WALMART - SPY ON EVERYONE

WALMART CIA AGENT CONTROL FREAKS YOU
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Big Sis Invasion of Walmart Start of Obama’s Civilian Security Force
Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com December 7, 2010
http://www.infowars.com/big-sis-invasion-of-walmart-start-of-obamas-civilian-security-force/ (READ LINKS)

Americans have reacted with outrage to Big Sis Janet Napolitano’s announcement that Homeland Security messages encouraging shoppers to spy on each other will play at Wal-Mart checkouts, but the announcement is part of a wider takeover of America that will see the DHS invade virtually every aspect of public life in the United States as the country sinks into a decrepit banana republic.The Department of Homeland Security’s official You Tube channel has been bombarded with complaints, many of them littered with furious profanity, after the announcement yesterday that the DHS would team up with 588 Wal-Mart stores in 27 states to place monitors at checkout locations that would play a video message by Janet Napolitano encouraging Americans to spy on each other and report suspicious activity to law enforcement and Wal-Mart employees.The announcement leaves no room for doubt that America has officially entered the realm of Orwell’s 1984 as the federal government moves to entrench an onerous surveillance society where ordinary members of the public are enlisted as spies for the state to create a constant sense of distrust and fear.

From VIPR teams that now patrol Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor and Los Angeles rail lines; ferries in Washington state; bus stations in Houston; and mass transit systems in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Washington and Baltimore, to invasive pat downs at bus and train terminals and on street corners across the country, to radiation-emitting naked body scanners that roam the highways scanning vehicles and homes, to interrogation checkpoints at sporting and other public events, Big Sis is engaged in a total takeover of society, turning America into a giant prison grid where everyone is guilty until proven innocent and treated as a potential terrorist.Openly encouraging Americans to become informants for the government as they purchase their weekly groceries represents a new low in America’s total collapse into a dictatorial banana republic. It’s a sad and pathetic reminder that this once great beacon of freedom, strength and prosperity has now been hijacked by people who hate everything about what America once represented.Given the fact that Homeland Security is mimicking British authorities in its Orwellian approach, we can expect suspicious activity to include such behavior as paying for Wal-Mart’s Chinese slave goods with cash, or merely daring looking back at the surveillance cameras spying on Americans in the shopping mall.As America sinks deeper into a militarized police state, society begins to parallel more and more aspects of Nazi Germany and other historical dictatorships, especially in the context of citizens being turned against each other, which in turn creates a climate of fear and the constraining sense that one is always being watched.One common misconception about Nazi Germany was that the police state was solely a creation of the authorities and that the citizens were merely victims. On the contrary, Gestapo files show that 80% of all Gestapo investigations were started in response to information provided by denunciations by ordinary Germans.There were relatively few secret police, and most were just processing the information coming in. I had found a shocking fact. It wasn’t the secret police who were doing this wide-scale surveillance and hiding on every street corner. It was the ordinary German people who were informing on their neighbors, wrote Robert Gellately of Florida State University.Now the federal government is urging Americans to denounce each other at Wal-Mart. Are we seeing the beginnings of President Barack Obama’s promised civilian national security force that would be just as powerful and well funded as the US military?

Gellately discovered that the people who informed on their neighbors were motivated primarily by banal factors – greed, jealousy, and petty differences, and not by a genuine concern about crime or insecurity. Indeed, history tells us that any Stasi-like society does nothing to increase genuine security and only turns the host population against each other while decaying the country from within.Gellately found cases of partners in business turning in associates to gain full ownership; jealous boyfriends informing on rival suitors; neighbors betraying entire families who chronically left shared bathrooms unclean or who occupied desirable apartments.And then there were those who informed because for the first time in their lives someone in authority would listen to them and value what they said.Gellately emphasizes the fact that the Germans who sicked the authorities on their neighbors knew very well what the consequences for the victims would be – families torn apart, torture and internment in concentration camps, and ultimately in many cases death – but they still did it with few qualms because the rewards of financial bounties and mere convenience were deemed more important to them.This strikes at the root of the selfish and childish urges the government is trying to manipulate in getting people to report on their fellow Americans. The self-important feeling of being listened to, ascribed some temporary sense of authority, and the cult-like pavlovian reward of being metaphorically patted on the head by someone in a uniform, are all tendencies such campaigns play on.However, if we don’t want to end up in a society that exists in a constant state of tyranny and fear as in Stasi East Germany or Stalinist Russia, we must learn that our neighbors and friends are not our enemies, and that the only real threat against which we need to unite is an oppressive state that tries to destroy us by turning us against each other.This role has now been undertaken by Big Sis and the Department of Homeland Security, which is actively finalizing the invasion and total takeover of American society, using tools and programs that every single odorous dictatorship in modern history has resorted to – checkpoints, interrogations, strip-searches, training the people to spy on each other, guilty until proven innocent. Each and every facet betrays a country in terminal decline and one that will end up as a decrepit, lifeless, authoritarian cesspit, forever confined to the slagheap of history as just another example of how a civilized, cultured and prosperous society allowed itself to be destroyed from within by fear at the hands of a gaggle of jackbooted thugs.

3 COUNTRIES AGREE AGAINST NORTH KOREA

EU MPS TOUR SAMARIA
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ALEX JONES RECENT SHOWS
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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

WORLD MARKET RESULTS
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS TUE DEC 07,2010

09:30 AM +2.43
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MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +80 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
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GOLD opens at $1,427.40.OIL opens at $90.10 today.

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GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,427.40 (NOT AT CLOSE)

Top scientist warns against hype as EU sets out bee rescue plan
ANDREW WILLIS 06.12.2010 @ 17:30 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Commission has published a new action plan intended to shed light on reports of declining honey-bee populations across Europe, key pollinators for many of the bloc's important crop species. At the same time, one the Europe's top scientists in the field has warned against mass hysteria, pointing out that most species have experienced epidemics at one stage or another over previous centuries, ultimately with little long-term effect.The fact that honey-bee colonies die in large numbers is nothing strange,the UK's only professor in the field of apiculture, the University of Sussex's Francis Ratnieks, told this website.

Biodiversity loss and foreign diseases do present a major challenge for Europe's honey-bees, said professor Ratnieks, but he added there is an awful lot of hype about bees at the moment, stressing that humans ultimately recovered from events as traumatic as the Black Death, the 14th Century pandemic estimated to have wiped out 30-60 percent of Europe's population at the time.The issue of honey-bee decline came to the fore in 2006 amid reports in the US of colony collapse disorder (CCD), a phenomenon in which worker bees abruptly disappear from a beehive. Since then, there have been reports in a number of EU member states of honey-bee populations dying off, although data appears to be patchy.The commission's non-legislative report on Monday (6 December) in part aims to tackle this data shortage by setting up an EU reference laboratory for bee health in Sophia Antipolis, a technology hub in France, as well as a pilot surveillance programme to estimate the extent of bee mortalities.

The paper also says the commission intends to increase EU funding for national apiculture programmes by almost 25 percent, up to €36 million per year over the period of 2011 to 2013, as well as tackle the problem of biodiversity loss and improve co-operation with international organisations such as the World Organisation for Animal Health.The protection of honey-bee health is of high importance in the EU,the bloc's health and consumer policy commissioner, John Dalli, said in a statement.The communication adopted today will enhance the discussion on bee health with all interested parties and could pave the way for more action from the EU.
Questioned by journalists, a different EU official said that while pesticides are tested before they can be approved in the EU, there were no sufficient grounds to ban neonicotinoids insecticides at present, despite unilateral bans in a number of EU member states, including France.Neonicotinoids act on the central nervous system of insects and are among the most widely used insecticides. They have attracted controversy recently, with a number of EU governments putting restrictions in place due to a possible connection to mass honey-bee deaths.Professor Ratnieks agreed that, while pesticides are certainly not helping bee populations, other factors appeared to be a greater threat to bee health. The problem didn't significantly improve in France after the ban,he said.Instead he pinpointed habitat loss as the key threat to European bee populations, underlying that 75 percent of the UK's land surface is currently used for agriculture. Since WWII farming has been intensified [with resulting loss of habitat] and the EU has supported this,he said.

Many environmentalists also blame the bloc's common agricultural policy (CAP), born in a post-war era of food shortages, for declines in the number of European species over recent decades. A CAP reform paper put forward by the commission last month includes new environmental incentives to look after wildlife.Will the bee-loud glade be around in the future? Well, not if they don't have any flowers to feed on, professor Ratnieks said wistfully, referring to the famous Lake Isle of Innisfree poem by Irish poet William Butler Yeats.He also identified two diseases that have recently travelled from Asia to Europe - the Varroa mite and the Nosema ceranae parasite - as important threats to European honey bees.Other scientists have stressed the issue of climate change in causing the bees' decline.

Pressure mounts to boost eurozone rescue fund
LEIGH PHILLIPS 06.12.2010 @ 09:29 CET

Belgium, the current EU presidency, has called for an increase in the funds available from the eurozone's rescue fund, with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Central Bank (ECB) making similar calls.Speaking on Saturday (4 December) to reporters, Belgian finance minister Didier Reynders issued the suggestion just as the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank were making similar calls.I'm in favour of an increase in the permanent mechanism but if it's possible to do that earlier, why not? Mr Reynders told Brussels reporters.He added that he saw no real difficulty until 2013 for the current facility.However, he added that the existing pool of resources should be expanded by a huge amount of money, because if we don't do that, you always have speculation.The IMF has urged the EU to hike its bail-out fund, Reuters reports, based on a document from the international lender it has seen. Jean-Claude Trichet, head of the ECB, also said on Friday that the EU should boost its €440 billion European Financial Stability Facility.There are growing concerns that while there will be enough cash that can be lent to Ireland and Portugal, a Spanish bail-out would breach the lending ceiling.EU finance ministers are due to meet Monday and Tuesday to discuss the rapid deterioration in recent days in the eurozone sovereign debt crisis, a break-down that has only worsened despite the announcement of an €85 billion rescue for Ireland.The ministers are expected to focus their talks on the Irish situation and give the green light to the package, but worries about both Portugal and Spain will also be discussed.

On Sunday, EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Mr Trichet and economics commissioner Olli Rehn held talks to discuss the growing crisis.Separately, the head of the eurozone and Luxembourg's prime minister, Jean-Claude Juncker and Italian finance minister wrote in an opinion piece for the Financial Times on Monday arguing it was time for the launch of European bonds, a move, they said that would finally send a message to the markets that European leaders would do whatever it takes to defend the euro currency.Eyes this week will also be turning once again to Greece.Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou will speak to Mr Barroso about extending the payment period for its €110 billion loan agreed in May. Other European leaders have made positive noises about extending the schedule, but the request comes at a difficult time for the country.

Monday is the two-year anniversary of the murder of Greek teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos by a police officer, an event that kicked off riots across the country that lasted for three weeks.Students and other young people have announced a series of demonstrations in 17 cities while the police on Sunday announced the arrest of six individuals after having discovered a series of caches of guns and explosives.
Two of the suspects were wanted by the police in connection with the militant anarchist group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, allegedly the perpetrators of a letter bomb campaign against EU targets in November.The government has also instituted a 21-hour traffic ban on all cars in central Athens ahead of the demonstrations.

