Report - massive Saudi troop movements, Iran tests nuke in N. Korea, and more

Debkafile - The new Aviation Week reports: “Evidence is mounting that the US defense community and the Obama administration view 2013 as the likely window for a bombing attack on Iran’s nuclear and missile facilities. It could be earlier, timed to use the chaos of the Syrian government’s fall to disguise such an attack…”
According to the journal, “Iran’s intransigence over shutting down its uranium-enrichment program will not buy it much more time… The tools for such an attack are all operational” and the US is coming around to suspect that Iran has already conducted its first nuclear test in North Korea.
Aviation Week’s report appeared after a failed attempt Friday, June 29, to bridge US-Russian differences on Syria was made by US Secretary of State and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in St. Petersburg. Moscow refuses to accept any solution that would entail Bashar Assad’s removal or foreign intervention in Damascus.

UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan is to present a proposal for a transitional unity government to the new Action Group on Syria meeting in Geneva Saturday. According to his plan, the government would include opposition representation but (without mentioning Assad) exclude figures complicit in the 15-month bloody suppression of dissent.
He had hoped that the presence at the meeting of all five UN Security Council veto-wielders, Arab League members and Turkey would make it possible to gain international endorsement of an agreed road map for the transition of power in Damascus without resorting to the Security Council again. However, after the failed St. Petersburg encounter, its chances of taking off are slim. Asked about this, a senior US official commented: “We may get there, we may not.”
In the Middle East, the military alert declared by Saudi King Abdullah Thursday was still in effect Saturday. Saudi forces continue to stream to the Jordanian and Iraqi borders and Jordanian, Turkish and Syrian army units are on the move, as debkafile reported Friday:

The Syrian crisis was Friday, June 29, on a knife edge between a Western-Arab-Turkish military offensive in the next 48 hours and a big power accord to ward it off.

debkafile’s military sources report heavy Saudi troop movements toward the Jordanian and Iraqi borders Thursday overnight and up until Friday morning, June 29, after King Abdullah put the Saudi military on high alert for joining an anti-Assad offensive in Syria. The Saudi units are poised with tanks, missiles, special forces and anti-air batteries to enter Jordan in two heads:
One will safeguard Jordan's King Abdullah against potential Syrian or Iranian reprisals from Syria or Iraq.

The second will cut north through Jordan to enter southeastern Syriam, where a security zone will be established around the towns of Deraa, Deir al-Zour and Abu Kemal – all centers of the anti-Assad rebellion. The region is also the home terrain of the Shammar tribe, brethren of the Shammars of the Saudi Nejd province.
The Saudi units deployed on the Iraqi border are there to defend the kingdom against potential incursions by Iraqi Shiite militias crossing into the kingdom for reprisals. The Iraqi militias are well trained and armed and serve under officers of the Iranian Al-Qods Brigades, the Revolutionary Guards’ external arm.
Western Gulf sources report that Jordan too is on war alert.
Following the downing of a Turkish plane by Syria a week ago, Turkey continues to build up its Syrian border units with anti-aircraft guns, tanks and missiles towed by long convoys of trucks.

A Free Syria Army officer, Gen. Mustafa al-Sheikh, reported Friday that 170 Syrian army tanks of the 17th Mechanized Division were massed near the village of Musalmieh northeast of Aleppo, 30 km from the Turkish border. He said they stood ready to attack any Turkish forces crossing into Syria.
As these war preparations advanced, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in St. Petersburg Friday for crucial talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. They meet the day before the new UN-sponsored Action Group convenes in Geneva to discuss UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan’s latest transition proposal for Syria. He hopes for a political settlement that will ward off military intervention.
Invited to the meeting are the five veto-wielding UN Security Council members plus Turkey and Arab League envoys from Qatar, Kuwait and Iraq.

Annan proposes forming a transitional national unity government in Damascus that includes the opposition and excludes unacceptable regime members.
It was widely reported Thursday that Russia had agreed to this formula, even though it entailed evicting Bashar Assad from power. However, Lavrov stepped in to correct the record, stressing in reference to the Annan proposal that Moscow would not lend its support to “any outside interference or imposition of recipes in Syria.”
This position is doubly aimed at the intensive military movements afoot around Syria.
Clinton and Lavrov are therefore expected to go at the Syrian issue hammer and tongs. The outcome of their meeting will not only determine the course of the Action Group’s discussions but, more importantly, whether the Western-Arab-Turkish alliance goes forward with its military operation against Syria.

US-Russian concurrence on a plan for Assad’s removal could avert the operation. The failure of their talks would spell a worsening of the Syrian crisis and precipitate Western-Arab military intervention, which according to military sources in the Gulf is scheduled for launch Saturday, June 30.

read more http://www.debka.com/article/22145/Aviation-Week-Obama-may-use-Assad%E2%80%99s-fall-to-disguise-Iran-strike

Report: Turkey has "no choice" but to attack Syria - developing

After Syria shot down one of Turkey's jets, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan dispatched troops and anti-aircraft weapons to the increasingly militarized border.

