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2010-09-06T22:43:00.000-04:00

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Grave Situation in Mideast

On the eve of President Obama’s Mideast Peace Conference, unfolding events by Israel’s enemies strongly suggests that an outbreak of war is imminent, perhaps within hours or days. The following information provides our readers with an overall grasp of the extremely heavy gravity of the situation.

On Monday (8/30) the Hezbollah leadership under Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah issued a “State of War Alert” to all Hezbollah militia forces. Syria is also reportedly on its highest state of alert. The alert status is reminiscent of the situation just hours prior to the start of the war in June of 1967 known more often as “The Six Day War.”

On June 4, 1967, Arab leaders of Egypt, Syria and Jordan gave final approval for plans to launch sneak attacks against Israel. Those attack plans called for surprise air strikes by Arab war planes to begin the following morning of June 5. Israeli leaders, having caught wind of the plans launched their own pre-emptive strike catching the Arab air forces on the ground by surprise at the same time as Israeli ground forces launched a sneak ground campaign against its Arab neighbors. The result was a smashing victory for Israel, which included Israel gaining possession of all of Jerusalem, as well as the Sinai Peninsula, the Jordanian West Bank and Syria’s Golan Heights region.

As the first day of September 2010 rolled around, Israel finds itself in an eerily similar situation except that the identities of the key enemy antagonists have changed somewhat.
Syria remains in the roster of Israel’s enemy combatants but Jordan and Egypt have developed peaceful, even modestly cordial relationships. However, the primary protagonists for this latest crisis are Iran and her proxy forces of Lebanese Hezbollah militia and Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip.

According to various Western, U.S., Arab and Israeli intelligence reports, Hezbollah has been making final preparations for a large-scale sneak-attack against Israel. The only questions now amongst informed analysts revolve around the “when” and “where” of the expected attacks. As to the start date for the attacks, we understand Israel’s enemies are considering to optional timing dates. Plans under consideration include a launch date of not long after the opening ceremonies in Washington for the new peace conference whereby Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority Chairman Abbas will meet face to face to start peace talk negotiations under the sponsorship of President Obama.

Many sources out of the Mideast hypothesize that a surprise attack could come late Thursday evening or perhaps more likely on Friday, September 2, 2010. Why Friday?

Friday is the last day of Ramadan which concludes with a festive, celebratory feast that ends the holy period of Ramadan. It is also known as “International al Qods Day” or “Jerusalem Day.” It is a day of Islamic solidarity with the Palestinian people in their quest to secure Islamic control over all of Jerusalem. This day of consecration to that endeavor was conceived originally by the leader of Iran's Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. It is part of Iran’s master plan to be the leading nation of the Islamic world.

A-O Readers should note that an attack by Iran’s proxy forces in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip on al-Qods Day would seem very much appropriate to that day. The real question is whether the attack would technically begin during the day, before Ramadan’s final feast at night or in the twilight hours of the feast or shortly thereafter. Technically by Islamic law, no military endeavors should be permitted during any point of the Ramadan period. No doubt, Iranian clerics could find a loophole excuse for a sneak attack as early as the night before or during the pre-dawn hours of “al Qods Day.” Such an attack would be viewed as a holy consecration to the task of retaking Jerusalem from Israel as well as destroying Israel. It would likely be viewed as the opening day of a war that Islamists would hope to conclude by the Jewish holy days of Rosh Hashanah (9/8/10) and Yom Kippur (9/18/10).

2nd Optional Attack Date:

The second optional time point for launching a sneak attack against Israel would be on the eve of Rosh Hashanah which begins on the evening of September 8, 2010. This date marks the end of a 62 year period since the UN declared a homeland for the Jews back in November of 1947. Some Bible prophecy watchers suggest that this coincides with the Prophet Daniel’s prediction of a 63 year period that precedes a 7 year period of Tribulation. It should be noted that from this year of Rosh Hashanah forward for three and a half years would see “signs” in the heavens – namely lunar and solar eclipses during Jewish holy days in 2014 and 2015 including Passover. Such astronomical events are perceived by some as coming fulfillments of Biblical prophecies relating to signs in the sun and the moon.

While we find these timing hypotheses to be highly intriguing but we prefer to not make dogmatic assertions that such coming events are indeed to the “the” prophetic fulfillments of those prophecies, but we do admit to such possibilities.

Now returning our focus to unfolding events of the past few days, let’s look further at what has recently transpired that suggests an imminent attack by Israel’s enemies.

Indicator #1.= Israeli Troop Deployments

First of all, there are numerous reports from within the Islamic media outlets of the Middle East claiming that Israel has deployed an additional full armored division along Israel’s northern border with Lebanon and Syria.

Indicator #2. = Iranian – Hezbollah War Councils

U.S., Western and Israeli intel reports note that Iranian leaders have been pressuring Hezbollah leaders to launch attacks against Israel. Various Iranian military commanders have made numerous visits to meet with Hezbollah leaders in both Lebanon and also the Syrian capital of Damascus.

Indicator #3. = Hamas Drive-by Terror Strike

Hamas leadership in the Gaza Strip claimed responsibility for a terror attack in the West Bank where 4 Israelis were shot dead in a drive-by shooting.

Indicator #4. = Hezbollah Troop Movements

All of Hezbollah’s full-time troop forces are now at forward positions along the border with Israel in violation of UN agreements.

Indicator #5. = Hexbollah Reserve Call Up

Hezbollah has issued a call to duty for all of its part-time troop reserves.

Indicator #6. = Hezbollah Commando Forces Positioning

Hezbollah has placed its entire Commando Forces into special ‘strike’ positions for:

a. amphibious beach landings rapidly moving inland into central Israel

b. commando rapid strike forces from the border into northern Galilee

Indicator #6. Iranian officers activities

The Iranian commander of its “al Qods” (Jerusalem) Brigade – foreign division for Iraq, Gaza and the Palestinian Authority has spent the last 12 days in Damascus (since 8/19)
Along with the chief general of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps conducting War Councils with Hezbollah and Syrian officers.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Lisason Field Commander assigned to Hezbollah is Hassan Mahdavi. According to western intelligence sources, he has been shuttling around the region monitoring events in Lebanon, meeting with Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah. He has reportedly pressured Nasrallah to order a large scale surprise attack against Israel as part of Iran’s strategic response to President Obama’s attempt to forge a Mideast peace agreement from the current peace talks in Washington.

Hezbollah’s chief, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah is reported by Western intelligence sources to be nearing a decision on when and where his forces should strike initially. Reports indicate he has been somewhat reluctant to strike, in part because he detests the idea of being an Iranian puppet doing Iran’s bidding. At the same time however, one of Iran’s primary selling points for persuading Nasrallah to go ahead and attack is the notion of the honor and glory of initiating a war that takes back Jerusalem and destroys Israel. In Islamic understanding there would be great glory and prestige in being the leader which obtains the victory.

The Hezbollah chief is not the only one being lobbied by the Iranians. Iranian officials are also lobbying other Shiite groups in Lebanon that are rivals to Hezbollah. Such lobbying efforts are urging the factions to unite together in common cause against the enemy and to also remain united to greet Iran’s President under a common battle flag of Hezbollah, when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad makes a state visit to Beirut, Lebanon later in September. Debka.com reports its sources understand the visit is tentatively scheduled for September 10-12 during Israel’s holiday period. It is believed the trip is designed to be a victory trip, celebrating the recapture of Jerusalem and the destruction of Israel.

Tehran’s war goal is intended to not only destroy Israel and recapture Jerusalem but to also strike at American prestige and standing in the world of geo-politics. Iranian leaders gauge that a Israel’s destruction will result in a humiliation of America and those Arab leaders which have aligned with America. It would underscore the impotence of America
and point out Obama’s incompetence as a leader. Arab nations would question the wisdom of aligning themselves with American foreign policy.

The Iranian war strategy is also timed to launch a civil war within Iraq in order to install a puppet government subordinate and subservient to Iran, much like Hezbollah. Iran has been waiting for U.S. combat forces to exit Iraq in order to more easily accomplish the mission. At the same time, an Iranian take-over by its proxy Shiites in Iraq would serve as a historic parallel to the world portraying America as having suffered a defeat equal to its withdrawal and defeat in Vietnam.

Hezbollah has also set up a liason for joint command of forces with Syria. This arrangement will enable Syria to remain abreast of the battlefield situation and provide strategic support as needed. We’ll have more the battlefield strategies in separate A-O Report coverage.

Meanwhile, Iran is fully prepared for any Israeli air strikes targeting Iranian nuclear faclities. Iranian strategy calls for a quick response with swift missile strike counter-attacks designed to level Israeli cities and take out key targets in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other Arab targets in the Persian Gulf as well as American bases in the region. Iran intends to confront U.S. naval forces in the region as opportunities allow. Such moves would likely result in Iran sealing off the Strait of Hormuz. In doing so, such a development would halt the flow of 40% of the world’s oil shipments from the Persian Gulf. Such a development will spark a skyrocketing of oil prices and refined products such as gasoline and diesel fuel.

Our A-O Report analysis expects that Hezbollah will not launch any attacks until after the Ramadan period concludes on Friday night. It may coincide with the final night feast on Friday night. Such an attack at the end of “International al-Qods Day” would still have significant symbolism for the Muslim world without violating Islamic law concerning Ramadan itself. With that in mind, we anticipate that by American time zones, word of an attack would not begin to be picked up by U.S. news media until mid to late Friday afternoon at the earliest.

We’re more inclined to think it militarily prudent to wait until the eve of the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah on September 8 for the launch of an attack. This date would give Hezbollah the cover of a new moon to allow amphibious commando landings a better likelihood for success without premature discovery that a moonlit night might afford. A Rosh Hashanah attack might also provide a better element of surprise as it would catch the Jewish nation in a bind as it tries to celebrate the arrival of a Jewish New Year.

An alternative date for a surprise attack would be the high Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur which comes on September 18. Such an attack would not be the first time Israel was attacked on Yom Kippur. Back in 1973, Egypt and Syria launched a sneak attack on Israel triggering what is now often times referred to as the “Yom Kippur War” of 1973.
Would Iran, Hezbollah and Syria opt for a second Yom Kippur War? It might well be a possible “back up” date should the situations for September 3 (al Qods Day) or September 8 (Rosh Hashanah) not be favorable for an attack.

At the moment, given the indicators we’ve noted, we’d place the likelihood for an attack
by Hezbollah to be at probably 70%.

A final note of caution is appropriate, as always in such cases. God is sovereign and can quite easily halt and prevent Hezbollah and Iran from doing anything that does not fit with God’s prophetic time line. Therefore, if a war does not mesh with God’s prophetic timeline, there will be no attack. Some way, some how, God will see to it that an attack does not take place, if the timing does not mesh with the Divine timeline and God’s will.

There are some prophecy watchers who are convinced that Rosh Hashanah of 2011 is THE time when God’s timeline kicks off – including at that time, the Rapture of the Church. At The A-O Report, we distance ourselves from any attempts to peg a precise date for the Rapture of the Church but we do acknowledge that various Rapture timing theories involving various Jewish festivals and feasts provide intriguing reasons for such theories and acknowledge the possibilities exist that one of those theories may be correct.
Even so, we prefer to keep an open mind and anticipate His Return for the Church could come at any time, any day of the year.

The A-O Report will provide ongoing updates of the Mideast war situation when urgent developments warrant. Some of our updates may post to the public section of our website while other postings may be reserved to the Donor’s section and available only to those who donate to The A-O Report. Either way, stay tuned for continuing coverage of the situation

2010-09-06T18:26:00.000-04:00

Obama: Muslim missionary? Part 1
Exclusive: Chuck Norris blasts prez for peddling Islam, cheering Ground Zero mosque

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Posted: August 16, 2010
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By Chuck Norris

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Unlike any other time in U.S. history, our First Amendment freedoms of speech and religion are in jeopardy. As if recently passed "hate-crime" laws and a politically correct culture weren't bad enough, now our president is using international pressure and possibly law to establish a prohibition against insulting Islam or Muslims.

Let me remind us how we got here.

Speaking for most founders in his day, John Jay, America's first chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, appointed by George Washington himself, said, "Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers."

Two hundred years later, President Obama has already denied America's rich Judeo-Christian heritage before the eyes and ears of other countries, as he publicly declared in Turkey on April 6, 2009, for the whole world to hear: "We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation."

Then there was Cairo in June 2009, when President Obama vowed to establish "a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world … I also know civilization's debt to Islam. … I also know that Islam has always been a part of America's story. … And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States. … So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed."

He goes on to say, "That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn't. And I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear."

That last line is really one of the most unique U.S. presidential religious passions and missions stated to date: "And I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear."

Another big question is: What did the president mean when he said, "That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn't"? It makes no sense at all to refer to a partnership between a country and religion – America and Islam. Why not say partnership between America and Muslim nations or a partnership between Americans and Muslims or even a partnership between Christianity and Islam? That comment is very strange to me and has a much deeper meaning.

Roughly six months later, in February 2010, Obama appointed Rashad Hussain to serve as his special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, or OIC, an inter-governmental body of 56 Muslim countries that also forms an official body represented in the United Nations. (Where is the same treatment from this White House for countries that uphold Judeo-Christian values to unite and have the same treatment that allows them to form an official body represented in the U.N.? Or any religion, for that matter? There's something rotten in the state of Denmark!)

Obama rejoiced, "I'm proud to announce today that I am appointing my special envoy to the OIC – Rashad Hussain. As an accomplished lawyer and a close and trusted member of my White House staff, Rashad has played a key role in developing the partnerships I called for in Cairo. And as a hafiz of the Quran, he is a respected member of the American Muslim community, and I thank him for carrying forward this important work."

In 2007, then President George W. Bush explained the initial purpose for a OIC representative: "Our special envoy will listen to and learn from representatives from Muslim states, and will share with them America's views and values. This is an opportunity for Americans to demonstrate to Muslim communities our interest in respectful dialogue and continued friendship."

But Obama has considerably upped the OIC ante. Today, the White House purports from its website that special envoy, Muslim and hafiz of the Quran, Rashad Hussain, "will deepen and expand the partnerships that the United States has pursued with Muslims around the world since President Obama's speech in Cairo last June."

Again, notice the differences between the Bush and Obama plans with the special OIC envoy: from Bush's mission to "listen and learn from representatives" to Obama's mission to "deepen and expand the partnerships."

The OIC members (including U.S. Special Envoy Rashad Hussain) pledge to its charter mission to rid the world of "the defamation of religion." But the "defamation of religion" translates to mean "defamation of Islam." An article on the OIC website explains, "Western foreign policy is considered to be the single most significant factor determining the attitudes of many Muslims toward the West. … Unfortunately, Islam often conjures in the Western minds images of authoritarian government, subjugation of women, cruel punishments of Shariah law and violence in the popular Western mind."

"Unfortunately"?!

The world also just learned recently from the assistant secretary for public affairs in the State Department, P.J. Crowley, that the White House has repeatedly sent out as an American ambassador of peace the Islamic fundamentalist and executive director of the Ground Zero mosque, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, who is being sponsored by the U.S. State Department for repeated trips to the Middle East, where he is teaching on Muslim life in America and promoting religious tolerance.

But doesn't one who called the U.S. an "accessory" to Sept. 11 just a few weeks after the tragic event and one who still refuses to call Hamas a foreign terrorist organization seem a strange choice for a U.S. ambassador of peace who promotes religious tolerance?

It is absolutely no surprise, therefore, though gravely unfortunate and disappointing for our commander in chief to blurt out last Friday night, while celebrating the holy month of Ramadan at a White House dinner, that he is in favor of building the mosque near Ground Zero!

The president explained the next day, "I was not commenting and I will not comment on the wisdom of making the decision to put a mosque there. I was commenting very specifically on the right people have that dates back to our founding. That's what our country is about."

White House spokesman Bill Burton reiterated the next day about Obama's stance on constructing the mosque: "Just to be clear, the president is not backing off in any way from the comments he made last night. It is not his role as president to pass judgment on every local project. But it is his responsibility to stand up for the constitutional principle of religious freedom and equal treatment for all Americans. What he said last night, and reaffirmed today, is that if a church, a synagogue or a Hindu temple can be built on a site, you simply cannot deny that right to those who want to build a mosque."

But I could not agree more with Sally Regenhard, whose firefighter son was killed at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11: "As an Obama supporter, I really feel that he's lost sight of the germane issue, which is not about freedom of religion. It's about a gross lack of sensitivity to the 9/11 families and to the people who were lost."

And Debra Burlingame, a spokeswoman for some Sept. 11 families and the sister of one of the pilots killed in the attacks, summed it up perfectly: "Barack Obama has abandoned America at the place where America's heart was broken nine years ago, and where her true values were on display for all to see."

Obama is not just rebooting America's image in the Muslim world. He's deepening and expanding Islamic belief, practice, culture around the world, like a Muslim missionary.

(Next week in Part 2, I will discuss how the Obama administration has changed course in just this past year regarding passing anti-First Amendment defamation of religion resolutions, as well as demonstrate how Obama has been prejudiced in his treatment of Islam versus Christianity).

2010-09-06T18:24:00.000-04:00

Obama: Muslim missionary? Part 2
Exclusive: Chuck Norris exposes president's true religious allegiances

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Posted: August 23, 2010
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By Chuck Norris

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Last week, the media, White House and nation were in a hullabaloo over a Pew Research Center poll which revealed that one in five Americans believe President Obama is a Muslim.

The poll received so much attention and response that the White House released a rebuttal reiterating that Obama is "a committed Christian."

The fact is, Americans are more baffled now by Obama's personal religion than they were when he first came into office.

John Green, University of Akron politics professor and senior fellow with the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, concluded, "I haven't seen any example, and I've been following polling of presidents for a long time now, of where we've seen increased confusion about religiosity the longer they're in office."

Part of the confusion comes, for example, when Obama doesn't make room to commemorate a National Day of Prayer with prominent Christian leaders or even spend time with the God-centered Boy Scouts of America at their national jamboree (as preceding presidents have), but he doesn't miss hosting the Muslim Iftar Ramadan dinner at the White House or pass up the chance to fight for the rights of Muslims to construct an Islamic mosque near Ground Zero.

At times, Obama has given pointed responses about his faith in Christ. At other times, he comes across ambiguous and even clueless about his faith. Still, at other times, he is downright condescending about the Christian faith.

With all the confusion and quandaries about Obama's religion lately, I rearranged the order of this four-part series to detail today exactly what Obama believes, including his beliefs about prayer, sin, heaven, the Bible and the person of Jesus, based upon a rare in-depth interview by a religious reporter of a major newspaper publication.

By far, the best documentation of Obama's faith comes from this rare in-depth interview on March 27, 2004, when he was a candidate for the U.S. Senate. In it, Obama gave often lengthy responses about his faith and practice to a series of questions from then Chicago Sun Times religion reporter Cathleen Falsani, though he often seems confused and even obtuse in his replies.

To the question do you pray often, Obama replied: "Uh, yeah, I guess I do."

"Guess"? Not sure?

When asked if he has read the Bible, Obama responded: "Absolutely. [But] These days I don't have much time for reading or reflection, period. … I'll be honest with you, I used to all the time, in a fairly disciplined way. But during the course of this campaign, I don't."

"I don't"?

In answering reporter Falsani's question, "Is there an example of a role model who combines everything you said you want do in your life, and your faith?" Obama's first response was, "I think Gandhi is a great example of a profoundly spiritual man."

Gandhi? A Hindu? How about Jesus, since Obama claims to be a "committed Christian"?

Regarding sin, Obama defined it as: "Being out of alignment with my values."

Mr. President, "your values," or God's values? Sin is transgression of God's law – period.

And here is Barack Obama's response when asked pointedly, "Who's Jesus to you?" Immediately after the question, Obama laughed nervously. Then, after a rather sarcastic, "Right," he proceeded, "Jesus is an historical figure for me, and he's also a bridge between God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something higher. And he's also a wonderful teacher. I think it's important for all of us, of whatever faith, to have teachers in the flesh and also teachers in history."

Could that "reaching something higher" possibly be heaven?

In answering the question on whether he believed in a literal heaven or not, Obama retorted: "Do I believe in the harps and clouds and wings? … What I believe in is that if I live my life as well as I can, that I will be rewarded. I don't presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die."

Obama went on in that same 2004 interview to explain his faith in these flip-flopping, relative, all-inclusive, New Age and even secular terms: "I am a Christian. … On the other hand, I was born in Hawaii where obviously there are a lot of Eastern influences. I lived in Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world, … I believe that there are many paths to the same place, … I retain from my childhood and my experiences growing up a suspicion of dogma. And I'm not somebody who is always comfortable with language that implies I've got a monopoly on the truth, or that my faith is automatically transferable to others. … I'm a big believer in tolerance. I think that religion at its best comes with a big dose of doubt. I'm suspicious of too much certainty. [T]here's an enormous amount of damage done around the world in the name of religion and certainty. … I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. … That's just not part of my religious makeup."

No wonder that, when asked to describe the moment at which he went forward in response to an altar call in his and Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church in 1987 or 1988, Obama said: "I think it was just a moment to certify or publicly affirm a growing faith in me."

"I think it was"? Not sure again?

No wonder Americans are confused about Obama's religion, because he himself sounds confused about it.

Probably most revealing here are Obama's words to reporter Falsani about his modus operandi: "Part of the reason I think it's always difficult for public figures to talk about [their religious belief] is that the nature of politics is that you want to have everybody like you and project the best possible traits onto you. Oftentimes that's by being as vague as possible, or appealing to the lowest common denominators. The more specific and detailed you are on issues as personal and fundamental as your faith, the more potentially dangerous it is."

If "being as vague as possible" is Obama's political advice to himself and others, he sure hasn't followed it with either his presidential commitment to pro-Islamic brawls or in his past anti-Christian rants. Remember, this is the president who gave this 2009 Cairo creed, emphatically stating to the Middle Eastern world that it was "part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear."

Yet, when it comes to Christianity, he has actually done just the opposite. Two years after his interview with Chicago Sun Times religion reporter Cathleen Falsani, on June 28, 2006, then-Sen. Obama publicly perpetuated negative stereotypes of Christianity and defamed the religion and the words of its founder. From the pulpit of a church, speaking to a live audience about religious diversity, Obama sarcastically belittled America's Judeo-Christian heritage and degraded its adherents with trite remarks typical of any atheistic antagonist, saying things like: "Whatever we were, we are no longer a Christian nation," "The dangers of sectarianism are greater than ever," "Religion doesn't allow for compromise," "The Sermon on the Mount [is] a passage that is so radical that our own defense department wouldn't survive its application" and "To base our policy making upon such commitments [as moral absolutes] would be a dangerous thing." (You must see the YouTube video: "Barack Obama on the importance of a secular government.")

That diatribe is nothing short of a pure unadulterated rallying cry for antagonists of Christianity.

And gone but not forgotten is Obama's religiously belittling statement on the campaign trail in April of 2008 about many residents in small-town America. You might recall, at a private California fundraiser, when he addressed the economic hardships of those in Pennsylvania, he criticized them by saying: "You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. … And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion … as a way to explain their frustrations."

And to which "religion" was Obama negatively referring? Islam? Christianity, of course.

And the whole time I consider Obama's anti-Christian diatribes and religious rubbish, I keep coming back to the words of President George Washington in his presidential Farewell Address, advice our current president would be wise especially now to heed: "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them."

"A committed Christian"?

I guess I completely don't understand what the word "committed" means.

2010-09-06T18:01:00.000-04:00

Obama: Muslim missionary? Part 3
Exclusive: Chuck Norris calls president's bluff on his purported religious beliefs

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Posted: August 30, 2010
1:00 am Eastern

By Chuck Norris

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"I can't spend all of my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead," President Obama told Brian Williams in an interview last night on NBC's Nightly News, reacting to why a large percentage of Americans have serious doubts about his Christian faith.

In response to the Pew Research Center poll that indicated one in five Americans think President Obama is a Muslim, a week ago the White House released a rebuttal insisting that the president is "a committed Christian."

Those words remind me of those from President Teddy Roosevelt, who said, "Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big."

Even more apropos, Christianity's founder, Jesus Christ, said we would be able to distinguish authentic Christian leaders from false ones not by what they say but "by their fruit [or actions] you will recognize them."

And Obama's actions are again our focus here in Part 3.

In Part 1, I began to demonstrate how the President is using U.S. Special Envoy Rashad Hussain, his own presidential position and others in his administration to deepen and expand the partnerships between the United States and the religion of Islam.

In Part 2, I detailed Obama's real spiritual beliefs based upon a rare in-depth 2004 interview by a religious reporter for a major newspaper publication, including his beliefs about prayer, sin, heaven, the Bible and the person of Jesus.

Now, in Part 3, I will demonstrate how Obama categorically has been prejudicial in his treatment of Islam versus Christianity.

My question is: Just as Obama committed for Muslims in Cairo in 2009, why doesn't he also consider it his responsibility to "fight against negative stereotypes" of Christianity "wherever they appear" too, especially since the majority in Americans still profess affinity with Christendom, and he claims to be "a committed Christian"?

As president, why doesn't he defend the rights of Christians too, especially those whose voice and freedoms have been suppressed because of opposition?

In just the last few months, why didn't the president step forward and stand up publicly for any of the following Christians who had their First Amendment rights trampled upon by others, just as he had done for Muslims who are attempting to build the Ground Zero mosque?

Why doesn't the president stand up for the rights of Christian organizations, whose rights to hire same faith or mission-minded employees are protected under the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the First Amendment, but are right now having to urge Congress to reject legislation that would prohibit them from hiring only fellow believers?
Why didn't the president stand up for the rights of the North Carolina pastor who was fired from his duties as an honorary chaplain of the state house of representatives after he closed a prayer "in the name of Jesus"?
Why didn't the president stand up for the children from the Christian private school who were "abruptly" ordered by a court police officer to stop praying outside the U.S. Supreme Court building?
Why didn't the president stand up for the rights of those in Utah who erected 14 memorial crosses on highways for state troopers killed in the line of duty, but were told by federal judges they are to come down because they are unconstitutional?
Why didn't the president himself stand up for the human rights of the Christian missionaries and medical team in Afghanistan, including six Americans, to practice medicine and their faith, even after they were murdered by Islamic extremists? Wouldn't other medical missionaries in Afghanistan appreciate Obama's defense more now than ever?
Why didn't the president stand up for the four missionaries arrested at an Arab festival in Dearborn, Mich., just for exercising their freedom of speech and religion?
Why didn't the president stand up for the rights of the Rev. Franklin Graham, the son of the Rev. Billy Graham, who was disinvited from a Pentagon prayer service on the National Day of Prayer because of his "extremist" Christian views and values?
Why didn't the president stand up for the rights of the Christian student who was booted from her graduate counseling program at a public university over her belief and conviction that homosexuality is morally wrong?
Why didn't the president stand up for the three Christian evangelists who were arrested for sharing the gospel and singing hymns on a public sidewalk outside an Islamic mosque in Philadelphia?
And, mostly, why didn't the president stand up for the rights of the Greek Orthodox Church, the only church that was actually destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks, as church leaders have been frustrated and fouled by New York officials who have virtually turned their backs on the reconstruction of the church near Ground Zero?
Gone are the days when even Thomas Jefferson, hailed as the great separatist who fought against the tyranny of denominational sectarianism in the state (and vice versa), nevertheless endorsed the use of government buildings (like the Capitol) for church services, signed a treaty with the Kaskaskia Indians that allotted federal money to support the building of a Catholic church and to pay the salary of the church's priests and repeatedly renewed legislation that gave land to the United Brethren to help their missionary activities among the Indians. He also fought for years against Muslim extremists who tried to threaten U.S. citizens and trade abroad in the Barbary wars.

Today, however, we have a president who, according to his own confession and 2009 Cairo creed, considers it "part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear" and create "partnership between America and Islam." (Notice again: a country and a religion, not a country and Arab states.) Moreover, Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Conference Rashad Hussain is being called to "deepen and expand the partnerships that the United States has pursued with Muslims around the world since President Obama's speech in Cairo last June."

And that's exactly what the president has done. In countless speeches and actions since taking office, Obama has sympathized and supported pro-Islamic ideologies and practice. That is why the New York Times even recently published a multiple-page report on how the "White House quietly courts Muslims in the U.S."

The U.S. State Department just reported, under the guise of "cultural affairs" and "Cultural Preservation 2010 Awards," that it is giving away U.S. taxpayer funds to 63 foreign historic and cultural sites in 55 nations, including $50,000 for an Islamic Monument in India, $76,000 for a 16th century mosque in China, $67,000 for a mosque in Pakistan and $77,000 to restore minarets (tall slender towers attached to Mosques) in Nigeria and Mauritania. Should the State Department even be funding any of these religious quests, especially when the U.S. is broke? (To be fair, they are also giving monies to restore early Christian Frescoes in Greece, 17th and 18th century church paintings in Peru, etc., too.).

Is it any surprise that another recent poll shows an increase in Jewish and Catholic citizens who more inclined to vote Republican in November?

If a self-proclaimed non-Muslim president would fight repeatedly for Muslims' religious rights to the degree that our president has, don't you think "a committed Christian" president would at least fight once for any antagonistic oppression of Christian faith and practice, too? Yet, on no occasion since taking office has President Obama stood up publicly for a single Christian individual, group, church, act or event, whom or which was being opposed or oppressed by others.

All of it makes me ponder the application of the verse in the biblical book of James, which says, "Faith without works is dead."

Even more apropos might be Quran 4:76: "Those who believe fight in the cause of Allah."

2010-09-06T18:00:00.000-04:00

Obama: Muslim missionary? Part 4
Exclusive: Chuck Norris exposes president's rejection of Constitution, support for Islam

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Posted: September 06, 2010
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By Chuck Norris
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Nine years ago this week, we began to chant: "We will never forget 9/11."

Nine years later, I think too many of us have forgotten, especially those in the White House.

Islamic extremists murdered more than 3,000 innocent American lives on Sept. 11. Who would have believed that within a decade of that tragic event that we'd also have a new president who believes, according to his own 2009 Cairo confession and creed, that it was "part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear"? Not to mention his mission to fight for the mosque near Ground Zero!

In Part 1 of this series, I began to demonstrate how President Obama is using Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Conference, Rashad Hussain to "deepen and expand the partnerships that the United States has pursued with Muslims around the world since President Obama's speech in Cairo last June."

In Part 2, I detailed Obama's real spiritual beliefs based upon a rare in-depth 2004 interview by a religious reporter of a major newspaper publication, including his beliefs about prayer, sin, heaven, the Bible and the person of Jesus.

In Part 3, I explained how Obama categorically has been prejudicial in his treatment against Christians and Christianity in comparison to Muslims and Islam.

In Part 4 here, I will not only expand on that case but show how the Obama administration has changed course in just this last year regarding passing anti-First Amendment defamation of religion resolutions, exclusively benefitting Islam and its proliferation while again abandoning the principles in the U.S. Constitution.

In October of 2009, the White House rightly opposed the Organization of the Islamic Conference's (OIC), an inter-governmental body of 56 Muslim countries, push for the United Nation's Human Rights Council to adopt a resolution that would broadly condemn the defamation of religion (or the defamation of Islam), because it would plunder Americans' first amendment rights to freedom of speech.

Hypocritically, however, as the Heritage Foundation reported, at the same basic time that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was publicly repudiating that U.N. Human Rights Council resolution, on Oct. 2, 2009, "the Obama Administration's delegation to the 12th session of the council and OIC-member Egypt co-sponsored and adopted a resolution on freedom of opinion and expression that contains the essential elements of the resolutions on 'defamation of religions' that the U.S. opposed in the past."

And just a few months ago on June 23, 2010, that anti-First Amendment stand was reiterated when America's special envoy to the OIC, Rashad Hussain, clearly explained the new leg ofObama's Muslim mission at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars – information by the way that no mainstream news agency I could find even reported. Hussain said, "The OIC and the Obama administration will work together in the U.N. on the issue of defamation of religion, especially in Europe." (Please read that again!)

Could it get any clearer? "Especially in Europe," but not excluding America!

Do we naively believe that Obama, the OIC and U.S. Special Envoy Rashad Hussain will not continue to pound on the tolerance doors of the world and Washington government, until the First Amendment is overstepped and abandoned again under the same guise as U.S. hate crime laws? If the U.S. already passed hate crimes laws in a tolerant-infatuated culture, how far away is an international hate crime or anti-defamation law, especially under this administration?

The key problem here is obvious: If international tolerance for Muslims can be increased then codified into international law or a violation of human rights so that a religion and its adherents cannot be defamed, it categorically overrides and violates the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights and the core principle of U.S. free speech. And it's only a matter of time before the feds use that international pressure to try to coerce the American people to accept the same stateside, just like they have hate-crime laws.

And why should we not believe that Obama will again overstep the Constitution by handing over the administration of defamation of religion laws to global and international powers, when he in fact recently reported Arizona immigration laws to the U.N. as an example of human right violations?

Instead of the U.S. attacking those who are cutting off limbs or stoning Islamic women in the Middle East under Shariah law, the feds attack the good people of Arizona by reporting their "treatment" of illegal aliens, when all they are trying to do is to enforce the very immigration law the feds are ignoring?

Why doesn't the U.S. instead seek to pass an international resolution to clamp down on those Islamic extremists in Europe, who are completely out of control and ignored by the White House and even mainstream media though they protest, riot and hold up their hate signs to bomb or behead anyone who does not follow Islam?

Of course, Obama and the rest of his administration will do or say nothing against Islam in any form. If they would, they would have defended the U.S. against the greatest Muslim jihadist, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who in Dec. 2009 publicly accused the U.S. of actively planning and plotting to stop mankind's real savior: i.e. Mahdi, the imam that Muslims believe will be the ultimate savior of mankind.

To the contrary, Obama's Cairo pro-Muslim mission continues, and proof came again just last week. While the president announced to the nation from the Oval Office that, on Aug. 31, 2010, the combat mission in Iraq ended, on the same day, unbeknownst to the most of the country and world, the Obama administration held a special workshop for 25-30 Muslim leaders from 20 national Islamic groups (under the leadership of the "Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations") to provide the groups "funding, government assistance and resources."

And as a cherry on top of the Obama Islamic financial sundae, while most Americans would have to prove they have medical insurance or face a fine under Obamacare, many believe the stage is set so that Muslims could be exempt in the future from that financial penalty, due to a loophole in the law for conscientious religious objection, specifically created for those like the Amish, who believe their community cares for their own. Many Muslims are already rejoicing over this exemption based upon their belief that mandated universal health care is haraam or forbidden like other types of commercial insurance, because it is based on future speculation like gambling or the charging of interest.

At a time commemorating Sept. 11, when recent polls show 70 percent of Americans are opposed to a Ground Zero mosque, and one in five Americans believe Obama is a Muslim, does he really expect that we will naively tolerate and approve of the Islamic bias in his presidential religious leadership and administration?

It's time we heed the wisdom of our fourth president, James Madison, who said, "In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."

(It's because of our wayward and out of control federal government that I filmed my brand new comical "Trigger the Vote" PSA, so that we all will register to vote and clean up Washington, D.C., from one side of Pennsylvania Avenue to the other. You can check it out on YouTube under the title "Tough like Chuck" or go to TriggerTheVote.com.)

2010-09-06T17:46:00.001-04:00

Obama's U.S. assassination program? Part 1
Exclusive: Chuck Norris reveals bizarre way White House expanding power over citizens

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Posted: July 26, 2010
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By Chuck Norris

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Sound too conspiratorial to be true? Like the coverup ops of spy novels? Well, it's reality. And it is possibly the most bizarre, inhumane and abusive way that the White House is expanding its power over the American people.

It's not an extremist belief or theory of the far Right. It's a fact that has been confirmed by publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, MSNBC and even documented by the far-left blog, Salon.com.

And it's the gravest nightmare of U.S. citizens and abandonment of our Constitution to date: A presidential assassination program in which U.S. citizens are in the literal scopes of the executive branch, based upon nothing more than allegations of terrorism involvement as they define it.

Of course, the CIA has executed covert assassinations of foreigners for decades. But, tragically, Obama is now expanding this program to include American, non-Islamic, stateside, homegrown terrorists.

It all started in January of this year when The Washington Post reported, "As part of the operations, Obama approved a December 24 strike against a [Yemeni] compound where a U.S. citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, was thought to be meeting with other regional al-Qaida leaders. Although he was not the focus of the strike and was not killed, he has since been added to a shortlist of U.S. citizens specifically targeted for killing or capture. …"

"A shortlist of U.S. citizens specifically targeted for killing"?

That's right. No arrest. No Miranda rights. No due process. No trial. Just a bullet.

While the Obama administration continues its Bush-blaming for the economy, it is mega-morphing Bush policy in covert ops overseas, according to The Washington Post, "to kill U.S. citizens abroad if strong evidence existed that an American was involved in organizing or carrying out terrorist actions against the United States or U.S. interests."

Well, in recent months and weeks, the Obama administration has taken this overseas killing op to a new low: stateside assassinations.

Former Director of National Intelligence Adm. Dennis Blair confessed before Congress: "We take direct actions against terrorists in the intelligence community. If we think that direct action will involve killing an American, we get specific permission to do that."

If you are wondering who the "we" are, to whom Blair refers, they are Smith, Wesson and the White House.

Now we know what Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan meant when he admitted in May of this year: "And under President Obama, we have built upon the work of the previous administration and have accelerated efforts in many areas." (Remember when Bush's eavesdropping on U.S. citizens seemed harsh?)

Brennan further explained then that the problem of homegrown terrorists ranks as a top priority, because of the increasing number of U.S. individuals who have become "captivated by extremist ideology or causes." He went on to say, "There are … dozens of U.S. persons who are in different parts of the world that are very concerning to us."

Do you think "different parts of the world" doesn't include their country of origin?

Conveniently, the Obama administration is also integrating a pervasive plan to assure the expiration of radicals as they deem them abroad and domestic too, with the resurrection of the "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007," introduced by U.S. Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif. (Venice, Los Angeles County). Also known as H.R. 1955, it was passed in the House by the Democratic majority, but was then rejected by the Senate.

Everyone thought that legislation was dead until the Obama administration resurrected its tenets in its new 52-page National Security Strategy, released in May. So alarming is the feds' potential abuse of power that officials from London to the Kremlin are recognizing the threat to U.S. citizens.

