Saturday, December 3, 2016

The Shocking Truth About How Barack Obama Was Able To Prop Up The U.S. Economy - Michael Snyder THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE BLOG

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Posted: 02 Dec 2016  Michael Snyder  THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE BLOG

Barack Obama is one of the biggest “Keynesians” of all time, but unfortunately most Americans don’t even understand what that means.  In this article, I am going to share with you the primary reason why Barack Obama has been able to prop up the U.S. economy over the past eight years.  If Barack Obama had not taken the extreme measures that he did, we would be in the midst of a historic economic depression right now.  But by propping things up in the short-term, he has absolutely demolished our long-term economic future. 

But like most politicians, Obama has been willing to sacrifice the future for short-term political gain.

If you take any basic college course in economics, you are going to learn about John Maynard Keynes.  Without a doubt, Keynes was one of the most famous economists of the 20th century, and one of the things that he believed was that governments should go into debt and spend more money when an economic downturn strikes.  By injecting additional funds into the economy during a time of crisis, he believed that the severity of recessions and depressions could be reduced.  This approach ultimately become known as “Keynesian economics”, and in the post-World War II era virtually the entire world embraced it at least to some degree.  Here is more on Keynes from Investopedia
An economic theory of total spending in the economy and its effects on output and inflation. Keynesian economics was developed by the British economist John Maynard Keynes during the 1930s in an attempt to understand the Great Depression. Keynes advocated increased government expenditures and lower taxes to stimulate demand and pull the global economy out of the Depression. Subsequently, the term “Keynesian economics” was used to refer to the concept that optimal economic performance could be achieved – and economic slumps prevented – by influencing aggregate demand through activist stabilization and economic intervention policies by the government. Keynesian economics is considered to be a “demand-side” theory that focuses on changes in the economy over the short run.
Keynesian economists correctly point out that there is a “multiplier effect” to government spending.  In other words, when the government spends money it ends up in the hands of ordinary people.  In turn, those people spend that money on various goods and services that they need, thus boosting overall economic activity.  And the more the money circulates, the more the economy is stimulated.  So one dollar of additional government spending does not just add one dollar to GDP.  Rather, the impact on GDP is often significantly greater than that.

Of course the bad news is that whenever the government borrows money it is stealing consumption from the future.  So we are literally destroying the future that our children and our grandchildren were supposed to have in order to make the present look a little bit brighter.

When Barack Obama entered the White House, the U.S. was in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.  The Bush administration had already begun to ramp up spending, but Barack Obama took “government stimulus” to ridiculous new levels.  The national debt has risen by an average of more than 1.1 trillion dollars a year while Obama has been in charge, and this fiscal year we are on pace to add more than 2 trillion dollars to the debt.

At this moment, the U.S. national debt is a whopping $19,901,545,151,126.51, and it will cross the 20 trillion dollar mark by the time Donald Trump is inaugurated on January 20th.
But when Barack Obama was inaugurated, the national debt was only 10.6 trillion dollars.  That means that we have added about 9.3 trillion dollars to the debt since that time.
So we have borrowed and spent 9.3 trillion dollars under Obama that we did not have.  But because of the “multiplier effect”, that 9.3 trillion dollars actually had a far greater impact on the U.S. economy.

Let’s be conservative and just double that number.  So that would give us an 18.6 trillion dollar overall impact on U.S. economic activity.  Spread over eight years, that comes to an average GDP impact of 2.325 trillion dollars a year.

But over the last eight years U.S. GDP has only been averaging about 16 trillion dollars a year.  So if you took away 2.3 trillion dollars a year, that would be about one-eighth of our entire economy.

In other words, without all of this debt that Barack Obama and Congress have been getting us into, we would be in the worst economic depression in U.S. history right now.
And I haven’t even factored in state and local government debt, corporate debt or household debt.  The truth is that I am not exaggerating one bit when I say that we are enjoying a debt-fueled standard of living that we simply do not deserve.

But even with all of this debt, the U.S. economy has still not been performing really well.  In fact, Barack Obama is going to be the only president in U.S. history to not have a single year when U.S. GDP grew by at least three percent.

