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Video: Trust His Heart
7 Marks of a False Teacher
WRETCHED TV episode 2459
Segment 1: Introduction and Types of Heretics Todd Friel introduces the topic of identifying false teachers, emphasizing the importance of distinguishing between formal and material heretics. A formal heretic knowingly teaches false doctrines for personal gain, while a material heretic is simply ignorant of their errors. Friel explains that heresy involves teaching something that deviates from essential Christian beliefs, particularly on fundamental issues like the Five Solas.
Segment 2: Seven Marks of a False Teacher Friel begins outlining the seven characteristics of a false teacher, according to Thomas Brooks. The first mark is that false teachers are “men-pleasers,” often engaging in ear-tickling behavior to gain popularity. Friel warns that not every pastor who exhibits some of these behaviors is necessarily a formal heretic, as it requires discernment to judge the intent and persistence of the individual.
Segment 3: Further Characteristics and the Art of Discernment Continuing with Brooks’ list, Friel discusses additional characteristics, such as false teachers’ tendency to undermine the credibility of faithful pastors, rely on personal visions, and focus on trivial matters rather than the weighty truths of the Gospel. He emphasizes the need for careful discernment, as some pastors may unknowingly err without being formal heretics.
Segment 4: Conclusion and Four Principles for Discernment Friel concludes by offering four guiding principles to help Christians discern false teachers. He advises developing a thorough understanding of Scripture before making judgments, emphasizing that new believers should focus on growing in faith rather than hunting for heresy. This balanced approach aims to prevent wrongful accusations and ensure that genuine false teachings are properly addressed.
7 Marks of a False Teacher
Who are the Emergent Church leaders and where are they now? | RenewAmerica – Marsha West
Some of you may recall that two decades ago there was a growing movement afoot that was “rethinking Christianity against the backdrop of postmodernism” (skepticism, subjectivism, moral relativism). Progressive/liberal enlightened “Christians” who were “rethinking Christianity” and believed there was a need for a “new kind of Christianity” were drawn to the movement. Most of them had a low view of the Bible and a high view of social activism, i.e. social justice. The movement became the Emergent or Emerging Church.
The Emergent Church (EC) was all about emerging away from orthodox biblical Christianity. Their agenda: Re-think…re-imagine…re-envision…re-shape the true Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Skipping ahead, after over two decades, the EC have spread their spiritual cancer globally. These changelings claimed that their hope was to bring a “message of peace” that would make Christianity more palatable to the world. But because the Holy Spirit would never bring a message of hope from false teachers who are in deep sin, we can conclude that the Third Person of the Trinity played no part in the EC’s lofty endeavor. Even so, enlightened EC change agents had great success. And without much blowback from the orthodoxy, the EC managed to make inroads into every aspect of the visible Church. In so doing they have introduced that “new kind of Christianity” they envisioned.
Emergents also tossed out the biblical Gospel of Jesus Christ along the way, cunningly distorting it (I hear the hiss of the snake) and replacing it with the social justice gospel…which is no gospel at all (Galatians 1:7).
In his 8-part essay on Emerging Church, Scott Diekmann sums it up this way:
Sleuths With No Names
Apprising Ministries was one of the first discernment blogs to report on the EC movement. The owner of AM, Ken Silva, put together a group of sleuths (who shall remain nameless) that worked behind the scenes to gather info on unbiblical movements that were springing up globally. The sleuths also exposed false teaching and the leaders who spread the poisonous teaching. Ken had no qualms about exposing wolves in sheep’s clothing…by name. Yes, Ken named names. Ken’s style was to expose the varmints, tell it like it is, lightly sprinkled with snark.
When Ken and I first met he was spending much of his time blogging on EC leaders and naming names. Back then the poison spreaders of neo-postmodernism engaged in a mystical form of Christianity called spiritual formation – a set of “spiritual disciplines” (not defined in Scripture) to help practitioners be more like Jesus. Two highly regarded EC leaders in the movement were Dallas Willard and Richard Foster. Ken dubbed them the “spiritual twins.” He held the twins’ feet to the fire for encouraging extrabiblical spiritual practices (borrowed from Roman Catholic priests who learned from Buddhist monks) such as lectio divina, the silence, yoga, and contemplative prayer (listening/centering/breath prayer). Sadly, undiscerning Christians are involved in RCC mysticism!
So – now that I’ve laid the groundwork, I want to share an excerpt from Ken’s piece Do Not Be Unequally Yoked With Unbelievers under the heading So What Does A Believer Have In Common With An Unbeliever? Here’s Ken’s response:
I need to be as clear as polished glass. Those who have a fascination with the esoteric or secret knowledge for the purpose of becoming a more spiritual being are in the realm of Gnosticism. Having extra biblical knowledge that no one else has doesn’t bring a person one millimeter closer to God. Just the opposite is true. So anyone (Christian, I’m looking at you) who desires to draw closer to God must spend time reading/studying the Bible.
Why?
Because it contains God’s revelation of Himself. The Lord Jesus validated the authority of Scripture by saying “It is written” (Matthew 4:1–11).
A Hypocritical Faith
Now to Henry Cloud’s concern with the hypocrisy among emergents in Emergent Christian Hypocrisy:
Later Cloud writes…
Warning!
Ken Silva liked to refer to the EC as an ecumenical neo-liberal cult. But was it a cult? Until his death in 1989 conservative Christian apologist Walter Martin was a major player in the countercult movement. Dr Martin became well-known through The Bible Answer Man radio broadcast. Following is how he defined a cult:
Rebellion Against God
Ken Silva believed EC was a cult for the reasons Dr. Martin gave. Thus, he continually called them out:
Moving on to a quote from an anonymous source that shared his (or her) vision some years ago of the kind of community he wished to be a part of:
This person’s vision spread through the visible Church, orthodox seminaries and Bible colleges like a firestorm caused by a lightning bolt touching the ground in an Oregon forest, as professing Christians became enamored with Eastern mysticism and New Age spirituality. Many believers jumped headfirst into monastic practices taught by Catholic priests for the purpose of promoting communion with God despite the fact that the Bible teaches that Christians imitating pagans is taboo. Even so, following in the footsteps of apostate Rome and doing what God expressly forbids, is a growing trend in the Christian community.
The vision from God the emergents laid hold of didn’t come to them through the Holy Spirit inspired scriptures. The postmodern gospel is certainly not the authentic gospel narrative we find in God’s Word. No. The EC gospel takes our focus off the Lord Jesus and shifts it to sinful man, thus making it man-centered. The gospel of Self (self-esteem, self-worth, me, myself and I) as well as one’s personal experience with God replaces the Gospel of Grace.
Moreover, emergents embrace the principles of social justice, liberation theology and collective salvation. Some of them even incorporate elements of universalism.
