Assumptions And Consequences

A lot of hash has been made lately regarding certain expectations in the economy, politics, world events etc. that I feel compelled to expose some of these fallacies of public opinion. Many people have a rather shall I say ignorant and perhaps even an arrogant certitude that certain things will repeat themselves "in a positive way" as if politics or human interactions have a "four-seasons" cycle to them. Though I tend to agree that history often repeats itself it never follows the same course as its predecessor. In other words, there will always be slight variations in the current moment so that we don't "repeat" history exactly one hundred percent of the time but return to it at a later date and then go forward on a slightly different trajectory not riding on the same historical line but slightly off course, if you will. So with out further ado lets go over the list of assumptions that so many are convinced will occur on schedule:

1) Economic Assumption: "the economy will bounce back in a year or two". People are so convinced that the economy runs without due deference to which political party controls Congress however history has indeed shown that in fact it does matter which political party is at the helm and what policies are being followed that determines when the economy comes humming back to life from a period of a moribund economic cycle. Simply put, the economy is a responder to what is demanded by those in political power. Politics drives the economy not the other way around. If policies are being pursued that hurts big, medium and small business with excessive taxation, fees, duties and harmful legislation like "cap and trade" then businesses of all sizes will simply spend more time holding on to what they do have instead of research and development and expansion which is so critical to the economy.

FDR is a prime example of politics leading the way towards attacking businesses rather then helping them become stronger. The crash of 1929 did not happen on FDR's watch however the Democrat President was inculcated with anti-commercial tendencies that his policies completely choked off any incentive for business to expand during the 1930's. In fact, his policies brought back the depressionary levels of unemployment, low stock market numbers, and heavy taxation in 1937-38 that the depression appeared to have no end in sight. FDR's "solutions" always involved excessive federal government spending and high taxation and it wasn't till the advent of the Second World War that halted these lousy policies from Washington D.C. (FDR had no choice- either attack American businesses or attack America's enemies) that we see a turn in the economy. However, the war itself did not stop the flatlining of the economy for even after the war was won we see the return to high unemployment and very little economic activity that was the hallmark of the FDR era. Only with the advent of the Republican President Eisenhower and Republican congress in 1952 do we see a reversal of these anti-commercial policies and the concomitant rise in the economy. The depression was a 24-year curse (1929 - 1953) of low economic activity, high taxation, and excessive government spending and expansion at the expense of the private sector due to Democrat inspired legislation in Congress and in the Presidency itself that the bad times kept on going and going and going until it hit a brick wall that was the Republican administration of Eisenhower after the Korean War. Let's see, depression, World War II and the Korean War was the era of Roosevelt/Truman and this is the era we want to return to under Obama?

The advent of Ronald Reagan also had the same effect when the economy was suffering under the Carter era policies that returned to FDR inspired programs of high taxation and government expansion that resulted in high interest rates that stifled nearly every business model from manufacturing and financials to small business and start-ups . Bad foreign policy decisions also contributed to the bad economic picture when the United States cut off funding to our South Vietnam ally in 1974 (by a democrat led congress) resulting in her capitulation to the communists of North Vietnam by 1975. This in turn brought about a tidal wave of unrest (coincidentally only against our allies) from Iran to Nicaragua and Afghanistan in particular to Africa in general. On top of all this was the Arab-Oil Embargo of 1973 that the United States was still suffering from when Carter came to power in January of 1977. I have a feeling on this last point that Jimmy Carter would not find fault with the Arabs and thus blame the United States for this embargo since we decided to belatedly support on only true ally in the Middle East, Israel, during the Yom Kippur War started by Egypt herself.

Could the Carter Era have been another 24-year recessionary/depressionary curse as it had been under FDR/Truman? Most certainly it would have been had it not been for the business friendly Republican in the man that we know as Ronald Reagan that ended the Carter/Mondale era in 1980. Nevertheless, Reagan still had a bad economy on his hands and though Carters' critics did blame him for what Reagan inherited from the Carter malaise, the policies that Reagan put into place under the tutelage of a business friendly congress helped turn around a very ugly economic situation and instead of a 24-year economic curse we actually created a 25-year mother lode of economic expansion and growth not seen since the golden years of industrial expansion of the early 20th century.

Today, the Obama Administration blames GW Bush for what "they inherited" however, let it be known that Senator Obama voted for nearly all the policies while in Congress during his tenure there that have contributed to the situation we are in today! Obama objected to President Bush's "deficit" spending and yet after only being in the Oval Office a few months Obama has outdone the previous President's spending by four-fold!

There are no guarantee's that the economy will come back to the heady days of Reagan/Bush. Just because the economy rebounded after Reagan came to power does not mean that it will do so under Obama. The attitude and tenor of both Obama and his Democrat controlled House of Representatives and Senate will ensure that an "anti-commercial" environment will reign supreme so long as Democrats retain power in Washington D.C. and thus we are more likely to see a repeat of history along the lines of a 24-year depression of an FDR Era rather than a 25-year bonanza of a Ronald Reagan Era.

2) Political Assumption: "Republicans will take control of Congress in 2010". Once again, I know there are a lot of pundits that believe the "pendulum" theory of American politics, however, though political power may switch hands in Washington, what we see in fact that policies don't waver as much and in many ways remain the same in spite of the pendulum swings in domestic politics. More often than not it really doesn't make much difference politically if both parties are espousing the same thing domestically as was the case during the 30's and in the 60's and consequently even now in the late 2000's.

Once again, even though the past has shown that Republicans can retake the house two years after a major Democrat takeover, I don't see this possibility repeating itself anytime soon. The trend line shows that once Democrats take over they usually retain their power for 10 years or more with 1994 being an off year for Democrat "success" at the ballot box. The Republicans must stake out a difference between themselves and their democrat opponents, however, today Republicans are not sounding that much different in terms of social spending and taxation. Thus, strategically, Republicans are still showing anti-business tendencies themselves and are contributing to a fractured message that only serves to confuse voters and allow the Democrats to retain their power.

Republican leadership is also lacking and I cannot see any person that can actually use the full force of his intellect and oratory to turn the government socialist ideal that is now so pervasive in Republican ranks as well as in the country among the voters. Is this the revenge of the "Rockefeller republican" for the rise and advent of Ronald Reagan that occurred in 1976? Perhaps. Revenge and envy are a path to the dark side and I'm afraid the Republican Party is still suffering from internecine fighting that has not spent itself in spite of the fall of prominent moderate Republicans such as Specter (switched to democrat), Ensign (fornicator) and Sanford (adulterer) and the complete gutting of the party from old timers that have decided to not run for re-election. It doesn't look good for a Republican return to power in 2010 nor in 2012 I'm afraid.

3) Foreign Policy Assumption: "Obama will bring change to the world!". Is there anything Obama has done that G.W. Bush hasn't already done in the arena of foreign policy? I mean really, we have already "talked" to Iran and North Korea to death and nothing has come of it except their continued malfeseance towards the United States and that was before Obama and company came onto the scene last January. The so called elections in Iran brought about a near total revolt but certainly no "revolution" but this should have not been countenanced since only an outside force, like the United States military, could actually bring "change" in both spirit and letter to the Persian people.

Obama's arrogance only barely outstrips his naivety towards our allies as well as our enemies. Just because he thinks he is the "anti-Bush" doesn't automatically make him friends with Russia, Europe, Al-Arabia, China, Japan and even Africa. These regimes understand only one thing: power! Military power, political power and economic power. This is what GW was able to deliver in his tenure as President. GW didn't speak well but then again when you have the most powerful military excercising their assigned duties in Iraq and Afghanistan then your GPS guided munitions and blood thirsty Marines will do just fine, thank you. Obama on the other has eschewed the military option other than a few missles lobbed here and there under the watchful eyes of our predator drones. If Obama had been President after 9/11 then I could most surely guarantee you that Saddam Hussein Al Tikriti would still be in power today. Not to mention I'm quite certain we would not be in Afghanistan today and the Taliban would still be in power in Kabul.