Despite what many in the mainstream media are telling you, the reality of the matter is that Donald Trump is going to inherit an economy that is deeply troubled.  If you doubt this, please see my previous article entitled “11 Very Depressing Economic Realities That Donald Trump Will Inherit From Barack Obama“.

Donald Trump is talking about cutting taxes and reducing regulations, and all of those things are good, but ultimately those measures are not going to matter that much.

What is going to matter is what Donald Trump decides to do about our exploding debt.
If Donald Trump wants the U.S. economy to continue to remain at least somewhat stable in the short-term, he is going to have to keep piling up debt like Obama has.  Because if Trump and the Republicans decide that they want to get our debt under control, that will plunge us into a horrifying economic depression almost immediately.

But if Donald Trump continues to steal money from future generations of Americans at the same pace that Barack Obama has been doing, he will literally be destroying the future of America.  It will be a crime on a scale that is almost beyond words, and if they get a chance to do it, future generations of Americans will look back and curse him for what he has done to us.

So Donald Trump is really in a no-win situation when it comes to the economy.

The only way that he can match Obama’s performance is to do what Obama did, but by doing so he would literally be killing the future.

As a nation we have been consuming far more wealth than we produce for a very, very long time, and the only way that we have been able to do this is because we have been able to go into so much debt.

But now a day of reckoning is fast approaching, and I am not sure if Donald Trump even realizes that he will soon be faced with some incredibly heartbreaking choices.

Congressional Panel refers Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast for criminal prosecution - Susan Michelle-Hanson | Live Action



Congressional Panel refers Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast for criminal prosecution

By Susan Michelle-Hanson | Live Action  December 1, 2016

On Thursday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Select Investigative Panel for Infant Lives announced it has referred Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for criminal prosecution for its role in the trafficking of aborted fetal body parts.

Operation Rescue noted:


It was discovered that Planned Parenthood of Gulf Coast broke the law when it sold aborted baby remains for profit to the University of Texas. Operation Rescue’s Texas attorney, Briscoe Cain, received evidence of this illegal conduct through a FOIA request and referred the evidence on to investigators. The Select Panel referred the case to the Texas Attorney General.

Texas Right to Life responded to the news:


Today, the United States House of Representatives Select Panel on Infant Lives released some of the findings compiled from months of investigation. The findings in the interim report include a list of nine abortion affiliates and fetal tissue procurement companies that the panel has referred for criminal and regulatory sanction. Among the offenders on the list in today’s release is Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast in southeast Texas and Louisiana.

The Texas and Louisiana Planned Parenthood affiliate is one of nine criminal and regulatory referrals from the Select Panel. The list includes (per Operation Rescue): the University of New Mexico (in partnership with Southwestern Women’s Options, a late-term abortion facility); fetal tissue procurement company StemExpress; an Arkansas abortion facility; a university in Ohio; DV Biologics, a fetal tissue procurement company; Advanced Bioscience Resources (ABR), another fetal tissue procurement company; Presidential Women’s Center, a Florida abortion facility; and Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast.

The Gulf Coast affiliate of the abortion chain was implicated in undercover videos from the Center for Medical Progress. In August of 2015, Center for Medical Progress (CMP) released its gruesome fifth video, in which the Director of Research for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, Melissa Farrell, reveals the way Planned Parenthood is willing to alter the abortion procedures on women so that buyers can obtain the “right specimens” such as “intact fetal cadavers.”

CMP reported:

Farrell finally summarizes her affiliate’s approach to fetal tissue payments: “If we alter our process, and we are able to obtain intact fetal cadavers, we can make it part of the budget that any dissections are this, and splitting the specimens into different shipments is this. It’s all just a matter of line items.”

Farrell also indicates to the investigators over lunch that the specimen sales from her department contribute significantly to Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast’s overall finances: “I think everyone realizes, especially because my department contributes so much to the bottom line of our organization here, you know we’re one of the largest affiliates, our Research Department is the largest in the United States. Larger than any the other affiliates’ combined.” In a Texas Senate hearing on July 29, former Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast clinic director Abby Johnson estimated that the affiliate had previously made up to $120,000 per month off of aborted fetal tissue.

