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Archive for September, 2010

Didn’t they get the memo?

Since “Climate Change” is a four letter word, they have changed to “Global Climate Disruption” as of the 17th. =)

Global Warming Out, ‘Global Climate Disruption’ In

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Ted Turner blasts U.S. for once again sitting back on climate change

Speaking at the Colorado Conservation Voters annual fall luncheon today, media mogul Ted Turner scolded the United States for failing to sign the Kyoto Protocol and said the rest of the world is waiting for the United States to take a leadership role in clean energy and climate change.

“It is such a complicated issue,” Turner said of climate change. “It is the most complicated issue humanity has ever faced. It is easy to be a naysayer, and the opposition has learned that it is easier to do nothing. They have done a good job of casting some doubt on global warming.”

Ted Turner speaking in Denver today.

Gov. Bill Ritter, sitting on stage with Turner and moderator Reggie Rivers, agreed with Turner that climate change is the issue of the day.

“I think we are at a place better than we were at five years ago, but it has become politicized and I think we are in a really difficult place in the country because some really important issues have become politicized and very difficult to work on,” Ritter said.

“Climate change has become a four-letter word, where candidates are afraid to have a discussion on it,” Ritter said.

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Even more government control, and over reach through regulation, this time wiretaps for online communication.  This is the third separate area today alone.  I think things are speeding up…

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Wiretapped phones, now Internet?

To better track criminals, U.S. wants to be able to wiretap online communications.

WASHINGTON – Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations of the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is “going dark” as people increasingly communicate online instead of by telephone.

Essentially, officials want Congress to require all services that enable communications — including encrypted e-mail transmitters such as BlackBerry, social networking websites such as Facebook and software that allows direct “peer-to-peer” messaging such as Skype — to be technically capable of complying if served with a wiretap order. The mandate would include being able to intercept and unscramble encrypted messages.

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Interesting article on the current US pressure as well as the internal Israeli politics.

This is one complex puzzle, I am so glad God is in control and gave us His Word on how it will turn out!

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U.S. Pressing Israel to Halt West Bank Construction

Sept. 27: A young Jewish settler looks at earth-moving equipment at a construction site in the West Bank.

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Sept. 27: A young Jewish settler looks at earth-moving equipment at a construction site in the West Bank.

JERUSALEM — Washington’s special envoy to the Mideast is in Israel Wednesday to try and get the stalled peace process back on track and press for a halt to new settlement construction on land the Palestinians want for a future state.

Israel’s own foreign minister highlighted the stiff opposition Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces within his own governing coalition to making concessions to the Palestinians.

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This makes me nervous.  We must turn to God…

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Plenty of Unfinished Business Awaits Congress in Lame Duck Session

Democratic leaders are hoping to squeeze debate on numerous bills into their lame duck session after the Nov. 2 midterm elections, even though the elections could shift the balance of power to Republicans once the next Congress convenes. (AP)

Democratic leaders are hoping to squeeze debate on numerous bills into their lame duck session after the Nov. 2 midterm elections, even though the elections could shift the balance of power to Republicans once the next Congress convenes. (AP)

Democrats are hoping to squeeze debate on numerous bills into their lame duck session after the Nov. 2 midterm elections, even though the elections could shift the balance of power to Republicans once the next Congress convenes.

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Interesting analogy on our economy and the past year or two.  Take a minute or two and think back over the last year or two and how far and fast we have come.  It is breath-taking.  Almost not of this world…

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Things are coming apart before our eyes

I’ve been thinking about unraveling. Actually I’ve been thinking about the Obama administration, unemployment, housing, Afghanistan, our economic/ financial messes, the coming November elections, October surprises, and sand. Sunday I was gone all day. I went to church, I stayed for Sunday school, I went out to eat, and I attended a memorial service for a long time friend, Bud Elkin. I thought I looked pretty good in my khaki slacks, a white knit golf shirt, and my burgundy colored sweater over the top. I needed the sweater because it was cool – Fall was rapidly descending on us here. What I didn’t realize was that I had snagged the sweater around the side of the waist band. One thread of (more…)

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Is the sun preparing for something?

