Friday, January 4, 2013
There is something happening folks! I feel it in the air....Please, prepare and turn to God!
National Guard Units On Alert
The National Guard notifies mountain soldiers they could be called for active duty. That means members of the 210th and 211th military police are preparing for a call-up that could come at any time.
The army won’t say when or where the deployment could be, or whether troops would be mobilized at all. During the alert, soldiers must get their family affairs in order and increase their training. The military police in the mountains last deployed in 2003. There have been big changes in equipment used in that time.
The National Guard has a Family Readiness Program that assists husbands, wives and children left behind. Volunteers also provide community support for military families.
Thousands of snapper washed up on New Zealand beaches since New Year's Eve.
A massive clean-up of rotting fish is underway on the Coromandel Peninsula where thousands of snapper have washed up since New Year's Eve.
Fisheries officials have warned people not to eat the fish as Thames-Coromandel District Council staff try to work out how they came to be dumped at the popular holiday spot.
TCDC communications manager Benjamin Day said the dead fish were beginning to ''rot and smell'' so the decision was made to begin the clean-up immediately.
"With the DOC campsites full and boaties launching from the beach, we want to get the place cleaned up for our visitors as fast as possible,'' he said.
The clean-up will concentrate on an area 100 metres either side of Granite Wharf, situated at Paritu, north of Colville.
It is not the first time this has happened at the small settlement.
Thousands of dead snapper also washed ashore in 2011 at Little Bay and Waikawau Bay, causing residents to wonder at the time whether they were starving or poisoned, although that was deemed unlikely.
The Ministry of Fisheries investigated that incident as well but it still remains unsolved.
Fisheries compliance manager Brendon Mikkelsen said the Ministry for Primary Industries was investigating the latest incident but could not confirm the number of dead fish found on the shore.
But local residents said the dead fish numbered in the "thousands".
It was "unlikely" the fish died of natural causes and Mikkelsen was calling for information from commercial and recreational fishers who were in the area in the days before the find.
Rotting fish now litter beaches from Port Jackson to Fantail Bay, on the western shore of the peninsula. The find was too much for some to pass up, with campers and residents out on New Year's Eve collecting fish for the plate.
"There would have been close to 10km to 12km of coastline covered with fish from what I could see . . . and all of them snapper," a Port Jackson local said. "It's gutting to see them all like that."
She said the fish were extensively damaged, leading her to think the incident could have been the result of illegal fish dumping by commercial fishers or damage to a trawling net.
"They are pretty bruised and battered and they don't have any scales on them, and I think that's the result of being in the net.
"There is no other way you could have that quantity of fish."
Mikkelsen said the incident was first reported on New Year's Day and ministry staff had been to the area as part of the investigation.
"We would like to hear from industry and non-commercial recreational fishers in terms of anything they might have seen at sea - likely in the late evening or early morning," he said.
They had taken some snapper for testing but it was unlikely to find the answers.
No vessels currently fishing in the Coromandel area carry automatic location communicators, so the ministry is relying on information from the public, but reports are scarce.
"It is unusual because there are a lot of boaties out and about at that time of year," Mikkelsen said.
He said the fishing industry would be equally concerned and expected to hear from them in the coming days.
It is unknown how long the fish have been decaying and Mr Mikkelsen is telling people to be cautious about eating snapper collected off the beach.
"By the time people see it on the beach it has been 12 to 24 hours in the water . . . birds are pecking at it and the heat has been pretty severe."
Anyone taking dead fish from the beach to eat faced a high risk of chemical poisoning or gastric related illness, Waikato District Health Board medical officer of health Dell Hood said.
She said gastroenteritis symptoms would be expected and it was "extremely unwise" to eat fish that had been floating in the water or lying on a beach.
Fisheries officials have warned people not to eat the fish as Thames-Coromandel District Council staff try to work out how they came to be dumped at the popular holiday spot.
TCDC communications manager Benjamin Day said the dead fish were beginning to ''rot and smell'' so the decision was made to begin the clean-up immediately.
"With the DOC campsites full and boaties launching from the beach, we want to get the place cleaned up for our visitors as fast as possible,'' he said.
The clean-up will concentrate on an area 100 metres either side of Granite Wharf, situated at Paritu, north of Colville.
It is not the first time this has happened at the small settlement.
Thousands of dead snapper also washed ashore in 2011 at Little Bay and Waikawau Bay, causing residents to wonder at the time whether they were starving or poisoned, although that was deemed unlikely.
The Ministry of Fisheries investigated that incident as well but it still remains unsolved.
Fisheries compliance manager Brendon Mikkelsen said the Ministry for Primary Industries was investigating the latest incident but could not confirm the number of dead fish found on the shore.
But local residents said the dead fish numbered in the "thousands".
It was "unlikely" the fish died of natural causes and Mikkelsen was calling for information from commercial and recreational fishers who were in the area in the days before the find.
Rotting fish now litter beaches from Port Jackson to Fantail Bay, on the western shore of the peninsula. The find was too much for some to pass up, with campers and residents out on New Year's Eve collecting fish for the plate.
