1/6th of Earth is Doomed!!

Holy hannah!  Run for the bunkers!  Grab your ammo and assault rifles and fill the water jugs! Count the species you see as you drive to Montana (I assume that's where your bunker is) and realize that 1 out of 6 species could vanish soon!

Extinction looms large over one in six of Earth’s species

One in six of the planet’s species are likely to disappear if climate change continues unchecked, according to fresh research.

The losses will be particularly high in the tropics, a second study has found, suggesting that the tropical ecosystems may be exceptionally vulnerable to extinction risks.

Look out your window and count up any six species you see. Now realise that one might disappear because of climate change in the coming decades, says Prof Mark Urban of the University of Connecticut.

The losses could be as high as 18 per cent. “It depends what we do in terms of green house gas emissions,” he says.

He pulled together 131 different biodiversity studies to assess what climate change might mean in terms of lost species. He found that the loss of biodiversity didn’t just follow the level of temperature change up or down, it was actually accelerating as temperatures climbed.

The greatest risk was in areas where shrinking habitats and difficulty migrating made it impossible for species to move away, places such as South America, Australia and New Zealand, he says.

If you assume international agreement unexpectedly arises and future temperatures increase by only two per cent then extinction risk would rise from its current 2.8 per cent to 5.2 per cent, Urban reports in his study, published Thursday in the journal Science.

But if warming continues on its current trajectory that will mean a 4.3 per cent rise in average temperature compared to pre-industrial days. In this case 18 per cent of species could face increased risk of extinction.

“Some species are very sensitive to these changes,” he says. The losses could include species that are important for food security, for the economy, for health or for cultural reasons, he says.

Here;  http://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/extinction-looms-large-over-one-in-six-of-earth-s-species-1.2195699

Dang man-made global warming!!

Oh well!  If mother earth can create life by banging two rocks together over a pond some billions of years ago and then morph them into the millions of species we observe and enjoy today....I have total confidence that she can bang those same rocks together again and make some new species better suited to survive in warmer climates..ruined by man!

"But Dennis, you are missing the point!' says the atheist/liberal,  "That could take millions of years and we will all be dead!"

Help me out here....why the heck do liberal/atheists who deny the existence of an afterlife, CARE SO MUCH about polar bears and butterflies?  According to their worldview they will have no recollection or memory of anything they did while living their short, earthbound lives....and they will just be meaningless cosmic dust....so WHY DO THEY CARE ABOUT EXTINCTION of species???

"Oh but Dennis...we care so deeply about the future of our kids!"

But why?  You won't remember your kids once your dead...and if you have no knowledge of them....then did they really even exist?  Do you even really exist?

And furthermore your kids won't remember you! It's all just space dust!

So how about all you atheist/liberals just trust your mother nature to use her clackers (remember the two plastic balls on ends of string in the 1970's called CLACKERS?) to bang out some more life and you just focus on the space dust you will soon be....and just RELAX!!  It's all just meaningless.

Obama Mocks Bachmann

Former Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann was a guest on Jan Markell's Olive Tree Ministries radio show a few weeks ago.  If you haven't listened to it, open you iPhone and download the free-app, OnePlace.  Once you get that loaded you can listed to 40-50 different daily sermons and can also listen to Markell's weekly show.

Anyway, Bachmann clearly said that she believes we are in the very last days and that Christ could return at any moment.  She said that Obama turning on Israel could be one of the final straws.

Of course she is correct....but the liberal/atheists caught on to what she was saying and started mocking her for her understanding of what the Bible says.  Even Obama joined in on the mocking.

Even President Barack Obama said at the press annual dinner last Saturday night, "Just this week, Michele Bachmann predicted I would bring about the biblical end of days. Now that's a legacy. That's big. I mean, Lincoln, Washington, they didn't do that."

Here's of run-down on some of the scoffing. Keep in mind that we can rejoice in this as it fulfills scripture:  "Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts,  and saying, 'Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation.'"

RIGHT WING WATCH: End-Times Are Here-Thanks Obama

                          Bachmann told Markell that just as some Muslim leaders are pulling for the Apocalypse, Christian pastors must also preach about "God's time clock."


"If the United States turns its back on Israel, as our president is doing today, in my opinion, we cannot continue to indulge in the fantasy that the United States will be free from receiving the negative blowback, or curses, in biblical parlance, that could come our way and they could be severe," Bachmann said.


