Last Days - Roelof's News Reports #4

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Tehran - Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami has called for a nationwide referendum on the legitimacy of the government to end the country's post-election crisis.
Khatami's proposal was reported by several reformist websites on Monday.
He said Iranians have lost their faith in the ruling political system following the June 12 election. The opposition charges that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won the election through mass fraud.

http://www.news24.com/Content/World/...nd_Iran_crisis

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Cape Town - South Africa is launching clinical trials of two Aids vaccines its researchers developed in collaboration with US experts, a major step for a developing country where political leaders once shocked the world with their unscientific pronouncements about the disease.

Trials to test the safety in humans of the vaccines begin this month on 36 healthy volunteers

http://www.news24.com/Content/SouthA...s_Aids_vaccine

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. recession's grip on the economy appears to be easing but likely has not yet ended, according to a survey of economists released on Monday.

The National Association for Business Economics' quarterly industry survey found that demand is stabilizing, but a small majority of the 102 respondents said their firms had not yet seen the bottom.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsO...56J0OR20090720

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The world's population of older people is growing at the fastest rate ever seen and the old will soon outnumber the young for the first time, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.

An aging population will push up pension and healthcare costs, forcing major increases in public spending that could slow economic growth in rich and poor countries.

The number of people 65 and older hit about 506 million as of midyear 2008, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. This will double to 1.3 billion by 2040, accounting for 14 percent of the total global population.
"People aged 65 and over will soon outnumber children under age 5 for the first time in history,"

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsO...56J0IY20090720



And Jehovah said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, in his erring; he is flesh. Yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years. (Gen 6:3)

Humans live on average 39.5 years in Swaziland and on average 81 years in Japan (2008 est.).
The oldest confirmed recorded age for any human is 122 years

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy

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Seoul - North Korea fired seven ballistic missiles on Saturday, South Korea's defence ministry said, in an act of defiance towards the United States that further stoked regional tensions already high due to its nuclear test in May.

North Korea is barred by United Nations resolutions from firing ballistic missile such as the Scud. A South Korean Defence Ministry official said more launches could come soon.

http://www.news24.com/Content/World/...orea_defies_US

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Open the link for photos:

http://news.cnet.com/2300-11386_3-10...html?tag=mncol

There were in fact two men who landed on the moon and returned safely to Earth in the first-ever visit by humankind to another celestial body, NASA's Apollo 11 mission. Those two were Neil Armstrong, the flight commander, and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, who piloted the Apollo lunar module to the surface of the moon on July 20, 1969. The third member of the crew, Michael Collins, piloted the command module that orbited the moon for the 21 hours that Armstrong and Aldrin were on the lunar surface.

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Amid reports that Defense Secretary Robert Gates is heading to Israel next week for talks on Teheran's nuclear program, a senior US defense official has told The Jerusalem Post that an Israeli strike on Iran could be profoundly destabilizing and would affect US interests.

Israel needed to take its relationship with America into account in contemplating any such attack, he warned.

Gates, who last week described the Islamic republic's nuclear drive as the greatest current threat to global security

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satelli...cle%2FShowFull

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Although talk of peace, "two states for two peoples" and the "Arab League initiative" fill the lofty speeches of American and European leaders, the political war to delegitimize Israel is accelerating.

Officials of the Arab League and the Palestinian Authority, working with powerful groups such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam, exploit the rhetoric of international law to brand Israeli defense against terror as "war crimes" and "collective punishment." As a result, talk of peace process continues to be a façade, demonstrating that the core ideology and objectives - the elimination of Jewish sovereignty and statehood - remain unchanged since 1947.
The Gaza war that took place six months ago, like the 2006 Second Lebanon War, provided major platforms for accelerating political warfare against Israel.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satelli...cle%2FShowFull

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Late last year, Israel embarked on a coordinated campaign of leaks to the press regarding its determination to take out Iran's nuclear facilities if Obama's then-new administration fails to sway the Iranians diplomatically. Israel is unwilling to accept a nuclear Iran: "It is not an option", say its senior intelligence and military leadership.

