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Post Date 7-31-10
Final Signs Signaling the Arrival of the Kingdom of God

Middle East War & Global Economic Collapse

The United States is mentioned with outstanding clarity in Bible Prophecy, but few people are able to recognize it's identity. The Ten Kingdoms of biblical renown are not developing in Europe as most people are taught to expect by most popular religious sources, but already exist in another area of the world, and few people recognize them. What is the importance of this? Because the Bible explains that the Kingdom of God will arrive following the rise of an eighth major world empire symbolized by the Second Beast of Revelation 13, and during the simultaneous reign of Ten Kingdoms symbolized by ten horns or crowns. When these come into existance, it is a sign that the arrival of the Kingdom of God is very close, and because they already exist, the Kingdom of God is much closer to arrival than most people think.

"And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever"- Daniel 2: 44.

The European Union cannot be the location of the Ten Kingdoms because there are twenty seven member nations. This idea is based on a theory that the Roman Empire is the forth beast/empire of Daniel, and the Ten Kingdoms represented by the ten horns, have their beginnings in Europe, in a reconstructed Roman Empire. Twenty seven is a number far greater than ten that the Bible very clearly defines over and over again. Yet, despite the obvious fact that there are more than ten member nations in the E.U., and the fact that Revelation 17 explains that the Ten Kingdoms will arise from an empire following that of the Roman Empire, these beliefs are still clung to as reality. However, when you dispose of these flawed understandings, the biblical identity of the U. S., and the Ten Kingdoms spring prophetically into view. 

Arrival of The Kingdom of God

The arrival of the Kingdom of God is a literal event that will take place in the very near future, and it will forever alter reality as we know it. It is an event that will be led by the mass arrival of extraterrestrial beings biblically referred to as Angels, and when Jesus Christ returns. It is mentioned numerous times in both the Old and New Testament Bible, and is in fact the very purpose and foundation upon which the Bible is based. It is the end of mankind's sojourn in this sorrowful realm of birth and death, and the elevation to eternal life. 

The Bible is a prophetic vision of empires, and nations, that lead up to the arrival of the Kingdom of God, and is a chronology of empires, symbolically represented, spanning the entire history of humanity. It describes the development of eight major empires, and ten smaller kingdoms, that precede the arrival of the Kingdom of God, the final Kingdom that will reign upon the Earth. The first seven empires are represented by the seven heads of the First Beast of Revelation 13. These seven empires have already come and gone. They were the Babylonian, Media Persian, Assyrian, Egyptian, Grecian, Roman and British Empires. The eighth empire is represented by the Second Beast of Revelation 13, and is the United States of America. 

The Ten Kingdoms that the Bible foretold would arise during the same period as the arrival of the Kingdom of God have already been formed, and remain in existence today. No, they are not member states of the European Union, a common misconception by most. This theory is based upon the mistaken notion that the Ten Kingdoms arise from an area of the old Roman Empire. Actually, the Ten Kingdoms are in the area of the ancient Seleucid Empire, as foretold by Daniel , and now exist within eight nations located in the Middle East.

The ten kingdoms are.......Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Turkey, Iran, Egypt, (Basrah, Baghdad and Mosul) = Iraq. The Ten Kingdoms were formed as monarchies, after the defeat of the Ottoman Islamic Empire by the British Empire during World War I. Basrah, Baghdad, and Mosul were later combined to form the nation of Iraq, the little horn that uproots three, just as Daniel had foretold. The British Empire is the forth beast of Daniel, and not the Roman Empire as is popularly believed, and it is diverse from all the rest insomuch as it was the first truly global empire. There was a time when the sun never set on the British Empire. 

By 1921 the British Empire held sway over a population of about 458 million people, approximately one-quarter of the world's population. It covered about 14.2 million square miles, about a quarter of the Earth's total land area. This certainly qualifies the British Empire as the forth beast of Daniel, and makes it very diverse from all the rest. The ten horns of Daniel arising from the forth beast are in fact the formation of ten Middle East monarchies, as mentioned previously above, by the British Empire after it gained control of The Middle East During World War One, following the defeat of the - Ottoman Islamic Empire, in conjunction with treaties involving France, and under the guidance of the League of Nations. 

The Ten Horns of Daniel are also the Ten Horns and Crowns mentioned within the Book of Revelation, and come into existence during the period of a seventh great empire represented by the seventh head of the First Beast of Revelation 13, and remain in existence during the succeeding period of an eighth empire that is represented by the Second Beast of Revelation 13. The reason why the eighth empire is not within the body of the first beast is because it exists in a completely different geographical location, and on an entirely different continent, and is therefore represented as The Second beast of Revelation 13. It is the North American Continent to be more exact, and the United States is the eighth and last great empire before the arrival of the Kingdom of God.

But wait, there is still more. Woven within the prophecy of the eight empires, and the Ten Kingdoms, is another prophecy about a demonic manipulation of world events. The Bible explains that Alexander the Great, the first king of the Grecian Empire, was empowered by what is described as the dragon, and the beast that ascends from the bottomless pit, a demon of war and conquest - See First Beast of Revelation 13. This is evidenced by the historical feats of Alexander, one of history's greatest conquerors, who forged the Grecian Empire. Alexander was a man whom legend and history describe as having almost miraculous power in his ability to conquer and make war, and of whom it is said wept because there were no more worlds to be conquered. 

With the sudden death of Alexander at a very young age, the Grecian Empire, which was the fifth biblically prophesized empire to exist prior to the arrival of the Kingdom of God, was divided into four smaller kingdoms, and wounded the beast from the pit, because it's plans for world domination via the Grecian Empire were thereby stopped. However, the beast ascends once again from the pit during the future reign of an eighth empire. His deadly wound is healed insomuch as the beast from the pit commences it's original plans for war, conquest, and world domination, by empowering another man who presides over this eighth empire. 

Here we have the basis of the so called Anti-christ, another popular misnomer, because he is actually never referred to as Anti-christ in the Bible, but as the Beast. This means of course that because the United States is the eighth empire symbolized by the Second Beast of Revelation 13, that the Beast must then be a President of the United States. Perhaps this is not symbolic of a specific man, but any man who becomes President, or is President, during the final closing days of this prophecy, because the eighth empire is covertly controlled by the Dragon. Any man elected President during this time is only the puppet of a secret ruling cabal, that actually gives the orders, and dictates policy, just as Alexander was given his power, and seat, and great authority, by the Dragon, the same secret ruling cabal. 

There are a number of biblical prerequisites for the position of the Beast in this scenario. He must be the most powerful man in the world, and rule over a great world empire. He must be preoccupied with war, military might, and empire building. His name must be associated with money, because nobody can buy or sell without the number of his name. He must also be the ruler of Iraq, the eyes, and the mouth speaking great things, within the little horn that uproots three of the ten to make a single kingdom. These are Basrah, Baghdad, and Mosul = Iraq, just as described by Daniel. All of these prerequisites now exist within the definitive confines of the President of the United States. 

The President of the United States is the most powerful man on Earth, and rules over a great global military and economic empire. He is commander and chief of the greatest military machine in history. He is preoccupied with war and military might by virtue of the war on terrorism, and a power base that demands he protect, and expand the U.S. Empire. Former Presidents are printed on the face of U.S. currency, the world's reserve currency, and various Presidents represent the denominational amounts, so that nobody on Earth can buy or sell without using U.S. Currency, the value of which is represented by a specific U.S. President, and the number of his name. For example, Washington is one Dollar, and Franklin is one hundred Dollars, and so on - US Coins and Currency. The President of the United States is also the ruler of Iraq by virtue of conquest and U.S. military occupation.

