Russia Moves Troops Closer to Georgia’s Capital

For those who thought Russia had cleared out of Georgia a long while ago have been mislead. The truth is, the U.S. decided to leave a backbone back in Washington and focus on the economy. Russia has been on the move. Russia wants South Ossetia back on the map as thiers, and so does South Ossetia.

“It will be Russia,” said a Russian army lieutenant as the Ossetian soldiers under his command nodded.

But it isn’t just South Ossetia the Russians want. It’s all of Georgia…

“And Georgia used to be Russian, too,” said the young freckle-faced lieutenant, who would give only his first name, Sergei. Three armored personnel carriers and a tank were dug in around the checkpoint.

Remember that EU brokered cease-fire deal? Well Russia is now in direct violation of it by stationing forces just 25 miles from the Georgian capital. In recent weeks their have been protests against the Georgian president, which drew 10,000 people, and they vow to continue their opposition daily until the president resigns.

Of course this goes back before the Cold War, and I am sure pride has a lot to do with it. But let’s take a more realistic view of the situation. The oil and gas pipelines that cross into Georgian territory are among the few that bypass Russia in supplying Europe with energy coming directly from the Caspian Sea. With the EU pushing their empire East and Russia’s pushing West, gaining control over the pipelines feeding Europe is all about controlling Georgia. You take the Capital and you get the pipeline. Once Russia takes control, there is much more leverage besides military might to retake the old Soviet empire states that broke off from it.

This battle for Georgia, I believe, is a big step in what could soon lead to the Gog/Magog war, prophecied in the Bible.

Human Cloning Is Right Around The Corner

While a handful of countries have been successful so far in prohibiting efforts to clone human embryos, fertility specialist Panayiotis Zavos says he has cloned 14 embryos and has implanted 11 of them into the wombs of 4 different women……..having no success yet in producing a cloned human being.

It is certainly a sign of our times and some say a definite red flag that we are living in “the last days”. Whether you choose to think we are in the End Times is your decision but it is difficult to argue that we might just be messing with things God never intended. I’m not going to pretend that I know the mind of God and his detailed plans for all of us but the idea of cloning humans certainly raises a lot of questions far beyond simple moralistic values.

Just as troubling is the fact that while some of us struggle with the whole concept, there doesn’t seem to be a shortage of people interested in human cloning.

Despite a lower profile over the past five years, scores of couples are said to have approached Dr Zavos hoping that he will help them to overcome their infertility by using the same cloning technique that was used to create Dolly the sheep in 1996.

He said: ‘I get enquiries every day. To date we have had over 100 enquiries and every enquiry is serious. The criteria is that they have to consider human reproductive cloning as the only option available to them after they have exhausted everything else.’

It is simple to quickly see the abuses that can come from human cloning, particularly for selfish and financial reasons but when the discussion changes to a spiritual nature, some have questioned whether a cloned human would actually be a human being, a spiritual human being possessing a soul. Would it?

Of course we can find “good” things that cloning can do for us but any good pales in comparison to the evil that will flourish. Hitler attempted to create the perfect society through extermination of certain races. Successful cloning can go much farther than that.

Tom Remington

Ten Years After Columbine, TIME Still Doesn’t Get It

It was ten years ago that two mentally ill boys, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, armed themselves and entered their high school killing 13 and injuring scores more. TIME Magazine marks this anniversary with an article about how, after 10 years, it’s no more difficult for lawful citizens to get guns. As a matter of fact, TIME claims it’s easier and they are probably correct.

Like with most similar tragedies in this country, for some strange reason, of which probably shrinks can’t understand, Americans seem to want to avoid the real root of a problem and attack a symptom. Why did our focus, at least a good part of it, become centered on guns, even 10 years later? TIME Magazine wants to know why we haven’t done more to restrict guns since Columbine.

My question is why are TIME and others still focused on guns and why aren’t they asking what has been done to get into the minds of kids like Harris and Klebod or Cho Seung-Hui who mass murdered students at Virginia Tech? What has been done about that? After all, it is mental illness that brings people like this to the point of killing someone.

TIME went to the trouble to interview John Woods, a University of Texas graduate student, about his take on guns and in particular guns on college campuses. Woods opposes a bill that would allow college students in Texas to carry guns to school.

According to TIME, Woods even thinks addressing the “psychotic” aspect of acts like at Columbine and VT would be a better way to go.

