The Near Distance
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‘Acceptable’ Risk – National Review Online – March 10
Olive Tree Views Ministries with Jan Markell
Holder’s undisclosed Padilla connection. Attorney General Eric Holder and others in the Obama administration have advocated trying Khalid Sheik Muhammed, and acquiring intelligence from Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, in the criminal-justice system. The protections afforded individuals in the criminal-justice system generally exceed those afforded in the military system, so one might think terrorists would [...]
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(Note from Jan)
Olive Tree Views Ministries with Jan Markell
Our programming from March 6 is now posted at “Radio Archives” (link below.) Learn of the sad antics of the religious Left and also word from John Loeffler on the coming paradigm shift. How will it affect you? http://www.olivetreeviews.org/radio/mp3/ For information on podcasting via iTunes, visit this link: http://www.olivetreeviews.org/radio/radioshows/subscribetopodcast.php
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Job prospects from Obamanomics – Washington Times – March 10
Olive Tree Views Ministries with Jan Markell
Democrats and the liberal media greeted Friday’s announcement of a 9.7 percent unemployment rate as great news. Contrary to political propaganda designed to make the economy seem less troubled than it is, the real unemployment situation in America is becoming increasingly dire. View Full Article
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Al-Qaeda Reeling – March 10
Olive Tree Views Ministries with Jan Markell
While many are disappointed American turncoat Adam Gadahn was not the al-Qaeda operative arrested in Pakistan, as erroneously reported on Monday, there is still good cause to celebrate: Al Qaeda is on the run. And it is a fitting irony that Gadahn’s latest propaganda video, released last Sunday, serves as an indicator al-Qaeda’s time in Pakistan [...]
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America’s True Heroes – March 10
Olive Tree Views Ministries with Jan Markell
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Dave Gaubatz, the first U.S. civilian (1811) Federal Agent deployed to Iraq in 2003. He is the owner of DG Counter-terrorism Publishing. He is currently conducting a 50 State Counter-terrorism Research Tour (CTRT). He is the co-author (with Paul Sperry) of the new book, Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld [...]
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‘Jihad Jane’ indictment alleges threat from within U.S. – JWR – March 10
Olive Tree Views Ministries with Jan Markell
Using e-mail, YouTube videos, phony travel documents and a burning desire to kill “or die trying,” a middle-aged American woman from Pennsylvania helped recruit a network for suicide attacks and other terrorist strikes in Europe and Asia, according to a federal grand jury indictment unsealed Tuesday.Colleen R. LaRose, who dubbed herself “JihadJane,” was so intent [...]
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Israel exerts soverign right to its capital as Biden looks on astounded – JWR – March 10
Olive Tree Views Ministries with Jan Markell
JERUSALEM — In the midst of a high-profile visit by Vice President Joe Biden, Israel on Tuesday unveiled plans for new housing in disputed Jerusalem, a surprise step that embarrassed and angered the highest-ranking Obama administration official yet to visit the country. View Full Article
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Palestinians complain to Biden about east Jerusalem building plan – March 10
Olive Tree Views Ministries with Jan Markell
During meeting in Ramallah, Palestinian PM Fayyad tells Biden planned construction of 1,600 housing units in Ramat Shlomo ‘definitely undermines confidence in prospects for peace.’ Interior Minister Yishai apologizes for ‘real embarrassment’ caused to American vice president View Full Article
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‘Generation Zero’ and its impact on America – WND – March 10
Olive Tree Views Ministries with Jan Markell
Jerome Corsi reviews film about ill effect of baby boomers being in charge “Generation Zero,” a new documentary produced by Citizens United head David N. Bossie and writer/director Stephen K. Bannon presents a compelling indictment of runaway federal budgets under President Barack Obama. As such, “Generation Zero” will become an important statement dedicated to expressing the core [...]
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Financial Regulation: The Next Governnment Takeover – March 10
Olive Tree Views Ministries with Jan Markell
Democrats are pressing ahead with legislation to create a vast new bureaucracy that would have virtually unlimited powers to slap sweeping controls and costs on the U.S. financial industry that critics say will stymie economic innovation and growth. Nearly a year and a half after the nation’s banking system plunged the economy into the worst economic [...]
