Christianity is being criminalized in the United States.  No, I am not talking about the kind of Christianity that is so prevalent in America today where “Christians” just ignore what the Bible says and do whatever they wanted to do in the first place anyway.  Rather, I am talking about the kind of faith that Kim Davis has demonstrated.  Christians all over this country are being put into positions where they must choose to either submit to the “new morality” or potentially lose their jobs.  For Kim Davis, deciding to take a stand meant that she was thrown into prison.  The radical judge that threw her into prison has said that she will stay there until she is willing to change her mind.

The pace of which our nation is circling the toilet is absolutely breathtaking.  Just eleven years ago, a state constitutional amendment that banned gay marriage in Kentucky received support from 75 percent of the voters.

Now, Kim Davis has been locked away, and more county clerks may be next.  There is news that another county clerk named Casey Davis has stepped forward to say that he won’t issue any same sex marriage licenses either.

What in the world has happened to America?  We live in a country where Christians are being imprisoned for what they believe, but Planned Parenthood is free to slaughter babies, chop them up, and sell off their parts to the highest bidder.

We better start paying attention.  What is happening right in front of our eyes is eerily reminiscent of what happened in Nazi Germany…

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In the old days, Washington, D.C., insiders would have thought it political suicide for a second-term congressman to call for the ouster of his party’s Speaker of the House of Representatives.

But in these days of high-polling mavericks and political outsiders, that’s the recipe for re-election – especially if you hail from the conservative 11^th Congressional District in the western North Carolina mountains.

Consider the case of Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., who in July filed a two-page motion in the House asking for Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, to be removed from leadership.

He was briefly stripped of a committee chairmanship, but gained much more: The attention of Tea Party conservatives who feel marginalized and manipulated.

Breitbart.com, a leading conservative news site, recently published a long, admiring articlethat calls Meadows “John Boehner’s Worst Nightmare.” The Washington Post dubbed him“The Donald Trump of the House of Representatives.”

Meadows, a mild-mannered small businessman from Cashiers, told Breitbart.com that all he’s doing is listening to his constituents and taking their agenda to Washington.

Which is what any congressman should do. But what happens when that agenda runs into the equally sincere and diametrically opposite agenda of citizens from other parts of the country?

On Tuesday, John McAfee, best known for founding the eponymous software firm McAfee Security (to which is he no longer affiliated), filed paperwork (PDF) with the Federal Election Commission announcing his intent to run for the office of President of the United States.

In an interview with Wired which was posted earlier today, McAfee said that he was “still in a quandary about whether to run myself or find someone else for my party.”“My advisors are pressing me to run,” the self-described “eccentric millionaire” told the magazine.

It seems as though the unnamed advisors won out by the end of the day.

In his filing, McAfee stated “I am founding a new party yet to be announced.” Ars contacted McAfee for clarification, who directed us to send questions to his campaign manager, Drew Thompson. “I believe you will get little information until our platform is fully outlined,” McAfee told us. Thompson has not yet responded to Ars’ request for comment.

However, in his interview with Wired this morning, McAfee cited government’s technological illiteracy as a primary motivation in his decision to run for the US’ highest elected office.

Just three years ago, McAfee was arrested in Guatemala for allegedly “entering the country illegally” after authorities in Belize wanted to question him in their investigation of a murder case. (The police in Belize told reporters that McAfee was not a suspect.) McAfee then showed up months later in Portland, OR, where he said he was working on a graphic novel with a local artist.

The new presidential candidate listed an Alabama address on his FEC filing.

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By Theodore Shoebat

Boko Haram in Nigeria went on a mass murdering spree, killing one thousand people in only one hundred days. The victims were both Christians and Muslims, killed by those who have forgotten God, and turned from fighting the enemy of humanity, to fighting humanity itself. Here is the report:

Since Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari took office 100 days ago, more than 1,000 Christians and Muslims have been slaughtered by the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram, which also displaced nearly 2.1 million Nigerians within the nation’s borders.

Even though Bahari promised to eradicate Nigeria of the jihadist organization, its terrorists have stepped up their concerted attacks throughout the country.

In the six northeastern Nigerian states of Bauch, Borno, Gombe, Yobe, Taraba and Adamawa, plus the central states of Abuja and Nassarawa, the number of displaced Nigerians has recently escalated to 2.1 million, according to the International Organization for Migration.

“The increase … can be attributed to the intensification of attacks carried out by the insurgents, as well as to improved access to previously inaccessible areas of Borno state, where the IDP population is now well over 1.6 million,” IOM released in a statement, The Christian Post (CP) reports.

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It appears the ‘virus’ of broken markets has spread…

• *MOSCOW EXCHANGE SAYS TRADING HALTED IN ALL MKTS
• *MOSCOW EXCHANGE SAYS CHECKING ON REASONS FOR GLITCH

Yet another ‘glitch’ strikes yet another crucial convergence point of technology and business. Wil The Russians blame the Chinese? Or The Americans?

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We are broken. This nation is a disaster area, yet to be declared. The truth of the disaster of the Obama Administration will not be revealed until there is a Republican president to take the brunt of the blame; until there is a wholly Republican government to deliver the horrible news of our predicament. The major media outlets will make sure of it.

If you are not prepping for the inevitable results of an economy in collapse, you are simply providing a market for those who are. There is the assumption that self-reliance is the antidote for government malfeasance, but there are those who will come looking for your bounty.

