http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Ahmadinejad Wed, 22 May 2013 08:44:39 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Ahmadinejad Mon, 20 May 2013 11:25:54 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b73_1369063013 helle "Early in 2007 Seymour Hersh in his report "The Redirection" published in the New Yorker that the US, Israel, Saudi Arabia and others were gathering, funding, arming, and deploying a front of violent sectarian extremists, many with ties to Al Qaeda, to undermine, destabilize, and eventually lead to the overthrow of the governments of Lebanon, Syria, and Iran. The violent campaign was rolled out publicly in the wake of a similarly premeditated geopolitical ploy, the so-called "Arab Spring," By: Seymour M. Hersh March 5, 2007 The New Yorker In the past few months, as the situation in Iraq has deteriorated, the Bush Administration, in both its public diplomacy and its covert operations, has significantly shifted its Middle East strategy. The "redirection," as some inside the White House have called the new strategy, has brought the United States closer to an open confrontation with Iran and, in parts of the region, propelled it into a widening sectarian conflict between Shiite and Sunni Muslims. To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has co"operated with Saudi Arabia's government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is backed by Iran. The U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda. One contradictory aspect of the new strategy is that, in Iraq, most of the insurgent violence directed at the American military has come from Sunni forces, and not from Shiites. But, from the Administration's perspective, the most profound-and unintended-strategic consequence of the Iraq war is the empowerment of Iran. Its President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has made defiant pronouncements about the destruction of Israel and his country's right to pursue its nuclear program, and last week its supreme religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on state television that "realities in the region show that the arrogant front, headed by the U.S. and its allies, will be the principal loser in the region." After the revolution of 1979 brought a religious government to power, the United States broke with Iran and cultivated closer relations with the leaders of Sunni Arab states such as Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. That calculation became more complex after the September 11th attacks, especially with regard to the Saudis. Al Qaeda is Sunni, and many of its operatives came from extremist religious circles inside Saudi Arabia. Before the invasion of Iraq, in 2003, Administration officials, influenced by neoconservative ideologues, assumed that a Shiite government there could provide a pro-American balance to Sunni extremists, since Iraq's Shiite majority had been oppressed under Saddam Hussein. They ignored warnings from the intelligence community about the ties between Iraqi Shiite leaders and Iran, where some had lived in exile for years. Now, to the distress of the White House, Iran has forged a close relationship with the Shiite-dominated government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. The new American policy, in its broad outlines, has been discussed publicly. In testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in January, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that there is "a new strategic alignment in the Middle East," separating "reformers" and "extremists"; she pointed to the Sunni states as centers of moderation, and said that Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah were "on the other side of that divide." (Syria's Sunni majority is dominated by the Alawi sect.) Iran and Syria, she said, "have made their choice and their choice is to destabilize." Some of the core tactics of the redirection are not public, however. The clandestine operations have been kept secret, in some cases, by leaving the execution or the funding to the Saudis, or by finding other ways to work around the normal congressional appropriations process, current and former officials close to the Administration said. A senior member of the House Appropriations Committee told me that he had heard about the new strategy, but felt that he and his colleagues had not been adequately briefed. "We haven't got any of this," he said. "We ask for anything going on, and they say there's nothing. And when we ask specific questions they say, 'We're going to get back to you.' It's so frustrating." The key players behind the redirection are Vice-President Dick Cheney, the deputy national-security adviser Elliott Abrams, the departing Ambassador to Iraq (and nominee for United Nations Ambassador), Zalmay Khalilzad, and Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi national-security adviser. While Rice has been deeply involved in shaping the public policy, former and current officials said that the clandestine side has been guided by Cheney. (Cheney's office and the White House declined to comment for this story; the Pentagon did not respond to specific queries but said, "The United States is not planning to go to war with Iran.") The policy shift has brought Saudi Arabia and Israel into a new strategic embrace, largely because both countries see Iran as an existential threat. They have been involved in direct talks, and the Saudis, who believe that greater stability in Israel and Palestine will give Iran less leverage in the region, have become more involved in Arab-Israeli negotiations. The new strategy "is a major shift in American policy-it's a sea change," a U.S. government consultant with close ties to Israel said. The Sunni states "were petrified of a Shiite resurgence, and there was growing resentment with our gambling on the moderate Shiites in Iraq," he said. "We cannot reverse the Shiite gain in Iraq, but we can contain it." "It seems there has been a debate inside the government over what's the biggest danger-Iran or Sunni radicals," Vali Nasr, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, who has written widely on Shiites, Iran, and Iraq, told me. "The Saudis and some in the Administration have been arguing that the biggest threat is Iran and the Sunni radicals are the lesser enemies. This is a victory for the Saudi line." Source: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/03/05/070305fa_fact_hersh http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b73_1369063013 helle &quot;Arab Spring&quot; A game that has been planned for years by many countries Syria, Arab Spring, Al-qaeda Tue, 14 May 2013 02:14:25 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ba3_1368511611 aydeo Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may face punishment if charged with breaking electoral rules, the Al Arabiya news network reported. According to the report, Iran's electoral watchdog pointed out that Ahmadinejad may face a punishment of "74 lashes" for accompanying his former chief of staff Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie to register for June's presidential vote and appearing to endorse him. Iranian electoral law bans individuals from supporting candidates in an official capacity. Iranian press reports said a conviction could bring a maximum punishment of six months in jail or 74 lashes. However, Al Arabiya said analysts have brushed off "hyped" claims that Ahmadinejad would be penalized. "There will be no lashing; the news is hyped and ridiculous," Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh, the director of the Center for Arab &amp; Iranian Studies in London, told Al Arabiya English on Monday. "Yes, there would be a punishment if this was in a country that runs by law and order, with a strong judiciary that ensures laws and punishments are followed through. But in Iran, most people break the rules, from the ayatollah to the man on the street," Nourizadeh said. Al-Arabiya said Ahmadinejad had accompanied Mashaie on Saturday to register at the Interior Ministry. Photographs in the Iranian media showed them making victory signs. Mashaie said the president had accompanied him on "a day off" from work, a claim Nourizadeh said would be Ahmadinejad's "innocent response" if ever he were questioned as to why he went. But a report by Iranian online news site, Khabar on Monday stated the president had "introduced an individual (Mashaie) as an election candidate." A spokesman for the Guardian Council, Abbas Ali Kadkhodai, said the council's supervisory board unanimously agreed "the...actions of the president in introducing an individual as an election candidate constituted a violation and were criminal," according to Khabar. "We reported the facts to the judiciary," Kadkhodai said. The Guardian Council, a body of clerics and jurists, vets all candidates for elections. "If President Ahmadinejad had trespassed the electoral process, it's up to judiciary to decide and not the Guardian Council," Iranian political analyst and writer Camelia Entekhabifard told Al Arabiya English. However, Al Arabiya said, the move by the Guardian Council could be a tactic to ward off the president from future interference in the elections. Ahmadinejad cannot run for a third term on constitutional grounds in the June 14 presidential polls. According to Al Arabiya, Iran's ruling conservatives believe Ahmadinejad is trying to maintain influence through Mashaie assuming office, accusing him of pushing towards a more nationalistic doctrine and sidelining clerical powers in the country. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4379802,00.html http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ba3_1368511611 aydeo <span class="highlight">Ahmadinejad</span> may face 74 lashes over election violation... Ahmadinejad,74 lashes,Election violation Mon, 13 May 2013 17:43:35 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=31f_1368480714 euronymus In a SPIEGEL interview, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi discusses the civil war in Syria, his government's "condemnation" of chemical weapons and his belief that Tehran is in a strong position to initiate negotiations for a settlement between the opposition and government in Damascus. Ali Akbar Salehi looks exhausted. In the last 48 hours, the Iranian foreign minister had a lengthy meeting in Jordan with King Abdullah II before flying to beleaguered Damascus to discuss the situation in Syria with President Bashar Assad. He had hardly returned to Tehran when he accompanied his own president on a campaign trip within Iran, which is in the middle of an election campaign. Still, Salehi found the time to meet with two SPIEGEL editors in Tehran last Thursday. Israel had bombed targets in Damascus only 10 days earlier. The power struggle in Syria has been escalating since the beginning of the year, and chemical weapons may have been used. Iran, Assad's large ally, is playing a key role, both openly and behind the scenes. After two conferences on Syria last year, Salehi is now planning another meeting with the aim of putting an end to the bloodshed. Moscow Plays for Time Moscow and Washington have the same goal and have announced an international summit on the Syrian crisis. The Russians, however, have been doing everything possible to support the Assad regime. In addition to supplying weapons and ammunition, Moscow has troops stationed at its naval basis in the Syrian port city of Tartus and in air defense positions. In reality, Moscow appears to be playing for time, primarily to prevent United States President Barack Obama from intervening militarily. Because poison gas was allegedly used against civilians, Obama could be forced to do just that, even though he doesn't want to be drawn into the war. As the Wall Street Journal reported, Obama's current preference is for a negotiated solution rather than to overthrow Assad. The American president wants to preserve the government apparatus in Syria to avoid total chaos. While the West is noting with concern the strengthening of Sunni fanatics among the rebels in Syria, Alawites, who are fighting for Assad, are calling for a campaign against their Muslim adversaries. The Shiite Hezbollah from Lebanon is also involved, with thousands of its men already positioned in Syria. According to Western intelligence information SPIEGEL has obtained, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Iranian Revolutionary Guard General Qasem Soleimani decided in early March to move their liaison office from Damascus to Tehran as quickly as possible. They also aim to send more fighters to Assad's aid. Salehi, 64, is a key figure in the Middle East and one of the few Iranian politicians to enjoy the trust of many powerful figures in the region while at the same time having an appreciation for the West. A nuclear physicist, Salehi is seen as relatively open-minded. He earned his PhD at the elite Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and he is more familiar with the Iranian nuclear program than most. Most of all Salehi, like few other members of the government, has the full support of revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final word on all key policy issues in Tehran. Interview transcript: SPIEGEL : Mr. Foreign Minister, you have just returned from Damascus, where you spoke with President Bashar Assad. Israeli fighter jets bombed several targets there 10 days ago. How did Assad react to the Israeli attacks? Salehi : He was unimpressed by the military strike. The man I met with is extremely determined and sticking to his course. I had the same impression six months ago, but this time the president seemed even more resolute. Those who believe that Bashar Assad is becoming fickle or that his government is collapsing are suffering from an illusion. The president is pleased with the progress his military is making. He says that his military leaders have the upper hand. SPIEGEL : That contradicts all the information we have. Instead, the rebels appear to be advancing. Salehi : I don't believe that Assad is portraying the situation unrealistically. When the conflict began two years ago, many said that his government couldn't last long. And now? He's still there. Don't underestimate Bashar Assad. SPIEGEL : What is your assessment of Assad's restrained reaction to Israel's air strikes? Salehi : It isn't a sign of weakness. The president responded levelheadedly. The next time Syria will strike back, he told me. SPIEGEL : Assad is threatening war with Israel? Salehi : The president said that his people are literally urging him to defend himself, fiercely and immediately. The situation will escalate if the other side doesn't hold back and continues to bomb the Syrians' military and research facilities. SPIEGEL : That's Assad's version. According to information obtained by Western intelligence services, the attack targeted weapons transports bound for the Lebanese group Hezbollah, which is aligned with the Syrian regime. Salehi : You know, you can claim everything is a Hezbollah facility in an attempt to justify intervening in Syria's internal affairs. SPIEGEL : But you certainly aren't denying that Iran supplies Hezbollah with weapons, some of which are transported through Syria. Salehi : But they don't even need that. Hezbollah leader Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah said recently that he is very well supplied and has no need (for weapons). Independent from that, Hezbollah is engaged in a resistance that we support. And the Syrians have little need for our help. President Assad has a large army with hundreds of thousands of men under arms. Over the decades, his government has armed itself against its ruthless enemy, Israel, and he doesn't need a few guns from here or there. SPIEGEL : Western intelligence agencies say that Iran already has a plan B for the event that Damascus can no longer serve as a hub for Iranian arms shipments to Hezbollah: an airlift between Tehran and Beirut. Salehi : I'm tired of constantly having to deny accusations that are completely absurd. If anyone is making such claims, he should provide proof. SPIEGEL : Then how do you explain the Israeli attacks? Salehi : It was a coordinated campaign between the rebels, who are losing ground, and the Zionist regime. The Israelis came to the aid of the rebels by attacking the Syrian army. It wasn't about their positions or Hezbollah arms depots. I received reports that a rebel commander even publicly expressed his gratitude for the Israeli support. SPIEGEL : Actually, isn't Assad under more pressure than the armed opposition? Salehi : This president has the situation completely under control. He is very well informed about everything that is going on. Bashar Assad believes in victory and will resolutely pursue his path. SPIEGEL : Does he seriously believe that he can survive this conflict? Salehi : I wasn't under the impression that Damascus is under siege. The city seems vibrant and clean, the streets are crowded, there are traffic jams and people are going to work. On our approach to the airport, I saw farmers working in their fields in the surrounding countryside. Even I was astonished by how normal it looked. SPIEGEL : Your description is a far cry from what our colleagues are reporting from there. They say that the rebels are already in the city's suburbs. Salehi : I have a different analysis. According to our information, the population does not support the armed portion of the opposition. People are increasingly realizing that many of the insurgents are mercenaries, controlled by foreign powers ... SPIEGEL : ... do you mean Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf countries? Salehi : As foreign minister, I can't name any names. But there are countries that support these mercenaries. A few months ago, there may have been some sympathy for these rebels among a portion of Syrians, but that has now changed. The people have awakened and now oppose them. SPIEGEL : You are condemned to optimism. Your government can't afford an overthrow of the Assad regime. Salehi : Damascus is indeed an important partner for us, one that we don't want to lose. But some countries make it too easy for themselves. They believe that by striking Syria they'll weaken us. In that sense, the struggle for Syria is partly a proxy war. And we admire the Syrian government for putting up such impressive resistance. SPIEGEL : But the threat is growing for the entire region. Salehi : There will be serious consequences if Israel doesn't exercise restraint. You can burn down an entire forest with a single match. However, an expansion of the conflict would be extremely dangerous for the Zionists, which is why they'll think carefully about what they do. SPIEGEL : Does the Assad regime enjoy your unconditional support, even if it uses chemical weapons in the civil war? Salehi : We too were the target of many poison gas attacks in the eight-year war with Iraq. We condemn chemical weapons. SPIEGEL : Then you would have to drop your support for Assad, if there is evidence that he is using chemical weapons. Salehi : We are decidedly opposed to weapons of mass destruction of all kinds. SPIEGEL : But the regime has huge stockpiles. And there are indications that poison gas, albeit in very small amounts, was used in Syria. Salehi : But not by the president's troops. It was the Syrian government that brought the victims of poison gas attacks to the attention of the United Nations. I am convinced that the foreign mercenaries were the culprits. Nevertheless, I wrote a letter to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and urged him to investigate these horrific incidents. We have called upon the UN to send inspectors. SPIEGEL : Civilians were among the alleged victims. Why would the rebels do something like that? Salehi : So that Assad can be blamed as the culprit. And perhaps to see how the United States responds. President Barack Obama has said that the Syrian government's use of chemical weapons is his red line. The rebels want to draw America into the war. SPIEGEL : You draw the same red line as America, "the Great Satan" -- an odd alliance. Salehi : It's a question of one of our fundamental principles: We will never tolerate the use of weapons of mass destruction, no matter who uses them. If others share our principles, we welcome it, no matter who they are. SPIEGEL : Moscow and Washington want to prepare an international conference on Syria. Will you participate? Salehi : We haven't received an invitation yet. But of course we would attend. We are a power factor in the region. We could initiate negotiations between the opposition and the government in Syria. But the conflict can only be resolved if everyone seeks a solution without restrictions. For us, this means that the end of Assad cannot be a precondition of talks. SPIEGEL : So what solutions does Tehran propose? Salehi : We aren't acting on our own, but instead are in constant contact with our friends in Cairo. The Egyptians have a plan, and even if we don't agree with them on all the details, we do support their proposals. SPIEGEL : Is a new Cairo-Tehran axis taking shape? Salehi : We are expanding our relationship and hope that Egypt will be able to achieve a great deal in the Arab world with its political influence. We share three demands on Syria: There should be no foreign intervention, the country's integrity and sovereignty must be preserved, and the government and opposition should form a shared interim leadership. This leadership must lead the country into a new era. There is no other alternative. SPIEGEL : Do you also envision a solution for another major conflict, the dispute over Iran's nuclear program? Salehi : We have a right to the civilian use of nuclear energy. Our entire nation wants us to defend this right. SPIEGEL : President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly provoked the West. Will Iran be more accommodating toward the global community after it elects a new president on June 14? Salehi : There will be strictly no compromises on this issue, regardless of the new president's political stripe. Nevertheless, I hope that we will be able to find more common ground in the next rounds of negotiations, and come up with a solution that benefits both sides. Source: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/interview-with-iranian-foreign-minister-salehi-on-syria-a-899315-2.html http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=31f_1368480714 euronymus Salehi: &quot;We Condemn Chemical Weapons&quot; Syria, Iran, Hezbollah, al, Assad, Salehi, weapons, chemical, Israel Sun, 12 May 2013 05:45:02 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b95_1368351158 AntiPropagaanda Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism and the Spread of Sunni Theofascism Amb. Curtin Winsor, Ph.D. The United States has largely eliminated the infrastructure and operational leadership of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network over the past five years. However, its ideological offspring continue to proliferate across the globe. American efforts to combat this contagion are hamstrung by the fact that its ideological and financial epicenter is Saudi Arabia, where an ostensibly pro-Western royal family governs through a centuries-old alliance with the fanatical Wahhabi Islamic sect. In addition to indoctrinating its own citizens with this extremist creed, the Saudi government has lavishly financed the propagation of Wahhabism throughout the world, sweeping away moderate interpretations of Islam even within the borders of the United States itself. The Bush administration has done little to halt this ideological onslaught beyond quietly (and unsuccessfully) urging the Saudi royal family to desist. This lack of resolve is rooted in American dependence on Saudi oil production, fears of instability in the kingdom, wishful thinking about democracy promotion as an antidote to religious extremism, and preoccupation with confronting Iran. Background Wahhabism is derived from the teachings of Muhammad ibn abd al-Wahhab, an eighteenth century religious zealot from the Arabian interior. Like most Sunni Islamic fundamentalist movements, the Wahhabis advocated the fusion of state power and religion through the reestablishment of the Caliphate, the form of government adopted by the Prophet Muhammad's successors during the age of Muslim expansion. What sets Wahhabism apart from other Sunni Islamist movements is its historical obsession with purging Sufis, Shiites, and other Muslims who do not conform to its twisted interpretation of Islamic scripture. In 1744, Ibn Abd al-Wahhab forged an historic alliance with the Al-Saud clan and sanctified its drive to vanquish its rivals. In return, the Al-Saud supported campaigns by Wahhabi zealots to cleanse the land of "unbelievers." In 1801, Saudi-Wahhabi warriors crossed into present day Iraq and sacked the Shiite holy city of Karbala, killing over 4,000 people. After the Saudis conquered Mecca and Medina in the 1920s, they destroyed such "idolatrous" shrines as the Jannat al-Baqi cemetary, where four of the twelve Shiite imams were buried (on the grounds that grave markers are bida'a, or objectionable innovations). In return for endorsing the royal family's authority in political, security, and economic spheres after the establishment of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932, Wahhabi clerics were granted control over state religious and educational institutions and allowed to enforce their rigid interpretation of sharia (Islamic law). Wahhabism was largely confined to the Arabian peninsula until the 1960s, when the Saudi monarchy gave refuge to radical members of the Muslim Brotherhood fleeing persecution in Nasser's Egypt. A cross-fertilization of sorts occurred between the atavistic but isolated Wahhabi creed of the Saudi religious establishment and the Salafi jihadist teachings of Sayyid Qutb, who denounced secular Arab rulers as unbelievers and legitimate targets of holy war ( jihad ). "It was the synthesis of the twain-Wahhabi social and cultural conservatism, and Qutbist political radicalism- that produced the militant variety of Wahhabist political Islam that eventually (produced) al-Qaeda." The terms Islamofascism and theofascism have been frequently misused by Westerners to refer to virtually all forms of radical Islamism, but they are fitting appellations for Wahhabism today. The sect's rejection of individual liberties, disparagement and reduction of women's rights and status, disregard for the intrinsic value of human life, and encouragement of violence against unbelievers, are unparalleled among Islamic fundamentalist movements. Former CIA Director R. James Woolsey has used the term "Sunni theocratic totalitarianism," a term that highlights both the movement's "will to power" over the most minute aspects of Muslim daily life and its global ambitions. He also notes that its adherents do not raise the banner of Islam in pursuit of specific national, political, or territorial gains. Al-Qaeda's second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri has sharply rebuked the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas and Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood for participating in national elections. During the 1970s, Wahhabi clerics encouraged the spread of this revolutionary and atavistic ideological synthesis into Saudi universities and mosques, because it was seen as a barrier to the threat of cultural Westernization and spread of corruption that accompanied the 1970s oil boom. Consequently, the royal family and their religious establishment looked for a cause with which to deflect the growing zealotry from Wahhabist theofascism, a danger highlighted by the seizure of the Grand Mosque at Mecca by heavily armed Islamic Studies students in 1979. The diversion that the royal family seized upon was the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The Saudis financed a large-scale program of assistance to the Afghan mujahideen , in coordination with the Pakistan's Inter Service Intelligence agency (ISI) and the CIA, while funding radicalized madrassas to disseminate neo-Wahhabi ideology and literature in the sprawling Afghan refugee camps of Pakistan. They also dispatched thousands of volunteer jihadis from Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries to fight alongside the mujahideen. These so-called "Arab Afghans" dispersed to far-flung areas of the world after the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1988. They pursued further victories against "unbelievers" in the name of Islam, and they were accompanied by militant Wahhabi preachers. These elements would form the backbone of al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda was initially headquartered in Sudan, but returned to Afghanistan in 1996, following the seizure of Kabul by the Taliban. This was a new Afghan force, recruited in Wahhabi madrassas and, trained by the Pakistanis. Its goal was the establishment of a model Wahhabi state in Afghanistan. The Saudi royal family revoked bin Laden's Saudi citizenship (in response to heavy American pressure), but did little to interfere with Wahhabi "charities" in the Kingdom and abroad. These entities raised money for al-Qaeda, while the religious onslaught of Wahhabism continued to receive government sponsorship and funding. Osama bin Laden is widely believed to have reached an agreement with Prince Turki al-Faisal, then-chief of Saudi National Security and Intelligence in the mid 1990s, whereby al-Qaeda would not target the Kingdom, and the Kingdom would not interfere with al-Qaeda's fundraising or seek bin Laden's extradition. In fact, Al-Qaeda abstained completely from attacks on Saudi targets within the Kingdom prior to 9/11. Terrorist attacks and clashes between Saudi police and Islamist militants have erupted erupting periodically since May 2003, after the Saudi Government began cracking down on underground cells in the Kingdom (under pressure from Washington). However, it appears that most Al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist groups still respect this quid pro quo Hundreds of members of the Saudi royal family jet around the world without fear of assassination. The country's vulnerable petroleum industry has only once been targeted by terrorists, and then in a less that serious manner. In return, and notwithstanding its limited cooperation with Washington in restricting terrorist financing, the Saudi monarchy has maintained its commitment to propagating Wahhabism at home and abroad, providing the terrorist underground with a growing flood of eager recruits. Wahhabi Indoctrination "Man . . . requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill educated, he is the most savage of earthly creatures." Plato It is estimated that well over one-third of Saudi Arabia's public school curriculum is devoted to Wahhabi teachings. Passages from Saudi textbooks quoted in the American media after 9/11 generated much controversy. One textbook, for example, informed ninth grade students that Judgment Day will not come "until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them," while another stated that it is "compulsory" for Muslims "to consider the infidels their enemy." Embarrassed by the revelations, the Saudi government purported to launch a comprehensive review of its educational curricula and pledged that all such references would be removed. Last year, however, Freedom House published an exhaustive report on the new curriculum, concluding that it "continues to propagate an ideology of hate toward the 'unbeliever,' which include Christians, Jews, Shiites, Sufis, Sunni Muslims who do not follow Wahhabi doctrine, Hindus, atheists and others." Some analysts dismiss the relevance of this indoctrination on the grounds that "conforming to an ultra-conservative, anti-pluralistic faith does not necessarily make you a violent individual," but this reasoning is fallacious. If only one percent of the 5 million Saudi students exposed to these teachings resort to violence, this would produce 50,000 jihadis. Not surprisingly, bin Laden himself denounced foreign interference in Saudi school curricula in an April 2006 audiotape. Moreover, these teachings are reinforced by Wahhabi clerics in Saudi Arabia, who advocate jihad against enemies of "true" Islam - outside the kingdom." Incitement to violence against Shiites is particularly common. In December 2006, a high-ranking cleric close to the Saudi royal family, Abdul Rahman al-Barak, denounced Shiites as an "evil sect . . . more dangerous than Jews and Christians." In November of 2004, twenty-six clerics, most of whom held positions as lecturers of Islamic studies at various Saudi state-funded universities, issued a call for jihad against American forces in Iraq. Two Saudi officials denounced the fatwa in interviews with the Western media, but no retraction was made in Arabic to local media outlets. Months later, a Saudi dissident group released a videotape showing the Chief Justice of Saudi Arabia's Supreme Judicial Council, Saleh bin Muhammad al-Luhaidan, advising young Saudis at a government mosque on how to infiltrate Iraq and fight US troops, as well as assuring them that Saudi security forces would not punish them after their return. While Luhaidan publicly retracted his statements, videotapes of prominent Saudi clerics exhorting the public to wage jihad in Iraq and elsewhere continue to surface. Exporting Hatred While Saudi citizens remain the vanguard of Islamic theofascism around the world, the growth potential for this ideology lies outside the Kingdom. The Saudis have spent at least $87 billion propagating Wahhabism abroad during the past two decades, and the scale of financing is believed to have increased in the past two years as oil prices have skyrocketed. The bulk of this funding goes to the construction and operating expenses of mosques, madrassas, and other religious institutions that preach Wahhabism. It also supports the training of imams; domination of mass media and publishing outlets; distribution of Wahhabi textbooks and other literature; and endowments to universities (in exchange for influence over the appointment of Islamic scholars). By comparison, the Communist Party of the USSR and its Comintern spent just over $7 billion propagating its ideology worldwide between 1921 and 1991. Wahhabism has made less headway in the former Soviet Republics of Central Asia, despite the fact that decades of Communist rule had weakened their traditional Islamic institutions. Several successor governments, especially the Uzbekis, have cracked down harshly on militant Islamist groups, while encouraging educational systems in the Hanafi tradition that promote tolerant and peaceful Islam. Africa is also a critical area of Wahhabi expansion, as it offers a multitude of "failed states" and communal cleavages ripe for exploitation, most notably in the Sudan and Nigeria. In all of these areas, the central dynamic is the same - it is the overwhelming wealth of Saudi Arabia that enables the Wahhabi sect to proselytize on a global scale, not the intrinsic appeal of its teachings. Throughout the world, moderates echo the assessment of Somali journalist Bashir Gothar, who writes that his country's tolerant Sufi-infused Islamic culture has been: "swept aside by a new brand of Islam that is being pushed down the throat of our people - Wahhabism. Anywhere one looks, one finds that alien, perverted version of Islam." Wahhabism in the West Wahhabi proselytizing is not limited to the Islamic world. The Saudis have financed the growth of thousands of Wahhabi mosques, madrassas, and other religious institutions in Western countries that have fast-growing Muslim minorities during the past three decades. Wahhabi penetration is deepest in the social welfare states of Western Europe, where chronically high unemployment has created large pools of able-bodied young Muslim men who have "become permanent wards of the state at the cost of their basic human dignity." This is a perfect storm of alienation and idleness, ripe for terrorist recruitment. The perpetrators of the 2005 London subway attacks were native-born Britons of Pakistani descent, recruited locally and trained in the use of explosives during visits to Pakistan. The Dutch Moroccan who murdered Dutch filmmaker Theodor Van Gogh in 2004 (for producing a film critical of Islam) was also a product of Wahhabi indoctrination. The Wahhabis have had less traction in the United States, which lacks the masses of unassimilated young people that exist in Europe. US welfare laws no longer allow able-bodied young men to have indefinite periods of government subsidized unemployment and immigrants (both Muslim and non-Muslim) tend to find a more stable niche in American society. Nevertheless, Wahhabi penetration of US mainstream Islamic institutions is substantial. A 2005 Freedom House Report examined over 200 books and other publications distributed in 15 prominent Saudi-funded American mosques. One such publication, bearing the imprint of the Saudi embassy and distributed by the King Fahd Mosque in Los Angeles, contained the following injunctions for Muslims living in America: Be dissociated from the infidels, hate them for their religion, leave them, never rely on them for support, do not admire them, and always oppose them in every way according to Islamic law. hoever helps unbelievers against Muslims, regardless of what type of support he lends to them, he is an unbeliever himself. Never greet the Christian or Jew first. Never congratulate the infidel on his holiday. Never befriend an infidel unless it is to convert him. Never imitate the infidel. Never work for an infidel. Do not wear a graduation gown because this imitates the infidel. Although Saudi-funded religious institutions have been careful not to incite or explicitly endorse violence since 9/11, they unapologetically promote distrust toward non-Muslims and self-segregation. In effect, they are trying to reproduce in America the kind of social conditions that have fueled radicalization and terrorist recruitment in Europe. While the Saudi ambassador in Washington said last year that his government was undertaking a "very intense review" of all missionary activities in the United States, it is clear that the Saudis are concerned primarily with avoiding bad publicity, not abandoning their drive to dominate Islamic institutions in America. Causes of American Inaction The Bush administration has been reluctant to put serious pressure on the Saudis to stop propagating Wahhabism, despite the enormous threat to American security posed by Sunni theofascism. There are several reasons for this. The first is American dependence on the kingdom's abundant oil reserves, which enable to the Saudis to maintain roughly 3 million b/d in spare production capacity. This spare capacity has been called the "energy equivalent of nuclear weapons," because it puts the Saudis in a unique position to compensate for disruptions in supplies from other producers and discourage price gouging - a service provided to the United States (and other industrialized nations) in exchange for protection. However, the argument that a firm public stance against Saudi propagation of religious hatred might lead the kingdom to retaliate economically is spurious. Saudi Arabia's use of the oil weapon would alienate the entire industrialized world, while threatening the relative economic prosperity that preserves stability in the kingdom. Some politicians and writers have voiced concern that pushing the Saudi royal family to curtail the Wahhabis could lead to terrorist attacks on the country's vulnerable petroleum infrastructure or lead to the collapse of the monarchy, which would produce an even worse outcome - a Saudi state controlled exclusively by religious fanatics. While these are serious risks, it must be borne in mind that most Wahhabi radicals view the monarchy (and its oil fields) as a golden goose. It is only by disguising Saudi Arabia as a 'friendly nation' that they have been able to go as far as they have in spreading their atavistic perversion of Islam. Such concerns reveal a tendency to imagine or spin the Saudi royal family as fundamentally pro-Western. Prince Bandar bin Sultan, who served as ambassador to the United States from 1983 to 2005, has played an important role in masking Saudi - Wahhabi realities. His personal charm, Washington Post journalist David Ignatius writes, "many American leaders and even presidents to forget that he represented a secretive, repressive Muslim kingdom that survived because it had made a pact with 'puritanical' Wahhabi clerics who despised America." Bandar was also instrumental in the growth of what Daniel Pipes has called a "culture of corruption" that renders the executive branch of the American government "incapable of dealing with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the farsighted and disinterested manner that US foreign policy requires." Pipes points to a "revolving door syndrome" afflicting senior diplomats and policymakers who deal with the Saudis in their official capacities. Very often, they have enjoyed lucrative post-government careers working as consultants for Saudi businessmen and companies, or running Saudi-financed nongovernmental organizations. "If the reputation then builds that the Saudis take care of friends when they leave office," Bandar once reportedly told a close associate: "you'd be surprised how much better friends you have who are just coming into office." Unable or unwilling to combat the spread of Sunni theofascism at its main source (Saudi Arabia), the Bush administration launched a democracy promotion campaign intended to eradicate political conditions receptive to its global spread. However, rather than building stable and less oppressive systems resistant to religious extremism in Afghanistan and Iraq, the accumulating shortfalls of American intervention in both countries have made them magnets for jihadist recruitment. The Question of Iran The Bush Administration's reluctance to challenge the Saudis after 9/11 initially encountered impassioned objections from conservative and liberal commentators alike, but the outrage has tapered off as attention has became increasingly focused on Shiite Iran and its nuclear program which is hipped by Israel. In the view of the administration, the Iranian threat to American national security not only supercedes the threat of Sunni theofascism, but supercedes it to such a degree that a more accommodating policy toward Saudi Arabia is warranted. However, while the prospect of militant Shiite clerics in possession of nuclear weapons is understandably disconcerting to many Americans, the Iranian threat is mitigated by several important factors. For all of the shrill and unsettling words of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, his government's foreign policy is driven more by Iranian nationalism than Shiite Islamism (this is evident, for example, in Tehran's support for the predominantly Christian nation of Armenia in its dispute with Shiite Azerbaijan). This is not surprising, as Iran (known as Persia prior to the twentieth century) has existed in one form or another since biblical times, while it embraced Shiite Islam just 500 years ago. While Ahmadinejad exploits Iranian nationalism to win public support in his confrontation with the West, it can easily turn against him if he were to embark on a global adventure. Wahhabi clerics may support the Saudi royal family as a necessary evil in order to protect their global proselytizing mission, but they recognize no Saudi Arabian "nation" whose interests take precedence over their agenda. Such is not the case in Iran. Furthermore, Shiite Islamism does not exhibit theofascist tendencies. Radical clerics in Iran have been responsible for horrendous abuses of power, but they do not regard non-Shiite Muslims as "unbelievers" who must be systematically purged. Basically in Islam Christians and Jews are considered as belivers and in Quran are referred to as "the people of book". Even within the Shiite world, there is no prospect of a Wahhabi-style Iranian takeover of religious discourse because unlike the Sunnis, Shiite Islam is rigidly hierarchical. Iraqi and Lebanese Shiites gladly accept Iranian financial and military support, but they are fiercely loyal to their own clerical establishments. An even greater fallacy is the widespread belief in Washington that a strong relationship with Saudi Arabia is an asset in confronting Iran. On the contrary, coddling the Saudis makes it more difficult for the United States to deal with Iran. The Bush administration's refusal to hold Saudi leaders accountable for their incitement of Wahhabi jihadists (who have murdered far more Shiites than Americans, mostly in Iraq and Pakistan) is a source of deep resentment in the Shiite world. It is no surprise that the only two major public demonstrations against Al-Qaeda in the Islamic world after the 9/11 attacks were both organized by Shiites (in Tehran and Karachi, Pakistan). It is interesting to note that the recent escalation of US - Iranian tensions has made the Saudis less accommodating about Iraq than ever before. Reports that the Saudi Government is threatening to openly fund and arm Sunni insurgent groups if American forces withdraw from Iraq are a case in point. In effect, the Saudis are signaling to the Bush administration that they will thwart any American plan to cede control of Iraq to its Shiite-dominated, democratically-elected government, while signaling to the Sunni insurgents in Iraq that they can reject American efforts to broker a political settlement and not be left to face the consequences alone. Iran has no history of direct aggression against its neighbors, and unlike Saddam's Sunni-dominated Iraq, they have never used weapons of mass destruction during invasions of neighbors or against their own people. The strongest argument for this approach lies with the extent that Iran craves recognition of its actual status as the historically authentic nation state in the Middle East. Iran has long aspired to be and probably will be the region's predominant Islamic regional power. On the other hand Iranians are the most pro American and pro west people in the middle-east, although the recent Israeli pushed American forced sanctions are damaging this view. The Road Ahead Washington will eventually have to face the reality that derailing Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons (and, more broadly, its emergence as the predominant Islamic regional power) may be impossible over the long-term, and possible in the short term only at the expense of fatally undermining efforts to contain the spread of Sunni theofascism. The United States would do better to find a mutually acceptable means of working with this reality, rather sustaining a deadlocked confrontation by conditioning its willingness to normalize relations with Tehran on the abandonment of its nuclear aspirations. US - Iranian engagement will greatly enhance American leverage over the Saudis, as well as check the threat of Sunni theofascist terrorism in Iraq and, to a lesser extent, Afghanistan. Saudi officials have urged the Bush administration not to talk with Iran because they know that a reduction in US - Iranian tensions will draw more attention to their unbridled export of Wahhabism. Reducing American dependence on Saudi oil must also be part of any comprehensive strategy for addressing the threat of Sunni theofascism. Although President Bush has expressed commitment to developing alternative energy sources, the surplus production capacity of the Saudis enables them to lower prices as necessary to ensure that this will not be cost effective for a long time. Barring radical breakthroughs in fuel technologies, an optimistic forecast would have bio fuels (ethanol, synthetic diesel and bio oil) making up to 30% of US petroleum equivalent needs by 2030. For the short to medium term future, only conservation can significantly alter American petroleum dependency. Without the billions of dollars in Saudi funds, the ideological, political, and psychological edifice of Wahhabi theofascism will begin to crumble, particularly if a concerted effort is made by the Bush administration to promote moderate Islamic institutions (a recent study by the RAND Corporation offers some insightful recommendations). Ultimately, the devil is not in the details - it is the administration's broad lack of resolve in confronting the threat of theofascism, not the lack of viable methods of combating it, that imperils American security. REFERENCES See Mohammed Ayoob, "Political Islam: Image and Reality," World Policy Journal, Vol. 11, No. 3, Fall 2004. Fascism is "a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion." See Robert Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), p. 218. Saudi police 'stopped' fire rescue, BBC, 15 March 2002. Wahhabi religious police (mutaween) prevented Saudi schoolgirls from fleeing a burning school because they were not properly veiled, leaving fifteen of them to die inside in 2002, an outrage equaled only by the Taliban's rein of terror against women in Afghanistan. R. James Woolsey, "The Elephant in The Middle East Living Room: Watching Wahhabis," The National Review, 14 December 2005. Zawahiri declared in a December 2006 videotape, "How could they not demand an Islamic constitution before entering these elections? Are they not an Islamic movement?" See: "Al Qaeda Warns U.S. on Fighting in Muslim Lands," The New York Times, 21 December 2006. Zawahiri accused it of being "duped, provoked and used" by the United States after it participated in the 2005 legislative elections. See "Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader praises U.S. hints of troop reduction in Iraq," The Associated Press, 6 January 2006. In his 2003 book, Why America Slept, Gerald Posner cites two unidentified senior Bush administration officials as saying that captured Al-Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah revealed details of a Saudi-Pakistani-Bin Laden triangle. See Gerald Posner, Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11, (New York: Random House, 2003). "Inside the Kingdom," Time, 7 September 2003. Nina Shea, Saudi Arabia's Curriculum of Intolerance, Freedom House, 2006. John Esposito, quoted in Gary Leupp, On Terrorism, Methodism, Saudi 'Wahhabism' and the Censored 9-11 Report, Counterpunch, 8 August 2003. Ali al-Ahmed of the Washington Institute for Gulf Affairs makes this point. See Saudi Arabia's Curriculum of Intolerance, CBN.org, 14 June 2006. "Top Saudi cleric issues religious edict declaring Shiites to be infidels," Associated Press, 29 December 2006. More Evidence of Saudi Double Talk?, MSNBC, 26 April 2005. In an April 2006 lecture, Saudi cleric Nasser bin Suleiman al-Omar cautioned his audience not to "get involved in things that are not jihad . . . divert the strife and calamity into the lands of the Muslims, instead of aiming them directly at the enemies." He continued, saying that: "there are places where jihad is proper - in Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq, Chechnya, Kashmir, and the Philippines." See Saudi Cleric Nasser bin Suleiman Al-'Omar: 'America is Now Disappearing From the Hearts Within America Itself . . . MEMRI Special Dispatch #1154, 4 May 2006. Alex Alexiev, "Terrorism: Growing Wahhabi Influence in the United States", Testimony before the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security, 26 June 2003. Author interview with Evgueni Novokov, Ph.D., former colonel, senior staff officer for the Soviet Politburo and deputy director for Middle East Operations, in charge of Arabic Department, and relationships with CPSU Central Committee front organizations and friendly parties; advised Central Committee members on Islamic affairs, 1986 -1988. 22 October 2006. Author interview with Abdel Guzman, Grand Imam of Jolo, Jolo City, Sulu Province, The Philippines, 5 March 2004. Author's interview with Abdel Guzman, The Grand Imam of Jolo, Op. Cit. See Freedom House, The Talibanization of Nigeria: Radical Islam, Extremist Sharia Law, and Religious Freedom, March 2002. "Against the Saudization of Somaliland," Addis Tribune (Ethiopia), 21 November 2003. http://www.addistribune.com/Archives/2003/11/21-11-03/Against.htm In March 2002, the official Saudi magazine Ain al-Yaqeen estimated that the Saudi royal family in countries where Muslims were a minority has funded 210 Islamic centers, 1,500 mosques, 202 colleges, and 2,000 madrassas. The number of all Saudi Government and charitably funded institutions beyond Saudi Arabia is much higher. Cited in "Inside the Kingdom," Time, 7 September 2003. Alex Alexiev, "France at the Brink", The San Diego Union Tribune, 20 November 2005. See also: Alex Alexiev, Europe's Islamist Future is Now, The Center for Security Policy, 13 June 2005. Other publications examined include textbooks from the Saudi Ministry of Education and collections of religious edicts by state-sanctioned clerics in the kingdom. See Freedom House, Saudi Publications on Hate Ideology Fill American Mosques, January 2005. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, "Wahhabism in the Big House: The Teaching of Jihad in American Penitentiaries," The Weekly Standard, 26 September 2005. "Terrorist Recruitment in Prisons and The Recent Arrests Related to Guantanamo Bay Detainees," Testimony of John S. Pistole, Assistant Director, Counterterrorism Division, FBI, before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and Homeland Security, 14 October 2003. Testimony of Dr. J. Michael Waller before the US Senate Judiciary Committee's Terrorism Subcommittee, 14 October 2003. Frank Gaffney, A Troubling Influence, Front Page Magazine.com, 9 December 2003. Glenn Simpson, "Suspect Lessons: A Muslim School Used by Military Has Troubling Ties," The Wall Street Journal, 3 December 2003. "For Conservative Muslims, Goal of Isolation a Challenge; 9/11 Put Strict Adherents on the Defensive," The Washington Post, 5 September 2006. Edward L. Morse and James Richard, "The Battle for Energy Dominance," Foreign Affairs, March/April 2002. David Ignatius, "The Operator," The Washington Post, 5 November 2006, p.7. Daniel Pipes, "The Scandal of U.S.-Saudi Relations," The National Interest, Winter 2002/2003. "Oil for Security Fueled Close Ties; But Major Differences Led to Tensions," The Washington Post, 11 February 2002. In November 2006, Nawaf Obaid, a close advisor to Prince Turki, warned in a Washington Post op-ed that a phased American withdrawal from Iraq will result in "massive Saudi intervention," with options including "funding, arms and logistical support" to Sunni insurgents. "As the economic powerhouse of the Middle East, the birthplace of Islam and the de facto leader of the world's Sunni community (which comprises 85 percent of all Muslims), Saudi Arabia has both the means and the religious responsibility to intervene." See Nawaf Obaid, "Stepping Into Iraq: Saudi Arabia Will Protect Sunnis if the U.S. Leaves," The Washington Post, 29 November 2006. Outlook on Renewable Energy in America, Volume II: Joint Summary Report, American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE), March 2007. The Rand Corporation, Building Moderate Muslim Networks, 2007. Curtin Winsor, Jr. is a former United States Ambassador to Costa Rica. He graduated from Brown University in 1961 with a degree in English literature, and then received a Masters in Latin American studies in 1964 and a Ph.D. in international studies in 1971 from the School of International Service at American University in Washington, D.C. He worked as an adviser to President Ronald Reagan and Sen. Robert Dole, as well as for the U.S. Foreign Service. * This article had previously been published in the Mideast Monitor. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b95_1368351158 AntiPropagaanda Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism &quot;A Must Read&quot; al-Qaeda, Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, Terrorism, America, Israel, Fri, 10 May 2013 10:32:43 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1a6_1368196302 AntiPropagaanda Iraq, Iran : the lesson of sanctions International security Iran Iraq Middle East Sovereignty Les dossiers du CERI Auteur(s) : Francois Nicoullaud Date : 05/2013 In 1990, Saddam Hussein did not understand that the world had changed with the fall of the Wall. He thought that the USSR would protect him from America after the invasion of Kuwait, and paid dearly his mistake. Abandoned by the Soviets, Iraq had to bear the cost, first of a war lost, and second of international sanctions, on a scale and harshness still unmatched today. On the 6th of August, 1990, four days after the invasion of Kuwait, the Security Council adopted, with the approval of its five permanent members, Resolution 661 implementing an overall embargo on imports from, and exports to Iraq, and on all financial movements. It envisaged a kind of safety valve for the supply of humanitarian goods, but this provision did not come into effect until 1996, in the form of the "Oil for Food" program, because of Iraq's initial resistance to further controls. After the liberation of Kuwait, Resolution 687, adopted on the 3rd of April, 1991, again with the assent of the five Permanent Members, launched the search and destruction of all nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, and of missiles over a 150 kilometer range. Two days later, Resolution 688 condemned the repression of civilian populations, especially the Kurds, and opened the way to the famous "right of humanitarian intervention". Finally, moving beyond the decisions of the Security Council, the United States, Great-Britain and France set up two no-fly zones, one as soon as April 2011 in Northern Iraq, to protect the Kurds, the second in the South on the following year, to protect Shi'a populations. Over the years, the toll inflicted by the embargo on Iraqis' health and welfare raised growing questions in the international opinion. Humanitarian NGOs started producing reports detailing how sanctions were entailing hundreds of thousands deaths, especially among children. In 1997, the French president, Jacques Chirac, declared at an international Summit in Hanoi : "Our goal is to convince, not to compel. I have never seen a policy of sanctions producing anything positive." The year before, France had stopped contributing to the Northern no-fly zone. It withdrew from the Southern one in 1999. In the meantime, Iraq was bearing grudgingly the international inspections set up by Resolution 687. By December, 1998, the United States inflicted on the country a wave of targeted strikes, in principle to degrade its suspected WMD capacities, more likely to help topple Saddam Hussein's regime. But the Regime held on, and a new war had to be launched in 2003 to finally bring it down. How do sanctions against Iran compare to such a history? First, Russia, succeeding the USSR, and China, do not look at the world as in 1990, and have developed growing reservations regarding the use of sanctions. And the Iranian case, in its outset, did not carry a violation of international law as blatant as the Iraqi case, which saw the massive aggression of a UN member state by another member state. Russia and China have consequently refused to endorse an embargo expanding beyond the points of contention, i.e. nuclear, military and ballistic. These sanctions having produced but a feeble impression on the Iranian regime, the United States and the European Union have resolved to resort to their own additional sanctions, interrupting all oil-related business, and progressively drying up all financial flows with Iran. And to reinforce the efficiency of these sanctions, the United States set up "secondary sanctions", compelling third parties to join in. In the past, such a practice had been strongly opposed by the European Union. This time, it has quietly endorsed US pressures on a vast array of countries, especially in Asia, to convince them to reduce their purchases of Iranian oil, and to interrupt their monetary transactions with Tehran, except for trade expressed in their national currencies. In spite of its unwavering support, the European Union has been submitted, like everyone else, to the pressures of the American Administration and Congress, for instance when the question arose to forbid to Iranians banks access to European automated banking services. But this new architecture of sanctions suffers from a lesser legitimacy than the Iraqi set of sanctions, which was placed entirely under the aegis of the United Nations. The great consumers of Iranian oil : China, Japan, India, South Korea... have reduced their purchases only in the proportion required to avoid punition by the United States. True, Iranian oil exports have been cut by half. But this oil is sold at a price fluctuating between 80 and 100 dollars per barrel, as the price of the barrel seldom went over 30 dollars from the beginning of the Islamic revolution, in 1979, to the election of Ahmadinejad as president, in 2005. Furthermore, an unknown share of the Iranian production is, in all likelihood, sold under a few other pavilions. And quite obviously, some banks exotic enough