WND EXCLUSIVE

AMERICANS TOLD TO ASSUME BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING

New report reveals NSA search data handed over to domestic police

Josh Ely

Americans should assume “Big Government” is watching them, contends the author of “Police State USA: How Orwell’s Nightmare is Becoming Our Reality.”

Cheryl Chumley’s warning follows confirmation that the National Security Administration accessed hundreds of billions of records of emails, telephone calls and online chats.

“This latest revelation shows that Americans who use social media at all should just assume their posts and communications are being monitored by Big Government,” she said.

USA Today reported the NSA has a search engine that enables 23 federal agencies, including the FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration, to hunt through a massive data pool created by the NSA program called ICREACH.

The search engine, according to documents released by leaker Edward Snowden, originally was intended to spy on America’s enemies. But now it’s being used against innocent Americans, the reports said.

The search engine is not linked directly to the NSA’s phone call spy program, but it has accumulated more than 850 billion records on emails, cell phone locations and online chats, the reports said.

The revelations follow the discovery in recent months of various NSA programs to spy on Americans and vast IRS monitoring – and even alleged harassment – of Americans.

WND reported this week the government was contributing heavily to a program to monitor social media postings for “hateful” content. The project at Indiana University will watch tweets for “political smears” and “social pollution.”

Find out what Washington really is up to, with your own copy of “Police State USA: How Orwell’s Nightmare is Becoming Our Reality.”

The NSA explains ICREACH is a key party of a post-9/11 America.

USA Today reported the Intercept site revealed the search engine as “the first definitive evidence that the NSA has for years made massive amounts of surveillance data directly accessible to domestic law enforcement agencies.”

The report said ICREACH provides “worldwide intelligence targets” but “also appears to provide access to ‘millions of records on American citizens who have not been accused of any wrongdoing.’”

The USA Today report said federal officials confirmed the “surveillance takes place with no court oversight and has received minimal congressional scrutiny.”

Chumley said Americans should accept that their views are not secured online.

“The federal government spies on innocent Americans, and it’s not going to stop any time soon,” she said.

Find out what Washington really is up to, with your own copy of “Police State USA: How Orwell’s Nightmare is Becoming Our Reality.”

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/08/americans-told-to-assume-big-brother-is-watching/#BqKSQ5sBVVR8KK5L.99

My comments: This SURVEILLANCE is part of Satan's scheme to bring about One World Government that he can hand over to his son, the Antichrist. The ever increasing centralization of information gives CONTROL to those who have it. We live in a FALLEN WORLD, ruled by Satan; those who control this surveillance information are ruled by Satan, and they will use it for his Evil Purposes. DESTROYING all opposition, namely Christians, is at the top of the list.     

RUN Volunteers Help Thousands Escape Iraq

Monday morning:

Throughout the weekend, I've been receiving updates about the humanitarian crisis in northern Iraq from RUN Ministries president Eric Watt. In his first text to Grassfire team members, Eric shared some great news about a dramatic rescue by RUN volunteers:

One night, our teams were searching for Yazidi villagers and found a mass grave of people who had been brutally killed by ISIS terrorists. As they looked closer, RUN volunteers saw that Abu and four other boys were still alive! Carefully and quietly, with God's protection, they were able to rescue these boys. 

Eric's second message included an update of the size and scope of RUN's humanitarian outreach: 

According to our volunteers' rough estimates, they have helped thousands escape from Iraq into neighboring countries. One hundred families (1,000 people total) are being fed and protected in our first "Community of Hope" refugee camp. Five hundred families (5,000 people total) are in RUN safe houses awaiting shelter, food and water. About 25 new families (250 people total) arrive every day in need of food, water, shelter and protection from ISIS terrorists.

RUN Ministries' volunteers are risking their lives to rescue Iraqi Christians and other religious minorities. They're continuing this difficult, dangerous and lifesaving work despite the deadly threat posed by ISIS terrorists. Can you help?

Go here now to make a donation of any amount to support RUN volunteers' difficult, dangerous and lifesaving work:

www.grassrootsaction.com/101101/offer.asp

Eric's network of believers in the Middle East are overwhelmed and exhausted, but they're still working around the clock to provide food, water, shelter and protection to thousands of displaced Iraqi men, women and children. You can take immediate action to help meet the desperate need that exists in northern Iraq. Click here to donate.

