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High Jinx in Rock Creek Park

Paula Broadwell

On November 11, 2012, a jogger in Rock Creek Park, near the heart of Washington D.C., found a driver's license along one of the trails.  The driver's license belonged to Paula Broadwell, the author of All In: The Education of General David Petraeus. As a result of an affair with Broadwell, Petraeus, one of the crown jewels of America, fell from the head of the CIA: The FBI had found X-Rated files.

It's curious that this incident was reported in Maryland news.  Is it news? Or a message? Around this time, Broadwell was staying at her brother's house located on 1841 Park Road Northwest, Washington, DC, which is next to Rock Creek Park. Ostensibly, she was at her brother's house to avoid the media onslaught at her own home in Charlotte, North Carolina.  Broadwell, a fitness fanatic, was probably jogging in the park and dropped it.  Or did she?  Why is attention being drawn to Rock Creek Park? How is it connected to other events?  If this was a message, then what does it symbolize?

Rock Creek Park was the scene of a sensational story that occurred shortly before the "Big Event" on 9/11, 2001.  It was surmised that Chandra Levy had gone to Rock Creek Park for a jog on 5/1, 2001 (Walpurgisnacht), but never returned. According to the internet browser history on her laptop, it appeared that her destination was the historic site of Klingle Mansion (built 1823) in Rock Creek Park.  In 1937, during renovation, a large fireplace had been uncovered and a beehive oven was built next to it.  What was it for?  Does it jingle a memory?  A year later, her skeletal remains were discovered. An oven is an oven by any other name:  A fight for the future.  Is that a message?

Chandra Levy and Gary Condit

Chandra Levy grew up in Modesto, California.  Her father was an oncologist in Modesto and his parents had fortunately escaped Germany in 1939, but lost relatives to the Holocaust in the ensuing years.  With that searing memory, what sacrifices would be offered to mitigate a future Holocaust?

Chandra's mother, Susan, encouraged her daughter to be athletic.  Chandra was enrolled in a ten-day rock-climbing course and was the only girl with the grit to complete it.  In high school, she volunteered as a Police Explorer with the Modesto Police Department; answering phones, delivering mail, and riding along with officers.  She also worked in the sports department in the Modesto Bee and considered a career in journalism.  However, given her police experience, she attended San Francisco State University and completed a degree in Criminology and had aspirations of one day joining the FBI or CIA.  She then enrolled in the graduate program at USC's School of Policy, Planning and Development -- one of the best in the nation.  In her first year in the program, under the mentorship of David Grazman, Chandra interned for Richard Riordan, the mayor of Los Angeles.  Her next climb up the Hill was to Sacramento as an intern for Governor Gray Davis where she became enamored with proximity to political power.

During the summer of 2000, she announced that she had lined up an internship with the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington D.C. for her final semester at USC within the bureau's public affairs.  Curiously, in this role, she would handle calls and reporters for the impending execution of Timothy McVeigh -- one of the terrorists responsible for the bombing of the Afred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City.

Shortly after moving to Washington D.C., she called on Gary Condit, a Democrat who represented Modesto.  Any intelligence agency following the rising star of Condit would have known of his weakness for  young women.  Perhaps it is no surprise that an affair soon blossomed between the two.  Gary Condit was no ordinary Democrat -- he served as a senior member on the House Intelligence Committee in the months and years prior to the 9/11 attacks.

Silent Heroes of Intelligence Work

Paula Broadwell was an equally aspiring young girl.

Omen: Liberty's Red Flag

Revelation 17:18, And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
The Observer

On August 23, 2001 -- just 19 days prior to that fateful day of 9/11, 2001 -- a red flag was raised by the colossal Statue of Liberty as an ominous omen. This provided a clear symbol that something significant was about to happen...

Revelation 18:21, And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
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Video: We Finally, Really, Did It
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Below is a video of an ancient and surprising prophecy about the Statue of Liberty in relation with the Messianic era and the End Times (English subtitles).

Video: End Times Prophecies: Statue of Liberty

Alerts: Africa

5/9/2007, The plan by the United States government to establish an Africa Command (AFRICOM), though still at the consultation stage is already generating controversies. But their resolution would re-define U.S-Africa relations and contribute remarkably to the re-shaping of a new world order.

4/24/07, China has increased its presence in Africa in recent years in a hunt for oil and other natural resources to feed its rapidly growing economy. Its forays into areas considered politically unstable, however, has exposed Chinese workers to attacks.

Alerts: Germany

5/23/07, There is a new alignment in the heavens, a conjunction of spheres that will create a new reality here on Earth. Or at least there's a huge temptation among journalists to read Europe's horoscope as planets Sarkozy and Brown hurtle onto the scene, joining the still newish Merkel. Will Brown be able, or want to resist the powerful tug of the other two?

5/11/07, An alleged plot by a group of Islamic extremists against U.S. facilities in Germany led officials to increase security last month, a senior federal official told CNN on Friday. Intelligence officials characterized the alleged plotters as "Islamic extremists."

Alerts: South America

5/10/07, Hizbullah is training for attacks on US says Florida-based TV network. Terror group training suicide bombers in secluded South American region, brainwashing locals against Israel, US; Paraguay: Mossad, FBI agents operating to thwart plan. Washington fears that Hizbullah members are planning to infiltrate the US through its breached southern border with Mexico to carry out attacks.

Alerts: Pakistan & India

5/11/07, Pakistan is preparing its next generation nuclear-capable ballistic missiles for deployment, which will give it the ability to target facilities across most if not all of India, an organisation of American scientists has said.

Hot Spot: Las Vegas

5/11/07, Swedish magician Joe Labero has provoked a strong reaction with suggestions that Las Vegas is controlled by "Jewish business syndicates, American dollar millionaires and homosexual booking agents".

Comment: Nicholas Cage's character in the recent movie NEXT is a "magician." Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson (Nicholas Cage) has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low under an assumed name in Vegas, performing cheap tricks and living off small-time gambling "winnings." A terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles.

5/7/07, LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- One man was killed and another person escaped injury in an explosion of a small device left atop a vehicle in a parking garage outside the Las Vegas Strip resort Luxor Hotel.

Comment: Something is definitely brewing in Las Vegas. Several recent films are set in this location. If you saw the movie "NEXT" starring Nicholas Cage, you'll understand what I'm talking about. The movie begins in Las Vegas, and there is a woman on top of a parking garage who is wired to explode. 1 person is killed in a Casino. The movie was about a prophecy of the destruction of a city using a nuclear device that was brought into the country through a Naval Port. The nuclear device was hidden in a cargo container. You might recall the movie "WAR OF THE WORLDS", starring Tom Cruise, begins in the setting of a Port. Similar to Nicholas Cage, Cruise was in a film that had a glimpse at prophecy called "MINORITY REPORT." See the post on BEES & the movie "X-FILES" and the article about using Bees to detect hidden bombs. Here's the question: If bees can sense bombs, why have they been disappearing from their U.S. hives in massive quantities?

