Servant of Messiah Ministries

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P.I.G.S. and Autocracy

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Twelve years ago, the G20 was established in 1999, in the wake of the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, to bring together major advanced and emerging economies to stabilize the global financial market. To tackle the financial and economic crisis that spread across the globe in 2008, the G20 members were called upon to further strengthen international cooperation.

History’s first sovereign default came in the 4th century BC, committed by 10 Greek municipalities. There was one creditor: the temple of Delos, Apollo’s mythical birthplace. Twenty-four centuries later, Greece is at the edge of the biggest sovereign default by a government with 353 billion euros ($483 billion) of debt — five times the size of Argentina’s $95 billion default in 2001

This crisis is affecting the government debt of (P.I.G.S) Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain and the Euro itself is threatened.

IMF chief Christine Lagarde has called for countries to “act now and act together” to keep on the path to economic recovery. “We are by no means strangers, and we are linked by a common destiny,” she said at the meeting of the IMF and the World Bank in Washington.

“And these turbulent times must bind us ever closer together.”

Christine Lagarde, the boss of the International Monetary Fund, warned the chance of escaping a downturn was increasingly narrow. She said: “There are dark clouds over Europe and there is huge uncertainty in the US. And with that we could risk a collapse in global demand. There is growth. The bad news is that it is slow growth. The bad news is there are downside risks on the horizon – and they are piling up.”

Britain’s Chancellor George Osborne has warned that the euro zone has just six weeks to save the euro currency. “I think there is now quite a clear deadline set which is the Cannes summit in six weeks’ time,” he said in Washington DC this afternoon. “The euro zone has six weeks to resolve this political crisis.”

There is no political will in Europe and especially in Germany to sacrifice and pay the bills of Greece. European leaders are convinced that they can survive and “manage” a orderly default by Greece.

Banks in France and Germany scrambled to assure investors that they could survive their exposure to sovereign debt. Nobody knows what the total derivative exposure is, nor who the counter-parties are.

Worse, the debt crisis now engulfs Italy, which suffers from a stagnant economy and a staggering debt load of $2.5 trillion. Borrowing costs have hit painful levels for Rome, which has hastened to come up with an austerity plan to satisfy investors.

Any default by Greece would be completely dwarfed by a similar fate for Italy, whose size would overwhelm attempts by other members of the Euro zone to save it.

Hitler once pointed at the lack of political will of the 30 political parties as proof that a countries economic problems could not be solved by democratic paralysis. The I.M.F. and the U.N. and the G20 are again proving him right. We must accept that the coming economic ruin will give rise to the types as in the 1930’s,  Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Tito, and Franco.

Rev 17 v 12. “The ten horns which you saw are ten governments who have not yet received a kingdom, but they receive authority as kings with the leader for a short time. Rev 17 v 13. “These have one purpose, and they give their power and authority to this leader.

A State of Palestine

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Mahmoud Abbas, who was 12 years old when the U.N. voted in 1947 to partition Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab.  Abbas’ predecessors, the Palestinian leaders of that earlier generation, rejected the partition plan, which envisaged a state on 44 per cent of the land.  So yesterday Friday Sept 23rd, the Palestinian president asked the 66th session of the  U.N.  to bless a Palestinian State on a terrain about half the size.  Its been 44 years since Israel took Palestine,  the West Bank from Jordan and Gaza from Egypt.

The Palestinian people are “long overdue” in their quest for an independent state, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday.   And I support also the statehood of Palestinians; an independent, sovereign state of Palestine. It has been long overdue,” Ban told reporters in Canberra.

There are two routes that Mr. Abbas is considering at the United Nations. His preference is to begin by applying through the 15-member Security Council for full membership.  The United States has vowed to use its veto there.

If that failed, he could then go directly to the 193-member General Assembly, where there is no veto and a pro-Palestinian majority. Around 140 countries are likely to support a Palestinian bid for statehood.  The General Assembly cannot grant United Nations membership to Palestine.  It can only declare it to be an “observer state”. But the key word is “state,” because that would allow it to join a host of international agencies and treaty groups, including the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, Unesco and others.

