A Letter to Obama

AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA FROM LOU PRITCHETT

Dear President Obama:

You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.

You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you. You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.

You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.

You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.

You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don't understand it at its core.

You scare me because you lack humility and 'class', always blaming others.

You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.

You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the 'blame America ' crowd and deliver this message abroad.

You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.

You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one.

You scare me because you prefer 'wind mills' to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.

You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.

You scare me because you have begun to use 'extortion' tactics against certain banks and corporations.

You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.

You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.

You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient.

You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.

You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaugh's, Sanities, O'Kelly and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view.

You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.

Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.

Lou Pritchett

Israeli occupation is a hurdle to peace

By Marwan Al Kabalan

The 1967 Arab-Israeli war was a watershed event in the Middle East.

Its repercussions have shaped the history and politics of the region ever since. The war has also transformed the nature of the Arab-Israeli conflict, rendering it from an existential question into mere dispute over territories.

During six days of almost one-sided hostilities, Israel captured a huge portion of Arab territories, including the Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip, West Bank of the River Jordan, and the Syrian Golan Heights. The status of these occupied territories has subsequently become the title of the conflict.

Initially, Israel thought that it could keep a good part of these territories after forcing hundreds of thousands of its rightful owners to flee. It, hence, tried to change the demographic and geographic status of the captured land.

Israel's thoughts proved illusions. Following the Camp David Accord of 1978, Israel evacuated 10,000 colonists from the Sinai Peninsula, returning the 70,000 square km desert to Egypt.

After the war of attrition in 1974, Israel was also forced to give back a small portion of the Golan Heights to Syria. In 2005, Israel withdrew unilaterally from the Gaza Strip, evacuating another 4,000 colonists. The rest of the occupied territories remained in Israeli hands.

Since the US was and remains Israel's main backer, the Arab world relied on Washington to retrieve the occupied territories. But, the US, which considered Israel as a "strategic asset" following its 1967 victory, showed no real interest in pursuing peace in the Middle East.

Throughout the Cold War era, the US was single-mindedly preoccupied with the "Communist threat", and had subsequently pursued a policy of containment rather than resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

The end of the Cold War presented a golden opportunity to resolve the generations-old conflict. The Bush Sr administration pressured Israel to participate in the Madrid Peace Conference in 1991. The right wing Yitzhak Shamir government, dragging its feet to the conference, declared that it would negotiate for decades with no real substance.

Fearing further US pressure to implement UN resolutions 242 and 338, Israel accelerated the building of colonies. Israel's main objectives were to create new facts on the grounds, allowing it to permanently annex more Arab land, and keep Palestinian territories divided and surrounded by Israeli colonies.

Throughout the past two decades, Israel's policy was to eat up more Palestinian land while negotiations were under way. This went against the very logic of the Oslo Accords of 1993.

According to Oslo, Palestinians agreed to defer all difficult issues, including colonies, refugees, water resources and the final status of occupied Jerusalem to a later stage in exchange for an Israeli commitment to freeze the building of new colonies and preserve the territorial integrity of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Israel violated its commitments.

According to UN, Palestinian and Israeli sources, Israel has built more colonies in the occupied territories between October 1991 (Madrid Peace Conference) and 2000 (when the peace process collapsed following the Camp David summit between Yasser Arafat, Ehud Barak and Bill Clinton) than in the previous years since 1967.

Following the Al Aqsa Intifada of 2000, Ariel Sharon came to power in Israel. Supported by the Bush Jr administration, he dropped the peace process all together and initiated a new policy of unilateral disengagement. He proposed a fence to separate Palestinian towns and cities from Israel. He offered to return 42 per cent only of the West Bank - reduced later to mere 29 per cent - to the Palestinian National Authority, while annexing the rest.

Having lost the moral high ground that it once enjoyed in the Arab world, the US under President Barack Obama chose to revive the Middle East peace talks. Both Palestinians and Syrians decided that there will not be peace talks unless Israel freezes its activities of building colonies in the occupied territories.

Clearly, the more land confiscated by Israel the more distant a peaceful solution for the conflict becomes. It is feared that when Israel realizes that peace is the only feasible option for it to live in a secure environment, there will be no more land for peace.

Dr Marwan Al Kabalan is a lecturer in media and international relations at the faculty of Political Science and Media, Damascus University, Syria. End of quote

I have just watched a mind boggling documentary entitled “Occupation 101”

The movie exposed the absolute myths that have been perpetrated for decades now by the media over the Middle East conflict.

The Palestinians have been constantly blamed for the dozens of acts of violence that have inflamed the region now for as many years. In reality they have been nothing more than innocent victims of deliberate acts of violence perpetrated by Israel!

This conflict does not go back hundreds of years as so many have supposed but only commenced after Israel became a nation in 1948 and began stealing Palestinian land to establish illegal settlements.