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Northern Lights at 100-Year Low

(Newser) – The Northern lights are rarer now than they have been for at least a century, but some spectacular light shows are probably on the way, researchers say. The phenomenon, triggered by solar winds, usually follows an 11-year cycle, rising quickly to a maximum before tapering off to a minimum. But researchers say the minimum has been “going on and on and on” since 2008, the Telegraph reports.

A research station near the North Pole which observed the blaze of light in the skies almost nightly during the cycle’s peak saw it less than half the time this year. “We’re waiting to see what happens. Is the next maximum going to be on time, is it going to be late, is it going to be huge?” wondered a Finnish meteorologist. Scientists expect solar activity to soar in 2013, which would bring impressive shows from the Northern—and Southern—lights. Click here for that story.

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More talk about a strike on Iran.  This is one theory on what may start the Psalm 83 war.  Where Iran would use its surrogates to attack Israel first due to proximity.  There was another article I posted earlier on Iran’s plans to fire up their reactor.  Could these two stories intersect in the near future?

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Lieberman: Military Force Against Iran “If We Absolutely Must”

Senator Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., in what his staff is billing as “a major policy address” on Wednesday, plans to deliver a sharp warning for Iran’s leadership that military action should remain on the table should the authoritarian regime refuse to halt its pursuit of nuclear weapons.

In a speech on “the Future of American Power in the Middle East,” to be delivered at the Council on Foreign Relations, the senator, a senior member of the Armed Services Committee, will “up the rhetorical ante against Iran“, according to an aide, and discuss the next stage if current sanctions do not work.

“It is time to retire our ambiguous mantra about all options remaining on the table. Our message to our friends and enemies in the region needs to become clearer: namely, that we will prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability — by peaceful means if we possibly can, but with military force if we absolutely must,” Lieberman is expected to say, according to his staff who provided the excerpt to Fox News.

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Oh boy, this is definitely one turning point.  Are they “allowed” to fire up a nuclear reactor?

As I think about this, it is really amazing where we find ourselves and how far we have shifted from even just a year or two ago.  With all the hate and rhetoric coming from the Iranian administration, it is amazing we would let them have a reactor.  Two years ago we would not have, but we have shifted the debate so far to the point where it is a non-issue for our administration.

Really?  Or are we being deceived?

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Salehi: Iran Preparing to Load Fuel into Bushehr Reactor

TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi announced on Wednesday that Iran has paved all the necessary grounds for injecting fuel into the Bushehr nuclear power plant reactor.

“Grounds have been paved for loading fuel into the heart of Bushehr’s reactor, including carrying out drills, practices and tests, washing the heart of the reactor and carrying out reactor tests, and we will witness the transfer of fuel (to the reactor) in coming days,” Salehi told reporters.

“We hope to load fuel into the heart of Bushehr by mid Mehr (first week of October) and the power plant would join the national power grid after two to three months,” Salehi noted.

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More protests in Europe.  Is it a window to our future?

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Austerity whips up anger, protests mount in Europe

Austerity whips up anger, protests mount in Europe

BRUSSELS (AFP) – – Painful cuts by overspending EU countries come head to a head with mounting social anger on Wednesday when labour leaders call angry workers onto streets right across the continent.

Set for its largest Europe-wide protest for a decade is Brussels where labour leaders are planning to bring 100,000 people from 30 countries to say “No to austerity!”

“We will demonstrate to voice our concern over the economic and social context, which will be compounded by austerity measures,” John Monks, general secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation.

The protest, the biggest such march since 2001 when 80,000 people spilled into the EU capital, is being held to coincide with a plan to fine governments running up deficits.

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Interesting study, the numbers are closer than the title leads you to believe, and I was surprised how much weight they put on knowing details about other religions or history of the church verses Bible teachings.  I was also surprised on the results of the bread and wine question.  It would be interesting to see all of the questions, and if there is any past polls that would show you a trend line…even though we know how it is trending.  The Bible tells us.

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Survey: Americans don’t know much about religion

A new survey of Americans’ knowledge of religion found that atheists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons outperformed Protestants and Roman Catholics in answering questions about major religions, while many respondents could not correctly give the most basic tenets of their own faiths.

Forty-five percent of Roman Catholics who participated in the study didn’t know that, according to church teaching, the bread and wine used in Holy Communion is not just a symbol, but becomes the body and blood of Christ.

