THIS BLOG ATTEMPTS TO SHOW HOW SCIENCE IS CATCHING UP WITH REVEALED RELIGION

THIS BLOG IS AN ATTEMPT TO PUT ALL THE COOL STUFF THAT I BUMP INTO ABOUT THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST AND EVENTS THAT LEAD UP TO IT INTO ONE LOCATION.
THE CONTENTS WILL BE FROM AN LDS PERSPECTIVE. IF YOU DISAGREE WITH ANYTHING IN HERE, I DO NOT PARTICULARLY CARE TO ARGUE, UNLESS YOU CAN ADD TO THIS BODY OF WORK. I HAVE AN OPEN MIND, THAT IS WHY I READ STUFF FROM ALL DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES AND SEEK LEARNING FROM THE BEST BOOKS. I JUST AM NOT HERE TO ARGUE ABOUT IT - BUT TO PUT IT OUT THERE WHERE OTHERS CAN PERUSE/PURSUE IT. I TAKE PARTICULAR INTEREST IN HONEST SEEKERS OF TRUTH AND BELIEVE THAT SCIENCE IS REVEALED RELIGION'S BEST ALLY. YOU WILL SEE ALOT OF TOPICS IN THIS BLOG THAT SHOW SCIENCE BACKING - AND SLOWLY CATCHING UP WITH - REVEALED RELIGION.
ENJOY!!

Sunday, March 30, 2014

EXTREME DROUGHT IN THE SOUTHEASTERN U.S.?

This is not good news.  Koyle said the drought would start in the southwest and spread.  I was shocked to hear that the Stake here in Logan had been fasting for rain at the same time Saints in California were fasting for the same thing.

Moisture has returned here - as it is raining and snowing aplenty outside, but they apparently had a really dry winter.

Here is the article:
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Dry-windy-conditions-have-some-Texas-farmers-5357606.php?cmpid=hpfc#photo-6086749

Here is a pic of President Ezra Taft Benson as Secretary of Agriculture during the original drought and depression.  As things repeat, we will go thru it again - along with everything else.

Ezra T. Benson (2R) walking with Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower (C) during tour of the southwest.  (Photo by Paul Schutzer//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images) Photo: Paul Schutzer, Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image / Time Life Pictures

THE WOOD ZONE END OF THE WORLD CONFERENCE AGENDA WITH HYPERLINKS

I am finally hyper-linking this outline to the relevant topics and stuff on the blog.  I have been SO distracted with the emerging world events that I had to alter my vision for the presentation.



WOODZONE “END OF THE WORLD” PRESENTATION  OUTLINE
A.  INTRODUCTION – ME, WIFE, HOSTS
B.   2017 RABBI BEN SAMUEL QUOTE – 50TH, 50TH JUBILEE
-         DEFINITION OF JUBILEE, SIGNIFICANCE OF 2500 YEARS
-         ANCIENT ISRAEL RELEASED FROM BONDAGE, MODERN ISRAEL (EPHRAIM AND JUDAH) RELEASED FROM BONDAGE.
-    2017 AS THE YEAR OF OUR LORD - DEWEY BRUTON
C.   FALSE TEACHING – NO MAN KNOWS THE HOUR (MATTHEW CH. 24).
D.   THE HOLY SPIRIT TEACHES ALL THINGS
-         JOSEPH SMITH QUOTE ON SPIRIT OF PROPHECY
-         WHERE THERE ARE NO GIFTS MANIFEST, THE PEOPLE ARE SPIRITUALLY DEAD AND A CLEANSING WILL OCCUR
-         DETECTION OF FALSE TEACHERS/PROPHETS.
E.   DEWEY BRUTON YOUTUBE QUOTE ON MATTHEW 24
F.    SECOND COMING IS MULTI-PHASED
-         1820, 1836
-         AOA, (AOA JOSEPH SMITH) OLD JERUSALEM and NEW JERUSALEM
-         FINAL JUDGMENT and CLEANSING OF EARTH BY FIRE
-         WHICH ONE DOES EVERYONE THINK OF WHEN SOMEONE SAYS SECOND COMING?
-         TWO PROPHETS STAY ARMIES OF ANTI-CHRIST FOR 3.5 YEARS
-         KILLED, LIE DEAD IN STREETS OF JERUSALEM FOR 3.5 DAYS (84 HOURS).
-         WHILE KINGS OF EARTH CONGRATULATE EACH OTHER (GENERAL KNOWLEDGE).
H.   WHEN WE GET CLOSE, WILL SEE WORKS OF A/C OR FALSE PROPHET
-         FIRST DECLARES PEACE FOR 3.5 YEARS, 42 MONTHS OR 1260 DAYS
-         IS DECLARED MESSIAH AND ASCENDS TEMPLE MOUNT IN VICTORY - AFTER HE CAUSES THE SACRIFICE TO CEASE
-         LAST 1260 DAYS + 30, HE BRINGS WAR TO ISRAEL.  CULMINATES IN MESSIAH’S RETURN AND DESTRUCTION OF EVIL FORCES ARRAYED AGAINST ISRAEL.  TAKES 7 YEARS TO BURY DEAD AND REMOVE LOGISTICS FROM THE HOLY LAND.
-         SKULLAND BONES 322 – THIS IS PART OF THE WORKS OF WORLDWIDE CONSPIRACY
-         1260 DAYS START ON PASSOVER OF MARCH 22ND, 2013 AND THEN ENDING WITH 1260 +30 DAYS CULMINATION OF WEDDING FEAST.


