Problem - Global Warming; Solution - Noah's Ark
China: Walking On Water.
The Return of J.R.R. Tolkein.
He who studies history shall know the future for all things come full circle.
Commanding General of the United States 3rd Marine Expeditionary Force, Lt. Gen. Joseph F. Weber, and Kim Sung Eun, the 4th Marine Commandant for the Republic of Korea and former Defense Minister unveil a stone taken from the Do Sol San Battlefield in a dedication ceremony held at the U.S. Marine Forces Korea Headquarters.
The Memorial Stone, donated by the Mayor of Yanggu County, honored the 181 Korean Marines killed and 647 injured during the Battle for Mount Do Sol, the most costly of the war for the Koreans, that was part of the Punch Bowl Campaign in 1951.
The inscription on the stone, "Invincible Marines" was inspired by former South Korean President Syngman Rhee who was deeply moved by the bravery of the Marines during the battle. www.navy.mil
Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling. Quisling was the son of a Church of Norway pastor and genealogist Jon Lauritz Qvisling from Fyresdal, and both of his parents belonged to some of the oldest and most distinguished families of Telemark.
His early life was mixed and successful; he became the country's best ever war academy cadet upon graduation in 1911, and achieved the rank of major in the Norwegian army. He worked with Fridtjof Nansen in the Soviet Union during the famine of the 1920s. For his services in looking after British interests after diplomatic relations were broken with the Bolshevik government, Great Britain awarded him the C.B.E.. He later served as defence minister in the Agrarian governments 1931-1933.
On May 17, 1933, Norwegian Constitution Day, Quisling and lawyer Johan Bernhard Hjort formed Nasjonal Samling ("National Unity"), the Norwegian fascist political party. Nasjonal Samling had an anti-democratic, Führerprinzip-based political structure, and Quisling was to be the party's Fører (Norwegian: "leader", equivalent of the German "Führer"). He was sometimes referred to as "the Hitler of Norway".
The party went on to have modest successes; in the election of 1933, four months after the party was formed, it garnered 27,850 votes (approximately 2%), following support from the Norwegian Farmers' Aid Association, with which Quisling had connections from his time as a member of the Agrarian government. However, as the party line changed from a religiously rooted one to a more pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic policy from 1935, the support from the Church waned, and in the 1936 elections the party received fewer votes than in 1933. The party became increasingly extremist, and party membership dwindled to an estimated 2,000 members before the German invasion, but under the German occupation by 1945 some 45,000 Norwegians were members of the party.
When Germany invaded Norway on April 9, 1940, Quisling became the first person in history to announce a coup d'etat during a news broadcast, declaring an ad-hoc government during the confusion of the invasion, hoping that Hitler would support it.
The background for this action was the flight northwards of the king and government, resulting in a temporary power vacuum. Quisling had visited Adolf Hitler in Germany the year before, but Hitler thought Quisling was of "no use" to him. Quisling had low popular support, and the Quisling government lasted only five days, after which Josef Terboven was installed as Reichskommissar, the highest official in Norway, reporting directly to Hitler.
The relationship between Quisling and Terboven was tense, although Terboven, presumably seeing an advantage in having a Norwegian in an apparent position of power to reduce resentment in the population, named Quisling to the post of Minister President in 1942, a position the self-appointed Fører assumed on February 1, 1942.
Quisling stayed in power until he was arrested on May 9, 1945, in a mansion on Bygdøy in Oslo that he called "Gimle" after the place in Norse mythology where the survivors of Ragnarok were to live. The house, now called Villa Grande, is today a Holocaust museum.
Democratic presidential hopefuls flashing their anti-war credentials last night at a national debate by stating they would immediately withdraw from Iraq, encouraged Palestinian terrorist leaders here, who labeled the debate a victory for Iraqi insurgents and "resistance movements" throughout the world.
The debate was widely covered today by the Palestinian and pan-Arab media.
"We see Hillary (Clinton) and other candidates are competing on who will withdraw from Iraq and who is guilty of supporting the Iraqi invasion. This is a moment of glory for the revolutionary movements in the Arab world in general and for the Iraqi resistance movement specifically," said Abu Jihad, one of the overall leaders of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror organization.
I think democrats will do good if they will withdraw as soon as they are in power," he said.
Abu Jihad said he believes if elected to the White House, the Democrats will immediately order a withdrawal from Iraq. He warned if a retreat is not carried out, the U.S. will likely be attacked on the home front.
"The (Democrat) debate showed that like in Vietnam the American people needed these thousands of soldiers killed to see that invading other people will always result in a failure. ... I think the Democrats will win and apply an immediate withdrawal, but if they don't (withdraw), the revolutionary movements in Iraq will intensify attacks, and I think you should prepare for another big attack in the U.S."
Four OA/A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft from the 355th Fighter Squadron fly information behind a KC-135 Stratotanker from the 168th Air Refueling Squadron April 4, 2007, over the Pacific Alaska Range Complex, Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. The 355th FS is tasked to provide mission-ready OA/A-10s as well as search and rescue capability in Alaska and deployed sites worldwide.
Some have suggested that currency is to be eliminated with the advent of a "cashless society" however, I suspect the description in Revelation 13 has more to do with biometric security features in which currency, either cash or credit, will demand an identification number in order for the transaction to be consummated. In this case, the transaction number will include a distinct number from the future Anti-Christ included or embedded with one's personal identification number and that number itself is embedded within the physical body of the consumer, in this case, either the right hand or forehead. What makes this so sinister is that since we live in a commercial society a person can not simply "opt-out" of such a system. To reject the number of Caesar will mean certain death and not a death from neglect or being outside of the system but murder by the state on a grand scale. If you do not take the number you will be executed since obviously Caesar will not suffer insolence even on an economic plane.
All this made possible by the electronic and information age that has so intertwined the world. There will be no escape.