The Jews (not the ordinary Jews but the Zionist Jews) have illegally occupied and stolen Palestinian land now for decades and decades, and all of this skullduggery very heavily backed by the US - more than likely in the name of oil.

There can never ever be a peace treaty while the current attitude of the Israeli government remains.

The illegal occupation of Palestinian land will continue and the wall that divides Israel and what is left of Palestine will not come down.

For that reason there can be no two-state solution - nor can there be a peace treaty under those circumstances.

The best part is that there can be no one more to blame for the acts of violence that are committed against completely unarmed Palestinian citizens than the American fundamentalist Christian lobby who mistakenly call the Jews Gods chosen people and stolen Palestinian land - the Jews promised land.

The Jews are not God’s chosen people; certainly, no more than what the Palestinians are!!!

The Antichrist has been revealed and we should know (by the end of October) his identity for certain as he is appointed as the first ever full time president of the EU.

Yet, even he cannot ever hope to achieve a Middle East as the Bible has said would be the case unless there is some form of outside interference from Russia in the Magog battle and Israel is brought to her knees to force her to stop stealing Palestinian land. Only then can there ever be hope for a seven year Middle East peace treaty of Daniel Chapter 9, Verse 27 heralding the return of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Medvedev Shows Off Sample Coin of New ‘World Currency’ at G-8

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev holds up an 'worldwide coin' as he discusses the concept of an international currency during the Group of Eight (G8) summit in L'Aquila, central Italy.

Watch here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPrDeKLP5hk

Also check the site:http://www.futureworldcurrency.com/

By Lyubov Pronina

July 10 (Bloomberg) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev illustrated his call for a supranational currency to replace the dollar by pulling from his pocket a sample coin of a “united future world currency.”

“Here it is,” Medvedev told reporters today in L’Aquila, Italy, after a summit of the Group of Eight nations. “You can see it and touch it.”

The coin, which bears the words “unity in diversity,” was minted in Belgium and presented to the heads of G-8 delegations, Medvedev said.

The question of a supranational currency “concerns everyone now, even the mints,” Medvedev said. The test coin “means they’re getting ready. I think it’s a good sign that we understand how interdependent we are.”

Medvedev has repeatedly called for creating a mix of regional reserve currencies as part of the drive to address the global financial crisis, while questioning the U.S. dollar’s future as a global reserve currency. Russia’s proposals for the G-20 meeting in London in April included the creation of a supranational currency.

To contact the reporter on this story: Lyubov Pronina in L’Aquila, Italy at lpronina@bloomberg.net

Baroness Kinnock, the Europe minister, has given the clearest signal yet that the former Prime Minister is running, for the EU's top job

"The UK government is supporting Tony Blair's candidature for president of the council," she said.

Asked if Mr Blair's candidacy for president of the Council of the EU, a position created by the Lisbon Treaty, had been confirmed, Baroness Kinnock repeated that he was the British choice.

"I am not saying there has been any formal confirmation or statement from Tony but it certainly is the government's position. I am sure they would not do it without asking him," she said.

Mr Blair is seen by key European leaders, including President Nicolas Sarkozy, as an international statesman who can help boost the EU's presence on the world stage as its official global representative.

"Blair is seen by many as someone who has the strength of character, the stature, people know who he is and he would be someone who would have this role and step into it with a lot of respect and I think would be generally welcomed," said Baroness Kinnock.

Mr Blair, currently working as international envoy to the Middle East haso never ruled himself out of the EU job but has stressed that the Lisbon Treaty must enter into force before a presidential contest can begin.

"As far as we are concerned nothing has changed. There is nothing to be a candidate for, the job does not exist," said a source close to Mr Blair.

The Lisbon Treaty, the successor to the EU constitution, is awaiting a second referendum in Ireland after Irish voters rejected it last year.

A British Government spokesman said: "The Irish have yet to hold their referendum on the treaty, and if and when the treaty enters into force, and if Mr. Blair decides to run as a candidate as president, then Glenys Kinnock is quite right - he would have the Government's support."

Under the treaty, the current system of six-monthly EU presidencies rotated between 27 member countries will be replaced by a "President of the Council".

The new EU president will be a full-time Brussels official for his two-and-a-half year term, chosen by Europe's leaders but unelected by voters.

Baroness Kinnock has announced that Tony Blair is Britain's official candidate for the job of European Union President later this year.

The job, would involve Mr. Blair co-coordinating EU policy and brokering agreements between leaders of the 27 member states.

It is expected to carry a salary and perks package of at least £200,000 a year.

However, a spokesman for Tony Blair said: "There is no campaign. As we have said time and again on this, there is nothing to be a candidate for since the job doesn't actually exist." End of quote

The Bible tells us that we shall not know who the Beast is until he is revealed.

