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1 Thessalonians 4:15-18

   For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.  For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:  Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord.  Wherefore comfort one another with these words.     

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For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing
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New Ebola death in Sierra Leone sets back efforts to beat epidemic
A woman who died last week in northern Sierra Leone tested positive for Ebola, the National Ebola Response Centre (NERC) said Monday, in a setback for the country's bid to gain Ebola-free status.

U.S. military deploys drones to Latvia on training mission
The U.S. military has deployed two MQ-1 Predator reconnaissance drones and 70 airmen to Latvia on a training mission as part of U.S. efforts to reassure European allies the United States is committed to their security, the Pentagon said on Monday.

Rise of the bizarre 'cannabis vomiting syndrome': Heavy users suffer from severe nausea and pain
A bizarre syndrome that makes heavy cannabis users violently ill and leads them to take frequent hot baths to ease the pain has been reported by doctors. Symptoms of the illness include severe stomach pain, nausea and vomiting – and bathing in very hot water up to five times a day for relief.

Ukraine guardsman killed in nationalist protest outside parliament
A Ukrainian national guardsman was killed and nearly 90 others wounded by grenades hurled from a crowd of nationalist protesters on Monday as they were guarding parliament where lawmakers backed giving more autonomy to rebel-held areas.

Supreme Court rules against clerk in gay marriage case
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled against the Kentucky county clerk who has refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses, and the clerk will arrive at work Tuesday morning to face her moment of truth. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis will have to choose whether to issue marriage licenses, defying her Christian conviction, or continue to refuse them, defying a federal judge who could pummel her with fines or order that she be hauled off to jail.

Dow posts worst August decline in 17 years
The month of August can be pretty rough for stock investors. But this August has earned its place in the record books, as stocks were unsettled by uncertainty over the state of affairs in the world’s second largest economy, China.

Geologist: Earthquake called the 'Really Big One' isn't hoax
According to a New Yorker article published in July, researchers say an earthquake and tsunami combination will destroy the entire west coastline resulting from a rupture in the Cascadia Subduction Zone. According to Reed, the prediction that the 'Really Big One' will hit isn't a hoax.

Univ. of Tennessee tells students to use gender neutral pronouns
Staff and students in the University of Tennessee Office for Diversity and Inclusion want people to think beyond the "he/she" pronouns and are encouraging use of gender-neutral pronouns such as "xe," "xym" and "xyr." Their suggestion hasn't quite caught on -- and some state legislators aren't impressed.

Reports: Pope blesses lesbian authors for their “excellent Christian values”
Pope Francis has reportedly pronounced two “married” women fruitful, with excellent Christian values.

Gremlins in the works: DARPA's vision for future air operations
DARPA has launched the Gremlins program, which aims to develop swarms of cheaper, smarter aircraft that can be deployed and collected in midair. Despite gaining popularity in the 1980s through the movie of the same name, the term "gremlins" was originally RAF slang for mischievous creatures that plagued airmen by causing all sorts of mechanical mishaps.

Hurricane Fred forms in the Atlantic
Fred has strengthened to a hurricane as it approaches the Cape Verde Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami says Fred's maximum sustained winds early Monday have increased to near 80 mph with some additional strengthening possible.

Never again!’ Japanese hold massive rally to protest Abe’s foreign wars bill
Tens of thousands of people gathered outside Japan’s parliament building on Sunday to protest Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s controversial bill, which authorizes Japanese armed forces to join foreign military operations.

NATO kicks off naval drills in Black Sea with Ukraine
Ukraine is hosting naval military exercise in the Black Sea with NATO forces, involving 2,500 troops and some 150 military vehicles, from warships and helicopters to armored cars. The host nation of Sea Breeze 2015 has deployed 1,000 troops, nine warships and eight aircraft for the drill. The US has sent 1,000 troops as well as five warships, two submarines and six aircraft.

Second Temple-Era Podium May Be Discovery in City of David
“The structure is built along the street in a place that is clearly visible from afar by passers-by making their way to the Temple. We believe the structure was a kind of monumental podium that attracted the public’s attention when walking on the city’s main street.

World to Fed: We're prepared for U.S. rate hike, so don't delay
Central bankers from around the world are telling their American counterparts that they are ready for a U.S. interest rate hike and would prefer that the Federal Reserve make the move without further ado.

Europe stocks set for worst monthly loss since 2011 on China, Fed concerns
Stocks in Europe fell on Monday, heading for their worst monthly losses in four years amid persistent investor concerns about slowing growth in China and the prospect of higher U.S. interest rates.

Over 1,000 US Rabbis Pen Open Letter to Congress Opposing Iran Deal
Over 1,000 American rabbis have signed a letter to Congress, urging US lawmakers not to accept the nuclear accord reached between the P5+1 powers and Iran earlier this summer. The petition, organized by the Zionist Organization of America, calls “upon our Senators and Representatives to consider the dangers that this agreement poses to the United States and our allies, and to vote in opposition to this deal.”

Prophetic Insights Shed Light on Possible Fate of Iran Deal
Perhaps it was not entirely unintentional when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chose March 3, the 13th of Adar on the Hebrew calendar, the eve of that same Jewish holiday, to address a joint session of the US Congress in an appeal to lawmakers to reject the nuclear deal. According to the story of Purim, the Jewish Queen Esther went in to address her husband, the Persian King, to attempt to convince him to repeal Haman’s decree. If the Biblical connection was lost on Obama, it was certainly not lost on the prime minister...

Central banks can’t save the markets from a crash. They shouldn’t even try
...William Dudley, president of the bank’s New York branch, hinted that the interest rate rise many had expected next month was likely to be delayed. ...According to some City analysts, the stock markets are pumped with so much cheap credit that a crash is just around the corner. And they worry that when that crash comes, the central banks are all out of moves to prevent the aftershocks from causing a broader collapse.

Dark Matter May Be More Complex Than Physicists Thought
Dark matter—the unseen 80 percent of the universe’s mass—doesn’t emit, absorb or reflect light. Astronomers know it exists only because it interacts with our slice of the ordinary universe through gravity. ...Such a self-interacting dark matter, Bullock suspects, could exist in a “dark sector,” somewhat parallel to our own light sector, but detectable only through the way it affects gravity.

Italy's Eni discovers huge gas field off Egyptian coast
Italian energy group Eni says it has found one of the world's largest natural gas fields off Egypt's coast. The company said the area was 1,450m (4,757 feet) beneath the surface and covered 100 sq km (39 sq miles). It could hold as much as 30 trillion cubic feet of gas, or 5.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent, Eni said.

Nigeria's Boko Haram 'spreads to Lagos'
Boko Haram is trying to expand its activities beyond Nigeria's mainly Muslim north, to include the commercial capital Lagos, as well as other parts of the country, officials say. Twelve members of the Islamist militant group have been arrested in Lagos, Nigeria's intelligence agency says. It is not possible to independently verify details of the statement.

Iran's Rouhani: Israel founded on intimidation, terror, occupation
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani accused Israel on Monday of being founded on the basis of terror and continuing that legacy to the present day. “This regime began its work on the basis of intimidation, terror and occupation, and is continuing [on] the same anti-human path today,” ...quoted Rouhani as saying on Monday...

80 Year Old Woman Trampled To Death In Venezuela Supermarket Stampede
With 30% of Venzuelans eating two or fewer meals per day, social unrest is mounting rapidly in President Nicolas Maduro's socialist utopia. As WSJ reports, soldiers have now been deployed to stem rampant food smuggling and price speculation, which Maduro blames for triple-digit inflation and scarcity. "Due to the shortage of food... the desperation is enormous," local opposition politician Andres Camejo said, and nowhere is that more evident than the trampling death of an 80-year-old woman outside a state-subsidized supermarket.

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A retired general thinks the US could get al-Qaeda to fight against ISIS
A retired U.S. Army general and former Central Intelligence Agency director David Petraeus is publicly floating a new and somewhat surprising proposal for combating the terrorist group ISIS in the Middle East.

A new, deadly drug is extremely popular among high-school students
Synthetic cannabinoids, commonly referred to as synthetic marijuana, are a new deadly drug that are soaring in popularity among high-school-aged students, according to the US Drug Enforcement Administration.

Sheep Led To The Slaughter: The Muzzling Of Free Speech In America
The architects of the American police state must think we’re idiots. With every passing day, we’re being moved further down the road towards a totalitarian society characterized by government censorship, violence, corruption, hypocrisy and intolerance, all packaged for our supposed benefit in the Orwellian doublespeak of national security, tolerance and so-called “government speech.”

Thai prime minister says bombing suspect arrested at border
Thai authorities arrested a man they believe is part of a group responsible for a deadly bombing at a shrine in central Bangkok two weeks ago, the prime minister announced Tuesday. He said the suspect resembles a yellow-shirted man in a surveillance video who police say planted the bomb.

Israel asks UN to reject Palestinian attempt to raise flag
Israel on Tuesday urged U.N. leaders to reject a Palestinian attempt to raise their flag at U.N. headquarters as early as this month's gathering of world leaders there.

Iranian Guard chief says US 'still the Great Satan'
The head of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard said Tuesday that the U.S. is still the "Great Satan," regardless of the nuclear deal struck with Americans and world powers over the Islamic Republic's contested nuclear program.

Oh Boy: Clinton Reportedly Used Private Server For Clinton Foundation and State Department Business
the State Department released 7,000 new emails belonging to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The emails were stored on her private server and 150 have been flagged as containing classified information.

Hillsong NYC Church Has An ‘Engaged’ Openly Homosexual Couple Leading The Choir
“We have a lot of gay men and women in our church and I pray we always do.” – Pastor Carl Lentz, Hillsong NYC “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections:Romans 1:26

Three major hurricanes pictured over the Pacific for the first time EVER and it could be thanks to this year's mega-El Nino
Three major hurricanes are simultaneously making their way across the Pacific Ocean for the first time in history. Hurricanes Ignacio, Kilo and Jimena were pictured together by NASA and astronauts from the International Space Station this weekend as they straddled the Pacific from Mexico to Hawaii. It is the first time that three storms classed as Category 3 or higher, meaning they have the potential to cause major damage, have been pictured together at the same time.

Milwaukee Sheriff: Obama ‘Started This War on Police’
Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. strongly criticized what he called the “black lies matter” movement and stressed that President Barack Obama himself had “started this war on police.” Sheriff Clarke said, “Judge, I am too ****** off tonight to be diplomatic about what’s going on and I’m not going to stick my head in the sand about it.”

El Niño strengthens but a warm Indian Ocean
The 2015 El Niño is now the strongest El Niño since 1997–98. The tropical Pacific Ocean and atmosphere are fully coupled, with sea surface temperatures well above El Niño thresholds, consistently weak trade winds, and a strongly negative Southern Oscillation Index.

Thousands Gather at South Carolina State House to ‘Stand with God’ Against Sin
“The purpose of ‘We Stand With God’ is to encourage and empower God-fearing citizens to stand in this evil day. Timing is critical,” the event website reads. “The landscape of this great republic is eroding daily and the floods of change are seeking to assassinate the moral fiber of the land we love. Crime rates are rising, civil unrest is abounding and perversion is growing exponentially.”

A Giant Glob of Deadly Algae Is Floating off the West Coast
From the air, the Pacific algal bloom doesn't look like much of a threat: a wispy, brownish stream, snaking up along the West Coast. But it's causing amnesia in birds, deadly seizures in sea lions, and a crippling decline in the West Coast shellfish industry. "These are the highest levels of toxicity we've ever seen," says one expert.

ALMOST-BLANK SUN
The sunspot number is plummeting, and the Earth-facing side of the sun is almost blank.

Doomsday Countdown: US Hawks Pushing World to the Brink of Nuclear War
Washington is moving back toward a Cold War-style confrontation with Moscow over Ukraine, apparently forgetting that Russia still possesses a nuclear arsenal as large and as deployable as the US',

European Islamic Migrant Crisis At 'Unprecedented Proportions'
"For us today, what is at stake is Europe, the lifestyle of European citizens, European values, the survival or disappearance of European nations, and more precisely formulated, their transformation beyond recognition. “Today, the question is not merely in what kind of a Europe we would like to live, but whether everything we understand as Europe will exist at all."

Iran and the 'Francis Factor'
Members of Congress trying to derail the Iran nuclear deal will have to contend with the “Francis Factor.” By sheer scheduling luck — let’s just say it probably wasn’t what House Speaker John Boehner intended — Pope Francis will address a joint session of Congress on Sept. 24.

Exclusive: U.S. weighs sanctioning Russia as well as China in cyber attacks
The United States is considering sanctions against both Russian and Chinese individuals and companies for cyber attacks... The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said no final decision had been made on imposing sanctions, which could strain relations with Russia further and, if they came soon, cast a pall over a state visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping in September.

Obama pleads for Paris climate change deal
US President Barack Obama has called on world leaders to agree to cut carbon emissions at crucial talks in Paris later this year. Speaking in Alaska, he said countries including his own were not doing enough to stop global warming. World powers meet in Paris in December with the aim of agreeing to curb global temperature rises.

Hurricane Fred hits Cape Verde islands
A hurricane with winds of up to 120km/h (75mph) has hit the island nation of Cape Verde, off the coast of West Africa. The government grounded all flights as heavy rain and winds lashed north-western islands in the archipelago. No hurricane has ever been recorded further east in the tropical Atlantic.

Somalia attack: Al-Shabab attacks African Union Janale base
Fighters from the al-Shabab militant Islamist group have overrun an African Union military base in southern Somalia, inflicting heavy casualties, witnesses have told the BBC. The militants said they have killed 70 AU soldiers at the Janale base, 90km (55 miles) south-east of the capital. AU forces have insisted they are still in control of the base.

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Lavish China parade to commemorate WW2 victory
China is set to showcase its military might in a lavish parade, unprecedented in its scale, to mark the defeat of Japan in World War Two. Some 12,000 troops and 200 aircraft, as well as tanks and missiles, will go on display in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. More than 80% of the machinery will be shown in public for the first time, state media said.

Migrant tempers fray as Hungary blocks trains for 2nd day
Tempers flared among the thousands trapped in a makeshift refugee camp in the heart of Budapest on Wednesday as Hungary played hardball with its unwelcome visitors for a second day, blocking train ticket-clutching migrants from traveling deeper into Europe.

Egypt gas find sparks panic in Israel about Israeli reserves
Egypt's new natural gas bonanza is causing an uproar in Israel, with energy stocks plummeting and recriminations over indecisiveness and infighting that have delayed production from the country's own gas fields.

Five Chinese Navy Ships Are Operating in Bering Sea Off Alaska Coast
Five Chinese navy ships are currently operating in the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska, Pentagon officials said Wednesday, marking the first time the U.S. military has seen them in the area.

Hurricane Fred lashes Cape Verde Islands
It is rare for a hurricane to form so near the African coast, and though a handful of tropical storms have formed this far east in the tropical Atlantic, Fred marks the easternmost formation of a hurricane, according to hurricane records in a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration database. Fred is the first hurricane to pass through the Cape Verde Islands since 1892.

Divine Patterns Found in Shmittah, Jubilee Cycles Point to Something Big About to Happen for Israel
Do these sequences point to the possibility that dominion over the Temple Mount will soon be returned to the Jewish people? “There are patterns which we perceive with 20-20 hindsight, but they never produced viable results when projecting them to the future.

Two Earthquakes Recorded In Oklahoma
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, a 3.8 magnitude earthquake was recorded at 8:50 a.m. Its epicenter was located 13 miles west, southwest of Helena, and 34 miles west of Enid. Another 3.5 magnitude earthquake was recorded at 9:01 a.m. Its epicenter was located one mile west, southwest of Cushing, and 17 miles southeast of Stillwater. It was about two miles deep.

Finally! Transgender 'Girl' Gets Dose of Common Sense from Students, Parents
Time and time again, the rights of the majority are being trumped by a vocal minority. However, in one case involving a boy who is pretending to be a girl (transgender) and is demanding that he use the girls' restroom, people have actually stood up and said, "Enough is enough!"

End of the Shmita: Aliens, Blood Moons and Economic Collapse
following are three warnings from three completely different groups of people predicting awful things in store for the coming weeks and months. The first is the Israeli chapter of New Age Raelian Movement. The movement's prophet, who took the name Maitreya Rael, has instructed his Israeli followers to publish an urgent "oracle" in a highly unusual public campaign.

Washington’s Grand Coulee Dam inspected after M4.2 temblor hits nearby
The U.S. Geological Survey reported the quake was centered about 25 miles (40 km) north of the dam near the town of Nespelem in heart of the sprawling Coleville Indian Reservation, an area ravaged by a major wildfire in recent days. Weak to light shaking was felt over a wide region, but there were no immediate reports of damage of injuries.

Rare Supermoon Lunar Eclipse Coming This Month
The cosmic event will take place on the night of Sept. 27 when two periodic events -- supermoons and lunar eclipses -- will happen at the same time, making for a rare coincidence. A supermoon occurs when a full moon happens when it is at the closest point in its elliptical orbit around Earth, making the full moon appear up to 14% larger and brighter than usual.

Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbis
we are also seeing a rise in the internalization of anti-Semitism among some American Jews. The victims of this internalized bigotry adopt the falsehoods and stereotypes of the anti-Jewish racists who manufacture accusations against Israel in order to foment anti-Semitic sentiment and actions. One example of this phenomenon is the so-called “Rabbinical Council” of a purportedly Jewish organization, whose mission is to aid those who seek to delegitimize the Jewish state.

Three major hurricanes pictured over Pacific for first time
It is the first time three storms classed as Category 3 or higher have been pictured together at the same time, Nasa officials said.

Islam expert: Did Quran come before Muhammad?
a recent report in the Daily Mail, which described how several pages were carbon-dated by experts at Oxford, who found not only were some of the pages likely from the oldest Quran in the world, they possibly were created between 568 AD and 645 AD. The dates given for Muhammad’s life often are 570 AD to 632 AD, meaning the fragment could have been in print (hand-written on parchment) two years before Islam’s founder was born.

156 YEARS AGO, A GEOMAGNETIC MEGA-STORM
On Sept. 2nd, a billion-ton coronal mass ejection (CME) slammed into Earth's magnetic field. Campers in the Rocky Mountains woke up in the middle of the night, thinking that the glow they saw was sunrise. No, it was the Northern Lights. People in Cuba read their morning paper by the red illumination of aurora borealis. Earth was peppered by particles so energetic, they altered the chemistry of polar ice.

Citing God's authority, clerk defies Supreme Court on gay marriages
Invoking God's authority, a Kentucky county clerk defied the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday and stood by her refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis has refused to issue marriage licenses to any couples - gay or straight - since the court in June ruled that same-sex couples had the right to marry under the U.S. Constitution.

Third earthquake hits northeastern Taiwan in less than an hour
Taipei, Sept. 2 (CNA) A magnitude 4.5 earthquake shook Yilan County at 11:03 a.m. Wednesday, the third in a series of shallow temblors that struck the northeastern county within an hour, the Central Weather Bureau said. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries caused by any of the earthquakes.

6.1 magnitude quake strikes Sarangani
Philippines) — A magnitude 6.1 earthquake hit Sarangani, Davao Occidental at 9:18 a.m. Wednesday (September 2), according to the latest earthquake bulletin of Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs).

Blood moon has some expecting end of the world
...The night of September 27-28 will bring a "blood moon." To skywatchers, it simply refers to the copper color the moon takes on during an eclipse, but to some Christian ministers, the fourth and final eclipse in a tetrad -- four consecutive total lunar eclipses, each separated by six lunar months -- fulfills biblical prophecy of the apocalypse.

Islamic State Terrorists Caught Crossing Into Europe Posing As Refugees
Five men have been arrested as they attempted to cross the Bulgarian-Macedonian border with decapitation videos and Islamic State propaganda on their phones. The terrorist suspects had been posing as refugees. Bulgarian authorities near the Gyueshevo border checkpoint detained the five men, aged between 20 and 24, late on Wednesday, Bulgarian broadcaster NOVA TV reported.

The surging ranks of America's ultrapoor
By one dismal measure, America is joining the likes of Third World countries. The number of U.S. residents who are struggling to survive on just $2 a day has more than doubled since 1996, placing 1.5 million households and 3 million children in this desperate economic situation.

Islamic State battles Syrian rebel forces in Damascus
Syrian rebel forces have come under attack from Islamic State (IS) on the southern outskirts of Damascus. Militants from the jihadist group are reportedly battling Jaysh al-Islam fighters in the Qadam district and those of Ajnad al-Sham in nearby Asali. The fighting has brought IS closer than ever to the heart of the capital.

El Salvador violence up to civil war-era level
Violence involving street gangs in El Salvador left 907 people dead last month, a level of bloodshed unseen since the civil war of the 1980s, police say. They say the high numbers are due to an increase in clashes between street gangs and the security forces and rival gangs fighting each other. El Salvador is believed to have more then 70,000 gang members.

Migrant crisis: Thousands arrive in mainland Greece
Thousands of migrants are arriving in mainland Greece as the government prepares for talks on tackling the huge number of people reaching its shores. Two ships carrying more than 4,200 people travelled to Piraeus port at night after leaving Lesbos island. The whole EU is struggling to deal with an unprecedented influx of migrants.

IDF puts finishing touches on mass evacuation plan in case of war with Hezbollah
Israeli authorities have already made contingency plans in the eventuality that hostilities are re-ignited with the Shi'ite group Hezbollah just over the border in Lebanon. According to the latest emergency plans formulated by the IDF, residents of the northern frontier towns that are in closest vicinity to the border will be evacuated. These communities would instead be used to quarter soldiers from elite units.

'CIA launches secret drone campaign to hunt down top ISIS terrorists'
American commandos and the CIA have jointly launched a secret drone operation to track down and kill senior Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists in Syria, The Washington Post is reporting in Wednesday editions. According to the Post, the campaign is an independently run initiative that is separate from the overall military effort being waged against the extremist movement by the US and other regional allies.

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Frosty relations over future of the Arctic
When, like Evon Peter, you know your ancestors have lived, hunted and fished the same land for 14,000 years, the concerns of nations which have existed only for a few hundred can seem trivial. Yet in the Arctic, the proximity of Russia and the US is becoming hard to ignore.

Flashpoint: White House Confirms Russian Presence In Syria, Warns It Is "Destabilizing"
Two days ago we reported something which we had anticipated for a long time but nonetheless did not expect to take shape so swiftly: namely, that with Assad's regime close to collapse and fighting a war on three different fronts (one of which is directly supported by US air and "advisor" forces), Putin would have no choice but to finally intervene in the most anticipated showdown in recent history as "Russian fighter pilots are expected to begin arriving in Syria in the coming days, and will fly their Russian air force fighter jets and attack helicopters against ISIS and rebel-aligned targets within the failing state."

Palestinians attack US tourists mistaken as settlers
Palestinians attacked five US tourists driving in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron on Thursday, hurling a petrol bomb and rocks at their car, police said, apparently mistaking them for settlers.

Why aren’t there more Kim Davises?
A federal judge ordered Kim Davis — the defiant Kentucky county clerk who has cited her Christian faith in refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples — to jail Thursday afternoon for refusing to carry out the duties of her position.

Migrant crisis: Hungary train standoff enters second day
A tense stand-off between police and migrants on a train in Hungary is continuing into a second day. On Thursday, police let the migrants board the train in Budapest but then tried to force them off at a refugee camp to the west of the capital.

If They Won’t Fight, Destroy Them
Children had their heads cut open and their brains removed. Others were pulled, whole and intact, from freezers then carved up and sold for scrap. Brokers haggled over the prices of heads and eyes and livers and hearts. Hands and feet were tossed about. These are the things we have learned about Planned Parenthood. What we are learning now is that Republican leaders have no inclination to fight this evil. They have for years been protected by a Washington pro-life establishment that has worked **** hard to keep Bart Stupak listed as a pro-life warrior as he sold out the cause on Obamacare. The pro-life establishment in Washington puts their Republican affiliation ahead of children who are being ripped apart.

That Dead Boy is Barack Obama’s Fault
ISIS did not exist in the first few years of Barack Obama’s time in the White House. ISIS only became a thing when the White House, out of pride and arrogance, decided it was better to placate the left by withdrawing all troops from Iraq rather than help the Iraqis maintain their stability. A young boy has died, washed up on the shores of Europe. His picture has shocked the world and his death is direct result of Barack Obama fleeing the Middle East, tail tucked between his leg, so he could pridefully say he ended a war he never wanted.

Magnitude 3.1 earthquake strikes about 11 miles from Mount St. Helens
A magnitude 3.1 earthquake struck Thursday afternoon about 11 miles north-northwest of Mount St. Helens, Washington Emergency Management said.

China holds massive military parade, to cut troop levels by 300,000
China's confidence in its armed forces and growing military assertiveness, especially in the disputed South China Sea, has rattled the region and drawn criticism from Washington. Xi, speaking on a rostrum overlooking Beijing's Tiananmen Square before the parade began, said China would cut by 13 percent one of the world's biggest militaries, currently 2.3-million strong.

Battle of the Messiah’s: Iran Hastening Process of Mahdi’s Arrival with Horrific Chaos Around the World
Most people are aware of the Christian and Jewish concepts of messiah, but very few outside of Islam know of their concept of messiah and how it irreconcilably pits them against the Judeo-Christian world. Today, the Islamic concept of the messiah is being expressed in current political events, most notably in the nuclear agreement with Iran.

Palestinians Angered by Sanhedrin Decision to Put Pope Francis on Trial
The Sanhedrin decided to try the Pope after the Vatican signed its first comprehensive treaty with the “State of Palestine”, thereby officially recognizing its statehood. The treaty was ratified on May 13.

NATO Allies Making It Easier for Iran to Attack Israel?
Apparently, NATO allies believe, although the idea defies logic, that the nuclear deal with Iran will discourage the mullahs in Tehran from attacking Israel.

10 Mind Blowing Facts About CERN Large Collider You Need to Know
One year after CERN’s grand opening, Sergio Bertolucci, former Director for Research and Scientific Computing of the facility, grabbed headlines when he told a British tabloid the super collider could open otherworldly doors to another dimension for "a very tiny lapse of time,” mere fractions of a second. However, that may be just enough time “to peer into this open door, either by getting something out of it or sending something into it.”

$200,000 offer ends 'gay' Democrat's child-sex charges
“Mr. Bean offered him over $200,000 to civilly compromise this case,” Hasselman said, the Oregonian reported. “Now if you’re this child and you have the choice between embarrassment and $5 a day [as a paid witness] and over $200,000 … it seems to me that would be a highly influential factor in deciding what you’re going to do.” Bean was a donor for President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign...