Once admitted to the U.N.  – a foregone conclusion — Palestine would join all international legal forums.     Palestinians would then be entitled to bring cases against Israeli officials, perhaps for actions related to building West Bank settlements viewed as illegal.  This issue worries the Israelis perhaps most of all,  as 500,000 Israeli’s  could find themselves trespassing.

A Palestinian decision to shift its statehood quest toward international legal and political pressure on Israel, combined with Israeli fear and truculence at a time of regional upheaval, has many predicting disaster. After after the storming of Israel’s Cairo embassy,  and the expulsion of its ambassador from Turkey, the Arab spring is creating political opportunity for Israels enemies.

“Israel is already facing hostility from Egypt, Turkey and Gaza,” a senior Western diplomat said. “It will react to a Palestinian statehood bid with punitive measures in the West Bank.  Congress will probably cut off aid to the Palestinians. The Palestinian Authority could collapse. We’re watching a potential train wreck.”

American diplomats were here last week warning Mr. Abbas of unforeseen consequences from his statehood bid. Palestinians have nothing to lose and they will be heading to the UN in a non-reversible move,”  Abbas said.  There is no good outcome for Israel.  America’s  threat to veto the bid at the Security Council puts it on the side of Israel against the wishes of 140 U.N.  members.

The tactics of making Palestinians the victims, and Israel the villain,  are the same tactics that allowed Britain and France to throw Czechoslovakia under a German bus in September 1938,  in the policy of appeasement.  Again Germany and France and Britain are giving silent approval to this division of land.

Meanwhile the world forgets,  God says   Joel  3 v 2  I will gather the armies of the world into the valley of Jehoshaphat.  There I will judge them for harming my people, my special possession, for scattering my people Israel, among the nations, and for dividing up my land.

Is 7 billion significant?

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It took 123 years for the world to double from one billion in 1804 to two billion in 1927. From 1987, when the number hit five billion, it took just 11 years to add a billion more.  Within the last half century, the population boomed to less than 7 billion from 3 billion. By 2050, the population will reach 9.3 billion, and 97 percent of the growth will be in less developed regions. 

The world’s 7 billionth person will be born Oct. 31, 2011  in India, according to a projection by researchers working with data from the United Nations.

Where a growing population will live is not the thrust of the problem, said the UN, which estimates that the world’s entire population, standing shoulder to shoulder, could fit in the city of Los Angeles.  The challenges are high birthrates, dwindling resources such as food and water, coupled with increasing life expectancy.

“In the 1960s and 1970s, people expected a population bomb,” a UN researcher said in a telephone interview. “Now, we have mini-bombs going off in the most fragile parts of the world. Issues of inequality and poverty may spill over from less- developed countries, which will not be good for their neighbors or the rest of the world

The greatest challenge facing the world is that the highest birthrates are concentrated in the poorest countries.  Trapped in a cycle of poverty, lack of education and opportunities the cycle is repeated with the next early pregnancy.  “They are married away too often, too early and they bear children too early.  So they never meet their potential,” said a researcher.

Growth in Africa remains so high that the population there could more than triple in this century, rising from today’s one billion to 3.6 billion, the report said — a sobering forecast for a continent already struggling to provide food and water for its people.

That is particularly so for some fast-growing countries whose populations are projected to skyrocket over the next century. For instance, Yemen, a country whose population has quintupled since 1950, to 25 million, would see its numbers quadruple again, to 100 million, by century’s end, if the projections prove accurate. Yemen already depends on food imports and faces critical water shortages.

In Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, the report projects that population will rise from today’s 162 million to 730 million by 2100. Malawi, a country of 15 million today, could grow to 129 million, the report projected.

The  assumption behind these numbers is that food and water will be available for the billions yet unborn, and that potential catastrophes including climate change, wars or epidemics will not serve as a brake on population growth. “It is quite possible for several of these countries that are smallish and have fewer resources, these numbers are just not sustainable,” Dr. Zlotnik said.

Is Seven Billion significant to God?  We strain our eyes into the future and excite our imagination with the possibilities presented in the events around us.   It has been 490 (7×70) years since Luther and October 31st is also Reformation day.

The bible speaks of a future time when the fullness of the Gentiles will have come in,  and then the focus shifts to Israel.  So God does keep a count.