Naming Names
Besides “spiritual twins” Dallas Willard and Richard Foster there are many other EC leaders who’s names you may recognize: Brian McLaren, Rick Warren, Bill Hybels, Donald Whitney, Tony Jones, Doug Pagitt, Phyllis Tickle, Marcus Borg, Leonard Sweet, Bob Buford, Brennon Manning, Eugene Peterson, Donald Miller, Rob Bell, Erwin McManus, Jim Wallis, Tony Campolo, Richard Rohr, Andy Stanley, John Ortberg, Frank Viola, Laurie Beth Jones, Ruth Haley Barton, Rachel Held Evans, Shane Claiborn, Dan Kimball, Shane Hipps, Diana Butler Bass, Spencer Burke, Peter Rollins, Steve Chalke, Nadia Bolz-Weber, Jay Bakker, Jen Hatmaker, Karen Ward, Joel McClure, Dieter Xander and many others.
Where are they now? Several have died, even prematurely. Only a few have retained their celebrity status. Hardly any of them are best-selling authors, nor are they invited to speak at faith-based events.
In the past few years the EC has shifted into a new or neo mode, making the Neo-Emergent movement appealing to a whole new audience of young Christians who straight-out reject the authority of Scripture. I addressed this in Emergent Church Spreading Spiritual Cancer in a column I wrote in 2008:
Let me be clear. Progressive evangelical leaders are pressing many believers into rank heresy which is a serious threat to the visible Church! The threat shouldn’t be taken lightly or tolerated. The cults and counterfeit movements such as EC must be thoroughly understood and debunked. Bible believing Christians must expose those who dwell in darkness and call out the villains by name:
In closing…
Protestia is one of the first polemics news/discernment sites whose conservative Protestant editors and writers have garnered a lot of attention (and push back) for over a decade. I’ll close with a quote from editor David Morrill – David, you took the words right out of my mouth:
Research
Related
Emergent Church Spreading Spiritual Cancer By Marsha West
Father of the Emergent Culture By Sarah H. Leslie
Donald Whitney and Spiritual Disciplines (Review of Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life) By Bob DeWaay
Richard Foster and Dallas Williard on Hearing God By Marcia Montenegro
The Emerging Church and the New Progressive Theology on Christ By Ken Silva
John MacArthur on the Emergent Church pt1
John MacArthur on the Emergent Church pt2
September—30: I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.—John 9:4.
Pause, my soul, over this sweet scripture, and these sweet words of thy Lord! Look at Jesus, even thy Jesus, who, in the services of mediator, as God’s servant, had work to do in his day, as thou hast in thine. And oh! what a day was his! Every portion of it filled with good! Now, my soul, the night of this present day is come; and the night of the whole day of thy life upon earth will shortly follow; it may be this very night: for nearly as the month is ended, thy life may end before it: and if not this very night, it cannot be far off, and may be near indeed. How then stands thy great account? Take down thy memorandums, as merchants do their ledger at certain seasons to ascertain their stock. Hath Jesus filled up every page? Hast thou the several items of his grace, and love, and bounty? Canst thou tell of him that sent thee into the world, as he saith his Father sent him? (John 17:18.) Canst thou call to mind, from the first Bethel-visit of his love to the present hour, how he hath borne thee, and carried thee as on eagles’ wings? And though it would tire the arm of an angel to write down the vast account of his mercy and grace, and in thy poor forgetful heart, thousands, and ten thousands of instances have passed away, like traces on the water, and thou canst remember them no more, yet in looking back upon the whole, canst thou say, “Jesus is mine, and I am his?” Oh! the unspeakable felicity of thy summing up months, and days, and years, when the night cometh that no man can work. Precious Lord Jesus! thou hast indeed done all for me, and wrought all in me; thou hast made, and thou dost bear. It is thou that formed me from the womb, and now hast made me in thyself: thou hast redeemed me, and washed me from my sins in thy blood; borne with me in all my unworthiness, and carried me in all my sorrows! Into thy gracious hands, Lord, I desire to fall this night, and every night, and in the night of death; under the blessed assurance, that “when my heart shall faint, and my strength shall fail, thou wilt be the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.” Amen.1
1 Hawker, R. (1845). The Poor Man’s Evening Portion (A New Edition, pp. 283–284). Thomas Wardle.
Evening, September 30: “A living dog is better than a dead lion.”—Ecclesiastes 9:4
Life is a precious thing, and in its humblest form it is superior to death. This truth is eminently certain in spiritual things. It is better to be the least in the kingdom of heaven than the greatest out of it. The lowest degree of grace is superior to the noblest development of unregenerate nature. Where the Holy Ghost implants divine life in the soul, there is a precious deposit which none of the refinements of education can equal. The thief on the cross excels Caesar on his throne; Lazarus among the dogs is better than Cicero among the senators; and the most unlettered Christian is in the sight of God superior to Plato. Life is the badge of nobility in the realm of spiritual things, and men without it are only coarser or finer specimens of the same lifeless material, needing to be quickened, for they are dead in trespasses and sins.
A living, loving, gospel sermon, however unlearned in matter and uncouth in style, is better than the finest discourse devoid of unction and power. A living dog keeps better watch than a dead lion, and is of more service to his master; and so the poorest spiritual preacher is infinitely to be preferred to the exquisite orator who has no wisdom but that of words, no energy but that of sound. The like holds good of our prayers and other religious exercises; if we are quickened in them by the Holy Spirit, they are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ, though we may think them to be worthless things; while our grand performances in which our hearts were absent, like dead lions, are mere carrion in the sight of the living God. O for living groans, living sighs, living despondencies, rather than lifeless songs and dead calms. Better anything than death. The snarlings of the dog of hell will at least keep us awake, but dead faith and dead profession, what greater curses can a man have? Quicken us, quicken us, O Lord!1
1 Spurgeon, C. H. (1896). Morning and evening: Daily readings. Passmore & Alabaster.
September 30.—Evening. [Or June 29.]: “Counsel is mine and sound wisdom.” Matthew 21:23–46
AND when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?
24–26 And Jesus answered and said unto them, I also will ask you one thing, which if ye tell me, I in likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things. The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven, or of men? And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say unto us, Why did ye not then believe him? But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people; for all hold John as a prophet.
27 And they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot tell. And he said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.
Thus were they taken in their own craftiness and utterly silenced.
28 ¶ But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard.
29–32 He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went. And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not. Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you. For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him. (This was a home thrust, and right well deserved by them. It may also be a lesson to us if we see great sinners converted while we ourselves remain undecided. Is there one of us in this condition?)
33 ¶ Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
34, 35 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.
37 But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.
38, 39 But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.
40 When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?
41 They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.
42–43 Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
44 And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. (If we oppose the Saviour we shall hurt only ourselves, but if we provoke him to punish us we shall be crushed as completely as if a huge rock had rolled upon us. Who will dare to be at enmity with Jesus?)
