June 22
Democracy, Middle East Style
Iran's Interior Ministry announced Saturday that hard-line incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had won 63.29% of the vote in the country's presidential election—hooray, a landslide. But there is one problem: Right before the election, the pro-reform candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi, had a huge lead in opinion polls.
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, told tens of thousands of people at a Friday prayer service at Tehran University that the balloting had not been rigged, and he sided with Ahmadinejad. If you can't trust the words of a holy man, who can you trust?
Actually, 63 percent is a rather dismal showing for the head of one of George W. Bush's “axis of evil" nations. The other two members, Iraq and North Korea, have done much better. Before being ousted by American-led forces, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein won 100 percent of votes in a 2002 referendum for a new term in office. The following year, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il also received 100 percent support when the Supreme People's Assembly voted him back in office. Just this March, Kim was re-elected with yet another 100 percent of the vote.
Perhaps my western bias is blinding me from seeing how Ahmadinejad could pull out such a stunning upset. The fact that there has been massive rioting in the streets of Iran tells me that a large number of people in Iran expected Hossein Mousavi to win. Here are some red flags that help raise suspicion.
The election was run totally by the Interior Ministry. There were no independent election observers in Iran.
Just before voting ended, text-messaging and pro-Mousavi websites were blocked.
Ahmadinejad was declared the winner three hours before some of the polls closed.
All of the ballots were paper. It would be have been impossible to announce a definitive result so soon after the polls closed.
According to official figures, Ahmadinejad handily beat Mousavi in Mousavi's hometown of Tabriz — a shocking result, given the candidate's popularity in his own region.
Ahmadinejad beat Mousavi in the big cities, even though Iran's very limited polling and anecdotal evidence indicate that Mousavi is far more popular than the President in cities.
The number of votes counted in seventy districts was higher than the population in those districts.
Iran's economy is a mess, and people are unhappy about a raft of everyday issues, from the price of food to joblessness.
The election in Iran was obviously a sham. What we have here is another demonstration of the demonic arrogance that comes with political power. If Ahmadinejad were a sane man, he would have settled for a narrow margin of victory. Because all autocratic rulers typically have the nature of Satan, he chose to give himself the vast majority of the vote.
I am very encouraged by how the Internet has proven to be a useful tool by the protesters. The Iranian government has completely failed in its effort to block images and reports from being posted and accessed on social networking sites.
Three weeks after his landmark address in Cairo, President Barack Obama finds himself in a bit of conundrum. Having just reached out to Ahmadinejad, Obama now finds himself in danger of legitimizing a government that is clearly based on fraud. If he endorses the opposition, the Iranian hardliners will point to it as the “Great Satan” meddling in Iran’s internal affairs.
Little would change if Mir Hossein Mousavi were to emerge as the winner of this power struggle. The Supreme Leader picks all the candidates, so only conservative and like-minded Islamic fundamentalists can win office. Mousavi may be called the pro-reform candidate, but he still supports Iran's nuclear program and the policy of wiping Israel off the map.
The election crisis could be a huge boom for Bible prophecy. If Ahmadinejad manages to stay in power, he will be looking to distract the Iranian population away from domestic troubles. Few people realize that Ahmadinejad has an apocalyptic death wish where he would gladly sacrifice the lives of his fellow citizens to bring about the return of the fabled Twelfth Imam. With thousands of demonstrators marching in the street with signs that read “Down with the Dictator,” he has less reason to be hesitant.
-- Todd
The Genesis of Revelation 18
People of planet earth have begun the march into the abyss of the consummation of human history. This declaration, of course,
is not the view of the globalists
who are charting for humanity a future engineered totally by themselves.
Their blueprint for a new and improved world order has been put on a fast track by America’s new president. And, as anyone
with true observational powers
not dulled by day-to-day dumbing-down inculcation can see, the changes are not conducive to securing the blessings of
liberty.
Mr. Obama let it slip–probably deliberately—when answering a question by the man now known as “Joe the plumber.” Then-
candidate Obama told us that he would
be about “spreading the wealth around.” He caught a lot of flak for that revelation of his anti-free market, pro-socialism
intentions. He backed off, hemmed
and hawed, but never disavowed his intended course of action once elected president.