Nordic countries huddle together as world gets bigger
ANDREW RETTMAN 06.12.2010 @ 09:16 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - A Nato-style musketeer clause and closer consular co-operation could form part of a new Nordic alliance, foreshadowing future developments inside the EU.Few people know the High North security environment like Estonian MP Tarmo Kouts. As a junior officer in the Soviet merchant navy in the 1970s, Mr Kouts shipped timber through the Kara Sea and the Barents Sea to Europe. After Estonia gained independence he helped to build its armed forces, rising to the rank of vice admiral, before going into politics. In 2007 he watched reports as a Russian submarine planted a titanium flag on the seabed under the North Pole.This operation was a sign from the Russians. It said: We are here. We are the first and it belongs to us.If we are talking about the Arctic Ocean, they have quite a significant naval capability in Murmansk and in many other points in Arctic waters,he said.Not from one of the Nordic countries - Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden - Mr Kouts nevertheless backs an initiative by the five states to band together in response to the melting ice caps and the coming race to tap new mineral resources and trade routes.The Nordic pact was mooted by foreign ministers at a meeting in Reykjavik in November and is to be discussed again in Helsinki in April.Its blueprint is the Stoltenberg Report, a list of proposals set out in 2009 by Thorvald Stoltenberg, Norway's former foreign minister and defence minister and the father of its current prime minister. The report suggests, among other measures: creating a military and civilian taskforce for unstable regions; a joint amphibious unit; a disaster-response unit; a coastguard-level maritime response force; joint cyber-defence systems; joint air, maritime and satellite surveillance; co-operation on Arctic governance; and a war crimes investigation unit.

It also proposes pooling consular services in places where all five countries do not have missions and adds, in an echo of Nato's one for all and all for one Article V, that: The countries could clarify in binding terms how they would respond if a Nordic country were subject to external attack or undue pressure.Mr Stoltenberg told EUobserver that his plan is a reaction to major geopolitical changes.We live in a world where far away does not exist any more. When I was growing up, you talked about places that are far away. This is no longer a reality ... the problems are bigger than before,he said.I would not use the word compete,but we must be able to meet our responsibilities,he added, on the challenges of an increasingly ice-free Arctic.Today we cannot alone meet the need for search and rescue in this area. On the military side, the price of high technology is rising so fast that either we co-operate or we watch the degradation of our defence systems. If we don't co-operate, in 20 years' time we may have just four countries in Europe with credible defence systems - Russia, Germany, France and the UK.He explained that a Nordic alliance is natural.It's a question of geography, culture, values. We speak the same language. We feel closer to each other than most other people,he said. There is already a very good co-operation between intelligence services in the Nordic countries. It was like this even in the Cold War. There are close contacts at a personal level. It's an issue of trust, of joint interests.Mr Stoltenberg noted that even though Finland and Sweden are not Nato members, Nato-type solidarity already exists between the five countries at a tacit level: Do you believe that if there is an attack on one of the Nordic countries, it is possible to isolate that country? No. If one Nordic country is attacked, it may happen that all the others are involved too.The Nordic plan has broad support in the local defence industry. Seen as a common market, the Nordic market would become the fourth largest one in Europe,Henrik Vassallo, a spokesman for Swedish firm Saab, said. The potential development of a Nordic Technological and Industrial Base needs to be addressed in a more comprehensive way.

Nordic link-up points to EU trends

The Stoltenberg scheme also mirrors developments taking place at EU level.The European External Action Service is since its launch on 1 December attempting to better co-ordinate EU foreign policy. The European Commission will in a 2011 Citizenship Report underline that member states' consulates must help EU citizens if their own country has no mission in place and call for consular burden-sharing during crises. Poland in its EU presidency in 2011 is to activate a Lisbon Treaty clause on defence co-operation. UK Prime Minister David Cameron will on 19 January host a meeting of Nordic and Baltic state leaders to discuss energy issues in the High North.For his part, Finnish foreign minister Alexander Stubb believes that a Stoltenberg-type project could pave the way for new EU defence structures.The Nordic countries could promote the pooling and sharing of military resources and capabilities among the EU member states under the Lisbon Treaty, he said.This would enable the Nordic countries to concentrate on their combined strengths, which they then could offer to be used, for example, in the EU's crisis management operations for the benefit of all. They could also work together for the creation of a permanent operation headquarters for the EU in Brussels.He added that there is no gold rush in the Arctic for the moment and that there are limits to Nordic kinship, however.In EU policy issues our priorities do vary, something which can be seen every day in Brussels. A Nordic bloc in the EU does not exist ... We exchange ideas and share information, but we do not necessarily always think the same way.Asked if another recent idea, by Swedish historian Gunnar Wetterberg, to create a United Nordic Federation under the symbolic rule of the Danish royal family, has any legs, he said: You have to go quite a long time in history to find a period when the Nordic countries were closer to each other than today ... But a federation is not something we are contemplating in the coming years.Mr Stoltenberg commented: Personally, I would not be against it - we would have a terrific soccer team. But it's a bit too far away.The article first appeared in the Nordic Council/Nordic Council of Ministers' online news magazine, Analys Norden.

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 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.

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.

JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

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.

Argentina, Uruguay Recognize PA as a State
by Elad Benari DEC 7,10

Argentina announced on Monday that it recognizes a Palestinian state, calling Palestine a free and independent state within its 1967 borders, The Associated Press reported. According to the report, Argentina said the announcement reflects its frustration at the slow progress of peace talks with Israel.Argentinean President Cristina Kirchner informed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas of the decision, Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman said. He said that Argentina is deeply frustrated that the goals of the 1991 peace talks in Madrid and the Oslo Accords of 1993 still have not been reached. The time has come to recognize Palestine as a free and independent state, he was quoted in AP as saying.Timerman added that Argentina also ratifies its irrevocable position in favor of the right of Israel to be recognized by everyone and to live in peace and security within its borders. Argentina's decision to recognize the Palestine state is based in the desire of its authorities to favor the process of negotiation aimed at ending the conflict.

Argentina’s announcement comes only several days after Brazil announced that it recognizes the Palestinian Authority as a new independent Arab country. Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva sent a letter to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, in which he wrote that Brazil recognizes Palestine and hopes that the recognition will help lead to two states, Israel and Palestine,that will co-exist peacefully and in security.Brazil’s announcement was criticized by both Israel and the United States, with Israel expressing regret and disappointment with the decision and pointing out that recognition of a Palestinian state is a violation of the Interim Agreement signed between Israel and the PA in 1995,a reference to the amended Oslo Accords.The PA’s Foreign Minister, Riad Malki, praised Argentina's decision on Monday, telling The Associated Press: It is really symbolic but it is important because the more countries that recognize the Palestinian state, the more pressure this will put on countries that are hesitant and on the peace process. If Israel keeps refusing to recognize the Palestinian state when other countries do, this will make a difference.
Earlier on Monday AFP reported that Uruguay would also recognize the state of Palestine, and Malki told AP that he also expects Bolivia and Ecuador to follow.Israel called Argentina’s announcement regrettable, echoing its criticism of Brazil. Abbas, on the other hand, said during his visit to Turkey, that he is proud of the decision.Uruguay will surely follow the same path as Argentina in 2011, deputy foreign minister Roberto Conde told AFP. We are working towards opening a diplomatic representation in Palestine, most likely in Ramallah.(Israel National News.com)

Abbas in Turkey for Meetings
by David Lev and Hillel Fendel DEC 6,10

Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Turkey Sunday for an official visit. During the visit, Abbas was to meet with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Abdullah Gul. The visit will extend through Tuesday, when Abbas will fly to Greece for meetings with leaders there.According to a PA statement, Abbas was to update the Turkish leaders on recent developments in the stalled negotiations with Israel. The PA dropped out of U.S. sponsored talks at the end of September, demanding that Israel impose another building freeze on Judea and Samaria – a move that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has said he would be willing to undertake, if Israel receives specific guarantees from Washington. Most of Netanyahu's coalition is against an additional freeze.In the meantime, Abbas says he will not return to negotiations. On Thursday, a PA official said Washington had officially informed the PA that attempts to secure a new Israeli settlement freeze had failed. US officials have refused to confirm or deny the report, the Maan news agency reported.A statement by Gul's office said that he and Abbas would discuss and consult on ... bilateral ties, the latest situation in Palestine and regional developments, primarily the Middle East peace process.

Earlier on Sunday, Abbas was in Jordan, meeting with King Abdullah II. The PA leader said that he and the king agreed to continue cooperation and coordination in light of an expected US position in the coming few days, and we should examine it together. He did not explain what type of US position was expected.Besides an additional freeze, the PA has not backed down on any of its other demands, such as Israel's surrender of liberated parts of Jerusalem, an Israeli withdrawal to the 1948armistice lines, and the resettlement in Israel of descendants of refugees who fled in the wake of the 1948 War of Independence. He is not willing to recognize Israel as the Jewish state. In the past, Turkey has expressed full support for the PA's positions.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

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.

Was Gas Attack Averted in French Hill?
by Elad Benari DEC 7,10

Several days ago, residents of Jerusalem’s French Hill neighborhood felt a strong odor of gas throughout the neighborhood. Upon inspection they discovered that Arab residents of the nearby Isawiya neighborhood cut their gas pipes, which caused the strong smell. The residents of French Hill are now convinced that the Arabs planned a major terror attack which was averted only by a miracle.On Monday, Arutz Sheva’s daily journal spoke with French Hill resident Shosh Shochat, who represents the neighborhood during meetings with the authorities. According to Shochat, We sat in our house on Motzei Shabbat when we suddenly we smelled gas and heard the sound of a pipe exploding. We went outside and found more neighbors who smelled the same thing. It turned out that someone cut the pipes. We tried closing the gas taps but they were rotten and wouldn’t close.Shochat pointed out that Jerusalem Police and firefighters were quick to arrive on the scene, but gas company employees did not arrive until three days later. She added that an investigation the same evening found that 250 families had their pipes cut.According to Shochat, this is not just vandalism but another incident in a series of incidents of terrorism which originate in the nearby Isawiya neighborhood.They set fire to natural growth, said Shochat. Throughout the summer there were fires here, some of them posing a risk to homes. They break windows, damage public gardens, harass, steal from yards and roam around freely.She added that now, residents do not allow Jewish boys and girls to walk freely around the neighborhood in the evening for fear of attacks. They come at night, do what they do, and immediately go the paths to Isawiya.Just two months ago, a Jewish resident of Jerusalem was attacked in Isawiya. Baruch Pruss, who works as a repairman, was viciously attacked in the neighborhood by Arabs who threw concrete blocks and huge stones towards him. He only managed to escape the attack thanks to help from older Arabs living in the area who helped him leave.If they’ve decided to abandon us and return us to the Palestinian Authority, then [Jerusalem Mayor] Nir Barkat should get up and say it openly: We've decided to give you to Abbas. Then we’ll confront him, said Shochat.She described an intolerable reality in which people who recognize a thief or a burglar prefer not to confront him for fear of violence, and give up on contacting the authorities since they are tired of bureaucracy, as she put it.We have become a place of terror, said Shochat and wondered if she as a Jew would be allowed to wander freely in the streets of Isawiya.
(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Wikileaks: Saudis, Gulf States Big Funders of Terror Groups
by David Lev DEC 6,10

Despite its ostensible position as one of the West's key allies in fighting Islamic terror, it turns out, via Wikileaks, that Saudi Arabia is the source of the lion's share of funding for the world's worst terror groups – including Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Hamas, and others.Much of the rest of the money these organizations get comes from other Gulf states, including Qatar and Kuwait. Saudi Arabia, along with other Gulf states, has expressed very little interest in changing the situation.The information came to light in the latest round of documents released Sunday by Wikileaks. In their communiques to the State Department, U.S. embassies in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states describe a situation in which wealthy private donors, often openly, lavishly support the same groups against whom Saudi Arabia claims to be fighting.In a summary assessment dated December 30, 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton writes, Donors in Saudi Arabia constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide. Saudi Arabia remains a critical financial support base for Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, LeT (Lashkar-e-Taiba), and other terrorist groups, including Hamas, which probably raise millions of dollars annually from Saudi sources.Much of the money is collected from Muslim pilgrims who come during the annual Ramadan pilgrimages, the memo said.