The biblical prerequisites for the eighth and final empire represented by the Second Beast of Revelation 13, are that it must be the most powerful nation on Earth, dazzling the world with it's greatness, and a warlike nation that masquerades as peaceful, with horns like a lamb but speaks like a dragon. It must be similar to the ancient Grecian Empire, because it goes about forcing other nations of the world to remake themselves in the same image and likeness of the first beast that came before it, which is the fifth head of the First Beast of Revelation 13, the Grecian Empire of Alexander the Great - See Second Beast of Revelation 13.  It's monetary and financial system must be dominant worldwide, insomuch as nobody on the earth can buy or sell without the use of it's currency and financial system. 

All of the above prerequisites are met within the definitive confines of the United States of America. It is the most powerful nation on Earth, militarily, financially, and economically. Although appearing peaceful on it's exterior, the United States it is very warlike, with a history of many wars, and current wars waged on a global scale, and a military budget second to none. It's military might is historically unprecedented. The United States is very similar to the ancient Grecian Empire, the founders of democracy, and the democratic republic, a collection of individual constitutional republics, or city states, later ruled by a single federation, with Alexander as the first king, not unlike the United States and the Federal Government presided over by a President. The United States also goes about forcing other nations to remake themselves in the same image of the democratic republic, which is a copy of itself, and the first beast empire that came before it, the Grecian Empire of Alexander the Great. The U.S. financial and banking system are used globally, and it's currency, the dollar, is the world's reserve currency. 

There is one other prophecy contained within Revelation 17-18, that further identifies the eighth empire as the United States of America. It describes the great city Babylon, and it's role as the center of a global economic empire which can be none other than New York City & Wall street. These passages also foretell of hatred within the Ten Kingdoms that bring ruin to the global economy, and the great city Babylon. This end time scenario is referred to as the Great Whore That Sits Upon Many Waters. The fall of the great city Babylon, and the collpase of the global economy, are one of the last events just prior to the arrival of the Kingdom of God.

The United States is involved in a territorial dispute between Israel and Muslims over Palestine and Jerusalem, and arming Israel against Islamic Nations which include the Ten Kingdoms. It is engaged in a war on terrorism also involving the same Ten Kingdoms. In addition, the United States currently rules Iraq, which contains three of the Ten Kingdoms, Basra, Baghdad, and Mosul, with an ongoing U.S. military occupation, and is threatening Iran, another of the Ten Kingdoms, with economic sanctions, and possible military action. The war on terrorism coupled with the military occupation of Iraq, and the U.S. alliance with Israel, are causing great hatred of the U.S. amongst the Muslim populations within the Ten Kingdoms, and contributing to a greater threat of terrorism, and war. From these facts it can be safely concluded that a growing hatred of Mystery Babylon within the Ten Kingdoms has already begun, and insomuch as U.S. financial interests in the world are coupled with U.S. policy in the Middle East, it is no surprise that such hatred could lead to the collapse of Babylon. 

In addition to the above, the U.S. is also dependant on Middle East oil supplied by the majority of the same Ten Kingdoms, which also hold vast reserves of U.S. denominated assets such as U.S Treasuries. The fact that oil is traded in U.S. Dollars gives the Dollar it's strength as the world's reserve currency by forcing the nations of the world to hold vast reserves of U.S. Dollars, and to invest in U.S. Dollar assets such as U.S. Bonds, so as to transact the purchase of oil in U.S Dollars. Here we have another fulfillment of Bible Prophecy, "These have one mind and give their power and strength unto the beast." - Revelation 17: 13. (These have one mind), which is to say that the Ten Kingdoms are all Muslim Nations, and (Give their power and strength to the beast), which is to say that they give power to the Beast Empire by forcing global oil transactions to be only in U.S. Dollars, giving power and control of the global oil supply to the U.S., and strength to the Beast Empire by strengthening it's currency. Given these facts, it is easy to see how a growing hatred of the U.S. by the Muslim populations within the Ten Kingdoms could bring down the beast empire, and the global economy, so dependant on Middle East oil, and the U.S. Dollar. 

The war on terrorism, and the U.S. Military occupation of Iraq, is perceived as a war on Islam by many within the Ten Kingdoms. As a result, much of the funding, and many of the guerilla fighters used against the U.S. are recruited from amongst the Muslim populations within the Ten Kingdoms. These extended and protracted wars are causing a deepening financial burden for the United States, and further weakening the dollar in the face of other economic and financial troubles now facing the nation. Muslims in the Middle East know this to be true, and will continue the protracted guerilla wars indefinitely, or until the U.S. is financially insolvent, and the U.S. Dollar is severely devalued. The resulting devaluation of the Dollar will cause a move out of the dollar, and a sell off of U.S. Dollar assets on a global scale, and also result in a decision by the oil producing nations to trade oil in a basket of currencies other than the U.S. Dollar. Such a move out of the dollar, will bring down the Beast Empire almost overnight, and the global financial and economic empire it supports. Just as biblically foretold, hatred of Mystery Babylon by the Ten Kingdoms will bring down the entire global economic system.

The biblical prophecies concerning the eight great empires, and the Ten Kingdoms, foretold to happen prior to the arrival of the Kingdom of God have already come to pass. This means that the arrival of the Kingdom of God is very close, and much closer than most people now realize. However, most people believe that the Ten Kingdoms are yet to happen in some future European domain where the so called Anti-christ is yet to rule, despite the fact that at last count there were twenty seven member states in the European Union, and not ten as the Bible clearly defines. Perhaps that is why Jesus Christ said that many people will be taken by surprise when the Kingdom of God arrives. They are still waiting for these biblical prophecies to be fulfilled, while they have already come to pass right before them. I can only conclude that the false prophet mentioned in the Book of Revelation has everything to do with the false interpretation of Bible Prophecy that blinds people to history, and keeps them from viewing their own nation, and their own leaders, as the fulfillment of these same prophecies.

But even so, there is one other prophecy related to the above that is yet to be fulfilled before the Kingdom of God arrives. It is the Abomination of Desolation, spoken of by Jesus Christ, as a final sign of His imminent return. The Abomination of Desolation has nothing to do with the so called Anti-christ placing a statue, or profaning a newly rebuilt Jewish Temple as many people now believe. In fact, the Bible actually indicates that the Jewish Temple will not be rebuilt - See Biblical Proof The Jewish Temple Will Not Be Rebuilt & The Reason Why

The Abomination of Desolation is actually the armies, Muslim armies to be sure, that stand in the holy place = Temple Mount, as the abominable cause of the desolation of Jerusalem by warfare. So, for those of you waiting for a final sign that the end is near, and the arrival of the Kingdom of God is at hand, I say to you, "Watch Jerusalem!" When you see the Abomination of Desolation as described by Jesus, Luke 21: 20-24, the Kingdom of God, and the return of Jesus Christ will be at the door. See also Holy Place And The Temple Mount.

The Dragon/Beast Now Rules

Focus Of Posted News Events
Two biblical prophecies foreshadow the arrival of the Kingdom of God

(1)The Judgment of The Great Whore, coupled with The Fall of Babylon, symbolic of a global economic collapse, and the fall of a great financial empire that is the center of global banking and trade - Revelation 18-19. 
(2)A gathering of armies for war in the Middle East, resulting in the desolation of Jerusalem by compassed armies - Revelation 19 & Luke 21: 20. These events are now coming to pass in our time as evidenced in the news articles below.

The Global Economic Collapse Is Now Underway
War In The Middle East Fast Approaches

The Arrival of the Kingdom of God Is Very Near At Hand

News Articles: If you would like me to post a news article that relates to the above focus of news events, please forward the headline and the web address to: wright@wrightworld.net. If it applies, I will post it. Thanks.

