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“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
he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.” ~ Jesus
Luke 12:39
ISIS Following ‘End-Of-Days Scenario’
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‘They’re Manufacturing A Holy War
Between Islam And The West’
Between Islam And The West’
By Greg Corombos — The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, is gobbling up more territory in preparation for striking Western nations, and a retired U.S. Army Special Forces officer says the U.S. needs to stop underestimating the enemy and start engaging Sunnis in Iraq to stand up and fight for their homeland.Retired Lt. Col. Scott Mann spent 23 years in the Special Forces, including 15 years of service as a Green Beret. He saw combat duty in Iraq, Afghanistan and several other spots around the world during his years in uniform. Mann points out that ISIS now controls a land area greater in size than the United Kingdom. He says the U.S. and its allies need to realize ISIS likely presents a greater threat to the West than any other group it has confronted since Sept. 11.
“These guys, in a lot of ways, are a lot more advanced than al-Qaida,” Mann said. “Al-Qaida always talked about re-establishing this caliphate, but I don’t think even bin Laden expected to see it in his lifetime. Whereas ISIS, not only have they established it, the caliphate is part of their legitimacy. So the expansion of this is a very real thing, and they’re going to keep going.”
After Sunday’s video release of the grisly beheadings of 21 Coptic Christians in Libya, reports surfaced this week that ISIS plans to use North Africa as a launching pad for attacks in Europe. Mann believes that is definitely part of the plan.
“I fully believe they are looking to expand into Europe and even further, and I do think their activity in Libya and other places indicate that,” he said.
Mann said, for all of its horrifying actions, ISIS has been very clear about its intentions and the U.S. and other nations have been slow to take them seriously.
“It seems like we keep counting these guys out, or we keep missing what we’re capable of,” he said. “The reality is, these guys have a very powerful narrative that resonates with a lot people. And they follow an end-of-days kind of scenario here. They are manufacturing a holy war between Islam and the West, and they fully intend to fight it.”
Listen to the WND/Radio America interview with Retired Lt. Col. Scott Mann:
At this week’s White House summit on confronting violent extremism, President Obama said the very reason he does not refer to ISIS as being motivated by Islamic extremism is because that’s what the radicals want. Mann is of two minds in this debate. First, he said, Obama definitely needs to be more clear about who America’s enemy is.
“I do think it is a mistake to not call out the enemy as Islamist violent extremists because they certainly are, and they are using medieval Islamism to justify their actions,” said Mann, who also added that Obama is right not to give ISIS a lot of material to feed its propaganda efforts.
“I do think the president is right in cautioning us to not fall into the role of the crusader, who they want us to be,” Mann said. “That falls right into their narrative and, frankly, that’s how they recruited the shooter in Denmark. It’s how they recruit these young girls from the U.K., this narrative that Islam is under attack by the West. By trying to ‘do something,’ we end up playing into that narrative.”
So how will ISIS be most effectively destroyed? Mann said it starts by studying how ISIS has gobbled up so much territory to this point.
“They go into a fragile state that is basically exploited by violent extremists in areas that are beyond the reach of that partner government,” he said. “In Iraq, they go into the marginalized Sunni tribal areas, where those tribes are degraded and beaten down and they co-opt them from the bottom up.”
“So if you strike them from the top down with the Iraqi military, whom those Sunnis distrust, or whether it’s with air strikes, you just drive those extremists deeper into the population, like a tick in a dog,” he said.
While Mann believes military action is critical to stop and ultimately destroy ISIS, he said the key is for American and other allied advisers to go into the marginalized areas and win over tribal leaders and have them fight back over time.
“These extremists have to be taken out,” he said. “There’s no doubt about it. I believe it needs to be done in the context of a broader strategy, where we get into these local areas, these strategic safe havens and we find tribal leaders that are pushing back and resisting and we help them push [ISIS] out of there. I think that’s the only way for the long term that we degrade ISIS and other extremists to the point they are irrelevant.”
According to Mann, sending in huge numbers of ground troops to collaborate with the tribal leaders would look like another U.S. occupation. He said sending in the advisers would accomplish the same goal with a much lighter footprint and a much smaller cost in blood and treasure. He said it’s an approach he personally watched succeed in Afghanistan.
“In the last few years of the Afghan war, Green Berets did that throughout rural Afghanistan. It was very effective, and Mullah Omar was on record citing it as one of the greatest threats the Taliban faced,” said Mann, who noted Gen. David Petraeus employed the same strategy in the Sunni areas of Iraq with groups like Sons of Iraq and The Awakening.
While Mann is urging Western leaders not to underestimate ISIS, he also cautions that this fight will not be over quickly.
“This McDonald’s drive-thru mentality that we have of defeating these guys, where it happens in a couple of news cycles or a one-year combat rotation is fantasy,” he said. “This is going to take decades to build up partner nation capacity to push back from the bottom on their own. In many of these societies, it took several decades to degrade it, and it’s going to take that long to build it back up.”...
