Taiwan firm: China got Iran part with nuke uses
"Lin said that when he contacted the Swiss firm he had no idea where the transducers were heading. 'It was only at the last minute that the Chinese told me to send them to Iran,' he said.

Nuclear proliferation expert David Albright of the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security told the AP that Iran tried hard to procure the transducers in Europe and Canada, but was thwarted by a concerted international effort. However, he said, the existence of the Taiwanese-Chinese connection shows that Iran still has the ability to get what it needs by tapping alternative sources.

'This equipment is likely for its gas centrifuge program,' he said."

Did you know Ahmadinejad is the founder of the "Iranian Tunneling Association". What are the chances he's hiding a nuclear weapons program underground?

Iran Shielding Its Nuclear Efforts in Maze of Tunnels - NYTimes.com: "Over the past decade, Iran has quietly hidden an increasingly large part of its atomic complex in networks of tunnels and bunkers across the country."

7 mortar shells fired from Gaza: "Seven mortar shells were fired from the Gaza Strip on Thursday morning. Most of them landed between the Kerem Shalom crossing and a community in the Eshkol Regional Council. There were no reports of injuries or damage. Three additional shells landed in Gaza."

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Tyre and Sidon = today's Hezb'allah threat from Lebanon?
Philistia= Hamas and al Qaeda threat from the Gaza Strip?

Joel 3:
⁴ "Now what have you against me, O Tyre and Sidon and all you regions of Philistia? Are you repaying me for something I have done? If you are paying me back, I will swiftly and speedily return on your own heads what you have done...


¹⁴ Multitudes, multitudes
in the valley of decision!
For the day of the LORD is near
in the valley of decision.

¹⁵ The sun and moon will be darkened,
and the stars no longer shine.

¹⁶ The LORD will roar from Zion
and thunder from Jerusalem;
the earth and the sky will tremble.
But the LORD will be a refuge for his people,
a stronghold for the people of Israel.

We're fighting a spiritual war against the LBL beast and Rev. 16 'dragon' with troops, guns, grenades, and complete spiritual blindness. How does a medical doctor, with everything going for him in this life, become an agent for the LBL beast and blow himself and others up? Only through evil spiritual possession does one do that.

How did an Al-Qaida double agent dupe the CIA? - Haaretz - Israel News: "It became clear two days ago that behind the Internet persona lurked a 36-year-old doctor from the Jordanian village of Zarqa. Last week, he did with his body what he had been preaching for years: he killed American security personnel."

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more from the 'religion of peace'...

Panic room saved artist Kurt Westergaard from Islamist assassin - Times Online
"An axe-wielding Somali extremist broke into the home of Kurt Westergaard on Friday night as the 75-year-old cartoonist was looking after Stephanie, his five-year-old granddaughter.

Westergaard, whose little ink drawing of Muhammad with a bomb in his turban sparked riots throughout the Middle East in 2006, has received numerous death threats. He pressed an alarm button to summon police when the attacker entered the house in Aarhus, Denmark’s second city, by breaking a window."

Excellent article and summary of recent events from DEBKAfile...

US Anti-Terror Authorities Missed Writing on the Wall - in Jeddah

"Obama, who has called a meeting of US security agency chiefs for Tuesday, Jan. 5, cannot expect serious brainstorming because it would be inhibited by a mindset that refuses to refer to the failed mass-murderer as an illegal or enemy combatant or terrorist but only as a 'suspect.' Treated like a common or garden criminal, the Nigerian has been committed to an ordinary lock-up. This has given him the opportunity to hire American lawyers, who right away shut his mouth and advised him not to cooperate in answering questions about his accessories and masters."

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"A Sincere Muslim"
Now we know what to look for, but do you think governments have the nerve to set aside their political correctness and utilize profiling?

The anatomy of a suicide bomber
"At secondary school he already stood out for his devotion, praying five times a day. His classmates nicknamed him “The Pope” for his piety, but it was in London that he began to wear traditional robes and sandals, even in the winter, Mr Brako said.

