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Notice Anything Missing from Obama's WH Press Conference on Thursday?






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Notice Anything Missing from Obama's WH Press Conference on Thursday?

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Fence between US and Mexico

I find it interesting that our government is so dead set against any kind of a fence between the US and Mexico yet we paid for a 20+ foot high concrete wall half way around Israel at the cost of billions and continue to do so...

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The discussions here are too complicated to follow

can't you dumb it down a little? The labyrinthine caverns of logic in
the impossibly complicated debates between posters would make Stephen
Hawking blush.

...and don't let me forget the creative cut and paste of naked links
from conservative enclaves - brilliant!

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Who Will Make IT?

Who Will Make IT?

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Groaning, Warring, Wailing and Weeping

Groaning, Warring, Wailing and Weeping (Part II)

 

CHAPTER THREE

TRAVAILING IN GROANING

Let us look at Isaiah 53: 11-12, "HE SHALL SEE OF THE TRAVAIL OF HIS SOUL, AND SHALL BE SATISFIED: BY HIS KNOWLEDGE SHALL MY RIGHTEOUS SERVANT JUSTIFY MANY; FOR HE SHALL BEAR THEIR INIQUITIES. THEREFORE WILL I DIVIDE HIM A PORTION WITH THE GREAT AND HE SHALL DIVIDE THE SPOIL WITH THE STRONG; BECAUSE HE HATH POURED OUT HIS SOUL UNTO DEATH: AND HE WAS NUMBERED WITH THE TRANSGRESSORS; AND HE BARE THE SIN OF MANY, AND MADE INTERCESSION FOR THE TRANSGRESSORS;"

The scripture here talks about the Lord Jesus Christ, that He shall see the travail of His soul. Travailing is part of what accompanies groaning. To travail like a woman, like we saw in Isaiah chapter 42 means that the Lord shall travail like a woman in labour. So the scripture is saying here that He [Christ] shall see the travail of His soul.

Let us consider further, Isaiah 66: 7-10, "BEFORE SHE TRAVAILED, SHE BROUGHT FORTH; BEFORE HER PAIN CAME, SHE WAS DELIVERED OF A MAN CHILD. WHO HATH HEARD SUCH A THING? WHO HATH SEEN SUCH THINGS? SHALL THE EARTH BE MADE TO BRING FORTH IN ONE DAY? OR SHALL A NATION BE BORN AT ONCE? FOR AS SOON AS ZION TRAVAILED, SHE BROUGHT FORTH HER CHILDREN. SHALL I BRING TO BIRTH, AND NOT CAUSE TO BRING FORTH? SAITH THE LORD; SHALL I CAUSE TO BRING FORTH, AND SHUT THE WOMB? SAITH THY GOD. REJOICE YE WITH JERUSALEM, AND BE GLAD WITH HER ALL YE THAT LOVE HER. REJOICE FOR JOY WITH HER, ALL YE THAT MOURN FOR HER."

We have been talking primarily about groaning. Groaning is to roar like a lion, to cry and shout, but now we look at the word TRAVAILING. The promise is that the Lord Jesus shall see the travail of His soul and be satisfied: those of us who are born again today and are still living and those who have lived and died in the Lord are the results of His travail which of course includes all His sufferings on the cross. Also Zion, the True Church, the Body of Christ can only bring forth through travailing. Groaning drives out the enemy and break the power of demons and sickness in our bodies but travailing brings forth that which we desire God to do.

Apostle Paul revealed: "my little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you." You see groaning is like destroying and scattering what they enemy has done, travailing is giving birth and planting the new thing God wants to do. Jeremiah's call and commission to be a Prophet to the nations reveals this principle. He was first to pull down, to root out, to destroy and to throw out of the way and there after to plant and to build. Groaning is to break and scatter the soil as a farmer before he plants. As soon as Zion travailed she gave birth, this is an unchanging principle in the word of God. You see when we travail we give birth to spiritual things in the physical world. You may find out sometimes when you are groaning, that at a certain point you begin to raise your voice in a violent manner which may be warring mixed with groaning. Let us look at Gal.4:19-20 & 27; MY LITTLE CHILDREN,OF WHOM I TRAVAIL IN BIRTH AGAIN UNTIL CHRIST BE FORMED IN YOU, I DESIRE TOBE PRESENT WITH YOU NOW, AND TO CHANGE MY VOICE; FOR I STAND IN DOUBT OF YOU. FOR IT IS WRITTEN, REJOICE, THOU BARREN THAT BEAREST NOT; BREAK FORTH AND CRY, THOU THAT TRAVAILLEST NOT FOR THE DESOLATE HATH MANY MORE CHILDREN THAN SHE WHICH HATH AN HUSBAND."

The passage shows us how to deal with spiritual and even natural barrenness and desolation in our lives and in the Church. When a person begins to travail in the realm of the Spirit he is going to give birth to spiritual things which may manifest in the physical.. Spiritual desolation speaks of a life or a n assembly or a people that is void of the presence of God. In the Kingdom of God nothing happens without travailing and the same holds true for an individual. Without travailing all that God has made available to us in the realm of the Spirit cannot be released. The presence of God may be talked about but it will not be a noticeable reality. That is why Paul admonished: you barren, travail, break forth into cries. So we see that groaning will break and loose and scatter, while travailing will bring forth.

 

CHAPTER FOUR

HEALINGS AND MIRACLES THROUGH GROANING

Now we go on to Mark 7:32-34:

"AND THEY BRING UNTO HIM ONE THAT WAS DEAF, AND HAD AN IMPEDIMENT IN HIS SPEECH; AND THEY BESEECH HIM TO PUT HIS FINGER INTO HIS EARS, AND HE SPIT, AND TOUCHED HIS TONGUE: AND LOOKING UP TO HEAVEN, HE SIGHED, AND SAITH UNTO HIM, EPHPHATHA, THAT IS, BE OPENED"

Now what did Jesus do here? They brought somebody to Him. The man had two problems, one is deafness, the other is impediment in his speech. That means he was a stammerer. So having come to Jesus He spat and touched his tongue and the tongue was loosed. Was that not so? Yes, but when it came to healing the ears He fixed His fingers (probably the index fingers) in the ears and groaned or sighed {groaning and sighing are the same}. He did not pray. He just groaned. He just groaned, Ah! Ah! Ah! and the demons that were blocking the ears came out and left. I believe you are seeing clearly the point I am making. When you groan while ministering to the oppressed as led by the Lord the demons must loose their hold and leave.

Let us look at Mark 8:11-12:

"AND THE PHARISEES CAME FORTH, AND BEGAN TO QUESTION WITH HIM, SEEKING FOR A SIGN FROM HEAVEN, TEMPTING HIM. AND HE SIGHED DEEPLY IN HIS SPIRIT, AND SAITH, WHY DOTH THIS GENERATION SEEK AFTER A SIGN: VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, THERE SHALL NO SIGN BE GIVEN UNTO THIS GENERATION." Why did Jesus groan when the Pharisees were asking His questions? He did because He knew that there were demons behind the Pharisees, influencing and pushing them to come and ask Him those foolish questions. And instead of answering them and arguing with them, what did He do? He groaned. You can imagine the expression on the faces of the people who questioned Him. It was a public place where they came, asking questions. He knew the spirits behind them and in order to break or neutralise their power, Jesus groaned, Ah! Ah! Ah! No wonder many times they (the Pharisees) thought that Jesus was mad, a man "besides" himself. Jesus did really a lot of strange things. Can you imagine Him healing blind eyes by mixing sand with spit and rubbing it in the blind man's eyes. That looks uncivilised and unhygienic and cannot be found in any medical book. The word "sighed" is the Greek word "stenadzo" which was translated in Romans 8: 23 and II Cor.5:2, as "groaned", means to snort as a horse does in fear or anger, to be very angry, to be moved with indignation. Snorting in the public like an angry horse might not look dignified, it might be below the sense of decency of the Pharisees of His days and indeed the Pharisees and the skeptics of our 21st century. But that is what the Son of God did to heal the deafness of the boy we have seen in Mark 7, and to deliver Himself from the nonsensical questions of the religious leaders of His day who were looking for sign instead of believing the word.

