Archive for May, 2012

IT IS JUST A QUESTION OF TIME!

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

It’s just a question of time and the time is Drawing Nigh

For the Wicked One to Arise Under Arab Spring Disguise.

Oz cowardly Lion is confused on a best Political Decision

To hold to his anti-war faint heated liberal base Ideology

Yet appear to be lion hearted for the independent Voters.

Rest assured he will do whatever it takes to be Reelected.

May 31, 2012

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II Thessalonians 2:8-12 – And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: [9] Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, [10] And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. [11] And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: [12] That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

1 John 2:22 – Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

Revelation 17:17 – For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.

Begin Excerpt 1 from TIME NEWS FEED

January 27, 2011

By Hanna Jones

2.2 Billion: World’s Muslim Population Doubles

By 2030 the global population is set to reach over 8 billion and 26.4% of that population will be Muslim.

A report by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life titled “The Future of the Global Muslim Population” projects that the number of Muslims in the world is set to double from 1.1 billion in 1990 to 2.2 billion in 2030.

While these are impressive numbers, it actually indicates that the worldwide growth of Islam is “growing but slowing” as it will drop from a growth rate of 1.7% between 2010 and 2020 to 1.4% between 2020 and 2030.

Pew project that Pakistan is set to overtake Indonesia as the country with the world’s largest number of Muslim’s as it’s Muslim majority population pushes to over 256 million. The number in the U.S. will double to over 6.2 million while Afghanistan’s Muslim population is set to rise by almost 74% as the number rises from 29 million to 50 million, making it the country with the ninth largest Muslim population in the world.

Begin Excerpt 2 from DEBKA-Net-Weekly

How long can Obama pretend nuclear diplomacy is working?

DEBKAfile DEBKA-Net-Weekly

May 29, 2012, 6:00 PM (GMT+02:00)

All six powers confronting Iran in Baghdad last Friday, 25 May, knew diplomacy was dead in the water when Tehran flatly vetoed every nuclear compromise. Nothing more is expected from the next round in Moscow. But President Barack Obama still refuses to admit the negotiations are an exercise in futility. When, if ever, will he go for military action against Iran?

Begin Excerpt 3 from DEBKAfile Military & Intelligence Sources

Obama nixes French-Saudi plan to finish Assad by bombing his palace

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

May 30, 2012, 1:07 PM (GMT+02:00)

US President Obama recently vetoed a detailed Franco-Saudi plan for ending President Bashar Assad’s rule by means of a massive air strike against his palace that would at one fell swoop wipe him, his family and top leadership circle out, DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources report.

Their plan was for the presidential palace situated atop Mount Qassioun northeast of Damascus to be devastated by French warplanes taking off from the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier off Syria’s Mediterranean coast and Saudi and United Arab Emirates bombers flying in through Jordan.

They would bomb the palace for 12 hours in several sorties while at the same time American fighter jets launched from a US aircraft carrier cruising in the Mediterranean or Red Sea would shut down Syria’s air defenses, which are considered among the most sophisticated and densely-arrayed in the region.

US warplanes would also keep the Syrian Air Force grounded and prevented from repulsing the incoming bombers.

This plan was presented to President Obama separately by Nicolas Sarkozy before he was voted out of office and Saudi Defense Minister Prince Salman, who arrived at the White House on April 12 for a personal presentation. The prince maintained that there is no end in sight for the Syrian conflict; it would only spread and ignite the rest of the Middle East. The peril could only be rooted out at source by a single, sharp military strike that would remove Assad and his close clan for good. This would be the only acceptable kind of Western-Arab armed intervention in Syria and it had the added advantage of being effective without bringing foreign boots to Syrian soil.

In early May, Sarkozy was still trying to talk Obama around to the plan. He spent his last days in the Elysée Palace in long telephone conversations with the White House in which he drove home three points:

1. Because Assad has concentrated his family, top military command and intelligence chiefs at a single nerve center behind the fortified walls of the Qassioun Palace, the snake’s head can feasibly be cut off at one stroke.The case of Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi was different because, unlike Assad, he never stayed long in one place and was constantly on the move.
2. Once that nerve center is destroyed, Syrian army and intelligence would be bereft of their sources of command. Their troops may remain in their bases and wait for news, while their officers may use the sudden political vacuum in Damascus to try and seize power. In either case, the Syrian military would be free of its orders to crush the anti-Assad revolt.
3. The French, Saudi and UAE air forces lack a central command center capable of coordinating a major combined air operation and therefore depend on the United States to provide this essential component. American military input is also vital for paralyzing Syria’s air defenses by applying its cyber warfare capabilities to disrupt the radar systems of Syria’s anti-air missile batteries.

Our Washington sources report that Obama consistently resisted repeated French and Saudi efforts to jump aboard their initiative.The Saudi defense minister at one point in their conversation told the US president harshly that it was time for the Americans to stop talking and start acting. But Obama remained unmoved.

