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Demand for aerial drones seen tripling worldwide (Increase in Knowledge/New Technologies)
The unmanned aerial vehicle market, regarded as the most dynamic sector in the aerospace industry, is expected to triple over the next decade.

The Teal Group said UAV spending, fueled by U.S. programs, would increase by more than 200 percent until 2015. In a report, the U.S. consultancy said annual UAV spending would increase from $2.7 billion to $8.3 billion within a decade. In all, the UAV market would reach $55 billion over the next 10 years.

Russia Offers SAMS To Protect Iran’s Nukes (The Gog/Magog War)
Russia, pledging to complete the Busheher reactor, has offered to sell a range of surface-to-air missile systems to protect Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Russian diplomatic and industry sources said Moscow has been negotiating to sell Iran a range of anti-aircraft systems to protect Bushehr from Israeli or U.S. air strikes. The sources said contracts could be signed when Bushehr was ready to begin operations in a move expected to take place in late 2007.

The Antichrist
Kerry Dukes questions how the word antichrist is translated. … the end of time called “the Antichrist” is a popular, though unbiblical, belief. …

Hezbollah moving rockets near Israeli border (Israel - God’s Timepiece)
Hezbollah has been transporting rockets and heavy weaponry to Palestinian camps in south Lebanon just a few miles from the Israeli border, according to Lebanese officials.

The officials told WND the office of Lebanese Prime Minister Faud Sinora sent a letter last week to Abbas Zakir, the Palestinian Authority’s most senior representative in Lebanon, outlining the alleged Hezbollah weapons transfers into Palestinian camps. The letter noted “unusual activity” in and near the Palestinian camps, including the coming and going of trucks suspected of carrying weapons.

China calls for U.S. senators to halt tariff bill
We need tariff if Beijing does not significantly raise the value of its currency

Global military spending to hit all-time high of $1.4 trillion (Other Events to Watch)
Global military spending is expected to hit $US1.06 trillion this year, topping the record set during the Cold War era.

“Arms sales do not start conflicts, but they certainly fuel and lengthen them,” said Bernice Romero, international campaign director for Oxfam International, the group that released the study.

UN Chief Warns of Global War Over Religion, Says Only UN can Solve World’s Problems (Other Events to Watch)
On Tuesday, Secretary General Kofi Annan delivered his final address to the United Nations General Assembly before he retires at the end of the year. During the speech, which comes on the heels of the media-generated controversy regarding Pope Benedict XVI’s quoting of a text on Islam, Annan said, “insensitivity towards other people’s beliefs or sacred symbols –- intentional or otherwise — is seized upon by those who seem eager to foment a new war of religion on a global scale.”

No text too taboo for TCU - TCU Daily Skiff

Values Notes, 9/30
Lincoln Journal Star, NE - 14 hours ago… Final Events Bible Prophecy DVD and book by Doug Batchelor, Seventh-day Adventist author. 43-minute documentary leads you through end-time events, including …

N. American students trained for ‘merger’ of nations (Where is the U.S. in Bible Prophecy?)
In another example of the way the three nations of North America are being drawn into a federation, or “merger,” students from 10 universities in the U.S., Mexico and Canada are participating annually in a simulated “model Parliament.”

Under the sponsorship of the Canadian based North American Forum on Integration, students met in the Mexican Senate for five days in May in an event dubbed “Triumvirate,” with organizers declaring “A North American Parliament is born.”