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Russia Moves Troops Closer to Georgia’s Capital

April 23, 2009 by Steve Remington  
Filed under Featured Articles, World News

russian-tankFor 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

April 22, 2009 by tremington  
Filed under Featured Articles, Science, World News

cloned humansWhile 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

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

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.

Obama’s New World Order

obama_nwoIn an article written last week by Time, many of Barack Obama’s intentions were made clear. We have seen many times throughout the last year what Obama is capable of through is outright approach and far left wing support, right down to his voting record. Since election day we have seen a major spike in activity resulting in more government control over the people and significant moves in global agenda.

For those who think it were the Republicans who have pushed for globalization you are half right. I don’t agree with everything the Republicans have done in global politics, but infiltrating Afghanistan and Iraq were moves done in retribution to an enemy that flew planes into two of our tallest buildings in New York, flew a plane into the Pentagon, and crashed another in Pennsylvania. If you have forgotten the impact that had on our country please take time to reflect now. Think about it. Sit for a few minutes in silence and take yourself back to that moment in time when Democrats were screaming at Bush for not acting quick enough.

Those who think we bullied our way through war into the Middle East has their heads buried in the sand. Secondly, the current Administration is pushing for a one world government not through war and bullying, but through legislation and changing of laws. If you disagree please consider the following:

- Obama has made it abundantly clear that America is “but one actor in a global community”.

- With all of our economic problems, instead of relying on true Capitalism he has ordered more oversight and control from government, enough so, that he thinks it is fine to fire CEO’s of companies.

- Obama has made it clear to dramatically reduce the size of our military forces.

- Instead of leading global discussion as our leadership role in the wolrd, he would much rather listen to other ideas first and at the same place a heavy emphasis on more growth in developing countries. (Spreading the wealth?)

- Obama even stood before an audience in Strasbourg, France and admitted that “In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.” This was said just before offering the audience critical views of our country.

Obama is looking to build a collective vision. If you are also not supportive of the Republicans, it is safe to say that under George W. Bush, they were set out to impose an American vision, one of freedom, and one where even if a people never understood what freedom really meant, they could choose. It is one thing to impose our ideals onto another group of people because we feel we are leaders on this Earth who realize that God’s purpose is free will. It is the ability to choose for ourselves the lifestyles we wish to have without persecution. Obama is looking not to impose freedom but to build a collective vision based on a new world order, founded on Socialistic values. Once laws are set in place, it restricts the freedoms we have, and undermines the principles of which America was founded on.

In Obama’s New World Order, where is America? Is it sitting back and allowing other countries to control what we do for the price of being liked and coming across to other nations as cooperative? Are we leading the charge? What does prophecy tell you?

by Steve Remington

White House Denies Barack Obama Bowing to Saudi King

April 11, 2009 by Steve Remington  
Filed under Featured Articles, World News

PD*27922992A picture is a thousand words… and more… To even deny what a picture captures is down right arrogant. The White House is back peddling. Now we all know a President can’t go off to a G-20 Summit or some big fiasco without somehow walking away flawless. We, as humans, tend to pick apart our leaders… maybe a way to remind us that they are, in fact, well… human like the rest of us.

Remember when George W Bush couldn’t find his way off stage? Caught on tape and surrounded by journalists, there was no way he was going to live that one down. Did he ever deny it?

As many of you are aware Obama greeted the King of Saudi Arabia with not a kiss, or a handshake, or a pat on the back with a smile, but with a bow. All this while caught on video tape. It is obvious what he was doing and his overwhelming gratitude was not misleading. It even had many Saudis completely applauding Obama’s actions. People on the right had to use shoe string to tied their bottom jaw back in place. Those who support Obama on the far left were excited to know we now have a President who respects our leaders all over the world, regardless if they have been known to mass murder citizens, or in the case of the Saudi King, chopping off various body parts for insubordination. But hey the gesture of subservience, however, was a bit over the top. It underscores Obama’s lack of ability to represent the United States, a free people.. a free nation.

But it doesn’t just stop there. The White House has gone so far as to deny it ever took place. The comment was that Barack Obama is so tall compared to the Saudi King, that he had to bend waaaaay down in order to shake the King’s hand with two hands.

“It wasn’t a bow. He grasped his hand with two hands, and he’s taller than King Abdullah,” said an Obama aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Look at the photo for a minute. If he had to bend over why is King Abdullah now so much taller than the President? Maybe we should ask ourselves why King Abdullah was sitting in the front row during the photo shoot of all the members to the G-20, while Obama stood back in the second row. Is there some sort of change going on here… you know… change we can believe in?

1970s Pollution Controls Cause Of Global Warming?

pollution3Could it be that in our own attempt to clean up the air with breathe and the environment around us, that act, in and of itself, has considerably contributed to global warming? Bwahahahahaha Bwahahahaha!

Get outta here! According to what Ed Morrissey of Hot Air is reporting, NASA research might be indicating that banning of aerosol in the 70s may have been a factor in melting arctic sea ice. Morrissey is also reporting what sane thinkers already know. The models used for this recent study are as good as the ones they used before which haven’t amounted to a tinker’s ding-a-ling.

Maybe this would go along with my theory that in our efforts to “purify” our waters, we have cleansed, with chemicals, all the natural nutrients out of the waters that normal support aquatic wildlife. Species have trouble living in it and so the harder we seem to work to “clean it up” the less we find life. Ah, what the heck do I know?

What we do know is this. We don’t know. We’re still trying to find out and all the while Obamaman, that’s Baraknikov, wants to inject the atmosphere with crud so we’ll all cool down. I’ll take my chances with an air conditioner and a fan thank you very much.

I’ve always said that when we hear of a new study claiming such and so forth, that if we just wait a few more months, there will be another study disproving the previous claim. Most of this is all in a rush to be the first to announce findings in hopes of being the first in line to rake in some of the millions of dollars for “studies”.

As time ticks away and the ice caps refreeze and grow back to “normal” amounts, polar bears continue to reproduce and grow and Americans are trying to figure out how to pay this year’s heating bills because it was so darn cold, the so-called global warming alarmists, more accurately seen as nationalists, perhaps even fascists, will continue crying that the sky is falling.

The best part about hearing of such a “finding” is that we continue to search for real answers, which is what science is supposed to be all about……..isn’t it?

Tom Remington

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