These events, revealed here by DEBKAfile, provide the background for Presidents Barak Obama and Francois Hollande’s divergent responses Tuesday, May 29, to the al-Houla atrocity and its 108 brutally murdered victims.

The White House repeated its objection to military intervention in Syria “at this time,” because it would only “increase the carnage.” A military option was left on the table.
That was standard Obama-speak for the crisis in Syria, behind which he remains determined to stay out of armed action for unseating President Assad and instead seek a deal with the Russians on the Syrian ruler’s fate as part and parcel of a comprehensive accord on Syria and Iran’s nuclear program.

President Hollande was at first quoted as saying he does not rule out armed intervention in Syria. Elysée sources later watered down this statement with the qualifier: …”only with UN Security Council approval.”

On top of the American hurdle, Moscow and Beijing rushed Wednesday, May 30, to reiterate that they would oppose (veto) any Security Council resolution authorizing military intervention in Syria, so effectively nipping the French intention in the bud.

Bashar Assad accordingly had no qualms about sending UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan off empty-handed from a final bid to salvage his peace mission: The world powers have left him sitting pretty in his palace, unconcerned about his future and free to pursue one of the most vicious anti-opposition campaigns of modern times.

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Hail. Hail, the Gangs All Here to Control Air and Seas while Islam and Israel Fight a War!

Wednesday, May 30th, 2012

Hail, Hail, the Gangs all here to control Air & Seas as Islam & Israel Battle

The (5 + 1) Gang Is Heading down a Prophetic path to Chaos & Disaster

There’s no way the Gang will Stop walking down a path to Armageddon

May 30, 2012

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Biblically speaking, there has always been the certainty of a final great Middle East war between Israel, the apple of God’s eye, and the non-Jewish nations surrounding it. But man does not know the specific hour, day, month, season or year it will actually begin. On the other hand, we are able to tell when the beginning of this war is “drawing nigh.” There is no question in my mind it is “drawing nigh.” Believers should be putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation, for God has not appointed us to the seven Revelation vials of His Wrath.

II Peter 3:1-4 – This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: [2] That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: [3] Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, [4] And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

I Thessalonians 5:4-9 – But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. [5] Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. [6] Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. [7] For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. [8] But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. [9] For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

Mark 13:33-37 – Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. [34] For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch. [35] Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: [36] Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. [37] And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.

The (5 + 1) group, now negotiating with Iran are 5 Permanent Members of the UN Security Council: U.S, Great Britain, France, China, Russia, and the +1 is Germany, the non-member.

The world is headed for a future Middle East cold war between the “5 +1” divided into “The East” and “The West.” Their battle ship armadas will fill the waters of the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean, Aegean, and Red Seas, as well as in the Gulfs of Persia, Aden, and Oman.

From the time the war begins the “5+1” will control the air space over the Middle East, and the waters around it. The West and the East powers will not fire on each other by command of their leaders. Israel and Islamic nations will slug in out in a vicious war on the ground in a non-nuclear conflict. A truce will be declared between Israel and Islam when Islam stops at Beersheba. The truce will last some 1260 days. Then Islam will invite Russia and all nations to come to help him destroy Israel in the Negev Wilderness.

Revelation 16:16 – And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

Revelation 19:19-21 – And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. [20] And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. [21] And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

Begin Excerpt from MEMRI

Middle East Media Research Institute

Inquiry & Analysis Series Report No. 839

The Baghdad Talks – An Interim Report

May 24, 2012

By: A. Savyon and Y. Mansharof*

Following two days of talks between Iran and the West in Baghdad, reports have it that another round may be held three weeks from now in Geneva.[1] The following is an interim report on the Baghdad talks.

1. The Western Position
Sources in the 5+1 described the Western proposal as one that will “interest” Iran. No precise details about the proposal have been released, but, judging by Iranian responses to it, the West has apparently consented to low-level enrichment activities by Iran.[2]
The spokesman of EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton told the Iranian website Nasim Online that the current proposal package addresses the issue of 20 percent enrichment (apparently alluding to the suspension of this activity). According to the website, the continuation of the talks depends on Iran’s consent to this proposal.[3] The Iranian website Fararu reported that, according to rumors, the West requires Iran to halt its 20 percent enrichment activities and accept the NPT Additional Protocol – demands which Tehran firmly rejects.[4]

2. The Iranian Position
Tehran insists that the Baghdad talks are meant to address global issues (such as combating terrorism and drugs, the Syrian crisis, etc.), including global nuclear disarmament (rather than Iran’s nuclear program). This, according to Tehran, is because the nuclear weapons of the P5 countries constitute a threat to world peace, whereas Iran’s nuclear activities are a legitimate and inalienable right, and are aimed at peaceful purposes – as evident from Khamenei’s (nonexistent) fatwa against nuclear weapons.[5] This is the basis for Tehran’s counter-proposal, submitted in response to the 5+1 proposal, which Iran has described as “unbalanced.” Iran’s proposal calls for mutuality and Western trust-building measures as part of a reciprocal “step-for-step” process.[6]

3. Steps Taken By Iran In Lead-Up To Talks
According to information leaked from an upcoming IAEA report, published just prior to the commencement of the Baghdad talks, Iran recently installed hundreds of new centrifuges at the underground enrichment facility in Fordow. Iran itself announced a few days ago that 20 percent-enriched uranium plates have been installed in its research facility in Tehran.[7]
These two reports indicate Iran’s intention to continue its enrichment program without requiring Western assistance or permission. In fact, practically speaking, Iran is a “nuclear threshold state,” though the West is not eager to recognize it as such.