Click picture to ZOOM
-         SEPARATION OF WHEAT FROM CHAFF
J.     MARCH 22, 2013  MINUS  1260 DAYS   =  OCTOBER 9TH, 2009.
-         BHO RECEIVES NOBEL PEACE PRIZE ON THAT DATE
K.    IF BHO IS A/C, THEN HE WILL BE INSTRUMENTAL IN HELPING TO BRING TROOPS FROM NORTH DURING LAST 3.5 YEARS TO WIPE OUT ISRAEL.
-         GOG – GEORGIA, UKRAINE?
L.    WHAT HAPPENS BEFORE ALL OF THIS AS PART OF THE WOES?
-         ECONOMIC COLLAPSE
M.           HOW DO WE PREPARE FOR THIS?
-         MASSIVE MATTHEW 24 E.Q.
-         PLAGUES, WOES AND SECOND WAR 13 MONTH WAR (WWIII) TO BRING ALL NATIONS OF EARTH TO KNEES
-         BUILDING UP OF THE NEW JERUSALEM
-         FINAL GATHERING OUT OF THE NATIONS BEFORE BURNING (144,000)
-         CITY OF ENOCH RETURNS, NJ CAUGHT UP TO HEAVEN WHILE CHAFF IS BURNED
-         LAW OF CONSECRATION, LOVE ABOUNDS, MILLENNIAL PEACE.
O.   ENCORE SLIDES
-         IOHANI WOLFGRAMM – DALLIN H. OAKES
-         SARAH MENET – THERE IS NO DEATH
-         SOLS GUARDISTO – GEORGE ALBERT SMITH
-          JOHN PONTIUS – VISIONS OF GLORY

Saturday, March 29, 2014

THE NEXT BIG ONE ACCORDING TO THE 188 DAY CYCLE

I have seen no specific cause for this 188 day cycle - other than it was originally thought to be attributable to Elenin - which did not work out so well.....

Here is another interesting alignment.  Supposedly the last 188 day event was on Oct 8th, 2013.  I am not sure if there was an EQ on that date, or what - but adding 188 days onto that day, gives us April 14th, 2014.  Mighty close to the blood moon lunar eclipse which is expected on April 15th, 2014.

http://www.timeanddate.com/date/dateadded.html?m1=10&d1=08&y1=2013&type=add&ay=&am=&aw=&ad=188

Just so you know, there is a window in there due to half the earth being part of the next or previous day, etc - depending on how you reckon it.....

Cool beans....  I expect more than a random chance that we will get something on that date.

PERSONAL FOOD PRODUCTION NO LONGER A HUMAN RIGHT IN NZ??

This is SO wrong and so SICK on so many levels.  Astounding!

I was shocked to learn from a friend on the weekend that a new Food Bill is being brought in here in New Zealand. The new bill will make it a privilege and not a right to grow food.