"There would have been close to 10km to 12km of coastline covered with fish from what I could see . . . and all of them snapper," a Port Jackson local said. "It's gutting to see them all like that."
She said the fish were extensively damaged, leading her to think the incident could have been the result of illegal fish dumping by commercial fishers or damage to a trawling net.
"They are pretty bruised and battered and they don't have any scales on them, and I think that's the result of being in the net.
"There is no other way you could have that quantity of fish."
Mikkelsen said the incident was first reported on New Year's Day and ministry staff had been to the area as part of the investigation.
"We would like to hear from industry and non-commercial recreational fishers in terms of anything they might have seen at sea - likely in the late evening or early morning," he said.
They had taken some snapper for testing but it was unlikely to find the answers.
No vessels currently fishing in the Coromandel area carry automatic location communicators, so the ministry is relying on information from the public, but reports are scarce.
"It is unusual because there are a lot of boaties out and about at that time of year," Mikkelsen said.
He said the fishing industry would be equally concerned and expected to hear from them in the coming days.
It is unknown how long the fish have been decaying and Mr Mikkelsen is telling people to be cautious about eating snapper collected off the beach.
"By the time people see it on the beach it has been 12 to 24 hours in the water . . . birds are pecking at it and the heat has been pretty severe."
Anyone taking dead fish from the beach to eat faced a high risk of chemical poisoning or gastric related illness, Waikato District Health Board medical officer of health Dell Hood said.
She said gastroenteritis symptoms would be expected and it was "extremely unwise" to eat fish that had been floating in the water or lying on a beach.
Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan celebrate protest anniversary ahead of elec...
This is important because Jordan is the only piece of the puzzle that has not fit for the Psalms 83 war. The King will not make a huge decision at the moment on joining the Palestinian alliance because of elections! Just like here when we had our elections the candidates fear the poll outcome! We may see a very different King when elections are over, but for now it is a waiting game!
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Egyptian forces capture American-made missiles headed for Gaza Strip
Egyptian security forces say they discovered and captured a store of American-made missiles headed for the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Ma’an news agency reported Friday.
The missiles, discovered in the northern Sinai peninsula, included anti-tank and anti-aircraft projectiles, as well as rockets capable of reaching a number of ranges.
The forces captured the missiles in a secret depot south of el-Arish, after receiving intelligence information about the smuggling attempt.
A security source told Ma’an the missiles were about to be taken by truck to the smuggling tunnels at the border with Gaza and brought into the Palestinian enclave.
The missiles are thought to have come in from Libya. Officials have feared, since the revolution in that country, that heavy arms could fall into the arms of Islamists and be smuggled into Sinai and Gaza.
In late December, Egyptian forces, along with local Bedouin, captured 17 French-made rockets that were to be smuggled into the Strip.
Egypt attempted to shut down the smuggling tunnels between Gaza and the Sinai during a crackdown against terror in the peninsula in August. Hamas uses the tunnels to bring in weapons as well as other goods kept out by Israel’s blockade of the Strip.
Israel has accused Iran of manufacturing rockets and sending them into the Strip via Sinai, including the Fajr-5 rocket, which is capable of hitting Tel Aviv.
Israel launched an eight-day offensive in November to stop rocket fire into Israel from the Strip. During the conflict, Hamas fired over 1,500 rockets at Israel, many of which had been smuggled in via the tunnels.
CONFIRMED: The NSA Is Developing A 'Perfect Citizen' Program To Protect The US Cyber Grid
Newly released documents confirm that the National Security Agency (NSA), America's top cyberespionage organization, is spearheading a cloaked and controversial program to develop technology that could protect the US power grid from cyberattack.
Existence of the program, dubbed Perfect Citizen, was revealed in a 2010 Wall Street Journal article. But intriguing new details are revealed in documents released by the NSA last month to the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), an Internet privacy group that petitioned for them in 2010 under the Freedom of Information Act.
Of the 188 pages of documents released by the agency, roughly half were redacted to remove classified information. Even so, the documents show Perfect Citizen to be in the fourth year of a five-year program begun in 2009. Valued at up to $91 million, the Perfect Citizen technology is being developed by Raytheon, the Waltham, Mass., defense contractor that won it.
The released documents are the contract that the NSA drew up with Raytheon. A Raytheon spokesman referred all comments on the program to the NSA.
All along, the NSA has maintained that Perfect Citizen is "purely a vulnerabilities assessment and capabilities development contract" that "does not involve the monitoring of communications or the placement of sensors on utility company systems," according to an NSA statement released in 2010 – and now rereleased to the Monitor.
What the documents reveal is an apparently small but robust program authorized to hire 28 software engineers, program managers, and laboratory personnel. This includes a pair of "penetration testers" – essentially good-guy hackers who specialize in breaking into networks.
Their assignment as part of the team: discover vulnerabilities that lie in the electronic interface that connects the computer networks of utility companies. Then the team can come up with software and hardware plugs to patch those digital holes.