45, 46 And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them. But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.
Lo, the stone which once aside
By the builder’s hand was thrown,
See it now the building’s pride,
See it now the corner stone!
Lo, we hail Jehovah’s deed,
Strange and wondrous in our eyes!
Jesus Christ is Lord decreed,
Bid the voice of gladness rise.1
1 Spurgeon, C. H. (1964). The Interpreter: Spurgeon’s Devotional Bible (p. 583). Baker Book House.
October 2 – Religious Credentials Are Dung | VCY
TODAY’S BIBLE READING CHALLENGE:
Isaiah 66:1-24
Philippians 3:4-21
Psalm 74:1-23
Proverbs 24:15-16
Isaiah 66:1 — This verse was one of the last words of Stephen (Acts 7:49) and was the transition from narrating the history of Israel to condemning his accusers. Isaiah has been the voice of the LORD rejecting the religious practices of His people:
- Sacrifices – Isaiah 1:11
- Fasting – Isaiah 58:5
- Building Projects – Isaiah 66:1-2
Isaiah 66:22-24 — Wow! Isaiah concludes with a stark contrast. The redeemed of the LORD will dwell in the new heavens and the new earth, and the worm shall not die and the fire will not be quenched for the men that transgress against the LORD (Mark 9:44, 46, 48). From GotQuestions.org:
Mark 9:48 does not mean that there are literal worms in hell or that there are worms that live forever; rather, Jesus is teaching the fact of unending suffering in hell—the “worm” never stops causing torment. Notice that the worm is personal. Both Isaiah 66:24 and Mark 9:48 use the word their to identify the worm’s owner. The sources of torment are attached each to its own host.
Some Bible scholars believe the “worm” refers to a man’s conscience. Those in hell, being completely cut off from God, exist with a nagging, guilty conscience that, like a persistent worm, gnaws away at its victim with a remorse that can never be mitigated. No matter what the word worm refers to, the most important thing to be gained from these words of Christ is that we should do everything in our power to escape the horrors of hell, and there is only one thing to that end—receiving Jesus as the Lord of our lives (John 3:16).
Philippians 3:8 — Paul recognizes the truth of Isaiah: God doesn’t care what religious credentials we have. No matter if we’ve been circumcised the eight day, a Pharisee, a Hebrew of the Hebrews, Paul declares that it all is dung, echoing Malachi 2:3. Now there is a trend among the cool theologians of today to say that Paul really said a more vulgar version of the word dung, but Gary Manning Jr. debunks that myth quite clearly:
Paul was not alone in using σκύβαλα as a metaphor for something worthless in the moral or religious realm. Philo and Sirach both used σκύβαλα to describe undesirable qualities that should be abandoned. Paul’s interesting, and somewhat different, use of the word is to say that his desirable religious credentials (circumcision, pedigree, Pharisaism, zeal, obedience to the Law) were σκύβαλα – worthless waste – in comparison to knowing Jesus (Phil 3:4-8).
https://www.biola.edu/blogs/good-book-blog/2015/did-the-apostle-paul-use-profanity
Philippians 3:9 — Paul said his righteousness of the Law was dung. It was worthless because it was powerless. Now, the righteousness of Christ was powerful (Philippians 3:10); it is priceless (not worthless) because it is so powerful. It is so powerful that it can defeat death (Philippians 3:11)!
Philippians 3:12 — Jesus caught Paul, now Paul is trying to catch Jesus. Notice that Paul hasn’t apprehended (entire sanctification) Him yet and won’t until glorification (Philippians 3:11).
Philippians 3:14 — May this be our goal in life as well. May we not seek the prize of an Olympic gold medal, or a Super Bowl ring, or a Fantasy Football championship, with the same intensity as the high calling of God in Christ Jesus! What a day that will be (Philippians 3:21)!
Psalm 74:18 — What does God say about His name? There are 90 references in the Old Testament to “My Name“. What does God think about people who misuse His Name?
Proverbs 24:16 — Endurance is the mark of a just man. Don’t stop! Don’t Quit! Sounds a lot like Philippians 3:14!
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God Is in the Front Line | VCY
The Lord, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.Deuteronomy 31:8
In the presence of a great work or a great warfare, here is a text which should help us to buckle on our harness. If Jehovah Himself goes before us, it must be safe to follow. Who can obstruct our progress if the Lord Himself is in the van? Come, brother soldiers, let us make a prompt advance! Why do we hesitate to pass on to victory?
Nor is the Lord before us only; He is with us. Above, beneath, around, within is the omnipotent, omnipresent One. In all time, even to eternity, He will be with us even as He has been. How this should nerve our arm! Dash at it boldly, ye soldiers of the cross, for the Lord of hosts is with us!
Being before us and with us, He will never withdraw His help. He cannot fail in Himself, and He will not fail toward us. He will continue to help us according to our need, even to the end. As He cannot fail us, so He will not forsake us. He will always be both able and willing to grant us strength and succor till fighting days are gone.
Let us not fear nor be dismayed; for the Lord of hosts will go down to the battle with us, will bear the brunt of the fight, and give us the victory.
30 Sept 2024 News Briefing
Hurricane Helene: 84 dead when storm does ‘biblical’ damage
The storm surge, wind damage, and inland flooding from Helene have been catastrophic, flooding neighborhoods, stranding residents, destroying homes, and toppling trees in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee. Dozens have been killed. Helene, which made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region Thursday night as a massive Category 4, was the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the Big Bend on record.
Extreme rainfall leaves over 260 dead or missing in Nepal.
Floods caused by extreme rainfall since Sept. 26 have claimed over 130 lives. Around 136 people remain missing.
UK storm warning with 60mph winds and 200-mile wall of rain to batter Brits,
This following a week that saw flood warnings issued and chaos in Birmingham. A 200-mile wall of rain is forecast across various regions. They include parts of England and Scotland. Wind speeds of up to 60mph are predicted. It comes after Southern England and the Midlands witnessed over 250% of the average September rainfall.
Israel: West Nile virus found in Eilat; cases since June at 916, with 71 deaths
Infected mosquitoes transmit the virus to humans. About 80% of people infected show no symptoms. About 20% may experience varying symptoms, including fever, headaches, and body aches. Less than 1% will have possible rare complications such as acute inflammation of the brain or meningitis. The risk of significant illness is higher among the elderly and those with weakened immune systems.
West Nile Virus is also in U.S. news this week in humans and animals, with some deaths reported.
Mosquito season is not over until a hard frost occurs. A West Nile virus vaccine is years away.
3,400 fugitives arrested by U.S. Marshals in Operation North Star.
