The Final Hour: February 2015

Three New York men sought to join Islamic State, FBI says

The FBI has arrested three foreign nationals living in Brooklyn who agents say sought to join the Islamic State. Two of the men had threatened to kill police officers and FBI agents in the US if they were unable to travel to Syria, the FBI said. The men came to the authorities' attention after they posted to Uzbek-language websites in recent months.

Read More: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-31626877

Mysterious tunnel found near Canada sports venue

Montreal - A sophisticated tunnel has been discovered near a major sporting venue and a university in Toronto, reports said Monday, with Canada on edge over the threat of possible extremist attacks.

Read More: http://news.yahoo.com/mysterious-tunnel-found-near-canada-sports-venue-005229685.html

ISIS abducts at least 90 from Christian villages in Syria

Islamic State militants have abducted at least 90 people from Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria, a monitoring group that tracks violence in Syria said on Tuesday. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the militants carried out dawn raids on rural villages inhabited by the ancient Christian minority west of Hasaka, a city mainly held by the Kurds.

Read More: http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Islamic-State-in-Syria-abducts-at-least-90-from-Christian-villages-391998

The New Madrid Earthquake That Will Divide The United States In Half

This fault zone is six times larger than the San Andreas fault zone in California and it covers portions of Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi.

Read More: http://www.rightsidenews.com/2015022435505/life-and-science/energy-and-environment/the-new-madrid-earthquake-that-will-divide-the-united-states-in-half.html

Iran is Deployed, 'Planning War' Along Israel's Northern Border

Iran has built an active front from Israel's northern Mediterranean border adjacent to Rosh Hanikra, all the way to the Golan Heights. The goal: to undermine and wage war against the "Zionist entity" with conventional, powerful military means from within Lebanon and Syria.

Read More: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/191709#.VOyg63zF_kZ

Congressional Republicans Preparing to Investigate NASA Temperature Tampering

Reports of NASA and NOAA’s temperature data manipulation have been around for months now, but since the beginning of this year, it has exploded. Christopher Booker of the UK’s Telegraph is among those leading the way when he dubbed it earlier this month “the biggest science scandal ever“,

Read More: http://www.redstate.com/2015/02/23/congressional-republicans-preparing-investigate-nasa-temperature-tampering/

Islamist Group Calls for Attack on US Shopping Malls

The U.S. homeland security chief said on Sunday he takes seriously a threat made by Somali-based Islamist militants against shopping malls, including the Mall of America in Minnesota, and urged people going there to be careful.

Read More: http://www.newsmax.com/newswidget/terror-threat-shopping-malls/2015/02/22/id/626173/?Dkt_nbr=10E2C-1&nmx_source=Canada_free_press&nmx_medium=widget&nmx_content=37&nmx_campaign=widgetphase2

US security chief warns shoppers after terror threat

US Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has urged people to be vigilant following a terror threat to Western shopping centres, including one of America's largest malls. He said he took the threat by the Somali-based group al-Shabab seriously. In a video, the group urged followers to carry out attacks on shopping centres in the US, Canada and the UK.

Read More: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-31576486

Last Days? Heavenly Signs Abound During Netanyahu Speech

Religious leaders are warning that the United States is nearing a day of judgment based on its treatment of the nation of Israel.

What’s more, they say, signs in the heavens are coinciding with what is shaping up to be an unexpectedly controversial address by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on March 3 and a fiercely contested Israeli election weeks later.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/last-days-heavenly-signs-abound-during-netanyahu-speech/#4TWeURw9uzewSz0T.99

U.S., allies stage 25 air strikes on Islamic State: joint task force

The United States and its allies staged 25 air strikes on Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria, focusing on the Syrian cities of Kobani and Hasakah, the Combined Joint Task Force said on Monday.

Read More: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/23/us-mideast-crisis-usa-airstrikes-idUSKBN0LR18P20150223

Obama Readying USA for Islamic Takeover?

