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The Most Heartrending Abortion Testimony You ll Ever Hear, from a Former Abortionist
May 26th, 2013
VideoJohn Jalsevac
Categories: Commentary;Contemporary Issues

Russia Still Set to Sell Advanced Missiles to Syria
May 26th, 2013
Daily NewsIsrael Today Staff
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel

Despite earlier reports to the contrary, Israeli officials on Sunday said that Russia has not struck a deal with Jerusalem that would halt the sale of advanced Russian-made anti-aircraft missiles to Syria.

London's Sunday Times cited unnamed Israeli sources as saying that a meeting last week between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had resulted in a cancellation of the planned sale.

In return for the cancellation, Russia had reportedly elicited Israel's promise to not carry out any more air strikes inside Syria.

But another unnamed senior Israeli official told The Times of Israel that the earlier report was a "fairy tale," and that the sale of Russia's S-300 anti-aircraft system to Syria had not been canceled.

The official did say, however, that he believed Russia would ultimately not provide the system to embattled Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, but only after extracting more concessions from Israel.

Meanwhile, Israeli Middle East expert Dr. Mordechai Kedar told Arutz Sheva radio that if and when Assad's downfall becomes inevitable, the Syrian leader could opt to lash out in all directions to secure his place in the history books.

"It could be that Assad, when he sees that everything is finished, will fire whatever he can in all directions - toward Turkey, maybe to Lebanon, maybe here as well," said Kedar.

Let the Headlines Speak
May 26th, 2013
Daily NewsFrom the Internet
Categories: Today's Headlines;Contemporary Issues

Saudi Arabia warns against Iran's nuclear program
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal has warned against the danger of Iran's nuclear program to the region's security and said Iran should not threaten its neighbors since countries in the region harbor no ill-intentions to the Islamic Republic.  

Knife attack on soldier in Paris treated as terrorism
French anti-terrorist investigators are handling the case of a soldier stabbed while on duty near Paris on Saturday evening, prosecutors have confirmed. The soldier was wounded while on patrol in La Defense, a business district west of the French capital.  

U.S. Shift Poses Risk to Pakistan
Pakistani leaders who have long demanded an American exit from their region may get their wish, but a broader disengagement is also likely to diminish the financing, prestige and political importance Pakistan held as a crucial player in global counterterrorism efforts, and could upset its internal stability.  

Christians in the Arab world: A guide
As Islamists come to power across much of the Middle East, Christians are facing growing persecution How many Christians live in the Middle East? Between 10 million and 12 million. The Middle East is the birthplace of Christianity and home to some of its oldest communities, but the Christian population has dropped dramatically over time, especially over the last decade.  

Muslim Acts Of Beheading In The West
The gruesome murder yesterday (May 22, 2013) of a soldier outside London by a Muslim convert, Michael Adebolajo, brings to mind that throat slitting and beheading are Islamically sanctioned forms of execution.  

Jordan: Extremism has ‘grown fat’ on Mideast conflict
Jordan’s King Abdullah II said Saturday extremism has “grown fat” off of the longstanding conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. “Good faith talks must get going,” Abdullah told the opening of a two-day meeting of the Geneva-based World Economic Forum on the shores of the Dead Sea, the lowest point on earth.  

Kerry urges renewed talks, not a settlement freeze
US Secretary of State John Kerry urged Israel’s government on Friday to prevent further settlement construction where possible to help revitalize Middle East peace hopes, but stressed that the Jewish state and Palestinians alike should remain focused on the larger goal of restarting direct negotiations.  

Egypt court rejects religious slogans in election law
Egypt's highest court ruled on Saturday that parts of a revised election law setting out terms for a parliamentary vote were unconstitutional, casting fresh doubt over a poll that has already been delayed.  

2 rockets hit Lebanese Hezbollah stronghold
A pair of rockets slammed into a car dealership and a residential building in strongholds of Lebanon's Hezbollah militia in southern Beirut on Sunday, wounding four people and raising fears that Syria's civil war is increasingly spreading into Lebanon.  

