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“Let the Headlines Speak”
by From the internet
December 2nd, 2014

Guess What Happened The Last Time The Price Of Oil Crashed Like This?…

The last time this happened was during the second half of 2008, and the beginning of that oil price crash preceded the great financial collapse that happened later that year by several months. Well, now it is happening again, but this time the stakes are even higher. When the price of oil falls dramatically, that is a sign that economic activity is slowing down.

Ohio’s Portman Opts Out of 2016 Race as Jeb Bush Hints He’s In

For months, Republicans said that Portman, who is close to former Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, would not run for president if former Florida Governor Jeb Bush sought the party’s 2016 nomination. Jeb Bush said at a Wall Street Journal conference yesterday that he will make a decision soon.

Scientists Predicting Strength of Future Earthquakes
Scientists know where earthquakes are likely to take place. But it is difficult for them to predict how strong an earthquake will be. Now, American researchers have found that it may be possible to predict the strength of future quakes.

Louisiana Democrat: Vote Multiple Times, You Won't Be Prosecuted
Democratic officials and campaign operatives have been caught on tape encouraging illegal voting on several occasions in recent election cycles, and anti-voter ID activists have literally cheered a swing-state poll worker who was convicted of the practice.

Pope's anti-slavery drive gets multifaith support
Pope Francis and the Anglican archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, were joined Tuesday by Hindu guru Mata Amritanandamayi, as well as Jewish, Buddhist, and Shiite and Sunni Muslim representatives for a signing ceremony of a joint declaration against modern slavery.

Earthquake Shook Mexico City
Four aftershocks of lesser intensity were registered in the Mexican capital early morning today after an earthquake of 3.4 magnitude on the Richter scale.

Vanuatu hangings lead to fears of sorcery violence spreading across Pacific
Mass arrests in Vanuatu after village hanging of alleged sorcerers raises concerns that witchcraft mob violence may be spreading across the Pacific.

Obama's plan to shut down Guantanamo Bay detainee facility suffers major setback
Obama’s plan to close the federal prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba hit a major snag Monday as lawmakers finalizing the annual defense policy bill rejected steps to shut down the facility. The final defense bill will not have a provision giving the president the power to transfer terror suspects to the U.S. if Congress signs off on the plan, said Sen. Carl Levin.

Understanding Islamic Terrorism as Religious Sacrifice
Islamic terrorism is founded upon assorted fantasies of redemption through sacrifice. Today, the universal Jihadist rallying cry, "We love death," animates much of what is presented publicly as "liberation" or "self-determination,"[1] and is common to a broad variety of terrorist groups. This variegated collection includes both Sunni and Shia elements.

U.S. to discuss possible new Russia sanctions with European allies
Kerry will talk to European allies this week about imposing further sanctions on Russia if pro-Moscow separatists in eastern Ukraine do not halt violence, a senior State Department official said on Tuesday.

Students Urge Gov't: Recognize Abbas's Role in Munich Massacre
Over the past several years, it has been revealed on multiple occasions that Abbas was closely linked to Munich mastermind Abu Daoud. Abbas praised Abu Daoud in 2010, saying "he was one of the leading figures of Fatah and spent his life in resistance and sincere work as well as physical sacrifice for his people's just causes."

Comparison of Pope's Joint Statement in Turkey vs Jerusalem: Jews dropped from dialogue in Turkey statement
Muslims and Christians are called to work together for the sake of justice, peace and respect for the dignity and rights of every person, especially in those regions where they once lived for centuries in peaceful coexistence

Jeb Bush urges U.S. Republicans to lead, not just oppose Obama
Republicans need to take advantage of their majority in the U.S. Congress to pass bills rather than simply opposing Democratic President Barack Obama's priorities, potential presidential candidate Jeb Bush said on Monday.

Lebanese Army detains wife, son of ISIS leader
A wife and a son of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi have been arrested by the Lebanese Army, Beirut security officials said. They were detained in coordination with "foreign intelligence apparatus,” reported the local press.

Islamic State May Possess Nuclear Material Stolen From Iraq: Report
Islamic State terror group may have developed a nuclear device by using radioactive uranium stolen from Iraq's Mosul University after seizing control of the city last June, according to a British media report.

Ebola response refined amid efforts to bring outbreak under control
Marking 60 days since the establishment of the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), its chief said the set target on safe burials has been exceeded in the three worst-affected countries – Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone – while the second target on isolating patients had been reached in Liberia and Guinea, but only in some parts of Sierra Leone.

