More Than Machines: The Rise Of Robots Built To Replace Human Companionship

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More Than Machines: The Rise Of Robots Built To Replace Human Companionship

Covered in lifelike synthetic skin, complete with expressive faces, realistic eyes, and even manicured fingernails, these robots are engineered to appear as human as possible. Equipped with cameras, microphones, artificial intelligence, and emotional recognition software, they are designed not merely to answer questions-but to build relationships.

Why Western Jews Are Coming Home To Israel

Why would Jews leave London, Toronto, Paris, New York, or Montreal for a country surrounded by enemies, targeted by Iranian missiles, threatened by Hezbollah rockets, and still recovering from the Hamas massacre of October 7?

Forget Qualifications - Can You Prove You're Gay?

A business owner seeking to win a government-favored contract in California may find themselves gathering letters from friends, collecting social media posts, or documenting deeply personal aspects of their private life--not to demonstrate business excellence, but to establish eligibility based on sexual orientation.

The End of Two-Party America?

America isn't simply becoming more divided between Left and Right. Both sides are beginning to fracture internally, with competing movements fighting over what their own parties should become. The result is something far more unpredictable than simple partisan disagreement—it is political fragmentation.

 

Why Negotiating with Terrorist Regimes Such as Hamas and Iran Is a Terrible Idea

by Khaled Abu Toameh - https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/22670/negotiating-with-terrorist-regimes

Needed: Unconditional Surrender, as After World War II. The Trump Administration is making a big mistake by engaging in negotiations with Hamas — as well as Iran.

Instead of weakening the Iran-backed terrorist group and its sponsors, these negotiations legitimize them as political actors and, for Hamas, only strengthen their standing among Palestinians; and for Iran’s rulers, among countries that might have been hoping to move toward the West.

Reports that senior US officials have been holding direct meetings with Hamas representatives come at a troubling time. The reports surfaced only days after Hamas successfully crushed anti-Hamas uprising in the Gaza Strip on June 26, thereby demonstrating that the terrorist group remains firmly in control and has no intention of surrendering power.

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Our Stability in Perilous Times

Jonathan Brentner - https://www.raptureready.com/category/nearing-midnight/

I’m not sure how they do it; I know I couldn’t. During the past several years, I have listened as both pastors and believers plan years, even decades, in advance, seemingly oblivious to the dark clouds that threaten to crush all such dreams in the very near future.

The problem is not with the planning or the setting of goals, but with the underlying belief that the next event on God’s prophetic calendar is Jesus’ far distant return to wrap up human history and inaugurate the eternal state. There’s no thought of the Lord’s intervention in their lifetime either to take them home to glory, or to intervene in a world in the throes of lawlessness, corruption, and violence driven by the “reprobate” mindset that Paul so well describes for us in Romans 1:28-32.

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Traffic Through the Strait of Hormuz Is Way Below Pre-War Levels as Trump Is Briefed on Options For “All-Out War”

by Michael Snyder - https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/traffic-through-the-strait-of-hormuz-is-way-below-pre-war-levels-as-trump-is-briefed-on-options-for-all-out-war/#google_vignette

The crisis in the Strait of Hormuz is not even close to being resolved, and global oil supplies continue to get tighter and tighter. The world has been running an “oil deficit” for months, and we have been able to do that by running down commercial oil inventories and strategic national reserves. There was hope that traffic through the Strait of Hormuz would return to pre-war levels before things got really hairy, but that isn’t happening. In fact, in recent days only about 30 to 40 commercial vessels have been traveling through the Strait each day. Before the war, the average was about 120 to 130 commercial vessels per day. The vast majority of the commercial vessels that have been getting through the Strait have been heading away from the Persian Gulf. Very few are headed into the Persian Gulf for understandable reasons. So once the backlog of commercial vessels that have been trapped in the Persian Gulf is finally eliminated, the level of traffic through the Strait of Hormuz will likely drop to depressingly low levels.

So we should be thankful that the price of oil has dropped a bit lower for now, but it won’t stay that way.

And that will especially be true if war with Iran fully erupts again.

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Antichrist & the 7-Year Anniversary of October 7, 2023

By Randy Nettles - https://www.raptureready.com/2026/06/27/antichrist-the-7-year-anniversary-of-october-7-2023-by-randy-nettles/

Paul-Henri Spaak (1899–1972), a Belgian statesman who served as the first president of the UN General Assembly, the first president of the European Parliament, and a former Secretary General of NATO, made this infamous quote some seventy years ago:

“We do not want another committee. We have too many already. What we want is a man of sufficient stature to hold the allegiance of all people, and to lift us out of the economic morass into which we are sinking. Send us such a man, and be he God or devil, we will receive him.”

This quote might be a self-fulfilling prophecy, as the Bible speaks of a time when Spaak and others like him will get their wish. This should be a lesson to all. You should be very careful what you ask for. We know by Scripture that this man will not be God (unlike Jesus); he will be more like a devil. However, he will try to convince people that he is God.

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BOMBSHELL: US Tipped Off Iran About Israeli Strikes on Top Officials

 

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Iran begins public mourning for Ayatollah killed in February

Iran has begun several days of public mourning and funeral processions for its former Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, more than four months after he was killed in strikes launched by the US and Israel.

The former Ayatollah's body will lie in state in Tehran's Grand Mosalla from Friday, ahead of his burial in his hometown of Mashhad next Thursday.

Officials have said the funeral could draw up to 20 million mourners from across Iran, according to AFP. 

It comes as Iran and the United States observe a fragile ceasefire after signing a preliminary deal to halt their conflict in June.

Khamenei's body will lie in the Grand Mosalla for three days, alongside the remains of family members who were also killed in the US and Israeli strikes in February.

There will be an official funeral ceremony in Tehran on Saturday.

Authorities have ordered public and private offices in Tehran to close from Saturday through Monday, while traffic restrictions will shut down most of the city centre to private vehicles, AFP reported. The airspace over Tehran will be partially closed from Friday and fully closed on Monday.

FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2k4k7jqeno

AMERICA LOST: Former US National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster Warns That Iran Got Everything it Wanted Out Of The Deal!

 

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On the Strait of Hormuz, We findseized ships and shark fishermen as uneasy calm returns

 It's a sweltering summer's day and fishermen are unloading their catch on the docks.

One proudly holds several baby sharks tangled in his nets. Shark sandwich is a local delicacy, he explains. Another rides off with two large fish strung over his motorbike.

In many ways this looks like an ordinary fishing port, but the docks are in Bandar Abbas, an Iranian city on the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world's most vital shipping lanes and a key focal point of the US-Israeli war with Iran.

This is the first time international journalists have visited the Iranian side of the strait since the conflict began. 

When the US and Israel launched attacks on 28 February, the Iranian regime responded by attacking Israel and neighbouring Gulf states hosting US forces and turned its geography into one of its greatest sources of leverage.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) began firing on commercial ships attempting to go through the strait without its permission, effectively making the waterway impassable.

Seafarers from around the world were stranded and oil prices surged, pushing up the cost of energy and fuel, along with a vast range of goods that are shipped around the world.

The US retaliated with a blockade of its own, targeting any ships using Iran's Gulf ports.

FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg53ngvvpxo

MORAL EDGE: See Prophecy Come Alive in Israel

 

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