My dear Reader, My dear Reader

MA 52. MAY-JUNE 2012 Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe
My dear Reader,
Greetings once more in the Name of Y’shua the Messiah – He who is coming again to
deliver His people from this delirious world.
This present Millennium Alert is at least a month late, the reason being that our
Circulation Manager, Kevin Wilson, had a sudden abdominal attack, and needed to
undergo major surgery. It was not cancer; it was an intestinal problem that was linked to
a past injury and operation. It was a shock for all of us. The surgery was an eleven hour
operation which carried a high risk. But praise to Y’shua the Great Physician, His hands
were on Kevin and brought him through. After several weeks of recovery in hospital he
has returned home, and is catching up with mail on his computer. But he has to take
things carefully, and no lifting!
It was not possible to send out a magazine while Kevin was in hospital. But he will now
supervise the despatch of this Alert from his chair. Our wonderful volunteer workers will
handle the labelling, packing as usual, and now the heavy lifting of the magazines and
getting them to the post office. We value your prayers, not only for our physical work,
but also that the Lord will use the literature to bring awakening and blessing in the lives
of our readers.
This issue begins with the Fukushima nuclear crisis. The main news media are not giving
the full picture of this crisis – evidently it is too scary. But some are reporting various
aspects. www.heraldsun.com.au has focused in on Reactor 4. I wish all this was not
true and was just the work of a scare-monger. But this disaster could well explode during
the Tribulation. And I trust none of my readers will be left behind for that terrible Day
of Wrath.
Let’s share the news; and awaken people everywhere to the prophetically-relevant
realities of these days.
- Don S.
FUKUSHIMA CRISIS
MAY BECOME A
“GLOBAL CATASTROPHE”
Several reports have come to my desk in the first week of May, reporting on the alarming
Fukushima Crisis. It is horrifying! Some of the projected scenarios seem very extreme,
but they are not more extreme than the Bible prophecies in Revelation 8:7-11 & 16:3-4 &
Isaiah 24:1-6.
The awful fears and alarms in these reports, like other alarming doomsday fears, may
not eventuate. And we hope they won’t! But the fact is that …
Fukushima Could be the
Revelation Apocalypse in the Making!
Elliott Freeman reported in Science magazine:
APR. 27/12. A nuclear watchdog official told RT News that the crisis at the crippled
Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan could become a "global catastrophe," echoing
warnings from other experts.
Kevin Kamps, a radioactive waste watchdog with Beyond Nuclear, described the potential
nightmare, stating that if the pools of nuclear fuel at the plant caught on fire, the area
would become so radioactive that the entire containment operation would have to be
permanently abandoned.
Mitsuhei Murata, the former Japanese ambassador to Switzerland, and Executive
Director, the Japan Society for Global System and Ethics also expressed grave concerns
about what would happen if the damaged building that houses Reactor 4 collapsed.
According to the Huffington Post, he explained to the Swiss House of Councillors in
March that should such an event occur, it would adversely affect the thousands of spent
nuclear fuel rods nearby, which are dangerously exposed to air.
"It is no exaggeration to say that the fate of Japan and the
whole world depends on No. 4 reactor," he said.
Nuclear expert Robert Alvarez, the former Senior Policy
Adviser to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy,
spelled out the potential disaster in more specific -- and
chilling -- terms, in an email sent to renowned Japanese
diplomat Akio Matsumura. He said:
"If an earthquake or other event were to cause the pool to drain, this could result in a
catastrophic radiological fire involving nearly 10 times the amount of [radioactive]
Cesium-137 released by the Chernobyl incident."
However, things could get much worse. According to Alvarez, if the 11,421 spent
nuclear fuel rods contained in the facility also went up in flames, it would unleash 85
times the amount of Cesium-137 released by the Chernobyl disaster. The release of this
amount of Cesium-137 would "destroy the world environment and our civilization. This
is an issue of human survival."
- http://akiomatsumura.com/2012/04/682.html
In addition, a recent study of the meltdown at Chernobyl offers a sobering analysis of the
situation. According to research compiled by Russian scientists and published in the
New York Academy of Sciences, the nuclear fallout from the Chernobyl disaster killed
over one million people worldwide from 1986 to 2004.
If the worst-case scenario at Fukushima becomes a reality, the effects could lead to
millions of casualties worldwide.
For people in the northern hemisphere there is an absolute promise that the radiation
will continue relentlessly through the coming years. Such a catastrophe would affect us
all for centuries. It is sounding like a nuclear hell coming to earth to teach us something
about our arrogance, massive stupidity and pathetic weakness.
www.digitaljournal.com/article/323733#ixzz1tackCayM
FUKUSHIMA: HANGING BY A THREAD
Dr. Mark Sircus, theintelhub.com asks:
APR. 27/12. “Are you ready? It is becoming clear that we, our children and our entire
civilization, are hanging by a thread. It is a very sorry thing to report that we have
literally shot ourselves in the foot with a big nuclear shotgun full of radioactive particles
of the worst conceivable kind.
“It has taken a year but finally one U.S. Senator got up and went to Japan to see what is
going on over there. What he saw was horrific. Reactor No. 4 building is on the verge of
collapsing.” The 7-story building itself has suffered great damage, with the storage pool
barely intact on the building’s third and fourth floors. The roof has been blown away.
After an onsite tour of what remains of the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear facilities, US
Senator Ron Wyden, a senior member of the US Senate Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, sent a letter to Japanese Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki saying, “The scope of
damage to the plants and to the surrounding area was far beyond what I expected.”
Seismicity standards rate the building at a zero, meaning even a small earthquake could
send it into a heap of rubble. And sitting at the top of the building, in a pool that is
cracked, leaking, and precarious (even without an earthquake), are 1,565 fuel rods.
Those fuel rods are stored in a concrete pool located 100 feet above the ground, inside
the structurally compromised reactor building, effectively making the pool open to the
air. The pool holding these fuel rods is structurally damaged.
Just 50 meters from reactor No. 4, a much larger pool of spent fuel rods contains 6,375
fuel rods, all of which remain highly radioactive. All these fuel rods are, astonishingly,
exposed to the open air. They are not held inside any containment vessel. The total
number of spent fuel rods across all six reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi site is 11,421.
"If an earthquake or other event were to cause this nuclear pool to drain, it could
result in a catastrophic radiological fire that could wipe out most of the northern
hemisphere; certainly it would be a massive civilization-breaking event.
“The precarious status of the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear units and the risk presented
by the enormous inventory of radioactive materials and spent fuel in the event of
further earthquake threats should be of concern to all and a focus of greater
international support and assistance.”
Spent reactor fuel cannot be simply lifted into the air by a crane as if it were routine
cargo. In order to prevent severe radiation exposures, fires and possible explosions, it
must be transferred at all times in water and heavily shielded structures into dry casks.
As this has never been done before, the removal of the spent fuel from the pools at the
damaged Fukushima-Dai-Ichi reactors will require a major and time-consuming
reconstruction effort and will involve charting in unknown waters. "The infrastructure to
safely remove this material was destroyed as it was at the other three reactors," says
Robert Alvarez.
1,565 fuel rods translate into 460 tons of nuclear fuel stored in pool in a barely intact
building on its third and fourth floors. If the storage pool breaks and runs dry, the
nuclear fuel inside will overheat and explode.
The worst-case scenario drawn up by the government includes not only the collapse of
the No. 4 reactor pool, but also the disintegration of spent-fuel rods from all the plant’s
other reactors. The wall of the south side is already falling apart at reactor No. 4.
If this pool collapses, as Senator Wyden is now saying we would face a mass extinction
event from the release of radiation in those rods.
Reports indicate that things are so hopeless at the plant, and that governments around
the world have not come together in a desperate attempt to save humanity.
