Current National Prayer Focuses
News Feed- February 1, 2012
What do the NAR, Consumer Confidence and CBO forecasts have in common? If you said, "they are all completely worthless" you are absolutely correct. Alas, the market needs to "trade" off numbers, which is why the just released CBO numbers apparently are important... And the fact that the CBO predicted negative $2.5 trillion in net debt by 2011 back in 2011 is largely ignored....[view article]
PC World - February 1, 2012
Seagate Technology said Tuesday that supply of hard disk drives (HDDs) this year will continue to fall short of demand, leading large customers to look to long-term agreements to ensure supply after devastating floods in Thailand....[view article]
NBC News - February 1, 2012
American Airlines may cut up to 15,000 jobs, or about 10 percent of its workforce, in an effort to cut costs at the struggling carrier, sources familiar with the situation told an NBC affiliate....[view article]
Fox News - February 1, 2012
The U.S. Military Academy pressured a retired U.S. lieutenant general to withdraw from speaking at a West Point prayer breakfast after Moslem cult members and atheists complained, Fox News & Commentary has learned....[view article]
- February 1, 2012
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories have invented a bullet that guides itself to the target....[view article]
Israel Hayom - February 1, 2012
Israel sees 1,000 cyberattacks per minute • In the past two days alone, 400 separate Israeli sites have been hacked • Popular Israeli Internet sites are on alert for a cyberattack said to be planned for Feb. 14, Valentine's Day....[view article]
NBC News - February 1, 2012
LONDON - Four British men pleaded guilty on Wednesday to involvement in an al-Qaida-inspired plot to bomb the London Stock Exchange....[view article]
Family Research Council - February 1, 2012
Yesterday, Susan G. Komen for The Cure -- an organization that is one of the leading voices in the world in the fight against breast cancer -- announced that it will discontinue grants to Planned Parenthood. This is a major victory -- not only for an organization that can now focus on breast cancer unclouded by an affiliation with the nation's largest abortion company -- but a victory for life as well. As you might imagine, Planned Parenthood and its allies...[view article]
ABC News - January 31, 2012
Vice President Joe Biden confessed this weekend that he advised Obama not to launch the mission that ultimately killed Osama bin Laden last spring....[view article]
Forbes.com - January 31, 2012
This month, the Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department reported that China imported 102,779 kilograms of gold from Hong Kong in November, an increase from October's 86,299 kilograms. Beijing does not release gold trade figures, so for this and other reasons the Hong Kong numbers are considered the best indication of China's gold imports....[view article]
Forbes.com - January 31, 2012
Jim River, AK closed in on the all time record coldest temperature of -80°F set in 1971, which is not only the Alaska all-time record, but the record for the entire United States. Unfortunately, it seems the battery died in the weather station just at the critical moment....[view article]
The Washington Post - January 31, 2012
The indications of al-Qaeda's declining potency were offset by the grim new concern about the potential for terror attacks from Iran....[view article]
Haaretz.com - January 31, 2012
During a broadcasted meeting of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, CIA Director, panel Chairperson indicate they met Tamir Pardo in Washington this week; U.S. official: Iran willing to attack U.S. targets if threatened....[view article]
Voice of the Martyrs - January 30, 2012
Ugandan girl tortured by her father for her faith walks again(Source: Compass Direct News)A 15-year-old Christian girl in Uganda is slowly regaining the use of her legs after her father, in an attempt to make her convert back to Islam, confined her in a small room and deprived her of adequate food and water.Susan Ithungu was locked in a room for six months after accepting Christ as her Saviour in 2010 (for more information, visit...[view article]
The New York Times - January 30, 2012
As the Sabbath evening approached on Jan. 13, Ehud Barak paced the wide living-room floor of his home high above a street in north Tel Aviv, its walls lined with thousands of books on subjects ranging from philosophy and poetry to military strategy....[view article]
- January 30, 2012
The Obama Food and Drug Administration secretly monitored the personal e-mail of a group of its own scientists and doctors after they warned Congress that the agency was approving medical devices that they believed posed unacceptable risks to patients, government documents show....[view article]
The Jerusalem Post - January 30, 2012
Sources tell Egyptian daily that Syrian security forces tried to help smuggle Syrian president's family out of country....[view article]
New York Post - January 30, 2012
Nearly three months after MF Global Holdings collapsed, officials hunting for an estimated $1.2 billion in missing customer money increasingly believe that much of it might never be recovered, according to people familiar with the investigation....[view article]
CBSNews.com - January 30, 2012
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - A national organization of recreational cavers is questioning a new estimate of the number of bats killed by a mysterious ailment that is spreading across the country....[view article]
The Washington Post - January 30, 2012
Obama ran in 2008 on the idea of uniting the country. But each of his first three years in office has marked historic highs in political polarization, with Democrats largely approving of him and all morally caring and concerned Americans deeply disapproving. Abortion pushing, homosexual pushing, and spending the future of America into oblivion pushing are just a few of the intolerable issues Americans are concerned about....[view article]
Fox News - January 30, 2012
As Obama prepares to raise the debt ceiling -- after the Senate waived its opposition last week -- $5 trillion hikes evidently are no longer "unpatriotic" as Obama said they were in 2008 while describing former President George W. Bush's $4 trillion increase over eight years....[view article]