I was told of an incident that took place in a part of Lagos sometime ago. A gang of robbers armed with cutlasses, clubs, etc broke into a house where some Christian brothers were living. Having been taught about groaning, so while others were shouting and screaming in confusion they began to groan. For no apparent reasons the armed robbers took to their heels in fright. That is exactly what Jesus did to the Pharisees, this disarmed them and He (Jesus) could continue His ministration. It is wonderful to see the power behind groaning. It brings deliverance from demons, snares of men and even death.

Let us look at John 11: 32-34, to see further in the scriptures how the Lord practised groaning in His ministry. "THEN WHEN MARY WAS COME WHERE JESUS WAS AND SAW HIM, SHE FELL DOWN AT HIS FEET, SAYING UNTO HIM, LORD, IF THOU HADST BEEN HERE, MY BROTHER HAD NOT DIED. WHEN JESUS THEREFORE SAW HER WEEPING, AND THE JEWS ALSO WEEPING WHICH CAME WITH HER, HE GROANED IN THE SPIRIT, AND WAS TROUBLED, AND SAID WHERE HAVE YE LAID HIM? THEY SAID UNTO HIM. LORD COME AND SEE"

Jesus praised the Father for hearing Him. When did Jesus pray? He prayed, when He groaned. Or did He pray any other prayer there? Why did Jesus say you have heard me? What did God hear? It is the groaning of the Son He heard. We read in Exodus that God heard the Israelites groaning and remembered His covenant. When Jesus groaned and wept before He shouted at the grave of Lazarus, what was He doing? He was releasing God's power to break the shackle of death and to raise up Lazarus. He was not weeping out of human sympathy. But He was weeping because He knew that by weeping He was releasing the power of God and when He groaned the hands of death that held Lazarus was broken. So when He got to the grave all He did was to shout loudly "Lazarus come forth!" and life entered into Lazarus life-less body because Jesus groaned. So we have seen how Jesus used groaning to heal the sick, to answer questions and raised the dead. All these He did openly and they all witnessed the results. Through groaning, weeping and travailing God is giving opportunity to us to prevail over our enemies and to devour them at once, it is something that breaks the hand of the enemy. Oh! yes it breaks the power of the enemy and shatters him. That is why I recommend that when in the night you want to go to bed to groan even if it is for five minutes or ten, the spirits will be afraid. You see the principalities in the heavenlies send these small demons to come and harass people. That is why many times just going through deliverance ministration is not enough, because it only deals with demons which roam about the earth, even when these are cast into desert places the powers in the heavenlies readily and relentlessly send reinforcements. But when you know how to groan with warring you are obeying the scripture in Ephesians 6:12 that commands us to wrestle or enter into combat with them (the wicked ruler in the heavenlies), those little ones that roam the earth and even the ones that are sitting in the heavenlies, you are cutting them off; you are destroying their communication, scattering them and putting confusion in their midst.

THE LORD'S EXAMPLE:

Hebrews 5:7

"WHO IN THE DAYS OF HIS FLESH, WHEN HE HAD OFFERED UP PRAYERS AND SUPPLICATIONS WITH STRONG CRYING AND TEARS UNTO HIM THAT WAS ABLE TO SAVE HIM FROM DEATH, AND WAS HEARD IN THAT HE FEARED".

How did Jesus pray? He offered up prayers and supplication with strong crying. The prayer life of our Lord Jesus was not something cold, listless, and formal, but vibrant, aggressive or even wild. The Lord was about thirty years plus at this time. You imagine a man above 30 years giving a strong crying, that is weeping, travailing and groaning. The scripture says it was to deliver Himself from death. What kind of death? Untimely death, because the enemy was seeking to destroy Him before it was His time to go to the cross. Jesus knew that He came to die the death of the cross. But He knew also that the enemy was looking for every opportunity to kill Him and destroy Him thereby stopping the work of redemption. But how did Jesus deliver Himself? By groaning and travailing. And you and I can do that. This is one of the most effective ways we can deliver ourselves. As we cry and travail, we can be delivered from unnecessary deaths. We have seen how Jesus did it, but there are a few other scriptures we can look through.

II COR. 5:4

"FOR WE THAT ARE IN THIS TABERNACLE DO GROAN, BEING BURDENED: NOT FOR THAT WE WOULD BE UNCLOTHED, BUT CLOTHED UPON, THAT MORTALITY MIGHT BE SWALLOWED UP OF LIFE".

You see, "being burdened" we groan. Some people will say until the Holy Spirit moves you, you cannot groan, you have to wait until you are in deep prayer and then you can groan. You ask them, "How many times in a year do they get to that stage? Those who are sincere may tell you, maybe once in a year or none at all. If you are waiting until only when you are in a deep prayer before you groan you will not groan as God expects you to do. The bible says Jesus in the days of His flesh groaned. You can see how burdens can make you to groan. Oppressive or depressive situations or spiritual burdens can cause you to groan. The verse says we groan ".... not for that we would be unclothed, but that we might be clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life." What is mortality? Mortality means death. So that death might be swallowed in life. What is it saying? There is death in this our body. There are things that are trying to take our lives in this body; sickness, disease, etc. But the bible reveals here that when we groan life comes forth out of our groaning to swallow up the death in our body. Just the same way we see the Lord Jesus groaned so as to be delivered from death. When you have headache, that is a messenger of death. When you have pain, a cold, stomach upset, fever, they are all messengers of death. They are all seeking to reside in our bodies but it is clear from the word that groaning is one of the potent weapons that we have, to counter such flow or stream of death, overtake it and its messengers that are trying to destroy our body. That is why we need to groan earnestly. Groaning fights away old age manifestations such as wrinkles, rheumatism, backache, etc. When you groan earnestly in faith these things will depart from you.

I remember that before I knew groaning I used to have pains all over my body. But as I began tog roan I discovered tremendous changes. This is because the things causing most of our pains usually have spiritual roots. However, as you begin to groan they begin to be uprooted. I am convinced that groaning and travailing have tremendous power to release to us. They are weapons of war against the enemy and the kingdom of darkness. Travailing releases the power to bring forth things or give birth to things in the spirit realm. All these also help us in ministering effectively to others. Sometimes for people who come to you for help, needing deliverance all you need to do is to groan over them. When you groan earnestly over them those demons will not stay; but rush out.

ENTERING INTO THE FULLNESS OF CHRIST REDEMPTION

I want to show you also that for us to enter into the fullness of Christ we must groan. Let us turn to Romans 8: 19-23: "FOR THE EARNEST EXPECTATION OF THE CREATURE WAITETH FOR THE MANIFESTATION OF THE SONS OF GOD. FOR THE CREATURE WAS MADE SUBJECT TO VANITY NOT WILLINGLY, BUT BY REASON OF HIM WHO HATH SUBJECTED THE SAME IN HOPE, BECAUSE THE CREATURE ITSELF ALSO SHALL BE DELIVERED FROM THE BONDAGE OF CORRUPTION INTO THE GLORIOUS LIBERTY OF THE CHILDREN OF GOD. FOR WE KNOW THAT THE WHOLE CREATION GROANETH AND TRAVAILLETH IN PAIN TOGETHER UNTIL NOW. AND NOT ONLY THEY, BUT OURSELVES ALSO, WHICH HAVE THE FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT, EVEN WE OURSELVES GROAN WITHIN OURSELVES, WAITING FOR THE ADOPTION, TO WIT THE REDEMPTION OF OUR BODY."