Barack Hussein Obama is a complete woose and nothing more. Only our enemies will be glad that someone like Obama is in power because he is a complete buffoon and will surrender American hedgemony to the third world like some Manchurian Candidate who secretly abhors the power and prestige that is the United States of America.

The world has not changed however the American administration certainly has changed hands to a more docile, incompetent, naive and just plain stupid man being supported by a pacficist party hell bent on bringing America down to third world parity so as not to "offend" anyone. The last time we were there was under a moron named Jimmy Carter.

4) Foreign Policy Assumption: "Iraq was the biggest foreign policy mistake in the history of America!". There is no more naive assumption in foreign policy than this one. In light of that deceitful attack on the United States on 9/11/01, the time it took to get our forces in place for the invasion of Iraq was over 2 years in the making! So there was plenty of time to think of the ramifications of this invasion and no it was not a cowboy "kneejerk" GW Bush reaction to 9/11. The first Gulf War was a direct result of Saddam Hussein's Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the resultant destruction and complete route of the Iraqi military before the massive AMERICAN force made the United States the prime target of any retaliation by Iraq. When we consider as well that Saddam tried to have President G. H. Bush assassinated while he visited Kuwait in 1992, as well as the first attack on the World Trade Center (remember those buildings?) in 1993, as well as the destruction of the F Murray Building in Oklahoma City in 1995 on the very day that Iraq's Baath Party celebrates their ascension to the throne under Saddam and the fact that we know very well that these types of attacks are the modus operandi of all Arab/Islamic regimes in the Middle East alone points the arrow to the only perpetrator WILLING to align himself with Islamic terror groups (who would have no problem killing the likes of a Saddam if they could) to strike at the United States and recoup any loss of prestige suffered in 1991 in Kuwait, makes the Iraqi Invasion after 9/11 the most logical outcome for America's response to this terror hit in the heart of New York City and Pentagon on the morning of September 11th, 2001.

Iraqi forces were constantly firing their SAM anti-aircraft missiles at AMERICAN aircraft flying over the "No Fly Zone" over Iraq established after the First Gulf War. This cat and mouse game played by Baghdad was unacceptable after 9/11 and any attempt to fire on an ENRAGED AND ANGRY America thus brought the whole might and power of the greatest military force in the world as well as history upon your head! Now that was the greatest and dumbest mistake in foreign policy ever assumed by a sitting head of state: Saddam Hussein the moron. Consider as well, that whatever the reasons were for the invasion (and there were many not just the 'WMD' location) these pale in comparison to the fact that we, the United States of America, had to establish a PRECEDENT that you don't attack us in the wee hours on a morning of a cloudless sky and GET AWAY WITH IT!!! Facts are facts and Saddam clearly had a history of nuclear/chemical/biological weapons programs and was WILLING to use them not only against his own people (Kurds) but certainly against his neighbors (Iran). Of course, in the Gulf War Saddam Hussien of Iraq fired SCUD missiles at Saudi Arabia and Israel (hmmm, the arch enemies of Al Qaida as well) then certainly we see a mad tyrant that should have and did suffer the demise of all tyrants who dare raise their hand against America: death and destruction to yourself, your regime and your country.

The regime fell within a matter of weeks after our glorious armed forces invaded and yes it was indeed MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. The War On Terror SHOULD HAVE continued into the hell holes called Iran and Syria and because we didn't do this is the reason why the OCCUPATION of Iraq became mired in a pathetic attempt by Moslems of every stripe and country within AL ARABIA to terrorize America into leaving Iraq. In spite of the losses we suffered (greater than the invasion itself) we came out on top (as expected by me) and gloriously succeeded without necessarily having to rely on the so called "surge" that followed in 2006 to effect an outcome that was already there but not yet came to fruition that year: namely the standing up of the reconstituted army of Iraq.

The Left in America and Europe despises Iraq for all the SUCCESSES that have come to light due to President Bush and the AMERICAN military that began in March 2003: the fall of the Saddam Hussien Regime; death of his heirs ensuring the regime doesn't rise again; the capture, conviction and execution of the Ace of Spades himself, Saddam Hussien Al Tikriti; the elections that followed in which all of Iraq could participate in the future of their own country; the DEFEAT of Al Qaida in Iraq; and the successful implementation of the "surge"; Lybia's Mohmmar Guadaffi surrendering his nuclear program and the Syrian army retreat from Lebanon all point to great successes that only Democrats could possibly dream of had it occurred under their watch. But most of all, the fact the United States of America triumphed over her enemies in such a magnificent way has shamed the Left in America and Europe into a bitter reactionary and deliberate worldview in which they despise America and its commercial, Christian, and constitutional way of life have become anathema to their very political core.

This assumption by the Left specifically will be their undoing in the coming years as their response to Iraq will be DRAMATICALLY different to the point that all of the gains made by the USA since 2003 will be pissed away by a vengeful and ungrateful leftwing that will be happier seeing America lose in Iraq than give any credit to a domestic political foe (GW Bush) and capitalizing on our past success. The question will be then: Which Democrat will "lose" Iraq like we lost China, Iran, Southeast Asia, and Cuba?

The Great Debate

Which is it, America? Are we going to be a superpower in foreign policy or are we going to be a superpower in domestic policy? You can't have it both ways because we can't afford to pay trillions of dollars in power projection, foreign aid and wars in far away places and continue to increase the domestic programs for nationalized healthcare, social security and industry bailouts that is now running into the multiple trillions. Is it GW's fault? He is but one among a long line of Presidents, statesmen, Senators and Representatives that have embraced the government-industrial complex that we have come to enjoy in the form of medicare, social security, CAFE standards, EPA, OSHA and a plethora of other federal agencies and policies too numerous to mention here that affect and effect our daily lives. Barack Hussein Obama is but the latest incantation of the government-industrial complex to grace our presence and he may in fact be the apex of this "change" in direction from a foreign policy superpower to a domestic policy superpower.

History has shown what becomes of a nation when this "change" sets in and grabs hold of the populace. Behold the once great nation that was Great Britain. She too was a global superpower who alone stood at the top of the mountain with her overseas commitments to her colonies from South Africa to India to Hong Kong and from Australia to Canada to her Caribbean island jewels. She was the "policeman" of the world keeping would be dictators at bay from Europe to Africa to Asia. But then two world wars and hundreds of billions of dollars later finally made Britain turn inward and reject the role she had played in foreign policy for nearly 300 years. Instead of spending money on soldiers and ships she spent money on the National Health Service and more domestic government spending than she had previously embraced in all of her time as a foreign policy "superpower". Now, after only 60 years or so she too is now bankrupt and can barely afford the services she provides to her people without having to raise more taxes at the expense of her national wealth or what's left of it. Now, her only option in "paying" for these domestic programs is to allow foreigners to work and stay in Great Britain who have no intention of embracing her culture, language and laws. She is now more like Babylon the Great instead of Great Britain.

Is this America's future as well? Have we spent ourselves into oblivion only to have to sacrifice the world role we play as policeman in order to have the domestic goodies that Europe "enjoys"? Is Obama's "change" simply more of the same spending policies of his predecessor but more spending and more borrowing than before? At what price do we pay for this "domestic" course correction in foreign affairs? Obama and the democrats did agree to INCREASE defense spending by 4% from last year however there is much agitation in the media regarding which military programs are going to be axed, scaled down or continued in the wake of the War On Terror...excuse me, the War On Extremism. Apparently, the word "sacrifice" does not apply to the government-industrial complex and as such it continues to grow ever more powerful every day. However, the law of diminishing returns will burst forth at the expense of the fantasies of socialists in Washington in regards to how to pay for their Utopian ideals. If they increase taxation then the economy will shrink thus tax revenue will fall short and borrowing will have to take up the slack. If they cut spending (which they will never do) then all the jobs and businesses that are connected to government (government-industrial complex) such as medical, military, education, social security etc, will suffer thus causing an economic contraction that will precipitate lower tax revenue thus borrowing will have to take up the slack. However, behind both propositions, we can no longer borrow! We have so borrowed ourselves into oblivion that there will come a time where the interest itself let alone the principal will become too great to bare financially and something will have to give.