While the U.S. has pressured Riyadh to rein in the enthusiasm of Saudi citizens in donating to terror groups, Clinton wrote that the pressure had yielded only limited success. However, the document said, Qatar – recently chosen to host the World Cup soccer tournament in 2022 - and Kuwait have even worse records, with both countries, especially Qatar, resisting any U.S. persuasion to clamp down on terror group funding.The Saudis have begun to deal with some forms of funding to Al-Qaeda; one Wikileaks cable praises Riyadh for arresting 40 members of a charity group that was funding Al-Qaeda, and for issuing a religious decree against supporting terror groups. However, Washington said that Riyadh was practically clueless when it came to dealing with money being funded to the Taliban.In general, the documents state, Saudi Arabia remains almost completely dependent on the CIA to provide analytic support and direction for its counterterrorism operation. As such, our success against terrorist financing in the kingdom remains directly tied to our ability to provide actionable intelligence to our Saudi counterparts,leaving the U.S. to do the work of policing the Saudis and prompting them – often unsuccessfully – to fight the very terror groups that they fear are working to take over the kingdom.
(IsraelNationalNews.com)

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.

Cold temps burst on South, Midwest
– Mon Dec 6, 9:38 am ET

HIGH POINT, N.C. – A blast of cold weather is bursting on the South and Midwest, bringing significant snow from North Carolina to Minnesota.Schools in Tennessee and West Virginia canceled classes Monday. Parts of West Virginia were expecting as much as 18 inches of snow, coupled with high winds that were expected to reduce visibility. Winter storm warnings were being issued.Below freezing temperatures were forecast as far south as central Florida. Crop damage was possible.The storm system has dumped as much as 11 inches of snow in southern Minnesota. Three inches of white powder had fallen in Greensboro, N.C.Tennessee saw less than an inch, but it was enough to disrupt schools.

Landslide kills 3 people in Bosnia
– Sun Dec 5, 12:01 pm ET

TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina – A landslide unleashed by heavy rain has killed three people and left several families homeless in the northern Bosnian town of Tuzla.
Neighbors told The Associated Press that they rescued one man but could not help his wife, teenage son and the boy's grandmother escape from a three-story house that slid some 20 meters (yards) downhill before it collapsed and was buried in mud early Sunday morning.Amid heavy rainfall over the past five days, the Balkans have faced the worst floods in a century and authorities have evacuated thousands of people.

Que. slammed with rain, wind, snow
Last Updated: Monday, December 6, 2010 | 6:54 PM ET CBC News

Stormy weather in Quebec forced dozens of people from their homes along the north and south shores as heavy rains and high winds whipped the coastline.Ten-metre high waves were reported on Quebec's north and south shores. (CBC)Further inland, blowing snow in Quebec City and Montreal created difficult driving conditions, and delayed public transit networks.In the town of Maria, on the Gaspé Peninsula, about a dozen homes were evacuated because of high waves that peaked at 10 metres in some areas.

Large chunks of a cliff face fell away further east in Sept-Iles, jeopardizing many houses in the vicinity.Waves washed up over Route 132 along Baie des Chaleurs, closing several sections of the road between Maria and Carleton.Officials in the town of St. Ulric in the Gaspé's northern region declared a state of emergency because of flooding.Blowing wind whipped Quebec City and Montreal, causing traffic delays. (CBC)In Matane, strong waves threatened to flood a local hotel.Public security officials are evaluating the damage so far, and may order more evacuations if warranted.The intense weather interrupted freight train service in the area — but provincial police said they were unable to survey the track's conditions because of rain and high winds.Ferry service between Baie-Comeau and Matane was cancelled because of poor weather conditions.Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2010/12/06/quebec-weather.html#ixzz17OgjMjh5

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Snow warnings issued for Toronto area
Last Updated: Monday, December 6, 2010 | 10:30 PM ET CBC News

Snow blankets a residential neighbourhood in Maple, just north of Toronto, early Monday. (Ivy Cuervo/CBC)Environment Canada is warning Toronto-area drivers to take extra care on roads over the next 24 hours due to snow squalls.

Areas affected by snow-squall warnings:
•Vaughan.
•Richmond Hill.
•Markham.
•Newmarket.
•Georgina.
•Northern York Region.
The agency issued a number of warnings early Monday aimed at parts of southern Ontario, including the northern and eastern portion of the Greater Toronto Area.The brunt of the snowfall will likely miss Toronto, where only two to four centimetres are expected. But Barrie, and parts of the York and Durham regions can expect 15 to 40 centimetres into Tuesday.A snow-squall watch — a less serious designation than a warning — has been issued for Halton and Peel regions.The warnings come after up to 10 centimetres of snow accumulated overnight in some parts of the GTA.Drivers should be cautious of potential blowing snow as well as whiteout conditions. The Canadian Automobile Association is advising drivers to take appropriate precautions, including having:

City workers in Newmarket, Ont., clear snow outside a mall early Monday. (Tony Smyth/CBC)
•Winter tires.
•A full tank of gas.
•A cellphone.
Winter tires will help improve your handling and cornering in the snow, in the slush and ice, but also in the cold weather,said CAA spokeswoman Silvana Aceto.The braking distance of winter tires ... depending on the weather and your speed, can be about 25 per cent shorter, or two vehicle lengths, compared to all-season tires.The heavy snow will continue into Tuesday, and perhaps Wednesday in this long-lived event, said Environment Canada.Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/12/06/toronto-snow-warning574.html#ixzz17OhV4efZ

US, Japan, and SKorea in united stance on NKorea
By Robert Burns, Ap National Security Writer – Mon Dec 6, 6:05 pm ET

WASHINGTON – In a show of unity, the U.S., Japan and South Korea on Monday said they would not resume nuclear negotiations with North Korea until it stops its provocative and belligerent behavior and takes concrete steps to roll back its nuclear arms program.They need to demonstrate a seriousness of purpose in ending their provocations and let the world know they are now ready to come to the table and fulfill the commitments they have already made, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told reporters after meeting Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara and South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung Hwan.Clinton's meeting was intended to demonstrate a serious response to recent North Korean actions, including its deadly shelling of a South Korean island last month and its announced expansion of a uranium enrichment capability that the U.S. and others see as a defiant and dangerous step.All agree that North Korea's provocative and belligerent behavior jeopardizes peace and stability in Asia, Clinton said.Conspicuous in their absence, however, were representatives of the two other countries that have worked with the U.S., Japan and South Korea on the North Korean problem: China and Russia. Together with North Korea, they are members of what has become known as the six-party talks.

Asked about China's absence, Clinton said Monday's meeting was specifically intended to coordinate with U.S. treaty allies — Japan and South Korea — rather than convene a larger group.We look forward to China playing a vital role in regional diplomacy, she said. They have a unique relationship with North Korea, and we would hope that China would work with us to send a clear, unmistakable message to North Korea that they have to demonstrate a seriousness of purpose.China, a traditional supporter of North Korea, has called for an emergency session of the so-called six-party talks — with the U.S., Japan, South Korea, Russia and China in negotiations with North Korea.

But Clinton made clear that Washington, Tokyo and Seoul view a resumption of talks as tantamount to rewarding North Korea for behaving badly. The North has established a pattern of taking provocative actions, such as testing a nuclear device and launching ballistic missiles, and then seeking through negotiations to gain concessions from the U.S. and its partners.A part of Clinton's message Monday was that the Obama administration will not go down that path, although she also reiterated that under the right conditions the U.S. is willing to talk to the North.
North Korea first needs to take concrete steps to demonstrate a change of behavior, Clinton said.In a joint written statement, the three officials condemned North Korea's construction of a new uranium enrichment facility. They said it violates U.N. Security Council resolutions as well as the North's commitments in a September 2005 agreement with the other parties to the six-party talks.Resumption of the six-party talks will require the (North) to make sincere efforts to improve relations with the (South) as well as taking concrete steps to demonstrate a genuine commitment to complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization, the U.S.-Japan-South Korea statement said.Standing beside Clinton and mirroring her somber expression and tone, Maehara of Japan and Kim of South Korea both said they want China to do more to constrain North Korea. They also echoed Clinton's assertion that North Korea is in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions passed in 2006 and 2009 in response to North Korea tests of nuclear devices.We would like China to have a clearer stance in giving warning to North Korea about the consequences of its actions, Kim said.

To underscore a message of solidarity, the Obama administration also announced that Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, would go to Seoul and Tokyo this week to consult with senior military officials and reassure both allies of the U.S. commitment to their defense. He will be accompanied by State Department and Pentagon officials.On Sunday evening, President Barack Obama called Chinese President Hu Jintao to discuss North Korea, the White House said, and urged Hu to send North Korea a message that its provocations are unacceptable.Defense Secretary Robert Gates also weighed in Monday while speaking to U.S. sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea. We need to figure out the way ahead with North Korea,he said. Nobody wants a war on the Korean peninsula. And I think we just have to work with the Chinese and with others to see if we can't bring some greater stability, some greater predictability to the regime in Pyongyang.The U.S. intervened in support of South Korea when North Korea invaded in June 1950 and is party to an armistice agreement that ended the fighting in July 1953. Clinton said she and her Japanese and South Korean counterparts agreed that the North's shelling of Yeonpyeong Island on Nov. 23 was a violation of the armistice.

SKorea to make islands near NKorea fortresses
-DEC 6,10

SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea's president is calling for five islands near the disputed sea border with North Korea to be turned into military fortresses.President Lee Myung-bak on Tuesday instructed his Cabinet to gradually push to strengthen fortifications on the islands and to create jobs so that local residents can continue to live there.His comments come as the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff flies to Seoul to give reassurance of the U.S. commitment to South Korea's defense.Tensions remain high on the Korean peninsula over North Korea's artillery strike on a South Korean island near the sea border last month. The attack killed two South Korean Marines and two civilians.THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean troops pushed ahead with naval firing drills Monday, a day after North Korea warned the exercises would aggravate tensions between the rivals following the North's deadly shelling of a front-line South Korean island.Regional powers stepped up diplomatic efforts to head off further conflict, with President Barack Obama speaking to China's Hu Jintao by telephone Monday and top diplomats from the U.S., South Korea and Japan scheduled to hold talks later in Washington.Obama condemned North Korea's Nov. 23 artillery shelling of Yeonpyeong Island and its pursuit of a uranium enrichment program, and urged Hu to send Pyongyang a message that its provocations are unacceptable, the White House said.The attack killed two marines and two civilian construction workers — the first attack on a civilian area since the 1950-53 Korean War.In a show of unity, the U.S., Japan and South Korea on Monday said they would not resume nuclear negotiations with North Korea until it stops its provocative and belligerent behavior and takes concrete steps to roll back its nuclear arms program.They need to demonstrate a seriousness of purpose in ending their provocations and let the world know they are now ready to come to the table and fulfill the commitments they have already made, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told reporters after meeting Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara and South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung Hwan.

Clinton and her counterparts also used a news conference at the State Department to call on China to do more to steer North Korea toward a more moderate path.North Korea said it unleashed the artillery fire after Seoul went ahead with routine live-fire drills despite Pyongyang's warnings to call off the military exercises. The North disputes the maritime border drawn in 1953 by U.N. forces, and considers the waters around Yeonpyeong, which lies just seven miles (11 kilometers) from its shores, its territory.The shelling occurred just days after reports that North Korea had revealed a large uranium-enrichment facility that would give it a new method of making material for atomic bombs in addition to its known plutonium-based program.

