U.S. is Responsible for the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa: Liberian Scientist (Source globalresearch.ca)

Dr. Cyril Broderick, A Liberian scientist and a former professor of Plant Pathology at the University of Liberia’s College of Agriculture and Forestry, claims the US Department of Defense is funding Ebola trials on humans, trials which started just weeks before the Ebola outbreak in Guinea and Sierra Leone. The reports continue and state that the DoD gave a contract worth $140 million dollars to Tekmira, a Canadian pharmaceutical company, to conduct Ebola research. This research work involved injecting and infusing healthy humans with the deadly Ebola virus. Hence, the DoD is listed as a collaborator in a “First in Human” Ebola clinical trial , which started in January 2014 shortly before an Ebola epidemic was declared in West Africa in March. Dr. Broderick claims that the U.S. government has a research laboratory located in a town called Kenema in Sierra Leone that studies what he calls “viral fever bioterrorism”, It is also the town where he acknowledges that is the “epicentre of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.”  Dr. Broderick says that “there is urgent need protecting the less affluent of poorer countries, especially African citizens, whose countries are not as scientifically and industrially endowed as the United States and most Western countries, sources of most viral or bacterial GMOs that are strategically designed as biological weapons.” The U.S. government has been experimenting with deadly diseases on human beings for a long time, history tells us so.

Italy Steps Up Security Over Alleged ISIS Plot to Kill The Pope (Source thedailybeast.com) As Pope Francis continues to straddle the fine line between calling for the end of persecution of Christians in Iraq and blessing American airstrikes against the Islamic State (also known as the “Caliphate,” ISIS, or ISIL), there is increasing concern for the pontiff’s—and the public’s—safety. Earlier this week, the Roman newspaper Il Tempo published a disturbing report that Francis is “in the crosshairs” of ISIS for “bearing false witness” against Islam.  Citing anonymous sources within Italy’s intelligence community and pointing to notable heightened security in Rome, the paper went on to say that ISIS plans to heat things up by “raising the level of confrontation” with Europe, Italy and very specifically Pope Francis, the “greatest exponent of the Christian religions.” The Vatican downplayed the concerns, calling them unfounded despite growing concern in Italy that it is not just the Pope who is under threat.  “There is nothing serious to this,” Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi told Catholic News Agency.  “There is no particular concern in the Vatican.” The Italian government apparently begs to differ.  Earlier this week, Italy’s deputy interior minister Filippo Bubbico said that Italy and the Vatican are equally at risk after authorities issued a terrorism alert, warning ISIS could launch terrorist attacks on what they referred to as “sensitive targets” in Rome and elsewhere, specifically pinpointing embassies to both Italy and the Holy See, Catholic churches, bus and train stations, sea ports, airports and travel agencies.

The New Gender-Inclusive Schools (Source thetrumpet.com) Personal pronouns are headed for the trash pile. A Lincoln, Nebraska, middle school advised its teachers at the beginning of the fall semester to use gender-inclusive expressions. Teachers are to veer away from gendered expressions, such as “boys and girls,” “guys,” or even “ladies and gentlemen.” They are instead encouraged to embrace less sexually-orientated terms, such as campers, athletes, readers or even “purple penguins.” The middle school teachers were each given a 12-step handout to help them become more gender-inclusive.  Points in the handout call for the teacher to question students if they reference gender in a binary manner. “What makes you say that? I think of it differently,” is one way they are to challenge the students in order to train them to be more gender unidentifying. Trumpet columnist Joel Hilliker wrote: An effort is gaining ground to create a world where not just ‘sexual orientation,’ but sex itself, is a choice. Where boys can be girls and girls can be boys, or something in between. Where people are expected to ignore the biological reality of sex so that all people coexist androgynously, or according to whatever gender suits them at the moment. Where everyone pretends that gender confusion is normal, if not desirable, and anyone who doesn’t play along can be punished and silenced. Joel Hilliker continued: “Our society has transformed into an immoral ‘do your own thing’ world that tolerates and accepts anything and everything. It is just as it was in Israel during the cursed and bloody period of the judges, when ‘every man did that which was right IN HIS OWN EYES’ (Judges 17:6; 21:25). People pompously promote and push a way of life that ignores, insults, challenges and defies God in so many ways.”