That something is foreign policy, I predict. If Americans and her politicians have to make a choice and push comes to shove I can almost guarantee that the United States of America will decrease her presence overseas and with her foreign entanglements ie NATO, SEATO, and defense postures with Iraq, Afghanistan, Poland, Central and South America and perhaps even go so far as absolving our responsibility as the policeman of the world becoming more of a Sweden than a Great Britain as we are today. Some will see this as good thing as they believe the United States is singularly too powerful as it is and should be made weaker and more subservient to international organizations and her madcap demands. However, the result of foreign policy contraction will be the rise of dictatorships around the world that will ultimately defy the West as well as the loss of our Allies to enemy insurrection such as was experienced during the whole of the 1970's when America retreated, looked the other way and just plain gave up before the evil and ungodly forces of Communist China, Vietnam and Russia. The domestic narcissim of the 1960's gave way to the foreign policy debacle of the 1970's. Thank you liberals! It may not be communist nations today that rise up in our absence but certainly they will in the language of Barack Obama be "extreme" if I may be so bold in the form of a nativist Russia or an Islamic Caliphate.

Behold, the future.

• The great falling away...
• Karl Marx lied, people died.
• The majesty and terror of creation...
• Love of money is the root of evil...
• The bigger they are the heavier they fall...
• Another brick in the wall for Turkey.
• Staring into the abyss...

Revelation Redux Again

The Church Age is coming to a close. It has existed for nearly 2000 years and its purpose was and is to lay the foundation for a royal family for his majesty, the Lord Jesus Christ as well as provide for him an army to accomplish his will on earth. This "model" army if you will grows by a simple non-meritorious act of faith in Christ and advances spiritually by inculcation of Bible Doctrine which is the mind of Christ. This army is quantitatively and qualitatively the most advanced army ever to be fielded by man, in this case, the God-Man, Jesus Christ. The exact terminus of this age is unknown due to its dependence on the free-will of men whether they are for or against Christ on a vast global scale. At some point in the future the Church, the body of Christ, will be removed in a twinkling of an eye as it is said and an old dispensation will resume that was put on hold since the first advent of Christ: the Age of Israel.

This age only has 7 years left before it too is retired however the last seven years of this age is the worst of times that mankind has ever experienced and is known as simply the "Tribulation". The Tribulation itself is bifurcated with each half lasting 3 1/2 years and the last half designated as the "Great Tribulation". The first half of Tribulation is characterized by the absence of the true Church as well as the fact that it starts off with a world without the saints. However, as the world recovers by the instant removal of millions of people in the Rapture, a slow realization by unbelievers that indeed this was the Rapture event will bring these people to the Lord and they will become the new righteous in God. Every dispensation has a body of believers known as the saints and this last seven years will be no different.

The first half of Tribulation starts off rather benign in that all of the action takes place regionally in Western Europe. In Europe we will see the consolidation of 10 nations into a confederacy and the establishment of an ecumenical religion based in Rome to give this 10 nation confederacy the legitimacy that it needs to become embraced by the peoples of Europe. The creation of a weak federal head in the form of the Emperor will be the capstone of the confederacy but ultimately this will be undoing of this rather short lived organization.

The Hour The Earth Stood Still

As the first half of Tribulation comes to a close the Emperor will sense that it will be time to make his greatest push to become absolute ruler of Europe. He will slowly agitate against the religious authorities in Rome perhaps setting them up as a threat to his plans of expansion not only as the leader of Europe but leader of the entire world. He summons the 10 European kings together in a counsel of war to decide the fate of Rome. He convinces them of the need to eliminate his rival and to take what is rightfully theirs. For 1 hour the Kings of the 10 nation confederacy give the Emperor their power and authority to execute his will as he pleases. Once they relinquish their power the Emperor never gives it back to them. He uses the complete and total executive power handed to him to eliminate his rivals one by one. First, the False Church. Second, three kings of the 10 Nation Confederation. Third, the Confederacy itself. All this is done before the middle of the Tribulation. Once he establishes his rulership in Europe then the Emperor can be offered the "kingdoms of this world" by his Satanic majesty after he is defeated in the heavens and when the Emperor in the West accepts the position as the vessel of Satan and allows his diabolical majesty to possess his body and mind then Satan can fully consolidate his command of fallen humans, fallen angels and the fallen inhuman forces that he will wield in the next three and a half years against Jesus Christ. The Emperor becomes the Anti-Christ.

In that 1 hour (not a literal hour but more like the hands of the Atomic Clock inching ever so closer to midnight of a nuclear holocaust so this hour represents but a short space of time during the first half of tribulation) the Emperor moves against the Harlot in Rome (Religious Babylon) and destroys her with fire to pave the way for the eventual Caesar worship of himself towards the end of the first half of tribulation. The destruction of this one world religion headquartered in Rome is the defining moment of the Tribulation because once the False Church is eliminated then the Man of Sin may now be worshipped as the "god" that he believes he is and in turn initiates a chain reaction of events that culminates with the Second Advent of Jesus Christ. John records in Revelation the lamentations of the kings and merchants of the world at the loss of Religious Babylon located in Rome. Kings because they lose their political power established through religion and merchants because they lose their wealth from the money that is made through this one world religion.

Three nations of the 10 Nation Confederacy rebel against this seminal event which I believe to be Italy, Spain and Portugal since these nations of Europe have benefited the most from her rule since the Church Age. Their defeat by this arrogant King paves the way for the Emperor of of the 10 Nation Confederacy to become the Emperor of Europe! However, just as Lord Acton so famously said "a little power corrupts a little but absolute power corrupts absolutely", his fantastic victory over these kings isn't enough to satiate his lust for power and indeed he seeks more than just mere regional dominance but instead he seeks global rulership as the FEDERAL head of mankind! Satan thus is the creature than can fulfill his wishes. With Satan's power eliminated in the heavens in the middle of the tribulation Satan gains what little time he has left by possessing the one man who can influence the world like no other. The Emperor also gains additional power and prestige because through Satanic possession he can consolidate his rule not simply throughout Europe but the entire world. For both of them its a "win-win" situation as far as they are concerned. And not only this but Satan guarantees the Emperor a great ally who will roll out the red carpet if you will to the Emperors rulership in the man known in the Bible as the False Prophet who is the future dictator of Israel and ally of the European Emperor.

