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MAY 16, 2012

New U.S. battle strategy against Iran [seen] in U.S. movements and Israeli drill

A series of apparently unconnected military movements observed in Middle East seas and skies in the last ten days have a common factor: introduction of the new US Air Sea Battle (ASB) doctrine, which is designed to make the most of tightly coordinated operations by air, land, sea, undersea, space and cyberspace capabilities for defeating those of the enemy.
Monday, May 14, the day that Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal warned Iran not to meddle in the evolving Saudi-Bahraini union, large US Navy and Marine forces put into Jeddah port for [the] first time in 11 years.
Last week, Israel’s Navy and Air Force and their special operations units - Shaldag, Shayetet 13 and 960 Task Force - carried out their largest combined exercise ever in the Mediterranean. It ended with Israeli surface ships and submarines arrayed in a dense defensive line against enemy vessels armed with unconventional weapons approaching the Israeli coast.
The Israeli exercise, which ended May 13, practiced the new American ASB doctrine of simultaneously massing large-scale sea and air strength against Iran on two seas, in this case, the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf. It also drilled operating in unison with their American counterparts under the same doctrine.
DEBKAfile’s military sources report that Washington timed the unveiling of the new battle strategy for May 10, two weeks before the Six Power nuclear talks with Iran resume in Baghdad.
US Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Jon Greenert explained that the ASB concept was developed "to defeat A2AD (Anti-Access/Area Denial) strategies such as the closure of the (Hormuz) strait, cyber attack, mines, cruise and ballistic missiles and air defense systems, threats enhanced by technological advancements.”
Our military sources add: The concept is also closely applicable to American tactics for defending the Persian Gulf nations against possible Iranian aggression as the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) takes its first unification steps to shore up its defenses against that threat.
Admiral Greenert wrote: “There’s been attention recently about closing an international strait using, among other means, mines, fast boats, cruise missiles and mini-subs.”
DEBKAfile: Those are precisely the systems Iran’s Revolutionary Guards hold ready for a decision to block the strategic Strait of Hormuz to international oil traffic.
ASB concepts include “submarines hitting air defense and cruise missiles in support of Air Force bombers: F-22 Air Force stealth fighters taking out enemy cruise missile threats to Navy ships.”
Admiral Greenert was the first senior American commander to put on public record the measures for repelling Iranian cruise missile attacks on US aircraft carriers deployed in the Persian Gulf. He also spelled out the mission for which a squadron of F-22 jets was stationed at the al Dhafra air base in late April.
DEBKA-Net-Weekly revealed on May 4 that a second squadron was due to land soon in the Gulf region.
On May 16, Admiral Greenert and US Air Force chief General Norton Schwartz are to discuss the ASB in a public event at the Brookings Institute in Washington.
US and Israeli air, sea and special forces have meanwhile begun operating under the new doctrine in the Mediterranean, the Red Sea and Persian Gulf. Monday, the US Amphibious Ready Group, led by the USS Iwo Jima put into Jeddah, the Saudi Navy’s Red Sea command port, with 2,200 Marines aboard.
It was the first time since the 2001 Gulf War that the Saudis had permitted US naval and air units of this size to anchor in one of their ports and, moreover, allowed American military personnel to show themselves in its streets.
The GCC summit which began in Riyadh on the same day had three key items on its agenda: Iran’s military, political and covert threat to the region’s stability; the Syrian crisis; and unification steps between Saudi Arabia and Bahrain to ward off Iranian interference in the Shiite-led unrest. [no further content]

Source:     debka.com  LINK

[Note: Also see Iran Fumes As Six Arab States Consider Saudi Plan For A Closer Union in today's News Briefs section.]

