Two Peas in a Pod paving the Way to Armageddon!
December 14, 2007
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Putin is slowly rebuilding the military might of Russia with oil revenue monies, while China is putting the squeeze on the American dollar to produce inflation in the US in 2008, This is all part of a scenario which will see the Islamic nations launch an attack against Israel at some point in time between 2010 and 2015, which will lead to Russia and China being requested by the Islamic nations to come down, some three and one-half later, to join them in a final destruction of Israel in the Negev.
As bad as all this sounds, it does have a joyous ending for Israel, some three and one half years after she is initially driven into the Negev.
Revelation 12:6 – And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Zechariah 13:8,9 – And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. [9] And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
Ezekiel 37:23-28 – Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God. [24] And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them. [25] And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever. [26] Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. [27] My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. [28] And the heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
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Nzherald.co.nz
China tells US ‘get house’ in order over currency, food safety
December 13, 2007
By Glenn Somerville and Eadie Chen
XIANGHE – An assertive China fended off US pressure over currency policy and food safety on Wednesday and told Washington to put its own house in order rather than blame Beijing for its economic problems.
The jousting, during a high-level “strategic economic dialogue” near Beijing, underscored the growing complexity of a relationship that US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said was now central to maintaining global economic prosperity.
Paulson, who called the first of two days of talks “lively but friendly”, urged China to let its currency rise faster to curb inflation, now at an 11-year high of 6.9 per cent.
“China’s leaders have voiced concerns about China’s macroeconomic stability, in particular mounting inflation, growing asset bubbles and possible overheating. A more flexible exchange rate policy is especially important to China now, given these risks,” Paulson said.
China’s central bank let the yuan rise as high as 7.3647 per dollar on Wednesday, the strongest level s ince the currency was unpegged from the dollar
in July 2005. The yuan has gained 12.4 per cent against the dollar in total since then.
Vice-Commerce Minister Chen Deming dug in his heels against a faster rise, saying China’s economy could not afford it.
Turning the tables on the United States, Chen criticised the recent decline in the dollar, which he said was pushing up oil and other resource prices and eroding the value of US assets held by countries such as China.
“What I’m worrying about now is the weakening dollar and its potential impact on global growth,” Chen said.
Central bank chief Zhou Xiaochuan also spoke out for a strong dollar and said he was concerned that loose US monetary policy could flood the global economy with cash and buffet China’s markets in the process.
The news appearances by Chen, Zhou and others appeared to be an attempt by Beijing to win the battle of public opinion. High-ranking Chinese officials usually keep a lower profile at such conferences.
Vice-Premier Wu Yi , known as China’s “Iron Lady”, also came out swinging.
With several bills wending their way through the US, Congress aimed at getting Beijing to speed up the yuan’s rise, she warned Paulson that business ties would be severely undermined if the measures became law.
“Obviously, to resort to trade protectionism and blame another country for the structural problems in the US economy is the wrong approach which would only harm the interest of the US itself,” Wu said.
The talks began on a prickly note after Washington, alarmed by a string of recalls of toys and other China-made goods, put the safety of food and other imports at the top of the agenda.
“I need to point out frankly that the United States should also assume its due share of responsibility for improving product quality and food safety,” Wu said as the delegations faced one another in a tightly guarded government resort outside Beijing.
She accused US interest groups of stirring up trouble and said: “We must oppose attempts to politicise trade issues.”
Paulson said he was worried about a rise in economic nationalism and protectionist sentiment in both countries.
“Neither China nor the United States can protect our way to further prosperity. We must resist attempts to reduce transparency or increase regulatory obstacles in order to protect domestic industries,” he said in his opening remarks.
Trade tensions were on the boil and both countries needed to take action: “Whereas trade was once largely a source of stability in US-China relations, it has recently become a source of tension, and not only because of safety concerns.”
China’s surging inflation rate prompted Paulson to make the case that a stronger currency was in China’s own interest because it would reduce import costs and let the central bank raise interest rates more freely.
Instead, with the yuan on a tight leash, China was “missing a tool” for managing economic affairs.
“I made the point that monetary policy can be an effective tool and monetary policy can be more effective if there’s a currency that is more reflective of underlying fundamentals,” Paulson later told a small group of reporters.
“China has sped up the rate of appreciation over the past year and there is no evidence this has harmed them,” he added.
China’s economy grew 11.5 per cent in the first three quarters of the year, the fastest pace in more than a decade.
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FROM RUSSIA, WITHOUT LOVE
December 13, 2007
The systematic weakening of Russia’s fragile democratic institutions by President Vladimir Putin is alarming and should no longer be met by timid American and European finger-wagging.
Earlier this month, Mr. Putin’s United Russia party won rigged elections that gave it 315 of 450 seats in parliament, with the rest going to compliant allies.
Opponents are now virtually unrepresented.
Leaving nothing to chance, Mr.
Putin’s lackeys locked up opposition leader Garry Kasparov for five days, restricted media coverage of the campaign and prevented international election observers from monitoring the vote. Unsurprisingly, Mr. Putin’s party tallied more than 99 percent of the ballots in some regions.
On the heels of that travesty, Mr.
Putin, who is required by the Russian constitution’s two-term limit to leave the presidency in March, designated an obscure protégé, Dmitry Medvedev, to succeed him. That creates the strong impression that Mr. Putin intends to continue to exercise political control, and perhaps to return to office if Mr.
Medvedev resigns or experiences an “accident.”
This assault on Russia’s embryonic democracy and efforts to establish rule of law has repercussions for the international community.
Mr. Putin was able to restore one-party rule in Russia primarily because he used Russia’s vast oil and gas resources to build prosperity and popularity. He is now increasingly using his control of vital energy supplies to bully democratic neighbors, intimidate critics in Europe and stridently condemn Western governments with which he once cooperated.
This is the time for Europe and the United States to make clear they will not be cowed.
Mr. Putin values and needs Russia’s inclusion in the club of leading industrial nations, without which he loses diplomatic and economic clout.
But membership has long hinged on real democratic institutions at home. Mr. Putin should be made to understand that it still does.
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