"Sensitive Control Systems (SCS) perform data collection and control of large-scale distributed utilities or provide automation of infrastructure processes," says the Perfect Citizen contract's "Statement of Work" document. "The protection of SCS is essential to mission operations and has become a significant point of interest in support of the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community."Further, the document says, "prevention of a loss due to a cyber or physical attack, or recovery of operational capability after such an event, is crucial to the continuity of the Department of Defense, the intelligence community, and the operation of [Signals Intelligence] systems."
While most might agree the program's national-security goal is laudable, the question of just how to go about protecting the power grid has been a controversial topic in Congress and among Internet privacy advocates leery of government control of the Internet. Of particular concern among such advocates is shielding privately owned corporate computer networks deemed to be "critical infrastructure" from potentially intrusive digital monitoring.
Citing unnamed sources, the original Wall Street Journal article said that the program did indeed involve placing sensors that can detect illegitimate cyberactivity. But the new documents don't clarify this point. Deploying such sensors would be especially sensitive since the NSA is an arm of the Pentagon charged with collecting and analyzing foreign communications and defending US government communications and computer networks – not domestic spying.
"This is a research and engineering effort. There is no monitoring activity involved, and no sensors are employed in this endeavor," the 2010 statement says.
Indeed, the NSA is not authorized to intercept the communications of US citizens unless specifically authorized to do so by a special court acting under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Yet The New York Times reported in 2005 that the NSA had been involved in conducting wiretaps of calls made by US citizens to persons overseas without first getting a warrant from the court.
"Any suggestions that there are illegal or invasive domestic activities associated with this [Perfect Citizen] contracted effort are simply not true," says the NSA's 2010 statement. "We strictly adhere to both the spirit and the letter of US laws and regulations."
Still, privacy rights groups remain worried the program is focused on digital filtering or monitoring – and developing systems to do that. The Statement of Work document, for instance, requires development of "Computer Network Defense best practices/capabilities that defend against vulnerabilities identified in a SCS."
"Previously the agency had said it was just a research program," says Ginger McCall, director of the Open Government Program at EPIC, which won release of the documents. "But we see in these documents that they do intend to conduct testing, actual research, actual vulnerability testing and develop software tools that could be operational."
Other experts say the documents are suggestive, but do not ultimately clarify Perfect Citizen’s scope.
"It's hard to say if the project is only research, only operational, or a combination of both," says John Bumgarner, a research director for the US Cyber Consequences Unit, a nonprofit security think tank that advises government and industry. "The contract cost for the project seems way too low to be an operational program to, say, protect the entire US electric grid from cyberattack."
But EPIC's main concern is that Perfect Citizen could be already conducting, or planning to conduct, online digital monitoring of data without proper authorizations or having the program itself evaluated for privacy implications. When the Department of Homeland Security undertakes such projects, Ms. McCall notes, it is required to conduct privacy impact assessments. She questions what has happened in this case (which is not under the authority of DHS).
"It appears as though the NSA is trying to develop cybersecurity protective technology, but that as part of this contract, they're conducting testing already," she says. "This isn't merely research."
Others, however, applaud the project, saying such measures are needed.
"The project makes sense, as the government relies on industry for most of its requirements in the way of water, sewer, and power," says one cybersecurity expert who requested anonymity because his company does business with the government.
Threats to the grid seem to be rising. In recent months, he notes, DHS has issued reports about cyberattacks against utility companies whose business computer networks also have industrial networks connected to the grid.
Last month, DHS reported that federal cyberresponse teams recently provided on-site support "at a power generation facility where both common and sophisticated malware had been discovered in the industrial control system environment."
The DHS team also performed preliminary on-site analysis of those machines and "discovered signs of the sophisticated malware on two engineering workstations.” Both machines were "critical to the operation of the control environment."
President Obama is reported to be nearing announcement of an executive order that would expand federal protection to include the power grid and other critical infrastructure networks. Cybersecurity legislation failed in the last Congress. The White House has said that it prefers a comprehensive bill, but that the matter is too urgent to wait any longer.
US officials: Syria utilizing Iranian missiles
US officials: Syria utilizing Iranian missiles
The Syrian military in recent days has fired at least four Iranian-made ballistic missiles at rebel positions, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday, raising concerns the Assad regime may be resorting to more lethal weaponry to maintain power.
According to the report, the Syrian military has increased its utilization of Iranian-made Fateh-110s missiles, suggesting the Islamic Republic is stepping up its support for Syrian President BasharAssad.
"It certainly shows more aggressive action by the Syrian regime, aided by the Iranians," a senior US official was quoted by the Journal as saying.
"It could be a sign of new tactics or desperation," he said.
According to the report, the Syrian military has increased its utilization of Iranian-made Fateh-110s missiles, suggesting the Islamic Republic is stepping up its support for Syrian President BasharAssad.
"It certainly shows more aggressive action by the Syrian regime, aided by the Iranians," a senior US official was quoted by the Journal as saying.
"It could be a sign of new tactics or desperation," he said.