to be able to dodge American monitoring succeed, at the proper price, in managing exchanges between Iran and the outer world. True also, the Iranian riyal has lost about two thirds of its value in dollars, but it was until recently, as a matter of prestige, maintained at a grossly overrated level. Its present value is much closer to the economic truth. This correction has certainly encouraged inflation. But it offers margins of competitiveness quite unheard of to the Iranian industry, which was until now stifled by Asian productions. It offers an opportunity to raise the proportion of non-oil exports in the Iranian trade balance. This devaluation has therefore positive aspects. Of course, the Iranian population pays dearly for these sanctions, and also for the erratic management of the economy by the Iranian government, as was the case in Saddam's Iraq. In theory, imports of humanitarian products, like food and medicine, do not fall under the embargo. But the complexity of the system make such imports more or less impracticable, except for exceptional cases as when some giant of the food industry, like Cargill, deems it convenient to sell corn to Iran. All things considered, the shock created by sanctions is not as heavy as it was in Iraq. The sheer size of the Iranian population - 75 million inhabitants versus 20 million Iraqis at the turn of the century - acts as an absorber. And in spite of serious shortcomings, the level of self-sufficiency of the Iranian economy, in agriculture as well as in industry, is clearly higher than in Saddam's Iraq. Could the Iranians be less resigned than the Iraqis to be taken as hostages by their government in its quarrel with the outer world? If they were to rise from submission, would the Regime be ready to show itself as merciless as the former master of Baghdad, or the present master of Damascus? The Iranian civil society has already paid a heavy price for the upheavals entailed by the rigged elections of 2009. It is not in a position to challenge again the Regime. On the other hand, this Regime will probably hesitate to rig the upcoming presidential election as grossly as last time. All in all, one does not see coming from the horizon the internal crisis which could undermine the Islamic Republic to a point where it would have no other choice but to give up to the West. And the present nuclear showdown is here to last quite a while. The last round of negotiation in Almaty, at the beginning of April, has revealed a wide and enduring gap between the parties, even if there has been some progress in the quality of their exchanges. A breakthrough seems for the moment out of reach, all the more as Iran is going to be absorbed in the presidential election and the installation of its new president until the end of summer. In order to hasten the moment when Iran's economic collapse and political isolation would drive it to a full surrender, can we envisage to exert on the Regime even higher pressure? Francois Hollande, the French president, has been declaring at the beginning of March : "France will take its responsibilities in order to maintain pressure, to harden the sanctions, so as the Iranian rulers abide by their international commitments, by the Security Council's resolutions." But then, it becomes somehow difficult to see what kind of crushing sanctions could complement the present ones. Such sanctions will not be able to rely on the legitimacy of the United Nations. They will have to take into account the low motivation of most third countries to partake in such an escalation, as well as the growing ingenuity of Iran in dodging the embargo. One cannot therefore exclude that, as in the Iraqi case, sanctions will not be able to bring the desired outcome. Then, again as in the Iraqi case, comes the temptation to resort to force. But Tehran is taking great care to avoid offering to the United States the opportunity to intervene. It stays cautiously behind the red line defined by President Obama as the beginning of the production of a nuclear explosive device. It stays even behind the red line defined by Prime Minister Netanyahu as the possession of enough 20% enriched uranium to obtain in a matter of weeks, by further enrichment, enough highly enriched uranium for a first atomic bomb. And the US administration will not dare to build a case like the one which led to the invasion of Iraq. To show how times have changed, the US Intelligence Community, much to the chagrin of the neoconservatives eager to knock heads with Iran, reminds regularly since 2007 that the Islamic Republic has interrupted its clandestine nuclear program by the end of 2003, and has not, since then, taken the decision to produce nuclear weapons. There should be a third way to come out of the crisis, but it implies a deep change in the parameters of the negotiation. There is one idea, and only one, on which such a change could be built : the recognition of Iran's right to enrich, but enshrined in a system of controls powerful enough to practically forbid any access to the Bomb. Ali Khamenei, leader of the revolution, has recently supported such a formula in a public speech. Now, if there were an interest in exploring it, the initiative rather belongs to the West. It belongs in reality to Barack Obama, the sole Western leader in a position to boost the negotiation as the European leaders have chosen to stand back, for lack of imagination, lack of cohesion, and lack of political will. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1a6_1368196302 AntiPropagaanda Iraq, Iran : the lesson of sanctions Iran, Iraq, /sanctions, Lies, Wars, Oil, Tue, 07 May 2013 16:20:45 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=08d_1367957207 m16carbine Brigadier General Shapira, May 2, 2013 http://jcpa.org/article/irans-plans-to-take-over-syria/ 1. In mid-April, Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah paid a secret visit to Tehran where he met with the top Iranian officials headed by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Gen. Qasem Suleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guard Corps. Suleimani prepared an operational plan named after him based upon the establishment of a 150,000-man force for Syria, the majority of whom will come from Iran, Iraq, and a smaller number from Hizbullah and the Gulf states. 2. Suleimani's involvement was significant. He has been the spearhead of Iranian military activism in the Middle East. In January 2012, he declared that the Islamic Republic controlled "one way or another" Iraq and South Lebanon. Even before recent events in Syria, observers in the Arab world have been warning for years about growing evidence of "Iranian expansionism." 3. An important expression of Syria's centrality in Iranian strategy was voiced by Mehdi Taaib, who heads Khamenei's think tank. He recently stated that "Syria is the 35th district of Iran and it has greater strategic importance for Iran than Khuzestan ." Significantly, Taaib was drawing a comparison between Syria and a district that is under full Iranian sovereignty. 4. Tehran has had political ambitions with respect to Syria for years and has indeed invested huge resources in making Syria a Shiite state. The Syrian regime let Iranian missionaries work freely to strengthen the Shiite faith in Damascus and the cities of the Alawite coast, as well as the smaller towns and villages. In both urban and rural parts of Syria, Sunnis and others who adopted the Shiite faith received privileges and preferential treatment in the disbursement of Iranian aid money. 5. Iran is also recruiting Shiite forces in Iraq for the warfare in Syria. These are organized in a sister framework of Lebanese Hizbullah. Known as the League of the Righteous People and Kateeb Hizbullah, its mission is to defend the Shiite centers in Damascus. It is likely that Tehran will make every effort to recruit additional Shiite elements from Iraq, the Persian Gulf, and even from Pakistan. ---------------------------------------------- Iran Cannot Afford to Lose Syria In mid-April, Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah paid a secret visit to Tehran where he met with the top Iranian officials headed by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the commander of the Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, Gen. Qasem Suleimani, who is in charge of Iranian policy in Lebanon and Syria. The visit was clandestine and no details were divulged on an official level - except for the exclusive posting on Hizbullah's official website of a photograph of Khamenei with Nasrallah beside him in the former's private library, with a picture of Ayatollah Khomeini above them. 1 Suleimani's involvement in the meeting with Nasrallah was significant. He has been the spearhead of Iranian military activism in the Middle East. In January 2012, he declared that the Islamic Republic controlled "one way or another" Iraq and South Lebanon. 2 He now appeared to be prepared to extend Iran's control to all of Syria. A media source normally hostile to Iran and Hizbullah but which nonetheless contains accurate information, reported that Iran has formulated an operational plan for assisting Syria. The plan has been named for Gen. Suleimani. It includes three elements: 1) the establishment of a popular sectarian army made up of Shiites and Alawites, to be backed by forces from Iran, Iraq, Hizbullah, and symbolic contingents from the Persian Gulf. 2) This force will reach 150,000 fighters. 3) The plan will give preference to importing forces from Iran, Iraq, and, only afterwards, other Shiite elements. This regional force will be integrated with the Syrian army. Suleimani, himself, visited Syria in late February-early March to prepare the implementation of this plan. 3 In the past, senior Iranian officers, like Major General Yahya Rahim-Safavi, the former commander of the Revolutionary Guards who is an adviser to Khamenei, have said that Lebanon and Syria gave Iran "strategic depth." 4 Now it appears that Tehran is taking this a step further, preparing for a "Plan B" in the event Assad falls. Nasrallah rarely makes such trips. The last time he went on a visit outside Lebanon was in February 2010 when he met in Damascus with Syrian President Bashar Assad and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Nasrallah has taken great care not to appear in public since the Second Lebanon War in 2006, and even more so since the assassination of the head of Hizbullah's military wing, Imad Mughniyeh, in Damascus in February 2008. Even in Iran itself Nasrallah maintained total secrecy for fear of becoming an assassination target there. After the visit, he gave a speech in Lebanon on April 30, but did not say anything about his visit to Iran. He did remark that Syria "has real friends" that wouldn't let it fall, implying that, if necessary, he would redouble his efforts to defend Iranian interests, which has always been one of the missions of Hizbullah. It appears that Hizbullah's ongoing involvement in Syria, and the extent of this involvement, formed the main issue on the agenda during Nasrallah's visit to Tehran. The more time passes, the more Iran appears to regard Syria as a lynchpin of its Middle Eastern policy, in general, and of leading the jihad and the Islamic resistance to Israel, in particular. Hizbullah's inclusion in the armed struggle in Syria is intended first and foremost to serve the Iranian strategy, which has been setting new goals apart from military assistance to the Syrian regime. Iran already seems to be looking beyond the regime's survivability and preparing for a reality where it will have to operate in Syria even if Assad falls. Even before recent events in Syria, observers in the Arab world have been warning for years about growing evidence of "Iranian expansionism." 5 An important expression of Syria's centrality in Iranian strategy was voiced by Mehdi Taaib, who heads Khamenei's think tank. He recently stated that "Syria is the 35th district of Iran and it has greater strategic importance for Iran than Khuzestan . By preserving Syria we will be able to get back Khuzestan, but if we lose Syria we will not even be able to keep Tehran." 6 Significantly, Taaib was drawing a comparison between Syria and a district that is under full Iranian sovereignty. What was also clear from his remarks was that Iran cannot afford to lose Syria. Syria as a Shiite State All in all, then, Iran will have to step up its military involvement in Syria. Khamenei's representative in Lebanon will have to take part in building the new strategy in Syria, acting in tandem with Iran against the Sunni Islamic groups that threaten Iran's interests in Syria. Tehran has had political ambitions with respect to Syria for years and has indeed invested huge resources in making Syria a Shiite state. The process began during the rule of Hafez Assad when a far-reaching network was created of educational, cultural, and religious institutions throughout Syria; it was further expanded during Bashar's reign. The aim was to promote the Shiization of all regions of the Syrian state. The Syrian regime let Iranian missionaries work freely to strengthen the Shiite faith in Damascus and the cities of the Alawite coast, as well as the smaller towns and villages. 7 A field study by the European Union in the first half of 2006 found that the largest percentage of religious conversions to Shiism occurred in areas with an Alawite majority. 8 In both urban and rural parts of Syria, Sunnis and others who adopted the Shiite faith received privileges and preferential treatment in the disbursement of Iranian aid money. The heads of the tribes in the Raqqa area were invited by the Iranian ambassador in Damascus to visit Iran cost-free, and the Iranians doled out funds to the poor and financial loans to merchants who were never required to pay them back. 9 The dimensions of the Iranian investment in Raqqa, which included elegant public buildings, mosques, and Husayniyys (a Shiite religious institute), were recently revealed by Sunni rebels who took over the remote town and destroyed, plundered, and removed all signs of the Iranian and Shiite presence there. 10 As of 2009 there were over 500 Husayniyys in Syria undergoing Iranian renovation work. In Damascus itself the Iranians invested huge sums to control the Shiite holy places including the tomb of Sayyida Zaynab, the shrine of Sayyida Ruqayya, and the shrine of Sayyida Sukayna. These sites attract Iranian tourism, which grew from 27,000 visitors in 1978 to 200,000 in 2003. Iran also operates a cultural center in Damascus that it considers one of its most important and successful. This center publishes works in Arabic, holds biweekly cultural events, and conducts seminars and conferences aimed at enhancing the Iranian cultural influence in the country. The Iranian cultural center is also responsible for the propagation and study of the Persian language in Syrian universities, including providing teachers of Persian. 11 Iran's Sponsorship of Shiite Forces in Syria At present, bloody battles are being waged over the centers of Iranian influence in Syria, most of all the mausoleum of Sayyida Zaynab - sister of the Imam Husayn - who in 680 carried his severed head to Damascus after the massacre at Karbala. In Iranian historiography, the great victory over the Sunnis is marked in Damascus in the form of a Shiite renaissance in the capital of the hated Umayyad Empire. The Sunnis, however, are now threatening these Iranian achievements. Hizbullah has been recruited to the cause, with hundreds of its fighters coming to Syria from Lebanon. These fighters try to downplay their Hizbullah affiliation and instead identify themselves as the Abu El Fadl Alabbas Brigade, named after the half-brother of the Imam Husayn. Iran is also recruiting Shiite forces in Iraq for the warfare in Syria. These are organized in a sister framework of Lebanese Hizbullah. Known as the League of the Righteous People and Kateeb Hizbullah, its mission is to defend the Shiite centers in Damascus. 12 Hizbullah fighters are also operating in other areas, some of them beyond the Lebanese border in the Shiite villages in Syrian territory on the way to Homs, thereby creating a sort of territorial continuity for ongoing Alawite control under Iranian influence. This continuity is strategically important to Iran since it links Lebanon and Damascus to the Alawite coast. 13 Iran aims to have a network of militias in place inside Syria to protect its vital interests, regardless of what happens to Assad. 14 The war in Syria persists with no decisive outcome on the horizon. Hizbullah's battle losses are growing. Subhi Tufayli, the first head of Hizbullah who was dismissed from its leadership by Iran at the start of the 1990s, has been one of the prominent critics of Hizbullah's involvement in Syria. Tufayli claimed that 138 Hizbullah fighters had been killed there along with scores of wounded who were brought to hospitals in Lebanon. 15 Ceremonies for burial of the dead are frequently held clandestinely, sometimes at night, so as to avoid anger and resentment. These casualties, however, did not disappear from sight, and the families have raised harsh questions about such unnecessary sacrifice that is not in the sacred framework of jihad against Israel, which is Hizbullah's raison d'^etre. Tufayli, for his part, asserted that Hizbullah fighters who are killed in battle in Syria "are not martyrs" and "will go to hell." Syria, he remarked, "is not Karbala" and the Hizbullah men in Syria "are not fighters of the Imam . The oppressed and innocent Syrian people is Karbala and the members of the Syrian people are the children of Husayn and Zaynab." Tufayli went on to say that he "lauds the fathers and mothers who prevent their children from going to Syria and says to them that God's blessing is with them." Tufayli further pointed out that, legally speaking, no fatwa has been issued that permits Hizbullah's participation in the war in Syria. He said he had appealed to the supreme religious authority - the sources of emulation ( Maraji Taqlid ) in Najaf and in Lebanon - not to issue such a fatwa . 16 In the Lebanese Shiite community, Tufayli is not alone in leveling severe criticism at Hizbullah's role as an arm of Iran in Syria. Voices within Hizbullah itself are increasingly casting doubt on the wisdom of involving the movement on Bashar Assad's side. Others refuse to go and fight in Syria, and there have already been desertions from Hizbullah's ranks. So far, though, it does not appear that all this is deterring Hizbullah from persisting. At the end of the day, Hizbullah is not a Lebanese national movement but a creation of Iran and subject to its exclusive authority. Nasrallah was summoned to Tehran so as to encourage him and order him to continue as a faithful and obedient soldier of Velayt-e Faqih (literally: the Rule of the Jurisprudent, referring to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei). It is likely that Tehran will make every effort to recruit additional Shiite elements from Iraq, the Persian Gulf, and even from Pakistan. For the Islamic Republic, this is a war of survival against a radical Sunni uprising that views Iran and the Shiites as infidels to be annihilated. This is the real war being waged today, and it is within Islam. From Iran's standpoint, if the extreme Sunnis of the al-Qaeda persuasion are not defeated in Syria, they will assert themselves in Iraq and threaten to take over the Persian Gulf, posing a real danger to Iran's regional hegemony. Khamenei does not intend to give in. Hizbullah's readiness to fight shoulder-to-shoulder with Iran against the radical Sunnis could shatter the delicate internal order upon which the Lebanese state is based and bring about a Hizbullah take-over of Lebanon in its entirety. * * * Notes 1. On the picture and its significance, see Ali al-Amin, Al-Balad, April 23, 2013, http://www.alahednews.com.lb/essaydetails.php?eid=74383&amp;cid=76. 2. "Chief of Iran's Quds Force Claims Iraq, South Lebanon under His Control, Al Arabiya News, January 20, 2012, http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/01/20/189447.html. 3. A-Shiraa, March 15, 2013. 4. Nevvine Abdel Monem Mossad, "Implication of Iran Accepting Military Role in Syria, Lebanon," The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, October 7, 2012. 5. Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed, "Iran and Its Expansionist Tendencies," Arab News, February 6, 2013, http://www.arabnews.com/iran-and-its-expansionist-tendencies; "US Embassy Cables: Omani Official Wary of Iranian Expansionism," The Guardian, November 28, 2010, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/165127. 6. Ali-al-Amin, Al-Balad, February 17, 2013. 7. On the Shiization of Syria, see Khalid Sindawi, "The Shiite Turn in Syria," Hudson Institute, Current Trends in Islamist Ideology, vol. 8, 82-127, http://www.currenttrends.org/research/detail/the-shiite-turn-in-syria. 8. Ibid., 84. 9. Ibid., 89-90. 10. Martin Kramer, "The Shiite Crescent Eclipsed," April 16, 2013, http://www.martinkramer.org/sandbox/2013/04/the-shiite-crescent-is-broken. 11. Nadia von Maltzahn, "The Case of Iranian Cultural Diplomacy in Syria," Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 2 (2009): 33-50. 12. Rabbiah Jamal, "Iraq's Kateeb Hezbollah announces involvement in Syria," Now Lebanon, April 7, 2013. 13. See the excellent article by Hanin Ghadder, "Hezbollah sacrifices popularity for survival: In Syria, The Party of God is struggling for an un-divine victory," Now Lebanon, April 10, 2013. 14. Karen DeYoung and Joby Warrick, "Iran and Hezbollah Build Militia Networks in Syria in Event that Assad Falls, Officials Say," The Washington Post, February 10, 2013, http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-02-10/world/37026054_1_syrian-government-forces-iran-and-hezbollah-president-bashar. 15. http://www.metransparent.com, April 25, 2013. 16. Subhi Tufayli, interview, Al Arabiya, February 26, 2013. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=08d_1367957207 m16carbine Iran's Strategy in Syria syria civil war, syria, saa, assad, fsa, israel, iran, lebanon, syrian, hezbollah Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:55:23 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=700_1366847621 Vegas Street Prophet PREDICTORS OF OBAMA'S ASSASSINATION OBAMACSI.COM OBAMA CSI .COM: As if singing in concert, individuals from all walks have life have predicted the future assassination of Barack Obama. Do these characters know something we don't? Is there a master plan to assassinate Obama? Only time will tell, but until then, the words of these prophets will have to suffice. 1. Doris Lessing (2008): The Nobel Peace Prize winner Doris Lessing goes on record stating that U.S. President Barack Obama will not last long and that "they" would murder him. Who "they" is, is anybody's guess, but if you ask Gaddafi, he would say Israel. 2. Jesse Ventura (2008): The former Governor of Minnesota, Jesse Ventura , states that if U.S. President Barack Obama wins he would be assassinated by the U.S. government. Unfortunately, the "Conspiracy Theory" host only leaves us with vague generalizations and no specifics. 3. Hillary Clinton (2008): Current U.S. Secretary of State , Hillary Clinton , invokes the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in California and predicts that then U.S. Presidential hopeful Barack Obama may suffer the same fate. 4. Samuel L. Jackson (2008): Oscar winning actor Samuel L. Jackson wonders when someone going to try and kill U.S. President Barack Obama and predicts that someone at a Sarah Palin rally will finally say "Kill that *****!' 5. Muammar Gaddafi (2008): Muammar Gaddafi is the only known Head of State to implicate Israel in the assassination of JFK and the future assassination of U.S. President Barack Obama. How much longer Gaddafi will be alive is not clear, but his prophetic statement that Israel will assassinate Obama may soon come to fruition. 6. Muammar Gaddafi (2009): As if the world did not hear him the first time, Gaddafi again predicted he future assassination of Barack Obama by the state of Israel. Roughly 2 years later after his last prediction, Libya was invaded and Gaddafi was removed from power. 7. Ray Larson (2009): The International Imperial Wizard of the National Knights of the Klu Klux Klan , Ray Larsen, predicts that someone from the South (Confederate part of the U.S.) will eventually assassinate U.S. President Barack Obama. 8. Nostradamus Child (2010): Oliver, the alleged child Nostradamus of Columbia, predicts the future assassination of U.S. President Barack Obama. Unfortunately, Oliver was unable to divulge the exact date that Obama would be assassinated and who would ultimately be responsible. 9. Glenn Beck (2010): Fox News TV anchor and nationally syndicated radio host, Glenn Beck , states that "9/11 Truthers" will ultimately assassinate U.S. President Barack Obama. Does Beck know something we don't? Is there a plan to assassinate Obama and blame 9/11 Truthers? 10. Alex Jones (2010): Infowars radio host and renowned fear monger, Alex Jones , states that the assassination of U.S. President Barack Obama is the next false-flag, but ultimately fails to produce one shred of evidence as to why this may be the case. Jones appears to be acting on insider information, as he states that he is now 100% sure Obama will be targeted for assassination. 11. Michelle Obama (2011): U.S. President Barack Obama's wife, Michelle Obama , made a ghastly statement when she stated to the Secret Service " Just tell me when - where to run". This statement clearly infers that an assassination of her husband involving the Secret Service is just around the corner. Mrs. Obama's statement indicates that the White House is leaking future assassination insinuations in an attempt to prepare the American public for what is about to transpire. 1. DORIS LESSING OBAMA CSI .COM Date: February 10, 2008 Name: Doris May Tayler Age: 91 Ethnicity: White Location: England Affiliations: Nobel Prize Winner Suspect: "They" Quote: " would certainly not last long, a black man in the position of president. They would murder him." OBAMA CSI .COM: The Nobel Peace Prize winner Doris Lessing goes on record stating that U.S. President Barack Obama will not last long and that "they" would murder him. Who "they" is, is anybody's guess, but if you ask Gaddafi, he would say Israel. Title: Nobel Winner: Obama Will Be Assassinated If He Wins Date: February 10, 2008 Source: Huffington Post Abstract : If Barack Obama becomes the next US president he will surely be assassinated, British Nobel literature laureate Doris Lessing predicted...Obama, who is vying to become the first black president in US history, "would certainly not last long, a black man in the position of president. They would murder him" (Huffington Post, 2008) . 2. JESSE VENTURA OBAMA CSI .COM Date: April 2, 2008 Name: James George Jano Age: 60 Ethnicity: White Location: Baja, Mexico Affiliations: U.S. Government, Navy SEALS Suspect: U.S. Government Quote: "I believe that would either be physically assassinated or would be assassinated credibility-wise or in some manner by our government" OBAMA CSI .COM: The former Governor of Minnesota, Jesse Ventura, states that if U.S. President Barack Obama wins he would be assassinated by the U.S. government. Unfortunately, the "Conspiracy Theory" host only leaves us with vague generalizations and no specifics. Title: Jesse Ventura Warns Of Obama Assassination Attempt Date: April 2, 2008 Source: Prison Planet Abstract : Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura caused shockwaves during a national radio interview today when he warned Barack Obama to be wary of a potential assassination attempt..."If the polls looked like he had a chance to win, I believe that candidate would either be physically assassinated or would be assassinated credibility-wise or in some manner by our government" (Prison Planet, 2008) . 3. HILLARY CLINTON OBAMA CSI .COM Date: May 24, 2008 Name: Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton Age: 63 Ethnicity: White Location: Washington D.C. Affiliations: Bill Clinton, U.S. Government, Bilderberg, CFR Suspect: N/A Quote: 'Maybe Barack Obama will be assassinated'. OBAMA CSI .COM: Current U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, invokes the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in California and predicts that then U.S. Presidential hopeful Barack Obama may suffer the same fate. Title: Hillary Clinton: 'Maybe Barack Obama Will Be Assassinated' Date: May 24, 2008 Source: Telegraph Abstract : Uttering one of the most outrageous public statements of any candidate who has run in this long and arduous presidential campaign..."My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don't understand it" (Telegraph, 2008) . YouTube Video Hillary Clinton: I'm staying in case Obama gets assassinated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw98fouyfBg Uploaded on May 23, 2008 Hillary Clinton invokes the assassination of Robert Kennedy as justification to remain in the presidential race. "My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don't understand it." Mike Huckabee could have declared: "I'm staying in the race just in case John Mccain has a stroke." He could even have referenced Ted Kennedy's recent health problems as an example. But he didn't. Mike Huckabee (and most other politicians) has way too much class for that kind of garbage. But Hillary Clinton proves once again that she and her husband Bill Clinton are utterly shameless. Shame on you, Hillary Clinton. --------------------------------------------- Have You No Sense of Decency, Senator Clinton? In a stunning turn of events, Senator Clinton has assassinated her own soul, in the hotly-contested race for the Democratic candidacy. The annihilation of her soul, which had been suspected for months, was formally complete after the Senator made this comment to the editorial board of South Dakota's Sioux Falls Argus-Leader: "My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don't understand it." The campaign denies that she was making any kind of dark insinuation about the safety of her rival Senator Obama. But insiders say Mrs. Clinton decided to throw out her last scrap of soul because, as they put it, "it was getting in her way". One insider describes it likes this: "Hill's a fighter. No man is expected to have a soul and get anywhere. She was keeping that last little bit just for old times' sake. For Chelsea maybe. Do you really want someone who has to stare down Ahmadinejad to have a soul?" A superdelegate who is supporting Clinton, and who asked to remain anonymous, agreed that souls have been damning the Democratic party for decades. "Look, let's get real here. Souls cause you to reflect, to ponder, to think before you speak, to let us get all Swift-Boated and suffocated by our own sense of putrid decency. How's that working for us? It's not. Now that Hillary's soul is totally gone, we can get down to some real full-on ass-kicking." Sources say she received spiritual counseling on soul-extermination by the former top Bush adviser Karl Rove. While Senator Clinton has apologized, staffers say that the words of contrition are not evidence of left-over soul. "Nah, it's gone. She just has to say "I'm Sorry". And doesn't she look fabulous without her soul? I mean, I know I'm not supposed to talk about how she looks, but she's glowing!" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/linda-k... Argus-Leader, Barack Obama, Election 2008, Hillary Clinton, Politics News, Rfk Assassination, Politics News 4. SAMUEL L. JACKSON OBAMA CSI .COM Date: October 31, 2008 Name: Samuel Leroy Jackson Age: 62 Ethnicity: African American Location: Los Angeles, California Affiliations: Hollywood, The Academy Awards Suspect: Tea Party Quote: "They just haven't announced on the news that somebody in the back of some Sarah Palin rally is going, 'Kill that n-----!" OBAMA CSI .COM: Oscar winning actor Samuel L. Jackson wonders when someone going to try and kill U.S. President Barack Obama and predicts that someone at a Sarah Palin rally will finally say "Kill that *****!' Title: Samuel L. Jackson Worries Someone Will Try To Kill Obama Date: October 31, 2008 Source: Star Pulse Abstract : Samuel L. Jackson fears Barack Obama will face assassination attempts from racists if he's elected America's first black president next week. Democrat Obama is ahead of Republican opponent John McCain in the polls, and he has tremendous support from the biggest celebrities - including Jackson. But he fears if Obama wins, he will be marked as soon as he takes office next year, if not before. He says, "At some point, somebody is gonna say something about 'that n----- in the White House. They just haven't announced on the news that somebody in the back of some (vice-president candidate) Sarah Palin rally is going, 'Kill that n-----!' "It really bothers me sometimes that we have to be so politically correct. What we fear most as black people, who want him (Obama) to win or be elected, is when is someone gonna try and kill him? Everybody acts like that's not the elephant in the room but it is (Star Pulse, 2008) . 5. MUAMMAR GADDAFI OBAMA CSI .COM Date: December 6, 2008 Name: Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi Age: 69 Ethnicity: Arab Location: Tripoli, Libya Affiliations: Libyan Government Suspect: Israeli Mossad Quote: "We suspect he may fear being killed by Israeli agents and meet the same fate as Kennedy." OBAMA CSI .COM: Muammar Gaddafi is the only known Head of State to implicate Israel in the assassination of JFK and the future assassination of U.S. President Barack Obama. How much longer Gaddafi will be alive is not clear, but his prophetic statement that Israel will assassinate Obama may soon come to fruition. Title: Gaddafi: Obama Fears Israel Will Assassinate Him Like It Did JFK Date: December 6, 2008 Source: Haaretz Abstract : Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Wednesday that U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's expressed support for Israel stems from his fear that the Mossad would assassinate him, just as it did President John F. Kennedy . "We suspect he may fear being killed by Israeli agents and meet the same fate as Kennedy when he promised to look into Israel's nuclear program," Gaddafi said. "We still hope he will be proud of Africa and change America and free America of its past policy, namely with the Arabs," said Gaddafi (Haaretz, 2008 ). YouTube Video 6. MUAMMAR GADDAFI OBAMA CSI .COM Name: Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi Date: December 6, 2008 Age: 69 Ethnicity: Arab Location: Tripoli, Libya Affiliations: Libyan Government Suspect: Israeli Mossad Quote: "There is a fear that they would liquidate as they liquidated Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln." OBAMA CSI .COM: As if the world did not hear him the first time, Gaddafi again predicted he future assassination of Barack Obama by the state of Israel. Roughly 2 years later after his last prediction, Libya was invaded and Gaddafi was removed from power. Title: Libya's Gaddafi Says Fears Obama Assassination Dat e: April 7, 2009 Source: Reuters Abstract : "I fear that they could liquidate this young man or force him to submit to their imperialist policies," Gaddafi told a university gathering of his supporters in Sirte, without specifying who might put Obama under pressure. Gaddafi, known for his controversial statements, did not say who might want to kill Obama but gave the examples of the assassinations of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln, as well as black rights leader Martin Luther King . "Obama is a flicker of hope in the middle of the imperialist darkness," the Libyan leader said, adding: "There is a fear that they would liquidate him as they liquidated Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln" (Reuters, 2009) . 7. RAY LARSON OBAMA CSI .COM Date: April 17, 2009 Name: Ray Larsen Age: ? Ethnicity: White Location: Osceola, Indiana Affiliations: KKK, U.S. Government Suspect: A Southerner Quote: "If that man is elected President, he'll be shot sure as hell...It would definitely be a southerner." OBAMA CSI .COM: The International Imperial Wizard of the National Knights of the Klu Klux Klan, Ray Larsen, predicts that someone from the South (Confederate part of the U.S.) will eventually assassinate U.S. President Barack Obama. Title: Indiana KKK Says Obama Will Be Assassinated Date: April 17, 2009 Source: Fox News Chicago Abstract : Ray Larsen, International Imperial Wizard of the National Knights of the Klu Klux Klan states, "Well, I'm not going to have to worry about it because somebody else down south is gonna take him out. If that man is elected President, he'll be shot sure as hell. The hate would be so deep, from down south, it would definitely be a southerner (Fox News, 2009) . YouTube Video Indiana KKK Says Obama Will Be Assassinated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30xP1i8YgdM&amp;bpctr=1366846794 Uploaded on Apr 17, 2009 Indiana KKK Says Barack Obama Will Be Assassinated. 8. NOSTRADAMUS CHILD OBAMA CSI .COM Date: September 8, 2009 Name: Oliver Age: 6 Ethnicity: Colombian Location: Columbia Affiliations: Unknown Suspect N/A Quote: Translated: "There will be an assassination attempt on the life of U.S. President Barack Obama." OBAMA CSI .COM: Oliver, the alleged child Nostradamus of Columbia, predicts the future assassination of U.S. President Barack Obama. Unfortunately, Oliver was unable to divulge the exact date that Obama would be assassinated and who would ultimately be responsible. Title: Obama Assassination Predicted By Colombian Nostradamus Child Date: September 8, 2009 Source: YouTube Abstract : The alleged Colombian Nostradamus emphatically stated that there will be an assassination attempt on the life of U.S. President Barack Obama (YouTube, 2009) . YouTube Video Obama Assassination Predicted By Colombian Nostradamus Child https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmzJGXRHteI Uploaded on Sep 8, 2009 http://www.fightbackh1n1.com 9. GLENN BECK OBAMA CSI .COM Date: January 21, 2010 Name: Glenn Edward Lee Beck Age: 47 Ethnicity: White Location: New York, New York Affiliations: Fox News, U.S. Government? Suspect: Truthers Quote: " has invited 9/11 truthers into the White House...He's in danger!" OBAMA CSI .COM: Fox News TV anchor and nationally syndicated radio host, Glenn Beck, states that " 9/11 Truthers " will ultimately assassinate U.S. President Barack Obama. Does Beck know something we don't? Is there a plan to assassinate Obama and blame 9/11 Truthers? Title: Beck Says Progressives Will Kill Obama Date: January 21, 2010 Source: Fox News Abstract : Glenn Beck of Fox News stated on his radio program: "Watch the uber left. Pray that Obama moves to the center. If he does, pray that the Secret Service care for that man and that that man is never left alone. He has invited 9/11 Truthers into the White House and into his administration. If they believe that he's just another one of these guys, he's in danger (Fox News, 2010) . 9/11 TRUTHERS WILL KILL OBAMA Beck Says Progressives Will Kill Obama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtdfVtjyjgM Uploaded on Jan 21, 2010 Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/theyoungturks Read Ana's blog here: http://www.examiner.com/x-5445-Politi... Check Out TYT Interviews http://www.youtube.com/user/TYTInterv... Watch more at http://www.theyoungturks.com 10. ALEX JONES OBAMA CSI .COM Date: February 15, 2010 Name: Alex Emerick Jones Age: 37 Ethnicity: White Location: Austin, Texas Affiliations: Judas, CIA, U.S. Government, Israel Suspect: Truthers Quote: "Obama Is The Next False Flag!!!" OBAMA CSI .COM: Infowars radio host and renowned fear monger, Alex Jones , states that the assassination of U.S. President Barack Obama is the next false-flag, but ultimately fails to produce one shred of evidence as to why this may be the case. Jones appears to be acting on insider information, as he states that he is now 100% sure Obama will be targeted for assassination. Title: Obama Is The Next False Flag!!! Date: February 15, 2010 Source: YouTube YouTube Video Alex Jones Tv 3/6: Obama is The Next False Flag!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh93qrLc4o8 Uploaded on Feb 15, 2010 Alex breaks down what he thinks is the next real false flag attack on america, and it's going to be none other then obama himself.Alex breaks down the key points from those who have been talking about this, and where they are leading their viewers.very important topic today, so please share with everyone you know, because time is very short right now. http://prisonplanet.tv/ http://www.infowars.com 11. MICHELLE OBAMA OBAMA CSI .COM Date: October 5, 2011 Name: Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama Age: 47 Ethnicity: Black Location: Washington D.C. Affiliations: The White House, Princeton, Harvard Suspect: N/A Quote: "Just Tell Me When - Where To Run" OBAMA CSI .COM: U.S. President Barack Obama's wife, Michelle Obama, made a ghastly statement when she stated to the Secret Service" Just tell me when - where to run". This statement clearly infers that an assassination of her husband involving the Secret Service is just around the corner. Mrs. Obama's statement indicates that the White House is leaking future assassination insinuations in an attempt to prepare the American public for what is about to transpire. Title: Michelle Obama Tells Secret Service: 'Just Tell Me When - Where To Run' Date: October 5, 2011 Source: Politico Abstract : First lady Michelle Obama made a rare trip to Secret Service headquarters Wednesday, where she glimpsed the intricate work that goes into protecting her family - and the potential danger of that mission. After an hourlong tour of the agency's protective intelligence division and the joint operations center, Obama called the daily tasks performed by the Secret Service "pretty scary." "All I can say is, after my little tour, is ignorance is bliss," Obama told a packed crowd of Secret Service employees who had gathered in a conference room to hear her speak. "I just - I just don't want to know," the first lady continued to laughter. "You all can handle that. Just tell me when - where to run." Obama - who has spoken in interviews about the constraints of living inside the presidential bubble and the loss of privacy that comes with being watched every moment - said the Secret Service agents at the White House have become like family over the past two-and-a-half years. In fact, she said, the first family has grown so close to the agents around the house that they will sometimes have little spats about who gets which Secret Service agent on various outings. Obama said her youngest daughter, Sasha, will tell her sister Malia, "You took Scott!" And sometimes Malia, who apparently has grown close to the same agent, will say "You took Scott? That's not fair!" The first lady said she can relate to that sentiment. "I'll say the same thing to Barack - it's like, 'Why do you get Beth?'" she said, adding, "It's dinner table conversation." More seriously, Obama lauded the agency's employees for their work, adding that she and the president believe the Secret Service "is always 100 percent on point, truly." "I mean, not just in terms of how you all do your job, but how you all make us feel," she said, as Secret Service employees snapped pictures of her with their digital cameras. "And that is important when you're trying to live a normal life and raise a couple of girls in the White House. You all have really made us feel at home and safe, and there is no amount of thanks that I could convey that would give you a sense of how important you all are to us." Appearing on stage with the first lady, Mark Sullivan , the director of the Secret Service, told Obama that her visit "means so much to all of us." Sullivan also thanked her for "the way you have treated the men and women of our organization." A first lady visit to Secret Service headquarters is unusual, said Ed Donovan, a spokesman for the agency. "It has happened," he said, "but it's not a regular occurrence" (Politico, 2011) . https://sites.google.com/site/csiobama/PREDICTORS-OF-ASSASSINATION 1367 days until C OBAMACSI.pdf View Download 7789k v. 2 Nov 1, 2011, 1:26 PM David Chase Taylor Obama's Last Day in Office https://sites.google.com/site/csiobama/pdf-1 God Will Decide Concerning O bama There are many who would have reason to do Barack O bama in: Neocons who don't want to give up power and don't want to be prosecuted for war crimes, as has been intimated by him. Patriots who don't want to see him take the country away from the Constitution of morality. (Totalitarianism will be easy now with the foundation laid by Clinton and Bush with their executive orders.) Communists who know that this would cause a civil war and destroy our economy. Neo-Nazis, racists, skinheads, the KKK hate his color and socialist ways, as we have seen. Radical Islamic factions who kill their own anyway and know all Islam would rise up in anger against the U.S. Militant anti-abortion radicals who know that O bama will continue to do everything he can to murder babies, even after they escape the abortionist alive. The elitists who put him in office who feel he has outlived his usefulness. And the list goes on and on... As Christians who believe the Word and submit to Jesus' command to love our enemies and overcome evil with good, we cannot condone any of this and it is all sadness to us. But we also bow to the sovereignty of God who said, Rom.13:1...there is no power but of God; and the that be are ordained of God. Dan.4:17... the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the lowest of men. Ps.75:7 But God is the judge: He putteth down one, and lifteth up another . This means that whether O bama stays in or is taken out, God has spoken, even through vessels of dishonor like assassins. However, if you Christians think God has called you to fight O bama and this government, you desperately need to read The Sword or the Cross? and listen to Honor the king? (1) , Honor the king? (2) and Honor the king? (3) . Many Christians are victims of neglecting their Bibles and their consciences. God has used the choice of many to give O bama as leader of America and the world, and He may use the choice of vessels of dishonor to take him out as a judgment, too. Hos.13:11 I have given thee a king in mine anger, and have taken him away in my wrath. Time will tell but the good side is that God will use tribulation to wake up the chosen in a great end-time revival. PTL! Your servant, David http://www.ubm1.org PROPHECIES CONCERNING THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION Obama and the Near Future Note from David: Below are some dreams and Bible Codes about Barack O bama and his future administration. They seem to point to his future assassination. As Christians, we certainly don't agree with Barack O bama's moral stand on a few issues but certainly no one here wishes to see bad things happen to him or America. We pray for him and his family, as the Lord through Paul asked us to do in 1 Tim. 2:1,2. Also, dreams like the ones below are sometimes warnings and not necessarily prophecies. But for it to be an effective warning this thing needs to be considered a possibility. We are warned that dreams and visions come from God and men ignore them to their own destruction (Job 33:14-30). Also, dreams can come through other sprits than the Lord, including human spirits. In the New Covenant under grace, we are not commanded to judge the dreamer, prophet or revelator, but the dream, prophecy or revelation itself after we permit them to speak (1 Cor. 14:26-33). So we are letting them speak here and you may discern. If something doesn't come to pass we can ignore it and take it down, as even the law said in Dt.18:22. Anyone who judges others according to the law will be judged by it. Please read this, pray and discern. O bama Wins the Nomination? Anonymous. - 3/06/08 In a dream I was in a huge auditorium. I heard the speaker announce the Democratic Party's votes. First the light went on John Edwards. Then it went on Hillary Clinton, and lastly it went on Barack O bama. I heard that Barack O bama got a majority vote and even people from different parties voted for him. I then saw him come on stage. He was dressed like someone from the 17th century, with a shirt that had lots of frills on it. He also looked white rather than black. His complexion became like as a white man, though, when he took the stage his face looked somewhat proud that he could be elected to run for the Democrats. This man got overwhelming support. I also saw the numbers 7077. I wonder what that means. O bama Inaugurated and Assassinated Eve Brast - 7/19/08 As I watched Mr. O bama give a speech, I looked left down the street and had an open vision of his inauguration outside another government building with another crowd around him. It was still dark in this dream and in the open vision, also. I felt and thought "tragedy" when I looked at him. The next word that came to my mind was "assassination." I thought to myself, "It is a shame he will be sacrificed and doesn't even know it." O bama Assassinated Rick Sergent - 7/15/08, 8/24/08 I say this with great reluctance. I was visiting my friend Mary in Indiana on 7/15/08. I was in her kitchen, at the table. I heard in my spirit, " O bama will be assassinated." This really brought sorrow to my spirit. I thought about his wife and two children. I struggled about going public with this. Then on 8/24/08 I was talking on the phone with a friend about that three-year-old missing girl in Florida when I saw a vision of a round tombstone and O bama's name was on it. That made me decide to share this. Personal note: I pray that Mr. O bama's heart will be right with the Lord. I personally believe this may cause riots in the streets of America and maybe even martial law. It's Already Decided April Fields - 10/10/08 I had a dream the night before last that I was waiting in a line to vote. When it was my turn, they gave me a hand-held video game. When the image came up on the screen, the names of the candidates floated up like puzzle pieces and then quickly moved around like a game. By the time I figured out how to hit the puzzle piece with McCain/Palin on it, it was gone. When I complained to the attendant that I didn't get the chance to vote I was told, "Too bad, you can't do it over." When I woke up I couldn't decide if that meant I wasn't supposed to vote or that it was just a game and it didn't matter if I voted because it is already decided. (Note from David: Although there appeared to be a lot of dishonest vote-tampering going on, God has decided that a people will receive what they need or deserve, even if it's a spanking. {Rom.13:1} Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the that be are ordained of God. ) Assassination of a President Amos Scaggs - 7/08/08 The real depression will start when the/a President is assassinated. After realizing the assassination had been committed, I said, "They got him, too. Didn't they? ... When is this going to stop?" Bible Code Links . "B. O bama will be selected" . "Shooting of O bama" . "Suspicion of an O bama assassination..." . " O bama was killed" . "From the back, B. O bama was killed; you committed a crime." This is a highly significant code; it is 20 letters long, in clear Hebrew and evenly spread through a large section of the Hebrew Old Testament. The software calculates the odds of this happening just by chance at 875,616,773,762,370: 1 against . Note from David: Bible codes also must be discerned, not because of what is shown in the matrix but because of what has not yet been found in the matrix. The code only shows what you ask the software to search for. Suppose you forget to ask for the word "delayed," as has happened. This changes the whole story. It's like filling in a jigsaw puzzle but leaving out a line of information. For example, it could be found that "So and so did this," but if they searched for and found a few more words it could be, "They falsely said, 'so and so did this.'" The results could be the opposite. However, the more codes show up saying the same thing from different people, the greater the likelihood of them being correct. Plot to Kill O bama: Shoot from High Vantage Point 8/26/08 DENVER (CBS4/AP) - Denver's U.S. attorney is expected to speak on Tuesday afternoon about the arrests of four people suspected in a possible plot to shoot Barack O bama at his Thursday night acceptance speech in Denver. All are being held on either drug or weapons charges. Click here for full article. Note from David: I empathize with many African-Americans who are jubilant to finally have what they feel is one of their own to be in such a position of power in this world who could represent them. However, we should judge a man by what he does and not by what he says or our own selfish ambitions. As Christians, we are forbidden to judge those who are without the kingdom, as 1 Corinthians 5:12,13 commands. I hope that if he is assassinated that many won't take the law into their own hands and cause a civil war. God Will Decide Concerning O bama There are many who would have reason to do Barack O bama in: Neocons who don't want to give up power and don't want to be prosecuted for war crimes, as has been intimated by him. Patriots who don't want to see him take the country away from the Constitution of morality. (Totalitarianism will be easy now with the foundation laid by Clinton and Bush with their executive orders.) Communists who know that this would cause a civil war and destroy our economy. Neo-Nazis, racists, skinheads, the KKK hate his color and socialist ways, as we have seen. Radical Islamic factions who kill their own anyway and know all Islam would rise up in anger against the U.S. Militant anti-abortion radicals who know that O bama will continue to do everything he can to murder babies, even after they escape the abortionist alive. The elitists who put him in office who feel he has outlived his usefulness. And the list goes on and on... As Christians who believe the Word and submit to Jesus' command to love our enemies and overcome evil with good, we cannot condone any of this and it is all sadness to us. But we also bow to the sovereignty of God who said, Rom.13:1...there is no power but of God; and the that be are ordained of God. Dan.4:17... the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the lowest of men. Ps.75:7 But God is the judge: He putteth down one, and lifteth up another . This means that whether O bama stays in or is taken out, God has spoken, even through vessels of dishonor like assassins. However, if you Christians think God has called you to fight O bama and this government, you desperately need to read The Sword or the Cross? and listen to Honor the king? (1) , Honor the king? (2) and Honor the king? (3) . Many Christians are victims of neglecting their Bibles and their consciences. God has used the choice of many to give O bama as leader of America and the world, and He may use the choice of vessels of dishonor to take him out as a judgment, too. Hos.13:11 I have given thee a king in mine anger, and have taken him away in my wrath. Time will tell but the good side is that God will use tribulation to wake up the chosen in a great end-time revival. PTL! Your servant, David O bama Conquers Babylon and Iran, Then Dies? David Eells Will Barak Obama, just as Alexander the Great did, conquer the great eagle of Babylon, as a type of the U.S., and then conquer Persia (Iran), then die, bringing in the tribulation persecution of the saints? Robert I. Holmes said the following: In 1999, as I prepared to travel to the US on ministry, the Lord gave me a very unusual prophetic word. He said that , "In the days of Babylon, when her walls stood wide and her leaders stood tall, her defenses were strong and her campaigns victorious, Alexander the Great came and defeated her. In the same way, my Alexander will stand in the very midst of the United States of America." I believe that God's "Alexander" is Barak Obama. He has now stood in the middle of America, and declared his victory speech in Grant Park in Chicago. There, he prophetically declared, "Change has come to America," "The American Empire is coming to an end." Instead of Desert Storm, which was over desert, we may soon see the Perfect Storm over water. Obama may very well be the one who retaliates against Iran for the next 9/11 strike on America, whether they are guilty or not. I believe they will be successful, at least initially. It was that way with Iraq, too. Amos' revelation seems to confirm this. Amos Scaggs heard on 3/09/06: "We are going to invade Iran on three fronts with an overwhelming force and be victorious." Also, on 3/07/06, he heard: "We broke their code -- The enemy." According to Jeremiah 25, there are only two times the U.S. could conquer Iran. {Jer.25:9} behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and unto Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about (Middle East); and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations. {25:12} And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished , that I will punish the king of Babylon , and that nation, saith Jehovah, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate for ever . The Lord showed me that this 70 years that the U.S. will be trampling the Middle East will be the same as the 7 years in the book of Revelation that the harlot will ride the beast and then be destroyed by it at the end. The list of nations that are conquered during this time are in Jeremiah 25:17-26 and the last verse is when Babylon, as a type of the U.S., falls. The last on the list before Babylon is Elam or Iran along with the Medes and the kings of the north . This is the only time in the list Iran is conquered... Unless she is conquered before this 7 year tribulation list of wars. This is what I believe will happen, since the last war seems to be mixed with the kings of the north , which is probably Russia and company, and since this is the time Babylon fell, too. Also, I do not believe Obama will live to the end of the tribulation. So, I think that the U.S. will strike Iran before the tribulation and help cause the tribulation covenant, as we will see below. In Daniel's vision, he was in Elam (Iran) and saw the Medo-Persian (Iran and allies) Ram pushing westward, as they are now. {Dan.8:2} And I saw in the vision; now it was so, that when I saw, I was in Shushan the palace, which is in the province of Elam (Persia/Iran) ; and I saw in the vision, and I was by the river Ulai. {3} Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns (Medo-Persians) : and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last. {4} I saw the ram pushing westward (Iraq, Hamas in Israel, Hezbollah in Lebanon) , and northward (North Iraqi Kurds) , and southward (in the Persian Gulf) ; and no beasts could stand before him (so far), neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and magnified himself. Then, Daniel saw a he-goat fly over the face of the whole earth without touching the ground , which describes America's attack by air and sea on Iran better than Alexander the Great's attack on them. {5} And as I was considering, behold, a he-goat (originally Alexander the Great's Grecian Empire - Second fulfillment - Barak Obama's U.S. Empire) came from the westover the face of the whole earth , and touched not the ground : and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes. {6} And he came to the ram that had the two horns, which I saw standing before the river, and ran upon him in the fury of his power. {7} And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with anger against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns; and there was no power in the ram to stand before him; but he cast him down to the ground, and trampled upon him; and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand. {8} And the he-goat magnified himself exceedingly: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken . (Obama will likely be assassinated.) Prophetically, the next thing Daniel describes is the saints in tribulation in the time of Antiochus Epiphanes (8:9-14), a type of the beast. I have believed this attack on Iran would bring the tribulation. {Dan.8:9} And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the glorious . {10} And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and some of the host and of the stars it cast down to the ground , and trampled upon them. (The beast will cause a great falling away through the mark of the beast.) {11} Yea, it magnified itself, even to the prince of the host (The High Priest, Jesus) ; and it took away from him the continual ], and the place of his sanctuary was cast down . {12} And the host was given over together with the continual through transgression; and it cast down truth to the ground, and it did and prospered. This describes the great persecution against Christians who have a continual burnt offering through offering up their beastly bodies as a living sacrifice in the fiery trials. The mark will bring an end of this sacrifice for many "Christians" and they will be cast down as the sanctuary of God and the seed of Abraham, the stars of heaven. President Obama Saved Chad Rial - 11/14/10 (David's notes in red) I had a dream last night that Obama was floating on a raft with Navy Seal swimmers underneath. He was looking a little unkempt. I spoke to him and he was reading a Sovereign God book and was telling me that he was really getting a lot of good things from it. :) Chad said to me: I'm thinking of what happened to Nebuchadnezzar; perhaps history will just repeat for the king of Babylon? He was definitely in survival mode. I felt to pray for him when I woke up and that he was going to get saved ... we will see! I replied: That would be awesome, Chad. We also have a lot of dreams that he would be killed. (Perhaps this is spiritual death-to-self by character assassination. :o) Let's pray the Lord gives us more on this. Perhaps we should send him a Sovereign God book and tell him to read chapter two first. :o) He is in a tight spot. If he doesn't obey the banksters there is a history of presidents dying at their hands. Floating above the waters of the beast with the killers below sounds like he is getting saved??? I guess if he got saved they would surely try to shoot him. (When Paul was saved, the powers that be tried to kill him.) We better pray for him. Chad answered: I was just thinking that exact thought 20 minutes ago. Meaning, send him a Sovereign God book. :) So I prayed and felt really good that we should send President Obama a Sovereign God book with a note from Chad and myself and we prayed that he would get it: "Father, we pray for President Obama, that you would have grace and mercy upon him and draw him unto Yourself in the saving knowledge of the true Gospel of Jesus Christ." NOTE: Garrett knew nothing of this revelation when he got a confirmation below, for we told no one about it. X Appears, Obama Fired/Saved, Year 2 Trib Garrett Crawford Dream 1 12/01/10 (Garrett and David's notes in red) I found myself in a dream, standing in a basement where I was watching the Chicago Bulls having practice. I saw them going through drills and practicing hard. The star point guard , Derek Rose , was being insubordinate to the head coach during these drills -- he was not obeying orders . (Derek is the star point guard; he controls the ball and the offense runs through him. President Obama too is the point man for the NWO; he is the star of the show but he will be disobedient to the real boss. Derek Rose was born and raised in the city of Chicago; after college he was drafted by his hometown Chicago Bulls. Obama's hometown is Chicago and much of his professional and political life was spent in that city. The Obamas have all been seen dressed in black and red , as at their inauguration; this was in my mind when seeing the Lord use the black and red colors Derek was dressed in . They are both black men. Derek means, "Famous ruler, or ruler of the people." With his last name being Rose, we clearly see the key to who this person represents -- a famous red ruler or a famous Communist ruler.) In real life, the coach of the Bulls is a fairly tall, middle-aged man, but I noticed that the coach was a very small and wrinkly old man .