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No longer will a spade be called a spade in government Documents!

In showing favoritism in word, deed, and conduct toward Islam,

Obama’s now exposed as a Sugar Daddy to Islamic Radicals,

As the Bearer of Gifts by the Dreams of his Islamic Father,

Filling Radical’s dreams of getting more in Negotiations,

Than they ever thought possible with President Bush!

Obama hoodwinked Israel

in his election Campaign,

But Has Treacherously Reversed Himself IN Office!

He now has conservatives look like Warmongers,

In his new attempt to regain his lost Popularity!

There is an intellectual madness in his Method

To hold his liberal base and pacify Moderates.

His Changes are Deceiving many Americans!

It’s one of the signs we’re in the last Days!

II Timothy 3:1,12,13 –This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. [12] Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. [13] But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

April 8, 2010

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Begin Excerpt from THE JERUSALEM POST

Obama bans terms Jihad, Islam

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

April 7, 2010

US to alter security strategy document as part of outreach to

Islam.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s advisers will remove religious terms such as “Islamic extremism” from the central document outlining the US national security strategy and will use the rewritten document to emphasize that the United States does not view Muslim nations through the lens of terror, counterterrorism officials said.

The change is a significant shift in the National Security Strategy, a document that previously outlined the Bush Doctrine of preventative war and currently states: “The struggle against militant Islamic radicalism is the great ideological conflict of the early years of the 21st century.”

The officials described the changes on condition of anonymity because the document was still being written, and the White House would not discuss it. But rewriting the strategy document will be the latest example of Obama putting his stamp on US foreign policy, like his promises to dismantle nuclear weapons and limit the situations in which they can be used.

Begin Excerpt from YNet News

Obama’s gift to radicals

Given US president’s policy, it doesn’t pay to be moderate these days

Guy Bechor

April 4, 2010

The American president’s tough approach towards Israel and the turning of Jerusalem into a public bone of contention constitute an unexpected gift to the Middle East’s radical regimes. It doesn’t pay to be moderate these days. If the US president is so radical towards Israel, how could

the Arabs afford to be more moderate than him?

There was always construction in east Jerusalem, yet the Arab world did not turn it into a major slogan, yet it’s happening at this time because of Obama, among other reasons. The US president also prompted Palestinian positions to get tougher in a hurry. After all,
They cannot demand more than he does.

If during the Bush Administration, the Palestinians engaged in negotiations with Israel without addressing the settlements at all, while their construction continued, during Obama’s era they have demanded a freeze, then a full freeze, including Jerusalem, and now they want a complete stop.

This is turning from Palestinian-Israeli negotiations into American coercion vis-à-vis Israel, and the Palestinian demands in respect to borders and refugees will only grow now.

Without noticing it, Obama also internationalized the conflict again and brought in all the Mideast’s troublemakers as partners: The Arab League headed by the radical Amr Moussa, the Arab states’ monitoring committee, and in fact all Arab regimes, with all their animosities and disagreements.

Arab League Secretary General Moussa, a blatant Israel-hater, is now in charge of approving or rejecting Mahmoud Abbas’ moves. The Arab League is now a super-negotiator, against Israel, thereby being granted a veto power.

Did Moussa speak of the Iranian nuclear threat in the recent summit meeting in Libya

? The opposite was true: He recommended dialogue with Tehran, while warning of Israel’s nuclear threat.

Outdated false doctrine

This is clearly an Obama mistake, as Arab states will now compete over which one will demand more, be more radical, and exert more pressure. The Palestinians will gain nothing good out of it. With his tactic of pressing and coercing Israel, Obama confirms Hamas’ argument that Israel only understands force. It could be military force, sanctions, or the best option in terms of the Arabs: Heavy US pressure on Israel.

This message is terrible for anyone who thinks about real negotiations, based on mutual respect and recognition. It means that in our region there is no chance for talks premised on interests and mutual respect. There is only room f or coercion, diplomatic compulsion, and diplomatic

or military violence.

