The authors state that the path to full and lasting joy through God’s good design for his creatures is being “replaced by the path of shortsighted alternatives that, sooner or later, ruin human life and dishonor God.” “Our true identity, as male and female persons, is given by God. It is not only foolish, but hopeless, to try to make ourselves what God did not create us to be,” the text reads.

The Nashville Statement immediately came under fire from LGBT activists as well as secular mainstream media, who denounced the document as bigoted, prejudiced and antiquated. In one headline, the Daily News proclaimed that the manifesto “is straight out of the 1980s,” suggesting that sexual norms have moved beyond traditional biblical morality.

The Huffington Post dubbed the statement “Anti-LGBTQ” for its denial of the moral goodness of homosexual relations and transgenderism. The Chicago Tribune similarly labeled the text as “Anti-LGBT” while offering “a more loving” statement of its own that basically says that any sex is good sex.

In a 2016 letter on marriage and the family, Amoris Laetitia (“The Joy of Love”), Pope Francis said that sex education should teach “respect and appreciation” for sexual differences, as a way of helping the young to overcome self-absorption. This respect includes self-acceptance and learning to embrace the body one is born with, rather than playing with fictional identities that deny reality. Modern gender confusion “contradicts the plan of God,” Francis said last October, “who has entrusted the world and history to the alliance between man and woman.”

So what has this elitist been investing in? A better question would be, what is he not investing in? That’s because his investment trust, known as RIT Capital, has been pulling tons of money out of the US.

“We do not believe this is an appropriate time to add to risk. Share prices have in many cases risen to unprecedented levels at a time when economic growth is by no means assured,” Rothschild said in his semi-annual report. Additionally, Rothschild stated that he believes quantitative easing (QE) programs employed by central banks, such as the Federal Reserve Bank in the US will “come to an end.”

Rothschild was quoted in the report as saying, “The period of monetary accommodation may well be coming to an end.” Signaling a potential disaster in the making in the United States financial markets, Rothschild reduced the investments RIT Capital Partners has in the US dollar by nearly fifty percent. On December 31, 2016, RIT Capital Partners reported a 62 percent net value asset investment in US dollars. In the latest report released by RIT Capital Partners on June 30, 2017, the company has a 37 percent net value asset investment in US dollars.

This is a massive slap in the face for the big banks, but is not surprising. The banks have been rigging markets hand in hand with the government for a long time. Just last year, Deutsche Bank was caught alongside countless other banks in court rigging both gold markets and silver markets. The Trump administration is filled with Goldman Sachs people much like most past presidencies. It’s unlikely that this suit will be successful, but it’s important for people to know about it, because it pulls together the vast rigging of markets we’ve been talking about for so long further into context.

This rigging is an attack on people’s assets. As John Crudele notes in his New York Post article on this story, “I suspect there was collusion between Washington and Goldman, perhaps for noble reasons but largely to keep bond prices high and interest rates low, since the two move in opposite directions. Low rates help borrowers like the federal government and hurt savers.” Crudele goes on to say, “As I’ve been saying for years, the government’s and Federal Reserve’s rigging of the bond market, especially during the quantitative easing period, has resulted in a secret tax on savers.” Rigging has become a regular way of life for the state and the banking system.

From entirely rigged fiat currency by the Federal Reserve forcing debt onto the populace to regulatory and tax rigging by the state, propping up massive monopolized corporations and pushing competition and small businesses out of the market. Then there’s the rigging of bond markets and derivative markets by massive banking empires like Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, BNP Paribas, Scotia Bank and the list goes on. Stay tuned as we continue to call this insanity out!

In 2015, the Pope designated September 1 as "a precious opportunity to renew our personal participation in this vocation as custodians of creation," framing the preservation of the environment as a moral responsibility.

Similarly, Bartholomew — who backed Francis' 2015 encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si — once said:

"There has never been so much turmoil on our planet, but there has never been greater opportunity for communication, cooperation and dialogue. Basic human rights such as access to water, clean air and sufficient food should be available to everyone without distinction or discrimination. We are convinced that we cannot separate our concern for human dignity, human rights or social justice from the concern for ecological preservation and sustainability."

