From Daniel Valles, Editor  1-24-12
Please keep me in your prayers as I have been having some medical issues which have been interferring with ministry work. Maranatha!

Bloomberg Gives Planned Parenthood 250K as 40% of NYC Babies Aborted lifenews.com 2/4/12 ["New York City has the highest abortion rates in the nation – nearly double the national average of 23%."]
Komen releases new statement lifesite.net 2/4/12 ["It says the foundation will amend its funding criteria to indicate "disqualifying investigations must be criminal and conclusive in nature and not political." Congressman Cliff Stearns of Florida launched an investigation of Planned Parenthood to determine whether it misuses federal funds to promote abortion, which was one of the reasons originally cited by Komen for disqualifying Planned Parenthood from receiving funding grants."]
Planned Parenthood Sues Tennessee for Cutting Taxpayer Funds lifenews.com 2/4/12 ["Last year, Planned Parenthood abortion business lost its battle to keep a $397,000 taxpayer-funded contract in Memphis, Tennessee after pro-life advocates contacted members of the county commission requesting that the grant be given to someone else. That came after the state decided to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood in other counties."]
ObamaCare Advisers Predict Death of Health Insurance Companies thenewamerican.com 2/4/12 ["Item: "ACO's will require enhanced information systems to track patients and figure out how to deliver more effective care." Correction: The Obama advisers writing in the Times got this part right. The new healthcare act, at bottom, isn't designed to control healthcare costs. It is designed to control people."]
Record 1.2 Million People Fall Out Of Labor Force In One Month, Labor Force Participation Rate Tumbles To Fresh 30 Year Low zerohedge.com 2/4/12 ["the civilian labor force tumbled to a fresh 30 year low of 63.7% as the BLS is seriously planning on eliminating nearly half of the available labor pool from the unemployment calculation. As for the quality of jobs, as withholding taxes roll over Year over year, it can only mean that the US is replacing high paying FIRE jobs with low paying construction and manufacturing."]

 

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	The Most Important Issue of This Hour worldchallenge.org 12/5/8 [by David Wilkerson (Written in June, 2008) "I believe the most important issue of this hour has to do with what is called "enduring faith." Simply put, will the faith of God's people endure the terrible shaking of all things, the intense trials and testings to come, which no previous generation has faced?"  ...Ten years ago, I wrote a book entitled, America's Last Call: On the Brink of a Financial Holocaust. In that book, I warned of the fllowing events..."  Editor: I have read his book (America's Last Call) several years ago, and it has also been on my Recommended Book list for a couple of years now.]
	Christians Required To Defend Constitution newswithviews.com 5/19/10 [By Roger Fredinburg  "America established a government much like Israel. The main difference, all men would come under a rule of law. Not a Nation led by a human King. Our founders believed all men are “created” equal. In America the law itself is our king. We are all subjects under the law, “No Man is above the law.” "]
	Prissy Pastors newswithviews.com 3/26/10 [By Coach Dave Daubenmire "Christianity was birthed in rebellion as well. Nearly all of the heroes of the Bible are heroes because they resisted un-godly authority. Ask your pastor:..."]

