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Russia and China have signed a major trade agreement that has Russia supplying gas to China
Oct 13th, 2009
News UpdateJimmy DeYoung
Categories: Jimmy DeYoung News

Russian PM Vladimir Putin traveled to Beijing, China to sign a major trade agreement with his Chinese counterpart that will supply China with nearly 2.5 trillion cubic feet of gas per year via two pipelines originating in Siberia.

China has one of the fastest growing economies in the world and has been searching far and wide for new sources of energy with a focus on Russia as a potential supplier of large amounts of natural gas.

There are few details to the gas trade agreement or other economic deals reached between the two nations, but Vladimir Putin said the bi-lateral economic cooperation has withstood the test of global financial crisis.

Jimmy's Prophetic Prospective on the News

A major gas trade deal between Russia and China focuses the world on two superpowers today and two major players in the future according to Bible prophecy.

When it comes to superpowers in our world today, both Russia and China would be included on the list. With the passing of time, these two world powers have grown closer together in economic, political and military issues of the day. Now, with the signing of a gas trade agreement, Russia will supply China with the much needed energy source that is essential for China to keep its ever expanding growth on track.

What is so interesting in this report for the student of Bible prophecy is that both Russia and China have a major role in the last days scenario that is found in Bible prophecy. Russia at the beginning of the seven year Tribulation and China at the end of this time of testing. Ezekiel 38:2 mentions Magog as the leader of a coalition of nations that will align themselves against Israel at the beginning of the Tribulation. Magog is modern-day Russia. Revelation 16:12 mentions the "Kings of the East" making their way into Israel at the end of the Tribulation Period and China is the leader today of the nations of the far East.

As a student of Bible prophecy, I keep a close watch on China and Russia and this latest gas trade deal between these two nations is indeed evidence that Bible prophecy will be fulfilled.

Preparing for Service in the Rebuilt Temple
Oct 13th, 2009
Daily NewsIsraelNN
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel

Jews in the town of Mitzpe Yericho are taking practical steps to prepare for the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem, by preparing descendents of Cohanim (priests) and Levites for service. At the Mitzpe Yericho school, Temple priest hopefuls learn exactly how to conduct the daily Temple service and offer the required sacrifices.

"Today is really a historical event for the Jewish people,” organizer Levi Chazan said as another part of the school was completed. “It is the beginning of the work for the Third Temple.”

The school will include an exact replica of the Temple. The latest addition to the replica was the area in which priests offered wine and water libations. The water offering was traditionally given on the Sukkot holiday, which was celebrated last week.

Festivities accompanied the completion of another step in the school's construction. Among those present was Baruch Marzel, long-time Land of Israel activist and parliamentary aide to MK Michael Ben-Ari. The timing of the work on the school is particularly appropriate due to recent Muslim riots against Jewish visits to the Temple Mount, Marzel said.

Mob Rule!
Oct 13th, 2009
CommentaryWND - David Kupelian - Whistleblower Magazine
Categories: Warning

Under Obama, Chicago-style bullying and intimidation go nationwide

Millions of Americans were shocked at the specter of two menacing thugs, one brandishing a nightstick, blocking the doorway to a Pennsylvania polling place on Election Day last November. They were even more shocked when the Obama Justice Department decided not to prosecute the most blatant, egregious case of voter intimidation in modern history.

But for those who understand the Obama administration, there was no surprise. Indeed, such shameless intimidation tactics are fast becoming the modus operandi of the Obama White House itself, as documented in November's jarring issue of Whistleblower magazine, "MOB RULE: Under Obama, Chicago-style bullying and intimidation go nationwide."

Consider today's headlines:

• ACORN, the organization Barack Obama trained with, defending as an attorney, praised, paid to help elect him, and promised to consult closely once elected president, has been exposed as a vast, taxpayer-subsidized, hard-left criminal enterprise that specializes in vote fraud, tax fraud, extortion and intimidation

• The Obama White House has launched several initiatives to track, monitor, spam, and harvest and archive information about American citizens – prompting widespread concerns not only of illegality and invasion of privacy, but of outright totalitarian surveillance of Americans reminiscent of George Orwell's "1984." One "snitch program" urged Americans to rat out their friends and neighbors by forwarding to the White House any e-mails they received critical of the president's health care proposals. And if proposed legislation passes, Obama will have power to control the Internet, even to shut parts of it down, upon declaring a "cyber emergency.
  