While our government would love us all to believe that the nuclear problems in Japan
are under control, nothing could be farther from the truth. Engineers for Tokyo Electric
Power Co. (Tepco) say readings of airborne radiation inside reactor No. 2 showed
almost 73 sieverts per hour this week.
To put that into perspective, exposure to that amount of radiation would kill a normal
person within minutes.
These levels are some of the highest readings since the beginning of the disaster and there
is no one telling us that this nuclear contamination will lessen.
RADIATION REACHING THE U.S.
The desperate situation is much more widespread than Japan. Russian military observers
overflying the US in April as part of the Open Skies Treaty are reporting “unprecedented”
amounts of radiation in the Western regions of the US, a finding that was further
confirmed by scientists with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute who have confirmed
that a wave of highly radioactive waste is headed directly for the west coast.
Important to note is that this new wave of Fukushima radiation headed towards the US
is in addition to earlier radiation events that American scientists are now blaming for
radioactive particles from Japan being detected in California kelp (seaweed).
Reports of soil contamination are also starting to come in from the USGS (US Geological
Survey), which has seemed reluctant to share this information. Los Angeles, California,
Portland, Oregon and Boulder, Colorado so far have the highest radioactive particle
contamination out of the entire US.
Iodine, cesium, strontium, plutonium, uranium, and a host of other fission products
have been coming directly from Japan to the west coast for thirteen months. Reports in
the past week indicate the pollen in southern California is also now radioactive, and it is
flying around, and if you live there and go outside, you are breathing it in. And so are
your children,” says Consolo.
The mainstream media operates in a total blackout of this news, refusing to even
acknowledge the existence of this immediate threat to human civilization.
The mainstream media is, in large part, owned by General Electric, the very company
that designed the Fukushima reactors in the first place. It is clear that GE is diligently
running a total media blackout on this news in order to cover itself and prevent people
from asking questions about the faulty engineering and nuclear facility site selection that
led to this catastrophe.
MOX PLUTONIUM FUEL
The Mixed Oxide Fuel (MOX) reactor, which burns with plutonium/uranium, is more
deadly than those burning on uranium- enriched fuel, according to nuclear experts. The
half-life of plutonium-239 in MOX is 24,000 years, and just a few milligrams of P-239
escaping in a smoke plume will contaminate soil for tens of thousands of years.
A single milligram (mg) of MOX is as deadly as 2,000,000 mg of normal enriched
uranium, meaning that one mg of MOX is basically two million times more powerful
than one mg of uranium.
If even a small amount of this potent substance escapes from the plant in a smoke plume,
the particles will travel with the wind and contaminate soil for tens of thousands of
years.
Ray Guilmette of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements said that
plutonium “is thousands of times more radioactive than uranium,” if absorbed into the
body.
Donald Olander, professor emeritus of nuclear engineering at the University of
California, Berkeley, said that because plutonium decays quickly, it produces radiation
that can kill cells in the body more quickly. But the plutonium itself would pose a severe
threat only if it was involved in a violent reaction that turned it into dust particles that
could be inhaled.
No one knows the exact number, but many of the fuel rods at risk are MOX, thus
containing deadly plutonium. If that blows up then we might end up wishing we had had
a nuclear war instead. theintelhub.com/2012/04/27/fukushima-hanging-by-a-thread/
JAPAN MAY HAVE TO EVACUATE 40 MILLION
APR 15/12. EU Times. A report prepared by the Russian Foreign Ministry on the
planned re-opening of talks with Japan over the disputed Kuril Islands, states that
Russian diplomats were “stunned” after being told by their Japanese counterparts that
more than 40 million of their peoples were in “extreme danger” of life threatening
radiation poisoning and could very well likely be faced with forced evacuations away
from their countries eastern cities … including the world’s largest city, Tokyo.
The Kuril Islands are located in Russia’s Sakhalin Oblast region and stretch
approximately 1,300 km (810 miles) northeast from Hokkaido, Japan, to Kamchatka,
Russia, separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the North Pacific Ocean. There are 56
islands which make up the Greater Kuril Ridge and Lesser Kuril Ridge, all of which
were captured by Soviet Forces in the closing days of World War II from the Japanese.
The “extreme danger” facing tens of millions of the
Japanese peoples is the result of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster that was a
series of equipment failures, nuclear meltdowns, and releases of radioactive materials at
the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, following the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami on
March 11, 2011.
According to the report, Japanese diplomats have signaled to their Russian counterparts
that the returning of the Kuril Islands to Japan is “critical” as they have no other place to
resettle so many people.
The Japanese diplomats also told their Russian counterparts that they were “seriously
considering” an offer by China to relocate tens of millions of their citizens to the Chinese
mainland to inhabit what are called the “ghost cities” – cities that were built for reasons
still unknown, and described, in part, by London’s Daily Mail News Service in their
Dec.18, 2010 article titled: “The Ghost Towns Of China: Amazing Satellite Images
Show Cities Meant To Be Home To Millions Lying Deserted.”
The article says: “These amazing satellite images show sprawling cities built in remote
parts of China that have been left completely abandoned, sometimes years after their
construction. Elaborate public buildings and open spaces are completely unused, with
the exception of a few government vehicles near communist authority offices. Some
estimates put the number of empty homes at as many as 64 million, with up to 20 new
cities being built every year in the country’s vast swathes of free land.”
Foreign Ministry experts in this report note that should Japan accept China’s offer, the
combined power of these two Asian peoples would make them the largest super-power
in human history with an economy larger than that of the US and EU combined, and
able to field a combined military force of over 200 million.
The dire situation in Japan was recently articulated by Japanese diplomat Akio
Matsumura who warned that the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant may ultimately
turn into an event capable of extinguishing all life on Earth.
Though the news of this ongoing global catastrophe is still being heavily censored in the
US, the same cannot be said about Japan. A leading Japanese newspaper, The Mainichi
Daily News, reported:
“One of the biggest issues that we face is the possibility that the spent nuclear fuel pool of
the No. 4 reactor at the stricken Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant will collapse.
This is something that experts from both within and outside Japan have pointed out
since the massive quake struck.”
TEPCO, meanwhile, says that the situation is under control. However, not only
independent experts, but also sources within the government say that it’s a grave
concern. If the storage pool breaks and runs dry, the nuclear fuel inside will overheat and
explode, causing a massive amount of radioactive substances to spread over a wide area.
Both the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and French nuclear energy
company Areva have warned about this risk.
A report released in February by the Independent Investigation Commission on the Fukushima
Daiichi Nuclear Accident stated that the storage pool of the plant’s No. 4 reactor has clearly
been shown to be “the weakest link” in the parallel, chain-reaction crises of the nuclear
disaster. The worst case scenario drawn up by the government includes not only the
collapse of the No. 4 reactor pool, but the dis-integration of spent fuel rods from all the
plant’s other reactors. If this were to happen, residents in the Tokyo metropolitan area
would be forced to evacuate.”
Even though this crisis in Japan has been described as “a nuclear war without a war,”
and it has been reported that the US Military is now stocking up on massive amounts of
anti-radiation pills in preparation for nuclear fallout, there remains no evidence at all
the ordinary people are being warned about this danger in any way whatsoever.
http://www.eutimes.net/2012/04/russia-stunned-after-japanese-plan-to-evacuate-40million-revealed/
PROPHECIES OF TRIBULATION DESTRUCTION
REVELATION 8:8-11
“The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain blazing with
fire was hurled into the sea; and a third of the sea turned into blood; and a third of the
living creatures in the sea died; and a third of the ships were destroyed.”
“The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the
sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of waters, and the name of the star is
Wormwood - "Bitterness." A third of the waters became wormwood, and many people
died from the waters that had become bitter.”