I find two aspects of this bill alarming. The first is the scope and impact the new bill has, and secondly that it has all happened so quietly. There has been VERY little media coverage, on a bill which promises to jeopardise the future food security of the country.

I read that the bill is being brought in because of the WTO, which of course has the US FDA behind it, and of course that is influenced by big business (Monsanto and other players). It looks like this NZ food bill will pave the way to reduce the plant diversity and small owner operations in New Zealand, for example by way of controlling the legality of seed saving and trading/barter/giving away; all will be potentially illegal. The best website to read about the problems with the new bill is [link to nzfoodsecurity.org] (I have no connection with this website)

Here are some snippets:

- It turns a human right (to grow food and share it) into a government-authorised privilege that can be summarily revoked.

- It makes it illegal to distribute “food” without authorisation, and it defines “food” in such a way that it includes nutrients, seeds, natural medicines, essential minerals and drinks (including water).

- By controlling seeds, the bill takes the power to grow food away from the public and puts it in the hands of seed companies. That power may be abused.

- Growing food for distribution must be authorised, even for “cottage industries”, and such authorisation can be denied.

- Under the Food Bill, Police acting as Food Safety Officers can raid premises without a warrant, using all equipment they deem necessary – including guns (Clause 265 – 1).

- Members of the private sector can also be Food Safety Officers, as at Clause 243. So Monsanto employees can raid premises – including marae – backed up by armed police.

- The Bill gives Food Safety Officers immunity from criminal and civil prosecution.

- The Government has created this bill to keep in line with its World Trade Organisation obligations under an international scheme called Codex Alimentarius (“Food Book”). So it has to pass this bill in one form or another.

- The bill would undermine the efforts of many people to become more self-sufficient within their local communities.

- Seed banks and seed-sharing networks could be shut down if they could not obtain authorisation. Loss of seed variety would make it more difficult to grow one’s own food.

- Home-grown food and some or all seed could not be bartered on a scale or frequency necessary to feed people in communities where commercially available food has become unaffordable or unavailable (for example due to economic collapse).

- Restrictions on the trade of food and seed would quickly lead to the permanent loss of heirloom strains, as well as a general lowering of plant diversity in agriculture.

- Organic producers of heirloom foods could lose market share to big-money agribusiness outfits, leading to an increase in the consumption of nutrient-poor and GE foods.



The key factor is seeds. In many cases they specifically are food, of course. Grain seed, seed potatoes, rice, maize, quinoa, many staples etc etc – as the bill stands all these will explicitly be controlled substances, with similar penalties for possession as drugs.

This being so, the unenforceability of prohibiting people from growing food for local distribution becomes a moot point. No good seeds means no good food (if any food at all) to distribute.

One of the few newspaper articles that I’ve seen, highlighting some of the problems with the bill. This from the Timaru Herald newspaper

URL [link to www.stuff.co.nz]

RUSSIA IN NUCLEAR READINESS TRAINING

Well, considering the fact we have a leader with no gonadinal fortitude as it was spent in Chicago bath houses, we are doomed.......  Barry could not lead a band of toothless kids whistling Dixie......


Russia's Military Begins Massive Nuclear War Drill
Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Russia's Military Begins Massive Nuclear War Drill