More than half of Protestants could not identify Martin Luther as the person who inspired the Protestant Reformation. And about four in 10 Jews did not know that Maimonides, one of the greatest rabbis and intellectuals in history, was Jewish.

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A wide range of articles and directions the talks could take, it will be interesting to see which direction is taken over the next 4-5 days…

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US envoy in bid to rescue tottering Mideast talks

The US envoy to the Middle East was heading to Israel Tuesday to try to rescue Israeli-Palestinian peace talks brought to the brink of collapse by the resumption of West Bank settlement building.

George Mitchell’s latest mission comes as the United States, which is brokering the talks launched on September 2, tries to prevent a walkout by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, who says there is no point talking if Israel keeps building settlements on occupied Palestinian land.

Late Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton held talks by telephone described by State Department spokesman Philip Crowley as “very significant, very detailed, very direct.”

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The problem with deception, is it tends to be buried in the fine print, details, or 2500 page bills.  Here is another example, on the surface, it looks like it is for protecting us against terror threats but then you find this quote from someone who has reviewed the details.

But if the new plans go into effect, the Washington Post said: “transactions between European and US banks would be captured regardless of whether there is a substantiated need.”

Why would they need to capture ALL transactions, regardless of whether there is a substantiated need?

Do we trust them with these records?  Have they proven trustworthy?

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MEPs demand explanation on US plan to monitor all money transfers

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – The EU commission and MEPs have requested clarifications from Washington on reported plans to expand an anti-terrorism programme targeting financial transactions – a move that would render void the long-debated “Swift agreement” enacted in August.

“We urgently seek clarifications from the US if these plans are an infringemet of the Swift agreement and the EU commission promised to demand further information on it,” Dutch Liberal MEP Sophie in’t Veld told this website on Monday evening (27 September) after a closed-door meeting with commission officials.

The land of the free is has seen a huge build up of security measures since the 9/11 attack (Photo: Valentina Pop)

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Things are heating up in the middle east, IAF steps up drills…

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IAF ups air base drills due to threat of missile attack

IAF officer: “We need to be able to operate even as rockets and missiles hi the base.”

Fearing unprecedented missile attacks directed at its bases, the Israel Air Force has doubled the number of emergency drills it has carried out since the beginning of the year to prepare pilots and ground crews for continuing to operate in a time of war, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

At the Hatzor IAF base, for example, airmen have carried out 25 drills since the beginning of the year, compared to just 12 last year. The drills vary and include scenarios that involve missile attacks on the base’s runway, living quarters and plane storage facilities.

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Global Currency talk gains steam…

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G-20 Should Seek Global Currency ‘Harmony,’ Larosiere Says

Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) — Leaders of Group of 20 nations must build a “more harmonized” global currency system to prevent the risk of competitive devaluations, said Jacques de Larosiere, author of a European report into the roots of the financial crisis.

“We have an international monetary system that doesn’t function well,” de Larosiere, the former head of the International Monetary Fund and the Bank of France, said today in an interview with Bloomberg Television in Brussels. “It’s a real concern.”

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More government control/power grabs via regulation.  Our economy is under full-fledged assault…

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Inhofe Says EPA’s New Boiler Rule Could Kill Nearly 800,000 Manufacturing Jobs

The top Republican on a Senate environmental panel released a scathing report Tuesday that he contends shows that the Environmental Protection Agency’s new proposed rule on cleaning up boilers nationwide could devastate America’s manufacturing base and imperil hundreds of thousands of jobs without providing any real public health or environmental benefits.

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More updates on the Locust in Australia, a swarm covering land the size of Spain?, video below…

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Locust in Australia post from Frank DiMora

Prophecy Sign: Matthew 24:7 “For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.” Mark 13:8 “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and famines. These are the beginning of birth pains.”

