Laura L. Rubenfeld wrote the article below.
In just a few days, the Democratic National Convention “kick off events” week will include its first ever “Jumah (Arabic for gathering) at the DNC” – three Islamic-centered events beginning with a Friday afternoon prayer and sermon, an evening Islamic banquet and an all-day Islamic festival.
Many of the individuals scheduled to speak during the DNC week have extremely spurious backgrounds, including, astonishingly, support for Al Qaeda and for the U.S. State Department-designated terrorist organization, Hamas.
The celebrity Imam or “Grand Imam” slated for the event is Imam Siraj Wahhaj.
As this article will demonstrate, Wahhaj has a thirty-year, well-documented history of supporting terror and preaching religious and racial intolerance against Americans. For decades, Wahhaj has preached violence and insurrection against the U.S. with the goal of replacing the Constitution with shari’ah law, as the law of the land.
Here is Wahhaj in his own words:
“Islam is better than democracy- Allah will cause his deen [Islam as a complete way of life], Islam to prevail over every kind of system, and you know what? It will happen.”
The following is a two-part profile on the man who will headline “Jumah at the Democratic National Convention.”
Read these mind-blowing statements from Wahhaj, and ask yourself, “How could the Democrats associate their party with such a man?”
“As long as you remember that if you get involved in politics, you have to be very careful that your leader is for Allah. You don’t get involved in politics because it’s the American thing to do. You get involved in politics because politics are a weapon to use in the cause of Islam.”
“If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate. If we were united and strong, we would elect our own emir and give allegiance to him. Take my word, if eight million Muslims unite in America, the country will come to us.”
THE RADICALISM OF IMAM SIRAJ WAHHAJ
Wahhaj’s Mentors Preached Anti-Semitism and Supported Nazi Germany
Siraj Wahhaj was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He became a card-carrying member of the Nation of Islam in the late ’60s. For almost a decade, Wahhaj’s role models and those who mentored him, were a veritable who’s who in militant Black Nationalist thought, including Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammed, Louis Farrakhan and Malcolm X.
Elijah Muhammed hated white people, calling them “the human beast—the Serpent, the Dragon, the Devil and Satan.” During World War II Elijah Muhammed supported Hitler and Nazi Germany.
The infamous Louis Farrakhan made violent pronouncements against Jews and whites. Farrakhan described Catholics and Jews as those who practiced a “gutter religion,” He harangued Jewish people as “wicked Jews,” said “Hitler was a very great man,” and called white people “white devils,” who he said were “potential humans … [who] haven’t evolved yet.” In the late ’90s, years later, Siraj Wahhaj was a frequent congregant at Farrakhan’s temple. With Farrakhan’s support, he became a minister and led his own temple in the Nation of Islam. In one sermon, Wahhaj himself said, “White people are devils.”
While Malcolm X was hailed as a great leader by the mainstream media during the civil rights movement, he was a convicted felon, and like Elijah Muhammad and Louis Farrakhan, he addressed white people as the “Klu Klux Klan,” and “White Nazis,” and Jews as “Nazis” and “dogs.”
All of these people would be considered racists today. The so-called “Grand Imam” of the “Jumah at the DNC,” Imam Wahhaj still reveres Malcolm X to this day, and during his present-day lectures, he encourages Muslim youth to follow in the path of Malcolm X. Wahhaj says Malcolm X can still “reach out of his grave and influence Muslim youth today.” Wahhaj also frequently lectures on the history of Malcolm X, and many of these lectures can be found on YouTube or Islamist websites. Wahhaj speaks of Malcolm X as a “hero.”
The DNC-hosted “Jumah at the DNC” includes the daughter of Malcolm X, Ilyasah Shabazz as a guest speaker. Has the Democrat leadership now embraced hatred of whites and Jews as part of their platform?
Wahhaj Misrepresents the Facts of His Muslim Cleric Training
Wahhaj claims on his bio that he completed Muslim cleric training from Umm al Qura University in Mecca, Saudi Arabia in 1978. However, Umm al Qura University was not established until 1981. Prior to 1981, Umm al Qura was called, The Colleges of Shari’ah and Education. It was the primary institution in Saudi Arabia to prepare new Islamic clergyman. From 1971-1981, The Colleges of Shari’ah and Education was a branch in Mecca for the Jeddah-based King Abdul Aziz University.
Why would Wahhaj conceal that he was, in fact, educated at such an institution? King Abdul Aziz University is a hub for young radical terrorists. Osama bin Laden, Sheikh Abdullah Azzam and Wael Jalaidan, all co-founders of Al Qaeda, were affiliated with the university:
Osama bin Laden graduated from King Abdul Aziz University in 1979.
Abdullah Azzam, Osama bin Laden’s professor and mentor taught at King Abdul Aziz University until 1981.
Wael Jalaidan was a King Abdul Aziz University representative in the U.S. during the 1970s. He left King Abdul University in the mid-1980s. Jalaidan prepared the way for two Al Qaeda terror hubs in the U.S.: one in Arizona, and the other in Brooklyn, New York, inside the Al Farouq Mosque. This mosque was later implicated in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The director of the Al Farouq mosque was Osama bin Laden’s professor and mentor, Sheikh Abdullah Azzam.
Brooklyn, New York is Wahhaj’s hometown. It is the city in which Wahhaj founded the At-Taqwa mosque in 1981, located just 1.5 miles away from the terror cell known as Al Farouq mosque.
It appears likely that Wahhaj is intentionally deceptive about the name of the university at which he studied, in an effort to hide his association with these individuals.
Siraj Wahhaj Defends Al Qaeda Leader, the Blind Sheikh
Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman (aka the Blind Sheikh), a leader of a terrorism organization in his native Egypt, was charged with the attempted assassination of American ally, and leader of Egypt, Anwar-al Sadat. Abdul-Rahman took over leadership from Sheikh Abdullah Azzam at Al Farouq in Brooklyn, New York. In one of Rahman’s Friday sermons, he said, “We must terrorize the enemies of Islam and … shake the earth under their feet.”
Siraj Wahhaj actually invited Abdel-Rahman to be a guest speaker for his congregation at At-Taqwa.
Rahman’s group successfully bombed the World Trade Center in 1993, murdering 6 people and injuring over 1000. The attack blew a hole five stories deep and half the size of a football field in a lower level of the World Trade Center.
Astonishingly, Imam Wahhaj was a character witness for the blind Al Qaeda sheikh at the World Trade Center bombing trial. During his testimony, Wahhaj praised the sheikh a “respected scholar,” and “bold, as a strong, preacher of Islam.”
Wahhaj Leads an Islamic Movement of Jihad and Martyrdom
In 1988, at the Al Farouq mosque, Al Qaeda co-founder Sheikh Abdullah Azzam announced, “The Jihad, the fighting, is obligatory on you wherever you can perform it.” Four years after Azzam said this, Wahhaj expressed a similar view just blocks away at his own mosque when he said, Muslims are “commanded to do jihad…Bis a billah Allah [jihad for the sake of Allah] is when Allah commands us to fight….Islam is the only answer because it is only Islam that we do it for Allah.”
In another sermon, Wahhaj proclaimed, “I will never ever tell people don’t be violent that is not the Islamic way. The violence has to be selected.” He then pointed to Islamic theology to justify violence. “Islam is the only answer because it is only Islam that we do it for Allah.” We are “commanded to do jihad.” “[W]hen Allah commands us to fight we are not stopping, no one will stop us.”
Wahhaj Supports Shari’ah Law in All Its Ruthlessness
The Democrats will be hosting a man who believes the Islamic way of life is the preferable alternative to the “garbage can ” which is what he has called America. Wahhaj himself encourages his audience to work towards an America completely dominated by Islam:
“Wherever you came from, you came to America. And you came for one reason- for one reason only- to establish Allah’s deen [Islam as a complete way of life], as a servant of Allah.”
It is no surprise that the Muslim conference will discuss anti-shari’ah bills, since Wahhaj has long advocated for shari’ah (Islamic law) to replace our American democracy. Wahhaj not only supports organizations and litigation against anti-shari’ah bills, he campaigns for shari’ah to overthrow the U.S. Constitution as the law of the land:
“Islam is better than democracy. Allah will cause his deen [Islam as a complete way of life], Islam to prevail over every kind of system, and you know what? It will happen.”
Wahhaj supports the most ruthless practices of shari’ah law regarding capital punishment, including cutting off hands for the crime of theft and stoning for adultery, and he frequently refers to Islamic scripture for his justification:
“If Allah says 100 strikes, 100 strikes it is. If Allah says cut off their hand, you cut off their hand. If Allah says stone them to death, through the Prophet Muhammad, then you stone them to death, because it’s the obedience of Allah and his messenger—nothing personal.”
This is the man the DNC is voluntarily, of its own choice, associating with, and to whom it is giving new national prominence. The DNC must be made to state their reasons for this appalling action.
WAHHAJ DEFENDS AL QAEDA
Congregants of Wahhaj’s Mosque Charged with Providing Support for Al Qaeda An astonishing series of congregants at Wahhaj’s at-Taqwa mosque were charged and convicted of providing material support for Al Qaeda during that same 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Wahhaj testified at the trial on behalf of the defendants, his congregants. One such man who regularly worshipped at Wahhaj’s Masjid at-Taqwa was a member of the Black Nationalist extremist organization, Jamaat al Fuqra, which is dedicated to “purifying Islam through violence.” His name was Hampton-El and he organized a U.S.-based terrorist training camp.
Wahhaj defended Hampton-El (Rashid), whom he said he knew for 10 years, as “one of the most respected brothers” in his congregation. [xxix] Wahhaj said everyone in the congregation sought out Hampton-El for advice.
Two more at-Taqwa congregants aided the Blind Sheikh. One was a bomb-maker named El Gabrowny. El Gabrowny’s cousin, Nosair, was charged with the assassination of the founder of the Jewish Defense League. A search in El Gabrowny’s home revealed taped messages from Nosair urging violence and jihad: “Without fighting there will not be justice on earth. … We cannot establish God’s rules on earth except by fighting.” Once again, Imam Wahhaj testified during the trial, where he expressed flattering admiration of El Gabrowny. Ibrahim El-Gabrowny was sentenced to 57 years in prison.
Another At-Taqwa congregant was Siddig Ibrahim Siddig Ali, a diplomat of the Sudanese Mission to the UN whom federal authorities described as the “ring leader” in the World Trade Center attack. Siddig Ali told an FBI informant that “he ha[d] connections that [would] allow him to drive a car carrying a bomb into a parking lot in the United Nations building.” He also conspired to carry out attacks in Israel and expressed racist views, calling Jews “sons of monkeys and pigs.” He avowed, “The sword is to be absolutely used and implemented. This is as a principle.”
Imam Wahhaj testified during the trial he had a favorable impression of Siddig Ali and laughably added, “We don’t accept the idea of terrorism. Our mosque is open to all, but not to fanatics.” Siddiq Ali was sentenced to 11 years in prison.
Siraj Wahhaj Expresses Pride to Be on a List of Alleged Terrorists
Imam Siraj Wahhaj was alleged to be associated with the terrorist cabal organizing the 1993 World Trade Center bomb plot. For that reason, his name was included on a list of the 172 unindicted co-conspirators in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Soon after, Wahhaj commented during one of his at-Taqwa sermons, “I’m not frightened by no list, by no government! I thank Allah. I’m honored that they thought enough of me to put me on a list.”
Siraj Wahhaj’s Self-proclaimed Support for U.S.-based Al Qaeda Operatives
Rafik Abdus Sabir and Tarik Shah are two terror operatives, indicted in 2005 for plotting to open an Al Qaeda training camp in the U.S. Both Sabir and Shah had sworn allegiance to Osama Bin Laden. Sabir, a Columbia University-educated medical doctor in Boca Raton, Florida, pledged that he would fly to Saudi Arabia to provide medical aid and train Al Qaeda terrorists. The other operative, Tarik Shah, was the son of a former Malcolm X aide and was also himself associated with the Nation of Islam. At a 2005 CAIR Banquet in Georgia, Siraj Wahhaj showed support for these two men:
“Rafik Sabir from Florida. You might have heard about him. About five months ago him and another brother named Tarik Shah were arrested by the United States government, charged with helping Al Qaeda. They said that Doctor Sabir said that he would treat those of Al Qaeda who needed him. He’s in jail now in Manhattan. I’ve been trying to go see him for the last few months, can’t go see him yet….there’s not a day that goes by right now that my mind is not on Doctor Rafik Sabir in prison right now in Manhattan…”
Just this last April, DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz was scheduled to be keynote speaker for an organization known as Emerge. It is led by Chairman Khurrum Wahid, the same Attorney who defended Rafik Sabir. When Frontpage magazine’s Joe Kaufman and Beila Rabinowitz exposed Emerge’s ties to radical Islamists, Wasserman Schultz backed out of this keynote speech.
The Watchman On The Wall
Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Verse 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Loose Lips
James. Zumwalt, a retired U.S. Marine Corps officer wrote the article below.
Few people really know what triggered the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Most believe it was the random discovery of the sites in aerial photographs taken by high-flying U-2 aircraft over Cuba.
But the U-2 flight was ordered after a "leak."
Two-and-a-half weeks before the flight, an undercover CIA agent overheard a conversation in a bar in Cuba involving Fidel Castro's personal pilot. He bragged the island nation would soon have nuclear weapons.
The agent's subsequent report of this to Washington prompted U.S. President John Kennedy to order the U-2 flight that revealed solid evidence as to what the Soviet Union was doing.
During World War II, the phrase "Loose lips sink ships" evolved within the U.S. military to remind those entrusted with classified information not to talk about it.
Obviously, Castro's pilot had never heard the expression. His loose lips would bring the world to the brink of nuclear war. Although the end result proved beneficial to U.S. national security interests, the Cuban pilot's lack of operational security -- opsec -- cost his country a nuclear weapons capability.
For as long as there have been military secrets to be kept, history is replete with examples of enemies eager to learn them. The United States has been victimized at times as there have been those guilty of failing to observe opsec, endangering the country's national security, either through lax security or a personal need to promote themselves as knowing what others do not.
But it is inexcusable when it is our own leaders, with access to all our national security secrets, who violate opsec for political gain, endangering our national security in the process.
This is the clarion call of a recent documentary entitled "Dishonorable Disclosures: How Leaks and Politics Threaten National Security." The film reveals concerns by retired military and intelligence professionals who have come together to emphasize the personal risks to our warriors involved in conducting classified operations and opportunities lost to use the intelligence those operations yielded as a direct result of leaks made by our own president -- leaks members of both political parties agree endanger our national security interests.
The documentary cites several examples:
Following the May 2011 raid by Navy SEALS to kill Osama bin Laden, U.S. President Barack Obama immediately went public with details on the raid rather than allowing the intelligence community time to evaluate documents captured at bin Laden's compound to extract maximum value from them. Obama's announcement immediately put other terrorists in a damage-control mode, causing them to change locations, cellphones, codes, plans, etc.
Raid details included information about a Pakistani doctor who assisted the United States, causing him to be tried for treason by Pakistan, for which he was sentenced to 33 years in prison. This will make recruiting locals for future operations much more difficult.
As if revealing these details to the general public was insufficient, the president personally briefed in greater detail an elite audience of Hollywood producers -- sharing information benefitting al-Qaida as well.
Sharing operational details with those having no need to know has compromised the ability of the United States to conduct similar operations in the future and endangered specific units involved in the raid -- as well as their families -- by revealing unit identities and tactics.
Concerning the Stuxnet malware used to disrupt Iranian equipment involved in that country's nuclear arms production program, Obama's admission the United States and Israel are responsible for developing it removes the need for Iran to go through the complex process of identifying Stuxnet's manufacturer. Now stripped of the ability to claim plausible deniability, the United States and Israel can expect to be targeted by similar malware attacks or other retaliation.
The revelation the president can authorize the assassination (death by drone) of terrorist leaders whose names appear on a "kill list" has put at additional risk those charged with maintaining and operating them overseas.
It is interesting to note that part of the reason it took so long to locate bin Laden was because of other instances of loose lips. He had been utilizing cellphones during the early days of the manhunt -- until he realized U.S. voice- recognition and tracking technologies were compromising his location.
Subsequently, as the manhunt continued, bin Laden released video messages recorded in outdoor locations. Once he learned the United States was using geologists to analyze the surrounding terrain to approximate where he might be hiding, bin Laden began deploying a blanket as a backdrop during video recordings to prevent such an analysis from being undertaken.
Learning as well that U.S. analysts listened carefully for background noises in audio and videotapes the terrorist released in hopes of gaining intelligence about location resulted in various noises being recorded into them to throw analysts off track.
The more information released by U.S. government representatives about the processes that were used in the manhunt for bin Laden or -- for that matter -- any classified operation, the better able terrorists are to avoid detection or counter such operations in the future.
It is senseless to give information to terrorists who can only benefit from what we tell them by needless public disclosures. There is absolutely nothing to be gained by a U.S. government employee with national security information doing so, other than to inflate his personal importance or political career.
The "Dishonorable Disclosures" documentary ends with solid advice a retired U.S. Marine Corps officer would give, if asked, to the Obama administration about its use of U.S. intelligence leaks that impact upon our national security, made for political gain.
Demanding Obama observe quiet time concerning all opsec but putting it in a straightforward vernacular only a Marine would dare do, his message to the president is to: "Shut the #@&$%@ up!"
