Religious institutions are still the single biggest recipients of overall charity donations, according to the 2015 survey by the Giving USA Foundation. About 32 percent — $119.3 billion — of a total of $373.25 billion Americans gave to charities went to churches, synagogues, mosques and temples. But that is down from about 50 percent since 1990, according to Rick Dunham, vice chairman of Giving USA, and the percentage has been “in steady decline for some time.”

We are witnessing societal change happen at a pace that would have been absolutely unthinkable a couple of generations ago. This is especially true for our young people. If you go back to 1986, just 10 percent of all young adults were “religiously unaffiliated”, but now that number has jumped all the way to 39 percent…

That makes young adults the single largest group of “nones” in the entire country. We are living at a time when there is a mass exodus from the Christian faith in America, and it is likely going to take something quite dramatic to reverse that trend.

Not only did early Americans identify themselves as Christians, but nearly all of them regularly attended church. Now our society is moving very rapidly in the exact opposite direction, and many believe that this has tremendous implications for the future of our nation.

MEP Marcel de Graaf stated, “Countries who import the third world will become the third world.”  He said that mass migration has led to a surge in murder and rape in Europe.  He revealed that the compact extends the definition of hate speech by criminalizing criticism of migration, and individuals who speak out against migration risk being jailed. Media outlets that are unfavorable to migration could be shut down.

Youtube commentator, Stefan Molyneux, analyzes the UN compact and listed its sinister demands that places migrants above citizen taxpayers who are forced to pay for their own destruction. He points out that European open borders and massive welfare benefits has created a black market for human smuggling and slavery.

Australia, Switzerland, Poland and Israel were the latest countries to reject the United Nations Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. The compact will force Western countries to open their borders, provide safe passage and funding for an endless wave of third world migrants. The agreement will bankrupt the West. It is a globalist’s dream.

Intentionally blocking out the sun with chemical aerosols, we’re now being told, could be a critical tool for stopping global warming (or climate change, or whatever they’re calling this hysterical conspiracy theory these days). Except there’s just one problem: people, animals, and plants need the sun, which anyone who took elementary school science well knows.

Part of how plants grow and thrive is through photosynthesis, one of the primary components of which is unobstructed natural sunlight. Humans also require natural exposure to the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) rays, which trigger the production of 25-hydroxyvitamin D, the pro-hormone more popularly known as vitamin D, in people’s bodies.

Believe it or not, researchers from two of the most esteemed universities in the world, Harvard University and Yale University, don’t seem to understand any of this. Keep in mind that just a few short years ago, these same “scientists” and “news” outlets that are now widely reporting on the supposed need for geoengineering in order to “cool” the planet rabidly denied that such a concept even existed. Anyone who dared to even speak of “chemtrails” or “geoengineering” was dubbed a “lunatic” conspiracy theorist – even though chemtrails have been visible in our skies for more than a decade.

Somehow, these same social manipulators have decided that the time is ripe to stop lying, at least about the existence of chemtrails. But they’re continuing to peddle the global warming lie along with their latest admission that chemtrails exist, going a step further to insist that they’re necessary for planetary survival – and climate zealots everywhere are cheering them on as saviors of the world.

As an example of this worrisome and effective truth-telling, Spaulding cited one of RT’s weekly shows, America’s Lawyer, hosted by prominent US trial lawyer Mike Papantonio. The theme of this show, Spaulding revealed to the audience is that the US justice system is “corrupt and broken” and has been “taken over by politicians and the elite for their own corrupt ends.”

“They feature every week, stories from our courts all across the country to demonstrate the truth of this statement. I don’t think there’s anything in there that is a lie.” A truthful news show dedicated to exposing the corruption of the American justice system? Terrifying! Adversaries like Russia, Spaulding said, are “using information operations, sometimes enabled by cyber, to weaken us” – but the reason it can be so effective, she said, is that the information doesn’t have to be a lie.

Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan tried to put the best face on things, telling reporters, “We failed the audit, but we never expected to pass it.” Shanahan suggested that the DoD should get credit for attempting an audit, saying, “It was an audit on a $2.7 trillion organization, so the fact that we did the audit is substantial.” The truth, though, is that the DoD was dragged kicking and screaming to this audit by bipartisan frustration in Congress, and the result, had this been a major corporation, likely would have been a crashed stock.

