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I WRITE NEWS ABOUT AND PUT NEWS ARTICLES ABOUT ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM PERTAINING TO BIBLE PROPHESY HAPPENINGS.JOEL 3:20 But Judah (ISRAEL) shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.(THATS ISRAEL-JERUSALEM WILL NEVER BE DESTROYED AGAIN)-WE CHRISTIANS ARE ALL WAITING PATIENTLY FOR THE PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE TO OCCUR.SO WE CAN GO TO JESUS AND GET OUR NEVER DYING BODIES.SO WE CAN RULE OVER CITIES OURSELVES.WHILE JESUS RULES FROM DAVIDS THRONE FOREVER IN JERUSALEM.

Sunday, June 19, 2016

DAY 08 OF THE 49 KILLED WORST MASS SHOOTING AND 2ND WORST TERRORIST ATTACK IN AMERICAS HISTORY.

UPDATE-JUNE 19,2016-09:00AM
YES LIKE USUAL BLAME CHRISTIANITY FOR A SEX FOR MURDER DEATH CULT ISLAMIC-QURANIC-72 VIRGIN-MOON GOD ALLAH-PEDOPHILE FALSE PROPHET MUHAMMAD SLAUGHTER OF PEOPLE. I GUESS THE LEFT-WING LIBERAL-DEMOCRATS WILL SAY-BLAME IT ON CHRISTIANITY FOR THE GOOD OF THE EARTH AND THE CHILDREN OF COURSE. BECAUSE ISLAM IS PROTECTED - AND ISLAM LOVES SODOMITES SO MUCH. THATS WHY THIS GAY-ISLAMIC MUSLIM SLAUGHTERED THE 49 PEOPLE. BECAUSE ISLAM IS SO PEACEFUL.AND CHRISTIANITY IS SO EVIL FOR SPEAKING OUT AGAINST SODOMITES AND THE EVIL DEATH CULT ISLAM. THE LIBERAL-DEMOCRATS AND WORLD CLAIMS.

David French: Blaming Christians for Orlando Attack is 'Bigoted'-06-18-2016-Mark Martin-cbnnews

In the days following the Orlando terrorist attack, some media and leftist political groups have put the blame on Christians.In National Review, David French, a staff writer, wrote that the attack was a textbook example of Islamic jihadism.Yet, somehow the massacre has put Christians on the defense."It's really one of the more remarkable things that I've ever seen," French told CBN News. "So no less than The New York Times editorial board wrote an entire editorial after Orlando, focusing on the challenges to gays and lesbians in our culture and did not mention ISIS, did not mention Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, did not mention the Orlando shooter's faith or motivations, but instead spent time talking about Greg Abbott of Texas, the governor of Texas, Pat McCrory of North Carolina, the governor of North Carolina, and the transgender bathroom controversy as if that had anything at all to do with a radical jihadist pledging allegiance to ISIS and killing members of the LGBT community. It had nothing to do with it at all.""It's taking the focus off of the actual enemy, who's killed real Americans and putting it on domestic political opponents who not only haven't killed anybody, they completely abhor and shun and condemn any and all acts of violence," French continued.What is the motivation behind the finger-pointing at Christians? French believes politics are at play. "It's transparent domestic political score-settling; it's people who are obsessed, just obsessed with these LGBT issues in domestic politics, and will look at anything, anything that they can remotely twist and turn to try to shame their domestic political opponents," French said. "It's a remarkable moment in American history."French calls putting the blame on Christians "bigoted.""Number one, it's bigoted to presume that Christians had anything to do at all with a massacre that they condemn unequivocally, and it's bigoted to actually deny a Muslim man the moral agency to carry out the beliefs that he actually had," he said."So what's happening is The New York Times and others are condemning Christians for things that they don't believe and excusing jihadists for the things that they do believe," French continued. "It's an utterly bizarre circumstance."How should Christians respond to the accusations? French told CBN News the best way for Christians to defend themselves in this atmosphere is with truth."Every time somebody tries to pin the blame on Christians or whatever atmosphere that they claim Christians create, just remind people that this is a man who pledged allegiance to ISIS, the perhaps foremost practitioner of the most strict form of Sharia law in the world -- an entity trying to re-establish a Muslim caliphate," French said. "(It) had nothing to do with believers in Jesus Christ."----http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2016/june/david-french-blaming-christians-for-orlando-attack-is-bigoted (TO WATCH VIDEO)

ACLU Says Christians to Blame for Orlando Attack-10:00AM EDT 6/13/2016 Bob Eschliman-charisma news

The Islamist attack on The Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, was too much to bear for one ACLU staff attorney, who vented Sunday morning about the terror attack.But he didn't blame Muslims, or even radical Islam. No, he placed the blame squarely on the shoulders of Christians who oppose the LGBT agenda.Chase Strangio, one of the liberal civil rights organization's staff attorneys for its LGBT & HIV Project, works on "impact litigation, as well as legislative and administrative advocacy, on behalf of LGBTQ people and people living with HIV across the United States." His area of expertise, according to the ACLU, is the treatment of "transgender and gender non-conforming people" who are detained by law enforcement officials.Sunday morning, he unleashed a tweetstorm about the Orlando attack in which he savaged Christians and conservatives. He first slammed a tweet from U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), urging residents of Central Florida to donate blood by pointing out that homosexuals and transgender people are not allowed to donate.Then, he made these tweets, in short order:The Christian Right has introduced 200 anti-LGBT bills in the last six months and people blaming Islam for this. No. #PulseNightclub-You know what is gross - your thoughts and prayers and Islamophobia after you created this anti-queer climate.My queer trans Muslim family knows that our fight is against the hateful people in power right here in *this* country. #PulseNightclub-He also directed his anger at Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, and Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting Donald Trump. Many of his tweets included profanity.According to TheDailyCaller, however, Strangio wasn't the only ACLU attorney to go off about the attack. Eunice Hyon Min Rho, an attorney who specializes in election and religious liberty law, took the opportunity to attack Republican lawmakers who were sponsors of the First Amendment Defense Act, legislation the ACLU considers anti-LGBT.Rho's Twitter account has since been disabled.

Orlando Police Chief Describes Officers' Heroic Actions After Orlando Shooting-By JULIA JACOBO-june 18,16-yahoonews-Good Morning America

The chief of the Orlando Police Department described the heroic efforts his officers undertook to save patrons at the Pulse nightclub early Sunday morning. A lone gunman killed 49 people and injured 53 others before he was shot dead by police.While visiting the memorial in downtown Orlando, Chief of Police John W. Mina said several officers "risked their lives" by dragging wounded clubgoers out of the building despite not knowing if the gunman had planted a bomb in the popular gay nightclub."Our officers risked their lives for [the victims'] safety," Mina told ABC News. "They just wanted to get those people out of there."The officers "stood toe-to-toe with a mass murderer," he noted and commended the "many heroes from the night" for performing" "heroically" and "courageously."Mina said first responders were "upset" that the gunman targeted the LGBT community because it is filled with "loving people."Although officers were trained after 9/11 to deal with similar scenes of destruction, Mina said "no one can ever prepare themselves" for the carnage they witnessed."Something like this affects everyone differently," he said. "No one can ever prepare themselves for this horrific scene."The officers were given a stress management briefing, speaking to counselors and recanting the events with peers.“It’s very, very important to get that out and not keep it bottled up inside," Mina said.After an administrative review, SWAT police officers will return to work next week but will receive additional counseling if needed. Mina said the officers are "very eager" to get back to work."They want to protect this community, like they always have," Mina said. "They want to get back on those streets."The community's "outpouring of love" has not only been directed toward the victims and their families. Mina said residents know officers "have a tough job to do."The FBI is investigating gunman Omar Mateen and the circumstances leading up to the attack but Orlando police will continue to monitor the scene of the shooting, Mina said, adding that his "top priority" is making sure the people of Orlando feel safe.ABC News' Marci Gonzalez contributed to this report.

