[The] man of sin [shall] be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 KJV)
Jesus saith, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." (John 14:6 KJV)
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. (Romans 10:13 KJV)
December 8, 2014
The Movement to Rebuild Jerusalem's Third Temple Expands
Why would God ordain building a third earthly temple in which animal sacrifices would take place? That would be the greatest lie God could possibly do! Jesus became our once-and-for-all sacrifice. The curtain was torn so that we do not need to enter an earthly Holy of Holies — we have access to God through His Son.
Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” The Jews then said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?” But He was speaking of the temple of His body. So when He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He said this; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken. (John 2:19-22)
Al-Monitor - For the temple people, the priests’ course is an advanced stage that follows the completion of quite a few steps. First of all is the level of consciousness. For many years, say those working to establish the third temple, religious Zionism and the State of Israel worked to focus Jewish longing on the Western Wall.
The Jewish presence on the Temple Mount is gaining ground in Jewish-Israeli discourse, members of the Knesset and rabbis are ascending to the Temple Mount more frequently, and today a third of the Israeli public believes that when the day comes the temple should be erected. This number is only growing.
According to a study undertaken by journalist and social activist Yizhar Beer a year ago for the Ir Amim organization, about 12 official groups are working in Israel today to establish the temple. Some of them receive funding amounting to hundreds of thousands of shekels from the State of Israel. One of the main groups is the Temple Institute.
There’s also an architectural plan.
“I compare it to a late model car and a car from a hundred years ago,” explains Friedman, “there’s parts you can’t do without and there’s parts that change. A hundred years ago they also had an engine and wheels, but a lot of things change around it. The third temple will mostly look like the Second Temple, and there’s an organized plan for the Chamber of Hewn Stone, the seat of the Sanhedrin [the ancient high court assembly]. We know clearly that there will be a menorah, an altar, a shewbread table, the Holy of Holies. But we know that there will be no entryway in the sanctuary, what’s called a hall. It did exist in the First and Second Temples. The basin changed a lot over the generations and the Talmud notes that 12 spigots were added to it. It’s unknown how many they had before that.”
Secular Jews wouldn’t be opposed to paying these taxes when the day will come, he’s sure of it. “Just as the ultra-Orthodox pay taxes that go to the army,” he says. One thing is certain: The third temple will have cameras that will transmit what’s happening there to the whole world. The simulated sacrifice this Thursday can also be viewed online on the Temple Institute website.
Everything is ready, then, except two additional, small matters.
The easy one, you’d be surprised, is the Ark of the Covenant.
“The Second Temple didn’t have an ark, either,” Segel reminds me, and Friedman adds, “There are 10 studies about the location of the Ark of the Covenant. We read them and studied all of them, and reached the conclusion that the right answer is that it’s buried in the tunnels under the Temple Mount. When the day comes, we will get to it.”
The more problematic issue is the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Dome of the Rock, which slightly impedes the architectural plans.
“The temple will not be built through private acts and blowing up mosques,” emphasizes Segal. “That’s not the direction. The direction is changing consciousness. The preparations are mental more than anything.”
One of the people involved in preparations, who requested anonymity, explains,
“If not for the problem of the Dome of the Rock, they would build the temple today, and the temple would be built there. The third temple will be built by the government of Israel, not by private individuals. No one will do what shouldn’t be done, like an underground action to blow up the Dome of the Rock. The people who are committed to establishing the temple are normative and rational people, and just like we established the State of Israel, the day will come when we will build the temple, in an orderly, state-sanctioned manner.”
Segel notes that it can all start small:
“The location of the altar where sacrifices are allowed on the Temple Mount is not within the bounds of Al-Aqsa,” he says, “so at least they should let us sacrifice on the Temple Mount.”
But before any sacrifices take place there, much may have to change: Currently, the State of Israel doesn’t often authorize Jews to ascend to the Temple Mount, much less pray there.
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4, KVJ)
God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands,
neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed anything,
seeing he gives to all, life, and breath, and all things, and has made
of one blood all nations of men, for to dwell on the face of the earth.
That they should seek the Lord, if happily they might feel after him,
and find him, though he is not far from every one of us; for in him we
live, and move, and have our being. - Acts 17:24-28 (KJV)
Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of
this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered
to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence." - John 18:36 (KJV) Hebrews, Chapter 9 (KJV) 1 Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary. 2 For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary. 3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all; 4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant; 5 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly. 6 Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God. 7 But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people: 8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into
the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first
tabernacle was yet standing: 9 Which was a figure for the time then
present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not
make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; 10Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation. 11 But Christ being come an high priest of good
things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with
hands, that is to say, not of this building; 12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by
his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained
eternal redemption for us. 13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the
ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying
of the flesh: 14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who
through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge
your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. 16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. 17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. 18 Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood. 19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the
people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats,
with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book,
and all the people, 20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you. 21 Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. 22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. 23It was therefore necessary that the
patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the
heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: 25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; 26 For then must he often have suffered since the
foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he
appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: 28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of
many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time
without sin unto salvation.
"Today’s youth are already linking arms together
and putting aside all differences, ready to rebuild. It is the
inspiration of the Holy Temple itself, with its promise of hope and
peace that brings together all people in unity. This is the generation
that will rebuild the Holy Temple." - Kelly Karonhienhawi, July 27, 2014
July 29, 2014
JTA — As Egypt, Qatar, the US
and the UN write proposals for Israel-Hamas ceasefires, one organization
based in Jerusalem’s Old City hopes to compose a peace plan of a
different kind: a detailed architectural blueprint for the Third Jewish
Temple on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.
The
Temple Institute, which has recreated 60 vessels to be used in a Third
Temple and which sponsors educational programs about the temple
worldwide, has created a $100,000 Indiegogo campaign to draft plans for a
Third Temple.
Building the temple, says the Indiegogo
campaign statement, would “usher in a new era of universal harmony and
peace,” as prophesied in the Bible.
“It is not enough to wait and pray for the Third Temple,” the statement added. “It is a Biblical obligation to build it.”
According to Rabbi Chaim Richman, the
institute’s international director, the temple would stand in the
present location of the Dome of the Rock, a Muslim shrine. Muslims
revere the mount as the Haram al-Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary.
But Richman did not set a target date for
breaking ground for the construction project. The temple will be built,
he told JTA, when “the world will want us to build the temple.”
“The Jewish people have a responsibility to
all of humanity, including Islam,” Richman said. “I don’t expect it to
come about through any sort of confrontation or any sort of military
maneuver. The Jews have to represent good in the world, light in the
world.”
The Indiegogo campaign is tied to the upcoming
fast of Tisha b’Av, which mourns the First and Second Temples’
destruction. Richman quoted the verse in Isaiah calling the temple “a
house of prayer for all nations.”
But recently, the Temple Mount has been the scene of confrontation.
Palestinian groups have repeatedly protested
Jewish groups visiting the mount in recent weeks. Police spokesman Micky
Rosenfeld told JTA that on Saturday, a group of Palestinian rioters
burned and heavily damaged the police stand on the mount.
Referring to these incidents, Richman said the
mount “is overrun by terrorists. This is a tangible fact.” He said
rebuilding the temple is the next step to Israel’s current military
operation in the Gaza Strip.
“We cannot be the people we’re supposed to be
without the Holy Temple,” he said. “So what if we root out the [Gaza]
tunnels and missiles? Then what are we doing with our lives? The
redemption of humanity is dependent on the Jewish people.”
Launched on July 27, the campaign has so far raised $3,991. It will run until Rosh Hashana, on Sept. 25.
U.S. Congress Hasn't Declared War Since 1942 Yet the U.S. Has Boots on the Ground in 150 Countries
The military of the United States is deployed in more than 150 countries around the world, with nearly 160,000 of its active-duty personnel serving outside the United States and its territories and an additional 88,000 deployed in various contingency operations. US troops are spread across the globe: approximately 66,000 are stationed in Europe; approximately 80,000 in East Asia and the Pacific region; nearly 4,900 in North Africa, the Near East, and South Asia; over 1,600 in the Western Hemisphere; less than 400 in Sub-Saharan Africa; and less than 100 in states of the former Soviet Union.[1] Of those in Europe, most of the military personnel are located at installations activated during the Cold War, by which the US government sought to challenge the Soviet Union in the aftermath of World War II. U.S. personnel are seeing active combat in Afghanistan. Others are deployed as part of several peacekeeping missions, military attachés, or are part of embassy and consulate security. Click here for the countries, listed by region, in which U.S. military personnel are deployed.