$200,000 offer ends 'gay' Democrat's child-sex charges
“Mr. Bean offered him over $200,000 to civilly compromise this case,” Hasselman said, the Oregonian reported. “Now if you’re this child and you have the choice between embarrassment and $5 a day [as a paid witness] and over $200,000 … it seems to me that would be a highly influential factor in deciding what you’re going to do.” Bean was a donor for President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign...

Hillary’s IT Guy Says He’ll Plead The 5th If Called To Testify About Homebrew Email Server
The State Department IT worker who managed Hillary Clinton’s private email server while she was secretary of state will plead the Fifth Amendment if called to testify about his work on the Democratic presidential candidate’s mysterious email setup, his attorney informed the House Select Committee on Benghazi this week.

Jeb Bush's new stance on Trump: Bring it on
Republican Jeb Bush’s new campaign ad ridiculing Donald Trump as a “germophobe” and Democrat-in-disguise is just the start of what will be a bigger onslaught, signaling a more aggressive stance by the candidate, Bush advisers said on Wednesday.

The 2030 Agenda: This Month The UN Launches A Blueprint For A New World Order With The Help Of The Pope
Did you know that the UN is planning to launch a “new universal agenda” for humanity in September 2015? That phrase does not come from me – it is actually right in the very first paragraph of the official document that every UN member nation will formally approve at a conference later this month.

Legionnaires' outbreak in Illinois kills 8, sickens 41
An outbreak of Legionnaires' disease has killed an eighth person in Quincy, Illinois, and sickened 41, mostly at a veterans home, health and veterans affairs officials said on Wednesday.

Four hurricanes swirling, more dangerous weather on tap
Forecasters are keeping a wary eye on four hurricanes -- two of which are Category 4 -- feeding off the warm waters of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Hurricane triplets Kilo, Ignacio and Jimena have simultaneously formed in the central Pacific. It’s the first time three hurricanes that held a Category 3 rating or stronger had formed in the central and eastern Pacific basins at the same time,

Tropical Storm Kevin forms in Pacific off Mexico's coast
Tropical Storm Kevin has formed in the eastern Pacific off Mexico's coast. The storm's maximum sustained winds early Thursday are near 40 mph. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Kevin is expected to remain a tropical storm through Friday.

Kerry Promises Israel, Saudis Money In Wake of Iran Nuclear Deal
Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday moved to reassure Congress that Israel and America’s Gulf State allies would be fully taken care of in the wake of the Iran nuclear deal, which Kerry acknowledged would not stop Iran’s support for terrorism, according to a letter sent by the secretary of state to lawmakers.

Obama secures enough support from senators for Iran deal
US President Barack Obama has secured enough support in the US Senate to ensure that the Iran nuclear deal will go into effect. Democrat Barbara Mikulski of Maryland became the 34th senator to back the deal on Wednesday. US Congress could still oppose the deal, but Mr Obama has now enough votes to override any resolution of disapproval.

Five Chinese ships seen off Alaska coast, Pentagon says
Five Chinese naval ships are currently positioned in the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska, US officials confirm. It is believed to be the first time Chinese military vessels have been seen operating in the area. Officials say they have been monitoring the ships' activities, but said they were operating in international waters.

China poses threat to global growth, IMF warns
Slower growth in China and continuing stock market uncertainty pose a threat to global economic growth, the International Monetary Fund has warned. China's slowdown appears to have bigger repercussions for other countries than had been expected, the IMF said. The troubles in China have sent the prices of commodities such as oil and copper sliding.

Middle East wars deprive 13m children of education - UN
The UN has said that conflicts in the Middle East are depriving more than 13 million children of an education. The UN children's fund, Unicef, says in a new report that the hopes of a generation across the Middle East and North Africa are being shattered. It says that in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Libya, almost 9,000 schools are not able to be used for education.

US sponsors ISIS and 'child-killer' Israeli regime, says Iranian commander
Commander of Iran's land force accused the US of sponsoring terrorist groups in the region, including ISIS, and of supporting the "occupying Zionist regime,"... "The US' new strategy in the region is [inciting wars of] religion against religion, and it has created and supported terrorist groups, including the ISIS, in line with the same strategy," Iranian commander Ahmadreza Pourdastan said...


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ISIS blows up famed tower tombs in Palmyra
ISIS have blown up several of ancient Palmyra’s famed tower tombs as they press their demolition of the UNESCO-listed world heritage site, Syria’s antiquities chief said Friday. ISIS has carried out a sustained campaign of destruction against heritage sites in areas under its control in Syria and Iraq, and in mid-August beheaded the 82-year-old former antiquities chief in Palmyra.

Russia may be escalating military role in Syria
U.S. intelligence has captured evidence of a significant escalation of Russia's military engagement in Syria's civil war, including satellite images of an apparent Russian base for staging troops and heavy equipment under construction near a port city that is a stronghold for Syrian President Bashar Assad, U.S. officials say.

45 United Arab Emirates troops killed in Yemen in deadliest day for the nation's military
Forty-five troops from the United Arab Emirates were killed in Yemen while taking part in Saudi-led operations against Shiite rebels, the Gulf nation said Friday, in the deadliest day for its military in its 44-year history.

Bolivia: Air Force captain found with large load of cocaine
A senior Bolivian official says an air force captain has been detained as he tried to take off from near the Peru border with 362 kilograms (796 pounds) of cocaine in his plane. Government Minister Carlos Romero identifies the pilot as 34-year-old Yimy Jose Urzagaste.

Greek polls show Syriza, conservatives neck-and-neck
Former Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras's leftist Syriza party is running neck-and-neck with its main conservative rival, New Democracy, ahead of national elections on Sept. 20, according to three polls published on Friday.

Pentagon chief says Iran deal strengthens US military option
US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter offered assurances Friday that the Iran nuclear deal will leave Washington with a "more effective" military option if that becomes necessary.

Kentucky County Clerk upheld the law and is a political prisoner in America
I’ll make this very brief, for it’s not that complicated. Rowan County, Kentucky clerk Kim Davis broke no laws. In fact, she kept to her oath of office and upheld the Kentucky state Constitution by refusing to issue marriage licenses to homosexual couples. Setting aside her Christian beliefs here, I ask anyone to show me the codified law of Rowan County or the state statute in which she has allegedly violated. It does not exist.

Obama Pushes Solar Power--In Arctic Town That Sees Little Sun in Winter
President Obama promoted solar energy to residents of Kotzebue, an Alaskan town located 26 miles north of the Arctic Circle that gets less than six hours of sunlight for 34 days in early December through early January.

Lawmaker: Synthetic weed leaving streets full of ‘zombies’
State and city legislators joined forces on Thursday to demand that online retailers such as eBay and Craigslist stop selling the dangerous synthetic marijuana known as K2. “The Internet has become a virtual ­bodega and a chemist’s warehouse,” state Sen. Jeff Klein, a Bronx Democrat, said at a Manhattan press conference.

Iran thumbs nose at US even as Obama rallies support for nuke deal
Even as President Obama was securing the Senate support necessary to assure passage of the nuclear deal with Iran, Tehran's top defense officials were scoffing at U.S. claims the pact will restrict the Islamic Republic's military ambitions. ...“Iran does not plan to issue permission for the [International Atomic Energy Agency] to inspect every site," Iranian Defense Minister Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehqan told Al Mayadeen News...

Islamic State 'blows up Palmyra funerary towers'
Jihadist militants from Islamic State (IS) have blown up three funerary towers at the ancient city of Palmyra, Syria's antiquities chief has said. Maamoun Abdul Karim said they included the Tower of Elahbel, built in AD103 and one of the best-preserved. The multi-storey sandstone monuments, standing outside the city walls in an area known as the Valley of the Tombs, belonged to rich Palmyrene families.

Migrant crisis: EU 'must accept 200,000 refugees', UN says
EU nations must accept up to 200,000 refugees as part of a "common strategy" to replace their "piecemeal" approach to the migrant crisis, the UN says. Antonio Guterres, head of the UN refugee agency, said the EU must mobilise "full force" for the crisis, calling it a "defining moment". EU leaders, split over sharing the refugee burden, are scrambling to agree a response in meetings on Friday.

Sierra Leone village in quarantine after Ebola death
Nearly 1,000 people in Sierra Leone have been put under quarantine following the death of a 67-year-old woman who tested positive for Ebola. It comes five days into a six-week countdown for the country to be officially declared Ebola-free. The quarantine will last for three weeks, provided no new cases are recorded.

UN expected to easily pass resolution allowing Palestinian flag to fly at New York HQ
The UN General assembly is likely to adopt a resolution next week that would allow the Palestinian flag to be raised at the United Nations in time for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' visit to New York... The 193-nation body will vote on September 10 on the measure, predicted to easily garner enough support for easy passage, according to AFP.

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US warns Russia against more aid to Assad amid new violence
BEIRUT — Anti-government violence erupted Saturday in a southern Syrian province that had largely stayed on the sidelines of the country's civil war. Meanwhile, unconfirmed reports suggesting that Russia was planning to expand its military support for Syrian President Bashar Assad prompted a warning from the U.S. that such actions could lead to a confrontation with coalition forces.

Climate Propaganda Paves Way for “Pig Power”
Having been bamboozled into passing a mere bill to thwart the Iran deal, rather than treating the agreement as a treaty, the Republican-controlled Congress is on the verge of being taken to the cleaners again. This time, President Obama is maneuvering to authorize U.S. participation in a United Nations climate change treaty through an executive agreement. The treaty is expected to come out of the December meeting in Paris of parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Syrian refugee crisis
“As Amnesty International recently pointed out, the “six Gulf countries—Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain—have offered zero resettlement places to Syrian refugees.” This claim was echoed by Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch.” In regards to the Syrian refugee crisis, it is important to note that the Gulf States of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, , Kuwait, Oman, and Bahrain have done nothing to assist Syrian refugees, or any other refugees within their geographic proximity.

Historian Neagu Djuvara Discusses the “Muslim Refugee” Problem
Neagu Djuvara, writer, historian, philosopher, journalist, and diplomat, was interviewed on his 99th birthday by Radu Turcescu from Evenimentul Zilei. Born in Bucharest on August 18, 1916, Djuvara studied at Sorbonne in Paris, lived in France, Niger, and Romania.

Judge Who Jailed Kentucky Clerk Has History of Imposing Homosexual Agenda in Public Schools
The federal judge who held Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis in contempt and ordered her to jail for refusing to sign marriage licenses has on two occasions denied Christian students in Kentucky public schools their First Amendment rights by ordering them to undergo re-education training promoting the homosexual lifestyle against their religious objections.

Madonna's Brother Defends Jailed Clerk Who Refused Marriage Licenses for Gay Couples
Madonna's brother, Christopher Ciccone, is speaking out in defense of the county clerk in Kentucky who was recently jailed after refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Ciccone, who is openly gay, posted a message to Facebook on Friday in which he said that Kim Davis should be granted the right deny the licenses, with Ciccone citing her "religious freedom."

Pope Francis prepares for most political trip yet
Pope Francis is gearing up for potentially his most politically charged trip yet, an eight-day whirlwind visit which will take him from Havana's Revolution Square in Cuba to the headquarters of the United Nations.

China's Central Bank Chief Admits "The Bubble Has Burst"
In a stunningly honest admission from a member of the elite, Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of China’s central bank, exclaimed multiple times this week to his G-20 colleagues that a bubble in his country had "burst."

New York 2015 - FOUR THOUSAND sleeping on the streets...
...New York is in the grip of a homeless epidemic so bad that it has raised fears of the city slipping back into the disorder of the 1970s and 1980s. The city's police chief this week said that as many as 4,000 people are now sleeping rough in the city, in a crisis which even the city's ultra-liberal mayor has finally acknowledged after months of denials.

Saudi Arabia: Iran deal will contribute to Middle East security and stability
Saudi Arabia is satisfied with assurances from US President Barack Obama about the Iran nuclear deal and believes the agreement will contribute to security and stability in the Middle East... Saudi King Salman met with Obama at the White House on Friday to seek more support in countering Iran, as the Obama administration aimed to use the visit to shore up relations after a period of tensions.

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Why Can't the Kentucky Clerk Get Bail?
Rowan County, Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis has been jailed without bail since Thursday for refusing to allow her office to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Her attorney, Matthew Staver, says that even some people accused of murder are allowed to be free on bail while their trail is pending. one of the U.S. marshals when they were directed by the judge to take her into custody told her he had never arrested somebody who had not committed a crime."

DIVINE? ‘Hillary’ replaces ‘Jesus’ in campaign rally song
An all-women’s choir called “Voices From the Heart” performed at Clinton’s Portsmouth, New Hampshire rally Saturday. There, they serenaded the former Secretary of State with an old gospel tune, “Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind on Jesus).” Except in this version, from the self-dubbed “woman’s alternative chorus,” “Jesus” is replaced with “Hillary.”

Giuliani: De Blasio’s progressivism created city’s homeless crisis
A  city with homeless on its streets is a city that has no love of its people. The so-called “progressive” view, that people have a right to live on the sidewalk, is not only legally devoid of any merit but is inhumane, indecent and dangerous. As is the case in many other policies — redistribution of wealth, social engineering, weak national defense — it’s a contradiction to describe this stance as progressive. It should properly be regarded as retrogressive.

Netanyahu says will not allow Israel to be 'submerged' by refugees
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said he would not allow Israel to be "submerged" by refugees after calls for the Jewish state to take in those fleeing Syria's war.

Public School Parents Angry After Middle Schoolers Instructed To Write ‘ALLAH IS THE ONLY GOD’
Parents in a Nashville suburb expressed alarm this week because their middle school children are learning about Islam in a world history class but, they say, the school is pointedly ignoring Christianity.

Exclusive: DEA chief says heroin ‘back with a vengeance,’ drugs a national security threat
“Not much of a gambler,” Chuck Rosenberg says about himself, a tad sheepishly. Indeed, in the seven deadly sins department, the new chief of the Drug Enforcement Administration is something of a zero: He’s never smoked marijuana, doesn’t drink alcohol, and lists as his only vice an excessive intake of Diet Dr. Pepper.

Kim Davis – Like Jews Under Nazis'
Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis entered her fourth day as an inmate at the Carter County Detention Center Sunday, after refusing to license gay marriage. About 300 people gathered on the lawn outside the jail to support her Saturday, chanting "thank you, Kim" and waving signs that said "Kim Davis for President" and "God gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers." what would happen if the government forced you to turn over a Jew in Nazi Germany? All of us would say we wouldn't do that, we wouldn't listen to that. Well, we're about ready to walk into the moment.”

Iraq: Woman Kills Isis Commander in Mosul for Forcing Her into Sex Slavery
The commander, identified by his nom de guerre Abu Anas, was murdered by the woman in Tal Roman district, located to the west of Mosul, Press TV reported. ...keeping a woman as slave in fact is a "great prophetic Sunnah (way of life prescribed by Prophet Mohammad) containing many divine wisdoms and religious benefits".

Egyptian billionaire offers to buy Mediterranean island to accommodate refugees
Naguib Sawiris, a billionaire and philanthropist from Egypt, has announced a bid to purchase land in the Mediterranean which would be used to provide refugees a new home, CNN reported on Friday. "Greece or Italy, sell me an island," Sawiris tweeted. In another tweet, he suggested calling the island "Aylan" after the Syrian boy who made international headlines after pictures surfaced of his drowned body washed ashore in Turkey.

Pope calls on every European parish to host one migrant family each
"I appeal to the parishes, the religious communities, the monasteries and sanctuaries of all Europe to ... take in one family of refugees," he said after his Sunday address in the Vatican. The pope's call goes out to tens of thousands of Catholic parishes in Europe as the number of refugees arriving over land through the Balkans and across the Mediterranean to Italy and Greece hits record levels.

When it comes to earthquakes, only Alaska surpasses Oklahoma
With its volcanoes, glaciers and mountains, Alaska’s landscape may be different from Oklahoma’s. However, the two states have frequent earthquakes in common. but of all the states in the nation, Alaska is the only state surpassing Oklahoma when it comes to earthquakes, U.S. Geological Survey records indicate. As of Aug. 31, more than 600 magnitude 3.0 or greater earthquakes had been recorded in Oklahoma

Pope Francis prepares for most political trip yet
Pope Francis is gearing up for potentially his most politically charged trip yet, an eight-day whirlwind visit which will take him from Havana's Revolution Square in Cuba to the headquarters of the United Nations. ...His environmental encyclical and ...speeches...against the free market system, blind capitalism and rabid exploitation...of natural resources, have seen him accused of Marxism.

Russia 'is building military base in Syria'
Russia is building a military base in Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s heartland, according to American intelligence officials... The anonymous officials say Russia has set up an air traffic control tower and transported prefabricated housing units for up to 1,000 personnel to an airfield serving the Syrian port city of Latakia.

Netanyahu: Israel not indifferent, but can't absorb Syrian or African refugees
...“We have conscientiously treated thousands of wounded from the fighting in Syria, and we have helped them rebuild their lives," Netanyahu said. “But Israel is a very small country, with neither demographic or geographic depth, and therefore we must control our borders.” ...In order to secure the country's border...work will begin Sunday on building a security barrier...on the country's eastern border with Jordan.

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Black Lives Matter under fire as a 'hate group'
Progressive on the defensive as law-enforcement casualties pile up. Without a doubt, Black Lives Matter is a hate group,” Peterson told WND. “If a white group was encouraging violence and targeting police, they would be rightfully labeled a ‘hate group’ by the mainstream media and by far-left groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center and People For the American Way.”

A tsunami warning for Europe
These are not migrant workers from Africa, who seek an improved quality of life. The refugees from Muslim nations are running for their lives. Professor Arnon Soffer has for years claimed that this tsunami was on the way. Now he claims it's only the beginning and that the real tsunami has not yet arrived.

Russia starts building AIR BASE in Syria so its pilots can launch airstrikes against Isis
RUSSIA is building an AIR BASE in Syria where it can station fighter pilots and troops to battle Islamic State (Isis) in a desperate bid to prop up the regime of Bashar al-Assad, it emerged today.

Islamic State takes Syrian state's last oilfield
Islamic State fighters have seized the last major oilfield under Syrian government control during battles over a vast central desert zone, a group monitoring the conflict said on Monday.

Massive fireball from space witnessed in Thailand, explosions heard
A massive fireball, believed to be a meteorite, has fallen on Thailand. Awestruck commuters witnessed the spectacle, describing a green and orange glow, as it took a nosedive toward Earth.

Europe's Fate will be that of the Roman Empire
It is the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire all over again. It always ends the same way: civilization reaches a stage of maturation where it is not only unable to defend itself, but where it in a seemingly incomprehensible manner worships its own enemy”.

World Powers Are Preparing for Space Warfare
The entire network of U.S. military and intelligence satellites may soon be controlled through a single command center, jointly operated by the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. This is the latest in a recent string of global developments around space warfare, each of which was significant enough to have experts question whether something more is at play behind the scenes.

CME EXPECTED TO MISS
A lopsided coronal mass ejection (CME) that left the sun on Sept. 4th will probably miss Earth. A first-look analysis at the time of the explosion suggested a possible CME strike on Sept. 7-8. Subsequent modeling, however, has lowered the odds of an impact.

USGS confirms STL area earthquake
A geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey says the USGS is officially ruling Saturday's event as an earthquake. The quake, measuring between 2.5 to 2.6, occurred in the St. Louis metro area around 5:23 p.m. between Kirkwood and Festus and Belleville and Washington.

Father of the euro fears EU superstate by the back door
Professor Otmar Issing, the chief architect of monetary union through its early years, said it would be “dangerous” to transfer control over tax and spending to the EU federal level before full political union has been established first on democratic foundations.

AOPA seeks answers about ADS-B notam
AOPA is trying to get to the bottom of ambiguous notam language and determine why the aviation community was given just one day’s advance notice of military exercises that could make Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) and TCAS unreliable along a significant portion of the East Coast for a month.

Magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes off Fiji coast
An earthquake registering a magnitude of 6.1 has reportedly struck south of the Fiji Islands. The seismic movement was recorded at 6.36pm (AEST) at a depth of 573km.

DNC head Wasserman Schultz chokes up announcing Iran deal vote
The head of the Democratic Party, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., choked up while discussing her "gut wrenching" decision to vote in favor of the Iran nuclear deal. "There's nothing that's more important to me, as a Jew, than to ensure Israel's existence is there throughout our generations," she said Sunday, choking back tears.

Syria war: France to prepare for IS air strikes
President Francois Hollande has ordered preparations to begin for air strikes on Islamic State militants in Syria. He said France would start reconnaissance flights on Tuesday with a view to launching attacks, but ruled out sending troops on the ground. Russia has responded to growing concern that it is increasing its military support for President Bashar al-Assad.

Syrian Druse stand between ISIS and Israeli border, Druse sheikh warns
Israeli Druse leaders told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday that the southern Syrian Druse city of Sweida serves as the last barrier separating Islamic State from Israeli territory on the Golan Heights. If Islamic State gets past Sweida, it puts Jordan and the Israeli border areas at risk, Israeli Druse spiritual leader Sheikh Maufak Tarif told the Post.

'Hamas's long-term goal is to replace us; Ours is to replace it'
Hamas in Gaza has not swerved from its long-term goal of destroying and replacing Israel, and Israel's long-term goal is to replace Hamas with another entity, IDF Southern Command chief, Maj.-Gen. Sami Turgerman, said on Monday. The commander...spoke at the Terrorism's Global Impact summit in Herzliya, which was organized by the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism.

India’s Abstention at the UNHRC: Implications for Indo-Israeli Relations
On July 3, 2015, in a manner uncharacteristic of its longstanding position on the Israel-Palestinian issue, India abstained from voting on a UN Human Right Council (UNHRC) resolution that censured Israel for “alleged war crimes” during the 2014 Gaza conflict. Traditionally, India has almost unfailingly supported resolutions condemning Israel’s alleged violations regarding the Palestinian issue. On this occasion though, India joined Kenya, Macedonia, Ethiopia, and Paraguay in abstaining. Of the remaining 42 members of the UNHRC, 41 voted for the resolution, and only the United States voted against it.

Obama Created EU Refugee Crisis
The absence of a solid U.S. foreign policy doctrine and leadership under U.S. President Obama has resulted in the deadly combination of power vacuums across the Middle East and little to no fear of consequential American military action challenging the war-crime infused tribalism filling these vacuums. This failed responsibility of the world’s Super Power to inject the strategic counterbalance now has the European Community in uncharted chaos in the Obama-created refugee exodus that rivals biblical events.

Where to bury your depression when Pope Francis is in America
In all the hoopla surrounding Pope Francis’ first trip to America, the angels must be singing the blues. From the “simple oak chair being built by immigrant laborers for Mass at Madison Square Gardens”, to the 30,000 tickets set aside for his fans to get a closer view when the pontiff parades twice through downtown Philadelphia, Pope Francis is coming to America.

Mankind’s last call for survival
You know, throughout the last eight years, I have spent quite a bit of time writing articles about Barack Obama and his administration. I even went as far as writing a 400+ page book, regarding this obscure character, we call the president of the United States of America. I christened my book with the title, ‘The Beginning of the End’, which tells you, but in a few words, precisely how I feel about this enigmatic individual and his administration.

The Terrifying Tentacles of One World Governance
The late Henry Lamb and Tom DeWeese have been working tirelessly for decades to unravel the thorny and terrifying tentacles of U.N.‘s Agenda 21, a soft law signed in 1992 by 178 countries. But the idea of a one world government/order has been around since the turn of the 20th century. It suffices to look at the back of a dollar bill to see the evidence. Featured prominently under the Masonic Pyramid are the Latin words, Novus Ordo Seclorum, the New World Order.


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Hungary to Germany: Stop Encouraging Refugees To Travel To Europe
The prime minister of Hungary accused Berlin of encouraging “millions” of refugees to travel to Europe by allowing them to enter Germany without limits. Viktor Orban, Hungary’s conservative PM, reportedly urged Germany to say it will not accept more refugees descending on Europe. He warned that “millions” of people will travel to Europe if Berlin continues to accept more refugees and condemned Austria for permitting migrants to “enter its territory without hindrance.” Hungary is preparing legislation that will allow it to deploy its military to the border it shares with Serbia.

Bishop: ‘Pope Francis Is Wrong, Migrants Are Invasion’
Pope Francis is wrong on the migrant crisis and the wave of Muslim migrants currently sweeping Europe actually represents an “invasion”, a Hungarian Bishop has said. Laszlo Kiss-Rigo, Bishop of Szeged-Csanad in southern Hungary, said the migrants “come here with cries of ‘Allahu Akbar.’ They want to take over.” He added that Pope Francis “doesn’t know the situation” and that many so-called refugees are actually economic migrants.

United Nations Makes Migrant Crisis Worse with Loose Rhetoric
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon insisted, in a statement released on September 8th, that European nations open their doors to the many thousands of Middle Easterners and North Africans said to be “fleeing war and violence, who have a right to seek asylum without any form of discrimination.” The statement said that he had called the leaders of Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia to emphasize “the individual and collective responsibility of European states to respond responsibly and humanely” to the migration crisis. Notably, there was nothing in the Secretary General’s statement calling for the wealthy Gulf State countries, such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, to welcome the refugees fleeing Syria and Iraq, for example, to their countries.

Pope Francis seeks Obama while the Christian World Seeks the Lord
The very idea of a pope addressing the United Nations where Gaia and not Christianity is the religion of favor is enough to send shudders down the back bones of people of faith.

Obama and Kerry Must Stop Playing Games Affecting Israel’s Future
Attempting to secure the Congressional vote required to confirm President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran has necessitated Secretary for State John Kerry pledging Obama’s “rock solid” diplomatic support and increased military assistance for Israel—the bitterest opponent of Obama’s Iranian proposal.

Jesus, Hillary . . . what’s the difference? Women’s chorus makes slight alteration to hymn
About the spiritual issues, I’ll just say this: If your life really belongs to Jesus, I don’t have to explain to you what’s wrong with this. If it doesn’t, it’s useless to try because you’ll say something like “Come on, lighten up, don’t take it so seriously, etc.” and I’ll quickly recognize it’s a waste of time explaining it to you.

Second quake today
FOR THE SECOND TIME TODAY, a 4.0 magnitude earthquake was recorded off the northeast coast of Barbados.

Christians warned to pull kids from public school
Imagine an America in which all children are educated according to biblical, Christian principles instead of modern, secular, liberal values. Chaplain E. Ray Moore (Lt. Col. USAR Ret.), such a scenario is not just possible, but essential if Christians wish to reclaim the American culture.

