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“Let the Headlines Speak”
by From the internet
September 24th, 2014

How Farmers in Israel Are Preparing for a Rare Biblical Event That Starts This Week
Many Israeli farmers have spent months preparing for a biblically mandated event that comes just once every seven years, in which fields and orchards managed by Jews in the Holy Land must lie fallow for the entire year. It is known in Hebrew as Shmita, or the sabbatical year, and it begins Wednesday with the start of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year.

Survey: Support for legal weed drops 7 points in the past year
National support for legalized marijuana has slipped by seven percentage points in the past year, from 51 percent in 2013 to 44 percent today, according to the Public Religion Research Institute.

Peter King on ISIS: Be Ready for Attacks on US Soil
"We always have to be alert to them, [but] we have to be even more so now because they want to show . . . the Muslim world they're not going to sit back and take [it], they're going to fight back."

Increasing Number of Americans Want Religion in Politics, Pew Poll Finds
The number of people who say churches and other houses of worship should express their views on social and political issues is up six percentage points since the 2010 midterm elections, from 43 percent to 49 percent. Similarly, those who think there has been "too little" expression of faith from political leaders is up from 37 percent to 41 percent.

Inconvenient baby killed for mother’s right to choose, but gets a bad poem in its honor
I would have made sure that we had a space on the wall to measure her height as she grew. I would have made sure I was a good mother to look up to. But I would have supported her right to choose. To choose a life for herself, a path for herself. I would have died for that right, just like she died for mine. I’m sorry but you came at the wrong time.

U.S. hospitals unprepared to handle Ebola waste
U.S. hospitals may be unprepared to safely dispose of the infectious waste generated by any Ebola virus disease patient to arrive unannounced in the country, potentially putting the wider community at risk, biosafety experts said.

Shallow Quake Rattles Costa Mesa
A preliminary magnitude-2.4 earthquake hit Costa Mesa on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The shallow temblor struck at 3:31 p.m. at a depth of about a mile, the USGS reported. The epicenter was in the 3000 block of Cassia Avenue, according to coordinates on the agency's website.

GEOMAGNETIC UNREST
Today, the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) near Earth is tilting south, not much, but enough to open a crack in Earth's magnetosphere. NOAA forecasters estimate a 40% chance that a full-fledged geomagnetic storm could develop in the next 24 hours.

Blowing the Shofar ca.1935
Jews around the world will blow 100 shofar blasts on Thursday and Friday, Rosh Hashana 5765 (2014). "Blow the Shofar at the New Moon for our holiday Because It Is a Decree for Israel, a Judgment Day for the God of Jacob" - Psalms 81

Filipino ISIS Group Holding Two Germans Hostage
The Filipino terrorist organization Abu Sayyaf, which recently pledged loyalty to the Islamic State (ISIS), is holding two German citizens captive and demanding 250 million Philippine Pesos (over $5.6 million) from Germany within 15 days - or they will kill the hostages. The two Germans, aged 55 and 71, were abducted in April from their sailing yacht in Palawan in the western Philippines according to the German-language news source

Norway: ISIS Terrorists 'Planned to Behead Entire Family'
A group of Danish Muslim extremists sympathetic to the "Islamic State" terrorist group (IS) planned to murder an entire family and film it as a "warning" to Western states intervening against IS in Iraq and Syria. According to Norway's NRK TV channel the group of Islamists intended to break into a random home, slit the throats of all the residents and post the footage online.

Police Ambushed by Muslim Rioters on Temple Mount
The rioters fired at police at the Mughrabi Gate, which is the only point of access for Jewish visitors to the site currently under the de facto rule of the Jordanian Waqf (Islamic trust). Yassam police special forces and Border Patrol officers pushed their way onto the Temple Mount and pressed back the rioters.

Doomsday Scenario: 1.4 Million Ebola Victims By January
US Centers for Disease Control reports case numbers higher than thought and growing fast, meaning crisis unless serious action taken. another prediction was released just hours earlier on Tuesday by the New England Journal of Medicine. According to the latter report, the current Ebola epidemic may never be fully controlled making the virus endemic, bringing civic life in the stricken countries to a standstill and keeping the threat of Ebola spreading more widely constant.

