The Coming Storm

Hurricane Earl is heading toward the U.S. East Coast:



Although landfall is unlikely, I suggest people use this as an opportunity for a civil preparedness exercise. There truly is a coming storm, although not just of a weather variety IMHO.

In early-September 2008, I issued a Stock Market Crash Alert just before a major autumn financial collapse took shape that year.

Back then, the looming panic clearly had to do with financial and economic affairs as the sub-prime mortgage crisis took down one major institution after another. By the end of that month, Lehman Brothers went bankrupt and Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and AIG were taken over by the government. The global financial system seized up triggering the "Great Recession" that is still effecting the economy today.

I'm now issuing a similar warning because many of the same leading indicators of an autumn panic are suggesting a collapse in mass mood lies dead ahead once again. This time around there are signs the economy might be slipping into a double-dip recession, but this does not explain the scale of the breakdown being projected by the Elliott Wave Principle and astroharmonics. What's more, governments around the world have made clear that the failure of more major financial institutions will not be permitted.

So where is a mass panic going to come from?

I've been consistently warning since the Primary Wave two rebound in mass mood started in the Spring of 2009 that when Primary Wave three gets going, it will likely constitute "The Apocalypse Wave". Primary Wave three started in late-April with the Eurozone Crisis and then the May "Flash Crash" on Wall Street. Since that time the DJIA has been struggling to hold above the key Dow 10,000 benchmark. Now, in the wake of this summer's Cardinal Climax, mass emotion is rolling over into a possible autumnal crash as is the typical seasonal pattern of man's manic-depressive insanity as spelled out in my thesis.

The key concern is: What form will a mass panic take this time around?

If the Elliott Wave Principle is a guide, then what may come next should carry the DJIA to Dow 1000 or lower in the weeks and months to come, i.e., the largest crash in human history is about to occur:



What could be the source of such an historically unprecedented breakdown in mass mood and collective confidence? I believe this is spelled out quite clearly in my writings.

This world is suffering from a Global Bipolar Disorder and, consequently, the coming crash involves a shift in hemispheric dominance from West to East. Accordingly, the form the approaching collapse will take likely has everything to do with a surprise third world war such that Israel and America are destroyed, Western Civilization is vanquished and the totalitarian powers of the East take over global control.

This is 'The Coming Storm' Americans need to prepare for in whatever ways possible:



Also see my May EMERGENCY ACTION NOTIFICATION.

Then I heard another voice from heaven say:
"Come out of her, my people,
so that you will not share in her sins,
so that you will not receive any of her plagues;
for her sins are piled up to heaven,
and God has remembered her crimes."
[Revelation 18:4-5]

Report: Israel planning to attack Hezbollah arms depots in Syria

This could trigger the chemical SCUD missile attack on Israel I've foreseen:

Report: Israel planning to attack Hezbollah arms depots in Syria - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News (BACKUP)

Note that a similar article appeared in the Jerusalem Post that has since disappeared, possibly a telltale sign.

Also see: Israel prepping for war with Iran?: Jewish state orders military fuel from U.S. Defense Department



That this crops up along with the potential Iranian and Korean flashpoints near ignition is extremely ominous given the recent Russian brush fires and possible smoke screen for hidden strategic nuclear missile redeployments.

The Kremlin might be about to push the nuclear button against the West like I foresaw.

God have mercy on us all...

KOREA ALERT

"U.S. policy for dealing with the North Korean situation is inadequate because it focuses on North Korea in isolation as a rogue state, and naively seeks help from the Russians and Chinese to solve the problem. The North Korea situation and any future nuclear incident, wherever it occurs, must be seen against the background of Sino-Soviet 'convergence' strategy: the interaction of Russian and Chinese policy and the moves they make to derive strategic gains from critical situations should be closely studied."

- Anatoliy Golitsyn, the highest ranking KGB defector to the West, The Perestroika Deception, 1990, p.46

Going way back, I have been warning of the possibility that a second Korean War might be ignited as part of the East starting World War Three with the West. From my 1998 "Korea Alert":

As I've been warning, igniting the Korean Peninsula may be a strategic diversion planned by Moscow. By having North Korea attack South Korea early-on in, or maybe at the beginning of, world war three, Russia can divert a sizeable proportion of U.S. military forces into the Far East. In this way....the Middle East (is) left under-defended and vulnerable to Russia's "Last Dash to the South"...

