Friday, January 23, 2015

NEWS BRIEFS: JANUARY 23, 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

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GOP Leaders To Grant Obama
‘Enormous’ New Power

Congress Providing ‘Rubber Stamp’ On Foreign Policy

By Curtis Ellis — He’s already boasted of wielding power through a pen and a phone. Now President Obama wants to add a rubber stamp to his desk set – and the rubber stamp would be named “U.S. Congress.”

Buried in his State of the Union address, Obama said he will ask Congress to give him “trade promotion authority.”

He didn’t say what trade promotion authority would do. But critics charge that it would cede the Republican majority’s control of the congressional agenda to Obama and strip Congress of its ability to vet and amend international agreements.

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., acknowledges Obama is asking for is “an enormous grant of power, obviously, from a Republican Congress to a Democratic president.”

Yet McConnell and other GOP leaders in the House and Senate apparently are ready to surrender constitutional powers to the White House.

In the GOP response to Obama’s speech, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, signaled she is on board with the plan.

“Let’s tear down trade barriers in places like Europe and the Pacific,” she said.

She apparently was referring to the TransPacific Partnership and the TransAtlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, two global governance agreements the Obama administration has been negotiating without congressional oversight.

Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, announced Tuesday he will hold a hearing next week on trade policy featuring testimony from U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman, a Citibank crony who shuttles between jobs on Wall Street and in Washington.

Earlier this month, Ryan said giving Obama trade promotion authority, also known as fast track, is “the first thing we ought to do,” Politico reported.

Fast-track trade-promotion authority would expedite passage of the TransPacific Partnership. The sweeping international agreement would merge the U.S. economy with 11 other nations, including Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam, nations that practice Islamic law and persecute Christians and other non-Muslims. TPP has been described as the largest-ever economic treaty, representing more than 40 percent of the world’s gross domestic product. It’s the frontrunner to the equally secret Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TIPP, between the U.S. and the European Union.

“And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,
or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”
Revelation 13:17

Fast track was first devised by President Richard Nixon to strengthen his hand in negotiating reciprocal tariff reductions in trade agreements. Now, tariffs have already been reduced to the near vanishing point, and the TransPacific Partnership instead addresses a host of non-tariff issues.

In addition to rewriting copyright laws and Internet governance, it “confers special legal privileges on foreign-invested companies” and provides a host of protections to investors that “forces the public to subsidize the risk of [multinational corporations'] investment abroad, and effectively encourages outsourcing,” writes Dan Ikenson of the CATO Institute.

Under fast track rules, Congress would have little time to examine or debate the final agreement negotiated by Obama and would not be allowed to amend the text in any way. Only a simple majority, rather than a two-thirds majority, would be required to make it the law of the land.

Richard Manning, president of American for Limited Government, says: “Congress should be particularly wary of granting Obama fast-track trade promotion authority for his yet-to-be-finalized Trans-Pacific Partnership [TPP]. TPP would impact every aspect of American life, from the energy we use to the food we eat – even the Internet. It boggles the mind why the same Congress that was elected to stop Obama’s radical transformation of America would give him the legal basis to accomplish it beyond his wildest dreams during his final two years in office. Obama wouldn’t have to use his pen and phone – Congress would be saying, ‘Use ours.’”

Lou Dobbs blasted Republicans who complain of Obama’s executive overreach on one hand and on the other want to surrender Congress’ constitutional authority under Article 1 Section 8.

“How do you resolve the absolute conflict and contradiction between trade promotion authority which they wish to grant the president, which cedes their constitutional authority, and the leadership is insisting at the same time that they proceed against an unconstitutional executive fiat?” Dobbs asked.

“If [Republicans] defend it, they’re going to lose because it’s a contradiction. Either they resolve and be honest with the American people or we have Obama II sitting in the House and Senate,” said Dobbs. “The American people are not idiots and they’re getting tired of being treated like that.”

WND has reported on a coalition of faith-based, national security and limited government conservative groups opposed to granting Obama fast-track authority.

Frank Gaffney, president and founder of the Center for Security Policy, points to Obama’s disastrous record in the international arena, from giveaways to Iran to trading jailed jihadis for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.

“It would not only be the height of irresponsibility to essentially give the president a blank check, it would be something that makes the Congress complicit in the next bad deal,” he said.

WND has reported extensively on the TPP, including when Obama traveled to Asia to push the plan last year.

WND reported the White House, without much fanfare, wrapped Mexico and Canada into the TPP negotiations as a continuation of an effort regarded by critics as a move toward a European Union-style integration of North America....
Netanyahu ‘Spat In Our Face,’
White House Officials Say

By Times Of Israel Staff — The White House’s outrage over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to speak before Congress in March — a move he failed to coordinate with the administration — began to seep through the diplomatic cracks on Friday, with officials telling Haaretz the Israeli leader had “spat” in President Barack Obama’s face. “We thought we’ve seen everything,” the newspaper quoted an unnamed senior US official as saying. “But Bibi managed to surprise even us.

“There are things you simply don’t do. He spat in our face publicly and that’s no way to behave. Netanyahu ought to remember that President Obama has a year and a half left to his presidency, and that there will be a price,” he said....
Harvard Prof: Government Mosquito Drones
Will Extract Your DNA

“Privacy Is Dead,” Academic Tells Davos Elite

By Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars.com — Harvard Professor Margo Seltzer warned that miniature mosquito drones will one day forcibly extract your DNA on behalf of the government and insurance companies as she told elitists at the World Economic Forum in Davos that privacy was dead. Seltzer, a professor in computer science at Harvard University, told attendees, “Privacy as we knew it in the past is no longer feasible… How we conventionally think of privacy is dead.”

