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When the BRICS—the emerging nations coalition of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa—decided to make their own version of the International Monetary Fund or World Bank in early 2013, many saw it as a brazen affront to the West. "Reactions from around the world, whether welcoming or critical of the step, all pointed in the same direction: here is further proof of the West's decline in the world," the European center of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace stated. "The new bank, observers said, would be the embodiment—and enabling instrument—of an alternative model of global governance." Continuing, the institution stated, "For some in the West, the announcement by the BRICS was nothing short of a declaration of war." Among the major players in the West, the U.S. has been running on the fumes of its tremendous 20th-century growth while recording dismal economic growth numbers. Europe is also struggling and continues to marin...

Syrian President Bashar Assad told Al-Manar TV on Thursday that "there is pressure by the people to open a new front on the Golan." "Even among the Arab world there is a clear readiness to join the fight against Israel," he added in his interview with the Hezbollah TV station. Related: Analysis: Syrian opposition's momentum is building Analysis: Israel could hit S-300 missiles in Syria Assad stated that Hezbollah is involved in fighting the Israeli enemy and its agents in Syria and Lebanon, according to the text of the interview on the Al-Manar website. He attributed the failure of the Syrian opposition to its dependence on outside funding and said that it failed to create a real rift in the country. Assad also said that he sees the balance of power in Syria shifting to the government's side. And this despite the fact that the "terrorists" – how Assad refers to the rebels – are smuggling fighters and weapons through all of the borders...

While President Obama's administration weighs overt military aidto Syrian rebels, the true character of the revolution underway in that country is becoming horrifically clear. Numerous press reports are providing details of a massacre perpetrated by the Free Syrian Army that annihilated the entire population of a Christian village. As the New York Times reported last December, anti-American sentiment has grown among the rebel organizations even as the American government has played a key role in propping up the rebellion. A crucial step in that support was the administration's decision to give formal recognition to rebel organizations — a step just short of recognizing them as the legitimate government of Syria. But now, those rebels Obama has vehemently supported are now proving that in Syria — as in Egypt several years ago — the rebels may prove worse than the tyrants they struggle to overthrow. According to the Assyrian International News Agency(AINA), forces of the ...

Senior Israeli intelligence sources emphasized to debkafile Thursday May 30 that Syria had still not received the first consignment of Russian S-300 anti-missile batteries – contrary to Syrian President Bashar Assad's claim. Directly taunting Israel, Syrian president Bashar Assad said in an interview prerecorded for broadcast Thursday night, May 30, that the first batch of Russian S-300 anti-air missiles has arrived in Syria and a second consignment was on the way. The broadcast was scheduled to air simultaneously over Hizballah's Al Manar and Syrian state television channels. The Syrian ruler was responding to the quote from Israel's National Security Adviser Yakov Amidror that the S-300 batteries have not been delivered yet and when they are, Israel will destroy them before they are operational. Wednesday, May 29, debkafile reported the landing at Latakia airport of a large Russian transport carrying 60 tons of unidentified freight. Labeled by Moscow "humanit...

By Chukwuemeka Madu KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian authorities said on Thursday they had arrested three Lebanese in northern Nigeria on suspicion of being members of Hezbollah and that a raid on one of their residences had revealed a stash of heavy weapons. The three suspects were arrested between May 16 and May 28 in the north's biggest city Kano, the city's military spokesman Captain Ikedichi Iweha said in a statement. All had admitted to being members of Hezbollah under questioning. A raid on the residence of one of the Lebanese had uncovered 11 60 mm anti-tank weapons, four anti-tank landmines, two rounds of ammunition for a 122 mm artillery gun, 21 rocket-propelled grenades, seventeen AK-47s with more than 11,000 bullets and some dynamite, he said. "The arms and ammunition were targeted at facilities of Israel and Western interest in Nigeria," Iweha said, but did not elaborate. Separately, five fighters from Chad and two from Niger were arrest...

"And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. [12] He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. [13] These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. [20] And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life." 1 John 5:11-13, 20 KJV. ROME –Following controversial remarks made by Pope Francis last week in regard to the ability of those of other faiths to do good without Christ, and that Christ has redeemed even atheists, a spokesman from the Vatican has written a blog entry clarifying the Pope's statements. As previously reported, in speaking to his audience about his desire for unity, Francis ...

