Tuesday, 1 July 2008

PEAK OIL THE COMING CRISIS

DEMAND FOR OIL WILL OUTGROW PRODUCTION IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS, AS REPORTED IN AN EARLIER POST TODAY:
http://www.bob-mitchell.blogspot.com/2008/07/opec-warns-of-oil-supply-shortages.html

WHILE RESEARCHING TONIGHT I CAME UPON THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE, REPRODUCED IN PART. IT MAKES SCARY READING IF YOU DO NOT KNOW THE LORD IS IN CONTROL. DO YOU SEE HOW EVERYTHING IS FOCUSSING ON THE MIDDLE EAST?

PEACE, ISRAEL, IRAN, HAMAS, HIZBULLAH, SARKOZY ETC. AND NOW OIL PRODUCTION FAILING TO KEEP PACE WITH DEMAND BY 2010.

"Are We 'Running Out'? I Thought
There Was 40 Years of the Stuff Left"
Oil will not just "run out" because all oil production follows a bell curve. This is true whether we're talking about an individual field, a country, or on the planet as a whole.
Oil is increasingly plentiful on the upslope of the bell curve, increasingly scarce and expensive on the down slope. The peak of the curve coincides with the point at which the endowment of oil has been 50 percent depleted. Once the peak is passed, oil production begins to go down while cost begins to go up.
In practical and considerably oversimplified terms, this means that if
2005 was the year of global Peak Oil, worldwide oil production in the year 2030 will be the same as it was in 1980. However, the world’s population in 2030 will be both much larger (approximately twice) and much more industrialized (oil-dependent) than it was in 1980. Consequently, worldwide demand for oil will outpace worldwide production of oil by a significant margin. As a result, the price will skyrocket, oil dependant economies will crumble, and resource wars will explode.


TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE GO HERE:http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/

IRAN PREPARES 320,000 GRAVES FOR INVADERS

Iran 'digging 320,000 graves for invaders'
Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:57:34

Brigadier General Mir-Faisal BaqerzadehA senior Iranian commander says the country is digging some '320,000 graves' in its bordering provinces for future slain invaders.


Brigadier General Mir-Faisal Baqerzadeh, the Head of the Foundation for the Remembrance of the Holy Defense, said Sunday that the decision had been approved by Iran's Armed Forces Headquarters. "We will dig 15,000 to 20,000 graves in each of the border provinces," he said. "We do not wish the families of enemy soldiers to experience what Americans had to go through in the aftermath of the Vietnam War," added Brig. Gen. Baqerzadeh, who is also the head of the search committee for missing soldiers.

The commander said the preemptive measures would decrease the time slain soldiers would be 'missing in action'. "The burial of slain soldiers will be carried out decently and in little time," he continued. Baqerzadeh added that the decision is in line with the Islamic Republic's commitment to comply with the Geneva Convention and the additional protocol regarding wartime cooperation between Iran and the Red Cross.

OPEC WARNS OF OIL SUPPLY SHORTAGES AFTER 2010

Oil prices rise as OPEC president questions investment flows
AFP - 16 minutes ago


NEW YORK (AFP) - Oil prices swung back towards record highs on Tuesday after the president of OPEC said there was uncertainty surrounding future investment in
energy facilities that could boost crude output.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) meanwhile said that growth in supply would outpace demand until 2010, after which the oil market would likely experience supply tensions.

New York's main oil futures contract, light sweet crude for August delivery, closed up 97 cents at a record close of 140.97 dollars a barrel. The contract had struck a historic peak of 143.67 dollars on Monday.

Brent North Sea oil for August delivery settled up 84 cents at an all-time settlement high of 140.67 dollars, after striking a record trading peak of 143.91 dollars on Monday.
OPEC president Chakib Khelil, speaking at a conference in Madrid, said the oil producers' cartel was concerned about future demand.
"The concern we have is about the security of demand," Khelil, who is also Algeria's energy minister, told delegates at the World Petroleum Congress in the Spanish capital.

He said there were "big uncertainties" about making huge investments in energy infrastructure to increase output from the 13 OPEC member countries, which currently pump about 40 percent of world oil.
"I don't think anyone questions that we have enough resources; the issue is if we are able to supply it to the market," he said.

