Archive for January, 2010

Newsmax – Former WMD Chief: Al-Qaida Awaiting Nukes

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

A new report by retired longtime intelligence officer Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, who served as chief of the CIA’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Department, accuses the U.S. government of seriously misreading al-Qaida’s operational objectives.

“Al-Qaida’s reasoning,” according to Mowatt-Larssen’s new report from Harvard’s Kennedy School, “runs counter to analytic convention that equates the ease of acquisition of chemical, biological or radiological weapons with an increasing likelihood of terrorist use — i.e., a terrorist attack employing crude weapons is therefore more likely than an attack using a nuclear or large scale biological weapon.”

via Newsmax – Former WMD Chief: Al-Qaida Awaiting Nukes.

By: Theodore Kettle

http://newsmax.com/

United Europe’s New Decade

Monday, January 25th, 2010

UNited Europe's New Decade

With the European Union’s Treaty of Lisbon taking effect December 1, the framework has been hammered in place for what critics fear will be the structure for an authoritarian super state that will strip sovereignty from the EU’s 27 member countries and open the way for a powerful dictator to seize absolute control in the event of a major crisis.

 As 2010 gets under way, the new decade promises to be a momentous one for a unified Europe, which does not bode well for the rest of the world as events in the Middle East threaten to spiral out of control and the beleaguered American economy teeters on the brink of collapse.

The Holy Bible prophesies that a seventh, final resurrection of a monstrous, ruthless Roman Empire on the European continent will precede the return of Jesus Christ to establish the Kingdom of God on earth. Individual countries will willingly surrender their freedoms to this all-powerful central authority, weakening their democracies.

Notice Revelation 17:12-14: “The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority for one hour as kings with the beast. These are of one mind, and they will give their power and authority to the beast. These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with Him are called, chosen, and faithful.”

For the first time, the Treaty of Lisbon establishes a single EU president and a foreign/security affairs official to speak with one voice for the entire European Union. It also gives the European Parliament increased involvement in the legislative process. The European Central Bank gains official status as an EU institution, and the euro becomes the EU’s official currency. It also paves the way for a common military defense agreement. It essentially strips the right of Britain and other member states to veto new EU rules, surrendering more powers to the European Union.

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By Mark Mendiola, Elder
Church of God Faithful Flock
from the January-February 2010 Philadelphia Remnant Magazine

The Return of the Great Depression

Monday, January 25th, 2010

In a new book launched on the 80th anniversary of Black Tuesday, the infamous stock market crash of 1929, author Vox Day sounds the alarm: “The Great Depression is back!”

“It is not over. It has only begun.” That is Vox Day’s shocking warning to readers in the introduction of “The Return of The Great Depression.” The economic downturn we are experiencing will get worse before it get’s better. Much worse. What makes his warning so believable is that seven years ago he predicted the collapse of the housing market and the destruction of the financial services industry.

Day believes that we are only now entering the early stages of the Second Great depression. He offers a detailed analysis of the economic and monetary policies of the last several years to show why ideologues on both the left and the right didn’t foresee this economic calamity.

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Cold weather kills dozens in Europe

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Dozens of people have died in cold weather sweeping eastern Europe with temperatures today dipping to -35 degrees in some areas, causing schools to close and disrupting road and rail traffic.

From the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, arctic temperatures and fresh heavy snowfall wreaked havoc, hitting power, water and food supplies.

Meteorologists forecast a few more days of abnormally cold weather before temperatures start to rise.

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http://www.irishtimes.com/

The Dollar Bubble

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

Why Does God Allow Wars?

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

http://www.house.gov/delahunt/images/graves.jpgWhy Does God Allow Wars? More people have asked me this question than any other: Why, if there be a God, does God allow wars and all this human suffering and anguish? Why such terrifying world conditions as we face now?

People put it to me this way: If God is good, if God is love, if God is merciful, he wouldn’t want people to suffer like they do on this earth, would he? And, if God is Almighty, if he has all power, he could stop it. He could prevent it. Then, why doesn’t he?

I want to make plain to you what you may never have heard or thought of before.

The God I believe in—the God that I know exists, because I can prove it!—is the God who created all things. He is the Creator not only of matter, but also of force, of energy, of all the laws that exist: the laws of chemistry, the laws of physics—spiritual laws as well as physical laws to regulate man’s life and man’s happiness.

God created man in his image, and for a purpose that almost no one seems to understand. Did you ever stop to think and wonder why you were born?
What is this purpose that God is working out?

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By Herbert W. Armstrong
Feburary 1986 Plain Truth Magazine
Personal from the Editor
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Massachusetts Earthquake Puts Everything in Play

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Scott Brown’s stunning electoral victory in Massachusetts yesterday confirms to the world what we have known all along: Patriotism and common sense are alive and well. Real Americans remain a majority in this country, and the massively-funded, corrupt Democrat machine, engorged with our tax dollars, radical billionaire money, and lock-step union support, cannot buy elections even in hardcore Democrat states once the sleeping giant has awoken.

And make no mistake about it: We are wide awake!