French Soldier Stabbed in the Neck By Man of North African Origin
May 26th, 2013
Daily Newsdebkafile
Categories: Today's Headlines;Contemporary Issues

The soldier was injured but will survive. He was patrolling the business area of western Paris Saturday when a bearded man, about 30, wearing an Arab-style garment under his jacket stabbed him in the neck.
The assailant fled the scene and is being sought by the police. The soldier was on duty as part of France’s Vigipirate anti-terrorist surveillance plan.
The Paris attack occurred four days after two Islamist terrorists hacked a British soldier to death on a London street.

A Glimpse of the Coming Totalitarian World
May 26th, 2013
Weekly CommentaryArt Sadlier
Categories: Commentary;Warning;Prophecy

In the not too distant future, perhaps just around the corner, there is a New World Order waiting in the wings, waiting to burst upon a slumbering world. This new world will be a totalitarian state. We see the signs all around us beginning to unfold. The following is a brief preview of what is to come.

The United State Senate is considering passing into law a very dangerous United Nations treaty that would threaten the tens of thousands of American families who care for disabled children. By passing this treaty, the Senate would effectively make the state, and not the parents, responsible for determining what is in the “best interest” for the caring of a disabled child.

In Scotland, there is a bill currently going through the Scottish Parliament that takes the state’s intervention in family life to a startling new level. Under the Children and Young People Bill, every child from birth will be given a “named person”, charged with keeping an eye on that child’s interests until it reaches adulthood. The Bill is remarkably vague about the powers to be given to these “named persons”. Will they be free to arrive unannounced at the family home to check on how a child is being treated by its parents, when it goes to bed, what food it is given, what political or religious opinions it is being brought up with?

It happens in China routinely. It frequently happened in the old Soviet Union., undoubtedly in North Korea, although generally there’s no one around to witness it. But in the United States? It happens here, too, apparently.

An ex-Marine was recently jailed and held for the comments he made on Facebook – comments that expressed dissatisfaction with the present direction of the U.S. government. Marine veteran Brandon Raub, 27, was arrested by a swarm of FBI and Secret Service and forcibly detained in a psychiatric ward for a week, he was to be detained 30 days for psychiatric assessment, but a circuit court judge intervened.

The US military has threatened to take severe action against those in the military who share the gospel. Court martial has been threatened.

A Gallup poll shows that a majority of Americans now believe that sexual relations between two men or two women, and unmarried women having a baby, are morally acceptable.

In the US the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) blatantly discriminated against conservative political groups and programs they oppose, groups like The Tea Party, Right to Life and The Christian Coalition. These groups were refused tax exempt status which they are legally entitled to. These are the clear marks of a totalitarian regime.

The Boy Scouts of America have recently voted to allow gays into its membership.

Parents have complained that a Wisconsin elementary school is promoting homosexuality through its ‘Gender Bender’ theme day. As part of the Milwaukee school’s ‘Spirit Week’ pupils from kindergarten to eighth grade were encouraged to dress like the opposite sex.

The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Obama Administration’s decision to deny asylum to a German homeschooling family.

The US Justice Department illegally seized the emails of AP and Fox News reporters.

 The prospect of cloned babies has moved a step closer after scientists extracted stem cells from human embryos created in a laboratory.

During a recent House Ways and Means Committee hearing today, Rep. Aaron Schock, R-Ill., grilled outgoing IRS commissioner Steven Miller about the IRS targeting a pro-life group in Iowa. “Their question, specifically asked from the IRS to the Coalition for Life of Iowa: ‘Please detail the content of the members of your organization’s prayers,’" Schock declared.

THE Church of Scotland has taken a historic step by voting in favour of allowing openly gay men and women to become ministers.

The United States government claims 100% ownership over all your DNA and reproductive rights. This astonishing revelation has emerged from the fact that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office claims the power to assign ownership of your DNA to private companies and universities who apply for patents on your genes.

Genetic Slavery is here. Consider this: When you have a child, you are replicating your genetic code. Because your genetic code is 20% patented and "owned" by someone else, the act of having a child is, by definition, an act of genetic piracy that you are committing in violation of the law. These companies that "own" your genetic code can, if they wish, demand you pay royalties for every child you create.