Followup story
U.S. Leads Major War Drill in Jordan ... Israel Not Invited

The United States is leading what it described as the "largest military exercises in the Middle East in 10 years" in Jordan on Tuesday.
Eager Lion 2012 “is the largest exercise held in the region in the past ten years,” Major General Ken Tovo, head of the US Special Operations Forces, told reporters in Amman.
“Yesterday we began to apply the skills that we have developed over the last weeks in an irregular warfare scenario … They will last for approximately the coming two weeks,” he added.
“The message that I want to send through this exercise is that we have developed the right partners throughout the region and across the world … insuring that we have the ability to … meet challenges that are coming to our nations,” Tovo said.
Over 12,000 soldiers are taking part in the war games, representing 19 countries, including Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Pakistan, Qatar, Britain, France, Italy, Spain and Australia.
Jordanian army operations and training chief Major General Awni Adwan said the military exercise “has been in the planning phase for the past three years.”
“No forces will be deployed north … the exercise is not connected to any real world event,” Adwan said when asked if the war games were related to the ongoing violence in Jordan’s northern neighbor Syria.
"This has nothing to do with Syria. We respect the sovereignty of Syria. There is no tension between the Syrians and us. Our objectives are clear,” Adwan said.
Israel – despite having extensive security agreements with Jordan – was not invited to participate in the exercises. Several Arab nations participating in the drill are still formally at war with the Jewish state.
Washington has granted Amman $2.4 billion in military and economic aid in the past five years, according to official figures. [no further content]

Source:     israelnationalnews.com  LINK

Iran drills first large-scale paratroop drops for offensive action

Special operations units of the Iranian army and Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Tuesday, May 14, began a two-day practice of offensive tactics, for the first time dropping large-scale forces from the air deep behind enemy lines. The many war games Iran has conducted until now focused on defense of strategic and nuclear locations and repelling invaders. This drill displayed its aggressive capabilities. Codenamed Ja’far Tayyar, it was staged in remote Khorasan near the Afghan border, so as not to expose the commando tactics it employed.
In announcing the exercise, Gholam-Ali Gholamian, Deputy Commander for Operations for the IRGC Ground Forces, cagily called it another routine exercise for “maintaining the preparedness and promoting the combat capability of units stationed in the region.”
DEBKAfile’s military sources disclose that there was nothing routine about it. The units taking part were not stationed in the region but flown in especially.
Western intelligence sources observing the exercise report that its offensive nature was evident: Air transports coming in from the rest of the country dropped large numbers of paratroopers and special forces; Air Force fighter-bombers practiced intense bombardments of small targeted locations; and helicopters drilled rapid transfers of forces between points and air cover for the units reaching the ground.
Monday, the Persian Gulf rulers invited to Riyadh by Saudi King Abdullah for a summit on the Iranian threat dwelt long and hard on the exercise and concluded the threat had been exacerbated and that Tehran had more in store for them than closing the Strait of Hormuz to oil traffic in the event of war. They saw special forces being prepared by Iran to strike deep inside their countries up to and including their oil-producing regions.
The exercise also served the ongoing trade of war signals between Washington and Tehran. Staging a special forces exercise not far from the US military presence in Afghanistan was meant as a rejoinder to [the] US-led special forces maneuver taking place in Jordan across the border with Syria with the participation of 17 nations.
Iranian and Syrian media made much of the fact that the US-led war game was named Eager Lion 12 as a deliberate insult to Bashar Assad, whose name is the Arabic for Lion. [no further content]

Source:     debka.com  LINK

Israel [is] staging Iranian spy runs from Iraq

WASHINGTON -- Israel is using bases in the Sunni Kurdish portion of northern Iraq to launch missions inside Shi’ite Iran to gather intelligence on the Islamic republic’s nuclear program, a number of informed sources said in a report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
With the help of recruited Iranian dissidents in Kurdistan, the Israelis are attempting to gather sufficient information to convince the United States and the United Nations that Iran is involved in using its nuclear development program to make nuclear weapons.
Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government officially has denied claims by Iranian officials regarding the missions.
But various reports including a recent Times of London report suggest that Israel is using specially modified U.S.-supplied Black Hawk helicopters to carry 12-member armed teams with sensitive equipment to monitor radioactivity and the magnitude of explosives tests.
The helicopters may be similar to the specially modified stealth Black Hawks which were used in the [alleged -Ed.] May 2011 assassination of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden by U.S. Navy SEALS in Abbottabad, Pakistan . . . .
In undertaking missions inside Iran, sources suggest that the commandos are dressed as members of the Iranian military and use Iranian military vehicles.
In separate activities, the Israelis also may be teaming up with members of the Mujahadeen-e-Khalq (MeK), who use northern Iraq as a safe haven against Iran when they launch their own attacks.
The MeK, which is a group comprised of militant anti-government Iranians, also has been implicated in working with the Israelis to assassinate Iranian nuclear scientists.

