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"Islamic State has called on supporters to place fake ads on popular websites like Gumtree to lure innocent victims who will be held hostage and then executed.

ISIS methods include advertising decoy jobs, second hand items for sale and rooms to rent on websites like Gumtree, eBay and Craig's list.

All are ploys designed to snare unsuspecting victims for execution."

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"Open House Begins for Tucson Arizona Temple
Mormon Newsroom Tue May 30, 2017

Latter-day Saints in southern Arizona are ready to welcome visitors to the Tucson Arizona Temple, which has been built among the saguaro cactus in southern Arizona’s Sonoran Desert. Complimentary tickets are now available for a public open house for the newly completed temple that will begin on Saturday, June 3, and continue through Saturday, June 24, 2017, except for the Sundays of June 4, 11 and 18...

Calvin Caldwell, project manager for the temple, explained that going to the temple is like finding an oasis in the desert. “They have that opportunity to take a deep breath and relax and all their worries kind of go away,” said Caldwell.

The design and colors inside the new 38,000-square-foot temple are influenced by the Art Deco style and reflect the green desert landscape of the American Southwest, including native plants, red cactus flowers and orange hues that represent the desert sun. Designers used the native ocotillo plant and the flower of the paddle cactus or prickly pear as inspiration for the décor, such as the art glass. Paintings feature stories of the ministry of Jesus Christ from the scriptures and desert scenery.

One of the unique features of the exterior of the Tucson Arizona Temple that sits on seven acres of land is the blue dome constructed of imported tile from Germany topped with an angel Moroni statue."

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"AUSTRALIA has placed more sanctions on North Korean officials as the regime continues to develop its nuclear capabilities. Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop placed another five individuals associated with the regime’s missile and weapons of mass destruction programs under travel bans and financial sanctions today. Three of the officials live in China, one lives in Russia and another lives in Vietnam.
It comes as Malcolm Turnbull urged China to ‘rein in’ North Korea ahead of his biggest defence speech as prime minister.

Tensions between the US and North Korea have been mounting since April.
“China has the greatest leverage over North Korea and with the greatest leverage comes the greatest responsibility,” Mr Turnbull told Bloomberg.
“We look to Beijing to bring the pressure to bear on the regime in Pyongyang, to bring it to its senses so that it ceases threatening the peace of the region with its reckless conduct,’ he said.
Ahead of his major speech in Singapore today, the prime minister said North Korea was becoming ‘increasingly reckless’.

PM Malcolm Turnbull has urged China to ‘rein in’ North Korea.
Australia now has sanctions on more than 100 individuals, companies or groups associated with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
“These designations are part of our autonomous sanctions in response to North Korea’s refusal to abandon its nuclear and ballistic missile programs which are in violation of multiple United Nations Security Council resolutions,” Minister Bishop said in a statement today.

“The Australian Government stands with the international community in condemning North Korea’s persistent testing of ballistic missiles and its pursuit of nuclear weapon capabilities.”
“We will continue to work with our allies and partners, including the United States, Japan, the Republic of Korea and China, to uphold global peace and stability.”

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has placed another five North Korean officials under travel bans and financial sanctions. Picture: Kym SmithSource:News Corp Australia
It comes as US aircraft carriers and Japanese warships came together for a show of force off the coast of Japan this week after North Korea’s latest ballistic missile test landed there on Monday.
North Korea has test-fired 12 missiles in nine launches so far this year, compared to 10 missile launches over the same period in 2016.
A strategy to tackle the regime’s growing threat will be on the agenda when Ms Bishop and Australian Defence Minister Marise Payne meet with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and US Secretary of Defence in Sydney on Monday.
Tensions between the US and North Korea have been mounting since early April."

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"Heineken has written on their bottles, in no uncertain terms, an endorsement for open borders.
“Here’s to an Open World. To a world without borders or barriers. To the belief that there’s more that unites us than divides us. To finding common ground. So raise a bottle with the person next to you. Because a stranger is just a friend you haven’t had a cold Heineken with yet.”
Let the money do the talking — an impact on sales might affect Heineken’s feelings about its little message on a bottle."