In my post dated May 19, 2008 this is the warning I gave you.  Keep in mind, my warnings are all based on Jesus has shown me via His Word from the Bible. “I left you with these words on the 16th of May. “In the coming months you will see more people begin to suffer. Why? Because many nations that grow food will see flooding, many will see droughts, and many will see crops being eaten by bugs. These are all signs listed in Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke chapter 21. I wanted to tell you this now so that when you see them you will know these warnings came from the bible and God. If you are one of the ones who saw my prophecy slide presentation you would have seen where I pointed out what was going on with the RAT population. In Matthew 24: 7 you see the warning of “pestilences”. I still want you to watch the news for insect invasions in the near future, especially locusts, but in the news today’s we see a small sample of things to come concerning pestilences.”

Back in April, 2010 Australia was hit with a plague of locusts. I want to show you one video report giving you this news. After the video, when you learn that they reported a worse plague could arrive in September, you will learn that in fact that is what is happening and this new plague is a new round of the birth pains.

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More currency news, this will be a struggle since the entire world is wrapped up in fiat currency.  Could it all end in one world currency?

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World gripped by ‘international currency war’

The world is in the midst of an “international currency war” according to Brazil’s finance minister as governments force down the value of their currencies to boost their struggling economies.

The comments are the first public admission made by a senior policymaker about a practice which has become increasingly widespread since the global economic downturn.

Many countries, notably China, have been deliberately weakening their currencies by selling them on foreign exchanges or keeping interest rates artificially low to make their exports cheaper.

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India has definitely been taking the lead on this RFID national ID card front.  Something to keep an eye on…

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India launches ambitious national identity scheme

India has launched a huge national identity scheme aimed at cutting fraud and improving access to state benefits.

Using biometric methods, including an iris scan, the system will log details of India’s population of more than one billion people on a central database.

It was launched by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress party leader Sonia Gandhi in western India.

The data will be stored online in what India says will be the biggest such national database in the world.

The unique identification (UID) programme will help those in poor, marginalised communities who find it difficult to access public services and benefits because they do not have official records, officials say.

The government expects to give a UID number to every Indian citizen within four years.

Birth registration is not universal and it is hoped that the database will give an accurate picture of Indian society.

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Warnings to make sure our priorities are in order.  We need to be concerned about our finances to a point but not to a point of obsession or fretting.  I like his quote at the end:

“He advises the best investment is for people to humble themselves, pray and seek God’s face, and turn from their wicked ways — a reference to 2 Chronicles 7:14.”

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Silver, gold prices coming down?

Gold barsBased on the information from today’s media, it may not seem plausible to think the gold and silver boom could become bust, but one investor points out that the bubble could soon reach its end.

Every day there are advertisements, sometimes during every commercial break, that proclaim even though gold and silver prices are at an all-time high, they will only get higher. But Art Ally, president of the biblically minded investment group The Timothy Plan, says it is possible that the industry could soon hit rock bottom.

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Our dollar is in trouble, and we haven’t even printed the 1-2 trillion that we may need to, all of this is just on the statement that we are willing and subsequent actions by other nations, mainly China…

We are headed toward a dollar collapse and a global currency…

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Dollar tumbles, gold hits record high

The dollar sank against the euro and hit a record low point against the Swiss franc on Wednesday while gold struck a new all-time peak, as traders mulled possible US moves to boost its ailing economy.

Meanwhile in Asia, China’s central bank pledged to increase the flexibility of its exchange rate just as US lawmakers were to vote on legislation that could punish Beijing for alleged currency manipulation.

The People’s Bank of China promised to continue to implement an “appropriately loose monetary policy” and “increase currency flexibility”, according to a statement on its website.

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More economic news…

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Hussman: Second Recession Will Be Declared Soon

Economist John Hussman says the National Bureau of Economic Research will have to declare another recession soon.

Commenting on a recent report from the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research that said the recession that began in December 2007 is over, Hussman noted that, “the committee decided that any future downturn of the economy would be a new recession and not a continuation of the recession that began in December 2007.”

“The Committee took pains to make it clear that it was not forecasting the future or suggesting that economic progress has even been very good,” Hussman wrote in a recent note to investors.

He said the bulk of the growth coming off of the June 2009 economic low “was driven by a burst of stimulus spending coupled with a variety of programs to pull economic activity forward.”

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All of the deception, continues to impact trust.  I am actually surprised these numbers are not higher.  It just shows how many people are still asleep or caught up in all the “distractions” of our lives these days.  We must continue to wake them up, before it is too late…

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Distrust in U.S. Media Edges Up to Record High

Perceptions of liberal bias still far outnumber perceptions of conservative bias

WASHINGTON, D.C. — For the fourth straight year, the majority of Americans say they have little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly. The 57% who now say this is a record high by one percentage point.