RUN is standing in the gap for hundreds of families who have been forced from their homes and lost everything, even loved ones, to ISIS violence in the region. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation of any amount to RUN Ministries today!
 

Thank you, in advance, for your support.

Steve Elliott, Grassfire

Palestinians: "Jews Are Evil"

Undercover Canadian Filmaker Exposes Arab Holocaust Denial, Jew-Hatred

What do Palestinian Arabs think about the Holocaust? It's a question filmmaker Corey Gil-Shuster asked to random people in Ramallah, the political capital of the Palestinian Authority. The results were not encouraging. Respondents typically gave one of three answers. Some did not actually know what it was, or had only a vague idea. The majority, however, either voiced the claim - popular in Arab countries - that the Nazi genocide was exaggerated by Jews for political purposes so that they could do the same to Arabs, or simply said they supported what Hitler had done because, as one smiling woman shared, "Jews are evil".

One of the most remarkable aspects of the interviews was not so much those who expressed their support for the holocaust ("All respect to Hitler!" answered one man), but those who claimed they were experiencing precisely the same levels of brutality as Jews had faced under Nazi persecution, even as they shopped or sat freely smoking in cafes - a far cry from the deprivation and cruelty of European ghettos and concentration camps. "So where are the concentration camps and the gas chambers?" an astonished Gil-Shuster asked one man, who said that Palestinians were suffering something "close to a holocaust" as he manned a stall brimming with sweets and drinks. The video was part of a Youtube series called "Ask an Israeli, ask a Palestinian", in which random Israelis and Palestinians are asked their opinions or feelings on a wide variety of topics.

Source: Arutz Sheva

Taxpayers Support Leftist Foreign Policy Centers

Taxpayers Shouldn’t Have to Support Leftist Foreign Policy Centers at Universities

Mike Gonzalez / @Gundisalvus / September 01, 2014 / The Daily signal

The foreign crises that have challenged the Obama Administration this summer are not the result of a happenstance outbreak of global chaos, but of bad policy choices. From the Middle East to our own border to the Eurasian steppe, President Obama’s “lead from behind” chickens—his wanton abandonment of America’s leadership role—have come home to roost.

Obama, alas, is not alone in spurning American influence and power, or traditional support for world actors like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who identify with American values. Standing behind him is an entire philosophical and theoretical framework, born in academia,that guides his actions. In other words, as American Enterprise Institute’s Michael Rubin wrote in Commentary regarding one of the crises, Obama,

“embraced poli­cies widely supported by the academics and diplo­mats never mind that those policies completely mis­understand the realities of international relations. … The culture that has led Obama to fail completely in his assessment of Vladimir Putin isn’t going to end in 2016, when Obama exits the White House.”

Given that the academic problem is pervasive and that Rubin’s right that the culture will not end in 2017, we must look for systematic solutions. One modest but easy step is to cut off funding for Title VI of the Higher Education Act, which subsidizes area studies centers at universities throughout the country. This Heritage has decided to call for, and our rational can be found here.

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Title VI is but one way that the tax payer subsidizes academic nuttiness. Amuch greater source for funding and support comes through the government-guaranteed loan program and through the accreditation system.

The area studies centers themselves are just one part of the problems at the academy, of course. The study of international affairs in general is steeped in an antipathy to American power that has become uber-influential with Obama, the president most beholden to the ideologies of the faculty lounge since Woodrow Wilson.

Sometimes this “blame America first” mentality displays such un-self-awareness that it can border on self-parody, as when Harvard lecturer Samantha Power in 2003 called for “instituting a policy of mea culpa” which would,

“enhance our credibility by showing that American decision-makers do not endorse the sins of their predecessors. When Willie Brandt went down on one knee in the Warsaw ghetto, his ges­ture was gratifying to World War II survivors.”

It’s less funny when you consider, however, that this is exactly the thinking that led six years later to Obama’s maiden “apology tour,” or that as recompense for her abject comparison of America’s actions to Nazi crimes, Power now represents our country as ambassador to the United Nations.