The New Gender-Inclusive Schools (Source thetrumpet.com) Personal pronouns are headed for the trash pile. A Lincoln, Nebraska, middle school advised its teachers at the beginning of the fall semester to use gender-inclusive expressions. Teachers are to veer away from gendered expressions, such as “boys and girls,” “guys,” or even “ladies and gentlemen.” They are instead encouraged to embrace less sexually-orientated terms, such as campers, athletes, readers or even “purple penguins.” The middle school teachers were each given a 12-step handout to help them become more gender-inclusive.  Points in the handout call for the teacher to question students if they reference gender in a binary manner. “What makes you say that? I think of it differently,” is one way they are to challenge the students in order to train them to be more gender unidentifying. Trumpet columnist Joel Hilliker wrote: An effort is gaining ground to create a world where not just ‘sexual orientation,’ but sex itself, is a choice. Where boys can be girls and girls can be boys, or something in between. Where people are expected to ignore the biological reality of sex so that all people coexist androgynously, or according to whatever gender suits them at the moment. Where everyone pretends that gender confusion is normal, if not desirable, and anyone who doesn’t play along can be punished and silenced. Joel Hilliker continued: “Our society has transformed into an immoral ‘do your own thing’ world that tolerates and accepts anything and everything. It is just as it was in Israel during the cursed and bloody period of the judges, when ‘every man did that which was right IN HIS OWN EYES’ (Judges 17:6; 21:25). People pompously promote and push a way of life that ignores, insults, challenges and defies God in so many ways.”

‘The World Is Descending Into Chaos’ (Source thetrumpet.com) Islamic terrorists have conquered a large part of Iraq and Syria. Nations throughout the Middle East are shaken, and nations around the world are horrified by what these terrorist monsters are doing. As serious as this situation is, however, it is just one of MANY terrible crises hammering the world right now. In Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin is waging an outright war, taking over territory, even threatening nuclear war! Ebola is spreading in Africa. Tensions are growing between China and Japan. And the United States is experiencing multiple dangerous crises, including race riots, rampant illegal immigration that most certainly includes criminals and terrorists, crushing drought, a sluggish economy, and multiple political scandals. Former Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said, “THE WORLD IS DESCENDINGINTO CHAOS.” This isn’t merely some fringe opinion. Observers everywhere are deeply concerned. God is going to get our attention one way or the other, and if we are so stubborn that He has to use deep horror to do it, He will. In fact, He has already prophesied it. Isaiah 59:8 says, “THE WAY OF PEACE THEY KNOW NOT”! This world’s ambassadors, diplomats, presidents and prime ministers DON’T KNOW THE WAY OF PEACE! Soon the chaos that this world is descending into will grow so fierce that they will have to acknowledge that truth! All these prophecies of the troubled time we live in show us, in spectacular detail, where this is all leading. A key event not acknowledge by The Trumpet and other bible scholars is the destruction of the Daughter of Babylon. According to prophecy this event must occur before the return of YAHSHUA (Rev.6:12; Rev 8:7-12; Rev.12). At the end of these crises, YAHSHUA IS GOING TO RETURN! Though chaos will engulf the nations for a few short years—tribulation so severe it will shake mankind to its knees—Christ will come to put an end to all that trouble. All these nightmares are directly tied to His Second Coming! And that is the best news we could hear!

OMINOUS SIGNALS COMING FROM THE FINANCIAL MARKETS THAT WE HAVE NOT SEEN IN YEARS (Source blacklistednews.com) We are starting to see some ominous things happen in the financial world that we have not seen happen in a very long time.  So many of the same patterns that we witnessed just prior to the bursting of the dotcom bubble and just prior to the 2008 financial crisis are repeating themselves again.  Hopefully we still have at least a little bit more time before stocks completely crash, because when this market does implode it is going to be a doozy. The following are ominous signals coming from the financial markets that we have not seen in years. According to the Economic Policy Journal, the VIX has now risen to the highest level that it has been since the heart of the European debt crisis.  This is another indicator that there is extraordinary fear on Wall Street. US stock market volatility has jumped to the highest since the eurozone debt crisis, according to a closely watched index, the the CBOE Vix index of implied US share price volatility. The price of oil is crashing.  This also happened in 2008 just before the financial crisis erupted.  The wealthy are hoarding cash and precious metals right now.  In fact, one British news report stated that sales of gold bars to wealthy customers are up 243 percent so far this year. Technical strategist Abigail Doolittle is holding tight to her prediction of market doom ahead, asserting that a recent move in Wall Street’s fear gauge is signaling the way. Doolittle has made headlines lately suggesting a market correction worse than anyone thinks is ahead. The long-term possibility, she has said, is a 60 percent collapse for the S&P 500.

