Spain - the fifth victim to fall in Europe’s arc of depression

"Let us all extend our sympathies to the Spanish people. They face the greatest national emergency since the Civil War yet their vote for drastic change is palpably useless, even if democracy has in this case at least been respected." source:

"Indeed, Spain has been the biggest victim of cheap capital from German, Dutch, and French banks. It was further destabilized by the loose policies of the European Central Bank."

Occupy London faces multiple accusations of obstruction and disruption from witnesses including the registrar of St Paul's. Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP

"Collapse of Paper Money"

Bible predicts; "Financial World will crash in One Hour!"

Financial Collapse of World's Stock Market and financial system
The final decade of the 20th century saw the greatest accumulation and concentration of wealth that the world has ever known. This financial frenzy in a world of plenty, juxtaposed to increasing famine and disease in many parts of the world, reached its peak at the turn into the 21st century. The world's stock markets ended the year 1999, contrary to the fears of a Y2K doomsday, on a historic all-time high, as if challenging and wiping out any doubts or fears about Y2K. The year 2000 saw a continuance of the relentless undying drive of the Bull. The Link below will show you a graph of the Dow Jones Index, which is an authoritative measure of the US Stock Market, the 'seat' of the world's wealth. This graph reflects the latest 'golden' chapter in mankind's financial and economic history, the greatest 'explosion of wealth' since the 1929 Great Depression, and indeed, of all time!
Source: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=^DJI&d=c&k=c1&a=v&p=s&t=my&l=off&z=m&q=l
This link will take you to the Yahoo Finance Site - select Interactive Chart for finer details - be sure to select Chart Setting/Chart Scale/Linear

Now see the value of Gold (green line on chart below) over this same period and consider where you would want your assets preserved.
Source:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=my&s=%5EDJI&l=off&z=l&q=l&c=Gold&c=%5EGSPC&c=%5EIXIC
Run up to the Financial Meltdown of the world's Financial System
While conservative (or is it sober?) financial commentators foresaw an end to history's biggest bull run yet, the markets kept escalating throughout the 'Golden Decade" to end Dec 2000, in total disregard for the shaky fundamentals underlying world finances, especially in the USA. These shaky foundations were further undermined by the dumping of massive amounts of newly printed moneys into the coffers of the banks, in case of a Y2K run on Cash. This provided 'cheap' money to fuel the biggest spending age in history, in the economy and on the Stock Markets - but, it ignored sound financial principles.
Then, the 1st quarter of 2000 (with Y2K fears erased), the markets started slumping. The lowest point since 2000 (7 500 on the Dow Index) was reached in July 2002. Thereafter the upward trend started, driven by a wildly speculating market place. It is now clear that the stock markets have become 'dens of speculation' driven by the profiteering cravings of loan cash loaded and uninformed 'day traders' who refuse to take scare of the looming dangers in the economies of the world - once again, reminiscent of the 'golden twenties' before the 1929 collapse.
At the time of Succot, Sept. 2008, the market was 500 trades away from Armageddon according to traders. The Banks pre-empted an expected run on cash withdrawals and the Fed pumped money into the system Hours after Paulson made his round of calls to calm the industry, word leaked out that an added $1 trillion bailout of banks was being readied. Investors cheered. At about 3 p.m., news of the plans was filtering up and down Wall Street, fuelling a 700-point advance in the Dow Jones industrial average through 4 p.m. Friday.

And the 'game' was on again!
The real implication is, that while the general investing public gets robbed of their capital, the manipulators of the system make fortunes - whether the markets rise or fall! The charts above will show that on average there has been almost no growth on the Stock Market since 2000 to date if investors hung onto their investments. The speculators make fortunes on the up's and down's - which is virtually impossible for the average investor and Pension Funds, for instance, which are not into speculation.
This 'redistribution of wealth' is achieved by a new generation of mind-boggling financial tools like "futures, derivatives, options, puts, warrants, hedging," and a host of ever new tools ('exploding puts, knock-in calls,' etc) which aid financial manipulation.
If any business would reflect such a far reaching bankrupt stage as the USA, it would have long been forced to close down and its directors most likely jailed.
Financial Crisis Update July 24, 2011
Financial Armageddon lingers on.

Now, almost 3 years after the 2008 meltdown, and after a continuing uncontrolled spending spree by the Obama government, the bankrupt US economy is still pottering on as if all is well and prosperous.

Latest Warnings - July 2011

Latest Financial reviews flash the following red light warnings - but nobody seems to be concerned!

Default Now, or Suffer a More Expensive Crisis Later
By U.S. Rep. Ron Paul
Friday, July 22, 2011
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-22/default-now-or-suffer-a-more-ex...
Debate over the debt ceiling has reached a fever pitch in recent weeks, with each side trying to outdo the other in a game of political chicken. If you believe some of the things that are being written, the world will come to an end if the U.S. defaults on even the tiniest portion of its debt.
In strict terms, the default being discussed will occur if the U.S. fails to meet its debt obligations, through failure to pay either interest or principal due a bondholder. Proponents of raising the debt ceiling claim that a default on Aug. 2 is unprecedented and will result in calamity (never mind that this is simply an arbitrary date, easily changed, marking a congressional recess).

Actually, the U.S. government defaulted at least three times on its obligations during the 20th century.

