Friday was the 37th anniversary of the infamous U.S. Supreme Court decision known as Roe v. Wade.  In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court (dominated by justices who had been nominated by Republicans) handed down a decision which basically legalized abortion-on-demand nationwide.  Since that decision, more than 50 million babies have been murdered in abortion mills across America.  However, if recent polls can be believed, there may be signs that America is finally starting to wake up and realize that what we are doing is incredibly wrong.

According to the Pew Research Center, in 2007 and 2008 pro-abortion Americans significantly outnumbered pro-life Americans by a margin of 54 percent to 40 percent.  But 2009 was a different story.  Polling done by the Pew Research Center in 2009 revealed that now only 47 percent of Americans support abortion while 44 percent of Americans are pro-life.

A change from a 14 percent gap to a 3 percent gap is very significant.

But is it too late?

The Gallup polling organization also found a move towards the pro-life position in 2009.

A May 2009 survey by Gallup found that 51 percent of Americans stand for the sanctity of human life while only 42 percent consider themselves to be pro-abortion.

This is a huge change from 1995 when only 33 percent of Americans considered themselves to be pro-life.

So is this progress?

Operation Rescue President Troy Newman thinks so….

“The pro-life movement has made significant strides exposing and closing abortion clinics and shifting public opinion toward the pro-life position.”

Last month Operation Rescue revealed that just 713 abortion mills are open in the U.S. today compared to approximately 2,200 that were open in 1991.

That is great news, but the reality is that some of the abortion clinics are just getting bigger.

For example, an abortion “supercenter” – the biggest abortion clinic in the United States – is scheduled to open in Houston this upcoming March.

Many believe that if we could just vote out Obama and the Democrats that we would be able to stop abortion in this nation.  But as history has shown, unfortunately it is just not that simple.  The truth is that we gave the Republicans control of the entire U.S. government for years and they essentially did nothing to stop the abortion holocaust.  Former presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin did a great job of describing this sad truth in his recent article about abortion….

Consider still: the “pro-life” Republican Party controlled the entire federal government from the election of 2000 to the election of 2006: six long years of GOP domination of both houses of Congress, the White House, and the US Supreme Court. And in all that time not one single unborn baby’s life was saved. NOT ONE!

And, yet, each year, Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) would introduce the Sanctity of Life bill. And each year, the bill would sit in the document room of the Capitol Building and gather dust. What would Rep. Paul’s bill do? Two things: (1) It would define unborn babies as persons under the law. (2) Under the authority of Article. III. Section. 2. of the US Constitution, it would remove abortion from the jurisdiction of the court. Had the “pro-life” Republican congress passed Dr. Paul’s bill, and the “pro-life” President, G. W. Bush, signed it into law, Roe v. Wade would have been effectively overturned.

So, why didn’t President Bush trumpet the bill? Where was the Republican leader in the Senate? Where was the Republican Speaker of the House? Where was Orrin Hatch? Where was John McCain? Where was Lindsey Graham? Where was Glenn Beck? Where was Rush Limbaugh? Where was Newt Gingrich? Where was Sean Hannity? Where was the National Right to Life Committee? Where were the tens of thousands of “pro-life” pastors and Christians?

The truth is that we need to elect a whole different kind of Republicans.

We must require that all Republican candidates pledge to actively work every single year to pass legislation that would outlaw abortion-on-demand in the United States.

Republican candidates are famous for making promises and then not doing anything once they get into office.

We need to let them know that if they do not actively work to end the abortion holocaust that we will vote them out of office and put in another Republican.

The truth is that ending abortion needs to become our number one political priority.

Over the past 37 years we have been living a national nightmare.

Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood (who was also greatly admired by Hitler) said the following all the way back in 1922:

“The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.”

The philosophy of the founder of Planned Parenthood is being carried out in virtually every city in the United States in 2010.

Honestly, it is inconceivable how anyone could be in favor of killing over a million babies a year in the United States.

Do you know what they do during an abortion?