On Monday, the South Korean army launched a new round of artillery exercises set to continue through Sunday, army and Joint Chiefs of Staff officials said.The previously scheduled drills were to take place at some 30 sites off the coast throughout the week, but there were none Monday along the disputed western sea border, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity according to department policy. Warships will join the drills later in the week, the navy said.
Similar live-fire drills will take place next week as well, officials said.North Korea warned Sunday that the drills were causing uncontrollable, extreme tension on the peninsula. The South Korean puppet group, far from drawing a lesson from the deserved punishment it faced for its reckless firing of shells into the territorial waters of the (North Korean) side around Yeonpyeong Island, is getting more frantic in military provocations and war moves, the North's official Korean Central News Agency said. Seoul said its forces fired away from North Korea in last month's drills. On Monday, President Lee Myung-bak, acting on criticism that troops acted too slowly and too timidly to the North Korean attack, pledged to reform the military.The South Korean people believe our military has to change, Lee said at a Monday meeting on military reform, his office said. What the military needs now is (increased) mental strength.National security is at a critical juncture, Kim Kwan-jin, South Korea's new defense minister, told reporters. He said he would focus on boosting the military's morale and discipline. Kim was appointed after the previous defense chief resigned in the wake of the shelling.

South Korean Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik also announced 30 billion won ($27 million) to help rebuild shattered Yeonpyeong Island. Most of the 1,300 civilians who lived on the island have fled and many are living in a public bathhouse in the port city of Incheon that has been converted into a refugee center. Elsewhere in Incheon, the bodies of two construction workers killed in the attack were cremated as their relatives screamed and cried.I sincerely hope that officials take care of us so that this kind of thing will never happen again to innocent, weak and poor people,said Kang Sung-ae, widow of dead construction worker Kim Chi-baek.
Associated Press Television News cameraman Yong-ho Kim in Incheon contributed to this report.

Gold has record close - Silver hits 30-year high
Last Updated: Monday, December 6, 2010 | 4:45 PM ET
CBC News

Gold futures settled at a record high close Monday as investors bought into the metal as a safe haven amid concerns that the U.S. economy may require more stimulus and that Europe's debt crisis may spread.The widely traded February contract closed up $9.90, or 0.7 per cent, to $1,416.10 on the New York Mercantile Exchange.S&P/TSX Global Gold Index 1-year chart. Earlier in the session the price reached $1,422.40, less than $2 from the level for the intraday record of $1,424.30, set on Nov. 9.
Gold is up 29 per cent this year.The Toronto Stock Exchange, heavily weighted in gold mining companies, rose.The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 97.06 points, or 0.8 per cent, to 13,276.01. The S&P/TSX global gold index was up 1.8 per cent.March silver prices reached a 30-year high of $30.115 US an ounce on the Nymex, before slipping back to close at $29.735, up .464 of a cent on the day.On Sunday, U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said it was prepared to expand the American money supply even more by buying government debt in a move to stimulate borrowing and investment.

As well, Moody's downgraded Hungary's debt to the lowest grade that still allows large investors like pension funds to buy its bonds.Investors were taking defensive positions over concerns about continuing slow economic growth in the United States and as well as lingering fears about the spread of the government debt crisis in Europe, said Colin Cieszynski, a market analyst at CMC Markets Canada.The factors that are driving people to buy up gold and silver are also pushing people out of things like the euro and into defensive areas like the U.S. dollar and the [Japanese] yen, he said.Critics of the Fed's stimulus program have said it will create inflation. Investors use gold as an alternative to the U.S. dollar if they worry that inflation will lower the future value of the greenback.With files from The Canadian Press Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/12/06/gold-prices-rise-after-bernanke.html#ixzz17Oftvyt2

China's Bright Food close to GNC deal: source
– Mon Dec 6, 7:58 pm ET

PHILADELPHIA / NEW YORK (Reuters) – China's Bright Food Group Co is close to a deal to buy U.S. vitamin retail chain GNC Holdings Inc for $2.5 billion to $3 billion, a source familiar with the situation said on Monday.The potential acquisition of Pittsburgh-based GNC, which is owned by Ares Management and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board, could be announced in the next few days, said the source who declined to be identified because the talks were not public.GNC, which sells nutrition supplements, vitamins, sports drinks and other diet products through 7,100 stores worldwide, had been exploring an initial public offering, as well as an outright purchase.In September, GNC had filed registration papers with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an IPO of up to $350 million.Ares Management LLC and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan bought GNC in 2007 from Apollo Management LP (APOLO.UL) in a deal with a total enterprise value of $1.65 billion. Apollo had twice previously tried to bring GNC public.

Ares Management, Bright Food, and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan could not be immediately reached for comment.Bright Food is one of China's largest food and dairy companies. Recently it was in talks to buy United Biscuits for about $3.2 billion, but then turned its attention to GNC, The Wall Street Journal reported.(Reporting by Jessica Hall and Ilaina Jonas; Editing by Richard Chang, Phil Berlowitz)

Eurozone says bailout funds enough, for now By GABRIELE STEINHAUSER and PAN PYLAS, AP Business Writers – Mon Dec 6, 6:07 pm ET

BRUSSELS – Top European officials insisted Monday that they have enough financial firepower right now to deal with Europe's government debt crisis — but did not rule out increasing Europe's bailout fund in the future.Jean-Claude Juncker, who chaired a meeting of the eurozone's 16 finance ministers, said that there wasn't any immediate need to increase the euro750 ($1 trillion) financial backstop despite concerns that it just isn't enough. The fund is for eurozone governments in danger of running out of money.For the time being, there's no need to increase, Juncker said after the meeting.The big fear in the markets is that Portugal, and even more dangerously, much bigger Spain, will join Greece and Ireland in needing a financial lifeline — and that Europe might not have enough bailout money available to cope and keep countries that run into financial trouble from defaulting on their debts.In May, eurozone governments and the International Monetary Fund set up the euro750 billion financial backstop for the currency bloc. The majority is managed by the so-called European Financial Stability Facility, which can issue up to euro440 billion in bonds guaranteed by eurozone governments. The EU's executive Commission can lend an additional euro60 billion, while the IMF has said it would contribute up to euro250 billion.

The idea behind the facility was to reassure bond markets that countries would be able to pay — and halt the selloff of government bonds.Klaus Regling, who heads the EFSF said that Ireland's euro67.5 billion bailout agreed last month will use up less than 10 percent of the total backstop.There are sufficient resources left to deal with other relevant cases, Regling said.Regling said funding was not proving to be an issue and said he was getting interest in the facility's future bond issues from all around the world and from all types of investors, including central banks, sovereign wealth funds and rich individuals.The finance ministers were under somewhat less pressure than at recent gatherings after the European Central Bank stepped up purchases of government bonds in an attempt to restore confidence in the EU's single currency bloc — figures showed that it splashed out euro1.965 billion buying government bonds in the week leading up to Tuesday. That was up from euro1.345 billion the week before and the highest weekly amount in months.But heavy debts and doubtful growth prospects mean the crisis remains. Next week's figures will be key as they will contain purchases by the bank last Friday, Dec. 2, when it held its monthly policy meeting.Market participants suspect the stabilization in European bond markets since the meeting has been largely thanks to even more purchases by the central bank, under pressure from policymakers to do more to prevent Europe's debt crisis from spreading — buying bonds supports their prices, taking pressure off the banks that hold them. It also lowers bond yields, which indicate the borrowing costs countries would face were they to go into the market for more credit.The seeming stabilization in the bond markets may be one reason why a proposal earlier in the day from Juncker and Italy's Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti for the creation of pan-European bonds to support governments with shaky finances failed to get a hearing.

That proposal was not discussed, according to Juncker, after Germany, the Netherlands and Austria quickly came out against the idea.The three countries, because of their lower debt levels and more competitive economies, pay much lower interest rates on their bonds than weaker eurozone nations like Ireland, Portugal or Italy. The interest rate on pan-European bonds would likely be higher than what they are paying at the moment, because it would price in the risk of default of poorer governments.The most vociferous opposition came from Germany, Europe's biggest economy.Chancellor Angela Merkel said such bonds were legally impossible under the current EU treaties.It is our firm conviction that the treaties do not allow joint eurobonds, that is no universal interest rate for all European member states, she said in Berlin. Juncker tried to put a brave face on the rejection, dismissing the idea that the proposal has been strangled at birth.He noted that a proposal he made in 2005 about an annual review of EU member states' budgets was not taken seriously at the time either. However in October, European finance ministers agreed to introduce the so-called European semester, which checks whether governments are sticking to the EU's deficit limits. Juncker said he hoped the same fate is reserved for the eurobonds.Juncker's proposal was not dismissed out of hand by Olli Rehn, the EU's monetary affairs commissioner, who said he found the idea intellectually attractive.The finance ministers failed to make a decision on how to fund a new crisis tool that is supposed to support countries that run into financial trouble after 2013, when the current fund's mandate expires. Further discussions could take place Tuesday when the eurogroup ministers are joined by their counterparts in the wider 27-country EU.

Crucially, this so-called European Stability Mechanism will force private creditors to share the pain if a nation is deemed insolvent — that is, if its debts are too big to repay. However, if a government merely faces a liquidity crisis — it can't access funds fast enough to meet payment deadlines — it is supposed to get rescue loans from the new mechanism. The ministers agreed on the broad outlines of the new mechanism late last month, but didn't say where the money for the emergency loans would come from.The threat of potential losses for private bondholders like banks and hedge funds, which were spared in this year's bailouts, has spooked government debt markets in recent weeks and reopened debate on whether the existing bailout fund will be big enough in case large economies like Spain or Italy run out of money.

Retail pump prices hit 26-month high By SANDY SHORE, AP Business Writer – Mon Dec 6, 4:44 pm ET

Americans are getting a sour holiday surprise at the gas pump, where prices are the highest they've been in over two years. They may even hit a national average of $3 a gallon by January.Although supplies remain plentiful and gasoline demand has diminished since September, retail gas prices are rising because oil prices are at the highest levels since October 2008. The two-week advance continued on Monday as benchmark oil for January delivery rose 19 cents to settle at $88.96 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. A stronger dollar kept prices in check for most of the session. Since oil and other commodities are priced in dollars, a stronger dollar makes them more expensive for buyers who use other currencies.The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline was $2.958 on Monday, according to the Energy Department's Energy Information Administration. That's about 10 cents higher than a week ago and 32 cents more than a year ago.EIA said drivers in California pay the most, at an average $3.216 a gallon. Regular averages $2.802 a gallon in Gulf Coast states. Pump prices in major cities range from $2.669 a gallon in Denver to $3.241 in San Francisco. Gas stations in New York City charge an average $3.077 a gallon for regular. It's $3.066 in Chicago, $3.050 in Miami and $3.139 in Seattle.The U.S. has never spent Christmas with a $3-a-gallon average price for fuel, Oil Price Information Service said. The national average now is the highest since October, 2008, according to OPIS, and if oil prices linger near $90 a barrel, it could reach $3 before the end of the year, several analysts say.