(The elderly Bilderbergers/Illuminati/Banksters that put presidents in and take them out through their national news media.) The coach fired Derek Rose on the spot and the team left the room, leaving Derek alone. (Derek only played one year at the University of Memphis. As a freshman, he led them to the national title game; after the fact, he was declared ineligible because he cheated on his SATs. The whole season was forfeited and the accomplishments of that team were wiped away from the record books. This was a pretty big scandal. There is much evidence that points to President Obama not being a naturally-born citizen of this country, thus making him ineligible to hold office and he would forfeit much of his team's accomplishments.) I watched as Derek, dressed in his red and black Bulls uniform, humbly walked over to a window and just silently gazed out into space. It seemed he was contemplating a lot of things. I walked over to the window where Derek Rose was standing -- I on the right and he on the left -- and I looked out the window with him. Something very strange was going on in the sky; it had a red hue to it, but it was nighttime. I noticed the moon in its normal spot off to left of the sky, but when I looked back over to the right , there set another moon ! (Planet X, Nibiru, the brown dwarf.) This startled me. I had to really make sure I was seeing what I was seeing. I stared back and forth between the two objects and came to the conclusion I was not imagining anything. I was seeing two celestial objects in the sky! That is when I ran out of the room Derek and I were in. I called as many people as I could walking in the hallway outside to witness this strange sight. Everyone saw the same thing I did and they were all amazed. It wasn't too long before I came to the conclusion that this was Planet X . As soon as I was fully convinced in my heart this was real, the boldness of the Lord rose up inside me and without knowing what I was saying, I spoke to Derek and the others I had called upon and said, " You now only have five years left to get right with God ." (Joseph's brothers had finally recognized him as their brother who had been promoted as head of the kingdom. He said to them: {Gen.45:6} For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and there are yet five years , in which there shall be neither plowing nor harvest. This represented the end of the second year of tribulation with five more years to go when there is famine and starvation and poison everywhere. Planet X will be casting asteroids and comets to the earth in the first trumpet judgments of Revelation 8:6-11. President Obama may not be supported by the powers that be for another term or they may just decide to take him out, as dreams and Bible codes point to -- or both.) After seeing this heavenly object so close to Earth, I wondered how we had never seen this before now. In the dream, I started to look through magazines, books and Internet sources to find recent pictures or news footage of the same area that I had seen where the two moons appeared, wondering how I or anyone else could have missed such a thing. In every single picture or video, someone had conveniently placed buildings or obstructions right in front of the area where the second moon was in the sky. I was convinced in every instance the forces that be deliberately Photoshopped or video-edited the obstructions in so the moon could not be seen. (We have seen photos altered to block what many thought was the brown dwarf, which can only be seen with an infrared telescope.) (I can honestly say I did not at all connect this dream below to the first one above, until the Lord spoke to me during worship Friday that they were connected.) Dream 2 12/10/10 I had a dream that the world was going through major changes. (Like the seal and trumpet judgments and the dragon government of Revelation 12.) It seemed like a huge transitional time in world history; it seemed very surreal. I saw President Barack Obama lose power and the world's attention was placed upon another. It seemed a man from a European country became very prominent, as Obama's favor waned. (The beast government will change leadership going through the tribulation, proving that the one man ruler theory is wrong.) This man was really wicked, much more wicked than Obama. He was a white man with slick black hair. It was made very clear to me that through a series of God-ordained events in Obama's life , he had been severely humbled and broken . I believe losing power and being abandoned by the ones who ushered him to the heights of world power added to this. I saw very clearly this was Godly sorrow and a real repentance had taken place. (Praise to the Lord! :o) Not long after these things were revealed, I ran into David Eells on the street. There was only one thing on his mind; he was very vocal about sharing what the Lord had laid upon his heart. David wanted to talk about Barack Obama and how we all in the Christian community needed to receive him as a brother and not hold anything against him anymore. David shared with me how Barack had been granted repentance from the Lord and how he was a changed man . Later in the dream, toward the end, I was with my grandma and she was on her death bed; she called me to her side. There was only one thing on her mind and that was how troubled she was for speaking evil against Barack Obama ; she was very regretful and beside herself for judging him while he was lost . She too had been shown by the Lord that Barack was now following God . (Grandma represents the old-order church which has railed at President Obama. Listen to Honor the King .) Note: I was in service tonight (8/26/11) and I was meditating on the dream during worship. I had the thought that Obama's repentance reminds me of what God did with Nebuchadnezzar. I asked the Lord for a word to confirm or deny if Barack would be granted repentance , so I opened my Bible and fixed my eyes on the first verse I saw: (Isa.55:7) Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. Update Garrett Crawford - 5/03/11 As of May 3, 2011 President Barack Obama was riding a wave of accolades and praise from both sides of the aisle for the reported "death" of Osama Bin Laden. I have not seen this much worship of Obama since the days immediately after the 2008 presidential election. It is no coincidence that his prophetic symbol in the dream I was shown above has also reached the pinnacle of his short professional career by capturing the NBA Most Valuable Player award and, at 22, he is the youngest ever to do so. On May 3rd, Derrick Rose was named the NBA MVP after statistically dominating the league all year long. I have watched basketball for years and have rarely seen a player be able to physically do the things he has done on the basketball court, especially against the type of superior competition he faces night after night. I knew the Lord made this happen to confirm the parable he was speaking to us in the dream -- that Obama and Rose are living parallel lives at this point in their respective careers. Although, Obama has reached the highs of his career, the Lord has prophesied that around the appearing of Planet X, all of Obama's accomplishments will have been forgotten and as, Donald Trump would say, "Your Fired." That's not an endorsement of Trump. :o) Rose youngest player in NBA history to win MVP award Obama praised from across political spectrum for bin Laden elimination Judgement poured out/Peace Brothers and sisters, The vision I had last night has grieved me. I did not want to share this with others. But I will be a messenger for God. Blessings, Kim October 20, 2008 I was praying and asking the Lord if Obama was evil. I saw the heart of Obama. A heart full of goodness and with love. I prayed about America and saw these things: I saw the United states map. It looked like a hard cookie. I saw it broken in half. The sound was like a cookie being broken in two. It was ripped hard and loud and completely torn. I asked an Angel if it was real and I saw it again. I thought 'this means a divided country'. I saw the united states map and pouring down onto the center of it was a red liquid. I sense something about a drowning in this red liquid. It is not blood. I saw the United States and all the state borders were thicker and blacker and bolder. I prayed and saw many large rocks falling. They were dry rocks about the size of beach balls but ragged and dusty. It seems as though it were once a larger rock and it had broken apart into these pieces. My husband just called me to watch something political on TV. On TV there was talk of there being a crack in the dam of America. The pro and anti American talk. The nation is more divided than ever. It is coming to a head. I prayed in English and in tongues. I cry out to God to help me. I share my doubt and fear with Him. I see an image of a roaring lion as I pray this. I pray for those who err that are God's people. I pray for my own shortcomings. I pray for those who are campaigning. I see many things breaking, falling and breaking. I hear the crash. I see a room full of items like lamps and furniture falling in on itself. The room caves in on itself. I see the republican party and I see chaos, brokenness, fragmentation, all loss of order, despair, crumbling. It looks like an earthquake has occurred. Everything is dire. Nothing is in order. Nothing works. It has ceased to be. I ask the Lord, 'what does this mean for America?' I see the very light blue color. It seems it is on the wing of a bird. What does this color represent? The color of a new nation. I ask, 'An evil nation rising?' I see people from all classes and of different races. I sense a calming. I sense a joy. I ask, 'Lord are good things coming soon? I thought your judgement was coming upon America?' I feel this peace and serenity though. I see this bird that has blue wings. It represents a purity and a wholesomeness. I hear silence. Unusual silence amid the blue. It is so peaceful and nice. And I am praying for more information for the Lord but I am wrapped up in this feeling of peace and quiet and calm. 'Lord, is there anything else you want to show me at this time?' I only sense an unrest from the East. It seems as though a large black gun is pointed at us and I sense anger and dislike. But I do not see it being fired. end April 12, 2010 I shared some things with my mother that the Lord has been showing me. One of the things that caught my attention and puzzled me greatly was this from October, 2008: I ask the Lord, 'what does this mean for America?' I see the very light blue color (UN). It seems it is on the wing of a bird. What does this color represent? The color of a new nation. I ask, 'An evil nation rising?' I see people from all classes and of different races. I sense a calming. I sense a joy. I ask, 'Lord are good things coming soon? I thought your judgement was coming upon America?' I feel this peace and serenity though. I see this bird that has blue wings. It represents a purity and a wholesomeness. I hear silence. Unusual silence amid the blue. It is so peaceful and nice. And I am praying for more information for the Lord but I am wrapped up in this feeling of peace and quiet and calm. 'Lord, is there anything else you want to show me at this time?' I only sense an unrest from the East. I prayed about this feeling of peace because, for the life of me, I cannot compute the blue color being something peaceful. So, I prayed about this: I came before the Lord and prayed, 'Lord, I feel you showed me that Obama would be a president in a time of great sadness yet he doesn't seem sad. This seems strange to me.' The Lord spoke to me, 'It is a time of great sorrow. Look at my people. Look at America. Look at the anger in their eyes, the hardness on their faces, their fists raised in the air. Look at the words that they are speaking to one another. It makes me feel very, very sad.' I can see what the Lord means about sorrow when he shows me this. 'But, Lord, I saw Obama being very somber when I prayed before. And he isn't.' The Lord only said, 'It is early, yet.' I see a man standing in front of God's throne as I pray. He is not an angel. He is a man. As strange as this sounds, it seems like it is John, the apostle. This is very odd to me. I'm not sure what I think of it. He is standing and he speaks to me. I notice in this man's hand is a clear, glass container with a lid on it. John removes the lid and inside I see strong words of judgement, cruel words that are being spoken in the earth going into the container. I see John put the lid on the container and close it. I hear the Lord say,' All of the words of judgement are being collected and saved.' Then I saw John take the lid off and turn the container upside down and all the judgements fell to the earth. I heard the Lord say, 'I will give their words of judgement back to them for it is written, 'If you judge, you will be judged. You will be judged by the same standard you use to judge others.' (Matt.7:1&amp;2). I see the container poured out. The words are dark, vicious and powerful. I see that what comes out of this container fall down upon those who have spoken them and they are like insects that bite and the pain they bring to those who spoke them is great. I see the judgements poured back down on these people being powerful and strong. The people lay in anguish and pain, their eyes wide open and they weep and scream. I pray about the blue color and the peace that seems so serene in the vision I had in 2008. As I'm praying the Lord says, 'It is about the work that Obama is doing in regard to getting rid of nuclear weapons. It is about what is happening now.' I ask the Lord, 'Will there be peace?' And he says, 'There will be peace for a moment.' I then see John again with a container. The Lord says, 'I am answering the prayers of my people regarding this for they have prayed for many, many years for peace.' I see what looks like prayers going into the container. They are from the people of earth. Then I see John pour them out of the container back out onto the earth. As he pours it out, I see what looks like a gas or a cloud that is very small come out and go up into the air. I look and see this again. This time when I see it again I notice a light, clear liquid like soft rain falls out onto the earth. But it only falls for a very short time. This is all so strange to me. The Lord tells me, 'Kim, you are right in what you have sensed about the words people are speaking in this nation regarding many things. They make judgements, speak lies and spread them around. The very words they speak are saved. I hear and keep every word. They will be poured out back upon the people who say them. What they say of Obama: that he is a foreigner, that he is a communist, a socialist, that he is antichrist, that he is so evil will be given back to them in a leader who IS all these things and they will embrace this leader. I will bring the judgement back on them for it is written: 'If you judge, you will be judged. You will be judged by the same standard you use to judge others.' (Matt.7:1&amp;2) 'Kim, it is true that there will come a time when people will say that they wish for the days when Obama was our president because the leader coming after him will be so very, very evil. They don't know what is going to happen! They don't know how evil the days are going to get!' This bothers me a lot. I do not like the words I hear. It is frightening. I think to myself, 'How can I bring this word to so many people who dislike Obama so much?' I don't know that I can. I am not sure what to do. The Lord knows and I pray he shows me. 'Lord, what is going to happen after Obama has worked with many other nations toward getting rid of nuclear weapons?' The Lord says to me, 'The road is being made ready.' I see what looks like people making a smooth and new road. Many people are working on this. 'Is it the path being made fully ready for the dark leader of many nations to come down?' The Lord says sadly, 'Kim, you know that it is.' I just feel sad, frustrated and irritated. I do have a better understanding but there are things I don't understand. But I must shake off my attitude and be grateful that the Lord has answered me concerning these things. end I sense danger. I have felt afraid for a little while now. I thought I saw something in my van outside earlier. I keep thinking about the dream where people are trying to shoot me with guns because of what I said about Obama. I am praying about this. I heard a voice say, 'There is an enemy lurking.' The voice is kind of like a whisper. I pray and hear nothing else. But I see a demonic force. It has the face of a man but it has many legs like a spider. It moves like a crab, though. It scuttles sideways. It reminds me of the creature I saw with many arms in nations in the earth. It looks smaller though. Its power doesn't seem as strong. I test the voice I heard. I hear it say, 'The enemy is close.' It was an angel telling me. I will pray more on this. Chicago Riots Prophecy "My brother, Noah Packard, says that he heard the Prophet Joseph Smith say that the next great (U.S. civil) war after the war of the rebellion (the Civil War of the 1860's between the North and the South) would commence in a little town now called Chicago but at that time it would have grown to be a very large city. And another brother told me that the Prophet said that the cause of the next great trouble of the United States would be the depreciation of the currency of the United States. I believe I have given you all the facts in as short and concise manner as possible." (A. Milton Musser papers, LDS Church Archives, letter from Nephi Packard to A. Milton Musser, July 24, 1896.) I just discovered the above prophecy. It confirms what I have seen in vision, and previously reported on this site as well. I saw: 1. Dollars blowing in the street and ignored like worthless trash. 2. Obama assassinated in the same manner that they killed Kennedy. 3. Race riots in Chicago fomented by agent provocateurs after the assassination. 4. Food shortages so severe that men would battle to the death for a chewed up stick of gum on the pavement. 5. Militarized street gangs, with military grade weaponry, accelerating the work of death. 6. Firestorms raising what is left of the city to the ground. 7. Plagues, Famine and the Sword. Those that live in the city, or suburbs, which are vast, will all ultimately be effected. Although the rioting will begin in the city core. With the rapidly accelerating descent of the dollar, welfare checks, social security checks, SSI payments etc., will soon be worthless. This, coupled with the fact that commodity prices will skyrocket, will cause the social breakdown. Those that live in the Chicago area would be best served by having an exit strategy for leaving the city when the first signs of chaos appear. Those unable to leave, will need to form neighborhood defense groups to defend against the roving gangs. The city proper has a population of about 3 million people and is the third most populated city in the United States. I recommend the following for those that remain: 1. Water purifiers. Also, store bottled water. 2. Store food. Up to 12 months if possible.Dry food, with minimal water content. 3. Shotgun for home defense. Buy birdshot, not buckshot, with a wide pattern. A 12 gauge that can hold several rounds.If you can afford it, a 17 HMR for neighborhood protection (with a scope). The 17HMR is a 22 magnum. Buy hollowpoints for ammo. Bolt action is fine and easy to clean. I also like the 9 mm for in home protection, after you buy a shotgun. 4. Warm sleeping bags, firewood and plenty of waterproof matches. Candles are also important. Good boots (combat from army surplus or hiking), along with a back-pack. Flashlight with its own hand-crank generator. 5. Convert all surplus dollars into gold and silver bullion. This will be the currency of the realm, since it is the only real money in this world of ours. 6. Form a Mutual Defense League with neighbors and friends. You have a Constitutional Right to defend your property and lives from attack. Never go on the offensive. Formulate a plan to secure your neighborhood. Never surrender your weapons. Hide them instead. 7. Be spiritually prepared. If you are afraid, you are not spiritually prepared. Fast (go without food/water), pray and read your Holy Books until you find peace with your God. Get rid of evil influences that generate fear or lust. Cleanse your mind. Forgive others and ask that you might be forgiven as well. Keep the 10 Commandments. Do not lust after the blood or lives of others. 8. Expect miracles and pray for them. God has preserved my life from great enemies and He will do the same for you, if you ask for it. Pray to be invisible from your enemies. I do no harm to others and expect to receive no harm in return. Yet, I maintain the right to protect myself and my family as my highest privilege. You have the same rights as I do. Please exercise those rights, while there is still time. A Prophetic Word Regarding Barack Obama The Word of the Lord given through His servant Scott Hofstee October 25, 2008/ Tishrei 26, 5769 On January 3, 2008 I was looking for something to watch on television. As I was surfing the channels I decided on catching some news. As I tuned in the news, the results of the Iowa caucus were being announced. I preceded to hear the results of the Democratic caucus and began listening to the winner give a speech to people. As this man spoke, the Spirit of the Lord began to show me and tell me that He had chosen this man and that His hand was on him. I wasn't sure to what extent that meant but the Lord began to put a burden for this man over the next few weeks and months as he battled against Hillary Clinton for the nomination of his party and then as he battled his opponent John McCain and the lies that have been spread about him. He also began to show me the reasons He had chosen this man, Barack Hussein Obama. On November 5, 2004, the Lord has spoke to me through a word He gave me that America had elected its last president and that the president they had chosen was a "Saul". I began to inquire of the Lord what that meant in the light of His choosing of this man Barack Obama. The Lord told me this man was a "David" and that He had chosen him because he has in him the heart of shepherd. His heart was for the poorest and the weakest of His people. The Spirit of the Lord showed me that this man has the heart of a shepherd, that he is willing to be spent for His sheep as well as a heart that is willing to hear and be taught. He also had chosen him because he represented a fatherless generation of people and because he represented what it meant to be of this world. He was neither black nor white, he was both. He represented everyone in this nation. His politics at this time were not important to the Lord, His heart to do what was right at the moment of truth will be the key. The Lord also showed me John McCain. I saw a man whose heart was first and foremost toward himself and his legacy. A man constantly pointing to the works of his hands and a man who did not have any intimate knowledge of the Lord. He had merely a religious mask posing as one who was spiritual. The Lord showed me that his name said everything about him. McCain means "son of Cain" I have heard and seen numerous supposedly religious or spiritual people say the Lord had told them that John McCain was supposed to win and that Barack Obama was either a Muslim or the "antichrist" and attempt to attach the Lord's name to their ramblings and vain imaginations and fears. These people have neither heard from the Lord nor do they represent Him. The Lord has chosen Barack Hussein Obama in this hour and He has rejected John McCain and the party that He represents. The Lord has begun to unleash His judgments on this nation and it will take a man who will put his confidence in the Lord to survive what is directly ahead. Hear the Word of the Lord to the next President of the United States of America So says the Lord to the one named "Blessed of God". I have chosen you and I have appointed you for this hour. It is I Yahweh who has gone before you and made the way straight. It is I who has put before you an open door. Now I ask you, Will you pass through? Will you enter in? Will you seek to hear My voice and do My will? For what is coming is greater than the learned minds that you have surrounded yourself with, will be able to comprehend. It is darker than any man made light can penetrate. I AM calling you to humble yourself before Me. For only in that humility will you survive what is at the doors of this nation. The financial shaking is just beginning, soon you will see greater tragedies than any generation before you and they will not be just in other places. I have foretold these things through My servants the prophets and My counsel is always in the mouths of My true servants. You must recognize them when I send them, for only in knowing My will, will people survive in the days ahead. Now I speak to those who have withstood My words and presumed to speak for Me regarding My servant. I shall put you in derision. For you have allowed your prejudices to skew your vision. You have allowed your "politics" to get in the way of My words. You have spoken lies regarding him because your hearts held onto fears rooted in prejudice. The truth is this, it is I, the Lord who has chosen this one called "Blessed of God" and it is I who has rejected the lies of those who love themselves more than they love Me. So says the Spirit of the Lord through His servant this day. Amen and Amen. I Saw the Coming American Revolution By Evangelist Bobby Martz of New Covenant Church in Hampton, Virginia, a missionary to the Philippines for 14 years. I was with Pastor Ray Brooks of The Open Way Church and Michael Sullivan. We were laying hands on each other, praying for each other. My mind was concerned with imparting strength to my brothers. All of a sudden I had a vision. It was so real, it was as if I was there. I saw a vision of a city in America. Many of the buildings were on fire. There was looting and rioting. There was a breakdown of law and order--no respect for law and order, thousands of people on the streets--burning, killing, looting. Sirens were blaring, ambulances carrying away the dead and wounded. I saw bystanders. They were pulling their hair. The Lord let me hear their thoughts. They were thinking, I cannot believe this is America! I cannot believe it has happened to us. The people were petrified with fear and confusion, not knowing what to do. There was so much fear, thinking, Where can we go to be safe? I saw these bat-looking creatures flying all around, coming out of these dark clouds. I believe these are demons attacking people. Isaiah 1 came to mind. I saw an eagle coming out of heaven, attacking these bat-looking creatures. I saw the whole earth. The sun was rising on the whole earth. I thought about the scripture about the Son rising with healing in his wings. When I came out of this vision, I was interceding and weeping for this country. I believe these things will come on America. index Vision of Leaders I saw another vision of leaders, those leading the church. I saw a person on the floor in deep agony. They were howling. They sounded like a fire siren. They were wailing and howling of their own condition and the condition of the church. The Lord let me see what