"If we actually turn our back on Israel, as we are seeing Barack Obama do today, if that happens then I think we will see a scale and a level of pushback in the United States, negative consequences."


MSN.COM: Obama's Poor Relationship with Israel Will Bring the Return of Jesus 

                         Bachmann explained that if Obama and the United States turn their back on Israel, this would bring  severe "curses" upon the United States, similar to those seen in the end-of-days.


But, Bachmann is not afraid of the end-of-days; rather she says that "these are the most exciting days in history because nothing is more important than the return of Jesus Christ."

THE DAILY KOS - Rejoice! The Rapture is Coming


                             Former Rep. Michele Bachmann is very excited that the world may be coming to an end. Iran may be getting the bomb, and gay people are getting married these days, and all of this is wonderful news because it means Israel is going to be destroyed and there will be wars and plagues and famines and that means Jesus is going to come back to fly all the bestest Bachmann-approving-of Christians into heaven while her enemies get left to rot in whatever post-nuclear wasteland comes next. You think we are making this up. We are not making this up.

See it here;  http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs138/1101818841456/archive/1120861243682.html

Markell goes on to list the Bible verse that talks about scoffers:

"Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, and saying 'Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation.'" 2 Peter 3:3-4 

Speaking of scoffers;

I talk to people almost weekly who have a "really tough time" believing the passage in 2 Thessalonians about all believers being transformed into glorified bodies and zooming up into the clouds to meet Jesus in the air!!  Even many "Bible believers" might secretly admit they have a tough time believing "that one".

I find that interesting because it makes me wonder how one would have a tough time believing in the rapture but have no problem believing in Noah's Ark, Jesus rising from the dead, angels appearing throughout the Old and New Testament, Sodom and Gomorrah supernaturally destroyed, and the Holy Spirit living within us.

The Bible is a book of supernatural occurrences!  Jesus' return to earth after not being seen by men for over 2000 years will be amazing!...and certainly our God who made the universe and fashioned our bodies out of the dust of the earth will have NO PROBLEM calling us all up into the clouds and giving us new, immortal bodies so the bride of Christ can be joined to the bridegroom for ever and ever.

Dirty Little Secret About Baltimore

Jesus says in Matthew 24 that in the last days, race will rise against race. (nation against nation)

The top headlines for the past few days has been ANOTHER mass of mostly black people rioting and looting.  This time it's in Baltimore.  They show up with their slogans and posters that say, "No Justice! No Peace!" and "Hands up!  Don't Shoot!" and also "Black Lives Matter!"

Of course when 400 black people are murdered in Chicago every year no one shows up to protest and carry cards about black lives matter...NOPE!....they only pull those out when white cops kill black people.  "Hey Al Sharpton!!  Here's another situation where you can stir the race kettle!"

If we think of all the recent black riots that have happened in the past few years they all were sparked because a black male was killed by police.  In all the cases the black male was running from police and had a criminal record.  Running from police is not a good thing.  Punching a policeman is a dangerous thing.  It might get you killed!

So what's up with Baltimore?  What the dirty little secret?

The population of Baltimore is 622,000 and 63 percent of its population is black. The mayor, state’s attorney, police chief and city council president are black, as is 48 percent of the police force. But as 36-year-old Robert Stokes says, “You look around and see unemployment. Filling out job applications and being turned down because of where you live and your demographic. It’s so much bigger than the police department.”

Everyone wants to have an honest conversation about race, so let’s us endeavor to do just that. Now, of course, when you speak the hard truth about race issues in America – and not just the liberal progressive talking points – and you’re white, you’ll be branded a racist. And if you’re black, well, y’all just watch the comments below and see the denigrating drivel.

As posted on Breitbart.com by John Nolte, “Contrary to the emotional blackmail some leftists are attempting to peddle, Baltimore is not America’s problem or shame. That failed city is solely and completely a Democrat problem.”

“Like many failed cities, Detroit comes to mind, and every city besieged recently by rioting, Democrats and their union pals have had carte blanche to inflict their ideas and policies on Baltimore since 1967, the last time there was a Republican Mayor. In 2012, after four years of his own failed policies, President Obama won a whopping 87.4% of the Baltimore city vote. Democrats run the city of Baltimore, the unions, the schools, and, yes, the police force. Since 1969, there have only been only been two Republican governors of the State of Maryland. Elijah Cummings has represented Baltimore in the U.S. Congress for more than thirty years.”

