Attached to this article is a splendid graphic depicting Tower Bridge being overwhelmed. Click on image for full size.
My wife asked me the other day why I could not spell ‘Armageddon’ as if it was very important because I could not. I said; “Don’t be difficult, it’s not the end of the world just because I could not spell ‘Armageddon". That was just a little bit of my dry humour there folks. But seriously, there is a load of nut cases running around the place and frightening the living day lights out of more reasonable and mature folk by making ridiculous claims about the world allegedly coming to an end sometime in the next 12 months somewhere around the 21st December, 2012.
If there is anything that is more ridiculous then I for one would like to hear of it. There is really nothing at all that readily comes to mind that I can conjure up that seems to be more over the top than that little piece of misguided information.
The reason for this precise date is that it is regarded as the end-date of a 5,125-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. That is not to say that there is no one who lives in this house who gives no credence to this eschatological belief whatsoever, lest of all yours truly.
A NASA Scientist Answers the Top 20 Questions About 2012
PUBLIC CONCERN ABOUT DOOMSDAY IN December 2012 has blossomed into a major new presence on the Internet. This fear has begun to invade cable TV and Hollywood, and it is rapidly spreading internationally. The hoax originally concerned a return of the fictitious planet Nibiru in 2012, but it received a big boost when conspiracy theory websites began to link it to the end of the Mayan calendar long count at the winter solstice (December 21) of 2012.
Over the past year, many unrelated groups have joined the doomsday chorus, including Nostradamus advocates, a wide variety of eschatological Christian, Native American, and spiritualist sects, and those who fear comet and asteroid impacts or violent solar storms. At the time of this writing there are more than 175 books listed on Amazon.com dealing with the 2012 doomsday. The most popular topics are the Mayan calendar and spiritual predictions that the disaster in 2012 will usher in a new age of happiness and spiritual growth. Quite a few authors are cashing in with manuals on how to survive 2012.
As this hoax spreads, many more doomsday scenarios are being suggested, mostly unrelated to Nibiru. These include a reversal of the Earth’s magnetic field, severe solar storms associated with the 11-year solar cycle (which may peak in 2012), a reversal of Earth’s rotation axis, a 90- degree flip of the rotation axis, bombardment by large comets or asteroids, bombardment by gamma rays, or various unspecified lethal rays coming from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy or the “dark rift” seen in a nearby galactic spiral arm. A major theme has become celestial alignments: supposedly, the Sun will align with the galactic centre (or maybe with the Milky Way Dark Rift) on December 21, 2012, subjecting us to mysterious and potentially deadly forces.
Unlike most pseudoscience stories, there seems to be no factual core on which the Nibiru- 2012 hoax has been constructed. This is different from, for example, the claims of aliens and a crashed UFO at Roswell, New Mexico. The alien stories are a fabrication, but the core fact is that an instrumented balloon did crash in Roswell on July 7, 1947. There is no similar factual core to Nibiru—just dubious “predictions” from psychics, or the Mayans, or Nostradamus. The rest is pure fiction.
I answer questions from the public submitted online to a NASA website, and over the past two years the Nibiru-2012 doomsday has become the dominant topic people ask about. Many are curious about things they have seen on the Internet or TV, but many are also angry about supposed government cover-ups. As one wrote “Why are you lying about Nibiru? Everyone knows it is coming.” Others are genuinely frightened that the world will end just three years from now. My frustration in answering questions piecemeal motivates this “Twenty Questions” format to organize the facts and shine a skeptical light on this accumulation of myths and hoaxes.
1. What is the origin of the prediction that the world will end in December 2012?
The story started with claims that Nibiru, a supposed planet discovered by the Sumerians, is headed toward Earth. Zecharia Sitchin, who writes fiction about the ancient Mesopotamian civilization of Sumer, claimed in several books (e.g., The Twelfth Planet, published in 1976) that he has found and translated Sumerian documents that identify the planet Nibiru, orbiting the Sun every 3600 years. These Sumerian fables include stories of “ancient astronauts” visiting Earth from a civilization of aliens called the Anunnaki. Then Nancy Lieder, a self-declared psychic who claims she is channeling aliens, wrote on her website Zetatalk that the inhabitants of a fictional planet around the star Zeta Reticuli warned her that the Earth was in danger from Planet X or Nibiru. This catastrophe was initially predicted for May 2003, but when nothing happened the doomsday date was recalculated (a standard procedure for doomsdayers) and moved forward to December 2012. Only recently have these two fables been linked to the end of the Mayan long-count at the winter solstice in 2012—hence the predicted doomsday date of December 21, 2012.
2. The Sumerians were the first great civilization, and they made many accurate astronomical predictions, including the existence of the planets Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. So why should we not believe their predictions about Nibiru?
Nibiru is a name from Babylonian astrology sometimes associated with the god Marduk. Nibiru appears as a minor character in the Babylonian creation poem Enuma Elish as recorded in the library of Assurbanipal, King of Assyria (668–627 BCE). Sumer flourished much earlier, from about the 23rd century to the 17th century BCE. The claims that Nibiru is a planet and was known to the Sumerians are contradicted by scholars who (unlike Zecharia Sitchin) study and translate the written records of ancient Mesopotamia. Sumer was indeed a great civilization, important for the development of agriculture, water management, urban life, and especially writing. However, they left few astronomical records and they most certainly did not know about Uranus, Neptune or Pluto. They also had no understanding that the planets orbited the Sun, an idea that first developed in ancient Greece two millennia after the end of Sumer. Claims that Sumerians had a sophisticated astronomy, or that they even had a god named Nibiru, are the product of Sitchin’s imagination.