After that, it is difficult to predict where the storm will head. In some models, Irma will slide back out to sea, but in others it will make multiple landfalls in the Caribbean before hitting the US. The GFS models has Irma curving north before reaching the Caribbean, making a US landfall more likely. But the ECMWF models has the storm tracking further west and into the Caribbean.

It’s still too early to tell what kind of impact Irma will have on the US, but it could hit the Carolinas by September 10. WKMG Orlando meteorologist Troy Bridges said: “The American models take it to the Carolinas by next Sunday. The European models have it going to Cuba and possibly threatening South Florida.”

According to Bolton’s introduction, he was asked by former White House strategist and Breitbart News Executive Editor Stephen K Bannon to draw up a “game plan” for exiting from the Iran deal in late July. Bannon made this request because President Trump was unable to obtain such a game plan from his advisers, despite repeatedly stating that he wanted one.

Bolton states that producing a plan to “exit Obama’s failed nuclear deal” was “quite easy,” and wonders exactly who is in control of Iran policy in the Trump White House since he and Bannon can’t seem to get a paper President Trump desperately wants to read onto his desk.

The Trump administration has taken an often-adversarial approach to the UN, with Ambassador Nikki Haley repeatedly criticizing the international body on areas which the administration believes need improvement. In particular, Haley has zoned in on the body’s anti-Israel bias, as well as long-standing US grievances such as the membership of the controversial Human Rights Council – of which Venezuela, Cuba, and Saudi Arabia are all current members.

Additionally, the administration has floated significant budget cuts to US contributions to the UN’s budget, proposals that Haley said have sent “shockwaves” through the UN.

“Parts of Houston, the United States' fourth largest city, will be uninhabitable for weeks and possibly months due to water damage, mold, disease-ridden water and all that will follow this 1,000-year flood,” said AccuWeather president Joel Myers. The Federal Reserve, major banks, insurance companies and other business leaders should begin to factor in the negative impact this catastrophe will have on business, corporate earnings and employment, Myers said. 

"AccuWeather cautions that the negative impacts from the storms are far from over. There will be more flooding, damage, fatalities and injuries," Myers said. "We urge all citizens near the path of Hurricane Harvey to remain vigilant and be prepared to take immediate action if flood waters rise."

The highest rainfall total from the storm so far is near Cedar Bayou, Texas, which registered 51.88 inches. This broke the contiguous-US rainfall record for a tropical storm or hurricane, preliminary data from the National Weather Service show.

In an interview last week on Sudanese television, Mubarak Al-Fadil Al-Mahdi, Sudan’s minister for investment, said any decision to establish ties with Israel should be based “on the interests of Sudan” and not emotions, while adding that the “Palestinians themselves have normalized their relations with Israel.” “The entire issue is very complex. It’s not black and white. The Palestinians themselves meet with the Israelis. They coexist with the Israelis, earn their living there, and get their electricity from them. These people live together,” he added.

Al-Mahdi said the Palestinians bear “much of the responsibility” for their loss of lands and displacement. “I think that the Palestinians share much of the responsibility for what has happened to them. They sold their lands and caused many problems. The Arabs made grave mistakes by rejecting the Partition Plan and other resolutions,” he said.

He also blamed the “Palestinian cause” for holding back developmental progress in the Arab world and said it has been used by leaders to maintain a grip on power. “They are meeting with the Israelis. Even Hamas. Disagreements or not, they are meeting with them. They have the Oslo Accords and other agreements,” he said. “The Arab countries think about their own interests. In Egypt, the Israelis developed the citrus agriculture. They introduced drip irrigation.”

Al-Mahdi also praised Israel’s “moral values” and “democratic regime.” “The Israelis are Westerners. They were ‘imported’ from America, Russia, Europe, and so on. They have the moral values of Westerners,” he said. “They operate scientifically. They have a democratic regime, their presidents stand trial and go to jail… They have a transparent regime, whether you agree with them or not.”