Since the year 1500, there has hardly been any five-year period in which European troops have not been under arms on Muslim soil. In this never-ending war to reshape the Islamic world according to European designs, the US government sided with European regimes two centuries ago, in the Barbary Wars.- Richard Maybury, The Thousand Year War
National Constitution Center - Today marks an important
anniversary in American history: the congressional declaration of war on
Japan on December 8, 1941. But since then, Congress has rarely used its
constitutional power formally issue a war declaration.Congress
approved a resolution declaring war with Japan on that fateful day, as
the Senate unanimously voted for the resolution, 82-0. The House passed
the resolution by a 388 to 1 vote, with Jeannette Rankin, a pacifist,
opposing the move.
“Whereas the Imperial Government
of Japan has committed unprovoked acts of war against the Government and
the people of the United States of America: Therefore be it Resolved by
the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America
in Congress assembled, That the state of war between the United States
and the Imperial Government of Japan which has thus been thrust upon the
United States is hereby formally declared; and the President is hereby
authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces
of the United States and the resources of the Government to carry on war
against the Imperial Government of Japan; and, to bring the conflict to
a successful termination, all the resources of the country are hereby
pledged by the Congress of the United States,” the resolution read.
Japan had tried to issue its own war declaration just before the
Pearl Harbor attack, but it failed to do it before the attack in Hawaii.
Since then, the United States has
only issued five other war declarations: against Germany and Italy (on December 11, 1941) and against Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania (on June 4,
1942).
And in total, war declarations were declared by Congress in the War
of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Spanish-American War, World War I
and World War II.
The United States military
involvement in Korea came as part of a United Nations effort, while the
escalation of the Vietnam War followed a joint resolution passed by
Congress as requested by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964.
Since Vietnam, United States
military actions have taken place as part of United Nations’ actions, in
the context of joint congressional resolutions, or within the confines
of the War Powers Resolution (also known as the War Powers Act) that was
passed in 1973, over the objections (and veto) of President Richard
Nixon.
When President Obama approved the use of military force in Libya in
2011, it was the 132nd time that a President acted under the conditions
of the War Powers Resolution since 1973.
This year, President Obama sought to use military power in Syria,
which set off a huge debate when he decided to refer the matter to
Congress.
Some leaders in Congress insisted that President Obama had to consult
with the legislature before he took military action as the Commander in
Chief of the nation’s military.
Still others outside Washington insisted that the President doesn’t
have the power, under any circumstance, to wage war without
congressional approval.
And there are others who believed the War Powers Resolution itself is
unconstitutional, so the President could take offensive actions as the
leader of the military.
In the Constitution, Article I,
Section 8, says that Congress has the power to declare war and raise and
fund the Armed Forces, but Article II, Section 2, names the President
as the Commander in Chief.
Since then, says the Constitutional Research Service,
Nixon’s successors have believed the Resolution was illegal, that they
have acted within its rules, and they have the power to act outside the
Resolution.
It remains to be seen if President Obama’s decision to seek
congressional approval before taking military action will set a new
precedent that affects future presidents.
But it also seems unlikely that an official state of war could be
declared in the near future, due to the legal differences between a
“state of war” and an “authorization to use military force.”
As the CRS explains, a formal war declaration triggers a large number of domestic statutes, like the ones that took place during World War II.
“A declaration of war automatically brings into effect a number of
statutes that confer special powers on the President and the Executive
Branch, especially about measures that have domestic effect,” it says.
These include granting the
President the direct power take over businesses and transportation
systems as part of the war effort; the ability to detain foreign
nationals; the power to conduct spying without any warrants
domestically; and the power to use natural resources on public lands.
“An authorization for the use of
force does not automatically trigger any of these standby statutory
authorities. Some of them can come into effect if a state of war in fact
comes into being after an authorization for the use of force is
enacted; and the great majority of them, including many of the most
sweeping ones, can be activated if the President chooses to issue a
proclamation of a national emergency,” says the CRS.
“But an authorization for the use
of force, in itself and in contrast to a declaration of war, does not
trigger any of these standby authorities.”
December 7, 2014
4 Nations - United States, Canada, Micronesia and Palau - Along with Israel Voted "No" to the Call for Israel to Join the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, Which Renounces Any Possession of Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East
Opened for signature in 1968, the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, entered into force in 1970. On 11 May 1995, the Treaty was extended indefinitely. More countries have adhered to the NPT than any other arms limitation and disarmament agreement, a testament to the Treaty's significance. A total of 190 states have joined the Treaty, though North Korea, which acceded to the NPT in 1985 but never came into compliance, announced its withdrawal in 2003. Four UN member states have never joined the NPT: India, Israel, Pakistan and South Sudan.
The treaty recognizes five states as nuclear-weapon states: the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and China (also the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council). Four other states are known or believed to possess nuclear weapons: India, Pakistan and North Korea have openly tested and declared that they possess nuclear weapons, while Israel has had a policy of opacity regarding its nuclear weapons program. [Source]
Paul R. Pillar, NationalInterest.org - The stated rationale for the United States casting
on Tuesday one of the very lonely votes it sometimes casts at the
United Nations General Assembly, on matters on which almost the entire
world sees things differently, warrants some reflection.
The resolution
in question this time endorsed the creation of a nuclear weapons-free
zone in the Middle East and called on Israel to join the Nuclear
Nonproliferation Treaty, to renounce any possession of nuclear weapons,
and to put its nuclear facilities under the safeguards of the
International Atomic Energy Agency.
A nuclear weapons-free Middle East
and universal adherence to the nonproliferation treaty are supposedly
U.S. policy objectives, and have been for many years.So why did the
United States oppose the resolution?
According to the U.S.
representative's statement in earlier debate, the resolution "fails to
meet the fundamental tests of fairness and balance. It confines itself
to expressions of concern about the activities of a single country."
You know something doesn't wash when the contrary views are as
overwhelmingly held as on this matter. The resolution passed on a vote
of 161-5. Joining Israel and the United States as “no” votes were Canada
(maybe the Harper government was thinking of the Keystone XL pipeline
issue being in the balance?) and the Pacific powers of Micronesia and
Palau. The latter two habitually cast their UN votes to stay in the good
graces of the United States; they have been among the few abstainers on
the even more lopsided votes in the General Assembly each year calling
for an end to the U.S. embargo of Cuba.
An obvious problem with the United States complaining about a
resolution on a topic such as this being an expression of concern about
the activities of only a single country is that the United States has
been in front in pushing for United Nations resolutions about the
nuclear activities of a single country, only just not about the
particular country involved this time.The inconsistency is glaring.
Iran has been the single-country focus of several U.S.-backed
resolutions on nuclear matters—resolutions in the Security Council that
have been the basis for international sanctions against Iran.
One could look, but would look in vain, for sound rationales for the
inconsistency. If anything, the differences one would find should point
U.S. policy in the opposite direction from the direction it has taken.
It is Iran that has placed itself under the obligations of the
nonproliferation treaty and subjects its nuclear activities to
international inspection. Since the preliminary agreement to restrict
Iran's nuclear program that was negotiated last year, those inspections
are more frequent and intrusive than ever.
Israel, by contrast, has kept
its nuclear activities completely out of the reach of any international
inspection or control regime. As for actual nuclear weapons, Iran does
not have them, has declared its intention not to have them, and
according to the U.S. intelligence community has not made any decision
to make them.
One might look, but still in vain, for justifying discrepancies that
go beyond the respective nuclear programs of the countries in question
but still involve questions of regional security and stability. What
about, for example, menacing threats? Iran and Israel have each had
plenty of unfriendly words about each other. Iran's words have included
bloviation about wiping something from pages of history; Israel's have
included more pointed threats of military attack. What about actual
attacks? Israel has initiated multiple wars with its neighbors, as well
as launching smaller armed attacks; The Islamic Republic of Iran has not
started a war in its 35-year history. Terrorism? Well, there were those
assassinations of Iranian scientists, with some later attacks against
Israelis being an obvious (and not very successful) attempt by Iran at a
tit-for-tat response against those responsible for murdering the
scientists. And so forth.