Venezuela Expands Anti-Smuggling Crackdown With New Closure
Workers, vacationers and members of a nomadic indigenous community were all left stranded Tuesday as Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro expanded the closure of the border with Colombia as part of an anti-smuggling offensive. Maduro ordered the closure of the main border crossing in Venezuela's biggest state Monday night, further exacerbating an ongoing diplomatic crisis with Colombia, which is struggling to absorb thousands of migrants who have fled the crackdown.

Huge Russian military planes land in Syria
At least three Russian military transport planes have landed in Syria in recent days, US officials said Tuesday, as Washington worries about the sort of assistance Moscow is providing to Damascus.

Egypt in 'major operation' in Sinai, 56 militants killed
Egypt's army said Tuesday it had launched a "major military operation" against the Islamic State group in the Sinai Peninsula, killing 56 jihadists and losing two soldiers.

Kentucky clerk who opposed gay marriages released from jail
Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses, walked out of jail on Tuesday after a federal judge who found her in contempt said he was satisfied licenses were being issued in accordance with a U.S. Supreme Court decision.

Palestinian Leadership Considers Annulling Oslo Peace Accords With Israel at U.N.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is considering opening a "new chapter in Palestinian history" in his U.N. General Assembly speech later this month, with the Palestinian leadership "in favor" of voiding the Oslo peace accords with Israel, a Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Monday. The Oslo Accords, the first signed in 1993 and the second in 1995, outlined a peace process between Israel and the Palestinians with the aim of fulfilling the "right of the Palestinian people to self-determination."

Air Force wants owners to give up property near secret Area 51
LAS VEGAS – The U.S. Air Force is giving an ultimatum to owners of a remote Nevada property that over time has been surrounded by a vast bombing range including the super-secret Area 51. They're being told to take a $5.2 million "last best offer" for their property by Thursday -- or the government will seize it through condemnation. The owners include descendants of a couple who lost their hardscrabble mining enterprise after the Air Force moved in in the 1940s. Nuclear tests then began in 1951, their mine mill mysteriously exploded in 1954 and they ran out of money to seek reparations from the government in 1959.

BREMMER: Putin is serious about entering Syria — and not to go after ISIS
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday inspecting reconstruction of houses for people who suffered from wildfires in the village of Krasnopolye at the Siberian Khakasiya region in Russia. The regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad is weakening, and one of Assad's primary backers — Russian President Vladimir Putin — is upping the ante. "Assad has lost significant territory over the past months; Putin is not about to tolerate his ouster," geopolitical expert Ian Bremmer, the president of Eurasia Group, told Business Insider in an email. The regime has recently lost significant territory to Al Qaeda-led rebels in the north, Islamic State militants in the country's center, and nationalist rebels in the south.

Iranian Warships Confront U.S. Navy On ‘Daily Basis’
U.S. naval forces operating in and around the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping lane, are “routinely approached by Iranian warships and aircraft” on a “nearly daily basis,” according to a Pentagon official familiar with operations in the region.

US agencies plan research-ethics overhaul
On 2 September, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a proposal to address concerns that have emerged since the regulations — known collectively as the 'Common Rule' — took effect more than two decades ago. These issues include the need for overlapping ethics reviews of studies conducted at multiple sites, and the rise of genomic technologies that can identify the donors of anonymized samples.

Refugees in Europe: Christians welcome - Muslims keep out
More and more European countries have abandoned the continent's famous policy of political correctness in recent days, and admit unabashedly: They are willing to take in only Christian refugees, not Muslims.

Two 5.5 earthquake close to New Zealand and Mexico rocked Pacific region
Two strong 5.5 earthquakes hit within the last hour. The first quake was measured in the L'Esperance Rock, New Zealand region in the Pacific Ocean.

UN chief seeks to breathe fresh life into peace talks
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will host a ministerial meeting of key global players trying to end the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Sept. 30 during the annual high-level session of the General Assembly, the United Nations announced Friday.

Hell of a hail! 9 injured as storm ravages Kazan, Russia, damaging cars & buildings
Hell of a hail! 9 injured as storm ravages Kazan, Russia, damaging cars & buildings A heavy hail storm hit the city of Kazan on Monday, causing considerable damage to the city's infrastructure.

At a Berlin church, Muslim refugees converting in droves
Hundreds embrace Christianity in possible effort to boost chances of winning asylum, although most claim to be true believers. “Will you break away from Satan and his evil deeds?” pastor Gottfried Martens asks the Iranian refugee. “Will you break away from Islam?” “Yes,” Zonoobi fervently replies. Spreading his hands in blessing, Martens then baptizes the man “in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.” Mohammed is now Martin — no longer Muslim, but Christian.

Planned Parenthood faces unexpected challenge from Obamacare
“Some people relied on us because they were uninsured prior to the Affordable Care Act. Now they can go anywhere for care, and some of them have been,” expects to treat 58,000 patients in 2015, down about 15 percent from the 68,000 it treated in fiscal 2012, before major parts of the law went into effect.

Israel shrouded in dense sandstorm
Officials ask Israelis — especially the elderly, young, sick and pregnant — to remain indoors; heatwave predicted. The storm has been making its way to Israel from Iraq and Syria over the past week. It is expected to remain in Israel’s skies throughout the day, and possibly until Wednesday morning, according to meteorologists.

Modern Revival of Lost Biblical Commandment Paving theWay for the Third Jewish Temple
Every year, each Jewish male over the age of 20 was obligated to give a compulsory donation of half a shekel (Exodus 30:15). Regardless of status or wealth, the same amount was given by each man. Since it is forbidden by Torah law to actually count Jews, counting the coins took place of a national census. The half-shekels that were collected were used as a form of tax to support the Jewish Temple.

Heavenly Warning of Imminent War in Israel a WakeupCall from God to Repent
Breaking Israel News reported Rabbi Vaknin’s warning, leaving many frightened and wondering what can be done to avert the decree of war. Speaking with Rabbi Vaknin’s English spokesperson, Gil Nachman, Breaking Israel News followed up on the rabbi’s heavenly message, wanting to know how people around the world should respond to the threat of war. “When Hashem (God) doesn’t see that people are waking up, He has to wake them up,” Nachman explained to Breaking Israel News. “The rabbi is here to ensure that the message comes in rachamim (mercy), not din (strict judgement).

Bulgaria denies airspace use for Russian supply flights to Syria - Reuters
Bulgaria has denied use of its airspace for Russian aid flights to Syria due to doubts about the nature of the cargo Moscow sends to the war-torn country, Reuters reported. It comes on the heels of a similar Washington request to Greece.

Magnitude 4.5 Earthquake Hits Near Hawthorne and Yerington
The Nevada Seismological Laboratory is reporting a 4.5 magnitude earthquake hit near Hawthorne, Yerington and Schurz at 7:15PM on Monday, Sept. 7, 2015. The laboratory, located at the University of Nevada Reno, reported the earthquake's epicenter was about 29 miles southeast of Yerington and 13 miles northwest of Hawthorne.

5.5 magnitude quake strikes off Mexican coast
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 on the Richter scale has struck off the Pacific coast of Mexico, the US Geological Survey reported. The quake occurred near the towns of Pijijiapan and Mapastepec.

U.S., tech industry fight over email privacy heads to appeals court
A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday will consider whether U.S. law enforcement can make American technology companies hand over customers' emails held overseas... Microsoft Corp is challenging a U.S. search warrant seeking the emails of an individual stored on a server in Ireland as part of a drug investigation. Details of the probe, including the identity of the person, have not been made public.

Conservative dissent is brewing inside the Vatican
...A staunch conservative and Vatican bureaucrat, Burke had been demoted by the pope a few months earlier, but it did not take the fight out of him. Francis had been backing...progressive voices on divorced Catholics as well as gays and lesbians. In front of the camera, Burke said he would “resist” liberal changes — and seemed to caution Francis about the limits of his authority. “One must be very attentive regarding the power of the pope,” Burke told the French news crew.

Apple and Other Tech Companies Tangle With U.S. Over Data Access
In an investigation involving guns and drugs, the Justice Department obtained a court order this summer demanding that Apple turn over, in real time, text messages between suspects using iPhones. Apple’s response: Its iMessage system was encrypted and the company could not comply.

Conservatives prepare to make stand on Planned Parenthood
The make-or-break moment for House conservatives to defund Planned Parenthood is here. Outraged by undercover videos on fetal tissue donation, conservatives are pushing to cut all federal funding for Planned Parenthood as part of legislation that would avert a government shutdown on Oct. 1.

Iran, budget, highways and national debt on tap for Congress
Congress returns on Tuesday with a critical need for a characteristic rarely evident through a contentious spring and summer - cooperation between Republicans and President Barack Obama. Lawmakers face a weighty list of unfinished business and looming deadlines, including a stopgap spending bill to keep the government open beyond Sept. 30.

Turkey 'bombs PKK in northern Iraq' after Hakkari attack
Turkish warplanes have launched a wave of air strikes on Kurdish PKK rebel bases in northern Iraq after a deadly attack on the army in south-east Turkey, reports say. Dozens of jets were involved in six hours of bombing in the early hours of Tuesday, Anadolu news agency reported. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu pledged to "wipe out" rebel strongholds in response to Sunday's PKK attack.

US weighs refugee response, including 'resettlement', as criticism mounts
As Europe grapples with a flood of refugees from the Syrian war and the pope urges Catholics to help them, the US government may lack the political appetite to offer American soil as a safe haven to more than the current trickle of Syrians. Refugee and immigrant groups had urged the United States to admit more Syrian refugees long before the crisis erupted this summer in Europe.

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Sen Ted Cruz for standing up for religious freedom
So this is how the game is played. Leftist operatives in the courts (supreme and state) create unconstitutional laws to further their anti-God agenda. Then, Leftists say those who disobey their lawless laws are not behaving like Christians and good Americans. Many on our side fall for it.

The Syrian Refugee Crisis is Not Our Problem
The Syrian refugee crisis that the media bleats about is not a crisis. And the Syrian refugees it champions are often neither Syrians nor refugees. Fake Syrian passports are cheaper than an EU politician’s virtue and easier to come by. Just about anyone who speaks enough Arabic to pass the scrutiny of a European bureaucrat can come with his two wives in tow and take a turn on the carousel of their welfare state.

Ferguson Bombers Sentenced
A foiled plot to use bombs to assassinate the police chief, county prosecutor, and other officials in troubled Ferguson, Mo., and also blow up the iconic Gateway Arch in nearby St. Louis, has ended in federal prison terms for two New Black Panther Party members.

175 Days: Treasury Says Debt Has Been Frozen at $18,112,975,000,000
The portion of the federal debt that is subject to a legal limit set by Congress closed Friday, Sept. 4, at $18,112,975,000,000, according to the latest Daily Treasury Statement, which was published at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday. That, according to the Treasury's statements, makes 175 straight days the debt subject to the limit has been frozen at $18,112,975,000,000.

Obama Mulls Resettling Thousands of Syrian ‘Refugees’
The Obama Administration is reportedly considering exacerbating a crisis largely of its own making. Following the immigration onslaught in Europe that has generated graphic images, including a 3-year-old Syrian boy washing up dead on a Turkish beach, thousands of migrants trapped in a Budapest train station, and 71 dead discovered in a truck abandoned on an Austrian roadway, Obama administration officials are considering the possibility of allowing more Syrian immigrants into the United States.

Shepard Smith Calls Christians “Haters”
“Haters are going to hate” is how Shepard Smith of Fox News referred to supporters of Christian clerk Kim Davis on his Tuesday afternoon show. It was another example of the anti-Christian bias that has been rearing its ugly head on a channel that many conservatives had looked to for “fair and balanced” coverage of the issues they care about.

US-led airstrikes blew up a stadium filled with ISIS' explosives, weapons, and ammunition
US-led coalition airstrikes against the Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, and Daesh) on Tuesday destroyed a key supply hub near the Iraqi city of Ramadi — a stadium stocked with "homemade explosives, weapons and ammunition as well as VBIED [Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device] components."

Giant Russian transport aircraft in Syria raise concerns
Three giant Russian Condor transport aircraft have flown into the Assad International Airport near Latakia, Syria, over the past few days. They have unloaded large containers but it's not known yet what's in the containers...

Video: Liberals Want Bible Banned From Amazon
In an effort to stop “hate speech,” liberals want to ban the Holy Bible from Amazon.com, which had previously banned the Confederate flag. When asked to sign a petition demanding both Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble to stop selling the Bible, San Diego, Ca., beachgoers signed without hesitation.

Islam's Conquest of Europe
Burnham predicted that the mindless magnanimity of liberals, who subordinate the interests of their own people and nations to utopian and altruistic impulses, would bring about an end to Western civilization. Was he wrong? Consider what is happening in Europe.

World Bank Economist: Rate Hike Will Spark 'Panic and Turmoil' in Emerging Markets
"I don't think the Fed lift-off itself is going to create a major crisis but it will cause some immediate turbulence," he was quoted as saying.

Trump: US Must Accept Some Mideast Refugees
Donald Trump says that the United States will have to accept some of the refugees fleeing the chaos in Syria. Appearing Tuesday on Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor," Trump said he does worry that some in the group could be terrorists and said a screening process will be needed.

Conservative dissent is brewing inside the Vatican
Cardinal Raymond Burke sat in his elaborately upholstered armchair and appeared to issue a warning to Pope Francis. A staunch conservative and Vatican bureaucrat, Burke had been demoted by the pope a few months earlier, but it did not take the fight out of him. Francis had been backing a more inclusive era, giving space to progressive voices on divorced Catholics as well as gays and lesbians. In front of the camera, Burke said he would “resist” liberal changes — and seemed to caution Francis about the limits of his authority. “One must be very attentive regarding the power of the pope,” Burke told the French news crew.

Dozens of Emirati Soldiers Beheaded by ISIL in Yemen
ISIL terrorists have cut off the heads of several dozen Emirati soldiers who fled the war in Yemen's Maarib after a Houthi missile attack killed at least 65 of their comrades along with 240 others from the Saudi-led coalition, Iranian media reports said.

Blood Rave to douse Amsterdam dancers in gallons of blood
The Netherlands will have its first ever “Blood Rave” – a dance party where dancers are sprayed with 5 thousand liters of blood – in Amsterdam on Halloween night. One of the organizers, who want to remain anonymous due to the nature of the event, told the AD that this is will be the first blood party in the world and the demand for it is high.

Deadly strain of West Nile virus hits Israel
Twenty-seven people have contracted a particularly vicious strain of West Nile virus in cities and towns all over the country; Health Ministry is closely monitoring the situation.

Moscow admits Russian military experts on the ground in Syria
Russia's Foreign Ministry disclosed early Wednesday that Russian military experts are assisting forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in that country's long-running civil war.

'Blood moons' discoverer fires back at 'end of world' claims
Mark Biltz, head of El Shaddai Ministries and the author of “Blood Moons: Decoding the Imminent Heavenly Signs,” says critics who claim he is predicting the imminent end of the world have it all wrong. “My interpretation is that we have at least another 1,000 years. But I do believe these signs portend major changes, including a possible major war involving Israel and an economic collapse.”

Rare deadly dust storm engulfs MidEast, halting hostilities
An unseasonal dust storm has swept through the Middle East, blanketing Beirut and Damascus, killing at least two and hospitalizing hundreds in Lebanon, and halting airstrikes in neighboring Syria where five people have reportedly died due to the freak weather.

Oregon judge accused of blocking gay marriage applicants, hanging Hitler picture
An Oregon judge who refused to perform same-sex marriages is facing multiple complaints in a state ethics investigation, including that he put up a picture of Adolf Hitler in the Salem courthouse, a state judicial commission said on Tuesday.

Major Airbase Falls to Rebels, Syrian Troops Driven from Idlib Province
Syrian government troops have lost control over a major military airbase in the northwestern province of Idlib. The rebels have now secured control over nearly all of Idlib province – but it is still not entirely clear which faction controls the province.

Lawmakers Opposed to Iran Deal Introduce Measures Addressing its Flaws
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL) have finally done what so many opponents of the Nuclear Iran Deal have been waiting for. Whether their efforts will achieve the goal of opponents will soon be revealed. The two Republican House members each introduced legislation late on Tuesday, Sept. 8, addressing procedural flaws in the administration’s conduct of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

Defense Minister Outlaws Temple Mount Screamers
Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon signed an order Wednesday declaring the groups of Islamists who regularly harass Jews on the Temple Mount – the male “Murabitun” and female “Murabitat” – as illegal organizations. The activists regularly riot on the Mount, curse, shout, and throw various objects at the Jews who ascend the Mount, and sometimes attack police as well.

CIA: Yes, Hillary's Email Contained 'Top Secret' Intelligence; Campaign 'Disagrees'
As Hillary Clinton blithely insists her unsecure email server violated no rules or laws -- "what I did was allowed" -- the facts beg to differ. The New York Times reports that an intelligence review confirms the existing allegation that Clinton received highly sensitive material on her private server that was, in fact, classified at the time it was sent:

Muslim Refugees Chant “Allahu Akbar,” “F**k You,” Attack Citizens, Throw Feces
Muslim “refugees” in Budapest chanted “Allahu Akbar” and “f**k you” while others in Italy attacked an old lady and threw feces at bystanders as Germany announced that it would be prepared to take 500,000 asylum seekers every year. Although mainstream media coverage of the migrant crisis has focused on happy families and children, footage not broadcast by TV networks shows a different side to some of those crossing into Europe.

U.S. Moves to Block Russian Military Buildup in Syria
The United States on Tuesday moved to head off preparations for a suspected Russian military buildup in Syria as Bulgaria agreed to an appeal from the Obama administration to shut its airspace to Russian transport planes. The planes’ destination was the Syrian port city of Latakia. The administration has also asked Greece to close its airspace to the Russian flights, Greek and American officials said, but Greece has not publicly responded to the request.

Migrant crisis: Australia ups refugee intake and plans Syria strikes
Australia is to take in thousands more Syrians, amid growing pressure to do more to help those displaced by violence in the Middle East. Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Wednesday announced that Australia would accept 12,000 Syrians from persecuted minorities.

'Zionist regime will cease to exist in 25 years,' Khamenei vows
Israel will cease to exist within three decades, the Iranian supreme leader vowed on his official Twitter handle on Wednesday. Iran's Supreme Leader said Tehran will not negotiate with the United States on any issue after the landmark nuclear deal with world powers in July, according to his official website on Wednesday.

Despite Iran deal, most Israelis say Obama committed to their security
Two-thirds of Israelis still believe US President Barack Obama's administration is committed to Israel's security despite his Iran deal that 72.7 percent of Israeli Jews see as an existential threat to the Jewish state, according to the monthly Peace Index poll of the Israel Democracy Institute and Tel Aviv University, which was released Wednesday.

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Migrants' long and winding road to Europe turns cold, muddy
Soaked to the bone and ankle deep in mud, thousands of people seeking refuge in Europe are finding that their path to a new life is growing harder by the hour.

Iran nuclear deal survives: Democrats block disapproval vote
Senate Democrats voted to uphold the hard-fought nuclear accord with Iran on Thursday, overcoming ferocious GOP opposition and delivering President Barack Obama a legacy-making victory on his top foreign policy priority.

U.N. General Assembly approves Palestinian request to fly its flag
Palestine's flag will fly at United Nations headquarters after the U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a Palestinian resolution, infuriating Israel with a move that Palestinians described as a step toward U.N. membership.

Russian troops already in Syria, Israel says
Russia has been sending military forces into Syria in recent days, Israel's defense chief announced Thursday, as Moscow hinted at broader action to bolster President Bashar Assad's embattled army following a string of battlefield losses.

CITI: China is about to pull everyone into a 2-year 'global recession'
Members of an emergency-rescue team of a Sinopec oil field carry a mock victim as they participate in a drill simulating a fire at a firefighting-training centre in Puyang, Henan province, January 8, 2015. Economists at Citi put out a scary research note this week laying out their views on the Chinese economy and how it'll affect the world.

Strong earthquake rocks Trinidad
A 4.8 magnitude earthquake rocked Trinidad and Tobago early this morning, but there have been no reports of injuries or damage. The tremor occurred around 3:49 a.m. to the northwest of Trinidad, at a depth of 136 km, and was felt widely across the country.

'Mega' Agenda 21 resurrected with pope's help
Francis is expected to enthusiastically endorse a new U.N. document that promises to wipe out poverty by 2030 by reordering the world economy along the lines of socialist principles. The document, titled “Transforming Our World: 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,” also seeks to “strengthen universal peace” and usher in a new era of shared prosperity. The pope’s visit marks just one in a series of historic and potentially prophetic events during the month of September.

Pope Francis Taps Rick Warren To Sell Vatican Socialist Agenda To American Christians
Rick Warren, senior pastor of Saddleback Church, has announced he will be speaking in Philadelphia later this month at the World Meeting of Families event to commence Pope Francis’ highly anticipated visit to the United States.

Trump Calls Obama an ‘Amateur’ and Vows to Re-Negotiate Deal
Donald Trump said Wednesday that President Barack Obama’s nuclear agreement with Iran was his “amateur hour” and that the deal will be re-negotiated if the real-estate mogul is elected to the White House.

US Raises Protection for Its Sinai Multinational Peacekeeper Forces
The U.S. is beefing up its force in the Sinai Peninsula after four American soldiers were wounded in the line of duty last week.

From This Point Forward, Christians Are Going To Be Banned From Holding Many Jobs In America
Christians all over this country are being put into positions where they must choose to either submit to the “new morality” or potentially lose their jobs. For Kim Davis, deciding to take a stand meant that she was thrown into prison.

California lawmakers approve right-to-die bill
A bill allowing terminally ill people to legally end their lives has been passed by the California State Assembly. The measure now goes to the State Senate, which is expected to give the act its endorsement. However, California Governor Jerry Brown, a lifelong Catholic, has not said whether he will sign it into law.

Assange on ‘US Empire,’ Assad govt overthrow plans & new book ‘The WikiLeaks Files
Julian Assange has opened up about his new book, 'The WikiLeaks Files,' speaking about the 'US empire' and telling RT's 'Going Underground' program that Washington had plans to overthrow Syria's government long before the 2011 uprising began.

Netanyahu Ready to Enter Negotiations with PA 'Immediately'
In London, Netanyahu warns Mideast 'disintegrating under the twin forces of militant Islam' - Iran and ISIS. "I look forward to discussing with you everything you mentioned – three specific areas," Netanyahu told Cameron at the start of the meeting. "First security," the Israeli Prime Minister noted.

Wilders tells Dutch parliament refugee crisis is 'Islamic invasion'
"Masses of young men in their twenties with beards singing Allahu Akbar across Europe. It's an invasion that threatens our prosperity, our security, our culture and identity,"

ISIS blasts Muslims fleeing to Europe as 'sinners'
Islamic State's magazine says going to Europe is a "gate towards one's children and grandchildren abandoning Islam for Christianity, atheism, or liberalism."

Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Gueiria in Venezuela
A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Gueiria in Venezuela on Thursday. Exact location of event, depth 112.1 km, -62.4256° West, 11.1526° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued.

Moderate earthquake, 5.9 mag strikes near Yunaska Island in Alaska
A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 92 km SE of Yunaska Island, Alaska (57 miles). The temblor was detected at 23:26:47 / 11:26 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Yunaska Island in Alaska.

The Christian and Civil Disobedience
In the 13th chapter of Romans, Paul says that God has given us the government as a minister of righteousness. It is our duty to obey it. But we also see in Scripture that on occasion, when the government calls for one to disobey God, then civil disobedience is in order.

Magnitude 4.0 earthquake hits northeastern Taiwan
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake hit the northeastern county of Yilan at 2:46 p.m. Thursday, the Central Weather Bureau reported later that day.

Growth jitters send stocks, commodities into reverse
World stocks and commodities moved back into reverse on Thursday after four straight days of gains following a heavy overnight tumble by oil and more uncertain news from China and Japan but also from Brazil and New Zealand. European stocks snapped a three-day run of gains with falls of more than 1 percent, after most of Asia's major bourses had drooped and a lack of excitement at Apple's new gadgets had hit Wall Street.

Scientists waking up 30,000-year-old 'giant' virus
Bringing a 30,000-year-old virus back to life sounds like the plot of a real-life horror movie... Scientists who discovered a prehistoric virus called Mollivirus sibericum in the Siberian permafrost plan to give the virus its first wakeup call since the last Ice Age (after first verifying that it can't harm humans and animals, thankfully).

GM embryos 'essential', says report
It is "essential" that the genetic modification of human embryos is allowed, says a group of scientists, ethicists and policy experts. A Hinxton Group report says editing the genetic code of early stage embryos is of "tremendous value" to research. It adds although GM babies should not be allowed to be born at the moment, it may be "morally acceptable" under some circumstances in the future.

Japan floods: City of Joso hit by 'unprecedented' rain
Widespread flooding and landslides in north-east Japan have forced more than 90,000 people to abandon their homes. The city of Joso, north of the capital, Tokyo, was hit by a wall of water after the Kinugawa River burst its banks. Helicopter rescue teams have been plucking people from rooftops.

New human-like species discovered in S Africa
Scientists have discovered a new human-like species in a burial chamber deep in a cave system in South Africa. The discovery of 15 partial skeletons is the largest single discovery of its type in Africa. The researchers claim that the discovery will change ideas about our human ancestors.

Netanyahu in Britain: Mideast crumbling in face of radical Islam
The Middle East is disintegrating in the face of extreme Shi'a radicalism embodied by Iran, and extreme Sunni extremism incarnated by Islamic State, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at...a meeting...with British Prime Minister David Cameron. Netanyahu said that this – and how to “roll back the tide of militant Islam both in the Middle East and North Africa” – was one of three main issues he wanted to discuss with Cameron.

Report: Intelligence analysts allege that command is changing ISIS reports to show US is winning
Trouble is brewing at US Central Command (CENTCOM), the Pentagon’s agency covering security interests in nations throughout the Middle East and Central Asia. According to a report from The Daily Beast, more than 50 intelligence analysts at CENTCOM have formally complained that reports on ISIS and al-Nusra Front — al-Qaeda’s Syria branch — have been repeatedly altered by senior intelligence officials to correlate to the Obama Administration’s insistence that the US is winning the war against the two militant groups.

Germany warns Russia against military engagement in Syria
Germany's foreign minister warned Russia on Wednesday against increased military intervention in Syria, saying the Iran nuclear deal and new U.N. initiatives offered a starting point for a political solution to the Syrian conflict.