Tensions continue to escalate between Ankara and Damascus following Syria's downing last week of a Turkish plane. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has now sent troops and anti-aircraft guns to the Mediterranean neighbors' shared border, and Turkey has reportedly urged its NATO allies to consider drawing up plans for a no-fly zone if Syria commits further acts of aggression. Erdogan, whose government has already welcomed thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing Bashar al-Assad's deadly crackdown on the pro-democracy opposition, called the Syrian president a "bloody dictator," and warned that one more incident would force Turkey to "teach those who dare to test the limits of its might." Will Turkey do what the U.S., NATO, and the United Nations won't, and go to war against Assad?

Turkey might have no choice but to attack: Syria and Turkey definitely moved "nearer to war" this week, says Osman Cicekli at Euronews. If Syria crosses the line again, and certainly if it lets the fight against its rebels spill over the border, "Turkey will be seen as a weak country" if it doesn't follow through on its threat to fight. That could spell Assad's doom, as "the Turkish Air Force is more powerful than the Syrian Air Force in every way."
"Turkey-Syria military threat higher"

read more http://news.yahoo.com/turkey-war-syria-120000450.html

Terrorist sworn in as President of Egypt - promises "new Egypt"

CAIRO (AP) — Islamist Mohammed Morsi promised a "new Egypt" and unwavering support to the powerful military as he took the oath of office Saturday to become the country's first freely elected president, succeeding Hosni Mubarak who was ousted 16 months ago.

In a solemn inauguration ceremony before the Supreme Constitutional Court, Morsi also became the Arab world's first freely elected Islamist president and Egypt's fifth head of state since the overthrow of the monarchy some 60 years ago.

"We aspire to a better tomorrow, a new Egypt and a second republic," Morsi said before the black-robed judges in the court's Nile-side headquarters built to resemble an ancient Egyptian temple.

read more http://news.yahoo.com/islamist-morsi-sworn-egypts-president-110500403.html

The 1934 connection - coincidence? Obama and Hitler

Yesterday, Thursday June 28 2012,  the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in favor of the greatest tax hike and power grab in US history and some have argued - the history of the world.

Obamacare, the healthcare law enacted by the Obama administration which forces all American citizens to purchase health insurance on penalty of fines or even prison, was deemed by the Supreme court to be justifiable based on the US tax code. In other words, it's a tax - and a big one!

The president has essentially enacted an enormous power grab with the backing of the supreme court which forces people to buy a product - forces them to buy it!

It's been argued that, well, everyone is forced to buy car insurance, right? Wrong. People are only "forced" to buy car insurance when they drive on public roadways. If you drive on your own property or any other private property (NASCAR) you are not required by the government to buy car insurance. You are also not required to buy car insurance if you don't drive. No one is required by law to purchase car insurance.

On the other hand, Barack Obama has now required every American to purchase a product - health insurance. You do not have a choice. Where does it end? The flood gates are wide open. It doesn't end. The supreme court has now set the precedent for future forced purchases by government. This is an enormous unprecedented power grab.

What does this have to do with 1934? Today is Friday, the day after the supreme court ruled in favor of Obamacare. Today, in Washington DC, it is the hottest day on record, beating out the last record on this day in 1934. The National Weather Service says that just before 3 p.m., it was 104 degrees at Reagan National Airport just outside the city. That beats the record of 101 set in 1934.

But more important than the weather, 1934 was the very year Adolf Hitler combined positions of Chancellor and President, and became "Führer" of Germany (here).
Is this simply a mere coincidence? Perhaps. You decide.

There shall be sonic earthquakes? Strange sounds reported in San Diego

Residents from Chula Vista to Oceanside are reporting a large rumble around 12:45 p.m. Friday.

Some people describe it as sounding like a door slamming while others said it was strong enough to rattle windows.

A check of the U.S. Geological Survey website shows no earthquake activity.

One San Diego resident mentioned the sound via Twitter "Uh... La Jolla just shook. Or at least my street did. Big boom too."

Carlos Ortega, of Solana Beach, wrote to us, "An earthquake shook here at 1244pm. Shook windows and walls for a good 5 seconds."

Mercy Ramirez wanted NBC 7 San Diego to know, "We're in Bonita, our our office shook for about 5 seconds, was this an earthquake? We're on the third floor and everything shook."

