Saturday, December 13, 2014

NEWS BRIEFS: DECEMBER 13, 2014


Current Events And Commentaries
“And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come,
he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.”
~ Jesus
Luke 12:39

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Shock Prayer: City Calls On Allah, Zeus, Satan
Mayor, commissioners walk out during ‘invocation’ by atheist

By Bob Unruh — An atheist invited to give the opening prayer at a Lake Worth, Florida, City Commission meeting recently called on the “wisdom of Satan” and declared “if almighty Thor is with us, who can ever be against us,” a perversion of a New Testament verse.

It was not altogether surprising as people with nontraditional beliefs increasingly are demanding their place in the public square.

But in this case, a number of city commissioners expressed their opinion of the “invocation” – without saying a word.

They got up and walked out.

“Free speech works both ways,” Mayor Pam Triolo told WPTV after the event. “You can say what you want, and I can choose to leave.”

The invocation was offered by Miami “anti-theist” Preston Smith, according to a column by Tim Brown at Freedom Outpost.

Brown described the statements as “utterly moronic” and noted that three other commissioners walked out with Triolo then returned for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Brown wrote that Smith states people “can create a better, more equal community without religious divisions.”

“Of course, we all know that is not what he wants. He simply wants people not to speak about God and morality,” Brown wrote.

“Though he mentions Satan, Allah, Buddha, Zeus, and even Jesus, it all comes down to the fact that he openly states that he wants people to ‘do good for goodness sake’ and he doesn’t want to hear about damnation or judgment.”

Brown said the problem for Smith is that he has “no authority outside of himself to determine what is good.”

“Second, by his own logic, he has no means to impose his view of goodness upon anyone else,” Brown continued. “He mocked true prayer by calling on the remaining members and others in attendance to ‘pray.’ In a similar manner to the RINOs in the House, who stood by reverently as an Islamic imam offered a ‘prayer’ to Allah, these people stood by silently with heads bowed reverently as Smith demonstrated his foolishness. ”

WPTV said Triolo explained she left not because of Smith’s beliefs but because of an earlier Twitter message in which he presented an offensive interpretation of the Bible. She told the station she was concerned the “invocation” would be more of the same.

When the council members walked out, Smith said, “Duly noted.”

Then Smith said: “Our collective atheism, which is to say, loving empathy, scientific evidence, and critical thinking leads us to believe we can create a better more equal community without religious divisions. May we pray together.”

He prayed:
Mother Earth, we gather today in your redeeming and glorious presence to invoke your eternal guidance in the universe, the original creator of all things. May the efforts of this council blend the righteousness of Allah with the all knowing wisdom of Satan. May Zeus, the great god of justice, grant us strength tonight. Jesus might forgive our shortcomings while Buddha enlightens us through his divine affection.

We praise you Krishna for the sanguine sacrifice that freed us all. After all, if almighty Thor is with us, who can ever be against us? And finally for the bounty of logic, reason and science, we simply thank the atheists, agnostics, humanists, who now account for one in five Americans and growing rapidly.

In closing. Let us above all, love one another, not to obtain mythical rewards for ourselves now, hereafter or based on superstitious threats of eternal damnation, but rather embrace secular-based principles of morality, and do good for goodness sake.

And so we pray, so what?
Commissioner Christopher McVoy stayed for the invocation, saying he felt he had a responsibility “to respectfully listen.”

But Brown warned that when a nation “forgets God, God brings judgment upon that nation and we are seeing it before our eyes … blasphemers, idolaters, sodomites and other sins and crimes abound in our nation, and why?”

“The church has not been salt and light, but rather has pampered herself and whored herself out, despising the cross of Christ for the accolades of man,” he said. “It’s time the church repented and stood against the gates of Hell and prevailed over them once again. Without such repentance, there is simply more judgment to look forward to.”

Smith’s speech has now inspired at least one other atheist activist, Chaz Stevens, to send an email to Lake Worth city commissioners, asking for permission to deliver a Satanic invocation at a future meeting....

Watch VIDEO: American University Professor Jamal Al-Din Ibrahim: John McCain Established ISIS

By Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs — John McCain went to Syria, got photographed with Al Qaeda-linked terrorists, and declared those savages moderates. McCain was wrong about the Syrian “rebels.” Qui cum canibus concumbunt cum pulicibus surgent, if you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. Bah dah bing, bah da boom. This photo will (and should) haunt McCain the rest of his uninformed days. Look who he got into bed with. Self-Proclaimed American University Professor Jamal Al-Din Ibrahim: John McCain Established ISIS...

ISIS: Prelude To Apocalypse

By Elwood McQuaid, The Christian Post — Standing atop a mountain plateau in the stark Judean wilderness, one can look down at the remains of Roman siege camps that eventually trapped some 960 Jewish men, women and children who had fled Jerusalem to Masada while the Romans slaughtered Jews by the thousands in the Holy City in A.D. 70. Masada stands as a stark testimonial to a chapter in history most thought would never happen again. The scope of Roman savagery is a study in the fallen nature of godless, corrupt tyrants who have no regard for human life....

Jonathan “Americans Are Stupid” Gruber
Subpoenaed To Turn Over All Documents!

Gabor (Gabe) Zolna
Congressman Darrell Issa’s committee has subpoenaed all documents between Jonathan Gruber and the federal government, as well as state governments, that Gruber contacted or worked with that pertains to Obama-Care.