Few people really know what triggered the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Most believe it was the random discovery of the sites in aerial photographs taken by high-flying U-2 aircraft over Cuba.
But the U-2 flight was ordered after a "leak."
Two-and-a-half weeks before the flight, an undercover CIA agent overheard a conversation in a bar in Cuba involving Fidel Castro's personal pilot. He bragged the island nation would soon have nuclear weapons.
The agent's subsequent report of this to Washington prompted U.S. President John Kennedy to order the U-2 flight that revealed solid evidence as to what the Soviet Union was doing.
During World War II, the phrase "Loose lips sink ships" evolved within the U.S. military to remind those entrusted with classified information not to talk about it.
Obviously, Castro's pilot had never heard the expression. His loose lips would bring the world to the brink of nuclear war. Although the end result proved beneficial to U.S. national security interests, the Cuban pilot's lack of operational security -- opsec -- cost his country a nuclear weapons capability.
For as long as there have been military secrets to be kept, history is replete with examples of enemies eager to learn them. The United States has been victimized at times as there have been those guilty of failing to observe opsec, endangering the country's national security, either through lax security or a personal need to promote themselves as knowing what others do not.
But it is inexcusable when it is our own leaders, with access to all our national security secrets, who violate opsec for political gain, endangering our national security in the process.
This is the clarion call of a recent documentary entitled "Dishonorable Disclosures: How Leaks and Politics Threaten National Security." The film reveals concerns by retired military and intelligence professionals who have come together to emphasize the personal risks to our warriors involved in conducting classified operations and opportunities lost to use the intelligence those operations yielded as a direct result of leaks made by our own president -- leaks members of both political parties agree endanger our national security interests.
The documentary cites several examples:
Following the May 2011 raid by Navy SEALS to kill Osama bin Laden, U.S. President Barack Obama immediately went public with details on the raid rather than allowing the intelligence community time to evaluate documents captured at bin Laden's compound to extract maximum value from them. Obama's announcement immediately put other terrorists in a damage-control mode, causing them to change locations, cellphones, codes, plans, etc.
Raid details included information about a Pakistani doctor who assisted the United States, causing him to be tried for treason by Pakistan, for which he was sentenced to 33 years in prison. This will make recruiting locals for future operations much more difficult.
As if revealing these details to the general public was insufficient, the president personally briefed in greater detail an elite audience of Hollywood producers -- sharing information benefitting al-Qaida as well.
Sharing operational details with those having no need to know has compromised the ability of the United States to conduct similar operations in the future and endangered specific units involved in the raid -- as well as their families -- by revealing unit identities and tactics.
Concerning the Stuxnet malware used to disrupt Iranian equipment involved in that country's nuclear arms production program, Obama's admission the United States and Israel are responsible for developing it removes the need for Iran to go through the complex process of identifying Stuxnet's manufacturer. Now stripped of the ability to claim plausible deniability, the United States and Israel can expect to be targeted by similar malware attacks or other retaliation.
The revelation the president can authorize the assassination (death by drone) of terrorist leaders whose names appear on a "kill list" has put at additional risk those charged with maintaining and operating them overseas.
It is interesting to note that part of the reason it took so long to locate bin Laden was because of other instances of loose lips. He had been utilizing cellphones during the early days of the manhunt -- until he realized U.S. voice- recognition and tracking technologies were compromising his location.
Subsequently, as the manhunt continued, bin Laden released video messages recorded in outdoor locations. Once he learned the United States was using geologists to analyze the surrounding terrain to approximate where he might be hiding, bin Laden began deploying a blanket as a backdrop during video recordings to prevent such an analysis from being undertaken.
Learning as well that U.S. analysts listened carefully for background noises in audio and videotapes the terrorist released in hopes of gaining intelligence about location resulted in various noises being recorded into them to throw analysts off track.
The more information released by U.S. government representatives about the processes that were used in the manhunt for bin Laden or -- for that matter -- any classified operation, the better able terrorists are to avoid detection or counter such operations in the future.
It is senseless to give information to terrorists who can only benefit from what we tell them by needless public disclosures. There is absolutely nothing to be gained by a U.S. government employee with national security information doing so, other than to inflate his personal importance or political career.
The "Dishonorable Disclosures" documentary ends with solid advice a retired U.S. Marine Corps officer would give, if asked, to the Obama administration about its use of U.S. intelligence leaks that impact upon our national security, made for political gain.
Demanding Obama observe quiet time concerning all opsec but putting it in a straightforward vernacular only a Marine would dare do, his message to the president is to: "Shut the #@&$%@ up!"
More Linkage: Southern Decadence Vs. Repentence
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina (which in Greek means cleansing, or make "pure") put an end to a huge homosexual event in New Orleans. Now, exactly seven years to the day after Katrina, New Orleans has had exactly a "sabbath" of years to turn around (repent); what have they done? This weekend in New Orleans a huge event called "Southern Decadence" is scheduled, a major homosexual celebration. It's about to be interrupted by another "act of God," a hurricane named Isaac.
Obviously, the LGBTQ community didn't learn, didn't repent. What "act of God" are they about to be hit with ...again: Isaac, which in Hebrew means "Laughter." That brings to mind several scriptures from the Psalms about those who reject God:
Psalm 2:4 says "He that sits in the heavens shall laugh (Isaac): the Lord shall have them in derision."
Psalm 37:13 says "The Lord shall laugh (Isaac) at him; for he sees that his day is coming."
Psalm 59:8 But thou, O LORD, shall laugh (Isaac) at them; thou shall have all the heathen in derision."
How clear does the Author of scripture have to make it? Is it that homosexuals don't believe God, or is it that they'd rather spend forever in agony than to obey Him?
I know what happened to Sodom, but I don't know what will happen the next couple days in New Orleans. What is clear is that the warnings of the past have been ignored. I will not be praying for those who mock their Creator, nor for the city which welcomes them, only that the Godly be saved out of any disaster. I'd rather the LBGTQs turn away from such debauchery, and be saved - both from the coming storm, and from hell.
Meanwhile, the Democrat presidential platform supports "Gay" marriage, while the Republican platform now being written, supports a "Palestinian" state be carved out of Israel. Now there's something to pray about: the leadership of America, lest He who sits on the throne laughs at us all.
In case you're not familiar with the event called "Southern Decadence," this description was copied today, before Isaac's landfall, from a secular news article on the internet:
Southern Decadence is a huge pride venue for the LGBTQ in New Orleans that rivals the famed Mardi Gras. This year will make 41 years this event has taken place and Paul Revere, one of the events coordinators, saying that no hurricane is not going to stop this show.
..... it will be hard to frighten the gay residents of New Orleans away this Labor Day Weekend. Southern Decadence is more than just a celebration. It is a time honored tradition that goes back past Isaac, Katrina and the chaos that has already come or could be coming now.
With participants to top over the 100,000 mark with revenue and tourists sales hitting $125 million, this once small gathering is a needed attraction that gives life to the city financially but culturally. Southern Decadence expresses the very foundation of the gay community and opens the doors for others to learn about the true spirit of the gay community among the atmosphere of friends.
So storm or no storm, this train is moving forward and no matter what happens, the LGBTQ is New Orleans is going to stand their ground. That is what Southern Decadence is all about
Obviously, the LGBTQ community didn't learn, didn't repent. What "act of God" are they about to be hit with ...again: Isaac, which in Hebrew means "Laughter." That brings to mind several scriptures from the Psalms about those who reject God:
Psalm 2:4 says "He that sits in the heavens shall laugh (Isaac): the Lord shall have them in derision."
Psalm 37:13 says "The Lord shall laugh (Isaac) at him; for he sees that his day is coming."
Psalm 59:8 But thou, O LORD, shall laugh (Isaac) at them; thou shall have all the heathen in derision."
How clear does the Author of scripture have to make it? Is it that homosexuals don't believe God, or is it that they'd rather spend forever in agony than to obey Him?
I know what happened to Sodom, but I don't know what will happen the next couple days in New Orleans. What is clear is that the warnings of the past have been ignored. I will not be praying for those who mock their Creator, nor for the city which welcomes them, only that the Godly be saved out of any disaster. I'd rather the LBGTQs turn away from such debauchery, and be saved - both from the coming storm, and from hell.
Meanwhile, the Democrat presidential platform supports "Gay" marriage, while the Republican platform now being written, supports a "Palestinian" state be carved out of Israel. Now there's something to pray about: the leadership of America, lest He who sits on the throne laughs at us all.
In case you're not familiar with the event called "Southern Decadence," this description was copied today, before Isaac's landfall, from a secular news article on the internet:
Southern Decadence is a huge pride venue for the LGBTQ in New Orleans that rivals the famed Mardi Gras. This year will make 41 years this event has taken place and Paul Revere, one of the events coordinators, saying that no hurricane is not going to stop this show.
..... it will be hard to frighten the gay residents of New Orleans away this Labor Day Weekend. Southern Decadence is more than just a celebration. It is a time honored tradition that goes back past Isaac, Katrina and the chaos that has already come or could be coming now.
With participants to top over the 100,000 mark with revenue and tourists sales hitting $125 million, this once small gathering is a needed attraction that gives life to the city financially but culturally. Southern Decadence expresses the very foundation of the gay community and opens the doors for others to learn about the true spirit of the gay community among the atmosphere of friends.
So storm or no storm, this train is moving forward and no matter what happens, the LGBTQ is New Orleans is going to stand their ground. That is what Southern Decadence is all about
Ramadan - The Time To Beat And Kill Christians
This article was written by Raymond Ibrahim. Watch the heart-breaking video after the article. Yeshua please come back today!
The month of Ramadan, which ended earlier this week, proved to be a month of renewed Muslim piety on the one hand, and renewed oppression of non-Muslim minorities on the other. In Nigeria, for example, Islamic militants are living up to the assertion that “Ramadan is a month of jihad and death for Allah,” proving that killing Christians is not only reserved for Christian holidays—like Christmas and Easter, when militants bombed churches killing dozens—but is especially applicable during Islam’s Ramadan.
Usually, however, Ramadan-related oppression has to do with Muslim perceptions that Christians do not “know their place”—either because the latter openly do things forbidden to Muslims during Ramadan, or because they dare object to the things Muslims do during their holy month.
When it comes to these aspects of dhimmitude, Egypt offers countless examples, past and present, simply because it houses the Middle East’s largest Christian minority, the Copts, and thus offers more opportunities for the intolerant face of Ramadan to reveal itself. Two recent examples follow:
First, according to Coptic websites, on July 27, a diabetic man in Egypt was driving his car in Maadi, a suburb of southern Cairo, when he was struck with great thirst, “which he could not bear” (a side-effect of diabetes, further exacerbated by Egypt’s July weather). He pulled over by a public water source and started drinking water. Soon three passer-bys approached him, inquiring why he was drinking water (among the many things forbidden to Muslims during daylight in Ramadan). The diabetic man replied, “Because I am a Christian, and sick,” to which they exclaimed “you’re a Christian, too!” and begun beating him mercilessly. Other passer-bys began to congregate to see what was happening, but no one intervened on behalf of the diabetic non-Muslim, until he managed to make a dash for his parked car and fled the scene.
Though water is not forbidden to him, this infidel Christian openly violated a principle of Islamic Ramadan, which was deemed a great affront and punished accordingly. This idea that non-Muslims must show respect for Islamic observances is commonplace. Around the same time this story took place, a Christian Lebanese singer was taken to police while in Algeria for smoking in public, and “failing to show due respect to Muslims.” She was released after police warned her that “she was not allowed to smoke in public during Ramadan in Muslim Algeria, even though she was a Christian.”
The second story from Egypt concerns a young Christian doctor, Maher Rizkalla Ghali, who was shot by riotous Muslims, including easily-identified Salafis, resulting in the loss of one eye and the likely loss of the other. According to Watan Voice, the perpetrators live downstairs and regularly fired bullets in the air while feasting during sahur (the time before dawn when Muslims are permitted the things they are forbidden in daylight, including food, water, and sex). One night the raucous was so unbearable that the Copt spoke to them from his window, saying that their actions were disturbing to children and the elderly.
Their response was to “insult his religion” and open fire at him, severely disfiguring him. The Muslims then tried to break through the door to attack and plunder the Christian household. Although the family filed a police report, “security forces have not taken any action towards the perpetrators.” Likewise, though they tried to admit the blinded Christian man to several hospitals, they were refused admission until Kasr Hospital accepted them.
This story is almost identical to what happened to a family in Turkey around the same time. According to Hurriyet Daily News, the home of an Alevi family “was stoned and their stables burned down by an angry mob” because they “told a Ramadan drummer not to wake them for sahur, the meal before sunrise,” resulting in a quarrel. After local Muslims found out about the family’s temerity, “a mob of around 60 people” gathered around the house hurling stones, setting the stable on fire, and chanting Islamic slogans, including “Allahu Akbar!” “They came to lynch us,” explained a family member, and “told us to leave and threatened to kill us if we did not.”
The above anecdotes demonstrate the stark antithesis between the West and the Muslim world concerning the notion of being “sensitive” to religious minorities during the holidays of the dominant religion: whereas almost every year, stories appear of Christmas being suppressed to accommodate Muslim sensitivities in the West, in the Muslim world, Christians themselves are being suppressed to accommodate Muslim sensitivities.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FHvQXfGUBCs
The month of Ramadan, which ended earlier this week, proved to be a month of renewed Muslim piety on the one hand, and renewed oppression of non-Muslim minorities on the other. In Nigeria, for example, Islamic militants are living up to the assertion that “Ramadan is a month of jihad and death for Allah,” proving that killing Christians is not only reserved for Christian holidays—like Christmas and Easter, when militants bombed churches killing dozens—but is especially applicable during Islam’s Ramadan.
Usually, however, Ramadan-related oppression has to do with Muslim perceptions that Christians do not “know their place”—either because the latter openly do things forbidden to Muslims during Ramadan, or because they dare object to the things Muslims do during their holy month.
When it comes to these aspects of dhimmitude, Egypt offers countless examples, past and present, simply because it houses the Middle East’s largest Christian minority, the Copts, and thus offers more opportunities for the intolerant face of Ramadan to reveal itself. Two recent examples follow:
First, according to Coptic websites, on July 27, a diabetic man in Egypt was driving his car in Maadi, a suburb of southern Cairo, when he was struck with great thirst, “which he could not bear” (a side-effect of diabetes, further exacerbated by Egypt’s July weather). He pulled over by a public water source and started drinking water. Soon three passer-bys approached him, inquiring why he was drinking water (among the many things forbidden to Muslims during daylight in Ramadan). The diabetic man replied, “Because I am a Christian, and sick,” to which they exclaimed “you’re a Christian, too!” and begun beating him mercilessly. Other passer-bys began to congregate to see what was happening, but no one intervened on behalf of the diabetic non-Muslim, until he managed to make a dash for his parked car and fled the scene.
Though water is not forbidden to him, this infidel Christian openly violated a principle of Islamic Ramadan, which was deemed a great affront and punished accordingly. This idea that non-Muslims must show respect for Islamic observances is commonplace. Around the same time this story took place, a Christian Lebanese singer was taken to police while in Algeria for smoking in public, and “failing to show due respect to Muslims.” She was released after police warned her that “she was not allowed to smoke in public during Ramadan in Muslim Algeria, even though she was a Christian.”
The second story from Egypt concerns a young Christian doctor, Maher Rizkalla Ghali, who was shot by riotous Muslims, including easily-identified Salafis, resulting in the loss of one eye and the likely loss of the other. According to Watan Voice, the perpetrators live downstairs and regularly fired bullets in the air while feasting during sahur (the time before dawn when Muslims are permitted the things they are forbidden in daylight, including food, water, and sex). One night the raucous was so unbearable that the Copt spoke to them from his window, saying that their actions were disturbing to children and the elderly.
Their response was to “insult his religion” and open fire at him, severely disfiguring him. The Muslims then tried to break through the door to attack and plunder the Christian household. Although the family filed a police report, “security forces have not taken any action towards the perpetrators.” Likewise, though they tried to admit the blinded Christian man to several hospitals, they were refused admission until Kasr Hospital accepted them.
This story is almost identical to what happened to a family in Turkey around the same time. According to Hurriyet Daily News, the home of an Alevi family “was stoned and their stables burned down by an angry mob” because they “told a Ramadan drummer not to wake them for sahur, the meal before sunrise,” resulting in a quarrel. After local Muslims found out about the family’s temerity, “a mob of around 60 people” gathered around the house hurling stones, setting the stable on fire, and chanting Islamic slogans, including “Allahu Akbar!” “They came to lynch us,” explained a family member, and “told us to leave and threatened to kill us if we did not.”
The above anecdotes demonstrate the stark antithesis between the West and the Muslim world concerning the notion of being “sensitive” to religious minorities during the holidays of the dominant religion: whereas almost every year, stories appear of Christmas being suppressed to accommodate Muslim sensitivities in the West, in the Muslim world, Christians themselves are being suppressed to accommodate Muslim sensitivities.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FHvQXfGUBCs
Monday, August 27, 2012
Malachi Martin's Reputation Restored
High Ranking Jesuit Confirms Malachi Martin’s Status as Life Long Priest
by William H. Kennedy - April 2004
In a stunning reversal of past policy Father Vincent O’Keefe SJ, former Vicar General of the Society of Jesus and a past President of Fordham University, affirmed that Malachi Martin was in fact granted a dispensation from all his vows in the Jesuit order except for chastity. This dispels decades of rumors that Father Martin was defrocked for having had an affair with the wife of a famous journalist. This was the false lie spread by past Jesuits to discredit Father Martin. Martin requested and received a special dispensation by Pope Paul VI to remain a Catholic priest and say Mass in private.