Latest News - Middle East War & Global Economic Collapse

7-31-10

Bleak outlook for economy as growth slows
WASHINGTON – The economy is still growing, just not by much. And until that changes, don't look for the jobs to come back. Americans spent less and businesses thought twice about restocking their shelves in the past three months, making for a sluggish spring. And the government now says the recession was a deeper hole to climb out of than previously known. The gross domestic product, the broadest measure of U.S. economic output, grew at an annual rate of 2.4 percent from April to June, down from 3.7 percent the quarter before and the weakest showing in nearly a year. Many economists say the economy is growing even more slowly now. "The economy has lost some steam," said Sung Won Sohn, an economist at California State University, Channel Islands. "Some of the pistons in the engine are sputtering, and economic momentum is slowing."


When Truth Is Blamed For The Recession: Don't speak the truth about the non-existent economic recovery or you will be accused of starting it - article below. In other words, it is better to go down in ignorance than to be informed that the ship is sinking. Don't allow the passengers to protect themselves against drowning by warning them in advance. In similar regard, don't allow the American People to prepare for hard times to come, just let them live in ignorance until the economy completely collapses. Never mind that consumers don't have the money, and unemployment is at an all time high, it's negative news about the economy that makes them stop spending. I guess rising unemployment and the numerous bank closures are the result of negative news as well. What nonsense.


When Double Dippers become economic party poopers
WASHINGTON – They're a minority, but a vocal one, and they're hovering like storm clouds over a brittle recovery. They're the Double Dippers — the politicians, economists and analysts who foresee back-to-back recessions. Their warnings could become self-fulfilling prophecies if they frighten enough people into holding tightly onto their wallets. With consumer spending accounting for two-thirds of economic activity, anything that further rattles consumers can undercut recovery hopes. Recent data has shown that, after growing moderately for most of the past year, the U.S. economy appears to be slowing. This was underscored by Friday's government report that U.S. economic growth slowed to 2.4 percent from April to May, down from a revised 3.7 percent in the previous quarter. Such statistics are providing more ammunition to the double dippers......more.

U.S. recovery hopes fade as economic growth dips

Foreclosures Continue To Dramatically Increase In 2010

Regulators close banks in Fla., Ga., Ore., Wash
WASHINGTON – Regulators on Friday shut banks in Florida, Georgia, Oregon and Washington, lifting to 108 the number of U.S. banks to fail this year as the industry has struggled to cope with mounting loan defaults and recession.

Israeli airstrike kills senior Hamas rocket maker
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Israeli warplanes fired missiles, killing a senior commander of the Hamas military wing and wounding 11 people in five targets hit across Gaza overnight, the group and the military said Saturday. The Israeli military said the strikes were in response to a powerful rocket fired from Gaza that hit the Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon on Friday, causing damage but no injuries.

Russian oil companies may sell gasoline to Iran

Bomb Iran? Neocon Nutballs Ramp Up Campaign

Gingrich: Roosevelt would have attacked Iran, N. Korea


Occupying Other Nations With Armies Does Not Promote Peace: As we can see in the articles below, anti-U.S. sentiment is growing in Afghanistan and Pakistan with each passing day. The people don't want the U.S. in their nation yet it is being forced upon them without regard for the consequences. The United States is not fighting terrorism, it is causing it, by setting up conditions that promote greater war and conflict. It is very possible that the continued U.S. military presence in both Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the daily killing of innocent civilians either by accident or as a result of drone attacks, or collateral damage as the result of combat exercises, will cause the overthrow of the very governments that the U.S. claims to be defending and supporting. Remember the Shaw of Iran? When the people of these nations become angry enough, internal revolution will be the inevitable result, and governments will topple. This can only lead to a further destabilization of this area of the world, and a greater threat to peace. 


Civilian Deaths in US Armored Vehicle Crash Spark Kabul Riots
US Convoy Slammed into Civilian Car

“Death to foreigners and death to Karzai.” Angry rioters took to the streets of war-weary Kabul today, chanting such slogans while torching US embassy vehicles and clashing with police in the wake of a deadly car accident involving a US convoy. Reports from locals say that a civilian car was trying to merge onto one of the Afghan capital’s major thoroughfares when one of the US convoy’s armored vehicles slammed into it, killing all four civilians in the car. When locals arrived at the scene, what is being called a routine traffic accident turned into a violent clash, with locals throwing rocks at the American vehicles and later setting a pair of them ablaze.

ANALYSIS-Sectarian violence tears at Pakistan heartland

* Sectarian attacks on the rise

* Various groups are acquiring weapons

* Groups seen seeking social unrest

LAHORE, Pakistan, July 30 (Reuters) - Islamist groups are stepping up sectarian attacks in Punjab, Pakistan's largest and wealthiest province, trying to further destabilise the U.S. ally already battling al Qaeda and the Taliban, analysts say. Over the past two months, Sunni Muslims militants affiliated with both Islamist militant groups have increased their attacks on adherents of opposing schools of Islam in Punjab, as their strongholds in the northwest have come under intensified military offensives. In May attacks that killed more than 80 people, militants targeted two Lahore mosques of the Ahmadi sect, who consider themselves Muslims but whom Pakistan has declared non-Muslims. A month later, militants attacked Data Darbar, the Sufi shrine for Pakistan's most popular Muslim saint, killing 42 people. And in mid-July, a suicide bomber attacked a Shi'ite mosque in the city of Sargodha, wounding 15 people. Analysts say the Punjab strikes share a common strategy. Radical Sunni groups are trying to provoke Pakistan's various sects to hit back in an attempt to inflame civil unrest, and ultimately destablise a government already under pressure from the United States and other countries to crack down on militants that often spread their violence outside Pakistan....more.

Poll: Nearly 6 in 10 Pakistanis view US as enemy
AP National Security Writer= WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite billions in aid from Washington and a shared threat from extremists, Pakistanis have an overwhelmingly negative view of the United States, according to results of a Pew Research Center poll released Thursday. The survey also found that Pakistanis have grown less fearful of extremists seizing control of their country, perhaps reflecting gains that government troops have made against militants since early 2009. Most Pakistanis want improved relations with the United States, according to the poll. But most view the U.S. with suspicion, support for American involvement in the fight against extremists has declined, and nearly two-thirds want U.S. troops out of neighboring Afghanistan. Nearly six in 10 Pakistanis polled described the U.S. as an enemy and only one in 10 called it a partner.

Confirmed: Obama authorizes assassination of U.S. citizen

Is Obama a Marxist? No, He Works for the Bankers

7-30-10


Backstroking On Previous Lies: In other words, as the article points out below, the previous information regarding the depth of the U.S. recession were all lies. If so, are the more recent statements that the U.S. is undergoing an economic recovery also lies to later be revised in similar fashion? Perhaps the word (was) in the Headline below should be exchanged for the word (is). The recession (is) much deeper than the government previously thought. After it is too late, the government and the Federal Reserve, will reveal that previous statements concerning economic recovery must also be revised, and what was called a recession, is now called a depression.


Recession was deeper than gov't previously thought
WASHINGTON – The recession was deeper than the government previously thought. The Commerce Department, in revisions issued Friday, estimates the economy shrank 2.6 percent last year — the steepest drop since 1946. That's worse than the 2.4 percent decline originally estimated. The economy's plunge underscores why the unemployment rate surged to 10.1 percent in October, a 26-year high. The revisions in gross domestic product, or GDP, now show zero growth in 2008. That compares with a 0.4 percent gain previously estimated. The economy also grew less in 2007 (1.9 percent) than earlier thought (2.1 percent). For all three years, consumers spent less and home builders cut more deeply than had been thought. Those factors help explain the downward revisions on the economy. 

The revisions also show that struggling state and local governments cut spending more last year than previously thought. And they spent less in 2007 and 2008. The economy slid into its worst recession since the Great Depression in late 2007. Many economists think the recession ended last summer, although a panel of academics that dates the start and end of recessions hasn't declared when this one ended. The panel usually does so well after the fact. From the start of the recession in December 2007 until the April-to-June quarter of 2009, the economy sank 4.1 percent. That was deeper than the 3.7 percent decline previously estimated for the recession. GDP is the broadest gauge of the economy's health. It measures the value of all goods and services — from machinery to manicures — produced in the United States. The Commerce Department's latest revisions reach back to 2007. They're based on more complete data and on methodology thought to be more accurate.


