‘Huge unforced error’: CBS News roiled by allegations of anti-Israel bias, deceptive editing

(Worthy Insights) – CBS News showed that it can make news as well as cover it after a brutal week that saw the network add allegations of anti-Israel bias to its woes over its editing of an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.

The network was criticized for admonishing “CBS Mornings” co-host Tony Dokoupil over his quizzing of author Ta-Nehisi Coates on his Israel-unfriendly book “The Message,” an interview that reportedly prompted a public reprimand at an Oct. 7 staff meeting and a round of diversity coaching.

Then an internal memo surfaced with a head-scratching geography lesson about the location of Jerusalem. [ Source: Washington Times (Read More…) ]

Corrections Are Not Enough: Washington Post Misquotes Israeli Expert, Then Inserts Hezbollah Propaganda

(Worthy Insights) – Lieutenant Colonel (Res.) Sarit Zehavi, the founder and president of Alma — an independent research and education center focused on Israel’s security challenges along its northern border — has become a sought-after commentator amid Israel’s ongoing strikes on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon.

Following the elimination of the terrorist organization’s leader, Hasan Nasrallah, it’s no surprise that the international media have turned to her for insight.

However, it was extremely surprising to see comments in The Washington Post connected with Zehavi that implied the Galilee region in northern Israel is “disputed” territory. [ Source (Read More…) ]

Iran Could Dash To Build a Nuclear Weapon Before Biden Leaves Office, Experts Warn

(Worthy Insights) – Iran could rush to build a functional nuclear weapon ahead of the 2024 presidential election should it assess that Donald Trump is poised to win, U.S. foreign policy experts are warning as Tehran works to undermine Trump’s White House bid.

“Iran may seek to establish a nuclear fait accompli before the next administration takes office in January 2025, especially if Iran perceives the new administration to be more hawkish, unpredictable, or otherwise less constrained,” the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank wrote in a recent assessment detailing Tehran’s march towards an atomic bomb.

That assessment comes as Iran seeks to influence the outcome of the November election, including by targeting the Trump campaign with a cyber operation. The campaign announced an Iranian hack in August when stolen materials were sent to news outlets such as the New York Times and Washington Post. [ Source (Read More…) ]

Tim Walz promoted research facility that partners with China’s Wuhan lab

(Worthy Insights) – Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) has long promoted a Minnesota-based medical research center with a history of working with the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, according to records reviewed by the Washington Examiner.

The center in Walz’s home state of Minnesota, the Hormel Institute, often collaborates on research with the WIV, the institute in Wuhan, China, at the center of the COVID-19 lab leak theory. For over a decade, Walz has held meetings with the Hormel Institute and toured the research center, which has thanked Walz for securing it millions of dollars in funding, records show.

News of the ties between the Walz-allied research center and the WIV comes as the Democratic vice presidential nominee faces a congressional investigation over his “extensive” connections to China. This year, the U.S. government halted federal funding to a nonprofit group that worked with the lab in Wuhan — where the FBI has said COVID-19 likely emerged. Walz has reportedly traveled 30 times to China, including for his honeymoon, and he said in 2016 that he does not “fall into the category that China necessarily needs to be an adversarial relationship” with the United States. [ Source: Washington Examiner (Read More…) ]

Zuckerberg says he regrets caving to White House pressure on content

(Worthy Insights) – Mark Zuckerberg says he regrets that Meta bowed to Biden administration pressure to censor content, saying in a letter that the interference was “wrong” and he plans to push back if it happens again.

Meta’s CEO aired his grievances in a letter Monday to the House Judiciary Committee in response to its investigation into content moderation on online platforms. Zuckerberg detailed how senior administration officials leaned on the company to censor certain posts about Covid-19, including humor and satire, and “expressed a lot of frustration” when the social media platform resisted.

Zuckerberg also expressed regret for essentially hiding content related to coverage by the New York Post about Hunter Biden ahead of the 2020 election that the FBI warned may have been rooted in a Russian disinformation operation. [ Source (Read More…) ]

In the past, Worthy News was de-platformed for reporting an article detailing that Covid-19 may have originated in a lab linked to China’s biowarfare program.