4. Iranian Statements Following First Day Of Talks
At the end of the first day of talks, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said that “the Iranian nation is continuing its rapid advance towards further achievements and towards the instatement of justice, [whereas] the oppression, arrogance, and violence front [i.e., the West headed by the U.S.] is facing weakness and collapse, regardless of its propaganda… The Iranian nation is optimistic about the future, and the horizon is smiling upon it…”[8]

5. Iranian Statements On Second Day Of Talks
When reports on the second day of talks spoke of a deadlock, Iranian news agencies lay the blame on the U.S., accusing it of preventing a solution. The Mehr news agency stated that the 5+1 had withdrawn from the “encouraging positions” it had presented in the Istanbul talks and had neglected the principle of mutuality agreed upon in those talks. Mehr reported that the sides were discussing the timing and location of the next round of talks.[9]
The Baghdad correspondent for Fars reported that “the 5+1 negotiation team and EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton… seem to be lacking an agenda. They are apparently playing for time and are not authorized to take risks.” [10]

* A. Savyon is director of the Iranian Media Project; Y. Mansharof is a research fellow at MEMRI.

Endnotes:

[1] Mehr (Iran), May 24, 2012.
[2] The Iranian daily Kayhan stated that the West’s proposal in Baghdad represents a withdrawal from its former positions, because Iran was previously required to suspend all enrichment activities. (Kayhan, Iran, May 23, 2012). This implies that the proposal allows Iran some enrichment activity.
[3] Nasimonline.ir, May 23, 2012.
[4] Fararu.com, May 24, 2012.
[5] See statement by Iran’s official news agency, headed “Iran Has Upper Hand in Baghdad Talks in Light of Supreme Leader’s Fatwa” (IRNA, Iran, May 23, 2012); Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s statement that “WMDs are forbidden in Iran’s defensive doctrine” (Press TV, Iran, May 23, 2012).
[6] Press TV (Iran), May 23, 2012.
[7] Tehran Times (Iran), May 22, 2012.
[8] Kayhan (Iran), May 24, 2012.
[9] Mehr (Iran), May 24, 2012.
[10] Fars (Iran), May, 24, 2012.

Begin DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

US-Arab exercise drills Iran landing. Syrian rebels obtain German machine guns

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

May 28, 5:59 PM (GMT+02:00)

The US-Arab Eager Lion 2012 exercise ends Wednesday, May 30, after 12,000 mostly American as well as Saudi, Jordanian, Qatari and UAE special forces troops staged three weeks of joint maneuvers in Jordan.

In the marine section, DEBKAfile’s military sources report, around 3,000 US, Jordanian and Saudi special forces troops of three battalions practiced landings on Jordanian beaches and the rapid seizure of fortified mountain bases and command posts on Jordanian terrain resembling the three islands commanding the Strait of Hormuz where the Revolutionary Guards have established marine bases and other parts of Iran.

The mountains behind Aqaba port soar to 6,000 ft.

Taking part were the US 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion, Maritime Raid Force, the 24th Maritime Expeditionary Unit, the Jordanian 77th Reconnaissance Battalion and Saudi special marine forces aboard landing craft.

Their command post was set up aboard the new USS New York amphibious transport dock, which was sent to the Red Sea to boost American strength in the region with 700 marines aboard, landing craft and helicopters for dropping troops opposite land targets.

The command vessel and the exercise were clearly visible to observers from the neighboring Israeli port and resort town of Eilat.

In the ground section of Eager Lion 2012, large scale US and Arab special forces carried out practice operations backed by air and armored strength including assault helicopters in northern Jordan near the Syrian border.

DEBKAfile’s military sources report that Gen. James Mattis, head of the US Central Command, secretly visited both sections of the exercise. If President Barack Obama orders an attack on Syria or Iran, he will be in command.

Our intelligence sources in Washington report that, Saturday, May 26, the president turned down Gen. Mattis’s application for a third US aircraft carrier and strike force to join the USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Enterprise deployed in the Persian Gulf. Obama decided not to raise military tensions with Iran so long as Tehran is ready to keep negotiations with the six world powers going. Should they break down, he would likely reconsider.