Woods concedes that getting help to the psychotic, would-be killers of the world would probably be an even better fix.

But Woods reasons that because he knew some of the students at VT who got killed that for some reason banning guns will help. He uses the same poor reasoning as I’ve heard before attempting to relate gun control to banning peanuts.

I think if this was peanuts or pistachios causing all these deaths, then we’d be all over it. But there is no amendment about peanuts or pistachios in the Bill of Rights. People on both sides just simply won’t compromise.

As I have said many times before in this debate, we recalled peanuts because they were tainted. If a gun was found to be made with a fault in it we would do the same. But the real problem with peanuts that made people sick was salmonella not peanuts. A poorly run place of business allowed for the growth of a bacteria that made people sick. We didn’t ban peanuts because of poor business practices.

And what does compromise do? If there ever existed factual evidence that allowing law abiding citizens to own a gun caused them to murder, then something should be done. This just isn’t the truth. It solves nothing and helps no one. Agreeing to a compromise only seeks to resolve an argument. Once that happens all focus is taken away from the real problem that existed in the first place.

People refuse to accept the fact that the United States of America did not grant you and me the right to defend and protect ourselves. If you read the Constitution, and this was clearly pointed out and explained in the District of Columbia v. Heller case by Justice Scalia, the Second Amendment infers that our right to self defense existed before the U.S. Constitution was written. The Amendment only restated the obvious. It was not granted.

But TIME keeps questioning why we aren’t working harder to ban guns and why is it that people are insisting on easing the restrictions that already exist. The answer is simple. Currently people must be feeling more in need of self defense. It’s also very clear that when you disarm lawful citizens, crime goes up. People are learning over again what made this country great – independence, which comes from liberty, freedom of oppression brought on by those bent on taking away our freedoms. They have discovered that all these laws and restrictions aren’t working. They’ve learned that the police show up after the crime. They’ve been witness to the state, during time of natural disasters, systematically going about confiscating their guns. They’ve had enough.

Anti gun groups have been allowed to go unchecked and unrestrained for too long. Now people are speaking out against those who insist on stealing our God-given rights from us. Surely if TIME was interested in getting to the bottom of that they could.

Again I ask. Why isn’t TIME asking what’s being done about dealing with the mental illness that causes people to kill others? Mentally ill people who want to kill can creatively find numerous ways and select readily available weapons to get the job done. It does nobody any good to select from all those weapons guns and blame senseless killings on them while infringing on our right to keep and bear arms.

Isn’t it time to move on? Isn’t it time to do the right thing and put our efforts into the real root of the problem instead of thinking that if we can attack a symptom, somehow the rest will magically disappear?

If we made it harder to buy peanuts, would salmonella go away?

Tom Remington

Fat People Cause Global Warming??

With each passing day it just gets weirder and weirder. Grossly obese individuals contribute more to global warming than healthy normal weight people. Scientists are warning the public that the increase in big eaters means that much more food production to fill their ever expanding bellies. And with more food production there is a major increase in CO2 gas emissions, ultimately warming the planet. But it doesn’t stop there. Overweight people are also more likely to drive adding to the damage.

The scientists say providing extra grub for them to guzzle adds to carbon emissions that heat up the world, melting polar ice caps, raising sea levels and killing rain forests.

The environmental impact of fat humans is made even worse because they are more likely to travel by car — another major cause of carbon emissions.

Now I can easily see fat people eating more food. But to say fat people drive more is ludicrous. Where do these stats fall out of the sky from? First off, many healthy people drive to and from the gym don’t they? Fat people are lazier and tend to do more sitting on their fat butts right?? All this, while healthy people are more active and pack up the SUV to go on a camping trip, or some outing. I would think the exact opposite, that fat people watched too much TV while the healthy folks were planning trips and outings. And they have to get there some how. Healthy people don’t just conveniently live right next to a mountain or biking trails. A lot of them need to pack up that car and drive to where they want to be.

But even if it were true that fat people drove more…. then what??

Isn’t there a tax on gas? Isn’t there a tax on food? The more you eat and the more you drive, the more in tax you pay. Therefore the fatties will be paying more since naturally they purchase more of these items, right? Well it goes beyond that. It is now our goal to get fat people to eat less and to drive less or polar bears will lose their homes, and there will be more destruction across the globe in the form of natural disasters, overwhelming organizations who provide aide.