Opening this weekend, just before this incident, was the movie "LUCKY YOU" which is also set in Las Vegas. In fact, the Luxor Hotel is mentioned specifically. If you've seen the trailer for the upcoming movie "RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION", the movie begins in the wasteland of what had been Las Vegas.

Check out the trailer here --> Resident Evil: Extinction

The movie "Oceans 13" also is filmed in Las Vegas. In the opening of the movie, you have a good view of the Luxor hotel in the distance. The movie ends with a French actor leaping off of a high-rise building by parachute. Does this link it to the French Daredevil stunt on the Statue of Liberty a couple of weeks before 9/11? Is this foreshadowing something is going to happen in Las Vegas soon?

5/7/07, 1 Dead in Casino Parking Lot Explosion.

The last place the 9/11 suicide hijackers met before their mission was in Las Vegas. Las Vegas is considered a prime target for Al Qaeda because of it's symbolism of what they despise about the West.

Here's a theory about the terrorist plot to destroy the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas: AN AL QAEDA TARGET?

Omen: Disease

5/21/07, A Denver Zoo monkey has died of bubonic plague, apparently after eating a squirrel stricken with the disease, Colorado health and zoo officials said on Monday. Five squirrels and a rabbit found dead on zoo grounds tested positive for the flea-borne disease in recent weeks, Denver Zoo spokeswoman Ana Bowie said.

5/3/07, A virulent strain of tuberculosis resistant to most available drugs is surfacing around the globe, raising fears of a pandemic that could devastate efforts to contain TB and prove deadly to people with immune-deficiency diseases such as HIV-AIDS.

Book: Seven Signs

Omen: Accidents

4/29/07, A section of highway lies crumbled in Emeryville, Calif., after a tanker carrying gasoline exploded on Sunday, April 29, 2007. In the resulting blaze, a section of freeway that funnels traffic onto the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge collapsed.
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Video: Truck Crashes in Oregon spilling 8 colonies of bees.

Omen: Shootings & Violence

5/20/07, GALVESTON, Texas - A woman blames the devil, and not her husband, for severely burning their infant daughter in a microwave, a Texas television station reported. Eva Marie Mauldin said Satan compelled her 19-year-old husband, Joshua Royce Mauldin, to microwave their daughter May 10 because the devil disapproved of Joshua's efforts to become a preacher. "Satan saw my husband as a threat," Eva Mauldin told Houston television station KHOU-TV.

5/17/07, HERMOSILLO, Mexico - Mexico confronts surging violence: Police chased the remnants of a criminal assault force through mountains near the Arizona border on Thursday after kidnappings and gunbattles that left at least 22 people dead.

5/17/07, NAGAKUTE, Japan, A former Japanese gangster shot a police officer dead after wounding his own son and daughter and another police officer and was still holed up in his home with a hostage after more than 17 hours. In the latest shootout to rattle Japan, the police officer was shot Thursday evening while his colleague who had been hit earlier was being rescued. The standoff comes a month after a gangster shot a fellow organized crime figure in a Tokyo suburb and hid in an apartment before shooting himself, and another gangster shot dead the mayor of Nagasaki, shocking a country where gun control is tough and shootings are rare.

5/17/07, PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania , Teen 'afraid every day' as gun violence soars: Isaac Diaz walks through the toughest parts of North Philadelphia each day on his way to and from high school. But what really scares the 18-year-old senior is lying in his own bed at night. He can hear the gunshots then. "Last year it wasn't so often. Now it's as often as every night." The numbers put Philadelphia on a pace well ahead of a bloody 2006, when 406 people were slain by others in the so-called City of Brotherly Love. It was the first time homicides topped the 400 mark since 1990. "In the 70s, I mean, if somebody came up and they had a zip gun -- which was a homemade gun -- that was big time," he said. "Now if, if you don't have an AK-47 or a sawed-off shotgun or a 9 mm, even if you pull out a .38, they laugh at you because, 'Is that all you've got?'

5/15/97, TOKYO, Japan, A teenage boy carrying a severed head walked into a Japanese police station Tuesday saying he killed his mother, the latest in a series of grisly dismemberments that have horrified a nation renowned for its low crime rates.

5/10/07, DAYTONA, Florida, A 10-year-old boy was convicted Thursday in the beating of a homeless Army veteran that left the man so severely injured he required reconstructive surgery.

5/1/07, JACKSONVILLE, Florida - Police said six men were shot about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in what police described as related drive-by shootings in a Talleyrand neighborhood just northeast of downtown.

4/29/07, KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A man driving a dead woman's car shot a police officer, then opened fire in a parking lot and a mall Sunday, authorities said. By the end of the day, four people, including the gunman, were dead.

Alerts: U.S.A.

5/11/07, Worried Congress' support for Iraq is deteriorating rapidly, Baghdad dispatched senior officials to Capitol Hill this week to warn members one-on-one that pulling out U.S. troops would have disastrous consequences.

5/11/07, More than just a detector, the NukAlert™ is a patented personal radiation meter and alarm. Small enough to attach to a key chain, the device operates non-stop, 24/7 and will promptly warn you of the presence of unseen, but acutely dangerous levels of radiation.

5/11/07, With the arrest of a Philadelphia taxi cab driver in the Fort Dix terror plot, authorities are paying closer attention to Muslim cabbies, many of whom are militant believers, WND has learned. Muslims account for the majority of cab drivers in many major U.S. cities – including the nation's capital. And a number of them have ties to terrorism, federal and local authorities say. "If they're not suspects themselves, they pick up suspects at airports and take them to safehouses here," he told WND. "It's a jihadi network."

5/11/07, Contingencies for nuclear terrorist attack, Government working up plan to prevent chaos in wake of bombing of major city. As concerns grow that terrorists might attack a major American city with a nuclear bomb, a high-level group of government and military officials has been quietly preparing an emergency survival program that would include the building of bomb shelters, steps to prevent panicked evacuations and the possible suspension of some civil liberties. Many experts say the likelihood of al Qaeda or some other terrorist group producing a working nuclear weapon with illicitly obtained weapons-grade fuel is not large, but such a strike would be far more lethal, frightening and disruptive than the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

5/10/07, Australia will boost its defence spending by 10.6 per cent to $18.2 Billion over the next 12 months: Canberra's biggest annual increase in military expenditure in more than 30 years.

5/9/2007, The plan by the United States government to establish an Africa Command (AFRICOM), though still at the consultation stage is already generating controversies. But their resolution would re-define U.S-Africa relations and contribute remarkably to the re-shaping of a new world order.

5/8/07, Six suspected Islamic radicals were detained on Tuesday on charges of plotting to attack the U.S. army base at Fort Dix in New Jersey with rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons.