The market was energised Monday by tensions over oil producers
Iran and Nigeria, and as the dollar remained weakened against other major currencies. International oil contracts are priced in dollars.

Analysts warned that such factors could drive prices to fresh heights in coming days.

"Tensions with Iran seem to be worsening and intensifying, Nigeria seems on the brink of complete chaos or even civil war, and the ECB (European Central Bank) seems determined to march the US dollar right off a cliff" with predicted interest rate hikes, said analysts at energy risk management firm
Cameron Hanover.

The United States has expressed concern about Iran's nuclear program, but Tehran says the program is for peaceful purposes.
"Any one of these three flash points could ignite a new round of buying in the oil markets," they said.


Global oil prices have doubled in the past year and have risen by almost 50 percent since the start of 2008 when they breached 100 dollars for the first time, triggering fears over inflation and slower economic growth.
Consumer countries blame record prices on tight supplies amid strong demand and unrest in producer countries such as Iran,
Iraq and Nigeria. In particular, they accuse OPEC of not producing enough crude.

The cartel, however, insists that the weak US currency is at fault, as it drives up demand for dollar-denominated oil from foreign buyers armed with stronger currencies.

"Often it is a case of political expediency to find a scapegoat for higher prices rather than undertake serious analysis or perhaps confront difficult decisions," the IEA, the world's energy watchdog, said in a report published Tuesday.
"Blaming speculation is an easy solution which avoids taking the necessary steps to improve supply-side access and investment or to implement measures to improve energy efficiency."

King Abdullah of OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia -- the world's number one oil exporter -- meanwhile called on consumer countries to get used to high prices.
"Consumer countries have to adapt to the prices and the mechanisms of the market," the king said in an interview published Tuesday by the Kuwaiti daily Al-Siyassah.


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Monday, 30 June 2008

SARKOZY, CANDIDATE FOR ANTICHRIST?

Dan 12:9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are shut up and sealed till the time of the end.
Dan 12:10 Many shall purify themselves; and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand: but they that be wise shall understand.


I HAVE WRITTEN PREVIOUSLY ABOUT FRENCH PRESIDENT NICOLAS SARKOZY AND HIS SIMILARITY TO THE DESCRIPTION OF ANTICHRIST GIVEN IN SCRIPTURE: http://bob-mitchell.blogspot.com/2008/06/possible-antichrist-candidateor-not.html
TODAY I DISCOVERED THIS VERY WELL WRITTEN PIECE BY "PERILOUS TIMES."
"SARKO" IS CERTAINLY BECOMING THE PROPHETICALLY MINDED CHRISTIAN'S PRIME CANDIDATE FOR THE ROLE OF ANTICHRIST.
HOWEVER IT IS WISE TO "WAIT, WATCH AND SEE."

Pictured here: President Sarkozy maintains a little-reported relationship with a Jewish messianic group that is participating in plans to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem. Here he attends a Chabad-Lubavitch service with his spiritual adviser, Rabbi Dovid Zaoui. In the background is the Chabad-Lubavitch flag, sporting the crown of King Messiah. Many Christians, at least of the premillennial variety, believe that Jesus will wear that crown when He returns from heaven in the not-too-distant future. Does Sarkozy have other plans?

Numerous Bible prophecies reveal that the Jews will rebuild their Temple here (in Israel) in the very near future and that Antichrist, the chief adversary of God among men, will claim deity in that rebuilt structure before Jesus Christ returns from heaven.
For at least 12 years Sarkozy's spiritual adviser has been Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Dovid Zaoui. The Chabad-Lubavitch sect of Hasidic, or Orthodox, Judaism, is committed to building the Third Temple on the Temple Mount, and views Sarkozy's election to the French presidency as a significant step in the establishment of Messiah's kingdom on earth.
Muslims worldwide fervently but erroneously deny that a Jewish Temple ever stood on these grounds, while Israel as a nation and much of the world, for that matter, remains blinded to the fact that the Hebrew prophets predicted two comings for Messiah, first as a suffering savior for the sins of mankind and second as conquering king. The millennial kingdom of Messiah is based wholely on the blood that God the Son, the last sacrifice for sin, shed on Calvary's cross. The messiah for which the Chabad-Lubavitch Jews long, however, is not Yeshua, but "another who will come in his own name" (John 5:43).

