"…I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves."
Zechariah 12:3

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Born to Watch is what every believer has been called to by the Lord Jesus. His return is the cornerstone of hope and joy to His followers (1 Peter 1:13).

Never before have so many geo-political and world occurrences declared His soon coming. If it pleases Him, God will use the information on this site to prompt readers to boldly ask Him about these things and how He would have them respond.

"A new beast is lurking in the diplomatic jungle", The EEAS Of The EU

Nobody knows if it will swallow up its rivals or meet the fate of the dinosaurs. It is called the European External Action Service, and is being trained to be the diplomatic arm of the European Union. It was formally approved by EU foreign ministers this week. However, key appointments are yet to be decided. The EEAS, or EAS for short, is a creation of the Lisbon Treaty and is designed to move the international representation and effectiveness of the EU to a higher level. The European Commission already has offices in almost every country around the world. Mainly they administer trade and aid policies, two areas of rather unheralded and successful EU co-operation.

So the EAS is not an entirely new concept. It builds on the existing structure and hugely expands it. Now, it is all going to be much grander. The Commission offices will be transformed into diplomatic missions staffed by officials from the EU and national governments. There will be a rush for places, with an emphasis on geographical and gender balance.

"The value of the EAS will lie in its being able to bring together the many levers of influence that the European Union has - economic and political, plus civil and military crisis management tools - in support of a single political strategy.

Are we looking at a type of this …

on a world wide scale in the future? …

Scripture clearly gives us the answer.

The beast kingdom will in fact meet the same fate of the dinosaurs when Christ Jesus returns on His White Stallion with His mighty army. However, before then the “dinosaurs” are going to be permitted to walk on the face of the earth for 1,260 days with power and then another 30 days without and most likely at some point late in that 30 day period ...

And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.

And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshiped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh. Revelation 19:11-21 (KJV)

Have you been working on your horse riding skills lately?

I’m just joking!

I would think that our new glorified heavenly bodies will need no riding lessons!

And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 2Thessalonians 2:8 (KJV)

Posted Thursday July 29th, 2010

Netanyahu: Extending Settlement Freeze Will Cause Government To Collapse

Continuing the construction freeze in West Bank settlements after it expires on September 26 would be impossible politically and would bring down the coalition, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Moratinos in Jerusalem on Wednesday.

Moratinos told Netanyahu that the European Union's position was that Israel should continue the freeze.

It looks like the EU wants to crank up the heat in order to create the fire. Then at some point shortly thereafter, to be the fire extinguisher to put “out the fire” once it has been started.

Posted Thursday July 29th, 2010

Arab League Endorses Direct Israel-PA Talks

Arab officials convening in Cairo began crucial talks with Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas on Thursday to decide whether he will begin direct negotiations with Israel amid pressure from the United States. Qatar's foreign minister said the Arab League has agreed in principle to direct Palestinian talks with Israel.

In his speech, Abbas told 13 foreign ministers from Arab countries representing the Arab League that he would not agree to direct talks without a guarantee for a Palestinian state based on pre-1967 war borders and an end to all settlement activity.

Asked if the league would back direct talks, Hamad ibn Jassem said: "Of course, there is agreement, but agreement over the principles of what will be discussed and the manner of the direct negotiations." It would be up to Abbas to decide whether to hold talks, based on whatever conditions he sees fit, Jassem said.

Syrian President Bashar Al Assad is to visit Lebanon tomorrow along with Saudi King Abdullah amid fears of renewed conflict in the tiny Mediterranean country, a top government official said yesterday.

"We have been informed that he is expected to travel to Beirut with the king," the official said. There was no immediate confirmation from the Syrian government. Al Assad's visit will be his first since the 2005 assassination of ex-Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri, when relations between Damascus and Beirut took a sharp downturn. At the time, Syria was widely blamed for the murder, but it has consistently denied any involvement. Relations have been on the mend since 2008 when diplomatic ties were established and Prime Minister Saad Hariri, son of the slain leader, has made four trips to Damascus in the past eight months.

