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I heard an ad on the radio that said, "Hurry! These are the last days of Rusty Eck Ford's Huge Sale." Is that the last days you are referring to?
"Hand me that whiskey, I need to consult the spirit."-J.F. Rutherford
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In Gods timeclock we have seconds left!
Well, since each of God's days is a year, or a thousand years, or seven thousand years....depending....I guess that still gives up plenty of slack time.
I can keep going all night here, ref up ref... The fact is, there is gona be a whole lota NUKES flying soon! Isn't it great, if lived to see this day. There is an escape and he's on the way.
Will the Bekaa Valley be next?
After the partial collapse of the Taliban forces, what next? If the Americans continue their 'war against terrorism' what might be the next stop?
According to Middle East sources, it might be the Bekaa Valley, half way between Beirut and Damascus, the capitals of Lebanon and Syria. The valley is well-known or cultivating hashish and for serving as a training ground for anti-Israeli and anti-American militia fighters and terrorists. The Bekaa valley is in Lebanese territory but controlled by drug barons and the Syrian army, which took over parts of it in 1976.
For the past 20 years the Bekaa valley has been the military base for Hizbullah, the 'Party of God' and leading Islamist organisation in Lebanon. Hizbullah built training camps there, using the valley to prepare for attacks on the occupying Israeli force in south Lebanon. It eventually forced the Israelis to withdraw in 2000.
or how about
Iran's Rafsanjani suggests nuclear attack on Israel
SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM
Tuesday, December 18, 2001
One of Iran’s most influential ruling clerics called on the Muslim states to use nuclear weapon against Israel, assuring them that while such an attack would annihilate Israel, it would cost them "damages only".
The speech by former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani failed to catch the attention of the western press but made waves in the Middle East.
"If a day comes when the world of Islam is duly equipped with the arms Israel has in its possession, the strategy of colonialism would face a stalemate because application of an atomic bomb would not leave anything in Israel but the same thing would just produce damages in the Muslim world", Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani told the crowd at the traditional Friday prayers in Tehran.
In Washington Sunday, administration officials said the United States does not plan to target Iran in the war against terrorism.
"Iran is a situation where there are clearly some pressures from young people, there are pressures from women in that country," U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said. "Iran had a different history than Iraq. I don't know, if nothing else happened and one looked at those two countries, I would say the likelihood of Iraq reforming itself is zero. The possibility, the remote possibility of Iran reforming itself is considerably above zero."
Dr. Assad Homayou, president of the Azadegan Foundation in Washington, D.C. agreed. "To me the issue is not nuclear weapons but the responsibility of the regime," he said. "This regime is not responsible and that is why I have always emphasized that the removal of this regime is imperative. As the U.S. secretary of defense said the situation with Iran is different from that of Iraq. People only need the moral support of the United States."
Analysts told the Iranian Press Service that Rafsanjani's speech marks the first time a prominent leader of the Islamic Republic had openly suggested the use of nuclear weapon against the Jewish State.
Rafsanjani advised Western states not to pin their hopes on Israel's violence because it will be "very dangerous".
"We are not willing to see security in the world is harmed", he said, warning that a war "of the pious and martyrdom seeking forces against peaks of colonialism will be highly dangerous and might fan flames of World War III."
Rafsanjani, who, as the Chairman of the Assembly to Discern the Interests of the State, is the Islamic Republic’s number two man after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He was speaking on "International Qods (Jerusalem) Day" which is celebrated in Iran only.
The Pentagon, which has pressed for a second stage in the U.S. war against terrorism, does not support any military campaign against Iran. Instead, officials have urged that Washington target the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
On Monday, Iranian President Mohammed Khatami said the stifling of dissent in the country could spark a new wave of student protests, Middle East Newsline reported. Over the last 20 months, officials said, 56 publications have been closed. This includes 24 daily newspapers.
U.S. officials acknowledge that Iran is more advanced than Iraq in both missile development and weapons of mass destruction. They said that Iran, with Russian help, has succeeded in advancing its nuclear project and they could arrive at weapons capability as early as 2005.
But the officials said the administration has been impressed with Iran's help in the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. The help has included military coordination, security along the Afghan border and intelligence exchange.
Some officials expect Iran to also quietly support any U.S. military campaign against Iraq. Iraq is Teheran's rival and neighbor and Saddam used chemical weapons against Iran during their 1980-88 war.