3. How can you deny the existence of Nibiru when NASA discovered it in 1983 and the story appeared in leading newspapers? At that time you called it Planet X, and later it was named Xena or Eris.
IRAS (the NASA Infrared Astronomy Satellite, which carried out a sky survey for 10 months in 1983) discovered many infrared sources, but none of them was Nibiru or Planet X or any other objects in the outer solar system. Briefly, IRAS cataloged 350,000 infrared sources, and initially many of these sources were unidentified (which was the point, of course, of making such a survey). All of these observations have been followed up by subsequent studies with more powerful instruments both on the ground and in space. The rumor about a “tenth planet” erupted in 1984 after a scientific paper was published in Astrophysical Journal Letters titled “Unidentified point sources in the IRAS minisurvey,” which discussed several infrared sources with “no counterparts.” But these “mystery objects” were subsequently found to be distant galaxies (except one, which was a wisp of “infrared cirrus”), as published in 1987. No IRAS source has ever turned out to be a planet. A good discussion of this whole issue is to be found on Phil Plait’s website. The bottom line is that Nibiru is a myth, with no basis in fact. To an astronomer, persistent claims about a planet that is “nearby” but “invisible” are just plain silly.
4. Maybe we should be asking about Planet X or Eris, not Nibiru. Why does NASA keep secret the orbit of Eris?
“Planet X” is an oxymoron when applied to a real object. The generic term has been used by astronomers over the past century for a possible or suspected object. Once the object is found, it is given a real name, as was done with Pluto and Eris, both of which were once referred to as Planet X. If a new object turns out to be not real, or not a planet, then you won’t hear about it again. If it is real, it is no longer called Planet X. Eris is one of several dwarf planets recently found by astronomers in the outer solar system, all of them on normal orbits that will never bring them near Earth. Like Pluto, Eris is smaller than our Moon. It is very far away, and its orbit never brings it closer than about 4 billion miles. There is no secret about Eris or its orbit, as you can easily verify by googling it or looking it up in Wikipedia.
5. Do you deny that NASA built a South Pole Telescope (SPT) to track Nibiru? Why else would they build a telescope at the South Pole?
It is with a great deal of interest I noted the following article the other day. What intrigues me the most about this article is not so much the prospect of computers being able to read someone's mind, but that the technology is now in place so that computers will be able to control someone's very thought patterns.
After all, if the computers know what one is thinking, then for sure they are going to be able to control those thought patterns. The Mark of the Beast is an implant and a kind of computer.
What that means is that the implant can be programmed for the wearer to recite that Satan is Lord. If one is to utter those words then the punishment for doing so can only be eternal Hellfire. If there is nothing else that one takes notice of on this blog please take notice of this warning - DO NOT AT ANY COST TAKE THE MARK OF THE BEAST, THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT - OTHERWISE YOU WILL GO TO ETERNAL HELLFIRE.
King James Version: Revelation Chapter 14
1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.
2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
3 And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.
5 And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.
6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.
14 And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
15 And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.
16 And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.
17 And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
Now read the attached article and then you will see just what I am referring to.
Homes will also run off 'people energy' and passwords will cease to exist, according to company's 2011 '5 in 5' report
BY Rheana Murray
Mind-reading technology will be more than just a super power featured in science fiction tales if IBM’s latest prediction comes true.
The computer giant released its “5 in 5” list for 2011, an annual report of the biggest tech advances it plans for the next five years — and one of those is to make a computer that can read someone’s mind.
“From Houdini to Skywalker to X-Men, mind-reading has merely been wishful thinking for science fiction fans for decades, but their wish may soon come true,” an IBM spokesperson said in a video that accompanied the report.
The company’s researchers are studying how to link a person’s brain to a device like a smartphone or laptop, “so you would just need to think about calling someone, and it happens,” IBM says.
Also on tap are homes that run solely off “created energy,” which comes from anything that moves.
IBM calls this concept “people power,” and says an entire home, workplace, even a city, will eventually be able to run off of energy created by someone’s jogging motions, the pedaling of a bicycle, or the movement of water through a faucet.
The company also predicts that passwords will cease to exist, too, being replaced by biometric data like retinal scans and voice files.
“Your biological makeup is the key to your individual identity, and soon it will become the key to safeguarding it,” IBM stated.
“You’ll be able to walk up to an ATM machine to withdraw money by speaking your name or looking into the camera.”
IBM also said that junk mail will become priority mail, as computers learn to better absorb a user’s likes and dislikes, and filter that into spam someone might actually read.
“Imagine your phone knowing that your favorite band is coming to town, and to put tickets on hold for you to purchase,” said IBM. “Or that a snowstorm is about to affect your travel plans and you should reroute your plane tickets.”
Within five years, the forecast will affect the entire world, IBM insists, as the current digital divide fades away, thanks to mobile technology.
“It’s cheaper to have a cell phone than [to\] open a bank account or buy a laptop, and because of this communities are able to achieve much more than they have before,” says IBM.
“Members of a village could check weather reports for when to fertilize crops, or know when doctors were coming into town instead of having to wait at the crossroads.”
This year’s report marks the sixth “5 in 5” forecast IBM has released.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/mind-reading-computers-land-ibm-annual-list-technological-innovations-watch-article-1.994563#ixzz1hBVGFGHv
There has been some concern from this quarters for some time as to why the current situation with regards to the arrival of illegal immigrants into Australian waters from Indonesia has been allowed to continue on for as long as it has unabated when quite clearly the situation could have been rectified a long time before now.
Once these people arrive in our waters they then become the responsibility of the Australian government, and thus the taxpayers of Australia. (the photograph is of the elitists puppet, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard.)
