WATCH: Prosperity gospel pastor cackles in delight after followers buy him a new jet
Televangelist Kenneth Copeland giggled and gloated over the new private jet he says God gave him.
The prosperity gospel preacher took possession of the Gulfstream V last Friday, and his church posted a video online to thank “faithful KCM Elite CX Team members – combined with the blessings of a FAITHFUL GOD!”
“Are you looking at this? Hey, are you seeing this?” Copeland says, cackling. “I hope so — you bought it, you and Jesus.”
Copeland then prayed over the plane, and says it was delivered in accordance to a prophetic vision of “new partners” he received more than a decade ago.
“When you said in 2002, ‘I’m sending you new partners who are very strong financially and they’ll obey me, and I will increase your longtime partners and they will obey me,'” the pastor says, chuckling, “‘and you will not come short, and you will not fail, and you will not lack, and you will not come behind, and you will not be diminished.’ Praise God — isn’t that good?”
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Humanitarian volunteer says he won’t be deterred after facing charges in Arizona for helping migrants
We broadcast live from Tucson, Arizona, where the government recently put humanitarian activist Scott Warren on trial amid the ongoing policing of the U.S.-Mexico border, separation of families, and cruel and inhumane conditions at immigrant jails across the country. Warren, a longtime volunteer with the humanitarian aid group No More Deaths, was charged with three felony counts for his alleged crime of providing food, water and shelter to migrants in Ajo, Arizona. The immigrants had arrived at the doorstep of a humanitarian shelter after a perilous journey across the Sonoran Desert. At the same time, he and other volunteers also faced separate misdemeanor charges for leaving water jugs and food for migrants on a national wildlife refuge in the remote desert. The trial took eight days, and after hours of deliberation, the jury returned without a verdict. Eight found Scott Warren not guilty; the remaining four said he was. The government will now retry Warren in November. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison. As he awaits his next trial, Scott Warren met us in the remote town of Ajo, Arizona, this weekend for his first trip in a year to leave water and food for migrants in the desert.
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Trump’s economic adviser doesn’t see a recession coming — but he said the same thing in 2008
President Donald Trump's chief economic adviser insists there are no signs of a recession on the horizon -- but he's been staggeringly wrong before.
Larry Kudlow went on NBC's "Meet the Press" over the weekend to assure viewers that no economic downturn was coming, but the Washington Post's Aaron Blake pointed out that his track record for predictions was pitiful.
“Well, I’ll tell you what: I sure don’t see a recession,” Kudlow told host Chuck Todd. “So I think actually the second half, the economy’s going to be very good in 2019.”
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Fluoride has been added to community water supplies in industrial countries to prevent tooth decay since the 1950s.
Very high levels of the mineral have been found to be toxic to the brain, though the concentrations seen in fluoridated tap water are generally deemed safe.
"We realized that there were major questions about the safety of fluoride, especially for pregnant women and young children," Christine Till at Canada's York University, senior author of the paper published in JAMA Pediatrics, told AFP.
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