ISAIAH 24:1, 3-6
“Look! YHWH lays the earth waste, devastates it, distorts its surface, and scatters is
inhabitants … The earth will be completely laid waste and completely despoiled, for
YHWH has spoken this word. The earth mourns and withers; the world fades and
withers; the exalted of the people of the earth languish.
“The earth is also polluted by its inhabitants, for they have transgressed the teachings,
changed the laws, and broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore a curse devours the
earth, and those who live in it are held guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are
burned up, and few men are left.”
WOE TO THOSE WHO ARE LEFT BEHIND
TO ENDURE THE GREAT TRIBULATION!
“Then there will be great tribulation, such as has never occurred since the beginning of
the world until now; and there will be nothing like it again.” (Matthew 24:21)
In spite of the prophecies, and in spite of the proliferation of disasters and powerful signs
all around the world, most of the world goes on with “life as usual.” And even much of
“the church” is also indifferent to the “cyclones” swirling around their steeples, and their
helmet-less heads!
Prophecy preachers like myself are often looked upon as crazies
standing on street corners, shouting out, “The End is Nigh!’ The
indifference to the warnings is overwhelming!
Very few Christians today, it seems, are eager, or even willing, to
speak out and warn this perishing world of the coming judgment!
Will it take a direct asteroid hit on Washington, London or
Canberra, to awaken our churches, and our God-snubbing
politicians, and our decadent generation, to reality and
righteousness?
“Watchman, What of the Night? Watchman,
What is left of the Night?” (Isaiah 21:11)
Believer, “It is high time for us to wake up from slumber; for our salvation is nearer
now than when we first believed. The night is almost gone, and the day is at hand. Let
us therefore cast away the deeds of darkness and put on the armour of light.” (Romans
13:11-12)
Let’s “Redeem the time because the days are evil.” (Ephesians 5:15)
My dear reader, there are a lot more evil developments out there in the nations; many
you know very well. But look at this report from endoftheamericandream.com.
THE UN PLAN FOR RUNNING THE WORLD
Global Carbon Taxes, Global Safety Nets and
a One World Green Economy
APR. 2012. Did you know that the UN has a plan for running the world and it is right
out in the open? It is called "sustainable development," but it is far more
comprehensive than it sounds. The truth is that the UN plan for running the world
would dramatically alter nearly all forms of human activity.
A 204 page report on "sustainable development"
entitled "Working Towards a Balanced and Inclusive Green
Economy, A United Nations System-Wide Perspective" has
been published in advance of the upcoming Rio + 20
United Nations Conference on Sustainable
Development in Rio de Janeiro on June 20-22. It
envisions a vast system of g lobal carbon ta xes,
massive global safety nets and the implementation of a one world green economy.
Many of those that are pushing "sustainable development" on a global level believe that
they are doing it for the good of the planet.
In fact, the 204-page report mentioned above even says that the transition "to a green
economy requires a fundamental shift in the way we think and act," but that it will be
worth it in the end.
No matter how much friendly language the UN uses in their reports, the truth is that
what they are promoting is an insidious agenda of absolute tyranny on a global scale.
The Rio comes 20 years after the original 1992 UN Earth Summit that adopted
"Agenda 21." This new summit will be about renewing that commitment to
"sustainable development" and moving that agenda forward.
One of the things that the UN would love to implement is a global carbon tax scheme.
The power to tax is the power to control, and if the UN is ever given the power to tax the
entire globe they will at that point become much more than a "soft global government".
The report also envisions the transfer of trillions of dollars a year from wealthy countries
to poorer countries. The UN feels that this is necessary for several reasons.
First of all, the UN says that developing nations do not have the resources to pay for the
"green infrastructure" that is needed to participate in the new green economy and
therefore wealthier nations should pay for it.
Secondly, the UN believes that massive global wealth distribution is needed in order to
bring about global "equity." Does that sound like radical socialism to you?
The UN report also envisions massive changes to the global financial system. This new
UN report on "sustainable development" is just the latest in a long string of UN reports
that sees an emerging role for "Special Drawing Rights" to play in the international
financial system ....
The United Nations wants to reform public education. The new UN report says that
"climate change education is a particularly important part of quality education."
Unfortunately, there are now millions upon millions of "true believers" in this
"sustainable development" agenda and it is being taught in almost every major college
and university in the developed world.
The elitists that are pushing "sustainable development" on a global scale love death.
They believe that humans are the primary cause of global warming, and they also believe
that if there were a lot less humans running around that there would be a lot less climate
change.
Sadly, there are a whole lot of people out there these days that are advocating very strict
population control measures for the entire globe. They believe that they are trying to
"save the planet," but the truth is that what they are really doing is promoting global
tyranny.
In fact, UN officials have even been drafting an environmental constitution for the
world that is intended to eventually supersede all existing national laws. Full story>
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/the-un-plan-for-running-the-world-globalcarbon-taxes-global-safety-nets-and-a-one-world-green-economy
PROPHECY
“For the mystery of iniquity and lawlessness is already at work; but He (the Holy
Spirit) who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.
“And then the lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of
His mouth and bring to an end by the glory of His coming; that is, the one whose
coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with great power and with all kinds of
signs and counterfeit miracles, and with all the deception of wickedness among those
who are perishing, because they would not receive the love of the truth which could
have saved them.” (2 Thessalonians 2:7-10)
TOWARDS THE BEAST CONFEDERATION
“The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but who
for one hour will receive authority as kings along with the beast. They will have one
purpose and will give their power and authority to the beast.”
(Revelation 17:12-13)
EU MINISTERS PONDER CREATION OF
A SUPER-PRESIDENT
APR 20/12. euobserver.com reports on ideas that are being discussed in a” reflection
group” of select EU foreign ministers – ideas that include the merging of the roles of the
EU Council and European Commission presidents.
A senior EU source told this website following a meeting of “the club” in Brussels on
April 19 that the new supremo would have more power than both Herman Van
Rompuy (the EU Council President), and Jose Manuel Barroso (the president of the
European Commission), but he would also have more "democratic legitimacy" because
he (or she) would be elected by MEPs – members of the European Parliament.
BARROSO
VAN ROMPUY
The present EU Council President post was created by the Lisbon Treaty in 2009. But
the Lisbon architecture is messy, with Van Rompuy, for instance, overseeing recent
debate on EU fiscal reform, while Barroso's commission puts forward its own ideas and
implements final decisions.
Van Rompuy and Barroso both represent the Union at
international summits. Van Rompuy is top dog in terms of
protocol, while the EU "high representative" - a job currently filled
by Catherine Ashton - does day-to-day foreign relations.
The reflection group was formed by German foreign minister
Guido Westerwelle in Berlin in March. It plans to meet two more
times before the summer recess, and to circulate a discussion
paper at EU27-level in September.
ASHTON
The other countries in “the club are”: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy,
Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Spain. The French minister did not
attend the session on April 19. - euobserver.com/18/115965
In Britain there is a different take on the plans for an EU Supremo. The Daily Express
sees it as ...
AN EU PLOT TO SCRAP BRITAIN
MAY 4/12. The Daily Express maintains that senior Eurocrats are secretly plotting to
create a super-powerful EU president to realise their dream of abolishing Britain and
other nation states.
A covert group of EU foreign ministers has drawn up plans for merging the jobs
currently done by the president of the European Council, and the president of the
European Commission.
The new bureaucrat, who would not be directly elected by voters, but by the MEPs, is set
to get sweeping control over the entire EU and force member countries into evergreater political and economic union.
Tellingly, the UK has been excluded from the confidential discussions within the shady
“Berlin Group” of Europhile politicians, spearheaded by German foreign minister Guido
Westerwelle.
Opponents fear the plan could create a modern-day equivalent
of the European emperor envisaged by Napoleon Bonaparte, or
a return to the Holy Roman Empire of Charlemagne that
dominated Europe in the Dark Ages.