Indeed, it may be tell tale that the DMZ separating North and South Korea is the final battle line in the struggle between Communism and Capitalism, tyranny and democracy, East and West. What's more, I think it's symbolic that the key city that will initially come under seige is called "Seoul" since I believe ultimately what the world is experiencing is a battle for man's soul between the forces of Evil and the forces of Good.

In light of this, developments concerning North Korea should be carefully watched. The sinking of the South Korean Cheonan warship in March has the region on edge, so it won't take much to trigger a full-scale war. In fact, one of the Kremlin's main propaganda mouthpieces, Pravda (which means "truth" in Russian), is running an ongoing special news section dubbed, "Large-scale War Possible On Korean Peninsula", to spell out to the West the looming conflict.

In recent days there have been some suspicious developments that have caught my eye suggesting that Pyongyang may be staging some sort of bogus power struggle that could be a precursor to a second Korean War.

This would make some sense given that the DJIA is flirting with a reversal from the psychologically important 10,000 mark into the Grand Supercycle crash portion of the Apocalypse Wave.



Other signs that Russia is in the final stages of concocting the West's thermonuclear defeat:

Russian Subs Stalk Trident in Echo of Cold War

Canada Jets Turn Back Russian Aircraft in the Arctic

Sorry for the interruption, you can now go back to watching American Idol...


"All that is needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

The Sheep and The Goats

This blind homeless man, named Vernon, eloquently speaks for God IMHO:



The interview is from the YouTube channel of InvisiblePeople.tv which I came across yesterday evening.

Mark Horvath, a former homeless person, has been on a mission for the past couple of years,
criss-crossing America and interviewing homeless people:



I believe Mark is on a mission for God.



What the heck is wrong with modern America?

Do you all lack the resources to provide a home for Jean and her children?



Some folk just don't seem to get it:



You don't want to care and share?


So be it.

What you all have is not yours in the first place:

A traditional theological understanding of stewardship rests on the first verse of the 24th Psalm: "The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof." The earth, all of it, and all that it contains, belongs to God. We are users and managers. Stewardship says that we are not owners in any absolute sense.

If everything is taken away,
then maybe people will figure it out:

"When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

"Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.'

"Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?'

"The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'

"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.'

"They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?'

"He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'

"Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life." [Matthew 25:31-46]

---

"Preach Christ everyday. If necessary, use words." - Saint Francis of Assisi

When cattle revolt...

A couple of days ago a bull jumped into the stands during a "bull fight" in Spain.



While my heart goes out to those injured, I do have to give that bull credit. Faced with an unwinnable predicament, the bull found a way out through which to terrorize its terrorizers.

And this raises a serious point with regard to Western civilization and Americans in particularly. From what I can tell, our people are in effect sheeple being herded into a thermonuclear slaughterhouse. Right now, as long as the sheeple get their feed and shelter, i.e., they can pursue Mammon to their heart's discontent, and everyone remains blissfully unaware of where they are being misled, then there is no resistance.

"The capitalist countries, stupid and decadent, will rejoice to cooperate in their own destruction. They will leap at another chance to be friends. As soon as their guard is down, we shall smash them with our clenched fist." - Dimitry Z. Manuilsky, Soviet Chairman of United Nations Security Council, 1949

But what if a guru points out what is truly going on and inspires a revolt?



LIVE FREE OR DIE TRYING!

A Russian smoke screen?

Earlier this month a seeming tragedy started to unfold across Russia as brush fires broke out and spread across much of the country. Hundreds of casualties have been reported as well as thousands of homes destroyed:



As with any major new story that comes out of Russia, I immediately cast a suspicious eye on this development. The question in my mind was, could these fires have been intentionally stoked for strategic "maskirovka" purposes in the context of Russia's secret war plans? I believe this is a possibility.

From GlobalSecurity.org, "Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition":

Threat RSTA (reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition) encompasses all methods, such as photographic intelligence (PHOTINT), imagery intelligence (IMINT), and human intelligence (HUMINT). The most reliable methods and therefore the most used methods of RSTA are also easily defeated by smoke and obscurants.

Russia's recent brush fires have shrouded the countryside in thick smoke:



What purpose might this serve? This map I think reveals one possibility:



What if a smoke screen was generated over the Russian landscape so that Moscow could surreptitiously redeploy their strategic nuclear missiles (involving swaps with decoys?) which are mostly based on trucks and trains? (Of course, other strategic redeployments could have happened as well.) This would mean the U.S. is currently, or may soon be, unable to accurately target Russia's nuclear arsenal. (The brush fires reportedly could continue into October.)

