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4/25/2016 6:56:20 PM

WND EXCLUSIVE

THE DEVIL COMES TO OKLAHOMA

Satanists rally around convicted sex offender for Black Mass this summer

Published: 18 hours ago

Members of the Satanic temple

A Satanic Black Mass is scheduled for the Oklahoma City Civic Center this August, featuring a play called “The Consumption of Mary” – raising concerns among Catholics and Protestants who are petitioning Gov. Mary Fallin, Mayor Mick Cornett and the civic center to cancel the event.

More than 100,000 people have signed a petition to stop the event, organized by Rev. Adam Daniels of the Church of Ahriman, a congregation of self-described Satan worshippers.

Church of Ahriman founder, the Rev. Adam Daniels

“The Consumption of the Mary by Jai Kali Maa” will be staged at the Oklahoma City Civic Center and will reportedly be led by convicted sex offender Adam Daniels, the Gospel Herald reports.

Two rituals are planned for the event – one that will show the evolution of Satanism to Ahrimanism

According to the Civic Center website, the event will have two rituals that – one that will show the evolution from Satanism to Ahrimanism and the other “The Consumption of Mary,” meaning the mother of Jesus.

On Christmas Eve last year, Daniels poured costume blood over a statue of Mary in front of the Saint Joseph Cathedral in Oklahoma City with a permit from city hall.

Oklahoma City officials refused to cancel the first Satanic Black Mass in 2014.

Conservative Roman Catholic group Tradition Family Property heads the advancement of the petition to cancel the event, which worked in 2014 when Satanists attempted to hold a black mass at Harvard Square.

When the satanic group held a black mass at the Civic Center in September 2014, Oklahoma Parks and Recreation allowed the activity for fear of a costly lawsuit.

Illustration for ‘The Consumption of Mary’ ritual

According to Catholic Online, an unnamed spokesman for the Civic Center explained why the event will not be canceled: “In the past, when the city has attempted to interfere with an individual’s free exercise of speech on our property, we have been taken to federal court. We have lost each of those cases at our taxpayers’ expense.”

The Satanic Temple in Oklahoma City, another group of Satan worshippers, last year tried to place its one-ton bronze statue of Satan next to a monument of the Ten Commandments in Oklahoma, but were forced to settle for Detroit. The group sought the placement bearing a stone copy of the Ten Commandments as a protest against religious displays on government property.

The 9-foot-tall bronze Baphomet sculpture depicts a winged half-man, half-goat alongside children standing in adoration, and was unveiled in its alternate spot near the base of the Detroit River.

According to the website of the Satanist Ahrimanis, their creed includes the following beliefs:

“I declare myself a Mainyu-Devotee, a supporter of the Devil’s Prophet.”
“I renounce the pious and the righteous enslavement, and vow to damage and plunder their spiritual Settlements.”
“I want freedom from enslavement and stifling religious law. … I vow this: I shall continue to damage and plunder the righteous spiritual settlements, even at risk of life and limb.”
“I work with the Daevas as equals, the wicked, evil, lawless, evil knowing, the most Druj-like of beings, the foulest of beings, the most damaging of beings. I am in collusion with the Daevas and their comrades, I am in collusion with the Dews and their comrades, I am in collusion with them through my evil thoughts, evil words and evil deeds. I am in collusion with them publicly.”

Among the Ahrimani “steps of faith” are these:

“Those who are without should be enveloped into your veil as cast by the nature of the Serpent.”
“As in Hell, we should amass power, strength, and pleasure. Never allow yourself to become drunk with any.”
“While we are upon this Earth, never forget that our actions and reputation speaks louder than any words. Ask, what can be destroyed to create something better.”

“This (is a) once-in-a-lifetime shot for anyone interested in the darker side of reality or an educational chance to experience the taboo Tantric practices of India,” says a press release from the Church of Ahriman about the gathering in Oklahoma City this summer.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/04/the-devil-comes-to-oklahoma/#zC4OCV8mZRBQ1BMf.99

