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Thursday, May 9, 2013

General Services Administration – with the Blessing of the Obama White House – Tells Law Enforcement to “Stand Down” and Not Enforce the Law Against Occupy Protestors According to Records Uncovered by Judicial Watch

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(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it has obtained records from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) indicating that the General Services Administration (GSA), with the blessing of the Obama White House, instructed law enforcement officers to “stand down” and not arrest “Occupy Portland” protestors who were in violation of the law.
The records, obtained pursuant to a November 11, 2011, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, include internal DHS correspondence. One November 6, 2011, e-mail exchange between DHS/National Protection and Programs Directorate Chief of Staff Caitlin Durkovich and GSA Public Buildings Service Commissioner Robert Peck (who has since been fired) specifically related to Occupy Portland protests taking place on federal property in Portland:

I am sorry to be emailing you on a Sunday night, but wanted to let you know our Press Shop has received a couple of calls from Portland media outlets about a group of 11 protesters who again set up camp at Terry Shrunk Plaza in Portland last night. They have chained themselves to a large drum filled with concrete. GSA controls the permits and has asked FPS [Federal Protective Services] not to enforce the curfew at park and the prohibition on overnight encampments. Reporters have asked if we will be arresting the protestors as FPS did last week.

Our FPS Commander in Portland says they are standing down and following GSA’s request to only intervene if there is a threat to public safety.

Peck responds:

Caitlin: yes, that is our position; it’s been vetted with our Administrator and Michael Robertson, our chief of staff, and we have communicated with the WH [White House], which has afforded us the discretion to fashion our approach to Occupy issues…The arrests last week were carried out despite our request that the protesters be allowed to remain and to camp overnight…

Occupy Portland is part of the Occupy Wall Street movement, which has been beset with accusations of “crimes and dangerous behavior” during its protests.
According to the Oregonian, the week before this email exchange, on October 30, 2011, “Twenty-five Occupy Portland demonstrators were arrested…after refusing to leave Jamison Square. The arrests capped an intense hours-long standoff between police and dozens of protesters who refused to leave the Pearl District park after it was declared closed at midnight. Officers, some in riot gear and others on horses, faced off with protesters who remained in the square, despite being ordered to leave.” The protestors were reportedly arrested on accusations of “trespassing, interfering with a police officer and disorderly conduct for the noise complaints from neighbors.”
Robert Peck was at the center of a scandal involving the GSA in 2010, where the agency spent $823,000 on a lavish Las Vegas “training conference” that featured a clown, a mind reader and a $31,208 reception. Peck was fired as a result of the incident. Peck, who has donated thousands of dollars to Democrat candidates, including Barack Obama, was previously implicated in an unrelated GSA scandal for reportedly brokering a controversial lease deal for a Democratic donor and friend of former Vice President Al Gore. Per The Washington Examiner’s Mark Tapscott: “In Peck’s first go-round at GSA, controversy was sparked when it was learned that excessively high rent was being paid by the FCC to the owner of a building who also happened to be a Democratic donor. Peck was the official who made the deal possible.”
Peck was deposed by Judicial Watch today in a separate lawsuit on behalf of Linda Shenwick, a GSA whistleblower who Peck and others allegedly retaliated against because of Ms. Shenwick’s opposition to wasteful spending, such as parties, that have now caused so much controversy.
“We now have a new GSA scandal – one that involves the Obama White House,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “These documents clearly show that federal agencies colluded with the Obama White House to allow the Occupy Wall Street protestors to violate the law with impunity. These documents tell us that the GSA and DHS can’t be relied upon to protect federal workers or property.”
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UN Stand-Down – Pulling Out Of Border Region seperating Israeli and Syrian armed forces – WW3 is Imminent

Thursday, May 9, 2013 2:16

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Published on 9 May 2013
The four UN Peace-keepers that were abducted on Tuesday remain unharmed according to a UN Peacekeeping spokesperson.
Negotiations to free the men all four of whom are Filipino are underway and the UN Secretary-General has condemned the incident.
The UN confirms that the foreign backed insurgents fighting the Syrian army are behind the abduction and it’s not the first time they’ve harassed UN Peace-keepers in the Golan.
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This is an orchestrated stand-down from UN in conjunction with Israeli, American, Major non Nato Allies and Nato allies, as we see an opening in the Golan Heights Syria Border with UN forces monitoring the demarcation line having pulled out of the area as stated, presumably to facilitate an Israeli armored assault on Damascus.
Like a slow motion horror show WW3 is underway, and UN is complaisant in allowing this probable war front opening up, but then when does the UN ever stick to its supposedly anti war agenda.
They are basically facilitating this war with continued support of state sponsors of terrorism and war criminals. The UN was supposed to keep the world safe from wars, but its blatantly obvious actual role is to make WW3 inevitable.
If the UN stuck to its mandate it could end this war today, demand all parties cease all hostilities, and the funding of the insurgency, and roll in more UN forces to deter Israeli armor and reserves poised to level Syria, and issue arrest warrants and actually bring the real perpetrators of this war to criminal court in the Hague.
They obviously know who these tyrants are, they are the ones prodding the whole thing along funding the insurgents, and goading the rebels and Israel and whoever else stupid and immoral enough to wage unjustified war, and not only that but a war that by any calculation risks triggering an absolute hellish bloodbath of nuclear war with the shattered balance of mutually assured destruction.
The UN cant be trusted to bring us any closer to peace, this latest event illustrates how quickly they step back from their peace mandate, now they are there to ensure the peace remains between Syria and Israel, yet the rebels they seemingly support in the UN takes 4 UN “peace-keepers” hostage and suddenly they announce the UN is pulling entirely out of the area? You cant tell me this thing doesn’t stink to hight heavens, someone needs to get in there and if these clowns aren’t going to do there jobs its high time some more intelligent people take over their leadership positions. The fact is they should be immediately condemning the rebels, issuing arrest warrants for anyone supporting them, and pouring UN forces between the warring factions to end the hostilities.
Remember when Bush Jr said your either with us or your with the terrorists? Well apparently the majority of NATO and her allies and many of the ranking officials in the United Nations are indeed with the terrorists, including the United States of America, and as Webster Tarpley says, this is an untenable hypocrisy, and will lead to the destruction of the entire western civilization unless these devils are routed out and the UN is forced to adhere to its mandate of ensuring peace.
The UN is not only facilitating the buildup to WW3 but it is ensuring the orderly extermination of whole swaths of the worlds population with its eugenics holocaust depopulation agenda by mandating poisoning of the food, water, vaccines, medicine, and air.
Its clear that this is all by design, but its never too late to turn this back, not yet anyway…

Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2013/05/un-stand-down-pulling-out-of-border.html

TREASON…Government Hired Al Qaeda to Defend the Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi?

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Dean Garrison

February 17th Martyrs Brigade Facebook Cover Photo

This is the original cover photo of the Facebook Page maintained by the “February 17th Martyrs Brigade” which flies an Al Qaeda flag.

Treason is a crime which is unforgivable. Americans died in Benghazi and we have received nothing but lies from this administration. Why would the Obama administration put money into the hands of those who proudly displayed the Al Qaeda flag on their Facebook page?
Today Newsmax reported:

The Libyan militia group that the State Department hired to defend its embattled diplomatic mission in Benghazi had clear al-Qaida sympathies, and had prominently displayed the al-Qaida flag on a Facebook page for some months before the deadly attack.
That organization, the February 17th Martyrs Brigade, was paid by the U.S. government to provide security at the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. But there is no indication the Martyrs Brigade fulfilled its commitment to defend the mission on Sept. 11, when it came under attack.
The assault claimed the lives of four Americans: Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, information officer Sean Smith, and former Navy Seals Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty. Stevens was the first U.S. ambassador killed in the line of duty since 1979.

This story surfaced back in October with The Daily Beast, which details the political fallout tied to the hiring of the Martyrs Brigade in a cable sent by Ambassador Stevens:

Just two days before the 9/11 anniversary attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, two leaders of the Libyan militias responsible for keeping order in the city threatened to withdraw their men.

The brinksmanship is detailed in a cable approved by Ambassador Chris Stevens and sent on the day he died in the attack, the worst assault on a U.S. diplomatic mission since the 1979 hostage crisis in Iran. The dispatch, which was marked “sensitive” but not “classified,” contained a number of other updates on the chaotic situation on the ground in post-Gaddafi Libya.

The cable, reviewed by The Daily Beast, recounts how the two militia leaders, Wissam bin Ahmed and Muhammad al-Gharabi, accused the United States of supporting Mahmoud Jibril, the head of the Libyan transitional government, to be the country’s first elected prime minister. Jibril’s centrist National Forces Alliance won the popular vote in Libyan elections in July, but he lost the prime minister vote in the country’s Parliament on Sept. 12 by 94 to 92. Had he won, bin Ahmed and al-Gharabi warned they “would not continue to guarantee security in Benghazi, a critical function they asserted they were currently providing,” the cable reads. The man who beat Jibril, Mustafa Abushagur, lost a vote of no-confidence Sunday, throwing Libyan politics back into further uncertainty.
The threat from the militias underscores the dangers of relying on local Libyan forces for security in the run-up to the 9/11 military-style assault. The U.S. consulate in Benghazi employed a militia called the “February 17 Martyrs Brigade” for security of the four-building compound. In addition, there were five Americans serving as diplomatic security and a group of former special operations forces that acted as a quick reaction force on the day of the 9/11 attack. Members of the militias led by bin-Ahmed and al-Gharabi overlapped with the February 17 militia, the cable says.

The same article from The Daily Beast notes:

Jason Chaffetz, the Republican lawmaker who has led the House Oversight and Government Reform committee’s investigation into the 9/11 attack, says the State Department actually decreased U.S. diplomatic security personnel in the months leading up to the attack.

The Wikipedia listing on The February 17th Martyr’s Brigade is as follows:

The Martyrs of 17 February Brigade are considered to be the biggest and best armed militia in eastern Libya. The brigade is financed by the Libyan defence ministry. The brigade consists of at least 12 battalions and possesses a large collection of light and heavy weapons in addition to training facilities. Its membership is estimated at between 1,500 and 3,500. The group has carried out various security and law and order tasks in eastern Libya and Kufra in the south. Some of its members are also believed to be fighting the Assad regime inSyria. ^[1]
The February 17th Martyrs Brigade also flies the al-Qaeda flag on their Facebook page, and have been al-Qaeda sympathizers for a very long time. ^[2]

There is also evidence that The February 17th Martyrs Brigade disbanded after the Benghazi attacks:

A few hours after the attack, Martyrs of February 17, together with Bou Salim Martyrs brigade, allegedly agreed to disband,^[18] however about 150-200 militiamen moved from Benghazi to Jebel Akhdar area.^[19]