As the European Union reported, "Foreign Ministry reports circulating in the Kremlin today are warning that an already explosive situation in the United States is about to get a whole lot worse as a new law put forth by President Obama is said capable of seeing up to 500,000 American citizens jailed for the crime of opposing their government."

Woodrow Wilson, during his reign as president, incarcerated more than 2,000 U.S. citizens for speaking out against the government. And now for the first time since, a U.S. president is highlighting the threats of homegrown terror and literally hunting U.S. citizens as terrorists. As one senior administration said, "For the first time since Sept. 11, the [National Security Strategy] integrates homeland security and national security."

And what type of "integration" does that entail?

President Obama explained in an often overlooked statement within the document of the National Security Strategy: "We are now moving beyond traditional distinctions between homeland and national security. … This includes a determination to prevent terrorist attacks against the American people by fully coordinating the actions that we take abroad with the actions and precautions that we take at home."

Could it be any clearer? Right out of the horse's mouth. Or do I need to spell out what "fully coordinating the actions we take abroad with the actions we take at home" means?

Remember the words, "A shortlist of U.S. citizens specifically targeted for killing"?

That's right. No arrest. No Miranda rights. No due process. No trial. Just a bullet.

(In Part 2 next week, Chuck will give further evidence for "Obama's U.S. assassination program" and why he says they are now going after non-Islamic, stateside radicals. Check out other reasons Chuck opposes the Obama administration in his new patriot service announcement at BlackBeltPatriotism.com. )

2010-09-06T17:44:00.000-04:00

Obama's U.S. assassination program? Part 2
Exclusive: Chuck Norris reveals why Interpol exempt from U.S. search, seizure laws

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Posted: August 02, 2010
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By Chuck Norris

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In Part 1 last week, I gave evidence of how the Obama administration is importing its overseas policy to assassinate U.S. citizens and implementing it stateside against citizens it deems as radical threats to American security and safety. (If you have not read it, please read Part 1 before you read remaining of Part 2).

National security adviser John Brennan explained that the problem of homegrown terrorists ranks as a top priority because of the increasing number of U.S. individuals who have become "captivated by extremist ideology or causes." He went on to say, "There are … dozens of U.S. persons who are in different parts of the world that are very concerning to us."

Former director of national intelligence Adm. Dennis Blair even confessed before Congress: "We take direct actions against terrorists in the intelligence community. If we think that direct action will involve killing an American, we get specific permission to do that."

That's right. No arrest. No Miranda rights. No due process. No trial. Just a bullet.

Ironically, or maybe not so, and also under the radar, the Supreme Court just ruled to back off strict enforcement of Miranda rights. Charles Weisselberg, a law professor at U.C. Berkeley, said, "This is the most important Miranda decision in a decade. And it will have a substantial impact on police practices. This decision approves of the practice of giving the warnings and then asking questions of the suspect, without asking first whether he wants to waive his rights."

President Obama himself explained in an often overlooked statement within the document of the National Security Strategy: "We are now moving beyond traditional distinctions between homeland and national security. … This includes a determination to prevent terrorist attacks against the American people by fully coordinating the actions that we take abroad with the actions and precautions that we take at home."

Now, it finally is coming to light why back on Dec. 16, 2009, Obama signed an executive order "designating Interpol [International Criminal Police Organization] as a public international organization entitled to enjoy certain privileges, exemptions and immunities."

Glenn Beck spoke for a host of other government watchdogs back then, when he asked on the air on his Jan. 7 show, "We've been asking ever since it was signed: Why? Who can tell me what special-interest group asked for this? If it were about terror, why not tell us that when he signed it? This Congress attacks our CIA and FBI, but Interpol gets immunity? Why? It makes no sense."

It all comes down to one basic verb. Can you find it in the following paragraph?

Obama's executive order reads, "By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288), and in order to extend the appropriate privileges, exemptions and immunities to the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) ..."

There's the magic verb: "to extend"!

As I wrote in an earlier column on Interpol, is it also just coincidental that Interpol is exempt from typical American search-and-seizure laws?

Anyone still not connecting the dots?

There is one more titanic element that I must stress. The one overriding dilemma for Americans in Obama's hunt for homegrown terrorists is that, remember, he has changed the definitions of terrorism and terrorists. Their definitions no longer necessarily include or infer Islamic extremism or extremists.

Don't ever forget: Obama and his administration have repeatedly played down the actual threat of terrorism by Islamic jihadists. In 2008, then–presidential candidate Obama promised to close down Gitmo in his first year of presidency because, he said, it was an affront to American values and justice. He also promised to end the "warrantless wiretaps" of George Bush. In March of 2009, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano proclaimed there was no terrorism – only "man-caused disasters." In the same month, the Obama administration also proclaimed that there are "no enemy combatants" and "no war on terror" – only an "overseas contingency operation." And, in May 2010, Obama top counterterrorism adviser John Brennan added, "... nor we do describe our enemies as jihadists."

We are therefore left to wonder: to the Obama administration, what exactly qualifies as radical extremism and terrorism and who is on their "shortlist of U.S. citizens specifically targeted for killing"? Consider even now who might fall into this category of non-Islamic, non-jihadist stateside homegrown terrorists. Do I need to make a list?

That's another thing that really chaps my hide. While Obama ratchets up the power and pursuit of homegrown U.S. terrorists, why in God's name is he loosening his grip over Muslim extremists who are right now planning, recruiting and seeking to carry out harm against the very U.S. citizens he has sworn to protect?

To add insult to injury, on July 27, 2004, at the Democratic convention, during the presidency of George W. Bush and just three years after Sept. 11, then-Sen. Barack Obama declared to the country, "If there is an Arab-American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties."

And yet he doesn't feel obligated as president to fight for other ethnic U.S. citizens' rights or due process, even if defined by the White House as terrorists?

Am I missing something?

When the executive branch solely defines what and who is a terrorist and enlarges its unilateral power to execute the death penalty on U.S. citizens without due process or a trial, does not the whole country see this as Washington power run amok?

Has the White House not completely strayed, when the president of the United States minimizes the role of Islamic jihadists, reserves the right to assassinate U.S. citizens regarded as terrorists without due process or a trial, increases the powers of law-enforcement agencies like Interpol who are not bound to search-and-seizure laws, sues the state of Arizona for enforcing illegal-immigration border control, and does nothing to prohibit an Islamic victory mega-mosque on the edge of Ground Zero? (The very name "Cordoba House" refers to Cordoba, Spain, where Muslim conquerors symbolized their victory over Christianity by transforming a church into one of the largest mosques in the world.)

I don't care if the policy is from Barack Obama, George W. Bush or George Washington, there's absolutely no justifying one iota of this type of unconstitutional, unbridled and unchecked reckless wielding of executive power and privileges.

Rep. Ron Paul was 100 percent correct when he replied about these abhorrent acts by the federal government: "These activities should be anathema to the citizens of a constitutional republic."

I guess the Obama administration forgot to read the Dec. 4, 1981, Executive Order 12333 signed by then-President Ronald Reagan: "2.11 Prohibition on Assassination. No person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination. 2.12 Indirect Participation. No agency of the Intelligence Community shall participate in or request any person to undertake activities forbidden by this Order."

Tragically, they are also again abandoning the fundamental principles of due process, habeas corpus and our Constitution, which states in the Sixth Amendment: "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defence."

God, help us. God, protect U.S. citizens. God, save our courts. God, save our land. God, restore our republic.

(Check out other reasons why Chuck opposes the Obama administration in his new patriot service announcement.)

America - A Nation Oppressed And Controlled!

2010-09-06T17:23:00.001-04:00

Volume XXIX Issue IX September 2010
Last Trumpet Ministries, PO Box 806, Beaver Dam, WI 53916
Fax: 920-887-2626 Internet: http://www.lasttrumpetministries.org

America - A Nation Oppressed And Controlled!

"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever."

I John 2:15-17
"For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come."

Hebrews 13:14
"And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death."

Revelation 21:1-8
In this issue of the Last Trumpet Newsletter, we will once again examine the current events of our time as we move ever closer to the return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. There is so much going wrong in this world, and it is so very clear which direction we are headed. We need our faith in Jesus now more than ever, for these are very distressing times. If I didn't have the Lord with me, if I didn't have God on my side, I find it doubtful that I could even handle reading the news. It has become an endless stream of evil with one thing after another going wrong. I urge each and every one of you to yield your hearts to God and receive the salvation of Christ while you still can. Time is short!

There is a heavy foreboding throughout the world as many people can feel the pressure of these last days and sense that something very bad is going to happen. The scientific community generally attributes this to what they call global warming or climate change. In fact, Ove Hoegh-Guildberg, the director of the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland in Australia, recently issued the statement, "We are well on our way to the next great extinction event." (1) The overwhelming sentiment seems to be that the world is on the very brink of an irreversible tipping point. It is because of this that they surmise that drastic action must now be taken in an effort to save the planet. The truth is, though people can drive their hybrid cars, recycle, compost, and do everything possible to reduce their carbon footprints, all of these efforts will change nothing. The Bible tells us this world is going to burn, and there is nothing that Al Gore, Barack Obama, the scientists or you can do about it. Don't let that scare you though. God has promised us "a new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness."

The BP Spill Aftermath

On July 15th, 2010, British Petroleum finally managed to cap their leak in the Gulf of Mexico and stop the flow of oil. It was the largest accidental oil spill of all time with an estimated 4.9 million barrels gushing into the Gulf. (2) Remarkably, much of the spilled oil seems to have already disappeared. Although that may seem like good news, experts familiar with the situation are worried that much of the oil is now underwater and may be impossible to capture or clean up. (3)

Another issue is the massive amounts of a highly toxic dispersant known as Corexit 9500 that BP used on the spill. Despite an order by the Environmental Protection Agency to use the dispersant sparingly, the Coast Guard issued seventy-four waivers, which allowed over a million gallons of the dangerous substance to be used. This activity has attracted the ire of Representative Edward Markey, D-Mass., who stated in a letter, "BP often carpet bombed the ocean with these chemicals and the Coast Guard allowed them to do it." (4) Dr. William Sawyer, a toxicology expert said, "The dispersants used in the BP clean-up efforts, known as 'Corexit 9500' and 'Corexit EC9527A' are also known as deodorized kerosene. With respect to marine toxicity and potential human health risks, studies of kerosene exposures strongly indicate potential health risks to volunteers, workers, sea turtles, dolphins, breathing reptiles, and all species which need to surface for air exchanges, as well as birds and all other mammals. Additionally, I have considered marine species which surface for atmospheric inhalation such as sea turtles, dolphins and other species which are especially vulnerable to aspiration toxicity of 'Corexit 9500' into the lung while surfacing." (5) Corexit was used in massive quantities despite the availability of less toxic dispersants such as Dispersit, which is manufactured by the U.S. Polychemical Corporation. (6)

The Road To Recovery Or The Road To Ruin?

Our leaders in Washington continue to insist that the economy is recovering. U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner recently stated, "You are seeing a recovery. You're seeing private investment expand again, job growth starting to come back. And that's very encouraging." Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke also informed us that we would see "moderate growth, a gradual decline in the unemployment rate and subdued inflation over the next several years." (7)

The "gradual decline" of unemployment in this country has been very gradual indeed. A report by the Associated Press indicates that 71,000 private-sector jobs were added in July. This is a paltry number and doesn't even put a dent in the 9.5% of unemployed workers. The United States would need to add 200,000 jobs per month to make any significant gains. And even at that pace, it would still take years to regain all the jobs that were lost since the recession began. The same report indicates that 14.6 million Americans want jobs but are unable to find work. (8)

Many economists and other financial experts are now saying we could be heading for a "double-dip" recession, which is a recession followed by a short period of growth, followed by another recession. Peter Morici, a business economist from the University of Maryland, stated, "Signs abound that the economic recovery is faltering." An economist from Yale University named Robert Shiller claims that there is more than a 50-50 chance of a double dip. Even former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan admitted that a double dip recession could happen. (9)

The housing market continued to decline in July after the market ceased to be propped up by government incentives. Home-buying applications sank to a 13-year low according to Reuters News Service. (10) Reuters also reported that homebuilder confidence was at a 15-month low, (11) and banks are repossessing homes at a record pace. Banks took control of 269,962 homes in the second quarter of 2010 and are expected to foreclose on more than one million homes this year. (12) An unfortunate consequence of the housing collapse in this country has been an increase in homelessness. In 2009, more than 170,000 families had to seek refuge in homeless shelters, which was a whopping 30% increase since 2007. (13)

Regulators at the FDIC continue to shut down banks. Recent closures include banks in Florida, Georgia, Oregon, and Washington. The number of failed banks in the United States soared to 108 in July, and we will likely see more closures throughout the year. It's interesting to note that only three banks failed in 2007, twenty-five failed in 2008, and 140 failed in 2009. (14)

Yes, they call these the days of "recovery." And during these days of recovery, we have seen headlines such as "Economists see U.S. Recovery Weakening," (15) "State Governors Face Fiscal Strain," (16) "Federal Reserve Worry List Gets Longer," (17) "U.S. Counties Confront Shortfalls With Cuts," (18) "Schwarzeneggger Declares California Fiscal Emergency," (19) "Joblessness and Housing Add Risks to U.S. Recovery," (20) "More Americans' Credit Scores Sink to New Lows," (21) and "Competing Currency Being Accepted Across Mid-Michigan." (22) Apparently, some of the citizens of Michigan have such little confidence in U.S. currency that they are instead using money made at private mints. (23)

Meanwhile, there's chatter in Washington about raising the age one can collect Social Security to age seventy. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-MD., stated "We're lying to ourselves and our children if we say we can maintain our current levels of entitlement spending, defense spending and taxation without bankrupting our country. We could and should consider a higher retirement age or one pegged to life span, more progressive Social Security and Medicare benefits, and a stronger safety net for the Americans who need it most." (24) U.S. News and World Reports published an article last month entitled "Eight Realities of the New Retirement." The article contained suggestions such as "continue employment," instead of retiring, and even going back to school. (25) It's starting to look like many Americans may never even get a chance to retire. A recent report from The Business Insider indicated that 36% of Americans don't contribute anything to a retirement plan, and 43% of Americans have less than $10,000 saved for retirement. (26)

Perhaps you've heard that the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, and the middle class is disappearing altogether. Recent news reports indicate that is precisely what is happening. Consider the following facts: 83 percent of all U.S. stocks are in the hands of 1 percent of the people, over 1.4 million Americans filed for personal bankruptcy in 2009, (27) while 40 million Americans are now receiving food stamps. On the other hand, the number of millionaires increased 17.5 percent in 2009 over ten major metropolitan areas in the United States. (28)

Technology and the Death of Privacy!

There's a lot of amazing technology out there these days. And while this technology can be fun to play with and seemingly make our lives easier and more interesting, we need to keep in mind that the coming New World Order would be unable to operate without these amazing modern advances. We now live in a world where consumers carry a wide variety of gadgets that keep them connected to the Internet at all times. In fact, we can now use what they call "mobile broadband" to go online almost anywhere in the country as long as there are cell towers nearby.

Not only can we stay connected to the "world wide web" almost anywhere, but many people voluntarily report much of their activities to a website known as a Facebook. Facebook is a social networking site where you can post status updates to your friends and acquaintances, post pictures and videos, play games, and interact with other members of the website. Facebook is so addicting that many people are now checking it as soon as they wake up, even before using the bathroom. (29)

There has been a lot of controversy over Facebook's privacy policies these last few years. Many members grew upset after Facebook made certain information, such as friends' lists and pictures, available for everyone on the Internet to view. After receiving a lot of unwanted publicity, Facebook relented and added new privacy controls to ease the fears of its members.

But the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, doesn't seem to consider privacy all that important. In January of 2010 he stated, "People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people. That social norm is just something that has evolved over time. We view it as our role in the system to constantly be innovating and be updating what our system is to reflect what the current social norms are." (30)

It is likely that Facebook does store all the data its members submit indefinitely. It's possible that they may be holding onto your data, (which by the way, they consider their data) even after you cancel your membership and leave the site. So without even realizing it, Facebook members are leaving behind a wealth of information about themselves, their personal lives, and their families. Of course, if the federal government were to come along and request this information, I find it unlikely that Facebook would refuse to hand it over.

If you happen to be a smartphone user, your phone apps may be spying on you. According to an Associated Press article, many applications for Apple's iPhone and Google's Android operating system are pulling sensitive data off your phone and sending it to third parties. This data can include your contacts, pictures, text messages, and Internet histories. (31) I guess that explains why so many apps are "free."

CNET News has reported that HP Labs is looking to build computers that monitor every move you make. The computers would track every song you listen to, every movie you watch, every book you read, and probably every other thing you do on the machine. HP Labs director Prith Banerjee stated, "When you think about it, HP sells 75 million PCs per year. That is an incredible place through which we can monitor all kinds of things. If you look at Google, if you look at Amazon, they are only able to look at what a consumer is doing on their web page." (32)

Oppression In The Last Days!

There seems to be a horrific abuse of power these days, whether it be by school officials, law enforcement, or the federal government. Here are just a few examples:

In Providence, Rhode Island, school officials banned an eight year-old boy's hat because it was decorated with toy soldiers carrying weapons. The boy and his parents were told his hat violated a strict zero-tolerance weapons policy. (33)

In Portland, Oregon, health inspectors shut down a seven year-old's lemonade stand after discovering she didn't have a $120 license to operate it. (34)

Police officers in El Reno, Oklahoma, tasered an 86 year-old disabled grandmother not once, but twice, after she supposedly "took a more aggressive posture in her bed." The officers also stepped on the woman's oxygen hose until she began to suffer from oxygen deprivation. (35)

President Obama has been urging federal employees to cut down on business travel and commuting by car in an effort to reduce pollution. In a statement issued in July 2010, Obama said, "The government has a responsibility to use that energy wisely, to reduce consumption, improve efficiency, use renewable energy, like wind and solar, and cut costs." (36) I wonder if our President is planning to reduce his own consumption. Is he going to cut down on business travel and commute less? Is Obama going to improve personal efficiency and cut costs? No, Obama likes to fly around in huge gas guzzling planes and to ride around in big gas guzzling cars. Someone should do a study on the size of Obama's carbon footprint. It's probably enormous.

On August 6, 2010, Rasmussen Reports published the results of a shocking poll. The results indicate that 9% of Americans believe the federal government should be allowed to do whatever they want. That number itself is disturbing enough, but the results also indicated that within the U.S. Political Class, 54% believe the government "should be allowed to do most anything." (37) So basically, within our leadership and amongst those running the United States, over half of them believe there should be no limits on what they can do. At a town hall meeting last July, Democratic congressman Pete Stark of California stated, "I think that there are very few constitutional limits that would prevent the federal government from rules that could affect your private life." He further went on to say, "The federal government, yes, can do most anything in this country." (38) Clearly, the Political Class and the members of our government consider themselves an elite class, which is better than the ordinary American people.

Perhaps one of the most astounding discoveries regarding our government was uncovered by a twelve year-old girl. BridgeAnne d'Avigon started a genealogical research project at age ten. Upon completion, she discovered that every President of the United States is related to each other except for one. With the exception of Martin Van Buren, each president can be traced back to King John of England, including our current president, Barack Obama. (39) This is either one of the most extraordinary coincidences in the history of mankind, or it indicates there is an unseen force influencing and manipulating the presidential office of the United States.

War and More War!

The war in Afghanistan has now dragged on for nearly nine years. Despite the fact that the U.S. military possesses amazing technology and all sorts of advanced weaponry, they have been unable to overthrow the Taliban and win that conflict. Sadly, sixty-three U.S. soldiers lost their lives in Afghanistan last month. According to an Associated Press report, the month of July 2010 was the deadliest month on record in the Afghan war for the United States. (40) You would think that after nine long years of war, things would be getting better and not worse.

Not only is the U.S. military having difficulty winning the Afghan war, they're spending billions of dollars in the process. Last month, Barack Obama signed a spending bill to finance a surge in troops. The price tag on that bill is nearly 59 billion dollars with 37 billion of that going to the Iraq and Afghanistan war efforts. The U.S. Congress has appropriated over a trillion dollars for war since 2001. (41)

Meanwhile, tensions between the United States and Iran remain high. When the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, was asked if the U.S. military had any contingency plans to attack Iran, he confirmed that such plans do exist. In response, Iran has claimed they have already dug mass graves for U.S. troops in advance preparation of any American attack. (42) The hostility between Iran and the United States has prompted Toyota Motor Corp to cease all exports to Iran. (43) The UN Security Council, the United States, and the European Union have all enacted or expanded sanctions against Iran. In retaliation to those sanctions, the Iranian government has announced they will no longer use U.S. dollars or euros. First Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi reportedly said, "These currencies are filthy and we will no longer sell our oil in dollar and euro." (44) As we watch things continue to intensify between the United States and Iran, one can only wonder how long it will be before we see World War III.

North Korea also remains a potential threat. After the United States and South Korea performed joint naval drills together in a show of force, North Korea responded by firing 110 rounds of artillery near its disputed sea border with South Korea. (45) This reaction was much less drastic than the previously issued threat to mount a nuclear response against the United States and South Korea. (46)

I have an article in front of me with the headline, "Chinese Missile Could Shift Pacific Power Balance." The article reports that China is in the process of perfecting a new missile called the Dong Feng 21D. This missile is so advanced that it can be launched from land and accurately hit moving aircraft carriers at a distance of 900 miles. This new missile is causing considerable worry among those in Washington and in the U.S. military. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates issued the following statement, "When considering the military-modernization programs of countries like China, we should be concerned less with their potential ability to challenge the U.S. symmetrically -- fighter to fighter or ship to ship -- and more with their ability to disrupt our freedom of movement and narrow our strategic options." (47) It's quite obvious that China has aspirations of taking over the role of "world's greatest superpower."

The Dark Rise of Vampirism!

A recent report by AFP, entitled "Vampires Get Their Teeth Into U.S. Public," highlights a disturbing trend. More and more teenagers and young adults now consider themselves vampires. According to the article, hundreds of "vampires" are gathering together to attend balls every few months. One such vampire, known as Seregon O'Dalley, stated, "It's like a religion. There are houses, and pageants, and clans, and kinds of presidents, ministers." The article also reports that she loves the taste of blood. "Every once in a while I drink blood. I make a prick on my finger and take the blood," she says. (48) Vampirism has been growing in popularity over the last few years due to the Twilight series of books and movies and the HBO television show known as "True Blood."

While Twilight may seem harmless to some, it serves as an introduction to vampire culture for many young people. Additionally, the movies have instilled a grievous amount of lust within not only teenage girls, but also within grown women in their 20s, 30s, and even in their 40s, as they swoon over the often shirtless male stars. As for "True Blood" the show is rated TV-MA and is reportedly so full of sex and violence that many of the show's fans affectionately refer to it as "vamporn." Quite obviously, Christians should stay away from it.

The Earth in Distress!

On July 5, 2010, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel featured an interesting little tidbit in its Earthweek section. Apparently, religious leaders in India's holy city of Varanasi decided to perform "frog weddings" in an attempt to please their rain gods. "This is an age-old tradition that if frogs are wedded, then Indra Dev will be pleased and monsoon will come," organizer Munna Lal Yadav said. (49) Since that time there have been floods and landslides all over Asia.

In Pakistan, the floods are reportedly the worst they have ever had. One hundred thirty-two people have been killed, hundreds are still missing, and fifteen million more have been displaced. A flood in China's Gansu killed at least 127 people while entire villages have been covered in water, mud, and rocks. China has seen its worst flooding in a decade this year with over 1,100 people killed and hundreds more still missing. In Indian-controlled Kashmir, floods have killed 132 people and injured 500 more. (50)

As always, the daily earthquakes continue. Earthquakes have become so common that they are now considered part of the norm and generally don't garner a lot of attention from the news media. While it's true that many earthquakes are not deadly, shouldn't the fact that the earth is constantly rumbling be a cause of concern to the world's population? While people continue to deny any significance of the quakes, they will grow in frequency and intensity as we move through these last days. Recent significant earthquakes include a 7.1-magitude quake in Ecuador on August 12, 2010, a 7.3-magnitude quake in Vanuatu on August 10, 2010, and a 7.0 quake in Papua, New Guinea, on August 4, 2010. (51)

In closing, I urge all of you to put your trust and hope in our Almighty God. I know that reading about what is happening in this world may be hard to bear, but we must remember that this world we presently live in is only temporary. Jesus has promised us Paradise, and when we get there we won't need to worry about earthquakes, floods, oil spills, wars between the nations, or economic distress. All of the problems and issues discussed in this newsletter will be non-existent, and we will live in perfect harmony with God and His people. If you have not yet completely yielded your heart to God, I urge you to do so now. Thank you to all who support this ministry. Your prayers and contributions are greatly appreciated as we seek to get the end time Gospel message to as many people as possible. As usual, if you have any prayer requests, you are welcomed to send them to us, and our teams of intercessors will give each request individual attention. Grace and peace be unto you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Samuel David Meyer

Acknowledgements
01. McClatchy Newspapers, July 04, 2010, By Les Blumenthal, Washington, D.C.
02. AFP, August 2, 2010, By AFP, Washington, D.C.
03. McClatchy Newspapers, July 30, 2010, By Curtis Morgan.
04. Associated Press, August 1, 2010, By H. Josef Hebert and Michael Kunzelman, New Orleans, LA.
05. PRNewswire, May 11, 2010, By PRNewswire, New Orleans, LA.
06. Wired, May 5, 2010, By Brandon Keim.
07. AFP, July 24, 2010, By AFP, Washington, D.C.
08. Associated Press, August 6, 2010, By The Associated Press.
09. Associated Press, July 31, 2010, By Tom Raum, Washington, D.C.
10. Reuters News Service, July 14, 2010, By Lynn Adler, New York, NY.
11. Reuters News Service, July 19, 2010, By Corbett B. Daly, Washington, D.C.
12. Reuters News Service, July 15, 2010, By Lynn Adler, New York, NY.
13. McClatchy News Service, June 17, 2010, By Tony Pugh, Washington, D.C.
14. Associated Press, July 30, 2010, By Marcy Gorden, Washington, D.C.
15. Reuters News Service, July 10, 2010, By Pedro Nicolaci da Costa, Washington, D.C.
16. Reuters News Service, July 12, 2010, By Ros Krasny, Boston, MA.
17. Reuters News Service, July 11, 2010, By Emily Kaiser, Washington, D.C.
18. Reuters News Service, July 9, 2010, By Lisa Lambert, Washington, D.C.
19. Reuters News Service, July 28, 2010, By Jim Christie, San Francisco, CA.
20. Reuters News Service, July 8, 2010, By David Lawder, Washington, D.C.
21. Associated Press, July 12, 2010, By Eileen AJ Connelly, New York, NY.
22. ConnectMidMichigan, July 12, 2010, By ConnectMidMichigan, http://connectmidmichigan.com.
23. Ibid.
24. McClatchy Newspapers, July 9, 2010, By David Lightman, Washington, D.C.
25. U.S. News And World Reports, July 10, 2010, By Philip Moeller.
26. The Business Insider, July 15, 2010, By Michael Snyder.
27. Ibid.
28. ABC News, August 5, 2010, By Rich Blake.
29. AFP, July 7, 2010, By AFP, Washington, D.C.
30. ReadWriteWeb, January 9, 2010, By Marshall Kirkpatrick, http://readwriteweb.com.
31. Associated Press, July 28, 2010, By Jordan Robertson, Las Vegas, NV.
32. CNET News, August 6, 2010, By Ina Fried, http://cnet.com.
33. Associated Press, June 18, 2010, By Michelle R. Smith, Providence, RI.
34. The Oregonian, August 04, 2010, By Helen Jung.
35. Courthouse News Service, June 24, 2010, By Tim Hull.
36. Associated Press, July 20, 2010, By Erica Werner, Washington, D.C.
37. Rasmussen Reports, August 6, 2010, By Rasmussen Reports.
38. Ibid.
39. Santa Cruz Sentinel, February 16, 2010, By Megha Satyanarayana, Santa Cruz, CA.
40. Associated Press, July 30, 2010, By Robert H. Reid, Kabul, Afghanistan.
41. AFP, July 29, 2010, By AFP, Washington, D.C.
42. Associated Press, August 10, 2010, By Associated Press, Tehran, Iran.
43. The Japan Times, August 12, 2010, By The Japan Times, Nagoya, Japan.
44. AFP, August 10, 2010, By AFP, Tehran, Iran.
45. Associated Press, August 9, 2010, By Hyung-Jin Kim, Seoul, South Korea.
46. Associated Press, July 24, 2010, By Jim Gomez, Hanoi, Vietnam.
47. Associated Press, August 5, 2010, By Eric Talmadge, Aboard the USS George Washington.
48. AFP, July 20, 2010, By Paola Messana, New York, NY.
49. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 5, 2010, By Steve Newman.
50. Associated Press, August 8, 2010, By Ashraf Khan and Aijaz Hussain.
51. US Geological Survey, August 12, 2010, http://usgs.gov.

Special Note: A new tribute website for Pastor David J. Meyer can now be accessed at http://pastormeyer.org.

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2010-08-08T21:21:00.001-04:00

Is God Trying To Send Us All A Message? - WW
I think so. All of the flooding, fires and other disasters are all growing in intensity. I would also venture an educated guess based on events I have been talking about since April, that there is a lot more to these two stories than meets the headlines.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128749517

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iPPyYVByL1NJssM6ytS9Le4j3_8Q

Bretheren, I am not going to give any sermons today. The headlines are screaming at us; the open sin and rebellion, wars and rumors of wars, disasters in diverse places. What is it going to take sinful man to see what his real problem is?

Are you ready for a world war? I think that if certain nations do not 'call off their dogs' so to speak, we could be in one sometime next year. A hot war, none of this low intensity stuff. Keep you eyes on yet more oil and energy sabotage, billed as 'accidents' and 'mishaps' in the months to come, in both the US and BRIC nations (switch Iran for India here). Sooner or later, this war will come out of the shadows and into the daylight. Some of the reasons are talked about in the last PESR, others are longstanding ones everyone is aware of. Few are talking about it now because there is so much that is being withheld by our leaders and the blogopshere, with one or two unheard of exceptions, is totally in the dark. Insiders here have already had their eyes opened with a jolt and some have had their 'jaw drop to the floor' when the truth was revealed to them, so pay attention.

2010-07-26T21:55:00.000-04:00

Christian Politics, A Distraction
By Andrew Strom | Re-posted July 25, 2010

DISTRACTIONS, DISTRACTIONS
I made a number of people mad with my piece a few days ago, “Can Patriotism Be Idolatry?” I have always found that this is by far the “riskiest” topic that I can ever bring up. One guy even asked if I “hate America”. I replied that I truly love America and love it’s people. In fact, it is one of my topmost favorite nations in the world. My brother lives there. My nephews live there. I love America! But that was certainly not the issue in my article.

Another man hinted that I must be a “left-winger”. Actually, I am truly and deeply Conservative – and have been for years.

The major point we were really raising in that article has to do with “Distractions”. I can’t bear to see my fellow brothers and sisters literally exhausting themselves with campaign after campaign of political activism – when the real problems in America are “SPIRITUAL”. And only ’spiritual’ solutions can solve them.

JESUS is the answer to what ails America. Politics will never do it. I am not against “voting” at all. By all mean vote! But what I am talking about here is the “distraction” of spending so much time on Politics when that can never truly solve the problems we face.

Just think of the enormous time and energy and devotion that so many people put into “electing the right guy”. Do we put that much passion into the Gospel and Prayer? I think not. A lot of us have deluded ourselves that Politics can solve these “spiritual” issues. They can’t. Only Jesus can.

A lot of the time, Fox News and Talk Radio simply exist to “rile up” the Conservative people with “trash talk”, etc. The whole point is to get the Christians and conservatives so riled that they will “do something”. What will they do? Will they start Prayer movements and True Gospel movements? No – they will start “political” movements. They will march down to the Town Hall and shout and scream at people. Their opponents will start calling them “hateful” because of the way they look and act. Is this what Jesus wants? Does he want the Christians all caught up in political movements that use the “arm of the flesh” to solve their problems? The Bible says we “wrestle not against flesh and blood”. Why then are we trying to do just that? Because we are being “distracted” – that’s why.

Distracted from our true mission on this earth. Distracted and sidetracked into thinking Politics is the answer. Distracted into spending hours watching Fox and the Internet for new things to get mad at the Liberals about. We don’t pray like we should. We don’t preach the glorious gospel like we should. We simply rant and rave and get mad at all those Liberals – and waste hours and hours trying to work out how we can “beat” them. Its all flesh, flesh – all the time.

Don’t tell me this is not happening on a large scale with a lot of Christian people. We all know it is. That’s where Fox News and Talk Radio get all their “ratings” from. They know if they can get you “mad” enough, you will keep coming back for more.

We need to repent. We need to repent of our nasty, ugly, trash-talking behavior – which is so unchristlike. We need to repent of partaking in this stuff at all. We need to repent of relying on the
“arm of the flesh” instead of Jesus. We need to repent that we will raise up Political movements first before even trying “spiritual” remedies to save the nation.

The Christians are too busy fighting in the flesh to PRAY as they ought. Too busy fighting with bitter and angry words to preach the true gospel. This is a huge part of why these problems are not being solved. We are not going to GOD at all. We are relying on “ourselves” – and what we can do. And until we repent and start looking to Jesus – to solve the things that only He can solve – I believe things will continue to get worse and worse.

The Christians are “distracted” – trusting entirely the wrong things.

Brothers, sisters, we need to PRAY.

Andrew Strom.

2010-07-26T21:54:00.000-04:00

Obama's U.S. assassination program? Part 1
Exclusive: Chuck Norris reveals bizarre way White House expanding power over citizens

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Posted: July 26, 2010
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By Chuck Norris
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Sound too conspiratorial to be true? Like the cover-up ops of spy novels? Well, it's reality. And it is possibly the most bizarre, inhumane and abusive way that the White House is expanding its power over the American people.

It's not an extremist belief or theory of the far Right. It's a fact that has been confirmed by publications such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, MSNBC and even documented by the far-Left blog, Salon.com.

And it's the gravest nightmare of U.S. citizens and abandonment of our Constitution to date: A presidential assassination program in which U.S. citizens are in the literal scopes of the executive branch, based upon nothing more than allegations of terrorism involvement as they define it.

Of course, the CIA has executed covert assassinations of foreigners for decades. But, tragically, Obama is now expanding this program to include American, non-Islamic, stateside, homegrown terrorists.

It all started in January of this year when the Washington Post reported, "As part of the operations, Obama approved a December 24 strike against a [Yemeni] compound where a U.S. citizen, Anwar al-Aulaqi, was thought to be meeting with other regional al-Qaida leaders. Although he was not the focus of the strike and was not killed, he has since been added to a shortlist of U.S. citizens specifically targeted for killing or capture. …"

"A shortlist of U.S. citizens specifically targeted for killing"?

That's right. No arrest. No Miranda Rights. No due process. No trial. Just a bullet.

While the Obama administration continues its Bush-blaming for the economy, it is mega-morphing Bush policy in covert ops overseas, according to the Washington Post, "to kill U.S. citizens abroad if strong evidence existed that an American was involved in organizing or carrying out terrorist actions against the United States or U.S. interests."

Well, in recent months and weeks, the Obama administration has taken this overseas killing op to a new low: stateside assassinations.

Former Director of National Intelligence Admiral Dennis Blair confessed before Congress: "We take direct actions against terrorists in the intelligence community. If we think that direct action will involve killing an American, we get specific permission to do that."

If you are wondering who the "we" are, to whom Blair refers, they are Smith, Wesson and the White House.

Now we know what Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan meant when he admitted in May of this year: "And under President Obama, we have built upon the work of the previous administration and have accelerated efforts in many areas." (Remember when Bush's eavesdropping on U.S. citizens seemed harsh?)

Brennan further explained then that the problem of homegrown terrorists ranks as a top priority, because of the increasing number of U.S. individuals who have become "captivated by extremist ideology or causes." He went on to say, "There are … dozens of U.S. persons who are in different parts of the world that are very concerning to us."

Do you think "different parts of the world" doesn't include their country of origin?

Conveniently, the Obama administration is also integrating a pervasive plan to assure the expiration of radicals as they deem them abroad and domestic too, with the resurrection of the "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007," introduced by U.S. Rep. Jane Harman, D-Venice (Los Angeles County). Also known as H.R. 1955, it was passed in the House by the Democratic majority, but was then rejected by the Senate.

Everyone thought that legislation was dead until the Obama administration resurrected its tenets in its new 52-page National Security Strategy, released in May. So alarming is the feds' potential abuse of power that officials from London to the Kremlin are recognizing the threat to U.S. citizens.

As the European Union reported, "Foreign Ministry reports circulating in the Kremlin today are warning that an already explosive situation in the United States is about to get a whole lot worse as a new law put forth by President Obama is said capable of seeing up to 500,000 American citizens jailed for the crime of opposing their government."

Woodrow Wilson, during his reign as president, incarcerated more than 2,000 U.S. citizens for speaking out against the government. And now for the first time since, a U.S. president is highlighting the threats of homegrown terror and literally hunting U.S. citizens as terrorists. As one senior administration said, "For the first time since 9/11, the [National Security Strategy] integrates homeland security and national security."

And what type of "integration" does that entail?

President Obama explained in an often overlooked statement within the document of the National Security Strategy: "We are now moving beyond traditional distinctions between homeland and national security. … This includes a determination to prevent terrorist attacks against the American people by fully coordinating the actions that we take abroad with the actions and precautions that we take at home."

Could it be any clearer? Right out of the horse's mouth. Or do I need to spell out what "fully coordinating the actions we take abroad with the actions we take at home" mean?

Remember the words, "A shortlist of U.S. citizens specifically targeted for killing"?

That's right. No arrest. No Miranda rights. No due process. No trial. Just a bullet.

(In Part 2 next week, Chuck will give further evidence for "Obama's U.S. assassination program" and why he says they are now going after non-Islamic, stateside radicals. Check out other reasons Chuck opposes the Obama administration in his new patriot service announcement at BlackBeltPatriotism.com. )

2010-07-21T23:16:00.000-04:00

Massive Explosions, Oil Spill Hit Chinese Port - LAT
For those of you who I have been talking to me over the last couple of months about the BP oil spill and whom I gave some background info to, this story is most relevant. Why? Who was it who said, 'Revenge is dish best served cold'? I don't know, but I first heard it on Star Trek, The Wrath of Khan.