Among the 3,421 arrested, 216 were for homicide, 803 for assault, and 482 for weapons offenses between May 10 and Sept.13. The initiative targeted fugitives in 10 metropolitan areas, including Little Rock. Other metropolitan areas selected include Dallas and Fort Worth, Charleston and North Charleston, Baton Rouge, Phoenix, St. Louis, Birmingham, Winston-Salem, Dayton, and San Antonio.
Kari Lake shreds VP Harris’ ‘despicable’ southern border visit: Just to make ‘mainstream media happy.’
After being border czar almost four years, she finally came down and spent 20 minutes staring at her feet next to the wall. “I was surprised she didn’t call Biden and say, ’We did it, Joe. We destroyed America,’ because that’s exactly what they’re attempting to do. National Border Patrol Council VP Art Del Cueto warned that America will never ‘recuperate’ if current policies continue for four more years.
Huge number of migrant criminals released into the U.S. proves Democrats clearly don’t care.
Over 13,000 murderers, over 15,000 dangerous sexual offenders, and over 425,000 other dangerous criminals were let into America after crossing in illegally. These are ones they know about. What about known (and unknown) ‘gotaways’? Why haven’t they focused on finding over 300,000 known children who’ve disappeared through the immigration system? Why haven’t Kamala, Joe, and other Democrats said anything about the children who are probably being exploited? The media and other Democrats should stop pretending that they’re empathetic. The only thing they care about is power.
U.S. airstrikes on Syria this month killed 37 militants affiliated with extremist groups.
37 militants affiliated with the Islamic State group (ISIS) and an al-Qaeda-linked group were killed in two strikes. Two of the dead were senior militants. A strike earlier this month on an IS training camp killed 28 militants, including at least four Syrian leaders.
Iran vows revenge for Nasrallah killing amid Lebanon strikes
Israel has continued to strike Lebanon after killing Hezbollah leader Nasrallah, a dramatic escalation of its bombing campaign. Iran, which backs the Hezbollah terrorist group, vowed Nasrallah’s death “will not go unavenged.” The Pentagon is looking at options to increase the number of troops/equipment in the Middle East as fears grow of a broader regional conflict.
Israeli Air Force strikes Houthi targets in Yemen with ‘extensive’ operation.
The IDF said targets on Sunday included power plants and a seaport used to import oil, “which were used by the Houthi terrorist regime to transfer Iranian weapons to the region, in addition to military supplies and oil.” The operation was conducted in response to recent attacks by the Houthis against Israel, the IDF said.
Headlines – 9/29/2024
IDF confirms killing Hezbollah terror chief Nasrallah in strike on his Beirut bunker
Israel confirms bunker-buster bombs used in attack on Nasrallah
Senior IRGC officer among the dead in Israeli strike on Beirut that killed Nasrallah
Israel knew of Nasrallah’s location for months, some ministers opposed hit – reports
Russia, Turkey, Hamas and others blast Israel’s killing of terror chief Nasrallah
Netanyahu: Nasrallah’s Death a Message to Enemies and to Allies
Politicians across spectrum praise assassination of Hezbollah chief Nasrallah
Biden: Nasrallah’s killing brings justice; time for ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon
Biden Calls for Ceasefire Again in Lebanon as Hezbollah Reels from Israeli Attacks
‘Victory, then we move to peace,’ Danny Danon says after IDF strike on Hezbollah chief
IDF: Killing of Nasrallah ‘makes world a safer place’; Gallant hails action as historic
Netanyahu Says Israel ‘Settled The Score’ With Nasrallah’s Killing
As Hezbollah Pursued a Limited War, Israel Went for a Knockout
The Telegraph: Israel has proved it has the most impressive military in the world
Israel knew of Nasrallah’s location for months, some ministers opposed hit – reports
Thousands of protesters trying to storm US embassy in Baghdad after Nasrallah killing
Nasrallah’s elimination is a direct blow to Iran, and a revival of Israeli deterrence
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah transformed the militant group into a potent regional force
Iran’s leadership said deeply shaken, divided over response to Nasrallah’s killing
Iran warns Hezbollah leader’s death ‘will not go unavenged’
Israel said to ask US to deter Iran from retaliating for Nasrallah assassination
Rushing to secure location, Khamenei vows to avenge Nasrallah, sets 5 days of mourning
Crying out in disbelief, Hezbollah backers across Lebanon mourn Nasrallah
Protesters Mourn Nasrallah’s Death Around the World
Pockets of revelry at Nasrallah killing across Middle East, including in Syria, Iran
Eleven killed in Israeli air strike day after Hezbollah leader confirmed dead
Thousands sleep outdoors in Beirut, flee as Israeli strikes target Hezbollah sites
UN sends emergency food aid for one million Lebanese
Flights canceled, gatherings limited as Israel braces for response to Nasrallah killing
US Orders Diplomats’ Families To Leave Lebanon: State Dept
AP Calls Terrorist Nasrallah a ‘Pragmatist’; Omits Hezbollah Murders of Americans
CNN’s Diamond: Israel’s ‘Escalations’ ‘Have Prompted Hezbollah’ to Attack More
China Defends Its Supply Chain Monopoly After Getting Linked to Lebanon Electronics Blast
Jordan says rocket fired from Lebanon lands outside Amman
Netanyahu says Israel will keep ‘degrading Hezbollah’ until its objectives are met
Nasrallah killing reveals depth of Israeli penetration of terror group
As rocket lands near Jerusalem, PM warns Iran: ‘There’s nowhere beyond our reach’
IDF kills another senior Hezbollah official in Beirut; fresh barrage targets Tiberias
IDF intercepts Houthi ballistic missile fired at central Israel for 3rd time this month
IDF says it shot down missile from Yemen, after sirens sound across central Israel
U.S. Amb. to U.N.: There ‘Might’ Be Some Antisemites at the U.N.