Assad sends warplanes to bomb capital’s suburbs
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian ground and air forces bombarded rebel strongholds on the outskirts of Damascus and other areas around the country Friday while anti-government forces targeted a military post near the capital with a car bomb, activists said.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said warplanes targeted neighborhoods around the capital including Douma, which troops have been trying to recapture for weeks. Two air raids there Thursday killed 12 people and caused heavy damage.
The Observatory added that a car bomb blew up outside a military intelligence building in the northern Damascus suburb of Nabk but had no immediate word on casualties.
An amateur video posted online showed a strong explosion with black smoke billowing from Nabk and the narrator said the blast targeted the military intelligence facility. The video appeared genuine and corresponded to other AP reporting on the events depicted.
The violence came two days after the U.N. said that more than 60,000 people have been killed since Syria’s crisis began in March 2011 — a figure much higher than previous opposition estimates.
Damascus-based activist Maath al-Shami said government troops were firing rockets and mortars from the Qasioun mountains overlooking the capital down at orchards near the southern suburbs of Daraya and Kfar Sousseh. The Observatory says troops were also fighting rebels in Aqraba and Beit Saham, also south of Damascus, near the capital’s international airport.
The army command said in a statement Thursday night that troops carried out operations in suburbs of the capital including Douma and Daraya.
“Regime forces are facing very strong resistance in Daraya,” said al-Shami via Skype, but said that government forces had been able to advance down the main street in the suburb.
The government capture of Daraya would provide a boost to the regime’s defense of Damascus. It is close to a military air base as well as the government’s headquarters and one of President Bashar Assad’s palaces.
In the north, rebels resumed a week-old offensive against regime-held airbases. The government’s air power poses the biggest obstacle to advances by opposition fighters.
Activists said there were battles around the military air base of Taftanaz in the northern province of Idlib close to the Turkish border and near the international airport of Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and commercial center.
Fadi al-Yassin, an activist based in Idlib, said the rebels killed on Thursday the commander of Taftanaz air base, a brigadier general.
“The battles now are at the gates of the airport,” al-Yassin said via Skype. He added that it has become very difficult for the regime helicopters to take off and land at the base.
He said warplanes taking off from airfields in the central province of Hama and the coastal region of Latakia are participating in attacking rebels around Taftanaz.
The Syrian Army General Command said troops directed “painful strikes” against the “armed terrorist groups” of Jabhat al-Nusra, a group the U.S. claims is linked to al-Qaida-linked organization. The Syrian military says the extremist group is carrying out the Taftanaz attack, and that dozens of fighters were killed.
Aleppo airport has been closed since Monday. A government official in Damascus said the situation is relatively quiet around the facility, adding that it is up to civil aviation authorities to resume flights.
A man who answered the telephone at the information office at the Damascus International Airport said, “God willing, flights will resume to Aleppo very soon.”
Syrian rebels are fighting a 21-month-old revolt against the Assad regime. The crisis began with pro-democracy protests but has morphed into a civil war.
Abbas changes name of Palestinian Authority to ‘State of Palestine’
Under new decree, all stamps, signs, and official letterheads will be changed to bear the title
Palestinian Authority President Abbas signed a presidential decree changing the name of the Palestinian Authority to the “State of Palestine,” following the Palestinians’ upgraded status at the United Nations as a non-member observer state.
According to the decree, reported by the official Palestinian news agency Wafa Thursday night, all stamps, signs, and official letterheads will be changed to bear the new name.
The move was one of the first concrete, albeit symbolic, steps the Palestinians have taken following the November 29 decision by the United Nations General Assembly to upgrade their status to nonmember observer state.
Last month, the United Nations officially changed the way it refers to the Palestinians’ entity, from “Palestine” to the “State of Palestine.”
The name change was based on an opinion by the UN’s legal department. The UN’s head of protocol, Yeocheol Yoon, confirmed that “the designation of ‘State of Palestine’ shall be used by the Secretariat in all official United Nations documents.”
The UN’s official list of all permanent missions in New York has since been updated to reflect the name change. It used to refer to the “Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine.” Now, the so-called Blue Book speaks of the “Permanent Observer Mission of the State of Palestine.”
The head of the Palestinian UN mission, Riyad Mansour, had requested the name change on December 12.
Our mission is to save Jerusalem,’ Abbas tells Fatah supporters in TV address to huge Gaza rally
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party staged a massive rally Friday in the Gaza Strip, the first such gathering in the territory since Hamas seized control there in 2007 and a reflection of the warming ties between the two rival factions.
In a speech from his Ramallah headquarters in the West Bank, Abbas declared that “victory is near… We will soon meet in Gaza.”
He named a list of Palestinians killed in decades of struggle against Israel — including those from rival Palestinian movements, such as Hamas’s spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. He said that when Fatah was founded, the Palestinians’ situation was far worse than today. “The world didn’t recognize us. We didn’t have a state or an entity on the political map,” he said. “We were regarded as refugees who needed charity.” But “a trailblazing force” had insistently sought to change that, a process that culminated at the UN, he said, when the General Assembly on November 29 upgraded the Palestinians’ status.
