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LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Eight dead, thousands affected by flooding in Panama NOV 25,08

PANAMA CITY (AFP) – At least eight people were killed, six are missing and more than 14,000 affected by heavy rains drenching Panama since Saturday, national disaster relief officials have said.Ruben Arosemena, Panama's second vice president, said Tuesday that two men and a woman were killed Tuesday in flooding in the town of Chanquinola, on the border with Costa Rica, due to overflowing rivers.There are also six people missing -- a girl and five adults, in the same region, Arosemena told reporters.One person drowned in the area on Monday, while four others were killed Saturday, three in a landslide, officials said.Officials report bridges down and highways split by flooding, as well as millions of dollars worth of crops -- rice, yucca, yams and bananas -- destroyed in different parts of the country.

84 killed, 54,000 evacuated in Brazil flooding by Claire de Oliveira – Tue Nov 25, 6:47 pm ET

SAO PAULO (AFP) – Flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rain pounding southern Brazil for nearly two months have killed at least 84 people and forced more than 54,000 to flee, regional Civil Defense officials said Tuesday.More than 1.5 million people have been affected by the heavy rains, and eight cities in the state of Santa Catarina remained cut off by water and blocked roads, officials say. The region has been under a state of emergency since Saturday.The region faces the worst weather tragedy in history, Santa Catarina Governor Luiz Henrique da Silveira told reporters on Monday, adding that authorities did not know exactly how many people were missing.

Civil Defense officials also said the death toll could rise considerably as casualty reports come in from rural areas.With the latest figures released Tuesday the death toll climbed from 67 to 84, and the number of evacuees from 52,000 to more than 54,000.Nearly 80 percent of the region is under water, said Robert Guimaraes with the Civil Defense office, adding that levels were dropping.Most people were killed by landslides, said the head of Santa Catarina Civil Defense operations, Marcio Alves. Most deaths happen when the rain stops and people go out believing that all is well, he said.Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has ordered six military helicopters and 350 soldiers to the area to help in relief operations.

Civil Defense officials warned of possible new landslides, and forecast rain through Wednesday.More than 160,000 people were without electricity and fresh water supplies were cut to several towns.Torrential rain hitting the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina actually intensified in recent days, officials said, with a month's amount of precipitation dumped in just five hours on Sunday.The torrential downpour was sudden, said Blumenau resident James Locatelli, 60, contacted via telephone. Nobody had time to prepare.Flood victims looted supermarkets and pharmacies in the port city of Itajai, said Samuel Martins with the local firefighters. The Itajari valley was one of the most heavily affected part of the state.The most heavily affected towns are Ilhota (population 22,000, 18 dead) and the tourist town of Blumenau (population 297,000, 20 dead) where many German immigrants settled. It is home to an annual Oktoberfest that draws up to one million people.The level of the Itajai-Acu river that runs through Ilhota swelled 11.5 meters (38 feet) above normal, officials said.Boats were the only means of transport in many areas, and witnesses spoke of the bodies of dozens of drowned cows littering the road near Blumenau.Heavy flooding swept away all bridges around Blumenau, said Mayor Joao Paulo Kleinbing. It will take a year and a half or perhaps two to rebuild the destroyed infrastructure, Kleinbing said.Heavy rain also damaged one of the lines of the Brazil-Bolivia natural gas line, leaving most of Santa Catarina and the neighboring state of Rio Grande do Sul without gas. We heard people crying for help. We also heard explosions. With the ground saturated, several gas pipelines exploded, one Santa Catarina resident forced to leave her home, Beatriz Heusi, 30, told AFP by telephone. Other southern Brazilian states, principally Rio Grande do Sul and Espirito Santo were affected to a lesser extent by flooding and mudslides.

Storm puts fire-scarred Southern Calif. on edge By ROBERT JABLON, Associated Press Writer NOV 25,08

LOS ANGELES – Southern Californians living near areas scarred by recent wildfires sandbagged around their homes and in some places were told to leave them Tuesday as a storm approaching from the Pacific brought a threat of floods and mudslides.Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered state agencies to prepare to aid local organizations in case of disaster.The state stands ready to help local governments protect lives and property, he said.A low-pressure area about 700 miles off the coast was heading northeast and could bring an inch of rain through Thanksgiving and up to 4 inches in the mountains, said Stan Wasowski, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in San Diego.Flash flood watches were posted through Wednesday evening for areas where grass and brush that normally anchors the soil, helping to prevent mudslides, burned away. Some places could get a half-inch of rain in an hour, the Weather Service said.

