Șalom și salut, necredincioșilor, fiarelor, și Paisanoviților! Bine ați venit la casa căinței. Priviți coafura zionistă, refractară a Babei Z cum scînteiează, în timp ce ea izgonește pe Curvele Gramsciene, Porcii Fasciști, Papii din Laodicea, și Fiarele prădătoare ale Islamului, dîndu-i pe Mîna Atotputernică a Dumnezeului lui Israel. După ce se va termina de biciuit, se vor servi pișcoturi gramsciene și lapte de capră în salon. Vă rugăm și să gustați din plăcinta ocupației zioniste. L’Chaim!
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Friday, December 19, 2008
Corrie Ten Boom: ESCAPE TRIBULATION? WRONG!
"There are some among us teaching there will be no tribulation, that the Christians will be able to escape all this. These are the false teachers that Jesus was warning us to expect in the latter days."This excerpt was sent to me by many people today, apparently one of the internet ministries had run it in an e-mail flyer. Miss Corrie Ten Boom happens to be a very famous name among the Christians, and for good reason. She is a holocaust survivor. Her story can be found here. What follows below is excerpted from a letter she wrote in 1974:
~ Corrie Ten Boom
ESCAPE TRIBULATION? WRONG!
~Corrie Ten Boom, 1974
"The world is deathly ill. It is dying. The Great Physician has already signed the death certificate. Yet there is still a great work for Christians to do. They are to be streams of living water, channels of mercy to those who are still in the world. It is possible
for them to do this because they are overcomers.
Christians are ambassadors for Christ. They are representatives from Heaven to this dying world. And because of our presence here, things will change.
My sister, Betsy, and I were in the Nazi concentration camp at Ravensbruck because we committed the crime of loving Jews. Seven hundred of us from Holland, France, Russia, Poland and Belgium were herded into a room built for two hundred. As far as I knew, Betsy and I were the only two representatives of Heaven in that room.
We may have been the Lord's only representatives in that place of hatred, yet because of our presence there, things changed. Jesus said, "In the world you shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." We too, are to be overcomers - bringing the light of Jesus into a world filled with darkness and hate.
Sometimes I get frightened as I read the Bible, and as I look in this world and see all of the tribulation and persecution promised by the Bible coming true. Now I can tell you, though, if you too are afraid, that I have just read the last pages. I can now come to shouting "Hallelujah! Hallelujah!" for I have found where it is written that Jesus said, "He that overcometh shall inherit all things: and I will be His God, and he shall be My son." This is the future and hope of this world. Not that the world will survive - but that we shall be overcomers in the midst of a dying world.
Betsy and I, in the concentration camp, prayed that God would heal Betsy who was so weak and sick. "Yes, the Lord will heal me,", Betsy said with confidence. She died the next day and I vould not understand it. They laid her thin body on the concrete floor along with all the other corpses of the women who died that day.
It was hard for me to understand, to believe that God had a purpose for all that. Yet because of Betsy's death, today I am traveling all over the world telling people about Jesus.
There are some among us teaching there will be no tribulation, that the Christians will be able to escape all this. These are the false teachers that Jesus was warning us to expect in the latter days. Most of them have little knowledge of what is already going on across the world. I have been in countries where the saints are already suffering terrible persecution.
In China, the Christians were told, "Don't worry, before the tribulation comes you will be translated - raptured." Then came a terrible persecution. Millions of Christians were tortured to death. Later I heard a Bishop from China say, sadly, "We have failed. We should have made the people strong for persecution rather than telling them Jesus would come first. Tell the people how to be strong in times of persecution, how to stand when the tribulation comes - to stand and not faint."
I feel I have a divine mandate to go and tell the people of this world that it is possible to be strong in the Lord Jesus Christ. We are in training for the tribulation, but more than sixty percent of the Body of Christ across the world has already entered into the tribulation.
There is no way to escape it. We are next.
Since I have already gone through prison for Jesus' sake, and since I met the Bishop in China, now every time I read a good Bible text I think, "Hey, I can use that in the time of tribulation."
Then I write it down and learn it by heart.
When I was in the concentration camp, a camp where only twenty percent of the women came out alive, we tried to cheer each other up by saying, "Nothing could be any worse than today." But we would find the next day was even worse. During this time a Bible verse that I had committed to memory gave me great hope and joy.
"If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye;
for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you;
on their part evil is spoken of,
but on your part He is glorified."
(I Peter 3:14)
I found myself saying, "Hallelujah! Because I am suffering, Jesus is glorified!"