Jail Time for Christians: No Longer a Hypothesis
So this is how the game is played. Leftist operatives in the courts (supreme and state) create unconstitutional laws to further their anti-God agenda. Then, Leftists say those who disobey their lawless laws are not behaving like Christians and good Americans. Many on our side fall for it.


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Crane Collapse at Mecca's Grand Mosque Kills at Least 107 People
A towering construction crane toppled over on Friday during a violent rainstorm in the Saudi city of Mecca, Islam's holiest site, crashing into the Grand Mosque and killing at least 107 people ahead of the start of the annual hajj pilgrimage later this month.

Murray: ‘Not on our watch’ will Republicans defund Planned Parenthood
Republicans are threatening to shut down the government over federal funding for Planned Parenthood. And while many political observers are comparing the current situation to that dramatic 2013 fight, it actually has a more relevant precedent: the April 2011 shutdown battle, where Republicans nearly succeeded in shutting down the federal government over a demand to defund Planned Parenthood.

Apocalypse Illinois: IOUs Projected to Hit $10.5 Billion, $163 Billion Total Accumulated Liabilities
Illinois is in serious fiscal trouble. Unpaid bills will hit about $10.5 billion later this year, counting unpaid lotto winners and state university bills. Lotto is a small problem overall, yet symbolic of the mess the state is in.

In pre-High Holidays call, Obama tells US rabbis he plans to meet soon with Netanyahu
President Barack Obama told rabbis in a pre-Rosh Hashanah phone call that security talks with Israel had resumed and he hoped to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by early next month.

Rick Perry abandons presidential run
After months of struggling to gain traction, former Texas governor Rick Perry on Friday said he is suspending his campaign, becoming the first Republican candidate to drop out of the crowded race for the White House.

Sandstorm plaguing Israel is worst in country’s history
Highest concentration of dust particles in air since creation of state in 1948, says Environment Ministry; weather expected to improve over weekend

Russia tells Washington: talk to us over Syria or risk 'unintended incidents'
MOSCOW/WASHINGTON - Russia called on Friday for military-to-military cooperation with the United States to avert "unintended incidents" as it stages navy exercises off the coast of Syria, where U.S. officials believe Moscow is building up forces to protect President Bashar al-Assad.

With time ticking, earthquake warning system begins to take shape in Pacific Northwest
Fears of such a quake — heightened after the devastating 2011 Japanese temblor — have fueled the development of the computer alert system that officials hope will save lives and protect critical infrastructure by giving a precious heads-up to get ready.

The Avatar God
If you could enhance your intelligence, significantly extend your lifespan, or overcome a moral flaw with the help of surgery or pharmaceuticals, would you do it? What if you could make these same improvements in your children before they are even born?...would you do it, even if it meant losing part of your humanity in the process?

Underground magma ocean could explain Io's 'misplaced' volcanoes
Tides flowing in a subsurface ocean of molten rock, or magma, could explain why Jupiter's moon Io appears to have its volcanoes in the "wrong" place. New NASA research implies that oceans beneath the crusts of tidally stressed moons may be more common and last longer than expected. The phenomenon applies to oceans made from either magma or water,

BIN EXCLUSIVE: Sanhedrin Passes Judgement Against Pope Francis, Obama on Mt. Zion
71 elders of Israel who identify themselves as the Sanhedrin gathered Wednesday on Mount Zion in a historic trial bringing to judgement Pope Francis and US President Barack Obama in absentia. The rabbis called the two leaders to trial for crimes leading to the mortal endangerment of Israel and the Jewish nation.

Magnitude 5.5 Quake Hits Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
The earthquake’s depth is being said to be of 100 km. The magnitude of the earthquake was recorded as 5.5 on the Richter scale.

New View of Ceres’ Amazing Spots
The central spot’s splayed-out structure raises a lot of questions about why it looks that way. But mission principal investigator Christopher Russell (UCLA) cautions that we shouldn’t jump to any conclusions using this latest view.

Worst in 50 years: Houses washed away, dramatic rescues as tsunami-like flood swamps Japan
Unprecedented rainfall hit parts of eastern Japan on Wednesday and Thursday, flooding thousands of buildings, triggering at least 60 landslides, and leaving thousands of people stranded. More than 1.6 feet (48.8 cm) of rainwater has been dumped in a day.

House Passes Resolution Obliging Obama to Follow the Law
Because the President has not provided Congress with the documentation regarding the secret side deals between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency, the President has failed to comply with Corker-Cardin. And because Corker-Cardin has been breached by the President, the 60 day Congressional review period, the Resolution states, has not yet begun to run.

Scientists look to re-animate ancient, giant 'Frankenvirus' found in Siberia
Since 2003, the virus, known as Mollivirus sibericum, is the fourth kind of prehistoric virus unearthed overall, and the second one discovered by the research team. The scientists made it clear that they must assess whether the virus could lead to diseases that are dangerous to humans or animals before they “wake it up.” Mollivirus sibericum contains more than 500 genes, which pales in comparison to the 2,500 genes belonging to a family of giant virus discovered in 2003. The modern flu – Influenza A – only has eight genes.

Study finds more sharks than ever swimming in waters along the East Coast
More sharks than ever are swimming along the East Coast, federal researchers announced this week, amid a busy summer in which a record number of the fish have attacked North Carolina beachgoers.

Congress Discusses Planned Parenthood Baby Whose Face Was Cut Open with Scissors to Take Out Brain
A baby who survived an abortion as his heart continued beating, but was soon murdered alive as his face was cut through with scissors to harvest his brain, was mourned by an Arizona Congressman during a hearing on Wednesday regarding Planned Parenthood’s... harvesting and sale of the organs of aborted babies.

House edges toward legal action against Obama on Iran deal
Representatives pass resolution that declares president failed to comply with terms of Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act

On Temple Mount, some see a dome and imagine an altar
“In a democratic state, freedom of worship is part of freedom of expression,” Segal said, citing former chief justice Aharon Barak. “Freedom of worship includes everything that Jewish law obligates us to do on Temple Mount, including sacrifices, not just prayers.”

GEOMAGNETIC STORMS, MORE TO COME?
Earth's magnetic field is settling after four days of almost non-stop geomagnetic storms (G2-class) and auroras. The growing quiet might be short-lived, however. NOAA analysts say that a minor CME could arrive during the next 24 to 48 hours and spark a new round of geomagnetic activity.

Exclusive - U.S. to China: Take back your undocumented immigrants
In early June, in cities across America, U.S. immigration agents arrested more than two dozen Chinese nationals with unfulfilled deportation orders, telling them that after years of delay, China was finally taking steps to provide the paperwork needed to expel them from the U.S.

Original Balfour Declaration Presented to Netanyahus
Both were given an overview about the library, where they were briefed on the library in general and two items in particular. The first: the original 1917 Balfour Declaration, in which then-UK Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour declared that Britain would support the establishment of a national home for the Jewish People in the Land of Israel.

Netanyahu May Form Israeli 'Republican' Party
In recent weeks in meetings with the heads of parties in his coalition government, Netanyahu has raised the possibility of forming a "Republican party" conservative bloc based on the American two-party model, according to Verter. Netanyahu reportedly said in the talks that "only in this way will it be possible to rule. Like in America: two parties, two blocs, right and left."

EU: Landslide vote for West Bank product labeling
The European parliament approved a decision calling for the labeling of settlement products on Thursday, with a vote of 525 for and 70 against...there is now a growing fear that the labeling will become a union-wide policy. "The policy stinks of boycott," a foreign ministry spokesman said. One of the vote's articles includes a statement made by 16 European foreign ministers who backed the move in April.

US plans to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees next year
President Barack Obama has called for the US to prepare to accept "at least" 10,000 Syrian refugees next year, according to a White House spokesman. That number is significantly higher than the 1,500 Syrians that have been permitted to re-settle in the US since the start of the conflict. The 10,000 figure is still much lower than the 340,000 asylum seekers who arrived in Europe this year.

US official: 'IS making and using chemical weapons in Iraq and Syria'
There is a growing belief within the US government that the Islamic State militant group is making and using crude chemical weapons in Iraq and Syria, a US official has told the BBC. The US has identified at least four occasions on both sides of the Iraq-Syria border where IS has used mustard agents, the official said. The official said the chemical was being used in powder form. http://www.raptureready.com/rapnews_db.php

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Fatwa Issued Against India’s Double Oscar-Winner A.R.
A Muslim group in India has issued a fatwa against musician A.R. Rahman and Iranian director Majid Majidi. A Sunni group called the Raza Academy issued the fatwa on Friday in protest at Majidi’s film “Muhammad: Messenger of God,” for which Rahman scored the music.

The wealthiest mafia in the world is undergoing a schism and it could get ugly
group, Japan's Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza, is undergoing a schism that could spark violent gang wars and have significantly affected businesses in and outside of Japan.

Sierra wildfire destroys homes, threatens 6,400 California residences
A fast-moving wildfire in California's Sierra Nevada mountains destroyed homes and threatened about 6,400 residences on Saturday even as another blaze injured four firefighters in the state, fire officials said.

Germany's Merkel sees need to cooperate with Russia on Syria
Germany and other western European powers need to work with Russia as well as the United States to solve the crisis in Syria, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday.

Iran says finds unexpectedly high uranium reserve
Iran has discovered an unexpectedly high reserve of uranium and will soon begin extracting the radioactive element at a new mine, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization said on Saturday.

Radical Islamists recruit male youths in refugee camps in Germany
Bavaria's Interior Ministry has confirmed media reports that radical Islamists are trying to recruit young male asylum seekers arriving in the country unaccompanied. Up to 800,000 asylum seekers are set to be taken in by Germany by the end of the year.

House Passes Bill Blocking Obama from Lifting Iran Sanctions
On Friday, Sept. 11, The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted down approval of the Iran Deal and voted to block implementation of the deal. The bill not only seeks to prevent the president from lifting sanctions now, it seeks to prevent him from lifting them until the end of his term as president, which is January 21, 2017.

End Times Prophecy Author’s Dire Warning About ‘Apocalyptic Islam’ and ‘Annihilation
Author Joel C. Rosenberg is warning that the greatest threat to America’s security is now coming from “apocalyptic Islam,” a dangerous, end times philosophy that he said many world leaders simply fail to understand. Differentiating between “radical Islam” and “apocalyptic Islam,” Rosenberg said...he believes that eschatology is now motivating extremists to do the unthinkable.

Pope Francis' Meeting With 9/11 Families and Multi-Religious Service at Ground Zero to Be Highly Symbolic
That Sept. 25 meeting with 9/11 families will be held outside by the twin reflecting pools at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in downtown Manhattan, Helen Osman, secretary of communications for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, explained during a briefing about the pope's U.S. visit with reporters Friday.

Just how strong is Iran’s military?
the Iranian threat may not be quite what opponents fear. Experts agree Iran will buy military equipment once the world lifts its sanctions. But the Islamic Republic will spend years rebuilding both its fragile economy and its lackluster military. Much of its equipment is 1970s era hardware America sold it when Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was in power. It takes a lot of cash and creative engineering to keep it all running.

107 dead after crane collapses at world’s holiest mosque in Mecca
At least 107 people died and 238 more were injured when a crane collapsed at the Grand Mosque of Mecca ahead of the annual Hajj pilgrimage, the Saudi Interior Ministry said on Friday.

EMERGING SUNSPOT
A new sunspot is emerging in the sun's southern hemisphere: movie. Since yesterday, AR2414 has more than quadrupled in size, and it has a 'beta-gamma' magnetic field that harbors energy for M-class solar flares. This could end a weeks-long stretch of low solar activity.

Physicists show 'molecules' made of light may be possible
It's not lightsaber time, not yet. But a team including theoretical physicists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has taken another step toward building objects out of photons, and the findings hint that weightless particles of light can be joined into a sort of "molecule" with its own peculiar force.

Iran says finds unexpectedly high uranium reserve
Iran has discovered an unexpectedly high reserve of uranium and will soon begin extracting the radioactive element at a new mine, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation said on Saturday. The comments cast doubt on previous assessments from some Western analysts who said the country had a low supply and would sooner or later would need to import uranium, the raw material needed for its nuclear program

Changing behavior through synaptic engineering
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School are the first to show that it's possible to reverse the behavior of an animal by flipping a switch in neuronal communication. The research, published in PLOS Biology, provides a new approach for studying the neural circuits that govern behavior and has important implications for how scientists think about neural connectomes.

Socialist Corbyn wins UK Labour leadership in landslide
Radical leftwinger Jeremy Corbyn on Saturday won the crown of Britain's main opposition Labour party in a landslide victory, becoming the nation's most left-wing political leader for over 30 years. ...The newly-elected leader condemned "grotesque levels of inequality" and "an unfair welfare system" in his victory speech to party members in central London.

Obama: China cyber attacks 'unacceptable'
US President Barack Obama has said that alleged Chinese cyber attacks are "not acceptable", ahead of a visit from Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Several hacks on US institutions have been blamed on China, including one involving millions of government staff. Mr Obama said the US needed to be more rapid in its response to such attacks.

US man 'posed as Australian jihadist and plotted 9/11 bomb'
A 20-year-old from Florida is accused of posing as an Australian jihadist and trying to help plan an attack on a 9/11 memorial in Missouri. US officials charged Joshua Goldberg with distributing information on explosives, destructive devices and weapons of mass destruction. Mr Goldberg chatted online with an undercover FBI agent, offering information on bomb building.

Sources say Russian weapons in Syria are defensive, housing erected for 1500 soldiers
The first weapons systems have arrived the Russian base in Syria, Western military and intelligence sources said on Saturday, adding that these new weapons are "defensive by nature." These weapons, they claim, are to be used for base security as opposed to offensive military capabilities, as part of what the West believes is stepped-up military support for embattled President Bashar Assad.

Mexico Earthquake Today 2015: Terremoto Strikes Near Guatemala
USGS indicates to news that a 5.2 magnitude terremoto en Mexico started today September 11, 2015 moments ago. The quake began at 2:16 pm PST and was shallow. Reps indicate that hte quake started only 16 miles below sea level. As a result the quake could be felt across the vicinity. Officials tell news that the quake was 88 miles from Mapastepec. It was about 101 miles west of Huixtla. It was also about 222 miles from Guatemala City.

Strong earthquake jolts Tokyo; no tsunami risk or injuries reported
The magnitude-5.2 earthquake was 35 miles deep and was centered in Tokyo Bay, near Haneda Airport, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. It struck at 5:49 a.m.


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Pretend Messiah to greet Pope at Andrew’s Air Force Base
What will you be doing when the pope’s plane touches down at Andrews Air Force Base on September 22? That’s the day the White House says that Barack and Michelle Obama will make the “rare” trip to Andrews Air Force Base to formally welcome Francis on his arrival of his first-ever visit to the U.S.

Cargo of Refugees, a Planned Invasion
Cargo after cargo of “refugees,” defiant young Muslims seeking a better life in non-Muslim countries with generous welfare programs, are arriving on the Mediterranean shores and at the border of small and much poorer countries than the rich Arab states bordering Syria. Even though they speak the same language, they are taking in zero “refugees” with the excuse that they are trying to minimize the threat of terrorism.

Refugee influx is Muslim colonization
Blind, deaf and woefully not dumb, Western nations have announced how their humanitarian consciences are driving them to welcome hundreds of thousands of “migrants” pouring out of Syria in ISIS’ wake.

In Jerusalem clashes mar eve of Rosh Hashanah
Israeli police stormed the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem Sunday morning to clear Muslim stone throwers who had taken refuge in the compound amid allegations they planned to disrupt Jewish worshipers on the eve of the Jewish new year.

Savage: ‘There’s a retrovirus in the White House’
Savage told his listeners: "It wasn't the hippies who ruined America. It was the Communists who ruined the hippies who ruined America. You see, a free spirit is more easily manipulated or penetrated than a rigid spirit. The '60s allowed millions of us to become freer spirits. The Communists entered our spirits just as retroviruses infect humans, causing the common cold and AIDs for example. And today we have a retrovirus in the White House named Barack Obama.

Anti-Islamic Gun Shop Owner Offers 9/11 ‘Muslim’ Discount
A Florida gun shop owner marked the anniversary of September 11 Friday by offering customers $25 off their purchase with the coupon code "muslim." The same man had previously declared his business a "Muslim-free zone."

Convicted Fraudster Helped Obama Sell Iran Deal
Convicted fraudster Robert Creamer played a key role in selling the Iran deal to Democrats, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

Moderate 5.4-magnitude earthquake rocks Tokyo
The number of injuries in connection with the jolt in Tokyo and its vicinity came to 15, including an 83-year-old woman who broke her leg when she fell from a bed, the Yomiuri Shimbun said.

Small earthquake hits Seattle area; no reports of damage
The U.S. Geological Survey says a 4.0-magnitude earthquake hit the eastern part of the Seattle area Saturday afternoon. But there are no reports of damage.

6.6-magnitude earthquake hits Gulf of California
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 struck the Gulf of California early Sunday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The temblor struck at 1:14 a.m. and had a depth of 6 miles. The epicenter was 37 miles south-southwest of Topolobampo, Mexico, and it was preceded by two other earthquakes of magnitude 4.9 and 5.3.

Judge Rules House Can Sue Obama Administration on Health Care Spending
WASHINGTON — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the House had the right to sue the Obama administration over billions of dollars in health care spending, a decision that poses a new legal threat to the health care law and gave congressional Republicans a victory in their claims of executive overreach by the White House.

HAARP Is Back
Why did university higher-ups swing the door back open for the conspiracy theorists? Why not let HAARP go quietly back to boreal forest? “Even though it’s esoteric and hard to understand, it’s the best,” said Bob McCoy, head of UAF’s Geophysical Institute, which now has the keys to the complex, located off mile 11.3 of the Tok Cutoff Road.

Al Qaeda chief urges lone wolf attacks, militant unity
Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri called on young Muslim men in the United States and other Western countries to carry out attacks inside there and urged greater unity between militants. "I call on all Muslims who can harm the countries of the crusader coalition not to hesitate. We must now focus on moving the war to the heart of the homes and cities of the crusader West and specifically America," he said...

Poor nations want U.S. to pay reparations for extreme weather
Poorer nations suffering from extreme weather disasters...want rich nations like the United States to pay for reparations and to relocate populations. ...United Nations Conference on Climate Change...in December has representatives...asking for more than ...$100 billion per year for climate change mitigation measures.

US and Russian Forces in Syria Aren’t Talking to Each Other
In Syria, where the U.S. is leading an air campaign against Islamic State targets and Russian military advisors are arriving to help the Assad regime, the two militaries aren’t talking to each other. “Coalition forces are focused on conducting counter-ISIL operations, and so to my knowledge there is no military-to-military contact at this point,” Air Force Col. Pat Ryder, spokesman for U.S. Central Command, told reporters...

China economy: New signs of economic slowdown
Growth in China's investment and factory output in August has come in below forecasts, in a further indication that the world's second-largest economy is losing steam. Factory output grew by 6.1% from the year before - below forecasts of 6.4%. Growth in fixed-asset investment - largely property - slowed to 10.9% for the year-to-date, a 15-year low.

Egypt government resigns amid corruption inquiry
Egypt's government has resigned and the country's oil minister has been asked to form a new cabinet within a week, the office of President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has said. No official reason was given for the government's resignation. However, a senior source was quoted as saying the aim was to reshuffle the cabinet following a corruption scandal.

Clashes erupt on the Temple Mount ahead of Jewish New Year
Israeli police raided the plaza outside Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque on Sunday in what they said was a bid to head off Palestinian attempts to disrupt visits by Jews and foreign tourists on the eve of the Jewish New Year. The Palestinian youths, Israeli police said in a statement, had intended "to disrupt the routine of visits to the Temple Mount on the eve of Rosh Hashana", the Jewish New Year, which begins at sunset on Sunday.

Conservatives are rightly angry with the political establishment
Free market and limited government advocates were particularly annoyed with Republican President George W. Bush, who expanded government into health care and education in an unprecedented fashion.

Immigrant Welfare Addiction
Non-citizens in the U.S.—and especially recent Middle Eastern refugees—are addicted to welfare programs, two newly released studies suggest. Although open-borders propaganda typically claims that illegal aliens are hardworking and industrious, one of the reports unveiled yesterday showed that among illegal alien households with children, a shocking 87 percent accept benefits from one or more welfare programs, compared to just 52 percent of native households.

Cargo of Refugees, a Planned Invasion
Cargo after cargo of “refugees,” defiant young Muslims seeking a better life in non-Muslim countries with generous welfare programs, are arriving on the Mediterranean shores and at the border of small and much poorer countries than the rich Arab states bordering Syria. Even though they speak the same language, they are taking in zero “refugees” with the excuse that they are trying to minimize the threat of terrorism.

Thousands flock to anti-migrant demos in E.Europe
BRATISLAVA: Thousands of people joined anti-migrant protests in three eastern European capitals on Saturday after leaders from the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia opposed an EU scheme to fix refugee quotas. In the Polish capital Warsaw, nearly 5,000 people, many chanting anti-Islamic slogans, marched through the city, an AFP correspondent said. “Islam will be the death of Europe”, one of the banners said.

Poll finds almost a third of Americans would support a military coup
Almost a third of Americans could imagine supporting a military coup against their own government, according to a new poll. The YouGov survey showed 29% of Americans could imagine supporting a coup. Yet, 41% said they could not imagine supporting such an event.



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Anglican Church in Kenya Expels Priests Accused of Practicing Homosexuality
In an unprecedented move, the Anglican Church in Kenya on Sept. 10 expelled five priests for allegedly engaging in homosexual activity. The priests, from the diocese of Mt. Kenya West in Central Kenya, were under investigation since mid-August. They were serving in the towns of Othaya, Karatina, Murang’a and Nyeri towns.

Judge Orders Ten Commandments Monument Taken Down Within 30 Days
A judge has ruled that a Ten Commandments monument must be removed from the grounds of the Oklahoma state capitol within 30 days. The monument was erected in 2009 with personal funds from Oklahoma Rep. Mike Ritze, according to Christian Today, and has been controversial since 2013 when the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Oklahoma, led by Mainstream Oklahoma Baptists Director Bruce Prescott, told the court that the monument was unconstitutional.

No snow: Californian water source at 500-year low
Snow cover in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, a water lifeline for California's cities and agriculture, has hit its lowest level in 500 years, a study said Monday. Measured on April 1, the natural, frozen reservoir was barely five percent of the 1950-2000 average, threatening tens of millions of Californians and the state's $50-billion (44-billion-euro) agriculture sector with chronic water shortages, its authors warned.

Inmate who raped Arizona prison teacher gets life in prison
An Arizona inmate who pleaded guilty to raping a prison teacher apologized to the woman in court Monday before being sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars.

3 earthquakes shake central, northern Oklahoma in 1 hour
Three earthquakes have shaken parts of central and northern Oklahoma in less than one hour. The U.S. Geological Survey said all three quakes were recorded Monday between 12:10 p.m. and 1:08 p.m.


Video: Iranian Regime Threatens to 'Humiliate' US Military in War
Just a cheerful, charming heads-up from our new Iranian friends -- who'd like to remind the world that if the "invading and criminal" United States were to initiate a war, we'd "emerge humiliated" from the ordeal:

Another 4.7 magnitude earthquake hits northwest Nevada
Reno — Another 4.7 magnitude earthquake hit northwest Nevada, tying the largest in a year-long swarm recorded at the Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge near the Oregon border.

End Times Prophecy Author’s Dire Warning About ‘Apocalyptic Islam’ and ‘Annihilation’
But he said that apocalyptic Islam is an entirely different animal, as it is comprised of individuals and groups who believe that their messiah is coming at any moment — and that they must abide by his will at any cost. “If they are not faithful, they [believe they] will burn in the fires of hell with no escape.

95,000 Russian Troops Join Massive CSTO Military Exercise
"Today the strategic command-and-staff exercise Center–2015 has been started. This is a final stage of the operational and combat training of the Russian Armed Forces in 2015 and joint combat training activities of the CSTO [Collective Security Treaty Organization]," the ministry said on its website.

Netanyahu to convene emergency meeting after holiday on stone-throwers in Jerusalem
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will convene an emergency meeting after the end of the Rosh Hashana holiday on Tuesday evening to discuss the challenge of ending the acts of rioters who throw stones and firebombs in Jerusalem and area.

Thousands flee California wildfire as homes go up in flames
The so-called Valley Fire, now ranked as the most destructive among scores of blazes that have ravaged the drought-stricken Western United States this summer, came amid what California fire officials described as "unheard of fire behavior".......

'Israel to Take All Means to Protect Temple Mount'
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu defended Israel's right to defend itself on Sunday, after the Arab world condemned the Jewish state for protecting itself during an Arab mob attack on the Temple Mount. "Israel will act by any means to maintain the status quo and the law and order on the Temple Mount," the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said in a statement.

California Lawmakers Pass Physician-Assisted Suicide Measure
In a nation that has sanctioned the murder of innocent babies and turned a blind eye to the nation’s largest abortion provider selling their body parts, it’s no wonder that a greater call for 'the right to die' at the other end of the life spectrum has come.

Russia Says it Will Continue to Support Assad
The Syrian army could be a crucial force in fight against the Islamic State (ISIS) group, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday, reiterating that Russia will support the Syrian government in the fight against the extremist group.

Arab League Threatens Action Against Israel Over Al-Aqsa
The Arab League on Sunday warned against the "Judaization of the Al-Aqsa Mosque by Israel" and called for action against the Jewish state, Channel 2 News reported.

Germany re-imposes border controls to slow migrant flow
Germany re-imposed border controls on Sunday after Europe's most powerful nation acknowledged it could scarcely cope with thousands of asylum seekers arriving every day.

DOUBLE ECLIPSE OF THE SUN
On Sept. 13th, the sun was eclipsed--twice! No one on Earth has ever seen anything like it. Indeed, it was only visible from Earth orbit. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) recorded the event: A movie from the SDO science team explains the crazy-perfect alignment required for such a view.

KHAMENEI Threatens AMERICA in NEW YouTube Video – Bombs on US Navy
The video contains images of Iranian bombs raining down on a US battleship.

GM embryos 'essential', says report
It is "essential" that the genetic modification of human embryos is allowed, says a group of scientists, ethicists and policy experts. A Hinxton Group report says editing the genetic code of early stage embryos is of "tremendous value" to research. It adds although GM babies should not be allowed to be born at the moment, it may be "morally acceptable" under some circumstances in the future.