Employment Gains as U.S. Health Care Eclipses Manufacturing businessweek.com 2/3/12 ["Health care -- including doctors, nurses and hospitals -- was the largest contributor to employment growth in the past two years, with a 22 percent share that was almost twice as big as manufacturing."]
Cameron Fleeing America To Escape Collapse? infowars.com 2/3/12 ["Cameron's decision fits the trend of wealthy Americans pulling their money out of the country and reinvesting it to buy land in the southern hemisphere, escaping spiraling tax rates and protecting themselves against the potential for widespread social dislocation."]
One Million Moms to JC Penney: fire Ellen, she's gay reuters.com 2/3/12 [""Funny that JC Penney thinks hiring an open homosexual spokesperson will help their business when most of their customers are traditional families," the million (or so) moms write on their website. "DeGeneres is not a true representation of the type of families that shop at their store. The majority of JC Penney shoppers will be offended and choose to no longer shop there.""]
Spain's new government to eliminate homosexualist indoctrination course lifesite.net 2/3/12 ["Wert, a member of the now-ruling Popular Party, says that EpC will be replaced by a program that is limited to teaching the text of Spain's constitution, rights and responsibilities, and "pluralism, liberty, democracy, and knowledge of European institutions" in the words of Europa Press."]
Cite Obama with contempt, lawyers urge wnd.com 2/3/12 ["Obama's action, he says, "amounts to no less than a declaration of total dictatorial authority. Such declaration cannot go without response from this court. Failure to respond to the defendant's contumacious conduct would amount to an admission that this court and the judicial branch as a whole do not have the authority granted to them under articles III and IV of the Constitution.""]
AG Holder, Republicans square off over documents miamiherald.com 2/3/12 ["Burton, a former chairman of the committee, said he would urge Issa to seek a contempt of Congress citation if the Justice Department does not produce the congressionally subpoenaed documents."]
Facebook IPO Is US Intel Operation? thedailybell.com 2/3/12 ["Facebook, from what we can tell, is a kind of false flag intended to gather huge numbers of users in an environment that will be – at least gently – pro-globalist. Or at least useful to the globalist agenda."]

Christians Feed Their Own To The Lions newswithviews.com 2/2/12 [By Chuck Baldwin "In the South Carolina debate, was Ron Paul suggesting that America not protect and defend itself? Absolutely not! Dr. Paul proudly supported Ronald Reagan's "Peace Through Strength" initiatives. He simply asked, should not our dealings with foreign countries reflect the principles of peace and goodwill as exemplified and taught by our Savior? And for that, Christians jeer and boo him?"]
U.S Refiners, Oil Workers Avert Strike With Tentative Contract businessweek.com 2/2/12 ["The union hasn't struck since 1980, when a stoppage lasted three months. A walkout would have affected almost two-thirds of U.S. refining capacity, according to the union. The majority of local contracts expired yesterday and most of the rest later in the winter and spring."]
Komen Also Stops Funding Embryonic Stem Cell Research Centers lifenews.com 2/2/12 ["On November 30, 2011, Komen quietly added a new statement to its web site stating that it does not support embryonic stem cell research but supports the kinds that do not involve the destruction of human life."]
Cuba reports big increase in food prices reuters.com 2/2/12 ["Cubans paid almost 20 percent more for food in 2011 as economic reforms, reduced imports and stagnating farm production touched off price inflation at the country's many produce markets." Editor: Keep the Cuban people in prayer, especially the missionaries whose support is pretty stretched already.]
White House proposes aid for underwater homeowners sfgate.com 2/2/12 ["The Obama administration on Wednesday detailed its new proposal to let some homeowners with mortgages not owned by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac refinance into a new loan backed by the Federal Housing Administration, even if they are underwater and have low credit scores. "]
Why Are the Chinese Buying Record Quantities of Gold? forbes.com 2/2/12 ["Analysts believe China bought as much as 490 tons of gold in 2011, double the estimated 245 tons in 2010. "The thing that's caught people's minds is the massive increase in Chinese buying," remarked Ross Norman of Sharps Pixley, a London gold brokerage, this month."]
Congressional Budget Office reports another $1 trillion deficit politico.com 2/2/12 ["For the fourth year in a row, Washington faces a $1 trillion-plus deficit and just servicing the nation's debt will soon cost as much as paying for Medicaid, the federal-state health care program for the poor and disabled."]
How to Prepare For the Coming Global "Write Off" on Social Programs and Government Outlays erohedge.com 2/2/12 ["In the EU in 2004 there were approximately four people of working age (19-64) for every person of non-working age (65 and older). By 2050, this number will have dropped to only two people of working age for every person of non-working age. Over the same time period, Europe will also see a tripling in people considered to be "elderly" (80 or older) from 18 million to 50 million."]
American Airlines may cut up to 15,000 jobs msnbc.msn.com 2/2/12 ["American Airlines officials were meeting with their three major unions amid reports that the bankrupt airline company is making plans to eliminate up to 15,000 jobs."]
Be Not Afraid: hope for parents whose babies will likely die lifesite.net 2/2/12 ["A few years have now gone by. But James and Elizabeth say that they "don't ever regret" their decision to carry their son to term. "It may sound strange but we actually feel 'blessed' to have brought our son to this world only to give him back to the Lord.""]