Al Assad will be travelling to Beirut along with the Saudi monarch who is due in Damascus today as part of a regional tour that will also take him to Jordan. Yesterday he was visiting Egypt. Also coming will be the Amir of Qatar, Shaikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani. The diplomatic ballet is widely seen as an attempt to ease tensions after Hizbollah said last week that the UN tribunal probing Hariri's murder was set to indict members of the militant Shi'ite party.

There sure are a lot of meetings going lately between many of the countries in the evil coalition spelled out by Ezekiel. I wonder what they are talking about? … hmmm

Posted Thursday July 29th, 2010

Russia Signs Law To Expand KGB Style Power

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday signed into a law a bill expanding the powers of the successor to the Soviet-era KGB security service, the Kremlin said in a statement.

Rights groups say the bill would essentially put the special service above the law and harks back to Soviet times when the much-feared FSB predecessor KGB used warnings to persecute dissidents.

Looks like the bear has fully come out of hibernation and is now ready to eat.

Posted Thursday July 29th, 2010

Thank You Everyone For All Of Your Emails!

And For All Of The News Article Links Many Of You Send Over

Almost always, we are able to read everyone's emails soon after they arrive. However, we apologize for how long it takes us to respond back to them all. Lord willing David and will be able to respond back to all of them fairly soon. To say that we have received a "large quantity", would be an understatement! There have been some most excellent dissertations concerning the scripture verses we are looking at under a “microscope”. We need our Lord to continue to give us His wisdom and knowledge to understand where we are exactly at on the prophetic timeline. He has told us these things in His Word so we would know and understand. He was not just wasting His breath with the details He has given us. He exalts His Word above His Own Name!...can you even comprehend that?

He is the one that can turn the “light” on so we are able to gain full understanding, via the Holy Spirit. However, there always is a faith component involved, because He says so, and because it pleases Him for us to walk in this fashion. It brings Him more Glory, of which He is 100% deserving of. I for one do not want to be a “doubting Thomas”, that had to physically see Jesus in His resurrected Body before he would believe, that yes in fact, Jesus had risen from the dead just as He told them he would ahead of time. It took faith for them to believe, before they actually saw Him. - Scott

We love all of you dear fellow Brothers and Sisters in Christ Jesus from across the world. Some of you live in countries that I never even knew existed on this planet. We are really looking forward to meeting everyone after we are gathered together to be with our Heavenly Abba Father and our Lord and Savior King Jesus! We will be seeing you at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, if not before. I'll hold you a seat if I beat you there. - Scott

House Republicans Giving Green Light for Israeli Strike on Iran

Nearly one third of the Republican congressmen in the U.S. House of Representatives have introduced a resolution that would support Israel's right to use “all means necessary to confront and eliminate nuclear threats posed by Iran”, including military force.

House Resolution 1553 “condemns the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran for its threats of ‘annihilating’ the United States and the State of Israel, for its continued support of international terrorism, and for its incitement of genocide of the Israeli people.”

It “supports using all means of persuading the Government of Iran to stop building and acquiring nuclear weapons” and pledges that the U.S. will ensure that Israel “continues to receive critical economic and military assistance, including missile defense capabilities, needed to address the threat of Iran.”

In addition, it “expresses support for Israel’s right to use all means necessary to confront and eliminate nuclear threats posed by Iran, defend Israeli sovereignty, and protect the lives and safety of the Israeli people, including the use of military force if no other peaceful solution can be found within a reasonable time.”

Now what exactly constitutes a “reasonable time”?

We will have to simply keep watching as we have been instructed to do.

Posted Wednesday July 28th, 2010

Ahmadinejad: US, 'Zionists' Plan To Attack Within The Next Three Months

Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the United States is planning to launch two wars in the Middle East in order to pressure Tehran, English-language Press TV reported on Tuesday.

"We have precise information that the Americans have devised a plot ... they plan to attack at least two countries in the region within the next three months," he said in remarks Press TV posted on its website from an interview with him late Monday.