Keep in mind how the Smolensk crash of Poland's "Air Force One" likely compromised key NATO codes back in April. After that occurred, NATO likely had to pull on-the-ground human intelligence (HUMINT) gathering sources from Russia that might have been exposed. Thus, the West might now by solely reliant on satellite reconnaissance to ascertain Russia's strategic deployments, reconnaissance compromised by smoke that has clouded over the Russian countryside.

Quite frankly, I don't know how much sense this makes, but hopefully any members of the U.S. intelligence community who read this blog can check into such a possibility since, if this suspicion is correct, the national security concern is about as grave as you can get. (For instance, a pattern of intense smoke clouds over a majority of key strategic nuclear missile centers would likely be telltale.)

From Jesus To Christ

One of the best Frontline programs ever produced IMHO is "From Jesus To Christ" which overviews the life of Christ and history of the Early Church based upon best available knowledge of our time:



Most modern-day "Christians" likely find the program deeply offensive since it espouses the blasphemous scholarly view that the canonical gospels and other New Testament writings were romantic lore geared to popularize the early-Christian movement and not meant to be taken literally.

The truth is that there was a man, Jesus of Nazareth, who lived some 2000 years ago, claimed to be the Jewish messiah, offered a revolutionary message to his Jewish followers and then was crucified by the Roman authorities as a potential danger. From Christ's life and death a religious and eventual social and political movement began that broke away from Judaism and then ideologically overcame the Roman Empire, Western Civilization and, someday soon, the entire world.

While Jesus authored his own life in the way necessary to set the stage, God has authored human HIStory around Christ's simple life story following Calvary in the manner that best serves to express the Creator's "meaning".



Think of it like this.

The Creator is ultimately authoring all of history through the lives of creatures like us. In so doing, the Creator begins with the meaning of the story and then expresses that meaning by writing the course of human affairs in which we dwell. As with any author, what's primary is the meaning and what's secondary are the letters and words written down which, in this case, are the lives and workings of humanity. The core meaning of the story, which is "agape" IMHO, was spelled out through the compassionate life and self-sacrificial love of Christ who John referred to as "The Word". This life form embodies the meaning of God we each can choose to partake in while authoring our own life stories.

What's important to understand is that "The Truth" is the meaning, not the letters and words through which the meaning is expressed. So if you're looking for absolute truth in letters and words, you're completely missing the point IMHO. What's written doesn't matter if you comprehend the meaning of the story and live accordingly.

While some see Christ as delusional and Christianity as a shared delusion, the truth is that we exist in a subjective realm where future reality is transformed by our choices. If your choice is eternal life, then believe in Christ. If you don't believe in Christ and/or live accordingly, then ultimately your story will end because you're not being part of what God means...

So true...

The more I watch this, the more I realize the pure genius of it:



There is no "God Particle". Man is looking for the meaning of words in between the letters!

This is a subjective, imaginal realm in which creative transformation is possible and ultimately authored by God through the life of energetic, conscious creatures like us.

So stop looking and live the meaning since that's all there truly is!



God's grand finale in human history is near, and then it's time for a break!



Lord God, grant us the wisdom and strength to succumb to Your will.

True Christianity is a "shared delusion" that overcomes "reality" IMHO.

NBC scoops final pullout of U.S. combat troops from Iraq

So I flip on NBC Nightly News this evening and there's exclusive breaking coverage of the pull-out of the last U.S. combat troops from Iraq. The network even had an embedded reporter who covered the last convoy leaving to Kuwait. What I found odd was that as I saw this major breaking news, I checked the other major networks and none were carrying the story.

Later in the evening, I saw continuing live coverage of the pullout on MSNBC with Keith Olbermann as the anchor and Rachel Maddow reporting from Iraq! What a scoop for NBC, eh?!

Here's what is disturbing in my mind.

Clearly the White House had foreknowledge of this historic moment of an unexpectedly early withdrawal of the last U.S. combat forces. Why was NBC given the scoop....so much so that the network had time to preposition reporters in Iraq and Kuwait to cover the story?

I dare say NBC, and this White House, are a source of misinformation to American society and the world-at-large:




MSNBC's leftist commentators, Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow, have been no friends of the Iraq War effort. For them to be rewarded by marking this pullout is symbolic as to what ideological forces have prevailed at the highest echelons of political power in America.