(BIBREV observation: Note the role of Gold in each of these defaults! Then se Gold charts ..... - scroll UP from this point).
-- In 1934 the government banned ownership of gold and eliminated the right to exchange gold certificates for gold coins. It then immediately revalued gold from $20.67 per troy ounce to $35, thus devaluing the dollar holdings of all Americans by 40 percent.
-- From 1934 to 1968, the federal government continued to issue and redeem silver certificates, notes that circulated as legal tender that could be redeemed for silver coins or silver bars. In 1968 Congress unilaterally reneged on this obligation too.
-- From 1934 to 1971, foreign governments were permitted by the U.S. government to exchange their dollars for gold through the gold window. In 1971, President Richard Nixon severed this final link between the dollar and gold by closing the gold window, thus in effect defaulting once again on a debt obligation of the U.S. government.
No longer constrained by any sort of commodity backing, the federal government was now free to engage in almost unlimited fiscal profligacy, the only check on its spending being the market's appetite for Treasury debt. Despite the defaults in 1934, 1968, and 1971, world markets have been only too willing to purchase Treasury debt and thereby fund the government's deficit spending. If these major defaults didn't result in decreased investor appetite for U.S. obligations, I see no reason why defaulting on a small amount of debt this August would cause any major changes.
The national debt now stands at just over $14 trillion (and growing at an average of $3.99 billion per day since September 28, 2007, while net total liabilities are estimated at over $200 trillion. (A figure impossible to conceive for the normal person) (Refer also http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock ). The government is insolvent, as there is no way that this massive sum of liabilities can ever be paid off. Successive Congresses and administrations have shown absolutely no restraint when it comes to the budget process, and the idea that either of the two parties is serious about getting our fiscal house in order is laughable.
Unless major changes are made today, the United States will default on its debt sooner or later, and it is certainly preferable that it be sooner rather than later.
The alternative to defaulting now is to keep increasing the debt ceiling, keep spending like a drunken sailor, and hope that the default comes after we die.
Imagine the societal breakdown of Weimar Germany, but in a country five times as large. That is what we face if we do not come to terms with our debt problem immediately.
Default will be painful, but it is all but inevitable for a country as heavily indebted as the United States. Just as pumping money into the system to combat a recession only ensures an unsustainable economic boom and a future recession worse than the first, so too does continuously raising the debt ceiling only forestall the day of reckoning and ensure that, when it comes, it will be cataclysmic. (End of article)
Ron Paul is a Republican representative from Texas and a candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

The collapse of paper money
Globe and Mail
Published Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011
The author, Mr. Schlichter is the German-born, British-based author of a provocative and disturbing new book, Paper Money Collapse: The Folly of Elastic Money and the Coming Monetary Breakdown. An investment manager with JPMorgan, Merrill Lynch and Western Asset Management for 20 years, he quit to write his stern warning of an impending dollar doom.
Mr Schlichter claims that the world's major currencies are destined to crash. "The dollar, the Euro and the Yen are locked in a race to the bottom," he writes on his Web Site: papermoneycollapse.com. The only question is which one crashes first.
He argues that we are only part of the way through the market meltdown -- and that the worst is still to come. How much worse? Considerably worse, he says, than the Great Depression.
U.S. industrial production is 12 times higher now than it was in 1929, he says; but the amount of U.S. dollars in circulation is 200 times higher. The U.S. net debt was 150 per cent of GDP in 1973, when then-president Richard Nixon took the country off the gold standard; yet its net debt reached a record high in 2010: 370 per cent. The United States will fall further,
From his own melancholy perspective, he thinks the crisis will come a little later on -- because, he says, the central banks still imagine that they can keep the printing presses running indefinitely. The longer the presses run, Mr. Schlichter says, the more calamitous the crash. And Mr. Bernanke has hardly begun.
Mr. Schlichter recalls Mr. Bernanke's famous assertion in 2002 that, with the world's largest printing press, the Federal Reserve can produce "as many dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost." Mr. Schlichter says: "Within the logic of the present system, the next step [by central banks] must involve the use of the printing press to fund further state expenditures, to fund corporate spending and, ultimately, to fund consumer spending." In other words, the central banks won't stop printing money until they've quantitatively eased people's car loans and people's credit cards.
Mr. Schlichter's analysis rests on an Austrian-school interpretation of things. ("There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion," Ludwig von Mises wrote in 1949 in Human Action. "The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner ... or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.") The essential premise of the Austrians is that paper dollars get depreciated, sooner or later, "to a dime a dozen."
"A collapse of paper money will be a momentous event," he writes. "It will produce a transfer of wealth of historic proportions." But it does not mean the end of civilization. All wealth is not illusion. And real wealth will survive.

Mr. Schlichter does not recommend an investment strategy for "the coming monetary breakdown." And gold, he insists, should not be regarded as an investment. Gold, rather, is simply money, a medium of exchange -- and the most successful form of it in history. But the cash in your pocket doesn't pay interest or dividends and the gold in your pocket doesn't,
either.
BIBREV Comment – Interest rates on normal investments are at an all-time low anyway because of the low (if not zero)Bank Rate. Dividends are payable on shares – and that is a real casino risk these days. For a review of the Gold Price, refer http://www.kitco.com/charts/livegold.html
'Bible Revelations' Overview & Conclusion
The frightening fact is, that should a 1929 type melt-down hit the world today, the results could be "too terrible to contemplate". Consider a world already rampant with crime, murder, rebellion, terrorism, political upheavals and poverty - a world without respect for law and order, with the means for ordinary people who are already armed, to manufacture bombs and weapons. Frightening!