Of course they disbanded. Their work was done. Do you smell an Al Qaeda set up?
This whole set up stinks of treason. Not only were we putting money into the hands of Al Qaeda, we were quite possibly arming Syrian rebels in the process. More and more it is starting to look like the U.S. was inviting these attacks on Benghazi and Americans deserve to know the truth.
Why would any American leader hire an organization with the word “Martyrs” in its name? I know my thinking is somewhat simplistic but I think it is a fair question. It makes zero sense. Zero. I understand the significance of the February 17th date. This is the date of the Libyan liberation.
But the term “Martyr” strongly implies those who died or are willing to die for Allah. Is this the kind of security force we want defending our embassies, missions and consulates? Of course they are tied to Al Qaeda. How could anyone not see this possibility. Any organization who flies an Al Qaeda flag on their Facebook page is more than tied to Al Qaeda. In my mind, if you fly the flag then you are Al Qaeda.
The Obama Administration has a lot of explaining to do. If the American people knew that this organization was being paid to defend our foreign interests there would be hell to pay in America. For some reason this story has been very much hidden behind all of the other hype and rhetoric.
So now, as the truth comes out, there is hell to pay in America.
We want answers and we want accountability. Impeachment will not be enough.
An offense of this magnitude cries of treason and demands prosecution. That’s a fact.
Here is a legal definition of treason:

The betrayal of one’s own country by waging war against it or by consciously or purposely acting to aid its enemies.

So what do you think? Would sending money to those known to support our enemies qualify as treason? Unfortunately that is an argument to be had by legal scholars and legislators, but I know how the American people would answer that question.
Get angry America.
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Missouri Legislature Nullifies All Federal Gun Control Measures by a Veto-Proof Majority

Posted by Michael Boldin

Jefferson City, Mo (May 8, 2013) – Tonight, the Missouri State House voted to send Governor Jay Nixon what could arguably be the strongest defense against federal gun control measures in American history. The vote was 116-38.
HB436, introduced by Representative Doug Funderburk in February, was initially passed by the House in April by a vote of 115-42. Last week, the State Senate approved the bill with an amendment which did not change any of its nullification aspects. The vote there was 26-6. The bill then needed one final vote in the house which happened just before 10pm local time this evening.
The votes in both the House and Senate are by a strong veto-proof majority. Local activist Matt Radcliffe acknowledged as much when he said, “Governor Nixon can do nothing and it will automatically become law July 1st. Or he can sign it into law. Or he can veto it then his veto will be overridden in the house and it will become law anyway!”
As law, HB436 would nullify virtually every federal gun control measure on the books – or planned for the future. It reads, in part:

All federal acts, laws, orders, rules, and regulations, whether past, present, or future, which infringe on the people’s right to keep and bear arms as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article I, Section 23 of the Missouri Constitution shall be invalid in this state, shall not be recognized by this state, shall be specifically rejected by this state, and shall be considered null and void and of no effect in this state.
(2) Such federal acts, laws, orders, rules, and regulations include, but are not limited to:
(a) The provisions of the federal Gun Control Act of 1934;
(b) The provisions of the federal Gun Control Act of 1968;
(c) Any tax, levy, fee, or stamp imposed on firearms, firearm accessories, or ammunition not common to all other goods and services which could have a chilling effect on the purchase or ownership of those items by law-abiding citizens;
(d) Any registering or tracking of firearms, firearm accessories, or ammunition which could have a chilling effect on the purchase or ownership of those items by law-abiding citizens;
(e) Any registering or tracking of the owners of firearms, firearm accessories, or ammunition which could have a chilling effect on the purchase or ownership of those items by law-abiding citizens;
(f) Any act forbidding the possession, ownership, or use or transfer of any type of firearm, firearm accessory, or ammunition by law-abiding citizens; and
(g) Any act ordering the confiscation of firearms, firearm accessories, or ammunition from law-abiding citizens.

The legislation also includes misdemeanor criminal penalties if agents of the federal government attempt to enact gun control measures that violate the Constitution of the United States and State Constitution of Missouri.
The immediate effect of the law would be as follows:
1. All state and local law enforcement would be required to stop enforcing, or even providing any assistance in enforcing, federal gun control measures – all of them.
2. Grassroots activists should immediately start pressing local governments – county, city and town – to pass an ordinance which a) states an unwavering dedication to the new law passed, and b) requires all local law enforcement and all government assets to immediately cease in the enforcement of federal gun control measures.
3. Eric Holder will likely send a letter to threaten the state if it decides to enforce the penalty provisions of the act.
4. Other states will gain the courage to follow the lead started by Kansas, and now Missouri – and pass similar laws.
LEGAL INFORMATION ON REFUSING TO ENFORCE

There is absolutely ZERO serious dispute about the fact that the federal government cannot “commandeer” the states to carry out its laws. None. Even the Supreme Court has affirmed this multiple times.

In the 1992 case, New York v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that Congress couldn’t require states to enact specified waste disposal regulations.

In the 1997 case, Printz v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government could not command state law enforcement authorities to conduct background checks on prospective handgun purchasers.

In the 2012 case, National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, the Supreme Court ruled that a significant expansion of Medicaid was not a valid exercise of Congress’s spending power, as it would coerce states to either accept the expansion or risk losing existing Medicaid funding.

In each of these cases, the Supreme Court made is quite clear that their opinion is that the federal government cannot require the states to act, or even coerce them to act through a threat to lose funding. Their opinion is correct. If the feds pass a law, they can sure try to enforce it if they want. But the states absolutely do NOT have to help them in any way.