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National ID Card at Center of Immigration Plan
Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain. Under the potentially controversial plan still taking shape in the Senate, all legal U.S. workers,…
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500 Christians Slaughtered By Muslims In Nigeria
Rioters armed with machetes slaughtered as many as 500 people including a four-day-old infant as fresh violence flared between Christians and Muslims in central Nigeria, witnesses said. Hundreds of people fled their homes in mainly Christian villages during what appeared to be reprisal attacks by Muslims, who had been targeted…
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Lost Jewish Tribe Found Living in Zimbabwe
They do not eat pork, they practise male circumcision, they ritually slaughter their animals, some of their men wear skull caps and they put the Star of David on their gravestones.Their oral traditions claim that their ancestors were Jews who fled the Holy Land about 2,500 years ago.It may sound…
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Oarfish Washing Ashore May Portend Earthquake in Japan
Japan is bracing itself after dozens of rare giant oarfish traditionally the harbinger of a powerful earthquake have been washed ashore or caught in fishermen’s nets. This rash of tectonic movements around the Pacific “Rim of Fire” is heightening concern that Japan – the most earthquake-prone country in the world…
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Joe Brandts California Earthquake Vision
Joe Brandts California Earthquake Vision This account of a series of dreams (visions) was written by Joe Brandt, age 17, while recovering from a brain concussion in a Fresno, California hospital in 1937. It was previously published in “California Superquake 1975-1977?” written by Paul James. Keep in mind this was…
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Pacific Northwest at Risk of Mega Earthquake
Just 50 miles off the Pacific Northwest coast is an earthquake hotspot that threatens to unleash on Seattle, Portland and Vancouver the kind of damage that has shattered Chile. The fault has been dormant for more than 300 years, but when it awakens – tomorrow or decades from now –…
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Cardinals Petition Pope To Proclaim Mary, Spiritual Mother of Humanity
Five cardinals have invited every cardinal and bishop in the world to join them in petitioning Pope Benedict XVI to solemnly proclaim the Mother of Jesus as the “Spiritual Mother of humanity” as an ecumenical service of clarification to other religious traditions and to proclaim the full Christian truth about…
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China PLA Officer Urges Challenging U.S. Dominance
China should build the world’s strongest military and move swiftly to topple the United States as the global “champion,” a senior Chinese PLA officer says in a new book reflecting swelling nationalist ambitions. The call for China to abandon modesty about its global goals and “sprint to become world number…
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Chilean Earthquake Hints At Dangers of Big One for USA
One of the really “Big Ones” to shake the United States was a magnitude-9.0 earthquake along the Pacific Northwest coast more than 300 years ago, before the arrival of huge numbers of people and development, that sent a catastrophic tsunami to Japan. Were something like that 1700 quake to occur…
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The Great Recession of 2011-2012, Are You Ready
Are you ready for the Great Recession of 2011–2012? You should be, for it is getting under way even as you read this. Just as the 2009 “greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression” actually began back in 2007, so we are in the early days of the next cycle.…
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'Virtual' town hall counters Obama in Missouri
A Free Press for a Free People
GOP's Akin: Message 'we don't want Washington taking over American health care'
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'Approached ... indoctrinated ... mobilized'
A Free Press for a Free People
Walid Phares dissects strategy terrorists use to recruit likes of 'Jihad Jane'
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EU shuts door on terror investigators
A Free Press for a Free People
Refuses to allow tracking of international financing
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Who got it right on Iraq?
A Free Press for a Free People
Ex-Rumsfeld aide: 'Obama taking credit for successful Bush policies'
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Church renames Jesus' resurrection after pagan goddess
A Free Press for a Free People
Bible teacher explains how synod coopted worship of sun queen
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Angry US students protest cuts to higher education
In The Days
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) – Anger over increasing tuition and school budget cuts boiled over as students across the country staged rowdy demonstrations that led to clashes with police and the rush-hour shutdown of a major freeway in California. To view dictionary popup window put your cursor on the blue scripture words Perplexity “…upon the earth distress•Strongs 4928: sunoche, [...]
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How Harvard, Yale, and Columbia are leading us to Armageddon
In The Days
Graduates from Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton and other Ivy League schools have accelerated our nation and the world toward the final-day battle of Armageddon. To view dictionary popup window put your cursor on the blue scripture words The Falling Away “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a [...]