Israels new found wealth.

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The Torah states that Israel would “suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock.” (Deut 32:13) That Zebulun and Issachar “shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.” (Deut 33:19) And that Asher would “dip his foot in oil.” (Duet 33:24)

The recent finds of oil and gas have put Israel on the map with the great energy discoveries.  Data indicates that Israeli oil shale reserves could be about 250 billion barrels (that compares with 260 billion barrels of the proven reserves of Saudi Arabia).

New estimates mean “Israel may emerge as the 3rd largest deposit of oil shale, after the US and China.”  The US Geological Survey estimates that there are 122 trillion cubic feet of gas in the Levant Basin, most of which is within Israel’s jurisdiction.

These reserves will shape Israel’s relationships in the Middle East. Israel has contracted to supply Egypt with 4.5 billion cubic meters of gas annually from its Tamar offshore field, to meet the economy’s desperate shortage of energy. Israel, which already sells gas to Jordan, will shortly become Egypt’s biggest gas supplier.

All this verifies the motives, and authenticates scripture in describing the coming attack on Israel.

Ezekiel 38:1-6  The word of the Lord came to me; Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal; prophesy against him and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says:  I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.  I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws and bring you out with your whole army –  Persia, Cush and Put also Gomer with all its troops, and Beth Togarmah from the far north with all its troops – the many nations

Ezekiel 38:1-7 gives 9 (number of judgment 3×3) names as participants in the invasion of Israel,  that will follow the regathering of the Jews to their homeland in 1948.   Turkey is that Meshech and Beth Togarmah,  while Iran is Persia, also clearly named.

An Islamic leader will arise to bring together a great coalition of nations to invade Israel.  As in the days of  Pharaoh God will bring them out to exalt His name over the heathen…and begin to show Himself to Israel and the nations.

God tells us that they also come to “seize plunder…and to capture great spoil“.  Many verses in the Quran (Koran)  advocated plundering for the benefit of Islam.

Ezekiel 38:13  “Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish with all its villages will say to you, ‘Have you come to capture spoil?  Have you assembled your company to seize plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to capture great spoil?

The false messiah – this leader of an Islamic invasion is but a straw man,  and he will leave 5 of 6 of his troops dead on the mountains of Israel,  as God once again intervenes for Israel. Given the Arab Spring and political shifts – these prophesied alliances are very realistic. Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia will sit this one out.

Ezekiel 38:23 So I will magnify Myself and sanctify Myself. And I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD   Ezekiel 39:2 And I will turn Gog and Magog back, and leave but the sixth part of them, and will cause them to come up from the north parts and will bring them to the mountains of Israel:

This war is but a preliminary event for what follows – which will be global in scale.   Do not confuse common greed and Islamic hatred of Israel,  for the one who craves the worship of the planet.  This is but the beginning of sorrows…and the Mahdi or  “12th Imam” are but the transparent stepping-stones of the real deception.

Israel and Turkey once allies?

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Israel’s souring relations with onetime ally Turkey took a turn for the worse Friday September 2nd as Turkey announced it would formally expel Israel’s ambassador and suspend military agreements.  Relations between Turkey and Israel have worsened since Israeli forces boarded the Mavi Marmara aid ship in May last year as it was heading for Gaza. Nine Turkish activists were killed during the raid. Israel has refused to apologize and said its troops acted in self-defense.

  • Turkey’s recent decision to increase its naval presence in the eastern Mediterranean – and not just to deter Israeli operations against Gaza activists – is a serious one. Turkey is protesting against the exploration of gas reserves by the government of Cyprus, because it does not recognize the area as Cypriot territorial waters. Israel has recognized them, and hopes to source future natural gas supplies there.
  • Turkish officials have hinted that they might impose economic sanctions, file legal actions against Israel in international courts and assist Palestinians in their upcoming U.N. bid for statehood recognition.
  •  Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has also threatened to make an official visit to Hamas-controlled Gaza, affording legitimacy to an enclave that Israel has worked to isolate.
  • Turkey has suspended diplomatic and military relations with Israel, expelling its top diplomats while Turkey had withdrawn its diplomats after the Gaza Flotilla incident.