In America, the churches sing, "Let the congregation escape tribulation", but in China and Africa the tribulation has already arrived. This last year alone more than two hundred thousand
Christians were martyred in Africa. Now things like that never get into the newspapers because they cause bad political relations. But I know. I have been there. We need to think about that when we sit down in our nice houses with our nice clothes to eat our steak dinners. Many, many members of the Body of Christ are being tortured to death at this very moment, yet we continue right on as though we are all going to escape the tribulation.
Several years ago I was in Africa in a nation where a new government had come into power. The first night I was there some of the Christians were commanded to come to the police station to register. When they arrived they were arrested and that same night they were executed. The next day the same thing happened with other Christians. The third day it was the same. All the Christians in the district were being systematically murdered.
The fourth day I was to speak in a little church. The people came, but they were filled with fear and tension. All during the service they were looking at each other, their eyes asking, "Will this one I am sitting beside be the next one killed? Will I be the next one?"
The room was hot and stuffy with insects that came through the screenless windows and swirled around the naked bulbs over the bare wooden benches. I told them a story out of my childhood. "When I was a little girl, " I said, "I went to my father and said, 'Daddy, I am afraid that I will never be strong enough to be a martyr for Jesus Christ."
"Tell me," said Father, "When you take a train trip to Amsterdam, when do I give you the money for the ticket? Three weeks before?"
"No, Daddy, you give me the money for the ticket just before we get on the train."
"That is right," my father said, "and so it is with God's strength. Our Father in Heaven knows when you will need the strength to be a martyr for Jesus Christ. He will supply all you need - just in time."
My African friends were nodding and smiling. Suddenly a spirit of joy descended upon that church and the people began singing, "In the sweet, by and by, we shall meet on that beautiful shore."
Later that week, half the congregation of that church was executed. I heard later that the other half was killed some months ago. But I must tell you something. I was so happy that the Lord used me to encourage these people, for unlike many of their leaders, I had the word of God. I had been to the Bible and discovered that Jesus said He had not only overcome the world, but to all those who remained faithful to the end, He would give a crown of life.
How can we get ready for the persecution? First we need to feed on the word of God, digest it, make it a part of our being. This will mean disciplined Bible study each day as we not only memorize long passages of scripture, but put the principles to work in our lives.
Next we need to develop a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Not just the Jesus of yesterday, the Jesus of History, but the life-changing Jesus of today who is still alive and sitting at the right hand of God.
We must be filled with the Holy Spirit. This is no optional command of the Bible, it is absolutely necessary.
Those earthly disciples could never have stood up under the persecution of the Jews and Romans had they not waited for Pentecost. Each of us needs our own personal Pentecost, the baptism of the Holy Spirit. We will never be able to stand in the tribulation without it.
In the coming persecution we must be ready to help each other and encourage each other. But we must not wait until the tribulation comes before starting. The fruit of the Spirit should be
the dominant force of every Christian's life. Many are fearful of the coming tribulation, they want to run. I, too, am a little bit afraid when I think that after all my eighty years,
including the horrible Nazi concentration camp, that I might have to go through the tribulation also. But then I read the Bible and I am glad.
When I am weak, then I shall be strong, the Bible says. Betsy and I were prisoners for the Lord, we were so weak, but we got power because the Holy Spirit was on us. That mighty inner
strengthening of the Holy Spirit helped us through. No, you will not be strong in yourself when the tribulation comes. Rather, you will be strong in the power of Him who will not forsake you. For seventy-six years I have known the Lord Jesus and not once has He ever left me, or let me down.
"Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him", for I know that to all who overcome, He shall give the crown of life. Hallelujah!
~ Corrie Ten Boom
Matisyahu
Lord, Raise Me Up
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Take me to the Gazprom
The Millionaire Waltz
Queen
Nuclear Energy Heads to the Gulf
UAE seeks US congress nod for nuclear agreement
U.S. and UAE forge nuclear-cooperation deal
French Utility to Buy 49.9% of US Nuclear Giant
Acergy Gets $250 Million Deal To Develop Pipeline Network In Angola
Entrepose Contracting Unit Sees Making $300 Million On Angola LNG Job
Southcentral Alaska's gas situation is grim
Chevron’s new CFO joins SF Fed’s board
Oil Giant Chevron Ties with Burmese Military Junta
Amazon pollution case could cost Chevron billions
MUSD, Chevron and Bank of America complete energy efficiency project
Petroleum companies delay expansion, new projects
Oil Companies See Cloudy Future
Oil Companies Are Hitting the Pause Button
Oil Falls Below $36 as Worsening Economy Increases OPEC Doubts
Iran proposes up to 2 million bpd OPEC cut
StatoilHydro expects OPEC cut of up to 2 mln bpd
Oil Rises to $50 as OPEC’s El-Badri Says Sizable Cut Is Needed
OPEC cuts oil output by 2.2 million barrels a day
That's the largest cut, ever.