Bible predicts; "Financial World will crash in One Hour!"
The Bible renders an amazing forecast of the scenario which has been sketched above and which is a fact of life today:
It is significant that the final pages of the New Testament Bible Book of Revelations, in a forecast of the final world events at the 'Time of the End', refers to "the fall of Babylon", the 'prostitute', occurring "in one hour" (Rev. ch 18 -note v. 10 & 19).
Rev. 18:19 "They will throw dust on their heads and with tears and groans: 'Mourn for this great city (Babylon) whose lavish living has made a fortune ... ruined within a single hour.'"
More amazing, is the fact that this "Babylon, the harlot', who has "intoxicated all the nations with the wine of her prostitution", is defined in this chapter as a 'force' which perfectly fits the profile of the world's capitalistic 'free' financial system which is in peril at this time.
Note, in the following Scriptures which define this 'Babylon' which will come crashing down in 'one hour', how the accent is on business and trade as the 'deceiving god', the "opium of the masses".
Rev. 18:9 - 'the kings of the earth lived with her in luxury'
verse 3 - 'every merchant has grown rich through her debauchery'
verse 11 - 'the traders of the earth wept in distress over her fall'
verse 12 - 'there is no one left to buy her goods'
verse 14 - 'the life of magnificence and ease has gone'
verse 15 - 'the traders had made a fortune out of her'
verse 17 - 'her riches were destroyed in a single hour'
verse 18 - 'all those making a living out of the sea and sea transport, lamented over her fall'
verse 19 - 'her lavish living had made a fortune for shipowners' (oil?)
verse 23 - 'her traders were the princes of the earth and all the nations were under her spell'
It is significant that 'financial misbehaviour' is also given as the Cause for the destruction of the world in the Prophecy which we quoted in our Introductory section on the Tsunami Wave of Death above:
Isaiah 24:1,2 "See how YHVH lays the earth waste ...
Seller and Buyer, Lender and borrower, creditor and debtor -
ravaged, ravaged the earth; despoiled, despoiled." Read verse 1-14 in context and refer to our comments above
When the financial systems of the world collapse, mankind will find that their money, savings and pensions are worthless!
Babylon's Final Verdict? She will fall in one hour! - and never be revived again! (Rev. 18:22,23).
Then God will set up His righteous Kingdom - described in the directly following and final 4 chapters of the Bible - Rev. 19 - 22
This entire Web Page was created in 1999, pre Y2K, with the emphasis on The Feast of Trumpets depicting the Final Collapse of this Dispensational System, to inaugurate the establishment of the Kingdom of the God of Israel in the Land of Israel. Every year, staggering events occur at the Time of this Biblical Festive Season of Succot - but the End is not yet.
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Jerusalem - Divine "Signal to the nations"
The foremost, yet most ignored Divine Signal of fulfilment of Biblical Prophecy, is enshrouded in the 'Final Status of Jerusalem' conditions, to be determined in Peace Talks between the Israeli Government and the Palestinian Authority who both claim sole rights to Jerusalem and its Holy Places. These Talks now seem to have been abandoned on the rocks without any solution, while a protracted war situation between the Palestinians and the Israelis is raging. Before the New York Islamic Terror Attack, there were expectations of a major regional war in the Middle East. In the aftermath of these barbaric attacks, Jerusalem is once more dragged onto the scene. The US support of Israel in its 'occupation of Palestinian territory' has been given as one of the main causes which inspired Osama Bin Laden to wipe out some 2300 innocent civilians, classed by Bin Laden's understanding of Islamic principles, as worthless and despicable 'infidels'.
The US now intends to use the Palestinian issue to 'befriend' and appease the Arabs, in an effort to broaden their support base amongst Arabs in their declared War against Terror. To achieve this, the US is prepared to force Israel into bartering the Holy City of Jerusalem and the Promised Land, in exchange for the 'peace' undertakings of the Palestinians who the US will then reward with a Palestinian State - and all that, while the US is fighting Arafat's colleague, Osama Bin Laden!
The September 11 event happened at the moment that the Bush Administration was putting the final touches on a Middle East initiative, which included recognition of a Palestinian State, endorsement of the Mitchell Plan, and position statements about Palestinian refugees and the status of Jerusalem. This initiative was to be shared with the Saudi Ambassador to the United Nations on Sept. 13, with a formal presentation to the U.N. General Assembly by Secretary of State Colin Powell on September 23. This meeting never occurred as the UN did not convene for weeks after the Attack, for security reasons. This did not stop Bush and Powell who now took the matter into the open.
Koenig's International News in a revealing article, notes that the three largest insurance claims in United States history all have direct connection to American involvement in the Middle East Peace talks when Israel was pressured to give up God's Covenant Land in exchange for peace. Click herefor an extract of this article
In his first public statement after the US war on Afghanistan had started, Bin Laden, for the first time, publicly associated himself with the Palestinian claim to Jerusalem and the Holy Land. "There will be no peace and security for Americans", he promised, "until the Palestinians have peace and security." This statement was welcomed by Palestinians and Arabs generally..
Bin Laden is sure to find a unifying communal Arab Cause in taking on himself the Palestinian Cause. The official Iraqi News Agency had earlier in the year reported that more than 7 million men and women - nearly a third of the 22 million Iraqi population - volunteered to liberate "all of Palestine".
Though the New York Terror attack seems to be drawing away the spotlight from the Israel Arab conflict with Jerusalem as its Prime Object, the truth is that the core cause of the now universal build-up of the Islamic conflict - the unifying Islamic objective, remains to be Jerusalem and the destruction of the Jewish State. Unwittingly the rest of the world shares in this objective by its opposition of Judaism and the Jewish Cause. This Cause is defined in the Bible as the guarding of the Principles and the ultimate establishment of the Kingdom of God. The motives underlying the constant persecution that the Jews had to endure throughout history, remains to be targeted at the prevention of the evolution of this Kingdom. The USA and the rest of the non-Islamic world has elected to assist in this prevention.
Is it mere co-incidence that the future of Jerusalem has reached its critical watershed now, at the historical beacon of the entry into the 7th millennium?
For decades now, the Arab-Israel conflict was a potential fuse to the igniting of an international military confrontation - dreadedly of nuclear magnitude. The Year 1997 will go down in history as the year in which "The Battle for Jerusalem" revealed itself to the entire world, in a matter of weeks, as the culminating flashpoint in the Middle East. The Final Countdown to Armageddon has begun!