1997-2010 Trend: In General, How Much Trust and Confidence Do You Have in the Mass Media When It Comes to Reporting the News Fully, Accurately, and Fairly?

The 43% of Americans who, in Gallup’s annual Governance poll, conducted Sept. 13-16, 2010, express a great deal or fair amount of trust ties the record low, and is far worse than three prior Gallup readings on this measure from the 1970s.

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Another piece to the puzzle they are assembling.  It is amazing how much power they are concentrating so quickly with non-elected officials and outside our constitutions framework.  We are sliding down the slippery slope…

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Engineers Slam Internet ‘Censorship’ Bill Ahead of Key Senate Panel Vote

Attorney General Eric Holder, right, is shown with Sen. Patrick Leahy in Montpelier, Vt., Sept. 10. (AP Photo)

Attorney General Eric Holder, right, is shown with Sen. Patrick Leahy in Montpelier, Vt., Sept. 10. (AP Photo)

Internet entrepreneurs are in a panic over a fast-tracking Senate bill they say will censor the Web, stifle Silicon Valley startups, damage the United States’ credibility on free speech and ultimately trigger the creation of an alternate-universe Internet.

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Great event and something to consider this Sunday.  Keep Jerusalem in your prayers.   The article also does a good job pointing out hos central the city of Jerusalem has become to all nations globally.  Maybe even a “burdensome stone”?

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Millions To Pray For Peace Of Jerusalem

“Roughly 100 million people worldwide are expected to pray Sunday for the peace of Jerusalem.

Organizers say 300,000 churches in 175 nations—including underground congregations in China and the Middle East—will participate in the Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem, which is considered the world’s largest Israel-focused prayer event.

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Two major earthquakes occurred today, luckily no tsunami was generated.  The Birth pains are firing up again, here comes another contraction.

Matthew 24:7-8 (NIV) – “7Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8All these are the beginning of birth pains.”

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Twin quakes strike Indonesia

TWIN earthquakes struck early today off the coast of Papau, the largest province of Indonesia, the US Geological Survey said.

The first 6.6 magnitude tremor struck at 2.10am local time near the southern coast of Papau at a depth of 21.2km.

The second, measuring 7.2, struck at 2.11am local time.

Local officials warned the second quake had the potential to trigger a tsunami, AP reported.

There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.

It rattled the town of Tual on nearby Maluku island, said Fauzi, chief of the Indonesian meteorological and geophysics agency, who had no further reports from the field.

The area closest to the epicentre is a remote, sparsely populated part of the country. It is located some 2900 kilometres east of the capital, Jakarta.

It is closer to Darwin, which sits some 900 kilometres to the south.

Indonesia straddles a series of fault lines that make the vast island nation prone to volcanic and seismic activity.

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I believe this is one of the final pieces that they need to get through for the control the government needs to move us toward the global governance model.

Look at Venezuela, that is where they are taking us as an intermediate step.

Please read this article, and ask yourself the questions:

Do you trust this administration not to abuse these powers?

How about future administrations?

Why would they need to shut down companies without oversight?

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New Cybersecurity Bill Gives Obama ‘Power To Shut Down Companies’

Businesses who don’t follow government orders would be suspended for at least 90 days with no congressional oversight

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An amalgamated cybersecurity bill that lawmakers hope to pass before the end of the year includes new powers which would allow President Obama to shut down not only entire areas of the Internet, but also businesses and industries that fail to comply with government orders following the declaration of a national emergency – increasing fears that the legislation will be abused as a political tool.

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Great article from Rapture Ready’s Nearing Midnight weekly post.

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Who Goes in the Rapture?

Our new book, The Departure: God’s Next Catastrophic Intervention into Earth’s History, will be officially released October 2, God willing. I say “our” book” because a number of the most knowledgeable authorities in Bible prophecy have written chapters on the most relevant topics of our day. All issues and events involving what we consider to have prophetic import are, of course, looked at through the supernatural prism of God’s Word, the Bible. I consider it “our” book, not just mine.

