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BATTLEMIND: Biblical Tools for Overcoming the Wasteland of Wickedness
Steeling Your Mind and Wielding Your Sword Against the Beast
Practical tools from the bible to engage and spiritually win during the End Day prophetic wars.
(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;). Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and
bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; 2 Corinthians 10:4-5.
What is on my radar?
- Mass extinction Inbound
- Evictions and COVID
- Robot War: Kill Humans
- Sacred Gifts of the Wisemen
- Whose house do you belong?
Celestial Wonders Truth Hunters Channel
My guest next week is Bob Griswold from Ready Made Resources for a lively discussion on the current state of America.
Celestial Report
Weather and Space Weather
Your space weather for today is QUIET
3 Day Forecast: QUIET WITH INCREASING BREEZE
Cosmic Rays: HISTORIC HIGH
Earthquake Prediction: ALERT FOR THIS WEEKEND
Mass Extinction Inbound: We are on the path... Link
Featured Weather Story
A University of Arizona-led team has nailed down the temperature of the last ice age – the Last Glacial Maximum of 20,000 years ago – to about 46 degrees Fahrenheit.
Their findings allow climate scientists to better understand the relationship between today’s rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide – a major greenhouse gas – and average global temperature. The Last Glacial Maximum, or LGM, was a frigid period when huge glaciers covered about half of North America, Europe and South America and many parts of Asia, while flora and fauna that were adapted to the cold thrived. Link
Government
Fiscal austerity and the rise of the Nazis
Many Western countries pursued deep austerity measures in response to debts from the financial crisis of 2007-2008, and may again do so in the wake of COVID-19 stimulus packages. This column reviews how in the early 1930s, austerity measures worsened social suffering and contributed to political unrest paving the way for the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany. The authors argue that the absence of a coherent response to social suffering from the Weimar government worsened the slump, contributing to the radicalization and polarization of the German electorate.
Many pages have been written about what drove Hitler to power. While economic factors (from the Great Depression to high unemployment rates) and socio-cultural conditions (arising from the oppressive measures in the Treaty of Versailles) played an indisputably important role, the rapid rise of the Nazi Party is still, nearly a century later, a topic of considerable debate (Adena et al. 2015, Doerr et al. 2018, Eichengreen 2018, Ferguson and Voth 2008, Satyanath et al. 2017, Voigtländer and Voth 2012, Voth 2020). Link
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President Donald Trump speaks from the South Lawn of the White House on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention on Thursday, Aug. 27. Alex Brandon/AP
“We will lead America into new frontiers of ambition and discovery,” the president said of his second term plans during the Republican National Convention.
“We will have a safe and effective vaccine this year, and together we will crush the virus,” Trump said during his Republican National Convention speech from the White House South Lawn Thursday night. Link~~~
Can we prevent a surge in pandemic-related homelessness?
- The COVID-19 crisis has exposed people around the world to eviction.
- Many places have implemented emergency protections for renters.
- But some protections haven’t been comprehensive, and others are expiring.
A number of efforts have been made to track evictions during the crisis. The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, for example, has gathered and visualized data on global efforts to protect and fight for tenant rights. According to the Eviction Lab at Princeton University, more than 36,000 eviction cases were filed by landlords in the 17 US cities it tracks from the beginning of the pandemic through 15 August.
Four Considerations Architects Will Need to Make When Designing Post-COVID Homes
In the age of the coronavirus lockdown, homes have become more than a sanctuary—they have evolved into “quarantine bubbles,” according to Dan Carlin, M.D., founder of telemedicine company WorldClinic and former senior medical adviser for MIT’s School of Architecture. When people are now spending the majority of their time at home, working and studying, Carlin says, architects now have a number of new modifications to consider. “Part of re-architecting [should focus on] food, water, energy, environment, and medical care,” Carlin says. “We do live in a connected age and there’s a ton of capability in that space.” AD PRO looks into how architects must now engage with the home as a quarantine space.
