MUSLIM SCOUTED LANDMARK SITES IN BOSTON, NYC, & D.C., INCLUDING FENWAY PARK & STATUE OF LIBERTY FOR JIHAD MASSACRES

SEE: https://morristowngreen.com/2019/09/19/morristown-man-indicted-on-terrorism-charges-allegedly-scouted-nyc-targets-for-hezbollah/comment-page-1/

MUSLIM SCOUTED LANDMARK SITES IN BOSTON, NYC, & D.C., INCLUDING FENWAY PARK & STATUE OF LIBERTY FOR JIHAD MASSACRES

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/09/muslim-scouted-landmark-sites-in-boston-nyc-and-dc-including-fenway-park-and-statue-of-liberty-for-jihad-massacres; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

Hizballah, being a wholly owned and operated subsidiary of the Islamic Republic of Iran, may be looking to mount attacks in the United States now, in view of the increasing tensions. It has had sleeper cells here for years. Back in 2008, I quoted an intelligence agent in my book Stealth Jihadwho had picked up on Hizballah cell communications in the U.S. They were saying that they were doing so well in attaining their goals without jihad terror attacks that there was no need to mount any at time; they would only bring unwanted scrutiny. That may be changing.

Alexei Saab is also known as Ali Hassan Saab or Rachid.



“Alexei Saab of New Jersey accused of scouting Fenway Park, Prudential Center and Quincy Market for possible Hezbollah terrorist attacks,” by Scott J. Croteau, MassLive.com, September 19, 2019:


A 42-year-old New Jersey man is facing federal charges in New York after authorities say he was supporting a terrorist group and scouting locations in New York, Boston and Washington D.C. for possible attacks.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced that Alexei Saab, of Morristown, New Jersey, is facing nine federal charges related to his support for Hezbollah, an Islamic militant group based in Lebanon….

Saab, according to investigators, admitted to taking pictures of Quincy Market and the Prudential Center. Photographs also showed Saab had conducted surveillance on Fenway Park.

Saab, while living in the United States, served as an operative for the terrorist group and conducted surveillance of possible target locations to help the foreign terrorist organization prepare for potential future attacks against the United States, authorities said….

Authorities say Saab joined the terrorist organization in 1996 and his first operation was in Lebanon, where he was tasked with observing and reporting on the movements of Israeli and Southern Lebanese Army soldiers in Yaroun, Lebanon….

Saab’s first training was in 1999 where he allegedly learned to use an AK-47, an M16 rifle, and a pistol, and grenades. In 2004 and 2005, Saab attended explosives training in Lebanon, the federal records said.

It was in 2000, that Saab lawfully entered the United States using a Lebanese passport.

“In 2005, SAAB applied for naturalized citizenship and falsely affirmed, under penalty of perjury, that he had never been ‘a member of or in any way associated with . . . a terrorist organization’,” records said.

He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in August 2008.

Authorities claim Saab surveilled dozens of locations in New York City including the United Nations headquarters, the Statue of Liberty, Rockefeller Center, Times Square, the Empire State Building, and local airports, tunnels, and bridges – and provided detailed information on these locations, including photographs.

Saab allegedly conducted operations overseas and attempted to kill a man he believed was a suspected Israeli spy….

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SEE ALSO: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/10/muslim-joins-hizballah-

then-migrates-to-us-then-goes-to-turkey-for-explosives-and-weapons-training 

NEW STUDY SHOWS TAP WATER CAN CAUSE CANCER~ARSENIC, DISINFECTION BYPRODUCTS & RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINANTS PRESENT IN LOCAL WATER SYSTEMS

NEW STUDY SHOWS TAP WATER CAN CAUSE CANCER~ARSENIC, DISINFECTION BYPRODUCTS & RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINANTS PRESENT 

IN LOCAL WATER SYSTEMS

SEE: https://www.infowars.com/new-study-shows-tap-water-can-cause-cancer/;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

A new study reveals tap water in the U.S. may contain harmful carcinogens that can cause cancer.

