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Pakistan: 75 Dead in Attack on Church
Sep 22nd, 2013
Daily NewsINN - Maayana Miskin
Categories: Today's Headlines;Contemporary Issues

A double bombing at a historic Christian church in northwestern Pakistan has killed at least 75 people. The bomber struck as hundreds of worshipers walked out of church toward a food distribution area on the lawn outside.

The attack is one of the deadliest to target Pakistan’s Christian minority in years. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but it is widely assumed to be the work of a militant Muslim group.

The death toll has risen as rescue workers search the rubble. At least 100 people were wounded, and many are in critical condition.  

Local hospitals said they were running out of beds for the wounded – and running out of coffins for the dead.

Police say they are not yet sure if the attack was the work of two suicide bombers or one. It is possible that a single suicide bomber first threw one bomb, then detonated a bomb vest.

The bombs were packed with ball bearings or other metal objects aimed at maximizing injury.

Two Muslim security guards who were stationed at the church were apparently among the dead.

Pakistan’s Ulema Council, the country’s largest clerical body, condemned the blast and said it was “standing with our Christian brothers in this tragedy.”

Pakistan has been hit by many deadly attacks in recent months. A suicide bombing at a funeral in Quetta left 29 dead in August; just weeks earlier, gunmen burst into a hotel in northern Pakistan and killed nine foreigners.

A bombing at the U.S. Consulate in March killed 10 people. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for that attack.

Let the Headlines Speak
Sep 22nd, 2013
Daily NewsFrom the Internet
Categories: Today's Headlines;Contemporary Issues

Typhoon Usagi Bears Down on Hong Kong, Threatens China
Hong Kong raised its third-highest storm signal as Severe Typhoon Usagi approached, with the city braced for floods and hundreds of flights canceled.  

Hacking U.S. Secrets, China Pushes for Drones
For almost two years, hackers based in Shanghai went after one foreign defense contractor after another, at least 20 in all. Their target, according to an American cybersecurity company that monitored the attacks, was the technology behind the United States’ clear lead in military drones. “I believe this is the largest campaign we’ve seen that has been focused on drone technology,” said Darien Kindlund...  

Pakistan church blast kills dozens
A bomb blast outside a church in the Pakistani city of Peshawar has killed at least 60 people and injured more than 100 others, officials say. They say two suicide bombers blew themselves up as people were coming out after Sunday Mass. The victims were said to include women and children.  

'Turkey will likely never join the EU due to members' prejudice'
Turkey will probably never join the European Union because of prejudicial attitudes by the bloc's existing members, Ankara's chief EU negotiator said, in what appeared to be the first high-level acknowledgment that its decades-long bid might fail. Turkey was more likely to negotiate special access to the EU market, like Norway, EU Affairs Minister Egemen Bagis said...  

Report: Israelis join Kenyan effort to rescue hostages from terrorists
Israeli forces have joined Kenyan troops in the effort to save hostages from al-Qaida-linked Somali terrorists at a Nairobi mall where gunmen killed at least 59 people on Saturday, AFP reported on Sunday. "The Israelis have just entered and they are rescuing the hostages and the injured," AFP quoted a security source as saying.  

Russia ready to send observers to Syria
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Russia is ready to send military observers to Syria to ensure security for efforts to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons. But he says Russia is not considering sending a full military contingent. Under a U.S.-Russian plan, Syria is to give up its chemical weapons. Security is one of the plan's major challenges, including how to prevent theft of the weapons.  

Iranian president brags about deceiving the West
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has gone on a charm offensive lately with multiple interviews with American media promising collaboration, but a recent video shows he takes pride in deceiving the West.  

Islamist gunmen holed up with hostages in Nairobi siege, 59 dead
Islamist militants were holed up with hostages on Sunday at a shopping mall in Nairobi, where at least 59 people have been killed in an attack by the al Shabaab group that opposes Kenya's participation in a peacekeeping mission in neighboring Somalia.  

Will Japan's elderly get burned by 'Abenomics'?
As Japan undergoes a seismic shift in economic policy that promises to end two decades of stagnation, one unsuspecting segment of society may be getting a raw deal: the elderly. "For those older persons that are retired, inflation is a threat in light of the pension system's low generosity, as it erodes the real value of their savings," said Marcel Thieliant, economist at Capital Economics.  

