EU SECURITY - DEFENCE BOOSTED AT SUMMIT

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

Fed Refuses to Disclose Recipients of $2 Trillion (Update2)
By Mark Pittman

Dec. 12 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve refused a request by Bloomberg News to disclose the recipients of more than $2 trillion of emergency loans from U.S. taxpayers and the assets the central bank is accepting as collateral. Bloomberg filed suit Nov. 7 under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act requesting details about the terms of 11 Fed lending programs, most created during the deepest financial crisis since the Great Depression. The Fed responded Dec. 8, saying it’s allowed to withhold internal memos as well as information about trade secrets and commercial information. The institution confirmed that a records search found 231 pages of documents pertaining to some of the requests. If they told us what they held, we would know the potential losses that the government may take and that’s what they don’t want us to know, said Carlos Mendez, a senior managing director at New York-based ICP Capital LLC, which oversees $22 billion in assets. The Fed stepped into a rescue role that was the original purpose of the Treasury’s $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program. The central bank loans don’t have the oversight safeguards that Congress imposed upon the TARP. Total Fed lending exceeded $2 trillion for the first time Nov. 6. It rose by 138 percent, or $1.23 trillion, in the 12 weeks since Sept. 14, when central bank governors relaxed collateral standards to accept securities that weren’t rated AAA.

Been Bamboozled

Congress is demanding more transparency from the Fed and Treasury on bailout, most recently during Dec. 10 hearings by the House Financial Services committee when Representative David Scott, a Georgia Democrat, said Americans had been bamboozled.

Bloomberg News, a unit of New York-based Bloomberg LP, on May 21 asked the Fed to provide data on collateral posted from April 4 to May 20. The central bank said on June 19 that it needed until July 3 to search documents and determine whether it would make them public. Bloomberg didn’t receive a formal response that would let it file an appeal within the legal time limit. On Oct. 25, Bloomberg filed another request, expanding the range of when the collateral was posted. It filed suit Nov. 7. In response to Bloomberg’s request, the Fed said the U.S. is facing an unprecedented crisis in which loss in confidence in and between financial institutions can occur with lightning speed and devastating effects.

Data Provider

The Fed supplied copies of three e-mails in response to a request that it disclose the identities of those supplying data on collateral as well as their contracts.
While the senders and recipients of the messages were revealed, the contents were erased except for two phrases identifying a vendor as IDC. One of the e-mails’ subject lines refers to Interactive Data -- Auction Rate Security Advisory May 1, 2008.Brian Willinsky, a spokesman for Bedford, Massachusetts- based Interactive Data Corp., a seller of fixed-income securities information, declined to comment.

Notwithstanding calls for enhanced transparency, the Board must protect against the substantial, multiple harms that might result from disclosure, Jennifer J. Johnson, the secretary for the Fed’s Board of Governors, said in a letter e-mailed to Bloomberg News.

Dangerous Step

In its considered judgment and in view of current circumstances, it would be a dangerous step to release this otherwise confidential information, she wrote. New York-based Citigroup Inc., which is shrinking its global workforce of 352,000 through asset sales and job cuts, is among the nine biggest banks receiving $125 billion in capital from the TARP since it was signed into law Oct. 3. More than 170 regional lenders are seeking an additional $74 billion. Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in September they would meet congressional demands for transparency in a $700 billion bailout of the banking system. The Freedom of Information Act obliges federal agencies to make government documents available to the press and public. The Bloomberg lawsuit, filed in New York, doesn’t seek money damages.