“The majority of this risk is due to the presence of arsenic, disinfection byproducts and radioactive contaminants,” reads the study, conducted by the Environmental Working Group.

An estimated 100,000 lifetime cancer cases could be attributed to the carcinogens, the study states, about 4 per 10,000 people, according to USA Today.

More on the study from USA Today:


The study, funded by the Park Foundation, compiled a list of 22 contaminants with carcinogenic risks present in 48,363 community water systems in the United States, which EWG estimates serve about 86% of the U.S. population. Based on a cumulative risk assessment, EWG found that per 10,000 people, four will have cancer over the span of the lifetime due to the contaminants in water.


EWG researchers say legal levels of tap water contaminants set by the federal government can still cause cancer.

“The vast majority of community water systems meet legal standards,” EWG vice president for science investigations Olga Naidenko said. “Yet the latest research shows that contaminants present in the water at those concentrations — perfectly legal — can still harm human health.”

The study concludes contaminants in drinking water need to be reduced in order to protect public health.

Read the study here: https://www.heliyon.com/article/e02314

PFIZER TESTING VACCINES ON HEALTHY PREGNANT WOMEN IN NATIONWIDE TRIAL

PFIZER TESTING VACCINES ON HEALTHY PREGNANT WOMEN IN NATIONWIDE TRIAL 

“Why in the world would anyone allow their unborn child to be a test subject?!”

BY KELEN MCBREEN

SEE: https://www.infowars.com/pfizer-testing-vaccines-on-healthy-pregnant-women-in-nationwide-trial/; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

A nationwide study is testing vaccines on healthy pregnant women who are expecting healthy babies in an attempt to cure RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus), “a relatively mild, cold-like illness that clears up in a week or two.”

ClinicalTrials.gov shows Big Pharma giant Pfizer as the sponsor and responsible party for the study.

The clinical trial calls for 650 women between 18 and 49 years of age with a gestational age between 24 and 36 weeks on the day of the study injection.



According to the RSV clinical research website, “The SAVVY study is assessing the safety of an investigational RSV vaccine given to healthy pregnant women.”

“The study will also measure immune system response to a single study injection to evaluate the role the investigational vaccine may potentially play in protecting a baby’s health,” the website continues.

Participants in the study will be subjected to one of five vaccines containing either one of four investigational RSV vaccines or a placebo.

The four investigational vaccines injected into test subjects will either be an average RSV dose with or without aluminum hydroxide, or a “higher” RSV dose with or without aluminum hydroxide.



The mothers will “record their temperature and any vaccination-site swelling or redness in an electronic diary (e-diary) for 7 consecutive days at home beginning the day of vaccination.”

Both the mothers and infants will continue to participate in the trial for 12 months after delivery with 5 study visits scheduled and additional visits scheduled as needed.

The study is being carried out at 88 test locations in 19 different states.



Many mothers are questioning whether or not it’s worth becoming a guinea pig and subjecting their healthy babies to untested vaccines in order to protect the children from an ailment that “typically results in a relatively mild, cold-like illness that clears up in a week or two.”

One of the test locations, the Diagnostic Clinic of Longview in Longview, Texas, promoted the study in a Facebook post on Monday and received major backlash from commenters.

Over 300 Facebook users commented on the post and nearly every person asked something along the lines of “Who in their right mind would subject their healthy baby to an experimental vaccine?”

One comment on the deleted post read, “Why in the world would anyone allow their unborn child to be a test subject?!”

Following the critical reactions, the Texas clinic took down the post, however, a savvy internet user captured a screenshot of the now-deleted advertisement that can be seen below:



The clinic addressed the removal of the RSV study trial advertisement, saying, “We have removed a recent post from our page due to the number of biased comments being directed at our patients, employees and doctors,” but failed to provide any proof.

Now, people are criticizing the test study on the clinic’s new post, with one Facebook user asking, “How is it ethical to test vaccines on pregnant women and unborn babies?”



A similar study of the RSV F vaccine, sponsored by Novavax in collaboration with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, tested 4,600 participants and was completed in July 2019.