Worthy News Facebook page was deplatformed for 30 days leading up to the 2020 election for reporting that Facebook and Twitter were blocking users from sharing the New York Post article covering the Hunter Biden Laptop story.

To this day, Worthy News has been censored and demoted across Facebook. Right now, we are currently being delisted due to reporting that the Taliban received millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars.

This is the article that Facebook is now using as grounds to threaten the unpublishing of our page.

Taliban’s Fake Nonprofits Scam Millions in U.S. Aid Post-Afghanistan Withdrawal

This is the mainstream media’s reporting of the same story.

U.S. taxpayers may be funding the Taliban and Afghan terror groups, watchdog says – NBC

U.S. watchdog says the Taliban are benefiting from international aid through ‘fraudulent’ NGOs – PBS News

Christians and Jews led global migration trends, Pew study revealed

(Worthy Insights) – A report from the Pew Research Center, released on Wednesday, uncovered that Christians and Jews were leading global migration trends, highlighting the significant role these religious groups played in the international movement of people. The study, which analyzed data from United Nations sources and over 270 censuses and surveys, revealed that Christians and Jews were overrepresented among the world’s migrants compared to their global population shares.

According to the report, Christians constituted nearly half (47%) of all international migrants, a figure notably higher than their 30% share of the global population. This made Christianity the most represented religion among those who lived outside their country of birth.

Meanwhile, Jews, though representing a tiny fraction of the world’s population at 0.2%, accounted for 1% of global migrants. This meant that one in every five Jews, or 20%, resided outside their country of birth, making them the religious group most likely to have migrated. [ Source (Read More…) ]

As Political Chaos Rages: 5 Ways Early Christians Bucked Roman Insanity

(Worthy Insights) – What would Jesus do amid an American political crisis that feels more fragmented and splintered than it has been in generations?

That’s the central question pastor and author Joshua Ryan Butler dealt with in his latest book, “The Party Crasher: How Jesus Disrupts Politics as Usual and Redeems Our Partisan Divide.”

Butler, who has been pastoring for two decades, said the past two election cycles have seen a “fracturing” and division that everyone has obviously felt. [ Source (Read More…) ]

Evangelist Lou Engle Calls a Million ‘Esthers’ to DC Mall for ‘America’s Last Stand’

(Worthy Insights) – In the book of Esther, we see how God raised up a young woman during a time of crisis to save her people, the Jews. Evangelist Lou Engle sees 2024 as another pivotal moment in history, with God calling women to save this nation. Engle is calling a million women to the DC Mall in October, for such a time as this.

“Everyone knows, America is in a time of crisis, the world is in a time of crisis… fasting and prayer has always shifted history. Esther was raised up for a time (when), if there wasn’t a shift, they would lose a whole nation,” Engle said.

In 2017, Lou Engle had a powerful dream.

In the dream, “A woman stands up and she’s teaching the book of Esther, and she says, ‘and these two words in the book of Esther actually mean Nazgul.’ I explode out of the dream instantly knowing what it means. I watched the third part of the Lord of the Rings where the Nazgul Witch King is destroying the armies of men and says, ‘No man can kill me,’ but the king’s daughter takes off her helmet, lets her hair down and says… ‘I am no man!’ and pierces the Nazgul with her sword,” Engle recalls. [ Source (Read More…) ]

Kamala Harris Pledges to ‘Restore’ Abortion Nationwide if Elected

(Worthy Insights) – Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic nomination Thursday and painted the election as a “fight for America’s future,” saying Republican nominee Donald Trump would take America “back into the past” while she would lead the nation forward. Harris, who is seeking to become the nation’s first female president, also pledged to help legalize abortion nationwide once again if elected. The Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade sent the issue back to the states.

“As part of his agenda, he and his allies would limit access to birth control, ban medication abortion, and enact a nationwide abortion ban with or without Congress,” Harris alleged. “And, get this, he plans to create a National Anti-Abortion Coordinator and force states to report on women’s miscarriages and abortions. Simply put: They are out of their minds.”