This is an American message that is destructive to any negotiations and to any genuine diplomatic effort, now or in the future. One can certainly make demands of Israel, yet the US must do so discretely, as not to shift the regional balance of power and thereby ruin its ally.

The Obama Administration is also completely wrong in reading the regional map. For a long time now, the Arab-Israeli conflict is not at the heart of the Mideastern conflict, as we’ve seen much greater shocks in the past decade: The rise of the Shiites and decline of the Sunnis, as well as the rise of political Islam and decline of Arab and Palestinian nationalism.

It is precisely Israel that in recent years had been perceived by most Arab regimes as less threatening than in the past, and as closer to them in the struggle against Iran.

For us this is a miracle, as we are no longer at the center of the conflict, yet Obama insists on reverting to the old and false doctrine, whereby a Palestinian state would prompt universal peace in the Middle East, among the Shiites and Sunnis in Iraq and Iran, and also sweep Egypt’s Islamic Brotherhood.

And why do Arab states play along with this outdated American doctrine? They are scared to discuss the true crises within them, and find it beneficial to deal only with Israel. In fact, this is the only Arab consensus at this time.

Begin Excerpt from Arutz Sheva

Ex-NY Mayor Koch:

Obama Anti-Israel ‘In Order to Please Muslims’

Nisan 20, 5770, 04 April 10 01:31

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

(Israelnationalnews.com) U.S. President Barack Obama is anti-Israel and “is willing to throw Israel under the bus in order to please Muslim nations,” former New York City Mayor Ed Koch charged.

Koch, a Jewish Democrat, has been gradually “falling out of love” with President Obama, a term he used in a commentary he published last August. The recent snub by the president of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, highlighted by a meeting without a press conference or even an official photograph, broke the proverbial camel’s back for Koch.

After having opposed President Obama’s health care reform plan and expressing disappointment over his failure to convince Russia and China to back harsh sanctions against Iran, the former mayor recently wrote, “President Obama’s abysmal attitude toward the State of Israel and his humiliating treatment of Prime Minister Netanyahu is shocking.”

He then went one step further with unprecedented public criticism of President Obama by a leading Democrat, telling Fox News that the country’s leader is more interested in pacifying Muslim nations than helping Israel.

“What they did is they wanted to make Israel into a pariah,” he said. “It’s outrageous in my judgment,” Koch commented.

“I have been a supporter of President Obama and went to Florida for him, urged Jews all over the country to vote for him, saying that he would be just as good as John McCain on the security of Israel. I don’t think it’s true anymore.”

He also publicly questioned New York Senator Chuck Schumer, a Jew, for not protesting President Obama’s treatment of Israel. “It’s their silence,” Koch told the New York Post’s Michael Goodwin. “I can’t figure out where they are.”
The senator reportedly told Koch he will openly side with Israel if President Obama does not back off.

Begin Excerpt from THE JERUSALEM POST

Obama bans terms Jihad, Islam

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

07/04/2010 13:04

US to alter security strategy document as part of outreach to Islam.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s advisers will remove religious terms such as “Islamic extremism” from the central document outlining the US national security strategy and will use the rewritten document to emphasize that the United States does not view Muslim nations through the lens of terror, counterterrorism officials said.

The change is a significant shift in the National Security Strategy, a document that previously outlined the Bush Doctrine of preventative war and currently states: “The struggle against militant Islamic radicalism is the great ideological conflict of the early years of the 21st century.”

The officials described the changes on condition of anonymity because the document was still being written, and the White House would not discuss it. But rewriting the strategy document will be the latest example of Obama putting his stamp on US foreign policy, like his promises to dismantle nuclear weapons and limit the situations in which they can be used.

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Iran Will Not Allow a Democracy to Stand in Iraq

April 8, 2010

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Begin Excerpt from U.K. Guardian via World News

Al-Sadr’s movement backs neither Iraq front-runner

HAMID AHMED

AP foreign, Wednesday April 7, 2010

Associated Press Writer= BAGHDAD (AP) — An influential Shiite movement did not back either front-runner in a poll on who to support for Iraq’s next prime minister, further muddying on Wednesday the political situation in the aftermath of the inconclusive March elections.