Meanwhile, Eager Lion 2012 is an important adjunct to international intervention in the Arab Revolt and preparations for war with Iran.

Last Thursday, May 24, a Russian arms ship, the Professor Katsman, was detected approaching the Syrian port of Tartus. Although the crew shut down communications systems and crept forward in silence.

DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources discovered the vessel dropping anchor in the Syrian port Friday. Military equipment was then unloaded behind tarpaulin screens and transferred to waiting Syrian military truck convoys.

Our sources identified the cargo delivered as consisting of large quantities of artillery and tank shells as well as spare parts for tanks.

The North Korean arms ships Odai is also reported on its way to Tartus with hardware for the Syrian army.

Our military sources report at the same time that Syrian rebels have started using German HK MG4 machine guns in their attacks on Syrian military targets. These weapons are in service with the German Bundeswher. It is the first time German military hardware has been seen in the Middle East in the 67 years since World War II ended. It is not known how the Syrian rebels procured the guns and who is supplying them with ammo.

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Ex-President, Ex-Prime Minister, President Again Putin Rules the Land of Magog!

Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

Any Deals between Russian Pro Putin and US Novice President Obama

Will Leave America Holding The Proverbial basket With Nothing In It

Russia will hold a basket Filled with an Increase of Arab Influence

Obama green-yellow novice basket not Putin’s red One League!

May 29, 2012

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A-tisket, a tasket,

A green and yellow basket,

I wrote a letter to my love,

And on the way I dropped it,

I dropped it,

I dropped it,

President Putin found it,

Now Obama is in his Pocket,

Ex-President, Ex-Prime Minister, President Putin rules the Land of Magog

Revelation 16:16 – And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

Ezekiel 39:4-8 – Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. [5] Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God. [6] And I will send a fire on MAGOG, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the Lord. [7] So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel. [8] Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord God; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

I have been associated with Soviet Intercept since the early fifties until my retirement from the USAF Branch of the Nation Security in 1971. I am familiar with survival of men in the Russian Federation system of today. Vladimir Putin is a survivor. I consider him to be the most intelligent and athletic Russian Leader in the long history of Mother Russia. Having worked on the opposite side in the intelligence Community, I have great respect for his chess movements in international affairs. President Bush was not able to keep up with him, and President Obama is a novice who is putty in his hands. After the Iron Curtain came down I went behind it and stayed with a former Communist Official for a couple of weeks. It was winter, but every morning he went swimming in a lake near the Russian border. Vladimir Putin is that kind of man.

With his intelligence, cunning, and KGB experience, I consider him to the most dangerous man in the Gentile World. I believe he will lead Russia, at the invitation of the Islamic Mahdi, to come down to crush Israel in the Negev at the final single battle at the end of the Tribulation period called Armageddon.

PLEASE READ THE ARCHIVE BLOG FOLLOWING DEBKAfile EXCERPT

Begin Excerpt from DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis

The Al Houla atrocity: The outcome of nuclear diplomacy with Iran

DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis

May 29, 2012, 12:14 PM (GMT+02:00)

The wanton slaughter by Syrian forces of 92 confirmed victims, 32 of them children under ten, at the Homs village of Al-Houla Friday, May 25, was the most horrifying atrocity in the Middle East this week, but not the only one: In Sanaa, six days ago, al Qaeda’s suicide bombers, having penetrated Yemeni military ranks, detonated two tons of explosives at a parade rehearsal killing more than 100 soldiers and civilians and injuring 400.

Yet, according to the New York Times, after 15 months of bloodshed, President Barack Obama is working on the Yemenbi model for a plan to push Bashar Assad out of office, while “leaving remnants of his government in place. The Yemeni model replaced President Ali Abdullah in Sanaa with his vice president Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi.

Whereas US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned Assad and his “cronies” for the al-Houla massacre, the “Yemen plan” would leave in place those very “cronies,” including Assad’s close relatives, who are responsible for massacres not only in al-Houla, but also in Homs, Hama, Idlib and Deraa, to name a few.

According to the NYT, when Obama tested the idea with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at the Group-of-8 summit in Camp David last Saturday, May 19, the Russian prime minister raised the example of “Mubarak in a cage,” referring to Mubarak’s court appearance at his trial. Obama then “countered with Yemen, and the indication was, yes, this was something we could talk about.”

This scrap of dialogue lifted the veil from a key aspect of Obama’s broader Middle East program and the role he has assigned Moscow for carrying it through. This role was first revealed exclusively by DEBKA-Net-Weekly 542 of May 25 which reported that the US president is acting to bring the Russians into a partnership for securing deals on the Iranian nuclear program and the Syrian crisis.

So far, his venture has had two results:

1. The Iranian nuclear impasse and the outcome of the Syrian civil war have been more tightly integrated than ever before.

2. Any deal reached by the US, Russia and Iran on the two issues would have to entail a carving-up of Middle East influence among those three powers.

