News and Prophecy Staff

America’s National Security Agency’s (NSA) secret Prism spy project has drawn national and international criticism. A recent interview revealed that Germany is the NSA’s most watched EU nation (EU Observer, June 10, 2013). This information has taken top German officials by surprise and stirred animosity toward the U.S.A. (EU Observer, June 12, 2013).

Recent reports highlight a growing problem of lawlessness in the U.S. State Department. The department, “tried to cover up several crimes committed… Some of the allegations are against then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s security detail who allegedly hired prostitutes, a U.S. ambassador accused of trolling public parks for paid sex and a security official in Beirut committing sexual assaults on foreign nationals” (Fox News, June 11, 2013).

“Germans might not know it, but they desperately need the moral guidance of a re-instated royal family,” says “the great-great grandson of the last Kaiser, Prince Philip Kiril of Prussia” (The Local, June 6, 2013).

An Australian nurse pleaded guilty to the worst mass murder in New South Wales history. In 2011, he set fire in the nursing home he worked at—apparently to cover up his theft of drugs. The rapidly burning fire killed eleven residents and caused “grievous bodily harm” to eight others (9News, May 27, 2013). Questioned by police, he said, “It was Satan telling [me] to do it” (ibid.).

Muhammad died in 632 AD and his followers disagreed over the next Caliph (leader of Islam). Believers in a Muhammadan dynasty chose his cousin and son-in-law, Ali, who was eventually killed. Ali’s followers, feeling betrayed, separated from the majority (Sunnis) and called themselves, Party of Ali or Shiat Ali—thus the name Shiites (Time, September 16, 2009).