“Today, we reached a point where Israel has, in fact, spent all the chances that were given to them. The Israeli government, however, see themselves (as being) above international laws and human conscience,” the Turkish Foreign Minister  said.

Minister Tayyip Erdogan this week coolly moved his country step by provocative step towards an armed clash with Israel – not just over the Palestinian issue, but because he covets the gas and oil resources of the eastern Mediterranean opposite Israel’s shores.

Thursday night, Sept. 8, he announced that Turkish warships will escort any Turkish aid vessels for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. In his remarks to Al Jazeera television, the Turkish prime minister also said he had taken steps “to stop Israel from unilaterally exploiting natural resources from the eastern Mediterranean.” Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan saw “grounds for war” with Israel last year after a deadly raid on a Turkish ship headed for Gaza, according to a transcript of a recent interview.

If Turkish ships breach the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza, which a UN report last week pronounced legitimate under international law, Erdogan will become the first Muslim leader to embark on military action in the Palestinian cause. The Arab nations which fought Israel time after time in the past will be made to look ineffectual and the Turkish leader the regional big shot.

Even Iran would be put in the shade for never daring to provoke Israel the way Turkey has. The Turkish prime minister clings to the belief that the foremost Arab powers, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, which have watched his maneuvers with deep suspicion, will have no choice but to play ball with him now that he has confronted Israel. The first crack in the Arab ice came about Thursday, Sept. 8, in the form of Egyptian consent to join the Turkish Navy in sea maneuvers in the eastern Mediterranean.

Support for Ankara suggested that Israel ought to get used to the fact that this is a “new Turkey,” that Israel must realize this is not the 1990s when Israel maintained working relations with the Turkish government and the Turkish army, “and showed disdain for what the public really wanted.” Meanwhile the generals that supported relations with Israel have long been jailed or have retired.

Turkey wants political clout and opposing Israel is a politically a unifying path to get there.

Arab Spring becomes Israel’s Fall.

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The Egyptian revolution that toppled Mubarak also left the Sinai desert vulnerable to militants and opened the borders to Gaza.  Militants that escaped an Egyptian prison during the revolution then carried out the attacks on Israelis. Some of the attackers wore brown uniforms, similar to those used by the Egyptian Army. They attacked motorists killing civilians in the Sinai border areas.  The accidental killing of three Egyptian soldiers by Israels response, caused an Egyptian outcry.

A number of other factors have added to the state of tension between the two countries over the past few months including the detention of an alleged Israeli spy in June, and the recent conviction of agents who spied for Israel. Israel protested the Egypt’s former foreign minister sponsoring reconciliation talks between Fatah and Hamas in May.

Egypt’s desire to review the contract under which it exports natural gas to Israel in response to a public outcry has also chilled relations between the two sides.  That same natural gas  pipeline in North Sinai that delivers natural gas to Israel and Jordan was attacked by unidentified militants five times this year.  Mubarak is currently facing trial before a criminal court over several charges including the facilitation of exporting natural gas to Israel for below market prices.

Egypt lodged a formal protest to Israel over the death of members of its security forces, and demanded an investigation into the deaths.  An army source was quoted by the official Middle East News Agency (MENA) as saying that Egypt closed the Al-Ouja border crossing until further notice. The crossing is used for trade exchange between the two countries.

Presidential hopeful and former secretary general of the Arab League Amr Moussa said on Twitter: “The blood of the martyrs shed for the sake of their sacred duty will not be wasted.”

Public anti-Israel sentiment in Egypt culminated Friday in a ‘million-man protest’ in Cairo against the peace accord with Israel in the wake of the recent events on the two countries’ shared border.

Events boiled over Friday Sept 9th when a crowd  stormed the Israeli Embassy and broke down the wall around it. The Israeli Ambassador fled  the country,  while the embassy was ransacked and documents thrown from the windows.

Egyptian police and military did not interfere or stop the attack.  Later attempts to restore order left  Egyptians dead and a  state of emergency declared.