Sons of God are the matured men and women of God. If the whole creation is to be delivered, (and this is the hour for the fulfilment of this scripture), there must be raised by God Himself a people who are pressing in for their fullest redemption rights in Christ through groaning and travailing in order to bring that same redemption to the rest of the creation. The whole creation is groaning, how? I watched a documentary film that showed the formation of islands as a result of volcanic eruption. That is one way of showing how the creation groans. When we see thunderstorms, cyclones, etc, they are part of the groaning. The whole creature is subject to vanity not by themselves, not that they like it but the curse through the sin of man had brought them into that brutal subjection. But it is not only they that groan, we too, who have tasted the firstfruit of the Spirit, or as it is stated in II Cor 5:5, ".....the earnest of the Spirit" {which is to have a foretaste of something; and having an appetiser is an indication that the full course of a meal is coming}. God has given us the appetiser of the Holy Ghost, a foretaste, a measure of liberty of the Spirit in life and in ministry, a tasting of the heavenly power and of gifts that create a longing; any unquenchable hunger to be free from all the limitations of human life and activities that the fullness of the Spirit may be experienced and expressed here and now. But this fullness of the Spirit is yet to come, because when we enter into this fullness then we have entered into the manifestation of the Sons of God.

There is something else we groan for, the redemption of our body. The redemption of our body comes at the end of the journey, there are those who will enter the first resurrection, and those who will have to wait for a thousand years for their resurrection to come. When we enter into groaning now, it is with a view to preparing us for the first resurrection, because in it the mighty Holy Spirit of God moves us to press into the deep things of God. The more we groan; the more we purge ourselves, the clearer our spiritual understanding, and God is able to reveal more of His precious things to us. I am yet to see somebody who groans earnestly and regularly and does not have his knowledge of the deep things of God broadened. I have seen people groaning and as a result, they begin to have serious revelations of the word of God; because the more you groan, the more you are purged and cleansed and become sanctified. Also the nature of God is imparted to you and things to come are more clearly revealed to you, the redemption you are experiencing in your body is preparing your body for the resurrection that is to come. So this is the conclusion of all we are talking about when we teach about groaning and travailing and weeping. God in His mercy has revealed to us that we are not helpless in the face of situations, that we are not helpless before the enemy, we are not helpless in the things God is asking us to do. That we have a weapon that we can use to devour the enemy at once, to break the power of the enemy of our soul, that we have a weapon that will cause death to be swallowed up by life in us. We have seen Jesus using it. He used it to heal the sick, to answer questions, to raise the dead. We have seen the children of Israel, they did it to bring deliverance for themselves. They did it to cause God to change His mind, to make God remember His covenant. As we have seen from the scripture at the beginning of this book that when it was time for God to release the nation of Israel from Egypt He showed them what to do. When it was time for God to release them from Babylon He showed them what they did. Time has come and our great God is delivering His people from the world, He is setting them loose from things that blind, bind, and entangle them. God is also causing us to return to the pattern and life of the True Church because He is restoring the whole truth back to the True Church. Indeed when you look at the practice of groaning it looks and sounds undignified. Some have commented or criticised, that when groaning one sounds like a dog or a goat. But let us know that the foolishness of God is wiser than the wisdom of men, so God in His wisdom reveals and uses things that are weak to confound the mighty and foolish things to confound the wise. We must learn to follow God and despise the opinions of mere men

 

 

CHAPTER FIVE

WARRING WITH GROANING

Psalm 18: 29-30, 33-34

"FOR BY THEE I HAVE RUN THROUGH A TROOP; AND BY MY GOD HAVE I LEAPED OVER A WALL. AS FOR GOD, HIS WAY IS PERFECT: THE WORD OF THE LORD IS TRIED: HE IS A BUCKLER TO ALL THOSE THAT TRUST IN HIM. HE MAKETH MY FEET LIKE HINDS FEET, AND SETTETH ME UPON MY HIGH PLACES. HE TEACHETH MY HANDS TO WAR, SO THAT A BOW OF STEEL IS BROKEN BY MINE ARMS."

Also Psalm 144:1

"BLESSED BE THE LORD MY STRENGTH, WHICH TEACHETH MY HANDS TO WAR, AND MY FINGERS TO FIGHT:"

The picture that the scripture paints for us here is that of a man who through God's strength knows how to break through encirclement of attacking enemies. What is a troop? A troop is a band of soldiers or invaders. There is one strategy in warfare that soldiers everywhere use. If soldiers want to capture an enemy in his house, what do they do? They will surround it, creating a ring around it. So if the enemy thinks he will run through the front door they are there, if he goes through the back door they are there. This same thing happens in the spiritual. One of the things the enemy does for people is to surround them with his demons so that where-ever they go they are encircled by these spirits surrounding them and they cannot escape. In the same way the bible says the angel of the Lord encampeth around them that honours the Lord with their lives. So the Psalmist here is giving us a picture by saying - for by thee (God) I have run through a troop, through the enemy is always trying to surround us, making a ring of attacking demons around people.

We must learn how to fight to breakthrough. You war with your hands, swinging your hands physically, like jabbing or making chopping movements in the air or tearing down a web. Sometimes I see myself in a vision fighting with a sword in my hand. There was a woman, a medical doctor, we taught her and others how to groan and war in a meeting at Ilorin in Kwara State. This woman had been afflicted and tormented with strange spirits in her bedroom that for months she had not been able to sleep. The situation had greatly drained her that she looked like walking dead with glazed eyes. In that meeting we spent about one hour groaning and warring and she participated actively, with her husband who is also a medical doctor.

The second day they gave a glowing testimony. A major transformation had happened. She testified how she got home and before going to bed that night she spent some time groaning and warring in her bedroom. While she was doing that her spiritual eyes were opened and she saw as she was swinging her arms bluish fire coming from her fingers and the result was that she slept soundly like a baby that night. Whereas many months earlier, her sleep had been fought with strange voices and oppressive presence speaking to her. So you see, when we are led by the Spirit in groaning, warring or doing any other thing commanded by the scripture you may not know what God is doing with it in the spirit realm, it can be fire that God will cause to come out of your hands. It can be a sword and this will go very far to destroy, to scatter and to break whatever the enemy has put in place against you. Sometimes when you are warring, the Holy Spirit will literally takes over your hands so that you do not feel you are the one swinging those hands again. You will experience the Holy Spirit completely taking over your hands for as long as He wills, you will not feel the strain that would have normally accompanied such exercise. You may be experiencing what the bible means when it says "He has taught my hands to war".

By revelation the Lord has shown what often the enemy does to people to keep them under surveillance where ever they go by throwing invisible net around them (like a spider will do to catch insects for food). But the Holy Spirit will lead you to use your hands in spiritual fight to tear such nets whenever it is necessary. The atmosphere is often being purified by groaning and warring and this in turn increases the presence of God around us. A woman can be doing her washing and be groaning, she can be cooking and be groaning and travailing and these will give birth to many things of God in her life. As we begin to learn to put the word of God into effect we will see what God will do to honour His word. The saying "the taste of the pudding is in the eating", is true. For instance if you have never tasted honey before and someone describes to you how sweet honey is, it is mere talk because you have never tasted it before. No matter how you may imagine it to taste, you cannot really know it, like someone who has tasted honey. But if the person gives you honey and you taste it then you can say "ah, I really know what honey sweetness is all about." This is applicable to the issue of groaning, warring , travailing and weeping or any other truth of the bible. All I have said will be more meaningful to you when you begin to practise it.

A lady wrote me from Britain recently saying "when you taught about groaning and warring I never really saw the value", in fact she said she was wondering what spiritual meaning it had. But she said getting to London and being lonely, no fellowship, having nobody around and experiencing attacks of the enemy from all fronts, "I discovered by myself groaning, warring and travailing as a tremendous help". So now she has tasted it, she has seen the power and the blessing that goes with it. The best way to get its blessing is to begin it. Know this as well that the enemy will fight in many ways to cause you to forget or to drop this truth and its practice, but as you receive God's help to do it, until it becomes part of your spiritual life, you will never want to loose the blessing . .