Obama Appoints Architect of Roe v. Wade to Appeals Court lifenews.com 2/1/12 ["President Barack Obama is adding to his massive pro-abortion record by placing yet another abortion activist on a top federal appeals court — this time a lawyer credited with helping craft the Roe v. Wade decision."]
Obama appointee will be 'one of the strongest pro-abortion justices' on nation's most liberal court lifesite.net 2/1/12 ["Newman's decision made "viability" the first point for the state to regulate abortions, a measure taken up in Roe. This "establishes the U.S. as an outlier among all the world's nations," Forsythe told LifeSiteNews. "Because of that opinion, and because of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. is one of only three nations that allows abortion after viability." "]
A Flood Of Evil In The Last Days! lasttrumpetnewsletter.org 2/1/12 [By Samuel David Meyer "In Proverbs 6:16-17 we find a list of seven sins that God hates. The third sin on this list is "hands that shed innocent blood." There is certainly no blood more innocent than that of an unborn child. Sadly, the United States of America not only allows, but condones the slaughter of over one million babies each and every year through abortion."]
End game: Obama machine tries to block graphic abortion Super Bowl ads lifesitenews.com 2/1/12 ["On January 27 NBC affiliates in four states as well as the City of Chicago (surprise) contacted pro-life activist Randall Terry, who is running for president on the Democrat ticket, and said they were cancelling his ads, which Terry had already paid for. ...While federal law forces television stations to run ads submitted by federal candidates unedited, at issue is that Terry is a write-in or caucus candidate in the aforementioned locations."]
Komen to Stop Grants to Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz lifenews.com 2/1/12 ["After years of protests and criticism from pro-life advocates, the biggest breast cancer organization, Susan G. Komen for the Cure has announced it is halting further grants and donations to the Planned Parenthood abortion business."]
Key Washington state gay marriage vote Wednesday google.com 2/1/12 ["The bill is expected to pass, though perhaps with the minimum votes required for approval, tension the bill's sponsor Sen. Ed Murray underscored when he cautioned, "Nothing is done until it is actually voted on.""]
The Danger of Having a Weak Economy with a Strong Stock Market marketoracle.co.uk 2/1/12 ["Since the beginning of the 21st century America has lost more than 50,000 manufacturing facilities either due to uncompetitive closure or being shifted overseas. As a result more than 5 million jobs have been lost along the way."]
Global ship glut fueling Baltic Dry Index plunge marketwatch.com 2/1/12 ["The BDI, which tracks worldwide shipping rates for dry-bulk cargoes in four vessel classes, is now touching lows last seen in early 2009, when global trade was just recovering from the financial shock waves of the Lehman Bros. collapse. "]
Appeals Court Asked to Halt NYC Law Attacking Pregnancy Centers lifenews.com 2/1/12 ["A pro-life legal group today urged a federal appeals court to uphold an earlier decision that blocked the enforcement of New York City's recently approved ordinance targeting crisis pregnancy centers. "]
No relief in rising gasoline prices as refineries shut down latimes.com 2/1/12 ["The Energy Department added, "The complete idling of the three refineries would collectively cut as much as 50% of current East Coast refining capacity.""]
NRC inspecting water pumps at stalled US reactor ap.org 2/1/12 ["A failed electrical insulator blamed for a power loss to a nuclear reactor in northern Illinois was replaced Tuesday, and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission began a special inspection into how some equipment responded to the outage, officials said."]
Obama eligibility challenges spread to 6 states wnd.com 2/1/12 ["A default presumably would have meant a recommendation from the judge that Obama's name be stricken from the ballot, a decision which would head for review immediately by Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp. He, however, was the one who warned Obama of the "peril" of not participating in the hearing when Obama and his attorney had asked that the event be canceled."]