Three observations:

  • Democracy will bring an Islamic Government to Egypt,  regardless of party or politics or ideology. The religion of the nation is Islam. That is the foundation of the majority of Egyptians beliefs and values. The Qur’an, (Koran) trumps any Sinai or Camp David Peace Accord.
  • There is growing pressure in Egypt for ending the historic 1979 peace treaty with Israel, a pact never supported by ordinary Egyptians. The 1500 additional troops allowed in to the Sinai by Israel are but the beginning.
  • A military and economic alliance with Egypt is set to be signed by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The deal should be clinched when Erdogan visits Cairo next Monday – the first such visit paid by a Turkish prime minister in 15 years.  Egypt and Turkey represent 50% of the Middle East population.

Israels former friends and allies are  severing ties with Israel, only to unify with each other in opposition to Israel’s occupation,  and in sympathy to the Palestinian cause.  What started as an Arab Spring is heating up to be very hot Israeli Summer.

Toxic Bodies Unburied

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Japanese officials believe that hundreds of bodies lie uncollected in the 12-mile evacuation radius around the crippled nuclear power plants, but nobody wants to talk about it. A police officer from the Fukushima prefecture said that weeks after the disaster, “we find bodies  in cars, in rivers, under debris and in streets.”

Logistical difficulties and fear of radiation have slowed efforts to collect bodies within the Fukushima Dai-ichi evacuation zone, and there are also concerns about how to deal with the corpses once they’re gathered.

Even after recovering the bodies and returning them to families, how relatives choose to say goodbye to loved ones will pose health and safety dilemmas.  Cremation could spread radioactive material, while conventional burial would contaminate the soil and leach into the ground water.

Police sources said today that bodies are still being exposed to high levels of radiation after death. Officials are reconsidering their plan to inspect the bodies after removing them from the evacuation zone. ”One option is to take decontamination vehicles there and decontaminate the bodies one by one,” a radiation-treatment expert told the news agency. Officials fear that decontamination might further damage the decomposing remains.

The Eternal God of History spoke of such a time 2000 years ago, when He described this happening in Israel in the near future. There special teams would also be assembled and trained in the removal of hazardous corpses.

Ezekiel 39:12 And the children of Israel will be seven months putting them in the earth, so as to make the land clean. 13 And all the people of the land will put them in the earth; and it will be to their honour in the day when I let my glory be seen, says the Lord. 14 And they will put on one side men to do no other work but to go through the land and put in the earth the rest of those who are still on the face of the land, to make it clean: after seven months are ended they are to make a search.

Ezekiel 39  v 15 And while they go through the land, if anyone sees a man’s bone, he is to put up a sign by the place till those who are doing the work have put it in the earth in the valley of Hamon-gog.  v 16 And there they will put all the army of Gog in the earth.  So they will make the land clean.

God described the Hazardous Materials Teams before we understood what He meant.  Japan and its complications are but a foretaste of our future.


Feast of Trumpets is prophetic

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Notes to Download:  Feast of Trumpets - Rosh Hashanah

Leviticus  23:1,2  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.

We have studied that Spring Feasts which have all been fulfilled on their very day. Now we look forward future events.  They are to yet be fulfilled, on their day too.

The first three feasts Yeshua fulfilled at His first appearance.  The Feast of Shavout (Pentecost) was fulfilled on its exact day with the coming of the Holy Spirit.  The book of Ruth is read by the Jewish sages and we identify with Ruth the Gentile brought home by Naomi  to work a harvest and prepare for the wedding to Boaz her kinsman Redeemer.

The summer passes and we now come to   the 7th month of the calendar.  Three feasts are yet to come.

Lev 23:23-24 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a Sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.

Quakes, Japan and Israel.

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March 11, 2010: Japan deplores the decisions of the Government of Israel to give permission to construct in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. The Government of Japan does not recognize any act that prejudges the final status of Jerusalem and the territories in the pre-1967 borders

January 11, 2011: Japan condemns the demolishing of a part of the Shepherd’s Hotel in E. Jerusalem to construct housing for Jewish people. Japan does not recognize any unilateral measures that prejudge the final resolution on pre-1967 borders, nor does Japan recognize the annexation of East Jerusalem by Israel.

February 8, 2011: Japan welcomes measures by Israel on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, will pay close attention to any developments surrounding this matter. Japan will pay close attention to any developments surrounding this matter.