 

CHAPTER SIX

WAILING AND WEEPING

Hebrews 5:7 "WHO IN THE DAYS OF HIS FLESH, WHEN HE HAD OFFERED UP PRAYERS AND SUPPLICATIONS WITH STRONG CRYING AND TEARS UNTO HIM THAT WAS ABLE TO SAVE HIM FROM DEATH, AND WAS HEARD IN THAT HE FEARED".

John 11:35 "JESUS WEPT".

These two scriptures show to us something of the prayer life and spiritual strength of Christ. Weeping or wailing is a potent power in the realm of the Spirit when done in the strength of the Lord, and not a product of our emotion, or induced by environment and conditions. When the Lord wept at the grave of Lazarus, He did not do it out of natural sympathy as men do, for Lazarus or his relations. He was rather releasing power in the realm of the spirit out of the Holy Spirit-induced compassion. Men like David, Jeremiah and Apostle Paul knew the revelation and the release of God's power and favour by weeping from their spirits before the Lord, when facing desperate situations that involved them or others.

In Psalm 56:8, David asked the Lord ".....PUT THOU MY TEARS INTO THY BOTTLE: ARE THEY NOT IN THY BOOK?" This alludes to an ancient practice in which tears shed in grief were stored up in a bottle. This David's prayer shows us that tears shed from our inner man is precious before the Lord and it is stored and recorded in His book. What for? To be used against God's enemies. The next verse, verse 9 says: "WHEN I CRY UNTO THEE, THEN SHALL MINE ENEMIES TURN BACK:..." When the enemy hears the noise or voice of weeping in this fashion he will flee in fright.

Paul in Act of Apostles 20 verse 19, and Philippians 3 verse 18 to mention a few, showed how many times in his ministry he wept as he sought God for His grace and power to be released for him to be able to influence and turn his hearers to a purposeful living for God. Wailing is a level higher than weeping. While weeping can be a silent sobbing, wailing comes forth with raising of the voice; howling, loud cries, screams and noisy utterances. How the Lord is shown to offer up prayer and supplications with strong crying and tears in Hebrews 5 verse 7, involved wailing. The word strong in Greek is ISCHUROS, which means to be forceful (lit or fig) boisterous, mighty, mightier, powerful, valiant. The word crying in Greek is KRAUGE, it means an outcry (in notification, tumult or grief), clamour. Also in Greek the verb of the word KRAUGE is KRAZO which means to croak as a raven, or scream, to call aloud, shriek, exclaim or in treat. These words throw more light and give us better understanding of the way the Lord often prayed when He was in the flesh. (AND THE QUESTION IS, IF THE LORD OF GLORY HIMSELF PRAYED THIS WAY UNTO HIM THAT WAS ABLE TO DELIVER HIM FROM DEATH, CAN YOU AND I CLAIM TO KNOW BETTER?)

Often in the bible prayer of repentance, in the face of impending wrath from the Lord is called for by God Himself in form of wailing and lamentation .

Jer. 9: 14-20. "BUT HAVE WALKED AFTER THE IMAGINATION OF THEIR OWN HEART, AND AFTER BAALIM, WHICH THEIR FATHERS TAUGHT THEM: THEREFORE THUS SAID THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL: BEHOLD I WILL FEED THEM, EVEN THIS PEOPLE WITH WORMWOOD, AND GIVE THEM WATER OF GALL TO DRINK. I WILL SCATTER THEM ALSO AMONG THE HEATHEN, WHO NEITHER THEY NOR THEIR FATHERS HAVE KNOWN; AND I WILL SEND A SWORD AFTER THEM, TILL I HAVE CONSUMED THEM. THUS SAID THE LORD OF HOSTS, CONSIDER YE, AND CALL FOR THE MOURNING WOMEN, THAT THEY COME: AND SEND FOR CUNNING WOMEN THAT THEY MAY COME: AND LET THEM MAKE HASTE AND TAKE UP A WAILING FOR US THAT OUR EYES MAY RUN DOWN WITH TEARS, AND OUR EYELIDS GUSH OUT WITH WATERS. FOR A VOICE OF WAILING IS HEARD OUT OF ZION, HOW ARE WE SPOILED! WE ARE GREATLY CONFOUNDED, BECAUSE WE HAVE FORSAKEN THE LAND, BECAUSE OUR DWELLINGS HAVE CAST US OUT. YET HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD, O YE WOMEN, AND LET YOUR EAR RECEIVE THE WORD OF HIS MOUTH, AND TEACH YOUR DAUGHTERS WAILING AND EVERY ONE HER NEIGHBOUR LAMENTATION."

We need to come to a place in our spiritual experience where we become vessels wherein such operations of God can be carried out in us and through us. Wailing and weeping are God's weapons of warfare. The matured and seasoned soldiers of Christ we read of in the scriptures and those of the early centuries knew their potency. in this final hour of the last day battle we are being invited to experience what they experienced.

Brokenness which first comes as a result of being dealt with by the hand of God for a long period of time and being baptised with the Spirit of compassion are necessary to enter or experience wailing and weeping. In the natural, crying or weeping is very therapeutic in certain situations. In the spiritual realm when the Lord brings us to this level of praying with weeping and wailing or "strong crying" we will not only bring release to ourselves but to others as well, even to nations.

In conclusion, I share this testimony. Some years ago myself and three or four other ministers were ministering to a young lady that was gripped in some ways by the power of the enemy. We had ministered to her for hours each day for about two or three days without making much progress. We had tried shouting on demons, binding, and some other ways we knew. On one of the days, the leading minister amongst us suggested that we should weep and wail out of compassion for her while she was kneeling down. This we did, and I must confess, this way of ministering was very new to me then. but the power that held the lady captive began to gradually give way after wailing and weeping over her under 30 minutes.

When the Lord brings you to a level, he can move on you to weep and wail in compassion, you will cry and weep like a baby not minding who is around you.

May the Lord visit us again and break forth upon His watchmen with this level of operations and manifestations of His Spirit, that is very crucial and desperately needed today. Amen.

Acropolis temples get revamped

Acropolis temples get revamped

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBY56d__IjQ

Athens' Parthenon scaffold-free for first time in years


Jon Hemming
ATHENS
Thu May 27, 2010 4:45pm EDT

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Tourists walk past the Parthenon on Acropolis hill in Athens May 18, 2010.

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ATHENS (Reuters Life!) - Visitors to Athens have a rare window of opportunity to see the showpiece Parthenon temple on the ancient Acropolis without scaffolding for the first time in nearly 30 years as a major restoration work nears completion.

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The Greek government launched a project to restore the Parthenon and other buildings on the world heritage site in 1975, but it was not until 1983 that work started.

Scaffolding has been up somewhere around the ancient temple ever since. But from now until September, the exterior of the Parthenon will be scaffold-free.

Building the Parthenon took nine years from 447 BC and the sculptural decorations took another 10 years to complete. Restoration has already taken longer than it took to build.

"We treat every piece of marble like a piece of art so we have to respect it," Mary Ioannidou, the head of restoration told Reuters during a tour of the temple.

"The ancient Greeks had the possibility that if a block failed, to leave it and take another one, but we can't do it so we have to treat it with great respect."

Over the years, the Parthenon has suffered from fire, war, revolution, looting, misguided restoration and pollution.

It became a church for nearly 1,000 years and served as a mosque under the Ottomans for nearly 400 years after that.

The greatest blow to the structure though came in 1687 when a Venetian mortar ignited the Ottoman Turkish gunpowder store inside and widespread looting followed. British Ambassador Lord Elgin then removed large chunks of the sculptures from 1801.

Between 1898 and 1938, restoration workers rebuilt large parts of the building and concreted in parts of the columns and blocks that were missing. But they used iron ties to hold the blocks together and replaced many in the wrong place.

The iron ties have since rusted and as they did so expanded causing cracks to appear. The ancients also used iron ties, but coated them in lead to prevent rust. They have lasted well.

