Two weeks ago, in our latest comparison of Bitcoin and its up and coming competitor, Ethereum, we said "step aside bitcoin, there is a new blockchain kid in town." Actually, we said that for the first time back in February when Ethereum was still trading in the low teens (the return on ETH since then is roughly 3000%), but the most recent glance provided some perspective on where the competition between the two largest cryptocurrencies may culminate, because according to at least two venture capitalists, the market cap of Ethereum - currently roughly $35 bilion - and whose share of the market has been soaring, will surpass that of Bitcoin, at ~$43 billion although it changes by the second, sometime before the end of 2018.

Two things: first, at the current rate of gains in Ethereum market share (and loss in Bitcoin's), the inflection point between the two will come not in months, or weeks, but perhaps days.

Second, said inflection point may come in even faster if Vladimir Putin has anything to say about it, because as Bloomberg reports, "Ethereum has caught the attention of none other than the Russian president as a potential tool to help Russia diversify its economy beyond oil and gas." Putin met Ethereum's young founder Vitalik Buterin on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg Economic Forum last week and supported his plans to build contacts with local partners to implement blockchain technology in Russia, according to a statement on Kremlin’s website.

Speaking at the Economic Forum, Putin said that "the digital economy isn’t a separate industry, it’s essentially the foundation for creating brand new business model" and discussed means to boost growth long-term after Russia ended its worst recession in two decades. As explained repeatedly over the past 6 months, besides being a method of exchange, Ethereum is also a ledger for everything from currency contracts to property rights, speeding up business by cutting out intermediaries such as public notaries. It also does not suffer from some of the size limitations that have paralyzed bitcoin in recent months.

Furthermore, just like the western Enterprise Ethereum Alliance which consists of JPMorgan, Intel, Microsoft and other leading blue chips, Russia’s central bank has already deployed an Ethereum-based blockchain as a pilot project to process online payments and verify customer data with lenders including Sberbank PJSC, Deputy Governor Olga Skorobogatova said at the St. Petersburg event. She didn’t rule out using Ethereum technologies for the development of a national virtual currency for Russia down the road.

Adoption of Ethereum in Russia has been brisk also in the private sector: last week, Bloomberg reports that Russia’s state development bank VEB agreed to start using Ethereum for some administrative functions. Steelmaker Severstal PJSC tested Ethereum’s blockchain for secure transfer of international credit letters.

Blockchain may have the same effect on businesses that the emergence on the internet once had -- it would change business models, and eliminate intermediaries such as escrow agents and clerks,” said Vlad Martynov, an adviser for The Ethereum Foundation, a non-profit organization that backs the cryptocurrency. “If Russia implements it first, it will gain similar advantages to those the Western countries did at the start of the internet age.”

What about price targets? Pavel Matveev, co-founder of Wirex told CNBC today that Ethereum could reach $600 by the end of the year, leaving bitcoin in the dust. Until just a few short weeks ago, such a forecast would seem ludicrous. However, considering the recent surge in ethereum prices - recall it hit an all time high of $412 earlier today before sharply dropping then again erasing virtually all losses - it may reach that particular target in just a few weeks.

In last century, Albert Pike, an avowed Luciferian, became the head of Scottish Rite Freemasonry. Although Freemasonry was publicly outlawed by the Vatican, there is disturbing evidence that it was actually controlled by the Vatican, at least since the late 1700’s, if not before.

Washington D.C., for instance, was constructed in the 1790’s by a French Catholic Freemason, L’Enfante, who designed it in honor of Venus. Venus’s biblical name is Lucifer.

We are now coming to a climax of history, when Luciferians are making their move to unveil their god as the true god. According to them, Lucifer was either the older brother of Jesus, or Jesus’ father. They say Lucifer was cast out of heaven unjustly, and that Jesus is the usurper who replaced him.

Some years ago, I first took notice of Luciferian influence when I heard about the Vatican’s big telescope on Mount Graham. It was named L.U.C.I.F.E.R., an acronym for Large Binocular Telescope Near-infrared Spectroscopic Utility with Camera and Integral Field Unit for Extragalactic Research. Someone really had to work hard to come up with this acronym, but it must have been important to them to name it LUCIFER.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Binocular_Telescope

The name was shortened to LUCI in 2012, probably so that its connection to Lucifer would not be so obvious. See also:

https://redice.tv/news/vatican-tied-mount-graham-observatory-launches-lucifer-telescope

The question, of course, was just how serious the Vatican took Lucifer. Was this just some ignorant humor, or was it evidence of something deeper?