We're within spitting distance right now, said Stephen Schork, an energy analyst and publisher of The Schork Report. Whether we get there by the end of the year or by the end of January, as far as consumer's concerned, we're there already by a psychological standpoint.For every penny the price at the pump increases, U.S. consumers pay an additional $4 million, according to Cameron Hanover energy analysis agency. The 10-cent a gallon increase from a week ago cost consumers about $40 million. On an individual basis, a motorist who bought 10 gallons of gas Monday, on average, paid about $3.20 more than a year ago.Schork expects energy demand to waver with prices between $2.90 a gallon and $3 a gallon. If oil reaches $100 a barrel, retail gas prices will be around $3.30 a gallon or higher, which would be a significant obstacle for motorists, he said.In other Nymex trading in January contracts, heating oil lost 1.17 cents to settle at $2.4757 a gallon, gasoline fell 1.04 cents to settle at $2.3417 a gallon and natural gas rose 13.9 cents to settle at $4.488 per 1,000 cubic feet.In London, Brent crude added 3 cents to settle at $91.45 a barrel on the ICE futures exchange.

China buoys climate talks with binding target
By Chris Buckley and Russell Blinch – Mon Dec 6, 8:44 pm ET

CANCUN, Mexico (Reuters) – China on Monday offered for the first time to submit its voluntary carbon emissions target to a binding U.N. resolution, buoying climate talks where Bolivia accused rich world policies of causing genocide.China's target would still be voluntary, stressed China's chief negotiator Xie Zhenhua, a distinction from developed nation targets under Kyoto: Developing countries can ... make their own voluntary emissions commitments and these should be under the Convention.The November 29-December 10 talks in Mexico's Cancun beach resort are split over how to harden existing pledges made at last year's Copenhagen summit, which ended in a brief, non-binding agreement.China's offer to make its existing, domestic pledge to slow growth in carbon emissions binding under a U.N. resolution is a compromise it hopes will encourage developed countries to continue the existing Kyoto Protocol.We can create a resolution and that resolution can be binding on China, said Huang Huikang, the Chinese Foreign Ministry's envoy for climate change talks.Under the (U.N. Climate) Convention, we can even have a legally binding decision. We can discuss the specific form. We can make our efforts a part of international efforts.We're willing to compromise, we're willing to play a positive and constructive role, but on this issue (Kyoto) there's no room for compromise.

Developing nations want to continue the first, 2008-2012 round of Kyoto, which binds the emissions of nearly 40 developed countries, while industrialized backers including Japan, Russia and Canada want a separate agreement regulating all nations.
Analysts were positive about China's proposal: This is a gamechanger, said Jennifer Morgan from the Washington-based World Resources Institute.The devil is in the details but this is a promising development, said Alden Meyer from the U.S.-based Union of Concerned Scientists.Bolivia said on Monday that the policies of rich nations were tantamount to genocide, signaling no compromise on its demands that are the most radical of any in Cancun. The U.N. talks can only pass decisions by consensus.Some 300,000 people a year were dying from natural disasters such as floods, droughts and storms, said Bolivia's head of delegation Pablo Solon.Is that not talking about genocide? he asked, linking the deaths to U.S. Congress, which is unlikely to pass a climate bill soon following a swing to the Republicans last month.

Solon defended Bolivia's goal of limiting warming to one degree Celsius (1.8 degree F) above pre-industrial times, the world's strictest goal. Temperatures have already risen by about 0.8 degree and the U.N. climate panel says that they will almost inevitably gain another 0.6.

GENOCIDE

Ministers arriving at the U.N. climate talks on Monday faced too-complicated drafts, the European Union climate chief said.I have to say that we are concerned because the texts are not ready to be used by ministers to finalize, said EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard.The Cancun talks were nearing agreement to launch long-term climate aid for developing countries, as well as schemes to protect rainforests and share low-carbon technologies, but ministers would likely delay detail until next year, and those deals may hinge on agreement on whether to extend Kyoto. The outlines of a deal were taking shape, said the head of the U.S. delegation Todd Stern.I think there is an agreement to be had. But I'm not sure we will get it. That question remains in the balance.Failure in Cancun may call into question the role of the United Nations in brokering a shift to a low-carbon global economy, and leave carbon markets in the lurch after 2012. -- Additional reporting by David Ljunggren in Ottawa(Writing by Gerard Wynn; Editing by Eric Walsh)

World powers, Iran move nuclear talks forward
by Hui Min Neo – DEC 7,10

GENEVA (AFP) – World powers and Iran are due Tuesday to carry on talks over Tehran's disputed nuclear programme for a second day, after what both sides described as a constructive meeting.After a 14-month break, the first day of discussions in the Swiss city of Geneva was constructive and forward moving, an Iranian official said.
They should resume tomorrow at 9:00 am to fix the framework for future discussions during which we could talk about nuclear disarmament and about cooperation in the civil nuclear domain, he said.The (nuclear) right of Iran will not be discussed. If we agree on a framework, we could have several sessions of negotiations.A Western source also said Monday's talks were good, constructive, and in a good atmosphere.If the negotiations have carried on for such a long time, it was because there were things to talk about, said the source, who added that a number of subjects were addressed, including the nuclear dossier.A French source said the meeting was mainly centred on nuclear issues.

Tehran on Sunday added a new dimension to its nuclear drive by revealing it had mined and produced its first home-grown batch of uranium yellowcake, instead of seeking to import new supplies.That triggered statements of concern in Washington and Europe shortly before the meeting between the European Union's top diplomat, Catherine Ashton, and Iran's chief negotiator, Saeed Jalili, got under way in Geneva.
Besides Ashton, officials from Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States were also present at the negotiations held at the Swiss UN mission building.Jalili began by making a strong protest against the recent assassination of a top nuclear scientist in Tehran, according to an Iranian source.The secretary of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council described the attack as a Middle Age and fascist act and asked why the international group did not condemn the attacks, said the source.He later held one-on-one meetings with the heads of the Chinese, Russian and British delegations.Sergey Rybakov, who heads the Russian delegation, was quoted by Iranian media as telling Jalili: We needed this round of talks and during the negotiations we will try to help to remove obstacles.The meeting, which comes after the last attempt in October 2009 to temper Iran's uranium enrichment drive, is taking place amid tougher international sanctions on Tehran and few hopes that it will yield a deal.Tehran maintains that it is seeking nuclear energy for peaceful purposes but Western countries suspect that the Islamic republic is engaging in a covert programme to build nuclear weapons.Before Sunday's yellowcake announcement by Iranian atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi, European sources hoped the meeting would help re-engage the Iranians even if it did not produce instant results.

But the Iranians have in recent days reiterated that Tehran's nuclear plans were non-negotiable. Salehi added a new dimension by revealing that Iran was now self-sufficient in the entire nuclear fuel cycle by being able to supply itself with the raw material for fuel, and would enter the talks with world powers with strength and power.Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on a visit to Athens said there were certain shared positions where we could cooperate.But he insisted that the era when certain countries imposed their will is over and vowed that Iran will not settle for anything less than what is our right.In Brussels, Israeli Ambassdaor Jeremy Issacharoff said his expectations for the Geneva talks are measured.Iran is trying to get more legitimacy for its nuclear programme, it is trying to gain time, he said.In Bahrain, Gulf countries eyed the talks with scepticism. Emirati Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan openly criticised the West for excluding Iran's neighbours from the dialogue.

Israel fears flood of migrants threatens state By ARON HELLER, Associated Press – Mon Dec 6, 4:15 am ET

TEL AVIV, Israel – Ismail Abdul-Rasul and his family escaped war in Darfur, languished in squalid conditions in Egypt for five years and nearly suffocated in a harrowing journey across the Sinai desert before they were finally smuggled into Israel.I was dancing with joy when I arrived, said the 47-year-old father or four, who reached Israel in July 2007. It was one of the happiest days of my life.In recent years, tens of thousands of Africans like Abdul-Rasul have entered the country through its long desert border with Egypt, turning Israel, like parts of Europe, into a magnet for asylum seekers, and even more, for migrants desperate for jobs in the industrialized world.Their arrivals are hardly being welcomed. Facing a public furor, the government is scrambling to erect a fence along the 130-mile (220-kilometer) Egyptian border and a massive detention center in the remote southern desert.With Israel, however, come special complications: Founded six decades ago in the wake of the Nazi Holocaust genocide, its society is torn between a sense of duty toward the persecuted and fears that the influx might make the country less Jewish.

In a speech to parliament last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned of a flood of illegal migrants. It is threatening the jobs of Israelis, and it is threatening the Jewish and democratic character of the state of Israel,he said.The government says that all but a select few are economic migrants and not eligible for refugee status. But critics charge the government is turning away bona fide refugees fleeing persecution.The state is lying, it knows it is lying and it purposely refuses to check the refugees' status because that will prove that it is lying, said Sigal Rozen of the Hotline for Migrant Workers advocacy group.Israel would seem to be an unlikely destination for African migrants, who have few ties to the Jewish state. Egypt, however, has a large population of migrants — and after Egypt violently quashed a 2005 protest by a group of Sudanese refugees, they began trickling north into Israel.Approximately 35,000 have entered Israel since, with the number surging to 1,500 arrivals every month, according to government figures.Some cities have been transformed. Some 10 percent of the population of the Red Sea resort town of Eilat are African migrants, and an entire neighborhood in south Tel Aviv is known as Little Africa, where ethnic food shops and phone card stalls line the streets.The vast majority hail from Eritrea, where men are often forced into a military service with slavery-like conditions, and Sudan, which was torn by a 22-year-civil war and continues to see a separate conflict in its Western region Darfur that some have labeled a genocide, with some 300,000 have been killed and 2.7 million displaced since 2003, according to the U.N.

Rozen said 88 percent of Eritrean asylum seekers worldwide were granted refugee status last year, while in Israel not one was processed.Initially, Israel took in many of the early arrivals, providing shelter and even arranging jobs in hotels and on kibbutz collective farms. Nearly 3,000 people received temporary residence or work permits. But with no overarching policy, most migrants are simply released onto the streets after brief detentions.Haifa University geography professor Arnon Soffer estimates that if the current pace persists there will be approximately 500,000 illegal migrants in Israel within 15 years. He called the influx an existential threat to a country of just 7.6 million people.

To be sure, Israel is not alone in confronting the issue.Greece, which accounts for 90 percent of the European Union's detected illegal border crossings, has asked for emergency help from the EU in patrolling its border with Turkey. Italy, with its long and loosely guarded coastline, has become the destination of tens of thousands of would-be immigrants a year, most from Libya.The Africans have found pockets of sympathy in Israel. Human rights groups and high profile figures like Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel have urged the government to offer a home to Darfurians escaping genocide. The Africans describe harrowing journeys, fleeing persecution at home and making their way through Egypt, where human rights groups say border guards have shot and killed 85 Africans trying to reach Israel since 2007.In Egypt's Sinai desert, the migrants pay thousands of dollars to Bedouin smugglers to get them across the border and are often held hostage by the smugglers who extort their relatives for more.The Israel branch of Physicians for Human Rights has collected dozens of accounts from migrants describing abuse at the hands of Bedouin traffickers. According to the testimonies, smugglers routinely rape migrants, subject them to electric shocks, burn them with iron bars and lock them in sweltering containers without food or water. Five or six men raped me multiple times, I'm not sure how many times. They also beat me many times. I felt like I was going to die,according to a testimony from an Eritrean woman, identified only as H.A.S.Abdul-Rasul, the Darfurian who arrived in 2007, is one of the few who has earned legal status in Israel.He works in a computer goods store in south Tel Aviv. His children now all speak fluent Hebrew, and his 17-year-old daughter — who survived a gunshot to the head in Sudan — is thinking of joining the military in Israel.But he doubts he would repeat his journey today, saying it would be far too dangerous.I was one of the lucky ones, he said.