The impact of more storms, floods and droughts could overwhelm aid organizations.

But remember not to antagonize fat folks because it may cause adverse results due to a guilty conscience…

“A few obese people have a hormone problem, although most simply don’t use enough calories and eat too many. But making them feel guilty antagonises them and may not help.”

I know this sounds like a joke but it’s not. Scientists use tax payer dollars to fund their programs to come up with this sort of content. Of course they are going to find more ways to tax the Americans, through all means possible, fat or not fat, to keep their income flowing. People will believe in this but you mention there is a God and you are insane. See how that works??

Obama Making Enemies With Israel

It appears that President Barack Obama’s campaign pledge for hope and change now involves making friends with past enemies and enemies of past friends. Coming from a man who regularly told the American people that our foreign policy needed to change because we were angering the world with the way we did business, has shown us his willingness to bow down to Arab leaders and turn a cold shoulder to our longtime friends in Israel causing anger among our friends.

Obama is tossing his weight around and putting demands on Israel never before seen. While Israel remains deeply troubled by Iran’s bent on nuclear weapons, Obama has decided to use this as leverage against the Israelis, telling them that if they want help with Iran, they need to start giving up land and handing it over to the Palestinians.

Coming up is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference in Washington, a time when, under past administrations, the head of Israel would be invited to pay a visit to the White House and meet with the president. Not Obama. He chose to inform Israel he would not be “in town” and that the past open door policy would no longer be in effect for Israeli prime ministers.

In return, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled his trip to Washington and made an announcement that an upcoming purchase of 75 US-made F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets would be put on hold while Israel takes a closer look at the deal pending.

According to “TheAge.com”, the Israelis are talking about their relationship with President Obama and the end of warm relations.

According to prominent Israeli political commentator Maya Bengal, who writes for the country’s second-largest selling newspaper Maariv, the holiday is over.

“As Passover comes to an end, so comes to an end, it seems, the days of grace granted to the Netanyahu Government by the American Administration,” says the commentator.

Tel Aviv barman Meir Avraham, 30, says he can feel on the street the tensions being played out between the US and Israel.

“This is one of the the main things that the people are talking about at the moment,” says Mr Avraham, who recently returned to Israel after several months in Townsville.

Where does this leave Israel? Netanyahu has made it clear that they cannot tolerate Iran obtaining nuclear weapons – Iran being a country that promised to use them on the “Little Satan” and the “Great Satan”. If the new policies of the U.S are toward strengthening relations with the Arab countries at the expense of Israel, then Israel will be left all alone.

Tom Remington

Israel Ready to Bomb Iran’s Nuclear Facilities

We all knew it was just a matter of ‘when’, and not ‘if’. Just this week the Israeli military announced it is now prepared to launch a massive aerial assault on Iran’s nuclear facilities. This comes as Israel’s new Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, forms his government. Just last week Israel’s President, Peres, hinted at a possible strike as well. Although we have always heard rhetoric from Israel, the time seems ripe due to many new develops. Of course, the United States has a new president who seems to be more supportive toward Muslims, and is now willing to sit down and negotiate without preconditions with Iran. But most of all Obama seems to be working against Netanyahu.

What’s more important is Iran’s capabilities now. Iran is boasting 7,000 enrichment centrifuges. If you aren’t familiar with the process of enriching uranium then I can assure you they are in the final stages…

Referring to the inauguration of a nuclear fuel production plant by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad earlier on Thursday, he said in a televised speech: “Today we praise … the accomplishment of the last stage of the nuclear fuel cycle.”

Ahmadinejad admits they are in the last stages.

For those who are looking at this situation prophetically, we have to ask ourselves a couple of questions. First, would Israel’s attack on Iran prolong the coming of the last days or would it escalate them? Why? Could this agitate Russia and possibly China to begin aligning to retaliate against Israel leading to the Gog/Magog war prophesied in Ezekiel?

White House Asks Georgetown University to Remove Jesus Symbol Prior to Obama Speech

America, a country founded on the principles of Christianity, a free nation under God, a society corner-stoned on Liberty, one that is Just, for ALL citizens; a country for the people by the people, and not controlled by the elitists in Washington… has finally made a bold step. This doesn’t come from a small minority group preaching hatred, but from the leader of the free world, a leader who represents the poeple of America. Obama, prior to his speech at Georgetown University, asked for a monogram symbolizing Jesus to be covered.

