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What’s the allure of the views of Bible prophecy that dismiss God’s promises to Israel and exalt the church as God’s kingdom on the earth? Why do many teachers go astray from what the words of Scripture tell us about our future as well as that of the world? These questions again came to my mind after I received an email boasting that “dispensationalism is on the decline.” By that, the writer meant that many Christians are turning away from our belief in Jesus’ thousand-year rule on the earth. As evidence, he cited Kirk Cameron’s apparent switch from belief in...

Iran is facing a mounting crisis, one that is driving their nation to the brink of disaster. This disaster is not the result of Israel or the United States dropping bombs on Iran, nor the result of crippling sanctions. The catastrophe Iran is facing is an unprecedented drought. The skies are shut up, the clouds are dry, the reservoirs are empty, the land is parched, and catastrophe looms. Here are some of the sobering facts about this deepening crisis, which constitutes the worst drought in the nation’s recorded history. Iran has suffered six consecutive years of drought. 10% of the...

Grok Summary of Video TranscriptMain focus: Labour’s major immigration crackdown, presented as the toughest in years.Key policy changes (announced by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood):Time to qualify for indefinite leave to remain (settled status) doubled from 5 to 10 years for everyone who arrived after 2021 (~2.6 million people affected).Can extend to 15–20 years if someone claims benefits for >12 months.Can be shortened for high economic contributors (e.g. NHS workers, high-value entrepreneurs).Core message: “Settling in the UK is a privilege that must be earned.”Builds on earlier asylum changes (temporary status, reviewed every 2.5 years) and explicitly modelled on Denmark’s tough centre-left...

Labour MPs increasingly believe that Sir Keir Starmer could quit as Prime Minister in the New Year before facing a leadership challenge, The Mail on Sunday has been told. At the start of a crunch week for the PM, with one of the most anticipated Budgets of modern times taking place against the backdrop of plots against his premiership, MPs say they are suspicious about what they call Sir Keir's 'new zen-like mood'. Despite Labour languishing at 18 percent in the polls – level-pegging with the Greens – and Cabinet colleagues openly jostling for his job, one backbencher who met...

The 22-year-old accused of murdering Charlie Kirk came from a stable family in a thriving town. But that wasn’t enough… That is the lesson of Tyler Robinson. And lurking behind that lesson: the fear that every teenager in America is a would-be Tyler Robinson, always vulnerable to the forces of death and nihilism. “How had he lost so much of his soul?” Utah governor Spencer Cox asked me about Robinson. We were in his office at the state Capitol. He didn’t know what to make of the “meme culture” that Robinson had been a part of, and the flood of...

Rivers are shrinking, lakes are disappearing, and entire nations are facing the risk of mass migration due to extreme drought. Iran, Iraq, Syria, Türkiye, Jordan, and Yemen are all struggling with the worst water crisis in modern history. Yet one country stands almost completely immune: Israel. In this video, we explore how Israel turned seawater into its main source of drinking water, how it recycles nearly 94% of wastewater, and how it created one of the most efficient agricultural systems in the world—right in the middle of the desert. Why Israel Never Runs Out of Water? The Desert Nation That...

Summary U.S. hopes to ramp up pressure on Maduro government Covert operations expected to be first step, sources say U.S. options include overthrowing Maduro Human rights groups condemn U.S. strikes as illegal extrajudicial killings WASHINGTON, Nov 22 (Reuters) - The United States is poised to launch a new phase of Venezuela-related operations in the coming days, four U.S. officials told Reuters, as the Trump administration escalates pressure on President Nicolas Maduro's government. Reuters was not able to establish the exact timing or scope of the new operations, nor whether U.S. President Donald Trump had made a final decision to act....

President Donald Trump revealed he would 'love' to see Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene make a political comeback just hours after labeling her a 'traitor.' During a brief NBC News interview on Saturday, the president was asked about the Republican lawmaker's future after she abruptly announced she would resign from Congress in early 2026 following their public split. Trump admitted that 'it's not going to be easy for her' to claw her way back into politics, but said, 'I'd love to see it,' noting that for now, 'she's got to take some rest.' When pressed on whether the relationship between the...

As The World Turns" was airing on CBS the afternoon of November 22, 1963, when Walter Cronkite broke in to tell the nation that President Kennedy had been shot. Coverage then went back to the soap opera, but not for long. Charles Osgood reports on how America learned of the shooting of a president.