Singling out one country in a multilateral context can indeed cause
problems.The resolution the General Assembly passed this week need not
involve a problem, however, since it was not calling for differential treatment
of anyone—only for Israel to get with the same program as any state in
the Middle East that does not have nukes and adheres to the
international nuclear control regime.
Iran, by contrast, is being treated much differently from anyone
else. Tehran already has acquiesced to some of that differential
treatment, but Iranians unsurprisingly wonder why Iran should be
subjected to more such treatment, or indeed to any of it. They wonder,
for example, why Iran should be subject to unique restrictions that
several other non-nuclear-weapons states that also are parties to the
nonproliferation treaty and enrich their own uranium are not.Such
wonderment is almost certainly a factor in Iranian resistance to making
the sorts of additional concessions that many in the United States are
expecting or demanding that Iran make.
The differential treatment should
be kept in mind in any discussion in the United States about who has
made bigger concessions than whom and about what would or would not
constitute a fair and reasonable final agreement.
Then there is the irony—although Iranians might use a more bitter word than irony—of
Israel leading the charge in constantly agitating about Iran's nuclear
program (and by trying to torpedo an international agreement to restrict
that program, making the issue fester and thus making it more possible
for Israel's agitation to go on forever).
December 6, 2014
Arab League Endorses Resolution That Would Recognize Palestine as a UN State by November 2016
US absence in the
Israeli-Palestinian peace process is prompting Arabs and Europeans to
jump in. But are prospects for them any better than they were for the
United States?
December 5, 2014
Christian Science Monitor - With the United States
sitting on the sidelines, Arab and European countries alarmed at a
steady uptick in tensions between Israelis and Palestinians are pushing
ahead with efforts to get the two sides talking again and moving toward
resolution of their long conflict.
Optimism that a new international peace initiative can somehow do better than the Obama administration’s
failed foray into peace-process diplomacy earlier this year is close to
zero. The US is preoccupied with the battle against the Islamic State
and with talks aimed at securing a comprehensive deal with Iran on its nuclear program, while Israel will be distracted by the campaign leading up to elections now set for March.
But at the same time a number of key powers, primarily in the Middle East and Europe, are increasingly concerned that doing nothing as tensions rise is a recipe for disaster.
Efforts under way in the United Nations Security Council
to push Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table arise
not just from growing frustrations over deteriorating conditions in the
absence of diplomacy. They also reflect a sense that the two sides are
less prone to take aggravating unilateral steps when they are in talks
than when they retreat to their opposite corners, as is now the case.
The
rekindled efforts out of the region in particular also debunk the
notion that had been gaining traction in some Washington circles that
the unresolved Palestinian issue is no longer the driving force among
Arabs that it once was.
The Arab League last week endorsed a Palestinian-drafted resolution that would recognize Palestine as a UN state and call for Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory in the West Bank and East Jerusalem to end by November 2016.Jordan,
which currently sits on the Security Council as a nonpermanent member,
has begun circulating the resolution at the UN in New York. Jordanian
diplomats have said they would like to see a resolution voted on by the
end of the year.
Three European powers – Britain and France, which
are permanent members of the Council, and Germany – have drafted a
separate and less confrontational resolution that would set a deadline
of two years for negotiations culminating in a Palestinian state.
One key question is where the US would come down on the resolutions.
The
Obama administration would almost certainly veto the Arab-backed
version if it came to a vote – the US effectively killed the last bid by
Palestinians to achieve statehood through the Security Council in 2011 –
but the wording of the less-definitive European version would probably
determine the US position, some diplomatic experts say.
Jordan’s King Abdullah sat down with President Obama at the White House
Friday for a conversation that focused on the fight against the Islamic
State (IS) and the challenges that the Syrian civil war presents to
Jordan and other Syrian neighbors.
The two leaders gave no
indication that the Israeli-Palestinian peace process was a focus of
their discussion when they delivered brief statements to the press.
“We
are going to continue to share ideas” to move dialogue forward, Mr.
Obama said. But he added that after the Gaza violence this summer and
recent tensions in Jerusalem, “the environment has not been conducive for the sort of peace initiatives that we’d like to see.”
During
his US visit, Abdullah repeated his position that the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains a “core issue” in the region that
is exploited by “extremists” to gain favor with public opinion.
In
an interview with CBS News, he said the fight with IS is part of a “war
inside of Islam” that must be led and “owned” by Muslims.But he said
resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would benefit the entire
global community.
The official US stance on the conflict since
Secretary of State John Kerry threw in the towel on his peace effort in
April remains unchanged: that the only way to “two states living side by
side in peace” is through direct negotiations between the two sides. To
get back to talks, the US adds, both sides must avoid unilateral
actions that raise tensions and make direct talks more difficult –
whether it's Palestinian recourse to international bodies like the
Security Council or Israeli expansion of housing developments on
Palestinian lands.
“Our position on this hasn’t changed,” State
Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said Thursday when asked about the US
response to diplomatic efforts in the Security Council. “In order to get
two states living side by side in peace and security, we believe the
way to do that is through direct negotiations between the two parties
themselves where they get to a final agreement on all the issues.”
The
Obama administration has come under some criticism from pro-Palestinian
forces who say the US has acted to stop Palestinian authorities’
unilateral actions, while going no further than verbal rebukes of Israel
when it has taken “unhelpful” unilateral steps.
But there are
some indications that the White House, growing increasingly frustrated
with Israeli actions – in particular concerning accelerated settlement
expansion – could move toward more concrete actions to underscore
displeasure with Israel.
White House officials refuse to confirm
that discussions are taking place on a tougher US response to settlement
activity, but some Israeli officials, speaking with the Israeli press,
have said that US officials have told them that such talks have been
under way since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s White House
visit in early October.
That visit was accompanied by a rush of
settlement activity, including announcement of construction of more than
2,500 housing units in East Jerusalem.
What
remains unclear is what form any US action might take. Some UN
diplomatic experts have speculated that the administration might decline
to use the US veto in the Security Council if a resolution condemning
Israel for the settlement activity were to come up.
Or,
others wonder, might the US decide to go along with a European
resolution that ups the pressure on Israel to get back to talks?
A tougher stance against Israel is not sitting well with some members of Congress.
“Not
only is the Administration rejecting new sanctions to end Iran’s
nuclear threat, it's now reportedly developing sanctions against our
closest ally, Israel," Sen. Mark Kirk (R) of Illinois said in a
statement. "This move only worsens perceptions that the Administration
treats our friends like enemies and our enemies like friends.”
December 4, 2014
Wall Street Controllers Sold Out the U.S. to China, Which is Loaded with $1.3 Trillion in US Treasury Bonds
The quintessential points in time to guarantee the national failure are the creation of the US Federal Reserve in 1913, the abrogation of the Bretton Woods Gold Standard in 1971, the removal of the Glass-Steagall Law in 1999, and the granting of Most Favored Nation status to China in 1999. The destruction with its clear steps appears to have been motivated and intentional. The United States has been on a destructive course since the elimination of President Kennedy, which cleared the path for the hidden fascists. As Kurt Richebacher told me in August 2003 from his patio as we sipped iced tea, "The Americans are the last fascists. The British have always been fascists, bound by the sea and lacking in resources." - Jim_Willie_CB
Legitimate income from industry was exported out of the United States, and reliance upon asset bubbles was the result, and eating home equity. The Wall Street executives are locked and loaded with huge gold accounts, hidden in off-shore accounts and even in Carlyle Group accounts. Pressure is building for the United States to lose its own currency. For three decades the US has exported inflation, but next it will rapidly import inflation. This is the key which when turned will open the door to the Third World. The US nation has already been de-industrialized. The process began in the 1980 decade with the outsourcing to the Pacific Rim. It culminated in the Chinese Renaissance after bargaining for the Most Favored Nation status. When the New Scheiss Dollar is launched, expect sudden price inflation to surge, expect sudden supply shortages to appear, and expect sudden violence to break out. The result will be acute shortages in food at supermarkets, acute shortages in fuel at service stations, and acute shortage in cash at ATM machines. The US population will not finally suffer a rude awakening until the vast broad painful shortages arrive and meet them face to face. If a 30% devaluation comes as part of the initial currency launch, then the (10/7) factor dictates a ripe 43% price inflation hit from the import channels. For reference to an actual model, see Venezuela for a peek into the US future of disorder, chaos, violence, and severe disruption. They struggle with 100% annual price inflation and deep shortage of staples, amidst almost daily demonstrations. - Jim_Willie_CB, June 3, 2014)
April 9, 2014 Jim_Willie_CB - The fatal errors in US banking and economic policy could fill a book.