Tension at funerals for Orlando victims with protest, irate driver-[Reuters]-By Bernie Woodall and Roselle Chen-June 18, 2016-yahoonews

ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - Funerals for two of the 49 victims killed in the shooting at a nightclub in Florida were marked by tense scenes on Saturday, as an impatient driver was accused of injuring two law enforcement officers and another took place under the watch of anti-gay protesters.Two Osceola County Sheriff's deputies on motorcycles were injured at the funeral procession for Jean Carlos Mendez in Kissimmee, Florida, some 20 miles (32 km) south of Orlando, when a driver cut through the cortege and struck them with her car, according to a statement on the sheriff's Facebook page.The deputies were taken to the hospital, where both were in stable condition, said the sheriff's spokeswoman Twis Lizasuain.At the funeral of another victim, Christopher Leinonen, at a church close to the centre of Orlando, a handful of protesters from the Kansas-based anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church stood silently for about 45 minutes. They were blocked from view of those attending the funeral by about 200 counter-protesters, some holding rainbow screens, who cheered when the Westboro members left.Authorities are still investigating what motivated Omar Mateen to kill 49 people at the popular gay nightclub Pulse in the early hours of last Sunday, perpetrating the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Mateen was later killed in a shoot-out with police.The shooting has sparked a new push for gun control legislation and Congress is expected to vote on proposals starting next week, including one on stopping people on terrorism watch lists from buying guns.Democrats, including President Barack Obama, are framing gun restrictions as a national security issue after Mateen professed loyalty to Islamist militants. But authorities believe he was "self-radicalised" and acted without any direction from outside networks.-TROUBLED PAST-U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents on Friday questioned a member of the Florida mosque attended by Mateen, as new information surfaced revealing the killer had exhibited chronic behavioural problems during his youth.Academic records obtained by Reuters showing Mateen was frequently suspended as a student added to a disturbing portrait of the long-troubled gunman.Mateen, a 29-year-old private security guard, has been described by his first wife as an abusive, mentally disturbed man with a violent temper.Others who knew him recalled Mateen, a U.S. citizen and Florida resident born in New York to Afghan immigrants, as a quiet, socially awkward individual who kept largely to himself.The FBI has acknowledged interviewing Mateen in 2013 and 2014 for suspected ties to Islamist militant groups but concluded he posed no threat. Still, evidence in the Orlando case points to a crime at least inspired by extremist ideology.Authorities have said Mateen paused a number of times during his three-hour siege at the Pulse nightclub to place cell phone calls to emergency 911 dispatchers and to post internet messages professing support for various Islamist militant groups.U.S. officials have said his second wife, Noor Salman, had known of his plans to carry out the attack and a federal grand jury was convened earlier in the week to decide whether to charge Salman.Obama, who met with survivors of the shooting and families of the dead in Orlando on Thursday, urged Congress to make it more difficult to legally acquire high-powered weapons like the semi-automatic rifle used in the attack.The Senate is expected to vote on Monday on four proposals for limited gun restrictions, although all four are expected to fail. A group of Republican senators attempted on Friday to craft compromise legislation that might stand a better chance of passing.(Additional reporting by Barbara Goldberg in New York and Jim Young in Orlando; Writing by Bill Rigby; Editing by Mary Milliken)

Saturday, June 18, 2016

THE MEDIA ARE TRYING TO SPREAD RUMOURS THAT THE REPUBLICANS ARE TRYING TO LET ALL DELEGATES VOTE FREELY - NOT BOUND IN THE FIRST ROUND EVEN.SO THEY CAN STOP TRUMP FROM BECOMING THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE.

UPDATE-JUNE 18,2016-03:03PM
NOTICE NOW THERES NO TALK ABOUT HITLER 2ND CLINTON AND SANDERS BY THE MEDIA. SANDERS NEVER BOWED OUT OF THE RACE-HES GOING TO THE CONVENTION YET TO TRY TO DEFEAT CLINTON THERE BY GETTING DELEGATES SWITCHED TO HIM INSTEAD OF HITLER 2ND CLINTON. BUT WHAT DO ALL WE HEAR FROM THE MEDIA. DONALD TRUMP HAS SOWN UP HIS 1,237 DELEGATES WITH 1,252 TO BECOME THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE AT LEAST A MONTH AGO ALREADY. BUT WHAT ARE THE LEFT-WING-GODLESS-LIBERAL-DEMOCRATS AND THE MEDIA ALL SAYING. HOW DONALD TRUMP WHO WON THE NOMINEESHIP FAIRLY. THE MEDIA HAVE ALL SPREAD THIS RUMOR THAT THE REPUBLICANS ARE SCHEMING TOGETHER SO THEY WOULD NOT HAVE TO BE DEDICATED DELEGATES TO THE PERSON THAT WON THEM IN EACH STATE. THE FALSE RUMOR HAS IT THEY WANT TO BE FREE TO VOTE FOR WHOEVER THEY WANT. SO THEY CAN STOP TRUMP FROM BECOMING THE NOMINEE FOR THE REPUBLICANS. CAN YOU SEE ALL THE RIOTS AROUND AMERICA. IF THIS SCHEME WOULD BE PULLED ON TRUMP. YOU CAN GUARENTEE THAT MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR TRUMP IN THE STATES. WOULD NOT VITE AT ALL OR WOULD CHANGE THEIR VOTE TO THE LIBERTARIAN CANDIDATE.. AND WOULD ALSO BECOME LIBERTARIAN VOTERS. IF THE REPUBLICANS DO BACK STAB TRUMP WITH NEW RULES. THIS WOULD BE THE END OF THE VOTING SYSTEM ITSELF. BECAUSE I PREDICT HALF OF ALL VOTERS IN AMERICA OR MORE WOULD KNOW THAT THEIR VOTES ARE USELESS. AND THE PARTIES ARE THE ONE WHO PUT THE PRESIDENT IN POWER-NOT THE PEOPLE. THIS IS GONNA BE UGLY I CAN SEE FROM JULY ON. GOOD LUCK AMERICA. AND SINCE THE GODLESS LIBERALS ARE IN POWER HERE IN CANADA ALSO. WE ARE THE NEXT TO FALL BY JUDGEMENT. AS CANADA UNDER PRETTY BOY PM JUSTIN TRUDEAU. AND ONTARIO LESBIEN LIBERAL LEADER KATHLEEN WYNN. WITH ALL THE SINS BEING LEGALIZED AND ISRAEL HATERS IN POWER IN CANADA NOW. WE WILL BE THE NEXT TO FALL YOU CAN GUARENTEE.

-IF THE MEDIA AND LIBERALS AND DEMOCRATS ARE HOPING TO GET RID OF TRUMP AS NOMINEE. LIKE THE RUMORS ARE. GOOD LUCK. WE WOULD SEE THE WORST RIOTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY. AND THE WORST NO VOTING BY PEOPLE IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICA.pic-youtube.com

-BERNIE SOCIALIST-COMUNIST SANDERS-pic-curated-news.com

-HITLARY 2ND ROTTEN LIAR CLINTON-pic-bit.ly

-THESE 3 PICTURES OF SANDERS-HITLER 2ND CLINTON AND SUNNI-ARAB-MUSLIM BARACK HUSEIN OBAMA (THE FORERUNNER LIAR TO THE FUTURE WORLD DICTATOR)-WOULD BE LAUGHING THEIR HEADS OFF IF TRUMP WOULD BE STOPPED FROM BEING THE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE. BUT IF THIS WAS THE CASE. THIS NEXT PICTURE WOULD BE THE RESULT.pic-mlive.com

-THIS WOULD BE THE RESULT IF THE REPUBLICANS TRY TO CHANGE THE RULES SO THE DELEGATES ARE FREE TO VOTE FOR WHO THEY WANT THE FIRST ROUND INSTEAD OF BEING BOUND TO THE STATE PERSON WHO WON.pic-theguardian.com

WEEKEND QUAKE RESULTS FOR JUNE 18-19,2016-SAT-SUN

DAY 07 OF THE 49 KILLED WORST MASS SHOOTING AND 2ND WORST TERRORIST ATTACK IN AMERICAS HISTORY.