But Mr. Nolte does bring up an interesting comparative analysis. He writes:

“Poverty has nothing to do with it. This madness and chaos and anarchy is a Democrat-driven culture that starts at the top with a racially-divisive White House heartbreakingly effective at ginning up hate and violence. Where I currently reside here in Watauga County, North Carolina, the poverty level is 31.3%. Median income is only $34,293. In both of those areas we are much worse off than Baltimore, that has a poverty rate of only 23.8% and a median income of $41,385. Despite all that, we don’t riot here in Watauga County. Thankfully, we have not been poisoned by the same left-wing culture that is rotting Baltimore, and so many other cities like it, from the inside out. We get along remarkably well. We are neighbors. We are people who help out one another. We take pride in our community, and are grateful for what we do have. We are far from perfect, but we work out our many differences in civilized ways. Solutions are our goal, not cronyism, narcissistic victimhood, and the blaming of others.”
The truth is that it is a culture of dependency as promulgated by the race baiters and new plantation overseers of the inner city that has created what we’re seeing play out in Baltimore. There is where the blame lies, but there are very few who are willing to admit just that.

Remember what ESPN sports commentator Stephen A. Smith said? He wished that for one voting cycle, the black community would vote Republican. Heck, they could do no worse — and look, even the people of the state of Maryland decided to try something different and elected a Republican governor. Who, when finally asked, immediately activated the National Guard to quell the violence and chaos which the Democrat Mayor of Baltimore failed to comprehend, and control. Perhaps what we’re witnessing in Baltimore is the pure definition of insanity — continuing to do the same thing and expect different results.

Yes, the dirty little secret that no one wants to admit is that Baltimore, and so many other urban areas and inner city communities in America are a reflection of the abject failure of liberal progressive socialist policies as advanced by the Democrat party.

Here;  http://allenbwest.com/2015/04/the-dirty-little-secret-no-one-wants-to-admit-about-baltimore/

For those of you who aren't familiar with Allen West, he is a black man and an ex-military officer.

70% of black babies are born out of wedlock.  Millions and millions of black boys were raised without a father anywhere to be found!  Of course we all KNOW the statistics that boys raised without fathers have a lot higher chance of ending up in the criminal system....so is it any wonder that blacks make up such a large percentage of crimes and criminals?

A few days ago CBS MORNING news had a clip of a black lady in Baltimore slapping her teen age boy upside the head because he had a hoodie on and was taking part in the riots.  She became an instant hero.  Question;  why aren't there some dads down there slapping some heads on these PANTS ON THE GROUND hoodlums who could give a crap about justice for Freddy....they just want to steal crap from the burned out Auto Parts Store that isn't theirs.

Answer:  because MOST of those black kids don't have a father to discipline them.

A Subtle Snare

Apostle Paul warned everyone that Satan could appear as an angel of light and deceive people...and sure enough about 700 years later Mohammad was sitting in a cave and he claims an angel came to him and told him all sorts of spectacular things.  Of course they all contradicted the Gospel of Jesus Christ...so we can KNOW for certain that Islam is a religion founded by the lies of Satan.

Also about 1800 years after Christ bled and died for us, a dude name Joseph Smith was sitting in the woods when an angel appeared to him and told him some of the craziest tales about golden tablets, Lucifer and Jesus being brothers, black people being cursed since they followed Lucifer, the American Indians are actually the Jews, and a whole bunch more.  Also since his stories ADDED to the Bible we can know for certain the Mormonism is a religion founded by the lies of Satan.

Today we find Pastor Greg Laurie's devotion that gives us Paul's specific verse.

A Subtle Snare

And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.
—2 Corinthians 11:14

When I was a kid, I collected snakes. I am not really sure why, but I used to be fascinated by them. I had all kinds. I would read books about snakes. I would go out looking for them and bring them home. And I was bitten by snakes many times. I discovered that you never really know what a snake is thinking. Snakes aren't expressive creatures; they are cold-blooded reptiles.

Snakes are nothing like dogs. You know where you are with a dog at any given moment. When a dog looks at you with his tongue hanging out and his tail wagging, you know he is a friendly dog. But if the dog shows his teeth and the hair on his back is standing up, then you know he isn't happy. You always know where you stand with a dog.

But you never know with a snake. A snake has the same expression all the time. A snake will suddenly bite you, and you won't even see it coming.

In Genesis we're told that "the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made" (3:1). Notice that he didn't show up and say, "Hi, I'm the Devil. Maybe you have heard of me? I hate God, I hate you, and I want to destroy you. I was wondering if you wanted to hang out. I have some ideas."