While much Western attention has been bestowed on Russia’s military buildup near Ukraine, Moscow also began a massive nuclear offensive exercise on Thursday.
According to the Russian daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta, on Thursday Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces began a massive three-day exercise involving 10,000 soldiers and 1,000 pieces of equipment from more than 30 units. The major purpose of the drill, according to the report—which cites multiple senior Russian military officers—is to ensure Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces have sufficient readiness to conduct offensive operations involving the massive and simultaneous use of nuclear missiles.
Global Security Newswire previously carried a story on the nuclear exercise, also citing the Nezavisimaya Gazeta article. GSN described the exercise as “as practice for a large-scale nuclear offensive.” It added: “Exercise participants were set to position and prepare missile-firing units for launch, and to practice various administrative and support functions for the operation
As Russia’s conventional military capabilities have deteriorated following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Moscow has become increasingly reliant on operationalizing its nuclear arsenal. This has been reflected in successive Russian security documents. For example, Russia’s 1997 national security concept stated that Russia would use its nuclear arsenal “in case of a threat to the existence of the Russian Federation,” whether that threat came in the form of nuclear weapons or from a conventionally superior military power.
This threshold was further lowered in Russia’s 2000 military doctrine, which was the first released during Vladimir Putin’s presidency. This document said that Russia would use nuclear weapons “in response to large-scale aggression utilizing conventional weapons in situations critical to the national security of the Russian Federation.” This held out the possibility that Russia would use nuclear weapons even if Russia proper hadn’t been attacked. The same doctrine further noted that Russia reserved the right to use nuclear weapons in response to the use of any kind of weapons of mass destruction against it.
Shortly before reassuming the Russian presidency for a third term, Putin reaffirmed the importance he placed on Russia’s nuclear forces in a number of articles and speeches. For example, in an op-ed article in Foreign Policy magazine, Putin wrote: “We will, under no circumstances, surrender our strategic deterrent capability. Indeed, we will strengthen it.”
Thus, this week’s massive offensive nuclear drill is in line with the goals that Russia and Putin have been articulating for well over a decade. It is also consistent with Putin’s recent emphasis on conducting more frequent and sophisticated military drills to improve the combat readiness of Russian military forces. Indeed, Russia conducted a much smaller surprise nuclear drill in October of last year.
Still, the timing of the drill is likely to cause great concern in Western capitals, particularly in Washington. The drill could very well be intended to signal Russia’s resolve over events in Ukraine where Russia has been at loggerheads with the West and the government in Kiev over Moscow’s annexation of Crimea. A very visible reminder of Russia’s substantial nuclear capabilities would make sense for Moscow in a number of different contingencies, including if Russia is intending to move forces deeper into eastern Ukraine, as many currently fear.
For what it’s worth, the Nezavisimaya Gazeta article said there was no connection between the current nuclear exercise and the crisis in Ukraine. As evidence of this, it pointed out that in December of last year the commander of Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces had said that his forces would conduct a large and complicated exercise sometime during 2014. From this, the Russian daily concluded that the drill had been planned for weeks and was completely unrelated to the tensions of Ukraine.
At the same time, it ended the article by noting that testing the readiness of Russia’s strategic forces was especially important in light of the “current reality of the world situation.”


Here is a bomb comparison.  Some of these babies are so big, they punch holes in the ozone that take some time to heal over.....:

thermo
And this in from Dimitri Duduman (who is now deceased) - but who seemed to nail it with the same precision of prediction as Wolfgram, Menet and others:

"Remember this, Dumitru. The Russian spies have discovered where the nuclear warehouses are in America. When the Americans will think that it is peace and safety - from the middle of the country, some of the people will start fighting against the government. The government will be busy with internal problems. Then from the ocean, from Cuba, Nicaragua, Mexico,..." (He told me two other countries, but I didn't remember what they were.) "...they will bomb the nuclear warehouses. When they explode, America will burn!"

On my way south from Logan to SLC, we are stopping in to see the Logan Temple as part of our doom tour.  I have to get a feel for things.  I cannot shake the real-ness of that dream I had.  Almost on cue to support Mr. Duduman, here is an article that just stinks.  I reported on earlier related activities, but this is solid confirmation that they are not bluffing:
http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/policy-strategy/201305-putins-quiet-play-for-latin-america



Friday, March 28, 2014

YOU KNEW WHAT I WAS WHEN YOU PICKED ME UP...... THE SUBLETIES OF SATAN

This is powerful and has serious implications and consequences in my life right now.  EXCELLENT parable!!

Touch not the unclean thing.  Get thee hence.  Whatever you have to do, run from evil once it manifests itself as such.  Powerful!

THE IRANIAN DISINFO ABOUT THE 777

Oh boy, this is rich.......