Obama Seeks To Undermine
Netanyahu’s Upcoming Visit
Netanyahu’s Upcoming Visit
Tensions are rising between the Israeli and American governments
By Colleen Conley, TPNN — This snub comes ahead of Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned trip to Washington next week to address Congress and the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the nation’s leading pro-Israeli lobby. The rift has become so deep that Obama Administration officials are actively seeking ways to undermine the Israeli Prime Minister’s visit. Obama will not be meeting with Netanyahu, and neither will Vice President Joe Biden or Secretary of State John Kerry, both of whom have sudden trips scheduled; Biden to Uruguay and Guatemala, and Kerry to an as yet undisclosed location. Even Cabinet members are being dispatched out of the country ahead of the Prime Minister’s visit.
In addition to snubs by all high level officials, Obama is seeking ways to derail Netanyahu’s message, which will clearly be aimed at what the Prime Minister sees as the Administration’s weak response in negotiating a nuclear deal with Iran, Obama’s signature foreign policy objective. The Obama administration has even acknowledged that it has withheld details of the negotiations from Israel, the United States primary ally in the Mid-East, and despite Iran’s stated intention to annihilate Israel....
Texas Governor: Since Jan. 1, ‘We Have Had More
Than 20,000 People Come Across the Border’
Than 20,000 People Come Across the Border’
By Susan Jones, CNS News — "We all saw what happened on the Texas border last summer, but we need to understand that the problem is not going away," Texas Gov. Greg Abbott told CBS's "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer on Sunday."Already this calendar year, since January 1, we have had more than 20,000 people come across the border, apprehended, unauthorized. And so we have an ongoing problem on the border that Congress must step up and solve."
(All told in fiscal year 2014, U.S immigration officials removed 213,719 individuals apprehended while attempting to unlawfully enter the United States.)
Schieffer reminded Abbott that there are some 800,000 illegal aliens living in Texas right now. "You don't have enough buses to send them back to Mexico, and I don't expect you can put all of them in jail. What are you going to do with them?" he asked Abbott....
General Wesley Clark Explains
ISIS Was Created By U.S. Allies
ISIS Was Created By U.S. Allies
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EXCLUSIVE: My Son Is Dead Because
The Concept Of Borders Is Dead
The Concept Of Borders Is Dead
By Lana Shadwick, Breitbart — (HOUSTON, Texas) A grieving Texas father told Breitbart Texas, “my son is dead because the concept of borders is dead.” Spencer Golvach was senselessly murdered by an illegal alien who had been deported a number of times after being convicted of committing crimes, including as law enforcement officers now tell us, crimes of violence. Golvach was shot in the head on January 31st while sitting in his car waiting for a stoplight to change. Golvach’s father said he wants the “boomerang” of deportation and illegal reentry into the country to be stopped.Victor Manuel Reyes was a violent man who on the night of Golvach’s execution, went on a killing spree through the streets in Harris County. He killed two men, including 28-year-old Juan Garcia. Then he shot at another couple before he was shot to death by a Harris County deputy....
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By Mike Adams, Natural News — If you hope to have any real understanding of what's actually happening in the world around you, consider the following four videos to be "must-see material." All of the topics covered in these videos are aggressively censored by the state-run media in America and around the world: (1) BOUGHT the movie; (2) The Lie We Live; (3) The government wants to regulate the internet; (4) Rob Dew eviscerates vaccine lies with raw truth...
The USA Pushes to Behead Criminals 2015-2016
The book of Revelation foretells of a future time in which Christians are going to be beheaded for their faith in Christ and the word of their Testimony -- But is the United States preparing to lead the way on this Assault?
ISIS Harvesting And Trafficking Body Parts
Evidence presented by Iraq’s ambassador to the UN that the Islamic State is harvesting human organs was given to the Security Council.
The Clarion Project — Evidence presented by Iraq’s ambassador to the UN, Mohamed Alhakim, that the Islamic State is harvesting human organs and trafficking in body parts was presented to the UN Security Council. Alhakim also asked the Security Council to investigate the death of 12 doctors who he said were killed by the brutal Islamist group after they refused to take part in removing organs from bodies.The ambassador recounted how bodies with surgical incisions, missing kidneys and other body parts were recently found buried in shallow mass graves.
"We have bodies. Come and examine them. It is clear they are missing certain parts," Alhakim said, saying that incisions were found in the back, where the kidneys are located....