As for Israel’s role in the ongoing bargaining, we also disclosed in DEBKAfile of May 19 that Israel’s Binyamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak had agreed to stand back for Barack Obama to put his interim deal with Iran to the test. Despite their reservations, they decided to go along with it after receiving assurances from the White House that Iranian violations would result in the immediate termination of negotiations and bring military action forward as the sole remaining option for stopping a nuclear Iran.

The US president promised to put his accord with Israel before the G-8 summit. And he did.

But for now there is no deal although Israel, in effect, gave Obama six months’ grace to explore his diplomatic initiative with Vladimir Putin and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei before turning back to the military option.

But as the days pass, major hurdles are piling up in the path of what some observers hail as Obama’s “Grand Bargain,” and others his “Grand Failure:” The Six-power talks with Iran have failed to persuade the ayatollahs to give up uranium enrichment up to weapons-grade; the world wants actions not words to halt the brutal massacres in Syria; rising bloodshed in Yemen continues to cripple the country. Obama’s hopes of a crisis-free six months for electioneering in peace look more and more like pipe-dreams.

The bargaining with Tehran is likely to stay stalled because Iran’s leaders take Obama’s deal with Israel as a six-month respite from a military threat. So why should they hurry in May or even June to reach a compromise with America on its demand to stop 20 percent uranium enrichment?

Bashar Assad and his army chiefs likewise feel US hands are tied by Obama’s hopes of a breakthrough with Iran and they can safely carry on with their “unspeakable crimes” for the next six months under the Iranian-Russian umbrella. Words however strong will not discourage him from sending tanks to crush every last opponent and their children.

And Israel, seeing the US president lurching from one bargaining position to another to keep his initiative afloat, shifts uncertainly in and out of its unwritten commitment to withhold military action against Iran until November.

None of the parties involved in granting Obama his six-month grace period, whether Vladimir Putin, Ali Khamenei, Binyamin Netanyahu or Bashar Assad, can be sure that he will in fact be returned to the Whie House in November. And even if he is, how much will be left of his Grand Bargain.

BEGIN BLOG EXCERPT OF OCTOBER 5, 2011

People from the land of Magog Stretched from the Ukraine To Mongolia

When Prophet Ezekiel was Inspired by God to Write End Time Prophecy

Land of Magog people (Sythians) Join Meshech & Tubal at Armageddon

I’m very confident Putin is Likely to lead them when Gog, the Antichrist

Chief Prince of Meshech & Tubal asks him to come to help in last Battle

To annihilate all the Remnant of Israel Trapped in the Negev Wilderness

October 5, 2011

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PUTIN UNITING EXCERPT FOLLOWS EZEKIEL HEADING EXPOSITION

Ezekiel 38:1,2 – “And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, [2] Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him.” Gog (high extension) appears for the first time in Ezekiel. He is the Anti-christ of whom so much has been written. Please note that he is identified as the “chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.” Many commentators, especially in the last 100 years, have not identified him as the Antichrist, but have identified him as the ruler or chief prince of the land of Magog, which I do not believe Scripture justifies. Before the 20th Century, most identified him as the Antichrist. In verse 2 Ezekiel is told to set his face against two separate things, a person and a place. The person is Gog (Antichrist), and the place is the land of the descendants of Magog where it existed in Ezekiel’s day. If we do not locate the territories of Magog, Meshech, and Tubal as they existed in Ezekiel’s day, then we can have no idea as to where the Antichrist will soon rear his head, or the area from which his attack will be launched. More than 2500 years have slipped by since Ezekiel wrote his prophecies, and the bloodlines of all three men been distributed across the entire planet. In order to correctly identify the area, from whence the Antichrist will attack Israel, we must identify where the descendants of Meshech and Tubal were residing in 500 and 600 B.C. Why? Because the Antichrist is not the chief prince of Magog, he is the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. He will come from the area where their descendants were settled in 500 and 600 B.C.

I will attempt to use two different sources to locate where the descendants of Meshech and Tubal were clustered at the time of Ezekiel’s writings. The first is found in the 27th chapter of Ezekiel, and the second is from the Assyrian monument stones of that period. Ezekiel 27:3 – “And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord God; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.” Tyrus (Tyre) was a seaport on the southern coast of what we know today as Lebanon, which is directly north of Israel. Tyrus built its first great sea wall to protect its harbored ships more than 3000 years ago, and was a thriving seaport in Ezekiel’s day. Its ships carried merchandise from the countries of the east across all the Mediterranean, and even as far north as the shores of the English Channel. Zidon (Sidon) was also a sea port, and less than 20 miles separated the two cities. The wise men of Tyrus were the navigators of the ships, and the men of Zidon were the deck hands, as portrayed in Ezekiel 27:8 – “The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.” Now, bearing all this in mind, let us look at Ezekiel 27:13 – “Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.” Meshech and Tubal were warlike tribes, who often took their captives (persons of men) and the vessels of brass they had captured, or hammered out themselves, and carried them to the NEAREST seaport for trading. The captives were, of course, loaded on the ships and sold as slaves in foreign ports of trade. Why the NEAREST seaport? Because, in Ezekiel’s day, travel was by foot, donkey, camel, and horse. People always carried their trading goods to the nearest port, particularly slaves. Therefore, I conclude that Meshech and Tubal must have roamed in the area we know today as Syria, Lebanon, northwestern Iraq, and southern Turkey. Meshech and Tubal are the Mushki and Tabali of the Assyrian stone monuments. In the time of Sargon and Sennacherib (700 B.C.) the territory of Tubal adjoined southern Cilicia, while that of Meshech filled the highlands to the east of Tubal. Considering the locations derived from the Bible and stone tablets, it appears that the Antichrist, as the chief prince of the area once occupied by Meshech and Tubal, is likely to arise, and eventually to attack Israel, from Syria or Lebanon. And, since Lebanon is virtually controlled by Syria, it appears Syria is the best guess for his homeland.