  
• As part of his promised "civilian national security force," the "organizer-in-chief's" army of citizen volunteers is actively recruiting college students across the country to "build support for President Obama's agenda" – and earn college credit while advocating for "change."
  
  
• Meanwhile, when regular Americans speak out and protest what they fear is the destruction of their nation, they're condemned by government leaders as swastika-carrying extremists, racists and potential terrorists. When they dare attend tea parties or townhall meetings
  
  they're roughed up and threatened by leftist goons, such as those from ACORN or the Service Employees International Union. (As SEIU president and Obama friend Andy Stern boasted about his organizing philosophy: "We prefer to use the power of persuasion, but if that doesn't work, we use the persuasion of power.")
  
  
• Even Obama himself openly calls for his critics to shut up. On Aug. 7, in response to criticism of his efforts to radically transform America, he told an enthusiastic crowd: "So, we've got some work to do. … [But] I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to just get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. [Audience cheering] I don't mind cleaning up after them, but don't do a lot of talking."

As a result of all this and much more – including dozens of radical and unaccountable "czars," and brazen attempts to regulate talk radio and boycott the more courageous talk hosts – millions of Americans are now totally fed up, says Whistleblower Editor David Kupelian. "The vast expanse of center-right America is outraged by the brazen overreaching of the Obama administration, and by the intimidation tactics it is employing in an attempt to roll over mainstream American citizens and transform their nation into another socialist state where real liberty is just a memory."

Issue highlights include:

• "Who most resembles 'Nazis'?" by Joseph Farah.
  
  
• "Obama takes Chicago politics nationwide" by Art Moore, in which top Obama adviser David Axelrod sums up his approach this way: "Ours is a blunt, brawling way. People are upfront about their self-interest."
  
  
• "Obama's Chicago-style intimidation" by Phyllis Schlafly, on the White House's advice to goons: "If you get hit, we will punch back twice as hard."
  
  
• "'Brown Shirts' vs. Purple Shirts" by Michelle Malkin, who documents "an ugly pattern of physical abuse and tactics of intimidation."
  
  
• "Obama and the thugs" by Kyle-Anne Shiver, who reminds us that Obama himself advised his followers: "I want you to argue with them, get in their faces."
  
  
• "Obama chief Axelrod 'invented' astroturfing" by Jerome R. Corsi, who reveals the ironic truth that the man who dismisses tea parties as fake was himself the inventor of phony "grassroots" efforts.
  
  
• "Rules for (pro-American) radicals" by David Kupelian, on how to deal with intimidators, provocateurs, thugs, goons and would-be tyrants.
  
  
• "Obama: Every move you make, I'll be watching you online" by Chelsea Schilling, who shows that in myriad ways, the Obama administration has engaged in "1984"-style spying on Americans.
  
  
• "Will bill give Obama control of Internet?" by Drew Zahn, on proposed new powers that allow for "drastic federal intervention" into the Internet.
  
  
• "The White House 'snitch' program" by Bob Unruh, on Obama's plan for citizens to report the "fishy" comments of their neighbors.
  
  
• "The spammer in chief" by Joseph Farah, who calls current White House activities "one of the most egregious abuses of power I have witnessed in my lifetime."
  
  
• "College students recruited for Obama 'army'" by Chelsea Schilling, who documents that academic credit is being awarded for students' actively building support for the president's agenda.
  
  
• "Obama administration green-lights voter intimidation" by Drew Zahn, in which one congressman gives the real reason the Philadelphia Black Panther case was dismissed: "The president's political allies are getting a free pass."
  
  
• "Glenn Beck's fear of Obama: Seize power overnight" by Joe Kovacs, who quotes Rush Limbaugh saying now is the "most dangerous time in my life for freedom and liberty in this country."
  
  
• "Left rises to squash CNN's Lou Dobbs" by Drew Zahn, on the angry campaign to get the "stupid, overpaid, racist wingnut off air once and for all."
  
  
• "CNN gives boot to talk radio hosts."
  
  
• "The get-Cheney squad" by Patrick Buchanan, who explains why prosecution is the CIA's reward for helping keep America safe for the past eight years.
  
  
• "None dare call it Marxism" by David Limbaugh, who analyzes Obama's governing philosophy and notes the obvious – that "it's only fair to make everyone poorer if you believe profits are inherently evil."
  
  
• "The socialists within want to take over" by Hilmar von Campe, a stirring analysis of today's America by a former German POW who says, unapologetically, that "Obama and Pelosi are closer to the Nazis than to our Founding Fathers."

