Date: July 14, 2023
Host: Jim Schneider
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Every Friday on Crosstalk, news headlines are viewed from a biblical perspective with comments from listeners to follow. Here’s a selection of featured stories:
–A federal judge has denied the Biden administration’s attempt to pause an injunction that bars federal officials from communicating with social media companies for the purpose of silencing protected speech.
–The House of Representatives narrowly passed a defense bill that contains provisions seeking to gut the Pentagon’s diversity, equity and inclusion and also the abortion agenda.
–House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday said the Justice Department’s slow investigation of Hunter Biden, followed by a plea deal to avoid prison time, smells like a cover-up under Attorney General Merrick Garland.
–No fingerprints or DNA turned up on the bag of cocaine found in the lobby at the White House last week, despite a sophisticated FBI crime lab analysis.
–A new revelation has emerged. Twice in 2022, marijuana was found on White House property.
–White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre snapped at a reporter last Friday over a question about a bag of cocaine found at the White House. Jim provided the audio.
–Jim also provided audio of Christopher Wray before a House committee where he was asked whether he’s protecting the Biden family.
-A newly released video highlights how the Massachusetts Department of Public Health allegedly colluded with Google to secretly install COVID tracking spyware on the smartphones of more than one million residents without their knowledge or consent.
–Using Federal Trade Commission documentation as the basis for his claims, Congressman Mat Gaetz of Florida leveled an attack on Ring doorbells, saying that they present a privacy danger.
–The U.S. national debt has increased by one trillion dollars in the 5 weeks since president Biden signed a bill into law that effectively turns off the debt ceiling until the year 2025. The national debt has increased 4.7 trillion dollars since President Biden took office in January of 2021 and its expected to keep rising in the face of annual budget shortfalls at least one trillion per year.
–A prominent German economist says central banks plan to concretize central bank digital currencies in the form of microchips implanted under the skin, a technology that would enable absolute government control over personal finances.
–A collection of machines said last week that robots do it better during a United Nations event in Geneva, Switzerland.
–In the latest break between China and the U.S., Beijing imposed export controls on gallium and germanium. The two minerals, which Beijing plans to restrict starting August 1st, are critical to high-tech products like ultra fast computer chips , electric vehicles, radar, night vision devices, missile defense, fiber optics, LED’s, and satellite imagery.