As Texas Right to Life notes, former Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson “mismanaged the case to the benefit of her friends at Planned Parenthood,” indicting “citizen journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, the heroes who documented the shocking misconduct of Planned Parenthood” instead of prosecuting Planned Parenthood “after they were caught red-handed in blatant wrong-doing.”

Charges against the CMP investigators were later dropped, and Anderson was not re-elected. But as Texas Right to Life notes, Daleiden’s and Merritt’s indictments remain “a disgrace to Harris County.” Now, however, the Select Panel has offered another opportunity to prosecute. In response to the news, the Center for Medical Progress released a statement, saying in part:


The Select Panel is the only official, comprehensive, nationwide investigation of Planned Parenthood’s harvesting and sale of aborted fetal organs, and their findings confirm the criminal activity at Planned Parenthood that CMP’s videos documentedand show that the wrongdoing goes even deeper than anyone first suspected. The Panel has also criminally referred Planned Parenthood’s closest business partners in the sale of aborted baby parts to various state and local law enforcement. Law enforcement and elected representatives at all levels must now act quickly to bring Planned Parenthood to justice under the law and prevent any more taxpayer subsidies from flowing to Planned Parenthood’s barbaric criminal enterprise.

CMP’s videos on the entities referred by the Panel for criminal prosecution can be found at these links:

Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast
StemExpress
DaVinci Biosciences/DV Biologics
Advanced Bioscience Resources

As CMP notes:

The sale or purchase of human fetal tissue is a federal felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison or a fine of up to $500,000 (42 U.S.C. 289g-2). Federal law also requires that no alteration in the timing or method of abortion be done for the purposes of fetal tissue collection (42 U.S.C. 289g-1).

Also on Thursday, the House Committee on Administration voted in favor of H. Res. 933, which will double the budget for the Select Panel’s continued investigation into the fetal parts industry. Select Panel Chair Marsha Blackburn responded to the vote:

… The House charged members of this Panel with investigating fetal tissue trafficking, second- and third-trimester abortion practices, the standard of care for infants who survive abortions, and the role played by our taxpayer dollars in this sector of society. Over the last year, we have held hearings that explored the bioethics surrounding fetal tissue use and that revealed the sobering reality of how some bad actors seek to profit from the sale of fetal tissue in violation of federal law.

… Evidence we have uncovered reveals that the unethical and potentially unlawful practices of some bad actors may be putting important research at risk. Considering all that our Panel has identified, despite having barely a year to conduct this investigation, it is now up to us to build on this work, to hold our government accountable, and to stop these affronts to human dignity.

With an increased budget, it seems likely there may be more criminal referrals and findings from the Select Panel.

Rick Joyner Shares Prophecies That Signal Rise of Glorious Church - JENNIFER LECLAIRE CHARISMA NEWS

Rick Joyner is asking two clear questions: What is it about Cyrus that is a parallel to Trump? What can we therefore expect from his administration? Joyner then goes on to offer some prophetic insight: (Rick Joyner/Facebook)

Rick Joyner Shares Prophecies That Signal Rise of Glorious Church

JENNIFER LECLAIRE  CHARISMA NEWS

Jennifer LeClaire is now sharing her reflections and revelations through Walking in the Spirit. Listen at charismapodcastnetwork.com.

