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(Raymond Ibrahim) ~ On Sunday, March 15, as Christian churches around the world were celebrating morning mass, two churches in Pakistan — one Catholic, one Protestant — were attacked by Islamic suicide bombers. At least 17 people were killed and over 70 wounded... The Taliban claimed responsibility. It is believed that the group had hoped for much greater death tolls, as there were almost 2,000 people in both churches at the time of the explosions. According to eyewitnesses, two suicide bombers approached the gates of the two churches and tried to enter them. When they were stopped — in one church by a 15-year-old Christian youth who blocked them with his body — the Islamic jihadis self-detonated. Witnesses saw "body parts flying through the air." According to an official statement from the Justice and Peace Commission of the Episcopal Conference of Pakistan, despite all the threats received by the churches, authorities only provided "minimal" security.       http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5912/jihad-on-churches

(Gal Luft) ~ It may sometimes seem the world is increasingly antagonistic toward Israel, but Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades' visit to Jerusalem this week should remind Israelis that there are still allies to be found, even in the Middle East... One of them lies a mere 200 kilometers from the beaches of Haifa. For decades, Israel has neglected Cyprus, focusing its efforts on becoming more acceptable to its Arab neighbors, as well as to Turkey, Cyprus' archenemy. But these efforts have stalled in recent years. Relations with Turkey have soured, the peace with Jordan and Egypt is more or less frozen, and the peace process with the Palestinians is nonexistent. Among all of these, it is Cyprus, Israel's only non-majority-Muslim neighbor, that provides a glimmer of hope. With only 10 percent of Israel's population and 1 percent of Turkey's, the island may seem to be of little strategic importance, but recent geopolitical and economic developments have elevated its value for Israel and vice versa, creating the conditions for a renaissance in Israel-Cyprus relations.       http://www.meforum.org/5315/israel-cyprus

(Paul Wolfowitz) ~ Now, in an Associated Press story titled, “US finds peeling back the Iran sanctions onion no easy task,” officials are claiming that the administration “may have to backtrack on its promise that it will suspend only nuclear-related economic sanctions on Iran as part of an emerging nuclear agreement.”... This is because, in what they call the “briar patch of interwoven economic sanctions,” it is too hard to distinguish between “nuclear” sanctions and “non-nuclear” sanctions applied because of Iran’s support for terrorism, human rights violations, money laundering and ballistic missile development. According to the unnamed “officials,” the administration plans to redefine the term “nuclear sanctions,” giving it such a broad definition that there will be little left in the non-nuclear category. This is quite obviously absurd, but what seems to be going on is that the administration is preparing to yield to the Iranian demand that sanctions be lifted immediately — and this means all sanctions and not just nuclear ones. Agreeing to that would mean not only much more extensive sanctions relief — for example relief for banks that are believed to have laundered money for terrorists — but it would also make it extremely difficult to use sanctions as an instrument for constraining such activity by Iran in the future. This will only add to the considerable concerns of Iran’s neighbors that the agreement does nothing to address Iran’s non-nuclear activities.       http://www.aei.org/publication/obama-administration-prepares-to-cave-into-another-khamenei-red-line/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=061515

(thepoliticalinsider.com) ~ President Barack nObama has shown his willingness to shred the Constitution and spy on American citizens. But he has been caught red handed in a major crime spree that I didn’t want to believe was possible... This report shows The White House not only knew about the CIA spying on the United States Senate, but they were behind the spying! This is incredible. At the time, CIA Director John Brennan had discussions with top White House Staff – including nObama’s Chief of Staff Denis McDonough – about an effort to scan hard drives of staffers used on the Senate Intelligence Committee. These staffers worked for Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), and they wanted the secret details of the investigation on interrogation techniques by the CIA. After becoming aware of the CIA’s snooping, Feinstein argued that the CIA had “likely violated the constitutional separation of powers,” according to The Huffington Post. The White House, not surprisingly, declined comment, implying that nObama’s Administration agrees and is either scrambling for a defense or simply has none.       http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/huge-news-barack-obama-caught-in-crime-of-the-century/