NBC 7 San Diego's Dagmar Midcap was in Del Mar at the time and described it as a "Sonic 'rumble'"

Source: Strange Sound Reported in San Diego | NBC San Diego

Completed bonobo genome sequence negates popular evolution theory

Anti-Evolutionary Secrets of the Bonobo Genome

by Jeffrey Tomkins, Ph.D. *

The popular press recently announced the completed bonobo genome sequence. Bonobos are close relatives to chimpanzees. Unfortunately, much of the popular reporting misrepresented the data in the original Nature journal paper.

The bonobo genome was immediately touted to be nearly identical to human in a number of popular articles attempting to describe the research. However, these reports failed to indicate that the high DNA sequence similarity was only observed in selected segments of the genome known to already be highly similar among humans and apes.

Geneticists rejected large portions of the genome to report high levels of DNA similarity. The selected areas of DNA that were compared are called "single copy," meaning they contain higher levels of genes. Only the single copy areas which are similar between chimp, bonobo, and humans are compared—everything else was omitted. How can they honestly say that bonobo and human genomes are so similar, when only the similar portions of those genomes were compared, and the dissimilar portions were ignored?

Unfortunately, the popular press did not highlight the most significant results of the bonobo genome research. The gene sequences that were similar between humans and apes showed significant levels of a phenomenon called incomplete lineage sorting (ILS). This means that the gene sequences did not consistently match up with the predicted evolutionary tree.

In evolutionary dogma, bonobo is thought to be a more distant ancestor from humans than chimps. But of the bonobo genes that were found to be similar to human and chimp, 25 percent produced discordant evolutionary trees. Significant numbers of bonobo genes were more similar to human than chimp and vice versa.

The same evolution-negating anomaly of ILS characterized the recent gorilla genome sequence. ICR news reported that the gorilla genome provides "no clear path of common ancestry between humans and various primates." In other words, neither the gorilla nor bonobo genome sequences show evolutionary relationships. Instead, they each appear to have been uniquely created.

Human and ape genomes are not nearly as identical as commonly reported. A recent genome-wide DNA comparison showed that the human and chimpanzee genomes are considerably less identical than commonly claimed.

Another recent research report evaluated most of the key human-chimp DNA comparison studies of the past decade. This study showed that evolution favorable levels of high DNA sequence similarity are achieved by omitting large amounts of non-similar data.

The evolutionary paradigm of common descent between humans and apes continues to be invalidated with each new release of an ape genome sequence, despite the claims of the popular media. The present culture could surely benefit from considering the well-supported contention that humans and ape kinds were uniquely created.

read more http://www.icr.org/article/6908/

In The Magic Man in the Sky, Carl Gallups has given us an exciting insight into the many unanswered questions of evolution theory and, based on biblical truths – both prophecies and promises, the possibilities of other worlds and realities denied by evolutionists. With his open and frank approach, supported by extensive research and information from learned professionals in their respective fields, Carl challenges believers and unbelievers to take a serious look at the subjects discussed in this book. Ultimately, Carl invites every reader to seriously consider the gravity and consequences of accepting or rejecting the truth presented. In this hour of all-but-universal darkness, a bright ray of hope and confidence shines forth from the truths of this book. In a time when lives are marked by a growing hunger for spiritual realities, Carl Gallups reveals the truth that real science and Holy Scripture are inseparably linked to verify that behind all creation there is an intelligent designer who created all that exists.

Michelle Obama partners with Jesus on campaign trail - misrepresents Gospel message entirely

First lady Michelle Obama Thursday offered a rare public reflection on her religious faith, telling a conference of the African Methodist Episcopal church that the life of Jesus Christ is a model for democratic organizing.

"It's kind of like church," Obama said. "Our faith journey isn't just about showing up on Sunday for a good sermon and good music and a good meal. It's about what we do Monday through Saturday as well, especially in those quiet moments, when the spotlight's not on us, and we're making those daily choices about how to live our lives.

"We see that in the life of Jesus Christ. Jesus didn't limit his ministry to the four walls of the church," she said. "He was out there fighting injustice and speaking truth to power every single day. He was out there spreading a message of grace and redemption to the least, the last, and the lost. And our charge is to find Him everywhere, every day by how we live our lives."

Obama, who is not a regular churchgoer, said citizenship like the practice of faith is "not a once-a-week kind of deal."

read more http://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-cites-jesus-model-citizenship-155359755--abc-news-politics.html

"Our charge is to find Him everywhere, every day by how we live our lives."??? No, Michelle. Our charge is to serve the living Christ as BORN AGAIN, adopted children who once admitted that we are sinners who are utterly helpless to save ourselves. The "redemtion" message taught by Jesus is one of total depravity and total dependence on Him.

Notice how the Obama's always speak of Jesus in the past-tense. Jesus is alive today and we are all accoutable to Him now for what we do about His finished work on the cross, not how many hours we dedicate to the Obama campaign or how much money we give to the DNC.