LEGISLATION AND TRACKING
Track the status of firearms freedom acts in states around the country at this link:
http://tracking.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2ndamendment/firearms/
Encourage your State, County, City and Town to introduce legislation to protect your right to keep and bear arms today. Model legislation here: http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/legislation/2nd-amendment-preservation-act/
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Strategic Command orders review of nuclear operations

By Carlo Muñoz - 05/09/13 12:20 PM ET

The top investigator at Strategic Command has been ordered to review mistakes in the Air Force's nuclear enterprise that led to the termination of 17 service officials this week.
The command's inspector general has been tasked to uncover the "root causes" that played into the failing review of nuclear weapons operations at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota and the eventual firings of Air Force staff, command chief Gen. Bob Kehler told lawmakers Thursday.

"This one in particular has my personal attention," Kehler told members of the House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee. "The fact that errors were made in an inspection in and of themselves doesn't trouble me much. It's what are the root causes and what are the consequences," the four-star general said of the ongoing investigation.
The Air Force failures at Minot and the subsequent fallout has already drawn the ire of Congress.
Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee chief Dick Durbin (R-Ill.) called the situation "unprecedented," openly questioning the service's ability to secure the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
The repeated mistakes of the service's nuclear specialists at Minot "strikes at the core of the responsibility of our chain of command,” Durbin told Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welch and service secretary Mike Donley on Wednesday.
The circumstances that led up to the failing review at Minot was particularly striking, given the Air Force's past history of high-profile instances of mismanagement of nuclear weapons.
Minot was one of the two Air Force bases involved in a 2008 incident where a B-52 was mistakenly loaded with live nuclear weapons during a training flight from Minot to Barksdale.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates fired former Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne and Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley after the mistake, sending a clear message to service officials on the need to revamp nuclear weapons procedures.
That said, Kehler told subpanel members he still was confident in the safety and security of the nuclear arsenal, despite the firings.
"As I sit here today, I don't see anything that could cause me to lose confidence in that ... [Air Force] unit to perform the mission safely and effectively," Kehler said Thursday.
The Minot review, which was run by the Air Force and not Strategic Command, was "aggressive" a clear example that service leaders had learned from the lessons of 2008, he added.
"I do think they reacted very aggressively to the mistakes that they saw. They don't accept those mistakes," Kehler said of the service inspection at Minot.
"I think what you're seeing here is a product of the increased scrutiny and the increased diligence that is going into these inspections and the responses to them," he added.
To that end, Kehler told House members that an extremely high review success rate by Air Force nuclear specialists would be more of a concern to his command than this week's failed inspection.
"I would be concerned if every unit had 100 percent passing," according to the four-star general. "I think that would suggest to me that we weren't being tough enough in inspections.

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Three things to know in the event of martial law or invasion...
~Rebel

1. The first thing and one of the most important things – DO NOT PANIC. Panic serves two things. First it is a tool used to catchyou off guard so that you are not where you should be and the other is meant to instills in us a since of false hope. I put this first on the list because it is the first offensive push, be it civilian or military; that they will attempt to try.

2. The second thing is ORGANIZATION. We must be pre-organized. When we hear that that the gangs are down the street looting houses, or that the Socialist Government is knocking down doors, we have to be prepared in such a way as to give them something but not the things we need to survive. What we will not give up is our water supply, our food supply and our firearms. Find a place to hide the firearms. There are several hide away tubes on the internet that are water proof that can be purchased at a decent price. They are placed in the ground long ways down so that a simple flower pot can cover the top with a little soil. Good for firearms, dried food, etc. Many other ways are possible such as simply digging in the middle of a very large bush, lining it with plastic and then covering it with dirt and plants.

3. Try to have your NETWORK OF PEOPLE around you that you trust. A phone call from someone who is five minutes away saying “they are headed your way” could be a life saver. In a bad situation, five minutes could mean the difference between freedom and living in a Fema camp. Myself, I will be hiking to a pre-determined area to meet up with others that believe as I do before I let my family sit behind a fence in a Fema camp.

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/three-things-to-know-in-the-event-of-martial-law-or-invasion_052013

Has Judgment Begun on Gentile Nations?

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I have noticed a recent interest among believers over the past several years concerning the nature of “judgment” in relation to modern acts of terrorism as well as natural disasters. Is God behind these occurrences, and if so, is His involvement direct, as if He outright caused these things, or indirect, as if He simply removes His protection in allowing them to occur? We are all aware of those who promoted hurricane Katrina as an act of God’s judgment on a city whose sinfulness reached the tipping point. But is that an accurate portrayal of the reason disasters such as these occur?

Then, what about Israel? Does our dealings with Israel have anything to do with our successes or downfalls as a nation? After all, the day Katrina hit causing mass evacuation of a major U.S. city, was the same day the Israeli Defense Force IDF stormed Gaza forcing Jewish residents to evacuate their cities and homes. Yes . . . the same day! And the U.S. used political pressure on Israel to do it. Was Katrina retribution then, or perhaps just a spiritual law in operation over God’s words concerning the treatment of His people Israel? (Genesis 12:3)

There is no doubt that spiritual laws are in operation in every aspect of human life, including major events such as these. It is important then to keep in mind that the spiritual laws operate in response to human wills and actions, and not to any “knee jerk” reactions of God Himself. So in response to the question of, “why do bad things happen to good people?”, it is not a matter of if God did it to them. There are a whole lot of things that happen in this world that are not His will. Rather, it is necessary to remember we live in a fallen world system, with an adversary on the loose, and spiritual laws that are in full bore operation as well. The devil is always cruel, but God is always good . . . and just!

