[i am asking for prayer requests]

PlEASE...JUST PRAY TOGETHER FOR THE ONES WE LOVE, THE ONE WHO ARE HURT, AND FOR OUR FUTURE TO HELP ALL THOSE WE LOVE..DIANNE

[Babylon]

Thank you for all these uplifting and inspiring posts. I know that we are part of a really BIG picture. Dianne

[Got sign that I was praying for]

These are such wonderful posts,and I am a believer in the Lord...my hands are open to receive...and my hands are open to give away...to make this world a better place. May God bless us all and may we bless those he gives us to care for...this is such a wonderful event in spite of the world's turmoil...Dianne

[Is This The Last Ten Days Of Our Lives, As We Have Known Them?]

Thank you for this beautiful post. You have put words to so many feelings for so many of us. Let Blessings abound! Dianne

[SCGS are they a reputable dinar sales place]

I am wondering if someone would post the link to this Dinar Site...can't seem to bring it up. Many thanks, Dianne

[Just don,t know what to make of this news good or bad]

Chill a while. My Lord, so excitable, in caps also, my, my.

If you are wrong, we both are, I understand their fiscal year to be the same as ours, (US), Oct 1.

Well, You are very smart...Di

[Food for Thought]

THIS IS DEFINITELY NOT THE KIND OF ARTICLE THAT WE ALL WANT TO SEE (READ) RIGHT NOW. HOWEVER, I FELT THAT IT WAS IMPORTANT THAT WE GET THIS PERSPECTIVE AND THEN CHOOSE TO DISCOUNT IT RATHER THAN NOT BE EXPOSED TO ANY ALTERNATE THOUGHTS OUT THERE AND JUST BE HAPPY TO REMAIN IN A "WISHFUL THINKING" MODE. IMHO IT IS A SCARY SCENARIO BUT IN THE MIDDLE EAST - IT COULD BE AS REAL AS THE SUN THAT RISES IN THE EAST.

LETS ALL PRAY THAT THIS IS A HOLLYWOOD STORY AND NOTHING MORE. THE READ IS LONG BUT WORTH IT.

Some serious "Food for Thought"

« on: August 29, 2010, 11:32:44 PM »Quote The following information was sent to me just after our call this evening. I am not an alarmist but I consider myself a realist. Therefore I believe that it is important that I present this "opinion piece" to our membership for comment. I am not representing this as true, but do believe that it should be taken into account as we move forward.

Here is what I was sent. I have removed anything relating to me personally. Should the author of this wish to be identified I will gladly do so. However, the content is what may be more important, in my opinion.

The article begins now:

debkafile's military and Baghdad sources note that, for Washington, the war which cost 4,400 American lives and $1 trillion - is over, as per US President Barack Obama's pledge. But for Iraq, it is just beginning: At least two civil conflicts are at boiling point - Sunni-Shiite strife and hostilities between the two Muslim factions and the Kurds of the North - and Iran's followers stand ready to seize Iraq's oil-rich South potentially sparking yet another world conflagration.

The political vacuum in Baghdad created by Nouri al-Maliki's refusal to step down or join a unity government is unsustainable and the cause of a rising spiral of violence.

The transitional prime minister has turned his attention to preparations for a Shiite war against the Sunnis to be launched as soon as the Americans are gone. He has lined up senior Shiite commanders in the Iraqi Army who are willing to lead an all-out offensive against the Sunnis in Baghdad and central and western Iraq.

While the Saudis and the Syrians are spending money to buy off Maliki's supporters, he plans to physically destroy the Sunni power centers in which they are investing.

His plans could ignite a Shiite-Sunni war lasting from one to two years up to late 2012 or early 2013. At least one to one-and-a-half million Iraqi Sunnis will be put to flight and flood neighboring Jordan which has neither the resources not the utilities to support that many refugees. A second Iraqi community, the Kurds of the north, is in the midst of war preparations out of a bitter sense of betrayal by Washington.

They are furious over America quitting the country without solving the critical issue of Kirkuk and its oilfields. Calculating that the Shiites and Sunnis will be caught up in their own war and have no soldiers to spare for stopping them, the Kurds have lined up this strategic northern city for capture as soon as September.

They also plan to exploit the anticipated armed Sunni-Shiite feud to drive south and grab parts of central Iraq up to a line some 250 kilometers north of Baghdad. Tehran is also eying rich spoils in Iraq's post-American era. The networks in Iraq run by the Iranian Intelligence Ministry, the MOIS, and the Revolutionary Guards Al Qods Brigades have joined forces with their Iraqi allies to take over the southern oilfields centering on the city of Basra, which account for about 60 percent of the country's oil output.

This would be Iran's payback for the energy sanctions President Barack Obama imposed in July. Iran also covets the two holiest cities of the world Shiite movement, Karbala and Najaf. The Ayatollahs in Tehran are planning a double coup in Iraq - possession of Iraq's oil riches plus command of its two most treasured religious sites.

Also:

What will the possible effects of a nuclear Iran be on the Sunni Muslim nations such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, Oman, and Qatar who are geographically situated directly across the Persian Gulf from Iran within easy rocket range of Iranian nuclear missiles? Will they continue to align themselves with America, a nation who has consciously allowed Iran to develop nuclear weapons?

Once Iran is a nuclear power and begins to threaten the Saudi’s and other Sunni Muslim nations, do you believe they will trust their survival into the hands of a President who sat on his hands and did nothing to effectively stop Iran when he clearly had the power to do so? If you were the leader of one of the Sunni Muslim nations would you seek to hedge your bets and possibly seek an accommodation with Iran and begin to turn away from the US towards Russia?

One thing is for certain. This day will soon come and the first item on Ahmadinejad’s list will be to seek to force the Saudi’s and other oil producing nations to stop accepting dollars in payment for oil. He will demand they accept Euros, rubles, or even a basket of currencies – anything but dollars! Once this begins to happen, America’s financial system will collapse because the dollar will no longer be the world’s reserve currency. America will no longer be able to roll over its massive debts to foreign governments, much less continue to borrow trillions to fund our massive unsustainable deficits.

Once Iran becomes a nuclear power in the Middle East it will become an irresistible force with the power to back up its threats. Remember, Russia is the nation who has supplied the technology to develop Iran’s nuclear facilities. So with Russia behind them their threats become more menacing and have great force and credibility.

Also remember in Scripture in the Gog and Magog war Russia and Iran are allies, just as they are today, so we are witnessing prophecy unfold before our very eyes. Just look at what has happened in the Middle East since Obama took office and the Bush administration left. Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza have all become surrogate nations of Iran. Armed, funded, and influenced by Iran. Hezbollah effectively now controls Lebanon, while Hamas now controls Gaza. Both are surrogates of Iran.

Over the past six months Turkey realized the utter weakness of America and the EU and suddenly turned and became allies of Iran, Syria, Lebanon, and Russia. Now they are openly aligning themselves militarily with Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Gaza. Will Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Egypt, and Oman be any different?

History Lesson

In 1972, when President Nixon was elected to office he was faced with a severe financial crisis. The US was technically bankrupt. At that time the dollar was backed by and convertible into gold, and nations were bombarding the US Treasury demanding the US redeem their dollars for gold. The problem was the nations of the world had more dollars that our Treasury had gold. So what did President Nixon do? First, he nullified our agreement with the nations to convert their dollars into gold. However, this left him with a much bigger problem. In order to maintain the dollar as the world’s reserve currency and to have the ability to borrow and print unlimited amounts of money, Nixon had to find a way to force all the nations of the world to hold dollars as their reserve currency.

To accomplish this end, he sent Henry Kissinger to Saudi Arabia in order to make a covenant with Islam. This was the covenant. If the Saudi’s would accept only dollars in payment for oil, then the US military would guarantee to defend the House of Saud and keep them in power against any and all enemies.

What did this covenant do? This covenant insured that the dollar was now backed by oil; consequently if you were a German and you needed oil you could not pay for it in Marks. You had to sell Marks and buy dollars in order to purchase oil. The same held true for every nation on the planet. No dollars – No Oil!

Over the ensuing years America developed two primary market exchanges where commodities of every kind were traded on the world market. Wheat, rice, corn, barley, oil, natural gas, gold, silver, copper, and the list goes on and on. However, there was one requirement if you wanted to purchase wheat, rice, corn or any other commodity. You could only pay for it in - Dollars! No dollars – No Wheat!

This system has enabled the US to borrow billions and now trillions from many nations, because they have no choice but to hold a major portion of their currency reserves in dollars to purchase needed oil and commodities. However, if there is a shift by Saudi Arabia, or other major oil producing nations such as Iran, Venezuela, Russia, and other Sunni oil producing nations to begin to accept other currencies in payment for oil, what do you believe will happen to the value of the US dollar?

Nations will begin to sell dollars and buy other currencies, or in the case of the EU they will utilize their own currency (Euros) as opposed to dollars. The process of selling off dollar assets, such as US Treasuries has already begun with China, the largest holder of US Treasuries reducing its holding by $56 billion over the last 60 days.

When nations are able to use other currencies to pay for oil and commodities we will experience not only a world- wide dollar crisis, but the value of the dollar will plunge to unimaginable depths. The US economy will crumble, the lifestyle we have known will disappear, our ability to spend and borrow will dry up, the stock market will crash, paper assets will be worth toilet paper, our ability to purchase 11 million barrels of foreign oil will vanish, our capacity to fund our military will dry up, there will be social unrest in America and throughout the world on a scale unknown in modern times.

What about Israel? First, we are going to witness an all out push by the US, the Quartet, the UN, and the Muslim nations to exert unrelenting pressure on Israel to divide the land of Israel; to divide Jerusalem, and to create a new Muslim nation – Palestine.

debkafile's military sources see the potential for events exploding into a major Middle East flare-up:

Iran has taken US and Israeli passivity over the start-up of its Russian built nuclear reactor at Bushehr on Aug. 21 to mean that it can get away with more muscle-flexing and has already factored the reactor which Washington characterized as not immediately dangerous into its military build-up. Sunday, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad unveiled an armed unmanned aerial vehicle called Karrar, claiming its range to be 1,000 kilometers - as far as Israel - and able to deliver four cruise missiles. These claims have yet to be independently verified.

More locally-made advanced weaponry is promised for this week to demonstrate Iran's independence of outside sources. Its leaders are bragging that Iran will soon take its place among the world's top 50 exporters of advanced arms. The forthcoming Israel-Palestinian peace talks beginning in Washington on Sept. 2 - while generally rated as going nowhere - are nonetheless anathema for Tehran and its radical allies. They are perfectly capable of starting trouble on Israel's borders with Lebanon, Gaza or even Syria to sabotage even the dimmest prospect of a diplomatic breakthrough.

There is no telling in the Middle East when an isolated incident may not deteriorate rapidly into a major conflict when the climate is as tense as it is at present. It came dangerously close on Aug. 3, when a Lebanese army sniper shot dead an Israeli colonel precipitating a heavy exchange of fire.

Lebanon is on tenterhooks over the nine Hizballah leaders the international court inquiring into the 2005 Hariri assassination plans to summon as suspected perpetrators of the crime. Hizballah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, has given the Beirut government due notice that if his top people are surrendered to the tribunal, he will plunge the country in a civil conflict.

Hizballah, backed by Damascus, recently began accusing Israel of engineering the murder, so providing themselves with a neat pretext for going to war and avoiding facing the music. Thursday, Aug. 19, all Syrian homeland defenses and emergency services were placed on the highest war readiness for an outbreak of hostilities without further notice. The situation on the Israel's southern borders is as tense as its Lebanese and Syrian frontiers.

Iran is expected to take advantage of the withdrawal of US combat troops from Iraq to make a grab for the oil-rich south and send its allies to carry out operations against Israel as a diversionary tactic.

All these reasons have led military sources to indicate to debkafile that the outgoing Lt. Gen. Gaby Ashkenazy may not stay on until February but hand over to Maj. Gen. Galant as soon as the beginning of the Jewish New Year in the second week of September, 2010.

All I can say to this is....Yikes!!!!!!