More than 60 killed in Iraq funeral bombing
At least 60 people have been killed at a funeral in the mainly Shia Muslim Sadr City district of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. A tent where mourners were gathered was hit by two explosions, one of them a suicide car bomb. A third explosion followed as police, ambulances and firefighters gathered at the scene, according to one report.  

Iran's elite military warns of dangers of dealing with U.S
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard has warned of the dangers of dealing with U.S. officials, ahead of expected diplomatic contacts, underlining the internal challenges President Hassan Rouhani could face to improve ties with the West.  

Venezuela seizes toilet paper factory to avoid shortage
The Venezuelan government has taken over a toilet paper factory to avoid any scarcity of the product. The National Guard has taken control of the plant, and officers will monitor production and distribution. Earlier this year officials ordered millions of toilet rolls to be imported to counter a chronic shortage.  

Russia says opposes any resolution threatening force against Syria
Russia on Sunday criticized what it said were Western attempts to use a Syrian chemical arms disarmament deal to seek a U.N. resolution threatening force against President Bashar al-Assad's government. Syria has handed over information about its chemical arsenal to a U.N.-backed weapons watchdog, meeting the first deadline of the ambitious U.S.-Russia deal that averted the threat of Western air strikes.  

Kenya Siege: Death Toll Rises to At Least 59
Sep 22nd, 2013
Daily NewsINN - Ari Sofer
Categories: Today's Headlines;Contemporary Issues

The death toll in a bloody shooting spree by Islamist terrorists at a shopping mall in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi continues to rise, as several gunman have barricaded themselves in the mall, along with a number of hostages.

Officials in the east African country have raised the official death toll to 59, many of them children and the elderly, after gunmen from the Al Qaeda-linked Somali terrorist group Al Shabaab embarked on a bloody rampage through the luxurious Westgate mall in Nairobi. A further 175 people are believed to have been injured in the attack.

According to numerous media and official reports, as of this morning between 10-15 gunmen remain inside the mall, along with approximately 30 hostages, and were holding out against Kenyan security forces.

Witnesses described how the terrorists opened fire with assault weapons, mowing down men, women, children and the elderly.

The attack was not entirely "indiscriminate," however: multiple eyewitnesses described how victims were "vetted" by the terrorists, who made them recite Muslim prayers to ascertain their religion. Those who were able to prove that they were Muslim were allowed to go free, while non-Muslims were deliberately murdered in cold blood.

On its official "Twitter" account, Al Shabaab confirmed that Muslims had been "escorted" to safety, whilst "infidels" were targeted for death, and claimed to be holding at least 36 hostages.

One man described to how the terrorists methodically selected their victims.

"They came and said: 'If you are Muslim, stand up. We've come to rescue you'," Elijah Lamau told the BBC.

He said that the Muslims left with their hands up, following which the terrorists gunned down two people.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has vowed to "hunt down the perpetrators wherever they run to".

The mall was targeted on an especially busy day, as the weekend rush reached its height with Kenyans and foreign tourists visiting its shops, restaurants and cinemas.

God Reveals Himself
Sep 22nd, 2013
Thought For The WeekA. W. Tozer
Categories: Commentary;Inspirational

Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. Isaiah 6:5

I have said it before and I will say it again: this low concept of God is our spiritual problem today. Mankind has succeeded quite well in reducing God to a pitiful nothing! The God of the modern context is no God at all. He is simply a glorified chairman of the board, a king of big businessman dealing in souls. The God portrayed in much or our church life today commands very little respect.

We must get back to the Bible and to the ministration of God's Spirit to regain a high and holy concept of God. Oh, this awesome, terrible God, the dread of Isaac! This God who made Isaiah cry out, "I am undone!" This God who drove Daniel to his knees in honour and respect.

To know the Creator and the God of all the universe is to revere Him. It is to bow down before Him in wonder and awesome fear.

A Global Elite Rules the World
Sep 22nd, 2013
Weekly CommentaryArt Sadlier
Categories: Commentary;World Government

The following news item involves the most significant end time related issue in recent months. This item exposes how a relatively few bankers and billionaires are taking control of the world, its resources, and are seeking to enslave the people of the entire world.

 World Bank whistleblower Karen Hudes reveals how the global elite rule the world.

The following is a quote from Michael Snyder.... [Karen Hudes is a graduate of Yale Law School and she worked in the legal department of the World Bank for more than 20 years. In fact, when she was fired for blowing the whistle on corruption inside the World Bank, she held the position of Senior Counsel. 