MOST PEOPLE DON’T BELIEVE IT, BUT WE ARE RIGHT ON SCHEDULE FOR THE NEXT FINANCIAL CRASH (Source blacklistednews.com) Consider where we stand financially in comparison to previous crash cycles.  For example, the derivatives bubble is 20 percent larger than it was back in 2008, the “too big to fail banks” are 37 percent larger than they were back in 2008 and global debt levels are 40 percent larger than they were back in 2008. In other words, many of our long-term economic problems are a lot worse than they were just prior to the last major financial meltdown. But most people pay such little attention to the fundamentals these days.  All they can see is that little stock market ticker going up and up and up. Other analysts with much stronger credentials than I are issuing similar ominous warnings about what is ahead for the financial markets. For example, Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller is warning that market valuations are tremendously bloated right now. Shiller, a Yale University professor who is often cited as one of the most influential people in economics and finance in the world, created a metric that compares stock prices with corporate profits. The metric recently climbed above 25. That level has only been surpassed three times since 1881: 1929, 1999 and 2007. Steep market tumbles followed each instance, including the bursting of the dotcom bubble in the early 2000s.

McDonald’s Says Russia Inspecting More Than 200 Outlets (Source Bloomberg) Russian consumer-safety regulators are conducting inspections at more than 200McDonald’s Corp. (MCD) restaurants around the country. Russian courts have temporarily closed nine restaurants, the Oak Brook, Illinois-based company said in a statement on its Russian corporate website. McDonald’s said it disagreed with the decisions and that it will appeal to a higher court. McDonald’s arrived in Soviet-era Russia in 1990 and was seen as a symbol of the nation’s rising prospects, helping open the communist nation to foreign enterprise. While regulators have cited violations of sanitary rules by McDonald’s, the timing and scope of the shutdowns are seen as a response to Western sanctions in Russia. The original restaurant in Moscow’s Pushkin square, which drew long lines when it first opened, is currently shut under the court order. The U.S. and European Union imposed sanctions against Russian companies and officials after President Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea earlier this year, escalating the worst standoff between the two sides since the Cold War. In response to the sanctions, Putin banned $9.5 billion in food imports from Western countries.

Sweden Is Going To Be The First Country In The World Completely Free Of Cash (Source business Insider) A new report shows that four out of five purchases in Sweden are paid for electronically or by card.

The Local reports Swedes are using electronic payments 260 times per person, per year. Electronic payments systems such as Swish are bypassing the need for people to use ATMs for cash, while at street level, even retailers of Sweden’s version of The Big Issue, Situation Stockholm, are accepting card payments.

It’s not a Europe-wide trend, either. In Italy, cash is still king, accounting for three-quarters of all purchases.

While going cash-free comes with an increase in security costs, it’s more than offset by the drop in cash-handling costs. In Sweden, cash-handling costs are estimated to be around $1.2 billion, or 0.3% of the country’s GDP. And according to the Swedish Bankers’ Association, armed robbers are finding themselves out of a job. Just five bank robberies were reported in 2012, Sweden’s lowest rate in 30 years.

Doctors Suggest That Marijuana Can Protect You From Ebola (Source hempforfuture.com)

Cannabinoids in marijuana have gained more and more of a reputation as a way to control and aid one’s immune systems, specifically with diseases that target a body’s natural defense measures against viruses, like HIV. Dr. David B. Allen, medical director of Cannabis Sativa, Inc, and Brad Morehouse, founder of NewCure.org, both believe cannabis can combat Ebola in the same way.First, a rundown on what Ebola is and does, so everyone understands the argument. Ebola is a virus that targets the RNA (which creates proteins) in cells, takes over, then begins to replicate itself. The virus is able to hide itself from virus killing cells by creating indivisibility cloak-like surface proteins, which makes fighting Ebola especially difficult for the body.

Another consequence of Ebola being an RNA virus is that it makes each strain unique to the individual infected, thus making the creation of a widely applicable vaccine incredibly difficult. What makes Ebola deadly is the way in which one’s immune system reacts as time goes on. Aside from creating hemorrhaging and leaking between cells, Ebola primarily kills when a person’s body releases a massive amount of enzymes (a cytokine storm) and an overabundant, and fatal amount, of immune cells being activated. That’s where marijuana comes in as a potential saving grace to those afflicted with Ebola. As Joe Martin points out, cannabis is contains natural antiretrovirals and is also an anti-inflammatory able to reduce the harm to the body caused by a cytokine storm.