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Life may not be as pleasant, but you can survive without your 401K. A healthy person can even survive for weeks without food. But without water, the average person will go into shock and die within days.
World leaders have often been at odds with the USA lately, but as America continues to be the epicenter of a global financial meltdown, the language is becoming increasingly hostile...and prophetically meaningful. It is very interesting from a Biblical perspective that not only the USA, but "the Anglo-Saxon" peoples are being derided for the recent financial...
Buried in the British press this week, amongst the stories of the global financial tsunami, comes one of a new ID card that is being stealthily introduced. It has all the makings of yet one more directive from Brussels to the British government. What does it portend for an uninformed British public? Will it be another step toward a totalitarian European...
The ongoing economic drama playing out in America is fascinating, but only in the way that one might find a train wreck fascinating.
Buried more than 150 feet below the Swiss and French countryside, on September 10 a monstrous machine rumbled to life. This is the world's biggest and most advanced scientific instrument, supported by more than eight thousand physicists from over eighty-five countries. It is also a machine that some scientists fear may destroy the world.
What does the 2008 Israeli Prime Minster contest have to do with a 2500 year-old prophecy? Who is Ms. Tzipi Livni? And, what are the real prospects for middle east peace, whether led by Ms. Livni, Ehud Barak, former general Shaul Mofaz, Benjamin Netanyahu or others who wish to lead Israel into 2009?
Every day brought new rumors. Soldiers had become more active, and the night before bricks had mysteriously disappeared from many abandoned buildings. And now, people were saying a wall would soon be built. Fearing the worst, Hasso pleaded with his friend that they should escape the city. His friend, skeptical of the rumors, encouraged Hasso to "Relax. Enjoy...
The third week of September 2008 may well prove to have been the axis of the shift from an American/Anglo centre of world financial influence to one centred on the sovereign funds of the Middle East and China. New powers are rising around the world. A resurgent Russia and a dynamic India are vying with Europe and China for their "place in the sun."
As one who has walked through the aftermath of many disasters – having represented insurance companies for decades as a claims adjuster – my attention was really grabbed by the pictures of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Ike, and other recent storms.
While we prayed for God's protection for those being battered by Hurricane Ike, another storm was tearing through Wall Street the weekend of September 13-14. And, while the full impact will not be understood for months, there is no doubt that a devastating financial hurricane ripped through the heart of US financial systems that weekend.