Lance Wallnau prophesied early that Donald Trump would be like the biblical King Cyrus of Persia of Isaiah 45 and become the 45th president of the United States.
At least part of that prediction is true. Trump has risen as America's 45th president, but it remains to be seen if he will emerge as one like King Cyrus. 
Rick Joyner is asking two clear questions: What is it about Cyrus that is a parallel to Trump? What can we therefore expect from his administration? Joyner then goes on to offer some prophetic insight:
When the Lord gave the word to Isaiah about Cyrus hundreds of years before Cyrus was born, He said that "he does not know Me." It's true that Cyrus did not know the Lord when he became king, but he came to know Him in the first year of his reign, declaring Jehovah to be "the true God."
He also resolved to fulfill the prophecies spoken of him as we read in the first chapter of Ezra. The prophecy spoken by Kim Clement about Trump in 2007 also stated that Trump would not know the Lord when he becomes president, but that he would soon afterward. Everything else in Kim's 2007 prophecy has been accurate, so I'm expecting Trump to have such an experience with the Lord that he comes to know the Lord well and seeks to do His will like Cyrus.
The most remarkable and important contribution Cyrus made in history was the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem. He personally put out a call for the exiled Jews to return to their land for that purpose, and for those who did not return to provide for those who did, so the Lord would have His house again in the midst of His people.
We do now have the parallel of Cyrus' time that the temple of the Lord, the church, is still in ruins. There are some great churches scattered throughout the world, but none compare to the biblical stature of what the church was in the first century, and is called to be today. These prophecies indicate that this is going to change during the Trump Administration. They also indicate that Trump is going to help make it happen by putting out a call to God's people to return to their inheritance and rebuild the house of the Lord.
This will be the most important work that will take place in the coming times. Get ready to see a church of biblical stature restored on the earth. Supreme Court justices are important, but cannot compare to the importance of the Supreme Judge of all having a place to dwell among His people in His fullness. 
The Lord is releasing the angels of abundant harvest. Charisma House is releasing Jennifer's book with a profound prophetic word and teaching principles to cooperate with heaven in this season. Check it out at angelsprophecy.com.
Jennifer LeClaire is senior editor of Charisma. She is also director of Awakening House of Prayer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, co-founder of awakeningtv.com, on the leadership team of the New Breed Revival Network and author of several books, including The Next Great Move of God: An Appeal to Heaven for Spiritual AwakeningMornings With the Holy Spirit, Listening Daily to the Still, Small Voice of GodThe Making of a Prophet and Satan's Deadly Trio: Defeating the Deceptions of Jezebel, Religion and Witchcraft. You can visit her website here. You can also join Jennifer on Facebook or follow her on Twitter. Jennifer's Periscope handle is @propheticbooks.
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What Prophetic Voices Are Saying About the Late Kim Clement - JENNIFER LECLAIRE CHARISMA NEWS

Jane and Kim Clement (Kim Clement/Facebook)

What Prophetic Voices Are Saying About the Late Kim Clement

JENNIFER LECLAIRE  CHARISMA NEWS
Jennifer LeClaire is now sharing her reflections and revelations through Walking in the Spirit. Listen at charismapodcastnetwork.com.

Kim Clement went home to be with the Lord Thanksgiving week. Now, many are giving thanks for the prophetic worshipper. 
Clement had experienced health issues, including a brain bleed, for more than a year before his untimely death. He was 60. 
"Kim and Jane have been our close friends for over two decades, and our lives and ministries seemed at times intertwined," said TBN's Matt Crouch. "Kim revealed profound biblical truths with his unique style of prophetic teaching and worship—truths and revelations that have literally helped shape our ministry and our future. Today, Kim is with his beloved Jesus. And while heaven is a richer place, he will surely be missed by all of us who were impacted by his ministry and friendship."
Carman Licciardello, commonly known as Carman, offered his thoughts and prayers. He escaped death in a long cancer battle.
"I've been there to help Kim through this tough time, sending messages, visiting, building a 10,000-name prayer chain, so my heart is broken today," said Carman. "They don't have a gofundme site set up, but I do. If you would be so kind as to make a generous donation, I would make sure they get it. It would be such a wonderful act of kindness at a time like this. Thank you."
Cindy Jacobs told me: "Kim Clement was one of the most anointed prophetic psalmists I have ever known. As I heard of his passing, I had a vision of him in heaven. He was leading the song of the nations with tens of thousands of voices. As they sang, new sounds were released into the earth, and they were then sung on earth. The great cloud of witnesses is rejoicing today that he has come home to release his voice into these new songs."
Why did Clement die early? I addressed some of the unfortunate speculation in a column earlier this week. It's OK to as these questions, but it's not OK to make presumptions about Clement's walk with the Lord. 
The Lord told me He is releasing the angels of abundant harvest. Charisma House has partnered with me to release strategic teaching on this revelation, endorsed by James Goll and others. Visit angelsprophecy.com for more information.
Jennifer LeClaire is senior editor of Charisma. She is also director of Awakening House of Prayer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, co-founder of awakeningtv.com, on the leadership team of the New Breed Revival Network and author of several books, including The Next Great Move of God: An Appeal to Heaven for Spiritual AwakeningMornings With the Holy Spirit, Listening Daily to the Still, Small Voice of GodThe Making of a Prophet and Satan's Deadly Trio: Defeating the Deceptions of Jezebel, Religion and Witchcraft. You can visit her website here. You can also join Jennifer on Facebook or follow her on Twitter. Jennifer's Periscope handle is @propheticbooks.
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Jerusalem: The most controversial city in the world - Ron Cantor MESSIAH'S MANDATE