Then at the 2012 and/or 2013 Easter ceremony in the Vatican, the cantor sang praise to Lucifer at the ceremony elevating two popes to sainthood.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcpVrtv2t-M

http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/pope-francis-invokes-lucifer-easter-mass-2013/

The lyric of the song, to which all sang: AMEN, is translated from Latin this way:

His flame dawning His own creation,
May I say, O Lucifer, who knows no setting,
Christ is your Son, who came back from the dead
And shed His peaceful light to the human race,
And is alive and reigns forever and ever.
Amen.

There is a certain amount of plausible deniability built into this, of course. They could always argue that the reference to Lucifer is just a metaphor for Venus, and by extension, the light-bearer (phos-phorus in Greek). But to say that Lucifer is the creator and that “Christ is your Son,” puts Lucifer as the parent of Christ, as if either Lucifer is His father, or Venus is His mother. Either way, it is disturbing. If we connect this to the Freemasonic and Luciferian obsession with Venus, it seems that the Vatican is expressing Luciferian religion. Surely their scholars understand that any reference to Lucifer is going to connect them to Luciferianism.

Finally, look at the Snake design in the Vatican hall, seen at the 3:40 mark of this 6-minute video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WC-pVdGgK4

The architect of this design knew precisely what he was doing. He spent years pondering every detail, because the Vatican itself does nothing without thinking long and hard about it. So we must ask ourselves why would the Roman Church deliberately design a hall where the pope on the platform is looking directly at the head of a serpent? Are they going to try to convince us that this is the serpent in the wilderness, which, when raised on the pole, is a type of Christ?

The Vatican has always been very good at double meanings, one for public consumption, and the other for private worship.

Since we are now in 2017, which, in my view, will begin to see the fall of the final beast in the long series of nations foretold by Daniel and John, we have to watch the Vatican and Jerusalem for signs of the end. Is the Vatican slowly getting people used to the idea of Lucifer being the true god? Are they slowly exposing their own hearts? Are we now in a transitional period where Lucifer will soon be proclaimed, not merely by a cantor, but by papal decree to be the father of Jesus? Who was it that fathered Jesus in Matthew’s account?

Finally, look at the Snake design in the Vatican hall, seen at the 3:40 mark of this 6-minute video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WC-pVdGgK4

The architect of this design knew precisely what he was doing. He spent years pondering every detail, because the Vatican itself does nothing without thinking long and hard about it. So we must ask ourselves why would the Roman Church deliberately design a hall where the pope on the platform is looking directly at the head of a serpent? Are they going to try to convince us that this is the serpent in the wilderness, which, when raised on the pole, is a type of Christ?

The Vatican has always been very good at double meanings, one for public consumption, and the other for private worship.

Since we are now in 2017, which, in my view, will begin to see the fall of the final beast in the long series of nations foretold by Daniel and John, we have to watch the Vatican and Jerusalem for signs of the end. Is the Vatican slowly getting people used to the idea of Lucifer being the true god? Are they slowly exposing their own hearts? Are we now in a transitional period where Lucifer will soon be proclaimed, not merely by a cantor, but by papal decree to be the father of Jesus? Who was it that fathered Jesus in Matthew’s account?

Finally, look at the Snake design in the Vatican hall, seen at the 3:40 mark of this 6-minute video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WC-pVdGgK4

The architect of this design knew precisely what he was doing. He spent years pondering every detail, because the Vatican itself does nothing without thinking long and hard about it. So we must ask ourselves why would the Roman Church deliberately design a hall where the pope on the platform is looking directly at the head of a serpent? Are they going to try to convince us that this is the serpent in the wilderness, which, when raised on the pole, is a type of Christ?

The Vatican has always been very good at double meanings, one for public consumption, and the other for private worship.

Since we are now in 2017, which, in my view, will begin to see the fall of the final beast in the long series of nations foretold by Daniel and John, we have to watch the Vatican and Jerusalem for signs of the end. Is the Vatican slowly getting people used to the idea of Lucifer being the true god? Are they slowly exposing their own hearts? Are we now in a transitional period where Lucifer will soon be proclaimed, not merely by a cantor, but by papal decree to be the father of Jesus? Who was it that fathered Jesus in Matthew’s account?

It looks photo-shopped. IDK how people can believe this only on the basis it is "news." I would need to see much clearer evidence to swallow even half of whats on the links provided in this post.

It looks photo-shopped. IDK how people can believe this only on the basis it is "news." I would need to see much clearer evidence to swallow even half of whats on the links provided in this post.

And your evidence for saying that is a photoshopped picture is? Wanderer thinks....