Ever since Father Martin’s scathing review of his former order The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church (1988) rumors were spread by members of this order claiming Martin was defrocked and expelled from the Church of Rome. Martin denied this charge until his death in 1999. Father Mitchell Pacwa – chief spokesman at the Catholic run EWTN would regularly hang up on callers who inquired about Martin on his live call in show.
Father O’Keefe was the Vicar General of the Society in 1965, at the time of Father Malachi Martin’s departure from Rome. Why Father O’Keefe decided to set the record straight on Malachi Martin is anyone’s guess.
The clarification appeared on the Malachi Martin yahoo e-group posted by a member who communicated with Fr. Tom Widner SJ, Secretary for Communication of the US Jesuit Conference, concerning Martin’s status. Father Widner questioned Father O’Keefe – now retired – and he recalled Martin’s receiving a special dispensation relieving him of all his vows except for chastity. The communication (see below) also promoted two other myths about Martin including the lie that Martin lived in an unchaste relationship. The message referred to an incorrect obituary of Martin which appeared in the New York Times. The lady in question was merely Martin’s landlady for whom he also acted as spiritual advisor. The communication also falsely reports that Martin requested release from his vow of chastity, another lie which was spread about the scholarly priest.
However, the fact that the Jesuits have confirmed that Martin was a valid priest his whole life and was not defrocked marks a radical change in Jesuit policy concerning Father Malachi Martin – they are now acknowledging his status as a life long priest.
Source:
I spoke with Fr. Vincent O'Keefe, former vicar general of the Society of Jesus who is now retired. According to Fr. O'Keefe, Malachi Martin was indeed dispensed from his vows of poverty and obedience but not the vow of chastity. At the time Martin requested such dispensation, the Vatican was not dispensing priests who so requested such dispensation from the vow of chastity or celibacy. Fr. O'Keefe pointed out that Martin never married. His obituary in the New York Times, however, points out that Martin lived with a female companion.
Fr. Widner
Tom Widner SJ
Secretary for Communications
U.S. Jesuit Conference
1616 P St. N.W., Suite 300
Washington, D.C. 20036-1420
by William H. Kennedy - April 2004
In a stunning reversal of past policy Father Vincent O’Keefe SJ, former Vicar General of the Society of Jesus and a past President of Fordham University, affirmed that Malachi Martin was in fact granted a dispensation from all his vows in the Jesuit order except for chastity. This dispels decades of rumors that Father Martin was defrocked for having had an affair with the wife of a famous journalist. This was the false lie spread by past Jesuits to discredit Father Martin. Martin requested and received a special dispensation by Pope Paul VI to remain a Catholic priest and say Mass in private.
Ever since Father Martin’s scathing review of his former order The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church (1988) rumors were spread by members of this order claiming Martin was defrocked and expelled from the Church of Rome. Martin denied this charge until his death in 1999. Father Mitchell Pacwa – chief spokesman at the Catholic run EWTN would regularly hang up on callers who inquired about Martin on his live call in show.
Father O’Keefe was the Vicar General of the Society in 1965, at the time of Father Malachi Martin’s departure from Rome. Why Father O’Keefe decided to set the record straight on Malachi Martin is anyone’s guess.
The clarification appeared on the Malachi Martin yahoo e-group posted by a member who communicated with Fr. Tom Widner SJ, Secretary for Communication of the US Jesuit Conference, concerning Martin’s status. Father Widner questioned Father O’Keefe – now retired – and he recalled Martin’s receiving a special dispensation relieving him of all his vows except for chastity. The communication (see below) also promoted two other myths about Martin including the lie that Martin lived in an unchaste relationship. The message referred to an incorrect obituary of Martin which appeared in the New York Times. The lady in question was merely Martin’s landlady for whom he also acted as spiritual advisor. The communication also falsely reports that Martin requested release from his vow of chastity, another lie which was spread about the scholarly priest.
However, the fact that the Jesuits have confirmed that Martin was a valid priest his whole life and was not defrocked marks a radical change in Jesuit policy concerning Father Malachi Martin – they are now acknowledging his status as a life long priest.
Source:
I spoke with Fr. Vincent O'Keefe, former vicar general of the Society of Jesus who is now retired. According to Fr. O'Keefe, Malachi Martin was indeed dispensed from his vows of poverty and obedience but not the vow of chastity. At the time Martin requested such dispensation, the Vatican was not dispensing priests who so requested such dispensation from the vow of chastity or celibacy. Fr. O'Keefe pointed out that Martin never married. His obituary in the New York Times, however, points out that Martin lived with a female companion.
Fr. Widner
Tom Widner SJ
Secretary for Communications
U.S. Jesuit Conference
1616 P St. N.W., Suite 300
Washington, D.C. 20036-1420
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Hurricane Isaac
Tropical Storm Isaac Should Rival Hurricane Katrina
By Michael Barak, Joseph Bastardi and Alan Lammey
On August 24th, we warned on Forbes that Tropical Storm Isaac could pose a threat to energy markets and even rival Hurricane Katrina in its destructive power (Could Tropical Storm Isaac Turn Into Another Katrina?). While the computer models are still showing a substantial spread in solutions, it appears more likely that Isaac will make landfall somewhere near the Louisiana, Mississippi Gulf Coast. This track will provide the storm more time to intensify over the very warm water of the Gulf of Mexico.
The entire Gulf Coast from Lake Charles, LA to Panama City, FL should be aware of the latest forecast model guidance. The reason for this large spread is because the computer models are split between whether a trough will capture Isaac or not. As of 8AM Sunday morning, it appears Isaac will not be captured and as a result, a more westward track is most likely.
WEATHERBELL FORECAST MODELS
Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans on Aug 29, 2005. It is estimated that the total economic impact in Louisiana and Mississippi exceeded $110 billion, earning the title of the most expensive hurricane ever in US history.
As Katrina moved through the heart of the Gulf of Mexico offshore oil and natural gas production area, it negatively impacted nearly 20% of US oil production. Hurricane Katrina, followed by Hurricane Rita in September, destroyed 113 offshore oil and gas platforms and damaged 457 oil and gas pipelines. Oil, gasoline, and natural gas futures prices on the NYMEX soared as damage assessments were reported.
The hurricane damage inflicted by Katrina caused oil prices to increase from the mid-$60s per barrel to over $70/bbl and gasoline prices at the pump rocketed to near $5 a gallon in some areas of the US. The US government released oil from its stockpile in the Strategic Petroleum Reserves (SPR) to offset price rises. In the natural gas market, prices were trading in the $9 to $10/MMBtu range at the time, but spiked to over $15/MMBtu as the full extent of the damage became apparent.
Additionally, the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP) was closed on August 27, 2005, reducing production by over 400,000 barrels per day. LOOP handles 13% of the nation’s foreign oil, about 1.2 million barrels a day, and connects by pipeline to 50% of the U.S. refining capability. The port was undamaged by the storm and resumed operation within hours of electricity coming back online.
Gulf of Mexico oil production was reduced by about 1.4 million barrels per day as a result of Hurricane Katrina, equivalent to about 91% of daily Gulf of Mexico oil production. Additionally, over 8 billion cubic feet (Bcf) per day of natural gas production was shut in, equivalent to 83% of daily Gulf of Mexico natural gas production.
Seven years later as what will be Hurricane Isaac bears down on the Gulf Coast, the Gulf of Mexico currently accounts for about 23% of oil production and 7% of natural gas output according to the US Department of Energy. Furthermore, roughly 30% of natural gas processing plant capacity and 44% of US refining capacity is located along the US Gulf Coast.
According to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEMRE), 8.6% of the Gulf’s daily oil output and 1.6% of daily natural gas production was shut down as a result of Isaac approaching the Gulf of Mexico. Closing prices as of Friday, Aug 24, 2012 of NYMEX October WTI futures settled at $96.15/bbl, while September natural gas settled at $2.70/MMBtu.
When it comes to offshore oil and gas rig infrastructure in 2012 versus 2005, the biggest difference is that the rigs placed into the Gulf of Mexico in the last several years have been hardened to resist Category 4 or 5 hurricanes. However, up until now, other than Hurricane’s Gustav and Ike in 2008, there has been no real test of the endurance of newer ‘hurricane resistant’ infrastructure that has replaced much of the aging platforms in 2005. Isaac may very well be the storm to test the fortitude of the newer offshore hardware.
In terms of energy prices, it’s very likely that the oil and gas markets will react bullishly to Isaac when traders come back to work on Monday, particularly if the computer models verify a track toward some of the more heavily concentrated oil and gas rig areas off the coast of Louisiana.
Bigger picture technical indicators for September natural gas lean bullish. On the upside, key resistance is seen between $2.89 and $2.94. If the latter is violated, look for aggressive buyers to test the $3.01 area, followed by $3.07 and $3.10. On the downside, key support for the September gas futures contract resides between $2.71 and $2.685. If violated, it wouldn’t be out of the question to see prices pull back further toward $2.62, $2.59, followed by $2.50 and ultimately $2.41 to $2.35.
From the technical indicators perspective, key resistance for October crude is seen at $98.30. If the latter is violated, then a further advance toward target area of $100 to $102 is likely, followed by a potential surge toward the $110 to $114 area. On the downside, support is seen between $97.15 and $96.26, followed by between $95.32 and $94.98, and then again at $92.65 and $91.75.
With respect to insurance companies, natural disasters have been absent for the most part of 2012. Isaac has the potential to be a destructive and devastating storm along the Gulf Coast. The National Hurricane Center is currently forecasting Isaac to make landfall with peak winds of 105 MPH. There is a strong possibility that the storm will be considerably stronger at landfall. The breakdown of 2011 personal and commercial lines market share by company can be seen in the chart below.
By Michael Barak, Joseph Bastardi and Alan Lammey
On August 24th, we warned on Forbes that Tropical Storm Isaac could pose a threat to energy markets and even rival Hurricane Katrina in its destructive power (Could Tropical Storm Isaac Turn Into Another Katrina?). While the computer models are still showing a substantial spread in solutions, it appears more likely that Isaac will make landfall somewhere near the Louisiana, Mississippi Gulf Coast. This track will provide the storm more time to intensify over the very warm water of the Gulf of Mexico.
The entire Gulf Coast from Lake Charles, LA to Panama City, FL should be aware of the latest forecast model guidance. The reason for this large spread is because the computer models are split between whether a trough will capture Isaac or not. As of 8AM Sunday morning, it appears Isaac will not be captured and as a result, a more westward track is most likely.
WEATHERBELL FORECAST MODELS
Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans on Aug 29, 2005. It is estimated that the total economic impact in Louisiana and Mississippi exceeded $110 billion, earning the title of the most expensive hurricane ever in US history.
As Katrina moved through the heart of the Gulf of Mexico offshore oil and natural gas production area, it negatively impacted nearly 20% of US oil production. Hurricane Katrina, followed by Hurricane Rita in September, destroyed 113 offshore oil and gas platforms and damaged 457 oil and gas pipelines. Oil, gasoline, and natural gas futures prices on the NYMEX soared as damage assessments were reported.
The hurricane damage inflicted by Katrina caused oil prices to increase from the mid-$60s per barrel to over $70/bbl and gasoline prices at the pump rocketed to near $5 a gallon in some areas of the US. The US government released oil from its stockpile in the Strategic Petroleum Reserves (SPR) to offset price rises. In the natural gas market, prices were trading in the $9 to $10/MMBtu range at the time, but spiked to over $15/MMBtu as the full extent of the damage became apparent.
Additionally, the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP) was closed on August 27, 2005, reducing production by over 400,000 barrels per day. LOOP handles 13% of the nation’s foreign oil, about 1.2 million barrels a day, and connects by pipeline to 50% of the U.S. refining capability. The port was undamaged by the storm and resumed operation within hours of electricity coming back online.
Gulf of Mexico oil production was reduced by about 1.4 million barrels per day as a result of Hurricane Katrina, equivalent to about 91% of daily Gulf of Mexico oil production. Additionally, over 8 billion cubic feet (Bcf) per day of natural gas production was shut in, equivalent to 83% of daily Gulf of Mexico natural gas production.
Seven years later as what will be Hurricane Isaac bears down on the Gulf Coast, the Gulf of Mexico currently accounts for about 23% of oil production and 7% of natural gas output according to the US Department of Energy. Furthermore, roughly 30% of natural gas processing plant capacity and 44% of US refining capacity is located along the US Gulf Coast.
According to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEMRE), 8.6% of the Gulf’s daily oil output and 1.6% of daily natural gas production was shut down as a result of Isaac approaching the Gulf of Mexico. Closing prices as of Friday, Aug 24, 2012 of NYMEX October WTI futures settled at $96.15/bbl, while September natural gas settled at $2.70/MMBtu.
When it comes to offshore oil and gas rig infrastructure in 2012 versus 2005, the biggest difference is that the rigs placed into the Gulf of Mexico in the last several years have been hardened to resist Category 4 or 5 hurricanes. However, up until now, other than Hurricane’s Gustav and Ike in 2008, there has been no real test of the endurance of newer ‘hurricane resistant’ infrastructure that has replaced much of the aging platforms in 2005. Isaac may very well be the storm to test the fortitude of the newer offshore hardware.
In terms of energy prices, it’s very likely that the oil and gas markets will react bullishly to Isaac when traders come back to work on Monday, particularly if the computer models verify a track toward some of the more heavily concentrated oil and gas rig areas off the coast of Louisiana.
Bigger picture technical indicators for September natural gas lean bullish. On the upside, key resistance is seen between $2.89 and $2.94. If the latter is violated, look for aggressive buyers to test the $3.01 area, followed by $3.07 and $3.10. On the downside, key support for the September gas futures contract resides between $2.71 and $2.685. If violated, it wouldn’t be out of the question to see prices pull back further toward $2.62, $2.59, followed by $2.50 and ultimately $2.41 to $2.35.
From the technical indicators perspective, key resistance for October crude is seen at $98.30. If the latter is violated, then a further advance toward target area of $100 to $102 is likely, followed by a potential surge toward the $110 to $114 area. On the downside, support is seen between $97.15 and $96.26, followed by between $95.32 and $94.98, and then again at $92.65 and $91.75.
With respect to insurance companies, natural disasters have been absent for the most part of 2012. Isaac has the potential to be a destructive and devastating storm along the Gulf Coast. The National Hurricane Center is currently forecasting Isaac to make landfall with peak winds of 105 MPH. There is a strong possibility that the storm will be considerably stronger at landfall. The breakdown of 2011 personal and commercial lines market share by company can be seen in the chart below.
Mormon Jesus & Bible Jesus Are Not The Same
Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney told Cathedral Age, "I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the Savior of mankind. Every religion has its own unique doctrines and history." Trouble is, the Mormon religion's Jesus Christ and the Bible's Jesus Christ/Yeshua Ha Mashiach are not one of the same. A visit to the Mormon church website indicates that Mormons believe they are literally sons and daughters of the god in heaven and have attained physical bodies to come to earth with Jesus as their example. If they do well in following this example, they will become gods after their life on earth. They believe that Joseph Smith "restored" the true church on earth.
Americans have a choice between a man who was raised a Muslim and says he believes in Jesus Christ, and a man whose religious upbringing teaches that Jesus Christ is literally a brotherly example to follow in attaining godship. Islam also believes in Isa, their Jesus, who in the end times will be the prophet of the Mahdi. The Mahdi, according to Islamic eschatology, will establish the peace of Islam on earth for seven years and Jesus will denounce Christianity and Judaism, proclaiming that Islam is the one true religion. You see, "Jesus Christ" has varying characteristics and means many things to many people. But there is only one Jesus Christ/Yeshua Ha Mashiach. And Americans better figure it out before its too late.
Americans have a choice between a man who was raised a Muslim and says he believes in Jesus Christ, and a man whose religious upbringing teaches that Jesus Christ is literally a brotherly example to follow in attaining godship. Islam also believes in Isa, their Jesus, who in the end times will be the prophet of the Mahdi. The Mahdi, according to Islamic eschatology, will establish the peace of Islam on earth for seven years and Jesus will denounce Christianity and Judaism, proclaiming that Islam is the one true religion. You see, "Jesus Christ" has varying characteristics and means many things to many people. But there is only one Jesus Christ/Yeshua Ha Mashiach. And Americans better figure it out before its too late.
Terroristic Fire Wars
Patriots,
This is a very simple plan of war that is costing our country billions of dollars.
http://youtu.be/SFHM0rd9cX8
This is a very simple plan of war that is costing our country billions of dollars.
http://youtu.be/SFHM0rd9cX8
Russia And Med Oil/Gas
As the tension between Israel and Iran ratchets up, an interesting sub-text has developed over the role of Iran’s traditional backer, Russia. While many Western observers continue to raise the spectre of a ‘wider Middle East conflagration’ (an argument we have consistently refuted), and one that could drag in Russia, a whole new, higher value, game chip is now in play: Moscow’s interest in Israeli energy.
Israel and neighbouring and potential partner, member of EU, Cyprus, of course must be quite aware that Gazprom, Russia’s battering ram, can easily prove to be a Trojan Horse in any major future natural gas development. They will try to affect a project that could certainly lessen their energy stranglehold over Europe. A 20 million metric tons per year liquid natural gas (LNG) export from Eastern Mediterranean into Europe would amount to about one third of current Russian exports.