Protesting the “occupation and blockade” imposed by Israel, and the expansion of settlements in Jerusalem, Abbas declared, “Our mission is to unify our efforts to save Jerusalem our capital.”
Throngs had camped out overnight in a downtown Gaza square to ensure themselves a spot for the anniversary commemoration of Fatah founding, and tens of thousands marched early Friday carrying Fatah banners. By early afternoon, a hundred thousand people had gathered, Israel Radio reported.
Top party officials arrived in Gaza for the first time since they were ousted from Gaza by Hamas rivals in 2007.
“There is no substitute for national unity,” Abbas said in the televised address.
Senior Fatah official Nabil Shaath said the party received a congratulatory message from Hamas’s Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, who expressed hope that the two factions could reconcile their differences and work together as joint representatives of the Palestinian people.
“This festival will be like a wedding celebration for Palestine, Jerusalem, the prisoners, the refugees and all the Palestinians,” said Shaath.
Reconciliation between the two factions, however, is still far from coming to fruition. Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal, considered more pragmatic than Hamas’s Gaza-based hard-line leaders, forged a reconciliation agreement with Abbas in 2011.
But the Gaza-based leadership, unsupportive of the agreement, has held up implementing it. Also, Fatah enjoys Western support and it has been pressured not to forge a unity deal with the terrorist Hamas, which calls for Israel’s destruction.
Fadwa Taleb, 46, who worked as a police officer during the previous rule of Fatah, gathered at the rally with her family. “We feel like birds freed from our cage today,” Taleb said. “We are happy and feel powerful again.”
A Gaza security official said a Fatah-linked former aide to the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died of a heart attack in the square overnight, saying he was shocked by the large crowd that was allowed to gather.
In the West Bank, Abbas signed a presidential decree changing the name of the Palestinian Authority to the “State of Palestine,” following the Palestinians’ upgraded status at the United Nations as a non-member observer state.
According to the decree, reported by the official Palestinian news agency Wafa Thursday night, all stamps, signs, and official letterhead will be changed to bear the new name.
It is the first concrete, albeit symbolic, step the Palestinians have taken following the November decision by the United Nations. Abbas has hesitated to take more dramatic steps, like filing war crimes indictments against Israel at the International Criminal Court, a tactic that only a recognized state can carry out.
With the vast crowds waving yellow Fatah flags and chanting slogans, the large Friday rally to celebrate the movement’s 48th anniversary was a sign of growing detente with Hamas.
A number of Fatah activists and officials traveled from the West Bank to Gaza for the rally, including Jibril Rajoub, who formerly headed the Palestinian security forces in the West Bank; negotiator Shaath, Fatah cofounder Abdul Aziz Shaheen; and Fadwa Barghouti, the wife of jailed activist Marwan Barghouti.
In early December, Hamas celebrated its own anniversary, holding rallies in several West Bank cities for the first time in five years.
Hamas has gained new support among Palestinians following eight days of fighting with Israel in November, in which its terrorists fired some 1,500 rockets into Israel.
Is this the beginning of the last piece (Jordan) to the Psalms 83 puzzle?
Hummingbird027 has a way with her studies to help others understand that the things going on in this world, that may seem to be NO BIG DEAL to you, really is! Look at some of her research on the Psalms 83 war! She is quite an intelligent lady!
Tell them like it is Brother Grahm! Franklin Graham warns 'wicked' America
But to liken America’s current situation to the status of the Old Testament tribe of Judah under Manasseh, the “wickedest king to rule?”
That the message that can be taken from a recent public letter posted on the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association website.
“Since the recent election, we’ve seen same-sex couples lining up at courthouses in several states to receive their marriage licenses, and hundreds of people gathering in public places to light up marijuana cigarettes in the states where it has just been decriminalized,” Graham wrote.
“This is only the tip of the iceberg. The moral decline we see on television programs – blatant immorality, senseless violence, media-friendly gay and lesbian behavior – is just a reflection of the moral corruption that has infected our entire nation. These are indeed dark days … but there is hope.
“The Bible says, ‘If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?’ (Psalm 11:3, ESV). No question our country’s foundations are being destroyed, but I am reminded of an era in the Old Testament where the Lord moved in a dramatic way to bring godly change to a spiritually dark and depraved nation like Judah, whose moral foundations had been seriously eroded.”
Graham, who heads not only the BGEA but also Samaritan’s Purse and has been a standard-bearer for the Christian faith for years, described Manasseh as “the wickedest king to rule over Judah.”
“Throughout his 55 years of evil reign, the land had been defiled with innocent blood. He led Judah into witchcraft, sorcery, and the worship of false gods and idols, including the fertility goddess Asherah. He even sacrificed his own son in the fires of idolatry,” Graham wrote.
But he noted the Bible story continues, with the account of Josiah, Manasseh’s grandson, who when he was 18 and king, came across the “book of the law.”
“Apparently it had been lost and neglected for a number of years. When Josiah heard the books read aloud by a scribe, he tore his clothes, and said, ‘Great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled again us, because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us,’ (2 Kings 22:13),” Graham wrote.