Jerusalem’s Old City is the most controversial piece of real estate in the world. More specifically, the Temple Mount. Recently, the United Nations confirmed the UNESCO decision that the Temple Mount had no connection with historic Israel. Donald Trump has pledged to move the US embassy to Jerusalem, essentially confirming that the US recognizes Jerusalem (and not Tel Aviv) as Israel’s capital. While some countries in the past did have embassies in Jerusalem, they have all now moved to Tel Aviv. These moves were against the desire of the State of Israel. I know of no other country where the international community does not recognize her capital.
But what does God think? God loves Jerusalem. The Psalmist laments in Ps 137:
If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill. May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy.
But the world hates Jerusalem. We read in Zechariah that God is:
“going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves. (Zech. 12:2-3)
Jerusalem will be a cup that sends the nations reeling. In other words, she will cause the nations to be confused. They will not be able to figure her out or know what to do with her. For instance, the nations will seek to erase her history as we see with UNESCO or take it over, as the UN wanted to do in 1948. And the imagery her is of a hernia, “all that try to move it will injure themselves.” Be careful, UN.
In the past 83 years, Jerusalem has been under the control of five entities. The Turkish, the British, and then the UN had control over her for a very brief time in 1947. They voted for Jerusalem to become an international city controlled by the UN. Shortly after that, the Jordanians seized control during the Israeli War for Independence. And then, in 1967, the Israelis captured Jerusalem when Jordan attacked her during the Six-Day War.
Since that time, she has been in Jewish hands. But the controversy surrounding her has remained and even increased. Now the Palestinians want control over Jerusalem and, more specifically, THE TEMPLE MOUNT. In fact, the Temple Mount is full of vocal and aggressive Hamas activists that harass Jews who want to visit. There truly is no real estate more controversial than Jerusalem’s Old City and the Temple Mount.
Why Jerusalem? It is a dot on the earth. It’s not much bigger than a shopping mall, and yet all the nations are going crazy over it. Why the Temple Mount? Because that is where Yeshua will return. It is from this area that He will rule in the age to come. His throne will be here. There is more warfare over this little piece of land than any other in the world. Nations have fought over it for centuries.
But according to Joseph Farar, the Temple Mount is not even mentioned in the Koran. He says, “Koran says nothing about Jerusalem. It mentions Mecca hundreds of times. It mentions Medina countless times. It never mentions Jerusalem. With good reason. There is no historical evidence to suggest Mohammed ever visited Jerusalem.”
Of course this doesn’t matter to them. What matters to them is that Jews cannot control Jerusalem and they must be dealt with. In Zechariah 12:3 it says that all nations will gather against Jerusalem.
God is not impressed. The UN may claim Jerusalem is not Jewish, but they are mere ants in the eyes of God. They have no authority over Jerusalem. Yes, God used them in 1947—during a momentary lapse in their anti-Semitic judgment—but they have no say over her future.
The closer we get to the coming of Yeshua, the more controversial this piece of real estate will become. In fact, the Bible says all nations will attack her leading up to the final attack on Jerusalem in Zechariah 14. But, as we know, the Lord will come and fight against them as He sets up His millennial kingdom.
Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations, as he fights on a day of battle. On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem. The Lord will be king over the whole earth. On that day there will be one Lord, and his name the only name. (Zech. 14:3-4a, 9)
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Friday, December 2, 2016

