<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902243</id><updated>2012-01-30T16:54:12.361-05:00</updated><category term='STORMS'/><category term='FLOODS'/><category term='TEMPLE MOUNT'/><category term='ISRAEL'/><category term='EU'/><category term='PASSOVER SACRIFICE'/><category term='RUSSIA'/><category term='POPES SPEECH'/><category term='JEWS'/><category term='SACRIFICE'/><category term='VARIOUS STORIES'/><category term='CHINA'/><category term='POPE'/><category term='QUAKE'/><category term='JERUSALEM'/><category term='POPE SPEECHES'/><title type='text'>EVENTS IN TIME (BIBLE PROPHECY LITERALLY FULFILLED)(BY GOD)</title><subtitle type='html'>I WRITE NEWS ABOUT ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM PERTAINING TO BIBLE PROPHESY HAPPENINGS. THIS ALSO INCLUDES THE EU, VATICAN AND MUCH MUCH MORE. STORMS, DISASTERS AND THE RETURN TO EARTH BODILY OF JESUS CHRIST OUR SAVIOR TO RULE FROM HIS THRONE IN JERUSALEM FOREVER AND EVER. WORLD WITHOUT END. DON'T BELIEVE ANY ONE THAT SAYS THE WORLD IS ENDING, GOD IS GETTING PRIORITIES STRAIT, THE EARTH AND ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM WILL GO ON FOREVER AND EVER. AMEN PRAISE GOD TO THAT, JUST SHAKEN THE WORLD UP.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://israndjer.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18902243/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://israndjer.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18902243/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>STAN L</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11041400179179367939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yb51zBn6LsQ/SYn1N0hbmWI/AAAAAAAAAAc/AJdshT6GEDw/S220/israelflag.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2966</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902243.post-6107148440272308691</id><published>2012-01-30T16:40:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-30T16:54:12.370-05:00</updated><title type='text'>2012 PROPHECY OR PANIC</title><content type='html'>http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/3725&lt;br /&gt;WALID SHOBAT ON TAMAR YONAH&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;SINCE THE WORLD IS SO STUCK ON GIVING THE PALESTINIANS A STATE OF THEIR OWN IN ISRAEL WITH THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WHY IS HALF OF CANADA NOT GIVEN TO THE INDIANS AS WELL AS HALF OF OTTAWA CANADAS CAPITAL.SINCE CANADA CAN SAY THE PALESTIANS HAVE A RIGHT TO THEIR OWN STATE IN ISRAEL.ISRAEL CAN DEMAND THAT INDIANS GET HALF OF CANADA AND HALF OF AMERICA AND BRITAIN.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THIS IS ONLY FAIR PLAY THAT THE UNITED NATION INFORCE HALF OF CANADA,UNITED STATES AND BRITIAN TO THE WORLDS INDIAN TRIBES.ISRAEL CAN HAVE ITS SAY AND DEMAND TO THE WORLD,JUST LIKE THE GODLESS NATIONS TRY TO STEAL ISRAELS LAND AND JERUSALEM,ISRAELS ETERNAL CAPITAL.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;AND IN ALL THE MUSLIM COUNTRIES THE CHRISTIANS SHOULD BE ALLOWED HALF OF ALL MUSLIM COUNTRIES TO WORSHIP KING JESUS THE GOD OF ISRAEL AND THE WHOLE EARTH.CMON UNITED NATIONS INFORCE THIS,CHRISTIANS ARE ALLOWED TO GET HALF OF ALL MUSLIM COUNTRY NATIONS PLUS HALF OF THEIR CAPITALS AS THEIR 1967 LAND AS COMMANDED BY MUSLIMS-ARABS AGAINST ISRAEL.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;2012: Prophecy or Panic' Director Warns Dec. 21 Could Bring Deception By Stoyan Zaimov | Christian Post Reporter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Theories abound about what, if anything, will happen on Dec. 21, 2012. One documentary seeks to examine not only the natural cataclysms that threaten the planet, but also what the Bible has to say about the end times – as the oft-cited Mayan date could potentially be used to deceive Christians.Dec. 21, 2012, marks the end of the Mayan calendar, and has stirred much discussion and debate about what that might signify. Some fear the end of the calendar might mark the time of the end of all life; others predict it will be the dawn of a new era. However, André van Heerden, the writer and director of 2012: PROPHECY OR PANIC? believes it is wise for Christians to be prepared for anything regardless of what actually may happen on that day.Van Heerden, who is also an executive producer at Cloud Ten Pictures, the production company behind the movie, has worked on a number of Christian-themed films in the past, such as Left Behind (2000) and Revelation (1999).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2012: PROPHECY OR PANIC? brings together historians, researchers, authors, astronomers and theologians in a discussion over the meaning of the enigmatic date (Dec. 21, 2012). Van Heerden shared in an interview with The Christian Post that the film is trying to show how the changes going on in the world might align with biblical prophecies, such as the Rapture.The Mayan prophecies are based on this big round calendar [which says that] the world is supposed to end on December 21 of this year. Along with that, there are many people who say that a weakening magnetic pull, increased solar activity, the elliptical alignment of the universe, as well as planet Nibiru, also known as Planet X, might affect our planet.Others, beside Van Heerden, have referenced planet Nibiru.However, NASA scientists insist that no such planet exists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like us on Facebook&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nibiru is ridiculous because it doesn't exist – it never existed as anything other than a figment of the imagination by pseudo-scientists who don't seem bothered by a complete lack of evidence,Don Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object program office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.,  told SPACE.com.Van Heerden insists that the culminating apocalyptic theories involve more than just looking at the Mayan prophecy alone.All these theories seem to come to a climax on December 2012, so there is this pseudo-science that goes on with the Mayan predictions. We look at each of those and talk to experts regarding their field and see what their opinions are on those sort of things,Van Heerden said of the 2012 documentary.He elaborated that the overall theme throughout 2012: PROPHECY OR PANIC? is that there are many theories about the end of the world circulating in the public, some of which sound compelling. Despite opinions about which theories may actually be considered credible, people should nonetheless be aware of what is going on, the director said.The world is changing, and one of those changes could be the return of Christ,Van Heerden insisted.He continued with a warning to believers: “There is so much focus on December 21, 2012 that we believe there is going to be some sort of deception happening on that date. We are warning Christians not to get caught up in all the media hype and all the speculation.And if something does actually happen, Van Heerden said, Christians should not go Oh, they are right, and my Bible is wrong.They need to look at it objectively, through the lens of the Bible, and realize that the Rapture may happen through events that are set up this year. We are encouraging Christians to be ready and aware of the world that we live in,he said. On the subject of possible preparations some people may be making amid apocalyptic fears, Van Heerden revealed: I have heard of some people paying up to $100,000 for underground shelters being built in preparation of different things that can happen in 2012, and looking at the big budget Hollywood movie, 2012,and those sorts of natural disasters that can happen.I personally think it is foolish to spend so much money for something like that – the best way to prepare for the future is to read the Bible and see what it has to say about our current world and current events that are coming up, (and seeing how they align) with biblical prophecies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He added, The Bible has been 100 percent accurate (in terms of predictions) – be it with returning the Jews to Jerusalem, the problems in the Middle East, all those sorts of things – we really do believe that the Rapture is coming. In terms of building shelters – I think it is people putting their faith in themselves and man-made things rather than in an eternal God.2012: PROPHECY OR PANIC? is available on DVD on Cloud Ten Pictures' website. A trailer for the film can be seen below:&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx4NVgMwuwI&amp;feature=player_embedded&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD&lt;br /&gt;then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JAMES 5:1-3&lt;br /&gt;1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.&lt;br /&gt;2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REVELATION 18:10,17,19&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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,&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EZEKIEL 7:19&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REVELATION 13:16-18&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WORLD MARKET RESULTS&lt;br /&gt;http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/&lt;br /&gt;CNBC VIDEOS&lt;br /&gt;http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/?tabid=15839796&amp;tabheader=false&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS MON JANUARY 30,2012&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;09:30 AM -2.43&lt;br /&gt;10:00 AM -105.96&lt;br /&gt;10:30 AM -108.43&lt;br /&gt;11:00 AM -87.11&lt;br /&gt;11:30 AM -85.61&lt;br /&gt;12:00 PM -85.33&lt;br /&gt;12:30 PM -72.70&lt;br /&gt;01:00 PM -83.74&lt;br /&gt;01:30 PM -74.80&lt;br /&gt;02:00 PM -36.16&lt;br /&gt;02:30 PM -19.49&lt;br /&gt;03:00 PM -22.70&lt;br /&gt;03:30 PM -18.34&lt;br /&gt;04:00 PM -6.74 12,653.72&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;S&amp;P 500 1313.01 -3.32&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NASDAQ 2011.94 -4.61&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GOLD 1,728.70 -3.50&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OIL 98.87 -0.69&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TSE 300 12,436.42 -30.08&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CDNX 1623.51 -5.41&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;S&amp;P/TSX/60 709.00 -2.19&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MORNING,NEWS,STATS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE&lt;br /&gt;Dow -122 points at 4 minutes of trading today.&lt;br /&gt;Dow -131 points at low today.&lt;br /&gt;Dow -1 points at high today so far.&lt;br /&gt;GOLD opens at $1,731.70.OIL opens at $98.66 today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS&lt;br /&gt;Dow -131 points at low today so far.&lt;br /&gt;Dow -1 points at high today so far.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS&lt;br /&gt;Dow -131 points at low today.&lt;br /&gt;Dow -1 points at high today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;http://israndjer.blogspot.com&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18902243-6107148440272308691?l=israndjer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx4NVgMwuwI&amp;feature=player_embedded' title='2012 PROPHECY OR PANIC'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18902243/posts/default/6107148440272308691'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18902243/posts/default/6107148440272308691'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2012/01/2012-prophecy-or-panic.html' title='2012 PROPHECY OR PANIC'/><author><name>STAN L</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11041400179179367939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yb51zBn6LsQ/SYn1N0hbmWI/AAAAAAAAAAc/AJdshT6GEDw/S220/israelflag.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902243.post-8259492160284560346</id><published>2012-01-29T14:13:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-29T16:13:44.747-05:00</updated><title type='text'>HONOR KILLING TRIAL GOES TO DAY 2 IN KINGSTON</title><content type='html'>ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.&lt;br /&gt;18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?&lt;br /&gt;19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JOHN 16:2&lt;br /&gt;2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;AT 1:45PM SUN JAN 29,11 WE HAVE VERDICTS IN THE SHAFIA (SHARIA) MURDER TRIAL.ONE INNOCENT WOMEN AND 3 INNOCENT MUSLIMS GIRLS WERE MURDERED JUST FOR HAVING BOY FRIENDS WITHOUT THEIR PARENTS PERMISSION.THIS WAS JUST COMPLETE MURDER OF INNOCENT DAUGHTERS AND A EX WIFE.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;THE FATHER MOTHER AND SON WILL BE PAYING FOR THE INNOCENT MURDERS.THE FATHER MOHAMMAD SHAFIA GET LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE.&lt;br /&gt;THE SON HAMED SHAFIA GETS LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE.&lt;br /&gt;AND THE MOTHER TOOBA YAHYA GETS LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE.&lt;br /&gt;THE 3 WERE SENTENCED TO LIFE.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MUSLIMS IN CANADA &lt;br /&gt;579,640 OVERALL&lt;br /&gt;ONTARIO 352,530 MOSTLY IN THE TORONTO AREA.&lt;br /&gt;MONTREAL 108,000&lt;br /&gt;BRITISH COLUMBIA 80,000&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;WITH 579,000 MUSLIMS IN CANADA WE CAN EXPECT MORE MURDERING OF INNOCENT MUSLIM WOMEN AND GIRLS UNDER THE GUISE HONOR KILL OF SHARIA LAW.THE MUSLIM WOMEN AND GIRLS HAVE TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST SHARIA LAW.THIS MURDER OF INNOCENT WOMEN AND GIRLS HAS TO STOP.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;CANADA MUST BAN AND NEVER ALLOW SHARIA LAW AS LEGEL OR THIS WILL BE A DAILY OCCURENCE.THERES BEEN 12 SHARIA HONOR KILLINGS IN CANADA,LOTS IN AMERICA AND GREAT BRITAIN AND TONS IN MUSLIM COUNTRIES WORLDWIDE.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Breaking News: Jury reaches verdict in Shafia murder trial Postmedia News January 29, 2012 11:12 AM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;All sides in the case, as well as media, were being called back to the courtroom in Kingston on Sunday afternoon to learn the fate of Mohammad Shafia and Tooba Mohammad Yahya, as well as their 21-year-old son, Hamed.All sides in the case, as well as media, were being called back to the courtroom in Kingston on Sunday afternoon to learn the fate of Mohammad Shafia and Tooba Mohammad Yahya, as well as their 21-year-old son, Hamed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;KINGSTON, Ont. — A verdict has been reached in the trial of three members of a Montreal family accused of murder in the drowning deaths of four other family members — including three teenage sisters — after Canada’s first mass honour killings trial.All sides in the case, as well as media, were being called back to the courtroom in Kingston on Sunday afternoon to learn the fate of Mohammad Shafia and Tooba Mohammad Yahya, as well as their 21-year-old son, Hamed.The three were charged with murder after the bodies of three Shafia sisters — Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and 13-year-old Geeti — were discovered in a submerged vehicle in a canal near Kingston in June 2009.Also in the vehicle was Rona Amir Mohammad, the 52-year-old first wife of Shafia, whom he married in his native Afghanistan before the polygamous family moved to Canada in 2007 and settled in Montreal.All three suspects face four counts of first-degree murder.The trial, which began in October 2011, heard from 58 witnesses and was presented with more than 160 exhibits from both prosecutors and defence lawyers. While some described Shafia as the ultimate family man, other witnesses painted a picture of strict control in the family and limited freedoms for his daughters.The mechanics of getting the lawyers and interpreters back into the room means news of what the verdict is may take as long as an hour.&lt;br /&gt;Postmedia News Read more: http://www.canada.com/news/canada-in-afghanistan/Breaking+News+Jury+reaches+verdict+Shafia+murder+trial/6069346/story.html#ixzz1ksQk949l&lt;br /&gt;http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/01/29/shafia-trial-verdict-honour-killing-guilty_n_1228859.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Shafia jury going into day two of deliberations&lt;br /&gt;Posted By: Tom Armour tarmour@astral.com · 1/29/2012 4:15:00 AM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The jury in the Shafia trial has spent a long first day of deliberations without coming to a verdict.There were no questions either from the seven women and four men who started deliberating at 9 a.m. yesterday and ended at 8 p.m. with regular coffee and meal breaks.The jurors have been sequestered since 4:30 p.m. Friday afternoon, and went back to their hotel at about 6 p.m.They are deliberating the fate of Mohammad Shafia, 59, his second wife Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 42, and their son Hamed Shafia, 21, who have pleaded not guilty to four counts of first degree murder of four female family members.The Montreal couple and their son are accused of killing the couple's teen daughters and the husband's first wife.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bodies of Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, Geeti, 13, and Rona, 52, were found in June 2009 in a submerged car in the canal in Kingston.The crown alleges it was an honour killing prompted by anger and shame over the daughters' secret boyfriends and increasingly westernized ways, and the first wife's support of them as well as her desire to divorce Shafia.The jury has three options: to find the accused guilty of first degree murder, which requires premeditation, guilty of second degree murder, which is not planned or deliberate, or not guilty.There is a mound of evidence before them after more than three months of testimony, over 160 exhibits, and hours of police wiretap conversations and police interrogation video.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;http://israndjer.blogspot.com&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18902243-8259492160284560346?l=israndjer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/01/29/shafia-trial-verdict-honour-killing-guilty_n_1228859.html' title='HONOR KILLING TRIAL GOES TO DAY 2 IN KINGSTON'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18902243/posts/default/8259492160284560346'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18902243/posts/default/8259492160284560346'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' 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to redirect €82bn for jobs and growth&lt;br /&gt;27.01.12 @ 17:37 By Valentina Pop&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BRUSSELS - The EU commission wants to redirect €82bn worth of structural funds to projects aimed at boosting employment and growth, particularly in bailed-out countries, measures seen as both vague and inadequate by critics.Anticipating a demand from Monday's EU summit to redeploy as yet unspent structural funds for employment-related projects, the EU commission on Friday (27 January) announced its intention to work with member states on redistributing €82 billion.Speaking at a press conference with the Belgian premier, commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso said: What we can do is to redeploy structural funds, as long as member states agree, because this is always a partnership between the commission and member states.&lt;br /&gt;He gave the example of Italy, whose recently appointed technocrat government asked for a reprogramming of funds to the tune of €3.1bn for education, broadband and railway investments in the country's poorer southern regions.Now we would like to do the same with programme countries where there is high youth unemployment,Barroso said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A similar programme has been agreed with Greece as well, where projects worth €11.5bn should help build motorways, schools and energy efficiency in housing, commission spokesman Ton Van Lierop told this website. The task force of EU commission experts deployed to the country last year with the aim of assisting the government with its structural reforms required by the EU and IMF will help in implementing these new priorities, he added.In Romania and Bulgaria, the EU's newest members and where structural funds go largely unspent year by year, the governments have accepted to have EU experts help them with the drafting and checking of the EU's notoriously bureaucratic project requirements.But experts are sceptical that this new strategy will have any impact on the forecast recession in most member states.It's not enough money to really make a difference. If it was €82bn for research or in fiscal deductions for small and medium enterprises, maybe it would, says Diego Valiante, an economist with the Centre for European Policy Studies, a Brussels-based think tank.Instead of doing more of the same - letting member states select all sorts of bridges to nowhere and other irrelevant projects, the EU commission should link structural funds with labour market reforms needed in most member states, he said.But Valiante also conceded that under the current budget - which ends in 2013 - there is little room for manoeuvre for both the commission and member states.This one is finished, we will have to wait for the next multi-annual budget to revamp the rules,he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;EU points to oil reserves after Iran threat&lt;br /&gt;27.01.12 @ 18:50 By Andrew Rettman&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BRUSSELS - The European Commission has noted that there is a lot of oil around inside reserves in EU countries even if Iran makes good on threats to stop deliveries next week.Petrol pumps - even in Greece - will not dry up over night if Iran makes good on its threat (Photo: Antonio)Iranian MPs are due to discuss on Sunday (29 January) whether to immediately stop shipping an estimated 600,000 barrels of crude oil a day to member states in reaction to recent EU sanctions.The Union on Monday said it would stop buying Iranian oil in July unless it falls in with UN demands on its nuclear programme.Greece - which last year bought some 35 percent of its oil from Iran - is in the most delicate situation because the financial crisis has made other suppliers wary of giving it credit.The Greek foreign ministry is keeping quiet on the Iranian threat. But Athens in recent weeks exacted promises from fellow EU countries that they would stick by its side in the event of a disruption before it gave its nod to the anti-Iran sanctions.Greece itself has around 31 million barrels in its rainy-day stock according to the latest figures of the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) - enough to meet over 90 days of consumption without importing or producing a single drop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Germany has 283 million barrels, enough for over 100 days of consumption. France, which pushed Greece to adopt the anti-Iran sanctions in the first place, is sitting on 160 million barrels, also enough for 90 days.European Commission spokeswoman Marlene Holzner told EUobserver on Friday:If you take all the reserves of all the member states together, it means there is a lot of oil around and if they decide to put it into the market, they can do it.She added: Yes, it [an immediate Iranian stoppage] would have an impact, but it's not the case that from one day to another one of our members would have no oil at all.For her part, EU foreign relations spokeswoman Maja Kocjancic said consultations between member states to make sure disruption scenarios do not leave anybody high and dry have been going on for quite some time.Oil markets on Friday stayed calm, with prices going up less than $1 per barrel.The market reaction was similar to Monday's, when prices went up by just over $1 after Iran repeated threats to block the Strait of Hormuz, a maritime conduit for Saudi oil exports.Western analysts do not believe Iran would risk a military confrontation with the US, which keeps two aircraft carriers nearby.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MUSLIM NATIONS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EZEKIEL 38:1-12&lt;br /&gt;1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,&lt;br /&gt;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,&lt;br /&gt;3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:&lt;br /&gt;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:&lt;br /&gt;5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;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:&lt;br /&gt;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,&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ISAIAH 17:1&lt;br /&gt;1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PSALMS 83:3-7&lt;br /&gt;3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)&lt;br /&gt;6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)&lt;br /&gt;7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DANIEL 11:40-43&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EZEKIEL 39:1-8&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;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:&lt;br /&gt;3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JOEL 2:3,20,30-31&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)&lt;br /&gt;31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Iranian Religious Leader: We're Already Nuclear-Senior Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami: Iran is already nuclear, U.S. too blind to realize that. By Elad Benari, Canada First Publish: 1/27/2012, 10:16 PM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Senior Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said on Friday that Iran is already a nuclear state and that Americans have not realized that.The United States says it will not allow Iran to be nuclear, but it is so blind that it hasn’t noticed that Iran has already become a nuclear state,Khatami was quoted by Channel 10 News as having said. He added that the U.S. has become isolated in the region, after its four slaves were removed from power. He was referring to former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, former Libyan strongman Muammar Qaddafi, former Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh.Khatami also addressed the EU’s embargo on Iranian oil imports, which was announced this week, and said that the Europeans decided to wait with the implementation of the sanctions until July because their economic situation is no better than Iran’s.Why did the Europeans decide to wait half a year before implementing the sanctions? The answer is simple - the Europeans have their own serious trouble - they were hit by the financial crisis,he said.Khatami added the embargo will hurt Europe more than it will hurt Iran, because Saudi Arabia will not be able to provide the required amount of oil to Europe, while the sanctions will only hurt 18 percent of Iran’s oil exports. (Arutz Sheva’s North American Desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Barak: Eventually Even an Attack Won't Stop Iran-Defense Minister Ehud Barak: the world must stop Iran before it reaches a point where even a military attack won't stop it.By Elad Benari, Canada First Publish: 1/27/2012, 9:05 PM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Friday that the world must stop Iran quickly before it reaches the point where even a military attack would not stop it from acquiring nuclear weapons.Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Barak said, The situation is urgent, because the Iranians deliberately drifting to what we call a resistant zone in which nothing will not block them.&lt;br /&gt;Barak called for further harsher sanctions against Iranian banks and its oil industry so that we all know soon enough if the Iranians are willing to give up their nuclear weapons program.Barak’s comments come after earlier this week, the European Union slapped an embargo on Iranian oil. The sanctions would introduce a gradual ban on buying Iranian oil and petrochemicals, and that EU members would have to halt imports completely by July 1, 2012.Hours later, the U.S. Treasury announced sanctions against Iran’s Bank Tejarat, the third largest bank in the Islamic Republic.Bank Tejarat is accused of aiding Iranian programs to acquire weapons of mass destruction, including moving tens of millions of dollars to help a state-run agency acquire uranium.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Thursday, President Barack Obama said his administration has imposed the toughest sanctions ever on Iran.They had a lot of bite. The Iranian regime is feeling them, Obama told ABC News. And, ultimately, I hope that we can resolve this through diplomatic means. But we're not taking any options off the table.(Arutz Sheva’s North American Desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JOEL 3:2&lt;br /&gt;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(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29&lt;br /&gt;27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.&lt;br /&gt;28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.&lt;br /&gt;29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DANIEL 11:21-23&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DANIEL 9:26-27&lt;br /&gt;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).&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JEREMIAH 6:14&lt;br /&gt;14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JEREMIAH 8:11&lt;br /&gt;11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 THESSALONIANS 5:3&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)&lt;br /&gt;14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.&lt;br /&gt;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:&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Israel Uses Jordan Talks to Present Borders-During meeting in Jordan Israel presented, for the first time, its principles regarding the borders of a future Palestinian state.By Elad Benari First Publish: 1/27/2012, 4:13 AM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israel presented this week, for the first time, its principles regarding the borders of a future Palestinian state. The borders were presented during Wednesday’s meeting in Jordan between attorney Yitzchak Molcho and the Palestinian Authority’s chief negotiator Saeb Erekat.One of the principles presented by Molcho is that, in a final settlement, most of the Israeli residents of Judea and Samaria will remain in Israeli territory, and the border will be drawn in such a way that most PA Arabs who currently reside in Judea and Samaria will be part of the Palestinian state.The borders presented by Molcho are similar to the route of the separation fence, which was constructed in such a way that most of the major settlement blocs remained on the western side of the fence. This includes Gush Etzion, Ma’aleh Adumim, Beitar Illit, Kiryat Sefer and Alfei Menashe. Israel insists that Ariel also be included as part of Israeli territory in a permanent status agreement with the PA.Molcho presented Israel’s position on borders orally and did not present Erekat with an official document on the matter. He presented a series of general principles, without displaying maps or indicating what percentages of territories Israel would be willing to give up as part of a permanent agreement. Having Israel present its position on borders was a central PA demand to continue talks in Amman under the auspices of King Abdullah, but in the past the PA has consistently rejected having the border be determined based the separation fence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Presenting the principles on borders marks the first time the current Netanyahu government has agreed to discuss the territorial issue. However, analysts said on Thursday that it is likely a tactical move designed to put pressure on the PA and not give the entity an excuse to end talks by using the argument that Israel would not discuss the issue of borders.Wednesday marked the final exploratory meeting between Israel and the PA, and it ended with no progress. Erekat and Molcho made little headway in their fifth meeting, the last before the January 26 deadline set by the Quartet of peacekeeping nations to break the impasse and relaunch direct talks for a final status agreement between the two sides.Prior to the meeting, the PA-based Ma’an news agency reported that the PA refused to continue talks with Israel after the deadline.Erekat – a member of the Fatah terror faction's Central committee -- used a previous meeting to negotiate the release of all PA terrorist prisoners currently incarcerated in Israeli jails, rather than to focus his efforts on discussing the core issues relating to Israel-PA statehood.Among the issues Erekat raised at the last meeting was advocating for the release of Hamas legislator Aziz Dweik, who had been recently arrested by Israeli security forces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Shabbat Rocket Attack on Nahal Oz-The PFLP took responsibility for a mortar attack on Nahal Oz late Friday after clashes with IDF forces in Ash-Shujaa’eya.By Gavriel Queenann First Publish: 1/28/2012, 6:44 PM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The community of Nahal Oz came under attack on Friday night as residents tried to enjoy their Shabbat rest.No physical injuries or property damage were reported in the attack.The Abu Ali Mustafa Brigade, the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), claimed to have fired four mortar rounds at the Gaza-belt community of Nahal Oz.They said in a statement that the shelling came as retaliation for an Israeli force storming Ash-Shujaa’eya east of Gaza City at 10:50 pm on Friday.The IDF force reportedly crossed into  the area after a nearby watchtower on the Israeli side of Gaza security fence came under fire by terrorists in Ash-Shujaa’eya.However, a spokesman for the IDF said that a single rocket – not four mortar rounds – fell in an open area near Nahal Oz on Friday.A flare fired by the IDF over Ash-Shujaa’eya near dusk to illuminate the trouble spot on Saturday reportedly hit a family home.No physical injuries were reported in the incident.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Former IDF Chief: Israel Must Prepare for War-Ashkenazi: Israel must not cut its budget because shifting strategic realities demand it prepare for war. By Gavriel Queenann First Publish: 1/27/2012, 1:08 PM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Former IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi warned, Thursday, that Israel could not afford to cut its defense budget and should prepare itself for war.In comparison to 10 years ago, the possibility of a conflict is not something that we just need to talk about,Ashkenazi said during a lecture at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv.We never saw it coming. It happened on my watch, so it must be said. But if it's any consolation, Egypt never saw it coming either,Ashkenazi said of the so-called Arab Spring protests that have no turned into an Islamic winter in elections throughout the Arab world.The Middle East's plates are shifting. What the Egyptian army didn't know, I couldn't have known. (Egypt's) leaders did not know either,he said, adding the ultimate strategic picture was still changing.Ashkenazi told attendees that confronting Iran's nuclear ambitions required a multi-disciplinary approach that included covert, economic, and potentially military action.In my opinion, the strategy vis-à-vis Iran should be to do whatever is possible under the radar coupled with painful and crippling sanctions. However, we should also keep a viable military option on the table,he said.While Ashkenazi said sanctions were having an effect on Iran, he warned that time was running out since the Iranian nuclear program was moving forward at a rapid pace.Our mission now needs to be to slow down the clock and to speed up the clock of sanctions and hope that it works,he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ashkenazi cautioned that Iran's strategic acumen should not be overestimated, saying Tehran had made some strategic blunders and was threatening to make others as pressure mounts.I believe Iran would be making a strategic mistake if it blocks the Strait of Hormuz. Another mistake was trying to kill the Saudi ambassador at a restaurant in the US capital. The Iranians are liable to make more mistakes under pressure,he said.Ashkenazi served as IDF chief of staff from 2007 until 2011 and certainly played a key role in preparing the military for a possible attack against Iran’s nuclear facilities. A 2007 strike against Syria’s nuclear reactor widely ascribed to Israel also happened on his watch.Ashkenazi, who oversaw operation Cast Lead in 2008-2009, said the new regime in Cairo made a new Gaza incursion a complex undertaking.The possibility of conducting another extensive operation in Gaza has become more complex following the events of the past year in Egypt and the change of government in that country,he said.I think that this government will not act like Mubarak. I do not think he was a Zionist, but you cannot ignore the fact that he was an anchor of stability in the region considering the not-so simple tests he passed – the wars in Lebanon or the intifada.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;http://israndjer.blogspot.com&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18902243-8460172183675801524?l=israndjer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18902243/posts/default/8460172183675801524'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18902243/posts/default/8460172183675801524'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2012/01/iran-religious-leader-iran-already.html' title='IRAN RELIGIOUS LEADER-IRAN ALREADY NUCLEAR'/><author><name>STAN L</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11041400179179367939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yb51zBn6LsQ/SYn1N0hbmWI/AAAAAAAAAAc/AJdshT6GEDw/S220/israelflag.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902243.post-4628284328262683015</id><published>2012-01-27T13:00:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-27T16:33:25.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>EU AND INTERNET CENSORSHIP</title><content type='html'>JERUSALEM DIVIDED&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible&lt;br /&gt;1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.&lt;br /&gt;2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.&lt;br /&gt;3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.&lt;br /&gt;4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.&lt;br /&gt;5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JOEL 3:2&lt;br /&gt;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.(WW3 STARTS BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AND ISRAELIS UPROOTED FROM THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WORLD GOVERNMENT&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REVELATION 13:1-3,7,8,12,16-18&lt;br /&gt;1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.&lt;br /&gt;2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.&lt;br /&gt;3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.&lt;br /&gt;7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.&lt;br /&gt;8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.&lt;br /&gt;12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.&lt;br /&gt;16 And he 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:&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REVELATION 17:3,7,9-10,12,18&lt;br /&gt;3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.&lt;br /&gt;7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.&lt;br /&gt;9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.&lt;br /&gt;10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.&lt;br /&gt;12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.&lt;br /&gt;18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2012?idvideo=99977&lt;br /&gt;EVERYONE HAS TO LISTEN TO THIS AT THE ECONOMIC FORUM,Prospects for Peace in the New Middle East Context - Annual Meeting 2012&lt;br /&gt;Salam Fayyad, Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority&lt;br /&gt;Shimon Peres, President of Israel&lt;br /&gt;Chaired by&lt;br /&gt;Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;PERES SAYS THE WORLD HAS TO BE GLOBALISED AND THE GLOBE HAS TO BE INVOLVED IN THE PEACE PROCESS.AND HE ALSO SAID THAT JERUSALEM WHICH IS ONLY 2 KM IN LENGTH IS THE MOST CONTESTED PLACE ON EARTH.MANY WARS HAVE BEEN FOUGHT OVER THIS 2 KM LAND.FAYYAD OF COURSE SAYS ISRAEL MUST LET THE PALESTINIANS HAVE A STATE OF THEIR OWN WITH A DIVIDED JERUSALEM FOR BOTH SIDES.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;FEMA Camp Rendition Hubs Discovered Kurt Nimmo&lt;br /&gt;Infowars.com January 27, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=NnQNYiUJfM0&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=IGgZ8lgGfmU&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the Thursday evening edition of Infowars Nightly News, Alex Jones featured photo evidence of a FEMA rendition facility located at the airport in Los Angeles.The photos and an interview with an eyewitness who described the facility and its inward facing barbed wire fence and one-way turnstiles add more compelling evidence to the indisputable fact that FEMA operates as a modern version of the Gestapo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FEMA Camps for the American People&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Numerous FEMA camps scattered across the country are not designed to temporarily hold displaced citizens during natural disasters as the government would have us believe. Despite the denial and dismissal of the corporate media – most notably Glenn Beck – the camps are intended for the real enemy of the government and its banker overlords: the American people.In the above video, Alex also spotlights rendition facilities located at the Robert Mueller Airport in Austin, Texas, the Sand Point FEMA rendition hub in Washington state, and the notorious site at Pier 57 in New York City.The LAX hub is especially pertinent as the military and LA cops engage in Posse Comitatus busting exercises this week. The LAPD said the purpose of the training was in part to ensure the military’s ability to operate in urban environments,CBS Los Angeles reported on Wednesday.CBS, of course, did not draw any conclusions after it reported that military helicopters staged from Dodgers Stadium and ferried back and forth from local parks in the city. Sports stadiums have historically served as impromptu prisons for military dictatorships.The government has conducted a number of beta tests over the years in preparation for mass arrests and ultimately extraordinary renditions to black site torture dungeons.In addition to an alarming number of high profile military exercises, the government has worked in tandem with local police during events such as the the Republican and Democrat national conventions and periodic gatherings of the globalist elite in Pittsburgh and elsewhere. During the events, they have beta tested and honed their ability to arrest large numbers of people and hold them in squalid detention centers.&lt;br /&gt;Infowars.com reporter Rob Dew experienced the process firsthand when he was arrested while covering the G20 in Pittsburgh and held at a military base.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Legal Precedents and Police State Preparations&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The NDAA, National Defense Authorization Act, and the Enemy Expatriation Act are recent efforts to build a legal – if entirely unconstitutional – foundation for the police state and its semi-secret network of gulags and rendition camps under the auspices of FEMA.Prior to the NDAA, the government established important precedents through the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act, the latter a direct effort to nullify habeas corpus and allow the government to disappear suspected citizens.&lt;br /&gt;The Constitution-busting Patriot Act emerged from the hysteria following the attacks of September 11, 2001, and spawned a raft of proposed anti-terror legislation, including The Universal National Service Act of 2003 and Patriot Act II, an earlier effort to trash habeas corpus. See Alex Jones’ The Secret Patriot Act II Destroys What Is Left of American Liberty from early February, 2003.NDAA allows for the wholesale kidnapping and disappearance of American citizens into the above mentioned FEMA camps. The legislation was paraded before the American people under the guise of fighting phantom terrorists, but as a large number of legal experts, civil libertarians and commentators have noted, it is designed for the American people, not al-Qaeda miscreants.The National Emergency Centers Act or HR 645 was established to provide a legal context for the camps covered above. The bill mandates that six separate facilities be established in different Federal Emergency Management Agency Regions (FEMA) throughout the country. For more on this key legislation, see Paul Joseph Watson’s New Legislation Authorizes FEMA Camps In U.S., posted in January of 2009.In December, we covered a push by KBR to outfit FEMA and U.S. Army camps around the United States under federal government contract. KBR’s call for FEMA camp service bids arrived soon after the NDAA was passed in the Senate.Contingency plans to suspend the Constitution and abduct enemies of the state go back to at least the 1980s. Rex 84, short for Readiness Exercise 1984, was established under the pretext of a mass exodus of illegal aliens crossing the Mexican/US border, the same pretense used in the language of the KBR request for services.During the Iran-Contra hearings in 1987, however, it was revealed that the program was a secretive scenario and drill developed by the federal government to suspend the Constitution, declare martial law, assign military commanders to take over state and local governments, and detain large numbers of American citizens determined by the government to be national security threats.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FEMA Rendition Camps: The Emergent Face of Fascism in America&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rex 84, Operation Cable Splicer, and Garden Plot are programs specifically designed to facilitate the recently enacted NDAA and the above mentioned legislation and more going back to Clinton in the wake of the OKC bombing and the Waco massacre in the 1990s.The effort to turn America into a military police state where free-thinkers not drinking the government’s kool-aid can easily be disappeared into a nightmare world of secret CIA rendition flights to eastern European torture centers grew serious legs following the September 11 attacks and has entered a hyper state now that the NDAA is law.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Startling details on the rendition center at LAX adds more credence to the indisputable fact that the government is working to establish a network of camps for its political enemies. It underscores the fact that the controllers are hellbent on fully realizing fascism in America, complete with concentration camps where those opposed to the quest for global domination disappear, never to be seen again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://bcove.me/0rqq5jgt&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Obama Accused of Contempt of Court in Birther Hearing-Secretary of State warns Obama – miss hearing at your own peril Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Friday, January 27, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;President Barack Obama was accused by prosecution lawyers of being in contempt of court after failing to show up for a birther hearing in Georgia that seeks to establish whether he is eligible to appear on the state ballot in November.As we reported earlier this month, so-called birthers,those who claim there is evidence to suggest Obama was not born in the United States, hailed a judges decision to hear the case as a potential roadblock to Obama even being permitted to run for a second term in the White House.Lawyers for area residents mounting birther challenges told Deputy Chief Judge Michael Malihi that Obama should be found in contempt of court for not appearing when under subpoena to do so. But Malihi did not indicate he would recommend that and cut off one lawyer when he criticized Obama for not attending the hearing,reports the Atlanta-Journal Constitution.It shows not just a contempt for this court, but contempt for the judicial branch,lawyer Van Irion told Malihi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Earlier this week, Obama’s lawyer, Michael Jablonski, requested that Secretary of State Brian Kemp suspend the hearing, claiming it was not a legitimate issue and insisting he and his client would boycott the hearing. However, Kemp fired back, warning that the hearing was necessary under Georgia law and that Obama and Jablonski’s failure to participate would be at your own peril.Attendants packed the Georgia courtroom yesterday for the trial brought by residents who affirm that Obama was born in Kenya, making him ineligible to be US President.The birther argument was addressed by the White House in an unprecedented acknowledgement of the controversy surrounding the issue last year when a document purporting to be Obama’s birth certificate was released to coincide with the publication of bestselling author Jerome Corsi’s book, Where’s the Birth Certificate? Corsi and other skeptics were unconvinced by the move however, claiming that the document is a forgery created using modern computer techniques and has numerous discrepancies with a genuine 1961 birth certificate created by a typewriter.Corsi has also presented evidence that the supposed social security number contained on the document was never issued to Obama and in fact belonged to an individual in Connecticut.One time Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump repeatedly raised questions surrounding Obama’s background during the spring of 2011 before going cold on the issue, a move Corsi claimed was an organized political stunt to neutralize the issue.The judge in Georgia is expected to make a final ruling on the case after February 5, by which time attorneys are required to file their briefs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD&lt;br /&gt;then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JAMES 5:1-3&lt;br /&gt;1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.&lt;br /&gt;2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REVELATION 18:10,17,19&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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,&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EZEKIEL 7:19&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REVELATION 13:16-18&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WORLD MARKET RESULTS&lt;br /&gt;http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/&lt;br /&gt;CNBC VIDEOS&lt;br /&gt;http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/?tabid=15839796&amp;tabheader=false&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS FRI JANUARY 27,2012&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;09:30 AM -2,43&lt;br /&gt;10:00 AM -61.91&lt;br /&gt;10:30 AM -60.81&lt;br /&gt;11:00 AM -60.81&lt;br /&gt;11:30 AM -56.32&lt;br /&gt;12:00 PM -85.82&lt;br /&gt;12:30 PM -91.07&lt;br /&gt;01:00 PM -86.43&lt;br /&gt;01:30 PM -87.00&lt;br /&gt;02:00 PM -70.80&lt;br /&gt;02:30 PM -75.04&lt;br /&gt;03:00 PM -74.59&lt;br /&gt;03:30 PM -44.61&lt;br /&gt;04:00 PM -74.17 12,660.46&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;S&amp;P 500 1316.33 -2.10&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NASDAQ 2816.55 +11.72&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GOLD 1,735.70 +9.00&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OIL 99.70 +0.01&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TSE 300 12,466.50 +2.18&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CDNX 1628.92 +14.15&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;S&amp;P/TSX/60 711.19 +0.42&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MORNING,NEWS,STATS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE&lt;br /&gt;Dow -48 points at 4 minutes of trading today.&lt;br /&gt;Dow -103 points at low today.&lt;br /&gt;Dow -1 points at high today so far.&lt;br /&gt;GOLD opens at $1,722.10.OIL opens at $99.64 today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS&lt;br /&gt;Dow -103 points at low today so far.&lt;br /&gt;Dow -1 points at high today so far.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS&lt;br /&gt;Dow -103 points at low today.&lt;br /&gt;Dow -1 points at high today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DANIEL 7:23-24&lt;br /&gt;23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)&lt;br /&gt;24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD REGIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;EU countries sign unpopular anti-counterfeit treaty&lt;br /&gt;Today JAN 27,12 @ 10:06 By Nikolaj Nielsen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BRUSSELS - The European Commission and 22 EU member states have signed up to a controversial trade agreement in a move marked by cyber attacks and street protests.