Iran and North Korea test out new missiles.
CNN spies on the White House and another human sacrifice here in the U.S.
It's Skywatch TV for Wednesday, March 8, 2017.
I'm Derek Gilbert.
First up, WikiLeaks has published what it claims is the largest ever release of confidential
documents from the CIA, more than 8,000 documents of something they've called Vault 7.
You might remember Sharon and I talked about that on Cy Friday a few weeks ago.
This is a series of leaks from the agency, which came from the CIA's Center for Cyber
Intelligence at Langley, or at least allegedly came from the CCI.
WikiLeaks says that this year zero release reveals details of the CIA's global covert
hacking program, which includes weaponized exploits to target consumer products like
Apple's iPhone, Google's Android software, Microsoft's Windows, even Samsung televisions
which can be turned into covert microphones.
Highlights from this first set of leaks include the revelation that the CIA has lost control
of its hacking tools.
This collection, which amounts to several hundred million lines of code, more than it
takes to run Facebook, gives whoever owns this code the entire hacking arsenal of the
CIA.
It appears that this archive of tools was being circulated between US government hackers
and contractors in an unauthorized manner, and one of them has provided this information
to WikiLeaks.
By the end of 2016, according to WikiLeaks, the CIA's hacking division, the Center for
Cyber Intelligence, had over 5,000 users, produced more than 1,000 hacking systems,
Trojans, viruses, and other weaponized malware, again, more code than it takes to run the
entire Facebook website.
The CIA, in effect, has created a second NSA, National Security Agency, without ever being
asked by Congress why it was necessary for you and me, the American taxpayer, to pay
for a second agency to duplicate the function of the first.
It's all about turf wars inside the federal government.
And if you ask me, this adds evidence to my theory that what we saw in the release of
the information by Edward Snowden was this turf war breaking into the public news cycle.
One other bit of information that was really interesting is that one of the tools disclosed
by WikiLeaks, owned by the CCI, the Center for Cyber Intelligence at the CIA, was the
ability to hack and leave fingerprints that pointed at another national government like
Russia, which all of a sudden makes the Russians hacked the election meme a lot more interesting.
Speaking of the NSA, the top whistleblower for the National Security Agency says that
the spies did spy on Donald Trump.
This is confirmed by former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, George W. Bush's AG, said
that Trump was probably right that Trump Tower was bugged, but by the Justice Department,
not by Obama himself directly, a political blog, Washington's blog, asked the highest
level NSA whistleblower ever, William Binney, whether he thought Trump had been bugged.
Now, Binney was a 36 year NSA executive.
He actually created the agency's mass surveillance program.
So as the guy who developed the tools used to conduct this kind of surveillance, he was
in a position, is in a position to know, and he basically told Washington blog that, yes,
the NSA has all the data for anything that came out of Trump Tower through what they
call upstream programs under the code names Fairview, Storm Brew, or Blarney.
Then they share the metadata with other government agencies like the CIA and the FBI.
Now this is all done under Executive Order 12333, aside from the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act, the FISA court, which authorizes this type of surveillance when an American
citizen is speaking to a foreign national who is under surveillance.
In other words, what Binney is saying is that the FISA court is political and legal cover
for spying that is going on all the time under this Executive Order 12333, which was issued
by Ronald Reagan in 1981.
The FBI would only ask for a warrant after the data has been collected as legal cover
so that nobody's, you know what, is left uncovered.
So yeah, was Trump hacked?
Was Trump bugged?
Trump Tower bugged?
The answer is probably yes.
Was it done to take down the Trump administration?
Possibly, but we need to remember this kind of thing is apparently going on all the time
and that NSA surveillance is being used to blackmail people in positions of authority
within the government who don't want to play ball.
Stay tuned.
This is going to get more interesting.
Speaking of spying and surveillance, CNN aired video footage over the weekend showing Donald
Trump blasting White House counsel Don McGahn in the Oval Office.
You can see the footage that they took here using what appears to be some sort of camera
to peer through the window into the Oval Office and what may have been for all they
knew a classified meeting discussing classified topics.
The trigger for this meeting and for Trump's outburst was the announcement by Attorney
General Jeff Sessions that he would recuse himself for any investigation into Trump's
connections with Russian officials.
Now, Sessions' announcement came just a few hours after Trump said he had total confidence
in Sessions.
Trump was upset that the White House counsel McGahn didn't talk to Sessions before Sessions
went to the press to kind of reassure Sessions that Trump had his back if Sessions decided
to stay the course and be involved in the investigation.
The other reason Trump was upset was that the news of Sessions' decision crowded out
the good press that Trump had been getting from even liberal press outlets about a really
excellent speech that he delivered to a joint session of Congress last week.
It basically sucked the air out of the room.
But I think the bigger question here is why did CNN think it was okay to point a camera
at the window of the Oval Office and try to capture footage of what may have been a meeting
about classified events, sharing classified information, things that they might have been
able to pick up, other governments might have been able to pick up by reading the lips of
the participants in the meeting?
