Crosstalk: August 8, 2016

Jim helped get listeners caught up on news from the past week by focusing on the following headlines:

--The federal government has announced plans to lift the moratorium on funding of certain controversial experiments that use human stem cells to create animal embryos that are partly human.

--President Obama decides to seek a new United Nations Security Council resolution that would call for an end to nuclear testing, a move that leading lawmakers are referring to as an 'end-run' around Congress.

--A controversial United Nations inspired scheme in which Scottish authorities assign a specific government bureaucrat to oversee the development of each child is being implemented now, but the government's named person will be charged with pushing homosexuality, gender confusion and more on children that are assigned to them.

--Under the guise of fighting violence against children, the Obama administration has joined forces with socialist foreign regimes and various U.N. agencies in a global partnership to wage war on parental rights.

--the U.N. says it will soon be too hot to work due to climate change.

--One of the world's most powerful banksters, Baron Eric de Rothschild, has announced his support for Bulgarian communist operative Irina Bokova and her scandal-plagued campaign to lead the U.N.

--President Obama responds to the Nice attack by telling leaders that the world needs more globalism.

--Outrage is growing nationwide, especially in Congress, after the Obama administration was exposed to have paid an alleged illegal 400 million in cash to Iran in exchange for 4 captured Americans.

--The Obama administration is alleged to have secretly organized an airlift of close to half a billion dollars sent over in the form of Swiss Franks, Euros and other currencies on wooden pallets.

--Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas accused the White House of handing over a 1.7 billion dollar ransom to the Ayatollahs for U.S. hostages.

--Regarding the commuting of 214 prisoner sentences, 67 of those individuals who were granted clemency were serving life sentences. In total, President Obama has granted clemency to 562 people, more than any other president in modern history.

--It appears that the Obama administration will hit its goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees into the U.S. before the end of September.

--The Department of Homeland Security is redesigning and extending temporary protected status to thousands of Syrian nationals already residing in the U.S.

--The F.B.I. wants the ability to turn your smart phone into a video and audio recording device without your knowledge.

--The world's largest evangelical Christian charity infiltrated by Hamas.

--Khizr Kahn, the father of the slain Muslim U.S. soldier who condemned Donald Trump at the Democratic National Convention, is alleged to have ties to Hillary Clinton's e-mail server. He has a law firm in New York but for some reason he deleted his firm's website on Tuesday.

--Bill Clinton received 5.6 million dollars in fees as an honorary chairman of the world's largest educator on Shariah.

--The F.B.I. has charged a law enforcement officer in the U.S. with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State.

--The economic situation in Venezuela is so bad that people are slaughtering and eating zoo animals.

--An F.B.I. employee pleads guilty to spying for China.

--China has fired dozens of missiles and torpedoes during exercises into the East China Sea.

--The U.S. military is preparing for the largest land return in Okinawa since 1972.

--Vice President Joe Biden officiated the homosexual wedding of two White House aids.

--In a show of solidarity after the Pulse nightclub massacre, nearly 2 dozen Republican officials in central Florida have signed a resolution calling for laws banning discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation.

--A Virginia school board can block a transgender female identifying as a male from using the boys restroom when school begins next month.

--Several Wisconsin school districts are busy revising their gender discrimination policies in the run-up to the new school year.

--The writer of Spider-Man is creating a transgender superhero.