The team of archaeologists, marble cutters, architects, and civil and chemical engineers, dismantled 1,852 metric tons of marble and began the painstaking task of attempting to put it back again in the right place, adding other fragments they found.

"It's like a huge puzzle," said Ioannidou with a wry smile.

Titanium is now used to tie the blocks and columns together which is highly resistant to corrosion.

New marble has been crafted to fill in some of the gaps left by the concrete and allow blocks of the original marble to be returned to their place on the Parthenon's stonework.

The original quarry for the marble on Mount Penteli is now itself a protected historical site, but marble has been cut from the other side of the same mountain.

"It's almost the same but not exactly the same," said Ioannidou. The new marble stands out in a much lighter color than the original.

"One of the principles of our restoration is not to cheat the visitor. Everyone can understand the parts that are ancient and those that are original," said Ioannidou.

As for the color, that will fade. "If you come here in 10 years the color will be almost the same," she said.

In September though, the scaffolding will be up again on the western facade and that project will last at least another three years. Efforts to piece together the walls of the inner chamber of the temple are already underway.

For some, restoring the Parthenon is their life's work. Marble-cutter Ignatius Hiou has worked there for 18 years.

"If I could do this until the day I die, I will be happy," he said.

(Additional reporting by Deborah Kyvrikosaios; Editing by Paul Casciato)

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64Q4I220100527

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Greek cash troubles surface on Acropolis, as officials unveil major restoration project

By Nicholas Paphitis (CP) – 3 days ago

ATHENS, Greece — Greece's economic problems erupted at the country's best-known ancient site Tuesday, as unpaid cultural heritage workers heckled the country's culture minister during a tour of newly completed restoration work on the Acropolis.

Amid goggling tourists, about 100 protesters with bullhorns and banners pressed Pavlos Geroulanos to pay wages outstanding for up to 16 months and to renew their soon-to-expire contracts. The demonstration ended peacefully after the minister conceded that many of the demands were "absolutely justified," and promised action on the delayed pay.

Greece is locked in a major debt crisis, and this month avoided bankruptcy by the skin of its teeth with a €110 billion ($136 billion) rescue package from EU countries and the International Monetary Fund.

In return, Athens agreed to slash pensions and civil service pay, while raising consumer taxes in an effort to boost lagging revenues.

But contract culture ministry workers, used by successive governments to cheaply plug essential needs, feel doubly cheated.

"I haven't been paid for nearly a year now, and they say they won't renew our contracts in October," said Apostolos Tseklimas, 60, a labourer at the Marathon ancient site working on contracts since 2001. "It's as if we count for nothing. I have four children, and need to work for another year to get a full pension."

Conservation technician Ioanna Zervaki said the ministry has not hired any full-time workers in her field for years, relying instead on contract employees to get the work done. Contract workers are considered the lowest ranking civil servants in Greece.

"Despite my 10 years experience with the ministry in this field, I have no chance at all of getting a full-time job," she said.

Protest organizers said about 1,500 ministry contract workers faced similar problems.

Despite the crisis, the government has pledged to continue with the massive Acropolis project, which started in the 1970s and is expected to continue for at least another decade.

Geroulanos said the work would be mostly funded by EU aid — which accounted for roughly 33 of the €43 million spent since 2001.

"Very significant funds have already been spent, and that will continue," Geroulanos said.

Built on a low hill at the height of ancient Athenian glory, the Acropolis monuments have suffered over the past 2,500 years from war, weather, vandalism, restoration errors and — most recently — air pollution. Most of the surviving sculptures have been removed to a new museum next to the ancient citadel, although 14 original carved marble slabs remain on the Parthenon.

Geroulanos spoke under the ruined 2,500-year-old Parthenon temple, where ministry workers recently dismantled, conserved and reassembled eight of the 46 towering marble columns that initially formed a rectangle around the building and propped up the roof.

The colonnade survived intact until 1687, when a besieging Venetian army's artillery blew up the Parthenon — used as a gunpowder store by the defending Turkish garrison. The eight columns on the temple's northern side were first restored in the 1920s, in a well-meant effort that caused problems when iron rusted and expanded, cracking the ancient marble.

Crews are now preparing to tackle the western part of the temple, while future work will include rebuilding the internal marble walls to a height of about three meters (10 feet), and removing a concrete floor installed to protect the original marble pavement.

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Acropolis occupied by protesters for second time this month

As the country's economic crisis deepens, culture ministry workers and public art institutions feel the pain

By Helen Stoilas | From issue 214, June 2010
Published online 25 May 10 (News)

May Day: Communist Party protesters unite at the Acropolis in May

May Day: Communist Party protesters unite at the Acropolis in May

new york. Greek culture ministry staff took over the Acropolis Tuesday as President Karolos Papoulias and Culture Minister Pavlos Geroulanos attended the completion of a decade-long restoration on the ancient temple. The workers, who are on short-term contracts, were protesting over more than a year's worth of back pay and to have their temporary positions made permanent. The demonstration ended peacefully with Geroulanos assuring his employees that a resolution to settle the payment backlog was being voted on in Parliament, and that a new civil service hiring procedure would be put in place when contracts expire in October.

Tuesday's protest is just the most recent symptom of continuing funding problems in the culture ministry. An exhibition by Russian-born, US-based artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov at the National Museum of Contemp­orary Art, Athens, is an early casualty of the Greek economic crisis. Deep cuts in the nation's cultural budget, which are part of a package of austerity measures, has resulted in the postponement of the autumn show, "due to the extremely high cost of the exhibition and the very difficult financial situation" according to a museums spokeswoman. Speaking to The Art Newspaper, director Anna Kafetsi said the museum has had a 18.8% reduction in the funding it receives from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism as well as difficulty finding private sponsorship. "There is no money for new acquisitions but we will continue our exhibition schedule with lower productions costs," said Kafetsi. And although it has not had to make any staff cuts, it will not be hiring any new staff for some time. In spite of the cutbacks, the museum opened three new exhibitions on 11 May, including a solo show of Chinese artist Yang Fudong, and says it is receiving many visitors.

Strikes in Athens at the beginning of May also included culture ministry workers and resulted in the closure of museums and archaeological sites, including the Acropolis, which was occupied by members of the Greek Communist Party who hung banners on the Sacred Rock demanding that the "Peoples of Europe Rise Up".

To secure a €110bn bailout loan from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund, the Greek government plans to implement strict austerity measures to cut the deficit from 13.6% to 3% by 2014. Budget cuts resulted in the temporary closure of around 40 museums and ancient sites earlier this year because of staff shortages. This included the National Archae­ological Museum in Athens, which shut 16 galleries due to a lack of guards, and the White Tower in Thessaloniki.

The culture ministry has around 4,200 vacant positions, as contracts of short-term employees expired at the end of 2009. In January it cancelled a drive to hire more than 2,500 temporary staff. (Anonymous sources told the Greek press that civil servants had been trying to secure jobs for their children and relatives.)

The repeated strikes and closures have had a severe impact on the tourism industry, which accounts for 17% of gross domestic product and one in five jobs. The government has set up a crisis committee headed by the Greek National Tourism Organisation. During a visit by the Turkish prime minister last month, Greece's culture minister and his Turkish counterpart signed a joint declaration to promote tourism and cultural co-operation. The partnership includes sharing expertise to preserve monuments, working together to protect cultural property, prevent illegal excavations and antiquities trafficking, and archaeological co-operation in the field.

There are also plans to organise exhibitions of contemporary art by Turkish artists in Greece and vice versa. Athens' Benaki Museum unintentionally anticipated this collaboration with an exhibition of photographs of Istanbul by Ara Güler (until 25 July), a Turkish photojournalist of Armenian descent, which opened just before the declaration was signed.

The arrival of the first installment of the bailout loan at the end of May was overshadowed by the resignation of Angela Gerekou, Greece's deputy minister of culture and tourism, after it emerged that her husband, a popular singer in Greece, owed more than €5m in unpaid taxes and fines.

