The Pentagon loses six trillion dollars, but good news, we still have enough to send
a plain load of cash to Iran.
And a young married couple in Phoenix busted for playing Pokemon Go.
This is Skywatch TV for Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016.
I'm Derek Gilbert.
First up, an afterschool Satan Club could be coming to an elementary school near you.
Watch this.
This is the latest public relations move by the Satanic Temple intended to force Christianity
out of the public square by using the freedom of religion guaranteed by the Constitution
as a weapon.
The irony is that according to people who know him, the Satanic Temple's spokesperson
and co-founder Doug Mezner, aka Lucien Greaves, isn't a Satanist at all.
He's actually an atheist.
He's just figured out that the publicity generated by stunts like this coming from a Satanic
group generates a lot of mainstream press coverage and by threatening legal action against
state and local governments, as in the case of the statue of Baphomet that the Satanic
Temple tried to get installed on the capital grounds in Oklahoma City, they can compel
government to instead push even the form of Christianity out of the public square as when
the Oklahoma legislature decided to get rid of the monument to the Ten Commandments instead
of adding to the state capital, the statue dedicated to Satan.
The lesson here is that we Christians can't depend on the law or the Constitution to defend
the faith.
In a free society, our rights guaranteed by the Constitution will also guarantee the rights
of groups like the Satanic Temple to protect their right to practice whatever faith they
choose to practice.
There are only two ways to prevent this type of thing, the Satanic Temple pushing its views
into our schools.
One is to take over the government, which may sound like a tempting idea, but Jesus
never commanded us to do so, and secondly, bad things happen when you marry the church,
the body of Christ, to the government.
Just look at history, the history of the Roman Catholic Church, for example, or for us Americans,
the history of our own nation and the fact that our founding fathers, many of them, had
come to the country because the King of England was also the head of the Church of England,
the official state religion.
And under a system like that, disagreeing with the King over politics is heresy, and
disagreeing with the King over religion is treason.
See, it doesn't make government better, it corrupts the gospel.
Now, the other way to prevent things like this is to actually fulfill the Great Commission
and preach the gospel, make disciples, so that this bad seed can find no fertile soil.
Another news, North Korea tested another missile earlier today, a ballistic missile launched
from the western part of North Korea into the ocean east of the nation.
This is in contravention, of course, of United Nations sanctions on North Korea.
Seems like every time we don't pay enough attention to them, Kim starts bouncing up
and down like an app in the dock of your Mac laptop begging for attention.
On to government here in the U.S., Congress has tasked the Defense Department with Mission
Impossible, apparently, that is getting the Pentagon's books in order for an audit by
next September.
The Department of Defense Inspector General's report last week shows why this might be an
impossible task.
The Defense Finance and Accounting Service could not provide adequate documentation for
$6.5 trillion spent.
Those are adjustments to the final books from the Army's general fund because they can't
balance the books any other way.
According to the IG's report, tens of thousands of documents are missing making an accurate
audit impossible.
This is a problem that not only violates federal law, it's been ongoing for more than 20 years.
But maybe some of the money's in Tehran.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the Obama administration arranged for a secret cargo
flight back in January, an unmarked plane carrying pallet loads of cash, $400 million
worth of euros, Swiss francs, and other currencies.
The shipment coincided with the release of four prisoners who'd been held by the Iranian
government for Americans.
This was the first installment, the $400 million, of a $1.7 billion settlement reached with
Iran over an arms deal that was suspended in 1979 just before the Shah of Iran was overthrown
by the Revolution.
State Department says though this was not a quid pro quo, we didn't pay ransom even
though that's how some senior Iranian defense officials are categorizing the payment.
And since that payment in January, the government in Tehran has arrested two more Iranian Americans.
At the going rate of exchange, that's worth about $850 million.
And as long as we're throwing around big numbers, another big insurance company has come forward
to report that it's losing big money on Obamacare.
Aetna says it expects its losses this year to be more than $300 million and its scrapping
plans to expand its Obamacare business next year.
And like the biggest health insurer in the U.S., United Healthcare, it's reviewing how
or whether it will continue providing coverage in the 15 states it's in.
Other insurers like Anthem and Humana have already announced that they're losing money
on the Obamacare exchanges in 2016.
Analysts say the problem is that people who signed up are running up more medical expenses
than they figured.
Gee, I wonder why that is?
Give people essentially a blank check and they write in big numbers.
One insurance professional told me personally that Obamacare has been helpful to some people,
people who were previously uninsured can now get coverage at very reasonable rates.
The problem is that it's happening at the expense of the middle class, many of whom
are now uninsured because the premiums and deductibles are so high that it doesn't make
sense to carry health insurance any longer.