Sanitizing stations
Think of a residence in terms of quarantine zones. The red zone is the outside contagious world, the green is the virus-free living space inside. The yellow transition zone is the critical one. This space, according to Carlin, is where people coming indoors need to ensure that if they have come into contact with the coronavirus, they don’t contaminate the home. This is where a sink or hand-washing station comes into play. “Now they’ve come back home, in the transition zone, they’re going to leave their clothing, clean themselves up,” Carlin says. Link
Military
Even if advances in robotics mean fewer humans on the battlefield, the fight will increasingly focus on those that remain.
Geopolitical
Germany is set to trial a Universal Basic Income scheme
- Starting this week, 120 Germans will receive a form of universal basic income every month for three years.
- The volunteers will get monthly payments of €1,200, or about $1,400, as part of a study testing a universal basic income.
- The study will compare the experiences of the 120 volunteers with 1,380 people who do not receive the payments.
- Supporters say it would reduce inequality and improve well-being, while opponents argue it would be too expensive and discourage work.
Germany is about to become the latest country to trial a universal basic income, starting a three-year study of how it affects the economy and recipients' well-being.
As part of the study, 120 people will receive €1,200, or about $1,430, each month for three years — an amount just above Germany's poverty line — and researchers will compare their experiences with another group of 1,380 people who will not receive the payments. Link
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Towards Responsible #AIforAll in India
- The approach defines broad principles that AI solutions should adhere to, while also exploring implementation and enforcement mechanisms.
- A draft document has been released for public consultation. NITI Aayog is currently exploring a roadmap for enforcement of principles across the public sector, private sector and academic research.
Building further on the National Strategy on AI (NSAI) released in 2018, NITI Aayog is now working on outlining an approach towards realising the economic benefits of AI in a manner that is “responsible” to its users and broader society. The approach attempts to establish broad principles for design, development and deployment of AI in India – drawing on similar global initiatives but grounded in the Indian legal and regulatory context. The paper also explores means of operationalization of principles across the public sector, private sector, research and academia.
NITI Aayog, the think tank of the Government of India, is developing the approach to “Responsible #AIforAll” based on a large-scale stakeholder consultation facilitated by The Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR) India. A Responsible AI working document (developed on the basis of a consultation workshop held in December 2019, organised by the C4IR India, World Economic Forum) was presented during a global consultation with AI ethics experts around the world on 21 July 2020 and subsequently released by NITI Aayog for wider public consultations. Link
Food Supply
This is how the US - and the world - can win from reforestation
- Trees are key to tackling the climate crisis and supporting animals and plants. They’re also vital to jobs, business and our health.
- Momentum has been building globally and in the US, with numerous tree planting initiatives and partnerships to reforest burned areas, such as the Camp Fire.
- This week sees the launch of the U.S. Chapter of 1t.org, led by American Forests and the Forum. 855 million trees to be planted or conserved, and billions of dollars in supporting actions, such as mapping technology and carbon finance, which will lead to many more trees.
We need more trees. They are key to tackling the climate crisis and supporting countless unique types of animals and plants. They’re also vital to jobs, business and our health. Link
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The Mesmerizing Geometry of Malaysia’s Most Complex Cakes
Bold colors and designs set kek lapis Sarawak apart.
On a 2019 episode of The Great British Baking Show, judge Paul Hollywood looks like he’s choosing his words very carefully when he speaks. “I think this is one of the hardest cake designs to make,” he says, referring to the gauntlet the judges have just thrown down for the contestants: to bake kek lapis Sarawak. “There’s nowhere to hide. We will see the problems.” Link
Heavenlies
Mystery of Interstellar Visitor ‘Oumuamua Gets Trickier
Aliens? Or a chunk of solid hydrogen? Which idea makes less sense?
'Oumuamua—a mysterious, interstellar object that crashed through our solar system two years ago—might in fact be alien technology. That’s because an alternative, non-alien explanation might be fatally flawed, as a new study argues. Link
Earth Changes
Meteorite Strikes May Create Unexpected Form of Silica
When a meteorite hurtles through the atmosphere and crashes to Earth, how does its violent impact alter the minerals found at the landing site?What can the short-lived chemical phases created by these extreme impacts teach scientists about the minerals existing at the high-temperature and pressure conditions found deep inside the planet?