THE ANTICHRIST IS GOG, THE CHIEF PRINCE OF MESHECH & TIBAL

But what about the land of Magog? Where were the Magogites settled in Ezekiel’s day? And what did the Gentile kings of the north call and Europe call them?

THE LAND OF MAGOG WAS THE HOME OF MAGOGITES (SYTHIANS)

Ezekiel 38:1-3 – “And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, [2] Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, [3] And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:”

I established, from the Scriptures and the Assyrian stone monuments, that the descendants of Meshech and Tubal, at the time Ezekiel wrote his prophecies, were primarily located in what we know as Syria and Lebanon. We also established that the prophecy is again a person, Gog (Antichrist), and against a land, the land of Magog. I am convinced that the Antichrist will attack Israel from Syria. Now, what about the “land of Magog?” Where were the Magogites located at the time of Ezekiel’s writings? Flavius Josephus, a noted Jewish historian makes the following statements concerning the Magogites in Antiquities of the Jews, Chapter VI, under the title, HOW EVERY NATION WAS DENOMINATED FROM THEIR FIRST INHABITANTS: “Japhet, the son of Noah, had seven sons.” “They called the nations by their own names.” “Magog founded those that from him were called Magogites, but who by the Greeks were called Scythians.”

The Greek writers of the Classic Age said the Scythians occupied the area which today we identify as stretching from Moldova eastward across the Ukraine, southern Russia, and into Kazakhstan, then southward into Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, and finally into northwestern China and Mongolia. I do not believe the nations in this area will join in the initial attack against Israel, but I am certain they will come down for the final battle of Gog’s war, which is the Battle of Armageddon. The Battle of Armageddon, found in Revelation 16:16, is the final battle in Gog’s war, which began 3 and ½ years earlier.

Verse 3 fails to include the “land of Magog,” and is a message directly pointed, and personally addressed, against the Antichrist Gog, who once again is identified as the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. Popular writers in the last century brought a teaching into play that is simply not true. They said the word “chief” was “rosh” in the Hebrew language, which is true. But they said it meant “Russian,” which is not true. The Russian and Hebrew language have never overlapped in history to support such a claim. He is not a Russian prince. He is the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, most likely having a Syrian father. The word “rosh,” in the KJV, is translated as “chief” 90 times, as “head” 349 times, as “top” 75 times, as “beginning” 14 times, as “company” 12 times, as “captain” 10 times, as “sum” 9 times, as “first” 6 times, as “principle” 5 times, as “chief man” 4 times, and as “ruler” on two occasions. At no time, in all of history, could it legitimately be identified as someone who is a Russian.

This chief prince of Meshech and Tubal will come from either northwestern Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, or southern Turkey, but I will be very much surprised if his father is not from a country that was once a part of the ancient Assyrian Empire. He will be the leader of multilateral Arab forces that will carry out a surprise attack against Israel from the north. I believe this is spoken of in Revelation 17:12,13 – “And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. [13] These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.”

Although he will have the support of ten Arab nations, I believe the nations directly involved in the initial attack will be Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, and Iran from without, and the Palestinians from within. I believe the other nations, which will then immediately become involved in the Jihad, are most likely Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Sudan.

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Putin Proposes Creating ‘Eurasian Union’

Tue, 10/04/2011 – 9:25am — Associated Press

MOSCOW (AP) — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has proposed forming a “Eurasian Union” of former Soviet nations, saying the bloc could become a major global player competing for influence with the United States, the European Union and Asia.

Putin, who has lamented the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union as the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century,” denied that his proposal represents an attempt to rebuild the Soviet empire.

But he said in an article published Tuesday in the daily Izvestia that the new alliance should emerge as “one of the poles of the modern world, serving as an efficient link between Europe and the dynamic Asia-Pacific region.”