It seems obvious to all asunder that the current situation concerning illegal arrivals here in Australia will continue indefinitely for a specific purpose. Why then has this current situation been allowed to continue for as long as it has unabated when quite clearly it could have been stopped just as soon as it began.
What is then is the rational or reasoning, behind the Australian government or more correctly their political masters, allowing this situation to continue. For the answer to that provocative question, we need to look overseas to the USA and the police state it has now become.
(Just quietly, there are also suspicions the recent capsizing of a detention boat off the coast of Java may not have been an accident after all. As much as it regrets me to have to say this but what has just happened may have been done deliberately by the Indonesians to try and deter further so called refugees from gracing our fair shores, with the possible Hell here on the earth that may soon confront them if this continues on.)
It also seems that exactly the same type of situation that we are now having over here in Australia with the arrival of illegal immigrants has been existent in the US for a considerable period. They also deliberately allowed a greater influx of illegal's into the US when they could have quite easily stopped what was happening when they chose not to.
As that is the case, what they then have going on in the US has really nothing at all to do with open borders (as is the instance in Australia) but instead has everything to do with creating a pretext to set up concentration camps to imprison those who go against the New World Order.
We have not reached that point over here in Australia, just yet. However, there are still definite signs we are heading in precisely the same direction. Once the current facilities over here make the influx of these so-called refugees unmanageable and newer and larger camps begin to be constructed, it will be at that point we shall know for what purpose refugee camps have been specifically designed.
Accordingly, what is taking place now with the government allowing the arrival of illegal immigrants has nothing at all to do with refugees but is everything to do with creating a police state over here in Australia, just as the instance in the USA
Quote; “DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, according to a statement by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, recently directed ICE to develop a national-level mass migration plan. The plan will outline how to address the health care, sheltering, processing, transition and disposition of large numbers of undocumented individuals who might arrive in the U.S. as the result of a mass migration, said ICE on Dec. 13.” Part of the preparations for sheltering and processing an influx of people includes the construction and manning of detention camps. In 2006, Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root was contracted by Homeland Security to build detention centers designed to deal with “an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S,” or the rapid development of unspecified “new programs” that would require large numbers of people to be interned. Last week we received a leaked memo from a state government employee detailing KBR’s efforts to hire subcontractors to provide services required for temporary “emergency environment” camps located in five regions of the United States, indicating that many of the camps have now been constructed and are ready for use. The construction of new detention camps inside the United States has provoked fears that the facilities could also be used to intern American citizens in the aftermath of a national emergency. Rex 84, short for Readiness Exercise 1984, was established under the pretext of a “mass exodus” of illegal aliens crossing the Mexican/US border, the same pretense used in the language of the KBR request for services. During the Iran-Contra hearings in 1987, however, it was revealed that the program was a secretive “scenario and drill” developed by the federal government to suspend the Constitution, declare martial law, assign military commanders to take over state and local governments, and detain large numbers of American citizens determined by the government to be “national security threats.” The National Defense Authorization Act, which could be signed into law by President Obama before the end of the week, hands the government power to have American citizens arrested and detained without trial. With riots and civil unrest breaking out all over the globe, U.S. authorities have been preparing for similar disorder in America. A report produced by the U.S. Army War College’s Strategic Institute warns that the United States may experience massive civil unrest in the wake of a series of crises, which it termed “strategic shock.” “Widespread civil violence inside the United States would force the defence establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security,” stated the report, authored by [Ret.] Lt. Col. Nathan Freir, adding that the military may be needed to quell “purposeful domestic resistance”.
Quote: In the end, last week’s meeting of Eurozone leaders produced nothing more than an agreement to produce an agreement. Such sophistry, as has been the case several times before, was more than enough to send the stock market soaring. Yet amidst the general ineptitude, there was one defining moment: British Prime Minister David Cameron rejected the deal. Apparently, one leader in Europe still believes in the idea of national sovereignty.
Mr. Cameron was excoriated for taking such a stand. “This is going to cost the UK dearly. They have antagonized everyone,” said one unnamed senior EU official. That feeling was echoed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel. “I don’t believe David Cameron was ever with us at the table,” she complained. France’s Nicolas Sarkozy was apoplectic.
It was reported that the French president had to be physically restrained during a contentious ten-hour meeting in which he angrily rejected Cameron’s demand that the City of London and its single market be exempted from EU directives. Cameron wanted veto power over a financial transaction tax that can currently be approved by the EU, even if London financial institutions object. After the meeting ended, a petulant Sarkozy made a point of avoiding Cameron’s attempt to shake hands.
What has Cameron rejected? A treaty that, according to Angela Merkel, is little more than an agreement to “work towards” a series of goals aimed at stabilizing the Euro, and ending forever the debt crisis that has engulfed the 27-member union. The major objectives include a rule instituting deficit limits for all member states, automatic penalties for countries that breach those limits, and last, but certainly not least, a requirement that member states submit their budgets to EU authorities in Brussels for approval before they can be debated by each nation’s parliament.
In order for this grand bargain to be realized, the remaining 26 nations must vote to approve it, a process that could take as long as three months. This seemingly undermines the original premise of the summit, billed as a necessity to quickly address the EU’s debt crisis. Furthermore, while most countries can likely steamroll approval through their legislatures, it remains to be seen if Ireland requires a public referendum to get on board.
Irish voters rejected two previous EU treaties in 2001 and 2008, delaying ratification of those treaties for years. Complicating the issue is a 1987 Irish Supreme Court ruling requiring direct ratification by the public for any treaty that would “alter the essential scope or objectives” of EU institutions. The inevitable legal hair-splitting, exacerbated by the fact that the latest agreement remains a work in progress, will do nothing to move the process along in a timely manner. Neither will the fact that two other non-Eurozone countries, the Czech Republic and Hungary, have expressed “caution” regarding the deal.