They are concerned that David Cameron’s coalition
Government is doing nothing to prevent the sinister plot. The
secret talks were uncovered by Independent Labour peer Lord
Stoddart of Swindon.
He says: “This is a plot by people who want to abolish nation states and create a United
States of Europe. “The whole thing is barmy. These people are determined to achieve
their final objective. The only hope for Britain is to leave the EU and become an
independent nation.”
Tory backbench MP Douglas Carswell said: “It doesn’t matter how you arrange the
offices of these technocrats, they are useless at arranging our lives for us and they are not
elected so they have no legitimacy. My worry is that the president will end up having the
charisma of Van Rompuy and the economic management skills of Jose Manuel
Barroso.”
Euro-MP Paul Nuttall, of the UK Independence Party, said: “This is a truly ridiculous
idea that must never be allowed to happen. It sounds as if they are trying to go back to
the days of the Holy Roman Emperor.”
At present, the two senior EU bureaucrats, Mr Barroso and Mr Van Rompuy, are locked
in a bitter power struggle to determine who is the true “big cheese” in Europe.
Former Portuguese premier Mr Barroso, who heads the EU’s executive arm and was
elected to his post by members of the European Union, is understood to resent the rival
fiefdom of Belgian Mr Van Rompuy, who was chosen by the heads of government of EU
member states to represent them.
Under the “reflection group” plan, a single figure would be
elected by Euro-MPs to perform both roles.
Supporters of the move believe that the rival presidencies are
undermining the EU’s ability to speak with a single voice. They
argue that merging the two jobs will create a powerful European
leader who is capable of pursuing the federalist dream of a united
Europe which has been severely shaken by the eurozone crisis.
Lord Stoddart confirmed the existence of the plot thanks to a parliamentary written
answer in the House of Lords. He asked Foreign Office ministers to reveal what they
knew about the merger talks.
In response to his inquiry, Tory Foreign Office minister Lord Howell of Guildford said:
“We are aware of one group of EU foreign ministers meeting on an informal basis to
discuss a variety of issues related to the future governance of the EU. While the UK is
not part of that group, we understand that one idea under discussion is a merger of the
positions of president of the European Council and president of the European
Commission.”
Lord Howell added: “A merger of the two presidencies would create a potential conflict
of interest, undermine the quality of the EU’s decision-making processes and upset the
institutional balance within the EU.”
Lord Stoddart said: “These sorts of informal discussions within the EU have a habit of
rapidly being transferred into formal proposals. Since the (UK) Government is not party
to these discussions, its reservations are academic. Such a merger would represent a
massive shift of power into the hands of a single, unelected bureaucrat. The
Government should be taking this far more seriously and voicing its objections very
strongly.”
He added: “The holder of this new office would be both Europe’s political and
administrative leader, giving them far more powers than those given to the US
president. It really is a great disappointment that we have a Conservative-led
Government that is supposed to be Eurosceptic, yet ministers just go along with this.”
http://www.express.co.uk/home /
These developments could well be another step preparing the way for the rise of the
Prince of Rome – the Antichrist, who will rule the world for 3½ years.
“Then the king will do as he pleases. He will exalt and magnify himself above every
god, and will speak great blasphemies against the God of gods. He will be successful
until the time of wrath (the Great Tribulation) is completed, for what has been
determined must take place.” (Daniel 11:36)
“That is, the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with great power
and with all kinds of signs and counterfeit miracles.” (2 Thessalonians 2:9)
EUROPE BACK TO THE BOILING POINT
By Todd Strandberg – www.raptureready.com
APR. 2012. The global debt crisis is back in the
headlines. Right now, red flags are popping up all over
Europe, with SPAIN being the most-watched nation.
In April, Standard & Poor's cut its credit rating on
Spain by two notches, citing the government’s growing
budget deficit as a result of economic contraction. And
the Spanish government released data showing a
record 5,639,500 people are unemployed in that
nation, with the unemployment rate hitting 24.4%.
Spain may need to pump around $200 billion into its ailing banks.
ITALY is not far behind Spain. Its massive $2.5 trillion outstanding public debt has
become a daunting risk for Italian banks. While banks are not obliged to purchase
domestic government bonds, they are doing so for a very clear reason. They have
purchased so many already that if they don't buy more, a collapse in the bond market
would wipe them out.
The banking system in Europe is so critical, the U.S. Federal Reserve, the European
Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund have stepped forward with bailouts
totalling $7 trillion.
Egon von Greyerz, a partner at Matterhorn Asset Management out of Switzerland,
recently noted how desperate efforts to sustain the current global financial system have
become. “So they (the IMF) raised 400 billion from various nations, but where is the
money coming from? The majority is coming from Europe and the EU. They are all
bankrupt; they have no funds, so they have to print money.
JAPAN, which has the biggest debt to GDP ratio of most industrialized nations, is a
major contributor of about $60 billion. It’s ridiculous. Here is the bankrupt helping the
bankrupt.
Several nations have tried to bring their budgets under control by implementing austerity
measures. But European leaders are starting to find that austerity has its own dire
economic consequences. When you reduce government spending, the economy will
naturally contract. Austerity may already be doomed at the ballot box.
With Western governments running annual shortfalls of early
$4 trillion, of course, there will be more printing of currency. At some point, the law of
mathematics will kick in, and we will reach a flashpoint where the financial rupture will
be so quick and overwhelming in scale that the central banks will be powerless to stop
the meltdown.
With such a huge percentage of the population dependent on the government, the failure
of the system will create massive social unrest.
The rise of the Antichrist could dovetail perfectly with this crisis. The Beast will
eventually gain total control over the global banking system. Some type of crisis would
be very helpful in setting the stage for such a vast shift in economic power.
"And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a
mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save
he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”
(Revelation13:16-17)
EUROZONE FACES WIDESPREAD REVOLT
APR 24/12. From Athens to Madrid, France to Belgium and Holland, the Germaninspired doctrine of financial rigour is spurring revolt across the euro currency bloc.
The grind of austerity is wearing down hard in the eurozone, even in countries that are
traditionally behind the orthodox virtues preached by Berlin.
This is not just about currency. Anti-Brussels feeling has been on the march for years.
Sweden, Hungary and Denmark, all outside the euro, are witnessing a rise in populist
Eurosceptic parties.
And Britain is in its most anti-Europe mood since it joined the Common Market in 1973.
– The Times
PROPHETIC SHIFT TOWARD BEAST EMPIRE
France's president Nicholas Sarkozy was ousted by socialist Francois Hollande, who
promises to raise taxes on the rich to over 70% and increase social programs. French
voters rejected more austere measures in favour of a tax and spend socialist.
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has been on the forefront of leading Europe out of
economic morass created by deficit spending. Her somewhat fiscally responsible
approach has been rejected by German voters as her party took the worst thrashing since
World War II. Members of her Christian Democratic Party lost to a mixed group of
socialists in a regional election.
Greece's voters are also going socialist. Italy, Portugal, Spain and other nations continue
in economic decline.
GREECE HEADED INTO 'OUT OF CONTROL BANKRUPTCY'
The financial crisis in Greece is reaching an explosive tipping point, with the youth
unemployment rate now exceeding a startling 50% and the government itself
announcing it will be forced to stop paying salaries and pensions by June:
"We will be in wild bankruptcy, out-of-control bankruptcy," said Theodoros Pangalos,
the deputy prime minister of Greece. "The state will not be able to pay salaries and
pensions. We have got until June before we run out of money." - www.telegraph.co.uk
Over the past two years, Greece has been surviving on financial bailouts - in the billions
of dollars - from the IMF and the EU. Conditions for the bailouts have included
austerity measures — Greece must cut its spending, and reign in its huge debt.