She was in a unique position to see exactly how the global elite rule the world, and the information that she is now revealing to the public is absolutely stunning. According to Hudes, the elite use a very tight core of financial institutions and mega-corporations to dominate the planet. 

The goal is control. They want all of us enslaved to debt, they want all of our governments enslaved to debt, and they want all of our politicians addicted to the huge financial contributions that they funnel into their campaigns. 

Since this elite group also owns all of the big media companies, the mainstream media never lets us in on the secret that there is something fundamentally wrong with the way that our system works.

Remember, this is not some "conspiracy theorist" that is saying these things. This is a Yale-educated attorney that worked inside the World Bank for more than two decades.

Karen Hudes studied law at Yale Law School and economics at the University of Amsterdam. She worked in the US Export Import Bank of the US from 1980-1985 and in the Legal Department of the World Bank from 1986-2007. 

She established the Non-Governmental Organization Committee of the International Law Section of the American Bar Association and the Committee on Multilateralism and the Accountability of International Organizations of the American Branch of the International Law Association.

Today, Hudes is trying very hard to expose the corrupt financial system that the global elite are using to control the wealth of the world. During an interview with the New American, she discussed how we are willingly allowing this group of elitists to totally dominate the resources of the planet.

A former insider at the World Bank, ex-Senior Counsel Karen Hudes, says the global financial system is dominated by a small group of corrupt, power-hungry figures centered around the privately owned U.S. Federal Reserve. 

The network has seized control of the media to cover up its crimes, she explained. In an interview with the “New American,” Hudes said that when she tried to blow the whistle on multiple problems at the World Bank, she was fired for her efforts. 

Now, along with a network of fellow whistleblowers, Hudes is determined to expose the corruption.

Citing an explosive 2011 Swiss study published in the PLOS ONE journal on the “network of global corporate control,” Hudes pointed out that a small group of entities — mostly financial institutions and especially central banks — exert a massive amount of influence over the international economy from behind the scenes. 

“What is really going on is that the world’s resources are being dominated by this group,” she explained, adding that the “corrupt power grabbers” have managed to dominate the media as well. “They’re being allowed to do it.”

Previously, I have written about the Swiss study that Hudes mentioned. It was conducted by a team of researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. 

They studied the relationships between 37 million companies and investors worldwide, and what they discovered is that there is a "super-entity" of just 147 very tightly knit mega-corporations that control 40 percent of the entire global economy...

When the team further untangled the web of ownership, it found much of it tracked back to a "super-entity" of 147 even more tightly knit companies - all of their ownership was held by other members of the super-entity - that controlled 40 per cent of the total wealth in the network. 

"In effect, less than 1 per cent of the companies were able to control 40 per cent of the entire network," says Glattfelder. Most were financial institutions. The top 20 included Barclays Bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and The Goldman Sachs Group.

But the global elite don't just control these mega-corporations. According to Hudes, they also dominate the unelected, unaccountable organizations that control the finances of virtually every nation on the face of the planet. The World Bank, the IMF and central banks such as the Federal Reserve literally control the creation and the flow of money worldwide.

At the apex of this system is the Bank for International Settlements. It is the central bank of central banks.

Hudes tells Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog.com the following. "We don’t have to wait for anybody to fire the Fed or Bank for International Settlements . . . some states have already started to recognize silver and gold, the precious metals, as currency."

Most people have never even heard of the Bank for International Settlements, but it is an extremely important organization. In a previous article, I described how this "central bank of the world" is literally immune to the laws of all national governments...

An immensely powerful international organization that most people have never even heard of secretly controls the money supply of the entire globe. It is called the Bank for International Settlements, and it is the central bank of central banks. 

It is located in Basel, Switzerland, but it also has branches in Hong Kong and Mexico City. It is essentially an unelected, unaccountable central bank of the world that has complete immunity from taxation and from national laws. Even Wikipedia admits that "it is not accountable to any single national government." 

The Bank for International Settlements was used to launder money for the Nazis during World War II, but these days the main purpose of the BIS is to guide and direct the centrally-planned global financial system. Today, 58 global central banks belong to the BIS, and it has far more power over how the U.S. economy (or any other economy for that matter) will perform over the course of the next year than any politician does. 

Every two months, the central bankers of the world gather in Basel for another "Global Economy Meeting". During those meetings, decisions are made which affect every man, woman and child on the planet, and yet none of us have any say in what goes on. 

