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5/3/2016 10:21:48 AM

Iran Is Not Pleased With U.S. Forces in Gulf

Leader Khamenei remarked the U.S. should go back to the Bay of Pigs.


Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses a group of teachers in Tehran, Iran, on Monday.OFFICE OF THE IRANIAN SUPREME LEADER VIA AP

Iran's chief spiritual and religious leader criticized the presence of American forces in the Persian Gulf Monday.

"They sit together, scheme and say that Iran must not hold war games in the Persian Gulf. What a foolish remark! They come here from the other side of the globe and stage war games," Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told a group of teachers Monday.

The U.S. has been conducting military drills in the region, as it has on occasion in recent years.

Khamenei sarcastically argued that the forces should return to the Bay of Pigs, off the southern coast of Cuba, an apparent reference to the botched U.S. invasion of Cuba in 1961.

"What are you doing here? Go back to the Bay of Pigs. Go and hold exercises there. What are you doing in the Persian Gulf? The Persian Gulf is our home," Khamenei continued.

Khamenei is Iran's head of state, and is seen as more hardline and conservative than other Iranian officials. He is the principle guardian of Iran's Islamic revolution. Iran's head of government, President Hassan Rouhani, is a relative moderate. Had Rouhani criticized the Gulf exercises, it would likely have illicted more concerned reaction from Washington.

Khamenei's comments nonetheless mark a setback in U.S.-Iran relations in the first year after the signing of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or Iran nuclear deal.

Khamenei's comments could give fire to the deal's critics, who argue the Iranian government is not to be trusted, even in the narrowest of terms.

"For Tehran, the nuclear agreement is the gift that keeps on giving," House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said in April.

The U.S. recently purchased $8.6 million of heavy water, a nuclear ingredient, from Iran, in move that was criticized by congressional Republicans, including Ryan.

Some critics argue that any financial dealings with Iran (including alleviating sanctions per the terms of the JCPOA) indirectly funds terrorism. Iran is still listed as a state sponsor of terror by the State Department.

"This purchase [of heavy water]—part of what appears to be the administration's full-court press to sweeten the deal—will directly subsidize Iran's nuclear program. It's yet another unprecedented concession to the world's leading state-sponsor of terrorism," Ryan said.

"No one's blind to Iran's unhelpful activities in the region," State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Kennedy Trudeau said in April, defending the purchase. "On this, what we can say is this was a commercial transaction. It was allowable, it fills a need here in the United States."


(usnews.com)

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5/3/2016 10:29:17 AM

French journalist infiltrates jihadist cell for six months

May 1, 2016


A French Muslim journalist went underground to film a documentary entitled "Allah's Soldiers", which gives an insight into the minds of young jihadists in the country (AFP Photo/Jean-Sebastien Evrard)

Paris (AFP) - A French journalist infiltrated a cell of would-be jihadists, filming them with a hidden camera as they plotted an attack in the name of the Islamic State group, before they were arrested, he told AFP.

The journalist, a Muslim using the pseudonym Said Ramzi, carried out the investigation for a documentary entitled "Allah's Soldiers" which gives an insight into the minds of young jihadists, and will be shown in France on Monday night.

Ramzi describes himself as a Muslim "of the same generation as the killers" who carried out the November 13 terror attacks which left 130 people dead in Paris.

"My goal was to understand what was going on inside their heads," he told AFP.

"One of the main lessons was that I never saw any Islam in this affair. No will to improve the world. Only lost, frustrated, suicidal, easily manipulated youths.

"They had the misfortune of being born in the era that the Islamic State exists. It is very sad. They are youngsters who are looking for something and that is what they found."

To make contact with the group, Ramzi said the first steps were easy, following and interacting with those preaching jihad on Facebook.

Then, he had to meet the person presented as the "emir" of the group of about a dozen youths, some of them born into Muslim families, and the others converts.

This took place in Chateauroux, a town in the centre-west of France, at an outdoor activities centre that was deserted in winter.

- 'Women waiting in paradise'-

The "emir" was a young French-Turkish citizen named Oussama, and on their first meeting he tries to convince the journalist he knows as Abu Hamza, that paradise awaits him if he carries out a suicide mission.

"Towards paradise, that is the path," Oussama says, a chilling smile on his face. "Come, brother, let's go to paradise, our women are waiting for us there, with angels as servants.

"You will have a palace, a winged horse of gold and rubies."

During another meeting in front of a mosque in the Paris suburb of Stains, a member of the group points to an airplane approaching the nearby Bourget airport.

"With a little rocket-launcher, you can easily get one of them... you do something like that in the name of Dawla (Islamic State), and France will be traumatised for a century."

Some of the gang, like Oussama, try and reach the Islamic State group in Syria. He was arrested by Turkish police and handed back to France where he spent five months in jail before being released.