Source:     wnd.com  MORE

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Followup story
Palestinian inmates in Israeli jails end hunger strike with Egyptian-brokered deal

GAZA -- Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails agreed Monday to an Egyptian-brokered deal aimed at ending a mass hunger strike that challenged Israel’s policy of detention without trial and raised fears of a bloody Palestinian backlash if any protesters died . . . An Egyptian official involved in the talks said that under Monday’s deal to end the strike, Israel had agreed to end solitary confinement for 19 prisoners and lifted a ban on visits to prisoners by relatives living in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. Israel agreed to improve other conditions of detention, and to free so-called administrative detainees once they complete their terms unless they are brought to court, he added.  MORE

Iran 'could order Hezbollah hit on Israel'

JERUSALEM -- Lebanon's Hezbollah may not want a new war with Israel but an order to attack would come from Tehran in the event of a strike on Iran, a senior military official in Israel's northern command told AFP. And if the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad collapses, the resulting unrest could see Al-Qaeda type groups create chaos on the Syrian Golan Heights, he said in an interview conducted on Sunday, speaking on condition of anonymity. Any military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities would likely spark a deadly response from its ally Hezbollah, whose leader Hassan Nasrallah warned on Friday that its missiles could strike anywhere inside the Jewish state. But senior military officials do not believe Nasrallah wants another war with Israel and would only attack as a direct result of orders from Tehran. "The biggest spending of Iran in 30 years has been on the nuclear programme, and Hezbollah is the second," the Israeli official told AFP, adding that Tehran's aim was to create "Iranian footprints near the border with Israel." "If something would happen in Iran, it's a tool that they can use in all kinds of scenarios," he said.  MORE

Iran Fumes As Six Arab States Consider Saudi Plan for a Closer Union

(CNS News) -- A proposal by six Arab Gulf states to explore a possible union drew an angry response in Iran, where lawmakers are painting it as part of a plot to “annex” tiny Bahrain to Saudi Arabia. Leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) agreed at a summit in Riyadh on Monday that their foreign ministers would study further a Saudi-led proposal for a closer union that envisages political, economic and military coordination, more open borders, and a centralized decision-making body to replace the GCC secretariat. Although the decision for further study – ahead of an extraordinary summit at a yet-to-be-determined date – in fact delays the proposal, Tehran is unhappy with what it says is an attempt, under the guise of deeper regional integration, to “prevent the success of Bahrain’s [Shi’ite-led] revolution.” . . . The statement warned that what Iran considers a joint plot by the Saudi and Bahraini governments to annex Bahrain would spread unrest into Saudi Arabia. (The kingdom’s oil-rich eastern province is home to a restive Shi’ite minority.) [emphasis added]  MORE

Note: see these related stories:

Saudi Foreign Minister Tells Iran To Keep Out Of Saudi-Bahrain Affairs - Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said Monday that Iran should keep out of the kingdom's relations with Shiite-majority Bahrain, even if the two states decide to form a union  LINK

Iran Says Saudi-Bahrain Union Plan Deepens Crisis - "Any kind of foreign intervention or non-normative plans without respecting people's vote will only deepen the already existing wounds" - Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast  LINK

CIA Rendition Victim Will Have His Day in EU Human Rights Court
Top Macedonian official expected to confirm Masri's kidnapping