Shame on the abortion-supporting, sodomy-endorsing, socialism-promoting Obama's for trying to drag Jesus into their support circle. Hopefully the American people won't be fooled by this sophistry.

Give you life to Jesus Michelle. Don't just pull His name out whenever the political winds shift in that particular religious direction. Do it now.

New Egypt Prez vows to free terrorists jailed in US

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's president-elect Mohammed Morsi has vowed to free the blind sheik jailed in the U.S. for a plot to blow up New York City landmarks.

In his first public speech addressing tens of thousands of mostly Islamist supporters, Morsi promised Saturday to work to free Omar Abdel-Rahman, the spiritual leader of men convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

He also promised to free detained Egyptian protesters facing military tribunals.

Obama Campaign moves on to "damn" election

Jim Messina, Campaign Manager for Obama for America sent out an email blast to the campaign email list last night celebrating the supreme court victory on Obamacare. According to Messina the next step is to "win the damn election", a possible insight into how they actually feel about the people's right to vote.

Friend -- It's been a good day. But this is a three-step process. 1. Pass historic health care reform. Check. 2. Get affirmation from the highest court in the country. Check. Step three? Win the damn election. Mitt Romney has been clear he'd repeal Obamacare on Day One. Just another reminder of how much is at stake in November. Donate $3 or more today: https:// (redacted)  Let's go, Messina Jim Messina Campaign Manager Obama for America So winning the "damn" election is just the next step following the biggest tax increase in American history is it? It's really just another disrespectful slap in the faces of the American electorate and their right to vote in free and fair elections; something the Obama campaign refers to as a "damn" thing. Thanks for the insight Mr. Messina. We hear you loud and clear.

Michael Savage: Roberts affected by mind-altering drugs

Talk radio host Michael Savage told his listeners today that the use of mind-altering drugs to treat seizures could explain why Bush-appointed Chief Justice John Roberts upheld Obamacare today along with four liberal colleagues.

Roberts shocked most analysts by siding with Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor in a 5-4 decision upholding the lynchpin provision of the president’s signature legislation, the so-called individual mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act.

read more http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/michael-savage-roberts-affected-by-medication/

Breaking: House holds Holder in contempt over ‘Fast and Furious’ documents

The House on Thursday cited Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. for contempt of Congress in a historic vote weighted with political significance, though it does little to break the stalemate over his decision to withhold documents over the Justice Department’s actions in a botched gun-walking operation.

The 255-67 vote amounted to a political spanking for Mr. Holder and President Obama, and 17 Democrats joined with Republicans in demanding the documents be released. Most Democrats, however, walked out in protest of the vote.

read more http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/28/house-eric-holder-contempt-vote-fast-furious-probe/

Breaking: Huge blasts seen in Damascus, Syria

(CNN) -- A day after attackers bombed a pro-government TV station, massive explosions shook the heart of Damascus near the Justice Ministry, state-run media said.

Two blasts occurred in a parking lot Thursday outside the Palace of Justice, which houses the ministry, Syrian state TV said. The Local Coordination Committees of Syria confirmed the blast and said it occurred in the Marja neighborhood of central Damascus.

At least three people were injured, and 20 cars were damaged, state TV said.

Video showed heavy smoke rising above buildings in Damascus. Firefighters battled a blaze at the site of the explosion.

read more http://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/28/world/meast/syria-unrest/?hpt=hp_t2

Mercury's Magnetic Crust Confirms Biblical Creation

Mercury's Magnetic Crust Fulfills Creation Prediction

by Brian Thomas, M.S. *

The planet Mercury provides many clues to its unique and recent creation. For example, Mercury's density and composition don't match planetary evolution models, and its surface geology and magnetic field are too active for it to be billions of years old. New data from the MESSENGER—the spacecraft that has been probing the dense planet's surface since 2004—confirms another creation-based prediction made in 1984.

Creation scientist D. Russell Humphreys described his model and its predictions in theCreation Research Society Quarterly (CRSQ), writing that someday scientists would discover remanent magnetization in Mercury's crustal rocks. He wrote, "Older igneous rocks from Mercury or Mars should have natural remanent magnetization, as the Moon's rocks do."⁴

"Remanent" refers to lingering magnetism. Mercury's volcanic crustal rock captured some of that planetary magnetism when it cooled and solidified into what is today a northern volcanic plain. According to Humphreys' creation model, planetary magnetic fields were strongest immediately after they were created from water about 6,000 years ago, and their strength has diminished since. How well did his prediction match the new observation 28 years later?