Abdulmutallab became vice president of UCL’s Islamic Society, and then president from 2006 to 2007, throwing himself into the role. A spokesman for the Federation of Islamic Societies told a Nigerian newspaper that students and staff had been “shocked and horrified” at the arrest of someone they had considered “engaging, friendly and keen to seek a common cause for all people”.

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Flight 253

Very good article. Unfortunately it makes North American airport security look completely incompetent - the truth hurts...

The Israelification of airports; High security, little bother
While North America's airports groan under the weight of another sea-change in security protocols, one word keeps popping out of the mouths of experts: Israelification.

From the Religion of Death and Destruction - Islam
What is the religion of 99.99% of all terrorists today, and why are no "moderate Muslims" challenging them when they are supposedly mis-representing Islam (according to them)?

The religion of Islam denies that Jesus is the Son of God, and denies that Jesus even died on the cross:
And [on account of] their saying: "We killed the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, messenger of God." They did not kill him and they did not crucify him, but it was made to seem so to them. Those who argue about him are in doubt about it. They have no real knowledge of it, just conjecture. But they certainly did not kill him. (Qur'an, 4:157)

The Abomination of Desolation standing in the Holy Place - Mount Moriah

Matthew 24: ¹⁵ “The day is coming when you will see what Daniel the prophet spoke about—the sacrilegious object that causes desecration standing in the Holy Place.” (Reader, pay attention!) ¹⁶ “Then those in Judea must flee to the hills. ¹⁷ A person out on the deck of a roof must not go down into the house to pack.

The Dome of the Rock sits on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem ("the Holy Place"), site of the first and second Judaic Temples proclaiming on the inscriptions of its walls:

1. O People of the Book! [that's Christians] Do not exaggerate in your religion
2. nor utter aught concerning God save the truth. The Messiah, Jesus son of
3. Mary, was only a Messenger of God [Denial of Jesus Christ as God's son], and His Word which He conveyed unto Mary, and a spirit
4. from Him. So believe in God and His messengers, and say not 'Three' - Cease! [condemnation against belief in the Trinity] (it is)
5. better for you! - God is only One God. Far be it removed from His transcendent majesty that He should have a son. [Denial of Jesus Christ as God's son]
   

The Abomination of Desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel is the Dome of the Rock on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem. The 'temple of the Anti-Christ' has been sitting there in plain view since 688AD. That year, and the most significant years in modern Israeli history - 1948 and 1967 - are prophesied in the book of Daniel!

Daniel 9:
²⁷ He will confirm a covenant with many for one 'seven.' In the middle of the 'seven' he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing of the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him. "

This is so plain it is painful to watch Christians perpetuating the current most popular, albeit false, end time theory. Pray for wisdom. Share this discovery with all who will listen, for Christ is coming sooner, and end time events have progressed further, than most believe.

Luke 17:
²² Then he said to his disciples, “The time is coming when you will long to see the day when the Son of Man returns, but you won’t see it. ²³ People will tell you, ‘Look, there is the Son of Man,’ or ‘Here he is,’ but don’t go out and follow them. ²⁴ For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other, so it will be on the day when the Son of Man comes.

Acts 1:
⁹ After saying this, he was taken up into a cloud while they were watching, and they could no longer see him. ¹⁰ As they strained to see him rising into heaven, two white-robed men suddenly stood among them. ¹¹ “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why are you standing here staring into heaven? Jesus has been taken from you into heaven, but someday he will return from heaven in the same way you saw him go!”

Matthew 24:
30And then at last, the sign that the Son of Man is coming will appear in the heavens, and there will be deep mourning among all the peoples of the earth. And they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And he will send out his angels with the mighty blast of a trumpet, and they will gather his chosen ones from all over the world—from the farthest ends of the earth and heaven.

Doesn't sound like Jesus' coming for his sheep will be a secret rapture to me.

What’s all this drivel about the so-called “Israeli Occupation?”

AMOS 9:

A Promise of Restoration

¹¹ “In that day I will restore the fallen house of David.
I will repair its damaged walls.
From the ruins I will rebuild it
and restore its former glory.
¹² And Israel will possess what is left of Edom
and all the nations I have called to be mine.”
The Lord has spoken,
and he will do these things.

¹³ “The time will come,” says the Lord,
“when the grain and grapes will grow faster
than they can be harvested.
Then the terraced vineyards on the hills of Israel
will drip with sweet wine!
¹⁴ I will bring my exiled people of Israel
back from distant lands,
and they will rebuild their ruined cities
and live in them again.
They will plant vineyards and gardens;
they will eat their crops and drink their wine.
¹⁵ I will firmly plant them there
in their own land.
They will never again be uprooted
from the land I have given them,”
says the Lord your God.

Seems pretty clear to me. Is anyone vile enough to oppose the Creator's plans? Happy New Year to all. May many more see their need of Him in 2010 before we all literally see Him, and it will be too late.

Matthew 24:

³⁰ And then at last, the sign that the Son of Man is coming will appear in the heavens, and there will be deep mourning among all the peoples of the earth. And they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. ³¹ And he will send out his angels with the mighty blast of a trumpet, and they will gather his chosen ones from all over the world—from the farthest ends of the earth and heaven.

Rabbis to US Ambassador: Time to 'Go Biblical' with Arabs
A delegation of the Rabbinical Congress for Peace (RCP) met with U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mr. James Cunningham, today and called for a reassessment of the entire U.S. policy vis-à-vis the Israelis and Palestinians. The rabbis told Ambassador Cunningham that it was time to try the Biblical approach to the dispute over the Land of Israel.

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A stepped-up war is not that far away:

Soldier fires an AT-4 rocket launcher

Rocket Launcher Found In Apartment
HOUSTON -- Police went to a southwest Houston apartment to break up a disturbance but ended up finding something else - an AT-4 shoulder-mounted rocket launcher...according to court documents, officers also found Jihadist writings.

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Iranian Endgame – by P. David Hornik
“Iran is proceeding with an aggressive nuclear weapons program,” and that apart from “a few dogged holdouts,…much of the Obama administration has come to terms with that reality.”

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Islamic Jewish Blood Libel Exposed! Starving, Suffering "Palestinians" Mighty Fat and Happy
Always the Jewish people are clubbed like baby seals with the Islamic lies of how Israel is starving the Muslims in Gaza (there is no such thing as a 'Palestinian'). Always, the relentless meme of the poor starving 'Palestinians'. The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) creates the narrative and the media supplies the libellous, judeophobic hyperbole."

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Danny Ayalon: Israel's Right in the 'Disputed' Territories
"The recent statements by the European Union's new foreign relations chief Catherine Ashton criticizing Israel have once again brought international attention to Jerusalem and the settlements. However, little appears to be truly understood about Israel's rights to what are generally called the 'occupied territories' but what really are 'disputed territories.'"

Deuteronomy 11:7-12:

⁷ But you have seen the Lord perform all these mighty deeds with your own eyes!

⁸ “Therefore, be careful to obey every command I am giving you today, so you may have strength to go in and take over the land you are about to enter. ⁹ If you obey, you will enjoy a long life in the land the Lord swore to give to your ancestors and to you, their descendants—a land flowing with milk and honey! ¹⁰ For the land you are about to enter and take over is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, where you planted your seed and made irrigation ditches with your foot as in a vegetable garden. ¹¹ Rather, the land you will soon take over is a land of hills and valleys with plenty of rain—¹² a land that the Lord your God cares for. He watches over it through each season of the year!

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Barack Obama gets an 'F' for protecting Americans
"Yes, the buck stops in the Oval Office. Obama may have rather smugly given himself a “B+” for his 2009 performance but he gets an "F" for the events that led to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab boarding a Detroit-bound plane in Amsterdam with a PETN bomb sewn into his underpants. He said today that a “systemic failure has occurred”. Well, he’s in charge of that system."

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Is the Middle East About to Go Apocalyptic?