The “extraordinary rendition” of Khalid el-Masri, the bungled CIA kidnapping of a German car salesman over a case of mistaken identity, is going to get a very high profile, very public hearing, as the European Court of Human Rights has agreed to hear the case. El-Masri was kidnapped during his vacation by the Macedonian government at the behest of the US in late 2003. During his detention he was tortured by the CIA for several months, and sent to Afghanistan and Iraq. The CIA apparently thought it had Khaled al-Masri, a completely different person, and when they discovered that they had kidnapped an innocent car dealer, they dumped him off in a deserted road in Albania in the middle of the night. The German government says the US has confirmed that it [had “mistakenly” [kidnapped] el-Masri, and a WikiLeaks cable revealed that the US had warned Germany not to attempt to issue any warrants related to the case. Though the kidnapping is a recognized fact, the Macedonian government has repeatedly denied any involvement. This is expected to change, as an unnamed senior minister in the Macedonian government is planning to testify at the court that the account Masri gave of the “rendition” was accurate. [no further content]  LINK

Business As Usual Alert: States Use Housing Aid Cash to Plug Budgets

In a budget proposed this week, California joined more than a dozen states that want to help close gaping shortfalls using money paid by the nation’s biggest banks and earmarked for foreclosure prevention, investigations of financial fraud and blunting the ill effects of the housing crisis. California was awarded more than $400 million from the banks, and Governor Jerry Brown has proposed using the bulk of that sum to pay the state’s debts. The money was part of a national settlement valued at $25 billion and negotiated with five big banks over abuses in their mortgage and foreclosure processes. The settlement, reached in February after a year of talks and intervention by the Obama administration, was the second-largest in history involving the states, trailing the tobacco industry settlement, and represented the first large-scale commitment by banks to provide direct aid to borrowers. As part of the settlement, the banks agreed to pay the states $2.5 billion, money intended to help homeowners and mitigate the effects of the foreclosure surge. But critics complained that this was the only cash the banks were required to pay - the rest comes in the form of “credits” for reducing mortgage debt and other activities. Even that relatively small amount has proved too great a temptation for lawmakers. Only 27 states have devoted all their funds from the banks to housing programs, according to a report by Enterprise Community Partners, a national affordable housing group. So far about 15 states have said they will use all or most of the money for other purposes. [emphasis added]  MORE

'Existential threat' to Western U.S. states

The Obama administration has launched a new battle over water rights that threatens not only the the economies of arid Western states, which largely voted against him in the 2008 election, but their very existence. World Net Daily reported last month that the federal government was creating obstacles for Tombstone, Ariz., to restore its water supplies following last year’s forest fire and monsoon-triggered floods in the nearby mountains. The federal government said crews could not use machinery to rebuild pipelines and spring-water collection systems. Now, a letter contradicting longstanding federal practice asserts a claim to water in arid Western states, such as Utah, Montana, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and others, that supersedes all other authorities, including decisions by state water courts . . . [The] Goldwater Institute, called it an “existential threat to the Western states.” The institute is fighting on behalf of Tombstone for its right to repair its water supply system and use the water. A statement from the institute said the city of Tombstone “is no longer the only one fighting the federal government for water rights.” “The latest move by the federal Bureau of Land Management appears to herald a bigger and much more comprehensive effort to seize water and access rights on federal lands throughout the Western states,” the statement said. [emphasis added]  MORE

Followup story
Father: Georgia student with flesh-eating bug wants book

A week ago, doctors gave her little chance of survival. Now a Georgia grad student who is battling a rare flesh-eating infection is alert and bored enough to ask for a book, her father told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Aimee Copeland remained in critical condition at an Augusta hospital, unable to speak because of a breathing tube in her throat as she continued to fight the life-threatening disease that took hold after she gashed her leg in a fall from a broken zip line. Doctors had to amputate most of 24-year-old woman's left leg to save her life, and her father says she'll likely lose her fingers too. But he told AP that doctors now believe they'll be able to save not only the palms of his daughter's hands but her right foot as well. Days ago she faced losing both of her hands and feet. "This doctor can't fathom a reason for why she's improved the way she has," Andy Copeland said in a telephone interview. "Her spirits are extraordinarily high. I am absolutely amazed."  MORE