ISRAEL-US SLAM BRAZIL REC OF PA STATE

MEDIA HUSHES COVERAGE OF ARAB ARSON ATTACKS
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/140993
OBAMA - BARRY SPETORO APPEARS TO BE A NARCISSIST
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2709

ALEX JONES WEEKLY SHOWS AFTER 3PM
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WELL ALEX JONES SAID THE WAY THE SCANNERS WORK AND PAT DOWNS WILL GO TO THE STREETS AND WOW NOW ITS HAPPENING.THE CONTROL FREAK OBAMA DICTATORSHP IS NOW DOING IT.
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TSA-Style Pat Downs Hit The Streets
Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com December 6, 2010

In Philadelphia, you don’t have to visit the airport to have the government molest you, TSA-style stop, question and frisk pat downs are already being conducted by police on the streets targeting people who act suspicious, by doing things like putting their hands in their coat pocket.As we have repeatedly warned, everything unfolding in the airports, from naked radiation body scanners to pat downs, is now being implemented on mass transit as well as every major street corner in America. Constitutional protections of privacy and immunity from unreasonable search and seizure have been abolished, replaced with guilty until proven innocent.As Judge Napolitano reports, residents in the city of brotherly love are being patted down by police officers on the streets as part of an aggressive stop, question and frisk policy instituted by Mayor Nutter. The program is now the subject of a class-action lawsuit filed by the ACLU which accuses police of routinely violating civil rights, including those of Rep. Jewell Williams, a former Temple University police officer, who was handcuffed and bundled into a squad car after enquiring about the safety of two elderly men police had detained and then threatened to beat up.

In the video, Philadelphia radio host Dom Giordano attempts to defend the unconstitutional policy by claiming residents were happy with being treated like criminals by specially trained squads who target people for holding their hands in their coat on a street corner.Confronted with the fact that such policies are right out of North Korea or East Germany and have no place in a free country, Giordano invoked the non-existent constitutional right to not have your kid shot, which could also be enforced if authorities simply placed the entire population under house arrest and prevented them from ever going outside.Much to Giordano’s chagrin, Napolitano responded by paraphrasing the most famous Philadelphian of all, founding father Benjamin Franklin, who said, They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.The stops have increased from 102,319 in 2005 to 253,333 in 2009 – an increase of 148 percent – with just 8 per cent of all stops leading to arrests. An alarming one in six residents of the entire city of Philadelphia has been stopped and frisked under the program, far more than would ever be subjected to a TSA groping at an airport.These unconstitutional actions have had and continue to have a devastating effect on the lives of many Philadelphians, attorney Paul Messing said.Beyond that, these police practices have had no real impact on stemming criminal conduct in our city. They just subject innocent people to humiliating and degrading treatment.

Most of those arrests had nothing to do with the reason they were stopped, Messing said. The charges were often for disorderly conduct because they complained they were stopped for no reason.By harassing people for putting their hands in their pockets, US authorities are mimicking the British stop and search policy, which by no coincidence has become notorious for its failure to catch any real criminals.
Indeed, in 2008 our own writer Steve Watson was stopped by goons in yellow jackets who proceeded to bark orders at him while standing at a bus stop in Trafalgar Square, London. His crime? He adjusted his clothing and put his hand in his pocket, an action that put him into the category of a potential terrorist, according to section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000.In Britain, stop and search powers have been routinely abused to intimidate political protesters and break up demonstrations. Out of the hundreds of thousands of stop and search incidents, not one has led to the arrest or apprehension of a terrorist, and the powers have recently been ruled illegal by the European Court of Human Rights.Americans who believe they can avoid being molested by the authorities by simply not flying are going to be in for a rude awakening when they find that body scanners and pat downs have become mandatory to enter shopping malls, sports events, or to simply walk down the street.Unless we stand up in unison and revolt against such unconstitutional intrusions no matter where they take place, America will increasingly resemble the former Soviet Union, where agents of the state ceaselessly demand to see our papers and feel us up as part of the process of humiliation that trains the slaves to fawn over and acquiesce to the orders of their masters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIHE0bS7KO8&feature=player_embedded
Intelligence Contractor Floats Body Cavity Bomb Propaganda
Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com December 6, 2010

Get ready for the government to add body cavity searches to its intrusive airport repertoire. The intelligence disinformation operation known as the SITE Intelligence Group has scoured the internet and found jihadis on a forum used by supposed al-Qaeda affiliates discussing Frankenbombers on a forum, according to the New York Daily News.Full body cavity searches are the logical extension of the intrusive pat downs now conducted on grandmothers and nuns.An individual described as a doctor posted his thoughts about a new kind of terrorism – surgically implanted bombs.The scheming comes amid controversy over body scanners and pat-downs in airports that some Americans complain are too invasive. The ideas for a surgically booby-trapped martyrdom seeker were chillingly concise for the doctor of death monitored by SITE, writes James Gordon Meek in a Daily News exclusive.TSA boss John Pistole said last month that his agency would not conduct body cavity searches. He said secondary screening procedures and technology can find fuses and detonators, which must be outside the body.
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According to SITE, the would-be terrorists concluded that the best method would be to stitch a bomb into the abdominal cavity made of plastic or liquid explosives such as Semtex or PETN. It must be planted near the surface of the body, because the human body absorbs shocks, instructed the doctor in a post.Body cavity bombs worry security agents, although no one has figured out how to actually do it, a counterterror official told the New York Daily News.SITE’s founders, Rita Katz and Josh Devon, have collaborated with the National Security Agency, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. SITE, MEMRI, and the IntelCenter operate as propaganda outlets for the government as it carries out its contrived war on global terrorism. SITE has claimed to discover a number of al-Qaeda tapes, including the 2007 Osama bin Laden video.Rita Katz personally briefed government officials, including former terrorism czar Richard Clarke and his staff in the White House, as well as investigators in the Department of Justice, Department of the Treasury, and the Department of Homeland Security on the financing and recruitment networks of the terrorist movement, the SITE website states.In the short-term, there will not be any changes, but what I’m looking at is how can we best use the information we have, both the intelligence from overseas such as what we saw this weekend from Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula about how they design and conceal the toner cartridge bombs in cargo flights out of Yemen that coupled with the thoroughness that we believe is appropriate,said Pistole after the ludicrous printer toner bomb fiasco last month.

We’re not going to get in the business of body cavities, that’s not where we are, said TSA boss John Pistole.Now that the NSA, FBI, and DHS contractor SITE has floated propaganda about the possibility of al-CIA-duh using surgically implanted bombs to kill apostates during the Christmas season, we can expect another absurd event like the one staged by the underwear non-bomber last year. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s stunt was exploited in order to excuse intrusive pat downs and rush dangerous naked body scanners into airports with the help of the former DHS boss, Michael Chertoff.The Stasi-like searches of Americans at airports has nothing to do with al-Qaeda and Islamic terrorism. The searches are designed to humiliate, intimidate, and control the American people and acclimate them to the militarization of society and prepare citzens to obey guards, as Lew Rockwell notes.

Is the Internet 9/11 Under Way? Zen Gardner
Before It’s News December 5, 2010

Think about it. Where is this seemingly staged Wikileaks furor taking us? While we participate in digging into the juicy tidbits of information that incriminate just about anybody and everybody, where is it all going? One of their central themes and modus operandums is Ordo Ab Chao– order out of chaos.

Lessons of 9/11

While 9/11 served as a wake up call to those awake and aware enough to see the obvious demolitions and misinformation and resultant Pearl Harbor effect, most of the world fell for it. And now people are literally bending over, as in airport screenings, to the onslaught of police state fascism worldwide. It’s staggering. In fact, it’s Orwellian. The armies, police and private sector are at war with the vague concept of terrorism – an unbeatable enemy in a war that can be drawn out indefinitely and fought in any arena necessary.And what was the result of this declared war on terrorism? Not a war on terror, but an increase in fear and terror, all to justify the economic, social and political clampdown that has followed.

What will the Wikileaks debacle herald?

You guessed it–the last bastion of freedom of information and expression, a free Internet, will topple. After all, if information is now the enemy, we must carefully police any and every aspect of this dangerous medium–all for the safety and protection of we the people.Oh, we’ll still have the Internet, just like you can still fly. You’ll just have to be on the approved list, screened, stamped, zapped, mugged and molested if you want to get on the net. No biggie. Thanks Julian–job well done.

Warning Signs

#1. Wikileaks—WAY too approved and publicized. Every TV and cable network, press worldwide, official recognition from every level of government. Heck, he even does a TED talk! Where’s anyone else trying to expose the agenda? Only Julian. Hmmm.

#2. Biggie: This supposed system fighter says the 9/11 truth issue is a distraction. Mustn’t step on your bosses’ toes now, should we Julian.. Very suspicious if you ask me.

#3. Wikileaks and Assange’s sketchy background:

The WikiLeaks website first appeared on the Internet in December 2006.[15][16] The site claims to have been founded by Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians and start-up company technologists, from the US, Taiwan, Europe, Australia and South Africa.[5] The creators of WikiLeaks have not been formally identified.[17] It has been represented in public since January 2007 by Julian Assange and others. Assange describes himself as a member of WikiLeaks’ advisory board.[18] (Wikipedia)

Also, Assange reportedly wrote for both the New York Times and the Economist which is fishy as well–not a real enlightened or alternative mindset. His mysterious persona also plays well to the Wikileaks furtive image so people won’t expect to know too much, which also is very convenient for keeping anything hidden.

[NOTE: There doesn't have to be deliberate, conscious involvement in some agenda on Wikileaks' part, but it helps. He, they, could be useful idiots whose program has been conveniently co-opted by the controllers to serve their purpose. Either way, look for the pattern and the effects.]

#4. Watch the hype: There’s a growing crescendo of anger and hate that is now being whipped up–to the point that Assange is being called a new kind of terrorist–and more disturbingly, and as expected, the comparison is now being drawn between Assange and Bin Laden:

Social Media Leaks Categorize Julian Assange As the Osama Bin Laden Of The Internet
The founder of WikiLeaks is not only a wanted man by the American authorities, his now infamous Web site

WikiLeaks is also under attack by notorious hackers, while its services are being cut-off by Amazon and EveryDNS.net. Although not officially announced, Julian Assange might be considered today’s public enemy number-one, taking the place of the illusive Osama bin Laden. Not since 9/11 has any one figure reached such notoriety due to what many consider acts against a state.Like bin Laden, Assange has no permanent address, does not maintain a headquarters, employs only a select few confidants and has taken to hiding in covert areas. Younger than bin Laden, Assange at 39 years-old may be a little more mobile than the 53 year-old, choosing to hopscotch the globe versus hibernating in the mountains of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
While his face resides on the covers of magazines and newspapers around the world, similar to a Wild West Wanted poster, little is known about his day-to-day activities. Like bin Laden’s video addresses, while the CIA and other mercenaries are seeking his where-a-bouts, it’s amazing that he still finds ways to release updates justifying his actions. (SOURCE)

Notice also how we’ve been hearing about Wikileaks’ exploits for a few years now, giving us time to make the connection between it and sensational and destructive informational terrorism. Similarly we heard about Osama through the Yemen and Nairobi attacks being attibuted to him, imprinting his brand on the collective mind which led to the foregone phony conclusion that he had masterminded the 9/11 attacks.Ah, But what about these apparent exposures? Would they attack their own?
Could all these serious indictments against their own just be a deflecting smokescreen to hide the real purpose? Sure worked last time. So why wouldn’t they risk taking down some of their own to give this psychological operation credibility?