Whatever we may think of Vladimir Putin’s politics, one thing is clear, he is a shrewd, often ruthless, operator on the global stage. But Putin’s Kremlin is clearly rattled by the threat of decline for that which underpins Russia’s entire economy: its energy hegemony.
Putin is only too aware of the triple whammy of falling domestic energy productivity, surging global shale development in the wake of the transforming US shale revolution, and a new threat posed to a European market still dependent on Russian gas imports—the significant potential of Israeli and Cypriot gas exports. According to reports, while publicly playing down the impact that shale gas and oil is likely to have, Putin is privately urging Russia’s energy majors to learn all they can about hydraulic fracturing techniques. Meanwhile, in a bid to retain a key stake in its European export market—Russia supplies a quarter of all Europe’s (rising) natural gas demand—Moscow is set on doing all in its power to protect its ‘captive’ market.
To date, Europe’s anti-shale gas policies have played into Russian hands. But with energy prices spiralling in Europe while America’s shale revolution has seen natural gas prices cut in half with the country on the road to possible energy independence, Europe’s own shale gas resources, almost on a par with those in the US, are proving an increasingly attractive economic proposition. Indeed, Europe’s antipathy toward shale development may already be crumbling in the former Soviet satellites. Poland’s PGNIG expects to start commercial shale gas production within two to three years. The Ukraine, a transit country for Russian gas exports to Europe, holds around 7 percent of Europe’s total shale gas reserves. Production of less than 5 percent of Ukraine’s shale gas reserves could save the country’s economy 500-750m USD each year. Given the Ukraine’s history with Russia’s when Gazprom turned off the tap over price wrangles, development there is a no brainer.
The shale gas revolution has caused the price of US natural gas to fall by 55 percent over last year’s, while the World Bank reports European natural gas prices are almost 10 percent higher than last year. Certainly Chevron believes that Europe’s own shale gas is about to trump the environmental concerns that have to date dominated in the shale gas debate. Earlier this year, Exxon Mobil pulled out of a prospective shale development in Poland, citing its failure to find shale in commercial quantities, but Chevron has committed to a longer-term view buying up large swathes of land in Eastern Europe along a fault-line from the Baltic to the Black Sea, from Ukraine, through Poland, Bulgaria and Romania. Chevron is not alone in its assessment. A recent report by KPMG International has described shale gas development across central and Eastern Europe as “inevitable”.
With the looming threat to the economy all too real, Putin and Russia’s energy giants are not idly awaiting the vicissitudes of the marketplace.
Last year saw Russia out maneuvered the EU once again when its Nord Stream pipeline came online way ahead of the EU’s ‘great pipe hope’ to help it diversify away from Russian gas dependency, the Nabucco project. Designed to pipe Caspian region gas to Europe avoiding crossing Russian soil along the way, Nabucco is developing at a glacial pace and still lacks a substantive gas supplier. More recently, Putin and Gazprom have pursued a flurry of new developments aimed at making Russia a “more open” proposition to foreign investors. In March, France’s Total acquired a 20 percent stake in another Russian gas venture in the Arctic. In April, Putin flagged new tax breaks for offshore oil and gas to make far-flung projects more viable. Meanwhile, Russia has ramped up its militarization of the Arctic in support of its energy claims there. And in recent weeks, Russia’s gas giant, Rosneft, has cut Arctic exploration deals with Norway’s Statoil and with Italy’s ENI. Potential partnerships between Gazprom and Shell are also in the offing.
Israel and Cyprus: Gas exporting energy superpower
But there is now a new kid on the block that could pose a very clear and present threat to Russia’s vital European market: Israel along with Cyprus and their upcoming potential status as gas exporting energy superpowers. And it is there that we can see a fascinating new play in the Israel-Iran nuclear saga.
Development of the eastern Mediterranean’s new found natural gas wealth, could well end up reaching the European market. In recent days, an Israeli news report quotes a senior Israeli gas executive as telling them: “The Russians have been poking around here for a while. Everyone knows about the Russian interest in controlling the European energy market. Do they want to buy from us, or delay our efforts? I don’t know. But they are here.” The same report also cites the Israeli energy website, Tashtiot, as claiming that during Vladimir Putin’s recent visit to Israel, he and Prime Minister Netanyahu agreed a deal to form a junior company to Gazprom that would help develop Israel’s Leviathan gas field in the eastern Mediterranean. In the same week that Putin visited Jerusalem, the Eurasia Monitor further reported that “the government agency that oversees Russia’s arms exports and imports ... confirmed that Iran is suing Russia for damages to the tune of some $4 billion in the Court of Arbitration in Geneva for cancelling ... a contract to sell five divisions of the S-300 long-range anti-aircraft missile system worth an estimated $800 million to $1 billion.”
It seems that Vladimir Putin and Russia are playing a long game of their own. While many observers assume that Russia, having helped construct Iran’s nuclear plant at Bushehr as part of a long-standing relationship with Tehran, would be likely to become embroiled directly in support of their Middle East allies in an Israel-Iran conflict. However, the Kremlin appears to have higher economic and political priorities. Chief among them: ensuring its vast energy resources help it to remain a global superpower.
So what Russia would do if Iran was attacked? Intriguingly, the answer may have been settled with Putin’s Russia having already sold out its Iranian ‘partners’ for an attempted hand into Israeli gas.
Peter C Glover is a British writer & author and International Associate Editor for Energy Tribune. Michael J. Economides is professor of chemical engineering, University of Houston, Editor-in-Chief, Energy Tribune and author of 15 books, including the bestselling The Color of Oil.
Israel and neighbouring and potential partner, member of EU, Cyprus, of course must be quite aware that Gazprom, Russia’s battering ram, can easily prove to be a Trojan Horse in any major future natural gas development. They will try to affect a project that could certainly lessen their energy stranglehold over Europe. A 20 million metric tons per year liquid natural gas (LNG) export from Eastern Mediterranean into Europe would amount to about one third of current Russian exports.
Whatever we may think of Vladimir Putin’s politics, one thing is clear, he is a shrewd, often ruthless, operator on the global stage. But Putin’s Kremlin is clearly rattled by the threat of decline for that which underpins Russia’s entire economy: its energy hegemony.
Putin is only too aware of the triple whammy of falling domestic energy productivity, surging global shale development in the wake of the transforming US shale revolution, and a new threat posed to a European market still dependent on Russian gas imports—the significant potential of Israeli and Cypriot gas exports. According to reports, while publicly playing down the impact that shale gas and oil is likely to have, Putin is privately urging Russia’s energy majors to learn all they can about hydraulic fracturing techniques. Meanwhile, in a bid to retain a key stake in its European export market—Russia supplies a quarter of all Europe’s (rising) natural gas demand—Moscow is set on doing all in its power to protect its ‘captive’ market.
To date, Europe’s anti-shale gas policies have played into Russian hands. But with energy prices spiralling in Europe while America’s shale revolution has seen natural gas prices cut in half with the country on the road to possible energy independence, Europe’s own shale gas resources, almost on a par with those in the US, are proving an increasingly attractive economic proposition. Indeed, Europe’s antipathy toward shale development may already be crumbling in the former Soviet satellites. Poland’s PGNIG expects to start commercial shale gas production within two to three years. The Ukraine, a transit country for Russian gas exports to Europe, holds around 7 percent of Europe’s total shale gas reserves. Production of less than 5 percent of Ukraine’s shale gas reserves could save the country’s economy 500-750m USD each year. Given the Ukraine’s history with Russia’s when Gazprom turned off the tap over price wrangles, development there is a no brainer.
The shale gas revolution has caused the price of US natural gas to fall by 55 percent over last year’s, while the World Bank reports European natural gas prices are almost 10 percent higher than last year. Certainly Chevron believes that Europe’s own shale gas is about to trump the environmental concerns that have to date dominated in the shale gas debate. Earlier this year, Exxon Mobil pulled out of a prospective shale development in Poland, citing its failure to find shale in commercial quantities, but Chevron has committed to a longer-term view buying up large swathes of land in Eastern Europe along a fault-line from the Baltic to the Black Sea, from Ukraine, through Poland, Bulgaria and Romania. Chevron is not alone in its assessment. A recent report by KPMG International has described shale gas development across central and Eastern Europe as “inevitable”.
With the looming threat to the economy all too real, Putin and Russia’s energy giants are not idly awaiting the vicissitudes of the marketplace.
Last year saw Russia out maneuvered the EU once again when its Nord Stream pipeline came online way ahead of the EU’s ‘great pipe hope’ to help it diversify away from Russian gas dependency, the Nabucco project. Designed to pipe Caspian region gas to Europe avoiding crossing Russian soil along the way, Nabucco is developing at a glacial pace and still lacks a substantive gas supplier. More recently, Putin and Gazprom have pursued a flurry of new developments aimed at making Russia a “more open” proposition to foreign investors. In March, France’s Total acquired a 20 percent stake in another Russian gas venture in the Arctic. In April, Putin flagged new tax breaks for offshore oil and gas to make far-flung projects more viable. Meanwhile, Russia has ramped up its militarization of the Arctic in support of its energy claims there. And in recent weeks, Russia’s gas giant, Rosneft, has cut Arctic exploration deals with Norway’s Statoil and with Italy’s ENI. Potential partnerships between Gazprom and Shell are also in the offing.
Israel and Cyprus: Gas exporting energy superpower
But there is now a new kid on the block that could pose a very clear and present threat to Russia’s vital European market: Israel along with Cyprus and their upcoming potential status as gas exporting energy superpowers. And it is there that we can see a fascinating new play in the Israel-Iran nuclear saga.
Development of the eastern Mediterranean’s new found natural gas wealth, could well end up reaching the European market. In recent days, an Israeli news report quotes a senior Israeli gas executive as telling them: “The Russians have been poking around here for a while. Everyone knows about the Russian interest in controlling the European energy market. Do they want to buy from us, or delay our efforts? I don’t know. But they are here.” The same report also cites the Israeli energy website, Tashtiot, as claiming that during Vladimir Putin’s recent visit to Israel, he and Prime Minister Netanyahu agreed a deal to form a junior company to Gazprom that would help develop Israel’s Leviathan gas field in the eastern Mediterranean. In the same week that Putin visited Jerusalem, the Eurasia Monitor further reported that “the government agency that oversees Russia’s arms exports and imports ... confirmed that Iran is suing Russia for damages to the tune of some $4 billion in the Court of Arbitration in Geneva for cancelling ... a contract to sell five divisions of the S-300 long-range anti-aircraft missile system worth an estimated $800 million to $1 billion.”
It seems that Vladimir Putin and Russia are playing a long game of their own. While many observers assume that Russia, having helped construct Iran’s nuclear plant at Bushehr as part of a long-standing relationship with Tehran, would be likely to become embroiled directly in support of their Middle East allies in an Israel-Iran conflict. However, the Kremlin appears to have higher economic and political priorities. Chief among them: ensuring its vast energy resources help it to remain a global superpower.
So what Russia would do if Iran was attacked? Intriguingly, the answer may have been settled with Putin’s Russia having already sold out its Iranian ‘partners’ for an attempted hand into Israeli gas.
Peter C Glover is a British writer & author and International Associate Editor for Energy Tribune. Michael J. Economides is professor of chemical engineering, University of Houston, Editor-in-Chief, Energy Tribune and author of 15 books, including the bestselling The Color of Oil.
Frank Marshall Davis
Patriots,
Look closely at the photos of Frank Marshall Davis and Obama, both have the same black black spots on their faces. Barack Obama Sr. from Kenya does not have these spots. It appears to me Frank Marshall Davis is Obama's real father.
http://westernjournalism.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b58f5402a9ab54bddf0c908c8&id=8833454563&e=10b83c9dd1
Look closely at the photos of Frank Marshall Davis and Obama, both have the same black black spots on their faces. Barack Obama Sr. from Kenya does not have these spots. It appears to me Frank Marshall Davis is Obama's real father.
http://westernjournalism.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b58f5402a9ab54bddf0c908c8&id=8833454563&e=10b83c9dd1
Dinesh D'Suza
Patriots,
I saw the film on Friday and I thought it was excellent. Go Dinesh! See the article below.
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I saw the film on Friday and I thought it was excellent. Go Dinesh! See the article below.
http://westernjournalism.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b58f5402a9ab54bddf0c908c8&id=c6f61be304&e=10b83c9dd1
Neil Armstrong, A Great Man Dies
Patriots,
I sadly learned of Neil Armstrong's death this morning.
I had the honor and privilege of interviewing Neil Armstrong for his security clearance and also interviewing him as a reference for other security clearances.
One time when I went to his home I noticed his foot steps in the snow and I thought to myself WOW - those are the footsteps of the first man to walk on the moon.
I found Neil to be nervous about the interviews, engaging, fascinating, humorous, captivating and courteous. I knew from his responses to my questions that Neil was a serious man and hence probably a top notch engineer.
I asked Neil who was the most interesting person he ever met. I expected him to say the Pope, President Nixon, Elvis or somebody famous instead he said somebody like Floyd Smith. Neil said Floyd was the best test engineer he ever met. In fact, Floyd was so good, said Neil, he could tell you everything about an aircraft 45 minutes after Floyd had flown the aircraft. Of course, I had never heard of Floyd Smith.
I also asked him if it bothered him that other astronauts got more publicity than he did and he said no, it didn't matter to him.
I asked him if he thought about God's universe as he travelled to the moon and he said no he was too focused on the mission to think about it.
Friends, I can tell you this, the lunar module was running out of fuel as Neil loked for a spot to land on the moon. If I had only 10 seconds of fuel left in my spacecraft I would want Neil Armstrong piloting my space craft.
Neil - God Bless you and God speed to you as you begin your greatest journey into God's incredible, majestic and eternal heaven. We will miss you!
Alan
I sadly learned of Neil Armstrong's death this morning.
I had the honor and privilege of interviewing Neil Armstrong for his security clearance and also interviewing him as a reference for other security clearances.
One time when I went to his home I noticed his foot steps in the snow and I thought to myself WOW - those are the footsteps of the first man to walk on the moon.
I found Neil to be nervous about the interviews, engaging, fascinating, humorous, captivating and courteous. I knew from his responses to my questions that Neil was a serious man and hence probably a top notch engineer.
I asked Neil who was the most interesting person he ever met. I expected him to say the Pope, President Nixon, Elvis or somebody famous instead he said somebody like Floyd Smith. Neil said Floyd was the best test engineer he ever met. In fact, Floyd was so good, said Neil, he could tell you everything about an aircraft 45 minutes after Floyd had flown the aircraft. Of course, I had never heard of Floyd Smith.
I also asked him if it bothered him that other astronauts got more publicity than he did and he said no, it didn't matter to him.
I asked him if he thought about God's universe as he travelled to the moon and he said no he was too focused on the mission to think about it.
Friends, I can tell you this, the lunar module was running out of fuel as Neil loked for a spot to land on the moon. If I had only 10 seconds of fuel left in my spacecraft I would want Neil Armstrong piloting my space craft.
Neil - God Bless you and God speed to you as you begin your greatest journey into God's incredible, majestic and eternal heaven. We will miss you!
Alan
Friday, August 24, 2012
Egyptians Crucified
Read the article below, Egyptians crucified at the presidential palace.
https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1345731965-d772ce5d98ae66f615776cdf624840fd-10881c6?pa=11322941010
https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1345731965-d772ce5d98ae66f615776cdf624840fd-10881c6?pa=11322941010
Egyptian Thug Checks Homework
Thank God you do not live in Egypt.
https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1345731965-b23e30c59c34d08c1c83e2ae4bfd2c0d-10881c6?pa=11322941010
https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1345731965-b23e30c59c34d08c1c83e2ae4bfd2c0d-10881c6?pa=11322941010
Vets Being Rounded Up Nationwide
Patriots,
Bottom line be careful what you text, write or say on the internet. By the way, the good news ex-marine Raub was released through the efforts of the Rutherford Institute. Watch the videos below.
http://westernjournalism.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b58f5402a9ab54bddf0c908c8&id=2bb0fae279&e=10b83c9dd1
http://westernjournalism.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b58f5402a9ab54bddf0c908c8&id=94900f8b7d&e=10b83c9dd1
Bottom line be careful what you text, write or say on the internet. By the way, the good news ex-marine Raub was released through the efforts of the Rutherford Institute. Watch the videos below.
http://westernjournalism.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b58f5402a9ab54bddf0c908c8&id=2bb0fae279&e=10b83c9dd1
http://westernjournalism.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b58f5402a9ab54bddf0c908c8&id=94900f8b7d&e=10b83c9dd1
Silence In The Pulpits
The Silence of the PulpitsnBy Bill Warner
If you are even slightly awake about the world news today, it is no surprise that Christians are being killed, raped, and brutalized throughout the Islamic world. However, there is a place where you can go to escape the dreadful and relentless details of Christian annihilation by Islam. You can just go to church.
For example, Christians were killed this week in Nigeria. Nothing out of the ordinary -- indeed, in the world of Christian persecution, this is routine.
And so the response found in nearly every church to the murder of Christians is...wait for it...complete silence. Not a mention or reference to it, or to the brutality against Christians that happens almost every day in the Islamic world.
This is not a passive silence, because if you try to change it, you will fail. The silence is an active, working conspiracy that goes throughout nearly all of Christendom.