Note: see also Georgia Student With Flesh-Eating Bacteria Makes Progress  LINK

Imprisoned Iranian pastor alive, in good spirits

Though Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani remains in prison in Iran, a new letter gives reason to believe he is still alive. Jason DeMars of President Truth Ministries received the letter that Nadarkhani reportedly wrote from prison. But it actually addresses "all those who are worried about [his] current situation." "He wanted to let everybody know that he's in perfect health in the flesh and in the Spirit, and he looks at the days that he's being persecuted as 'a day of exam and trial' of his faith," DeMars reports. "He's using them as a trial in order to prove his loyalty and sincerity before God, and he's doing everything he can to stay right with what he's learned from God's Word." Jason DeMars (Present Truth Ministries)The pastor writes that though he wants his ordeal to end, he has surrendered himself to God's will . . . Nadarkhani was given the death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity, although he has stated frequently that he never practiced the Muslim faith to begin with. Now, he is asking "all the beloved ones to pray" for him.  MORE

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Commentary: Fighting Erupts in Lebanon (Tony Cartalucci)
U.S., Israeli, and Saudi-funded terrorists destabilizing Syria now under fire in Lebanon

Excerpt:
According to a 2007 New Yorker article by Seymour Hersh, "The Redirection," the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia had been assembling a region-wide army of extremist-mercenaries to battle Hezbollah in Lebanon, destabilize and overthrow Syria, and create a united front against Iran. The forces recruited for this effort would come from the ranks of the CIA-created "Arab foreign legion," Al Qaeda itself - extremist groups fresh back from fighting US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, including listed terror organizations like the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) from Libya.
Hersh's 2007 report exposed the groundwork for the very violence unfolding in Syria today, and now Lebanon. Forces to destabilize Syria were primarily to be staged in northern Lebanon, as explained in the article, and indeed the heaviest fighting over the last year has been seen in the Syrian city of Homs, just across the border from northern Lebanon . . . .
Now, the very staging ground in northern Lebanon being used to destabilize neighboring Syria has erupted into violence. Not by Syrian troops crossing the border, but by indigenous Lebanese factions facing off against each other. News is trickling out slowly and the Western media appears intent on keeping the violence as nebulous and confused as possible, but initial information indicates that extremist groups backed by the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia are fighting factions connected to Hezbollah. Extremist leaders across the region are attempting to frame the violence as "Sunni verses Shi'ia" . . . .
Far from genuine sectarian violence, it was planned since 2007, to use terrorist proxies in a battle stretching from Lebanon to Iran with Arab nations from North Africa to the Middle East aiding the effort, dominated by freshly installed US proxies (Tunisia and Libya) and the Muslim Brotherhood, stated in Hersh's 2007 article to be wards of the West.
Violence has raged for nearly a week, in and around Lebanon's northern port city of Tripoli. While being depicted as violence "spilling over" from Syria, it is clear that the violence is indigenous, sectarian in nature, and directly related to the larger conflict envisioned by US-Israeli-Saudi machinations in 2007 - pitting Sunnis against Shi'ia . . . .
"[Sectarian]" differences between Sunni and Shi'ia Muslims were planned for exploitation since at least as early as 2007 by the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia, for the sole purpose of advancing their self-serving hegemonic agendas throughout the region.

Source:     globalresearch.ca  MORE

Note: see these related items:

North Lebanon Calm After Syria Spillover Clashes  LINK

Commentary: Tripoli Clashes: Harbinger Of Violence To Come?  LINK

Obama: Same-Sex Marriage 'Strengthens Families' - "We have never gone wrong when we expanded rights and responsibilities to everybody" [?!]  LINK

Administration Opposes Attempt To Bar Same-Sex Marriage On Military Property And Shield Military Chaplains  LINK

Commentary: Obama Most MORALLY BANKRUPT IMPOSTER PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY (Devvy Kidd)