California wildfires: Governor declares state of emergency
The governor of California has declared a state of emergency after wildfires forced thousands of people to flee their homes in the north of the state. Governor Jerry Brown said the fires had destroyed buildings in the Napa and Lake counties and threatened hundreds of others. More than 1,300 people fled Middletown, north of San Francisco, as their homes were consumed by the flames.

Venezuelan military jets 'entered Colombian airspace'
Colombia has said that two Venezuelan military jets entered its airspace without warning or authorisation. The planes encroached into Colombian airspace twice on Saturday morning, according to the defence ministry. They reportedly flew over a border military base in the Alta Guajira region before returning to Venezuela.

Migrant crisis: Austria to deploy troops
Austria has said it is deploying troops to help deal with a migrant influx, and will tighten controls on its border with Hungary. The move came after Germany imposed controls on its border with Austria. EU states are struggling to cope with a steady stream of arrivals, many aiming for Germany where one million people are expected to arrive this year.

Japanese volcano Mount Aso erupts unexpectedly
A volcano on Japan's main southern island of Kyushu has erupted, sending clouds of black smoke and ash into the air. Mount Aso, which is a popular tourist spot, is one of the most active volcanoes in the country.

Saudis should no longer handle Mecca Haj, Iranian MP says after crane disaster
Hedayatollah Mir-Moradzehi, a member of the Iranian parliament who is Sunni, believes that following the deadly crane accident at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia should no longer be in cahrge of the Haj ceremony at the Muslim holy site. ...The lawmaker emphasized that Kaaba, the building at the center of the mosque, doesn’t merely belong to Saudi Arabia...

Temple Mount opens to Jewish visitors for Rosh Hashana after police quell riot at holy site
An Israeli police officer on Jerusalem's Temple Mount on Monday was injured by two stone-throwing youth as police prepared the site for Jewish visitors for the Jewish New Year. The officer received medical treatment at the scene. ...Jerusalem District Police Chief Moshe Edri and his forces were present at the Temple Mount compound on Monday to ensure the public's safety.


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Israeli PM Netanyahu vows stone-thrower crackdown
The Israeli prime minister has vowed to "use all necessary means" to stop stone throwers after an Israeli man died in a car crash linked to such an attack. Benjamin Netanyahu's statement came after an emergency meeting of his cabinet and security chiefs.

Migrants face hunt for new routes as Hungary border sealed
Hundreds of migrants have spent the night at the closed Hungary-Serbia border, with many facing the choice of finding a new route to northern Europe. Serbian media said buses were now being redirected to Croatia, with migrants then planning to move on to Slovenia, Austria - and finally Germany.

Turkey's flirtation with terrorists is falling apart
A key Hamas official who operated out of Turkey for years was sanctioned by last week by the US Treasury Department for his role in organizing and inciting terrorism in the West Bank and Israel. And given Ankara's history for working with US-designated terrorists — and some of the disastrous implications by those connections — the most recent designation shows how Turkey's quiet dance with terrorism finance is falling apart.

Senate Democrats block vote to disapprove of Iran deal
For the second time, Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked a vote to move forward on a resolution rejecting the Iran nuclear deal, protecting President Barack Obama's key foreign policy initiative.

Wildfires, flooding, earthquake hit California
As firefighters began to make significant progress on two of the 12 deadly wildfires raging in drought-stricken areas of California, emergency crews on Tuesday had to also contend with a small earthquake near one of the wildfires and flooding in Los Angeles.


Become a Woman For Free!!
Well, now the Obama Administration is coming after insurance companies. Cover sex reassignment surgeries or get sued is what is going to happen.

Another earthquake strikes area of destructive Valley Fire
Another earthquake rattled the North Bay Tuesday morning in the area where the deadly Valley Fire is still burning. A magnitude 3.2 earthquake struck northwest of Geyserville at about 5:46 a.m. Tuesday morning.

ISIL demands allegiance from Libya’s Sirte residents
The ISIL militant group on Monday called on residents of Libya’s coastal city of Sirte – which it captured in January – to pledge their allegiance to the group and “repent for their sins” before the end of this month.

Iranian troops join Russians in Syria fighting
Israeli security sources claim Quds Force sending hundreds of elite troops in unprecedented cooperation with Russia to save embattled Syrian regime.

Temple Mount clashes continue for third day
Third day of rioting sees Palestinians barricading themselves inside al-Aqsa Mosque, throwing stones, concrete blocks, fireworks at security forces. Clashes between security forces and Palestinians at the Temple Mount continued for the third consecutive day on Tuesday, the second day of Rosh Hashanah.

Russia shipping tanks into Syria, in ‘first clear sign of offensive weapons’
Russia's military build-up in Syria has grown to include the shipment of a half-dozen highly sophisticated battle tanks -- and more troops -- a defense official told Fox News, in what the source called the "first clear sign of offensive weapons arriving in Syria."

Credibility, 'gradual' approach at stake as Fed weighs rate rise
The U.S. Federal Reserve, facing this week its biggest policy decision yet under Chair Janet Yellen, puts its credibility on the line regardless of whether it waits or raises interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade. In a way it is a "****ed if you do, ****ed if you don't" situation for the Fed....

Jordan king warns Israel over Jerusalem holy site violence
"We have gotten reassurances from the Israelis government that this would not happen. Unfortunately, these are reassurances we have heard in the past," the king said. "Any more provocations in Jerusalem, will affect the relationship between Jordan and Israel; and Jordan will have no choice, but to take action, unfortunately."

Putin defends Russia's military assistance to Syrian regime
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday strongly defended Moscow’s military assistance to the Syrian government, saying it’s impossible to defeat the Islamic State group without cooperating with Damascus.

For Those Who Remain in Syria, Daily Life Is a Nightmare
As crowds of Syrians transfix the world with their flight to Europe, this kind of life is one of the many nightmares they are fleeing. They leave behind increasingly empty neighborhoods — from the Damascus suburbs to the northern city of Aleppo — that testify to the scale of their exodus.

8 dead, 5 missing as Utah flood sweeps away cars
Several vehicles were reportedly swept into waterways after heavy rains hit at approximately 5 p.m. MT, including two vehicles that had been carrying 16 people in Maxwell Canyon north of the city, said Kevin Barlow, assistant fire chief. The victims included women and small children,

Teen Arrested for Planning Alleged ISIS-Inspired Attack on Pope
The FBI quietly arrested a 15-year-old boy outside of Philadelphia last month for allegedly threatening to launch an ISIS-inspired assault on Pope Francis while the world leader tours the United States next week, ABC News has learned.

Earthquake Rattles Fried Nerves Near Valley Fire
The earthquake rumbled through the North Bay hours after tens of thousands of residents evacuated following the rapid spread of the unrelenting Valley Fire.

China falls drag stocks back into red
Concerns over China kept financial markets on edge on Tuesday, with an underwhelming reaction to recent data and Beijing's efforts at corporate reform helping push European and Asian stocks lower. Europe's main markets had inched higher in early trade, with investors avoiding firmer bets ahead of the first meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve in years at which a possible rise in interest rates has been a live issue.

China appears to be working on third airstrip on disputed South China Sea islets
China appears to be carrying out preparatory work for a third airstrip in contested territory in the South China Sea, a U.S. expert said on Monday, citing satellite photographs taken last week. The photographs taken for Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) think tank on Sept. 8 show construction on Mischief Reef, one of seven artificial islands China has created in the Spratly archipelago.

Robots are going to steal the jobs...
Scientists have created a huge, in-depth analysis of what jobs are under threat from robots — with salesmen, chefs and even models all in the firing line. Researchers have assembled a full list of all the things that robots are good and bad at, and so what jobs they are likely to take. In all, about 35 per cent of jobs are likely to have been taken on by robots in the next 20 years, researchers have said.

Russia positioning tanks at Syria airfield: U.S. officials
Russia has positioned about a half dozen tanks at an airfield at the center of a military buildup in Syria, two U.S. officials said on Monday, adding that the intentions of Moscow's...heavy military equipment were unclear. Moscow has come under increased international pressure in recent days to explain its moves in Syria, where the Kremlin has been supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad...

Migrant crisis: Hungary declares emergency at Serbia border
Hungary has declared a state of emergency in two southern counties as tough new laws to stop migrants entering illegally came into force. Police can now detain anyone trying to breach a razor-wire fence built on the border with Serbia. The EU is facing a huge influx of migrants, many fleeing conflict and poverty in countries including Syria.

California wildfires: 23,000 people displaced from homes
The governor of California has declared a state of emergency after wildfires forced about 23,000 people to flee their homes in the north of the state. Governor Jerry Brown said the fires, which have left one person dead, destroyed and threatened buildings in the Napa and Lake counties. More than 1,300 people fled Middletown, north of San Francisco, as their homes were consumed by the flames.

North Korea Yongbyon nuclear site 'in operation'
North Korea says its main nuclear facility, the Yongbyon complex, has resumed normal operations. The country was improving its nuclear weapons "in quality and quantity", state-run news agency KCNA reported. Yongbyon's reactor was shut down in 2007 but Pyongyang vowed to restart it in 2013, following its third nuclear test and amid high regional tensions.

Top Iranian space scientist among those killed in Mecca crane collapse
Top Iranian space scientist and university professor Ahmad Hatami was killed in the crane collapse in Mecca's Grand Mosque on Friday which killed 107, Iran's Fars News Agency reported on Monday. An Iranian minister confirmed that Doctor Ahmad Hatami, who was a renowned member of the Iran Space Research Center, was killed along with 8 other Iranians who made the deadly pilgrimage to Mecca.

Riots breaks out on Jerusalem's Temple Mount for third straight day
As police came to secure the area for Jewish visitors to Jerusalem's Temple Mount on the second day of Rosh Hashana on Tuesday, rioting broke out for the third straight day. When Israeli security forces entered the plaza of the site dozens of face-covered Palestinian youth met them with a barrage of stones, blocks, and firecrackers, police said.

OPEC: The US shale boom is over
n its latest monthly oil-market report, published Monday, the 12-member oil cartel OPEC said US oil producers were finally beginning to feel the squeeze of lower oil prices. OPEC writes: "In North America, there are signs that US production has started to respond to reduced investment and activity. Indeed, all eyes are on how quickly US production falls."


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Syria conflict: Assad 'won't quit under pressure'
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said in an interview for Russian TV he will not quit under foreign pressure, saying the Syrian people must decide. Western powers and much of the Syrian opposition say it is not conceivable for Mr Assad to lead a post-war Syria.

Kerry says Russia proposes military talks on Syria
The Obama administration said Wednesday is was considering how to respond to a Russian proposal for military talks over Syria, where Moscow is expanding its forces even as U.S. warplanes conduct daily air strikes against Islamist militants.

Iran leader warns Guards against US infiltration
Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned commanders of the elite Revolutionary Guards Wednesday to be on alert for "political and cultural" infiltration by the United States.

US general: Only handful of Syrian fighters remain in battle
No more than five U.S.-trained Syrian rebels are fighting the Islamic State, astoundingly short of the envisioned 5,000, the top U.S. commander in the Middle East told angry lawmakers on Wednesday. They branded the training program "a total failure."

8.3M earthquake rocks Chile, creates Tsunami threats; Washington monitoring
SANTIAGO, Chile A powerful magnitude-8.3 earthquake hit off Chile's northern coast Wednesday night, causing buildings to sway in Santiago and other cities and sending people running into the streets. Authorities reported one death in a town north of the capital. Tsunami of 15 feet reported on Chilean coast at 4:39 p.m. PST. One dead. U.S. officials posted a tsunami alert for Hawaii. Tsunami waves are possibly up to more than three meters along Chile's coast.

Obama and Allies Seek to Nationalize Local Police
On December 18, 2014, President Obama signed an executive order creating the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing. In May 2015, the task force came out with its Final Report, which is commonly given the title “21st Century Policing.”

Possible Tornado Damages Homes in Northampton, England
"Tornadoes are not as rare as one would think in the U.K.," Senior Meteorologist Jason Nicholls said. "In fact, the U.K. experiences more tornadoes than any other country in the world proportional to its land area according to The Guardian, averaging 33 tornadoes each year."

Africa braced for snakebite crisis
Rural Africa is facing a resurgence of a persistent plague that rarely makes headlines: snakebite. By June next year, stockpiles of the anti-venom that is most effective against Africa’s vipers, mambas and cobras are expected to run out because the only company that makes the medicine has stopped production.

Vatican Releases Official Papal Statement Supporting Obama’s Iranian Nuclear Deal
The Vatican released a statement Tuesday officially welcoming the nuclear agreement between the P5+1 world powers (U.S., UK, China, France, Russia, Germany) and Iran, stating that the Holy See believes Tehran will reduce its nuclear capabilities in exchange for sanctions relief. In calling for a Middle East free of nuclear weapons, the Vatican also appeared to target Israel, given that it is the lone nuclear power in the region.

Russia's Aid to Syria 'Enhances Moscow's Influence' in the Middle East
Russia's assistance to Syria could well help Moscow play a more prominent role across the Middle East as Washington's allies in the region feel increasingly disappointed with the US.

Syrian president says top priority to defeat terrorism
Syria's president Bashar Assad urged Syrian political and armed factions to unite in the fight against terrorist groups and said in comments aired Tuesday that there can be no political solution for the country's brutal civil war before terrorism is defeated. Speaking in an interview with Russian media, he also blamed Europe for the refugee crisis currently hitting the continent, saying it is a direct result of the West's support of extremists in Syria over the past four years.

China reportedly using hacked info to make 'Facebook' of US gov't workers
According to CrowdStrike founder Dmitri Alperovitch, Chinese hackers are using information gained from the breaches of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, as well as intrusions into the Anthem and CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield health insurance networks, to build a complete profile of federal employees in what the company calls a "Facebook of Everything."

Is It Just A Coincidence That Two Amazing Signs Just Appeared On The 14th Anniversary Of 9/11?
On the eve of the 14th anniversary of 9/11, a double rainbow appeared over the site where the World Trade Center towers once stood. We’ll discuss possible meanings of that sign in a moment. On Friday, a massive bolt of lightning caused a crane to collapse at the Grand Mosque in Mecca in Saudi Arabia. At least 107 people were killed and at least 238 others were injured. It turns out that this crane was owned by “the Saudi Binladin Group”. If that is a coincidence, it is an awfully bizarre one.

What the Third Lebanon War will look like
The UN Security Council established after the Second Lebanon War that Hassan Nasrallah's people are forbidden to openly move along the border fence, armed, and provoke Israeli soldiers. They are careful to abide by the rules, but they are here, utilizing all the new technology Iran has provided to ensure that the IDF is not entering Lebanese territory. Meanwhile, they prepare "surprises" to hurt Israel during the next conflict....

Netanyahu Adds Russia to Regional Discussions on Syria
Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is including Russia in the circle of nations involved in talks over how to deal with the regional issues created by the Syrian crisis.“The prime minister will present the threats to Israel emanating from the increased flow of advanced weaponry to the Syrian arena and from the transfer of lethal weaponry to Hezbollah and other terrorist groups,” an Israeli official told Reuters on Wednesday.

Update: Arabs, Islamic Waqf Staff Clash w/ Israel Police, Jewish Visitors on Temple Mount
For the fourth day in a row, a mob of dozens of Arabs attacked Jews Wednesday morning who came on pilgrimage to the Temple Mount compound.

Blame Assad: The world according to State Department
In the mind of State Department spokesman John Kirby, Russia should not back Syria against the terrorists, president Assad is to blame for ISIS, Iraq is much better off because of the US invasion, and it’s ‘absolutely astounding’ anyone would dare to disagree.

Europe’s Immigration “Crisis” Is Not America’s Problem
While several European Nanny States, including France and England, succumbed to the tugs at the heartstrings resulting from photos of plaintive children, and precipitously announced they would accept thousands of immigrants, Ground Zero quickly became Germany -- perceived by many as having a virtually unlimited need for workers.

INCREASING CHANCE OF FLARES
For the second day in a row, sunspot AR2415 is crackling with minor C-class solar flares. This could foreshadow stronger eruptions. The sunspot has an unstable 'beta-gamma' magnetic field that harbors energy for M-flares. Any such eruption on Sept. 16th would be geoeffective because the sunspot is facing Earth.

Go ahead, raise my rates
Some U.S. chief executives think it is time to pick interest rates off the floor, even as many of their peers campaign to maintain the status quo.The Federal Reserve meets this week and the first rate rise in nearly a decade — albeit a small one — is on the table.

Canada: The Spanish Inquisition Makes a Comeback
We had hoped that the country had learned that for most of the civilized world, blasphemy laws are meant to be a thing of the past. But after the latest events in Quebec, we will no longer be fooled. The whole world will be able to see that in Canada blasphemy laws are a thing of the future.

Increased marijuana, heroin use contribute to highest reported illicit drug use in more than a decade
Findings from the 2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), released today, reveal the percentage of Americans aged 12 or older who used an illicit drug in 2014 was higher than in every year between 2002 and 2013, driven primarily by increases in marijuana use, sustained rates of nonmedical pain reliever use, and increases in heroin use.

Obama Issues Executive Order for Government Use of Behavioral Data
The order instructs government agencies to use “behavioral science”— a tactic used by Obama’s political campaigns to harness data from their supporters to target them effectively. The program has already existed in an experimental form, but now Obama has formally established the federal “Social and Behavioral Sciences Team,” ordering them to to use psychology and experimental behavior data to make government more user-friendly.

Delhi battles dengue fever surge
The Indian capital, Delhi, is in the grip of the worst outbreak of dengue fever in five years, officials say. More than 1,800 cases have been recorded in recent weeks, compared to 1,695 cases for all of 2010. Five deaths have been reported so far. The mosquito that carries the dengue virus breeds in containers with clear, stagnant water.

Syria conflict: US presses Russia on military build-up
US Secretary of State John Kerry has called his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in a bid to clarify the intent of Moscow's military build-up in Syria. Mr Kerry warned that continued support for President Bashar al-Assad "risks exacerbating and extending the conflict," a statement said. The US accuses Russia of boosting its military presence in Syria.

Ecuador forest fires envelope Quito in smoke
Quito was enveloped in smoke as forest fires raged around the Ecuadorean capital on Tuesday. President Rafael Correa said he had contacted the Venezuelan authorities for help extinguishing 17 major fires across the country and that they had promised to send helicopters. He said he would also ask Brazil, Colombia and Peru for support.

Australia launches first air strikes inside Syria
The Australian government has confirmed it has launched its first air strikes inside Syria against targets of the so-called Islamic State (IS). Australia is part of an international military coalition targeting IS strongholds in Syria and Iraq. Three air strikes were made on Monday, destroying an IS armoured personnel carrier and a crude oil collection point, the US said in a statement.

Palestinians invite hundreds of leaders to flag raising ceremony at UN in New York
The Palestinian Authority invited hundreds of world leaders to celebrate the raising of its flag for the first time at the United Nations headquarter in New York on September 30th. “It will be a glorious day, a proud day for us. We expect hundreds of leaders to be with [PA] President [Mahmoud] Abbas to celebrate that moment,” PLO Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour told reporters in New York on Tuesday.

'It's a matter of time until ISIS in Sinai attempts terror attack against Israel'
It is only a matter of time before Islamic State's affiliate in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula attempts to carry out a terror attack against Israel, Col. Yehuda Hacohen, the commander of the IDF's Sagi Battalion which operates on the border said in an interview with Army Radio on Wednesday. The organization formerly known as Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis pledged allegiance to Islamic State last year, changing its name to the Sinai Province.

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Al Aqsa Mosque: Can Israel, Jordan prevent Jerusalem from catching fire?
The images on social media this week made Jerusalem’s Old City look like a conflict zone, with black smoke rising above the Al Aqsa Mosque and the flash of firecrackers exploding inside. Several days of violence between Israeli police and Palestinian activists on a plaza holy to Muslims and Jews have triggered a new political and diplomatic crisis for Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and neighboring Jordan.

Migrant crisis: Croatia closes border crossings with Serbia
Croatia has closed seven of its eight road border crossings with Serbia following a huge influx of migrants. Officials in Zagreb said they had no choice after more than 10,000 people entered the country a day after Hungary fenced off its border with Serbia.

Japan ruling bloc makes final push on security bills despite protests
The Japanese government began a final push on Friday to enact contentious defense legislation that could let its troops fight overseas for the first time since World War Two, despite public protests and delaying tactics by the opposition.

Mexico arrests cartel figure in disappearance of 43 students
Federal authorities captured a suspected high-ranking drug cartel member who has been implicated in last year's disappearance of 43 college students in the southern state of Guerrero, officials said Thursday.

Soldiers crush protests as military seizes power in Burkina Faso
Heavily armed troops crushed protests in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou after a former spy chief seized power in a military coup on Thursday, derailing a democratic transition that had inspired many in Africa.

Nigeria Central Bank Urges "Don't Panic" As Banks Halt Lending To Each Other
When the head of the central bank utters the two words "don't panic" you know the economy, currency, and financial system is in trouble...and that's just what Nigerian central bank Governor Godwin Emefiele just did. Following government intervention to sweep cash from local to central accounts, banks have panicced. As Reuters reports, overnight interbank lending rates spiked to 200%, which Emefiele opined was "a momentary action... just sentiment," but the interbank naira market was paralyzed for a third day on Thursday, with banks unwilling to lend to each other, even when rates fell back to 20-30%.

Syrian army starts using new weapons from Russia - military source
The Syrian military has recently started using new types of air and ground weapons supplied by Russia, a Syrian military source told Reuters on Thursday, underlining growing Russian support for Damascus that is alarming the United States.

Ann Coulter Slams GOP Support of "F---ing Jews" During Debate
Conservative commentator Ann Coulter went off on a Twitter rant Wednesday evening during the Republican presidential debate. "How many f—ing Jews do these people think there are in the United States?" — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) September 17, 2015

“It Felt Like the Apocalypse”: Extreme Flash Flooding, Hail Strike Israel on Jewish New Year
“It felt like the apocalypse, the rain has been torrential, there were about 10 lightning strikes in seconds, and even with your windshield wipers on high, it was impossible to see anything,”. Since the beginning of September, Israel has experienced a series of extreme weather changes, beginning last week with a sudden sandstorm that blanketed the country in thick yellow dust.

Spy on Your Customers… or Else
Do you distrust the banking system? Prefer to do business in cash? Complain about the encroachment of Big Brother into every facet of your life?

Obama spends $500 million to train 5 anti-ISIS fighters
President Obama just found out how many good anti-ISIS fighters $500 million buys: five, at most. Gen. Lloyd Austin, who leads the U.S. military’s Central Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday there are only four or five Syrian fighters left out of 54 who were trained as part of a U.S. program.

Turkey’s President Erdogan Vows to ‘Wipe Out’ PKK Terrorists
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to wipe out all members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, also known as the PKK terrorist organization, “until not one terrorist remains.”

Likud Youth Organization Members Ignore PM, Ascend Temple Mount
20 members of the Likud Youth Organization, together with recently elected leader David Shayan, ignored a request from the prime minister’s office to cancel their plans, and instead ascended the Temple Mount. The group believes it was “strengthening [Israel’s] sovereignty at our holiest site,”

Saudi Arabia Warns of ‘Religious War’ Over Temple Mount Clashes
Saudi Arabian King Salman has turned to the United Nations seeking “urgent measures” to stop what he called Israel’s “violations” on the Temple Mount, warning of a possible “religious war” if the violence at the site is not stopped. Of course, the violence and provocations are started and perpetuated by Palestinian Arab Muslims, each and every time — but somehow that salient fact is disregarded by every single foreign party to the discussion.

Ex-Nobel committee exec regrets Obama Peace Prize
Former Secretary of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee Geir Lundestad reportedly notes in his new book that the body “didn't achieve what it had hoped for” when it gave Barack Obama the benefit of the doubt and conferred the prestigious award on him in 2009.

INCREASING CHANCE OF FLARES
Sunspot AR2415 is increasingly active on Sept.17th and appears poised to produce a moderately strong M-class solar flare. Any eruptions today would be geoeffective because the sunspot is facing Earth.

Military source: Syrian army starts using new weapons from Russia
The source described the weapons as highly accurate and effective. The army had started using them in recent weeks having been trained in their use in Syria in recent months, the source said.

Tsunami Advisories Have Hawaii on Alert
Hawaii and part of California's coast are under tsunami advisories after an 8.3-magnitude earthquake off the coast of north Chile.

I am a Christian, but I don’t follow Christ
After you watch the video, it’s obvious that this is a propaganda piece for a version of Christianity that is Christian in name only–a progressivist vision of the faith that has more to do with maintaining street-cred with Christianity’s cultured despisers than with the faith once for all delivered to the saints (Jude 3). It is what the apostle Paul called a “form of godliness” while “denying its power” (2 Timothy 3:5). It is gutless–literally, a hollowing out of everything essential to the faith.

Iraqi refugees to be deported, ICE says
Twelve of the 27 Iraqi Christians being detained at the Otay Mesa Detention Facility are set to be deported in coming weeks, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Monday. An immigration judge ordered their removal in the last two weeks, ICE spokeswoman Lauren Mack said. She declined to provide specific information about why the immigrants are being deported and where they will be taken, citing privacy issues.

Census: Income, poverty numbers stay just about the same
The wallets of America's middle class and poorest aren't seeing any extra money, the U.S. Census reported Wednesday, a financial stagnation experts say may be fueling political dissent this campaign season. The Census Bureau, in its annual look at poverty and income in the United States, said both the country's median income and poverty rate were statistically unchanged in 2014 from the previous year.

Agencies Say They Need Access to Americans’ Emails Without a Warrant
...In its cur­rent form, ECPA pro­tects emails from gov­ern­ment snoop­ing for 180 days...The ECPA Amend­ments Act would re­quire...a war­rant to ac­cess serv­er-hos­ted in­form­a­tion, no mat­ter how old, and would re­quire the gov­ern­ment to no­ti­fy an in­di­vidu­al that his or her in­form­a­tion was ac­cessed with­in 10 days... But law en­force­ment of­fi­cials ex­pressed op­pos­i­tion...crim­in­al war­rants could leave civil lit­ig­at­ors without ac­cess to im­port­ant elec­tron­ic in­form­a­tion.

White House Invites Several Opponents of Catholic Teaching to Greet Pope Francis
...In a stunning show of political indecorum, Obama has invited a series of individuals who publicly flout Catholic teaching, including a pro-abortion religious sister, a transgender woman and the first openly gay Episcopal bishop, along with at least two Catholic gay activists. The White House was illuminated in gay pride colors on June 26, 2015, after the Supreme Court legalized gay same-sex marriage.

Chile quake triggers mass evacuation and tsunami alert
One million people have been evacuated in Chile after a powerful earthquake hit the country's central region. At least five people died when the 8.3-magnitude quake hit. Residents of Illapel, near the quake's epicentre, fled into the streets in terror as their homes began to sway.

Migrant crisis: UN 'shocked' over clashes in Hungary
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said he is "shocked" after Hungarian police fired tear gas and water cannon to force migrants back from its border. Mr Ban said such treatment of asylum seekers was "unacceptable". Hundreds were involved in clashes at the Hungary-Serbia border on Wednesday, trying to breach a razor-wire fence.

Israel deploys Iron Dome in South in run-up to Palestinian 'day of rage'
The Israeli military has deployed the Iron Dome rocket interceptor on the outskirts of the southern city of Ashdod in anticipation of more rioting in Jerusalem, Channel 10 reported on Thursday morning. Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, has declared Friday "a day of rage" in response to recent developments on Temple Mount.

Ukraine campaigns to strip Russia of UN veto power
Ukraine on Wednesday redoubled its long-shot bid to see Russia stripped of its veto power on the UN Security Council when the global body's General Assembly meets in the coming weeks.


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Brazen Taliban attack on Pakistani military base kills 29
Suspected Taliban militants launched a brazen attack on a Pakistani military base on Friday, killing 29 people including 16 who were gunned down inside a mosque during prayers. The Pakistani army quickly blamed militants from neighboring Afghanistan, which Islamabad routinely accuses of harboring terrorists who launch attacks across their porous border.

Europeans shut borders, block bridges, to halt migrant surge
Thousands of migrants were trapped Friday in a vicious tug-of-war as bickering European governments shut border crossings, blocked bridges and erected new barbed-wire fences in a bid to stem the wave of humanity fleeing conflict and poverty in the Middle East and Africa.

Israeli aircraft strike Gaza after rocket fire
Israel carried out air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Saturday after Palestinian militants there fired rockets into southern Israel.

Egyptian forces on Friday pumped sea water into underground tunnels used to smuggle goods into the Gaza Strip. Egypt's aim was to destroy the tun
Aircraft from a Saudi-led coalition attacked Yemen's interior ministry in the capital, Sanaa, late on Friday and launched several other raids on sites in the heart of the city, residents and other sources there said.

Egyptian army pumps water to destroy smuggling tunnels into Gaza Strip
Egyptian forces on Friday pumped sea water into underground tunnels used to smuggle goods into the Gaza Strip. Egypt's aim was to destroy the tunnels, which are believed to be used to smuggle food, medicine and construction materials into the besieged Gaza Strip.

Arabs Attack Police in Jerusalem's Old City
The anticipated Arab attacks near the Temple Mount at the end of Friday prayers did not disappoint, as Arab rioters hurled rocks at police forces at the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem's Old City.

GIANT PROMINENCE
The biggest thing on the sun today is not a sunspot. While most sunspots are about the size of Earth, this enormous prominence measures dwarfs our planet. A "hedgerow prominence" is a massive cloud of plasma held aloft by solar magnetic fields.

INCREDIBLE NEW PHOTOS OF PLUTO
NASA is still downloading images from the Pluto flyby two months ago. Some of the new arrivals, like this one received on Sept. 13th, are causing researchers to question what they thought they knew about the distant dwarf planet. Pluto's rugged, icy mountains tower over a vast frozen plain extending to the horizon. The backlighting highlights more than a dozen layers of haze in Pluto's tenuous but distended atmosphere.

Developed, emerging markets diverge as Fed keeps rates steady
European stocks fell on Friday and bonds rose, pushing yields sharply lower, after the U.S. Federal Reserve cited weakening global growth and the recent upsurge in financial market volatility as its reasons for not raising interest rates. Stocks and currencies in emerging markets, however, which are more vulnerable to higher U.S. interest rates, welcomed the Fed's decision on Thursday to postpone "lift off" for at least another month, and rose across the board.

French startup claims development of in-vitro human sperm
A French startup working with a top government lab said it has developed in-vitro human sperm, claiming a breakthrough in infertility treatment sought for more than a decade. Researchers with Kallistem had announced the discovery previously, but they and French government lab CNRS described how it works for the first time Thursday after taking out a patent on the process.

China, U.S. Reach Agreement on High-Speed Rail Before Xi Visit
A China Railway Group-led consortium and XpressWest Enterprises LLC will form a joint venture to build a high-speed railway linking Las Vegas and Los Angeles, the first Chinese-made bullet-train project in the U.S. Construction of the 370-kilometer (230-mile) Southwest Rail Network will begin as soon as next September, according to a statement from Shu Guozeng, an official with the Communist Party’s leading group on financial and economic affairs.

'Super-gonorrhoea' outbreak in Leeds
Highly drug-resistant gonorrhoea is spreading in the north of England with an outbreak centred in Leeds, sexual health doctors have told the BBC. One of the main treatments has become useless against the new strain of the sexually transmitted infection. Twelve cases have been confirmed in Leeds and a further four have been reported in Macclesfield, Oldham and Scunthorpe.

Finland strike 'shuts down ports'
A widespread anti-austerity strike in Finland has shut down ports and disrupted flights in the country, news agencies have reported. Finnair, the national carrier, has cancelled 16 domestic flights and delays are expected. Trains and city buses have stopped running, but ferries, including those to Sweden and Estonia, are operational.

Key Syria advisor wants West to work with Assad regime
A senior advisor to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has urged Australia and the West to work with the regime to bring down the so-called Islamic State (IS). In an Australian interview, Bouthaina Shaaban said the West should not oppose the president or interfere with Syrian politics. Ms Shaaban said a US-led coalition had achieved little against IS.

Gunmen attack Pakistan air force base in Peshawar
Militants have killed at least 17 people after attacking an air force base in the northern city of Peshawar. The gunmen, dressed in police uniforms, stormed the Badaber air base on Friday morning, Major General Asim Bajwa said. Sixteen of the victims were killed during morning prayers at a mosque inside the compound, Gen Bajwa added. The other victim was an army officer.

Prosor : Abbas fuels Temple Mount fire, UN fans the flames
Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor reacted Friday morning to the UN Security Council’s statement...on... Jerusalem saying that “When the Palestinians set the Temple Mount ablaze, Mahmoud Abbas fuels the fire, and the Security Council fans the flames, it is a recipe for a regional explosion.” The United Nations Security Council had called for “restraint, refraining from provocative actions and rhetoric and upholding the historic status quo” on the Temple Mount on Thursday evening.

800 extra cops deployed in Jerusalem amid Palestinian calls for ‘day of rage’
Amid Palestinian calls for a “day of rage” in Jerusalem following Friday prayers, police have preemptively deployed some 800 extra officers to patrol the Old City and Arab neighborhoods throughout the capital, and will bar Muslim men under the age of 40 from ascending the Temple Mount.


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Obama a Muslim 'problem'? Trump says: 'I'm not morally obligated to defend the president'
Donald Trump expressed no regret Saturday over refraining from correcting the man who falsely called President Obama a Muslim earlier this week.

Holy See flag to be raised outside UN headquarters for Pope Francis' arrival Sept. 25
A United Nations official confirms that the flag of the Holy See will be raised for the first time outside U.N headquarters the morning of Pope Francis' first visit. It is a turnaround for the Vatican, whose U.N. ambassador has said it had "no intention" of raising the flag before the pope arrives Sept. 25.

Free speech petitioners told they'll be 'locked up' at DuPage
Several students at the College of DuPage were told to cease or be "locked up" Friday as they attempted to collect signatures for a petition urging the school to improve its free speech policies. The two students, along with an advisor from Turning Point USA who was helping them organize a chapter at DuPage, were on campus inviting passersby to sign up for the club and/or sign the petition—and were also distributing pocket Constitutions and non-partisan flyers stating the “America is a free speech zone”—when they were approached by campus police.



Turkish jets hit Kurdish militant camps in Iraq, at least 55 killed
At least 55 militants were killed when Turkish warplanes hit Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) camps in northern Iraq overnight, security sources said on Saturday, as Ankara shows no sign of easing up strikes on insurgents ahead of a Nov. 1 election. The jets took off from a base in Diyarbakir, in Turkey's southeast, and later returned without damage, the sources said.

US government says it will now use the term 'sexual rights'
The U.S. government says it will begin using the term "sexual rights" in discussions of human rights and global development. The statement at a U.N. meeting this week comes after years of lobbying from groups who have argued that the U.S. should show global leadership on the rights of people of all gender identities and sexual orientations.

Obama to nominate first openly gay service secretary to lead the Army
President Obama, in a historic first for the Pentagon, has chosen to nominate Eric Fanning to lead the Army, a move that would make him the first openly gay civilian secretary of one of the military services. Fanning, 47, has been a specialist on national security issues for more than two decades and has played a key role overseeing some of the Pentagon’s biggest shipbuilding and fighter jet programs.

Israel steps up Jerusalem security after Palestinian clashes
Israel has deployed hundreds of extra police to Jerusalem after days of clashes between Palestinian protesters and security forces. Much of the tension has focused on the al-Aqsa mosque compound, a hugely important site in Islam and Judaism. The militant Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas had called for a "day of rage" over al-Aqsa.

Migrant crisis: New routes sought amid impasse in Balkans
Migrants stranded in Croatia have been making renewed efforts to head north despite moves by Slovenia and Hungary to hold them back. Slovenian police used pepper spray on Friday night to disperse a group trying to cross from Croatia. Hungary, meanwhile, accused Croatia of violating international law after asylum seekers were sent over the border without first being registered.

China warns Japan over expanding military role abroad
China has said Japan is endangering peace in the region after it passed controversial laws expanding the role of its military abroad. Japan should learn "profound lessons from history", China's defence ministry said after Japan's parliamentary vote. The vote allows Japanese troops to fight overseas for the first time since the end of World War Two 70 years ago.

Syrian army reversals spook Russia into hasty military build-up
For President Vladimir Putin, Russia's military build-up in Syria is a potential diplomatic trump card and a handy way of diverting attention from Ukraine's frozen conflict. But it was a panicky realization that the Syrian government was being turned over on the battlefield that tipped the Kremlin's hand.

Boycott? 'There are no Israeli products in Iceland'
Israelis living in Iceland are unfazed by the recent boycott of Israeli goods: 'I have lived here for 3 years and never seen an Israeli product.'

Syrian jets pound Islamic State-held areas for second day
Syrian army jets carried out at least 25 air strikes on the Islamic State-held city of Palmyra on Friday, a group monitoring the war said, the second intense bombardment in two days of territory held by the militants.

Police arrest suspect in string of Phoenix freeway shootings
Police arrested a man Friday for a string of seemingly random freeway shootings in Phoenix, adding that they had linked the man's gun to four of the 11 cars hit. Leslie Allen Merritt Jr., 21, was arrested at a Wal-Mart in Glendale, a suburb west of Phoenix at about 7 p.m., said Daniel Scarpinato, a spokesman for Gov. Doug Ducey.

Japan enhances military’s role as security bills pass
Japan’s parliament early Saturday approved contentious legislation that enhances the role of the country’s military by loosening post-World War II constraints, after the ruling bloc defeated opposition parties’ last-ditch effort to block a vote.

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How one US state went from two quakes a year to 585
The central US state of Oklahoma has gone from registering two earthquakes a year to nearly two a day and scientists point to a controversial culprit: wastewater injection wells used in fracking. Located in the middle of the country, far from any major fault lines, Oklahoma experienced 585 earthquakes of a magnitude of 3.0 or greater in 2014. That's more than three times as many as the 180 which hit California last year.

Blasts rock Nigerian city of Maiduguri
Three blasts have struck the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the army says. A spokesman blamed the Islamist militant group Boko Haram for the attack. The group was founded in Maiduguri.

Iran nuclear deal: IAEA head visits Parchin site
Yukiya Amano, the head of the global nuclear watchdog the IAEA, has visited Iran's Parchin military site. Western intelligence agencies have long suspected that nuclear arms research took place at Parchin. Iran has denied this and insists its nuclear programme is purely peaceful.

Syria sees Russia game changer, US-trained rebels enter fray
Syria predicted Sunday that Russia's growing military role will prove a game changer in the fight against jihadists, as 75 rebels trained under a beleaguered US programme entered the fray.

Israel to bring in 20,000 Chinese construction workers
Israel plans to bring in 20,000 Chinese construction workers to help build new apartments as part of efforts to lower housing costs, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday.

The Heretical Blasphemy Of Joel Osteen: The Power Of I Am
Joel Osteen excitedly begins to urge his followers to repeat after him – “Alright just repeat after me. I am strong. I am healthy. I am confident. I am confident. I am secure. I am talented. I am creative. I am disciplined. I am focused. I am valuable. I am beautiful. I am blessed. I am excited about my future. I am victorious. Alright how about amen?” Laodicean slop where YOU are the focus and God is nothing more than an errand boy who is expected to provide “stuff” on demand.

Virgo Black Holes On Collision Course, Closer Than Ever
According to CNET, the two black holes in Virgo constellation are said to be closer than one-light week away. The closest galactic-pair observed until now have been 20 light years apart. Scientists predict that the energy released during the merger of galaxies will rattle the fabric of space and time, producing gravitational waves not unlike what Big Bang is said to have produced.

The 'Worst' Megaquake Is Set To Hit American Cities And Pacific Northwest, Study
"It's a positive message for us. If the Chileans can evacuate a million people in 15 or 20 minutes, we should be able to do it as well," . The cities on the West Coast are vulnerable and exposed to risk, if the Cascadia fault line gets stoked by the earthquake, leading to the worst disaster. "Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast.

Chilean quake Leaves Millions in Chaos 0
The powerful quake, which was followed by a series of aftershocks that reached up to 7 on the Richter scale, was felt throughout the nation as well as in Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina. “We went into a panic and the floor kept moving”. That quake released so much energy, it actually it shortened the Earth’s day by a fraction of a second by changing the planet’s rotation. Coquimbo Mayor Cristian Galleguillos told CNN Chile the city was starting to see flooding and 95 percent of the city had lost electrical power.

Is Europe Losing Control Over Its Destiny?
“We are not facing a refugee crisis, we are facing a migration crisis… Let us not forget that those arriving have been raised in another religion, and represent a radically different culture. Most of them are not Christians, but Muslims. This is an important question, because Europe and European identity is rooted in Christianity.

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION LEADS TO OPEN LETTER FOR CHRISTIAN LEADERS TO UNDERSTAND, RESPOND TO BIOTECHNOLOGY AND FUTURE OF MAN & BEAST
if any one age really attains, by eugenics and scientific education, the power to make its descendants what it pleases [transhuman/posthuman], all men who live after it are the patients of that power. They are weaker, not stronger: for though we may have put wonderful machines in their hands we have pre-ordained how they are to use them.

Gaza's Hamas rulers call for end to Egyptian border project after smuggling tunnel is flooded
Gaza's Hamas rulers are calling on Egypt to halt a project aimed at destroying the last remaining smuggling tunnels along the border. The project is being billed as an Egyptian military-operated fish farm that would effectively fill the border area with water. Egyptian military officials have said the fish farm is designed to shut down tunnels used to bring in militants and weapons.

Climate change could cause second Holocaust, says Yale historian
Yale University history professor Timothy Snyder argues that climate change could lead to a resurgence of Hilter-esque geopolitical thinking. “The Holocaust may seem a distant horror whose lessons have already been learned,” he writes. “But sadly, the anxieties of our own era could once again give rise to scapegoats and imagined enemies, while contemporary environmental stresses could encourage new variations on Hitler’s ideas...

Why Western Nations Should Only Accept Christian Refugees
While more “progressive” voices cry “racism,” the fact remains: there are several objective reasons why the West should give priority, if not exclusivity, to Christian refugees—and some of these are actually to the benefit of European host nations. Consider: Christians are true victims of persecution.

Netanyahu: Bringing explosive material into al-Aksa mosque is a change to the status quo
Speaking at the weekly cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said that he was "obligated to preserve the status quo at the Temple Mount," in response to charges from the Palestinians and Arab states that Israel was escalating tensions at the holy site.

Jordan’s King tells visiting Joint List Arab MKs: al-Aksa only open for Muslim prayer
A delegation of five Joint List MKs headed to Jordan on Sunday morning and met with Jordan King Abdullah regarding tensions over the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, and planned to travel on to Turkey to meet with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday. ...According to the visiting MKs, the Jordan king bluntly told them: al-Aksa Mosque is a place for Muslim prayer with no division nor partnership.

'The devil made me do it': Obama's foreign policy just reached a new low
The Obama administration's policy toward Syria and its more than four-year civil war is rapidly becoming a black mark on the president's legacy. And a scathing new report by Peter Baker of The New York Times details the mind-boggling decision by the White House to refuse to accept any responsibility.

Saudi Arabia says 100,000 troops to secure this year's hajj
Saudi Arabia has deployed 100,000 security personnel to oversee the annual Islamic hajj pilgrimage that begins on Tuesday, the Interior Ministry spokesman said, underscoring both the massive arrangements needed to secure one of the largest pilgrimages in the world and the multitude of threats the hajj faces.

Truckers warn of cost of new European border checks
Truckers are warning of the threat of significant costs to the road haulage industry as European nations reimpose long-abandoned border controls to check the greatest migratory flow across the continent since World War II.

Kerry: Russian fighter jets in Syria raise serious questions
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday that Russia's movement of tactical aircraft and surface-to-air missiles to Syria could pose a threat to American and allied forces, and made clear that the U.S. could accept a resolution to the civil war that allows President Bashar Assad to remain in power for an unspecified time.

Drought exposes cracks in Australia's acclaimed water market
A pioneering Australian scheme to improve the management of water in the world's driest inhabited continent is facing its first real test as an intensifying El Nino threatens crops and builds tensions between farmers and environmentalists.



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Not a Joke – Saudi Arabia Chosen to Head UN Human Rights Panel
If you were trying to put together a global all-star team of the most authoritarian, human rights abusing nations on earth, not only would Saudi Arabia be at the top of the list, it would be captain of the squad.

Boy withdraws from school that suspended him over clock
The family of a 14-year-old Muslim student who got in trouble over a homemade clock mistaken for a possible bomb withdrew the boy Monday from his suburban Dallas high school.

Why Syrian refugees don’t flee to Islamic State caliphate
People around the world have reacted differently to images of refugees desperately trying to reach Europe from Syria’s four-year civil war. Yet one group, Islamic State (IS), may be the most unsettled. Since last year, the jihadi group has tried to set up an idealized Islamic society, or caliphate, and attract Sunni Muslims with its anti-Western message. Instead, hundreds of thousands of Syrian Muslims are now choosing to flee to Western countries.

Israel, Russia to coordinate military action on Syria: Netanyahu
Israel and Russia agreed on Monday to coordinate military actions over Syria in order to avoid accidentally trading fire, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a visit to Moscow.

Israeli archaeologists say they may have found fabled tomb of biblical Maccabees
Israeli archaeologists may be one step closer to solving a riddle that has vexed explorers for more than a century: the location of the fabled tomb of the biblical Maccabees.

New invisibility cloak hides tiny three-dimensional objects of any shape
Scientists at UC Berkeley have developed a foldable, incredibly thin invisibility cloak that can wrap around microscopic objects of any shape and make them undetectable in the visible spectrum. In its current form, the technology could be useful in optical computing or in shrouding secret microelectronic components from prying eyes, but according to the researchers involved, it could also be scaled up in size with relative ease.

Pope’s visit will produce largest security operation in U.S. history
Federal authorities are mobilizing one of the largest security operations in U.S. history ahead of Pope Francis’s arrival Tuesday, an effort that is straining law enforcement resources in Washington, New York and Philadelphia.

Thousands Lost Power Across San Diego
SDG&E gave no notice to customers before the power was cut, forcing many businesses to close Some businesses say they had at least a thousand dollars in losses. "Everybody here had [no power]," said a local business owner. "We were in the middle of cooking!"

'Europe's 1930s Jew Hatred Raised its Ugly Head Again'
"It is saddening that the European Parliament hasn't learned a thing from history, and works today with the same deviant means known to us from the 1930s, which marked the start of the greatest tragedy in the history of humanity."

Tsipras returns to power to fight for Greek debt relief
Greek leftist leader Alexis Tsipras will return as prime minister on Monday determined to secure debt relief from the country's creditors in his "first and most important battle" after scoring an unexpectedly clear election victory.

Rebels see tougher war with Russians in Syria, evoke Afghanistan
Rebels who have inflicted big losses on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad say Russia's intervention in support of its ally will only lead to an escalation of the war and may encourage the rebels' Gulf Arab backers to pour in more military aid.

SOLAR ACTIVITY INTENSIFIES
As sunspot AR2415 approaches the sun's western limb, it is crackling with increasingly-strong flares. An M2-class eruption (movie) on Sept.20th lasted more than an hour and may have hurled a CME (movie) toward Earth.

Send the “Refugees” to Iceland!!!
Under the circumstances, it occurs to me that a great historic opportunity now presents itself for righting historic wrongs and for achieving social justice. Why should we not take all the “refugees” now crowding train stations in Hungary, Serbia, and the Greek islands and simply ship them all off to Iceland? Why should these people be denied the pleasure of listening to Björk Guðmundsdóttir or of lunching on skyr, hangikjöt, kleinur, laufabrauð and bollur?

High-Ranking Security Team Joins Netanyahu Meeting With Putin in Moscow
Military Intelligence director Maj.-Gen. Hertzi Halevy, National Security Council head Yossi Cohen and Netanyahu’s military secretary Col. Eliezer Toledano are also accompanying the prime minister to the meeting, which is scheduled to last three hours. The officials are expected to discuss Russia’s activities and military involvement in Syria, as well as questions about Russia’s cooperation with Iran.

6.3-Magnitude Quake Hits Chile Following 300 Aftershocks
As Chile continues to be affected by aftershocks of the massive 8.3-magnitude earthquake that hit the country last week, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) another 6.3-magnitude quake was felt in the early hours of this Monday.

Summer of bloodshed as US murder rates rise
...After years in decline, the pace of homicides is on the rise in some 30 big American cities. As of Friday, homicides in the capital Washington were up 40.5 percent from a year ago at 111, police said. The situation is also worrying in St Louis and Milwaukee, which saw the number of murders go up 60 percent and 76 percent...

U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Sexual Abuse of Boys by Afghan Allies
Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. told his father...he could hear Afghan police officers sexually abusing boys they had brought to the base. “At night we can hear them screaming, but we’re not allowed to do anything about it,”...“My son said that his officers told him to look the other way because it’s their culture.” Rampant sexual abuse of children has long been a problem in Afghanistan... The practice is called bacha bazi, literally “boy play...

Why smart people actually believe Mercury retrograde ruins lives
According to astrological hucksters...the three periods each year when Mercury appears to be moving backward are total pandemonium... ...Columbia University astronomy professor David Helfand points to...The growing popularity of astrology, he says, shares DNA with anti-science movements like anti-vaccination efforts and climate-change denial (though horoscopes are certainly less worrisome than a rubella outbreak).

Pentagon intrigued by breakthrough in cloaking technology
An academic says he and his colleagues have demonstrated a major breakthrough in the quest for invisibility, and he has the military’s attention. Boubacar Kante, a professor at the University of California-San Diego, and his colleagues tested the..."dielectric metasurface cloak." That's a fancy way of describing a super-thin, non-metal material that manipulates electromagnetic waves, including visible light and radio waves.

Migrant crisis: Thousands arrive in Austria with EU talks due
Thousands more migrants entered Austria over the weekend as European leaders are set to push for a unified response to the crisis. Austrian authorities are expecting more arrivals from Hungary on Monday. Foreign ministers from four eastern European countries are holding talks on the crisis later, kicking off a week of intense diplomatic activity.

Iranian nuclear experts take Parchin samples without UN inspectors
Iranian nuclear experts have taken environmental samples from the military base at Parchin without United Nations inspectors being present, the spokesman for Iran's atomic energy agency was quoted as saying on Monday. ...Western diplomats told Reuters earlier this month inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations nuclear watchdog, would observe samples being taken.

According to the visiting MKs, the Jordan king bluntly told them: al-Aksa Mosque is a place for Muslim prayer with no division nor partnership.
IDF Chief-of-Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eisenkot and Military Intelligence chief Maj.-Gen. Herzl Halevi will accompany Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a lightning trip to Moscow on Monday, in a clear signal that regional arms transfers and Russia’s troop deployments in Syria will be the main focus of the discussions.

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Pro Ben Carson fundraising spikes after Muslim questioning
The super PAC supporting neurosurgeon Ben Carson for GOP president has seen a surge of donations since his appearance Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” where Mr. Carson said he wouldn’t advocate for a Muslim to be president of the United States.

Canary Mission: Standing Up to Bigots
What an interesting week here at Canary Mission. There are no limits to the lengths enemies of free speech will go to shut down dissent, stifle the truth and obstruct justice. The anti-Semitic zealots who remain obsessed with our mission to expose bigotry on campus have succeeded in shutting down our Facebook page and possibly downing our website for a full 90 minutes. Those who lack truth rely on criminal tactics such as these in order to stifle any voices alerting the world to their dangerous words and ideas.

Syria insurgents claim to have freed British woman
A coalition of several insurgent groups in Syria claimed it has freed a British woman and her five children who were kidnapped in the country as they fled an area controlled by their rival the Islamic State group.

The Clock Is Ticking On The U.S. Dollar As World's Reserve Currency
The ultimate irony for this generation of investors is that, despite the occasional obligatory chant about ‘free markets’ and the wonders of capitalism, most of the day is spent obsessing about what the world’s most important central planner will do next. By Supreme Central Planner, I mean, the Fed.

Palestinian killed attacking Israeli forces, woman dies
A Palestinian militant died when a bomb he was trying to throw at Israeli forces blew up near the West Bank city of Hebron overnight, officials from both sides said on Tuesday, as tension mounted on the eve of the Jewish Yom Kippur fast day.

Russia in Syria: Did Putin just clip Israel's wings?
Seated at the Kremlin, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Vladimir Putin smiled and shook hands. At a follow-up media briefing, the Israeli leader announced a deal to avoid hostilities between their militaries in and around Syria.

Archaeologist thinks he has found the graves of Americans massacred in 1857
The 1857 massacre was orchestrated by members of the Mormon Church against the Fancher-Baker wagon party as it traveled to California during a time when hostility against non-Mormons in Utah was high, according to an account by the University of Missouri. The church, which didn't completely acknowledge its role in the tragedy until 2007, erected a monument in honor of the victims at a site 1,000 or more feet away from the newly discovered stone sepulchers.

Pope Francis touches down in the US for politically charged summit
Bishop Christopher Coyne, the incoming director of the communications committee of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, told me that liberals and conservatives who expect Francis to promote their agendas will likely end up frustrated.

‘Most expensive regulation in history’
The Obama administration is just weeks away from imposing a new ozone particulate standard that manufacturers say will cripple jobs and productivity in the U.S. and leave some firms and industries clinging to life.

Is Turkey Secretly Working on Nuclear Weapons?
Some months ago it became known that the German Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst - BND) was spying on Turkey. Turkey's political leadership was none too happy. Yet the BND has good reasons to keep a watchful eye on Ankara. It is not only the crises in Iraq and Syria, drug-smuggling, people-trafficking and the activities of the PKK that make Turkey a legitimate target for German intelligence. For quite some time, evidence is mounting that Ankara is trying to acquire nuclear weapons.

France ready to bomb Syria 'in self-defense' – foreign minister
On Monday, French President Francois Hollande said French military sorties in Syria would soon expand to include airstrikes against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).

U.N. picks four Europeans to lead groups in Syria talks
Ban Ki-moon has appointed the heads of four working groups on Syria, the United Nations said on Tuesday, signaling a step toward talks where warring parties are expected to discuss how to implement a roadmap for peace.

Ben Carson: I Wouldn't Support a Muslim President
Responding to a question on NBC’s “Meet the Press”, Carson said, "I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation. I absolutely would not agree with that." He added said that Islam, as a religion, is incompatible with the Constitution.

Vatican to Raise Flag at UN 'Without Fanfare'
The Vatican flag will be raised for the first time at the United Nations on Friday ahead of Pope Francis' address, but there will be no ceremony, the Holy See's mission said Monday, according to AFP.

Where is Putin leading the Middle East?
Beyond his clear goal of saving Syria's Assad, the Russian president is keeping his cards close to his chest. His meeting with Netanyahu will be closely followed by Washington too, and may affect the way the Israeli prime minister is received in the White House - as an ally or as a client.

Putin to Netanyahu: Russia’s Actions in Mideast Will Always Be Responsible
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow earlier today to address the changing security situation near Israel’s northern border, with respect to the recent arrival of Russian forces arriving in Syria. “Israel and Russia share a common interest to ensure stability in the Middle East.

Israel Moves to High Alert for Yom Kippur
Thousands of security personnel and police forces have moved to high alert in advance of the start tonight of the most solemn holy day on the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur. As happens every year and for every major Jewish holiday, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon has ordered the complete closure of crossings with Judea, Samaria and Gaza.

Commercialization Of Legal Pot Has Led To ‘Epidemic’ For Colorado Kids
The results of a new study about the impact of Colorado’s marijuana legalization is raising troubling questions for parents. The study cites a significant increase in marijuana-related traffic deaths, hospital visits and school suspensions. The parents...say they’re concerned about their children seeing messages promoting pot all over town. Activists say it’s the way pot is marketed and sold that has started to create some serious problems.

The left has its pope
Pope Francis has created political controversy, both inside and outside the Catholic Church, by blaming capitalism for many of the problems of the poor. We can no doubt expect more of the same during his visit to the United States. Pope Francis is part of a larger trend of the rise of the political left among Catholic intellectuals. He is, in a sense, the culmination of that trend.

Parents of ‘Baby Doe’ arraigned, say daughter was possessed by demons
On Monday arraignment will begin for the parents of the young girl who was found dead in a trash bag along a harbor in Boston in June. The girl’s mother and her boyfriend will be arraigned on murder and accessory charges after the case of “Baby Doe” was solved. She was identified as 2-year-old Bella Bond late last week, following a tip to law enforcement. Her identity had been a mystery for months.

Russia starts Syria drone surveillance missions: U.S. officials
Russia has started flying drone aircraft on surveillance missions in Syria, U.S. officials said on Monday... The beginning of Russian drone flights underscored the risks of U.S.-led coalition planes and Russian aircraft operating within Syria's limited airspace, without agreeing on coordination or objectives in Syria's civil war.

US pharmaceutical company defends 5,000% price increase
The head of a US pharmaceutical company has defended his company's decision to raise the price of a 62-year-old medication used by Aids patients by over 5,000%. ...After Turing's acquisition, a dose of Daraprim in the US increased from $13.50 (£8.70) to $750. The pill costs about $1 to produce, but Mr Shkreli...said that does not include other costs like marketing and distribution.

Presidents agree to reopen Colombia-Venezuela border
President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela and his Colombian counterpart, Juan Manuel Santos, have agreed to gradually reopen their common border. Venezuela closed the border a month ago and launched a major anti-smuggling operation. Mr Maduro says smuggling has led to shortages in parts of Venezuela.

Egypt 'demolishes thousands of homes' for Sinai buffer zone
Egypt has demolished more than 3,255 homes and other buildings in the Sinai peninsula in violation of international law, Human Rights Watch says. Troops began razing homes along the Gaza border in 2013 to create a "buffer zone" and eliminate smuggling tunnels, after a surge in attacks by militants. But those evicted are given little or no warning, no temporary housing and inadequate compensation, HRW alleges.

Rouhani suggests Iran's military is best defense against ISIS
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani claimed on Tuesday that the Islamic Republic's military is the biggest force combating terrorism in the Middle East. The Iranian president stated that Tehran was prepared to assist others in the region as it has aided Syria and Iraq, in reference to the battle against the Sunni Islamic State terror group.


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Putin opens Moscow’s most elaborate mosque
The most elaborate mosque ever built in Moscow, a city that is home to one of the largest concentrations of Muslims in Europe, was opened Wednesday by President Vladimir Putin. Putin, in brief remarks, called the new, modern mosque the biggest in Europe and said that it was a worthy addition to a capital and a country built on the idea of uniting different nationalities and faiths. The mosque is a central part of Russia’s efforts to develop its own system of Muslim religious education and training to counteract extremists seeking recruits, the president said.

Critics say pope's remarks on priest sexual abuse were too tepid
A group representing victims of priest sexual abuse blasted Pope Francis Wednesday for his remarks to U.S. bishops praising their response to the scandal while failing to utter the words "sexual abuse."

EU agrees more money for agencies helping refugees near wars
European Union leaders, faced with a staggering migration crisis and deep divisions over how to tackle it, managed to agree early Thursday to boost border controls to ease the influx and to send 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) to international agencies helping refugees at camps near their home countries.

Syria deploys Russian drones for first time: security source
The Syrian military for the first time on Wednesday deployed drones supplied by Russia for its fight against jihadists, a security source in Damascus said.

Office of Personnel Mgmt: 5.6M estimated to have fingerprints stolen in breach
The Office of Personnel Management announced Wednesday that 5.6 million people are now estimated to have had their fingerprint information stolen. That number was originally thought to be about 1.1 million, OPM said in a statement. About 21.5 million individuals had their Social Security Numbers and other sensitive information affected by the hack.

More than 20 killed in NE Nigeria market bombing
More than 20 people were killed in a bomb attack in the garrison town of Monguno in remote northeast Nigeria, witnesses and the country's main relief agency said on Wednesday.

Refugees Being Housed in Buchenwald Concentration Camp
Refugees are flooding Europe, and due to a shortage of temporary housing, 21 refugees are being housed in the former Buchenwald camp near Weimar, Germany. The town of Shwerte decided on the unusual move after it absorbed 200 refugees and had no room or funds to provide for more.

Russia Deploys 28 Warplanes to Syria
In a serious escalation of its military presence, Russia deployed 28 combat aircraft to its base in Syria. A senior United States official said on Monday that 12 Su-25 Frogfoot ground-attack planes and 12 Su-24 Fencers had arrived at the Russian base in Latakia, adding the ability to strike at ground-based targets.

Russia’s military Presence in Syria
If the rebels reach Latakia, there is nowhere left to retreat to. The regime and its allies must hold the province or face defeat. The appearance of apparently Russian-crewed BTR-82A APCs on the Latakia battlefield appears to be testimony to Russia’s awareness of this – and its willingness to dig deeper for Assad – even if this means the direct deployment of Russian personnel on the battlefield in a limited way.

Iranian military chiefs deride US passivity, scoff at Republicans
In a new stream of belligerent rhetoric, Iran’s chief of staff on Tuesday derided US Republican opposition to the recent US-backed nuclear agreement, and accused the US and Israel of sponsoring terrorism, while another Iranian military chief scoffed that Tehran had intimidated the US into abandoning the idea of using military force in the region.

Allies Scorned by Obama Continue turn to Russia
In a major strategic shift, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a visit to Moscow on Monday that Israel and Russia had agreed to coordinate military moves in Syria to avoid the possibility of the two countries accidentally trading fire.

Norway gets first of US’s controversial F-35 jets, citing ‘increased Russian activity’ in region
Norway has welcomed the roll-out of the first two of 22 Lockheed Martin’s F-35 fighter jets purchased by the Scandinavian state. They are seen as a counter measure to what Norway considers Russia’s boosting military capabilities in the region.

Dr. Carson Is Right About Islam
Todd then asked Dr. Carson if he thinks that Islam is consistent with American values and Carson responded, "No, I do not." He then expanded to say, "I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation."

Houses shake as Rutland is hit by its FOURTH earthquake in 17 months as 2.8 magnitude tremor strikes and experts say bigger shocks could be on the way
Residents of tiny Rutland were hit by an earthquake last night - the county's fourth tremor in 17 months. Experts from the British Geological Survey said the earthquake was about 1.4 miles below the ground.

EQUINOX AURORA WATCH
Today, Sept.23rd, is the northern autumnal equinox. Perfect timing: a CME is expected to deliver a glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field on Sept. 23rd.

Since last Yom Kippur, millions of Jews have begun searching for the Messiah, and for atonement for their sins.
Since last Yom Kippur, millions of Jews have begun a quest to find the Messiah. For reasons I cannot fully explain, Jews are suddenly searching for answers to the deepest and most important questions concerning life and death and God and atonement and eternity, in numbers unprecedented in history. Some are searching through the Hebrew Scriptures for answers. A stunning number are actually reading the New Testament,

Obama-pope lovefest on Day of Atonement
So as the symbolic head of the free world, Obama is often lacking moral credibility. Enter the pope of Rome to lend a helping hand. Pope Francis’ visit to the White House on Yom Kippur will give Obama what he craves: the appearance of a moral high ground.

Russia may put missiles in Kaliningrad if U.S. upgrades nuclear arms in Germany
Russia may deploy Iskander ballistic missiles to its enclave of Kaliningrad if the United States upgrades its nuclear weapons in Germany, the Interfax news agency cited a military source as saying on Wednesday.

US-trained Division 30 rebels 'betray US and hand weapons over to al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria'
Pentagon-trained rebels in Syria are reported to have betrayed their American backers and handed their weapons over to al-Qaeda in Syria immediately after re-entering the country. Fighters with Division 30, the “moderate” rebel division favoured by the United States, surrendered to the al-Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra, a raft of sources claimed on Monday night.

Russian jets in Syria mean no-fly zone is 'out of the question', warn experts
Russia’s deployment of jet fighters in Syria has effectively destroyed the West’s option of imposing a “no-fly zone” over the country, experts have warned, as the British Defence Secretary said the intervention risked deepening the crisis. The Kremlin’s operation in Syria amounts to the biggest deployment of Russian forces outside the former Soviet Union since the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989.

FBI Merges Criminal and Civil Fingerprint Database
For years the FBI maintained it had no interest in scanning fingerprints collected by employers — teachers, lawyers, state and federal workers...but that has now changed. “For the first time, fingerprints and biographical information sent to the FBI for a background check will be stored and searched right along with fingerprints taken for criminal purposes,” reports the Electronic Frontier Foundation...

Muslims Are the Fastest Growing Immigrant Community
Muslims are the fastest growing bloc of immigrants, according to new census data published by the Center for Immigration Studies. The report, which analyzes data from American Community Survey (ACS), finds that the foreign-born population in the U.S. hit a new record high 42.4 million in July 2014.

Migrant crisis: EU leaders to discuss disputed quota deal
EU leaders meeting in Brussels are set to discuss a plan to relocate 120,000 migrants across the continent, amid fierce opposition from some members. Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary opposed a mandatory quota scheme, which was approved on Tuesday. Wednesday's emergency summit will also focus on tightening EU borders and boosting aid to neighbours of Syria, from where many migrants come.

Xi Jinping says China open to foreign business amid economic reforms
Chinese President Xi Jinping has sought to reassure US business leaders, in a wide-ranging speech covering China's economic reforms and cyber crime. Speaking in Seattle at the start of his state visit to the US, Mr Xi said foreign firms were welcome in China, and that Beijing would not manipulate its currency to boost exports. He also denied Beijing engages in hacking but said China would co-operate with Washington on the issue.

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Extremists in Bangladesh publish global hit list of bloggers and writers
Islamic extremists in Bangladesh appear to be taking their war on secular writers and bloggers beyond the South Asian country's borders.

Syrian army uses new Russian jets to strike Islamic State: monitor
Syrian government forces used newly arrived Russian warplanes to bombard Islamic State insurgents in Aleppo province in northern Syria, a group monitoring the civil war said on Thursday, in an attempt to break a siege on a nearby air base.

Over 700 killed in crush of hajj pilgrims in Saudi Arabia
Two giant waves of Muslim pilgrims collided at an intersection Thursday near a holy site in Saudi Arabia, and more than 700 people were crushed and trampled to death in the worst disaster at the hajj in a quarter-century.

Russian fighter jets enter Syria with transponders off
A U.S. official told CNN Thursday that Russian fighter jets turned off their transponders as they flew into Syria in an apparent attempt to avoid detection. The official said the fighters flew very close to a transport plane that had its transponder on and functioning. U.S. satellites rapidly saw that the aircraft were there, according to the official.

Surrender: San Fran's iconic, last gun shop to close over new regulations
Ever since it was opened in the 1950s by a celebrated Olympic shooter, High Bridge Arms has been a defiant fixture in San Francisco's Mission District, but a coming wave of new firearms restrictions has prompted the last gun shop in the liberal City by the Bay to pack it in.

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Iran Issues New Demands on the Nuclear Deal (It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over…)
The Iranian government is now demanding the finished nuclear deal be re-opened for negotiation, again. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei demanded earlier this month that sanctions be lifted entirely, rather than simply suspended as agreed in the nuclear deal signed in July.

UN 'Human Rights' Chair Saudi Arabia to Crucify Protester
The sentence is a particularly harsh one; not only will he be beheaded, but his body will be displayed on a crucifix in a practice mandated by Islamic law (Sharia) as a way of publicizing his fate and deterring others from following his example.

Muslims Warn NJ School Board: 'We're Going to Be the Majority Soon'
Things got heated at a Board of Education meeting last week in Jersey City after officials decided not to close schools for the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha. Despite a number of Muslims showing up to the meeting to advocate that the school changes its schedule, officials denied their pleas, arguing that doing so on such short notice would cause “undue hardship” for the upwards of 10,000 parents who may not have a place to put their children for the day.

Invasion of giant house spiders after Britain's wet summer
Giant house spiders have invaded a Cheshire town as millions of Britain's largest creepy-crawlies look set to overrun homes across the country. Residents of Macclesfield have reported finding spiders as big as mice and fear they are looking for a spot to lay hundreds of eggs.

Hajj Stampede: Saudi Arabia Says 453 Dead, 700 Injured in Mina, Near Mecca
Saudi Arabia's civil defense directorate said the crush happened at around 9 a.m. local time (2 a.m. ET) after there was a "sudden rise" in the number of pilgrims traveling along a major road leading to the site of a stone-throwing ritual. This "resulted in a stampede among the pilgrims and the collapse of a large number of them," the directorate said in a statement.

Lebanese Radio: Chinese Military May Get Involved in Syria Alongside Russia, Iran
According to a Radio Sawt Beirut (Radio Voice of Beirut) report, anonymous senior Hezbollah sources have said that under a certain scenario China may become involved militarily in Syria, should it become convinced that President Bashar al-Assad’s regime is in critical danger. According to these officials, Assad relies on Russian-Chinese support for his survival. According to the sources, this move will not be marginal, and could be expected to materialize in the near future.

Moderate earthquake hits Sumatera
A moderate earthquake, measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale, occurred in Sumatera, Indonesia, at 12.18 am today, according to the Meteorological Services Department.

Deep Rotorua quake felt far, wide, but not near epicentre
Early Thursday's deep earthquake near Rotorua was felt in many places - but as often happens, no reports of shaking came from close to the epicentre. The 5.1-magnitude quake at 6.48am was centred 25km southwest of Rotorua.

Magnitude 4.5 earthquake rattles southern Taiwan
Taipei, Sept. 24 (CNA) A magnitude 4.5 earthquake jolted southern Taiwan at 1:58 p.m. Thursday, according to the Central Weather Bureau. The earthquake's epicenter was located about 25.2 kilometers east of Pingtung County Hall at a depth of 21.1 km, bureau officials said.

Gay Jews celebrate ‘High Homodays’ in New York
...Jayson Littman was milling about an upscale Manhattan nightclub greeting friends...Standing alongside a “shot boy” — clad only in underwear, a kippah and Star of David necklace — he offered partygoers shots of Manischewitz in plastic cups. Littman was hosting some 400 gay Jewish men who filled the top floor of the Hudson Terrace for “High Homodays,” his annual gay Jewish party held between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

Saudi Arabia: At least 310 die in deadliest haj stampede since 2006
At least 310 pilgrims were killed on Thursday in a crush at Mina, outside the Muslim holy city of Mecca, where some two million people are performing the annual haj pilgrimage, Saudi Arabia's civil defense authority said. At least 450 others were injured in the crush, which took place on Street 204 of the camp city at Mina, a few kilometers east of Mecca, where pilgrims stay for several days during the climax of the haj.

Warning! The New 'Muppets' is Not Family-Friendly
The new show is aimed at a mature, modern audience and addresses subjects not suitable for family viewing. "It's sort of an adult Muppet show," Kermit the Frog said during a promotional video for the show. One ad read, "Finally, a network TV show with full frontal nudity." Technically, the advertisement is correct – seeing how Kermit doesn't wear pants. The mature version of "The Muppets" will cover a range of topics from sex to drugs. Miss Piggy came out as a pro-choice feminist during an MSNBC interview. The puppet characters loved by kids in the 1970s and 1980s and beyond are now weighing in on abortion and promiscuity.

Pentagon Says Chinese Sub That Can Hit U.S. to Go on Patrol Soon
A new Chinese nuclear submarine designed to carry missiles that can hit the U.S. will likely deploy before year’s end, the Pentagon said, adding to Obama administration concerns over China’s muscle-flexing in Asia.


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Donald Trump: Let Russia fight the Islamic State in Syria
Donald Trump accused his Republican presidential rivals on Friday night of wanting to "start World War III over Syria," and suggested that the United States should instead let Russia deal with the problem.

Chinese Government Runs Circles Around Obama
WASHINGTON — President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to announce an agreement today by which China will create a cap-and-trade system to address climate change. While some are calling this a “landmark commitment,” in reality it is just more of the same: good PR for China, but a bad deal for the US.

Pope Lays Out Global Marxist Agenda
Socialism and communism. But they would rather call it “sustainable development,” in order to confuse people about how the American way of life is being targeted for extinction.

Pope Francis’s Progressive UN Speech Avoids Confronting Islamic Jihad
Christians and other religious minorities are suffering genocide in the Middle East and parts of Africa directly as a result of Islamic jihad. They cannot afford to worry about the effects of climate change. They are in a daily battle for their lives

Trump exposes Fox News bias against Conservatives
The problem is that Fox News, while not a liberal network, is unfriendly to true conservatives. For example, most Fox News hosts are either moderate or downright liberal.

George Will: Pope Is a False Prophet
Pope Francis embodies sanctity but comes trailing clouds of sanctimony. With a convert's indiscriminate zeal, he embraces ideas impeccably fashionable, demonstrably false, and deeply reactionary. They would devastate the poor on whose behalf he purports to speak, if his policy prescriptions were not as implausible as his social diagnoses are shrill.

Under pressure from the right, House Speaker Boehner quits
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner will leave Congress at the end of October after struggling with repeated rebellions by conservatives during a tumultuous five-year reign as the chamber's top Republican.

World Space Leaders to Attend Jerusalem Outer Space Convention
Prof. Ben-Yisrael emphasized Israel's role in space exploration: “We look forward to sharing Israel’s achievements in the field of space science and technology. Despite being one of the world’s smallest countries, we have achieved space-exploration independence allowing us to develop, launch and maintain our own satellites making us an international leader in the field."

Move Over Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Make Room for the Yinon Plan
The theory is based on an article that was published in the 1982 winter edition of Kivunim, a “Journal for Judaism and Zionism,” by Oded Yinon, who writes that the agreements in the Camp David Accords should not be honored, and discusses how Arab states will be eroded along ethnic and religious lines. This article might otherwise have been forgotten, but conspiracy theorists got their hands on it and ran with the ball.

Khamenei Says Saudis Caused Hajj Stampede
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said "improper measures" and "mismanagement" by Saudi authorities caused Thursday's deadly stampede at the annual hajj pilgrimage, and announced three days of mourning. "The government of Saudi Arabia must accept the huge responsibility for this catastrophe," state news agency IRNA quoted him as saying of the tragedy, which killed more than 700 pilgrims, including at least 90 Iranians.

NASA to Announce Mars Mystery Solved
NASA will detail a major science finding from the agency's ongoing exploration of Mars during a news briefing at 11:30 a.m. EDT on Monday, Sept. 28 at the James Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The event will be broadcast live on NASA Television and the agency's website.

6.0-magnitude quake hits off Solomon Islands: USGS
A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the Solomon Islands early Friday, US geologists said, but there were no initial reports of damage and no tsunami warnings were issued.

SUPERMOON ECLIPSE
This weekend's full Moon is a supermoon, the biggest and brightest full Moon of the year. And it is going to be eclipsed.

CHANCE OF STORMS
NOAA forecasters estimate a 40% chance of geomagnetic storms on Sept 25th when a solar wind stream is expected to reach Earth.

White House: Sanctions, oil leave Russia damaged
Though low crude oil prices are playing a part, the White House said Russia's refusal to meet international expectations is leading to economic decline. Obama is set to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin at the United Nations next week. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Russian intervention in Ukraine, where pro-Russian rebels continue their operations, will top the agenda.

Iceland's volcanic gas emissions beat out Europe's factories
Sulfur dioxide can cause acid rain and respiratory problems, but manmade emissions have been declining since the 1990s. According to a new study on the subject -- published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, Atmospheres -- the volcano's toxic emissions bested the average amount of sulfur dioxide produced by European industry, and by a large margin.

Bulusan, Mayon, Taal volcanoes put on alert level 1
During the past 24 hours, Mayon volcano’s seismic monitoring team detected one volcanic earthquake causing a moderate emission of white steam plumes, the NDRRMC said. For Bulusan and Taal volcanoes, their respective seismic monitoring teams “did not record any volcanic earthquake during the past 24 hours but their ‘abnormal’ status remains in effect”.

Telica volcano (Nicaragua): new eruptions and ash falls
New explosions with ash emissions occurred at the volcano during the past days, following a period of calm that had lasted several months since the series of similar eruptions earlier this year in May.

Former Radical Islamist: Yeah, Ben Carson Is Right About Muslims
Even after the criticism, Carson refused to walk back his comment, although he did offer more clarification. "Those Republicans that take issue with my position are amazing," he wrote in a Facebook statement. "Under Islamic Law, homosexuals – men and women alike – must be killed. Women must be subservient. And people following other religions must be killed. I know that there are many peaceful Muslims who do not adhere to these beliefs. But until these tenants are fully renounced ... I cannot advocate any Muslim candidate for President."

Earthquake Injures Dozens in Indonesia
The 6.6-magnitude quake struck around 1:00 a.m. local time (1600 UTC) Friday north of the city of Sorong in Indonesia's West Papua province, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. At least 39 people were injured, some seriously, by falling debris, and at least 200 houses were damaged, say local disaster officials.

Poll: Most U.S. Muslims would trade Constitution for SHARIAH
The Council on America-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, which has been most vocal in its calls for Carson’s withdrawal from the GOP presidential race, claims to speak for American Muslims. The organization has a long history of ties to terrorists, as documented by WND’s “Rogues gallery of terror-tied leaders,” but it is still treated by most U.S. media as the Muslim equivalent of the American Civil Liberties Union.

You are not alone: most people believe that aliens exist
More than one in two people in the UK, Germany and the US believe there is intelligent life out there in the universe. The next time the subject comes up at the dinner table and you hear s******s when someone admits they believe in aliens, it is worth remembering that it is not a fringe belief to think there is intelligent life out there – it is the mainstream viewpoint across the western world.

Russia announces naval drills in 'east Mediterranean'
Russia's defence ministry on Thursday said it will hold naval drills in the "east Mediterranean" in September and October, as the West frets over a military buildup by Moscow in Syria. The exercises include three warships from Russia's Black Sea Fleet, including the Saratov landing ship, the Moskva guided missile cruiser and the Smetlivy destroyer, the ministry said in a statement.

Ukraine crisis: Rebels order UN agencies to leave
The UN humanitarian aid chief has expressed alarm after UN agencies were ordered out of rebel-held parts of the Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine. Stephen O'Brien said the agencies had been told to leave by Friday, and several international non-governmental organisations (NGO) by Saturday. The Luhansk separatists had earlier banned 10 international humanitarian agencies citing "violations".

China to announce climate pledge as Xi visits Washington
China's President Xi Jinping is set to unveil a landmark pledge on climate change and curbing harmful emissions, White House Officials have said. The moves comes after Mr Xi arrived in Washington DC for the next leg of his week-long US tour. Mr Xi and US President Barack Obama held informal talks at the White House on Thursday evening, where they also discussed Iran's nuclear programme.

Mombasa ship: UN weapons seized by Kenya 'not illegal'
The UN has denied that weapons found on a cargo ship seized by Kenyan authorities at the port of Mombasa were being transported illegally. It says they were part of a legitimate consignment for its peace mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Both Kenyan authorities and the ship's Norwegian owners have said that the weapons were not declared.

Carson: In order to preserve women's rights, America must remain a 'Judaeo-Christian' nation
...Republican presidential hopeful Dr. Ben Carson said that America should remain a "Judaeo-Christian" nation in order to preserve "the American way" as well as women's rights, adding that Islamic societies treat women like "chattel." Carson went on to say...societies who adopt from Sharia Law, a faith based system of religious rules, oppress women, stating "We do not want to import that type of ideology into America,"...

A no-show for a decade, Russia’s Putin is heading to the U.N.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will storm into New York on Monday seeking to prove that he will not be isolated at his first appearance at the United Nations General Assembly in a decade.


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The Trump Phenomenon
As much as many of us may have missed it, there is, as far as I am concerned, a true nonpareil phenomenon taking place right before our very eyes in this running for the republican presidential candidacy deal, and I am not referring specifically to the uniquely crowded field of contenders, now in the hunt for the nomination.

Barack Obama – The Best Friend of America’s Muslim Enemies
America is in a fight for her life. This fight is made more difficult by the fact that our so-called President gives every appearance of being on the other side.

Good Old Yogi Berra : “It ain’t over till it’s over” i.e. Tetrad 2 More Days
Oh say it ain’t so. What else can I possibly EVER again say anything regarding our Lord’s Epic Biblical Blood Moons (BBMs). His prophetic Window closes in 2 more days on the Eve of Tabernacles. Is it even worth to say the countdown clock anymore regarding more omens spewing our of this most unprecedented TETRAD. OK, one last time forever and forever : We are now 99.6% completed until our Almighty God closes this most magnificent Heavenly Sign Window of the ages, probably 2nd only to the Star of Bethlehem....

How Much Closer Are We Now?
We hear so much about "converging signs" today. The Bible speaks about end-time signs that will increase like birth pangs near the end. I think we have passed the birth pang process, frankly.

Ben Carson: Darwin’s Evolution Theory ‘Was Encouraged by the Adversary,’ Satan
“A lot of people believe in God,” said Carson, “but I personally believe that this theory that Darwin came up with was something that was encouraged by the adversary [Satan].” “And it has become what is scientifically politically correct,” he said. “Amazingly, there are a significant number of scientists who do not believe it but they’re afraid to say anything.”

PUTIN goes to WAR against ISIS: Stop dithering and FIGHT, Russian leader tells West
The superpower has brought in 28 fighter aircraft and thousands of soldiers to the war-torn Middle East country to support the Assad regime. That puts Russia in direct opposition to a US-led coalition which has brought military action against the Syrian government.

The Shocking Message Pope Francis Preached At New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral
“The cross shows us a different way of measuring success. Ours is to plant the seeds. God sees to the fruits of our labors. And if at times our efforts and works seem to fail and not produce fruit, we need to remember that we are followers of Jesus Christ and his life, humanly speaking, ended in failure, the failure of the cross.”

Government finds new emails Clinton did not hand over
The U.S. Defense Department has found an email chain that Hillary Clinton did not give to the State Department, the State Department said on Friday, despite her saying she had provided all work emails from her time as secretary of state.

SUPERMOON ECLIPSE
This weekend's full Moon is a supermoon, the biggest and brightest full Moon of the year. And it is going to be eclipsed. On Sunday evening, Sept. 27th, the supermoon will pass through the shadow of Earth, turning the lunar disk a coppery shade of red.

Singapore shuts down due to smoke from Indonesian wildfires and earthquake
Wildfires continue to rage out of control in the Sumatra and Kalimantan regions of Indonesia and the resulting clouds of smoke have been engulfing nearby regions including the city of Singapore. The city has become so engulfed in smoke that the haze makes it almost impossible to see as air qualities levels there soar into the hazardous range.

6.2 quake, aftershocks strike central Chile
A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit a coastal region in central Chile, US Geological Survey reports. It comes amid frequent aftershocks following a strong 8.3 quake last week.

Powerful quake rocks Indonesia; 39 injured
People were woken up and ran screaming out of their homes when the 6.6-magnitude undersea quake struck in the Papua region at about 1 a.m. (local timer), not far from the coastal city of Sorong.

Earthquake jolts India’s Assam and Bhutan
An earthquake of moderate intensity rocked Assam and neighbouring country Bhutan on Friday night. Measuring 4.6 on the Richter Scale, the quake had its epicenter in Darrang district of Assam and had struck around 10:27 pm.

Rare 3,000-year-old seal from King David era found
A rare 3,000 year-old seal dating to the period of kings David and Solomon of the 10th century BCE was recently discovered at the Temple Mount Sifting Project in Jerusalem.

'Blood Moon' seen as sign of end times by some Mormons
A rare confluence of a lunar eclipse and a supermoon set to happen this weekend has prompted such widespread fear of an impending apocalypse that the Mormon Church was compelled to issue a statement cautioning the faithful to not get caught up in speculation about a major calamity

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Whistleblowers claim Obama White House uses ‘doctored’ intel reports
Some of those career intelligence operatives who complained were bullied and forced to take early retirement, or the younger analysts just quit. Some of the U.S. intelligence community’s top analysts reportedly informed the Pentagon watchdog that their reports have been systematically edited to backup President Barack Obama’s—and his national security team’s—assertions that the war on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as more successful than it actually is, according to news reports from outlets such as The Hill.

Massive Category 4 Typhoon Dujuan heads for Taiwan
Typhoon Dujuan maintained its Category 4 intensity throughout the day on Sunday, which was the overnight hours on Sunday night into Monday morning in Taiwan. As of 7:30 p.m. ET, which was 7:30 a.m. local time in Taipei, Typhoon Dujuan had maximum sustained winds of 140 miles per hour, or 63 meters per second, though this may be a slight underestimate.

Thousands of Coloradans view super moon eclipse
Sunlight bent around Earth and beamed a dusty-orange image of the planet on a swollen harvest moon, captivating millions of people Sunday night, including thousands across Colorado. "It's different," said college student David Mesker, 19, off his skateboard for a bit in northwest Denver.

Clashes rock Jerusalem mosque compound with holy week ahead
Palestinians and Israeli security forces clashed at Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound on Sunday, with further trouble feared in the week ahead as Jews celebrate the Sukkot holiday.

Russia pushes for anti-IS co-ordination
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for a regional "co-ordinating structure" against Islamic State (IS). Mr Putin reiterated his support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who Western countries and the Syrian opposition have said must go.

Helicopter attack kills 30 civilians in Yemen village: residents, medics
Residents and medics said air strikes by helicopters flying from Saudi Arabia killed 30 civilians in a Yemeni village on Sunday, but Saudi authorities dismissed the accounts as "totally false". Apache helicopters fired rockets at the village of Bani Zela in Hajjah province, 10 km (6.5 miles) from the Saudi border, killing at least 25 civilians, including women and children, the residents and medics said.

Israel hits back after Golan rockets fired from Syria
A rocket fired from war-torn Syria strayed into the Israeli-occupied sector of the Golan Heights Sunday, prompting the Israeli army to respond after the second such incident in as many days.

New top cop reflects rise of religious Zionism in Israeli society
Israel’s three leading security agencies will be commanded by men from the same background.

Blood Moon Countdown: Everything You Need to Know
In the early hours of Monday, September 28, the last blood moon in the current tetrad (cycle of four moons) will occur during the Jewish festival of Sukkot (Tabernacles). The blood moon, a full lunar eclipse in which the moon appears red, will be visible from the US, beginning shortly after midnight on Sunday, September 27, for approximately one hour and 11 minutes. Even more significantly, the blood moon will also be visible from Israel.

Syria Gives Tanks to Hezbollah as Russia Beefs Up Its Forces
Syrian President Bashar Assad reportedly sent the T-55 and T-72 tanks to the Lebanon-based terror organization in thanks for its support during the ongoing civil war. This gift will now allow Hezbollah to set up its own armored division.

NBC/WSJ Poll: Carson Pulls Even With Trump
Donald Trump and Ben Carson are virtually tied in the national Republican presidential race, while Carly Fiorina is now tied for third place with Florida Sen. Marco Rubio,....

4.2 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Northwest Nevada, 3rd Recent 4+ Quake To Strike Swarm-Prone Region
The U.S. Geological Survey reports that a 4.2-magnitude earthquake hit the northwest corner of Nevada on Saturday night — the third earthquake above magnitude 4 to hit the region in the past 10 months.

Obama’s Muslim Identity
The people understand that Obama asserts he is a Christian, but they just aren’t buying it. Obama has done too many things to benefit Muslims to convince people that he is not one of them.

Most U.S. Muslims would trade Constitution for Shariah
...According to a local newspaper report, Omar Ahmad, a founder of CAIR, told a conference hall packed with California Muslims in July 1998 that Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. ...A poll...in May 2015 by the Center for Security Policy showed that 51 percent of American Muslims preferred that they should have their own Shariah courts outside of the legal system ruled by the U.S. Constitution.

IS conflict: France launches air strikes in Syria
France has carried out its first air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria, the president's office says. French planes had hit targets identified during reconnaissance missions over the past fortnight, the statement said, without giving details. The French prime minister said the strikes had hit IS "sanctuaries where those who attack France are trained".

China pledges $2bn for developing world
Chinese President Xi Jinping has pledged to establish a $2bn (£1.3bn) fund to assist developing countries and to significantly increase investment. Addressing a UN summit on development goals, Mr Xi said investment would reach $12bn over the next 15 years. He also said China would cancel debts to the world's least developed nations, including small island nations.

CAR clashes in Bangui after Muslim taxi driver killed
Deadly clashes broke out in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR), after a Muslim motorbike taxi driver was killed. About 20 people have been killed with at least 100 others wounded in the violence. UN peacekeepers took up positions as the fighting spread from the city's only Muslim neighbourhood to an area where many Christians reside.

US support for Syria rebels illegal, Putin says ahead of Obama meeting
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday branded US support for rebel forces in Syria as illegal and ineffective, saying US-trained rebels were leaving to join Islamic State with weapons supplied by Washington. In an interview with US networks recorded ahead of a meeting with US President Barack Obama, Putin said Syrian President Bashar Assad deserved international support as he was fighting terrorist organizations.

Iran vows legal action against Saudi after hajj disaster
Iran on Saturday vowed to take international legal action against Saudi Arabia's rulers over the crush of Muslim pilgrims at this year's hajj, which killed at least 769 people, including 136 Iranians, and has led to an escalation of tensions between the regional archrivals.

The U.N.‘s Parade of Dictators
Today, the U.N. is increasingly becoming a clubhouse for a rising new axis of dictators. In its menu of privileges for member states, the U.N. does not distinguish between democracies and dictatorships.

Pope Francis giving our children away to the soul-less UN
In all the hoopla of his celebrated first historic visit to America, Pope Francis as President Barack Obama’s latest booster must have started his adulation long before taking his first step on American soil. Borrowing the words of Julius Caesar, “Veni, vidi, vici”, Pope Francis came, he saw and he complained-repeatedly—-about the many ills he attributes to America. Indeed, when it comes to blaming America, the Pope and the president sing from the same choir book.

Rumors Persist That The CIA Helps Export Opium From Afghanistan
Despite billions spent to eradicate opium crops in Afghanistan, the crop is more popular than ever there, leading many to wonder whether some U.S. forces may actually be encouraging its growth and the heroin it later becomes. In July, the Centers for Disease Control warned of record-breaking numbers of heroin deaths in the United States. “Heroin use more than doubled among young adults ages 18–25 in the past decade,” the CDC reported.

Russia builds up Syria airbase as US policy suffers setback
Moscow pressed its military buildup at a new airbase in Syria Saturday, as Washington admitted rebels it trained surrendered ammunition and equipment to Al-Qaeda in a fresh US policy setback.


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Water Flows on Mars Today, NASA Announces
evidence from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) confirms that suspicious dark streaks on Mars that appear and disappear with the seasons are created by flowing liquid water. The streaks are made by salty water that runs down steep hills during warm months, when temperatures are above –23 degrees Celsius, and freezes during colder times.

U.S. post-Christian population soars in 2015
“While the United States remains shaped by Christianity, the faith’s influence — particularly as a force in American politics and culture — is slowly waning,” the Barna Group reports from its recent study. “An increasing number of religiously unaffiliated, a steady drop in church attendance, the recent Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage, and the growing tension over religious freedoms all point to a larger secularizing trend sweeping across the nation.”

Thousands of fish dead as California reservoir disappears overnight
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife confirmed that somewhere between hundreds and thousands of fish died when a northern state reservoir apparently ran dry in the span of a single night. The utility company that owns the water rights blamed the drought for the loss, but residents have expressed skepticism and are looking for answers.

Rare 'Super Blood Moon' Appears Worldwide After More Than 30 Years
What made this particular supermoon special is the fact that it appeared in conjunction with a lunar eclipse, creating a “Super Blood Moon.” Light still reaches the moon as it passes through Earth’s atmosphere and red light tends to make it through easier during an eclipse, weather.com also reports. This gives the moon a reddish glow, hence the nickname “blood moon.”

'Super typhoon' Dujuan batters Taiwan
The storm intensified as it approached Taiwan, with gusts of 227 kilometres (141 miles) per hour.

BIG SUNSPOT FACES EARTH
Big sunspot AR2422 has developed an unstable 'beta-gamma-delta' magnetic field that harbors energy for strong solar flares. NOAA forecasters estimate a 40% chance of M-class solar flares and a 5% chance of X-flares....

China to launch cap-and-trade system
Climate commitment could help build momentum for a new global pact to limit greenhouse-gas emissions. The program will begin in 2017. Xi's announcement builds on a 2014 climate agreement between the United States and China — the world's two largest emitters — and could help build momentum for a new global climate pact ahead of United Nations talks in Paris in December.

Sanctions No More: Tehran to Purchase Sukhoi Superjet, Satellite Equipment in $21 Billion Deal with Russia
As international sanctions fall apart, it looks like the US has made Russia the biggest winner.

New clashes at Jerusalem's Temple Mount
Israeli riot police briefly clashed with young Palestinian protesters at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site early Sunday, raising tensions ahead of a major Jewish holiday.

Obama's half-brother continues to live in poverty
Many people are familiar with President Obama’s half-brother Malik and his notorious ties with the Muslim Brotherhood. But fewer people are familiar with Obama’s younger half-brother. Twenty-nine year old George Hussein Obama lives in a squalid hut in Nairobi’s filthy Huruma slum.

'Counter to Islamic law’: Saudi diplomat refuses to discuss gay rights at UN
Saudi Arabia has protested any references to homosexuality in a new UN development program, saying it is "counter to Islamic law." Punishments for those engaging in same-sex relationships in the absolute monarchy are brutal, such as being stoned to death.

Iraq Steps Up Anti-ISIS Coordination with Iran, Syria, Russia
Iraq, Russia, Iran and Syria have agreed to set up an intelligence committee in Baghdad, a spokesman said Sunday, a further sign of Moscow's growing role in the region's conflict.

Govt. workers have right to refuse gay marriage licenses: pope
Francis said on Monday government officials have a "human right" to refuse to discharge a duty, such as issuing marriage licenses to homosexuals, if they feel it violates their conscience. Speaking to reporters as he returned home from a 10-day trip to the United States and Cuba, Francis also repeated his condemnation of priests who had sexually abused children, saying the victims had been "crushed by evil".

Not Good: The Doomsday Seed Vault Was Tapped Due To The Syrian Civil War
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, built in 2008, stores more than 850,000 seed samples from nations all over the world. Extending nearly 500 feet into the mountain, it's intended to safeguard the planet's food supply and biodiversity in the event a doomsday catastrophe like nuclear war or crippling disease wipes out varieties of plants.

Iraq to share intelligence on IS with Syria, Russia and Iran
Iraq's military said Sunday it will begin sharing "security and intelligence" information with Syria, Russia and Iran to help combat the Islamic State group, a move that could further complicate U.S. efforts... A statement issued by the Joint Operations Command said the countries will "help and cooperate in collecting information about the terrorist Daesh group," using the Arabic acronym for the IS group.

Typhoon Dujuan approaches Taiwan, thousands evacuated
Thousands of people have been evacuated and tens of thousands of troops are on standby ahead of Typhoon Dujuan's arrival in Taiwan. Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau upgraded Dujuan to a "strong typhoon" on Sunday - also known as "super typhoon" by some weather agencies. Landfall in Taiwan is expected at 11:00 pm local time (1500 GMT), bringing heavy rain and high winds.

Taliban assault Afghanistan's Kunduz city from three directions
Hundreds of Taliban fighters have launched an attack on the strategic northern Afghan city of Kunduz. Militants are attacking from several directions and are reported to have briefly entered a hospital. There are casualties on both sides, police say. Kunduz province has seen a number of attacks since April, with the Taliban joining forces with other insurgents.

British troops for Somalia peacekeeping mission
Dozens of British troops are to be sent to Somalia to help peacekeeping efforts to counter Islamist militants, David Cameron has announced. Up to 70 personnel will join a United Nations contingent supporting African Union troops fighting al-Shabab. Up to 300 could also be deployed in South Sudan over time.

Police enter Temple Mount after Palestinians in Aksa mosque throw stones, firebombs
Dozens of police officers entered the Temple Mount complex early Monday morning after dozens of Palestinians holed up in al-Aksa mosque began hurling stones and firebombs at them, police said. Security forces used crowd-dispersal methods and pushed the worshipers back into the mosque in order to calm things down.

Mark Levin: Conservatives ‘Sick and Tired’ of GOP ‘Funding the Obama Agenda’
Radio talk show host Mark Levin said Saturday that conservatives are “sick and tired” of the Republican leadership in Congress “funding the Obama agenda.”

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The United Nations’ Green Economy Isn’t 
Sustainable Or Green!
The United Nations intends to replace Capitalism and Free Enterprise with its Green Economy, or Sustainable Development. However, its concepts of development and economy are deeply flawed and reminiscent of fringe ideas from the Great Depression era. (For a full discussion of Technocracy in the 1930s, see Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation.) Sustainable Development, as most recently promoted by the UN’s 2030 Agenda Conference in New York at the end of September 2015, blatantly promises to end poverty everywhere, provide work with dignity and life-long education for all.

Major Afghan city falls to Taliban fighters during Obama UN address
At just about the same time the news media swooned over President Barack Obama’s speech at the United Nations on Monday, hundreds of Islamist terrorists from the group the President boasted about was on the decline during a bloody ambush that recaptured the city of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan.

President Obama Repeats His Failed Foreign Policy Mantra at the UN
President Obama delivered his annual speech to the United Nations General Assembly on September 28th. He spoke mostly in generalities, with his usual platitudes extolling the benefits of multilateral cooperation, diplomacy and international law rooted in what he called “universal,” “self-evident” truths. He condemned “the belief that power is a zero-sum game; that might makes right; that strong states must impose their will on weaker ones; that the rights of individuals don’t matter; and that in a time of rapid change, order must be imposed by force.”

Cruz Fights Alone to Stop Senate from Funding Planned Parenthood and Iran Nuclear Deal
Last night Ted Cruz couldn’t get his Republican Senate colleagues to back his proposed amendment to stop funding Planned Parenthood for one year and to prevent the Obama administration from using funds to implement the Iran nuclear deal until Congress can examine the additional agreements or “side deals” between the terrorist state and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Politician Says Homeless People Should Be Put Down By Lethal Injection
A Mexican councillor has provoked outrage after that homeless people should be put down like animals to keep the number of them on the streets down. Olga Gutierrez Machorro believes that beggars should be culled with lethal injection, believing it to be in their best interests.

Pope Francis Wants To Be President Of The World
Pope Francis gave a 45-minute secular homily to Congress on the need for American lawmakers to honor communal morality drawn from the Catholic social gospel. In U.S. political terms, it was as if this man clad in simple white robes was leader of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.

The United Nations Prophecy Bomb Pope Francis Dropped That Nobody Caught
From a prophecy perspective, which is the only angle we really are concerned with, his words are literally off the charts. “Thank you for your kind words. Once again, following a tradition by which I feel honored, the Secretary General of the United Nations has invited the Pope to address this distinguished assembly of nations. In my own name, and that of the entire Catholic community, I wish to express to you, Mr Ban Ki-moon, my heartfelt gratitude.

Obama has turned Putin into the world’s most powerful leader
The baton was officially transferred Monday to the world’s new sole superpower — and Vladimir Putin willingly picked it up. President Obama (remember him?) embraced the ideals espoused by the United Nations’ founders 70 years ago: Diplomacy and “international order” will win over time, while might and force will lose.

Miyako, Japan 5M Earthquake, Tuesday Sep. 29 2015
The USGS has reported a 5 magnitude earthquake has struck Miyako, Japan at 08:46:53 Tuesday Sep. 29, 2015 GMT, at a depth of 35 km that was felt locally and in surrounding areas.

Cost of migration crisis means nothing to us, says top EU official
The EU’s leaders “do not care about the political cost" of their handling of the migration crisis because they do not have to face election, one of its top officials has admitted.

Shattered Syria May Never Be Put Back Together
The government, dominated by President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect, controls Damascus, the Alawite heartland along the Mediterranean coast, other cities, and connecting corridors in between. Kurds run their own affairs in the northeast. ISIS controls much of the Sunni heartland in the east. Other Sunni rebels control pockets in the north and south.

Polish Army Securing Nazi Gold Train Area
Polish Soldiers and explosives experts on Monday launched a six-day operation to secure the area where authorities suspect a Nazi-era train loaded with looted gold is buried, news agencies are reporting. The soldiers are searching some three feet below the surface, checking for mines or any other dangerous objects, before municipal workers begin excavations come Oct. 3.

Tropical Storm Joaquin forms in Atlantic Ocean
Tropical Storm Joaquin formed in the Atlantic on Monday, becoming the 10th named storm of the season, while Hurricane Marty ambled toward the south-central coast of Mexico in the eastern Pacific.

Putin 'worried' by Israeli strikes in Syria
Russia "must respect Israeli interests" in Syria, but is also "worried" regarding Israeli strikes in Syrian territory, said Russian President Vladimir Putin early Tuesday morning at a press debrief.

Commodity rout hits traders, emerging markets
Shares in commodity trading firms took another tumble on Tuesday, driving global stocks to their lowest in more than two years as pressure built on raw materials prices and emerging markets.

DARK LUNAR ECLIPSE
"It was one of the darkest lunar eclipses I have ever seen," Other observers (see the gallery) also remarked on the darker hue of this lunar eclipse, compared to others in recent years.

SOLAR FLARE AND RADIO BLACKOUT
a strong M7-class solar flare erupted in the magnetic canopy of sunspot AR2422. Extreme UV radiation from the flare ionized the top of Earth's atmosphere and caused a brief low-frequency radio blackout over South America and the Atlantic ocean:

Marty becomes a hurricane, nears Mexico's Pacific coast
Hurricane Marty formed on Monday, rolling northeast toward Mexico's Pacific Coast and threatening to dump heavy rain on the southwest of the country, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. The hurricane, which is around 145 miles (233 km) west of the beach resort of Acapulco, was heading northeast at about 6 miles per hour (10 kilometers per hour) and producing maximum sustained winds of 80 mph (129 kph), the Miami-based NHC said.

El Niño persists as positive IOD emerges in a warm Indian Ocean
The tropical Pacific ocean and atmosphere are reinforcing each other, maintaining a strong El Niño that is likely to persist into early 2016. Tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures are more than 2 °C above average, exceeding El Niño thresholds by well over 1 °C, and at levels not seen since the 1997–98 event.

Obama Confronts Russia, China and Iran In Speech to UN
Obama took on a confrontational tone in his speech this morning to the United Nations General Assembly, specifically calling out Russia, China and Iran for destabilizing activities in various world conflicts.Obama opened his speech directly decrying "strong states that seek to impose their will on weaker ones," then alluded to Russian support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.


while Israel can’t depend on the United States with Barack Obama as its president, Israel can work with Russia’s Vladimir Putin...we need to recognize that Russia is not the Soviet Union. Yes, Russia has superpower aspirations, which include projecting its power in the Middle East. But unlike the Soviet Union, Russia’s actions are not informed by an overarching world view that is inherently anti-Semitic.”

Al-Sisi: Palestinian state would remove pretext for terror
The creation of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital would remove one of the most problematic issues in the region, Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said in his speech to the UN... Al-Sisi added that such a move would also effectively eliminate one of the most dangerous pretexts for extremism and terror, stressing that “the recent events at al-Aqsa emphasize the need for a comprehensive solution.”

Obama’s Global Warming, Syria Push at United Nations Skips Congress
At the United Nations Monday, President Barack Obama touted what are probably the two biggest items left on his to-do list before leaving office — a global warming agreement later this year in Paris and a settlement to the Syria conflict. Congress barely got a mention. The Paris accord, like the Iran deal before it, will be strictly an executive agreement, given that Obama wouldn’t have the votes to pass anything in either chamber.

Syria conflict: Russia considers joining anti-IS air strikes
Russia is considering whether to follow the US and its allies in conducting air strikes against Islamic State (IS) targets, President Vladimir Putin says. Mr Putin spoke after meeting Barack Obama on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly (UNGA). But the meeting, and the leaders' speeches at the UNGA, also highlighted splits about how to end the Syrian war.

Bangladesh: IS claims it killed Italian aid worker
Dhaka police say they are investigating the murder of an Italian aid worker who was shot on Monday night. The Islamic State group says it carried on the attack, shooting dead Cesare Tavella, 50, in the city's diplomatic quarter. Police Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia said Tavella was jogging when two attackers fired at him from behind.

Afghan forces launch bid to retake Kunduz from Taliban
Afghan forces have begun an operation to retake the city of Kunduz, after suffering a major military reverse when it was seized by the Taliban on Monday. Security forces have cleared the area around the central prison and the police headquarters, officials said. The US said it carried out an air strike on the city early on Tuesday.

'Israel concerned with build-up of Iranian forces in Syria near Golan border'
Israel is concerned with the build-up of Iranian forces in Syria, near the border with Israel... Steinitz's comments came amid the recent addition of Russian troops to Syria to bolster President Bashar Assad in his fight against Islamic State and other rebel groups challenging his rule in Syria. However, the Likud minister was more concerned with the infusion of troops from Assad's other central backer, Iran.

Drafting the Pope into global warming and One World Government Battles a failure
Message to Obama and the UN: Your drafting of the Pope into your decades long battle was an absolute failure because you can never make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, or a global citizen out of a patriot.

Hajj stampede death toll climbs to 1,100
The death toll from one of the worst stampedes during Hajj pilgrimage has hit 1,100, among them 42 Pakistani pilgrims, officials confirmed on Monday. The revised tally came a day after Pakistan’s Religious Affairs Minister Sardar Yousaf told a news conference in Saudi Arabia that 36 Pakistanis were among the stampede victims.

Typhoon lashes Taiwan, killing 2, injuring more than 300
A typhoon struck mainland China on Tuesday after lashing Taiwan, where it killed two, injured hundreds and left hundreds of thousands without power or wate

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