One particularly gruesome form of abortion is known as a “partial birth” abortion.  The following are the five steps of a partial birth abortion….

1) Guided by ultrasound, the abortionist grabs the baby’s legs with forceps.

2) The baby’s leg is pulled out into the birth canal.

3) The abortionist delivers the baby’s entire body, except for the head.

4) The abortionist jams scissors into the baby’s skull. The scissors are then opened to enlarge the skull.

5) The scissors are removed and a suction catheter is inserted. The child’s brains are sucked out, causing the skull to collapse. The dead baby is then removed.

How incredibly sick is that?

But now U.S. health insurance companies are increasingly willing to cover the cost of abortions and are viewing them as a way to dramatially cut costs. 

Why? 

Because as one top local Planned Parenthood official recently admitted, abortions are far, far cheaper than live births. 

In an article on the website of Forbes magazine, Baltimore Planned Parenthood CEO John Nugent said that a first trimester abortion costs somewhere in the neighborhood of “$300 to $450″ and that this is much cheaper than the alternatives.

According to the article in Forbes, the difference in cost between an abortion and a live birth can be massive….

“Health Care Blue Book confirms the price difference. An abortion performed in an physician’s office typically costs $397. A vaginal delivery costs $5,992, while a c-section is $8,558.”

This is what human life has come down to in America today – a cost/benefit analysis.

The truth is that health insurance companies have a massive incentive to offer and promote abortion services.

After all, why should they pay out $6000 when they can only pay out only $400 instead?

Well, other than the fact that the $400 payment is for a murder.

But the truth is that U.S. tax dollars are being used to promote abortions, sterilizations and eugenics policies all over the globe.

Many major organizations affiliated with the United Nations actually celebrate abortions and anything else that serves to reduce the human population.  For these radical “environmentalists”, human life is a virus that is destroying the earth and they actually believe that our “herd” needs to be “culled” for the good of “Mother Earth”.

But the truth is that all we are doing is sacrificing our children to “gods” named “greed” and “convenience” and “sexual promiscuity” and “selfishness”.

In fact, as you reflect on the 37th anniversary of Roe v. Wade today, please take a moment to meditate on the following portion of Scripture….

“They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons; they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters… and the land was polluted with blood. Then the anger of the lord was kindled against his people, and He abhorred his heritage; he gave them into the hands of the nations, so that those who hated them ruled over them. Their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their power.” (See Psalm 106:37-43)

Aziz Dwaik (remember that name), the most senior representative for Hamas in the West Bank said on Wednesday that Hamas is ready to accept Israel’s right to exist.  Dwaik also said that Hamas would also potentially be prepared to nullify its decades-old charter which states that the organization would never recognize that the state of Israel has a right to exist.  Meanwhile, a newly released Vatican document blames the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the “occupying” of lands for fomenting most of the conflicts in the Middle East.

Both of these stunning developments come at a time when the worldwide pressure for Israel to agree to a Palestinian state has grown to a fever pitch.

In fact, many are viewing this recent posturing by Hamas as nothing more than a shrewd public relations ploy.  

You see, there are essentially two organizations running the Palestinians – the Palestinian authority in the West Bank, and Hamas in the Gaza strip. 

The Israeli government has been willing to negotiate off and on with the Palestinian authority, but they have had major problems with Hamas.  The absolute extermination of the nation of Israel has always been the stated policy of Hamas, but now things are apparently changing (at least for public consumption).  

In fact, Aziz Dwaik sounds almost dismissive when talking about the cherished charter of his organization.  Just consider the following quotes by Dwaik in the Jerusalem Post…. 

“The [Hamas] charter was drafted more than 20 years ago,” Dwaik noted, adding that his movement would even be prepared to “nullify” the document.

“No one wants to throw anyone into the sea,” he said.

Many believe that Dwaik will be the next president of the Palestinian Authority, so his words carry with them a great deal of weight. 