The other big decision emerging from the meeting was the replacement of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) by the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). This newest permanent bailout fund was supposed to be activated in 2013, but the timetable has been moved up to July 2012. It will be capitalized with at a maximum level of $666 billion, but will not get a banking license due to German opposition.
And then there’s the International Monetary Fund (IMF). EU leaders agreed that $268 billion in bilateral loans should be provided to the IMF to address the crisis, with 75 percent of the money coming from the 17 countries that use the euro. Olivier Blanchard, the IMF’s chief economist, is pleased with the move. “The commitment to give us 200 billion euros makes a major difference in the sense that we can now go out and talk to other countries and say, ‘the Europeans have given us money, can you help?’” he contended.
What “other countries”? Not the United States, if one is to believe both the president and Senate Republicans. “Europe is wealthy enough that there’s no reason why they can’t solve this problem,” said Mr. Obama at a White House press conference last Thursday. “It’s not as if we’re talking about some impoverished country that doesn’t have any resources.”
Twenty-six Senate Republicans concur. On Friday, led by Jim DeMint (R-SC), they introduced the “No More IMF Bailouts Act.” The bill has three objectives: rescinding a $108 billion line of credit to U.S. funds given to the IMF in 2009, forcing Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner to veto future IMF bailouts, and stopping a proposed doubling of U.S. dues to the IMF.
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) cut right to the heart of the issue. “Forcing American taxpayers to bail out bloated welfare states in Europe is unconscionable and immoral. It is bad enough that Congress refuses to make hard choices within our budget,” he said. “We don’t need to enable European governments to do the same. A bailout will prolong, not ease, Europe’s burdens.”
Who else is remaining on the sidelines? The European Central Bank (ECB). Last Thursday, ECB President Mario Draghi expressed ”surprise” that people assumed the ECB would make large purchases of EU debt. Diane Swonk, senior managing director and chief economist at Mesirow Financial, described the ECB’s non-committal position as “brinksmanship” designed to extract as many concessions from individual EU governments as possible before making any further large-scale bond purchases.
Yet who is kidding whom? Despite all the pie-in-the-sky pronouncements, coupled with threats of “isolation” aimed at Britain for daring to resist the “superior wisdom” of EU elitists, nothing has been done to address the immediate liquidity crisis affecting both European banks and governments. The ultimate arbiter of this latest agreement will be the worldwide markets, specifically the bond markets.
They will ultimately reveal whether investors, as they were last Friday, can be sold yet another pig in a poke masquerading itself as yet another grand bargain.
As for Britain, what David Cameron did is best expressed by Telegraph columnist Janet Daley. “What just happened, after all?” she writes. “We jumped off a bus that was hurtling toward a brick wall….The crash, when it comes, will be truly dreadful, and all the more tragic because a delusional European elite refused to accept its inevitability.”
David Cameron has. And on a continent currently threatened by financial Armageddon much as it was threatened with military Armageddon during WWII, a British Prime Minister remains the last defender of democracy. Who says history doesn’t repeat itself? End of Quote
I not am naming David Cameron as being the Beast of Revelation, as there are just too many other possible candidates on the horizon for me to take that pronouncement. However, with the latest debacle within the EU with Britain being the only nation that would not agree to the tighter fiscal measures at the recent EU summit what has just happened is a treaty within a treaty.
That set of circumstances makes me believe that the Antichrist is not going to come to power necessarily through human intervention, but through the mighty power of the enemy, Satan.
That, because of circumstances concurrently being implemented through these series of treaties he will brilliantly manoeuvre into such a position that he will readily be accepted as being the New Age Messiah.
This will happen not so much as a matter of chance, but because there is going to be no one who is going to deny him the presidency of the E.U.
In other words, because of a set of circumstances he will simply just fall into that role, but will not of necessity be appointed by anyone, or any organization, after that he then goes on to become the Beast of Revelation.
Cameron was the only leader out of the 27-member nation participants that would not go along with what the propositions put forward at the recent EU summit, which as a matter of chance makes Britain one out of the box, or extremely isolated, relative to the rest of the EU.
All of what has just taken place within the EU now coincides perfectly with the recent announcement that the EU and India have just laid the groundwork for a further treaty on Climate Change, with climate change treaty being nothing more than just a pretext for World Government.
What if what we are now witnessing is nothing more than a precursor to the covenant of Daniel Chapter 9, Verse 27, or is the covenant of Daniel?
And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make [it] desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Time is now really beginning to run extremely short so it may be best if we were to get that message of salvation out before it is too late.
Vladimir Putin has for a long time now been the Russian strong man so many have suspected as being the Man of Sin, one of the many suspects for the correct identity of the Antichrist that I personally have had an eye on. However, as there has been no one who has come to the fore and fulfilled the prophecies of neither the treaty of Daniel, nor the temple, there is no one alive today on the planet that we can definitely pin point as being the Son of Perdition.
However, his latest statement indicating that he may be looking for an all out stoush somewhere along the line personally makes that interest in Putin as a suspect for Antichrist somewhat heightened. After all, the Antichrist is a warmonger who seeks the annihilation of humankind through an all out war.
Then, what we have going on with Putin as he makes statements such as what has been mentioned in the following cut and paste article fits into that category.