Here is a link to the exact same picture taken from an architectural website that focuses directly upon the architecture, and only the architecture of the building. The photo is in a slideshow that you must scoll down to find.
http://www.arcvision.org/paolo-vi-audience-hall-in-vatican-city/?lang=en
Your "evidence" is truly less than overwhelming.

The Vatican has always been very good at double meanings, one for public consumption, and the other for private worship.

I've seen many pictures, videos... I think you should take a second look.

let our workers be careful to speak guardedly at all times and under all circumstances. Let all beware lest by reckless expressions they bring on a time of trouble before the great crisis which is to try men's souls. We should remember that the world will judge us by what we appear to be. Let those who are seeking to represent Christ be careful not to exhibit inconsistent features of character...{CCh 317.1-2}

This video was recorded by Mikael Askergren with an iPhone 4 during the Pope’s public audience at the large Aula Paolo VI assembly hall in the Vatican, September 15, 2010. The video was edited and screened for the general public for the first time during a seminar about religion and art arranged by Supermarket Art Fair 2011 at Kulturhuset (The House of Culture) in Stockholm, Sweden, February 18, 2011.
http://askergren.com/religioniskitsch.html

The following was taken from link : http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1323/815/World_War_3_A_Foregone_Conclusion.html?currentSplittedPage=2

The planning for a third world war goes as far back as Washington enshrined 33rd degree leading Freemason Albert Pike in the 1800's. Here he lays out just exactly what the full intended accomplishment would entail, down to the doctrine of belief a New World Order would demand of its constituents.

Albert Pike received a vision, which he described in a letter that he wrote to Mazzini, dated August 15, 1871. This letter graphically outlined plans for three world wars that were seen as necessary to bring about the One World Order, and we can marvel at how accurately it has predicted events that have already taken place.

Following are apparently extracts of the letter, showing how Three World Wars have been planned for many generations.

"The First World War must be brought about in order to permit the Illuminati to overthrow the power of the Czars in Russia and of making that country a fortress of atheistic Communism. The divergences caused by the "agentur" (agents) of the Illuminati between the British and Germanic Empires will be used to foment this war. At the end of the war, Communism will be built and used in order to destroy the other governments and in order to weaken the religions."

Students of history will recognize that the political alliances of England on one side and Germany on the other, forged between 1871 and 1898 by Otto von Bismarck, co-conspirator of Albert Pike, were instrumental in bringing about the First World War.

"The Second World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists. This war must be brought about so that Nazism is destroyed and that the political Zionism be strong enough to institute a sovereign state of Israel in Palestine. During the Second World War, International Communism must become strong enough in order to balance Christendom, which would be then restrained and held in check until the time when we would need it for the final social cataclysm." 3

After this Second World War, Communism was made strong enough to begin taking over weaker governments. In 1945, at the Potsdam Conference between Truman, Churchill, and Stalin, a large portion of Europe was simply handed over to Russia, and on the other side of the world, the aftermath of the war with Japan helped to sweep the tide of Communism into China.

(Readers who argue that the terms Nazism and Zionism were not known in 1871 should remember that the Illuminati invented both these movements. In addition, Communism as an ideology, and as a coined phrase, originates in France during the Revolution. In 1785, Restif coined the phrase four years before revolution broke out. Restif and Babeuf, in turn, were influenced by Rousseau - as was the most famous conspirator of them all, Adam Weishaupt.)

"The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the "agentur" of the "Illuminati" between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion…

We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization...

..and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. This manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time." 4

That's my purpose of bringing out these events as these could show us where we stand in the fulfillment of prophesy as we approach the end of the destruction of Mystery Babylon.

According to a U.N. Commission of Inquiry tasked with investigating violations of international war crimes and crimes against humanity in Syria, the intensification of airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition has led to a “staggering loss of civilian life,” the Guardian reports.

The U.N. war crimes investigators found that since the acceleration of airstrikes in the Syrian city of Raqqa commenced last week, 300 civilians have already died. This statistic arguably makes Bashar al-Assad pale in comparison; Assad’s regime reportedly kills approximately 20-50 people in any given week.

“We note in particular that the intensification of air strikes, which have paved the ground for an SDF advance in Raqqa, has resulted not only in staggering loss of civilian life, but has also led to 160,000 civilians fleeing their homes and becoming internally displaced,” Paulo Pinheiro, the chairman of the U.N. Commission of Inquiry told the human rights council in Geneva.
According to Karen Abuzayd, an American commissioner on the independent panel, the figure of 300 is based only on deaths caused by airstrikes. Therefore, the figure of civilian deaths caused by troops on the ground may ultimately higher.