"Make no mistake," says Kupelian. "What we're seeing right now from the Obama administration is no different than what those two thugs were doing, standing outside the Philadelphia polling place with the night stick. This is rank intimidation, following the playbook of Saul Alinsky, the Chicago Marxist and father of 'community organizing' who had such a profound effect on President Obama."

Indeed, while campaigning for the presidency, Obama said of his years steeped in Alinsky's revolutionary "community organizing" methods: "It was that education that was seared into my brain. It was the best education I ever had, better than anything I got at Harvard Law School."

"It's high time," adds Kupelian, "that real Americans become equally 'educated' about the hidden agenda and tactics of the Obama administration."

Israel Fears Facing U.S. - Aligned Terrorist Army
Oct 13th, 2009
Daily NewsIsrael Today
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel;Warning

Few of our readers will be surprised to learn that the very same Palestinian forces being trained, armed and funded by the US government often participate in or facilitate terrorist attacks on Israelis during times of strife.

In this way, Israel has been facing US-aligned terrorist forces for years already. But many in Israel fear that problem is set to become exponentially worse in the near future.

In an investigative report, the Jerusalem branch of the Center for Near East Policy Research noted that Congress has long tried to limit the amount and quality of military aid given to the Palestinians, aware that the Fatah-ruled Palestinian Authority is only nominally a peace partner and that it seeks reconciliation with the Hamas terrorist organization.

But US President Barack Obama is increasingly obsessed with forging a Middle East peace deal, and his answer to Israeli security concerns has thus far focused on upping American development of a PA fighting force. Obama and many in his administration have also signaled that while they may not like Hamas all that much, they are willing to accept the terror group as legitimate players on the regional stage.

When the PA finally reconciles with Hamas, which still holds a majority in the Palestinian parliament, Washington will only utter vague reservations. But when Hamas and other terror groups under its umbrella start attacking Israel and Israel responds militarily, the White House is expected to react with outrage that forces it trained and paid for are caught in the crossfire.

Even worse, if there is another large-scale eruption of Palestinian violence including Fatah forces, then Israel will have to fight directly against the US-trained Palestinian troops.

"Let's say that Israel wants to go after [Fatah] terrorists – there will be a sort of American veto, because the terrorists are affiliated with the Americans," NEPR Jerusalem chief David Bedein told Israel National News. "This has extremely serious implications."

Fatah: Hopes in Obama 'evaporated'
Oct 13th, 2009
Daily NewsJpost
Categories: Today's Headlines

An internal document circulated among members of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's political party says all hopes placed in the Obama administration "have evaporated" because of alleged White House backtracking on key issues to the Palestinians.

The Fatah Party memorandum, obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press, accuses the United States of backing off from its demands that Israel freeze settlement construction and failing to set a clear agenda for new Mideast peace talks.

It was not immediately clear whether the October 12 document reflected Abbas's own views or was intended to be leaked as Fatah's attempt to pressure US President Barack Obama to bear down harder on Israel.

The document said the Palestinians have lost hope in Obama and accused the American leader of caving in to pressure from pro-Israel lobbyists in Washington.

"All hopes placed in the new US administration and President Obama have evaporated," said the document issued by Fatah's Office of Mobilization and Organization. The department is headed Fatah's No. 2, Mohammed Ghneim.

Obama, it claimed, "couldn't withstand the pressure of the Zionist lobby, which led to a retreat from his previous positions on halting settlement construction and defining an agenda for the negotiations and peace."

Abbas's aides had no comment on the memorandum, and Ghneim couldn't immediately be reached for comment.

The Palestinians were encouraged by Obama's election and expected his much-publicized outreach to the Muslim world would soften the strongly pro-Israel positions of his predecessors such as George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

The Fatah document also restated the group's stance that Israel must freeze settlement construction and agree to a clear agenda for talks before negotiations can resume.

The US says it has not abandoned these objectives but officials have indicated Washington does not see them as conditions for resuming talks.

Obama's personal intervention last month, when he summoned Abbas and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to a three-way meeting in New York, failed to break the impasse.

The document echoes sentiments expressed by other Fatah officials. On Sunday, former Fatah strongman Mohammed Dahlan said the party "feels very disappointed and worried by the US administration retreat."

The latest round of negotiations broke down late last year with no breakthroughs on the main issues dividing the two sides: final borders, the status of disputed Jerusalem and a solution for Palestinians who lost homes and other property in Israel after it achieved statehood in 1948.