OPEC Loses Its Muscle
EU exec to seek more information on OPEC oil cut
Venezuela to Cut Chevron, BP, Shell Output to Meet OPEC Quota
OPEC Asks Russia to Cut Oil Supply by 400000 Barrels
OPEC system 'not applicable' to Russia: top Gazprom official
Russia may cut in limited sympathy with OPEC
Russia Dashes OPEC's Hopes
Energy deal with Russia splits Serbian government
Russia may not join global deal on climate change
Gas Exporting Countries Forum: The Russian-Iranian Gas Cartel
US says no fuel shipment to DPRK without nuclear verification deal
Russia urges for oil aid to DPRK
Russia to make N. Korea fuel shipment
Misreading the Kremlin Costs BP Control in Russia Venture
The TNK-BP Autopsy - Robert Amsterdam
Former Television Correspondent to Advise Gazprom
Gazprom to Develop Five Sports Complexes in St. Petersburg
The Czar is always building
Ukraine, Russia will stockpile $89 billion of carbon credits
Gazprom, Rosatom ink 6-year cooperation deal
Arabtec to finalise Gazprom deal
Gazprom may court foreign investors
Gas exporting nations to meet in Russia
Moody's changed Gazprom's outlook to stable
Gazprom moves on Yamal development
Gazprom, Shell JV Begins Year-Round Oil Export From Sakhalin
Gazprom Predicts 40% Drop in Natural Gas Prices for Bulgaria
Gazprom, Naftogaz to continue talks over Ukraine gas debt
Gazprom is preparing for a new gas war with Ukraine
Gazprom issues warning on Ukraine pipes
Gazprom brass cancel holiday, raising specter of New Year standoff
Naftogaz head leaves for Moscow for talks with Gazprom
Naftogaz of Ukraine CEO Oleh Dubyna returns to Kyiv
Gazprom, Japan to build gas processing facilities
Gazprom interested in majority stake in Fõgáz (FRANCE)
Gazprom invests in Sochi
Gazprom Wins Hydrocarbon Development Tender in Algeria
Gazprom is setting the stage for the February showdown
Gazprom Says Gas Supply To Hungary May Be Cut In January
Hungary Doubling Efforts for Nabucco Ahead of Budapest Summit
Nabucco needs EU solidarity
Time for EU-Turkey 'Urgency'
New push for Nabucco
Czechs to push for Nabucco gas pipeline at EU helm
Turkey: Iran, Iraq could supply gas for Nabucco
Topolánek: Nabucco has to be European project to have a chance
Italy: There could be no Political Objections to a "Suitable Libyan Stake in Eni"
Emerging-Market Stocks Fall Most in 3 Weeks; Russia, China Drop
The Big Gas Troika: A Lot of Hot Air
Australian firm to build zinc plant in Iran
Nuclear Industry Growing Without Federal Handouts
WFRL: DJ Mikael Spins...
Steelyeye Span
Gaudete ~ 1972
Gaudete, gaudete Christos est natus
Ex Maria virginae, gaudete.
Tempus ad est gratiae hoc quod optabamus,
Carmina laetitiae devote redamus.
Gaudete, gaudete Christos est natus
Ex Maria virginae, gaudete.
Deus homo factus est naturam erante,
Mundus renovatus est a Christo regnante.
Gaudete, gaudete Christos est natus
Ex Maria virginae, gaudete.
Ezecheelis porta clausa per transitor
Unde lux est orta sallus invenitor.
Gaudete, gaudete Christos est natus
Ex Maria virginae, gaudete.
Ergo nostra contio psallat jam in lustro,
Benedicat domino sallas regi nostro.
Gaudete, gaudete Christos est natus
Ex Maria virginae, gaudete.
Gold Man Sacks: Satan Clause ~ The Anti-Santa
Dan Fogleberg
The Power of Gold
On June 19th of this year I ran this post:
Goldman Sachs Double Speak ~ 3 Wood
This was the article 3 Wood was commenting on in that post:
Hormats calls for U.S. global policy restructuring:
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - As the world's economies become more globalized and the U.S. dollar competes with a stronger euro, America needs to restructure its global policies to attract more foreign capital, Robert Hormats, vice president of Goldman Sachs International, said Wednesday.Dig the language in it.
The next U.S. administration will need to make "important policy changes to take advantage of new global opportunities," Hormats said during a speech at an Asian banking and finance conference at the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank.
Those changes include realizing the U.S. needs to accelerate improvements in its trade balance to reduce dependence on foreign money, boost competitiveness by reasserting the Doha Round global effort and be a leader in global policy creation, he said.
The collapse of U.S. domestic savings, compounded by a widening trade deficit and increased consumer borrowing, have contributed to U.S. dependence on foreign capital, Hormats said. "Exports are rising at a much more rapid rate than imports," Hormats said, citing that 95% of the world's consumers now are outside the U.S. "About one-third of the profits of S&P 500 companies come from activities abroad."
Hormats also said the Doha Development Round, a set of international negotiations to promote free world trade, is stalling, and the U.S. needs to take initiative to open global markets for goods and services.
"If this round falters, and I think in the current moment there's a good chance that it will ... then the U.S. and other trading nations would do well to devote their efforts to improving -- and ensuring firm adherence to --- existing rules and dispute settlement procedures," Hormats said. He said the U.S. needs to focus on improving itself economically, but it also should become a leader in crafting international economic policies.
"We have to give if we want to get, which means negotiations," he said, adding that "the changing global landscape demands new institutions, new patterns of cooperation within existing institutions and new ways of ensuring that greater cooperation among institutions take place when their responsibilities overlap."
In hindsight you can clearly see they were telegraphing big time what was to come in October.
To remind you, Czar Paulson, his Igor, Kashkari & the current head of the World Bank, Zoellick, are all from Goldman.
SPLEEN SEARCH: GOLDMAN SACHS
Many times since October I have said here that if you watch carefully what the Gold Man Sacks buys, sells, values, devalues, and publicly announces, you can accurately predict many future events and thus prepare for them.
Gold Man Sacks Missing Links for the past week or so:
Goldman Sachs, CDH invest nearly 100 mln usd in China's Himin Solar
Turkish markets firm, eyes on Goldman results
Goldman says investment in China will accelerate
Goldman's Stand in Japan Crumbles
Goldman, Deutsche Bank Are Said to Cut Jobs in Japan
Goldman Sachs sees oil at $30 a barrel in next three months
Goldman Sachs predicts fall in oil prices to $45 a barrel - not $200
Goldman Sachs turns bearish on oil in 2009
Barel Karsan: Goldman Sachs' Wonky Oil Predictions
Crude gives back 9% as US auto-rescue plan founders
Sector roundup: Utilities, auto parts suppliers
Valeo Rises on Goldman Sach’s Upgrade
Goldman Sachs cuts Caterpillar to sell
Apple downgraded to neutral at Goldman Sachs
Bally Technologies Upgraded By Goldman Sachs
Goldman cuts AT&T to neutral
Telstra Drops as Goldman Sachs Cut Rating
Goldman Sachs upgrades Baidu.com
Goldman adds Viacom to conviction buy list
Goldman Sachs upgrades US Gaming sector to attractive
Goldman Sachs Poised to Sell Sanyo Stake to Panasonic
Goldman Sachs, economy, Best Buy, fertilizers
Goldman Sachs ups gold forecast on dollar view, haven appeal
Investors focusing on energy, currency and rates
Default won’t bring an end to dollarization, Goldman Sachs’ Ramos said
dollarization?
Goldman, AT&T ‘Apologize’ to Democrats With Post-Election Gifts
Goldman Sachs cites global recession, new-product pause
Goldman, The Fed, The Future and ETFs
US Stocks Advance on Rate-Cut Speculation; GE, Goldman Gain
ADRs surge after US rate cut, Goldman
Big Loss For Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs workers net $2.6bn bonuses despite losses
Goldman's Loss Is Europe's Gain
Only One Bank Cites a Loan From TARP Money
Moody's cut Goldman Sachs ratings one notch to "A1"
Goldman Sachs’s Tax Rate Drops to 1%, or $14 Million
Who Aided And Abetted Madoff, Mr. Ponzi?
Goldman Sachs Outlines 2009 Financial & Credit Expectations
Once again, 'follow the money'
Advent and Eschaton and Apocalypse
Spandau Ballet
Gold
Former Goldman Sachs official Gensler to be CFTC head
'Financial regulatory reform will be a top priority of mine.'
— President-elect Barack Obama
Zero - Goldman Sachs, Federal Reserve, Depression, Stocks
Paulson Takes Lead in Auto Rescue Talks
Gold Man advises on Arab banking merger
ARAB BANKERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA:
OK... WHOTF IS DAVID LEUSHEN?Mr. Leuschen is a Founder and Managing Director of Riverstone. Mr. Leuschen has extensive M&A, financing and investing experience in the energy and power sector. Prior to founding Riverstone, Mr. Leuschen was a Partner and Managing Director at Goldman Sachs and founder and head of the Goldman Sachs Global Energy & Power Group.
Mr. Leuschen joined Goldman Sachs in 1977, became head of the Global Energy & Power Group in 1985, became a Partner of the firm in 1986 and remained with the firm until leaving to found Riverstone. Mr. Leuschen was responsible for building the Goldman Sachs energy and power investment banking practice into one of the leading franchises in the global energy and power industry. During this period, Mr. Leuschen and his team participated in a large number of the major energy and power M&A transactions worldwide. Mr. Leuschen also was a founder of Goldman Sachs' leading Master Limited Partnership franchise.
Mr. Leuschen also served as Chairman of the Goldman Sachs Energy Investment Committee, where he was responsible for screening potential private equity capital commitments by Goldman Sachs in the energy and power industry. Further, Mr. Leuschen was responsible for establishing and managing the firm's relationships with senior executives from leading companies in all segments of the energy and power industry, including Amerada Hess, Anadarko Petroleum, Apache, BP Amoco, Chevron, Cross Timbers, ENI, Kinder Morgan, Koch Industries, Kuwait Petroleum, Lasmo, Mobil, Phillips, PDVSA, Union Pacific Resources, Santa Fe International, Transocean SedcoForex, Unocal, and many others. Mr. Leuschen has served as a Director of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Cross Timbers Oil Company, J. Aron Resources, Mega Energy, Inc. and Natural Meats Montana. He currently serves on the board of directors of Belden and Blake Corporation, Mariner Energy, Inc., Seabulk International, Inc., Frontier Drilling ASA and Mega Energy LLC.
He is also president of Switchback Ranch LLC and has served on a number of nonprofit boards of directors. Mr. Leuschen received his A.B. degree from Dartmouth and his M.B.A. from Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Holiday Cinema: It's a Wonderful Life
It's a Wonderful Life
1946 - Directed by Frank Capra
Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore
How Hitler Stole Chanukah!
How Hitler Stole Chanukah!
NAZI HATRED OF JUDEO-CHRISTIAN MORALITY
TODAY: Berlin's poor should catch rats, says politician
Chanukah -- the eight-day festival of light that begins on the eve of Kislev 25 -- celebrates the triumph of light over darkness, of purity over adulteration, of spirituality over materialism.
More than twenty-one centuries ago, the Holy Land was ruled by the Seleucids (Syrian-Greeks), who sought to forcefully Hellenize the people of Israel. Against all odds, a small band of faithful Jews defeated one of the mightiest armies on earth, drove the Greeks from the land, reclaimed the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and rededicated it to the service of G-d.
When they sought to light the Temple's menorah, they found only a single cruse of olive oil that had escaped contamination by the Greeks; miraculously, the one-day supply burned for eight days, until new oil could be prepared under conditions of ritual purity.
To commemorate and publicize these miracles, the sages instituted the festival of Chanukah. At the heart of the festival is the nightly menorah lighting: a single flame on the first night, two on the second evening, and so on till the eighth night of Chanukah, when all eight lights are kindled.
Maccabeean Revolt Frieze
On Chanukah we also recite Hallel and the Al HaNissim prayer to offer praise and thanksgiving to G-d for "delivering the strong into the hands of the weak, the many into the hands of the few... the wicked into the hands of the righteous."
Chanukah customs include eating foods fried in oil -- latkes (potato pancakes) and sufganiot (doughnuts); playing with the dreidel (a spinning top on which are inscribed the Hebrew letters nun, gimmel, hei and shin, an acronym for Nes Gadol Hayah Sham, "a great miracle happened there"); and the giving of Chanukah gelt, gifts of money, to children.
Click here for a comprehensive "How To" guide for the observances and customs of Chanukah
"What is Chanukah?" asks the Talmud, and encapsulates the essence of the festival in the following lines:
When the Greeks entered the Sanctuary, they contaminated all of its oil. When the royal Hasmonean family overpowered and was victorious over them, they searched and found only a single cruse of pure oil that was sealed with the seal of the Kohen Gadol (High Priest), enough to light the menorah for a single day. A miracle occurred, and they lit the menorah with this oil for eight days. The following year, they established these [eight days] as days of festivity and praise and thanksgiving to G-d.