Abraham Accords, Daniel, Edomites, Ezekiel 38, Gaza, Judea, Psalm 83, United States, Yair Lapid
JNS: Israel’s 36th government passed a vote of confidence at a special Knesset session on Sunday night with Yamina Party leader Naftali Bennett sworn in as the country’s 13th prime minister.
“It is an abomination to kings to do evil, for the throne is established by righteousness.” Proverbs 16:12
Bennett has replaced now-former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who held the position for the past 12 years and who served another three years prior to that, from 1996 to 1999, making him the longest-serving premier in Israel’s history. With the transfer of power, Netanyahu became the head of the opposition, replacing Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid, who, according to a rotation agreement with Bennett, will serve as foreign minister for two years and then assume the role of prime minister.
The special Knesset session on Sunday began with a speech by Bennett, in which he presented the composition of his Cabinet. His address was interrupted several times by shouts of “liar” and “vote thief” on the part of disgruntled right-wing and haredi rivals in the plenum. Read More
PJ Media: COVID shutdowns championed by U.S. governors and D.C. bureaucrats are responsible for destroying nearly 40% of small businesses since the virus was unleashed on the world—and we know now that it was for little to no damned good reason. A study by the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences revealed recently that shutdown orders made little to no difference in COVID’s impact. From the abstract of the study:
“When the righteous [a]are in authority, the people rejoice;
But when a wicked man rules, the people groan.” Proverbs 29:2
“Previous studies have claimed that shelter-in-place orders saved thousands of lives, but we reassess these analyses and show that they are not reliable. We find that shelter-in-place orders had no detectable health benefits, only modest effects on behavior, and small but adverse effects on the economy. To be clear, our study should not be interpreted as evidence that social distancing behaviors are not effective. Many people had already changed their behaviors before the introduction of shelter-in-place orders, and shelter-in-place orders appear to have been ineffective precisely because they did not meaningfully alter social distancing behavior.” [Emphasis added]
And it should have been evident for those caring to look. Read More
New American: As Joe Biden attends the Group of Seven (G-7) summit in England this weekend, he seeks to put an end to the America First agenda that characterized the Trump administration’s approach to foreign policy.
“A ruler who lacks understanding is a cruel oppressor, but he who hates unjust gain will prolong his days.” Proverbs 28:16 ESV
The signal from Biden is that the United States will be much more open to international partnerships and initiatives than it was under his predecessor.
“Biden’s taking a much less isolationist approach [that] will spur that good will and he needs to keep doing that,” said John Hudak, who serves as a senior fellow at the left-wing Brookings Institution, before the summit got underway.
“This summit is the first big step in showing the world that America is back to the position it once held,” Hudak added.
The Biden way of conducting foreign affairs differs from President Trump’s, which was often a relatively “tough” one which included demands that allies pay their fair share for regional defense spending for which America provides the bulk of capital and services. Read More
Christianity, days of Noah, Evangelicals, Lot, Nephilim, same-sex marriage, transgender, UFO's
Breitbart: A veritable tidal wave of gay representation has washed over children’s TV shows, with a 222 percent increase in LGBTQ characters and stories between 2017 and 2019 alone.
As June Pride Month continues, Insider took stock of children’s TV and found that in the last decade, cartoons and live-action shows aimed at kids on networks including Disney, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and others have seen an explosion of gay content.
In one bullet point, for instance, Insider discovered that gay content aimed at kids had increased a tremendous amount in only a few years:
Ursula, Bugs Bunny, and Asami Sato. They are three of the 259 LGBTQ characters Insider found in cartoons.
Queer culture has historically been present in this space. But, small-screen LGBTQ representation both exploded and shifted over the past decade. https://t.co/h2WhmIPhfU pic.twitter.com/VzphTmG10V
— Insider (@thisisinsider) June 10, 2021
From 2017 to 2019 alone, we found a 222% increase in representations of LGBTQ identity. In 2019 a total of 74 newly-debuted or confirmed LGBTQ characters made their way to the screen. Read More
WND: The latest data confirms that implementing the policies that wrecked the economy back in the 1970s will have the same result today, warns economic journalist Charlie Gasparino.
“Bidenomics isn’t working. It’s built on a lot of wishful thinking, and a lot of cash,” he wrote. “Post-COVID, the economy will grow on its own, so you have to ask whether all this spending is worth the inflationary risk.”