Trump has said he would not sign a nationwide abortion ban and believes the issue should be left to individual states. An ABC News fact check of Harris’ speech said most of her abortion allegations were pulled from Project 2025, a non-campaign document Trump has repeatedly disavowed. [ Source: Christian Headlines (Read More…) ]

CAMERA yields its most corrections at once from wire story, after ‘AP’ emends Gazan death toll

(Worthy Insights) – When the Associated Press published an article about top presidential race issues upon which U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are “worlds apart” on Aug. 18, the more than 175-year-old wire service stated that “the civilian death toll has now exceeded 40,000” in Gaza.

The following day, the AP amended the piece “to correct the reference to the civilian death toll from the war in Gaza, which is unknown.”

“The Hamas-controlled Health Ministry says more than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, but it does not distinguish between militants and civilians in its count,” the wire stated. [ Source (Read More…) ]

‘Christian role in Lebanon has ended,’ says Hezbollah-affectionate commentator

(Worthy Insights) – Pro-Hezbollah commentator Reda Saad stirred up a virtual storm in Lebanon following a sharp attack against his Christian compatriots, when he claimed that the Christians’ role in the country is over and American battleships are coming to the region to take them away.

In his controversial rant during an interview with Lebanon On News, Saad addressed his “Christian brethren in Lebanon,” as he named them, warning them to pay attention carefully to his words.

“I fear that the Christians in Lebanon will face a similar destiny to that of the Afghans, when they clung to the wheels of the American helicopters and are thrown from the sky,” he said provocatively. “I fear that you won’t have an airport or a port [to flee from]. And perhaps the foreign warships are coming to take you, to the last of you.” [ Source (Read More…) ]

Florida Human Trafficking Bust Leads to 148 Arrests, Seven Victims Recovered

(Worthy Insights) – This week, the sheriff of Hillsborough County, Florida revealed that nearly 150 people in the community had been arrested in connection with human trafficking in the past three months. In addition, seven victims had been recovered.

Operation Summer Shield found that women as young as 16 were being trafficked, Sheriff Chad Chronister said at a news conference on Tuesday morning. Five adult women and two underage girls were recovered in the operation. [ Source (Read More…) ]

DNC features ‘gender-neutral prayer room,’ repurposed ‘all-gender’ women’s rooms

(Worthy Insights) – The Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, offered a “gender-neutral prayer room” with Islamic prayer mats and also appears to have repurposed several women’s rooms at the venue as “all-gender.”

According to a DNC map of the convention at Chicago’s United Center, one “all-gender restroom” is on each of the four levels of the arena that serves as home to the Chicago Bulls. However, a different map of the venue suggests they are typically women’s restrooms.

Other bathroom facilities that circle the arena are grouped in the typical fashion of men’s and women’s restrooms. [ Source (Read More…) ]

Texas gets 90-ft-tall Hanuman sculpture, 3rd tallest statue in US

(Worthy Insights) – Agrand Pran Pratishtha ceremony was held in Houston, Texas, on Sunday, August 18, where a 90-foot-tall Hanuman statue was inaugurated. This is the third tallest statue in the United States, according to Latestly.

The statue was named ‘Statue of Union,’ and it commemorates Lord Hanuman’s role in reuniting Sri Rama and Sita. The temple has been built at the Sri Ashtalakshmi Temple in Sugar Land, Texas. The visionary behind the project happens to be His Holiness Sri Chinnajeeyar Swamiji. [ Source (Read More…) ]

Democrats Demand ID To Get Into Their Convention But Not To Vote For President

(Worthy Insights) – The Biden-Harris administration has called voter photo identification laws “burdensome” and “unnecessary.” The administration has let hundreds of thousands of unvetted illegal immigrants pour across the border with no questions asked about who they are. But the administration’s political party has implemented identification requirements for anyone who wants to attend the Democratic National Convention (DNC).