Rain began to fall Tuesday night northwest of Los Angeles in Santa Barbara County, where an evacuation order affecting at least 600 homes was issued for burned areas at risk of mudslides and floods, said county spokesman William Boyer.A wildfire this month destroyed more than 200 homes in the county and left the area vulnerable to disaster, he said.The fire wiped out all vegetation, and the soil is very unstable, said Boyer, noting that the evacuation order would remain in effect until at least Wednesday. We're talking about some very steep slopes up there.A series of wildfires stoked by Santa Ana winds damaged or destroyed about 1,000 homes this month in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, Santa Barbara and San Bernardino counties. Those burn areas equaled a total of about 65 square miles.In addition, October wildfires burned dozens more homes and scorched a total of more than 35 square miles. Other areas remain scarred from additional fires in recent months and years.In Orange County, voluntary evacuations were in effect for three burned areas of Yorba Linda, a city of about 65,000 residents southeast of Los Angeles. More than 135 members of the California Conservation Corps were sent to canyons in Yorba Linda to place sandbags and clean out culverts and spillways to handle runoff.Crews placed lines portable concrete barriers below the denuded hillsides of Chino Hills State Park, 90 percent of which burned, to redirect potential storm flows away from homes.

A call also went out for volunteers to fill sandbags in Sierra Madre, a hideaway Los Angeles suburb at the foot of a fire-stripped section of the steep San Gabriel Mountains.City Hall was literally flying a yellow flag — the second-highest level in its mud-flow forecast system — to alert affected citizens to be prepared to leave their homes.After our April and May fires, we knew the next step would be mud, and we started preparing right away, said city spokeswoman Elisa Weaver. We wanted to be able to warn people to be ready.Without the fire-related risks, rain might be appreciated in parched Southern California. Downtown Los Angeles had recorded only 0.27 inches of precipitation since the July 1 start of the rain year — 1.35 inches below normal for this time of year.Associated Press writer Raquel Maria Dillon contributed to this report.

Czech court green-lights EU Lisbon Treaty
LUCIA KUBOSOVA Today NOV 26,08 @ 16:59 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The Czech constitutional court has unanimously ruled that the disputed parts of the Lisbon Treaty are in line with the Czech Constitution but, the judges have admitted they did not analyse the treaty as a whole, sparking speculation that the issue could be raised again by its critics in the country.In his closely watched verdict announced on Wednesday (26 November), Vojen Guttler, the presiding judge rapporteur, argued that the new reform treaty does not change the fundamental direction of the EU, nor does it harm the sovereignty of the member states.He added that a new provision in the treaty that clears out the terms for countries that wish to leave the union is the indisputable confirmation of their sovereignty, while a transfer of powers to the EU level can only happen if it is approved by member states.The statement contradicts the arguments put forward by President Vaclav Klaus on Tuesday (25 November) in his address to the judges during a public hearing. Reactinb to the verdict, President Klaus commented that the court's approach was inexpert, subjective and political.I regret to state that the Constitutional Court has not given appropriate response to my legal arguments. I expect a group of deputies or senators will raise these and more other arguments again, he said in a statement.

The court itself pointed out that it was only reacting to the concrete questions received from senators earlier this year. Rapporteur Guttler said that if the judges had reviewed the treaty as a whole, they would not respect the right of other politicians or institutions to raise other issues.But the chair of the Czech Senate, Premysl Sobotka, of the ruling centre-right Civic Democrat Party (ODS) said that it is unlikely that senators would address the constitutional court again, CTZ agency reported.At this moment, nothing is blocking the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty in both parliamentary chambers in the Czech Republic, Mr Sobotka added. The ODS party is divided on the issue however, with some deputies following the line of President Klaus, who argues that the ratification should only continue if the treaty is approved in Ireland.

Reactions in Brussels

Meanwhile, some EU personalities in Brussels rushed to comment on the keenly awaited verdict of the Czech court.Today's decision of the Court brings to an end the treaty ratification standstill in the Czech Republic, said European Parliament president Hans-Gert Pottering and reminded Prague of its key role as the country chairing EU's rotating presidency country in the first half of 2009.In this regard in the European Parliament we trust that the new EU Presidency will seriously contribute to push forward the ratification process, he noted, adding that ideally this process should be finalised by the June elections of the EU assembly.The decision of the Czech supreme court is very welcome, although hardly a surprise, commented Andrew Duff, a British Liberal MEP in the constitutional committee. He said that the interventions by both senators and President Klaus were erratic. Neither the Senate nor the President showed a sure grasp of the realities of the legal constitutional order of the EU, or of the fact that when the Czech Republic signed up to become a member state of the Union it was subscribing not only to the acquis communautaire [rules] of the past but also to all future obligations.On the other hand, Nigel Farrage, the leader of the UK's eurosceptics in the EU legislature said that the verdict came as no real surprise.The pressure from the European Commission and the Czech government's desperate need to fall in line with Brussels as it prepares to take over the Presidency made it a foregone conclusion, he said in a statement.The European Commission said it does not want to comment on various stages of the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty in member states but its spokesperson added: We are confident that the Czech parliament will honour the commitment which the country made when the treaty was signed.