While he had to show his face at the local police station once a day under his release conditions, he stayed in touch with the group via encrypted messaging application Telegram to organise meetings at which plans to launch an attack took form.

"We must hit a military base," says Oussama. "When they are eating, they are all lined up ... ta-ta-ta-ta-ta," he added, mimicking the sound of automatic gunfire.

"Or journalists, BFM, iTele, they are at war against Islam," he says of the prominent French television stations.

"Like they did to Charlie. You must strike them at the heart. Take them by surprise. What do you want them to do? They aren't well protected. The French must die by the thousands."

In January 2015 two brothers attacked the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 12 people.

Things accelerate when a certain Abu Suleiman returns from Raqqa, the Islamic State group's capital in Syria and tells the journalist to meet him at a train station.

Once there, it is not Suleiman -- who the journalist never meets -- but a woman in a full-faced niqab veil who shows up and hands Ramzi a letter.

The message lays out a plan of attack: target a night club, shoot "until death", wait for security forces and set off an explosives vest.

However the security noose tightens around the group at this point, and several members of the group are arrested.

One of them who avoided arrest sends a message to the journalist saying: "You're done for man".

"That is where my infiltration ended," said Ramzi.

(Yahoo News)


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5/3/2016 10:38:06 AM

TURKEY KILLS 34 ISIS FIGHTERS IN SYRIA ATTACK

BY ON 5/2/16 AT 8:41 AM

Members of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's special security forces stand guard outside the Ottoman-era Dolmabahce mosque during the Friday prayers in Istanbul, Turkey April 15, 2016.
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Shelling by Turkish artillery and drones which took off from southern Turkey struck Islamic State targets in Syria on Sunday, killing 34 militants, the Turkish military said.

It said the strikes, in response to Islamic State rocket attacks which hit the southern Turkish province of Kilis, destroyed six vehicles and five Islamic State gun positions.

The border town of Kilis and surrounding area has been hit frequently by rocket fire from Islamic State-controlled Syrian territory in recent months, killing civilians.

In Sunday's strikes, Turkish howitzers and multiple rocket launchers first hit Islamic State targets about 12 km (seven miles) south of the border, then four drones that took off from the Incirlik base in southern Turkey destroyed further targets, the military said.

Turkey has repeatedly fired back at Islamic State positions under its rules of engagement, but has said it needs greater support from Western allies, citing the difficulty of hitting moving targets with howitzers.

Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was quoted as saying last week that the United States would deploy a rocket launcher system near the stretch of border that has come under attack. A senior U.S. military official confirmed the matter was under discussion but declined to comment further.

(Reporting by Orhan Coskun; Writing by Daren Butler; Editing by Seda Sezer and Andrew Heavens)

(Newsweek)

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5/3/2016 3:02:35 PM

Something Big Coming In 2016?: Five Prominent Watchmen Issue Exceedingly Ominous Warnings

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Is a great shaking about to hit America? Is 2016 going to turn out to be one of the major turning points in our history? On The Economic Collapse Blog and End Of The American Dream, I am constantly warning my readers about what is coming, but today I want to shift the focus to what other watchmen are telling us. And as you will see below, when I use the term “watchmen” I am also including women. All five of the individuals that I am featuring in this article are people that I highly respect, and all five of them have issued extremely ominous warnings about our future. So hopefully you are ready to receive what you are about to hear, because their messages are not to be taken lightly.

Firstly, I want to share with you a recent interview with a wonderful lady named Glenda Jackson. She is the founder of Glenda Jackson Ministries, and she has been sounding the alarm since 1974. She doesn’t know this, but she has impacted my life in a powerful way, and I would love to meet her in person someday.

Even though many people didn’t want to listen, Glenda warned that Barack Obama would be elected in 2008 and she warned that he would be re-elected in 2012. But according to her, this coming election will be even more ominous. In this interview that was posted on YouTube, she expresses her belief that this will be “one of the worst elections we have ever had”. In fact, she says that “it would not shock me at all if someone got killed in this election.” She is convinced that the events of the next six months will eventually result in martial law being imposed in America, and that “things are going to turn upside down” in this nation…



Another watchman that has just issued a very ominous warning is Chuck Pierce. I once saw him speak at a conference down in Arizona, and the very specific things that he is saying about the next six months are more than a little bit chilling

On Saturday morning (April 23) I shared what the Lord is saying to us for this season. We have now crossed over into a time that will determine our future. Starting April 25, through October 20, it will be the most tumultuous, confusing time this nation has known in over 160 or 170 years. I want you to know how you are connected in the Body of Christ, and that the Body of Christ will not be the same. This is a time that America determines its future. But also understand that this is a time that the Kingdom of God and those leading it move into their next identity.

To say that it will be “the most tumultuous, confusing time that this nation has known in over 160 or 170 years” is quite a bold statement.

So why would our nation be shaken so dramatically?