The Jackass has harped on the concept for other eight years on a regular and frequent basis, pointing out the merger of state with big corporations (led by banks), pointing out the permitted financial fraud and banker welfare, even General Motors welfare, pointing out the economic effect, pointing out the war levers used to guarantee supply, and pointing out the systemic failure it has caused.
Not 10% of Americans comprehend what fascism is, but 30% of the nation would qualify easily to serve as Nazi Youth Group leaders, possibly without realization of the group functions. Witness the honor guards and flag ceremonies at sporting events, including an occasional fighter jet flyover. This is not healthy, but rather a slippery path to a dark place. The bigger question is whether the US nation will recognize the Third World when it approaches with all its nasty trappings.
The fatal errors are many. They cannot be fully detailed. The
seminal original sin was breaking off the Gold Standard by Nixon. In my
book, the move was probably the second half of the arrangement to have
Kennedy removed, followed by a clever deft move to install Kissinger.
He created the Petro-Dollar mechanisms, by pushing for a quadruple in
the crude oil price, then instituting the Petro Surplus Recycle plan,
having the Saudis run OPEC, forcing nations to accumulate USTreasurys
in their banking system.
The Petro-Dollar defacto standard replaced the
formal Gold Standard. The kicker benefit was that Arab nations and Iran
were able to fill their coffers, buy fancy yachts, build casinos in
the desert, erect oversized palaces to stroke their egos, arrange
$million allowances for royal kids, and kick back profits to the
USMilitary industrial complex, the monster to be fed.
The Petro-Dollar
has permitted the USEconomy to live off a credit card, without direct
consequence to abused debt. The Petro-Dollar has permitted the
USMilitary to seek out and conquer, to effect the hearts and minds,
and to plunder.
The creditor nations of the world realize their role as the victims who finance the field operations and covert operations.
That all changed with the narcotics industry born in the Cambodia
Triangle, advanced in the Kosovo depot, and accelerated in the Afghan
poppy fields. The USGovt security agencies have had independent income
for over three decades. Witness the first Langley coup of a foreign
state in Ukraine. The untold story is the conflict between the
USMilitary and the Langley Mercenaries. Look later to find the Odessa
Ltd split, just like in the 1950 birth for the old Nazi Germany war
machine enterprise.
Many are the errors.
The US corporate titans responded to both
environmental strictures and labor union demands, by relocating many
operations in the Pacific Rim. The US domestic income source was
displaced. The Americans sought to rely upon asset bubbles for income.
They spent home equity on consumerism objectives, but in fairness often
for necessities.
The Greenspan Fed contributed significantly to the
wrecked state. They moved away from valid monetary policy
whereby money supply increase was to match economic growth. Instead,
following the Rubin directive, the Mr Magoo cutout ordered the monetary
aggregate to follow the Consumer Price Inflation index in the most
egregious central bank error in modern history to that date.
The falsified CPI enabled unchecked increases in money released within
the system. Debt growth also exploded to create a USEconomy that
resembled a cross between a hedge fund and a Ponzi scheme. The
Irrational Exuberance speech was his disclaimer, a weak statement
easily seen through by the Jackass and many others.
The promoted strategy of easy money being stimulus is patently
false. The low interest rates actually act like a wet blanket, reducing
income to savers, but keeping interest payments down. Unfortunately
twice as much volume exists in accounts due interest income payouts,
versus loan portfolios due interest from monthly service payments.
To
the contrary, easy money is a debt bomb and capital acid. The
climax error was likely more a grand betrayal, granting China the Most
Favored Nation status. The purpose stayed hidden for many years, to
lease their gold by Wall Street firms. The result has been a
loss of US legitimate income, during a period of profound capital
investment in China by Western firms. The Western Govts idiotically
complained about Chinese trade surpluses, when two thirds of their
surpluses came from subsidiaries of Western firms with heavy blessed
foreign direct investment. The result has been debt writedowns that
take capital equipment and other fixed assets into the mothballs, while
hyper inflation has killed capital directly. The result is systemic
failure for the US nation, which can no longer finance its debt.
The mindset of the nation has been that to promote recovery, the
people must be given money to put in their pockets for spending
purposes. Wrong again, since what the people need is jobs, removal of
heavy corporate taxation, and clearing of malodorous federal regulatory
obstacles.
The US nation has lost its way on what capitalism is. It
embraces socialism, with all its ravages. It endorses austerity, which
is nothing more than poison pills. It permits war machine aggression as
foreign policy for both infrastructure alteration and currency
defense.
The nation can rebound if the capital structures are renovated
and permitted to grow from seed, namely capital formation. This has
become a foreign concept in the nation once considered the cradle of
capitalism. The former communist nations have become the capitalism
adopters, while the former capitalist nation leader has adopted
national socialism (aka nazi). The United States will undergo
re-industrialization again, but by the Chinese carpet baggers. They are
loaded with $1.3 trillion in USTreasury Bonds.
Look at the new businesses that have been hatched in the
last decade, as they litter the Wall Street landscape. They are truly
pathetic. See NetFlix and FaceBook and Groupon and LinkeIn,
even Twitter and Monster. The list is long and unimpressive. These are
disk drive racks and elaborate living room couches and kitchen boxes.
These are not corporations with deep capital investment and useful
products flowing, intellectual capital exploited, value added from
talented work forces, and enduring contributions to both economy and
society.
Look at the new national initiatives.
There was the Green
Revolution sponsored by Obama, but it proved to be a sham. See Solyndra
and its fraudulent loans, the favorite personal Obama portfolio
investment. There should have been a freight firm IPO to reward Obama
ventures on gun running to Mexico. It could have become a good
movement, for solar, for wind, for waves. Instead a fraudulent field,
just like the mortgage weeded field.
The new national initiative is the
shale oil and fracking gas strategy, which is both short-lived and
destructive. The shale oil revolution is a fleeting flash in the pan,
requiring a Ponzi growth in new wells to compensate for extremely rapid
wellhead depletion. The fracking gas movement punctures the natural
tables, and thus contaminates the water supply, catering to the
Halliburton monopoly on fracking chemicals. Not even witnessing
evidence of tens of thousands of water pools on fire can stop this
administration, hellbent on destruction.
Even the Obamacare national health insurance plan has hidden
malignant tumor-like motives. See the slush funds to cronies, where
money vanished. See the triple cost versus touted by officials. See the
required financial statements that enable tracking other assets wished
to remain in shadows. See the eventual ID chip implanted on the upper
left arm. Feel the part-time nightmare response to the labor market.
The disasters of the Obama Admin will be the stuff of history books.
What Bush Jr Admin did to wreck the USEconomy from aggressive war
costs, the Obama Admin complemented with wreckage of the USEconomy from
internal caustic seeds.
The US nation is filled with households that cover the spectrum.
Many are very unhappy about the current path taken by the nation. Many
are suddenly insecure with the popular inflation hedge in the home
equity having vanished. Many are suddenly insecure also from the poor
labor market, and the plethora of substandard jobs. Gone are the
engineering jobs and foremen posts that used to pay well, or even bond
issuer posts. They are replaced by fast food marts, cashier posts,
retail sales, customer service, freight movers, secretaries, night
watchmen, janitors, and cleaning staff.
The nation has a new disease
uncovered in many households, if the scattered reports from Hat Trick
Letter clients reflects the masses. The Jackass refers to it as
Arrogant Ignorance, which separates the ordinary bright educated masses
from the Intellectuals.Take an intelligent person, remove the
scientific method of working with verifiable evidence, add on
assumptions embedded in defiance, sprinkle with some righteous
indignation, add some old fashioned anger and insult, and you arrive at
Arrogant Ignorance.