Unfortunately, however, few Americans comprehend just how treacherous and insidious these forces are relative to their future. This is because most folk no longer think for themselves and are blindly cooperating in their own destruction.

"The capitalist countries, stupid and decadent, will rejoice to cooperate in their own destruction. They will leap at another chance to be friends. As soon as their guard is down, we shall smash them with our clenched fist." - Dimitry Z. Manuilsky, Soviet Chairman of United Nations Security Council, 1949

Do you really believe Saddam Hussein's Iraq didn't have weapons of mass destruction?

Do you really believe Al Qaeda masterminded 9/11?

Make believing evil doesn't exist does not make it so, nor does make believing lies are truth and truth are lies, but the Evil One appreciates the support.

Should a new war with Iran soon begin, Russia and leftists around the world will be pointing out how "imperialist" America finished conquering Iraq and then moved on to attack the next key resistor in the oil-rich Persian Gulf region on behalf of "Zionism". That's the false satanic conspiracy, where the victim is made out to be the victimizer, real satanic conspirators are plotting to undo using brute thermonuclear force.

Is our Commander-in-Chief playing along with an effort to assassinate America in the court of world opinion before Russia assassinates us for real?



I beg of you to start thinking for yourselves before there is no hope at all left for freedom.

"For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure — one world, if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it." - David Rockefeller, Memoirs, 2002

"We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries." - David Rockefeller, Trilateral Commission meeting, June 1991

Game Changer

Israel's Eerie Silence

Check this out. Look for any mention of Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor going "live" next weekend on the homepage of Israel's major online news sources:

http://www.jpost.com/

http://www.haaretz.com/

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Israel is ominously quite about the news that Bushehr will go effectively "live" next weekend. If Israel didn't plan to act militarily, I'm sure they'd be harping on the threat this development poses to the world community and calling for Russia to stand down (since Russia is ultimately instigating this situation). Yet there's nothing.

Here's a question for you: Why has Russia provided an exact date for when fuel will be introduced into the Bushehr plant? Why not announce this after the fact such the Israel is caught by surprise and unable to act beforehand? I think I might have already provided the answer in this score.

Brace yourselves, folks. Either world war three is imminent or the Israelis just aren't that concerned about Iran's nuclear pursuits (or at least aren't willing to risk world war three to deal with it at this point).


(LYRICS)

What Is To Be Done?

A REVOLUTIONARY STATEMENT:

So here we are.

In the battle between truth and lies, life and death, the future and the past, free will has seemingly lost. In 1991 I experienced an apocalyptic vision of the future that began by seeing a special report of a chemical SCUD missile attack on Israel. Now that special report is set to air for the rest of the world to see.

Why for 20 years have I been unable to convince anyone to believe me such that others might help in my efforts to turn humanity back from self-destruction? Surely somebody at some point might have been sufficiently persuaded as to lift a finger toward our species' salvation, yet there has been nothing.

How is this?

This world has been misled by temptation and is being delivered into Evil. Everyone is currently possessed by the devil and apparently I am the key to freedom.


(LYRICS)

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat:
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Our God is marching on.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
While God is marching on.

Yet, for now at least, I am deemed worthless.

That's because, quite literally, I am "The Truth" in a world that loves and lives lies....so what use am I?

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The road to tyranny is paved with indifference to evil, especially our own." - me

John Bolton: Russia's Loading of Nuke Fuel Into Iran Plant Means Aug. 21 Deadline for Israeli Attack

John Bolton: Russia's Loading of Nuke Fuel Into Iran Plant Means Aug. 21 Deadline for Israeli Attack

Friday, 13 Aug 2010 01:41 PM

By: David A. Patten

News that Russia will load nuclear fuel rods into an Iranian reactor has touched off a countdown to a point of no return, a deadline by which Israel would have to launch an attack on Iran's Bushehr reactor before it becomes effectively "immune" to any assault, says former Bush administration U.N. Ambassador John R. Bolton.

Once the fuel rods are loaded, Bolton told Fox News on Friday afternoon, "it makes it essentially immune from attack by Israel. Because once the rods are in the reactor an attack on the reactor risks spreading radiation in the air, and perhaps into the water of the Persian Gulf."

MORE...

Those who think Russia doesn't know what it's doing need to wake up and smell the coffee right away.

A Telltale Chart?

