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Star-Telegram: The road to a Texas law that bans most abortions in the state, sidestepping for now the Supreme Court’s landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, began in a town called Waskom, population 1,600.
The Supreme Court’s decision this past week not to interfere with the state’s strict abortion law, provoked outrage from liberals and cheers from many conservatives. President Joe Biden assailed it. But the decision also astonished many that Texas could essentially outmaneuver Supreme Court precedent on women’s constitutional right to abortion.
“Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. Psalm 139:16
Texas’ abortion law, S.B. 8, follows a model first used in Waskom to ban abortion within its boundaries in 2019. The novel legal approach used by the city on Texas’ border with Louisiana is one envisioned by a former top lawyer for the state.
Right to Life East Texas director Mark Lee Dickson, 36, a Southern Baptist minister, championed Waskom’s abortion ban. Through his state senator, Bryan Hughes, he met Jonathan F. Mitchell, a former top lawyer for the state of Texas. Mitchell became his attorney and advised him on crafting the ordinance, Dickson said in an interview. Read More
Zero Hedge: Several reports began to trickle in over the weekend about planes stuck in Afghanistan which are trying to evacuate stranded Americans and Afghan allies.
“When the righteous increase, the people rejoice,
But when a wicked man rules, people groAN” Proverbs 29:2
While a ‘senior Congressional source’ told CBS News on Sunday that ‘the Taliban won’t let them leave,’ several new sources have come forward to blame the Biden State Department for preventing the flights from leaving earlier in the weekend.
“The State Department is the sole entity preventing their charter flights from leaving Afghanistan,” one of the rescuers told Fox.
“This is zero place to be negotiating with American lives. Those are our people standing on the tarmac and all it takes is a X%$$#% phone call,” one of the rescuers told Fox News. “If one life is lost as a result of this, the blood is on the White House’s hands. The blood is on their hands,” that individual said, adding: “It is not the Taliban that is holding this up – as much as it sickens me to say that – it is the United States government.” Read More
Pal Watch: In a massive show of force, armed gunmen from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades held “a military exercise” in the streets of the Palestinian city of Jenin.
As a result of its active participation in terror and direct responsibility for the murder of hundreds of Israelis, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades has been designated as a terror organization by Israel, the US, Canada, the European Union and others.
“Because the Lord has sworn: the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.” Exodus 17:16
The demonstration of force by the terrorists raises a number of questions:
For many years, the international community in general, and the US in particular, have donated hundreds of millions of dollars to establish and build the security forces of the Palestinian Authority. These PA Security Forces are meant to be fighting terror. So how can an internationally designated terror organization openly conduct a “military exercise” in broad daylight in the middle of a Palestinian city? Where were the PA Security Forces?
To answer these questions one need look no further than the identity of the organization that published the pictures.
The above pictures and others were posted on the Facebook page of the Fatah Commission of Information and Culture.
Fatah is headed by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas Read More
New American: Sheila Weinberg, the founder of the non-partisan think tank Truth in Accounting (TIA), spoke the truth. In an interview with the Epoch Times on Thursday she said, “Our bottom line is the [Social Security] trust funds are all a shell game; there is no money in the trust funds.”
“The rich rules over the poor,
And the borrower is servant to the lender.” Proverbs 22:7
What resides in those trust funds for Social Security and Medicare are debt securities. The “premiums” workers have been paying in are immediately spent to fund the government, but to keep the scam from blowing up, the Treasury Department issues IOUs to the Social Security Administration — promises to redeem them at some undetermined time in the future.
These are not assets. They are liabilities.
Weinberg, who founded Truth in Accounting (TIA) 20 years ago, explains that “the federal debt [estimated currently at $28 trillion] only tells us what the government owes the public. It doesn’t take into account what’s owed to seniors, veterans and retired [government] employees.”
According to TIA, the real federal deficit exceeds $133 trillion. Read More …
Zero Hedge: In the early days of the virus pandemic, we covered multiple stories involving drones equipped with thermal optic sensors and artificial intelligence to detect if a person was feverish. More than a year later, this dystopic technology has been deployed over Italian beaches.