5/7/07, An eight-day military training exercise in which the state coordinates with local emergency response officials will begin Thursday and use Terre Haute International Airport-Hulman Field as a forward operating base.That means the airport will initially harbor about 1,500 personnel out of an estimated 3,000 people who will participate in one of the nation’s largest training exercises for a simulated nuclear explosion. In this simulation, a 10-kiloton nuclear device explodes in Indianapolis.

5/7/07, Every week, a group of experts from agencies around the government — including the CIA, the Pentagon, the FBI and the Energy Department — meet to assess Washington’s progress toward solving a grim problem: if a terrorist set off a nuclear bomb in an American city, could the United States determine who detonated it and who provided the nuclear material?

5/2/07, Thousands more mid-level enlisted soldiers are leaving the Army than in each of the past two years, forcing the service to increase its use of pay-to-stay programs and find other ways to keep GIs in the fold.

5/2/07, The Romanian parliament has overwhelmingly approved an agreement to let the US station up to 3,000 troops in the formerly communist country.

5/2/07, Moving toward a veto of a war spending bill, President Bush said Tuesday that Democrats who made the legislation a showdown over withdrawing U.S. troops could turn Iraq into a "cauldron of chaos" with their approach.

4/28/07, U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey says he wants to accelerate a plan to increase the number of active duty soldiers by 65,000 in five years. Gen. George Casey says he wants those soldiers ready by 2010 instead of 2012.

Book: The Edge of Disaster

Homeland Security expert Flynn examines the vulnerability of the U.S. to disaster--natural and man-made--and what the nation must do to fortify its security. By exploring several well-documented and frightening scenarios, Flynn exposes our weaknesses and the consequences of our failure to adequately plan for disaster. Among the scenarios he explores: an avian flu outbreak in New York; destruction of a chemical plant in New Jersey; a San Francisco earthquake that compromises levees and leads to massive flooding. Flynn points to threats from our blithe disregard for the dangers all around us, including chemical plants and oil refineries operating in close proximity to crowded communities. We can't plan for every disaster, but the nation can be better prepared, Flynn maintains, and he offers advice on how corporations and the government can reduce the risk of disaster. Among his suggestions: making sure energy management and public-health systems have enough resources and building more power-transmission lines to keep lights on when temperatures rise. Flynn's book reads like a thriller but has the added punch of reality.

Omen: Money Bubble

6/13/07, The US Treasury has refused to describe China as a currency manipulator in its twice-yearly report on exchange rate policies, as political pressures grew. A group of influential Democrat and Republican Senators now plan to unveil legislation to force China to revalue its currency, threatening tariff hikes.

6/13/07, Scientists have criticised a major review of the world's remaining oil reserves, warning that the end of oil is coming sooner than governments and oil companies are prepared to admit. Dr Campbell, is a former chief geologist and vice-president at a string of oil majors including BP, Shell, Fina, Exxon and ChevronTexaco. He explains that the peak of regular oil - the cheap and easy to extract stuff - has already come and gone in 2005. Even when you factor in the more difficult to extract heavy oil, deep sea reserves, polar regions and liquid taken from gas, the peak will come as soon as 2011, he says.

5/11/07, Further gloom gathered over the US economy today as retail sales lurched lower while former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan issued a fresh warning that the world's largest economy could be headed into recession.

4/28/07, U.S. Treasury Deputy Secretary Robert Kimmitt said he would not comment on the weakness of the U.S. dollar on Saturday after the currency slid to a record low against the euro on Friday.

4/27/07, The bursting of this bubble will be across all countries and all assets.' -- Jeremy Grantham

Omen: Discoveries

6/13/07, China has uncovered the skeletal remains of a gigantic, surprisingly bird-like dinosaur, which has been classed as a new species. Eight meters (26 ft) long and standing at twice the height of a man at the shoulder, the fossil of the feathered but flightless Gigantoraptor erlianensis was found in the Erlian basin in Inner Mongolia.

5/11/07, Mark Krombholz had to look twice at his new calf, Lucy — one time for each nose. "I didn't notice anything too different about her until I got her in the barn," Krombholz said, "and all of a sudden I went to feed her a bottle of milk, and I thought maybe she'd been kicked in the nose and there were two noses there." The second, smaller nose sits on top of the first.

5/8/07, An Israeli archaeologist says he has found the tomb of King Herod, the ruler of Judea while it was under Roman administration in the first century BC.

5/2/07, You've heard of the Loch Ness Monster, the Creature from the Black Lagoon.The sea serpents of legend, right?A local diver says he's found something not even the Smithsonian can identify and it's right off the shores of Juno Beach.

4/24/07, Watch out, Superman! Scientists have found a mineral on Earth with the same components as kryptonite, the space rock that erodes your powers.

Omen: UFO Reports

4/9/07, WINNIPEG (CP) - Aliens and spaceships are a bit passe these days, but 736 reported UFO sightings across Canada last year shows an "underlying, real phenomenon" going on, says one of the country's top UFO researchers.

3/23/07, PARIS (AP) - The saucer-shaped object is said to have touched down in the south of France and then zoomed off. It left behind scorch marks and that haunting age-old question: Are we alone? This is just one of the cases from France's secret "X-Files"—some 100,000 documents on supposed UFOs and sightings of other unexplained phenomena that the French space agency is publishing on the Internet. France is the first country to put its entire weird sightings archive online, said Jacques Patenet, who heads the space agency's UFO cell—the Group for Study and Information on Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena.

Video: Canadian Conference on UFOs

http://www.cnes.fr/web/455-cnes-en.php

http://www.king5.com/video/index.html?nvid=137384

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/guernsey/6591365.stm

Alerts: Iran

6/13/07, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has said "substantial" quantities of Iranian weapons are finding their way into Afghanistan. Speaking on a visit to Germany, Mr Gates said it was difficult to believe the Iranian government was unaware, given the scale of arms involved.

6/3/07, Iran's president said on Sunday the Lebanese and the Palestinians had pressed a "countdown button" to bring an end to Israel. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who triggered outrage in the West two years ago when he said Israel should be "wiped off the map", has often referred to the destruction of the Jewish state but says Iran is not a threat. "With God's help, the countdown button for the destruction of the Zionist regime has been pushed by the hands of the children of Lebanon and Palestine," Ahmadinejad said in a speech. "By God's will, we will witness the destruction of this regime in the near future," he said.

5/25/07, Iran's hard-line president warned Israel on Thursday that other nations in the region would "uproot" the Jewish state if it attacked Lebanon in the summer.

5/15/07, Iran should be attacked before it develops nuclear weapons, America's former ambassador to the United Nations said yesterday. John Bolton, who still has close links to the Bush administration, told The Daily Telegraph that the European Union had to "get more serious" about Iran and recognise that its diplomatic attempts to halt Iran's enrichment programme had failed. Iran has "clearly mastered the enrichment technology now...they're not stopping, they're making progress and our time is limited", he said.