In summary, the war in Europe precedes the Last World War that it spawns as the Fourth Kingdom becomes a reality. The Fourth Kingdom as revealed by God to Daniel displaces the 10 Nation Confederacy and the Emperor arrogantly assumes not only the mantle of the Emperor of Europe but assumes the title of Emporer of the World. Once the War In Heaven is executed (Operation Archangel) and completed by the middle of tribulation Satan and his fallen Angels fall back to their last bastion on earth and from there wage their war against Christ on the fields and plains of this world. When Satan possesses the Emperor then as the Anti-Christ the defense pact is broken between Europe and Israel that once ensured Israel's safety in an inhospitable land and unwittingly exposes Israel to the King of the South who now takes advantage of the now defunct relations between Israel and Europa. I suspect however that this defense pact that is broken is not done so in anger to Israel. Since the 10 Nation Confederacy of Europe will essentially cease to exist and the Fourth Kingdom established in its place then a new charter must be drawn up by the administration of the Anti-Christ for the defense of Israel and this would have to occur for any bilateral agreement established between all governments around the world not just with Israel per se. Also, since the False Prophet after all is his ally and erects statues in his honor right in the Temple of God in Jerusalem then we must assume the Anti-Christ would have if given enough time establish another defense treaty with Israel with the False Prophet supinely agreeing to whatever terms that would have applied. However the King of the South circumvents this diplomatic formality when Al-Arabia directly attacks Israel during her weakest and most feeble moment. Without an operational defense pact in place Israel is left in limbo and thus exposed to her enemies. The King of the South thus takes advantage of this diplomatic disruption and attacks Israel head on in one last attempt to push the Jew into the sea.
Russia however, has other plans. With all the eyes of the world on the war between Israel and Al-Arabia it is at this time that Russia with her allies including Persia springs their trap and invades Al-Arabia to both eliminate the King of the South and hold the West and East hostage by occupying the most prized lands in the world for its petroleum reserves. Russia and her allies realize that it is at this moment that they too must seize the initiative if they are to remain sovereign from this beast that now calls himself emperor of the world. By eliminating the King of the South and occupying the land that greases and fuels the economies of both the West and the East then perhaps Moscow and her allies can negotiate their political, economic and religious independence from a position of strength, or so they think. If past history is any indication of the future conduct of this mighty people of the North then we should not be surprised that the Old Testament prophets foresaw these events transpire exactly as they should. Russia has always made its greatest gains in the world by secret pacts and surprise invasions from the seventeenth century to World War I and World War II including from the Cold War to the present. This future event by Magog, as the King of the North is known in the book of Ezekiel, then will not differ from her historical tradition of surprise and attack on a geopolitical plane.

The Fourth Kingdom: One World Government

Tribulation begins with the 10 nation confederation in the West but then is dismembered by the advent of the Anti-Christ and one world government is born by the time we get to the middle of tribulation. The entire world will worship the King of the West as Emperor of the World. The Emperor of the 10 nation confederacy is weak at first hence he comes to power "peaceably". The Emperor is the "wounded head" of the 7 headed beast as described in Revelation. Once the 10 Nation confederacy is created this political entity becomes "Rome Revived" and with it a revived head of the 10 nation confederacy, the Emperor of Rome.

The Fourth Kingdom was the kingdom that Daniel saw at the end of days and it is synonymous with One World Government. Three other kingdoms have already preceded it and have been Israel's master and the most powerful on earth at their time. The First Kingdom was ruled by the Caldeans who first enslaved Israel. The Second Kingdom was the Medo-Persians who under their rule allowed Israel to rebuild their Temple in Jerusalem. The Third Kingdom was the Greek Empire of Alexander the Great. The last kingdom that Israel was a slave to was the Roman Empire and this fourth Kingdom of the future is an extension of Roman power and glory however in a much weaker form that it was nearly 2000 years ago. Even though it may be a One World Government there are still other nations that will not allow themselves to be swallowed up by this "beast". Although the Kings of the East do bow their knee to the Emperor however, the King of the South and of the North will wage war against the West to stave off this all encompassing and heretical governmental system.

Once one world government is established at the middle of Tribulation then Magog (Russia) and the King of the South (Al-Arabia) make their moves against the West by attacking the only western ally in the Middle East, Israel. Thus the Tribulation is bifurcated with general peace (until the outbreak of war in Europe that destroys the 10 Nation confederacy and the religious power in Rome) in the latter half of the first 3 1/2 years of this 7 year period with the 10 Nation Confederacy residing with a weak executive and the second 3 1/2 years giving way to worldwide war under the Fourth Kingdom of one world government and a superhuman endowed executive in the latter half of Tribulation. This latter half is considered the "Great" Tribulation because of the advent of Satan on earth which acts as a force multiplier in terms of human ability to wage war against Christ. Once again war in Europe gives way to war throughout the world!

We should also consider one last point: the amazing parallel between Daniels vision of the "fourth kingdom" and establishment in the West of the Fourth Reich. Rome fell to the German barbarians and Western Roman Europe would become peopled by Germanic stock. These people have established since 476 A.D. three different Germanic kingdoms or "Reichs" in their own native tongue since the fall of the last "Roman Caesar" in Western Europe. The first Reich was the Holy Roman Empire which lasted from roughly 916 A.D. to 1806 A.D. when it fell to Napoleon's armies. The Second Reich operated from the unification of Germany from 1870 to 1919 and would cease to exist when Germany accepted the terms of surrender at Versailles. The Third Reich operated from 1933 to 1945 during the reign of the Nazi's and ended in total capitulation to the Allies at the end of World War II. Could it be that the Fourth Kingdom of Daniel is perhaps the future "Fourth Reich" that will arise in the West? Only speculation but certainly worth entertaining considering the political and economic conditions that so befuddles the West today.

So to recap - the 10 Nation Confederacy is broken up by the Emperor when he defeats three kings to establish his hegemony. The Confederacy gives way to the Fourth Kingdom and this Kingdom is One World Government as its power is global in scale. It will last not for a thousand years as anticipated and proclaimed in much the same way by Hitler's vaunted Third Reich but similarly and strikingly lasts much shorter - a mere three and a half years. Though men today wish to establish this kingdom even now however it will take the sinister power of Satan possessing the Emperor himself to make it a reality. Once it becomes a reality then we see the world worshipping the Emperor and enforcing his will throughout the entire globe with the exception of two key international players: Al-Arabia and Mother Russia.

Both Russia and Arabia cannot accept servitude to the Fourth Kingdom. They rebel by attacking and invading key positions in the Middle East. For Arabia, they refuse to join the Fourth Kingdom and attack Israel to finally "cleanse" the lands of Islam of the horrid Jew because militarily they are weak and in a position of weakness that they find themselves in this is their only option other than accepting servitude to the Anti-Christ ensconced in the West. Islam is by its very nature anti-Western culturally, economically, and of course religiously. Al-Arabia cannot bow to Rome as this would mean giving up on maintaining their Sunni Caliphate which no doubt will rise once more before the Fourth Kingdom comes to power. Nor can they accept a western outpost in "their" lands that is also ruled by the False Prophet of Israel which no doubt insults the sensibilities of the Mohammedans. Al-Arabia thus attempts another invasion of Israel to eliminate this eternal irritant from its midst. With the pact between Europa and Israel broken the King of the South of Al-Arabia is given a free hand to eliminate their Jewish nemesis once and for all or so they think.

Russia for different reasons also cannot abide by the Fourth Kingdom but will not attack the West so overtly. The power of the West cannot be so openly defied. Russia has always wanted the things of the West but never has it bowed its knee to Western traditions. Their culture and religion as well as their history prevent them from accepting a servile position to the West just as Byzantium could never accept the Western Pope of Rome as their Archbishop and Shepherd of the Eastern Orthodox Church so many centuries ago. This same Church now resides in Moscow. Thus, by deceit and surprise while the world is looking at Israel and Arabia, Russia makes her move into the Middle East. Their only option in checkmating the West is by holding hostage the massive reserves of petroleum that fuels the Fourth Kingdom. By holding nearly all of the commodities of importance in the industrial world Moscow thinks it can prevent the Fourth Kingdom from coalescing into something more powerful than they can resist. This is all or nothing for Russia. Surprisingly, they are successful at first but then again they are fighting Moslems and we all know what a paper tiger they have become. By seizing the Levant and occupying Egypt they eliminate the King of the South (Arabia) and would continue on into Africa if necessary per the Book of Ezekiel. However, Operation Wormword stops Russia and her allies in their tracks. The approach of Western Navies in the eastern Mediterranean also threatens their lines of communication and thus Russia retreats out of Egypt and before leaving the Levant entirely makes one last attempt at eliminating their other Semitic enemy, the Jew, but are completely wiped out in the mountains of Israel. Russia and her allies as well as Al-Arabia fail in their attempt to destroy Israel and occupy the Middle East as a way to change the course of history. After their defeat then the Fourth Kingdom ruled by the Anti-Christ and supported by the False Prophet in Israel is able to muster the remaining kings of the world through their demonic emissaries to march the world's remaining armies to Jerusalem to eliminate all of righteous Israel and prevent the enthroning of Christ as the King of David at the Second Advent.

