Looking for His glorious appearing! Titus 2:13

Salvation
Aug 20th, 2013
Daily NewsThe Bible
Categories: Bible Salvation;Contemporary Issues

For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:6-8).

Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: (Romans 5:12).

For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous (Romans 5:19).

He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God (John 3:18).

Let the Headlines Speak
Aug 20th, 2013
Daily NewsFrom the Internet
Categories: Today's Headlines;Contemporary Issues

Obama Asks Supreme Court To Allow Warrantless Cell Phone Searches
Last week the Obama administration asked the Supreme Court to resolve the issue and rule that the Fourth Amendment allows warrantless cellphone searches.  

Obama urges renewed push for Wall Street overhaul
Obama prodded the nation's top financial regulators on Monday to act swiftly and finish writing rules designed to prevent a recurrence of the 2008 financial crisis that helped precipitate a damaging recession from which the country is still recovering.  

Vote set for proposed new state in northern Colorado
When voters in Colorado's Weld County head to the polls in November, they'll be asked to consider a proposal backed by several counties to form a new state called North Colorado. Weld County commissioners unanimously voted Monday morning to place a 51st state secession initiative on the ballot, The Greeley Tribune reported.  

8.19.13: An early fall for Wall Street?
The Dow Jones Industrial Average’s 225-point decline on Thursday marked its biggest drop since June 20, followed by a lacklustre Friday that left the benchmark average down nearly 3% so far this month. The blue-chip average has suffered back-to-back triple-digit-point declines and 10 drops in the past 14 trading sessions. U.S. Treasury bond yields rose to their highest level in two years last week.  

Teleported! Bits vanish here, reappear there
For the first time, researchers have teleported 10,000 bits of information per second from point A to point B across a distance of about six millimeters and inside a solid state circuit, similar to a computer chip.  

Clinically dead woman revived after 42 minutes
Doctors say Vanessa Tanasio, 41, a mother of two from the suburb of Narre Warren, needed numerous defibrillator shocks, including one in the ambulance on her way to hospital. In a telephone interview from the hospital, she said she was eager to get home. "I'm feeling excellent. For someone who has been dead for nearly an hour of this week I am feeling tremendously well."  

Gulf nations split with West to back Egyptian military
Efforts by the West to pressure Egypt’s new government to end its crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood could be moot thanks to Saudi Arabia’s oil money – and whole-hearted backing of the military.  

Terrorists ‘aim to hit Israeli, Jewish targets worldwide’ in coming weeks
Israeli and Jewish targets all over the world are likely to be sought out by terrorist organizations in the coming weeks, the Israeli government’s Counter-Terrorism Bureau warned in strikingly strident tones on Monday, listing dozens of countries where it said it had “concrete” indications of a terrorist threat.  

TSA to purchase 3.5 million rounds of ammunition
Although TSA agents in airports are currently unarmed, last month the TSA announced its plan to hire the use of a firing range within a 20 mile radius of LaGuardia Airport in order to train TSA workers. The Transportation Security Administration is set to purchase 3.5 million .357 SIG caliber bullets, enough for its agents to fire 9,400 rounds a day, every day of the year.  

Fukushima nuclear plant: Radioactive water leak found
Radioactive water has leaked from a storage tank into the ground at Japan's Fukushima plant, its operator says. Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) said the leak of at least 300 tonnes of the highly radioactive water was discovered on Monday. ...A puddle of the contaminated water was emitting 100 millisieverts an hour of radiation, Kyodo news agency said.  

Egypt Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie held
The most senior leader in Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Badie, has been arrested at a flat in Nasr City, Cairo, say officials. Mr Badie had been on the run since an arrest warrant was issued over alleged incitement to violence and murder. A state of emergency is in force amid a crackdown on Islamists opposed to the army's ousting of Mohammed Morsi.  

Pope electors told of 'Smoke of Satan' in Vatican
It’s a matter so dark and serious it has only been whispered about behind closed doors in Vatican circles by courageous priests such as the late John F. O’Connor, Alfred Kunz and the late Malachi Martin. “Suddenly it became unarguable that now… the Roman Catholic organization carried a permanent presence of clerics who worshipped Satan and liked it.”  

New Zealand volcano lets off steam
A volcano off New Zealand sent a plume of steam two kilometers (1.24 miles) into the air Tuesday, although volcanologists described the eruption as small and said it was over in minutes. The GeoNet monitoring service said White Island, an uninhabited landmark off the North Island’s Bay of Plenty, erupted at 10:23am (2223 Monday GMT).  

Erdogan: Israel orchestrated Morsi overthrow, Egypt unrest
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel of orchestrating the Egyptian military’s overthrow... Morsi. “Israel is behind the coup in Egypt, we have evidence,” Erdogan was quoted as saying... The Turkish premier cited a conversation he had with a “French Jewish intellectual” who predicted that the Muslim Brotherhood would not be permitted to rule even if it won an election “because democracy is not the ballot box.”  

