ITS 3:15 PM I PHONED THE ELECTRIC COMPANY AND THEY SAID IT FLICKERED TWICE TODAY.SO THIS IS NOT A CENCOR ITS A LEGIT CASE OF THE HYDRO GOING OUT TWICE TODAY.
Johann Hari: How Goldman gambled on starvation-Speculators set up a casino where the chips were the stomachs of millions. What does it say about our system that we can so casually inflict so much pain? Friday, 2 July 2010
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By now, you probably think your opinion of Goldman Sachs and its swarm of Wall Street allies has rock-bottomed at raw loathing. You're wrong. There's more. It turns out that the most destructive of all their recent acts has barely been discussed at all. Here's the rest. This is the story of how some of the richest people in the world – Goldman, Deutsche Bank, the traders at Merrill Lynch, and more – have caused the starvation of some of the poorest people in the world. It starts with an apparent mystery. At the end of 2006, food prices across the world started to rise, suddenly and stratospherically. Within a year, the price of wheat had shot up by 80 per cent, maize by 90 per cent, rice by 320 per cent. In a global jolt of hunger, 200 million people – mostly children – couldn't afford to get food any more, and sank into malnutrition or starvation. There were riots in more than 30 countries, and at least one government was violently overthrown. Then, in spring 2008, prices just as mysteriously fell back to their previous level. Jean Ziegler, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, calls it a silent mass murder, entirely due to man-made actions.Earlier this year I was in Ethiopia, one of the worst-hit countries, and people there remember the food crisis as if they had been struck by a tsunami. My children stopped growing,a woman my age called Abiba Getaneh, told me.I felt like battery acid had been poured into my stomach as I starved. I took my two daughters out of school and got into debt. If it had gone on much longer, I think my baby would have died.Most of the explanations we were given at the time have turned out to be false. It didn't happen because supply fell: the International Grain Council says global production of wheat actually increased during that period, for example. It isn't because demand grew either: as Professor Jayati Ghosh of the Centre for Economic Studies in New Delhi has shown, demand actually fell by 3 per cent. Other factors – like the rise of biofuels, and the spike in the oil price – made a contribution, but they aren't enough on their own to explain such a violent shift.
To understand the biggest cause, you have to plough through some concepts that will make your head ache – but not half as much as they made the poor world's stomachs ache. For over a century, farmers in wealthy countries have been able to engage in a process where they protect themselves against risk. Farmer Giles can agree in January to sell his crop to a trader in August at a fixed price. If he has a great summer, he'll lose some cash, but if there's a lousy summer or the global price collapses, he'll do well from the deal. When this process was tightly regulated and only companies with a direct interest in the field could get involved, it worked.
Then, through the 1990s, Goldman Sachs and others lobbied hard and the regulations were abolished. Suddenly, these contracts were turned into derivatives that could be bought and sold among traders who had nothing to do with agriculture. A market in food speculation was born. So Farmer Giles still agrees to sell his crop in advance to a trader for £10,000. But now, that contract can be sold on to speculators, who treat the contract itself as an object of potential wealth. Goldman Sachs can buy it and sell it on for £20,000 to Deutsche Bank, who sell it on for £30,000 to Merrill Lynch – and on and on until it seems to bear almost no relationship to Farmer Giles's crop at all.If this seems mystifying, it is. John Lanchester, in his superb guide to the world of finance, Whoops! Why Everybody Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay, explains: Finance, like other forms of human behaviour, underwent a change in the 20th century, a shift equivalent to the emergence of modernism in the arts – a break with common sense, a turn towards self-referentiality and abstraction and notions that couldn't be explained in workaday English.Poetry found its break with realism when T S Eliot wrote The Wasteland. Finance found its Wasteland moment in the 1970s, when it began to be dominated by complex financial instruments that even the people selling them didn't fully understand.
So what has this got to do with the bread on Abiba's plate? Until deregulation, the price for food was set by the forces of supply and demand for food itself. (This was already deeply imperfect: it left a billion people hungry.) But after deregulation, it was no longer just a market in food. It became, at the same time, a market in food contracts based on theoretical future crops – and the speculators drove the price through the roof. Here's how it happened. In 2006, financial speculators like Goldmans pulled out of the collapsing US real estate market. They reckoned food prices would stay steady or rise while the rest of the economy tanked, so they switched their funds there. Suddenly, the world's frightened investors stampeded on to this ground. So while the supply and demand of food stayed pretty much the same, the supply and demand for derivatives based on food massively rose – which meant the all-rolled-into-one price shot up, and the starvation began. The bubble only burst in March 2008 when the situation got so bad in the US that the speculators had to slash their spending to cover their losses back home.When I asked Merrill Lynch's spokesman to comment on the charge of causing mass hunger, he said: Huh. I didn't know about that.He later emailed to say: I am going to decline comment.Deutsche Bank also refused to comment. Goldman Sachs were more detailed, saying they sold their index in early 2007 and pointing out that serious analyses ... have concluded index funds did not cause a bubble in commodity futures prices, offering as evidence a statement by the OECD.How do we know this is wrong? As Professor Ghosh points out, some vital crops are not traded on the futures markets, including millet, cassava, and potatoes. Their price rose a little during this period – but only a fraction as much as the ones affected by speculation. Her research shows that speculation was the main cause of the rise.So it has come to this. The world's wealthiest speculators set up a casino where the chips were the stomachs of hundreds of millions of innocent people. They gambled on increasing starvation, and won. Their Wasteland moment created a real wasteland. What does it say about our political and economic system that we can so casually inflict so much pain? If we don't re-regulate, it is only a matter of time before this all happens again. How many people would it kill next time? The moves to restore the pre-1990s rules on commodities trading have been stunningly sluggish. In the US, the House has passed some regulation, but there are fears that the Senate – drenched in speculator-donations – may dilute it into meaninglessness. The EU is lagging far behind even this, while in Britain, where most of this "trade" takes place, advocacy groups are worried that David Cameron's government will block reform entirely to please his own friends and donors in the City.
Only one force can stop another speculation-starvation-bubble. The decent people in developed countries need to shout louder than the lobbyists from Goldman Sachs. The World Development Movement is launching a week of pressure this summer as crucial decisions on this are taken: text WDM to 82055 to find out what you can do. The last time I spoke to her, Abiba said: We can't go through that another time. Please – make sure they never, never do that to us again.j.hari@independent.co.uk
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TR BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
Barroso says future of EU depends on economic governance
Today JULY 7,10 @ 10:12 CET
EU commission president in a question-and-answer session with MEPs said that the EU's future depends on approval of historic new EU economic governance(WORLD GOVERNMENT) proposals: What is at stake is the future of the euro and you could say to some extent the future of our European project.