Government agents shut down Iran's largest Persian-language Pentecostal church Monday, just one week after one of its pastors was arrested and hauled away midway through a worship service. The closing of Central Assemblies of God church in Tehran is the latest case of the Islamic Republic's leadership cracking down on Christians ahead of the June 14 presidential election to replace President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Leaders appear especially wary of groups deemed dangerous to their power base, including growing Christian churches, according to Iranian Christians and rights groups who spoke to BosNewsLife , a news agency that specializes in the plight of Christians in Middle Eastern nations. "These incidents appear to be an attempt to stop worship services from being conducted in Farsi, the language of the majority of Iranians," George Wood, general superintendent of the AoG in the U.S., told the service. "Services are allowed in Armenian, a minority language th...

A newborn boy is recovering in a Chinese hospital after being rescued from a sewage pipe below a squat toilet by firefighters, state media reports. "Fortunately the baby survived. But the person [who abandoned him] is still suspected of attempted murder," said an unnamed police officer, according to official news portal hangzhou.com.cn . A video of the rescue was broadcast widely on Chinese news programmes and websites late on Monday and Tuesday. Residents in Jinhua, in the eastern province of Zhejiang, called firefighters after hearing the two-day-old baby crying in the fourth-floor squat lavatory in a communal washroom, the report said. Attempts to pull him out failed, so rescuers sawed away a section of the 10-centimetre diameter pipe with the baby inside and took him to a local hospital. Firefighters and doctors spent nearly an hour taking the tube apart piece by piece with pliers and saws and finally recovered the newborn, whose placenta was still attached, t...

John McCain slipped into Syria to meet with rebel leaders and listen to their calls for US airstrikes against the Assad regime and its Hizbollah allies. The 76-year-old Republican senator has been a staunch critic of the White House's policy of non-intervention in Syriaand his visit is likely to add to growing pressure for the US to step up support of the rebels. The one-day visit, first reported by The Daily Beast, saw Mr McCain meeting with opposition leaders in Turkey before crossing briefly to the Syrian side of the border at Bab al-Salameh. The meetings brought together 20 different commanders from rebel brigades across Syria under the auspices of the Free Syrian Army's Supreme Military Council. General Salem Idris, the head of the council, told the Daily Beast that the rebels had lobbied for American strikes against both Syrian government troops and fighters from Hizbollah, the Lebanese militia that has come to the aid of Bashar al-Assad. Hizbollah units are...

(Worthy News)– Islamic militants launched a "reign of terror" against Christians in the Central African Republic after Seleka rebels took control of the country in a March 24 coup. Armed with a "hit list" of pastors and places of worship, Seleka rebels systematically looted church property, even seizing monies from collection plates. This month, Human Rights Watch released a report citing severe violations committed by the Seleka rebels against civilians that involved rape, pillage and execution, including the death of a church leader after the rebels fired upon a funeral procession on the Ngaragba Bridge in Bangui on April 13. As a result, many Christians have fled into the countryside: more than 200,000 people were displaced while nearly 50,000 others crossed CAR's borders into neighboring nations, according to BarnabasAid. Last week, UN envoy Margaret Vogt urged the Security Council to debate deploying a security force to contain the anarchy in CAR....

Residents of Israel's northernmost town of Metula were roused before dawn Monday, May 27 by an exploding rocket fired from the Lebanese town of Marjayoun about 10 kilometers north of the border. It landed on open ground, causing no casualties or damage. debkafile's military sources report: Just 48 hours after Hassan Nasrallah's war speech, Hizballah, Iran's proxy, had joined the war of attrition President Assad has directed against Israel from the Golan. The IDF has so far made no mention of the widely reported rocket attack although Lebanese media said an Israeli drone was hovering over the Marjayoun area. Metula was attacked the day after three Grad missiles were fired from a point east of Mt Lebanon to explode in the Hizballah-controlled Dahiya district of Beirut, injuring five people and causing some damage. It was fired by local Sunni elements sympathetic to the Syrian rebels. The Shiite Hizballah decided to retaliate against northern Israel – for a reason. It ...

The Boy Scouts of America's Government Council had voted on thursday to allow openly gay scouts to join local troops for the first time in the organization's 103-year history. Gay adults still can't serve as troop leaders, but many see the decision as a significant step for forward for gay rights in America. What is really going on in this world? This has justified the words of Jesus calling this generation "the generation of vipers." Thus, the worst generation. "Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. [33] Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?" Matthew 23:32-33 KJV. I can see that the world has gone crazy in evil. They now love evil more than good. This is so unfortunate for this generation. Now what will be the future of the youths? Is this not another means of luring the youths and children into what the bible calls abomination. They want peace in the world but they have chosen the way of destr...