5/14/07, Inspectors for the International Atomic Energy Agency have concluded that Iran appears to have solved most of its technological problems and is now beginning to enrich uranium on a far larger scale than before, according to the agency’s top officials. The findings may change the calculus of diplomacy in Europe and in Washington,

5/14/07, The Iranian president said Monday Iran will retaliate if the U.S. strikes the country militarily. The Iranian president made a tough response to recent comments by the Vice President Dick Cheney that Washington would prevent the Islamic republic from dominating the Middle East. Ahmadinejad said the Americans had overextended their welcome in the region and were advocating tough actions that reached beyond what their Arab allies wished.

5/13/07, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad led a raucous anti-American rally in the United Arab Emirates a day after a low-key visit by US Vice President Dick Cheney there in an attempt to counter Tehran's influence in the region. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a cheering Dubai crowd Sunday that America was to blame for creating instability and robbing the region of its wealth. ''Every time your name is mentioned, hatred builds up.''

5/11/07, North Korea's "debts to Tehran are among the obstacles in the way of cooperation," the official IRNA news agency quoted Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki as saying Friday. "The two countries can find a formula to remove this obstacle." North Korean acting Foreign Minister Kim Yong Il. He added that Iran was still interested in improving ties with North Korea "in the fields of politics, economics and culture" with North Korea.

5/11/07, Vice President Dick Cheney used the deck of an American aircraft carrier just 240 kilometers off Iran's coast as the backdrop Friday to warn the country that the United States was prepared to use its naval power to keep Tehran from disrupting oil routes or "gaining nuclear weapons and dominating this region."

5/9/07, Diplomatic sources said the U.S. military has been bolstering its presence in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan in what could mark preparations for air strikes against Iran. The sources said the U.S. Air Force has been particularly active in the Kyrgyz base of Manas near Bishkek.

5/9/07, An Iranian cleric said his country would fire "tens of thousands" of missiles at Israel in response to an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear program. "Several days ago, the stupid Israeli prime minister said: 'We can attack the Iranian nuclear industry with 10,000 cruise missiles, and delay it for another 10 years.' Our response is that if he is planning to fire 10,000 missiles, we will fire tens of thousands of missiles on Tel Aviv and Israel."

5/4/07, Having repeatedly vowed to "cut off the hand" of any attacker, Iran's president shifted to the leg on Friday to underline his determination to resist Western pressure over its nuclear program. "You, the enemies of the Iranian nation, know that this nation will break the leg of anyone who wants to violate its rights," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a rally in the southeastern province of Kerman.

5/3/07, Iran will not bow to international pressure to halt its nuclear program, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday, after world powers told Tehran to halt uranium enrichment or face a third round of U.N. sanctions.

5/2/07, Iranian authorities have reportedly arrested the country's former nuclear negotiator on charges of espionage.

5/1/07, Iran will not negotiate with the United States until it stops its "evil approach," the government spokesman was quoted as saying on Tuesday, two days before the two foes were due to attend a meeting on Iraq.

4/26/07, Iran will strike U.S. interests around the world and Israel if attacked over its disputed nuclear program.

4/21/07, A former engineer at the largest U.S. nuclear power plant was arrested on suspicion of taking software codes and using them to download details of plant control rooms and reactors while in Iran

Alerts: Vatican

5/19/07, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez demanded Pope Benedict apologize to Indians in Latin America for saying this month in Brazil that the Roman Catholic Church purified them. Chavez, who regularly clashes with the Catholic Church in Venezuela but had not directly criticized the Pope before, accused the Pontiff on Friday of ignoring the "holocaust" that followed Christopher Columbus's 1492 landing in the Americas.

5/13/07, Pope Benedict XVI blamed Marxism and unbridled capitalism for Latin America's problems on Sunday, and urged bishops to mold a new generation of Roman Catholic leaders in politics to reverse the church's declining influence in the region.

5/11/07, “In an age so full of hedonism,” Benedict said the world needs clear souls and pure minds, adding: “It is necessary to oppose those elements of the media that ridicule the sanctity of marriage and virginity before marriage.”

5/10/07, Pope Benedict XVI urged tens of thousands of young Catholics packing a soccer stadium Thursday to resist the temptations of wealth, power and other "snares of evil," and told them to promote life from "its beginning to natural end."

4/28/07, / The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences says there are seven "signs of the times" which cause concern for the future of international relations.

4/27/07, Pope Benedict XVI is planning to visit New York City for a trip to the United Nations headquarters.

4/15/07, Pope Benedict XVI marked his 80th birthday Sunday with a mass before thousands of worshippers in which he spoke of "darkness" threatening the world in the form of war, oppression and hate.

Alerts: Israel

5/20/07, Jordan's King Abdullah has urged the world to act to end what he described as the continuing suffering of Palestinians under Israeli occupation. "There can be no more delay," he told some 1,000 politicians and businessmen at the World Economic Forum in Jordan. "This suffocating situation has brought poverty, malnutrition, frustration and radicalisation," King Abdullah said. He urged the gathering to prepare investment plans for the "day after peace" in the Middle East.

5/18/07, The US House of Representatives authorized Friday night a sum of $205 million dollars for financing joint US-Israel missile defense system projects, Israel Radio reported. 205 million dollars will go to projects currently being developed in Israeli factories. According to the report, the defense systems are meant to be able to withstand missiles developed by Iran.

5/17/07, A Palestinian working for an aid group was charged Thursday with gathering intelligence on Ehud Olmert as part of a plot to assassinate the Israeli prime minister.

5/17/07, Palestinian medics say four Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip Friday, as Israel continues to retaliate for Hamas rocket attacks. Hamas has launched scores of rockets into southern Israel in recent days, but Israel has vowed to defend itself.

5/16/07, One year from now, Iran could possess the means of producing a nuclear bomb - that was the chilling message delivered by Ambassador Dore Gold during an interview with Ynetnews Tuesday

5/16/07, At least 16 Palestinians were killed in fierce factional fighting in Gaza on Wednesday and Israel launched an air strike on a Hamas compound that killed at least four gunmen.

5/16/07, The international Red Cross has privately accused Israel of reshaping Jerusalem to further its own interests, in violation of international law. A leaked ICRC report says Israeli policy has far-reaching humanitarian consequences for Palestinians living under occupation in East Jerusalem.
Israel captured East Jerusalem in 1967, and the territory is regarded as occupied land under international law.

5/16/07, In a new book that "totally contradicts everything that has been accepted to this day" about the Six Day War, two Israeli authors claim that the conflict was deliberately engineered by the Soviet Union to create the conditions in which Israel's nuclear program could be destroyed.