&lt;br /&gt;Cyprus, Estonia, Germany, the Netherlands and Slovakia were the only EU countries not to put pen to paper at the signing ceremony in Tokyo on Thursday (26 January) of the so-called Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta).The European Commission told EUobserver the hold-up is purely procedural and that they will come on board shortly.The international treaty was created in behind-closed-doors talks between EU countries and select other World Trade Organisation members over the past five years to enforce intellectual property rights on both digital and physical products.The commission says the EU loses some €8 billion every year from counterfeit items which flood its markets and that Acta will protect jobs.It will become EU law after it is ratified by the European Parliament and member states.The treaty arouses strong emotions among pro-free-speech campaigners, who say it gives authorities too much power, going beyond the equally controversial US Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa).In signs of a new crackdown on internet freedoms, the US' Federal Bureau of Investigation in recent days flexed its muscles over online file-sharing website Megaupload.Dutch police acting on US requests arrested one of its founding members and a similar sting operation took place on the other side of the world in New Zealand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Acta critics believe signatories will not only gang up with internet providers against undesirable internet users but could also exploit it to undermine access to generic medicine in developing countries.The Tokyo events saw notable protests in the EU capital and in Poland.The European Parliament's website was taken off line on Thursday as hackers bombarded it with a 300,000 hit-a-second denial of service attack. In Warsaw, thousands took to the streets shouting slogans such as No to censorship and A free internet.Its passage through the EU parliament could be difficult amid strong distrust in some parts of the assembly.The French Socialist MEP Kader Arif who drafted the parliament's report on Acta resigned as rapporteur on Thursday.He called the treaty a masquerade and said it was rushed through without proper public consultation.Meanwhile, the Green group has accused parliament of burying a negative assessment by its legal services carried out last year.Numerous analyses over the past few months have raised serious doubts about the compatibility of Acta with EU law, particularly provisions on fundamental rights,” German Green MEP Jan Philipp Albrecht said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Online petitions to put EU under public scrutiny&lt;br /&gt;Today JAN 27,12 @ 08:44 By Honor Mahony&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BRUSSELS - With just weeks until to go until the EU dips its toe into the unpredictable world of participatory democracy, internet giants are warning the European Commission it had better be prepared for scrutiny by a critical and highly-wired public.On 1 April, over 10 years since EU leaders publicly declared that they need to make the union more democratic, a system giving citizens the chance to shape European debate and potentially its legislation will go live.The so-called Citizens Initiative requires the European Commission to consider legislating in an area on the back of at least 1 million signatures from a minimum of seven (or one quarter) of member states.This new right will open a new chapter in the democratic life of the EU. Not only will it provide a direct gateway for citizens to make their voices heard in Brussels, it will also encourage real cross-border debates about EU issues,said EU commission vice-president Maros Sefcovic at a conference launching the initiative website on Thursday (26 January).Danish Europe minister Nicolai Wammen indicated the most important aspect of the new tool will be that citizens will have the chance to set the agenda,noting that getting a conversation going about an issue means already being half way there.With the Arab Spring showcasing the power of social networks such as Facebook to spread news and ideas, some at the conference suggested the Citizens Initiative will see the fairly disparate protests against unemployment and austerity measures in various member states become a single, widely-supported petition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For her part, Facebook's policy chief in Brussels, Erika Mann says that humans love to have a connection and to live in a better world and that this all connects to the political world.Simon Hampton, European public policy director at internet search company Google, believes it is likely to be a game-changer for the way the commission interacts with citizens.The internet-powered citizen expects to be listened to. They want to be part of the conversation,he said. He added that the new tool puts the commission under scrutiny too.In a recent example in the US, the White House reconsidered a new anti-piracy law after thousands of people voiced concern about free speech on the internet and popular websites, such as Wikipedia, blacked out their homepage in protest.Some social network sites say they will be natural allies of the European initiative.Giuseppe de Martino, secretary general of video-sharing website Dailymotion, said his company could be a video platform that uses images to explain the initiative.Further down the line, successful initiatives are likely to be taken up by European political parties which will next year begin thinking about their campaigns for the 2014 European elections.But the first few months are likely to see a period of experimentation by both sides - citizens seeing how it works and the European Commission seeing how to respond.Critics have warned the initiative could be hijacked by one-horse issues pushed by a particular interest group.But the commission says this will be countered by the threshold of member states and signatures required. It also has several get-out clauses - initiatives cannot be called for actions which lie outside its powers or which are abusive, frivolous or vexatious.They are also prohibited from being contrary to EU values.The success of the EU's foray into participatory democracy is likely to depend on how fairly citizens think the commission applies these criteria.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;US envoy talks down fears on internet snooping&lt;br /&gt;26.01.12 @ 19:28 By Nikolaj Nielsen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BRUSSELS - A senior US official has tried to dispel the notion that post-9/11 America abuses internet privacy, as EU lawmakers and civil liberties activists look to the future of web policing.The state department's top official on international communications, Philip Verveer, who in his past work as a lawyer in the private sector also helped put together some of the US' biggest pieces of media legislation, led the mission to the EU capital on Thursday (26 January).He told press that US authorities adhere to stricter rules than some EU member states when attempting to access information stored on the cloud - the emerging market of online data storage and services provided by companies.Cloud data can belong to an individual from one country, be stored on a server in another country, which belongs to a company located in a third country and is managed by a sub-contractor from a fourth place. People who use Google Docs, for instance, typically do not know where their files are actually stored or who manages them.Despite the complexities of cloud computing, the US officials said it is already covered by EU and US bilateral frameworks on data protection dating back to 2001.We think there are serious misunderstandings about the availability to data by US law enforcement on the cloud,Verveer noted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Verveer and a fellow official from the US mission to the EU, Stewart Robinson, said the so-called Patriot Act comes in for undue criticism.Passed less than two months after 9/11, NGOs such as the American Civil Liberties Union have said it gives authorities too much leeway on monitoring internet traffic and private emails in the name of national security.The US officials on Thursday said independent judges have to give law enforcement agents special permission to access anybody's email or private records in safeguards equivalent to those in EU countries.The Patriot Act is really not an issue at all and yet it surfaces a lot ... Claims that the Patriot Act give the US government carte blanche access to data from US providers are simply wrong,Robinson said.For its part, the European Commission on Wednesday published new legal proposals on how to protect people's online privacy.EU justice commissioner Viviane Reding told press that EU companies will in future face liabilities from both sides if they hand over data to US law enforcement agencies - from the US if they do not comply and from the EU if they give too much.This is a complicated question. We have put a solution into our regulation and the future will show if this will be operable or not,she said.For her part, Liberal Dutch MEP Sophie in't Veld told EUobserver that EU companies tend to give the US whatever it wants on the quiet.Reding had said that the Patriot Act does not apply in the EU. But In't Veld said that if a company has any kind of US presence, then the US can subpoeana data from its servers in Europe.Online privacy and free speech is gathering momentum as a popular cause around the world.The EU and 22 member states on Thursday in Tokyo signed a controversial treaty designed to combat intellectual property theft - Acta - which its critics say will curb internet freedom.With MEPs still due to ratify the text, hackers the same day fired a warning shot by launching a 300,000-hit-a-second denial of service attack on the EU parliament's website.An internal parliament email attributed the problem to the so-called Anonymous group.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Merkel: Transfer more powers to EU, not more money to bail-out fund 26.01.12 @ 09:04 By Valentina Pop&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BRUSSELS - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said transferring more powers to EU institutions rather than increasing the size of the eurozone's future bail-out fund is the way to overcome the euro crisis.We have said right from the start that we want to stand up for the euro, but what we don't want is a situation where we are forced to promise something that we will not be able to fulfil, Merkel said Wednesday (25 January) in the opening speech of the World Economic Forum, an informal gathering of leaders and business magnates held every year in Davos, a Swiss mountain resort.Merkel resisted calls made by the International Monetary Fund and the Italian Prime Minister to increase contributions to the European Stability Mechanism, set to come into force in July with a firepower of €500 billion and aimed at lowering the borrowing costs of large euro-economies such as Italy and Spain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some say that it has to be double the size, then if that’s not big enough, others will say it has to be three times as big,she said.If Germany, as the representative of all European countries, promises something that can’t be kept in the event of a harsh attack by the markets, then Europe would have a wide-open flank.Instead, her solution is more integration, by transferring more powers from a national level to EU institutions such as the European Court of Justice, so that the continent is turned into a Europe that works.We have taken some steps closer to a fiscal union, but we can get faster, gain speed and become more decisive,she added, in reference to the inter-governmental treaty on fiscal discipline currently being negotiated among 26 member states, except Britain.She made similar remarks in an interview published earlier that day in five major newspapers from different EU countries, including The Guardian:We will only be able to strengthen our common currency if we co-ordinate our policies more closely and are prepared to gradually give up more powers to the EU. If we make loads of promises about debt reduction and sound budgeting, those need to be things that can be enforced or brought to court in the future. The point of the fiscal compact, after all, is to make it possible to check on those commitments. That means giving our [European] institutions more monitoring rights – and more bite.Merkel also warned in that same interview that amid all the billions in financial assistance and rescue packages, we Germans also need to watch that we don't run out of steam. After all, our capacities aren't infinite, and overstretching ourselves wouldn't help us or the EU as a whole.She is expected, however, to budge on the issue in March, when EU leaders meet to discuss potentially increasing the fund. In the past, she had also steadfastly ruled out any further contributions to bail-outs or the establishment of the permanent ESM, only to give in after painful negotiations - a tactic which has been criticised both at home and abroad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No more Merkozy?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, her ranking as the de facto supremo of Europe has been highlighted by the plethora of top European politicians and financiers she received in Berlin ahead of an EU summit taking place in Brussels on 30 January.The leaders of Portugal, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, Italy and IMF chief Christine Lagarde all visited Merkel in the past few days, with Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy set to do the same on Thursday.It's not even Merkozy anymore, it's just Merkel now,one senior EU diplomat noted, in reference to the Franco-German tandem named after Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel.The French president is struggling to regain voters' confidence ahead of the April presidential elections amid high unemployment rates and a downgrade of France's top credit rating by Standard &amp; Poor's.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Israel says Iran drifting toward nuke goal line&lt;br /&gt;Associated PressBy JOHN HEILPRIN | Associated Press – JAN 27,12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Friday the world must quickly stop Iran from reaching the point where even a surgical military strike could not block it from obtaining nuclear weapons.Amid fears that Israel is nearing a decision to attack Iran's nuclear program, Barak said tougher international sanctions are needed against Tehran's oil and banks so that we all will know early enough whether the Iranians are ready to give up their nuclear weapons program.Iran insists its atomic program is aimed only at producing energy and research, but it has refused to consider giving up its ability to enrich uranium.The United Nations has imposed four rounds of sanctions against Iran, but veto-wielding Russia and China say they see no need for additional punitive measures. That has left the U.S. and the European Union to try to pressure other countries to follow their lead and impose even tougher sanctions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are determined to prevent Iran from turning nuclear. And even the American president and opinion leaders have said that no option should be removed from the table and Iran should be blocked from turning nuclear,Barak told reporters during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.It seems to us to be urgent, because the Iranians are deliberately drifting into what we call an immunity zone where practically no surgical operation could block them,he said.But while Barak called it a challenge for the whole world to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran, he stopped short of confirming any action that could further stoke Washington's concern about a possible Israeli military strike.Iran has accused Israel of masterminding the killing of Iranian scientists involved in the nuclear program, but Barak declined to comment on that.Earlier, he told a panel discussion that a stable world order is incompatible with a nuclear-armed Iran because countries such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt will all want the bomb.This will be the end of any nonproliferation regime, Barak said. The major powers in the region will all feel compelled to turn nuclear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Separately, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon urged a resumption of dialogue between Western powers and Iran on the nuclear issue.He said Friday that Tehran must comply with Security Council resolutions and prove conclusively that its nuclear program is not directed at making arms.The onus is on Iran,Ban said at a press conference.They have to prove themselves that their nuclear development program is genuinely for peaceful purposes, which they have not done yet.Ban expressed concern about the most recent report of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which strongly suggested Iran's nuclear program has a military purpose.On Thursday, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran is ready to revive talks with the U.S. and other world powers but suggested that Tehran's foes will have to make compromises to prevent negotiations from again collapsing in stalemate.Iran says it won't give up its right to enrich uranium and produce nuclear fuel, but it has offered to allow IAEA inspectors to visit its nuclear sites to ensure that the program won't be weaponized.IAEA chief Yukiya Amano said at a Davos session that we do not have that much confidence if Iran has declared everything and its best information indicates that Iran has engaged in activities relevant to nuclear explosive devices.For now they do not have the capacity to manufacture the fuel,he said.But in the future, we don't know.Amano added that an IAEA mission would be sent Saturday to address this issue.If the enrichment to higher levels is in a declared facility, we can find it very quickly,he said.The problem is we do not know if these are all the declared facilities.Richard Haass, a former top U.S. diplomat who heads the Council on Foreign Relations, said international law justifies a pre-emptive strike only to stave off an imminent attack.The real question is can Iran assure us what it is not doing? he said.Israeli defense officials said Friday that new European sanctions on Iran could constrain Israel. They said any Israeli strike against Iranian nuclear facilities may lack international legitimacy while the world waits to see the effects of the new measures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The officials spoke Friday on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss sensitive military matters.Much of the West agrees with Israel that Iran, despite its denials, is developing nuclear weapons technology. But the United States clearly worries that a military attack could backfire, by dividing international opposition to Iran — and send oil prices skyrocketing.Israel has attacked nuclear sites in foreign countries before. In 1981, Israeli warplanes destroyed an unfinished Iraqi nuclear reactor. In 2007, Israeli aircraft destroyed a site in Syria that the U.N. nuclear watchdog deemed to be a secretly built nuclear reactor.&lt;br /&gt;But Israel is unlikely to strike without coordinating with the Americans, who maintain forces on aircraft carriers and military bases in the Gulf.In spite of his tough words to Iran, Ban said that dialogue among the three-plus-three — Germany, France and Britain plus Russia, China and the United States — is the path forward.&lt;br /&gt;There is no other alternative for addressing this crisis than peaceful ... resolution through dialogue,said Ban.Ban noted that there have been a total of five Security Council resolutions so far on the Iranian nuclear program, four calling for sanctions.It's not just the West that is concerned.We take it for granted Iran would want nuclear weapons,Yan Xuetong, dean of the Institute of Modern International Studies at Tsinghua University, said of China. Certainly, China is working very hard with the international community to prevent this.John Daniszewski in Davos and Tia Goldenberg in Jerusalem contributed to this report.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Governments Worldwide Raise Acceptable Radiation Levels Based Upon Politics-Instead of protecting people, governments cover up by raising safe radiation levels – based on politics, not science.Washington’s Blog January 27, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=UOgaBUDFeb4&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=oe2fMMaVE7Q&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;American and Canadian authorities have virtually stopped monitoring airborne radiation.Neither American nor Canadian authorities are testing fish for radioactivity.Does that mean that we don’t have to worry about radiation from Fukushima? It is a little hard to know, given that what is deemed a safe level of radiation is determined by politics … rather than science. For example, current safety standards are based on the ridiculous assumption thateveryone exposed is a healthy man in his 20s – and that radioactive particles ingested into the body cause no more damage than radiation hitting the outside of the body.And one of the main advisors to the Japanese government on Fukushima announced:If you smile, the radiation will not affect you.In the real world, however, even low doses of radiation can cause cancer. Moreover, small particles of radiation – called internal emitters – which get inside the body are much more dangerous than general exposures to radiation. See this and this. And radiation affects small children much more than full-grown adults.Indeed, instead of doing much to try to protect their citizens from Fukushima, Japan, the U.S. and the EU all just raised the radiation levels they deem safe.Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen says that high-level friends in the State Department told him that Hillary Clinton signed a pact with her counterpart in Japan agreeing that the U.S. will continue buying seafood from Japan, despite that food not being tested for radioactive materials.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And the Department of Energy is trying to replace the scientifically accepted model of the dangers of low dose radiation based on voodoo science. Specifically, DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley Labs used a mutant line of human cells in a petri dish which was able to repair damage from low doses of radiation, and extrapolated to the unsupported conclusion that everyone is immune to low doses of radiation:In reality, not only is there overwhelming evidence that low doses of radiation can cause cancer, but there is some evidence that low doses can – in certain circumstances cause more damage than higher doses.As I pointed out in April:The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists reported that one of the best-known scientists of the 20th century – Dr. John Gofman – also believed that chronic low level radiation is more dangerous than acute exposure to high doses. Gofman was a doctor of nuclear and physical chemistry and a medical doctor who worked on the Manhattan Project, co-discovered uranium-232 and -233 and other radioactive isotopes and proved their fissionability, helped discover how to extract plutonium, led the team that discovered and characterized lipoproteins in the causation of heart disease, served as a Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California Berkeley, served as Associate Director of the Livermore National Laboratory, was asked by the Atomic Energy Commission to undertake a series of long range studies on potential dangers that might arise from the peaceful uses of the atom, and wrote four scholarly books on radiation health effects.&lt;br /&gt;http://www.infowars.com/governments-worldwide-raise-acceptable-radiation-levels-based-upon-politics/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;http://israndjer.blogspot.com&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18902243-4628284328262683015?l=israndjer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2012?idvideo=99977' title='EU AND INTERNET CENSORSHIP'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18902243/posts/default/4628284328262683015'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18902243/posts/default/4628284328262683015'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2012/01/eu-and-internet-censorship.html' title='EU AND INTERNET CENSORSHIP'/><author><name>STAN L</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11041400179179367939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yb51zBn6LsQ/SYn1N0hbmWI/AAAAAAAAAAc/AJdshT6GEDw/S220/israelflag.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902243.post-4292342650778860798</id><published>2012-01-26T09:47:00.017-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-26T16:24:42.818-05:00</updated><title type='text'>STOCK RESULTS JAN 26,12</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Google announces privacy changes across products; users can’t opt out By Cecilia Kang, Published: January 24&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Google will soon know far more about who you are and what you do on the Web.The Web giant announced Tuesday that it plans to follow the activities of users across nearly all of its ubiquitous sites, including YouTube, Gmail and its leading search engine.Google has already been collecting some of this information. But for the first time, it is combining data across its Web sites to stitch together a fuller portrait of users.Consumers won’t be able to opt out of the changes, which take effect March 1. And experts say the policy shift will invite greater scrutiny from federal regulators of the company’s privacy and competitive practices.The move will help Google better tailor its ads to people’s tastes. If someone watches an NBA clip online and lives in Washington, the firm could advertise Washington Wizards tickets in that person’s Gmail account.Consumers could also benefit, the company said. When someone is searching for the word jaguar, Google would have a better idea of whether the person was interested in the animal or the car. Or the firm might suggest e-mailing contacts in New York when it learns you are planning a trip there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But consumer advocates say the new policy might upset people who never expected their information would be shared across so many different Web sites.A user signing up for Gmail, for instance, might never have imagined that the content of his or her messages could affect the experience on seemingly unrelated Web sites such as YouTube.Google’s new privacy announcement is frustrating and a little frightening, said Common Sense Media chief executive James Steyer. Even if the company believes that tracking users across all platforms improves their services, consumers should still have the option to opt out — especially the kids and teens who are avid users of YouTube, Gmail and Google Search.Google can collect information about users when they activate an Android mobile phone, sign into their accounts online or enter search terms. It can also store cookies on people’s computers to see which Web sites they visit or use its popular maps program to estimate their location. However, users who have not logged on to Google or one of its other sites, such as YouTube, are not affected by the new policy.The change to its privacy policies come as Google is facing stiff competition for the fickle attention of Web surfers. It recently disappointed investors for the first time in several quarters, failing last week to meet earnings predictions. Apple, in contrast, reported record earnings Tuesday that blew past even the most optimistic expectations.Some analysts said Google’s move is aimed squarely at Apple and Facebook — which have been successful in building unified ecosystems of products that capture people’s attention. Google, in contrast, has adopted a more scattered approach, but an executive said in an interview that the company wants to create a much more seamless environment across its various offerings.If you’re signed in, we may combine information you’ve provided from one service with information from other services,Alma Whitten, Google’s director of privacy for product and engineering, wrote in a blog post.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In short, we’ll treat you as a single user across all our products, which will mean a simpler, more intuitive Google experience,she said.Google said it would notify its hundreds of millions of users of the change through an e-mail and a message on its Web sites. It will apply to all of its services except for Google Wallet, the Chrome browser and Google Books.The company said the change would simplify the company’s privacy policy — a move that regulators encouraged.Still, some consumer advocates and lawmakers remained skeptical.There is no way anyone expected this,said Jeffrey Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, a privacy advocacy group.There is no way a user can comprehend the implication of Google collecting across platforms for information about your health, political opinions and financial concerns.Added Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass), co-chair of the Congressional Privacy Caucus: It is imperative that users will be able to decide whether they want their information shared across the spectrum of Google’s offerings.Google has increasingly been a focus of Washington regulators.The company recently settled a privacy complaint by the Federal Trade Commission after it allowed users of its now-defunct social-networking tool Google Buzz to see contacts lists from its e-mail program.&lt;br /&gt;And a previous decision to use its social network data in search results has been included in a broad FTC investigation, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is private.&lt;br /&gt;Federal officials are also looking at whether Google is running afoul of antitrust rules by using its dominance in online searches to favor its other business lines.&lt;br /&gt;Claudia Farrell, a spokeswoman for the FTC, declined to comment on any interaction between Google and regulators on its new privacy changes.&lt;br /&gt;http://www.infowars.com/3-d-facial-scans-being-sold-to-the-public-under-the-guise-that-it-could-help-children/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Don't like something about yourself online? You'll soon be able to delete it thanks to sweeping new EU privacy laws By Katie Silver Last updated at 5:26 PM on 26th January 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Soon millions of internet users will have the right to be forgotten and order companies to erase all the data it has on them, according to new legislation announced by the European Commission yesterday.The reforms will set strong limits on how companies such as Google and Facebook protect users' information, threatening those who breach the code with hefty fines.Viviane Reding, the EU Justice Commissioner, said 70 per cent of European citizens were concerned about how their information was used online.Without a trace: Reding claims 70per cent of Europeans are concerned about how their information is used online. With proposed new laws, they will have a right to have this data erased.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A breach of the rules could mean fines of up to two per cent of a company's annual turnover, or $1 million (£840,000).The changes also require a company to tell its customers within 24 hours if their information has been hacked.This change came in the wake of Sony's six day delay in telling Playstation account holders of a hack attack which saw the personal information of millions of customers stolen.EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding is driving the right to be forgotten bill.EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding drives the 'right to be forgotten' billThe proposals under the EU Data Protection Regulation are expected to become law by the end of 2013 if they are approved by all 27 EU member states and the European Parliament.The data concerned will be everything an individual has given the companies themselves, including posts, uploaded songs and photos, Mina Andreeva, press officer for the Justice Commissioner, told MailOnline.If you haven’t given your consent, you have the right to object,she said.If the person doesn’t comply, you can appeal to your data protection officer.The legislation will not affect freedom of expression and the media, with Article 80 protecting the rights of journalists and bloggers.&lt;br /&gt;The bill could spell serious trouble for companies like Facebook whose business models rely on this data&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bill could spell serious trouble for companies like Facebook whose business models rely on this data.Individual member states will need to make laws that ensure this, Andreeva said.But the move has rattled major technology and Internet-based companies, with executives concerned the legislation will be almost impossible to implement in full or will do serious damage to their business models.Access to a certain amount of personal information - and the digital trace that people leave after using the Internet for any length of time - is a critical element in the business model of companies from Amazon to Groupon.Lawyers also say the EU risks setting up a legislative landscape at sharp variance with that of the United States, where federal law puts less of the burden of responsibility on companies.Some warn that the proposed new rules in their current form will be too complicated and expensive to implement:Setting businesses an unachievable goal, whether they are European or the US technology giants that the Commission unfairly seems to be seeking to curb, is unhelpful in terms of compliance and frankly bad for consumers, said Mark Watts, data protection partner at technology law firm Bristows.On the other hand Google, one of the biggest companies that could be affected, offered a cautiously positive reaction:We support simplifying privacy rules in Europe to both protect consumers online and stimulate economic growth, said Al Verney, the company's spokesman in Brussels.It is possible to have simple rules that do both. We look forward to debating the proposals over the coming months.Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2092120/Don-t-like-online-You-ll-soon-able-delete-sweeping-new-EU-laws-data-privacy.html#ixzz1kac3SLOT&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Google-phobics can just log off. They need to remember that every digital action has consequences By Dominique Jackson Last updated at 3:35 PM on 26th January 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was sorely tempted to write this piece with my trusty fountain pen on an old piece of parchment and then jump onto my penny farthing to pedal the finished article up to Daily Mail towers and hand it over to the RightMinds team in person.Fortunately, thanks to the relentless pace of technological progress, I am able to gather my thoughts in the comfort of my own office and bash them out on a keyboard at my desk. Presently, I will push the publish button and, by the magic of the worldwide intra-webs, the finished blog post will appear on Mail Online.No matter how often I do this, it still feels to me like a minor miracle and I frequently give thanks for the computer and digital technology which has made all of our lives so much easier in so many, many ways.The latest outbreak of outrage is in response to Google¿s new unified privacy policy which comes into effect on 1st March.The latest outbreak of outrage is in response to Google¿s new unified privacy policy which comes into effect on 1st March&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Am I worried that Google is about to link up every little bit of information it has gleaned about me from its various websites, so that it can bombard me with suggestions and adverts based on things I have already – willingly – tapped into their rather handy search engine, their hugely useful video clip site or my secondary email account? No, I am not worried. Not in the least.Anybody who is upset at the thought of an advert for cheap flights, for a new face cream or for a charming hotel in Tuscany popping up, as if unbidden, on their computer, has a very simple choice. They should simply foreswear the evil internet, just log off and while they are at it, why not go up to the attic where they might well have left their last dog-eared copy of the Yellow Pages.Privacy advocates have been grumbling for years about the sinister motives of the internet behemoths, of which the chief villain is, of course, Google. The latest outbreak of outrage is in response to Google’s new unified privacy policy which comes into effect on 1st March.The new policy will allow Google to combine information from any of its services to which you are signed in, treating you as a single user across all their products and thus vastly enhancing the quality of the information they hold about you.In a reversal of the company’s previous privacy policies, there is no opt-out on this new one. In short, if you are not happy with this collation of your data, you better not use Google any more. So far, so Big Brother. The end, as many critics have noted, of Google’s much vaunted Don’t be evil corporate motto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But let’s get this clear. This move by Google cannot be compared to the genuine and huge-scale breach of privacy recently suffered by users of the O2 mobile phone network. In a suspected technical glitch, users of O2 and the associated Tesco and giffgaff networks found that their phone numbers were inadvertently sent to every website they had visited using their smart phones or mobile devices.Digital natives: Those born since 1980, who have no concept of a pre-internet world, have a very different sense of privacy than their elders.Digital natives: Those born since 1980, who have no concept of a pre-internet world, have a very different sense of privacy than their elders&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The blunder has exposed O2 users to unwanted calls and spam messages. It highlights the vulnerability of so much of the technology we take for granted and shows us just how easily cyber security and data protection can be breached.We have a right to demand more vigilance from these companies but by the same token, perhaps we need to be a little more attentive ourselves? Have we been lulled into a false sense of security by the very ease and simplicity of all this technology? We have come to believe that the internet allows us to get something for nothing, all your information, music, entertainment and everything for free. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. We would do well to remember that every single time we go onto the internet, we are actually engaging in a transaction.&lt;br /&gt;Just log off: if you dislike websites targeting adverts to you, you should simply avoid the net.Just log off: if you dislike websites targeting adverts to you, you should simply avoid the net.You receive your sought-for information in exchange for information you are in turn giving out – whether consciously or not. That includes your IP (internet protocol) address, your e-mail address, your preferred brand of toothpaste, your taste in music, food and holidays and even your taste in friends. Don’t want to publicise the latter? Better leave the computer/laptop/tablet/smartphone/mobile switched off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You get to post your pictures on a forum such as Facebook or Flickr so all your friends around the world can see them with one click. In exchange for this facility, Facebook reserves the right to run little ads for things it reckons might well interest you in a little column down the right hand side. I never look at the ads myself. They seem to me to be a fair price to pay for the many ways in which I use Facebook. By the same token, by recklessly shopping on-line I seem to have let my supermarket into some of my best-kept secrets: the expensive loo paper; the cornucopia of dog treats; the sad predilection for cheap French burgundy; the occasional tub of premium ice cream.I suppose I could feel exposed? On the other hand, it certainly makes it much easier the next time I want to shop online and a list of my usual purchases pops up right away. It certainly saves all the bother of pushing round the trolley while squinting at a scribbled list – like I used to do.&lt;br /&gt;Neither is any of this so-called spying particularly new. There has been a lively market in consumers’ personal details since the 20th century dawn of the advertising industry. Data protection laws may have been tightened of late but most advertisers can and will still sell your e-mail address and several other pertinent personal details for a song. You can pick up some databases for as little as a pound per thousand names.This move by Google cannot be compared to the genuine and huge-scale breach of privacy recently suffered by users of the O2 mobile phone network&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This move by Google cannot be compared to the genuine and huge-scale breach of privacy recently suffered by users of the O2 mobile phone network.We are more than a decade into the 21st century and concepts of privacy and anonymity have altered dramatically in those ten years. For individuals of my generation and older, the frightening speed of the internet, its global reach and its sheer power can seem risky, threatening and perilous.  It is no surprise that we feel vulnerable at the thought of – inadvertently - disclosing so many personal details.For the kids, digital natives born since 1980, who have no concept of a pre-internet world, it seems normal, natural and they have no reservations whatsoever about posting all manner of personal information on whatever forum. Good for them, I say, although I do tend to advise the jobseekers to take down the more risqué photos.Perhaps both cohorts would do well to remember that every digital action has a consequence and every digital action, from the simple process of logging onto a website to commenting on a newspaper article, is also a transaction. There is no such thing as a free lunch in our brave new connected world.Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2092126/Google-privacy-policy-changes-Every-digital-action-consequences.html#ixzz1kadQf043&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD&lt;br /&gt;then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JAMES 5:1-3&lt;br /&gt;1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.&lt;br /&gt;2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REVELATION 18:10,17,19&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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,&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EZEKIEL 7:19&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REVELATION 13:16-18&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WORLD MARKET RESULTS&lt;br /&gt;http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/&lt;br /&gt;CNBC VIDEOS&lt;br /&gt;http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/?tabid=15839796&amp;tabheader=false&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS THU JANUARY 26,2012&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;09:30 AM +2.43&lt;br /&gt;10:00 AM +55.35&lt;br /&gt;10:30 AM +55.13&lt;br /&gt;11:00 AM +31.33&lt;br /&gt;11:30 AM +25.70&lt;br /&gt;12:00 PM +37.50&lt;br /&gt;12:30 PM +12.10&lt;br /&gt;01:00 PM +15.59&lt;br /&gt;01:30 PM +26.67&lt;br /&gt;02:00 PM -2.58&lt;br /&gt;02:30 PM -24.43&lt;br /&gt;03:00 PM -34.89&lt;br /&gt;03:30 PM -47.69&lt;br /&gt;04:00 PM -22.33 12,734.63&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;S&amp;P 500 1318.45 -7.61&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NASDAQ 2805.28 -13.03&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GOLD 1,721.30 +21.20&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OIL 99.79 +0.39&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TSE 300 12,464.32 -74.59&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CDNX 1614.77 +10.72&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;S&amp;P/TSX/60 710.29 -5.89&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MORNING,NEWS,STATS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE&lt;br /&gt;Dow +46 points at 4 minutes of trading today.&lt;br /&gt;Dow +1 points at low today.&lt;br /&gt;Dow +55 points at high today so far.&lt;br /&gt;GOLD opens at $1,727.40.OIL opens at $101.32 today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS&lt;br /&gt;Dow -34 points at low today so far.&lt;br /&gt;Dow +55 points at high today so far.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS&lt;br /&gt;Dow -34 points at low today.&lt;br /&gt;Dow +55 points at high today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NATURAL GAS-THU -109 BCF&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;India to pay gold instead of dollars for Iranian oil&lt;br /&gt;Debka File January 25, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;India is the first buyer of Iranian oil to agree to pay for its purchases in gold instead of the US dollar, DEBKAfile’s intelligence and Iranian sources report exclusively.  Those sources expect China to follow suit. India and China take about one million barrels per day, or 40 percent of Iran’s total exports of 2.5 million bpd. Both are superpowers in terms of gold assets.By trading in gold, New Delhi and Beijing enable Tehran to bypass the upcoming freeze on its central bank’s assets and the oil embargo which the European Union’s foreign ministers agreed to impose Monday, Jan. 23. The EU currently buys around 20 percent of Iran’s oil exports.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The vast sums involved in these transactions are expected, furthermore, to boost the price of gold and depress the value of the dollar on world markets.&lt;br /&gt;Iran’s second largest customer after China, India purchases around $12 billion a year’s worth of Iranian crude, or about 12 percent of its consumption. Delhi is to execute its transactions, according to our sources, through two state-owned banks: the Calcutta-based UCO Bank, whose board of directors is made up of Indian government and Reserve Bank of India representatives; and Halk Bankasi (Peoples Bank), Turkey’s seventh largest bank which is owned by the government.&lt;br /&gt;An Indian delegation visited Tehran last week to discuss payment options in view of the new sanctions. The two sides were reported to have agreed that payment for the oil purchased would be partly in yen and partly in rupees. The switch to gold was kept dark.India thus joins China in opting out of the US-led European sanctions against Iran’s international oil and financial business. Turkey announced publicly last week that it would not adhere to any sanctions against Iran’s nuclear program unless they were imposed by the United Nations Security Council.The EU decision of Monday banned the signing of new oil contracts with Iran at once, while phasing out existing transactions by July 1, 2012, when the European embargo, like the measure enforced by the United States, becomes total. The European foreign ministers also approved a freeze on the assets of the Central Bank of Iran which handles all the country’s oil transactions.However, the damage those sanctions cause the Iranian economy will be substantially cushioned by the oil deals to be channeled through Turkish and Indian state banks.  China for its part has declared its opposition to sanctions against Iran.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources disclose that Tehran has set up alternative financial mechanisms with China and Russia for getting paid for its oil in currencies other than US dollars. Both Beijing and Moscow are keeping the workings of those mechanisms top secret.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Obama Signs Global Internet Treaty Worse Than SOPA-White House bypasses Senate to ink agreement that could allow Chinese companies to demand ISPs remove web content in US with no legal oversight Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Thursday, January 26, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Months before the debate about Internet censorship raged as SOPA and PIPA dominated the concerns of web users, President Obama signed an international treaty that would allow companies in China or any other country in the world to demand ISPs remove web content in the US with no legal oversight whatsoever.The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement was signed by Obama on October 1 2011, yet is currently the subject of a White House petition demanding Senators be forced to ratify the treaty. The White House has circumvented the necessity to have the treaty confirmed by lawmakers by presenting it an as executive agreement, although legal scholars have highlighted the dubious nature of this characterization.The hacktivist group Anonymous attacked and took offline the Federal Trade Commission’s website yesterday in protest against the treaty, which was also the subject of demonstrations across major cities in Poland, a country set to sign the agreement today.Under the provisions of ACTA, copyright holders will be granted sweeping direct powers to demand ISPs remove material from the Internet on a whim. Whereas ISPs normally are only forced to remove content after a court order, all legal oversight will be abolished, a precedent that will apply globally, rendering the treaty worse in its potential scope for abuse than SOPA or PIPA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A country known for its enforcement of harsh Internet censorship policies like China could demand under the treaty that an ISP in the United States remove content or terminate a website on its server altogether. As we have seen from the enforcement of similar copyright policies in the US, websites are sometimes targeted for no justifiable reason.The groups pushing the treaty also want to empower copyright holders with the ability to demand that users who violate intellectual property rights (with no legal process) have their Internet connections terminated, a punishment that could only ever be properly enforced by the creation of an individual Internet ID card for every web user, a system that is already in the works.The same industry rightsholder groups that support the creation of ACTA have also called for mandatory network-level filtering by Internet Service Providers and for Internet Service Providers to terminate citizens’ Internet connection on repeat allegation of copyright infringement (the Three Strikes /Graduated Response) so there is reason to believe that ACTA will seek to increase intermediary liability and require these things of Internet Service Providers,reports the Electronic Frontier Foundation.The treaty will also mandate that ISPs disclose personal user information to the copyright holder, while providing authorities across the globe with broader powers to search laptops and Internet-capable devices at border checkpoints.In presenting ACTA as an international agreement rather than a treaty, the Obama administration managed to circumvent the legislative process and avoid having to get Senate approval, a method questioned by Senator Wyden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That said, even if Obama has declared ACTA an executive agreement (while those in Europe insist that it’s a binding treaty), there is a very real Constitutional question here: can it actually be an executive agreement? asks TechDirt. The law is clear that the only things that can be covered by executive agreements are things that involve items that are solely under the President’s mandate. That is, you can’t sign an executive agreement that impacts the things Congress has control over. But here’s the thing: intellectual property, in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, is an issue given to Congress, not the President. Thus, there’s a pretty strong argument that the president legally cannot sign any intellectual property agreements as an executive agreement and, instead, must submit them to the Senate.26 European Union member states along with the EU itself are set to sign the treaty at a ceremony today in Tokyo. 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His denial follows Palestinian Media Watch's exposure of the PA Mufti's speech in which he cited the Islamic tradition attributed to Muhammad, saying:The Hour [of Resurrection] will not come until you fight the Jews. The Jew will hide behind stones or trees. Then the stones or trees will call: Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;However, the Mufti explained to AP, Reuters and Israeli radio and TV that he simply quoted Islamic tradition and therefore he is not responsible for its content. When interviewed on Israeli radio Reshet Bet, the PA Mufti claimed:We are not calling to kill Jews and we did not call to kill Jews, we never said kill Jews.The Hadith says [it]. I am not responsible for the Hadith. The Hadith is in the book. The Hadith is a noble Hadith, it is not my Hadith.[Reshet Bet (Israeli radio), Jan. 22, 2012]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The PA Minister of Religious Affairs, Mahmoud Al-Habbash, also defended the Mufti, saying on the same radio program:This is not incitement to kill Jews. We cannot change the historical religious writings and we don't want to change them. However, we are talking now about the reality. The reality is that we want to achieve a just peace.PMW rejects PA Mufti's and Minister of Religion's claims:The statements of the two highest religious authorities in the Palestinian Authority are misrepresentations of what the Mufti said. In fact, the words he chose to provide a context for the Hadith show that he quoted this Hadith that anticipates Muslims killing Jews, to make it relevant for the current Palestinian-Israeli conflict.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Mufti introduced the Hadith by referring to the 47 years of Fatah's and the Palestinian revolution, thus placing the Hadith in today's context. He then added that this is a reliable Hadith from the reliable collections and part of accepted Islamic law and belief. After citing the Hadith, the Mufti claimed that Israelis are planting the Gharqad tree surrounding the [Israeli] settlements and colonies,thus suggesting that Israel is preparing for when the Muslims fulfill this Hadith and come to kill them. According to the Islamic tradition the Gharqad tree will be the only tree that will not call out to Muslims to kill the Jews hiding behind them. By saying Israelis are already planting Gharqad trees around their cities, the Mufti was explicitly relating the Hadith about the killing of Jews to the current time. He was not merely citing historical religious writings,as claimed.AP, Reuters, and Israeli radio and TV all cited the Mufti's quote and his denial that he did not present the Hadith as relevant today. However, none of the media quoted the context in which the Mufti cited the Hadith, which shows his denial to be a misrepresentation and that he did relate it to today's conflict.In addition, the Mufti claimed to MENA [Middle East News Agency] that possibly some sentences or phrases were cut from his speech, which were interpreted incorrectly.PMW affirms that we have the entire 5-minute speech as was broadcast on PA TV and that this is the authentic context.