This disease is rampant, and divides
families. The Contempt Before Investigation, with harsh dismissal of
actively thinking people, is a horrendous mental rotten apple all too
often seen on the table. Both factors are ripe in the Jackass own
original family, although the new adopted Latina families are far more
open minded and promising. Let it be known that my father, although
not in agreement with many perceptions and beliefs, has supported the
newsletter, in particular with 2004 seed capital to accompany the
intellectual sweat equity and shoestring needs. If professional workers
used these weak mental methods in the work place, the would fail on a
widespread basis, lose and look bad. The national condition is not
being examined rationally, but rather emotionally and against weird
psychological frameworks built in flimsy defense.
In the last three years, a few colleagues and the Jackass
have investigated reasons why people do not investigate or show
interest in the decayed financial structures and depleted economy. We
examine why they choose to remain uninformed and in the dark.
This is a new intriguing aspect of human psychology to me, and as
fascinating as disturbing. Here are some conclusions after a couple of
years:
a) We conclude that some people have over-arching belief systems
for their lives that are sacrosanct and not challenged.
b) We conclude
that some people are so frightened by certain threats, that they wish
to ignore them.
c) We conclude that some people wish to believe the
leaders, laws, and system protect them, another sacred belief.
d) We
conclude that some people are successful in their work, and deeply
invested in the current system, that they do not wish to alter the
system in which they succeed.
These justifications and phenomena are
not comprehensive or exhaustive. They are a work in progress, which go
together with the Stockholm Syndrome and the Warsaw Effect. These two
address the emotional integration between victim and assailant, and the
denial of threat while trapped within walls. However, integrate the
four described items and something more perverse emerges. What appears
is defense mechanisms for a failed nation and delusional defeated
masses. Too many people have succumbed to the pressures, and remain
hidden in their little anal caves.
Hats off to Gonzalo Lira for his book "A Secret History of the American Crash" which is a docu-drama work in the year 2020 set in Los
Angeles. It provides a real life look on the streets and offices at
where the broken Untied States is heading, based upon systemic failure,
economic ruin, and society impact. From Lira's blog:
What are the scary parts of this novel? Or let me rephrase: What events
described in this novel would scare the crap out of a reader in 2014?
Well, there’s the issue of blatant, open anti-Semitism among the
characters in the year 2020, and how Jewish people are openly persecuted
under the guise of “networker targetting”. There’s the issue of women
in the year 2020 being practically chattel, and how “plural marriages”
are used to simultaneously keep women down and maintain social control.
There’s the issue of total surveillance, up to and including all
citizens having their DNA, picture and fingerprints taken, and every
computer and electronic device being “tethered” to an owner—so that the
government can quickly find out who is not “in compliance”. Then there
are the concentration camps—excuse me, the “Detention and Processing
Facilities”—where Americans who are “non-compliant” and have therefore
lost their “American Privileges” are held, without recourse to the law
or the courts because they haven’t been properly arrested—they have
received “Administrative Detention”, and thus cannot contact a lawyer or
a judge.
Gotta make it clear how in the year 2020, there’s no revolution or
protest against the injustices and outrages of the government because (a) the fight has been literally bred out of people, and (b) people’s
source of food depends on being “in compliance” with the government, so
they are exceedingly wary of pissing off the G-Man.
In 2020, all drugs are legal, and their use is encouraged by the
government, especially weed. Parts of the classified laws of the
Domestic Pacification and Normalization Program (DOPA-Norm) of 2017
explicitly state that “the Federal Government should encourage the use
of cannabis as a social lubircant and soporific. Don’t forget to include
that somewhere. (Should weed be encouraged in the Detainee Camps as
well? Think about it.)
How to describe people’s acquiescence? A lot of it has to do with the
Capitol Bombing, and the rise of the so-called “insider threat”. The
authorities are crazy about “insider threats”, gotta make that
clear. But people’s acquiescence—their allowing the authorities to do
bad things—has to do with having been slowly conditioned over the years.
Think all those lock-down drills in schools.
Saudi Arabia is critical, and it will flip eastward.
It already has. The nation has a notable recent history in serving as
the linchpin of the Petro-Dollar itself, leading the ragtag OPEC
nations. The British created the nation from a bedouin desert into a
kingdom, with a stroke of a pen. The big lie maintained for ten years
is the excess capacity of Saudi oil output. There is no excess capacity,
as the nation is heavily depleted. The Chinese have entered the tent.
Huge projects are well along like the vast petro-chemical facility in
the west by the Red Sea. More huge projects are planned. The recent
Chinese missile deal, complete with parade, should serve as clear
indicator of the next chapter. The Chinese will operate the new
protectorate role, thus to expect more Chinese naval vessels in the
criss-crossed waters. The Chinese have already captured the commercial
fronts, not so much with big energy projects, but with instead the
archipelago of retail centers and distribution points. With the UAE and
Saudi, the Gulf region was conquered years ago.
Enter Iran, often mentioned by the Jackass in the context of the
Paradigm Shift eastward. The OPEC oil cartel under Saudi guidance will
be replaced by the NatGas Coop under Russian guidance. The network of
Iran gas pipelines will be strategically important. The Saudis are
suddenly expendable. The USDollar has an insolvent foundation and the
Saudi gold has been dislodged from its London moorings. The Iranians
have two big allies in Russia and China, kept under their wings during
the entire painful sanctions period. Suddenly the Saudis are
expendable. Watch with amazement how the Western press will vilify the
Saudis, while painting a picture of Iran having been reformed and
cleaned up. The Chinese are making great strides as the new global
diplomat. The Beijing leaders have dictated that the Iran conflict
with the US/UK be brought to an end. Find a way, those are the marching
orders. Lastly, notice the new Saudi Royal succession announced.
The announcement made by Russia, China, and the Saudis to settle oil and gas trade in Yuan and Ruble currency will blow the doors off the
global financial system. The pact will center upon energy trade payment
system as core, but will serve a general purpose for trade. The
resulting effect might trigger a US-based derivative meltdown,
possibly even a Japanese meltdown. The BRICS nations will start central
bank function, converting USTBonds to gold. The number of BRICS
Associate nations will approach one hundred nations, such minor players
like Vietnam, Bolivia, and Indonesia taking part, along with the
stalwart Iran. The BRICS Development Fund will offer continued cover as
a crisis reserve fund to rescue financial arenas in the Emerging
Markets, and offer some aid in deficit coverage. Apart from
infrastructure project fund, look for hidden gold conversion of toxic
paper. The best part is, all the events would indicate a return to Gold
Standard, without the standard announced. The Jackass is just thinking
outside the box.
Since 2008 and the Lehman failure (including Fannie Mae adoption and
AIG assumption), this has been a financial war with a monetary battle
front. The motive toward solution has been nowhere, since
liquidation of big broken banks has never been an option.
The tipping point was the Lehman kill in Sept 2008, following the
subprime mortgage collapse. (Forecasted in advance by the Hat Trick
Letter). It was a death event for the US banking structure, which should
have forced liquidation of all Wall Street firms. Then came the
Financial Accounting Standards Board relaxation of rules in April 2009,
which still permits the big US banks to declare their assets at any
value they wish. They hide grotesque insolvency. Their liquidation
would not happen, instead zombies walked.
The next tipping point was the Federal Reserve announcing a move
toward the Zero Percent Interest Rate (ZIRP) in early 2009. (Forecasted
in advance by the Hat Trick Letter). The next tipping point was the
Federal Reserve announcing the bond monetization initiative (QE) in
early 2012. (Forecasted in advance by the HTLetter). The next tipping
point was Taper Talk removed in September 2013, an obvious declaration
of QE to Infinity. (Forecasted in advance by the HTLetter). The most
recent tipping points are the Syria War and the Ukraine War to obstruct
the Russian Energy Monopoly in the European energy market. Further
signals abound, but are more effectively hidden. Cyprus, Syria, and
Ukraine all have Gazprom obstruction in common. The defense of the
USDollar has taken historically unprecedented turns.
The USDollar
support has been military for a long time, but implicitly so. In recent
months, the military support has been more overt and obvious.It
will be full of intrigue to see if Putin can keep the battles on the
financial front, while freezing the military front in a standoff, even
if a messy standoff. The military battles can happen, as long as they
are isolated. There will be many confrontations like on the Black Sea in
the last couple weeks. The Russia Air Force offered a demonstration to
the USNavy of their advance radar jamming equipment. The USNaval
battlefield was left blind and without targeting systems. The USDollar
Regime loses the global battle on the financial front, since it has no
legs.