Starbucks coffee co. officially backs gay 'marriage' lifesite.net 1/31/12 ["The "important legislation," says Holmes "is core to who we are and what we value as a company.""]
Irish minister: hard to stay in euro if treaty rejected reuters.com 1/31/12 ["Irish citizens have twice rejected changes to EU treaties before voting through amended versions."]
What Economic Downturn? The Abortion Business is Booming lifenews.com 1/31/12 [by Steve Aden "Nearly 80,000 square feet of it in Houston, almost 200,000 square feet of it in NYC, and more than one billion dollars—much of it from taxpayers—in pocket money to boot. The death business is booming, but we're killing ourselves to make it happen."]
Can Obama's health-care law force Catholics to support birth control? csmonitor.com 1/31/12 ["Institutions with ties to the Catholic church, such as hospitals and schools, say they are getting no exemption from a rule requiring that health insurance plans cover contraceptive services. The administration announced the rule, arising from the Affordable Care Act of 2010, about 10 days ago."]
Peru 6.2-Magnitude Earthquake Injures 119 and Damages Homes businessweek.com 1/31/12 ["The area was devastated by a magnitude-8 quake in 2007, Peru's worst in more than 30 years, killing at least 510 people and leaving another 80,000 homeless."]
Director Encourages Participation in Earthquake Exercise emissourian.com 1/31/12 ["This time of year marks the 200th anniversary of the New Madrid earthquakes that occurred between December 1811 and February 1812. The epicenters of those quakes were in southeastern Missouri and northeastern Arkansas."]
Ritalin Gone Wrong nytimes.com 1/31/12 ["They enhance the ability to concentrate, especially on tasks that are not inherently interesting or when one is fatigued or bored, but they don't improve broader learning abilities. "]
U.S. Drones Patrolling Its Skies Provoke Outrage in Iraq nytimes.com 1/31/12 ["The drones are the latest example of the State Department's efforts to take over functions in Iraq that the military used to perform. Some 5,000 private security contractors now protect the embassy's 11,000-person staff, for example, and typically drive around in heavily armored military vehicles. "]

Germans float direct EU control over Greek budget boston.com 1/30/12 ["Germany is proposing that debt-ridden Greece temporarily cede sovereignty over tax and spending decisions to a powerful eurozone budget commissioner before it can secure further bailouts, an official in Berlin said Saturday."]
Magazine Calls Occupiers To Come To Chicago In 'Tradition of' 1968 Rioters cnsnews.com 1/30/12 ["Adbusters, the radical, Vancouver-based anti-consumerist magazine, credited by many media outlets for launching the Occupy Wall Street protests, has put out an ad calling for 50,000 protestors to "Occupy" the G8 summit in May."]
Arrests in Oakland protests rise to more than 400 montrealgazette.com 1/30/12 ["More than 400 anti-Wall Street protesters were arrested in Oakland during a night of skirmishes in which police fired tear gas and bean bag projectiles, city officials said on Sunday, marking one of the biggest mass arrests since nationwide economic protests began last year."]