President Obama has more than stuck to his socialist agenda at every opportunity. The result for U.S. citizens and their
progeny into the future as far
as one can peer is debt that will almost certainly be the sort that enslaves.
The week just past was cause for anyone who cares about this republic to stiffen to attention. A segment of the fourth
estate–the news media—has, in effect,
joined to government as a propaganda arm for the purpose of inculcating all of us with the supposed advantages of the
administration’s behemoth socialized
medicine program.
“On the night of June 24, the media and government become one, when ABC turns its programming over to President Obama and
White House officials to push government-run health care--a move that has ignited an ethical firestorm!
Highlights on the agenda:
ABCNEWS anchor Charlie Gibson will deliver WORLD NEWS from the Blue Room of the White House.
The network plans a primetime special -- 'Prescription for America' -- originating from the East Room, [that] exclude[s]
opposing voices on the debate.
Late Monday night, Republican National Committee Chief of Staff Ken McKay fired off a complaint to the head of ABCNEWS:
Dear Mr. Westin:
As the national debate on health care reform intensifies, I am deeply concerned and disappointed with ABC's astonishing
decision to exclude opposing voices on this critical issue on June 24, 2009…
I believe that the President should have the ability to speak directly to the American people.
However, I find it outrageous that ABC would prohibit our Party's opposing thoughts and ideas from this national debate,
which affects millions of ABC
viewers…” (“ABC Turns Programming Over to Obama; News to be Anchored from Inside White House,” 6/16/09,
http://drudgereport.com/flashaot.htm).
The elitists who would stifle debate and cause all, great and small, to come under their governance are, of course, not
limited to the borders of this nation.
They have big plans–and in my view what will become monstrous plans—on a global scale.
“French President Nicolas Sarkozy has warned of political and social unrest unless there is greater regulation of the
globalised economy.
He argued that the current system of ‘speculation and dumping’ cannot continue. ‘We have to overhaul everything,’ he said.
He called for a larger role for social institutions in financial regulation.
The president was speaking in Geneva at the invitation of the International Labour Organization (ILO).
'Obsession'
‘Regulation of globalisation is the central issue,’ he argued. Either we have reason or we will have revolt. Either we have
justice or we will have violence. Either we have reasonable protection or we will have protectionism.’ ‘It is irresponsible
to believe that the financial markets can continue to impose their obsession with short-term profit on the entire global
economy, and on society,’ he added…” (“Sarkozy raps globalised economy,” BBC News, 6/16/09).
The elitists around the world, ostensibly to bring a new financial order so that we can all find economic peace, have planned
a defined corridor that leads
to economic bondage. So, we consider the prophetic Scriptures to see if any such future might lie in wait for America and the
world. As a matter of fact, there lurks precisely such a time for some future generation, according to prophecy given the
prophet John.
The prophecy John was told to write foretells a commercial system that has totally divided mankind. It indicates the haves
vs. the have-nots in a way more
profound than did the Marxist dialectic portray the schism. The end product of this new economic order developing today at an
unbelievably frenetic pace
will, God says, enslave a planet of earth-dwellers. Its fiery consummation will come swiftly, and without remedy:
“And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for
her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that
great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. And the merchants of the earth shall weep and
mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and
of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all
manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and
frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and
souls of men” (Rev. 18:9-13).
We are seeing in this pretribulation dispensation the beginning of the final development of this system that will be
destroyed by God’s holy wrath in one
hour. It is indeed time to lift our heads and look up, for our redemption draws near.
***Special Request from Terry***
I ask that you lift me in prayer before the Throne this week while I interview with The History Channel for one of a series of documentaries on prophecy.
Please pray that Power from on High be given me while I answer the questions presented. --That the answers be the Lord's and not mine.
These are crucial times, and we must take every opportunity to forewarn of things to come. More than that, of course, we must lift the Holy Name of Jesus, so the lost can see clearly to come to Him for forgiveness, and Redemption.
Thank you, in advance for your prayers.
--Terry