Excerpt:
Obama/Soetoro/Dunham is a champion of infanticide - the killing of infants. While serving in the Illinois State Senate, Barry Soetoro aka Barack Obama, voted three times to allow infants who survive abortion [to] be left to lay there and die . . . .
Would you stand there and allow a living, breathing infant to die if you were a doctor or nurse? How could anyone, doctor, nurse or just plain human stand by and allow an infant who has survived the horror of abortion - just let them die without trying to save that precious life? Soetoro did because his soul died a long time ago. And, how did Barry justify it?
"Listen to audio from Obama’s 2002 Illinois Senate floor debate wherein he argued that while babies might be aborted alive, it would be a “burden” to a mother's “original decision” to assess and treat them." In other words, the mother wished to kill the infant, so be it . . . .
The American people, out of fear [of] being called intolerant, have walked right into the jaws of the beast. This nation has forsaken all that God has bestowed upon our land in favor of moral rot passed off as "progressive", "social" and other words meant to persuade individuals to turn their backs on what they know in their hearts Almighty God has told them is wrong. The created now think they are more powerful than the Creator. A big mistake.

Source:     newswithviews.com  MORE

Note: see these related items:

From Conception To Birth - Visualized (Video)  LINK

Commentary: Obama's Wicked Marriage Proposal - It's one thing to be a hypocrite, which Mr. Obama has been for years ... It's quite another thing, however, to invoke Christ when doing the devil's work  LINK

Commentary: Obama Calls Nation To Rebel Against God ... Where Are Our Ministers? - Regardless of what your political philosophy may be, every believer in America should be incensed that the leader of our country has called for a national embrace of a behavior that God Himself reserved the word "abomination" to describe  LINK

Commentary: JUST THINKING OUT LOUD (Coach Dave Daubenmire)

Marriage used to be called Holy Matrimony. “Matri” is Latin for “mother.” “Mony” is a suffix that means “to make.” Hence, Holy Matrimony was a sacrament whereby a woman received the blessings of God for the purpose of becoming a mother. It was a God-ordained, God-established union for the purpose of producing a family. A “marriage license” is not necessary in order to be joined in Holy Matrimony.
In fact, the marriage license is a legal document that makes the state a partner to the marriage. It gives jurisdiction over the union. Until 1923 marriage licenses were only needed for inter-racial marriages. A marriage license, like the 501(c)(3) corporation , partners the sacred with the secular . . . .

Most Christians are not really Christians. The unbiblical idea of walking the aisle and repeating a prayer is a modern-day invention. Becoming a Christian requires a complete surrender of one’s will. You don’t “come to Jesus,” “ask Jesus into your heart,” or “accept Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior.” Becoming a Christian requires your dying to self and becoming a bond-servant to Jesus Christ. “You must be born-again” … not repeat a prayer.
Most “Christians” have it backwards. Most have never died to self. They think Jesus serves them . . . .

Homosexuals are ashamed of their behavior. That is why they work so hard to get others to approve and accept their deviancy. In their hearts they know that what they do is unacceptable and are looking for validation for the un-natural behavior. So, they look for the god-of-government to tell them that they should be proud of what they do. But their tale-tell heart will not give them peace. Even they know their activities are vile . . . .

“Pro-life” is nothing more than a political position that conservative candidates hold. When does a baby become a baby? At what point should it be protected? Why does a woman’s right to choose end at the baby’s birth? The birth makes the child more dependant on the mother. Ask the mother of any new-born. Born babies are much more work than a fetus.
Abortion is not choice. Ice-cream flavor is choice. Abortion is murder . . . .

Americans are not permitted to “marry” anyone we want. I can’t marry my son. I can’t marry my daughter. If marriage is a “civil right” why are [there] any restraints on it? Homosexual-sodomy based marriages are special rights … not civil rights … [It’s] affirmative sin . . . .

Romans 13 does not teach that Christians must obey civil government. Romans 13 was written by a Christian, to Christians, for Christians. It had nothing to do with secular government, but church government. Jesus defied governmental authority . . . Paul wrote two-thirds of the New Testament, much of it from jail. Shadrach, Daniel, Moses. Paul and Silas … you’d think they’d practice what they preached.
And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them, Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us. Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men. [Acts 5:27-29] . . . .