If it's now okay to do this, we have to wonder where is all the video footage of meetings
from the Obama administration.
President Trump will not renew the waiver that enables the president to postpone implementing
a congressional decision to move the U.S. Embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
This is a big news.
This is big, big stuff.
This is according to Representative Ron DeSantis, a Republican congressman from Florida.
He's chairman of the House Subcommittee on National Security and he's leading a congressional
delegation in Israel, scouting out new locations for the American Embassy.
He was speaking to the press at a press conference at Jerusalem's King David Hotel on Sunday,
said that he didn't think Trump would sign the waiver, which presidents ever since the
law was passed, and this is since George H. W. Bush had been signing every six months
in order to delay the implementation of this move of the American Embassy.
If President Trump allows the waiver to expire in May, it will fall very close to the 50th
anniversary of the liberation of Jerusalem.
In Iraq, President, well, showing you soldiers from Iraq because Iraq is off the new list
of nations from which immigration is restricted.
This is the new executive order signed by President Trump on Monday.
In order to get off the list of restricted nations, the government in Baghdad had to
agree to provide a lot more information with the U.S. government.
Baghdad will also move more quickly to repatriate refugees who have broken American law.
The bottom line here, Iraq has stepped up and said it's going to take on more of the
responsibility for vetting immigrants from Iraq before they arrive in the United States.
Now, the other six nations on the list, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, they
have a little harder time getting off that list.
North Korea fired several banned ballistic missiles Monday that flew about 620 miles
out into waters off its east coast.
This apparently a reaction to new military drills between the U.S. military and the South
Korean military.
Japan said three of these four missiles landed inside its exclusive economic zone, calling
the launch a grave threat to Japan's national security.
It's not immediately clear what type of missile was fired or how many we think for, but we're
not sure.
The North Korean government has staged a series of missile test launches in recent months.
And Iran, meanwhile, fired two ballistic missiles as Iranian ships came within 600 yards of
a Navy ship, which was forced to change direction.
The announcement came a day after North Korea launched its missiles.
Fox News reporting that Iran fired its missiles over the weekend, a pair of them, into the
Gulf of Oman.
One of the missiles destroyed a target barge, a floating barge about 155 miles away from
the launch site.
The launches of the FATET-110 short-range ballistic missiles, the first test of this
type of missile in two years, not clear if this was the first successful test of the
missile at sea, which has got the U.S. Navy nervous, understandably.
And this test, by the way, also comes a week after a successful test fire of the new Russian
surface-to-air anti-missile missiles, the S-300 system that Moscow recently sold to
Iran.
Coming up, a teenage girl in Missouri pleads guilty to murder for Satan.
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House Republicans on Monday released their plan to unravel President Obama's signature
healthcare law.
House committees plan to begin voting on the 123-page bill today, Wednesday, launching
what could be the big battle of the year in Congress.
GOP leaders expect their measure to win the backing of the Trump administration, but there
are divisions within the party.
As we mentioned Monday, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky still calling this new bill Obamacare
Light.
Now, I've not had a chance to study this in depth, but just looking at the highlights
of the bill, tax credits of between $2,000 and $14,000 for families, refundable even
if you're not liable for any income tax, meaning the government could be just paying
you instead of deducting from what you owe the IRS, conservatives say that this creates
a new entitlement that the government can't afford.
There would be a series of taxes on higher earning people, the insurance industry and
others that would be repealed.
I didn't write this very well, did I?
A series of tax increases on higher earning people that were used to finance Obamacare
would be repealed in 2018.
So in other words, it doesn't appear that coverage is going to change much, but yet the financing,
the tax portion is being attacked, which again, conservatives are saying is adding to the
government's debt load already.
Other things like insurance safeguards for people with pre-existing conditions, parents'
ability to keep kids under insurance plans until the age of 26 would be left as part
of the new Republican plan.
Overall, when you look at the main points of the plan, if you think back eight years
and imagine what would have happened if this plan had been proposed by Nancy Pelosi and
the Democrats in Congress, I think it's a pretty safe guess that the Republicans would
have fought this plan tooth and nail.
This is what we call boiling the frog by degrees.
Drop it in the pot, turn up the temperature so slowly it doesn't notice that it's changing
until suddenly it's, yeah, being boiled alive.
That's what's happening to us.
The Supreme Court has refused to hear the case of a transgender student who wants to
choose the bathroom she uses at her high school.
Gavin Grimm, who liberal press, you know, has to contort the English language to describe,
she is called a person who was assigned female gender at birth or designated as female at
birth or assigned the identity of a girl at birth.
No, she was born female and she is a girl.
The fact that she wants to live as a boy, not withstanding.
Gender is not some aspect of identity that we can just arbitrarily change at will.
Well, the Supreme Court was scheduled to hear the case later this month.
However, it has changed course following the Trump administration's decision to withdraw
an Obama administration policy requiring schools to allow students to use the bathroom that
they feel like using.
Today, I feel like a woman.
I'll use the ladies room.