Eruption Maps of Earthquakes each Day
Over 40 earthquakes have been recorded in the Bárðarbunga area since midnight. The biggest ones were just after midnight and measured 3.3 and another of 3.4 at around 5 am.

Obama, Cameron vow to fight anti-Semitism in Rosh Hashanah greeting
US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron each released a greeting for Rosh Hashanah on Tuesday night to Jews in America, Britain, Israel and across the globe. Obama offered "warmest wishes for a sweet and happy New Year, and recalled a quote by his "good friend" Ellie Wiesel which emphasizes the importance of renewal: "God gave human beings a secret, and that secret was not how to begin but how to begin again."

World leaders meet with multiple crises on agenda
Facing a world in turmoil from multiple crises ranging from wars in the Mideast and Africa to the deadly scourge of Ebola and growing Islamic radicalism, leaders from more than 140 countries open their annual meeting at the United Nations on Wednesday with few solutions. The issue certain to top the agenda is the threat from Islamic terrorists intent on erasing borders, with the first U.S. and Arab airstrikes in Syria delivered Monday night in response.

Yemen: Houthi leader hails 'revolution'
The leader of Yemen's Shia Houthi rebels has described his supporters' takeover of key parts of the capital, Sanaa, as a "successful revolution". Abdul Malik al-Houthi said his movement had forced the government to give in to the demands of the people. The Houthis and the government signed a deal on Sunday to end deadly clashes.

Islamic State battle could take years, Pentagon says
US-led air strikes have disrupted Islamic State (IS) militants but the fight against them will take years, a Pentagon spokesman has told the BBC. The comments came as activists reported new strikes around the town of Kobane, near Syria's border with Turkey. Kobane has been besieged by IS fighters for several days, forcing about 130,000 Syrian Kurds to flee into Turkey.

World leaders pledge to tackle climate change
World leaders on Tuesday (23 September) pledged to step up efforts to fight climate change in the run-up to a global climate agreement in Paris at end of next year. Speaking at the UN Climate summit in New York, EU commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso told the assembly of some 120 leaders that the EU is on track to meeting its 2020 target on cutting emissions and increasing renewable energy.

100 Christians, Including Children, Arrested During Major House Church Raid in China
Worshippers pray during a mass at the Liuhe Catholic Church in Liuhe village on the outskirts of Qingxu county, northern China, in this undated photo. Over 100 Christians, including children, were arrested during a major house church raid on Sunday in Foshan city in China's Guangdong Province. Close to 200 police officers stormed in during the service, eyewitnesses said, believed to be part of a large-scale crackdown on Christians in the country.

Chinese Companies Profiting From Exporting ‘Tools of Torture,’ Report Says
Chinese companies are manufacturing, exporting and ultimately profiting from law enforcement equipment that can be used for torture, according to a report released Tuesday by two international human rights groups.

CDC Predicts As Many As 1.4 Million Ebola Cases by Early 2015
A new and particularly grim CDC projection estimates that Ebola cases in western Africa could easily breach the million mark in just four months. The agency warned that without an effective intervention or a slowdown in the transmission of the virus, the world's biggest outbreak on record could extend from 550,000 to as many as 1.4 million cases by January 20. From the Washington Post:

Shadowy al Qaeda cell, hit by U.S. in Syria, seen as 'imminent' threat
While the world has focused on a U.S.-led air assault on Islamic State strongholds in Syria, American officials said they also struck a blow there against a little-known cadre of hardened al Qaeda militants that posed a more immediate threat to the West.

Cop's Tip For Not Getting Raped By A Cop: 'Don't Get Pulled Over'
In response to the arrests of three law enforcement officials in Oklahoma for sexually assaulting women while on the job, an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper told women they can avoid getting raped by a cop if they simply follow traffic laws.

COLUMNIST: I've Been Added To The US 'Terrorist Watch List'
Stephen Hayes, a senior writer for the conservative-leaning Weekly Standard magazine, has been placed on the Department of Homeland Security's terrorist watch list, he announced Tuesday afternoon.

Looking for His glorious appearing! Titus 2:13