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“Under Alberta’s new Education Act, homeschoolers and faith-based schools will not be permitted to teach that homosexual acts are sinful as part of their academic program, says the spokesperson for Education Minister Thomas Lukaszuk.”
So, in the privacy of your own home, as you teach and instruct your own children, you would be forbidden by law to teach them what the Bible said about homosexual practice. And how, pray tell, was the government planning to monitor this?

In 2015, Dawn Stefanowicz, herself the child of a gay father who died of AIDS, raised her voice as well. The headline to her article read, “A Warning from Canada: Same-Sex Marriage Erodes Fundamental Rights.” She wrote:
“I want to warn America to expect severe erosion of First Amendment freedoms if the U.S. Supreme Court mandates same-sex marriage. The consequences have played out in Canada for ten years now, and they are truly Orwellian in nature and scope.
“In Canada, freedoms of speech, press, religion, and association have suffered greatly due to government pressure. The debate over same-sex marriage that is taking place in the United States could not legally exist in Canada today. Because of legal restrictions on speech, if you say or write anything considered ‘homophobic’ (including, by definition, anything questioning same-sex marriage), you could face discipline, termination of employment, or prosecution by the government.”
She was not exaggerating. In fact, she may have understated her case. The latest headlines from Canada announce something even more Orwellian: “Canada’s New Law Lets Government Take Children Away If Parents Don’t Accept Their Gender Identity.”

“A Canadian province has passed a law that gives rights to the government to take away children from families that don’t accept their kid’s chosen ‘gender identity’ or ‘gender expression’.
“The Supporting Children, Youth and Families Act of 2017, also known as Bill 89, was passed in Ontario by a vote of 63 to 23, The Christian Times reported.”
This is beyond mind-boggling. It might even be beyond Orwellian. Really now, would even Orwell have predicted that the government could seize your 8-year-old boy if you wouldn’t let him dress like a girl or if you refused to affirm his perceived female identity?
For good reason, Jack Fonseca, a political strategist for Campaign Life Coalition, slammed the new bill in no uncertain terms:
“With the passage of Bill 89, we’ve entered an era of totalitarian power by the state, such as never witnessed before in Canada’s history. Make no mistake, Bill 89 is a grave threat to Christians and all people of faith who have children, or who hope to grow their family through adoption.”
And it is not just an era of totalitarian power. It is an era of misguided totalitarian power.
Not only is it saying that the government, not the parent, knows best. It is saying that the child, not the parent, knows best. It is saying that it is impossible that little Johnny is confused and that one day, he will outgrow his belief that he is really a girl.
No. If he’s convinced he’s a girl and his parents don’t affirm this, he could presumably tell his teachers at school, who would then report this to the government.
Soon enough, there’s a knock at your door, and government agents are taking your son – yes, your very own child – and putting him in a new environment where he can live as Jane.
As nightmarish as this scenario sounds, it is now the law. And it was passed with ease by a vote of 63 to 23.
Soon enough, Johnny will be taking hormone blockers to stop the onset of puberty, and before you know it, he’ll be a lovely young lady, sex-change surgery and all. And there’s nothing you can do to stop it. Nothing.

There’s a reason that so many of us have been raising our voices so loudly for so many years. It’s not because we hate gays or transgenders. It’s because we foresaw the disastrous consequences of LGBT activism and have been standing as watchmen on the wall, sounding the alarm. I urge you from the bottom of my heart: Please don’t hit the snooze button again.
And please don’t console yourself by saying, “Well, that’s Canada, not America.”
First, are the people of Canada unimportant? Does something matter only if it affects America? Surely you won’t say, “Who cares if Christian families in Canada have their children seized by the government? I’m OK here in America.”

