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China’s Military Holds High Technology War Exercise (Other Events to Watch)
China’s military has conducted a first-ever war exercise involving joint forces at a northern training base to test its high-technology combat capabilities, state media said.

More than 20,000 personnel participated in the exercise code-named “North Sword — 0607(S)”, which was organized by the People’s Liberation Army’s Beijing Area Command, the Xinhua news agency said.

Bohemian Grove Exposes Itself! - OC Weekly

Episcopalians Contemplate Divided Future(Apostate Christianity)
Dallas Bishop James M. Stanton is among the leaders of seven Episcopal dioceses who have rejected the authority of the denomination’s incoming national leader, Nevada Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, as the debate over the Bible and same-sex relationships tears at the church.

The move, prompted partly by Jefferts Schori’s support for gay relationships, falls just short of a complete break. But in October, Dallas area Episcopalians will meet to more fully consider their future in the denomination.

Faith and the Funny Pages (Christian Worldview/Issues)
Newspaper readers around the country this month opened their comics sections to see a character preaching the Gospel.

“The Bible tells us that we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God,” the character says, shouting into a cellphone in a crowded place. “But the good news is that the free gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ His son!”

The Circassian Antichrist
… The Circassian Antichrist. Ethnic Hatred in Apocalyptic Thinking … unlikely accusation of their being the “people of the Antichrist”, I received about a dozen messages of protest from …

UNIFIL Accused of Providing Israeli Intelligence to Hizbullah (Israel - God’s Timepiece)
UNIFIL (UN Interim Force in Lebanon), the neutral force that has been stationed there since 1978, is tasked with maintaining peace between Israel and Hizbullah along the 70-mile Israeli-Lebanese border. However, as columnist and ZOA Philadelphia chapter President Lori Lowenthal Marcus writes in the Weekly Standard this week, it appears that UNIFIL took a clearly one-sided stand in favor of Hizbullah during the recent war in Lebanon.

UNIFIL “openly published daily real-time intelligence, of obvious usefulness to Hizbullah, on the location, equipment, and force structure of Israeli troops in Lebanon,” Marcus wrote, “even specifying the placement of IDF safety structures within hours of their construction.”

Most Americans Say Religion’s Influence on Nation is Falling (Where is the U.S. in Bible Prophecy?)
The majority of Americans say religion’s influence on the country is declining and most view this trend as a bad thing. The latest Pew Research survey measured the controversial relationship between religion and politics.

The survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life found 59 percent of Americans continue to say that religion’s influence on American life is decreasing and half say the decline is a bad thing. American opinion on religion’s influence on the government, however, is divided with 42 percent saying it is increasing and 45 percent saying it is falling. And most of those who said it was on the rise view it as a bad thing.

Smart phones scream to be saved from theft
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UNIFIL Accused of Providing Israeli Intelligence to Hizbullah (Israel - God’s Timepiece)
UNIFIL (UN Interim Force in Lebanon), the neutral force that has been stationed there since 1978, is tasked with maintaining peace between Israel and Hizbullah along the 70-mile Israeli-Lebanese border. However, as columnist and ZOA Philadelphia chapter President Lori Lowenthal Marcus writes in the Weekly Standard this week, it appears that UNIFIL took a clearly one-sided stand in favor of Hizbullah during the recent war in Lebanon.

UNIFIL “openly published daily real-time intelligence, of obvious usefulness to Hizbullah, on the location, equipment, and force structure of Israeli troops in Lebanon,” Marcus wrote, “even specifying the placement of IDF safety structures within hours of their construction.”

Is our church culture encouraging gluttony?(Christian Worldview/Issues)
Back in the decadent early 1980s, New Wave rocker Adam Ant mocked clean living in his maddeningly catchy song, “Goody Two Shoes.”

“Don’t drink, don’t smoke, what do ya do?” Ant taunted.

A new Purdue University study may hold the answer to Ant’s question.

If they don’t drink and don’t smoke, what do they do?

Eat, apparently.

“America is becoming known as a nation of gluttony and obesity, and churches are a feeding ground for this problem,” says Ken Ferraro, a Purdue sociology professor who studied more than 2,500 adults over a span of eight years looking at the correlation between their religious behavior and their body mass index.