The current War of Attrition in Israel, was started in Sept. 2000 as Arafat's confirmation of the Palestinians' fight for sovereignty over Jerusalem. It marked the conclusion of exactly 7-years (a Biblical Prophetic mile post) since the signing of the historic Oslo Peace Treaty in Sept 1993 by Israel with the Palestinians -again, at the time of the significant Jewish Feast period of Redemption.
The ultimate outcome of this Battle for Jerusalem could be the Trigger to thrust the world into the Biblically prophesied fiery Abyss of Armageddon - the Final cataclysmic War of Wars, referred to by the Prophets as the War of Gog & Magog!
Gradually it is becoming clear, that not Arab interests, not Palestinian oppression, not Jewish occupation, not territory, nor Peace, is really the issue - but, control of Jerusalem, now emerges as the flashpoint to, what Ancient Biblical Prophecies, as long as 3000 years ago, predicted would be the Cause for a Final World War of catastrophic magnitude - marking "The End of the World".
Suddenly the Jewish 3000-year old claim to it's ancient capitol - the central theme of Jewish prayer throughout its 2000-year exile from the Land - is vehemently opposed by the Palestinians who have never yet had a capital city, and who's official religion, Islam, regards Jerusalem as only the third most important in the world. The Israeli government initially vowed that Jerusalem will remain the "eternal undivided Jewish Capitol" - but under pressure from the USA and Europe, Israel, under Sharon have since buckled in and will now comply. And behind the scenes, the Pope is making urgent overtures for internationalisation of Jerusalem under his control as Peacemaker. In concert, the whole world has turned against Israel, denying the Jewish right to their ancient Biblical capitol - even the Jewish government itself is turning against its own people in opposing and denying its Divine Biblical heritage.
The Bible is brimful of Divine Oaths that Jerusalem would be restored by the remnant of its ancient Jewish nation, in preparation for the establishment of the physical Kingdom of God on earth. The last few decades have witnessed this unprecedented return of the exiled Jews from the four corners of the earth, after 2000 years' living amongst other nations - and the rebuilding of ancient Jerusalem into a modern City. This Regathering onto soil which in the interim had become a land of dispute between many nations, now became the cause of great friction between Jews and Arabs. The 'new' Jewish State, declared in May 1948, was the cause of several wars with the potential every time, to ignite an international confrontation. Nuclear warfare is now an open option, with Arab countries like Iraq and Iran frantically scrambling to create these weapons of mass destruction - while it is 'an open secret', that Israel has nuclear capabilities which it would not hesitate to use as its "Samson option" - namely, pushed far enough, to bring the whole building down rather than surrender its ownership.
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Havoc from the Heavens
We are told in the Bible to expect great heavenly signs which will bring terror, in the period preceding the Coming of God to Judge the earth and inaugurate His Kingdom which will rule over the earth from Jerusalem.
Luke 21:25 "There will be signs in the sun, in the moon and in the stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea. Men dying of fear, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken." (Events predicted to immediately precede the Coming of Messiah).
Is. 13:13 "Therefore I will make the heavens tremble and the earth will shake from its place at the wrath of YHVH Almighty, in the day of his burning anger."
According to the Prophecies outlined in the Book of Revelations, the fearsome events of Seven Final 'Trumpets' bring the final woes over the earth to inaugurate the Kingdom Rule of God over the earth. The first four of these Trumpets, bring events which are related to the activities of 'heavenly bodies'.
Rev. 8:7 "The first angel blew his Trumpet, and with that, hail and fire mixed with blood were dropped on the earth. (meteor showers, comet debris, electric storms causing death?) a third of the earth was burnt up and a third of all trees and every blade of grass was burnt. The second angel blew his Trumpet, and it was as though a great mountain, all on fire, had been dropped into the sea (parts of the comet, asteroids?). A third of all the living things in the sea were killed, and a third of all ships were destroyed. The third angel blew his Trumpet and a huge star fell from the sky, burning like a ball of fire, and it fell on a third of all rivers and springs. This was the star called Wormwood. ... The fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of the sun and a third of the moon and a third of the stars were blasted ..." (also Amos 8:9 verse 13) "Trouble, trouble trouble for all the people on earth at the sound of the other three trumpets".
A pair of strong solar storms that hit Earth in Oct. 2005, were squalls compared to the torrent of electrons that rained down in the "perfect space storm" of 1859. But, sooner or later, experts warn, the Sun will again conspire again send earthlings a truly destructive bout of space weather.
If it happens anytime soon, we won't know exactly what to expect until it's over, and by then some modern communication systems could be like beachfront houses after a hurricane.
In early September in 1859, telegraph wires suddenly shorted out in the United States and Europe, igniting widespread fires. The event 144 years ago was three times more powerful than the strongest space storm in modern memory, one that cut power to an entire Canadian province in 1989.
A new account of the 1859 event, from research led by Bruce Tsurutani of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, details the most powerful onslaught of solar energy in recorded history.
Solar conspiracy
Space storms are created when the Sun erupts, sending charged particles racing outward, an expanding bubble of hot gas called plasma. Refer Solar Cycle / Solar Storms / Coronal Mass Ejections
In 1859, the planet's defenses were overwhelmed.
Society back then did not notice the storm the way it would today. The telegraph was 15 years old. There were no satellite TV feeds, no automated teller machines relying on orbiting relay stations, and no power grids.
Tsurutani says there will eventually be another one like 1859. "It could very well be even more intense than what transpired in 1859," he says. "As for when, we simply do not know."
"In 1859, the technology was quite low in comparison to today's technology," Tsurutani said. "However the technology that we rely on today is much more vulnerable."
A strong storm does its damage in part by inducing currents on power and communication lines, leading to potential overloads. Obviously, there are a lot more wires on Earth today, "so one might expect much worse problems if it occurred today."
The charged particles can also zap satellites, as has occurred with handful of storms in recent years -- events with far fewer charged particles than in 1859.
"This can lead to enhanced satellite drag and possible loss of these to the atmosphere," Tsurutani said.
Source: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mystery_monday_031027.html
Jan. 2006 Update
The Sun is behaving strangely