If by chance it has escaped your attention, the good old U.S. of A. launched way out into economic distress starting back in Aug. 2008. As a result of our economic “cold” the world has caught “an economic flu”. Certainly, hard times have hit our shores . . . but why? Well, I am one who believes we are at the very threshold of the beginning of the fulfillment of end-time prophecy. All the evidences, as far as I am concerned, point to that reality, seemingly even the heavens are boldly declaring this as well.

In the very beginning when God made the sun, moon and stars He said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years.” (Gen.1:14) And it is so that our days, years, and even seasons are in fact governed by those empyreal bodies. But let’s not overlook the word signs in that verse. In Hebrew the word signs here is “owth”, and it means a signal as a flag, a beacon, monument, or mark. It has been said the God has marked the heavens by positioning the sun, moon, stars, and planets so as they would proclaim His plan of redemption for mankind, along with marking future events of prophecy as a signal or warning of things to come. Consequently, I believe current happenings in the sky above us are declaring we may have entered into a phase of “judgment” on the Gentile nations.

Last year, on August 1, 2008 there was a total eclipse of the sun. Nothing unusual about that . . . eclipses happen. This year, on July 22, 2009, there will be another total solar eclipse. OK . . . still normal. Next year, on July 11, 2010 there will be yet another total solar eclipse. Now then, this would be considered a bit unusual for three total solar eclipses one year after another, but still not enough to grab our attention, right? What if all three eclipses would have landed on the same day of the year, let’s say on August 1st 2008, 2009, and 2010? Would that get your attention? Well, the fact is that all three total solar eclipses do fall on the same day of the year . . . just not on our Gregorian calendar. If God was going to mark certain days on His prophetic timetable, He would obviously use His calendar, the one He gave to the Jews in the Old Testament, not ours. August 1, 2008, July 22, 2009, and July 11, 2010 all fall on the same day of God’s calendar (the Jewish religious calendar). . . the 1st of Av.

In the Jewish mindset, solar and lunar eclipses where taken as a “divine sign” hung in the heavens especially when they fell in sequence or on certain days of significant importance such as a religious feast day. They considered a lunar eclipse to bode bad for Israel, however, they considered a solar eclipse as a sign of pending “judgment” on the Gentiles.

So, this begs the question, has judgment on the Gentile nations been declared in the heavens? Has it already begun? Unless you have been living in seclusion for the past year, it is obvious to see things have not been peachy for many nations, especially ours. In fact, our economy began its descent in August 2008 . . . immediately follow the first total solar eclipse in the three year sequence.

My concern is that many Christian are asleep at the moment, and not discerning the seriousness of this present distress. However, some conversations I’ve had recently with close friends and fellow ministers seems to be mostly centered around the soon return of the Lord. I believe God is speaking to the body of Christ at this moment to wake up, and get serious about the things of God. Let the natural things that used to be so important to you be overcome with spiritual matters. Keep your mind on things above. (Romans 8:5-6)

Now, there are two more total eclipses in the sequence. What lies ahead then? Some would have you believe that I am one of those so called “doom and gloom” preachers, which by the way is a phrase that has been widely used in an un-scriptural sense. They Bible is full of warnings for God’s people as well as unbelievers. So not to echo those warnings is not preaching the whole gospel! Don’t knock those men and women of God whom He has called to minister along those lines. There have been too many preachers tickling too many ears anyways. I do have strong feelings about certain calamities which will be unleashed over the next two years on Gentile nations, and I will be expressing them in detail in future blog posts.

It may be a time of darkness that is looming over the nations of the world, but for the Church great days are straight ahead. This is our time to shine! Darkness will overtake those in the world, but stay in the light and you’ll be fine. A candle shines brightest in darkness. As the sun is blotted out as a signal of judgment over the nations in the following two years, allow the light of the Son to shine through you.

This post is the 1st in a series. Here are the other articles:
2 – The Great Total Solar Eclipse of 2009
3 – The Great Total Solar Eclipse of 2010

Solar eclipse set to turn sun into 'ring of fire' this week

Charles Medendorp

Skywatcher Charles Medendorp took this photo of the annular eclipse at the Very Large Array outside Socorro, N.M., on May 20, 2012.

By Miriam Kramer
Space.com
The moon will block the sun in a potentially spectacular solar eclipse this week — a celestial event that will transform

the sun into a cosmic "ring of fire" in the daytime sky.
The ring-shaped solar eclipse , known as an annular eclipse, will occur Thursday and Friday Eastern time. Weather permitting, the eclipse will be visible in certain parts of Australia and the Southern Pacific Ocean, where the local time will be Friday.
"Solar eclipses can be inspirational

to students and others, so it is interesting to have everyone view the eclipse, but only safe methods of viewing should be used," Jay Pasachoff, an astronomer at Williams College and chairman of the International Astronomical Union's working group on eclipses, said in a statement. [See Spectacular Photos of a 'Ring of Fire' Solar Eclipse]

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While nearly 95 percent of the sun will be covered by the moon at the eclipse's peak, the sky will not be noticeably darker to the naked eye at any point, explained Williams College officials in Williamstown, Mass.
For this reason, special protective lenses, camera and telescope filters and other methods of protection should be used in order to safely watch the eclipse even during full annularity, when the sun is silhouetting the moon.

Eclipse predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA / GSFC

The first solar eclipse of 2013 occurs at the moon's descending node in eastern Ares. An annular eclipse will be visible from Australia, eastern Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and the Gilbert Islands.

The path of annularity passes through parts of Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland in Australia. Other nearby parts of the world will be able to see a partial solar eclipse, if weather permits.
The Hawaiian Islands, other parts of Australia, the southern Philippines, eastern Indonesia, other areas in Papua New Guinea and a small part of New Zealand will get at least a partial show, Williams College officials said.
The entire world should be able to catch a glimpse of the annular eclipse thanks to the online Slooh Space Camera. Slooh will play host to a webcast featuring expert commentary and views of the eclipse on Thursday starting at 5:30 p.m. EDT. You can watch the broadcast live on Space.com.
During annular solar eclipses, the moon casts a shadow on the face of the Earth when it passes between the planet and the star. Because of its orbit, however, the moon still appears about 4.5 percent smaller than the sun, creating the distinct ring in the sky, Joe Rao, a Space.com contributor and meteorologist said.
This week's solar eclipse comes on the heels of a partial lunar eclipse that shadowed the moon above Central Asia, Western Australia, Eastern Europe and Africa. Another minor lunar eclipse will occur on May 24.
These aren't the only eclipses of 2013. On Nov. 3, a rare hybrid solar eclipse — an annular eclipse that transitions into a total eclipse — will be visible in the northern Atlantic Ocean and into equatorial Africa.
WARNING: Never look directly at the sun during an eclipse with a telescope or your unaided eye. Severe eye damage can result and scientists use special filters to safely view the sun.
Editor's note:If you live in the observing area of Thursday's solar eclipse and safely snap an amazing picture of the sun that you'd like to share for a possible story or image gallery, send photos, comments and your name and location to Managing Editor Tariq Malik at spacephotos@space.com.
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U.S. Weighs Wide Overhaul of Wiretap Laws

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, resolving years of internal debate, is on the verge of backing a Federal Bureau of Investigation plan for a sweeping overhaul of surveillance laws that would make it easier to wiretap people who communicate using the Internet rather than by traditional phone services, according to officials familiar with the deliberations.

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Robert S. Mueller III, the F.B.I. director, second from left, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in March.

The F.B.I. director, Robert S. Mueller III, has argued that the bureau’s ability to carry out court-approved eavesdropping on suspects is “going dark” as communications technology evolves, and since 2010 has pushed for a legal mandate requiring companies like Facebook and Google to build into their instant-messaging and other such systems a capacity to comply with wiretap orders. That proposal, however, bogged down amid concerns by other agencies, like the Commerce Department, about quashing Silicon Valley innovation.

While the F.B.I.’s original proposal would have required Internet communications services to each build in a wiretapping capacity, the revised one, which must now be reviewed by the White House, focuses on fining companies that do not comply with wiretap orders. The difference, officials say, means that start-ups with a small number of users would have fewer worries about wiretapping issues unless the companies became popular enough to come to the Justice Department’s attention.

Still, the plan is likely to set off a debate over the future of the Internet if the White House submits it to Congress, according to lawyers for technology companies and advocates of Internet privacy and freedom.

“I think the F.B.I.’s proposal would render Internet communications less secure and more vulnerable to hackers and identity thieves,” said Gregory T. Nojeim of the Center for Democracy and Technology. “It would also mean that innovators who want to avoid new and expensive mandates will take their innovations abroad and develop them there, where there aren’t the same mandates.”

Andrew Weissmann, the general counsel of the F.B.I., said in a statement that the proposal was aimed only at preserving law enforcement officials’ longstanding ability to investigate suspected criminals, spies and terrorists subject to a court’s permission.

“This doesn’t create any new legal surveillance authority,” he said. “This always requires a court order. None of the ‘going dark’ solutions would do anything except update the law given means of modern communications.”

A central element of the F.B.I.’s 2010 proposal was to expand the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act — a 1994 law that already requires phone and network carriers to build interception capabilities into their systems — so that it would also cover Internet-based services that allow people to converse. But the bureau has now largely moved away from that one-size-fits-all mandate.

Instead, the new proposal focuses on strengthening wiretap orders issued by judges. Currently, such orders instruct recipients to provide technical assistance to law enforcement agencies, leaving wiggle room for companies to say they tried but could not make the technology work. Under the new proposal, providers could be ordered to comply, and judges could impose fines if they did not. The shift in thinking toward the judicial fines was first reported by The Washington Post, and additional details were described to The New York Times by several officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Under the proposal, officials said, for a company to be eligible for the strictest deadlines and fines — starting at $25,000 a day — it must first have been put on notice that it needed surveillance capabilities, triggering a 30-day period to consult with the government on any technical problems.

Such notice could be the receipt of its first wiretap order or a warning from the attorney general that it might receive a surveillance request in the future, officials said, arguing that most small start-ups would never receive either.

Michael Sussmann, a former Justice Department lawyer who advises communications providers, said that aspect of the plan appeared to be modeled on a British law, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act of 2000.

Foreign-based communications services that do business in the United States would be subject to the same procedures, and would be required to have a point of contact on domestic soil who could be served with a wiretap order, officials said.

Albert Gidari Jr., who represents technology companies on law enforcement matters, criticized that proposed procedure. He argued that if the United States started imposing fines on foreign Internet firms, it would encourage other countries, some of which may be looking for political dissidents, to penalize American companies if they refused to turn over users’ information.

“We’ll look a lot more like China than America after this,” Mr. Gidari said.

The expanded fines would also apply to phone and network carriers, like Verizon and AT&T, which are separately subject to the 1994 wiretapping capacity law. The FBI has argued that such companies sometimes roll out system upgrades without making sure that their wiretap capabilities will keep working.

The 1994 law would be expanded to cover peer-to-peer voice-over-Internet protocol, or VoIP — calls between computers that do not connect to the regular phone network. Such services typically do not route data packets through any central hub, making them difficult to intercept.

The F.B.I. has abandoned a component of its original proposal that would have required companies that facilitate the encryption of users’ messages to always have a key to unscramble them if presented with a court order. Critics had charged that such a law would create back doors for hackers. The current proposal would allow services that fully encrypt messages between users to keep operating, officials said.

In November 2010, Mr. Mueller toured Silicon Valley and briefed executives on the proposal as it then existed, urging them not to lobby against it, but the firms have adopted a cautious stance. In February 2011, the F.B.I.’s top lawyer at the time testified about the “going dark” problem at a House hearing, emphasizing that there was no administration proposal yet. Still, several top lawmakers at the hearing expressed skepticism, raising fears about innovation and security.

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: May 8, 2013
An earlier version of this article misspelled the surname of a former Justice Department lawyer who advises communications providers and commented on one aspect of the F.B.I.’s plan to overhaul surveillance laws. He is Michael Sussmann, not Sussman.

Shock, Beyond Outrage! Obama Secretly Brought In Muslim Cleric To Curse Bodies Of Slain SEAL Team 6 Members

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Excerpted from YAHOO – WASHINGTON, May 8, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – Three families of Navy SEAL Team VI special forces servicemen, along with one family of an Army National Guardsman, will appear at a press conference on May 9, 2013, to disclose never before revealed information about how and why their sons along with 26 others died in a fatal helicopter crash in Afghanistan on August 6, 2011, just a few months after the successful raid on the compound of Osama Bin Laden that resulted in the master terrorist’s death.
How military brass, while prohibiting any mention of a Judeo-Christian God, invited a Muslim cleric to the funeral for the fallen Navy SEAL Team VI heroes who disparaged in Arabic the memory of these servicemen by damning them as infidels to Allah. A video of the Muslim cleric’s “prayer” will be shown with a certified translation.
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Immigration bill backers thwart conservative amendments

Thu, May 09 19:43 PM EDT

By Richard Cowan and Thomas Ferraro
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A landmark bill backed by U.S. President Barack Obama to overhaul the nation's immigration system survived unscathed on Thursday during the first day of consideration by a divided Senate Judiciary Committee.
On bipartisan votes, the panel rejected conservatives' attempts to thwart implementation of a centerpiece of the bill - a pathway to U.S. citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants.
By day's end leading Democratic and Republican senators said the committee had improved the bill.
The panel, composed of 10 Democrats and eight Republicans, accepted 21 relatively modest amendments that focus largely on border security and increased congressional oversight. All but one amendment were agreed to on bipartisan votes.
Eleven other amendments were rejected or withdrawn, many of them Republican bids to bolster border security in ways that went far beyond the steps spelled out in the bill, while also delaying or even killing proposals to legalize undocumented immigrants.
"It is a better bill now than it was this morning," said Republican Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona, a member of the committee and the Gang of Eight senators who wrote the measure.
Democratic Senator Charles Schumer of New York, another committee and Gang of Eight member agreed, hailing the amendments as "good-faith improvements...that make our proposal stronger."
As currently written, the bill would boost funding for border security, revamp visa programs to allow for more high- and low-skilled workers and chart a 13-year path to citizenship for most of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the country.
The committee is expected to complete work on the bill by the end of this month, sending it to the full Senate to face a tougher test. That debate could extend through June or longer.
Backers will need the support of at least 60 of the chamber's 100 members to clear what are expected to be Republican-led procedural roadblocks.
Although the Republican Party has urged its members to embrace comprehensive immigration reform as a way to reach out to the growing number of Hispanic voters, a number of Republicans have resisted.
This, despite Hispanics rebuking Republican candidates in last November's elections, including presidential nominee Mitt Romney, with 71 percent of them voting to re-elect Obama.
Many Republicans favor an incremental approach, one that would focus more on strengthening the 1,969-mile (3,170-km) U.S.-Mexican border. They want to do so without a pathway to citizenship, which critics denounce as "amnesty", for those who entered the United States illegally or overstayed visas.
Throughout the day, two Republican co-sponsors of the bill, Flake and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, joined with Democrats on critical issues to protect the legalization provision from being derailed.
The voting pattern left the most conservative members predicting the eventual demise of the legislation.
"The committee has voted down every serious border security amendment today," said Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz. "If it doesn't have real border security, it will not pass (Congress)."
Schumer angrily rejected Cruz's characterization, saying, "It's tough as nails."
In roughly eight hours, the committee plowed through about 30 of the 300 amendments submitted.
Some of the amendments are designed to appeal to the Democratic majority, as well as many Republicans, as ways to improve the measure, which would be the first comprehensive change to immigration laws since 1986.
Others are seen as possible ways to kill it. Four of the "Gang of Eight" senators who crafted the complex measure are on the committee, and those two Democrats and two Republicans have agreed to jointly oppose any amendment seen as a "poison pill."
AVOIDING 'MISTAKES OF THE PAST'
The day began with a warning from the panel's top Republican that he would make the process as long and "arduous" as possible.
"I plan to ask many questions throughout this process," Iowa Senator Charles Grassley warned. "I want to know how the bill doesn't repeat the mistakes of the past."
Grassley, in a statement, promised an "arduous" and "robust" debate.
Grassley followed up with an amendment to require that the Obama administration achieve full control of illegal immigration at every part of the U.S. border before any undocumented people now in the United States could be considered for legal status.
"This amendment would set a standard that would basically delay probably forever" the legalization of the 11 million, Schumer said.
The committee defeated a move by Cruz to delay legalizing illegal immigrants until 40,000 more border patrol agents were hired to join the 21,000 already there. Opponents said that would cost as much as $40 billion and take 10 years to achieve.
POLL BACKS IMMIGRATION POLICY OVERHAUL
The kickoff of Senate Judiciary Committee debate on the bill came as a new Pew Research Center poll found 75 percent of Americans believed immigration policy needed major changes and 73 percent said there should be a way for illegal immigrants to stay in the United States.
But less than half, 44 percent, said they favored allowing illegal residents to apply for citizenship.
During a break, Schumer told reporters he worried "all the time" about a Democratic amendment that Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy has offered that would cover same-sex couples in the bill's new immigration reform policies. He said the Gang of Eight was evenly split over that amendment.
It was not yet clear whether Leahy will try to attach that amendment to the bill during the committee's work on the bill or possibly wait until the bill reaches the full Senate.
The panel is to resume work on Tuesday.
Negotiations on a bill in the more conservative Republican-led House of Representatives slogged on.
According to one House source familiar with the negotiations, disagreements remained over several important matters, including how many low-skilled workers should be allowed into the United States for jobs ranging from cooks and hotel maids to construction workers.
(Editing by Fred Barbash, Jackie Frank, Peter Cooney and Bob Burgdorfer)