The result, he said, that “idols were smashed, spiritists and mediums forcibly removed, and the worship of the one true God reinstated,” Graham wrote.
“For far too long, as a nation we have neglected – and even rejected – the Word of God and His commands. Yet the Scriptures are mighty, able to penetrate even the most hardened and darkened hearts with convicting, life-giving power,” Graham wrote.
“This is the only cure for a sin-sickened country that is about to slip into a moral abyss, and it is why we must proclaim the Good News,” he wrote.
Overt action to minimize Christianity in America is a familiar page already – governments tossing out prayer even when it doesn’t mention Jesus, a military officer’s research paper suggesting officers should lose their Christian beliefs, and the government, at its Air Force Academy, designating a parcel of ground to be used to worship “Mother Earth and the Horned God.”
Also, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins was disinvited to speak at a prayer luncheon at Andrews Air Force Base because of his opposition to President Obama’s call to allow homosexuals to serve in the military.
Shirley Dobson, who coordinates National Day of Prayer events, said, “Prayers uttered by those in official positions are being met with hostility, or they have been banned outright. This opposition represents a radical change of direction for this great land. National days of prayer have occurred since 1775, when the Continental Congress asked the nation to join in a petition for divine guidance.”
Graham also has been unafraid to address the most politically sensitive issues of the day, telling CNN in an interview, ‘[T]rue Islam cannot be practiced in this country. You can’t beat your wife. You cannot murder your children if you think they’ve committed adultery or something like that, which they do practice in these other countries. … I don’t agree with the teachings of Islam and I find it to be a very violent religion.”
The research paper criticizing evangelical Christianity was written by a major for the School of Advanced Military Studies in Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
It calls for Americans to lose the Christian belief of premillennialism because of the damage it does to the nation’s foreign interests.
“As a result of millennarian influences on our culture, most Americans think as absolutists,” Maj. Brian L. Stuckert wrote in his 2008 course requirement at the school for military officers.
“A proclivity for clear differentiations between good, evil, right and wrong do not always serve us well in foreign relations or security policy,” he said. “Policy makers must strive to honestly confront their own cognitive filters and the prejudices associated with various international organizations and actors vis-Ã -vis premillennialism.”
“Our country’s financial problems … are nothing compared to the spiritual and moral cliff that is far more destructive to our nation than any economic concerns,” Graham wrote.
This is not a new subject, but everytime I see it I get excited all over again! God said what was gonna happen in Israel in the Bible and over the years it has HAPPENED! Just like the third Temple will happen!
Jordanian minister accuses Israel of planning to erect the third Temple
A Jordanian minister accused Israel on Wednesday of planning to partition the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem and the Temple Mount plaza surrounding it in order to erect the third Temple.
Islamic Endowments Minister Abdul Salam Abadi told a visiting clerical delegation from Australia that he received instructions from the “Hashemite leadership” to safeguard the Arab and Islamic identity of Jerusalem, Jordanian media reported.
Abadi said Israel was planning to divide the mosque from its courtyards with a 144-dunam structure.
Jordan, which extended its sovereignty to East Jerusalem and the West Bank in 1950, continues to administer the Islamic holy sites on the Temple Mount. Abadi told the Australian delegation that his ministry employs 600 civil servants in Jerusalem and oversees 40 Jerusalem schools.
According to the independent Jordanian daily Al-Ghad, Abadi stressed the need to support the residents of Jerusalem “in their steadfastness in the face of the repeated Israeli attacks on the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem.”
He did not expand on what he meant.
Jordan and Israel signed a peace agreement in 1994.
Jews are banned from praying on the Temple Mount by the Jordanian department of endowments, known as the Waqf, which administers the plaza surrounding the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock.
First US troops arrive in Turkey for Patriot missile site
The 27-member US military group Friday surveys the site in Gaziantep near the
Syrian border where the Patriot air defense system is to be installed.
PEOPLE, The World Governments goal is depopulation! This is their Victory! WHY DON'T YOU GET A CLUE AND RESEARCH! UN criticized for delaying publication of 60,000 Syrian war dead figure
European diplomats say that the figure of 60,000 killed in Syria’s 22-month
conflict was known to the UN two months ago. The death toll has since grown by
at least another 10,000.
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Thank you Father for another day and I praise your name!
Hezbollah to act strategically, keep composure
Hezbollah to act strategically, keep composure
Hezbollah will act strategically and play all of its cards in the face of a pending resolution to the bloodshed in Syria, a source close to the party told The Daily Star this week.