RTMagazine.com reported, “The Prepare trial is supported by a grant of up to $89.1 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Fund.”


Del Bigtree joins David Knight to discuss the flu vaccine and the myths behind it.

He gets into lawsuits that have been swept under the radar, as well gives information on how vaccines have been linked to autism.

THREATENED BY SOCIAL CREDIT SCORE, CHRISTIANS IN CHINA REPLACE TEN COMMANDMENTS WITH XI JINPING QUOTES

THREATENED BY SOCIAL CREDIT SCORE, CHRISTIANS IN CHINA REPLACE TEN COMMANDMENTS WITH 

XI JINPING QUOTES

Chinese Communist Party wants to “become God”

BY KIT DANIELS

SEE: https://www.infowars.com/threatened-by-social-credit-score-christians-in-china-replace-ten-commandments-with-xi-jinping-quotes/; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

China is forcing Christian churches to replace the Ten Commandments with quotes from Chinese President Xi Jinping by threatening to ban congregations from work and travel.

The Chinese Communist Party is trying to “sinicize” Christianity in China which is officially atheist, according to a journalist who covers religious liberty in the country.

“Implementing its ultimate goal of becoming the sole deity revered in China, the CCP continues to smother the Christian doctrine, replacing it with the party line,” he wrote. “The Ten Commandments are the basis of Christian moral code, an essential part of believers’ life throughout the world.”



“But in atheist China, they have become an eyesore for the country’s dictator, and are eliminated from places of worship.”

In particular, the Ten Commandments have been removed from every Three-Self protestant church near Luoyang, and some of the churches were even shut down for refusing to do so.

The enforcement is aided by China’s social credit score, which scores citizens by their government compliance – and citizens with poor scores are unable to work and travel.

“Some congregations have been threatened to be blacklisted by the government, meaning that their travels will be restricted and schooling and future employment of their offspring will be impeded if they refused to overhaul their churches according to the current national policies,” the journalist reported. “Disobeying the orders means opposition to the Communist Party, officials claimed.”

One of the Xi Jinping quotes is from 2015 when the party leader said China’s “religious thought, doctrines, and teachings” need to conform “with the needs of the progress of the times.”

PATRICK HENRY COLLEGE: GOVERNMENT INTELLIGENCE ANALYST, COUNTER-TERRORISM EXPERT ISSUES WARNING ABOUT PULPIT & PEN, "EVANGELICAL DARK WEB"

HOMESCHOOLERS BE WARNED!

ABOVE: BRIAN AUTEN

SEE: https://www.phc.edu/faculty/bjauten

ABOVE: 

Dr. Michael P. Farris is Chancellor Emeritus of Patrick Henry College and Chairman and General Counsel of the Home School Legal Defense Association.

In 2000, Dr. Farris became the founding president of another unique educational venture: Patrick Henry College. PHC is a four-year Christian college with the mission of training students through a classical liberal arts curriculum and apprenticeship methodology to impact the world “for Christ and for Liberty.” 

GOVERNMENT INTELLIGENCE ANALYST, COUNTER-TERRORISM EXPERT ISSUES WARNING ABOUT 

"PULPIT & PEN", "EVANGELICAL DARK WEB" 

SEE: https://pulpitandpen.org/2019/09/05/govt-intelligence-analyst-counterterrorism-expert-issues-warning-about-pp-evangelical-dark-web/; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

A United States government intelligence analyst and counter-terrorism expert has issued a warning about Pulpit & Pen and what he calls the so-called “Evangelical Dark Web.” The analyst has evaluated the influence of our “insurgency” and then issued bullet-points for how to best resist our influence.







Brian Auten is a counter-terrorism expert, a “supervisory intelligence analyst with the United States government” and also serves as an adjunct professor in the Department of Government at Patrick Henry College. Putting his intelligence experience to use, Auten gave a briefing to the Social Justice Warriors and evangelical leftists about increasing growth and influence of the “Evangelical Dark Web” (as he calls it).

