A deeper threat is coming from China

An interesting article from http://www.ucg.org/ about Chinese cyber warfare. This follows this post about who is trusted.  For a free magazine subscription or to get the book shown  for free click HERE! or call 1-888-886-8632.

Discern the Times


As interesting as the NSA spying issue is, a deeper threat is coming from China.



[Darris McNeely] Jesus told His audience on one occasion to discern this time. I think what He was saying was to be able to cut through the distractions and to understand the real threats that are taking place.  I recently did a BT Daily where I talked about the NSA's spying  , alleged spying on American citizens by tapping into all of these billions of telephone calls that are made each day and the controversy that's erupted over that, which is interesting given that we are all on the grid.



Our lives are open. We willingly even divulge personal information on Facebook, Twitter, and every time we use a cell phone and go on the internet today and shop around. Nonetheless this is an issue that has erupted, and I was reading an article that drew a distinction between that and certain threats that come from China in China's ongoing efforts to hack into western companies and even our own security systems and military systems in the United States.



An article in today's Financial Times says, "Keep the Focus on the China Cyber Threat." And the statement that it makes here is that the great danger of the furor over the NSA, the National Security Agency's spying is that it will distract attention from the immense threat from China that US companies face. China trying to hack into companies' databases and even military installations is a major threat. There are other threats that loom before the United States as well. And that's the point. This can be a distraction. Yes, it is important that American's have their liberties guaranteed and protected, but the reality is that we have bigger threats.



And when Jesus said in Luke 12:56Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?



See All..., He said that to the hypocrites and to his audience he called them hypocrites and He said, "You can discern the face of the sky and of the earth. How is it though you do not discern this time?" It's important to make the distinction and understand what sometimes might be a distraction from larger threat that pose a more imminent danger. Understanding the times, weighing it all out, that's a critical point I think Jesus makes in this one warning.



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Iraq as a Democracy means WE WON!!!!

How's Iraq doing? Read this to find out!!

Not In Your Name Watch: “Democratic dawn in Iraq.”
When you\'ve lost The Guardian...
Posted by Moe Lane (Profile)
Tuesday, February 3rd at 2:00PM EST 1 Comment
You’ve got a problem. From William Shawcross:
The weekend’s elections in Iraq were a huge success for the Iraqi people. The remarkably peaceful day of voting on Saturday - and the interim results - give good reason to hope Iraq really is on the way to building a decent society.
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The peaceful polling was remarkable and so were the results. All the Islamic parties lost ground, especially that associated with the so-called “Shia firebrand”, Moqtada al-Sadr, whose share of the vote went down from 11% to 3%. The principal Sunni Islamic party, the Islamic Party of Iraq, was wiped out.
The only Islamic party to gain ground was the Dawa party of the Shia prime minister Nouri al-Maliki - and even that party dropped the word Islamic from its name. The power of Maliki, who has emerged a stronger leader than expected, is further enhanced by these elections. Now no Islamic parties will be able to control any provinces on their own. The election is thus a big defeat for Iran which had hoped that Shia religious parties would control the south and enable Iran to turn them into a mini Shia republic.
(Via Hot Air Headlines)
The real eyebrow-raiser for this comes at the end, when William Shawcross notes the architects of victory: “If so, who deserves some credit? The much maligned President Bush. And Tony Blair.” Not so much for the concept, which is self-evident for anybody who’s been paying attention for the last few years - but for the fact that it’s showing up in The Guardian, which has been up to this point an utterly reliable conduit for antiwar agitprop. Even an upgrade to “usually reliable” is a positive sign.
And not before time, either.
Moe Lane