More than that, I believe each of us who wrote for it considers it to be a volume devoted to the Lord Jesus Christ for these troubling although exciting times. We trust it will be a tool to help edify those who are in God’s family by pointing to the very real evidence that proves the coming of “the blessed hope” of Titus 2:13 is likely very near. To that extent, that’s another reason I call it “our” book. It’s written for all believers alive today, with the prayerful hope God’s family will awaken to Christ’s imminent coming.

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I don’t understand why more ministers and churches talk about prophecy.

It is so inspiring and reassuring that we believe in the One True God.

It affirms our faith and makes us stronger.

There is loads of information given as well as very good context.

I especially like the end of the 3rd and 4th segment.  When he talks about the fiery furnace from Daniel as a picture of end times prophecy and also what the true test of belief in True Christ is that Jesus is God.

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Wow!

What level of deception are we experiencing, it is overwhelming.  How can all of the media coverage of this occur and this not come to light sooner.  Thank goodness it is coming to light now but my goodness.

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60 Minutes: Does the Ground Zero Mosque…Already Exist?

“The mosque near Ground Zero is a fact.”

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Did you realize that 279 lenders have collapsed this year?  That is a ton.

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Banks Keep Failing, No End in Sight

Since WaMu Fell, 279 Lenders Have Collapsed; Lost Jobs, Curtailed Lending and the Big Get Bigger

The largest number of bank failures in nearly 20 years has eliminated jobs, accelerated a drought in lending and left the industry’s survivors with more power to squeeze customers.

Some 279 banks have collapsed since Sept. 25, 2008, when Washington Mutual Inc. became the biggest bank failure on record. That dwarfed the 1984 demise of Continental Illinois, which had only one-seventh of WaMu’s assets. The failures of the past two years shattered the pace of the prior six-year period, when only three dozen banks died.

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Triple digits during the last month of September?  Extreme weather is everywhere we look.  Places that are usually cool are hot.  Places that are hot are cool.  We have snow already in Montana and  113 in LA…

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113 degrees in downtown? L.A. broils with triple-digit temperatures

The heat wave that has gripped Southern California reached a high point Monday afternoon, with triple-digit temperatures from the coast all the way inland.

As of noon, Weather.com reported that downtown L.A. was broiling at 109 degrees; Santa Monica hit 106, West Hollywood was at 111 and Long Beach was at 107. [Updated at 12:52 p.m.: As of 12:50 p.m.: downtown L.A. had hit 113 degrees, a record high. Stuart Seto, a forecaster for the National Weather Service, said that’s the hottest temperature recorded at the downtown station since record-keeping began in 1877.]

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Looks like China has taken first steps to retaliate against the strong talk and bill working its way through congress.  As I mentioned before, this could be a trigger point if at any time China decided to stop buying our debt and began to de-invest in our debt that they currently hold.

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Ahead of the Bell: China imposes tariff on chicken

NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of the nation’s chicken producers could tumble on Monday after China said it will slap a hefty tariff on U.S. chicken imports to combat what it says are unfairly low prices.

The Chinese government said Sunday that its investigation found that U.S. chicken products are being sold at low prices which undermine the local market. New import duties ranging from 50.3 percent to as much as 105.4 percent will take effect Monday and last for five years.

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Not only have we seen Israel and Jerusalem becoming a focal point of the world, a burdensome stone.  We are seeing world leaders fighting over who should lead efforts to negotiate peace between the regional key players.

Zechariah 12:3 (KJV) – “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.”

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Sarkozy Tries to Take Over for Obama in Mideast Talks

Flamboyant French President Nicolas Sarkozy met with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in Paris on Monday and announced he will ask to host a new summit with the PA, Israel and Egypt next month. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has said he would be willing to talk with Abbas “at any time.”

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US praises Abbas’s ‘restraint’ as settlement freeze ends

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States on Monday voiced disappointment after Israel ended its settlement freeze, but praised the “restraint” shown by Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas.

“We are disappointed, but remain focused on our long term objectives,” State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said after Israel failed to extend the 10-month moratorium on settlement construction.

“In our discussions with both sides over the weekend, we encouraged restraint whenever a decision was made on the Israeli side,” Crowley told reporters as the freeze formally ended at midnight (2200 GMT Sunday).