Auten, who has been analyzing the “exploding interest in more communitarian aspects of church life and the integration of the gospel with what might be labeled “progressive” social justice concerns” since at least 2009, also teaches Counterterrorism at PHC’s Special Intelligence Program. He writes for the Roman Catholic and ecumenical First Things, and serves the Center for Public Justice, a leftist think-tank with political Dark Money funding. The Center for Public Justice regularly partners with the progressive National Association of Evangelicals and the liberal Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC).







The article from the intelligence analyst, entitled Notes on the Evangelical Dark Web, says…


The “evangelical dark web” is a designation adopted by a group of evangelical social media personalities and bloggers centered around a few various web sites such as For the Christian Intellectual, Pulpit and Pen, Sovereign Nations, and Enemies Within the Church. The movement is a self-proclaimed insurgency meant to combat perceived liberalism in other evangelical organizations and denominations. While it’s own positions are broadly in keeping with the political beliefs of the old guard Religious Right, it’s rhetorical positioning is more in keeping with a neo-fundamentalist stream of evangelicalism.


Defining the so-called Evangelical Dark Web…








One could assert that the self-proclaimed “evangelical dark web” is insurgent in character. Its overall aim is institutional takeover. Its intermediate aim is intellectual capture of the “target population” (e.g. 18-30 year old conservative evangelicals, particularly males).

Its strategy is multi-form and typical for insurgencies:

*embarrass the regime in power

*make it [the regime] appear weak and corrupt







*create (online) zones of counter-control

*tempt the regime in power to over-respond in a heavy-handed and/or inept manner

*through expansion of its captured target population over time, overwhelm the regime.

Its primary tactic: the rhetorical hammer.


To be honest, that’s pretty accurate. Auten is probably a good intelligence analyst.

Really…stone-cold accurate. Well done.

However, then the counterterrorism expert informed his Evangelical Intelligentsia reading base how to run counter-insurgency attacks and defenses against the Evangelical Dark Web:


Granting that characterization, an obvious question for those orthodox Protestant Christians who reject the evangelical dark web is how to run an effective counterinsurgency against the “evangelical dark web?” These are some embryonic thoughts:

Counterinsurgency has three traditional components: isolate and degrade insurgent activity, build target audience resiliency (e.g. strengthen, defend, and counter-radicalize), and lastly, if and where needed, reform the at-risk regime.


Well, this advice is nothing new. As I wrote back in 2014, citing Nicolaus Klein (although the quotation is often attributed to Gandhi), “First they ignore you. Then, they ridicule you. Then, they attack you and burn you. And then, they build monuments to you.”

Ridiculing or mocking is what Auten means by, “isolate and degrade insurgent activity.”

Then, also as I explained back in 2014 in the hyperlink above, they then attack. This is what Auten means by “counter-radicalize.”

By “counter-radicalize,” Auten does not mean that the Intelligentsia should themselves attack, but that they should radicalize their minions to do it for them (like the ERLC uses its Research Fellows). In fact, Auten clarifies that the worst thing our enemies could do is to address us directly.

Auten writes, “A critique of the evangelical dark web by the Gospel Coalition, ERLC, the New York Times, Washington Post, or the Southern Poverty Law Center, or a byline by Emma Green, Peter Wehner, John Fea, Warren Throckmorton, et. al. will backfire and easily become ammunition for the next round of attacks.”

Spot on advice.

I’m not trying to help the enemy, but eventually, their ego gets the best of them and when they directly respond, they lose…every time. Their only option, should they want to survive, is to ignore or retreat.

However, it’s the third stage of resistance that Auten begrudgingly suggests that I’m most interested in. Auten writes, “and lastly, if and where needed, reform the at-risk regime.”

If the “regime” would just reform to begin with, we wouldn’t have to be out doing ideological guerrilla warfare in the first place.

According to Auten, the Evangelical Dark Web includes For the New Christian Intellectual, Pulpit & Pen, Sovereign Nations, The Capstone Report, and Enemies Within the Church.

I don’t speak for any of the other organizations, but I will go on record as saying there is a resistance.