Ahmadinejad said the United States was seeking to achieve two main objectives from these wars. "First of all, they want to hamper Iran's progress and development since they are opposed to our growth, and, secondly, they want to save the Zionist regime because it has reached a dead-end and the Zionists believe they can be saved through a military confrontation," he said referring to Israel.

We already know Ahmadinejad wants a massive worldwide conflict to usher in what he believes to be the Mahdi, the 12th Imam because he has said so. However, by his words it looks like he would prefer to wait a little while longer before this conflict takes place. Surely he wants to be the one that instigates it with nuclear weapons and on his terms with regard to the timing of the event. He must not have any nuclear warheads sitting atop their missiles just yet. He has already said that he wants to wipe the "little satan", Israel off the face of the earth and then proceed to take out the "great satan", the U.S.

Posted Wednesday July 28th, 2010

Russia Slams New EU Sanctions On Iran

Russian seemed to be zig-zagging on Iran on Tuesday, slamming new EU sanctions despite having accused Teheran of "fruitless and irresponsible rhetoric" the previous day.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that new EU sanctions against Iran show scorn for the United Nations and the so-called "sextet" working to resolve disputes over Iran's nuclear program.

The move "not only undermines our joint strength in the search for a political-diplomatic resolution of the situation around Iran's nuclear program but demonstrates scorn for the carefully developed and agreed-upon position of the UN Security Council resolution," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said.

Russia, you know talk is cheap and that actions speak louder than words.

Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.

After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them. Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee. Ezekiel 38:7-9 (KJV)

Posted Wednesday July 28th, 2010

Obama Warns Abbas: ‘Start Talks Or Else’

The Associated Press reported it has possession of the document, under the letterhead of the Palestinian Negotiations Department and which indicates the warning came from President Barack Obama via U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell.

A secret 36-page memo based on Obama administration statements indicates that the president warned Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to start direct talks with Israel or risk losing American support for the recognition of the PA as a country.

It shows that the Obama administration has resigned itself to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu remaining head of Israel's coalition government. “Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is not in political danger of being replaced,” the document states.

It adds that Abbas is under pressure from both the Arab world and within the PA, whereby his consent to direct talks with Israel would be “political suicide” for him. However, the document warns, “Abbas needs to accept direct talks now if he wants President Obama’s help in facilitating statehood.” The memo says that PA advisors are in favor of rejecting the American ultimatum.

The secret memo from Washington indicates clearly that President Obama has given up on pressing Israel for any more concessions, which Jerusalem has made on a regular basis since the Roadmap Plan was announced by former U.S. President George W. Bush in 2002.

The idea of a single state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian problem is gaining renewed currency with a twist: this time around the proposition is supported not only by Palestinians but also by Israeli right-wingers.

Proponents of a two-state solution warn that without tangible progress in the peace talks, the window of opportunity for creating a Palestinian state alongside Israel will close, leaving the one-state solution as the only option remaining on the table - an option they caution bears in it the seeds for future conflict with Palestinians, demanding once they achieve a demographic minority that the state be secular rather than Jewish in character.

EU foreign ministers on Monday (26 July) gave the nod to the overall structure of the Union's new diplomatic service, paving the way for chief of diplomacy Catherine Ashton to begin making appointments to the service that will employ thousands.

"It is historic to be able to witness the birth, at least at the decision level, of a European diplomacy," Belgian foreign minister Steven Vanackere, whose country holds the EU rotating presidency, said following the meeting.

Due to be on its feet by 1 December, the service will see Ms. Ashton backed up by a secretary general - likely to be France's ambassador to the US Pierre Vimont - as well as two deputy secretaries general.

We are witnessing the creation of the future tentacles of the EU, the beast kingdom.

Posted Wednesday July 28th, 2010

Seven People Have Been Entrusted With The Keys To The Internet

These smart cards are the actual keys to the Internet. There are seven of them and they hold the power to restarting the world wide web "in the event of a catastrophic event."