The Bank for International Settlements is an organization that was founded by the global elite and it operates for the benefit of the global elite, and it is intended to be one of the key cornerstones of the emerging one world economic system.

This system did not come into being by accident. In fact, the global elite have been developing this system for a very long time. 

In a previous article entitled "Who Runs the World? Solid Proof that a Core Group of Wealthy Elitists is Pulling the Strings", I included a quote from Georgetown University history professor Carroll Quigley from a book that he authored all the way back in 1966 in which he discussed the big plans that the elite had for the Bank for International Settlements.

The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. 

This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. 

The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basle Switzerland; a private bank owned and controlled by the world’s central banks which are themselves private corporations.

And that is exactly what we have today.

We have a system of "neo-feudalism" in which all of us and our national governments are enslaved to debt. This system is governed by the central banks and by the Bank for International Settlements, and it systematically transfers the wealth of the world out of our hands and into the hands of the global elite.

But most people have no idea that any of this is happening because the global elite also control what we see, hear and think about. Today, there are just six giant media corporations that control more than 90 percent of the news and entertainment that you watch on your television in the United States.] end quote

The following is a quote from David Rockafellar concerning the New World Order, "The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determiation practiced in past centuries."

This is a call to replace democracy and the nation state with an intellectual elite dictatorship.

It is obvious that these men are pawns in hand of Satan to bring the world in subjection to his rule and ultimately cause the whole world to worship him. These are the men who will bring Antichrist forward and hand him control of the world.

When the right moment comes, these evil, elite globalists will pull the strings and the US dollar will collapse. Great chaos and turmoil will ensue, perhaps involving a major war which they will fund for their purposes. Their strategy is to tear down the present order and then construct their own global agenda.

It is also easy to see these evil, greedy men using the harlot church to bring the unsuspecting and deceived world into line with their scheme. The church will be used to keep the peasants happy as the process goes forward. This feudal system will give way to socialism when they finally control all of the world’s capital and assets. Scripture indicates that the nature of the kingdom of Antichrist will be a socialist state. Scripture tells us that the harlot church will move in concert with world-wide socialism.

One of the puroses of the mark of the beast will be to administer to each person his social benefits from the hand of the state.

We are fascinated as we see the pope recommending and moving toward world socialism. He is also moving quickly and suddenly to dismantle a thousand years of Catholic dogma and doctrine. He is swinging the doors of the church wide open to the entire world. He is declaring universalism which will welcome all men and women everywhere to walk into the church. He has been busy opening up the church to atheists, agnostics, homosexuals and unbelievers. He is laying the ground work for the day when he will invite the whole world come into the harlot church. He is preparing the world for the coming instant world church.

Change is underway in the Roman Catholic Church. The pope has declared his intention to rewrite the constitution of the church. Conservatives within the church are alarmed at the drastic changes this pope is so quickly invoking. A group of Cardinals are now calling for Francis to resign as they fear the destruction of what the church nas been for over a thousand years. He has initiated more change in the church in a few months than has taken place in a thousand years.

Pope Francis has become a leader in the push for world government. A news release in 2015 confirms this, "The Vatican called on Monday for the establishment of a "global public authority"  and a "central world bank" to rule over financial institutions that have become outdated and often ineffective in dealing fairly with crisis. It called for the establishment of a "supranational authority" with world-wide scope and "universal jurisdiction" to guide economic policies and decisions"

In other statements the Vatican has pronounced, "It is the task of todays generation to recognize and consciously accept these new world dynamics for the achievement of a universal common good." The statement continued, "Only a spirit of concord that rises above divisions and conflicts will allow humanity to be authentically one family and to conceive of a new world with the creation of a world public authority at the service of the common good."

Pope Francis is now working in cooperation with the UN to establish world government. It is appafrent that a union of the world's religions, which the pope is franticaly working to bring about, will enable him to weld a world body that will unite a world church and a world governent.

That is exactly the scenario  found in Revelation 17:1-5, "And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH"

This pope has the potential to be the false prophet in the soon coming tribulation period.

It is fascinating to see this agenda unfolding quickly before our very eyes. It is later than we realize, we are standing on the threshold of last act in the drama of this fading age, the age of man. The Day of the Lord is at hand.

My unsaved friend; now is the time to come to Christ in repentance and faith. I urge you, I plead with you, escape from the wrath to come. Do not delay, now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation. Humble yourself before God, receive Christ and enter into life eternal.

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life” (John 5:24