For obvious reasons I will not belabor this except to say this. Somebody owes BP one massive, humoungous apology. Because like I told my readers from the beginning, they were not the cause of this attack (not 'accident', not 'spill' but ATTACK) in the Gulf and there is no reason to see a company go under for someone else's malfeasanse, though I suspect some other major US oil companies are circling like sharks for the kill to get all of those drilling rights BP now has around the world. Indeed, some of the (so-called) leaked documents we have seen out there in the blogosphere were not BP documents. The US Justice Department is currently investigating who is trying to smear BP with these clear, incontravertible forgeries. I think the list is pretty short.

Have you filled your tank today? Which Major oil company did you use?

PESR insiders can go back and read the 'Target America' section and get an idea of what is really happening. But like I told my readers some time ago, President Obama gave us a pretty big hint in his speech when he said that the Gulf incident had echoes of 911.

Perhaps now you can understand how and why so much of the blogosphere (left, right and alternative) are too easily manipulated with 'hot button' news designed to get you emotional, angry and take you down red-herring road.

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2010-07-21T23:14:00.001-04:00

Prophetic Isaiah 59 judgment may be falling on America

By Bill Wilson, KIN Senior Analyst

WASH--Jul 12--KIN--The moral condition of the United States may be prompting a prophetic Isaiah 59 judgment on Americans because as Isaiah 59:4 says, “None call for justice, nor any plead for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.” Attorney General Eric Holder’s Justice Department appears to be turning against the citizens it vows to protect. One of Holder’s first acts was to announce that the terrorists being held in Guantanamo Bay would be tried in US civilian courts. This would have afforded these terrorists the same Constitutional rights as American citizens. These terrorists were not American citizens and were out to kill Americans. Yet, Holder wanted to treat them as citizens.

In June, before even the facts surrounding the BP oil spill in the Gulf were investigated, Holder announced that he was initiating a criminal investigation against BP, saying, “If we find evidence of illegal behavior, we will be extremely forceful in our response.” The man who occupies the Oval Office then slapped a moratorium on Gulf oil drilling. Holder defended the action in federal court drawing criticism from the judge, who said “The Court is persuaded that it is only a matter of time before more business and jobs and livelihoods will be lost. The defendants (sic the White House) trivialize such losses.” Holder lost. Americans continue to lose as oil rigs are abandoning the Gulf for friendlier political waters.

Then Holder’s Justice Department dropped a voter intimidation case it had already won against New Black Panther Party member Samir Shabazz, a militant Islamist who intimidated white voters in Philadelphia during the last presidential election. Shabazz said that he hated white people and that the only way the Black man is to gain his freedom is by killing white babies. But Holder’s Justice Department is going to investigate the involuntary manslaughter conviction of a white police officer who killed a black man who was resisting arrest. Holder wants to know if he can press federal charges against the officer for a racially motivated crime.

That’s not all. The federal government has refused to secure the border with Mexico, turning a blind eye to raging drug wars endangering US citizens. Arizona passed a law to secure its borders. Holder is suing Arizona for interfering in America’s foreign policy and anti-terrorism efforts. In addition, Holder told CBS’s “Face the Nation” that he may also sue Arizona for racial profiling. Isaiah 59:14 says, “And judgment is turned away backward, and justice stands afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.” Here “judgment” means “verdicts.” Holder’s decisions hold no justice according to America’s laws, but in our fallen condition what are we to expect according to God’s laws?

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2010-07-12T23:45:00.001-04:00

The Incredible Collapsing Economy - Various
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Even by the standards of this deficit-ridden state, Illinois’s comptroller, Daniel W. Hynes, faces an ugly balance sheet. Precisely how ugly becomes clear when he beckons you into his office to examine his daily briefing memo.

He picks the papers off his desk and points to a figure in red: $5.01 billion.

“This is what the state owes right now to schools, rehabilitation centers, child care, the state university — and it’s getting worse every single day,” he says in his downtown office.

Mr. Hynes shakes his head. “This is not some esoteric budget issue; we are not paying bills for absolutely essential services,” he says. “That is obscene.” - NYT

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-State Workers in California are very worried over their salary being reduced to the federal minimum wage pay grade. As reported on Fox News, on Friday July 2, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration, won an appellate court ruling allowing them to cut state workers wages to the minimum amount of $7.25 per hour. More than 200,000 workers will be affected by this drastic measure. Californians are already reeling from that states fiscal woes. However, a brief respite might be in order for workers because the State comptroller's office said their computers were not programmed to make the cuts. Upgrades will take another 2 years to complete. - All Voices

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The recently passed unemployment extension by the House is currently on hold until the Senate returns from their recess on July 12th, leaving many unemployed Americans scared of what will happen next. A reader from Pennsylvania, unable to persuade Chase and Sears to hold off on collecting payment for one month, wrote, “I am so very scared. I am a single mom here with 2 college students…” Be sure to also read our article on unemployed Americans filing for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy

A reader from Missouri who is in favor of an unemployment extension wrote, “I am scared. I was unemployed from 8/15/09 to 3/1/2010 and here I go again, afraid how I am going to make it without an income or unemployment if it turns out that I can’t get it.”

An employed reader from Florida, who is in favor of an unemployment extension, wrote, “People who have no short term hope are scared of their lives falling apart like dominos. Senators who oppose the bill should walk a mile in an unemployed persons’ shoes.”

Upset that the Senate left for recess before voting on the unemployment benefits measure, wrote, “I am so scared that my teen-age son and I will be homeless within months…what should I do?” US Chronicle

The House may not have had the time to help out unemployed Americans, but they sure had time to spend billions more for wars... and you thought the GOP was bad!
The US House of Representatives on Thursday approved funds to pay for the Afghan troop surge amid criticism of the unpopular war by both Democrat and Republican lawmakers.
The House-approved bill includes nearly $4 billion in economic aid to Afghanistan and Pakistan. The war funds are in addition to the $130 billion Congress has already approved for Afghanistan and Iraq this year.

The House’s Democratic leaders, who had procrastinated for weeks over the bill, did not act in time to get the $33 billion to the troops by July 4 as the Pentagon had requested. - Daily Times
How bad is this unemployment crisis really?
The situation means many long-term unemployed workers, like Erich Simo of Canton, are on the verge of losing their safety net. The 27-year-old has been looking for a job since he was laid off in October 2008 at a company that did work for AT&T. But even positions at fast-food restaurants and grocery stores aren't available....

...Simo is one of about 400,000 out-of-work Michiganders who depend on this cash aid. Until recently, these benefits lasted up to 99 weeks. Now, they end after 26 weeks. - Detroit Free Press

Nebraska: Food Stamp Usage On The Rise:

Amanda and her husband Justin are out of work, so the federal food stamp program is the only way they can feed their family of five. McCormack is part of a growing number of Nebraskans who buy at least part of their groceries with a SNAP card.

One in every nine Nebraskans used the program in June.

That's almost 27,000 more than were using SNAP a year ago, and about 44,000 more than two years ago. That growth over the past two years is one indicator of the recession. - Journal Star
Get Ready For Runaway Inflation Says Schiff. I am not so sure that some of that inflation may not be put back in the criminal enterprises of Wall Street, while literally tens of millions more Americans wait in bread lines.

Well, you can believe what you want to about our dollar our economy and the state of our nation but you may want to think about what other nations are saying and doing about it. The UN issued a report last week that called for an end to the US dollar as the reserve currency of the world.
Fifth, a new global reserve system could be created, one that no longer relies on the United States dollar as the single major reserve currency. The dollar has proved not to be a stable store of value, which is a requisite for a stable reserve currency. Nonetheless, motivated in part by needs for self-insurance against volatility in commodity markets and capital flows, many developing countries accumulated vast amounts of such reserves during the 2000s. Hence, a new system needs to be developed. That system should allow for better pooling of reserves at the regional and international levels; it must not be based on a single currency or even multiple national currencies but, instead, should permit the emission of international liquidity (such as SDRs) to create a more stable global financial system. Such emissions of international liquidity could also underpin the financing of investment in long-term sustainable development, as suggested above. - UN World Economic And Social Survey 2010 (page 23)
Does anyone really understand what is really happening? Do they know that there is a chorus of nations who for varying reasons are going to tear this nation apart limb from limb? Do you think you are going to hang on to your house, car HDTV's and your affluent lifestyle after our leaders finish selling you out? In the meantime, Obama is using it as an excuse to be more repressive on journalists and in ways to kill Americans while he and those of both parties takes money from our enemies to do their bidding. You will never know now, just how much money the Chinese, Al Qaeda, Russia, The Mossad, Hizbollah, The Zeta's, are giving. There is no way to know now that the Supreme Court allows anyone with deep pockets to support candidates without any tracking? Want to talk about a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head? In a National Security sense, that is what that decision was.

There are real mines in Utah. Many of you do not know how important mining is today. There are all kinds of them here in America. Several years ago, when Bush-Cheney were on office, a proposal went forward to the President to put war prisoners and uncharged, illegally detained Muslims into forced labor camps in these mines. This would have enriched those who had the political connections to obtain this labor force. The idea was to eventually also pick up muslims in America and put them into these camps as well. For you black Americans out here, ever heard of the Black Muslims?

Guess who was about to go back into slavery.

Guess who is now in control of the Obama administration? You guess it, same exact folks who wanted to bring in the labor camps. This should not surprise you, as Obama now wants to assassinate Americans. I say this in all sincerity, you can thank Bush and Bush alone that this is not what happened because when the truth is out, you will find that Bush was not quite as bad as left leaning, paid-for-with-obama-supporting, neoconservative-corporate-money scholars think he was. He was just under enormous pressure from evil forces to do their bidding. Obama seems far more willing to accommodate these very same faces, who are known for their virulent anti-black and anti-Jewish racism.

Look somebody has to say something. 'Conspiracy Joe' isn't going to tell you, he doesn't have a clue. The MSM isn't going to tell you, they are controlled. Those that find out and try and tell you via a MSM source get snuffed out. Ask Tim Russert and Tony Snow. They knew and were going to do a story on it.

Then they died.

So stay uninformed if you want to, One day some guy from Mexico or China is going to come knocking on your door and tell you to come with them. You will be led off to a work camp, rape camp or death camp depending on your genetic and or political 'predisposisions', your property will be stolen by them as the guy in the County Recorders office will falsify a deed of transfer... if he wants to see his or her kids alive again. There will be no news stories on it, no expose's on CNN, no item in the local papers and folks like Alex Jones, myself and one or two others who have enough courage to tell you what is really happening and are not really paid spies or government plants, we will be one of first ones picked up. You simply will not be told or even have a clue until you get a knock on the door.

So while our leaders are spending billions on bombers and ships that will never be used in a war. The real war is just about lost. The war of unrestricted warfare I have told my readers about many, many times.

Folks, this war is already lost because the 'great betrayer' is selling us out right now. Our security officials are telling us to hold off on any amnesty for illegals as this is one of the key goals of the Narco Traffickers. Who is now calling for amnesty? Obama! This after being given classified briefings of the enormous risks to US security if he allows it to go forward. The Democrats, in need of money and votes are not listening. They (and the GOP) are giving federal dollars to organizations who have the exact same aim as the Narco terrorists, the control of the American southwest. Folks, this is not so much a personal attack on Obama as it is on the entire system that allows the Obama's Bush's Cheney's and Clinton's, Pelosi's, Reid's, and Hastert's of the world into power. Obama is not your problem, he is just a symptom of a much deeper and larger problem that 99% of Americans do not know. I can use a statistic like that because I need only look at how Americans vote to see that they simply have no idea what is really happening. Third party candidates got less than 1% of the vote in 2008, the criminals got the other 99%.

Some of my readers wonder how this relates to spirituality, the Gospel and the last days. They want me to talk about angels and devils, hell fire and damnation, miracles and somebody's purported 'word from the Lord', but not about politics and money. Well, let me tell you how it relates and why so many Christians are going to get hoodwinked by the devil. Go and read Revelation chapter 13, parts of chapter 14 as well as chapterz 17 and 18. Read it most carefully and ask yourself why the Holy Spirit spends so much time talking about an extremely deceptive last days political, economic and spiritual system that arises in the last days. Is it because Politics and economics have no Spiritual importance? Is it to cause scholars to debate about it till they run out of breath? It is it to give you nightmares in your sleep? Or is it to warn you and those who have an ear to hear of that system and show you the things to look for when it arrives so that YOU will not be fooled by it as so very, very many have. Go back and read Christ's words on the Last days, the Olivet Discourse (Matt 24, Luke 21, Mark 13) and read the things that Christ predicted. Now how many people out there really understand that we are in those very last days? What do you think Christ meant when he said lawless would abound? Think about it, he was not talking about the normal criminality that has been seen since man first saw his neighbors field and wanted to steal it. No, he is talking about something far more significant and dangerous, so bad that 'the love of many would wax cold'. So Watson's Web has spent many years talking about corruption, not just in America but around the world. This is the number one political and economic issue of our times and if you do not know that, you do not know what is happening. It is just that simple. Our Attorney General was absolutely correct when he named it as such a few weeks ago. You don't think it is? Wait till one day you come home and find a new family living in your house who some how got a 'legal' title to your home, even though you paid it off, 4 years ago! You see, I can talk about literally billions being stolen (literally) of the the Federal Reserve and it does not register with people. It is an 'esoteric' corruption. But when it hits home like a tidal wave, coupled with violence they will see... when it is too late to do anything about it except be led away to a camp in chains or get gunned down in the street. Folks will say that is not going to happen, the government will protect us! To which I can only repeat, they are the ones who are selling you out to these criminals of various stripes, nationalities and interests while you sit there with the NFL on and throw back a beer.

I have talked about apostasy and criminality (some of it so bad I cannot post out of fear for my life) in the Church. I talked about it over and over again. I warn, folks ignore. They do not believe that this has any real relevance to the last days. For in their minds, the last days never really come, it is just another esoteric theory people talk about at Church picnics, if indeed such topics are allowed to be discussed with the openly gay pastor. So I talk about these things because the Bible warns about them, in many places in different ways for OUR EDIFICATION. Do you want to be lost? Keep on ignoring sites like this one and the words of Christ so clearly written in your Bibles. Go ahead and do what so many do, reinterpret them to no effect and ignore their warnings. Your place in perdition will be guaranteed.

So when I tell you that Obama is in bed with some really evil people, I mean that Obama is in bed with some truly evil people. Ones behind pulling solid Christian programming from TV, perverting US textbooks to rewirte US history, teaching that sodomy is cool and should be taught to kids, that kids as young as 7 and 8 should be wearing Condoms (oh yes, this is happening now in America!) These are the folks Obama is in bed with. They helped him pass ObamaCare, in exchange for continued Oil drilling rights and expansion of offshore drilling, going soft on Wall Street reforms and a continuance of the lucrative wars that are one of their major revenue streams. They are into Afghan Drug dealers, Narco money launderers, Murder for hire (like Snow, Russert, DC Madam and scores of others you have heard about in the news and thousands of others whose deaths were not newsworthy). That is Obama's master. Men so evil that Christians have great difficulty sitting in the same room with these people as they are clearly demonically possessed. That is who this administration is serving. But once again, Obama is not the only problem, he is now just the most significant part of it by virtue of the office he holds. To give you a big hint. The Bush administration never left office, they just found some black face, changed its name and repeated the word 'change' and were able to stay in power.

So if this administration has no plan to save the US economy it is because the real power has plans to wreck the economy and steal as much as it can in the process. Folks, I am telling you, that is the plan, whether you wish to accept it or not.

Well when it comes to what is coming to America and her pitifully clueless, decadent and ignorant population, The Supreme Court had the right idea (for once); this government is not going to protect you and Americans even in their pitiful state, deserve some kind of chance to protect themselves from the real threat. Our government will certainly aid and abet our enemies because that is what they will be paid to do, rather than try and contain them. Why? Because that is where the money is. The real money is in betrayal, that is where you get the money to get elected in America and it is why America is on the Highway to Hell.

I have to say it, this is essence of the Obama phenomenon and God help you if you cannot see it after 19 months of this guy.

It is this very phenomenon that has the American economy still heading downwards, even after billions in stimulus spending, much of which disappeared in a maze of political corruption and trillions (with a 'T') in bailouts. The guy has no plan, other than take money from large donors, make promises he knows he can't keep while he shuffles his feet for the the massa. This guy has NO PLAN to save, reform, retool, reorganize or in any way save the US economy. This is the problem folks, the guy never had a plan other than to throw money at political constituents as political pay back, using a heavily indebted treasury to do it with. This man is a total creature of those who are destroying America. Consider:

Obama is spending hundreds of billions of dollars on wars that cannot be won and the nation cannot afford. Even now, MSM editors are asking hard questions. Why are we in Afghanistan?. I will tell you without sounding long winded. There are two reasons, One is to prevent, as much as possible, a major energy (and security) hook-up/cooperation between India, China, Russia and Iran that could strengthen economic ties of the SCO (or a new entity that has the same members). The other is to provide a stealth bailout to the Defense industry. Spin it anyway you want to, that is why we are in Afghanistan. The Taliban/Al Qaeda is a footnote. So ask yourself this if you think we are there to root out AQ, why would we need to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to root out 100 people? Does that make any sense to you... at all? Where is all that money going? Hint hint hint...
Only a fourth of the ongoing corruption investigations by U.S. oversight officials in Afghanistan are strictly targeting Afghan suspects, the top U.S. investigator in Afghanistan said Tuesday in Kabul. The other three-fourths are investigating transactions that involve at least one Western suspect.

While he wouldn't identify officials or companies under investigation, the figures seem to support Afghan government contentions that corruption is every bit as widespread among Western officials as it is in their own ranks.

"About 40 percent of our investigations involve procurement fraud," said Raymond J. DiNunzio, the assistant inspector general for the U.S. special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction. U.S. and Western governments frequently issue large contracts to support military and reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan, for labor, security guards and building materials, for example. - McClatchy News Service

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Billions of dollars are being secreted out of Kabul to help well-connected Afghans buy luxury villas in Dubai. Amid concerns that the money could be the result of corruption, American politicians have temporarily cut off aid to the Afghan government...

...It is clear that much more money is making its way out of Afghanistan through Kabul's airport than is being officially declared and logged. For example, important politicians and businesspeople can often board planes from the airport's special VIP area without being searched. And if customs officials do conduct a search and find a suitcase stuffed with millions of dollars in cash, people with powerful connections often step in to make sure that the luggage makes it out of the country with its owner -- no questions asked. "A couple phone calls are made," General Jabarkhel says with frustration in his voice, "and the person can carry on." - Der Spiegel
The good news is that they are investigating it, the bad news is that the revenue stream continues in the same direction, billions more towards a pointless war, much of it stolen... with American political protection. Here is a man talked of fiscal accountability but the reality is that he is the most profligate President in US History.

Who is to blame? Obama along with members of both parties, himself included. Administration propagandists say that 'they inherited this mess' Well that is true up to a point, for it is the Democrats and the GOP that gave us this economic mess and deficits (any major trillion dollar funding for wars have been approved by both parties, do NOT let them fool you). Obama has just made both mess and deficits, much much worse. Why? Because I will say it again, after spending all of that money, he still has no plan to transform the US economy. None. What happens if some fundamental changes are not made soon?

You will be you standing in an unemployment line as State's take a major axe to budgets; companies cannot hire people as their contracts go away. Why? Because there is no money in the states coffers, More companies move overseas to escape the trap of rising taxation from the State Houses, Obama starts another war, adding more deficits, Obama starts to cut more Social Security (I know Senior's who saw as much as $150 cut from their checks since the hOrrible 'O' took office, but you don't read about it in the controlled press) and more older Americans who are just barely holding on, get put out on the street. What happens to real estate markets when state workers lose Jobs and contractors no longer get contracts? What kinds of things happen when financial crimes really hit main street, things like ordinary working people getting totally wiped out of their savings and all traces and evidence points back to the Federal Reserve (I am telling you this is going to happen if Obama and Holder cannot get their act together)? Who are you gonna call? Who is going to help you? You think this nation has troubles now? Let this President finish his term.

Where is any economic growth going to come from? Now why do you think Obama is behaving like the last administration with more money going to the DHS, plans to kill Americans, not letting journalists visit beaches where his own blithering incompetence is largely responsible for the horrific damage being done by one of his principle campaign donors (PESR readers understand why). Because he has no plan to help you, so he must control and eventually kill you for the crime of losing your jobs and being hungry and cold while he protects the corporations who pay his campaign bills and destroy America.

Do not kid yourself with overly optimistic view on our economic state, We have passed deficits that are now as great as our entire GDP! We are careening towards a disaster that could be only months away. This, once again is not a drill. America cannot borrow its way to prosperity, it must work and spend save its way there. As long as 'Free and unfair trade' is the mantra of the US establishment of both parties, that will be impossible. Until workers in America can make goods and consumables again that can be traded, real unemployment will reach over 30%... and stay there with significantly reduced social safety nets. This is the future and let no one tell you differently. Our economy cannot compete with slave labor and wages that are often under a dollar a day. It is impossible, unless you want America to look like China did... 50 years ago and still looks like in a great many places. DO NOT kid yourself, if you are warm, clothed, eat regularly and have a home you are under a very real threat, no matter your career, location or what they tell you in the Washington Post. We need to make real wealth that can be consumed and exported. Today one of our largest exports is trash. I know what I am talking about. I know some of the folks in the State department who go around the world to places like Indonesia, West Africa, China you name it to get people to take our Trash, they even have a highly technical diplomatic term for it that escapes me at this time. Things like old batteries, Computer parts, ordinary refuse from your home... all kinds of garbage. That is our top export! Keep this in mind, we have to give them something in return for taking all that trash! Folks, I am telling you, that is what America exports to the world, that and another commodity that is soon to become trash: The US dollar.

That is where Obamanomics is taking us. He can say what he wants to about it and smile all he wants to, he knows it, I know it and anyone with any sense can see it, if they really want to.

The poor house awaits you if you put this two party monstrosity back in power. I am not talking about financial discomfort, but the literal poor house for millions. What is my advice to all who read this?
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. (Isa 55:6-7)
Do NOT let yourself be put into this category.
And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. (Isa 1:15)
The message is the same today as it was when Isaiah wrote his words 2500 years ago. Repent, do good hate the evil. Love the Lord for the people of that day were very much like Americans of our day.
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths. The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace. Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. (Isa 59:3-9)
So the message is the same, nothing has changed: Repent and let the Lord heal you, lest he turn and destroy you and this once great nation.

2010-07-12T23:38:00.000-04:00

God We Need Your Help!
Posted: Monday, July 12, 2010
- written by jerry golden

Reports coming out of southern Lebanon tells us that UN Troops are under attack by Hezbollah and Lebanese civilians who are not being allowed into villages along the border with Israel. Air and other surveillance has shown that a huge amount of weaponry, including missiles, is being moved closer to Israel's border. Our news agencies here in Israel are telling us that Hezbollah is preparing for war and have escalated their movements as if they plan on being in a war very soon. One thing is very certain; the threat of war is growing by the minute. The IDF is on HIGH alert and soldiers are being advised to stay close to their units.

To ensure Hezbollah is fully aware that we know what they are doing in the villages near our borders, the IDF has been broadcasting aerial surveillance videos on TV showing that they are placing missiles and other weapons near Schools, Mosques, and Hospitals in order to assure a victory [at least in the national news media] for Israel will have no choice but to go after them. They are getting ready to fight two wars, the first one on the ground and the second for international opinion. This time around the Lebanese Government has brought Hezbollah into their government - making all of Lebanon open for Israel to attack. Syria has supplied Hezbollah with scud missiles capable of reaching all of Israel. Syria has been told that should Hezbollah use one of the scuds in an attack on Israel that she will pay a very heavy price (Isa 17:1).

What the IDF knows about the new weapons Hamas has in Gaza, and how efficient they are, remains to be seen. However, one thing is certain; things will be much different this time and both of Iran's terrorist groups (Hezbollah and Hamas) could be planning a pre-emption and distraction for an Iranian attack.

What is now known is that the Saudis are also uptight over the Iranian threat. Not only have they opened their air space for an Israeli fly-over, but have even allowed Israel to use a couple of their airfields for refuelling. This brings to mind the Arab saying "the enemy of my enemy is my friend".

Speaking of distractions; Libya is sending another "aid" ship to crash the Gaza blockade. This of course means diverting a lot of our naval resources to intercept this vessel - when they could be better used patrolling the Lebanese coast.

Once again I catch myself, like many others, shouting wolf, wolf! Well folks, the wolf is here and the question is; is he crazy or brave enough to attack? Talking with a few friends today in Jerusalem [who are all ex military officers], they believe we are about to go into some very hard days and they are very concerned.

As for this Ministry we are moving forward and we know we must keep our eyes on the things God has set before us. As for survival, we can only do so much and then the rest is in God's Hands - yet I am sure He expects us to do so much.

All of this at a time when America has been taken over by Mr. Hussein Obama and the corrupted ones he has gathered around him to finish off the United States. I have never been able to understand how he was elected, and what is even harder too understand is how he is still sitting in the White House? My only answer is that a people get the government they deserve? Don't get mad at me - just look around your country and be honest.

We need your help while it is still possible, to learn how to support CLICK.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, for our son Joel and all the IDF soldiers. Pray for this Ministry and your part in it.

Shalom, Jerry Golden

The Golden Reort
http://www.thegoldenreport.com/

2010-07-10T23:56:00.000-04:00

The phony Mideast debate
Exclusive: Joseph Farah clears up historical myths meant to cast Israel as Goliath

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Posted: July 09, 2010
1:00 am Eastern

By Joseph Farah

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Israel has lost its best friend and ally in the world – the United States of America.

There's no denying the fact that Barack Obama has dramatically shifted U.S. policy toward the Middle East in a way that favors the so-called "Palestinian" cause at the expense of the Jewish state.

Back in 1967, the world was stunned and amazed as the underdog state of Israel, surrounded by Arab armies, seemingly on the verge of annihilation, routed its enemies in six days. There was no talk of a "Palestinian state" in 1967. The Arab states were determined to destroy Israel and claim the territory for themselves. There had been no state of Palestine before – not in the entire history of the world.

But after that stunning military victory by Israel, a new strategy was developed by Yasser Arafat, with the support of the Arab countries, to change tactics and reframe the terms of the debate over the conflict.

Instead of a war of conquest by numerically superior Arab armies, Arafat, with the help of the Soviet Union, began a long campaign to redefine the struggle as one by indigenous people, the Palestinians, to liberate their land from foreign occupiers.

Never mind that Arafat himself was an Egyptian or that most of the so-called "Palestinians" had actually been citizens of Jordan or other Arab countries and had freely emigrated to Israel because of its economic boom over the previous decades, coinciding with Jewish immigration and ingenuity. The historical narrative had been successfully rewritten. And historical narratives are powerful propaganda devices.

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Today, billions of people all over the world actually believe that the "Palestinians" are just in their quest for a homeland they never knew, a homeland that never existed, a homeland that is as fictitious as their rewritten historical narrative.

Myths can be powerful. Myths can be difficult to overcome. Myths are what shape the Middle East debate and conflict today.

The talk of "justice" for Palestinians resonates in the ears of the world. Israel, once seen as David, has been successfully recast in the public's mind as a Goliath.

Obscured amid all the mythmaking has been the actual title deed to the land of Israel.

To whom does it actually belong?

Historically, there is no question about that.

The Jews were largely driven out of the land in the first century, dispersed throughout the whole world. But the Jews, unlike perhaps any other people in the history of the world, maintained their Jewish culture and identity – always longing for a return to their one and only homeland as promised by God in their holy Scriptures.

Once conquered, the land of Israel was neglected and remained largely uninhabited. A Jewish presence was always maintained there. At the beginning of the 20th century, this was still the case – with the majority of the population of Jerusalem and surrounding areas being Jewish.

The world watched in the 1930s and 1940s as Adolf Hitler began his extermination campaign against the Jews. The world prevented Jews from escaping to the U.S. and to the land now known as Israel. Half the world's Jewish population was killed.

Even after that horrific Holocaust, there was international resistance to the Jews returning to their one and only homeland, still largely unpopulated, untamed, undeveloped.

But, just as the prophet Isaiah foretold (Isaiah 66:8) in the Jewish Scriptures, the nation of Israel was, in 1948, reborn in a day.

This is not occupation, as the world suggests. This is a people defending their one and only homeland against the most vicious and unjustified attacks imaginable.

Is it any wonder Barack Obama would be on the wrong side of this conflict?

Let me suggest that being on the wrong side of this conflict is, definitionally, being on the wrong side of history and on the wrong side of God's plan for all humanity.

2010-07-10T23:52:00.001-04:00

NORTH DAKOTA OIL RAIN

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July 8 A heavy downpour hit the Columbus area late last week, causing rapid and extensive
runoff into Short Creek. The reservoir rose quickly and topped the spillway.
The water was the color of tea on Friday July 2 and Wednesday it is like black coffee and getting darker every day.
An oily film could be seen floating on top of much of the reservoir, where the water had receded, shoreline vegetation was black.
The whole shoreline was solid with dead fish and it was stinking. Nobody went swimming. Nobody. Everybody stayed on shore.
Short Creek Dam Recreation Area is just north of Columbus ND. The reservoir covers 108 acres.
What about tapwater? Dont light a match near it! Is it safe? Not likely.

2010-07-10T23:49:00.000-04:00

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NATO Orders 7,000 US Marines warships to Costa Rica
Curiouser and curiouser . . . .
My friend J believes something very bad will occur tomorrow, Sunday July 11th.
Blow up in the gulf? Attack on Iran? GET SET! GET SET:

July 10 NEW speculation WHY U.S. ships are there - they would SINK if they remain in the Gulf.
Whats wrong with that news? There are hundreds of ships in the gulf NOW, are they riding lower in the water? Dunno.
If you live in ANY of the gulf states including Florida YOU NEED to be daily following my evacuation blog,
and SERIOUSLY praying about picking up and leaving - ASAP! This means without delay.

July 8 NATO has ordered 7,000 US Marines to Costa Rica, Central America over fears the
Gulf of Mexico disaster is about to rupture the fracture zone lying between the North American and Caribbean Plates, unleashing a
catastrophic earthquake. NATO has taken defacto control over the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster from B Hussein Obama - GOOD!
The United States may be preparing for an invasion from Russia. EXCELLENT new posts on forum link!
Costa Rica, follow in my forum:
Evacuating gulf, forum:

Gulf of Mexico Disaster was INTENTIONAL
This is FAR worse than what the news is telling everyone. Think Mount St. Helens underwater.
Even CNN's Anderson Cooper has asked if this Gulf disaster was "STAGED."

- The COREXIT chemical sprayed over the Gulf of Mexico is destroying the ships in that sea.
- July 7 - 4 known dead in last 10 days after swimming at Gulf beaches
- HOSPITAL - the toxic chemicals in gulf can cause pneumonia and respiratory failure

'E,' a Christian friend of mine with a steady head on his shoulders and a close friendship with the Lord believes a methane bubble will indeed blow up, fire, tsunami.

E wrote
I think the methane explosion, tsunami disater in the Gulf WILL occur to bring down the USA as a superpower and set up the
next sequence of events including martial law and persection of Christians. There is a plan to destroy the USA economically,
politically and spiritually, and to bring in the New World Order. With the USA reduced to a third world cripple, the plan will continue in force.

God has plans of His own, and this disaster may fit into those plans. The USA may say, "What the heck?" and loose war in various spots.
They may think, "What is the sense in holding back now?" Also, we can look for collateral damage from the methnae explosion,
in that in will shut down ALL or most Gulf oil pumping and delivery from that region, and the USA will be shut down due to lack of gasoline.

Florida will be decimated with millions dead or missing, as will all the gulf states, and even parts of South (and Central) America
and maybe even Cuba and Mexico. All the rigs will be affected in one way or the other, and I suspect that pumping will cease,
which is what they want, and they will be forced to go the Middle East to get the oil.
Game on! Watch out for Russia and China at this point to attack with their nuclear weapons and invade to stabilize America.

The ramifications we can not begin to imagine, but looting, murder, martial law, killing of "undesirables" will be in full force.
Americans will not rally and USA may split as a result along the New Madrid fault.
Basically, the worst case scenario. A nation of refugees is possible. Famine, above mentioned tragedies, and dollar collapse are in this mix.

Richard C. Hoagland video reports on BP oil spill gas bubble. 2 Parts
The CATASTROPHE in the gulf has not even BEGUN. What we know is NOTHING compared to what Richard is saying.
CLAIM - No bouyancy, cant swim, ships sink. What he says I dont comprehend, but I do understand 'ships sink.'
NEW speculation WHY U.S. ships are in Costa Rica - they would SINK if they remain in the Gulf.

Depth recorders have detected a gas bubble growing under the ocean floor around the well head.
GPS measurements found that it is over 15 miles wide.
If this explodes, impending disaster could be awaiting millions of residents in the gulf states. An eruption will create a tsunami.

Obama is destroying America INTENTIONALLY to bring in the NWO (new world order, world government),
the 666 beast system of Revelation chapter 13 - Agenda 21 eugenics.

We are entering into a period of time the bible describes as the beginning of sorrows and the time of Jacobs (Israel) troubles,
the TRIBULATION PERIOD. Are you ready? Pray up and repent of your sins. REPENT means to TURN AWAY FROM your sins.

BLOG post July 9 2010 update from a CIA in the Gulf
He said plans to evacuate the Gulf area are still in place. They will use an upcoming hurricane as justification.
Although BP says they will cap the well in a couple weeks, that is false. The methane gas bubble is getting bigger,
and if it explodes, over a million people could die. Those are his exact words, he is a man of his word.
When I asked him if we were about to go to war with Iran, he just said, "next question".
But if I ask him something that is already leaked to the public, he can confirm or debunk it.

CATASTROPHE! link proves this was planned, intentional on Page 9 and page 18 shows you WHY.
CATASTASTROPHE! * Oil Gusher in the Gulf:
Richard C. Hoagland part 1:
Richard C. Hoagland part 2:
CODEX is AGENDA 21 :
Evacuating gulf, forum:

WHO will die first
1 - Infirm, those whose survival DEPENDS on meds such as diabetics

2 - Welfare recipients, govt housing - they will be herded on busses
Looters and druggies will become killers and be shot

3 - Yuppies, hippies, environmental wackos, peaceniks
People in debt who have not put away foods and supplies

She did not mention the elderly, but others have.
Others have said all the thousands in Gulf states will be killed.

2010-07-10T23:31:00.001-04:00

Timeline 2010 to 2019: Events on the Calendar That Could be Very Significant
- Bill Koenig

I will continue to add new information to our timeline as it is discovered and revealed. Never before have there been so many biblically significant events evolving at such a rapid pace.

The peace talks in Israel could lead to the Daniel 9:27 seven-year peace covenant and Benjamin Netanyahu could be the leader who would sign for Israel.

Major earth cycles pertaining to Israel, Jerusalem and the U.S. are beginning to occur in 2010 — with many converging in 2011; Eric Hadik has shared that with us, with more coming from him soon.

Accuweather's Chief Hurricane Meteorologist Joe Bastardi predicts a total of 16-18 storms this hurricane season that begins June 1 and ends Nov. 30. To put that in perspective, only eight years in the 160 years of records have had 16 or more storms in a season.

The back-to-back 'blood-red' total lunar eclipses on the first day of Passover and Sukkoth in 2014 and 2015 is very significant. Three previous sets of back-to-back "blood-red" lunar eclipses occurred right after/or at the time of a very trying times for Jews — with the last two being at the time of two major wars in Israel.
The blood-red moons occurred on the first day of Passover and Sukkoth in the two years after the end of the Spanish Inquisition in 1492 (1493-1494), the two years after Israel's War of Independence in 1948 (1949-1950), and the same year and the year after the Six-Day War in 1967 (1967-1968).

The 2014 and 2015 back-to-back "blood-red" moons on the first day of Passover and Sukkoth will be the last time this century and the eighth time since Jesus Christ was on earth. (From Mark Biltz's 2008 study: click here)

The 50th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem falls on May 27, 2017 (Sivan 2, 5778).

The 70th anniversary of Israel’s statehood falls on April 20, 2018 (Iyar 5, 5779).

A major earthquake, fitting the 14-year pattern, is expected in 2018, which will be Israel's 70th anniversary (more details below).
The Significance of the Time Frame

The peace talks in Israel are moving into a very serious stage; there is an increasing chance that a Psalm 83 war, a major conflict with Hezbollah and Hamas, could be near — which could lead to their demise and the possible fulfillment of Isaiah 17:1 pertaining to the destruction of Damascus.

The battle is intensifying over the city of Jerusalem; the relations of Russia, Iran, Syria, and Turkey are becoming more problematic; there is a rapid movement towards biometric IDs; and the world is quickly moving towards one-world financial, political and religious order and rapid moral decline.

Earth Cycles Converging in 2010-2011, Playing Out Until 2018 - Eric Hadik
Click here for Eric's 'Insiide Track' web site

Eric has shared with us in our recent news reports the converging of major earth cycles pertaining to the Kingdom of Jerusalem; Jerusalem wars; and April cycles pertaining to Israel and the U.S.

He has said there is a new swarm of significant — and potentially catastrophic — volcanic eruptions expected from 2012-2014 with precursor eruptions expected in 2010 and 2011.

He said that while much of current, global economic attention has been focused on the so-called 'PIIGS' (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain), the following discussion focuses on a global eruptive group of 'PIIGS' (Pacific, Italy, Iceland, Greece and South America) that are at the highest (cyclic) risk of major volcanic activity.

Similar to the earthquake swarm cycles that have been detailed the past several years (and which portended major events in 2010/2011, including expectations for South American/Chilean earthquakes in the February/May/August/November 90-day-period time frames), the volcanic swarm cycle is also linked to the sun’s 11-year sunspot cycle that just bottomed in 2009 and is increasing now.

However, it is the 22-year sunspot cycle (every other sunspot cycle when the sun's polarity returns to where it was two cycles previously) that has been the most consistent and which augers major volcanic eruptions in Europe (northern and southern borders), South America (Chile, in particular) and the Pacific. However, the United States also plays into this analysis in the coming years.