The Tactic Is Very Familiar – Know Your Enemy

First there’s the Hegelian Dialectic – create a problem, provoke a reaction and then implement the pre-planned solution. The staged 9/11 attacks, including the internationally inhabited World Trade Center,justified the ensuing wars and worldwide clampdown on freedoms in the name of security, including the horrendous Patriot Act that was already written and just waiting for an excuse to be signed and implemented.Similarly, this attack over the international Internet and drawing in diplomatic communities worldwide by exposing state secrets from a variety of countries will greatly help usher in international measures in the name of security, probably spearheaded once again by the fascist US government with coinciding EU, Canadian & Australian measures. It’s already under way with the Department of Homeland Security confiscating websites.All they need is the right incident to justify bringing on full control. Like Internet Terrorism? They just can’t use that term enough now, can they. After all, it’s a war on terror, and if you’re not for us, you’re for the terrorists. The ultimate false choice, just like everything else they foist on the human consciousness.Those manipulating world events belong to a cult, a brotherhood that hides behind many names and guises, and to which they pledge their absolute loyalty above everything, even their own flesh and blood. Commonly referred to as the Illuminati, this cult has an agenda they work to fulfill using certain rituals, methods and tactics.One of their central themes and modus operandums is Ordo Ab Chao– order out of chaos. Create the chaos, pitting anyone against anyone while controlling and fomenting both sides–hence the double headed red phoenix symbol– for any reason, even killing or exposing their own, to create an illogical madness that they think only they can see through and understand. All the while they are manipulating world governments, banks, armies and corporate leaders and drawing the net on the outcome they have already planned.Fear and confusion is the climate they love to foment. As long as there’s a confused and uninformed populace, the ignorant and fearful masses will be crying out for help from the powers that be – the very powers that be that caused all the problems in the first place.They’re not out to help, they’re out to control. At any cost, by any means necessary.

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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Fed Loans Hatched in Bathroom Halted Money-Market Run By Bob Ivry, Christine Richard and Christopher Condon - Dec 3, 2010 10:53 AM ET BLOOMBERG

A recreational vehicle owned by Deborah A. Cunningham, chief investment officer of Federated Investors Inc., stands at Beaver Stadium in State College, Pennsylvania. Source: Deborah A. Cunningham via Bloomberg.Deborah A. Cunningham, the manager of $261 billion at Federated Investors Inc., was squeezed into the bathroom of her family’s recreational vehicle, trying to help save the $3.6 trillion money market industry. Cunningham was on the phone with Federal Reserve officials in Boston, New York and Washington. Outside, in the Pennsylvania State University stadium parking lot in State College, football fans were preparing for a game against Temple University. It was the only place I could hear, Cunningham said. People were drinking beer. They kept knocking on the door, saying, I have to go.The solution Cunningham helped craft on Sept. 20, 2008, was a bailout for money market funds, which were created as safe investments that could be easily cashed out. The Fed put the facility into effect two days later. At its peak in October 2008, it provided $152 billion to stem a customer run sparked by the Sept. 15 bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. This week’s disclosures of data from the Fed’s rescue efforts during the 2007-2008 financial crisis show how the central bank employed companies to help design or run programs they could use to their benefit. Federated tapped the money- market rescue for $8.89 billion, according to Fed data. Pacific Investment Management Co. and BlackRock Inc. weren’t only advisers to the Fed, they were also trading securities they helped value, the Fed data show.

No Choice

That’s the way the system works, said David Castillo, senior managing director at Further Lane Securities in San Francisco. It’s problematic that they’re customers, but that shouldn’t limit their ability to participate in this process. Quite frankly, we don’t have a choice. They have the expertise.In compliance with the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul law, the Fed on Dec. 1 identified the institutions that used $3.3 trillion of improvised rescue programs. The 21,000 transactions in 11 initiatives included the money-market plan Cunningham helped devise, known as the AMLF, short for its 10-word formal name, the Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility.In its scramble to keep the economy from collapsing, the Fed also created the Commercial Paper Funding Facility, or CPFF, which tried to ensure that banks and industrial companies had the short-term loans they needed to fund everyday operations. General Electric Co., then the biggest issuer of commercial paper, met with Treasury and Fed officials in the days before they created the CPFF.

Unintended Consequences

Later, the Fed set up the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, or TALF, to keep consumer credit flowing. It hired Pimco, manager of the world’s largest bond fund, and BlackRock, the world’s biggest money manager, to provide analytical help, according to a November 2010 report by the Fed’s Office of Inspector General. Any situation where the potential exists for a conflict of interest is concerning, said Kurt Bardella, spokesman for Representative Darrell Issa, the California Republican who will become chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee next month. This really brings into focus one of the unintended consequences of institutionalizing the federal government picking winners and losers while those entities are partaking directly and indirectly in what should be exclusive government functions.

Breaking the Buck

Cunningham was making calls from her camper’s restroom after the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy filing panicked investors, who pulled $230 billion from money-market accounts. The $62.5 billion Reserve Primary Fund, which held $785 million of loans to Lehman Brothers, became the biggest money-market fund and the first in 14 years to break the buck, meaning the value of a share fell below $1 and investors faced losses.Money funds were the main buyers of commercial paper. During the panic, they had to sell off assets to pay investors who demanded their money back. That meant they couldn’t buy the commercial paper that corporations needed to pay for things such as payroll and utility bills. In less than a day, the credit crunch had spread to industrial companies.By Wednesday, Sept. 17, officials at the Fed and the Treasury Department were focused on finding a solution for money funds, says Phill Swagel, who was assistant Treasury secretary for economic policy.Swagel testified to Congress that morning on the deteriorating housing market and returned to the Treasury building around midday, he said. After eating a tuna sandwich, he was on conference calls with Fed officials the rest of the afternoon and late into the night.

Not Normal Policy

Two days later, on Sept. 19, the Treasury announced that for a fee it would insure money market funds against investor losses.It’s not normal policy to say this asset class is now guaranteed, said Swagel, a professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business in Washington, in an interview. When there’s a run on money market mutual funds, there’s no time to do anything else but say they’re all guaranteed, we’re done.While the Treasury measure slowed the pace of withdrawals, it didn’t help money-market funds turn assets into cash fast enough to pay investors who wanted out. Putnam Investments LLC closed its $12.3 billion Putnam Prime Money Market Fund on Sept. 17 after investors asked for about a third of the fund’s money. Managers of the Boston-based firm faced the prospect of selling assets in a distressed market, which would cause the fund to break the buck.

Federated’s Fund Takeover

Cunningham’s Federated, based in Pittsburgh, was prepared to take over the assets of the Putnam fund, issuing investors shares in its $22.1 billion Prime Obligations Fund, she said. To make the takeover work, Federated needed to pay off all the Putnam investors who’d demanded their money, she said. For that, she turned to the Fed.We had been working with them trying to figure out what might work to add liquidity to the marketplace, Cunningham said in an interview.The AMLF, the bailout that Cunningham helped design, provided cash for banks to buy asset-backed commercial paper from money market funds. This made it possible for the funds to avoid selling at a discount, and the Fed agreed to take the risk of defaults, guaranteeing a profit for the banks when the loans were repaid.

Single Most Successful

Without the program, it would have been very difficult for Federated to absorb the $12.3 billion in assets of the Putnam fund on Sept. 24, 2008, according to spokeswoman Meghan McAndrew. About half the investors redeemed their shares within a week, she said. That meant the deal brought Federated, the third-biggest U.S. money market company, about $6 billion in assets at no cost.Federated’s Prime Obligations Fund now holds $47 billion of assets, more than double the amount before the transaction. In a deal announced July 16, Federated will pay as much as $38.8 million over five years to acquire $17 billion in money fund assets from SunTrust Banks Inc.Even if the entire Putnam fund redeemed, we were still confident with this facility behind us that there was liquidity in the marketplace and the ability to withstand that, Cunningham said. Putnam investors were immensely aided by this program. It didn’t really help Federated except for some positive press.All AMLF loans have been repaid, and the facility generated $543 million in interest, according to a Fed report.

Commercial Paper

The AMLF was the single most successful government intervention during the financial crisis, said Peter Crane, president of Crane Data LLC, a money-fund research firm in Westborough, Massachusetts, in an interview. In a crisis when you have esoteric corners of the market involved, you have no choice but to go to the experts, and the experts will be self- interested players.While the AMLF helped stabilize money funds, they didn’t start buying commercial paper again. That left issuers without their biggest group of customers and unable to roll over short- term debt as it matured. At 5:45 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 15, GE Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey R. Immelt met for half an hour with Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. in the secretary’s office, according to Paulson’s schedule.An hour and 15 minutes later, Federal Reserve Bank of New York President Timothy F. Geithner convened a staff meeting to focus on GE issues, according to his schedule. He and Paulson conferred by phone afterward.On Oct. 1, Geithner’s schedule noted a tentative conference call with Immelt, who was a board member of the New York Fed, a position he still has today. GE spokesman Gary Sheffer said the company doesn’t see a conflict with Immelt’s membership on the New York Fed’s board. He declined to comment on the content of Immelt’s conversations.

Reviving Securitization

Less than a month later, the Fed created a bailout of the commercial paper market. A special entity called CPFF LLC, funded by the Fed, bought commercial paper from companies. They included GE, which tapped the facility 12 times for $16.1 billion, the Fed disclosed this week.Assistance to companies, which also included Toyota Motor Corp. ($4.6 billion), Harley-Davidson Inc. ($2.3 billion) and Verizon Communications Inc. ($1.5 billion), topped out at $348.2 billion on Jan. 21, 2009, according to the Fed. The program had no defaults and gained $6.1 billion in interest and fees, the central bank’s Inspector General said in its report.

Creation of TALF

In November 2008, the Fed set out to revive the market for bonds backed by consumer and small business loans. That market froze as an unprecedented number of defaults made assets backed by mortgages impossible to value. Wall Street had fueled lending by bundling mortgages into bonds using an innovation known as securitization.We were pretty confident that banks didn’t have the capacity to essentially replace the capacity that was lost in the securitization market, said William C. Dudley, who headed the New York Fed’s Markets Group at the time and is now the bank’s president, in an interview. We thought the best way forward would be to try and restart the securitization market, rather than just sit back and rely on the banking sector.On Nov. 25, 2008, the Fed created the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, or TALF, which allowed investors to borrow from the Fed as much as 95 cents of every dollar invested in Fed-approved asset-backed securities. Investors also retained the option of turning the securities over to the Fed if they fell in value.

Pimco, BlackRock

The New York Fed hired Pimco, based in Newport Beach, California, to value collateral, monitor the credit risk of TALF participants and assess the securities market, according to the Inspector General’s report. BlackRock Solutions, a unit of New York-based BlackRock, said it was brought on to supply analytical help on the securities.Without singling out any contractors, the Inspector General’s office said that farming out certain tasks creates the potential for conflicts of interest.If you knew the inner workings of the third-party reviewer, you’re mitigating an incredible risk, said James Harrington, who oversaw TALF investing at his former employer, Ryan Labs Asset Management in New York. Investors were required to buy securities without knowing whether the Fed would accept them for the program. The value of bonds rejected by the Fed would often fall. If you knew that what you were submitting had a better chance of getting accepted, you’d know where the boundaries of the playground were,Harrington said.

Ford Deal

Pimco and BlackRock also participated in TALF as borrowers on behalf of clients, along with other financial companies. Pimco tapped TALF 96 times between April 2009 and March 2010 for a total of $7.26 billion, according to Fed data. Ten funds connected to BlackRock Financial Management Inc., another unit of BlackRock, borrowed a total of $2.8 billion for clients, the Fed disclosed.On the first day of the program, Pimco put up $22 million and borrowed $292 million from the Fed to buy $314 million of bonds backed by Ford Motor Co. auto loans. The fund borrowed from the Fed at the London interbank offered rate plus 100 basis points, or 1 percentage point, and purchased securities yielding Libor plus 250 basis points, or 2.5 percentage points. The return was about 23 percent a year for investing in securities with the highest credit ratings and a Federal Reserve backstop.The Pimco advisory team serving as a TALF collateral monitor for the New York Fed is subject to strict physical, ethical and technological walls and has no involvement in any investment strategies or decisions, said Mark Porterfield, a Pimco spokesman.