The Bible does say that Satan was a serpent, but it doesn't say that he slithered. He slithered after he was cursed (see Genesis 3:14). We don't know what he looked like, but there was something fascinating, interesting, and appealing about him. He was somehow attractive, and sin is always attractive.

The Devil may be wicked, but he isn't stupid. He comes with subtlety.

Christian Leaders Warn of Civil Disobedience Over Gay Marraige

There is a VERY good chance that the Supreme Court will rule in favor of making gay marriage the LAW OF THE LAND....and it could happen soon.

Some big-named Christian leaders have warned that there will be civil disobedience if the Laws of Man cross over and attempt to trump the Laws of God.

"We will not obey.”

That’s the blunt warning a group of prominent religious leaders is sending to the Supreme Court of the United States as they consider same-sex marriage.

“We respectfully warn the Supreme Court not to cross that line,” read a document titled, Pledge in Solidarity to Defend Marriage. “We stand united together in defense of marriage. Make no mistake about our resolve.” 

“While there are many things we can endure, redefining marriage is so fundamental to the natural order and the common good that this is the line we must draw and one we cannot and will not cross,” the pledge states.

The signees are a who’s who of religious leaders including former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum, National Religious Broadcasters president Jerry Johnson, Pastor John Hagee, and Franklin Graham, president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse.

The pledge was co-drafted by Deacon Keith Fournier, a Catholic deacon, and Mat Staver, the founder of Liberty Counsel. Also involved in the document were Rick Scarborough, the president of Vision America Action and James Dobson, the founder of Family Talk Radio. 

“We’re sending a warning to the Supreme Court and frankly any court that crosses the line on the issue of marriage,” Staver told me.

He said that once same-sex marriage is elevated to the level of protected status – it will transform the face of society and will result in the “beginning of the end of Western Civilization.”

Dobson said the legalization of same-sex marriage could fracture the nation.

“The institution of marriage is fundamental and it must be defended,” he told me. “It’s the foundation for the entire culture. It’s been in existence for 5,000 years. If you weaken it or if you undermine it – the entire superstructure can come down. We see it as that important.”

And that means the possibility of Christians – people of faith – engaging in acts of civil disobedience.

“Yes, I’m talking about civil disobedience,” Staver said. “I’m talking about resistance and I’m talking about peaceful resistance against unjust laws and unjust rulings.”

That’s quite a shocking statement. So I asked Mr. Staver to clarify his remarks.

“I’m calling for people to not recognize the legitimacy of that ruling because it’s not grounded in the Rule of Law,” he told me. “They need to resist that ruling in every way possible. In a peaceful way – they need to resist it as much as Martin Luther King, Jr. resisted unjust laws in his time.”

Scarborough said the pledge was meant to be forthright and clear.

“We’re facing a real Constitutional crisis if the Supreme Court rules adversely from our perspective on same-sex marriage,” he told me. For me there’s no option. I’m going to choose to serve the Lord. And I think that thousands of other pastors will take that position and hundreds of thousands – if not millions of Christians.”

Here;  http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/04/28/will-not-obey-christian-leaders-threaten-civil-disobedience-if-supreme-court/?intcmp=latestnews

How about you and your church?  What are you going to do when the nation elevates gay marriage and polygamy as being equal to traditional, God-ordained, one man and one woman marriage?

"Well Dennis, my church decided we would marry lesbians but we would charge them to use our church....because they are non-members."

"Well Dennis, there is just so much that Jesus told us TO DO that we are going to focus on that and not worry about something that Jesus never even mentioned!"

"My job is to just love on people...all people...and let Jesus sort the rest out!"

"I know Paul said some distasteful things about men having sex with other men....but we just watched the Bruce Jenner interview on ABC and he is actually a lesbian trapped in a man's body!  So what are you going to do with people like him?  Tell him he can't be happy and he has to stay a lesbian trapped in a man's body?"

"I would never risk losing my business or my job standing against any kind of marriage!  If people want it...then who am I to stand in their way?"

Friends, 6 years ago when Obama took office gay marriage was illegal in all 50 states and dozens had amendments to their state constitutions saying that one man and one woman is how it will always be....and now they are all going to be overturned.

We followers of Christ have gone from leading the charge to maintain morality....to objects of wrath and scorn...all in a few short years.

It came like a flood....

Hat tip to Mick L.