Israel Tour With Jesus - Charles Gardner ISRAEL TODAY


Israel Tour With Jesus

Friday, December 02, 2016 |  Charles Gardner  ISRAEL TODAY
A unique journey of discovering Jesus, the Jew, in today’s Israel is offered in a new book.
Bobbie Ann Cole, a Jew who found her Messiah in Jerusalem, turns tour guide as – with her pen in Love Triangles (Scrollchest.com) – she paints a fascinating picture of life in the Holy Land.
Surprised and overwhelmed by the worship at a ‘Christian’ congregation in the nation’s capital, Bobbie subsequently committed her life to Jesus and was discipled at Holy Trinity Church, Brompton, in London.
Her new-found faith so deepened her love for Israel that she made aliyah (immigrated to the Jewish state) with her new Canadian husband Butch. But in time they felt so uncomfortable and marginalised as Jews who followed Jesus that they retreated to their homes in the diaspora.
Bobbie takes issue with the Israeli community in general over why Messianic Jews are treated as lepers – persecuted just as they were in the first century – particularly in view of repeated claims of freedom of worship being sacrosanct in the only Middle East democracy.
Application forms for potential immigrants are now said to include ‘Messianic Judaism’ as an option to tick from a variety of branches of the faith. Although this appears to recognize Jewish believers in Jesus, it would seem instead to be a trap leading to rejection, she claims.
Though, at some 20,000, still representing a tiny proportion of Israel’s population, the worldwide Messianic movement has seen exponential growth in recent years with estimates ranging as high as 350,000, roughly the number of Jews living in the UK today.
On a positive note, however, Bobbie waxes lyrical about the beauty of the country and takes the reader on a guided tour to emphasize the Jewish roots of the Christian faith in light of the Tenach and how Jesus fulfills the Old Testament prophecies and Jewish feasts. She writes of how Christ can be traced throughout Scripture, even to Joseph interpreting the dreams of the baker and cupbearer – linking the baker, who was impaled on a pole, to Jesus’ crucifixion and the cupbearer, who was restored to his position, to the resurrection after the sharing of bread and wine at the Last Supper.
The author also demonstrates how an appreciation of the land and its history and culture throws new light on our understanding of Scripture and of Jesus himself, who walked the land in person 2,000 years ago and who comes alive in a deeper way as we retrace his steps from Bethlehem to Nazareth, Capernaum on the shores of Galilee and down to Jerusalem where he gave himself as the ultimate Passover Lamb before rising again and returning to his Father. And it is also the land to which he will return as the ‘Lion of the tribe of Judah’ (Revelation 5.5).
This is a challenging and inspiring book that will deepen your faith in Jesus, the Jewish Messiah, who came to save the world and bring peace to those who seek it.
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Obama Vetoes Jerusalem Embassy for Last Time - Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS


Obama Vetoes Jerusalem Embassy for Last Time

“Yerushalayim, that art builded as a city that is compact together… For there were set thrones for judgment, the thrones of the house of David.Pray for the peace of Yerushalayim; may they prosper that love thee.” Psalms 122:3-6 (The Israel Bible™)
Citing security concerns, US President Barack Obama vetoed for final time the law to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
In   a memorandum to the Secretary of State John Kerry, Obama wrote:
Pursuant to the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including section 7(a) of the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 (Public Law 104-45) (the “Act”), I hereby determine that it is necessary, in order to protect the national security interests of the United States, to suspend for a period of 6 months the limitations set forth in sections 3(b) and 7(b) of the Act.
You are authorized and directed to transmit this determination to the Congress, accompanied by a report in accordance withsection 7(a) of the Act, and to publish the determination in the Federal Register. This suspension shall take effect after transmission of this determination and report to the Congress.
This annual presidential custom dates back to 1995, when Congress passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act,  for the purposes of initiating and funding the relocation of the Embassy of the United States in Israel to Jerusalem, no later than May 31, 1999. The act also called for Jerusalem to remain an undivided city and for it to be recognized as the capital of the State of Israel. The law allowed the president to veto for security considerations. Every six months since the law passed, every US president has done so, preventing the move from taking place.

