one-world currency?

**Updates**

China calls for new global currency

Geitner 'open' to China proposal while "President Obama flatly rejected the notion of a new global currency at last night's press conference."

So now Geitner and Bernanke reject new global currency idea.

Related: Meltdown 101: Will China global currency idea fly?

EU president Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek describes President Obama's plan to push U.S. out of recession with $2 trillion as "the road to hell."

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Joel Rosenberg (author of the just-released Inside the Revolution) reports that talk of a one-world currency is echoing around the globe:

• Russia and Kazakhstan

• Iran - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: "...last week called for a single currency for 400 million Muslims in the Middle East."

• Libya - "Muammar Ghadafi, recently elected leader of the African Union of states, is calling for a single currency for all of Africa and has persuaded 200 tribal leaders to call him the 'King of kings.'"

Rosenberg goes on to say: "These are curious developments given that scholars of Bible prophecy have long noted that according to the Scriptures, in the 'last days' the world will see the emergence of an entirely new international financial architecture, complete with a single global currency created and mandated by the leaders of Europe. ....

Cynics and skeptics have long dismissed such talk as the province of “religious nuts” and “prophecy buffs.” But the discussion has suddenly blown past the realm of Bible scholars and is now the discussion of major world leaders. It’s too soon to say where this will all lead, but these are certainly developments worth watching."

Read all of RUSSIA TO PROPOSE NEW GLOBAL COMMON CURRENCY And the Kremlin is not alone.

pray for India

Pray especially for Orissa State, where there is unprecedented persecution of Christians.

This from Earned Media:

India, Orissa's Christians Flee Genocidal Violence

Contact: Dr. Joseph Chavady, 306-684-2527

INDIA, Sept. 3 /Christian Newswire/ -- Orissa State has continued to bleed and burn for the past eleven days. Thousands of innocent people have fallen prey to diabolic insanity.

Since independence (1947 Aug 15), this is the first time such a massacre has been let loose on Christians. "It is a national shame", said Mr Man Mohan Singh, the Prime Minister of India.

1. Thousands of Christians (the number could be 50,000) have fled to the thick forests for protection. They are managing without food, water, or shelter in the heavy monsoon. These forests are also home for wild animals like tigers, bears and elephants.

2. Hundreds of houses have been burnt after looting whatever could be looted.

3. No one knows exactly how many are dead.

4. Christians have been killed and their bodies been thrown into fire and evidence has been destroyed, the exact count is not known, over a hundred have died.

5. The State Government is hand in glove with the radicals and has not done anything to stop them.

6. The media is biased or hushed up. There are a lot of lies propagated.

7. Business establishments and shops were systematically destroyed.

8. Christians have been forced to bow before idols, and have been compelled to reconvert to Hinduism. Those who have refused to have been brutally attacked and killed.

9. Leaflets have been distributed urging Hindus to kill Christians. Their slogan is, "Become Hindu or else face death. India is for Hindus".

These are a few stories that have reached us:

* Mrs Kamalini Naik's husband was asked to become a Hindu otherwise the fanatics threatened to kill his mother. Seeing his mother under their grip, Mr Naik denounced his faith. Then they called his wife who was 7 months pregnant. She strongly stood for her faith in Christ & they immediately cut her and her 18th month old son in pieces in front of her husband and the other Christians.

* A Pastor was asked to become a Hindu, but he refused and declared his faith in Christ. His two hands were chopped off and he was given a second chance to deny his Lord. He refused right away and his two legs were cut off. His body was then thrown into the fire!

"There were those who, under torture, refused to give in and go free, preferring something better: resurrection. Others braved abuse and whips, and yes, chains and dungeons. We have stories of those who were stoned, sawed in two, murdered in cold blood, stories of vagrants wandering the earth in animal skins, homeless, friendless, powerless- the world didn't deserve them!- making their way as best they could on the cruel edges of the world"
The Message, Heb.11:36-40.

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More stories:
"Two more killed in new clashes in India State" - September 5

"Police do little to protect Christians in Orissa" - Compass Direct, September 9

"On the feast day of Mother Teresa, 3 camps opened for refugees’ from Orissa" - AsiaNews.It, September 9

sobering anniversary

This is the 3rd anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. It triggered a tsunami that was one of the most devastating natural disasters in history.

Many video clips of the tsunami are still available. They are a sobering reminder of the force of nature, the fragility of life and what little time it takes for things to change forever.

Video clips of the tsunami hitting:
Sri Lanka,
Sri Lanka resort
Phuket (Thailand)
Patong Beach (Phuket, Thailand)

More information and tsunami videos and linked here.

meanwhile in Turkey

Sunday, April 29, 2007

ISTANBUL — As many as one million people rallied in a sea of red Turkish flags in Istanbul on Sunday, accusing the government of planning an Islamist state and demanding it withdraw its presidential candidate.

Read entire. . .