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WAKE UP CALL AMERICA:

"We will win because Americans don't realize... we do not need to defeat you militarily; we only need to fight long enough for you to defeat yourself by quitting." — Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, one of the al-Qaeda planners of the 9/11 attacks.  :-(

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9726/peace-capitulation-islam

A lot of life's problems can be explained by the applications of the common sense from these recently declassified Military Secrets   :-)

http://www.doyletics.com/tidbits/militaryadvice.pdf

Somehow I just don't think many "millennials have a clue what the men and women have done for this country- all of us.

Well worth the time to read----written and put together by an Army doc--still serving our nation. 

This should be required reading in every school and college in our country. This Captain, an Army doctor, deserves a medal himself for putting this together. If you choose not to pass it on, fine, but I think you will want to, after you read it.” Cpt. Otis

http://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/americainuniform/2012/02/soon-to-be-gone.html

Chicago Police: 4 in custody after man tied up, tortured on Facebook  :-(

http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/crime/227116738-story

Ancient Egyptian battlefield treatments employed by Pharaohnic healers still work & cheap too (surprising ingredients)!

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/05/us/health-healing-treatment-4000-years-old-is-revived.html?pagewanted=all

Ms Maureen Scott

Nearly 90,000 Christians were killed for their faith in 2016 alone, equivalent to one every six minutes, according to a new study by the Italy-based Center for Studies on New Religions (Censur). The annual study, which is set for release next month, also indicated that 500 to 600 million Christians were prevented from freely practicing their faith.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/5530e2ad-57b8-30eb-aef4-b803ad772c2c/christians-were-2016%26%2339%3Bs.html

U.S. officials are grappling with a alarming 15 percent surge in illegal immigration, reflecting continued failures by the Obama administration to deter illegal immigration along the country’s Southwestern border.

Homeland Security officials apprehended 530,250 illegal immigrants, and sent 450,954 people back to their home countries over the 12-month period that ended in September, according to figures released Friday by the Department of Homeland Security.

The majority of those apprehended come from Central American countries and include 137,614 families and unaccompanied children, part of an ongoing flight from high crime and violence in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, which human rights advocates have urged the administration to treat as a refu­gee crisis.

The number of families and children in the past year also exceeded figures from 2015 and 2014, when illegal migrants from Central America overwhelmed U.S. Border Patrol stations at the Mexican border, and President Obama called the flow of children an “urgent humanitarian situation.”

Administration officials said Friday that the latest “removal” figures reflect a concerted policy shift to target convicted criminals over others.

“We continued to better focus our interior resources on removing individuals who may pose threats to public safety — specifically, convicted criminals and threats to national security,” Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said in a statement. “This prioritization is reflected in actual results.” More than 99 percent of those forcibly removed from the country over the most recent 12-month period fell into the administration’s three priority categories.

Overall deportations have dropped over the past few years, from a peak of more than 400,000 during Obama’s first term.

Immigration human rights advocates, including J. Kevin Appleby, the senior director of international migration policy at the Center for Migration Studies, say the priorities were a good move — likely resulting in fewer deportations overall — but have come too late.

“In the end, the president will be remembered as a deporter, not a reformer. In the first four years, he set record numbers in removals, much to the dismay of the immigrant community,” Appleby said.

Immigration advocates have repeatedly criticized the Obama administration for its increased reliance on detention facilities, particularly for Central American families, who they argue should be treated as refugees fleeing violent home countries rather than as priorities for deportation.

They also say that the growing number of apprehended migrants on the border, as reflected in the new Homeland Security figures, indicate that a series of home raids and detentions of families from Central America isn’t working as a deterrent.

According to the Homeland Security report released Friday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement placed 352,882 people in detention facilities in fiscal 2016, a sharp rise from 193,951 people placed in detention last year.

Officials said Friday that the shifting demographic — from predominantly Mexican adults trying to cross the border 10 years ago to a larger proportion of Central Americans crossing today — has placed an added strain on Homeland Security resources, due to the costs of sending people back to Central America and because of longer processes for people with security concerns.

Many of those arriving from Central America have applied for asylum with claims of “credible or reasonable fear of persecution” in their home countries, Homeland Security officials said.

After pressure from immigration rights advocates, the administration last summer announced plans to expand a State Department program to allow Central American minors to apply for refu­gee status.

But human rights activists expect detentions to increase under the administration of President-elect Donald Trump, who has vowed to step up the deportation of illegal immigrants and build a wall on the Mexican border.

Earlier this month, Trump said he would nominate retired Marine Gen. John F. Kelly, a border security hawk, to run the Department of Homeland Security. Kelly has warned about cross-border threats from Mexico and Central America.

Homeland Security figures released Friday showed that nearly 84 percent of the people removed from the United States in fiscal year 2016 were categorized as Priority 1, which includes “national security threats, convicted felons or ‘aggravated felons,’ criminal gang participants, and illegal entrants apprehended at the border,” according to the department’s report.

It was also unclear how many of those convicted were violent criminals or national security threats, as opposed to those whose offenses related only to crossing the border illegally. Twenty-two percent of those sent back to their countries also had no prior criminal convictions, the report said.

Enjoy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UuertjjVM0  :-)

Current administration designated two national monuments Wednesday at sites in Utah and Nevada that have become key flashpoints over use of public land in the U.S. West, 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/obama-names-utah-nevada-monuments-

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ARROGANCE BEING SET IN STONE  :-(

Commenting on the decadence of Western civilization and the political turmoil in the Middle East, Messianic Rabbi Jonathan Cahn said "we're in end times" and this is clear because there has never been "a falling away" from faith and morality "to this degree." He added, "we're seeing things that even Sodom and Gomorrah didn't see."

"We're seeing things that are unprecedented," said Cahn, a New York Times best selling author, who stressed that the "falling away" does not just mean a turning away from God but a situation where man turns away from his own being and pursues that which is unnatural and contrary to reason and order....

http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/rabbi-cahn-were-seeing-things-even-sodom-and-gomorrah-didnt-see

Where have all the men gone? A lot of folks who are asking this question are looking for answers in all the wrong places :-(

 

http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/john-stonestreet/death-masculinity-where-have-all-men-gone

Christmas sprinkles its magic dust over every heart filling it with glee and generosity. It's the best time of the year to make good for every missed special day of your folks

Christmas Wishes can miraculously come true to you!

As the first joyous candle of Hanukkah is lit at sunset Listen to the miracle within the flames 

 

Fortes Fortuna & Harmonia with Blessings of Peace & Prosperity 

Eddessa_Knight with Star of Bethlehem Light