“For the Lord your God will bless you as he has promised, and you will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. You will rule over many nations but none will rule over you.” Deuteronomy 15:6
The 5% spike in the consumer price index announced Thursday is the highest level in 13 years, noted Gasparino, a correspodent for the Fox Business Network.
“And it’s not like we weren’t warned this was coming,” he said
The two main factors causing inflation are at work today, “on steroids,” he said, the Federal Reserve keeping interest rates too low for too long and massive government expenditures. . Read More
LifeSite: Republicans’ support for same-sex “marriage” has climbed to a record high, with those favoring it outnumbering those who don’t. At the same time, the number of Americans in a “marriage” to someone of the same sex has declined since 2017.
“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting.” Romans 1:28
Polling giant Gallup reports that a whopping 55% of Republicans now condone “marriage” between same-sex spouses, as do 83% of Democrats and 73% of Independents. Overall, 70% of Americans support “marriages” between gays and lesbians.
There’s a great irony in the fact that other Gallup polling shows that there has been a steady decrease in interest in homosexual “marriages” among gays and lesbians since 2017, two years after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex “marriage” across the land. Read More
Jewish Press: Unless something very unexpected happens, Israel will finally get a government this coming Sunday.
I’m conflicted. I voted for Naftali Bennett and I’m happy that he will be Prime Minister, albeit in rotation with Yair Lapid, of whom I am less fond. But many elements of the agreements that the eight parties that will be in the government have signed with each other are troubling. Although they have not been officially made public, a TV news program released what it said were the details.
“The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.’ Proverbs 17:3 KJV
One of the provisions is said to be that any PM who serves eight years will have to take a four year hiatus before running again; and during this period he can’t even run for the Knesset. I am in favor of limiting the term of the PM, but it can’t be done in a retroactive way – that makes it a “personal” law aimed at one specific individual. And we know who that is.
Another provision is that if the government falls as a result of a vote of no confidence, Naftali Bennett will not be permitted to be a minister in the succeeding government. Read More
Zero Hedge: For the past several months we have warned about the pernicious effects soaring prices are having on both corporations (“Buckle Up! Inflation Is Here!“) and consumers (“”This Is Not Transitory”: Hyperinflation Fears Are Soaring Across America“), prompting even otherwise boring sellside research to get (hyper) exciting, with Deutsche Bank (which warned this week that “Inflation Is About To Explode “Leaving Global Economies Sitting On A Time Bomb“”) and Bank of America (which “Just Threw Up All Over The Fed’s “Transitory” Argument“) now openly claiming that the Fed is wrong, and the US is facing an unprecedented period of far higher, non-transitory inflation, with DB going so far as to warn “policymakers will face the most challenging years since the Volcker/Reagan period in the 1980s.”
” … and do not harm the oil and the wine.” Revelation 6:6
But none of this has spooked the Fed into conceding – or believing – that inflation is anything more than transitory. And maybe just this once, the Fed has a point because all else equal, by which we mean lack of rising wages, the best cure to higher prices is, well… higher prices.
Presenting Exhibit A: two weeks ago, we observed that anticipating an end to Biden’s stimmy bonanza end and that soon they will have to live again within their means, Americans’ buying intentions (6 months from today) as measured by the Conference Board, had cratered across the 3 major spending categories: homes, automobiles and major household appliances. Read More
central bank digital currency, helicopter money, UBI, unemployment
Free Beacon: President Biden and congressional Democrats are pushing to make abortion a foreign policy priority for the United States.
Following the Biden administration’s decision to lift the ban on foreign aid for abortion providers, congressional Democrats are calling for the State Department to consider abortion in its assessment of global human rights. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.) and Bob Menendez (N.J.) introduced an act to require the State Department to include abortion access in its annual reports on international human rights.
“And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord.” Leviticus 18:21
The bill identifies a lack of access to abortion as a human rights violation. “Reproductive coercion, which is any behavior that interferes with autonomous decision making about reproductive health outcomes, is a violation of human rights,” the resolution says.
“The bill would require the U.S. State Department to include reproductive rights in its annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices – including reports on the adoption of national policies to promote access to contraception, maternal health care and family planning services – to help ensure accountability around abuses on these rights,” the lawmakers said in a statement.
Biden drew objections from Republicans when he removed domestic protections against taxpayer funding for abortions from his $6 trillion budget proposal. Read More