The Lies Continue: Despite evidence to the contrary, and the fact that U.S. economic growth is actually slowing - article below, government officials continue spewing a falsehood that the U.S. is recovering from the recession. Note that the article states, "The second quarter figure is a first estimate, and could be revised either up or down in the coming months." Now revisit the article above. Does anyone really believe that the figure for economic growth will be revised upward? How can a number less than a previous number be viewed as a solid rate of growth? Does this mean that three minus one now equals four? How stupid do these people think the American People are?


US economic growth slows to 2.4%
US economic growth slowed between April and June, with GDP growing by an annualised rate of 2.4%, the US Commerce Department has said. This compares with an annual rate of 3.7% in the previous quarter. The second quarter figure is a first estimate, and could be revised either up or down in the coming months. There are growing fears about the strength of the US economic recovery, particularly concerning the country's high unemployment rate of 9.5%. Despite the slower rate of growth, economic adviser to the White House Christine Romer said: "This solid rate of growth indicates that the process of steady recovery from the recession continues.

Recovery loses speed as consumers turn cautious
WASHINGTON – The recovery lost momentum in the spring as growth slowed to a 2.4 percent pace, its most sluggish showing in nearly a year and too weak to drive down unemployment. Consumers spent less, companies slowed their restocking of shelves and the nation's trade deficit dragged more on the economy in the April-to-June quarter. In a separate report, the Commerce Department said the recession was deeper than previously estimated. Together, the reports raise doubts about whether employers will hire enough and consumers will spend enough to invigorate the economy.

Trillions for Wall Street
On Tuesday, the 30-year fixed rate for mortgages plunged to an all-time low of 4.56 per cent. Rates are falling because investors are still  moving into risk-free liquid assets, like Treasuries. It’s a sign of panic and the Fed’s lame policy response has done nothing to sooth the public’s fears. The flight-to-safety continues a full two years after Lehman Bros blew up. Housing demand has fallen off a cliff in spite of the historic low rates. Purchases of new and existing homes are roughly 25 per cent of what they were at peak in 2006. Case/Schiller reported on Monday that June new homes sales were the “worst on record”, but the media twisted the story to create the impression that sales were actually improving! Here are a few of Monday’s misleading headlines: “New Home Sales Bounce Back in June”–Los Angeles Times. “Builders Lifted by June New-home Sales”, Marketwatch. “New Home Sales Rebound 24 per cent”, CNN. “June Sales of New Homes Climb more than Forecast”, Bloomberg. The media’s lies are only adding to the sense of uncertainty. When uncertainty grows, long-term expectations change and investment nosedives. Lying has an adverse effect on consumer confidence and, thus, on demand.

Global stocks, dollar slip after weak U.S. GDP data

Sun could set suddenly on superpower as debt bites
But there comes a moment when complex systems "go critical". A very small trigger can set off a phase transition from a benign equilibrium to a crisis. Complex systems share certain characteristics. A small input to such a system can produce huge, often unanticipated changes, what scientists call the amplifier effect. Empires exhibit many of the characteristics of other complex adaptive systems, including the tendency to move from stability to instability quite suddenly. But this fact is rarely recognised because of our addiction to cyclical theories of history. The Bourbon monarchy in France passed from triumph to terror with astonishing rapidity. The sun set on the British Empire almost as suddenly. The Suez crisis in 1956 proved that Britain could not act in defiance of the US in the Middle East, setting the seal on the end of empire. What are the implications for the US today? 

The most obvious point is that imperial falls are associated with fiscal crises: sharp imbalances between revenues and expenditures, and the mounting cost of servicing a mountain of public debt. Think of Spain in the 17th century: already by 1543 nearly two-thirds of ordinary revenue was going on interest on the juros, the loans by which the Habsburg monarchy financed itself. Or think of France in the 18th century: between 1751 and 1788, the eve of Revolution, interest and amortisation payments rose from just over a quarter of tax revenue to 62 per cent. Finally, consider Britain in the 20th century. Its real problems came after 1945, when a substantial proportion of its now immense debt burden was in foreign hands. Of the pound stg. 21 billion national debt at the end of the war, about pound stg. 3.4bn was owed to foreign creditors, equivalent to about a third of gross domestic product. 

Alarm bells should therefore be ringing very loudly indeed in Washington, as the US contemplates a deficit for 2010 of more than $US1.47 trillion ($1.64 trillion), about 10 per cent of GDP, for the second year running. Since 2001, in the space of just 10 years, the federal debt in public hands has doubled as a share of GDP from 32 per cent to a projected 66 per cent next year. According to the Congressional Budget Office's latest projections, the debt could rise above 90 per cent of GDP by 2020 and reach 146 per cent by 2030 and 344 per cent by 2050. These sums may sound fantastic. But what is even more terrifying is to consider what ongoing deficit finance could mean for the burden of interest payments as a share of federal revenues.The CBO projects net interest payments rising from 9 per cent of revenue to 20 per cent in 2020, 36 per cent in 2030, 58 per cent in 2040 and 85 per cent in 2050. As Larry Kotlikoff recently pointed out in the Financial Times, by any meaningful measure, the fiscal position of the US is at present worse than that of Greece......more.


Not Taking Sides: I post such articles as the one below, not to demonize any particular group of people, Arab or Israeli, but to point out that tensions are raising in and around the city of Jerusalem, as a prerequisite to war in the region, that will ultimately lead to the desolation of the city of Jerusalem, just as foretold by Jesus Luke 21: 20, - Abomination of Desolation, as a sign of the impending return of Christ, and the arrival of the Kingdom of God.


Settlers seize home in Jerusalem's Muslim Quarter
JERUSALEM – Jewish settlers on Thursday took over a building in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City and evicted dozens of Palestinian tenants, residents and police said, prompting a sharp protest by the top regional U.N. envoy. The takeover comes at a time when the U.S. is struggling to restart Israeli-Palestinian talks. The international community, led by the U.S., has urged Israel to refrain from any steps that could raise tensions in east Jerusalem, including evictions and house demolitions. East Jerusalem's Old City was captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast War. The Palestinians claim the eastern half of the city for their capital. Over the years, about 2,000 Israeli settlers have moved into buildings Jews bought in established Arab sections of east Jerusalem, including the Old City, to make it harder to partition the city. Before dawn Thursday, more than two dozen settlers from the Ateret Cohanim settlement group entered the building in the Muslim Quarter, said Nasser Quirresh, one of the evicted tenants. He said 90 members of his extended family live in the house, which is just a few dozen yards (meters) away from the main Muslim and Jewish shrines — the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Western Wall.

Poll: Six in 10 Pakistanis View US as the Enemy
A new poll from the Pew Research Center shows a massive opposition among Pakistani voters to US foreign policy in the region, with some six in 10 identifying the United States as “the enemy” compared to only one in 10 identifying them as a partner.Other key figures in the poll showed nearly two thirds of the Pakistani population want the US to ends its occupation of neighboring Afghanistan. Only 8% of Pakistanis have any confidence that President Obama will make good decisions on foreign policy. Trust and support for the US was down virtually across the board from previous tolls, while the number who saw the Taliban as a threat dropped.

Pakistan's U.N. Ambassador: Afghan War Unwinnable

Iran War Rhetoric: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
But in Washington, the gloomy outlook on sanctions has been accompanied by a growing rumble of war talk. My TIME colleague Joe Klein recently reported that the military option was "back on the table" because Washington was not prepared to settle for "containing" a nuclear-armed Iran if sanctions failed and because U.S. officials believe that America's Arab allies support a military strike. A steady parade of pundits — many of them the same ones who advocated loudest for invading Iraq — is calling for military action. Hawkish former CIA operative Reuel Marc Gerecht advocated bombing as the "better safe than sorry" option, downplaying the backlash throughout the Middle East and possibly beyond that the Pentagon anticipates would result from a preemptive attack on Iran.