So here’s the situation: We have a Pentagon budget that a former DOD internal-audit supervisor, Jack Armstrong, bluntly labels “garbage.” We have a Congress unable to evaluate each new fiscal year’s proposed Pentagon budget because it cannot know how much money was actually spent during prior years. And we have a Department of Defense that gives only lip service to fixing any of this. Why should it? The status quo has been generating ever-higher DoD budgets for decades, not to mention bigger profits for Boeing, Lockheed, and other military contractors.

The losers in this situation are everyone else. The Pentagon’s accounting fraud diverts many billions of dollars that could be devoted to other national needs: health care, education, job creation, climate action, infrastructure modernization, and more. Indeed, the Pentagon’s accounting fraud amounts to theft on a grand scale — theft not only from America’s taxpayers, but also from the nation’s well-being and its future.

Mentioning the two countries’ shared responsibility to cooperate in the interests of the global economy, Cui warned about dire consequences if US hawks try to drive a wedge between the world’s two largest economies. He drew parallels to the tariff wars the industrial countries fought during the 1930s, resulting in a collapse of global trade and stoking tensions in the run-up to World War Two.

‘The lessons of history are still there. In the last century, we had two world wars, and in between them, the Great Depression. I don’t think anybody should really try to have a repetition of history’, he observed. Cui Tiankai said China wanted to avoid a trade war and hoped to resolve the impasse caused by US President Donald Trump’s demands for large-scale concessions from Beijing to correct a towering trade deficit with China.

GDP could fall by as much as 8% next year, exceeding the depth of the recession that followed the financial crisis in one of the worst-ever peacetime capitulations for the economy. However, the gloomy figures were criticised by respected economists Paul Krugman, a former winner of the Nobel prize in economics, and Andrew Sentance, a former member of the bank’s interest rate-setting committee, who said they were too severe.

According to the Bank’s analysis, house prices could fall by 30% and the unemployment rate could increase from its current level of 4.1% to about 7.5%, while interest rates could be forced to rise as inflation increased to 6.5%.

The report, which was peer reviewed and took three years to compile, sets out the scale of the problems as well as evidence-driven solutions. The food system also fails to properly nourish billions of people. More than 820 million people went hungry last year, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, while a third of all people did not get enough vitamins.

At the same time, 600 million people were classed as obese and 2 billion overweight, with serious consequences for their health. On top of this, more than 1 billion tonnes of food is wasted every year, a third of the total produced. “The global food system is broken,” said Tim Benton, professor of population ecology, at the University of Leeds, who is a member of one of the expert editorial groups which produced the report.

The Left has since taken sexuality to a whole new level with the expansion of that agenda to now include people who think, or who simply claim, they are the opposite gender – or that they have no gender at all, despite the long-established biological and genetic facts that there are just two sexes of humans, males and females. It’s bad enough that the Left has convinced a sizeable number of Americans that, science be damned, someone can ‘claim’ to be something – anything – they want to be. But this goofy, anti-science agenda actually made it into public policy during the Obama administration.

But now the Trump White House is set to return some rationality into how the government officially views the definition of a man and a woman as part of official policy. As reported by Breitbart News and others, the administration is reportedly set to establish a legal definition of gender under Title IX which would be premised on a person’s birth gender, according to a memo leaked to The New York Times. Make no mistake, figuring out a person’s gender is about as simple a concept as there is. If you can’t tell by a person’s physical attributes, a simple lab test will do the trick.

There are 1.4 million Americans who ‘identify’ as a different gender, but the Left-wing Obama regime purposely blew up the traditional means of identifying gender so that 310 million Americans would have to conform to them instead.

Now, the Left is anything but compliant. Already, liberals in blue states are set to pass legislation that will allow parents to designate their child with a ‘third’ gender option – “non-binary” – meaning no gender at all, which is an obvious and purposeful lie. And wouldn’t you just know it, California is going to lead the way.

The bottom line here is that no matter how out of their minds the Left gets over this issue, mammalian biology is not subject to one’s feelings or even debate: Newborns are either going to be boys or girls, period. The Trump administration is simply recognizing that reality.