Parliament delays crucial vote on European financial supervision
ANDREW WILLIS Today JULY 7,10 @ 09:23 CET
EUOBSERVER / STRASBOURG - MEPs have decided to delay a key vote on legislation setting up a new European financial supervisory framework, giving negotiators more time to reduce the policy gap between parliament and member states. Instead of voting on the overall legislative package on Wednesday (7 July), parliament will adopt a political declaration outlining its position regarding a series of new EU authorities to monitor Europe's banking, insurance and securities sectors.
Negotiators will then continue tough discussions with member states, represented by the Belgian EU presidency, so that the new laws can be agreed during a first reading, rather than the inevitable two if Wednesday's vote had gone ahead. European Commissioner Olli Rehn welcomed the decision. While I somehow regret that parliament will not be able to vote ... now, I am still delighted by the clear willingness shown by all to reach an agreement by September,he told MEPs on Tuesday. All sides are aware that a 1 January, 2011, deadline to have the new system up and running is in danger of slipping, creating a potential embarrassment as the United States prepares to push ahead with its own similar reforms later this month.MEPs made a number of concessions in late-night talks on Monday evening in a bid to close the gap with national governments, several of which are highly wary of handing the three new watchdogs tough powers to oversee Europe's financial sector.The package of legislation also involves the setting up a new European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) to monitor for the build up of risks in the bloc's financial system as a whole.
The UK in particular does not want the three European authorities to be able to make decisions over the heads of national regulators, argueing that this could impinge on a member states' fiscal autonomy, forcing it to carry out a bank recapitalisation against its will, for example.EU leaders reached a political compromise in December, but MEPs subsequently slammed the deal as essentially giving national capitals a veto over decisions made by the authorities.Euro-deputies insist that the EU-level bodies must be given sufficient decision-making clout if Europe is to avoid a repeat of the recent financial crisis.The Council does not accept the direct supervision of European supervisory authorities and it does not accept binding decisions [by EU bodies] if there is a dispute between national supervisors, the parliament's Liberal leader, Guy Verhofstadt, explained on Monday evening after the talks broke down.
Concessions
The impasse comes despite suggestions that MEPs are willing to soften their demands in a number of areas, including their calls to have the new bodies based in Frankfurt, home of the European Central Bank. Another concession could entail allowing national governments to be the ones to decide when Europe's financial sector was in an 'emergency situation', a declaration that would confer on the ERSB extraordinary powers such as the ability to ban certain financial products or practices.MEPs had originally hope the ERSB or the European Commission could make the emergency call.Speaking in parliament on Tuesday, the EU's internal market and financial services commissioner, Michel Barnier, ramped up the pressure on member states to come to an agreement.The ball is in their court, said Mr Barnier, stressing that other EU legislation, including the regulation of credit rating agencies, depended on the swift implementation of the new authorities.This week's breakdown in talks means the topic is likely to gain a prominent position on the agenda of next week's meeting of EU finance ministers in Brussels.
MEPs look to new data protection battle with US
VALENTINA POP Today JULY 7,10 @ 09:25 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – After having forced extra privacy provisions into an EU-US deal on bank data snoops, the European Parliament is bracing itself for an even tougher battle on US access to personal information on air passengers.The EU parliament came to prominence in February when it used its new Lisbon Treaty powers to veto international agreements involving transfers of data by striking down the so-called Swift deal.The Swift pact - which allows US agents to sift EU bank data for evidence of terrorist financing - is now expected to pass a second vote on Thursday (8 July) with no problems after the EU commission inserted extra privacy provisions.
But an upcoming vote on the Passenger Name Record (PNR) scheme, which obliges every airline flying into or via the US to hand in all personal data on its passengers, is likely to prove tricky.The vote on the PNR will be more difficult, because our objections are stronger, Dutch Liberal MEP Sophie in't Veld, the parliament's rapporteur on PNR, told Euobserver after returning from an exploratory visit to the US last week.Similar to the bank data arrangement, PNR was set up in the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attacks on Washington and New York, initially as a provisional deal which became a fully-fledged agreement. An EU court struck down the pact in 2006 after the European Parliament challenged its legal basis. A new deal was put in place in 2007 for seven years, but after the coming into force of the Lisbon Treaty, the legislature's consent is needed afresh.Ms in't Veld explained that instead of striking down PNR shortly after the entry into force of Lisbon last December, MEPs have given the EU commission the chance to first draw up a general mandate on PNR agreements and civil liberties safeguards which cane be used to amend the US pact. The commission proposals are due in autumn. We agreed to postpone the vote as a courtesy gesture, but that means we need an improved deal. All I hope is they are sensible enough to involve the parliament [in crafting the new mandate],Ms in't Veld said.Aware that the implications of a No vote would be greater than in the Swift case, with European carriers losing their licence to fly into the US, Ms in't Veld said she hope[s] it doesn't come to it.As it stands, the PNR deal allows US police, FBI and other intelligence gathering agencies to look at the personal data not only in terrorism cases, but also for serious crimes - a disputed term, which in the US refers to cross-border crimes punishable by at least three years in prison. When in one incident a child was taken back to Europe by its non-custodial parent, US authorities tracked the two down via PNR on charges of child abduction, despite the fact that in the EU this is not considered a serious crime.
We have to take a close look at the proportionality of this program. It's tough to asses, we are only given anecdotal cases, but there is a big difference between looking for known suspects and searching for potential criminals, the Dutch MEP said. Another sticking point is the data retention period of 15 years for all personal profiles, which are set up automatically whenever someone books a transatlantic flight, as well as the difficulty of changing or deleting data, for instance if a person is mistakenly put on a watch list.According to US officials, around 2,000 suspects are apprehended yearly thanks to the PNR scheme. PNR is an important tool. Last year, one third of the indiviuals identified as being involved in a nexus of terrorism came from PNR data, David Heyman, a senior advisor on counter-terrorism policies in the Department of Homeland Security told journalists in Washington during a briefing on 21 June.He said so far the European Commission has not indicated it wants to renegotiate the agreement, but added that the Obama administration is fully aware of the new powers acquired by the European Parliament.
We are aware of the post-Lisbon institutional changes. Europe is a complicated place, there are multiple layers of government, but the US is fully engaged with the EU,he said.