Is British CNN host Piers Morgan finally admitting gun advocates have a point when they say the Second Amendment is to protect citizens from tyrannical government? Now – after learning of the Obama administration’s involvement in the IRS’ targeting of conservative groups and its secret seizure of Associated Press phone records – the CNN host admitted to guest Penn Jillette that perhaps gun advocates were right about creeping tyranny after all.

A beleaguered President François Hollande went on the offensive today calling for an “economic government” for the Eurozone and “political union” in Europe within two years.

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) told the large group of reporters gathered for a press conference on Thursday that the Department of Justice seizure of phone records from the Associated Press is what happens when a “tyrannical despot” is running the government.

A federal judge has issued a startling ruling that suppressing Christian speech is allowed when Muslims threaten violence because they’re upset over the message.

Taken on its own, the KOMO 4 News report out of Seattle paints a stark and frightening picture of police battling “angry parents” in a simulated shooting at a school. The practice of police training to take on everything from homeschoolers to patriots and constitutionalists – “right wing extremists” in government parlance – is anything but a rarity. Such exercises are now a prominent feature of the expanding police state.

Sponsored by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) Assembly Bill 1266 is aimed at prohibiting “discrimination against transgender students” in the state’s school districts, Ammiano said.

Several school districts, including in Los Angeles and San Francisco, already have policies that allow students to participate in activities and use washroom facilities for the gender they identify with, according to local news reports. Should the bill also pass in the state’s Senate and signed by the governor, it would ensure that all students have equal access, according to Ammiano.

Christians [are] victims of rising 'hostility' from gov't and secular groups: "The 140-page 'Survey of Religious Hostility in America,' prepared by the Liberty Institute and the Family Research Council, highlighted more than 600 examples illustrating what it characterized as religious animosity shown by judges, government bureaucrats, schools and secular groups.

The families of Navy SEALs killed in an August 2011 shoot-down of a helicopter in Afghanistan spoke at a press conference Thursday morning, citing a number of grievances, including an allegation that the Pentagon invited a Muslim cleric who “disparaged in Arabic the memory of these servicemen.”

A survey of Republicans found nearly half agreed that “an armed revolution in order to protect liberties might be necessary in the next few years.” 

With the opening of the massive “Utah Data Centre” in Bluffdale Utah, the National Security Agency will be able to pick up electronic communications, phone calls, emails, cell phone records and purchase receipts of every description. They will be able to record and store every bit of this data from around the whole world. They will be able to sort and isolate data on any topic they choose.

This will be the ultimate tool of a world-wide totalitarian government. Revelation 13:16-17 becomes more significant. “And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”

Art Sadlier

17 - Year Cicadas to Swarm from Georgia to New York
May 26th, 2013
Daily NewsVOA
Categories: Today's Headlines;Contemporary Issues

A 13-year cicada is shown in this picture taken in Lexington, Georgia, USA, May 9, 2011.

HAMDEN, CONNECTICUT — Colossal numbers of cicadas, unhurriedly growing underground since 1996, are about to emerge along much of the U.S. East Coast to begin passionately singing and mating as their remarkable life cycle restarts.
    
This year heralds the springtime emergence of billions of so-called 17-year periodical cicadas, with their distinctive black bodies, buggy red eyes, and orange-veined wings, along a roughly 900-mile stretch from northern Georgia to upstate New York.
    
The eerie, cacophonous mating music they produce, along with the unusual synchronous mass emergence and lengthy development cycles, have amazed scientists and lay people alike for centuries.
    
In central Connecticut, particularly dense concentrations of so-called Brood II cicadas, named Magicicada septendecim, should arrive in late May or June, says Chris Maier, entomologist with the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven.
    
This will be Maier's third time studying their emergence - he tracked them in 1979 and again in 1996. He said they are next due in 2030, when he will be 81 years old.
    
Maier said the first scientific recording of Brood II specimens was in 1843.
    
The precisely-timed arrival of the 1.5-inch (38-mm) plant-sucking, flying adults takes place after a lengthy period of development underground as juveniles.
    
After maturing, males begin what cicadas may be best known for: their conspicuous acoustic signals, or "songs," to sexually attract females.
    
"When there's a lot of them together, it's like this hovering noise. It sounds exactly like flying saucers from a 1950s movie," Chris Simon, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Connecticut, said on Thursday.