Take a simple example: prayer for the persecuted. From a Christian perspective, this falls under the heading of obvious. Try taking the idea of prayer for the routinely murdered Christians in Nigeria or Egypt to ministers, boards, and any part of the structure of the church, and see how far you will get. You will get rejection with a myriad of lame and evasive excuses, since the people in power fear to recognize the suffering of Christians around the world.
If you acknowledge the suffering, you might wind up asking the question: why are these Christians suffering? Ah, there is the rub. The suffering is caused by Muslim jihadists who are following the Islamic doctrine of jihad against the Christian as found in Koran, Sira, and Hadith. Islam is the cause of suffering of Christians, as well as of Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and atheists.
But stop! We cannot say those things! Facts are the new hate speech, so we cannot speak about the jihad against Christians. Therefore, we get no prayers for the persecuted, because it would lead to talk about why the murder of Christians keeps happening. And that truth would lead to being called an Islamophobe, so we are not going there. Result: silence.
It is ironic that the Wall Street Journal, a financial newspaper, has run an article about the silence at the pulpit concerning the suffering of Christians. We live in a time of moral inversion, when Christian leaders are chastised for their moral bankruptcy by money men. It is supposed to be the other way around.
Actually, there are few religious leaders left in America. Instead we have chief-executive-officers who manage a 501(c)(3) institution that has meetings on Sunday. In too many cases, Christianity has devolved into an hour's meeting that is supposed to make you feel good for a week.
This 501(c)(3) corporate mentality is another one of the roots of the denial of the Christian suffering. If you are willing to see the doctrinal roots of the ongoing murder of Christians by Muslims, then you might have to speak about it from the pulpit, and that could be seen as political speech. In spite of the fact that there has never been a 501(c)(3) revoked because of political speech by a minister, the imagined loss silences ministers. Hmmm...if a minister is worried about the IRS revoking his 501(c)(3), then whom is the minster serving? Caesar or Christ?
Now, you may not be a Christian, and so it might seem that there is nothing here for you. But in reality we all have pulpits. Are we using the suffering of Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, women, gays, and intellectuals caused by Islam as a topic of conversation with those around us? Who is comfortable with bringing up anything negative about Islam? To tell those facts about Islam is a social crime, and you will be accused of being a hater/Islamophobe. So most of us remain silent about the evils of political Islam, and we are just like the ministers -- silent in our own pulpits. Christians and non-Christians share the fear of being insulted as bigots and Islamophobes.
It turns out that all of those who oppose any social evil will be hated. Think about it. It takes a massive amount of power to put into place any societal doctrine, such as multiculturalism and political correctness. The government, universities, many churches, synagogues, and the media have become enforcers of multiculturalism and political correctness. They are very powerful and believe that their dogma rules all peoples.
They are also full-throated apologists for Islam. Now it turns out that their actual knowledge about the doctrine and history of political Islam is close to zero and Muslim Brotherhood-approved, but that is no problem. The Establishment just says that those who find fault with Islam are bigots and that they hate us.
The silence of the pulpits is the greatest aider and abettor of Islam in the U.S. No one serves and advances Islam better than the silent ministers. They have abandoned their duty of courage in the face of persecution, but the rest of the flock still looks for moral leadership from them. Islam triumphs when Christian leaders do not condemn the murderous evil of political Islam.
Even worse than the silent ministers are those who go to "interfaith dialogs" and smile while the Muslims assert religious and political dominance over them. The nice, oh so nice Christians and Jews show up to tie, while the Muslims are there to win, and they do.
Christians need to follow the example of Jesus and willingly suffer the condemnation by the Establishment and fight against the political Islam that murders Christians. Said another way, Christians should demonstrate courage and sacrifice to support their cruelly murdered brothers and sisters.
We cannot defeat political Islam until we get Christian boots on the ground. Do the math. The pulpits must become a source of courage and knowledge and stand up for Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and all others who suffer under Islam's persecution today and who have suffered for the last 1,400 years.
It isn't just about religion; it is about the survival of our civilization.
Bill Warner is the director of the Center for the Study of Political Islam. www.politicalislam.com; bw@politicalislam.com
If you are even slightly awake about the world news today, it is no surprise that Christians are being killed, raped, and brutalized throughout the Islamic world. However, there is a place where you can go to escape the dreadful and relentless details of Christian annihilation by Islam. You can just go to church.
For example, Christians were killed this week in Nigeria. Nothing out of the ordinary -- indeed, in the world of Christian persecution, this is routine.
And so the response found in nearly every church to the murder of Christians is...wait for it...complete silence. Not a mention or reference to it, or to the brutality against Christians that happens almost every day in the Islamic world.
This is not a passive silence, because if you try to change it, you will fail. The silence is an active, working conspiracy that goes throughout nearly all of Christendom.
Take a simple example: prayer for the persecuted. From a Christian perspective, this falls under the heading of obvious. Try taking the idea of prayer for the routinely murdered Christians in Nigeria or Egypt to ministers, boards, and any part of the structure of the church, and see how far you will get. You will get rejection with a myriad of lame and evasive excuses, since the people in power fear to recognize the suffering of Christians around the world.
If you acknowledge the suffering, you might wind up asking the question: why are these Christians suffering? Ah, there is the rub. The suffering is caused by Muslim jihadists who are following the Islamic doctrine of jihad against the Christian as found in Koran, Sira, and Hadith. Islam is the cause of suffering of Christians, as well as of Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and atheists.
But stop! We cannot say those things! Facts are the new hate speech, so we cannot speak about the jihad against Christians. Therefore, we get no prayers for the persecuted, because it would lead to talk about why the murder of Christians keeps happening. And that truth would lead to being called an Islamophobe, so we are not going there. Result: silence.
It is ironic that the Wall Street Journal, a financial newspaper, has run an article about the silence at the pulpit concerning the suffering of Christians. We live in a time of moral inversion, when Christian leaders are chastised for their moral bankruptcy by money men. It is supposed to be the other way around.
Actually, there are few religious leaders left in America. Instead we have chief-executive-officers who manage a 501(c)(3) institution that has meetings on Sunday. In too many cases, Christianity has devolved into an hour's meeting that is supposed to make you feel good for a week.
This 501(c)(3) corporate mentality is another one of the roots of the denial of the Christian suffering. If you are willing to see the doctrinal roots of the ongoing murder of Christians by Muslims, then you might have to speak about it from the pulpit, and that could be seen as political speech. In spite of the fact that there has never been a 501(c)(3) revoked because of political speech by a minister, the imagined loss silences ministers. Hmmm...if a minister is worried about the IRS revoking his 501(c)(3), then whom is the minster serving? Caesar or Christ?
Now, you may not be a Christian, and so it might seem that there is nothing here for you. But in reality we all have pulpits. Are we using the suffering of Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, women, gays, and intellectuals caused by Islam as a topic of conversation with those around us? Who is comfortable with bringing up anything negative about Islam? To tell those facts about Islam is a social crime, and you will be accused of being a hater/Islamophobe. So most of us remain silent about the evils of political Islam, and we are just like the ministers -- silent in our own pulpits. Christians and non-Christians share the fear of being insulted as bigots and Islamophobes.
It turns out that all of those who oppose any social evil will be hated. Think about it. It takes a massive amount of power to put into place any societal doctrine, such as multiculturalism and political correctness. The government, universities, many churches, synagogues, and the media have become enforcers of multiculturalism and political correctness. They are very powerful and believe that their dogma rules all peoples.
They are also full-throated apologists for Islam. Now it turns out that their actual knowledge about the doctrine and history of political Islam is close to zero and Muslim Brotherhood-approved, but that is no problem. The Establishment just says that those who find fault with Islam are bigots and that they hate us.
The silence of the pulpits is the greatest aider and abettor of Islam in the U.S. No one serves and advances Islam better than the silent ministers. They have abandoned their duty of courage in the face of persecution, but the rest of the flock still looks for moral leadership from them. Islam triumphs when Christian leaders do not condemn the murderous evil of political Islam.
Even worse than the silent ministers are those who go to "interfaith dialogs" and smile while the Muslims assert religious and political dominance over them. The nice, oh so nice Christians and Jews show up to tie, while the Muslims are there to win, and they do.
Christians need to follow the example of Jesus and willingly suffer the condemnation by the Establishment and fight against the political Islam that murders Christians. Said another way, Christians should demonstrate courage and sacrifice to support their cruelly murdered brothers and sisters.
We cannot defeat political Islam until we get Christian boots on the ground. Do the math. The pulpits must become a source of courage and knowledge and stand up for Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and all others who suffer under Islam's persecution today and who have suffered for the last 1,400 years.
It isn't just about religion; it is about the survival of our civilization.
Bill Warner is the director of the Center for the Study of Political Islam. www.politicalislam.com; bw@politicalislam.com
UN Troops In The USA
Patriots,
The video below provides proof that UN troops are in the U.S.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sTMq0C0OKNg
The video below provides proof that UN troops are in the U.S.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sTMq0C0OKNg
Linkage Hurricane Isaac And Israel
DON'T MESS WITH GOD'S LAND
Republicans announced Saturday that they had effectively canceled the first day of its convention for safety concerns associated with an impending hurricane.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said "the Republican National Convention will convene on Monday August 27th and immediately recess until Tuesday afternoon, August 28th."
That move essentially postpones the activities of the first of four scheduled days of the convention.
Romney will now be formally nominated as the Republican Party's presidential candidate on Tuesday instead of Monday.
Have you noticed the name of the hurricane (Isaac) threatening to disrupt the Republican convention in Tampa, Florida?
Also have you noticed that the Republican platform calls for a two-state solution that creates a "Palestinian" state out of GOD's land ISRAEL?
ISAAC means "LAUGHTER" in Hebrew
Psa 2:4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.(mocking them)
Psa 37:13 The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.
Psa 59:8 But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.
God is warning us..... 'Woe unto you America'... if you continue against MY PEOPLE!
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.
The believers SOLUTION
2Ch 7:14 If my people (the authentic Body of Christ), which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Zec 12:3 "And it will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who lift it will be severely injured. And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it.
http://grassrootconservative.blogspot.com/2009/03/veil-of-holy-spirit-part-i.html (Part 1)
http://grassrootconservative.blogspot.com/2009/03/veil-of-holy-spirit-part-ii.html (Part 2)
The prophetic nature of the Japan earthquake
On March 1 of this year the Palestinian National Authority announced that it had signed an agreement with Japan to provide $32.5 million for a project of treating waste water in the Palestinian-occupied town of Jericho. It was reported as one of the biggest projects aided by Japan in the Palestinian territories to supply industrial areas with water. The PNA noted in the announcement that since 1993, Japan had given the PNA more than a billion dollars, including $40 million in developing the Jordan Valley area in the West Bank. The PNA said that the agreement is "vital, strategic and important to help the PNA finalize building the institutions of the future Palestinian state."
Japan is instrumental in helping build out a Palestinian state on the West Bank (traditional lands of Judea and Samaria), yet is critical and demanding of Israel for building housing units for its own citizens. On January 11 this year, Japan's Foreign Ministry said the following, "condemns the demolishing of a part of the Shepherd's Hotel in East Jerusalem with a view to constructing new housing units for Jewish people."
A month later on February 10, Japan's Foreign Ministry said Israel's plan to build housing unites for "Jewish people in Sheih Jarrah of East Jerusalem" is against efforts of the international community to resume peace negotiations. A month later, Japan was hit with the worst earthquake in its recorded history.
As you all know the earthquake in Japan caused tsunami flooding in industrial areas, and the money Japan gave to the Palestinians was for waste water treatment to supply water to industrial areas of a new Palestinian State.
The United States also is guilty of giving billions of dollars to the Palestinians over the years. And the current US president is condemning the Israeli home building as well.
Keep in mind that Japan's fault-line is part of the infamous "ring of fire" where about 90% of the world's earthquakes occur. This includes the entire Pacific coast of America.
Zechariah 2:8 says of Zion, "for he that touches you touches the apple of Lord's eye." So what nation or region is next to get hit on the "ring of fire"?
EGYPT & LIBYA
Ezekiel 30 talks of how "even as the day of the Lord is near" Egypt's "foundations shall be broken down," and Libya, "and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword." America was instrumental in bringing this about.
Let's look at a few of the events over the past decade. Bill Clinton attempted to divide the Holy City of Jerusalem. In January 2001, Clinton almost gave the PLO everything it wanted, including 98 percent of the territory of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, nearly all of East Jerusalem, Palestinian sovereignty over the Temple Mount, conceding only the right of Jews to pray there, and a compensation fund of $30 billion. Look at what has happened to us and the world since Clinton tried to divide Jerusalem.
September 11, 2001: The worst terrorist attack in America's history was waged on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and Washington, DC claiming 2,973 lives. Radical Islam declared this attack was against the "Crusaders and Jews."
March 1, 2002: The U.S. invaded Afghanistan with Operation Anaconda our invasion continues as I write this article. The death toll of U.S. soldiers is 1,519.
March 20, 2003: The U.S. went to war against ancient Babylon (Iraq.) The latest death toll is 4,363.
December 26, 2004: An earthquake, magnitude between 9.1 and 9.3 sent a terrible tsunami crashing into countries bordering the Indian Ocean taking almost 230,000 lives.
August 29, 2005: Hurricane Katrina hit the southern coast of the U.S. killing almost 1,800 and causing more than $81 billion in damages.
December 2007: The U.S. and the world entered a major recession with untold home foreclosures and bank closures. As of November 18, 2009 the national debt had reached $12 trillion.
January 12, 2009: A massive earthquake struck the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince killing 250,000.
February 27, 2010: An 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit Chile killing at least 800.
April 14, 2010: A 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit China. At least 400 were killed and 10,000 injured.
3-11-11: A massive earthquake registering 9.0 hit Japan. It was followed by a tsunami and a nuclear crisis unlike anything since Chernobyl in April 1986.
In September 2011, the Quartet (the EU, the UN, Russia, and the United States) plans to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital. If the United States votes in favor of this move, it will pass and God help us because read what Zechariah prophesied below.
Zechariah 14:12 says: "And this shall be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet; their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets; and their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths."
This aptly describes a nuclear war. The Good News is that this is a sign to the believer that Jesus is coming soon.
Jesus said in John 14:27: "Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." In verse 3 of that same chapter,He explained why we should not allow our hearts to be overcome with fear: "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, [there] ye may be also.
World events are Matthew 24 knocking at the door.
Yeshua prophesied almost 40 years before it happened that the Temple would be taken apart stone by stone and mass deception would overtake the world just before His return. Great leaders would deceive the people claiming to be followers of Christ. He prophesied that kingdoms would rise up against kingdoms. The only kingdoms left worldwide are the kingdoms in the Middle East.
Jesus also predicted famines, pestilence, and earthquakes in diverse places. When His disciples asked when He would return, He admonished them not to be troubled. In John 14:27, Jesus said, "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world gives, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."
Yeshua wants us to live our lives in the light of eternity and touch things beyond the grave, to run the race to the finish line like Saul/Paul said. What we do can then have eternal significance and echo throughout eternity. The good news is that these are signs Jesus is coming soon.
II Thessalonians 2:1 says it precisely: "Now we beseech you brethren by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and by our gathering together unto him."
The word "coming" in the Greek is parousia or presence. It means "presence of the Lord." Yes, it is the strong presence you felt when you were gloriously saved. It is the presence you feel when you pray and worship Him. But, the presence you will feel when He appears will be thousands of times greater. The Greek word for "gathering" is episynagogue. It means to "collect or quickly collect."
Consider Ephesians 1:13: "In whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise."
When the Lamb of God was sacrificed on the cross, God didn't examine the man; He examined the Lamb and the blood that was shed for you and for me. When He did so, God put his seal of approval upon it and upon everyone who has been washed in the precious blood of the Lamb.
The word "seal" comes from the Greek sphragizo. Seals were used to guarantee that packages had not been opened by an unauthorized person. A seal would be placed upon a package to indicate it was complete. If there was a defect, a seal was not adhered to the package. The seal was proof that the product was impeccable. The seal bore the insignia of the person guaranteeing the package. It meant that the weight of that person's office was behind the package and was to be treated with the utmost care.
Hot wax was poured onto the string that bound the package, and then the sender's insignia was stamped into the wax leaving a visible and distinctive mark. The seal guaranteed the package had arrived unopened.
When the Bible says you have been sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, it means there is nothing incomplete or defective about you ... because of the blood of the Lamb. He has placed His seal upon your heart. To be sealed with God's presence means you are "God approved." You've been inspected, approved, endorsed, and notarized by the Holy Spirit. You are the property of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The revelation in this is that the presence of the Lord will be manifested at His soon return. He will collect the Presence of the Lord within you. You are part of a glorious church, without spot or wrinkle, washed in the blood of the Lamb--not because of who you are, but because of who HE is. This is why He says, "When you see these things, lift up your head."
Friends, when you see these things LOOK UP! "Lift up your head for your redemption draws nigh." (Luke 21:28) The prophecies of the Bible declare that "in the twinkling of an eye, we shall not all sleep, but we shall be changed."
Soon, and very soon, you will look into the eastern sky and witness the greatest event in the history of mankind. You will hear the shout of an archangel and a heavenly choir will offer praise to the returning King. The trumpet will sound, and the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, the Eternal Prince of Peace, will suddenly appear. Marble mausoleums will rip like tissue paper, and every grave on earth that holds the remains of the righteous will split open. Decaying bodies will be changed in the twinkling of an eye, and gravity will lose its hold as the resurrection saints will soar into the heavens to meet the Savior in the air. BEAM US UP YESHUA! You, in your glorified body, will enter the Pearly Gates of Heaven to be welcomed by the cheers of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
You will see Moses who stretched forth his hand to divide the sea. You'll see John the Revelator who declared on Patmos that he saw the Lord in the midst of seven golden candlesticks. You will see your departed loved ones and friends who knew the Lord. Most importantly, you will see Yeshua.