Congressman’s office vandalized as pro-Palestinian protests reignite across NYC
Zelensky, on anniversary of WWII Babyn Yar massacre, laments global indifference
Russian Strikes on Ukraine Medical Centre Leave at Least Nine Dead, Kyiv Says
Poland, Baltic States Demand EU Funds for ‘Defensive Line’ Along Borders with Russia and Belarus
Russia Issues New Nuclear Warning to US at UN: ‘Suicide Venture’
Florida congressional candidate charged with threatening to kill primary opponent
Biden-Harris DOJ Lawsuit Blocks Alabama from Purging Noncitizens from Voter Rolls
Musk’s X blocks Vance dossier, drawing parallels to Hunter Biden flap
Donald Trump Vows to Prosecute Google at ‘Maximum Levels’ for Election Interference
Trump Vows To Prosecute Google For Surfacing Only ‘Bad’ Stories About Him
In global game of influence, China turns to a cheap and effective tool: fake news
‘Three New York Cities’ Worth of Power: AI Is Stressing the Grid
SpaceX launches mission to return 2 NASA astronauts stuck in space
5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near the Volcano Islands, Japan region
5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Poro, Philippines
5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Kirakira, Solomon Islands
Earthquake Registering 4.2 Magnitude Hits California South of San Francisco
Sabancaya volcano in Peru erupt to 25,000ft
Ruiz volcano in Colombia erupts to 22,000ft
Popocateptl volcano in Mexico erupts to 22,000ft
Semeru volcano in Indonesia erupts to 14,000ft
Tropical Storm Helene is catastrophic for western NC mountains
Bridge Collapses: ‘Biblical’ Floods Hit Tennessee
Hurricane Isaac and Tropical Storm Joyce move through the open Atlantic far from land
Victoria Harbour sees first recorded waterspout in Hong Kong history
More than 100 killed and 64 missing as flooding and landslides hit Nepal
Disruption looms at East Coast ports as longshoremen prepare to strike
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Mid-Day Snapshot · September 30, 2024
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THE FOUNDATION
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.” —Thomas Jefferson (1791)
IN TODAY’S DIGEST
- Executive News Summary
- Featured Analysis: Crimes That Wouldn’t Have Happened Without Harris’s Open Border
- More Analysis
- Best of Right Opinion
- Best of Videos
- Short Cuts
- Memes and Cartoons
EXECUTIVE NEWS SUMMARY
Douglas Andrews, Thomas Gallatin, & Jordan Candler
Climate
- Killed by fossil fuels: At this point, it has become as predictable as thunder following lightning. Following any weather-related natural disaster, Leftmedia talkingheads immediately blame the bogeyman of climate change and the causal agent of that change, the fossil fuel industry. They’re paid to. As CNN states in its coverage of the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene, “Supercharged by climate change: The storm’s intensity was fueled by warm waters due to fossil fuel use.” Note the combining of actual data with climate alarmist dogma. So, were the waters of the Gulf of Mexico cold prior to mankind’s use of fossil fuels? Did devastating storms not exist before humans were using coal and oil? The coast of Florida is littered with the wrecks of sailing ships that belie that logic. But the narrative of the “existential threat of climate change” must be maintained, so Leftmedia outlets like CNN faithfully pump out the climate alarmism propaganda.
- Supplies rushed to communities isolated by Helene as death toll rises to nearly 100 (AP)
Security
- Israel kills Hezbollah leader: On Saturday, the Israel Defense Forces announced they had killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah via a targeted airstrike of the terrorist outfit’s headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon. The IDF posted on X, “Hassan Nasrallah will no longer be able to terrorize the world.” Nasrallah rose to power in 1992 and fomented a brutal campaign of terrorism against innocent civilians across the Middle East. Over his time in power, Nasrallah led Hezbollah in terror attacks against Americans, Israelis, and civilians in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East. Demonstrating how hated he was in Syria, news of his death sparked dancing in the streets in the country’s northwest area. Meanwhile, Leftmedia outlets covering Nasrallah’s death effectively glossed over his history of brutality and murder. For example, The Washington Post called him a “father figure” and a “moral compass” to his followers. The New York Times dubbed him “a charismatic religious and political leader and military strategist who had dedicated his life to ‘resistance,’ or the fight against Israel and American influence in the Middle East.” The Associated Press pointed out that his supporters saw him as “a charismatic and shrewd strategist.”
- Israeli special forces launch intelligence-gathering raids into Lebanon (NY Post)
- Israel strikes Houthi targets in Yemen (AP)
- Newport News Shipbuilding suspects intentionally faulty welds on multimillion-dollar Naval vessels (Fox News)
Economy
- A port strike looms over the election: At midnight tonight, tens of thousands of dockworkers could go on strike, thereby wreaking havoc on supply chains, emptying store shelves, and reigniting the inflation that has been a hallmark of the Biden-Harris administration. As The Daily Caller reports: “The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) — which represents more than 85,000 workers at three dozen U.S. ports along the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico and whose members collectively handle about half of the U.S.‘ maritime imports — has threatened to go on strike for the first time since 1977 if their wage and automation protection demands are not met by the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) — the coalition representing shipping employers. The move could cost the U.S. economy roughly $5 billion a day in trade, and would massively disrupt supply chains in a way not seen since the COVID-19 pandemic.” The ILA has donated some $8 million to Democrats recently, so we’d expect the Biden-Harris administration to give it what it wants before it’s too late, and before a damaging strike gives folks one more reason to vote for Donald Trump.
Politics
- John Kerry trashes First Amendment: John Kerry spoke at the World Economic Forum at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, where he said the quiet part out loud, lamenting the free speech protections afforded by the First Amendment. “If people go to only one source and the source they go to is sick, and, you know, has an agenda and they’re putting out disinformation, our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to just, you know, hammer it out of existence,” Kerry said. He also attacked the growth of social media for making it difficult to build “consensus around any issue,” making it “really hard to govern today.” He implied a need to eliminate the First Amendment’s protection of free speech, stating, “What we need is to win the ground, win the right to govern by hopefully winning enough votes that you’re free to be able to implement change.” Kerry and those who share his tyrannical instinct are the very reason why the Founding Fathers wisely included the First Amendment within the Constitution’s Bill of Rights.
- Hillary Clinton doubles down on her most infamous attack against Trump supporters (Daily Mail)
- Kamala is the “change” low-information voters can believe in: Kamala Harris is hoping to fool low-information voters that she’s the change you can believe in despite having been attached at the hip to Joe Biden for the past four years. But then why is she retaining whole sections of Biden’s campaign platform and planning to retain a bunch of holdovers from his cabinet? If she’s the “change” candidate, wouldn’t she want to bring in her own people? Harris knows that Republicans are likely to retake the Senate, and her team knows that this means brutal and likely unsuccessful confirmation fights for her radical nominees. Either way, the change thing isn’t working. The Washington Free Beacon reports that a recent NY Times/Siena poll “found that more than double the number of voters surveyed viewed former president Donald Trump as representing a major change over Harris, 53 percent to 25 percent.”
- Dems rely on long counts and dirty voter rolls: Once again this cycle, Democrats are angling to extend Election Day to ensure that they can “find” enough votes in enough swing states to put Kamala Harris over the top. But as The Federalist reports, a challenge to a new Mississippi voting law “has made its way to the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in a case that has the potential to ensure that elections end on Election Day.” In 2020, ostensibly due to the pandemic, Mississippi accepted ballots that had been received and counted as many as five business days after the election “so long as they were postmarked on or before Election Day.” Elsewhere in efforts to obstruct voting reform, the Biden-Harris Justice Department is suing Alabama for cleaning up its voter rolls. As the New York Post reports, “The Department of Justice sued the State of Alabama and its top election official, alleging that they had removed voters who had previously been issued noncitizen identification numbers from its election rolls too close to election day.”