One scenario being envisioned by Pentagon sources is increased Iranian help to Shi'ite opposition forces in southern Iraq. The Iranian help could also include coordination for any U.S. ground attack in the oil fields around the southern port of Basra.
"I would characterize Iraq as a dictator in a repressive system that is unlikely to be altered from within absent an assassination or something like that," Rumsfeld said.
RickA,
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Well, since each of God's days is a year, or a thousand years, or seven thousand years....depending....I guess that still gives up plenty of slack time.
won't you be surprised when you see him coming with fire in his eyes!
2Pe 3:3 ¶ Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
I think the last days were about a hundred years ago, right? Sure we're in the last days. Might be in the last days for a few more centuries even.
Never Squat With Yer Spurs On
No were not in the last at all, your right LB. Sit back and enjoy the rest of your life.
Here another one hot off the press.
Hostility will be met with force, Pak tells India
SLAMABAD: Responding to a build up of Indian troops at its border, Pakistan promised on Thursday to retaliate acts of violence.
"Any hostility would be met with full force," said foreign ministry spokesman Aziz Ahmad Khan. "Pakistan's armed forces are fully capable and prepared to defend the country's frontiers."
Khan reiterated Pakistan's denial of involvement in last week's deadly attack on the Indian parliament in New Delhi. At a news conference, Khan condemned the incident and pledged support to find those responsible.
"Pakistan is ready to take action against any individual, organisation or group, if proved responsible for the attack on Indian Parliament," he said.
US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher urged India on Thursday to share with Pakistan any evidence it has about the terrorist action.
The attack has worsened already troubled relations between the two nuclear nations.
On Wednesday, Indian troops were seen moving toward the border, followed by heavy vehicles hauling anti-aircraft guns, mortars and communications equipment.
Villagers living in hamlets in Amritsar, Gurdaspur and Ferozepur districts along the India-Pakistan border said they had seen army soldiers from both sides taking up positions closer to the line that divides the two South Asian rivals
Wars start and they stop, but apocalypticism never dies.
Satan
Here another one hot off the press, did he say a billion people in the balance SaintSatan. No couldn't be we still have 100 yrs left.
Analysis: Nuke Fears Revived
Posted Dec. 20, 2001
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- A tough nationalist democrat and a warlord presenting himself as a democrat are on a collision
course -- and the lives of more than a billion people hang in the balance between them.
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee of India and his top ministers now openly accuse neighboring Pakistan, led by President Pervez Musharraf, of waging a systematic campaign of terrorism against India. Vajpayee on Tuesday promised a decisive battle against terrorism. Pakistan denies it is harboring or directing the terrorists.
Vajpayee's government pledged Tuesday to wage at long last a decisive battle against the Muslim guerrillas who, India has long maintained, are controlled as well as supported by Pakistan. Pakistan responded that any cross-border incursion by India "will receive a strong and swift response."
But India, reeling from the shock of what could have been a catastrophic attack on its parliament and entire political leadership by extreme Islamist guerrillas last week, shows no sign of backing down.
Vajpayee leads the second-most populous nation in the world. Musharraf leads the fifth -- soon to be the fourth -- most populous. (China is No. 1, the United States No. 3, and Russia No. 4, but Pakistan with its surging birthrate may in reality already have outstripped it).
Both India and Pakistan are nuclear-armed powers.
The men who lead them are a striking study in contrasts. Both leaders rose representing hard-line nationalist constituencies. But they represent very different political dynamics.
Vajpayee built up his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party into the leading political movement in his giant nation of a billion people, the second-most populous nation in the world, indeed, in human history, and the largest successful democracy of all time. He can act tough, and has not given Pakistan an inch over the red-hot issue of Kashmir, but he has spent well over three decades brokering compromises in the comfortable parliamentarian club world of New Delhi.
Musharraf is a heroic warrior and veteran combat soldier in an army smarting from its repeated failures to wrest Kashmir from Indian control in previous wars. And he is a master of the intrigue that has swirled around Pakistan's military and powerful, clandestine intelligence services for decades as they toppled civilian governments, armed Islamic mujahedin warriors in Afghanistan with U.S. support through the 1980s, and worked on their top-priority nuclear weapons program.
