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The real Jericho - making plans for day after the blast (Where is the U.S. in Bible Prophecy?)
The probability of a nuclear weapon one day going off in an American city cannot be calculated, but it is higher than it was five years ago. Potential sources of bombs or the fissile materials to make them have proliferated in North Korea and Iran. Russia’s arsenal remains poorly secured 15 years after the end of the Soviet Union. And Pakistan’s nuclear technology, already put on the market once by Abdul Qadeer Khan, could go to terrorists if President Pervez Musharraf cannot control radicals in that country.

America prepares for ‘cyber war’ with China (Where is the U.S. in Bible Prophecy?)
China is striving to overtake the United States as the dominant power in cyberspace, according to a senior American general, in what is emerging as a new theatre of conflict between nation states and a growing priority for the Pentagon. His remarks follow last month’s annual report by the Pentagon on China’s military power which said China regarded computer network operations as critical to achieving “electromagnetic dominance” early in a conflict.

Protesters have a whale of a time - Times Online

Results of last poll
Do you attend a megachurch (more than 2,000 people)?

*Yes - 19%
* No - 81%

A third US carrier, the nuclear-powered USS Enterprise Strike Group is speeding towards the Persian Gulf (Where is the U.S. in Bible Prophecy?)
According to DEBKAfile’s military sources, the US naval build-up off the shores of Iran marks rising military tensions in the region, accentuated by last week’s Hamas victory which has endowed Iran with a military foothold on Israel’s southwestern border. The USS Enterprise CVN 65-Big E Strike Group, the US Navy’s largest air carrier, will join the USS Stennis and the USS Nimitz carriers, building up the largest sea, air, marine concentration the United States has ever deployed opposite Iran.

Could Real ID Act herald the Apocalypse?
“Some fundamentalists contend that the Real ID Act is predicted in the Book of Revelation”

Iran, Libya adopt close stand on regional, international issues (The Gog/Magog War)
First Vice President Parviz Davoudi said on Wednesday that the Islamic Republic of Iran and Libya have common and close view points on regional and international issues. Speaking to reporters, prior to seeing off ceremony for Libyan Prime Minister al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, he said the two sides exchanged views on current developments in the Middle East region and the entire world. He said that Tehran and Tripoli could adopt closer stand in dealing with regional developments.

U.S. to increase military aid to Israel in decade-long deal (Where is the U.S. in Bible Prophecy?)
The United States will increase its military assistance to Israel and sign a new agreement securing American aid to the country for the next decade, President George W. Bush announced Tuesday following his meeting with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Olmert told the president that an announcement on the increase in aid would be an expression of American support for Israel against the growing threats to its existence in the region.

Wahhabism replacing traditional Islam throughout Russia (The Rise Of Islam)
Ideas of Islamist extremism and intolerance towards other faiths are spreading today in many Russian regions, Islamic researcher Roman Silantyev maintains. There is a process of substituting Islam ‘modernized’ in the spirit Wahhabism for traditional Islam underway in Russia today. The present Islamic community in Russia, in his view, is ‘in a state of the gravest crisis’ and the ways out of it have not yet been found. ‘The Wahhabis tried to use arms to impose their views but failed. Then they changed their tactics and established control over most of the Islamic mass media and a considerable number of publishing houses’, Silantyev has reported.

When big equals bad
The Senate would be well advised to observe how the Real ID Act is already proving to be unworkable