The gold “IHS” monogram inscribed on a pediment in the hall was covered over by a piece of black-painted plywood, and remained covered over the next day, CNSNews.com reported.

From a Biblical perspective this is saddening news. God has always judged the nations. Those nations that turned away and removed God from their society were always met with harsh judgment. Some were given second, third, fourth, chances. Those nations that feared God and worshiped His name were blessed and would prosper. Are we to be judged lightly?

DHS Report Is As Much A Show Of Incompetency As Profiling Conservatives

I actually had a copy of the Department of Homeland Security’s “Rightwing Extremism” report from the Office of Intelligence and Analysis at least one day before any major media source was reporting on it. Aside from the fact that what I read was poorly written, inciting, inaccurate, politically damaging, biased and conjured up ugly visions of Nazism, I hesitated to jump all over this story until I could find out whether the same poorly written reports had been done in the past about leftwing extremism (and I’ll copy the same use of one word, leftwing, as DHS did with rightwing.)

According to Michelle Malkin, there have been reports from DHS on leftwing extremism.

I have covered DHS for many years and am quite familiar with past assessments they and the FBI have done on animal rights terrorists and environmental terrorists. But those past reports have always been very specific in identifying the exact groups, causes, and targets of domestic terrorism, i.e., the ALF, ELF, and Stop Huntingdon wackos who have engaged in physical harassment, arson, vandalism, and worse against pharmaceutical companies, farms, labs, and university researchers.

I tend to agree with Malkin but it certainly depends on who you talk to as to whether this report, being called a direct attack on conservatives and military veterans, is all that unusual.

Robert Schlesinger of U.S. News and World Report doesn’t think this report is anything that should upset conservatives. He actually asks why conservatives would put themselves in the same company of those being pointed out in the report.

Here’s my question: Why are prominent conservatives so quick to lump themselves in with genuine nuts and terrorists? Seriously.

Schlesinger also points out from a footnote in the report what he wants to use as a definition of who the report is targeting.

Rightwing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those groups, movements, and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups), and those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.

It is disingenuous to try to convince anybody that this is a definitive representation of what rightwing extremism is and is talked about in this report. It is all subjective and left up to the judgment of who? Janet Napolitano? Barack Obama? Or maybe the CNN reporter who yesterday, covering the Tea Party event in Chicago, called the event anti government, anti CNN and not fit for family viewing.

It needs also to be pointed out that nothing in this report addresses radical Islamic terrorists or any other terror organizations outside the U.S.

And this report follows in the footsteps of the Missouri Information and Analysis Center’s Strategic Report, “Modern Militia Movement“. Almost immediately after that report was made public a member of the Campaign for Liberty group was detained at length at a Missouri airport because he was carrying cash and brochures about his organization.

Yesterday on a local talk radio station here in the Tampa Bay area, I heard one host say that the DHS report on rightwing extremism wasn’t targeted at Tea Parties or conservatives because these reports were sanctioned under the Bush administration. Well, of course they were. It was under the Bush administration that the Department of Homeland Security was founded. The problem with that argument is that George Bush and his Secretary of Homeland Security didn’t write this report dated April 7, 2009. It was Janet Napolitano under the direction of her boss, Barack Obama. These two either knew exactly what they were doing or they need some remedial work on writing reports on national security.

We can argue forever on whether or not this report was directed at conservatives and any or all conservative movements. What we can agree on is that the document is a piece of poorly crafted bunk. It is non specific, it is written such that it will incite anger and does not define what they deem to be “extremism”. To read the report any honest person will come away believing that those who don’t espouse to the principles of abortion, bailouts, socialism, gun control, essentially all of Obama’s programs, you are a rightwing extremist. Not only that, about the only specific group pointed out is from our own military personnel. Shouldn’t we expect our military personnel to be angry and hurt?

This report went out to law enforcement agencies as an alert. It is so poorly crafted that it appears as an obvious target of anyone not in agreement with the president and his policies.

I don’t consider myself an extremist but after reading this report and being witness to the events taking place in this country today, I am left thinking I am on the DHS watch list.

Tom Remington

Tax Day Turns Into Tea Party Day for Freedom Fighters

April 15th, commonly known for Tax day, is being transformed this year into what most right-wing conservatives like to now call Tea Party Day. Today across the nation, in more than 300 different cities, including all 50 states, there will be rallies to protest the current out of control government spending and higher taxes. The amazing thing about these tea-party rallies is there is no political party funding them. On the left, we have had MoveOn.org fund several left-wing rallies in the past, but today it is just about the American people stepping up and wanting to be heard.