UPDATE-JUNE 18,2016-07:00AM
THERE WAS A VIDEO THAT CAUGHT THE WHOLE SHOOTING BY MATEEN AT THE GAY CLUB IN ORLANDO FLORIDA. THE FBI IS CHECKING IT OUT CLOSELY. AND MATEENS FREIND WAS QUESTIONED ALSO.THE FREIND BEING QUESTIONED WAS THE ONE MATEEN PHONE WHILE DOING THE KILLINGS.THE CONVERSATION HAD SOMETHING TO DO ABOUT MEDICINE.

IT IS A SHAME-BECAUSE NOT ONLY WILL MATEEN BE BURNING IN HELL AS A RESULT OF MURDERING THESE SODOMITES. BUT THE SODOMITES THAT WERE GAY THAT DIED IN THIS TRAGEDY WILL BE BURNING IN HELL IN TORMENTS AS WELL FOR NOT BEING SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS. AND OPENLY PRACTICING SODOMY. THIS IS A SAD CAUSE ALL AROUND. THESE SODOMITES NEVER HAD A CHANCE TO BE SAVED. AND AS A RESULT. THE MURDERER AND THE MURDERED ARE ALL BURNING IN TORMENTS NOW UNTIL JESUS RESURRECTS THERE BODIES AND SOULS TOGETHER TO STAND IN FRONT OF HIM AT THE GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGEMENT. ONE THOUSAND YEARS AFTER HE RULES AS KING FROM JERUSALEM ON EARTH DURING HIS MILLENIUM REIGN. THEN FOREVER ON EARTH. THEN ALL THE LOST AT THIS FINAL JUDGEMENT GET THEIR FINAL NEVER DYING BODIES THROWN INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE FOREVER WITH SATAN AND ALL THE ONE THIRD FALLING ANGELS THAT WERE BOOTED OUT OF HEAVEN AT THE REBELLION AGAINST GOD. ALL THIS CROWD WILL BURN FOREVER-NEVER ENDING IN THE LAKE OF FIRE. AND ALL THE SAVED WILL BE LIVING ON EARTH FOREVER-NEVER ENDING UNDER JESUS RULE FROM THE WORLD CAPITAL JERUSALEM FOREVER. SO IT IS SAD THAT THIS DELUTED ISLAMIC-MUSLIM MURDERER MATEEN TOOK A POSSIBLE 49 OTHER PEOPLE TO HELL WITH HIM-THAT STILL HAD A CHANCE TO BE SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS. AND LEFT-WING-LIBERAL-DEMOCRATS DON:T EVEN CALL ME A RACIST,HATER BIGOT FOR SPEAKING BIBLE TRUTH. I BELIEVE WHAT GOD SAYS NOT NO LIBERAL-DEMOCRATIC ISRAEL-CHRISTIAN AND JESUS HATERS.

Religious conservatives attempt balance in Orlando response-Faith leaders overwhelmingly expressed grief over loss of life in shooting, but have often failed to note that gunman specifically targeted LGBTQ individuals-By ERRIN HAINES WHACK and Rachel Zoll June 18, 2016, 9:08 am-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The massacre at a gay nightclub has tested the limits of the “love the sinner, hate the sin” approach to homosexuality by conservative religious leaders.The faith leaders have overwhelmingly expressed grief over the loss of life in Orlando, led vigils around the country, offered counseling for the crowds of mourners and free funerals for the victims. But it has been less common for religious conservatives to note that the gunman specifically targeted lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Gays and lesbians say the omission compounds the pain of the shooting.“This was a place where people came together — LGBT people — and if you erase that part of them, you’re not actually praying for people, you’re praying for an abstraction,” said the Rev. Paul Raushenbush, a gay American Baptist pastor and a vice president at Auburn Seminary in New York. “In order to truly honor these lives, we’re not going to erase them and we’re not going to erase them in church.”Authorities are still trying to understand the motivation of gunman Omar Mateen, who had expressed hatred of gay people and sympathy for Islamic extremists before his rampage left 49 people dead at Pulse dance club last Sunday. The shooting has laid bare ideological divisions over gay rights, gun control and Islamic terrorism. Many conservatives argue that LGBT advocates are trying to politicize the attack by complaining about the wording of statements of prayer and concern.However, Presiding Bishop Yvette Flunder of the Fellowship of Affirming Ministries Network, an association of mainly black and gay churches, pointed to the shooting at the historically black Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina a year ago, and noted, “we did not hesitate to say that the victims in Charleston were black.”“This is a time to grieve, to mourn and to consider what it means to stigmatize people,” said the Rev. Raphael Warnock of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, who supports gay marriage as a civil right. “Religious communities have played a particular role in … marginalizing gay and lesbian and transgender people.”The tragedy prompted an outpouring from more liberal religious groups that included special attention to LGBT people. Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton, of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, said the gunman seemed to believe that “the LGBTQ community was severed from our common humanity.” The Central Conference of American Rabbis, which represents Reform Jewish clergy, said the group was “outraged that LGBTQ people have been massacred because of their gender identity and sexual orientation.”Conservative religious leaders were just as vocal and emotional in their remarks, but the focus of their statements varied.The Rabbinical Council of America, the major association for Orthodox rabbis, decried “murderous attacks in the name of religion” and said “no individual or group should be singled out” the way the victims were. The president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, offered prayers and called for “ever greater resolve in protecting the life and dignity of every person.” The Southern Baptist Convention, at its annual meeting this week, passed a resolution extending “love and compassion” to all affected by the shooting and saying they consider the victims “fellow image-bearers of God and our neighbors.”But none of these statements specifically mentioned that gays and lesbians had been singled out.On the other hand, the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, an association for Latino evangelicals, which helped local churches organize a vigil Wednesday in Orlando, issued a statement calling for “radical love” for all, citing gays in particular, despite the conference’s theological opposition to same-sex relationships.“We’ve preached to our people that everyone — every race, every culture, every orientation — they’re made in the image of God,” said the Rev. Tony Suarez, executive vice president of the leadership group, in a phone interview. “That doesn’t always mean we agree with everyone’s decision, but we respect their humanity.”In St. Petersburg, Florida, Bishop Robert Lynch took the rare step for an American Roman Catholic bishop of saying faith groups had a role in fueling violence like what happened in Orlando.“Sadly, it is religion, including our own, which targets, mostly verbally, and also often breeds contempt for, gays, lesbians and transgender people,” Lynch wrote on his blog. “Singling out people for victimization because of their religion, their sexual orientation, their nationality must be offensive to God’s ears. It has to stop.”The Rev. Joel Hunter, pastor of the evangelical Northland, A Church Distributed, in the Orlando area, said the attack and its aftermath have led him to reflect on how he has spoken about the Bible and LGBT people in the past.Hunter, who has been a spiritual adviser to President Barack Obama, spent the week in community meetings and at events in response to the shooting, leading to the pastor’s first introduction to Carlos Smith, the government affairs officer for Equality Florida, an LGBT advocacy group. A photo of their handshake, taken by a local reporter, has drawn attention on social media.“The fact that I didn’t know him was indicative of the cubicle all of us have been operating in and my lack of relationships that I’m now regretting,” Hunter said in a phone interview.“My relationships and respect for LGBTQ people will not depend on any specific theological finding,” Hunter said of how he will re-examine his approach to gays and lesbians. “My recommitment is to focus on living out the basic nature of God — love — and leaving the judging up to Him.”