The Democrats were certainly hamstrung by choosing an impossibly bad candidate. Martha Coakley made a fool of herself repeatedly, yet through it all carried herself with an astonishing sense of conceited entitlement, seemingly contemptuous of even having to campaign at all. Meanwhile, her campaign took on an air of ugly thuggishness. Two scenes captured on video during this short campaign say it all. Everyone has seen the first one, where a reporter is pushed to the ground by a Coakley supporter while she does nothing to stop it. Remember, she is the Massachusetts attorney general. The second one has received less attention, but is even more telling: a female reporter getting thrown out of a Coakley campaign office with shouts of “Nazi.” Someone even used the F-bomb. What class acts!

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By James Simpson
http://www.americanthinker.com

Why America and China will clash

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
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Google’s clash with China is about much more than the fate of a single, powerful firm. The company’s decision to pull out of China, unless the government there changes its policies on censorship, is a harbinger of increasingly stormy relations between the US and China.

The reason that the Google case is so significant is because it suggests that the assumptions on which US policy to China have been based since the Tiananmen massacre of 1989 could be plain wrong. The US has accepted – even welcomed – China’s emergence as a giant economic power because American policymakers convinced themselves that economic opening would lead to political liberalisation in China.

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By Gideon Rachman
http://www.ft.com

2010: Giant Gathering Storm Clouds

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

The key here is that a great many extremely damaging and highly disruptive events loom like giant gathering storm clouds that meet, complete with lightning displays.

The year 2008 bore my mark as the year the system broke. A public article addressed the issues, laid out before the breakdown occurred in September of that year. The consequences for the many failures, the desperate nationalizations, the hasty scrambles to put financial sewage under USGovt ownership, the realization of TARP as a vast slush fund for illegitimate bank rescues, the official monetization plans put forth to prevent bond implosions, and much more occurred in the year 2009 as a recognized aftermath. Here we are in 2010 and the threats must again be laid out. A prelude was offered in an mid-December article entitled “Full Circle of Govt Debt Default” (CLICK HERE) where a global sovereign debt ruin in vicious circle was displayed the sequence that started in the Untied States and will end in the Untied States. Rather than make specific forecasts of extreme events, a list is presented much like a smorgasbord. The odds are 100:1 in favor at least one extreme event occurring in this current calendar year in my view. The odds are very high in favor of several events taking place this year. The key here is that a great many extremely damaging and highly disruptive events loom like giant gathering storm clouds that meet, complete with lightning displays. More terrestrial types might consider that a great many land mine explosives lie in the wide pathways ahead. At least a few extreme craters will be formed. A few financial edifices will be toppled. Great changes come, especially to the global power structures. This time around, the stakes are bigger, and entire nations will face debt failure and national realignment. The ripple effects will reshape the global financial system.

The blind, the deficient, and the compromised fail to fully appreciate and detect the meaning of the Dubai debt default or the Iceland financial failure. They actually believe these busts have been dealt with by the very strength of the capitalist system. These default failures signify a continuation of the credit market crisis that never went away. Instead, accounting fraud was legalized. Instead, bloated bank toxic balance sheets were permitted. Instead, sovereign debt finance by monetary expansion was endorsed, i.e. monetization. Instead, stock equity sales to the nitwits incapable of reading balance sheets was widespread. Instead, broader statistical gimmickry of economic data was installed. Not a single meaningful reform has taken place on US soil, which guarantees the continuation of the credit crisis is assured. No substantial reduction of US home loan balance sheets. No return of US manufacturing. No liquidation of dead US banks. No removal of Goldman Sachs from control of the USDept Treasury. No disclosure of US Federal Reserve disbursements of over $1 trillion. No steps to restore the Glass Steagall Act to create firewalls between the financial sectors. No effort to prosecute for $trillion bond fraud. No initiative to bring to light the deep criminal lace to Fannie Mae and AIG, now protected under USGovt aegis. No attempt to rein in military spending and endless wars. No movement to create a monetary system with a currency other than the current debt denominated $20 bill coupons. Instead, with much greater force, enthusiasm, and recklessness, the financial system hurtled deeper into the Weimar chambers of commerce. Worse, most steps simply apply greater doses of precisely what caused the problems with debt overload and excessive monetary expansion. Worse doubly, most reforms grant even more power to those responsible for the breakdowns and fraud perpetration. The Untied States is being recognized internationally as a rogue nation moving headlong toward communism, run by powerful syndicates, whose most prominent foreign policy is explained by military hardware.

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by Jim Willie, CB. Editor, Hat Trick Letter | January 6, 2010
http://www.financialsense.com

Europe’s looming demise

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

http://euro-med.dk/billeder/Eurabia-Burkha-Turkey.jpg“The Europe as you know it from visiting, from your parents or friends is on the verge of collapsing,” Geert Wilders said in a speech in the United States last year.

The leader of the Netherlands’ populist Party for Freedom added: “We are now witnessing profound changes that will forever alter Europe’s destiny and might send the Continent in what Ronald Reagan called ‘a thousand years of darkness.’ ” And not just Europe, but America as well.

Been to Europe lately? Thought it was bad? You ain’t seen nothing yet. The passage of the Lisbon Treaty, hailed by President Obama, nailed the coffin shut on national sovereignty in Europe. The people of Europe fought it, but were overwhelmed by their political elites and the lack of American leadership in this age of our rather Marxist, collectivist U.S. president.

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By Pamela Geller
http://www.washingtontimes.com