Putin, who is all but certain to reclaim the presidency in March’s election, has been accused of rolling back Russia’s post-Soviet democratic achievements during his two terms as president in 2000-2008. He has remained Russia’s de-facto leader after shifting into the premier’s job due to a term limit, and his protege and successor Dmitry Medvedev proposed last month that Putin run for president.

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Results of US Foreign Affairs Arab Spring Policies – Ape Obama, We are all Osama!

Monday, May 28th, 2012

Results of US Foreign Affairs Arab Sprung Policies – Ape Obama, We are all Osama

May 28, 2012

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Wild donkeys of Islam are braying in the air and sniffing at the winds of War

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The loud call or bray of the donkey, which typically lasts for twenty seconds and can be heard for over three kilometres, may help keep in contact with other donkeys over the wide spaces of the desert. Donkeys have large ears, which may pick up more distant sounds] and may help cool the donkey’s blood. Donkeys can defend themselves by biting, striking with the front hooves or kicking with the hind legs

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A Salafi is a Muslim who emphasises the Salaf (“predecessors” or “ancestors”), the earliest Muslims, as model examples of Islamic practice. The term has been in use since the Middle Ages but today refers especially to a follower of a modern Sunni Islamic movement known as the Salafiyyah, which is related to or includes Wahhabism, so that the two terms are sometimes erroneously viewed as synonymous. Salafism has become associated with literalist, strict and puritanical approaches to Islamic theology and, in the West, with the Salafi Jihadis who espouse violent jihad against civilians as a legitimate expression of Islam. Academics and historians use the term to denote “a school of thought which surfaced in the second half of the 19th century as a reaction to the spread of European ideas,” and “sought to expose the roots of modernity within Muslim civilization.”

The Arabs are a “mingled” race. The Hebrew word translated as “mingled” is ‘ARAB.’

It is true that the descendants of Ishmael’s 12 sons have historically mingled with the descendants of Ham, Shem, and Jacob, but their primary blood line is from Ishmael. I’m of the opinion, repeat, opinion, that the characteristics of wild asses has filtered down by Koran teachings and Islamic Jihad. The descendants of the 12 sons of Ishmael will not be able to live peaceably with the descendants of the 12 sons of Israel until the 2nd Advent. There are many among them that have the characteristics of a wild donkey.

Daniel 2:42-44 – And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. [43] And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall MINGLE themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. [44] 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.

Genesis 16:1-16 – Now Sarai Abram’s wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. [2] And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai. [3] And Sarai Abram’s wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife. [4] And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. [5] And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the Lord judge between me and thee. [6] But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face. [7] And the angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. [8] And he said, Hagar, Sarai’s maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai. [9] And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands. [10] And the angel of the Lord said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. [11] And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the Lord hath heard thy affliction. [12] And he will be a wild man (ASS); his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren. [13] And she called the name of the Lord that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me? [14] Wherefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered. 15] And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son’s name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael. [16] And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.

The spread of Salafism has prompted numerous political leaders in the Middle East to accommodate a greater role for jihadist in public policy.

Salafist jihadism is a school of thought of Salafi Muslims who support jihad. The term was coined by scholar Gilles Kepel to describe Salafi who began developing an interest in jihad during the mid-1990s. Practitioners are often referred to as Salafi jihadis or Salafi jihadists.

After reading the transcript of MEMRI Film Clip Nr. 3445, which follows, do you really think any form of lasting peace can come without a final battle of Armageddon ended by the 2nd Advent?

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Middle East Media Review Institute

May 26, 2012

Clip Nr. 3445

Thousands of Tunisians Salafis: “Obama, We Are All Osama”; MC Calls US President “The Ape Obama”

The following are excerpts from a rally which aired on the Internet on May 20, 2012.
Crowd: “Obama, Obama, we are all Osama…” (continuous cheer, the slogan rhymes in Arabic obama, obama, kuluna osama) […]

Speaker: “Some Tunisians and some Muslims are afraid of the jihadists

We must ask, How come?

Because the enemies have distorted the image of the jihadists, presenting them as the enemies of the Muslims.

We say: no! Every Muslim is a jihadist

Every Muslim is a jihadist […]

The enemies of Islam want us to be like sheep, to act like women.

They want to deprive us of our will.

They plundered Palestine and other lands and holy places.

They want the jihadists behind bars

Why? So that the holy places will not be liberated?

We are all jihadists, supporting Jerusalem, and elevating the word of Allah. […]

Let us all cry ‘Allah akbar’ together, so that Obama the ape can hear us. All together now!

Say ‘Allah Akbar!'”

The President Obama Policy of Non-Solutions for Future Problems before Election is Working Well!

Saturday, May 26th, 2012

President Obama policy of non-solutions for future problems before Election,

Is working well in the Middle East for the Arabs, Persians, And Islamic Jihad,

But It’s Setting Israel Up For Defeat Plus A 3 & 1/2 Year Stay In The Negev,

Which Ends the Age of the Gentiles by an Israeli Armageddon Battle Victory,

Accomplished By Their Messiah At His 2nd Advent With All Of His Redeemed!