The role played by the Saudis has become clear. They recently had
a parade to show off their new Chinese missiles, a bold step. This
follows an economic conference in March held in Beijing between the
two nations, to settle on large scale projects, cross border
investments, political alignment of the minds, and some charity
offerings. To be clear, as forecasted in the last few months, the
Saudis have divorced the United States. The Saudis will next crawl
under the Chinese wing. In vengeance, the Saudis will be treated with
some terrorism, while the London bankers continue to steal their gold.
The Riyadh thwarted terrorist incident is just the beginning. It bore a
Langley signature.
The Jackass forecast is that the USDollar is not going to tank, not
going to suffer a rapid decline. The financial structure is very
complicated. Failed financial structures across the Western world will
require a large pile of USDollars to settle broken derivative
contracts. The USGovt will be forced to launch a domestic Dollar, which
deserves the name Scheiss Dollar. It will be seriously devaluated in a
sequence of steps. Expect severe problems inside the USEconomy. Refer
to price inflation (imported after 30 years), supply chain disruption
(uncertainty on short-term currency issues), and violence (at gasoline
stations, food markets, and ATM cash centers).
Expect to see the mass of paper currencies suffer severe problems
from direct dependence upon central bank inflation machinery and
special bond patches. Expect to see a table full of new gold-backed
currencies arrive like in a parade.
Refer to new Yuan, new Ruble, new Gulf Dinar, new Nordic Euro, and
possibly new Norway Krone. The new US Republic Dollar will be the joker
in the deck, the toilet paper item on the elite counter top. The new
currencies will all be gold-backed and form a global critical mass,
which might include about 60% to 65% of global trade. They will slowly
bury all the present day paper currencies. In order to comprehend the
next chapter, the observer and the analyst and the student must think in
terms of the new currencies. Russia and China each in possession of
over 20,000 tons of gold, ready to back new currencies. The United
States has an empty vault and a sprawling military which no longer can
boast Full Spectrum Dominance.
Nowhere has the betrayal of the US nation been more stark and ugly
as with the granting of Most Favored Nation status to China in 1999.
The story told is shallow and insipid, if not deceptive and loaded with
treason. Reducing the cost of import items is a very shallow empty
argument, with no long-term benefit, since legitimate income from
industry was exported out of the United States. Reliance upon asset
bubbles was the result, and eating home equity. It took time to come to light, but the MFN grant was done with a hidden backend lease of a sizeable portion of the Mao Era gold horde. Follow the
collateral trails. My guess is it involved about 2000 metric tons.
The
Chinese demanded collateral, like any prudent organization would. They
received it in two forms, in the Jackass best estimation, as a result
of the sequence of events which have followed. First, the Wall Street
and Federal Reserve hive pledged the JPMorgan Chase headquarter complex
as collateral, maybe other buildings as well. But the big enchilada
was how the Chinese were given by Wall Street a securitized sovereign
bond (like a mortgage bond) on the IRS income tax stream. Such
derivatives are regular menu items for the Exchange Stabilization Fund
managed by the USDept Treasury, with big arm assists by JPMorgan’s Chief
Investment Office.
Such derivatives hold together the USTreasury Bond complex, which
China has been actively involved with. They were the primary
beneficiary to Operation Twist in 2012, and probably designed it, then
force fed it down the USFed throats. When the USEconomy suffered
consecutive 3% and 4% recessions every year in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011,
2012, 2013, the brutal impact was a default on the income tax bond
derivative. Chronic recessions do that. The officially stated 1% or 2%
GDP growth must be reduced by the inflation lie. For several years, the
true CPI has been 7% to 9%. Inflation is called growth, according to
Reich Finance. Subtract a chunk off every officially stated GDP, as the
USEconomy is mired in a deep recession if not depression.
The visible part of the default is seen in the distressed sale (more
like asset seizure) of the JPMorgan HQ for the paltry price of $725
million to a state-owned Chinese property conglomerate. The stated
value at the time was $1.9 billion, but informed sources indicate the
entire multi-purpose property complex to be worth easily $3 or $4
billion. They grabbed the gold vault too, and the conference center.
The vault is connected to the USFed gold vaults underground via
tunnels. The Chinese could have just as easily demanded the HQ of other
Wall Street banks. Instead, they were given the JPMorgan HQ as
collateral, since it is the operating arm of the USFed itself.
With
very high likelihood, conclude that China has taken control of the
Federal Reserve, taken control of One Chase Plaza. Either the Federal
Reserve has been shut down or purchased. Its lease expired in 2013,
amidst much speculation. No story ensued on the contract continuation
or other disposition. The Jackass believes China took the Fed by
default force. Further evidence was seen at the Dallas Fed, where the US
and Chinese flags were jointly flown until public complaints recently.
The Chinese always prefer a low profile, especially when colonizing
the United States. Next come industrial parks and vast commercial
property purchase. Later comes the re-industrialization of the nation.
The biggest betrayal in modern history of any sovereign nation and
its populace might have taken place last year. The USGovt defaulted
apparently on the IRS tax stream bond held by China as collateral for
the massive gold lease. The JPM HQ seizure is simply the visible
portion on the asset seizure. The renege on returning leased Gold
caused a trade war to commence back in 2007. Then the default on the
IRS mortgage came last year, due to the powerful USEconomic recession.
The Wall Street controllers to the USGovt sold out the nation,
effectively handing over sovereign control to China in a lost gold
poker bet. That is precisely what appears to be the case. In the
meantime, the Obama Admin seems particularly pre-occupied with amending
the laws for treason as much and for gay marriage. He has vested
interest in both, along with Clinton and Bush the Lesser. The clowns
who decry terrorism the most are the architects and purveyors of
treason. But hey! The Jackass is delusional and crackpot. No American
leaders would steal Fort Knox for the national treasury (see Rubin,
Bush, Clinton), and then hand over foreign direct investment to China
with a gold lease (see same clan) secured by a pledge of income tax
revenue on collateral. To do so would be a coordinated betrayal using
the US corporate sector in an abandonment of the American workers.
Methinks the Paradigm Shift eastward has had some significant
lubrication in the moving hind parts.
Iran Carried Out a Series of Airstrikes Against ISIS
WikipediaIran Air Force F 4 Phantom II interceptor fighter bomber.
December 3, 2014
Business Insider - In late November Iran carried out
a series of airstrikes close to its border with Iraq against ISIS.
Although the airstrikes are already notable for signaling possible
military coordination between Iran and the US, they become even more notable in light of Iran's choice of aircraft.
Iran provided air support to the
Iraqi military and the Kurdish Peshmerga with its aging fleet of F-4
Phantoms. The Phantom, which first flew in 1958, was originally used by the US Navy as an interceptor, used to track down and destroy enemy
aircraft. However, the plane was adopted by the Air Force and Marines
for every conceivable combat and training role and was exported to 11
other nations.
Under the Shah's reign, Iran was actually one of the US's most
reliable allies in the Middle East before the Islamic Revolution in
1979. Iran bought
225 F-4 Phantoms in the 1970s. And although the majority of these once
state-of-the-art planes have become inoperable due to age and damage
sustained during the 1980s Iran-Iraq War, Tehran still manages to keep
several dozen of the planes operational.
The maintenance of the fighters has been a challenge due to ongoing sanctions against Tehran. Spare parts
for the Phantoms had to either be smuggled into Iran, cannibalized from
other fighters, or replaced with a parts reverse-engineered by the
Iranians themselves. This has led to a steady degradation in the number
and quality of aircraft that Iran can field while at least allowing them
to keep a number of US-built fighter jets on hand.
Against an enemy like ISIS, even four-and-half-decade-old F-4
Phantoms are more than capable. Since ISIS lacks any semblance of a
capable air defenses, older planes like the Phantom can be used to great
effect as long as Iran has access to solid on-the-ground intelligence.
The Phantom still can carry a punch
as a bomber as well. The plane can carry up to 18,650 pounds of weapons
including general-purpose bombs, cluster bombs, guided bombs, and
air-to-ground missiles.
Iran is still looking for a domestically produced alternative to
their aging American aircraft. Although they're of lower quality than
what's produced in the US and Europe, sanctions have forced the Iranians
to develop a domestic defense industry capable of bu idling battleships, drones, ballistic missiles, and submarines — something that no other country in the region can boast.