by Mitch Battros - ECTV - http://www.earthchangestv.com
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Solar storms continue far after what NASA describes as a 'solar minimum' related to cycle 23. Why? Because cycle 23 is related only to an 11 year oscillation cycle which ebbs and flows resulting in a 22 year cycle in which the Sun's magnetic pole shifts. However, what we are experiencing today goes far beyond an 11 or 22 year rhythm. called a 'Mega Cycle'. It simply means a cycle which supersedes a cycle, or a cycle outside of a cycle. No one is quite sure how long this one will be. There are known extended cycles measuring 200, 1,200 and even 100,000 years. The latter is related to our known history of ice ages, and warming trends.

This weeks surprising solar storms are a sure sign of what's to come. Not only did the sunspot count jump up to 90, but it appears three CME's (coronal mass ejections) from the far side of the Sun contributed to the Kp Index jump.

Earth Changes TV is looking forward to a very active year.

Changes in the earth's Weather Patterns now irreversible
Global warming has been defined as the cause of the increased hurricane activity across the world in 2005 - especially in the USA.
Measurements by US government scientists show that concentrations of the gas, the main cause of the climate exchange, rose by a record amount over the past 12 months of 2005. It is the third successive year in which they have increased sharply, marking an unprecedented triennial surge.

Scientists are at a loss to explain why the rapid rise has taken place, but fear that it could show the first signs that global warming is feeding on itself, with rising temperatures causing increases in carbon dioxide, which then go on to drive the thermometer even higher. That would be a deeply alarming development, suggesting that this self-reinforcing heating could spiral upwards beyond the reach of any attempts to combat it.
A record loss of sea ice in the Arctic this summer (2004/5) has convinced scientists the Northern Hemisphere may have crossed a threshold beyond which the climate may never recover.

Scientists fear the Arctic has now entered an irreversible phase of warming which will accelerate the loss of the polar sea ice that has helped keep the climate stable for millennia.

They believe global warming is melting the Arctic so rapidly it is beginning toabsorb more heat from the sun, reinforcing a vicious cycle of melting and heating.

The greatest fear is that the Arctic has reached a "tipping point" beyond which nothing can reverse the continual loss of sea ice and with it the massive glaciers of Greenland.

Arctic sea ice this August (2005) has reached its lowest monthly point on record,dipping an unprecedented 18.2 per cent below the long-term average.

Experts believe such a loss has not occurred in hundreds and possibly thousands
of years. It is the fourth year in a row the sea ice in August has fallen below the monthly downward trend - a clear sign melting has accelerated.

Sea ice naturally melts in summer and reforms in winter but for the first time on record, this annual rebound did not occur last winter.

Scientists analysing the latest satellite data will announce a significant shift in the stability of the sea ice, the Northern Hemisphere's major "heat sink" that moderates climatic extremes.
"The changes we've seen over the past few decades are nothing short of remarkable," said Mark Serreze, of the scientists at the Snow and Ice Data Centre in the US.
Capping a 5-year-long saga of destruction, an iceberg about the size of the Hawaiian island of Maui has split into three pieces in the frigid Antarctic, scientists said Friday

In September, a group of scientists led by Peter Webster at Georgia Tech found that, worldwide, the number of the strongest hurricanes -- categories 4 and 5 -- has nearly doubled over the past 35 years. The authors aligned the finding with global warming and a rise in sea surface temperatures. First, there was Opal (1995). Then Fran (1996), Floyd (1999) and Allison (2001).

But the string of deadly billion-dollar storms blowing in from the Atlantic was far from over. In 2004, the quartet of Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne ravaged
Florida in rapid succession and set records for damage.

Then, somehow, it got worse. With Katrina, the inundation of New Orleans and an Atlantic storm season so active it stretched forecasters beyond the normal alphabetical list of names into the Greek of Alpha, Beta and Gamma,

2005 racked up more storm deaths and destruction than the previous 10 years -- combined .

Sources:
http://www.independent.co.uk
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9927665/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/26/AR2005112600355_pf.html
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African continent is splitting along the Ethiopian Rift creating a New Ocean!
- is this in preparation for the fulfilment of Prophecy at the Time of the End?
The following report has been featured on this page since 2003. The most recentreport (Dec. 2005) confirms a rear earth crack, 60 Km long by 8m wide which had developed in merely a few weeks since Sept. 2005 - A continental rifting process that normally takes millions of years to form
A plume of hot volcanic mantle rock is rising beneath Africa, trying to split the continent apart. According to international researchers, it could eventually create a new ocean.
The crack in the Earth's surface runs for 2,000 kilometres from Malawi in the South, through Tanzania, Kenya and Ethiopia, to link-up with the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. The top of the Red Sea lines up with the valley of the Dead Sea, lowest spot on earth, into which the Jordan river flows, some 30 Km East of Jerusalem, down from the Sea of Galilea,
It is significant that this is happening while the stage is being prepared (in fact, it is already set) for the culminating events of this dispensation in Jerusalem, as prescribed in the Prophecy of Zechariah (ZacharYah) and Ezekiel. These Prophecies describe the awesome events which will precede and lead to the Appearance of YHVH in the final Great World War, to fight on the side of Israel for their survival.
Zechariah 14:2 - 11 "YHVH will gather all the nations to Jerusalem for battle. The city will be taken, the houses plundered, the women ravished. Half the city will go into captivity, but the remnant of the people will not be cut off from the city. Then YHVH will take the field. He will fight against these nations as He fights in the day of battle. On that day His feet will rest on the Mt. of Olives which faces Jerusalem from the East. The Mt. of Olives will be split in two from East to West, forming a very huge gorge. half the Mount will receed northwards, the other half southwards ... YHVH your God will come and the holy ones with Him ... it will be a Day of Wonder ... When that Day comes, living waters will issue from Jerusalem, half of them to the Eastern ('original') sea, half to the Western sea (Mediterranean, 55 Km West, Tel Aviv, Jaffa). They will flow summer and winter. And YHVH will be King of the whole world ... the entire country will be transformed ... and Jerusalem will be raised higher, though still in the same place ... Jerusalem will be safe to live in."
Ezekiel ch 38 describes this same awesome event. Verse 20 - 23 "At My Presence, all the fish in the sea, and the birds of heaven, the wild beasts and all men on earth will quake. Mountains will fall, cliffs crumble, walls collapse ... torrential rain, hail stones, fire and brimstone. I mean to display My Greatness and Holiness and compel the many nations (who have drawn up against Jerusalem) to acknowledge Me."
There are other references in the Bible to this great earthquake that will accompany His Return at the time of the War of Gog & Magog (Armegeddon) - the final world cataclysm preceding the setting up of His Kingdom with Jerusalem as head quarters.
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Looking at the geography of the area mentioned in the Prophecies above, and its relation to the rift mentioned in our news article, stretching across Africa right up to and through the Jordan valley, 30 Km East of Jerusalem, to the Sea of Galilee. It is meaningful that the great gorge mentioned in Zechariah 14:4, which will be formed by the splitting of the Mount of Olives, will run to the Mediterranean Sea (West) and to the Dead Sea, East of Jerusalem (Jordan Valley rift) carrying waters from Jerusalem. The current main road from Jerusalem to Jericho, descends below the sea level point, some 20 Km East of Jerusalem. The famous mineral rich Dead Sea is in a land locked basin, well below sea level - thus, in a ready formed ocean bed.
Is it co-incidence that this Prophecy speaks of the water running into the Eastern (original) 'sea'? Will His Return set off the earthquake which will open the Ethiopian Rift to create a new Ocean which will push up through the Red Sea into the Jordanian valley?
EAGLE (The Ethiopian-Afar Geophysical Lithospheric Experiment) is a major British initiative by 20 scientists between October 2001 and January 2003, to investigate how the African continent is splitting along the Ethiopian Rift. This project is sponsored by the Universities of Leicester and Leeds in collaboration with the University of Addis Abeba and Ethiopian government groups.
Ref. http://www.rhul.ac.uk/For-Staff/on-campus/research/10RE1.html
http://www.le.ac.uk/gl/pkm/Research/eagle01.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1823000/1823019.stm
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Ethiopia witnesses rare earth split