- Democrat donors fork over thousands to launch right-wing spoiler candidates (Washington Times)
- College football faceplant: The Harris-Walz ticket has been hard at work trying to convince the American people that they’re not as radical as they seem to be. In this way, they hope to claw back some of the blue-collar white votes that they’ve been chasing away for the past 16 years with their racialism and their hard-leftism. This brings us to college football Saturday, during which Donald Trump was wooing football fans with free chow and getting a rock star’s welcome at the Alabama-Georgia game in Tuscaloosa while Tim Walz was getting booed even before he stepped foot inside Michigan Stadium. Yes, Alabama is deep red, and SEC Country is Trump Country, but when the Democrats’ vice-presidential candidate is getting booed in deep-blue Ann Arbor on the eve of his big debate, it sends a clear message that the Democrats are better off staying in their leftist America-hating lane.
- Crazy leftist wants to dissolve SCOTUS: Logic has never been a strong element of the radical Left, as exhibited by leftist author Fran Lebowitz. Clearly not a fan of the current makeup of the “disgraceful” U.S. Supreme Court, Lebowitz declared, “It shouldn’t even be allowed to be called the Supreme Court.” She falsely characterized the presidential immunity ruling as “extremist” and beyond the pale: “When they passed that law, that ruling, where they said, ‘You’re not the president, there’s a king,’ which is what that ruling is, you can do whatever you want, you can never be held responsible, I thought, ‘You know, Biden is still the president. No one seems to notice.’ But I think Biden should dissolve the Supreme Court.” It might come as a surprise to a radical leftist like Lebowitz, but the Court does not make laws. Furthermore, the notion that Biden would have the power to dissolve SCOTUS is absurd, and she knows it. But thanks to the First Amendment, Lebowitz is fully protected in calling for the elimination of the Supreme Court, and thankfully, that remains so because the current Court is made up of a majority of originalist justices.
Misc.
- Trump, Harris blasted for ignoring exploding budget deficit (Fox News)
- Boise State women’s volleyball forfeits game to protect players from trans opponent (Daily Wire)
- California governor vetoes bill requiring speeding alerts in new cars (AP)
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FEATURED ANALYSIS
Crimes That Wouldn’t Have Happened Without Harris’s Open Border
Nate Jackson
In June 2015, Donald Trump descended that Trump Tower escalator and announced his first presidential bid. In his remarks, he made the infamous comment about Mexico “not sending their best” people here. Here’s the really “bad” part: “They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with [them]. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.”
Leftists went into hysterics, calling him racist and xenophobic. But he was right.
He wasn’t making a literal statement about every person who crosses our southern border but a general observation about some of the people. Leftists took him hyper-literally in order to smear him rather than admit the border was a problem. It’s a huge problem, as evidenced by a new report on criminal statistics among illegal border crossers. I’ll get back to that in a minute.
Here we are in 2024, nearly four years into the intentional invasion crafted by Joe Biden and Border Czar Kamala Harris. To address this crisis, she spent 20 minutes Friday visiting the border to pretend (A) that she cares and (B) that she has nothing to do with it. CNN analyst Scott Jennings gets it, saying of Harris’s trip, “Arsonist returns to scene of crime.” Worse, it’s like an arsonist insisting that a house would be safer with kindling stuffed in the crawl space.
Instead, Harris incredibly insists, it’s Trump’s fault. “In the four years that Donald Trump was president,” she claimed, “he did nothing to fix our broken immigration system.” Roughly three million illegals crossed during Trump’s term, compared to at least 10 million during Harris’s — after she and Biden undid all of Trump’s successful policies. Nevertheless, she insisted he’s a horrible human being: “He separated families, he ripped toddlers out of their mothers’ arms, put children in cages, and tried to end protections for Dreamers.”
That’s all either flagrantly false or a gross exaggeration to the point of falsehood.
She also repeated the lie that Trump “tanked” the bad immigration bill in Congress earlier this year. That legislation was a cynical game for Democrats. They filled it with open-border poison pills to provoke Republicans to vote against it so that Democrats could then blame Republicans for the Biden/Harris border crisis.
So what will Harris do when (ahem) she’s in charge? “The United States is a sovereign nation, and I believe we have a duty to set rules at our border and to enforce them,” she later added at a rally. “And I take that responsibility very seriously.”
Her nearly four-year record as vice president says otherwise.
If elected, she promises to be tough, though. She aims to “reduce illegal border crossings” and ensure that those who do cross “will be apprehended and removed and barred from reentering for five years.” How about starting that TODAY?
What about those who broke the law and evaded detention or deportation for a long time? She wants “a pathway to citizenship” for them. She also wants a bigger and easier path for more asylum claims.
So, back to the question of Trump’s characterization of who’s coming in.
ICE Deputy Director Patrick Lechleitner sent a letter to Texas Republican Representative Tony Gonzalez with some eye-popping statistics about illegal alien crime. Gonzalez posted that letter Friday.
“As of July 21, 2024,” Lechleitner wrote, “there were 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories on ICE’s national docket, which includes those detained by ICE, and on the agency’s non-detained docket. Of those, 435,719 are convicted criminals, and 226,847 have pending criminal charges.” He included a chart to illustrate.
Fox News summarizes that chart: “Those include 62,231 convicted of assault, 14,301 convicted of burglary, 56,533 with drug convictions and 13,099 convicted of homicide. An additional 2,521 have kidnapping convictions and 15,811 have sexual assault convictions. There are an additional 1,845 with pending homicide charges, 42,915 with assault charges, 3,266 with burglary charges and 4,250 with assault charges.”
The timeframe of crime and border crossing isn’t clear. What is clear is that a huge number of crimes — this is a key point — would not have happened if the illegal alien perpetrator were not in the United States in the first place. Every person who crosses the border illegally has committed a crime. Far too many of them end up doing worse once they get here.
Harris speaks with more conviction about abortion than any other issue, demanding the unfettered “right” to kill unborn children, especially in cases of rape and incest. Yet her administration allowed millions of illegal aliens into the country, some number of whom are charged with nearly 16,000 instances of sexual assault. Thousands of American women — citizens — have been subjected to unspeakable crimes at the hands of illegals. Border Czar Kamala Harris opened the border and apparently thinks they’ll all be fine if only they can abort any resulting children.
More than 13,000 murders were committed by illegals. Many of those victims would be alive today were it not for Harris’s bloody border policies.
“It may be shocking to hear that the Biden-Harris administration is actively releasing tens of thousands of criminal illegal aliens into our communities, but their own numbers conclusively prove this to be the case. This defies all common sense,” noted House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green. “Under President Biden and his ‘border czar,’ Vice President Harris, DHS law enforcement has been directed to mass-release illegal aliens whom they know have criminal convictions or are facing charges for serious crimes — and these dangerous, destructive individuals are making their way into every city and state in this country. How many more Americans need to die or be victimized before this administration is forced to abide by the laws they swore to uphold? This is madness. It is something no civilized, well-functioning society should tolerate.”