Israel has decided to go ahead. Taking into account political, geopolitical, military preparedness, and climatic conditions, there are two windows: between July 21 and 24 and between August 6 and 8. Advance teams comprised of Mossad agents and military personnel are already on the ground in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Iraq (including in the Kurdish lands, adjacent to Turkey).

http://www.globalpolitician.com/2572...lear-obama-usa

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It appears that America is now steadily heading towards paganism - Roelof

Legislation long sought by Democrats that would expand federal hate-crime laws to cover gay and transgendered people has won approval in the Senate, raising expectations among supporters that the time has finally come for it to be enacted.

"The Senate made a strong statement this evening that hate crimes have no place in America," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat.

The legislation, named the Matthew Shepard Act after the gay University of Wyoming student beaten to death in 1998, would impose longer prison sentences for offenses motivated by gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.

It also would make it easier for federal prosecutors to pursue hate-crime charges when local authorities do not.

If enacted, it would be the largest expansion of federal hate-crime laws since they were created in 1968 in response to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/..._news_carousel

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California is still under the judgment of the Lord for liberal gay and abortion laws - Roelof

The National Education Association has thrown its full support behind homosexual "marriage."

The NEA recently held its annual convention in San Diego, California, where members voted on two issues of importance to those involved in the culture war. One of those issues was whether the union would support same-gender marriage. According to Jeralee Smith, co-founder of the Conservative Educators Caucus, the resolution passed by roughly a two-thirds majority.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Education/...aspx?id=603580

You shall not lie with mankind as with womankind. It is abomination to God. (Lev 18:22)

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Very interesting, please open the link:

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

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Full speed towards a mature New World Order - Roelof

The United Nations has called for a return to state-led "industrial policy" for poorer countries in what amounts to a rejection of the free-market thinking that has dominated global institutions for the last 30 years.

Capital flows to poorer states and export earnings have together collapsed by $2 trillion (£1.22 trillion) since the credit crunch began. "This is an alarming trend, and it's not a result of their own doing," he said.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/f...-ideology.html

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For a glimpse of what awaits Britain, Europe, and America as budget deficits spiral to war-time levels, look at what is happening to the Irish welfare state.

Events have already forced Premier Brian Cowen to carry out the harshest assault yet seen on the public services of a modern Western state. He has passed two emergency budgets to stop the deficit soaring to 15pc of GDP. They have not been enough. The expert An Bord Snip report said last week that Dublin must cut deeper, or risk a disastrous debt compound trap.

A further 17,000 state jobs must go (equal to 1.25m in the US), though unemployment is already 12pc and heading for 16pc next year.

There is a further listing of programs that need to be cut. Everything from rural schools, to child benefits, to social welfare. Police, who have taken a 7% pay cut already, will have to buy their own uniforms. Hospital visits will cost £107 a day.

No doubt Ireland has been the victim of a savagely tight monetary policy given its specific needs. But the deeper truth is that Britain, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, the US, and Japan are in varying states of fiscal ruin, and those tipping into demographic decline (unlike young Ireland) have an underlying cancer that is even more deadly. The West cannot support its gold-plated state structures from an aging workforce and depleted tax base.

My awful fear is that we will do exactly the opposite, incubating yet another crisis this autumn, to which we will respond with yet further spending. This is the road to ruin.

http://caps.fool.com/Blogs/ViewPost....18353128929071

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The world money powers are smiling. The only way out is to turn to God - Roelof

Justin Lin, the bank’s chief economist, said factories running idle around world threaten to trap economies in a vicious cycle, risking further spasms of financial stress, requiring yet more rescue packages.

"Significant excess capacity has been built up and unless this issue is addressed, we will face a deflationary spiral and the crisis will become protracted," he told an audience in Cape Town.

Mr Lin said capacity use had fallen to 72pc in Germany, 69pc in the US, 65pc in Japan, and as low as 50pc in some developing countries, mostly touching lows not seen in modern times.

The traditional cure for countries caught in slumps is to claw their way back to health through devaluation, but this cannot be done today because the crisis is global. "No country can count on currency depreciation and exports as a way out of recession.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/f...on-spiral.html