Second, we’ve seen how LGBT activism has become the principle threat to our freedoms of speech, conscience and religion here in the States. Canada is just one step ahead.

Third, already in America, “A federal district court judge just dismissed a mother’s lawsuit, essentially upholding Minnesota’s very harmful and unconstitutional ’emancipation statute’ that allows minor children – with the aid of outside groups – to leave their families whenever there is conflict, as long as the child is living independently and can support himself or herself.”
In the case at hand, the mother’s minor son had “decided to be treated with hormones in an effort to ‘change’ his biological sex and to change his name.” The mother opposed this, which was one of the reasons the child sought “emancipation.” Now, the government (here in America!) is helping to underwrite his “transition,” and there’s nothing his mother can do to prevent it.

Recently, the flagship gay publication The Advocate celebrated an 8-year-old drag queen – meaning, a boy who identifies as a boy but who likes to dress up as a girl. (Interestingly, the boy lives in Canada.)
Yes, “Montreal’s newest drag superstar has the poise of someone four times his age.
“A new girl on the Montreal drag scene is making the city’s other queens look geriatric by comparison. That would be Lactatia – a.k.a. Nemis Quinn Mélançon Golden, an 8-year-old who started getting into drag at the ripe old age of 7.”
In this case, the boy’s parents are highly supportive of him (that’s bad enough). But if they weren’t supportive of him, since this is part of his gender expression, the government could remove him from his home.
This madness must be stopped."

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Yeah and the government is totally fine with Islamic honour killings and child marriages.

It feels like some insane farce to me, I mean I don't care if adults want to be gay or have a stupid piece of paper saying they're married, but letting kids decide everything about gender (at 8 all I cared about was Pokemon and Hockey, I couldn't even grasp how far things were in relation to anything else). And people think kids understand gender perfectly?
That's insane and utterly cruel.
I never set out to be so against social justice and the modern culture but, besides its raving hatred for me as a white male with right wing leanings, it has become something vile and miserable.
These people are ugly inside and out and want the whole world to be that way.

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A father in the US was murdered in front of his two children while attempting to purchase a puppy advertised on Facebook.

Scott Bowman responded to an advertisement on the social networking website by a man, who has not been named, that was looking to rehome a puppy.

The man insisted on delivering the dog to Mr Bowman's home in Jacksonville, Florida, according to KRON-4.

Once inside the home, Mr Bowman's fiancée claimed the man started behaving in a drunk and volatile manner.

A fight broke out between Mr Bowman and the man, while his two children were nearby.

Mr Bowman was then fatally shot in the chest.


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A Pakistani man has been sentenced to death after an allegedly blasphemous argument on Facebook with an opponent who turned out to be a counter-terrorism cop.

Taimoor Raza, 30, was handed the harsh punishment following his arrest last year over the online stoush in which he is accused of insulting the prophet Muhammad and the wives of Sunni leaders.

"My brother indulged in a sectarian debate on Facebook with a person, who we later come to know, was an official with the name of Muhammad Usman," the condemned man's brother, Waseem Abbas told The Guardian.

The decision comes amid a national crackdown on internet blasphemy, with Raza's lawyer, Fida Hussain Rana, saying that his client has been charged under two separate laws, apparently to ensure the maximum penalty could be sought by prosecutors.

"Initially, it was a case of insulting remarks on sectarian grounds…which punishes for derogatory remarks about other religious personalities for up to two years," Rana said.

But later Raza was charged under another section of the code – "derogatory acts against prophet Muhammad" – which has landed him on death row.

According to AP the government has in recent months bombarded its citizens with warnings about such conduct, as well as pushing Facebook and Twitter to identify Pakistani nationals around the world engaging in potentially criminal online behaviour.

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New Poll Finds 42 Percent of Trump Voters Think It’s Appropriate to Bodyslam Reporters

42% of Trump voters said they thought it appropriate for Republican politicians to bodyslam reporters, according to a new nationwide poll out Monday, conducted by Public Policy Polling.