"While world leaders met in Copenhagen for the United Nations 2009 Climate Change Conference, Damascus, Syria hosted a war tribunal with high level delegations from Iran and the Hezbollah. Concurrently, about five-hundred prophetically minded Christian’s fellowshipped at the annual 2009 Pre-Trib Rapture conference in Dallas."

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In the name of allah, most merciful (NOT!), most compassionate (NOT!)
The LBL Beast of Islam (almost) strikes again.
Will the West wake up? Almost certainly not!

U.S. plane bomber wanted to study sharia in Yemen | Reuters
"A Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a U.S. passenger plane told his parents he wanted to study Islamic sharia law in Yemen shortly before cutting off contact with them, the Nigerian government said on Tuesday."

It's no coincidence that the "underwear bomber" chose Christmas Day to perform for allah - the biggest Christian holiday on the calendar.


Yemen minister: We have 300 'al Qaeda militants' (aka Muslims) planning attacks...

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US slams new plans to build in east Jerusalem
"The United States on Monday harshly criticized Israel's plans to build more housing in Jerusalem neighborhoods over the green line.

'The United States opposes new Israeli construction in east Jerusalem,' White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said in a statement, calling the city a 'permanent status issue' to be resolved through negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians."

I don't care what the lost Obama Administration says in this regard. There is an infinitely higher power at work - if Mr. Obama wasn't so blind he'd know what is good for him and simply get out of the way.

Genesis 17:
¹⁹ Then God said, "Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him. ²⁰ And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation. ²¹ But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year."


Genesis 21:
⁸ When Isaac grew up and was about to be weaned, Abraham prepared a huge feast to celebrate the occasion. ⁹ But Sarah saw Ishmael—the son of Abraham and her Egyptian servant Hagar—making fun of her son, Isaac. ¹⁰ So she turned to Abraham and demanded, “Get rid of that slave woman and her son. He is not going to share the inheritance with my son, Isaac. I won’t have it!”

¹¹ This upset Abraham very much because Ishmael was his son. ¹² But God told Abraham, “Do not be upset over the boy and your servant. Do whatever Sarah tells you, for Isaac is the son through whom your descendants will be counted. ¹³ But I will also make a nation of the descendants of Hagar’s son because he is your son, too.”

Islam, the "religion of peace", shows its true colors to Pakistan's Christians

Pakistan Christians celebrate Christmas in fear
"GOJRA, Pakistan (AP) - No Christmas decorations brighten the tent camp sheltering Christians left homeless by the worst violence against minorities in Pakistan this year. Instead, there is a pervasive sense of fear.

The Christians have received cell phone text messages warning them to expect a 'special Christmas present,' they say, and are terrified of their tents being torched or their church services being bombed."

DEBKAfile - Imam of Fort Hood gunman reported dead in Yemen raid
"The raids last week later have been attributed not to the Yemeni air force as claimed but more likely a US seaborne strike either by drone or cruise missile. The White House did not deny reports that those strikes were ordered by President Barack Obama in person.

If cruise missiles were used, it would be the first time since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003."

Iran comes out on top in secret simulated war games
"Iran has emerged as the victor in secret war games that simulated an Israeli attack on one of its nuclear facilities."

That's man's ignorant assessment of an Israel-Iran war. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel has entirely something else in mind as prophesied in the Bible.



Strategic Weapons: Iran Reaches Out
"Iran has continued to refine the Shahab 3 design, and conduct test firings. Israel appears to be the main target. Iran has threatened Israel with destruction, rather openly and for several years. Shahab 3's could be fired with high explosive warheads, and hit, with enough accuracy, to kill mostly Jews, and not Israeli Arabs or Palestinians."

Next Stage on Iran Could Hold Real Peril
A little less than a month ago, one of the officials developing the allies’ strategy to halt Iran’s drive to make a nuclear weapon described their governments’ discomfort about soon having to move beyond attempts to engage the mullahs.

"Trust me"

Washington 'forged' nuclear documents: Ahmadinejad
"Documents revealed last week that appear to show Tehran is working on a nuclear bomb trigger were 'forged' by Washington, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has told a US news network."