In a survey, supporters of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr voted 24 percent for him to support Shiite politician Ibrahim al-Jaafari, who was interim prime minister from 2005 to 2006, the movement’s spokesman Salah al-Obeidi announced.

Iraq’s incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his chief rival Ayad Allawi received only 10 percent and 9

percent of votes respectively.

Al-Obeidi left open whether al-Sadr would follow the guidance of his supporters in the course of future negotiations, saying that “each event has its own way,” but the results seemed certain to at least add further complications to the already long drawn-out negotiating period that has followed the March 7 election.

Allawi’s bloc came out ahead in the vote by two seats over al-Maliki’s coalition, but both parties are far short of the necessary majority needed to govern alone. The candidates are now scrambling to muster the support needed to form a government.

The poll of al-Sadr’s supporters was widely viewed as a way for the cleric to give himself the opportunity to back someone other than al-Maliki, under the guise of following the people’s will.

Al-Sadr rose to prominence after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, forging a political dynasty based on the network and prestige of his father, a leading Shiite cleric killed by Saddam Hussein in 1999.

Many see him now as a potential kingmaker, after his followers won at least 39 seats in the 325-seat parliament in the March 7 vote, up 10 seats from their current standing. That makes them the largest bloc within the Iraqi National Alliance, a Shiite religious coalition that placed third in the race.

There has been deep enmity between the Sadrists and al-Maliki since he turned on al-Sadr’s powerful militia in 2008, despite receiving key support from al-Sadr in 2006 when he formed his government.

Winning Kurdish support could also be key in helping either al-Maliki or Allawi form the next government.

On Wednesday, a representative of Iraq’s Kurdish President Jalal Talabani met with the country’s most revered and politically influential Shiite leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in Najaf for talks on the process of forming new government.

As he emerged from the talks, Talabani’s adviser Fakhri Karim said the cleric had told him that he was pushing for all factions to be involved in the political process.

Al-Sistani “stressed the necessity of the participation of all the parties in the political process without excluding any,” Karim told reporters without elaborating.

Renewed sectarian violence has broken out amid the struggle for power — most recently with a series of bombings Tuesday that killed 54 people and injured 187. More than 120 have been killed in a five-day spree of attacks in and around the capital, which Iraqi and U.S. officials have blamed on al-Qaida insurgents seizing on gaping security lapses created by the political deadlock.

Police investigating the Tuesday attacks said in one case, the suspected bomber rented a first-floor apartment in

one of the buildings a week ago and likely rigged it with explosives.

Police are working on the theory that the other buildings were attacked the same way, an investigator told the AP on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk with the press, suggesting that the bombings were carefully planned an executed.

In reaction, the government said it would bolster enforcement of an Iraqi law that requires local police or other officials to approve any rental contracts before people move into a new home.

The recent violence, which has largely targeted families and homes, has been reminiscent of the sectarian bloodshed that tore Iraq apart from 2005 to 2007 and prompted the United States to send tens of thousands more troops to the front lines.

Hundreds of mourners on Wednesday marched through the streets of the predominantly Shiite area of Baghdad which was the focus of the attacks in funeral processions.

In one procession, families and friends of one victim carried his coffin and picture over their heads through the narrow streets, walking to the cadence of a gun being fired into the air in time to a drum.
Nearby, the Iraqi-flag draped coffin of another victim was carried to a car to be taken away for burial, as mourners wailed and fired gunshots into the air.

“The whole district is in mourning because even if you didn’t have a relative killed, it might have been a neighbor or a friend,” said shop-owner Saif Hassan, who blamed the government for not providing better security.

“Instead of improving our area with reconstruction and services, we face bombings and destruction,” the 25-year-old said.

Begin Excerpt from ‘THE NATION”

Tehran’s Coup in Iraq?