There are many of us, thousands upon thousands, who are the Social Justice Contras. We cannot be eradicated. We cannot be silenced. Our cause is righteous. Our weapon is truth.

We live in the “regime’s” head, rent-free. We keep them up at night. We are, for them, the boogeyman and the Jabberwocky. And in the end, we are the monster under their bed. Behind every bush and under every rock, you’ll find part of the resistance, and we are ready.


For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ (Romans 10:3-5).

ENTITLED MIGRANTS EVER WANTING MORE

ENTITLED MIGRANTS EVER WANTING MORE

 Third World migrants are placing an intolerable strain on Britain's welfare system, and it's never enough. They're making demands and constantly getting more free stuff. This is a warning to America of the Leftist/Democrat catastrophe that is coming its way.
SARAH CORRIHER REPORTS

UNION SEMINARY EMBRACES ANIMISM, CONFESSES & MAKES OFFERINGS TO PLANTS

UNION SEMINARY EMBRACES ANIMISM, 

CONFESSES & MAKES OFFERINGS TO PLANTS 

SEE: http://the-trumpet-online.com/union-seminary-embraces-animism-confesses-and-makes-offerings-to-plants/; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

Romans 1:25

Reformation Charlotte   September 18, 2019

If you want a glimpse of where the Southern Baptist Convention is heading barring a merciful hand-slap from God, just watch the liberal denominations. Recently, Reformation Charlotte reported on a liberal Presbyterian church that placed a pagan deity in their sanctuary. No doubt, idolatry and progressivism go hand-in-hand.

Union seminary — which was home to the father of modern Black Liberation Theology, James Cone — is by far one of the most downgraded seminaries in the US today. It has completely abandoned the gospel in favor of social justice. It comes, therefore, as no surprise that the seminary would abandon God in favor of idols.

What’s interesting, however, is the particular path they’ve chosen for their idolatry and their unique form of idol worship. It is peculiar, and not something we’ve seen in anything that claims Christianity — at least not in Western Civilization.

Plant and animal worship is typically unique to Eastern mysticism as well as Native American and other forms of animism. According to this definition, which I believe sums it up quite well,

Animism is the doctrine that every natural thing in the universe has a soul. If you believe in animism, you believe that ostriches, cactuses, mountains, and thunder are all spiritual beings.

This appears to be exactly what Union Seminary has embraced as they recently announced on Twitter that they “confessed to plants” and expressed “grief, joy, regret, hope, guilt and sorrow in prayer; offering them to the beings who sustain us but whose gift we too often fail to honor.” Completely absurd.

“Today in chapel, we confessed to plants.  Together we held our grief, joy, regret, guilt, hope and sorrow in prayer; offer them to the beings who sustain us but whose gift we too often fail to honor.”

Animism

Animism is the doctrine that every natural thing in the universe has a soul. If you believe in animism, you believe that ostriches, cactuses, mountains, and thunder are all spiritual beings.

Animism comes from the Latin word anima, meaning life, or soul. People often think of “primitive” beliefs when they think of animism, but you’ll find the belief in the spiritual life of natural objects in all major religions. If you have ever felt that a star is more profound than a cluster of hot rock or gas a long way away, then you have a sense of what animism is.

(Publisher’s comment:  As far left as the SBC leadership is heading, I don’t think Union Seminary in New York City is an SBC Institution.  According to Wikipedia it is a Non-denominational protestant seminary.  At one time it was an orthodox seminary, but obviously it is no longer.”)  