The new poll comes on the heels of newly elected Montana congressman Greg Gianforte’s bodyslamming of Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs on the eve of Gianforte’s election.

The new congressman pled guilty to assaulting Jacobs on Monday, and was sentenced to 40 hours of community service and 20 hours of anger management. That was after he issued a lengthy apology to the reporter and donated $50,000 to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Despite assaulting a reporter the night before the election, Gianforte beat his Democrat opponent Rob Quist. Reports from the time indicated that alarmingly few Republican voters in Montana cared that their candidate attacked a reporter, and some even saw the assault as deserved.

Conservative media was equally irreverent about the unprovoked assault — Rush Limbaugh lauded Gianforte as “manly” and “studly,” Laura Ingraham mocked Jacobs, and Tucker Carlson blamed the “progressive left” for the assault.

It appears that irreverence is reflected amongst voters — the new PPP poll reveals an astonishing number of Trump voters — 42% — thought it appropriate for a Republican politician to assault a member of the press. Meanwhile, 45% thought it inappropriate.

As for Hillary Clinton voters, 6% thought it appropriate to bodyslam reporters, while 89% thought it inappropriate. The poll notes that overall, 22% of voters think it’s appropriate, while 69% disapprove.

Trump stoked a war with the media throughout his 2016 election campaign, demonizing individual reporters and picking fights with outlets themselves. His administration has kept up the rhetoric since his inauguration, with chief strategist Steve Bannon calling the media “the opposition party,” and Trump himself decrying negative coverage as “fake news.”

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A 70-YEAR-OLD man who says he robbed a bank in Kansas City — a block away from the city’s police headquarters — in the hope he would get away from his wife in jail, has been sentenced to six months’ home detention for the crime.
Lawrence John Ripple pleaded guilty to the robbery in September at the Bank of Labour, The Kansas City Star reports.
According to court documents, prior to the robbery Ripple wrote a robbery note in front of his wife and told her he would rather be in prison than at home.
Ripple robbed the bank with a gun and demanded money from a teller.
After the money was handed over Ripple waited for the police.
He later told the judge heart surgery prior to the robbery had resulted in him being depressed and he said he wasn’t himself at the time.
According to his defence lawyer Ripple had since been properly diagnosed since the incident, he is on the correct medicine and feels like himself again.
US District Court Judge Carlos Murguia sentenced Ripple to six months of home confinement.
He was also ordered to serve three years probation, including 50 hours of community service.

He was ordered to pay US$227.27 (AU$299.50) to the bank.
That amount represented the billable hours for bank employees who were sent home on the day of the robbery.
Ripple produced the note which read: “I have a gun, give me money” and was handed $US2,924 by the teller.
He faced up to 37 months in prison but was granted leniency by the court.
According to Ripple’s lawyer the act was a “cry for help”.
“Mr. Ripple understands what he did and he respects the law as indicated by his past behaviour,” he said.
Ripple was accompanied by his wife as the sentence was handed down late on Tuesday, local time.
“It was not my intention to frighten (the teller) as I did,” he said.
“I feel great now,” Ripple said. “I feel like my old self.”

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"Christian Post: Two weeks after U.S. Soccer announced that both their men’s and women’s national teams will be wearing rainbow-colored jerseys in support of gay pride in June, Christian soccer player Jaelene Hinkle has withdrawn herself from the U.S. roster for two international friendlies this month, citing “personal reasons.”

A release from U.S. Soccer said Hinkle, 24, who is a defender for the North Carolina Courage, was called into the national camp to play international friendlies against Sweden and Norway this month. She was not replaced on the roster after her withdrawal.
It is unclear if U.S. Soccer’s celebration of gay pride this month is related to Hinkle’s withdrawal but she wears her faith proudly on social media."