In fact, Dwaik’s remarks are being viewed by many as an attempt to win official recognition from the international community.

But of course the main goal is to get a Palestinian state.

Intense pressure is being placed on Israel from all over the globe to give the Palestinians a state based on pre-1967 borders.

So what is Israel supposed to get in return?

A promise of peace that won’t even be worth the paper it is written on.

Some deal, huh?

Meanwhile, an internal document to be used as a guide for an upcoming meeting of Mideast Catholic bishops blames the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the “occupying” of lands as the root cause for most of the conflicts in the Middle East.

So just who is “occupying” lands according to the bishops?

Well, apparently that would be the United States and Israel.

Particularly Israel.

The reality is that the Vatican has endorsed the Mideast Road Map which calls for an independent Palestinian state and a freeze on all Israeli settlement activity.

Apparently the Vatican has not spent a lot of time reading what God has to say about dividing the land of Israel – or else they are just willfully ignoring it.

In any event, another key element in this equation is the Vatican’s not-so-secret agenda for the city of Jerusalem.  Not only has the Vatican publicly expressed a desire to have sovereignty over the Christian holy sites in Jerusalem transferred to it, the truth is that the Vatican would ultimately love to be the governing authority over the entire city of Jerusalem.

Think of it as a “second Vatican” if you will.

Now that is not likely to ever come to pass, but if the Vatican could get control over Jerusalem somehow they would grab it in a second.

More than ever, the land of Israel, and in particular the city of Jerusalem, has become a “burdensome stone” in these last days.  The world is going to keep whining and complaining and putting pressure on Israel until they get a Palestinian state. 

But ultimately the world will see that a Palestinian state will not solve anything.  The nation of Israel is not going to experience true and lasting peace until Yahshua (Jesus) the Messiah returns to this earth.

“And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.”
-Luke 21:11

The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that has essentially destroyed the nation of Haiti has refocused attention on the prophecies about earthquakes in the last days that we find in the Scriptures.  Yahshua (Jesus) told us that we would see an increase in earthquakes as we approached His coming and that this would be a clear sign that the end times was at hand.  Could the unusual shaking that we are currently seeing around the world be an indication that we are approaching the time prophesied almost 2000 years ago?

You see, unfortunately the Haiti earthquake is not an isolated incident.  2010 is already a banner year for major earthquakes.

For example, a 6.3 magnitude earthquake shook the ocean floor between South America and Antarctica on Sunday.

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake hit Guatemala’s Pacific coast near the border with El Salvador on Monday, but fortunately it did not do much damage.

There have already been five magnitude 6.0 or greater earthquakes in the area of the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean so far in 2010.

The annual average of worldwide earthquakes measuring 6.0 or greater is 152.  If the current pace continues, we will see 260 in 2010.

The earth is shaking my friends.

But aren’t we safe from such things in most areas of the United States?

Well, no.

U.S. scientists are predicting that a Haiti-magnitude earthquake will strike along the New Madrid fault in the U.S. some time during the next 50 years.

In 1811, an earthquake along the New Madrid fault was so powerful that it “shook windows and furniture in Washington, D.C., rang bells in Richmond, Virginia, sloshed well water and shook houses in Charleston, South Carolina, and knocked plaster off of houses in Columbia, South Carolina.”

At that time the area of the New Madrid fault was not heavily populated, so the damage was somewhat minimized.  But if a true “killer quake” were to strike along the New Madrid fault now, it could devastate an area all the way from Chicago down to the mouth of the Mississippi River.

But the New Madrid fault is not the only area of the U.S. that is a concern.

The truth is that residents of California live in perpetual anticipation of a major earthquake, and a flurry of recent earthquake activity all over that state is raising concerns that California could be the next spot to be hit by the Big One. 

In fact, a very large number of small earthquakes have been reported all over the state of California in the last 7 days.

So will California be hit by a “killer quake” any time soon?

Let’s hope not.

But scientists are essentially guaranteeing that one will hit that state during our lifetimes.