(Matthew Vadum) ~ Though many have declared the Occupy Wall Street movement a failure, it won a major propaganda victory when it forced the phony political issue of “income inequality” into the national political debate, according to one of its leaders in a new article... The article, titled The Triumph of Occupy Wall Street, appears at the Atlantic, the home of radical leftists, market participants in the racial grievance industry, and mushy moderates. It was written by radical left-winger Michael Levitin, a co-founder of The Occupied Wall Street Journal, an OWS “affinity group.” (Its website had not been updated in 1,000 days at time of writing.) The article is a mixture of truth and bald-faced lies that slavishly defends a philosophy of failure and a movement that is based on Marxist lies, as David Horowitz and John Perazzo demonstrated in their pamphlet Occupy Wall Street:       http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/matthew-vadum/occupy-wall-street-mainstreams-communism/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=0dee2518db-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-0dee2518db-156509103

(Patrick Howley) ~ The Internal Revenue Service found 6,400 more Lois Lerner emails — but they’re not handing them over in court.  The IRS’ latest excuses are nothing short of infuriating... Department of Justice lawyers Geoffrey J. Klimas and Stephanie Sasarak, acting as counsel for the IRS, submitted a U.S. District Court filing June 12 in the case Judicial Watch v. Internal Revenue Service. The court filing, provided to The Daily Caller, claims the IRS received new Lerner emails from the Treasury Department’s inspector general (TIGTA) but can’t fork over the emails to Judicial Watch, a nonprofit group suing to get the emails. Why? Because the IRS is busy making sure that none of the emails are duplicates  – you know, so as not to waste anyone’s time.        http://dailycaller.com/2015/06/14/irs-finds-6400-new-lois-lerner-emails-gives-dumbest-excuse-yet-for-not-releasing-themhttps://sharylattkisson.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/S."105" />

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(Bill Gertz) ~ The recent defection to the Islamic State (IS) of a special operations colonel in Tajikistan and the group’s infiltration of the Malaysian military are raising new concerns that the Islamist terror group is gaining military expertise, according to U.S. officials and experts... Col. Gulmurod Khalimov, a commander of the Interior Ministry security unit known as OMON, disappeared in April and late last month surfaced in an IS video calling for jihad against Russia and the United States. Tajikistan is a former Soviet republic that is currently aligned with Russia. In Southeast Asia, authorities in Malaysia broke up an Islamic State terrorist plot in March that involved two Royal Malaysian Air Force soldiers. The arrests revealed the terrorist group has infiltrated the military and that around 70 Malaysian army personnel are believed to be supporters or sympathizers with the Islamic State, according to U.S. officials.       http://freebeacon.com/national-security/islamic-state-gains-military-expertise-from-ex-soldiers/

(Adam Kredo) ~ Iran has significantly stepped up efforts to launch cyber attacks and hack into the critical systems of multiple Middle East governments, including those of Israel, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and a host of other nations, according to a new report by a leading Israeli cyber security firm... Iran’s cyber operations have become increasingly sophisticated over the past year, with the Islamic Republic aiming to obtain state secrets and penetrate sensitive online systems of various governments, according to a new report by ClearSky Cyber Security. Iran has been suspected for some time of sponsoring cyber espionage attacks, with the majority being launched against Saudi Arabia and Israel.       http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-steps-up-cyber-attacks-across-the-globe/

(Emma-Jo. Morris) ~ A senior administration official acknowledged to Senate Republicans that its 2015 intelligence threat assessment failed to provide the full scope of Iran’s state sponsored terrorism... Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said in a letter to the Senate that the 2015 worldwide threat assessment could have been more specific about the Iranian threat to United States’ interests. He emphasized that the omissions from a general report do not mean the intelligence community is ignoring that threat. “A specific reference to the terrorist threat from Iran and Hezbollah—which was not included in any of the drafts of the testimony—would have been appropriate for the 2015 assessment, but the lack of its inclusion is in no way a change in the IC’s assessment,” Clapper said in his June 3 letter.       http://freebeacon.com/national-security/clapper-acknowledges-omissions-on-iran-threat/

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