Irish parliament to debate second Lisbon referendum
LUCIA KUBOSOVA Today NOV 26,08 @ 09:27 CET

An Irish parliamentary committee is to debate a report arguing that a second referendum on the EU's Lisbon treaty is legally possible. The draft report, first seen by the Irish Times, has been discussed in a private session by the Subcommittee on Ireland's Future in the EU and is due to be presented to the joint Committee on European Affairs on Thursday (27 November). It argues that a second poll on the EU's new reform treaty - following the debacle in June when the Irish voters rejected the document by a clear majority - would be preferable, suggesting a vote on the same text but accompanied by clarifying declarations on controversial issues.One concrete issue of the kind likely to be considered is a protection of the country's neutrality. Parliamentarians argued that a new procedure should be set up to boost national decision-making powers regarding military-related matters.Also, they would like to see in an attached declaration assurance that all member states keep their commissioner - if other European partners agree with the move.Under the Lisbon treaty, EU member states would take turns at having a representative in the commission, meaning that once every 15 years, each country would be without a commissioner for a period of five years, as the number of commissioners is scheduled to be reduced from 27 to 18 as of 2014.Earlier this month, Irish foreign minister Micheal Martin hinted that his government is in talks with other governments and EU officials on the issue of the composition of the bloc's executive.But some insiders doubt this modification could be achieved, as it is one of the major elements of Lisbon's institutional reform and was introduced parallel to similar changes for other institutions, notably the European Parliament.

Under the Lisbon treaty, the new EU legislature will have 750 members instead of the current 785.However, if the new parliament is elected according to the currently applied Nice Treaty in June, its size will be reduced to 732. In such a case, the new commission - due to be appointed later this year - should also have fewer than 27members. Julian Priestley, the parliament's former secretary general, believes that Ireland itself should face some consequences if there is no second referendum by mid-2009.Speaking on Tuesday (25 November) at a debate on the next EU elections organised by the European Policy Center, he argued it would be a mistake to get some kind of a fix around the clear provision of the Nice treaty.Mr Priestley rejected the possibility of having 26 commissioners and to not count the president of the commission as part of the team, stressing that the EU should respect the provisions of whatever treaty is in force.If Ireland is the only country that hasn't ratified the Lisbon treaty and at least superficially prefers the Nice treaty, it should face the consequences of Nice and lose the commissioner, he concluded.

Waiting for the verdict on Lisbon

Meanwhile, Prague is expecting a verdict from the Czech constitutional court on whether the EU reform plan is in line with the Czech constitution after a heated exchange between the country's president and government officials in the courtroom on Tuesday (25 November).The Czech Republic is the only country that has not yet voted on the Lisbon treaty. Despite this fact, the republic is preparing to take over the helm of the EU from France in January, when it assumes the six-month rotating EU presidency, and must then lead talks with Ireland on how to solve the institutional problem.But top politicians in Prague are divided on the issue. While deputy prime minister Alexander Vondra praised the document and its improvements to the bloc's functioning, President Vaclav Klaus strongly criticised it at a public hearing.He argued that the democratically elected institutions in the Czech Republic would be weakened and that key conditions for the country's EU membership - as stated when the citizens voted on entry in 2003 - would change due to the new treaty.

In a radio interview on Monday (24 November) President Klaus also indicated he might sign the treaty - if adopted by parliament - only after it is ratified in Ireland, echoing the stance of Poland's President Lech Kaczynski.Meanwhile, Ireland's minister for European affairs, Dick Roche, told the Czech CTK news agency that a second referendum on the Lisbon treaty is inevitable, adding that he hopes the whole process would not take more than a year.