Cutting off funding to the 125 or so area studies at universities across the country won’t solve all this, to be sure, but the centers are themselves particularly egregious. For starters, they were set up in the 1950s and continue to be funded explicitly to meet “national needs.” For a while that worked, but consensus on what constituted national interest broke down in the 1960s.

Since then, the centers have progressively been taken over by what is known as “the left-over left.” The worst offenders have been the Middle East Centers, which in the 1970s came under the baleful influence of Columbia University professor Edward Said. As Martin Kramer wrote in Ivory Towers in 2002, Said “has crippled Middle Eastern studies to this day.”

Dissent from the reigning ideology was systematically stamped out. The discipline became systematically anti-Israel and so embarrassed about asking the right questions as to become blind to the threats we face as a society.

Together with Latin American centers and those from other areas, the centers became the entry points for ideologies inimical to our national interest, while failing to carry out the main task of academic work: truth discovery.

The cost of these centers to the U.S. tax payer is less than $100 million a year– almost a rounding error, we are aware. But federal funding has a powerful multiplier effect, as the universities then use government’s imprimatur to raise private money.

Ending Title VI will not fix the international fix we’re in at the moment. That will take time. But it’s an important first step.

I Can Do All things Through Christ

I have strength for all things in Christ Who empowers me--

I am ready for anything and equal to anything

Through Him Who Infuses Inner Strength into me,

[That is, I am self sufficient in Christ' s sufficiency].

(Philippians 4:13, AMP)

I know how to be abased

And live humbly in straitened circumstances,

And I know also how to enjoy plenty and live in abundance.

I have learned in any and every situation

Whether well-fed or going hungry, having sufficiency and to spare

Or going without and being in want. (Philippians 4:12, AMP)

Whatever is True,

Whatever is Worthy of reverence and is honorable and seemly,

Whatever is Just, whatever is Pure, whatever is Lovely and Lovable,

Whatever is Kind and winsome and gracious,

If there is any virtue and excellence,

If there is anything worthy of Praise,

Think on and weigh and take account of these things--

Fix your minds on them. (Philippians4:8, AMP)

Today, the World is raging against God, rushing toward oblivion. (Psalm 2)

This World in its present form is passing away. (1 Corinthians 7:31)

America is being ground to powder because of her SIN against God.

Save yourself from this Corrupt Generation! (Acts 2:40)

As God has written, so shall it be! Hallelujah! Maranatha!

Father, Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as in Heaven!

ISIS IS AFTER THE WHOLE WORLD

WND EXCLUSIVE

ISIS 'WON'T STAY IN MIDDLE EAST'

'The American people don't understand these people aren't going to stop'

Michael Carl

Organizers of a rally in Dallas to support Christians under siege from ISIS warn the Islamic jihadist army must be stopped now, because it won’t be satisfied with conquering only Iraq.

“They’re after the whole world. They’re doing this to Iraq, but if they succeed, they’ll expand and they’ll even reach here,” said Pastor Jalil Dawood, a native of Iraq who now leads the Arabic Church of Dallas.

WND has reported the atrocities inflicted by ISIS, or Islamic State, militants on Christians. They are being ordered to convert to Islam, pay a Muslim tax or be executed.

As Christians are forced to flee their homes and cities, ISIS fighters stake out the edge of towns, stripping believers of their vehicles, property and money.

Dawood is part of the planning team for the rally, Sept. 14 at 4:30 p.m. in front of Dallas City Hall.

Activist Carole Novielli said she is organizing the rally to build support for Iraq’s persecuted Christians because their plight “broke my heart.”

“I was watching the crisis unfold a few weeks ago and was urged by the Lord to speak out in a public way,” she told WND.

Novielli has started a Facebook group to generate publicity.

“As I watched the news unfolding in Iraq and heard the tragic stories of men along with women and children being taken into captivity, slaughtered, I was both angered and grieved,” she said. “To be honest, I didn’t want to see anymore; I wanted to close my eyes. The world has just gotten too horrible, and now this was in my back yard, because these are my brothers and sisters in Christ.

