Thursday, January 1, 2015

NEWS BRIEFS: JANUARY 1, 2015


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

WND
America’s Independent News Network - “A Free Press for a Free People”

America’s Christian Heritage Comes To Life
Eye-opening feature reveals roots of faith from which U.S. grew

WND, America’s Christian Heritage — America has forgotten something.

Mired in political correctness, deceived by “civil liberties” activists and confused by conflicting rulings from its highest courts, America has lost sight of the rich, Christian heritage from which its founding principles were born.

Which is why William Federer, author, speaker and president of Amerisearch, Inc., is making it his mission to remind Americans of the faith that gave them freedom.

Now, beginning New Year’s Day, Federer’s “American Minute” – a daily reminder of the role faith has played in shaping our history – is coming to WND’s Diversions page.

“There is such a tremendous lack of people knowing their heritage nowadays,” Federer told WND. “I love the quote from Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Arthur M. Schlesigner Jr., in an op-ed titled ‘Folly’s Antidote’ (New York Times, Jan. 1, 2007): ‘History is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As persons deprived of memory become disoriented and lost, not knowing where they have been and where they are going, so a nation denied a conception of the past will be disabled in dealing with its present and its future.’”

Federer is the author of “America’s God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations” and creator of the DVD series “Change to Chains: The 6,000 Year Quest for Control.”

Twice Federer challenged Rep. Dick Gephardt, D-Mo., as the Republican nominee to Congress, but now Federer hosts the television program “Faith in History” on the TCT Network and radio segment “American Minute,” broadcast daily across the nation. His publishing company, Amerisearch, Inc., is dedicated to researching America’s Christian heritage.

Each daily installment of Federer’s “American Minute” takes readers on an inspiring and eye-opening journey into history, when men and women of faith built the foundation for the laws and liberty Americans enjoy today. Many of the stories will be new and unfamiliar to readers, but each reveals our country’s amazing Christian heritage.

Federer quoted Winston Churchill to explain why remembering and understanding our Christian heritage is so important: “‘The longer you look back,’ said Winston Churchill, ‘the farther you can look forward.’”

Go now to read the first American Minute of 2015!
Obama Gives Islamists New Year’s Gift;
Releases 5 More GITMO Terrorists

By Matthew Burke, TPNN — While Americans were busy enjoying a week of lingering Christmas cheer and were getting ready to ring in the New Year, progressive dictator Barack Obama again appeased radical Islamists by releasing five terrorists from Guantanamo Bay on Wednesday, New Year’s Eve.

FOX News reports that this is Obama’s scheme to eventually close the terrorist detention facility, a campaign promise made to his naive pacifist followers six years ago:
The Defense Department announced Wednesday that five more prisoners will be transferred out of Guantanamo Bay to another nation, in the latest step by the Obama administration to whittle down the prisoner population in pursuit of ultimately closing the camp.
In May, Obama came under considerable heat for swapping Bowe Bergdahl, considered a deserter by his platoon, in exchange for five notorious Islamist terrorists....
America: Israel Among Top Most “Unacceptable” Countries

By David Lazarus, Israel Today — The US State Department in 2014 condemned Israel as one of the most “unacceptable” countries in the world, just behind North Korea.

According to an article published last week by Foreign Policy, over the past year the Obama Administration State Department cited Israel for "unacceptable behavior" more times than Pakistan, Russia, Egypt, China, Afghanistan and Iraq. The article examined how many times a country’s actions were condemned as “unacceptable,” and Israel came in fourth, right after Syria, Iran and North Korea....
Who’s Going To Replace John Boehner
For His Grave Betrayal Of American Voters?

CleanTV: Family-Friendly Television and Video On Demand

Partial Transcript: “Who is going to replace House Speaker John Boehner?” The answer to that question is very simple: I don’t know.

I won’t say, “I don’t care.” I just don’t know. The important thing is that he be replaced for his grave betrayal in capitulating to Obama on amnesty and national healthcare. He needs to be punished politically as a message to his fellow Republican House members who empowered him. I doubt very much if his successor will follow Boehner’s lead in betraying Republican voters last month.

The House speaker need not be perfect. He or she just needs to be faithful to the people who placed them all in office and in power. Otherwise, our two-party system is a joke. Right now, it’s worse than a joke. It’s a lie. ... read full transcript here
2014: Top Highlights In The Fight Against Islamic Extremism
American Islamists like CAIR were exposed for their ties to the Muslim
Brotherhood when they were designated as a terror group by the UAE

By Ryan Mauro, The Clarion Project — The year 2014 will be remembered for the war against the Islamic State, the interim nuclear deal with Iran, Hamas’ brutal kidnapping and murder of Israeli teens and other harrowing developments.

However, the year also saw fight against Islamic extremism. Here are the top 19 moments in 2014 where Islamic extremism was bruised...
Obama Frees A Nuclear Terrorist

By Daniel Greenfield, Frontpage Mag— Which terrorist will Obama set loose next from Gitmo? A better question might be is there any terrorist he won’t free? Is there an Al Qaeda or Taliban Jihadist who poses too much of a threat to the United States for Obama to free with a lot of airline miles and Michelle Obama’s recipe for arugula fruitcake?