The basic idea is that in the event of an Internet catastrophe, the DNSSEC (domain name system security) could be damaged or compromised and we'd be left without a way to verify if a URL is pointing to the correct website. That's when the holders of these smart cards would be called into action:

A minimum of five of the seven keyholders – one each from Britain, the U.S., Burkina Faso, Trinidad and Tobago, Canada, China, and the Czech Republic – would have to converge at a U.S. base with their keys to restart the system and connect everything once again.

A minimum of five people is needed because each of the smart cards contains only a fraction of the recovery key necessary to set things right again. This means that no single person will hold all the power to resetting our little cyber world. [BBC via PopSci]

Posted Wednesday July 28th, 2010

Obama's In Love With Drones

Since news of our pilotless killer drones hurling more Hellfire missiles abroad has largely vanished from our press, here is more evidence of President Obama's fixation on this dark side of our war on terrorism.

An impressive exception to the inattention to Obama's favorite weapon is investigative reporter Adam Entous of Reuters. In "How the White House learned to love the drone" (May 18), he quotes two administration officials (who, of course, refused to be named) saying that killing wanted terrorists is simply "easier than capturing them."

Also troubled, as Reuters noted, are certain American military officers who are very much aware that the most murderous of the drone planes are run by the CIA.

Another of his sources, who was involved in our robotic warfare and has since left the service, added that the CIA's targeting low-level foot soldiers worries him because "If it becomes a more generalized 'kill anybody' (approach), it degrades the notion we're going after serious threats to the United States. "This is a proud military," Adam Entous writes, "and many hate the drone program because it is a constant reminder that they're not in control," a former U.S. intelligence officer said. The CIA has sometimes been a law unto itself.

But, Entous adds, other American intelligence officers "proudly tout the drone campaign as the most precise and possibly humane targeted killing program in the 'history of warfare.'"

Al Qaeda's second in command Ayman Al-Zawahiri has surfaced again, this time threatening more attacks against the U.S. and the West.

"Oh American people…We offered you a peace plan, and mutual benefit; but your governments were proud and haughty, and so the attacks against you followed one after another, everywhere – from Indonesia to Times Square, by way of Madrid and London. And the attacks are ongoing, and more will come one after another," said Zawahiri, according to a transcript provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute, based in Washington, DC.

"U.S. government and counterterrorism officials are not going to increase their alert based on Zawahiri's statement, because of his previous track record," Clarke said. "But they're on relatively high alert already because of the increase in homegrown terrorist threats related to al Qaeda."

Posted Wednesday July 28th, 2010

111th U.S. Congress 2d Session - House Representatives Bill 5741 IH

To require all persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform national service, either as a member of the uniformed services or in civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, to authorize the induction of persons in the uniformed services during wartime to meet end-strength requirements of the uniformed services, and for other purposes.

July 15th, 2010

Mr. Rangel introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services.

TITLE I--NATIONAL SERVICE

Sec. 101. Definitions.

Sec. 102. National service obligation.

Sec. 103. Induction to perform national service.

Sec. 104. Two-year period of national service.

Sec. 105. Implementation by the President.

Sec. 106. Examination and classification of persons.

Sec. 107. Deferments and postponements.

Sec. 108. Induction exemptions.

Sec. 109. Conscientious objection.

Sec. 110. Discharge following national service.

TITLE II--AMENDMENTS TO MILITARY SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT

Sec. 201. Registration of females.

Sec. 202. Registration and induction authority.

See More About The Bill Here

[3] If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;

[4] Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.

[5] He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul.

[6] But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand. Ezekiel 33:3-6 (KJV)

For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? 1Corinthians 14:8 (KJV)

Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 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. 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. Ephesians 6:11-13 (KJV)

Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. Mark 13:12-13 (KJV)

Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. Matthew 24:9-10 (KJV)

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 2Timothy 3:1-5 (KJV)

When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side. But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it; Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended. Matthew 13:19-21 (KJV)

And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.