Japan's Mitsui maintains oil tanker was likely attacked

7-29-10

Cheonan sunk by mine, not North Korea?

Who Voted for War With Iran, Mr. Obama?
House of Representatives resolution 1553, introduced by Congressional Republicans, and currently working its way through the system will endorse an Israeli attack on Iran, which would be going to war by proxy as the US would almost immediately be drawn into the conflict when Tehran retaliates.  The resolution provides explicit US backing for Israel to bomb Iran, stating that Congress supports Israel’s use of “all means necessary…including the use of military force”.  The resolution is non-binding, but it is dazzling in its disregard for the possible negative consequences that would ensue for the hundreds of thousands of US military and diplomatic personnel currently serving in the Near East region.  Even the Pentagon opposes any Israeli action against Iran, knowing that it would mean instant retaliation against US forces in Iraq and also in Afghanistan.  The resolution has appeared, not coincidentally, at the same time as major articles by leading neoconservatives Reuel Marc Gerecht and Bill Kristol calling for military action.  AIPAC thinks it is wonderful.

Four Shocking Bombshells Bernanke Did NOT Tell Congress About Last Week
In his testimony before Congress last week, Ben Bernanke lifted the Fed’s skirt and gave us a glimpse of the disasters now sweeping through the U.S. economy. But there are four bombshells he did NOT talk about:

FIRST and foremost, what’s CAUSING the economy to sink? The stock market has not yet crashed. Interest rates have not yet surged. Gasoline prices have not skyrocketed. There has been no recent debt collapse, market shock, or terrorist attack. So what is the invisible force that’s suddenly gutting the housing market, driving consumer confidence into a sinkhole, and killing the recovery that Washington was so avidly touting just a few months ago? Bernanke won’t say. But the answer is clear: The recovery had very little substance to begin with. Rather, it was, in essence, a mirage — a dead cat bounce bought and paid for by Washington’s massive bailouts, stimulus programs, and money printing. Put another way, the recession never really ended.............more.

SECOND, Bernanke failed to point how that …The U.S. Housing Market Is Now LOCKED Into a Chronic, Long-Term Depression...........Details.

THIRD, despite his now-famous quote that this is “the worst labor market since the Great Depression,” Bernanke failed to reveal that …Official Government Data GROSSLY Understates the Magnitude of Unemployment..Details.

FOURTH, Bernanke failed to point out that all this is happening despite …The Biggest Government Interventions of ALL TIME!....More 

National Ocean Council
Thirty states will be encroached upon by Obama's Executive Order establishing the National Ocean Council for control over America's oceans, coastlines and the Great Lakes. Under this new council, states' coastal jurisdictions will be subject to the United Nations' Law Of Sea Treaty (LOST) in this UN Agenda 21 program. America'a oceans and coastlines will be broken into 9 regions that include the North East, Mid-Atlantic, South Atlantic, the Gulf Coast, West Coast, the Great Lakes, Alaska, the Pacific Islands (including Hawaii) and the Caribbean....more.

Schwarzenegger declares California fiscal emergency
In the declaration, Schwarzenegger ordered three days off without pay per month beginning in August for tens of thousands of state employees to preserve the state's cash to pay its debt, and for essential services.


Phony Excuse For Keeping Low Interest Rates
The real reason that the Federal Reserve is holding interest rates at near zero - article below, is not to help the ailing economy, but because it is necessary to prevent the United States from sinking further into financial insolvency. Figure it out for yourself. The national debt now officially stands at a little over $13 Trillion - National Debt Clock. Unofficially it is probably twice that amount when you add all of the related costs of the government bailouts and economic stimulus over time - article second below. 

United States federal tax revenue from all sources is just over $2 Trillion so far for this calendar year, and interest payments on the national debt are nearly $200 Billion so far for this calendar year - National Debt Clock. Now if you deduct from the gross tax revenue already received, the cost of military spending, Medicare, and Social Security, that is now already over $2 Trillion for the calendar year, it can be concluded that U.S. spending has already exceeded available tax revenues, and that doesn't include U.S. Government pension funds, financial bailouts, economic stimulus, and other miscellaneous spending. 

From these figures it can be deduced that the United States is already teetering on the brink of financial insolvency. Consequently, a rise in interest rates of just a few percentage points will put the cost of borrowing way over the ability of the U.S. to handle, and force the nation deeper into financial insolvency. That is why the Federal Reserve cannot raise interest rates at the risk of it's own demise, because when the U.S. goes under, so does the Federal Reserve. 

This is going to happen anyway because the United States continues to borrow over 40 cents of every dollar spent. This figure was arrived at in 2009, and it is much higher than that now. At that rate, and with the continuing escalation of the cost of military expansionism, and wars on multiple fronts, it will not be long before the rapidly expanding national debt will by itself drive the amount of interest paid ever higher, and force the nation into financial insolvency, even with interest rates remaining at near zero. It is just a matter of time.


AP survey: A bleaker outlook for economy into 2011
WASHINGTON – The U.S. economic recovery will remain slow deep into next year, held back by shoppers reluctant to spend and employers hesitant to hire, according to an Associated Press survey of leading economists. The latest quarterly AP Economy Survey shows economists have turned gloomier in the past three months. They foresee weaker growth and higher unemployment than they did before. As a result, the economists think the Federal Reserve will keep interest rates near zero until at least next spring......more.

U.S. Rescue May Reach $23.7 Trillion, Barofsky Says (Update3)
July 20 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. taxpayers may be on the hook for as much as $23.7 trillion to bolster the economy and bail out financial companies, said Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for the Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program. The Treasury’s $700 billion bank-investment program represents a fraction of all federal support to resuscitate the U.S. financial system, including $6.8 trillion in aid offered by the Federal Reserve, Barofsky said in a report released today. “TARP has evolved into a program of unprecedented scope, scale and complexity,” Barofsky said in testimony prepared for a hearing tomorrow before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Treasury spokesman Andrew Williams said the U.S. has spent less than $2 trillion so far and that Barofsky’s estimates are flawed because they don’t take into account assets that back those programs or fees charged to recoup some costs shouldered by taxpayers. “These estimates of potential exposures do not provide a useful framework for evaluating the potential cost of these programs,” Williams said. “This estimate includes programs at their hypothetical maximum size, and it was never likely that the programs would be maxed out at the same time.”

US Treasury is running on fumes
With the US bankrupting itself in wars, America’s largest creditor, China, has taken issue with America’s credit rating. The head of China’s largest credit rating agency declared: “The US is insolvent and faces bankruptcy as a pure debtor nation.” On July 12, Niall Ferguson, an historian of empire, warned that the American empire could collapse suddenly from weakness brought on by its massive debts and that such a collapse could be closer than we think. Deaf, dumb, and blind, Washington policymakers prattle on about “thirty more years of war.”.....more.

Slipping into war…
Yesterday, Ron Paul spoke on the House floor during debate on a privileged resolution to invoke the War Powers Act and remove our troops from Pakistan. We pay for these wars with an enormous amount of blood and treasure and we can’t afford to increase either at this point.....More&Video.

The Graveyard of Empires
They don’t call Afghanistan the graveyard of empires for nothing. Just ask Great Britain and Russia. It seems that the U.S. Empire, however, is bound and determined to prove that it’s the exception to that adage. No matter how bad things get for the Empire, U.S. officials become more and more determined to stay the course and let the chips fall where they may, including the possibility of economic and financial bankruptcy for the United States.....more.