Big Win for Netanyahu: Party Primaries Now Dec. 31

By John Waage, CBN News — JERUSALEM, Israel -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at least partially silenced critics by winning a secret Likud vote Thursday to move the party's primaries up to December 31 from January 6. Netanyahu supporters had wanted the earlier date to fend off challengers within the party to his chairmanship in advance of Israel's national elections to be held March 17. The Knesset was dissolved earlier this week after divisions between left-leaning members of the government and the ruling Likud party widened in part over a law that would officially declare Israel to be a Jewish state....

LIKE CLOCKWORK: Pension Plans To Be Looted Nationwide
As Congress Okays Institutional Theft Of Funds

By Mike Adams, Natural News — On April 2, 2013, in an article entitled Economics 101: Production, coercion and theft, I wrote about the coming looting of pension plans, stating: When societies approach collapse, coercion shifts to outright theft: Stealing money right out of your bank account, for example, like we recently witnessed in Cyprus. Government also routinely target pension funds and even private retirement accounts, attempting to keep itself afloat by any means necessary. Just like clockwork, that looting of pension plans is now...

Oil Price Drop Guts Obama’s Green Agenda!

Dick Morris TV - ‘Lunch Alert!’

The Oil War Has Begun, And It will Eventually Lead To
The Doom Of Mecca And The Worship of ANTICHRIST

By Walid Shoebat (Shoebat Exclusive) — Saudi Arabia which over a billion Muslims worship towards its direction for prayers began its war using oil to control both Russia and Iran. This war will not hurt the U.S. much, but will cause Mecca’s destruction. How all this will unfold must be explained from all angles, biblical, Islamic, economic and demographic. Firstly, from the biblical perspective. Why so many use the Bible to predict the end of the U.S. is beyond me. While the U.S. has its share of sin, it is not the greatest persecutor of the Church....

Madrid’s Largest Mosque Was Jihad Recruitment Center
Led By Ex-Gitmo Prisoner

By Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch — A mosque? What? A center of peaceful worship in accord with the peaceful Qur’an of the Religion of Peace? How could this be? Why didn’t the vast majority of peaceful Muslims rise up and throw out these misunderstanders of Islam who were busy twisting and hijacking their peaceful religion? “Madrid mosque was used to recruit combatants for Syria and Iraq,” by Fernando J. PĂ©rez, El Pais, December 12, 2014 (thanks to Fjordman): Madrid’s largest mosque was functioning as a Jihadist recruitment...

Lena Dunham, Al Sharpton, Eric Holder
And The New Barbarism

Truth Revolt Originals: “Bill Whittle: Firewall”
Rioting. Slander. The wanton personal destruction of people known by their accusers to be innocent. In his latest Firewall, Bill Whittle shows how events like the rioting in Ferguson do not occur in a vacuum, and how Progressives not only tolerate this lawlessness, this New Barbarism -- they teach it.

Partial Transcript: In the aftermath of the acquittal of the police officer involved in the Michael Brown shooting, the town of Ferguson erupted into riots. Hardly surprising when the former Attorney General, Eric Holder – presumably fully informed of the same evidence that the Grand Jury saw before declining to press any charges against the officer – went all in and decided to literally make a Federal Case out of the incident. President Obama, prior to the decision, met with leaders of the so-called protest movement, telling them to stay the course – he too, needless to say, was fully informed about what actually happened that day on the streets of Ferguson and knew that an officer of the law was innocent. Lawlessness is nothing to these two reprehensible individuals. But power – power is everything. We’ll come back to them in a minute.

This case was manufactured from the ground up, by Holder, Obama, and other evil people, to hold political power. Stealing a television set does not undo injustice – not even a trumped-up one; walking out of a looted store is not a civil rights act. It’s lawlessness, it’s violence, it’s chaos and it’s brutality, and that’s all it is. It’s Barbarism. Read full transcript here

Shutdown Looming: Outgoing Senate Leader Harry Reid
Blocks Quick Budget Deal to Protect Exec Amnesty

By Warner Todd Huston, Breitbart — A last-second vote helped pass the new federal budget bill through the House of Representatives late Thursday evening, but the Senate still has to give its approval before it can land on President Obama's desk. With the clock ticking down, a deal to quickly send the bill to the Oval Office failed, resulting in the possibility that the upper chamber might not get the job done before the government runs out of money at midnight on Saturday. Reports state that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tried to force a quick Friday afternoon vote to send the CR-Omnibus budget to the President to be signed into law, but Republican Senators Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, and Jeff Sessions wanted Reid to agree to allow a vote to defund Obama's amnesty plans before they would agree to vote for the budget. ...

BOMBSHELL: Republican Congressman:
Boehner LIED To Me To Get My Vote

By Greg Campbell, TPNN — Speaker of the House John Boehner may soon find himself short on friends after he betrayed each and every American with his crusade to pass the Cromnibus resolution that funds both Obamacare and the unconstitutional amnesty program created via executive fiat. However, while each and every American ought to feel betrayed, one Republican congressman says he feels particularly betrayed and asserts that Speaker Boehner lied to him to get his vote on bringing the Cromnibus to the House floor....

Voters & America Betrayed By *RINO*
*Republican In Name Only*

» Cartoonist: Gary Varvel is the editorial cartoonist for The Indianapolis Star. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1957, Varvel was drawn to cartoons as a child when he saw a copy of MAD magazine. His freshman year at Danville High School in Danville, Indiana, Varvel won his first cartoon contest held by the school newspaper.

Jesus Privately Briefing His Inner Circle of Disciples
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