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Boehner: W.H. should release Benghazi emails By: Tarini Parti May 9, 2013 03:10 PM EDT
Speaker John Boehner is calling on the White House to release a series of key emails related to Benghazi following Wednesday’s hearing on the attacks. “We learned that on September 12 — the day after the attacks and four days before [U.N. Ambassador] Susan Rice’s TV appearances — a senior State Department official emailed her superiors to relay that she had told the Libyan ambassador the attack was conducted by Islamic terrorists,” Boehner told reporters during his weekly remarks. “The State Department would not allow our committees to keep copies of this email when it was reviewed. I would call on the President to order the State Department to release this email so the American people can see it.” (PHOTOS: 10 slams on Obama and Benghazi) The Ohio Republican went on to say that the White House has claimed it made “stylistic changes” to Rice’s talking points, but it failed to mention that senior officials directed the changes to the talking points. “Last November, the President said he was ‘happy to cooperate in any way Congress wants.’ This is his chance,” Boehner said. “The truth shouldn’t be hidden from the American people behind a White House firewall. Four Americans lost their lives in this terrorist attack. Congress will continue to investigate this issue, using all of the resources at our disposal.” Boehner’s call comes the day after Gregory Hicks, a foreign service officer and ex-deputy chief of mission in Libya, gave emotional testimony in a House hearing on Benghazi, describing in detail what happened the night of the attacks. Republicans, who have maintained that the White House and the State Department didn’t do enough to help U.S. personnel under attack in September 2012, are seizing on Hicks’ testimony in their claims that the Obama administration is hiding details related to the attacks.
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Via suspects discussed alternative plans to poison air/water to kill up to 100,000 people: Court docs

Third man arrested in plot to derail train

By Jessica Murphy ,Parliamentary Bureau

First posted: Thursday, May 09, 2013 03:12 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, May 09, 2013 05:25 PM EDT

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Two of the Via Rail terror suspects allegedly contemplated poisoning the air or water before settling on the plot to target a passenger train, according to newly released U.S. court documents.
The fresh details came to light Thursday as American authorities revealed an FBI sting operation scooped up a third man in connection to the foiled plot to derail a train between Toronto and New York.
Ahmed Abassi, a Tunisian citizen who previously lived in Canada, has been charged with two counts of knowingly making false statements in an application to immigration authorities for a green card and work visa, in order to facilitate an act of international terrorism.
"As alleged, Mr. Abassi came to the United States to pursue terrorist activity and support others in the same shameful pursuit. What Mr. Abassi didn't know was that one of his associates, privy to the details of his plan, was an undercover FBI agent," said FBI assistant director-in-charge George Venizelos in a statement.
Authorities arrested Abassi at New York's JFK airport on April 22, the same day Canadian law enforcement nabbed Chiheb Esseghaier, of Montreal, and Raed Jaser, of Toronto.
In its release, the U.S. Department of Justice alleges Abassi was responsible for radicalizing Esseghaier and met with him in New York City after travelling to the U.S. in mid-March. It is unclear where Abassi lived in Canada or how long he was there.
In recorded conversations with Esseghaier and the undercover FBI agent, Abassi allegedly talked about his desire to commit terrorist acts in the U.S. and other countries and his intention to provide support to terror organizations including an al-Qaida affiliate based in Iraq called the al-Nusrah Front.
It's also alleged he had plans to recruit others to his cause.
Court documents released by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York describe how Abassi and Esseghaier worked to hatch the alleged plan including that "the defendant noted that he had suggested an alternative plot -- contaminating the air or water with bacteria in order to kill up to 100,000 people -- but that Esseghaier was dismissive of that plan."
The Department of Justice only unsealed Abassi's indictment Thursday.
Esseghaier and Jaser appeared in Canadian court April 23 and were charged with a series of terrorism-related offenses, including conspiring to murder people and to interfere with transportation facilities for a terrorist group.
The RCMP and the U.S. ambassador to Canada David Jacobson both noted how the latest information underscored the shared security responsibility between Canada and the U.S.
Abassi's next court date is set for June 11 in New York City.
--with files from Daniel Proussalidis