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israeli PM responds&lt;br /&gt;Israeli PM Netanyahu responded to the PMW report on the Mufti saying: These are grave words that the world needs to condemn, and asked the Attorney General to start a criminal investigation to determine if this violated Israel's incitement laws, the Jerusalem Post reported. [Jan. 22, 2012]The following is the Mufti's words at the Fatah event that show the context in which he cited the Hadith, followed by excerpts from AP and Reuters' reports:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moderator at Fatah ceremony:&lt;br /&gt;Our war with the descendants of the apes and pigs (i.e., Jews) is a war of religion and faith. Long Live Fatah! [I invite you,] our honorable Sheikh.PA Mufti Muhammad Hussein comes to the podium and says:47 years ago the [Fatah] revolution started. Which revolution? The modern revolution of the Palestinian people's history. In fact, Palestine in its entirety is a revolution, since [Caliph] Umar came [to conquer Jerusalem, 637 CE], and continuing today, and until the End of Days. The reliable Hadith (tradition attributed to Muhammad), [found] in the two reliable collections, Bukhari and Muslim, says:The Hour [of Resurrection] will not come until you fight the Jews.The Jew will hide behind stones or trees.Then the stones or trees will call:Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.&lt;br /&gt;Except the Gharqad tree [which will keep silent].Therefore it is no wonder that you see Gharqad [trees] surrounding the [Israeli] settlements and colonies. This is Palestine, when we talk about it, from the beginning of the Jihad, with the continuation of the Jihad, with the struggle, and with the way of the Martyrs.[PA TV (Fatah), Jan. 9, 2012]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Israeli leader condemns Palestinian Muslim cleric&lt;br /&gt;by Diaa Hadid Published: Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 11:01 a.m.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The Palestinians' top Muslim cleric faced sharp Israeli criticism Sunday for a speech in which he quoted a religious text that includes passages about killing Jews in an end-of-days struggle.Mufti Mohammed Hussein's comments came at a political gathering of supporters of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. He said his remarks were taken out of context and that he didn't incite people to kill Jews. But by speaking at the venue, Hussein appeared to be linking the battle to the conflict with Israel.The hour of resurrection will not come until you fight the Jews, Hussein told the gathering, citing a hadith, or saying attributed to the Prophet Muhammad. The Jews will hide behind stones and trees. But the trees and the stones will call: oh Muslim, oh servant of God, there is a Jew hiding behind me so come and kill him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The mufti delivered his three-minute speech on Jan. 7 in an Arab neighborhood of east Jerusalem during celebrations of the 47th anniversary of the Palestinian movement Fatah, said Itamar Marcus of Palestine Media Watch, an Israeli watchdog group that tracks incitement.Marcus' group posted excerpts of the speech on YouTube last week. The comments drew angry reactions from Israelis on Sunday.We're talking about a heinous offense that all nations of the world must condemn, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement sent to reporters by text message. He asked the Israeli attorney general to launch an investigation.It is unclear what authority Israel would have since Hussein is appointed to his position by the Palestinian president. There was no immediate comment from Abbas' office.Hussein, who is based in Jerusalem, said his comments were taken out of context.I was speaking about the final signs of the day of resurrection,Hussein said.I did not incite, and I did not call for killing. We are not, at present, at the end of days.The Quran, Islam's holy book, offers contradictory attitudes toward Jews and Christians. There are texts that enshrine tolerance and respect for other faiths, while others are spiked with hatred and incitement. ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Israel condemns Palestinian cleric over sermon&lt;br /&gt;by Dan Williams JERUSALEM | Sun Jan 22, 2012 12:30pm EST&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;(Reuters) - Israel condemned the Palestinians' top cleric on Sunday for reciting, at a meeting of the dominant U.S.-backed Fatah faction, a passage from Muslim scripture that called for the killing of Jews.Preaching on January 9 at a rally marking the 47th anniversary of Fatah's founding, Mufti of Jerusalem Mohammed Hussein read out a Hadith, or traditional text attributed to the Prophet Mohammad.The hour of judgment will not come until you fight the Jews, he said.The Jew will hide behind the stone and behind the tree. The stone and the tree will cry, Oh Muslim, Oh Servant of God, this is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Palestinian Authority denied the sermon constituted a call to arms.It remained unclear if comments from such a senior cleric would derail efforts to resume exploratory peace talks with Israel, which began this month after more than a year of deadlock over the expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.&lt;br /&gt;Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has argued peacemaking has been blighted by incitement against the Jewish state from some Palestinian officials, said of the mufti's sermon: This is a very serious offence that all the countries of the world must condemn.He said he had asked Israel's attorney-general to open a criminal investigation. The Justice Ministry had no immediate comment.Interviewed by Reuters Television, Hussein described the Hadith as an end-of-times prophesy, not a political precept.There is nothing in my speech that calls for killing, he said.I was speaking about my people, its steadfastness and its existence in this land until the hour (of resurrection).Video of the rally circulated by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), an Israeli watchdog group, showed a man introducing the mufti by saying:Our war with the descendants of the apes and pigs is a war of religion and faith. Long live Fatah! The Koran retells the Exodus story of some Jews rebelling against Moses after their deliverance from bondage, and says God punished them by turning them into pigs and apes.Palestinian religious affairs minister Mahmoud al-Habash confirmed the details of the rally as they appeared in the PMW video but said: Our political position remains unchanged. We believe in peace. He (Hussein) was simply quoting a Hadith that talks about destiny, about what could happen in the future.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israel captured East Jerusalem, including two major mosques that are under the mufti's authority, in the 1967 Middle East war. Israel deems the entire city its capital, a status not recognized abroad, where there is widespread support for the Palestinians' demand to found a state with a capital in East Jerusalem.On Netanyahu's orders, Israeli police last year detained for questioning two West Bank settler rabbis on suspicion they had encouraged the killing of Arabs. A Justice Ministry spokesman said a decision on prosecuting them was still pending.(Writing by Dan Williams; Additional reporting by Jihan Abdalla, Roleen Tafakji and Nidal al-Mughrabi; Editing by Douglas Hamilton and Janet Lawrence)&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDoV8ZL9Xkc&amp;feature=player_embedded&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;http://israndjer.blogspot.com&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18902243-4391456172730164557?l=israndjer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDoV8ZL9Xkc&amp;feature=player_embedded' title='MUFTI OPENLY SAYS KILL JEWS'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18902243/posts/default/4391456172730164557'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18902243/posts/default/4391456172730164557'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2012/01/mufti-openly-says-kill-jews.html' title='MUFTI OPENLY SAYS KILL JEWS'/><author><name>STAN L</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11041400179179367939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yb51zBn6LsQ/SYn1N0hbmWI/AAAAAAAAAAc/AJdshT6GEDw/S220/israelflag.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902243.post-39929058564293911</id><published>2012-01-25T14:45:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-25T16:44:09.819-05:00</updated><title type='text'>US,ARABS PRESS RUSSIA ON SYRIA</title><content type='html'>OBAMA SCAM&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V1nmn2zRMc&amp;feature=player_embedded&lt;br /&gt;PHIL BERG - OBAMA CRIMES&lt;br /&gt;http://obamacrimes.com/&lt;br /&gt;PROTECT OUR LIBERTY&lt;br /&gt;http://protectourliberty.org/&lt;br /&gt;MARIO APUZZO&lt;br /&gt;http://puzo1.blogspot.com/&lt;br /&gt;LAURIE ROTH SHOW&lt;br /&gt;http://therothshow.com/&lt;br /&gt;DOUG HAGMANN&lt;br /&gt;http://homelandsecurityus.com/&lt;br /&gt;CANADA FREE PRESS-JUDI MCLEOD&lt;br /&gt;http://www.canadafreepress.com/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OBAMA ELIGIBILTY MARCH VIDEO&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTbUPs8b7bY&amp;feature=player_embedded&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csM_VjVrgws&amp;feature=player_embedded&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qe2BH9DFsc&amp;feature=player_embedded&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU62aC0CrO0&amp;feature=player_embedded&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgtmQGUg62c&amp;feature=player_embedded&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYlF17_twVI&amp;feature=player_embedded&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;AND THE OTHER ISSUE WE MUST KEEP ON THE TABLE AND IN PEOPLES MEMORY IS THAT BARRY SOETORO IS REALLY BARACK OBAMAS REAL NAME AND HE WAS BORN IN KENYA NOT AMERICA.BARRY SOETORO AKA BARACK OBAMA IS NOT ELLIGABLE TO BE THE PRESIDENT OF THE USA GOVERNMENT.EVERYTHING HE SIGNS IN BARACK OBAMA IS ILLEGEL,BECAUCE HIS REAL NAME IS BARRY SOETORO.AMERICAS CONSTITUTION WILL BE IN SHAMBLES ONCE THIS SCAM IS FINALLY REVEALED TO THE WORLD.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BY THE TIMELINE IN OBAMAS OWN BOOKS-OBAMA WENT TO PAKISTAN ON HIS INDONESIAN PASSPORT.ANOTHER ISSUE OUT OF 400 PEOPLE AT COLUMBIA THAT GRADUATED THE YEAR OBAMA OR BARRY SOETORO DID,NO ONE COMES FORWARD TO SAY THEY KNEW HIM.HOW COME AT HAWAII HOSPITAL WERE OBAMA CLAIMS HE WAS BORN,NO NURSES OR ANYBODY CAME FORWARD TO SAY THEY WITNESSED OR TOOK PART IN THE BIRTH.THIS BARRY SOETORO OR AKA BARACK OBAMAS LIFE IS A COMPLETE FRAUD.AND AMERICA IS CONNED TO BELIEVE THE LIE.WHY WOULD SOETORO AKA OBAMA SPEND 2 MILLION DOLLARS TO STOP ALL THESE LAWSUITS IF THERES NO COVERUP.HE WOULD JUST SHOW THE PROOF OF EACH EVENT-PLACE OF BIRTH,CERTIFICATE AND REAL NAME BARRY SOETORO INDONESIAN PASSPORT.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The proof is everywhere from statements and affidavits from Government parliament sources and Obama’s own Grandmother who says she saw him born in a hospital in Mombassa Kenya. The former ambassador to Kenya says Obama was born in Mombassa Kenya, so do others.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-735722?ref=feeds/latest Obama Blocked From Registering For Alabama State Primary Until Eligibility Is Validated By Court.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DtDTHIG2ps &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WORLD GOVERNMENT&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnq5cQMiAB8&amp;feature=related&lt;br /&gt;http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2009/07/we-are-already-under-global-government.html#links&lt;br /&gt;DICK MORRIS-This truly creates a global economic system. From now on, don’t look to Washington for the rule making, look to Brussels.&lt;br /&gt;LORD MONCKTON ON WORLD GOVERNMENT&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHyMYEzRyf8&amp;feature=player_embedded&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUUcb36a_4I&amp;feature=player_embedded&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA0xEM1KwG4&amp;feature=player_embedded&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7o1S4m5mCw&amp;feature=player_embedded&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieC7HYC5cto&amp;feature=player_embedded&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EPHESIANS 6:10-13&lt;br /&gt;10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.&lt;br /&gt;11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.&lt;br /&gt;12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,(DEMONIC ANGELS IN HIGH PLACES) against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.(SPIRTIUAL DEMONIC PERSONS)&lt;br /&gt;13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LUKE 4:5-7(BECAUSE SATAN OFFERS WORLD POWER, WORLD ORDERERS HAVE ACCEPTED SATANS GIFT)&lt;br /&gt;5 And the devil, taking him (JESUS) up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.&lt;br /&gt;6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.&lt;br /&gt;7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DANIEL 7:23-25&lt;br /&gt;23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.&lt;br /&gt;24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.&lt;br /&gt;25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DANIEL 12:4,1&lt;br /&gt;4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.&lt;br /&gt;1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REVELATION 13:1-3,7,8,12,16-18&lt;br /&gt;1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.&lt;br /&gt;2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.&lt;br /&gt;3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.&lt;br /&gt;7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.&lt;br /&gt;8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.&lt;br /&gt;12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.&lt;br /&gt;16 And he 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:&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REVELATION 17:3,7,9-10,12,18&lt;br /&gt;3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.&lt;br /&gt;7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.&lt;br /&gt;9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.&lt;br /&gt;10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.&lt;br /&gt;12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.&lt;br /&gt;18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Elites Pushing Class Warfare is Just Another False Paradigm Eric Blair Infowars.com January 25, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why is it when the rich super class speaks about class warfare, the downtrodden applaud?  When billionaire Warren Buffett said, There’s class warfare all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning, the struggling middle class treated him like one of them, as if he’s on their side.More recently, billionaire investor George Soros warned of a coming class war in the U.S. as reported by the Daily Beast, where he proudly points out that his prediction of riots in the streets has already begun.With the Occupy movement’s beginnings having ties to funding by Soros, many believe him to be stoking this so-called class warfare. Although Soros denies directly funding the movement’s beginnings, his vast philanthropic contributions have far-reaching tentacles into many revolutions around the globe.Even if we are to naively take Soros’ word that he was not involved in spurring these global revolutions, despite the evidence to the contrary, he clearly promotes the idea of class warfare with the political left cheering him as a crusader for good.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Conveniently, the Occupy movement has adopted the catchy but brainless us versus the 1% mantra as the rallying call for everyone in the 99% to blame their problems on the so-called rich 1%.  It sounds a lot like stoking class warfare to me.However, in order to instigate warfare there must be a crisis to cause enough pain to force people to arms, and the sides of good and evil must be defined.  Soros does just that in the Daily Beast article where he says people have reason to be frustrated and angry at the cost of bailing out the financial system, and that the world faces one of the most dangerous periods of modern history—a period of evil.Of course, those statements are hard to argue with and calling the ruling class evil will resonate with the masses.  But again, Soros is clearly in the ruling class 1%, so why would he, like Buffett, pretend they’re outsiders while stoking hatred toward themselves? It seems they are using the crisis and class warfare paradigm to move the masses to support what the global elite have been striving for all along: less competition and more consolidation of power.In the crisis period, the impossible becomes possible.And by impossible he explains the Occupy movement has put on the agenda issues that the institutional left has failed to put on the agenda for a quarter of a century.To further explain the nature of unintended evil in the financial markets, Soros is quoted as saying in the same Daily Beast article Unrestrained competition can drive people into actions that they would otherwise regret.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To many people, this echoes John D. Rockefeller’s infamous quote Competition is a sin.Rockefeller ran the monopoly oil company Standard Oil, which still exists to this day but goes by different names:- Standard Oil of New Jersey became Esso, later to be renamed Exxon – which became a key part of ExxonMobil, currently the most profitable company in the world — earning 30 billion, 460 million dollars.&lt;br /&gt;- Standard Oil of California became Chevron – currently the third most profitable company in the world at 19 billion, 24 million dollars per year.&lt;br /&gt;- Continental Oil Company became Conoco, now a part of ConocoPhillips – currently the sixteenth most profitable company in the world at 11 billion, 358 million dollars.&lt;br /&gt;- BP Amoco is a conglomerate of several Standard Oil splinter companies. Yahoo Finance currently lists BP Amoco’s gross profit at 16 billion, 28 million dollars.&lt;br /&gt;- Therefore, four out of the six supermajors in the oil industry are direct Rockefeller spinoffs – BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips. (Source)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Competition has been replaced by the appearance of competition.  And this includes the apparent differences between Soros and Buffett on the left versus the Koch brothers on the right.  Those stuck in the left-right paradigm love to hate them, while they all seek to eliminate genuine competition hidden behind their respective brands of ideology.Additionally, Soros promotes a single European Treasury with the authority to impose and collect taxes from all member nations as the solution to the Eurozone crisis.  In America, he agrees with Buffett that the rich should pay more in taxes to strengthen the institution of government, as if it hasn’t given enough power to itself despite its failings.Furthermore, the notion that taxing the rich will solve any of America’s or Europe’s financial problems may be the biggest false paradigm of all.  America officially has a national debt of around $15 Trillion with another $26 Trillion in financial bailout costs and double that amount in upcoming liabilities.  There is literally not enough wealth in the world to fix that problem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What’s more,  the real elite will never have to pay taxes as they move their money globally and play on loopholes within the borders. Anyone remember General Electric paying no taxes on $14.2 billion in profits; in fact they got a $3.2 billion tax credit from Americans?  Need I say more about the silliness of this ever working in the current political environment? So what does Soros say will be the next immediate battle of this rising class war? As anger rises, riots on the streets of American cities are inevitable. Yes, yes, yes, he (Soros) says, almost gleefully. The response to the unrest could be more damaging than the violence itself.It will be an excuse for cracking down and using strong-arm tactics to maintain law and order, which, carried to an extreme, could bring about a repressive political system, a society where individual liberty is much more constrained, which would be a break with the tradition of the United States.As he says gleefully.Still want class warfare? How about supporting the opposite: decentralization, competition, supporting local commerce, local governance, and local self-sufficiency? Eric Blair’s post originally appeared on Activist Post.&lt;br /&gt;http://www.infowars.com/helicopters-to-buzz-downtown-la-in-urban-warfare-drill/&lt;br /&gt;http://www.infowars.com/rational-tariffs-lower-irrational-trade-deficits/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DANIEL 7:23-24&lt;br /&gt;23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)&lt;br /&gt;24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD REGIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Strategic Importance of Iran for Russia and China: Eurasian Triple Alliance Post Categories: Head Stories Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 13:04 Beijing -CONFRONTATION BETWEEN MILITARY BLOCS: The Eurasian Triple Alliance&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.4thmedia.org/2012/01/24/the-strategic-importance-of-iran-for-russia-and-china/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Despite areas of difference and rivalries between Moscow and Tehran, ties between the two countries, based on common interests, have developed significantly.Both Russia and Iran are both major energy exporters, they have deeply seated interests in the South Caucasus. They are both firmly opposed to NATO’s missile shield, with a view to preventing the U.S. and E.U. from controlling the energy corridors around the Caspian Sea Basin.Moscow and Tehran’s bilateral ties are also part of a broader and overlapping alliance involving Armenia, Tajikistan, Belarus, Syria, and Venezuela. Yet, above all things, both republics are also two of Washington’s main geo-strategic targets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Eurasian Triple Alliance: The Strategic Importance of Iran for Russia and China &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;China, the Russian Federation, and Iran are widely considered to be allies and partners. Together the Russian Federation, the People’s Republic of China, and the Islamic Republic of Iran form a strategic barrier directed against U.S. expansionism. The three countries form a triple alliance, which constitutes the core of a Eurasian coalition directed against U.S. encroachment into Eurasia and its quest for global hegemony.While China confronts U.S. encroachment in East Asia and the Pacific, Iran and Russia respectively confront the U.S. led coalition in Southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. All three countries are threatened in Central Asia and are wary of the U.S. and NATO military presence in Afghanistan.Iran can be characterized as a geo-strategic pivot. The geo-political equation in Eurasia very much hinges on the structure of Iran’s political alliances. Were Iran to become an ally of the United States, this would seriously hamper or even destabilize Russia and China. This also pertains to Iran’s ethno-cultural, linguistic, economic, religious, and geo-political links to the Caucasus and Central Asia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moreover, were the structure of political alliances to shift in favor of the U.S., Iran could also become the greatest conduit for U.S. influence and expansion in the Caucasus and Central Asia. This has to do with the fact that Iran is the gateway to Russia’s soft southern underbelly (or Near Abroad) in the Caucasus and Central Asia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In such a scenario, Russia as an energy corridor would be weakened as Washington would unlock Iran’s potential as a primary energy corridor for the Caspian Sea Basin, implying de facto U.S. geopolitical control over Iranian pipeline routes. In this regard, part of Russia’s success as an energy transit route has been due to U.S. efforts to weaken Iran by preventing energy from transiting through Iranian territory.If Iran were to change camps and enter the U.S. sphere of influence, China’s economy and national security would also be held hostage on two counts. Chinese energy security would be threatened directly because Iranian energy reserves would no longer be secure and would be subject to U.S. geo-political interests. Additionally, Central Asia could also re-orient its orbit should Washington open a direct and enforced conduit from the open seas via Iran. Thus, both Russia and China want a strategic alliance with Iran as a means of screening them from the geo-political encroachment of the United States. Fortress Eurasia would be left exposed without Iran. This is why neither Russia nor China could ever accept a war against Iran. Should Washington transform Iran into a client then Russia and China would be under threat.Misreading the Support of China and Russia for U.N. Security Council Sanctions&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a major misreading of past Russian and Chinese support of U.N. sanctions against Iran. Even though Beijing and Moscow allowed U.N. Security Council sanctions to be passed against their Iranian ally, they did it for strategic reasons, namely with a view to keeping Iran out of Washington’s orbit.In reality, the United States would much rather co-opt Tehran as a satellite or junior partner than take the unnecessary risk and gamble of an all-out war with the Iranians. What Russian and Chinese support for past sanctions did was to allow for the development of a wider rift between Tehran and Washington. In this regard, realpolitik is at work. As American-Iranian tensions broaden, Iranian relations with Russia and China become closer and Iran becomes more and more entrenched in its relationship with Moscow and Beijing.Russia and China, however, would never support crippling sanctions or any form of economic embargo that would threaten Iranian national security. This is why both China and Russia have refused to be coerced by Washington into joining its new 2012 unilateral sanctions. The Russians have also warned the European Union to stop being Washington’s pawns, because they are hurting themselves by playing along with the schemes of the United States. In this regard Russia commented on the impractical and virtually unworkable E.U. plans for an oil embargo against Iran. Tehran has also made similar warnings and has dismissed the E.U. oil embargo as a psychological tactic that is bound to fail.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Russo-Iranian Security Cooperation and Strategic Coordination&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In August 2011, the head of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, Secretary-General Saaed (Said) Jalili, and the head of the National Security Council of the Russian Federation, Secretary Nikolai Platonovich Patrushev met in Tehran to discuss the Iranian nuclear energy program as well as bilateral cooperation. Russia wanted to help Iran rebuff the new wave of accusations by Washington directed against Iran. Soon after Patrushev and his Russian team arrived in Tehran, the Iranian Foreign Minister, Ali Akbar Salehi, flew to Moscow. Both Jalili and Patrushev met again in September 2011, but this time in Russia. Jalili went to Moscow first and then crossed the Urals to the Russian city of Yekaterinburg.The Iran-Russia Yekaterinburg meeting took place on the sidelines of an international security summit. Moreover, at this venue, it was announced that the highest bodies of national security in Moscow and Tehran would henceforth coordinate by holding regular meetings. A protocol between the two countries was was signed at Yekaterinburg.During this important gathering, both Jalili and Patrushev held meetings with their Chinese counterpart, Meng Jianzhu. As a result of these meetings, a similar process of bilateral consultation between the national security councils of Iran and China was established. Moreover, the parties also discussed the formation of a supranational security council within the Shanghai Cooperation Council to confront threats directed against Beijing, Tehran, Moscow and their Eurasian allies. Also in September 2011, Dmitry Rogozin, the Russian envoy to NATO, announced that he would be visiting Tehran in the near future to discuss the NATO missile shield project, which both the Moscow and Tehran oppose.Reports claiming that Russia, Iran, and China were planning on creating a joint missile shield started to surface. Rogozin, who had warned in August 2011 that Syria and Yemen would be attacked as stepping stones in the broader confrontation directed against Tehran, responded by publicly refuting the reports pertaining to the establishment of a joint Sino-Russo-Iranian missile shield project.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following month, in October 2011, Russia and Iran announced that they would be expanding ties in all fields. Soon after, in November 2011, Iran and Russia signed a strategic cooperation and partnership agreement between their highest security bodies covering economics, politics, security, and intelligence. This was a long anticipated document on which both Russia and Iran had been working on. The agreement was signed in Moscow by the Deputy Secretary-General of the Supreme Security Council of Iran, Ali Bagheri (Baqeri), and the Under-Secretary of the National Security Council of Russia, Yevgeny Lukyanov.In November 2011, the head of the Committee for International Affairs in the Russian Duma, Konstantin Kosachev, also announced that Russia must do everything it can to prevent an attack on neighbouring Iran. At the end of November 2011 it was announced that Dmitry Rogozin would definitely visit both Tehran and Beijing in 2012, together with a team of Russian officials to hold strategic discussions on collective strategies against common threats.Left and right photos: Secretary-General Jalili and Secretary Patrushev in Tehran, Iran holding Iranian-Russian national security talks during August 2011.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Russian National Security and Iranian National Security are Attached&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On January 12, 2012, Nikolai Patrushev told Interfax he feared that a major war was imminent and that Tel Aviv was pushing the U.S. to attack Iran. He dismissed the claims that Iran was secretly manufacturing nuclear weapons and said that for years the world had continuously heard that Iran would have an atomic bomb by next week ad nauseum. His comments were followed by a dire warning from Dmitry Rogozin.On January 13, 2012, Rogozin, who had been appointed deputy prime minister, declared that any attempted military intervention against Iran would be a threat to Russia’s national security. In other words, an attack on Tehran is an attack on Moscow. In 2007, Vladimir Putin essentially mentioned the same thing when he was in Tehran for a Caspian Sea summit, which resulted in George W. Bush Jr. warning that World War III could erupt over Iran. Rogozin’s statement is merely a declaration of what has been the position of Russia all along: should Iran fall, Russia would be in danger.Iran is a target of U.S. hostility not just for its vast energy reserves and natural resources, but because of major geo-strategic considerations that make it a strategic springboard against Russia and China. The roads to Moscow and Beijing also go through Tehran, just as the road to Tehran goes through Damascus, Baghdad, and Beirut. Nor does the U.S. want to merely control Iranian oil and natural gas for consumption or economic reasons. Washington wants to put a muzzle around China by controlling Chinese energy security and wants Iranian energy exports to be traded in U.S. dollars to insure the continued use of the U.S. dollar in international transactions.Moreover, Iran has been making agreements with several trade partners, including China and India, whereby business transactions will not be conducted in euros or U.S. dollars. In January 2012, both Russia and Iran replaced the U.S. dollar with their national currencies, respectively the Russian rouble and the Iranian rial, in their bilateral trade. This was an economic and financial blow to the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Syria and the National Security Concerns of Iran and Russia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Russia and China with Iran are all staunchly supporting Syria. The diplomatic and economic siege against Syria is tied to the geo-political stakes to control Eurasia. The instability in Syria is tied to the objective of combating Iran and ultimately turning it into a U.S. partner against Russia and China.The cancelled or delayed deployment of thousands of U.S. troops to Israel for Austere Challenge 2012 was tied to ratcheting up the pressure against Syria. On the basis of a Voice of Russia report, segments of the Russian media erroneously reported that Austere Challenge 2012 was going to be held in the Persian Gulf, which was mistakenly picked up by news outlets in other parts of the world. This helped highlight the Iranian link at the expense of the Syrian and Lebanese links. The deployment of U.S. troops was aimed predominately at Syria as a means of isolating and combating Iran. The cancelled or delayed Israeli-U.S. missile exercises most probably envisaged preparations for missile and rocket attacks not only from Iran, but also from Syria, Lebanon, and the Palestinian Territories.Aside from its naval ports in Syria, Russia does not want to see Syria used to re-route the energy corridors in the Caspian Basin and the Mediterranean Basin. If Syria were to fall, these routes would be re-synchronized to reflect a new geo-political reality. At the expense of Iran, energy from the Persian Gulf could also be re-routed to the Mediterranean through both Lebanon and Syria.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD&lt;br /&gt;then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JAMES 5:1-3&lt;br /&gt;1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.&lt;br /&gt;2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REVELATION 18:10,17,19&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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,&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EZEKIEL 7:19&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REVELATION 13:16-18&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WORLD MARKET RESULTS&lt;br /&gt;http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/&lt;br /&gt;CNBC VIDEOS&lt;br /&gt;http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/?tabid=15839796&amp;tabheader=false&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS WED JANUARY 25,2012&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;09:30 AM -2.43&lt;br /&gt;10:00 AM -93.34&lt;br /&gt;10:30 AM -78.07&lt;br /&gt;11:00 AM -61.16&lt;br /&gt;11:30 AM -44.25&lt;br /&gt;12:00 PM -49.50&lt;br /&gt;12:30 PM -38.36&lt;br /&gt;01:00 PM -3.45&lt;br /&gt;01:30 PM +51.61&lt;br /&gt;02:00 PM +52.75&lt;br /&gt;02:30 PM +37.50&lt;br /&gt;03:00 PM +50.45&lt;br /&gt;03:30 PM +76.29&lt;br /&gt;04:00 PM +83.10 12,758.75&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;S&amp;P 500 1326.06 +11.61&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NASDAQ 2818.31 +31.67&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GOLD 1,710.90 +46.10&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OIL 99.72 +0.77&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TSE 300 12,539.21 +143.97&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CDNX 1604.05 +27.76&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;S&amp;P/TSX/60 716.08 +8.09&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MORNING,NEWS,STATS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE&lt;br /&gt;Dow -48 points at 4 minutes of trading today.&lt;br /&gt;Dow -93 points at low today.&lt;br /&gt;Dow 93 points at high today so far.&lt;br /&gt;GOLD opens at $1,650.90.OIL opens at $97.81 today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS&lt;br /&gt;Dow -93 points at low today so far.&lt;br /&gt;Dow +83 points at high today so far.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS&lt;br /&gt;Dow -93 points at low today.&lt;br /&gt;Dow +83 points at high today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CRUDE OIL +3.6 MILLION BARRELS&lt;br /&gt;GASOLINE -400,000 BARRELS&lt;br /&gt;DISTILLATE INVENTORIES -2.5 MILLION BARRELS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Posted at 08:50 AM ET, 01/25/2012-The Circuit: European privacy rules, Google’s privacy changes, Facebook Timeline By Hayley Tsukayama&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LEADING THE DAY: The European Commission on Wednesday proposed new privacy rules that would place more responsibility on companies to protect user data. Those who breach user data can be fined up to 2 percent of their annual global turnover.The BBC reported that the new rules include a right to be forgotten and will require that data breaches must be reported as soon as possible.Many of the rules emphasize data portability and accessibility, trying to ensure that users have more control over their own information. They also require that companies with 250 or more employees appoint a data officer.Facebook’s Sandberg warns about strict privacy rules: Ahead of the European Commission’s release of its privacy rules, Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg warned that strict privacy rules could hurt innovation.In a speech at the Digital Life Design conference in Munich, Sandberg said that the U.S. and Europe need to have the right regulatory environment — a regulatory environment that promotes innovation and economic growth,the New York Times reported.Google’s privacy changes: Google announced Tuesday that it plans to follow the activities of users across nearly all of its ubiquitous sites, including YouTube, Gmail and its leading search engine, The Washington Post reported.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Google has already been collecting some of this information. But for the first time, it is combining data across its Web sites to stitch together a fuller portrait of users.Consumers won’t be able to opt out of the changes, which take effect March 1. And experts say the policy shift will invite greater scrutiny from federal regulators of the company’s privacy and competitive practices.Facebook Timeline: Facebook said Wednesday that, as announced, it will require all users to transition to the Timeline format in the next few weeks, giving the social network’s users seven days to review their information before converting all of its users to the new format.Timeline, a scrapbook-like layout that highlights big events in users’ lives, has the capability to display all Facebook activity.Apple earnings: Apple blew away already-high expectations with its first-quarter earnings results, buoyed by strong sales of the iPhone 4S and the iPad 2. In the first full fiscal quarter the company faced without its late co-founder, Steve Jobs, Apple posted a quarterly revenue of $46.33 billion and announced it had sold 37 million iPhones and 15 million iPads. Analysts had predicted iPhone sales of around 30 million and iPad sales at a more conservative 13 million.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Google faces backlash over privacy changes By Hayley Tsukayama, Wednesday, January 25, 10:51 AM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Google’s announcement that it is sharing more user data across its services has already raised the hackles of privacy advocates, technology writers and caught the attention of at least one national data-protection agency.On Tuesday, the search giant announced that it was placing 60 of its Web services under a unified privacy policy that would allow the company to share data between any of those services. (Google Books, Google Wallet and Google Chrome are excluded due to different regulatory and technical issues.) Any user with a Google account — used to sign in to services such as Gmail, YouTube and personalized search — must agree to the policy. Users who don’t want to have their data shared have the option to close their accounts with Google.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FAQ: What exactly are the changes Google is making and how will they affect me?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some praised the company for being so open about the changes, including European Commissioner for Justice Vivian Reding. Reding, vice president of the EC, is the continent’s leading advocate for laws on Internet privacy and data protection, and said Google’s move was a step in the right direction.Google was quick. Even before the Commission decided on the new European law, Google made the first step in the direction of new privacy rules. I can only applaud the direction, she said in a statement.But not having the right to choose what information is shared between services is the source of a great deal of criticism. In remarks to The Washington Post’s Cecilia Kang, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) said that he thinks it is imperative that users have control over what information they want to have shared between the services Google offers.Others saw the decision as a sign that there’s been a shift in the company culture at Google. Danny Sullivan, a technology blogger and expert in search, said that the change is just a logical step in Google’s move toward becoming a Web portal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“It’s similar to how you sign up for Facebook, rather than individual products within Facebook,” he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That change, however, isn’t sitting well with parts of the Web community. Google competitors such as Twitter had already pointed out that Google’s integration of information from its social networking site, Google+, into its search results was a sign that the company was moving away from neutral search. These changes appear to take that shift even further. Search engine blogger Danny Sullivan said that Gizmodo’s Mat Honan took the bull by the horns, churning out a piece Thursday night headlined, Google’s Broken promise: The End of Don’t Be Evil.Google built its reputation, and its multibillion-dollar business, on the promise of its don’t be evil’ philosophy,Honan wrote. And now it’s pulling the stakes out, collapsing it. It gives you a few weeks to pull your data out, using its data-liberation service, but if you want to use Google services, you have to agree to these rules.At least one regulatory body, Ireland’s data-protection agency, has said it will be looking into the implications of the changes now that they are launched to users,Bloomberg reported. Under sweeping new privacy rules proposed for Europe on Wednesday, the Irish agency would become the EU’s one-stop shop on Google privacy regulation because Dublin is the site of the search giant’s European operations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DANIEL 7:23-24&lt;br /&gt;23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)&lt;br /&gt;24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD REGIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;EU ministers agree new bail-out fund, criticise Greece 24.01.12 @ 10:22&lt;/span&gt;By Valentina Pop&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BRUSSELS - EU finance ministers have overcome Finnish objections to a permanent bail-out fund for the eurozone, access to which will be made conditional on signing a new treaty on fiscal discipline.We were able to agree on a text of the revised treaty concerning the European Stability Mechanism,Chair of the meeting Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker told a press conference late Monday night (23 January).The revised text provides for the ESM, the permanent bail-out fund for the eurozone, to be advanced by one year and to come into being on 1 July.The breakthrough came after Finland agreed to lift its objection concerning an emergency voting procedure which Helsinki says favours big countries such as Germany and France. The provision - allowing countries representing 85 percent of the fund's capital to take decisions instead of unanimity among the eurozone 17 - will only apply to authorise ESM loans from existing funds, the Finnish finance ministry said in a statement.The ESM agreement will also allow for the creation of an emergency reserve fund when a majority decision is taken, the ministry said.Meanwhile, access to ESM money will be made conditional on countries signing up to a new intergovernmental treaty on fiscal discipline requiring binding legislation on governments to implement a balanced budget rule.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a clear link in the recitals of the ESM treaty between the fiscal compact treaty and the ESM,Juncker said.Germany pushed for the fiscal discipline pact in return for agreeing that the fund comes into being one year earlier and that it possibly gets more firepower than its current €500 billion.Today we reinforced both pillars - solidarity through the ESM and fiscal discipline through the fiscal treaty,French finance minister Francois Baroin told journalists after the meeting. He conceded that there is no support in parliament for the legal changes needed to transpose the balanced budget rule into French law before the April presidential elections, however.A deal on the final wording of the fiscal treaty has not been achieved yet. Participation of non-euro leaders in eurozone summits remains an open issue that will have to be agreed by EU leaders when they meet on 30 January, he added.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Greece still far from second bail-out&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As for Greece - which had been hoping to get some positive signs about its second, €130 billion bail-out - ministers made it clear that no assistance can be granted unless more reforms are undertaken and until talks with bankers on voluntary debt restructuring conclude.It is obvious the Greek programme is off track. Action has to be taken before we can seriously envisage a new programme,Juncker said.The government of Lucas Papademos has been struggling to liberalise the labour market and go after tax offenders. According to the Greek finance ministry, 4,151 citizens owe €14.9 billion to the state – more than the €14.5 billion bond repayment Athens has to make in March.In another pre-condition for the second, badly-needed bail-out, Greecec has to agree on a 50 percent debt cut with existing bondholders. But the bondholder talks, which should have been wrapped up by Monday, are still ongoing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Juncker told journalists that ministers asked Greece not to agree on an interest rate above 3.5 percent for the new bonds that will be issued once banks agree to take a 50 percent loss on old ones. Investors from the Institute of International Finance negotiating in Athens have so far pressed for an interest rate above four percent.Meanwhile, state prosecutors in Athens have launched an investigation into allegations that the country's statistical office, Elstat, in 2009 rigged the state deficit figures so as to be able to convince the EU and the International Monteray Fund it needed a bail-out.The head of Elstat, Andreas Georgiou, told Dutch media his office was under pressure from the government, but claims he resisted and that the final figures were accurate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;New cloud strategy to reform EU online market&lt;br /&gt;Today JAN 25,12 @ 09:25 By Benjamin Fox&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BRUSSELS - Digital agenda commissioner Neelie Kroes has promised to present a European cloud strategy this summer, as part of a plan to reform the online market in the EU.Speaking at a meeting of the IP Forum in the European Parliament on Tuesday (24th January), she said that a harmonised EU digital market would offer creators the opportunity to make a decent living from their art and consumers, and offer an open place for innovation.She cited the iPhone application Angry Birds, created by Finnish video game developer Rovio Mobile, as an example of how cloud technologies could generate huge revenues, noting that its $100 million turnover was enough to fund The King's Speech [a successful film] eight times over.The market for cloud, or Internet, computing in which software and information is available on demand, has surged in recent years. The US market was worth an estimated $68 billion in 2011, while the European market is growing by 20 percent a year according to French marketing company Nexima.Kroes also told the audience that she would present legislation on collective rights management licensing and multi-sector licensing, which would radically change the way royalties are sold, alongside a paper on 'Connected TV' looking at ways to bring together television on demand and gaming to European consumers. She noted that within the next two or three years 90 percent of TVs will be connected to the Internet.She added that most Europeans were already regularly watching television on demand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The IP Forum event, hosted by French centre-right MEP Marielle Gallo, focused on the online distribution of audiovisual and music works in the EU. Gallo said that a common but flexible legal framework was needed to contribute to a true pan-European demand for online content, complaining about what she described as a fragmentation of the digital content market in Europe.Speaking about huge potential revenues, she noted that 170 million song titles had been downloaded legally in the first six months of 2011. According to the 2011 annual digital music report published by the International Federation for the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), 3.6 billion downloads were purchased around the world in 2011, an increase of 17 percent.Meanwhile, fellow French centre-right MEP Jean-Marie Cavada on Monday (23 January) opened the parliament's debate on a discussion paper by the European Commission on the online distribution of audiovisual works.Cavada promised that his report, which is non-legislative, would focus on authorship rights and how to ensure equal treatment for authors between digital and non-digital content.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Tainted official brought back to raise money for EU bail-outs 24.01.12 @ 13:00 By Honor Mahony&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BRUSSELS - Jacques Santer - a ghost from the most ignominious time in the European Commission's history - was on Monday (23 January) evening appointed to head fund-raising for the EU's new bail-out fund.A former Luxembourg prime minister, Jacques Santer gained notoriety for presiding over a weak commission, which resigned en masse in 1999 amid allegations of corruption.An independent panel at the time noted that it is difficult to find anyone who has even the slightest sense of responsibility in his institution.Fellow Luxembourger Jean-Claude Juncker, who chaired the meeting of finance ministers which announced the decision, said that Santer had served both Europe and his country the best way possible.Santer's job will be to head up a Special Purpose Investment Vehicle (Spiv), designed to boost the firepower of the EU €440 billion temporary bail-out fund, the EFSF, in case big economies like Italy or Spain go down the path of Greece.The Spiv is to sell debt to private firms and sovereign wealth funds and the proceeds are to be funnelled to struggling EU countries.The whole set-up already has an image problem - EU efforts to get countries like Brazil and China on board have attracted little interest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But Juncker on Monday dismissed the idea that Santer's background will make matters worse, asking journalists to revisit the notes [they] may have about Santer's work as commission president.For his part, economic affairs commissioner Olli Rehn ventured a soccer-based joke.If you refer to the fall of the Santer commission in March 1999, I can take full responsibility for that. I was then head of cabinet for [Finnish] commissioner Liikkanen and I recall that in September 1998 the cabinets dared to beat the journalists in the final of the commission football tournament. Three to One. The journalists never forgave us and that led to the fall of the Santer commission in the winter of 1998/1999. I take full responsibility for this, he said.The Santer appointment is already proving to be a gift to EU critics.Putting Jacques Santer in charge of fundraising is like putting Dracula in charge of the blood bank,British Conservative MEP Martin Callanan said in an emailed statement.The Santer affair was prompted by a commission whistleblower who sent a report to MEPs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A so-called Committee of Independent Experts later questioned the general culture in the commission. It doled out the harshest criticism on science commissioner Edith Cresson, a French woman who hired her dentist as an advisor. The dentist earned over €100,000 for two years' work during which he produced 24 pages of notes deemed to be of no value.Santer's refusal to take responsibility and to resign along with Cresson escalated the crisis, ending in the mass resignation of all 20 commissioners - also including Italy's current leader Mario Monti - shortly afterward.