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Putin is playing a dangerous game (The Gog/Magog War)
Last week, I found myself in Dom Knigi, the very largest of all the very large Moscow bookstores, staring at the history section.

Spread out over an entire wall were books of a sort I’ve never seen in such quantities during 10 years of visits: endless glorifications of Soviet fighter pilots, Soviet war heroes, even Stalin himself. Stalin: the Author of the Great Victory was one title; others had cover illustrations featuring red stars, or hammers and sickles.

One Third of Americans Say Bible is Literal Word of God (Where is the U.S. in Bible Prophecy?)
According to a new Gallup Poll, Protestants are the most likely to credit the Bible as the inerrent word of God. The rest of the population feels the Bible might be inspired by God, but not literally so.

Do you believe the Bible is the literal word of God? Since 1991, the Gallup Organization has asked Americans that question, yet their answers remain remarkably unchanged. About 31% of people believe the Good Book is infallible. Frank Newport with Gallup says we still live in a country where God’s word is taken seriously.

Leahy raises REAL ID Act revolt
He has thrown his support behind a bill that would repeal the driver’s license portion

Military planning for “domestic emergencies” revealed (Where is the U.S. in Bible Prophecy?)
The United States military is being positioned to be put into action under presidential authority in any one of a dozen scenarios within the United States – including natural disasters, epidemics, terrorist attacks, insurrections, or domestic violence including conspiracies, according to a report from WND columnist Jerome R. Corsi.

‘Alarming’ rise of radical Islam in Caribbean (The Rise Of Islam)
In the wake of the foiling of an attempted plot to blow up John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, counter-terrorism officials say the rise of radical Islam in the Caribbean and Latin America is “alarming”.

All four suspects in the plot had ties to the region. Two were arrested in Trinidad and Tobago, including ex-Guyanese lawmaker Abdul Kadir.

Senior U.S. counterterrorism officials confirmed fears that Islamists in Trinidad and Tobago could turn the nation “into another Mogadishu”, referring to the Somali capital ruled until last year by Islamic fundamentalists with Al Qaeda ties.

Israel to replace soldiers with machines(Increase in Knowledge/New Technologies)
Starting in August of this year, the border between southern Israel and the Gaza Strip will be guarded by machines, rather than live Israeli soldiers.

Rafael, Israel’s government-owned arms contractor, has developed a remote-controlled border surveillance system that will allow Israel to keep a close eye on the Gaza security fence without putting soldiers’ lives in danger.

Israeli soldiers patrolling the Gaza fence are regularly targeted by Palestinian gunfire and roadside bombs.

The robotic surveillance towers are also equipped with automatic weapons to allow them to engage any terrorist threat.

TB Case Stirs Concerns About Pandemic, Biological Attack (Where is the U.S. in Bible Prophecy?)
The case of a man traveling overseas with a potentially lethal form of tuberculosis has raised several policy questions for how an avian influenza pandemic or international biological attack would be contained in the first hours and days.

While protocols have been established between the departments of Health and Human Services and Homeland Security for limiting the travel of people with contagious diseases, lawmakers and health officials said the protocols were clearly flouted in this case.

In the witch s closet - GetReligion

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In the witch s closet GetReligion, DC - May 19, 2007 The Wiccan pentacle, a five-pointed star inside a circle, is often confused with symbols of Satanism. (The five points of the star represent the elements of …

Google Zooms In Too Close for Some (Increase in Knowledge/New Technologies)
For Mary Kalin-Casey, it was never about her cat.

Ms. Kalin-Casey, who manages an apartment building here with her husband, John Casey, was a bit shaken when she tried a new feature in Google’s map service called Street View. She typed in her address and the screen showed a street-level view of her building. As she zoomed in, she could see Monty, her cat, sitting on a perch in the living room window of her second-floor apartment.

“The issue that I have ultimately is about where you draw the line between taking public photos and zooming in on people’s lives,” Ms. Kalin-Casey said in an interview Thursday on the front steps of the building. “The next step might be seeing books on my shelf. If the government was doing this, people would be outraged.”

Her husband quickly added, “It’s like peeping.”

New driver s license debuts in city
Final rules for Real ID still have not been established, which means the state could conceivably have to change the card again