Major earthquakes cycles point to major events in 2011 and 2018 based on 14-year and 70-year cycles.

Major record-setting worldwide earthquakes have occurred every 14 years since 1906. The years: 1906, 1920, 1934, 1948, 1962, 1976, 1990 and 2004.

A major earthquake, fitting the 14-year pattern, is expected in 2018, which is also Israel's 70th anniversary.

The U.S. dollar: U.S. and world financial market cycles are converging from 2010 to 2014.
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We Have Potential Financial Implosions

Note: These are not to alarm people but to keep us informed, prayerful and conservative.

President Barack Obama is poised to increase the U.S. debt to a level that exceeds the value of the nation’s annual economic output, a step toward what Bill Gross of Pimco called a “debt super cycle.” U.S. Federal deficit just passed $13 trillion.

Obama's federal deficits in the $1.5 trillion annual range with continued decrease in tax revenue to service the debt, Social Security and Medicare: The Wall Street Journal's Jerry Seib writes that the federal budget deficit has become so large, it's time to consider it a natural security threat.

U.S. Commercial real-estate loans are the second-largest loan type after home mortgages. Banks hold more than half of the $3.4 trillion in outstanding commercial real-estate debt. Deutsche Bank AG has projected those commercial-real-estate losses for banks could end up being as high as $300 billion. (Oct. 15, 2009 – The Wall Street Journal)

The percentage of U.S. homeowners who owe more than their house is worth will nearly double to 48 percent in 2011 from 26 percent at the end of March, portending another blow to the housing market, Deutsche Bank said on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2009.

In fiscal 2011 and 2012, the U.S. states are expected to face another combined budget deficit of $260 billion, with the 2011 shortfall in places such as New Jersey, Illinois, Nevada and Arizona projected to be more than 35 per cent of last year’s budget according to the Financial Times.

Forty percent of U.S. junk bonds to default by 2013 according to Bank of America in September 2009.

The precarious financial derivatives exposure: A $670 trillion, high-risk, out-of-control casino that's highly leveraged versus the $50 trillion total annual GDP of all nations. We forget that derivatives almost destroyed global economies in 2008-2009, and could once again by 2012.

In the three years beginning in 2012, more than $700 billion in risky, high-yield corporate debt will start to mature. And that could really drop a hammer down on the junk bond market.

The European Central Banks (ECB's) Financial Stability Review said in the first week of June that banks must renew about 800 billion euros (950 billion dollars) in debt by the end of 2012, and that they would be competing head-on with governments in bond markets.
"In view of the considerable near-term funding needs of euro area governments, a particular concern is the risk of bank bond issuance being crowded out, making it challenging to roll over a sizeable amount of maturing bonds by the end of 2012," the central bank said.

Further economic collapse potential of other European countries. The U.S. is currently on the hook for up to $54 billion in the Greek bailout in a worse-case scenario.

The U.S. debt will top $13.6 trillion this year and climb to an estimated $19.6 trillion by 2015, according to a Treasury Department report to Congress.
Timeline 2010 to 2019

We will continue to add to the timeline as we discover more relevant events, dates and cycles.

2010

January 12 – Haiti's 7.0 earthquake

February 27 – Chile's 8.8 earthquake

March 19 - Quartet (US, UN, EU and Russia) meets in Moscow and calls on Israel to stop construction in East Jerusalem, freeze settlement construction and begin proximity talks with the Palestinians.

March 20 - Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano erupted for first time in 200 years.

Intelsat said it lost control of the Galaxy 15 satellite on April 5, possibly because the satellite's systems were knocked out by a solar storm. Intelsat cannot remotely steer the satellite to remain in its orbit, so Galaxy 15 is creeping toward the adjacent path of another TV communications AMC-1 satellite that serves U.S. cable companies. This could be a precursor to the major solar storm expected on May 2013 when some of the world’s 940 satellites will be at risk.

April 14-19 - European air space shut down due to ash from Iceland volcano. Over 100,000 flights cancelled costing $1.7 billion in damages. The ashes spread over Europe during Europe's Holocaust Remembrance Week (April 11-18).

April 19-20 - Israel's Independence Day - "There is a confluence of two very worrying events," said Michael Freund, a rightist columnist for The Jerusalem Post in a telephone interview. "One is the Iranian threat, an existential threat. Add to that the fact that for the first time in recent memory there is a president in the White House who is not overly sensitive to the Jewish state and its interests. You put the two together and it will affect anyone's mood, even an optimist like me."

April 20 - Indyk: Netanyahu must choose: Obama or his right-wing Likud Party.

April 20 - Major Gulf of Mexico oil spill begins at Horizon.

May 2 - Nashville flood damages estimated at $1.5 billion in that city alone, with more in Tennessee and Kentucky.

May 5-8 - George Mitchell in Jerusalem for peace talks.

May 5-13 - Iran, Syria and Hezbollah pounding the war drums. Iran developing cruise missile. Kicked off new "eight-day" war games and military maneuvers in the strategic Persian Gulf waters, the country's second military show of force in less than a month.

May 10 - Greek debt crisis - EU and US commit $1 trillion to keep euro from collapsing.

May 11 - Russia considering providing nuclear energy technology to Syria and Turkey.

May 11 - Accuweather's Chief Hurricane Meteorologist Joe Bastardi predicts a total of 16-18 storms this season. To put that in perspective, only eight years in the 160 years of records have had 16 or more storms in a season.

May 31 - June 6 - Israel and Turkey at serious odds over flotilla incident. Turkey is continuing to align with Iran and Russia, which are key countries in the Gog and Magog force spoken of in Ezekiel 38-39. Israel being further isolated internationally.
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia visited the White House on the 1th of Tammuz (June 29) to discuss Middle East peace and other issues.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the White House and committed to peace talks as soon as possible with Palestinians security guarantees.
2011

Netanyahu told the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) in New York on Thursday, July 8, 2010, that all core issues could be discussed in direct negotiations, and that if it were up to him, a peace deal with the Palestinians could be signed by the end of 2011.

April 19 - First Day of Passover.

May 9, 2011 (Iyar 10, 5771) - 63rd anniversary of Israel's statehood.

Sunspot cycle’s will continue increasing in intensity.

Major earthquakes expected in January consistent with two-year and seven-year cycles.

Jerusalem war cycle.

Kingdom of Jerusalem cycle.

Earthquake cycle.

Volcano eruptions 2011 to 2013.
2012

Solar storm cycles expected to increase the intensity of volcano eruptions, earthquakes and super storms and disrupt satellites and technologies on earth.

The satellite totals: US 437; Russia 95; China 58; Japan 44; India 22; Britain 21

A new swarm of significant — and potentially catastrophic — volcanic eruptions is expected from 2012-2014 with precursor eruptions expected in 2010 and 2011.

Wired Magazine: The 2012 apocalypse: The next period of intense solar activity is expected in 2012 and coincides with the presence of an unusually large hole in Earth's geomagnetic shield.

U.S. Presidential and Congressional elections — November 2012.

In the three years beginning in 2012, more than $700 billion in risky, high-yield corporate debt will start to mature. And that could really drop a hammer down on the junk bond market.
"An avalanche is brewing in 2012 and beyond if companies don't get out in front of this,” Kevin Cassidy, a senior credit officer at Moody’s Investors Service, told The New York Times.

The result is a potential financial doomsday, or what bond analysts call a maturity wall. From $21 billion due this year, junk bonds are set to mature at a rate of $155 billion in 2012, $212 billion in 2013 and $338 billion in 2015.

Next in line are companies with investment-grade credit ratings. They must refinance $1.2 trillion in loans between 2012 and 2014, including $526 billion in 2012.
2013

NASA says Solar Cycle 24 will peak in May 2013 with a below-average number of sunspots. The great geomagnetic storm of 1859, for instance, occurred during a solar cycle of about the same size we're predicting for 2013."

The 1859 storm — known as the "Carrington Event" after astronomer Richard Carrington who witnessed the instigating solar flare — electrified transmission cables, set fires in telegraph offices, and produced Northern Lights so bright that people could read newspapers by their red and green glow.
A recent report by the National Academy of Sciences found that if a similar storm occurred today, it could cause $1 trillion to $2 trillion in damages to society's high-tech infrastructure and require four to 10 years for complete recovery. For comparison, Hurricane Katrina caused "only" $80 to 125 billion in damages.

Under the Obama budget, interest would top 18 percent of revenue in 2018 and 20 percent in 2020, CBO projects. But under more adverse scenarios than the CBO considered, including higher interest rates, Moody's projects that debt service could hit 22.4 percent of revenue by 2013.

About 40 percent of all U.S. junk bonds outstanding in late 2008 will likely default by 2013 as government aid measures end and a wall of corporate debt comes due, Bank of America Merrill Lynch said on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009.
2014

Three previous back-to-back "blood-red" total lunar eclipses occurred on the first day of Passover and Sukkoth right after the 1492 Spanish Inquisition (in years 1493-1494), the 1948 War of independence (in years 1949-1950), and the 1967 Six-Day War (in the years 1967-1968), this pattern points to a very challenging time for Israel and war.

The Jewish Talmud says, "When the moon is in eclipse, it is a bad omen for Israel … If its face is as red as blood, [it is a sign that] the sword is coming to the world …"

The sages in the Talmud understood that a red lunar eclipse means that God will be bringing judgment to His people, Israel.

April 15 - Blood-red moon - First day of Passover (visible: Australia, Pacific, Americas).

Aug. 5 – 9th of Av.
The sabbatical year in the seven-year cycle (2008 to 2015) begins on Rosh Hashanah on Sept. 25, 2014, and ends on Rosh Hashanah on September 13-14, 2015 — the day of a partial solar eclipse.

Oct. 8 - Blood-red moon - First day of Sukkot (visible: Asia, Australia, Pacific, Americas).
2015

April 4 - Blood-red moon - First day of Passover (visible: Asia, Australia, Pacific, Americas).

July 26 - 9th of Av.

A seven-year cycle that began on Rosh Hashanah on Sept. 30, 2008, ends on Rosh Hashanah on Sept. 13-14, 2015. The sabbatical year from 2014 ends here, too.

Sept. 13 (Elul 10, 5776) - Partial solar eclipse on Rosh Hashanah.

Sept. 23 (Elul 20, 5777) - Year of Jubilee proclaimed on Yom Kippur.

Sept. 28 - Blood-red moon - First Day of Sukkot (visible: Eastern Pacific, Americas, Europe, Africa, Western Asia).
2016

Aug. 13 - 9th of Av.
2017

May 27 (Sivan 2, 5778) - 50th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem.

Nov. 2 (Cheshvan 13, 5778) - 100th anniversary of the Balfour agreement.
2018

The "blood-red" lunar eclipse sequences of 2018 and 2019 fall on the Jewish holiday Tu B’shvat (New Year of Trees). This marks the beginning of the "new year" for trees.

Tu B'Shvat is the New Year for the purpose of calculating the age of trees for tithing. The Torah states that fruit from trees which were grown in the land of Israel may not be eaten during the first three years; the fourth year's fruit is for G-d, and after that, the fruit can be eaten. Each tree is considered to have aged one year as of Tu B'Shvat, no matter when in the year it was planted.

It is customary to plant trees and partake of the fruits of the land of Israel to mark the occasion.

Jan. 31 - Blood-red moon - Tu B'shvat.

April 20 (Iyar 5, 5779) - 70th anniversary of Israel's statehood –
Yom Ha'atzmaut (national Independence Day of Israel).

July 27 - Blood-red moon - 15th of Av.

Major record-setting earthquakes have occurred every 14 years since 1906. The last one was the 9.0 Indian Earthquake/Tsunami in December 2004, which points to another one in 2018.
2019

Jan. 21- Blood-red moon - Tu B’shvat (visible: South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia).

2010-07-02T23:17:00.000-04:00

Financial Flim Flam
No One Knows
Chuck Colson

Here we are, after three long years, still enduring one of the most serious recessions in American history.

And, as you’ve heard me say many times, it’s an economic disaster we have brought upon ourselves—from ethical failures on the part of Congress, government bureaucrats, Wall Street, lenders, and, yes, ordinary citizens who were either too greedy or lacked enough common sense to realize they shouldn’t buy homes they can’t afford.

And we see the wreckage everywhere: lost jobs, houses, depleted 401(k)s, all up in smoke.

This is the revenge of secularism, the result of a nation that has lost the Christian work ethic—honest work for an honest wage, delayed gratification, avoiding personal debt. It is what happens when we abandon biblical principles and engage in reckless behavior.

And what have we learned?

Apparently, nothing. Not one thing.

That’s the only conclusion I can reach after seeing that Congress is posed to pass a monstrous, 2,000-page finance reform bill that a) no one, including your elected leaders, understands, and b) simply ignores one of the chief causes of the economic collapse.

I say no one understands the bill because the bill’s sponsor doesn’t even seem to know. The Washington Post reports that Senator Christopher Dodd said, "No one will know until this [the bill] is actually in place how it works.”

Are you kidding me?

But Senator Dodd knows exactly what the bill won't do. And that is clean house at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the very two agencies that the Wall Street Journal called, “the toxic twins of the mortgage industry.”

As the Journal opines, “By far the most significant error of omission in the bill is the failure to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government sponsored enterprises that encouraged the origination of risky mortgages in the first place by purchasing them with the support of many in Congress.”

And that’s what should have every American citizen enraged. Fannie and Freddie, which pumped out heaven knows how many bad loans, are left un-reformed by a reform bill passed by our elected leaders, who in turn have received millions of dollars in campaign contributions from Fannie and Freddie.

How cozy. How corrupt. And how utterly unacceptable.

There are other problems with this bill: Does it fix the corrupt system of bond rating agencies, who are paid by their clients for favorable ratings? Are the American people protected from never-ending bailouts of failed banks and corporations? Well, as Senator Dodd would say, “no one knows.”

It is grossly irresponsible for the people who brought us this catastrophe to pretend they are fixing it—when all they are doing is adding level upon level of bureaucracy, more government, more spending, all without addressing the fundamental problems.

Democracy can’t work this way. The elites are counting on the American people to go back to their iPhones and twitter accounts and forget the whole thing. They’ll take care of things for us.

Well, I say this is beneath the dignity of a free people. If citizens do not express their outrage, then we deserve what we get.

2010-06-30T23:05:00.001-04:00

Gulf Oil Spill - The Greatest Disaster Since The Flood?
Politics / Environmental Issues
Jun 23, 2010 - 01:23 AM

By: Submissions

Joshua S. Burnett writes: Most articles begin with a purpose statement revealing what the author desires to convince the reader of. This article is different. These few paragraphs begin with a plea for someone to tell me that I’ve got the evidence all wrong and that what I see and know is a smoke filled illusion void of reality. I want someone who knows differently to tell me. So as you read this article please understand that I’m not attempting to be a fear-mongerer. Please know I’m no prophet or guru, just a guy who looks at all the evidence he has and draws conclusions. And if you know I’m wrong and why, please write and tell me.

First, let’s review the facts:

1.The spill has continued, unimpeded, for two months now.
2.No advancement has been made on actually plugging the leak.
3.Every attempt at plugging the leak thus far has failed, and failed totally. It’s not as if we’ve made progress and fallen just short. We haven’t done jack.
4.Not only have we not made any progress in plugging the leak, the estimates of how much oil is actually leaking have grown steadily to the point where the official rate is now twelve times higher than initially released (from 5k bbl/day to 60k bbl/day) and the private estimates double the official rate (120k bbl/day).
5.Before this, Exxon Valdez was the worst oil spill in American history. That took months for the initial cleanup and much of the oil spilled was unrecoverable (boom operations, the bread and butter of oil cleanup, only captures 20% of spilled crude) and continues to contaminate the area, years afterward. If current official estimates are to be believed (and they’re on the very low end of plausibility) we’ve got 15 Exxon Valdez’s already spilled in the Gulf. The equivalent of another Exxon Valdez is spilled every four days (every two days if private estimates of leak rates are true).
6.We’re now in hurricane season. We’ve averaged 11 named storm systems per season for the past 53 years.
7.Oil generally floats to the top of the water (exceptions to be explained later) which is the first liquid to be picked up by storm systems.
8.One quart of oil contaminates 250,000 gallons of water.
9.The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is located right off the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Just considering these facts here’s what I would consider to be the expected outcome (not the worst case): first, we wouldn’t need anything more than a tropical storm (of which we can expect 11 in the geographical vicinity this year) to pick up a massive quantity of oil and rain it all over the coast to an inland distance of several hundred miles (it isn’t uncommon for hard rain from a tropical storm to reach as far north as Tennessee). This oil will destroy all vegetation it lands on and poison any surface water and probably shallow water tables. These water sources are what all local wildlife subsists on and the source for all city water purification I know of. You obviously see the problem here. I can see some of the hardier trees surviving if we get enough pure rainfall immediately following a tropical storm or hurricane drenching, but all this would do is to rinse the oil into ponds, lakes, streams, rivers, and the water table; cleaning this up would be a multiple year nightmare; recovery for the region would be measured in decades.

But that’s not all of it; here’s where I outline my “worst case” scenario. The main reason they’re having such incredible problems capping the darn thing is not because of depth; it’s because of internal well pressure. In the pre-drilling geological surveys a massive methane pocket was discovered coinciding with the oil deposits; this pocket is sitting at a pressure of 100,000 psi. Current engineering technology doesn’t exist to contain something at 100,000 psi, meaning efforts to cap this puppy are useless. The presence of this methane pocket is becoming harder to ignore as 40-70% of the emissions from the leak are now comprised of natural gas (and we’re still blowing out 60,000-120,000 barrels of oil a day). Best estimates put the amount of methane leaking at 2,900 cubic feet for every barrel of oil spilled (with an estimated 4.5-9.0 billion cubic feet of methane leaked so far… and the dang thing is STILL in six digit psi).

The secondary concern here is the pressure and what happens if (more like when) it is discovered that the oil leak can’t actually be capped as it spews with that amount of internal force. The primary concern is what happens if/when the methane pocket ruptures; some estimates put its size at 15-20 miles wide (at 100,000 pounds of pressure per square inch).

If the methane bubble explodes, it would create a tsunami that would wipe out anything within dozens (and possibly hundreds) of miles of the Gulf Coast in all directions (view this animation of the 2009 tsunami in Samoa and how it spread). The tsunami in the Indian Ocean in 2004 wiped out between 150,000-300,000 people, some as far away as South Africa. This was caused by an earthquake that shifted the ocean floor by meters. An explosion of this size would shift the ocean floor for miles. The Gulf is touched by the Mississippi River and opens into the Caribbean where it is exposed to the Panama Canal.

I’ve just outlined what I think would be the worst case scenario. So, for fairness sake, let’s turn our attention to the best case scenario. To do that let’s assume a few things:

1.The oil leak is capped today (a virtual impossibility, since BP’s most optimistic estimates don’t even put sufficient siphoning capability in the region until mid/late July). Or, let’s assume the oil runs out (yet another virtual impossibility seeing how it is still spewing out of the ground at 100,000 psi; this tells us there’s quite a bit more where that came from). But let’s assume one of these two possibilities.
2.We’ve got the equivalent of between 15 and 30 Exxon Valdez’s that have spilled in the Gulf. One of the inherent traits of oil is that it separates from water and rises to the top; but this inherent trait can be temporarily suspended. Think back to grade school when one of your teachers brought in colored water and oil mixed in a two liter bottle; if you shook it hard enough you could get the two to mechanically mix and it would take a period of time for the two to separate. That’s with the strength of a fourth grader. One of the problems revealed in this video is that much of the oil, spewing out at 100,000 psi, is still sitting at the bottom of the Gulf and spreading outward from there. This has severe long term implications for the fishing and shipping industries across the Gulf states. As large a deal as other industries are made of in the Gulf States it is the Gulf itself that drives them; without a living Gulf fishing, shrimping, crabbing, oystering, and tourism are all gone. With them goes the economic viability of the area.
3.With immediate concern I see the possibility of a large quantity of oil being dropped across the coast as virtually unavoidable, and with it goes the large scale poisoning of flora and fauna… and there too goes the long term economic viability of the coast.
Best case? Oil rains down within 300 miles of the Gulf Coast, poisoning flora and fauna and turning the major parts of the Gulf States into disaster areas. Large scale evacuations will have to be made in any contaminated areas simply due to the carcinogenic risk of the oil; this will create large refugee camps outside of the immediate disaster areas and the economic ripple effect will be felt nationwide; this will obviously impact the world economic scene in a negative fashion.

That’s the best case scenario.

Worst case? The methane bubble explodes, causing a tsunami that wipes out 80% of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. Large portions of Texas are also destroyed. The Gulf islands and Mexico will be in the same boat. All of the oil platforms currently drilling in the Gulf would be torn away from their moorings, creating further oil leaks that would exacerbate the problems already there.

Does all of this sound fantastic and like I’m completely off of my rocker? I know it does to me, and I’m writing the dang article. But I just can’t get away from the fact that this is where the trail of evidence leads me. Three and a half million barrels of oil don’t just disappear. A methane bubble that size at those pressures doesn’t just quit pumping. So I’m asking someone to tell me that I’m nuts, and why. Tell me that none of my reasoning makes sense and what the real answers are.

By Joshua S. Burnett

Email Josh at jburnett85@gmail.com

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2010-06-30T22:55:00.000-04:00

URGENT, URGENT, URGENT
Posted: Wednesday, June 30, 2010
- written by JERRY GOLDEN

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URGENT, URGENT, URGENT

There is a very large naval force that has come together in the Persian Gulf and surrounding Iran. The USS Carrier Harry Truman has pulled into the area loaded for bear. Israel and the US have grouped bombers and fighter jets in many countries in the Middle East, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Afghanistan and others. Over the past week USS warship have went through the Suez Cannel, as have Israel subs all capable of launching a Nuclear Attack. And if Iran has already obtained or developed a nuclear warhead this thing will certainly go nuclear bringing the world into a global war. In fact, if Iran goes to the nuclear option Israel will have no choice but to take out Syria, Hezbollah (now all of Lebanon) and the Hamas in Gaza, and also Egypt if it tries a sneak attack, in short order or face terrible civilian causalities.

While most people are concerned and closely watching the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and justly so all hell is about to break lose around the world if Iran is attacked. Another decoy or if you will smoke screen is the change of command in Afghanistan that has also found 24/7 coverage in the media news. To put it bluntly, folks we are in deep trouble and if you haven't made your peace with the Prince of Peace Yeshua you are in even worse trouble, if you haven't prepared and stored some water and food, made some arrangements for your family all I can say is shame on you. If you are Jewish and you haven't bought that air plane ticket to Israel, shame on you as well.

We always hope and pray that once again this is just the kid shouting wolf, wolf but I am afraid the wolf is here, and all that fire power now gathered in the Persian Gulf is far greater than anything we have ever seen in the past, this is just plain serious and explosive. It is very obvious that Iran cannot be threatened or bluffed, and sanctions have no effect, leaving only the military option, so here we go.

My first thought was to send you this information so you can make an intelligent assessment or do your own research to verify this information. My second thought is, oh God I am so sorry that we don't haven't done better in preparing to save Jewish lives, that we still don't have the larger boat, please be with us as we move out trusting you to do Your Will Your Way with what you have supplied us with for without your hand on us we can do nothing. I pray that if you have been called to this Ministry and have been holding back that you release the funds right away. If you are a faithful supporter I thank you and I know God cannot lie (Gen.12:3) I ask you to kneel before God and ask Him what you should do for this Ministry and for your family while it is still possible.

To support this Ministry click HERE.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, for our son Joel and all the IDF soldiers. Pray for this Ministry and your part in it.

Shalom, jerry golden
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2010-06-30T22:54:00.000-04:00

Shocking Developments
Posted: Sunday, June 27, 2010
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Connie and I have returned from a trip that took us through Turkey, Rhodes, and Kos. Many valuable contacts were made and the hand of God was felt upon us every step of the way. There are many things I'd like to report, but feel it best at this time to hold back on some things for obvious reasons. One thing I feel imperative to report is this; Israelis have stopped travelling to Turkey for vacation and yet in past years they did so at a rate of over 600,000+ a year to one city alone (Antalya). This has put a great deal of stress and financial pain upon the Gullet charter business, and the result will be even lower prices as these large boats go up for sale. Just one of these boats could save many Jewish lives.

If you live in the US or anywhere within a few hundred miles of the Gulf of Mexico you would already have been inundated with information about the Gulf Oil Spill. Nevertheless, I feel it necessary to forward this link to you. Someone sent it on to me. I don't know who this person is, but I think they have it right on the dot and you should read this very carefully. http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article20530.html.

For those who still haven't perceived the Prophetic Word of God in all of this, I am sure they will soon - but maybe far too late? For God's Word is very clear, Zechariah 12:9 "And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. Zechariah 12:2-3 "Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it".

It is said that a people "get the government they deserve". It has been a total amazement to me that Obama could have been elected as President of the USA - yet when we look back with 20/20 hindsight we now see who is in control. My heart goes out to the believers who will now see things come to pass that I have spoken of many times. They have been warned by this Messenger, and many others, to prepare for their loved ones and to be a witness - for there are many who can still be saved.

As for this Ministry we have our calling, and we move forward knowing that God is with us, Regardless of the many dangers around you, God would have you look out to bless others in Yeshua's name. Perhaps God has called you to stand alongside this Ministry? [Gen. 12:3] And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. Zechariah 8:23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem for our son Joel and all the IDF soldiers. Pray for this Ministry and your part in it.

Shalom, Jerry Golden

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shummer60 - Interesting, the current administration of Obama considers Israel and enemy and now we are hearing of the true efffects of the disaster.

2010-06-19T00:14:00.002-04:00

Oil is Blasting into the Gulf at an Unspeakable Rate

June 18, 2010

I am a longtime resident of the West Coast of Florida. While there is a major media blackout of any real information or warnings, we are feeling effects of this oil and the associated chemicals even here, where one has yet to see any oil upon our shores. My closest friend is a Nurse Practitioner at a local clinic here. She and her associates throughout the area have seen countless and increasing incidences over the past few weeks of sometimes severe throat, eye, and skin irritation as well as other symptoms. This is being reported to the CDC so may escalate the rumored mass evacuations. I am experiencing some of those same symptoms, especially as of late. Today,, a Military Pilot who is flying reconnaissance missions in the Gulf came for an office visit and they began to chat about the Gulf of Mexico oil crisis. It turns out that they are both like-minded patriots and the conversation continued about the crisis in the Gulf of Mexico. Feeling comfortable in speaking, he finally intimated to her that 40% of the Gulf of Mexico sea bed is now covered with oil. This has been escalated by the fact that the Deepwater Horizon rig well-head has now completely blown off. This is why the flow is appearing to come out in rather a "V"-shape. Oil is now blasting into the Gulf at an unspeakable rate and this insurmountable flow is acting as a laser, further cutting open the seabed from forces from the abiotic oil violently erupting from earth's core like her very blood. It is forecast that oil could make it around the world within 18 months. In other words, we now have the nightmare scenario some of us have feared. It is with an absolutely broken heart that I report all of this to you and fervently pray for God's divine hand of mercy. Yet I fear we may only be able to thank our Lord for the blessings and memory of the once-pristine and breathtaking treasure that was the Gulf of Mexico.

Thank you for your time in allowing me to share this information.

With blessings, JB

2010-06-19T00:06:00.000-04:00

What US Scientists Are Forbidden To Tell The Public About The Gulf: Oil Volcano Pressure Too Strong For Containment
June 15, 2010
Gary Null in Barak Obama, Environment, Politics

It has been estimated by experts that the pressure which blows the oil into the Gulf waters is estimated to be between 20,000 and 70,000 PSI (pounds per square inch). Impossible to control.

What US Scientists Are Forbidden To Tell The Public About The Gulf

What you are about to read, is what the scientists in the United States are not allowed to tell you in great fear of the Obama administration.

They are under the threat of severe repercussions to the max.. Scientists confirming these findings cannot be named due to the above, but what they believe, they want to be known by all.

Take a U. S. map, lay it flat and measure inland just the minimum 50 miles of total destruction all around the Gulf of Mexico as to what you will read below.

The carnage to the United States is so staggering, it will take your breathe away.

Should what the scientists who are trying to warn everyone about be even close to being true... all of Florida will be completely destroyed as will everyone and everything on it.

You decide!! Everyone has the right to read what I have just written in this article, as well as to what is written below by the scientists who the Obama administration and BP are trying to shut up.

Please share with as many as you can.

--Dr. James P. Wickstrom

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Summary of What is Happening

The estimated super high pressure release of oil from under the earth's crust is between 80,000 to 100,000 barrels per day.

The flow of oil and toxic gases is bringing up with it... rocks and sand which causes the flow to create a sandblasting effect on the remaining well head device currently somewhat restricting the flow, as well as the drilled hole itself.

As the well head becomes worn it enlarges the passageway allowing an ever-increasing flow. Even if some device could be placed onto the existing wellhead, it would not be able to shut off the flow, because what remains of the existing wellhead would not be able to contain the pressure.

The well head piping is originally about 2 inches thick. It is now likely to be less than 1 inch thick, and thinning by each passing moment. The oil has now reached the Gulf Stream and is entering the Oceanic current which is at least four times stronger than the current in the Gulf, which will carry it throughout the world within 18 months.

The oil along with the gasses, including benzene and many other toxins, is deleting the oxygen in the water. This is killing all life in the ocean. Along with the oil along the shores, there will be many dead fish, etc. that will have to be gathered and disposed of.

Summary of Expectations

At some point the drilled hole in the earth will enlarge itself beneath the wellhead to weaken the area the wellhead rests upon. The intense pressure will then push the wellhead off the hole allowing a direct unrestricted flow of oil, etc.

The hole will continue to increase in size allowing more and more oil to rise into the Gulf. After several billion barrels of oil have been released, the pressure within the massive cavity five miles beneath the ocean floor will begin to normalize.

This will allow the water, under the intense pressure at 1 mile deep, to be forced into the hole and the cavity where the oil was. The temperature at that depth is near 400 degrees, possibly more.

The water will be vaporized and turned into steam, creating an enormous amount of force, lifting the Gulf floor. It is difficult to know how much water will go down to the core and therefore, its not possible to fully calculate the rise of the floor.

The tsunami wave this will create will be anywhere from 20 to 80 feet high, possibly more. Then the floor will fall into the now vacant chamber. This is how nature will seal the hole.

Depending on the height of the tsunami, the ocean debris, oil, and existing structures that will be washed away on shore and inland, will leave the area from 50 to 200 miles inland devoid of life. Even if the debris is cleaned up, the contaminants that will be in the ground and water supply will prohibit re-population of these areas for an unknown number of years.

(End of scientists information release.) From Tom Buyea FL News Service

Article originally appeared on Gary Null - Your Guide To Natural Living (http://www.garynull.com/).

2010-06-15T23:40:00.000-04:00

America: Graduating from God?
Exclusive: Chuck Norris declares, 'Spiritual regression has become epidemic'

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Posted: June 07, 2010
1:00 am Eastern

By Chuck Norris

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(Note: This is Part 1 of a two-part series on spiritual regression in America.)

Last week I read a blog post that noted how prayer was banned at a high-school graduation in Indiana but not in Alabama. Then I read another news report about how another California high school changed its graduation "opening prayer" to "a moment of silence." No big shocker there.

Tragically, these types of devaluing religious news stories are a dime a dozen today. Spiritual regression is not only a trend but an epidemic.

The Fuller Youth Institute just reported that less than half (40 percent) of even church-going high-school seniors "significantly struggle with their faith and with finding a church after graduation." And other statistics show that, by the time they end their college education, 90 percent will have dropped out of church.

The Barna Group reports that only 29 percent of teenagers say they "will definitely" be attending church after graduation. That's about one in three if you're an optimist – about one in four if you're a pessimist. And about one in five if you believe these polled teenagers are either overly optimistic or over-exaggerators. Any way you look at it, the "Leave It to Beaver" family seems so passé and archaic in our times.

Long ago the Creator was replaced by natural causes in public classrooms. Prayer was ousted by human potential. Humans have become the kings of their castles and captains of their souls. Preaching has been overturned by political correctness. Church has been replaced by the NFL and Sunday commerce. And the government is now God, granting to all who has need. And we're shocked that more and more of our children and grandchildren want nothing to do with church?

Attrition in church attendance and faith in God is definitely on the rise. And so is animosity toward America's Judeo-Christian heritage.

Two Connecticut public schools were denied their graduation ceremonies from being held in a local church by U.S. District Court Judge Janet Hall. Hall ruled in favor of the ACLU on behalf of two local high-school seniors and their parents, who said the students were agnostic and would find it "difficult if not impossible" to attend the graduation if it were held in a church. Hall concluded that using a church for graduation would be an unconstitutional endorsement of religion. Leave it up to the ACLU and a federal judge to tell a local community where they could and could not hold their graduations, even though the majority favored it in the large church which was perfect for the big graduation crowds.

Not so lucky was atheist Michael Newdow, who failed to prove in a federal appeals court in early May that he was personally harmed by the religious reference "So Help Me God" in the presidential oath of office. Still, the three-member appellate panel ruled that Newdow and his atheist groupies "weren't in a position to legally challenge the oaths." Newdow, a California attorney, is noted for his failed attempts also to remove "In God We Trust" from U.S. currency and "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance.

Removing God from the public square is not new, but its pace is progressively increasing at alarming rates. Omitting any reference to God is not only pervasive in textbooks but now at historic sites, too, including in Washington, D.C. In 2006, the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, to which tens of thousands of school kids come in by the bus loads each year to learn about the first English colony in America (13 years before the Pilgrims at Plymouth), omitted from its tours the first purpose mentioned in the 1606 charter: to spread the Christian religion. In 2007, the U.S. mint "accidentally" omitted the words "In God We Trust" on the first 50K or so run of new George Washington presidential dollars. The same year, the National Park Service covered up and omitted the words "Praise be to God" on the capstone replica display in the Washington Monument. Then in 2008, the new 15,000 square feet Capitol Visitors' Center suffered a series of religious oversights and corruptions in various historical displays of our Capitol and country's heritage. Is it any coincidence that the most recently erected memorials in D.C. contain no references to God, too? And of course, the Texas textbook wars include battles over omissions and revisions of America's godly heritage in public-school curricula.

Speak of our culture's devaluing of religion, only weeks after television's Comedy Central's executives nixed a program due to its controversial depiction of Muhammad, the founder of Islam, the network announced a sacrilegious and shameful new series titled "JC," a comedy about God and Jesus Christ, who (in the programs) will be "JC" – a regular guy who moves to modern New York to "escape his father's enormous shadow." And God is portrayed as a lethargic man and deadbeat father. Isn't this political incorrectness and hate language at its core? Does America really need to stoop to such deplorable depths and dung for a laugh?

Is it just me or do others not see the major movement to whitewash God from our culture? Do our governing officials really think eliminating the Almighty is any answer to our problems? Don't they see omissions of God are also avoidances of the very being who can help us out of or through our troubles? Or do we believe that our country can experience true recovery or success without God's intervention or blessing? Does America believe it can graduate without or from God?

George Washington gave a very wise and timely word in his "Farewell Address" to all prospective Americans (including all government officials) who even entertain the thought that they can graduate from God. It also serves as a great "commencement address" to all graduates this spring:

"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked: Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."

Our founders' America is on life support and breathing its last. And the only ones who can save it are the God who assisted our founders in its creation and the patriots who today bear His and our founders' baton. Our focus is no longer the total war, but one battle at a time – one rally at a time, one election at a time and one piece of legislation at a time.

Right now, one man needing our patriot assistance is Rep. Randy Forbes, whose congressional address on America's Judeo-Christian heritage has received 3 million views on YouTube. Forbes, along with the members of the bipartisan Congressional Prayer Caucus, has reintroduced H.R.397, "America's Spiritual Heritage Resolution." The resolution recognizes our nation's spiritual heritage milestones, rejects current attempts to erase all religious history from public buildings and educational resources and establishes a week for Americans to remember and reflect on spiritual principles upon which our nation was founded. The resolution has gained bipartisan support with 79 co-sponsors. Have your representatives sponsored or supported the resolution? If not, please contact them today to ask they do so.

America, don't ever forget: Your founders expected you to graduate with God, not from him.

(Next week in Part 2, Chuck will discuss "the No. 1 advocate for a godless society." For more on understanding our founders' inclusion of God in government and society, Chuck recommends reading Chapter 5 – "From here to eternity" – in the new paperback expansion of his New York Times best-seller, "Black Belt Patriotism.")

2010-06-15T23:37:00.000-04:00

America: Graduating from God?
Exclusive: Chuck Norris warns, Obama is proponent of disposing deity, godly influence

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Posted: June 14, 2010
1:00 am Eastern

By Chuck Norris
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Last week in Part 1, I discussed a series of evidences about how God is being omitted from American life, culture and politics. In Part 2, I will detail the No. 1 advocate for a godless society: our president.

I believe there is no greater proponent of disposing deity and godly influence over government and society than President Barack Obama, who is right now spearheading a purely secular progressive agenda unlike any leader since America's inception.

First, even during his campaign for the presidency, Obama sarcastically belittled America's Judeo-Christian heritage and degraded its adherents with trite remarks typical of any atheistic antagonist: "Whatever we were, we are no longer a Christian nation"; "The dangers of sectarianism are greater than ever"; "Religion doesn't allow for compromise"; "The Sermon on the Mount [is] a passage that is so radical that our own defense department wouldn't survive its application"; and "To base our policy making upon such commitments [as moral absolutes] would be a dangerous thing." (See the YouTube video: "Barack Obama on the importance of a secular progressivism.")

And gone but not forgotten is Obama's religiously belittling statement on the campaign trail in April of 2008 about many residents in small-town America. You might recall, at a private California fundraiser, when he addressed the economic hardships of those in Pennsylvania, he quipped: "You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. … And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion … as a way to explain their frustrations."

Second, Obama has already denied America's rich Judeo-Christian heritage before the eyes and ears of other countries, as he publicly declared in Turkey on April 6, 2009, for the whole world to hear: "We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation." (Who are the "we" to whom he refers? Would our former presidents agree with his "we"?)

Overseas, Obama avoided both America's Christian heritage and his own alleged Christian faith. He was proud to share, "I have Muslim members of my family," but avoided any declaration like, "But I am a Christian"? My primary problem with his choice of words is that, while building up himself and his leadership before the Arab world, he repeatedly belittled the country he led, and that is unbecoming for any president.