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"Otto Warmbier, the University of Virginia honors student who went to North Korea in January 2016 for a five-day tour, was flown to University of Cincinnati in a coma after a top U.S. official reportedly visited the regime after hearing of his condition.
Warmbier was charged with an undefined “hostile act” as he tried to leave the Pyongyang airport over a year ago. Two months later, he was convicted of trying to steal a propaganda poster and sentenced to 15 years of hard labor. He was finally released after being detained for 17 months.
North Korean officials claimed the coma resulted from botulism and a sleeping pill.
Other reports suggested something much more sinister took place.
CBS News reported that a hospital spokeswoman said Thursday that the 22-year-old student suffered a “severe neurological injury.”
The New York Times reported that United States obtained intelligence reports recently that indicated Warmbier had been repeatedly beaten.

Fred Warmbier, Otto’s father, told Fox News that his son went into a coma the day after he was sentenced. He said Otto was “terrorized and brutalized for 18 months by a pariah regime in North Korea,” adding that he and his wife, Cindy had just learned of their son’s grave condition last week.
Otto is now in stable condition at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. Spokesman for UC Medical Center Sherri Kirk said Wednesday there were no updates on his condition.
There are reportedly three other Americans being held in North Korea. The status on their releases remain unclear as Washington and Pyongyang inch closer to conflict over the increasing nuclear threat posed by North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un.
North Korean cannot continue to use Americans as political pawns. Thank goodness the State Department under President Trump secured Otto’s release, but more must done to rescue other Americans suffering abroad in the hands of foreign enemies."

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"Much of North Korea’s contention on the world stage is centered around their incessant and illegal work toward creating a nuclear-capable long range ballistic missile battery, specifically for use against the United States and her allies. Much of the propaganda produced by the DPRK revolves around their stated mission to utterly destroy America, complete with mocked up videos that portray the U.S. West Coast being bombarded with atomic weapons and disintegrating under a North Korean-manufacutred mushroom cloud.

What many have overlooked in recent years, however, are the Holocaust-style concentration camps being utilized by the government under Kim Jong Un, and the enormous list of human rights abuses that have been taking place at the numbers, clandestine sites. With the recent return of American prisoner Otto Warmbier to the U.S.A. last week, the brutal practices employed at these camps was once again in the spotlight.

Warmbier, who was imprisoned for a short while at one such “labor” camp, was returned to the United States in a coma. Further medical evaluations revealed that Warmbier had been the victim of treatment so cruel that much of his brain tissue had been deteriorated, and was thus in a vegetative state.

Now, Warmbier has passed away.

“Warmbier died at 2:20 p.m. Monday, days after he was released from captivity in North Korea. He was surrounded by family members at the time of his death, hospital officials said.

“In a statement released by the hospital, family members said Warmbier had been unable to speak, see or react to verbal commands since his return to Cincinnati June 13.

“‘He looked very uncomfortable – almost anguished,’ family members said. ‘Although we would never hear his voice again, within a day the countenance of his face changed – he was at peace. He was home and we believe he could sense that.'”
“Family members thanked the hospital’s staff for the care they provided Warmbier but said ‘the awful torturous mistreatment our son received at the hands of the North Koreans ensured that no other outcome was possible beyond the sad one we experienced today.'”

Warmbier’s death could certainly warrant action against the despotic dictatorship in North Korea, a nation that has employed brutal and despicable violence against their own people for decades.

The torture and subsequent death of an American citizen at the hands of the North Korean government must not go unpunished. The treatment of Otto Warmbier in North Korea should very well be considered an act of war against the United States, and be subject to the same response that any act of war would receive under President Trump."

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"A 22-year-old man accused of killing a 17-year-old Muslim girl in Virginia on Sunday morning is an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, a spokesperson for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) tells The Daily Caller.

The suspect, Darwin A. Martinez Torres, was arrested on Sunday in the death of Nabra Hassanen, a high school student from Reston, Va. Police say he beat Hassanen with a metal baseball bat in what is being described as a road rage incident…"

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"18-year-old Lauren Seitz tragically died after contracting a brain-eating amoeba during a visit to a popular North Carolina water park.