In past posts we have duly noted that Sarkozy, more than any other European leader in the last 100 years, bears striking resemblances to the Antichrist prophesied in the Bible. The Antichrist is a man of great wickedness who will not only rule the world for seven years under a bloody, Satanically engerized regime but deceptively present himself as Israel's coming messiah with the intent of opposing the return of Jesus Christ to establish his thousand-year kingdom in Jerusalem. We have documented the following as well as other intriguing facts about the French president's character and career.

Sarkozy, like all presidents of France, is co-prince of Andorra. In Daniel 9:26 we learn that Antichrist is the "prince that shall come." In Isaiah 21:25-27 we also learn that Antichrist is the "profane wicked prince of Israel," from whom Jesus Christ will wrest the crown of Israel.

Sarkozy, through his mother's family, is of Syrian Jewish descent. In the seventh and eighth chapters of Daniel's prophecy we learn from the visions of the third and fourth beasts that Antichrist is the "little horn" that arises from the territories of both the Greek and Roman empires. Writing in the early part of the twentieth century, Clarence Larkin explains: "From what we have thus far learned of the Antichrist, the probability is that he will be a SYRIAN JEW, for it is not likely that the Jews will accept as their Messiah one who is not a Jew, unless the claimant by false pretense makes them believe he is one. This, however, does not prevent the Antichrist being a Roman citizen, and the political head of the revived Roman Empire, for Saul of Tarsus was both a Jew and a Roman citizen." Thus, Antichrist is Roman and Syrian, or Gentile, as well as Jewish. The popes don't qualify on these points.

Sarkozy is the architect of the revived Roman Empire of Bible prophecy, to be called the Mediterranean Union, which will include Syria, a fact that will subordinate Bashar al-Assad, another Antichrist candidate in the minds of some Christians, to Sarkozy. In Revelation 13 we learn that the "beast from the sea" refers to both the revived Roman Empire and its dictator. The two are inextricable and both animated by the Devil. Like Larkin, British theologian/preacher A. W. Pink wrote in the early part of the twentieth century. Knowing only of the League of Nations, the forerunner of the United Nations, Pink described Antichrist's involvement in the formation of the last world empire:

"And I saw...a Beast rise up out of the sea". In Scripture, the troubled "sea" is frequently a figure of restless humanity away from God. The Antichrist will come upon the scene at a time of unprecedented social disturbance and governmental upheaval.

He will appear at a crisis in the history of the world. From other prophetic scriptures we gather that, following the removal of the Church from this earth, and some time before Daniel's seventieth week begins, there will be a complete overthrow of law and order, both civil and political.

All Divine restraint being removed, lawlessness will prevail. We have no doubt that Satan will designedly bring this about. It will create a situation beyond the diplomatic skill of earth's statesmen. This will provide the desired opportunity for the coming Superman, who will be a diplomatic genius. Just as many leaders today are satisfied that a League of Nations would be the best device for preserving peace, so in the day to come the Man of Sin will satisfy the world that this is the only solution to the baffling problems then confronting the Powers of earth.

Thus will the Antichrist resurrect the old Roman Empire at a time of universal confusion and tumult. He will himself be the acknowledged head or Emperor, the last of the Caesars. Hence the double significance of this figure - "a Beast rising out of the sea".

Out of a state of anarchy will come forth this might Despot, who will speedily arrogate to himself all authority, both Divine and human; and in the end it will be seen that he embodies a lawlessness even worse and more fatal than that out of which he sprang. A Beast indeed will he soon appear to be.

Pregnant with meaning is this title. Having rejected God's "Lamb"; a Beast shall be the world's ruler. This will be God's reply to the satanic teaching of Evolution now so popular almost everywhere. The leaders of modern thought insist on the beastial origin of man, and so a Beast shall yet lead the majority of his generation to Perdition!