Thanks to the Internet, it has made organizing such a mass event a lot easier and lot quicker. This idea was mainly started by bloggers who felt the need to reach out. Protests actually began with bloggers in Seattle, Washington who rallied back in February. Word spread and it has caught on like wildfire. So what does the left-wingers and those who support the Obama Administration think of all this?

I can’t imagine they are too keen on the idea of angry protesters stomping through American cities with a gun in one hand and a Bible in the other. They would feel more comfortable if we just put the guns and Bibles down and started murdering innocent children in the womb. Or better yet pass around a bong and have gay sex. OK I digress.

Well, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a 9 page report (pdf) warning officials of right-wing radicals. This all comes just hours prior to Tea Party Day.

(U) Key Findings

(U//LES) The DHS/Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) has no specific
information that domestic rightwing* terrorists are currently planning acts of violence,
but rightwing extremists may be gaining new recruits by playing on their fears about
several emergent issues. The economic downturn and the election of the first
African American president present unique drivers for rightwing radicalization and
recruitment.

— (U//LES) Threats from white supremacist and violent antigovernment groups
during 2009 have been largely rhetorical and have not indicated plans to carry
out violent acts. Nevertheless, the consequences of a prolonged economic
downturn—including real estate foreclosures, unemployment, and an inability
to obtain credit—could create a fertile recruiting environment for rightwing
extremists and even result in confrontations between such groups and
government authorities similar to those in the past.

— (U//LES) Rightwing extremists have capitalized on the election of the first
African American president, and are focusing their efforts to recruit new
members, mobilize existing supporters, and broaden their scope and appeal
through propaganda, but they have not yet turned to attack planning.

For those who read Bible prophecy understand that there are many people out there that believe America will not play a major role in the last days. Some scholars believe America will exist, but will play a small role in end time events. Of course there are many theories. Some believe America will simply lose their role as the #1 super power of the world. Many believe there could be civil unrest and war in America. People like Joel Rosenberg, who mentions in his book Dead Heat, a massive nuclear attack on American cities, believe this to be a possible reality. Some believe not just one event could happen but many of the events. Take a worse case scenario where civil unrest breaks out due to an economic downturn and high unemployment, leading to more bailouts and more tea parties. Unrest leads to civil war, and while America is fighting amongst itself to find its identity we are attacked from the outside by an evil force.

Again, much speculation here, but could this be the beginning of something bigger to come? Many evangelicals today believe we are living in the last days. Seeing through the third lens of Scripture doesn’t this help you more easily project which road the economic and political stage is headed?

Obama Seems Willing To Cave In To Iran

Once the United States had a firm stance on dealing with rogue and terrorist supporting countries. That stance was that countries, like Iran, had to meet tough preconditions before any thought of negotiations of any kind could take place. With the Obama administration, things have certainly changed.

Not long after Obama took office, he crafted a video plea to the Iranian leadership to be a good boy and come play with the rest of the world fair. The message in return was clear – mind your own business. But this hasn’t seemingly deterred President Obama. He now seems willing to cave in to his own preconditions, displaying his weakness at the expense of national and international security by allowing Iran to continue to enrich uranium all in hopes that he can sit down with Iran and resolve differences.

According to the New York Times, Obama has convinced other European leaders that the rest of the world needs to look at things differently and appease Iran.

A review of Iran policy that Mr. Obama ordered after taking office is still under way, and aides say it is not clear how long he would be willing to allow Iran to continue its fuel production, and at what pace. But European officials said there was general agreement that Iran would not accept the kind of immediate shutdown of its facilities that the Bush administration had demanded.

“We have all agreed that is simply not going to work — experience tells us the Iranians are not going to buy it,” said a senior European official involved in the strategy sessions with the Obama administration. “So we are going to start with some interim steps, to build a little trust.”

Earlier this week, Israeli President Shimon Peres told the world that Iran is only interested in complete control over the Middle East and not just the state of Israel.

Where will this leave Israel and the United States as Obama continues to show real weakness in dealing with known terrorists such as Iran? Obama has already waffled in his support for Israel leaving them wondering if push came to shove, who he would support.

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