Today many Christians home and churches prefers to worship, bow and pray to images that they claim to be Jesus or His(Jesus) desciples. It is very unfortunate. This has been on for years back and till today. You find it pasted in church buildings and in the Christian homes which is not supposed to be. They have not even endeavoured to take a look at the bible to study themselves If it right to worship these images.  "Thou shalt have no other gods before me. [4] Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: [5] Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;" Exodus 20:3-5 KJV. Don't you know that when you worship images or honour any name, it's an abomination to God Himself. On...

Syria and Hizballah, flushed with the success of breaking the rebel hold on the strategic town of al Qusayr, Sunday, May 19, are making no secret of their plans for the "great confrontation," i.e. military confrontaiton with Israel after they win the Syrian civil war. Israel's military leaders are taking with the utmost seriousness the words of Ibrahim al-Amin, editor of the Hizballah organ Al Akhbar, and a close buddy of Syrian president Bashar Assad, who wrote Monday: "The rope is taut. It is taut to the limit. Anyone at either end [Israel at one end, Syrian and Hizballah, at the other] need only flex a finger and it will break, and the great confrontation will take place. This is neither a threat, nor an exaggeration or interpretation. This is the situation on the enemy's northern front. Now means today; it means this hour," al-Amin wrote. Israeli intelligence experts have no doubt that the writer penned those words at the behest of his master, Hizballah...

Straight out of Ripley's Believe It or Not, comes this true tale of a poor Chinese woman who has grown a horn resembling a goat's on the left side of her head. She also appears to be growing another one on the right side. The woman, 100-year old Zhang Ruifnag from central China's Henan Province, began growing the monstrosity, which started as a small lump on her forehead, last year. It is now six centimeters long (more than two inches). "The horn started as a patch of thick, rough skin on the left side of her forehead. We didn't pay too much attention to it at first, but as time went on it just grew and grew. And now there is something growing on the right side of her forehead and it seems quite possible that it's another horn," said her youngest son, 60-year-old Zhang Guozheng. The horn causes no pain to the centenarian who has seven children, six boys and a girl, the eldest of which is 82 years old, and many grandchildren. Living in a very ru...

Shortly after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu pledged Sunday, May 19, to maintain Israeli operations in Syria against the passage of advanced Iranian weapons to the Lebanese Hizballah, Syrian troops and their Hizballah comrades stormed Al-Qasayr, the northwestern town which commands the high road from Syrian Homs to Lebanon's Hermel Mountains. This was a major victory: Iranian arms for Hizballah can now go through from Syria to destination unobstructed. In more than two years of battling the Assad regime, this was one of the rebels' most devastating losses after three weeks of bitter fighting and the last of a whole row of recent setbacks. Bashar Assad in contrast has gained huge advantages from his al Qusayr victory, as debkafile 's military sources report: 1. It cuts off the Syrian rebels' main supply and communications route via Lebanon through which their Arab backers Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE to send them fighters, arms and funds. 2. Rebel positi...

These days a lot is happening because of the things happening in the world today. Many are filled with fear and anxiety. They can do anything if possible to fly to any place that is peaceful, not minding how much it will cost them. Unfortunately, their is no place that is peaceful. And no place on earth can be peaceful except through Jesus. "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." John 16:33 KJV. The world will get worst and worst and the present trouble can never seize. The Bible says the hearts of many will fail them in the course of the troubles. If their is any government promising that the world will be better, it means they are deceiving you. Never believe them!!! If you believe them and relax, hoping to enjoy the world in later time, then you are mistaken. "Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are ...

For the first time since the establishment of the State of Israel, a Russian warship docked at the port city of Haifa earlier this month. The "Azov" of Russian's Black Sea Fleet came to Israel at the request of the Association of Russian War Veterans to help celebrate the anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany. Jewish veterans of the Red Army who later immigrated to Israel were invited to participate in a ceremony aboard the massive ship. However, there was another even more important, even historical, reason for the visit - with the looming collapse of the Assad regime in Syria, Russia is on the lookout for new Middle East alliances. Russia has long maintained a large naval base in Tartus, the second largest port city in Syria. But with Syria's ongoing civil war likely to end in that country descending into factional warfare and chaos, Russia is concerned for its interests in the region. Recent reports are that Moscow is searching for a new Mediterr...