With unemployment skyrocketing, public protests against austerity worsened the
situation, and brought down the former Prime Minister. Recent new elections produced
a mixed result, and a coalition government could not be formed. Some parties want to
reject austerity and bail agreements, and push the need for growth instead.
New elections have now been scheduled for June 17, which will, in fact, work as a
referendum on whether Greece will stay in the Eurozone, or not. Deep uncertainty and
fear surrounds what could become an upheaval for the European Union and the global
economy. Stock markets around the world have been shaken by the crisis.
GREECE ON EDGE OF ECONOMIC COLLAPSE AND CIVIL WAR
MAY 15/12. Greece is on the verge of economic collapse and civil war, according to
top leaders inside Greece and the European Union. Decisions made by Greek leaders
and the Greek public in the coming days and weeks could lead to catastrophic results.
What’s more, experts are worried the economic and social contagion unleashed by a
Greek implosion, should it happen, could spread throughout the European Union, the
U.S., and around the world in our highly inter-dependent global economy.
JoelRosenberg.com
GREENSPAN: ONLY RESOLUTION IS 'POLITICAL UNION'
Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the US Federal Reserve Bank, has stated in an
interview with the Financial Post that the only resolution to the current crisis in the
European single currency is the “political union” of the members of the eurozone.
He warned that the eurozone is being pulled apart by divergent economies, with more
competitive northern states like Germany having to subsidize the less competitive ones
in the south.
Normally a country is able to devalue its currency in order to increase its
competitiveness with more developed economies abroad. But locked into the value of the
euro, Greece has had no option but to incur massive debts just to keep its economy
running.
Now the level of debt is spiralling out of control and financial experts are predicting that
Greece may be forced out of the eurozone or the project will inevitably collapse.
www.prophecynews.co.uk
SPAIN SLIDES BACK INTO RECESSION
APR. 27/12. Spanish unemployment has hit a new record high,
official figures have shown. The number of unemployed people
reached 5,639,500 at the end of March, with the unemployment
rate hitting 24.4%, the national statistics agency said. – BBC
MAY 2/12. Spain has joined seven other eurozone nations in recession, according to
data released yesterday, providing new evidence that austerity policies are failing to spark
confidence in the region's economies ahead of a week of expected anti-austerity protests
and a string of important national elections.
Almost every piece of new economic data in recent weeks has reinforced the impression
that swaths of the European economy are contracting. The worsening economic picture is
raising political tensions across the eurozone.
Among the 17 eurozone nations, Spain joined Belgium, Greece, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal and Slovenia in recession. Outside the bloc, Britain, Denmark and the
Czech Republic are also in recession. - The Wall Street Journal
GLOBAL INVESTORS RESUME EXIT FROM EURO DEBT
Global investors resumed their exit from euro zone bond markets in April, cutting their
holdings of the bloc's bonds to their lowest level in over a year as sovereign debt woes reemerged to hit Spain and Italy again. – CNBC
U.S.: FOOD STAMP ROLL NOW 45 MILLION
APR 2012. The Congressional Budget Office said that 45 million people in 2011 received
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits. That’s a 70% increase from 2007.
It said the number of people receiving the benefits, commonly known as food stamps,
would continue growing until 2014. - Wall Street Journal
CALIFORNIA FOLLOWS GREECE
MAY 13/12. Back in the USA, the state of California is accelerating toward much the
same outcome as Greece. Suffocated by the terminal financial burden of socialist
programs, welfare handouts, runaway social services and health care costs for its
millions of residents, California is also headed for its own financial implosion.
"We are now facing a $16 billion hole, not the $9 billion we thought in January," said
Gov. Jerry Brown in a recent New York Times article. "This means we will have to go
much further and make cuts far greater than I asked for at the beginning of the year." www.nytimes.com/
DERIVATIVES –
THE ULTIMATE FINANCIAL BUBBLE
Derivatives are investment products whose value is derived from another asset,
commodity, market or value. The derivative itself is merely a contract between two or
more parties which can be used as an underlying asset.
Futures contracts, forward contracts, options and swaps are the most common types of
derivatives. They are generally used as instruments to hedge risk, but can also be used for
speculative purposes. Their value is determined by fluctuations in the underlying asset.
The value of the world derivative market is over one and a half quadrillion dollars.
That’s 1500 trillion.
$1,500,000,000,000,000.
That’s more than the total value of all the world’s combined wealth. These are
superficial assets; they are contracts, but they have a value – an artificial value in an evil
financial manipulative system. It is something like IOUs — I owe you-s. But much
more complicated. And it is greater than the national debts of all the nations.
There are tens of thousands of derivatives, which add up to one and a half quadrillion
dollars. And a lot of the companies and concerns that make the contracts are busting. It
is now becoming impossible – a vicious circle – an enormous bubble that must
eventually burst. And that is where the trading world is today! It’s on the brink of global
financial collapse. Now look at this report:
NINE BANKS ARE EXPOSED TO
$229 TRILLION WORTH OF DERIVATIVES
APR. 24, 2012. Demonocracy created a great infographic detailing the exposure of just
the nine banks with the largest exposure to derivatives. Combined, these nine banks are
exposed to (that is, threatened by) $228.72 trillion in derivatives, a shockingly high
number. That number, as Demonocracy states, is worth approximately three times the
entire world economy. www.businessinsider.com/
“Come now, you rich, weep and wail because of the miseries that are coming upon
you. Your wealth has become rotten, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold
and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will testify against you and will
consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the Last Days!” (James 5:1-3)
IDF CALLS UP SIX ARMY BATTALIONS UNDER EMERGENCY ORDERS TO
MEET GROWING THREATS ON EGYPT & SYRIA BORDERS.
IGNITES TALK OF SINAI REOCCUPATION
Recently the Israeli Defence Forces issued an emergency call-up of six reserve battalions
in view of new dangers on the Egyptian and Syrian borders.
The deployment of the six battalions of reservists that are mostly to be deployed along
the 150-mile border with Egypt facing the Sinai Peninsula, has caused renewed
speculation that Israel is planning to reoccupy the region.
An IDF spokesperson said intelligence assessments called for the deployment of more
soldiers; and Israeli media have reported that the Knesset has given the IDF permission
to summon a further 16 reserve battalions if necessary. The Foreign Affairs and Defence
Committee approved the request recently, enabling the IDF to summon up to 22
battalions for active duty for the second time in three years.
“This signifies that the IDF regards the Egyptian and Syrian borders as the potential
source of a greater threat than in the past,” the former deputy chief of staff, Dan Harel
said. “The army needs a better ‘answer’ than in the past to the threat,” citing Egypt’s
deteriorating control over the Sinai, which is marked by an upsurge in Bedouin
smuggling of weapons and other goods.
He also referred to the growing threat of terrorism from Sinai, as witnessed by last
August’s infiltration from the Sinai north, of Eilat, in which eight Israelis were killed.
The Sinai poses a particularly vexing problem for the Israelis, since law enforcement in
that region had been left up to the Egyptians since the signing of the 1979 peace treaty
between Israel and Egypt. Israel had been occupying the Sinai since the 1967 war, but it
withdrew from the Sinai in 1982.
However, with the Egyptian government itself now in chaos, the Egyptians have not
maintained order, allowing terror threats to surge. Last August, for example, eight
Israelis were killed and 25 were wounded. There remains a number of Israelis who have
settled in the Sinai and whose lives now may be threatened.
The Syrian situation is also highly combustible, Dan Harel said, “and it could explode at
any moment … and pose a direct challenge to us.”
THE SINAI’S NATURAL GAS PIPELINES
The call-up of the 6 battalions could also enable a possible remedy to Israel’s growing
energy crisis that has emerged following Egypt’s cancellation of the contract that brought
natural gas into Israel.