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/03/28/356298/us-on-nuclear-false-flag-high-alert/


US forces on nuclear “false flag” high alert: Duff
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The United States is on alert and has deployed military assets to defend the Atlantic coastline from New York to Charleston from attack by a cruise type missile or low flying aircraft. 
Heightened security measures began with Israel’s increasing threats against Iran but increased with the mysterious disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight 370. 
Sources at the highest levels of the US military and intelligence community cite the possibility of a terror bombing, even using nuclear weapons, most likely to be submarine launched.  This is what is being defended against.
However, the plot, we have been informed, was to include a seemingly hijacked airliner which would be blamed on Iranians, as stated by Joel Rosenberg while speaking with Greta van Susteren on Fox News, March 18th.  Rosenberg claimed the Iranians hijacked the plane to attack Israel.
The US, however, believes someone other than Iran is planning an attack, on the US, not Israel, and planning to blame Iran.
Yesterday, investigative journalist Chris Bollyn made a startling discovery:
“According to reports from plane-spotters, Israel has an identical Malaysia Airlines
Boeing 777-200 in storage in Tel Aviv since November 2013. The only visible difference between the missing plane and the one in Tel Aviv would be its serial number. What do the Israelis have planned with the twin Malaysia Airlines plane?
By using the twin aircraft they have in storage, the terror masterminds may have a sinister plan for the missing plane to seemingly reappear in a false-flag atrocity.  Public awareness of the twin plane in Tel Aviv, therefore, could prevent the evil plot from going ahead.” 
After Bollyn’s detailed and well supported story was published, a full scale public relations “counter-offensive” was launched by Tel Aviv.
However, US sources say this effort has backfired, indicating that if an Israeli role in the missing plane had never been considered before, it certainly is now.  One highly placed source stated:
“In light of Israeli efforts to get Jonathan Pollard released including overt blackmail, the current ‘bottoming out’ of relations between Israel and the Obama administration have created a very dangerous situation. Israel may well do anything.”
OBAMA WARNS DURING NUCLEAR SUMMIT
On March 25, 2014, President Obama addressed the Nuclear Security Summit at The Hague, Netherlands.  53 heads of state were in attendance.
Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel did not attend.  This is the 3rd Nuclear Security Summit that Israel has boycotted thus far.
During the closing press conference, Dutch Prime Minister Rutte had just finished congratulating Iran on its cooperation, lauding the United States for a diplomatic success. Rutte made the following announcement while standing next to President Obama:
“…progress is being made. Take Iran. I spoke with President Rouhani in Davos at the World Economic Forum in January. We have now interim accords. The fact that I was able -- the first Dutch leader in over 30, 40 years who spoke with an Iranian leader, President Rouhani -- was possible because of the interim accords, and it seems that it is holding.  America provides leadership there.”
Then President Obama spoke:
“I continue to be much more concerned when it comes to our security with the prospect of a nuclear weapon going off in Manhattan”
Normally such a warning would seem less ominous but these are not “normal times.”
SPECIAL MEASURES
These assets include AWAC (Airborne Warning and Control) aircraft, AEGIS missile defense naval assets and JLENS aerostat mounted cruise missile defense systems. 
It isn’t unusual for AEGIS ships to be offshore.  It has been a standard procedure to use AEGIS to defend both New York and Washington since the “procedural failures” of NORAD on 9/11.  However, AEGIS assets that had previously been assigned to provide the actual capability of Israel’s vaunted “Iron Dome” missile defense system are no longer “on station.”
This move signals one or more of the following strategic policy “adjustments” on the part of the US:
• The threat of a preemptive attack against Israel by Iran is considered nonexistent.
• Withdrawal of “Iron Dome” assets gives the US needed leverage during renewed Palestinian talks
• The US recognizes the dangerous relationship between extremist factions in both Israel and the US capable of actions, including nuclear terrorism that would be to the extreme detriment of both nations
CONSPIRACY THEORY ON EMBASSY CLOSURES
In 2010, Israeli historian, Martin van Creveld, stated that Israel was ready to use nuclear weapons against capitals around the world if “the Jewish State” were threatened.
Creveld, an advocate of Israel’s withdrawal to 1967 borders and a respected educator and pragmatist wasn’t issuing a threat.  He may well have been informing the world, in his own way, of a “capability.”
Four days ago, the Israeli Foreign Ministry shut down all embassies around the world on the basis of a pay dispute with a trade union.
While this may well be true, others “less trusting” cite the long-time rumor that Israel has stored nuclear weapons in all her embassies. 
“SNM” stands for “Special Nuclear Material.”  Nuclear weapons give off, not only high energy photons but SNM is now detectable by satellite based sensors even if stored inside a shielded container.
Sources indicate that “SNM” has been detected at Israeli embassies and consular facilities.  There is, in fact, a “war plan” that includes simultaneous assaults on the worldwide embassy/consular facilities of a TBD (To Be Determined) nation in case of “special circumstances.”
Though no specific mention of Israel is made, the infamous “Samson Option,” Israel’s plan to “take down the world” if threatened and the cryptic statements of Creveld come to mind.
Thus, with the mysterious closure of Israeli facilities around the world, facilities conspiracy theorists and perhaps “others” believe may contain “doomsday” nuclear weapons, other factors build a realistic threat mosaic:
• Israel’s wild conspiracy claims of Iran’s role in the Flight 370 hijacking
• US raising DEFCON threat levels to those not seen since the Cuban Missile Crisis
• Israel’s increased threats of preemptive attacks on Iran
• Calls by GOP congressman Duncan Hunter and others for a nuclear attack on Iran by the US
• The removal of over 70% of US nuclear weapons command personnel for “misconduct”
SILENCE SHOULD HAVE BEEN “GOLDEN”
Assailed from every side, Israel has had the opportunity to exercise both intelligent restraint and diplomatic capability in response to unprecedented worldwide condemnation.
Yet the choice has been to exercise every imaginable option to, not only increase scorn and isolation but to seem as hostile and irresponsible as possible.
One can only wonder if such policies are intended more to unify Jews behind suicidal Israeli blunders than support a “Jewish state.”