New work led by Carnegie’s Sally June Tracy examined the crystal structure of the silica mineral quartz under shock compression and is challenging longstanding assumptions about how this ubiquitous material behaves under such intense conditions. The results are published in Science Advances. Link
Technology
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (Jun. 19, 2019) Aboard the USS Midway Museum in San Diego, California, the Office of Naval Research Global (ONRG) TechSolutions held a demonstration of Topside Drone, a corrosion/anomaly detection sensor payload and processing scheme. U.S. Navy photo by Bobby Cummings
The service has hired a Google partner to apply technology that has already changed cancer treatment and road repair.
The U.S. Navy has a $20-billion rust problem. Corrosion can hinder or even disable ships and aircraft at sea. But monitoring rust is expensive — $3 billion a year — and time-intensive for a Navy that’s already undermanned. So service leaders are turning to artificial intelligence software and drone photos to automate tasks and bring down the costs, Google announced today. Link
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Defunding the Police Might Leave Americans More Surveilled and Less Secure
Technology in policing might appear more benign than rogue cops or racist judges, but a look at global trends gives pause.
Over the summer, while announcing the disbanding of a controversial plainclothes unit of the New York City Police Department after weeks of Black Lives Matter protests, Police Commissioner Dermot Shea referred to the need for “21st-century policing” that would use a range of technological tools—ShotSpotter (a sensor system that estimates the location of gunfire), video, DNA, and more—instead of “brute force.” Reliance on such technologies could become the norm as calls for police reform—in particular, the defunding of the police—take root around the country.
To see the effects of surveillance technology on societies, look to the experiences of both authoritarian regimes such as China and North Korea and democracies such as Mexico and Israel. Link
History
Russia Declassifies Video From 1961 of Largest Hydrogen Bomb Ever Detonated
The blast was over 3,000 times bigger than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima
Hydrogen bombs are so destructive, their impact has been described as unthinkable throughout history. Recently declassified Russian footage of the 1961 Tsar Bomba hydrogen bomb test shows why.
The 40-minute documentary, which was posted on YouTube on August 20, shows footage of the largest bomb ever detonated on Earth, Thomas Nilsen reports for the Barents Observer. Video footage shows the blast from several angles, sometimes struggling to show the entire mushroom cloud in the frame. Later, the documentary compares the ice-covered archipelago before the blast to the scorched, red and brown landscape left behind afterward. Link
Ancient Civilizations
Archaeologists Discover Single-Edged Sword, Spears & Relics from Ancient Cemetery
Archaeologists from the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Kraków have made several discoveries of spearheads, clasps for fastening clothes, a richly ornamented spindle, iron needles, and a single-edged sword whilst conducting excavations of a graveyard site in Bejsce, Poland.
Researchers believe the site may be associated with the Przeworsk culture, an Iron Age society that dates from the 3rd century BC to the 5th century AD from central and southern Poland.
The culture’s decline in the late 5th century coincides with the invasion of the Huns. Other factors may have included the social crisis that occurred as a result of the collapse of the Roman world and the trade contacts it maintained with peoples beyond its borders.
Among other military items found are spearheads, which, according to contemporary accounts were the preferred weapons of the tribes inhabiting the areas on the Vistula River during the Iron Age. Link
Biblical
The “Three Wise Men”: Were they bringing sacred gifts or simply medicine?
Since the early days of Christianity, Biblical scholars and theologians have offered varying interpretations of the meaning and significance of the gold, frankincense, and myrrh that the magi presented to Jesus, according to the Gospel of Matthew (2:11).
Our Three Magi collection in the Biblical Archaeology Society Library reveals different interpretations of the “three wise men,” as they are most commonly known, and why they brought gold, frankincense, and myrrh to Jesus.
- Tradition: These valuable items were standard gifts to honor a king or deity in the ancient world: gold as a precious metal, frankincense as perfume or incense, and myrrh as anointing oil.
- Symbolism: In the well-known Christmas carol “We Three Kings,” the three gifts were chosen for their special spiritual symbolism about Jesus himself—gold representing his kingship, frankincense a symbol of his priestly role, and myrrh a prefiguring of his death and embalming.
- Medicine: Researchers at Cardiff University have demonstrated that frankincense has an active ingredient that can help relieve arthritis by inhibiting the inflammation that breaks down cartilage tissue and causes arthritis pain.