“The Palestinian response so far reflects the restraint… The restraint at this point is appreciated.”

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Sarkozy: Settlement construction must stop

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said during a press conference with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that Israel’s construction in the West Bank must stop.

Sarkozy condemned the government’s decision to end the freeze. (AFP)

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What can I say to this but Wow!

Many prophecy scholars have theorized about what role, aliens or UFO’s could play in rationalizing or explaining away coming end times events.  But when I saw this article, it struck me that the infrastructure was being laid to have the necessary pieces in place.

I still can’t get over how much this reflects the Hollywood movies we have grown up on.

Sometimes I wonder if some people get confused between reality and cinema.  Things have gotten so real these days with CG I, that you can’t believe your eyes as to what is real and what is computer generated.  That has blurred the lines and I think a lot of the movies we see coming out, are moving the window of acceptability or plausibility so that the general public will quickly buy into the deception they will be fed to cover up coming end time events.

We must be watchful, and continue to wake people up, turning them back to God…

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U.N. Appoints ‘First Contact’ for Visiting Space Aliens

The United Nations is set to appoint an obscure Malaysian astrophysicist to act as Earth’s first contact for any aliens that may come visiting.

Mazlan Othman, the head of the U.N.’s little-known Office for Outer Space Affairs (Unoosa), will describe her potential new role next week at a scientific conference at the Royal Society’s Kavli conference center in Buckinghamshire, England.

She will tell delegates that the recent discovery of hundreds of planets around other stars has made the detection of extraterrestrial life more likely than ever before — and that means the U.N. must be ready to coordinate humanity’s response to any “first contact.”

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This is just one of many requests for additional powers without the need of a warrant.  The administration is trying to expand this on many fronts:  Internet wiretaps, GPS location in “public” areas, easier wiretapping of all mobile devices, and the use of X-Ray equipped vans (they have 500 today) that drive our neighborhoods, searching vehicles and homes without warrants.

It all seems like something out of a sci-fi movie or at least a Bond flick.  But it is not, it is very much real.

As we move toward these last days, the government will need to gather more and more control over its citizens.  This will all culminate with the final Antichrist regime.

Luckily, we will be gone before his presence can be unleashed.  Jesus promises to rapture us and keep us from the worst.

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U.S. Wants Broader Internet Wiretap Authority

The Obama administration is developing plans that would require all Internet-based communication services — such as encrypted BlackBerry e-mail, Facebook, and Skype — to be capable of complying with federal wiretap orders, according to a report published Monday.

National security officials and federal law enforcement argue their ability to eavesdrop on terror suspects is increasingly “going dark,” The New York Times reported, as more communication takes place via Internet services, rather than by traditional telephone.

The bill, which the White House plans to deliver to Congress next year, would require communication service providers be technically capable of intercepting and decrypting messages, raising serious privacy concerns, the Times said.

The proposal has “huge implications” and poses a test to the “fundamental elements of the Internet revolution,” vice president of the Center for Democracy and Technology, James Dempsey, told the Times.

“They basically want to turn back the clock and make Internet services function the way that the telephone system used to function,” he was quoted as saying.

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Interesting article…not just because of an unidentified helicopter but…

Did you know we still have forces involved in Mogadishu?

Did you know about the U.S. military’s Special Operations Command Africa?

Or the U.S. Africa Command?

Or that we have 7,100 African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu?

We have so many “conflicts”, “wars”, areas that need peace keepers that its hard to keep track.

I am sure back in the simpler days of Jesus all of these fell under the collective title “wars and rumors of wars”.

Can you imagine him calling it the “oversea contingency operation and rumors of oversea contingency operation”?

No, I couldn’t either.  Luckily for us he kept it simple and said:

“6You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. 7Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8All these are the beginning of birth pains.” – Matthew 24:6-8 (NIV)

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Whose helicopter is it? Report of attack on Somali coast town leaves unanswered questions

MOGADISHU, Somalia –  MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — U.S. military officials and the European Union Naval Force denied on Monday that one of their helicopters was involved in an exchange of fire reported by residents of a coastal town in Somalia.