HRB/HRB

Thursday, March 27, 2014

THE COMING CREDIT SYSTEM THAT WILL BE FOISTED ON US WHEN RUSSIA IS HERE??

I am always interested in nascent systems.  They tend to have significance at later junctures.  This is huge - if he decouples from the world system, this will anger the banksters until they are blind and make bad gambles and take poor risks.  No worries, our children will be fighting those wars, not theirs.

Moscow (AFP) - President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said Russia should create its own national payment settlement system, in a bid to reduce economic dependence on the West amid the controversy over Moscow's seizure of Crimea.

"In countries such as Japan and China these systems work, and work very well," Putin told lawmakers in televised remarks.

"Initially, they started out solely as national systems limited to their own markets, their own territory, their own population but they are becoming more popular right now."

"Why should we not do it? We should definitely do it and we will do it," he said, noting that Russia's Central Bank and the government have been looking into the matter"

[link to news.yahoo.com]

WOW - THESE PIECES OF WORK ARE BEING OUT IN THE OPEN ABOUT THEIR ILLUMINATI AFFILIATIONS

The symbols are clear.  It looks like they are now flaunting it.  IE: "We are too strong and entrenched for you peons to mess with us"......  That is the message there.  I hope Putin busts them down and flattens Brussels and all seats of power until Jesus busts him down in Jerusalem.....

Life is getting interesting indeed!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nB7Ab5IXriw

Buckle up!!  Woohoo!!!

THIS PIECE OF POO "LEADER" WE HAVE IS PLANNING TO LET THE RUSSIANS TAKE OVER

Those who would have defended the sacred Constitution and done the right thing in a pinch (instead of standing down at the prez's orders when things get really serious), are being replaced.  This is reaching in the dozens.  There is no question in my mind as to what is going on.  He needs a high-speed lead projectile - and fast.  Who will do a TEANCUM on this piece of human excrement that has usurped the highest seat in the land??

Here is what got me spun up:

Air force staff at Montana nuclear base fired over exam cheating scandal

None of the nine fired commanders were directly involved in the cheating, but each was found to have failed on leadership issues
US Air Force secretary Deborah Lee James and chief of staff Mark Welsh. The Air Force has come under scrutiny over the cheating scandal.
US air force secretary Deborah Lee James, left, had promised to hold officers at Malmstrom accountable. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
The US air force fired nine mid-level nuclear commanders Thursday and will discipline dozens of junior officers at a nuclear missile base in response to an exam-cheating scandal that spanned a far longer period than originally reported.
Air force officials called the moves unprecedented in the history of the intercontinental ballistic missile force, which has been rocked by a string of security lapses over the past year, including a failed safety and security inspection last summer at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana, where the cheating happened.
In a bid to correct root causes of the missile corps' failings — including low morale and weak management — the air force also announced a series of new or expanded programs to improve leadership development, to modernize the three ICBM bases and to reinforce "core values" including integrity.
Air Force secretary Deborah Lee James, the service's top civilian official, had promised to hold officers at Malmstrom accountable once the cheating investigation was completed and the scope of the scandal was clear. None of the nine fired commanders was directly involved in the cheating, but each was determined to have failed in his or her leadership responsibilities.
Investigators determined that the cheating, which officials originally said happened in August or September last year, began as early as November 2011 and continued until November 2013, according to a defense official who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to reveal details before James' announcement. It involved unauthorized passing of answers to exams designed to test missile launch officers' proficiency in handling "emergency war orders," which are messages involving the targeting and launching of missiles.
When the cheating was first revealed, air force leaders condemned it as violating the most basic air force values. They also suggested that it reflected an unhealthy pressure from commanders to achieve perfect test scores. The tests are one part of a training and evaluation system that is supposed to ensure that every one of the more than 500 missile launch officers is fully proficient.
The most senior person touched directly by the cheating scandal was the commander of Malmstrom's 341st Missile Wing, Col Robert Stanley. He was permitted to resign, according to a defense official. The official described the air force actions on condition of anonymity before they were announced.
Nine key commanders below Stanley were fired, including the commanders of the 341st Wing's three missile squadrons, each of which is responsible for 50 Minuteman three nuclear missiles.
Also sacked were the commander and deputy commander of the 341st Operations Group, which oversees all three missile squadrons as well as a helicopter unit and a support squadron responsible for administering monthly proficiency tests to Malmstrom's launch crews and evaluating their performance.
Members of all three missile squadrons were implicated in the cheating, either by providing or receiving test answers or knowing about the cheating and not reporting it.
No generals are being punished. Major General Michael Carey, who was fired last October as commander of the 20th Air Force, which is responsible for all three 150-missile wings of the ICBM force, is still on duty as a staff officer at Air Force Space Command but has requested retirement; his request is being reviewed.
Carey was fired after a military investigation determined that he had engaged in inappropriate behavior while leading a US government delegation to a nuclear security exercise in Russia last summer. He was replaced by Major General Jack Weinstein.
The cheating at Malmstrom was discovered in early January during the course of an unrelated drug investigation that included two launch officers at Malmstrom and others at several other bases; the drug probe is continuing.
A total of 100 missile launch crew members at Malmstrom were identified as potentially involved in the cheating, but nine were cleared by investigators. Another nine of the 100 are being handled separately by the Air Force Office of Special Investigation; eight of those nine involve possible criminal charges stemming from the alleged mishandling of classified information.
Of the remaining 82 officers, an estimated 30 to 40 are eligible to be retrained and returned to duty on the missile force; the rest face unspecified disciplinary action that could include dismissal from the air force, officials said.
After the cheating was announced in January, defense secretary Chuck Hagel launched a pair of in-depth reviews of the nuclear forces to determine why the ICBM force has suffered so many setbacks over the past year.
Hagel said he his goal was to restore public confidence in the nuclear force.

A CLEANSING TO COME UPON THE ELDERS OF THIS CHURCH FOR SLOVENLY OBEDIENCE

A test is coming.  A test is coming......  And it will be more serious and far-reaching than any previous test that has come upon the Saints.....

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

POLAND'S RESERVES ARE QUIETLY GETTING CALLED UP

Folks, the US will get hit by Sept/Oct of 2014 (most likely much sooner than that) and WWIII will start by Sept 2015, ending 13 months later in Jerusalem in October 2016.

Thank you Spencer for giving me the courage to speak out once again about those things I have been receiving promptings on for years.  You and so many others were right.  I feel sorry for the poor naysayer schmucks who have put off their preps and movement away from the coast because it was "delusional", etc.  Folks, there is not much time.  For most, it is too late to act now.  The best thing they can do is accept the consequences of previous inaction.

 
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Poland feels vulnerable to Putin’s aggression: and let’s not forget, we’d be bound to help - as we did in 1939

NEXT time you take a tray of tea and custard creams to the nice gang of Polish builders renovating your semi, they may seem a little distracted and anxious. Ask them why, and they will answer that some of them have in the last few weeks received call-up papers as army reservists.  