9 years before Orlando rampage, Mateen was expelled from prison academy after talk of bringing a gun to class-[Jason Sickles]-June 17, 2016YAHOONEWS

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Orlando gunman Omar Mateen failed as a prison guard because he was booted from the state’s training academy after talking about bringing a gun to class, according to documents discovered late Friday by the Florida Department of Corrections.Earlier this week, prison officials said Mateen was “administratively dismissed” in 2007, but did not give specifics on why he never received his certification to continue working as a correctional officer.A hand search of department archives, prison officials said Friday, produced another dozen pages of records.Among them was a memo from a warden recommending that Mateen be dismissed from the program for sleeping in class, being absent without permission and, “most disturbing,” asking a fellow student whether he would report him if he were to bring a gun to class.“In light of recent tragic events at Virginia Tech officer Mateen’s inquiry about bringing a weapon to class is at best extremely disturbing,” wrote P.H. Skipper, then warden at the Martin Correctional Institute where Mateen, a cadet, was assigned.His dismissal came days after the April 16, 2007, tragedy at Virginia Tech, where 32 people were killed. It was the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman in recorded U.S. history until last Sunday, when Mateen attacked Pulse nightclub, a popular gay bar in Orlando. Police say Mateen fatally shot 49 people and injured 53 others before he was killed in a shootout with officers.Mateen, a longtime private security guard, aspired to work in law enforcement.When he applied to be a state prison guard 10 years ago, his highest recommendation came from a police officer in his hometown.“Omar’s character is beyond reproach,” Port St. Lucie Officer Steven Brown wrote in a letter to the Florida Department of Corrections. “Omar’s judgment, work ethic, sensibility, and problem solving ability are impeccable.”The officer ended his endorsement of Mateen by saying, “I would sleep soundly at night knowing that a person like Omar is protecting us [from] the element which resides behind your concrete and [steel] walls.”The letter — among dozens of documents released from Mateen’s short stint as a prison guard — is chilling in light of Sunday’s massacre, and adds yet another layer to the complicated portrait of the killer that is still emerging.Some former teachers and classmates have recalled the Orlando shooter as a hothead who celebrated the 9/11 terror attacks as a high school student. But a handful of neighbors and acquaintances, like Brown, thought enough of Mateen at one time to declare that he would do well in law enforcement.“Absolutely,” former neighbor John Updegrave wrote on a recommendation form. “Omar is very good candidate for an officer.”Another former Port St. Lucie neighbor said Omar was “always willing to give a hand if needed.”Brown told prison officials that he had known Mateen for three years, having met the teenager at Gold’s Gym and a nutrition store where Mateen worked.“Omar does possess a character which would compliment [sic] the requirements of a Correctional Officer,” Brown wrote in 2006.Mateen was a provisional guard at Martin Correctional Institution in central Florida for six months before being terminated for not finishing the academy and acquiring his state certification.Brown, who is still a Port St. Lucie officer, declined to comment for this story.“He informed me that he did not wish to speak to or give any interviews on the matter,” said Master Sgt. Frank Sabol, a spokesman for the Port St. Lucie Police Department.Authorities say Mateen, who was born in New York to Afghan parents, pledged his allegiance to radical Islamic terrorists during the Orlando rampage.Sources briefed on the FBI’s investigation have said Mateen watched Islamic State terrorist videos — including some showing brutal beheadings — and talked to co-workers about them.A sad paradox for a young man who, records show, signed a commitment to public safety and took an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution when he started his prison job.(This story has been updated since it was originally published.)-Jason Sickles is a national reporter for Yahoo News. Follow him on Twitter (@jasonsickles).

Gay Muslims: Now is the time to speak out-[Caitlin Dickson]-June 17, 2016-YAHOONEWS