If Obama has a red line when it comes to releasing terrorists, we haven’t seen it yet.

There appears to be no threat that a terrorist can pose and no crime he has committed too severe to prevent him from getting a plane trip out of Gitmo at taxpayer expense....
Viewer Comments About
Obama’s Countless Attacks!
“God Made US A Great Nation To Defend Israel”

Gabor (Gabe) Zolna
The Man In Pennsylvania Who Wanted To Murder Police Officers, Was Extremely Anti-Christian And A Demon Possessed Occultist (WHAT THE MEDIA IS NOT TELLING YOU)

By By Theodore Shoebat, Shoebat Foundation — The man in Pennsylvania, named Joseph Pacini, who wanted to murder police officers, was very anti-Christian and most definitely demon possessed. The media tells you that it was mental illness, but they are not bringing the spiritual factor involved.

He believed in the occultic idea that God makes male and female versions of the same soul. Pacini believed that he was the male version of the soul of song writer Sara Bareilles, saying:
That means God creates a soul, one soul, and sepearates it into one male and one female… I am the male version of Sara Beth Bareilles, and Sara Beth Bareilles is the female version. I happen to love Sara with all my heart, all my soul.
He also wanted to start a cult teaching that everyone must worship the “universal God” and not the God of the Christian Church....
Merkel Boner: German Chancellor Tells Germans
Not To Attend Anti-Islamization Rallies

By Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch — It is the same story again and again and again: any voice raised against a political and social system that mandates the end of the freedom of speech and the freedom of conscience, and second-class status for women and non-believers, is consigned to “bigotry,” “hatred,” “racism,” “nativism,” “xenophobia,” etc. Those who make these charges never point to someone and say, “This person is engaging in valid criticism of Sharia and jihad terror, without tipping over into bigotry” — although Hamas-linked CAIR and others have claimed that there are such people, they have never named one, and I think it is safe to say that they never will, because for years now Hamas-linked CAIR and its allies have leveled these charges against people (including me) who were not in the least bigoted, racist, hateful or xenophobic. In reality, they tar anyone and everyone, without exception (remember Bill Maher?) with these labels if he or she dares to stand for a society that guarantees equality of rights of all people before the law, as opposed to Sharia....
Obama Building A Civilian Army For 2015,
Get Ready For War

Promoting Common Sense One Person At A Time
Obama Said: “We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
Vatican Rising: Pope Francis And Obama Form Political Alliance
Pope Francis flexes his muscle as political powerbroker

“For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” ~ Jesus, Matthew 16:26

NTEB News Desk — In 2014, Pope Francis emerged as a hard-core political player, using the Vatican to conduct secret meetings between the US and Cuba which led to an unprecedented new partnership between the two nations. In 2015, the pope will again attempt to influence events by being the keynote speaker at the United Nations Global Warming conference in Paris.

While pretending to oppose them, the Catholic Church has long been a supporter of Socialist and Communist regimes in South and Central American countries, something that is very appealing to an Alinsky Marxist community organizer like Barack Obama. Getting the United States to re-open ties with Communist Cuba was a huge win for the Vatican, and will greatly help to advance their agenda. Having Obama submit to the Vatican’s leading is a great portend of things to come....
Top 10 Major Media Cover-Ups Of 2014
WND’s annual review presents news that wasn’t ‘fit to print’

WND OPERATION SPIKE — Faced with political division regarded by some as worse than at any time since the Civil War, a broken economy, unprecedented national debt, abuse of executive power, an out-of-control judiciary and collapsing public morals, American voters overwhelmingly backed the Republican Party in the midterm elections, clearly signaling a desire to return to the nation’s founding principles.

Yet before the new Congress could even be seated – with the largest GOP House majority in 70 years and a new Senate majority – Republicans conceded to Democrat desires and passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill, forgoing opportunities to shut down President Obama’s executive amnesty and curb Obamacare.

That “betrayal,” as many conservative activists have called it, is the No. 1 underreported story of 2014, as selected by the WND editors with the help of the news site’s readers.

At the end of each year, many news organizations typically present their retrospective replays of what they consider to have been the top news stories of the previous 12 months. WND’s editors, however, long have considered it more newsworthy to publicize the most underreported or unreported news events of the year.

WND Editor and CEO Joseph Farah has sponsored “Operation Spike” every year since 1988, and since founding WND in May 1997, has continued the annual tradition.

Here are the 2014 picks...
2015 Prediction

» Cartoonist: Pat Bagley is the staff cartoonist for The Salt Lake Tribune in Salt Lake City, Utah, and an author and illustrator of several books. His cartoons are syndicated nationally by Cagle Cartoons.
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
on
Tags: Cartoons, Daily News Roundup, News Briefs, Videos