And this is more evidence that our elected representatives see the donor class as their
constituents rather than, you know, voters like you and me.
On Friday, President Obama signed Senate Bill 764 into law, the so-called dark act, dark
and acronym for denying Americans the right to know.
The bill purportedly establishes federal labeling on food packaging, including a mandatory
standard for bioengineered food, GMO foods.
But what it actually does is ban state food labeling requirements for GMO foods and replaces
it with a federal standard, a federal standard that allows food makers to disclose bioengineered
food by putting a QR code on the packaging.
That's that funky little square that you have to scan with your smartphone to get the information
or a 1-800 number that you can call.
That instead of just putting on the label that, yes, this package, this food product
contains genetically modified ingredients, the Department of Agriculture has three years
to come up with these new standards and we'll see what direction it goes.
But consumer advocates are not happy about this law.
War with Russia could be on the horizon.
That's according to a former NATO general who writes in his new book, 2017, War with
Russia, a novel that keeping Vladimir Putin contained is the main challenge of NATO and
the West.
Sir Richard Scheriff, general Sir Richard Scheriff, retired in 2014 as NATO's deputy
supreme commander and again he says that he can't overstate the urgency of containing
Vladimir Putin.
Now with all due respect to the general and his years of service, as an American, I honestly
don't see the national interest in the United States going to war with Russia and risking
nuclear war in order to keep Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia out of Russian control.
I mean as an American I don't want to see them controlled by anyone except themselves
but frankly, if it comes down to it, should America risk nuclear war to keep Estonia free?
Really?
Well, the only ones who really profit from this kind of an approach are those who sell
the tools of war to the military industrial complex and quite honestly NATO's recent
deployment of four battalions to Eastern Europe, Poland and the Baltic states is a provocative
move as was switching on the American missile shield in Romania and Poland.
I mean think back to the Kennedy administration and the Cuban missile crisis when nuclear
missiles showed up in Cuba 90 miles off the coast of Florida, how did America respond?
Now should we really expect Russia to respond any differently to American missiles essentially
within striking distance of their capital?
Speaking of wars and rumors of war, Hillary Clinton's advisors are already making it known
that they want direct U.S. intervention, military intervention in Syria against the Assad regime.
A think tank run by Michelle Flournoy who is considered a top candidate to be Secretary
of Defense if Hillary Clinton is elected president has explicitly called for limited
military strikes against the Assad regime.
Now considering that Russian forces are still in Syria supporting the Assad regime, this
is crazy.
Again what national interest does the United States have in Syria that we would risk a
nuclear war with Russia, a direct shooting war with Russia to take out Bashar al-Assad.
This is why leading neocons, leading lights in the Republican Party for the last 25 years
are abandoning the Republican Party and announcing their support for Hillary Clinton.
It's not because they think Donald Trump is incompetent or a buffoon.
It's because his America first platform threatens their ongoing war and they know they can
trust Hillary Clinton based on her track record during the Bill Clinton administration and
her time as Secretary of State.
They can trust her to keep these wars going because as the famed US Marine Corps General
Smedley Butler wrote, war is a racket and right now business is good.
It's almost like America is Rome and we've just about reached the point of Caesar Augustus.
We're not quite there yet but we're almost there.
I mean study Roman history you'll find that the Roman senators, guys with concessions
for like the spice trade were coming up with reasons to evade Pontus or Parthia in order
to generate more business.
And as I mentioned yesterday by the way, while the Democrats are trying to link Vladimir
Putin to Donald Trump, I mean the implication being that Trump is a puppet of the Kremlin,
if either of the candidates running for president, either of the major party candidates I should
say is a puppet of Vladimir Putin, it's Hillary Clinton.
Now I gave one reason why yesterday but our friend John Haller at Fellowship Bible Chapel
in Columbus, Ohio in his weekly prophecy news update that he delivers at church actually
put it more succinctly and forcefully than I could.
Listen folks, the New York Times a year ago had an article about the fact that the Clinton
Foundation took millions of dollars in donations from people associated with uranium companies,
20% of the United States uranium was sold to Russia with the approval of Hillary Clinton
as secretary of state.
Stop this nonsense about Donald Trump making a sarcastic comment, I could care less.
This lady has committed treason against the United States.
She is a liar and she has not fit to run for public office.
But vote your conscience, okay?
Should check out his weekly prophecy update on YouTube.
He basically does once a week on Sunday mornings what we do here on Skywatch TV Monday through
Friday.
Now the irony of all this belligerence with Russia is that the parade uniform that the
American athletes are going to wear at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro look just like a
Russian flag.