The Orlando shooting has once again shone a spotlight on the LGBT community as the target of a terrible act of violence, and also prompted an intense level of scrutiny over what role the Muslim faith of the gunman, Omar Mateen, played in his attack.In the aftermath of the shootings, some close to Mateen, including his ex-wife, have suggested that he may have questioned his own sexuality in the months and years before the attack.In general, mainstream Muslim teachings forbid homosexuality, although how this is interpreted varies. According to the Human Rights Campaign, “Depending on nationality, generation, family upbringing and cultural influences, Islamic individuals and institutions fall along a wide spectrum, from welcoming and inclusive to a level of rejection that can be marked by a range of actions ranging from social sequestration to physical violence.”Yahoo News spoke to three members of this small, relatively unseen community about the often painful paradox of being an LGBT Muslim in the United States.****MAZIN K.-Mazin K. was born and raised in Jordan by Palestinian parents. He says he started having feelings for men at a young age, but it wasn’t until he was about 12, and gained access to the Internet, that he first learned the word “gay.”It would take another four years for Mazin to accept that he was homosexual, but even then, coming out to his Muslim family wasn’t really an option. So Mazin kept his sexuality a secret until 2013, when, at 24, he was exposed.Someone found pictures of him on the gay dating app Grindr and posted them to Facebook. “My life just stopped,” Mazin says, describing the response from his father and brothers as “very aggressive.”“I had no family, no job,” he says. “I couldn’t stay.”So Mazin contacted a friend who knew people in the United States and asked him where he should go. His friend put him in touch with someone who had an open room in San Francisco, and he left Jordan on a six-month visitor’s visa. He hasn’t been back since. His family still doesn’t even know where he is.Once in San Francisco, Mazin learned that the United States offers asylum to gay people who face persecution in their home country. After a couple of months, he decided to apply for asylum and was approved. He’s now in the process of getting his green card.Mazin identifies more as “culturally Muslim” than practicing. He doesn’t always fast during Ramadan, but when he’s around other Muslims who are fasting, he won’t eat or drink water in front of them.“Islam is not the most tolerant religion, but I still find it’s not a bad religion,” he says. “It’s not what people think.”Ever since the shooting in Orlando on Sunday, however, Mazin says he’s become very hesitant to say anything in defense of Islam, for fear of being associated with the gunman because of his religion.As a result, he says, he hasn’t gone out all week, has avoided discussing the shooting with friends, and refrained from weighing in on Facebook debates, where, he says, he’s read hateful comments about Islam from people who know him personally.“It’s not cool to be called ‘faggot’ and ‘terrorist’ at the same time,” he said, referring to the deluge of hateful comments he has encountered on Facebook. “It’s very confusing. I can’t get it out of my head.”Mazin also can’t help but think about the fact that it was pure chance that landed him in one of the most liberal areas of the country.“If, three years ago, my friend had found me a room in Orlando instead of San Francisco, I could’ve been there that night,” he says. “I could’ve been killed at Pulse.”The night of the shooting, Mazin says, “I was out with my friends. We were drinking and having fun and dancing all night. This could happen anywhere.”Mazin still plans to go out and celebrate Pride in San Francisco this weekend, but “now I’m terrified.”“It’s not going to be the same anymore,” he says. “People will be going out to support each other, but they will still be worried and keeping an eye open. It could happen anywhere, anytime.”While as a gay man, Mazin feels like a victim of the attack, he’s also starting to feel alienated from the rest of the LGBT community because of his religion.In Jordan, “I felt guilty for being gay,” he says. “Now I feel guilty for being Muslim — and I didn’t choose any of those.”Even before the shooting in Orlando, Mazin says the political rhetoric of the presidential election over the last year has made him feel increasingly anxious.“Last year, I was so happy to be gay in a country that legalized gay marriage.” But now, almost a year after the landmark Supreme Court decision that made same-sex marriage legal nationwide, Mazin says, “I feel this country doesn’t want me anymore.”“Now what?” he wonders. “Where should I go? It’s very confusing.”-NAMIR NASSIR-As a kid in Pakistan, Namir Nassir “was kind of flamboyant.” He loved music and dancing, and whether he was at home with his family in Karachi, or with his Muslim relatives in Los Angeles, where he moved at age 15 to attend high school, Nassir says, “I was always the odd one out.”“I spent the first 19 years of my life being in the closet, feeling ashamed of who I was,” says Nassir, now 35 and an actor.Then, during the summer after his sophomore year at University of California at Santa Barbara, he finally decided to come out.Nassir was visiting his family in Karachi, and his father was making fun of his newly dyed red hair. “He said, ‘Only fags do that. Are you a fag?’” Nassir recalls. On the spur of the moment, he decided to tell the truth.Nassir says his family disowned him for three months — until his older sister’s wedding.But although they agreed to make amends for the occasion, for the next 12 or 13 years, his relationship with his family remained strained. Every couple of years, under pressure from his sisters, Nassir says he would “take it back” to his father, insisting his homosexuality was just a phase.His father suggested electroshock therapy, sex with prostitutes, anything he could think of, Nassir says.Meanwhile, back in California after coming out, Nassir dropped out of college and moved to L.A.“I wanted to experience what it was like to be gay,” he says. After 19 years of repression, diving into gay life in Los Angeles was a shock to his senses — and to his Muslim sensibilities.“Do you know how hard it was for me to go to clubs and see white, gay culture? Men with their shirts off, beautiful bodies, drinking, smoking, doing drugs.”Nassir says he was compelled to assimilate in order to be accepted by the community, but at the same time felt fetishized by other gay men because he was different.“You don’t understand the self-loathing,” that comes with being gay and Muslim, he said. Or, he added, “how deeply, deeply affected a Muslim man is by his religion from the day we are born. And how wrong it is to be gay, how completely and totally against the code of God it is to be gay.“It messes with your mind,” he says. “It’s really, really hard.”It was a painful journey toward finding his identity as a Muslim gay man, one that he says he would not have been able to endure without his faith.“Even though I’ve been alone and lost friends and made friends and have family members I barely talk to anymore, throughout it all I have my faith,” he says. “I pray to God every day.”Nassir believes that even though he’s gay and has had sex — sins in the eyes of Islam — the fact that he’s never drank alcohol or tried drugs, prays five times a day and fasts during Ramadan, has “kept my soul pure.”Nassir also credits his religion with allowing him to escape the fate of so many gay Muslim men who spend their lives in the closet, often with a wife and children.“I consider myself to be one of the lucky ones,” he says. “You live your life as a straight man, but all you want to do is be gay and be held by a man, and you see men holding hands and kissing and going to clubs and being happy.”“It’s a terrible thing, because it eats away at your soul,” he added. “And the biggest problem is there is no one to talk to.”In the wake of the recent tragedy in Orlando, Nassir says, “now is the time for people who are gay and Muslims to speak up.”“I like that Anderson Cooper is getting teared up on TV,” he says, but “I want people to see that you can be someone like me and be gay and go to clubs and have sex and have fun, but I also don’t drink or do drugs.”There were a few years where Nassir and his sisters did not speak. Now, he says, “We have an amazing relationship.”As for his father, “He acknowledges I am the way I am, but he’s still really religious. He’s not going to be joining the Pride Parade anytime soon.”-RAFIQ-Rafiq (not his real name) is a 35-year-old gay man who works in finance in New York. He’s also a practicing Muslim.Though most of his family and friends know he’s gay, Rafiq asked that his real name be withheld, because he is not “out” at work.Rafiq was born and raised in the United States, the third of six children born to a Pakistani father and an American mother who converted to Islam.Rafiq said that marrying an American woman made his father seem rebellious by comparison to the rest of his family, but he still sought to impart Pakistani traditions and religious beliefs to his American children.Rafiq and his siblings were raised Muslim; they were taught to pray, learned Arabic, read the Quran, and went to the mosque. As a family, they didn’t eat pork or drink alcohol, and they fasted during Ramadan. When his older brother and sister started dating in high school, Rafiq says, it caused a “huge drama” with his father, who did not believe in dating before marriage.His dad’s attitude toward homosexuality was just as traditional.“I was closeted for a very long time, and didn’t come out to my father for a very long time for fear of being kicked out of the house,” he says.Rafiq made the deliberate decision to move out on his own as soon as he graduated from college, but knows how much harder things could have been if he had continued to live with his parents, as most Muslim kids are encouraged to do until they’re married.“I’ve met gay Muslim men who are married and have kids, and I totally get it it, because of the culture,” Rafiq says. “If everyone in your circle is strict Muslim, they’ll never approve of it. They see it as a lifestyle.”Based on the information that continues to emerge about Mateen — including reports that the gunman had used gay dating apps, regularly visited Pulse nightclub and, according to his father, had recently become enraged at the sight of two men kissing in Miami — Rafiq says, he wouldn’t be surprised if the Orlando gunman was struggling with something similar.“He may have had an inkling, he may have been questioning his sexuality, he may have been curious. You don’t really know,” Rafiq says. “He may have actually been gay and just afraid of himself.”“When I first was curious, experimenting with being gay, the last thing I wanted was for someone to find out,” he continued. “When you are so close with your family and live with them, you lead these dual, secretive lives.”In the case of Mateen, Rafiq says, “I could totally see if he was living a double life and hiding this from them, if his family was superreligious and if they found out, they might have shunned him or made him feel like a bad person.”Whatever Mateen’s sexuality, Rafiq said this tragedy highlights the need for “more support for LGBT people who are having this conflict of religion.”Rafiq has accumulated a number of gay Muslim friends over the years, but for most people, “who are struggling with being Muslim and being gay, there aren’t a lot of outlets for you. You can’t talk about it in the mosque. It’s hard to find each other.” If Mateen was in fact gay, Rafiq says, “had he maybe had other gay Muslim friends to talk to about what he was going through, or if he had those resources, maybe that could’ve helped him. That’s one thing I wonder, how that would’ve changed things if he had those outlets.”Now Rafiq says his mother is “totally cool with me being gay,” and his siblings are fine with it, too — though he still gets pressure from his older brother, who has recently become more devout, to conform and marry a woman.Before his father’s death from cancer this year, Rafiq said their relationship came a long way, but he never reached complete acceptance. “He always accepted me as his son, but he wasn’t going to accept the gay thing,” he said.One of the most common misconceptions Rafiq encounters from non-Muslims is that he can’t possibly be both gay and Muslim. In fact, Rafiq says he has many gay friends who were raised Muslim but no longer practice because, “there are so many things in the religion that are contradictory to who we are — especially if you’re gay.”He struggles with it himself, he says, “Like, why am I bothering fasting right now for a religion that believes my people should be killed?”Even today, he says, “I would never go into a mosque and profess my sexuality, because it’s not something they would accept. I would not feel safe.”But for Rafiq, being a Muslim is as much a part of his identity as being a gay man. So he’s found a way to balance the two.“We’re taught that Allah is all-giving and all-merciful,” and on the Day of Judgment, “all sins can be forgiven,” he says.Like Nassir, Rafiq figures that if “I don’t drink, I don’t commit other sins, I don’t kill others, I pray, I fast during Ramadan. … If I follow everything right and do things properly, the only sin left would be the fact that I’m gay.”He realizes this rationale may not be accepted by other Muslims, but says, “I don’t know how I could embrace my religion any other way.“That’s the only way that I’ve been able to really justify it.”

Belgian authorities arrest 12 in major anti-terror raid-Associated Press]-June 18, 2016-YAHOONEWS

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities have raided dozens of homes and arrested 12 suspects in a major anti-terror investigation which they said required "immediate intervention," fearing an attack could have been close.The federal prosecutor's office said Saturday that homes and car ports were searched in 16 municipalities, mostly in and around Brussels. The statement said there were no major incidents during the raids and that no arms or explosives were found.It said 40 people were taken for interrogation, of which 12 were arrested, and a judge will rule on their continued detention later Saturday.Across Belgium parties were being planned to watch live broadcasts of the country's soccer team playing Ireland at the European Championships in neighboring France and some media said such events could have been the targets.The federal prosecutor's office or ministers refused to elaborate on that possibility."I'm very happy our services are trying to anticipate things as much as possible," said Justice Minister Koen Geens.The operation came as Belgium remains under the second highest terror alert in wake of the March 22 attacks on the Brussels subway and airport which left 32 people dead."It is not over. We remain under terror alert 3, it means that something is still up," Interior Minister Jan Jambon told the VRT network. "Last night, we had a very successful action."The prosecutor's statement said that "the results of the investigation necessitated an immediate intervention," indicating a violent attack was likely planned in the near future.The federal prosecutor's office did not link the raids to the March 22 attacks, even though an eighth suspect was arrested as part of the investigation of those attacks late Friday. The Belgian man, identified as Youssef E.A., was charged with "participation in the activities of a terrorist group, terrorist murders and attempts to terrorist murders."At the same time, four top ministers, including Prime Minister Charles Michel, Geens and Jambon, received special protection following unspecified threats. "We learned about that late yesterday that this close protection would happen. They say there are good reasons for that," Geens said.