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 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.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS WED JULY 07,2010
09:30 AM +2.34
10:00 AM +42.01
10:30 AM +75.23
11:00 AM +148.34
11:30 AM +143.27
12:00 PM +125.79
12:30 PM +129.88
01:00 PM +146.45
01:30 PM +184.90
02:00 PM +181.19
02:30 PM +171.84
03:00 PM +187.55
03:30 PM +227.62
04:00 PM +274.66 10,018.28
S&P 500 1060.27 +32.21
NASDAQ 2159.47 +65.59
GOLD 1,203.80 +8.70
OIL 74.50 +2.52
TSE 300 11,397.30 +197.10
CDNX 1361.48 +13.96
S&P/TSX/60 668.21 +11.19
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +12 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -0.15 points at low today.
Dow +162 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,192.60.OIL opens at $72.88 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -0.15 points at low today so far.
Dow +274 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -0.15 points at low today.
Dow +274 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,260.90 (NOT AT CLOSE)
CRUDE OIL
GASOLINE
DISTILLATE INVENTORIES
REFINERY UTILIZATION
OZONE DEPLETION JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH DUE TO SIN
ISAIAH 30:26-27
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold,(7X OR 7-DEGREES) as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people,(ISRAEL) and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
MATTHEW 24:21-22,29
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake (ISRAELS SAKE) those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
Record heat roasts US east by Sebastian Smith Sebastian Smith – Tue Jul 6, 7:49 pm ET
NEW YORK (AFP) – New York roasted in record temperatures Tuesday as a heat wave rolled across the eastern United States, pushing power companies to the limit and driving residents to municipal cooling centers.The National Weather Service measured 103 degrees Fahrenheit (39.45 Celsius) in Central Park in mid-Manhattan, easily breaking the 101 degrees record set for July 6 back in 1999.Soaring temperatures, often in the triple-digit range, also afflicted Washington, DC; Richmond, Virginia; Philadelphia, Pennsylvavia; and reached as far as Montreal, Canada.Electricity use surged through the densely populated eastern seaboard of the United States region as office buildings reopened after the long July 4th Independence Day weekend.Con Ed, a major utility company in the New York area, urged energy conservation during what was expected to be record demand for power, with customers putting air conditioners on overdrive and raiding freezers and fridges for refreshments.The National Weather Service issued a heat advisory, saying that heat and high humidity could prove dangerous for young children and the elderly.The NWS warned residents to drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out of the sun and check up on relatives and neighbors.Excessive heat advisories also were posted in New York City and Philadelphia, where authorities opened cooling stations -- air-conditioned rooms in schools and other neighborhood buildings where residents could get out of the cauldron.
New York's health and emergency management departments issued heat tips including keeping strenuous activity to between 4:00 and 7:00 am.The city government suggested residents without air conditioning at home either visit cooling centers or spend the day in the mall, museum or movie theater.For millions of children on summer vacation, splashing in city fountains and the time-honored option of tapping into fire hydrants provided instant relief.In a bid to prevent the illegal opening of hydrants, New York fire houses were issuing spray caps designed to keep the gush to a manageable level.Heather Buchman, a meteorologist for AccuWeather.com, warned on the website of a dangerous heat wave both for people and infrastructure.In addition to putting stress on people and their health, the intense heat will also place a higher demand on power grids due increased usage of air conditioning. Power outages could result in some communities, putting people at an even greater risk for developing heat-related illnesses, she said.New York State Governor David Paterson recommended New Yorkers reduce electricity use during the peak hours of 1:00 and 7:00pm.In August 2003 the entire US northeast and part of Canada were plunged into darkness when the power grid collapsed in one of the biggest outages in history.
Easterners seek respite as temps soar above 100 By JIM FITZGERALD and DAVID B. CARUSO, Associated Press Writers – Tue Jul 6, 5:38 pm ET
NEW YORK – The East Coast cooked under an unforgiving sun Tuesday as record-toppling temperatures soared to 100 or higher from Virginia to Massachusetts, utility companies cranked out power to cool the sweating masses and the unlucky sought any oasis they could find.The temperature hit 103 degrees in New York City and 102 in Philadelphia, breaking records for the day, both set in 1999. The temperature also soared past the century mark in Boston, Washington and Newark, N.J., and broke records in Providence, R.I., and Hartford, Conn.In downtown Philadelphia, pedestrians and drivers appeared to move a little more slowly amid the high humidity, blazing sun and baking sidewalks. Robert McCarron, 44, wore a navy suit and tie as he walked four blocks from a downtown subway station to an office building where he was due for a job interview.If I was going to a job, you'd better believe I wouldn't be wearing a suit, he said.This is rough, and it's only going to get hotter.After an extended Fourth of July weekend when temperatures inched into at least the 90s from Maine to Texas, The National Weather Service issued heat advisories until Wednesday night for much of the Northeast and mid-Atlantic, including an excessive heat warning for the Philadelphia area.
With people cranking up their air conditioning, energy officials predicted near-record demand for power. Utilities and regional electrical system operators cited ample generation capacity and expected no major blackouts, though, and just a smattering of power failures were reported.Even so, those without air conditioning were left to cope as they could. On the baking streets of the Bronx, 14-year-old Miguel Pena and 13-year-old Vincent Quiles walked their bicycles up a steep hill, white handkerchiefs around their heads to keep the sweat out of their eyes.Man, this stinks,Miguel said. We just got out of school and this is supposed to be when we have fun, but this is too much. We thought it would be cooler on the bike, but now we're going home. It's just too hot.Added Vincent: You can't breathe out here.The hot air is sitting over the top of us, and it's not really going to budge much for the next day or two,said Brian Korty, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Camp Springs, Md. After that, he said, a system coming in off the Atlantic Ocean would bring in cooler weather.Authorities in some places Tuesday began calling the hot stretch a heat wave, a phenomenon defined by at least three consecutive days of temperatures of 90 or above. Newark handily beat that threshold Tuesday, hitting at least 100 for the third day in a row.