The gas, which met some 40% of Israel’s energy requirements, flowed through a Sinai
pipeline that has been sabotaged some 14 times since the fall of President Hosni
Mubarak last year.
After the attacks on the pipeline, the Egyptian Supreme Council of the Armed Forces,
(SCAF), decided to pull back troops from the Sinai-Israel frontier; and Israelis say the
Sinai is now showing increased al-Qaida and Bedouin violence, and that Hamas
militants from the Gaza Strip are also using the Sinai to launch attacks into Israel.
While the immediate reason given for the call-up was due to tensions between Israel and
Egypt and continued unrest in Syria, another reason for the troop positioning could be to
deal with any attack that could occur from Syria, Lebanon and the Sinai should the
Israeli government decide to launch an attack against Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Syria and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, along with the Hamas from the Gaza Strip, have vowed
to come to Iran’s assistance in the event its nuclear facilities are attacked.
http://www.timesofisrael.com and WND.com
NETANYAHU’S UNITY GOVERNMENT
PREPARES THE GROUND FOR “MAY 1967”
Charles Krauthammer, a well-known conservative, political journalist in the US, on May
11/12, gave about some important historical facts as a background to the present
situation in Israel, and its expanded coalition government. He says:
In May 1967, in brazen violation of previous truce agreements, Egypt ordered UN
peacekeepers out of the Sinai, marched 120,000 troops to the Israeli border, blockaded
Eilat (Israel’s southern gate to the world’s oceans), abruptly signed a military pact with
Jordan and, together with Syria, pledged war for the final destruction of Israel.
May ’67 was Israel’s most fearful, desperate month. The country was surrounded and
alone. Previous great-power guarantees proved worthless. On June 5, Israel launched a
pre-emptive strike on the Egyptian air force, then proceeded to lightning victories on
three fronts.
The Six-Day War is legend, but less remembered is that on June 1, the nationalist
opposition (Menachem Begin’s Likud precursor) was for the first time ever brought into
the government, creating an emergency national-unity coalition. Everyone understood
why. You do not undertake a supremely risky pre-emptive war without the full
participation of a broad coalition representing a national consensus.
Forty-five years later, on May 7-8, 2012, PM Benjamin Netanyahu shocked his country
by bringing the main opposition party, Kadima, into a national unity government.
Shocking because just hours earlier, the Knesset was expediting a bill to call early
elections in September.
WHY DID THE HIGH-FLYING NETANYAHU CALL OFF
ELECTIONS THAT HE WAS SURE TO WIN?
Krauthammer says it was because, for Israelis today, it is now MAY ’67 AGAIN.
The threat is real; the dread is not quite as acute; the mood is not despair, just
foreboding. Time is running out. War is not four days away, but it looms. Israelis today
face the greatest threat to their existence — from apocalyptic mullahs who are publicly
pledged to Israel’s annihilation and are acquiring nuclear weapons.
The world is again telling Israelis to do nothing as it looks for a way out. But if such a
way is not found — as in 1967 — Israelis know they will once again have to defend
themselves, by themselves. Such a fateful decision demands a national consensus.
By creating the largest coalition in nearly three decades, Netanyahu is establishing the
political premise for a pre-emptive strike, should it come to that.
The new government coalition commands an astonishing 94
Knesset seats out of 120, described by one Israeli columnist
as a “hundred tons of solid concrete.”
To be sure, Netanyahu and Kadima’s Shaul Mofaz offered
more un-inspiring reasons for their merger: national service
laws, a new election law and negotiations with the
Palestinians. But Netanyahu, the first Likud PM to
MOFAZ AND NETANYAHU
recognize Palestinian statehood, did not need Kadima for
him to enter peace talks. For two years he’s been waiting for Mahmoud Abbas to show
up at the table. Abbas hasn’t. And won’t. Nothing will change on that front.
What does change is Israel’s position vis-a-vis Iran. The wall-to-wall coalition
demonstrates Israel’s readiness to attack, if necessary. (Its military readiness is not in
doubt.)
Those counselling Israeli submission, resignation or just endless patience can no longer
dismiss Israel’s tough stance as the work of irredeemable right-wingers. Not with a
government now representing 78% of the country.
Netanyahu forfeited September elections that would have given him four more years in
power. He chose instead to form a national coalition that guarantees 18 months of
stability — 18 months during which, if the world does not act to stop Iran, Israel will.
And it will not be the work of one man, one party or one ideological faction. As in 1967,
it will be the work of a nation. Source - letters@charleskrauthammer.com.
EGYPT MORE DANGEROUS THAN IRAN
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has warned PM Binyamin Netanyahu that
Egypt presents more of a security danger than Iran.
“We have to be prepared for all possibilities,” the FM warned. He suggested that the
IDF create three or four southern divisions in the wake of a social and economic
deterioration in Egypt, and the increasing number of Egyptian troops in the Sinai
Peninsula.
Cairo ostensibly is trying to regain control of the Sinai from terrorist gangs, but
Lieberman has said their soldiers are ineffective. If the upcoming presidential elections
are followed by a revision, if not cancellation, of the peace treaty with Israel, Lieberman
expects that Israel will be a natural target for the regime to target as an enemy, and to
draw attention away from domestic problems.
The Muslim Brotherhood, since winning the parliamentary elections in Egypt, has made
contradictory statements concerning the future of the peace treaty.
EGYPT ISLAMIST VOWS
GLOBAL CALIPHATE IN JERUSALEM
“The capital of the United States of the Arabs will be in Jerusalem," Safwat Higazi, an
Islamic preacher, told thousands at a Brotherhood rally in early May.
Higazi told the Muslim Brotherhood supporters at a Cairo soccer stadium, “We can see
how the dream of the Islamic caliphate is being realized - God willing by Dr. Mohamed
Mursi.” (Mursi is the Brotherhood’s presidential candidate).
“Our capital will not be in Cairo, Mecca or Medina.” Higazi said. “The capital of the
United States of the Arabs – will be Jerusalem, God willing” he said, before chanting
“Millions of martyrs march toward Jerusalem.”
Higazi is an unaffiliated Islamist who is barred from the UK for making statements
endorsing terror attacks against Israelis. – www.jpost.com
JORDANIANS CALLS FOR THE END OF
PEACE TREATY WITH ISRAEL
MAY 4/12. Thousands of Jordanians have taken to the streets demanding an end to the
country's 18-year-old Wadi Araba peace treaty with Israel. In a series of nationwide
protests, leftist and Islamist activists urged Amman to cut ties with Israel, as they burned
Israeli flags and chanted “death, death to Israel.”
Protesters rallied in seven cities across the country, urging authorities to expel the Israeli
ambassador from Amman, chanting, “No to a Zionist embassy on our land.”
Protest organizers, including the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood, said the
demonstrations were a direct response to King Abdullah's recent nomination of Prime
Minister Fayez Tarawneh, who served as a key figure in the 1994 Jordan-Israel peace
process. Recent comments by Tarawneh indicated that, if given a second chance, he
would still support the controversial peace treaty.
Friday marked a departure from activists' demands for democratic reforms, the focus of
the vast majority of the some 1,000 protests that have hit Jordan since the start of the socalled Arab Spring uprisings. - www.haaretz.com/
PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
Hamas to Publicly Execute ‘Collaborators’
APR 23/12. Hamas will soon start publicly executing Palestinians who are found guilty
of “collaboration” with Israel, Hamas Interior Minister Fathi Hammad announced.
Hamas Leader: No Peace With Israel
A Hamas leader said that if his militant group came to power in a future Palestinian
state, it would not abide by any previous Palestinian peace deals with Israel.