Death to traitors' says UK MP murder suspect-[AFP]-Dario Thuburn-June 18, 2016-YAHOONEWS

London (AFP) - British lawmaker Jo Cox's alleged killer ranted against "traitors" during a brief court appearance on Saturday, as EU referendum campaigning was suspended for a third day in tribute to her."Death to traitors, freedom for Britain," 52-year-old Thomas Mair said when asked to give his name at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London after being charged with murder, the Press Association reported.Both sides in the deeply divisive campaign ahead of a referendum on EU membership on next Thursday have cancelled events amid calls for a less acrimonious political debate.A member of the opposition Labour Party and former aid worker, Cox was an advocate for refugee rights and immigration and wanted Britain to remain in the European Union.She was shot and stabbed in the street in a daylight attack on Thursday in her constituency in northern England as she was heading for a meeting with local residents.Although the motive is undetermined, some politicians and commentators have pointed to the heated referendum debate, where sensitive issues like national identity and immigration have featured prominently.Prime Minister David Cameron and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on Friday brought bouquets to a floral tribute near the scene of the attack in Birstall in Yorkshire.Cameron spoke out for "tolerance" and against "hatred" in British politics, saying the country was "rightly shocked" at the killing of the 41-year-old mother of two.- Flowers on the river -The murder, the first of a British member of parliament since 1990, has sent shockwaves around the world.US President Barack Obama on Friday phoned Cox's husband Brendan to offer condolences."The president noted that the world is a better place because of her selfless service to others, and that there can be no justification for this heinous crime," the White House said in a statement.Eyewitness Hichem Ben Abdallah, 56, told AFP on Friday that he heard two shots and saw her on the ground."Her face was full of blood," said Ben Abdallah, who campaigned alongside the Labour politician before she was elected to parliament for the first time last year."She stood for peace and transparency, fighting corruption, wanted justice for all. I think her flame will carry on," he said."I hope we learn lessons from this," he added.A 77-year-old man remains in hospital after being injured trying to help Cox during the attack.A fund created in Cox's memory by her friends and family has raised more than £250,000 (318,000 euros, $359,000) so far for charities close to her heart.The money will support the Royal Voluntary Service which helps combat loneliness in her constituency; the Hope Not Hate anti-extremism group and the White Helmets volunteer search and rescue workers in Syria.At a vigil in London's Parliament Square on Friday evening, hundreds of people gathered to lay flowers and pay their respects, holding a minute's silence.Cox lived with her husband Brendan and their two children, aged three and five, on a houseboat moored on the River Thames in London, close to the city's iconic Tower Bridge.Mourners laid flowers on the roof of the converted barge along with pictures of the slain MP.

Friday, June 17, 2016

DAY 06 OF THE 49 KILLED WORST MASS SHOOTING AND 2ND WORST TERRORIST ATTACK IN AMERICAS HISTORY.

Orlando gunman apparently searched Facebook during attack-[Eric Tucker And Mike Schneider, The Associated Press]-June 16, 2016-YAHOONEWS

ORLANDO, Fla. - While his victims texted heartbreaking last words to loved ones from the blood-drenched bathrooms, Omar Mateen apparently went on Facebook to measure the shockwaves his attack on a gay nightclub was generating.He searched for the terms "Pulse Orlando" and "Shooting," according to a letter released by a Senate committee.The letter detailing Mateen's Facebook posts and searches in the final hours of his life came to light as grief-stricken Orlando prepared to bury the first of the 49 dead and awaited a visit Thursday from President Barack Obama, who planned to meet with victims' families, doctors and paramedics and offer words of solace.Investigators, meanwhile, are trying to reconstruct Mateen's movements before the rampage at the Pulse dance club and are taking a close look at his 30-year-old Palestinian-American wife, Noor Salman, and what she may have known about the attack."The real muslims will never accept the filthy ways of the west," Mateen, a 29-year-old American-born Muslim, wrote on one of at least five Facebook accounts believed to be associated with him, according to the letter from Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee.The committee sent the letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, asking for help uncovering the trail of hate Mateen left behind in cyberspace. Johnson did not explain how the committee obtained the information about Mateen's Facebook activity.According to the letter, Mateen made his series of Facebook posts and searches before and during the attack. The letter did not specify what took place when. But a person familiar with the situation who was not authorized to speak publicly said the Facebook posts came moments before the attack began."America and Russia stop bombing the Islamic state," Mateen wrote, according to the letter.As he did in his call to a 911 operator during the massacre, Mateen pledged his allegiance on Facebook to the leader of the Islamic State group and, in his final post, warned: "in the next few days you will see attacks from the Islamic state in the usa."The Obama administration has said it has seen no evidence that Mateen was directed by the Islamic State.A spokesman for the FBI did not return a call for comment, and Facebook had no immediate comment.The three-hour rampage began at 2 a.m. and ended three hours later with Mateen being killed by a police SWAT team. The FBI said it is still gathering evidence at Pulse and analyzing cellphone location data to piece together Mateen's activities leading up to the massacre.On Saturday night, hours before the rampage, Mateen visited Disney Springs, an outdoor restaurant, retail and entertainment complex at Walt Disney World, an official who was briefed on the case but insisted on anonymity to discuss the continuing investigation told The Associated Press.The official said it is not clear what Mateen was up to.Mateen's wife has gone into seclusion. U.S. Attorney Lee Bentley repeatedly refused on Wednesday to say whether charges might be brought against her or anyone else.___Tucker reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Jack Gillum in Washington; Michael R. Sisak in Philadelphia; Jay Reeves, Allen G. Breed and Tamara Lush in Orlando; and Holbrook Mohr in Port St. Lucie, Florida; and Brandon Bailey in San Francisco contributed to this report.___This story has been corrected to show that the last name of Facebook's CEO is Zuckerberg, not Zuckerburg.

Orlando families to bury victims, ask Obama for change-[Reuters]-By Bernie Woodall-June 17, 2016-YAHOONEWS

ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - Families of some of the 49 people killed in a massacre at an Orlando gay nightclub will mourn and bury their dead on Friday, a day after President Barack Obama met survivors and said the United States must act to control gun violence.Funerals are expected to be held over the next two weeks.Anthony Luis Laureano Disla, 25, like many of the victims of the Pulse club mass shooting, was from Puerto Rico. He is to be buried on Friday, according to the Newcomer Funeral Home, a day after more than 150 friends and family mourned him at a wake.Obama, who traveled to Orlando on Thursday and met survivors and families of those who died, told reporters: "I held and hugged grieving family members and parents, and they asked, 'Why does this keep happening?'."He urged Congress to pass measures to make it harder to legally acquire high-powered weapons like the semi-automatic rifle used in the attack on Sunday.Obama and Vice President Joe Biden were in Orlando after a U.S.-born gunman claiming allegiance to various Islamist militant groups carried out the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.During the shooting rampage the gunman, Omar Mateen, exchanged text messages with his wife, CNN reported on Thursday, as well as posting on Facebook and placing a phone call to a television station. Police killed Mateen, 29, a U.S. citizen born in New York to Afghan immigrants.Obama, who has visited mass shooting victims' families in towns from San Bernardino, California, to Newtown, Connecticut, since becoming president, laid flowers at a memorial for the victims of the attack on the Pulse nightclub.Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack but U.S. officials have said they do not believe Mateen was assisted from abroad. A married couple also claiming allegiance to Islamic State shot dead 14 people in San Bernardino, California, in December.-BEFORE THE MADNESS-On Thursday, more than 300 people, including Florida Governor Rick Scott, attended the viewing for Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera, who was born in Dorado, Puerto Rico. He was 36 when he was killed during a night of dancing to celebrate a friend's new house. His husband had stayed home that night in the couple's apartment."He was in a Snapchat video that's out there, dancing away, so we know he had some fun before the madness," said his cousin, Orlando Gonzalez.Twenty-three of the 53 wounded remained hospitalized, six in critical condition, according to the Orlando Regional Medical Center.CNN reported, citing a law enforcement official it did not identify, that Mateen exchanged text messages with his wife, Noor Salman, during the three hours he was holed up in a bathroom inside the nightclub. Salman is under investigation to find out whether she knew about Mateen's plans ahead of time.-CONGRESS UNDER PRESSURE-The massacre put pressure on Congress to act.Mateen carried out the slaughter with an assault weapon and handgun that had been legally purchased although he had twice been investigated by the FBI for possible connections with militant Islamist groups.Senator John Cornyn of Texas, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, said the chamber would most likely vote on four gun control measures on Monday.However, no formal deal between the parties for votes was announced, and it was unclear when and how the Senate would proceed with the votes, which would be amendments to an appropriations bill funding the Commerce and Justice departments.Republicans, who hold a 54-person majority in the 100-seat Senate, have blocked a number of Democratic-backed gun control measures over the years, saying they infringed on Americans' constitutional right to bear arms.(Additional reporting by Julia Harte and Peter Eisler in Orlando, Patricia Zengerle and Jonathan Landay in Washington and Zachary Fagenson in West Palm Beach, Florida; Writing by Fiona Ortiz; Editing by Janet Lawrence)

Hidden camera video shows Orlando gunman Omar Mateen in 2010-[Jason Sickles]-June 15, 2016-YAHOONEWS

Orlando nightclub gunman Omar Mateen was once captured on hidden camera spewing disgruntled opinions while working as a security guard during the 2010 BP oil spill cleanup.The footage showing Mateen was republished Wednesday in a video news story by the Wall Street Journal.Mateen died early Sunday during a shootout with police after opening fire on a crowded gay nightclub near downtown Orlando. One hundred people were shot, 49 of them fatally.The 2012 documentary, called “The Big Fix,” examines the April 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico after the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. In the video, Mateen is seen talking to an undercover producer seeking access to the cleanup site. Mateen informs the woman that there is no one available to speak with. Nor, he says, does anyone care about her concerns.“No one gives a s*** here,” he says in the documentary. “Everybody’s just out to get paid. They’re like hoping for more oil to come out and more people to complain so they’ll have jobs. They want more disaster to happen.”G4S Secure Solutions confirmed that the man on the video is Mateen, the WSJ reports. Mateen had worked for the security company (formerly Wackenhut) since 2007.

Muslim view of LGBT people in spotlight after Orlando attack-[The Canadian Press]-Rachel Zoll And Deepti Hajela, The Associated Press-June 16, 2016-YAHOONEWS

NEW YORK, N.Y. - After the massacre in Orlando, the head of a prominent Muslim advocacy group stood before a bank of microphones and made remarks beyond the expected condemnations.Along with denouncing the attack by gunman Omar Mateen as a violation of Islam, and offering prayers for the victims at the gay nightclub Pulse, Nihad Awad of the Council on American-Islamic Relations expressed unequivocal support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights."For many years, members of the (LGBT) community have stood shoulder to shoulder with the Muslim community against any acts of hate crimes, Islamophobia, marginalization and discrimination. Today, we stand with them, shoulder to shoulder," Awad said at a Washington news conference. "We cannot fight injustice against some group and not against others."Omid Safi, director of the Duke University Islamic Studies Center, called the comments, and similar statements from other major Muslim groups, a "shocking development" from leaders who until last Sunday's tragedy "would probably have never been seen uttering the words gay and lesbian publicly."The mass shooting, perpetrated by an American Muslim in a communal space for gays, has brought to the forefront Muslim attitudes toward homosexuality and the plight of LGBT Muslims.A spokesman for Awad played down the director's remarks as nothing new. But Faisal Alam, who is gay and a founder of the support and advocacy group Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity, said such comments have opened "a historic opportunity for us to talk to one another."Eman Abdelhadi, a doctoral student at New York University who came out in college, said the attention could provide some much-needed visibility for LGBT Muslims who are "often erased.""The vast majority of American Muslims are illiterate as it relates to queer issues," said Ahmed Younis, an author who specializes in Islamic law and advocates acceptance of gays and equal treatment for women. He said he hoped for some real soul-searching beyond expressions of solidarity toward fully integrating gays and lesbians into Muslim life.LGBT Muslims said the shooting sparked a complex set of emotions. They were devastated for their fellow gays and lesbians, while deeply concerned about anti-Muslim bias the shooting would generate. At the same time, they were caught at the intersection of two mutually wary groups: LGBT people who consider Islam uniquely anti-gay, and Muslims prejudiced against gays and lesbians.Abdelhadi said she feared "Islam and queerness being pitted against each other in a sort of battle and that just making it impossible for me to exist as I am."The day after the shooting, more than 50 LGBT advocacy groups made an appeal for the gay community to reject anti-Muslim rhetoric. "We know what it looks like and feels like to be scapegoated and isolated in the midst of a crisis," the groups said.But Younis said the relationship between Muslims and LGBT advocates "is not a natural or deep alliance."Many U.S. Muslim immigrants come from countries and cultures where gays are often violently persecuted, and harbour a deep antipathy toward LGBT people. But younger generations of American Muslims generally don't share these views, Younis said.Last year, after the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage, author Reza Aslan and actor Hasan Minhaj published a letter to "our fellow American Muslims," urging them to support civil rights for gays, even if Muslims are uncomfortable with, or outright opposed to, same-gender relationships."Rejecting the right to same-sex marriage, but then expecting empathy for our community's struggle, is hypocritical," Aslan and Minhaj wrote on ReligionDispatches.org. "We have to fight for the right of others to live their lives as freely as we want to live ours."A survey last year by the Public Religion Research Institute found four in 10 U.S. Muslims support same-sex marriage — compared with 53 per cent of all Americans who said the same. About two-thirds of Muslims in the survey favoured civil rights protections for LGBT people in jobs, housing and public accommodations, compared to seven in 10 of all Americans.Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle, an Emory University professor and author of "Homosexuality in Islam: Critical Reflection on Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Muslims," said he first began writing about LGBT issues and Islam 14 years ago.At the time, he said Muslims generally rejected or ignored his work challenging the overwhelming Islamic consensus that same-gender sex is to be condemned. But over the years, Kugle has noted a growing openness in the U.S. and elsewhere to discussing the topic. He sees evidence of this shift in the new films, books, articles and blogs about gay Muslims.The Duke Islamic Studies Center is in the midst of a year-long project examining Islam and sexuality, including same-sex relationships, part of a wider scholarly re-examination of Muslim teachings on the subject, according to Safi. The research is mostly occurring in the West, but Muslims from South Africa, Malaysia and other countries participate in the work."So many Muslims — especially professionals, university students, and families dealing with LGBT issues — are searching for alternative ways of practicing Islam that are inclusive and just. Muslim leaders are lagging behind in this," Kugle said.LGBT Muslims are more easily connecting with each other through the internet, Alam said. Gay and lesbian Muslims have formed local organizations in six cities, Alam said, along with some informal support networks, and hold an annual retreat. Still, these meetings remain largely private, a reflection of the continued difficulty of being openly gay in their communities. Several colleges now have Islamic chaplains, another source of support for young gay Muslims.LGBT Muslims and their allies are also creating prayer spaces that welcome all sexual identities. Among them are Unity Mosques, which began in 2009 in Toronto, that include mixed-gender prayer and women-led services, although the sites sometimes struggle to stay open, said El-Farouk Khaki, an immigration lawyer based in Toronto and founder of Salaam: Queer Muslim Community.Imam Daayiee Abdullah, who works from the Washington area and leads the Mecca Institute, which offers Islamic courses from a progressive viewpoint, said he was ostracized by other Muslims when he came out as gay 20 years ago and was "not necessarily considered Muslim." But in the last decade or so, he has noticed a growing receptiveness among American Muslims to at least listen to his arguments for acceptance.Alam, who travels the country speaking to college students about being gay and Muslim, said coming out is still "an incredibly risky proposition" for many. He did so at age 19, to parents he said are "more tolerant than they are accepting." He said he's encouraged by the statements from many Muslim leaders after the attack in Orlando, but he hopes it's more than lip service."I think there's a sense within the community of 'Is this too good to be true?' What does this really mean that they stand with us? Is it theological acceptance? Is it just that we won't stand in the way of LGBT rights in this country?" Alam said. "Those are the nuances that definitely have to be worked out."

In Afghan-American community, attack elicits horror, sorrow-[The Canadian Press]-Kristin J. Bender, The Associated Press-June 15, 2016-YAHOONEWS

FREMONT, Calif. - In this Northern California city where people can buy prayer flags at the dollar store, fresh-baked Afghan bread at corner markets and feast on beef kabobs in "little Kabul's" many restaurants, Afghan-Americans are angry.Fremont, about 40 miles southeast of San Francisco, is a bedroom city of 220,000 people with a thriving waterpark, leafy streets and a public lake. It is also home to the largest population of Afghan-Americans in the country.With news that an attack on an Orlando, Florida, gay nightclub left 49 people dead and gunman Omar Mateen was born to Afghan immigrant parents, those in the community are expressing horror, sorrow and disbelief that one of their own could commit the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history."Every single Afghan feels really horrible because so many innocent people were killed by a mad guy," said Waheed Momand, president of the Afghan Coalition, the largest non-profit advocating for Afghan people in the U.S.It was a tragedy that brought Momand back 15 years, when the community realized the Sept. 11 terror attacks were orchestrated by al-Qaida in Afghanistan.In last weekend's shooting, Mateen's motivations were not yet clear. Despite pledging support to the Islamic State group in a 911 call during the attack, other possible explanations could be mental illness and shame about his own sexuality, a divisive subject among a Muslim community that often shuns gays."What motivated him doesn't matter — it's wrong and it's very close to our hearts. We feel sorry for the victims, and we feel sorry for the pain of their families and their loved ones. The fact that this guy was from Afghan origin makes it even worse for us," Momand said.Federal authorities are investigating whether Mateen regularly went to the nightclub he attacked and had used gay dating apps.Bilal Miskeenyar, a 29-year-old musician from Fremont, believes the shooter was motivated by hatred, saying it's anathema to Muslim and Afghan views."Whether it was anti-homosexual or not, my religion, my people and my culture does not believe in such things," he said. "I think it was hateful, and I think it was a very hideous crime, and I think people should not judge (Afghan people) because of one bad apple."From the markets with handmade meat kabobs to the stores stocked with traditional Afghan candies and nuts, some Afghan-Americans in Fremont say they don't believe there will be a backlash against their community because of Mateen's actions."I have American customers, Mexican customers, Chinese customers, and everybody likes me," said Sardar Ghuss, a clerk at the Little Kabul Market. "I don't have any problems. We all work together."But at the Maiwand Market, where fresh bread comes out of the oven throughout the day, Mojgan Mohammad Parwes said she felt some fear Monday."I was a little hesitant coming here today," said the 36-year-old mother of three who wears a hijab. "People are angry, and it's understandable."What's more, those in her community are heartbroken, she said."They're very distraught," Parwes said. "Emotionally, they are not doing well."Behind the market's counter Monday, it was business as usual for Kais Karimi, a 33-year-old clerk at his family's business. But his emotions were running high."I feel terrible. Human lives are being lost regardless of age, religion, sexual orientation or anything like that," Karimi said. "It's just sad that people are dying over the way that they think. Everybody has the right to live however they want and they should be left alone."In the wake of Sunday's shooting, Afghan Coalition members are meeting this week to plan an interfaith vigil or service, like they did after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.Momand, the group's president, remembers its effect on the U.S. Afghan community."Right after I found out the attack was organized from Afghanistan by al-Qaida, honestly it was one of the darkest days," he said. "Firstly, because so many people were killed that day, and second, it was coming from Afghanistan."But 15 years later, he thinks most people understand that Afghan-Americans are just like everyone else, and they condemn terror just like everybody else."(Terrorism) is not the human way, it's not the American way, it's not the Afghan way and it's not the Muslim way," Momand said.

THE DOW WAS UP 92 POINTS THURSDAY-YESTERDAY.

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.(IN 1 HR THE STOCK MARKETS WORLDWIDE WILL CRASH)
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed:(CONFISCATED) their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

LUKE 2:1-3
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.

1 KINGS 10:13-14
13 And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.
14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,

GENESIS 49:16-17
16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

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UPDATE-JUNE 17,2016-12:00AM

DOW MARKET FRIDAY-JUNE 17,2016
09:30AM-16.07-
10:00AM-31.02-
10:30AM-86.99-
11:00AM-75.16-
11:30AM-122.70-
12:00PM-97.04-
12:30PM-71.35-
01:00PM-81.43-
01:30PM-58.42-
02:00PM-55.25-
02:30PM-49.99-
03:00PM-25.34-
03:30PM-47.74-
04:00PM-57.94- 17,695.16 - S&P -6.77 2071.22 - NASDAQ -44.58 4800.34
HIGH -14 LOW -123
TSX +19.06 13,901.77 - GOLD $+15.00 $1,294.01 - OIL $+1.81 $48.01

EARTHQUAKES

EZEKIEL 37:7,11-14
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.(POSSIBLE QUAKE BRINGS ISRAEL BACK TO LIFE-SO NOISE AND SHAKING-QUAKES WILL ALSO DESTROY ISRAELS ENEMIES)
11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
13 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

UPDATE-JUNE 17, 2016-11:55PM

1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
27 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2016-06-17 23:59:59 UTCShowing event times using UTC27 earthquakes in map area

    4.3 99km ENE of Keelung, Taiwan 2016-06-17 22:55:42 UTC 232.7 km
    5.2 111km SSE of Lata, Solomon Islands 2016-06-17 21:26:19 UTC 56.8 km
    2.7 26km SSE of Trona, CA 2016-06-17 20:59:34 UTC 2.0 km
    2.5 26km NNW of San Simeon, California 2016-06-17 19:10:39 UTC 9.6 km
    2.9 95km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2016-06-17 17:16:16 UTC 36.0 km
    3.1 28km E of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2016-06-17 16:41:06 UTC 98.9 km
    4.7 123km NNE of Tadine, New Caledonia 2016-06-17 14:39:35 UTC 10.0 km
    3.1 7km S of Big Bear City, California 2016-06-17 13:39:59 UTC 4.5 km
    4.6 202km E of Hachijo-jima, Japan 2016-06-17 11:50:12 UTC 35.0 km
    4.4 94km NNE of Palue, Indonesia 2016-06-17 10:57:25 UTC 278.1 km
    4.7 123km SSW of Isangel, Vanuatu 2016-06-17 10:11:51 UTC 10.0 km
    2.7 3km N of Vieques, Puerto Rico 2016-06-17 09:00:21 UTC 90.0 km
    5.1 Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia 2016-06-17 08:39:41 UTC 136.9 km
    2.8 70km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2016-06-17 08:06:20 UTC 95.0 km
    5.0 64km W of Ovalle, Chile 2016-06-17 06:38:22 UTC 10.0 km
    2.9 69km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2016-06-17 05:09:15 UTC 98.0 km
    2.7 7km ENE of Edmond, Oklahoma 2016-06-17 05:09:15 UTC 5.0 km
    2.5 48km N of Valdez, Alaska 2016-06-17 04:51:48 UTC 18.0 km
    2.5 7km WSW of Gilroy, California 2016-06-17 04:14:57 UTC 5.8 km
    4.6 22km WSW of Coquimbo, Chile 2016-06-17 03:48:38 UTC 34.1 km
    4.3 56km SSW of Calama, Chile 2016-06-17 03:30:53 UTC 114.8 km
    2.9 74km SW of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2016-06-17 02:01:57 UTC 135.9 km
    3.6 15km WSW of Anchor Point, Alaska 2016-06-17 01:40:52 UTC 79.2 km
    4.4 153km W of Longyearbyen, Svalbard and Jan Mayen 2016-06-17 01:07:55 UTC 10.0 km
    2.9 30km NNE of Arecibo, Puerto Rico 2016-06-17 01:05:06 UTC 106.0 km
    5.1 89km E of Naze, Japan 2016-06-16 21:42:01 UTC 23.9 km

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