Hezbollah will remain undaunted in the face of attempts by regional and local rivals to drag it into a domestic conflict and will exhibit further endurance in dealing with the ever growing challenges ensuing from the crisis next door, the source adds. But the source believes that Hezbollah’s patience has its limits, although the events of May 2008 – when Hezbollah and its allies took over swathes of west Beirut in response to a government decision to dismantle the group’s private telecommunications network – is unlikely to be repeated. The sectarian clashes that killed more than 80 were widely seen as a black mark in the record of the resistance movement that at one point vowed not to use its weapons on the domestic front. The source also confides that Hezbollah is well aware that many local and regional players want its head on a plate and the only means to achieve that goal is igniting Sunni-Shiite strife in Lebanon. Hezbollah also believes that the Future Movement, which enjoys huge financial clout, and Hezbollah, which wields huge military clout, will continue to be at loggerheads for the foreseeable future. This conflict existed long before the Syrian unrest erupted. But according to the source, if Hezbollah is “intolerably cornered,” it will strike back. “However, the 2008 scenario will not happen again,” the source says. “Or let’s say that this time Hezbollah will be much more careful.” The powerful party also discerns the lack of enthusiasm displayed by Western powers for a conflict in Lebanon. This aversion to conflict is “definitely not out of courtesy,” the source explains, “but because a stable Lebanon works in favor of the turmoil in Syria.” The source says Hezbollah foresees that the conflict in Syria will drag on, but is confident that the “terrorist groups” fighting the regime of President Bashar Assad will eventually surrender. In addition, the source continues, the international community realizes that any confrontation with Hezbollah will automatically engender repercussions for Israel. The source argues that the multinational United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon and, surprisingly enough, Israel are actually calmed by the presence of Hezbollah in south Lebanon. “They will not be as serene if Salafist groups, which never officially declared Israel as an enemy, take over south Lebanon,” the source continues. “Hezbollah’s presence is a guarantor against the rise of extremism.” On the domestic scene, the source argues that Hezbollah will also maintain the composure it has so far shown, even if that means centrist figures such as President Michel Sleiman, Prime Minister Najib Mikati and Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt gain ground at the expense of the party and its allies in the March 8 coalition. The source describes centrist figures and parties as “buffers” rather than “decision-makers” whose role merely consists of either defusing tension or obstructing problematic issues that could lead to confrontations. “When important deals are brokered, centrists no longer count,” the source says. “The biggest slices of the cake go to the biggest players.” |
Meet Al Jazeera’s Holocaust-Denying Televangelist…Is This What We Can Expect on the New Current TV?
By now many have heard about Al Jazera’s recent acquisition of Current TV, Al Gore’s floundering television network that has, since its inception in 2005, displayed not only abysmal ratings but also blatant anti-Israel and anti-U.S. bias.
Ironically, TheBlaze sought to purchase Current, but was rebuffed by its executives who stated that they could not in good conscience sell out to a network whose point of view was not aligned with theirs. Thus, the only reasonable step for Gore and company was to seal a multi-million dollar deal with Al Jazeera, because, according to Current co-founder Joel Hyatt, the Qatar-based network “was founded with the same goals we had for Current.”
So what, exactly, are those shared goals and values? And what might a revamped Al Jazeera-led lineup at the new (and likely not so improved) Current TV look like?
A glimpse at Al Jazeera’s highest-rated program to date might give us an inkling into what lies ahead and it is cringe-inducing (though not surprising) to say the least.
Current: Meet Muslim Brotherhood spiritual sherpa and Al Jazeera’s top performing Islamic televangelist Youssef al-Qaradawi, best known for repeatedly twisting the Holocaust into a mold that suits his Islamic agenda and for declaring that his greatest hope is simply to live long enough to “shoot dead Allah’s enemies, the Jews.” The prolific imam has also issued hundreds of fatwas on everything from homosexuality to music to the role of female suicide bombers in their noble pursuit of jihad.
In light of Hyatt’s disturbing statement concerning his network’s shared goals with Al Jazeera, it is perhaps prudent to review the latter’s star talent, who has graced the homes of some 60 million viewers for the past 15 years with his weekly program ”Shariah and Life.”
Ironically, TheBlaze sought to purchase Current, but was rebuffed by its executives who stated that they could not in good conscience sell out to a network whose point of view was not aligned with theirs. Thus, the only reasonable step for Gore and company was to seal a multi-million dollar deal with Al Jazeera, because, according to Current co-founder Joel Hyatt, the Qatar-based network “was founded with the same goals we had for Current.”
So what, exactly, are those shared goals and values? And what might a revamped Al Jazeera-led lineup at the new (and likely not so improved) Current TV look like?
A glimpse at Al Jazeera’s highest-rated program to date might give us an inkling into what lies ahead and it is cringe-inducing (though not surprising) to say the least.
Current: Meet Muslim Brotherhood spiritual sherpa and Al Jazeera’s top performing Islamic televangelist Youssef al-Qaradawi, best known for repeatedly twisting the Holocaust into a mold that suits his Islamic agenda and for declaring that his greatest hope is simply to live long enough to “shoot dead Allah’s enemies, the Jews.” The prolific imam has also issued hundreds of fatwas on everything from homosexuality to music to the role of female suicide bombers in their noble pursuit of jihad.
In light of Hyatt’s disturbing statement concerning his network’s shared goals with Al Jazeera, it is perhaps prudent to review the latter’s star talent, who has graced the homes of some 60 million viewers for the past 15 years with his weekly program ”Shariah and Life.”