In his interview with Bloomberg (3:30 minutes in) yesterday, Robert Prechter mentioned that the stock market was correcting in a pattern comparable to right before the October 1987 stock market crash. Curious about this, I've created a chart that shows the parallel:



Here's the complete crash pattern in 1987:



The timescales are different, but as market analogies go, if this pattern holds true then the stock market is within days or weeks of an '87-style stock market crash. (That this may be the case is also suggested by a "Hindenburg Omen" which just occurred.)

WARNING: Crash of Western Civilization may lie dead ahead...

A rather clear cyclical picture has developed with regard to wave patterns in mass mood and astroharmonics that strongly suggests the end of Western Civilization as-we-know-it will occur between now and October.

World stock markets are starting to rollover and the DJIA might have just turned down into wave-3 of Primary wave-3 down in the Grand Supercycle bear market according to the Elliott Wave count.



In fact, today Robert Prechter put out a special interim report highlighting his view that we just reached the key turning point that's been anticipated for weeks at Elliott Wave International:


***SEE ROBERT PRECHTER INTERVIEW ON BLOOMBERG***



Accordingly, a rapid 90%+ plunge in the stock market might unfold from here:



It appears the new moon today may be the tipping point in mass mood between euphoria and dysphoria in the wake of the "Cardinal Climax" astroharmonic extreme Arch Crawford has been warning the world about this summer:



This turning point may prove comparable to the August new moon peak in mass mood after the Harmonic Convergence in 1987 just before the historic crash into October 19th of that year. If a parallel cyclical pattern is unfolding here, then the brunt of the 'Apocalypse Wave', i.e., the crash of Western Civilization, could occur between now and the October 7th new moon this year, i.e., during the next two lunar cycles.

The seasonal pattern for mass panics to develop during the Autumn has been well identified:





In the historic 1987 crash the stock market and associated mass mood peaked around the time of the August new moon and then collapsed into just before the October new moon, i.e., into the 28th day of the 7th lunar month, which this year is October 4th. (Also, as I noted in my thesis, the closest the world ever came to an East/West nuclear war was into this time frame on the lunar calendar during the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and October 1973 Yom-Kippur Arab-Israeli War.)

Importantly, Chris Carolan, who identified the 'Autumn panic calendar phenomenon', years ago identified October 2010 as a likely point for a low in mass mood based upon the "Spiral Calendar" he developed:



Thus, in the wake of a possible "Cardinal Climax" August new moon peak in mass mood, there's the possibility of a '29/'87 style crash into October. This time around, however, the 'panic' should be of "Grand Supercycle" scale which means that it is apt to be many times more potent than these prior breakdowns in mass e-motion (energy in motion).

Obviously, this is where the threat of man's destructive mood taking the form of global war looms large. Given this possibility, we are now entering a period where people need to seriously consider and start planning to "bug-out" from modern civilization because it might not be around much longer.

Then I heard another voice from heaven say:
"Come out of her, my people,
so that you will not share in her sins,
so that you will not receive any of her plagues;
for her sins are piled up to heaven,
and God has remembered her crimes."
[Revelation 18:4-5]

Meanwhile: Russia Ready to Launch Iranian Nuclear Power Plant

WW3? -August Forecast: Cloudy With a Chance of Mayhem

READ HERE...



Seems like Fidel Castro is 'in the know'.

UPDATE: 100s of IDF armored vehicles on the move to Israel's northern border (MORE | VIDEO)

Is Jesus God?

A pertinent question.

Whose story is this?

Rest In Peace, Fadel

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." - The U.S. Declaration of Independence

I just learned that my friend Fadel passed away. He suffered a stroke, likely brought on by his ongoing lack of proper medication and treatment.



I came to know Fadel as a graduate student of economics at the University of Connecticut where I recently received my Master's degree after a 15-year hiatus. Together there we struggled to learn what I now deem to be a false religion according to which servitude to Mammon and placing one's faith in an imaginal "invisible hand" is purported to bring about social harmony and maximum happiness for all. Fadel's life and death have been a testament to the folly of such a deluded, self-serving perspective.

Fadel was from Sierra Leone, a rather symbolic, small West African nation founded by freed slaves that has been made famous by films like Amistad and Blood Diamond (WATCH | Part 2), both movies I saw with him while he resided in America. (The province of Kenema in Sierra Leone, where Fadel was born and died, is the hub of diamond mining there. Think of how diamonds represent values and "love" in the West!)






Shortly after seeing Blood Diamond, Fadel returned to Sierra Leone in the hopes that he could use his training in developmental economics to help bring his nation back to life after the devastating civil war there. Alas, his vision was to no avail.