It was so hot that even machines had to slow down. Transportation officials cut the speed of commuter trains in suburban Washington when the tracks got too hot because extreme heat can cause welded rails to bend under pressure.Workers at the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine, N.J., used tubs of ice cubes to help four sick or weak seals keep cool.It wasn't much easier on animal lovers. In Massachusetts, Katie Wright was determined to follow through on her promise to take her children to a zoo.It's pretty ridiculous, Wright said as her 3-year-old son Jackson and 2-year-old daughter Emery watched owls and hawks at the Massachusetts Audubon's Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary in Lincoln.But we wanted to get out, so we brought hats, sunscreen, extra water and then promised the kids lunch at an air-conditioned restaurant.At his Manhattan newsstand, a steel kiosk that soaks up sun like a sponge, vendor Sam Doctor said the only way to keep cool was to splash his head with water, but he acknowledged that his system wouldn't last. Both of his soda-cooling refrigerators had already conked out by midmorning.When it's 100 degrees out there, it's 110 in here,he said, still smiling as he served customers.In Philadelphia, where the temperature was in the 80s before 7 a.m., 45-year-old Davey Adams waited in a subway station that was stagnant even before the morning commute began in earnest. He had spent the weekend in air-conditioned bliss at his son's house in New Jersey but had to return to his job Tuesday as a forklift driver in a warehouse. He said he planned to use cold water and a washcloth draped over his head to keep cool.
In New York, 13 firefighters were treated at a hospital after suffering dehydration and exhaustion while battling a blaze in Queens. The 42-year-old lieutenant governor of Massachusetts spent Monday night in a hospital after marching in five parades in 90-degree heat. Deaths blamed on the heat included a 92-year-old Philadelphia woman whose body was found Monday and a homeless woman found lying next to a car Sunday in suburban Detroit.In Washington, where the thermometer climbed to 100 degrees by mid-afternoon, President Barack Obama warned reporters about to leave the Oval Office: Stay cool out there. Hydrate.Even the queen of England had to cope after landing in New York during the hottest part of the day on her first visit to the city in more than three decades. The 84-year-old monarch addressed the United Nations, then paid tribute to victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Eva Dou, Verena Dobnik and Colleen Long in New York; Jeff McMillan and JoAnn Loviglio in Philadelphia; Geoff Mulvihill in Haddonfield, N.J.; Mark Pratt in Lincoln, Mass.; and Lauren Sausser in Washington.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Teen swept away in creek amid Okla. City flooding
Tue Jul 6, 10:44 pm ET
OKLAHOMA CITY – Emergency crews rescued stranded motorists and several children in a house trailer from flooded Oklahoma City streets but were searching for a teenage boy swept away by a creek.Oklahoma City Police say two teens were swept away by high water Tuesday when they either jumped or fell into the creek at a city park.A 14-year-old was rescued downstream, but his 13-year-old companion hadn't been found Tuesday evening.The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for several counties in the area after a storm system quickly dumped 2 inches of rain on some parts of the region. Some streets and parts of an interstate were closed.
Earlier, six people suffered minor injuries when high winds collapsed a tent that was to house a concert at an area casino.
POISONED WATERS
REVELATION 8:8-11
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:(bitter,Poisoned) and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.(poisoned)
REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
THEY HAD A GUY ON CNBC TALKING ABOUT NUKING THE OIL SPILL SITE.PROPHECY WOULD COME TO PASS BIGTIME IF THEY NUKE THE WELL UNDER THE WATER.WATCH OUT WORLD ITS GETING INTERESTING BUT PERILOUS(DANGEROUS)WORLDWIDE LIKE GOD (KING JESUS)AND THE BIBLE (HIS WORDS)PREDICTS.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1539178724&play=1 (NUKE WELL)
OIL SPILL IRAN CONNECTION-MUST LISTEN ALL
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BP's Hayward flies to Mideast to meet partners By ADAM SCHRECK, AP Business Writer - JULY 7,10
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – BP's embattled CEO is in Abu Dhabi to meet business partners amid speculation that the oil giant is looking to drum up cash to cover clean up costs from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.Chief Executive Tony Hayward arrived in the Emirati capital Tuesday and would be staying a couple of days, BP spokesman Andrew Gowers said. He would not say whether Hayward planned to sit down with the region's powerful investment funds.He's visiting partners as he does from time to time. He's conducting normal business, Gowers said.Hayward has been criticized for his handling of the oil spill in the U.S., and in recent days has traveled to other countries where BP operates to reassure the company's partners of its commitments.BP has a long-standing partnership with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Co., which is responsible for producing crude oil in the Arab emirate. Abu Dhabi is the capital of the seven-state UAE federation, and holds the bulk of the OPEC member's oil wealth.Hayward's visit comes as speculation swirls that BP might be looking for investment partners from the oil-rich Middle East.Abu Dhabi is home to some of the Arab Gulf's most influential sovereign wealth funds. BP shares rose earlier in the week amid reports that the company was reaching out to Gulf funds about investment opportunities in an attempt to fend off possible takeover bids.
The company said this week it would welcome new investors but had no plans to issue any new shares to help pay for the oil spill.BP shares have lost about half their value since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in April, causing the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.Gowers declined to say exactly who Hayward would be meeting with in Abu Dhabi or where he was headed next.He may go somewhere else. But we're not commenting on where he goes ahead of time,he said.Hayward arrived in Abu Dhabi from the capital of oil-rich Azerbaijan, where he tried to calm fears BP might sell assets there to help pay for the spill clean up. While in Baku, Hayward met with Azerbaijan President Ilkham Aliyev.The BP CEO also met with Russian officials in Moscow last week. Following those meetings, an official at the company's Russian joint venture TNK-BP said that firm would consider buying some of BP's assets if they were put up for sale.
Tony Blair tipped to take over as chairman of crisit-hit BP
By Bob Roberts 23/06/2010
Tony Blair was yesterday being touted as the man to rescue stricken BP.City experts reckon appointing the ex Prime Minister as chairman is the first step to saving the company after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster.They highlighted his huge popularity in America and his close links to BP as Premier.City expert Matthew Lynn said: Anyone who watched chief executive Tony Hayward struggle to find a voice while being skewered by Congress last week would have realised the company needs to step up its debating skills by about 1,000%.This is essentially a political crisis, so why not a politician? Traders are already betting on Blair replacing chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg.Since leaving office, the ex-PM has worked as a Middle East peace broker and has a number of directorships.BP's reputation continues to plummet as fast as its share price, which hit a 13-year low at 334 yesterday - a 50% plunge since the Deepwater Horizon spill began.In yet another PR humiliation at the weekend, Mr Hayward went sailing round the Isle of Wight as the stricken rig continued to spew oil off Louisiana. He has now handed day-to-day responsibility for the disaster to managing director Bob Dudley.Chief of staff Steve Westwell was heckled by Greenpeace protesters at an oil conference in central London yesterday. Celebrities including Sting and Robert Redford have appeared in a fundraiser on America's Larry King Live Show to help the clean-up.