this person was thinking. I saw one word over this person. The word was "COMPROMISE." This leader was thinking, as he was howling, How have I allowed these things to come into the church? How have I allowed these things to come into my own personal life? Wherein have I been so deceived as to have allowed all this to happen that breaks the heart of God? I feel trapped, this person thought. This person had this big question. How can we (the church) be delivered? How can I be delivered from the compromise? It was as if the person was feeling the dilemma of the church. How can the church come out of this dilemma of compromise? The person was in terrible agony and howling, lying on the floor. I feel that from the pulpit to the pew in the church there has been much compromise within the church. I personally believe the day is coming when there will be a real wave of the Holy Spirit and an outpouring of the Holy Spirit of conviction, especially in leaders. They will end up on the floor howling before God. index Victory in Jesus! In early 1984 I saw a church building. I saw the altar. People were at the front kneeling and praying. It looked like there was around 100 people praying. There was a group of them that stood out of anger and rebellion and said, "We don't have to pray like this! This is too demanding. This is too legalistic. We don't have to get into this type of praying." These people that were speaking against praying were found in the church kitchen, in the social area where they have social functions like potluck dinners. The Christians that were against praying were saying, "It's all right to pray a little, but we don't need to pray like that." (I want to make this clear. I am not against fellowship of God's people. It should not get in the way of serving God. When there is so much pleasure that it gets in the way of prayer, it is wrong.) These people in the social hall said among themselves. "This is what we want." What they were saying is, "We just want to have a good time." Where the church becomes a social club, doing social activities, things that would appeal to "self" and bring pleasure to one's own self, it is very selfish. They were doing this in rebellion against God's call to prayer. They were speaking out and saying, "This is what we really want." The next thing I saw was what looked like black arrows being released by black demonic spirits. These black demons come upon these people in their social function--within the church. These black demons started attacking these people. These people started grabbing their heads as these demons attacked. They started going crazy. They could not handle the demonic pressures and forces of these demonic powers in the last days! I had the sense that there would be those that would say they were Christians, born again, yet would be committed to mental institutions. They would go in for psychiatric care because they could not cope with what was coming upon the earth. Then the dream changed. The Lord took me back to those that continued in prayer. They were weeping. They were weeping for the whole earth, for all the nations. They were broken and weeping. I saw tremendous unity, tremendous love one for another. They understood one another. They understood one another's call. They understood one another's burden. There was real unity. There was no jealousy. They were not being competitive with one another. They were so focused with their burden for the world. Their focus was not on who am I or what is my position; their focus was a burden for the world. The dream changed. I could see the continents, the coastlines, the borders. I saw a giant tidal wave slowly moving over the earth. Every nation was being touched by this wave. I asked God, "What is this wave?" God spoke to my heart and said, "This is my Holy Spirit moving in these last days." The tidal wave was moving slowly but surely, a gradual buildup going over the earth. The dream changed. The Lord brought me back to the people that had been weeping before the Lord for the nations. I saw these people stand on their feet. They turned around. They were facing the world in terrible, terrible conditions. The darkness that was upon the earth was horrible, indescribable. It was terrifying; but these people that had been interceding and weeping, the amazing thing was, they were not afraid. They were not afraid of what they were looking at. They were not afraid of the terrible gross darkness. They were full of the Holy Spirit. They began to go forward as one, united. They began to speak the Word of God. The gospel was coming out of their mouths. They were speaking to the multitudes in darkness before them. I saw the Holy Spirit bringing multitudes and multitudes of people into the Kingdom of God in the last days. There were so many people coming to Jesus that I could not see the end. It was a huge, huge multitude of people coming into the Kingdom of God. The dream ended. - Bobby Martz America's Christians Lose Their Freedom Amos Scaggs - 11/16/10 In a vision, I saw the British soldiers with the tricorne hats and drab, abstract, black uniforms in an endless line coming against a militia of ordinary citizens, as we had during the Revolutionary war. The militia was in whitish trousers and tan shirts of that period. The table was light-colored with dark legs. They had several hard-fought battles. But in the face of an incoming force they could not defeat because of the sheer numbers, they pulled the plans off the table and rolled them up like a scroll to retreat with the few in number they had left. Those last few escaped without harm as the bullets were flying all around them. I thought, in the first Revolutionary war we won our freedom from tyrants but in this last struggle we lose it to them. It appears from this that the battle for America's independence (freedom) will be lost. There will be some hard battles and hard fighting but in the end the militias will have to retreat. They will be simply outgunned and outnumbered. Note from David: Many Christians will fight to gain their freedom from an America taken over by banksters and corporate fascism but they will fail because they are disobedient to the commands of God in this regard. In the time of the tribulations in history, when God sent the man-child to lead the people to freedom, they had become subjugate to the beast kingdoms that swallowed them up for their sins. America is being possessed by the beast nature from the pit for this purpose. In the time of Moses and that tribulation, the people of God had become slaves in Egypt. Only in Goshen was there light in the houses and deliverance from the plagues. In the time of Joseph and that tribulation, the people were at the mercy of the state, begging for food losing their property. In the time of Daniel, the people were conquered in tribulation and under the authority of ruthless dictators who took their lives at will. In the time of Mordecai, the people in tribulation were under the sentence of death by the beast and fighting for their lives. In the time of Jesus, the people were under the iron fist of the Roman beast tribulation, with no representation or rights of their own. Jesus told them to flee to the mountains -- above the world and its influence. History always repeats (Ecclesiastes 1:9; 3:15). In this time of the end-time man-child, in whom Jesus lives, a combination of all of the above will happen in tribulation. Christians have been just as rebellious as their predecessors and are in just as much need of crucifixion of self -- in just as much need of new leadership and old truths. Instead they have insulated themselves only in their minds with lies of dominion, prosperity, flying away, etc.) Civil War Is Coming Mary Dooley - 1/07/09 (David's notes in red) I had a dream in the first week of January. I believe it was the 7th. I was standing at a crossroads that was close to the beach, in that I could clearly see the open sky over the ocean in front of me. (I had asked God to tell me if I had any fruit before I went to sleep and had the dream and, at the crossroads where I was standing, I was next to a fruit stand. If I had to quantify the amount, I'd say it was 60% my height. I am going for the 100-fold.) To my right I could see that there was a battle in the air , as I could see the smoke from the jets . To my left, two planes that were unlike any I have ever seen (and I have seen quite a few since 1988, living on or near military bases) and they were speeding at low level toward the battle . I knew in the dream that they were Turkish. They were totally black. (Turkey fell out with Israel over the Gaza war and are pushing the 0bama administration to the left, if that's possible, concerning their support for Israel. They have also threatened Israel, if they move against the puppets of the Iranians. 0bama will align with his history and not Israel . The first nation to fall to the new Babylon one world order was Israel , which is also a type for Christianity.) Next, from the left again, something was coming in the air. It was something big and black, with black smoke coming out from it in all directions. As it got closer, I could see something orange on the nose of it. Then I realized it was a black airship or blimp , (notice both sides are in darkness)and the orange thing on the nose was a jack-o-lantern (Halloween, Oct. 31st, Babylon's "All Saints Day," when the Celts say the living are closest to the dead and the forces of darkness are at work), with the eyes, nose and mouth orange because the inside of the airship was on fire . As the airship passed in front of me, I saw that it was slowing down and being totally consumed internally , as the orange flames were destroying it quickly . It stopped in front of me and fell into the ocean . (There is a battle going on for the "air waves" before the physical battle. The left is floating ideas to, in effect, bring the Fairness Doctrine back under another form to shoot down the conservatives' command of the "air waves," which is about as weak as a blimp compared to what is coming. On a more natural level to follow this, blimps cannot compete with jets. They are clumsy, slow, lack power and are relics of the past for warfare. This spiritually describes the badly outmatched right-wing conservative Babylonish Christian movement that is rising up to "take the nation back" from the left wing that is in control of the military. This will be a dismal failure. Another 9/11 is coming, this time from the Left, and the blame will be put on the Right in part because so much proof is coming forward of the Bush administration's part in the first 9/11 that they will be blamed for this, too, by the 0bama administration and the left-wing media. The country is about to swing very far Left.) I felt like I should run to higher ground because the airship was so big , and I was so close that it might cause a big wave to hit me (this will bring great persecution to the Christians), so I ran upstairs into one of the nearby, rather short buildings behind me. (Christians will no doubt need to get to the High and Holy Ground of Scriptural foundation to escape this coming disaster from the division of America. The scriptures declare that militant Christians will lose this battle badly. Listen to U.S. Covenant &amp; Civil War .) Now I knew I was on a Navy base, as I went up about one or two stories and an enlisted man in uniform was leaning back in his chair, with his hands behind his head, rather unconcerned . He was at the back end of what looked to be a small movie theatre, with the screen to my left. No one was in the room but the enlisted man who, from where he was sitting, would probably be the person running the projector. I told him what had happened and he said, "Yes, my father was on that airship "; I was surprised at how unmoved he was . (A younger left-wing generation that has rebelled against the conservative morals and constitutional respect of the fore father s will show no mercy or pity on them in the coming civil war. An antichrist spirit is sweeping the world, much like anti-Semitism during the Nazi era. A great backlash against the Christians will come from this. The Left will have complete control over the media, typed by the movie projector, to bring a worldwide persecution of Christianity. Read Sovereign God for rest and peace.) Next, I was outside at the crossroads again. Now I could see that there was a convoy, almost like a parade , coming home from the direction of the air battle . I got the impression they were victorious , as they did not even appear tired or dirty, more like inspection-ready. They were sitting in tiers, like bleachers , that were on top of some vehicle bringing them back to the base. They were in camouflage uniform, wearing dark glasses and holding flags . (These are hiding from the truth willfully; hiding from the Son, behind patriotism.)The flags were full size and easy to see, as each person had a flag , and held it stretched out in front of him. The flags were stiff, like posters , and they were held on each end. (The flags were stiff, cheap fakes of what the real flag that was blown by the wind stood for.) Now I could see that the flags were distinctly Confederate , and the convoy was taking the curve in the road to their left . There were only two choices at this intersection, curve sharply to the left , or sharply to the right. I did not see anyone going to the right . (The conservative/religious right will lose badly.The rebels against our forefathers' morality will win. The country will turn sharply to the left where the goats go in Jesus' parable. Like the Confederate rebels, their interest is to cast off any moral or constitutional restraint and keep black men, as a type of those who walk in darkness, or sinners, in bondage.) End of dream. On the 11th of January I was at work. A Christian patient was about to leave, when suddenly she remembered that her teenage daughter had a dream that night. She said an angel took her into the air , where there was a tremendous air battle going on , and it was so loud and disturbing that she covered her ears, and then the angel brought her back to her bed. She then woke her mom up to tell her and was crying because it was so disturbing, and she is only 16. I told her mom about my dream. About three days after this, I called my very good friend, Ellen. I told her that I had had a dream that I wanted to tell her. She stopped me and said she just had one, and so she told me her dream first. She said that she was caught in the middle of a war that was about to start . She said she was trying to find cover behind a house, and that the battle was about to begin , and she was trying to help a little girl find cover, too. I asked her what kind of battle -- as in modern, or something from the past. She said, "It's a revolutionary...no, it's a civil war ." I believe this Civil War will escalate from the war of words over the "air" waves to physical weapons some time soon. Here is an example of the rhetoric coming from the conservatives who say guns will be needed if they fail to return the country to conservative principles. Here is an obvious indication that conservatives in the military and police will refuse to obey orders and fight. Has it already started in the military ? If you as a Christian think God has called you to fight this government, you desperately need to read The Sword or the Cross? and listen to Honor the king? (1) , Honor the king? (2) and Honor the king? (3) . Many Christians are victims of neglecting their Bibles and their consciences. Remember, if a man's ways please the Lord, He makes his enemies to be at peace with him. Also read: America Conquered By Russia / Communism Devastation of Charismatic Christianity Don't Fight with the Government Fleeing Babylon to Our Safe House American Civil War Coming Marilyn Klinke - 7/28/09 In the dream, a Godly sister in Christ and I were at some train tracks, watching young men board the trains. The young men were dressed in American Civil War uniforms and going off to war.The sister and I implored them not to go, telling them that this war would not be good and that brother would end up fighting brother . No one would heed our tearful pleas ; they just kept boarding the trains. I noticed that, in addition to each soldier carrying a rifle, they also had a small pack or tray of seedling vegetables , like you plant in your garden in the spring. I understood the part of the dream about civil war coming, but was puzzled over the seedling vegetable plants. I felt that somehow the plants represented in some way the disruption of food or crops because of the civil war, but after praying I also thought that they might indicate that the war would start in the spring. Perhaps this dream has some relevance to the events we see coming to pass now. Civil War in U.S. Kenneth R. Atnip, Sr. - 12/18/10 My 16-year-old daughter , Maryann , had a dream a few days ago. She dreamed of civili war against the current government . The scene was very chaotic and those in rebellion to the government were going house to house forcing any and all men to join with them. Many of us Christians were in hiding , not willing to join in a rebellion against the government . She awoke in the middle of the night with a strong taste of blood in her mouth. Her 13-year-old sister, Aimee, woke up as well and immediately asked her what was wrong. The 16-year-old said that she had the taste of blood in her mouth to which the 13-year-old asked, "Were you dreaming of war?" Somehow she knew that she was dreaming of war. Last November my three-year-old son, Jeremiah, slept with Mom and Dad. He awoke at 5:30 AM yelling, " War is coming ... people are dying ... people are crying to God ." He has no idea what these things are. It woke me out of a dead sleep and I sat up and looked at him. He was wide awake and started telling of hearing a noise: "pop, pop, pop," he kept repeating. All day he kept talking about big balloons coming and looking out the window. He said, "Maybe they won't come; maybe they will pop." DON'T FIGHT WITH THE GOVERNMENT The Sword or the Cross? David Eells Please be very patient with me and I will share something that just may save your physical and eternal life. If you are not willing to believe only what the scriptures say concerning your relationship to this evil world and its God-ordained plan in your life, don't waste your time reading this. (Excerpt from Hidden Manna For the End Times ) When Peter used the sword to keep Jesus from going to the cross, He said, "All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword." Even though the true saints will not agree with much that is about to happen in this world, they will not take "the sword" of man and break their covenant with God as the apostates and their leadership will. God's plan for His people is demonstrated by Jesus. (Jn.12:23) And Jesus answereth them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. (24) Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a grain of wheat fall into the earth and die , it abideth by itself alone; but if it die, it beareth much fruit . (25) He that loveth his life loseth it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. (26) If any man serve me, let him follow me ; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will the Father honor. As Jesus was a seed sown in the dirt of this earth, so must we be. The wicked of this world are the dirt that puts to death the fleshly husk of the seed so that the inner life may come forth and bear fruit. As a lamb does not struggle with a wolf, the seed does not struggle with the dirt but permits it to fulfill its purpose. (Lk.10:3)... I send you forth as lambs in the midst of wolves . In God's plan wolves devour the flesh of the lambs. He uses the wicked to chasten His children. (2Sam.7:14) I will be his father, and he shall be my son: if he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men , and with the stripes of the children of men . (2Cor.4:11) For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh . (16) Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. (17) For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory. The glory of God will be manifested in those who will "resist not him that is evil" but will "turn the other cheek" and permit the dirt to do its job. No one else can drive the nails, friend. You are unable to do it and other Christians shouldn't do it. It is God's plan to use the harlot and the beast to crucify our old man. (Acts 2:23) im (Jesus) , being delivered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God , ye by the hand of lawless men did crucify and slay. (4:27) or of a truth in this city against thy holy Servant Jesus, whom thou didst anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, were gathered together, (28) to do whatsoever thy hand and thy council foreordained to come to pass . Through death to self at their hands, the world will see Jesus in us and we will be enabled to fulfill the great commission. (1Pet.4:1) Forasmuch then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also with the same mind ; for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; (2) that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God . In the days when God's people were ruled over by the Roman beast it was written: (Rom.13:1) Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers : for there is no power but of God ; and the that be are ordained of God . (2) Therefore he that resisteth the power, withstandeth the ordinance of God: and they that withstand shall receive to themselves judgment . Though Christians are forbidden to take the mark and image of the beast, they are also forbidden to take up arms against secular nations over them. This puts the people of God in a position of weakness like Jesus when He submitted to His cross instead of fighting. (Note: Some falsely say that the U.S. is not typed in Scriptures. In Revelation, we see that Babylon is the Queen of the world, an end-time world superpower, a very rich nation that trades with the whole world. Both Revelation and Daniel say it is the head of all the nations and was called the "great eagle" in Ezekiel 17. Jeremiah 25 shows that it will bring destruction to the Middle East and then fall in what appears to be a nuclear attack from the nations. Revelation 18 says this will be in one hour of one day. Who, with common sense, would not see that this ancient eagle that was conquered by the bear is not a type of the U.S.?) Using Babylon and her king as a type of the U.S. and her President, God warned his people to submit to her as far as secular matters go. (Jer.27:5) I have made the earth, the men and the beasts that are upon the face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it unto whom it seemeth right unto me. (6) And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon , my servant.... (7) And all the nations shall serve him .... (8) And it shall come to pass, that the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon , and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish , saith the Lord, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand . (9) But as for you (Christians) , hearken ye not to your prophets , nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon : (10) for they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land, and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish .... (12) And I spake to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live . (13) Why will ye die , thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the Lord hath spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon ? (14) And hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon ; for they prophesy a lie unto you. (15) For I have not sent them, saith the Lord, but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out , and that ye may perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you. Fear this warning and do not listen to false prophets who come as patriots to stir up Christians to rebel against this country . Those who do, God will destroy by the hand of this government. In this way God will cleanse His body of those that refuse to obey and go to their cross. Here is a portion of a vision and prophecy through Chuck Youngbrandt: Those who are rebellious against God will rebel against the government, including the communist's fifth columnists we have here. Military troops will have to be called out as a result. Some will repent but many will continue in rebellion. God said 90% of the rebellious and disobedient church people will die during this time. Jesus said, "Love your enemies," not shoot them, and "turn the other cheek," not make war on them. That's what those concentration camps are for, friends. They are expecting and waiting for Christians to "take the sword." Our Lord said, "All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword." I am certainly not excusing the government's actions in any of this but if David Koresh had not broken God's covenant and stored up that arsenal with the intent to use it against the government, he and his followers would still be alive. Bear witness that God did not defend them . God will bring the U.S. against His people and their apostate leaders because they have ignored His covenant. (Hos.8:1) the trumpet to thy mouth. As an eagle against the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant , and trespassed against my law. (2) They shall cry unto me, My God, we Israel know thee. (3) Israel hath cast off that which is good: the enemy shall pursue him . (4) They have set up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off. In the days of Jesus we see this same type in these days. The apostate people of God were in bondage to the Roman beast for their rebellion against the Word. These stiff-necked people of God were in constant revolution against the Romans and paying a great penalty for it. (Mk.15:6) Now at the feast he used to release unto them one prisoner, whom they asked of him. (7) And there was one called Barabbas , bound with them that had made insurrection (revolution) , men who in the insurrection had committed murder . (8) And the multitude went up and began to ask him as he was wont to do unto them. (9) And Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews? (10) For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had delivered him up. (11) But the chief priests stirred up the multitude, that he should rather release Barabbas unto them. (Jn.18:40) They cried out therefore again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber . Notice that Barabbas and many with him were in prison for making a revolution against the Romans. Jesus suffered in the place of this Jewish patriot . In like manner the true body of Christ will suffer innocently because of "Christian" patriots who will revolt against the U.S./U.N. beast. In another type, Barabbas was chosen out of all the Jews that were in prison with him to be released. Barabbas means "son of the father." Because Jesus went to the cross, a remnant of these people who truly are "sons of the Father" will be forgiven and saved. Militant patriots do not understand what the Holy Spirit showed in this text, that killing Romans or Americans is " murder " and that those who steal from them are " robbers ." Remember, God did not defend almost 1000 very religious patriots whom the Romans destroyed. In 66 A.D. when the Jews rebelled against the Romans, they captured this mountain 1000 meters above the Judean wilderness. In a well-supplied, seemingly impregnable fortress, the Jews attempted for seven years to hold out against the Roman beast. In a clear type, all but a remnant of seven committed suicide and brought an end to the worldly state of Israel. "Christian" rebels in our day will, in effect, commit suicide by fighting against the beast and bring an end to the worldly state of the Church. The Timothy McVeigh's of this world are not patriots in God's kingdom. The real heroes are those who leave worldly governments up to God and choose their cross over rebelling against His Word. Like Jesus, Paul gives us a type of how innocent Christians in our day will be falsely accused as rebels and imprisoned or killed. In Acts 21:38, a chief captain said to him, "Art thou not then the Egyptian , who before these days stirred up to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the Assassins ?" Notice once again that an Egyptian, representing the old carnal man, was leading Jews to kill Romans. The "Christians" who are led of the old man today will fight against the U.S./U.N. beast. God will not tolerate those who call themselves patriots in order to rebel against this government and His Word. (Rom.13:1) Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God.... (2) Therefore he that resisteth the power, withstandeth the ordinance of God: and they that withstand shall receive to themselves judgment . Jesus gave us permission to "flee" like sheep before the wolves, but not to fight in the flesh as wolves. (Mt.10:16) Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves : be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves . (23) But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone through the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come . Notice that this persecution will spread the Word through the cities of God's people and He will come. Praise His Name! While the carnal people of God were having their revolution against the government, Jesus and the disciples were having a spiritual revolution against them. Jesus said, "Think not that I came to send peace on the earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword (the Word) . For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law: and a man's foes they of his own household" (Mt.10:34-36) . Tertullus, speaking against Paul's revolution, said, "For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of insurrections (revolutions) among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes" (Acts 24:5) . Jesus and Paul's revolution was to use the Word to separate the chosen from the carnal church. Neither of them had anything to do with wrestling with a flesh and blood beast system. That was the harlot's revolution. We are to be patriots of the Lord's kingdom, not the U.S. Like Jesus, " My kingdom is not of this world ." Because they would not obey Jesus, the Jews were led by their deceiving leadership to their own destruction and that of their city in 70 A.D. This was also the cause of its destruction in other times. (Ezra 4:19) And I decreed, and search hath been made, and it is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings , and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein. (5:12) But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon . Every beast kingdom was raised up by God to chasten and bring into bondage and crucifixion His rebellious people and so it will be with the Babylon of our day. Our warfare is not with flesh and blood men but with the demon principalities and powers that rule them (Eph.6:12). (Mt.5:38) Ye have heard that it was said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: (39) but I say unto you, Resist not him that is evil : but whosoever smiteth thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. (Jas.4:7)... resist the devil , and he will flee from you. Many will fight to keep from going into captivity but only God determines if one needs this for their maturing. (Rev.13:9) If any man hath an ear, let him hear. (10) If any man for captivity, into captivity he goeth: if any man shall kill with the sword, with the sword must he be killed . Here is the patience and the faith of the saints. Only God gives authority to the beast to bring His people into bondage or death. M. Cox relates a dream he had concerning these principles. I had a dream so real that every time I think about it, it becomes more vivid just as if I was there. I was sleeping in our small farm house with a few other people one night. Sometime in the dead of the night all of a sudden I heard the thunderous boom of these military helicopters and airplanes. Then this helicopter landed right beside our house. All the occupants of our house were rounded up and taken away by the helicopter, probably to prison work farms. I was just standing there amazed, thinking these people never resisted , or tried to run away . And they all acted like I wasn't there . I thought that they had forgotten me. Soon after they left, another helicopter came. They were probably told that they had forgotten one of the occupants. I was naturally scared so I hid under the bed, shaking like a leaf with my legs sticking out. The soldiers didn't have any U.N. symbol but were probably a makeshift multi-national army. A black and a white soldier had yellow torches and M-16 machine guns with them. They were looking and thrashing everywhere trying to look for me. The black soldier was looking under the bed I was under. The funny thing was I was right in front of him with my feet sticking out but it appeared he couldn't see me. Suddenly, it dawned on me that I was invisible to the soldiers. They couldn't see me . After awhile, the soldiers left frustrated at not being able to find me. I must say that the fear and terror of the situation was unbelievable. A few days later this helicopter came and sprayed this chemical and the surrounding place turned all brown. They probably had been given orders to let no survivors that they couldn't find live. Anyway, even before they sprayed I noticed that the surrounding vegetation looked brownish, maybe from nuclear fallout. Miraculously, with all this happening I was still alive and the dream ended there. Notice that God's people did not resist and only those who needed captivity were taken. We should not put it beyond God's ability to supernaturally hide those who do not need more crucifixion. If He could translate me halfway around the world, He can certainly make us invisible to the enemy. Bob Aicardi also had a dream like this. I found myself cautiously walking the floors of a very large government building, which was occupied by foreign troops, and I knew that as an American I was not supposed to be there. I was noticed by a worker, who set off an intruder alert. Down the corridor the entrance doors slammed shut and locked. As I walked up to the doors they opened and I passed through to escape. Once outside, perimeter guards were alerted and were all about. I walked through them as invisible and saw another man doing the same thing. I said to him, "Isn't the blood of Jesus wonderful?" We see that not only can God protect those who are mature but He can also give rest to those who need to submit to their cross. (Jn.19:11) Jesus answered him, Thou wouldest have no power against me, except it were given thee from above . Like our Lord, we are to receive everything as from God and leave retaliation up to Him. (Rom.12:17) Render to no man evil for evil . Take thought for things honorable in the sight of all men. (18) If it be possible, as much as in you lieth, be at peace with all men . (19) Avenge not yourselves , beloved, but give place unto the wrath : for it is written, Vengeance belongeth unto me ; I will recompense, saith the Lord. (20) But if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him to drink : for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head. (21) Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good . Our old man wants to live by defending self and retaliating, but our obedience to these commands crucifies that carnal nature in us. Satan seeks through well-meaning people to keep us from this cross. (Mt.16:21) From that time began Jesus to show unto his disciples, that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed , and the third day be raised up. (22) And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall never be unto thee. (23) But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan : thou art a stumbling-block unto me: for thou mindest not the things of God, but the things of men . Notice that Peter, by the spirit of Satan was a stumbling block by trying to dissuade Jesus from going to His cross. Peter later took the sword, to try to enforce his way and again met with rebuke. (24) Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me . (25) For whosoever would save his life shall lose it : and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it. Even when we are at our best, the hidden carnal nature must be crucified. (1Pet.2:20) For what glory is it, if, when ye sin, and are buffeted , ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer , ye shall take it patiently , this is acceptable with God. (21) For hereunto were ye called : because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example , that ye should follow his steps : (22) who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: (23) who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, threatened not; but committed to him that judgeth righteously. What could be clearer? We are to follow in Jesus' steps by cooperating with God's process of using the harlot religious system and the beast kingdom to bring us to the cross. We are not to resist them by force. The laws of our kingdom do not permit us to fight in the flesh to escape captivity. (Jn.18:36) 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. In the days leading up to a civil war in the midst of the One World Order, many will stand up against the U.S. as the king of the South. Included among these are some of God's people who will try to impose their vision of the kingdom of God in the U.S. by violent methods, but they will be killed. (Dan.11:14) And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the children of the violent among thy people shall lift themselves up to establish the vision; but they shall fall . God will not permit fleshly methods to have any success so that His people learn to walk in the Spirit. (12:7)... t shall be for a time, times, and a half; and when they have made an end of breaking in pieces the power of (self in) the holy people , all these things shall be finished. Notice that our temptation to use our own power must be crucified. (Zech.4:6)...Not by (our) might, nor by (our) power, but by my Spirit, saith Lord of hosts. War is of the world and is motivated by lust, not God. (Jas.4:1) Whence wars and whence fightings among you? not hence, of your pleasures that war in your members? (2) Ye lust , and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war ; ye have not, because ye ask not. Those who join with the world to make war on their enemies are enemies of the cross and of God. (4) Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God . Those who preach peace and safety, and refuse to cooperate with God in this process of falling to the earth to die will be cut off. (Amos 9:8) Behold, the eyes of the Lord are upon the sinful kingdom , and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; save that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the Lord. (9) For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations , like as is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least kernel fall upon the earth . (10) All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword , who say, The evil shall not overtake nor meet us . We are coming to the same tribulation days of sifting as it was with Peter. (Lk.22:31) Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat : (32) but I made supplication for thee, that thy faith fail not . Even though Peter initially denied the Lord, he got back up and became a strong leader who gave his old life. Satan is ordained of the Lord to sift the disciples to get the husk that is his, so that God may have the pure fruit of Christ. Here is a prophecy through Thomas S. Gibson that relates the persecution the U.S. will bring against Christianity to separate the true saints from the tares. Thus says the Lord, repent and listen to the Word of God. Note that there shall be persecutions arising in all places, throughout the U.S. and Canada, and through Europe . These nations shall rise up in persecutions against My people . It shall purge the Church. Those of Mine , that are truly Mine, who walk in power and are committed to Me, they shall stand in this persecution no matter what it brings . But listen to Me, and heed Me. For thus saith the Lord, I am God, and I am allowing this, for it shall purge My Church . For there are many that shall quickly deny Me , shall quickly deny the truth, quickly revert to a world religion , shall quickly deny the power of the Word; they deny the truth of the Word. They shall quickly deny many things, and they shall become politically correct for the day and the age that they live. For they do not want to be in persecutions and they do not want to stand against the world. They love the world, and they are part of the world, and they were never part of Me. But they have a form of Godliness in the Church, and they were in the Church, shining as Christians and looking as Christians in outward appearance, but in their heart they were not of Me. This shall purge the Church and bring to pass what I have said; I will separate the sheep from the goats ; that is, My people from the world. God is sovereign in the happenings of history in order to show us what will happen in the latter days, for, "That which hath been is that which shall be." In the time of the tribulation of Christ's day, Rome had swallowed up the people of God. Through Babylon's type we see that the U.S. will swallow up the people of God before her fall. (Jer.51:34) Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me , he hath crushed me , he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath, like a monster, swallowed me up , he hath filled his maw with my delicacies; he hath cast me out. (35) The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say ; and, My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea , shall Jerusalem say. Because the U.S. will try to save herself by sacrificing God's lambs on the altar of religious unity and political correctness, God will take vengeance on her. (36) Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee ; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry. (37) And Babylon shall become heaps , a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant. ... (41) How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized ! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations ! (42) The sea (of men) is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof. (43) Her cities are become a desolation. Please also listen to the audio series Honor the king? and How Shall We Die? and read Torment to Those Who Fight Back . THE MILITANT APOSTATES REBEL (excerpt from Hidden Manna For the End Times ) God is raising up this beast kingdom to crucify us as their forefathers crucified our Master. At the same time, the beast will purge Christianity of those who refuse to go to their cross of death to self. At first you may think I am wrong about this but if you will bear with me you will be overwhelmed with proof from God's Word. Christians constantly send me e-mails about the conspiracies of the government and the leaders. Most of this is "he said that she said" stuff with no real proof. Unsubstantiated accusations are just gossip and forbidden by God's Word. According to Law no one can be accused without two or three witnesses. Witnesses see and know personally. We shouldn't accept accusations against a government or person without witnesses, earthly or heavenly. The devil is being permitted by God to stir up conspiracy theories so that paranoid, disobedient Christians will fight this government and be destroyed. The Lord said to me, "Spirits of paranoia will stir up Christians to fight against this country. In this way I will cleanse my Church of those that refuse to obey and go to their cross." Conspiracy theorists are the prime spreaders of this paranoia. (Isa.8:11) For the Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying, (12) Say ye not, A conspiracy , concerning all whereof this people shall say, A conspiracy; neither fear ye their fear , nor be in dread . (13) The Lord of hosts, him shall ye sanctify; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread . You ask, "But David, what about the Illuminati conspiracy that has taken over our government to bring war and the New World Order?" Fear "him who worketh all things after the counsel of His will" (Eph.1:11) . The Illuminati are nothing without God's permission. They and many others like them are sent by God to deceive those who do not love truth and to judge those who need it. Therefore, we are to permit them to cleanse the body. (2Thes.2:9) whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, (10) and with all deceit of unrighteousness for them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth , that they might be saved. (11) And for this cause God sendeth them a working of error, that they should believe a lie : (12) that they all might be judged who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." he lowest of men" are raised up to lead the beast to crucify rebellious Christians. We need them. (Pr.16:4) The Lord hath made everything for its own end (Hebrew: His own purpose) ; Yea, even the wicked for the day of evil. Some say, "But I know some of these conspiracies are real." I do, too, but the flesh is stirred up to fight when we think on the conspiracies, rather than the promises and the way of the cross. We are taught to study Truth rather than the evil in conspiracies because Truth has power unto Godliness, which delivers from evil. (Rom.16:19)....I would have you wise unto that which is good , and simple unto that which is evil . Those who are taught to recognize counterfeit bills don't study counterfeits because there are too many possibilities. They study the real bills. That way they can recognize all counterfeits. The Word gives us eyes to see all errors. Some waste all their time studying evil governments. All secular governments are evil just as the one in Jesus' day but He stuck to the business of the Father, taught the Word, and let patriots like Barabbas fight with flesh and blood to their own destruction. I also know that this government will persecute and crucify the saints when the time comes. I say with Jesus, "Not my will, but thine be done" . If we are not willing to give up our carnal life in order to be obedient to the Word, then we will not be counted worthy of a heavenly life. Any who stir up God's people to take the sword will be guilty of their blood when they die by the sword, as the Word says will surely happen. Antichristian militant "Christians" will not stand for their rights being taken away and will fight against their governments. What do you think they will do when world law is imposed and the mark of the beast is inevitable? Civil war. States are seeing their Constitutional authority undermined by the socialistic moves of the Obama administration. Also, a litany of leftist, global U.N. treaties that were resisted by more conservative administrations are waiting in the wings to give sovereignty to the U.N. beast over families, women, children, opposing free trade, opposing democracy and Christian freedom, bringing intrusive emissions laws, etc. Obama is just the man to open the flood gates. Seeing these coming threats, conservatives in the states are flocking to introduce resolutions declaring State sovereignty as per the Ninth and Tenth Amendment to the Constitution. This is an omen of coming division in the country. Conservatives, including many of God's people, have already considered armed rebellion against the U.S. government at least as far back as 2000. The Bush/Gore presidential voting fraud fiasco revealed the underlying dangerous polarization between conservatives and liberals. Radio talk shows were abuzz. Ammunition sales rose significantly as did talk of civil insurrection and state secession. Much of this was by conservatives. Congressman were openly warning of civil violence. Ammunition and gun sales began to get worse when the Obama team immediately took the country in a sharp left turn. Clearly, the fear of where we are going and the conspiracy theories are corrupting people's minds and taking away their peace. Whether you agree with their militant thinking or not, all Christians will be blamed for these excesses. The liberal news media will gladly continue to sway popular opinion against their historic enemy, the conservative Christians. Left wing "Christianity" will, of course, join in this attack proclaiming to be the true heirs of Christ, while they sleep with the beast in their politically-correct tolerance of other faiths. What happened to the Jews in WWII will happen to the Christians and, ultimately, what happened to Germany will happen to the U.S.. The U.S. will become more antichrist and increasingly hate, persecute, kill, and bring God's carnal people into bondage. Ezekiel, as a type of the Man-child, prophesied that the apostate leadership of God's people would be brought into bondage by the "great eagle" , as a type of the U.S. He also saw and warned that part of that leadership would lead part of God's people to rebel against the "great eagle" to their own destruction. (Ezk.17:2) Son of man...speak a parable unto the house of Israel; (3)...A great eagle with great wings ...came unto Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar: (God's people were likened in Scripture to the tall cedar evergreens of Lebanon because of their properties of eternal life.) (4) he cropped off the topmost of the young twigs thereof (the immature leadership of Christianity) ,and carried it unto a land of traffic (Babylon/U.S.) ; he set it in a city of merchants (U.N. in New York) . The top recognized leadership of Christianity along with leadership of other religions will be given a position of authority as a corporate false prophet over the United Religions harlot. (5) He took also of the seed of the land (God's people) , and planted it in a fruitful soil; he placed it beside many waters .... God's people will be put "beside many waters " , which are the peoples of the world depicted by the "many waters" that the harlot sits upon in Revelation 17:1,15. Therefore the people of God, righteous or apostate, will be put under the authority of the harlot as it was in Jesus' day. (6) And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature (the harlot cannot overcome to lift herself from the earth) , whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him : so it became a vine . The false prophet leadership of the harlot will rule with the ten kings as the little horn among the ten horns in the U.N. beast under the "great eagle" , the U.S. The Lord confirms this interpretation in the text. (12) Say now to the rebellious house... Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took the king thereof, and the princes thereof , and brought them to him to Babylon . The nations with the U.S. "great eagle" at the head will confirm a covenant with this false prophet leadership of God's New Testament people, uniting them with the false religions in the U.N. in New York. (13) And he took of the seed royal , and made a covenant with him ; he also brought him under an oath , and took away the mighty of the land. Notice in these verses that the king and all of the princes of Israel were called "him" meaning they are a corporate False Prophet. This covenant will be hidden from the apostates and their leaders. They will fulfill the type of the Jews in Jesus' day, who didn't realize that they had made a covenant with the beast to crucify the saints. To keep the peace, the Roman beast gave the apostates authority over the saints. History repeats. The strong delusion of the letter of the Word has already convinced the false leadership of Christianity of a fairytale covenant between a man called the antichrist and the letter Jews. Meanwhile the real covenant will be fulfilled in the spirit under their noses. To them this could not be the covenant because they have not yet been raptured and their antichrist hasn't shown up. This covenant with the beast will make God's apostate people preach an even more impotent gospel, because it is a covenant of tolerance for all false religions and all sinners in a vain effort to bring peace to the world. (14) hat the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up , but that by keeping his covenant it might stand . The apostates will be permitted to stand in the world as the base kingdom of the religious harlot. We just saw the word "covenant" mentioned in verses thirteen and fourteen. It was at this point in my revelation that the Spirit said to me, "From the first mention of the word 'covenant' in verse thirteen count. How many verses does the word 'covenant' cover?" Thirteen is the number in Scripture that stands for apostasy and rebellion. Including verse thirteen, the word "covenant" covers seven verses (13-19). I was impressed that this represents the seven years of the covenant of the beast in the Tribulation . Then I heard, "How many times is the word 'covenant' spoken in those verses?" "Covenant" is mentioned six times in these seven verses. Six is the number of man and of the beast. As we saw, the six th book, six th chapter, six th verse and six th word of the New Testament is "man" ( Rom . 6 : 6 ). It was at this point the Spirit directed me to count, "How many verses before the "covenant" is broken?" In the "midst" of the fourth verse the words " covenant he brake " are spoken. (16) As I live, saith the Lord, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he (apostate leadership) brake , even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die. This also is in the "midst of the seven" verses, which is a quote from the Hebrew in Daniel 9:27. "And he shall make a firm covenant with many for one seven : and in the midst of the seven (Hebrew) he (beast) shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease." Notice in these two verses that the apostate rebel leadership of God's people will break the covenant so the beast will cause the " sacrifice " to cease. At the time when the crowns of authority will be taken from the seven heads and given to the ten horns, the beast will make the mark compulsive. This will be a vain attempt to enforce peace by identifying those who are in covenant with the beast and those who are enemies and/or commit crimes. This will cause both true Christians and militants to be enemies of the state. The U.S. already has created the literal mark and is exporting it to the world. The U.S. will use their persuasion over the beast kingdom to make the mark compulsive in the midst of the Tribulation. Many apostate Christians will take it and become reprobated. What is left of their life of submitting their "bodies a living sacrifice , holy, acceptable to God" will cease as an "abomination that maketh desolate" . In this same text we see the nature of this rebellion which breaks the covenant of peace. (15) But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt , that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? shall he break the covenant, and yet escape ? This covenant is broken when the rebellious people of God, who were told by God to submit to Babylon, as we shall see, instead went to another "great eagle with great wings" , Egypt, for strength to fight with arms against her. (Ezk.17:7) There was also another great eagle with great wings and...this vine did bend its roots toward him . Notice that the same terminology is given to describe a second eagle. This is because both of these great eagles represent the U.S. Foolish Christians in the U.S. will go down to Egypt to fight with her when they see their rights being taken away or, for some, when they see the mark coming. What does Egypt represent? God's people came out of Egypt and were baptized in the Red Sea where the Egyptians, representing the old man, died. To go back to Egypt spiritually is to trust in the strength of the old man, the arm of the flesh. (Isa.30:1) Woe to the rebellious children , saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me; and that make a league , but not of my Spirit , that they may add sin to sin , (2) that set out to go down into Egypt , and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh , and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt ! (3) Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. Some of God's foolish people with a conservative patriotic faction of this nation will take up arms to fight against it. This pits the "great eagle" against the "great eagle" , or civil war. God asked the question in our seven verse text: "shall he break the covenant, and yet escape" (Ezk.17:15)? God's answer to this question is that these rebels will be crushed: (17) Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company help him in the war.... (18) For he hath despised the oath by breaking the covenant ; and behold, he had given his hand, and yet hath done all these things; he shall not escape.... (21) And all his fugitives in all his bands shall fall by the sword , and they that remain shall be scattered toward every wind: and ye shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken it. When Peter used the sword to keep Jesus from going to the cross, He said, " ll they that take the sword shall perish with the sword" (Mt.26:52) . Even though the true saints will not obey the religious aspects of this peace covenant, they will not take "the sword" of man and break their covenant with God as the apostates and their leadership will. The last of the seven verses says this. (19) Therefore thus saith the Lord: As I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken , I will even bring it upon his own head. The righteous will keep God's covenant even if it costs them their physical life but the self-willed will rebel. After bringing apostate Israel as a type of the Christians under his dominion in the beginning of what we would call the tribulation, Nebuchadnezzar appointed the Zedekiah administration to rule over them. This is the "he" above who rebelled with a large portion of Israel. Jeremiah, who represented the Man-child, prophesied against these apostate rebels in the parable of the two baskets of figs. (Jer.24:8) And as the bad figs , which cannot be eaten, they are so bad, surely thus saith the Lord, So will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt , (9) I will even give them up to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them. (10) And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them , till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers. On the other, hand those who submitted to the Word of the Lord through the Man-child Jeremiah were the blessed of the Lord. (24:4) And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, (5) Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: Like these good figs , so will I regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good . (Notice that this captivity is going to be "for good" to the "good figs" who obey the Word and refuse to rebel.) (6) For I will set mine eyes upon them for good , and I will bring them again to this land (Notice Father will bring them to the New Jerusalem and land because Nebuchadnezzar had destroyed the former apostate Jerusalem and land.) : and I will build them , and not pull them down; and I will plant them , and not pluck them up. (7) And I will give them a heart to know me , that I am the Lord: and they shall be my people , and I will be their God; for they shall return unto me with their whole heart . All we have to do is replace the church in the Ezekiel 17 parable of civil rebellion above with natural Israel and we see another more natural interpretation, which is being attempted now. The U.S., which is at the head of the nations, is pushing Israel hard to give up land and make a covenant with the nations around them. Israel's natural ally in the United States is the apostate Christians and Jews who militantly support her. Since this ultimately will be a political and religious covenant both of these interpretations are coming to pass at the same time. It is certainly true that the beast is forcing both Israel and the Christians to give up their land now. Beastly laws are forcing Christians out of the moral ground that they have held on issues such as abortion, sexuality, schooling, displays of Christian heritage, etc. In the U.S., this holy ground has been held since the more Christian times of the founding fathers. Eventually Israel and the apostate Christians will rebel against this covenant and turn to the militant arm of flesh represented by the great eagle of Egypt. Then they will both find themselves a burdensome stone that have something in common; the ire of the nations. Perhaps this is God's plan to infuse more Christian influence into Israel so that the elect among them will be saved and come out. America Is Being Conquered By Communism Garrett Crawford - 6/14/09 (David's notes in red) In a dream, I recall being somewhere in the western region of the U.S. I was in the home of a man who was loading up guns and stocking up on ammo. He was worried about protecting his home and property. Something was about to happen , though