The Los Angeles Times recently reported on the “Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast” which was released in 2007.  That report says that California has a 99.7% chance of a 6.7 magnitude earthquake within 30 years.

A 99.7 percent chance?

Ouch.

While most buildings in California would survive a 7.0 earthquake better than most buildings in Haiti did, the truth is that California may eventually see a killer earthquake that is far, far more powerful than the one that Haiti just witnessed.

In fact, there are those who theorize that a truly massive quake could permanently alter the geography of California.

Seriously.

And if we are to take the words of Yahshua (Jesus) seriously (and we should), then we are only going to see an increase in the frequency and severity of global earthquakes from here on out.

So get ready.

A shaking is coming.

The church in America is a complete and total mess.  A shocking new poll of the largest Presbyterian denomination in the United States has revealed that only 39 percent of the members of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) believe that Jesus Christ is the only way to salvation.

39 percent?

Yes, 39 percent.

This figure comes from the latest “Religious and Demographic Profile of Presbyterians” report which was recently released by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

What is even more stunning is that when you look at only the pastors, the numbers are even lower.

Only 35 percent of the pastors surveyed agreed with the statement that “only followers of Jesus Christ can be saved.”

So almost two-thirds of the pastors in the largest Presbyterian denomination in the United States believe that there are other ways to be saved other than through Jesus Christ.

At this point it would be really east to jump all over the Presbyterians, but the truth is that this type of apostasy is common in many Christian denominations.

For example, USA Today recently reported on an almost unbelievable new survey that found that 52 percent of American Christians believe that eternal life is not exclusively for those who accept Jesus Christ as their Savior.

So not only do a majority of Presbyterians not believe that Jesus is the only path for salvation, a majority of Christians throughout the United States believe this as well.

In fact, a different survey taken last year by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life found that 57 percent of evangelical Christians in the U.S. believe that “many religions can lead to eternal life”.

What in the world?

What is happening in our churches?

How far have we gotten from the basics of the Christian faith?

In John 14:6, Jesus told us the following….

“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

There is no other way to salvation.

Just think about it for a minute.

If there was any other way for our sins to be forgiven, then why did Jesus need to die on the cross?

If there were many other ways to salvation, then the death of Jesus on the cross was totally unnecessary.

Jesus could have simply come down to earth, pointed out a bunch of other ways to get to heaven, and then could have gone back up to heaven without ever having to deal with the cross.

But the truth is that there was no other way for our sins to be paid for.

Jesus Christ, being the sinless Son of God, died on the cross to pay for the sins of all humanity.

All other religions reject this, and most of them involve jumping through “hoops” and doing good works of some kind or another in order to try to obtain the favor of a deity.

But the reality is that without the sacrifice of Jesus Christ there is no path to heaven.

Without Jesus to pay for our sins we are all still guilty.

Why can’t Christians in the United States understand this?

The truth is that the church in America is a complete and total mess.  But we knew that these days would come.  2 Timothy 4:3 tells us this…..

For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.

There were also other results from the PC(USA) survey that were almost equally as shocking.  Just consider these numbers….

*Only one in six members and even fewer ministers believe that the Bible is to be taken literally, word for word.

*Only 44 percent say that they have had a “conversion experience” when they committed themselves to Christ.

So what are we to make of all this?

The reality is that the PC(USA) is not the only denomination out there that is a total mess.

Most churches do not teach Biblical Christianity anymore.

Most churches do not teach the basics of the Christian faith.

Perhaps you attend one of those churches.

If you are confused about what the Bible says about God and about salvation, then we encourage you to check out the new website that we are putting together that answers some of the most basic questions about the Christian faith.

In particular, we would encourage you to read an article that we put together entitled “What Does The Bible Say About Salvation?”

The truth is that the Bible is very clear about God’s plan of salvation, and it is the most important message that any of us will ever hear.  If you do not know where you would go if you died tonight, please do not let another day pass without finding out what God has to say about your future destiny. 