And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind? But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts. But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet. This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. Luke 7:23-27 (KJV)

And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, I will that thou give me by and by in a charger the head of John the Baptist. And the king was exceeding sorry; yet for his oath's sake, and for their sakes which sat with him, he would not reject her. And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the prison, Mark 6:25-27 (KJV)

These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended. They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you. John 16:1-4 (KJV)

Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 2Timothy 3:12-15 (KJV)

Posted Monday July 26th, 2010

Obama Administration Recently Announced It Giving The Beirut Government $100 Million In Military Aid

Barak Warns Israel Will Attack Lebanon If Hizbullah Starts War

Israel will consider Lebanese government buildings and bases a target if Hizbullah starts up another war against Israel, Defense Minister Ehud Barak warned Monday.

The Defense Minister revealed that then-U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called Ehud Olmert, when he was Prime Minister in 2006 and asked him not to touch what Barak called the “precious government” of Beirut.

Barak also warned the United States “that the walls between the Lebanese armed forces and Hizbullah—it's quite porous. And whatever you give the Lebanese armed forces might end up in the hands of Hizbullah, be it technology or weapons or whatever. “The Obama administration recently announced it giving the Beirut government $100 million in military aid.

May I ask why are we giving this military aid to them?…To fuel a fire that a group of individuals wants to explode into a major crisis?

Posted Monday July 26th, 2010

Council of the European Union Foreign Affairs Council

Press Conference On July 26, 2010

Ashton speaks about the Mid East “Peace Plan” for the sake of “peace and security “in the region, as well as the Iranian threat. It is well worth your time to see. The video is embedded into their site, so we can’t give you a direct link to it. Once you’re at their site look for the image above for the 8 + minute video.

Go To Site Here

For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. 1Thessalonians 5:3-6 (KJV)

Posted Monday July 26th, 2010

Iran Strongly Warns EU Against Imposing Sanctions

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said the EU will "regret" the economic sanctions it is planning to impose on Tehran later today (26 July) at a foreign ministers' meeting in Brussels.

"Anyone who adopts a measure against the Iranian nation … should know that Iran will react swiftly," Mr. Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying on Sunday by Iran's English-language Press TV channel, reports the BBC. "Experience shows such a reaction by the Iranian nation will cause you to regret it."

The warning came before the EU is set to sign off what officials have touted as the toughest economic sanctions yet - going much further than the fourth set of UN sanctions agreed in June - in a bid to stop Iran's uranium enrichment program.

The European Union followed the lead of the United States Monday and approved tough energy sanctions on Iran, which already is feeling hard times.

The 27 countries of the EU joined the bandwagon Monday in what may be a last-ditch effort to use non-military means to stop Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s unsupervised nuclear development. Israel and the West are convinced that Iran working to produce a nuclear warhead to be aimed at Israel.

The new EU sanctions are place “restrictive measures” in the energy sector and will take effect in several weeks after the details are published.

Are they trying to force him into a corner so he will come out and fight? … so the U.S. and Israel won’t have to fire the first shot heard round the world? ... Is someone trying to help keep someone else's hands "clean"?

Posted Monday July 26th, 2010

Iran to Stage Massive Air Drills

The Iranian Army Air Force plans to stage massive and countrywide air drills this week, a senior commander announced on Monday.

"The war games to be held on Mordad 9-16 (July 31-August 7) through collective cooperation of all Air Force bases are dubbed as 'Fada'eyan-e Harreem-e Vellayat' (Devotees to the Sanctity of Religious Leadership)," Air Force Lieutenant Commander for Operations Mohammad Alavi told FNA ...

According to the Guardian, the controversial Universal Church of the Kingdom of God will construct a church in Sao Paulo based on King Solomon’s Temple, including a replica of the Ark of the Covenant at its center. The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God was founded 33 years ago and claims an estimated eight million adherents around the world.

“We are preparing ourselves to build the temple, in the same mold as Solomon’s,” the church’s leader and founder, Bishop Edir Macedo, was quoted as saying in the report. “[Solomon’s] Temple… used tons of gold, pure gold... We are not going to build a temple of gold, but we will spend tons of money, without a shadow of doubt.” Macedo said his church had signed an $8m. contract to import stones from Israel.

