Last Days - Roelof's News Reports #4

[Roelof]

SYDNEY, July 16 (Reuters) - As many as 6,000 people could die from H1N1 in Australia this season in a "worst case scenario" if no preventive measures or vaccines are found, Australian Health Minister Nicola Roxon said on Thursday.

The H1N1 influenza has killed 21 people in Australia so far and there are 10,387 confirmed cases, according to data compiled by Australia's health department.

http://www.reuters.com/article/lates.../idUSSYD537212

[Roelof]

Bishops in the US dealt a death blow to hopes for unity in the worldwide Anglican Church when they gave their blessing to services for same-sex partnerships.

After years of increasingly tense debate the decision will finally split the Anglican Communion, confirming the finality of the rift between Bible-based conservative evangelicals and liberal modernisers.

The bishops voted 104-30 at the Episcopal General Convention to “collect and develop theological resources and liturgies” for blessing same-gender relationships

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle6716407.ece

[Roelof]

The United Nations hit North Korea’s nuclear chief and four other key officials with sanctions yesterday in the growing conflict with the reclusive Communist regime.

The decision was the first time that the UN’s North Korea sanctions committee had blacklisted individuals. The action risked provoking a strong reaction from Pyongyang.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6717277.ece

[Roelof]

The veteran head of Iran’s nuclear programme has resigned in the chaotic aftermath of President Ahmadinejad’s disputed re-election.
Officials gave no reason for the sudden departure of Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, but he has been close to Mir Hossein Mousavi, the man millions of Iranians consider to be the real winner of the June 12 elections.
The outgoing nuclear chief is also allied to Hojatoleslam Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a powerful former President and cleric, who backed Mr Mousavi’s candidacy and is an enemy of Mr Ahmadinejad.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6717202.ece

[Roelof]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nouriel Roubini, one of the few economists who accurately predicted the magnitude of the financial crisis, said on Thursday that the worst of the turmoil has passed.

But Roubini emphasized the United States will still need a second fiscal stimulus, possibly by the end of this year, as the unemployment rate quickly approaches 10 percent.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsO...56F5TS20090716

[Roelof]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Satellites can spot the leading edge of a tsunami, U.S. government researchers said on Wednesday in a study that might lead to better ways of detecting the giant waves and get people out of their way.

They went back and looked at satellite images in the Indian Ocean as the December 2004 tsunami raced across to destroy coastlines in Thailand, Sri Lanka and elsewhere. They found clear patterns in the water.

http://www.reuters.com/article/scien...56E6LA20090715

[Roelof]

If numbers alone tell the story, then China appears to have beaten the odds. It has apparently shrugged off the worst global recession in at least 30 years — one that had, at the end of last year, crippled growth in a country for which exports are a critical part of its economic lifeblood. The government responded by announcing a $585 billion spending package, driven by massive infrastructure investments across the country, and, for now anyway, that policy is paying off. China announced today that its GDP in the second quarter grew at 7.9%, just a shade below the 8.1% goal the government set for growth in 2009. "The strong acceleration in underlying economic activity is now unmistakable," says Yu Song, a Goldman Sachs economist based in Hong Kong

http://www.time.com/time/world/artic...910875,00.html

[Roelof]

A sign of the coming New World Order

Consider for a moment the following quotes. "Maintain humanity under 500 million in perpetual balance with nature," "Guide reproduction wisely encouraging fitness and diversity," and "let all nations rule internally, resolving external disputes in a world court." Sayings you may hear in popular circles today, or perhaps even the national media? Everywhere you turn, we are constantly bombarded with reports concerning obesity, abortion, global warming, diversity, and an ever growing world population. It may surprise you, however, to know that these quotes are not the headlines of a news paper article or even a twitter feed. Instead, these quotes originated from the Georgia Guidestones.