Fatah-Hamas Meeting Ends Without Unity Deal
MAY 3/12. A Cairo meeting between Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal and an official of
the rival Fatah movement made no headway on the formation of a Palestinian national
unity government, an official said. - Ynet News
MAHMOUD ABBAS RESHUFFLES PA CABINET
Palestinian Unity Deal Now Looks Even More Remote
MAY 16/12. A new Palestinian government in the West Bank, featuring 11 new
ministers and two reshuffled posts in the 25-member cabinet, was sworn in today.
Salam Fayyad has retained his post of prime minister, until or unless a unity government
is formed. This was a clear sign that efforts to end the Palestinian political split between
Hamas and Fatah are stuck. The Hamas leadership, as expected, was upset by the
cabinet reshuffle.
Fayyad, a widely respected economist noted for his success in fighting corruption but
accused of being too pro-Western by critics, was supposed to hand over the role of PM to
a Hamas-backed member in a unity government.
Palestinian Sentenced to Death for Selling a Home to Jews
Former Palestinian intelligence official Muhammad Abu Shahala has reportedly been
sentenced to death by the Palestinian Authority for selling a Hebron home to Jews.
In response, Jewish officials from the community in Hebron are calling for international
officials now to get involved -- in order to save Abu Shahala's life.
Obama Lifts Freeze on $192 Million Aid to PA
APR. 28/12. The US Congress froze a $192 million aid package to the Palestinian
Authority after Mahmoud Abbas defied US pressure and sought to attain UN
endorsement of Palestinian statehood last September.
Now President Obama has lifted the ban saying that the aid was “important to the
security interests of the United States.” (Oh! Really?)
A White House spokesman said the $192 million aid package would be devoted to
“ensuring the continued viability of the moderate PA government under the leadership
of President Abbas and PM Salam Fayyad.”
He added that “the PA had fulfilled its major obligations, such as recognizing Israel’s
right to exist, renouncing violence and accepting the Road Map for Peace.” Really?
They've done all that, and yet still continue their rhetoric about destroying Israel?
www.bibleprophecyblog.com
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RUSSIANS MOVE INTO
MEDITERRANEAN GAS FIELDS
The Russians appear to be making a determined bid to secure a stake
in the energy boom in the eastern Mediterranean despite the danger
of conflict. Israel, Lebanon, Cyprus, Greece and Turkey are vying for
control of the vast offshore natural gas fields in a region long-deprived of energy
resources. The potential windfall adds a new dimension to the conflicts between Israel
and the Arabs and between old rivals Turkey and Greece.
SYRIA. RUSSIAN LIFELINE TO ASSAD’S REGIME
The Syrian uprising which has continued for 14 months, has developed into a civil war.
An anticipated collapse of the Assad regime has failed to materialise. Day by day, the
demonstrators are still going out to confront Assad’s heavily armed forces in Deraa,
Homs, Idlib and Hama. The killings and the chaos in Syria continues as the West
remains on the sidelines, and Moscow arms Assad’s regime to assure its survival.
In late 2011, Moscow delivered the Bastion coastal defence system, the Iskander-E
surface-to-surface rocket as well as prepared to send the Yak-130 light attack aircraft to
the Syrian military.
Why is Russia so determined to preserve Assad’s rule? The first reason is economic. As
Russia returned to international prominence over the last decade, arms exports to Syria
increased. Between 2007 and 2011, imports from Russia accounted for 78% of all Syrian
arms imports, according to a recent report by the Stockholm Peace Research Institute.
A second reason Russia is invested in Assad’s reign is strategic. The naval base at
Tartous gives the Russian Navy the capability to operate in the Mediterranean and thus
to reach the Red Sea via the Suez Canal, and the Atlantic through the Strait of Gibraltar,
in reduced time.
Thirdly, the Russians also have an interest in maintaining a troublesome client in the
region to act as a tool of disruption and deterrence to Western schemes.
RUSSIA PLANS FOR A PERMANENT
NAVAL PRESENCE OFF SYRIA
APR 22/12. geostrategy-direct.com reports that the Russian Defence Ministry has been
ordered to maintain an indefinite naval presence in Syrian waters. Officials said Russian
warships would patrol Syria as well as the surrounding eastern Mediterranean
throughout 2012.
Syria has provided the only foreign port for the Russian Navy. The port of Tartous is
said to contain about 600 Russian Navy personnel, responsible for maintenance and
supply, and the Navy maintains four ships in the region. And several more Russian
Navy warships are headed for Syria.
SYRIA MOVING SCUDS TO ISRAEL & TURKEY BORDERS
Jordanian news site Ahbar Baladna reports that western spy satellites have recently
spotted movements of Syrian heavy missile launchers northward and southward, toward
Syria's borders with Turkey and Israel.
The site says hundreds of high-calibre launchers are being moved, and that these could
only be long range Scud missile launchers.
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
“TALKS”: IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM
The talks between Iran and the West over Tehran’s nuclear agenda are on and off
without any genuine breakthrough. Tehran continues to declare it is refining uranium for
peaceful purposes. The West is convinced that Tehran is working on nuclear weapons.
The next round of talks between Iran and six western nations will be in Baghdad, on
May, 23. The results you should have heard before receiving this magazine.
The US has put out the word that Barack Obama has offered a compromise deal with
Iran through a direct backdoor channel between Washington and Tehran. The deal is
said to consist of three points of accord:
1. Allowing Iran to enrich uranium up to 5% purity to continue.
2. Barring enrichment up to 20% (effectively discontinuing work at Fordow
underground plant in the Iranian mountains).
3. Exporting Iran’s entire 20% stock to prevent its use for weapon production.
According to Iranian intelligence sources, there is no such deal: Tehran is neither
willing to stop 20% uranium enrichment nor to shut down the Fordow plant.
Jerusalem takes issue with the US promotion of the above deal as “bad for Israel.” And
Israel refuses to accept anything less than a complete halt of all uranium enrichment
forthwith, the shutdown of Fordow, and the removal of every scrap of enriched
uranium from Iran.
Israel is ready to strike Iran's nuclear facilities if the nuclear talks fail to bear results, the
Milliyet reported recently.
Milliyet's report cited Israeli broadcaster Channel 10 as its source, which claims to have
interviewed Israeli military officers in recent weeks to reveal the details of a planned
attack on Iran. Dozens of Israeli strike bombers, escort fighters, tanker planes, electronic
warfare planes and rescue helicopters are to take part in an operation aimed at crippling
Iran’s nuclear program, Channel 10 said.
IRAN BOASTS “U.S. HAS ABANDONED ISRAEL”
Iranian outlets have been claiming the US has been forced to bow before Iran on its
nuclear program, demonstrating the West’s abandonment of Israel and the paving the
way for the Islamic regime to annihilate the Jewish state.
“BRING IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM TO AN END”
APR. 27/12. Israel’s Defence Minister Ehud Barak argues, Tehran will not heed
international demands to halt its weapons drive. “Now is the moment for the
international community to gear up to bring Iran’s nuclear program to a ‘swift and
decisive end’.” - www.timesofisrael.com
TOMAHAWK MISSILES DEPLOYED NEAR IRAN
While Iran continues to deny that it is developing nuclear weapons, Washington is still
concerned in the region and has now deployed approximately 430 Tomahawk missiles in
the Persian Gulf. Also ...
'US DEPLOYS F-22 RAPTOR FIGHTERS NEAR IRAN'
APR 28/12. The US has deployed several F-22 Raptor fighter jets to an allied base less
than 320 kilometers (200 miles) from Iran, FOX news has reported.
The F-22, produced by Lockheed Martin, is the US' premier fighter jet, boasting stealth
technology and specializing in air-to-air combat. It has not yet seen combat.
The US Air Force has strongly denied that this deployment represents a show of force
against Iran or is in anyway related to a potential strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, the
Fox report stated.