Meanwhile, Greek museums have been attempting to regain some sense of normality. Fifty-four venues celebrated Inter­national Museum Day on 18 May with free admission and events.

"The country is in a state of emergency but I'm certain and optimistic that we will get out of this crisis and museums, like all of us as citizens, will have to adjust to the new situation. We will do things with the means that we have. I'm positive that our country will manage to get out of this crisis with persistence and creativity," said Kafetsi.

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Acropolis-occupied-by-protesters-for-second-time-this-month/20901

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Acropolis works to go ahead despite Greek crisis: minister

The Greek debt crisis will not compromise restoration work on the country's best-known monument, the Acropolis, the culture minister said on Tuesday.

Pavlos Geroulanos said the restoration of the 2,500-year-old temples, which began in the 1970s, will continue to draw on European funds for support.

"The Acropolis works take time," the minister told reporters during a visit to the monument with Greek President Carolos Papoulias.

"Their continuation has already been decided and will be financed by the fourth EU structural support package as arranged," the minister said.

Greece is battling an unprecedented debt crisis and was recently saved from bankruptcy thanks to a 110-billion-euro bailout loan from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.

The latest phase of restoration works on the ancient citadel began in 2001 and cost 42.6 million euros (53 million dollars), the project supervisor said on Tuesday.

Most of the effort focused on the Acropolis' iconic Parthenon temple where archaeologists disassembled and cleaned 219 pieces of masonry to repair damage done by previous restorers in the early 20th century.

At the time, the restorers had used cement and iron which later rusted. This was replaced with titanium and crews also correctly aligned architectural elements which had been previously misplaced, project supervisor Maria Ioannidou said.

"We have carried out a restoration of which I believe we can be proud," Ioannidou told state television NET.

"This was the greatest project ever carried out on the Acropolis, she said.

Scaffolding from the Parthenon's northern wing was removed Tuesday for the first time in a decade. Work will now proceed on its western wing.

The marble temple was badly damaged in a Venetian siege in 1687, and a large number of the sculptures that remained were removed to London in the early 19th century on the orders of British diplomat Lord Elgin.

The sculptures are now kept at the British Museum which has long refused to return them to Greece.

Ioannidou said improvements were also made to the Acropolis's monumental entrance, the Propylaia, where archaeologists were able to rebuild a larger part of the covered gateway and added two new marble drums.

"Visitors will now be able to see this magnificent Propylaia roof which has been admired since antiquity," she said.

http://news.malaysia.msn.com/business/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4110310



Second oil leak 5 miles from first leak could BE FAR WORSE!

Second oil leak 5 miles from first leak could BE FAR WORSE!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRF48lDwbhQ&playnext_from=TL&videos=WzN_Dvi6bnc
"NEW ORLEANS -- Marine scientists have discovered a massive new plume of what they believe to be oil deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico, stretching 22 miles from the leaking wellhead northeast toward Mobile Bay, Alabama.

The discovery by researchers on the University of South Florida College of Marine Science's Weatherbird II vessel is the second significant undersea plume recorded since the Deepwater Horizon exploded on April 20.

David Hollander, associate professor of chemical oceanography at the school, says the thick plume was detected just beneath the surface down to about 3,300 feet. He says it's more than 6 miles wide.

Scientists say they are worried the undersea plumes may be from chemical dispersants used to break up the oil a mile under the surface."

Experts are telling us that there is NO WAY the leak being shown on youtube could PRODUCE SUCH MASSIVE OIL PLUMES, of which there are many. So does this confirm that BP is lying through their teeth and know full well there is another massive leak(s) that may not be able to be contained? Is this why the bots refer to this becoming a huge issue that involves the Nuke Option? Is this why Obama said he was not sure if the "cap" would work?

The "WEBBOTS" indicate that this OIL VOLCANO becomes a HUGE PROBLEM. They claim there may be a "nuclear option" involved. Do not believe everything you are being told
Reporting from Houma, La. —

"Engineers have stopped the flow of oil and gas into the Gulf of Mexico from a gushing BP well, the federal government's top oil-spill commander, U.S. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, said Thursday morning.

The "top kill" effort, launched Wednesday afternoon by industry and government engineers, had pumped enough drilling fluid to block oil and gas spewing from the well, Allen said. The pressure from the well was very low, he said, but persisting." According to the LA Times.

The problem now is the AMOUNT of oil that was released, and the damage it will cause, which is already into the BILLIONS. It really is too late now.

From the Telegraph UK:

"The crew members aboard three separate vessels "reported experiencing nausea, dizziness, headaches and chest pains" mid afternoon Wednesday, the US Coast Guard said in a statement.

"No other personnel are reporting symptoms, but we are taking this (recall) action as an extreme safeguard," said Robinson Cox, the Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer."


US military alert level raised in Seoul, 24 stealth fighters jets ready

US military alert level raised in Seoul, 24 stealth fighters jets ready

The US military has raised its alert level for its South Korean troops and has placed 24 stealth fighter jets within easy reach of the Korean Peninsula, according to US military sources.

The sources deny that such actions were taken as a reaction to North Korea's threat of confrontation and an all-out-war, but confirm that the stealth fighter jets may participate in an upcoming joint anti-submarine exercise between US and South Korean military personnel.

The exercise will be conducted close to or in the disputed maritime borders between South and North Korea and may very well be viewed by Pyongyang as an intimidation and threat. Kim Jong-Il, through his spokesperson, has stated on several occasions that ant threat, sanction or punishment, resulting from the march 26 incident during which a South Korean warship was sunk, will be met with outright war.

North Korea has closed its border entry gate with South Korea, leaving hundreds of South Koreans workers stranded on the wrong side of the fence. Both North and South Korea own and operate a manufacturing plant close to the border which employs daily workers from South Korea, who's only entry and exit point has now been temporarily been closed.

A trilateral meeting between South Korea, China and Japan will start on the South Korean Island of Jeju today with the hope to ease the tension and find a solution to a possible escalation on the peninsula.


http://www.huliq.com/9990/93762/us-military-alert-level-raised-seoul-24-stealth-fighters-jets-ready

Israel: NPT deal hypocritical

 

Israel: NPT deal hypocritical

Jerusalem sources wonder why Israel only state mentioned in Non-Proliferation Treaty conference, which called for inspection of its nuclear facilities. Iran pleased with decision, says US must toe line in backing it

AFP

Published: 05.29.10, 12:33 / Israel News


Sources in Jerusalem on Saturday criticized as "hypocritical" the Nuclear Non-Proliferation conference that ended with a declaration placing Israel under obligation to have its nuclear facilities inspected by the UN's watchdog.

 

Earlier

Obama rejects 'singling out' of Israel in NPT deal / Yitzhak Benhorin and AFP

US president says agreement reached at Non-Proliferation Treaty conference 'includes balanced, practical steps to advance nuclear disarmament', but opposes 'efforts to single out Israel' by naming it while ignoring Iran
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"The conference mentioned only Israel and not other countries that hold nuclear weapons, such as India, Pakistan, and North Korea. Much worse is its silence on Iran, which is trying to obtain such weapons," one official said.

 

He added that the fact that Iran was not mentioned was suspicious, especially in light of recent findings by the International Atomic Energy Agency regarding the Islamic Republic's progress towards acquiring nuclear power.

 

Meanwhile Iran's representative to the IAEA on Saturday hailed the declaration, and said the US must go along with it.

 

The accord, reached on Friday at the 2010 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference and agreed by the NPT's 189 members, commits to holding a regional gathering in 2012 to create a Middle East free of nuclear weapons.

 

It also calls on Israel to sign the treaty, mentioning "the importance of Israel's accession to the treaty and the placement of all its nuclear facilities under comprehensive IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) safeguards."

 

Iran's IAEA representative Ali Asghar Soltanieh, who attended the conference at the United Nations, welcomed the move. Soltanieh told IRNA that the United States, despite opposing the NPT text on Israel, will have to fall in line with other countries.