Residents of the coastal town of Merca, about 50 miles (70 kilometers) southwest of Mogadishu, said a military helicopter flew over the town on Sunday and that militants fired on it. Some residents said the helicopter fired back but caused no major damage.

But no one seems to know who the helicopter belongs to.

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Sometimes the truth is so simple that all the noise of our lives these days distract us from the common sense that usually leads to the truth.  Joel tends to cut through a lot of that noise.  He sums it up so well.

“When you have a regime that has an apocalyptic, genocidal death cult running it, combined with being right on the verge of obtaining nuclear weapons, [I] can’t think of a more dangerous circumstance than this,” Rosenberg suggests.

Wish our current administration was willing to do more than talk…

There are powers at work here that only God understands fully.  These national/global figures are in place for a reason.  To bring about God’s will, either willingly or through God’s influence.  Read up on the Twelfth Imam, it matches the Bibles description of the Antichrist.  I will post more on what the Bible has to say on the Antichrist soon…

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Scholar: Take Iran seriously

Prior to Ahmadinejad’s U.N. address last week, Joel Rosenberg, author of the soon-to-be-released novel The Twelfth Iman, predicted that the Iranian strongman would make more outrageous and bellicose statements — and he did not disappoint, says Rosenberg.

Joel RosenbergThe American U.N. delegation actually walked out of the assembly hall after the Iranian president claimed that some in the world have speculated that Americans were actually behind the September 11, 2001, terror attacks and that it was a staged attempt to assure Israel’s survival.

“When you have a regime that has an apocalyptic, genocidal death cult running it, combined with being right on the verge of obtaining nuclear weapons, [I] can’t think of a more dangerous circumstance than this,” Rosenberg suggests. “Now I’ve written about this fictionally in my new novel coming out next month, The Twelfth Imam. But the central question of the novel really is the central question of our moment, which is what if the West waits too long and Iran does in fact get the bomb? What happens next? What does the U.S. do? What does Israel do?”

The eschatological scholar further warns that this Iranian nuclear scenario is something the world is probably going to have to address very soon.

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More pain in europe as they begin facing reality of over promising.  Is this a glimpse of what we will see here in the US once we finally face reality.

We are in almost the exact same situation as Greece and Romania, except that we are not tied to other countries through a shared currency, so we are free to inflate ours, devaluing the dollar, at will.

All of this is guiding the nations of the world toward a global government, question is will in culminate before or at the point of the Antichrist’s rise.

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Romanian govt in uproar amid austerity protests

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) – The Romanian government is in an uproar – the interior minister has resigned, the opposition is demanding that the prime minister join him and top police officials are holding emergency talks with the president.

The chaos on Monday reflects the latest fallout from the sharp wage cuts and austerity measures the government has taken to fight its budget deficit amid a deep recession.

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Flooding in our own backyard…

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Residents Flee Homes as Wisconsin Levee Fails

Sept. 26: Flood waters surrounding a farm near Renner, S.D., are shown in this aerial photograph.

AP – Sept. 26: Flood waters surrounding a farm near Renner, S.D., are shown in this aerial photograph.

PORTAGE, Wis. — Some residents in the central Wisconsin town of Portage fled their homes after a levee started to fail, sending water from the rain-swollen Wisconsin River onto a major roadway in one neighborhood and threatening to leave some people stranded in their houses.

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Are the wheels coming off of the peace process?  Are we headed toward war?

Quite a contrast of headlines overnight…much more to come.

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‘Tonight, we are returning this decree to the trash bin’

Likud MK Dannon asks settlers’ forgiveness for treatment like “second class citizens,” as building freeze ends

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Abed Rabbo: If building continues, talks will be suspended

Chief Palestinian negotiator says “an end to construction is needed so that peace process can progress”; William Hague urges Israel to renew moratorium.

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Kadima: If Netanyahu serious about peace, we will join gov’t

“If Netanyahu is serious about his intentions to reach a peace agreement and if a new coalition is formed that represents these intentions, then Kadima will be supportive,” the party said——————–

Abbas spokesman: no peace talks decision until next week (1st Lead)

‘There will be no official response before October 4,’ Nabil Abu Rudeina told journalists. ‘On that day, President Abbas will consult Arab countries and then go before the Palestinian leadership to take a proper decision.’

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