Mitzi Kline, a spokeswoman for the Franklin County Department of Public Health Department in Ohio, confirmed the teen died from the brain-eating amoeba in a statement to PEOPLE last summer.

The scientific term for the amoeba Seitz contracted is primary amebic meningoencephalitis, an infection caused by Naegleria fowleri, which is an organism that does not cause illness if swallowed, but can be fatal if forced up the nose. It is naturally present in warm lakes during the summer.

Symptoms, which include fever, nausea, headache or vomiting, can progress into loss of balance, seizures and hallucinations. They begin about five days after infection and typically cause death within five days, according to the CDC.

In a written statement to PEOPLE at the time, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services said, “The deceased’s only known underwater exposure was believed to be when riding in a raft with several others that overturned at the U.S. National Whitewater Center in Charlotte.”

Testing of the park’s filtration and disinfection systems at the time revealed they were not fit to properly clean the center’s water, leaving visitors at risk of infection, the Charlotte Observer reported.

The lawsuit claims chlorine levels were lower than they should have been and water at the park was too shallow to safeguard the public, reports CNN.

According to the outlet, the lawsuit says: “Lauren and other visitors had a higher likelihood of encountering Naegleria fowleri in the unregulated waters of the U.S. National Whitewater Center than they did by simply rafting in the nearby Catawba River.”
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"The toll of brain trauma in football — most commonly in the form of the disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or C.T.E., linked to repeated blows to the head — has crippled many players and their families. The accumulated effect of dozens or hundreds of blows over many years can apparently leave players with many of the same symptoms seen in Alzheimer’s patients. One or two blows in a game, though, can sometimes result in death. Over the last four years, 19 players have died from brain-related injuries in high school football, according to Terry O’Neil, the founder of Practice Like Pros, a group that advocates reducing collisions in youth football.

Ridge Barden, a 16-year-old defensive tackle, is one casualty. To the naked eye, there was nothing unusual about the play six minutes into the third quarter. The hit was not especially violent. Coach Charles, a doctor and two medical technicians were by Barden’s side in seconds. The ambulance was there within minutes.

Charles said he has watched the video countless times searching for answers. One minute, the 235-pound defensive tackle was up and playing and minutes later he was face down and moaning that he thought he hit his head. Two hours later he had died from a cerebral hemorrhage."

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"The tares (see D&C 86:4) represent evil doctrines and those who spread them. “Traditionally, tares have been identified with the darnel weed, a species of bearded rye-grass which closely resembles wheat in the early growth period and which is found in modern Palestine. This weed has a bitter taste; if eaten in any appreciable amount, either separately or when mixed with bread, it causes dizziness and often acts as a violent emetic.” (McConkie, Doctrinal New Testament Commentary, 1:296.)
President Joseph Fielding Smith pointed out that “even in the Church the tares are to be found. It is the tares which are to be gathered up and burned from all over the world, but those in the Church will also be gathered out and find their place in the fire. [See D&C 112:23–26.] The Savior also bore witness of [this. When] speaking to the Nephites he said: ‘For it shall come to pass, saith the Father, that at that day whosoever will not repent and come unto my Beloved Son, them will I cut off from my people, O house of Israel.’ (3 Nephi 21:20.)” (Church History and Modern Revelation, 1:354.)

False doctrines or individuals who present themselves as faithful members of the Church but are in reality servants of Satan are a source of temptation to the faithful and tend to choke or corrupt the word of God, or the good seed that is sown."

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For the past 20 years, ex-Army Ranger and “killology” expert Dave Grossman has been traveling across the US to train police officers on his philosophy of killing. Footage from one of Grossman’s seminars is juxtaposed with stark, brutal images of police brutality—including the shooting of Philando Castile by a Minnesota police officer.

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