Quite frankly, I'm very upset and angered by Fadel's death. He was good soul caught in an all-too evil and unjust world IMHO.

His name literally means "faithful" and I tried my best to be a faithful friend and considered our relationship an ongoing personal trial for me to abide by the Golden Rule of loving and valuing others as myself. Whatever his needs were, I sought to place myself in his position and do for him as I would have wanted done for myself by a friend in my relatively advantaged position. Trying to care for him has been an incredible spiritual and financial challenge in my life and with his passing I'm sorry for failing him, but his seemingly insurmountable predicament and ongoing health problems finally caught up to him in his backward nation where quality medical care is virtually non-existent. He leaves behind his young son Adam, whom he loved dearly and is my namesake.

What I'm most sorry for, however, is the failings of everyone around me here in America where time and time again my efforts to help Fadel were met with cool indifference if not outright contempt by family, friends and fellow church members who couldn't see my reasoning in seeking to support this West African's needs. I was just being used by Fadel in their eyes, or so their self-justification has been for never helping me to help him. What a convenient mindset for those who live in the lap of luxury and material excess!

Apparently, the following passage from Matthew is not taken very seriously here in modern-day America:

"When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

"Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.'

"Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?'

"The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'

"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.'

"They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?'

"He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'

"Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life." [Matthew 25:31-46]

As free creatures, you all have had the prerogative to ignore my and others' needs for a helping hand. However, if I am who I believe I am, then your failings are about to met by God's righteous judgment. There's nothing I can do about the consequences of your consistently unreasonable choice to deny God, and each other, love. The historical injustice of inequity and iniquity can not go forever unanswered "by the very nature of man". Is it really so impossible to care and share?



Rest in peace, Fadel, and rest assured the world left behind will not know true peace and freedom until people are led by God's love and truth rather than misled and enslaved by love for Mammon. Man's current faith is misplaced and soon to be tragically upset.

Thus, the truth shall become clear. From a Founding Father of America whose surname I'm proud to share:



"Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
[John 8:32]

Clashes at the Israel-Lebanon border

Live coverage: Clashes at the Israel-Lebanon border

UPDATE: The Muqata Blog has video of how the border skirmish started that blatantly shows purported "Lebanese" forces opening fire on IDF troops that were removing brush on Israeli territory.



There was a serious border clash between Israel and Lebanon today that could eventually escalate into a regional conflict and, as I've been long warning, a nuclear third world war.

The timing of this incident, in the wake of the "Cardinal Climax", is somewhat alarming, particularly given the case I've been making regarding "Kremlin Astrology" and the onset of the "Apocalypse Wave".

As for the specifics of the incident, it has the appearance of a staged provocation on the part of the Arab states, possibly to create a pretext for a full-scale Arab/Israeli war that nowadays will actually be an Arab-Persian/Israeli war given Iran's role in the setup.

What apparently occurred is that Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) went to cut a tree branch overhanging the tense border in an operation approved by UNIFIL, the U.N. force authorized to monitor the ceasefire from the 2006 Israeli-Lebanon conflict.

There were conflicting accounts of what sparked Tuesday’s gunfire.

"It started when the Israelis wanted to cut a tree down inside Lebanon, the Lebanese army fired warning shots at them and they responded by shelling," a security source told Reuters.

However, as suggested by the image below, the Lebanese army "warning shots" appear to have been a direct attack, something that corroborates Israel's claim that IDF forces were ambushed:

Speaking at a press briefing, Major General Gadi Eisenkot said Israeli troops encountered a "planned ambush" by Lebanese forces.

"It was a planned ambush by a sniper unit…this was a provocation by the Lebanese army," he said.

That this border incident was staged seems further confirmed by the rapid, potentially inflammatory statements issued by high-level Lebanese, Syrian and Egyptian authorities:

“After consultations, the (Lebanon's higher defence) council has ... given instructions to face all aggressions on our territory, army and people by all available means, no matter the sacrifices,” said General Said Eid, the head of the council.

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President Bashar al-Assad telephoned Lebanese president Michel Sleiman on Tuesday and expressed Syria's support for Lebanon against the brazen aggression launched by Israel.

Assad believes that this aggression proves once more that Israel has always sought to destabilise security and stability in Lebanon and the region.

What are Israel's enemies up to?

Remember that my apocalyptic vision began with seeing a special report of a chemical missile attack on Haifa, Israel.