Musharraf was born in New Delhi in 1943 before the catastrophic fission that split apart predominantly Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan from the former British Empire, or Raj in 1947, spent his entire career rising in the ranks of Pakistan's military.
In 1998, both nations openly exploded nuclear devices within days of each other. Both are now openly nuclear armed. India developed its own nuclear weapons and delivery systems. Pakistan was greatly aided in its missile technology and development by its historic ally China. Saudi financing played the dominant role in funding its nuclear program.
The two countries have fought three major conventional wars since becoming independent 54 years ago, in 1947, 1966 and 1971.
Millions of people died and countless millions more on both sides became penniless, brutalized and destitute refugees when the British pulled out disastrously fast at under the direction of their last viceroy of India, the late Lord Louis Mountbatten, in 1947. The hatreds sown at that terrible time continue to erupt today.
But India-Pakistan historic tensions have most of all been kept alive by the flashpoint issue of Kashmir.
The northern province, known as Jammu and Kashmir, is overwhelmingly Muslim but has been controlled by India since 1947. Muslim guerrillas backed by Pakistan have for more than a decade waged one of the most bloody guerrilla insurrections in the world to try to drive India out.
Estimates of the death toll on both sides over the past 12 years start at 35,000 and go as high as 80,000. That is more than 20 times the number of people killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that damaged the Pentagon and destroyed the World Trade Center.
The Pakistanis, including Musharraf, assert that the majority Muslims in Kashmir are brutalized by the Indian military. India counters that its army is fighting merciless terrorist fanatics who slaughter entire villages of other faiths.
The acquisition of nuclear weapons by both giant nations has given a new dimension of threat to the conflict over Kashmir.
India and Pakistan both have vast, impoverished majority populations. Therefore, neither of them so far has had the resources to develop survivable second-strike nuclear capacities or hardened missile silos to prevent their nuclear missiles from being wiped out by the other side in some surprise pre-emptive attack.
That means that the threat level between the two is comparable potentially to the hair-trigger tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and early 1960s, before the combination of détente and second-strike nuclear delivery systems removed the temptation -- or feared threat -- for either side to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike to render its arch foe defenseless at a single blow.
The Clinton administration accorded a high priority to trying to negotiate phased nuclear disarmament between both nations. But because its efforts were grounded in misty idealism and not practical realpolitik, it failed. However, so far, the Bush administration has not done any better.
Any resolution of the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan still looks impossible in the foreseeable future. Earlier this year, Vajpayee and Musharraf met for a historic summit at the famous Indian city of Agra. But hopes of reconciliation or, at least, a thaw in relations, crashed at the first hurdle. The two men could not even agree on a joint statement.
In practice, both men retained their hard-line positions. Musharraf pledged never to give up the struggle to what he called "freedom" for the people of Kashmir. Vajpayee continued to insist that Pakistan had to stop its support for "violence and terrorism being promoted in the state (of Kashmir) from across its borders."
The end of the summit was not reassuring. And nor was much of Musharraf's talk when he was in India. "I cannot live in this make-believe world," he told Indian newspaper editors at a breakfast meeting in Agra. "I cannot live in this illusion," referring to India's continued full control of Kashmir.
Musharraf wanted the summit to concentrate overwhelmingly on Kashmir. Vajpayee wanted to dilute the Kashmir issue by pushing ahead on other ones as well. Musharraf felt this was an attempt to duck the issue he felt most strongly about.
The tone of the end of the summit was worrying. Both sides expressed disappointment, and worse, over the failure to even agree on a joint statement.
Now, the terror attack last week on the parliament in New Delhi has revived hatreds and tensions on both sides at fever pitch.
Vast issues are at stake. The threat of nuclear war, like a colossal, glittering, cosmic sword of Damocles, continues to hover menacingly over 1.2 billion human beings in two of the largest nations on earth.
Everyone who wishes them well can only hope and pray that both leaders will prove capable of taking deep breaths and stepping back from the brink for the common good of all.
Otherwise, all of South Asia could erupt in a nuclear inferno of apocalyptic proportions that would make the terrible events of Sept. 11 look like a firecracker in comparison.
http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm/include/detail/storyid/160646.html
I believe we are living in the last days of the Montreal Expos.
"Millons Now Living Will See the Expos Die."