Monday, Jul 5, 2010 13:06 ET The BP/Government police state
By Glenn Greenwald ABC/CNN In June, Adm. Thad Allen told ABC, Media will have uninhibited access anywhere we're doing operations.The new rule contradicts that statement.(updated below - Update II [Tues.])
Last week, I interviewed Mother Jones' Mac McClelland, who has been covering the BP oil spill in the Gulf since the first day it happened. She detailed how local police and federal officials work with BP to harass, impede, interrogate and even detain journalists who are covering the impact of the spill and the clean-up efforts. She documented one incident which was particularly chilling of an activist who -- after being told by a local police officer to stop filming a BP facility because BP didn't want him filming -- was then pulled over after he left by that officer so he could be interrogated by a BP security official. McClelland also described how BP has virtually bought entire Police Departments which now do its bidding:One parish has 57 extra shifts per week that they are devoting entirely to, basically, BP security detail, and BP is paying the sheriff's office.Today, an article that is a joint collaboration between PBS' Frontline and ProPublica reported that a BP refinery in Texas spewed tens of thousands of pounds of toxic chemicals into the skies two weeks before the company's rig in the Gulf collapsed. Accompanying that article was this sidebar report:A photographer taking pictures for these articles, was detained Friday while shooting pictures in Texas City, Texas.
The photographer, Lance Rosenfield, said that shortly after arriving in town, he was confronted by a BP security officer, local police and a man who identified himself as an agent of the Department of Homeland Security. He was released after the police reviewed the pictures he had taken on Friday and recorded his date of birth, Social Security number and other personal information.The police officer then turned that information over to the BP security guard under what he said was standard procedure, according to Rosenfield.
No charges were filed.
Rosenfield, an experienced freelance photographer, said he was detained shortly after shooting a photograph of a Texas City sign on a public roadway. Rosenfield said he was followed by a BP employee in a truck after taking the picture and blocked by two police cars when he pulled into a gas station.According to Rosenfield, the officers said they had a right to look at photos taken near secured areas of the refinery, even if they were shot from public property. Rosenfield said he was told he would be taken in if he declined to comply.ProPublica's Paul Steiger said that the reporting team told law enforcement agents that they were working on a deadline for this story about that facility, and that even if DHS agents believed they had a legitimate reason to scrutinize the actions and photographs of this photographer, there was no reason that should have included sharing them with a representative of a private company.These are true police state tactics, and it's now clear that it is part of a pattern. It's been documented for months now that BP and government officials have been acting in unison to block media coverage of the area; Newsweek reported this in late May:As BP makes its latest attempt to plug its gushing oil well, news photographers are complaining that their efforts to document the slow-motion disaster in the Gulf of Mexico are being thwarted by local and federal officials -- working with BP -- who are blocking access to the sites where the effects of the spill are most visible. More than a month into the disaster, a host of anecdotal evidence is emerging from reporters, photographers, and TV crews in which BP and Coast Guard officials explicitly target members of the media, restricting and denying them access to oil-covered beaches, staging areas for clean-up efforts, and even flyovers.
The very idea that government officials are acting as agents of BP (of all companies) in what clearly seem to be unconstitutional acts to intimidate and impede the media is infuriating. Obviously, the U.S. Government and BP share the same interest -- preventing the public from knowing the magnitude of the spill and the inadequacy of the clean-up efforts -- but this creepy police state behavior is intolerable. In this latest case, the journalists were not even focused on the spill itself, but on BP's other potentially reckless behavior with other refineries, and yet there are DHS agents and local police officials acting as BP's personal muscle to detain, interrogate, and threaten a photographer. BP's destructive conduct, and the government's complicity, have slowly faded from public attention, and there clearly seem to be multiple levels of law enforcement devoted to keeping it that way, no matter how plainly illegal their tactics are.
UPDATE: More evidence here (h/t bamage):Journalists who come too close to oil spill clean-up efforts without permission could find themselves facing a $40,000 fine and even one to five years in prison under a new rule instituted by the Coast Guard late last week.It's a move that outraged observers have decried as an attack on First Amendment rights. And CNN's Anderson Cooper describes the new rules as making it very easy to hide incompetence or failure. . . .[S]ince oil spill response operations apparently covers much of the clean-up effort on the beaches, CNN's [] Cooper describes the rule as banning reporters from anywhere we need to be. . . .A willful violation of the new rule could result in Class D felony charges, which carry a penalty of one to five years in prison under federal law.The new rule appears to contradict the promises made by Adm. Thad Allen, the official leading the Coast Guard's response to the oil spill.Media will have uninhibited access anywhere we're doing operations, except for two things, if it's a security or safety problem, Allen told ABC News in June. . . .[T]o create a blanket rule that everyone has to stay 65 feet away from boom and boats, that doesn't sound like transparency, [said Cooper].The rule has come under severe criticism not only from journalists but from observers and activists involved in the Gulf Coast clean-up.
With this, the Gulf Coast cleanup operation has now entered a weird Orwellian reality where the news is shaped, censored and controlled by the government in order to prevent the public from learning the truth about what's really happening,writes Mike Adams at NaturalNews. . . .Reporters have been complaining for weeks about BP, the Department of Homeland Security and the Coast Guard working to keep reporters away from wrenching images of oil-covered birds and oil-soaked beaches.We've frequently heard excuses that the Federal Government has little power to do anything to BP, but they certainly seem to have ample power to do a great deal for them. Public indifference about such things is the by-product of those who walk around like drones repeating the mantra that political officials know what's best about what must be kept secret, and that the Threat of Terrorism (which is what is exploited to justify such acts) means we must meekly acquiesce to such powers in the name of Staying Safe.
UPDATE II: From The New York Times, June 9, 2010:Journalists struggling to document the impact of the oil rig explosion have repeatedly found themselves turned away from public areas affected by the spill, and not only by BP and its contractors, but by local law enforcement, the Coast Guard and government officials.To some critics of the response effort by BP and the government, instances of news media being kept at bay are just another example of a broader problem of officials’ filtering what images of the spill the public sees.This is clearly a deliberate and systematic pattern of preventing access and coverage that has been going on since the beginning of the spill. And, as we find in so many realms, it's impossible to know where government actions end and corporate actions begin because the line basically does not exist.