Massive Amounts of Gold Flow East

Do you remember just 18 months ago?  The U.S. Government was threatening to shut down over deficit fights and Congress was throwing out the word "default" when talking about paying interest on Treasury Bonds it has sold.  People were getting fearful wondering HOW the Government was ever going to get solvent again and quit adding $OneThousandBillion dollars to their credit card.

So what ever happened to that massive $18 trillion of IOU's?  Do we still owe it?  Or since we haven't heard ANYTHING about it lately.....maybe Congress paid it off while I was on Spring Break?

"Who knows and who cares Dennis?!  Can't you just enjoy the prosperity?  Go buy a new car!  Get a bigger house! Buy a second home!  Finance it all....cuz interest rates have NEVER been lower!  The good times are rolling once more!  I knew we would come back with both barrels blazing!!....This is AMERICA!"

In what future generations will likely see as a major, potentially catastrophic blunder of monetary policy, the West and particularly the City of London continues to hemorrhage huge volumes of gold which is flowing Eastwards to Singapore, India and China from London via Switzerland.

“Gold exports to China from the refining hub of Switzerland almost doubled to 46.4 metric tons in March”, up from 23.6 tonnes in February” according to Bloomberg. India’s gold imports from Switzerland doubled to 72.5 tonnes in the same period.

The increasingly affluent masses in China and India continue to have a voracious appetite for gold as a store of value.
Policy makers in China and Russia have also made gold a cornerstone of their monetary policy.

Bloomberg reported the following:

“Flows to India rose before this month’s Akshaya Tritiya festival, which is considered a traditional day to buy precious metals.”

Singapore is fast becoming an important gold hub and a favourite location for allocated bullion storage among risk conscious bullion buyers. Hong Kong saw a decline in its share of the market as Chinese investors increasingly opt to use the Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE) for buying and trading in general.

Bloomberg reports that “Shipments to Hong Kong fell 26 percent to 30 tons”, whereas “Trading volume for bullion … jumped about 60 percent from the previous month to a record in March, Shanghai Gold Exchange data show.”

The SGE deals solely in physical gold bars and not paper contracts or unallocated bullion bank accounts which can be used to divert and reduce actual demand for physical gold and cap gold prices.

Between them China and India and Singapore – who imported almost 29 tonnes from Switzerland – imported almost 150 tonnes of the 223.3 tonne total of gold exported from Switzerland in March which Bloomberg said are “the highest since at least 2013”.

While sentiment towards gold in the West is abysmal – even as gold languishes at record lows when adjusted for inflation – Asian demand remains insatiable.

Here;  http://www.goldcore.com/us/gold-blog/gold-flows-east-china-india-import-massive-quantities-of-gold-from-switzerland/

Did you catch that very first sentence? "In what future generations will likely see as a major, potentially catastrophic blunder of monetary policy..."

Yep!  What's funny about financial collapses is that people always stand around afterwards and say, "How could we have been so dumb?  How could we have honestly believed that the price of our home was going to double every 3-4 years?" or "How could we have been so dumb to believe that Yahoo.com was worth $400 per shared back in 1999 simply because it had ".com" in its name?"

And now as the gold leaves The West headed for the East....one day we will all stand around and say, "How could we have been so stupid to believe that our PAPER MONEY was always going to have value simply based on faith in the U.S. Government?"

Hat tip to Jared F.

Why America Needs Same-Sex Parents

The Supreme Court is going to make a decision pretty soon on gay marriage.  The word on the street is that they are going to make it the law of the land and take it out of the hands of each state to decide.

Today we ran across this article in TIME Magazine

Why the American Family Needs Same-Sex Parents

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in an omnibus case about whether same-sex couples are allowed to marry in all 50 states in this country. The probability of the court ruling in favor of legalization likely played a role in the Indiana and Arkansas controversies over the passage of their Religious Freedom Restoration Acts at the beginning of April.

Proponents and opponents of marriage for same-sex couples agree that heated debates about religious liberty are one effect of the marriage debate. But they strongly disagree about what America and its families will look like if same-sex couples can marry throughout the nation. Opponents have made dire predictions of marital instability, falling birthrates, and increases in children being born outside of marriage – in short, the destruction of American families.

But an examination of the data – particularly as it relates to the children in this country most in need of loving and stable families – does not support those predictions.

In a recent friend-of the court brief that I submitted to the Supreme Court, I explore what demographic and social science research tells us about the impact of the upcoming ruling. Today, nearly 1.4 million men and women are part of the estimated 700,000 same-sex couples living in this country. About 350,000 of them are married couples and 122,000 are raising more than 200,000 children under the age of 18.