The Antichrist is a Jew. Putin is a Jew. The number of the Antichrist is alleged to equal 666, and so if we were to take the formula of A=6, and B=12 and use that formula to go right through the alphabet and then apply the letters to Putin and then add them up we can well note that it totals 666. The formula is an old Barry Smith trick. The Antichrist is the King of the North. There is nowhere here on the earth that is further North that readily comes to mind other than Russia. The Antichrist goes into exile. Putin, banished to the sidelines as the Prime Minister of Russia then just recently reinstated as the President of Russia, fits into the category of a fatal wound being healed. There are numerous ancient artifacts which have allege to show the Antichrist, all bearing an uncanny resemblance to Putin, He would like to set up a Eurasian Union sometime is 2013 with himself as its head, and so the list goes on and on.
Quote: A grim Federal Security Services (FSB) report on Prime Minister Putin’s plan to meet China’s leader Hu Jintao [both pictured top photo left] in Beijing next week warns that both Russian and Chinese military forces are being placed on their ‘highest alert’ in anticipation of a massive land invasion believed being planned by the United States of both the Middle East and Central Asia.
The plans for this “Total Global War” the Americans are preparing to launch were first revealed to China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) by the former Blackwater mercenary Bryan Underwood who is currently being held by US authorities for spying and which we reported on in our 4 October report titled “China Warns Russia Of Coming American “Great Event.”
Within hours of Putin’s reading of the coming US plans for Total Global War, this report says, he wrote a rare article in the Izvestia daily outlining a grand project to integrate post-Soviet states into closer cooperation, scheduled an emergency trip to China to meet with Hu, and ordered the FSB to notify China’s MSS of the arrest and detention of their spy Tun Sheniyun who was captured last year for attempting to steal sensitive information on Russia’s most powerful anti-aircraft system.
As we had detailed in our previously mentioned report, the “New Great Game” moves being planned by the Americans that is striking fear into both Russia and China includes:
1.) The deliberate implosion of both the US and EU economies in order to destroy the Global Financial System that has been in place since the ending of World War II
2.) The launching of a massive conventional war by the US and EU on the North American, African and Asian Continents to include the Middle East
3.) During this all-out war the deliberate releasing of bio-warfare agents meant to kill off millions, if not billions, of innocent civilians
4.) At the height of this war the US and its allies will sue for peace and call for a new global order to be established in order to prevent the total destruction of our planet.
This past week an unidentified source within the US Department of Defense (DOD) further warned that the Obama regime was preparing for a massive “tank-on-tank” war and that US military forces are “expecting something conventional, and big, coming down the pipe relatively soon.”
To how close this war may be the FSB in their report states that it will be “much sooner than later” as the Americans have pre-positioned in Iraq nearly 2,000 of their M1 Abrams main battle tanks, have pre-positioned another 2,000 of them in Afghanistan, and between the Middle East and Asia have, likewise, put into these war theaters tens-of-thousands of other typed armored vehicles.
The “final piece” for the activation of this massive armored force, standing poised like a dagger at the heart of both Asia and the Middle East, the FSB says, is the call for a “Full Mobilization” of over 1.5 million American reserve forces which can occur at “at a moments notice” as the US is currently at war and needs no further authorization from its Congress to expand their areas of operation.
Important to note about the American plan for global domination through massive warfare is that it is not really a secret, and as (curiously) revealed on the tenth anniversary of the 11 September attacks upon the United States when the US National Security Archive released a memo written by former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in September 2001 wherein he warned “If the war does not significantly change the world’s political map, the US will not achieve its aim.”
To what the “aim” of the United States is as their war against the world has now entered its 10th year, the FSB says, is to prevent “at all costs” the implosion of the US Dollar as the main reserve currency of the present global economic system before the West’s envisioned “New World Order” can be established.
The first threat to the Americans “master plan” for global hegemony came in November 2000 when the former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein quit accepting US Dollars for oil and, instead, stated his country would only accept Euros. In less than 10 months the US was attacked and used that as an excuse to topple Hussein and reestablish the US Dollar as the world’s main reserve currency.
Interesting to note is the failure of Libya’s former leader Gaddafi’s plan to introduce the gold dinar, a single African currency that would serve as an alternative to the US Dollar and allow African nations to share the wealth, but which like Iraq’s Hussein “plan” brought a swift and brutal invasion by the Americans and their Western allies to keep it from happening.
The only nation that has successfully abandoned the US Dollar is Iran, who since February 2009 abandoned all American currency opting instead to value their oil and gas in Euros. Iran, however, and unlike oil rich Iraq and Libya, has not been attacked due to the Iranians having acquired from Ukraine between 6-10 nuclear armed X-55 missiles (range of 3,000km [2,000 miles]) in 2005. [Note: Former Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko stated that the missiles sold to Iran did not contain their nuclear tips, a statement disputed by the FSB who states they were armed and “ready to fire.”]
This FSB report further states that both Putin and Hu were “enraged” by the deception of the West in regards to Libya, who after being given “absolute assurances” by the Obama regime that they weren’t planning an invasion, broke their word and did it anyway.
Russian and China, in turn, stopped the West’s plan for another war this week by their vetoing the US-backed plan in the United Nations Security Council to turn Syria into another Libya. So angry did the Americans become that their furious UN envoy Susan Rice stormed out of the meeting after the West didn’t get what it wanted.
Even worse for the West’s war plan against Syria was its President warning this week that if his nation was attacked by NATO he would cause to be fired hundreds of missiles into Israel’s most populated city of Tel Aviv within six hours, which would, of course, bring about a catastrophic nuclear response.
And in a preemptory move to counter the planned American blitzkrieg into Central Asia and Pakistan from Afghanistan, Indian Army Chief General VK Singh warned yesterday that thousands of Chinese military forces have now moved into Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir joining an estimated 11,000 more of them believed to have entered that region in the past year.