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MUSLIM NATIONS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EZEKIEL 38:1-12&lt;br /&gt;1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,&lt;br /&gt;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,&lt;br /&gt;3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:&lt;br /&gt;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:&lt;br /&gt;5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;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:&lt;br /&gt;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,&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ISAIAH 17:1&lt;br /&gt;1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PSALMS 83:3-7&lt;br /&gt;3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)&lt;br /&gt;6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)&lt;br /&gt;7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DANIEL 11:40-43&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EZEKIEL 39:1-8&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;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:&lt;br /&gt;3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JOEL 2:3,20,30-31&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)&lt;br /&gt;31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;U.S., Arab states press Russia on Syria&lt;br /&gt;By Laura Rozen | The Envoy – JAN 25,12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A top American Middle East diplomat visited Moscow Tuesday as part of an international effort to get Russia to support a UN Security Council resolution demanding an end to the violence in Syria, which has killed well over 5,000 people since last spring.Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs Jeff Feltman was in Moscow as part of an increasingly frantic international effort to intervene in the troubled Middle Eastern country, American officials said.Issue number one on [Feltman's] agenda there is Syria and our interest in being able to move forward in the UN Security Council and talking about how the situation looks after the Arab League report over the weekend, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told journalists at a press briefing Monday.Feltman's trip came as five Persian Gulf states on Tuesday joined Saudi Arabia in announcing they are withdrawing from a month-old Arab League monitoring mission to Syria because of the observers' inability to curb Bashar al-Assad's brutal crackdown, and instead are turning their hopes for intervention to the United Nations.The Syrian regime did not implement the Arab plan under existing Arab pressure, so there was no other way except to approach the Security Council,one Arab League ambassador told Reuters, speaking anonymously to explain the decision to withdraw some 55 members of the 165-member Arab League team.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was also due to fly to Moscow Wednesday to urge Russia not to veto a UN Security Council Syria resolution, Turkey's Today Zaman reported Mahir Zeynalov reported.American officials are also expected to ask Moscow about media reports that it has inked a deal to sell combat jets to the Assad regime, the State Department said.Obviously, if [the media reports are] accurate, it would be quite concerning, Nuland said Tuesday.But as we've been saying for months, our firm belief is that any country that is still trading in weapons and armaments with Syria really needs to think twice, because they are on the wrong side of history and those weapons can be used against innocents, and have been.Over the weekend, the State Department said it is considering closing the U.S. embassy in Syria due to continued security concerns, but it had not yet decided whether to do so. On Monday, it again issued a warning urging American citizens to leave Syria.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;EU sanctions on Iran peppered with exemptions&lt;br /&gt;24.01.12 @ 09:28 By Andrew Rettman&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BRUSSELS - New sanctions on Iran could prove hard to enforce after EU countries peppered them with derogations to help Greece find alternate suppliers, to protect trade in non-oil sectors and to give Tehran-based embassies access to cash.Details of the measures - designed to stop an alleged nuclear weapons programme - came out in the bloc's Official Journal on Tuesday (24 January).The sanctions ban buying or shipping of crude oil, petrol and petro-chemical products, as well as supply of financial services, insurance, equipment and training for Iranian energy companies or the buying of new shares in energy firms.They blacklist the central bank of Iran, the state-owned Bank Tejarat and 10 shipping firms said to be involved in nuclear procurment or the illegal arms trade - Tidewater, Turbine Engineering Manufacturing, Sad Export Import Company, Rosmachin, Behnam Sahriyari Trading Company, Darya Delalan Sefid Khazar Shipping Company, the Dubai-based Oasis Freight Agency, the Germany-based Hanseatic Trade Trust &amp; Shipping and the Malta-registered BIIS Maritime.They prohibit EU-Iran trade in precious metals and diamonds and supply of newly-made Iranian banknotes and coinage to the central bank. They also say junior members of the Revolutionary Guard corps can in future be targeted, adding three more names to the existing, hundreds-long register.The EU's legal text allows several temporary and more permanent exemptions, however.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The oil and petroleum ban will not affect existing contracts until 1 July. Contracts on petro-chemcial products are allowed to run until 1 May. Some deals on financial services, equipment and joint ventures will be exempt only if they were signed before 26 July 2010, while others only if before 23 January this year.Member states can still do business with the central bank if it relates to trade in other areas, such as food or textiles and if they make sure the money does not go to any people on the EU's blacklist - not easy to prove given the opaque nature of the administration.Gold and diamonds can still be bought and sold on the same terms.&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, with several EU countries and international bodies using Bank Tejarat to finance their offices in Tehran, the bank can still handle their money in so far as such payments are intended to be used for official purposes of the diplomatic or consular mission or international organisation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Syria sanctions expanded&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The EU on Tuesday also published sanctions on eight more firms and 22 people said to be helping Syrian leader Bashar Assad - Iran's main ally in the region - put down the uprising.Most of the companies - Industrial Bank, Popular Credit Bank, Savings Bank, Agricultural Co-operative Bank, Deir ez-Zur Petroleum Company, Ebla Petroleum Company and Dijla Petroleum Company - are based in Damascus. But one - the Syrian Lebanese Commercial Bank - is in UN Security Council member Lebanon.The 22 people are junior army officers or other security personnel, with the litany of allegations helping to support the Western narrative of state-sponsored mass-murder.The majority are cited for [giving] orders to shoot at protesters or torture of detainees.Brigadier general Ahmed Yousef Jarad is said to have authorised the use of machine guns and anti-aircraft guns against people in Deraa. Major general Bader Aqel gave orders to pick up bodies and hand them over to the secret service, presumably for concealment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LUKE 21:25-26&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING&lt;br /&gt;GENESIS 7:6-12&lt;br /&gt;6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.&lt;br /&gt;7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.&lt;br /&gt;8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,&lt;br /&gt;9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.&lt;br /&gt;10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.&lt;br /&gt;11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.&lt;br /&gt;12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.&lt;br /&gt;GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Thunderstorms pound Texas; tornado threat looms&lt;br /&gt;ReutersBy Jim Forsyth | Reuters – JAN 25,12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Thunderstorms pounded the San Antonio area with drenching rains and destructive winds early Wednesday as Texas braced for possible flooding and the threat of isolated tornados throughout the morning.Some three inches of rain drenched San Antonio by early morning and Austin took more than 4 inches, according to AccuWeather.com.Although most of the region is still gripped in severe drought and very much needs the rain,too much, too fast was menacing, AccuWeather.com said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The storms knocked out power for tens of thousands and closed dozens of flooded streets in San Antonio.Forecasts called for powerful thunderstorms to push eastward into Louisiana.Flash flood warnings were issued early for areas surrounding San Antonio and Austin while a tornado watch was in effect through the morning for parts of south central and southeast Texas.The National Weather Service issued a tornado watch for parts of Louisiana through the afternoon.The severe weather in Texas follows damaging storms and tornadoes that swept through Arkansas and Alabama earlier in the week.CPS Energy, the South Texas electric utility, reported more than 30,000 customers without power as wind snapped electric power lines and knocked out traffic signals during the morning rush hour.Lightning hit an apartment complex on the city's north side as storms blew through early on Wednesday, sparking a fire that forced people into the driving rain and destroyed four apartments, fire officials said.There were no reports of injuries.(Additional reporting by Lauren Keiper; Editing by Daniel Trotta)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH(BECAUSE OF SIN AND GODLESS PEOPLE)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GENESIS 6:11-13&lt;br /&gt;11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)&lt;br /&gt;12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.&lt;br /&gt;13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HOSEA 4:1-3&lt;br /&gt;1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.&lt;br /&gt;2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.&lt;br /&gt;3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Landslide hits Papua New Guinea, deaths reported&lt;br /&gt;Associated PressAssociated Press – JAN 25,12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) — A landslide struck villages in mountainous central Papua New Guinea, and local media reported Wednesday that 40 bodies have been recovered and 20 people are still missing.The South Pacific island nation's National Disaster Center director Martin Mosi said several villages are close to where the landslide occurred near the town of Mendi early Tuesday and that fatalities are likely but unconfirmed.Three National Disaster Center officials were headed to Mendi on Wednesday, where they will be flown by helicopter to join police at the disaster site.Most likely lives have been lost. We cannot tell how many, Mosi said.Local lawmaker Francis Potape told Radio Australia's indigenous language service that the landslide completely covered two villages while people slept.There are people buried underneath and a number of them are, from what I have heard, children,The National newspaper reported Potape as saying.The Post Courier newspaper reported that Prime Minister Peter O'Neill would fly to the state later Wednesday.&lt;br /&gt;Local media reports that the destruction extended more than one mile (2 kilometers), leaving roads to villages cut off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JOEL 3:2&lt;br /&gt;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(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29&lt;br /&gt;27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.&lt;br /&gt;28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.&lt;br /&gt;29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DANIEL 11:21-23&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DANIEL 9:26-27&lt;br /&gt;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).&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JEREMIAH 6:14&lt;br /&gt;14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JEREMIAH 8:11&lt;br /&gt;11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 THESSALONIANS 5:3&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)&lt;br /&gt;14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.&lt;br /&gt;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:&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Palestinian leader: Talks with Israel over&lt;br /&gt;Associated PressBy KARIN LAUB | Associated Press – JAN 25,12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Exploratory peace talks with Israel have ended with nothing to show for them, the Palestinian president said Wednesday, pledging to consult with the Arab League about the next moves and leaving open the possibility of an extension.After a total break of more than a year, international mediators persuaded the sides to send their negotiators to Jordan to explore the possibility of resuming peace talks. Reflecting the depth of their differences, they could not even agree on when to submit proposals.Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he would discuss the prospects with the Arab League next week, Israel wants to keep talking, and Abbas is under mounting international pressure not to walk away.Visiting EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton is scheduled to meet separately over the next two days with Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Two officials involved in the contacts said she is trying to put together a package of Israeli incentives that would keep the Palestinians in the talks.In the Jordanian-mediated exploratory talks, Israeli and Palestinian envoys met several times over the past month, including on Wednesday. The Quartet of international mediators — the U.S., the U.N., the EU and Russia — said last fall that it expected both sides to submit detailed proposals on borders and security arrangements, in hopes the dialogue would evolve into full-fledged peace talks.Palestinian officials said they submitted their proposals, but that Israel did not. If we demarcate the borders, we can return to negotiations, but Israel does not want to do that,Abbas said Wednesday, after talks in Jordan with Jordan's King Abdullah II.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israel says it has submitted a document outlining the areas that need to be discussed, but it was not characterized as a proposal.Abbas said he would consult with the Arab League — which usually rubber stamps his decisions — on Feb. 4. This would allow for an additional nine days of diplomatic maneuvers to save the talks.A walkout could cost the Palestinians international sympathy at a time when they seek global support for U.N. membership for a state in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, the territories Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war.Israel is eager to keep talking and to try to achieve a historic agreement before the end of the year,an Israeli government official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief reporters.We hope that the Palestinians aren't looking for an excuse to walk away from the table.Ashton said during a visit to Gaza on Wednesday that we need to keep talks going and increase the potential of these talks to become genuine negotiations.The two sides disagreed on how much time was set aside for the exploratory talks.The Palestinians said the deadline is Thursday, or three months after the Quartet issued its marching orders, while Israel believes it has until early April, or three months after the start of meetings.Underlying the impasse is Abbas' conviction that it's impossible to reach an acceptable border deal with the hard-line Netanyahu.The Palestinians are ready for minor adjustments in the lines of the West Bank through land swaps, but Israel has not submitted a proposal. Netanyahu has not endorsed the land-swap concept and insists that east Jerusalem belongs to Israel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Netanyahu has also rejected Palestinian demands that he halt construction in Jewish settlements on occupied lands or recognize the pre-1967 war's cease-fire line as a baseline for border talks.Abbas argues that without such assurances, there is no point in returning to negotiations. He fears Israel will use continued negotiations as a diplomatic cover for seizing more land, through settlements, that the Palestinians want for their state. Israel counters that the Palestinians have not made a halt to settlement construction a condition for peace talks in the past.The Palestinians reluctantly agreed to the Jordanian-mediated talks because they did not want to turn down a request by the Jordanian monarch. Strong ties with Jordan, which neighbors the West Bank and is home to millions of Palestinians, are a pillar of Abbas' foreign policy.Additional reporting by Associated Press writer Jamal Halaby in Amman, Jordan, and Ibrahim Barzak in Gaza City, Gaza Strip.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Palestinian leader Barghuti demands 1967 borders&lt;br /&gt;AFPBy Majeda El Batsh | AFP – JAN 25,12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Middle East conflict will end only when Israel withdraws to the pre-1967 lines and a Palestinian state is established, jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghuti said Wednesday in a rare court appearance.The conflict will be finished the moment the Israeli occupation ends, and there is a full withdrawal to the 1967 borders and a Palestinian state is established,he said in Hebrew at Jerusalem Magistrates Court.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Barghuti, who is serving five life sentences for his involvement in several deadly anti-Israeli attacks, was called to testify as part of a US civil lawsuit against the Palestinian leadership in connection with bloodshed during the second intifada (2000-2005).On entering the courtroom, Barghuti, a senior official within the ruling Fatah party of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, immediately raised his hands to flash his trademark victory V-sign.I call on the great Palestinian people to embrace unity and cohesion and to establish a national unity government and also to embrace popular, peaceful resistance to end the occupation, he said in Arabic.Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah last year pledged to work quickly towards elections and to form a unity government under the terms of a reconciliation deal which has yet to be implemented.Peace cannot happen without ending the occupation, he said, adding a salute to those behind the popular revolutions in Tunisia and Libya, as well as in Egypt, which on Thursday marked the first anniversary since its uprising began.I don't recognise this court, Barghuti shouted to AFP as he was led out of the courthouse.I call on the Palestinian people to continue their popular struggle.Before Barghuti entered the room, his lawyer Elias Sabbagh had told the court he would not be testifying.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are talking about a US lawsuit against the Palestinian Authority and not against Mr Barghuti. Mr Barghuti is not part of this lawsuit, that is why he is not going to say anything about this case or any other case,he said.The case is against the PLO and the Palestinian Authority, Sabbagh told AFP, referring to the Palestine Liberation Organisation.They brought Barghuti as a witness because he was in the PA and he refused to say anything in the court about this issue.An influential leader with widespread support among the Palestinian public, Barghuti is known for being a lifelong activist who supported the Oslo peace process in the 1990s.But Israel has accused him of masterminding the second intifada, or Palestinian uprising, which erupted in 2000.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;http://israndjer.blogspot.com&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18902243-39929058564293911?l=israndjer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DtDTHIG2ps' title='US,ARABS PRESS RUSSIA ON SYRIA'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18902243/posts/default/39929058564293911'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18902243/posts/default/39929058564293911'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2012/01/usarabs-press-russia-on-syria.html' title='US,ARABS PRESS RUSSIA ON SYRIA'/><author><name>STAN L</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11041400179179367939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yb51zBn6LsQ/SYn1N0hbmWI/AAAAAAAAAAc/AJdshT6GEDw/S220/israelflag.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902243.post-7295621808193083241</id><published>2012-01-24T11:30:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-24T11:36:33.910-05:00</updated><title type='text'>SOLAR FLARES (STORMS) TO HIT EARTH TODAY</title><content type='html'>OZONE DEPLETION JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH DUE TO SIN&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ISAIAH 30:26-27&lt;br /&gt;26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold,(7X OR 7-DEGREES) as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people,(ISRAEL) and healeth the stroke of their wound.&lt;br /&gt;27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MATTHEW 24:21-22,29&lt;br /&gt;21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.&lt;br /&gt;22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake (ISRAELS SAKE) those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)&lt;br /&gt;29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REVELATION 16:7-9&lt;br /&gt;7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.&lt;br /&gt;8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.&lt;br /&gt;9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.space.com/14319-huge-solar-eruption-sparks-radiation-storm.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Biggest solar storm since 2005 hits Earth&lt;br /&gt;January 24, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WASHINGTON: A potent solar flare has unleashed the biggest radiation storm since 2005 and could disrupt some satellite communications in the polar regions, US space weather monitors say.The event started late on Sunday with a moderate-sized solar flare that erupted right near the centre of the Sun, said Doug Biesecker, a physicist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Space Weather Prediction Centre.The flare itself was nothing spectacular, but it sent off a very fast coronal mass ejection travelling four million miles per hour [6.4 million kilometres per hour], he said on Monday in the US.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This January 19, 2012 image provided by NASA shows an M3.2 solar flare captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). An earth-directed coronal mass ejection was associated with the solar flare. NASA's Space Weather Services estimated that it traveled at over 630 miles per second and reached the Earth on January 21, when strong geomagnetic storms and aurora were observed.A rush of radiation in the form of solar protons already has begun bombarding the Earth and is likely to continue through Wednesday.The radiation storm is the largest of its kind since 2005 but still ranks only a three on the scale of one to five, enough to be considered strong but not severe, he added.NOAA said on its website the S3 ranking means it could, e.g., cause isolated reboots of computers onboard Earth-orbiting satellites and interfere with polar radio communications.Biesecker said that when it comes to radiation storms, the polar regions are affected most. For instance, the storm could spell disruptions to airline flights, oil operations, Arctic exploration and space satellites, he said.Night-sky viewers in Asia and Europe may be able to witness the aurora, or Northern Lights, late on Tuesday as a result of the storm.We don't expect major impacts from an event like this, Biesecker said.It's the people who need GPS [global positioning system] accuracy of centimetres who have to worry, not people who want to know if you're going to turn the car 30 metres ahead.AFP Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/biggest-solar-storm-since-2005-hits-earth-20120124-1qejz.html#ixzz1kOPNiSce&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Strongest solar storm since 2005 hitting Earth&lt;br /&gt;Associated PressBy SETH BORENSTEIN | Associated Press – JAN 24,12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WASHINGTON (AP) — The sun is bombarding Earth with radiation from the biggest solar storm in more than six years with more to come from the fast-moving eruption.The solar flare occurred at about 11 p.m. EST Sunday and will hit Earth with three different effects at three different times. The biggest issue is radiation, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center in Colorado.The radiation is mostly a concern for satellite disruptions and astronauts in space. It can cause communication problems for polar-traveling airplanes, said space weather center physicist Doug Biesecker.Radiation from Sunday's flare arrived at Earth an hour later and will likely continue through Wednesday. Levels are considered strong but other storms have been more severe. There are two higher levels of radiation on NOAA's storm scale — severe and extreme — Biesecker said. Still, this storm is the strongest for radiation since May 2005.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The radiation — in the form of protons — came flying out of the sun at 93 million miles per hour.The whole volume of space between here and Jupiter is just filled with protons and you just don't get rid of them like that, Biesecker said. That's why the effects will stick around for a couple days.NASA's flight surgeons and solar experts examined the solar flare's expected effects and decided that the six astronauts on the International Space Station do not have to do anything to protect themselves from the radiation, spokesman Rob Navias said.A solar eruption is followed by a one-two-three punch, said Antti Pulkkinen, a physicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and Catholic University.First comes electromagnetic radiation, followed by radiation in the form of protons.Then, finally the coronal mass ejection — that's the plasma from the sun itself — hits. Usually that travels at about 1 or 2 million miles per hour, but this storm is particularly speedy and is shooting out at 4 million miles per hour, Biesecker said.&lt;br /&gt;It's the plasma that causes much of the noticeable problems on Earth, such as electrical grid outages. In 1989, a solar storm caused a massive blackout in Quebec. It can also pull the northern lights further south.But this coronal mass ejection seems likely to be only moderate, with a chance for becoming strong, Biesecker said. The worst of the storm is likely to go north of Earth.And unlike last October, when a freak solar storm caused auroras to be seen as far south as Alabama, the northern lights aren't likely to dip too far south this time, Biesecker said. Parts of New England, upstate New York, northern Michigan, Montana and the Pacific Northwest could see an aurora but not until Tuesday evening, he said.For the past several years the sun had been quiet, almost too quiet. Part of that was the normal calm part of the sun's 11-year cycle of activity. Last year, scientists started to speculate that the sun was going into an unusually quiet cycle that seems to happen maybe once a century or so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that super-quiet cycle doesn't seem as likely, Biesecker said.Scientists watching the sun with a new NASA satellite launched in 2010 — during the sun's quiet period — are excited.We haven't had anything like this for a number of years, Pulkkinen said. It's kind of special.&lt;br /&gt;NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/&lt;br /&gt;NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EARTHQUAKES&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MATTHEW 24:7-8&lt;br /&gt;7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.&lt;br /&gt;8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MARK 13:8&lt;br /&gt;8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LUKE 21:11&lt;br /&gt;11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Magnitude-6.3 quake hits Pacific; no tsunami alert&lt;br /&gt;Associated Press – JAN 24,12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SUVA, Fiji (AP) — A magnitude-6.3 earthquake has shaken the Pacific region south of the Fiji islands.There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, and the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center did not issue any alerts or warnings after the quake.&lt;br /&gt;The United States Geological Survey reported the earthquake struck Tuesday afternoon 472 miles (759 kilometers) south of Fiji, at a depth of 362 miles (583 kilometers).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JOEL 3:2&lt;br /&gt;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(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29&lt;br /&gt;27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.&lt;br /&gt;28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.&lt;br /&gt;29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DANIEL 11:21-23&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DANIEL 9:26-27&lt;br /&gt;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).&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JEREMIAH 6:14&lt;br /&gt;14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JEREMIAH 8:11&lt;br /&gt;11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 THESSALONIANS 5:3&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)&lt;br /&gt;14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.&lt;br /&gt;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:&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;EU wants bold peace bids by Palestinians, Israel&lt;br /&gt;ReutersBy Jihan Abdalla | Reuters – JAN 24,12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton will meet Israeli and Palestinian leaders over the next two days to try to push exploratory peace talks beyond a Thursday deadline and back to full negotiations.Negotiators from the two sides have held four meetings in Amman, Jordan, this month, but so far there has been no breakthrough that would permit resumption of the top level talks that were suspended in late 2010.A fifth meeting is scheduled for Wednesday and without compromise, the initiative could grind to a halt.The European Union wants Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to set aside his 2010 demand that Israel call a total halt to Jewish settlement building in the occupied West Bank before full talks resume.Israel is being urged to make confidence-building moves, which could include the release of long-term prisoners and easier conditions for Palestinians in Israeli army-controlled areas of the West Bank.The fact that negotiators are talking to each other face-to-face is encouraging,Ashton said in a statement.I'll be looking for positive signs from both sides that they are prepared to turn this progress into real gestures and negotiations.Israel has signaled it is willing to carry on with the talks, meaning the pressure is on the Palestinians.The so-called Quartet on Middle East peace diplomacy, which comprises the United States, the EU, Russia and the United Nations, said last September it wanted to see direct talks resumed by January 26, and completed in a year.But Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Tuesday that January 26 is not a sacred date and that he believed the Quartet shared that view and that talks should go on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NEW APPROACH NEEDED&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some analysts doubt whether Washington will be prepared to exercise its influence during a presidential election year. U.S. Republicans are eager to make inroads with Jewish voters, whose traditional loyalty to the Democratic Party has been tested by doubts about President Barack Obama's policies on Israel.Other leaders have also expressed grave doubts about the peace process and urged a new approach.Should we accept a complete freeze between the Palestinians and Israelis, when the rest of the region is moving? We have to change the method, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in an annual address to ambassadors on Jan 20.The Quartet has failed. Let's stop kidding ourselves. We have to widen the circle of negotiations and involve everybody who can help resolve the conflict.Former Palestinian peace negotiator Nabil Shaath predicted failure for the latest talks, which are intended to set out the terms of negotiation on the borders of a future Palestinian state and its security arrangements with Israel.The government in Israel feels totally safe and they know that neither the Quartet nor any of its parties will put any pressure on them. Therefore, they are making fun of them and of us as well,he told Reuters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He said a 21-point proposal presented by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lacked any detail and was rather a composition about peace done by a high school student.Israeli officials are quoted as saying Abbas is preparing to let the process collapse again and play the blame game.(Additional reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi, Ori Lewis and John Irish. Writing by Douglas Hamilton)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;http://israndjer.blogspot.com&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18902243-7295621808193083241?l=israndjer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.space.com/14319-huge-solar-eruption-sparks-radiation-storm.html' title='SOLAR FLARES (STORMS) TO HIT EARTH TODAY'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18902243/posts/default/7295621808193083241'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18902243/posts/default/7295621808193083241'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2012/01/solar-flares-storms-to-hit-earth-today.html' title='SOLAR FLARES (STORMS) TO HIT EARTH TODAY'/><author><name>STAN L</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11041400179179367939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yb51zBn6LsQ/SYn1N0hbmWI/AAAAAAAAAAc/AJdshT6GEDw/S220/israelflag.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902243.post-6520707864159512864</id><published>2012-01-24T00:01:00.020-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-24T16:33:22.001-05:00</updated><title type='text'>ETHNIC TENSIONS TEARING RUSSIA APART-PUTIN</title><content type='html'>NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PSALMS 97:3&lt;br /&gt;3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REVELATION 14:18-20&lt;br /&gt;18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.&lt;br /&gt;19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.&lt;br /&gt;20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ISAIAH 66:15-18&lt;br /&gt;15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.&lt;br /&gt;16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.&lt;br /&gt;17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.&lt;br /&gt;18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ISAIAH 26:21&lt;br /&gt;21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV&lt;br /&gt;6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.&lt;br /&gt;7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)&lt;br /&gt;8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.&lt;br /&gt;9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.&lt;br /&gt;10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.&lt;br /&gt;11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.&lt;br /&gt;12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.&lt;br /&gt;13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV&lt;br /&gt;17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.&lt;br /&gt;18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.&lt;br /&gt;19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.&lt;br /&gt;20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.&lt;br /&gt;21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.&lt;br /&gt;22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.&lt;br /&gt;23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 TIMOTHY 3:1&lt;br /&gt;1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JOEL 2:3,30&lt;br /&gt;3 A fire devoureth before them; 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.&lt;br /&gt;30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ZECHARIAH 14:12-13&lt;br /&gt;12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.&lt;br /&gt;13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EZEKIEL 20:47&lt;br /&gt;47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ZEPHANIAH 1:18&lt;br /&gt;18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MALACHI 4:1&lt;br /&gt;1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REVELATION 8:7&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REVELATION 9:18&lt;br /&gt;18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LUKE 17:34-37&lt;br /&gt;34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.&lt;br /&gt;35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.&lt;br /&gt;36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.&lt;br /&gt;37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MATTHEW 24:37-51&lt;br /&gt;37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.&lt;br /&gt;38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,&lt;br /&gt;39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.&lt;br /&gt;40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.&lt;br /&gt;41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.&lt;br /&gt;42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.&lt;br /&gt;43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.&lt;br /&gt;44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.&lt;br /&gt;45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?&lt;br /&gt;46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.&lt;br /&gt;47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.&lt;br /&gt;48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;&lt;br /&gt;49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;&lt;br /&gt;50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,&lt;br /&gt;51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Israel to Give Obama 12 Hours Notice on Attacking Iran’-Israel told visiting US Gen. Dempsey that Obama would get no more than 12 hours notice before an attack on Iran, the London Times reports.By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu First Publish: 1/22/2012, 10:19 AM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israeli officials told visiting USS Chief Joint of Staffs Martin Dempsey that it would give President Barack Obama no more than 12 hours notice if and when it attacks Iran, The London Times reported Sunday.The Netanyahu government also will not coordinate with the United States an attack on the Islamic Republic, according to the report, the latest in a number of suposed scenarios concerning cooperation or lack of it between Jerusalem and Washington.It is left to speculation whether the rumors are based on facts or are leaked by officials to mask the possibility of secret military coordination.The London Times said its sources explained that that Israel fears that President Obama would try to torpedo an Israel attack if more notice were given because he is concerned that Iran will respond by blocking the Strait of Hormuz, sparking a rise in the price of oil that could cripple Western economies. If the attack were to occur in the next 10 months, it would put President Obama in a tight spot on the eve of his bid for re-election.President Shimon Peres told Dempsey, I am sure that in this fight [against Iran] we will emerge victorious. It is a fight that does not belong exclusively to the United States or Israel, but a global struggle to create a safe world for all peoples.Dempsey, on his first official visit to Israel, was wined and dined by Defense Minister Ehud Barak and IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gants, who went so far as to arrange an IDF orchestra rendition of song made famous by Frank Sinatra, one of Dempsey’s favorite singers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dempsey tried to play down the postponement of what was billed as the largest-ever joint military drill between the Israeli and American armies, involving thousands of U.S. Army soldiers.Published reasons for the delay have ranged from budgetary constraints, logistical problems to a signal from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that he distrusts President Obama’s commitment to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.Dempsey maintained that the delay, which was announced by Israel, will give both countries more time to prepare and achieve a better outcome.The top American general left Israel on Friday, before the Sabbath began.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD&lt;br /&gt;then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JAMES 5:1-3&lt;br /&gt;1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.&lt;br /&gt;2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REVELATION 18:10,17,19&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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,&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EZEKIEL 7:19&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REVELATION 13:16-18&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WORLD MARKET RESULTS&lt;br /&gt;http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/&lt;br /&gt;CNBC VIDEOS&lt;br /&gt;http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/?tabid=15839796&amp;tabheader=false&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS TUE JANUARY 24,2012&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;09:30 AM -2.43&lt;br /&gt;10:00 AM -90.25&lt;br /&gt;10:30 AM -56.08&lt;br /&gt;11:00 AM -40.70&lt;br /&gt;11:30 AM -29.52&lt;br /&gt;12:00 PM -41.70&lt;br /&gt;12:30 PM -43.14&lt;br /&gt;01:00 PM -36.43&lt;br /&gt;01:30 PM -57.37&lt;br /&gt;02:00 PM -50.70&lt;br /&gt;02:30 PM -43.52&lt;br /&gt;03:00 PM -45.56&lt;br /&gt;03:30 PM -38.90&lt;br /&gt;04:00 PM -33.07 12,675.75&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;S&amp;P 500314.63 -1.37&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NASDAQ 2786.64 +2.47&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GOLD 1,665.20 -12.10&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OIL 99.10 -.048&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TSE 300 12,395.24 -126.46&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CDNX 1576.29 -12.62&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;S&amp;P/TSX/60 708.09 -8.28&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MORNING,NEWS,STATS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE&lt;br /&gt;Dow -66 points at 4 minutes of trading today.&lt;br /&gt;Dow -90 points at low today.&lt;br /&gt;Dow -1 points at high today so far.&lt;br /&gt;GOLD opens at $1,664.90.OIL opens at $98.52 today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS&lt;br /&gt;Dow -90 points at low today so far.&lt;br /&gt;Dow -1 points at high today so far.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS&lt;br /&gt;Dow -90 points at low today.&lt;br /&gt;Dow -1 points at high today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DANIEL 7:23-24&lt;br /&gt;23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)&lt;br /&gt;24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD REGIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;EU calls Iran's bluff on military threats&lt;br /&gt;23.01.12 @ 18:41 By Andrew Rettman&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BRUSSELS - EU foreign ministers have set the clock ticking on an Iran oil embargo in six months time despite fresh threats it will retaliate with naval action.Ministers in Brussels on Monday (23 January) agreed the Union will from 1 July no longer buy Iranian oil or petroleum products - worth about 20 percent of its exports - in order to stop an alleged nuclear weapons programme. It also blacklisted the Iranian central bank and banned trade in gold and diamonds.The time-lag is designed to help Greece, Italy and Spain sign new oil contracts with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. In other softeners, the oil ban could be scrapped in a review in May and Iran's central bank will be allowed to facilitate trade in other areas, such as food and textiles.Two Iranian MPs the same day repeated the country's threats to block the Strait of Hormuz - a conduit for Saudi oil - in return, creating a major energy crisis. [It] would definitely be closed if the sale of Iranian oil is violated in any way,Mohammad Ismail Kowsari told the Associated Press.Iran has three attack submarines, a fleet of mine-laying mini-submarines and batteries of anti-ship missiles in the area.Nothing happened in the Arabian Gulf immediately after the EU announcement, however. Oil markets also stayed calm, with prices going up by just $1-or-so per barrel.The US and EU member states' navies have overwhelming force in the Bahrain-stationed Combined Maritime Forces fleet. Apart from two US aircraft carriers, the UK also has two frigates, a surveillance vessel, four anti-mine ships, three support ships and a nuclear-powered attack submarine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A French anti-submarine frigate, one of the US carriers and a British vessel sailed through the strait on Monday.A French defence ministry spokesman told EUobserver: There is nothing exceptional about the situation down there.A British defence ministry spokesman said: We do this sort of thing all the time.Speaking to press in Brussels, British foreign minister William Hague noted: Any attempt to close the Strait of Hormuz would be illegal and I also believe it would be unsuccessful.An Israeli defence analyst was more blunt.They won't go that far because the US has enough force in the Gulf to dismantle the Iranian regime if it wants to ... The Iranians know that the US would not absorb a big increase in oil prices in an election year and that there would be a devastating response,Alon Ben-David, an expert for Israel's Channel 10 TV station told this website.He noted that Iran will still be able to sell oil, but that Chinese companies will use the EU embargo to haggle down prices.Amid world reactions to the EU move, Russia criticised the bloc for bypassing the UN.Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov's remarks were mild compared to his statement last week however, when he accused the US and the EU of trying to foment a revolution in Iran and to start a war with its main regional ally, Syria (also hit with new EU sanctions on Monday).For his part, French foreign minister Alain Juppe told reporters in Brussels the sanctions are an alternative to war.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They mean paralysing economic activity in the country and cutting off revenues from its natural resources. I know there are sceptics who say the sanctions are good for nothing [in terms of stopping uranium enrichment]. But they are better than waging war, he said.The leaders of France, Germany and the UK followed-up the EU decision with a joint statement: Our message is clear. We have no quarrel with the Iranian people. But ... we will not accept Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;EU becoming less tolerant, NGO says&lt;br /&gt;Today JAN 23,12 @ 10:52 By Andrew Rettman&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BRUSSELS - Racist mobs in Greece and Hungary, mistreatment of Roma, Arab migrants and Muslim terrorist suspects and a feeble reaction by EU institutions point to a worrying right-wing shift inside the European Union, according to US-based NGO Human Rights Watch.The most shocking racist attack in Europe last year saw Norwegian Anders Breivik kill 77 people in what he called a campaign to stop the continent being taken over by Islam.In less-well documented incidents, a far-right mob in Greece in May stormed a Pakistani suburb hospitalising 25 people, some with stab wounds. In April in Hungary, the Red Cross evacuated 277 Roma because right-wing vigilantes held military-type drills beside their homes.The Human Rights Watch report pulls no punches in linking the extreme cases to bad leadership by EU governments.It said the Breivik attack [echoed] what has increasingly become mainstream debate in Europe and highlighted the dangers of unchecked intolerance in countries such as France, which banned the Muslim veil, and the Netherlands, whose courts gave far-right politician Geert Wilders special latitude to voice anti-Islamic ideas.The report named and shamed nine EU member states - France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the UK - as displaying a swing toward right-wing politics on issues ranging from asylum seekers to gay rights.France and Italy continued to expel Roma in a campaign of discriminatory targeting accompanied by racist and xenophobic political discourse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Greece and Italy failed on several counts in their reaction to the sharp increase in mostly African and Arab migrants.Greece is still holding migrants and asylum seekers, including women and families with children ... in inhumane conditions and has done little to clear a backlog of 38,000 asylum appeals. Italy kicked out some 60 percent of the Tunisians who came to seek shelter from the Arab Spring. In once incident the Italian navy intercepted a boat carrying 100 people and put them back on a Tunisian vessel in what appeared to be an unlawful pushback.The NGO also raised the alarm over the culture of policing inside the Union.It noted reports of excessive and indiscriminate police violence in Greece and Spain's handling of anti-austerity protests and in Spain's dispersal of an anti-Vatican rally. It also highlighted the way France, Germany, Spain and the UK hold mostly Muslim terrorist suspects without trial, deny them normal access to lawyers and send or try to send them back to countries where they risk torture.It accused the EU institutions of not doing enough to stop the trend.The European Commission failed to pursue vigorously its duty to enforce fundamental rights, dropping proceedings against Hungary over its media law and France over Roma expulsions, and suspending proceedings against Greece on its dysfunctional asylum and migration system despite continuing problems, it said.Unless the commission finds more courage, the downward slide on rights inside the EU looks set to continue,the NGO's Benjamin Ward added in a statement.The net result of human rights developments in Europe causes great concern ... Without concerted government action, the next generation of Europeans may see human rights as an optional extra rather than a core value.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;No consensus on sanctions under fiscal pact, says Denmark 23.01.12 @ 18:42 By Valentina Pop&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BRUSSELS - Two issues are to extend discussions on the new fiscal treaty beyond the finance ministers' meeting on Monday (23 January): financial sanctions and the participation of non-euro members in eurozone summits, the Danish economy minister told this website.We support the participation of non-euro countries in the eurozone summits. It is one of the questions that will be worked on in the last week before the meeting of heads of state on 30 January,said Margrethe Vestager, who chairs the meeting of 27 finance ministers on behalf of the Danish EU presidency.The issue has become a make-or-break deal for Poland, whose prime minister has threatened not to sign up to the new inter-governmental treaty on fiscal discipline unless the so-called outs are allowed to attend the eurozone summits. In the latest text, a concession has been made allowing leaders from these countries to be invited in order to discuss specific issues concerning the implementation of this treaty,when appropriate and at least once a year.But Vestager remains sceptical this wording will be enough. It is a sensitive question, if countries that are now outside the euro but may become part of the eurozone in the years to come, it's in their obvious interest to participate in meetings where these issues will be discussed,she said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Poland is not the only country to make this claim, she noted, just the most vocal ambassador.We have stated the same in the negotiations, Vestager said, even though her country, unlike the other eight 'outs' that have signed up to the fiscal treaty, is under no legal obligation to join the euro.The other thorny issue likely to remain unsettled before the EU leaders' meeting next Monday is the controversial idea of having the European Court of Justice impose fines of up to 0.1 percent of a country's gross domestic product if it doesn't properly apply the so-called balanced budget rule into national law, prohibiting a structural deficit of more than 0.5 percent of GDP.In the latest draft, this fine would be transferred directly to the European Stability Mechanism, the eurozone's permanent bail-out fund to be created this summer.This is a proposal on which there is no consensus yet.  