They want to do the same with fighter aircraft: the Saeqeh, basically a reverse-engineered F-5, may have entered operational service in September of 2010, although it's unknown how many have actually been built.
Even with a domestically built fighter plane, Iran is still sending
the F-4 into combat. And it's not alone in continuing to use the
Phantom. Turkey still maintains its fleet of F-4s, and Germany only just
retired their Phantom fleet in 2013. But the aircraft last saw action with the US military during Operation Desert Storm, over 20 years ago.
The Political Culture in Israel is Going Nuts
All this talk of destroying the Dome and the Mosque on The Temple Mount is very serious talk. A "Third Temple" being built on The Temple Mount would signal the closeness to the end.
Veterans News Now - Is Israel cracking up? There have been more and more reports
in recent days that suggest the political culture is going crazy;
and that there’s nothing to hold that craziness down.
There’s that Avigdor Lieberman “peace plan” that has just one idea: pay Palestinians to leave Israel. And that from the country’s Foreign Minister!
There’s the prime minister’s bill to bar the Palestinian flag as an “enemy” flag at demonstrations and deport Palestinian Israelis accused of crimes to Gaza.
There’s the new bill to declare Israel the “nation state of the Jewish people,”
which would demote Arabic from being an official language so that the
20 percent non-Jewish population don’t get any ideas that this is their
country, too. The bill would formally define Israel as “belonging to
Jews around the world” and “make ‘Jewish tradition’ and ‘the prophets of
Israel’ a primary source of legal and judicial authority” (per Jonathan Cook).
The bill [to declare Israel the "nation state of the Jewish people"] has already borne fruit. There was a bookburning at a bilingual school in Jerusalem two nights ago. And warnings of more bookburnings from a leftwing graffiti artist: “In a place where nation-state laws are passed, books will be burned.”
The fascism allegations are going in both directions.
Several leading
politicians who oppose that bill were pictured on Facebook wearing Nazi
outfits. The Times of Israel reports that the minister of public security has demanded an investigation of the satire, because it crosses a line:
Fabricated images of the president of Israel, top
ministers and the police chief dressed in Nazi uniforms were published
on the Internet on Sunday as a protest against their objection to a
controversial bill that defines Israel as a Jewish state…
A caption accompanying the montage called them, “The anti-Semites who oppose a Jewish state in the land of Israel.”
According to information in the Facebook account profile, “Zoabi” is a
resident of Tel Aviv and a graduate of Tel Aviv University, and claims
to be employed by the IDF.
Fabricated images of Israeli politicians in Nazi uniforms, captured by Times of Israel
And here’s another fearful report. Singer Amir Benayoum released a shockingly racist song called Ahmed Loves Israel, which says that Palestinian Israelis are just waiting to stab Jews in the back. Rogel Alpher in Haaretz writes that Israelis shouldn’t be shocked by it: “A Racist Society Composes Racist Songs.” Here are some of the hateful lyrics, thanks to Uri Avnery:
Today I am moderate and smiling
Tomorrow I shall ascend to heaven
I shall send to hell a Jew or two
It’s true that I am just ungrateful scum
But I am not to blame, I grew up without love
The moment will come when you turn your back to me
And then I shall stick into you the sharpened axe.
When I was in Israel last month, I went to a demonstration at which
50 rightwing Jewish demonstrators shouted “B’Tselem is Hamas” — equating
a human rights organization with the Palestinian Islamic political
force — and at which a young man explained calmly/angrily to me that he is a Jew before he is a human being (minute
4 at the link).
Being familiar with American political culture, I
wanted to believe the demo was a bunch of knuckleheads; but it had
ministerial support, as Angela Godfrey-Goldstein explained to me (she’s
the blonde woman wearing glasses who’s in the video, a human rights
worker), and a lot of folks trying to attend the B’Tselem exhibit were
harassed/threatened. Dan Cohen reported from that event that the rightwingers accused the human-rights advocates of being Nazis and threatened to make “soap” out of them.
“Netanyahu appears to have adopted a political strategy of
intentionally aggravating relations between the state and the
Palestinian minority, in part, it seems, to position himself as the true
champion of an Israeli public moving ever further to the right,” Jonathan Cook says.
In short, Israel’s leaders are catering to knuckleheads and crazies
because there’s a political payoff.
Max Blumenthal saw/predicted a lot
of this with his book of a year ago that the mainstream has done its
best to ignore. Now at last the global community is frightened by this
trend; the New York Times says Netanyahu’s initiative is “heartbreaking” for those who believe in Israeli democracy.
You don’t have to be such a romantic to recognize that the political
culture in Israel is going nuts; and that a lot of this craziness is the
natural result of enfranchising one ethnic/religious group and
disenfranchising another.
Israel Budgets Billions for Plan to Attack Iran; Is Iran Really a Mortal Threat?
When the Norway Govt refused to invest some of their vast $800 billion
pension fund in London banks, suddenly Oslo suffered a terrorist event
in broad daylight with numerous casualties. The finger was pointed at
the British MI-6. When Saddam Hussein went to Euro cash settlement on
Iraqi oil sales, suddenly his nation was attacked by the USMilitary,
annexed, and subjugated into a nation building project. The outcome is
hardly a success. When Iran followed suit with more non-USD energy
sales, suddenly it was branded a terrorist state, a rogue nation, in
development of nuclear weapons. The USGovt security agencies are
actively flooded the nation with heroin from the northern border with
Afghanistan. The day is coming for more full revelations of USGovt
sponsoring of heroin and global distribution from Afghan sites. Refer to
the Snowden files. The usage of the USMilitary has been pervasive in
both Syria and
Ukraine. The defense of the USDollar is the hidden element, to prevent
Russia from establishing firm trade ties through energy provision with
Europe. The bigger motive is to prevent the formation of the Eurasian
Trade Zone, which will join the Eastern giants of Russia &
China
with the European continent and market. The Ukraine war is the USDollar
Waterloo event. The chief US exports are war, bond fraud, rising costs
(led by food
& fuel), GMO seeds, viruses, and diabetes. All war and hostile
actions are designed to protect the USDollar. The United States
consistently chooses war over the Gold Standard, the legitimate
solution.
War and Bank theft are the two main traits of dedicated professional
fascist organizations, along with virus and genetic weapons, even
obsessive control of captured peoples. The USGovt gradually will
alienate every ally while soliciting support for attacks on enemies.
All enemies have a common trait, defiance against the USDollar and
desire to put in place an alternative to the most corrupt global
currency in the history of mankind. They will put in place the new Gold
Trade Standard. [Source]
Infowars.com - Despite what is characterized as substantive progress
in talks between Iran, the United States, and the European Union on
Iran’s nuclear program, the state of Israel has announced it is
allocating in excess of 10 billion shekels for war preparations.
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz
cites three members of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, who say
between 10 and 12 billion shekels, or between $2.89 and $3.47 billion,
has been set aside for the attack on Iran. Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon ordered the Israeli
military to prepare for the attack, the newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Some members of the Knesset question
whether the allocation has to do with progress between Iran and six
Western nations and an agreement reached last November. The IDF said it
had “received a clear directive from government officials from the
political echelon – meaning Netanyahu and Ya’alon – to continue readying
for a possible independent strike by Israel on the Iranian nuclear
sites, regardless of the talks now happening between Iran and the West,”
according to the three Knesset members.
Rhetoric from the Netanyahu government
has escalated as talks on the Iranian program near a final accord.
During the AIPAC conference in the United States earlier this month, Netanyahu said
Israel is prepared to strike Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities.
“My
friends, I believe that letting Iran enrich uranium would open up the
floodgates,” he said. “That must not happen. And we will make sure it
does not happen.”
Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said during a speech recently that Israel reserves the right to strike Iran and may do so if an accord is reached.
“We think that the United States should
be the one leading the campaign against Iran. But the U.S. has entered
talks with them and unfortunately, in the haggling in the Persian
bazaar, the Iranians were better,” Ya’alon said. “Therefore, on this
matter, we have to behave as though we have nobody to look out for us
but ourselves.”
www.cathinfo.com - Thank you Jarhead for your wonderful piece that supports my own position
on the threat of radical Islam of which the fanatical Mullah's and
Mahoud of Iran subscribe to. I'm not basing my conclusions on anything
the talking heads on TV or what our politicians who constantly bang the
war drums are saying. In fact I never even listen to them and haven't
done so in years. I'm not a brainwashed neo-conservative either. I've
based all my beliefs on scripture and Catholic prophecy.