These parade uniforms were designed by Ralph Lauren, but when they buttoned the blazer
and then you stand an athlete next to a Russian flag, coincidence?
Finally, this is the Pokemon, I didn't say it right, the Pokemon, yes the Pokemon that
we've all been waiting for.
This statue of the Pokemon Pikachu showed up at a park in New Orleans on Sunday.
It's made of fiberglass but painted to look like bronze.
No one's quite sure yet who put the thing up, but apparently there was a lot of thought
that went into it because it fit perfectly onto a spot where a fountain used to sit.
And in Phoenix, a young married couple there ran afoul of the law because of Pokemon Go.
Police there say Brent and Breanna Daly left their two-year-old son home alone so they
could go out and chase Pokemon in nearby neighborhoods.
A neighbor called 911 after he saw the boy wander outside the house and kept wandering
and crying for his parents.
In 96 degree heat, by the way, deputies arrived at the scene, contacted Brent Daly to say they'd
found his boy abandoned outside and, according to police, Daly allegedly replied, whatever,
and hung up.
Daly and his wife were arrested upon arrival home, they've been charged with child endangerment.
A couple of big announcements we've been remiss in not getting this word to you sooner here
at Skywatch TV.
The tele-award documentary produced by Skywatch TV and Defender Films is now available for
streaming at Amazon.com.
It's in the collection Amazon videos.
It's actually available in two parts because the video is rather long.
It's almost a three-hour film.
But it's available for free if you are an Amazon Prime subscriber.
You pay them annual membership fee to belong to Amazon Prime, you can watch it at no charge.
Stream it to your television if you've got the Amazon Prime channel on Roku or stream
it to your laptop or smart phone, tablet.
You can buy the movie for $9.99 for each part or you can rent them, if you're not an Amazon
Prime member, this is, buy each part for $9.99 and rent it for seven days for $2.99 each.
But here's the thing, watching it through Amazon, you get to watch it in full HD.
That's 1,920 pixels by 1,080 pixels, whereas a DVD is only 720 by 480.
I didn't even know this until we had to make a DVD.
DVDs are not HD.
Who knew?
So you'll find that at Amazon.com as well as a number of the best Skywatch TV programs
over the last year and a half also available at Amazon Video.
Check it out, Amazon.com.
And again, if you're a member of Amazon Prime, you can watch them, stream them at no charge.
And Defender Publishing.
Many of you have been asking, are we going to make digital versions of the books published
by Defender Publishing?
And the answer is yes, that has happened.
These are e-books available for the Amazon Kindle or the Barnes & Noble Nook reading app,
books including the new one by Tom Horn and Chris Putnam, the final Roman emperor, as
well as the previous three books in this series, Petrus Romanis, Exovatacana, and On
the Path of the Immortals, all available for the Kindle and the Nook.
Other new releases from Defender Publishing, like I Predict, what 12 global experts believe
you will see by 2025 when once we were a nation, Dead Pets Don't Lie by Joe Artis and Donna
Howell, never submit by Lieutenant Colonel Bob McGinnis, those and many other titles
from Defender Publishing available now as e-books for the Kindle and the Nook.
And you'll find those at Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com.
This week on Skywatch TV, a book that we recommend is the center of the topic of discussion that
is The Unseen Realm by Dr. Michael Heiser.
He joined us to talk about the Genesis 6 giants and why it's important for us as Christians
to understand that the first four verses of Genesis chapter 6 should be taken at their
plain reading.
The Nephilim were the product of unions between angels and human women.
You'll see that program later today on the Cornerstone Network, Coast to Coast, that's
at 2.30 p.m. Central Time.
Tonight, Coast to Coast on the World Harvest Television, that's Direct TV Channel 367,
and you'll see that at 6 p.m. following the Jim Baker Show.
And then tonight, WLLA TV in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
And if you miss it tonight, you can see it again Saturday on the Victory Television Network
down in Arkansas and around Memphis and in the Tampa, St. Pete area on WCLF television.
And of course, the program is available now on the Skywatch TV channel on Roku.
And of course, we offer web exclusive content at SkywatchTV.com, including another interview
with Dr. Heiser.
Joshua's Holy War against the giants.
Why did God tell Joshua and the Israelites to utterly destroy certain groups of people?
Mike explains the concept of karem, or devoted to destruction.
That's a web exclusive from SkywatchTV, available only at SkywatchTV.com and the Skywatch TV
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But you'll find that tonight, Aaron Lipkin and Avi Lipkin, the conversations I had with
them out in Colorado Springs, that posted to my YouTube channel there.
And your comments, questions, suggestions, always welcome at DGilbert at SkywatchTV.com.
And thank you for watching.
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