Robert Dreyfuss

Sun Mar 28, 9:47 pm ET

The Nation — Iran is losing no time in assembling a pro-Tehran government in Iraq, and in so doing Tehran may push the Sunni minority in Iraq into violent rebellion.

Already, there are reports from Iraq — from Iraqi political insiders — that former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi

who led a nationalist, anti-Iranian coalition of secular Sunni and Shiite voters, may opt to boycott the upcoming new national assembly if he isn’t given the right to form a government.

“We expect that there will be calls for a boycott of the parliament and for civil disobedience,” according to Aiham Alsammarae, an ally of Allawi’s. A violent reaction by Allawi’s supporters can’t be ruled out, he said, from voters who demand that Allawi be given the first crack at putting together a government. In the March 7 election, Allawi’s Iraqi Nationalist Movement won 91 seats, edging out the State of Law party of Prime Minister Maliki, who won 89 seats.

But top Iraqi politicians representing Shiite sectarian politicians and Kurdish separatists filed dutifully to Iran yesterday for meetings on the formation of a new Iraqi government despite Allawi’s win.

President Jalal Talabani, a Kurdish leader, vi sited

Tehran this weekend for meetings with President Ahmadinejad and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader. Talabani was accompanied by Adel Abdel Mahdi, a leader of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI)and Iraq’s vice president, one of the leaders of the pro-Iranian Shiite religious bloc, the Iraqi National Alliance (INA). In parallel, leaders of Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki’s State of Law party traveled to Iran to meet with Muqtada al-Sadr. Sadr and Abdel Mahdi are two key members of the INA, and behind the scenes Iran is knocking heads together to make sure that Maliki, the INA, and Talabani form a ruling alliance, according to Iraqi sources interviewed from Iraq and Jordan.

Their goal: to undercut former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. Under Iraqi law, and according to previous procedures, Allawi would normally be asked to form a government.

But Maliki finagled a court decision that, he says, allows him to form a broader coalition first and t

hen claim the right to announce a ruling majority.

According to Iraqi sources, Maliki, the INA, and Talabani — who controls eight or nine seats within the Kurdish bloc — agreed in Iran to form a government, which could muster about 170 seats, more than the 163 necessary in the 325-member parliament. As a result, the sources report, Masoud Barzani, the chief Kurdish leader, will also throw in with the pro-Maliki bloc. (Recently, Allawi and Barzani reportedly reached an understanding about an alliance, but even together they don’t have enough votes to form a government.)

Allawi and his allies, including Saleh al-Mutlaq, who was banned from running for office by the so-called de-Baathification commission, have tried to reach out to the United States for support. But Washington, whose influence in Iraq is waning rapidly, and which plans to withdraw its last remaining combat forces from Iraq by August, hasn’t responded to Allawi’s overtures. Needless to say, the last thing that the Obama administration needs is to become embroiled in Iraq’s post-election crisis, and there’s little that Washington could do, anyway, to affect the outcome. Indeed, for years now it’s been clear that American influence in Iraq has been shrinking, and that Iran’s clout has been increasing.

But whether Washington likes it or not, Iraq may once again be pushed to the brink of civil war.

Begin Excerpt from Khaleej Times On Line via World News

Sadrists organise referendum to name Iraq PM

(AFP)

31 March 2010

BAGHDAD – The movement loyal to Moqtada al-Sadr, which has emerged as a kingmaker in the aftermath of elections, will organise a vote to see who its supporters want to be Iraq’s next leader, it said Tuesday.

“We will conduct a consultation on Friday to find out which candidate the people want… from five proposed candidates,” Ali al-Anbari, a spokesman for the radical Shiite cleric’s bloc, told AFP.

Among the five names that will be put forward are sitting Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his main rival, secular former premier Iyad Allawi.

Allawi’s Iraqiya bloc finished first in Iraq’s March 7 parliamentary elections with 91 seats in the 325-member Council of Representatives, two more than Maliki’s State of Law Alliance.