ADDIS ABABA: A continental rifting process that normally takes millions of years to form has developed over a span of seven weeks in the Afar region of Ethiopia.

It was a close study, using radar interferometry, of an earth rupture developing into a rare axial rift zone -- a possible future ocean basin.

Scientists from Ethiopia and Britain made four expeditions to the Da'ure locality in the Afar Depression between mid-September and early October 2005, to collect geophysical and geological data.

It started with a series of quakes that were first recorded Sep 14, 2005 in Da'ure, an area in the lowlands of western Ethiopia that stretches from the central part of the country to the Dahlak Islands of Eritrea in the Red Sea. The volcanic activity recorded, spewed ash for three continuous days and eventually numerous cracks appeared on the ground, spreading fear among the pastoral inhabitants. Unsettled by the phenomena of rumbling tremors, they approached the regional authorities to ask the federal government in Addis Ababa to look into it. The government asked experts in the field at the AAU to investigate the phenomena, and if need be ask for assistance from universities abroad. An image of the locality taken by a NASA satellite orbiting the earth showed that an area of 60 km had developed an eight-metre opening.

"This was a fast opening rate within a span of about two months, from Sep 14 to early November 2005, an exciting event in scientific terms," said Atalay, of the Geophysical Observatory of the Addis Ababa University "Compare this to the very slow movement of the plate tectonic affecting the crust of the earth in the Afar region, which is about 17 mm per year," he explained.

For scientists researching the phenomena, the Afar region is a natural laboratory where the transition between oceanic rift and continental rift is visible on land.

"What we saw was a microcosm of a process of an earth split that takes millions of years to evolve into an ocean basin," Atalay declared.
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1347563,curpg-1.cms
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TSUNAMI Killer Waves run amok in Ocean Paradise

This added yet another Shock Wave to the List ofnd-Time signifying events which this Web Page (and this Web Site) has been carrying since 1999 - before the dawning of Y2K.

The arena this time? - a Paradise Playground, where some of the poorest nations in the world were hosting tourists from across the globe in the peak of the world's annual holiday season. Paradoxically, as international tourists were caught up in the disaster, Switzerland experienced its worst 'national death toll' in a natural disaster in its history - thousands of kilometers away from base! No nation was left untouched by this horrific and scary tragedy. The 3 to 4 storey high waves in one place caused the world's biggest train crash ever. One of the mere 100 survivors out of over 1000 aboard, escaped through the waters at house roof top level! At stages the sea withdrew 'as if emptying', causing great whirlpools. "In the enclosed harbour, hulking ships converged in a tight circle as the water swirled and the masses of steel collided like drunken sailors" - according to one report.

And this all beyond the expectations of the world's scientists and warning systems. The Los Angeles Times presented an amazing report in an overview of this inability by scientists to cope during those vital first 2 hours when the Death Wave was heading for 11 surrounding countries at 800 Km an hour!