May 27, 2012

http://www.tribulationperiod.com/

Revelation 13:1 – And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

Daniel 7:24-27 – And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. [25] And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. [26] But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end. [27] And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.

Luke 21:27 – And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

Daniel 7:13,14 – I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. [14] And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

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How Obama won the war against an Iran war and beat Israel’s military option

DEBKAfile DEBKA-Net-Weekly

May 22, 2012, 2:41 PM (GMT+02:00)

Barack Obama is winning his Herculean battle to stave off a strike on Iran’s nuclear sites until he is safely reelected in November. His policy of “non-solutions for unseen problems” is working just fine: Iran keeps up its nuclear bomb momentum, and al Qaeda expands its foothold in Egypt, Syria and Yemen. Israel and its military option are shoved out of sight.

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Netanyahu, Barak refuse to see US official with negative report on Baghdad talks

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

May 26, 2012, 10:25 AM (GMT+02:00)

The rupture between the US and Israel over Iran’s nuclear program widened further Friday, May 25 when Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak decided not to be available to hear the briefing brought to Jerusalem from Baghdad by Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman who headed the US delegation to the Six Power talks. The report she delivered to National Security Adviser Yaakov Amidror and Foreign Ministry Director-General Rafi Barak was that no progress had been achieved in Baghdad due to Iran’s refusal to budge on its “right” to enrich uranium at low (3.5-5 percent) or high (20 percent) levels or shut down the Fordo nuclear plant near Qom.

Although the participants agreed to reconvene in Moscow in three weeks, the Iranian delegation stressed there would be no progress until the US and the other five world powers (Britain, France, Russia, Germany and China) recognized Iran’s absolute “right” as a signatory of the Non-Proliferation Treaty to enrich uranium.

Meanwhile, every day spent on diplomacy is thoroughly exploited by Iran to zip ahead with its nuclear plans. The Vienna-based UN nuclear watchdog (IAEA)’s quarterly report released Friday reveals that since February Iran almost doubled its stockpile of more highly enriched uranium which is close to weapons grade from 73.4 to 145 kilograms.

The centrifuges at the Fordo facility, built into the side of a mountain, rose to over 500 from 300 in the last report.

Using the IAEA figures, DEBKAfile calculates that if Fordo goes on producing 23.9 kilograms of 20-percent enriched uranium per month, Iran will by the end of December have accumulated 336 kilograms of near-weapons quality uranium.

The IAEA also reported that Iran’s stockpile of uranium enriched to less than 5 per cent grew to 6,232 kilograms from 5,451 reported in February.

Its inspectors recorded “the presence of particles” of 27 per cent-enriched uranium at Fordo. Iran maintained the particles were a result of “technical reasons beyond the operator’s control.”

The IAEA report was released a day after talks between Tehran and the six powers ended without progress.

Iran’s senior delegate Saeed Jalili declared that his government would never accept the Washington-ruled distinction between two categories of nations – one permitted and the other forbidden to enrich uranium. He claimed this was against international treaties.

Friday, the Washington Post quoted Mohammad Hoseyn Moussavian of Princeton University as revealing that in 2004, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said, “I would resign if for any reason Iran is deprived of its rights to enrichment.”

Moussavian is presented as an Iranian academic visiting Princeton to lecture and write a book on the Iranian nuclear issue. DEBKAfile reveals that he was the contact man in one of the direct, back-channel negotiations taking place in Paris between the White House and Khamenei. His words therefore were intended to carry weight as a reminder to Obama that the supreme leader, like the US president, intended to come out of their dialogue strengthened – not undermined. And therefore, for both their sakes, Washington must endorse Iran’s “right to enrichment.”

Tehran presented a second ultimatum for the nuclear talks to continue: phased sanctions relief, starting with the postponement of the European Union’s oil embargo scheduled for July 1 until the end of negotiations and the reconnection of Iranian banks to the SWIFT international money transfer system.

The gap between Israel and the Obama administration widened in the course of Washington’s direct, secret give-and-take with Tehran. In early April, Defense Minister Barak reported that Israel offered some compromise on the enrichment issue. DEBKAfile disclosed at the time that Israel had informed Washington of its approval of a “1,000 formula.” Iran would be permitted to activate 1,000 centrifuges for enrichment and keep 1,000 kilograms of 3.5-per cent enriched uranium.

The Netanyahu government backtracked when this concession was used by US officials as a lever for further accommodations with Iran.

The direct US-Iran channel and the second round of Six Power talks with Iran have clearly left the standoff over Iran’s nuclear solidly in place: Iran stands by its right to enrich uranium up to weapons grade, the US stands by diplomacy, however hopeless, for resolving the controversy, while Israel demands a time limit for negotiations. Its military option was put back on the table for so long as Iran’s enrichment centrifuges continue spinning at top speed.

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