Individuals seeking to get into the DNC must show proof of identity “for security screening” to pass through a security perimeter and physical barriers, NewsNation reported. In fact, Chicagoans who live in the “areas around the United Center and McCormick Place” where roads will be closed for the convention “will still be able to go in and out of their homes” but they are only “allowed guests as long as those guests have photo ID.” [ Source (Read More…) ]

Planned Parenthood to Offer Free Abortions, Vasectomies at the DNC

(Worthy Insights) – Abortion behemoth Planned Parenthood will offer free medication abortions and vasectomies during the Democratic National Convention (DNC).

A mobile health center run by Planned Parenthood Great Rivers will set up shop near the convention and provide these services the first two days of the convention, according to The New York Times.

Planned Parenthood Great Rivers promoted their free abortion care in a post shared on Instagram. [ Source (Read More…) ]

Walz administration awarded $2 million to Muslim group fundraising for al Qaeda-linked charity

(Worthy Insights) – Under Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), the state of Minnesota awarded over $2 million to an Islamic group that fundraises for a charity linked to an al Qaeda affiliate, according to funding records reviewed by the Washington Examiner.

The Islamic Association of North America, the recipient of the state grants from 2019 to 2024, is fundraising after Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel last year for Rahma Worldwide, a Michigan-based charity that says it is shipping humanitarian aid to Gaza, according to flyers. In a since-deleted Facebook post in October 2023, Rahma Worldwide President Shadi Zaza revealed his charity was collaborating on an aid initiative with the Islamic Heritage Revival Society of Kuwait, a terrorist group sanctioned by the U.S. government for funding al Qaeda.

News of the Walz administration’s grants to the IANA comes as the Democratic vice presidential candidate faces backlash after a series of Washington Examiner reports revealed his ties to Muslim cleric Asad Zaman. As Minnesota’s governor, Walz has repeatedly hosted Zaman, who shared a pro-Adolf Hitler movie on social media and defended the Oct. 7 attack. Moreover, according to unearthed footage, Walz referred to Zaman as a “master teacher” at a 2018 event held by the Zaman-led Muslim American Society of Minnesota, which partners with the IANA. [ Source (Read More…) ]

Israeli leader sends “end days” message to Iran: “We will build the Temple”

(Worthy Insights) – Moshe Feiglin, the leader of the libertarian Zionist party Zehut and an Orthodox Jew, released a video addressing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of the Islamist regime in Iran. In the video, Feiglin warns the Ayatollah, giving a harsh Biblical message that was translated to Farsi in the subtitles.

“We have reached the end of days,” Feiglin began. “We have reached the moment of truth. We have reached the end of the historical conclusion. We have reached the Day of Judgment. We are called upon to speak openly, to delve into the root causes and to reveal our true identity.”

“Who are we truly? What do we represent? Why is it so important for you to destroy us? And most importantly, who will win here and decisively.” [ Source: Israel365 (Read More…) ]

The Fear Weapon of Imminent Threat

by Miki Yochanan, Worthy News Contributor

(Worthy Insights) – As Israel stands poised for an attack, the wait becomes stress-filled boredom as the leaders are bunker-protected and the populous readies their homes and families for a very REAL Iranian promised onslaught. This – being promised by 2-3 days of airborne missiles, drones, and rockets, seems to, now have inoculated the people of Israel into initiating self-affliction upon themselves. What am I talking about?

This is the same place they found themselves on October 6th – divided as ever over Judicial policy and social reforms. Now, the verbal swords against Netanyahu by his own staff, Knesset members, and government leaders have been drawn as the diatribe ensues into a new level again…while the wait continues for the sky to fall over Israel via the Sabre of Iran.

Is this the intent? Is this a strategy by Iran to be overwhelmingly vociferous towards Israel over the killing of one man. Is this equitable? Or is this the same type of diabolicality that Japan endeavored into prior to the December 7th bombing of Pearl Harbor. Could it be – if we do not see an attack by Iran soon, that they are essentially attempting to draw Israel into an economic war of self-protection (being under constant threat of attack – without any actual act of war) and by doing so, trigger Israel to swing the first blow back at them?

