Wall Street’s Dirty Secrets

April 24th, 2013
This post is packed with information you need to know. Do not expect the mainstream media to tell you much about these facts (although there are a few exceptions).
 
Recently, the stock market averages have hit new highs and this is celebrated as a sign the recession is over. I don’t think so. I think these links reveal the incredible degree to which the stock markets (and other investment markets) are being “manipulated” and “rigged” as is cited in these links.
 
ABOUT THOSE NEW “HIGHS”:
The first two links [1, 2] cite a story that ran as a feature story in the USA Today on March 18, 2013. It revealed an extraordinary statistic about the stock market. It reports that the number of tradable, publicly-owned stocks has plummeted. Indeed, they report the number of publicly-traded stocks has dropped from 6639 in 2000 to only 3687 in 2012. That means 2952 of the number of stock selections that were available to investors in 2000 has dropped by 2952 stocks or 44.5% of all stocks in the USA in that time. The links reveal “the stock market is going private. It keeps self-consuming.” Consider what this means for market comparisons over the years. The recent stock market highs were reached only because 2952 of the buyable pool of stocks vanished! If those 2952 stocks still existed, much of the money that poured into the remaining and shrinking pool of stock choices would have been distributed among the other 2952 stock choices and the recent “highs” would never have been reached. The reports of new highs in the stock indices are comparing apples and oranges. In order to be a valid comparison, the number of tradable stocks would have had to remain a constant.
 
AVERAGE STOCK HELD ONLY 22 SECONDS:
The third through fifth links [3, 4, 5] report another shocking statistic. The average stock is held for only 22 seconds! This means there is an unbelievable level of “churning” going on in the stock market data. In former years, investors bought and held a stock for months or years in order to obtain an expected gain on their initial investment. I’ve bought and sold stocks for over two decades. I remember those years. Today, if the average stock is held only 22 seconds, it means that each stock reported as traded in any given day has been exchanged back and forth between big players on the stock market perhaps over 1000 times every day! The fourth link reveals that 70% of all stocks are held for only 11 seconds, indicating that these stocks are being bought and sold perhaps over 2000 times every day! Think of how all this churning distorts the average stock volumes each day. To have this kind of rapid turn-over of all stocks each day, I can only understand this as meaning the big Wall Street institutions and market-makers are buying and selling the same stocks back and forth to each other every day to inflate the number of stocks traded each day and create a perception of a level of interest in the stock market that doesn’t really exist. Think of how the stock market volumes would plummet if only those stocks held for one entire day were included in the stock market trading activity tallies. Think of the ways that insider games can be played with this kind of market data manipulation and insider dealing. Think I’m jumping to conclusions? Keep reading, We are only beginning to have some fun and insight here.
 
A REGIONAL FED PRESIDENT’S WARNING:
Let’s now hear from a key insider in the USA’s financial establishment. Were you aware that the President of the Dallas Federal Reserve Board District, Richard Fisher, not long ago declared that “the financial system is ‘rigged’ to benefit big banks.” See the sixth link and seventh link for more information on his observation. That so high a Fed official made this statement implies that even the Fed is starting to fear the chokehold that a few big banks have on the US financial and investment markets. Fed District President Fisher added that “The largest U.S. banks are “practitioners of crony capitalism,” need to be broken up to ensure they are no longer considered too big to fail, and continue to threaten financial stability…” (emphasis added). I suggest reading that again to take in the gravity of his statement. This establishment insider is saying the largest US banks are now so big they are a threat to the stability of the US financial system itself. I wonder why? That leads us to the next section.
 
GOLDMAN SACHS’ “MARKET-RIGGING COMPUTER PROGRAM”:
A few years ago, I mentioned this shocking fact in several posts (8/8/2009). The eighth link and ninth link contain perhaps the most shocking revelation of all. They reveal that Goldman Sachs revealed years ago that it had what these links called a ”market-rigging computer program.” A Goldman-Sachs employee released some of this “market-rigging computer program” to others and was promptly arrested by the FBI and sentenced very quickly to eight years in prison. Interesting. Is this an example of what Regional Fed President Richard Fisher called “crony capitalism?” Goldman Sachs was able to get the civil government to prevent the further dissemination of what I see as an insider-trading program that should get anyone who used this program to manipulate the investment markets jailed. Perhaps the man who revealed the existence of this “unfair” trading program possessed in-house at Goldman Sachs should have been seen as a whistle-blower and those who developed or used this “market rigging computer program” should have been the ones arrested by the FBI. The links also report that this program could be used for a “gold price suppression scheme.” Hmmm. Think about what has happened recently in the current gold and silver markets in light of that statement. I thought illegal insider trading and market rigging should be prosecuted (instead of protected) by the federal government.
 