Isaiah 66:
⁸ Who has ever heard of such a thing?
Who has ever seen such things?
Can a country be born in a day [Israel: re-established in one day, May 14, 1948]
or a nation be brought forth in a moment?
Yet no sooner is Zion in labor [the Holocaust]
than she gives birth to her children...[post-WWII, modern day Israel]

Soon after this, in the same chapter - in Isaiah 66, it continues...

¹⁵ See, the LORD is coming with fire,
and his chariots are like a whirlwind;
he will bring down his anger with fury,
and his rebuke with flames of fire.

¹⁶ For with fire and with his sword
the LORD will execute judgment upon all men,
and many will be those slain by the LORD.

Matthew 24:
²¹ For there will be greater anguish than at any time since the world began. And it will never be so great again. ²² In fact, unless that time of calamity is shortened, not a single person will survive. But it will be shortened for the sake of God’s chosen ones [the Holocaust; time of Jacob's trouble]
...

²⁹ “Immediately after the anguish of those days [again: the Holocaust], the sun will be darkened,
the moon will give no light,
the stars will fall from the sky,
and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.
³⁰ And then at last, the sign that the Son of Man is coming will appear in the heavens, and there will be deep mourning among all the peoples of the earth. And they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. ³¹ And he will send out his angels with the mighty blast of a trumpet, and they will gather his chosen ones from all over the world—from the farthest ends of the earth and heaven.
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Starting the countdown to the end of this age...
"Yes" I'm serious; and "No" I'm generally not a nutcase-just a reserved CPA-lol.
Does today's Laodicean church not see what time we are in?

DEBKAfile - Obama gives Iran another year's grace for nuclear dialogue
Only last week, furthermore, Tehran signed a new military pact with Syria, roping in the Lebanese Hizballah and Palestinian Hamas as second-strike wielders; Wednesday, the 'Iranian Cyber Army' hacked into Twitter and filled its home page with anti-US slogans; for most of December, Iran-backed Yemeni rebels have kept Saudi and government forces on the run and, Friday, Iranian soldiers seized control of an Iraqi oil well in a disputed border region...

Washington's determined ultimatum to Iran to comply with its international obligations by the end of 2009 has been extended by a whole year - an extra six months granted by Israeli up to June 2010 and another six months which President Obama tagged on himself in order to further delay an Israeli attack on Iran. By then, it will all be over: Tehran will have attained a nuclear weapon plus the means of delivery.


Matthew 24:
³² “Now learn a lesson from the fig tree. When its branches bud and its leaves begin to sprout, you know that summer is near [Israel: re-established May 14, 1948] . ³³ In the same way, when you see all these things, you can know his return is very near, right at the door. ³⁴ I tell you the truth, this generation will not pass from the scene until all these things take place.
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2 Peter 3:
⁵But they deliberately forget that long ago by God's word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water. ⁶By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. ⁷By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

Take care of creation while it lasts, but do not regard this earth as your only hope. Man's only hope lies in Jesus Christ and in an eternal heaven.



Regarding the climate conference in Copenhagen, where man stupidly declares that 'we are in control of the weather', and by inference: 'we are in control of our destiny'...

Psalm 2:

¹ Why are the nations so angry?
Why do they waste their time with futile plans?
² The kings of the earth prepare for battle;
the rulers plot together
against the Lord
and against his anointed one.
³ “Let us break their chains,” they cry,
“and free ourselves from slavery to God.”

⁴ But the one who rules in heaven laughs.
The Lord scoffs at them.

Isaiah 29:

¹⁵ What sorrow awaits those who try to hide their plans from the Lord,
who do their evil deeds in the dark!
“The Lord can’t see us,” they say.
“He doesn’t know what’s going on!”
¹⁶ How foolish can you be?
He is the Potter, and he is certainly greater than you, the clay!
Should the created thing say of the one who made it,
“He didn’t make me”?
Does a jar ever say,
“The potter who made me is stupid”?

Wake up from your delusions people. The God of Israel is speaking.

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