God is shouting

God is not whispering or talking to the world, but shouting. War-coulds are gathering in the middle-east, the setting for the ultimate war of prophetic history. Economic crises are hitting the rich nations, particularly the US, at a time when the same nations are needed to stabilise the highly volatile middle-east.

If Vladimir Putin could be so facetious, he would say, "Tank you Comraad for de money", because US activities have driven oil prices up by almost three-fold, bringing a much-needed financial windfall to an otherwise stagnant Russian war machine.

Russia has now de-mothballed their strategic bomber fleet, resumed cold-war surveillance of western military defences, embarked on extensive military exercises and forged military cooperation agreements with India, the world's second largest nation. Their biggest foray into the mid-east is their not too subtle backing of Iran's Ahmadinejad, the reckless pretender to the nuclear throne of the mid-east and an anti-US protagonist in the current Iraq war: who would think nothing of stirring the pot in Iraq (with Russian help of course).

The situation is on a knife edge, with 25% of world oil reserves at risk in a dangerous game of cat and mouse politics.

(c) Peter Eleazar, www.bethelstone.com

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