“I know persecution exists in many parts of the world, Iran, Cuba, South Korea, China, and many Muslim countries, but watching a place that spoke the language of Jesus purge the country of everything of my Lord — human, historical and symbolic — just broke my heart,” Novielli said.

“People are being killed and persecuted,” Dawood said. “There’s a lot of rape, suffering because of their faith in the Lord Jesus. It’s a conflict between two parties, and the Christians are the victims. The only reason they’re the victims is because they’re Christians.”

Novielli said what prompted her to act was wondering how she would react if the persecution was happening to her.

“I put myself in their place. What if I had to leave everything I owned; to watch my family and countrymen be slaughtered? What if I were to become virtually homeless, starved and destitute because of my faith? What would I want others to do for me?

“Well, that list is long, but there was one thing I knew I could do and that was to speak out and show them support. They may not hear our message; they may not see our banners or read our words, but God does,” Novielli said.

Dawood noted the Christians in Iraq have no militia or weapons with which to fight.

“They have nothing material, so they’re relying on the Lord. And they’re relying on the locals who protect them as much as possible,” he said.

Dawood said Islam is a “missionary religion in one sense.”

“But Islam depends on force, military actions and violence to win converts,” Dawood said. “When they don’t have power, they speak of peace. When they have power, they speak of dominating and controlling.”

He warned of the explosive expansion of violence that could be looming.

“People think it’s far away; people aren’t doing anything. They might mention it; they might pray about it, which is wonderful. But beyond that, action like writing to your senator, writing to your president, you know, trying to get them to send help, it’s not happening.

“There needs to be action. We need to be proactive. Today it’s them; tomorrow it’s going to be us,” Dawood said.

He emphasized Christians cannot be passive, because “this is an enemy that will not stop.”

“This is an enemy that wants to take over territory that has much of the world’s oil reserves, and this is a group that wants to expand beyond their borders,” he said.

 Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/08/isis-wont-stay-in-middle-east/#s8VVmJDoezKsm13g.99

My comments: A godless America may be powerless to stop ISIS. God Almighty is the only one Who can protect any Nation. Today, America is in overt REBELLION against God, His Christ Jesus, His Word, ;His Covenant and His Commandments.

"Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the Authorities, against the Powers of this DARK WORLD and against the Spiritual Forces of EVIL in the heavenly realms." (Ephesians 6:12)

A godless America is subject to the Forces of Evil.

  

TESTING THE FAITH

DID JOEL OSTEEN'S WIFE COMMIT 'BLASPHEMY'?

'They're certainly not following the biblical Jesus'

Victoria Osteen, wife of megachurch minister Joel Osteen and co-pastor of the Houston, Texas, Lakewood Church is under fire for comments being called blasphemous during a recent Sunday morning service.

They were captured on video and posted to YouTube.

Osteen, addressing the church’s large congregation as her husband stood by nodding his head in agreement, said, “I just want to encourage everyone of us to realize when we obey God, we’re not doing it for God – I mean, that’s one way to look at it – we’re doing it for ourselves, because God takes pleasure when we’re happy.

“So I want you to know this morning: Just do good for your own self. Do good because God wants you to be happy. When you come to church, when you worship Him, you’re not doing it for God really. You’re doing it for yourself, because that’s what makes God happy. Amen?”

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While Osteen’s perspective on obedience and worship appears compatible with the theme of her latest book, “Love Your Life,” it’s out of step with the Bible, according to online critics.

Steve Camp, pastor of the Cross Church in Palm City, Florida, told Christian News Network Osteen’s words were essentially blasphemous.

“It’s the age old sin of idolatry – that it’s not about God, it’s about us,” he said. “True worship for the humanist is about how we feel at the end of the day and what gives us meaning, as opposed to what gives God glory.”

“She honestly believes that God exists to make us happy rather than holy,” Camp said. “She honestly believes that worship is about our fulfillment rather than His glory. That’s the bottom issue here.”

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Camp continued: “First Corinthians so clearly says that whether we eat or drink, do it all to the glory of God. It’s not just self. Jesus said … in Matthew 16, ‘Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Me.’

“The Osteens have just inverted that. They think it’s not the denial of self, but the exaltation of self,” Camp said. “They’re not trying to pursue a cross; they’re trying to pursue prosperity. And they’re certainly not following the biblical Jesus. They’re following whatever brings happiness and contentment.”