Additionally, the distinguishing characteristic of the Fourth Kingdom is the number 666. This number is utilized as an oath of fealty to the Emperor by the superhuman endowed False Prophet of Israel. Whosoever does not take this number is committing treason as far as the Emperor is concerned. No one may buy or sell without the number and due to the advent of the computer the ability to verify ones fealty is easily and totally enforceable. No person may just plead "neutral" for this is not the purpose of the number. All must accept the Emperor as their savior or else! By accepting the number of the Emperor you are in essence bowing your knee to the "Man of Sin" instead of the "Son of Man" who is Christ Jesus our Lord. The world at this time will gladly bow their knee to the Emperor and thus enter into a state of war with Heaven. The citizens of Heaven will wage war with the citizens of Earth and just as the Fourth Kingdom will execute those who do not bow their knee to the anti-Christ so shall the Everlasting Kingdom of Christ execute those who accept the number of the Emperor. If the Saints cannot enter the Fourth Kingdom of Anti-Christ at the middle of Tribulation then neither can the citizens of earth enter the Everlasting Kingdom of Jesus Christ at the end of the Tribulation.

No amount of scrubbing will remove the number of the anti-Christ once the King of Kings and Lord of Lords returns with his superhuman armies. The number of the anti-Christ is to be fused into the skin of the right hand or forehead. The number will now be a mark of doom to them that bow their knee to Satan. This leaves very few options open to them that survive the devasting destruction of the Tribulation and when the Great White Calvary begins the mopping up operation (Iron Sceptor) to rid the world of them who are in league with the Anti-Christ. Those who are marked with his number will be eliminated by Christ's victorious armies. Once again this "massacre of the seditious" is directed to them that make a free-will decision to give their fealty to the Anti-Christ. I believe this mark is given only to adults because only they are allowed to "buy and sell" and thus the children of rebellious man would not be in a position to complete commercial transactions and therefore would be left unharmed by the conquering armies of Christ as they would not need the mark of 666 since their parents are representing them in the market place and political square. I say this because it must be reiterated here that 666 is a free-will decision that only adults are in a position to make.

Death and Hades

This phrase is a metaphor for both Operation Scorpio and Draco. The only horseman of the "four horseman of the Apocalypse" that is so aptly named. The fact that "hades" is mentioned at all in first four scrolls tells us the geographic location of this massive force (in the earth) and exits the earth once God allows them this opportunity towards the end of the Great Tribluation which apparently Hades has the ability to destroy billions of human beings.

In addition, in Revelation 1, Christ himself states that he owns the key to "death and hades". We know that when the 5th Trumpet is sounded in Rev 9, an angel falls to earth with "the key" to the Abyss. From here, we see that once the gate to the Abyss is unlocked then Operation Scorpio is initiated. So, in heaven the key is held by God and cannot be accessed until Christ himself breaks the seals of the doomsday book and thus allows the key to the Abyss to be utilized by Satan at the appointed time towards the end of Tribulation.

Furthermore, we know in Rev 20 that God will open "the books" and the "dead" will be judged which is the Great White Throne judgement at the end of Millenial reign of Christ. Here, we see something very interesting: the dead both small and great are judged (humans) then the sea gave up the dead in them (nephalim - half-humans) and then "death and hades"(inhumans) gives up their dead in them! Clearly, we see that this metaphor means much more than people realize. We know that the half-human race of angelic/humans that were spawned by Angels to thwart the coming First Advent of Christ were destroyed by God in the now famous Noah's flood. However though the Nephalim are dead they have yet to be officially judged by God. They are ressurected at the Great White Throne for their rejection of Jesus Christ during their time on earth in ancient history. Finally, the last group of "humans", the inhuman force of Scorpio and Draco, are raised for their judgement as well for their rejection of the Christ. I believe this proves that these forces have free-will and that they could have accepted Christ as their savior but chose not to for their own reasons. None of these classes of "humans" are in the Book of Life due to their rejection of Christ and thus are condemned to the Lake of Fire: the Humans (Homo-Sapiens), the Half-Humans (Nephalim) and the Inhumans (Scorpio & Draco).

How could the armies of Scorpio and Draco have been created? How is it that they remain a mystery to us in particular and mankind in general for so long? Perhaps the plan to thwart the First Advent of Christ by Satan by "creating" the Nephalim of half man/half angels actually had an earlier precendent? Perhaps the troops of Scorpio and Draco are half animal/half angels in their genetic makeup but retain human characteristics from their "angelic" side? We know from John's description of them in Revelaton chapter 9 that they have animalistic and humanoid characteristics and yet these creatures are able to operate in military fashion showing the world their own ability to obey orders and thus they too have free-will! And just as the angels who conspired to thwart the First Advent of Christ are now inprisoned in Tartarus awaiting judgement at the end of Millienium perhaps then this is the reason we see a fallen angel currently residing in the Abyss (Apollyon) and four fallen angels residing with the "Army of the Euphrates" of 200 million inhuman calvary troops which in a way is their own prison just as it is for the Tartarus angels of Noah's Flood! If angels are incarcerated for their crime to prevent the First Advent of Christ at the time of Noah then certainly we might see angels incarcerated yet awaiting "parole" for their eventual crime in preventing the Second Advent of Christ yet to come in the future.

What is further interesting is John's description of the Scorpion troops of Revelation 9 concerning the matter of their golden "crowns". Perhaps these crowns are simply decorations of the most powerful of their "kind" given by the fallen angels for their loyalty, ability and understanding to the greater cause of Satan. Just speculation of course but certainly we see parallels between "them" and mankind as well in regards to rewards given to the most honoerable and enterprising among us. Which once against points to the fact that these creatures do have free-will and thus held accountable for their actions not only in their relation with man but with God as well.

Finally, we know that by the time of the First Advent of Christ the great army of our Lord, the Church, had yet to be recruited by God. And thus Christ announces to Peter directly but indirectly to Satan himself at the dawn of the Church Age, that upon "this Rock I will build my Church and the 'gates of hades' will not prevail against it" thus establishing the prophetic and future event of the Second Advent when the completed army of God, the Church, follows him at the Second Advent and are thereby I believe tasked by God to destroy Satan's secret armies now held in abeyance in both the Abyss and Euphrates. The superhuman armies of Christ that descend from Heaven will destroy the inhuman armies of Satan that ascend from the earth at the Second Advent. Just as Christ predicted the strategic defeat of Satan in the Garden of Eden regarding the first advent so we see here that Christ predicts the strategic and tactical defeat of Satan's glorious inhuman armies at the Second Advent by none other than the Church itself before Christ was crucified at Golgotha. The superhumans eliminate the inhumans as humanity itself is incapable of dispatching this great and mighty foe. This must have been a stunning development in the Angelic World, both fallen and elect, nearly 2000 years ago when this was announced by our Lord to the Apostles. And since the Angelic Conflict has largely been invisible to us then we should not be surprised that this development (creation of the Church to destroy the inhumans among many reasons for its purpose) might appear unknown and invisible to us as well.

We must understand from Satan's point of view that by the time Christ became "flesh among us" at his first advent nearly 2000 years ago he, Satan, was pretty much successful at thwarting God's plan for mankind: Satan had dethroned the first perfect human, Adam in the Garden, by seducing him to partake of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil - God's response was to cast man out of the Garden and perfect environment; Satan had initiated a plan to prevent the first advent of Christ by infecting all of humanity with a genetic angelic strain in human DNA when Angels looked upon the "daughters of men" and the two became one when fallen Angels procreated with mankind thus producing "mighty men of renown- God's response was to destroy all of humanity save 8 souls (Noah and his family) with the flood to rid humanity of this angelic/human hybrid; After the flood Satan convinced mankind to settle together instead of spreading out far and wide under his evil plan to unite humanity under one flag - God dispelled this attempt by imputing humanity with mulitple languages when the tower of Babel was being built; Satan had completely disrupted the first Royal Family of God, Israel, from completing her mission to spread the eternal gospel of Christ by embroiling Israel in the worship of the pantheon of false gods that was so pervasive in the Middle East at that time - God's First Royal Family thus was no use to him and they were ripe for judgement as God gave them over to slavery in form of conquering world powers. Everywhere in the Old Testament Satan is successful in thwarting God at every critical point in history. Finally, Satan still had his inhuman armies to unleash and God had no army of his own to stop this menace in the future by the time Christ appears at the First Advent.