I’ll know a president is serious about being pro-life when he vows to issue an executive order outlawing it as his first act in office.

Source:     newswithviews.com  MORE

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ADDITIONAL NEWS & ANALYSIS
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U.N. convoy attacked in Syria  LINK

U.N. team in Syria evacuated from tense town  LINK

Dozens killed in Syria ... Saudi doubts Annan peace plan  LINK

Jihadist group denies claiming Damascus bombings  LINK
Al-Nusra Front, an Islamist group unknown before the Syrian revolt, has denied in a statement that it had claimed responsibility for Damascus bombings last week that killed 55 people

Yemen battles rage ... 37 Qaeda militants reported killed  LINK

[George W. Bush]: 'Arab Spring' Is 'Broadest Challenge to Authoritarian Rule Since Collapse of Soviet Communism'  LINK
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Iran executes 'Israel spy, nuclear scientist' killer  LINK

Robert Joseph Goes Nuclear  LINK
Former State official: Obama softline policy toward Iran, North Korea creates a more dangerous world

Iran, IAEA in 'good exchange' ... to meet again Monday  LINK

New Palestinian cabinet to be sworn in Wednesday  LINK

Foreign force strikes Somali pirate land base for first time  LINK
A European naval helicopter fired a volley against pirate skiffs stowed away on a beach in Somalia's central region

Greece faces repeat elections as coalition talks collapse  LINK

Bosnia war crimes trial of Mladic opens  LINK

Nearly 50 mutilated bodies found on Mexico road  LINK

Don't tell anyone, but that al Qaeda mole op had zero to do with the Obama administration  LINK

Underwear bomb plot: British and U.S. intelligence rattled over leaks  LINK
Leak about UK involvement described as despicable by CIA as anger turns to Obama administration for compromising mission

FAA To Ease Rules For Police Agencies To Fly Unmanned Drones  LINK

Feds clearing way for drones over your house  LINK
“I would predict, I’m not encouraging, but I predict the first guy who uses a Second Amendment weapon to bring a drone down that’s been hovering over his house is going to be a folk hero in this country” - Commentator Charles Krauthammer

[analysis]: Predator Nation: How Endless Drone War Is Turning the Promise of America into a Promise of Death  LINK
The CIA’s global drone assassination campaign has long been a bragging point in Washington, even if it couldn’t officially be discussed directly before, say, Congress

[press release]: ['Intellistreets' - street lights with speakers and listening devices] (5-3-12)  LINK
Operating effectively without cable installation, underground trenching or wire maintenance to set-up the control of the outdoor lighting, sound and video, SmartSite is a 24/7 area-wide system that offers architectural luminaire styles, a robust platform, digital wireless solutions, Wi-Fi capabilities, and a myriad of homeland security features ...

[press release]: Intellistreets: Big Brother or Big Idea? (10-27-11)  LINK

Obama administration shrugs off contempt threat against Holder (Followup)  LINK
“We believe that a contempt proceeding would be unwarranted given the information the Department has disclosed to the Committee to date; unprecedented given the law enforcement sensitivities at issue; and ill-advised given the damage it would cause to relations between the Executive and Legislative Branches” - Deputy Attorney General James Cole

Wrong man was executed in Texas, probe says  LINK

Rhode Island Considers First-Of-Its Kind 'Homeless Bill Of Rights'  LINK

Don't Look Now - Banks Are Still Ruining America: 6 Harsh Lessons from the J P Morgan Fiasco  LINK
JP Morgan Chase is part of an entwined system of too-big-to-fail institutions that are ripping us off

European leaders and financial markets braced for Greece exit from euro  LINK
Return to drachma nears amid political impasse in Athens and open discussion in Brussels of possible end of single currency

Looming U.N. Mega-Conference in Rio to Seek 'More Sustainable Future'  LINK

Jordan center translates Babylonian Talmud into Arabic  LINK
A Jordanian research center says it has recently published the first Arabic translation of the Babylonian Talmud.