Tim Tebow Exposes How Shallow Christianity Has Become newswithviews.com 1/28/12 [By Coach Dave Daubenmire "It is one thing when the God-haters want Tim to tone it done. It is quite another when those on his own team are knocking the ball out of his hands."]
Nazi extermination of thousands of disabled children featured in new Berlin museum exhibit lifesite.net 1/28/12 [""Through 1945, over 10,000 [children] fell victim to the various programs which were designed to exterminate 'life unworthy of living,'" the museum states. "More than 5,000 children and teenagers were tortured and murdered in the Nazi 'children's departments' alone, institutions which were specially created for the purpose of extermination.""]
Fitch cuts Italy, Spain, other euro zone ratings reuters.com 1/28/12 ["Fitch cut Italy's rating to A-minus from A-plus; Spain to A from AA-minus; Belgium to AA from AA-plus; Slovenia to A from AA-minus and Cyprus to BBB-minus from BBB, leaving the small island nation just one notch above junk status."]
Iran hits back at EU with own oil embargo threat reuters.com 1/28/12 ["...Iran warned on Friday it may halt oil exports to Europe next week in a move calculated to hurt ailing European economies."]
Evidence of corporate decline onenewsnow.com 1/28/12 ["Six prominent employers in the Northwest -- five of them based in Washington, one in Oregon -- have voiced their support in a brief letter for SB 6239 and HB 2516, two pieces of legislation that would legalize same-gender marriage in The Evergreen State. Joining Microsoft and Nike as signatories to the letter are Vulcan, Inc., RealNetworks, Inc., Group Health Cooperative, and Concur"]
Twitter's new censorship plan rouses global furor google.com 1/28/12 ["...after unveiling plans to allow country-specific censorship of tweets that might break local laws. ...In China, where activists have embraced Twitter even though it's blocked inside the country, artist and activist Ai Weiwei tweeted in response to the news: "If Twitter censors, I'll stop tweeting.""]
A Perfect Storm of Planetary Proportions spectrum.ieee.org 1/28/12 ["the last notable one occurred in March 1989. It took down Quebec's entire grid within seconds, leaving 6 million customers without power for 9 hours. A later surge in the storm destroyed a large transformer at a New Jersey nuclear plant and nearly took down U.S. power grids from the mid-Atlantic through the Pacific Northwest."]
Results Of Obama's Eligibility Hearing In Georgia westernjournalism.com 1/28/12 ["All evidence and testimony has been officially entered into court records. This leaves the door open for similar cases pending or future cases to be brought in other states as well."]

Newt Gingrich? Really? newswithviews.com 1/27/12 [By Chuck Baldwin "I cannot think of a candidate that is more reprehensible to the values and principles that born-again Christians claim to embrace than Newt Gingrich!"]
US new-home sales fell in December to make 2011 worst sales year on record washingtonpost.com 1/27/12 ["The Commerce Department said Thursday new-home sales fell 2.2 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 307,000. The pace is less than half the 700,000 that economists say must be sold in a healthy economy. ...the worst on records dating back to 1963."]
Cameron: EU financial tax would be madness independent.co.uk 1/27/12 ["Mr Cameron's rejection of the EU's proposed financial transaction tax, advocated by Chancellor Merkel and the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, was his strongest yet. The Prime Minister said the European Commission's own analysis showed that such a levy would cost 500,000 jobs across Europe."]
Brian Kemp to Barack Obama's attorney: Skip ballot hearing 'at your own peril' ajc.com 1/27/12 ["Below is the full text of the letter from President Barack Obama's attorney, Michael Jablonski of Atlanta, declaring that he will no longer participate in administrative court hearings on a challenge to Obama's spot on Georgia's presidential primary ballot."]
Hungary Passes Law Promoting New Pro-Life Constitution lifenews.com 1/27/12 ["Hungarian leaders have passed a law protecting the traditional family, defying ongoing criticism that their new constitution would curtail abortion…"]
Homeschooling org. protests Obama plan to mandate school attendance lifesite.net 1/27/12 ["The Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) has called the proposal 'shocking' and has urged its members to fight back with a clear message: "leave education decisions to parents.""]
Planned Parenthood Purchases New $35M National HQ in NYC lifenews.com 1/27/12 ["Meanwhile, the city of New York, currently run by aggressively pro-abortion Mayor Michael Bloomberg, provided $15,000,000 in bond funding for Planned Parenthood to renovate the building."]
Rep. Barney Frank to Marry Partner time.com 1/27/12 ["Frank, 71, won his House seat in 1980 and was one of the first lawmakers to come out of the closet."]

