A New Perspective on Constantine

by Jordan Hilger, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – Russia and China are concocting a plan to circumvent US sanctions on Iran.

In early May Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and Chinese State Councilor Wang Yi met in Sochi to discuss ways to replace the US petrodollar with the Chinese yuan, euro, and Russian ruble, in a bid to effectively nullify penalties on countries buying Iranian oil.

A later summit between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, on June 14, 2019, in which Iranian President Hassan Rouhani also participated, emphasized the need for “re-shaping the world order” perceived to be suffering under the burden of American hegemony, in the words of Russian and Chinese officials.

“The parties emphasize the need to protect their mutually beneficial commercial and economic cooperation with Iran and firmly oppose the imposition of unilateral sanctions by any states,” read a statement from the conference according to Russian Interfax news agency.

Questionable support of Iran by Russia and China dates back to the Islamic Revolution of 1979, when China was one of the few countries to supply the burgeoning theocracy with weapons. Russia, for its part, helped to build Iran’s Bushehr nuclear facility in 2015.

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(Worthy News) – The seismic storm that unleashed more than 1,000 small earthquakes in San Bernardino and Riverside counties these last three weeks elicited what has become a typical reaction in quake country.

To some, the “swarmageddon” 40 miles east of downtown Los Angeles brought fear that a bigger threat was coming. To others, as long as they didn’t feel a shake, it was easy to just put it out of their minds. [ Source: LA Times (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – A laser system designed by Israel’s Elbit Systems to protect aircraft against infrared missiles will be implemented in NATO’s Multinational Multi Role Tanker Transport Fleet (MMF) starting in 2020, the company announced this week.

In a three-day series of flight tests for the new system at the end of May, the system was integrated into Airbus-manufactured A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) aircraft. J-Music functioned flawlessly throughout the tests, proving itself capable of defeating multiple threat types. It successfully handled simultaneous threat scenarios and overcome head-on, tail-on and side-on threats from a number of several ranges and at different altitudes. [ Source: Israel Hayom(Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Urban wildlife such as birds and bats may be spreading superbugs around the cities of developing nations because of poor management of human and animal waste, researchers have warned.

A study in the Lancet Planetary Health journal shows that seed-eating birds, scavenging birds such as storks and fruit bats in Nairobi, Kenya, carry high levels of bacteria such as E. Coli that are resistant to antibiotics.

While the study does not show that these resistant bacteria have been passed from wildlife to humans the study warns that a superbug could emerge from the “brew” of wildlife, livestock and humans that live cheek by jowl in the sprawling cities of developing nations. [ Source: UK Telegraph (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – A senior White House official tells CBN News that President Trump will speak to thousands of conservative Christians next Wednesday, June 26, at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority Conference in Washington, DC.

The plan is for him to speak for roughly 60 minutes, just hours before Democrats begin holding their first debates of the presidential primary season. This will be President Trump’s sixth time since 2011 addressing this influential crowd of evangelical political activists. He and the group’s chairman Ralph Reed have been friends since 2010. Since that time, Trump has spoken to them twice before he ran for president and twice as a presidential candidate. The last time he addressed the group was as president in 2017. [ Source: CBN News (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – On Monday, three female high school athletes filed a federal discrimination complaint against Connecticut’s policy regarding transgender athletes. The girls claim they were racing at a disadvantage against their transgender opponent, a male who identifies as a female, impacting the final results of the race.

In the complaint, the female track athletes claim that the policy cost them top finishes in their races, as well as potential college scholarships because of their placement.

The complaint, filed with the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, was submitted by the Alliance Defending Freedom on behalf of the student athletes. They are requesting an investigation be launched to look further into the fairness of the rule. [ Source: CBN News (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – An Ontario couple has filed a complaint in the provincial Human Rights court against the school system after their six-year-old daughter was taught gender fluidity in class and started worrying she might not be female.

During a 1st grade class at Devonshire Community Public School in January 2018, a teacher presented a YouTube video on gender called “He, She, and They?!?—Gender: Queer Kid Stuff #2” which was part of the lesson plan that day, according to Canadian columnist Barbara Kay, who interviewed the girl’s mother, Pamela Buffone, in the Post Millennial Monday.

Among the statements presented as fact in the video were “some people aren’t boys or girls,” and some do not feel like they are a “he” or a “she” and because of that may not have a gender. The young girl, who was thoroughly confused, told her mother that the teacher, who kept teaching this kind of gender theory throughout the semester, would tell the class that “there is no such thing as girls and boys” and “girls are not real and boys are not real.” [ Source: Christian Post (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – The Federal Reserve is holding its benchmark interest rate steady, although policymakers indicate a willingness to loosen the monetary reins if U.S. economic growth sags.

While the economy remains strong, “uncertainties about this outlook have increased,” the Fed’s rate-setting body said in a statement released Wednesday afternoon after two days of deliberations. “In light of these uncertainties and muted inflation pressures, the Committee will closely monitor the implications of incoming information for the economic outlook and will act as appropriate to sustain the expansion.”

The current Federal funds rate is set in a range between 2.25% and 2.5%. When the Fed adjusts that rate, it changes the private borrowing costs for everything from mortgages and credit cards to home equity lines of credit. Lowering the rate can help stimulate the economy as well as increase inflation, which remains shy of the Fed’s target of 2% a year. [ Source: CBS News (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Israel expects US-mediated talks with Lebanon on setting their maritime border to be launched within a month, Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steintiz said on Wednesday.

Lebanon has not commented publicly on whether it would attend talks or on any possible timeline.

“I hope that in the next month, during this summer, that we will begin negotiations,” Steinitz told Israeli Channel Reshet 13. “They said that yes, they are prepared to sit and solve the dispute but there are still the terms (to be agreed).” [ Source: Algemeiner (Read More…) ]

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