This happened to a friend of mine in London at the end of last week.  At least 7,000 reservists have been recalled to the colours for immediate exercises lasting between 10 and 30 days.

They’re told by the Polish authorities that the call-ups are “routine”: but the men say they haven’t been asked before and they’re well aware of the growing alarm in Warsaw at President Putin’s aggression. Three weeks ago, their Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, called a press conference to warn that “the world stands on the brink of conflict, the consequences of which are not foreseen… Not everyone in Europe is aware of this situation.”

My own view is that Putin was initially more concerned with righting a specific historical wrong in Crimea than starting a new Cold War.  This is still probably the case despite the dawning truth that the EU/Nato Emperor really has no clothes at all.

But in the worst case scenario of a truly revanchist Russia, Poland certainly has the borders from hell.  Starting from the top, it abuts Kaliningrad (the Russian exclave on the Baltic carved at the end of the war from East Prussia), Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine.


None of these borders relies on any natural barriers like rivers or mountain ranges – they are just lines on a map drawn by Stalin in the full flush of victory.  No wonder the Poles are feeling vulnerable.

And we should be worried, too. Poland is both a Nato and EU member.  We are bound by solemn treaty to defend her in case of attack.  Violation of Poland’s territorial integrity was after all why we went to war reluctantly in 1939.

Thanks to the marvellous 2012 film, The King’s Speech, we are well aware of the historical and personal drama behind King George VI’s radio address to his people on 3 September 1939 after the declaration of war against Germany. The King’s speech was couched in general terms – an appeal to international law and the Almighty.

But earlier that day the prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, had broadcast to the nation from Number 10 Downing Street in more specific terms that we should remember today: “This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final Note stating that, unless we heard from them by 11 o'clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would exist between us.”

Listen to a recording, if you can.  Chamberlain’s pause at this point is heartbreaking.  He went on, his voice slightly lower, “I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and that consequently this country is at war with Germany.”

That we should defend Poland today seems to me reasonable.  I am still a reservist – until my 55th birthday in December.  If Russian tank columns attacked Warsaw, I would be prepared to do my bit – preferably manning a desk in the MoD, “flying a mahogany bomber” in the jargon, but if necessary, further forward.  (Hopefully, not in the winter, though luckily the silk-lined combat jacket that kept me warm in the Rhine Army and South Armagh a generation ago is somewhere in the attic.)


We are as a country still in a position to help defend Poland, if necessary.  The UK has tanks, armoured infantry and artillery based in Germany though they are due to be repatriated over the next few years.  General Lord Dannatt has suggested today that not only should we keep our garrisons on the north German Plain for the foreseeable future, but we should reinforce them. I cannot think of a better way to warn off President Putin from any further adventurism.  Perhaps David Cameron might consider reversing some of his defence cuts as well.  

Poland is one thing but there are other states in Russia’s shadow who are members of both Nato and the EU. Would we fight for the vulnerable Baltic states should President Putin turn the screws on them?  

They lie geographically from north to south in alphabetical order: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.  All have significant and often restive Russian minorities.  The populations of Estonia and Latvia are nearly a quarter ethnic Russian. The proportion in the eastern parts of Estonia is much higher.  Latvia’s capital, Riga, is nearly half Russian.  Lithuania is only five per cent Russian and as a result more aggressive towards them - a few days ago the government pulled the plug on a pro-Russian TV station.

In the case of Estonia, I feel a regimental, and therefore personal, connection.  A company of Estonians fought gallantly with the Welsh Guards in Afghanistan in 2009.  Three Estonian soldiers were killed in action, as were a number of Welsh Guardsmen, including Lieutenant-Colonel Rupert Thorneloe, the most senior officer to die since Colonel ‘H’ in the Falklands.

Welshmen feel a strong affinity for Estonians – a small and proud nation just like them that has had a difficult history, and with an acute sense of honour.  The British system chose not to give Thorneloe a medal even though many other officers whose lives were never at risk picked up gongs.  The Estonians, bless them, gave him posthumously their Distinguished Service Decoration.

But I fear they are going to have to work out their future with more Russian influence and pressure on their countries than they had anticipated. Both Nato and the EU have made promises they can’t possibly keep. We have led them up the garden path with our empty guarantees. ·