Additionally, Satan is quite successful in getting Israel to reject their Messiah and King and have our Lord eventually crucified as the "political usurper" that he was accused of being. It is always darkest before the dawn as the saying goes and after Christ rises from the dead a new age is born in which an army of superhumans can be slowly constructed over time in the form of God's Second Royal Family- the Church. This second family does not replace the first but does augment it and both figuratively and literally becomes the cavalry that saves the day for Israel and the Saints in the future. I believe The Church will be used be God to destroy Satan's inhuman armies and it is the muscle and sinews of Christ's words and agenda at his Second Advent. The Church becomes the physical embodiment of God and with that unity in Christ we will be invincible. So powerful we become that neither fallen man nor angel can stop the Second Royal Family of God so that even death will flee from us. Indeed, the Gates of Hades shall not prevail against us.

Death Defiant: Era of the Superhuman

The Era of the Superhuman begins at the moment the Church is raptured from the earth sometime in the future. The Rapture of the Church occurs at the end of the Church Age and with it everything we have come to know about ourselves as well as other beings, both angelic and inhuman, will now become known to all of mankind both fallen and elect. Just as the 20th Century ushered in the era that ended the horse and buggy so the Rapture fundamentally changes mankind forever. We will never return to an era where man believes they are "alone" in this world. We will see God, we will see Angels, we will see creatures beyond our imagination and of course we will see mankind able to defy death and perform "miracles" beyond anything we have possibly imagined. The Royal Family of God, the Church, are the first humans to receive their ressurection bodies fashioned after the likeness of Christ. Jesus Christ is the first human to defy death and we who have bowed our knee to him in fealty will be the first as beneficiaries of Christ's Glory to have an indestructible body like his own. No, there is no kryptonite that will be our Achilles Heel as there is none for them that believe in Christ. We may wade against the stream today but we will walk on water tomorrow and no one will be able to stop us.

After the second Advent the superhuman armies of Christ will mingle with "normal" human beings(born in the millinial reign of Christ but have not been resurrected) as well as ressurected humans (Saints) from ancient history not part of the Church Age. As days give way to weeks and months give way to years humans will reproduce at unprecedented levels and will fill the earth once again with a sea of humanity. At the beginning of Christ's reign all of humanity is regenerate however by the time we near the end of Christ's 1000-year reign as the King of Israel then we see on earth a return to times of old: unregenerate man. In other words, a world peopled with humans who have silently rejected Jesus Christ as their savior. You will note that ressurected humanity, The Church and the Saints, will not force man to "believe" in Christ. This is a free-will decision and mankind's independence to decide for or against Christ is respected even in the future. But with free-will comes culpalbility and responsiblity for one's own actions.

The Church is a new spiritual species created by and for God. We are the Citizens of Heaven and our home will always reside in the heavens throughout the glorious universe. For righteous Israel, if they have bowed their knee to the Lord then they are the "meek" that will inherit the earth. For righteious Israel, God has promised them an everlasting throne on earth, an everlasting kingdom and an everlasting King. Both Royal Families of God, Israel and the Church, will glorify God as we dispense with the royal duties of state on earth as well as in the heavens in the service of our Lord and Master. There is nothing the Church has done in the flesh that has given us this magnificent position but it has completely rested on the grace of God. It is Jesus Christ that has given us our power and it is because of him that we will become the masters of the universe. He is the head and we are the body and the two are one. The Trinity itself resides in the body of each individual person who bows their knee to Christ and our future is directly tied to God in general and to Jesus Christ in particular. For this we are eternally grateful for what he has done for us and indeed for the Church to live is for Christ and to die is for gain.

• From Prague With Love...
• From Jerusalem With Love...
• Not always greener on the other side...
• Depends on who you talk to...
• The glory of steam...
• Pax Europa...

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Obama-olatry

Thou shalt have no other gods before me sayeth the Lord and as such I refuse to worship the man Barack Hussein Obama. The constant adulation of the senator from Illinois is really getting nauseous and annoying to the point that I have to turn off the television news coverage even though I love politics. There is only so much one can take as the "loyal opposition" and this years inauguration of the 44th President will have to go down in history not as the first "black man" accepting the purple of the Presidency (he is half-white after all) but as the first inauguration it which a mere mortal was elevated to deity!

Is this sour grapes on my part? No, it really isn't. I've sensed for a long time that the Republic has so far decayed beyond repair that it would only be a matter of time before a true swindler would arrive on the political scene and usurp the throne in America. I just hadn't considered that it would occur so soon after Bill Clinton left office in 2000. I considered Bill Clinton as the greatest swindler of all time and truly unworthy to hold the office of the President since being Commander and Chief of the armed forces and he being a draft-dodger completely and one hundred percent disqualified him as President which was chief among many wrong things about this man from Hope. When he was elected to office in 1992 then I did have sour grapes but this time in 2008 it feels much different.

It seems to me that we are in history making times. I know, every year is "history making" however, when I say history making I mean to say life-altering events that will go down in history as truly momentous and no I'm not talking about Obama being elected to the Presidency. America's role in the world as the Atlas holding up the West seems to be teetering on decline; the economic might of the United States appears on its last legs; the corruption and cynicism in politics that is so pervasive from municipal to federal offices the leftwing tilt in our culture augers a rejection of Christendom in America unknown to us since our founding; the complete breakdown of law and order from the faraway borders of our country to the inner most cesspool of our cities; the micro-managing of our lives by government in all facets of our daily life and of course the ever increasing appetite of the federal budget truly means something big and bad will occur in which the United States will cease to be superpower as we have known it since World War II. Finally, there is the War On Terror and all of the implications that belongs to Obama's actions whether for or against continuing as we have in Afghanistan and Iraq. All arrows are pointing down and I don't foresee the United States emerging from the Obama Administration any stronger but actually much weaker than before.

I did lament last summer that the political contests between two powerful political families, Clinton and Bush, represented a Hatfield and McCoy picture that refuses to cease and desist for the good of the Republic. How long has it been since the Bush's and the Clinton's have been fighting for the Presidency? Since 1988 when GH Bush came to power and really we could go as far back as 1980 when GH Bush was elected as Vice President is when we see this rather unfortunate situation arise in which the nation is held hostage to these squabbling political families. A blood feud indeed. The election of Barack Hussein Obama is just the latest gunshot from the Clinton side across the property of the Bush Family plot that hopefully will go unanswered just for the sake of future generations. However, it appears that even Jeb Bush can't resist the power of the "ring" and he too has sent out feelers to see how his ascendancy as a Senator (Florida) could set himself up much like that other scoundrel, Hillary Rodham Clinton from New York, to the Presidency by including a stent in the Senate before he runs for the Oval Office. Thankfully, he decided it would be bad timing considering the dismal approval ratings of his brother GW that he decided to bow out while his good name remains intact. We may consider Jeb's political considerations a very bad omen because its quite possible that Obama may get so bad that it will make GW Bush's reign look like Camelot in comparison and thus the American people will easily gravitate to Jeb should he decide to run for the highest political office in the future.