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HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM

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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS WED NOV 26,2008

09:30 AM -50.92
10:00 AM -79.65
10:30 AM -32.90
11:00 AM +3.26
11:30 AM +46.11
12:00 PM +37.35
12:30 PM +43.80
01:00 PM +64.74
01:30 PM +79.08
02:00 PM +42.21
02:30 PM +90.08
03:00 PM +176.14
03:30 PM +201.86
04:00 PM +247.14 8726.61

S&P 500 887.68 +30.29

NASDAQ 1532.10 +67.37

GOLD 811.1 -7.4

OIL 54.65 +3.88

TSE 300 8643.52 +200.66

CDNX 731.39 +11.43

S&P/TSX/60 524.86 +12.07

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

Dow -164 Points at 4 minutes into trading today.
Dow -167 at low so far this morning.
Dow +40 at high so far this morning so far.
Dow down -9.07% month to date.
Down down -36.08% year to date.
S&P down -11.50% month to date.
S&P down -41.61 year to date.
Nasdaq down -14.89 month to date.
Nasdaq down -44.77 year to date.
Stocks fall for 1st time in 4 sessions.
Chicago purchasing managers Index at 33.8 for NOV down from 37.8 in OCT.
UOFM consumer sentiment index at 55.3 for NOV down from 57.6 in OCT.
New Home Sales -5.3% (OCT)Vs +0.7% (SEPT).
BCE buyout in doubt.
BCE -40% at open today.
Deere -8%:CEO cites highly uncertain 2009 outlook.
Tiffany -10%.N American Comp.store sales decline 16%.

PHIL MANDUCA (ECB GROUP INVESTMENT STRATEGY)
-Gold $1,000 in 2009,Gold $2,000 in 2010.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS

Dow -168 points at low today.
Dow +114 points at high today.
Dow has not had a 4 day winning streak since April 2008.
S&P has not had a 4 day winning streak since May 2008.

MUMBAI TERRORIST ATTACK:at least 25 dead from 7 to 10 different bombings and a major Hotel were westerners stay is on fire.
2:30PM UPDATE:25 dead at least 90 injured in Tajmahal Hotel,Oberoi Hotel,Victoria Rail Station amoung places attacked with grenades,shootings in 7 or more Mumbai places.
3PM UPDATE:EU members might be in some of the bombed Hotels due to an EU-INDIA Summit of the confirmed 5 places bombed and possibly 80 dead so far.
4:30PM UPDATE:Witness Gunmen looked for british and u.s passport holders.
Gunman lobbying Grenades from Hotels.
Dekka Mujadin claiming TERRORIST ATTACKS.
Gunfire heard from a hotel in the Northern side of town also.
Hostages taken at the TAJ,OBEROI hotels:reports.
Police have killed 2 terrorists.
5 policemen killed in attacks.
Reports ISRAELI AND JEWISH FAMALIES IN THE AREA COULD HAVE BEEN THE MAIN TARGETS AS WELL AS WESTERN COUNTRY VISITERS.
Threats of TERRORISM today also to NEW YORK for thanksgiving.
Total dead so far 80,hundreds more injured.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS

Dow at low today -168 points.
Dow at high +247 points.
Dow up 2.9% today.
Dow up 15.6% over last 4 sessions.
Dow at 8700 points today.
S&P up 3.5% today.
S&P up 18% over last 4 sessions.
Nasdaq up 4.6% today.
Nasdaq up above 1500 points today.

SINCE LAST WEEKS LOWS.
GM +183%
Citi +135%
J P Morgan +54%
Alcoa +42%
Home Depot +34%

MARKETS AT CLOSE
-Traders talk of Assets,allocation(Out of Cash,into stocks).
-First 4-day gains since April 2008.
-Techs lead stocks higher.

Eastern Europe growth to halve, bank says
RENATA GOLDIROVA Today NOV 26,08 @ 09:29 CET

Overall growth in Central and Eastern Europe as well as in Central Asia will halve next year, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), helping build market economies in the region, has said. According to the EBRD figures published on Tuesday (25 November), economic growth of 7.5 percent in 2007 is set to fall to 6.3. percent this year and further drop to 3 percent in 2009. Economies of Central Europe and the Baltics will see a decline from 4.3 percent this year to 2.2 percent in 2009, while south-eastern Europe will experience even sharper fall from 6.5 percent to 3.1 percent in the same period of time. Conditions in Latvia are most severe, with the country set to ask the International Monetary Fund and the EU for a bailout of as much as €3 billion ($3.85 billion) to shore up its economy. Latvia will be able to ask a bit more, €2 billion, or €2.5 billion to €3 billion, Latvian finance minister Atis Slakteris was cited as saying by the Bloomberg on Tuesday.

