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Hizbullah’s Stronghold in the U.S.

Memri.org, 10/22/24, “Dearborn, Michigan—Hizbullah’s Stronghold in the U.S.” [Excerpts]:The local community in Dearborn, Michigan shows visible support for the U.S. government-designated terrorist Iranian proxy in Lebanon, Hizbullah, regularly mourning its slain fighters and referring to them as “martyrs.” Memorials and commemorations for slain Hizbullah fighters, and other Hizbullah-related events, are often held locally, including at the Bint Jebail Cultural Center in the city, named for the Bint Jbeil area, one of Hizbullah’s strongholds in Southern Lebanon where members of the community have family ties.

These very public memorials and commemorations are regularly covered by a local news outlet which publishes articles, photos, graphics, and videos about funerals for these “martyrs” in southern Lebanon and about memorial services that are held for them in Dearborn. Other Hizbullah fighters’ funerals are extensively covered by local news outlets….

Even though these public commemorations of Hizbullah fighters are held regularly, they are not reported on by outlets affiliated with major news agencies.

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How Do We Solve the West’s Fertility Crisis?

IntellectualTakeout.org, 8/27/24, “How Do We Solve the West’s Fertility Crisis?” [Excerpts]: It’s no secret that birth rates are dropping across the Western world. A recent OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) report found that the fertility rate among the group’s 38 member nations dropped from 3.3 children per woman in 1960 to just 1.5 children in 2022—well below the replacement level of 2.1 children required to keep populations constant.

To be sure, this is not just an economic challenge but an existential one. A civilization that has lost the will to reproduce is a civilization that has lost the will to live.

According to the latest research, we have indeed lost the will to reproduce. In a study published earlier this month, the Pew Research Center found:

The share of U.S. adults younger than 50 without children who say they are unlikely to ever have children rose 10 percentage points over five years, from 37% in 2018 to 47% in 2023.

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Mixed Land and Marine Fossils in Wales

ICR.org, 8/26/24, “More Mixed Land and Marine Fossils in Wales” [Excerpts]: Flood geologists expect to find marine fossils mixed in the same layers as land animal and land plant fossils. We see it all over the world. Scientists can directly observe the results of massive waves, created by tectonic activity, that crashed across the continents. The global Flood caused many animals and plants to be transported both onto the land and offshore, too.

A recent discovery in Wales brings the land and marine mixing issue to the forefront again.  Conventional scientists from the University of Bristol and The Natural History Museum in London discovered dinosaur bones mixed in the same bone beds with fossils of countless marine fish (and at least one coelacanth), sharks, and swimming reptiles, including ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs.

Lead author Owain Evans said: “The bone bed paints the picture of a tropical archipelago, subjected to frequent storms that washed material from both land and sea into a tidal zone. This means that from just one fossil horizon, we can reconstruct a complex ecological system, with a diverse array of marine reptiles like ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and placodonts [extinct marine reptiles] in the water, and dinosaurs on land.”

With this evidence, it is surprising that conventional geologists still don’t seem to get it. They see the mixed assemblages and the flooding but interpret it in their deep-time worldview, ignoring the possibility that there was a global flood. Their many “storms” over vast time amount to many floods, just never the one Flood.

Unsurprisingly, a better explanation for these recent Welsh discoveries is the global Flood. It explains the transport of the marine fossils inland, the abrasion, the mixing with land animals, and even the rapid burial. It also makes sense of the dinosaur footprints in freshly deposited marine sediments. Those dinosaurs were likely scrambling to find any remaining dry ground at that point in the Flood, leaving their footprints before being washed away themselves by the next wave.

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