Now, a lower court in Virginia will decide the case and determine whether the anti-discrimination
law known as Title IX applies to gender identity and transgender students.
Title IX was intended to compel school districts to allocate equal resources for women's activities
as for men.
This issue is probably now going to bounce around lower courts for years and force lower
courts to decide the issue.
Transgender advocates in one of the Supreme Court to rule on it so that they could impose
their will on the entire nation in one fell swoop.
Others argue that this ought to be decided locally.
A Missouri teenager has pleaded guilty to murdering another teen and said that the killing was
part of a satanic sacrifice.
Seventeen-year-old Amanda Bennett changed her plea last week from not guilty to guilty.
Second-degree murder is the charge.
She's accused in the stabbing death of 17-year-old Caitlyn Root.
She told the court, Bennett did, that she and 18-year-old Sebastian Dowell had decided
in October they needed to murder two people a year as a sacrifice to their demonic God.
Bennett said that she consequently contacted a number of depressed people on Facebook and
lured Root into meeting her and Dowell in a park.
She pleaded not guilty to the charge in December, changed her plea last week after the prosecutor
agreed not to file a first-degree murder charge in exchange for a guilty plea.
Bennett had initially been charged as a juvenile.
She's now being tried as an adult.
She faces 10 to 30 years behind bars and will undergo a mental health screening before
sentencing because, of course, it's a mental health issue, not a spiritual issue.
Dowell also pleaded not guilty in December.
His trial gets underway next week.
It's not really a surprise given that story and the story earlier in the week on the Satanic
sacrifice in Houston that we're living in a nation even though it's nominally Christian
where 90% of the people living here don't actually have a biblical worldview.
This is a new study by the American Culture and Faith Institute which is headed up by
Christian pollster George Barna.
He found that only 24 million Americans, 10%, have a biblical worldview even though when
you ask the question 46% of Americans think they have a biblical worldview.
The survey evaluated people's worldview by using 20 questions about their core spiritual
beliefs and 20 questions to assess their behavior, whether or not they're actually living according
to what they say they believe, and these 40 data points evaluated in relation to biblical
content and then tallied for each respondent, the cutoff mark used by the ACFI is 80%.
So if your answers were 80% consistent with what's actually in the Bible, you were judged
to have a biblical worldview.
A couple other findings, only 30% of Americans can be considered born again Christians, but
only 31% of that 30% have a biblical worldview.
In other words, less than a third of people who consider themselves born again Christians
have a biblical worldview.
And even among the 11% of Americans who say they read the Bible every day, less than half
of those people have a biblical worldview.
We won't win back the culture until we win back our churches.
And one final note, a cultural note, Joe Rogers, the smiling gentleman you see on the right
in the picture behind me, co-founder of the chain of restaurants, Waffle House, passed
away last Friday at the age of 97.
Waffle House operates in 25 states, mainly in the south, southern US, founded the chain
in 1955 with his partner, Tom Forkner.
They opened the first of more than 1,900 Waffle House restaurants in Avondale, Estates, Georgia.
They wanted to offer a restaurant that would be open all night and offer customers no-frill
meals.
They got the idea back in 1937 while they were serving together in rural Tennessee in
the National Guard when they snuck away from their post and had a meal in the rather small
and modest home of an elderly couple who lived nearby.
Joe Rogers and Forkner ran the chain until the late 70s.
Rogers said he never saw himself as a tycoon, even though he headed up a restaurant chain
that made him worth more than about $400 million.
He said in an interview back in 2004, I'm not an executive, I'm a waffle cook.
Joe Rogers is survived by his wife of 74 years, Ruth, four children, many grandchildren.
Have you ever eaten at a Waffle House?
Raise a fork to Joe.
We're less than a month away from the Hear the Watchman conference.
God's Great Gathering, the G3 Intelligence Briefing.
It's coming to Dallas, Texas, Grapevine, Texas, the Dallas Metro.
The Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Center, March 31st through April 2nd.
We've got an amazing lineup of speakers, Pastor Carl Gallops, Pastor Mike Spaulding,
Pastor Kasper McLeod, who will be coming up on a couple of future episodes of Skywatch
TV.
L.A.
Marzulli, Russ Dizdar, yours truly, my best friend, my wife, Sharon K. Gilbert, Josh
Peck from here at Skywatch TV.
Now many have asked about live streaming because travel to Dallas may not be possible or convenient.
And the answer is yes, there will be a live stream available and all of the presentations
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The cost is $39.
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live streaming for the Hear the Watchman conference coming up at the end of the month.
You'll find Skywatch TV online at skywatchtv.com, all my stuff online, DerekPGilbert.com, including
the latest, a link to the latest article in the series of articles leading up to the release
of The Great Inception, Satan's Psyoffs from Eden to Armageddon.
Look for part eight in this article series.
This one is mind-blowing, I think, peer-reviewed archeological evidence that links the Amorites
of the Bible to the Titans of Greek mythology.
Seriously, thanks for watching while we keep watch.
I'm Derek Gilbert and this is Skywatch TV.