“We have signed the contract and commissioned the stones that will come from Jerusalem, just like the ones that were used to build the temple in Israel; stones that were witnesses to the powers of God, 2,000 years ago,” he said. “It is going to be a knockout, it is going to be beautiful, beautiful, beautiful – the most beautiful of all. The outside will be exactly the same as that which was built in Jerusalem.”

What’s up with this? … I have absolutely no idea. - Scott

Posted Monday July 26th, 2010

Goldman Reveals Where Bailout Cash Went

Goldman Sachs sent $4.3 billion in federal tax money to 32 entities, including many overseas banks, hedge funds and pensions, according to information made public Friday night. Goldman Sachs disclosed the list of companies to the Senate Finance Committee after a threat of subpoena from Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Ia. Asked the significance of the list, Grassley said, "I hope it's as simple as taxpayers deserve to know what happened to their money."

He added, "We thought originally we were bailing out AIG. Then later on ... we learned that the money flowed through AIG to a few big banks, and now we know that the money went from these few big banks to dozens of financial institutions all around the world."Grassley said he was reserving judgment on the appropriateness of U.S. taxpayer money ending up overseas until he learns more about the 32 entities.

Is it possible that this following verse is applicable?

I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof. Zechariah 5:4 (KJV)

Posted Monday July 26th, 2010

Europe's Prospects Brighten As U.S. Fades

What happened to Europe being the weak link in the global economic recovery?

German business confidence is soaring while U.S. consumer sentiment sinks. Britain's second-quarter economic growth was almost twice as fast as expected, the strongest in four years. Meanwhile, economists have steadily marked down forecasts for Friday's U.S. gross domestic product report.

The U.S. "economy entered the second quarter with plenty of momentum but exited with very little," said IHS Global Insight economist Brian Bethune. In the United States, the second half of the year looks weaker because government spending programs are winding down, businesses have already replenished inventories and a tax credit that boosted housing demand expired.

"In the absence of further monetary or fiscal juice, it is difficult to see the economy growing much faster than its long-run potential of about 2-1/2 percent in the year ahead as households focus on repairing tattered finances," said Sal Guatieri, an economist with BMO Capital Markets in Toronto.

It appears like things are going exactly as they have planned.

Posted Monday July 26th, 2010

Hassan Nasrallah: Should Global Policeman Arrive And Punish Him, He Will Ignite Everything

Not Only Beirut And Its Environs, But The Whole Of Lebanon

Over the weekend, Nasrallah convened a delusional press conference: He hid behind a screen and the journalists, mostly fans who were carefully chosen, were invited to present questions that would prompt him to issue threats.

According to Nasrallah, the findings of the UN probe had been gathering dust in locked drawers for two years now. Nobody dares utilize the extradition requests until they can guarantee that Lebanon won't erupt as a result. How can anyone blame Hezbollah (and clear Syria of wrongdoing) when Nasrallah is certain he's been betrayed and threatens to go wild?

Just like a disturbed neighborhood thug, Hassan Nasrallah threatens that should the global policeman arrive and punish him, he will ignite everything – not only Beirut and its environs, but the whole of Lebanon. As far as he's concerned, they can call him crazy.

Regardless Of When The Interview Was Recorded, Just The Fact That It Has Posted On His Site Within The Last Few Days Seems To Carry Some Significance - Scott

Here is what the site looks like today in the image above and the close up of the center immediately below. To listen to the embedded interview, which I strongly advise you do because it is "loaded" through out, go to the site and click on the play button just below the 09/12/2009 date. For the life of me I can't remember hearing this one. Somehow it must have slipped past me. The last minute of it is worth the price of admission.

Here For Site And To Embedded Audio Interview

Shown below is what his site page looked like on July 20th. You can see this same image on our July 20th post by scrolling down on this home page.