5/6/07, When Egypt and Syria launched a surprise joint offensive in 1973, many Israelis braced for a fight to the finish. "In 1973, Israel's nuclear option transformed what could have been an existential war into a contained conflict," said Israeli military historian Michael Oren. "A nuclear-armed Iran would risk transforming a contained conflict into a regional and global conflict." While Iran denies seeking nuclear weapons, its president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has fuelled war fears by urging Israel's elimination and questioning whether the Holocaust happened. The potential for extortion and major regional instability is mind-boggling," the official said. Israeli mistrust will likely grow, given several Arab states' declarations they may pursue civilian nuclear programmes.

4/30/07, Israel's policy of so-called "strategic ambiguity" means that it neither admits nor denies possessing nuclear weapons. Based on Vanunu's revelations more than 20 years ago, nuclear experts concluded that Israel possessed hundreds of warheads, making it the sixth-largest nuclear power in the world.

4/28/07, "Iran's nuclear program can be thrown back by years in a ten day attack using thousands of Tomahawk cruise missiles," Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was quoted as saying in an interview published online by the German magazine Focus on Saturday.

4/23/07, Hamas militants fired a barrage of rockets and mortar shells toward Israel on Tuesday and said they considered a five-month truce with Israel to have ended.

4/21/07, An Egyptian court convicted an Egyptian-Canadian dual citizen on Saturday of spying for Israel and sentenced him to 15 years in prison, saying he had been "seduced by Satan" into selling out his country.

4/18/07, Syria Threatens War, Syrian President Bashar Assad said Wednesday that Syria is ready for a war with Israel.

4/15/07, On the eve of 2007's Holocaust Memorial Day, a poll showed that 37 percent of Israel's youth feel another Holocaust is possible.

4/5/07, A homemade bomb exploded outside a Jewish community center in Montreal in the middle of Passover week.
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Video: Benjamin Netanyahu on Nuclear Iran

Omen: Buzz About Bees

Isaiah 7:18, In that day the LORD will whistle for flies from the distant streams of Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria (=Iraq).

5/27/07, For the second consecutive day, a huge swarm of bees invaded the Barabati Stadium in Cuttack interrupting the Ranji Trophy Plate division final match being played between Orissa and Himachal Pradesh.As the bees descended on the ground, the players and umpires had to take cover by falling flat.

5/26/07, A truck driver hauling more than 17 million bees was killed in an accident on Interstate 55. Three southeast Missouri beekeepers were called in to help manage the swarm of bees that escaped after the wreck.

5/25/07, A passenger plane was forced to land after flying into a swarm of British bees Thursday. The plane's engine was thought to have become clogged with bees, the company said Friday. Huge clouds of bees have been seen around Bournemouth over the past few days, a spokeswoman said.

5/24/07, A swarm of 20,000 honeybees looking for a new nest surprised tourists when they descended on a seafront pier. There were so many that bystanders in Bournemouth initially thought the colony was a flock of birds.

5/24/07, Over the last couple of days, thousands of Italian honeybees have come to Center City, most likely looking for a place to establish their hives. They just came out of nowhere," said Angie Burdge, 27, of Philadelphia. "It was like it was snowing bees."

5/24/07, Altus is swarming with bees again and experts think it may be the killer bees that have been sighted several times before. The latest report came Tuesday when diners at a local restaurant spotted a huge swarm of roughly 3,000 bees. Marple said his crews have been out on at least 5 calls of bees in the last 3 weeks.

5/23/07, In a rare phenomenon, bees have been dying or disappearing at an alarming rate in the western and northwestern regions of Iran. The Persian Daily reported on Monday that the reason for the unprecedented loss of bee colonies in Ardebil, East and West Azarbaijan as well as Kurdestan provinces is still unknown.

5/22/07, A St. Cloud, Florida home is infested with thousands of bees. The homeowner said he can hear the bees inside the walls of his garage on Michigan Avenue. Now, local officials are warning people to stay away.

5/22/07, Back in January some ranking officials with the Bonita Springs Fire Department were at a conference in Tallahassee when they happened upon a movie about Africanized bees and the hazards of fighting them in street clothes. It’s a short, dramatized clip, opening with a man leaping off a tractor. His arms are flailing.

5/22/07, A family is recovering after hundreds of bees repeatedly stung them in Weslaco, Texas. The bees are still swarming around a massive hive in the Perez's backyard.

5/22/07, There's something strange going on with beehives these days. It seems that bees are leaving the beehive and not coming back. The problem with the bees is that they pollinate more than one third of everything that we eat. The bees are dying off at an alarming rate. "There's a shortage here, because the wild bees are all gone. Those parasites killed them off, you know, in the 1980s," he said. "Over half the bees in Indiana are dead, and over half the bees in the United States are dead."

5/21/07, A swarm of honeybees temporarily disrupted a charity fundraising event, but no one reported being stung. Authorities evacuated the area Saturday after the swarm of about 3,000 bees emerged from the woods around the West Noble High School football field, where 700 people were participating in a fundraising walk for the American Cancer Society.

5/20/07, Researchers are trying to help beekeepers in parts of Virginia figure out why their colonies are disappearing. The mysterious colony collapse disorder is characterized by a hive with fully intact honey, but with bees that are nowhere to be found. "One day the bees are there, and the next day there are none," said Bob Wellemeyer, a state bee inspector. "There really are no answers." "If you look at the big picture, things aren't going the right way," Kearns said. "This does not look good."

5/20/07, The bee disorder now suspected of affecting bees in the US, Spain, Portugal and Britain as well as other parts of Europe.

5/19/07, It is like a scene out of a Stephen King novel: One sunny spring day, the happy buzzing sound of bees fades to silence. The bees disappear, abandoning hives and leaving flowers unpollinated, never to bear fruits and vegetables. Gradually, the world starves.

5/17/07, The 2007 Cannes Film Festival kicked off with old-fashioned PR smarts this morning when comedian Jerry Seinfeld, flying in on a metal cable, landed on the beach dressed as a bee to promote his upcoming animated "Bee Movie," a film that Seinfeld has been working on for more than two years.

5/17/07, A swarm of honey bees made their home on the branch of a tree in downtown Denver near 14th and Larimer Wednesday afternoon. The buzzing insects created plenty of worry among some of the people walking by. The Wednesday swarm of about 5,000 bees came after another incident last Friday when a swarm took over a parking meter. May is the primary month for creating new hives and bees like to travel on nice warm and sunny days.

5/16/07, The death of three dogs killed by bees last week may not be as sensational as the story of the clouds of bees that attacked Texas in the 1978 film "The Swarm," but it's unnerving nonetheless. On May 7, a hive of bees living inside a stucco fence was agitated when the wind broke a nearby tree branch. The bees attacked three mastiffs, two large adults and one puppy, said Kim Summers, a spokeswoman for the city of Hesperia. The type of bees that attacked the dogs were Africanized honey bees, sometimes called killer bees.