From a strictly Danish point of view, it's hard to see your fines going to the ESM, which is a eurozone fine-box. In that respect, there is a special Danish issue, but I think this will be debated in the days to come, not only tonight,Vestager said.To the Danish Liberal, the mere fact that leaders from 26 EU countries - except Britain - have agreed to enshrine the balanced budget rule in their binding national legislation is enough of a token of appreciation that they are committed to this new approach in public finances.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fiscally disciplined Scandinavian country supports this new treaty - essentially a German pre-condition for future eurozone bail-outs - as a measure to boost market confidence in the soundness of state budgets.We need not only the markets, but also businesses and citizens to trust our fiscal policies. That is our most important thing. It's one of the Danish EU presidency's high priorities to make sure that the implementation of the economic reform is going well and remains very focused,she said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Commission tells EU institutions to cut costs&lt;br /&gt;23.01.12 @ 19:09 By Nikolaj Nielsen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BRUSSELS - Without signalling out any one EU institution in particular, the European Commission has requested they all refrain from bloating 2013 expenditure budgets as a response to the austerity measures netted out upon the rest of Europe.Commission asks EU institutions to refrain from increasing expenditure budgets (Photo: Domiriel)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The EU budget commissioner Janusz Lewandowski sent a letter to all respective EU chiefs stating that they should make all possible efforts towards limiting expenditure in preparing their own estimates for the draft budget 2013.Among the letter's recipients was EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton of the European External Action Service (EEAS). When it was launched in December 2010, the diplomatic service quickly buckled under considerable budgetary constraints.The original budget of the EEAS in year one was insufficient to meet the running costs, EEAS spokesperson Michael Mann wrote this website in an email. The EEAS had to increase its budget by €26.9 million for 2012 to help pay staff and run its daily operational activities.For its part, the commission intends to reduce its staff by 1 percent in 2013 with an estimated saving of around €20 million.It is of the utmost importance to continue to demonstrate that the EU institutions are acting responsibly in the current climate of austerity,the commissioner told reporters on Monday (23 January). Lewandowski had made a similar statement in February last year urging the EU institutions to cut IT, publication and travel among other costs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The commission froze its expenditure increases in 2011 and aims to do same for the 2012, while other institutions either increased or even dropped their own expenditure budgets.Indeed, the European Council went from €563 million in 2011 to €538 million for this year. The European Parliament, on the other hand, increased its budget expenditure from €1.68 billion to €1.72 billion due in part to translation costs and the addition of Croatia as a new member state.The EEAS, however, represents a tiny fraction of the overall EU budget but is mandated to set EU foreign policy through joint-missions with non-EU states and its 136 over-sea delegations.Understaffed and widely criticized for failing to achieve EU foreign policy coherence, the service even struggled to fill vacant positions amid reports that around 60 had quit only months into their contracts.I would not want to be dragged into extrapolating on the possible consequences of what possible measures some institutions might take. It is for each of them to decide how best to show the message to the EU taxpayers that the EU institutions do not act in a business as usual way, that they voluntarily show savings as is the case in many member states, responded Lewandowski’s spokesperson in an email when asked if the announcement was a veiled slight at the increased expenditure budgets of the European Parliament and the EEAS.In 2011, the EEAS pocketed €464 million and divided the budget between its headquarters in Brussels and its numerous delegations. The EEAS also managed € 253 million on behalf of the commission for administrative expenses linked to commission staff in delegations.We are aiming to make the EEAS as cost-efficient as possible. We have made efficiency gains from the merging of the services, and are currently doing a review of mission expenditure for our delegations,wrote the EEAS spokesperson adding that the service is making every effort to maximise efficiency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Around six percent of the EU’s total €129 billion is spent on EU institutional administrative matters. The council, the commission, and the European parliament eat up the greatest share of the expenditure budgets.The remaining 94 percent of the EU total budget is spent on EU citizens, farmers, businesses, regions and cities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Deal sought on delayed EU derivatives law&lt;br /&gt;Today JAN 23,12 @ 09:24 By Valentina Pop&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BRUSSELS - Finance ministers meeting in Brussels on Tuesday (24 January) may agree on a compromise deal put forward by the Danish EU presidency on a delayed EU bill regulating trading in derivatives, the sticking point being how much power to give to the responsible new EU authority.The draft law was initially tabled by the European Commission in 2010, two years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the bail-out of AIG - financial institutions which had been at the forefront of derivatives trading, essentially guaranteeing bets on mortgages and loans that went bust once the housing bubble in the US burst.Once agreed by member states and the European Parliament, the law would make direct trading in derivatives more transparent and traceable, as it would require databases registering every such transaction to be set up in clearing houses that ensure their validity.MEPs are pushing for the newly appointed EU body, the Paris-based European Securities and Markets Authority (Esma), to have a key role in the process.London, home to 75 percent of the European derivatives market, has so far opposed Esma being given too many powers, especially when it comes to authorising or rejecting the establishment of clearing houses in a member state - something currently being approved by national authorities.At a meeting in October, British finance minister George Osborne obtained a concession virtually making it impossible for other countries or Esma to block the establishment of clearing houses in a member state - by requiring unanimity among all except the host country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Germany, where most of the second type of derivatives - traded through the stock exchange - are taking place, had initially teamed up with Britain but has meanwhile changed course and is pushing for Esma to get a bigger mediation role.According to a Danish compromise text, seen by EUobserver, the unanimity minus one rule has been kept, but a second option is foreseen so that when a three-quarters majority of states have a negative opinion, they can refer the matter to Esma.That decision shall state in writing the full and detailed reasons why the concerned members of the college consider that the requirements of this Regulation or other parts of EU law are not met. In that case the competent authority of the member state where the CCP is established shall defer its decision on the authorisation and await any decision that Esma may take,the text reads.A meeting scheduled Monday with MEPs dealing with this file has been postponed until the following Monday, pending an agreement among finance ministers.As for clearing houses themselves, no common position has agreed either. Those acting primarily at a national level - British, German or Italian - prefer the supervision of national authorities whom they know well, says one market source.But national authorities can also be politically biased. A Greek authority may reject the application of a Turkish clearing house, whereas Esma would be more neutral,the source said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LUKE 21:25-26&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING&lt;br /&gt;GENESIS 7:6-12&lt;br /&gt;6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.&lt;br /&gt;7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.&lt;br /&gt;8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,&lt;br /&gt;9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.&lt;br /&gt;10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.&lt;br /&gt;11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.&lt;br /&gt;12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.&lt;br /&gt;GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Strong storms hit Alabama, kill two&lt;br /&gt;ReutersBy Verna Gates and Peggy Gargis | Reuters – JAN 23,12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Search and rescue team combed through debris in Alabama after powerful thunderstorms pummeled the state early on Monday, killing at least two people and leaving heavy damage just hours after tornadoes struck portions of Arkansas.Alabama Governor Robert Bentley declared a state of emergency after the predawn storms hit the Birmingham area, with the towns of Center Point and Trussville just to the northeast of the city hit particularly hard.Two people were confirmed dead, according to Pat Curry, Jefferson County's chief deputy coroner; one in Clay, a city of roughly 10,000 people, and another in the western part of the county.Earlier, an emergency management official had reported three deaths.We have major, major damage, said Bob Ammons, a Jefferson County Emergency Management Agency (EMA) official, referring to Center Point, Trussville and some unincorporated areas of the county.About 100 people were treated for injuries, said Jefferson County EMA spokesman Mark Kelly.Last April, massive tornadoes tore through Alabama killing more than 240 people, including 64 in the Jefferson and Tuscaloosa areas.On Monday, in St. Clair County, Alabama, spokeswoman Katie Reese said a local fire department estimated some 36 homes had been damaged, and some of them destroyed.The possibility for sporadic thunderstorms in the region lingered, according to AccuWeather.com senior meteorologist Henry Margusity, but overall the severe weather was calming down.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THOUSANDS WITHOUT POWER&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clean-up and recovery efforts were under way across Alabama on Monday afternoon.&lt;br /&gt;Food safety inspectors had been dispatched to assess damage and power outages at retail food establishments, state officials said, adding that any compromised products would be taken off shelves.Search and rescue efforts were ongoing, according to Matt Angelo of the Center Point fire department. The injury count in that area northeast of Birmingham remained at about 12, he said.At nearby Parkway Veterinary Clinic animals were being transported to a safe location after the structure sustained a direct hit during the storm, a spokeswoman said.Earlier, rescue crews were dispatched to investigate reports of an overturned mobile home with people trapped inside, said Debbie Orange, city clerk for the city of Clanton, about midway between Birmingham and Montgomery. No injuries could be confirmed.A preliminary report from the weather service's storm prediction center indicated a radio station in Clanton, Alabama was destroyed and a 302-foot (92-meter) transmission tower toppled due to the severe weather.A tornado is suspected, but not yet confirmed, in the radio station destruction, according to the National Weather Service.In Tennessee, the worst storm damage was in the middle of the state, with downed trees and power lines. In western Tennessee, structural damage resulted from winds whipping up to 65 mph, meteorologists said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These were the latest in a series of powerful January storms to have torn through the Southeast.On Sunday, twisters downed trees and powerlines in Arkansas leaving thousands without power.A tornado ripped into an area outside of Fordyce, some 70 miles south of state capital Little Rock, damaging houses and felling trees and power lines as it moved, according to Accuweather.com.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The National Weather Service in Little Rock rated the Fordyce area tornado as an EF2, on a scale that ranges from EF0 to EF5, the most severe. The town of just under 5,000 people was one of the hardest hit areas in a series of storms that struck Arkansas on Sunday night.Significant damage occurred to houses northwest of the small town, the city's country club and a set of transmission towers, it said in a statement.The weather service has reported as many as eight possible tornadoes may have touched down on Sunday night in Arkansas, which was pelted by soft-ball sized hailstones and buffeted by winds gusting up to 70 miles per hour.By Monday, almost 8,000 customers across Arkansas were still without power, according to utility provider Entergy Arkansas, Inc.(Additional reporting by Tim Ghianni in Nashville, Suzi Parker in Little Rock and Kelli Dugan in Mobile, Alabama; Writing by Dan Burns and Lauren Keiper; Editing by Greg McCune and Sandra Maler)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MUSLIM NATIONS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EZEKIEL 38:1-12&lt;br /&gt;1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,&lt;br /&gt;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,&lt;br /&gt;3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:&lt;br /&gt;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:&lt;br /&gt;5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;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:&lt;br /&gt;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,&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ISAIAH 17:1&lt;br /&gt;1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PSALMS 83:3-7&lt;br /&gt;3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)&lt;br /&gt;6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)&lt;br /&gt;7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DANIEL 11:40-43&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EZEKIEL 39:1-8&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;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:&lt;br /&gt;3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JOEL 2:3,20,30-31&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)&lt;br /&gt;31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Putin warns ethnic tensions risk tearing Russia apart&lt;br /&gt;ReutersBy Alissa de Carbonnel and Gleb Bryanski | Reuters – JAN 23,12&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MOSCOW/KISLOVODSK, Russia (Reuters) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, warning ethnic tensions could tear Russia apart, said on Monday he would toughen migration rules and keep a tight rein on Russia's regions to prevent it following the Soviet Union into oblivion.In a newspaper article and an address in southern Russia, Putin used the danger of ethnic discord to call for limits on electoral reforms.With the collapse of the country (the Soviet Union), we were on the edge -- and in some regions over the edge -- of civil war, Putin wrote in Nezavisimaya Gazeta.With great effort, with great sacrifice we were able to douse these fires. But that doesn't mean that the problem is gone,he wrote in the second of a series of articles promoting his leadership goals ahead of a March 4 presidential election.Putin, in power since 2000 and favored to win a six-year presidential term in March, described a Soviet-style vision of a country in which the rights of ethnic minorities would be respected but Russian language and culture would dominate.The Russian people, the Russian culture is the glue holding together the unique fabric of this civilization, Putin wrote.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Putin is steering a fine line between Orthodox Christian ethnic Russians, some of whom fear labor migration and higher birth rates among Russia's Muslims, and ethnic tensions which could challenge his vision of a centralized, united, Russia.Thousands of nationalists have protested in Moscow over migration and state subsidies to the mostly Muslim North Caucasus, where an Islamist insurgency rooted in the Chechen wars persists.Comparing nationalism to a disease, Putin took aim at ethnic Russian nationalists, who have been among the 59-year-old prime minister's most vociferous critics.If a multiethnic society is infected by nationalism, it loses its strength and durability, Putin wrote.We need to understand what far-reaching effects can be caused by attempts to inflame national enmity and hatred.He said minorities must live under the umbrella of Russian culture, and migrants must pass exams in Russian language and history. Authorities should be given more power to vet migrants' professional skills and students should read some 100 national classics.But he also said the best way to stem migration was by creating favorable conditions for citizens to work in their native regions.Without naming names, he took aim at the idea of cutting federal subsidies for the North Caucasus, promoted by anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny.The goals of such activists are clear and they have nothing in common with the real attempts to solve ethnic problems, with Russia's development and interests of its citizens,Putin told the conference of Peoples of Russia's South in Kislovodsk.In the article, he plugged his plan for a Eurasian Union linking Russia with other ex-Soviet republics including those in Central Asia -- the source of millions of labor migrants in Russia -- saying closer ties would help curb migration by helping to develop their economies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet in a sign he will not reverse a consolidation of power in Moscow, Putin said he could not allow regional political parties because some could be created on ethnic lines, calling it a direct path to separatism.What is omitted is even more important than what is included (in the article), said Nikolai Petrov, a political analyst with the Moscow Carnegie Center, told Reuters.There is no mention of federalism here and the idea here is that a centralized state should be stronger in order to prevent disintegration, he said.President Dmitry Medvedev submitted a bill this month that would restore popular elections for Russia's regional governors. But Putin suggested on Monday that potential governors may need presidential approval to run.We need to tune this mechanism properly, he said.(Additional reporting by Thomas Grove; Editing by Myra MacDonald)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Russia: We Can Do No More for Syria-Moscow has reached its limit and says it can do no more to help Syria's President Bashar al-Assad remain in power.By Chana Ya'ar First Publish: 1/24/2012, 12:15 AM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moscow has reached its limit and says it can do no more to help Syria's President Bashar al-Assad remain in power.Senior Russian lawmaker Mikhail Margelov said Moscow's veto of a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Assad's savage crackdown on dissidents, together with China, with the last instrument possible to keep Assad in office.This veto has exhausted our arsenal of such resources, Margelov was quoted as saying Monday by Russia's Itar-Tass news agency. However, Russia signed an arms deal with Damascus the same day, agreeing to supply 36 fighter jets to the Assad regime.Apparently also rapidly reaching its limit, the Arab League on Sunday called on the Syrian president to step down and form a unity government in the face of ongoing protests by thousands of demonstrators. The Cairo-based entity recommended that Assad transfer power to a deputy until elections could be scheduled.But a Syrian official told the state-run SANA news agency in response, Syria rejects the decisions of the Arab League ministerial council... and considers them a violation of its national sovereignty and a flagrant interference in its internal affairs.Tens of thousands of protesters turned out Monday in the Damascus suburb of Duma alone, protected by the opposition Free Syrian Army, to express their grief after 11 more civilians were murdered by government troops, activists said.Nevertheless, with the exception of a one-month extension of the Arab League observer mission, no direct intervention has been approved by any Arab nation, nor has the United Nations made any decision as to what it will do, if anything, to stop the slaughter of Syrian civilians by the Assad regime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Between five and six thousand Syrians have been killed by government forces in the past ten months, and thousands more have been injured in detention, and many tortured, after being arbitrarily arrested, including many women and children. Some have disappeared.The Assad regime claims that approximately 2,000 security troops have also died in clashes with terrorists and armed gangs as a result of the anti-government uprising ignited by last year's Arab Spring.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Iran slams EU oil embargo, warns could hit U.S.&lt;br /&gt;ReutersBy Hossein Jaseb and Justyna Pawlak | Reuters – JAN23,12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TEHRAN/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Iran accused Europeans on Monday of waging psychological warfare after the EU banned imports of Iranian oil, and President Barack Obama said Washington would impose more sanctions to address the serious threat presented by Iran's nuclear program.The Islamic Republic, which denies trying to build a nuclear bomb, scoffed at efforts to choke its oil exports, as Asia lines up to buy what Europe scorns.Some Iranians also renewed threats to stop Arab oil from leaving the Gulf and warned they might strike U.S. targets worldwide if Washington used force to break any Iranian blockade of a strategically vital shipping route.Yet in three decades of confrontation between Tehran and the West, bellicose rhetoric and the undependable armory of sanctions have become so familiar that the benchmark Brent crude oil price edged only 0.8 percent higher, and some of that was due to unrelated currency factors.If any disruption happens regarding the sale of Iranian oil, the Strait of Hormuz will definitely be closed,Mohammad Kossari, deputy head of parliament's foreign affairs and national security committee, told Fars news agency a day after U.S., French and British warships sailed back into the Gulf.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If America seeks adventures after the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, Iran will make the world unsafe for Americans in the shortest possible time, Kossari added, referring to an earlier U.S. pledge to use its fleet to keep the passage open.In Washington, Obama said in a statement that the EU sanctions underlined the strength of the international community's commitment to addressing the serious threat presented by Iran's nuclear program.The United States will continue to impose new sanctions to increase the pressure on Iran,Obama said.The United States imposed its own sanctions against Iran's oil trade and central bank on December 31. On Monday it imposed sanctions on the country's third-largest bank, state-owned Bank Tejarat and a Belarus-based affiliate, for allegedly helping Tehran develop its nuclear program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The EU sanctions were also welcomed by Israel, which has warned it might attack Iran if sanctions do not deflect Tehran from a course that some analysts say could potentially give Iran a nuclear bomb next year.U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a statement with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: This new, concerted pressure will sharpen the choice for Iran's leaders and increase their cost of defiance of basic international obligations.U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, reiterated Washington's commitment to freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz. I think that Iran has undoubtedly heard that message and would be well advised to heed it,she said at a meeting of the board of governors of the American Jewish Committee in New York.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CALLS FOR TALKS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Germany, France and Britain used the EU sanctions as a cue for a joint call to Tehran to renew long-suspended negotiations on its nuclear program. Russia, like China a powerful critic of the Western approach, said talks might soon be on the cards.Iran, however, said new sanctions made that less likely. It is a view shared by some in the West who caution that such tactics risk hardening Iranian support for a nuclear program that also seems to be subject to a covert war of sabotage and assassinations widely blamed on Israeli and Western agents.The European Union embargo will not take full effect until July 1 because the foreign ministers who agreed the anticipated ban on imports of Iranian crude at a meeting in Brussels were anxious not to penalize the ailing economies of Greece, Italy and others to whom Iran is a major oil supplier. The strategy will be reviewed in May to see if it should go ahead.Curbing Iran's oil exports is a double-edged sword, as Tehran's own response to the embargo clearly showed.Loss of revenue is painful for a clerical establishment that faces an awkward electoral test at a time of galloping inflation which is hurting ordinary people. But since Iran's Western-allied Arab neighbors are struggling to raise their own output to compensate, the curbs on Tehran's exports have driven up oil prices and raised costs for recession-hit Western industries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A member of Iran's influential Assembly of Experts, former Intelligence Minister Ali Fallahian, said Tehran should respond to the delayed-action EU sanctions by stopping sales to the bloc immediately, denying the Europeans time to arrange alternative supplies and damaging their economies with higher oil prices.The best way is to stop exporting oil ourselves before the end of this six months and before the implementation of the plan,the semi-official Fars news agency quoted him as saying.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;European Union sanctions on Iranian oil is psychological warfare, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said. Imposing economic sanctions is illogical and unfair but will not stop our nation from obtaining its rights.Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi told the official IRNA news agency that the more sanctions were imposed on Tehran the more obstacles there will be to solve the issue.Iran's Oil Ministry issued a statement saying the sanctions did not come as a shock. The oil ministry has from long ago thought about it and has come up with measures to deal with any challenges,it said, according to IRNA.Mehmanparast said:The European countries and those who are under American pressure, should think about their own interests. Any country that deprives itself from Iran's energy market, will soon see that it has been replaced by others.China, Iran's biggest customer, has resisted U.S. pressure to cut back its oil imports, as have other Asian economies to varying degrees. India's oil minister said on Monday sanctions were forcing Iran to sell more cheaply and that India planned to take full advantage of that to buy as much as it could.The EU measures include an immediate ban on all new contracts to import, purchase or transport Iranian crude and petroleum products. However, EU countries with existing contracts can honor them up to July 1.EU officials said they also agreed to freeze the assets of Iran's central bank and ban trade in gold and other precious metals with the bank and state bodies.EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said: I want the pressure of these sanctions to result in negotiations.I want to see Iran come back to the table and either pick up all the ideas that we left on the table ... last year ... or to come forward with its own ideas.Iran has said it is willing to hold talks with Western powers, though there have been mixed signals on whether conditions imposed by both sides make new negotiations likely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IAEA INSPECTORS VISIT&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Islamic Republic says it is enriching uranium only for producing electricity and other civilian uses. The start this month of a potentially bomb-proof - and once secret - enrichment plant has deepened skepticism abroad, however.The United Nations' nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, confirmed plans for a visit next week by senior inspectors to try to clear up questions raised about the purpose of Iran's nuclear activities. Tehran is banned by international treaty from developing nuclear weaponry.The Agency team is going to Iran in a constructive spirit, and we trust that Iran will work with us in that same spirit,IAEA chief Yukiya Amano said in a statement announcing the January 29-31 visit.Iran, whose regional policies face a setback from the difficulties of its Arab ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has powerful defenders in the form of Russia, which has built Iran a reactor, and China. Both permanent U.N. Security Council members argue that Western sanctions are counter-productive.Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, classifying the EU embargo among aggravating factors, said Moscow believed there was a good chance that talks between six global powers and Iran could resume soon and that Russia would try to steer both Iran and the West away from further confrontation.His ministry issued an official statement expressing regret and alarm: What is happening here is open pressure and diktat, an attempt to punish Iran for its intractable behavior.This is a deeply mistaken approach, as we have told our European partners more than once. Under such pressure Iran will not agree to any concessions or any changes in its policy.But that argument cuts no ice with the U.S. administration, for which Iran - and Israel's stated willingness to consider unilateral military action against it - is a major challenge as Obama campaigns for re-election against Republican opponents who say he has been too soft on Tehran.&lt;br /&gt;(Additional reporting by Robin Pomeroy and Mitra Amiri in Tehran, David Brunnstrom in Brussels, Adrian Croft in London, John Irish in Paris, Alexei Anishchuk in Sochi, Ari Rabinovitch and Jeffrey Heller in Jerusalem, Nidhi Verma in New Delhi, Steve Gutterman in Moscow, Rachelle Younglai and Andrew Quinn in Washington, Fredrik Dahl in Vienna and Patrick Worsnip at the United Nations; writing by Alastair Macdonald; editing by Robert Woodward and Mohammad Zargham)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EARTHQUAKES&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MATTHEW 24:7-8&lt;br /&gt;7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.&lt;br /&gt;8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MARK 13:8&lt;br /&gt;8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LUKE 21:11&lt;br /&gt;11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Earthquake shakes northern Dominican Republic&lt;br /&gt;Associated PressAssociated Press – JAN 23,12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — A moderate earthquake struck Monday in the northern Dominican Republic but there were no reports of damage or injuries.The U.S. Geological Survey says the earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 5.1. The epicenter was in the coastal town of Rio San Juan, about 155 miles (250 kilometers) north of the capital and 22 miles (35 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco de Macoris.A seismology institute at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo said its equipment recorded a magnitude of 5.4.Juan Manuel Mendez, director of the country's Emergency Operations Center, said emergency workers had fanned out in communities along the northern coast to check for damage or injuries but had so far found none.Tremors were felt as far away as Cap Haitien in northern Haiti and along the west coast of Puerto Rico.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Intifada is Back, Says Guard Who was Stabbed-Security man says events like Sunday's attempted stabbing at Kalandiya are becoming more frequent By Gil Ronen First Publish: 1/22/2012, 7:39 PM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A security guard who works at the Shuafat checkpoint told Arutz Sheva Sunday that attacks like the one thwarted earlier in the day at Kalandiya are becoming more and more frequent. The Intifada is back, he said.The guard – who requested anonymity, and will be referred to by the pseudonym Yisrael – was witness to a similar attack 20 days ago at the Shuafat checkpoint in northern Jerusalem. In that event, an Arab woman with Israeli citizenship brazenly refused the guards' instructions to proceed through the pedestrian lane. She got close to the guards and said, in Hebrew, that she refuses to pass through that lane.A guard walked up to her and she then tried to pull out a knife and stab him. He saw that she was about to attack him and was able to overpower her.A Border Policeman was stabbed in the neck at the same checkpoint on Saturday and suffered light injuries.Yisrael said that the events at the checkpoints are all connected, and that Israeli forces are not equipped to handle the new wave of violence. The danger is always present, he said, and one never knows where the next attack will come from. An Arab worker who is upset about something that happened to him during the day can take out his frustration in an attack on soldiers, he said: We trust them daily, and one day they can stab us in the back.The guards have the authority to arrest suspects, added Yisrael, but this authority is only partial and requires the presence of a police officer. In addition – the guards are not equipped with nonlethal weapons like electric shockers, pepper spray and the like. Poor conditions also make the guards less alert: not enough food, a shortage of personnel and lack of air conditioning are all problems that could lead to a tragedy, he explained.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;http://israndjer.blogspot.com&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18902243-6520707864159512864?l=israndjer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=RXBg11JiB14' title='ETHNIC TENSIONS TEARING RUSSIA APART-PUTIN'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18902243/posts/default/6520707864159512864'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18902243/posts/default/6520707864159512864'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2012/01/ethnic-tensions-tearing-russia-apart.html' title='ETHNIC TENSIONS TEARING RUSSIA APART-PUTIN'/><author><name>STAN L</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11041400179179367939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yb51zBn6LsQ/SYn1N0hbmWI/AAAAAAAAAAc/AJdshT6GEDw/S220/israelflag.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902243.post-7156643044348492900</id><published>2012-01-23T16:27:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-23T16:28:03.345-05:00</updated><title type='text'>ONLY GODLESS SHOULD HOLD OFFICE-GOOD LUCK</title><content type='html'>ROMANS 3:13-18&lt;br /&gt;13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:&lt;br /&gt;14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:&lt;br /&gt;15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:&lt;br /&gt;16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:&lt;br /&gt;17 And the way of peace have they not known:&lt;br /&gt;18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 TIMOTHY 4:3-4&lt;br /&gt;3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;&lt;br /&gt;4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DECIEVERS WAXING WORSE AND WORSE.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 TIMOTHY 3:13&lt;br /&gt;13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PROVERBS 2:12-15,20-22&lt;br /&gt;12  To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;&lt;br /&gt;13  Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;&lt;br /&gt;14  Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;&lt;br /&gt;15  Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:&lt;br /&gt;20  That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.&lt;br /&gt;21  For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.&lt;br /&gt;22  But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;THIS IS EXACTLY WHY THE EARTH IS BEING JUDGED FOR IT SINS.ITS BECAUSE THERES GODLESS LEADERS IN OFFICE AROUND THE WORLD.AND NOT GOD LOVING,OBEYING LEADERS.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Only Atheists Should Hold Public Office By Andrew Riggio | Yahoo! Contributor Network – Sat, Jan 21, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;COMMENTARY | Religion plays a big role in politics. Noted polling organization Pew Research just published a report detailing which candidate people are likely to vote for based on religion. A USA Today report suggests Rick Santorum's popularity in South Carolina has been significantly increased by his religious positions on issues and support of the evangelical Christian movement. That's all a shame because America would be better off if only atheists were allowed to hold public office.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let me start by saying such an arrangement would actually protect Christians. Leaders who are influenced by religious belief often act in ways that support that religion -- sometimes to the detriment of other faiths. While Christianity may hold sway now in the U.S. other religions might someday enjoy a political majority. If that day comes Christians who have advocated for religious leadership will have no defense against the wishes of officeholders from other religions.Of greater importance, however, is the danger of religious leadership. Theocratic nations restrict freedom and place adherence to religious dogma ahead of real-world issues and common sense. A horrifying example is the practice under Sharia law of punishing rape victims with death for sexual immorality. This even happens in nations where Sharia is not officially used, such as Bangladesh, where a 14-year-old girl was raped by a relative and killed by punitive whipping, according to UPI.Christian dogma is equally violent. The Bible calls for death as punishment for talking back to parents, breaking the Sabbath, wearing clothes of multiple fabrics, and failing to scream loudly enough when being raped, among many other offenses listed by the Skeptics Annotated Bible. If Christian religious dogma is taken seriously by leaders it could lead to terror and death.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adherence to religious dogma also distracts from pressing, real-world issues. The Bible calls poverty a holy thing. Mother Teresa called abortion the greatest destroyer of peace today in her Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech according to the Nobel site. Religious dogma makes adherents want to limit others' rights, dictate social ethics, yet ignore problems like poverty.Atheist leadership would be focused entirely on the actual civic problems facing the country. It may be the only world view that places real world problems first and America needs that. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Iran Vows to Shut Down Strait of Hormuz as EU Passes Oil Embargo Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com January 23, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=PZZdpQQGMKc&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iran has reacted angrily to an agreement by European Union foreign ministers to impose an oil embargo on the country.Following the agreement reached on Monday, Iranian lawmaker Mohammad Ismail Kowsari, deputy head of Iran’s influential committee on national security, said the strait would definitely be closed if the sale of Iranian oil is violated in any way.A fifth of the world’s oil moves through the Strait of Hormuz.Tehran will not grin and bear it when its interests are undermined,said lawmaker Alaeddin Boroujerdi, according to Press TV. Boroujerdi is a lawmaker who heads the national security and foreign policy committee in Tehran.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another lawmaker, Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh, said Iran has a right to shut down Hormuz. Falahatpisheh is a senior member of Iran’s Majlis, or Iranian parliament.Ali Falahaian, a former intelligence minister, said Iran should stop all its crude exports so that oil prices would go up and the Europeans’ sanctions would collapse.&lt;br /&gt;Iran first issued warnings about closing down the Strait of Hormuz in December.If they impose sanctions on Iran’s oil exports, then even one drop of oil cannot flow from the Strait of Hormuz,said Vice President Mohamed Reza Rahimi.Admiral Habibollah Sayyari told Iran’s state-run Press TV that closing down the strait would be very easy for Iranian naval forces, but said such a decision should be made by top establishment leaders.It now appears Iran’s leaders are a step closer to considering that option as the EU and the United States impose an embargo and punitive sanctions.&lt;br /&gt;The price of oil surpassed $99 per barrel on news of the embargo and Iran’s response.&lt;br /&gt;Benchmark crude for March delivery moved up about a dollar to trade 90 cents higher at $99.23 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange, according to the Associated Press.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD&lt;br /&gt;then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JAMES 5:1-3&lt;br /&gt;1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.&lt;br /&gt;2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REVELATION 18:10,17,19&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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,&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EZEKIEL 7:19&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REVELATION 13:16-18&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WORLD MARKET RESULTS&lt;br /&gt;http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/&lt;br /&gt;CNBC VIDEOS&lt;br /&gt;http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/?tabid=15839796&amp;tabheader=false&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS MON JANUARY 23,2012&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;09:30 AM -2.43&lt;br /&gt;10:00 AM +12.16&lt;br /&gt;10:30 AM +28.43&lt;br /&gt;11:00 AM +11.76&lt;br /&gt;11:30 AM -5.19&lt;br /&gt;12:00 PM -24.98&lt;br /&gt;12:30 PM -44.32&lt;br /&gt;01:00 PM -46.25&lt;br /&gt;01:30 PM -31.56&lt;br /&gt;02:00 PM -30.16&lt;br /&gt;02:30 PM -22.71&lt;br /&gt;03:00 PM -32.02&lt;br /&gt;03:30 PM -2.09&lt;br /&gt;04:00 PM -11.66 12,708.82&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;S&amp;P 500 1316.00 +0.62 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NASDAQ 2784.17 -2.53&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GOLD 1,677.10 +13.60&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OIL 99.92 +1.29&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TSE 300 12,521.70 +124.60&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CDNX 1588.91 +17.57&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;S&amp;P/TSX/60 716.50 +8.27&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MORNING,NEWS,STATS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE&lt;br /&gt;Dow -7 points at 4 minutes of trading today.&lt;br /&gt;Dow -46 points at low today.&lt;br /&gt;Dow +30 points at high today so far.&lt;br /&gt;GOLD opens at $1,669.10.OIL opens at $98.86 today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS&lt;br /&gt;Dow -55 points at low today so far.&lt;br /&gt;Dow +44 points at high today so far.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS&lt;br /&gt;Dow -55 points at low today.&lt;br /&gt;Dow +44 points at high today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DANIEL 7:23-24&lt;br /&gt;23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)&lt;br /&gt;24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD REGIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Franco-German growth plan looks to EU funds and taxes&lt;br /&gt;20.01.12 @ 18:14 By Valentina Pop&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BRUSSELS - A six-point plan drafted by France and Germany has suggested corporate tax co-ordination, an EU financial transactions tax and the re-deployment of EU funds in troubled countries as ways to spur growth and jobs.Following Standard &amp; Poor's recent downgrade of nine euro-countries, including France, in which the ratings agency warned that austerity and budget cuts are not the way out of recession, Paris and Berlin have teamed up once more and drafted a six-page paper called Ways out of the crisis - strengthen growth now! The paper - seen by EUobserver - is supposed to be discussed at the EU summits on 30 January and 1-2 March, the latter being a meeting especially dedicated to growth and jobs.The financial transactions tax - a pet project of French President Nicolas Sarkozy ahead of his re-election bid in April - features among the six proposals under efforts to reinforce the framework of financial market.On Monday, hours before meeting their colleagues from the other 25 member states in Brussels, the German and French finance ministers will gather in Paris to thrash out a common position on the so-called Tobin tax, named after the Nobel prize laureate James Tobin who initially conceived it.Britain, Sweden, Denmark, Malta and the Czech Republic oppose the tax, saying it is counter-productive in the absence of a global deal which would stop firms from fleeing to tax havens in Switzerland or the Caribbean.Even more controversial are plans for tax co-ordination and another Franco-German proposal to be put forward by end of February on the convergence of their corporate tax.European institutions and member states should accelerate the process of tax coordination in order to foster growth, removing obstacles to the functioning of the single market and preventing tax abuse and harmful tax practices,the paper says.Apart from the Tobin tax, both leaders want to speed up EU legislation on an energy tax and a common consolidated corporate tax base.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The latter would introduce a common European formula for calculating a tax on the profits of multinational firms, a taboo topic for Ireland, for instance, where corporate tax is only 12.5 percent.Another controversial proposal would have 25 percent of unspent EU regional funds in countries under a bail-out program or under serious economic difficulties redirected to a special fund for growth and competitiveness.The money would no longer be managed by the national authorities, but by the EU commission in liaison with the European Investment Bank.Projects financed by this fund should have clear targets that can be implemented in 2012, for instance loans to small and medium enterprises or research institutes.The two leaders also want existing national programs under which people and companies can apply for EU funding to be revised in order to improve their impact on growth and competitiveness.Late payments to the beneficiaries of EU funding should also be reduced by lowering the ceiling to one month, the paper suggests.As for employment-boosting measures, one of Sarkozy's make-or-break campaign themes, the document asks governments to instruct employment agencies to make an offer to every unemployed person - be it for a job, an apprenticeship or further training.The EU commission is invited to make a comparative study to how short-term jobs and trainings are being used in member states during economic slumps. Labour taxes should be lowered throughout Europe, cross-border employment spurred. And a social forum should be held in the first half of this year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LUKE 21:25-26&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING&lt;br /&gt;GENESIS 7:6-12&lt;br /&gt;6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.&lt;br /&gt;7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.&lt;br /&gt;8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,&lt;br /&gt;9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.&lt;br /&gt;10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.&lt;br /&gt;11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.&lt;br /&gt;12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.&lt;br /&gt;GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Tornadoes possible in southern U.S. as snow threatens&lt;br /&gt;ReutersReuters – JAN 22,12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Severe storms were expected to spread across several southeastern U.S. states on Sunday into Monday with tornadoes, highwinds and large hail possible, weather forecasters said.A second stormfront expected to hit California late Sunday night will bring significant snowfall to the mountain regions, according to the National Weather Service, before rolling into the southern United States later in the week.The potential for severe storms stretched from the Gulf of Mexico in Mississippi to southern Indiana and Ohio, according to AccuWeather.com meteorologist Bill Deger.Some of the thunderstorms are even expected to spawn tornadoes, making for an especially dangerous situation given the veil of night, Deger said.In Alabama, residents were bracing for storms that could hit after dark on Sunday or overnight with a strong cold front from the west combining with warm moist air flowing up from the Gulf of Mexico, said Mary Keiser, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Birmingham, Alabama.The best dynamics for this are going to be across the northwest part of the state and lesser so as you move to the southeast part of the state,Keiser said of the forecast for severe weather to strike in Alabama.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The weather service said thunderstorms could bring wind gusts up to 80 mph, tornadoes or gulf ball-sized hail in Mississippi. Farther west, the weather service warned of a high fire danger in Texas with wind gusts of up to 50 mph.Weather.com said the greatest tornado threat appeared to be in eastern Arkansas, western Tennessee, northern Louisiana and northern Mississippi.Parts of central and southern California were under a winter weather warning as a storm system was expected to sweep into the area late Sunday into Monday morning, with the weather service predicting 6 to 12 inches of snow.The Sierras and the Rockies may accumulate as much as 3 feet of snow, the weather service said, and driving in mountain passes will be very hazardous due to low visibility, gusting winds and heavy snowfall.In Reno, Nevada, meanwhile, snowfall provided welcome relief to firefighters who were monitoring remaining hotspots from a blaze that raged near the outskirts of the city beginning Thursday, destroying 30 houses and prompting thousands of people to flee their homes.As long as we keep on getting snow instead of rain, it looks like we'll be okay, at least for the next couple of days,said Mark Regan, spokesman for the Sierra Fire Protection District.Rain had threatened the area with flash flooding on Friday night. Emergency responders had the blaze 100 percent contained as of Saturday, and all residents have been allowed to return to their homes, Regan said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the upper Midwest, freezing drizzle was expected to make roads and sidewalks slippery from southeastern Minnesota into Wisconsin, changing to snow later Sunday, the weather service said. Up to 4 inches of snow was expected farther north in southeast North Dakota and west central Minnesota.In the northeast United States, a fast-moving storm from central Pennsylvania eastward dropped up to a foot of snow in parts of Rhode Island and Massachusetts on Saturday.