To the coming deliberate implosion by the US of the global economy, the FSB further says in their report, it now appears “certain” after a new report emerged this past from Philippa Malmgren, a former economics adviser to President George W. Bush, stating that Germany was preparing to abandon the Euro and has ordered the printing of Deutsche Marks to replace it.
Most frightening of everything in this FSB report, however, is the reply Putin gave to Russia’s top generals yesterday when asked what preparations should be made and he answered…. “Prepare for Armageddon.” End of Quote
There is literally dozens and dozens of websites on the Internet with a story to tell relative to the Shroud of Turin.
Nevertheless, it still needs to be remembered that the shroud itself lies in the hands of the Catholic Church to this day, and perhaps that is where it really belongs.
If it were indeed the real deal all that the Shroud really represents is the face or likeness of Christ as he appeared on the earth. However, it does not necessarily represent the image (or likeness) of what Christ may look like after having been transfigured up into Heaven.
The attached photograph represents an image graphically lifted from the Shroud. There is no one to this day that has been able to dispute, nor verify, the accuracy of the image on the Shroud as being the correct likeness of Christ.
As that is the case, there is then no real proof therefore to say that it is indeed genuine. That is not to say that I am making a judgement either way as to its authenticity, as I certainly am no expert on the Shroud of Turin.
However, the image of the earthly Christ on the cloth of the Shroud bears an uncanny resemblance, (or is indeed a twin) to the evil one who is going to impersonate, or be a substitute for him, here on the earth - the Antichrist. That is the allegation by so many.
Now, take a long hard look at the photograph, and note well that the right eye on the image.
Whether intentionally or unintentionally, the right eye on the image remains darkened.
As that is the case, and remembering what we were told in the scriptures of the Antichrist having one eye completely darkened, what we then maybe looking at it a one-eyed Christ, or an image of the Antichrist, lifted from the Shroud of Turin.
As an adjunct to the previous article relating to the timing of the Day of the Lord, it needs to be noted that even though I have stated the Day of the Lord can commonly be known as the Rapture of the Church the two events are one in the same.
Nevertheless, that statement still does not assume there is anyone who knows when the Day of the Lord is going to take place.
As that is the case, then there may be some that may still run with the pre, mid or post theories relative to the timing for what they may incorrectly call the Rapture, when instead what they really should be calling it is the Day of the Lord.
Notwithstanding the fact that the Day of the Lord and the timing for the Rapture is one in the same event, then the Day of the Lord cannot take place until all of the prophecies are fullfilled.
Accordingly, if the Lord were to return before all of the prophecies concerning the end times were brought to pass, (including the arrival of the Antichrist) that would make the word of God untrue, including his plan for the salvation of humanity.
Nevertheless, that statement still does not assume there is anyone who knows when the Day of the Lord is going to take place as I have said above.
Therefore, there then can be no one who can run with either of the theories relating to what they call the timing of the rapture. Simply, the Lord cannot return back here on the earth until the seven years after the signing of the covenant of Daniel, AFTER, all of the prophecies mentioned in the last book of the Bible, the book of the Apocalypse, were realized.
Nevertheless, that statement still does not assume there is anyone who knows when the Day of the Lord is going to take place as I have said above.
Accordingly, the idea of a pre tribulation theory relating to the day of the Lord is just so ridiculous to contemplate that it is not even really worth the mention.
However, as the correct identity of the Antichrist is revealed at the signing of the covenant of Daniel, 1260 days later he moves into a newly built temple and from there proclaims himself God reincarnate here on the earth, there still maybe something in the mid tribulation theory of the Rapture as the Lord destroys him at his second coming.
Nevertheless, that statement still does not assume there is anyone who knows when the Day of the Lord is going to take place as I have said above.
I use the term Rapture in this instance in place of the correct terminology, the Day of the Lord, for the want of a better word and because there are just so many Christians that have been brainwashed with this term that it is just not funny anymore.
There is something that has been of great concern for a number of years now, something Christian's state as being a reality, when there is nothing that is ever mentioned relative to it in the word of God - the Rapture of the Church.
If one is to read the word of God right through from cover to cover, (as I have numerous times) the word rapture never ever gets a mention.
Then, who can those who believe the Bible teaches a Rapture when it is quite clear to all one and asunder that it does not. I have heard all of the verses that allege a rapture of the church, yet, there is no proof that the suggested verses are symptomatic of anything of the like.
Then there are those who are prudent enough to suggest they are able to identify the timing of this alleged rapture, whether that be pre, mid or post.
Of course, there is a lot of debate and argument over the timing of the rapture, and why would not there be a great deal of argument over something that is not there to begin with. Rather than the rapture of the church, the Bible teaches the Resurrection of the Dead on the Day of the Lord, and this is not to be confused with the Rapture of the Church.
As that is the case, how then is it that those same persons are able to predict the timing for the return of the Lord when there is no one who knows neither the hour nor the day.
The dead in Christ shall precede those who are alive and together we shall meet the Lord in the air AT THE SECOND COMING OF THE LORD - NOT BEFORE....
Believers Who Have Died
13 Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. 14 For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. 15 According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.
There are those who believe they are suddenly going to float away up into the clouds and into Heaven sometime before, or mid way through, or at the end of the seven years, relative to the signing of the covenant of Daniel, after which the seventh week of Daniel begins. That is dead set wrong unless that event is associated with the coming of the Lord - but not before.
In other words, there are those who have been brainwashed into believing the Day of the Lord/the Resurrection of the Dead, and the Rapture of the Church are two separate events, when there are one in the same.