Note Pink's comment: "Thus will the Antichrist resurrect the old Roman Empire at a time of universal confusion and tumult." Sarkozy's commitment to regional and world government and the demise of national sovereignty is also evident in his September 25, 2007 speech to the United Nations General Assembly:

"In the name of France, I call upon all states to join ranks in order to found the new world order of the 21st century on the notion that the common goods that belong to all of humankind must be the common responsibility for us all. The UN should ensure access for all human beings to vital resources, such as water, energy, food, medication and knowledge. More morality is needed in financial capitalism and a fairer distribution of profits, earnings in commodities, raw materials and new technologies. There must be a change of mindset and behaviour."

The news headlines today trumpet: Global fuel crisis. Global food crisis. The demise of the US dollar. The collapse of the world banking system. The time has arrived for the Man of Sin to deceive the world and God's chosen nation. If another, more qualified candidate awaits in the wings, then Sarko is certainly doing his part to roll out the red carpet.
posted by Perilous Times


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Sunday, 29 June 2008

Top US Commander Briefed on IDF’s Four-Front Strategy in Potential Iran War Context

THIS JUST IN FROM DEBKAfile:

Top US commander briefed on IDF’s four-front strategy in potential Iran war context
June 29, 2008, 9:08 AM (GMT+02:00)


Top US commander Adm. Michael Mullen sees for himself.

The visiting Chairman of the US Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Michael Mullen, carried out a guided tour of Israel’s borders with Syria, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip over the weekend. It was led by the IDF chief of staff Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi and OCs Northern and Southern Commands, Maj. Gens. Eisenkott and Galant.

He was briefed on IDF tactics in a war on all these potential flashpoints in the context of a comprehensive conflict with Iran and then held long conversations with defense minister Ehud Barak and Ashkenazi.

DEBKAfile’s military sources report that it is very unusual for the top American commander to carry out a close, on-the-spot study of Israel’s potential war fronts. It was prompted on the one hand by skepticism in parts of the US high command of Israel’s ability to simultaneously strike Iran’s nuclear installations and fight off attacks from three borders while, at the same time, Adm. Mullen showed he was open to persuasion that the IDF’s prospective tactics and war plans were workable.

Military circles in Washington, commenting on the large-scale air maneuver Israel carried out with Greece earlier in June, have opined that 100 warplanes are not enough for the Israel Air Force to destroy all of Iran’s secret nuclear sites; more than 1,000 would be needed.

Israel military tacticians in contact with US commanders have countered that, while Iran’s secret nuclear locations are scattered and buried deep, still, every chain has weak links and is therefore vulnerable.

The tough threats issued by Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander Mohamed Ali Jafari on Saturday, June 28, were prompted by the Adm. Mullen’s Israeli border tour, word of which was flashed to Tehran by Syrian-Iranian observation posts inside Syrian and Lebanese borders.

(The Sunday Times added that Iran moved its ballistic Shihab-3 missiles into launch positions, with Israel’s Dimona nuclear plant among its possible targets.)

Saturday, DEBKAfile reported:
The IRGC chief, Mohammad Ali Jafari issued Tehran’s toughest and most explicit threats yet in response to recent reports of Israeli preparations to strike Iran’s nuclear installations.
Hinting at an American attack, he said: “If there is a confrontation between us and the enemy from outside the region , definitely the scope will reach the oil issue.”

After this action (of imposing controls on the Gulf waterway), the oil price will rise very considerably,” he said.
Speaking to the Iranian newspaper Jam-e Jam, Jafari differentiated between Iran’s responses to possible American and Israeli attacks.

The oil weapon would be applied in reprisal for the former – “and this is among the factors deterring enemies”, he said, while “Israelis know if they take military action against Iran… the abilities of the Islamic and Shiite world, especially in the region, will deliver fatal blows.”

Jafari noted that Israel was in range of Iranian missiles.

He said Iran’s “allies in the region” could also retaliate, referring to those living in “Lebanon’s heartland of South Lebanon,” without naming Hizballah.

US forces were “more vulnerable than the Israelis” because of their troops in the region. “Iran can in different ways harm American interests, even far away,”
Jafar warned Iran’s neighbors not to let their territory be used.

“If the attack takes place from the soil of another country ... the country attacked has the right to respond to the enemy's military action from where the operation started," he said.