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MORE ANALYSIS
- Douglas Andrews: What’s the State of the Race? — Recent polling shows a tight race, but other key indicators spell big trouble for Kamala Harris.
- Thomas Gallatin: Funding Climate Alarmism Propaganda — Bill Gates and other rich leftists are funding a plan to turn journalists into propagandists of global doom.
- Emmy Griffin: Teachers Aren’t Happy — Thanks to a combination of misbehavior and poor compensation, good teachers are running for the hills.
- Roger Helle: Bait-and-Switch, Part II — Kamala Harris, the undemocratically coronated “happy warrior,” won’t change because she is as radical as they come.
- In Brief: Attempted Assassination Is the Logical Result of Marxism — The Left’s cherished “oppressor vs. oppressed” narrative justifies even a violent response to Donald Trump.
BEST OF RIGHT OPINION
- Rich LowryThe Secret Service Is a National Embarrassment
- Matthew ContinettiAmerica Must Side With Israel Against Hezbollah
- Hans von SpakovskyThe Serious Charges Against New York Mayor Eric Adams
- Michael ReaganFour More Years to Make America Safe Again
- The Institute for Faith & FreedomJimmy Carter Turns 100
For more of today’s columns, visit Right Opinion.
BEST OF VIDEOS
- Kamala Makes a Run for the Border — And Away From Her Past — The sitting vice president, at an appearance at the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona, blames the border crisis on Donald Trump.
- Veep Thoughts With Kamala Harris (Vol. 24) — Harris sat down for a friendly chat with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle, a so-called journalist who openly supports her campaign.
- John Kerry Anguished Over Free Speech — Kerry says the First Amendment is an impediment to government controlling information.
- Kennedy Mocks Harris’s ‘I Was Born in the Middle Class’ — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. slams Kamala Harris’s constant refrain of being born in the middle class.
- Gen Z Is Getting Fired at an Unprecedented Rate — Are these young people too far gone for today’s employers?
- Satire: How to Win an Election Without Saying Anything — Today we sit down and get interviewed by Oprah. This is how to win an election without saying anything!
SHORT CUTS
Can’t Fix Stupid
“[‘Basket of deplorables’] was an unfortunate choice of words and bad politics, but it also got at an important truth. Just look at everything that has happened in the years since, from Charlottesville to Jan. 6. The masks have come off, and if anything, ‘deplorable’ is too kind a word for the hate and violent extremism we’ve seen from some Trump supporters.” —Hillary Clinton
For the Record
“Unless and until [Mark] Zuckerberg embraces an Elon Musk-like devotion to free speech, there is no reason to trust him or his company. He can become apolitical all he wants, but if Facebook is still suppressing the free speech of anyone to the right of Karl Marx, then it’s nothing more than virtue signaling meant to shore up some problematic business trends.” —Nate Jackson
“It is always confusing to me when someone writes to complain that the Electoral College doesn’t align with the ‘popular vote,’ as if this wasn’t the entire point of the enterprise. If the two always harmonized, we wouldn’t need it.” —David Harsanyi
“The Supreme Court is perhaps the only institution inhibiting state overreach these days, which is why Democrats have been busy delegitimizing and now want to pack the court and transform it into another malleable partisan institution.” —David Harsanyi
“Democrats want to get rid of the Electoral College so that a few giant urban areas can run the executive branch. They want to get rid of the filibuster so they can unilaterally transform the nation. When they don’t have congressional majorities, they want (their) presidents to rule by fiat. And many now want to pack the Supreme Court to make sure no one will stop them.” —David Harsanyi
“Hezbollah doesn’t exist to make friends. It exists to destroy Israel and America. It’s an Iranian asset in a strategic location meant to deter Israel from attacking Iran’s nuclear program. Lebanon’s central government is either uninterested or incapable of challenging Syria and Iran. And the U.N. is worse than useless.” —Matthew Continetti
“Rather than building sandcastles with his friends in the U.N., President Biden could try applying to our besieged ally in the Middle East the same rhetorical and material support he bestows on Ukraine. But that is not the president we have. Biden’s policy of escalation management has produced expanding circles of ruin from Kiev to the Gulf of Aden.” —Matthew Continetti
Inquiring Minds Want to Know
“In 2020, roughly 82.2 million women voted compared to about 72.5 million men. Men, why aren’t you voting?” —Ashley St. Clair
MEMES & CARTOONS
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Cartoons and Memes · September 30, 2024
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For the first time ever, we are going into a presidential election with more Americans identifying as Republican than Democrat
The Democrats love to talk about how Hillary and Biden won the popular vote, but what they likely won’t talk about is how their party’s popularity has fallen off a cliff during Biden’s presidency.
For the first time ever, we are going into a presidential election with more Americans identifying as Republican than Democrat
Elon Musk issues warning — This will be the last (real) election if Trump doesn’t win.
Kamala Harris Blasted for Hurricane Helene Response: ‘AWOL,’ ‘Pitiful’
Vice President Kamala Harris is facing intense scrutiny — not from the establishment media, but from Americans on social media — for her lackluster response to the damage inflicted on several states due to Hurricane Helene.
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Source: Kamala Harris Blasted for Hurricane Helene Response: ‘AWOL,’ ‘Pitiful’
Daily Briefing Sept. 30: Day 360 – After Yemen port airstrikes, Israel tells Iran, ‘Don’t’ | The Times of Israel
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian on the IAF’s complicated mission to hit Houthi ports; continued airstrikes in Lebanon targeting top Hamas, Hezbollah leaders; and the war in Gaza
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Source: Daily Briefing Sept. 30: Day 360 – After Yemen port airstrikes, Israel tells Iran, ‘Don’t’
WATCH LIVE: President Trump Delivers Remarks in Valdosta, Georgia After Hurricane Helene Briefing | The Gateway Pundit
President Trump received a briefing on Hurricane Helene this morning and is scheduled to speak to the press at 2 pm ET.
Watch live below.
Over 100 people have reportedly died in the hurricane’s more than 500-mile path of destruction across multiple states in the Southeast region.
Here’s a look at some of the damage inflicted by Hurricane Helene via AJ Huber on X:
BREAKING: President Trump just announced a visit to Valdosta, Georgia to distribute relief supplies in the wake of Hurricane Helene and deliver remarks to the press. Some ask where is Trump? He’s helping the people even before he got elected! Where is Kamala? Where is Biden? pic.twitter.com/gNBTntTQRE
— AJ Huber (@Huberton) September 29, 2024
The Gateway Pundit reported earlier that President Trump is being debriefed and speaking to the press in Georgia while Kamala Harris, the so-called Vice President, pretends to be “in constant contact with state and local officials to ensure communities have the support and resources they need.” By the way, where the hell is Joe Biden? Is he still the President?