Newly Discovered Ocean Plume Could Be Major Source of Iron
Scientists have discovered a vast plume of iron and other micronutrients more than 1,000 km long billowing from hydrothermal vents in the South Atlantic Ocean. The finding, soon to be published in the journal Nature Geoscience, calls past estimates of iron abundances into question, and may challenge researchers' assumptions about iron sources in the world's seas.  

How Obama is deliberately crippling U.S. economy
Ever since Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, Americans have heard a lot about “progressivism,” Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” and the “Cloward-Piven Strategy” of orchestrated chaos – basically, intentionally causing an existing system to break down in order to “rescue” it by instituting a new system. In other words, a “fundamental transformation.” Conservatives believe this is Obama’s playbook.  

Public School Promotes 5 Pillars of Islam
Parents at a Wichita, Kan. elementary school were shocked to discover a giant wall display inside the building promoting the five pillars of Islam.  

Floods Recede in Manila as Thousands Evacuated
Flooding caused by some of the Philippines' heaviest rains that submerged more than half the capital began receding Tuesday even as authorities evacuated thousands of residents along Manila's overflowing rivers and braced for more chaos in outlying provinces.  

Israeli Official to U.S.: Back Egypt Army or Risk Peace Talks
Aug 20th, 2013
Daily NewsINN - Elad Benari
Categories: Today's Headlines;Peace Process

An Israeli official told the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on Monday that if the United States did not back Egypt’s army, it would negatively affect the renewed peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

The unnamed official, who spoke to WSJ’s Middle East correspondent Charles Levinson, reportedly said that Washington must back Egypt's military or "good luck with your peace efforts between Israel and Palestinians."

Levinson explained that the comments were not made as a threat to the U.S. but were a reflection of the importance of Israel’s cooperation with the Egyptian military, as part of the peace agreement signed between the two countries in 1979.

"The Israeli position is that Saudi Arabia and Egypt have historically, and still today, have played a crucial role in supporting negotiations and giving the Palestinians the support they need to stay in negotiations,” he said.

“This officially basically said, ‘Look, if you alienate Egypt and if you lose Saudi [Arabia] - good luck seeing any progress in the peace talks,’” said Levinson.

He added that Israel depends on Egypt to maintain law and order in the restive Sinai and to crack down on terrorists operating in that region. “Israel does not want to see chaos and anarchy on its southern border,” stressed Levinson.

The United States has been sending mixed signals about Egypt ever since the military ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in July.

The White House has thus far been cautious about calling the Egyptian military’s ouster of Morsi a “coup” since, under U.S. law, a country in which a military coup has taken place cannot receive military aid from the U.S.

At the same time U.S. officials have hinted that if the violence and bloodshed in Egypt continue, it may cut off its military aid to the country.

Last week, U.S. President Barack Obama said that the United States "deplores" and "strongly condemns" violence in Egypt, and as a result is canceling U.S.-Egyptian military exercises scheduled for next month. 

On Monday, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said that Washington was doing its best to stabilize the situation in Egypt, but admitted that there was only so much the U.S. could do.

“Our ability to influence the outcome in Egypt is limited,” Hagel said. “It's up to the Egyptian people. And they are a large, great, sovereign nation.”

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said on Monday that a review by the Obama administration of all U.S. aid to Egypt is currently underway and stressed that the U.S. has not yet made a decision on whether to freeze economic assistance to Egypt.

Meanwhile, the New York Times reported on Monday that Israel is mounting a diplomatic effort to assist the military-backed government in Egypt to retain U.S. and international backing.

Israel plans this week to intensify its diplomatic campaign urging Europe and the United States to support the government in Egypt, the Times wrote, quoting “a senior Israeli official involved in the effort” who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Erdogan in Another Anti - Semitic Diatribe Against Israel Reveals His Failures
Aug 20th, 2013
Daily Newsdebkafile
Categories: Today's Headlines;Anti-Israel

In one revealing sentence, Turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan undid the hard work performed by US and Israeli to gloss over his radical anti-Semitic views and the bankruptcy of his Middle East policies, in the hope of co-opting Ankara to a moderate regional lineup. This time, Erdogan went so far as to accuse Israel of orchestrating Egypt’s July 3 military coup in an address Monday, Aug. 20 to the provincial chairs of his ruling Justice and Development Party.
Ankara has evidence as to the country’s involvement in President Mohamed Morsi’s overthrow, he said. “Who is behind this? We have evidence.” But the Turkish prime minister did not reveal his “evidence” because there was none, debkafile’s military and intelligence sources note.
His purpose was to turn his party’s attention away from his failure to establish Turkish influence in any part of the Middle East, especially in Egypt, by putting the blame on Israel.
It was Israel’s fault, he insinuated, that Erdogan encountered Egyptian contempt for his bid to assume the role of leading Muslim power in the Middle East. He met this rejection even on the part of the Muslim Brotherhood during Morsi’s administration, in the year before the military coup.