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LATEST SELECT ARTICLES FROM DAVID CLOUD'S "WAY OF LIFE"

LATEST SELECT ARTICLES FROM 

DAVID CLOUD'S "WAY OF LIFE"

SEE: https://www.wayoflife.org/friday_church_news/20-38.php; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
CHINA’S WAR ON CHILDREN’S RELIGIOUS RIGHTS (Friday Church News Notes, September 20, 2019, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is excerpted from Elizabeth Yore, “China’s War on Children,” Breitbart, Sep. 12, 2019: “While the youth of Hong Kong march for freedom and democracy, the Communist Party of China (CPC) subjects China’s youth to a brutal campaign of oppression and tyranny, barring Chinese youth from any and all religious practice and venues. ... The insidious Chinese Communist Party has declared that religious venues, churches, practices, education, and worship are no-go zones for all Chinese children under the age of 18. Chinese youth are being denied the right to religious freedom—a right enshrined in the Chinese constitution and a human right embodied and protected under Articles 2, 14 and 30 of the U.N. Convention of the Rights of the Child, signed and ratified by the People’s Republic of China in 1992. So much for the Chinese honoring international treaty obligations! ... According to the U.S. State Department, ‘The revised religious regulations implemented in February (2018) and policies enacted by the Chinese state-sanctioned religious associations inhibit children under the age of 18 from participating in religious activities and religious education.’ ... Religious freedom and human rights watchdog groups such as Save the Persecuted Christians, Bitter Winter, Open Doors, and China Aid are tracking and reporting on Xi’s country-wide crackdown prohibiting children from attending and participating in any religious services and worship. ... The no-go zones for Chinese children extend to all phases of the child’s life, from school to summer camps to the home. ... As primary and secondary Chinese schoolchildren broke for summer holidays between June and August, the Communist Party wasted no time enforcing the no religion rule. CPC officials sent letters to parents, reminding them to prevent their children from going to religious places for Bible study classes or any other religious study. The enforcement grew increasingly aggressive as religious-sponsored summer camps were raided and closed down by the police. ... The indoctrination campaign employs school teachers to advise their impressionable students that as good Chinese citizens, they are not to believe in God. This past June, Congressman Chris Smith (R-N.J.) testified at a congressional hearing on religious freedom and warned that ‘under Sinicization, all religions and believers must comport with and aggressively promote communist ideology—or else.’ Smith acknowledged that ‘it’s never been worse than it is right now.’ Rep. Smith also cautioned that the Chinese government has imposed facial recognition cameras, restricted religious expression online, and prohibited people under the age of 18 from participating in religious services ... Plus, the government is rewriting the Bible. ... The UN Human Rights High Commissioner has not moved to enforce the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. There is largely silence from international governance groups on this insidious campaign of spiritual genocide.”
BAPTIST CHURCH CALLS TRANSGENDER PASTOR (Friday Church News Notes, September 20, 2019, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is excerpted from “Baptist Church Makes History,” Baptist News Global, Aug. 23, 2019: “Members of an Ohio congregation are inviting the community to a Sept. 8 worship service officially welcoming one of the few openly transgender Baptist ministers as their new pastor. Erica Saunders, a 2019 graduate of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity ordained to the gospel ministry this spring by Wake Forest Baptist Church, began July 1 as pastor of Peace Community Church in Oberlin, Ohio. Founded in 1866 as the First Baptist Church of Oberlin, the congregation today describes itself as a ‘small, but active and social action-oriented congregation’ that is ‘very involved’ in the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America, the Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists, the Alliance of Baptists and the American Baptist Churches of the Rochester/Genesee Region. The pastoral search committee said in a letter to church members that the group received 16 candidates to replace the couple and narrowed the field to five and eventually down to a final two. ‘Both candidates were very strong candidates, but Erica stood out as a candidate with unique strengths,’ the search team said. ‘Bright, compassionate, faith-filled and spirit-led with a loving presence, she showed as much interest in each of us as we did in her. At the end of our time together on Sunday, when we formed a circle and said a departing prayer, I think we felt and she felt a sense of calling to our church.’ ... ‘With God’s help, together we can follow the example of Christ and create a beloved community marked by abiding peace, expansive love and radical justice in Oberlin and beyond,’ said Saunders, one of the first openly trans individuals to be ordained by a Baptist church in the United States. The church, which adopted the name Peace Community Church in 2000, decided by consensus to welcome and affirm LGBTQ persons in 2005.” 