I thought he said he had retired from the EU, yeah right ... active website, etc. Talk is cheap; we need watch for the tangible fruit on the tree and I believe we are seeing some and it is now beginning to ripen. Let's all keep watching as instructed.

Interviewer: There has been a rumor about you saying that you wanted to slow down, step down in advance before 2009; what is the truth in this?

Solana: I don't know what has been said as long as slowing down, I don't know how to do that...it is not in my genes to slow down...it is not my intent to slow down.

“I have been working for the EU before I was born” – Francisco Javier Solana Madariaga 2009

"Javier is I think a personal incarnation of the world's most effective institution of global governance, namely himself." - Carlos Pascual:- Co-Director, Managing Global Insecurity Project, Vice President and Director, Foreign Policy The Brookings Institute.

And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries. Daniel 11:21 (KJV)

Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all. [38] But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things. Daniel 11:37-38 (KJV)

Posted Sunday July 25th, 2010

On Av 9 July 20th The U.S. Upgraded Status Of Palestinian Mission In Washington

“a sign of America’s determination to play an active role in bringing about an end to Israel’s 43-year-old military occupation of Palestinian lands and the creation of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital".

The United States State Department has upgraded the Palestinian Liberation Organization's mission in Washington, the PLO's U.S. representative said on Thursday.

The upgrade, which will give the PLO Mission to the U.S. the status of 'Delegation General', became effective beginning July 20, 2010.

Ambassador Maen Rashid Areikat, the PLO's representative to the United States, said that the decision was preceded by several consultations made over the past year between the PLO Mission and the Obama administration.

Areikat said he hoped the upgrade was "a sign of America’s determination to play an active role in bringing about an end to Israel’s 43-year-old military occupation of Palestinian lands and the creation of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital".

This obviously is a very negative move against Israel that "just happened" to begin on the 9th of AV, July 20th, 2010. Of course this is not what we mistakenly expected to see occur on that very unique date for the Jewish people, within the 7 Year ENP covenant. Hindsight is always 20/20 vision isn't it ...

Posted Sunday July 25th, 2010

U.S. Strike On Iran Likelier Than Ever, Former CIA Chief Says

A former CIA director says military action against Iran now seems more likely because no matter what the U.S. does diplomatically, Tehran keeps pushing ahead with its suspected nuclear program.

Michael Hayden, a CIA chief under President George W. Bush, said that during his tenure "a strike was way down the list of options." But he tells CNN's State of the Union that such action now "seems inexorable." Hayden said that the likelihood of a U.S. strike on Iran has rises in face of Tehran's defiance to halt its contentions nuclear program, saying "We engage. They continue to move forward.""We vote for sanctions. They continue to move forward. We try to deter, to dissuade. They continue to move forward," he added.

Iran's ISNA news agency quoted an aide to the country' Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday as saying that Israel and the United States would never strike Iran, saying that "both the U.S. and Zionist regime face internal problems and they know that we make many troubles for them if they attack Iranian territory."

Yahya Rahim Safav told ISNA that Iran's armed forces were "fully prepared and enemies are aware of that, they do not have the power to take a political decision on the issue, because they know they can start the war but are not able to finish it."

"We need to be fully vigilant of these attacks, the enemy knows that it will regret if launches a land strike against Iran." Safavi said. Ja'fari also said, according to the IRNA report, that he considered his forces' preparedness as being at their "highest level".

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday that despite intense international pressure from the "entire world," he is still not willing to start direct negotiations with Israel.

Abbas told the Voice of Palestine radio that talks would be doomed without a clear framework.

The Palestinians are wary of entering open-ended negotiations with Israel's hardline prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. They want Israel to first accept the principle of a Palestinian state within the territory captured by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War, with some border modifications.

Iran might hold talks on the country's nuclear program with the European Union in early September, after the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Sunday.

Davutoglu spoke after meeting with his Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki and Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim. He said Mottaki "confirmed the meeting might take place after Ramadan."

