News Round Up 8 21 15

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Air Date: August 21, 2015

Host:  Jim Schneider

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Jim Schneider once again took listeners on a rapid tour of the headlines making news. Stories included:

–300 plus cities are scheduled to be protesting tomorrow against Planned
Parenthood in light of the content of recently released undercover videos.
–7th shocking video is revealed detailing the harvesting of the brain of an
aborted baby with the heart still pumping.
–Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is coming under fire for setting up huge movie
screens and speakers so that protestors can see and hear the undercover videos
exposing Planned Parenthood.
–President Obama’s Health and Human Services Department told Congress that
Planned Parenthood has been following the law in its practice of obtaining fetal
tissue and body parts for sale.
–Democrats in the House launching their own investigation probing the group
behind the undercover videos.
–Former satanist claims to have performed ritual abortions inside abortion
clinics.
–Florida State Agency for Health Care Administration found that Planned
Parenthood had repeatedly violated its license to perform abortions only during
the first trimester. Now Planned Parenthood is suing Florida claiming that the
AHCA changed its definition of ‘the first trimester.’
–The mainstream media ignores massive Planned Parenthood scandal but doesn’t
ignore a bomb scare at a Wichita, Kansas, abortion clinic.
–One of the House committees is looking to see if there’s any connection between
the Obama administration and Planned Parenthood involving fetal tissue.
–A federal judge orders the State Department to work with the FBI to respond to
legal demands for details about Hillary Clinton’s practice.
–The former director of Central Intelligence says that former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton ‘s use of an unsecured e-mail server while conducting highly
sensitive government business shows a leader who is dangerous to the republic.
–Blackberry devices belonging to Clinton aids Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills were
returned to the State Department but were likely destroyed.
–Iran to be allowed to use its own experts to inspect a site it allegedly used to
develop nuclear arms under a secret agreement with a U.N. agency that normally
carries out such work.
–Iranian leaders have prevented a top International Atomic Energy Agency
official from disclosing to U.S. officials the nature of secret side deals with
the Islamic republic by threatening harm to him.
–Iran’s development of a nuclear weapon that complies with Islamic law should be
grounds enough for Congress to kill the agreement between Iran and the West.
–Russia has agreed to deliver an advanced anti-aircraft missile system to Iran.
–4 rockets shot into northern Israel yesterday afternoon from Syria.
–ISIS released another 157 U.S. Air Force pilot names.
–ISIS beheads an 82 year old archaeologist.
–ISIS said to have used chemical weapons against Kurdish fighters in northern
Iraq.
–ISIS stoned 5 women to death for not wearing the veil and refusing to comply
with the orders of the organization.
–The FBI is warning about a terror attack against Muslims in America by militia
extremists.
–U.S. Representative Bill Posey of Florida presented evidence that the Centers
for Disease Control destroyed data linking the MMR vaccine to autism.
–Representative Justin Price asks the State Department of Health to rescind its
mandatory requirement that all students beginning with the 7th grade receive the
HPV vaccination.
–A British city council member tells street preachers that he supports their
right to speak on public streets as long as they don’t talk about morality.
–A citizen complained about a memorial that features a silhouette of a soldier
holding a gun and kneeling in front of a cross because it promotes Christianity.
–Alliance defending Freedom has sent letters to 17 sheriffs offices and police
departments around the nation after receiving complaints from an atheist group
alleging that displaying the official U.S. national motto ‘In God we trust’ on
department vehicles is unconstitutional.
–The Pentagon is granting 2 million dollars for state and federal officials in
Nevada to protect Sage Grouse habitat.
–The EPA unveils plans to slash methane emissions from oil and gas production
almost in half.
–The State of California is planning to use eminent domain to acquire hundreds of
farms in the delta for a controversial multi-billion dollar underground water
tunnel project proposed by Governor Jerry Brown.
–Washington, D.C., experiences a 23% increase in homicides this year.
–Los Angeles mayor signs legislation to confiscate magazines of ammunition that
hold more than ten rounds.
–The pastor of the Washington Missionary Baptist Church is arming 10 parishioners
so that his worshipers feel safe.
–The Department of Defense notifies lawmakers that teams will visit two military
installations in the U.S. to conduct site surveys looking to transfer a limited
number of Guantanamo detainees.
–Somali refugees get ready to meet with city officials in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
–A Honduran national admits that he tried to smuggle drugs into the U.S. via an
underwater tunnel.
–Navy Seals ‘brotherhood’ now includes women if they can pass the criteria.
–A transgender Navy Seal says that integration must not hinder military
readiness.
–The Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts has reversed a controversial
decision to replace the terms ‘mother’ and ‘father’ with ‘parent 1’ and ‘parent
2.’
–Several states are reporting a paper crisis after an Ohio company that produces
highly specialized paper for vital records closed without warning. This is
causing the rationing of birth, marriage and death certificates in some areas.
–The Texas State Senate has passed an anti-Shariah law bill.

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