For starters, there is no evidence whatsoever to suggest that he is a Christian, nor is there any evidence whatsoever to suggest that he not a Christian. Therefore, I am not a proponent or opponent of the fellow mentioned in the attached link, Conspiracy theories with Jesse Ventura 2012.
As that is the case, then the only motivation for DVDs such as this one is to make money. Accordingly, my best advice therefore for anyone viewing the DVD is to do so with an open mind as he certainly does not claim, nor should he claim, to have all the answers to all of the questions.
To house and shelter the global elite in the case of a major event of solar flares alleged to strike the earth sometime in 2012 (as if they would know the timing of such an event anyway) the attached DVD is part 1 of 6 and purportedly shows underground shelters being built at various locations around the USA especially designed for the aforementioned purpose.
Those who are wealthy enough to be able to afford one of these shelters will then be able to go and hide underground while the rest of mankind fries to death in the intense heat that is sure to result as a consequence of the enormous heat that would strike the earth once these flares hit the surface.
Those who are proposing such an event is going to occur, even if it were true, would not be able to escape the consequences of the real end time event of the major earthquake that is going to come upon the earth right before the Lord returns.
Accordingly, those who are sheltering in one of these underground bunkers would have more or less sealed their own fates once the aforementioned earthquake hits and tons and tons of debris that is sitting right on top of their stupid heads comes tumbling down.
Being buried alive would be a much more horrible and severe fate than having to stay on the top of the earth with the probability of escape being much greater than having tons of debris piled on top on one's head.
It therefore seems that even though those who rule the globe have all the power and money they would ever need what they do not have is not know the Lord Jesus Christ saviour and deliverer. Consequently, those concerned are not Bible readers. As that is the instance, the fates of their souls would be sealed, just as their bodies will be sealed in their underground bunkers forever and a day and that is a very long time, with no escape possible whatsoever.
The Lord is allowing these bunkers to be built so that those evil men who are running the globe now can go and hide there. Because of their actions, those same bunkers will be nothing more than coffins that the Lord has allowed to be built to put them in.
REVELATION CHAPTER 6 - WITH THE EMPHASIS BEING ON VERSE 12 RELATING TO THE EARTHQUAKE.
1And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
3And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.
4And there went out another horse [that was] red: and [power] was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
5And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and [see] thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
7And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
9And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they [were], should be fulfilled.
12And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
13And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
14And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
15And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
16And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
17For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
What I am about to mention in the attached article may spell the end of what I have been saying in the past relative to certain individuals being described as the two beasts of Revelation?
However, such is the nature of the prophecies unfolding in this modern day and age, that what we thought may have been correct yesterday may not necessarily be correct tomorrow.
Some could describe what I am about to report in the following article as being farfetched, ridiculous, rubbish and just plain crazy, and those who are going to make such evaluations are more than likely correct? But are they, that is the burning question?
However, as a student of Bible prophecy, I am on the constant lookout for newsworthy events that tie in with the word of God because those news items may be the essence of prophecy fullfilled.
Even if some of those things may seem to be nothing more than madness at first glance, those bits and pieces may still be worthwhile mentioning just in case they happen to be somewhere near the truth.
If we were to study Revelation, Chapter 13 it is worthwhile to note the chronological order for the appearance of the two beasts is the political beast first, the Antichrist, and then the religious/ banker beast secondly.
That is what seems to be the case, but what if the two beasts appeared at the same time?
Consequently, if they both appear at the same time and then work in unison with each other comparative to the economic downturn within the EU that could suggest that what we were seeing may be the arrival of the Antichrist and the False Prophet in tandem.
Those EU leaders who are desperate enough may place their complete trust in the Antichrist and the False Prophet to lift the EU of its current economic downturn.
That in turn may mean exactly the same set of circumstances that put Hitler into power in Germany may then exist within in the EU if the two aforementioned can achieve success in areas where others have failed.
Only this time, the Antichrist and the False Prophet will have enormously more power than Hitler could ever dream of, as they will have conquered the EU not through military might, but through the economy.
I find it to be rather interesting that the new leaders of Italy and Greece, Mario Monti and Lucas Papademos, consecutively, have arisen on the 11-11-11 with the number 11 being an oculist number and a favourite of the Illuminati. Italy is the main stay of the old Roman Empire with Greece being the cradle of civilization.
Could it be that the Antichrist and the False Prophet have arisen simultaneously, and not separately, as I for one thought was going to be the case?
Furthermore, was the Eurozone economic crisis deliberately caused so that the Antichrist could be brought forth so that he is made out to be "the one" who was going to lift the EU out of the economic quagmire into which they were sinking?
Both Sarkozy and Van Rompuy seemed to have failed to stop the rot setting in, and now these two have come forth. What are your thoughts on this?
Mario Monti was an ex EU Commissioner so that analogy fits the political side for the identifying the Antichrist, while Lucas Papademos is the ex vice president of the ECB which fits the analogy for identifying the False Prophet who forces everyone to take a mark for buying and selling.
See these attached links from this site for further information on both of these men and their respective appointments.
Greece's new (unelected) Prime Minister, Lucas Papademos, was Vice President of the European Central Bank from 2002 until 2010.
Ahead of his appointment as the New Greek PM, Lucas Papademos prepares for a battle royal to rectify the nation's current financial difficulties.
Because of the debt crisis, Mario Monti receives an appointment as the new (unelected) PM-designate to Italy.
The European Central Bank is the institution of the European Union (EU) that administers the monetary policy of the 17 EU Eurozone member states. It is thus one of the world's most important central banks. The bank was established by the Treaty of Amsterdam in 1998, and is headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany. The current President of the ECB is Mario Draghi, former governor of the Bank of Italy.