Republicans announced Saturday that they had effectively canceled the first day of its convention for safety concerns associated with an impending hurricane.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said "the Republican National Convention will convene on Monday August 27th and immediately recess until Tuesday afternoon, August 28th."
That move essentially postpones the activities of the first of four scheduled days of the convention.
Romney will now be formally nominated as the Republican Party's presidential candidate on Tuesday instead of Monday.
Have you noticed the name of the hurricane (Isaac) threatening to disrupt the Republican convention in Tampa, Florida?
Also have you noticed that the Republican platform calls for a two-state solution that creates a "Palestinian" state out of GOD's land ISRAEL?
ISAAC means "LAUGHTER" in Hebrew
Psa 2:4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.(mocking them)
Psa 37:13 The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.
Psa 59:8 But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.
God is warning us..... 'Woe unto you America'... if you continue against MY PEOPLE!
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.
The believers SOLUTION
2Ch 7:14 If my people (the authentic Body of Christ), which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Zec 12:3 "And it will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who lift it will be severely injured. And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it.
http://grassrootconservative.blogspot.com/2009/03/veil-of-holy-spirit-part-i.html (Part 1)
http://grassrootconservative.blogspot.com/2009/03/veil-of-holy-spirit-part-ii.html (Part 2)
The prophetic nature of the Japan earthquake
On March 1 of this year the Palestinian National Authority announced that it had signed an agreement with Japan to provide $32.5 million for a project of treating waste water in the Palestinian-occupied town of Jericho. It was reported as one of the biggest projects aided by Japan in the Palestinian territories to supply industrial areas with water. The PNA noted in the announcement that since 1993, Japan had given the PNA more than a billion dollars, including $40 million in developing the Jordan Valley area in the West Bank. The PNA said that the agreement is "vital, strategic and important to help the PNA finalize building the institutions of the future Palestinian state."
Japan is instrumental in helping build out a Palestinian state on the West Bank (traditional lands of Judea and Samaria), yet is critical and demanding of Israel for building housing units for its own citizens. On January 11 this year, Japan's Foreign Ministry said the following, "condemns the demolishing of a part of the Shepherd's Hotel in East Jerusalem with a view to constructing new housing units for Jewish people."
A month later on February 10, Japan's Foreign Ministry said Israel's plan to build housing unites for "Jewish people in Sheih Jarrah of East Jerusalem" is against efforts of the international community to resume peace negotiations. A month later, Japan was hit with the worst earthquake in its recorded history.
As you all know the earthquake in Japan caused tsunami flooding in industrial areas, and the money Japan gave to the Palestinians was for waste water treatment to supply water to industrial areas of a new Palestinian State.
The United States also is guilty of giving billions of dollars to the Palestinians over the years. And the current US president is condemning the Israeli home building as well.
Keep in mind that Japan's fault-line is part of the infamous "ring of fire" where about 90% of the world's earthquakes occur. This includes the entire Pacific coast of America.
Zechariah 2:8 says of Zion, "for he that touches you touches the apple of Lord's eye." So what nation or region is next to get hit on the "ring of fire"?
EGYPT & LIBYA
Ezekiel 30 talks of how "even as the day of the Lord is near" Egypt's "foundations shall be broken down," and Libya, "and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword." America was instrumental in bringing this about.
Let's look at a few of the events over the past decade. Bill Clinton attempted to divide the Holy City of Jerusalem. In January 2001, Clinton almost gave the PLO everything it wanted, including 98 percent of the territory of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, nearly all of East Jerusalem, Palestinian sovereignty over the Temple Mount, conceding only the right of Jews to pray there, and a compensation fund of $30 billion. Look at what has happened to us and the world since Clinton tried to divide Jerusalem.
September 11, 2001: The worst terrorist attack in America's history was waged on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and Washington, DC claiming 2,973 lives. Radical Islam declared this attack was against the "Crusaders and Jews."
March 1, 2002: The U.S. invaded Afghanistan with Operation Anaconda our invasion continues as I write this article. The death toll of U.S. soldiers is 1,519.
March 20, 2003: The U.S. went to war against ancient Babylon (Iraq.) The latest death toll is 4,363.
December 26, 2004: An earthquake, magnitude between 9.1 and 9.3 sent a terrible tsunami crashing into countries bordering the Indian Ocean taking almost 230,000 lives.
August 29, 2005: Hurricane Katrina hit the southern coast of the U.S. killing almost 1,800 and causing more than $81 billion in damages.
December 2007: The U.S. and the world entered a major recession with untold home foreclosures and bank closures. As of November 18, 2009 the national debt had reached $12 trillion.
January 12, 2009: A massive earthquake struck the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince killing 250,000.
February 27, 2010: An 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit Chile killing at least 800.
April 14, 2010: A 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit China. At least 400 were killed and 10,000 injured.
3-11-11: A massive earthquake registering 9.0 hit Japan. It was followed by a tsunami and a nuclear crisis unlike anything since Chernobyl in April 1986.
In September 2011, the Quartet (the EU, the UN, Russia, and the United States) plans to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital. If the United States votes in favor of this move, it will pass and God help us because read what Zechariah prophesied below.
Zechariah 14:12 says: "And this shall be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet; their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets; and their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths."
This aptly describes a nuclear war. The Good News is that this is a sign to the believer that Jesus is coming soon.
Jesus said in John 14:27: "Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." In verse 3 of that same chapter,He explained why we should not allow our hearts to be overcome with fear: "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, [there] ye may be also.
World events are Matthew 24 knocking at the door.
Yeshua prophesied almost 40 years before it happened that the Temple would be taken apart stone by stone and mass deception would overtake the world just before His return. Great leaders would deceive the people claiming to be followers of Christ. He prophesied that kingdoms would rise up against kingdoms. The only kingdoms left worldwide are the kingdoms in the Middle East.
Jesus also predicted famines, pestilence, and earthquakes in diverse places. When His disciples asked when He would return, He admonished them not to be troubled. In John 14:27, Jesus said, "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world gives, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."
Yeshua wants us to live our lives in the light of eternity and touch things beyond the grave, to run the race to the finish line like Saul/Paul said. What we do can then have eternal significance and echo throughout eternity. The good news is that these are signs Jesus is coming soon.
II Thessalonians 2:1 says it precisely: "Now we beseech you brethren by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and by our gathering together unto him."
The word "coming" in the Greek is parousia or presence. It means "presence of the Lord." Yes, it is the strong presence you felt when you were gloriously saved. It is the presence you feel when you pray and worship Him. But, the presence you will feel when He appears will be thousands of times greater. The Greek word for "gathering" is episynagogue. It means to "collect or quickly collect."
Consider Ephesians 1:13: "In whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise."
When the Lamb of God was sacrificed on the cross, God didn't examine the man; He examined the Lamb and the blood that was shed for you and for me. When He did so, God put his seal of approval upon it and upon everyone who has been washed in the precious blood of the Lamb.
The word "seal" comes from the Greek sphragizo. Seals were used to guarantee that packages had not been opened by an unauthorized person. A seal would be placed upon a package to indicate it was complete. If there was a defect, a seal was not adhered to the package. The seal was proof that the product was impeccable. The seal bore the insignia of the person guaranteeing the package. It meant that the weight of that person's office was behind the package and was to be treated with the utmost care.
Hot wax was poured onto the string that bound the package, and then the sender's insignia was stamped into the wax leaving a visible and distinctive mark. The seal guaranteed the package had arrived unopened.
When the Bible says you have been sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, it means there is nothing incomplete or defective about you ... because of the blood of the Lamb. He has placed His seal upon your heart. To be sealed with God's presence means you are "God approved." You've been inspected, approved, endorsed, and notarized by the Holy Spirit. You are the property of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The revelation in this is that the presence of the Lord will be manifested at His soon return. He will collect the Presence of the Lord within you. You are part of a glorious church, without spot or wrinkle, washed in the blood of the Lamb--not because of who you are, but because of who HE is. This is why He says, "When you see these things, lift up your head."
Friends, when you see these things LOOK UP! "Lift up your head for your redemption draws nigh." (Luke 21:28) The prophecies of the Bible declare that "in the twinkling of an eye, we shall not all sleep, but we shall be changed."
Soon, and very soon, you will look into the eastern sky and witness the greatest event in the history of mankind. You will hear the shout of an archangel and a heavenly choir will offer praise to the returning King. The trumpet will sound, and the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, the Eternal Prince of Peace, will suddenly appear. Marble mausoleums will rip like tissue paper, and every grave on earth that holds the remains of the righteous will split open. Decaying bodies will be changed in the twinkling of an eye, and gravity will lose its hold as the resurrection saints will soar into the heavens to meet the Savior in the air. BEAM US UP YESHUA! You, in your glorified body, will enter the Pearly Gates of Heaven to be welcomed by the cheers of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
You will see Moses who stretched forth his hand to divide the sea. You'll see John the Revelator who declared on Patmos that he saw the Lord in the midst of seven golden candlesticks. You will see your departed loved ones and friends who knew the Lord. Most importantly, you will see Yeshua.
Middle East/Persian Update And "End Times" News
Now to today’s Bible message. Jesus set us free from many things that had held mankind in bondage since the beginning of time. Chief among these are the bondage of sin and its eternal consequences, and the constant fear that we’re not living up to the requirements of God’s Law. In Romans 8:1-2 Paul said, “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.”
God also freed us from the routine worries of our life. In the gospel Matthew Chap 6 verses 31-33 God says, “So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well”
Compared to the requirements of the Old Testament, the New Testament is the most liberating message man has ever received. I say this as a lead in to the following comments. No one can come to the Lord except through his Son Jesus Christ. Mary, Jesus’ mother is not the key to salvation. Mary was a great woman but not the mediator between Jesus and His Father. In short, the worship of Mary is false doctrine and can get in the way of your salvation and redemption.
There are similarities between Islamic prophecies of an end times leader they call the Mahdi and Biblical prophecies about the one we call the anti-Christ. In their respective prophecies they’re both said to come on the scene during a time of great turmoil on Earth, both will claim a desire to restore peace, both have a seven year reign, both head a one world religion and one world government, both claim supernatural origins, and both reigns end in a battle between good and evil that brings Earth’s final judgment.
It’s estimated that today about 40% of all Muslims believe the Mahdi will appear during their lifetime, and a large number of Christians believe the anti-Christ is already alive and well on Planet Earth, to be revealed at the proper time. These similarities are remarkable and defy coincidence. It’s as if the Islamic and Biblical prophecies are describing the same person, and frankly, I think they may be.
But when it comes to the make up of the “End Times” Empire there are good arguments for both the Roman view and the Islamic view.
We’ve seen that the prophecies of Daniel 2 and Daniel 7 identify only four world governments from Daniel’s day to the Second Coming, and Babylon was obviously the first. Daniel 8 names the second and third Kingdoms as Medo-Persia and then Greece. Rev. 17:9-10 appears to make Rome, the ruling kingdom of John’s day, the fourth and final one, so it will have to re-emerge in some form in the last days.
I’ve reconciled a revived Roman Empire with an end times Islamic Caliphate in previous programs by showing that the eastern leg of the Roman Empire covered an area that’s largely Islamic today, and its capitol was Constantinople, now called Istanbul, which like Rome is a city on seven hills.
But I’ve often wondered if either a revived Roman Empire or an Islamic Caliphate can unite all the world’s religions peacefully, as prophecies in Daniel 8:25 and 1 Thes. 5:3 indicate, without some major supernatural help. And yet Rev. 13:8 says all the inhabitants of Earth who don’t believe in Jesus will worship the anti-Christ. That includes people from every ethnic and religious persuasion. How can this be made to happen?
Prophetic scriptures offer a hint for us. In 2 Thes. 2:10-11 God says He will send those who have refused to love the truth and be saved a powerful delusion so that they will believe “the lie” instead. I think the lie will be that the anti-Christ is God’s chosen one, and I think the powerful delusion that will unite the post rapture world behind him will appear in the form of a woman.
Queen Of Rome
There is a book called “Queen Of All” that was written by Jim Tetlow, Roger Oakland, and Brad Myers. It’s about apparitions that claim to be Mary, Christ’s mother. It documents the thousands of appearances she’s made in all parts of the world to many different religious groups, calling for unity among the religions of the world.
According to the book, witnesses describe her as a living, breathing three dimensional woman, young and beautiful, and enveloped in exquisite light. She is often accompanied by angels, flashing lights, tongues of fire, or glowing orbs, and causes those in attendance to feel tremendous sense of pleasure and joy. Numerous healings and miracles have reportedly taken place at apparition sites around the world.
You’re probably familiar with the most famous of her appearances, those in Lourdes (France), Fatima (Portugal), Medjugorie (Bosnia), and Guadalupe (Mexico). These Marian shrines receive over 30 million visitors every year. The resulting “Marian movement” in the Catholic church has untold millions of members, including many bishops and cardinals, and one fourth of the entire Catholic priesthood. Several popes claim to have been guided by her supernatural influence. Marian historians say these appearances have been taking place for centuries but never with the consistency and frequency as is happening in our day.
For example, in the US almost every state has reported at least one. In a 1997 cover story Newsweek magazine claimed, “In many ways the 20th Century has belonged to Mary.” A leading French periodical once estimated there were 21,000 Marian visits during a 10 year period between 1976 and 1987. France alone has 937 pilgrimage shrines and Italy has over 1500. Marian sightings have also been reported in such diverse places as Japan, Africa, Korea, Australia, Iraq, Israel, Egypt, Syria, Russia, India, and Ireland, and in every case she has reportedly identified herself as Mary, the Queen of Heaven, Our Lady.
Mary claims not to have revealed her full glory to the world, but that soon she will be seen by every denomination and religion through out the world.
Queen Of Islam
In one visit a Marian apparition said, “The Muslims and the Orthodox for the same reason as the Catholics are equal before my son and I. You are all my children.” I want to make it clear that her son is not our Lord, Jesus Christ, Yeshua Hamshiach.
A Marian apparition made several appearances each week at a Coptic Orthodox Church in Zeitoun Egypt, a suburb of Cairo, over a period of time between 1968 and 1973. Millions of Muslims, Copts, Catholics, Protestants and others heard her say her mission is to establish unity among the nations. Hundreds of spontaneous healings accompanied these appearances.
Did you know that Muslims call Mary “Our Lady” just like Catholics do? Did you know she’s mentioned 34 times in the Koran and that the 19th surah in the Koran is named after her? Or that both Islamic and Roman Catholic doctrine hold that Allah and the God of the Bible are the same? Or that because of this, Catholic Catechism teaches that followers of both religions are included in God’s plan of salvation? Or that several Catholic officials have claimed that one day the two religions will unite because of Mary’s influence on both?
Based on these facts, it’s not difficult to see how the two major views of the End Times Empire could be reconciled to each other after the Church is gone. But that still doesn’t address the issue of the Eastern religions. What about them?
Queen Of The East
The eastern religions have many gods and goddesses, but it seems that each one has a special goddess that Catholic Bishop Fulton Sheen compared to Mary. Bishop Sheen cited Kwan-yin the Chinese goddess of mercy as one, and Japan’s version known as Kwanon as another. Others have named the savior-goddess Tara of Tibetan Buddhism, and the Taoist goddess called “the Queen Mother of the West” as likely eastern versions of Mary.
On the New Age side of the Eastern religions, it has been noted that the emergence of the “divine feminine” or female personality of God in western thinking has been recognized in the eastern religions for thousands of years. One author said, “Those who know only the Christian tradition have no idea how deep the roots of Mary go or how prayers to her echo the prayers to ancient goddesses from time immemorial. People pray to Mary as they once did to Ishtar, Hathor, and Isis.” After all the term Queen of Heaven did not originate with Mary, but with Semeramis, the wife of Nimrod and mother of all pagan religions.
Queen Of All
Advocates of Marianism assert that at the appropriate time Mary will appear in various forms all over the world, each form chosen to be most meaningful to a particular audience. But her message to all will be the same. “There is only one fold and only one shepherd.” Her mission is to bring everyone together into that one fold to be guided by her son, the only shepherd.
(This is just a glimpse at the documented claims made in this book. If you’re interested in more you can order it from Amazon.com. Type Queen of All by Jim Tetlow in Amazon’s search box.)
The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness (2 Thes. 2:9-12).
The foregoing gives us a hint that the powerful delusion Paul spoke of might be someone claiming to be Mary. She could be instrumental in persuading the whole world to come together in unity to worship the one she calls her son, fulfilling Rev. 13:8. Whether they’re Islamic, Catholic, Protestant, New Age, or Eastern, she’ll resonate with all of them.
Because of what they’ll believe to be miraculous signs that accompany her visits and the promise of peace she brings, the world will respond joyously, and through her the anti-Christ will be given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation for a time (Rev. 13:7). His Empire will be world wide, fulfilling all the prophetic requirements of the end times kingdom, and people everywhere will think that peace has finally come.
This will be the work of the devil, but it will accomplish God’s purpose. From Daniel 2:41-44 we see that this Empire will not remain united. The core differences of its many people will be too great for even Satan to overcome, and he’ll have to resort to force to hold it together.