That is what the US did to Japan over the months prior to December 7th. The US blockaded raw materials on their way to the Japanese islands. They also negotiated a reduction of commerce between Japan and other nations, even causing the Japanese currency to devalue. Is it possible Iran is waging an economic war by using the fear of imminency to Israel where there is never light at the end of the tunnel? I don’t know the answer to that, but it seems to be at least – a short-term strategy that places Israel in a Defcon 5 type alert status 24/7 with no end in sight.

As I converse with my friends in the Land, I hear how they need to be near shelters at all times, having stocked up with food, water, generators, fuel – and it seems as if there is a belief that Israel is going to awaken to great devastation at some point – at any moment.
In thinking about this, if I were Iran – I would not be concerned because if that were my goal – I have won a great battle – placing my enemy in a place where fear can percolate and grow, and after days of no attack, it then can turn into frustration, boredom and potential laziness to the threat. It is a great strategy – an evil one mind you. Now, Israeli leaders are bickering and snapping at each other for a ceasefire and hostage release while watching (according to Hamas) the fact they executed one hostage and wounded two others.

This behavior seems to be the thing which they are after. Attacking Israel with hundreds of flying bombs, in the eyes of the world, would look like an unfair retaliation to one man’s death. So, why not attempt to get Israel to launch a preemptive strike against Iran and draw them to a skirmish line where Iran can feel justified in an all-out offense against Israel.

At the same time, we see Zelensky invading Russia, poking the bear into another line across a part of the globe which would bring the world to another commencement of war – number three in just over 100 years.

On the sideline (and I am speculating – but there are sources in three-letter agencies that actually state this as fact) The US seems to be playing the Offensive Coordinator for Iran and the Defensive Coordinator for Israel. This is an evil position – lead by those who hate Israel and want to use Iran as a tool for destruction. By doing so, the nations with weak economies (aka the US, several in the EU, many Slavic nations, and in Asia) can participate in the greatest way for a government to recover – Go To War! It benefits the weaker nations who ally correctly with future history and can bring down the hated ones.

What these nations fail to realize is that there is a God – whose preeminent promise is to His Firstborn, Israel. (Wait – what do you mean Israel is His firstborn? I thought Jesus was His begotten Son.) In Exodus chapter four God instructs Moses for another trip to Pharaoh’s court – but this time He tells Moses in verses 22-23, “Then say to Pharaoh, ‘This is what the LORD says: Israel is my firstborn son, and I told you, “Let my son go, so he may worship me. But you refused to let him go; so I will kill your firstborn son.”

No way to escape the fact this is the case – And because of the lack of time and letter count we can debate later what you think about the current state of Israel – but yes it has been proved time and again that Israel is the placeholder for the Firstborn to come and see Messiah return. Both in its populous and in the Land.

So, this is not a prediction, only a held speculation as I watch what is happening from the stands – praying towards the protection of Israel, its people, and its land… I am going to begin praying Psalm 133 over the land; because if the enemy can cause division within the ranks of society, government, and military in Israel without firing a shot – it is truly a softening of the battlefield of the mind, so when calamity comes it is more effective for the enemy. Let us all be discerning and make sure we understand these battles in Israel whether with natural weapons or Ephesians 6:10-18 weapons, one of those you cannot participate in – the other you can! So let us all read this passage and engage in praying for unity, strength, endurance, and courage for the people of Israel.

Netanyahu warns of proactive attack as Tehran speaks of Israel’s annihilation

(Worthy Insights) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Iran and Hezbollah of proactive attacks, while Tehran spoke of the Jewish state’s annihilation and the region braced for the possibility of a second direct confrontation between the two arch-foes.

“We are prepared both defensively and offensively,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated during a visit Wednesday to the IDF induction base at Tel Hashomer.

“I know that the citizens of Israel are concerned, and I ask one thing of you: Be patient and level-headed,” he said.“We are striking our enemies and are determined to defend ourselves.” [ Source: Jeruslaem Post (Read More…) ]