A Plea for Common Sense
Why NATO Should Withdraw from Afghanistan
It is difficult for politicians to admit they were wrong. But when it comes to Afghanistan, the consequences of not doing so could be high. It is time for the West to cut its losses and withdraw......more.

House Vote on Afghan War Funding a Disgrace
In a 308-114 vote Tuesday the House of Representatives ignored a massive influx of new evidence underscoring the futility of the conflict in Afghanistan, approving a massive new appropriation of emergency war funding....more.

7-28-10

So Called Experts Move To Cut Social Programs As A Means To Fund Wars
Notice that there is no mention of cutting war spending, only social services - article below, and therefore any savings obtained by cutting social services will be redirected to military expenditures as the wars grow ever more expensive with each passing day. It is not social services that need to be capped, it's military and war spending that must be curtailed. The U.S. Government, in league with the Dragon, is so obsessed with war, and military expansionism, to the exclusion of all else, that it will destroy society, and the U.S. infrastructure first, before reducing the funding for war and the expansion of the empire abroad. This is obvious by the fact that military expenditures are never mentioned as a means to reduce spending. 

The Dragon now rules the United States, which has become the beast empire of biblical renown. Within these events however, are planted the seeds of self destruction, as the nation moves inexorably towards an eventual downfall. I say this because history shows that any nation/empire that has proceeded down this same path has ended in total collapse. Greece, Rome, The British Empire, Nazi Germany, and The Soviet Union, are to name just a few. The lesson to be learned is that any nation or empire that promotes unlimited military expansionism, and perpetual war, is ultimately destroyed as a result, whether it be directly by conquering armies, or indirectly by the ever expanding cost of war, which slowly eats away at the social structure, and the infrastructure of the nation, as ever more wealth is redirected towards an ever expanding military empire. 

The 9/11 attack was not a military issue. It was a result of lax immigration policies, open borders, faulty intelligence, and incompetent government and police agencies, that allowed the perpetrators to enter the country in the first place. These same conditions still remain I might add, and the danger of another terrorist attack has not been lessened despite all of the U.S. military expansionism abroad. It would be far better and less expensive to bring the troops home, and secure the borders, rather than chasing boogiemen terrorists all over the globe. It is like a man that lives in a bad neighborhood, and leaves his door unlocked, and his home is entered and vandalized as result, who then runs all over the neighborhood seeking the culprits, and passing the blame, when he should have locked his door in the first place.

Experts warn Obama panel: Fiscal crisis is getting 'closer'
The government should consider capping what it pays in benefit programs such as Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, experts told President Obama's fiscal commission today. Without tough new controls to bring down a $1.5 trillion budget deficit and $13.2 trillion national debt, a fiscal crisis such as Europe is facing could force even more draconian changes, the 18-member, bipartisan panel was warned.
"It could be startlingly abrupt," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. "We're receiving more and more warnings that we may be getting closer.""We do not have the ability anymore to have totally uncapped programs," said Barry Anderson, a former top official at the White House Office of Management and Budget. Despite those concerns, the commission doesn't appear any closer to agreement on a path forward. Obama charged it with producing recommendations that could be voted on by Congress in December. First, at least 14 of the 18 members must agree.

Consumer confidence dims
Job worries drove July U.S. consumer confidence to its lowest since February, with one in six people expecting lower income in the next six months, underscoring the precarious state of economic recovery.
Home prices rose in May but display no signs of a sustained rebound as long as unemployment flirts with 10 percent and a record stockpile of foreclosed houses looms over the market, a separate report showed on Tuesday. Single-family house prices remain 29.1 percent below peaks four years ago, according to a Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller index. The deepest housing crash since the Great Depression dragged the U.S. economy into recession, and is doing little to stimulate broader growth as many economists fret about a possible double-dip recession. The Conference Board, a New York-based business and economics research group, reported that consumer attitudes worsened this month as did expectations about jobs being hard to get.

Double-dip recession fear
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onsumer confidence plunged to its lowest level in five months, prompting investors to sell off riskier assets including oil and equities.
The confidence index fell in July to the lowest level since February on worries about a stagnant job market in the world's top economy. The data stoked fears that a U.S. economic recovery was stalling, and prompted U.S. benchmark oil prices to back down sharply from a new 11-week high of $79.69 a barrel earlier Tuesday.

Text of H.R. 5741: Universal National Service Act
To require all persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform national service, either as a member of the uniformed services or in civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, to authorize the induction of persons in the uniformed services during wartime to meet end-strength requirements of the uniformed services, and for other purposes.........more.

Greatest Depression in California: People Begin Living Without Electricity and Water

David Cameron: Israeli blockade has turned Gaza Strip into a ‘prison camp’

US Navy investigating reported blast on Japanese tanker in Hormuz

Possible False Flag? Japanese Say Oil Tanker Attacked Near Hormuz
“If it turns out to be an attack it will have implications for ships going in and out of the Strait of Hormuz, and would lead to delays and rising tanker rates,” said Ben Goggin, a freight derivatives broker at SSY Futures Ltd., a unit of the world’s second-largest shipbroker.

In July, 2008, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh told an audience at the Campus Progress journalism conference that Bush administration officials held a meeting Dick Cheney’s office to discuss ways to provoke a war with Iran. “There was a dozen ideas proffered about how to trigger a war. The one that interested me the most was why don’t we build — we in our shipyard — build four or five boats that look like Iranian PT boats. Put Navy seals on them with a lot of arms. And next time one of our boats goes to the Straits of Hormuz, start a shoot-up,” said Hersh.

7-27-10


Cut Social Security To Expand Wars
The money saved will only be spent on more war. Consequently, the argument that Social Security cuts will lower the U.S. budget deficit - article below, is a ruse set up to provide greater funds for military expansionism. Only if there are meaningful cuts in military spending coupled with domestic cuts will any savings be realized. Otherwise, every dollar saved on the domestic side will be spent on the military side. It's all smoke and mirrors. Americans must decide between a crumbling social structure or war. The United States is not the first nation/empire to undergo this same transformation. As empires grow, the cost of military expansionism consumes a greater portion of government revenue, and the public sector is slowly bled dry, as social programs are cut or curtailed, and the infrastructure is left to disintegrate, while military expenditures eventually expand beyond the ability of the empire to continue anyway. Then comes the inevitable collapse. This has happened over and over again throughout time. What a waste.

The Dragon never tires of seeking global domination and imperialism, and never learns that such a dream may be possible to achieve in the short run, but impossible to hold on to in the long run. All such efforts are for naught, and only end in death and destruction to many. No empire in the history of the world has ever stood the test of time. In my opinion it is already too late to change or stop the inevitable destruction and negative consequences to the United States that perpetual war has and will visit upon the nation. Affluence breeds collective apathy and arrogance that eventually leads to collapse. We are in the final days before the collapse of this empire as all of the other previous empires that were also dedicated to war, conquest and imperialism. In the eyes of God and history the United States is no different than any of the rest. It is self delusional to think otherwise. History always repeats itself because those who fail to learn from history always repeat it. New management never makes a bad idea good.

For those of us who see the signs there is only a short remainng period to wait. These are the times foretold to arrive in Bible Prophecy - Revelation 13-19, that immediately precede the return of Christ, and the arrival of the Kingdom of God. This empire will collapse, and Babylon will fall, and the global economy will soon collapse, as war drums beat louder, and all of the Middle East will be plunged into war. Read the news articles posted on this page if there be any doubt. The city of Jerusalem will be at the heart of the war just as foretold by Jesus - Luke 21: 20. We can see this actually happening before our eyes as the situation in Israel, and Palestine, and Jerusalem continue to deteriorate on a daily basis. The wars in Iraq, and Pakistan, and Afghanistan are but extensions, and a forewarning of what is yet to come in the Middle East. The entire region will be engulfed in war, and it will grow to endanger the entire world. But, fear not because all of these things are the signs of a new reality to come. The arrival of the Kingdom of God will put and end to all of these things, and there will be a much brighter tomorrow, as the plaque on the wall beside me so states:

"And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away." - Revelation 21: 3-4.