Well, many watchmen are pointing to the great sin in our land. On April 27th, Rabbi Jonathan Cahn had another opportunity to deliver a message to national leaders on Capitol Hill. What he had to say about sin, revival and the parallels between ancient Israel and modern America was quite stirring. You can view the entire address on YouTube right here



Another Christian leader that is being very bold in speaking out about sin and the coming judgment of America is Anne Graham Lotz. She is probably best known for being Billy Graham’s daughter, but the truth is that she has become a very powerful evangelist in her own right. And her message for this hour is that “God is backing away” from America because of our sin…

Commenting on the moral state of America and God’s judgment on sinful nations, evangelist Anne Graham Lotz, the daughter of pastor Billy Graham, said America is imploding “morally and spiritually,” that God is removing His “blessing and protection” from us, leaving us to our sins, and that this encroaching judgment is evident in the chaos of the political scene, the economy, and even the weather.

“Romans 1 describes the type of judgment where we sin, and we refuse to repent of our sin, then He backs away from us,” said Anne Graham Lotz in a recent interview on CBN Newswith host Mark Martin. “He removes Himself from us and He turns us over to ourselves. That’s what I think I see in America. I believe we’re entering into that phase of judgment, where God is backing away.”

Sadly, most people don’t understand what this means. We aren’t just going to experience a couple of weeks of bad news. When judgment fully comes to America, our nation is going to be brought to its knees, and life as we know it is going to be totally transformed.

Just consider what another very prominent watchman is saying. Heidi Baker is one of the founders of Iris Ministries, and she is deeply respected all over the world. Her work with the poorest of the poor in Africa is already legendary, and she is a woman that absolutely exudes the love of Jesus Christ. If I had to select just a handful of people in the world that I wished that I could be more like, she would be one of them. Through deeply sacrificial love, her ministry is transforming entire regions of Africa, and that is why the ominous message that she has for America is especially alarming. According to her, she was shown that a horrible famine is coming to this country

I saw bread lines, soup kitchens, and I saw people wearing beautiful clothing. Their clothing was not worn out. Now in my nation when people are hungry you can tell. I mean they are in shredded rags. They don’t have shoes or they have flip flops. Most of them [have] no shoes. They are hungry and they know they are hungry. They come for food, not because they are beggars, but because they are hungry.

Because of her long experience in Africa, she understands what starvation is very well, and she is warning that it won’t be too long before the same kind of starvation that she has seen in Mozambique shows up here in the United States…

I have held starving children in my arms. I know what starvation is. I know what pain is. I know what suffering is. But in this vision that I had that was in your nation, my nation, which the Lord is helping me to say, I will identify with America as well as Mozambique.

You can watch her remarks in their entirety on YouTube right here



All of us that are watchmen only have a few pieces of the puzzle. Personally, my wife and I are doing our very best to sound the alarm about what is coming through our websites, our books, our DVDs, and our new television show. Time is short, and most of the country is still dead asleep.

If what these watchmen are saying is true, America is headed directly for the greatest shaking that any of us have ever experienced.

That means that “normal life” in the United States is about to come to an abrupt end, and the way that virtually everyone has been envisioning the future is dead wrong.

So are these watchmen right?

Please feel free to tell us what you think by posting a comment below…

*About the author: Michael Snyder is the founder and publisher of End Of The American Dream. Michael’s controversial new book about Bible prophecy entitled “The Rapture Verdict” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com.*


(End Of The American Dream)


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5/3/2016 4:57:14 PM

Mass fish deaths provoke widespread worry in Vietnam

MAY 2, 2016


By Melissa Dykes

It’s rare for Vietnamese people to publicly protest anything in their Communist country.

But things have gotten out of hand. Over the past month, nearly 50 tons of dead fish have washed up on Vietnam’s shores — without official explanation.

WSJ reports:

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said in a statement Friday that the loss of fish had a serious impact on local people and urged authorities to quickly find the cause. “This is an unprecedented, widespread and complicated environment incident in the country, and the authorities haven’t been able to identify the cause, leading to anger in society,” the statement said.

Agriculture and Rural Development Deputy Minister Vũ Văn Tám released a report to say that the only thing that could be to blame for killing the fish is a highly poisonous toxin. Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has ordered an investigation.

WSJ went on to note that many of the protesters were blaming a new steel plant, Taiwan’s Formosa Plastics Group, located in an area heavy on foreign investments due to free-trade agreements with the country. A commenter named William Sites pointed out, “Some of the investors in Formosa’s complex are top government brass. Common knowledge in Vietnam. That’s the ‘rest of the story’.”

There have already been at least 35 other incidents of mass fish die-offs reported just in 2016 alone and we just now got to May. In the meantime, the fish that don’t die end up contaminated with over 80 different pharmaceuticals on average. And let’s not even get into Fukushima radiation

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