DHS Secretary: To Call The Islamic State Islamic Would Be “Dignifying Them As Occupying Some Form Of Islam”
‘ISIL Has Hijacked My Religion’
By Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch — Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson was reduced to stammering tautologies when George Stephanopoulos asked him why the Administration won’t call the Islamic State Islamic: “Now I have to say, when I travel around the country and meet with Muslim leaders in this country in these engagements that I have, they all tend to say pretty much the same thing, which is that ‘ISIL has hijacked my religion.’ And so, in my view, if we start referring to ISIL as occupying any form of the Islamic theology, we’re pretty much dignifying them as occupying some form of, of that faith, and I know that Muslim leaders in this country, uh, push back hard on that, and it seems to me, it’s, it’s going to a, a, a place where ISIL would very much like us to go, in that we’re dignifying them as occupying some form of Islam. They, they don’t. Islam is about peace and brotherhood. There are 1.6 billion Muslims in this world, and the true Islamic faith has nothing to do with what ISIL represents. And so, to, to start labeling them as ‘Islam’ or as ‘Islamic State’ in any respect, I think gives them far more dignity than they deserve. And so do a lot of Muslims believe that, too, by the way.”Johnson took a long time to say, several times, that the Islamic State is not truly Islamic, and to call them Islamic wouldn’t give them an unwarranted dignity. The first point is arguable, although no one in the Administration or the mainstream media will argue it, and even if the jihadis are getting Islam all wrong, they still claim to be following it scrupulously, and the Administration’s policy forecloses on the chance for intelligence agents to study and understand their motives and goals. And as for refusing to dignify them, that is a feeble psy-op, if that is what it is, since the jihadis have nothing but contempt for the unbelievers whom they regard as “the most vile of created beings” (Qur’an 98:6). They are not seeking validation from the Department of Homeland Security.
Shut it down. It isn’t doing any good, anyway....
The Message! Islam Is Great
At Violent Extremist Summit At White House
At Violent Extremist Summit At White House
“You Got To Love The Way Obama Lies And Defends Islam”
Promoting Common Sense One Person At A Time
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Obama Administration Insisting ISIS Not Islamic In Order To Protect Stealth Muslim Jihadists
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” – Sun Tzu
By Shoebat Foundation — Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson appeared on Fox News Sunday and essentially admitted that leaders of Muslim Brotherhood front groups in the U.S. are helping to set policy in the Middle East. He even quoted these leaders as saying Islam is ‘about peace and brotherhood’.A common meme put forth by Johnson in that clip as justification that ISIS is not Islamic is the fact that ISIS kills Muslims too. Based on that reality, an admission by the administration that ISIS is Islamic would mean that Muslims kill Muslims, Christians, Jews and others, with the one common denominator being Islam.
Unfortunately for stealth jihadists in the U.S. who have the ear of the Obama administration – as they did during the Clinton and Bush administrations – the actions of ISIS are forcing them to go into hyper-propaganda mode. To this point, the strategy of the Obama administration has been to facilitate that propaganda under the auspices that calling ISIS Islamic would give the terrorists legitimacy, notwithstanding the fact that the head of ISIS has a PhD in Islamic Studies....
The Obama Doctrine – Target the Right
OBAMA STORMTROOPERS IGNORE JIHAD
Pamela Geller Blasts White House For
‘Designating Americanism A Terror Threat’
By Pamela Geller, WND Column — Obama’s war on “countering violent extremism” turns inward – on Americans. CNN reported Thursday that “a new intelligence assessment, circulated by the Department of Homeland Security this month and reviewed by CNN, focuses on the domestic terror threat from right-wing sovereign citizen extremists and comes as the Obama administration holds a White House conference to focus efforts to fight violent extremism.”The DHS report unveils the Obama doctrine – ignoring the jihad and targeting the right – in a deliberate demonization of an increasing number of Americans who understand that our rights are being usurped and that the U.S. government has been hijacked by a collective of destroyers and anti-American operatives. This is not new. Obama made these same vicious accusations in a similar DHS report in early 2009. It is a strategy.
“Some federal and local law enforcement groups,” CNN says, “view the domestic terror threat from sovereign citizen groups as equal to – and in some cases greater than – the threat from foreign Islamic terror groups, such as ISIS, that garner more public attention.”
President Obama is taking the idea of pre-emption to a whole other level. The Bush doctrine included a strategy of “preemptive strikes” as a defense against an immediate threat to the security of the United States. Obama is using it as an offense against the American people.
Enemy of the state.
“The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny” – so said Aesop in the “The Wolf and the Lamb” on of Aesop’s Fables. And so he has.
Ayn Rand stated it clearly:
A statist is a man who believes that some men have the right to force, coerce, enslave, rob, and murder others. To be put into practice, this belief has to be implemented by the political doctrine that the government – the state – has the right to initiate the use of physical force against its citizens. How often force is to be used, against whom, to what extent, for what purpose and for whose benefit, are irrelevant questions. The basic principle and the ultimate results of all statist doctrines are the same: dictatorship and destruction. The rest is only a matter of time....
Obama Attempts To Stifle Your Freedom Of Speech
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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