“Can the prey be taken from the mighty, or the captives of a tyrant be rescued? Isaiah 49:24 ESV
According to RT News, citing local Italian media, so-called “medical drones” will hover over the beaches of Ostia, a neighborhood of Rome, on Saturday and Sunday, using thermal optic sensors to measure beachgoers’ temperatures to identify those who may be infected with COVID-19.
Ostia health officials said the drone utilizes artificial intelligence to “automatically” measures temperatures of beachgoers while hovering at an altitude of 75-90 feet. The officials said the initial flight is part of a pilot program and will begin this weekend between 11 am and 4 pm local time.
“When the drone detects a person with a fever, it identifies them and alerts the medical surveillance team,” the officials said. “Doctors then arrive at the site for investigation, which can lead to a Covid-19 test.”
Friday’s jobs miss adds fuel to the phenomenon we wrote about two months ago. Back in July (“A Structural Inflation Shock“) we quoted veteran commodity hedge fund manager Doug King assessment of the commodity markets, via Bloomberg’s interview with him then:
Commodities are back, and from pension funds to physical commodity traders, everyone is making money. The question now is whether it’s a temporary snapback from the pandemic or signals a longer-term shift in the structure of the global economy. King is in no doubt.
“We are facing a structural inflation shock,” King said. “There’s a lot of pent up demand, and everyone wants everything now, right now.”
For the first time since the pre-crisis years before 2008, the commodities boom means central banks are fretting about inflation.
After speculating about whether this may be the start of a new commodity supercycle, Bloomberg’s Javier Blas gave Doug King the last word: “This is the beginning of a proper boom cycle — this isn’t a transitory spike.” Read More
WND: “I respect those who believe life begins in the moment of conception – I respect that,” he told reporters at a press conference. “Don’t agree but I respect that.”
"Those who believe life begins at the moment of conception and all, I respect that – don't agree, but I respect that."
President Biden, a Catholic, reacts to Texas' heartbeat law. pic.twitter.com/O9f0Uwdupc
— Catherine Hadro (@CatHadro) September 3, 2021
In contrast, Biden said in a 2015 interview that he was “prepared to accept that at the moment of conception there’s human life and being, but I’m not prepared to say that to other God-fearing, non-God-fearing people that have a different view.
Biden in 2015: "I'm prepared to accept that the moment of conception is a human life and being." pic.twitter.com/1ZPCVWjxJY
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) September 3, 2021
In 2008, he said he was “prepared as a matter of faith to accept that life begins at the moment of conception.”
James 1:5-8 “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. 6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; 8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.”
Times of Israel: Portugal and Sweden have decided to bar entry to Israeli nationals amid soaring coronavirus infections in the Jewish state, a move some other European nations are expected to follow.
Israelis scheduled to fly Thursday to Portugal were prevented from checking in at Ben Gurion Airport. The Swedish ban will take effect on Monday, a representative from the Swedish embassy in Tel Aviv told The Times of Israel.
“I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” Genesis 12:3
Their decisions came after the European Union on Monday removed Israel from a list of nations deemed “epidemiologically safe.”
Though vaccination rates in Israel are among the world’s highest, Portugal and Sweden have their eyes on the elevated case numbers and aren’t making exceptions for Israelis who are vaccinated or recovered from COVID-19. The two countries only accept European Union vaccination certificates.
Their decisions came after the European Union on Monday removed Israel from a list of nations deemed “epidemiologically safe.” Read More
Aljazeera: Syrian air defences have shot down missiles fired by Israel in the skies over the capital, Damascus, SANA state news agency said early on Friday.
“At around 1:26 am today, the Israeli enemy carried out an air aggression from the direction southeast of Beirut, targeting some points in the vicinity of the city of Damascus,” a Syrian military source was quoted as saying in a statement carried by SANA.
“The burden against Damascus.
“Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city,
And it will be a ruinous heap. Isaiah 17:1
Syrian TV showed scenes of air defences shooting at targets over the city.
“Our air defence confronted the aggressor’s missiles and shot down most of them, and the losses were limited to materiel,” the statement said.
The sound of the roaring Israeli planes flying at a low altitude over the areas on the outskirts of Beirut was heard at dawn on Friday, witnesses said. Read More