The recent events in Indiana and Arkansas prove that a Supreme Court decision bringing marriage for same-sex couples to all parts of the nation won’t end political conflict associated with LGBT rights. But it will improve America’s families. The nation will have more married couples, more kids with married parents, and more stable homes and families for the country’s most vulnerable children. It’s hard to understand how that could ever be a bad thing.

Here;  http://time.com/3829507/why-same-sex-parents/

In the beginning God ordained one man and one woman to be fruitful and multiply and wanted them to stay together til death parts them.  Sin came into the world and men started marrying more than one woman.  Polygamy caused all sorts of strife and ended up having husbands send their wives, concubines, servants away with the children he had borne them.

It's a mess when families break up...it's all part of the fallen world and a perversion of God's plan for us.  It's hard on the husband and wife and even harder on the kids.  Sadly, broken families have become the norm in this society and it is only going to get worse.  Broken families means broken kids which mean future broken families.  It's a vicious cycle.

The author seems to suggest that encouraging gay marriage is going to be helpful for special needs kids because gay couples seem more willing to adopt those kids.  That might be.

But it would be even better if those special kids didn't need adopting in the first place but instead were with their mother and father in a loving home.

The fact that they aren't is a problem....and saying we need another problem of gay marriage to help fix the original problem of special needs kids needing loving homes...may end up compounding the problem.

How does that old saying go...."Two wrongs don't make a right."

Iran Says House of Saud on Verge of Collapse

For those of you who don't know, Iran and Saudi Arabia don't like each other.  Yes, they are both Muslim nations but Iran is Shi'ite and Saudi is Wahhabi which is a sect of Sunni.  Also the Iranians are Persians and the Saudis are Arabs....so I guess racism is alive and well even in the Middle East!!

I ran across this article on Google News today which quotes an Iranian General saying that the House of Saud might collapse any day now.

What do the leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and that guy from the old E.F. Hutton commercial have in common? When they talk, people listen.

According to Iran’s government-run outlet Press TV, IRGC Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari said some pretty blunt things about Saudi Arabia early Monday:

A top Iranian commander has lashed out at the Saudi aggression against Yemen, saying Riyadh is on the verge of collapse.

“Today, Saudi Arabia is brazenly and obnoxiously bombarding and massacring a nation, which is seeking the denial of the hegemonic system,” said commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari on Monday.

“Today, Al Saud is teetering on the edge of collapse,” the top commander said.

The remarks by the IRGC chief come as Saudi Arabia keeps pounding neighboring Yemen (emphasis added).

Well, that’s quite a thing to say. And Jafari is not the only one saying it, according to the New York Times’ Tehran correspondent.

To be fair to Iranians, they’re hardly the only ones to make this claim this year — a lot of Western analysts are shorting the House of Saud.

If you read Nassim Taleb and Gregory Treverton in Foreign Affairs, Saudi Arabia seems like the poster boy for imminent revolution: single-crop economy, centralized authoritarian regime and a suppression of political volatility. Regional expert Juan Cole also wrote in January that the challenges to Saudi absolutism are severe. Both of these arguments are of a piece with Francis Fukuyama’s assertion from a few years ago that “authoritarianism in China is of a far higher quality than in the Middle East,”  which implies that any remaining Arab authoritarians are doomed.

There’s an appealing logic to these claims. It’s not like the Middle East is a beacon of stability at the moment. The House of Saud is dealing with rising Iranian influence in the Shia Crescent, wars in Syria and Yemen, simmering discontent in Bahrain, and the prospect that its principal global ally is about to cut a deal with its enduring rival in the region. Oil prices are higher than they were a few months ago but still a good deal lower than the previous few years.  Oh, and lest we forget, the Saudis just had to deal with a leadership transition.

Here;  http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/27/is-the-house-of-saud-teetering-on-the-edge-of-collapse/

The article goes on to say that in actuality, Iran may be closer to collapse than Saudi....because Iran didn't plan for well for 50% drop in oil prices.

Either way, this is more evidence that the "Kingdom against Kingdom" thing that Jesus told us to watch for is coming to fruition before our very eyes.

And of course we wonder how many kingdoms can come apart in the Middle East before it collapses the whole deck of cards?  How many millions and millions of people can be filled with unrest before they spread that unrest to the entire world?