Once God’s purpose in allowing it to exist has been fulfilled, God will set up His own kingdom that will crush all four of the Kingdoms of Gentile Dominion and bring them to an end. His kingdom will never be destroyed nor will it be left to another people, but will endure forever.
So we’ve seen that both the Roman and Islamic views have good points in their favor, but in the end each falls short of fulfilling all the prophecies of Daniel’s 4th Kingdom on its own. Only a combination of the two will suffice. Perhaps the Marian apparition has been brought to Earth for the specific purpose of tying them together. If so it’s another sign that the End of the Age is upon us. You can almost hear the footsteps of the Messiah. 08-18-12
The United States is experiencing one of the biggest outbreaks of West Nile virus in history. 1,118 cases of the mosquito-borne disease had been reported. That's the highest number ever reported at this point in the year since the disease was first detected in the U.S. in 1999. If cases continue to grow at this pace, the West Nile outbreak could be the largest ever in the United States. So far, 41 people have died from West Nile infections. Texas is the state hit hardest by the outbreak, has reported 537 cases of West Nile.
Now to your Middle East/Persia Update. It is only a matter of time before Christians will be crucified in Egypt. They are to be crucified or beheaded according to the Koran--Sura 5:33: "Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land." One is considered waging war against Allah if one disagrees with the Islamic leadership--a mixture of government, religion and military.
There are many verses in the Koran that instruct Muslims to kill Christians and Jews. Islam is not a peaceful religion. It is an antichrist system. 2 John 7 says, "For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist." The Koran specifically says that Allah has no son. Koran Sura 23:91 says, "Never has Allah begotten a son, nor is there any other god besides Him." Our government now supports the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood's goal is to establish global Islamic rule. Muslims believe the Mahdi of Islam will return and establish the peace of Islam on earth for seven years.
The Israelis have told Obama they will not attack Iran before the Nov. 6 US presidential election if the US pledges to strike Iran next spring and gives Israel major weapons upgrades. Obama and Netanyahu will meet in September
Russian Vice Adm. Chirkov said that the personnel on duty at the Syrian port of Tartus would be evacuated in the event of a hostile attack. But this would require a direct presidential order.
In the Sinai Israel has asked the Obama administration to intervene with Cairo to remove Egyptian tanks deployed in Sinai without permission, violating the 1979 treaty. This issue has become tangled up in broader issues: President Mohamed Morsi says that substantial US economic aid is the key to the tanks’ removal. Morsi, in essence is extorting money from the U.S. in return for removing the tanks.
Israel has deployed Iron Dome in Eilat after two Grad missiles from Sinai exploded there. Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist terrorist cells in Sinai threaten to go on the offensive against Eilat and other parts of southern Israel unless the Egyptians discontinue their police raids and arrests of suspected terrorists in Sinai.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of Iran had ordered Qassem Soleimani, the Qods Force commander, to activate Unit 400. Unit 400 conducts overseas operations. Khamenei has ordered strikes against “America, the Zionists, Britain, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
God also freed us from the routine worries of our life. In the gospel Matthew Chap 6 verses 31-33 God says, “So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well”
Compared to the requirements of the Old Testament, the New Testament is the most liberating message man has ever received. I say this as a lead in to the following comments. No one can come to the Lord except through his Son Jesus Christ. Mary, Jesus’ mother is not the key to salvation. Mary was a great woman but not the mediator between Jesus and His Father. In short, the worship of Mary is false doctrine and can get in the way of your salvation and redemption.
There are similarities between Islamic prophecies of an end times leader they call the Mahdi and Biblical prophecies about the one we call the anti-Christ. In their respective prophecies they’re both said to come on the scene during a time of great turmoil on Earth, both will claim a desire to restore peace, both have a seven year reign, both head a one world religion and one world government, both claim supernatural origins, and both reigns end in a battle between good and evil that brings Earth’s final judgment.
It’s estimated that today about 40% of all Muslims believe the Mahdi will appear during their lifetime, and a large number of Christians believe the anti-Christ is already alive and well on Planet Earth, to be revealed at the proper time. These similarities are remarkable and defy coincidence. It’s as if the Islamic and Biblical prophecies are describing the same person, and frankly, I think they may be.
But when it comes to the make up of the “End Times” Empire there are good arguments for both the Roman view and the Islamic view.
We’ve seen that the prophecies of Daniel 2 and Daniel 7 identify only four world governments from Daniel’s day to the Second Coming, and Babylon was obviously the first. Daniel 8 names the second and third Kingdoms as Medo-Persia and then Greece. Rev. 17:9-10 appears to make Rome, the ruling kingdom of John’s day, the fourth and final one, so it will have to re-emerge in some form in the last days.
I’ve reconciled a revived Roman Empire with an end times Islamic Caliphate in previous programs by showing that the eastern leg of the Roman Empire covered an area that’s largely Islamic today, and its capitol was Constantinople, now called Istanbul, which like Rome is a city on seven hills.
But I’ve often wondered if either a revived Roman Empire or an Islamic Caliphate can unite all the world’s religions peacefully, as prophecies in Daniel 8:25 and 1 Thes. 5:3 indicate, without some major supernatural help. And yet Rev. 13:8 says all the inhabitants of Earth who don’t believe in Jesus will worship the anti-Christ. That includes people from every ethnic and religious persuasion. How can this be made to happen?
Prophetic scriptures offer a hint for us. In 2 Thes. 2:10-11 God says He will send those who have refused to love the truth and be saved a powerful delusion so that they will believe “the lie” instead. I think the lie will be that the anti-Christ is God’s chosen one, and I think the powerful delusion that will unite the post rapture world behind him will appear in the form of a woman.
Queen Of Rome
There is a book called “Queen Of All” that was written by Jim Tetlow, Roger Oakland, and Brad Myers. It’s about apparitions that claim to be Mary, Christ’s mother. It documents the thousands of appearances she’s made in all parts of the world to many different religious groups, calling for unity among the religions of the world.
According to the book, witnesses describe her as a living, breathing three dimensional woman, young and beautiful, and enveloped in exquisite light. She is often accompanied by angels, flashing lights, tongues of fire, or glowing orbs, and causes those in attendance to feel tremendous sense of pleasure and joy. Numerous healings and miracles have reportedly taken place at apparition sites around the world.
You’re probably familiar with the most famous of her appearances, those in Lourdes (France), Fatima (Portugal), Medjugorie (Bosnia), and Guadalupe (Mexico). These Marian shrines receive over 30 million visitors every year. The resulting “Marian movement” in the Catholic church has untold millions of members, including many bishops and cardinals, and one fourth of the entire Catholic priesthood. Several popes claim to have been guided by her supernatural influence. Marian historians say these appearances have been taking place for centuries but never with the consistency and frequency as is happening in our day.
For example, in the US almost every state has reported at least one. In a 1997 cover story Newsweek magazine claimed, “In many ways the 20th Century has belonged to Mary.” A leading French periodical once estimated there were 21,000 Marian visits during a 10 year period between 1976 and 1987. France alone has 937 pilgrimage shrines and Italy has over 1500. Marian sightings have also been reported in such diverse places as Japan, Africa, Korea, Australia, Iraq, Israel, Egypt, Syria, Russia, India, and Ireland, and in every case she has reportedly identified herself as Mary, the Queen of Heaven, Our Lady.
Mary claims not to have revealed her full glory to the world, but that soon she will be seen by every denomination and religion through out the world.
Queen Of Islam
In one visit a Marian apparition said, “The Muslims and the Orthodox for the same reason as the Catholics are equal before my son and I. You are all my children.” I want to make it clear that her son is not our Lord, Jesus Christ, Yeshua Hamshiach.
A Marian apparition made several appearances each week at a Coptic Orthodox Church in Zeitoun Egypt, a suburb of Cairo, over a period of time between 1968 and 1973. Millions of Muslims, Copts, Catholics, Protestants and others heard her say her mission is to establish unity among the nations. Hundreds of spontaneous healings accompanied these appearances.
Did you know that Muslims call Mary “Our Lady” just like Catholics do? Did you know she’s mentioned 34 times in the Koran and that the 19th surah in the Koran is named after her? Or that both Islamic and Roman Catholic doctrine hold that Allah and the God of the Bible are the same? Or that because of this, Catholic Catechism teaches that followers of both religions are included in God’s plan of salvation? Or that several Catholic officials have claimed that one day the two religions will unite because of Mary’s influence on both?
Based on these facts, it’s not difficult to see how the two major views of the End Times Empire could be reconciled to each other after the Church is gone. But that still doesn’t address the issue of the Eastern religions. What about them?
Queen Of The East
The eastern religions have many gods and goddesses, but it seems that each one has a special goddess that Catholic Bishop Fulton Sheen compared to Mary. Bishop Sheen cited Kwan-yin the Chinese goddess of mercy as one, and Japan’s version known as Kwanon as another. Others have named the savior-goddess Tara of Tibetan Buddhism, and the Taoist goddess called “the Queen Mother of the West” as likely eastern versions of Mary.
On the New Age side of the Eastern religions, it has been noted that the emergence of the “divine feminine” or female personality of God in western thinking has been recognized in the eastern religions for thousands of years. One author said, “Those who know only the Christian tradition have no idea how deep the roots of Mary go or how prayers to her echo the prayers to ancient goddesses from time immemorial. People pray to Mary as they once did to Ishtar, Hathor, and Isis.” After all the term Queen of Heaven did not originate with Mary, but with Semeramis, the wife of Nimrod and mother of all pagan religions.
Queen Of All
Advocates of Marianism assert that at the appropriate time Mary will appear in various forms all over the world, each form chosen to be most meaningful to a particular audience. But her message to all will be the same. “There is only one fold and only one shepherd.” Her mission is to bring everyone together into that one fold to be guided by her son, the only shepherd.
(This is just a glimpse at the documented claims made in this book. If you’re interested in more you can order it from Amazon.com. Type Queen of All by Jim Tetlow in Amazon’s search box.)
The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness (2 Thes. 2:9-12).
The foregoing gives us a hint that the powerful delusion Paul spoke of might be someone claiming to be Mary. She could be instrumental in persuading the whole world to come together in unity to worship the one she calls her son, fulfilling Rev. 13:8. Whether they’re Islamic, Catholic, Protestant, New Age, or Eastern, she’ll resonate with all of them.
Because of what they’ll believe to be miraculous signs that accompany her visits and the promise of peace she brings, the world will respond joyously, and through her the anti-Christ will be given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation for a time (Rev. 13:7). His Empire will be world wide, fulfilling all the prophetic requirements of the end times kingdom, and people everywhere will think that peace has finally come.
This will be the work of the devil, but it will accomplish God’s purpose. From Daniel 2:41-44 we see that this Empire will not remain united. The core differences of its many people will be too great for even Satan to overcome, and he’ll have to resort to force to hold it together.
Once God’s purpose in allowing it to exist has been fulfilled, God will set up His own kingdom that will crush all four of the Kingdoms of Gentile Dominion and bring them to an end. His kingdom will never be destroyed nor will it be left to another people, but will endure forever.
So we’ve seen that both the Roman and Islamic views have good points in their favor, but in the end each falls short of fulfilling all the prophecies of Daniel’s 4th Kingdom on its own. Only a combination of the two will suffice. Perhaps the Marian apparition has been brought to Earth for the specific purpose of tying them together. If so it’s another sign that the End of the Age is upon us. You can almost hear the footsteps of the Messiah. 08-18-12
The United States is experiencing one of the biggest outbreaks of West Nile virus in history. 1,118 cases of the mosquito-borne disease had been reported. That's the highest number ever reported at this point in the year since the disease was first detected in the U.S. in 1999. If cases continue to grow at this pace, the West Nile outbreak could be the largest ever in the United States. So far, 41 people have died from West Nile infections. Texas is the state hit hardest by the outbreak, has reported 537 cases of West Nile.
Now to your Middle East/Persia Update. It is only a matter of time before Christians will be crucified in Egypt. They are to be crucified or beheaded according to the Koran--Sura 5:33: "Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land." One is considered waging war against Allah if one disagrees with the Islamic leadership--a mixture of government, religion and military.
There are many verses in the Koran that instruct Muslims to kill Christians and Jews. Islam is not a peaceful religion. It is an antichrist system. 2 John 7 says, "For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist." The Koran specifically says that Allah has no son. Koran Sura 23:91 says, "Never has Allah begotten a son, nor is there any other god besides Him." Our government now supports the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood's goal is to establish global Islamic rule. Muslims believe the Mahdi of Islam will return and establish the peace of Islam on earth for seven years.
The Israelis have told Obama they will not attack Iran before the Nov. 6 US presidential election if the US pledges to strike Iran next spring and gives Israel major weapons upgrades. Obama and Netanyahu will meet in September
Russian Vice Adm. Chirkov said that the personnel on duty at the Syrian port of Tartus would be evacuated in the event of a hostile attack. But this would require a direct presidential order.
In the Sinai Israel has asked the Obama administration to intervene with Cairo to remove Egyptian tanks deployed in Sinai without permission, violating the 1979 treaty. This issue has become tangled up in broader issues: President Mohamed Morsi says that substantial US economic aid is the key to the tanks’ removal. Morsi, in essence is extorting money from the U.S. in return for removing the tanks.
Israel has deployed Iron Dome in Eilat after two Grad missiles from Sinai exploded there. Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist terrorist cells in Sinai threaten to go on the offensive against Eilat and other parts of southern Israel unless the Egyptians discontinue their police raids and arrests of suspected terrorists in Sinai.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of Iran had ordered Qassem Soleimani, the Qods Force commander, to activate Unit 400. Unit 400 conducts overseas operations. Khamenei has ordered strikes against “America, the Zionists, Britain, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
The College Of The Ozarks And Masonry
The article below is very interesting.
http://fanaticforjesus.blogspot.com/2012/08/college-of-ozarks-its-veiled-masonic.html
http://fanaticforjesus.blogspot.com/2012/08/college-of-ozarks-its-veiled-masonic.html
Monday, August 20, 2012
GITMO Detainee Recruits For Al Qaeda
The Sami A referenced in the article below maybe Riadh Bin Mohammed Tahir Nasseri. He as transferred to the Italian government in 2009. Below are a few of his documents from GITMO.
http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/510-mohamed-ben-riadh-nasri/documents/1
http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/510-mohamed-ben-riadh-nasri/documents/3
http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/510-mohamed-ben-riadh-nasri/documents/9
The Obama administration transferred two Tunisians to Italy, where they are expected to face prosecution on terrorism charges, according to an administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity. Adel Ben Mabrouk, 39, and Mohamed Ben Riadh Nasri, 43, were immediately taken into custody.
An Italian appeals court overturned the terrorism conviction of a Tunisian man who had spent nearly eight years in the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo, Cuba. Mohamed Ben Riadh Nasri/Nasseri, who had been convicted of terrorism association by a lower Italian court, was one of three Tunisian prisoners from Guantanamo that Italy accepted more than two years ago. Nasri’s lawyer, Roberto Novellino, said the appeals court in Milan on Monday threw out the guilty verdict and its six-year sentence, meaning his client is a free man. The court’s reasoning will be released in 30 days. A second Tunisian man who had served time at Guantánamo was released for time served and returned home, while the third remains in an Italian prison.
Those wishful-thinking diehards who believe Europe will eventually come to its senses regarding its security interests and reverse its suicidal tolerance of militant Islamists in its midst received a ringing slap in the face earlier this month.
The latest occurrence indicating the Old World is sliding into a bloody nightmare of Islamist violence with little desire to defend itself comes this time from Germany where news reports announced that bin Laden’s former bodyguard, who was discovered residing in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), has been busy recruiting young Muslims for the jihad. It is also believed the 36-year-old native of Tunisia, (Nasseri may actually be 46 years old.) identified in newspapers in accordance with German law only as Sami A., is responsible for having radicalized two members of the Dusseldorf terrorist cell.
An al-Qaeda affiliate, the Dusseldorf cell was broken up in April of 2011. Three Islamist cell members are currently on trial, charged with planning a bomb attack in Germany.
“We have clear indications that he [Sami A.] tried to radicalise young people with his intellectual assets,” said Ralf Jaeger, the socialist interior minister for NRW.
And as if that wasn’t enough, the news publication, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ), revealed last week that the former bin Laden employee and hardcore Salafist was actually planning to open his own mosque in Bochum, a city in NRW where he has lived the past eight years with his wife and three children. It was also WAZ investigators who revealed to the German public Sami A.’s presence in NRW and jihad recruitment activities.
The WAZ revelations, understandably, have sent shock waves across Germany. This is the country where some of the 9/11 suicide bombers lived and plotted their day of infamy against America. Due to this connection, many Germans are simply incredulous, as well as very embarrassed, that a bin Laden associate, who knew 9/11 plotters like Guantanamo prisoner Ramzi Binalshibh, was even in Germany let alone carrying on terrorist activities. WAZ states that Sami A. is “connected worldwide” to terrorist networks and also knew the terrorist who helped plan the synagogue attack on Tunisia’s Djerba island.
“In the terror scene, he is considered a bright light,” states WAZ. “Radical Islamists pay homage to him. For young people who seek direction, a person like Sami A. can be a fixture point.”