Instead, the move is part of a route deployment and "security cooperation with regional
partners." US officials told FOX that the jets were moved to hangars at the United Arab
Emirates' Al Dafra Air Base. - Jerusalem Post
THE WAITING GAME GOES ON!
President Obama is clearly unwilling for a strike on Iran in
this year of his crucial re-election bid. Israel is getting closer
to launching an attack every week; and it knows its attack
will draw the US into the battle. Within an hour of Israeli
planes heading for Iran, the US will be compelled to launch
a pre-emptive attack on Iran’s military facilities. Iran
cannot be allowed to block the Strait of Hormuz, or to attack
the US fleet in the Gulf.
The US is already prepared for battle, with a huge range of missiles, planes, ships and
military personnel stationed all around the Gulf.
US MILITARY OPTION FOR IRAN IS READY
MAY 16/12. The United States has completed its planning for a military strike on
Iran, the US Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro said in remarks at a closed conference
in Tel Aviv that were broadcast on Israel TV.
“It would be preferable to resolve this diplomatically, and through the use of pressure,
than to use military force,” Shapiro said in comments that were reportedly recorded
Tuesday and were broadcast Wednesday.
“But that does not mean that option isn’t available. Not just available, it’s ready. The
necessary planning has been done to ensure that it’s ready,” he said.
Russia, Syria, Lebanon, Hizb’ollah, Gaza, Egypt. Turkey, the whole Middle East, and
the whole world is waiting and watching!
I am sure that some of “the church” at least, is also watching and waiting! But the
prophetically-informed believer is not waiting for the wars and the Tribulation. We are
“waiting eagerly for the revelation of our Master Y’shua the Messiah.” (1 Corinthians
1:7)
"For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also eagerly wait for the Saviour, the
Master, Y'shua the Anointed, who, by the power that enables Him to bring everything
into subjection to Himself, will transform our lowly body so that it is conformed to His
glorious body." (Philippians 3:20-21). HalleluYah!
For the Christ-rejecting world, however, there are many horrendous disasters ahead.
100 TORNADOES IN 24 HOURS
A FORETASTE OF THE COMING "WHIRLWIND OF THE LORD"
“In the latter days you shall understand it perfectly.”
(Jeremiah 23:19-20)
APR 21/12. Oklahoma. One hundred tornadoes have roared through five Midwest
states within 24 hours. The tornadoes were unrelenting. They tossed heavy trailers up
into the air like match boxes, and ripped through homes. They drove families to their
basements and whipped tons of debris across small towns. In some areas, baseball-size
hail rained from the sky.
Could these tornados be a warning sign from the LORD that His judgment is drawing
near? Is it a sign of the coming “whirlwind of the LORD” that is already roaring through
the nations? Look at these prophecies:
“Look, the whirlwind of Yahweh goes forth with rage, a whirling storm! It will fall
violently on the head of the wicked. The burning displeasure of Yahweh shall not turn
back until He has performed, and until He has established the purposes of His heart. In
the latter days you shall understand it.” (Jeremiah 30: 23-24)
“Alas! the uproar of many people who make a noise like the roar of the seas, and the
rumbling of nations that rush on like the rumbling of mighty waters — the nations
rushing like the roaring of many waters. But He shall rebuke them and they shall flee far
away, and be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, like whirling dust
before the whirlwind.” (Isaiah 17: 12-13)
“See, a storm of Yahweh shall go forth in a rage, a violent
whirlwind. It will fall violently on the head of the wicked.
The displeasure of Yahweh shall not turn back until He has done
and established the purposes of His heart.
In the latter days you shall understand it perfectly.”
(Jeremiah 23:19-20)
THE GREAT WHIRLWIND THAT’S COMING
ON ALL THE NATIONS
America is now coming under the hammer blows of God’s judgment. But Jeremiah
foretells - Yahweh will send a raging whirlwind that will blaze through the nations, and
how it will fall violently on the heads of the wicked. This is an awesome warning to the
nations.
“And you shall prophesy against them all these words, and say to them, ‘YHWH
ROARS from on high, and utters His voice from His set apart dwelling place. He
ROARS mightily over His fold, a SHOUT as those who tread the grapes, against all the
inhabitants of the earth. Tumult shall come to the ends of the earth, for YHWH has a
controversy with the nations. He shall enter into JUDGMENT with all flesh. The
wicked He shall give to the sword, declares YHWH.’
“Thus said YYHWH of hosts, ‘See, evil is going forth from nation to nation, and a
GREAT WHIRLWIND is raised up from the farthest parts (coastlands) of the earth’.
Those slain by YHWH on that day will be from one end of the earth to the other. They
will not be lamented, gathered or buried; they will be like dung on the face of the
ground’.” (Jer. 25: 30-33)
“God now commands all people everywhere to repent, because He has fixed a day in
which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed,
having furnished proof to all by raising Him from the dead.” (Acts 17:30-31)
“YHWH the LORD is not slow concerning His promise, as some understand slowness,
but is patient toward you, not wanting anyone to perish, but for everyone to come to
repentance.” (2 Peter 3:9)
Repentance, dear reader, means first and foremost, a change of mind and attitude
regarding the Lord Jesus, Y’shua the Messiah. It means a turning away from the Broad
Way, and entering the Narrow Way which is the Way of Y’shua. For the Master said:
“I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no-one comes to the Father, except through Me.”
(John 14:6)
“And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has
been given among men, by which we must be saved." (Acts 4:12)
Jesus, Y’shua the Messiah was the One, the only One, who paid
the penalty of your sins when He became the Sacrifice for the
whole human race.
“For while we were still helpless, the Messiah, at the right time
Y’shua the Messiah died for the ungodly.
Now very rarely will someone die even for a righteous man, though possibly for a good
man someone might even have the courage to die. But God demonstrates His own love
for us, in that while we were still sinners, the Messiah died for us.” (Romans 5:6-8)
That’s why He is the Saviour for all who receive Him and His sacrifice on their behalf.
Repentance, firstly, means believing in, and receiving Y’shua, as your personal Saviour.
And when He comes into your life, there will be a change of behaviour, a change in
attitudes, beliefs and actions. He will deliver from the bondage and chains of sin because
He will put His Holy Spirit within you, to guide, to teach you and to enable you to walk
in fellowship with the Heavenly Master.
“But,” you may ask, “How does this work? What must I do to receive Him as my
Saviour?”
The apostle Paul answered this question which was put to him by a Philippian jailor:
The jailor said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" Paul replied: "Believe in the
Master, Y'shua the Messiah (that is, give yourself over to Him), and you will be
saved; (and this applies both to) you and your household as well." (Acts 16:30-31)
To believe is to have faith in the Saviour. And to express your faith in Him, you pray to
Him simply expressing the words of your heart. Tell Him you are a sinner, and that you
believe He died for you. Ask Him to be your Saviour and to change you and make you
a new person – a child of God.
“To all who received Him, to those who believe in His Name, Y'shua, He gave the right
to become children of God.” (John 1:12)
"Therefore if anyone is in Christ, the Messiah, he is a new creation; the old things have
passed away; see, everything has become new." (2 Corinthians 5:17)
If you have never received the Lord Jesus as your Saviour, why don’t you
pray to Him right now, wherever you are, and give yourself over into His loving
hands?
If you have doubts, or feel you don’t have faith, just pray and tell the Lord Jesus, and ask
Him to give you faith. And He will do it as He is near you, waiting to hear your prayer,
and waiting to save you today.
If you still have points you need to clarify on this matter, please get hold of a Bible, and
read the Book of John.
"Faith comes from hearing, and the hearing and understanding comes through the Word
of God." (Romans 10:17)
You can also write to us at MRC. And we would be very glad to hear from you if you
have received the Saviour today, and we’ll send you a book to help you get established
on The Way.
And now may Yahweh the Eternal One bless you and keep you each one in these days.
Your brother, Don S.