 Deficit-cutting ax may fall on Social Security
The Social Security system today faces a threat greater than the drive for partial privatization by George W. Bush. "That's not hyperbolic," says Nancy Altman, codirector of Social Security Works, a group dedicated to preserving the system that provides income for 50 million retirees, the disabled, millions of children, and more. Her fear is that President Obama's bipartisan National Com­mis­sion on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform will recommend cuts in Social Security benefits as one means to reduce the burgeoning federal budget deficit. If 14 of 18 commissioners agree on a deficit-cutting plan, it could be passed at a lame-duck session of Congress without the extensive hearings and discussions that normally precede such an important measure. "There would be little chance for the public to have an influence," says Ms. Altman. Public opinion polls consistently show that Americans don't want Social Security trimmed.

Leaks create fresh doubt about Afghan war, secrets

Ex-CIA chief: Strike on Iran seems more likely now
WASHINGTON -- A former CIA director says military action against Iran now seems more likely because no matter what the U.S. does diplomatically, Tehran keeps pushing ahead with its suspected nuclear program. Michael Hayden, a CIA chief under President George W. Bush, says that during his tenure a strike was "way down the list" of options. But he tells CNN's "State of the Union" that such action now "seems inexorable.".......more.

Ahmadinejad: US Expansion Of War In Middle East Imminent

'If Hizbullah strikes, we hit Lebanon'
Barak issues warning against resuming rocket attacks from North.

The IDF will attack Lebanese government institutions if Israel is again subjected to rocket attacks, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in an interview with The Washington Post published Sunday. He told the newspaper that since the Lebanese goverment is allowing Hizbullah to rearm, "we will not run after each Hizbullah terrorist or launcher. . . . We will see it as legitimate to hit any target that belongs to the Lebanese state, not just to Hizbullah."

Natural gas could lead to new Lebanon-Israel war

Israel's harassment of citizens could ignite uprising, warns Arab politician
• State playing with fire, says member of Knesset

Israel
could ignite a third intifada if it continues to push its 1.2 million Arab citizens into a corner, claims Haneen Zoabi, the Arab member of the Knesset vilified for joining the Gaza aid flotilla.

Israel demolishes Bedouin village
Israeli authorities have demolished the homes of about 300 Bedouins in a village in the southern Negev desert. The entire village of al-Arakib was bulldozed on Tuesday, with many of the former residents' cattle, trees and belongings lost. Al-Arakib, which had about 40 homes, is one of 45 Bedouin villages not recognised by Israeli authorities.
Haia Noach, director of the Negev Co-existence Forum, was present at al-Arakib during the demolition and said that at least five Israeli bulldozers arrived around 5:30am (0230GMT). Israeli police used megaphones to order the village residents to evacuate, and the demolishing process lasted around three hours, he said. Speaking from a town near Beersheba, Noach said that many of the residents had moved to a nearby graveyard to find shade.

Goldman reveals where bailout cash went
Goldman Sachs sent $4.3 billion in federal tax money to 32 entities, including many overseas banks, hedge funds and pensions, according to information made public Friday night. Goldman Sachs disclosed the list of companies to the Senate Finance Committee after a threat of subpoena from Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Ia. Asked the significance of the list, Grassley said, "I hope it's as simple as taxpayers deserve to know what happened to their money." He added, "We thought originally we were bailing out AIG. Then later on ... we learned that the money flowed through AIG to a few big banks, and now we know that the money went from these few big banks to dozens of financial institutions all around the world." Grassley said he was reserving judgment on the appropriateness of U.S. taxpayer money ending up overseas until he learns more about the 32 entities.

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Power And Strength To The Beast
"And the ten horns which you saw are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast"- Rev. 17: 12

If we understand that the Ten Kingdoms are ten nation monarchies that were set up in the Middle East by the British Empire, the seventh head of the First Beast of Revelation 13, after the defeat of Turkey, and the Ottoman Islamic Empire, during the final days of World War One, then the above prophecy contained in Revelation 17, and elsewhere in the Bible, including Daniel of the Old Testament, make perfect sense. These ten monarchies were Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Turkey, Persia now called Iran, Egypt, Basrah, Baghdad and Mosul. Later, Basrah, Baghdad and Mosul were merged to form the nation of Iraq, the little horn that uproots three, exactly as described by Daniel. These ten kingdoms are naturally of one mind insomuch as they are all Muslim Nations, just as biblically foretold.

If we further understand that the United States is the eighth and final empire biblically prophesized to appear before the arrival of the Kingdom of God, and is described as the Second Beast of Revelation 13, then the same above prophecy makes even more since, insomuch as these ten kingdoms do in fact give their power and strength to the Beast. The Ten Kingdoms give the United States, the beast empire, it's power and strength by virtue of an agreement that the purchase of Middle East oil can only be transacted in U.S. Dollars. This forces the global oil trade, and the nations of the world, to hold vast reserves of U.S. Currency, and to purchase U.S. Dollar assets, such as U.S. Treasury Bonds, thus making the U.S. Dollar the world's reserve currency, and giving the beast empire it's power and strength as a global empire. 

It's no wonder that the U.S. maintains strict military control over the Middle East, through it's projected military might, it's navy, air force, and thousands of U.S. Troops stationed throughout the region, and through it's ally Israel. It is also no coincidence that the United States lead a military invasion, and continues an ongoing military occupation of Iraq, and is now threatening Iran, despite the cost, and it's own financial demise to maintain such vast military expenditures, because both nations dared to transact the sale of oil in currencies other than the U.S. Dollar, threatening the global power base of the beast empire, by destroying the U.S. Dollar as the world's reserve currency. 

According to biblical accounts, the Dragon, also known as the beast that ascends from the bottomless pit, is a demon of war, conquest, and imperialism, that once controlled the Grecian Empire, and gave Alexander the Great his power seat, and great authority - Rev. 13: 2. Just as biblically foretold, this same beast has once again ascended from the pit - Revelation 17, and is now represented by a satanic cabal of global elitists, and bankers, that secretly control world events, and who have now gained control of the United States, it's President, and it's government, and covertly rules the nation, to make the U.S. the beast empire of biblical renown. 

From this perspective it is easy to understand why the beast empire, it's government, and it's Presidents, are so preoccupied and obsessed with war, and imperialism, and why the empire so feverishly defends it's financial and military position in the Middle East, and surrounding near east nations. It's all about maintaining control over the global oil supply, and thereby insuring that the U.S. Dollar is maintained as the world's reserve currency, so the beast empire can continue to grow and prosper as a global empire. The forces of the Dragon will move against any nation that threatens the future existence and expanse of the beast empire. 

As is usual for such grandiose plans, they are failing. In the process of maintaining it's global military might, and because of the internal corruption that minions of the Dragon produce, the empire is now threatened with destruction. As the global economy, and banking system of the Federal Reserve collapse inward, the U.S. Dollar also faces serious devaluation, and dethronement as the world's reserve currency, because of burgeoning U.S. Debt, and a growing hatred of the United States throughout the nations of the world, and in particular from within the Ten Kingdoms, because of the U.S. war on terrorism - Rev 17: 16. 