Right to Know

There has to be something they can tell the public because we have a right to know what they are doing, said Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Arlington, Virginia-based Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. It would really be a shame if we have to find this out 10 years from now after some really nasty class-action suit and our financial system has completely collapsed, she said. The Fed’s five-page response to Bloomberg may be unprecedented because the board usually doesn’t go into such detail about its position, said Lee Levine, a partner at Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz LLP in Washington. This is uncharted territory, said Levine during an interview from his New York office. The Freedom of Information Act wasn’t built to anticipate this situation and that’s evident from the way the Fed tried to shoehorn their argument into the trade-secrets exemption.The Fed lent cash and government bonds to banks that handed over collateral including stocks and subprime and structured securities such as collateralized debt obligations, according to the Fed Web site. Borrowers include the now-bankrupt Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Citigroup and New York-based JPMorgan Chase & Co., the country’s biggest bank by assets. Banks oppose any release of information because that might signal weakness and spur short-selling or a run by depositors, Scott Talbott, senior vice president of government affairs for the Financial Services Roundtable, a Washington trade group, said in an interview last month.

Complete Truth

Americans don’t want to get blindsided anymore, Mendez said in an interview. They don’t want it sugarcoated or whitewashed. They want the complete truth. The truth is we can’t take all the pain right now.The Bloomberg lawsuit said the collateral lists are central to understanding and assessing the government’s response to the most cataclysmic financial crisis in America since the Great Depression.In response, the Fed argued that the trade-secret exemption could be expanded to include potential harm to any of the central bank’s customers, said Bruce Johnson, a lawyer at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP in Seattle. That expansion is not contained in the freedom-of-information law, Johnson said. I understand where they are coming from bureaucratically, but that means it’s all the more necessary for taxpayers to know what exactly is going on because of all the money that is being hurled at the banking system, Johnson said. The Bloomberg lawsuit is Bloomberg LP v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 08-CV-9595, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan). To contact the reporters on this story: Mark Pittman in New York at mpittman@bloomberg.net; Last Updated: December 12, 2008 17:12 EST

Canada, Ontario agree on conditional auto aid plan By John McCrank and Randall Palmer – Fri Dec 12, 6:53 pm ET

TORONTO/OTTAWA (Reuters) – The governments of Canada and province of Ontario agreed on Friday to provide aid to the struggling auto sector that could be worth C$3.5 billion ($2.8 billion) in an effort to stave off a massive loss of jobs at car plants and parts manufacturers.The package, the amount of which is based on Canada's proportional share of North American car and truck production, is conditional on the U.S. government first providing a rescue package for the Detroit Three, federal Industry Minister Tony Clement said at a media briefing in Toronto.He said he expects the U.S. administration to approve a package very soon, after the Senate rejected a $14 billion proposal late Thursday, deepening uncertainty for the sector.

Any action by the federal and provincial governments to support the auto sector as it restructures must be equally integrated with action taken by the United States, Clement said. The federal and Ontario governments are prepared to move quickly if and when the Americans approve a support package.On Friday, the White House said it might dip into the $700 billion U.S. bank recovery fund to stave off an auto industry collapse.Unlike in the United States, there is little legislative resistance to a Canadian bailout of the auto industry, even though it goes against the grain of the Conservative government.Ontario is the base of production operations for General Motors Corp, Ford Motor Co and Chrysler in Canada, and the U.S. automakers and their parts suppliers employ hundreds of thousands of workers.

Local mayors in such Ontario cities as Windsor, Oshawa and St. Thomas have waged a campaign to convince governments to pony up aid for the industry, saying their communities would be devastated without it.We can be proud of our past, we can be proud of our productive capacity here and our workers, but we also have to have an understanding that we're in what I call an existential moment, Clement said.Is this industry going to exist in any capacity two years from now, five years from now?

The announcement came after Canadian Auto Workers President Ken Lewenza urged Prime Minister Stephen Harper to proactively announce a Canadian package, which could then put pressure on the United States.We're pleading, in particular with Mr Harper, to move and move swiftly in support of the Canadian auto industry and in support of our existing facilities, he told a union news conference in Toronto.It was uncertain what concessions the CAW might make. A dispute over concessions from the United Auto Workers was one reason an aid package failed in the U.S. Senate.Lewenza said we're part of the solution but he said the problem was not unionized labor.UAW members and CAW members cannot be scapegoats as a result of this global financial crisis. The reality is, we could work for nothing and it wouldn't improve the global financial crisis we're experiencing, he said.Clement said he had a frank discussion with Lewenza this week and said that even if Canada's industry was among the most productive in the world it also needed to be competitive. He said, without giving details, the signal from Lewenza was that he was prepared to work with the management and government.An aide, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the industry minister was looking at requests not only from the Big Three but also from auto parts makers like Linamar and Magna International.There have been reports the Canadian sector is looking for C$6 billion in loans, loan guarantees and lines of credit. ($1=$1.24 Canadian) (Additional reporting by Jeffrey Jones in Toronto; Editing by Frank McGurty)

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

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

One dead as storms hit Dorset DEC 13,08

LONDON (AFP) – One motorist died as high winds, torrential rain and flash floods lashed southwest England on Saturday as nearly 100 flood warnings were imposed across the region.A 22-year-old woman died in the county of Dorset when her car crashed off the road in heavy rain. It is thought her car may have aquaplaned.Some roads in the counties of Devon and Somerset were submerged under 46 centimetres (18 inches) of water. Thirty people were rescued from their vehicles and homes.A reduced train service was operating between London and the southwest, with some services between the capital and the region's main cities suspended.The Environment Agency authority has 247 flood warnings in place, with 99 in the southwest, 46 in the English Midlands and 30 in Wales.However, Sunday is set to be largely rain-free and the worst weather conditions have already passed through, forecaster MeteoGroup UK said.

Northeast ice storm leaves 1.25M without power Dec 12, 7:05 PM (ET)By DAVID TIRRELL-WYSOCKI

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - An ice storm to compare with some of the Northeast's worst made a mess of the region Friday, leaving 1.25 million homes and businesses in seven states without power as it forced schools to close and toppled ice-laden trees and power lines onto slippery roads.Most of the outages were in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine and New York, and it was expected to take several days to completely restore electricity. The storm wreaked havoc from Maine to Pennsylvania, leaving a sparkling, ice-covered landscape that was too destructive for many to find beautiful.This is pathetic, said Bob Cott of Portland, Maine, who lost power. I'm already sick of winter and we have nine days to go before it officially begins.At least one death was related to the storm: New Hampshire officials said a 49-year-old Danville man who lived in a camper died of carbon monoxide poisoning after turning on his generator when his power went out Thursday night.

(AP) Car and driver are stopped in Derry, N.H. on a road littered with fallen trees and wires after an...For New Hampshire, the power outages dwarfed those during the infamous Ice Storm of 98, when some residents spent more than a week in the dark.In Hampstead, N.H., Mark Cegelis, 36, said things were hectic at his neighborhood gas station, which was jammed with people trying to get gas for home generators.It's kind of lawless out there right now, he said. There's a lot of people very frustrated stacking up at the gas stations. It's pretty ugly.He bought 21 gallons for himself and tried to deliver some to friends in Derry but couldn't get there because downed trees blocked roads. So the two friends came to him instead, and were expected to hunker down with Cegelis' family, his parents and another friend until power was restored.I'm sure they'd do the same thing for us, he said. It's treacherous out there.(AP) Guillermo Bello of Worcester, Mass., drags a trash can under a tree heavily laden with ice in a...Nearly two dozen shelters were set up across the southern part of the state, and authorities were working to get generators to several nursing homes. About 35 people, mostly elderly, had settled in at a shelter at Portsmouth High School by early afternoon.All the motels have no electricity, and that's why I'm here, said Duke Straychan of Hampton, who can't do without power because he uses an oxygen tank at night. People at the shelter dined on American chop suey and shepherd's pie and watched The Polar Express in the cafeteria.