Refer http://www.revelations.org.za/Tsunami.htm

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Y2K Computer Bug
Y2K fears have proven to be the biggest Financial Hoax of all time. The pivotal danger rollover dates have all come and gone, seemingly with hardly any problems. But there may be a venomous sting in its tail!
As the countdown to Y2K drew to a close towards the end of 1999, a spirit of optimism dominated throughout the world. The uneventful Rollover into 1.1.2000 served to make fools, not only of Doom Prophets, but more so, of the most brilliant minds in the world, which indulged in a preventive spending spree of billions around the world, in order to update their computer systems against the risks of the Y2K date change.
Government printing presses around the world worked around the clock to print new bank notes. This new money was sent to Banks in the event they would experience a Bank run by the public. Easy loans were the order of the day. Most of this money found its way via investors into the Stock Markets in a speculative spree which was unique in history. The technological age brought the Stock Markets into the homes and offices of investors who could share in history's greatest ever Boom Period with the push of a button on their computers!
An instant 'New Economy' was born, which defied every rule of the text books and made nonsense of traditional investment sobriety and acumen. Millions were poured into new born 'dot.com' companies in the technological 'miracle age' which had defied and conquered Y2K. Some of these companies were not much more than the brain child of a lone yuppy, run on a high powered computer in a basic office set-up, and backed by the confidence of the local Bank!
By the end of 2001, this 'new economy' has proven to be just a massive 'bubble economy', the puncturing of which could be even more disastrous than what the Y2K threat has ever posed to be! The Nasdaq Index, indicator of the Technology sector of the US Stock Market, dropped from its peak of 5048 in March 2000, to 1359 by the start of July 2002 - a drop of 73%. Yet, the world likes to believe that there is 'no problem'!
The technological revolution of the 90's and the successful computer date Rollover into the new millennium, has boosted man's ego to limitless heights. The invincibility of mankind's ingenuity seems to have been proven beyond any doubts. for once and all, and has managed to eradicate man's need for a Creator God almost entirely.
This superiority complex and the letdown experienced by those who did take 'unnecessary' precautions, may well now serve to tranquilize mankind against the Biblically prophesied "Time of Great Distress" for which they should really have prepared!
Y2K could have a delayed sting in its tail which could yet bring down the entire world economy. The prospects of the effects of a financial meltdown in this turbulent and trigger-happy world, are too fearful to contemplate!
Refer Financial Collapse facing the world
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The Feast of Trumpets declare the Time of the End
The following paragraphs in italics, were featured in this review long before the astonishing Islamic terror Attack on the USA took place on 11 Sept. 2001.
"The 'forgotten' and discarded (by Christianity) Feasts of YHVH, 'the God of Israel', may this year very likely fulfill its destined role as indicator of "The Times of Restoration", through the announcement of 'Warning Signs' about the imminent setting up of the universal Kingdom of the Creator God of the universe. This Sacred Feast Day, falling on the 1st day of the Biblical 7th month (which in the year 2001 corresponds to 18 September), introduces the series of Sacred Feasts spanning 3 weeks into October, known as "the Days of Awe". The various Feasts of this period, depict the Final Resurrection of Israel and the Redemption of those people of all nations who will qualify for citizenship of the New Universal Kingdom of God, with Jerusalem as its Capital.
Why the 'announcements' denoted by these Feasts should be done by way of warning 'trumpeting' of ominous and perilous times for humanity, is twofold:
Firstly, to serve as a warning of final preparation and readiness to those who will populate this Kingdom subject to its strict requirements for entrance;
Secondly, as a triumphant announcement of the arrival of the King of Kings, in fulfillment of ancient Prophecy, to overpower the opposing forces of evil and disruption and the "destroyers of His perfect creation".
The warning sirens in Sept 2000, blasted right on time with a Palestinian Jihad (uprising) in Jerusalem, when an Israeli cabinet minister, Ariel Sharon accompanied by a delegation of 'rightist' Jewish cabinet ministers, dared to visit the most sacred Jewish Site in all the world - The Temple Mount in Jerusalem. In the commotion that followed when the Palestinians used the occasion for aggressive demonstrations against Jews who visited the Holy Sites (over which Israel holds official sovereignty, but where the Muslim Dome of the Rock is also situated), a Palestinian was shot dead - which sparked a Jihad uprising which 2 weeks later was declared 'war'. By the end of the 3-weeks Festival which saw the Jihad reaching the inner cities of Israel, the war had moved right to the outskirts of Jerusalem, which Arafat claimed to be the Palestinian's "March on Jerusalem".
Four years later, at the time of the annual Biblical Feast of Trumpets in Sept - Oct. 2004, the War of Attrition was still raging, threatening a major regional Middle East war, which could easily draw other nations into its wake. Under pressure from the USA, Russia, Europe and the UN, yet another Peace Plan, the so called 'Road Map', has attempted to bring Peace in the region, and has failed once more.
The interceding years had seen Islamic suicide attacks on civilian Israelis, killing and maiming hundreds of women, children, even babies and teenagers.
The Final Battle and the subsequent Restoration and Establishment of God's earthly Kingdom has been foreshadowed in the Divine Plan, by a series of Sacred Feasts to be commemorated in the 7th Biblical month. This time setting corresponds with Sept / Oct of the secular year and is calculated and appointed by the new moon in the seventh month after Pesach (Passover) - the period of Feasts which depicted the initial requirements for this Restoration Process which would precede the actual installation of the Eternal Kingdom of YHVH in Jerusalem in the Middle East.
This seventh month series of Feasts, depict the events entailed in the actual setting up of God's Kingdom, viz. the Conquering War Battle; the actual qualifying selection (Judgment) and the Celebration in the New Kingdom in Jerusalem. Understandably therefore, this ancient City in the Middle East, is currently the Pawn in a Battle which is building up and which, according to Biblical Prophecy, will culminate in the War to end all Wars - a nuclear and/or bio-chemical holocaust threatening the eradication of Israel and the annihilation of its Jewish population off the face of the earth - if it were possible!
It is these tumultuous events which the "Feast of Trumpets", falling on the first day of the seventh Biblical month, foreshadows. Judgment Day (Yom Kippur) comes ten days later, followed four days later by 8 days of Succot, the most joyous season in the otherwise austere spirit of the 'Jewish' Religious Festivals. This series of Feasts is concluded by "The Last Great Day" - the eighth day of the Festival. Overall, this period in Judaism is referred to as "The Days of Awe" (Yamim Noraim).
While Christianity have maintained some imitation form of the first series of the Biblical Festive Cycle (i.e. Pesach - Easter; Shavuot - Pentecost), it has lost almost totally, or otherwise has discarded this third or concluding series of Sacred Feasts of the seventh month, which depict the staggering concluding events in the setting up of God's Kingdom in Jerusalem on earth.
The 7th millennium, has started with a period of anxiety that is increasing its grip on the world. It also introduced a season of awesome worldwide natural disasters, which may well be the foreshadow for the fulfillment of this long awaited Divine Promise. (Continue reading to 'Havoc from the Heavens' further down. Click here for a list of natural disasters which hit earth).
Bible students and interpreters of Biblical Prophecy, from a wide variety of religious backgrounds, all agree in one point: That the 'Countdown to Armageddon with Jerusalem at its centre", has entered the final hour!
Feast of Trumpets Sep/Oct 2005
The so-called 'rightist' and pro-Israel Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon has made a complete turn-around in 2004. Against every precept of his voters' mandate, he conspired with the left wing to form a government which is opposing the Divine Decree of Israel's Covenantal Heritage - the firm establishment of the Land of Israel within its Divinely appointed borders. According to Biblical Prophecy Jerusalem, under Jewish Rule, would eventually house the Seat of the Universal Creator King, God of the Universe, in His Kingdom to be set up from Jerusalem in Israel.
The festive Season of the Feast of Trumpets 2005 witnessed draconic Israeli governmental decisions and legislation to disenfranchise and jail Jewish settlers (men, women and children) who refuse to abandon their homes, schools, farms, factories in Gush Katif (Gaza, Israel). This after their years-long sufferings in their efforts to settle their Promised Land - to see it handed over to the Palestinians who are hell-bent on driving the Jews out of the land of Israel.
Refer http://www.revelations.org.za/Gush_Katif.htm