(Reporting By David Bailey and Mary Slosson; Editing by Tim Gaynor)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MUSLIM NATIONS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EZEKIEL 38:1-12&lt;br /&gt;1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,&lt;br /&gt;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,&lt;br /&gt;3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:&lt;br /&gt;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:&lt;br /&gt;5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;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:&lt;br /&gt;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,&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ISAIAH 17:1&lt;br /&gt;1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PSALMS 83:3-7&lt;br /&gt;3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)&lt;br /&gt;6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)&lt;br /&gt;7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DANIEL 11:40-43&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EZEKIEL 39:1-8&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;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:&lt;br /&gt;3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JOEL 2:3,20,30-31&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)&lt;br /&gt;31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;U.S. aircraft carrier enters Gulf without incident&lt;br /&gt;ReutersBy David Alexander | Reuters – JAN 22,12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. aircraft carrier sailed through the Strait of Hormuz and into the Gulf without incident on Sunday, a day after Iran backed away from an earlier threat to take action if an American carrier returned to the strategic waterway.The carrier USS Abraham Lincoln completed a regular and routine passage through the strait, a critical gateway for the region's oil exports, as previously scheduled and without incident,said Lieutenant Rebecca Rebarich, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Fifth Fleet.The Lincoln, accompanied by strike group of warships, was the first U.S. aircraft carrier to enter the Gulf since late December and was on a routine rotation to replace the outgoing USS John C. Stennis.The departure of the Stennis prompted Iranian army chief Ataollah Salehi to threaten action if the carrier passed back into the Gulf.I recommend and emphasize to the American carrier not to return to the Persian Gulf. ... We are not in the habit of warning more than once, he said.The threat led to a round of escalating rhetoric between the two sides that spooked oil markets and raised the specter of a military confrontation between Iran and the United States.Iran threatened to close the strait, the world's most important oil shipping gateway, while the United States warned such a move would require a response by Washington, which routinely patrols international sea lanes to ensure they remain open.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iran appeared to ease away from its earlier warnings on Saturday, with Revolutionary Guard Corps Deputy Commander Hossein Salami telling the official IRNA news agency that the return of U.S. warships to the Gulf was routine and not an increase in its permanent presence in the region.U.S. warships and military forces have been in the Persian Gulf and the Middle East region for many years and their decision in relation to the dispatch of a new warship is not a new issue and it should be interpreted as part of their permanent presence, Salami said.Pentagon officials declined to comment directly on Salami's remarks, but reiterated that continued U.S. presence in the region reflected the seriousness with which Washington takes its security commitments to partner nations in the region and to ensuring free flow of international commerce.The Lincoln's arrival in the Gulf was unrelated to Iran's statement on Saturday.Tensions between Iran and the United States have been escalating in recent weeks as President Barack Obama prepares to implement new U.S. sanctions against Iran over its nuclear enrichment program, which Tehran says is for energy production but the West believes is aimed at producing atomic weapons.The EU is preparing to intensify sanctions against Tehran with an embargo on Iran's oil exports and possibly freezing the assets of Iran's central bank. Obama is preparing new U.S. sanctions that target foreign financial institutions that do business with Iran's central bank.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Both sides tried to scale down the rhetoric last week. The White House emphasized the United States was still open to international talks on Iran's nuclear program, even as it denied Iranian assertions that discussions were under way about resuming a dialogue.The White House would not confirm or deny Iranian reports that Obama had sent a letter to Iranian leaders, but spokesman Jay Carney said any communications with Tehran would have reinforced the statements Washington has made publicly.The United States supports talks between Iran and the so-called P5 + 1, the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council - Russia, China, France, England and the United States - plus Germany.Carney urged Iran to respond to the letter sent in October on behalf of the P5 +1 by European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.If the Iranians are serious about restarting talks, then they need to respond to that letter,Carney told a White House briefing. That is the channel by which ... the restarting of those talks would take place.(Reporting By David Alexander; Editing by Peter Cooney and Stacey Joyce)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Israeli leader condemns Palestinian Muslim cleric&lt;br /&gt;Associated PressBy DIAA HADID | Associated Press – JAN 22,12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinians' top Muslim cleric faced sharp Israeli criticism Sunday for a speech in which he quoted a religious text that includes passages about killing Jews in an end-of-days struggle.Mufti Mohammed Hussein's comments came at a political gathering of supporters of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. He said his remarks were taken out of context and that he didn't incite people to kill Jews. But by speaking at the venue, Hussein appeared to be linking the battle to the conflict with Israel.The hour of resurrection will not come until you fight the Jews,Hussein told the gathering, citing a hadith, or saying attributed to the Prophet Muhammad. The Jews will hide behind stones and trees. But the trees and the stones will call: oh Muslim, oh servant of God, there is a Jew hiding behind me so come and kill him.In a separate development, Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said he hoped to reach a compromise with settlers that would stave off a looming deadline to evacuate the largest unauthorized settlement outpost in the West Bank.The Supreme Court, ruling that Migron was built on private Palestinian land, has ordered the outpost to be uprooted by March 31. With residents vowing to defy the evacuation, Netanyahu suggested they be moved to nearby land that is not privately owned.An Israeli official said the proposal, which would need Supreme Court approval, aims to avert a violent standoff with the settlers. But Peace Now, an anti-settlement watchdog group, said the proposal was merely a stalling tactic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A spokesman for the residents, Itai Chemo, rejected the proposal. Relocation is not an answer to these attacks,he said. Instead, he called for a brave dialogue with the government to find a proper solution.The Israeli official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was discussing internal government plans, said the settlement would be uprooted by March 31 if the residents do not agree to move.The mufti delivered his three-minute speech on Jan. 7 in an Arab neighborhood of east Jerusalem during celebrations of the 47th anniversary of the Palestinian movement Fatah, said Itamar Marcus of Palestine Media Watch, an Israeli watchdog group that tracks incitement.Marcus' group posted excerpts of the speech on YouTube last week. The comments drew angry reactions from Israelis on Sunday.We're talking about a heinous offense that all nations of the world must condemn,Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement sent to reporters by text message. He asked the Israeli attorney general to launch an investigation.It is unclear what authority Israel would have since Hussein is appointed to his position by the Palestinian president. There was no immediate comment from Abbas' office.Hussein, who is based in Jerusalem, said his comments were taken out of context.I was speaking about the final signs of the day of resurrection, Hussein said.I did not incite, and I did not call for killing. We are not, at present, at the end of days.The Quran, Islam's holy book, offers contradictory attitudes toward Jews and Christians. There are texts that enshrine tolerance and respect for other faiths, while others are spiked with hatred and incitement.Some extremist rabbis also have found passages in Jewish texts that they believe justifies violence against the Palestinians.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tensions between Israelis and the Palestinians have been fueled by a three-year breakdown in peace efforts. Talks broke down in late 2008 and have remained frozen over the issue of Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, areas captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war and claimed by the Palestinians for a future state.The Palestinians say there is no point in negotiating as long as Israel continues to build homes for its citizens on occupied land. Israel says the future of settlements is a matter for negotiations.Some 500,000 Israeli settlers now live in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, and some communities deep in the West Bank are considered especially hard line.Israeli and Palestinian negotiators resumed low-level contacts early this month with the aim of finding a formula for restarting formal negotiations. The Palestinians continue to insist that Israel freeze all settlement construction. Sunday's proposal to delay the evacuation of Migron is likely to harden Palestinian skepticism toward Netanyahu.&lt;br /&gt;Diaa Hadid can be reached on twitter at http://twitter.com/diaahadid&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;HRW calls on West to accept Islamist rise to power&lt;br /&gt;Associated PressBy MAGGIE MICHAEL | Associated Press – JAN 22,12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CAIRO (AP) — The United States and other Western governments must accept the new reality that Islamists have emerged to fill the power vacuum in the Arab world after a wave of popular uprisings, Human Rights Watch said in its annual report Sunday.The New York-based group also urged Islamist parties, which have emerged as the biggest winners in recent elections in Tunisia and Egypt and are expected to fare well in Libya, to respect the rights of women and religious minorities, saying they cannot pick and choose when it comes to human rights.Islamist parties are genuinely popular in the Arab world, said HRW's executive director, Kenneth Roth, warning that ignoring that popularity would violate democratic principles.Being a political Islamic government should not be a reason to turn a government into a pariah, Roth told reporters in Cairo, where the group released its annual report.The Arab Spring revolts began in Tunisia in late 2010 and quickly spread to Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria and Bahrain, deposing or challenging authoritarian rulers as citizens who long seemed incapable or unwilling to rise against decades of repression took to the streets in a stunning awakening.Since the collapse of the regimes in Egypt and Tunisia a year ago, Islamist groups once largely confined to the political sidelines, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, have formed parties and contested parliamentary polls, winning the greatest share of seats.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even the ultraconservative Salafis, who abstained from politics under Egypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak, have fared well, winning more than 20 percent of the vote in the country's first post-uprising ballot.Roth was cautious when asked about concerns about potential human rights violations under Islamist rule. He said that so far, Islamists have said a lot of right things, but said the true test will be how they deal with the full sweep of human rights once in power.These are the big questions,he said.The Muslim Brotherhood, for example, has been most interested in political freedoms, but Roth noted that it is very difficult to secure political freedom if you are not respecting religious and women rights.In some ways, the unexpected Arab uprisings have amounted to a slap to the United States and other Western governments, which had supported autocratic regimes that served as bulwarks against Islamists hostile to the West and appeared to offer stability in a volatile region.The West backed an array of autocrats as long as they, in turn, supported Western interests,Roth said.The West is still adjusting to this historic transformation.He added that the wave of uprisings show that the forced silence of people living under autocrats should never have been mistaken for popular complacency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Roth acknowledged Western governments were re-evaluating their policies as new governments emerge in the region.Western nations have been accused of being selective in supporting the protesters, with NATO airstrikes proving key to the ouster of slain Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi. Meanwhile, the West has stood largely on the sidelines amid continued crackdowns in Bahrain, Yemen and Syria.The people driving the Arab Spring deserve strong international support to realize their rights and to build genuine democracies, Roth said in the group's annual report, which covers some 90 countries. He added that the Arab world is in a transformative moment,and it will not be an easy one.Human Rights Watch pointed to five main issues that dominated the relationship between Western governments and their Arab autocratic friends: the threat of political Islam, the fight against terrorism, support for Israel, protection of the oil flow and cooperation in stemming immigration.Even after the leaders of Egypt, Libya and Tunisia were toppled, Western governments remained hesitant to lean too hard on other shaky authoritarian leaders, the group said. China and Russia acted obstructionist, using their veto power at the U.N. security council to halt pressure on Syria to stop killings of protesters.The popular uprisings also have alarmed other repressive regimes such as China, Zimbabwe, North Korea, Ethiopia, Vietnam, and Uzbekistan, where rulers were worried about facing similar fates.The worst response to the Arab Spring is the dictatorial world who are living in fear of the precedents set in this region,Roth said. China greatly deepened its repression in an effort to avoid jasmine rallies.Saudi Arabia also continues to discriminate against its citizens and workers, according to HRW, which said 9 million women, 8 million foreign workers and 2 million Shiite citizens are either suppressed or lacking rights in the country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The report called on Morocco to change repressive laws, end police violence and reform its judiciary. The chapter on Morocco focused on police harassment of pro-democracy demonstrators, lack of judicial independence and repression of separatist tendencies in the Western Sahara — a disputed territory held by the North African kingdom.Outside the Arab world, the last year did not witness significant progress in countries with poor human rights records, including China and North Korea, according to the report.Corruption, poverty and repression still prevail in Equatorial Guinea, the tiny, oil-rich nation off the western coast of Africa, which has been ruled by Africa's longest-serving ruler, Teodoro Obiang Nguema, the group said.Eritrea continues to be governed by one of the world's most repressive governments,and its citizens are subjected to torture, detentions and restrictions on freedom of speech, HRW said.It also cited Colombia, saying armed conflict in the South American country has displaced millions while paramilitary groups with ties to the security apparatus are on the rise.Cuba, HRW said, remains the only country in Latin America that represses virtually all forms of political dissent.The group also claimed that even member states of the European Union have violated human rights through restrictive asylum and migration policies.Additional reporting by Paul Schemm in Rabat, Morocco.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Syria rejects Arab League call for power change&lt;br /&gt;AFPAFP – JAN 22,12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Syria on Monday rejected an Arab League plan for President Bashar al-Assad to transfer power to his deputy, calling the initiative a flagrant interference, state TV quoted an official as saying.Syria rejects the decisions taken which are outside an Arab working plan, and considers them an attack on its national sovereignty and a flagrant interference in internal affairs,the official was quoted as saying.The Arab League on Sunday asked the UN to support a new plan for resolving the crisis in Syria that sees Assad transferring power to his deputy and a government of national unity within two months.Assad should delegate powers to the vice president to liaise with a government of national unity,to be formed in two months, according to a statement read by Qatari premier Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al-Thani after Arab foreign ministers met in Cairo to determine the fate of their Syrian observer mission.The Syrian official reacting to the Arab League's call said the regional body should instead assume its responsibilities for stopping the financing and arming of terrorists,the television channel reported.The source added that the Arab League initiative ran counter to the interests of the Syrian people and would not prevent the country from advancing its political reforms and bringing security and stability to its people who have shown, during this crisis, their support for national unity as they have rallied around President Assad.Deployed since December 26 to oversee an Arab League peace plan, the mission has been widely criticised for its failure to stem the government's bloody crackdown on democracy protesters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Earlier, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said Riyadh had pulled its observers from the mission because the Syrian government had not respected any of the clauses in the Arab plan aimed at ending the crisis.The Arab League agreed, however, to extend the mission and boost the number of observers, according to the final statement.We will inform the United Nations of all the resolutions of the Arab League... for its approval,Sheikh Hamad said.The League's secretary general Nabil al-Arabi, who attended Sunday evening's news conference, explained that the request to support the United Nations was designed to give more weight to the Arab initiative.The Arab foreign ministers urged the Syrian government and all the opposition factions to engage in a serious dialogue under the auspices of the Arab League, within a period of not more than two weeks, to be able to achieve the formation of a unity government bringing together those in power and the opposition.The new government's mission would be to implement the Arab League plan to end the crisis, and to prepare free and fair legislative and presidential elections under both Arab and international supervision.It would also prepare the election of a constituent assembly within three months and a new constitution which would be put to a referendum.The ministers tasked the bloc's secretary general with nominating a special envoy to Syria in charge of following developments in the country.After reading out the statement, the Qatari premier said the new plan envisaged the peaceful departure of the Syrian regime.The new Arab initiative adopted by the foreign ministers envisages the peaceful departure of the Syrian regime,he said, adding that the plan resembles the one on Yemen,which resulted in President Ali Abdullah Saleh agreeing to step down.If this initiative is not put in place (by Damascus), we will go to the Security Council, where the decisions will be taken, Sheikh Hamad warned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Syrian National Council, the country's largest opposition group, has been lobbying in Cairo for UN intervention, and SNC chief Burhan Ghaliun welcomed the League's statement of its intention to seek UN support.But he insisted that any transition in Syria should be preceded with the announcement of Assad's departure.&lt;br /&gt;Earlier, the SNC called for the Syria file to be transferred to the UN Security Council for referral to the International Criminal Court, so that all Syrian officials implicated in crimes against humanity could be prosecuted under international law.International pressure has been steadily growing on Assad's regime, with more than 5,400 people killed since anti-government protests broke out last March, according to UN figures.But a tough Security Council resolution on Syria has been blocked by veto-wielding permanent members China and Russia, with Moscow insisting the opposition is as much to blame for the violence as the regime.A report delivered earlier on Sunday by the chief of the Arab League's monitoring mission, General Mohammed Ahmed Mustafa al-Dabi of Sudan, also blamed both sides for the bloodshed, according to an Arab diplomatic source.The Arab League deployed observers in Syria on December 26, and there are presently about 165 monitors on the ground.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Local Coordination Committees, which organises anti-regime protests, said in a statement on Sunday that 976 people have been killed in a bloody crackdown on dissent since the observer mission began.Qatar had proposed that Arab troops be deployed in Syria, but Damascus rejected that idea outright.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;I CAN CLEARLY SEE THE PARALLEL IN THE DEATH OF JESUS TO ISRAEL HARDSHIPS WITH THE ARAB-MUSLIMS.THE NWO OF JESUS DAY WERE ALWAYS TRYING TO TRIP HIM UP IN HIS WORDS SO THEY COULD ACCUSE AND KILL HIM.THE ARABS SHOOT 10,000 ROCKETS INTO ISRAELI WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND MEN AND ISRAEL GETS CALLED MURDERERS FOR DEFENDING THEMSELVES AND SHOOTING BACK.AND ISRAEL IS HATED FOR BUILDING HOMES ON THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND.AND ACCUSED OF BEING OCUPIERS OF THEIR OWN LAND.THE ARAB-MUSLIMS CALL FOR KILLING INNOCENT ISRAELIS SO THEY CAN STEAL JERUSALEM AS THEIR OWN WITHOUT ANY JEWS AROUND TO WORRY ABOUT.JESUS THE INNOCENT JEWISH MESSIAH WAS ACCUSED OF BLASPHEMING FOR SAYING IN 3 DAYS I WILL BUILD THIS TEMPLE,WHEN IT TOOK 40 YEARS TO BUILD.THE NWO OF JESUS' DAY TEAMED UP WITH JUDAS TO HAVE THE INNOCENT JEWISH MESSIAH MURDERERED.AND THE ISLAMISTS OF TODAY ARE TEAMED UP WITH THE NWO TO HAVE ISRAEL DESTROYED FOREVER.CAN YOU SEE THE PARALLEL IN JESUS'S DEATH AND ISRAEL TODAY,I SURE CAN.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;As region changes, Hamas movement shifts&lt;br /&gt;AFPBy Selim Saheb Ettaba | AFP – JAN 22,12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Buffeted by the winds of the Arab Spring, the Hamas movement is transforming, with power shifting from its exiled leadership towards its government on the ground in Gaza, analysts say.Recent months have seen the group forced to deal with the new regional realities created by the Arab uprisings, including the increasingly precarious situation in Damascus, where its leadership-in-exile is based.The group has also moved towards reconciliation with its longtime rival Fatah, and its chief Khaled Meshaal has talked about the need to focus on peaceful protest.But the shifts have created a new tension within the Islamist group, with the Gaza leadership appearing increasingly emboldened to voice differences of opinion with Meshaal and the leadership-in-exile.On Saturday, Hamas announced that Meshaal did not plan to stand for reelection to the head of the movement, a decision that comes as the group experiences a fundamental reshaping, according to Omar Shaban, director of the Gaza-based Palthink think-tank.Hamas is going through a transformational process, he told AFP, attributing the movement's reshaping to both internal and external factors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the internal front, according to Shaban, some within the movement's Gaza-based leadership believe Hamas has suffered as a result of being charged with improving the lives of 1.3 million people in Gaza.Externally, Shaban says, Hamas is caught between the differing fates of the Muslim Brotherhood -- the organisation that gave birth to Hamas -- in Egypt and Syria.Hamas is caught between the hope of Egypt, where the Muslim Brotherhood has swept democratic elections, and the pressure of Syria, where a government crackdown is targeting activists, including members of the Muslim Brotherhood.The situation in Syria has been particularly problematic for Hamas, which is eager to avoid being seen as interfering in internal issues, but also finds it hard to see the Muslim Brotherhood being targeted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The atrocities of the Syrian regime are inflicted on the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas is no longer able to maintain its presence in Damascus, said Mukhaimer Abu Saada, a professor of political science at Gaza's Al Azhar University.Internal rumblings and external pressures have helped create a situation in which Meshaal, long considered a radical, now appears more pragmatic than Hamas's Gaza leadership, Abu Saada said.&lt;br /&gt;When Meshaal was getting complete support from the Syrian regime, from Iran, he connected himself with this camp, so he could not make compromises,he said.But the peaceful revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, along with his detachment from Iran and Syria, appear to have shifted Meshaal's thinking, convincing him that peaceful popular resistance can be effective.That is something new, Abu Saada said, acknowledging that there has been no consensus within Hamas regarding this issue.&lt;br /&gt;Mahmud Zahar, one of Gaza's senior Hamas officials, notably responded that armed resistance can be popular.Zahar's willingness to challenge Meshaal, on issues ranging from resistance to reconciliation, are another sign of the shifting dynamics in the movement, Abu Saada said.The balance of power is shifting from outside to inside. Hamas's leadership in Gaza is on its own territory, he said, noting Hamas in Gaza is increasingly less dependent on regional aid.The Hamas government has a 2012 budget worth $769 million, a 22 percent increase over 2011, based on an expected intake of $174 million dollars in tariffs and taxes, particularly from the flourishing Egypt-Gaza tunnel industry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Hamas government is also wielding the freedom of movement that has come with Egypt's decision to open its border with Gaza.Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya has already completed one major tour to Egypt, Sudan, Turkey and Tunisia -- his first since taking office. He is reportedly considering a second trip soon, with stops in Qatar and Iran.Haniya's visit has halted the political siege on Gaza, said Walid al-Mudallal, a political science professor at the Islamic University of Gaza, noting the movement's parliamentary delegation visit last week to Switzerland to take part in the the Inter-Parliamentary Union meeting.According to Mudallal, Hamas is closing the gap with the Palestinian consensus to achieve reconciliation, and to be able to deal with the international community.One wildcard in the movement's transformation is the future role of its powerful armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, once considered largely under Meshaal's direction.According to Abu Saada, that allegiance could be shifting.The armed wing of Hamas, Ezzedine al-Qassam, gives loyalty to whoever is giving the money to pay for the weapons,he said.Ezzedine al-Qassam has been showing more loyalty to the Hamas in Gaza.&lt;br 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and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.&lt;br /&gt;28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.&lt;br /&gt;29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DANIEL 11:21-23&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DANIEL 9:26-27&lt;br /&gt;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).&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JEREMIAH 6:14&lt;br /&gt;14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JEREMIAH 8:11&lt;br /&gt;11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 THESSALONIANS 5:3&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)&lt;br /&gt;14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.&lt;br /&gt;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:&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Thailand Recognizes Palestine-Foreign nations continue to encourage Ramallah's bully-boy unilateralism as Thailand becomes the 131st nation to recognize Palestine By Gavriel Queenann First Publish: 1/20/2012, 9:13 AM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thailand on Thursday announced it has recognized a Palestinian state.Thailand has officially recognized the state of Palestine and officially informed all permanent and observer missions to the United Nations in New York of this development, a press officer for Thailand's mission said.The move was hailed by officials in Ramallah looking for ammunition in their propaganda war with Israel.Thailand's recognition of a Palestinian state is the first of the New Year 2012 and is a new achievement for Palestinian diplomacy,Palestinian Authority foreign minister Riyad al-Maliki told the official PA news agency WAFA.Maliki added that the announcement brought to 131 the number of countries that recognize a Palestinian state along 1967 lines.Thailand recognized Israel in 1954 and has historically maintained stable relations with the Jewish state.PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas thanked Thailand for the move and indicated diplomatic relations would be established shortly.President Mahmud Abbas thanks Thailand's king and government for its official recognition of the Palestinian state,the Abbas statement said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thai foreign ministry spokesman Thani Thongphakdi told the AFP that recognition has been under consideration for some time.We felt that now was an appropriate time to proceed with the recognition of the state of Palestine, which was done earlier this week,he said.Thongphakdi said the move was unrelated to the recent charging of a Lebanese man suspected of planning an attack in Bangkok, who had alleged links to the Iranian- and Syrian-backed Muslim Shiite group Hizbullah.Officials in Ramallah have avoided negotiations with Israel for more than two years by creating a growing list of preconditions of talks, while at the same time violating the 1993 Oslo Accords by making unilateral moves.Those preconditions include a renewed building freeze by Israel in the disputed territories, a release of all Arab terrorists from Israeli prisons, and Israel accepting the indefensible pre-1967 lines before talks begin.Israeli officials note a previous 10-month building freeze by Israel was not only rebuffed by officials in Ramallah, but resulted in more preconditions and the PA's current unilateral bid.A foreign ministry official close to recent exploratory meetings between Israel and the PA said Ramallah was seeking to create the illusion of progress while avoiding substantive talks.In December 2011 the Palestinian Authority's parent organization - the PLO - formally announced a strategy based on continuous efforts along with the international community to secure full recognition and full United Nations membership, pursuing internal reconciliation, and keeping up the popular resistance.The PLO has also moved to induct Hamas and its terror confederates into its ranks.Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has said he is willing to restart talks without preconditions anytime, anywhere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MUSLIM NATIONS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EZEKIEL 38:1-12&lt;br /&gt;1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,&lt;br /&gt;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,&lt;br /&gt;3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:&lt;br /&gt;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:&lt;br /&gt;5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;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:&lt;br /&gt;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,&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ISAIAH 17:1&lt;br /&gt;1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PSALMS 83:3-7&lt;br /&gt;3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)&lt;br /&gt;6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)&lt;br /&gt;7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DANIEL 11:40-43&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EZEKIEL 39:1-8&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;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:&lt;br /&gt;3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JOEL 2:3,20,30-31&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)&lt;br /&gt;31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Russia's Medvedev holds Mideast talks with Abbas&lt;br /&gt;AFPAFP – JAN 20,12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Russian President Dmitry Medvedev held talks Friday with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas focused on efforts to kickstart stalled peace negotiations with Israel.&lt;br /&gt;Abbas told Medvedev in opening remarks at the Russian president's suburban Moscow residence that the Palestinians will always draw upon your advice and the favourable approaches proposed by the Russian Federation.He added that the local leadership of Jericho had recently named one of the West Bank city's main streets after Medvedev in honour of his visit there in January 2011.I see this as a symbol of Russian-Palestinian friendship, which stretches back not decades but centuries,Medvedev said.&lt;br /&gt;This is proof of the fact that our relations remain on an excellent level.Abbas arrived in Moscow on Thursday on the final leg of a European tour that also saw him visit London and Berlin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The visits are aimed at securing European backing for the Palestinians' position amid unsuccessful attempts to resume peacemaking efforts with Israel.Direct Middle East peace talks have not been held since September 2010 and the third round of exploratory meetings held in Jordan on January 14 produced no tangible result.&lt;br /&gt;German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday following her meeting with Abbas that it was very, very important that we see progress, that each side sees that good will is there.Medvedev reaffirmed Russia's commitment to an independent Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital during his January trip to the West Bank -- a position first established by the Soviet Union in 1988.Russia is a member of the so-called peacemaking Middle East Quartet that also includes the United States along with the European Union and the United Nations.But Moscow's influence in the region has waned considerably since the collapse of the Soviet Union.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD&lt;br /&gt;then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JAMES 5:1-3&lt;br /&gt;1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.&lt;br /&gt;2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REVELATION 18:10,17,19&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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,&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EZEKIEL 7:19&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REVELATION 13:16-18&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WORLD MARKET RESULTS&lt;br /&gt;http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/&lt;br /&gt;CNBC VIDEOS&lt;br /&gt;http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/?tabid=15839796&amp;tabheader=false&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS FRI JANUARY 20,2012&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;09:30 AM +2.43&lt;br /&gt;10:00 AM +40.04&lt;br /&gt;10:30 AM +56.50&lt;br /&gt;11:00 AM +55.25&lt;br /&gt;11:30 AM +30.25&lt;br /&gt;12:00 PM +54.34&lt;br /&gt;12:30 PM +59.43&lt;br /&gt;01:00 PM +61.27&lt;br /&gt;01:30 PM +69.47&lt;br /&gt;02:00 PM +63.12&lt;br /&gt;02:30 PM +55.97&lt;br /&gt;03:00 PM +60.74&lt;br /&gt;03:30 PM +74.16&lt;br /&gt;04:00 PM +96.50 12,720.48&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;S&amp;P 500 1315.38 +0.88&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NASDAQ 2786.70 -1.63&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GOLD 1,665.60 +11.10&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OIL 98.46 -2.19&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TSE 300 12,397.10 +16.41&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CDNX 1571.34 +17.14&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;S&amp;P/TSX/60 708.23 +0.81&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MORNING,NEWS,STATS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE&lt;br /&gt;Dow +6 points at 4 minutes of trading today.&lt;br /&gt;Dow +1 points at low today.&lt;br /&gt;Dow +56 points at high today so far.&lt;br /&gt;GOLD opens at $1,651.90.OIL opens at $99.06 today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS&lt;br /&gt;Dow +1 points at low today so far.&lt;br /&gt;Dow +96 points at high today so far.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS&lt;br /&gt;Dow +1 points at low today.&lt;br /&gt;Dow +96 points at high today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Future EU bail-outs only for treaty signatories, new draft says Today JAN 20 ,12 @ 00:08 By Valentina Pop&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BRUSSELS - The latest version of the treaty on EU fiscal discipline says countries cannot get bail-outs unless they sign and apply the pact. It also makes concessions to non-euro countries who want to take part in eurozone summits.Giving in to a German demand on the issue, the text - seen by EUobserver - says: Granting of assistance in the framework of new programmes under the European Stability Mechanism [ESM] will be conditional, as of 1 March 2013, on the ratification of this treaty by the contracting party concerned and as soon as the transposition period ... has expired, on compliance with the requirements of this article.The article in question calls for binding legislation - preferably constitutional - enshrining a balanced budget rule which obliges governments not to go beyond an annual structural deficit of 0.5 percent of GDP. A structural deficit is one which does not include temporary or one-off budget items.The balanced budget rule can be set aside under exceptional circumstances however, such as an unusual event outside the control of the respective government or severe economic downturn.Failure to comply with the rule means the country can be taken to the European Court of Justice by one of the other signatories.The EU commission, which in one of the previous drafts was granted the power to do this on behalf of other states, has been downgraded to a reporting function.If the European Commission, after having given the contracting party concerned the opportunity to submit its observations, concludes in its report that a contracting party has failed to comply with Article 3(2), the matter will be brought to the Court of Justice of the European Union by one or more of the contracting parties,the draft - the fourth one so far - says.In one novel idea, it adds the €500-billion-strong ESM should be the recipient of any fines imposed by the EU court on deficit sinners.The latest text also puts some numbers on how big the fines might be: If the court finds that the contracting party concerned has not complied with its judgement, it may impose on it a lump sum or a penalty payment appropriate in the circumstances and that shall not exceed 0.1% of its gross domestic product.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Outs invited in&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One point of contention - likely to sour discussions on Monday and Tuesday when finance ministers discuss the text in Brussels - is participation of non-euro countries in eurozone summits.Last week's draft said only that they should be informed of what happens in the regular meetings, just like the European Parliament.&lt;br /&gt;In the meantime, the Polish Prime Minister has threatened not to sign the treaty unless his country is allowed to take part and the Swedish government saw parliamentary support for the pact drain away for the same reason.A new compromise wording - which, according to one EU official, is still not up to Poland's demands - allows the president of the euro summit to invite non-euro signatories in order to discuss specific issues concerning the implementation of this treaty.It adds that the president of the European Parliament may be invited to be heard at the events and that the summit chair should present a report to the EU assembly after each leaders' meeting.National parliaments are also mentioned in the form of a new conference of the chairs of the [national] budget committees.But the format and function of the new body is left up in the air.The treaty is to enter into force on 1 January 2013, provided 12 euro-countries have ratified it or whenever the 12th one does so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another request of the European Parliament has also been kept - to merge the fiscal pact, which is being made by 26 EU countries at intergovernmental level, with the EU-27 Treaty within five years.The text reminds the UK, whose veto on EU Treaty change created the mess, that other countries can circumvent its ban under so-called enhanced co-operation - an EU Treaty provision that lets sub-groups of states adopt new laws when there is no consensus.EU leaders meeting on 30 January will seek political agreement on the text, with the aim of signing it in March.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Croatia: new EU member on the horizon&lt;br /&gt;19.01.12 @ 18:20 By Nikolaj Nielsen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BRUSSELS - After six years of negotiations and amid an ongoing territorial dispute with Slovenia, Croatia will hold a referendum on Sunday (22 January) to decide whether to become the 28th EU member state.The voting starts on Sunday morning, with results expected at around 10pm local time in the evening.Pending the results of the referendum and ratification of the accession treaty by existing EU countries, Croatia is to join the Union in July next year.It is to have seven votes in the EU Council and 12 members in the European Parliament.The move is also to create new EU borders with Bosnia and with Montenegro.Croatia's recently elected centre-left government, led by Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic, launched a pro-EU campaign earlier this month, saying the country belongs to Europe geographically, historically and culturally.The government was sworn in shortly after it signed the accession treaty in Brussels.The only party opposing [EU] accession lost its parliamentary status,Croatia's foreign minister, Vesna Pusic told EUobserver in December.Despite the acute economic and social problems of the current euro crisis, most Croats are keen to go ahead.Berislav Zivkovic, a government spokesperson, told this website that 56 percent of Croatians want to join the EU according to a poll conducted jointly by the Croatian foreign ministry and the Ipsos Puls agency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are convinced that on the occasion of the imminent referendum a majority of Croatian citizens would vote in favour of Croatia accessing the European Union,he said.Rallies have been held against EU membership, culminating in a protest last Saturday when around 1,000 people reportedly gathered in Zagreb's central square.&lt;br /&gt;Some concerns centre around trade. Dairy products, eggs and meat entering into Croatia from neighbouring countries will in future have to meet strict EU food safety standards.An outstanding territorial dispute with Slovenia over a small bay in the Adriatic has also clouded the accession process - Slovenia at one stage threatened to veto Croatia's accession talks back in 2009. But an arbitration process was finally launched earlier this week.This common agreement is a very welcome signal for the positive development of the good neighbourly relations between the two countries,said EU enlargement commissioner Stefan Fule.The commission gave the country a positive assessment late last year following an extensive evaluation.Croatia is to undergo two more commission reports before it enters the Union, but in the last one the executive noted improvements in the area of fundamental rights, competition, justice, freedom and security.It noted that work remains to reduce public deficit, debt, to open up its market and to lower unemployment, particularly among its youth - around 32 percent of under 25s were without jobs in 2010 according to Eurostat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It added that the country still needs investment to get closer to EU living standards. Croatia has so far received around €150 million in pre-accession assistance every year since 2007. It stands to receive another €150 million for 2012 and a final €95 million package in 2013.For its part, Transparency International Croatia told EUobserver in an email the country is making concerted efforts to stamp out corruption and has strengthened its legislative framework on regulating financing of political parties.The reform of judiciary has been carried out with special courts dealing with organised crime and corruption being introduced, and the efficacy of the judiciary has been improved which led to the backlog of court cases being reduced,the Brussels-based NGO said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;IDF Base: 1,500 Tank Shells Stolen-Military Police believe gang of metal thieves stole the shells. Officer: ammunition could reach terrorists. By Gil Ronen First Publish: 1/19/2012, 10:29 PM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fifteen hundred tank shells were stolen from an IDF munitions base in southern Israel.A senior officer in Southern Command said that the shells could reach terror organizations. Some of the shells may have been smuggled to the Sinai Peninsula and then transferred to terrorists inside Gaza. The Investigative Military Police is looking into the possibility that soldiers inside the base assisted the thieves.The theft was discovered during an inventory check of ammunition last week. A serious shortage of shells was discovered, and after a second count was held, the scale of the theft became apparent.Military sources said that a gang of Arab metal thieves that operates in the area is apparently behind the theft. The Arabs apparently studied the security arrangements at the base and were able to sneak in and out undetected numerous times, taking a large number of shells with them each time.A senior source in the Southern Command said that the Arab gangs in the Negev have been stepping up their attacks on IDF bases as the IDF has been tightening its hold on the Israel-Egypt border and as construction of the security barrier along the border has progressed.It started from theft of bullets from firing ranges, proceeded to theft of parts of fences and has now reached the theft of expensive and dangerous ammunition. Security in all of the southern bases needs to be rethought.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Minister: Israel is an Internet Superpower-Minister of Public Diplomacy Yuli Edelstein says Israel is an online power that has nothing to fear as the era of cyberwarfare takes hold.By Gavriel Queenann First Publish: 1/20/2012, 12:58 PM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=_ZMGqY29FcY&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israel's top public relations official, on Thursday, told Israelis not to worry about the Arab-Israeli Hacker War that has erupted in recent weeks, saying Israel is an Internet Superpower.First of all there are two different things,Minister of Public Diplomacy Yuli Edelstein explained. When it's hackers versus hackers it's not nice, but at the same time I'm not sure there is an immediate danger.Edelstein also indicated the hacker war was less about technological sabotage than propaganda,To fight it we have to think about the atmosphere on the Internet, on the Web. In my opinion this is just another part of the whole 'bash Israel campaign' that we sometimes face.In remarks on Israel Radio Edelstein dismissed both Arab and Israeli hackers as foolish, saying they do stupid things.Well-funded state actors, however, were of greater concern for Edelstein.On a more serious note,Edelstein said. We know that technology can be used by dictatorships... countries that are openly talking about the destruction of the State of Israel. Hence the government created a special headquarters to give answers to these questions.Israel is known as a super-power in this whole field of information security, Internet, high-tech. I'm sure our hack-warriors will be able to make our lives here secure,Edelstein said.Edelstein also dismissed the suggestion that official Israeli cyber-war elements would go on the offensive, We are not in the business of attacking anyone.Our first and foremost goal is to prevent others from attacking the State of Israel via the web,he added.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Obama: All Options Available on Preventing Iran Nukes-President Barack H. Obama defended his record on Iran to Time Magazine, deflecting criticism by Mitt Romney. By David Lev First Publish: 1/19/2012, 11:19 AM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In an interview with TIME Magazine, parts of which were published on the web Wednesday night, U.S. President Barack H. Obama slams Republican critics of his policy on Iran – singling out Mitt Romney, who appears to be the front-runner in the race to become the Republican nominee to run against Obama later this year. Romney has accused Obama of failing to act to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, but Obama said in the interview that he was seriously mistaken – on his policy, and on what to do about Iran. Romney's position would not stand up to a serious debate, he told TIME's Fareed Zakaria.Romney stated recently that Iran would definitely be able to build nuclear weapons if Obama was reelected, since the President had done nothing, and would continue to do nothing, to prevent Iran from acquiring the weapons. I have made myself clear since I began running for the presidency that we will take every step available to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, Obama said, adding Can we guarantee that Iran takes the smarter path? No, which is why I’ve repeatedly said we don’t take any options off the table in preventing them from getting a nuclear weapon.The interview, which will appear in the January 30 edition of TIME, touches on numerous issues that Obama will find himself debating with the Republican candidate as the election draws closer. Obama blamed Congressional Republicans for weakening America's international position, by failing to support some of his domestic policies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our whole foreign policy has to be anchored in economic strength here at home, Obama said.And if we are not strong, stable, growing, making stuff, training our work force so that it’s the most skilled in the world, maintaining our lead in innovation, in basic research, in basic science, in the quality of our universities, in the transparency of our financial sector, if we don’t maintain the upward mobility and equality of opportunity that underwrites our politically stability and makes us a beacon for the world, then our foreign policy leadership will diminish as well.Overall, though, the U.S. is in a stronger position than it was when he entered office, Obama said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Cargo ship damaged after collision off Istanbul&lt;br /&gt;Associated PressBy SELCAN HACAOGLU | Associated Press – JAN 20,12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A cargo ship brushed against two anchored vessels during severe weather off the coast of Istanbul on Friday and tilted to one side, taking on water for hours before authorities were forced to pull it ashore using a tug boat.A senior maritime official said the disabled ship was not in danger of sinking, but most of its crew members were evacuated before it was towed.The cargo ship's struggle came during a time of heightened attention on ship safety following last week's grounding of the Costa Concordia cruise ship off Italy's coast, an accident that killed 11 people and left 21 missing. Also Friday, a freighter ran aground off a Dutch beach.In the Istanbul area, the Sierra Leone-flagged Kayan-1, an 86-meter (282-feet) freighter carrying empty containers, tilted on its right side after its collision. Salih Orakci, head of the General Directorate of Coastal Safety, said the ship cannot sink but noted the weather was aggravating the situation.Hours later, authorities decided to go with the only apparent option and pulled the ship aground.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The captain and two other crew had remained aboard to steer the vessel, which earlier had tried to pump out the water, authorities said. Ten other crew members were evacuated. Five maritime officials boarded the Kayan-1 to assess the situation, then left the vessel.The ship was trying to moor due to the rough weather when it got dragged and brushed against two other cargo ships: the Netherlands-flagged Slochterdiep and Tanzania-flagged Adria Blu. The Kayan-1 came to a halt near the shore at a depth of 9-meter (30-feet), Coastal Safety said on its website.The ship had 20 tons of diesel fuel but there was no leak, environmental authorities said&lt;br /&gt;Authorities canceled several scheduled ferry trips in the Sea of Marmara and in the Bosporus, the narrow waterway that bisects Istanbul, due to strong winds and high seas.Separately Friday, a Philippine-registered freighter ran aground off a Dutch beach after its anchor slipped in an overnight storm.The 500-foot (155-meter) Aztec Maiden was carrying no cargo when it drifted onto sand off the North Sea coastal town of Wijk aan Zee, 12 miles (20 kilometers) west of Amsterdam, the Dutch Coast Guard said.The 21 crew members stayed on the ship. Tug boats will attempt to pull the vessel free at high tide around 1 p.m. (1200 GMT).Spokesman Peter Verburg told national broadcaster NOS that the Coast Guard was closely monitoring the ship for any fuel leaks.Associated Press Writer Suzan Fraser in Ankara contributed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;SOPA and PIPA Part of Effort to Domesticate Politically Incorrect Internet Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com January 20, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Megaupload takedown is dominating headlines, but there is something the incident has overshadowed – large internet corporations and government have censored political websites for years as part of a plan to domesticate the internet.