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from About.com
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from BizPac Review
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from The Blaze
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from Breitbart
CHRIS MATTHEWS: WE MUST STOP 'LOOKING DOWN OUR NOSES AT THE TEA PARTY'
It's not the Tea Party that's out of the mainstream
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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
Chelsea Clinton's $600,000-Per-Year Salary at NBC For a Story a Month? An Obvious Political Favor
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from The Daily Beast
ISIS Leader: ‘See You in New York’
When Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi walked away from a U.S. detention camp in 2009, the future leader of ISIS issued some chilling final words to reservists from Long Island.
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from Downtrend.com
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from Fox News (& affiliates)
'Devotedly, Dad': Special letters from my father, President George H.W. Bush
By Dorothy "Doro" Bush Koch
Israeli prime minister says 3 missing teens kidnapped by terror group
USS Constellation headed for Texas scrapyard
A third U.S. Navy aircraft carrier is headed to Brownsville, Texas for dismantling. The ship, nicknamed “Connie” by its crew, is part of the Navy’s five-year scrapping plan that also sent the USS Forrestal and the USS Saratoga to Brownsville for dismantling.
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from The Heritage Foundation
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from Huffington Post
from International Christian Concern
(PERSECUTION.org)
Christian Lawmaker in Pakistan Shot and Killed
ICC Note: A Christian lawmaker in Pakistan Balochistan province was shot and killed by his own bodyguard today. According to local authorities, the bodyguard had a dispute with the lawmakers nephew and killed the lawmaker when he intervened in an attack on his nephew. Pray for peace in Pakistan.
ICC Protests #ForMeriam Mid-morning, Secretary Kerry Responds Mid-afternoon
ICC Note: The very day International Christian Concern (ICC) protested the wrongful imprisonment, conviction and sentencing of Meriam Yahia Ibrahim (Ishag), Secretary of State John Kerry made remarks condemning Sudan's actions and calling for it to respect human rights and religious freedom. Meriam suffered 115 days and birthed a United States(U.S.) citizen in a Sudanese prison before the United States' Secretary of State was willing to speak out. And even still, the President continues to fail to do so. Sudan is waiting on the U.S. to see if they care enough to mention her by name. Secretary Kerry has, will President Obama?
Prisoner of Conscience, Behnam Irani, Transferred to Unknown Location
Iran - Recently, a pastor detained for his religious beliefs, was moved to an undisclosed location to serve his sentence out. An inside report says that Pastor Behnam Irani was arrested in 2011 and has since suffered brutal beatings and terrible living arrangements. What was supposed to be a one year sentence has turned into six.
ICC Joins 39 Other Organizations at the White House to Protest #ForMeriam
ICC Note: On June 12, ICC joined 39 other human rights and faith-based organizations in protesting President and Secretary Kerry's failure, at that point in time, to mention Meriam by name. Later that same day, Secretary Kerry issued remarks condemning Sudan's actions, calling for Meriam's release and stressing the importance of the respect of human rights and religious freedom.
Obama’s Spiritual Advisor Speaks with Iranian Officials and Calls for Pastor Saeed Abedini’s Release
President Obama’s spiritual advisor, Joel Hunter, has recently returned from a visit to Iran. While there, he called for the release of Pastor Abedini. As the United States attempts to establish a diplomatic relationship with Iran, Joel Hunter reached out to the Iranian government to petition for more religious freedom in the region.
Tighter Border Controls, Less Income For North Korean Officers
Officers Unhappy at Lack of Opportunity
ICC Note: In order to counter the flow of defectors and prevent information leaks, North Korean regime has tightened border controls for a number of months. The regime even sent out security personnel to China near the border to arrest North Korean defectors or those who contact Christian missionaries. Daily NK reported that the prolonged attempts to strengthen border controls frustrates some security service personnel because they had grown accustomed to receiving bribes from people seeking protection in the act of defection, smuggling, or facilitating remittances from abroad.
Oxford Student Calls on Millennial Generation to “Wake Up” to Reality of Persecution
ICC Note: In a theses of the 21st century, an Oxford student drafted and distributed a charged call to action demanding his peers recognize the reality of religious persecution. Speaking to Meriam Ibrahim's case, the student marveled at the taboo nature that has grown around speaking out on the behalf of Christians suffering for their faith. A moving "wake-up call," the below hopes to serve not as an international, but a local motivator. A challenge to strike-up conversation over coffee, write a letter-to-the-editor of your local newspaper, speak to your church, or rally student outrage on your college campus. All of us can take to heart this students cry for global outrage over the plight of Christians persecuted the world over for their faith.
In Their Shoes: Boko Haram, the Sambisa Forest, and the Search for 240 Schoolgirls
ICC Note: The following is a work of fiction based on real life events. On the night of 14 April, Boko Haram militants abducted more than 240 schoolgirls from their secondary school in Chibok, a predominantly Christian village in Borno state. The girls, some of whom have been forcibly converted, married to Islamist militants as child brides and sold into sexual and domestic servitude, are 90% Christian. Immediately after their abduction, the girls were driven deep into the Sambisa forest, a forest known to the villagers as an ominous place of dark magic not to be disturbed. This forest assumes the setting for the below.
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from Mother Nature Network
2014 Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen produce lists
EWG recently released updated information about the cleanest produce — and on the reverse — the produce most heavily sprayed with pesticides.
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from Natural Society
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
from New York Times
from NWCN (ID-OR-WA)
Suspect in Sedro Woolley triple fatal crash arrested
Legal Oregon pot initiative likely to get on Nov. ballot
Report: Oregon zoo monkeys died in plastic coolers
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from POLITICO
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from PolitiFact
Fox's Pirro: Obama set ISIS leader free in 2009
The U.S.-Iraq agreement drove the release of thousands of detainees in 2009, but Obama had nothing to do with that. We rate the claim False.
from The Right Scoop
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from The Spokesman-Review
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from The Washington Examiner (DC)
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from The Washington Times (DC)
Border agent laments gang members entering U.S.: ‘Why are we letting him in here?’
Border Patrol officials are swamped by the number of minors crossing illegally into the United States and frustrated that they can’t turn away known Mexican gang members.
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from The Weekly Standard
Hillary: ‘I Am Totally Done With Being Really Careful About What To Say’
'It feels a little bit liberating to me.'
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Pentagon orders aircraft carrier to Gulf to add Iraq military option
Manning says US public lied to about Iraq from the start
The detained US soldier convicted of leaking a trove of secret documents to WikiLeaks made a rare foray into public life Saturday to warn Americans they were being lied to about Iraq once more.
from Yahoo News
Pentagon orders aircraft carrier to Gulf to add Iraq military option
Manning says US public lied to about Iraq from the start
The detained US soldier convicted of leaking a trove of secret documents to WikiLeaks made a rare foray into public life Saturday to warn Americans they were being lied to about Iraq once more.
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