After experiencing high growth of 10.3 percent in 2007, the Latvian economy growth is set to fall to only 0.4 percent this year and to shrink 0.9 percent in 2009.The EBRD says that the entire region of 29 countries, where it invests, is now bracing itself for higher unemployment and lower consumption growth. An additional risk of even slower growth lies with external funding possibly falling away. In particular, some countries continue to run excessive current account deficits combined with high foreign currency debt and are therefore prone to significant output reductions if capital inflows fall off rapidly, it stated in a press release.The EBRD's chief economist Erik Berglof has suggested to co-ordinate stabilisation efforts as well as to keep focus on key long-term growth challenges that face individual countries and the region.Stabilisation measures will need to be coordinated with other countries - both in western Europe and in other transition countries - taking account of the inter-linking ownership structures in the region's financial system, Mr Berglof stated. He also pointed to the need of having a good physical infrastructure and business climate as well as of investing into education and appropriate skills among workforce. Such investment can reap clear rewards in terms of innovation and growth. Building human capabilities will be a major determinant of the rate of subsequent growth and its sustainability,the EBRD's economist concluded.

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October 1, 2008
U.S. Ships 800 Billion AMEROS to China; prepares to De-Monetize U.S. Dollar

The US Secretary of the Treasury has informed the China Development Bank that the US has shipped $800 Billion of a new currency called the Amero, which is to be based upon the merging of the economies of The United States, Mexico and Canada into what is termed as The North American Union.The current American debt obligation to China, currently based on the US Dollar, is now estimated to be the staggering sum of $2.5 Trillion, and which this new Amero will be exchanged for $400 Billion of this debt as the current American currency is set to be devalued by 50 percent before the end of the year. Virtually unknown to the American people is that their current leader of the US Department of Treasury, Henry M. Paulson, Jr., has been tasked by President Bush to lead the efforts to join the economies of the US, Canada and Mexico and is also the head of the North American Development Bank, the bi-national financial institution established by the United States and Mexico to further the merging of their economies, and the leader of the Border Environment Cooperation Commission (BECC), the organization created by the governments of the United States and Mexico to further the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

This is important to note as the final provisions of the NAFTA Agreement were implemented on January 1, 2008, leaving only the final merging of the economies of the US, Mexico and Canada into a North American Union to be accomplished, of which we can read:President Bush is pursuing a globalist agenda to create a North American Union, effectively erasing our borders with both Mexico and Canada. This was the hidden agenda behind the Bush administration's true open borders policy.Secretly, the Bush administration is pursuing a policy to expand NAFTA politically, setting the stage for a North American Union designed to encompass the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. What the Bush administration truly wants is the free, unimpeded movement of people across open borders with Mexico and Canada.President Bush intends to abrogate U.S. sovereignty to the North American Union, a new economic and political entity which the President is quietly forming, much as the European Union has formed.It is also interesting to note that American economists have been warning about the replacing of the US Dollar with the Amero, due to pressure from China, for nearly two years, and as we can read in this December, 2006 report titled Analysts: Dollar collapse would result in amero, and which says:As WND reported earlier this week, in an unusual move, the Bush administration is sending virtually the entire economic A-team to visit China for a strategic economic dialogue in Beijing Thursday and Friday. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke are leading the delegation, along with five other cabinet-level officials, including Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez. Also in the delegation will be Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt, Energy Secretary Sam Bodman, and U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab. But Chapman doubts the trip will help the Fed to engineer a slow dollar slide. The Chinese are going to do what the Chinese want to do, not what we want them to do, he said. I believe the Chinese are going to send Treasury Secretary Paulson and Fed Chairman Bernanke home packing, with little or nothing to show for the trip.How severe will the coming dollar collapse be?

People in the U.S. are going to be hit hard, Chapman warned. In the severe recession we are entering now, Bush will argue that we have to form a North American Union to compete with the Euro.Creating the amero, Chapman explained, will be presented to the American public as the administration's solution for dollar recovery. In the process of creating the amero, the Bush administration just abandons the dollar.The prophetic warnings of these American economists are, indeed, coming to pass as during the month of September alone, 10 years worth of gains on US stock markets have been wiped out in their entirety and bank runs are now occurring in the United States for the first time since the days of the Great Depression leading to the failure of 13 banks, some of their largest, and the imminent failure of 117 more forecasted by the US government. US Treasury Secretary Paulson, however, continues leading the charge attempting to force upon the American people the final peg to their own demise by completely bankrupting the United States leaving no other choice but to completely discard the almost totally worthless US Dollar and its replacement with the Amero. It goes without saying that the American people will greatly resist the replacement of their Dollar, but this cannot be said when tens of millions of them are without jobs and their life savings have become worthless leaving them with no other choice but accept what their own leaders have planned for them all along.