Accordingly, it is not being too presumptuous, or jumping the gun, to believe that the Antichrist now has been revealed in the form of the British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

As Bible students have been saying for quite sometime know that the Beast consolidates all of his power for the complete control for firstly the EU, and then the whole of the globe under the banner of the EU presidency there really does seem to be very little doubt now to that reality.

Any statement that I choose to make such as the one above has to be tested and proven with the scriptures themselves and the facts of the matter are that there is a load of scripture that says the Beast is a lion, or in the instance of Blair a former British Prime Minister.

For those that may say that the Antichrist may not be the first president of the EU, nor even the second one, or so on, even years away they may be correct?

However, remembering that the Antichrist comes forth as the peace maker of the Middle East when you bring into the equation Blair’s prominence as the head of the international quartet of four towards Middle East peace then that changes that argument dramatically - particularly he has just come out and said that there will be a Middle East treaty within a year which would make it right after he has been appointed as the full time EU president at around about early January 2010 -- just as the Bible says would be the case.

I am extremely worried for those that have not yet given their lives over to Christ by accepting him as their saviour and deliverer for their time has know almost run out for once this man is in power within a few months then let the end game begin.

The 27 member nations of the EU have already agreed to the EU constitution (the Lisbon Treaty) and once Ireland has agreed to it at the meeting that is to take place on the 02nd of October then the position for the full time president will be created.

Remember also that it was Blair who confirmed a covenant between the Protestants and Catholics over their decade’s long conflicts.

NB If there has been any hurt or misunderstanding that I have caused by any comments that I have made relative to my fellow Christians then I humbly regret in having done so, may God forgive me.

Rejection of Lisbon would generate 'wrangling' at EU level, says Miliband

Tony Blair is the red hot favorite to be appointed as the full time president of the EU once the Lisbon Treaty is approved.

It must be remembered that even though the Lisbon Treaty must be approved before the EU constitution can come into effect as from the 01st of January 2010 and that it was Tony Blair who confirmed a treaty between the warring factions in Ireland and settled the decade’s long conflict over there.

Statement: the Lisbon Treaty will be approved and Tony Blair will receive the appointee the full time president of the EU!

Quote: REJECTION OF the Lisbon Treaty in the October referendum would generate further “institutional wrangling” at European level and lead to a reduction in the number of commissioners, British foreign secretary David Miliband said in Dublin yesterday.

And in response to a question about Tony Blair’s suitability to become president of the European Council, he said the former prime minister would be an “excellent” choice, but added that the position could not come into existence unless Lisbon was ratified.

Speaking at a joint press conference at Leinster House with Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin, he said: “The eyes of Europe will be on Ireland in the early part of October. Obviously it’s now for the Irish people to decide how to vote in the referendum. As you know, the position of the British government is very, very clear and the British parliament is very, very clear as well, that the Lisbon Treaty is good for Europe, we think it’s good for Britain and now it’s for you to decide whether or not you want it for Ireland and therefore for the rest of Europe as well.”

Asked about the implications of a second rejection of Lisbon in October, he said: “Obviously we would then have to try to live under Nice, and as you know, the Nice treaty requires a reduction in the number of commissioners, it doesn’t specify how many, but essentially if we don’t have the Lisbon Treaty we will return to institutional wrangling which has been the enemy of European progress over the last seven years.”

In the light of reported opposition by Spain and Sweden, which currently holds the EU presidency, to having Tony Blair as President of the European Council, which would be established on a long-term basis if the Lisbon Treaty were passed, Mr Miliband was asked about his own attitude to Mr Blair as a possible president.

“I think he’d be an excellent president but there isn’t a vacancy at the moment because there isn’t a post and there won’t be a post unless there is a Lisbon Treaty. In my experience, there’s a lot of respect for Tony Blair around the world, never mind around Europe. He’s made his own contribution to Anglo-Irish relations, which I think is distinctive.

“But he’d be the first to say that there isn’t a vacancy at the moment, because there’s no job.”

Commenting on the recent arrests of British embassy staff in Tehran, he said: “The solidarity that’s been shown by the whole of the European Union, all 27 countries, on this issue of the arrest of the hardworking diplomats who are of Iranian origin but work for the British embassy in Tehran, is much appreciated.” Asked if he could see a time when himself and Mr Martin would be greeting each other at prime ministerial level, Mr Miliband said: “If you start thinking about other people’s jobs, you’re not focusing on your own job and I think we’re both focusing on our own jobs.”

Mr Martin said the two ministers had discussed the forthcoming Lisbon referendum, the arrest of British embassy personnel which Mr Martin described as “absolutely unacceptable” and the situation in Burma in the light of UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon’s impending visit there tomorrow. They also had “a brief overview of the Northern Ireland situation, particularly in the aftermath of the European elections and the range of issues that has emerged since then, in terms of devolution of policing, but also in welcoming of course the decision of loyalist paramilitaries to decommission their arms”. End of quote