I’ve recently seen the phrase “too big to be prosecuted” being used in financial market websites re: the huge Wall Street banks. I think Fed District President Richard Fisher was right in his above-cited observations.
 
NEW SUPERCOMPUTERS IN STOCK MARKET USAGE:
The final link reveals that new, ultra-fast supercomputers can soon be used to implement “improved monitoring and regulation” of US financial markets (presumably, all stock, futures, precious metals and commodities markets). Perhaps that word “regulation” really means “manipulation” of all US financial markets. I’ll bet some computer wizards will be able to integrate the Goldman-Sachs “market-rigging computer program” into these new supercomputers to create real-time, constant manipulation of all financial markets while leaving the impression that these markets are actually free markets. It is my opinion that there is already no independently-functioning, free financial or investment market in the USA, if not in the world, any longer.
 
BIBLICAL RAMIFICATIONS:
For years, I have warned that Revelation 17-18 foretell of a massive, future collapse of the current global financial/monetary markets and of the global insider elites that manipulate and profit from these markets. Revelation 18:1-3 identify that in the latter days a very corrupt global financial system will exist in which the “merchants of the earth” (the big international corporations and market insiders) and the “kings of the earth” (the politicians and governments) will cooperate to rob the nations and the world’s masses of their wealth. Think of how the cooperation betwen Goldman Sachs and the US Government’s FBI’s action to arrest the one who exposed Goldman Sachs’ “market rigging computer program” is just one small example of this prophesied cooperation. The revolving doors via which highly-placed insiders move back and forth between corporate boardrooms and governmental positions also fulfills this prophesy perfectly!
 
Revelation 17-18 prophesy this corrupt system called “Babylon the Great” will experience a sudden and total collapse when their global system is overthrown by “seven heads and ten horns” (likely nations) who have become so sick of the current system that they wage war upon it. They will win totally and Revelation 17:16 indicates that the current insider elites who have set up and controlled the current “Babylon the Great” system will experience a very hard fall. When this occurs, the final global system of this age called “the beast” system will be slam-dunked on the nations–restoring order out of the chaos caused by the collapse of the current global system. This final beast system will have only 42 months to exist (Revelation 13:1-5) before it too is utterly destroyed by the return of Jesus Christ and his army of millions of light-beings the Bible calls angels. That time will witness an age-ending war in which the forces of light and darkness will wage all-out war in both the spirit and physical realms. You can read about that and the victory of the forces led by Jesus Christ in Revelation 19:11-20:4. Indeed, no physical life would survive this war at all if Jesus Christ and his heavenly army didn’t intervene in the physical world and take control of it (Matthew 24:21-22).
 
Given the deep fractures and instability in the current global financial system and the bizarre actions being taken by the world’s governing bodies (such as the seizure of insured deposits in Cyprus to bail out big money-lenders), the collapse of the world’s current “Babylon the Great” system may be hastening toward us. For in-depth information on the biblical ramifications of what is happening in global financial and monetary markets, please read my articles entitled Is Babylon the Great about to Fall…Ushering in a New Beast System? and What Kind of Captivity? – The Babylonian Origin of the Modern Banking System.
 
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Media Update on Abortionist’s “House of Horrors”

April 23rd, 2013
The April 23, 2013 issue of USA Today featured a lengthy, front-page article which offers more information about an abortionist’s pending trial for murdering live babies which survived abortions at his now-closed “clinic.” The article refers to this facility as being called a “house of horrors” by a district attorney and the story includes graphic information and first-person accounts about the killings of helpless babies at his facility.
 
This is an update to my previous post. The information in this article powerfully illustrates the truth of Paul’s prophecy in Romans 1:31 that in the latter days, society would have a lack of “natural affection” (or be “heartless” as my marginal Bible reference renders it). If the charges against this abortionist are true, one wonders how anyone could be so “heartless” as to do such murderous acts.
 
The second link relates that three of the eight murder charges against the abortionist have been dismissed by a judge but five of the murder charges remain. If convicted, the article notes that the abortionist doctor faces the death penalty.
 
Interestingly, although the first link was one of the front-page, featured articles in the April 23, 2013 issue of USA Today, the article was all but impossible to find at the USA Today website. A Google search for the article by its name resulted in no hits. A further Google search for the article listing both the article’s title and author turned up no hits. Only when I typed in the name of the article, the author’s name and the newspaper’s name was I able to locate USA Today’s own featured story (the first link) on Google’s site. It does appear to me that the print and electronic media are trying to “bury” this story and hide from the public the horrors of what can go on at an abortion facility. Even FoxNews had no story about the trial mentioned at its homepage today. I only found the second link when I used the “search”  feature at the FoxNews website and typed in the abortionist’s name. Congratulations to the print version of the USA Today for giving this story the conspicuous coverage it deserves.
 
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/22/gosnell-abortion-trial/2100103/
 
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/23/3-7-murder-charges-against-philadelphia-abortion-doctor-kermit-gosnell-tossed/

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Newly-found Column May Date to King David and Solomon’s Time

April 23rd, 2013
A Jewish media source has broken the story that an intact ancient column with a capital was accidentally found in an underground area in the southern Jerusalem region. The story indicates that this column may date to the reigns of Kings David and Solomon, but that it is in danger of being destroyed if it is placed in the area designated for control by the Palestinian Authority (PA).
 
This link cites a strange reluctance by Israeli Antiquities officials to investigate this remarkable find, and that Israeli officials knew about this find over a year and a half ago but tried to hush it up. However, the final portion of the article indicates that the Israeli Antiquities Authority will be excavating the site after all. They better hurry. As the article notes, if this remarkable column does date to the time of King David and Solomon, it is likely to be destroyed by PA officials if they get control of this site as the Palestinians would prefer not to have such a finding affirmed.
 
I think readers will find this article well worth reading, and I thank the reader who brought this to my attention.
 
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/king-david-era-find-buried-by-authorities-for-political-reasons/2013/04/19/

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Trial of Ghoulish Abortion “Doctor”

April 21st, 2013
Lost amidst the wall-to-wall coverage of the Boston Marathon terrorist bombings and the horrific fertilizer explosion in Texas is an important story about the trial of a particularly ghoulish abortion “doctor.” This abortionist “caused the death of a patient and seven babies allegedly born alive as well as performing illegal late-term abortions” (see first link). He even “beheaded” live-born babies and one child was heard screaming after it was delivered before this ghoulish abortionist killed it. He even is alleged to have collected and stored in jars the feet of aborted babies. This sounds like a ghoulish serial killer.
 
These horrific events occurred at an abortion facility in the Philadelphia area, but who knows how many other abortion mills around the nation have had the same kinds of ghoulish infant murders but they were not disclosed to the public or media. Indeed, the media has been very reluctant to even report about the trial of this allegedly-murderous abortionist. This unwillingness by the US media to report widely on this sensationalist story confirms their politically-correct bias that doesn’t want to report the true horrors of abortion. Congratulations to USA Today for covering this important story that ought to shock the nation.
 
I’m not an attorney but I believe the Supreme Court ruling in the infamous Roe v. Wade decision created a “legal fiction” that there is a Constitutional right to an abortion. Anyone can read the US Constitution and easily confirm that the subject of abortion or reproductive rights is not mentioned at all. Since the federal government is given no authority over this subject in its enumerated powers in the US Constitution, this entire subject is a matter reserved to the states for their legislatures to act on (if they wish to do so at all). Even when the Roe v. Wade decision was made, one liberal member of the radical court that rendered that decision essentially admitted there was no specific Constitutional right to an abortion when he famously said that such a right was found only in the “penumbra” of the Constitution (see third link).
 
The mass killing of over 50,000,000 babies before (or just after they are born as these links indicate occurs) is a horrible sin in the modern USA in the eyes of God. The Old Testament repeatedly condemns the human/infant sacrifices that Baal-worshippers and Moloch-worshippers conducted as a rite of their malignant religion. In God’s eyes, I doubt there is any difference between killing babies just before or just after they are born. Abortion is infanticide, according to the words of the late-US Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Democrat (see second link).
 
The Bible indicates that there will be a judgment day in the future when all people will account to God for their lives. In judging our nation, it should be remembered that no US Congress ever voted for abortion. No president ever signed any bill into law allowing abortions. Abortion was forced on the USA by an out-of-control Supreme Court which brazenly usurped legislative powers and created a law directly from the Judicial branch, bypassing both the Legislative and Executive branches on the matter.
 
It may lead you to cry when you read about the alleged atrocities at this one particular abortion facility. Consider that over 50,000,000 abortions have reportedly been performed in the USA since Rowe v Wade was imposed on the nation. Again, it is my personal opinion that the God will hold the US Supreme Court justices who imposed abortion on the USA responsible for all the abortions done under their ruling. This would make these supreme court justices greater mass-murderers in God’s eyes than Pol Pot, Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse-Dong, etc. Their Judgment day is coming. They are already responsible for over 50,000,000 “silent screams” in the wombs of the mothers whose babies are aborted, and the numbers of aborted lives grow every day.
 
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/14/media-late-to-coverage-of-abortion-doctors-trial/2082519/
 
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/04/10/philadelphia-abortion-clinic-horror-column/2072577/
 
http://www.conservapedia.com/Roe_v._Wade

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Chinese Submarines Operating Regularly in Indian Ocean

April 18th, 2013
The first three links [1, 2, 3] detail the rapidly-expanding presence of Chinese submarines in the Indian Ocean. The first link (the most detailed) reports that “at least 22 contacts” of Chinese subs have been made in the Indian Ocean by India and the USA, and that the presence of so many Chinese submarine sorties into the Indian Ocean is a ”grave threat’” to India’s security. That is surely true. It is also a grave threat to all shipments of oil from the Persian Gulf which sail on oil tankers to many foreign destinations via the Indian Ocean. Furthermore, it is a very grave threat to the security of America’s large military base on the island of Diego Garcia in the middle of the Indian Ocean. In the event of a conflict between China and the USA, how many Chinese submarines could suddenly surface and fire salvoes of cruise (or ballistic) missiles at all the US military assets on that island? The USA’s military ought to be greatly increasing its anti-missile defense capabilities at Diego Garcia if it wants that base to survive in any future war between China and the USA.
 
China is already ignoring international norms in its bellicose claims to all of the South China Sea and it is now increasingly present in the Indian Ocean as well. A recent post detailed the Chinese bases being built (or which have already been activated) at Gwadar, Pakistan as well as bases in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Tanzania and the Maldive Islands. China clearly is implementing a military strategy to dominate the Indian Ocean, isolate India and such nations as India, the USA, Japan and all nations dependent on Persian Gulf oil need to unite to counter the rapidly-growing Chinese military threat in the Indian Ocean. India is the nation most threatened. The severity of the Chinese threat is making an Indian-American alliance steadily more imperative for both nations.
 
In a related (but less threatening) development, the Iranian navy has deployed warships into the Pacific Ocean for the first time in decades (see last link). This is meaningful as Russia, China and Iran are the three most prominent nations who have allied themselves together against the USA, Israel and the West–precisely fulfilling the prophecy in Ezekiel 38-39 that this would occur in the “latter days” (Ezekiel 38:8 and 16) just prior to the end of this age when Divine intervention by the Creator God of the Bible occurs (Ezekiel 38:20 when God’s “presence” comes to the earth. China is clearly transforming its navy from a coastal/regional force into an oceanic, “blue-water” navy which intends to challenge the USA in many global locations.
 
These links indicate that 22 Chinese submarine contacts have been made by India and the USA. This begs the question of how many Chinese submarines in the Indian Ocean were not detected by India, the USA or anyone else? China’s Navy department knows how many Chinese subs have sortied into the Indian Ocean so it can subtract the number of detected missions (22) from the number or actual missions and know what percentage of its subs were undetected. Maybe. It is standard procedure for all nations to try to make your potential rival underestimate your capabilities. With this in mind, it is possible that the Indian and US Navies are detecting far more Chinese subs than they have publicly acknowledged. That is what I would do if I were in charge of the US Navy. I wouldn’t dream of letting China actually know how many of its subs we were really detecting. I would acknowledge a sufficiently-large number of the detections just to let China know that its subs were being detected and monitored, but I would not reveal how successful the detection efforts really were. I hope the heads of the Indian and US navies are doing that same thing.
 
China’s strategic threat to the USA and its allies is growing steadily and globally, but few Americans are being told this truth.
 

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Japan Moves to Make Taiwan an Ally

April 15th, 2013
In a move that has considerable importance in Asia but which was scarcely noticed in the western media, Japan has ceded sovereignty over a disputed island chain (believed to have substantial energy reserves) to Taiwan even though the two nations had “hotly contested” sovereignty over these islands for years. Details about this development are in the second story in this link, and it is called a “dramatic about-face” by Japan. What is especially important about this action is that in ceding sovereignty over these islands to Taiwan, Japan recognized Taiwan as a sovereign nation in its own right and not just a rebellious part of China. The concession on fishing rights was also given by Japan to Taiwan even though just a short time ago Japanese coast guard vessels were chasing Taiwanese fishing boats away from those islands. These actions by Japan really are rather dramatic.
 
Japan’s action in dealing with Taiwan as a sovereign nation was a direct slap in the face to China and Japan surely knew this when it took this action. This will deepen the Chinese-Japanese rift. However, it will surely earn Japan considerable goodwill and trust not only in Taiwan but also in the other nations (the Philippines, South Korea, Singapore, Vietnam, etc.) in the Pacific Rim that are threatened by China’s rapid militarism. Perhaps Japan’s action was specifically intended to win this goodwill, further erase lingering memories of World War II in that region of Asia, and establish Japan as the leader of the anti-Chinese nations in the Pacific Rim.
 
This action further supports my long-expressed identification of these Pacific Rim nations as the alliance prophesied in Ezekiel 38:13 to emerge in Asia which will not be part of the Gog-Magog alliance of Russia, China, Iran, etc.. See my articles, What Ezekiel 38-39 reveals about a Future World War III [PDF] and Japan’s Role in Biblical Prophecy for these previously-expressed expectations. The deeper we go into the latter-days of our age, the more accurate biblical prophecies are becoming—making it abundantly evident that the Bible really is the Word of the Creator Being who made the earth and mankind and who guides the destinies of nations to fulfill his biblical prophesies (Isaiah 41:21-26).
 
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/28/inside-china-china-targets-military-crimes/

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Muslim Brotherhood Losing Grip on Egypt

April 13th, 2013
As readers know, when the pro-Western leader of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, was overthrown, the Muslim Brotherhood took power in an election. The Muslim Brotherhood had been suppressed by Mubarak due to their radical Islamic beliefs, but the Egyptian people were so sick of Mubarak they must have thought things couldn’t get worse and elected Mohammed Morsi, the head of the Muslim Brotherhood as the new President. Well, they have gotten worse.
As the first link states, a poll shows that public support for Morsi has plummeted from 79% to 49% as things have gotten steadily worse under his rule. The article notes that fuel shortages have occurred, unemployment  is up, tourism is down and prices are up under Morsi’s rule. As readers also likely know, there have been violent confrontations between Morsi’s supporters and those who want a more secular Islamic ruler.
The severely-restrictive interpretations of the Koran by the Muslim Brotherhood and the violent upheavals have understandably driven tourists away from Egypt and this has led to severe hardship on the many Egyptians who depend on tourism to eke out a living (see second link). The poll indicates that more Egyptians are thinking that the tourist industry cannot recover until Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood is gone.
What happens to Egypt is very critically-important to the geopolitical struggle being waged between the Russian-Chinese-Iranian led bloc (the Gog-Magog alliance prophesied in Ezekiel 38 in the Bible) and the western-led bloc led by the USA, NATO, many Sunni Islamic nations, Japan and other allies (this bloc is led by the modern nations descended from the ten tribes of “Israel” as Ezekiel 38 correctly calls them). If Egypt falls into the Gog-Magog alliance, that alliance will gain control of the strategic Suez Canal and could have naval bases on the Mediterranean Sea. If Egypt stays in the western alliance (as it was under Mubarak), it will preserve a key advantage of the western powers.

Egypt‘s military is the key. It had developed strong ties to the USA under Mubarak and the Egyptian intelligence agencies had also developed a good working relationship with their Israeli, Saudi and Jordanian counterparts as noted in a previous post. The USA is in a difficult position as it wants to retain good relations with Egypt and especially the Egyptian military. That is surely why the USA approved an order of F-16 warplanes and modern tanks to Egypt’s military as discussed in a previous post.  However, the USA has just shipped a massive order of tear gas canisters to the Morsi regime (see third link) which argues that Morsi expects a massive uprising against him or even the eruption of a civil war like those that erupted in Libya, Yemen and Syria. If a civil war erupts in Egypt, no one can predict what the Egyptian military will do.

The Israelis can’t afford to guess concerning the future of Egypt. It is rapidly building a tall, metal fence along its entire Egyptian border as a protective measure (see fourth link). This will effectively result in Israel having walls and fences along all its borders (except perhaps some Jordanian regions). [I've been at the Israeli-Lebanese border with its dual fences, watchlights and interior kill-zones, and I hope the same hostility will not result in the same kind of fence along Israel's Egyptian border]. The Israelis recognize the existential threat to Israel that would be posed by an Egypt that joins the radical Islamists.  However, on the other hand, the Egyptian Navy recently intercepted merchant ships loaded with weapons that were apparently being shipped from Iran to (presumably) the Assad regime in Syria (see last link).
I do not know Egypt’s future, but the Bible may have a hint. Isaiah 19 is a prophecy about Egypt in the latter days, and it rightly prophesied that Egypt would be terrified of the Israelis in the end time (that happened in several Egyptian-Israeli wars), and the Israelis still have the power to quickly destroy Egypt as a nation if a war breaks out. If Egypt dares to fight Israel, Israel could quickly destroy the Suez Canal and the Aswan Dam (leading to a destructive tsunami of water heading all the way down the Nile River). However, Isaiah 19:21-25 prophesy that as the latter days transition into the millennial rule of the Messiah (Jesus Christ for us Christians), Egypt will be made a major and prosperous nation by God. This hardly seems a likely outcome if Egypt was a part of the Gog-Magog alliance; therefore, I take this as a hint that Egypt has had enough of fighting the Israelis and that they will be aligned with the western alliance in our future. However, time will tell. Egypt’s future is very important to how the future of world geopolitics unfolds.

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US Warship to Be Equipped with Laser Gun

April 9th, 2013
A US warship is going to be equipped with a laser gun (a “directed energy pulse weapon”) and sent to the Persian Gulf in the near future. Its laser gun has been very effective in its test phase and it can reportedly take out fast-moving boats and slow-moving aerial vehicles. Iran uses fast-moving patrol boats in a “swarm” mode to attack warships so the laser is specifically prepared to counter an Iranian threat. It is extremely cheap to operate (about $1 per firing).
 
What is not clear is what the fullest potential of this laser gun really is. The CBS link reports that the laser gun can’t take out fast-moving warplanes (or I suppose cruise missiles), but the FOXNews link says it is “unclear” whether the laser gun can do this already. Obviously, the full potential of the weapon would hardly be disclosed in a public media release so the laser gun will have the enemy guessing about its real capabilities until it gets used in combat.
 
In previous posts, I’ve written that US carrier groups need laser guns to insure their survivability in today’s high-tech threat environment posed by China’s and Russia’s new supersonic cruise missiles, China’s new ballistic missile designed to sink US carriers, etc. Even if the carrier battle group’s Aegis anti-missile and anti-warplane system and the Phalanx point-defense system function perfectly and knock down every incoming target, they will both eventually run out of ammo. At that point the carrier battle group would be defenseless, and China knows this. That is why their strategy is, doubtless, to overwhelm a carrier battle group’s defenses by firing more weapons at it than it can shoot down. In the Cold War, there was an expression that “quantity has a quality all its own” which described the Soviet/Communist strategy of building vast numbers of cheaper weapons systems to overwhelm fewer numbers of high-tech US/NATO weapons systems. China’s war-making strategy vs. the USA (building vast quantities of weapons to fire at US targets) seems modeled on this earlier Cold War strategy.
 
Perhaps this laser gun being deployed on a US warship is the first step in giving carrier battle groups and US warships greatly-enhanced protection against Chinese/Russian/Iranian/North Korean attacks. This laser gun won’t run out of “ammo.” This is a great development for the US Navy. I hope it can already do a lot more against attacking weapons systems than what has been publicly released. American enemies really won’t know for sure until it is used in combat.
 
 
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/04/08/future-is-now-navy-to-deploys-lasers-on-ships-in-2014/

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China’s Latest Indian Ocean Base

April 7th, 2013
This link details the construction of the latest Chinese maritime/naval base being constructed on the shores of the Indian Ocean. China has a “string of pearls” strategy in which they are gradually creating a network of bases around the Indian ocean which can be used for either civilian maritime or military purposes in the future. The previous bases already built or activated are at Gwadar, Pakistan; Hambantota in Sri Lanka and a planned base in Myanmar (Burma). The latest Chinese base is going to be built at Bagamoto on the Tanzanian coast and a Chinese economic zone is also planned for that site.
 
Virtually under the world’s radar, Tanzania and China have developed a very strong commercial and military relationship. Tanzania also has natural gas deposits off its coast which China would like to exploit. India also has had longstanding relations with Tanzania so China is making an effort to squeeze out India’s influence in that nation.
 
These Indian Ocean ports (and airfields in the case of Gwadar as noted in a previous post) are being developed with initial civilian commercial usages in mind, but Chinese military assets are almost sure to be based at these ports in the future as China seeks to surround and “contain” India within its own Indian ocean sphere of influence. China is clearly not only trying to seize control of the South China Sea, but is also implementing a plan to control as much of the Indian Ocean as possible. This Chinese strategy is a direct threat to Japan, India, South Korea, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia and other Pacific Rim nations (the nations named in Ezekiel 38:13 as explained in my free articles, What Ezekiel 38-39 Reveal about a Future World War III and Japan’s Role in Prophecy). 
 
In the future, China could place warships, military aircraft, anti-missile defense systems and supersonic, long-range, anti-ship cruise missiles at these ports to not only negate India’s and NATO’s military power in the Indian Ocean region but also to seize control of the oil shipping routes that exit the Persian Gulf into the Indian Ocean to distant locations. When/if China places their military assets at these Indian Ocean locations, it will also obviously have in their gunsites the USA’s military installation at Diego Garcia Island in the middle of the Indian Ocean. The USA’s Pentagon warplanners better install extensive anti-missile and anti-warplane defense systems at Diego Garcia as that is an obvious target in China’s plan to create a system of bases to which its military assets can be quickly deployed.
 
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/tanzanian-pearl/1093744/0

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Humanoid Robotic Soldiers Almost Here!

April 5th, 2013
This link is well worth reading and I urge you to watch both embedded videos (especially the second one).  The videos were sent to me by a knowledgeable source with access to DARPA project videos, and I’m sharing them with readers of this blog. The first video shows that DARPA has developed a robotic hand that can use handtools skillfully; however, that is nothing compared to the second video. The second video shows a humanoid robotic figure which can run, do calisthenics, etc. The calisthenics are complex and would be the kind done at a track team work-out or a military boot-camp.
 
Obviously, DARPA would not be releasing its state-of-the-art attainment of robotic humanoid development in a video accessible to the public, so their project accomplishments are surely far more advanced than what is on the video. DARPA is not doing this project for its own entertainment. I think the military applications of this project are both obvious and immense. When the humanoid robots are controlled via a wireless connection, they can be placed or parachuted into any environment and be remotely-controlled by an operator with a joystick and controls. Human operators a hemisphere away from an aerial drone can control an aerial military drone already with ease. Why couldn’t human operators control robotic soldier drones on the ground the same way?
 
Robotic soldiers would need no food or water and would have no fear. They could be “handled” to perform suicide missions, enter regions contaminated by chemical, bacteriological or radiation which would kill a human, etc. The robotic soldiers would be impervious to all these environmental hazards. One could coat them with flexible Kevlar “skin” so they would be essentially bullet-proof to small arms fire.
 
DARPA clearly has some brilliant engineers working on this project. I admire their skill. I only hope and pray that the robotic soldiers being developed will be controlled by patriotic, pro-American controllers.
 
Human-controlled robots are already fighting each other in combat matches on a cable-TV program I watched while channel-surfing the other day. Robots were fighting each other in a boxing ring/cage while their human controllers were controlling their movements with exoskeleton-like control systems placed on them. In other words, the robots were fighting as avatars, acting out movements dictated to them by their human controllers. If private parties are already doing this for entertainment purposes, imagine what DARPA is developing!
 
The emergence of robotic soldiers would fulfill several biblical prophecies. The first is in Genesis 11:6 which relates that the post-Flood generations were already re-developing the pre-Flood advanced technologies to a level where they had reached a “tipping point” where God observed that “nothing they imagine will be restrained from them.” In Matthew 24:37, Jesus Christ foretold that the latter days of our age in which we now live (see my article, Are We Living in the Latter Days?) would mirror the pre-Flood society and civilization. The development of technologies at Babel was so advanced that God had to step in and confuse the languages to stop its progression as his Divine will was that no such high-tech society would exist on earth again until the latter days just before Jesus Christ himself returns to rule the earth (Revelation 19:11-20:4). Revelation 17-18 prophesy that our current Babylon the Great global political/monetary system will collapse in the latter days and be replaced by a new global “beast” system (see my articles entitled, What Kind of “Captivity?”–The Babylonian Origin of the Modern Banking System and Is Babylon the Great about to Fall…Ushering in a Global “Beast” System? The Creator God has allotted a mere 42 months for the beast’s global system to exist before it is utterly and permanently destroyed by Jesus Christ himself at his return (Revelation 19:11-21). As this prophecy shows, any person or any soldier that dares to fight against the heavenly armies of Jesus Christ at his return will be annihilated and their flesh will be given to the birds and carrion-eaters to eat. [If you are a soldier and do not want to share that fate, I advise that you reject the beast's orders at that future time and fall on your knees and submit to Jesus Christ's Divine rule when he returns. Then you can live on into a real Utopia of peace that will literally be brought to this earth when heaven comes to govern this planet openly and powerfully!]
 
One more prophetic item about robotic soldiers. Revelation 13:1-5 foretells that when the beast system is imposed on the world’s nations and masses, the world will wonder at the beast’s power and say “Who is able to make war with him?” My blog has previously discussed the existence of nanotechnology bombs and weapons, invisibility technologies, aerial vehicles which are so advanced that they appear as UFOs to people at times, etc. Robotic soldiers are one more thing in the secret inventory of the beast’s weaponry that will suddenly be unveiled all at once and the world will react as prophesied in Revelation 13:4. Science fiction will become science fact (just as Genesis 11:6 and Matthew 24:37 prophesy). However…
 
There are two people who will have the power to overcome all the beast’s advanced weaponry as easy as if they were stomping on ants. These two people are called the Two Witnesses in Revelation 11, and they will be delegated Divine powers to smite the earth with plagues as often as they want (see verse 6). They will give the earth a tiny advance taste of the powers to be unleashed when Jesus Christ comes at the head of Heaven’s army of very real and powerful spirit beings to take absolute control of the earth’s governments, nations and peoples….for their own good and to save them from self-destruction (Matthew 24:22). Anyone who seeks to harm the Two Witnesses will take a death sentence upon themselves (Revelation 11:5). These Two Witnesses will prove to the earth that Jesus Christ is the true and only Savior and Ruler and they will make the Bible’s truths starkly real to the earth and all those living on it. Please read my article, The Two Witnesses, for a detailed look at their ministry.
 
So if you are a Christian/Messianic Believer, don’t live in fear. Whatever powers the beast system brings to bear will be “peanuts” compared to the powers the Two Witnesses will wield. Pity the beast’s poor underlings. They will get creamed when Revelation 11:5-6 is fulfilled. The world’s rulers have forgotten the Creator God who made all things and sees all that is done on the earth. The Two Witnesses will emerge on the scene as God’s “wake-up call” for the world to realize the Creator God is real and that all mankind needs to repent…while they still can.
 
It appears we may be on the verge of historic events happening which will fulfill major biblical, latter-day prophecies.
 
http://www.extremetech.com/electronics/152251-were-all-doomed-darpa-develops-cheap-robot-hand-that-can-use-tools

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