For myself, I think that the day such an announcement of the Amero replacing the Dollar is made, is the day I may be left with no choice but to start killing the people involved in destroying my nation.Posted by HalTurnerShow.com at 10/01/2008 06:25:00 AM

Poland looks to climate present from Sarkozy
LEIGH PHILLIPS 25.11.2008 @ 17:22 CET

Eastern European foreign ministers in Warsaw on Monday (24 November) honed their climate package game plan ahead of the upcoming European summit.Led by Poland, many of the newer member states are opposed to many aspects of the EU's climate and energy reforms, currently under negotiation between the European Commission, the European Parliament and EU capitals.The regular winter summit of European leaders, this year taking place on 11 and 12 December, is to wrap up the deal. The 10 ministers at the Warsaw meeting - from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania - plus Sweden - ended the pow-wow saying they were hoping for new proposals from the French EU presidency that would moderate the package's goals.Polish foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski said that when French President Nicolas Sarkozy visits Gdansk on 6 December - Saint Nicholas' Day - he will, like his red-robed namesake, come bearing gifts.I hope he will bring us a present in the form of good proposals, proposals that will take into consideration our specific situation, the Polish minister said, Polish press agency PAP reports.Poland's main concern is the proposed full auctioning of CO2 emissions permits for industry in 2013, arguing that this will result in a sharp increase in energy prices, hitting both poor households and economic growth.Warsaw rejected a presidency proposal last week that would see half the emission permits given away for free until 2016 for those countries that depend on coal for 60 percent or more of their electricity. Over 90 percent of Poland's electricity generation comes from coal.

The Poles felt the three-year exemption did not go far enough.Mr Sikorski threatened once again that if the package is not watered down in favour of the east, his country will veto any agreement.The package must be adopted unanimously, he said, adding: We confirm that we will not hesitate to veto bad proposals, which means we want to negotiate good proposals.Sweden attended the meeting to discuss a joint Polish-Swedish proposal for strengthening EU links with post-Soviet states and did not participate in the climate discussions.

Eastern NGOs disagree with their governments

Even as eastern leaders opposed elements of the climate package, civil society groups and green NGOs from the same countries are telling their governments to stop stalling and back the deal.On Monday, 42 different groups, including WWF Hungary, Friends of the Earth Latvia, the Soros Foundation and local organisations without international ties such as Polska Zielona Siec in Poland and Za Zemyata in Bulgaria called on their governments to support the EU's climate and energy bundle.The EU has a historic responsibility to play a leading role in the fight against climate change globally, the groups stated in an open letter to their leaders. Central and eastern European countries must decide if they want to belong to the group of leaders or those lagging behind.They called on the countries to reach a sustainable compromise and adopt the European Climate and Energy Package, including 100 percent auctioning of emissions permits, and to do so before a key international meeting on climate change action, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change conference in Poznan taking place the first two weeks of December.Postponing further action will bring about much more damage and cost to our societies and economies than acting today, the groups said.

Massive new programs aimed at loosening credit By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer NOV 25,08

AP – President George W. Bush, accompanied by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, makes a statement on the economy … WASHINGTON – Rolling out powerful new weapons against the financial meltdown, the Bush administration and the Federal Reserve pledged $800 billion Tuesday to blast through blockades on credit cards, auto loans, mortgages and other borrowing. Total bailout commitments, loans and pledges of backing neared a staggering $7 trillion.Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, who has been criticized for constantly revising the original $700 billion rescue program, said the administration was considering even more changes in its final two months in office.Reports on the nation's economic health weren't getting any better. The Commerce Department said the overall economy, as measured by the gross domestic product, declined at an annual rate of 0.5 percent in the July-September quarter, even worse than the initial 0.3 percent estimated a month ago as consumer spending fell by the largest amount in 28 years.In Chicago, meanwhile, President-elect Barack Obama named his budget director and said they both will focus on the nation's soaring budget deficit — but only after economic revival is under way. Paulson stressed that Obama's transition team was being kept informed of the government's moves.Investors digested it all and sent the Dow Jones industrials 36 points higher, a modest gain but still the first time the average had risen three straight days in more than two months.Millions of Americans rely on the kinds of loans that were targeted in one of the new programs announced Tuesday.

