Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has issued a warning to the Israeli Government, within hours of Israel announcing that it had test-fired a ballistic missile. Mr Ahmadinejad says Israel would not dare to attack Iran because of the response it would expect. Reports in the Israeli media say the missile tested was capable of carrying what is described as an unconventional payload, an apparent reference to a nuclear warhead. The Israeli military routinely refuses to comment on its missile tests.

In an interview with Al Jazeera TV, the Iranian leader also said Israel "lacks the courage" to launch a strike against the Iranian state. "They're aware that any attempt at a strike will be confronted by a very strong response," he said. Mr Ahmadinejad has also accused US President George W Bush of sowing the seeds of division during his recent Middle East visit. He says Mr Bush had brought a message of confrontation during his tour during which he warned Arab allies that Iran posed a threat.

Mahmaod Ahmadinejad is again playing with fire by teasing Israel with his comments. Israel on the other hand has heard these type of threats many times before. If Israel decides to strike Iran, you can be sure that it will be thorough. Israel will not let Iran strike the first blow.

Egypt and Turkey have warned against war on Iran and called for a peaceful solution to the nuclear standoff, as U.S. President George W. Bush toured the region in a bid to isolate Tehran.

Quotes: "We have no details on Iran's nuclear program, but if it is a danger, then it must be resolved peacefully," Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said at a joint news conference with his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul in Cairo. "There is no need for the use of force. Use of force will lead to very serious consequences in the region and the world," Mubarak said. "The problems must be resolved diplomatically," Gul added.

On Sunday President Bush hit out at Iran in a speech in the United Arab Emirates, charging that Tehran had become "the world's leading state-sponsor of terror" and that Al-Qaida was the main threat to the region's stability. "So the U.S. is strengthening our longstanding security commitments with our friends in the Gulf -- and rallying friends around the world to confront this danger before it is too late," said Bush.

Times are getting critical. And, preparations are being made everywhere.

Quote: "The yearning for a restoration of Russia's prestige is expressed throughout society, in areas as diverse as sports and the arts. This feeling has saturated the atmosphere because of the Kremlin's skillful manipulation. A career intelligence officer, Putin has taken considerable pains to conceal his plans. It has become commonplace to say that Russian policy under Putin has become a series of "special operations." This secrecy is simply a part of the mindset of Putin and the siloviki -- people associated with the security organs and the military -- who surround him. Some clues about Putin's intentions can be found in an 800-page manifesto issued last summer by a group of about 70 pro-Putin, national-patriotic academics under the title "Russian Doctrine." The book is presented as a set of "guidelines" for the next administration and a kind of national, supra-party platform. It contains detailed foreign- and domestic-policy proposals, including autocratic reforms to the military, national-security system, the economy, the mass media, education, and culture. The "Russian Doctrine" presumes that the Russian Federation is doomed to extinction because it will be unable to cope with the looming challenges of international competition. Within the next decade, the authors claim, Russia will increasingly begin to lag behind China, India, the United States, and some Southeast Asian countries. In response, the authors propose a new state structure based on the traditions of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. Interestingly, they propose doing so without dissolving the Russian Federation: that is, they urge the creation of a "parallel state" initially operating unseen behind the facade of the current one. It would consist of a system of political and economic institutions accessible only to Putin and the siloviki that the authors call "the invisible, networked Russia."

And a further quote: "Russia has started full-scale production of the Su-34 Fullback fighter bomber at a Siberian aircraft plant, plane maker Sukhoi said on Wednesday. A company spokesman said up to 20 fighters could now be assembled simultaneously at the Novosibirsk Aviation Production Association (NAPO), but did not specify how many would be built each year. The $36 million Su-34 fighter-bomber is a two-seat strike aircraft equipped with twin AL-31MF afterburning turbojet engines. It is designed to deliver high-precision strikes on heavily-defended targets under any weather conditions, day or night, and fields weaponry that includes a 30mm GSh-301 cannon, up to 12 Alamo or Archer AAMs, ASMs, and bombs. Designed by Sukhoi, the Su-34s will replace the Su-24 Fencer frontline bombers. Experts said the new bomber has the potential to become the top plane in its class for years to come."

Time and again, greater swords are being grinded. Thus, grind the Sword of the Word of God, to shine the light that saves, from the wrath of God soon to fall upon the wicked!

"And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!" (Rom. 10:15)

Chris' recent article gave a lot of thoughts. Yes indeed, for the public, why should it matter in the least whether when criminals, getting what they have deserved, would be chipped for security? Quoting Chris: "Britain already has a system whereby offenders can be electronically tagged and placed under police curfew, rather than being sent to into prison." Well, do you see what I see: "Yes, you, dear citizen, can do even crimes and get away with them, if you just let us monitor, what you do" ... If even the prisoners can be released and take the chipping as their "penalty", then with what name or which sentence would you call the chipping of ordinary people?

And, Chris, will it get any worse than this: Verichip really chipped the dead after the Asian Tsunami - not even death could keep those people away from chipping. But, as has been the case for some years now, VeriChip wants to chip every US soldier, too.

That leads me to other plans for soldiers. Penny Coleman is the widow of a Vietnam veteran who took his own life after coming home. Her latest book, "Flashback: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Suicide and the Lessons of War" gives frightening pictures: "Pentagon, Big Pharma: Drug Troops to Numb Them to Horrors of War": The Department of Defence is flirting with the idea of medicating soldiers to desensitize them to combat trauma -- will an army of unfeeling monsters result?

But as we'll see here, this attempt to peddle magic pills to chase away the horrors of war is just one front in a long-term, wide-ranging "warfighter enhancement program" -- including the neurological and genetic re-engineering of soldiers' minds and bodies to create what the Pentagon calls "iron bodied and iron willed personnel": tireless, relentless, remorseless, unstoppable.

But it is not the first time drugs are being used to "anti-relax" troops in front of an attack. The following genocide is such a horrible story altogether and maybe the public knows not all the details (and it surely not needs to know). But what is certain - and also has been confirmed, too - is that before this monstrous attack, the Hobeika troops had had a long session of "meditation", involving a lot of drugs - as the practise was.

Having all this knowledge of unmanned vehicles of war - land and air - makes one wonder, what kind of a stages will the future battles be, at least for the human soldiers? Obviously something "stronger than man" will then be mandatory, to be able to somehow survive - physically and mentally. And how does this zonked army then behave, against the innocent civilians? We have seen it.

The leading Finnish PC-magazine, "Tietokone", in its Oct. 2007 -issue had also a solemn article about these killing robots, "Robots make war".

Quote: "The most critical factor is the ability of the machine to justify the legitimacy of the target. The solution has been proposed, that the machine would aim its firepower into a weapon. HUMAN CASUALTIES WOULD ONLY BE SIDE DEFEATS. (The U.S.) army is also funding a project, which tries to create a conscience for these robot fighters, that they would be able to do ethical decisions. Enmity is however a political concept, which is hard to translate into machine code".

Having said all this, it seems to me, that in the future battles there will be robot-like robots and man-like "robots". Once again we can clearly see, comparing the present plans to the prophecies of Joel 2 and Revelation 9, that the insanity of man has now brought the world on the edge of Armageddon. It is only a question of time now.

"For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon." (Rev. 16:14-16)

"Flee from the wrath to come" (Matt. 3:7). "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved" (Acts 16:31)