5/13/05, Ten days ago a hive of Asian honey bees was found in the mast of a docked yacht - traps to catch the bees were only set-up last Friday. Tests are yet to confirm if the bees were carrying mites that have the potential to devastate the honey industry and pollen-reliant crops. "The damage that this could do to our honey industry, the damage it could do to the export of live bees from Australia to the United States and the damage that it can do to the agricultural industry by not having proper natural pollination, is extreme," he said.

5/13/07, A problem at an apartment complex in Shreveport, Louisiana, has its residents buzzing. That's because hundreds of bees were swarming around an air conditioning unit outside one of the apartment buildings at Colonial Place.

5/12/07, Chris Werner in Germantown, Mark Ranum in Darlington and William Palmer in East Troy (Wisconsin) are on the front lines of a possible agricultural disaster - the unexplained, sudden disappearance of millions of bees from hundreds of thousands of colonies across the United States this past winter. "It was like something had vacuumed the bees out of there," said Palmer, owner of East Troy Honey. "The bees were missing." Scientists are continuing to investigate the role of fungi and other pathogens, lack of genetic diversity, and other pesticides used by beekeepers and the farmers who rent hives for pollination. "There is more of the colony collapse disorder than is being reported," Ranum said.

5/12/07, Honeybees swarmed on a parking meter outside the Republic Plaza at 17th and Tremont in Denver, Colorado. The bees startled many people walking by. "I'm scared of bees," Javier Serna told CBS4. "I've been stung once and I don't want to get stung again."Denver police closed part of the road so a beekeeper could clear out the insects.

5/12/07, Arkansas' official state insect, the honey bee, is under attack by a little understood predator known as Colony Collapse Disorder. Arkansas was in the top 10 honey-producing states in 2001. But now, the state barely ranks in the top 20 states.

5/11/07, With the decline of honeybee populations nationwide, Hillary Rodham Clinton is calling on her Senate colleagues to address the looming threat to fruit and produce growers in New York and other states.

5/11/07, "Scientists are having trouble determining any underlying cause, but under your orders, I have identified the problem, and I think you need to go on national television and announce the shocking revelation."The bees are being wiped out by terrorists."That's right, sir - terrorists. Apparently sleeper cells have been set up in beekeeping areas throughout the United States."Religious fanatics sneak into the apiaries in the dead of night and smear the bee hives with couscous, baklava, falafel and other tempting but toxic foodstuffs.

5/11/07, Residents of a Florida neighborhood say they're burdened by bees, and they're blaming their builder. Ted Vorhees is one of twelve residents of a single Delray Beach development whose home has been overrun by bees.A beekeeper removed thousands of the buzzing bugs from his wall two months ago, but the bees quickly came back.

5/11/07, This past winter was bad, he said, because of the warm December. "Normally the bees go semi-dormant in November, but this year's warm weather caused them to stay more active," he said. "They wore themselves out -- they had a shorter life span. They consume more honey when it's warm, and they die of starvation later. There was no excess honey this spring when I cleaned the hives. Usually there is."

5/11/07, Thousands of bees have set up home in the chimney and gardens of two neighbouring houses in Kidlington - and the angry owners are desperate for them to 'buzz off'.

5/11/07, The implications of the spread are alarming. Most of the world's crops depend on pollination by bees. Albert Einstein once said that if the bees disappeared, "man would have only four years of life left". Does that bring us to the door-step of the year 2012?

5/10/07, Dead and dying bees are littering the water at the beach in South Haven, raising questions about what's killing them. Scientists are calling it colony collapse disorder. It's a serious problem. We walked the beach and found lots of dead bees. Considering what's going on across the country, it doesn't take much to make the connection to colony collapse disorder.

Map of Colony Collapse Disorder

5/9/07, And the answer could be? A type of black beetle that has come to the United States from the jungles of South America by jumping on the backs of imported bees -- and quite literally eating the queen and her workers out of house and home.

5/4/07, News Clip on the problem in Idaho: Little Bees make Big Waves.

5/2/07, Unless someone or something stops it soon, the mysterious killer that is wiping out many of the nation's honeybees could have a devastating effect on America's dinner plate, perhaps even reducing us to a glorified bread-and-water diet. Honeybees don't just make honey; they pollinate more than 90 of the tastiest flowering crops we have.

5/2/07, Bees were causing some problems at Sky Harbor Airport, Arizona, Tuesday afternoon. A swarm reportedly took up residence on a belt loader at the airport.

5/2/07, AUSTIN, TX -- A swarm of bees attacked a Travis County sheriffs deputy while he was working on a Habitat for Humanity house Wednesday.

5/2/07, The answer to what happened to America's vanishing honeybees is simple, a caller told entomologist May Berenbaum: Bee rapture. They were called away to heaven. No, wait, it's Earth's magnetic field, another caller told the University of Illinois professor.

5/1/07, North Dakota now is among about a dozen states where beekeepers report some of their bees are buzzing away from hives for good. "Some are reporting that they are losing 50 to 80 percent of their hives." North Dakota, with an estimated 382,500 hives, led the country in honey production last year. "It's a real mystery because bees have an enormously strong homing instinct, but in this case, they are flying away and never coming back and nobody knows where they went." "Our bees go to other states, so it affects everyone at some point."

5/1/07, A swarm of bees clustered outside the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Medical Center shut down the emergency room Monday, as officials waited for a beekeeper to come vacuum up the 7,000 insects.

5/1/07, A swarm of bees overtook the area in front of the Illinois Brewing Co. between Madison and Front streets today in Bloomginton.

4/30/07, Two people were hospitalized Monday after a vehicle carrying eight colonies of honey bees lost part of its load on Interstate 205, triggering a crash on the Glenn Jackson Bridge. “Yeah, this probably isn't something you're going to see very often. Looks like a lot of the bees were injured,” said Portland police officer John Young.

4/26/07, Taiwan's bee farmers are feeling the sting of lost business and possible crop danger after millions of the honey-making, plant-pollinating insects vanished during volatile weather,

4/26/07, A tiny mite that has devastated mainland honeybee populations showed up in Honolulu hives for the first time this month and has now been confirmed in bee colonies across Oahu. "This is going to be for us a nightmare," said Michael Kliks, head of the Hawaii Beekeepers' Association and owner of Manoa Honey Co.

4/23/07, An alarming die-off of honey bees has beekeepers fighting for commercial survival and crop growers wondering whether bees will be available to pollinate their crops this spring and summer. Researchers are scrambling to find answers to what's causing an affliction recently named COLONY COLLAPSE DISORDER, which has decimated commercial beekeeping operations in Pennsylvania and across the country.

4/15/07, Some scientists suggest that our love of the mobile phone could cause massive food shortages, as the world's harvests fail. They are putting forward the theory that radiation given off by mobile phones and other hi-tech gadgets is a possible answer to one of the more bizarre mysteries ever to happen in the natural world - the abrupt disappearance of the bees that pollinate crops.

4/11/07, Manuel Trevino was stung more than 1,000 times by Africanized bees while working on his ranch in San Diego last month.