By saying America was not a religious nation of any type, Obama implied that America is a secular nation with a secular heritage, which is also an incorrect notion of our people and our history. Any of a number of statements would have been more accurate: "America is a religiously free nation – both people and government." "America is a nation in which we welcome religious diversity." "We are a religiously diverse people, in which the majority still profess Christianity." "We have a religiously free government in which its citizens are encouraged to practice their own religious convictions freely without federal coercion." But Obama used none of these or similar statements.

For Obama to convey that "we are not a Christian nation" intentionally overlooks both our religious heritage and the Christian majority still in America. He could have even said, "America is no longer a Christian nation," but he didn't say that – and even that would have been incorrect. How is it he could speak to largely Arab nations and refer to them all as Muslim, but he can't call America a Christian nation, even though Christianity is the religion to which the majority have always adhered since our founders started it?

By contrast, Thomas Jefferson, hailed as the great separatist who fought against the tyranny of denominational sectarianism in the state (and vice versa), nevertheless endorsed the use of government buildings (like the Capitol) for church services, signed a treaty with the Kaskaskia Indians that allotted federal money to support the building of a Catholic church and to pay the salary of the church's priests and repeatedly renewed legislation that gave land to the United Brethren to help their missionary activities among the Indians.

Third, quite contrary to Obama's negative tone and sentiments about Judeo-Christian belief, in countless speeches over the past year he has sympathized and supported pro-Islamic theology and practice. The New York Times recently published a multiple-page report on how the "White House quietly courts Muslims in the U.S." Obama even refused to say anything when the Muslim jihadist and president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, publicly accused the U.S. of actively planning and plotting to stop mankind's real savior: i.e., the Mahdi, the imam that Muslims believe will be the ultimate savior of mankind.

Fourth, Obama advocates his secular agenda like other progressives because (so they naively believe) if God can be disposed, government is no longer accountable to a deity. In fact, in so doing, government vies for omnipotence and usurps the position of God. As Obama emphatically declared early in his presidency, "only government" is our savior. That is what's so disheartening about America's present political environment: The majority in Washington is truly convinced that more and bigger government is America's primary solution for recovery, future growth and security.

A clear example of this came out just last month through Obama's Faith-Based Initiative Committee recommendations. Not only is the federal government seeking to minimize the language preachers use through politically correct hate-crime laws, but now the feds are seeking to alter the message they preach as well – from saving souls to saving the earth. Obama's Faith-Based Council specifically recommends, "Bringing the power of 370,000 houses of worship across the country to the fight of climate change by greening buildings and promoting environmental stewardship in their congregations."

As Jews and Christians, we are called to be good stewards of this earth. But that is only one message among thousands of commands in the Bible. And who are the feds to tell churches, clergy and denominations which message to proclaim or emphasize? For Washington to "bring the power of 370,000 houses of worship" to "promote environmental stewardship in their congregations" not only usurps the power of God, Scripture and church governments but is a clear violation and overreaching of federal power, which the First Amendment prohibits. As Jerry Falwell Jr. concluded on Glenn Beck's television show, Obama's faith-based-initiative report reads more like "a church takeover." At very least, it is a slap in the face to the Christian community, which Obama has devalued and disrespected.

The fact is, every time Obama has had an opportunity to stand for Judeo-Christianity in any way, he has not only denied it but dodged it. One of the president's most outrageous duck-'n'-dodge examples happened under the radar last Christmas when he was visiting some children at the Boys and Girls Club in Washington, D.C. In an informal verbal exchange, two distinct times the children unexpectedly brought up to the president the real reason for the season (the birth of Jesus Christ). And both times, when he could have elaborated, explained or encouraged the heart and soul of the Christian message, he awkwardly turned the conversation to a religious-neutered subject. He even left the children with the non-Christmas admonition that "the most important message I can leave is, is that you guys have so much potential – one of you could end up being president some day!"

Lastly, Obama turned a blind eye and deaf ear to anti-Judeo-Christian issues like the Army's rescinding of Franklin Graham's invitation to the Pentagon's National Day of Prayer event, atheists' lawsuits to remove the National Motto ("In God We Trust") off of the walls of the new Capitol Visitors Center in Washington, D.C., the building of a Muslim mosque right next to Ground Zero in New York or the ACLU's disposal of veteran memorial crosses in the Mojave Desert and at Mount Soledad.

I ask again, do others not see the major movement to whitewash God from our culture? Do our governing officials really think eliminating the Almighty is any answer to our problems? Don't they see omissions of God are also avoidances of the very being who can help us out of or through our troubles? Or do we believe that our country can experience true recovery or success without God's intervention or blessing? Does America believe it can graduate without or from God?

Ben Franklin could have been speaking before the president and Congress today when he gave these words at the Constitutional Convention:

In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for the divine protection. Our prayers, Sir, were heard; and they were graciously answered. All of us, who were engaged in the struggle, must have observed frequent instances of a superintending Providence in our favor. To that kind Providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine we no longer need its assistance? I have lived, Sir, a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, That God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?
These are three questions every Washington politician in particular needs to answer: "And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine we no longer need [His] assistance? And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise [again] without his aid?"

God was a passionate part of our founders' plan for America. And God, not government as Obama declared early in his presidency, is still our only hope of getting our lives and country back on track. And I believe that reawakening and restoration can happen – but it's going to take focusing upon one soul at a time to get it done.

Right now, needing our patriot assistance is Rep. Randy Forbes, whose congressional address on America's Judeo-Christian heritage has received 3 million views on YouTube. Forbes, along with the members of the bipartisan Congressional Prayer Caucus, has reintroduced H.R. 397, "America's Spiritual Heritage Resolution." The resolution recognizes our nation's spiritual heritage milestones, rejects current attempts to erase all religious history from public buildings and educational resources and establishes a week for Americans to remember and reflect on spiritual principles upon which our nation was founded. The resolution has gained bipartisan support with 79 co-sponsors. Have your representatives sponsored or supported the resolution? If not, please contact them today to ask they do so.

Glenn Beck put it well in one of his radio broadcasts earlier this year: "I beg of you to help me get this message out … faith is the answer. Get on your knees. Don't let it take a Sept. 11. Please, get on your knees. I don't care what church you go to … just turn to Him."

If Psalm 33:12 says, "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord," how would the verse read for the nation who has given God the boot?

(For more on understanding our founders' inclusion of God in government and society, Chuck Norris recommends reading Chapter 5 – "From here to eternity" – in the new paperback expansion of his New York Times best-seller "Black Belt Patriotism.")

2010-06-15T23:25:00.000-04:00

They Believe Their Own Lies
Posted: Thursday, June 10, 2010
- written by jerry golden

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They (The Islamic Arab World) believe their own lies and incitement, and they keep making the same mistake, so here we go again. By all reports this time around it could get really nasty and many will die. Of course I am talking about the coming war here in Israel, but there is also the very distinct possibility that this same scenario could be a warning to the USA as well. For it is also known that Russia has been preparing for such an event for a long time and many reports now tell us their preparations have escalated over the past few months. Russian Subs and War-Ships are docked at Syrian Ports just north of Israel. Not to mention the help in Iran nuclear plants, and supplying weapons to destroy Israel.

Many don't understand why Turkey has moved away from the West and into the arms of Islamic Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas. The answer is two-fold first they really had no choice for it is prophesized in Ezk 38.5 and they have also been convinced that Israel will be defeated this time and they want to be on the side they think will win. In fact the Prime Minister of Turkey Erdogan is now willing to lead the charge. We are hearing that Iran and Turkey will together send more ships to break the Gaza blockade and this time with naval escort, that is an act of all-out war. And you can believe Israel will react accordingly to protect itself. It would also be good to keep in mind that all this talk about the Gaza blockade could be a smokescreen to draw attention away from the soon coming attack.

We all know that Syria will be a major player in the attack on Israel and once again that too is prophesized in Isa. 17:1. As we look at these events taking place before our eyes it becomes very obvious that the very near future is not to promising for the human-race, but added assurance that God's Word is perfect and for those who have come to the full knowledge of Yeshua (Jesus) the Holy One of Israel it is in fact good news. That is not to say it will be easy for the Believer for it will rain on the Just and the Unjust alike. But it will be much easier for the one founded in the truth of God's Word.

When all hell breaks loose in the Middle East it will most likely spread throughout the world, once again with the Jews being blamed and another Holocaust will take place, this time world wide. Once again the Devil has poisoned the minds of those he controls to believe they can kill all the Jews and destroy Israel.

The one major difference this time around is we will see the Mighty Hand of God protecting His People the Jews and those who come against His Holy City Jerusalem will feel that Mighty Hand as it destroys them.

The question for this Ministry is also obvious, how will we be able to bring European Jews home to Israel with all this part of the world in open war. The answer to that has become more clear to me as we move forward in faith. Ships moving around in the Mediterranean Sea will be easy targets. But in God's wisdom we see more clearly now why He has directed us to buy Turkish Gullets, they are not a military threat and they are Turkish, enough said.

Connie and I have to make a trip in the next few days and it may take two weeks or more to do all the things that we have to do. Not knowing how safe it may be to email you from some of the places we will be traveling through I might have to wait a while before contacting you. We are asking for your prayers for safety and success in making the arrangements that must be made.

We are believing God for the larger boat and somehow I know that those who God has touched to make it a reality are still holding back, I ask you to get on your face before God and listen to His Voice so much depends on all of our obedience. One thing we all know in the spirit there is precious little time to make the necessary preparations.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, for our son Joel and all the IDF soldiers. Pray for this Ministry and your part in it.

Shalom, jerry golden
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2010-06-05T00:35:00.001-04:00

Turkish air, sea, land forces mass in northern Cyprus

http://www.crethiplethi.com/turkey-and-israel-on-the-brink-of-war-or-new-ship-intifada/israel/2010/

Hype? or fact? Remains to be seen. The screws of war seem turned tight. That is Cyprus near Turkey-Syria.
Jun 3 STRATFOR - TURKEY PATROL SHIP CIRCLING NEAR GAZA COAST
Only a Turkish patrol ship is circling the area near the Gaza coast, but is not entering Israeli territorial waters.
There is no sign of readiness on the part of the Turkish navy to provide escorts to aid ships making their way to the Gaza coast.
The patrol ship is only in observation mode - for the time being.

Jun 4 Turkey and Israel on the Brink of War or New Ship Intifada?
Turkey prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a radical islamist and anti-Israel, and denies Hamas is a terror group. Turkish generals
are drawing up plans to break Israel's Gaza blockade and avenge 9 deaths, while Israel is bound by its war on terror to thwart them.
Debka sources reports that Turkish air, sea, land forces mass in northern Cyprus 150 km from Israel.
Turkish PM Erdogan is beating his drums of war on Israel.

Early Wednesday, June 2, Barack Obama asked Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu to release all the remaining passengers
without delay as well as the 6 ships from the May 30-31 encounter at sea.

Erdogan declared that if America did not punish Israel Turkey would. OUCH
The Turkish ship Marmara, the flotilla's lead vessel, had been commandeered by terrorists supported by Turkey.

When it comes to war between Turkey and Israel, what about NATO? Turkey is member of the NATO since 1952
and is an important ally of the NATO in the War on Terror.
Article 5, the cornerstone of the alliance, says an armed attack against any of the allies in Europe or North America
shall be considered an attack against them all. It commits NATO members to take the necessary measures, including the use of force, to restore security.

HOWEVER, Turkey has recently become part of the Syria-Iran-Hizballah-Hamas bloc and when war breaks out between Turkey and Israel.
Israel could be faced with a northern front in Israel, Lebanon (Hizballah) and Syria as well, and in de Gaza Strip with Hamas.
And than there's the possibility of a new Intifada within the Israeli borders and the West Bank.

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad again threatened Israel with destruction for any action it may take anywhere and its Western supporters with international trial as war criminals.16 Iranian President Ahmadinejad “vowed Friday to keep supporting the Palestinian militant group Hamas until the “collapse of Israel.” Given the close ties between Iran and Hamas, it would be irrational simply to dismiss the possibility that Iran (once it has a nuclear weapons capability) would contribute to that collapse by supplying Hamas with a suitable tactical nuclear device.17

2010-06-05T00:33:00.001-04:00

Note For June 2010 - WW

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Thank you for being patient. I will remain on sabatical for a while longer. But I need to tell my readers this. America's days are numbered. God has really been speaking and one thing he told me was to wait. Bretheren, Rarely has God spoken so clearly to me and what he said was this. "It is time for mankind to suffer under his evil systems." The voice was clear and unmistakeable. He did not say evil governments but evil systems and that I take to mean economic systems, spiritual systems and political systems. Brethren, I know the voice of my God. Within just a few hours of that word the Stock market crashed 1000 points and then we had the accident in the Gulf. What is so strange is that while I was speaking with the Lord he told me that he would give me a sure sign in the news the following day and then he said, 'watch for it'. At first he said, it will not seem like much but then it will be a very big event. Indeed looking back, this was how 911 was to me. I saw the original story hours before the towers came down and did not think much of it, just a dumb pilot who did not know what he was doing. Later, it was the event the defined America and her policies for the 21st century.

Now many of my readers are still unconvicned that the event in the Gulf was in reality an attack by a foreign nation (I have called it terrorism because I broaden the definition of terrorism to include acts conducted by state actors, while generally speaking most only call acts 'terrorism' if it is conducted by a non-state actor). I can only tell you brethren that as God is my witness I have been appraised of what happened down there for some time by some very important people who are very much in a position to know. They were key in telling our leaders what happened because military chain of command and the intelligence notification system was in full 'cover-up' mode. The information and critical forensic and electronic evidence was not going to get to the President without someone with some influence 'knocking some heads around', so to speak. Why is this relevant? Let yourself look around the news today. Everyone is being feed a steady stream of 'leaks' from the Obama administration that sheds the worst possible light on BP and thus carefully stifles any inquiry into the real cause. Everyone is so anti-big oil that this propaganda line is extremely effective. People love to have their pet beliefs 'confirmed' and want to believe the worst about oil companies, this is one important method of disinformation, playing on people's prejudices to misdirect them. Yet Everyone in the know, knows what really happened and now all of your alternative sites (with one or two un-heard of exceptions) are being played for being witting or unwitting disinformants. In short, not to put too fine a point on it, liars. Some do not know better and do not want to sound too 'conspiratorial'. Others are getting orders from their FBI or DHS handlers not to press the real cause of the massive environmental disaster.

What this means is that we as a nation are under attack. Thankfully, some people in our national security establishment have finally figured out that something highly coordinated is happening to America and they are playing for keeps. The catch phrase being used in some circles is 'Intelligence Preparation of The Battlefield'. We will be talking about that in the next PESR (which is already getting rather large) and what it means. Suffice it to say that America is under attack and our President's ability to lead, yes even his grasp on reality (from a medical perspective) is being questioned by some inside the beltway. Why? Because he has no intention of responding to the recent spate of attacks on America. I mean, here is a guy who has six personal attendants and takes an hour and a half every single day just getting dressed!! All the while, the Gulf of Mexico is about to turn into the 'Black Sea II'. This is the first wave of attacks being waged against our nation by nations (plural) who have embarked on a mission to at the very least take America down a notch or two on the global stage or at worst wish to destroy her and his only response is a disinformation campaign against his own nation! This campaign is being waged on many different levels.

This is the time where spiritual babes and the blind are being separated from those who know God and see things as the Holy Spirit guides. Look at America's and Obama's 'spiritual response' to this massive disaster in the Gulf. Obama has now extended much prized and sought after Federal benefits to gay's while Millions of Americans with families are being thrown out of work and losing all of their benefits. He is trying to repeal the 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' with an openly sodomistic military that is already showing real signs of internal stresses from long deployments, crappy leadership and poor morale due to the way those who are discharged with injuries are being thrown aside like so much refuse after they serve and sacrifice. I cannot stress this enough, though this man may not seem evil, has a nice smile and does not go around with severed shrunkend heads as a necklace and a swasticka engraved in his forehead, his actions are as deceptive as they come and are just as antichrist. I warned my readers as much as I could that this man was not what he appeared and today, he has yet to keep faith with those who elected him. From Health Care (which most now want repealed it is so bad because it is anti-working American and pro-Corporate) to his policies on war, torture and concentration camps, he has been a George Bush on steroids. Nothing this man said was true and almost every promised he made has turned out to be a lie. Brothers, this is the mark, not of a Christian, but of a deceiver... a child and servant of darkness. Brothers, if you cannot see this now, you had better get saved because if this guy fooled you, your mind and soul are still under the influence and control of the evil one. The Holy Spirit will lead you into all truth, not into the hands of deceivers. So whatever spirit or thinking told you to support this man or this system is one that will claim your soul if you cannot come from under it. But let me say this now, Obama is not the primary problem in America. It is the lack of spiritual discernment that had so many deceived and falling for liar after liar and deceiver after deceiver. That is the perennial problem here. It is not that we have deceivers in America, but that people fall for them time and time again. I cannot say this enough, if you were fooled by him, you are ready to be fooled by the man of sin when he arrives and that brethren, is not far off. It is kind of like this: if you got drunk off of two shots of whiskey, how are you going to be able to stand up straight when they pour a whole bottle down your throat? Simply put, you won't. You will fall down at the feet of the man of sin, not knowing that is what you have done. Brothers, I know that is kind of 'raw' description, but that is the best graphic analogy I can think of of where so many are at spiritually.

Why has the Lord put me on this hiatus? Because Judgment is just now starting to fall on America. Warning days are for the most part, over. This is not chastisement coming to America, this is judgment. But even in Judgment, God remembers mercy. This will be a process, God will wait for signs of repentnence before he allows the next wave of evil to hit us. But this President has just told the Almighty where he can go with God's divine views on sexual morality, so get ready for more trouble.... lots more, real trouble. Look to other parts of America's critical infrastructure, look at the 'Terrorist Enabling Line', also known as the US Mexico Border. This is a 'go down' issue and should demonstrate to any thinking American that this President is not really interested in American security. He has some other goal in mind that requires terrorists and highly organized and heavily armed drug cartels to have access to parts of the American southwest. What that plan is, one can only speculate (because Mexico, according to US intelligence reports, is no longer a state, but has become something else. They have even coined a phrase for it, 'Narco Economic State'). Why is Obama so adamant in allowing this well planned and coordinated invasion? Perhaps it is a secret treaty with Mexico or a secret Memorandum of Understanding with the NAFTA signatories? I do not know. But the staring in your face reality is clear, this President is going to facilitate, not curb massive foreign infiltration onto American soil. Forget all of the spin and all of the hot air coming from the MSM and 95% of the blogosphere and just let his actions and calculated inaction speak for itself. Now ask yourself this question. If foreign governments could put a man in the office of the Presidency with the help of large parts of America's establishment who see enormous profits ahead for themselves personally by allowing America to fall under the control of foreign powers, what would that Presidentt do? Would he allow those nations to attack us and not respond to those attacks? Would he use the full power of the Presidency to hide those attacks from the American people? Would his response be to further degrade America's ability to acquire more essential energy in a very precarious energy future for the world? All of this happening while other nations continue to buy up and otherwise secure oil for their future, and in the process leaving less for America? Would he open up the borders for terrorist cells to operate on American soil? Do you think these are the kinds of things a 'mole' who had been trained for years would do if he were President? I am not accusing, but given what has been happening and what has been hidden from Americans, I am asking the question. Something stinks and million of Americans are waking up to the stench coming from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. I think this nation and this President has flipped God off for just about the last time with his mass murder, his crooked deals, his love of sodomy and his concentration camps and his incredibly deceitful ways. What is happening to America cannot and could not transpire without people at the highest level of our government working actively with our enemies to bring her down.

Bretheren, millions upon millions of gallons of oil are flowing into the Gulf and will do so for many more weeks and months. What is going to happen in hurricane season when we have a much larger portion of the Gulf saturated with oil? Where is that oil going to go when Hurricanes strike the US? I am no climitologist but my guess is that millions of gallons could fall on American cites and on her farmlands. Not in large gobs of black tar, but a thin film mixed in with water. What is that going to do to the farmland located where the storms that follow hurricanes go? Will it be enough oil to start fires in some regions, leaving them to burn for months? Ever tried to put out an oil fire? Look, I am just speculating, but all that water that comes from Hurricanes comes from the Ocean and that Ocean is being inundated with hundreds of millions of gallons of Petroleum. Somebody somewhere needs to do some climate modeling for a 'worst case scenario' because more and more that looks like what we will be facing. Could we see this?

Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee. And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him. (Jer 50:31-32)

I have no real words for what I see ahead for our world and this nation. I see lots of tribulation and woe ahead. I say this to all of those individuals who love our Lord, stay close to Jesus, do not fear and listen very carefully to the direction and still small voice of the Holy Spirit. Do not let yourself be deceived. The only way to do that is to put your full trust in God. The devil is going to be given enormous power to deceive the whole world and will use everything from drugs (unknowingly ingested), high tech hypnosis, miracles and lying signs and wonders to do it with. There will be no way a natural mind will be able to withstand what is coming. All of mankind's significant scientific knowledge of the human brain will be put to work against the truth, the sons of men, against God and towards and in support of the kingdom of antichrist. Let the reader beware.

And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (2Th 2:11-12)

Finally my brethren in Christ, keep your eyes on what is happening in Israel. The entire world is turing into an anti-semtic, anti-Jewish ball of hate. Every seeming misdeed by the Jewish state is blown up out of all proportion and spread far and wide on every news media outlet in the world. While far worse and real misdeeds of others, including and especially done by the US barely gets covered... and you can start with Obama's devilish policy of mass murder in Pakistan. Whether it is how we deliberately target women and children and call it 'collateral damage', or America's ever growing system of concentration camps for those with dark skin and do not speak english. The world hardly has any real moral high ground. Israel at least is truly fighting for its very survival in a world who let the Holocaust happen and much of it would love to see it happen again. What you are witnessing is the the world morphing into the final phase of the antichrist system. The world will one day (all nations) turn on Israel and attack her. They will ultimately fail, but not without severe damage to Israel. For these are the times when Jerusalam has become a budensome stone (Zech 12:3) and an insoluble conundrum to the antichrist nations of the world and their leaders, many of whom keep a copy of Mein Kampf right on their bookshelves in their offices. Nothing has really changed. Satan has always hated the Jews and uses his servants to persecute and slaughter them.

Folks, I have told my readers that Nazi-sim is still with us. There are very, very powerful forces in our world who wish to learn from the mistakes of Hitler and bring in their 'Fourth Reich'. They have very deep pockets sit in positions of power in corporate board rooms, run or have influence in the worlds best intelligence agencies, run banks, pharmecuetical companies and even whole nations. If there is one geopolitical lesson we can learn from the book of Revelation it is this: One day the world will unite. What will unite it? Rabid antisemtism and a overwhealming desire to kill Jews (and Christians) and decimate the state of Israel. That is going to be the uniting factor in the coming 'New World Order'. I can tell you now there are a lot of what can only be called 'anti-christ' Christians who will join in the fray with the devils hordes on that day and become eternal enemies of God... and I do mean a lot. Why? The same reason that the Jews of Christ's day missed the Messiah. They did not believe God. They did not trust God and they refused to heed the warnings of this prophets. Nothing has really changed, the Church has messed things up so badly, that much of the world hates Christianity, not because of its teachings, but because of the behavior of so many nominal Christians!

What is happening in the holy land is most confusing, I know it can be and I strongly suspect that there are forces within Israel who are committing some of these highly publicized seemingly inexplicable acts for the express purpose of undermining the legitimacy of Israel (I am not referring to the Flotilla incident here). In short, I think there may be more than a few traitors in their midst in the upper eschelons of her security services. I also know that for every crime, real and imagined of Israel, there are a thousand being committed by her enemies that are never talked about and never get any press.

So be careful of this manufactured furor over Jews protecting their homeland and 'Love Boat's that carry terrorists and arms for Hamas from Iran (with Turkey as a Conduit).
Yet, the phenomenon of charitable front groups that provide support to Al-Qaida is by no means exclusively limited to the Arabian Peninsula. Indeed, elsewhere in the Muslim world, other such entities have been established with near equal success – as in Turkey, with the so- called Foundation for Human Rights, Liberties, and Humanitarian Relief (IHH). Turkish authorities began their own domestic criminal investigation of IHH as early as December 1997, when sources revealed that leaders of IHH were purchasing automatic weapons from other regional Islamic militant groups. IHH’s bureau in Istanbul was thoroughly searched, and its local officers were arrested. Security forces uncovered an array of disturbing items, including firearms, explosives, bomb-making instructions, and a “jihad flag.” After analyzing seized IHH documents, Turkish authorities concluded that “detained members of IHH were going to fight in Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Chechnya.” - Danish Institute For International Studies
Folks, I beg you do not get sucked into the disinformation battle being waged in the net by entities that are often in the pay of Jihadist organizations. These include a GREAT MANY alternative news sites whose constant refrain of anti-Israli sentiment and mysterious funding mechanisms should tip you off as to who pulls the strings. There is big money and big power behind current trends in anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic campaigns, so be aware. You may find this video of interest.

I will remain on hiatus for a while longer. My PESR is getting longer and longer but for now, it will not be released until I get a go ahead from the Lord. This one may shake a few people out of their complacency and let them understand that God's Holy prophets were right when they named who would take down the great whore in the end times. I will explain that in it, God willing. In the meantime, pray for me and this ministry as I rest recuperate and do a little writing.

2010-06-05T00:27:00.000-04:00

Volume XXIX Issue VI June 2010
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The Coming Spiritual Twilight

"But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ…"

I Thessalonians 5:1-9
"For the ministry of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."

II Thessalonians 2:7-12
In this issue of the Last Trumpet Newsletter, we will look at a situation that has now come upon us and will be defined for us by the Scriptures. We have never faced a time in all of our nation's history such as this one, and as I write this, I fully realize that there are two kinds of people who are reading this. There are many who never look at things from a spiritual standpoint, and there are those that have the God-given ability as true Christians to look into the depth of what is happening in the corresponding unseen world. It is essential that we understand that since the beginning of the world there has been a conspiratorial adversary called Satan. Satan knows that his time is limited. History is filled with the activities of this rebellious dark prince, and Bible prophecy guides the children of God every step of the way and helps them to understand what is truly happening.

We are now at the end of the age at the very end of time when Satan makes his final grand attempt to seize upon the entire world and set himself up as the one world dictator in the form of a man. As he does this, it become ever clearer to Christians what is happening. However, to the undiscerning and unbelieving, there is confusion, anxiety, and misunderstanding.

Never has there been a time in our nation's history when the people of America have been so alienated from their own government, and everything now seems to be happening at once. The huge budget deficits, the astronomical national debt, the senseless wars, and even the many disasters have left people wondering. We know that every sign of these times was foretold by the Lord Jesus Christ over two thousand years ago. It is a fact that very soon the skies will be filled with the angels of God and our Lord will return. The important question is: will you be ready for that great day? I urge you to open your heart and seek the Lord and you will find Him. He will hear your prayer. Eternity never ends, and we must look to the Saviour now to prepare us for that great day just ahead. Surrender your heart to the Lord Jesus now while there is time.

Antichrist Politics in America

Our nation of the United States of America is populated by approximately 300 million people. All of these people are governed by a relatively small group of elitist rulers including the President, Vice President, Cabinet members, the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court. America has always taken great pride in stating that the government is "by the people, for the people, and of the people." We have noticed, especially since Barack Obama became President, that the ruling class believes that the vast majority does not know what is good for them. The people of the United States are continually being ignored by those governing them. This concept is not new but is found within the writings of Dr. Albert Pike, the infamous Freemason, who wrote the book Morals and Dogma. In his book, he made it clear that the great populations must be micromanaged and that they do not know enough nor do they possess the ability to make decisions physically, spiritually, economically, and so on. We are watching in horror as Obama and his administration completely and absolutely function independently, being completely out of touch with the American people. No matter how great the protests, Obama pushes forward to what is now clearly identifiable as Marxist socialism.

Many people have wondered why Obama has such a driving force toward government run health care. The answer is that there are so many things built into that massive bill that have nothing to do with health care. Obama has used this to push forward his agenda in many and varied ways. We remember hearing his campaign pledge when Barack Obama clearly stated that he wanted a national security force, not the National Guard or anything like that, but a civilian one. If people were listening, they would know that on July 2, 2008, in a speech made in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Obama called for a police state. Buried within the revisions of the health care bill in subtitle C, entitled "Increasing Supply of the Health Care Work Force," under section 5210 is a provision establishing a ready reserved core. This is Obama's private army. In this ready reserved core, all commissioned officers shall be appointed by the President of the United States. Commissioned officers of the ready reserved core must at all times be subject to the call of active duty by the surgeon general. (1)

On April 9, 2010, HB1388 passed, and very few people seem to have heard about it. With the passing of this bill, we have just spent twenty million dollars to move members and supporters of Hamas, a terrorist organization, to the United States, offering them housing, food, and many other benefits. The news media was relatively silent on this, but the passing of the bill can be verified by going to the Federal Register's website. (2) Barack Obama ordered the spending of 20.3 million dollars for migration assistance. This bill allows many hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to the militant Hamas to resettle in the United States. If we look at the actions of Barack Obama, we do see a pattern forming. When he first became President, his first call to any head of state as President was to Mahmoud Abbas, leader of the Fatah party in the Palestinian territory. His first one-on-one television interview with any news organization was with Al Arabia television. His first executive order was to fund and facilitate abortions, not just here within the United States, but throughout the world, using U.S. tax payer funds. (3)

Our world is a very volatile place, and two major wars are currently being fought. The amount of money being spent on the logistics for these wars is enough to stagger the imagination. The provision of housing, meals, laundry, showers, water purification, bathroom cleaning, and so on is outsourced to private companies. And even though many companies would like to have this business, only one company seems to be getting the contracts. According to Bloomberg Business Week, on May 6th, 2010, Kellogg, Brown, and Root, known as KBR, was selected for a no-bid contract worth as much as 568 million dollars to provide these services. The Pentagon didn't even allow anyone else to compete for the business. Of course, KBR and Halliburton both have strong financial ties to former Vice President Dick Cheney. (4)

We know that our Bibles tell us in Matthew, chapter 24; Luke, chapter 21; Mark, chapter 13; and various other places that wars and rumors of wars will be the course of the entire last days. All of this is leading up a final conflict which we can read about in Revelation, chapter 19, called the Battle of Armageddon. All nations will be involved in this battle and very few people understand that the enemy of all these armies of the world is our coming Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. In Revelation, chapter 19, verse 19, we read as follows: "And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army." This scripture clearly states this to be forthcoming, and it will most assuredly come to pass. Can you imagine the weapons of this world being turned on the coming Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, in an attempt to stop Him? The result of such foolish actions are found in Psalm 2, verses 1-4, as follows: "Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision."

Barack Obama is clearly trying to unify the militaries of the world. He is using the phony peace bait of scaling back on atomic weapons. Obama has clearly stated that the United States has 5,113 nuclear warheads. His Secretary of State, Hilary Rodham Clinton, also issued the following statement in an Associated Press article on May 4th, 2010, "We think it is in our national security interest to be as transparent as we can be about the nuclear program of the United States." (5)

The Russians seem to have quite a different attitude toward weapons information. In early April a very unusual event happened in Russia as an airplane carrying the Polish President, his wife, high government and military officials, and others crashed near Smoliensk, Russia. There were at least 88 people aboard the Tupolev Tu-154 when it went down killing everyone on it. This was an amazing historic event in that one plane crash nearly wiped out the government of Poland. (6) The crash was quickly ruled accidental due to pilot error and other extenuating circumstances. But now we have learned, according to an article published in the Washington Times on May 13th, 2010, that Russia stood to gain much by this crash. On board the airplane and still intact was a windfall of military secrets, including pocket memory sticks that contained sensitive NATO data. In addition to that, Poland's in-term government has not pressed the Russians for answers to questions about the crash, such as why, without any investigation at all, the crash was ruled pilot error. (7) Strange things are going on here and there is much more to come.

Is Economic Recovery Possible?

As we know, the mass communication media has constantly downplayed the severity of the depression that we are in; they still call it a recession. However, we know that something far worse than that is wrong. Ever since my last trip to New York City in September 2008, I could feel the dark shadows of deep problems beginning to waft over the earth. When I looked at the Bank of New York, Goldman Sachs, and the other big banks and saw the large detachment of military personnel guarding the whole area, including the New York Stock Exchange, it became very obvious that something was about to explode that would change our nation forever.

I did my work in New York and returned home, and that very next week one bank after another of the world's largest banks went bankrupt and fell like a house of cards. The ripple effect was staggering; banks of all sizes were going bankrupt, and mortgages were not being paid.

Our U.S. banking system was doomed for failure right from the start because it is based on fractional reserve lending, which simply means that when deposits are put into the bank, the bank can loan out ten times the amount of that deposit and draw interest on that entire amount, 90% of which does not exist at all except as paper debt. This practice is not exclusive to the United States of America; it was the brainstorm of the Rothschild banking dynasty, and on March 21, 2010, Washington Blog reported that a German central bank admitted that credit is created out of thin air. Germany's central bank, the Duetsche Bundesbank, is one of the most influential banks in all of Europe. (8)

Just a glance at the system of fractional reserve lending shows us how crooked the operations of the bank are even though among themselves it's considered to be normal. This method of operation by the big banks of the world has a very direct effect on the condition of their corresponding stock markets in the world. If the money supply is increased, the stock markets will go up, but the value if fictitious. It is as if you opened a packet of Kool Aid and kept adding water to the original amount. Soon no one would want it!

We must also remember that prosperity is not truly indicated by the stock market because it has become so internationally locked together with the other markets. You could have a major corporation with a hundred thousand employees and lay off ninety thousand of them, then go to India and hire a hundred thousand workers there for far less money. Your appearance on the stock exchange would be that you are doing very well. But how about the people walking the streets?

One example of how fragile the situation can be is illustrated by what is going on in Greece. Greece is part of the European Union that uses the Euro currency. The entire financial systems of Greece have absolutely failed and are in a state of bankruptcy. This is a severe loss, and so all the other banks on Europe are rushing together to find a solution. It is called the great Greek Debt Crisis. (9) We must note that the very conditions that put the nation of Greece into their bankruptcy are identical with several other economies, including those in Portugal, Spain, and the United States. We must ask ourselves did all of this just happen by itself or are there those that caused it to happen in order to bring forth a new world order, which would be forced upon the people?

Another example of the volatility of the US stock market is revealed on May 7th, 2010. On that day, investors stood speechless as their market went down and plunged 1,000 points. This sort of thing was unheard of, and no one seems to know how or why it happened. It recovered nearly everything it lost by the end of the day, but someone was pulling a fast one. (10) It is reminiscent of the 1929 crash when the Krupp's, the Kennedy's, the Warburg's, and other U.S. investors quickly pulled their money out and brought in all the call money and deposited it in banks in Canada. This brought our nation down to a level so low that there were still after effects in our country into the 1970's. All of the experts have been seeking an answer as to why and how the market could plunge, and no one has come up with an answer. It is thus far a complete and unknown mystery. (11) On the state level, at least twenty-two banks in Wisconsin have special orders from the U.S. regulators to fix their problems or be closed. (12) On April 9, 2010, thirty-three states were reported to be out of money to fund the unemployment benefits. (13) States all over the Union are also delaying tax refunds because they just don't have the money. This was reported on MSNBC in Jefferson City, Missouri on April 9, 2010. (14) As we look at this whole picture, it should be fairly obvious that there are two possibilities why all of this is happening. One is that the legislatures don't know what they're doing and just keep pumping out money and increasing debt. The other is that they do know what they're doing, and they're intentionally sabotaging the economies of the entire world to bring forth their god Lucifer. It is time for all of us to watch and pray and help others to wake up.

Humanity in Open Rebellion Against God

To us who know the God of our salvation, it is difficult to understand how man could ever openly rebel against God when things are not going well. My first thought is to take the problem to the Saviour. All true believers do this. But there is a very great apostasy forming, and Satan has invested much time, money, and effort into his cause, and now we are seeing the results of it. For the past decade, Janet Rowling's Harry Potter books have taught countless millions of people to think like witches. Since then, numerous other programs, books, and movies have done the same thing, and the most recent trend seems to be vampires. Vampires are not fictitious. They are people possessed with blood spirits, and they don't actually turn into bats or get destroyed by sunlight; and they're not immortal. The Twilight book series and subsequent movie series have become so popular that young women are now naming their newborns after the vampires, one of them being the name Malia. (15) Vampires, however, do wander among us, and their evil work is the very essence of hell.

The number of occultists in our military is also quite alarming. They are found on all the major bases and forts, including places such as Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Fort Hood, Texas. Our US government has been continually making policies that assist them in their occult activities. It is almost impossible to get rid of them, unless their time of service is up and they choose to go. Many of them don't because they have plans. They are there to recruit people to their cause. Now, In March 2010, the Pentagon lifted the ban on gays serving openly, so they can now openly practice their lifestyle among the other soldiers. Any repercussion from other soldiers could be considered a hate crime. (16)

Another example of mass open rebellion against God is the forthcoming world cup soccer tournament to be held in South Africa in June 2010. This event will no doubt draw countless thousands of people to Cape Town, South Africa. In order to provide entertainment and pleasure to the many dignitaries' guest visitors, an order is put in for one billion condoms and the importation of forty thousand sex workers. (17) Those who know what the Bible says about all such things should be completely shocked by this. Yet to most, it is just an item of news.