The primary objective of the European Central Bank is to maintain price stability within the Eurozone, which is the same as keeping inflation low. The Governing Council defined price stability as inflation of around 2%. (Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices) Unlike, for example, the United States Federal Reserve Bank, the ECB has only one primary objective with other objectives subordinate to it.
The key tasks of the ECB are to define and implement the monetary policy for the Eurozone, to conduct foreign exchange operations, to take care of the foreign reserves of the European System of Central Banks and promote smooth operation of the financial market infrastructure under the Target payments system and being currently developed technical platform for settlement of securities in Europe (TARGET2 Securities). Furthermore, it has the exclusive right to authorise the issuance of euro banknotes. Member states can issue euro coins but the amount must be authorised by the ECB beforehand (upon the introduction of the euro, the ECB also had exclusive right to issue coins).
On 9 May 2010, the 27 member states of the European Union agreed to incorporate the European Financial Stability Facility. The EFSF’s mandate is to safeguard financial stability in Europe by providing financial assistance to Eurozone Member States.
The bank must also co-operate within the EU and internationally with third bodies and entities. Finally it contributes to maintaining a stable financial system and monitoring the banking sector. The latter can be seen, for example, in the bank's intervention during the 2007 credit crisis when it loaned billions of euros to banks to stabilise the financial system.
Although the ECB is governed by European law directly and thus not by corporate law applying to private law companies, its set-up resembles that of a corporation in the sense that the ECB has shareholders and stock capital. Its capital is five billion euro which is held by the national central banks of the member states as shareholders. The initial capital allocation key was determined in 1998 on the basis of the states' population and GDP, but the key is adjustable. Shares in the ECB are not transferable and cannot be used as collateral.
Throughout 2011 various member states of the European Union showed themselves to be increasingly unable to meet financial commitments. At its heart, the crisis of the European currency unit or ECU is similar to almost any other financial crisis, including the crisis of 2008. Key concepts to understanding the crisis include collateral, assets, and liabilities.
The bank is based in Frankfurt, the largest financial centre in the Eurozone. Its location in the city is fixed by the Amsterdam Treaty along with other major institutions. In the city, the bank currently occupies Frankfurt's Eurotower until its purpose-built headquarters are built.
Greece's new (unelected) Prime Minister Lucas Papademos (right) will seek to take advantage of a rare political truce on Monday to push through austerity and radical reform aimed at restoring the country's tattered credibility and staving off bankruptcy.
After Greece's two biggest parties put aside a bitter dispute to give him the job last week, Papademos will launch a parliamentary debate on Monday evening that will culminate in a Wednesday confidence vote in his cabinet.
He will then attend the Eurogroup meeting of European finance ministers in Brussels on Thursday; state television reported he would be expected to outline the country's draft budget for next year before seeking its debate in parliament as early as Friday.
Increasing the pressure will be inspectors from the "troika" of the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank and European Union who begin arriving in Athens on Monday.
"It will most likely be a short visit to get in touch with the new government," a source close to the troika told Reuters. "A larger mission, which will examine policies more thoroughly, is expected to come in December."
Papademos succeeds George Papandreou, whose proposal to hold a referendum on the country's bailout terms prompted EU leaders to raise the threat of a Greek exit from the currency bloc.
With both Papandreou's Socialist party and its rival, the conservative former opposition New Democracy party in the coalition, Papademos is expected to easily clear the confidence hurdle.
However, all eyes will be on the position of New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras, who has given only tepid backing to the unity government and Greece's second bailout worth 130 billion Euros ($180 billion).
EU monetary affairs chief Olli Rehn has warned the EU and IMF will not release 8 billion Euros of loans Greece needs by mid-December without written assurances from all parties that they will back the measures, but Samaras has said he will sign no pledge under external pressure.
Greece must secure the tranche by mid December to finance bond payments of 8.645 billion Euros at the end of the year, according to Reuter's data.
Hot on the heels of the new Greek government, Italy raced on Sunday to appoint an emergency administration after Silvio Berlusconi resigned to tackle a crisis that has quickly superseded Greece as the main worry for markets.
Above the fray
With his experience as a former ECB vice president and above the fray of Athenian politics, Papademos's arrival has been hailed both by Greeks and by EU leaders who had lambasted the country's failure to enforce tax payments, sell state firms, raise taxes and slash public jobs, wages and pensions.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel both phoned Papademos on Saturday to urge him carry out all of Greece's reform commitments. ECB chief Mario Draghi and IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde also called.
Left-wing protesters are due to gather in front of parliament on Monday afternoon for their first demonstration against the new government, which it accuses of working in the interests of bankers.
Five years after entering recession, there are few signs Greece is escaping its economic quagmire. Data last week showed an alarming 2 percentage point jump in unemployment to a record 18.4 percent in August -- peak tourist season when the rate should have fallen.
Papademos, who presided over Greece's entry to the euro zone in 2002, must now aim to secure the 8 billion euro bailout tranche, push through the 2012 budget, and prepare the country for an early election in the first quarter of next year.
To do that, he must convince the troika's inspectors that the country is doing enough so as to prove that he is to be given the second 130 billion bailout agreed upon by the Eurozone leaders last month.
Some analysts have questioned whether the new cabinet, largely comprised of Papandreou's fallen administration, will meet the bailout commitments.
However, Development Minister Mihalis Chrysohoidis, who held the same post in the previous administration, told state television the government recognized it must act now.
"We are seen as a problem abroad. We often lacked daring and resolve to achieve out targets," he said. "If we step on the gas and restore our credibility, we can return to markets very quickly."
Attached to this article is a splendid graphic depicting Tower Bridge being overwhelmed. Click on image for full size. 