Revealed in 1980 in Elberton, Georgia, the Guidestones is a colossal 25,000 pound granite monument consisting of four 16-foot-high slabs surrounding a central column. Written in Babylonian cuneiform, Classical Greek, and Egyptian hieroglyphs this monument espouses its own ten commandments. Also written on the four sides of the capstone are the words, "Let these be Guidestones to An Age of Reason." Perhaps the creator of this memorial may have desired to leave its reader with the wisdom of creating a utopia here on earth, but some have taken the suggestions of the Guidestone to be a blue print for a New World Order. Termed as the ten commandments of the antichrist, the inscriptions are thought to be an esoteric proposal from a secret brotherhood for a new world society. However, they may simply be an elaborate hoax as well. Regardless, the words advocated on the monument are starting to have a ring of truth.

In an interview with ABC, speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi said, ""The family planning services reduce cost. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for children's health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs.

"One of those - one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government,"
Here are some statists that you may not have known. Within the US, black women are 3 times more likely than white women to seek an abortion. 64% of all abortions are performed on unwed mothers. 86% of all abortions are performed on women whose family income is less than $59,999 a year.

http://www.examiner.com/x-15871-Litt...ew-World-Order

[Roelof]

It appears that Obama is also working towards a New World Order, which should be in place by the end 2012 - Roelof

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AFP) — Leaders of the developing world were in Egypt for the summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to discuss the effect of the global financial crisis on their countries.
But the organisation's 15th summit, attended by 55 heads of state, is likely to be overshadowed by talks on the sidelines between nuclear rivals India and Pakistan, both NAM members.

On Monday, during preparatory talks, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said the summit aimed for "a new international order... in which nations (are not judged) by their size or military and economic capabilities."

Delegates at Monday and Tuesday's preparatory ministerial meetings indicated to AFP that the new US administration's departure from a policy of unilateral diplomacy could help to achieve that goal.

Founded in 1955, NAM's 118 member states represent around 56 percent of the global population.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...rTHbjBBSSaib9Q

[Roelof]

Africa's new world order

Of the three legs of U.S. President Barack Obama's foreign trip last week -- to Moscow, the G-8 in l'Aquila, Italy, and Accra, Ghana -- the African stop was the most interesting and not just because of the symbolism.

In Ghana, Obama was neither competing with the ghost of Ronald Reagan, as he was in Russia, nor still slaying the ghost of George W. Bush (both economically and diplomatically) as he was in Italy.

Obama's broader message to the Ghanaian parliament was that no continent is an island in a new world so small that no island is an island anymore. "I see Africa as a fundamental part of our interconnected world," he said.

http://www.winnipegsun.com/comment/c...12651-sun.html

[Roelof]

Val D'Aosta, 17 July (AKI) - Pope Benedict XVI fractured his wrist on Friday after a fall and was taken to a hospital in the northwestern Italian region of Val D'Aosta, hospital and Vatican sources told Adnkronos. Vatican reports said the pontiff fell and was taken to the emergency service of the Umberto Parini hospital, located in the Aosta Valley at 9.45am local time and was seen entering the hospital on foot, accompanied by his staff.

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English...3.0.3551976745

[Simple Man]

Iran may have an ace in the hole as Western governments weigh sanctions in response to the often violent crackdown on opposition demonstrators. The card Tehran is likely to play? China.

On July 13 Iran's Oil Ministry announced that it had China's agreement to invest about $40 billion in refining Iranian gasoline.

The Chinese deal would literally keep Iran's factories, homes and cars — in effect, a nation of 66 million people — running.

http://www.time.com/time/world/artic...910669,00.html

This deal with China comes at a convenient time for Iran. Makes one wonder how far China would go to protect it's interests there.

How hard could it be to fit a few Iranian Shahab-3 or 4 missiles (which would easily reach Israel) with Chinese nuclear warheads. Don't necessarily have to be accurate to be effective.

[Roelof]

The Rise of the King of the South

And at the end-time, the king of the south shall butt at him. And the king of the north shall come against him like a tempest, with chariots and with horsemen and with many ships. (Dan 11:40)


The Islamic Republic of Iran is the head of the international network of Islamic terrorism—the biblically prophesied “king of the south.” This radical network, as the scripture says, practices a “pushy,” or combative, foreign policy. Is there a better way to describe Iran?