The Federal Reserve will purchase $200 billion in securities backed by different types of debt including credit card loans, auto loans, student loans and loans to small businesses. That market essentially froze in October. These types of loans as a result have become harder to obtain and have carried higher interest ratesThe Fed also announced that it would spend $500 billion to purchase mortgage-backed securities guaranteed by mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and another $100 billion to directly purchase mortgages held by Fannie, Freddie and the Federal Home Loan Banks.This would greatly expand an initial modest effort announced back in September in which Treasury spent $26 billion to purchase mortgage-backed securities. The current credit crisis was triggered by soaring losses on securities backed by subprime loans.The announcement of the new programs had an immediate positive impact on credit markets Tuesday, sending demand up and rates lower. Analysts predicted the program could send mortgage rates down by as much as one-half to a full percentage point in coming months, helping to spur demand in the beleaguered housing market, which is suffering its worst downturn in decades.The programs to buy mortgage-related assets and securities backed by consumer debt have the same aim: to boost demand for those assets. In doing so, the government hopes to lower the costs being charged for consumer loans. That would make loans on everything from mortgages to cars more available.This is one of the key actions we've been advocating, said Charles McMillan, president of the National Association of Realtors, referring to the purchase program for mortgage-backed assets.

The latest federal moves raised U.S. commitments to contain the financial crisis to nearly $7 trillion — though no one thinks the government will actually spend anything like that figure, which would be almost half the nation's total gross domestic product. The figures include loans that are expected to be repaid, loan authorities to back mortgages, purchases of stock in banks, guarantees to support loans among banks and pledges backing other transactions.In the case of the Federal Reserve, the amount covers huge loans that financial institutions will have to pay back. In the case of the Treasury rescue effort, the government will at some point sell the stock it owns back to the banks, presumably when the banking system is doing better and the stock will be worth more.As for Tuesday's actions, the mortgage-backed securities the Fed will buy will be investment-grade assets — not the toxic mortgage-related assets that the administration initially had said the $700 billion financial rescue program would buy.By focusing on investment-grade securities, the Fed will be able to help provide a functioning secondary market. It will pay the prices for these securities that are being set by the market. Had the Fed needed to buy bad assets, it would have had to develop a mechanism to properly price assets that weren't being traded.The use of Fed resources also gets around another problem Treasury faced: a limited amount of money in the program. The $800 billion being committed to buy mortgage-related assets and other assets backed by consumer loans will come from the Federal Reserve's vast resources. It will not count against the $700 billion rescue program.The Treasury Department also announced Tuesday that the rescue program had spent another $2.91 billion in direct purchases of stock from 23 regional banks around the country. These institutions ranged from HF Financial Corp. in Sioux Falls, S.D., to Centerstate Banks of Florida Inc. in Davenport, Fla. The government has now injected $161.5 billion in 53 institutions. The goal is to spend $250 billion of the $700 billion bailout fund to buy bank stock as a way of encouraging banks to resume more normal lending to bolster the shaky economy. A boost to the overall economy is considered vital at a time when nearly every day has brought further evidence that the country is sliding into a severe downturn.

Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Global Insight, said he thought the economy would shrink by an even more drastic 4 percent annual rate in the current quarter and keep falling through the middle of 2009. We are in the early stages of one of the worst recessions in the postwar period, even factoring in a massive stimulus program, Behravesh. Obama is putting together a stimulus program with the goal of creating 2.5 million jobs over the next two years. It's an effort that many economists think will need to total between $500 billion and $700 billion to bring the benefits needed to help shore up the economy. Obama pledged Tuesday to make deficit reduction a goal of his administration — but only after recovery from the financial crisis is well under way. We are going to have to jump start the economy, he said. At a news conference, Obama claimed a mandate to move the country in a new direction, and promised to consult with Republicans as he goes about it. The effort to restart the frozen market for securities that back consumer debt will get an assist from the government's $700 billion financial rescue fund, which Congress passed on Oct. 3. Paulson told reporters that the fund will supply $20 billion as protection for the Fed against losses in its purchases of securities for the program. He also signaled that the program could be expanded to include asset-backed paper that covers commercial mortgage loans. Those loans are used to finance shopping malls and office buildings. Paulson defended the administration against charges that it has made haphazard changes in the financial rescue program, sending confusing signals to markets. Initially, the effort was sold to Congress as a way to buy toxic mortgage-related assets off the books of financial institutions. The idea was to give them the capital needed to resume more normal lending. When the financial crisis worsened and Paulson decided it would take too long to get the toxic purchase program operating, he switched to making direct purchases of bank stock with the rescue funds. Paulson announced that the first $350 billion installment of the rescue fund probably would not be used to buy any toxic assets. It is naive for any of us to think that when you are dealing with a situation of this magnitude that a bill could be passed or a single action taken to make all the issues go away, Paulson told reporters at a briefing. Paulson declined to say whether the Bush administration would seek authority from Congress to tap a portion of the second half of the $700 billion fund before leaving office. That decision had not yet been made, he said.