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TR BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
VIDEO TREASON IN NY
http://www.infowars.com/treason-in-new-york-national-guard-confiscating-guns-from-citizens/
EU-Chinese misunderstanding on the rise, senior Beijing official warns
ANDREW WILLIS Today JULY 7,10 @ 09:28 CET
EUOBSERVER / STRASBOURG - China's deputy foreign minister has warned that the level of misunderstanding between Brussels and Beijing is on the rise, despite the EU's new architectural framework, designed in part to improve the bloc's dialogue with the international community. Ms Fu Ying made the comments in an interview with EUobserver in Strasbourg on Tuesday (6 July), ahead of a series of meetings with senior European Parliament officials.I think the misunderstanding is strong on the European side and is growing on the Chinese side as well, said Ms Fu, whose portfolio includes handling her country's relations with Europe and Taiwan. Since 2008, the perceived China-bashing sentiment of European countries has hurt China and Chinese people, explained Beijing's most senior female official, whose previous positions include three years as ambassador to the UK. And while China hopes for an improvement under the Lisbon Treaty, the EU's new rulebook that creates a stronger foreign policy supremo in the shape of Catherine Ashton, so far there has been little tangible evidence of change.I'm not saying the new position is not working, it [simply] hasn't started very much yet, said Ms Fu of the seven-month old post, conceding that she has never spoken to Ms Ashton over the phone to discuss bilateral issues.Despite strong trade ties, a number of recurring issues continue to create tension between the two sides.Among them, Europe's perceived unwillingness to grant China market economy status, an escalating number of trade disputes and persistent criticism of the country's human rights record, especially from MEPs, continue to vex Chinese officials.This comes despite the fact that some NGOs say Europe's criticism of conditions in the autonomous regions of Tibet and Xinjiang has been increasingly overtaken by commercial interests.At the same time, European businesses say they receive unfair treatment when operating inside the Asian powerhouse economy, while the valuation of China's renminbi currency has attracted harsh criticism since an effective currency peg with the dollar was put in place in 2008.
Renminbi
US and EU pressure on the currency issue appeared to bear fruit last month, when China announced its intention to allow the renminbi greater flexibility to appreciate.This decision however, insists Ms Fu, reflects the easing of the global economic recession rather than external influences.We don't like the pressure from outside because Chinese people are now asking why we changed our currency stance because somebody told us to, she said.The conflicting nature of domestic and international demands is also evident in market access disputes.In April, the EU Chamber of Commerce in China said growing nationalist sentiment expressed by Chinese internet users is driving the country's protectionist policies at the expense of foreign firms.Taken together, the litany of potential flashpoints between the two sides seems likely to keep Ms Fu busy in the coming years, with Europe's tendency to hand out advice also grating against Beijing.Europe believes it has the best and that the whole world should copy it, although after a long period of time, many countries that did copy it are not so successful, said Ms Fu.But Europe does not lose its confidence, you keep on lecturing.
WORLD TERRORISM
2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men
LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Iran Past Point of No Return, to Open Nuke Plant in September
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu JULY 7,10
Iran’s nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi announced Wednesday that the Islamic Republic will open its first nuclear power plant at Bushehr in September, passing the point of no return.Salehi, deputy to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and also director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, told the semi-official Fars News Agency, We hope that, as our Russian friends and Iranian colleagues have said, the reactor will launch operation in September. We feel that we have reached a no-return point, and from now on the ground is paved for the final launch of the reactor.He said the plant’s reactor passed the last pre-launch test on Wednesday and it is ready to come on-line later in the summer.Russia has been building the nuclear facility since 1994, and its vested interest in Iran’s nuclear power plant has conflicted with Western pressures to back harsh sanctions aimed at halting the unsupervised development of nuclear projects. China has invested heavily in several plants under construction and has balked at tough sanctions.Iran has denied charges by Israel and the United States that Iran is using developing capability to produce a nuclear warhead that can be used to attack Israel. Ahmadinejad previously has said that Israel is a cancer and should be wiped off the map.Iran recently announced it is producing 20 percent grade enriched uranium - a key ingredient for a nuclear weapon, but still far below the necessary quality.
(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Conveyor Belt to Terror not Banned in US
by Hillel Fendel JULY 7,10
Hizb uh-Tahrir, the radical Islamic Party of Liberation that is outlawed in Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Holland, and other countries, operates freely in the United States.Counter-terrorism expert lecturer and radio talk show host Gadi Adelman, writing for FamilySecurityMatters.org , says that the organization, known as HT for short, was to hold its second annual conference next week, entitled, Emerging World Order: Global Campaign for Khilafah (Caliphate). However, at nearly the last minute, host venue Chicago Marriott Oak Brook hotel canceled the event. HT plans to hold it elsewhere before the end of the month, though it has not yet announced a location.Last year’s event was entitled The rise of Islam and the fall of Capitalism.Brigitte Gabriel, founder of ACT! for America, has said that HT focuses on recruiting boys between the ages of 8 and 18 years old to become suicide bombers and Jihadists to advance Islam throughout the world.Born in a Lebanese Christian community, Gabriel’s home was destroyed by radical Islamists, about whom she later wrote the books Because They Hate and They Must be Stopped.Walid Phares and Muslim democratic leader Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, who called HT a conveyor belt to terror, are among many who have spoken out against HT as well.HT came close to being banned in the UK in August 2005, Adelman writes,when then-Prime Minister Tony Blair announced his intentions to ban the group.That was until threats of riots made him drop the idea.HT wants to overthrow every country the world over to instill a Global Caliphate,seeks to train teenagers for jihad, has reportedly been involved in threats against Jews, Hindus, and has reportedly threatened Muslim university officials. HT rejects the gender equality movement for women’s rights, saying that women must pursue a global Islamic caliphate instead. HT calls for the end of democracy and its replacement by Sharia law, as well as death for anyone who leaves Islam.Family Security Matters editor Adrian Morgan wrote back in 2007: It is difficult to believe that a group that threatens not only the Middle East but the West, too, should go without condemnation by the United States, as if it were the Girl Scouts.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
Obama Backs Down from Changing US Policy on Israeli Ambiguity
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu JULY 7,10
U.S. President Barack Obama has climbed down from the limb on which he changed a long-standing American policy that accepts Israel’s ambiguity on whether it has nuclear capability.He clearly stated a retreat from his position on Tuesday, telling Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that the United States will not encourage a Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) conference unless all countries feel confident that they can attend and on condition that Israel is not singled out.Several weeks ago, President Obama ignored Israeli warnings and backed a United Nations resolution for a nuclear-free Middle East that singled out Israel but did not mention Iran. In his remarks following Tuesday’s 80-minute meeting with Netanyahu at the White House, the president implied that he will continue the policy of accepting Israel’s ambiguity. President Obama stated. We strongly believe that, given its size, its history, the region that it’s in, and the threats that are leveled against us – against it, that Israel has unique security requirements. It’s got to be able to respond to threats or any combination of threats in the region.Another strong indication of the retreat came from a report Wednesday by Army Radio, which said that the United States sent Israel a secret letter that respects Israel’s being a non-signatory to the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The IDF-operated station said the letter to Israel guarantees the sale of materials used for nuclear technology and which usually are not transferred to countries that have not signed the NPT.