We Have Concerns

BlackRock also participated in the initial Ford deal, purchasing $275 million of the same securities as Pimco, using $256 million borrowed through TALF, according to the Fed. Since February, when BlackRock Solutions was hired, BlackRock Financial Management borrowed $248 million to invest in a total of 13 commercial mortgage-backed securities deals.There was no impropriety in BlackRock’s actions, said Bobbie Collins, a BlackRock spokeswoman. BlackRock Solutions was a collateral monitor providing analytical services for TALF, while BlackRock Financial Management tapped the program on behalf of clients, she said. The two units are separate businesses with strict information barriers in place, she said.Firms helping to price hard-to-sell assets could overvalue them to raise the value of their own assets or those of their clients, said Michael Smallberg, an investigator with the Project on Government Oversight, an independent Washington watchdog group.We never found anyone maliciously trying to take advantage of taxpayers, Smallberg said. But we have concerns about how well those firewalls work.

Conflict Review

The New York Fed has carefully managed potential conflicts of interest in TALF, including separating workers, approving staff, restricting personal investments and conducting on-site audits of the controls, said Deborah Kilroe, a bank spokeswoman.
The Inspector General’s report, five months after TALF closed to new investment, said a third-party vendor under contract with the New York Fed’s legal group was performing a conflict-of-interest review and testing compliance with contract provisions.Neither Pimco nor BlackRock has been accused of wrongdoing. The firms didn’t establish policies or approve or reject collateral, according to the Fed. It seems clear that the biggest beneficiaries were the insiders, said Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington.We have a huge pinata here. The question is whether we had insiders deciding who would get the candy or was everyone in the same boat? Think of the people who get upset about the government giving a homeowner some help. Now multiply the sums by about 100 million. We should care.To contact the reporters on this story: Bob Ivry in New York at bivry@bloomberg.net; Christine Richard in New York at crichard5@bloomberg.net; Christopher Condon in Boston at ccondon4@bloomberg.net.To contact the editors responsible for this story: Gary Putka at gputka@bloomberg.net; Alan Goldstein at agoldstein5@bloomberg.net.

Cablegate: Van Rompuy expects Cancun talks to fail-Had I been there, my presidency would have been over before it began,Van Rompuy told the US diplomat on Copenhagen (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)ANDREW WILLIS 04.12.2010 @ 15:33 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – As UN climate talks in Cancun, Mexico, approach the half-way point this weekend (4-5 December), a US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks has revealed that European Council President Herman Van Rompuy had already given up on the multilateral meeting as far back as one year ago.In a discussion with US ambassador to Belgium Howard Gutman on 23 December 2009, Mr Van Rompuy reportedly said the Mexican talks were doomed to failure, while his chief of staff Frans Van Daele predicted they would end up looking like the second installment of a horror movie.The one-hour meeting over coffee took place in Brussels' Justus Lipsius building, just days after UN climate talks in Copenhagen ended in fiasco.Mr Van Daele referred to the distant Mexican meeting as Nightmare on Elm Street 2,before adding: Who wants to see that horror movie again? As the three men huddled in one of the vast building's many hundreds of rooms, Mr Van Rompuy made his position clear by stating: multilateral meetings will not work.He then laid out what he felt would be an appropriate roadmap: first unifying Europe's position on tackling climate change, then holding bilateral talks with the US, before finally holding three-way discussions with China.In his mind, the crucial talks with the US would take place at a EU-US summit scheduled to take place in May 2010 and not at Cancun where representatives from almost 200 nations are currently meeting (29 Nov - 10 Dec 2010) at considerable expense to the organisers.Just over a month later however, the bilateral EU-US summit was cancelled by the Americans.Mr Van Rompuy and his chief of staff cut lonely figures in the almost empty Justus Lipsius building back in December 2009, according to the US ambassador's description, with most EU officials in Brussels already away on Christmas vacation.

Becoming animated, the mild-mannered Belgian told his US interlocutor he was extremely glad not to have attended the just-ended Copenhagen climate talks.Had I been there, my presidency would have been over before it began,he said.The former Belgian prime minister formally took over his new post on 1 January 2010, but had faced considerable pressure to attend the Copenhagen talks, which he described as an incredible disaster.He thought Europe had been totally excluded and mistreated and he refused to accept the US ambassador's line that the meeting's chaotic nature was the reason the EU had been left out of crucial final discussions between the US and China, amongst others, which ultimately resulted in a weaker-than-hoped-for Copenhagen Accord.They could certainly have called Europe and told us to come,Mr Rompuy told the ambassador.He did lay some of the blame for Europe's treatment on its own doorstep however, reportedly telling Mr Gutman that: No one knows who to call: Merkel, Barroso, who knows who?

FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS

REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

Carmel is Smoldering, but Most Fires are Out
by Gil Ronen DEC 5,10

The Evergreen Supertanker fire-fighting airplane and dozens of other fire-dousing aircraft have helped stop the Carmel fire from spreading any further than it already has, according to reports from the field. Firefighters and rescue officials said that most of the fires in the Carmel mountains are no longer giving off flames and by 4:00 PM they were preparing to announce that the fire is officially under control.

Colder temperatures and possible rain showers that are forecast tonight are also expected to help end the fiery nightmare that the Carmel region has undergone in the last 72 hours.Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu echoed this assessment Sunday afternoon. The mountain is smoldering, but it has almost ceased to burn, he said. He spoke at the Druze village of Ussefiya, one of the locations at which the huge fire was started Thursday, where he was to attend an ad hoc Local Council meeting.

Netanyahu sounded optimistic when he addressed the press. He said that numerous nations of the world offered Israel aid in putting out the fire, and that one reason for this was that the entire world is familiar with Israel's biblical landscape, including Mount Carmel. He claimed with satisfaction that Israel appeared to be bringing the fire to an end after three days, while similar events last three weeks in other countries. The difference, Netanyahu explained, is that Israel is a small country and that we have no other land.Netanyahu noted that he had received important assistance from Jordan and had had good conversations with King Abdullah II, as well as President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, who also offered aid. Perhaps something good will come of this disaster,Netanyahu said.Netanyahu appeared intent on dousing the flames of anger that the fire has lit in the Israeli public. He made no mention of the attempted arson attacks by Arabs in the past three days.(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 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.

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.

JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

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.

US, Israel Slam Brazil's Recognition of PA as New Country
by Chana Ya'ar DEC 5,10

The United States and Israel both blasted Brazil after Friday's announcement of formal recognition of the Palestinian Authority as a new independent Arab country, one month before President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is scheduled to leave office.

Lula da Silva announced his decision in a letter sent December 1 to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. Brazil recognizes Palestine, Lula da Silva wrote, and hopes that the recognition will help lead to two states, Israel and Palestine, that will co-exist peacefully and in security.The official announcement was posted on the website of Brazil's Foreign Ministry, according to the Associated Press, which noted the recognition came in response to a request made by Abbas last month.

Israel: Regrets Move Which Violates Agreement
The Israeli government expressed its regret and disappointment with the decision in a statement released Sunday by the Foreign Ministry. Noting that Lula da Silva has only a month left to go before passing the baton to his successor, Israel pointed out that recognition of a Palestinian state is a violation of the Interim Agreement signed between Israel and the PA in 1995, a reference to the amended Oslo Accords.

Spokesman Andy David told Israel National News on Sunday afternoon that although the Foreign Ministry had been aware the declaration was in the works, personnel had only a few days' notice, and there had been hopes it would not come to pass.It also contradicts the Roadmap (peace plan formulated by the administration of former U.S. President George W. Bush), adopted by the Quartet [of peacekeeping nations] and supported by the international community,the statement noted.Israel pointed out that the two governments of Israel and the PA are currently making efforts to resume the negotiations between them. Any attempt to circumvent this process and make unilateral decisions on important and controversial issues, the statement said, only harms the good faith of the parties and those who are obligated under the agreed-upon framework for the peace talks.

US: Brazil Severely Misguided
U.S. Representative Eliot Engel, a member of President Barack Obama's Democratic party, meanwhile scorned the decision over the weekend as severely misguided, and said it represents a last gasp by a Lula-led foreign policy which was already substantially off track.A co-chair of the Congressional Brazil Caucus, Engel noted the soon-to-be ex-president had grown close to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He was quoted by the AFP news service as saying Brazil wants to establish itself as a voice in the world but is making the wrong choices as it tries to do so.President-elect Dilma Roussef, a former cabinet chief and protege of Lula da Silva, is sending a message to the Palestinians that they need not make peace to gain recognition as a sovereign state, Engel said. He added that he nevertheless remains a strong supporter of Brazil as a dynamic, diverse democracy.U.S. Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the incoming Republican chairperson of the powerful House Foreign Affairs Committee also slammed the announcement. She called it regrettable and said it would only serve to undermine peace and security in the Middle East.Ros-Lehtinen added that responsible nations would not consider taking a similar step until such time as the PA resumes direct negotiations with Israel and recognizes its right to exist as a Jewish State.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Helen Thomas Award Pulled after Rant about Zionist Control
by Maayana Miskin DEC 5,10

Wayne State University, the alma mater of Arab-American journalist Helen Thomas, has pulled an award in her name, following a speech she gave Thursday claiming that Congress, the White House, Wall Street, and Hollywood are controlled by Zionists. WSU had kept the award following an earlier outburst in which she suggested that Israeli Jews get the hell out of Palestine.Thomas, 90, told an audience in Dearborn, Michigan, that Zionists control the American government and other major institutions. They put their money where their mouth is... We're being pushed in the wrong direction in every way,she stated.WSU officials announced Friday that they would no longer offer the Helen Thomas Spirit of Diversity Award.As a public university, Wayne State encourages free speech and open dialogue, and respects diverse viewpoints, a statement said. However, the university strongly condemns the anti-Semitic remarks made by Helen Thomas during a conference yesterday.

The award was previously granted for journalism work that promotes diversity.

In June, Thomas gave an impromptu interview to Rabbi David Nesenoff in which she said that Jews should get the hell out of Palestine and go back home to Poland, Germany, America and everywhere else. She was strongly criticized for her remarks, and announced her retirement just days later, after a 50-year career as a White House correspondent.In an interview in October she stood by her original statements and accused them - an apparent reference to Zionists – of distorting her remarks for their own propaganda purposes.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Government Approves Pardo as Mossad Chief
by Gil Ronen DEC 5,10

The government formally approved, in its weekly session Sunday, the appointment of Tamir Pardo to head Mossad, the agency in charge of Israel's overseas espionage and covert activity.Defense Minister Ehud Barak used the opportunity to publicly deny reports in news outlets that he had vehemently opposed Pardo's appointment in a discussion with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.These stories have no basis in reality, Barak stated,and only Netanyahu and I know the content of the conversations we hold.Barak lavished compliments upon the outgoing Mossad head, Meir Dagan. The decision to appoint Meir Dagan was one of the best decisions made by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon,he said.Barak said that Pardo is the right man to jump start the Mossad forward toward new goals. He told of his longtime acquaintance with Pardo, spoke of Pardo's varied operational experience, and lauded his personal qualities of responsibility and presence of mind.(IsraelNationalNews.com)