February 10, 2011: The Government of Japan is concerned about the Jerusalem municipal planning committee’s approval of a plan to build housing units for Jewish people in the Sheih Jarrah of East Jerusalem.

Japan does not recognize any act that prejudges the final status of the territories in the pre-1967 borders nor Israel’s annexation of East Jerusalem and urges Israel to refrain from any unilateral act.

February 28, 2011: Japan signs $32.5 million agreement for treating waste water in Jericho; Japan has given Palestinian Govt. more than $1.1 billion since their establishment. We count on the implementation of more initiatives and projects that our people were deprived of because of the Israeli measures ”

March 8, 2011: Japan Increases Food Support to Palestinian People to offset Israeli isolation.

March 11th, 2011 The Government of Japan deplores the decisions of the Government of Israel to give permission for the construction of 1,600 housing units in East Jerusalem in addition to 112 units in West Bank.

March 11th, 2011 A powerful earthquake that unleashed a devastating tsunami Friday app ears to have moved the main island of Japan by 8 feet (2.4 meters) and shifted the Earth on its axis. The Japan earthquake was the fourth most powerful ever recorded with a magnitude of 9.0.

In fact, nine (9) of the ten “top ten natural disasters ranked by relief costs” found on FEMA’s webpage occurred at a time when the U.S. went against Israel.

Some of these judgments occurred within 24 hours of an American push against Israel. God warns us in His Word to not interfere in His covenant with the nation of Israel I find Nine (9) significant also as the number of Judgment:

There are 9 Greek words derived from the root word meaning judgment = dikay. The following words each occur 9 times in the Bible: abussos (bottomless pit); asebee (ungodly); aselgeia (lasciviousness); and astrapee (lightning).

Some thoughts: Zechariah 12:3,9: And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people; And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

Obadiah 1:15 which says, “The day of the LORD is near for all nations. As you have done (to Israel), it will be done to you; your deeds will return upon your own head.”

We are accountable

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Watching a very graphic documentary on world hunger.  Similar to watching the camps of Dachau and Belsen being liberated. Except these are not camps, they are feeding stations where the black skeletons crawl to. There they wait under the sun and wind, and they wait,  for the aid that may not arrive.

Makes one truly hate obesity, being overfed, overpaid and unconcerned, our priorities, all we do and all we stand for.

Jesus identified  Himself as being Bread and Water. God himself promised His followers only Bread and Water, not luxuries. Our prayers are to be for only daily bread and water. Those were Gods priorities and His bottom line…to all of us…to all who call on Him.  Give us this day our daily bread, no more, no less!

The trials at Nuremberg will again convene and we collectively are the accused…… and then we can all say we did NOT  know!!!

Given we like to process their grain into our ethanol at a loss which we tax payers subsidize – so we push the food price beyond their means.  Then  we can pour it into a gas tank,  while the oil we have lies under the soil, so not to disturb the polar bears…?

The extremists are right. We are the great satan!  The world is their recruiting station and our policies and values, are their clarion call.

  • Every year 15 million children die of hunger
  • Throughout the 1990’s more than 100 million children did die from illness and starvation. Those 100 million deaths could have been been prevented for the price of only ten (10) US Stealth bombers, or what the world spends on its military in two days!
  • The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world is well-fed, one-third is under-fed one-third is starving.  Since you’ve entered this site at least 200 people have died of starvation. Over 4 million will die this year.
  • Nearly one in four people, 1.3 billion – a majority of humanity – live on less than $1 per day. UNICEF
  • 3 billion people in the world today struggle to survive on US$2/day.
  • Half of all children under five years of age in South Asia and one third of those in sub-Saharan Africa are malnourished.
  • Malnutrition is implicated in more than half of all child deaths worldwide – a proportion unmatched by any infectious disease since the Black Death
  • To satisfy the world’s sanitation and food requirements would cost only US$13 billion– what the people of the United States and the European Union spend on perfume each year
  • Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger
  • It is estimated that some 800 million people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition, about 100 times as many as those who actually die from it each year.

Nuremberg.  MR. JUSTICE JACKSON:  May it please Your Honors: The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility.

The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated.