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Israel Today Staff — Three-month-old baby, Chaya Zissel Braun, who had American citizenship, was killed and seven other people wounded when Abdel Rahman a-Shaludi drove his car into commuters waiting at the Jerusalem light rail stop Wednesday night.The memo was sent to employees of the American consulate, which is based in East Jerusalem. It asks staff to report "any emergency."
The family of the driver, who was killed by police gunfire when he tried to flee the scene after the attack, had been jailed in the past for various security related offenses, claim that the attack was an accident.
Consulate officials said the statement had not intended to downplay the severity of the incident, and that its authors wanted to focus employees' attention on the security situation following the attack and give warning concerning the ensuing protests.
The spokesman for the Consulate, Leslie Orderman, said in response: "Our position is the position of the State Department spokesperson, who condemned in the strongest language the act of terrorism in Jerusalem. We have expressed our deepest condolences to the family of the baby who was killed in this heinous terrorist attack."
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Young Captured ISIS Fighters Describe Atrocities
“Either join ISIS or be beheaded.”
Tom Hinchey, Western Journalism — CBS reporter Holly Williams is in northern Syria interviewing men in a Kurdish prison accused of being ISIS terrorists. The terrified prisoners were led blindfolded into a basement one by one so she could ask them questions. One man, Suleiman Mohanned, who is accused of plotting to detonate a car bomb, thought he was going to be beaten by his captors.Ms. Williams spoke with several prisoners who claimed to have been captured by ISIS when their villages were invaded by the heavily-armed group. Kareem Mufleh, 15, was captured during a firefight in January. He had three bullet wounds to the stomach. His captors saved his life. The youngster told the reporter that he was given a choice:
“They captured my village and gave me a choice. Either join ISIS or be beheaded.”The boy said that he had witnessed massacres in various villages in Syria.
“I even saw them kill a woman because her wedding dress showed her neck and bare arms.”
“That drug makes you lose your mind. If they give you a suicide belt and tell you to blow yourself up, you’ll do it.”
Williams reports that behind the façade of masked gunmen who slaughter those who disagree with their violent interpretation of Islam, there are frightened teens who are drugged and forced to fight.
Alan Keyes: Obama Destroying ‘Everything American’
By Paul Bremmer, WND Exclusive —
Ambassador Alan Keyes is not a fan of Barack Obama. At all. The candidate who lost to Obama in the 2004 U.S. Senate race in Illinois believes the president has committed several high crimes and misdemeanors that warrant impeachment. And Keyes, a WND columnist who was given the prestigious Christopher Reeve First Amendment Award by the social and political advocacy organization The Creative Coalition on Oct. 14, is not shy about using his First Amendment rights to express his opinions.First, he said, Obama has abused executive orders. He explained the U.S. Constitution does not explicitly mention executive orders, and such orders are simply meant to be directions from the president to the various executive departments and agencies. In other words, they are the president’s way of telling the bureaucrats under his control how to enforce laws and regulations. But that only applies when the orders follow the country’s law and regulations, Keyes said. “If the orders deal with things not authorized by law or [are] contrary to the Constitution, then he commits an impeachable offense,” Keyes said. “He is basically violating his sworn duty, which is to see that the laws are faithfully executed, and to uphold and preserve the Constitution of the United States.”...
CNN: NYC Hatchet Attacker ‘Radicalized’ By Islamic State Propaganda
By Washington Free Beacon Staff —
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper and correspondents discussed a disturbing hatchet attack by 32-year-old Zale Thompson on two NYPD officers Thursday and the potential that Thompson may have been “radicalized” by Islamic State (IS, ISIL, or ISIS) propaganda after a review of his social media accounts.“What is truly concerning police are his social media postings–Facebook, YouTube, et cetera–which has raised suspicions that this random attack that you see in the surveillance video right there is tied to recent calls by radical groups including ISIS for random attacks like this on law enforcement,” CNN correspondent Jim Sciutto said....
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Lies and More Secrets: Obama Uses Executive Privilege To Block 15,000 Documents Related To Fast And Furious
TPNN — In yet another attempt to cloak the Attorney General within the dubious claim of executive privilege, President Obama has sought to conceal the contents of over 15,000 documents pertaining to the Fast and Furious scandal that left American Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry dead at the hands of firearms funneled to Mexican drug cartels while the Justice Department did nothing.
In July, a federal judge ruled that the Justice Department must comply with a Judicial Watch request and turn over the “Vaughn Index,” a collection of over 15,000 documents that concern the Fast and Furious operation that many allege served as a false flag operation to spur violence on the border in an effort to justify a Justice Department crackdown on gun sellers and purchasers.
Last month, a federal judge took issue with the Justice Department’s delays in releasing the documents and ordered them released by October 22nd.
Though the federal judge ordered the release of the Vaughn Index, the Obama Administration has claimed executive privilege over the documents. At the height of legislative inquiry over Attorney General Eric Holder’s role in the scandal, Obama protected the Attorney General and sealed-off the investigation by asserting executive privilege that extends to his top law enforcer- a claim that is of questionable legality but that has been, nonetheless, less-than vigorously challenged.
Holder remains the only Attorney General to have ever been held in [criminal] contempt of Congress in our nation’s history....
Solar Storm 14 Times Larger Than Earth Could Unleash
A Society-Crippling Electromagnetic Pulse
By Michael Snyder, End Of The American Dream —A Society-Crippling Electromagnetic Pulse
Did you know that a storm 14 times larger than the Earth is happening on the sun right now? Earlier this week, it unleashed a flare which was a million times more powerful than all of the nuclear weapons in existence combined. Fortunately, that flare was not directed at us. But now the area of the sun where this solar storm is located is rotating toward Earth. An eruption on the sun at just the right time and at just the right angle could result in a society-crippling electromagnetic pulse blasting this planet. So if your computers, cell phones and electronic equipment get fried at some point over the next few weeks, you will know what is probably to blame. Such an electromagnetic pulse has hit our planet before, and as you will read about below, some very prominent voices are warning that it will happen again. It is just a matter of time.Scientists tell us that the absolutely massive sunspot group that has recently formed on the sun is highly unusual. NASA has described it as “crackling” with magnetic energy. The mainstream media has not been paying too much attention to it, but this sunspot group is potentially extremely dangerous. The following is an excerpt from an article on Discovery.com that gives some of the technical details about what has been going on....
Ben Carson: Houston Mayor Using Alinsky Tactics
By Mark Andrews, Charisma News —
You don't have to be a constitutional scholar to recognize the blatant violation of constitutional principles that's involved in the Houston City Council's power grab to subpoena the sermons of five area ministers, as well as internal correspondence dealing with social issues.The council and Mayor Annise Parker are sensitive to what pastors are telling their congregations about same-sex marriage and a new ordinance the council passed—in the face of strident public opposition—in the name of gender equality. So, they have subpoenaed the sermon texts and other materials to try to quell dissent....
NewsBusted: October 24, 2014
The Green Light For Conservative Laughter!
Topics for this Edition of NewsBusted
• Midterm Elections
• Republicans
• ISIS
• Falling Oil Prices
• Hardball with Chris Matthews
• STD Infections
• Kris and Bruce Jenner
• Mothers and Kids
• God and Sporting Events
CDC: NY Ebola Doc Passed ‘Enhanced Airport Screening’
By Sarah Fisher, Truth Revolt —
The Center for Disease Control tweeted early this morning that Dr. Craig Spencer, diagnosed with Ebola, had successfully passed the new "enhanced" airport screening for the Ebola virus.The CDC rushed staff to New York to help handle the situation. Spencer arrived from West Africa six days ago after working with Ebola patients in Guinea. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital after testing positive for the virus....
Obama Attends $32,400 Democratic Fundraiser As Ebola Hits NYC
By Wynton Hall, Breitbart —
President Barack Obama attended a private $32,400-a-seat Democratic National Committee fundraiser at the home of Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) on Thursday as news hit that Dr. Craig Spencer had been rushed to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan and tested for Ebola--tests that proved positive. Obama's attendance at Rockefeller's $18 million palatial mansion marks the president's 62nd presidential fundraiser this year. Media were barred from Obama's one-percenter confab--the 28th such fundraiser wherein the "most transparent administration in history" blocked access to reporters. ...
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NYC Races To Trace Ebola Patient’s Steps
By Drew MacKenzie, Newsmax — New York City health officials are racing to trace people who may have had contact with Ebola patient Dr. Craig Spencer, even as they try to prevent panic by assuring residents there’s little danger of catching the deadly disease.
But they face a series of mounting challenges in the densely populated city of more than 8 million people: The night before Spencer took seriously ill on Thursday he went to a bowling alley in Brooklyn, taking a long subway ride there from his Upper Manhattan home and returning by taxi, according to The New York Times.
Spencer’s fiancée and two friends who he had been in contact with two days before he was hospitalized are now in quarantine, while the driver of the Uber car service he used to return from the bowling alley, The Gutter, is not yet considered at risk.
But the people who were at the bowling alley in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn on Wednesday night may be alarmed, especially in light of the fact that Spencer may have used a bowling ball that, in turn, could have been used by another bowler. It is not yet known whether he used his own ball, or even bowled.
Spencer has said he started feeling sluggish on Tuesday, The Times reported. When he was hospitalized Thursday and put in isolation, he had a temperature of 103 degrees.
City officials are already attempting to assuage fears that the 33-year-old doctor may have contaminated a subway car during his ride, which involved taking the A and L trains to get to Brooklyn from his home on West 147 Street, according to The Wall Street Journal....
But they face a series of mounting challenges in the densely populated city of more than 8 million people: The night before Spencer took seriously ill on Thursday he went to a bowling alley in Brooklyn, taking a long subway ride there from his Upper Manhattan home and returning by taxi, according to The New York Times.
Spencer’s fiancée and two friends who he had been in contact with two days before he was hospitalized are now in quarantine, while the driver of the Uber car service he used to return from the bowling alley, The Gutter, is not yet considered at risk.
But the people who were at the bowling alley in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn on Wednesday night may be alarmed, especially in light of the fact that Spencer may have used a bowling ball that, in turn, could have been used by another bowler. It is not yet known whether he used his own ball, or even bowled.
Spencer has said he started feeling sluggish on Tuesday, The Times reported. When he was hospitalized Thursday and put in isolation, he had a temperature of 103 degrees.
City officials are already attempting to assuage fears that the 33-year-old doctor may have contaminated a subway car during his ride, which involved taking the A and L trains to get to Brooklyn from his home on West 147 Street, according to The Wall Street Journal....
U.S. And Allies Scramble Fighter Jets
Almost Daily To Repel Russian Incursions
NTEB News Desk —Almost Daily To Repel Russian Incursions
“The more we retreat, the more we are encouraging Russia to behave in a more aggressive way.” Russian military provocations have increased so much over the seven months since Moscow annexed Crimea from Ukraine that Washington and its allies are scrambling defense assets on a nearly daily basis in response to air, sea and land incursions by Vladimir Putin’s forces.Not only is Moscow continuing to foment unrest in Eastern Ukraine, U.S. officials and regional security experts say Russian fighter jets are testing U.S. reaction times over Alaska and Japan’s ability to scramble planes over its northern islands — all while haunting Sweden’s navy and antagonizing Estonia’s tiny national security force....
Ottawa Gunman Told Fellow Muslim Convert
‘The Devil Is Chasing Me’
By Philip Sherwell, Montreal, The Telegraph —‘The Devil Is Chasing Me’
The deranged Muslim gunman who went on a murderous rampage in the Canadian capital this week had confided to a friend and fellow worshipper that he believed the devil was chasing him.But for Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, a former Roman Catholic public schoolboy who later converted to Islam, the alarming admission was just one more stage in the long downward spiral of his life. He was raised in the comfortable environment of suburban Montreal as the only son of a French-Canadian mother with a senior government job and a Libyan businessman father. ...
Canada
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Jesus Privately Briefing His Inner Circle of Disciples
Regarding The Last Days
Regarding The Last Days
“And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.” ~ Matthew 24:3-14