Rick Joyner: Donald Trump is a Lot Like Jesus' Disciples - BOB ESCHLIMAN CHARISMA NEWS

Rick Joyner: Donald Trump is a Lot Like Jesus' Disciples

BOB ESCHLIMAN  CHARISMA NEWS
During a recent episode of his "Prophetic Perspectives" on MorningStar TV, prophetic voice Rick Joyner discussed a meeting he had with President-Elect Donald Trump during the presidential campaign.
Although the meeting only lasted about an hour, Joyner said he got a sense of who the president-elect is. The ultra-liberal Right Wing Watch group got hold of a clip of the episode (see above) in order to mock commentary.
The group is known for deceptively cutting off clips to change their contexts and create false impressions of what was said, but here is what Joyner says in it:
I've been with him for one hour, you know, in his office, and so I have a short relationship with him, but I have communicated with he and his campaign constantly throughout the campaign. He's very different than what the media portrayed him as being.
Trump is one of the kinder, gentler models from New York. The thing is he is tough as nails—and you have to be in his business—but he soft on the inside. We brought up to him if we kick all these illegal aliens out, we're going to bust up families, going to hurt families, and I saw the tears well up in his eyes.
He was about to bust out crying. He said, "We can't do that. We can't hurt the families. We've got to fix that." I was part of a team that was put together to work on how do we do this and not hurt families. That was one of his mandates; we've got to do this with compassion ...
He is an honest man. I think he's one of the most honest people I've met, because he tells you what he really thinks. There's no facades there, I mean he's not hiding anything. He's also one that I felt right away—I saw a remarkable fear of the Lord on him. It translates in things like his respect for clergy.
I mean he doesn't respect politicians, he doesn't respect a lot of people that he has to deal with in his business, and he's just not going to show respect to them. But his respect for clergy—he would become so humble before any man or woman of God—it was amazing. The last part of his campaign, he would—friends I know, who I  know and trust, he prayed with them every day.
They didn't just pray for him, they prayed together every single day.
I know this. One of his main campaign managers got fired right after he found out this guy was cutting off these Christian leaders from being able to contact him. When he heard that, the guy was gone right away. So, that's the kind of help and hope he was seeking from Christians ...
I think if you look at the Disciples that Jesus chose, they were all Donald Trump. Every one of them were Donald Trumps. I mean they were some the edgiest, hardest, you know—they were—who else would have ever chosen any of them?
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Rick Joyner: Donald Trump Will Transform the US Government - JESSILYN JUSTICE CHARISMA NEWS

Rick Joyner at a book signing. (Rick Joyner/Facebook)

Rick Joyner: Donald Trump Will Transform the US Government

JESSILYN JUSTICE  CHARISMA NEWS
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President-elect Donald Trump will turn the American economy around and transform the U.S. government, prophet Rick Joyner says.
"While accomplishing so much putting together such a quality team, and faster than any administration in recent history, he also had time to convince Ford and Carrier to keep their plants here, saving thousands of U.S. jobs even before taking office. He got more done over the Thanksgiving weekend than some presidents have in their first hundred days or longer," Joyner said in a Facebook post.
He continued: "Trump thinks like a leader, not a politician. He knows leadership, and he's picking a team based on competence, not political expediency and not even on loyalty. He obviously values loyalty very highly, but he rightly does not let it trump (no pun intended) competence. He is obviously intent on getting the best people for every position to do the best job for the country. With the momentum so great this fast we could very well be witnessing the beginning of the biggest transformation in government ever achieved. We could also see the greatest release of the U.S. economy.
"And this is just the warm-up—the game has not yet even started. Of course it is not realistic to think there will not be setbacks and challenges, but what has happened in just the last three weeks is most encouraging. It seems that this team could steamroll barriers that have stopped many others." 
Bloomberg has three suggestions for the Trump administration to ensure an economic boom:
1. Keep it simple.
"The government should take advantage of its low borrowing costs by doing more of the spending itself, especially on unglamorous tasks (such as road repair and improvement) that can be started quickly and offer good returns to taxpayers." 
2. Be prudent.
"Trump must set out and stick to a clear fiscal-stimulus plan—one that explains how the U.S. will control its budget deficits in the longer run. In effect, proposals to broaden the tax base and/or restrain spending on entitlement programs have to be part of any credible infrastructure plan."
3. Be accountable.
"Trump's plan should meet at least the same standard of (the 2008 stimulus package) transparency. Otherwise, corruption and cronyism will make it less effective and undermine future support for smart fiscal policy." 
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