Nothing could be more important.

For decades, China was viewed by U.S. strategists as a struggling communist nation with a massive population that really did not represent any kind of strategic threat to the United States at all.  But that has now dramatically changed.  Thanks to trade agreements that are extremely favorable to China, the “Great Dragon” has risen and has become a formidable economic machine.  Already accounting for a fifth of humanity, this new economic muscle has also allowed Beijing to dramatically reform and upgrade the Chinese military.  Now China is without a doubt a world superpower and it stands poised to be a major player on the world stage during the last days.

So just how powerful of an economic force is China now?

Well, in 2010 China is expected to replace Japan as the world’s second-largest economy.

Not only that, but China has overtaken Germany and is now the biggest exporter in the entire world.

Let that sink in for a bit.

China sells more stuff to other countries than anyone else in the world.

That fact alone is enough to make China an economic superpower.

Citizens of the U.S. like to think of themselves as the greatest economic superpower, but the reality is that the average American is drowning in debt.  In fact, the average American piled up even more debt this past Christmas season buying cheap plastic stuff made in China to exchange with family members around the ole Christmas tree.

The truth is that U.S. wealth is flowing into China at a staggering rate, and nobody seems to want to do a thing about it.

And thanks to ridiculously one-sided trade agreements, that arrangement is likely to continue for the foreseeable future.

But China’s growing economic power is only one side of the equation.

It is China’s emerging military strength that has U.S. military strategists starting to sit up and take notice.

Very quietly, China has been engaged in one of the greatest military buildups of modern times.

On Wednesday, Wallace Gregson, the Assistant Defense Secretary for Asian and Pacific security affairs, made the following statement regarding China in testimony before the House Armed Services Committee….

“We remain troubled by China’s continued lack of openness and transparency in military affairs.”

The truth is that China has always had one of the world’s largest militaries.  The PLA maintains a force of over two million men, and it is complemented by the world’s third largest air force and the world’s largest small ship navy.

But now China has enough wealth to develop and purchase cutting edge military technology.  The reality is that China is quickly becoming a very serious strategic threat to the United States.

For example, China has just successfully tested a new technology designed to shoot down incoming missiles in mid-air.

In addition, China is also pursuing technology that could home in on and destroy satellites in orbit.

Nobody was concerned about China developing these types of capabilities a couple decades ago.  But now armed with billions of dollars from the West, China is rapidly gaining ground on the U.S. military.

China is rapidly expanding and modernizing their conventional forces as well.  China is planning a massive investment in helicopter production with a goal of increasing its helicopter fleet tenfold by the end of the year.

Tenfold?

Yes, you read that right.

There are also rumors that China is planning to build several aircraft carriers, although Beijing is denying those rumors at this point.

There are also reports that the Chinese military is considering setting up military bases and possibly deploying forces in the Middle East over the next decade as a means of protecting its access to strategic materials.

You see, China is heavily invested in the Middle East – particularly in Iran.  In fact, China is Iran’s main customer for oil.  China has plans to invest approximately 43 billion dollars in Iran’s oil industry, and it has expressed serious concerns about a potential attack on Iran by the United States and/or Israel.

And that right there might end up being the key which brings the United States into conflict with China.

The Chinese are not going to sit idly by and watch the United States and/or Israel decimate Iran and cut off one of their key sources of oil.

The growing Chinese economy desperately needs oil to keep on churning.  A reliable supply of oil is of the utmost strategic importance to the Chinese government.

If the United States and/or Israel goes to war with Iran it would likely infuriate China.

In fact, there are many who believe that it is only a matter of time until the United States and China go to war.

Let us hope that day does not come any time soon, but the reality is that China has become a world superpower and it is going to be a major player in the last days. 

Anyone in the U.S. government who does not take China seriously from now on is making a huge mistake.  The Dragon has risen and it is not going away.