I am not sure what, but even the most undiscerning person could feel it in the air; we were on the verge of great lawlessness . The man, I thought, was taking the wrong approach in his preparation and he ridiculed me for not taking up arms. (Militant patriots are getting ready to fight to "take the country back" from the liberal communists who are destroying the Constitution and laws from within.) After this scene, I was in the eastern part of the nation. I quickly realized that I was in Washington, D.C. I was standing and looking at the White House. I saw that it set in a peculiar position, which was with the back of the building facing a body of water . (The head of Babylon that is sitting on many waters?) I saw the Americans doing something in the water and, as I continued watching, many submerged vessels appeared on the surface of the water. These vessels were not American; they were Russian and they quickly moved ashore. This is where I saw many soldiers run up the shore and proceed to enter the back of the White House. There were hundreds, if not thousands, of these men overtaking the building. (Yes, the waters behind the White House represent the peoples ruled by it. Out of these waters have arisen the leftists who have taken the White House. These are ruled by the same principalities that ruled the Russian socialists/communists. It is a spiritual war. The right wing went down in flames -- losing the propaganda war before the coming physical war. A few years ago, we received a dream that the Statue of Liberty was shot at with missiles from a Russian sub and was cut in half, as the country is now. The top half, containing the head or government, then fell to the LEFT and into the water. At that time, I said this represented the coming of a left-wing government. This has only begun. Even though public sentiment is swinging back toward the right, there could come a stunning reversal of this trend that will bring great persecution to Christians. The something that was about to happen in the first paragraph above could be the scenario below.) The White House was quickly overrun and taken over by this force. The next thing I recall is that I was underground , beneath the White House itself. What I found was breathtaking; there was an extensive tunnel system underneath the structure. I saw a few Americans resisting but, ultimately, being overcome by multitudes of Russians. The invading force used the weapons systems that were stored down there against the Americans and quickly overcame them . (The underground, liberal, communist left is now taking over America by using its own political weapons against it. One of the weapons the right used to partially turn the country right was a false flag attack ; now it appears from this and other revelations, like below, that the left will use this method to turn the government left. See The Eagle and the Serpents and Civil War Is Coming .) This whole scene reminded me of a colony of enemy ants invading another colony and overtaking it. After seeing all that I had seen, my heart sank . I said within myself, "The whole country must be under attack! America has fallen!" (Could this be Babylon spiritually falling at the beginning of the tribulation?) (Yes.) But then a word from the Lord was given to me: "The goal of this operation is to weaken the country first; then, once weakened, America will be susceptible to a wave of Muslim terrorist attacks that will come later." (Speaking of Babylon physically falling in the years to follow.) Just as quick as before, I was ushered off into the heavens. As I looked down, I saw what seemed to be military installations. I saw missile silos somewhere in the country; then I found myself looking down at the Pentagon. I realized that everything I was looking at was still in the hands of the Americans . I had thought the whole country was taken over but the military infrastructure was uncompromised . (This made me think, even more, that the White House invasion spiritual.) (Yes, this is an ideological attack by the reds, a symbol of communists but also one of sinners, as in Isa.1:18.) My body was quickly translated from the heavens to the Pentagon below. I found myself in the presence of a very high-ranking general. I quickly alerted him that there was a Russian siege on the White House: everything was lost and it was a total takeover. I was taken aback by his response. Although he did confirm to me that he and the other generals were well aware of the invasion , they were confident that the invasion would be contained to only the White House . It seemed to me they had taken steps to insure that the invasion would not spread but I was not as confident as him. (I saw the Pentagon and missile silos and they were not breeched and the general took confidence in that, but look at it like this, friends: The pentagon represents the muscles of the nation, the arm of flesh. No matter how strong a man, if he loses his head, then his muscles are good for nothing; they cannot save him.) (Although it is true the U.S. military is still full of right-wing people and not nearly as leftist/communist as the government, this may also be speaking of something spiritual. The other militant group that, from within, invaded the White House stands opposed to the right-wing militants who now have no access to the White House but falsely think they can still keep the country from being completely ideologically taken over.) If the communist-Russian invasion in the White House was not altogether physical, rather spiritual, then those without spiritual eyes cannot see the truth; or they underestimate the growing danger, due to their blindness. (Pro.22:3) A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself; But the simple pass on, and suffer for it. It could be that the invading Russians represent communist ideology . The generals may realize that the White House has become socialist but they remain confident that the military might of the nation will be able to detour any takeover . I was in deep thought about the dream for hours after I had it and then I asked the Lord what it means. But all I was getting was the word " infiltration ." This word came to me many times over the course of the day. This is the excerpt from a JFK speech about the NWO, which he warned was a growing threat 40 years ago: For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence -- on infiltration instead of invasion , on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. (Before the physical invasion comes the spiritual one will, according to Revelation 18. Before the physical fall of any nation comes the spiritual fall.) An angel to Dumitru Duduman said, "The Russian spies have discovered where the most powerful nuclear missiles are in America. It will start with the world calling for 'peace, peace.' Then there will be an internal revolution in America, started by the Communists . (The liberal one-worlders.) Some of the people will start fighting against the government. The government will be busy with internal problems. Then, from the oceans, Russia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Central America, Mexico, and two other countries (which I cannot remember) will attack! The Russians will bombard the nuclear missile silos in America. America will burn." Also read: Civil War Is Coming Devastation of Charismatic Christianity Don't Fight with the Government Fleeing Babylon to Our Safe House Secret Attack By Russia and China The Eagle and the Serpents The Bears Attack Lisette Renaud - 8/16/09 (David's notes in red) I dreamed I was outside by myself, resting somewhere in a park setting. (Ican't say where I was exactly, but I was close enough to my house that I could run to it. I live in Alberta, Canada.) (Those who are resting in the safety of the Lord.) It was a beautiful, cool and fresh day, like a fall day,when I heard people screaming that bears were coming. Something terrible had just happened suddenly (another 9/11 from the left). (Bears could represent Russia as communism, socialism, or an attack of our freedoms as we know them. It could represent a greater economic collapse -- bear representing the bear market. It could also represent a sudden physical attack like a nuclear bomb or something. Whatever it was, I sensed that it was something very big that had JUST HAPPENED and was affecting everyone .) (I believe the bear attacks represent all of the above calamities another 9/11 coming upon the U.S. and Canada because they are turning to the beast principality that ruled Russia/USSR under Communism, instead of God. Most Russians agree that this brought failure to their country's economy, totalitarianism, loss of freedom and many lives. This appears to be a confirmation of Garrett's dream above.) People were panicking and were so afraid that they were running everywhere , not knowing where to turn . (The terrible calamities Jesus said would come are now here and will continue to increase. Those who called us crazy and said we were all a bunch of "conspiracy nuts and bible-thumping fanatics" will be running like scared cats with no place of refuge, no hope. The world will be in shock at what is happening.) I did not run. I was confronted with a bear but believed he could not hurt me because I was under God's protection . All the time he was in front of me trying to attack me, I kept thanking God for His protection . (The true remnant of Christ will be at peace when this big calamity strikes , knowing that He has everything under control. The remnant will be resting in God, trusting Him, trusting in His Word. Those who are expecting the man-child, who know they will be here for the tribulation period, yet protected under His wings , those who believe His Word and stand on His Word will be at peace, even though the world around them is turned upside down. They will not fear. They will experience Psalm 91.) When I took a good look at him, he looked like a big teddy bear. Then he finally left. (We have the authority of Christ. He has been preparing His remnant to be overcomers, to stand on His Word and soon we will be put to the test.) Once he was gone, I ran home to check up on my husband. When I got in the house, I saw my husband sitting down on a chair, talking on the phone . His face was bleeding. He was covered in blood. He looked so distraught. (Concerned for their loved ones, the remnant will go to them and will see that because of these terrible calamities, many believers who had become cold toward God will now be calling on Him for help. The people we have been praying for (family, friends, neighbors) will finally get a sudden realization that they must get in touch with God quickly and get right with Him, if they want His protection.) Somehow I knew he had not been attacked by a bear, but by thugs. (I realized that two things were going on: regular attacks by "thugs" which seemed to have been going on for some time, by the comment that I heard later on in the dream, and now this new terrible thing that had just happened.) I then went downstairs, where some members of my husband's family were. I believe I saw his father, who has been deceased for some time. He was also covered in blood. Then I heard someone say, "How much more of this can we take?" (Those who have some knowledge of God but do not have a relationship with Christ, those who are spiritually dead will become discouraged, for there will be no hope, no escape, no refuge, only turmoil for them, unless they turn to God.) Then I woke up. Russians Behind Civil War in U.S. Cheri Watson - 2/03/08 I had a dream this morning about 6:00 am. I saw the Statue of Liberty; one side of the statue was black and the other side was white. (In the dream I said that the left side was black and the right side was white; however, some time after the dream I realized that it was the right side that was black and the left side that was white.) I knew what The Lord was showing me was division and the civil war coming to America. Anyway, in front of the statue, was a tank in the shadows with the cannon facing the statue. I knew the tank in the shadows to be Russia running the show behind the scenes and provoking the Middle East to do its bidding. I also believe it has to do with the Christians -- so far as the coming revival and falling away. I also felt that all of these things would do MUCH destruction to our country and that Russia is waiting in the wings/shadows till it's time to make their move. I have no doubt the Russians are fueling fires even now. Note from David: The Statue of Liberty represents America and its liberties. This division of black and white is somewhat racial, like in the Civil War. Also, it is that the left are the Communists and Democrats and the right are Republicans and Christians. Cheri started thinking the Left were the guys in black (bad guys) but ended up seeing that the Right was also guilty. This is covertly started by the Russians to weaken America, so they could militarily conquer her. Cultivating division in order to conquer is something both sides have been good at. I love it when The Lord does this... later in the morning, and every Sunday morning, several of us gather to listen to one of your teachings. This morning's teaching just happened to be Hidden Manna's - "U.S. Covenant, Civil War"!!! God is good! Anyway, David, I felt that this was confirmation for you for some reason and felt I was to share it with you today. Conspiracy Against Christianity Brent Gearhart -10/23/09 (David's notes in red) I dreamed on day four of a fast that I sawa man running naked with just a robe on barely covering him. (The false Christian leadership has not "put on the Lord Jesus." They name "Christ" as Savior but they are not living salvation. Their works do not cover them. They will be cast into great tribulation, as Jezebel -- Revelation 2:20-23.) Then I saw a woman running behind him with a scanty outfit on that was black , as they were running to make an appointment somewhere. (The typical church pastor followed by the people. The woman is the harlot church in darkness following its leadership. Babylon's nakedness will be made known to all the world, as the Word says.) Then, I saw the same man and woman dressed up in formal dress but they had disguises on now to appear older and distinguished . (Outwardly, they seem respectable in formal, black and white attire, but they profess the "light" while walking in spiritual darkness. They are white-washed sepulchers full of dead men's bones.) They were trying to enter a formal party of some sort but for some reasonthe invitation they had was fake . (The formal "party" is a the Marriage Feast where they have disguised themselves as "Christian." Even those who do not have the real wedding garment.) {Mat.22:8} Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy . ) When they approached the person who collected the invitations, the man started saying something to distract the ticket collector so they wouldn't pay attention to their fake invitation . It worked; they were granted admittance to the party. (Christian pretenders talk the talk in order to gain respect and acceptance. They have experienced only the fake calling, meaning invitation -- accept Jesus as your personal savior-type "invitations," instead of the command to repent and believe. But this lukewarm Christianity is not dressing up for the tribulation seven-day Wedding Feast. {Mat.22:11} But when the king came in to behold the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a wedding-garment: {12} and he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding-garment ? And he was speechless. {13} Then the king said to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and cast him out into the outer darkness; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.) (Note: It seems this is turning into the right-wing digging for dirt on the left-wing White House. This lukewarm spirit in Christianity above has bred many who seek change by political warfare instead of spiritual warfare.) When inside, I remember watching them split up right away and it seemed like the man was looking for some information -- some files, perhaps, or some film from a camera. (They have no interest in the Feast but are conspiracy-chasers of the left-wing government, like many apostates.) I remember seeing a little key like to a padlock or handcuffs. (Instead of seeking the key to freedom, they find only captivity.) I then saw them in the basement and I saw the man got caught and was about to be killed perhaps by the owner of the house . (Possibly a plot that will bring this captivity is being hatched by the elites through this administration to bring disrepute to Christianity.) As they were down in the basement , the owner of the house took back what the first man had stolen and then planted a bomb in the utility room . (This administration has lost much to the politically-minded, conservative Christians but the blame put on them for the judgment of America will take back the ground lost. An apparent attack on the left-wing may actually be an attack on the right-wing.) Then he tried to blame it on the first man who got caught . (Called a "false flag" operation. The owner sets off the thing and blames the Christians.) Right after the bomb went off, security came in.(Martial law.) I saw my friend , Terry , from the UPC (he knows martial arts) and he was taking the man down who was being blamed for this false terrorist attack. (Possibly, Terry represents Christians under martial lawbetraying other Christians, bringing great persecution to the church.) I remember seeing Terry take this man down with an arm lock of some sort actually; he had one arm spread out and he had the other arm locked in with his legs and it appeared the man who got caught looked like he was in a crucifixion position . (The apostates have always been used by Satan and the beast system to crucify true Christianity.) The man who got caught was looking at me to help him. I said, "Hey, I am staying out of it" and I remember picking up some of the pieces of the room that were torn apart. (The true Christians will have nothing to do with patriotic, political, militant Christianity but will do what they can to repair the damage to the reputation of true Christianity. A bomb will go off and the blame will be put on "Christians" who will be "crucified" by the Law and false-professing Christians.) End of dream Then a vision and prophecy began Then I laid back down and I saw myself in a field, harvesting the crop.I felt impressed to go get my notebook and pen and write down what I saw or heard, as I am reaping the crop. I see a man come and talk me into stopping the harvesting and taking a break. I see myself taking a break and eating, drinking and dancing with others. I then saw the laborers taken up by the Son of man as He came on the clouds for them. I saw the others get put into a winepress and squeezed. I heard, "This is the day of the Lord, the great and terrible day of the Lord." I was asked which group I wanted to be in and I said, "The laborers." He said, "Then you must die to self without complaining like you were today. There will be many days you will work more than 12 hours and have little time for your family. These days are coming soon." Thus saith the Lord, "You are being called into the harvest field. Your Nintendo Wii is not important; you must bear fruit 30-,60-,100-fold. No murmurers or complainers will make it through the wilderness. Stay out of those negative conversations; spirits are transferred there. Be wise, vigilant; the devil wants to sift you as he did Peter. (During this time I heard the song, "How He Loves Us" by David Crowder and then the song switched to "Lose This Life" by Tait.) You must lose your life to self, stick with the unleavened bread; don't let the devil separate you from them. Be patient and kind with your wife; she has gifts that the body will need and use. Be wise in all things. I love you. Try hard to join the marriage feast; join, Brent. Join." Then it ended. Secret Attack By Russia and China Mike Griffith On the 13th of August 2005 the Lord revealed to me something is going to happen. When I went to bed that night I had a startling vision. I found myself in a huge under sea cavern somewhere. It was a huge under ground navy base of some kind. I saw an array of battleships and submarines all lined up against a dock; then I heard a demonic voice thunder in the darkness that said, "NOTHING CAN STOP US NOW!" I knew that the voice I heard was a principality or strong man that was controlling the warships. At its command they began to slowly move out of the dark under ground base and move down a sea tunnel to an exit. I ran out of the base some how just to sea the ships spew out of these sea doors into the ocean. I looked and saw that the base was built under a mountain that slopes into the sea like a fiord inlet. The Lord caused me to hover in the air over the base and I saw a large red symbol on it. But for some reason I wasn't allowed to see it clearly. I hid from sight and a large group of trucks and troops moved passed me. I was scared because I was hiding behind a shrub not even big enough to hide a cat but they could not see me. I heard some of the troops talking about an American singer called 50 Cent. I knew then that this was going to happen soon. The impression that I got from the dream is that nations are preparing an attack on another nation that is completely undetected. And the spearhead of the attack is by naval power. I believe the countries are Russia and China, and they are planning to attack America very soon. A supernatural force is preparing them for the attack; it is an evil fallen angel. I went on the Net after I had this dream and saw that the Russian and Chinese navies were having war games together and it was the largest in modern history using 10,000 troops, warships, tactical bomber and amphibious landing craft. They called it Operation Peace 2005 but they are practicing for an invasion. (Note: Mike thought he may have been given a date for this which came and passed but this confirmation of this place is a fact that was independently shown to Rip.) http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=700_1366847621 Vegas Street Prophet PREDICTORS OF OBAMA'S ASSASSINATION Barack Hussein Obama, future assassination, US President, Obama Administration, White House, prophecy Tue, 23 Apr 2013 04:51:32 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6c5_1366706862 religion_brings_death Women behaving promiscuously are causing the earth to shake, according to cleric, as Ahmadinejad predicts Tehran quake. A senior Iranian cleric says women who wear revealing clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes. Iran is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries, and the cleric's unusual explanation for why the earth shakes follows a prediction by the president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , that a quake is certain to hit Tehran and that many of its 12 million inhabitants should relocate. " Many women who do not dress modestly ... lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which increases earthquakes ," Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi was quoted as saying by Iranian media. Women in the Islamic Republic are required by law to cover from head to toe, but many, especially the young, ignore some of the more strict codes and wear tight coats and scarves pulled back that show much of the hair. "What can we do to avoid being buried under the rubble?" Sedighi asked during a prayer sermon last week. "There is no other solution but to take refuge in religion and to adapt our lives to Islam's moral codes." Seismologists have warned for at least two decades that it is likely the sprawling capital will be struck by a catastrophic quake in the near future. Some experts have even suggested Iran should move its capital to a less seismically active location. Tehran straddles scores of fault lines, including one more than 50 miles long, though it has not suffered a major quake since 1830. In 2003, a powerful earthquake hit the southern city of Bam, killing 31,000 people - about a quarter of that city's population - and destroying its ancient mud-built citadel. "A divine authority told me to tell the people to make a general repentance. Why? Because calamities threaten us," said Sedighi, Tehran's acting Friday prayer leader. Referring to the violence that followed last June's disputed presidential election, he said: "The political earthquake that occurred was a reaction to some of the actions . And now, if a natural earthquake hits Tehran, no one will be able to confront such a calamity but God's power, only God's power... So let's not disappoint God. "The Iranian government and its security forces have been locked in a bloody battle with a large opposition movement that accuses Ahmadinejad of winning last year's vote by fraud. Ahmadinejad made his quake prediction two weeks ago but said he could not give an exact date. He acknowledged that he could not order all of Tehran's 12m people to evacuate. "But provisions have to be made ... at least 5 million should leave Tehran so it is less crowded," the president said. The welfare minister, Sadeq Mahsooli, said prayers and pleas for forgiveness were the best "formulae to repel earthquakes . We cannot invent a system that prevents earthquakes, but God has created this system and that is to avoid sins, to pray, to seek forgiveness, pay alms and self-sacrifice," Mahsooli said. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/19/women-blame-earthquakes-iran-cleric http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6c5_1366706862 religion_brings_death Women to blame for earthquakes, says Iran cleric Women,blame,earthquakes,Iran,cleric Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:58:09 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=02d_1366325626 plokiju The agent was adjusting the side-mounted shotgun on one of the motorcade's armored follow-up Suburbans when it discharged. "Everyone just stopped. The Iranians looked at us and we looked at the Iranians. The agent began to apologize. Ahmadinejad just turned his head and got into his car." And that was it. The Iranians told no one. Their silence led several White House aides to begin to see Ahmadinejad in a new light. Here was evidence that maybe Iran was acting strategically, and therefore cautiously. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/04/deep-state/309260/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=02d_1366325626 plokiju The Day the Secret Service Almost Shot President <span class="highlight">Ahmadinejad</span> Day, Secret, Service, Almost, Shot, Ahmadinejad Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:08:44 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=565_1363097187 Pakistani Ahmadinejad kisses Coffin of Hugo Chavez http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=565_1363097187 Pakistani <span class="highlight">Ahmadinejad</span> kisses Coffin of Hugo Chavez during Funeral (Iran, Venezuela) Ahmadinejad kisses Coffin of Hugo Chavez during Funeral (Iran, Venezuela) Sun, 10 Mar 2013 18:12:52 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4dd_1362953183 aydeo In an attempt to console the grieving mother of Hugo Chavez, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad embraced the 78-year-old woman, prompting harsh criticism by Muslim clerics, who deemed the embrace as an insult to Islam. According to the British Telegraph, Islamic leader of Isfahan Mohammad Taghi Rahbar told the Mehr news agency that in hugging Elena Frias de Chavez, Ahmadinejad had "lost control." Rahbar explained that "shaking hands with a non-mahram (unrelated by family) woman, under any circumstances, whether young or old, is not allowed. Hugging or expressing emotions is improper for the dignity of the president of a country like the Islamic Republic of Iran." An Iranian MP, Mohammad Dehghan, said that the Iranian president's embrace with the bereaved mother was indicative of the "deviant current," which is the term used by allies of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader, in referring to the rule of Ahmadinejad. It is not only the physical touch, however, that enraged Iranians. Religious leader Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami referred to the speech that the Iranian president had given following Chavez's death, and criticized Ahmadinejad for saying that Chavez will return on resurrection day along with Jesus and Imam Mahdi. "I say directly that he went too far," said Khatami, adding that the president should have offered his condolences in a more diplomatic manner, without "religious connotations." http://english.alarabiya.net/en/2013/03/10/Bitter-sweet-embrace-Ahmadinejad-slated-for-hugging-Chavez-s-relative.html http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4354751,00.html http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4dd_1362953183 aydeo <span class="highlight">Ahmadinejad</span>'s embrace of Chavez's mother irks Iranian clerics Ahmadinejad,Embrace,Chavez's mother, Iranian clerics Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:33:49 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=09f_1362608090 Demonpreyer Author: Zach Pontz March 6, 2013 9:31 am A day after his death, Hugo Chavez is already being touted as a martyr and a messiah by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who equated the now deceased Venezuelan leader to Jesus and Shiite Islam's 12th imam Wednesday, saying, "I have no doubt that he will return, along with the righteous Jesus and the perfect human." Ahmadinejad also reiterated claims made by Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro that Chavez died of a "suspect illness" but didn't go as far as Maduro had in equating Chavez's death to that of late Palestinian Liberation Organization Chairman Yassir Arafat, who some believe died by poisoning at the hands of Israel. A cabinet meeting chaired by the president declared Wednesday a day of mourning in Iran, the state television website said. During Chavez's tenure Venezuela became increasingly close with the Islamic Republic with Chavez making 13 visits to Iran between 1999 and his death on Tuesday. Ahmadinejad has made six visits to Venezuela since 2005. http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/03/06/ahmadinejad-chavez-will-return-with-jesus-and-12th-imam/ The insanity continues... http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=09f_1362608090 Demonpreyer <span class="highlight">Ahmadinejad</span>: Chavez Will Return With Jesus and 12th Imam Iran,crazy,Chavez,dead,Ahmadinejad