 

"The US reservation is symbolic and it is obliged to go along with the world's request, which is that Israel must join the NPT and open its installations to IAEA inspectors," he said.

 

Earlier US President Barack Obama welcomed the accord but "strongly" opposed singling Israel out over talks on a nuclear weapons-free Middle East while making no mention of Iran.

 

"The greatest threat to proliferation in the Middle East, and to the NPT, is Iran's failure to live up to its NPT obligations," Obama said.
But Soltanieh dismissed the US stance. "Of course this was to be expected, since (US Secretary of State) Hillary Clinton made such during the inaugural session (of the NPT meeting) and several times later," he said.

 

"The Americans are isolating themselves since Iran's nuclear file is an (IAEA) agency issue. This conference was about the NPT and its future."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3895655,00.html

New Palestinian National Army

New Palestinian National Army

May 28, 2010 - 11:18 AM | by: Dana Lewis

In a training base in Jenin, the West Bank, the Palestinian National Security Force, has agreed to give us an exclusive look at what amounts to a light army now springing up in the West Bank.

'Light' because all the Israeli's have allowed them to pack are AK-47 rifles, at least so far.

There are already 2500 Palestinian soldiers deployed in 10 Palestinian City's and dozens of smaller towns. By next year there will be double that number and America is largely responsible for their training and equipping.

3 star Lt. General Keith Dayton has quietly been working here, since the take over of the Gaza strip by Hamas extremists in 2007 to build a Palestinian army.   American Special Forces soldiers are helping to whip them into shape in training centers in Jordan and the West Bank, to stop Hamas from taking more territory and to protect the Palestinian authority of Mahmoud Abbas. Many Palestinian soldiers couldn't praise enough what they called the high degree of professional training provided by the American SF team.

General Dayton's spokesman refused our requests for interviews, and said the Palestinians would also not talk.  Odd considering American tax payers have funded most of the force to the tune of more than 500 million dollars.

But in fact the Palestinians agreed to show us their soldiers and talk to us, because they are proud of the army believing it's critical to forming a Palestinian State and to demonstrate to  Israel there will be security for both people's.

Palestinian Colonel Raed Asedeh says "all members of Hamas are screened out" from the army. "Hamas is banned" he adds.

And while Israel has reluctantly agreed to allow the build up of the NSF, Israeli leaders understand the risks not only in having a Palestinian force and also in not having one.

"If the whole thing collapses, who knows what these weapon will be used for" said Israeli Deputy P.M. Dan Meridor in my interview with him in Jerusalem.   But he went on to say he was in favor of the NSF, stating "I am not playing down the risks, but if we don't agree to anything, and leave the situation unresolved terror may erupt".   In the context of security he said a peace agreement has to be reached; "We can't be the South Africa of the past", said Meridor who is also the director of Israeli Intelligence.

The Palestinian soldiers say the drop in terror attacks in Israel is not only due to Israels wall built across the West Bank, but also because of the successes of the NSF.  They meet with Israeli military commanders and both sides say they have shared information with each other, and had some small degree of co-operation.

Still the Palestinians note the Israeli's tie up their requests for critical equipment at the borders for months on end including simple gear like two way radios.    The Israeli's won't allow them enough bullets to conduct target practice for soldiers on training bases or tear gas to deal with crowd control.

And remarkably the Israeli army orders the NSF in Jenin not to patrol the streets from midnight to 6am.

Colonel Asedeh questions "how are we to have the trust of our people if we are only providing order half the time"?  But he predicts it's only a matter of time before his troops patrol all of the West Bank, marching towards a Palestinian State.



Israeli gunships head to sea to block flotilla

Israeli gunships head to sea to block flotilla

By IAN DEITCH
Associated Press Writer

HAIFA, Israel (AP) -- Israeli gunships headed out to sea Friday to stop a flotilla of pro-Palestinian activists from reaching the Gaza Strip, the military said, setting the stage for what could become a dramatic showdown on the high seas.

Israel's foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, said the country was prepared to stop the flotilla "at any cost." He called the aid mission a provocation and urged the international community to show understanding for the tough response.

"We really have all determination and political will to prevent this provocation against us," he said. "I think that we're ready at any cost ... to prevent this provocation."

Military officials said an initial group of gunships went out to sea Friday to prepare for the flotilla's arrival. But plans to dispatch additional gunships were put on hold late Friday after reports that the flotilla had encountered mechanical problems, military officials said.

The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity under military guidelines, said the gunships would remain in port until the flotilla got closer.

The military says it will intercept the ships, escort the vessels to shore and give the activists the choice of deportation or going to jail. Israel says that after a security check, it will transfer the cargo to Gaza through the United Nations.

Officials say they hope the situation will be resolved peacefully, but they are prepared to use force if necessary. Masked naval commandos have been trained for the mission, and Israel has built a large makeshift detention center in a southern port to process the activists.

The activists, among them a Nobel peace laureate, are trying to draw attention to a 3-year-old Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip - imposed after Hamas militants violently seized control of the territory. They say they are carrying tons of desperately needed humanitarian aid.

Greta Berlin, one of the organizers of the effort, said a total of seven ships were headed to Gaza, after an eighth vessel suffered a malfunction and had to turn back.

The organizers' website said the flotilla remained off the southern coast of Cyprus, some 250 miles (400 kilometers) northwest of Gaza, Friday evening. Berlin said the flotilla would halt under darkness, and resume the journey early Saturday. It was unclear when they would reach Israeli waters, she said.

The ships originally embarked from Turkey, Greece and other European ports.

Israel says the blockade is needed to prevent Hamas, which has fired thousands of rockets into Israel, from rearming.

It rejects claims that a humanitarian crisis is brewing in Gaza, saying it allows more than enough food and medicine into the strip. Critics, however, say the blockade has crushed Gaza's economy, eliminated some 100,000 jobs and prevented the territory from repairing the destruction caused by an Israeli military offensive early last year.

Israel has reached out to its Mediterranean neighbors to stop the flotilla from approaching. Turkey, whose president has harshly condemned Israel's Gaza offensive, has rejected the gesture. A Turkish charity is spearheading the aid mission, and Turkish authorities have declined to intervene.

But on Friday, Cyprus said was banning any ship from sailing to Gaza from its shores because organizers of a flotilla trying to break a blockade of the Palestinian territory ignored a government appeal not to involve the island.

Acting government spokesman Titos Christofides condemned the Israeli blockade and expressed solidarity with the Palestinian people, but said the appeal was made to protect the island's "vital interests."

This is the ninth time that the Free Gaza Movement, the pro-Palestinian organization behind the effort, has sent a flotilla of supplies to Gaza. Israel permitted five deliveries to reach Gaza, but has not allowed any ships through since its military offensive, which ended in January 2009.

Among the passengers are Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire, former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, a Holocaust survivor in her 80s, a retired U.S. army colonel and lawmakers from a dozen European countries.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_ISRAEL_SHIPS_TO_GAZA?SITE=NMALJ&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Telepathy has taken a step closer to reality after British scientists developed a computer that can read your thoughts.

Telepathy has taken a step closer to reality after British scientists
developed a computer that can read your thoughts.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7421180/Telepathic-computer-can-read-your-mind.html

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MUSLIM WOMEN ARE THE TOILET BOWLS OF ISLAM









 

 

 

MUSLIM WOMEN ARE THE TOILET BOWLS OF ISLAM

(The Depraved Evil That Is Islam)

Women are polluting:

Koran sura 5.6 (repeated in sura 4.43 –re removing pollution before praying) And if ye are sick on a journey, or one of you cometh from the closet or ye have contact with women and ye find not water, then go to clean high ground and rub your faces and your hands with some of it

"When it's time to pray and you have just used the toilet or touched a woman, be sure to wash up. If you can't find any water, just rub some dirt on yourself. 5:6

Muhammad described women as "unclean" creatures. In a Hadith, Muhammad says, "Three things corrupt prayer: Women, dogs, and donkeys." There are several other sayings in which Muhammad reduced women to the level of an animal. "Woman is a vile beast," and "I think that women were created for nothing but evil."

