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https://news.yahoo.com/praying-for-armageddon-fundamentalist-evangelicals-153858689.html
'Praying for Armageddon' exposes the power, influence of U. S. fundamentalist evangelicals

Following the release of the powerful film on artificial intelligence, iHuman, filmmaker Tonje Hessen Schei's new political thriller, Praying for Armageddon, exposes the influence of U. S. fundamentalist evangelicals on politics and democracy, with the aim to fulfill the biblical Armageddon prophecy.

“For me, the issue of the power of the U. S. fundamentalist evangelicals is maybe one of the most important issues of today,” Schei told Yahoo Canada.

“Seeing the immense power they have from the grassroots, through megachurch empires, all the way up to the political system in Washington, D. C., is just very concerning to me, especially as they're threatening democracy and also influencing U. S. foreign policy.”

In Praying for Armageddon, Schei and co-director Michael Rowley are largely guided by journalist Lee Fang, reporter with The Intercept, working to investigate evangelical power and how the direct influence on U. S. foreign policy, specifically the country's relationship to Israel.

“In the tradition of Christianity, there is no single view of the end times," former evangelical preacher, Frank Schaeffer, explains in the documentary. "But the American evangelical community has latched on to one."

"Generally, they believe that believers on earth will be rapture to heaven before things get really bad. And that’s the promise to the evangelical, that they will not taste death if Jesus comes back and the rapture occurs in their lifetime.”

From American preachers, like Gary Burd with the Mission M25 biker ministry, to chronicling the function of the Organizations like Christians Unite For Israel (CUFI), led by John Hagee, Praying for Armageddon is clearly sounding the alarm on the dangers of this influential group.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/debt-limit-consequences_n_6452c346e4b04ccd00ad4ac2
This Is What Could Happen If Republicans Won’t Increase The Debt Ceiling

No one’s quite sure exactly what the American economy would look like after a government debt default, but economists are sure of one thing: It would be bad.

Very bad. Like “dogs and cats living together” bad.

House Republicans insist they will not vote to increase the debt ceiling without as-yet unspecified steep spending cuts, but President Joe Biden has said he will not negotiate over the full faith and credit of the country.

The debt ceiling standoff went from simmering to the front burner on Monday with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s warning the government could run out of cash in early June, and experts are warning that failing to give Treasury more borrowing room before it defaults would have catastrophic fallout, not just on Wall Street but also on Main Street.

“Our economy is made up of people. So when people are not doing well, our economy is not doing well,” said Rakeen Mabud, chief economist with the left-leaning Groundwork Collaborative, a group of progressive economic experts.

“Seniors wouldn’t get their Social Security checks, military service members wouldn’t get paid, families wouldn’t get some cash that they need to pay for food. And that would be an absolutely devastating economic consequence.”

Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former director of the Congressional Budget Office and president of the conservative American Action Forum think tank, said the economic spiral downward would begin with panicky investors selling off Treasury debt.