Google announces privacy changes across products; users can't opt out washingtonpost.com 1/26/12 ["Google has already been collecting some of this information. But for the first time, it is combining data across its Web sites to stitch together a fuller portrait of users."]
Is The NYPD Experimenting With Drones Over The City? Evidence Points To Yes cbslocal.com 1/26/12 ["High-resolution cameras can capture every detail, including faces and license plate numbers. In this country, Miami and several cities in Texas are experimenting with such aircraft."]
More Drones, Fewer Troops wsj.com 1/26/12 ["The plan, to be unveiled by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Thursday and in budget documents next month, calls for a 30% increase in the U.S. fleet of armed unmanned aircraft in the coming years, defense officials said."]
UK ready to send more warships into Gulf in 'clear signal' to Tehran independent.co.uk 1/26/12 ["Britain could send military reinforcements to the Gulf in the escalating confrontation with Iran, the Defence Secretary said yesterday as the Tehran regime declared it would "defend the nation" against the threat posed by an EU oil embargo. "]
Russia 'to deploy missiles on EU border this year' google.com 1/26/12 ["In November President Dmitry Medvedev said Russia was prepared to deploy Iskander missiles, which officials said have a range of up to 500 kilometres (310 miles), to strike against a planned US defence system in eastern Europe."]

Under Obama admin pressure, Cuba considers recognizing homosexual unions lifesite.net 1/25/12 ["As the administration of President Barack Obama budgets hundreds of thousands of dollars to homosexual dissident groups in Cuba, the island's communist government is looking at pass legislation normalizing gay unions."]
International backlash begins against Obama's LGBT agenda lifesitenews.com 1/25/12 ["President Obama announced in December that the promotion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) behavior is a top foreign policy priority, even for the U.S. military overseas. At the same time, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a high-profile speech at the UN equating LGBT status with religion."]
George Soros Warns Of Financial Collapse, Class Warfare And The Rise Of Evil businessinsider.com 1/25/12 ["In America he predicts riots on the streets that will lead to a brutal clampdown that will dramatically curtail civil liberties. The global economic system could even collapse altogether."]
The demise of the dollar independent.co.uk 1/25/12 ["Gulf Arabs are planning – along with China, Russia, Japan and France – to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council, including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar."]
Iran Said to Seek Yen Oil Payments From India Amid Sanctions news.businessweek.com 1/25/12 ["Iran has asked India to pay for oil partly in yen as the two nations seek an agreement on how to maintain trade amid tightening global sanctions, according to three people with knowledge of the matter."]
Iran, Russia Replace Dollar With Rial, Ruble in Trade, Fars Says bloomberg.com 1/25/12 ["Iran and Russia replaced the U.S. dollar with their national currencies in bilateral trade, Iran's state-run Fars news agency reported, citing Seyed Reza Sajjadi, the Iranian ambassador in Moscow."]
Judge Orders Defendant to Decrypt Laptop wired.com 1/25/12 ["A judge on Monday ordered a Colorado woman to decrypt her laptop computer so prosecutors can use the files against her in a criminal case."]
'Digital DNA' May Soon Be Required To Take SAT And ACT Exams cbslocal.com 1/25/12 ["The student's unique digital DNA code is created and assigned to an ID card with covert authentication marks printed onto it. Proctors can verify instantly with a simple UV light and smart phone scan."]
Report: Russia to Deliver Combat Jets to Syria abcnews.go.com 1/25/12 ["Russia has signed a contract to sell combat jets to Syria, a newspaper reported Monday, in apparent support for President Bashar Assad and open defiance of international condemnation of his regime's bloody crackdown."]
Tornado creates new worries in bankrupt Alabama county; residents wonder about recovery washingtonpost.com 1/25/12 ["Jefferson County leaders have said they would likely use reserve money to pay for emergency assistance, but the state and federal governments could end up reimbursing part or all of the cost."]

Shock: estimated 54,559,615 abortions since Roe v. Wade lifesite.net 1/24/12 [""But what it means is that there are over 3,300 abortions every day—137 per hour–or about one dead baby every thirty seconds.""]
Civilization in Reverse nationalreview.com 1/24/12 ["Technological progress — whether iPhones or Xboxes — can often accompany moral regress. There are not yet weeds in our cities, but those too may be coming."]
Illinois abortion clinic crackdown in response to 'House of Horrors' closes two facilities lifesite.net 1/24/12 ["According to the AP, in recent years abortion clinics in Illinois have had little more oversight than in Pennsylvania, where Democratic Gov. Tom Ridge's administration had stopped abortion clinics inspections in 1995. The news service reported that several clinics in Illinois had gone without oversight for as many as 15 years. "]
Georgia judge orders President Obama to appear in court over 'birthers' suit miamiherald.com 1/24/12 [""]
Supreme Court rules police need warrant for GPS tracking reuters.com 1/24/12 ["The justices unanimously upheld a precedent-setting ruling by a U.S. appeals court that the police must first obtain a warrant to use a GPS device for an extended period of time to covertly follow a suspect."]
Egypt's Islamists win 75 percent of parliament apnews.myway.com 1/24/12 ["...will be tasked with forming a committee to write a new constitution. It remains unclear whether the constitution will be written while the generals who took power after Mubarak's fall are still in charge, or rather after presidential elections this summer."]
Russia says will stand firm with China on Syria reuters.com 1/24/12 ["Russia will offer Washington no explanation for arms deliveries to Syria and together with China will prevent the U.N. Security Council from approving any military intervention in the conflict-torn nation, its foreign minister said on Wednesday."]
Local currencies: 'In the U.S. we don't trust' cnn.com 1/24/12 ["The hearing is set for Thursday before an administrative judge. Deputy Chief Judge Michael Malihi on Friday denied a motion by the president's lawyer to quash a subpoena that requires Obama to show up."]
Banks closed in Ga, Fla, Pa; first failures of '12 google.com 1/24/12 ["The number of closures in 2011 marked a sharp decline from the two previous years, as banks worked their way through the bad debt accumulated in the recession. And by this time last year, regulators had shuttered seven banks."]
Fannie, Freddie writedowns too costly: regulator reuters.com 1/24/12 ["the Federal Housing Finance Agency explained why it has long opposed principal reductions for borrowers who owe more than their homes are worth. It said it had determined that such reductions would be more costly for the two firms than allowing those troubled borrowers to default."]
Ga. judge orders president to appear at hearing news.google.com 1/24/12 [""]
Greece to default on March 20, 2012: Fitch Ratings commodityonline.com 1/24/12 ["Fitch ratings Managing Director Edward Parker says that Greece is likely to default on a 14.5 billion Euro bond payment due on March 20 while adding that even a "voluntary" haircut on investors will be seen as a default."]
With U.S. troops barely gone, Iraq's government is breaking apart kansascity.com 1/24/12 ["The Obama administration, which trumpeted the U.S. troop withdrawal as the fulfillment of a campaign promise, views the internal conflict as a real crisis and a big problem for future relations."]

Obama Celebrates Roe vs. Wade Decision, 54 Million Abortions lifenews.com 1/23/12 ["President Barack Obama, today, release a statement celebrating the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision that allowed for 54 million abortions. The decision, handed down on January 22, 1973, overturned pro-life laws offering protection for unborn children in most states across the country, and made abortions legal and virtually unlimited."]
Why Would God Judge America? informedchristians.com 1/23/12 [By Daniel Valles, Editor]
Obama administration gives groups more time to comply with birth control rule washingtonpost.com 1/23/12 ["Most church-affiliated organizations will be required to offer their workers coverage of birth control as part of their health plans, the Obama administration announced Friday, but they can get more time than other employers to comply."]
EU readies ban on Iran oil imports, central bank sanctions reuters.com 1/23/12 ["The sanctions follow fresh financial measures signed into law by U.S. President Barack Obama on New Year's Eve, and will mainly target the oil sector, which accounts for some 90 percent of Iranian exports to the EU. Europe is Iran's second-largest oil customer after China."]
Sun shoots a fastball at Earth, but minimal impact expected washingtonpost.com 1/23/12 ["While the Earth appears to have dodged this particular solar bullet, the roiling sunspot could generate more activity over the coming week before it rotates out of the view of the Earth."]
Pagan mom challenges Bible giveaway at North Carolina school foxnews.com 1/23/12 ["A pagan mother's challenge to the distribution of donated Bibles at a local school has prompted the Buncombe County Board of Education to reevaluate its policies regarding religious texts."]

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