&lt;br /&gt;photoCensorship of the internet is not simply for the Chinese.On Thursday, Paul Joseph Watson pointed out the hypocrisy of Google as the transnational corporation shouldered its way into the limelight by opposing SOPA while enforcing SOPA-like policies of its own, blacklisting legitimate websites from its news aggregator and following government orders to remove material from its search results and You Tube.&lt;br /&gt;Watson notes that Google has delisted both Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com – the flagship websites of nationally syndicated talk show host Alex Jones – from its popular news website and news search engine. Google News is a content aggregator that allows users to search thousands of news sources for relevant stories.Google has memory holed these two websites from its news portal for political reasons and not because they are insignificant and draw paltry traffic. In fact, Infowars.com is a major news source that gets more traffic than MSNBC.com and many other corporate media news websites.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Google is not alone in attempting to blunt Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. MySpace, Time Warner, New Zealand’s Asia Netcom, the ISP Tiscali in the UK and even a British aiport – along with a number of libraries and government-owned entities – have shut out Alex Jones’ popular websites.Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com are not alone. Public wi-fi systems stationed in airports, train stations, libraries, schools, and workplaces also routinely censor political websites,writes Watson.In addition to blocking and censoring Jones’ news websites, Google property YouTube has consistently taken down his videos and fiddled with hit counters and other metrics to make it seem the videos are less popular than they actually are.Google’s effort to censor Alex Jones and other dangerous alternative media sites makes sense when you realize the company has intimate ties with the CIA and the military-industrial complex.The establishment has worked behind the scenes for years to devise a method to sanitize the internet – in the same way corporate television has been disinfected for decades – and drive the truth-seekers and tellers off the medium. SOPA and PIPA, under the guise of fighting dreaded copyright criminals, is only the latest guise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2010, globalists meeting in Davos, Switzerland, called for internet licensing by the United Nations in order to combat so-called cyber warfare of the sort the shadowy Anonymous hacktivist collective used against the Department of Justice and the FBI following the Megaupload takedown.For at least three years, the corporate media has trumpeted a vastly exaggerated threat of cyber terrorism and illustrated the warning with dire scenarios of disabled power grids and hobbled civilian infrastructure.Former president Bill Clinton has called for a government-run internet Ministry of Truth to get rid of pesky troublemakers – his wife recently admitted the government is losing the information war – and Obama’s information czar Cass Sunstein has demanded that websites be mandated by law to link to opposing information or that pop ups containing government propaganda be forcibly included on political blogs.Sunstein had previously called for a COINTELPRO-like effort against politically incorrect activist groups and also called for the government to tax or even ban outright political opinions it finds objectionable.Finally, the Pentagon has declared the internet a battlefield and recently stated it will respond to so-called cyber attacks militarily.If you shut down our power grid, maybe we will put a missile down one of your smokestacks,a military official said last May.The military response to exaggerated cyber threats was put on the fast track by Obama in 2009 when he instructed the Pentagon to attack cyberthreats within the United States. Instead of allowing local police response to suspected cyber crimes, Obama moved to violate Posse Comitatus and turn the United States into a combat zone:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Obama administration has adopted new procedures for using the Defense Department’s vast array of cyberwarfare capabilities in case of an attack on vital computer networks inside the United States, delicately navigating historic rules that restrict military action on American soil,the New York Times reported at the time.SOPA and PIPA are merely part a larger and more comprehensive effort to control the internet and reduce the threat it poses to the government. Both laws are efforts to codify what has been going on now for several years.The defeat of SOPA and PIPA are certainly welcome and the large response in opposition to the legislation is a positive development, however we must consider the larger and more ominous threat the government and the transnational corporations it answers to pose to our liberty and the ability to communicate and raise political awareness.&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=uP5XQkQTMD8&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Tepco Drills Hole in Fukushima Reactor – Finds Nuclear Fuel Has Gone Missing Cold Shutdown … or Escape of Hot Fuel? Washington’s Blog January 20, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I noted last month in connection with Tepco’s announcement of cold shutdown of the Fukushima reactors:If the reactors are cold, it may be because most of the hot radioactive fuel has leaked out.The New York Times pointed out last month:A former nuclear engineer with three decades of experience at a major engineering firm … who has worked at all three nuclear power complexes operated by Tokyo Electric [said] If the fuel is still inside the reactor core, that’s one thing …. But if the fuel has been dispersed more widely, then we are far from any stable shutdown.Indeed, if the center of the reactors are in fact relatively cold, it may be because most of the hot radioactive fuel has leaked out of the containment vessels and escaped into areas where it can do damage to the environment.After drilling a hole in the containment vessel of Fukushima reactor 2, Tepco cannot find the fuel. As AP notes:&lt;br /&gt;The steam-blurred photos taken by remote control Thursday found none of the reactor’s melted fuel ….&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The photos also showed inner wall of the container heavily deteriorated after 10 months of exposure to high temperature and humidity, Matsumoto said.TEPCO workers inserted the endoscope — an industrial version of the kind of endoscope doctors use — through a hole in the beaker-shaped container at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant’s No. 2 reactor ….The probe failed to find the water surface, which indicate the water sits at lower-than-expected levels inside the primary containment vessel and questions the accuracy of the current water monitors, Matsumoto said.And while cold shutdown means that the water inside the reactors is below the boiling point, CNN reports:Massive steam and water drops made it difficult to get a clear vision….&lt;br /&gt;Given that steam forms when water boils, this is an indication that the reactor is not in cold shutdown.Mainchi points out that reactors 1 and 3 are probably in no better shape:The fuel inside the Nos. 1 to 3 reactors is believed to have melted through the pressure vessels and been accumulating in the outer primary containers after the Fukushima plant lost its key functions to cool the reactors in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami on March 11 last year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Israel detains Hamas head of Palestinian parliament&lt;br /&gt;AFPAFP – JAN 20,12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Israeli army on Thursday arrested the Palestinian parliamentary speaker, Hamas member Aziz Dweik, in the West Bank, a senior colleague told AFP.Dweik was detained by soldiers at a checkpoint in Jabaa, between Ramallah and Jerusalem, as he was travelling to Hebron in the southern West Bank, the leader of the cabinet, Bahaa Yussef, told AFP.Last May, Dweik was held at an Israeli military checkpoint in the West Bank along with three other Hamas parliamentarians. One of them, Nizar Ramadan, was detained while the others were allowed to proceed.Hamas member Ahmed Bahar, the Gaza-based first vice president of the Palestinian parliament, in a statement denounced the detention of Mr Dweik, which aims to undermine reconciliation efforts (with Fatah) and disrupt legislative work in the West Bank.Hamas government spokesman Taher al-Nunu also condemned the detention and warned of the consequences of any attack on his person in a statement calling for Dweik's immediate release.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Israeli army confirmed Dweik's arrest.Israeli soldiers arrested Dweik at a checkpoint because he is suspected of being involved in the activities of a terrorist group,an army spokesman told AFP.The Hamas-dominated Palestinian parliament has been paralysed since the Islamist movement took over the Gaza Strip in June 2007, ousting Fatah forces loyal to Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.Last month, Abbas met Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal in Cairo where they decided on a process to pave the way for Hamas to join a reformed Palestine Liberation Organisation and for long-delayed Palestinian elections.Azzam al-Ahmad, a Fatah official tasked with handling the reconciliation with Hamas, condemned the arrest which he said follows a continued action by Israel against Palestinan lawmakers.It contradicts every earlier agreement with Israel,Ahmad told AFP by telephone from Moscow where he was accompanying Abbas on an official voyage.Dweik, a professor of geography at Al-Najah University in the southern West Bank, was elected to represent the Hebron constituency and became speaker in the parliament's first session in February 2006.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some 20 of Hamas's 74 MPs in the 132-member Palestinian legislative council are currently being held by Israel. Most of them, including two former ministers, have been arrested in the West Bank since October 2010.Almost all of the officials were among 64 Hamas parliamentarians and government members previously arrested by Israel after the seizure of one of its soldiers, Gild Shalit, in June 2006 near the Islamist-ruled Gaza Strip.Shalit was freed on October 18 in a prisoner swap between Israel and Hamas.The first stage of the deal in October saw 477 Palestinians including hundreds serving life for killing Israelis, released.Two Fatah MPs and one from the leftwing Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine are also currently being held by Israel, Palestinian parliamentary sources say.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;US military chief holds talks in Israel on Iran&lt;br /&gt;Associated PressBy DANIEL ESTRIN | Associated Press – JAN 20,12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JERUSALEM (AP) — The U.S. military's top general conducted an intense string of closed-door talks with Israeli leaders Friday, amid apparent disagreements between the two countries over how to respond to Iran's disputed nuclear program.The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, and Israeli leaders kept silent about the exact content of their discussions. Dempsey was expected to urge Israel not to rush to attack Iran at a time when the U.S. is trying to rally additional global support to pressure Tehran through sanctions to dial back its nuclear program.Dempsey met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been warning about the dangers of the Iranian nuclear program for more than a decade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Netanyahu told Dempsey the U.S. should ratchet up sanctions against Iran to ones that would target its central bank and oil exports, Israeli news site YNet reported. It quoted Netanyahu as saying such measures must be imposed immediately.At the start of a meeting with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Dempsey said the U.S. and Israel have many interests in common in the region in this very dynamic time, and the more we can continue to engage each other, the better off we'll all be.There is never a dull moment, that I can promise you,Barak replied, in comments released by Barak's office.Israel believes Iran is close to completing the technology to produce an atomic weapon. Tehran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.Israel has said it prefers employing international diplomacy to solve the problem, but it has not taken the option of a military strike off the table.Israel considers Iran an existential threat because of its nuclear program, missile development, support of radical anti-Israel forces in Lebanon and Gaza and frequent references by its president to the destruction of the Jewish state.In an interview published Friday in the Israeli daily Maariv, Israel's recently retired military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin, said the U.S. and Israel now agree that Iran is deliberately working slowly toward nuclear weapons, to minimize international diplomatic pressure and sanctions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The U.S. and Israel differ about what would be considered unacceptable Iranian behavior that would require a military strike, the former chief claimed.While Israel defines the red line as Iran's ability and potential for a breakthrough, the Americans draw the red line a lot farther away, said Yadlin, who stepped down as intelligence chief in late 2010.He said the Iranian nuclear program was Israel's only existential threat,noting that in addition to the possibility of a nuclear attack from Iran, its possession of nuclear weapons would spark a regional arms race.&lt;br /&gt;In that situation, in a nuclear neighborhood, the chance grows that a nuclear weapon could slip into the hands of terrorists,Yadlin said.Gen. Dempsey also met with Israel's military chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, and President Shimon Peres.&lt;br /&gt;I am sure that in this fight (against Iran) we will emerge victorious, Peres said to Dempsey, in comments provided by the president's office. He called Iran a center of world terror.Dempsey told reporters he couldn't agree more with Peres' characterization of the common challenge we face.In between the meetings, Dempsey visited Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust memorial and museum. He wrote in its guest book, We are committed to ensuring that such a human tragedy (as the Holocaust) never happens again.He added,God bless the victims and protect Israel.In the past, Netanyahu has sharply criticized Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's denial of the Holocaust and has drawn parallels between the world's treatment of Iran today and its failure to act against Nazi Germany in time to save European Jewry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Netanyahu: Iran has decided to become a nuclear state. Action needed before it is too late.DEBKAfile Exclusive Report January 19, 2012, 6:56 PM (GMT+02:00&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared Thursday night, Jan. 19 that Iran had decided to become a nuclear state. He urged action before it was too late to stop Iran completing the construction of a nuclear weapon. His statement at the end of a visit to Holland gave Gen Martin Dempsey, on his first visit to Israel as Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, the message he will be asked to take back to President Barack Obama. It also contradicted Defense Minister Ehud Barak's statement that Tehran had not yet decided to go nuclear.On Dec. 22, 2011, debkafile first revealed Tehran had reached a decision to go ahead and build a nuclear weapon.&lt;br /&gt;Netanyahu has kept the Iranian cards close to his chest. His statement therefore caught wrong-footed the Israeli officials, including Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who in the last 48 hours had asserted that Iran had not yet decided whether to build a nuclear bomb and there was still time for US-led sanctions to work.debkafile reported earlier Thursday:Gen. Martin Dempsey begins his first visit to Israel as Chairman of the Joint US Chiefs of Staff amid a major falling-out between the two governments over the handling of Iran's nuclear weapon potential. debkafile's military and Washington sources confirm that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands by the view that Iran is advancing its plans to build a nuclear bomb full speed ahead, undeterred even by the threat of harsher sanctions. Netanyahu therefore stands by his refusal of President Barack Obama's demand for a commitment to abstain from a unilateral strike on Iran's nuclear sites without prior notice to Washington.The US president repeated this demand when he called the Israeli prime minister Thursday night Jan. 13. Netanyahu replied that, in view of their disagreement on this point, he preferred to cancel the biggest US-Israel war game ever staged due to have taken place in April. The exercise was to have tested the level of coordination between the two armies in missile defense for the contingency of a war with Iran or a regional conflict.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The prime minister was concerned that having large-scale US military forces in the country would restrict his leeway for decision-making on Iran.&lt;br /&gt;In an effort to limit the damage to relations with the US administration, Defense Minister Ehud Barak struck a conciliatory note Wednesday, Jan. 18, saying, "Israel is still very far from a decision on attacking Iran's nuclear facilities."&lt;br /&gt;Striking the pose of middleman, he was trying to let Washington know that there was still time for the US and Israel to reach an accommodation on whether and when a strike should take place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;debkafile's sources doubt that President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu are in any mood to respond to Barak's effort to cool the dispute. Obama needs to be sure he will not be taken by surprise by an Israel attack in the middle of his campaign for re-election, especially since he has begun taking heat on the Iranian issue.Republican rivals are accusing him of being soft on Iran.  And while the economy is the dominant election issue, a majority of Americans disapprove of his handling of Iran's nuclear ambitions by a margin of 48 to 33 percent according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll this week.Wednesday (Thursday morning Israel time), President Obama responded by reiterating that he has been clear since running for the presidency that he will take every step available to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.Echoes of Barak's arguments were heard in the words of US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Wednesday night: We are not making any special steps at this point in order to deal with the situation. Why? Because, frankly, we are fully prepared to deal with that situation now.Panetta went on to say that Defense Minister Barak contacted him and asked to postpone the joint US-Israeli drill for technical reasons.Before he took off for a short trip to Holland, Netanyahu instructed Barak and IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz not to deviate in their talks with Gen. Dempsey from the position he took with the US president, namely, no commitment for advance notice to Washington about a unilateral strike against Iran.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Israeli prime minister is convinced that, contrary to the claims by US spokesmen and media, that current sanctions are ineffective insofar as slowing Iran's advance toward a nuclear weapon and the harsher sanctions on Iran's central bank and oil exports are too slow and will take hold too late to achieve their purpose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In any case, say Israeli officials, Washington is again signaling its willingness to go back to direct nuclear negotiations with Tehran, although past experience proved that Iran exploits diplomatic dialogue as grace time for moving forward on its nuclear ambitions.US spokesmen denied an Iranian report that a recent letter from the US president to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei proposed opening a direct channel for talks.Still those reports persist. American and European spokesmen were forced to deny a statement by Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi Wednesday on his arrival in Ankara that Iran and the big powers are in contact over the revival of nuclear negotiations.Netanyahu fears that dialogue between Iran and the five powers plus Germany (the P5+1) will resume after bowing to an Iranian stipulation that sanctions be suspended for the duration of the talks. Once again, Tehran will be enabled to steal a march on the US and Israel and bring its nuclear weapon program to conclusion, unhindered by economic constraints.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;http://israndjer.blogspot.com&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18902243-2513177694167126765?l=israndjer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=uP5XQkQTMD8' title='STOCK RESULTS JAN 20,2012'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18902243/posts/default/2513177694167126765'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18902243/posts/default/2513177694167126765'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2012/01/stock-results-jan-202012.html' title='STOCK RESULTS JAN 20,2012'/><author><name>STAN L</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11041400179179367939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yb51zBn6LsQ/SYn1N0hbmWI/AAAAAAAAAAc/AJdshT6GEDw/S220/israelflag.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902243.post-5651727755872929587</id><published>2012-01-19T18:48:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-19T18:49:25.167-05:00</updated><title type='text'>REAL WAR WITH GOG-MAGOG</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Tuesday, January 17, 2012&lt;br /&gt;The Real War With Gog Magog: Computers And Money&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://soulmazal.blogspot.com/2012/01/real-war-with-gog-magog-computers-and.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Cyber War is in full gear, with hackers threatening cyber war and damage into the billions of Israeli infrastructure. Israel promptly threatens the same.And to the financial end, perhaps Obama's little covert sanction war is starting to work?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Click Here For Cyber War Details!&lt;br /&gt;Ynet News:&lt;br /&gt;The spring of 2012 will be critical for the Middle East. All the regional players are preparing for it at this time already, ahead of April. Everyone – not only in Jerusalem and in Washington – smells the gunpowder in the air.Behind the tense, escalating statements issued by senior American defense officials lies a menacing reality emerging in Iran. It is for good reason that the US Navy commander admitted last week that he doesn’t sleep well at night as result of developments in the Hormuz Straits. And when the admiral doesn’t sleep well, while the US secretary of defense sets red lines for the Iranians, we can assume that here too our soldiers sleep with their uniforms and shoes on.Everybody talks about the spring, because everyone is convinced that Israel will be striking Iran at that time, a move that will ignite the Middle East. The scenario is rather banal and emerges in every defense panel in the global media: This year, the Iranians will complete the task of moving their nuclear project deep underground, and from that moment an aerial strike would be much less effective. Hence, a strike appears to be required as soon as is possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, there is another possibility that is much more realistic, much closer to materializing, and unrelated to an attack on Iran’s nuclear sites. This scenario asserts that the ones to first pull the trigger will be the Iranians, against the backdrop of Tehran’s economic chokehold and growing global isolation. Iran is starting to be pushed into a corner in the face of existing pressure, and more so as result of pressures to be exerted very soon.Tehran’s economic collapse is already around the corner. The regime sees the thousands standing in line at banks these days in order to exchange the local currency for dollars – but there are none. On the black market, the gap already stands at 60%. Nobody can predict the breaking point that would prompt Ahmadinejad to act desperately; the point where the ayatollahs feel threatened enough to resort to a military provocation that would bully the world and exact such high price as to prompt the international community to lift the chokehold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israel a junior partner&lt;br /&gt;The naval exercise held recently in the Persian Gulf dealt with, among other things, the closure of the Hormuz Straits. The Iranian Navy commander publically declared that the drill examined the Navy’s deployment in a way that would not allow for unsupervised maritime traffic. The exercise also pertained to the offensive aspects of contending with foreign fleets that sail in the Gulf and may prevent Iran from imposing the blockade.In other words, the Iranians made clear that one of these days they intend to clash not only with Persian Gulf fleets, but also with the Americans, French and Brits who secure the free flow of oil and in fact stabilize its price. The Iranians threaten to break this formula: Curb the flow of oil and drive prices up to an intolerable level, which would require the world to open the door to Iranian oil and lift the pressure on Tehran.Suddenly, the scenarios have changed. The explosion will occur not because of an Israeli strike, but rather, as result of panic among Iran’s top brass in the face of the sanctions. The Middle East will see a war over oil, money and goods – not because of a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities.The Russians grasped this a while ago. Their UN envoy recently said that the greatest threat to global stability is the crisis in the Hormuz Straits. This is one of the reasons the Russians are not excited by the prospect of tighter sanctions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first to smell the vapors of war are the Emirates along the Persian Gulf. They will also be the first to be hit. Hence, the oil barons there are in a mad rush to complete the installation of an oil pipeline to Oman’s ports, thereby circumventing the Hormuz Straits. The pipeline and oil terminal project began in 2008 and is slated to end in May of this year, but officials in the Emirates fear it would be too late by then.We can assume that the meeting of NATO army chiefs to be held this week with a guest in attendance – IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz – will focus on the developing crisis in the Hormuz Straits. Under this scenario, Israel is a junior partner, which is mostly required to stay out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will the regional Gog flare result in a beis Hamikdash in 5772?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 2012 Astrological event Venus Transit happens on June 6th. The Zohar seems to describe this as a star hanging for 60 days; we thought it was Elenin, but maybe Elenin was prep for the Venus Star. As such, 60 days before June 6th, arrives at the first day of the Omer this year - the day that the Beis Hamikdash comes from Shamayim davka, as described in the Talmud Sukkah.B''H!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;http://israndjer.blogspot.com&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18902243-5651727755872929587?l=israndjer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://soulmazal.blogspot.com/2012/01/real-war-with-gog-magog-computers-and.html' title='REAL WAR WITH GOG-MAGOG'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18902243/posts/default/5651727755872929587'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18902243/posts/default/5651727755872929587'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2012/01/real-war-with-gog-magog.html' title='REAL WAR WITH GOG-MAGOG'/><author><name>STAN L</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11041400179179367939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yb51zBn6LsQ/SYn1N0hbmWI/AAAAAAAAAAc/AJdshT6GEDw/S220/israelflag.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902243.post-7779938196909574136</id><published>2012-01-19T00:01:00.013-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-19T16:40:22.757-05:00</updated><title type='text'>STOCK RESULTS JAN 19,12</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Google Is Already Using SOPA-Like Censorship-Web giant blacklists websites, follows government orders to remove material Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Thursday, January 19, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.infowars.com/google-is-already-using-sopa-like-censorship/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Despite Google’s much-heralded support for the anti-SOPA movement, the web giant is already enforcing SOPA-like policies of its own, blacklisting legitimate websites from its news aggregator and following government orders to remove material from its search results and You Tube.As major Internet giants joined forces yesterday to protest legislation that would hand the U.S. government power to arbitrarily seize websites with no legal process under the pretext of copyright infringement, Google slapped a black censorship image over its logo and urged people to sign an anti-SOPA petition that has accrued over 5 million signees.However, Google’s main issue with SOPA is seemingly not related to their concerns about Chinese-style web censorship becoming commonplace, but rather which entity gets to wield those powers – large transnational corporations or governments.While Google criticizes SOPA publicly, it is already privately using SOPA-like powers to unfairly marginalize legitimate web content.Google News is a content aggregator that allows users to search thousands of news sources for relevant stories. Although the aggregator includes a plethora of obscure, occasionally offensive, and barely-read websites, in November 2010 Google took the decision to de-list PrisonPlanet.com and Infowars.com from its indexed news sources.Infowars.com alone is an internationally recognized news website that gets more traffic than MSNBC.com and innumerable other big mainstream news websites. Our articles are routinely featured on the Drudge Report, which itself is renowned as the primary agenda-setting news website in the United States, driving more traffic to individual stories than the likes of Facebook and Twitter combined.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Infowars owner Alex Jones is a nationally syndicated radio host whose broadcast appears on an ever-expanding list of big mainstream radio stations. Jones has been afforded feature profiles by the likes of Rolling Stone Magazine, who acknowledged his role as a pioneer in the media world.Infowars.com is clearly a legitimate and important news website that features original content which routinely makes an impact and occasionally goes viral. And yet Google de-listed the website from its news aggregator on a whim with no explanation provided. Since Google and its owner Eric Schmidt are prominent financial contributors to the Obama campaign, we can only assume we were blacklisted for political reasons.Whether you concur with our political stance or are rapidly against it, what can’t be argued is that we are a legitimate news outfit – but Google has arbitrarily banned us from appearing on their news search results.This is a clear example of how Google is already enforcing SOPA-like rules of its own choosing, without the need for any law to be passed by any legislative body.In addition, while concerns rage about the state obtaining the power to shut down websites and remove web content with no recourse, Google is already following orders from the federal government in the majority of cases in removing videos from its You Tube platform, including takedowns on the grounds that the videos contain government criticism.Google-owned You Tube has complied with thousands of requests worldwide to remove political protest videos that are clearly not in violation of any copyright or national security interests and do not constitute defamation.The number of takedown orders received by Google from authorities based in the United States rose dramatically over the past year, with demands to remove information increasing by 70 per cent. Google complied in removing the material in 63% of the cases.One such example was You Tube’s compliance with a request from the British government to censor footage of the British Constitution Group’s Lawful Rebellion protest, during which they attempted to civilly arrest Judge Michael Peake at Birkenhead county court.Google has also targeted our own You Tube channel for termination on numerous occasions merely for posting legitimate news content, such as the Wikileaks Apache helicopter footage, which appears on hundreds of other You Tube channels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Crucially, Google has for years censored its own search results subject to the mandates of different governments across the world. SOPA and PIPA are merely an effort to codify into US law what is already taking place in more authoritarian countries, with the willing participation of Google itself.Many other web giants are also moving to censor the Internet, including VeriSign, who recently demanded the power to terminate websites deemed abusive with no legal oversight whatsoever.&lt;br /&gt;Public wi-fi systems stationed in airports, train stations, libraries, schools, and workplaces also routinely censor political websites.Who needs government to censor the Internet when large corporations are already doing it? Amidst all the anti-SOPA rage, we should not be so naive as to give the likes of Google a pass when considering the totality of threats posed to free speech on the world wide web.We encourage people to at least be aware of alternatives to Google, search websites that will not enact SOPA-like censorship policies, such as StartPage.com. Watch a video below from November 2010 in which Alex Jones explains how Google is censoring the web – without the need for SOPA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD&lt;br /&gt;then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JAMES 5:1-3&lt;br /&gt;1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.&lt;br /&gt;2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REVELATION 18:10,17,19&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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,&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EZEKIEL 7:19&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REVELATION 13:16-18&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WORLD MARKET RESULTS&lt;br /&gt;http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/&lt;br /&gt;CNBC VIDEOS&lt;br /&gt;http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/?tabid=15839796&amp;tabheader=false&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS THU JANUARY 19,2012&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;09:30 AM +2.43&lt;br /&gt;10:00 AM +19.07&lt;br /&gt;10:30 AM +12.18&lt;br /&gt;11:00 AM +23.27&lt;br /&gt;11:30 AM +29.25&lt;br /&gt;12:00 PM +33.34&lt;br /&gt;12:30 PM +21.61&lt;br /&gt;01:00 PM +19.15&lt;br /&gt;01:30 PM +33.68&lt;br /&gt;02:00 PM +23.16&lt;br /&gt;02:30 PM +33.34&lt;br /&gt;03:00 PM +18.09&lt;br /&gt;03:30 PM +38.33&lt;br /&gt;04:00 PM +45.03 12,623.98 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;S&amp;P 500 1314.50 +6.46&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NASDAQ 2788.33 +18.62&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GOLD 1,655.80 -4.10 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OIL 100.33 -0.26&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TSE 300 12,380.69 +53.17&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CDNX 1554.20 +4.15&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;S&amp;P/TSX/60 707.30 +3.58&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MORNING,NEWS,STATS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE&lt;br /&gt;Dow +38 points at 4 minutes of trading today.&lt;br /&gt;Dow -4 points at low today.&lt;br /&gt;Dow +38 points at high today so far.&lt;br /&gt;GOLD opens at $1,655.20.OIL opens at $101.45 today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS&lt;br /&gt;Dow -4 points at low today so far.&lt;br /&gt;Dow +38 points at high today so far.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS&lt;br /&gt;Dow -4 points at low today.&lt;br /&gt;Dow +38 points at high today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CRUDE OIL -3.4 million barrels&lt;br /&gt;GASOLINE +3.7 million barrels&lt;br /&gt;DISTILLATE INVENTORIES +400,000 BARRELS&lt;br /&gt;NATURAL GAS-THU -87 BCF&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Breaking news: cancer drugs make tumors more aggressive and deadly S. L. Baker Infowars.com January 19, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When natural health advocates warn against mainstream medicine’s arsenal of weapons used to fight cancer, including chemotherapy and radiation, their concerns often revolve around how these therapies can weaken and damage a person’s body in numerous ways. But scientists are finding other reasons to question some of these therapies. It turns out that while chemotherapies may kill or shrink tumors in the short term, they may actually be causing malignancies to grow more deadly in the long term.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For example, Natural News previously reported:&lt;br /&gt;(http://www.naturalnews.com/029042_cancer_cells_chemotherapy.html) that scientists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Comprehensive Cancer Center and UAB Department of Chemistry are currently investigating the very real possibility that dead cancer cells left over after chemotherapy spark cancer to spread to other parts of the body (metastasis). And now comes news that a little-explored specific cell type, the pericyte, found in what is called themicroenvironmentof a cancerous tumor actually may halt cancer progression and metastasis. And by destroying these cells, some anti-cancer therapies may inadvertently be making cancer more aggressive as well as likely to spread and kill.A study just published in the January 17 issue of the journalCancer Cellconcludes that anti-angiogenic therapies (which shrink cancer by cutting off tumors’ blood supply) may be killing the body’s natural defense against cancer by destroying pericyte cells that likely serve as important gatekeepers against cancer progression and metastasis. Pericytes cover blood vessels and support their growth.For the new research, Raghu Kalluri, MD, PhD, Chief of the Division of Matrix Biology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS), investigated whether targeting pericytes could inhibit tumor growth in the same way that other antiangiogenic cancer drugs do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dr. Kalluri and his research team worked with mice genetically engineered to support drug-induced depletion of pericytes in growing tumors. Next, they removed pericytes in implanted mouse breast cancer tumors, decreasing pericyte numbers by 60 percent.&lt;br /&gt;Compared with control animals, there was a 30 percent decrease in the size of cancerous tumors over 25 days. But there was a serious catch to these results. Contrary to conventional mainsteam medical wisdom, the scientists discovered the number of secondary lung tumors in the engineered mice had increased threefold compared to the control mice, indicating that the tumors had metastasized.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How cancer drugs can spread cancer cells&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you just looked at tumor growth, the results were good,Dr. Kalluri said in a press statement. But when you looked at the whole picture, inhibiting tumor vessels was not controlling cancer progression. The cancer was, in fact, spreading. This suggested to us that without supportive pericytes, the vasculature inside the tumor was becoming weak and leaky — even more so than it already is inside most tumors– and this was reducing the flow of oxygen to the tumor.That change, he explains, makes cancer cells more mobile, so they can travel through those leaky vessels to new locations. It also makes cancer cells behave more like stem cells, so they are better able to survive.Because cancer therapies such as Imatinib, Sunitinib and others are known to decrease pericytes in tumors, the scientists next carried out the same experiments in mice with primary tumors. Only this time, they used the chemotherapy drugs Imatinib and Sunitinib instead of genetic programs to decrease pericyte numbers. Both Imatinib and Sunitinib caused 70 percent pericyte depletion — and they also increased metastasis threefold.In order to see if their findings are relevant to human patients, the research team examined 130 breast cancer tumor samples of varying cancer stages and tumor sizes and compared pericyte levels with prognoses. The result? The samples with low numbers of pericytes in tumor vasculature correlated with the most deeply invasive cancers, distant metastasis and five to ten year survival rates less than 20 percent.These results are quite provocative and will influence clinical programs designed to target tumor angiogenesis,Ronald A. DePinho, president of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, said in a press statement. These impressive studies will inform and refine potential therapeutic approaches for many cancers.For more information:&lt;br /&gt;http://www.bidmc.org/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;http://israndjer.blogspot.com&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18902243-7779938196909574136?l=israndjer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.infowars.com/google-is-already-using-sopa-like-censorship/' title='STOCK RESULTS JAN 19,12'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18902243/posts/default/7779938196909574136'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18902243/posts/default/7779938196909574136'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2012/01/stock-results-jan-1912.html' title='STOCK RESULTS JAN 19,12'/><author><name>STAN L</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11041400179179367939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yb51zBn6LsQ/SYn1N0hbmWI/AAAAAAAAAAc/AJdshT6GEDw/S220/israelflag.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902243.post-6321976706236090039</id><published>2012-01-18T20:11:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-18T20:15:15.240-05:00</updated><title type='text'>BELL CANADA YOUR LOVING BIG BROTHER</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;WELL PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD LETS GET TO KNOW OUR LOVING BIG BROTHER TELEPHONE AND INTERNET PROVIDER IN CANADA-MR BIG BROTHER BELL CANADA.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;LETS TAKE A LOOK AT THE HEADS OF BELL CANADA.LETS START WITH ONTARIO CANADAS BOARD MEMBER.I WILL WARN USE ALL THESE ARE DEFINATELY NEW WORLD ORDER FOLKS.AND I MUST ADD BELL CANADA OUT SOURCES ITS INTERNET TECH TO MUSLIM COUNTRIES OF ALL THINGS.BELL AND ISLAM WHAT A CONNECTION TO PHONE IN TO AND WORK ON YOUR COMPUTERS.(MUSLIMS)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;JUST NOTICE ALL THE CONTROL BELL CANADA HAS BY WHAT ITS BOARDS MEMBERS OWN AND CONTROL.NO WONDER THEY(BELL CANADA)HAVE SO MUCH POWER HERE IN CANADA.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;THOMAS C. O'NEILL, F.C.A., Ontario, Canada-Chair of the Board, BCE and Bell Canada (Since February 2009) and Chartered Accountant&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. O’Neill was Chief Executive Officer of PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting (provider of management consulting and technology services) from January 2002 to May 2002 and then Chair of the Board from May 2002 to October 2002.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. O’Neill is a former Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees of Queen’s University and a past member of the Advisory Council of Queen’s University School of Business. Mr. O’Neill graduated from Queen’s University with a BComm and is a chartered accountant. Mr. O’Neill received an Honorary LLD from Queen’s University and is a Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Directors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. O’Neill is also a director of Adecco S.A.,(THE BIGGEST STAFFING COMPANY IN THE WORLD) Bell Canada, Loblaw Companies Limited,(STORES) Nexen Inc.(A GLOBAL ENERGY LEADER) and The Bank of Nova Scotia.(BANKER)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;BARRY K. ALLEN, Wisconsin, United States-Senior Advisor, Providence Equity Partners (Since September 2007)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Allen is currently a Senior Advisor of Providence Equity Partners (a private equity firm focused on media, entertainment, communications and information investments). Prior to joining Providence in 2007, he was Executive Vice-President of Operations of Qwest Communications International.Before his retirement from Qwest in June 2007, Mr. Allen was responsible for the company’s network and information technology operations. Prior to being named Executive Vice-President of Operations in March 2004, he served as Qwest’s Executive Vice-President of Operations and Chief Human Resources Officer. In addition, from January 2003 until the present, Mr. Allen has served as President of Allen Enterprises, a private equity investment and management company he founded. Mr. Allen holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Kentucky and an M.B.A. from Boston University.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Allen is a director on the BCE board since May 2009. He is also a member of the Corporate Governance Committee and the Management Resources and Compensation Committee.Mr. Allen is also a director of Bell Canada, Fiduciary Management, Inc. and Harley Davidson, Inc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;ANDRÉ BÉRARD, O.C., Québec, Canada-Corporate Director (Since March 2004)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Bérard was Chair of the Board of National Bank of Canada (chartered bank) from 2002 to March 2004, and Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of National Bank of Canada from 1990 to March 2002. He holds a Fellows Diploma from the Institute of Canadian Bankers and was Chair of the Executive Council of the Canadian Bankers’ Association from 1986 to 1988. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1995.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Bérard is a director on the BCE board since January 2003. He is also a member of the Audit Committee and the Management Resources and Compensation Committee.Mr. Bérard is also a director of Bell Canada, Bombardier Inc., Groupe BMTC Inc., Saputo Inc. and TransForce Inc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;RONALD A. BRENNEMAN, Alberta, Canada-Corporate Director (Since March 2010)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Brenneman was Executive Vice-Chairman, Suncor Energy Inc. (petroleum company) from August 2009 until February 2010 and was President and Chief Executive Officer of Petro-Canada (petroleum company) from 2000 until July 2009.Before January 2000, Mr. Brenneman spent more than 30 years with Imperial Oil Limited and its parent company, Exxon Corporation (both petroleum companies). He was a member of the board of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives until July 2009. Mr. Brenneman holds a BSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toronto and a MSc in Control Systems from the University of Manchester.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Brenneman is a director on the BCE board since November 2003. He is also Chair of the Management Resources and Compensation Committee and a member of the Pension Fund Committee.Mr. Brenneman is also a director of Bell Canada, Ithaca Energy Inc.,The Bank of Nova Scotia and WestJet Airlines Ltd.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Sophie Brochu, Québec, Canada-President And Chief Executive Officer, Gaz Métro (Since February 2007)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ms. Brochu has worked in the energy industry for more than 20 years. She began her career in 1987 with SOQUIP (Société québécoise d’initiatives pétrolières) and held several positions, including Vice-President, Development, a position she held until 1997. Ms. Brochu joined Gaz Métro (natural gas distributor in Québec) in 1997 as Vice-President, Business Development where she held several positions including Executive Vice-President, responsible for all natural gas distribution activities in Québec. In 2007, she was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Gaz Métro.Ms. Brochu is a graduate in Economics from Université Laval in Québec City, where she specialized in the energy field. She is Chair of the Board of the Montréal Museum of Archaeology and History (Pointe-à-Callière). She is actively involved with Muscular Dystrophy Canada. Ms. Brochu was co-president of the Centraide of Greater Montréal campaign for 2010 and is also involved in the 80, ruelle de l’Avenir project, which aims to combat school dropout in the Centre-Sud and Hochelaga Maisonneuve neighbourhoods.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ms. Brochu is a director on the BCE board since May 2010. She is also a member of the Audit Committee and the Corporate Governance Committee.Mrs. Brochu is also a director of Bell Canada and Gaz Métro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;ROBERT E. BROWN, Québec, Canada-Corporate Director (Since October 2009)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Brown is Chairman of Groupe Aeroplan Inc. and was President and Chief Executive Officer of CAE Inc. (a provider of simulation and modelling technologies as well as integrated training service for both civil aviation and defence customers) from August 2004 to September 2009.Prior to joining CAE Inc., Mr. Brown was Chairman of Air Canada during its restructuring from May 2003 to October 2004. Mr. Brown joined Bombardier Inc. in 1987 and was responsible for the Bombardier Aerospace sector from 1990 to 1999. He was President and Chief Executive Officer of Bombardier Inc. (aerospace, transportation and recreational products) from1999 to 2002. Mr. Brown also held various senior positions in federal ministries with economic vocations, including the position of Associate Deputy Minister of the Department of Regional Industrial Expansion. Mr. Brown holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the Royal Military College and attended the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard University Business School.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Brown is a director on the BCE board since May 2009. He is also Chair of the Corporate Governance Committee and a member of the Pension Fund Committee.Mr. Brown is also a director of Bell Canada, Rio Tinto Limited and Rio Tinto PLC.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;George Cope-President and Chief Executive Officer Bell Canada and BCE Inc.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;George Cope is leading the transformation of Canada’s largest communications company into an efficient customer-focused competitor, based on a strategy of enhanced service capability, significant broadband network investments and a high-performance team culture.With industry-leading capital investments of approximately $6 billion in 2009 and 2010, Bell has launched a world-leading new mobile HSPA+ network and enhanced broadband fibre infrastructure to deliver advanced Television and Internet services.Mr. Cope is a seasoned Canadian telecommunications executive who had served in public- company CEO roles in the industry for more than 15 years prior to joining Bell in 2005. He has earned a reputation as an innovative telecom strategist and builder of high-performance teams, successfully launching three next-generation Canadian digital networks during his career.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Cope holds a BComm (Honours) degree from the University of Western Ontario and serves on the Advisory Board of the university’s Richard Ivey School of Business.Mr. Cope is also a director of Bank of Montreal and Bell Canada and Chair of the Board of Bell Aliant Inc.Mr. Cope holds a BComm (Honours) degree from the University of Western Ontario. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.Mr. Cope is also a director of Bank of Montreal and Bell Canada and is also the Chair of the Board of Bell Aliant Inc. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;ANTHONY S. FELL, O.C., Ontario, Canada-Corporate Director (Since January 2008)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Fell is a former Deputy Chairman of Royal Bank of Canada. He was with RBC Capital Markets (investment bank) and predecessor companies for 48 years including 18 years as Chief Executive Officer and a further 8 years as Chairman until his retirement in 2007.Mr. Fell is a past Chairman of Munich Reinsurance company of Canada and the Investment Dealers Association of Canada and a past Governor of the Toronto Stock Exchange. Mr. Fell is also a past Chairman of the University Health Network, the United Way Campaign for Metropolitan Toronto, the Princess Margaret Hospital Capital Campaign and is a past Governor of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Program in Canada, St. Andrew’s College and the Ontario Division of the Canadian Arthritis Society. Mr. Fell was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2001 and received an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from McMaster University in 2001 and from the University of Toronto in 2006.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Fell is a director on the BCE board since January 2002. He is also a member of the Audit Committee and the Management Resources and Compensation Committee.Mr. Fell is also a director of Bell Canada and Loblaw Companies Limited.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;EDWARD C. LUMLEY, P.C., Ontario, Canada-Vice-Chairman, BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc. (Since December 1991)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Lumley has been Vice-Chairman of BMO Capital Markets and its predecessor companies since 1991. From 1986 to 1991 Mr. Lumley served as Chair of the Noranda Manufacturing Group of companies. Prior to returning to the private sector; from 1974-1984 Mr. Lumley was a Member of Parliament during which time he held various cabinet portfolios in the Government of Canada, including Minister of Industry, International Trade, Communications and Science and Technology. Mr. Lumley is the Chancellor of the University of Windsor where he graduated a Bachelor of Commerce.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Lumley is a director on the BCE board since January 2003. He is also Chair of the Pension Fund Committee and a member of the Corporate Governance Committee.Mr. Lumley is also a director of Bell Canada, Canadian National Railway Company and Dollar-Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;THE HONOURABLE JIM PRENTICE, P.C., Q.C. Alberta, Canada-Senior Executive Vice-President and Vice Chairman, CIBC (Since January 2011)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Prentice is responsible for expanding CIBC's relationships with corporate clients across Canada and abroad, and with providing leadership on strategic initiatives to enhance CIBC's position in the market.Mr. Prentice is well known for his contribution to public life in Canada. He was first elected as the Member of Parliament for Calgary Centre North in 2004 and re-elected in 2006 and 2008. From January 2006 until November 2010 he was one of the most senior Ministers in the Canadian Government, serving variously as the Minister of Industry, the Minister of the Environment and the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. In addition, Mr. Prentice chaired the Operations Committee of Cabinet and sat on the Priorities and Planning Committee from 2006 through November 2010.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prior to entering public office, Mr. Prentice practiced law in Calgary, specializing in commercial law and property rights. He served as the Co-Chair of the Indian Claims Commission of Canada from 1993 until 2000. He graduated from the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Commerce in 1977 and then entered Dalhousie Law School as a Dunn Scholar, graduating with his Bachelor of Laws in 1980. Mr. Prentice was designated a Queen’s Counsel in 1992.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Prentice is a director on the BCE board since July 2011. He is also a member of the Audit Committee.Mr. Prentice is also a director of Bell Canada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;ROBERT C. SIMMONDS, Ontario, Canada-Chairman, Lenbrook Corporation (Since April 2002)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Robert Simmonds is a seasoned Canadian telecommunications executive who has served in public company roles from 1994 to 2006. From 1985 until 2000, he served as Chairman of Clearnet Communications Inc., a Canadian wireless competitor that launched two all-new digital mobile networks. He became the Chairman of Lenbrook Corporation (national distributor of electronics components and radio products) in 2002, having been a founder and director of the company since 1977. Internationally regarded as a leading wireless communications engineer and mobile spectrum authority, Mr. Simmonds has played a key role in the development of Canada’s mobile spectrum policies for more than 30 years. He is an executive with the Radio Advisory Board of Canada (RABC), the body that provides unbiased and technically expert advice to the federal Department of Industry, and is a past Chair of the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA). A laureate and member of Canada’s Telecommunications Hall of Fame and recipient of the Engineering Medal for Entrepreneurship from Professional Engineers Ontario, Mr. Simmonds earned his B.A. Sc. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Toronto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Simmonds is a director on the BCE board since May 2011. He is also a member of the Audit Committee and the Corporate Governance Committee.Mr. Simmonds is also a director of Bell Canada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;The Honourable Carole Taylor, British Columbia, Canada-Corporate Director (since Septembre 2010)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From December 2008 to January 2010, Ms. Taylor served as Chair of the Federal Finance Minister’s Economic Advisory Council. Ms. Taylor was also Senior Advisor for Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (law firm) until September 2010. She served as Minister of Finance for British Columbia from June 2005 to June 2008. In May 2005, Ms. Taylor was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia to represent the riding of Vancouver-Langara. From July 2001 to March 2005, she served as Chair of CBC/Radio-Canada. She is the incoming chancellor of Simon Fraser University.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ms. Taylor is a director on the BCE board since August 2010. She is also a member of the Management Resources and Compensation Committee and the Pension Fund Committee.Ms. Taylor is also a director of Bell Canada and The Toronto-Dominion Bank.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;PAUL R. WEISS, FCA, Ontario, Canada-Corporate Director (since April 2008)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Weiss is director and audit committee Chair at ING Bank of Canada and a director of Empire Life Insurance Company. He is Chair of the Board of Directors of Soulpepper Theatre Company, past Chair and a director of Toronto Rehab Foundation, and a director of Niagara International Music Festival.For over 40 years, until his retirement in 2008, he was with KPMG Canada. He served as Managing Partner of the Canadian Audit Practice, a member of KPMG Canada’s Management Committee, and a member of the International Global Audit Steering Group. Mr. Weiss holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Carleton University.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Weiss is a director on the BCE board since May 2009. He is also Chair of the Audit Committee and a member of the Pension Fund Committee.Mr. Weiss is also a director of Bell Canada and Torstar Corporation.(MEDIA)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;AS WE SEE WE GOT AT LEAST 4 OR 5 BANKERS,2 MEDIA MOGOLS,AIR CRAFT OWNERS,AND JUST NUMEROUS OTHER MEMBERS OF BELL CANADA THAT GOT THE MONEY AND CLOUT TO CONTROL ALL OF CANADA.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;http://israndjer.blogspot.com&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18902243-6321976706236090039?l=israndjer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.bce.ca/en/governance/boardcommittee/index.php' title='BELL CANADA YOUR LOVING BIG BROTHER'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18902243/posts/default/6321976706236090039'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18902243/posts/default/6321976706236090039'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2012/01/bell-canada-your-loving-big-brother.html' title='BELL CANADA YOUR LOVING BIG BROTHER'/><author><name>STAN L</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11041400179179367939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yb51zBn6LsQ/SYn1N0hbmWI/AAAAAAAAAAc/AJdshT6GEDw/S220/israelflag.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902243.post-7925742858809986812</id><published>2012-01-18T00:02:00.007-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-18T00:02:00.400-05:00</updated><title type='text'>THE CASE AGAINST DIVIDING JERUSALEM</title><content type='html'>JERUSALEM DIVIDED&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible&lt;br /&gt;1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.&lt;br /&gt;2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.&lt;br /&gt;3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.&lt;br /&gt;4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.&lt;br /&gt;5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JOEL 3:2&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ZECHARIAH 14:1-9 King James Bible&lt;br /&gt;1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.&lt;br /&gt;2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.&lt;br /&gt;3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.&lt;br /&gt;4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.&lt;br /&gt;6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:&lt;br /&gt;7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.&lt;br /&gt;8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.&lt;br /&gt;9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.&lt;br /&gt;http://www.veoh.com/watch/v15908897gA4N3jCR?h1=Mid-East+Bible+Prophecy%3A+Jerusalem+Divided%3F&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;The Case for a United Jerusalem&lt;br /&gt;By Nathan Diament Jan 15 2012, 6:30 PM ET 1 THE ATLANTIC&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dividing the holy city as part of a final-status agreement between Israelis and Palestinians ignores key realities on the ground Jerusalem / Reuters&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Proponents of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict often insist that the only way to resolve competing claims over the holy city of Jerusalem is to divide it, with each half respectively serving as the capital of Israel and a future Palestinian state. Those who advocate this approach often try to make it more palatable by asserting, as Terrestrial Jerusalem founder Daniel Seidemann recently wrote in The Atlantic, that while many Israelis speak of Jerusalem being a "united" city since its eastern half came under Israeli sovereignty in 1967, such a perception is a "myth" because, in fact, Jerusalem is divided between largely homogeneous and internally contiguous Jewish and Arab neighborhoods across which the two groups rarely venture. Thus, they argue, a border could be drawn relatively easily along demographic lines, re-dividing the city between the two states. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9-11 Ten Years Later&lt;br /&gt;The reality, however, is that Jerusalem today is a demographically intertwined city. To be sure, there are neighborhoods, particularly east of the security barrier, where Jews seldom venture. But modern-day Jerusalem is far more an interwoven checkerboard of Jewish and Palestinian enclaves. The Arab neighborhood of Beit Safafa, for example, lies between the Jewish neighborhoods of Talpiot and Gilo, while the Arab neighborhood Sheikh Jarrah lies between the Old City and the Jewish neighborhood of French Hill. Separating these neighborhoods between two countries would create an unwieldy and unsustainable border. While creative solutions have been proposed to ensure that a re-divided Jerusalem would remain interconnected, as any urban center must to thrive, experience shows that divided cities, such as Berlin and Baghdad, are fragile at best and combustible at worst. One significant reason against dividing Jerusalem is that many of the Palestinians who live in East Jerusalem wish to remain under Israeli sovereignty. Recent polling indicates that, despite the fact that municipal resources and services have not been evenly allocated between Jewish and Arab Jerusalem segments of the city, a plurality of Palestinians residing in eastern sections of Jerusalem would move from Palestinian Jerusalem to Israeli Jerusalem, if given the opportunity, should the city be re-divided. According to one of the pollsters:For most Palestinians who said they wanted to be citizens of Israel, approximately 35 percent said it was practical issues that dominate -- freedom of movement, higher income, health insurance, job opportunities, prosperity, more shops...People were concerned that if they became a citizen of Palestine, they had significant worries about losing employment in Israel, free movement in Israel, Israeli health care, and reduction in city services. ...Three-quarters of east Jerusalem Arabs are at least a little concerned, and more than half are more than a little concerned, that they would lose their ability to write and speak freely if they became citizens of a Palestinian state rather than remaining under Israeli control.But more contentious than the fate of Jerusalem's residential neighborhoods is the debate over the fate of the Old City - home to Judaism's holiest sites and among Islam's holiest sites. On a practical level, dividing the Old City along demographic lines would put Jewish holy sites on the Palestinian side and Muslim holy sites on the Israeli side. Israelis are understandably cautious about putting these sites solely under Arab control; when Arabs last controlled the Old City, from 1948 to 1967, Jews were barred from access. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To address this concern, numerous groups have proposed "special arrangements," such as international or joint Israeli-Palestinian administration over the Old City, to ensure protection of and access to these sites. But these proposals rely on international community support and enforcement to guarantee security and access, which Israel has legitimate grounds to doubt given the lackluster performance of the Multinational Force &amp; Observers (MFO) in the Sinai (who abandoned their posts in the lead-up to the June 1967 War) and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) along Israel's northern border (who have failed in their mandate to prevent the re-arming of Hezbollah).  Furthermore, the international community has consistently shown little regard for the Jewish attachment to holy sites, most recently seen in UNESCO's 2010 declaration that the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron is an integral part of the Palestinian territories.An additional problem with special arrangement proposals is that they tend to require more intimate and extensive cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians rather than granting the divorce from one another that both sides seem to be seeking through a peace deal. And this cooperation must succeed in the most sensitive of all locations.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unlike these untested proposals, Israel has proven over the past four decades that its authority over all of Jerusalem can ensure protection of and access to holy sites. Since Jerusalem was reunited in 1967, pilgrims of all faiths have generally been allowed to visit the holy places of all religions. Muslim mosques, even those built atop the mount where Judaism's Holy Temple once stood, operate relatively freely - and under Islamic religious oversight. While some might contest that Israel does periodically place security restrictions upon entrance to holy sites, free access is the default policy under Israeli rule. But resolving the status of the Old City of Jerusalem is not just about geography nor about the practicalities of access to a single site; it is deeply intertwined with questions of national identity, history, and theology. Proposals for joint sovereignty, deferred sovereignty, or even divine sovereignty ignore the deep-rooted significance of the holy city. The search for a split the difference compromise also ignores the fact that the Old City of Jerusalem has been the national capital of the Jewish people for the past 3000 years and is Judaism's holiest site, while it is Mecca that plays that role for Muslims. The international community would never expect the Islamic world to cede sovereignty over Mecca; the Jewish people ought to be accorded no less respect with regard to the Old City of Jerusalem.One reason peace in the Middle East has not yet been possible is because most efforts to achieve it have been aspirational but untethered from reality. It is clear that re-dividing Jerusalem is neither feasible nor prudent. The international community must take off the table the option of dividing Jerusalem, in the same way that they have ended the debate over a right of return to Israel for Palestinian refugees. A sustainable peace can only be achieved with the entirety of Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Imagine a Divided Jerusalem&lt;br /&gt;by Eric on January 13, 2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;??? - The Berlin Wall - Berliner Mauerphoto © 1986 siyu | Berlin Wall&lt;br /&gt;This week PA President Abbas said: Jerusalem is the heart of the Palestinian cause, and unless Jerusalem is the capital of an independent Palestinian state, there will not be peace.Imagine if Benjamin Netanyahu said the same thing, but turned the tables: Jerusalem is a Jewish city, the heart of the Jewish nation, and If Jerusalem does not remain in Jewish hands, there will never be peace.That post, from Elder of Ziyon, got me thinking.  What if Jerusalem were really divided?  What if the city became two?  Lets look at a famous example of this situation:The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 to divide East Berlin from West Berlin.  The wall divided the Democracy from the Communists.  It was a horrible situation for everyone.  Families were separated.  People were removed from their jobs.  A rightfully united city became two.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It didn’t work then and it wouldn’t work now.Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat has the sense to speak up about it.  A divided Jerusalem would not just split the city, it would carve out ethnic lines based on an arbitrary war cease fire line from 1949.&lt;br /&gt;Remember, that territory was never a country called Palestine.From 1517-1917, it was part of the Ottoman Empire.  From 1917-1948, it was part of the British Mandate of Palestine.In 1948, it was conquered by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, making it a de-facto part of the country.  In 1967, it was captured by the Israelis in a defensive war.  It was never Palestine.The Arabs living in the Eastern half of Jerusalem from 1948-1967, a period when Jews were kicked out of the territory, were offered citizenship to Israel in 1967.  Since the city was reunited, Jewish neighborhoods have grown next to Arab neighborhoods.  The neighborhoods of Jerusalem are generally divided on Jewish/Arab ethnic lines, but there is no law mandating it.  Arab Israelis and Jewish Israelis are treated as one under Israeli law.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many Arabs chose not to accept Israeli citizenship.  That was a choice, not a decree.  There are many reasons for this, but some of Jerusalem’s Arabs have spoken up about their desire for citizenship.  Despite what Hamas and the PLO might tell you, they are not all enthusiastic about having East Jerusalem carved out from the rest of the city.Read about what the Palestinians of Jerusalem really want.  Read why some are now taking Israel’s offer for citizenship.If you want to see how bad things are for Arabs in Jerusalem, I suggest going to see yourself.  It is a wonderful place with freedom of movement for all residents.  There are no borders and no fences.  It is a united city.This is not a cut and dry issue, but it is important to look at what everyone wants.  Just because Mahmoud Abbas is the voice of West Bank Palestinians does not mean he speaks for everyone.  Just because he refuses to move forward on a peace plan that does not include East Jerusalem as a Palestinian capital does not mean all of the Palestinians in Jerusalem want that too.&lt;br /&gt;Do we really want another Berlin Wall?  I don’t think so.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;http://israndjer.blogspot.com&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18902243-7925742858809986812?l=israndjer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.veoh.com/watch/v15908897gA4N3jCR?h1=Mid-East+Bible+Prophecy%3A+Jerusalem+Divided%3F' title='THE CASE AGAINST DIVIDING JERUSALEM'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18902243/posts/default/7925742858809986812'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18902243/posts/default/7925742858809986812'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2012/01/case-against-dividing-jerusalem.html' title='THE CASE AGAINST DIVIDING JERUSALEM'/><author><name>STAN L</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11041400179179367939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yb51zBn6LsQ/SYn1N0hbmWI/AAAAAAAAAAc/AJdshT6GEDw/S220/israelflag.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902243.post-9088855322609730699</id><published>2012-01-18T00:01:00.011-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-18T16:30:56.483-05:00</updated><title type='text'>STOCK RESULTS JAN 18,12</title><content type='html'>DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD&lt;br /&gt;then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JAMES 5:1-3&lt;br /&gt;1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.&lt;br /&gt;2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REVELATION 18:10,17,19&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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,&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EZEKIEL 7:19&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REVELATION 13:16-18&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WORLD MARKET RESULTS&lt;br /&gt;http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/&lt;br /&gt;CNBC VIDEOS&lt;br /&gt;http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/?tabid=15839796&amp;tabheader=false&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS WED JANUARY 18,2012&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;09:30 AM -2.43&lt;br /&gt;10:00 AM +34.67&lt;br /&gt;10:30 AM +77.88&lt;br /&gt;11:00 AM +56.12&lt;br /&gt;11:30 AM +54.61&lt;br /&gt;12:00 PM +46.66&lt;br /&gt;12:30 PM +59.15&lt;br /&gt;01:00 PM +76.71&lt;br /&gt;01:30 PM +75.41&lt;br /&gt;02:00 PM +60.25&lt;br /&gt;02:30 PM +71.16&lt;br /&gt;03:00 PM +64.64&lt;br /&gt;03:30 PM +89.94&lt;br /&gt;04:00 PM +96.88 12,578.95&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;S&amp;P 500 1308.04 +14.37&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NASDAQ 2769.71 +41.63&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GOLD 1,660.90 +5.60&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OIL 100.89 +0.18&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TSE 300 12,327.52 +94.69&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CDNX 1550.05 +12.33&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;S&amp;P/TSX/60 703.69 +5.20&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MORNING,NEWS,STATS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE&lt;br /&gt;Dow -15 points at 4 minutes of trading today.&lt;br /&gt;Dow -15 points at low today.&lt;br /&gt;Dow +78 points at high today so far.&lt;br /&gt;GOLD opens at $1,645.30.OIL opens at $101.05 today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS&lt;br /&gt;Dow -15 points at low today so far.&lt;br /&gt;Dow +97 points at high today so far.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS&lt;br /&gt;Dow -15 points at low today.&lt;br /&gt;Dow +97 points at high today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CRUDE OIL +&lt;br /&gt;GASOLINE +&lt;br /&gt;DISTILLATE INVENTORIES&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Iran Threatens To Torpedo US Aircraft Carriers-Three US warships stationed in waters near Strait of Hormuz Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Wednesday, January 18, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A senior Iranian military commander has warned that Iran has the capability to sink US aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf using detection-evading submarines that can fire torpedoes.Lieutenant Commander of the Iranian Army’s Self-Sufficiency Jihad Rear Admiral Farhad Amiri, Stated that Iran’s submarines are able to ambush and hit enemy vessels specially US Aircraft carriers from the seabed throughout the Persian Gulf,reports the Fars News Agency.Amiri said that while the United States was focused on Iran’s surface capabilities, the greater threat was posed by its fleet of submarines which, Are noiseless and can easily evade detection as they are equipped with the sonar-evading technology and can fire missiles and torpedoes simultaneously.&lt;br /&gt;Amiri added that the submarines could easily target and hit an aircraft carrier traversing in the nearby regions.After the US sailed the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier through the Strait of Hormuz in the midst of Iranian wargames, Iranian Army Commander Major General Ataollah Salehi warned America to keep its warships out of the region.The US has made it clear that should Iran try to block the Strait of Hormuz, a key oil choke point, a red line will have been crossed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Three US aircraft carriers are now stationed just outside Iranian waters, in addition to 15,000 troops that were sent to Kuwait at the end of last week.A massive joint naval drill between the US and Israel that was set to coincide with Iranian wargames later this month was postponed earlier this week, with explanations varying as to why the exercise was called off.Russia, which has its own warships stationed in the region, today reiterated its opposition to a military strike on Iran, with foreign minister Sergei Lavrov warning an attack would be a catastrophe for relations between Sunni and Shiite Muslims in the Middle East.Meanwhile, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has stated that Israel is still very far off a decision on whether not not to attack Iran over its nuclear program.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;http://israndjer.blogspot.com&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18902243-9088855322609730699?l=israndjer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18902243/posts/default/9088855322609730699'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18902243/posts/default/9088855322609730699'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2012/01/stock-results-jan-1812.html' title='STOCK RESULTS JAN 18,12'/><author><name>STAN L</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11041400179179367939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yb51zBn6LsQ/SYn1N0hbmWI/AAAAAAAAAAc/AJdshT6GEDw/S220/israelflag.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902243.post-1196681836048132409</id><published>2012-01-17T16:57:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-17T17:42:57.573-05:00</updated><title type='text'>STOCK RESULTS JAN 17,12</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;I WAS WATCHING DR PHIL TODAY AT 5PM EST.HE HAD ON ABUSED WOMEN THAT ALMOST GOT MUDERED BY THEIR HUSBANDS FROM DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.I HAVE GOT A QUESTION FOR THE SHOWS ON TV.WHY ARE THERE NEVER ANY MUSLIM WOMEN ON THESE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHOWS.POOR MUSLIM WOMEN AND GIRLS ARE TORTURED AND KILLED JUST FOR GOING OUTSIDE ALONE OR JUST TALKING TO A MAN OUTSIDE THEIR HOMES.THIS VIOLENCE AGAINST ISLAMIC WOMEN HAS TO STOP.FOR A SO CALLED PEACEFUL RELIGION,ISLAMIC-MUSLIM WOMEN HAVE NO EQUAL RIGHTS,THEIR TREATED LIKE RATS AND DISCARDED.THIS OUTRAGE HAS TO BE STOPPED.MUSLIM WOMEN MUST STAND UP AND BE COUNTED TO GET THEIR TRUE EQUAL RIGHTS IN ISLAM.ISLAMIC MEN (I CAN'T EVEN CALL THEM MEN,I CALL THEM BRUTE JACKASS BEASTS).SMARTEN UP AND LOVE YOUR WIFE AND YOUR DAUGHTER,NOT MURDER(HONOR KILL)THE PERSON WHO CAN BRING ANOTHER LIFE INTO THIS WORLD.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Honor Killing is Absolutely Islamic!&lt;br /&gt;by Syed Kamran Mirza 01 Jul, 2005 (Updated 16 Jan, 2008)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Honor killings, which occur with shocking regularity in certain parts of the Middle East and South Asia, target women whose actions – actual or suspected – violate the honor of their family, an honor which is thought to depend on the sexual purity of its female members. Victims are always being killed/slaughtered mercilessly by her own family members. Honor killing is a manifestation of global phenomenon in general and Muslim nations in particular. Since this terrible inhumane practice does exists only among the Muslims of the world—very often civilized people do blame Islam as the precursor of this dreadful act. Most others do not agree with this notion at all; and they try to put the blame on the tribal/cultural practice, and do not consider Islam is anyway responsible for it. In this essay I shall analyze the real issues, cause and origin, and pattern of this heinous act amongst the Muslims of the world to postulate if there is any link, or incitements that originates from the very core of Islam.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is honor killing?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Honor killing is the bone chilling horrific cruelty committed by the family members—father, mother, brothers, brother-in-laws, even in some cases own sisters also. In this terrible episode the victim is always the daughter/sister or other blood related young women who get killed. Perpetrators are always the family members stated above. Family honor is one of the core values of Arab society. &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Anything from speaking with an unrelated man,&lt;/span&gt; to rumored pre-marital loss of virginity, to an extra-marital affair, refuses forced marriages; marry according to their will; or even women and girls who have been raped—can stain or destroy the family honor. Therefore, family members (parents, brothers, or sisters) kill the victim in order to remove the stain or maintain, and protect the honor of the family. Killers are given light sentences, sometimes with little or no jail time at all. The killers mainly defend their act of murder by referring to the Koran and Islam. Family guardian will say that they are merely following the directives set down in their Islamic ethical beliefs.&lt;br /&gt;http://www.islam-watch.org/SyedKamranMirza/honor_killing.htm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The chips that are good for your health&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Pharmacy to sell edible microchips that will alert doctors if patients are not taking right medicines. Steve Connor Author Biography Tuesday 17 January 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An edible microchip that records the precise details of a patient's pill regime will be available in Britain by the end of year following a commercial deal that opens the door to an era of digital medicines.Click HERE to view Smart pill: How the new technology works'&lt;br /&gt;http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/ia1715chips-graphicjpg-6290634.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An American biomedical company has signed up with a British healthcare firm to sell digestible sensors, each smaller than a grain of sand, that can trigger the transmission of medical information from a patient's body to the mobile phone of a relative or carer.The aim is to develop a suite of intelligent medicines that can help patients and their carers keep track of which pills are taken at what time of day, in order to ensure that complex regimes of drugs are given the best possible chance of working effectively.Ultimately, the plan is for every one of the many pills taken each day by some of the most chronically-ill patients, especially those with mental health problems, to be digitally time-stamped as they are digested within the body.The healthcare company Lloyds- pharmacy said it intends to sell the edible microchips of Proteus Biomedical of California by the end of the year, as part of a trial to test whether NHS patients would be prepared to pay privately to ensure that they or their relatives take the right medicines at the right time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a huge problem with medicines not being taken correctly,said Steve Gray, healthcare services director of Lloydspharmacy.Anyone taking several medications knows how easy it can be to lose track of whether or not you've taken the correct tablets that day,he added.Add to that complex health issues and families caring for loved ones who many not live with them and you can appreciate the benefits of an information service that helps patients to get the most from their treatments and for families to help them to remain well.Lloydspharmacy said the World Health Organisation has found that about half of all patients fail to take their medicines correctly, which can lead to people not getting the full benefits of treatment, or ending up with harmful side-effects.Unused prescription medicines are estimated to cost the NHS nearly £400m a year.The Proteus technology is based on the company's digestible sensors, which are no bigger than a grain of sand. They are composed of the ingredients commonly found in food and are activated when they come into contact with stomach fluids.At the heart of the technology is a tiny silicon wafer separating tiny quantities of copper and magnesium, which effectively forms a microscopic battery that generates an electric current when immersed in the acidic environment of the stomach.These electric currents, which can be given individual signatures to match the drug taken with the edible sensor, are detected passively by an intelligent patch stuck to the patient's skin, in much the same way that electrocardiogram (ECG) skin patches can record the electric currents within the heart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The patch, which is designed to be worn for seven days, includes a flexible battery and chip that records the information and sends it by Bluetooth wireless technology to the mobile phone of a relative or professional carer.In the future the goal is a fully integrated system that creates an information product that helps patients and their families with the demands of complex pharmacy, said Andrew Thompson, the chief executive and founder of Proteus Biomedical.What we know is that we've created many pharmaceuticals with great potential but much of that potential is not realised because these drugs are not being used properly.Neither company was prepared to comment on the cost of the digestible microchips, but industry sources suggested a starting cost of about £50 per week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD&lt;br /&gt;then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JAMES 5:1-3&lt;br /&gt;1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.&lt;br /&gt;2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REVELATION 18:10,17,19&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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,&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EZEKIEL 7:19&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REVELATION 13:16-18&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WORLD MARKET RESULTS&lt;br /&gt;http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/&lt;br /&gt;CNBC VIDEOS&lt;br /&gt;http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/?tabid=15839796&amp;tabheader=false&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS TUE JANUARY 17,2012&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;09:30 AM +2.43&lt;br /&gt;10:00 AM +144.61&lt;br /&gt;10:30 AM +125.16&lt;br /&gt;11:00 AM +101.22&lt;br /&gt;11:30 AM +114.13&lt;br /&gt;12:00 PM +119.16&lt;br /&gt;12:30 PM +110.25&lt;br /&gt;01:00 PM +99.71&lt;br /&gt;01:30 PM +99.48&lt;br /&gt;02:00 PM +97.97&lt;br /&gt;02:30 PM +60.52&lt;br /&gt;03:00 PM +50.25&lt;br /&gt;03:30 PM +46.62&lt;br /&gt;04:00 PM +60.01 12,482.07&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;S&amp;P 500 1293.67 +4.58&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NASDAQ 2728.08 +17.41&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GOLD 1,651.80 +21.00&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OIL 100.93 +0.22&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TSE 300 12,232.83 -25.77&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CDNX 1537.72 -1.21&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;S&amp;P/TSX/60 698.48 -1.44&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MORNING,NEWS,STATS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE&lt;br /&gt;Dow +113 points at 4 minutes of trading today.&lt;br /&gt;Dow +1 points at low today.&lt;br /&gt;Dow +150 points at high today so far.&lt;br /&gt;GOLD opens at $1,658.30.OIL opens at $100.28 today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS&lt;br /&gt;Dow +1 points at low today so far.&lt;br /&gt;Dow +150 points at high today so far.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS&lt;br /&gt;Dow +1 points at low today.&lt;br /&gt;Dow +150 points at high today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;MONDAYS CANADA RESULTS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TSE 300 12,258.60 +27.54&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CDNX 1538.93 +2.90&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;S&amp;P/TSX/60 699.93 +0.68&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DANIEL 7:23-24&lt;br /&gt;23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)&lt;br /&gt;24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD REGIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Eurozone bail-out fund loses triple A rating&lt;br /&gt;Today JAN 16,12 @ 20:43 By Valentina Pop&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BRUSSELS - The Eurozone's bail-out fund was downgraded by one notch to AA+ by the US ratings agency Standard&amp;Poor's on Monday (16 January) - a move likely to put an extra financial burden on contributing nations, many of whom were themselves downgraded last week.Designed to fund the rescue packages for Greece, Ireland and Portugal, the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) owed its triple A rating to guarantees from eurozone countries, two of which - France and Austria - saw their own top rating cut by one notch on Friday, along with other countries further down the ratings ladder.The EFSF’s obligations are no longer fully supported either by guarantees from EFSF members rated AAA by S&amp;P, or by AAA rated securities. Credit enhancements sufficient to offset what we view as the reduced creditworthiness of guarantors are currently not in place,Standard&amp;Poor's said in a statement.The move is likely to lower the firepower of the fund, unless contributing countries step up their loan guarantees to the facility.The downgrade has a consequence - if it wants to keep its triple A status, it will have to lend less or, if not, the cost of lending will go up. If it wants to maintain the same capacity to lend, at the same price, you will have to have additional contributions from member states,European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi said on Monday evening during a hearing in the European Parliament in Strasbourg.EFSF chairman Klaus Regling took note of the downgrade and argued that its lending capacity will not be changed.The EFSF has sufficient means to fulfill its commitments under current and potential future adjustment programmes until the European Stability Mechanism [permanent bail-out fund] becomes operational in July 2012.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eurozone finance ministers chairman Jean Claude Juncker, whose country is hosting the EFSF, also sought to downplay the effects of the downgrade.S&amp;P's decision will not reduce EFSF’s lending capacity of €440 billion. EFSF will continue to be backed by unconditional and irrevocable guarantees by euro area member states.He added that the other two major ratings agencies, Fitch and Moody's have not downgraded the fund or indicated they would do so.Earlier that day, a commission spokesman went to some lengths to downplay the importance of Friday's decision to downgrade Austria, Cyprus, France, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain. He argued that ratings agencies are not privy to all the economic and financial data about member states that the EU commission has.ECB chief Draghi also noted that all ratings agencies had a terrible loss of reputation over last crisis and said that his institution in the last few years has avoided having a mechanical reliance on them.&lt;br /&gt;Critics says that ratings agencies, having failed to spot the build-up to the financial crisis in 2008, are now being over-zealous to make up for it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Draft text: EU ministers worried by Israeli actions in Jordan Valley Today JAN 16,12 By Andrew Rettman&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BRUSSELS - A draft statement for EU foreign ministers next week says Israel's monopolisation of land and water in the occupied West Bank is worrying and endangers the two-state solution.The text - provisionally agreed by mid-level EU diplomats on Monday (16 January) - says: Against a backdrop of worrying developments in 2011, particularly with respect to settlements under Area C, the EU reaffirms its commitment to a two-state solution ... The viability of a two-state solution must not be jeopardised.The draft conclusions also say the EU welcomes Jordan's recent efforts to restart Israeli-Palestinian talks and urges both sides to build confidence and create an atmosphere of trust for the negotiations.Area C is a 62 percent chunk of the occupied West Bank designated by the Oslo accords in the 1990s as being under full Israeli control.The reference by ministers to worrying developments is based on an internal report by EU heads of mission in Israel from 14 December which blames it for using red tape to force the native Palestinian population off its most fertile farmland.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The report - seen by EUobserver - notes that in 1967 there were between 200,000 and 320,000 Palestinians in the Jordan Valley, most of which lies in Area C, but that just 56,000 live there today.The Jewish population has grown from 1,200 to 310,000 over the same period.It notes that Israeli farms use most of the water resources in the area to produce export crops. Meanwhile, Palestinians get access to just 25 percent of available water at higher prices, limiting them to low intensity agriculture.All 27 EU countries endorsed the internal report and one EU diplomat said the draft ministers' statement is likely to go through more or less unchanged.&lt;br /&gt;Another diplomat warned that pro-Israeli EU countries - such as the Netherlands and the Czech Republic - will try to make sure the formal EU communique does not offend their ally.There are still two or three [lower-level] meetings this week before the EU ministers' meeting next week [23 January], so the text could change completely, or there might be no text at all if they can't agree, the contact said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MUSLIM NATIONS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EZEKIEL 38:1-12&lt;br /&gt;1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,&lt;br /&gt;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,&lt;br /&gt;3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:&lt;br /&gt;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:&lt;br /&gt;5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;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:&lt;br /&gt;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,&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ISAIAH 17:1&lt;br /&gt;1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PSALMS 83:3-7&lt;br /&gt;3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)&lt;br /&gt;6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)&lt;br /&gt;7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DANIEL 11:40-43&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EZEKIEL 39:1-8&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;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:&lt;br /&gt;3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JOEL 2:3,20,30-31&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)&lt;br /&gt;31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Iran warns of consequences if Arabs back oil sanctions ReutersBy Ramin Mostafavi | Reuters – Sun, Jan 15, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran warned Gulf Arab neighbors on Sunday they would suffer consequences if they raised oil output to replace Iranian crude facing an international ban.In signs of Tehran's deepening isolation over its refusal to halt nuclear activity that could yield atomic bombs, China's premier was in Saudi Arabia probing for greater access to its huge oil and gas reserves and Britain voiced confidence a once hesitant European Union would soon ban oil imports from Iran.&lt;br /&gt;Major importers of Iranian oil were long loath to embargo the lifeblood of Iran's economy because of fears this would send oil prices rocketing at a time - amidst debt and deficit crises and high unemployment - when they could least afford it.But strong momentum for oil sanctions has been created by a U.N. watchdog report saying Iran appeared to have worked on designing an atom bomb.A new U.S. law signed by President Barack Obama on New Year's Eve would freeze out of the U.S. financial system any institution dealing with Iran's central bank - which processes its oil revenues.If fully applied, the law would make it impossible for most countries to buy Iranian oil. Washington is offering waivers to countries to let them keep buying Iranian oil for now, but demanding they gradually cut their imports back.Leaders from some of the Asian countries that buy the most Iranian oil have begun touring the Middle East to secure alternative supply lines from Arab states. European buyers suggest they will also lean more heavily on Arab oil producers should an EU ban come into effect.Feeling increasingly encircled, Iran's hardline Islamic clerical elite has lashed back by threatening to block the main Middle East oil shipping route. Since the New Year, Tehran also began to enrich uranium in an underground bunker and sentenced an Iranian-American citizen to death on espionage charges.Tensions in the Gulf have caused occasional spikes in oil prices in recent weeks. The sanctions are also having a real impact on Iran's domestic economy, causing prices of imported staples to soar and the rial currency to tumble.Iran holds a parliamentary election in March, its first since a presidential vote in 2009 led to eight months of street protests. Those demonstrations were put down by force, but since then the "Arab Spring" has shown the vulnerability of states in the region to public anger fueled by economic hardship.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IRAN WARNS GULF ARABS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iranian OPEC Governor Mohammad Ali Khatibi said Tehran would regard as an unfriendly act any move by neighboring Gulf Arab oil exporters to make up for Iranian crude.If (they) give the green light to replacing Iran's oil these countries would be the main culprits for whatever happens in the region - including the Strait of Hormuz, Khatibi told the Sharq daily newspaper, referring to the narrow sea channel through which a third of the world's oil tanker traffic passes.Our Arab neighbor countries should not cooperate with these (U.S. and European) adventurers... These measures will not be perceived as friendly, he said.Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi said on Saturday the world's No. 1 oil exporter - the only one in OPEC with significant unused capacity - was ready and able to meet any increase in demand. He made no direct reference to sanctions on Iran.Iran's navy commander Habibollah Sayyari said Tehran could exert control over the Strait of Hormuz. The United States, whose warships patrol the region, says it will not tolerate any attempt to disrupt shipping through the strait.Military experts say Iran could not challenge the huge U.S.-led fleet that guards the strait for long, but its threats raise the risk of miscalculation that could flare into a clash.The United States and Israel postponed military exercises scheduled to take place in coming weeks to later in the year. Officials in both countries denied the postponement was connected with the increasing tension over Iran.Oil prices were down at the end of last week as anticipation of downgrades by Standard &amp; Poor's of several indebted euro zone economies countered the buoyant effect of anxiety about Iranian threats to shipping. But the standoff over Iran pointed to continued support for higher prices, brokers and analysts said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iran's foreign ministry said on Sunday it had received a letter from Washington about the Strait of Hormuz and there was no decision yet on whether to reply. A ministry spokesman did not divulge the contents of the letter.Tehran had said on Saturday it had written to Washington with evidence the CIA was involved in the assassination of a nuclear scientist, blown up by a bomb attached to his car last week, the latest of several such killings.Western countries suspect Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons capability. Iran says it is only interested in nuclear technology for peaceful purposes such as generating electricity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CHINA SEEKS OIL OPTIONS IN GULF&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao was pressing Saudi Arabia to open its oil and gas wealth to more Chinese investment, Chinese media said on Sunday. China has been Iran's biggest oil buyer.Although Beijing opposes further international sanctions on Iran, it has already cut its purchases of Iranian oil by more than half for the first two months of this year.China and Saudi Arabia are both in important stages of development and there are broad prospects for enhancing cooperation, Wen told Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Nayef on Saturday, according to Xinhua news agency.Michal Meidan, an analyst with London's Eurasia Group, said: Beijing is concerned with the potential response to bellicose Iranian statements and the spike in oil prices that would ensue from greater turmoil in Syria and Iran.Wen was also scheduled to visit the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, two other big OPEC exporters across the Gulf from Iran.British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Sunday he was confident the 27-member European Union would impose resounding sanctions on Iran's oil industry and possibly other sectors at an EU foreign ministers meeting on January 23.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After protracted reluctance to act arising from the dependence of some debt-ridden EU economies on Iranian oil, member states have agreed in principle to ban it and have been working on details of how this will be implemented.Last year EU countries collectively bought about a fifth of Iranian exports, roughly on par with China.&lt;br /&gt;Any EU-wide prohibition of Iranian oil would probably take effect gradually.Grace periods on existing contracts of one to 12 months have been proposed to allow importers to find other suppliers before implementing an embargo.Hague said: Our sanctions are part of trying to get Iran to change course and to enter negotiations and we should not be deterred from implementing those. We will continue to intensify our own sanctions and those of the European Union.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IRANIAN DEFIANCE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some analysts say Iran's leadership, which has thrived on defiance of the West since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, is more likely to dig in rather than back off in response to sanctions aimed at stopping a nuclear program many Iranians regard as a matter of national sovereignty and modernization.A year after the collapse of the last big power talks with Iran, its deepening nuclear defiance has raised concern of war if harsher sanctions do not change its course.Israel, reputed to have the Middle East's only nuclear arsenal, sees Iran's nuclear and missile projects as a mortal threat which it will resort to force as a last resort to stop.The risk of Israel triggering Middle East upheaval with a unilateral strike has the war-weary United States worried.U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Martin Dempsey is to make his first visit to Israel on Thursday. Israeli media say he will try to persuade his hosts not to surprise Washington on Iran.Israel's vice prime minister voiced disappointment that the new U.S. legislation gives Obama leeway to allow sanctions waivers to countries to keep buying Iranian crude.The (U.S.) Senate passed a resolution, by a majority of 100-to-one, to impose these sanctions, and in the U.S. administration there is hesitation for fear of oil prices rising this year, out of elect