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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 4/26/2016 12:39:29 AM
	White House Admits — Locking People in Cages for Victimless Crimes is Devastating to the Economy Matt Agorist April 25, 2016 Washington D.C. — On Saturday, economists in U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration released a report detailing the adverse effects on the economy derived from locking non-violent drug offenders and criminals behind bars. For decades, a guiding philosophy of authoritarians was that locking more people up would result in less crime. This has created a prison state in the U.S., which represents 4.4% of the world’s population yet houses 22% of the world’s prisoners. Since 1980 alone, the US prison population has skyrocketed by nearly 5 times. However, the negative effects of such a totalitarian approach to drug crimes and other victimless offenses is having a staggering economic impact on the United States. According to a report by Reuters, economists are “of one mind” that packed prisons, excessively long sentences, and insufficient reentry programs “are counter-productive to our economy as a whole in addition to hurting the people involved,” Jason Furman, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, told reporters in a call on Friday. On Monday, administration officials, economists, business leaders, and scholars will discuss the Council’s findings at an event hosted by the White House, the American Enterprise Institute think tank, and New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice. The United States can reap greater economic benefit through investments in police, prisoner education, and job opportunities for ex-prisoners than it can from putting additional funding toward prisons, the Council’s report said. According to a recent study, the mass incarceration policy in America over the last 40 years has created more problems than it has solved. The longer the term served, the higher the rate of reconvicted felons. The research from University of Michigan economics professor, Michael Mueller-Smith, has proven that prison terms don’t rehabilitate a criminal and turn them into a law-abiding citizen. The US penal policy just doesn’t appear to be working. The criminal world is expanding, despite more and more criminals being incarcerated and isolated from society. The American practice of imprisoning people for even the most trivial offenses, not only ruins lives but tends to act as a college for crime. Up to 75 percent of former prisoners are rearrested within 5 years of their release date. This revolving door of creating and processing criminals fosters the phenomenon known as Recidivism. Recidivism is a fundamental concept of criminal justice illustrating the tendency of those who are processed into the system and the likelihood of future criminal behavior. The impetus behind the mass incarceration in America is the War on Drugs. The illegality of drug possession and use is what keeps the low-level users and dealers in and out of the court systems, and most of these people are poor black men. As Dr. Ron Paul has pointed out time and again, black people are more likely to receive a harsher punishment for the same drug crime as a white person. The War on Drugs takes good people and turns them into criminals every single minute of every single day. The system is setup in such a way that it fans the flames of violent crime by essentially building a factory that turns out violent criminals. Calling it rehabilitation is a sick joke as the mere act of locking someone in jail for a victimless crime is almost a guarantee they will never be able to enter the workforce again. When drugs are legalized, crime and gang violence drops — drastically. Not only does it have a huge effect on the localized gangs in America, but the legalization of drugs is crippling to the violent foreign drug cartels too. Until Americans educate themselves on the cause of this violence, uninformed and corrupt lawmakers will continue to focus on controlling the symptoms. We will see more senseless killings and more innocent lives stripped of opportunity by getting entangled in the system. Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/white-house-admits-locking-people-cages-victimless-crimes-devastating-economy/#uox0MIifvwZVPkQw.99
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Luis Miguel

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4/26/2016 1:07:11 AM

Drones Kill More Civilians Than Pilots Do

For years, the Obama administration has claimed that unmanned aircraft limit collateral damage in the war on terror. The numbers show otherwise.

BY MICAH ZENKO , AMELIA MAE WOLF | APRIL 25, 2016

On April 8, at the University of Chicago Law School, U.S. President Barack Obama responded to a criticism of his use of armed drones. “What I can say with great certainty is that the rate of civilian casualties in any drone operation are far lower than the rate of civilian casualties that occur in conventional war,” he said.

For years, the Obama administration has claimed that unmanned aircraft limit collateral damage in the war on terror. The numbers show otherwise.

Obama’s assertion that drones result in fewer civilian casualties than other weapons is a long-standing, and thus far unquestioned, argument for his administration’s defense of drone strikes. As former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates declared in 2013, “You can far more easily limit collateral damage with a drone than you can with a bomb, even a precision-guided munition, off an airplane.” The year prior, former CIA Director Leon Panettaclaimed, “I think this is one of the most precise weapons that we have in our arsenal.” And as far back as 2010, Harold Koh, State Department legal advisor at the time, stated that drones “have helped to make our targeting even more precise.”

The Obama administration’s assumption that drones cause less collateral damage than piloted aircraft is simply untrue.

The Obama administration’s assumption that drones cause less collateral damage than piloted aircraft is simply untrue. According to the best publicly available evidence, drone strikes in non-battlefield settings — Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia — result in 35 times more civilian fatalities than airstrikes by manned weapons systems in conventional battlefields, such as Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan. There are sound arguments that can be made in favor of U.S. drone strikes, but their supposed precision should not be one of them.