But the dispute over settlement construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem has blocked all efforts to get the sides to talk, let alone solve the intractable conflict.

Netanyahu says some settlement construction must continue to accommodate growth of existing settler populations. He also says all of Jerusalem will remain in Israeli hands, although Israel's annexation of the eastern part of the city and its sensitive holy sites has never been internationally recognized.

The memo comes at a time of great unrest in Fatah over Abbas's short-lived decision to suspend efforts to bring Israel before a UN war crimes tribunal in connection with the winter war in the Gaza Strip.

Internally, the Palestinians are as divided as ever, with reconciliation talks between Fatah, which controls the West Bank, and the Islamic terror Hamas group that rules Gaza, on ice.

Energy Crisis is Postponed As New Gas Rescues the World
Oct 13th, 2009
Daily NewsTelegraph.co.uk - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Categories: Today's Headlines

Engineers have performed their magic once again. The world is not going to run short of energy as soon as feared.

America is not going to bleed its wealth importing fuel. Russia's grip on Europe's gas will weaken. Improvident Britain may avoid paralysing blackouts by mid-decade after all.

The World Gas Conference in Buenos Aires last week was one of those events that shatter assumptions. Advances in technology for extracting gas from shale and methane beds have quickened dramatically, altering the global balance of energy faster than almost anybody expected.

Tony Hayward, BP's chief executive, said proven natural gas reserves around the world have risen to 1.2 trillion barrels of oil equivalent, enough for 60 years' supply – and rising fast.

"There has been a revolution in the gas fields of North America. Reserve estimates are rising sharply as technology unlocks unconventional resources," he said.

This is almost unknown to the public, despite the efforts of Nick Grealy at "No Hot Air" who has been arguing for some time that Britain's shale reserves could replace declining North Sea output.

Rune Bjornson from Norway's StatoilHydro said exploitable reserves are much greater than supposed just three years ago and may meet global gas needs for generations.

'hizbullah Has Turned Lebanon Into Powder Keg'
Oct 13th, 2009
Daily NewsJpost
Categories: Today's Headlines;Warning

A day after another apparent Hizbullah arms cache explosion in southern Lebanon, President Shimon Peres said that the guerrilla group had turned Lebanon into a powder keg that in the end would hurt Lebanon itself.

The president added that there was no reason for there not to be peace between Israel and Lebanon.

"We have evacuated all of the territory and are now extending a sincere hand to the Lebanese people. Lebanon could have long since become the Switzerland of the Middle East," he said. "It is Hizbullah and Hamas that are preventing this economic flowering and peace and security in the region."

Senior military sources said that the explosion near Tyre late Monday night was proof of continued Hizbullah violations of UN Security Council Resolution 1701.

Lebanese security officials said the explosion occurred in a building in the village of Tayr Filsay about six kilometers north of Israel that was likely used as a Hizbullah weapons depot.

At least one person was killed, with Reuters reporting as many as five deaths. The state-run National News Agency reported that the explosion destroyed the three-story building.

The IDF filed a complaint with UNIFIL and demanded that the peacekeeping force launch an investigation into the incident.

According to Lebanese news reports, the building belonged to Abdul Nasser Issa, a senior Hizbullah operative who may have been killed in the explosion.

Hizbullah said no one was killed but one person was wounded. In a statement on the Web site of its Al-Manar TV station the terror group said that an investigation was underway to determine the cause of the blast, which it said took place in the garage of a home belonging to one of its members.

Other reports claimed that the explosion was caused by IDF ordnance left behind following the Second Lebanon War in 2006. Defense officials rejected the claim.

"This is proof of the existence of illegal weaponry in southern Lebanon," IDF sources said, referring to a similar explosion in July in the village of Hirbet Selm when a home hiding a major Hizbullah arms cache exploded. According to the IDF, the cache in Hirbet Selm was hidden in a home in the village and contained dozens of 122mm Katyusha rockets.

"Hizbullah uses civilians as shields to protect its weaponry," an Israeli defense official said, adding that according to intelligence, the Lebanese guerrilla group was storing arms caches in dozens of additional villages in southern Lebanon.

UNIFIL spokeswoman Yasmina Bouziane said the force was in touch with the Lebanese Army "to try to confirm the circumstances of the explosion."

The Lebanese army issued a statement saying an Israeli reconnaissance plane flew over south Lebanon earlier Monday, but made no mention of the explosion, according to the state news agency report.