After a closer look at the photo Kamala Harris posted to millions of Americans on X, claiming she’s speaking to FEMA and Governors of impacted states, anyone can see that the headphones she’s wearing aren’t even plugged into her phone as she purports to take notes on her so-called briefing. She’s not speaking to anyone!
President Trump posted on Truth Social at 11:42 am ET:
We are now heading to Valdosta, Georgia, in order to pay my respects and bring lots of relief material, including fuel, equipment, water, and other things, to the State. Many politicians and Law Enforcement will be there. We’ll be saying hello to Franklin Graham, Burt Jones, Tyler Harper, Mike Collins, Austin Scott, Russ Goodman, Sam Watson, and the Mayor of Valdosta Scott James. They are working very hard. I was also going to stop into North Carolina, which has really been hit hard. I have a lot of supplies ready for them, but access and communication is now restricted, and we want to make sure that Local Emergency Management is able to focus on helping the people most affected, and not being concerned with me. I’ll be there shortly, but don’t like the reports that I’m getting about the Federal Government, and the Democrat Governor of the State, going out of their way to not help people in Republican areas. MAGA!
President Trump also told the press earlier, “The federal government is not being responsive.” He continued, “They’re having a very hard time getting the President on the phone; he won’t get on, and of course, the Vice President, she’s out someplace campaigning, looking for money.”
“They’re being very nonresponsive,” Trump said.
The post WATCH LIVE: President Trump Delivers Remarks in Valdosta, Georgia After Hurricane Helene Briefing appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
4% of Haiti’s Entire Population Has Entered U.S. Under Biden-Harris – And That’s Not All | LifeZette
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have been importing an astonishing number of third-world Haitians into the country. That’s right. The administration has been actively arranging and paying for Haitian “migrants” to fly into the U.S. More on this below, but first, we need to prepare the ground.
It’s astonishing reading news articles in 2024 to prepare for an article like this one you’re reading on Wokespy. Yours truly was a working newspaper reporter about 25 years ago during the very last period in which news organizations still believed, at least partially, in reporting the facts, not editorializing with a political slant. Not so now. In preparing another article about the allegations by Springfield, Ohio residents who claim Haitians are stealing ducks and geese (and household pets) from local parks and neighborhoods, I could not find one story that didn’t sound like a press release from the Democratic National Committee.
Every single headline and lead sentence said something like, “Vance and Trump repeat baseless claims,” or “Vance claims cats getting eaten without evidence.” There’s a big problem: these claims are not baseless, and it is not true that there is “no evidence.” There is plenty of evidence, and it is the same kind of evidence introduced in actual court proceedings: eyewitness testimony and police reports.
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Yet even liberal mainstream media cannot deny every fact. Take this article from Newsweek. The angle is to big up the Biden administration, and Kamala Harris, for an alleged 70 percent drop in illegal border crossings recently. But read carefully. The drop only came after Biden was forced to take action after pressure from Republicans furious at the millions of illegals the administration is welcoming into the U.S. with no vetting. And the drop wouldn’t have been so large in percentage terms if the Biden-Harris admin didn’t let border crossings explode in the first place.
Buried deep in the Newsweek article is this bit of truth. It’s a quote from Customs and Border Patrol: “Through the end of August 2024, nearly 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans arrived lawfully on commercial flights and were granted parole under these processes.”
That’s right. Half a million “migrants” “arrived lawfully” on “commercial flights.” Half a million got a free plane ticket to the U.S. Does any of this sound sane?
There’s another way to look at the numbers that may wake some people up to what’s going on. X (Twitter) user “datahazard” has compiled a chart showing the percentage of each foreign country’s population that has been whisked into the United States.
We’ve brought in six percent of the populations of Nicaragua, Cuba, and Honduras, plus four percent of Haiti’s population… To check out the rest of this story, visit WokeSpy.
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WATCH: A Disaster of Another Kind Strikes When Biden Is Asked Why He Was at the Beach in Midst of Helene
New Study Claims to Expose True ‘Consequences of Anti-Biblical Worldview’ | Faithwire
A new study claims to expose the true “consequences of anti-biblical worldview,” finding a refusal or inability to see the effects of harmful beliefs could lead to serious issues.
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According to Dr. George Barna of the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University, hundreds of thousands of people seeking mental health assistance and medications could be simply “treating the wrong problem.”
The analysis comes at an interesting time, as it’s no secret Americans are struggling with mental health issues, with 23% of adults suffering from some related ailment.
And the statistics are even more disturbing among young Americans. Just consider: 33% of Millennials and Gen Zers are estimated to have “one or more diagnosable mental disorders,” according to Barna.
With these statistics in mind, Barna proclaims in his most recent research that depression, fear, and anxiety issues might be rooted in something deeper. The researcher was careful to note not all mental health problems are caused by worldview matters, though he explained how various perspectives could potentially impact such issues.
“The research instead indicates that those are often symptoms of an unhealthy worldview that
produces and reinforces the emergence of anxiety, depression, fear, and even suicidal thoughts,” the results read. “Instead of turning to mental health treatments, the best prescription for millions of Americans is to embrace a more reliable and proven worldview.”
Ultimately, Barna, who uses data from the American Worldview Inventory conducted by the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University, argues in his latest research that “worldview is … party responsible for mental health.”
He found something quite fascinating: “Individuals who lack a biblical worldview are more likely to struggle with” issues, including “frequent presence of anxiety, depression, or significant fear.”
Barna found that 56% of Gen Z reported experiencing regular battles with anxiety, fear, or depression in the past year. Unsurprisingly, this generation has the lowest prevalence of biblical worldview.
And other young generations are experiencing similar patterns.
“Roughly half of Millennials (49%) have frequently entertained anxiety, depression, or major episodes of
fear, while only 2% of that generation holds a biblical worldview,” Barna’s report reads.
Beyond that, Barna’s research determined some common beliefs the researcher said can produce frequent battles with anxiety, depression, or fear.
These issues “conflict with biblical teachings” and focus on a number of factors, including a rejection or apathy toward God, feeling no purpose in life, and the rejection of absolute morality and truth, among others.
These beliefs, among others, contribute to some of the aforementioned issues. However, gratitude and acknowledgment of God seem to be some of the most important factors at play.
“Individuals who are less likely to suffer from those challenges are substantially more likely to consciously make time to thank, praise, and worship God every day, to attend church services every week; and to commit to knowing and doing God’s will each day,” the report reads.
Ultimately, Barna said people shouldn’t dismiss mental health issues or treatments, but that the research raises some important issues about how worldview can impact human beings.
“This research does raise the possibility that there are also situations where a patient suffering from a
psychological or emotional disorder attributable to worldview components that trigger and sustain the
condition,” he said.
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