Magnitude 6.4 earthquake hits seas off S. Philippines
A magnitude-6.4 earthquake jolted seas off the southern Philippine province of Sultan Kudarat at 1: 11 p.m. local time (0511 GMT) on Tuesday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) reported.

US attorney general calls for end to racial profiling
US Attorney General Eric Holder has announced plans to "help end racial profiling once and for all". He was speaking in Atlanta in the wake of mass protests surrounding the shooting dead of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by a white policeman. Mr Holder was speaking at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta where Martin Luther King preached.

Pope blasts Christian, Muslim fundamentalists while leaving Turkey
Pope Francis said on Sunday that equating Islam with violence was wrong and called on Muslim leaders to issue a global condemnation of terrorism to help dispel the stereotype. Francis, the leader of 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, told reporters aboard his plane returning from a visit to Turkey that he understood why Muslims were offended by many in the West who automatically equated their religion with terrorism.

Rise of Islamic schooling in Turkey upsets secular parents
Turkey has seen a sharp rise in religious schooling under reforms which President Tayyip Erdogan casts as a defense against moral decay, but which opponents see as an unwanted drive to shape a more Islamic nation. Almost a million students are enrolled in "imam hatip" schools this year, up from just 65,000 in 2002 when Erdogan's Islamist-rooted AK Party first came to power, he told the opening of one of the schools in Ankara last month.

UN envoy to request set date to establish Palestinian state in next round of peace talks
Palestinian envoy to the UN Riyad Mansour said Tuesday that by the end of December, he will submit a first draft of a request to renew peace talks with Israel to the UN Security Council, which will include a set date for establishing a Palestinian state, according to Israel Radio. Mansour said that the request draft will also include a date by which the Israeli and the Palestinian delegations must come to an agreement.

Livni: New elections are to replace extremist, provocative, paranoid government
Justice Minister Tzipi Livni on Tuesday let loose at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying the impending elections will "not be over zero value added tax," but over replacing a government she accused of "extremism, provocativeness and paranoia" without knowing how to fight terror while also "upholding freedom and Zionism."

Ebola: World Bank lowers 2014 growth for worst-hit nations
The World Bank has revised downwards its 2014 GDP growth projections for the three nations worst hit by the current Ebola outbreak - Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. "The Ebola epidemic continues to cripple the economies," it said. Its report comes as bank President Jim Yong Kim begins a two-day visit to West Africa to assess the impact. The World Health Organization (WHO) says 5,987 people have died from Ebola in the three nations.

UN suspends food aid to 1.7 million Syrian refugees
The World Food Programme (WFP) suspended food aid to more than 1.7 million Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries, blaming a financing crisis caused by unhonoured cash pledges. The Rome-based UN agency said refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt risked going hungry this winter if donors do not urgently provide the $64 million (51 million euros) needed to finance the distribution of food vouchers through December.

Putin drops South Stream gas pipeline to EU, courts Turkey
Russia on Monday scrapped the South Stream pipeline project to supply natural gas to southern Europe without crossing Ukraine, citing European Union objections, and instead named Turkey as its preferred partner for an alternative pipeline, with a promise of hefty discounts.

US-led strikes hit IS garrison, 'electronic warfare' unit
Warplanes from the US-led coalition battling the Islamic State group hit dozens of jihadist vehicles and bases, including an "electronic warfare garrison," in four days of strikes, the US military.

Total US Debt Rises Over $18 Trillion; Up 70% Under Barack Obama
Last week, total US debt was a meager $17,963,753,617,957.26. Two days later, as updated today, on Black Friday, total outstanding US public debt just hit a new historic level which probably would be better associated with a red color: as of the last work day of November, total US public debt just surpassed $18 trillion for the first time, or $18,005,549,328,561.45 to be precise, of which debt held by the public rose to $12,922,681,725,432.94, an increase of $32 billion in one day.

Palestinian woman stabs Israeli, shot by security forces
A Palestinian woman stabbed an Israeli in the occupied West Bank on Monday and was then shot and wounded by security forces, the military and police said.

Unrepentant' Nazi war criminal died in Syria, source says
SS captain Alois Brunner was second-in-command to Adolf Eichmann, who called Brunner his "best man." The news of his death in 2010 at the age of 98 came from a former German secret service agent deemed reliable by the center.

Looking for His glorious appearing! Titus 2:13