3/2/07, Dry, hot weather soured honey production in the nation's top two beekeeping states last year, leading to one of the smallest U.S. honey crops in at least 35 years.

12/12/06, Honey bees can be trained to sniff out hidden bombs by rewarding them with sugar water. This research was funded by the Department of Defense at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. They could be used for protecting Ports. Here is an article about the bees on their website: Los Alamos Stealthy Insect Sensor Project. A more detailed article:
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Bee Culture: The Magazine of American Beekeeping.
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X-Files, The Movie: - Mulder and Scully find two huge domes, and go in one. They hear a suspicious humming, and Mulder yells, "Scully. . . RUN!" But he's a bit late as a lot of bees are released. They manage to get outside unhurt. However, a bee is hiding in Scully's jacket. Mulder and Scully are getting up-close when the bee decides to sting her. Mulder looks at the bee as Scully collapses. He tells the paramedics the bee may have been carrying a virus. And it certainly was. When he catches up with Scully, she's in an alien cryopod. If he hadn't got there an alien would have grown inside of her and then burst forth. Fortunately, Mulder has a VACCINE. He injects Scully, they escape. Back in D.C. Scully gives the body of the bee to an FBI hearing as evidence. Earlier Frohike had identified it as an Africanised honeybee.

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Prior to becoming a state, Utah and a large region surrounding it were known as the territory of "Deseret." The word "Deseret" comes from the Book of Mormon, which states that the word means "honey bee" (Ether 2:3). When Utah became a state, the honey bee and the beehive were already in use as symbols of the region. Bees symbolized the industrious, hard-working nature of the Latter-day Saints who settled in Utah. Although the Latter-day Saints were unsuccessful in petitioning the federal government to allow them to keep the name "Deseret" when the area was admitted to the Union as a state, they did manage to officially incorporate Latter-day Saint beliefs and values in other ways. The official motto of Utah" is "industry." As mentioned above, the official nickname of Utah is the "beehive state." A beehive is also shown on the Utah state flag.



The scene in which Scully tells Mulder that she has been assigned to work in Utah takes place just minutes after a major section of the film in which Mulder and Scully find a secret government bee research facility in Texas. Massive numbers of bees are being raised in giant beehive-shaped domes in the middle of corn fields. The government is experimenting with using the bees to delivery a kind of virus that is pivotal in the movie's plot. While inside one of the domes, bees are released and swarm around Scully and Mulder. They manage to escape the bees -- and the helicopters that chase them after they run outside. But apparently at least bee remained lodged in Scully's clothing. While Scully and Mulder are still at Mulder's apartment -- just minutes after she tells him about Utah -- a bee climbs out of a fold in Scully's jacket and stings her.
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The Latter-day Saints has to do with the End of Days. The Saints refers to Revelation 7:4.
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WAITING FOR NESARA: Filmed on location in Utah in the months between September 11th, 2001 and the start of the war in Iraq, WAITING FOR NESARA documents the true story of The Open Mind Forum, a messianic group of Salt Lake City ex-Mormons, and the radical faith that binds them together in the wake of 9/11. The group anxiously await the implementation of NESARA—a miraculous secret law hundreds of years in the making— that they believe was blocked and covered up by the Bush administration. The group believes that the 9/11 attacks were Bush's first attempt to delay NESARA's implementation, and that the Iraq war will be his second.Guided by constant internet updates from New Age gurus, the group believes NESARA will abolish the IRS, remove George Bush from office, expose him as a reptilian alien, distribute millions to the worthy few, and install a UFO-flying Jesus Christ as America's new leader.As the deadline for Bush's War on Iraq approaches, the group struggles to remain united, positive, and retain a sense of control—channeling all of their faith and prayers toward the desperate hope that the UFO allies will intervene in time to prevent it, ensure NESARA's implementation, and bring about a new golden age.
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Video: The Rapture
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5/11/07, While some evangelical Christians are defending the presidential candidacy of Mormon Mitt Romney from an attack by Al Sharpton, another prominent pastor is going further in his condemnation – saying a vote for the former Massachusetts governor is a vote for Satan.

Alerts: Russia

11/24/12, Russia sends ships to Gaza coast in preparation for violence escalation.  The detachment of combat ships of the Black Sea Fleet, including the Guards missile cruiser Moskva, the patrol ship Smetliviy, large landing ships Novocherkassk and Saratov, the sea tug MB-304 and the big sea tanker Ivan Bubnov, got the order to remain in the designated area of the Eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea for a possible evacuation of Russian citizens from the area of the Gaza strip.

6/9/07, Vladimir Putin, whose term as Russian president ends next year, does not rule out running again in 2012, a leading Russian daily reported on Saturday. The future plans of the 54-year-old Putin, by far Russia's most powerful and popular politician, are the hottest topic of the Russian presidential succession.

5/31/07, President Vladimir Putin issued an acerbic warning Thursday to the United States, saying the recent test of a new Russian missile was a direct response to US actions and condemning "imperialism" in world affairs. "Our American partners have quit the ABM Treaty," Putin told reporters after meeting his Greek counterpart, referring to the landmark 1972 US-Soviet treaty limiting the missile defenses of the Cold War superpower foes.

5/29/07, Russian President Vladimir Putin has cautioned against turning Europe into a "powder keg", referring to Washington's plans to deploy elements of its missile defense system in Europe.

5/17/07, Russia on Wednesday launched a $22.5bn claim against a US bank for alleged collaboration in tax evasion, opening a new front in a widening political conflict with the west. The move comes on the eve of a Russia-European summit which itself has been overshadowed by bitter arguments between Moscow and Brussels. Many concede relations between Russia and the west have hit their lowest point since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

5/16/07, A three-week wave of massive cyber-attacks on the small Baltic country of Estonia, the first known incidence of such an assault on a state, is causing alarm across the western alliance, with Nato urgently examining the offensive and its implications. Relations between the Kremlin and the west are at their worst for years, with Russia engaged in bitter disputes not only with Estonia, but with Poland, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, and Georgia

5/16/07, In a new book that "totally contradicts everything that has been accepted to this day" about the Six Day War, two Israeli authors claim that the conflict was deliberately engineered by the Soviet Union to create the conditions in which Israel's nuclear program could be destroyed.

5/13/07, Who was President Vladimir Putin talking about when he said the world faces threats to peace like those that led to World War II? Putin’s statement at a Victory Day parade on Red Square on Wednesday was artfully phrased to be both blunt and vague — but political observers have little doubt that one target was the United States.

5/11/07, While this issue has sparked large debate, the dangerous hypocrisy lies in the fact that President Vladimir Putin’s Russia is not tackling a much larger neo-Nazi problem at home. According to human rights watchdogs, hate crimes across Russia were up 33 percent year-on-year on the occasion of Hitler’s birthday last month.