Since the anti-Islamic State air campaign began in August 2014, coalition airstrikes totaling 41,697 have killed approximately 577 civilians, or one civilian per 72 bombs dropped. Naturally, there are disagreements among reporters, human rights organizations, and U.S. government officials about civilian deaths. While the U.S. Air Force reports total airstrikes, our estimated civilian fatalities are based on the combined average of two sources: the U.S. Defense Department, which acknowledges the death of only 35 civilians (and 25,000 Islamic State fighters), and the nonprofit research group Airwars, which claims 1,118 civilian fatalities and bases its estimates on numerous monitoring groups. Although some of these airstrikes are conducted using drones, the vast majority are not: In Iraq and Syria, 93 percent of all U.S. bombs have been dropped by manned aircraft.

In Afghanistan, between when Obama entered office in January 2009 and the end of last year, 24,848 bombs had killed 1,214 civilians, or one civilian per 21 bombs dropped. Again, the U.S. Air Force provides a count for bombs dropped, while the civilian fatality estimates are released biannually by the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan. As in Iraq and Syria, drone strikes only made up a small percentage of all airstrikes in Afghanistan: 7 percent, according to data released by the Air Force in 2013. To be sure, the use of drones has gone up dramatically in recent years: On April 20, the Air Force released data exclusively to Reuters showing that unmanned aircraft deployed 56 percent of bombs in Afghanistan in 2015. That year, a total of947 bombs dropped by international forces killed 103 civilians.

Meanwhile, drone strikes in non-battlefield countries tell a much different story. Since Obama entered office, 462 drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia have killed an estimated 289 civilians, or one civilian per 1.6 strikes. These estimates are an average of the ranges provided by three research NGOs: theBureau of Investigative Journalism, New America Foundation, and Long War Journal. (The U.S. government releases no data on the number of drone strikes or casualties in these countries, claiming the “covert” missions are classified information.)

In short, drones are far less precise than airstrikes conducted by piloted aircraft, which themselves also conduct “precision strikes.” Drones result in far more civilian fatalities per each bomb dropped.

Because we know little about the rules of engagement for drones and how the U.S. government classifies victims, we can only speculate why this is the case. It could be that targeted individuals are hiding among civilian populations, as Osama bin Laden advised his followers to do. Or, that thestandards that need to be met before authorizing a strike are less rigid than Obama’s purported principle of “near certainty that the terrorist target is present.” This wouldn’t be surprising given that Obama continued the George W. Bush administration’s practice of “signature strikes” — killing anonymous suspected militants who appear to be associated with terrorists based upon their observable activity.

Armed drones have been used for such counterterrorism operations for nearly 14 years. In his April 8 comments, Obama acknowledged that this lack of transparency on civilian casualties has been a “disservice,” as the United States is unable to “examine where we made mistakes and create corrective action.” The White House pledged in March to publicly release annual data on non-battlefield civilian fatalities — though these will not be separated by country. However, the release of such context-free data is less important than an explanation for why the president doesn’t seem to understand the limitations of the drones he has made the face of U.S. foreign policy.

Photo credit: JOHN MOORE/Getty Images

(foreignpolicy.com)

"Choose a job you love and you will not have to work a day in your life" (Confucius)

Luis Miguel

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4/26/2016 10:23:50 AM

Islamic nations call emergency meeting on Golan Heights ‘escalation’

Organisation of Islamic Cooperation to discuss PM Netanyahu’s recent pledge that contested territory will remain Israeli ‘forever’

BY RAOUL WOOTLIFF April 24, 2016, 12:47 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks on the phone during a weekly cabinet meeting held on the Golan Heights, April 17, 2016. (Moav Vardi)

Raoul Wootliff

The world’s largest body of Islamic nations has called for an emergency meeting over statements made last week by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel would never relinquish control over the Golan Heights.

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation will meet Tuesday at its headquarters in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to discuss “Israeli escalation against the occupied Syrian Golan,” joining others in the region to express alarm over Netanyahu’s declaration.

During a cabinet visit to the area last Sunday, Netanyahu said that Israel does not oppose current efforts to reach a political agreement to end the Syrian civil war, but that Israel’s boundary line with the country will not change, referring to Jerusalem’s hold on the plateau.

“I convened this celebratory meeting in the Golan Heights to send a clear message: The Golan will always remain in Israel’s hands. Israel will never withdraw from the Golan Heights,” he declared.

In a statement released Sunday, the 57-member OIC called the comments “provoking acts” and said they considered them “a serious escalation and flagrant violation of the Resolutions of international legitimacy and International Law.