The space probe's magnetometer analyzed volcanic crustal rock magnetism over Mercury's northern regions. The results were presented at the 43rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in March 2012. An international team of planetary scientists analyzed MESSENGER's magnetic data and found that Mercury had a "residual magnetic field" that was very likely "a remanent magnetization acquired during a period when Mercury's magnetic field was of the opposite polarity, and possibly stronger, than the present field."⁵

In an online forum for creation scientists, CRSnet, Humphreys wrote, "I'm happy about this crustal magnetization because it fulfills yet another prediction in my 1984 CRSQ article on planetary magnetic fields. The Mars part of that got fulfilled a decade ago, and now it has happened for Mercury also."⁶

Humphreys' creation model—the model that presented the later-fulfilled predictions about Mercury's magnetization—assumed a biblical age and a Bible-based watery origin for the universe.^{7, 8} Like the other fulfillments of this model, Mercury's magnetic crust directly confirms biblical creation.

see original article with references here: http://www.icr.org/article/6896/

In The Magic Man in the Sky, Carl Gallups has given us an exciting insight into the many unanswered questions of evolution theory and, based on biblical truths – both prophecies and promises, the possibilities of other worlds and realities denied by evolutionists. With his open and frank approach, supported by extensive research and information from learned professionals in their respective fields, Carl challenges believers and unbelievers to take a serious look at the subjects discussed in this book. Ultimately, Carl invites every reader to seriously consider the gravity and consequences of accepting or rejecting the truth presented. In this hour of all-but-universal darkness, a bright ray of hope and confidence shines forth from the truths of this book. In a time when lives are marked by a growing hunger for spiritual realities, Carl Gallups reveals the truth that real science and Holy Scripture are inseparably linked to verify that behind all creation there is an intelligent designer who created all that exists.

German Court bans Judaism because of botched Muslim circumcision

BERLIN, Germany — The circumcision of minors for religious reasons should be considered a physical assault, according a district court ruling in the German city of Cologne.

Judges said that the procedure should be performed only when it's medically necessary,the Financial Times Deutschland reported.

Otherwise, neither the parents' rights nor the right to religious freedom can justify what constitutes bodily harm, the verdict states.

The judgment stemmed from the case of a four-year-old Muslim boy, Agence France Presse reported, who was taken to hospital for bleeding two days after his parents had him circumcised.

read more http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/germany/120626/cologne-religious-circumcision-assault

However by handing down this ruling the German court has, either knowingly or unknowingly, made Judaism illegal. 

According to the Abrahamic covenant and carried on through the law handed down to Moses, every male must be circumcised on the eighth day after he is born. Circumcision is the mark of the Abrahamic covenant God made with his people. In fact, if a young male fails to be circumcised on the eighth day he has "broken covenant" with God.

Genesis 17:10  This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.
Genesis 17:12  And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.
Genesis 17:13  He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
Genesis 17:14  And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.

Protesters said "The ruling does not take everything into account, religious practice concerning circumcision of young Muslims and Jews has been carried out over the millenia on a global level," said Ali Kizilkaya, a spokesman of the Council of the Coordination of Muslims in Germany which counts some 4 million members.

The group said that Germany was "criminalising" Islamic and Jewish customs with that ruling.

The regional court in Cologne, western Germany, ruled that the "fundamental right of the child to bodily integrity outweighed the fundamental rights of the parents."

"The religious freedom of the parents and their right to educate their child would not be unacceptably compromised, if they were obliged to wait until the child could himself decide to be circumcised," the court added (negating the Jewish covenant with God and exposing an abundance of ignorance in the court).

The case was brought against a doctor in Cologne who had circumcised a four-year-old Muslim boy on his parents' wishes.

Top Christian clerics also voiced opposition.

The Roman Catholic archbishop of Aachen Heinrich Mussinghoff said the ruling was "very surprising", as the contradiction between "basic rights on freedom of religion and the well-being of the child brought up by the judges is not convincing in this very case."

The head of the Protestant Church in Germany, Hans Ulrich Anke, said the ruling should be appealed as it did not "sufficiently" take into account the religious significance of the rite.

read more http://news.yahoo.com/german-court-rules-religious-circumcision-assault-154742307.html

Flashback! "Mandate's not a tax" said Obama in 2009 - SCOTUS says IT IS!

ABC NEWS 2009:

"President Obama signaled in our interview that he was prepared to address some of the concerns raised by key Senator Jay Rockefeller, who called the Baucus bill a “big middle class tax increase” this week.
That means he’ll support more subsidies for middle class families.
But in our most spirited exchange, the President refused to accept the argument that a mandate to buy health insurance is equivalent to a tax." - ABC NEWS Sept 20 2009

Here's the video:

Today, The supreme court of the United States allowed "Obamacare" based on the individual mandate link to taxation and not commerce. See here: http://www.ppsimmons.blogspot.com/2012/06/breaking-scotus-rules-obamacare-is.html

'MAGIC' CALLED 'MUSCULAR DEFENSE OF CHRISTIAN FAITH'

The new hit project from WND Books, “The Magic Man in the Sky,” is being called a “muscular defense of Christian faith” as it continues to gather widespread acclaim.