We live at a time when Jerusalem has truly become the “burdensome stone” of the last days prophesied in the Scriptures.  The Palestinians consider East Jerusalem to be their capital and they appear to be unwilling to accept a Palestinian state that does not include it.  The European Union has made it very clear that their position is that East Jerusalem is going to be the capital of a future Palestinian state.  Even the United States has made it the official policy of the U.S. government that East Jerusalem is part of “the West Bank” and the Obama administration has been pressuring Israel very hard to stop all construction in East Jerusalem.  But now Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared that Israel will never give up control over any part of Jerusalem.   

That is certainly not going to sit well with the Palestinians.

According to Haaretz, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared on Tuesday that Israel would never give up control of united Jerusalem and it would never fully retreat to the pre-1967 borders.

But those are exactly the things that the Palestinians and the rest of the world are demanding that Israel must do.

In fact, many leaders around the world were expressing a belief that Israel was now willing to negotiate the surrender of East Jerusalem.  Egypt’s foreign minister said just last week that Netanyahu was ready to discuss making “Arab Jerusalem” the capital of a Palestinian state.

Thankfully, Netanyahu has cleared that up.

But the pressure will only become more intense.  Israel’s greatest ally, the United States, has made it official government policy that East Jerusalem and the West Bank are one and the same.  The U.S. spent all of 2009 demanding that Israel immediately stop construction in East Jerusalem, as the U.S. State Department and the Obama administration consider East Jerusalem to be “occupied” territory.

So Israel says that they will never give up East Jerusalem and the rest of the world says that they must.

It look like Israel is between a rock and a “burdensome stone”. 

In Zechariah 12:3, the Scriptures tell us that Jerusalem would become a burdensome stone in the last days….

And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

At this point East Jerusalem appears to be the number one stumbling block standing in the way of a Palestinian state. 

So how will all of this be resolved?

We will have to wait and see.

But one thing is for sure – if Jerusalem does end up getting divided, anyone involved in that division will be setting themselves against the God of the universe. 

The new full body scanners going into airports across the United States are being hailed as the next great innovation in airport security, but the truth is that most Americans do not understand what these machines actually do. The reality is that these machines produce an image that is the closest one can get to seeing someone’s exposed body without actually seeing their skin. Every curve, every crevice and every detail of the bodies of every passenger will be completely exposed to the eyes of gawking airport security officials. In addition, a number of scientific experts are now claiming that the technology used by these scanners actually is damaging to human DNA. But even with all of these concerns, new polls reveal that an overwhelming majority of Americans want these machines to be installed in U.S. airports.

So are you ready to walk through full body scanners that give security officials a crystal clear look at your completely exposed body?

Democratic political strategist James Carville apparently is….

“Let me buy a [security] card, then go and measure my *****, and let me get on the airplane.”

But is this the way that the new “Amerika” has to be?

A place where all dignity and all privacy is completely thrown out the window?

A place where there is no shame and where we are all reduced to little more than cattle to be herded around and embarrassed?

But not only are these new full body scanners a threat to privacy, they are also potentially dangerous to our health.

Many of these machines use terahertz waves in order to produce the images that security officials see.  Technology Review recently described how these new machines work this way….

Great things are expected of terahertz waves, the radiation that fills the slot in the electromagnetic spectrum between microwaves and the infrared. Terahertz waves pass through non-conducting materials such as clothes , paper, wood and brick and so cameras sensitive to them can peer inside envelopes, into living rooms and “frisk” people at distance.

This capability to see “inside” of clothing has security authorities very excited, but is there a downside to this technology? 

Yes, apparently there is.  According to Technology Review, there is now substantial evidence that shows that terahertz radiation actually damages human DNA….

The evidence that terahertz radiation damages biological systems is mixed. “Some studies reported significant genetic damage while others, although similar, showed none,” say Boian Alexandrov at the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and a few buddies. Now these guys think they know why.