Camp was not Osteen’s only critic.

Christian Post reported Desiring God writer Tony Reinke’s tweet: “Victoria Osteen: God’s glory and your joy are at odds.”

Erick Erickson, editor-in-chief of RedState.com, offered a quote from the 1995 movie, “Billy Madison”: “What you’ve just said is one of the most insanely, idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point, in your rambling, incoherent response, were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. May God have mercy on your soul.”

In what might be this week’s most severe criticism of the Osteens’ ministry came Thursday morning when Michael David Fletcher, 30, entered the bookstore at Lakewood Church and began knocking books off shelves, throwing books and overturning display stands, all the while refering to the Bible verse Matthew 21:12, reported Houston’s KHOU-TV News.

“Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves.”

Fletcher was escorted out of the bookstore by security personnel who had to hold him down when he attempted to return. A felony charge of criminal mischief is pending.

“What’s the chief end of man? To bring glory to God and enjoy him forever,” said Camp, quoting from the Westminster Confession. “I think that’s the thing that’s been lost in our culture.

“The chief concern in this life is not us. The chief concern is that we bring glory to God, that we further His gospel, and that we testify of His grace. We’re here to do his bidding.”

Meanwhile, Joel Osteen himself raised eyebrows last year when he came out of the closet on the issue of homosexuality, saying God “absolutely” approves of everyone — including homosexuals.

As WND reported, Osteen,  talked to the Huffington Post about his thoughts on prayer, the pope and the homosexual lifestyle.

HuffPo Live host Josh Zepps quoted from Osteen’s book, “Break Out! 5 Keys to Go Beyond Your Barriers and Live an Extraordinary Life”: “It doesn’t matter who likes you or who doesn’t like you, all that matters is God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.”

Zepps followed up by asking if that included homosexuals.

Pastor Joel Osteen

“Absolutely,” Osteen insisted, “I believe that God has breathed his life into every single person. We’re all on a journey. Nobody’s perfect.”

Osteen, who oversees a congregation of 45,000 followers, stated all people must be acknowledged for who they are and expressed reluctance to “categorize” sin.

“The Bible said a sin is pride, a sin is selfish ambition. We tend to pick out these certain things,” he said.

“But I believe every person is made in the image of God, and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to be preaching hate, pushing people down. I’m not here telling people what they’re doing wrong.”

Joel Osteen has said numerous times that he believes living a homosexual lifestyle is a sin in accordance with his understanding of Christian scripture.

In an appearance on Fox News Sunday in 2012, he discussed his position on homosexuality by telling host Chris Wallace that he “doesn’t dislike anybody” and believes gays are some of “most loving people in the world,” despite his strongly held conviction that homosexuality is a sin.

“I believe the Scripture says that being gay is a sin. But, you know, every time I say that, Chris … people say, well, you are a gay hater and you’re a gay basher,” Osteen told Wallace during the interview. “I’m not. I don’t – I don’t dislike anybody. Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world. But my faith is based on what I believe the scripture says, and that’s the way I read the Scripture.”

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/08/joel-osteens-wife-accused-of-blasphemous-remarks/#jCQTXheeybMrA17s.99

My comments: We were created by God to love Him the only one Who is good [Luke 18:19]; The only Way, the only Truth and the only LIFE. We were all born CONDEMNED [John 3:18] before a Holy God. God has given every person the opportunity to choose LIFE--To come out of that Condemned Condition by Faith--Christ Jesus is God and LIFE. Receiving Christ Jesus as Savior and Lord means allowing the Spirit of Christ to live in and through us. It is Christ in us the Hope of Glory [Colossians 1:27]. There is no other hope in all that exists. 

The most wonderful state of being there is, is Christ living in an through us--being One with Him. God has called us to be Born Again, Born of His Spirit, as this is the only avenue to Eternal LIFE. He has called us to be Holy as He is Holy and Perfect as He is Perfect. (1 Peter 1:16; Matthew 5:48) The only Freedom that exists is to be Holy; everything else is Bondage. The Kingdom of God is Righteousness, Peace and Joy in the Holy Spirit. (Romans 14:17)