When sin reaches its full potential, those who hate God quickly look for some other way to insult Him. In Revelation, chapter 13, verse 1, we read of that spirit by name as follows, "And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy." It is the spirit of blasphemy that rises up, and we are certainly seeing this today. We have now learned from the Hollywood Reporter that on May 5th, 2010, Comedy Central began developing a Jesus Christ cartoon. The program is about Christ wanting to escape the shadow of his powerful but apathetic father and live a regular life in New York City. In the show, God is preoccupied with playing video games while Christ, the ultimate fish out of water, tries to adjust to life in the big city. He is never called Jesus Christ, but always J.C. (18)

Humanity Ensnared in Chemical Reactions

In past issues of the newsletter, I had reported about the grave dangers our world now faces because of pollution by chemicals. And since these chemicals have gotten into the water supplies, our atmosphere, and all of our eco systems, it seems there's no escaping them. One of the most dangerous chemicals on the market today is BPA. This is the substance used almost universally to coat our aluminum cans to keep the food from deteriorating them. BPA is actually a synthetic female hormone answering to estrogen. Numerous scientists in the United States have fought the large chemical companies on this issue, and the Food and Drug Administration agreed to set a deadline on what they're going to do about it. The problem is the FDA continues to miss their deadline, and it's happened three times now. (19)

Another dangerous chemical is fluoride. Scientists have known for years that it's a neurotoxin and potentially tumorigenic if swallowed. There are other known health problems linked to excessive fluoride use. Yet it is found commonly in toothpastes and tap water. (20)

According to the Journal Doctors for Responsible Medicine, April 2010, the children have been especially targeted. The United States has become the psychiatric drugging capital of the world for children being medicated at a young age. In some states, medical records show infants less than a year old on drugs for mental disorders. Powerful antipsychotic use in children, ages 2-5, in the United States has doubled between 1999 and 2007. The hazardous effects of these drugs include adverse cardiovascular effects that shorten lives, and adverse metabolic effects that induce diabetes. Even though so much is known already, they continue to be used. (21) Again it is the old reprehensible money trail.

According to Reuters News Service, a common weed killer has been turning male frogs into female. The fact is atrazine exposed male frogs were both demasculized (in other words, chemically castrated) and completely feminized as adults. A recent study using forty frogs showed that all forty of the male frogs went through a process which completely feminized them, even causing eggs to grow in ten percent of them. It is believed that the atrazine will work on mammals and people as well. These chemicals are explaining why our world statistics clearly show that even among humans, men are becoming more feminine, which leaves the door open for many women to become more masculine. (22)

Response of God's Power

With all of the things going on in the earth, we must always remember to look up to the heavens for our redemption draweth nigh. For the past several months, we have seen huge earthquakes, fires, volcanoes, space threats, and just about every other kind of threat possible. These are all signs of the Lord's soon coming. CNN reported from London, England, that a massive volcanic eruption happened in Iceland and the plumes of ashes were so large, going well into the upper stratosphere, that all jet engines had to be grounded. (23) But the volcanic cloud didn't stop with England. It smothered most of Europe, drifting over major cities and countryside. (24) The economic impact throughout Europe was great as the cloud continued in the volcano. (25) The picture was an amazing one, as one million Britons were stranded by the ash, and food shortages were expected. The earth was truly going through a massive convulsion, but what is even more shocking were pictures of the mouth of the volcano from the top view. It is one of the most demonic frightening and evil looking faces I've ever seen. I have only a black and white copy, but copies are available on request by writing to Last Trumpet Ministries. This report with photographs came from the London Daily Mail. (26) Volcanoes are terrible events that literally cause mountains to flow down and make the sea to boil. We will see a lot more of them, as our Lord prepares to return to the earth, but on April 14, 2010, there was also a terrible earthquake of magnitude 6.9 in a mountainous region of China near Tibet. Many hundreds were killed and more than ten thousand people were injured. There are buildings everywhere that were flattened around the people. (27) Throughout the United States, violent storms and killer tornadoes raced through areas ten miles wide, killing people and destroying everything in their path. People have never seen anything like it. (28)

Elsewhere in the world strange things are going on. In Guatemala and other areas of Central America, earthquakes continue to rumble. The famous Jordan River of the Bible, where Jesus and many others were baptized was once a rushing and raging river, but it has now been reduced to just a trickle in some places. About the only thing feeding into the once mighty Jordan River are streams of pollution and waste. (29)

Some disasters are called natural disasters, or acts of God, and some are manmade. One such manmade one is a recent mammoth oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. We have been told that this oil spill was an accident and due to a faulty part according to the head of British Petroleum. So much oil leaked out so quickly that the Gulf was soon filled with pollutants. (30) Try as they may they could not contain it. From an aerial view, you would be able to see rivers of oil for ten miles long. (31) Amazingly, this oil rig which totally failed, causing many deaths and untold devastation, was presented with a safety award just last year. It has recently been discovered that this oil rig, which was named Deep Water Horizon, had not been adequately inspected for the last several years. (32)

One more thing I would like to mention before closing is that scientists are now baffled because one of the stripes on our largest planet Jupiter has completely vanished. It was a massively wide stripe surrounding the circumference of the planet and was one of the things I looked for when using my telescope. There is no explanation as to what happened to the stripe, but the planet Jupiter has been going through changes for some time. (33)

In closing, I would like to thank all of you for your cards and gifts, prayers, and best wishes during my recent illness and hospitalization. I desire your prayers greatly. If you have any special prayer requests, please send them to us, and we will give them individual attention. Grace and peace be unto you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

David J. Meyer

Acknowledgments
01. American Daughter, March 29, 2010, By Nancy Matthis.
02. The Federal Register, February 4, 2009, FR Document E9-2488.
03. HB1388 Passed-Document.
04. Bloomberg Business Week, May 8, 2010, By Tony Capaccio, New York, NY.
05. Associated Press, May 4, 2010, By Anne Gearan, Washington, D.C.
06. London Daily Mail, April 10, 2010, London, England, UK.
07. Washington Times, May 13, 2010, By Bill Gertz, Washington, D.C.
08. Washington's Blog, March 21, 2010, German Central Bank, Washington, D.C.
09. Associated Press, May 8, 2010, By Raf Casert and Elena Becatoros, Brussels, Belgium.
10. Bloomberg Business Week, May 8, 2010, By Joe Taschler, New York, NY.
11. Los Angeles Times, May 12, 2010, By Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles, CA.
12. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 28, 2010, By Paul Gores.
13. CNN Money.com, April 9, 2010, By Hibah Yousuf, New York, NY.
14. MSNBC News, April 9, 2010, Jefferson City, MO.
15. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 8, 2010, By Stephen Ohlemacher, AP, Washington, D.C.
16. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 26, 2010, AP and Mcclatchy News Service.
17. Reuters News Service, May 7, 2010, Juda Ngwenya, Cape Town, South Africa.
18. The Hollywood Reporter, May 5, 2010, Hollywood, CA.
19. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, December 30, 2009, By Meg Kissinger, Milwaukee, WI.
20. Doctors for Responsible Medicine, Practitioner Edition, April, 2010.
21. Journal Doctors for Responsible Medicine, April, 2010.
22. Reuter's News Service, March 2, 2010.
23. CNN News.com, May 16, 2010, London, England, UK.
24. London News and Wires, April 11, 2010, By Rachael Brown, London, England, UK.
25. MSNBC News, April 20, 2010, By Arthur Max, Amsterdam, Holland.
26. London Daily Mail, April 17, 2010, By Michael Seamark and Ray Massey, London England, UK.
27. MSNBC News.com, April 14, 2010, Xining, China.
28. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 3, 2010, AP by Erik Schelzig, Memphis, TN.
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31. London Daily Mail, May 16, 2010, Foreign Service, London, England, UK.
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33. London Daily Mail, May 17, 2010, By Claire Bates, London England, UK.

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2010-05-15T22:21:00.000-04:00

America's Synergy of Doom

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May 5, 2010
Doug McIntosh
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What a year 2010 has been so far. We have seen a series of natural and man made disasters which are biblical in scale. We started the year off with the Haiti earthquake and 250,000 dead. Next, we had the Chile earthquake and after that we have the ongoing Iceland Volcanic eruptions. And now we are dealing with the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, which experts say will not be capped for three months at least. The sum total of these is disaster on a scale which overwhelms our jaded senses. Aside from the current military, political and economic chaos overwhelming the United States, we are facing a potential for agricultural shortages that will impact the daily lives of the American people. For instance, the recent frosts in Florida have significantly reduced the supply of fresh tomatoes. This will lead to higher prices for canned tomatoes, pasta sauces and ketchup down the road. In fact, the first four months of 2010 have seen significant increases in the prices of basic foodstuffs. This trend will continue for several reasons.

The United States is no longer a nation of family farmers. Much like the ancient Roman Republic we have replaced small scale family run farms with corporate run mega farms. One of the major reasons the Roman Republic fell was the replacing of small citizen run farms, described as "one citizen, 15 acres, two mules and one slave" with large slave labored ones. The Roman citizens were off fighting to create the Roman Empire. This led to their small farms being bought up by the rich and turned into slave labored plantations. The same process is well underway in the United States, and is having the same political effects as it did for the Roman Republic. Throw in Monsanto with its genetically modified food; the terminator seed program and you have all the ingredients for famine down the road. We don't have to go far down that road to see the ill effects.

Synergy is the scientific principle where the result exceeds the sum of the parts. Synergy is when two plus two does not equal four; rather, it equals six. We are at the point in modern American history where the production of food is reaching an impasse. I think there are two current factors which will aggravate the situation and lead to food shortages this year. There are additional factors like the increase in the cost of diesel oil, increases in the price of fertilizers and pesticides which come into play. However, the two I wish to talk about are in addition to these and will, in my opinion, overwhelm modern commercial food production techniques.

I will digress for a moment and highlight what I mean by commercial food production techniques. Despite the current frenzy over organic food, it is, in my opinion, simply impossible to produce the amounts of food needed to feed three hundred million plus Americans without using modern fertilizers and pesticides. A family can certainly engage in small scale gardening and farming using organic techniques. A family can raise small amounts of vegetables and fruits using organic techniques. What cannot be done is to raise commercial amounts of fruits and vegetables this way. You simply cannot raise several hundred acres of apples without using pesticides to kill the codling moth. Nor, can you raise hundreds of acres of cherries without spraying for cherry fruit flies. You can certainly raise up to a dozen apple and cherry trees organically, but you cannot raise thousands of them. I speak as a commercial orchardist here. In my youth, some forty years ago, I worked in commercial orchards. I pruned trees, sprayed trees with various pesticides; got up in the middle of the night to light orchard heaters to prevent the fruit from freezing. I have thinned fruit, picked fruit, irrigated acres of fruit trees and finally, I have driven the fruit bins up to the warehouse. Hickenbottom and Son in Sunnyside, Washington to be precise back in 1972. So, I know whereof I speak on commercial fruit production.

The point of all this is to convince people that the agricultural system in the USA currently requires an infrastructure as vast as any industrial or manufacturing operation. Large scale agriculture requires more than the work done by the farmer or orchardist: it requires the efforts of American industrial technology to get the crops needed to feed the nation. Something as simple as a disruption in the supply of diesel fuel in the spring would have a devastating effect on that year's food production. People may not want to hear this, but I speak the truth based on my personal experiences.

The reason 2010 is going to be a critical year in terms of modern food production is two fold. First, the Iceland volcanoes may cause a repeat of the "year with no summer" back in the 1800's. Plants require sunlight in order to grow. The ongoing eruptions in Iceland are sending vast plumes of ash into the atmosphere. These plumes have already shut down air travel to Europe twice. Further, these plumes are being pumped into the atmosphere and being carried over the globe. The result of that could be, it's not certain, reduced solar rays getting through our atmosphere. If that is the case, then we are looking at reduced growing seasons on a global basis. Besides that, in both Australia and China sever droughts are impacting food production. Finally, we are looking both at historically low grain reserves and also the U99 wheat rust in Africa and the Middle East. These factors alone will significantly impact global food production in 2010, which will lead to, at best, price increases.

If that is not enough to get your attention, I will add a further impact on fruit and vegetable production in the USA. I don't know that much about commercial vegetable production in the United States to judge the situation correctly. I do know that some crops are wind pollinated, like corn I believe. I also think that most vegetable crops require insect pollination to grow. I do know that all commercial varieties of fruit require insect pollination to create commercially viable fruit crops. By insect pollination I mean honey bees, usually European honey bees, being physically brought into the orchard to pollinate the fruit trees. The bees require certain temperatures in order to get the job done. The Iceland volcanoes may have already impacted the pollination process by reducing temperatures so much that bee pollination is less effective than it normally is. The pollination process is pretty much over in the United States and I am unclear how much it was impacted by decreased air temperatures. What I am sure of, based on media reports that one third of the bee population in the United States has died off since last fall, is there is a problem with fruit pollinatin this year. One third is an incredible number and will have/ has had a significant impact on commercial fruit production. I want to emphasize that commercial fruit production requires bees to pollinate the blooms which will become the fruit. No pollination means no fruit; reduced pollination means reduced fruit crops. Whether a one third reduction in bee populations will mean a linear one third decline in fruit crops is not clear. It depends on a lot of factors besides bees. I am absolutely certain there will significant declines in total fruit production in the United States simply because the fruit trees, whatever the exact percentages are, will be less productive since they were not pollinated as much. What that means is at best higher prices for fruit; at worst, declines in the total supply of fruit available. The quality should be higher as the trees will have less fruit on them, which means the size will be larger than normal. At least if the Iceland volcanoes don't reduce the quality and quantity of sunlight reaching the trees. Like I said, some things I see clearly, some I suspect and some I simply don't know.

I would suggest to the readers here at Q files you keep in mind what I have just written. At least you will not be surprised if fresh fruit, and canned fruit for that matter, is more costly than it was last year. Farming is one of the few areas where supply and demand tend to impact prices more quickly than other areas of our economy. Given the fact food prices have been going up since January at a rapid clip, I expect that process to continue.

On top of all the other issues America is dealing with, I am convinced that basic food supplies will now become a major issue, both in 2010 and onward. The days of cheap food in America are over in my opinion. I am not predicting famine, although one bad growing season would put us right at the edge of it. I am predicting significant price increases on various food products in the supermarket. It is clear to me the bee die off will have a serious effect on total fruit production in the United States. Combined with the disease killing off bats, we are likely to see more insects than ever before also. Nobody knows what is killing off either the bees or the bats; however, the impacts of these deaths will be seen soon enough.

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2010-05-15T22:11:00.000-04:00

Commentary on the Mideast Situation

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Our Website Coverage Changes

The Alpha-Omega Report has gone into a “Yellow Alert” mode for purposes of news coverage. This yellow alert coverage will continue through out the week and most likely end on Friday unless a military conflict develops at which time, the website will switch to a “Red Alert” with near-continuous coverage as information develops for immediate posting.

The Yellow Alert is issued based on an increasing possibility that a military clash will occur during this week between Israel and her neighbors. As publisher of the website, I’ve concluded that there is enough material information developing to prompt publication of news articles related to a possible military clash (or war) between Israel and either Hezbollah, Hamas & Syria or Iran or all four entities.

As noted in our newly posted news coverage of Sunday, February 7, 2010 – Syria and Hezbollah have put their military forces on “high alert” for possible action against Israeli forces. For several weeks, Syria and Hezbollah have been shifting forces and continuing to receive incoming arms shipments from Iran. Syria has stepped up training of new anti-aircraft missile systems with Hezbollah forces.

Hezbollah is also now receiving very large and heavy payload ballistic missiles that are solid-fueled. This means that such missiles do not have to take 2-days of preparations before launch. Instead these missiles can be fired on a few minutes notice and then returned to a sheltered hiding spot inside mountains along the Bekaa valley in Lebanon.

For its part, intelligence reports indicate Israeli forces continue to be positioned for a military clash. Israel has been conducting military maneuvers and civil defense drills. Israeli civil defense forces are passing out gas masks to all Israeli citizens this month.
The Israeli Navy has just dispatched 2 warships – missile corvettes – to the Red Sea via the Suez Canal.

Rumors are rampant throughout the Mideast in expectation that ‘something’ is likely to develop militarily in the near future. Even diplomatic circles are engaging in speculation about “when” military action might unfold.

Some of this talk of imminent war is being fueld by speculation concerning a warning issued by Iran’s President last week. President Ahmadinejad warned the West that on February 11, Iran would make a strike against “global arrogance.” His vague comments have triggered intense speculation that he was referring to some sort of military action.

Meanwhile, Iran has crossed a “red line” with Israel by starting high-enrichment production of uranium. Previously, Israeli officials warned that such a move would cross a “red line” which Israel would not tolerate.

Additionally, Israel had warned Syria against training Hezbollah forces on an anti-aircraft defense system as well as allowing heavy missiles to be transported into Lebanon. The rhetoric for war heated up substantially during the course of last week with both sides issuing increasingly bellicose statements and warnings.

As a result of this increasing, high-level tension and military movements and intelligence chatter, it seems appropriate for The A-O Report to shift news coverage from weekly articles to ongoing news updates on a daily basis. Should hostilities break out, we’ll shift to a “Red Alert” in which we’ll update continuously as needed.

While I personally do not anticipate any military clashes this week, I cannot rule out the possibility, based in some measure on warning by Iran President Ahmadinejad for February 11, or Thursday of this week. While I don’t take much stock in what he would say, especially in the notion that he’d be stupid enough to risk hinting at a secret pre-emptive strike plan being prepared by his military. I know would readers might argue to the contrary, and while I tend to agree with you about Ahmadinejad’s intelligence, I just don’t think he’d be “that” stupid. Regardless of his intelligence, I do give enough credence that he made such an announcement and chose that date, to not ignore it. So, his remarks are part of the consideration for our move to Yellow Alert and a War Watch.

The primary reasons include just what you’ve read in our news coverage, concerning military movements. The primary basis for the Watch is not so much that either side is planning to strike the week, but rather that an unintended action might spark an escalation into most likely a brief clash that quickly cascades unintentionally into something major.

From what we can gather, both sides are not quite ‘ready’ to take action this week. Perhaps one side or the other will be ready later in the month or more likely in March or April or May. We do understand from intelligence sources that the Israelis have reconsidered their timing for a strike action on their northern border based upon new intelligence concerning their enemies plans to use WMD’s.

So, while we’re doubtful that anything significant will take place, the tension levels are so high that any little event could mushroom unintentionally and so we’re prepared to jump into a daily round of news coverage until something either happens this week or it doesn’t at which time we’ll probably return to normal, weekly news coverage. In the meantime, look for daily postings on the public website and "intelligence updates" with the donor's section at "The A-O Insider Report. If war breaks out, we'll shift to "Red Alert" and provide ongoing daily postings as developments warrant, on the hour if needed, around the clock.

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2010-05-15T21:58:00.001-04:00

Israel can make a tank disappear

May 9, 2010 Xinhua

In the modern battlefield, as thermal imaging and radar detection systems grow more sophisticated by the day, war machines are increasingly vulnerable to enemy fire.
Would an armored battalion commander want to be able to make his tanks simply vanish from enemy eyes? You can bet on it.

Eltics Ltd., an Israeli start-up that develops electronic warfare systems, says it has come up with technology that will eventually turn fantasy into reality -
a system that can make tanks, armored personnel carriers, helicopter gunships and even naval vessels invisible to night vision systems and heat-seeking missiles.

The company and its technology, the Eltics system or Black Fox Active Adaptive IR Stealth System, were revealed for the first time on Sunday by Israeli TV Channel 10.

The Black Fox system equips any tank, helicopter or ship with a FLIR camera that photographs the surroundings in which they are operating.
The system then analyzes the area's thermal signature and screens the exact same signature onto plates fitted on the machine, thus enabling it to completely disintegrate from sight.

"A tank, armored personnel carrier or ship, equipped with this system, become invisible to thermal night vision systems, guided missiles and a missile's sight,"
explained Eltics CEO Ronen Meir, in his first televised appearance.

shummer60- America is following the same path!

2010-05-12T23:31:00.000-04:00

The Balfour Agreement, the major decline of the British Empire, British Petroleum (BP), Valdez, Horizon and their Israel connections - Bill Koenig

The Anglo-Persian Oil Company, the Balfour Agreement and the British Empire

The Anglo-Persian oil company, that became British Petroleum in 1954, pressured the British government and the League of Nations to back off their commitment to the Balfour agreement; thus, Israel received approximately twelve percent of the land intended for them.

At the time of the Balfour Agreement (1917), at the peak of its power, it was often said that "the sun never sets on the British Empire" because its span across the globe ensured that the sun was always shining on at least one of its numerous territories.

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom, that had originated with the overseas colonies and trading posts established by England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. At its height it was the largest empire in history and, for over a century, was the foremost global power. By 1922, the British Empire held sway over a population of about 458 million people, one-quarter of the world's population at the time, and covered more than 13,000,000 square miles (33,670,000 km2): approximately a quarter of the Earth's total land area. As a result, its political, linguistic and cultural legacy is widespread. (Reference Wikipedia)

On September 11, 1922, the British government presented a memorandum to the League of Nations stating that Transjordan would be excluded from all provisions of dealing with the Jewish settlement. From that point forward, Britain recognized the land west of the Jordan as Palestine (which was 23 percent of the entire territory), and the land of east of the Jordan River as Transjordan (constituting 73 percent of the mandated territories). In 1923 Britain transferred a part of the Golan Heights to the French Mandate of Syria, in exchange for the Metula region.

Important to many Jews was the permission to settle in the British-controlled Mandate of Palestine. In order to try to maintain peace between the Jewish and Arab populations, especially after the 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine of the 1930s, Britain strictly limited immigration. This limitation became nearly absolute after the White Paper of 1939 all but stopped legal immigration. During the War, Zionists organized an illegal immigration effort, conducted by "Hamossad Le'aliyah Bet" (the precursor of the Mossad) that rescued tens of thousands of European Jews from the Nazis by shipping them to Palestine in rickety boats. Many of these boats were intercepted and some sank with great loss of life. The efforts began in 1939, and the last immigrant boat to try to enter Palestine before the end of the war was the Struma, torpedoed in the Black Sea by a Soviet submarine in February 1942. The boat sank with the loss of nearly 800 lives. (Reference Wikipedia)

The British Empire's days were numbered, and on the whole, Britain adopted a policy of peaceful disengagement from its colonies once stable, non-Communist governments were available to transfer power to, in contrast to other European powers like France or Portugal, which waged costly and ultimately unsuccessful wars to keep their empires intact. Between 1945 and 1965, the number of people under British rule outside the UK itself fell from 700 million to five million, three million of whom were in Hong Kong. (Reference Wikipedia)

The Exxon Valdez and the Israel connection

The Exxon Valdez accident happened less than 48 hours after President George H.W. Bush and Secretary of State James Baker's staff opened talks with the Palestinians on March 22, 1989. The Valdez problem began to develop late in the night of March 23 with the first spill at 12:05 a.m. on March 24.

On March 21, 1989: U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker concludes that Israel may have to negotiate directly with the PLO

Secretary of State James A. Baker III, attempting to soften the impact of his conclusion that Israel eventually may have to negotiate directly with the Palestine Liberation Organization, Tuesday reaffirmed the Bush Administration's opposition to the creation of an independent Palestinian state.

"It is the policy of the United States that we do not support an independent Palestinian state," Baker told a House panel. His statement was intended to reassure Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who has vowed that his government will never relinquish control over the West Bank and Gaza Strip territories that Israel occupied during the Arab-Israeli war of 1967. (Los Angeles Times)

March 22, 1989: Palestine Liberation Organization today rejected a halt in the violent

After its first formal contact with the Bush Administration, the Palestine Liberation Organization today rejected a halt in the violent uprising in the Israeli-occupied territories to encourage peace negotiations.

The move was a rebuff to the approach to the Arab-Israeli conflict outlined by Secretary of State James A. Baker 3d, who has sought to encourage a reduction of violence and tension and bring about direct negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. (Reuters)

March 23, 1989: Arafat said that the second formal meeting between U.S. and PLO representatives was positive

Yasser Arafat said today that the second formal meeting between U.S. and PLO representatives was positive and reflected the desire of both sides to make the dialogue a success.

To a reporter who asked the smiling chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization whether Wednesday's meeting was responsible for his good mood, Arafat replied: "Yes, exactly."

He described the content of the meeting between U.S. Ambassador Robert H. Pelletreau and Yasser Abed-Rabbo of the PLO Executive Committee as "positive and serious," but gave few details of the discussion.

"There is a mutual interest and intention to lead this dialogue to success," Arafat said. (Associated Press)

Pelletreau and Abed-Rabbo met for 4 1/2 hours at the Tunisian government's Dar el Maghreibia guest house, with two senior advisers present on each side. The ambassador would not talk about the meeting and referred all inquiries to the State Department. (New York Times)

March 23, 1989: Jewish Leaders Avoid Comment on Peace Talks:

Jewish leaders from around the world issued a general statement of support for Israel on Wednesday but skirted the increasingly contentious issue of the shape of future Middle East peace talks.

The final proclamation, the fruit of a three-day solidarity conference here attended by about 1,500 delegates, kept to tried and true themes.

March 23-24, 1989: Exxon Valdez Accident

Exxon Valdez left the Valdez oil terminal in Alaska at 9:13 pm on March 23, 1989 bound for Long Beach, California. A harbor pilot guided the ship through the Valdez Narrows before leaving the ship and returning control to Joseph Jeffrey Hazelwood, the ship's master. The ship maneuvered out of the shipping lane to avoid icebergs. Following the maneuver and sometime after 11 pm, he left Third Mate Gregory Cousins in charge of the wheel house and Able Seaman Robert Kagan at the helm, both of whom had not been given their mandatory 6 hours off duty before their 12-hour duty began. The ship was on autopilot, using the navigation system installed by the company that constructed the ship. The outbound shipping lane was covered with icebergs so the ship's captain, Hazelwood, got permission from the Coast Guard to go out through the inbound lane. The ship struck Bligh Reef at around 12:04 am March 24, 1989.

Beginning three days after the vessel grounded (March 27), a storm pushed large quantities of fresh oil on to the rocky shores of many of the beaches in the Knight Island chain.

The result was the largest oil spill in US history: 11 million gallons covering 11,000 square miles, including 1,300 miles of pristine shoreline. The spill devastated the local economy as well as the environment. Estimated losses in the sport fishing industry alone were almost $600 million over the two years following the accident. Within days an estimated 250,000 seabirds perished, along with thousands of otters and seals. Despite billions of dollars in cleanup, the environmental effects of the spill still linger. Much of the oil seeped below the surface of affected beaches, decaying at a rate of about three to four percent per year. Animals that dig in the sand for their food continue to be contaminated. (Wikipedia)

British Petroleum's (BP) Horizon Oil Spill Began on April 20

BP's Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico began on April 20 — at the very time Obama's team was pressuring Israel to restart talks. BP and the U.S. are still working to contain the oil spill, which is expected to be larger in size than Exxon Valdez.

The two largest oil spills in U.S. history corresponded to U.S. actions on Israel's covenant land and talks with the Palestinians. The spills have and will cause America to forgo more offshore exploration and become even more reliant on rogue nations for oil.

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2010-05-08T23:21:00.000-04:00

Time to plan for war

By Caroline B. Glick

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | So much for US President Barack Obama's famed powers of persuasion. At the UN's Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty review conference which opened this week, the Obama administration managed to lose control over the agenda before the conference even started.

Obama administration officials said they intended to use the conference as a platform to mount international pressure on Iran to stop its illicit nuclear proliferation activities. But even before the conference began, with a little prodding from Egypt, the administration agreed that instead of focusing on Iran, the conference would adopt Iran's chosen agenda: attacking Israel for its alleged nuclear arsenal.

Last week the Wall Street Journal reported that US officials were conducting negotiations with Egypt about Egypt's demand that the NPT review conference call for sanctions against Israel for refusing to join the NPT as a non-nuclear state. The Journal quoted a senior administration official involved in the discussions saying, "We've made a proposal to them [Egypt] that goes beyond what the U.S. has been willing to do before."

Among other possibilities, that proposal may have included a US agreement to appoint a UN envoy responsible for organizing a UN conference calling for the Greater Middle East to become a nuclear-free zone. In diplomatese, "Middle East nuclear-free zone" is a well-accepted euphemism for stripping Israel of its purported nuclear capability while turning a blind eye to Iranian, Syrian and other Islamic nuclear weapons programs. Egypt's demand, which it convinced more than a hundred members of the Non-Aligned bloc to sign onto, is for Israel to open its nuclear installations to international inspectors as a first step towards unilateral nuclear disarmament.

On Wednesday the US joined the other four permanent members of the Security Council in signing a statement calling for a nuclear-free Middle East and urging Israel, Pakistan and India to accede to the NPT as non-nuclear states. Following the US's lead, on Thursday Yukiya Amano, the new Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency wrote a letter to IAEA member states asking for their suggestions for how to convince Israel to sign the NPT.

So as Iran — an NPT signatory — makes a mockery of the treaty by building nuclear weapons in contempt of its treaty obligations, the US has actively supported Iran's bid to use the NPT review conference as yet another UN forum for bashing Israel.

It bears recalling that the primary goal of the NPT is to prevent nuclear proliferation. From the amount of attention Israel is receiving at the NPT review conference, you could easily get the impression that Israel's purported nuclear arsenal is the gravest proliferation threat in the world today. But history shows that this is nonsense.

Israel's alleged nuclear arsenal, which it has reportedly fielded for four decades, has not led to a regional nuclear arms race. Notwithstanding their protestations to the contrary, Israel's neighbors fully recognize that the purpose of Israel's undeclared nuclear arsenal is to guarantee Israel's survival and consequently only threatens those who would attack the Jewish state with the intention of annihilating it. This is why although it is four decades old; Israel's undeclared nuclear arsenal has never caused a regional nuclear arms race. It has never harmed or called into question the relevance or usefulness of the NPT's international non-proliferation agenda. Moreover, as a non-signatory to the NPT, Israel has the right to develop a nuclear program.

Iran on the other hand gave up that right when it joined the NPT regime. So too, in sharp contrast to Israel's alleged program, it is clear that Iran's nuclear project is aggressive rather than defensive. Consequently, it is universally recognized that if Iran becomes a nuclear power, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and other states will begin developing their own nuclear arsenals in short order. That is, it is absolutely clear that if the NPT is to have any relevance in the coming years, if there is to be any hope that counter-proliferation regimes can be useful; preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons must be its signatories' chief aim.

But due to the Obama administration's diplomatic fecklessness and ideological blinders, administration officials were incapable of making these points. And so, instead through its actions, the administration has advanced the cause of nuclear proliferation. The US has now joined the ranks of fools who claim that nuclear weapons in the hands of states like the US and Israel are as problematic as nuclear weapons in the hands of states like Iran and North Korea.

But then, in the end it makes no difference that the US has followed Iran's lead at the NPT conference. Even if the administration had managed to make Iran's nuclear weapons program the focus of debate, it wouldn't have mattered because diplomacy is no longer a relevant tool for preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear power. Appeasement has failed. Sanctions are dead in the water in the Security Council.

And even if the Security Council passes a sanctions resolution, they will have no impact on Iran's behavior. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made that much clear in his speech on Monday and in subsequent remarks to the media. As he put it, "While we do not welcome sanctions, we do not fear them either. Sanctions cannot stop the Iranian nation."

What all of this demonstrates is that the diplomatic track — from appeasement to sanctions — is irrelevant for contending with Iran's nuclear program. The only way to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear bombs is to use military force to destroy or severely damage its nuclear installations.

And this of course is something Obama will do. His begging-to-shake-hands policy towards Iran and the one hand and his iron fist policy towards Israel on the other makes it absolutely clear that Obama will do nothing to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power. Rather than correct his abysmal failures, Obama seeks to hide them by minimizing the seriousness of the threat.

In remarks to the media this week, a White House official downplayed the Iranian threat. He told the Financial Times that Iran's "nuclear clock has slowed down. They are not making dramatic technical progress given the difficulties they are facing in their [uranium] enrichment program and the fact that their efforts to build secret facilities have been disclosed."

The fact that the US's published intelligence estimates of Iran's nuclear program contradict this claim didn't seem to faze the official.

The US's abdication of its responsibility as the leader of the free world to prevent the most dangerous regimes from acquiring the most dangerous weapons means that the responsibility for preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons has fallen on Israel's shoulders. Only Israel has the means and the will to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power. And the message the NPT follies convey is that Israel must develop contingency plans for attacking Iran as quickly as possible.

Daily reports of weapons build-ups and military exercises in Iran and among Iran's clients Syria, Hizbullah and Hamas expose the contours of their war plans.

Syria and Iran have armed Hizbullah with some 40,000 missiles and rockets, including hundreds of Scud missiles and guided surface-to-surface solid fuel M600 missiles with a 250 km range and. This week Hizbullah threatened to attack Israel with non-conventional weapons. Syria itself has a formidable chemical and biological arsenal as well as a massive artillery and missile force at its disposal.

As for Hamas, since Operation Cast Lead Iran's Palestinian proxy Hamas has expanded its own missile arsenal. Today it reportedly has projectiles capable of reaching Tel Aviv and beyond.

As for Iran, as its seemingly endless military exercises make clear, the mullocracy has the capacity to use conventional weapons to imperil global oil shipments from the Persian Gulf. So too, this week's report that Osama Bin Laden may have decamped to Iran in 2003 merely served to underline Iran's ability to utilize jihadist terror forces throughout the world.

From the open preparations for war that Iran and its clients have undertaken, it is clear that if they initiate the next round of fighting they will fight a four front war against Israel. That war will be dominated by missile attacks against the entire country aimed at breaking the will of the Israeli people while forcing the IDF to divert vital resources away from Israel's primary target — Iran's nuclear installations — to contend with Iran's proxies' missile stores.

As they consider Israel's options going forward, Israel's political and military leaders have to take two considerations into account. First, the side that initiates the conflict will be the side that controls the battle space. And second, there is a real possibility that the Obama administration will refuse to resupply Israel with vital weapons systems in the course of the war. The fact that Israel will be roundly condemned by the UN and its component parts is a certainty regardless of who initiates the conflict and therefore is irrelevant for operational planning.

Armed with these understandings, it is apparent that Israeli contingency plans for war must have limited goals and should be guided by the overarching aim of beginning and ending the war quickly. Luckily, Israel excels at limited, swift campaigns.

Responding to one of Syrian President Bashar Assad's recent threats, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman promised last month that if Assad attacks Israel, Israel will bring down his regime. While bringing about the utter defeat of Iran's regional proxies is a reasonable goal, it cannot be Israel's goal in the coming war.

In the coming war, Israel will have only one goal: to destroy or seriously damage Iran's nuclear installations. Every resource turned against Iran's proxies must be aimed at facilitating that goal. That is, the only thing Israel should seek to accomplish in contending with Syria, Hizbullah and Hamas is to prevent them from diverting Israeli resources away from attacking Iran's nuclear installations.

This means that Israel must launch a preemptive strike against Hizbullah's missiles and missile launchers, Syria's missiles, artillery and launchers, and Hamas's missiles and launchers. As for their short-range rockets, Israel should do its best to intercept them and otherwise hunker down to weather the storm of Katyushas and Qassams. Life of the homefront won't be easy. But it won't be impossible either, as we saw in 2006.

Almost every assessment of a possible Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear installations has assumed that Israel will use its Air Force to strike. All that can be said of that analysis is that, just as there is more than one way to skin a cat, so there is more than one way to destroy Iran's nuclear installations. An Israeli strike should utilize all of them to keep the Iranians off balance and on the defensive.

These are dangerous times. Iran, which seeks to position itself as a regional superpower, has been emboldened by the Obama administration's abdication of US global leadership. Only Israel can prevent Iran from endangering the world. But time is of the essence.

shummer60- So this is what it is like to live in another dimemsion?

2010-05-08T23:16:00.001-04:00

Obama: Millions Reaping Benefits From New Health Care Law

In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama vigorously defended the new law, which passed Congress with no Republican votes and continues to stir strong emotions nationwide.

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama said Saturday that millions of Americans already are reaping benefits from the new health care law, including tax breaks for some small businesses and help for families with young adults.

In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama vigorously defended the new law, which passed Congress with no Republican votes and continues to stir strong emotions nationwide. He acknowledged that many provisions will not take effect for years. But he said others are helping some families now.

Four million small business owners and organizations have been told of a possible health care tax cut this year, Obama said. On June 15, some elderly people with high prescription drug costs will receive $250 to help fill the so-called doughnut hole in Medicare's pharmaceutical benefits.

"Already we are seeing a health care system that holds insurance companies more accountable and gives consumers more control," the president said.

Obama said Anthem Blue Cross dropped a proposed 39 percent premium increase on Californians after his administration demanded an explanation. He said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius wrote to all states "urging them to investigate other rate hikes and stop insurance companies from gaming the system."

A new federal agency will provide grants to states with the best oversight programs, Obama said.

His administration also is drafting a "patients' bill of rights" to give consumers information about their health care choices and rights, he said.

As of September, Obama said, "the new health care law prohibits insurance companies from dropping people's coverage when they get sick and need it most."

He said his administration will urge large employers to follow several insurance companies' example of allowing people under 26 to stay on their parents' employer-provided health insurance plans starting this summer, rather than having to wait until September or later.

"Ultimately, we'll have a system that provides more control for consumers, more accountability for insurance companies and more affordable choices for uninsured Americans," Obama said.

Republicans continue to attack the new law as too costly and ineffective. They vow to make it a major issue in the November congressional elections.

A new Gallup poll found that the law's enactment has not lessened Americans' concerns about health care costs. The poll found that 61 percent worry about the costs of a serious illness or accident and 48 percent worry about normal health care costs.

2010-05-08T23:09:00.000-04:00

Give me liberty or …
Exclusive: Chuck Norris warns of new front in battle against American gun rights

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Posted: May 03, 2010
1:00 am Eastern

By Chuck Norris

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(Editor's note: This is Part Two of a three-part series on the threat to the Second Amendment and Americans' firearm freedoms.)

I believe the political stars are aligning right now for the opening of a new front in the battle against our gun rights: via the election and work of an anti-gun president, the disarmament passions of the Washington majority and the United Nations, the appointments of gun prohibitionists from the White House to the Supreme Court and the funding of an anti-Second Amendment movement by billionaire progressives like George Soros.

In Part One last week, I discussed President Obama's anti-Second Amendment record and his administration's goals to use dormant treaties and global agencies to loosen the boundaries and binds of the Second Amendment. I wish to expand upon the United Nation's participation a little further in this second part of my trilogy.

In October 2009, the Obama administration reversed the position taken by the Bush White House by stating its support for a process that could, in 2012, result in an international treaty to regulate conventional arms sales. Of course, "regulate" is a euphemism here for "the beginning of banning."

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States would support the talks as long as the negotiating forum, the so-called Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty, "operates under the rules of consensus decision-making."

