Jonah’s Upcoming Projects 🎬
RICH FLU (dir. Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia) - thriller (post-production)
Explores how far people would go to save themselves when the wealth that made the world go round then becomes its most dangerous commodity after a strange disease threatens to kill anyone with any sort of fortune.
A BEAUTIFUL IMPERFECTION (dir. Michiel van Erp) - drama (2024)
🧍♂️Giacomo Casanova
The passionate story of the life and love of Lucia, a renowned veiled courtesan who is the exception to the rule.
THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ (dir. Tali Shalom-Ezer) - drama (May 2nd 2024)
🧍♂️Lale Sokolov
Based on the eponymously titled novel, this is the powerful real-life story of Lale Sokolov, a Jewish prisoner who was tasked with tattooing ID numbers on prisoners' arms in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during World War Two.
FABIO D’ANDREA: ONE SMALL STEP - short (Jonah plays The Astronaut)
WILLIAM TELL (dir. Nick Hamm) - historical film
🧍♂️Rudenz
The film is set in 14th Century Switzerland, where a once peaceful hunter leads his people to rebellion after his family and country are threatened by a tyrannical Austrian King. The year is 1307 and the Holy Roman Empire is crumbling. As its grip on Europe loosens, new dynasties such as the Austrian Habsburg Family encroach on new lands, desperate for power. In Switzerland, the once peaceful country is overwhelmed and bows under the Austrian might as it advances and upends the quiet lives of the Swiss peasants
THE THREESOME (dir. Chad Hartigan) - a romantic comedy (date TBA)
🧍♂️Connor Blake
The movie showcases the story of a boy, Connor, who gradually begins to find his way into a relationship with the girl he’s been in love with his whole life, Olivia. That sounds great and everything, except he’s just had a one-night stand with someone else… and that may complicate things. That’s only the beginning of a complicated yet funny journey that explores trust, responsibility and the true nature of love.
DOCTOR WHO (2025)
🧍♂️Conrad
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The 2016 Election
by Hal Lindsey
The election of Donald J. Trump remains largely a mystery to the political class. They said, “He made a fatal mistake, on the very day he announced his candidacy, one from which he could never recover.” A few days later, he said something else that they were sure would sink him as a candidate. He ran as a Republican, but alienated the last two Republican nominees. Then, he alienated the last two Republican presidents.
The television networks quickly realized that he was ratings gold. Talk about him -- good or bad -- always drew an audience. His actual appearance on their programs sent viewership into the stratosphere.
During the Republican primaries, the mainstream media gobbled up the money they generated from covering his candidacy. They also gathered ammunition against him, should he actually win the nomination.
When he became the Republican nominee, the media games turned into a blood sport. In the fall, they released damaging tapes and information they had been withholding all through the Republican primaries. They not only expected to destroy him, but to give Hillary Clinton an overwhelming victory that she could use to finish “transforming” America.
Then came the great surprise: He won!
But, if you think that ended the war, think again. In Washington, fights don’t end with single elections.
In 1968, American elected a man that the political and media establishment fully hated: Richard Nixon. Their hatred was not just political, but personal. They should have loved him. He did all kinds of things that they wanted him to do. He ended the military draft; established relations with China; and created detant with the Soviet Union. He negotiated the SALT agreements that limited key components that the nation’s nuclear arsenal. Nixon advocated for universal health care. His justice department integrated more schools than all other presidents combined. And, he established the Environmental Protection Agency. He removed America’s money from the gold standard, and he created the petro dollar. He was not able to end President Johnson’s war quickly, but he did get it ended.
Those were accomplishments that the liberal mainstream media should have loved and applauded. Whatever the reason, during his administration, a level of vitriol entered Washington politics that had long been absent.
To one extent or another, it has been there ever since. Nixon won an unprecedented landslide re-election in 1972 taking 520 electoral votes to George McGovern’s 17, but it didn’t matter. The political establishment ferreted out crimes that Nixon certainly committed, but that had been tolerated in certain other presidents. And, they used them to drive him in humiliation from the White House in 1974. But folks, compared to what Donald Trump is facing, Richard Nixon had it easy.
One member of Congress, California representative Maxine Waters, started calling for Trump’s impeachment before he had even been inaugurated. And, that’s only the beginning. Her solo will soon turn into a chorus. The media, Hollywood, academia, and the political establishment are all arrayed against him.
Trump’s election is no reason for his supporters to relax. Just the opposite. Now, the real battle begins. The battle to roll back the damage that has been done to America
First Timothy chapter 2 verses 1 and 2 says,
“I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions, and thanksgiving, be made on behalf of all men; for kings and all who are in authority, in order that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.” (NASB)
If ever we needed to do as the Apostle Paul admonishes, it is now.
Representative John Lewis of Georgia refused to attend the inauguration ceremonies. He said, “I don’t see this president-elect as a legitimate president. I think the Russians participated in helping this man get elected.”
Representative Lewis’ role in the Civil Rights movement of the 1950’s and 60’s make him an authentic American hero, but it does not mean he can’t be wrong today, or that he should not be criticized when he is wrong.
Before we look at what the Russians did or did not do, it is important to remember that the first wave of emails that embarrassed Secretary Clinton were not leaked, they were released by the state department because a federal judge ordered them to be released. The emails leaked later were the ones US intelligence agencies believe were stolen by Russia.
Assuming that that is true -- and it’s by no means conclusive that it is -- did Russia’s actions alter the outcome of the election?