Amale entered a 7-Eleven in Oklahoma City just before midnight Thursday and tried to buy burritos, beef sticks, and ice cream with a counterfeit $100 bill, according to a KOKH-TV news video. But the female clerk wasn't buying the con. What's more, the clerk said she was calling police, KWTV-DT reported — and she refused the male's demand that she give him back the counterfeit bill, Gary Knight of the Oklahoma City Police Department added to the station. Then the thug reportedly got violent. .....he grabbed his hands around my neck, and pushed me out of the counter space." Knight...

Nashville’s family-owned businesses are sounding the alarm over rising property taxes, warning Mayor Freddie O’Connell that the city risks losing the very businesses that give Nashville its character. What Makes Nashville...Nashville? Local business owners say iconic Nashville spots, its restaurants, shops, and other small businesses, are struggling under record property valuations combined with tax hikes. Many fear they may not survive. The Arnold family has been serving their signature “meat and threes” for more than 40 years. Owner Kahlil Arnold greets every customer personally, creating a restaurant that feels like family. But the Arnolds are now facing a $138,000 property...

MATTHEW BOYLE, BREITBART NEWS: Right, okay, so you mentioned George W. Bush at the beginning of that answer, and now there's a lot of news going on out there. Today is a somber day for the Bush family and for your predecessor, former Vice President Dick Cheney, who passed away, today's his funeral, so I wanted to see if you have any thoughts on or message to the Cheney family. I know there was some misreporting out there about whether or not you were invited to that or whatever, but outside of that, there's also another big report that came...

In tonight’s Operation Crime and Justice report, KOMO News is digging into why a repeat offender with a history of violent crimes was offered a plea deal. Attorneys involved in the suspect’s most recent cases tell KOMO News the charges were reduced in a plea deal, in part related to the suspect’s mental health issues he was exhibiting during these crimes. Abdinjib Ibraham has spent most of the last decade locked up or at Western State Hospital. In 2016, Ibraham was serving 10 years for robbery with a deadly weapon when authorities say he nearly beat a corrections officer to...

In the same time period that the United States built the overdue and over-budget Plant Vogtle, China built 13 reactors of similar scale, and has 33 more on the way

Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes CNN flew all the way to Johannesburg, South Africa to shoot a propaganda video for Americans on how USAID cuts are affecting a transgender clinic They expect to guilt trip American taxpayers into paying for trans medical care 8,000 miles away “More than 1,000 other trans people were relying on this USAID-funded clinic in Johannesburg for care. It's now shut down”

November 22, 1963. Assassination of our then President Kennedy. I hated to let the day go by without mentioning it, though it's been many years. I still remember my mother's tears, the 3 days of the funeral, the sound of the drums. I was a kid. A different time. Worlds ago, now. It seems after that day it all turned a different page. Still RIP John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Btw, those drums, that funeral, briefly shown in the movie The Boston Strangler, with Tony Curtis, which I am grateful they put that in the movie, so it has been placed, I...

GOP Senators trying to destroy Trump’s peace deal between Russia, the United States, and Ukraine who have stock portfolios heavily invested into the defense contracting industry is a prime example of why insider-trading cannot continue in Congress and yes, it’s happening even though it’s super illegal.

https://babylonbee.com/news/mom-continues-longstanding-tradition-of-making-cranberry-sauce-for-no-oneLANSING, MI — Local mom Janet Fields has continued her decades-long tradition of making cranberry sauce for no one to eat. Despite no one remotely considering touching the cranberry dish for the past thirty years of Thanksgiving dinner, Fields remains undeterred. "Ope! Can't forget the cranberry sauce," said Fields as she began the feast preparations. "Wouldn't be Thanksgiving without cranberry sauce, you know. I love the color it adds to the table, it's so bright and festive. Mm, that smell! You know, I don't actually care for cranberry sauce myself, but it's part of the tradition and it's always gone...

The Liturgy of the Ages and the Pastoral OptionIn recent months, we have heard a great deal about traditional liturgies being canceled in certain dioceses. Of course, this is nothing new. The tenacity of certain bishops, however, in eliminating not only these liturgies but also the groups devoted to preserving and transmitting the Catholic liturgical treasure cannot fail to worry us.First, it must be said that the core of the heated debate surrounding the right of the Traditional Latin Mass to exist is not liturgical in nature. A certain vision of the evolution and state of the world over the...

EPAFollowing bitter rows, the UN climate summit COP30 in Belém, Brazil has ended with a deal that contains no direct reference to the fossil fuels that are heating up the planet.It is a frustrating end for more than 80 countries including the UK and EU that wanted the meeting to commit the world to stop using using oil, coal and gas at a faster pace.But oil-producing nations held the line that they should be allowed to use their fossil fuel resources to grow their economies.The meeting takes place as the UN says it fears global efforts to limit global temperature...