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The following articles are compiled by:

Leo Wong

Leo@WatchmenWatching.com

 

 

 

Russian Jewish billionaire immigrant eyes Israeli politics

Source: CanWest News Service

 

February 22, 2007 -- A Russian-Israeli billionaire is establishing a new party in Tel Aviv to challenge the country's political establishment in the next election.

 

Arkady Gaydamak's new faction, which will be called Social Justice, would not involve itself in security issues like other Israeli parties, but would eventually merge with former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party.

 

"(Prime Minister Ehud) Olmert is a professional politician and he should definitely be concerned about a man shown in opinion polls to be popular among the Israeli electorate," Gaydamak said Wednesday.

 

As Israel's beleaguered prime minister gave his annual news conference for foreign journalists, Gaydamak referred to polls which showed his support among Israel's large Russian minority was such that his new party could win between 14 and 25 seats in the next election.

 

Olmert's personal popularity with the electorate is in single digits and his Kadima party would only win 11 seats if an election were held today, polls say.

 

Olmert vehemently denied suggestions from within his own government Hezbollah might be stronger now than it was before last summer's 34-day war with Israel.

 

"I think Hezbollah is much, much weaker," Olmert said. One of the reasons cited was the presence of more than 20,000 Lebanese and UN troops in southern Lebanon who had made "life intolerable for Hamas" since the war ended.

 

"I am not certain that they have any appetite to fight with Israel again," he said.

 

Although Iran's nuclear ambitions is a major issue internationally, it was only touched on briefly at the news conference. "I don't think Iran is as close to the technical threshold as it claims to be," Olmert said. He added, however, Iran was much further along in its attempts to make nuclear weapons than Israel wanted them to be.

 

Comments:  I know that God had foretold us that in the last days, He would gather His people, the Jews, from the far north (Russia) and from all nations that He had scattered them and bring them back to His land, Israel.  The millions of Russian Jews are a testament to His fulfilled promise.

 

Arkady Gaydamak is a billionaire who made his fortune in the “new” corrupt Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.  He’s got the money and the clout to create his own political party and win lots of Russian Jews’ votes.  He knows it and others will jump onto his populist bandwagon.  But, will the established right-wing Likud Party buy into Gaydamak’s vision of social justice which appears to be an agenda the left-wing Labor Party would espouse.  More importantly, would the nationalistic Netanyahu be swayed to compromise his long held conservative ideology in favor of this socialistic issue just for the sake of assuming power once again albeit another coalition government?  Like Howie Mandel would ask the TV contestant, “Deal or no deal?!”

 

I am worried that with so many Russian Jews now living and influencing political, social and financial decisions within Israel that a Trojan Horse might have been introduced, a stealth horse that has hidden inside its underbelly an insidious plot by Russia not only to infiltrate Israel’s government, but eventually control it.  The end result might be the hooks in the jaw that will draw the Russian bear down south to Israel to take a spoil and conquer the tiny country by force.  If that will be the case, it certainly won’t be, “From Russia with love.”

 

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Latin America’s Protestants build bridges with Pentecostals

Source: ekklesia.co.uk 

 

February 22, 2007 -- The main Protestant grouping of churches in Latin America, which for years was seen as a religious embodiment of left-wing politics, began its six-yearly gathering in a Pentecostal church in Buenos Aires with a lively worship service - writes Peter Kenny for Ecumenical News International (ENI).

 

Several delegates noted how the Latin American church council has in recent years moved closer to the mushrooming Pentecostal and Evangelical churches which are outstripping the traditional Protestant and Roman Catholics churches in membership growth.

 

The immediate past president of CLAI, the Rev Walter Altmann, a theologian from the Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil, who is now moderator of the WCC central committee, commented on how the engine for church unity in the region, ecumenism, is changing.

 

Comments:  It seems that ecumenism is the “in” thing these days as evidenced by the many Christian denominations seeking dialogue and union with polar opposite denominations.  In this particular article, what commonality would Pentecostals possibly have with mainline Protestants other than their common Protestant roots?  The mainliners hold staid “don’t disturb the sleeping church mice” formalistic dead services while the Pentecostals require seat belts to hold them down to their pews. Pentecostals speak in tongues and their charismatic spirit would make the mainliners blush. 

 

We perceive that Satan is the mover and shaker behind the ecumenism movement.  It’s predicted in the Bible and Satan knows his Bible inside out and the undeniable fact that God’s Word must come to past as foretold.  That being said, Satan is working tireless behind the scene directing his religious but lost minions to bring about Church unity.  The end result will be the coming together of all Catholic and Protestant denominations and eventually include all faiths and religions of the world.  Satan is wise enough to know that you can’t affect a political takeover of the world unless you first have religious unity.  His aim is the worship of his appointed Antichrist and himself.  His right hand man, the False Prophet, will soon appear on the scene to consummate the final stages of the One World Church. Step by step, we’re seeing an acceleration of Satan’s efforts to achieve his ultimate goal, i.e. usurp the rightful worship that belongs solely to God’s Son, Jesus.  The battle between the unholy trinity (Satan, Antichrist and False Prophet) and the Holy Trinity (God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit) will begin soon after the Rapture event.

 

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Bill Gates keeps close eye on daughter’s computer time

Source: Reuters 

 

February 22, 2007—Bill Gates said his 10-year-old daughter, his oldest child, was not a hard-core Internet and computer user until this year, when she started at a school where the students use tablet computers for almost everything.

"She became very avid and discovered a lot of computer games, including one that runs on the Xbox 360 called Viva Pinata, where you take care of your garden," he told a business audience in Ottawa.

 

"She could spend two or three hours a day on this Viva Pinata, because it's kind of engaging and fun."

 

Gates said he and his wife Melinda decided to set a limit of 45 minutes a day of total screen time for games and an hour a day on weekends, plus what time she needs for homework.

 

Comments:  Bill Gates didn’t invent the personal computer (PC), but he did create the operating systems such as DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP and now, Windows Vista.  With each upgrade comes more snazzier and breathtaking features.  Third party software and gaming companies are quick to pounce on the new operating system by releasing their creations.  The Internet exploded ever since the cost of PCs came down to an affordable price and Gates’ Internet Explorer ousted Netscape as the preferred web browser.

 

Gates knows how addictive web surfing can be.  He did a lot of research on it and his company profited by it to the tune of billions of dollars.  Like most addictions, the addicts get hooked and their lives are adversely changed.  Now, Gates and his wife have to keep a close tab on their own daughter.  She could rebel by saying, “Dad, you’re a hypocrite.  You had a large part in making the Internet to be addictive and now, you’re telling me to cut the hours?  Why don’t you practise what you preach?”  Yes, Bill, listen to your kid here.

 

What will the future hold?  Bill Gates and Ted Turner, both communications moguls, have been doing what their globalist masters have been commanding them to do, i.e. get Earth’s citizens hooked up to the Internet so they can conduct business, take care of their health, education and social needs.  We’re creating a One World Government which mandates that every person be assigned a mark, an e-mail address and live hook-ups to the Internet where we can web cam into their homes to control, monitor and police their every activity.

 

 

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