There are no allegations of foreign hackers getting into voting machines or county election computers. Numbers were not altered, contrary to what you have been led to believe as a matter of pure fact. Technically, no one was even hacked. The Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, gave the nefarious individuals access to their email accounts. Podesta and friends were not hacked, they were fooled. Duped.
Podesta fell victim to what is know as “Phishing”. He received an email saying that someone had tried to change his password. The email said:
“Google stopped this sign-in attempt. You should change your password immediately.”
The email included a link labeled: “Change Password”
One of Podesta’s aides clicked the button and the “Phish” was hooked.
The button link to a fake Google page designed to steal passwords. This happens to millions of people. You probably have received similar emails yourself, but you would expect the chairman of a major presidential campaign to be more careful than the average person.
Something similar happened to the Democratic National Committee. Also, some of the DNC emails were exposed by outraged employees [see ] who felt that the Bernie Sanders’ nomination had been stolen by the DNC.
I have not seen the CIA’s data implicating the Russians, but neither of these attacks required great sophistication. They were simple and unfortunately too common.
It is also worth noting that no one has disputed the content of the DNC or Podesta emails. They were real and included messages that could be considered embarrassing to the Clinton campaign.
But that’s not so big a deal. We all know that none of us are as careful in our private communications as we are when we’re speaking in public. Did they have an impact? Outside of Washington, very few people can describe the contents of even one of these thousands of emails. I seriously doubt that they changed the vote of a single American.
So, no. The Russians did not alter the election.
Then there are those who claim that Trump is illegitimate because he did not win the popular vote. Consider this: The Super Bowl 50, just one year ago, the Carolina Panthers had 315 yards of total offense, and the Denver Broncos had only 194 of total offense.
So, Carolina won, right? Wrong. The rules of the contest don’t say that you win by having the most yards. You win by having the most points. If you don’t like that, then try to get the rules changed, but in the meantime, total offense is just an interesting statistic. It does not decide who wins.
In the United States, the Constitution is designed to keep states relevant, and with some power, in the face of a strong federal government. One of the ways the founders did that was by putting states at the center of the process for selecting presidents.
If you think they were wrong, then work to change the Constitution. But don’t say, after the fact, that the contest shouldn’t count because you don’t like the rules. Both sides tried to win as many electoral votes as possible by winning as many states as possible.
Neither Trump, nor Clinton, was trying to win the popular vote. They would like to win the popular vote, but it was secondary. I’m sure the Broncos would have preferred having more total offense than the Panthers in the last year’s Super Bowl, but it wasn’t required to win the game and the championship.
In the election, if the rules had been different, each side would have employed completely different strategies, and we have no way of knowing who would have won. Speculate all you want, but don’t call the winner illegitimate cause you don’t like the outcome.
Either we have a Constitution or we don’t. Either that Constitution means something, or it doesn’t. If we cease to be a nation of laws, we become a nation where only the loud and violent have a voice.
Jesus warned that in the last days “...lawlessness will abound.” (Matthew 24:12 NKJV) And, that’s what people who want to ignore the rules, after the fact, are calling for.
In reflecting about the Obama Administration’s time in office, it struck me just how much change has taken place in such a short time. Most of it is bad. I don’t mean this strictly as an indictment of President Obama. He made plenty of mistakes and many wrong choices, but some things went badly because he was president near the end of the period known in the Bible as the Last Days.
President Obama has always been a favorite of political liberals, but today, if anyone took the position that Obama took eight years ago on the issue of same-sex marriage, political liberals will call him a bigot.
It became the law of the land. Not in a referendum of voters or by an act of the legislature, but by edict of the courts.
The day the Supreme Court ruled in favor of same-sex marriage, President Obama ordered that the White House be lit up in the rainbow colors of the LGBT community. As massive -- as precedential -- as that change was, it didn’t take eight years, it took only five.
Romans chapter 1 describes this as a symptom of a society in the last stages of its own self-destruction.
Eight years ago, ISIS did not even exist. Since then, the nations of the world has spent hundreds of billions of dollars trying to fight this radical Islamic organization.
Eight years ago, Egypt was considered one of the most stable governments in the Middle East, but that was before the US backed “Arab Spring”.
Since then, two Egyptian governments have fallen in coup d'états.
Iran was at peace eight years ago, and seemed to be on its way to becoming a stable democracy.
Syria seemed stable.
Libya seemed stable.
In eight years, chaos in those three nations has changed the face of the world. It has driven millions of their former citizens into a Europe that will never be the same again.
The former president claims the Iran Nuclear Deal as an example of progress during his term. But I believe that deal actually ensured that Iran will get nuclear weapons, if they haven’t already.
In eight years, Israel is closer to war and further from peace. It has been damaged immeasurably in the United Nations in just the last month. Russia and Iran now sit on Israel’s doorstep in Syria.
Three years ago, the president dismissed Russia as a “...regional power.” (President Barack Obama) But that regional power now threatens the peace of the whole world. It makes you wonder what will happen in the next few years.
What will happen to the European Union? What will happen in the Muslim world? What will happen to Christians in Africa and in South America?
Pope Frances has pushed the Catholic church far in the direction of liberalism. What will the next pope do? Will there even be another pope or US president? Or maybe onrushing events will now slow down for a while.
Jesus compared the endtimes to a woman having contractions while in labor. They come with intensity, and they ease up for a while. Maybe we’re in for a lull. Or maybe this labor has gone far enough that the contractions will be so close together, that we can’t tell where one ends and the next begins.
That is why it is so important that all believers in Jesus Christ stay spiritually ready for His coming, because we do not know when it will be. And Scripture shows that it could be at any moment.
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