Without a single mention of the Second Amendment or America's sovereignty in her entire statement, Clinton said, "The United States is committed to actively pursuing a strong and robust treaty that contains the highest possible, legally binding standards for the international transfer of conventional weapons."

Amnesty International and Oxfam International jointly declared the action "a major breakthrough in launching formal negotiations at the United Nations." But do Americans really want or need the U.N. to tell us what to do with our guns with an international treaty? And when negotiating with other countries, do we really expect non-U.S. delegates to be conciliatory to America's unique Second Amendment rights? James Madison noted in the Federalist, No. 46, "The Constitution preserves 'the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation … (where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.'"

In 2006, the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution titled "Toward an arms trade treaty." In 2008, the General Assembly passed another resolution, accelerating efforts toward an arms trade treaty. In both cases, the U.S. was the only opposing vote of 154 countries. Now, it would appear that Obama and Clinton have ordered our team of U.N negotiators to drop their opposition and move forward to develop "consensus."

With the Obama administration receptive and on board, the General Assembly (with the U.S. in complete compliance) is moving forward with a U.N. conference to produce an arms trade treaty in 2012 – perhaps sooner. In fact, the U.N. is hosting a major conference on this subject in June this year.

I would bet my finest pistol that rather than reinvent the treaty wheel the U.S. will propose wording (if not the entire document) from the CIFTA treaty. Of course, arms exporters China, Russia and Israel will again abstain, realizing (unlike U.S. officials in our recession) that limiting the trade of firearms is merely one more unwise economic move for what's left of our manufacturing base. (In 2008, the United States accounted for more than two-thirds of some $55.2 billion in global arms transfer deals.)

John Bolton, Bush administration ambassador to the U.N., explained last November (2009): "The administration [in Washington] is trying to act as though this is really just a treaty about international arms trade between nation states, but there's no doubt – as was the case back over a decade ago – that the real agenda here is domestic firearms control. After the treaty is approved and it comes into force, you will find out that it … requires the Congress to adopt some measure that restricts ownership of firearms. The administration knows it cannot obtain this kind of legislation purely in a domestic context. … They will use an international agreement as an excuse to get domestically what they couldn't otherwise."

Unfortunately, President Obama and his administration would rather limit American's rights to keep and bear arms inside the borders – rather than stop contraband at our borders by proper patrolling and enforcement. Arturo Valenzuela, assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, even told reporters in March that a bigger priority than the treaty right now is for both the U.S. and Mexico to "manage the border." If we properly "managed the border," there would be no need for a treaty!

Of course, any international treaty needs two-thirds the votes of the Senate to be ratified, and critics on both sides say there's no way that will happen. Again, Cato Institute scholar Ted Galen Carpenter spoke for many others when he said, "There is no chance of getting a two-thirds vote in the Senate to pass this treaty; it has too many implications for gun rights in the United States." I would respectfully beg to differ. Look how Obamacare was shoved through the Senate like a ramrod, even after the landmark election of "no" vote Scott Brown from Massachusetts. Believe me, if there's a will, they'll find a way.

Why the Constitution is so complicated to some, I'll never understand. Our founders ratified a Second Amendment as a right and defense for all Americans. There's nothing easy about defending your life. And taking a life is mega-tragic. But when your life is in danger, the Second Amendment provides for your and your loved ones' security.

Case in point: At the beginning of this month, Michael Lish and his wife arrived home in Tulsa, Okla., at 10 p.m. to find the back door ajar and a window open. Unbeknownst to the couple, the intruder in their house has been recently released from jail and had a history of drug offenses and driving under the influence. Michael had just entered his house when he heard a noise coming from the master bedroom. Once Michael neared the bedroom, the intruder, 19-year-old Billy Jean Tiffey III, approached Michael with a sword that he was in the process of stealing from the house. When Tiffey did not comply with his order to stop approaching him, Michael, who had a concealed weapons permit, pulled out his gun and shot him in the abdomen. However, the intruder dropped to his knees and reached behind his back, appearing to the homeowner as if he was reaching for another weapon (in addition to the sword, he was also packing a .38-caliber pistol, a 9 mm pistol, a knife and a stun gun). Michael had no choice – and he shot Tiffey two more times in the chest, killing him.

It was certainly an understatement of Thomas Jefferson, when he wrote to George Washington these words in 1796, "One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them."

Shummer60- Well the communism thing the president and he Dem cronies are forcing on the US is working so well! NOT

2010-05-08T22:39:00.002-04:00

Venezuela annual inflation rate hits 30 percent

May 7, 11:19 PM (ET)

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuela's annual inflation rate has surpassed 30 percent after consumer prices surged in April.

The Central Bank and National Statistics Institute on Friday reported a 5.2 percent increase in consumer prices during April, driving up the annual rate to 30.4 percent.

President Hugo Chavez's government has been struggling against the highest inflation rate in Latin America and a weakening economy in general.

Prices increased 11.3 percent from January to April, up from 6.7 percent inflation in the same 2009 period.

Venezuela's economy shrank by 3.3 percent last year amid a downturn in its all-important oil industry. It's the nation's first recession since 2003.

The country imports most of its food, and Chavez on Friday announced the government will create an import-export corporation aiming to break with the private sector's "hegemony." It wasn't immediately clear how the new state entity would operate.

Chavez said wealthy Venezuelans involved in the import business "buy abroad, come here and ask for more than it really costs."

2010-05-03T23:17:00.000-04:00

Volume XXIX Issue V May 2010
Last Trumpet Ministries, PO Box 806, Beaver Dam, WI 53916
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America - Governed by Organized Crime!

"For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy they do not judge. Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?"

Jeremiah 5:26-31
"From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill and desire to have, and cannot obtain: Ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that you may consume it upon your lusts. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

James 4:1-4
In this issue of the Last Trumpet Newsletter, we will once again use the Word of God as our compass and navigation system as we view the end times. We know that something is seriously wrong with the United States of America. Furthermore, we are continually warned by the many signs in God's creation that something is about to happen that has never happened before. We have an American tradition of freedom, liberty, and justice. We have the protection of the United States Constitution, which was designed to protect every individual from the government.

Quite recently, we have discovered how oppressive a government can be. The Obama Administration listens to no one except his invisible antichrist superiors. Every day we are seeing radical transitions and changes to which the vast majority of the people are opposed. We are clearly moving toward a communist one-world dictatorship.

The Bible verses above tell us of wicked and deceitful men who seize upon a people for total exploitation of their souls. Satan and his antichrist dictator demand complete allegiance in "their world." Their success will be temporary and short-lived because our Saviour will soon return to bring all things into judgment. If you are reading this and have not yet surrendered your life to the Lord Jesus, I urge you to do it now. Time is so short.

Marshalling the Forces of Antichrist!

While the United States of America is going through an incredibly obvious change toward dictatorship, the rest of the world looks on with great wonder. For the first time in modern history, many secular politicians and world leaders are using religious and Biblical terminology to describe what is happening. On March 24th, 2010, the London Daily Mail newspaper featured a shocking headline as follows: "Almost a Quarter of Republicans Think Obama May Be the Antichrist As Fourteen States Sue Over Healthcare Reforms." In Washington, D.C., the President is being compared to the Antichrist! (1) In a recent Harris poll, 57% of Republicans believed Obama is secretly Muslim, and 67% believed he is a Socialist.

As antichrist powers arise, every other kind of evil rises with it. We are living in a time of historic firsts as new and outrageous things continue to arise. On March 10th, 2010, Washington, D.C., gave its blessing to gay marriages, and leading the way were two female ordained ministers. (2) Countless others are to follow. Truly the spirits of Sodom are active in the capital of the United States. In addition to that, laws are now being changed that legalize both homosexual and bisexual activity between military personnel. The bill is being called the "Military Readiness Enhancement Act 2010." (3)

As spiritual waves of antichrist power surge across America, many people are left in a state of confusion in not knowing what to do. Many thousands have responded in protest with so called "tea parties." (4) In many cases, these protests receive very little news coverage. And as voices falling on deaf ears, the Obama Administration refuses to listen to the people, and our country becomes ever more unstable.

In addition to the distressing activities of Obama regarding the Unites States, we also see his peculiar foreign policies coming forth in order to reshape the international order. On April 9, 2010, Barack Obama, Russian President Dimitry Medvedev, and Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus met at Prague Castle and signed a nuclear treaty (5). While a nuclear treaty may sound like a good thing, we must remember that there are other nations that possess powerful nuclear weapons and that a treaty by definition is just a plan for another war. A treaty is an agreement between nations to come to the aid of each other if any one of them is attacked. This always ensures a much larger war. Who would have thought that the assassination of Franz-Ferdinand in Sarajevo would trigger World War I? It did so because of the treaties that existed among all the nations to come to each other's aid, creating a domino effect that devastated the world in the early years of the twentieth century. At the end of World War I came the Versailles Treaty in France, which guaranteed that the next war would be global as well. In fact, when British Representative Lloyd-George left the Versailles Treaty and reporters asked him what was accomplished that day, he answered, "War in twenty years." Exactly twenty years later, Germany began activities which were fomented into World War II. Such is the nature of a treaty.

On March 29th, 2010, the London Daily Mail newspaper featured an article stating that Obama sets his sights on merging Mexico and the United States. (6) It is being done in a very clever way and is really an offshoot of health care reform. Ever since the health care reform passed, the focus has shifted to modernizing our immigration system to provide health care for all illegal aliens and allowing them the freedom to pass to and from Mexico unrestricted. Thus, in effect, the American border would disappear if this is allowed to happen.

Another question that must be asked regarding the foreign policies of Obama is why he would grant offshore oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico to Russia. Russia is moving further and further westward gaining continual leverage, and while Russia continues its western domination, the United States seems to shrink back into the obscurity of an uncertain future. (7)

Probably one of the greatest outrages of our time is a recent decision of Obama to order American troops to march in Red Square Parade, complete with posters of Stalin, on May 9th. The event is to mark the 65th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany. British, French, and American troops plan to march under the red flag in Red Square amidst countless posters of Stalin at the Kremlin. (8)

Health Care - The Devil Behind the Dream

As is always the case with any legislative act or project of the government, there is always an occult connection and basis for it. The recently passed national health care reform bill is certainly no exception. So much has been said about how it will bankrupt our country, dissolve our liberties, and force governmental interpretation of so-called health needs upon us. But looking beyond that as a former occultist, I can see some amazing signs that reach far beyond the realm of coincidence. When the first measure was passed, I had predicted it would happen during the occult witches' sabot of Yule, and right on cue, that's what did happen. Then with all of the debate, closed door sessions, and conspiracy regarding the final bill, I predicted that the final passing would take place on March 21st, 2010, which is the witches' sabat of Astarte. Sure enough, that's exactly what happened. (9) This left only one thing remaining to be done to bring it into law, and that was for the signature of the President of the United States. Obama wasted no time and signed it into law the very next day, which was March 22nd, 2010. If we look at the numbers of that date, 3-22, and if we know anything about secret societies and occult organizations, we will immediately recognize that the number 322 appears in bold numerals on the logo of the Skull and Bones Society. The Society of Skull and Bones is a small but powerful secret organization located on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. I have personally been there and have fought them with prayer on various occasions. Their letterhead and logo feature large skull crossbones and the number 322. This organization must have 322 members at all times. From this we know that the universal health care plan, which is now in effect, is truly a project of the Illuminati itself for the purpose of depopulation and the micromanagement of the bodies of every American. Another important point that must be made is that the date of March 22 is vitally important to the Illuminati because it is the day when the sun enters the sign of Aries, who is regarded to be the god of war, bloodshed, and turmoil. Another occult aspect regarding the signing of this health care bill on 3-22-10 is that when Obama signed it, he used twenty-two different multicolored pens.

It is becoming increasingly obvious to those who are watching and praying that those who are now in charge of our government are operating under the pressure of a severe invisible force, and to a great extent they don't know what they're doing. This is reflected in a statement made by Nancy Pelosi on March 10, 2010, when she said, "But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy." (10)

If one is to explain the politics of Barack Obama, we would have to refer back to the Chicago underworld. As we look back in history to the early part of the twentieth century, there was a period of time when Chicago was the haven of every kind of racketeering and underworld activity. During the time of the Prohibition, Chicago was being shot up by the most notorious gangsters that ever lived. Their names are well remembered to this day: John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, Dutch Schultz, Two-Gun Crowley, Frank Nitti, and the infamous Al Capone. It was Al Capone who fancied himself as a kind of hero of the people. Capone is famous for his statement that "some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." Chicago was the very heartland of America, but those who engaged in business activities and owned stores and shops found that freedom, liberty, and justice were only idealistic words. Throughout the city there was gambling, prostitution, illegal stills, and speak-easies. One of the biggest games was called the "protection racket." The way the protection racket worked is that so-called "salesmen" would go into business and commercial districts. Going from one business to the next, they would ask to see the owner. The "salesmen" would compliment the owner on his business and then inform the owner that they would hate to see anything happen to interrupt his enterprise. The salesmen usually had a couple scars on their faces, pinstripe suits, and violin cases that did not contain violins. The store keeper was then told he must pay an insurance premium to prevent anyone from coming in and breaking up the place with violence and destruction. If the storekeeper paid the exorbitant payment on a regular basis, all was well. If not, trouble was guaranteed. It was the perfect sales pitch. Buy it or suffer consequences. We know from studying the Bible that there is a certain geography regarding evil spirits and how they operate. We refer to spirits of Sodom and spirits of Babylon, but there are certain types of spirits that have their roots of operation in one place and yet manifest their power in another place. At this present time, we have a President and much of his cabinet with roots in the Chicago underworld. Can any thinking person not see the similarities of operation between the Obama "syndicate" and the Chicago underworld? The health care legislation that was railroaded through is a prime example of invading not only business places but the lives of individual Americans with that perfect sales pitch "buy it or be fined and jailed."

There has been so much confusion regarding the new health care plan. Confusion is the very nature of politics. Politicians seem to have a continual presence of evil around them. The political oligarchy in America, including both Democrats and Republicans, is outspokenly opposed to deficits. Yet all we have are deficits. If all of the politicians stand against inflation and higher taxes, why are we constantly getting what they are supposedly standing against? The fact is that politicians are the only people in the entire world who create problems and then campaign against them. Senate majority leader Harry Reid surprised everyone during the December vote for the health care bill. After putting almost all of his time and effort into getting it passed, he stood up and voted against it! Of course, he quickly changed his vote. But how could such an obvious mistake be made by the forceful proponent of the measure? And yet during the March 22nd vote, he did it again, voting nay and then quickly changing it. (11) Such confusion at the outset of a project this large will certainly work its way into every phase and facet of health care. Destruction and failure are ahead, but so is the glorious return of our Lord Jesus Christ!

Economic Changeover

While we continually hear that Wall Street is doing well, we know that the cities and states of our nation are literally crumbling economically. On March 12th, 2010, an associated press article revealed that Kansas City, Missouri, school officials determined that they must shut down half of the district schools by the start of classes in the fall. (12) In Detroit, Michigan, family homes are now selling for just ten dollars. The London Daily Telegraph recently reported in an article that the BBC revealed the horror story in a documentary called "Requiem for Detroit." According to Real Estate agent Tim Prophit, there were numerous homes on the market for one hundred dollars, but an offer for just ten dollars would likely be accepted. (13) All indicators now reveal that our current economy is breathing its last, and a new one will try to rise in its place. With it will come a new government because in all of recorded history no government has ever outlived its economy. On February 24th, 2010, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or FDIC, announced that it was bracing for a new wave of bank failures. The FDIC has recently placed 702 lending institutions on its list of problem banks. It is the insurance fund of the FDIC that safeguards the deposits of the people of America. Everything in this arena is now getting very shaky. (14)

The national debt level of over thirteen trillion dollars is beyond comprehension. On April 5th, 2010, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that the Obama budget has brought the United States government close to the tipping point, and that tipping point is when the national debt reaches 90% of the domestic gross profit of the Unites States. (15) According to the Wall Street Journal, our U.S. Government's year-to-date deficit ballooned to a record 651.6 billion dollars in February. The February reading of 221 billion was the largest ever monthly deficit. (16) Now we have learned that on March 26th, 2010, the Federal Government CBO, or budget office, has now indicated that Obama's fiscal 2011 budget will rise to 90% of the gross domestic profit. (17) In short, we can't keep up with our debt.

The millions of Americans who are on Social Security of the United States will soon be in for another sad shock. The US Treasury Department plans to take social security money from the elderly for unpaid loans. Up until this time, no one could touch Social Security money, but the U.S. is not collecting debts owed to offsetting agencies. (18) The United States economy is suffering greatly on every side, and when the health care reform bill was passed, it sent shock waves through the major corporate world because all major companies and many small businesses will be forced to carry insurance for all of their employees. One example is AT&T, which stated that in the first year alone, 2010, the company will lose one billion dollars. With one stroke of a pen, that value disappeared from the company, just as billions more disappeared from other American companies and enterprises! (19)

Who Is At War With Whom?

For the past forty years, I have watched the illuministic and occult powers that run the governments of the world destroy this beautiful creation of God as they try to reshape the world according to satanic specifications. The Lord Jesus forewarned us in Matthew, chapter 24, that there would be wars and rumours of wars, and to this very hour, it is true. In any war there are protagonists and antagonists, but in recent history, many wars, battles, and strifes seem to be undefined. In reality these wars are not fought just among men. Wars are also fought among angels, and you can read about that in the twelfth chapter of Revelation. Ultimately, the great battle is between heaven and hell, and the real enemy of hell is the remnant people of the Lord Jesus Christ. We must know the enemy, and we must never be ignorant of his devices.

In the 1980's, I watched a strange phenomenon as jet airplanes began to release chemicals into the atmosphere in massive quantities. These chemtrails were much different than the narrow and dissipating contrails, and something strange was going on. The evidence was obvious as patterns appeared in the sky. Sometimes shapes like wheels with spokes and various other designs appeared. Some of the designs were occult in nature. On April 6, 2010, Avion News published a story regarding a commission that presented this problem to the European Union. While the people of the world were told to stop using their spray cans to protect the ozone layer, thousands of planes were spraying the skies with persistent milky veils due to the presence of barium, aluminum, and iron. (20) One of the primary problems with the chemtrails is that the substance eventually falls to earth, destroying the eco systems of our planet and causing upper respiratory sicknesses to many people. We know that Satan is called the prince of the powers of the air, and these activities are literally poisoning our planet.

On April 6th, 2010, the Pentagon requested another thirty-three billion dollars more for the war in Afghanistan. (21) This war in Afghanistan has been going on for nearly a decade with no progress, but, of course, that's the way they intended it to be. Our excuse for going into Afghanistan was based on the incidents that took place on September 11, 2001. This is the day when the towers came down and changed our nation forever, but we were not attacked by Afghanistan, nor were we attacked by Iraq. However, on the premise that the perpetrators were hiding there, the United States went in and began to systematically decimate those countries. Much propaganda and many lies came forth regarding the twin towers and who destroyed them. The conspirators know full well that when people are stricken with grief their emotions do not allow them to be completely rational, so the incidents and the propaganda were brought forth, and suddenly we had two major wars on our hands. Here let it be noted that on April 6th, 2010, the Intelligence Daily published a report by Joel S. Hirschorn revealing that one hundred million Americans are questioning and finding fault with the official 9-11 story. There were conspirators with an agenda that stood to gain from this manufactured tragedy, and without a doubt it was an inside job. (22) One thing can be said about Afghanistan is that the nation has prospered exponentially since our troops have walked across their soil. Afghanistan is now not only the world's largest producer of opium, but it has also overtaken Morocco as the top producer of hashish. (23) It appears a country's agriculture can do quite well with our armies protecting it. As amazing as this story is, it was published on March 21st, 2010, by the New York Times and the headline stated "U.S. Turns Blind Eye to Opium in Marjah." (24)

Unwitting Guinea Pigs

Truly it can be said that some of the most horrible and dreadful activities that ever came out of the perverted minds of men involved human experimentation. Those are words that you would probably expect to hear in regard to Nazi concentration camps, but the fact is these things are going on among the general population of the entire world all the time. On March 23rd, 2010, CNN News published a story that revealed a horrible tragedy. Thirty million kids got Rotarix vaccine tainted with pig virus. The FDA uncovered the pig virus while researching the vaccine produced by GlaxoSmithKline. The manufacturer quickly stated that the pig virus is not known to cause disease in humans. (25) Of course, there are many other problems with vaccines and high tech chemicals that are causing serious conditions. The February 2010 issue of the Journal of Modern Genetics revealed the following shocking headline: "Gender-Bender Chemicals Are Turning Boys into Girls." A 326 page report issued by the government of Denmark affirmed that endocrine disrupting chemicals are continuing to birth fewer males and causing the feminization of existing ones. Chemicals such as PVCs, flame retardants, phthalates, dioxins, PCBs, and bisphenol-A all mimic estrogen in the body. These are being blamed for falling sperm counts worldwide and fewer boys being born than ever before. These chemicals are literally feminizing the world. (26) Another incident of human experimentation was reported on March 11, 2010, by the London Daily Telegraph. The incident took place in 1951 in a quiet village in southern France, which was mysteriously struck down with mass insanity and hallucinations. Five people died, dozens were injured, and hundreds were inflicted. It has now been admitted that our own United States government Central Intelligence Agency spiked French bread with LSD. (27) It was an experiment to see the extent of reaction upon a small number of people before bringing it into this country where it became popular in the 1960's and 70's. We must also note that it was Dr. Timothy Leary who was used to introduce and distribute LSD. He made the statement that when you are on LSD, you are not hallucinating, but you are seeing another world that does exist. Dr. Leary said that the drug gives you the ability to cross the bridge to that other world, much like the crossing of the mythological river Styx to the land of the gods and goddesses. Thus the drug becomes a "bridge over troubled waters."

We know that evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived, and this is exemplified in a March 11, 2010 article by AFP News, which tells us of a new brain scan that can read people's thoughts. This is being researched by the University College London. (28) How long will Almighty God allow such things to go on? Certainly we are near the end!

The Earth Under Pressures

In recent months, we have seen the signs and wonders for which the Lord told us to watch, and they are happening on an ever increasing basis. In the past several newsletters, I noted the climbing number of earthquakes and how they are increasing also in intensity and frequency, just as labor pains come upon a woman with child. After decreasing slightly in the past few weeks, they're now increasing again. On March 9th, 2010, Okcular, Turkey, was hit by a strong earthquake. It happened in the early dawn, and within moments people were trying to climb through their windows and into the streets. It was a 6.0 earthquake with numerous aftershocks. We know that earthquakes in various places are one of the great signs of the end. Here let it be noted that earthquakes are rarely powerful enough to literally move and transplant an entire city. However, the 8.8 earthquake that struck off the coast of Chile in February moved the city of Concepcion ten feet to the west. (29) The word of God tells us in Revelation 16, verses 19 and 20, "And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found." This is a description of the final earthquake that will cause this present world to crumble, and all of these quakes that are now happening are leading up to this event. The U.S. Geological Survey lists earthquakes in thirty day increments. We know that the date March 15th, which is always known as the Ides of March, is ominous because it was the day that Julius Caesar was assassinated in Rome. It is interesting to note that on the Ides of March 2010 the U.S. Geological Survey posted exactly 666 earthquakes within the past thirty days of that date. (30) On April 4th, 2010, a 7.2 magnitude quake hit Baja, California, and was felt over much of the West coast of the United States. It was listed as a major quake because of the structural damage and widespread effect. (31)

Another great sign that we are near the end is the eruption of the great volcano in Iceland. This event took place on March 22nd, 2010. Countless tons of volcanic ash spewed for miles into the upper atmosphere over Iceland. This thick ash continued to pour out for many days, and since it is easily capable of choking out jet engines, airline flights all over Europe and the North Atlantic had to be canceled. (32) The Icelandic eruption is a stern reminder of something much greater to come. In Isaiah, chapter 64, verses 1-3, we read of how it will be on the day the Lord Jesus Christ returns to the earth. "Oh that thou wouldst rend the heavens, that thou wouldst come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, as when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence! When thou didst terrible things which we look not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence."

Not only is the earth trembling and shaking, but it is also being attacked from an invisible star. The economic Times of London reported on March 12, 2010, the strange story. Scientists have claimed that an unseen star five times the size of Jupiter is lurking near our solar system and is beginning to kick comets toward the earth. The star has been named Nemesis or the "death star." It lies just beyond the edge of our solar system. As this death star spins, it gathers destructive power. Professor John Matese of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette said that most comets come from some part of the Oort Cloud. (33)

In closing, I urge everyone to continue to pray without ceasing. If you have prayer requests and would like to send them to us, our intercessors will be more than happy to give them individual attention. My sincerest thanks to all who support this end time prophetic ministry. Grace and peace be unto you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

David J. Meyer

Acknowledgments

1. London Daily Mail, March 24, 2010, By David Gardner, London, England, UK.
2. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 10, 2010, AP Washington, D.C.
3. CNS News.com, March 8, 2010, By Nicholas Ballasy.
4. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 8, 2010, By Bill Glauber, Milwaukee, WI.
5. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 9, 2010, By Jennifer Loven, AP Prague.
6. The London Daily Mail, March 29, 2010, London, England, UK.
7. Washington Times, March 18, 2010, Washington, D.C.
8. PZ News Watch, March 27, 2010, Moscow, Russia. http://www.armybase.us/2010/03
9. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 22, 2010, By Diana Marrero, Milwaukee, WI.
10. CBS News Service, March 10, 2010, By David Freddoso, Washington, D.C.
11. CNN News, March 22, 2010, Washington, D.C.
12. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 12, 2010, By Heather Hollingsworth, Kansas City, MO.
13. London Daily Telegraph, March 12, 2010, London, England, UK.
14. FCIC Report, February 24, 2010, By Eric Dash, Washington, D.C.
15. San Francisco Chronicle, April 5, 2010, By Caroline Lochhead, San Francisco, CA.
16. Wall Street Journal, March 10, 2010, New York, NY.
17. The Washington Times, March 26, 2010, By David M. Dickson, Washington, D.C.
18. The Wall Street Journal, March 10, 2010, New York, NY.
19. Bloomberg News Service, March 26, 2010, By Amy Thompson and Ian King, New York, NY.
20. AvionNews, April 6, 2010, By Erik Meijer, London, England, UK.
21. Newscom, March 25, 2010, By Gordon Lubold, Washington, D.C.
22. Intelligence Daily, April 6, 2010, By Joel S. Hirschhorn, New York, NY.
23. Reuters News Service, April 1, 2010, Kabul, Afghanistan.
24. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 21, 2010, By Rod Mordland, Kabul, Afghanistan.
25. CNN News, March 23, 2010.
26. Journal of Modern Genetics, February, 2010.
27. London Daily Telegraph, March 11, 2010, London, England, UK.
28. AFP News Service, March 11, 2010.
29. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 9, 2010, By Burnhan Ozbliici, Milwaukee, WI.
30. U.S. Geological Survey, March 15, 2010.
31. The New York Times, April 4, 2010, By Steinhauer and Archivold, New York, NY.
32. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 22, 2010, AP Reykiavik, Finland.
33. Economic Times, March 12, 2010.

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2010-05-03T23:14:00.001-04:00

God's Judgment Cannot Be Stopped.
Posted: Monday, May 03, 2010
- written by jerry golden

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There is little I can say that the Spirit of God hasn't already revealed to many reading this report. It is now obvious that God's Prophetic Word is moving upon us as the days of great sorrow now quickly close in on the whole of Mankind. Many are in denial and have decided to 'do' church as usual, while Preachers continue teaching the "easy believism" false gospel which merely tickles the ears of the congregations, with all of its heresy and man-made doctrines that are a stench unto God. This messenger, and many others, have been shouting from the wilderness that you must draw nigh unto God. The knowledge that is being shared with you will enable you to prepare, so that you will not only survive, but will be able to be a witness to those around you.. Many will be searching for the truth that will bring them through the terrible days just up ahead. The truth that will bring peace to the hearts of men while others perish as fear and torment overtake them.

We see the United States now paying a very heavy price for its treatment of Israel and for the sin that has engulfed the nation. I and many others have been amazed how such an evil man could have been elected as the President of the United States, but we will all soon know the answer. As Obama enforces the division of Jerusalem and the destruction of Israel, God's wrath continues to become more and more severe upon the USA....with.floods, environmental destruction, drought and storms;

Job 37:9-13

[9] Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.
[10] By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.
[11] Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud:
[12] And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.
[13] He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.

The Gulf of Mexico oil-spill will prove to be the worst natural disaster in the history of the USA - costing many billions of dollars and causing ecological damage which will take decades to overcome - if ever. The volcano in Iceland that brought England and most of Europe to its knees [for their declaration that the Temple Mount and the Western Wall are not a part of Israel and further, that they are within Arab territory!] is nothing compared to what is to come according to the frightening warning from God's Word of great tribulation for those who dare touch Jerusalem. As Obama continues to please his Islamic friends in his quest to destroy Israel, the worse the conditions will become in the US. You do not have to be a Prophet to know this! You may say to me, "brother Jerry, we have our own problems and what happens to Israel is no real concern of ours". A true Believer in Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus the Messiah) could never say that if he or she has read God's Word. Just read the scriptures below.....

Gen. 12:3

And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

Esther 4:13-14
Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews. For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this.
Isaiah 11:11-12

11] And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
[12] And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

The greatest miracle anyone has ever witnessed is the re-gathering of Israel after 2500 years amongst the nations of the world. This miracle also set the stage for God's endtime Prophecies to be fulfilled. As we read above, according to Isaiah there is yet to be another, and larger ingathering of God's people back to the land promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Every Believer who has been called to this Ministry knows, as I do, that time is running out for us to prepare to save as many Jews as we possibly can. There is still much to be accomplished in ground preparations and the purchase of the larger boat is so very important. Daily we thank God for those who have been obedient to God's calling and have sacrificed by giving to this Ministry. But now is not the time to stop - this is the time to reach deep and make the larger boat a reality before it is too late.

Both of the boats we now have required major servicing this Spring. The expenses amounted to more than we could afford - yet knowing that time is running out we had to ensure the vessels were ready to go into action.

Most military analysts believe Israel will experience a major war this summer. If that is so, it will be a call for this ministry to move out under the cover of the Rauch Hakodesh (Holy Spirit). You and I will lose contact at that time, but we will both know that we have done what we were called to do - save Jewish lives!

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, for our son Joel and all the IDF soldiers. Pray for this Ministry and you part in it.

Shalom, Jerry Golden

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2010-05-02T22:51:00.001-04:00

'KEENER' WHIFF OF REVOLUTION

By Timothy N. Baldwin, JD.
April 28, 2010
NewsWithViews.com

Columnist, Alan Caruba, wrote a recent article entitled, “A Whiff of Revolution,” in which he generally describes the people of the United States as being fed up and disgusted with federal politics.[1] Caruba rightly compares the actions by the federal government (particularly under Obama) to the actions by Great Britain just before the America Revolution, stating that “[i]t is the antithesis of a nation of laws, a republic.” Caruba predicts that Americans will eventually take this matter of freedom back into their own hands once again:

“If, between now and the midterm elections, the President and Congress pass the Cap-and-Trade Act and an amnesty for illegal aliens, I SUSPECT THAT SOME AMERICANS MAY NOT BE CONTENT TO SIT BY WHILE STATES AND THE COURTS WORK THEIR WAY WITHIN THE CONSTITUTION. They will sense—and rightfully so—a despotism never before associated with the presidency.” (emphasis added)

Caruba makes some valid points in his article and accurately describes a feeling of revolution prevalent throughout the country. However, I believe that a more thoughtful analysis must be attributed to what a real and successful revolution will compose.

First, I must observe what I believe to be an underlying presumption in Caruba’s prediction of a revolution by the PEOPLE THROUGHOUT (all of) THE UNITED STATES. I have to assume Caruba’s prediction of revolution takes place on a nation-wide scale (in all fifty states) because he references “Americans” in general and simply leaves out the notion of “citizens of individual States.” To me, Caruba portrays a revolution where by the union of fifty states stays intact.

Caruba seems to indicate that if Obama signs into law certain bills (i.e. amnesty, Cap-and-Trade, etc.—a sort of “crossing the line” point) then the people will instinctively or cognizantly recognize they are under despotism and will respond accordingly, even without consideration of their State government. I do not share this belief. Rather, I believe freedom’s revolution will comprise of certain regions of the country under the leadership of certain states.

That the people (in whatever percentage is necessary to effectuate principles of freedom) in all fifty states will recognize that they are under despotism is simply not true. Just take a look at the last election and see who voted for the Obama—millions! Count these people out of any revolution movement against a system that they not only support, but love.

On top of that, many millions of these people receive direct benefits from the federal government and the system it has created: military, education, financial institutions, employment, welfare, grants, contracts, etc. With this direct interest, a large number of Americans will not participate in a revolution whatsoever. Thomas Paine recognized the same during 1776 as to the types of people who remained loyal to Great Britain:

“INTERESTED MEN, who are not to be trusted; WEAK MEN who cannot see; PREJUDICED MEN who will not see; and a certain set of MODERATE MEN, who think better of the European world than it deserves…[The moderate men] will be the cause of more calamities to this continent than all the other three.”[2] (all-caps emphasis added)

Those classes of people exist today in large part, and we see its effect today. Immediately in observation, we evidently find that a large number of coastal-west, mid-north and north-east states will not participate in freedom’s revolution, because they will not consider themselves to be under any sort of tyranny or despotism. They prefer (whether knowingly or not) socialism, big government, elimination of state powers, status quo, etc. These states would likely even preclude the possibility of a constitutional amendment some are advocating to “roll back” the federal government.

Even among the “Tea Party” movement, the idea of revolution is not altogether shared. Many of them simply believe that we should “vote the bumps out” or should use the (federal) court system to “regain freedom.” This mentality shows that they are federal-government-risk averse, likely and largely because they either believe that the federal government is “too strong” to resist (they say, “look at the Civil War: the federal government will crush our attempts to secede or resist them!”); that the federal laws are in fact supreme over state laws and thus, we must change the federal government to restore freedom; or that the union must be saved at all costs and so any State that resists and acts individually upon its own sovereignty is foolish.

People who believe that freedom must be obtained through the federal system causing their demise either will not likely consider themselves to live in despotism and revolt accordingly, or will not consider resisting the federal government individually or with a “mob of seditionists.”

I believe Caruba’s prediction involves a critical oversight regarding the state governments’ role in the revolution through its independent political power. One of the reasons that the founding generation insisted that the States retain their borders, integrity and a large portion of their sovereignty was to be able to resist federal encroachment and to govern themselves--even without the federal government.

Human observation, experience and nature confirmed the need for a Constitutional Confederated Republic to maintain smaller and more numerous and individual territories to most effectively secure freedom for each body-politic. Each state served as an entity unto itself to accomplish the ends of government.

So, what if a group of people live in a state where they have to contend not only with the federal government but also with their state government? What will those people do who live in a state where its state government assists the federal government in rounding up all those who have “revolted” against the federal government? In such a State, what you mostly have are a bunch of so-called seditionists who (to that State and the federal government) have created an insurrection, rebellion or unlawful overthrow of government and who now have no support from any internal government entity with the organization, force and rule of law for its citizenry, police and state guard/militia. For those people, mere survival would be the focus, not freedom.

Even if a state possesses people who understand they are living in despotism, they will likely be so overwhelmed and overcome by the state and federal government--not to mention the other people who view them as “terrorists”--that they will not be able to do what Caruba suggests: that is, forget their state government and go forth with revolution.

Compare that scenario with people who live in a state where the state government not only supports the revolution but also participates in and leads it. Caruba seems to suggest that there will come a time (in the near future) where the court systems will not be the way to go, and that the States will be wasting their time by using the court system as a tool of resisting tyranny. He is correct. I believe we are essentially at that point already. Something more is needed to protect freedom. Are all of the states doing that “something more”? Absolutely not.

A good indicator of which state governments will or may participate in the revolution is to observe which states are proactively resisting the federal government now through their own independent political process. Consider what some of the states are proactively doing to resist federal encroachment. Consider the very character, nature and mentality of the state government systems currently in place to get a better feel for which state governments will remain Tories and which ones Revolutionaries.

Arizona: passed a bill declaring that Obama must prove that he is constitutionally eligible to be President before Arizona will put him on the ballot in 2012;[3] signed into law its illegal immigration bill, which provides for the internal protection and integrity of its borders, culture, way of life and rule of law by enforcing state laws against illegal immigration.[4] Certainly, Oklahoma and Texas should follow course.

Montana: led the way by signing into law the Firearms Freedom Act, which expressly exempts certain gun manufacturing and purchasing within the state from federal regulations.[5] The states that have followed: Idaho, Wyoming, South Dakota, Utah, Arizona, and Tennessee.

Idaho: expressly exempted its citizens from having to comply with the federal health care law under protection and sanction of state law.[6] Virginia and Utah also signed into law this same resistance to the federal health care law. Other states are working on it.

Oklahoma: among other federal-resistance laws introduced and passed, to introduce a bill to create a State Militia for the expressed purpose of resisting the federal government and “securing a Free State.” [7]

Alaska: passed a law denouncing and resisting the National ID Act which requires every person in the United States to possess a federal identification for social and governmental purposes. Alaska is joined by other states such as Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Montana, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, South Carolina, etc. [8]

One need not be a political scientist, sociologists or philosopher to understand that the spirit of revolution is not a national matter, but is a state matter; that the spirit of revolution is not prevalent in every state, but only some states; and that it will not likely be successful in every state without the support of that state government. It is for this reason (in part) that would-be tyrants and are-tyrants hate the division of power, the independent and separate sovereignty of states and decentralization. It is for this reason that we should love it.

If this upcoming revolution is just a bunch of individuals chaotically doing who knows what, under the command of God knows who, having to fight state and federal tyrants as well as neighbors, then the centralists/nationalists/globalists have accomplished what they have attempted to accomplish since the tower of Babel by stripping away from the independent and several bodies-politic the power and means by which they secure their own freedom, liberty and rights.

However, I do not believe that is an accurate description of what the upcoming revolution will be. Freedom’s revolution will consist of individual states that understand what freedom and self-government are and what it means to protect that foundation.

I too smell the whiff of revolution, but the smell leads me on the trail of certain states.