5/11/07, Their faces encased in Darth Vaderesque helmets, phalanxes of riot police descend on peaceful demonstrators, swinging their truncheons at anyone opposing President Vladimir Putin's increasingly authoritarian rule.

5/10/07, President Vladimir Putin of Russia obliquely compared the foreign policy of the United States to the Third Reich in a speech Wednesday commemorating the 62nd anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany, in an apparent escalation of anti-American rhetoric within the Russian government.

5/6/07, The pursuit of science in President Vladimir Putin's Russia is driven by profit alone and there was less government interference even under Josef Stalin, a Russian Nobel Prize winner said in a interview.

5/2/07, Journalists will mark World Press Freedom Day on 3 May amid growing concern about what campaigners say is a continuing global decline in media freedoms. Russia is again singled out, as a country whose government is allegedly taking aggressive measures to curb media freedom.

5/2/07, Russian President Vladimir Putin told President Bush he could not account for all of Moscow's nuclear weapons at the same time al Qaeda was seeking to purchase three Russian nuclear devices on the black market, former CIA Director George J. Tenet said.

5/1/07, Mankind's second race for the moon took on a distinctly Cold War feel yesterday when the Russian space agency accused its old rival Nasa of rejecting a proposal for joint lunar exploration.

4/29/07, The head of Russia's space agency Sunday said the US has rebuffed an offer from Moscow to jointly explore the moon, while announcing a separate contract with NASA for nearly one billion dollars for the International Space Station.

4/27/07, President Vladimir Putin on Friday renewed criticism of U.S. plans to deploy a missile shield in Eastern Europe, saying Russia would take "appropriate measures" to counter the system.

4/26/07, President Vladimir Putin charged Thursday that foreigners seeking to thwart Russia's resurgence are increasingly interfering in its affairs.

4/26/07, A row between the United States and Russia over U.S. plans to build a missile shield in eastern Europe escalated on Thursday when President Vladimir declared a moratorium on a key European arms treaty.

4/22/07, Russia’s largest independent radio news network: opposition leaders will not be mentioned on the air and the United States is to be portrayed as an enemy.

4/20/07, Trust between the EU and Russia has reached its lowest level since the end of the Cold War, EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson has warned.

4/14/07, In a clear sign of its intent to reign in dissident American media personalities, and their growing influence in American culture, US War Leaders this past week launched an unprecedented attack upon one of their most politically 'connected', and legendary, radio hosts named Don Imus after his threats to release information relating to the September 11, 2001 attacks upon that country.

4/14/07, Riot police beat and detained protesters as thousands defied an official ban and attempted to stage a rally Saturday against President Putin's government, which opponents accuse of rolling back freedoms Russians have enjoyed since the end of Soviet communism.

4/14/07, Pakistan and Russia pledged to boost economic ties and signed two cooperation agreements.

4/13/07, Russia's parliament alleged on Friday that the United States was helping train radical political groups which threatened the country's stability.

4/13/07, Billionaire Boris Berezovsky said he's helping to plan a revolution in Russia to overthrow President Vladimir Putin.

4/12/07, Deployment of U.S. missile-defense bases in Poland and the Czech Republic is an attempt by the U.S. to control Europe, the former Soviet president said Thursday. "It is all about influence and domination in Europe," Mikhail Gorbachev said. "I believe it is wrong that America did not even bother to consult its NATO allies." Asked how Russia could respond to these plans, he only said: "Time will show."

4/12/07, The Foreign Ministry on Wednesday expressed its annoyance to Tehran over an Iranian air defense exercise near a Russian-built nuclear plant.

Alerts: China

11/24/12, The Philippines' top diplomat has told the country's future military leaders that they must stand their ground in any territorial disputes with China.  China has enraged several neighbors with a map printed in its newly revised passports that show it staking its claim on the entire South China Sea.

6/15/07, New intelligence reveals China is covertly supplying large quantities of small arms and weapons to insurgents in Iraq and the Taliban militia in Afghanistan, through Iran.

6/13/07, China is seeking to unseat the United States as the dominant power in cyberspace, a U.S. Air Force general leading a new push in this area said Wednesday. "They're the only nation that has been quite that blatant about saying, 'We're looking to do that,"' 8th Air Force Commander Lt. Gen. Robert Elder told reporters.

6/10/07, For almost six decades, U.S. military power has frustrated the ambition of China's ruling Communist Party to unite Taiwan with the mainland. With this U.S. security blanket in place, Beijing has been largely powerless to prevent the prosperous, self-governing island from becoming independent in all but name. But, an increasingly wealthy China is now building a military force tailored specifically to challenge any attempt by the United States to intervene in a conflict over Taiwan, Western and Chinese military analysts say.

5/25/07, China's modernizing military will make it a more muscular player in world events, a U.S. Defense Department report says. China's developing capabilities "will increase Beijing's options for military coercion to press diplomatic advantage, advance interests or resolve disputes," the Pentagon says in its annual report to Congress on China.

5/16/07, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has rejected criticism that his country is only interested in Africa because of its huge wealth of raw materials. He told a meeting of the African Development Bank in Shanghai that China was committed to helping the continent develop socially and economically.

5/16/07, North Korea is developing a new long-range ballistic missile that may be capable of hitting the U.S. territory of Guam, a Japanese official said Wednesday.

5/11/07, The new head of the U.S. Pacific Command said on Saturday that China's anti-satellite test sent a "confusing signal" about its military intentions, adding he would push for deeper exchange and openness between the countries' forces. China's military modernization and expanding defense budget have been a source of friction with the United States. "They're getting better. The equipment, the hardware that China's fielding, is improving."

5/10/07, Jurors on Thursday convicted a Chinese-born engineer of conspiring to export U.S. defense technology to China, including data on an electronic propulsion system that could make submarines virtually undetectable.

5/8/07, U.S. fish farms may have been given meal laced with melamine, expanding an investigation that already has found the industrial chemical in food for pets, pigs and chickens, officials said on Tuesday. China shipped tainted ingredients to Canada, which produced fish meal that was later sold to several fish farms in the United States.

5/8/07, China acknowledged on Tuesday that two Chinese companies had illegally exported contaminated wheat gluten and rice protein for pet food blamed for a spate of animal deaths in the United States.

5/8/07, China and Russia are supplying arms to Sudan that are being used to fuel the violence in the Darfur region in violation of a U.N. arms embargo, a human rights group said in a report Tuesday. China and Russia quickly rejected the report and Sudan's government said it was "not justified."

4/24/07, China has increased its presence in Africa in recent years in a hunt for oil and other natural resources to feed its rapidly growing economy. Its forays into areas considered politically unstable, however, has exposed Chinese workers to attacks.

4/13/07, Surgeons in Taiwan have reattached a vet's arm, after it was bitten off by a crocodile as he gave it an anaesthetic.

4/11/07, China's use of a missile to destroy a satellite in January put vital U.S. national-security satellites at risk, the top U.S. Air Force general said.