Alexandrov and co have created a model to investigate how THz fields interact with double-stranded DNA and what they’ve found is remarkable. They say that although the forces generated are tiny, resonant effects allow THz waves to unzip double-stranded DNA, creating bubbles in the double strand that could significantly interfere with processes such as gene expression and DNA replication. That’s a jaw dropping conclusion.

That is very frightening stuff.

The truth is that there have never been any clinical trials that indicate that multiple exposures to such terahertz waves are safe for humans.

If terahertz waves do “unzip double-stranded DNA”, then perhaps some testing should be done before millions of Americans are marched through these machines.

But right now Americans are so scared of another “underwear bomber” that they are overwhelmingly in favor of putting these full body scanners into U.S. airports. 

A new USA TODAY/Gallup poll says that 78 percent of Americans approve of these new full body scanners.

78 percent?

Are the American people that stupid?

Isn’t someone going to stand up and say that it goes way over the line to herd the American people into machines so that security officials can look at their private areas?

But this is what we are becoming.

We always knew that in the last days hearts were going to become hardened and people would lose their humanity and any sense of shame.

Thanks to these new scanners that process of stripping away our humanity and our dignity will certainly be accelerated. 

Say goodbye to the America that your parents and grandparents knew.

Say hello to “Amerika” – where individual liberties are a thing of the past and where the Big Brother security apparatus rules over all.

If you asked most people on the street which nation produces the most oil most of them would say that the answer is Saudi Arabia of course.  But they would be dead wrong.  The truth is that Russia is the number one oil producer in the world.  Not only that, but Russia is also the number one natural gas exporter in the world.

So what does that mean?

It means that Russia is the top energy superpower on the globe. 

Russia pumped more than 10 million barrels of oil per day during November, and now they have done something which will give them even more power over energy.

Russia has just finished a new oil pipeline and port complex that enables them to export more oil than Saudi Arabia.  On December 28th, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was on hand to celebrate the opening of Russia’s first modern Pacific-based oil export facilities.  The Pacific port of Kozmino is a project that Putin is extremely proud of, and it promises to literally change the world.

So what makes this port so significant?

The new Kozmino complex promises to be a gate through which Russia’s vast East Siberian oilfields will supply oil for Asia’s energy-hungry economies.

Notice that the Middle East and the West are not part of that equation.

According to Reuters, the first oil transport will load at Kozmino on January 15th.  Hong Kong is scheduled to receive that first shipment.

But this is just the latest sign that Russia has more than recovered from their past economic woes.

In fact, the Russian Bear is back.

Not only is Russia the number one energy superpower in the world, but their economy has been rocking over the past decade.  Russia ended 2008 with GDP growth of 6.0%, and that followed 10 straight years of growth averaging 7% annually.

Moscow is now one of the most expensive cities in the world in which to live.  The economic turmoil of the 90s is a long-forgotten memory.

Russia has been using this new economic power to modernize and strengthen both its conventional military forces and its strategic military assets.

The truth is that Russia is not as strong as they were at the end of the Cold War.

They are now far stronger.

In early 2010, Russia is now a greater strategic threat to the United States than it ever has been before, but the U.S. is still treating Russia as though the Cold War just ended and Russia was the loser.

In fact, Barack Obama is pushing for a plan which would reduce the size of the U.S. strategic nuclear arsenal to about 10 percent of what it was during the Cold War.

Fortunately, some in the Pentagon are quite upset about Barack Obama’s plan to start phasing out America’s nuclear weapons.

But the vast majority of the American people seem unconcerned.

But they should be.

The number of threats and the number of potential targets is multiplying at a time when Obama wants to dramatically reduce our nuclear capability.

Back during the Cold War, the Soviet Union was basically the only “real” nuclear threat out there.  Today the situation has fundamentally changed.

But Obama believes that in order for the U.S. to have the right preach to other nations that they should not have nuclear weapons, we need to start getting rid of our own. 

So he is dismantling the protective nuclear deterrent that has protected the United States for generations.

With the Russian Bear back and stronger than ever, someday Americans will realize what a massive mistake that was.