God will shake this earth when he returns and you will hide in the mountains. He will shake you out and you will stand in that day befor GOD and his judgement will be poured out on you for the way you have treated HIS CHOSEN!
'Not a single Jew will be left on the face of the Earth'
In a recent broadcast on Al-NAS Television in Egypt, cleric Mahmoud al-Masri pontificated on his belief about the future of the nation of Israel and the Jewish people.
“The final annihilation [of the Jews] will come at the time of the Mahdi, or shortly before the Mahdi appears. Then the Muslims will regain the Al-Aqsa mosque, if they do not manage to spread Islam throughout the land,” he said.
The Mahdi is believed by some sects in Islam to be the 12th imam, an end times figure who will arise to lead Muslims on a worldwide rampage in which all “enemies” of the belief are eliminated. Some Christians believe the Mahdi is the same as the biblical Antichrist, the personification of evil.
Former terrorist turned Christian Walid Shoebat noted the report, and said, “As the West attempts to split hairs when determining if Islamists with this view are part of al-Qaida or not, the words of Islamists like this fall on deaf ears. His idea of victory is for the Earth to be uninhabited by a single Jew.”
Shoebat has posted online the video that was assembled by the Middle East Media Research Institute, which monitors and publicizes statements from media outlets in the Middle East.
Shoebat continued, “Note that this guy is rooting for the Syrian rebels.”
Al-Masri has positioned his comments in the context of Islam rooting for the “rebels” in Syria, who have engaged in a civil war with one of their own, Muslim President Bashar al-Assad.
Estimates are that more than 40,000 Syrians have died as a result of the rebels, who include terror-linked Muslims, fighting against al-Assad, who is trying to remain in power.
“We must all make an effort for the sake of our country, because if Egypt rises and the Syrian revolution prevails – I swear that this will be the end of Israel, Allah willing,” he said.
“The Zionist entity has become nervous about us for a simple reason: They cannot forget the utter defeat they suffered in the 1973 war. If some of the superpowers had not intervened to stop that war – if President Sadat had been allowed to continue – it would have been the end of Israel. They stopped the war, but if it had continued, Israel would have been finished off. It would have been erased from the face of the Earth. But Allah decreed otherwise.”
He continued, “Allah willing, Israel will be annihilated, because the Prophet Muhammad said so. Don’t believe it because I said so. Believe it because I say that the Prophet Muhammad said so: ‘Judgment Day will not come before the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them.’”
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also repeatedly has made statements about the annihilation of the Jews and the removal of Israel from the face of the Earth.
WND previously reported that a Pew Research poll said two-thirds of a billion Muslims expect the Mahdi – the last Islamic imam they believe will come and rule the world – to arrive in their lifetimes.
Those results affirmed the warnings from author Joel Richardson, whose book, “Mideast Beast,” is a sequel to his New York Times bestselling 2009 “The Islamic Antichrist.”
In a column written in WND, Richardson noted that he has been criticized repeatedly for believing many Muslims have a faith in the coming Mahdi, especially that there are a significant number who believe that will happen soon.
The survey by Pew Research at that time noted that in the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia, “half or more Muslims believe they will live to see the return of the Mahdi. This expectation is most widespread in Afghanistan (83 percent), Iraq (72 percent), Tunisia (67 percent) and Malaysia (62 percent).
The survey said that belief drops to about four-in-10 across Central Asia, except for Turkey, where 68 percent expect to witness his return. It drops slightly further across southern and eastern Europe.
“In some countries with sizable Sunni and Shi’a populations, views on the Mahdi’s return differ by sect. In Iraq, for example, Shi’as are more likely than Sunnis to expect the Mahdi to return in their lifetime, by an 88 percent to 55 percent margin. In Azerbaijan, the difference between the two groups is also large (25 percentage points),” the report said. “Differences between Shi’as and Sunnis on this issue may reflect the more central role that the Mahdi’s return plays in Shi’a Islam.”
The result? An estimated 672 million Muslims expect to witness the Mahdi’s return.
Richardson has reported that one of the recent surface-to-surface missiles launched by Iran was inscribed “Ya Mahdi” – the equivalent of “Go Mahdi.”
He notes that while many believe the Antichrist will come from a revived Roman Empire, which many have assumed is associated with the Roman Catholic Church and the European Union, he doesn’t believe that is the case.
“The Bible abounds with proofs that the Antichrist’s empire will consist only of nations that are, today, Islamic,” Richardson explained. “Despite the numerous prevailing arguments for the emergence of a revived European Roman empire as the Antichrist’s power base, the specific nations the Bible identifies as comprising his empire are today all Muslim.”
Richardson believes the key error of many previous prophecy scholars involves the misinterpretation of a prediction by Daniel to Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar. Daniel describes the rise and fall of empires of the future, leading to the end times. Western Christians have viewed one of those empires as Rome, when, claims Richardson, Rome never actually conquered Babylon and was thus disqualified as a possibility.
It had to be another empire that rose and fell and rose again that would lead to rule of this “man of sin,” described in the Bible. That empire, he says, is the Islamic Empire, which did conquer Babylon and, in fact, rules over it even today.
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