Israel's not having signed the NPT has been used by Iran as a response to international demands that it submit to United Nations inspection of its nuclear projects, which are assumed by Israel and the United States to include the production of a nuclear warhead.The Army Radio report said that the secret letter specifically includes terminology that the United States considers Israel to be a responsible state that behaves in moderation relative to its capabilities.A U.S. embassy spokesman in Tel Aviv told Israel National News, We don’t comment on diplomatic correspondence and whether it exists or not.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Israel keeping flotilla ships until inquiry ends By IAN DEITCH, Associated Press Writer - JULY 7,10
JERUSALEM – Israel will hold on to the six ships from the international flotilla that sought to break Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip at least until it completes its investigation into a deadly raid on one of the vessels, the Defense Ministry said Wednesday.Israel towed the boats to a northern port days after naval commandos stormed the ships, killing nine Turkish activists on board the lead vessel. Some boats remain moored in Haifa port with cargoes of cement and steel still on board, a Defense Ministry spokesman said.Although Israel has said the soldiers acted in self defense, the bloodshed provoked an international outcry that forced Israel to it to ease the Gaza blockade.But it has rebuffed pressure from the United Nations and Turkey to agree to an international inquiry. Instead, it has formed its own commission, headed by a retired Israeli Supreme Court Justice Yaakov Turkel, to conduct a limited investigation of the raid. Its deliberations are expected to take months.One thing is certain. Nothing will be done with these ships until after the Turkel inquiry because they might want to inspect them, Defense Ministry spokesman Shlomo Dror said.
On Sunday, Channel 10 TV showed footage of Israeli fisherman fishing off the flotilla's Turkish lead ship, the Mavi Marmara. All the deaths during the raid took place on that vessel, where activists clashed with the commandos. Each side has accused the other of attacking first.The raid has battered already strained relations between Israel and Turkey, once a strong ally in the Muslim world.Ceylam Ozem, a spokeswoman for the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv, said her government has asked from day one for the ships to be returned. They are Turkish owned. The Israelis have still not answered our demand, she said.Israel, along with Egypt, imposed the blockade on Gaza after the Islamic militant Hamas, which has killed hundreds of Israelis, violently wrested control of Gaza in 2007.Hamas authorities on Wednesday arrested five suspected collaborators with Israel in a campaign against informers in the Gaza Strip, a Hamas security official said. The overnight arrest raids began three months after two collaborators were executed.Collaboration is viewed as an especially serious offense in Palestinian society.The Hamas official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the arrests.
In another sign of Hamas' stranglehold on the territory, the group said it blocked what would have been the first shipment of West Bank newspapers since the group's June 2007 takeover.The West Bank, run by rivals of Hamas, has banned Hamas newspapers since 2007.Also Wednesday, the United Nations said in a new report that Israel's West Bank separation barrier is making it increasingly difficult for Palestinians living nearby to reach farm lands or health services.Farmers who own land in the area between the barrier and the Israeli frontier have to pass through gates and need to obtain special permits from the Israeli military.The U.N. said the permits are increasingly difficult to obtain and the 57 gates are not always open. This has severely curtailed agricultural practice and undermined rural livelihoods, the report said.Israel started building the barrier in 2003 after a series of Palestinian suicide attacks that killed hundreds of Israelis. Israel says the barrier remains an important security element. Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor rejected the report. We have already enough proof that (the U.N.) would much rather see more bombings on Israeli territory than acknowledge that anything Israel does to prevent these attacks could be legitimate,he said. In July 2004, the International Court of Justice said in an advisory ruling that the barrier must be tore down because it runs through occupied land. Israel rejected that. AP correspondent Ibrahim Barzak in Gaza City, Gaza Strip and Karin Laub in Jerusalem contributed to this report.
Fueled by White House success, Netanyahu heads to UN by Steve Weizman – JULY 7,10
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu headed to the United Nations Wednesday to meet UN chief Ban Ki-moon, saying he could perform miracles to hammer out a peace deal if all sides come together.After his warm White House talks with US President Barack Obama, Netanyahu told ABC television he wanted to reach an agreement acceptable to Israelis with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.We want President Abbas to grasp my hand, get into a room, shake it, sit down and negotiate a final settlement of peace between Israel and the Palestinians, he told the US news channel.He added he was confident a Middle East peace deal, which has eluded successive Israeli, Palestinian and US leaders for over six decades, could be struck.
Don't be so skeptical,he said.Raise your hopes. It's summer time and we can perform miracles if we set our sights to them.Israel was Wednesday hailing a new chapter of warm ties with the United States after the upbeat summit between Netanyahu and Obama.
A president now working with the premier, not against him, thrilled the right-wing Jerusalem Post. "This time, publicly at least, there were none of the harsh demands, none of the hectoring, none of the patronizing.But the Israeli premier may find the UN secretary general less forthcoming during their talks later Wednesday.Ban said Tuesday that while Israel's easing of its four-year blockade of the Gaza Strip was welcome, more needed to be done to ease Palestinian hardships.His spokesman noted that Ban "has long called for a significant shift in strategy towards meeting the great needs of Gaza's population.Further steps must now follow to meet those needs and to allow the United Nations to accelerate and expand its efforts.The UN chief has demanded Israel lift its blockade of the impoverished Gaza Strip, imposed in the wake of the election victory by Hamas Islamic militants who now control the Palestinian territory.