The three other candidates that will be put forward are former prime minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, current Shiite Vice-President Adel Abdel Mahdi, and Jaafar al-Sadr, the son of Mohammed Baqr Sadr, an ayatollah assassinated by Saddam Hussein in 1980 who founded Maliki’s Islamic Dawa Party.

The Sadrist movement performed well in the elections, finishing at the head of the Iraqi National Alliance (INA), a coalition led by Shiite religious groups, which finished third nationwide with 70 seats.

Its success has given it strong bargaining power as Iraq’s various political groups negotiate to form a 163-seat coalition and thus form a government, a process that is expected to take several months.

Sadr, said to be in his 30s, gained widespread popularity among Shiites in Iraq in the months after the 2003 invasion and in 2004 when his Mahdi Army militia battled US troops in two bloody revolts.

Born into a family of prominent religious leaders, he is believed to have moved to neighbouring Shiite Iran in 2007, apparently for concerns over his safety.

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OBAMA’S POLICY CHANGES NOW DISASTROUS!

AMERICA HAS A NOVICE IN THE WHITE HOUSE!

HE HAS NOT THE FOGGIEST SENSE OF REALITY!

LOOK AT THE FOLLOWING: JERUSALEM CENTER

PUBLIC AFFAIRS EXCERPTS TO SEE HOW GREAT

OBAMA NEW POLICY OF APPEASEMENT WORKS!

April 7, 2010

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Begin Excerpts from Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Daily Alert

April 6, 2010

Excerpt 1 – Reuters

Ahmadinejad Rejects Renewed U.S. Call for Engagement

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday rejected a renewed call from the U.S. to engage diplomatically to overcome the nuclear standoff. Ahmadinejad said a message by President Obama to mark the Iranian new year last month contained “three or four beautiful words” but nothing new of substance.

“They say that ‘we have extended our hands to the people of Iran but the government of Iran and the people of Iran pushed it back.’ What hand did you extend toward us?” Ahmadinejad said in a televised speech. “What changed? Your sanctions were lifted? The adverse propaganda was stopped? The pressure was alleviated? Did you change your attitude in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine?” (Reuters)

Excerpt 2 – AP

Obama: Iran Aims to Acquire Nukes

President Barack Obama says the U.S. will continue to “ratchet up the pressure” on Iran to reveal its nuclear intentions to the rest of the world. In an interview broadcast Friday on CBS’s “The Early Show,” Obama said “all the evidence” indicates that Tehran is trying to get a nuclear weapons capacity. With such a capability, Obama said that Iran could “destabilize” life in the Mideast and trigger an arms race

in the region. (AP)

Excerpt 3 – UK Financial Times

Hopes of Swift Sanctions Against Iran Suffer Setback in UN

Harvey Morris

The UN Security Council Monday failed to include Iran’s nuclear program on its agenda for April, underlining the likely slow road to sanctions.

President Obama, buoyed by what Washington officials perceived as a shift in China’s attitude towards imposing fresh sanctions on Iran, said a week ago that he wanted to see a fourth round of UN measures in place within weeks.

Financial Times-UK)

Excerpt 4 – VOA News

Obama Reported Pressing to Slow Congressional Push for Iran Sanctions

Dan Robinson

The Obama administration is reported to be pressing key members of the U.S. Congress to allow more time before taking final action on legislation that would impose tough, unilateral sanctions on Iran.

Bruce MacDonald with the U.S. Institute of Peace says a delay would help by not tying the administration’s hands when it comes to negotiating with Tehran. (VOA News)

Excerpt 5 – Boston Globe

Move Quickly on Iran Sanctions

Editorial

The Obama administration has been pushing hard for tougher UN Security Council sanctions on Iran, while Congress has been hammering out its own list of unilateral U.S. sanctions. Yet hawks and doves alike commonly presume that sanctions aren’t enough to compel Iran to forgo its pursuit of nuclear weapons. In the face of Iran’s defiance of the international community, sanctions feel like a squirt gun rather than a rifle.

There have been recent signs, however, that the Iranian regime may be much more vulnerable to

the deprivations that go along with economic isolation than its leaders pretend.