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Heralding Israel’s heritage
In The Days
The nation must defend its historical ties to the land against those who deny them To view dictionary popup window put your cursor on the blue scripture words Israel in the Last Days “And he shall set up an ensign •Strongs 5251: nace; from 5264; a flag; also a sail; by implication, a flagstaff; generally a signal; figuratively, [...]
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Syria: Netanyahu putting the cart before the horse
In The Days
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem told the pan-Arab newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat that Israel must first declare its intention to withdraw to the 1967 borders before any kind of Syrian-Israeli talks can take place, Israel Radio reported on Friday. To view dictionary popup window put your cursor on the blue scripture words Israel in the Last Days “And I [...]
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U.S. criticized on Iran sanctions
In The Days
The Obama administration is pushing to carve out an exemption for China and other permanent members of the U.N. Security Council from legislation pending in the Senate and the House that would tighten sanctions on companies doing business in Iran, administration and congressional sources said. To view dictionary popup window put your cursor on the blue [...]
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Indonesian students protest Barack Obama’s visit
In The Days
JAKARTA, Indonesia – Scores of Islamic students staged protests outside Jakarta’s parliament and in at least three other major Indonesian cities on Friday against President Barack Obama’s upcoming visit to this predominantly Muslim country. To view dictionary popup window put your cursor on the blue scripture words Ishmael•FYI: Ishmael is the son of Abraham through Hagar, the [...]
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D.C. begins licensing same-sex marriages
In The Days
Just sitting down at a desk at the marriage bureau at D.C. Superior Court on Wednesday was too much for Angelisa Young. She cried so hard that she eventually had to bury her face in her fiancee’s chest. Days of Lot “And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the [...]
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United Arab Emirates to Follow Third Reich Policies against Jews
In The Days
The authorities of the United Arab Emirates made an unusual decision. Dubai police chief Dahi Khalfan al-Tamim said on March 1 that anyone who looks or sounds like a citizen of Israel will be blocked from entering the country, even if a suspected individual produces a passport of a different state. To view dictionary popup window [...]
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Obama reasserts Volcker rule, Senate bill seen
In The Days
The Obama administration reasserted its commitment to banning proprietary trading by banks with draft legislative language on Wednesday, despite signs that Congress is unlikely to adopt such a rule. To view dictionary popup window put your cursor on the blue scripture words Perplexity “…upon the earth distress•Strongs 4928: sunoche, soon-okh-ay´; from 4912; restraint, i.e. (figuratively) anxiety: — anguish, [...]
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Obama Now Selling Judgeships for Health Care Votes?
In The Days
Obama names brother of undecided House Dem to Appeals Court. To view dictionary popup window put your cursor on the blue scripture words Days of Noah “But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” —Matt 24:37 “These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just•Strongs 6662: tsaddiyq, tsad-deek´; [...]
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BIDEN, NETANYAHU DISCUSS IRAN THREAT
Joel Rosenberg's Weblog
“U.S. Vice President Joe Biden expressed America’s ‘absolute, total, unvarnished commitment to Israel’ security’ at a press conference in Jerusalem following a meeting with Prime Minster Binyamin Netanyahu Monday morning,” reports the Jerusalem Post. ”As such, Biden said, Washington was ‘determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, and we are working with many countries around the [...]
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VP BIDEN ARRIVES IN EPICENTER
Joel Rosenberg's Weblog
>> Powerful 6.0 earthquake rocks Turkey, deaths mounting Vice President Biden, his wife, Jill, and a team of national security advisors arrived in Israel on Monday afternoon, local time. This is the beginning of a five-day trip through the epicenter. Please pray for the peace of Jerusalem and for the VP’s eyes to be opened to the magnitude [...]
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AMERICAN TRAITOR WORKING FOR AL QAEDA CAUGHT IN PAKISTAN
Joel Rosenberg's Weblog
>> Mosab Hassan Yousef interview on Israel’s Channel 2: “I’m not doing what my people want; I’m doing what my people need…this is good for peace.” “The American-born spokesman for al-Qaida has been arrested by Pakistani intelligence officers in the southern city of Karachi, two officers and a government official said Sunday as video emerged of [...]
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