Morsi rejected his overtures for close ties - not just with Cairo but also with the Palestinian Hamas ruling the Gaza Strip and his pretensions to be their champion.

Edrogan’s plans to create a Sunni Muslim bloc led by Turkey and built around the Muslim Brotherhood encountered its second setback when his only strategic partner, Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, abdicated two months ago after a bloodless coup.

The main motives behind his removal, with Saudi and UAE encouragement, were his close ties with Turkey and strong support for the Muslim Brotherhood movement and Hamas.
The emir was succeeded by his son Sheikh Tamim bin Khalifa Al Thani, who opposes his father’s friendly ties with the Brotherhood and Turkey.

Indeed, it should have been evident that the coup in Qatar was the precursor of the military coup in Egypt, a conclusion reached in one of DEBKA Weekly’s exclusive reports. Erdogan and the head of his MIT intelligence agency Fidan Hakan missed this connection, although the Saudis and the UAE made no bones about their drive to derail Muslim Brotherhood rule in Egypt and thwart the ambitions of its Turkish and Gulf allies.
Fearing to blame Saudi Arabia and the emirates for his ruined plans, Erdogan heaped crude falsehoods on Israel’s head as his whipping boy.
His crudest remark referred to a meeting he claimed took place in France between “an intellectual” and former Israeli justice minister before Egypt’s 2011 elections. Erdoğan, stressing that the intellectual was Jewish, quoted him as saying: “‘The Muslim Brotherhood will not be in power even if they win the elections.”
debkafile: The Turkish prime minister managed by a single anti-Semitic comment to stigmatize “Jewish intellectuals” and also leave the impression that not only had his own policies gone aground but so had the Obama administration’s plans, which relied heavily on Muslim Turkey and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood as their keystone, and therefore invested great efforts in effecting a reconciliation between Jerusalem and Ankara. 

California Promotes Perversion
Aug 20th, 2013
Daily NewsWND
Categories: Today's Headlines;Moral Decline

It’s coming to a public school near you.

That’s because there’s something to the old saying, “What starts in California spreads across the nation.”

Have you heard about the latest way the state is peddling perversion to little schoolchildren?

A new law, passed by both houses of the legislature and signed by Gov. Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown, mandates that public school girls’ restrooms and locker rooms be open to boys who claim they are “transgendered.” Ditto for boys’ restrooms and locker rooms.

Now keep in mind “transgenderism” is a somewhat undefined “condition,” if it is an actual condition at all. Some interpret it to be those who have actually undergone sex change operations. But very few children have done that, simply because very few doctors, with the exception of a few quacks, would perform such surgery on children, who are often confused about their sexual identity. Others interpret it much more broadly. For instance, a child might just say he or she feels more like a member of the opposite sex.

Can you imagine subjecting children to this kind of sexual abuse under government mandate?

That’s what’s up in California.

If you’ve got kids in California public schools, there are many reasons to pull them out. But this one takes the cake. Don’t wait for your child to be abused. It’s only a matter of time now. Subjecting your kids to California authorities is itself a form of child abuse.

Never mind that the public school system is in shambles. Never mind that they teach all manner of left-wing propaganda. Never mind that the system is there for the benefit of teachers unions not kids and parents. All that would be bad enough. But, if you had any doubts about where California is going, besides broke, now you know. You are without excuse as a parent.

I took my kids out of California schools long ago. After living there for 20 years I finally moved out of the state because of the utter political madness that reigns supreme. Anybody in their right mind would, at this point, recognize that the state is nearly hopeless – quickly degenerating into a Third World republic with great weather and beaches.

What will it take to awaken the sleeping populace of California?

State politics is dominated by an extreme left-wing Democratic majority thanks to illegal immigration and gerrymandered political redistricting. There’s simply no way to overcome it – except to escape.

Worse yet, because what happens in California eventually spreads to the rest of the nation, the insanity is coming to a school district near you.

Believe it. Be on the alert. Be vigilant. Most Californians are not nuts like the people who control the political machinery. I know that. It doesn’t matter anymore. Because normal people with common sense don’t have a voice in California. And, too often, they don’t have a voice in the rest of America, either. That’s because they are not engaged in great moral morass that is quickly becoming California and America.

Already, in other parts of the country, there are efforts to ensure that any child for any reason can choose to use the restrooms and locker rooms of the apparent opposite sex. This is the real agenda – to create gender confusion among kids. It’s part of the homosexual political and moral agenda – one that has proven formidable in legalizing and normalizing sin and perversion with unprecedented speed.

Think back 10 years. Would you have believed same-sex marriage would be upheld at the U.S. Supreme Court? It would have been unthinkable. Even worse, who could have imagined that the majority opinion would label anyone who opposed it a bigot?

It wasn’t that long ago that California voters themselves rejected it – only to see a homosexual federal judge ram it down the throats of the majority.

Do you think I’m being overly harsh and judgmental?

Then you don’t understand what’s coming.

It’s a brave new world that is unsafe for children and other living things.