I know the current worship of Barack Obama is a symptom of both leftwing political revenge and a souless character that refuses to worship the Creator but instead bows before the creature. Atheists themselves say they don't worship the gods but this isn't really honest now is it? They too worhip gods but gods that they can see and in this case they can see Obama but they can't see Christ so they genuflect in blind fealty, if I may be so bold, to "the One" known as Barack Hussein Obama. Communists all over the world exhibit this trait of blind fealty to men from Russia and China to Cuba and North Korea and all points in between. The political left in America and Europe are no different were it not for the intervention of the Church and its adherence to Christ that brings us back down to reality that prevents the rise of dictators in the West. The Christian considers all men corrupt and thus we reject the adulation and worship of men as "saviors". That is true progress but sadly we see a rejection of Christianity at all levels of society and so called "ethics" put in its place as an ersatz moral code that can never replace the true Christian character which is built up like an edifice in the soul by the daily inculcation of bible doctrine. Without this edifice there can be no point of reference for men to fall upon in both good and bad times and keep them well grounded in life. Thus, the West is primed for a dictator perhaps even a "super" dictator for the people themselves have rejected bible doctrine.

Long live the Republic.

• Rise of the Fourth Kingdom...
• Turkey will go her way...
• Russian bear snooping in places best left alone...
• There he goes again...
• Compassionate Conservatism cills Christianity...
• My how time flies...

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The War Of Terror

Its only been about 3 weeks since the pivotal election in the United States when suddenly from the Indian Ocean came Islamic Terrorists hellbent on murdering thousands of Indians in the financial and entertainment center of India known as Bombay (I know, its Mumbai). That didn't take long did it? I mentioned just on November 4th that the War Of Terror continues even though we elected a President and party that wants to undo the War On Terror. Unfortunately and sadly, I was correct. I was wrong about the election but right about the nature of Islamic Terrorism. Actually, most people know instinctively that the War Of Terror continues but are hoping naively that Islamic Terrorism will simply melt away with the advent of a different President. Don't hold your breath!

Once again, why do we have terrorism and most importantly why is it that most if not all terrorists are Moslem? My friends (may I use that phrase?) international terrorism is a STATE SPONSORED ENTERPRISE. And it is primarily used for POLITICAL effect. It was initially practiced and perfected by the Soviet Union to instill terror and effect political outcomes with their nation state neighbors because their "mighty military" was INCAPABLE of effecting outcomes favorable to Moscow. Since 1947, Israel has militarily defeated ALL OF ITS ENEMIES by conventional military means much to the disgust and angst of Al-Arabia. Time and time again the Moslems lead by Egypt, Syria, and Saudi Arabia attacked tiny little Israel and were met with death, destruction and humiliation. Israel showed the world that Islam is a military paper-tiger. It didn't matter which Moslem country attacked Israel every single one of them was militarily defeated.

Enter the Palestine Liberation Organization. With the lessons learned by the Soviet Russians the Moslems turned to them for succor in healing their military wounds. Marrying political terrorism with the Islamic religion the Moslems now turned communistic political thuggery into Islamic Terrorism as the means to wage war. This wasn't Jihad as history knows it. In the past Islam was able to field huge armies in the conventional sense and invade other lands and countries with little or no opposition. Those weak states that tried to defend themselves were met with an army of religious fanatics who followed Muhammad and met defeat at the hands of these Moslem fanatics. In India especially, we know that Moslems murdered tens of millions of its inhabitants to establish their control over this region. Only in lands where there was an equal or greater conventional military to meet the Moslem head on were they even blunted and even defeated such as when they ran up against the Franks in the West and the Byzantines in the East. Jihad then is not, I repeat, not Jihad today. Don't get me wrong Islamic Terrorism is still led by fanatical Muhammedans and only the most devout Moslem could possibly be such a "soldier" but today's Jihadist is a far cry from yesterday's Saracen.

It simply is impossible for Islam to wage war by CONVENTIONAL means today because every state or culture that it brushes up against has NUCLEAR WEAPONRY as well as a well funded conventional military! Russia, India, Europa, United States and China with Africa as the only exception. Even tiny Israel has a nuclear capability which, of course cannot be confirmed or denied. Al-Arabia has no such indigenous arms industry. They have no nuclear weaponry (I call Pakistan's bluff!) They have no indigenous economic system. They have no indigenous pool of talent to propel them forward as a true "superpower". The only thing they export today is simply commodities in the form of petroleum. That's it! And that wasn't discovered by them but by the British in Persia almost a hundred years ago!! So basically, Al-Arabia are a bunch of morons. Conventionally weak and economically backward they rely on assymetrical means to effect political outcomes. Thus, the Middle East is a basket case waiting to be plucked as the low hanging fruit by any superpower willing to take on the only thing that keeps it "sovereign" in the world today: the warlike and barbaric religion we know as Islam.

Hence, international terrorism today is mainly executed by the Mohammedans. That's all they got left. Yes, they have made money exporting petroleum but how long will that last? How long before America decides to drill its own massive reserves of petroleum in Alaska and off California? How long before petroleum is replaced as the primary source of fuel? The law of diminishing returns is already squeezing Al-Arabia into a very precarious and dangerous geopolitical position which will render this society, culture and people obsolete. This is the main reason Al-Arabia has resorted to "asymmetrical" means of waging war and we must call it for what it is: state sponsored Islamic terrorism.

What will they gain by this act? They believe they will gain time. Time to achieve their last goal before they themselves are swallowed up by the greatest political, military, economic and I might add religious system today: The West. For the Mohammedan the writing is on the wall. Their culture, society and people are not merely the "sick man of Europe" but the sick man of the world. For them their only recourse to remain sovereign in an interdependent world is to establish the Islamic Caliphate once more. Its last home was based in Constantinople or Istanbul, Turkey and since the Caliphate ceased to exist there has been a movement domestically to wage terror against their own people in far away places such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq and so forth to eliminate leaders who don't subscribe to their view. The Moslem Brotherhood in Egypt established in 1928 after the fall of the Caliphate was the template used to establish this precedent. I suspect the Caliphate will indeed rise again through Islamic revolution and terrorism as this is the only way to overthrow their own faithless overlords who don't subscribe to the tenets of Islam. Al Qaida is but one manifestation of this political phenomena.

The entire world has experienced Islamic Terrorism because the Moslem cannot abide or be a servant to the world for any reason politically, economically and of course, religiously. The Middle East is not plugged into the world system like Asia, Europe and America. They sell commodities in the form of oil but this isn't the same as being fully grafted into the world wide system of trade that is now so pervasive since World War II. The only other power today that resembles the Middle East is none other than Russia herself. Hence, the Middle East and Russia are on a collision course. Islam and Orthodox Christianity have been mortal enemies ever since the Mohammedan has entered history and I suspect they will come to one last final blow as they attempt to be masters of their own future WITHOUT the West.

The Wizard Of AR

What Vladimir Putin is to Russian President Medvedev so William Jefferson Blythe Clinton is to President Elect Barack Hussein Obama. Bill Clinton, puppet master extraordinaire and all around deceiver returns to the Emerald City to sit behind the screen pulling all the necessary levers to accomplish his will. The Wizard of Arkansas indeed. Need a heart? Go see the Wizard! Need some courage? Go see the Wizard! Need a brain? You know what you need to do. After this weeks announcements by the "Obama" administration I had to rub my eyes just to make sure I hadn't been sucked back into some 1990's time warp. I certainly wasn't in Kansas that's for sure. Or was I? Talk about history repeating itself, oi vay!

Ex-Clintonites galore now adorn Barack's regime: Greg Craig, Eric Holder, Tom Dashle, Bill Richardson, Jaime Gorelick, and the Queen of Narnia herself Hillary Rodham Clinton to name but just a few. I could a sworn we just elected Barack Obama but I stand corrected. Zeb Brezinkski call your office there might be a position for you too. Jimma Carter can now go forward as a minister with portfolio, why not? Just make up one for him like say...the Peace Czar! Poor Al Gore if only he too let Bill Clinton drive for him in 2000 he too could have been POTUS at least for 4 years. But alas, he thought he could run on his own with Lieberman at his side. Fool. If Al knows what is good for him he would accept a position as the Enviromental Czar that is just dangling like low hanging fruit for someone to pluck. Better than nothing.