Sharon was shortly after struck down by a stroke and to date (June 2008) almost 3 years later, is still in a coma on life support - forgotten by his nation. The terrible results of the despicable disenfranchising of his own people, lives forth as a testimony to the Word of God, not to use the Holy Land as a bargaining chip. Daily the nearby residents of this area are bombarded by the terrorist Palestinians who now use Gush Katif as a launching pad for rocket attacks on Israel and as terrorist training grounds. The once fertile Jewish farms, providing 70% of Israel's table greens, have returned to the barren wilderness that it was before the Jews settled there and turned it into a virtual paradise of greenery production.

The USA, who's rulers pushed Sharon into forcibly exiling Jews from their homes, farms and businesses, paid an equally high price. Almost to the day, as these unfortunate Israelis were driven from their homes by Israeli forces, hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans - and an equal amount of people lost their homes. As Gush Katifians today, 3 years later are still homeless and unrewarded, much the same applies to the former residents of New Orleans.
Refer http://www.revelations.org.za/Gush_Katif.htm
It is noteworthy, that this Festive Period depicts the celebration of the establishment of the Kingdom of God in Jerusalem, referred to in Scripture as a Wedding Feast (at the Time of the Coming of Messiah), when those who are guests of the Royal Wedding will sit at table with Avraham, Moses, Elijah and all the spiritual giants of Biblical fame!
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Conclusion
There has never yet in history been a time when the practical fulfillment of so many fearsome prophecies were physically possible. We have now reached a stage where the glittering creations of mankind stand the real chance of crumbling in the dust!
What remains for us, is to decide how to cope with such eventualities.
The foundation for the outcries of this Web Site is based on ancient Prophetic Scriptures as contained in the Bible. The warranty underlying the probability of a near future fulfillment of these Prophecies, is based on the factual outcome of so many of these Prophecies - especially over the last few decades and seemingly culminating at this very time of the closing of the millennium - the 6th since Creation, according to the Bible. The 7th Day - or Millennial Sabbath - is dawning, and as foretold in Prophecies written 4000 years ago, would be preceded by increasing world turmoil, and a time of distress "as never before in history" (Refer Daniel 12, Matt. 24:21,29, Rev. 7:14).
That these "Times of Distress" are with us already, should be clear from the fact that there are so many Doom Prophets around at this time? Why is this Page simply one of thousands proclaiming the same Message of looming distress and World Chaos? And, it is noteworthy that these outcries of warning come not only from 'religious freaks', but also from informed scientists, educators, medical specialists, economists, investment fundies and the likes.
And why should there be Times of Distress?
So that mankind should find the solution, which forms the basis of the Divine Intent behind the Creation of this wonderful Planet Earth in the limitless Universe.
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Solution and Strategy
The very purpose and message entailed in the Feast of Trumpets and the seven Biblical Sacred Feasts, is to set a direction, to provide an 'escape route' to a 'fortress of hiding', and then to serve as a 'commemorative beacon' of things to come.
These Feasts depict the Reconciliation Process in the Divine Plan for the individual. The Feasts fall in two broad categories:
Tthe first few, falling in the first Sacred month (Mch/Apr), depict the 'exodus' of the individual from an 'ungodly' lifestyle, yielding to the inner call for acknowledging God and turning to a 'godly' lifestyle, and
The second series, in the seventh month, foreshadowing the eventual atonement with the Most High, escaping condemnation in the Final Judgment Trials and qualifying for entry into the Kingdom of God.
These fear-inspiring Trumpet Warnings, which promise to bring great destruction on earth in the Divine Process of overthrowing the evil domination of the powers of Darkness - should therefore be heeded. When approaching a railway level-crossing with red warning lights flashing, it would be reckless to ignore the warnings and carry on driving. It would be equally foolish to disregard the Divine Warnings of the Final Trumpets of God.
The same Scriptures which predict such great doom at "The Time of the End", in the very next breath also offer the escape route: "When that Time comes, ... all those will be spared who's names are written in the Book of Life" (Dan. 12:1 b; Ex 32:32; Ps. 69:28; Rev. 20:12).
Unfortunately, when it entails spiritual matters, the human being is inherently rebellious and stubborn, and many would prefer reasoning these Warnings away, or more tragically even, rebelling against it. Rather than grabbing the final opportunity to adhere and select the security of safety precautions which are freely available but for the acceptance thereof, many would choose to yield to the spirit of rebellion or the obstinacy of human nature.
Correctly understood, the fearful prospects of the many doomsday projections which face humanity at this eventful time in history, should be welcomed. It is true therefore, that believers the world over, are experiencing growing excitement at the prospect that the Promises of the Bible are really true; that the Kingdom of God is now really imminent, and that entry into this Kingdom may soon be a reality!
It is in this spirit that BIBLE REVELATIONS present the restorative and revelationary studies on this Web Site, in the confidence that it will ensure compliance with the required 'immigration criteria' for would-be 'immigrants' to this eternal Kingdom.
You are invited to check these guidelines with the Scriptures, and in doing so, it would be wise to lay aside the guidelines of traditional religion and rely solely on the Word of God.
So, what sets these studies of BIBLE REVELATIONS above traditional religion, wisdom and customs, while claiming, it seems, to be on a par with the Word of God?
The fact that it is restorative (of the Original True Faith as mandated by the Most High) and that it is revelationary. Also the fact that its Restoration Message has been part of a universal process which has been sweeping the world over the last 30 years in ever widening and faster growing cycles. This fact alone, should be sufficient proof of the authenticity of this Message - for it is a universal non-organisational trend, shared by enlightened and independent self-studiers of the Word of God. SOURCE: