Bible Believers' Newsletter 888
"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . ."
ISSN 1442-8660Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ; we appreciate your fellowship in Christ.
Our guest contributor is Rostislav Ishchenko, president of the Center for System Analysis and Forecasting, especially for the "actualcomment.ru." His comprehensive analysis of the geostrategic position of Russia and Putin's strategy reveals that the only possible outcome of the present situation in the Ukraine is a strategic victory of either Russia or the USA which will affect the entire planet. His analysis aligns with the prophecies of Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Zechariah, Jesus Christ and William Branham. And he is correct when he states, "Russian power is authoritative, rather than authoritarian" (unlike the chutzpah of politicians in the West). His article is entitled "Putin as Rescuer: will he deliver us from the Evil Empire?"
The goal of the Valdai Discussion Club, is to promote dialogue between Russian and international intellectual elite, and to make an independent, unbiased scientific analysis of political, economic and social events in Russia and the rest of the world. Over 800 representatives of the international scholarly community from almost 50 countries have taken part in the club's work. They include professors of major universities, including Harvard, Columbia, Georgetown, Stanford, Carleton University, the University of London, Cairo University, the University of Teheran, East China University, the University of Tokyo, Tel Aviv University, the University of Messina, Johns Hopkins University, London School of Economics, King's College London, Sciences Po and the Sorbonne.
Much of the Scripture in your Bible is past history; it establishes a prophetic shadow and type by which we can visualize the outcome of future history because spirits do not die and the Lord God changes not (Malachi 3:6; Hebrews 13:8). God takes His man and anoints another with His Spirit, while Satan takes his men and anoints others with their now demonic spirits. Furthermore, Satan does not change his strategem: the pride of life, the lust of the eye and the lust of the flesh.
This is borne out in the links and news items so it is important that you read the "full story" to recognize and prove the Scriptures that are coming to pass now, appreciate the lateness of the hour and "look up for your physical redemption draws nigh".
This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.
Your brother-in-Christ
Anthony Grigor-Scott
Nepal Earthquake: Death Toll rises above 4,000
April 27, 2015 — More than 4,000 people are confirmed dead and 6,500 injured in a massive earthquake which hit Nepal on Saturday . . . More than 6,500 people have been injured . . . Dozens of people are also reported to have been killed in neighbouring China and India. More than 200 climbers have been rescued around Mount Everest, which was struck by deadly avalanches in the 7.8-magnitude quake.
Vast tent cities have sprung up in Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, for those displaced or afraid to return to their homes as strong aftershocks continued. Thousands spent Sunday night—their second night—outside. Officials have warned that the number of casualties could rise as rescue teams reach remote mountainous areas of western Nepal. Initial reports suggest that many communities, especially those close to mountainsides, suffered significant quake damage. "Villages like this are routinely affected by landslides, and it's not uncommon for entire villages of 200, 300, up to 1,000 people to be completely buried by rock falls" . . . A man evacuated by helicopter to Pokhara, 200km from Kathmandu, said almost every home in his village of more than 1,000 houses had been destroyed . . . Full story: theguardian.com youtube.com
Locals baffled by Expanded Coastline in Eastern Hokkaido
April 25, 2015 — The appearance of newly formed land along Shiretoko Peninsula's southeastern coast is causing a stir. The unexplained mass measures roughly 300 meters to 500 meters long, 30 meters wide and rises 10 to 15 meters above sea level, a town official said April 25, a day after it was discovered.
A local woman who was harvesting seaweed along the shoreline on the morning of April 24 noticed the area seemed to be slightly more elevated than the last time she was there. When she finished her task, the area had risen even further, exceeding her height. "Local residents said they heard no sounds and there were no tremors (when the land appeared)," said Katsuhiro Tanaka, the president of the Rausu Fisheries Cooperative Association, who viewed the expanded coastline the day it was discovered. Marine organisms such as seaweed and sea urchins are attached to rocks on the land mass, suggesting it rose out of the ocean. Officials from Rausu have sealed off the area so it can be studied. Full story: video
Comment: In his 1937 spiritual dreams Joe Brandt saw certain islands of Japan sink at the same time as Los Angeles sinks.
Jewish Young Turks and the Armenian Genocide
April 24, 2015 — In June 2015 Armenians worldwide plan to commemorate the centennial of Metz Yeghern, the Armenian Holocaust. Banking is the forte of the Jewish House of Rothschild; raw materials—especially oil—are money in the bank. The Young Turk movement or Committee of Union and Progress arose out of the Rothschilds' oil interests in the Black Sea area of the Ottoman Empire in the late 1800s. 'Creating stability' in an incendiary realm was necessary for Rothschilds' new Baku Oil enterprise. The instability of the Armenian Christians' financial and intellectual prominence in the area was 'bad for business.' Thus hand-picked Jews of Salonika and foreign agitators like Russian Zionist, Vladimir Jabotinksy, the editor of The Young Turk newspaper, were just what Rothschilds needed for ridding the source of that 'instability,' the Armenian Christians.
Now, the Zionist Young Turks, who sought the breakup of the Ottoman Empire in order to obtain Palestine—and the House of Rothschild who needed a Jewish-controlled Turkey and hegemony over the entire Middle East could work together. This meant funding for the Jewish Young Turks and revolutionary subversives for the Rothschilds.
The Young Turk movement was created and controlled by Donmeh, these crypto-Jews who converted to Islam in order to hide their Jewish identity were also followers of Sabbatai Zevi, perhaps the most prominent of many self-proclaimed Jewish Messiahs; he had also converted to Islam.
The international Jewish elite provoked the First World War in order to achieve several goals that included the revolutions in Russia and Germany and the destruction of the Ottoman Empire. In 1917, Great Britain signed the Balfour Declaration, the promise for the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine. British troops would gain control over Palestine and prepare it for the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine. Crypto-Jew Mustafa Kemal Ataturk created a Turkish Republic in order to destroy the Ottoman Empire completely. The Jewish revolutionist Alexander Parvus who was the financial adviser of the Young Turks and the Jewish Bolsheviks supplied Ataturk with 10 million gold roubles, 45,000 rifles, and 300 machine guns with ammunition. In 1915 the Young Turks committed genocide against the Armenians, and also the Greeks and Assyrians. The main reason for the Jewish genocide of the Armenians is that these non-Semitic, anti-Semitic self-styled Jews believed that the Armenians are Amalekites, the arch enemies of the Israelites. Jews also believe they are the descendants of the ancient Israelites. The Turkish government is Jew-ruled to this day and Jewish groups such as the ADL deny the Armenian genocide, because it was perpetrated by Jews, including Mustafa Kemal Ataturk . . . Full story: realjewnews.com
Inside Obama's Drone Panopticon: a Secret Machine with no Accountability
April 25, 2015 — Signature strikes, a key aspect for years of what the administration likes to call its "targeted killing" program, permit the CIA and JSOC to kill without requiring them to know who they kill.
The "signatures" at issue are indicators that intelligence analysts associate with terrorist behavior—in practice, a gathering of men, teenaged to middle-aged, traveling in convoys or carrying weapons . . . Civilian deaths in signature strikes, accordingly, are not accidental . . . more like a cost of doing business—only the real cost is shielded from the public . . .
The National Security Agency has a complementary term to describe the effects of its mass surveillance on the world's emails, texts, phone records, webcams, gaming and all other forms of communication . . . "Incidental collection" is all of the untold trillions of communications data NSA and its partners hoover up that have nothing to do with terrorism or espionage. That collection may not be, strictly speaking, intentional—those communications are not NSA's "targets"—but it is neither accidental nor, by the logic of bulk surveillance, avoidable . . .
No Obama official involved in drone strikes has ever been disciplined . . . Brennan and director of national intelligence James Clapper [are] entrenched in their jobs, David Barron, one of the lawyers who told Obama he could kill a US citizen without trial as a first resort, now has a federal judgeship . . . The view through the soda-straw camera carried in the drone's belly obscures much of the real picture. Full story: theguardian.com
Comment: A new analysis of the data available to the public about drone strikes, conducted by the human-rights group Reprieve, indicates that even when operators target specific individuals—the most focused effort of what Barack Obama calls "targeted killing"—they kill vastly more people than their targets, often needing to strike multiple times. Attempts to kill 41 men resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1,147 people, as of 24 November, 2014 . . . theguardian.com
It's Dangerous to be Right
April 2015 — Brian Williams, was a pillar of reality that fell from the grace of NBC . . . He is no longer the anchor of the evening news because he lied about his Chinook helicopter in Iraq being hit by RPG's back in 2003 . . . which pales in comparison to Hillary Clinton being under sniper fire in Bosnia, when video footage reveals an imaginary memory to boost the bravery of Jezebel under fire. Does the Media explain the discrepancy for exposing one and not the other? No. It's not just Brian Williams who been taken out of the picture, but three of his colleagues who were killed the same week. Bob Simon, a veteran CBS News and 60 Minutes correspondent was killed in New York City in a car crash; Ned Colt, a former NBC international correspondent died of a massive stroke and within hours David Carr collapsed and died in his New York Times office. Why were they killed? What did they all have in common? Apparently they all had second thoughts about how their media bosses presented the news and sought to do what was right. The four of them had formed an independent video news company last month and filed the necessary security documents that would allow them access to the Kremlin's most secret archive of evidence relating to the spectacular September 11th, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center. Russian President Putin recently disclosed that they have satellite surveillance of 9/11 and would show that it was an inside job by the American government. Spearheading the new company was Carr, who, in his capacity at the New York Times, championed Edward Snowden; and after watching the documentary movie 'Citizenfour,' which won an Academy Award, became very perturbed about what America was turning into. Knowing that they may be following in the footsteps of Tom Clancy and Andrew Breitbart, they moved forward regardless of the clear and present danger to their very lives. But the Russian Report went further in a grim follow-up stating that the Obama regime sent a "clear message" to the elite media daring anyone else to expose their darkest secrets.
This faggot Nimrod who occupies the White House is threatening to outlaw all websites that disagree with him; and has jumped on the band wagon of an emerging police state of armed sodomites with a badge to sign into law a proposal to classify any criticism by the American people against the police as a 'hate crime' . . . Full story: fgcp.org
Who really controls the World?
April 26, 2015 — What was true of the British Empire is equally true of the US Empire, controlled remotely by the London based Elite through the Federal Reserve System. Judged by its consequences, the Federal Reserve System is the greatest con job in human history. It is sad and painful that man's most beautiful construction, and the source of most power and wealth on earth: scientific knowledge—the most sublime, most powerful and most organised expression of man's inherent gift of thought, wonder and awe—became a tool for subjugation of humanity, a very dangerous tool in the hands of a tiny group of men. These men "hire" the scientist and take away, as a matter of right, the power the scientist creates through his inventions. This power is then used for their own purposes, at immense human and material cost to mankind. The goal of this handful of men, the members of the wealthiest families on the planet, the Elite, is a New World Order, a One World Government, under their control.
["Satan (the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil) took Jesus up into an exceeding high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory; and said, All these things will I give You, if You will fall down and worship me" (Matthew 4:8-9)].
Secrecy and anonymity is integral to the operations of the Elite as is absolute ruthlessness, deep deception and the most sordid spying and blackmail. The Elite pitches nations against each other, and aims at the destruction of religion and other traditional values, creates chaos, deliberately spreads poverty and misery, and then usurps power placing its stooges in place. These "buy while the blood is still flowing in the streets" (Rothschild dictum). Wars, "revolutions" and assassinations are part of their tactics to destroy traditional civilisation and traditional religions (as in Soviet Russia), amass wealth and power, eliminate opponents, and proceed relentlessly towards their avowed goal, generation after generation. They operate through covert and overt societies and organisations. ["Jesus spoke openly to the world; taught in the synagogue and the temple, where Jews always resort; in secret He said nothing" (John 18:20)] . . . Full story: globalresearch.ca
White House Staff, Google, Tesla Motors, Goldman Sachs and an Organized Crime Scheme!
April 12, 2015 — Investigators say that, political operatives David Plouffe, Rahm Emanual, Steven Rattner, Bill Daly, David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs arranged with Silicon Valley investors to take over the lithium battery industry in order to monopolize the trillions of dollars of lithium, and related mining deals, in Afghanistan.
They say that they traded federal funding for campaign support assisted by Harry Reid and Dianne Feinstein, who received numerous stock and cash kickbacks in the scheme. They say they used the money to fund political campaigns. They used the Silicon Valley investors internet companies, (mostly Google), to manipulate voter perceptions and web searches in favor of their agenda. The Silicon Valley investors received: favorable federal laws, tax gifts, free federal loans, stock bumps and other perks.
The Silicon Valley investors companies that used the Afghan minerals: Abound, Solyndra, Fisker, Ener1, Tesla, and many, many more, that received the Department of Energy kickback funds, managed by Steven Chu, have all either failed, been raided, been charged with fraud or otherwise turned out to be disasters because they were based on a financial fraud skimming scheme instead of a good business plan.
All of these facts are known, in great detail, by many investigators. Nearly a million pages of evidence exist. A Special Prosecutor is required to perform proper prosecutions. This is organized crime.
How Senators' insider stock and campaign funding kickback scheme funded a car company with stock market manipulation. To discuss this article, you can share this link with your friends, or elected officials. Feel free to re-post this briefing:
Full story: thenewsdaily.org
Comment: A major expos? of the corruption of the Obama administration and the federal government implicating hundreds of prominent politicians.
Kenyan Lawyer sue [sic] Isreal [sic] for killing Jesus
February 18, 2015 — A Kenyan lawyer filed a petition with the International Court of Justice in The Hague, suggesting that the trial and crucifixion of Jesus Christ was unlawful, and the State of Israel among others should be held responsible, Kenyan news outlet The Nairobian reported some time ago.
Dola Indidis, a lawyer and former spokesman of the Kenyan Judiciary is reportedly attempting to sue Tiberius (Emperor of Rome, 42 BCE-37 CE), Pontius Pilate, a selection of Jewish elders, King Herod, the Republic of Italy and the State of Israel. "Evidence today is on record in the Bible, and you cannot discredit the Bible," Indidis told the Kenyan Citizen News.
Although those he suggests should have been convicted during the original trial have not been alive for more than 2,000 years, Indidis insists that the government for whom they acted can and should still be held responsible. "I filed the case because it's my duty to uphold the dignity of Jesus and I have gone to the ICJ to seek justice for the Man from Nazareth," Indidis told the Nairobian.
"His selective and malicious prosecution violated his human rights through judicial misconduct, abuse of office bias and prejudice." Indidis apparently named the states of Italy and Israel in the lawsuit because upon the attainment of independence, the two states incorporated the laws of the Roman Empire, those in force at the time of the crucifixion. He is challenging the mode of questioning used during Jesus' trial, prosecution, hearing and sentencing; the form of punishment meted out to him while undergoing judicial proceedings and the substance of the information used to convict him. The case was first filed in the High Court in Nairobi but was rejected. Indidis then applied to have it heard at the ICJ.
Full story: horshaw.wordpress.com
Comment: The Judge might say, "You are hereby sentenced to write 2,000 lines: "There ain't no such country as Isreal." Case dismissed!
Jihad vs. Crusades
August 20, 2014 — Which was worse? Watch the data and you decide. This video is part of Bill Warner's astounding lecture: "Why we are afraid. A 1,400 years secret". Full story: youtube.com
Putin as Rescuer: will he deliver us from the Evil Empire?
By Rostislav Ishchenko ? 2013 all rights reserved
April 25, 2015 — The views of Kiev politicians are of no interest to us because they don't decide anything. The fact that outsiders govern the Ukraine is no longer concealed. It doesn't matter whether the cabinet ministers are Estonian or Georgian; they are Americans just the same.
Nor are we interested in the European Union's position. Much depended on the EU until the summer of last year, when the war could have been prevented or stopped at the outset. A tough, principled antiwar stance by the EU was needed. It could have blocked US initiatives to start the war and would have turned the EU into a significant independent geopolitical player. The EU passed on that opportunity and instead behaved like a faithful vassal of the United States.
As a result, Europe stands on the brink of frightful internal upheaval. In the coming years, it has every chance of suffering the same fate as the Ukraine [as prophesied in Revelation 17:16 – 18:20].
In fact, today the EU can choose whether to remain a tool of the United States or to move closer to Russia. Depending on its choice, Europe can get off with a slight scare, such as a breakup of parts of its periphery and possible fragmentation of some countries, or it could collapse completely.
Judging by the European elites' reluctance to break openly with the United States, collapse is almost inevitable.
What should interest us are the opinions of the two main players in the unfolding drama known as World War Three: these players are the United States and Russia.
The US position is clear and transparent. In the second half of the 1990s, Washington missed its only opportunity to reform the Cold War economy without any obstacles and thereby avoid the looming crisis in a system whose development is limited by the finite nature of planet Earth and its resources, including human ones, which conflicts with the need to endlessly print dollars. After that, the United States could prolong the death throes of the system only by plundering the rest of the world. At first, it went after Third World countries. Then it went for potential competitors. Then for allies and even close friends. Such plundering could continue only as long as the United States remained the world's undisputed hegemon.
Thus when Russia asserted its right to make independent political decisions—decisions of not global but regional import—a clash with the United States became inevitable. This clash cannot end in a compromise peace.
For the United States, a compromise with Russia would mean a voluntary renunciation of its hegemony, leading to a quick, systemic catastrophe—not only a political and economic crisis but also a paralysis of state institutions and the inability of the government to function. In other words, it's inevitable disintegration.
But if the United States wins, then it is Russia that will experience systemic catastrophe.
After a certain type of "rebellion," Russia's ruling classes would be punished with asset liquidation and confiscation as well as imprisonment. The state would be fragmented, substantial territories would be annexed, and the country's military might be destroyed.
So the war will last until one side wins. [About six weeks].
To complete the picture of the situation, we only need Russia's position. It is essential to understand what the Russian leadership wants to achieve, particularly the president, Vladimir Putin. We are talking about the key role that Putin plays in the organization of the Russian power structure.
During Putin's 15 years in power, he has tried to maximize the role of the government, the legislative assembly, and even the local authorities. These are entirely logical steps that should have given the system completeness, stability, and continuity. Because no politician can rule forever, political continuity, regardless of who comes to power, is the key to a stable system.
Unfortunately, fully autonomous control, namely the ability to function without the president's oversight, hasn't been achieved. Putin remains the key component of the system because the people put their trust in him personally. They have far less trust in the system, as represented by public authorities and individual agencies.
Thus Putin's opinions and political plans become the decisive factor in areas such as Russia's foreign policy. If the phrase "without Putin, there is no Russia" is an exaggeration, then the phrase "what Putin wants, Russia also wants" reflects the situation quite accurately in my opinion.
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First, let's note that the man who for 15 years has carefully guided Russia to its revival has done so in conditions of US hegemony in world politics along with significant opportunities for Washington to influence Russia's internal politics. He had to understand the nature of the fight and his opponent. Otherwise, he wouldn't have lasted so long.
Moscow could not have saved the Ukraine from the coup because of the baseness, cowardice, and stupidity of the Ukraine's leaders—not only Yanukovych but all of them without exception.
After the armed coup in Kiev in February 2014, Russia entered into open confrontation with Washington. Before that, the conflicts were interspersed with improved relations, but at the beginning of 2014 relations between Russia and the United States deteriorated swiftly and almost immediately reached the point where war would have been declared automatically in the pre-nuclear era.
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Thus at any given time Putin engaged in precisely the level of confrontation with the United States that Russia could handle. If Russia isn't limiting the level of confrontation now, it means Putin believes that, in the war of sanctions, the war of nerves, the information war, the civil war in the Ukraine, and the economic war, Russia can win. [And the Bible tells us Russia will win].
This is the first important conclusion about what Putin wants and what he expects. He expects to win. And considering that he takes a meticulous approach and strives to anticipate any surprises, you can be sure that when the decision was made not to back down under pressure from the United States, but to respond, the Russian leadership had a double, if not a triple, guarantee of victory. I would like to point out that the decision to enter into a conflict with Washington was not made in 2014, nor was it made in 2013. The war of August 8, 2008, [the Russian-Georgian war in South Ossetia which Russia won in one day when world leaders appealed for a ceasefire] was a challenge that the United States could not leave unpunished. After that, every further stage of the confrontation only raised the stakes. From 2008 to 2010, the United States' capability—not just military or economic but its overall capability—has declined, whereas Russia's has improved significantly.
So the main objective was to raise the stakes slowly rather than in an explosive fashion. In other words, an open confrontation in which all pretences are dropped and everyone understands that a war is going on had to be delayed as long as possible. But it would have been even better to avoid it altogether.
With every passing year, the United States became weaker while Russia became stronger. This process was natural and impossible to arrest, and we could have projected with a high degree of certainty that by 2020 to 2025, without any confrontation, the period of US hegemony would have ended, and the United States would then be best advised to think about not how to rule the world, but how to stave off its own precipitous internal decline.
Thus Putin's second desire is clear: to keep the peace or the appearance of peace as long as possible. Peace is advantageous for Russia because in conditions of peace, without enormous expense, it obtains the same political result but in a much better geopolitical situation. That is why Russia continually extends the olive branch. Just as the Kiev junta will collapse in conditions of peace in Donbass, in conditions of world peace, the military-industrial complex and the global financial system created by the United States are doomed to self-destruct.
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In this way, Russia's actions are aptly described by Sun Tzu's maxim "The greatest victory is that which requires no battle."
It is clear that Washington is not run by idiots. But the political elite who have emerged in the United States in the past 25 years have become accustomed to their status as the owners of the world. They sincerely don't understand how anyone can challenge them.
For the ruling elite in the United States (not so much the business class but the government bureaucracy), to go from being a country that decides the fate of inferior peoples to one that negotiates with them on an equal footing is intolerable.
In principle, any war is a struggle for resources. Typically, the winner is the one that has more resources and can ultimately mobilize more troops and build more tanks, ships, and planes.
Nuclear powers cannot confront each other directly. Therefore, their resource base is of paramount importance. That is exactly why Russia and the United States have been in a desperate competition for allies over the past year. Russia has won this competition.
The United States can count only the EU, Canada, Australia, and Japan as allies (and not always unconditionally so), but Russia has managed to mobilize support from the BRICS, to gain a firm foothold in Latin America, and to begin displacing the United States in Asia and North Africa.
It turns out that the countries aligned with Russia together control about 60% of the world's GDP, have more than two-thirds of its population, and cover more than three-quarters of its surface. Thus Russia has been able to mobilize more resources.
? Facing imminent humiliation at the hands of Russia, the United States is now employing a desperate, dog-in-the-manger policy vis-?-vis Ukraine. It's as old as the hills. If we can't have this juicy bone, you won't have it either!