(2 Timothy 3:13 KJV. "But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.") A video which appears to show a Syrian rebel taking a bite from the heart of a dead soldier has brought strong condemnation. US-based Human Rights Watch identified the rebel as Abu Sakkar, a well-known insurgent from the city of Homs, and said his actions were a war crime. The main Syrian opposition coalition said he would be put on trial. The video, which cannot be independently authenticated, seems to show him cutting out the heart. "I swear to God we will eat your hearts and your livers, you soldiers of Bashar the dog," the man says referring to President Bashar al- Assad as he stands over the soldier's corpse. Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Abu Sakkar is the leader of a group called the Independent Omar al-Farouq Brigade. "The mutilation of the bodies of enemies is a war crime. But the even more serious issue is the very rapid descent...

After months of sharp differences, Russia and the United States have agreed to push both sides in Syria to find an end to the bloodshed, offering to hold an international conference in search of peace. Syrian rebels meanwhile said they had seized four Filipino peacekeepers in the Golan Heights, the second time in two months that UN troops have beenabducted in the tense ceasefire zone between Syria and Israel. In talks that stretched late into Tuesday night, US Secretary of State John Kerry met first for more than two hours with President Vladimir Putin and then for a further three with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. "We agreed that Russia and the United States will encourage both the Syria government and opposition groups to find a political solution," Lavrov told reporters at a concluding news conference that ended after midnight. Lavrov and Kerry said they hoped they could convene an international conference by the end of May to build on the Geneva accord agr...

Delaware became the 11th U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage, with Gov. Jack Markell signing the legislation into law immediately following a 12-9 vote. Prior to signing HB 75, Markell took to Twitter, congratulating those who fought for marriage equality in his state: Congrats to all who were successful in their advocacy efforts - marriage equality is a reality in #netDE . #DE4M #lgbt #de @eqde — Gov. Jack Markell (@GovernorMarkell) May 7, 2013 Markell is also quoted by ThinkProgress as having told the crowd, "I do not intend to make any of you wait one minute longer." Other lawmakers echoed those sentiments. "This is a truly historic day for our state," Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) is quoted by the Washington Blade as saying. "The passage of HB 75 ushers in a new era of equality in our state and marks an important moment in our state's history. I am incredibly proud." The signing ceremony did not appear to have been televise...

Agents found child pornography and photos of children who appeared to be dead on his computer Authorities have identified more than 140 child victims in seven countries Portway, pleaded guilty to soliciting the kidnapping of a child and to the distribution and possession of child pornography A British man living in Massachusetts has pleaded guilty today to horrific crimes involving children and now faces deportation back to Britain after a sentence, under a plea agreement of between 18 and 27 years in prison. Geoffrey Portway 40, had numerous chats with many individuals about a 'mutual interest in abducting, raping, murdering, and eating children,' said an agreed statement of facts released by the US attorney in Boston. In July last year, federal agents searching Portway's residence in Worcester, Massachusetts, discovered a locked dungeon in the basement of his home. It contained a chair, television, and what appeared to be cable access to the Internet. The room a...

Negative diplomatic ricochets are pursuing Israel in the aftermath of its air force attacks on Syria. In the first place, they are seen to have had no effect on Hizballah's successful military intervention on the side of the Assad regime or the Syrian war at large. In the second, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, while in Shanghai, was given a sharp dressing-down by President Vladimir Putin Monday, May 6, a warning that Russia would not tolerate further Israeli attacks on Damascus and would respond. Putin did not say how, but he did announce he had ordered the acceleration of highly advanced Russian weapons supplies to Syria. debkafile's military sources disclose that the Russian leader was referring to S-300 anti-air systems and the nuclear-capable 9K720 Iskander (NATO named SS-26 Stone) surface missiles, which are precise enough to hit a target within a 5-7 meter radius at a distance of 280 kilometers. in his phone call to Netanyahu, the Russian leader made no bo...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan condemned on Tuesday Israeli air strikes on targets near Damascus, saying they were an opportunity for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government to cover up its own killings. "The air strike Israel carried out on Damascus is completely unacceptable. There is no rationale, no pretext that can excuse this operation," Erdogan told a parliamentary meeting of his ruling party. "These attacks are chances, opportunities offered on a golden tray to Assad and to the illegitimate Syrian regime. Using the Israel attack as an excuse, he is trying to cover up the genocide in Banias," he said. Erdogan was referring to a Syrian coastal town where anti-Assad activists said at least 62 people were killed by government fighters over the weekend. Israeli officials said the air strikes on Friday and Sunday were not intended to influence its neighbor's civil war but only at stopping Iranian missiles from reac...