This is not a prophecy. The destruction of the Chinese economy, as most enlightened traders will avow, is the sign of global economic distress. The Chinese were the last viable market and now that they have had to devalue the Yuan, the gig is up. Without a healthy economy to demand the products of the rest of the recessionaire nations, there is no savior; there is nowhere to turn to maintain demand.

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As I sat in church yesterday, the pastor brought up Matthew 5:43-48. We must love our enemies and pray for them.

Love for Enemies

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that?And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Not to be too sarcastic, but how is this working out for Christians in Syria and Iraq?

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So I must be a bad Christian as I will not submit to tyranny, evil, Muslim terrorists or any combination. The Bible tells me to hate evil in Psalm 97:10

Let those who love the LORD hate evil, for he guards the lives of his faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

Is this a contradiction? Rather than use the common excuse of most Christians that I am a sinner, ask for forgiveness and then forget about it, I decided to look into the actual translation of “enemy” in this case.

David DeGerolamo

Who Is Your Enemy

Roy Blizzard III © 2011

As an ordained minister and a Hebrew, Greek etc student of the Bible as well as the son of a PhD in Hebrew studies and minister, I am well aware of many of the errors spread in the name of Christianity, especially the Old Testament ones the so called pacifist movement so loves to spread, “thou shall not kill” and Jesus’ New Testament words “Love your enemies”.

Even if one is familiar with Hebrew it can be difficult to trace the real roots behind these Words and if you only know Greek you are at a real disadvantage and will probably never know what the truth is unless someone like me were to tell you.

You may or may not be aware that the Old Testament passage of Exodos 20:13, “thou shall not kill” actually is translated as “thou shall not commit premeditated murder”. There has been several good articles about this. However, I have never seen anyone write about what I am going to share with you now except for my father and I, as most Christians probably don’t know enough to find where to look for it.

In Matthew 5, where Jesus is speaking on the mount, he is giving a perfectly good Jewish sermon, saying nothing new, but just commenting on Jewish law. But when you read it in Greek and then English, if you know Jewish Law, you are immediately thrown off when you come to the statement to “love your enemies” as this does not make good Jewish sense as they had a teaching that said that if a man were to come to kill you, you should rise up and kill him first as your righteous character and that of your family is worth more than the unrighteous character of the evil one coming to destroy you.

So then, why does Jesus say to “love your enemy“? Is he stating some new law that we were unaware of? No, for to do so would have been to make God out to be changeable.

When I was taking Classical Greek at the University of Texas in 1986, this perplexed me so I started researching it. It took me several days to find out the answer. In the Liddell and Scott Greek English Lexicon which is the authoritative lexical aid for Greek I found an unusual reference that finally led me to the truth. The Greek word in question here is Exthros which is generally translated as Enemy in EVERY NEW TESTAMENT LEXICAL AID.

However, in the Liddell and Scott there is a reference to a 1st century A.D. grammaticus, Ammonius – Grammaticus, which defined the word Exthros as someone who had been a Philos (a brother) but is alienated (out of enmity you had become estranged from them for a while). It was different than a Polamios, who you are at war with (who was a blood enemy who was out to kill you) and a Dusmenos is one who has long been alienated and refuses to reconcile.

Then it all made sense to me.

Jesus was quoting the Jewish Law.

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If you’re planning on travelling to China, we have two pieces of advice:

1. Do not look like a short seller
2. Do not go near any chemical factories

Failing to heed the first tip there could get you thrown in jail (or, as Man Group’s China chief Li Yifei calls it, sent on a “short vacation”).

The consequences of failing to follow the second piece of advice above could be, how should we put this… explosive.

With Beijing still scrambling to contain the fallout (both figuratively and literally) from the devastating blast at Tianjin which killed some 160 people and injured more than 700 last month, the country is on edge. Two additional chemical blasts (both in Shandong) did little to calm China’s frayed nerves and now, a fourth blast, this time in Zhejiang, has been reported.

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Shortly after the PBoC’s move to devalue the yuan, we noted with some alarm that it looked as though China may have drawn down its reserves by more than $100 billion in the space of just two weeks. That, we went on the point out, would represent a stunning increase over the previous pace of the country’s reserve draw down, which we’ve began documenting months ahead of the devaluation (see here, for instance). We went on to estimate, based on the estimated size of the RMB carry trade unwind, how large the FX reserve liquidation might need to be to offset capital outflows and finally, late last week, we suggested that China’s official FX reserve data was set to become the new risk-on/off trigger for nervous, erratic markets. In short, the pace at which Beijing is burning through its USD assets in defense of the yuan has serious implications not only for investors’ collective perception of market stability, but for yields on core paper, for global liquidity, and for US monetary policy. 

On Monday we got the official data from China and sure enough, we find out that the PBoC liquidated around $94 billion in reserves during the month of August and as Goldman argues (see below), the “real” figure might have been closer to $115 billion. Whatever the case, it’s a staggering burn rate and needless to say, were the PBoC to continue to liquidate its assets at this pace, it would necessitate a raft of RRR cuts and hundreds of billions in short-term liquidity ops to ensure that money market don’t seize up in the face of the liquidity drain.

Here’s some commentary from across sell side desks on the official numbers:

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