The Obama administration and the UN should press ahead on sanctions as a prod for a negotiated deal that removes the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran.

(Boston Globe)

Excerpt 6 – The Australian

U.S. Allows Iran Its Nuclear Vision

Greg Sheridan

(The Australian)

President Obama has decided to abandon any serious effort to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. He is determined instead to live with a nuclear Iran, by containment and, if possible, negotiation. Obama and his cabinet secretaries still make speeches saying they will try to prevent Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. But if you look at the statements closely you see a steady weakening of resolve, a steady removal of any threat of any consequence for Iran.

The troubling realization that the Americans have given up, or are in the process of giving up, the fight to prevent Iran going nuclear is backed by the best informed security sources in Washington, London, Jerusalem and Canberra.

The most senior U.S. officials would agree that a nuclear-armed Iran represented an existential threat to Israel.

Iran’s rulers not only deny the Holocaust, but have made militant anti-Americanism, confrontation with Israel and even anti-Semitism, defining ideologies of the Iranian state. Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has threatened to wipe Israel off the map.

By isolating Israel, by irresponsibly unleashing a global wave of anti-Israel sentiment, especially in nations which normally support Israel, Obama has made the possibility of Israel considering unilateral action against Iran much more unlikely and has made the potential cost to Israel of action against Iran much greater.

There is no chance Obama will produce a comprehensive Israeli-Palestinian peace deal in his first term in office, which is how he would like to be remembered by history.

There is every chance history will remember him as the American president on whose watch Iran became a nuclear-weapons state.

The writer is foreign editor of The Australian.

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Man’s Problem isn’t something in the distant future he can Change!

Man’s Problem isn’t something he can prevent from Happening,

Man’s Problem is not long time global atmospheric Warming,

Man’s Problem is short term quakes & volcanic Eruptions,

That I believe will begin at a point in time before 2015,

To announce the beginning of the Great Tribulation,

The prophets of the Bible so graphically Detailed!

I am convinced at a point in time BEFORE 2015,

God will suddenly begin the massive Shifting,

Of a Tectonic Plate System of his Creation,

To Fulfill the Phenomena of Isaiah 29:6,

Along thousand of miles of the Plates,

Beginning with the Revelation 6:12

Quake in the Jordan River Valley!

The earthquake associated with Revelation 6:12 will be accompanied by a long chain of worldwide earthquakes. These earthquakes will occur along fault lines that stretch across the surface of the earth, and will be far greater than in magnitude and intensity than any which have occurred since God placed Adam on the earth. The Jordan Rift Valley is merely a small part of the thousands of interconnected fault lines that stretch across the entire earth, but the first, and the last, of the many earthquakes occurring during the tribulation period, will occur along it, the first one with some 3 & ½ years to go until Armageddon, and the last one will end the battle of Armageddon.

Revelation 6:12 – And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; (The first in Revelation).

Revelation 16:16-18 – And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. [17] And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. [18] And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great (The last in Revelation).

Daniel 12:4 – But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

As geologists have run “to and fro” across the earth our knowledge has been greatly increased as to the method that God has, and does, use in reshaping the earth’s crust and interior. We now know that the outer crust of the earth’s surface actually floats on an underlying layer of molten rock known as magma. When magma bursts forth onto the earth’s surface it is called lava. These plates of floating crust (called tectonic plates) are gigantic in size.

The largest one, the Pacific Plate, consists of virtually the entire Pacific Ocean seafloor.

The plates come together along their edges, and these zones of contact are called faults.

There are several types of faults that exist along tectonic plate borders, but it is not the purpose of this discourse to teach structural geology, so I will merely identify all these faults as cracks or flaws in the earth’s surface, which reach far down into a worldwide sea of magma beneath the tectonic plate crust (See Figure 3 under Birth Pangs in our web site Archives). The dashed lines on Figure 3 are the major faults or “cracks” that exist between the plates.

