excessive euphoria to rest . . . . We should quietly admit that the early estimates . . . may no longer be tenable.”
As factors continued to be discovered, the number of possible planets hit zero, and kept going. In other words, the odds turned against any planet in the universe supporting life, including this one. Probability said that even we shouldn’t be here.
Today there are more than 200 known parameters necessary for a planet to support life—every single one of which must be perfectly met, or the whole thing falls apart. Without a massive planet like Jupiter nearby, whose gravity will draw away asteroids, a thousand times as many would hit Earth’s surface. The odds against life in the universe are simply astonishing.
Yet here we are, not only existing, but talking about existing. What can account for it? Can every one of those many parameters have been perfect by accident? At what point is it fair to admit that science suggests that we cannot be the result of random forces? Doesn’t assuming that an intelligence created these perfect conditions require far less faith than believing that a life-sustaining Earth just happened to beat the inconceivable odds to come into being?
There’s more. The fine-tuning necessary for life to exist on a planet is nothing compared with the fine-tuning required for the universe to exist at all. For example, astrophysicists now know that the values of the four fundamental forces—gravity, the electromagnetic force, and the “strong” and “weak” nuclear forces—were determined less than one millionth of a second after the big bang. Alter any one value and the universe could not exist. For instance, if the ratio between the nuclear strong force and the electromagnetic force had been off by the tiniest fraction of the tiniest fraction—by even one part in 100,000,000,000,000,000—then no stars could have ever formed at all. Feel free to gulp.
Multiply that single parameter by all the other necessary conditions, and the odds against the universe existing are so heart-stoppingly astronomical that the notion that it all “just happened” defies common sense. It would be like tossing a coin and having it come up heads 10 quintillion times in a row. Really?
Fred Hoyle, the astronomer who coined the term “big bang,” said that his atheism was “greatly shaken” at these developments. He later wrote that “a common-sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super-intellect has monkeyed with the physics, as well as with chemistry and biology . . . . The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question.”
Theoretical physicist Paul Davies has said that “the appearance of design is overwhelming” and Oxford professor Dr. John Lennox has said “the more we get to know about our universe, the more the hypothesis that there is a Creator . . . gains in credibility as the best explanation of why we are here.”
The greatest miracle of all time, without any close seconds, is the universe. It is the miracle of all miracles, one that ineluctably points with the combined brightness of every star to something—or Someone—beyond itself.

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"All aboard," the Borg; next stop, Transhumanism.  Your entire genome monitored from birth by those "great AI programs in the sky" (the Cloud).
http://www.wsj.com/articles/genome-sequencing-in-babies-to-begin-as-part-of-study-1419896152?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsFifth
Genome Sequencing in Babies to Begin as Part of Study
A Genetic Blueprint to Carry Through Life and Help Develop Personalized Treatments
(excerpt):
“We are entering an era where all of medicine is genomic medicine,’’ says Robert C. Green, a geneticist and researcher at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, which is participating in the research program. “In the next five to 10 years, as costs come down and interpretation is more established, it will increasingly be to everyone’s advantage to have sequencing information integrated into their care,” he says.

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This is truly sad, a playful or ornery two year old reaches into mommy's purse at Walmart, pulls out her gun, and in one seemingly impossible accident shoots her dead with one shot.  Attending them, too, are three young relatives, girls, the oldest 11…to witness the terrible imprint of this life-and-family-horror forever after.
While tempted to err toward the Right and realizing that disarming the citizenry is a doorway to a dictatorship,  I nonetheless cringe at the bloodbath we have as "an armed citizenry."  
Without joining a place on the political spectrum, what can we learn from this spiritually?  Jesus Himself, the Prince of Peace, while instructing that his kingdom was not of this world so his followers were not to take up arms to defend it, still noted the occasional need for defensive actions and asked the disciples if they had swords among them for such occasions (Luke 22).  Peter, himself, also apparently carried a sword as a usual practice (John 18:10, 11)  Yet, Jesus said the count of two swords which they reported was sufficient.   He also said, "They which live by the sword will die by the sword," see Matthew 26:52.
When we carry around implements of death it is impossible that they cannot also get us into serious trouble and mortal danger as well as protect us.  For one thing, if advertised or shown at all, they seem to bring out a challenge to evildoers and men with hate in their hearts.  They seem to draw violence to themselves.  For another thing, great accidents, as this one, can occur.  If actually a sword, it could accidentally be fallen on or clip another seriously even when on the belt.  With a gun, we have a weapon that uses controlled explosives to do its work.  It is somewhat like carrying around a stick of dynamite.  Dynamite is stabilized nitroglycerin, like a gun with a safety, but it is still a dangerous thing and could be set off accidentally.  So, in various manners, any mortal weapon that we may carry has the potential not only to protect ourselves and our loved ones from mortal attack, but also the ability to inflict that same mortality upon ourselves…or accidentally on others…or even to be turned on us by an overwhelming adversary.  How much better to carry the spiritual Weapons of the Holy Spirit and the Word, which when used in faith, far outforesee approaching dangers, cancel the thoughts of evildoers in answer to prayer, blind evildoers from targeting us, etc?  And when and if evil men and wars arise so that we are challenged to defend or die, we should handle weapons with great care and respect, for they are two-edged swords, and cut both ways.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/31/us/walmart-shooting-by-2-year-old.html?emc=edit_th_20141231&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Woman at Walmart Is Accidentally Shot Dead by 2-Year-Old Son
By BILL MORLIN and KIRK JOHNSON  DEC. 30, 2014