In a recent column in The Washington Times, Jeffrey T. Kuhner praised Carl Gallups’ book as “a must-read.”

“In ‘The Magic Man in the Sky,’ Mr. Gallups explodes the numerous myths advanced by atheists. Lucidly written, cogent and compelling, the book is a muscular defense of the Christian faith. Its unique strength is that it provides readers – in particular, college students – with an arsenal of powerful rebuttals against Christian-bashers,” writes Kuhner.

read more http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/magic-called-muscular-defense-of-christian-faith/

In The Magic Man in the Sky, Carl Gallups has given us an exciting insight into the many unanswered questions of evolution theory and, based on biblical truths – both prophecies and promises, the possibilities of other worlds and realities denied by evolutionists. With his open and frank approach, supported by extensive research and information from learned professionals in their respective fields, Carl challenges believers and unbelievers to take a serious look at the subjects discussed in this book. Ultimately, Carl invites every reader to seriously consider the gravity and consequences of accepting or rejecting the truth presented. In this hour of all-but-universal darkness, a bright ray of hope and confidence shines forth from the truths of this book. In a time when lives are marked by a growing hunger for spiritual realities, Carl Gallups reveals the truth that real science and Holy Scripture are inseparably linked to verify that behind all creation there is an intelligent designer who created all that exists.

Stock markets tank following biggest middle-class tax hike in US history

Stocks extended their losses Thursday, wiping out all of the previous session's gains, amid skepticism that European leaders would be able to form a solution to tackle the ongoing debt crisis and following the Supreme Court’s ruling on the health-care bill.

read more http://www.cnbc.com/id/47994090

Breaking - SCOTUS rules Obamacare IS constitutional

Breaking - SCOTUS rules Obamacare IS constitutional... updates to follow.

UPDATE!


WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the individual insurance requirement at the heart of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

The decision handed Obama a campaign-season victory in rejecting arguments that Congress went too far in requiring most Americans to have health insurance or pay a penalty.

Chief Justice John Roberts announced the court's judgment that allows the law to go forward with its aim of covering more than 30 million uninsured Americans

READ MORE http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SUPREME_COURT_HEALTH_CARE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-06-28-10-17-22

WAR DRUMS - Turkey deploys anti-aircraft guns at Syria border

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey deployed anti-aircraft guns and other weapons alongside its border with Syria, state television reported on Thursday, days after the downing of a Turkish militaryjet by Syrian forces heightened the tensions between the two countries.

A small convoy of military trucks, towing anti-aircraft guns, entered into a military outpost in the border village of Guvecci, which faces a Syrian military outpost across the border and where Syrian forces and rebels clashed in recent months, TRT television footage showed.

Several anti-aircraft guns have also been deployed elsewhere alongside the border. Some trucks were seen carrying self-propelled multiple rocket launchers, TRT footage showed.

READ MORE http://news.yahoo.com/turkey-deploys-anti-aircraft-guns-syria-border-072010761.html

American Muslims Stone Christians in Dearborn, MI (Original edit)

Obama campaign offers America hope - admits they could actually lose

Obama campaign deputy manager Julianna Smoot admitted in an email blast today the real possibility that Obama could lose this year's election to Mitt Romney simply by virtue of dollars and cents. Here's the email:

Friend --
If we're drastically outspent in this election, there's a very good chance we will lose to Mitt Romney.
This is a distinct possibility. The financial landscape in this race has changed over the last few weeks.
What concerns me is the Obama supporters I've encountered who don't understand that this is what we're facing.
The fundraising deadline this week is a test: Are we going to allow the other side to dominate us, or are we going to prove that elections are decided by everyday Americans pitching in what they can?
Ready to fight? Please donate $3 or more today, ahead of the FEC deadline.
What's at stake here goes beyond the progress we've made so far, or anything the President wants to do in a second term.
What's at stake is the very idea that regular people should still be in control of elections in this country.
Barack Obama proved in 2008 that millions of people giving $10, $20, or $50 at a time are an undeniable force. Today, our campaign is bigger and faster. We're opening more offices and recruiting more volunteers to knock on doors.
If we allow the spending disadvantage to get beyond a certain point, none of that will matter. Mitt Romney will win, and it will be because we couldn't keep up.
We can't let that happen. I'm proud of how we're building this campaign, and I'm not about to let a handful of billionaires prove us wrong.
Donate $3 or more today:
https://donate.barackobama.com/June-Deadline
Thanks,
Julianna
Julianna SmootDeputy Campaign ManagerObama for America

 P.S. -- Today, any donation you make here automatically enters you to join President Obama on the trail next week. We're saving two seats on the campaign bus, right next to the President -- one for you, one for your guest.