Tragically and with full malice aforethought, the beauty, simplicity and essential to thought subject of Logic is no longer taught in the US Public school system. As a note, little else that matters is now taught either. It was taught when I attended school. For the purposes of this column, I will deal with two forms of logic, as defined by the current on-line Merriam-Webster Dictionary: “A particular mode of reasoning viewed as valid or faulty” and “interrelation or sequence of facts or events when seen as inevitable or predictable.” I hope that these will assist those people who still cannot—according to their own words seem to fathom why Barack Hussein Obama does what he does and says what he says.

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6.3-magnitude quake hits off Miyako, Japan

An earthquake of 6.3 magnitude jolted 140 km east of Miyako, Japan on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said. The epicenter, with a depth of 13.54 km, was initially determined to be at 39.8472 degrees north latitude and 143.569 degrees east longitude.

Read More: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-02/20/c_134008309.htm

UNUSUAL COMET SKIRTS THE SUN

An unusual comet is skirting past the sun today. "It's a 'non-group comet,' meaning that it does not appear to be related to any other comet or comet family that we have on record," explains Karl Battams of the Naval Research Lab.

Read More: http://www.spaceweather.com/

Get ready for partial solar eclipse

A SOLAR eclipse will take place tomorrow (Friday) morning .

The full eclipse will be visible in Norway but the partial eclipse can be seen in the UK.

President Barack Obama: 'We are not at war with Islam'

President Barack Obama declared that the West must counter the propaganda barrage of Isis and confront issues such as economic inequality that made it easier for the militants to recruit. He also said Muslim leaders needed to do more.

ISIS Plannig Attacks On U.S. Soil

Egypt, now at the forefront of fighting ISIS, is warning it has intelligence revealing the global jihadist group is planning a worldwide offensive this spring or summer that could reach targets within the United States.

Read More: http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/intel-isis-planning-attacks-on-u-s-soil/

Accused bomber's lawyers say cannot get fair trial in Boston

Attorneys for the accused Boston Marathon bomber on Thursday asked a U.S. appellate panel to override a federal judge and order his trial moved out of the city, saying an impartial jury could not be seated so close to the site of the 2013 attack.

Read More: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/19/uk-boston-bombing-trial-idUSKBN0LN10S20150219

85 Years after Pluto’s Discovery, NASA’s New Horizons Spots Small Moons Orbiting Pluto

The moons Nix and Hydra are visible in a series of images taken by the New Horizons spacecraft from Jan. 27-Feb. 8, at distances ranging from about 125 million to 115 million miles (201 million to 186 million kilometers). The long-exposure images offer New Horizons’ best view yet of these two small moons circling Pluto which Tombaugh discovered at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, on Feb. 18, 1930.

Read More: http://www.nasa.gov/nh_new-horizons-spots-small-moons-orbiting-pluto/index.html

U.S. FDA issues device safety alert following "superbug" outbreak

The complex design of endoscopes that have been linked to a "superbug" outbreak at the UCLA Health System in California may hinder proper cleaning, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned on Thursday.

The hospital system said seven patients were infected with a potentially deadly, drug-resistant strain of bacteria and that more than 100 may have been exposed to it between October and January. The bug may have contributed to the death of two patients, UCLA said.

The Line Between Islamic Extremists and Gay Rights Extremists

Barronelle Stutzman is now going to lose her business, her life savings, and possibly her own home for putting her faith into practice. Both her customer and the State of Oregon are taking everything she has for not bowing at the altar of sexual sin.

Read More: http://www.redstate.com/2015/02/19/the-life-between-islamic-extremists-and-gay-rights-extremists/

Obama: Religious Acceptance Key to Combating Extremism

President Barack Obama told world leaders on Thursday that promoting democracy and acceptance of people of all faiths are essential to stopping the spread of violent extremism.

Read More: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/barack-obama/obama-religious-acceptance-key-combating-extremism-n308951

Divers find record trove of gold coins in Mediterranean

Jerusalem - Scuba divers have discovered the largest trove of gold coins ever found off Israel's Mediterranean coast -- about 2,000 pieces dating back more than 1,000 years, the country's antiquities authority said Tuesday.

