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Hood heroes 2
Dont take your eyes off Jerusalem 3
Germanys fiscal overlord demand 5
Scotland to break up the Union? 8
Shocking government waste 10
by brad macdonald
middle east
Eugene Regis
beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
In verse 15, Jesus told us to heed to prophetic warnings of the Prophet Daniel: When ye therefore shall see
the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the
prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him
understand:).
Now compare this verse with Luke 21:20: And when ye
shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know
that the desolation thereof is nigh. Jerusalem is the trigger!
God calls these armies surrounding Jerusalem a desolation because, as it says in Daniel 12:11, it is the abomination that makes desolate. It causes the desolation of many
nations. God is talking about problems like weve never
seen before. It will get so bad that no flesh would be saved
alive were it not for Christs intervention to put a stop to it
(see verse 1 and Matthew 24:21-22).
This is where the events we have been witnessing in
the past few years are leading. We are on a countdown!
There is no turning back! It doesnt matter if America gets
a new president this November. Its not going to roll back
the Islamic winter. Its not going to reset everything in the
Middle East to where staunchly pro-American dictators
hold back the tide of radical Islam.
The dam has broken! America is in full-scale retreat.
It took out Saddam and handed Iraq to Iran. The surge
in Afghanistan has failed. The U.S. left Iranian protestors
isolated during the Green Revolution and then made the
tragic mistake of enabling Islamic uprisings in Egypt and
Libya. And it has totally abandoned Israelthe only Mideast nation, by the way, where there never seems to be any
protests outside the U.S. Embassy.
As Charles Krauthammer recently said, the jihadists in
the region are saying, This is our time. They know this is
their time. The imperialist empire now forming in Europe
also knows that this is its time.
And so, we had better watch Jerusalemclosely! Jerusalem is the powder keg that will set off a world explosion.
From now on, Herbert W. Armstrong wrote back in 1976,
Jerusalem will be the focal point of world happenings.
For more on this subject, make sure to read Jerusalem in
Prophecy.
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Netanyahu Again
Offers the Golan
Heights to Syria?
europe
France At Risk of
Economic Hurricane
Telegraph | October 15
Smash China
German Foreign Policy | October 18
asia
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nChina eyeing Afghanistan
Speaking at a naval ceremony on Sunday, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda spouted off some hawkish
rhetoric not previously seen in his
leadership approach. Nodas speech
included a jingoistic phrase used in
a slogan for naval battles during the
early 20th centurys Russo-Japan War,
and included nationalistic slogans that
Japanese naval cadets have recited since
before World War ii. The security
The trumpet weekly
anglo-america
Europe to Leave
Crippled Britain
Behind?
punishment.
The eurozone has gone through the
brunt of its fiscal squeeze and will be
well on the way to recovery by 2013. The
economic/debt crisis will rotate from
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard,
Continental Europe to the UK, with
Telegraph | October 17
peak austerity hitting the British in
olger Schmieding at the Ger2013/2014 just in time to do maximum
man bank Berenberg tells us this
damage before the Scottish referendum.
morning that Britain is next in line for
Let us call it the German view.
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Scotland Historic
Independence Vote
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Reflections on a Battlefield
bombs fell.
t jarred me, the way those hulking
A short walk away is the Pacific War Memorial Murelics of war stood starkly against
seum. There I stared at the black-and-white portraits of the
the tropical foliage. Demolished,
officers who had orchestrated the offensives and compockmarked concretesurrounded
manded the troops. They seemed like superior men. Seriby beautiful, lush green plants. This is
ous, manly, steely, intelligentmen of character, men who
Corregidor, island of antithesis.
inspired men. I felt small.
This small island fortress in the
I tried to comprehend this conflicted past: noble and
Philippines was the scene of some of
brutal, crucial and futile, eternal and long-gone. These
joel hilliker
the most dramatic scenes of World
ruins impressed me with what men did here, yet I could
War ii. It simultaneously symbolizes bravery and betrayal,
not escape the whole truth: Like every battlefield, this was
humanity and hatred, strength and savagery.
just another horrid chapter in human war-making, another
Gazing across the scene, I was bombarded by these incon- place where high rhetoric clashes with the low things hugruous images and emotions. But the biggest collision in my
man beings do to each other.
mind was between the epic past and the uncertain present.
These ruins are oddly relevant to the present. Their holAfter it captured the island from Spain in 1898, the
lowed hulks evoke the decline of America. As Moses prophUnited States built a major military outpost on Corregidor. esied long ago, the pride of its power has been broken, and
The Rock bristled with
lies in rubble; only the
guns and mortars, a total
faades remain. Three
of 23 separate batteries.
generations after what
One of its massive guns
proved to be Americas
required an unbelievable
last unequivocal military
33 soldiers to discharge.
victory, the U.S. presMost of these impresence in the Philippines is
sive installations are still
only an echo. Americas
there. But now they are
reputation is mortally
skeletons bearing the
wounded; its ambition
garish scars of the horhas shrunk. Its unprecrors they endured.
edentedly superior miliOf those enormous
tary is oddly impotent
barracks filled with solagainst the most pitiful
diers, only empty conof threats.
crete shells remain, inI walked beyond the
terlaced with rebar that
memorial
museum to
Two impressive guns stand out against battle-worn concrete.
holds sagging chunks of
a rotunda. There I saw
staircases and walls aloft
words chiseled in stone
in twisted formations. Gaping holes and mounds of rubble
that finally reminded me of hope: Sleep my sons, your
mutely testify of the furious Japanese aerial bombardment. duty done for freedoms light has come. Sleep in the siThe ruins still reverberate with the voices of the
lent depths of the sea, or in your bed of hallowed sod, until
soldiers who occupied these structures, who manned
you hear at dawn the low, clear reveille of God.
these munitions. Every blast hole brings to mind the men
They will not have to wait for that dawn much longer.
whose bodies were also blasted and battered when the
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program now costs taxpayers $1.5 billion annually and subsidizes the cell
phone service of 16.5 million Americansand a survey found that almost
10 percent of all enrollees should not
even be eligible for the program.
The National Science Foundation
spent $30,000 to fund a study done
by the University of Washington and
Cornell Universitys to measure gaydarthe ability of people to identify
sexual orientation merely by appearance. The researchers confirmed that
gaydar exists, writing that participants were about 60 percent accurate
when attempting to identify sexual
orientation by appearance.
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