Oh and by the way, she says, for three bucks you can possibly get to sit next to the loser on a bus. We can only hope and pray that she's right and that, in fact, Obama does lose to Romney. Let's turn that "real possibility" into a reality. Come on America! The world is counting on you.

Report: internet porn causing rise in child on child rape

Internet porn, sexting and explicit webcam sessions are increasingly putting young people in danger, not just from strangers but their own peers, a report suggests.

Parents and schools are struggling to cope with the ever-changing advances in technology and social networking and the effect they have on young people's behaviour, it warns.

Recent research suggests as many as one in three children aged ten has seen pornography on the web and 80 per cent of children in their mid teens admit regularly viewing explicit images and videos.

The latest report, by charity Family Lives, claims a worrying culture of 'hypermasculinity' among young boys is promoting the notion that scantily clad girls 'deserve' to be raped and that violence against women is acceptable.


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STUNNER - Abrahamic covenant BANNED in Germany!!!

Circumcising young boys on religious grounds amounts to grievous bodily harm, a German court ruled Tuesday in a landmark decision that the Jewish community said trampled on parents' religious rights.

The regional court in Cologne, western Germany, ruled that the "fundamental right of the child to bodily integrity outweighed the fundamental rights of the parents", a judgement that is expected to set a legal precedent.

"The religious freedom of the parents and their right to educate their child would not be unacceptably compromised, if they were obliged to wait until the child could himself decide to be circumcised," the court added, ignoring the fact that Jewish law requires circumcision on the eighth day.

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Genesis 17:9  And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.10  This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.11  And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.12  And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.

RESULTS! Miami cannibal acted with only pot in system - no bath salts

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Rudy Eugene, the Causeway Cannibal who ate the face off a homeless man he attacked along the MacArthur Causeway, was apparently  not high on bath salts or any other exotic street drug at the time of the attack, according to a report released Wednesday by the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner.

The much-anticipated toxicology report released by Medical Examiner Dr. Bruce Hyma found marijuana in Eugene’s system, but no evidence of  any other street drugs, alcohol or prescription drugs, or any adulterants found in street drugs.  This includes cocaine, LSD, amphetamines (Extasy, Meth and others), phencyclidine (PCP or Angel Dust), heroin, oxycodone, Xanax, synthetic marijuana (Spice), and many other similar compounds.

Hyma’s office also specifically ruled out Bath Salts, a class of synthetic drugs that have been known to cause bizarre behavior and overheating of people who use them, two things that made some believe Eugene’s cannibalistic behavior was to blame on the drugs.

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Syrian Rebels Ransack Christian Churches - fly Al-Qaeda flag

Shocking images have emerged which show the aftermath of Christian churches ransacked by NATO-backed Syrian rebels, illustrating once again how western powers are supporting Muslim extremists in their bid to achieve regime change in the middle east.

A photograph provided to us by a Christian woman in Homs, scene of some of the bloodiest clashes of the conflict, shows a member of the Free Syrian Army posing with a looted Catholic cross in one hand and a gun in the other while wearing a priest’s robe.

“Everyone knows simply removing these garments from the church is a sin. The priest is the only one who wears them too. They even pray before putting them on. Him posing in front of the funeral car as well is disgusting to the max,” our source told us.

“They destroyed the church and went in to film it. I know this for a fact.”

“The Robes can only be worn by Deacons or Priests or Sub-Deacons, and they a Christian man wouldn’t hold a Cross in one hand and a gun in another,” the woman adds

Another image shows a ransacked church in Bustan al-Diwan (Old Homs).

While Syrian rebels busy themselves ransacking Christian churches, they also rallying around the Al-Qaeda flag just as their counterparts did in Libya.

This video shows Syrian “activists” flying the Al-Qaeda flag during an anti-Assad protest in the northern Syrian town of Binnish.

In another clip, armed Syrian rebels address the camera standing behind a table draped with the black Al-Qaeda flag.

Last month we highlighted a photo published by French news agency AFP shows a Syrian rebel wearing the Al-Qaeda flag on his arm accompanying UN observers in the village of Azzara.

Why are western governments who are supposed to be engaged in a ‘war on terror’ against radical Muslim terrorists handing those very same terrorists control over entire countries?

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Cannibalism hits Japan! Man cooks own genitals - serves them to dinner guests

Tokyo police are investigating whether a man who cooked his own severed genitals and served them to five paying diners committed a crime, the force said Tuesday.

Mao Sugiyama had his penis and testicles surgically removed in March and kept them frozen for two months before cooking them at a public event in May.

Diners each paid 20,000 yen ($250) for a portion.

The police probe came after the mayor of Suginami ward, the Tokyo district where the event took place, said it had involved the display of obscene objects.

"Many residents of Suginami and elsewhere have expressed a sense of discomfort and feeling of apprehension over this," Mayor Ryo Tanaka said in a statement Monday.