Iran is just one of Russia's proxy terror states. Verifiable links
exist between Russia, Venezuela, Iran, Syria and their thugs the
Hezbollah and Al Qaeda just to cite a few.
Russia and the Muslims want
nothing but chaos in the Middle East for a host of reasons.
Firstly, to
increase oil prices (this hugely benefits Russia as they are the worlds
number one oil exporter) and Russian sales of Arms to rogue states.
Secondly, to get the USA involved in yet another war with Syria and Iran
in order to stretch our armed forces to the breaking point and render
us impotent and completely bankrupt and demoralized so that we no longer
pose any kind of threat. Another reason is to cause division within
NATO.
Al Qaeda is an instrument of Marxists and Muslims to create global
chaos.Once the world is so beaten down, exhausted and demoralized by
all the wars and poverty, we'll all cave and surrender to Socialism. And
we all know that Socialism ultimately leads to Communism. Thus the
prophecies Our Lady gave at Fatima will be fulfilled and as Sr. Lucia
confirmed in 1946, the whole world will become Communist.
First of all, Hezbollah is not acting on its own but is directed by
Syria and Iran, especially Iran. The leaders of Hezbollah are Persian
speakers who take their orders from Iran (and ultimately from Soviet
born Ayatollah Khomeini).
The war at present waged against Israel by
Hezbollah and Hamas is a proxy war fought on behalf of Syria and Iran
(and ultimately on behalf of Soviet Russia).Both countries have been
longtime Soviet satellites. The hardline military leaders of Hamas are
based in Syria, where military directives and orders originate for Hamas
operations in Gaza and elsewhere in Palestine against Israel. Iran
created Hezbollah in the 1980’s.
Israel has been suckered into its present war with Lebanon because the
Soviets wish to provoke a regional war in the Middle East and to unify
and mobilize Arab rage against Israel, the USA and the West. The Soviets
have been preparing for this since the 1960’s.
The Israelis are unwittingly doing exactly what the Russians want them
to do in order to mobilize the Arabs against the West.The wholesale
slaughter and destruction taking place at present in Lebanon is
guaranteed to galvanize and focus Arab rage against the USA (and its
allies), whose government wholeheartedly supports the brutal bellicose
policies of Israel.
Targeting Europe and North America
Islamic terrorists and Soviet Special Forces are already well
established throughout Europe and North America.In England, 13% of the
local Islamic population are already radical Islamists, and that
percentage will soon grow because of the present crisis in the Middle
East which will inevitably also spread to Syria and Iran even if the
present crisis should be temporarily defused.There is a large Islamic
population in France and Germany, and a sizable Islamic population in
England, Italy and other European nations as well.
A regional war between American-supported Israel and less conspicuously
Soviet-backed Islamic regimes will mobilize a Soviet-encouraged Arab and
Islamic rage (in general, rage against the West).This will eventually
lead to the great Jihad which has been planned against the West and it
will bring great destruction to North America and Europe.The present
hostilities in Lebanon are already heightening tensions between the USA
and the (former) USSR who have been contending for control of the center
of the geopolitical chessboard: the Middle East and Central Asia.
There is also a great but less visible struggle going on for dominance
and hegemony over Europe: Russia through its proxy and secret ally,
Germany on the one hand and Britain (supported by the USA) on the other
trying to prevent Soviet-German hegemony over Europe. If Germany were
to be allowed to gain hegemony over Europe, then the Soviets will turn
the EU into the ‘New European Soviet’ that the Russians have been trying
to make of it since its inception. To allow Germany to turn the EU into
‘Greater Germany’, which is what they have planned all along, would be
tantamount to surrendering all of Europe to the Soviets without a fight.
Soviet Russia's nuclear missile power and Red China's immense manpower
have been joined into one clenched fist which forms the heart of the New
Axis, which could also be called the Moscow-Beijing Axis.
Richard
Maybury coined the term New Axis in 1996. It is not limited to Russia
and China who signed the Chinese-Russian Friendship Treaty in July 2001
and openly declared their joint strategic interests against the United
States, but it also includes many other nations that have entered into a
secret alliance against the United States and its NATO allies. Maybury
explains in the February 2003 issue of the Early Warning Report that,
"the group consists of at least 12 members," among them Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Syria, Lybia, Cuba, etc.
The New Axis has the United States and its allies severely outgunned and
out-manned.It is the plan of the New Axis to involve the United States
in multiple wars with the smaller Axis members: first in Afghanistan,
then Iraq, then possibly Iran and Korea and then possibly also with
China over Taiwan. They intend to overextend and deplete our armed
forces, then they will strike with a massive Blitzkrieg against the
European nations and North America. This will be only the beginning of
The Great Chastisement.
Many Catholic prophecies and indeed the Book of Revelations refer to the
"Beast of the Earth" and the "Beast of the Sea" (Dragon and the Hydra).
It is commonly understood that references to the "Beast of the Earth"
and the "Beast of the Sea prior to the appearance of the anti-Christ,
are to Russia and Islam respectively.
"And he stood upon the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out
of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten
diadems, and upon his heads names of blasphemy. And the beast, which I
saw, was like to a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and
his mouth as the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave him his own
strength, and great power." Revelations 13:1-2.
As many of you are aware, Russia is currently openly and actively
facilitating, assisting and defending Iran against the West in its
procurement of nuclear capabilities and is involved in the construction
of a nuclear reactor in Iran.
IMHO, I think it's really naive to believe
that Russia hasn't already armed Iran with nuclear weapons. Those Mooselimb apologists really sicken me. They're part of the radical left.
December 2, 2014
UN Calls for Israel, the Only Middle Eastern Country That Is Not Party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, to Put Its Nuclear Facilities Under International Oversight
AP - The U.N. General Assembly
overwhelmingly approved an Arab-backed resolution Tuesday calling on
Israel to renounce possession of nuclear weapons and put its nuclear
facilities under international oversight.
The
resolution, adopted in a 161-5 vote, noted that Israel is the only
Middle Eastern country that is not party to the Treaty on the
Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.It called on Israel to "accede to
that treaty without further delay, not to develop, produce test or
otherwise acquire nuclear weapons, to renounce possession of nuclear
weapons" and put its nuclear facilities under the safeguard of the
U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency.
The United States and Canada were among four countries that joined Israel in opposing the measure, while 18 countries abstained.
Israel is widely considered to possess nuclear arms but declines to confirm it.
The
resolution, introduced by Egypt, echoed a similar Arab-backed effort
that failed to gain approval in September at the Vienna-based IAEA. At
the time, Israel criticized Arab countries for undermining dialogue by
repeatedly singling out the Jewish state in international arenas.
Israel's U.N. Mission did not immediately return a request for comment
Tuesday.
The U.N. resolution,
titled "The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East," pushed
for the establishment of a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East
and lamented that U.S.-backed efforts to convene talks were abandoned in
2012.
Israel has long argued that a full Palestinian-Israeli
peace plan must precede any creation of a Mideast zone free of weapons
of mass destruction.The country also argues that Iran's alleged work on
nuclear arms is the real regional threat. Iran denies pursuing such
weapons.
General Assembly resolutions are not legally binding but
carry moral weight because it is the only body where all 193 U.N. member
states are represented.
U.S. representative Robert Wood, in
voting against the resolution at the committee-level last month, said
the measure "fails to meet the fundamental tests of fairness and
balance. It confines itself to expressions of concern about the
activities of a single country."
Wood
said the U.S. will continue pushing a Middle East free of weapons of
mass destructions, but he warned that such resolutions only undermine
prospects for progress.
When we lose our economic security, we also lose our freedom and are forced to survive any way we can. The subliminal, one-world religion is self-preservation — the survival instinct. It's basic to human nature. The Bible shows a coming world leader who will exploit this self-preservation instinct and will bring this religion to its logical conclusion. And, if possible, even some of the very elect will be deceived by this appeal to their pocketbook and personal security.
“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.” (1 John 4:1 KJV)
"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." (John 8:32 KJV)
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." (Ephesians 6:12 KJV)
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