HAYDEN, Idaho — The details are shatteringly ordinary. A 2-year-old toddler, sitting in a shopping cart in a Walmart, his mother’s purse unattended and within reach as she shopped. Three girls, all under age 11 — relatives of the boy and his mother, the police said — tagging along. A frosty morning in the northern Idaho panhandle, the temperature in the teens. Holiday break. The clothing aisles near electronics, back of the store.
Then, shortly before 10:20 a.m. on Tuesday, as the store video cameras recorded the scene, the little boy found a gun in his mother’s purse and it discharged once at near point-blank range from where she stood, less than arm’s length away, said Lt. Stu Miller, a spokesman for the Kootenai County sheriff’s office. She died at the scene, he said, her death appearing to be accidental. … ...

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Palestinian Authority loses yesterday's vote at the UN; now will apply to join International Criminal Court and seek war crimes charges against Israel.  This is self-destructive and may lead to the dissolution of any and all Palestinian territories by Israel with also intense sanctions and the possible expulsion of all or many palestinian arabs and the final and full annexation of the so-called West Bank and the Gaza Strip.  This may need to happen to bring on the Apocalypse.  We shall see.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/01/world/middleeast/palestinians-to-join-international-criminal-court-defying-israeli-us-warnings.html?_r=0
Palestinians Move to Join International Criminal Court, Defying Israeli and U.S. Warnings
By JODI RUDOREN DEC. 31, 2014

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Some interesting measures of Netanyahu against prominent figures of history by David Brooks.  Pray that Bibi comes to know his Messiah.  "For such a time as this…"
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/02/opinion/david-brooks-the-age-of-benjamin-netanyahu.html?_r=0
The Age of Bibi
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"We are in a 'funny time' " says one of the authors concerning the state of marriage.  With the laws changing to establish "gay marriage" and all kinds of other forms, thus taking away the distinctions of the original definition,  I too have come to wonder if the church any longer owes a partnership to the state in the matters of marriage.  This was a good development of the Reformation — the separate but mutually respectful partnership between church and state, keeping their roles separate but in moral agreement.  But, if the state has sold out its moral compass in "marrying" all kinds of other things besides a man and a woman, what do we owe it?  It also no longer criminalizes fornication, adultery, sodomy, etc.  It asks nothing of us.   We may do what we want in such matters.  Why then should we enter into a contract to then allow it to judge our choices thereafter?  I am thinking that the church needs to have ceremonies that acknowledge a heterosexual couple's union, and then let them set up whatever civil contract with the state, with legal protections, etc. if they wish to, and not otherwise.  The state has sold us out; let it go its way into judgment.
A discussion of the situation by some high-church conservative theological intellectuals —
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/03/us/gay-marriage-prompts-a-call-for-clergy-to-shun-civil-ceremonies.html?emc=edit_th_20150103&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=69381998
Gay Marriage Prompts Call for Clergy to Shun Civil Ceremonies
By MARK OPPENHEIMER JAN. 2, 2015
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Case in point ? —

http://www.scotsman.com/news/scotland/top-stories/straight-couples-want-civil-partnerships-equality-1-3649857

Straight couples want civil partnerships equality

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In the oncoming days, military AI programming will allow hundreds of small drones or drones of any size to act in a unified swarm, blocking missiles en masse, attacking aircraft, ground soldiers, etc.  Here, Israel plans them to augment the very successful Iron Dome System of anti-rocket rockets.  But, the whole concept sounds eerily similar (in spirit) to the swarms of transgenic or demonic spirit locusts/scorpions that ascend out of the bottomless pit, The Abyss, in the time of the Great Tribulation.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Upgrading-Israels-Iron-Dome-with-swarmware-386571
Upgrading Israel’s Iron Dome with swarmware