The arrows indicate the general movement of the plates as they drift ever so slowly over the underlying sea of magma in response to its convective currents. As you can see in Figure 3, the Jordan Valley rift fault is merely a very small part of the endless linkage of fault lines that weave across the surface of the globe.

Another bit of the “to and fro” knowledge that has increased for man “in the end times” is discovery of the fact that some 95 percent or the world’s earthquakes, and about 90 percent of all volcanic eruptions occur along the fault lines shown on Figure 3.

Man has learned that the earthquakes occurring along these fault lines are primarily the result of sudden readjustment movements between the plate boundaries, such as the well publicized San Andreas Fault in California.

There are numerous geological and atmospheric phenomena associated with the shifting of these tectonic plates. WHEN this shifting DOES occur, it will be accompanied by chains of earthquake and volcanic activity like the world of man has never known. I have always believed a shifting would occur in conjunction with the fall of Jerusalem to the antichrist, which I guesstimate likely to occur prior to 2015.

However, if I am still alive when a new year dawns in 2015, I will still believe that the “EVENTUALLY” will still be in the immediate future.

During the earth’s long history it’s crust has become increasingly brittle, and the day will come when all this pulling out and then pulling in by the gravitation galactic forces that have daily affected it, will bring it to the point that a great future earthquake will trigger a massive chain of earthquakes to release the pressure points and tension zones that have been built up along the plate boundaries. It will mark the time of visitation by God in judgment

by a horrific release of tectonic chaos.

Isaiah 29:6 – Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.

April 6, 2010

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Excerpt from The New York Times

USGS: 7.8 Quake Off Sumatra

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

April 6, 2010

Filed at 7:29 p.m. ET

NEW YORK (AP) — A magnitude 7.8 earthquake has rattled Indonesia’s northwest island of Sumatra, the U.S. Geological Survey reported Tuesday.

The quake struck at 2215 GMT (5:15 a.m. Wednesday local time) and was centered 205 kilometers (125 miles) northwest of Sibolga in Sumatra, and was 1,425 kilometers (880 miles) northwest of Jakarta, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

A tsunami watch was issued for the region, said the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Honolulu.

Japan’s Kyodo news agency said that the Jakarta-based Meteorological, Geophysics and Climatology agency issued a tsunami warning.

Kyodo also reported blackouts in Medan and Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh Province.

The quake was 46 kilometers (28.6 miles) deep, the USGS said.

Began Excerpt from Columbus Dispatch World News

Volcanoes a global worry

Icelandic blasts could affect weather

Tuesday, March 23, 2010 2:51 AM

By Paisley Dodds and Gudjon Helgason

ASSOCIATED PRESS

REYKJAVIK, Iceland – Blasts of lava and ash shot out

of a volcano in southern Iceland yesterday, and small tremors rocked the ground. The surge in activity raised fears of a larger explosion at a nearby volcano, Katla.

Scientists say history has proved that when the Eyjafjallajokull volcano erupts, Katla follows. The only question is how soon. And Katla, which is under the massive Myrdalsjokull icecap, threatens disastrous flooding and explosive blasts when it blows.

Saturday’s eruption at Eyjafjallajokull, which was dormant for nearly 200 years, forced at least 500 people to evacuate. Most have returned to their homes, but authorities were waiting for scientific assessments to determine whether it is safe for them to stay. Residents of 14 farms nearest to the eruption site were told to stay away.

Several small tremors were felt early yesterday, followed by spurts of lava and steam rocketing into the air.

Iceland sits on a large volcanic hot spot in the Atlantic’s mid-oceanic ridge. Eruptions, which have been common throughout Iceland’s history, often are triggered when the Earth’s plates move and when magma from deep underground pushes its way to the surface.

As with earthquakes, predicting the timing of volcanic eruptions is an imprec

ise science. An eruption at the Katla volcano could be disastrous, however – both for Iceland and other nations.

Iceland’s Laki volcano erupted in 1783, freeing gases that turned into smog. The smog floated across the jet stream, changing weather patterns. Many died from gas poisoning in the British Isles. Crop production fell in Western Europe. Some even linked the eruption, which helped fuel famine, to the French Revolution.