Israel has so far given the go-ahead for the international community to import construction materials into Gaza. And Netanyahu said Wednesday further steps were under consideration.There are more things we are prepared to do... There are things like additional easing of movements, some questions of economic projects, Netanyahu told ABC.There are quite a few. The point is we are prepared to do them.The change in policy was triggered by the international condemnation of an Israeli commando raid on an aid flotilla trying to break the blockade that led to the deaths of nine Turkish activists on May 31.Israel has set up a commission of inquiry into the events with the participation of British and Canadian observers, but some nations are calling at the UN for a fuller international probe.After Tuesday's White House meeting, Obama said he hoped for direct peace talks to start before the end of September when an Israeli freeze on settlement building is due to expire.I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu wants peace. I think he's willing to take risks for peace, Obama told reporters. He also strongly disputed suggestions that he had distanced the United States from Israel, sharing a prolonged handshake with the visiting Israeli leader for the cameras. Netanyahu did not say directly whether he would extend the freeze on settlement construction in Arab east Jerusalem, but hinted it was a possibility. I think once we get there realities may change, but I think the most important reality is that we don't stick on all sorts of requirements and grievances, he told ABC.During his talks with Ban, Netanyahu is expected to repeat his call for global support of US-led efforts to keep up diplomatic and economic pressure on Iran.Western powers accuse Tehran of seeking to build an atomic bomb, charges vehemently denied by the Islamic republic.Late Wednesday, Netanyahu will address Jewish leaders in New York and on Thursday he gives a speech to the Council for Foreign Relations and meets with former president Bill Clinton.
Abbas wants Israel sign on borders and security before talks
Wed Jul 7, 8:44 am ET
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said Wednesday he wanted an Israeli signal on the key issues of security and borders before heeding US calls for a resumption of direct peace talks.We are ready to go for direct talks if we receive any signals from the Israeli side on two issues, the borders and the security, Abbas said in English during an official visit to Ethiopia.We have presented our proposals to both the Americans and the Israelis and we are waiting for an Israeli impression and reaction,he told reporters after meeting Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.
US President Barack Obama this week expressed hope that direct talks would start before the end of September after a White House meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Netanyahu says he is ready to meet Abbas at any time and Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said Wednesday he could see direct negotiations getting under way within a few weeks.But the Palestinians have yet to commit to direct talks, accusing Israel of undermining the atmosphere with continuing settlement activity on occupied Palestinian land.Obama said he hoped progress towards direct negotiations from indirect US-brokered proximity talks between Israelis and Palestinians would render an October 1 deadline for ending a partial Israeli settlement freeze irrelevant.My hope is that once direct talks have begun, well before the moratorium has expired, that that will create a climate in which everybody feels a greater investment in success,he said.
A Long Economic Winter Ahead Dr. Rodrigue Tremblay
Opinion Maker July 7, 2010
A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property.:Harold Laski (1893-1950), British political theorist, 1930
Money becomes evil not when it is used to buy goods but when it is used to buy power… economic inequalities become evil when they are translated into political inequalities.Samuel Huntington (1927-2008), political scientist… if financial markets are skittish and don’t have confidence in a country’s fiscal soundness, that is also going to undermine our recovery.President Barack Obama, June 25, 2010.Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Physicist and Professor, Nobel Prize 1921
The bond market is telling us that there could be hard economic times ahead and that deflation, for the time being, is more of a threat than inflation. -Leading indicators are also pointing to possible economic weakness ahead. -The Euro zone is being pulled apart by the economic asymmetry of its members, the less productive among them (Greece, Spain, Ireland, Portugal and Italy) being unable to keep pace with the very productive German economy. -The U.S. money supply M3 is contracting. -The Chinese bubble is dangerously approaching the bursting point. -And, the deflation of debt all over the place threatens to plunge the world economy into a deflationary tailspin. —In this context, there is a good chance of a double-dip recession next year, in 2011.Readers of this blog know where I stand on this issue. One year ago, on July 10, 2009, when everybody and his uncle was declaring the recession over and the return of business as usual, I wrote a piece announcing that my analysis was pointing out to ten years of economic hardship entitled We are in the Midst of the Great Baby-Boomers Economic Stagnation of 2007-2017 I wrote then that many observers think that prosperity is around the corner and that this recession, like others since World War II, will end as soon as the stock market, as a leading indicator, recovers and people start spending again. This is a myopic view of the current economic big picture.Let us keep in mind that in May of 1930, President Herbert Hoover was also proclaiming that the danger … is safely behind us. This was ten years too early for such a declaration. Just as in the 1930s, the U.S. economy and many part of the world economy suffer from a debt overhang that usually takes at least ten years to correct. When overall debt is four times larger than the economy, as it is the case today and as it was close to being the case in the 1930s, a debt deflation becomes unavoidable.
Economic booms built on a mountain of debt, some of which is fraudulent and speculative debt, tend to end badly. The higher the debt mountain relative to the real economy, the more serious is the following economic meltdown. This is because an unsustainable debt level means that some of the investments and projects thus financed make no economic sense and no sufficient income can be forthcoming to service and repay the debts. The first consequence is excess capacity and falling asset prices. The second consequence is an unavoidable liquidation of debts and a debt deflation. The third consequence is economic stagnation.The danger that accompanies a protracted period of debt-liquidation and debt deflation after a binge of over-indebtedness is well known in economics. In 1933, Yale economist Irving Fisher published his debt-deflation theory of economic depressions. The core of the theory is that over-indebtedness leads to deflation, which in turn leads to an economic contraction. Fisher summarizes the links between debt liquidation and economic contraction in nine interacting steps:
1- Debt liquidation leads to distress selling.
2- Contraction of deposit currency, as bank loans are paid off, and to a slowing down of the velocity of circulation of money.
3- A fall in the level of prices.
4- If the fall of prices is not interfered with by reflation or otherwise, this is followed by greater fall in the net worth of business, precipitating bankruptcies.
5- This leads to a like fall in profits.
6- A reduction in construction, output, trade and in employment of labor results.
7- Losses, bankruptcies and unemployment lead to pessimism and loss of confidence.
8- The result is hoarding and a contraction in bank credits, which contribute in slowing down even more the velocity of circulation of money.
9- The overall deflation causes a fall in the nominal or money interest rates accompanied by a rise in the real or commodity rates of interest as prices fall.
A similar self-reinforcing spiral-down of debt-deflation and economic contraction can be feared in the coming years as the level of debt to the economy goes from about four times the economy to a more manageable two times the economy. In other words, it should not take more than $1.50 or $2 of new debt and credit to generate one dollar of new output. When it takes more debt than that to generate new production, this is an indication that the economy is becoming over-leveraged with debt.Judging by the pronouncements made by leaders at the recent G8 and G20 meetings in June, and their collective commitment to cut governments’ deficits in half by 2013, I don’t think that politicians fully understand the danger presently facing the world economy. In fact, any new shock hitting the world economy, economic or political, risks accelerating the collapse of the debt house of cards, with dire consequences for production and employment.Austerity fiscal measures may raise government efficiency, but they are not what will cushion the real effects of the debt deflation. Both reflationary monetary policies and overall stabilization policies are needed, especially in the banking sector, in order to make sure that producers and employers are not frozen out of new bank credit.
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