Did the magi “from the east” know of frankincense’s healing properties when they presented it to young Jesus? Are the gifts simply symbolic, or were they based on tradition?
Medical and Health
President Donald Trump listens as Dr. Stephen Hahn, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, speaks during a media briefing at the White House on Sunday. Alex Brandon/AP
The rushed emergency approval for a treatment that might help COVID-19 patients has raised questions: Is the FDA abandoning its own guidelines?On the eve of the Republican National Convention, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn announced that the FDA had issued emergency use authorization for investigational convalescent plasma as a treatment for COVID-19.
Plasma is the liquid part of blood. Sometimes, for treatment purposes, it is taken from people who have been infected with but recovered from a disease, because it contains antibodies that fought the disease. Doctors then inject this so-called convalescent plasma into patients who currently have a disease in hopes that the antibodies in the plasma can help current patients. Link
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Verndari, Inc. Announces Funding from U.S. Government Agency BARDA to Accelerate Development of VaxiPatch™ Dermal Patch Vaccine Technology (Business Wire)
Verndari, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company transforming vaccines with next generation science and delivery technology, announced today a federal government award to support development of Verndari’s VaxiPatch™ alternative vaccine technology. Under the terms of the cost-shared $1 million program, BARDA will provide 68 percent of the total funding and Verndari will provide the remainder.
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Last Word
As we stare down the Book of Revelation and all the prophets
In whose house do you belong?
Continuing in the Book of Esther in parallel to the Book of Revelation in Chapter 2 verse we find Mordecai. The language is very specific.
He is a man, a son, a tribe, and of course, his location.
God Bless you from the trenches.
Celeste
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Celeste has worked as a contractor for Homeland Security and FEMA. Her training and activations include the infamous day of 911, flood and earthquake operations, mass casualty exercises, and numerous other operations. Celeste is FEMA certified and has completed the Professional Development Emergency Management Series.
- Train-the-Trainer
- Incident Command
- Integrated EM: Preparedness, Response, Recovery, Mitigation
- Emergency Plan Design including all Emergency Support Functions
- Principles of Emergency Management
- Developing Volunteer Resources
- Emergency Planning and Development
- Leadership and Influence, Decision Making in Crisis
- Exercise Design and Evaluation
- Public Assistance Applications
- Emergency Operations Interface
- Public Information Officer
- Flood Fight Operations
- Domestic Preparedness for Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Incident Command (ICS-NIMS)
- Multi-Hazards for Schools
- Rapid Evaluation of Structures-Earthquakes
- Weather Spotter for National Weather Service
- Logistics, Operations, Communications
- Community Emergency Response Team Leader
- Behavior Recognition
Celeste grew up in military & governmental home with her father working for the Naval Warfare Center, and later as Assistant Director for Public Lands and Natural Resources, in both Washington State and California.
Celeste also has training and expertise in small agricultural lobbying, Integrative/Functional Medicine, asymmetrical and symmetrical warfare, and Organic Farming.
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Celeste has worked as a contractor for Homeland Security and FEMA. Her training and activations include the infamous day of 911, flood and earthquake operations, mass casualty exercises, and numerous other operations. Celeste is FEMA certified and has completed the Professional Development Emergency Management Series.
- Train-the-Trainer
- Incident Command
- Integrated EM: Preparedness, Response, Recovery, Mitigation
- Emergency Plan Design including all Emergency Support Functions
- Principles of Emergency Management
- Developing Volunteer Resources
- Emergency Planning and Development
- Leadership and Influence, Decision Making in Crisis
- Exercise Design and Evaluation
- Public Assistance Applications
- Emergency Operations Interface
- Public Information Officer
- Flood Fight Operations
- Domestic Preparedness for Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Incident Command (ICS-NIMS)
- Multi-Hazards for Schools
- Rapid Evaluation of Structures-Earthquakes
- Weather Spotter for National Weather Service
- Logistics, Operations, Communications
- Community Emergency Response Team Leader
- Behavior Recognition
Celeste grew up in military & governmental home with her father working for the Naval Warfare Center, and later as Assistant Director for Public Lands and Natural Resources, in both Washington State and California.
Celeste also has training and expertise in small agricultural lobbying, Integrative/Functional Medicine, asymmetrical and symmetrical warfare, and Organic Farming.
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