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has set three conditions for an eventual resumption of talks, saying countries who want to participate should make clear whether they oppose Israel's nuclear arsenal, whether they support the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and whether they want to be friends or enemies with Iran. But he said participation in the talks was not contingent on the answers.

This is an old picture from 2008.

Posted Sunday July 25th, 2010

Iran: 100 Vessels To Confront Each U.S. Warship That Poses A Threat In Persian Gulf

Iran has set aside 100 military vessels to confront each US warship that poses a threat, a former naval chief in the Islamic Republic's Revolutionary Guard said Saturday.

Gen. Morteza Saffari was quoted by the conservative weekly Panjereh as saying that troops aboard US warships are "morsels" for Iran to target in the event of any American threat against Iran.

In 2008, Iran put its most powerful military force, the Revolutionary Guard, in charge of defending the country's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf, a vital oil route.

A quiet but intense debate is ongoing within senior circles of the governing Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (Justice and Development Party: AKP) in Turkey over whether or not this is the time to proceed rapidly with the development and acquisition of nuclear weapons.

At stake is Turkey's strategic parity with other nuclear powers in the region: Russia, Israel, Pakistan, and Iran. Highly-placed sources indicate that Turkey has been deliberating the acquisition of military nuclear capability for some time, but has been constrained by its need to maintain good relations with the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO) partners generally, as well as the European Union (EU).

Nuclear weapons research has long been underway, under conditions of extreme secrecy, in Turkey, and the AKP leadership is aware that it is probable that this will become public knowledge as the effort becomes more intense.

Vital warning systems on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig were switched off at the time of the explosion in order to spare workers being woken by false alarms, a federal investigation has heard.

The revelation that alarm systems on the rig at the centre of the disaster were disabled – and that key safety mechanisms had also consciously been switched off – came in testimony by a chief technician working for Transocean, the drilling company that owned the rig.

Williams told the hearing today that no alarms went off on the day of the explosion because they had been "inhibited". Sensors monitoring conditions on the rig and in the Macondo oil well beneath it were still working, but the computer had been instructed not to trigger any alarms in case of adverse readings.

Both visual and sound alarms should have gone off in the case of sensors detecting fire or dangerous levels of combustible or toxic gases.

The evidence of deliberate dilution of the rig's safety mechanisms is likely to have wide ramifications for BP and Transocean, the world's largest offshore drilling company.

And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.

[19] And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail. Revelation 11:18-19 (KJV)

Thank the Lord He has told who wins ahead of time, and praise the Lord its HIM!

Posted Saturday July 24rd, 2010

Hamas Urges Direct Dialogue With EU, Gaza Official Says

Hamas officials on Saturday called on European Union countries to start direct dialogue with the Islamist movement that controls the Gaza Strip.

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner had earlier Saturday expressed his country's readiness to hold direct dialogue with Hamas, "if France receives an official request from the Palestinian Authority."

"The European Union and France shouldn't hesitate in having direct dialogue with Hamas on the basis of direct dialogue and not on the basis of containment," said Ismail Radwan, a Gaza-based senior Hamas leader.

Germany is facing escalating criticism from local anti-nuclear activists and a sanctions expert in the United States for blocking tough EU sanctions against Iran, and specifically for not acting against the Hamburg-based Iranian EIH bank, which allegedly supplied Teheran with over a billion dollars for its nuclear and missile program.

The German chapter of the nonpartisan organization Stop the Bomb issued a statement in advance of Monday’s EU conference to finalize the new round of sanctions, saying, “The German negotiators are trying to enforce terms that would rob the sanctions of their penetrating power.

Why is this? … is someone leading a group of people that are continuing to throw fuel on a fire to bring about a big world crisis? … and then "we never want a crisis to go to waste.”

Posted Saturday July 24rd, 2010

Series Of Strong Quakes Hit Philippines

Four powerful earthquakes struck the Philippines' Moro Gulf early on Saturday just over an hour, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

Three of the earthquakes measured between 7.3 and 7.6 points on the Richter scale, and the other one registered 5.4 points.