As the Guardian also notes, speculation that the coalition has been using white phosphorous has already drawn strong condemnation.

Not surprisingly, this operation was conducted with full knowledge that there would be mass suffering for the civilian population. At the end of May of this year, Secretary of Defense James “Mad Dog” Mattis announced that the U.S. would be switching to so-called “annihilation tactics” against ISIS, stating:

“Our intention is that the foreign fighters do not survive the fight to return home to North Africa, to Europe, to America, to Asia, to Africa, we are not going to allow them to do so…We are going to stop them there and take apart the caliphate.”

According to Mattis, civilian deaths “are a fact of life in this sort of situation.” However, Mattis did add that the U.S. military would “do everything humanly possible consistent with military necessity, taking many chances to avoid civilian casualties at all costs.”
Mattis’ announcement that the U.S. would annihilate ISIS (and massacre civilians by the hundreds) is still somewhat dubious, considering video footage appears to have emerged of ISIS fighters fleeing the conflict in Raqqa safely despite the hundreds of bombs and white phosphorous loaded munitions U.S.-backed forces have been dropping over the city. It has been speculated that in reality, these ISIS fighters are being granted safe passage to put added pressure on the Syrian government, a longtime adversary of the United States.

Further, using a dangerous element like white phosphorous and burying over 300 civilians after approximately a week of fighting seems, on the face of it, to be nothing short of a blatant war crime. The Commission of Inquiry and the mainstream media may not use the term “war crime” outright, but that is surely an inference one can draw from their calculations.

If anything, it would appear the U.S. is annihilating civilians — and not much else.

Daesh militants in Afghanistan have captured the Tora Bora cave complex in Nangarhar province, located near the border with Pakistan, Associated Press reported earlier this week.

This mountain range was once the stronghold of the late al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. The caves had until now been under Taliban control.

Abd Omar Khorasani, the commander of Daesh in Afghanistan, confirmed this report. He said that the terrorists have seized the caves and are now fighting with the Afghan government troops, which are supported by US Special Forces and the US Air Force.

Earlier, the Afghan army launched an offensive on Daesh, but so far it has not been possible to achieve any significant results.

The Afghan Ministry of Defense stated that the government troops will be able to take down the militants who captured the cave of Tora Bora in no time.

However, Iranian analyst Mollazehi Pir-Mohammad believes that Daesh have chosen an impregnable fortification and it will be impossible for the Afghan government troops to liberate Tora Bora.

In an interview with Sputnik Persian, Mollazehi said, "The region where the Tora Bora cave complex is located was personally equipped with the most advanced technology and radio electronics by Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda back when the Soviet troops entered Afghanistan."

Furthermore, the analyst said that there are armaments that are hid in the labyrinths of this cave.

"This complex is located in a remote mountain range and in fact is almost inaccessible from the point of view of a military assault," Mollazehi said.

He further said that the importance of this strategic region lies in the fact that it is connected to other important areas making it is easy to coordinate and control military operations in areas such as the Afghan Badakhshan, the Fergana valley towards Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

It is also possible to access paths leading to China's Xinjiang and Kashgar from Tora Bora.

"If Daesh plans an attack on China, it can be easily carried out from the cave of Tora Bora. It is even possible to reach Indian Kashmir from there," Mollazehi said.

According to the analyst, this region is extremely important for the Afghan authorities, US troops and Daesh because anyone who can assert their domination in Tora Bora will be able to change the course of war in their favor.

Since Daesh could supersede the Taliban and occupy this inaccessible underground fortress, Mollazehi said that he doubts that the government forces of Afghanistan will be able to force out the militants.

"Although the ISAF under the auspices of the US may carry out an air attack on this cave, they are unlikely to do so," he said.

He said that not so long ago, the US dropped the largest in its arsenal, non-nuclear bomb, called the 'mother of all bombs' in the province of Nangahar.

"The Americans wanted to destroy the Daesh terrorists. But now, when the militants have already captured the main underground bastion, we see how this action with the 'mother of all bombs' was ineffective," the analyst said.

He also noted that it is hardly worthwhile to hope that an increase in the American military contingent in Afghanistan will be able to somehow help fight the growing Daesh militants.

"The plans of the US and NATO is to turn Afghanistan into a springboard from which it is easy to carry out attacks by Daesh on Russia and China," Mollazehi concluded.

Afghanistan has been experiencing significant political, social and security-related instability for decades, as terrorist organizations, including the Taliban radical movement and Daesh continue to stage attacks against civilian and military targets.