Iran is gunning for the destruction of the Jewish state. It feeds Hamas in Gaza and the West Bank, Palestinian terrorist groups inside Israel, and Hezbollah in Lebanon. It has complicated American efforts in Iraq and is meddling in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Its nuclear weapons program is advancing rapidly, and it has been connected to the nuclear programs of both Syria and North Korea. Iran is the number-one threat to peace in Israel and the Middle East—in many ways, even worldwide.

Included in the audience at Cairo were members of the Muslim Brotherhood (mb), a radical Islamist group with terrorist roots and the primary political opposition to President Mubarak. The Egyptian daily Al-Masri al-Youm reported June 4 that Obama met with mb officials in Washington earlier this year. Certainly, Washington’s overtures toward the Brotherhood will not help Egypt’s president, who himself didn’t attend the June 4 speech.

The Palestinians also have good reason to celebrate Obama’s historic Muslim address. As we have often pointed out, the prophesied clash between the European king of the north and the Iran-led king of the south will primarily revolve around Jerusalem.

http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=6266.0.116.0

[Roelof]

Breaking the Brotherhood

Then I broke My other staff Union apart, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. (Zec 11:14)

John Wesley:
Zec 11:14 - Then - So soon as I saw what value they put upon me. I cut asunder - Christ did it really, the prophet did it in the type. Break - Declare it broken. The brother - hood - That friendship which had been among them. Judah - The two tribes, and the remnant of the ten tribes.

Biblical history testifies to the familial relationship between Manasseh (America) and Judah (the Jewish people)—which explains the historic bond between these nations. Yet Bible prophecy says that in the end time this historic brotherhood would be severed. In Zechariah 11:14, God said He would “break the brotherhood between Judah [modern-day Israel] and Israel [primarily the United States and Britain].”

In fact, Jewish aspirations for statehood not only predate the Adolf Hitler era, they predate the Zionist movement. Their history in the territory on which their country is built goes back to biblical times

Palestinians have reinvented this history, claiming the Jews are without legal or historic right to their homeland and that modern-day Israel exists only because of Europe’s guilt after the Holocaust. In Cairo, President Obama legitimized this bit of Arab propaganda.

Nine years ago, President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinians 94 percent of the West Bank, all of East Jerusalem, and unrestricted control of the Temple Mount. In swift response, Nobel Prize winner Yasser Arafat unleashed a bloody five-year campaign of rockets, sniper fire and suicide bombings aimed primarily at civilians that killed more than 1,000 Jews.

President Obama went to Cairo in search of a “new beginning” in the relationship between the United States and the Muslim world. By doing so, the U.S. effectively ended its brotherly and strategically critical alliance with Israel. That “unbreakable” bond between America and Israel, the president’s assurances notwithstanding, is now broken. Israel knows it has been abandoned by the United States.

http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=6266.0.116.0

[Roelof]

Israel Appeals to Germany for Help

When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then Ephraim went to the Assyrian and sent to King Jareb. Yet he could not heal you nor cure you of your wound. (Hos 5:13)

The Hosea 5:13 wound is the misnamed “peace” process. Since kicking off its land-for-peace strategy in Oslo in 1993, Israel has only suffered greater violence and death. The voids it has left by pulling out of southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip have been filled by Iran’s most lethal proxies, Hezbollah and Hamas. At least 1,500 Israeli citizens have been murdered by terrorists during this time. And with Hezbollah and Hamas furiously amassing a much deadlier arsenal, the body count will inevitably rise.

Still, President Obama is applying massive pressure on Israel to freeze all settlement growth and to cede more land to the Palestinians and Syrians.
This is why in Hosea, God says that Judah, after being mortally wounded by the peace process, will seek help from Assyria (Germany), rather than the United States. This prophecy provides further proof of America’s growing irrelevance in the world, particularly to its former ally Israel.

http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=6266.0.116.0

According to wiki Assyria is modern Iraq - Roelof