I have to hand it to Billy Bob he is quite a shyster if ever there was one. Governor Bill Clinton came to power by dividing the American electorate with the advent of Ross Perot in 1992. Otherwise, George H Bush would have won again but Perot's "conservative" credentials impaled Bush's no new taxes pledge for all to see. And Bill walked into the Presidency and the rest was history. This time we had another George Bush in office and we should not have been surprised to see Bill Clinton also divide the conservative vote again with his latter day Perot in the man Barack Hussein Obama. Coincidentally, both Obama and Perot have big ears! Yes, its true and they both talk funny. Now, Bill Clinton hovers over the Executive Branch like some poltergeist that refuses to leave. Dishes mysteriously vanish...womens dresses curiously stained...female interns bizarre reactions upon entering the Oval Office...desks bumping up and down for no good reason. Yes, this is the Barack Presidency but with Bill Clinton hiding in the closet watching and breathing heavily.

All Hail the Great AR! Fire and smoke cloud his visage. Who can stand against him? Certainly not Barack Obama. Now that explains why Barack's motto was "Change" which not surprisingly was Bill Clinton's '92 war cry for the Presidency. The audacity of hope indeed, Hope, Arkansas that is. Bill must have learned his lesson well while in Moscow during the Vietnam War perhaps Bill should call up Putin for additional advice? Email will do, I'm sure.

U.S. Marines march past the Marine Corps War Memorial during a wreath laying ceremony in honor of the 233rd Marine Corps birthday. The sculpture of five Marines and a Navy Corpsman raising an American flag atop Mount Siribachi commemorates the 6,800 service members who died capturing the Japanese island of Iwo Jima during World War II. www.navy.mil

After Action Report

Okay, I admit it, I was wrong. I thought the American people would reject what is obviously to me a big fat phony in the person of Barack Hussein Obama. I stand corrected. I thought the Hillary Holdouts would come to the rescue and boy was I wrong on that one. I'm not sure why I came to that conclusion earlier in the year since the phony feminists during the Clinton era allowed Billy-Bob to run practically naked in the White House without so much as a peep. Why should they come out in favor of McCain since there was no historical precedent for it in the first place?

I was wrong about the South since they normally run with Republicans in most elections since Ronald Reagan but admittedly they barely voted for Obama in Virginia, North Carolina and Florida. However they still claimed important states that should have swung to McCain but alas it was not to be. Will the Left now stop accusing "the South" for being closet Confederates from here on out? I doubt it. At least we now know that the South can change their minds. This cannot be said for the North especially in New England which seems to be locked into a perpetual winter of liberal statist politics that sees no apparent thaw in the far future.

I was wrong about Obama's narrow focus on race or should I say his supporters narrow focus on race. I presumed that race was too limiting of a philosophy to unite other ethnic nationalities behind you and your candidate. But here I was wrong again since apparently the hatred of the "White Man" has completely consumed the passion of other nativists in the Democrat Party and her leftwing auxiliaries in Academia, Unions, print and broadcast media, and ACORN type political organizations and other various political machinery too numerous to mention here. Obama's biggest claim to fame is that he beat a white man in a Presidential election that no other black man was able to do.

May I be frank here at this moment? The entire modus vivendi of the Left is to destroy the high position of the White Man and to place all others ahead of him in line. The white man's burden has become the white man's yoke! A yoke of slavery to work and work and work so that others may be promoted above you. For the White Man he must now work harder to outflank this racist policy that has so destroyed our culture and way of life like no other policy devised by man. This current culture came about ironically not by other ethnic races but by white men themselves! White men in positions of power allowed these policies to flourish to achieve their goal of forcing an ethnic and cultural polyglot that was anti-American, anti-Christian and anti-Western. And actually, it wasn't just in the United States that this phenomena occurred as it was a global movement that began in the late 19th century and found fertile ground in the 20th Century after two terrible world wars had completely decimated the strong holds of the white man. So now, everywhere you go others are in positions of power except the "evil white man" in places such as Africa, Asia, Middle East, Central and South America and now here in the United States of America. Multiculturalism is a false paradise predicated on the belief that the white man must get his "comeuppance" by losing his entire estate to the natives. Utopia or Hotel California? Or do the two overlap?

Are the American people conservative with a liberal leftwing superstructure? Honestly, I believe that asceticism is often confused for conservatism and that naturally all peoples have a introverted and quiet disposition. This is not conservatism. Most of the great leftists in history have been men of ascetic lifestyles in which they may be misconstrued as a conservative were it not for the fact of their revolutionary ideals. So after all is said and done I believe the majority of American people to be ascetic and leftwing (I offer the rejection of gay marriage and the election of Obama by the people as proof of this apparent dichotomy) and have rejected the ideals of a small government, free enterprise state anchored to a free people with a Christian orientation. Those days, I'm afraid, are long gone. The micro-managing of the people by the state is what the people have chosen and what they shall now enjoy with all that it implies.

Is this a temporary loss of power by conservatives? Will the pendulum swing back in our favor sometime in the future? No, this is a permanent loss and a road of no return as the Left so clearly has admonished in their political doctrines. They are the ones now in power and they know they must fight and kill to maintain their lofty position. The ends and the means justify their actions as far as they are concerned. Brute force is the order of the day as Joe the Plumber so clearly showed us. He will not be the last.

NEWSFLASH: OSAMA BIN LADEN WINS!!!!

This was my reaction two years ago in the 2006 mid-term elections and still holds tonight. The American people have given up the War On Terror and more importantly the election to the Presidency of the most powerful nation on earth of a man with a middle name like Hussein is the capstone on the American century. Its over. The era of prosperity is over. The era of America is over. Victory is the word that none shall speak. Only retreat and defeat militarily, economically, politically and culturally will be the order of the day.

Obama is a flim-flam man and a complete fraud. Only now will America slowly realize the mistake she has made. However, I believe this is the road of no return. There are nations in history that have taken their corner to utter destruction. Now its America's turn. This is what the 60's peacnik generation has wrought. They have damned America with their evil policies and the American people will suffer for it. After all it takes two to tango. The American people could have said no but chose to say yes. Yes out of fear? Yes out of guilt? Pick your poison.

Under the Obama regime you can fully expect a complete economic contraction from a 15 - 13 Trillion GDP to somewhere between a 10 - 8 Trillion GDP. You can expect a federal budget somewhere between 4 - 6 Trillion dollars. Iraq is finished and Afghanistan too precarious to keep occupied. Pakistan will fall to the Taliban inspired insurgency against that leftist government. The defense budget axed to pieces and any future weapons systems placed in stasis if not eliminated. The socialist policies will now give way to fascistic governance the likes of which America has never witnessed. There will be no going back. Even if Republicans should get the White House back four years from now they will not reverse these policies anymore than they reversed them in the last 27 years.

Did Senator John McCain let us down? Perhaps. Perhaps he was too soft and too gregarious and too much of a moderate to handle such lefty cronyism in Obama and Biden. But in the end the American people are to blame. It is their sons fighting overseas and their pensions on Wall Street that should have at least kept them from pulling the lever for Barack Obama. They owe it to our men and women fighting overseas but alas the American people have shrunk before the enemies of America. Now, the Presidency is in the hands of a complete moron. I know, you thought it was GW who was the moron. You ain't seen nothing yet.

Sorry, McCain, I don't support this usurper and never will. The Left has betrayed America and now the world will see what happens when they will have to defend themselves as the Left will betray the world. Idiots them all. Obama proclaimed himself a citizen of the world and I know not this man who claims to be a citizen of America. The American media have finally did their duty and placed a leftwing stooge on the throne. If it weren't for the mainstream media then Obama would have been gone way back in the democrat primaries. Therefore, congratulations goes out to the media! Job well done.

The War On Terror is over but the War Of Terror continues. I guess Osama Bin Laden was right after all.

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