U.N.: Maternal deaths cut by half  LINK

Brain implant allows paralysed woman to control a robot with her thoughts  LINK
The BrainGate implant can decode a patient's brain signals and instruct a robotic arm to reach and grasp objects

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And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: but if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God. And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.
Acts 5:38-42 (KJV)
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Our 3rd radio network is called The V Channel. It features the Paranormal, the Exotic, and the Unusual. Topics are wide open on V, with plenty of coverage of UFO’s, the Nephilim, and the Supernatural. V is heard on the net at Vchannel.us on a 24/7 basis.

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V Channel 24k Winamp Stream
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The Shining James Lloyd has produced a powerful 2 hour audio study examining the idea the Antichrist will be a Moslem leader. This CD shows how the clash between Islam and Israel will deceive a huge number of believers and how the Islamic Antichrist scenario is a Spiritual ruse, designed to deflect attention from the real Antichrist power. Details Here! The Day of Visitation This latest DVD shows there are two types of "visitations" - one that is connected to judgement, and one that is associated with the offer of salvation in Jesus Christ. James Lloyd goes from Genesis to Revelation showing Scriptural evidence for a universal reckoning which occures between God and all men. He also finds proof the LORD will always provide a Visitation of Life that precedes the arrival of the "Angel of Death". This study also points to the very real fact that we have very little time left to turn to the blessed salvation found in Christ. Details Here! The Triuniverse - Book 2 James's sequel breaks new ground through his connecting of the doctrin of the Trinity as the inverse of the two-fold nature of evil, Book 2 opens up new horizons in our perspective of the nature of the LORD. The mysterious fashion in which the LORD conquers the dual nature of sin is related to crucial prophetic componants such as the Two Witnesses, the Two Testaments, Male and Female, and much more. Details Here! The 6,7,8 Cycle - Book In essence, the "cycle" being addressed is a repetitious pattern which affects history, nations, Spiritual developments, politics, economy, and even Heaven and Hell. The crux of the formula is found in Revelation's enigmatic "the eigth is of the seven" sequence, and James is uniquely qualified to be the vessel allowed to bring forth this particular data. Details Here! They Will Not Hear Thee This is an autobiographical book from James Lloyd in which he recalls the developement of the Christian Media prophetic ministry, including anecdotal accounts of his early clashes with the Rapture Cult. Along the way, James details the various componants of prophetic revelations that have cumulatively been integrated into the Remnant theology of our time. Details Here! Junkyard Set in America in which tribulation survivors meet, a former Rapturist pastor encounters an individual who had followed his teaching concerning the pre-tribulation rapture doctrine, and then found himself completely unprepared for what occured as the tribulation exploded unexpectedly. This DVD pairs another program from the same producer/creator entitled The Gathering. It features interviews with pastoral teachers, each espousing various positions concerning the Rapture. Details Here! The White Rose Francis Steffan In 1942, six German students formed an underground group to protest the Nazis. It was known as The White Rose. As the country descended into insanity in the grip of the Third Reich, and at the risk of certain death, they distributed pamphlets telling the truth of what was occuring. An inspiring lesson from the past. Details Here! Secret Sixes 2nd Season Volume 3 Volume 3's season finale feature a 2 part look at the hugely popular Law & Order TV program where we found so many triple 6 subliminal imbeds we were able to draw most of the clips from just a few seasons of the long running series! Childrens TV shows and foreign films, verbally implanted using another language and much more are included for a very entertaining 2 hours of prophetically significant video. Details Here!

What Is
THE BLAST?

The Reckoning

His Reward Is With Him

Online Essay refuting the Sacred Name System

Preparations For The Coming Plague?
88 Dead Microbiologists

April 2006 Update!

AOL Caught Again blocking Net Addresses Of Opponents - Are You Still With Antichrist On Line?

Real Life Tragedy:

Puppies Killed As AOL Blocks Rescue

Corporate Power Run Amok:

- The Menace Of AOL's Monopolistic Practices

- Earthlink Rips Off Christian Ministry