Pa inters

in the 18th century illustrated fiery sunsets in their works.

The winter of 1784 also was one of the longest and coldest on record in North America. New England reported a record stretch of below-zero temperatures, and New Jersey reported record snow accumulation. The Mississippi River reportedly froze in New Orleans.

“These are Hollywood-sort of scenarios but possible,” said Colin Macpherson, a geologist with the University of Durham

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FAR LEFT LIBERALS Obama and Kerry Seem QUITE Determined

To get the second most aggressive state sponsor of Terrorism

In the World, Namely SYRIA, to Engage as a Key Peace Player!

Only IRAN Would Have Been a WORSE Designation than SYRIA!

A choice of Assad or Ahmadinejad Would SET A TRAP For Israel

As King of the South into a Counterattack BY King of the North!

April 6, 2010

http://www.tribulationperiod.com/

Daniel 11:40,41 – And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

[41] He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.

Begin Excerpt from The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Daily Alert

April 1, 2010

An Unusual Alignment of Interests in the Middle East

Michael J. Totten

(Commentary)

More than any other Arab head of state in the world, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has mastered the art of telling listeners what they want to hear.

He knows those in the West find it refreshing that he can talk like a liberal while Iran’s Ali Khamenei and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threaten apocalypse.

Syria, though, is the most aggressive state sponsor of terrorism in the world after Iran.

Meanwhile, Iraqis gave Ayad Allawi and his slate of staunchly anti-Iranian candidates a plurality of votes in the recent election.

The moderate Nouri al-Maliki came in second while the pro-Iranian Iraqi National Alliance came in dead last.

Iran tried to Lebanonize Iraq with its Sadrist militias but seems to have failed.

What we have, for the most part, is an Arab Middle East that wants to put the Israeli conflict on ice and resist the Iranian-led “resistance” instead – which is more or less what the Israelis want to see happen. It’s an unusual alignment of interests, but it is authentic.

President Barack Obama clearly wants to tilt U.S. foreign policy more toward the Arabs, but he doesn’t have to do it at the expense of our alliance with Israel.

Just start with what Washington, Jerusalem, and most of the Arab states have in common and build outward from there.

Begin Excerpt from Middle East On Line

Kerry: Obama wants to engage Syria as key peace player

US senator says Syria is essential player in bringing peace, stability to Mideast region.

April 1, 2010

DAMASCUS – President Barack Obama’s administration considers Syria a key player in Washington’s efforts to revive the stalled Middle East peace process, US Senator John Kerry said in Damascus on Thursday.

“Syria is an essential player in bringing peace and stability to the region,” Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a speech after meeting President Bashar al-Assad.

“Both the United States and Syria have a very deep interest… in having a very frank exchange on any differences (and) agreements that we have about the possibilities of peace in this region,” he said in t

he statement.

A summit of Arab leaders last weekend ruled out renewed Palestinian-Israeli peace talks unless the Jewish state halts all settlement building, particularly in annexed Arab east Jerusalem.

“There are things that the United States can do, there are things that Syria can do, there are things that Israel can do, Turkey can do, some are unilateral, some are multilateral,” Kerry said.

“But all of us have to work together in order to seize real opportunities.”

Obama’s administration has pursued a year-long campaign to engage Syria, a former US foe, and energise its thwarted push for a broad Arab-Israeli peace, particularly between Israel and the Palestinians.

Its decision in February to appoint the first US ambassador to Damascus in five years was “evidence that engagement with Syria is a priority at the highest levels of our government,” said the former US presidential candidate.

Envoy Robert Ford is still awaiting US confirmation of his new post, but “he will be an excellent representative of the president’s policies and an outstanding envoy to the Syrian government,” Kerry said.

He also called on Syria to play a role to halt the supply of weapons to Lebanon’s Shiite militant group Hezbollah.

“We also remain deeply concerned about the flow of weapons in this area, through this area, to Hezbollah. That is something that must stop in order to promote regional stability and security,” Kerry said.

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