TEENS ANXIOUS/DEPRESSED AFTER THREE HOURS A DAY ON SOCIAL MEDIA (Friday Church News Notes, September 20, 2019, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is excerpted from “Teens are anxious,” MIT Technology Review,” Sep. 11, 2019: “A study published today in the journal JAMA Psychiatry suggests that teenagers who spend more than three hours a day on social media are more likely to develop mental health problems including depression, anxiety, aggression, and antisocial behavior. The study: Nearly 6,600 12- to 15-year-old Americans self-reported how much time they spent per day on social media, as well as whether they had any mental health problems. ... The effects of social-media consumption on teens manifest in two main ways, according to the study’s authors: internally (depression and anxiety, for example) and externally (aggressive behavior or antisocial behavior). The latter were essentially nonexistent among teens who reported that they didn’t use social media. ... Teens today are way less likely to use Facebook and more likely to flip through TikTok. They’re also using social media differently, Snapchatting or Instagram DMing pals text-message style, which could explain why some teens are on social media so much in the first place. ... It’s the study’s broader point that Kira Riehm [a PhD student at Johns Hopkins and the lead author of the study] says is worth remembering: excessive time on social media doesn’t help people’s mental state.”
GOD BELIEVES IN “SECOND DEGREE” SEPARATION (Friday Church News Notes, September 20, 2019, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - Countless times over the years I have heard “second degree” separation mocked as unscriptural and extremist. For example, to separate from Billy Graham because he associated with modernists and Roman Catholics or to separate from Jerry Falwell or Ed Stetzer or whoever for similar associations is labeled “second degree separation.” As long as a man holds sound doctrine himself, we are not supposed to reprove him on the basis of his associations, but this is not what we see in Scripture. A prophet of God was sent to reprove king Jehoshaphat solely on the basis of his wrong associations. Jehoshaphat followed the true and living God and even had enough zeal for the truth to destroy idols, but because he joined hands with an enemy of the truth, Ahab, he was reproved sharply and judged. “And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD. Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God” (2 Chronicles 19:2-3). If Jehu the son of Hanani were to exercise his ministry of godly reproof today, he would be labeled an extremist, a trouble maker, perhaps even a “fruitless blogger.” He would be told to “take off the gloves and pick up a towel,” as I was told by Warren Wiersbe in the 1980s. The “Jehoshaphat camp” would say, “Doesn’t Jehu know that Jehoshaphat is a good man who loves the Lord and does many wonderful works? Who does he think he is? And how many souls has this Jehu led to Christ? He’s probably jealous of the king’s good ministry.” And if Jehoshaphat were a big-name Independent Baptist leader, he would just ignore “the criticism,” stay above the fray, treat it like bubble gum, perhaps pray for Jehu to get rid of the “critical eye.”

FACEBOOK OWNED INSTAGRAM IS NOW BANNING PHOTOS OF PEOPLE AT GUN RANGES, CLAIMING THE PROMOTE "VIOLENCE"

INSTAGRAM IS NOW BANNING PHOTOS OF PEOPLE AT GUN RANGES, CLAIMING THE PROMOTE "VIOLENCE"

War on the 2nd Amendment kicks into high gear

BY PAUL JOSEPH WATSON

SEE:https://summit.news/2019/09/19/instagram-is-now-banning-photos-of-people-at-gun-ranges-claiming-they-promote-violence/; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

Instagram is now blurring out images of women at gun ranges, saying the photos violate “violence or dangerous organization guidelines.”

Yes, really.

A picture was posted showing Kaitlin Bennett and Millie Weaver shooting firearms at a gun range.



Facebook-owned Instagram banned and removed the image, claiming it violated their policy on violence or dangerous organizations.

The image depicts two independent women at a shooting range legally and lawfully exercising their 2nd amendment rights.



In our new social credit score dystopia, that’s forbidden.

First it was images of Alex Jones, now it’s images of legal firearms.

Recall that many on the left are attempting to have the NRA declared a “terrorist organization.”

Silicon Valley is now throwing its weight behind demonizing all gun owners as violent radicals.

Once the Commie-style social credit score is fully in place, photos like this will lead to real world punishments, like your bank account being taken away.

That’s our collective future.