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OIC to Hold an Emergency Meeting at the Level of Permanent Representatives to Discuss Israeli Escalation again...http://bit.ly/1puu3jQ

2:03 AM - 24 Apr 2016

Israel captured the Golan Heights in the 1967 Six Day War from Syria and effectiverly annexed it in 1981.

The international community never accepted Israel’s annexation, and Israeli leaders see in the turmoil in Syria a chance to convince the world to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan.

The OIC announcement follows a similar meeting of the Arab League on the issue last Thursday during which Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi called for a special criminal court to be set up for Israel.

The US, Germany, Syria and others all either condemned or said they opposed Netanyahu’s stance.

The OIC held its annual summit earlier this month, focusing on the Palestinian cause, conflicts in member states and combating terrorism.

During the summit the OIC passed a resolution on the Palestinian issue and support for international efforts to relaunch a “collective political process."

(timesofisrael.com)

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4/26/2016 11:08:35 AM

Canada PM condemns 'cold-blooded murder' of Philippines hostage

By Andrea Hopkins and Manuel Mogato

Reuters

April 25, 2016

Philippines says severed head found as captives' ransom deadline passes

By Andrea Hopkins and Manuel Mogato

KANANASKIS, Alberta/MANILA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned on Monday the execution of a Canadian hostage by Abu Sayyaf militants in the Philippines, calling it "an act of cold-blooded murder."

John Ridsdel, 68, a former mining executive, was captured by Islamist militants along with three other people in September 2015 while on vacation on a Philippine island.

The Philippine army said a severed head was found on a remote island on Monday, five hours after the expiry of a ransom deadline set by militants who had threatened to execute one of four captives.

"Canada condemns without reservation the brutality of the hostage-takers and this unnecessary death. This was an act of cold-blooded murder and responsibility rests squarely with the terrorist group who took him hostage," Trudeau told reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting.

"The government of Canada is committed to working with the government of the Philippines and international partners to pursue those responsible for this heinous act."

Trudeau declined to respond when asked whether the Canadian government had tried to negotiate with the captors or pay a ransom, or whether it was trying to secure the release of the other Canadian being held, Robert Hall.

"Obviously there was talk of money involved, but not by the government of Canada or by the government of Norway, but certainly by the families attempting to do what they could to free the four," said Bob Rae, a former federal politician and longtime Ridsdel friend.

"But it’s been an awful process, just horrendous," he told Canadian television.

In a statement, Ridsdel's family said they were devastated his life had been "cut tragically short by this senseless act of violence despite us doing everything within our power to bring him home."

Ridsdel, Hall and the other captives, a Norwegian man and a Filipino woman, had appealed in a March video for their families and governments to secure their release.

Residents found the head in the center of Jolo town. An army spokesman said two men on a motorcycle were seen dropping a plastic bag containing the severed head.

A Philippine army spokesman said al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf militants had threatened to behead one of four captives on Monday if the 300 million pesos ($6.4 million) ransom for each of them was not paid by 3 p.m. local time.

The initial demand was one billion pesos each for the detainees, who were taken hostage at an upscale resort on Samal Island on Sept. 21.

Ridsdel's former employer described him as gregarious, adventurous and warm.

"We are in profound shock, disbelief and sorrow to have lost our former colleague and close friend," Calgary-based mining company TVI Pacific said in an emailed statement.

Abu Sayyaf is a small but brutal militant group known for beheading, kidnapping, bombing and extortion in the south of the mainly Catholic country.

It decapitated a hostage from Malaysia in November last year on the same day that country's prime minister arrived in Manila for an international summit. Philippine President Benigno Aquino ordered troops to intensify action against the militants.

Security is precarious in the southern Philippines, despite a 2014 peace pact between the government and the largest Muslim rebel group that ended 45 years of conflict.

Abu Sayyaf is also holding other foreigners, including one from the Netherlands, one from Japan, four Malaysians and 14 Indonesian tugboat crew.

($1 = 46.8930 Philippine pesos)

(Additional reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver and David Ljunggren in Ottawa; Editing by David Gregorio and Tom Brown)

(Yahoo News)

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WND EXCLUSIVE

THE DEVIL COMES TO OKLAHOMA

Satanists rally around convicted sex offender for Black Mass this summer Published: 18 hours ago

White House Admits — Locking People in Cages for Victimless Crimes is Devastating to the Economy

Drones Kill More Civilians Than Pilots Do

Islamic nations call emergency meeting on Golan Heights ‘escalation’

Canada PM condemns 'cold-blooded murder' of Philippines hostage

Satanists rally around convicted sex offender for Black Mass this summer

Published: 18 hours ago