The Dragon sensing that the end is near, and with a gathering of the Angels of Heaven for their mass arrival heralding in the arrival of the Kingdom of God, the end game is now afoot. At a time when the beast empire is very near collapse, and in desperation to maintain it's existence, the Dragon will bring one final war to the Middle East that will ultimately threaten the entire world with global thermonuclear war. This war will conversely bring about the Dragon's own demise that much sooner, as God, and the Angels of Heaven are forced to shorten the days before the arrival of the Kingdom of God to save all flesh on the earth from total destruction - Matthew 24: 22 

As the global economy nears final collapse, and the fall of beast empire, and the global banking system centered in Wall Street and New York City, biblically referred to as the great city Babylon, approach the final demise - Rev 17-18, a greater war will escalate in the Middle East - Rev. 19, and the city of Jerusalem will be desolated by warfare and surrounding armies as foretold by Jesus - Luke 21: 20. This will be the final sign that the return of Christ, and Kingdom of God is very near to arrival. After the Kingdom of God arrives, it is then that the Dragon will be put in chains, and the resurrection of the dead takes place - Rev. 20. Thereafter, mankind is elevated to a state of immortality and eternal life, and a new relationship with God, and the Angels, and Earth itself is transformed for ever more - Rev. 21-22.


Global Economic Collapse & The Fall Of Babylon

Fulfillment of Revelation 18: The current global economic and financial crisis is unprecedented in human history, because never before has there been a time when the entire world was under a single global economic system, and a single currency, the Dollar, of a single nation, the United States, and a single banking system, the Federal Reserve. It has taken a period of time since World War II, to develop the current economic and financial system, and the causes for it's collapse, and it is unlikely that such a system will again be implemented in our lifetimes. After the existing global financial/economic system fails, the world will move towards a multi-currency system, which has already been suggested by many. Because of the unprecedented nature of the global economic crisis, and when viewed along with the other biblical signs that have already come to pass - Prophecies of Jesus, there is no doubt that this is the fulfillment of Bible Prophecy - Revelation 18, that warns of such a global economic collapse in the final days before the arrival of the Kingdom of God, as follows:"the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more."
Revelation 18: 11.

Middle East War

Fulfillment of Revelation 19: War in the Middle East will develop during the same period of global economic collapse so as to fulfill the biblical prophecies of Revelation 19. First, God completes the judgment of the great whore, symbolic of the collapse of the global economic system, and the fall of Babylon, the center of the global economic empire, and it's collapse - Revelation 18-19, and then follows a gathering of armies for war Revelation 19: 19-21, which is then followed by the arrival of the Kingdom of God - Revelation 20. We know from other biblical prophecies contained in Revelation, Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Prophecies of Jesus, that this war will be in the Middle East, in the area of the ancient Seleucid/Babylonian Empire, where now exists the Ten Kingdoms, but also in Palestine, and the area of ancient Samaria, the location of Armageddon, and in Jerusalem, which will be desolated by surrounding armies - Abomination of Desolation. "And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh."- Luke 21: 20. These are the final signs before the return of Jesus Christ, and the arrival of the Kingdom of God, "When they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory." "And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption drawled nigh." Luke 21: 27-28. The angels must now gathering in preparation for their coming mass arrival.


The Dragon/Beast Now Rules: The Bible explains that Alexander the Great was given his power, seat, and great authority by the Dragon - Revelation 13. The Dragon was wounded however, because it's plans for world conquest were curtailed by the sudden death of Alexander at a very young age, before his empire could be forged into a lasting unity. Consequently, with the death of Alexander, the Grecian Empire was divided into four smaller kingdoms, the Antigonid, Seleucid, Bactrian and Ptolemaic Empires - Daniel 8

His deadly wound is healed however in the later days just prior to the arrival of the Kingdom of God, when the Dragon/Beast rises from the pit once again to empower the leader or leaders of an eighth great empire that would also rule the Seleucid = Babylonian portion of the Middle East, as did the first seven empires of the First Beast of Revelation 13, which have already come and gone - Revelation 13&17. They were (1)Babylon (2)Media Persia (3)Assyria (4) Egypt (5)Greece (6)Rome, (7) British Empire. 

The eighth great empire - Second Beast of Revelation 13, that currently rules the Seleucid = Babylonian portion of the Middle East by virtue of military conquest and occupation is none other than the United States of America. The ancient ruins of Babylon are just some 20 miles from modern day Baghdad, Iraq. There are over 150,000 U.S. troops, in addition to many thousands of private U.S. contractors, including large military bases and embassies, established in Iraq, and no matter what the internal political structure of Iraq may be, as long as the U.S. maintains a military occupation force in Iraq, it covertly rules Iraq by virtue of conquest, even as did the first seven empires of the First Beast of Revelation 13

The attributes of Alexander the Great were those of war, conquest and imperialism. Therefore, it is logical to assume that if Alexander the Great was covertly empowered by the Dragon, then the same attributes of war, conquest, and imperialism are those of the Dragon/Beast as well. Now let's look at the recent history of the United States following the 9/11 terrorist attack in new York. Something suddenly changed within the political structure of the United States, and it's leaders, beginning with President George Bush, who became obsessed with war, conquest, and global imperialism. It can therefore be concluded that the same Dragon/Beast of biblical renown, has somehow covertly obtained control of the United States, and now empowers and impels the nation and it's leaders towards it's goal of world domination, via war, conquest, and military occupation, just as the Bible foretold. 

This trend is even more visible now, during the current period of economic crisis, when despite the obvious signs of the impending financial insolvency of the nation, and the collapse of the U.S. Dollar, the U.S. continues to engage in multiple preemptive wars and military occupation around the world, no matter what the cost, and in complete disregard of the financial disaster that these expensive military operations will bring to the nation. Those in power will cut Medicare, and other social programs, raise taxes, allow the infrastructure to collapse, before they will discontinue the wars abroad. 

It is clear that some dark power has gained control of the United States, and it is now on a course towards global imperialism, and militarism, to the destruction of the nation. This can only be described as an obsession, and it is clear evidence that a foreign power, other than the legal constitutional government, now rules the United States, and this power is obsessed with war, conquering, and world domination, to the exclusion of all else. From this it can be concluded that the Dragon/Beast has once again ascended from the pit, and is now on a course of world domination through it's control of the eighth empire exactly as biblically foretold - The beast that was, is not, yet is - Revelation 17.

The prophecies of Revelation 17-19 are now coming to pass with increasing speed - articles below. The Dragon/Beast has already gained control of the eighth empire, the United States, and is on course toward global domination and imperialism. The judgment of the Great Whore is also underway with the ongoing collapse of the global economy, and the fall of Babylon is now taking place with the collapse of the U.S. Dollar, and the impending financial insolvency of the United States, the center of the global economic and banking system. These are signs that the arrival of the Kingdom of God is near at hand. However, there are yet more signs to be fulfilled before that glorious day arrives. 

There will yet come a greater war in the Middle East, in Palestine, the location of Armageddon, and in Jerusalem, when the city will be desolated by surrounding armies - Abomination of Desolation. These prophecies are now coming to pass even as I write - articles below. Tension continues to mount between the U.S./Israeli alliance, and the Ten Kingdoms of the Middle East, (Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Turkey, Iran, Egypt, Basrah, Baghdad and Mosul = Iraq) because of the U.S. war on terrorism, and over the control of Palestine and Jerusalem, and a war will ensue just as biblically foretold - Daniel And The Middle East Wars. Soon war will erupt, and Jerusalem will be desolated by warfare - Luke 21: 20, and afterward the Kingdom of God will arrive just as foretold. Heed the biblical warning to prepare.

Biblical Warning To Prepare

"Come out of her, my people, that you will not be partakers of her sins, and that you not receive her plagues."Revelation 18:4

Biblical Warning: The warning above means that people must not be dependent on the global economic system so they won't suffer after it's collapse. A global economic collpase will mean a shortage of food and other essantials required for survival. This is a warning from God to prepare. Stock up on food and emergency supplies, and keep extra cash, or gold, so that you aren't dependant on supermarkets, banks, or credit cards for your survival. There is no telling how much time will elapse between the coming global economic collapse and the arrival of the Kingdom of God. These things must happen because they have been written in Bible Prophecy, and all that has been written must come to pass before the Kingdom of God will arrive. "For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled."- Luke 21: 22.

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