"'The woman has two things to cover her: the grave and marriage.' It was asked, 'Which of them is better?' He (Muhammad) said, 'The grave.'"

Tabari I:280 "Allah said, 'It is My obligation to make Eve bleed once every month as she made this tree bleed. I must also make Eve stupid, although I created her intelligent.' Because Allah afflicted Eve, all of the women of this world menstruate and are stupid."

Pity a Muslim woman having the very grave misfortune to be born into Islam. She is half a human being. The reason for her existence is to serve her husband and obey his commands unconditionally.

The woman has no right to behave as though she possesses any authority or influence over her husband. They don't have any voice unless their husbands ask their opinion. Muhammad said that: he "forbade women to talk except by leave of their husbands."

Women are not allowed to go out except out of necessity, but for the occasion of the two feasts: The Greater Bairam (festival) and the Lesser Bairam. They are also not allowed to walk down the roads, but keep to the edges of the street. "Women are not allowed to use the middle of the road.", "Women are not to be greeted nor to greet."

"If it had been given me to order someone to prostrate themselves in front of someone other than God, I would surely have ordered women to prostrate themselves in front of their husbands."

"A woman cannot fulfil her duties towards god without first having accomplished those that she owes her husband."

Muhammad liked his women clean:

Sahih Bukhari:Volume 7, Book 62, Number 173 (also 169, 172):Narrated Jabir bin 'Abdullah: The Prophet said, "If you enter (your town) at night (after coming from a journey), do not enter upon your family till the woman whose husband was absent (from the house) shaves her pubic hair and the woman with unkempt hair, combs her hair" Allah's Apostle further said, "(O Jabir!) Seek to have offspring, seek to have offspring!"

As a baby factory, she also has to bear him children and hide herself from the public, as though her very existence were a shame. If she displeases him – he has the full right to beat her.
"Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women). So good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded. As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and scourge them" (4:34).

These are the things Muslim women should not do:

1. She should avoid standing on the balcony.
2. She should conceal herself while welcoming men at the door.
3. She should not go out after she has used perfume.
4. She should wear her dresses long and not imitate unbelieving women.
5. She should not speak in a loud voice.
6. She should not walk in the middle of the road.
7. She should not mingle with men or shake hands with them.

These are the things Muslim women should do:

1. Speak softly and honorably when you are walking.
2. Walk by the side of the road, and keep away from the middle.
3. Beware of standing by the door to welcome guests.
4. Do not go out of your home frequently for unnecessary things.
5. Do not lower your veil outside your house under any circumstances whatever.
6. When you stand in the balcony, take care what you wear.
7. Beware of shaking hands with strange men. Don't travel without a guardian relative. These two actions are abominations.
8. Watch not to waste your time uselessly; so praise [God] and ask for His pardon frequently in an inaudible voice.
9. Avoid turning around and always look down.
10. You are weak and in need of your Lord's mercy; so raise your hands up to Him constantly asking for His pardon for your guilt, and for health for your good deeds.

Tabari IX:113 "Allah permits you to shut them in separate rooms and to beat them, but not severely. If they abstain, they have the right to food and clothing. Treat women well for they are like domestic animals and they possess nothing themselves. Allah has made the enjoyment of their bodies lawful in his Qur'an.

BABY TILTHS:

65.4 You can marry (and divorce) little girls who have not yet reached menstruation age.

Muhammad married Ayesha at age 6 to comply with this aya. However due to her tender age he had to restrict himself to thighing before she reached age of 9.

Thighing is defined by Islamic scholar Khomeini in "Tahrirolvasyleh" fourth volume, Da rol Elm, Gom, Iran, 1990 as follows: "Thighing is a means for an adult male to enjoy a young girl who is still in the age of weaning; meaning to place his penis between her thighs, and to kiss her." The following is from a committee of muslim ulema answering the question: "the Prophet, the peace of Allah be upon him, practiced "thighing" of Aisha – the mother of believers – may Allah be pleased with her."

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Global Governance is here!










United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, Convention on Trade in Endangered Species, President's Council on Sustainable Development

Global Governance is here!

 By Henry Lamb  Sunday, May 23, 2010

Hooray for Glenn Beck!  Right out there in front of God and everybody, he talks about global governance as a real and present danger.  But right on cue, progressive bloggers do their best to ridicule the idea with wisdom such as this: 
"Seriously, for a moment.  We're going to have to address the paranoia about a global takeover at some point—probably in easy-to-comprehend, Dick-and-Jane language—for the Tea Party."

Could it be that these people really don't know that global governance is already here?

As early as 1997, Gustave Speth, former head of the World Resources Institute, former Clinton transition team member, and then, head of the United Nations Development Program told the Rio +5 gathering  in Rio de Janeiro that:

"Global governance is here, here to stay, and, driven by economic and environmental globalization, global governance will inevitably expand."

Speaking to the delegates to the U.N. Conference on Climate Change at The Hague in 2000, then- French http://sovereignty.net/center/chirac.html >President Jacques Chirac said:

"For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument of global governance, one that should find a place within the World Environmental Organization which France and the European Union would like to see established. "

Just last month, Claude Trichet, President of the European Central Bank told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, that:

"…the emerging economies are now economically and financially so important and systemically so influential that they must have a full and proper ownership of global governance."

Glenn Beck is helping people realize that global governance is not an event.  Global governance did not occur as the result of an invasion of blue-helmeted U.N. troops delivered in black helicopters.  Instead, global governance is:

"…the framework of rules, institutions, and practices that set limits on behavior of individuals, organizations, and companies."  (U.N. Development Report, 1999, p. 34)

Few people realized that when the United States agreed to the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), March 3, 1973, that by December 28, 1973, there would be a federal law - the Endangered Species Act - "limiting the behavior of individuals, organizations, and companies" in order to comply with the "framework of rules" created by the institution called the United Nations.

Few people recognized it to be global governance when the United States endorsed the report of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements in 1976, which said:

"Private land ownership is a principal instrument of accumulating wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice. Public control of land use is therefore indispensable."

By 1996, however, the recommendations in this report were being implemented through the President's Council on Sustainable Development ,and were imposing comprehensive land use plans which mandate "…limits on behavior of individuals, organizations, and companies," as prescribed by the institution called the United Nations.

Few people paid any attention to the 1995 report of the U.N.'s Commission on Global Governance which outlined a procedure for achieving complete global governance, including the creation of a new U.N. Economic Security Council with the power to control the world's economy.

Few people dared call it global governance when the U.N.'s special High Level Panel on Financing for Development produced a 2001 report for a meeting in Monterrey, Mexico calling for global taxation, a global council to control the global economy, and for strengthening the World Trade Organization to control global trade.

Global governance has grown up around us.  Except for the Reagan administration, both Democrat and Republican administrations have supported this push toward global governance.  The current global economic crises are fueling the construction of the new global economic system that will swallow the U.S. economic system and make it subservient to the new global system.  This new international institution, working in conjunction with a strengthened WTO and IMF, and World Bank, will result in de facto Global Governance.

Global governance is not a law, or resolution that requires approval of Congress; it is a process, the parts of which have already been approved by Congress, various administrations, and to a very large extent, by the American people, even though they do not recognize the result to be global governance.

Glenn Beck is in the process of discovering what global governance really is, and he is not afraid to tell his audience what he is learning, even though he knows his critics will ridicule his observations.  It matters not how blatant the ridicule is, or the source from which it comes.  "Global governance is here, it is here to stay, and…it will inevitably expand," unless the American people come to grips with the facts.

The American system of government that made America the greatest nation on earth cannot survive in the system of global governance being designed by the United Nations.  The American system of government must be "fundamentally transformed" to fit into the European mold.  This transformation is well underway.


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