Read More: http://news.yahoo.com/divers-record-trove-gold-coins-mediterranean-000244620.html

ISIS Burns to Death 45 in Iraq, Vows to ‘Conquer Rome’

Another horrific mass execution by Daesh (ISIS) -- this time in Iraq -- involved 45 victims being burned alive in cages in Anbar province, only five miles from a U.S. air base.

Read More: http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/isis-burns-to-death-45-in-iraq-vows-to-conquer-rome/2015/02/18/

At least 8 individuals have been monitored for Ebola in Nebraska

Phil Rooney, public information officer for the county, told KETV NewsWatch 7 on Monday that at least eight other individuals who had recently traveled in West Africa were monitored in Nebraska since last fall. After the CDC flagged them as being potentially at risk, it notified health departments in Nebraska. "Eight of them? Well that is a surprise to me, too," Dan Dagerman, of Omaha, said.

Read More: http://www.ketv.com/news/at-least-8-individuals-have-been-monitored-for-ebola-in-nebraska/31300362

Most Presidential Experts Agree: Obama is Worst President In History

It appears that by a three to one margin presidential scholars are now convinced that Barack Obama has been the worst president ever. For as far left as most in academia are, this is quite a shock, really.

Read More: http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/69804

New epidemic strain of HIV in Cuba is twice as aggressive as average virus

Lithuanian fascists march beneath swastikas near execution site of 10,000 Jews

Monday’s march through Kaunas, Lithuania’s second-largest city 60 miles from the capital of Vilnius, was the eighth annual event organized by the Lithuanian Nationalist Youth Union on Feb. 16 – one of their Baltic state’s two independence days.

As the marchers assembled at a local park, they were confronted by 20-odd protesters from the local Jewish community and anti-fascist groups who shadowed the marchers in a silent counter-demonstration.

Federal Judge Stalls Obama's Executive Action on Immigration

A federal judge in South Texas on Monday temporarily blocked President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration, giving a coalition of 26 states time to pursue a lawsuit that aims to permanently stop the orders.

U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen's decision comes after a hearing in Brownsville in January and puts on hold Obama's orders that could spare as many as five million people who are in the U.S. illegally from deportation.

Read More: http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/federal-judge-stalls-obama/2015/02/17/id/625098/

Ancient Leviathan Fossils Found in Arava Valley

The land that runs along the edge of the southern end of the Dead Sea, near a certain section close to Masada, is soft and white. Although there are steep mounds of chalky white deposits that seem to stand guard along a path that moves inward towards the cliffs that rim the sea, they too are brittle, delicate and soft. They crumble at a touch.

Read More: http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/ancient-leviathan-fossils-found-in-arava-valley/2015/02/11/

Obama to seek permission for World War on ISIS

President Obama, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize only months after he was inaugurated but quickly became a war president, responsible for nearly 75 percent of U.S. troop deaths in Afghanistan, now is preparing to formally ask Congress to take the fight against ISIS worldwide.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/obama-seeks-permission-to-go-global-against-isis/#sakTGhG2HAVYpOi4.99

Three Muslims killed in US; radical atheist in police custody

According to the British newspaper the Independent, the three Muslims, who were all from the same family, were in their home when a 46-year-old man identified by police as Craig Stephen Hicks gunned them down.

Read More: http://www.jpost.com/International/Suspected-atheist-in-police-custody-after-allegedly-killing-three-Muslims-in-US-390682?utm_source=Newsletter+2-11-2015&utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_medium=email

Samsung: Don't discuss personal info in front of TV

Your SmartTV just might be smarter than you think. Did you know someone might be listening on the other end of your TV? Would you have guessed that many someones are indeed listening if you are using a voice-recognition SmartTV?

Read More: http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/samsung-dont-discuss-personal-info-in-front-of-tv/