Seltzer went on to predict that in the near future, mosquito-sized robots would perpetually monitor individuals as well as collecting DNA and biometric information for governments and corporations.

“It’s not whether this is going to happen, it’s already happening,” said Seltzer on the issue of pervasive surveillance. “We live in a surveillance state today.” ...
Obama State Of The Union
Proves America Is Ruined

Alternative Media Television with Christopher Greene
‘Hard-hitting and in your face!’
Hawk: ISIS Has Nukes, Waiting For ‘Green Light’!
Russian Spetsnaz Prepping For Martial Law,
Gun Confiscation In America!

By All News Pipeline — In Thursday night's episode of Hawk's radio show our host takes the time to tie all of the myriad pieces of the puzzle together, sharing both information from his own 'deep background source' along with emerging facts from both the mainstream and alternative media's and shares more astounding information with us that ISIS both HAS NUKES (WITHIN THE USA!) and is being run by people out of Washington DC!

Hawk begins today's show by telling us about moves by the Israeli Defense Forces who are moving into Northern Israel in preparation for a possible attack by Iran and Hezbollah upon Israel. Near the 7 minute mark, Hawk turns his attention to ISIS and tells us that they are 'waiting for the green light' from their leaders in Washington DC while Russian Spetsnaz special forces, who are ALSO here in America, prepare to do the dirty work of the New World Order governing body by confiscating American's weapons while launching secretive attacks, such as the murder of DOD cybersecurity expert Don Pyle and his entire family. Hawk also brings up the massive fire in Edgewater, New Jersey recently that shows all the signs of arson. "The killing has begun" Hawk warns us. ...
Iran Isn’t Just Trying To Build A Nuclear Bomb

By Charles Krauthammer, Investors.com — While Iran's march toward a nuclear bomb has provoked a major clash between the White House and Congress, Iran's march toward conventional domination of the Arab world has been largely overlooked. In Washington, that is. The Arabs have noticed. And the pro-American ones, the Gulf Arabs in particular, are deeply worried. This week, Iranian-backed Houthi rebels seized control of the Yemeni government, heretofore pro-American. In September, they overran Sanaa, the capital. On Tuesday, they seized the presidential palace. On Thursday, they forced the president to resign.

The Houthi have local religious grievances, being Shiites in a majority Sunni land. But they are also agents of Shiite Iran, which arms, trains and advises them. Their slogan — "God is great. Death to America. Death to Israel." — could have been written in Persian....
Can You Guess Who I Am? Shocker

Iran Promises To ‘Collapse The Zionist Regime’
Following Airstrike

‘Devastating thunderbolts’ to hit the Jewish state, Iran says

By Adam Fredo, The Washington Free Beacon — The Iranian military continued to threaten Israel on Thursday, following the assassination of at least one of its senior commanders in Syria during an airstrike over the weekend, in multiple statements issued by leaders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Top Iranian military leaders promised to hit Israel with “devastating thunderbolts” vowed to effect the “collapse of the Zionist regime” after Israeli military forces launched a surprise strike on Sunday that killed six Iranian agents, including the top-level commander, and five members of Hezbollah who are believed to have been planning an incursion into the Jewish state....
ISIS: ‘Countdown Has Begun’
For Japanese Hostages

By Sarah Fisher, Ben Shapiro’s Truth Revolt — ISIS militants have posted a new warning online saying the "countdown has begun" for the terror group to kill two Japanese hostages. "The posting, which appeared Friday, shows a clock counting down to zero along with gruesome images of other hostages who have been beheaded by the group." The terrorists had given a 72 hour deadline to Japan to pay out a $200M ransom for the hostages. The deadline expired Friday.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe convened his National Security Council to discuss how to handle the crisis, as the mother of one of the captives appealed for her son's rescue.

"Time is running out. Please, Japanese government, save my son's life," said Junko Ishido, the mother of 47-year-old journalist Kenji Goto.

"My son is not an enemy of the Islamic State," she said in a tearful appearance in Tokyo, using the name ISIS calls itself.
There is no sign the Japanese government had taken on offer to negotiate with ISIS....
ISIS Beheading Video FAIL

Infowars.com
The latest ISIS video featuring two Japanese men appears to have been filmed on the twin sun planet of Tatooine. The Daily Sheeple pointed this out and Infowars.com reporter Joe Biggs shows just how easy it is to create an ISIS beheading video.
Is The ISIS Japanese Beheading Video Green
Screened Or What? People Aren’t Buying It…

The Daily Sheeple — News everywhere is swamped with the latest on ISIS reportedly threatening to behead two Japanese hostages unless the nation pays a $200 million ransom.

But wait. What’s up with this image the mainstream media is sporting everywhere?

Notice anything there in regards to the direction of the sunlight and the supposedly resultant shadow on the hostages’ faces?...
Saudi King Abdullah Is Dead

By Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch— Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah is dead. This is not an optimum time for a transition. The Saudis’ massive expenditures to export the jihad doctrine have come back to bite them in the form of the Islamic State, a self-proclaimed caliphate that denies the legitimacy of the House of Saud (and every other government other than its own) and has vowed to conquer it (and every other country, but it is right on the Saudis’ doorstep). The Iranians, meanwhile, are always jockeying to become the leader of the Islamic world, and in that Saudi Arabia is one of their chief rivals. But Iranian-backed Shi’ite Houthi rebels have just won a major victory in Yemen, and Iran has just concluded a military pact with Russia.

Could the death of Abdullah be the Iranians’ moment? Or the Islamic State’s?...
When What You’re Doing Doesn’t Work...

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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
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