Footnotes:

1, Alan Caruba, A Whiff of Revolution, CanadaFreePress, (April 26, 2010)
2, Thomas Paine, Common Sense, Ed. Mark Phillip, (Oxford, NY, Oxford University Press, 1995) 25
3, Daniel Tencer, Arizona ‘birther’ bill forces Obama to show birth certificate, The Raw Story (April 20, 2010)
4, Randal C. Archibold, Arizona Enacts Stringent Law on Immigration, New York Times (April 23, 2010)
5, The Firearms Freedom Act
6, Alex Newman, States, Legislators, and Citizens Resist ‘ObamaCare’, The New American (March 22, 2010)
7, Bill Waugh, Some Oklahomans want a state militia to resist Washington, ONDeadline, (April 12, 2010)
8, Real ID Nullification Legislation

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Timothy Baldwin is an attorney from Pensacola, FL, who received his bachelor of arts degree at the University of West Florida and who graduated from Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in Birmingham, AL. After having received his Juris Doctorate degree from Cumberland School of Law, Baldwin became a Felony Prosecutor in the 1st District of Florida. In 2006, he started his own law practice, where he created specialized legal services entirely for property management companies.

Like his father, Chuck Baldwin, Timothy Baldwin is an astute writer of cutting-edge political articles, which he posts on his website, www.libertydefenseleague.com. Baldwin is also the author of the soon-to-be-released book entitled, Freedom For A Change, in which Baldwin expounds the fundamental principles of freedom believed by America’s forefathers and gives inspiring and intelligent application of those principles to our current political and cultural standing.

Baldwin is involved in important state sovereignty movement issues, including being co-counsel in the federal litigation in Montana involving the Firearms Freedom Act, the likes of which is undoubtedly a pivotal and essential ingredient to restoring freedom and federalism in the states of America. Baldwin is also a member of freedom organizations, such as The Oath-Keepers, and believes that the times require all freedom-loving Americans to educate, invigorate and activate the principles of freedom within the States of America for ourselves and our posterity.

Web site: LibertyDefenseLeague

E-Mail: tim@libertydefenseleague.com

2010-05-02T22:45:00.001-04:00

ARIZONA STATE HAS IT RIGHT

By Chuck Baldwin
April 30, 2010
NewsWithViews.com

Open borders advocates are livid that the State of Arizona has enacted a new law authorizing State law enforcement personnel to arrest illegal aliens. The Reverend Al Sharpton is threatening to march. The mayor of San Francisco has declared Arizona off limits as a travel destination. The national government of Mexico has issued travel warnings. President Barack Obama is contemplating bringing a federal lawsuit against the State. Some are calling for a boycott of the State.

So, why all the fuss?

The State of Arizona is rightly sick and tired of the federal government's refusal to protect our nation (and the State of Arizona specifically) from this foreign invasion that is commonly referred to as "illegal immigration." In other words, the State of Arizona has said, "If the federal government won't enforce the law, we will." I say, good for them! Now, the other border states (Texas, New Mexico, and California) should do the same thing. Arizona has it right, and the vast majority of the American people know it.

As an aside, if you are considering a visit to the American Southwest this summer, why not support the brave legislators and governor of Arizona, and make a point to spend your leisure dollars in Arizona? And when you do, write a letter to the State capitol and tell them. Even more importantly, I suggest that everyone contact their own State representatives, senators, and governors, and urge them to enact a similar law--to the one Arizona passed--in your State.

And since the national news media refuses to set the record straight on the subject of illegal immigration (one could even say that the national news media is deliberately covering up the record), let's do that right here and now.

First, let's talk about numbers. Even though the Census Bureau (CB) estimates 11 million illegal aliens live in America, the real numbers are much higher. Even CB officials admit that many illegal aliens purposely avoid the census count. A more reliable count is provided by Bear Stearns. It puts the number of illegal aliens at around 20 million. Former US Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO), who was Chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, puts the number at over 18 million.

According to Tennesseans for Responsible Immigration Policies (TNRIP), 6,000 immigrants arrive in America EVERY DAY. That equates to more than 2 million EVERY YEAR. In many communities in the Southwest, including Los Angeles, California, and Houston, Texas, Hispanics now comprise a majority of the population. But numbers of illegal aliens are quickly beginning to mount in cities throughout the United States.

For example, TNRIP documents the fact that the Hispanic population grew in three Tennessee counties by more than 70% between 2000 and 2004. In one of those counties (Robertson) it grew over 95% during that time. In seven Tennessee counties, the Hispanic population grew by more than 40%. Now, Tennessee can hardly be considered a "border state." The fact is, what is happening in Tennessee is happening all over the United States. And lest you think this is all harmless, think again.

According to TNRIP, the financial cost of this foreign invasion to U.S. taxpayers is staggering! Here is a breakdown of the annual costs:

Education: $22.5 billion
Bi-lingual Education: $3.3 billion
AFDC: $2.4 billion
SSI: $2.9 billion
Social Security: $24.8 billion
Housing Assistance: $2.6 billion
Criminal Justice: $2.6 billion
Jobs Lost by Americans: $10.8 billion
Other Programs: $51.4 billion
Food Stamps: $7 billion
Health Care: $1.4 billion

The first study of the net cost of illegal immigration to American taxpayers was conducted in 1997 by Dr. Donald Huddle, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Rice University. This study concluded that from 1970 to 1997, illegal immigration had cost taxpayers over $69 billion. Obviously, the financial numbers have exploded since then.

Furthermore, during 1996 alone, more than 2.3 million American workers were displaced by (mostly) illegal aliens. Harvard Professor George Borjas estimates that today American workers lose $133 billion per year in wage depression and job loss.

Back in 2007 it was reported, "LA County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich announced that a new report shows illegal aliens and their families collected over $35 million in welfare and food stamp allocations in July.

"In the report, illegals are said to have collected nearly $20 million in welfare assistance for July 2007 and an additional $15 million in monthly food stamp allocations for an estimated annual cost of $440 million.

"'Illegal immigration continues to have a devastating impact on Los Angeles County taxpayers,' said Antonovich. 'In addition to $220 million for public safety and $400 million for healthcare, the $440 million in welfare allocations bring the total cost to County taxpayers that exceeds $1 billion a year--this does not include the skyrocketing cost of education.'"

Consider, too, this recent report by Heritage Foundation's Robert Rector. According to Byron York at National Review, "Rector found that in 2004, the most recent year for which figures are available, low-skill households received an average of $32,138 per household--the great majority in the form of means-tested aid and direct benefits. (Rector excluded from that figure the cost of public goods and interest; with those included, he says, each low-skill household receives an average of $43,084.) Against that, Rector found that low-skill households paid an average of $9,689 in taxes. (The biggest chunk of that was the Social Security tax--$2,509--followed by state and local taxes, consumption taxes, property taxes, and federal income taxes, but Rector counted everything, including highway levies and lottery purchases.) In the final calculation, he found, the average low-skill household received $22,449 more in benefits than it paid in taxes--the $32,138 in benefits, excluding public goods, minus the $9,689 in taxes.

"Taking that $22,449, and multiplying it by the 17.7 million low-skill households, Rector found that the total deficit for such households was $397 billion in 2004. 'Over the next ten years the total cost of low-skill households to the taxpayer (immediate benefits minus taxes paid) is likely to be at least $3.9 trillion,' Rector writes. 'This number would go up significantly if changes in immigration policy lead to substantial increases in the number of low-skill immigrants entering the country and receiving services.'"

See York's column here.

It has been noted that 75% of people on LA's most-wanted list are illegal aliens. Nearly 25% of all inmates in California detention centers are here illegally, and roughly 30% of inmates in the federal prisons are illegal aliens.

In addition, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegals from south of the border. According to Tancredo, gang membership by illegal aliens in many states is 50%, and in Phoenix, Arizona, illegal aliens constitute 34% of child-molestation and 40% of auto theft cases.

Furthermore, illegal aliens murder (on average) 12 Americans EVERY DAY, according to Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa). Plus, illegals that drive drunk kill another 13 Americans EVERY DAY. That means illegal aliens kill more Americans EVERY YEAR than have been killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars in total.

See the report here.

Of course, Arizonans are still reeling from the recent high profile murder of a fellow citizen on his own property by an illegal.

Law enforcement agencies are very much cognizant of a surge in Latin American "ultra-violent" gangs that have sprung up in more than 40 US states. According to the FBI, one gang called MS-13 has been identified in 42 states. Another group called the 18th Street Gang is in 37 states. According to FBI MS-13 National Gang Task Force director Brian Truchon, "When the gang migrates throughout the U.S., there is always a road back to L.A. From L.A., there is always a road back to Central America."

Retired lawman Jim Kouri wrote, "According to Lt. Steve Rogers, a decorated cop and award-winning writer, there are tens of thousands of murderers, rapists, child predators, robbers and drug dealers who are illegally in the United States. One study shows over 200,000 criminal aliens are preying on U.S. citizens."

What the Arizona law does is authorize its law enforcement personnel to ENFORCE THE LAW. No one in Arizona is talking about racial profiling or violating citizens' constitutional rights. In fact, the new Arizona law actually mirrors already established federal law. But the federal government has hamstrung State and local police agencies in their attempts to arrest illegals for decades. Now, Arizona policemen can arrest illegals for being in the State of Arizona illegally, and have them deported: something they should have been doing (and have every right to do) all along. No wonder the vast majority of the American people (not to mention the citizens of Arizona) supports the Arizona law.

But there is a greater issue here: the right of the State of Arizona to protect, defend, and govern itself. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the State sovereignty movement is growing like a wildfire. Whether it is Arizona, Montana, Idaho, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Georgia, Texas, Florida, Alaska, or a couple dozen other states, legislators are beginning to awaken to the constitutional and moral responsibility of each State to govern itself. And when the central government in Washington, D.C., abridges or impedes that responsibility, it is the right and duty of states to resist.

This is why I tell people everywhere I speak, What is going on in [Your State] is infinitely more important than anything that goes on in Washington, D.C. Without the approbation of the State, DC's actions and attitudes are irrelevant. This is why we need county sheriffs, State legislators, State judges, State attorneys general, and governors who--along with their State's citizenry--understand the Constitution and are willing to courageously hold the line for freedom and constitutional government in their respective states. And by passing this anti-illegal alien bill, the State of Arizona did just that--the chagrin and consternation of open borders advocates notwithstanding.

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2010-05-02T21:11:00.001-04:00

'Absolutely, there will be more attacks in New York'
Muslim extremist warns America: Times Square just the beginning

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Posted: May 02, 2010
8:44 pm Eastern

© 2010 WorldNetDaily

Younus Abdullah Muhammad

A Muslim extremist who earlier warned that TV's "South Park" creators should be "afraid for their lives" for insulting Islam's prophet Muhammad now says that yesterday's car bomb attempt in Times Square will be just the beginning of a new wave of terrorist attacks.

Younus Abdullah Muhammad, author of RevolutionMuslim.com, told WND senior reporter Aaron Klein on New York's WABC 770 AM that America should "absolutely" expect more jihadi violence in New York City.

When asked if the Times Square attack was specifically aimed at the offices of nearby Viacom, which owns the "South Park" series, Abdullah Muhammad deflected the question to condemn U.S. foreign policy instead.

"It was a retaliation for what your government is doing overseas," Abdullah Muhammad said. "If you want to continue killing civilians, then you're going to get many incidents that resemble what happened yesterday."

Read more of Aaron Klein's startling discoveries in his book, "Schmoozing with Terrorists: From Hollywood to the Holy Land Jihadists Reveal their Global Plans – to a Jew!"

As WND reported, RevolutionMuslim.com last month warned there is a "very real possibility" that "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone will end up murdered like Theo Van Gogh, the Dutch filmmaker killed by an Islamic extremist in 2004 after making a film critical of Islam.

The website then issued a statement pointing out the Islamic punishment for mocking Muhammad is death, prompting Klein to ask if such words constituted incitement.

"We do not condone nor condemn terrorism," Abdullah Muhammad answered. "There is no relation between our organization and these attacks."

Still, Abdullah Muhammad predicted, "There will be a lot more terror attacks in the Unites States. Probably you should bring your imperial overstretch home before you're destroyed. ... Stop trying to police the world. Nobody likes you people."

Most of the testy interview consisted of a debate over whether Abdullah Muhammad's words constituted incitement to violence.

"Where did I tell somebody to go blow somebody up?" Abdullah Muhammad challenged, asking Klein to then explain how his words could be taken as encouraging the New York City bomb attempt.

"If I said that 'probably' you would be murdered," Klein explained, "and then I put out a five- or six-paragraph document on why you should be murdered – which is what you did about the 'South Park' creators on your website – and then a week later somebody independently tries to murder you, then yes, I should be held responsible and you should be held responsible."

In turn, Abdullah Muhammad argued, "We made a prediction before the 'South Park' episode was even aired, and then we made a clarifying statement that said, yes, under Islamic law, if a person insults the prophet it is permissible for them to be killed. But we are not saying that the creators of 'South Park' should be killed; we are saying that we are conveying what is permissible under shariah law."

Abdullah Muhammad also told WND last month that his site was not issuing threats against the "South Park" creators, but was pointing out the Islamic punishment for mocking Muhammad is death.

"As for the Islamic ruling on the situation, then this is clear," read the statement from Abdullah Muhammad's site. "There is no difference of opinion from those with any degree of a reputation that the punishment is death. Ibn Taymiyyah a great scholar of Islam says, 'Whoever curses the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) – a Muslim or a non-Muslim – then he must be killed ...' and this is the opinion of the general body of Islamic scholars."

The site called for Parker and Stone to "understand the tastelessness of their portrayal, apologize and reflect on the words that follow."

The site, however, stated, an apology "might not remedy the situation, but it would go a long way toward turning this situation from a gaping wound into an ugly scar."

After their initial threats, WND asked specifically whether Stone and Parker should fear for their lives. Abdullah Muhammad replied, "Isn't that what the post said? That there will probably be some form of retaliation."

RevolutionMuslim.com is known for its support of the ideology of al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden.

In February 2009, WND reported the website issued a series of videos targeting the New York headquarters of Chabad, a Jewish outreach movement, just two months after the group was rocked by a deadly terrorist attack in Mumbai, India.

Videos posted on the website also asked viewers to "give the Islamic message" to Yeshiva University, a Manhattan-based Jewish college, as well as "Jewish Federation buildings all over the U.S." in response to the institutions' purported funding for Israel amid its offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

The apparent threats resulted in a New York Police Department investigation and a beefed-up police presence outside the Chabad headquarters.

shummer60- Wow this really makes me want to give the illegals amnesty. NOT. If the are working, paying taxes, speak english okay.

2010-04-30T22:30:00.003-04:00

Pinal County Sheriff's deputy shot in desert confrontation

Apr. 30, 2010 06:37 PM
Republic staff

A Pinal County Sheriff's deputy was shot in
the stomach Friday by a suspected drug
smuggler off Interstate 8, according sheriff's
officials.

Lt. Tami Villar told 12 News that the search
and rescue deputy was investigating a load
of marijuana in the desert and was
confronted by five suspects.

Deputies believe at least two people were
armed with long guns and at least one
handgun. The deputy, whose name was not
released, was patrolling alone in what is
considered a high-traffic drug and human-
smuggling corridor.

Villar said the deputy radioed dispatch about
4:30 p.m. to say he had been shot off
Interstate 8 and Arizona 84, but he could not
be found when authorities arrived at the
scene.

The deputy was located more than an hour
later and taken to the Casa Grande Regional
Medical Center for treatment. He is expected
to survive.

Authorities are still on the hunt for all five
suspects.

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office
dispatched a helicopter and members of its
SWAT team to Pinal County to assist in the
case, said MCSO Lt. Brian Lee. Lee said at 5:
45 p.m. there were reports over the police
scanner that suspects were shooting at a
police helicopter. Lee did not know which
agency was operating the helicopter.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was
headed to Pinal County to assist in the
investigation, Lee said. About 70 MCSO
employees were responding to the scene.
Lee said most were involved in a crime
suppression sweep in the Maryvale area.

The Border Patrol has sent agents to assist
the Pinal County Sheriff's Office with the
investigation, said Mario Escalante, a Border
Patrol spokesman assigned to the Tucson
sector.

The nearest Border Patrol station in the area
is located in Casa Grande.

Shortly after the shooting, Pinal County also
requested assistance from the Arizona
Department of Public Safety, which
responded with two helicopters and a SWAT
team.

Return to azcentral.com for updates.

Staff writers Craig Harris, Allison Hurtado
and Daniel Gonzalez contributed to this
report.

2010-04-28T22:20:00.002-04:00

The Strategic Foundations of the US-Israel Alliance

By Caroline B. Glick

A MUST READ essay explaining why a strong Israel is essential for US national security. Its author is one of the foremost commentators on Middle East affairs.

PLEASE FORWARD this column to anybody who feels the need to defend the only democracy in the Middle East

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com |
Israel's status as the US's most vital ally in the Middle East has been so widely recognized for so long that over the years, Israeli and American leaders alike have felt it unnecessary to explain what it is about the alliance that makes it so important for the US.

Today, as the Obama administration is openly distancing the US from Israel while giving the impression that Israel is a strategic impediment to the administration's attempts to strengthen its relations with the Arab world, recalling why Israel is the US's most important ally in the Middle East has become a matter of some urgency.

Much is made of the fact that Israel is a democracy. But we seldom consider why the fact that Israel is a representative democracy matters. The fact that Israel is a democracy means that its alliance with America reflects the will of the Israeli people. As such, it remains constant regardless of who is power in Jerusalem.

All of the US's other alliances in the Middle East are with authoritarian regimes whose people do not share the pro-American views of their leaders. The death of leaders or other political developments are liable to bring about rapid and dramatic changes in their relations with the US.

For instance, until 1979, Iran was one of the US's closest strategic allies in the region. Owing to the gap between the Iranian people and their leadership, the Islamic revolution put an end to the US-Iran alliance.

Egypt flipped from a bitter foe to an ally of the US when Gamal Abdel Nasser died in 1969. Octogenarian President Hosni Mubarak's encroaching death is liable to cause a similar shift in the opposite direction.

Instability in the Hashemite kingdom in Jordan and the Saudi regime could transform those countries from allies to adversaries.

Only Israel, where the government reflects the will of the people is a reliable, permanent US ally.

America reaps the benefits of its alliance with Israel every day. As the US suffers from chronic intelligence gaps, Israel remains the US's most reliable source for accurate intelligence on the US's enemies in the region.

Israel is the US's only ally in the Middle East that always fights its own battles. Indeed, Israel has never asked the US for direct military assistance in time of war. Since the US and Israel share the same regional foes, when Israel is called upon to fight its enemies, its successes redound to the US's benefit.

Here it bears recalling Israel's June 1982 destruction of Syria's Soviet-made anti-aircraft batteries and the Syrian air force. Those stunning Israeli achievements were the first clear demonstration of the absolute superiority of US military technology over Soviet military technology. Many have argued that it was this Israeli demonstration of Soviet technological inferiority that convinced the Reagan administration it was possible to win the Cold War.

In both military and non-military spheres, Israeli technological achievements - often developed with US support - are shared with America. The benefits the US has gained from Israeli technological advances in everything from medical equipment to microchips to pilotless aircraft are without peer worldwide.

Beyond the daily benefits the US enjoys from its close ties with Israel, the US has three fundamental, permanent, vital national security interests in the Middle East. A strong Israel is a prerequisite for securing all of these interests.

America's three permanent strategic interests in the Middle East are as follows:

1 - Ensuring the smooth flow of affordable petroleum products from the region to global consumers through the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Aden and the Suez Canal.

2 - Preventing the most radical regimes, sub-state and non-state actors from acquiring the means to cause catastrophic harm.

3 - Maintaining the US's capacity to project its power to the region.

A strong Israel is the best guarantor of all of these interests. Indeed, the stronger Israel is, the more secure these vital American interests are. Three permanent and unique aspects to Israel's regional position dictate this state of affairs.

1 - As the first target of the most radical regimes and radical sub-state actors in the region, Israel has a permanent, existential interest in preventing these regimes and sub-state actors from acquiring the means to cause catastrophic harm.

Israel's 1981 airstrike that destroyed Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor prevented Iraq from acquiring nuclear weapons. Despite US condemnation at the time, the US later acknowledged that the strike was a necessary precondition to the success of Operation Desert Storm ten years later. Richard Cheney - who served as secretary of defense during Operation Desert Storm - has stated that if Iraq had been a nuclear power in 1991, the US would have been hard pressed to eject Saddam Hussein's Iraqi army from Kuwait and so block his regime from asserting control over oil supplies in the Persian Gulf.

2 - Israel is a non-expansionist state and its neighbors know it. In its 62 year history, Israel has only controlled territory vital for its national security and territory that was legally allotted to it in the 1922 League of Nations Mandate which has never been abrogated or superseded.

Israel's strength, which it has used only in self-defense, is inherently non-threatening. Far from destabilizing the region, a strong Israel stabilizes the Middle East by deterring the most radical actors from attacking.

In 1970, Israel blocked Syria's bid to use the PLO to overthrow the Hashemite regime in Jordan. Israel's threat to attack Syria not only saved the Hashemites then, it has deterred Syria from attempting to overthrow the Jordanian regime ever since.

Similarly, Israel's neighbors understand that its purported nuclear arsenal is a weapon of national survival and hence they view it as non-threatening. This is the reason Israel's alleged nuclear arsenal has never spurred a regional nuclear arms race.

In stark contrast, if Iran acquires nuclear weapons, a regional nuclear arms race will ensue immediately.

Although they will never admit it, Israel's non-radical neighbors feel more secure when Israel is strong. On the other hand, the region's most radical regimes and non-state actors will always seek to emasculate Israel.

3-- Since as the Jewish state Israel is the regional bogeyman, no Arab state will agree to form a permanent alliance with it. Hence, Israel will never be in a position to join forces with another nation against a third nation.

In contrast, the Egyptian-Syrian United Arab Republic of the 1960s was formed to attack Israel. Today, the Syrian-Iranian alliance is an inherently aggressive alliance against Israel and the non-radical Arab states in the region. Recognizing the stabilizing force of a strong Israel, the moderate states of the region prefer for Israel to remain strong.

From the US's perspective, far from impairing its alliance-making capabilities in the region, by providing military assistance to Israel, America isn't just strengthening the most stabilizing force in the region. It is showing all states and non-state actors in the greater Middle East it is trustworthy.

On the other hand, every time the US seeks to attenuate its ties with Israel, it is viewed as an untrustworthy ally by the nations of the Middle East. US hostility towards Israel causes Israel's neighbors to hedge their bets by distancing themselves from the US lest America abandon them to their neighboring adversaries.

A strong Israel empowers the relatively moderate actors in the region to stand up to the radical actors in the region because they trust Israel to keep the radicals in check. Today's regional balance of power in which the moderates have the upper hand over the radicals is predicated on a strong Israel.

On the other hand, when Israel is weakened the radical forces are emboldened to threaten the status quo. Regional stability is thrown asunder. Wars become more likely. Attacks on oil resources increase. The most radical sub-state actors and regimes are emboldened.

To the extent that the two-state solution assumes that Israel must contract itself to within the indefensible 1949 ceasefire lines, and allow a hostile Palestinian state allied with terrorist organizations to take power in the areas it vacates, the two-state solution is predicated on making Israel weak and empowering radicals. In light of this, the two-state solution as presently constituted is antithetical to America's most vital strategic interests in the Middle East.

When we bear in mind the foundations for the US's alliance with Israel, it is obvious that US support for Israel over the years has been the most cost-effective national security investment in post-World War II US history.

2010-04-28T22:19:00.000-04:00

World markets tumble as euro debt crisis escalates

Apr 28, 6:01 AM (ET)

By PAN PYLAS

LONDON (AP) - World markets tumbled Wednesday amid acute fears that Greece's debt crisis would spread like wildfire through Europe after a leading credit ratings agency downgraded the country's debt to junk status and cut Portugal's rating as well.

The downgrades by Standard & Poor's reinforced investor fears that Europe leaders were failing to get a handle on the government debt crisis afflicting Greece and that there is now a big chance of contagion with higher borrowing costs hitting other euro-using countries with weak finances.

"Contagion is the 'buzz' word and investors alike seem to be using it as a reason to take cash off the table," said Andrew Sykes, a trader at Spreadex.

In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was down 52.98 points, or 1 percent, at 5,550.54 while Germany's DAX fell 107.20 points, or 1.7 percent, to 6,052.31. The CAC-40 in France was 81.11 points, or 2.1 percent, to 3,763.49. These falls come on top of Tuesday's biggest declines in months following S&P's downgrades.

Earlier, Asian stocks tanked, with Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average leading the region-wide retreat with a 2.6 percent fall to 10,924.79. Wall Street was poised for further declines following Tuesday's hammering - Dow futures were down 27 points, or 0.3 percent, at 10,928 while the Standard & Poor's 500 futures fell 2 points, or 0.2 percent, at 1,179.

The most dramatic decline Wednesday was registered in Portugal, where the main PSI 20 index in Lisbon slid 5.8 percent to 6,736.26.

Athens' composite ASE index fared modestly better after the regulator banned short-selling of banking stocks for two months - following five days of dramatic declines, the index was down only 0.9 percent at 1,682.24.

For many in the markets, the euro area is now facing a real existential threat because the rules set up to support the euro have not prevented governments from spending their way into a crisis.

"The message is clear that the euro only works if all countries give up financial sovereignty and pool resources for common taxes, budgets and social security," said David Buik, markets analyst at BGC Partners.

"If these boxes are not all ticked the whole philosophy and ethos of a united Europe crumbles in to dust," he said.

Investors will be keeping a close watch on Berlin, where both Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, and Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank, are expected to press German Chancellor Angela Merkel that the eurozone's largest country has to release its share of the euro45 billion bailout fund for Greece swiftly if this crisis is not going to lead to wide-scale government defaults, another banking crisis and a swift return to recession across the whole single currency bloc.

Germany, where the bailout is unpopular with voters, has been slow in authorizing the release of the funds - its failure to do so stoked the panic in the markets, which has seen market rates on Greece's two-year bonds skyrocket to 21 percent.

"Jittery investors are concerned that the instability in the markets could snowball into something much bigger, and are hoping that real progress today may help to melt the ice," said Anthony Grech, market strategist at IG Index.

There's even talk now in the markets that the European Central Bank may have to play a more active role in resolving this crisis, especially as the policymakers in the European Union and the institutions have failed to provide a lead.

Many analysts are now postulating the idea that the European Central Bank may invoke emergency powers to buy Greek bonds, using the argument that the turmoil in Greece was threatening the stability of the euro area.

Even then, the consensus in the markets is that Greece will have to restructure its debts, by either cutting the amount it pays debtholders - Standard & Poor's warned on Tuesday they might get only 30-50 percent of their principal investment back - or by extending the terms of repayment.

The euro managed to find some respite after slumping to a one-year low of $1.3146 in the wake of the S&P downgrades - by late morning London time, the euro was up 0.1 percent at $1.3172.

Some distraction will likely emerge later when the U.S. Federal Reserve unveils its latest policy statement following the conclusion of its interest rate meeting.

Though no change in the Fed funds rate is expected from the current 0-0.25 percent, investors will be focusing in on the minutiae of the accompanying statement, particularly on whether there is an ongoing commitment to keep borrowing costs low for "an extended period."

"Wider contagion and the negative impact on global equity markets, if maintained, might stay the Fed's hand," said Neil Mackinnon, global macro strategist at VTB Capital. "International market developments will not be ignored."

Elsewhere in Asia, Hong Kong's Hang Seng dropped 1.5 percent to 20,949.40 and South Korea's Kospi was off 0.9 percent to 1,733.91. Markets in Australia and India retreated between 1 percent and 2 percent. Shanghai closed down 0.3 percent.

The euro stabilized after a steep drop the day before to a near 1-year low before slipping again, trading down at $1.3153 from $1.3155. The dollar rose to 93.42 yen from 93.07 yen.

Oil prices dropped for a second straight day, with benchmark crude for May delivery down 96 cents at $81.46 a barrel.

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AP Business Writer Jeremiah Marquez in Hong Kong contributed to this report.

2010-04-28T22:15:00.000-04:00

Iceland volcano affected by major Sunspot Cycle that will occur from 2010 to 2015, which will intensify volcanoes, earthquakes, super storms and disrupt satellites - Bill Koenig

Note from Bill:

We pointed to the impact that Sunspot Cycles and the history of their connection to swarms of volcanic eruptions in our March 26, 2010, "Koenig's Eye View from the White House."

Eric Hadik, an earth cycle expert, wrote that the Sun shifts polarity during each sunspot cycle hellip; with seven to ten volcanoes expected to erupt in the next five years. Moreover, these numbers could increase with an even higher number of sunspots.

I shared articles from Wired Magazine: 'The 2012 apocalypse' and the National Academy of Sciences that stated if the great geomagnetic storm of 1859 occurred during a solar cycle of about the same size predicted for 2013, it could cause $1 to 2 trillion in damages to society's high-tech infrastructure.

We are in the beginning of a major record setting Sunspot Cycle that will increase in intensity periodically up to and into 2015. Eric said the period from 2012 to 2014 may likely be the most intense period of sunspots. These will affect the intensity and frequency of volcanoes, earthquakes, super storms, and disrupt satellites and technologies on earth.

Below is an excerpt from from our March 26, 2010 news report.

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The Solar-Polar Combo by Eric Hadik:

For those who want to do more than just observe, there is actually a very good reason for this 22-year sunspot cycle.

The unique thing about the sun is that it shifts polarity during each sunspot cycle. In effect, what was north becomes south and what was south becomes north (this is evident in the magnetic polarity of the actual sunspots and solar storms).

So, it takes two of these 11-year cycles for the sun to return to a similar polar position.

Peaks in sunspot cycles and multiple and violent volcanic eruptions

So, what can we expect in the coming years?

While the following might not be an accepted scientific fact, I cannot help but notice the close correlation between the peaks in the sunspot cycle — when Earth is sometimes pummeled by a massive surge of electromagnetivity — and the concentration of multiple, violent volcanic eruptions.

The important distinction is not when a single volcano erupted, but rather when a swarm of them did.

It is the principle of synergy when multiple, coinciding events increase the significance of a particular time frame.

Cycle of volcano swarms. This is why I also include a projection, based on multiples of '22'years.

1792 – Mt. Unzen, Japan – This is the same volcano that erupted in 1991 — along with Mt. Pinatubo & Mt. Hudson — but with more catastrophic consequences. In 1792, the eruption of this volcano killed 15,000 people. (+ 220 or 10 x 22 = 2012)

1814–1815 – Mt. Tambora (Indonesia) erupted — killing 92,000 and creating, in the ensuing year of 1816, the ‘year without a summer'; The Mayon Volcano (Philippines) erupted with the most destructive eruption of its history. This volcano later erupted in 1968 … and just came to life again, in December 2009. (+ 198 or 9 x 22 = 2012-2013)

1882–1883 – Krakatoa (Indonesia) — the most powerful eruption since Tambora — erupted, killing 36,000 people. Next to Tambora, this was the most deadly volcano of the past 300-500 years. (+ 132 or 6 x 22 = 2014–2015)

1902 [- 1906] – 1902 saw Mt. Pelee (Martinique) erupt and kill 29,000; Santa Maria (Guatemala) erupt and kill 6,000; and Soufriere (Caribbean) erupt and kill 1,680. Four years later — at the peak of the Sunspot Cycle — devastating earthquakes hit San Francisco and Messina, Italy. (+ 110 or 5 x 22 = 2012–2016)

1946–1948 – Major eruption of Popocatépetl (Mexico — erupted again in 1994 and now is active), Hekla in Iceland (1947 eruption started March 29, 1947 and ended April 1948), second greatest global lava eruption of 1900–1970; last erupted in 2000) and the creation of and eruption of Paricutin (Mexico). Cerro Negro (Nicaragua) experienced its largest eruption on July 9, 1947, with a second eruption in March 1948. (+ 66 or 3 x 22 = 2012–2014)

1948 – Niuafo'ou (Tonga) erupted violently, forcing a 12-year evacuation of that island. One additional, related point of interest … During this particular sunspot 'up' phase — in 1944 — Mt. Vesuvius experienced its last eruption. As explained a couple years ago, this volcano had a regular activity periodicity of 10-20 years for the past couple centuries. However, it has been basically dormant since 1944, an unusually long period of time for this particular volcano to be building up pressure when its 1900-year history — since the 79 A.D. eruption — is taken into consideration. (+ 66 or 3 x 22 = 2010–2014)

For what it's worth, a period of 4 x 22 x 22 years from 79 A.D. is 2015.

1967–1970 – Eruption of Arenal (Costa Rica), Mayon (Philippines), Tambora (Indonesia; see 1815), Hekla (Iceland) and an encore performance from Cerro Negro (Nicaragua), which again had multiple eruptions in 1968 and 1969. (+ 44 or 2 x 22 = 2011–2014)

1991-1992 – Mt. Pinatubo (Philippines) erupted and lowered global temperatures the following year; Mt. Unzen (Japan; see 1792), Mt. Hudson (Chile) and Hekla (Iceland) erupted. Cerro Negro (Nicaragua) was back for a second encore with its secnd largest eruption to date. (+ 22 years = 2013)

2010-2014 ??? – The greatest concentration of these cycles seems to be pointing to 2012–2014, although diverse cycles show the likelihood for major eruptions in each of the next 3-5 years.
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2010-04-28T22:11:00.000-04:00

American lambs to the slaughter
Exclusive: Chuck Norris warns, 'Perfect storm of domestic disarmament' is on horizon

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Posted: April 26, 2010
1:00 am Eastern

By Chuck Norris
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(Editor's note: This is Part One of a three-part series on the threat to the Second Amendment and Americans' firearm freedoms.)

Right now, Washington is scheming and scamming to erode then erase the Second Amendment from our Constitution. And it will accomplish it through the signing of international treaties on gun control, bypassing the normal legislative process in Congress, tightening regulations upon firearm and ammunition manufacturers, using the antigun financing of tycoons and ultimately confiscating all firearms under the guise of terrorism patrol and enforcement. Without public debate and cloaked in secrecy, gun control will covertly come upon us like a thief in the night. One day, we will wake up to discover that the U.S. has signed a global treaty that will prohibit any transfer of firearm ownership, force reductions in the number of firearms privately owned and eventually eradicate the planet of guns for law-abiding citizens. Of course, the criminals will still illegally have their guns. And on that day, if you do not comply with that global treaty, you will be fined and face imprisonment. This is not a fictitious story or false warning. As sure as government health care has been shoved down our throats, so will the barrels of our guns. And left with little defense, we will go as lambs to the slaughter.

I believe the political stars are aligning right now for just such a "perfect storm" of domestic disarmament: via the election and work of an antigun president, the disarmament passions of the Washington elites and the United Nations, the appointments of gun prohibitionists from the White House to the Supreme Court, and the funding of an anti–Second Amendment movement by billionaire progressives like George Soros.

This is Part One of three articles in which I'll be addressing the evidence – the smoking gun, if you will – of the pressing threat to the Second Amendment and our firearm freedoms.

As Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, wrote in the American Rifleman (February 2010): "President Obama's political mantra of 'hope and change' has morphed into a very real threat. Obama's deep curtsy to international arms control has given 'hope' to the international gun-ban crowd that they will prevail."

It was no surprise when Obama was elected that the nation was consumed with other domestic issues and had selected a president with one of the most anti-firearm records in American history. During his presidential campaign, the National Rifle Association outlined more than two dozen ways that Obama has fought against America's Second Amendment firearm freedoms over the years. So much so, that the NRA graded Obama's (and Hillary Clinton's) voting records among other presidential candidates as an "F." (Does that give any freedom-loving firearm bearer any hope now that both are now part of the same administration?) No wonder a Gallup poll in October 2009 revealed that 41 percent of all Americans and 52 percent of gun owners believe that Obama will try eventually to ban the sale of guns.

It was also no surprise, therefore, a year ago this month when Obama personally promised Mexican President Felipe Calderon that the White House would push to ratify through the Senate the CIFTA (the Inter-American Convention Against Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms) treaty, which has sat tabled and unapproved by the U.S. Senate since 1997.

But then, as quickly as he initiated the debate, the president just as quickly ceased trying to ratify CIFTA in the U.S. Senate. Why was that? Cato Institute scholar Ted Galen Carpenter said there was a reason that the treaty was tabled a year ago by Obama. I agree. I believe that reason was Obamacare. He knew he couldn't tackle and force through Congress two incredibly hot and volatile issues at once, at least of this caliber. But now that Obamacare is law, it's no surprise that both CIFTA and a separate U.N. small-arms treaty are experiencing a renewed life. And like Obamacare was pitched solely under "health-care reform," you can bet that a small-arms weapon ban will be pitched under "a fight against global terrorism and drug wars."

Trust me that what sounds like a tool being used against terrorism or illegal arm trade will actually further restrict Americans' right to bear arms. Under the disguise of an effort to combat drug violence, the passage of CIFTA or its equal will further clamp down upon our Second Amendment freedoms.

Again, as Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, summarized in the American Rifleman (February 2010): "The administration is trying to act as though this is really just a treaty about international trade between nations, but there's no doubt … that the real agenda here is domestic firearms control."

NRA might mean National Rifle Association, but it also means to me, "Never Remove (your) Arms." The fact is, the Second Amendment could even save your life.

That was the case this past year for Vern Grant, a 75-year-old Army veteran with Parkinson's disease and diabetes, who had just suffered through the death of his wife. Two weeks later, Vern was attacked by a burglar in his Washington home. After smashing the windows of Vern's handicap van and scavenging through his medicines, the intruder broke the glass of his back door and entered his home. Vern says the intruder was incoherently screaming.

The intruder nearly killed Vern after hitting him in the head. But Vern was able to grab and fire his gun in self-defense, hitting the suspect. Vern miraculously made it to his neighbor's house, where he sought help.

The suspect was airlifted to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, and Vern was released from the hospital after his head wounds were treated.

Grateful for his life and the Second Amendment, Vern asked a question to a reporter that we all should easily answer, "You'd do the same if you thought he was going to kill you, wouldn't you?"

Yes I would, Vern. In fact, by way of fair warning for any would-be burglars that break into my house, I hope they read the sign on my front porch first: "We don't dial 9-1-1 here."

(For more on how to reawaken America to our founders' vision and plans for this country, check out Chuck Norris' brand-new patriot service announcement at BlackBeltPatriotism.com.)