A Tokyo police spokeswoman acknowledged the complaint, but declined to give further details, citing "an ongoing investigation".

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Saturn's moon activity best explained by a biblical, young universe model

Saturn's moon Enceladus has a serious problem. It is rapidly losing mass through a gushing geyser and other surface cracks, but it has supposedly been around far too long for that geyser to still exist.

A NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory news release told how astronomers are using Enceladus' plume to test theories of the structure of plasma.¹ Most matter in the universe is plasma, a gas-like phase in which electrons are separated from atomic nuclei. But in the process of describing the moon as a testing ground for theory, the release noted the rate of water mass loss from Enceladus. As is the case with any natural processes with measurable, steady rates, the Enceladus geyser rate can be used as an age estimator, given certain assumptions.

Enceladus loses "about 200 pounds of water vapor per second," which roughly equates to three tons per year.¹ Enceladus weighs over 100 quadrillion tons and supposedly formed billions of years ago. The plume provides an opportunity to cross-check its old-age assignment.

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Richard Dawkins: "Obama's an atheist"

Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins continues to be a wildly popular voice among atheists. The famed scientist is using his name and clout to help nonbelievers around the world in their fight against the influence of religion in society.

In a new article by Daily News & Analysis, Dawkins is quoted as making some wild proclamations about the beliefs of various U.S. presidents (that a number — including Obama — have possibly been atheists), while delving into his ideas about how the education system can be used to strip religion out of society. His statements were apparently made atthe Jaipur Lit Fest in India on Monday, where, among other subjects, he tackled his belief that education is key to defeating religion.

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Cannibalism hits Sweden! Scientist cuts off wife's lip, eats it!

A respected Swedish professor who sliced off and ate his wife's lip after she asked him for a divorce did it 'so she would never kiss again'.

The 52-year-old academic reportedly told investigators he planned to kill himself after the May attack at their Stockholm home.

And he claimed the decision to devour his 32-year-old partner's lip was made 'spontaneously'.

He said: 'I didn't want to kill her. I wanted her to suffer for the rest of her life for what she had done.'

Prosecutors said the professor, believed to be from Iran, flew into a jealous rage because she 'repeatedly' asked him for a divorce.

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Palestinians name street after Putin... IN BETHLEHEM!

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was "at a bit of a loss" that a street was named after him in Bethlehem, revered by Christians as the birthplace of Jesus.

Putin spoke in Jordan as he wrapped up his Middle East tour, which included a stop in Bethlehem in the West Bank and talks with Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas who ordered a street to be named after his guest.

"I would like to live a bit longer," Putin quipped, referring to a European tradition according to which streets are named after the deceased.

"It was absolutely unexpected to me," he told reporters in the Jordan Valley, the last stop of his two-day tour, which included a visit to Israel and talks with Jordan's King Abdullah II.

"To be honest, I am at a bit of a loss but there's nothing you could do," he said, indicating he did not want to protest so as not to offend his host.

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Putin: Russia already recognizes 'Palestine'

Russia reinserted itself into the Israeli-Palestinian "peace" process in a major way this week with a highly publicized visit by President Vladimir Putin.

While meeting with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday, Putin said that Russia had no problem recognizing an independnet Palestinian state, noting that Moscow had already done so during the days of the Soviet Union.

"We [recognized Palestine] 25 years ago, and our position has not changed," said Putin.

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Turkey to down Syrian planes near border

ISTANBUL — Buoyed by support from his country’s NATO allies, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Syrian forces on Tuesday to stay clear of their troubled border or face a Turkish military response to any perceived threat, following the disputed downing of a Turkish warplane.

The Turkish leader’s bellicose tone came as ambassadors from the NATO alliance, seeking to avoid a wider conflict, held emergency talks in Brussels at Turkey’s behest. After the meeting, the NATO secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said the alliance considered Syria’s actions inshooting down a Turkish warplane last Friday “unacceptable.”

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BREAKING! Syria at war as battle reaches capital

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad declared on Tuesday that his country was at war and ordered his new government to spare no effort to achieve victory, as the worst fighting of the 16-month conflict reached the outskirts of the capital.

Video published by activists recorded heavy gunfire and explosions in suburbs of Damascus. A trail of fresh blood on a sidewalk in the suburb of Qudsiya led into a building where one casualty was taken. A naked man writhed in pain, his body pierced by shrapnel.

Syria's state news agency SANA said "armed terrorist groups" had blocked the old road from Damascus to Beirut.

The declaration that Syria is at war marks a change of rhetoric from Assad, who had long dismissed the uprising against him as the work of scattered militants funded from abroad.

"We live in a real state of war from all angles," Assad told a cabinet he appointed on Tuesday in a speech broadcast on state television.

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