According to WAZ, Sami A. first came to Germany as a student in 1997. He travelled to Pakistan in 1999, remaining for seven months, staying also in an al-Qaeda guest house in Kandahar, where he met top al-Qaeda officials. In addition, Sami A. received 45 days of military training in an al-Qaeda camp. After returning to Germany, the al-Qaeda veteran resumed his studies, eventually moving to Bochum in 2005 to study electronics and take up jihadi activities. “The weapon,” WAZ reports, “with which he fights here (in Bochum) for the victory of radical Islam is his hero’s reputation.”
Not unexpectedly, the NRW branch of the German intelligence service responsible for keeping tabs on terrorists, the Verfassungsschutz (Germany’s FBI), is at pains to explain how a man who used to personally protect Osama bin Laden with a rocket propelled grenade launcher in Pakistan in 2000 could for years radicalise and recruit unimpeded young people for the jihad. All that a spokesman for the NRW Interior Ministry would say was that they had the dangerous Islamist in their sights since his move to Bochum.
What is perhaps even more embarrassing for the security agencies is that they apparently had no idea that Sami A. was intending to open his own mosque until a 61-year-old woman tipped them off. The former bin Laden bodyguard had set up a prayer house, also without officials knowing, in an empty building on a Bochumer street that he wanted to rebuild into a mosque, using a front man to do so. But the woman, who worked nights at a nearby residence for the mentally handicapped, informed police of, as one neighbor described them, “the Islamists who come out of the mosque sometime between midnight and two o’clock” and who were “unbearably loud.”
Bochum’s city administration did, however, try to have Sami A. deported in 2006. In March of that year an expulsion order was actually obtained against him. But an administrative court overturned the order “because of unreasonable hardships for Sami A. and his family,” although his wife and children have both Tunisian and German citizenship and his wife had lived in Tunisia from 1994 to 1999.
What must be maddening for Germans, though, is that the court did not doubt that Sami A. represented a potential terrorist threat, but still refused to have him deported. One official said, however, that the court based part of its refusal on the belief Sami A. may face torture if returned to Tunisia. But according to WAZ, the city had presented its case “so clumsily” that a rejection was the court’s only option. The matter is currently before a superior court.
The only option left for German authorities after the court decision was to somehow restrict Sami A.’s activities. He has had to report to the police every day including Sundays, but this obviously hasn’t worked. The Dusseldorfterrorist cell, according to German federal attorneyship, can thank him for recruiting two of its members.
Many Germans are probably left stunned by the fact that such a dangerous individual as Sami A., a former bin Laden bodyguard, was allowed, unknown to them, to romp about and carry on undisturbed his vicious campaign of terror and hatred that endangers them and their families. They have questions that have yet to be answered such as why was he ever allowed back into Germany after going to Afghanistan and who in the government is responsible? And where does the money come from that has supported him for so long? And was he ever in American hands?
Germans have worked hard since the Second World War to build a functioning, respected democracy and to be accepted as a member of the world community. To their credit, they have been successful in these efforts. But many ordinary Germans must regard the Sami A. case as a betrayal and weakening of that democracy and their efforts to make it work.
And not only a betrayal of German democracy. The Sami A. revelation will undoubtedly cause some Germans to believe that none of the mainstream political parties and their elites, including Germany’s ruling conservative party, are interested in protecting them and their families. They will now feel they are on their own. In defense and desperation against the growing Islamist danger and parallel society, some will undoubtedly seek options further to the political right to put a stop to the growing chaos in a country where even former bin Laden bodyguards are allowed to move around and devise terrorist plots freely.
http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/510-mohamed-ben-riadh-nasri/documents/1
http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/510-mohamed-ben-riadh-nasri/documents/3
http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/510-mohamed-ben-riadh-nasri/documents/9
The Obama administration transferred two Tunisians to Italy, where they are expected to face prosecution on terrorism charges, according to an administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity. Adel Ben Mabrouk, 39, and Mohamed Ben Riadh Nasri, 43, were immediately taken into custody.
An Italian appeals court overturned the terrorism conviction of a Tunisian man who had spent nearly eight years in the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo, Cuba. Mohamed Ben Riadh Nasri/Nasseri, who had been convicted of terrorism association by a lower Italian court, was one of three Tunisian prisoners from Guantanamo that Italy accepted more than two years ago. Nasri’s lawyer, Roberto Novellino, said the appeals court in Milan on Monday threw out the guilty verdict and its six-year sentence, meaning his client is a free man. The court’s reasoning will be released in 30 days. A second Tunisian man who had served time at Guantánamo was released for time served and returned home, while the third remains in an Italian prison.
Those wishful-thinking diehards who believe Europe will eventually come to its senses regarding its security interests and reverse its suicidal tolerance of militant Islamists in its midst received a ringing slap in the face earlier this month.
The latest occurrence indicating the Old World is sliding into a bloody nightmare of Islamist violence with little desire to defend itself comes this time from Germany where news reports announced that bin Laden’s former bodyguard, who was discovered residing in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), has been busy recruiting young Muslims for the jihad. It is also believed the 36-year-old native of Tunisia, (Nasseri may actually be 46 years old.) identified in newspapers in accordance with German law only as Sami A., is responsible for having radicalized two members of the Dusseldorf terrorist cell.
An al-Qaeda affiliate, the Dusseldorf cell was broken up in April of 2011. Three Islamist cell members are currently on trial, charged with planning a bomb attack in Germany.
“We have clear indications that he [Sami A.] tried to radicalise young people with his intellectual assets,” said Ralf Jaeger, the socialist interior minister for NRW.
And as if that wasn’t enough, the news publication, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ), revealed last week that the former bin Laden employee and hardcore Salafist was actually planning to open his own mosque in Bochum, a city in NRW where he has lived the past eight years with his wife and three children. It was also WAZ investigators who revealed to the German public Sami A.’s presence in NRW and jihad recruitment activities.
The WAZ revelations, understandably, have sent shock waves across Germany. This is the country where some of the 9/11 suicide bombers lived and plotted their day of infamy against America. Due to this connection, many Germans are simply incredulous, as well as very embarrassed, that a bin Laden associate, who knew 9/11 plotters like Guantanamo prisoner Ramzi Binalshibh, was even in Germany let alone carrying on terrorist activities. WAZ states that Sami A. is “connected worldwide” to terrorist networks and also knew the terrorist who helped plan the synagogue attack on Tunisia’s Djerba island.
“In the terror scene, he is considered a bright light,” states WAZ. “Radical Islamists pay homage to him. For young people who seek direction, a person like Sami A. can be a fixture point.”
According to WAZ, Sami A. first came to Germany as a student in 1997. He travelled to Pakistan in 1999, remaining for seven months, staying also in an al-Qaeda guest house in Kandahar, where he met top al-Qaeda officials. In addition, Sami A. received 45 days of military training in an al-Qaeda camp. After returning to Germany, the al-Qaeda veteran resumed his studies, eventually moving to Bochum in 2005 to study electronics and take up jihadi activities. “The weapon,” WAZ reports, “with which he fights here (in Bochum) for the victory of radical Islam is his hero’s reputation.”
Not unexpectedly, the NRW branch of the German intelligence service responsible for keeping tabs on terrorists, the Verfassungsschutz (Germany’s FBI), is at pains to explain how a man who used to personally protect Osama bin Laden with a rocket propelled grenade launcher in Pakistan in 2000 could for years radicalise and recruit unimpeded young people for the jihad. All that a spokesman for the NRW Interior Ministry would say was that they had the dangerous Islamist in their sights since his move to Bochum.
What is perhaps even more embarrassing for the security agencies is that they apparently had no idea that Sami A. was intending to open his own mosque until a 61-year-old woman tipped them off. The former bin Laden bodyguard had set up a prayer house, also without officials knowing, in an empty building on a Bochumer street that he wanted to rebuild into a mosque, using a front man to do so. But the woman, who worked nights at a nearby residence for the mentally handicapped, informed police of, as one neighbor described them, “the Islamists who come out of the mosque sometime between midnight and two o’clock” and who were “unbearably loud.”
Bochum’s city administration did, however, try to have Sami A. deported in 2006. In March of that year an expulsion order was actually obtained against him. But an administrative court overturned the order “because of unreasonable hardships for Sami A. and his family,” although his wife and children have both Tunisian and German citizenship and his wife had lived in Tunisia from 1994 to 1999.
What must be maddening for Germans, though, is that the court did not doubt that Sami A. represented a potential terrorist threat, but still refused to have him deported. One official said, however, that the court based part of its refusal on the belief Sami A. may face torture if returned to Tunisia. But according to WAZ, the city had presented its case “so clumsily” that a rejection was the court’s only option. The matter is currently before a superior court.
The only option left for German authorities after the court decision was to somehow restrict Sami A.’s activities. He has had to report to the police every day including Sundays, but this obviously hasn’t worked. The Dusseldorfterrorist cell, according to German federal attorneyship, can thank him for recruiting two of its members.
Many Germans are probably left stunned by the fact that such a dangerous individual as Sami A., a former bin Laden bodyguard, was allowed, unknown to them, to romp about and carry on undisturbed his vicious campaign of terror and hatred that endangers them and their families. They have questions that have yet to be answered such as why was he ever allowed back into Germany after going to Afghanistan and who in the government is responsible? And where does the money come from that has supported him for so long? And was he ever in American hands?
Germans have worked hard since the Second World War to build a functioning, respected democracy and to be accepted as a member of the world community. To their credit, they have been successful in these efforts. But many ordinary Germans must regard the Sami A. case as a betrayal and weakening of that democracy and their efforts to make it work.
And not only a betrayal of German democracy. The Sami A. revelation will undoubtedly cause some Germans to believe that none of the mainstream political parties and their elites, including Germany’s ruling conservative party, are interested in protecting them and their families. They will now feel they are on their own. In defense and desperation against the growing Islamist danger and parallel society, some will undoubtedly seek options further to the political right to put a stop to the growing chaos in a country where even former bin Laden bodyguards are allowed to move around and devise terrorist plots freely.
Leave The Stubborn Donkey Behind
Bishop E.W. Jackson Calls on Christians of All Races to Exodus from the Democrat Party
"Let God's people go!" says Bishop E.W. Jackson echoing the cry of Moses in the book of Exodus. The Bishop has begun a campaign to persuade Christians, Catholic and Protestant, of all races that the time has come for a wholesale Exodus of Christians from the Democrat Party.
He points to the Democrat Party's "cult-like devotion" to abortion; the rejection of the traditional biblical model of the family; the hostility hurled at those who express a Christian viewpoint such as Dan Cathy of Chick-Fil-A; the actions of Democrat organizations such as the ACLU and the Foundation For Freedom From Religion in suing cities and towns for displaying crosses at memorials or mentioning the name Jesus in prayer at official events.
According to Bishop Jackson, Democrat operatives are attacking Gabrielle Douglas, the 16 year old black American who won the 2012 Gold Medal in gymnastics. "The accomplished young lady had the nerve to give glory to God for her win," Jackson says. "This apparently offended liberals." Mary Elizabeth Williams, journalist for the progressive online magazine salon.com wrote, "I've often wondered what it is about Christians like Douglas that unnerves me so... Douglas and her ilk seem to espouse a faith based on what is commonly referred to as 'The God of Parking Spaces'."
"Progressives," E.W. Jackson says, "are indeed 'unnerved' by devout Christians. That's why they resort to ridicule, even of a 16 year old Olympic medal winner. Williams says we worship 'The God of Parking Spaces', but I would prefer Gabby's God of grace and kindness to the leftist's god of ridicule and persecution. Our Heavenly Father loves us and helps those who are humble enough to ask Him."
Later this month when Democrats make same-sex marriage part of their official Party Platform, he says, "they will be spitting in the face of every Bible believing Christian in America. They will be saying, 'we don't care what you think, what you believe, or what the Bible or the God of the Bible says. We know better than God'." Jackson's message to Christians is, "The Democrat Party has turned its back on Christians. It is time to turn our backs on the Democrat Party."
E.W Jackson is a Bishop, Marine Corps Veteran, graduate of Harvard Law School, former practicing Attorney and Adjunct Professor of Law, former candidate for U.S. Senate in Virginia and Founder and President of STAND. www.standamerica.us
"Let God's people go!" says Bishop E.W. Jackson echoing the cry of Moses in the book of Exodus. The Bishop has begun a campaign to persuade Christians, Catholic and Protestant, of all races that the time has come for a wholesale Exodus of Christians from the Democrat Party.
He points to the Democrat Party's "cult-like devotion" to abortion; the rejection of the traditional biblical model of the family; the hostility hurled at those who express a Christian viewpoint such as Dan Cathy of Chick-Fil-A; the actions of Democrat organizations such as the ACLU and the Foundation For Freedom From Religion in suing cities and towns for displaying crosses at memorials or mentioning the name Jesus in prayer at official events.
According to Bishop Jackson, Democrat operatives are attacking Gabrielle Douglas, the 16 year old black American who won the 2012 Gold Medal in gymnastics. "The accomplished young lady had the nerve to give glory to God for her win," Jackson says. "This apparently offended liberals." Mary Elizabeth Williams, journalist for the progressive online magazine salon.com wrote, "I've often wondered what it is about Christians like Douglas that unnerves me so... Douglas and her ilk seem to espouse a faith based on what is commonly referred to as 'The God of Parking Spaces'."
"Progressives," E.W. Jackson says, "are indeed 'unnerved' by devout Christians. That's why they resort to ridicule, even of a 16 year old Olympic medal winner. Williams says we worship 'The God of Parking Spaces', but I would prefer Gabby's God of grace and kindness to the leftist's god of ridicule and persecution. Our Heavenly Father loves us and helps those who are humble enough to ask Him."
Later this month when Democrats make same-sex marriage part of their official Party Platform, he says, "they will be spitting in the face of every Bible believing Christian in America. They will be saying, 'we don't care what you think, what you believe, or what the Bible or the God of the Bible says. We know better than God'." Jackson's message to Christians is, "The Democrat Party has turned its back on Christians. It is time to turn our backs on the Democrat Party."
E.W Jackson is a Bishop, Marine Corps Veteran, graduate of Harvard Law School, former practicing Attorney and Adjunct Professor of Law, former candidate for U.S. Senate in Virginia and Founder and President of STAND. www.standamerica.us
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Daddy, What Was The U.S. Constitution?
Patriots,
UPDATE ON DETAINED FORMER MARINE
former Marine involuntarily detained for psychiatric evaluation for posting strident anti-government messages on Facebook has received an outpouring of support from people who say authorities are trampling on his First Amendment rights.
Brandon J. Raub, 26, has been in custody since FBI, Secret Service agents and police in Virginia’s Chesterfield County questioned him Thursday evening about what they said were ominous posts talking about a coming revolution. In one message earlier this month according to authorities, Raub wrote: “Sharpen my axe; I’m here to sever heads.”
Police — acting under a state law that allows emergency, temporary psychiatric commitments upon the recommendation of a mental health professional — took Raub to the John Randolph Medical Center in Hopewell. He was not charged with any crime.
Virginia-based civil liberties group, The Rutherford Institute, dispatched one of its attorneys to the hospital to represent Raub at a hearing Monday. A judge ordered Raub detained for another month, Rutherford executive director John Whitehead said.
“For government officials to not only arrest Brandon Raub for doing nothing more than exercising his First Amendment rights but to actually force him to undergo psychological evaluations and detain him against his will goes against every constitutional principle this country was founded upon,” Whitehead said
Watch tne NDAA video below.
http://link.fox19.com/501e9babdc87ac0b4fe54c78lctk.2h/UCwPD6gvzQZdtu9sA4ec7
Check out the video below. This young ex-marine would have been O.K. if he was a militant Black Panther who threatened to kill "cracker babies"
http://westernjournalism.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b58f5402a9ab54bddf0c908c8&id=771026f9c5&e=10b83c9dd1
http://westernjournalism.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b58f5402a9ab54bddf0c908c8&id=d1d83bb014&e=10b83c9dd1
God help our republic.
UPDATE ON DETAINED FORMER MARINE
former Marine involuntarily detained for psychiatric evaluation for posting strident anti-government messages on Facebook has received an outpouring of support from people who say authorities are trampling on his First Amendment rights.
Brandon J. Raub, 26, has been in custody since FBI, Secret Service agents and police in Virginia’s Chesterfield County questioned him Thursday evening about what they said were ominous posts talking about a coming revolution. In one message earlier this month according to authorities, Raub wrote: “Sharpen my axe; I’m here to sever heads.”
Police — acting under a state law that allows emergency, temporary psychiatric commitments upon the recommendation of a mental health professional — took Raub to the John Randolph Medical Center in Hopewell. He was not charged with any crime.
Virginia-based civil liberties group, The Rutherford Institute, dispatched one of its attorneys to the hospital to represent Raub at a hearing Monday. A judge ordered Raub detained for another month, Rutherford executive director John Whitehead said.
“For government officials to not only arrest Brandon Raub for doing nothing more than exercising his First Amendment rights but to actually force him to undergo psychological evaluations and detain him against his will goes against every constitutional principle this country was founded upon,” Whitehead said
Watch tne NDAA video below.
http://link.fox19.com/501e9babdc87ac0b4fe54c78lctk.2h/UCwPD6gvzQZdtu9sA4ec7
Check out the video below. This young ex-marine would have been O.K. if he was a militant Black Panther who threatened to kill "cracker babies"
http://westernjournalism.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b58f5402a9ab54bddf0c908c8&id=771026f9c5&e=10b83c9dd1
http://westernjournalism.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b58f5402a9ab54bddf0c908c8&id=d1d83bb014&e=10b83c9dd1
God help our republic.
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