METEORS HIT THE EARTH

REVELATION 6:12-17
12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

REVELATION 8:12-13
12 And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.
13 And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels,which are yet to sound!

Space experts offer anti-asteroid plan By DANICA KIRKA, Associated Press Writer – Tue Nov 25, 4:37 pm ET

VIENNA, Austria – It is disaster planning on a galactic scale: Space experts want to come up with a contingency plan on what to do in case a killer asteroid collides with Earth.The experts, including former American astronaut Rusty Schweickart, told U.N. officials Tuesday that the international community needs a plan to counter so-called Near Earth Objects in advance of the potential catastrophe. Deflecting asteroids — or at least evacuating people in areas where they might strike — could save millions of lives.This is a natural disaster, which is larger, potentially, than any other natural disaster we know of, Schweickart said. However, it is preventable ... that's a very important thing to keep in mind. But it is our responsibility to take action to do that.Asteroids are small planetary bodies that revolve around the sun, according to the NASA Web site, which states that many scientists believe an asteroid collided with Earth about 65 million years ago, helping cause environmental changes that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Schweickart, a former Apollo 9 crew member, spoke at a news conference after briefing U.N. officials on a recent report called Asteroid Threats: A Call for Global Response. The report was compiled by the International Panel on Asteroid Threat Mitigation that is made up of members of the Association of Space Explorers, among others.The report, among other things, calls for an international decision-making program within the framework of the United Nations to decide on actions to counter asteroids. It also urges the creation of an information, analysis and warning system that would operate telescopes worldwide to detect and track possibly harmful objects.Schweickart acknowledged that devastating collisions happen very infrequently but warned the risk could not be ignored. Next year alone, six asteroids have a very small probability of hitting the Earth, he said.He added that over the coming years, researchers will increasingly be able to predict possible collisions, enabling early warnings and deflection operations.While rare, Near Earth Objects have caused considerable damage in the not-too-distant past. One known as the Tunguska object slammed into remote central Siberia in 1908, unleashing energy equivalent to a nuclear bomb explosion. It wiped out 60 million trees over a 2,150-square-kilometer (830-square-mile) area. Had it hit a populated area, the loss of life would have been staggering.For Walther Lichem, an Austrian member of the panel who was also at the news conference, investing in preventive measures is key to making sure such incidents don't happen again with more devastating effects.The damage potential is so incredible that we have to take the responsibility, he said.
On the Net:Asteroid Threats: A Call for Global Response:http://www.space-explorers.org/committees/NEO/docs/ATACGR.pdf NASA on asteroids: http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/asteroid_worldbook.html

MUSLIM NATIONS

EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

German MPs call for Iran group amnesty
PHILIPPA RUNNER 25.11.2008 @ 09:24 CET

A group of 150 cross-party parliamentarians in Germany has signed a petition calling for Iranian opposition group, the People's Mujahedin Organistaion of Iran (PMOI), to be taken off the EU's terrorist register in line with European court rulings.We demand that the German government with the co-operation of the French EU presidency removes this unjust label. The removal will serve the rule of law, show respect for the elected representatives of the people of Europe and address an urgent imperative for international peace, the petition said. The text was handed to the leader of PMOI's political wing, the National Resistance Council of Iran (NRCI), Miriam Rajavi, at a ceremony in Berlin on Monday (24 November).If the international community doesn't want to see an aggressive and nuclear-armed Iran and wants to avoid war, the sole solution is a democratic change by the people of Iran, Ms Rajavi said.The German petition was put together by the Committee of German Solidarity for a Free Iran and joins similar lists organised by the PMOI's powerful lobby in the UK, France, Italy, Denmark, Belgium and the European Parliament.It also comes amid a fresh PMOI legal appeal in European Courts against a July decision by EU member states to keep the group on its terrorist register.European courts have twice in the past overturned EU decisions to put PMOI on the blacklist, while a landmark UK court ruling earlier this year annulled the original British evidence that first landed PMOI on the register in 2002.

Spokespeople for the organisation say the EU is keen to hold back PMOI as a bargaining chip in ongoing talks with the Iranian government over the country's nuclear enrichment programme. But a committee of EU member state intelligence agencies - the so-called CP 931 working group - claims that the organisation remains a threat to European security.The Iranian group - which was responsible for bombings and attacks against the Islamic leadership of Iran in the 1980s and 1990s - renounced violence in 2001 and gave up arms in 2003.