Gov. John Lynch urged residents to please go out of your way to check on their neighbors, especially those who are elderly and live alone.Both Lynch and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick declared states of emergency Friday morning and called up members of the National Guard. Five hundred Massachusetts Guard members were cleaning up debris and clearing access to downed power lines. Lynch put 150 on alert and deployed 20.All of the resources at our disposal have been made available to try to get the roads clear and power restored, said Patrick, adding that it would be ambitious to think power would be restored by Monday to the 350,000 homes and businesses in his state left in the dark.(AP) Frank Armitage points as he surveys the damage to his property in North Andover, Mass. Friday, Dec....This is not going to be a couple of hours, Patrick said. It's likely to be several days.The Red Cross, in conjunction with the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, has opened 23 temporary shelters across the state. In Holden, which had no power, some senior citizens on oxygen were taken to the hospital or a shelter opened at the town's senior center.

Utilities reported more than 400,000 homes and businesses without power in New Hampshire, including 320,000 served by the state's largest utility, Public Service Company of New Hampshire. By contrast, the 1998 storm left 55,000 Public Service customers without power.This is the absolute, most significant power restoration effort we've ever had. There has not been a storm before that has affected more customers, Public Service spokesman Martin Murray said.Public Service officials suggested repairs for at least some homes and businesses will go into next week. They lined up 300 crews from as far away as Maryland and Ohio to be in the state by Sunday and were looking for more.Crews from Canada and South Carolina were headed to Maine, where Gov. John Baldacci declared a limited emergency allowing utility crews to work longer hours. Utilities there reported more than 227,000 customers in the dark, mostly in southern and coastal areas.In eastern New York, particularly around Albany, the state capital, outages at National Grid and other utilities brought the statewide total to more than 255,000.Trees were down on all the roads, said Miguel Figueroa, 28, as he waited for coffee at a Starbucks in Colonie, N.Y. ... I couldn't even get on the Thruway today.In Vermont, at least three shelters were being set up in southern Vermont for the more than 30,000 customers who were without power Friday afternoon. It could be days before some homes and businesses get their lights back on, officials said.The ice storm extended to Pennsylvania, where about 4,700 customers, most of them in the Poconos, lost power, and Connecticut, where some 17,000 customers were without electricity at the height of the storm. Those states mostly got heavy rain or rain changing to snow.Though blue skies appeared in some areas by Friday afternoon, temperatures were expected to fall below freezing again, with single digits forecast for Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire Saturday night.
Associated Press writers Holly Ramer and Kathy McCormack in Concord, N.H.; Beth LaMontagne Hall in Portsmouth, N.H.; Russell Contreras and Mark Pratt in Boston; Clarke Canfield in Portland, Maine; John Curran and Lisa Rathke in Montpelier, Vt.; and Mike Hill and Jessica M. Pasko in Albany, N.Y., contributed to this report.

Major Sumatran quake, tsunami likely in decades: study Fri Dec 12, 11:12 am ET

SINGAPORE (AFP) – More than one million people on Indonesia's Sumatra island are vulnerable to a massive earthquake and tsunami potentially more destructive than one which struck four years ago, scientists who released a study Friday warned.The quake and tsunami are likely within the next few decades, they said.On December 26, 2004, a 9.3-magnitude earthquake off Sumatra triggered tsunamis which killed 220,000 people in countries around the Indian Ocean, including 168,000 in Aceh province on the northwestern tip of Sumatra, in one of the deadliest natural disasters ever.The Boxing Day quake marked the largest in a series of big earthquakes as large sections of the active fault beneath the eastern Indian Ocean flank failed over the past eight years, the study in the US magazine Science says.One question of great humanitarian and scientific importance is which remaining un-ruptured sections of the fault will fail next, says the international study led by Kerry Sieh, director of the Earth Observatory of Singapore at Nanyang Technological University.Until late last year the largest remaining unbroken Sumatran section was a stretch known as the Mentawai patch, the study said. But in September 2007 an 8.4-magnitude quake and several large aftershocks hit Sumatra's west coast, off Padang city, and caused 23 fatalities.Study of a 700-year-long history of Sumatran seismic cycles implies that the September quake was the beginning of an episode of failure of the Mentawai patch, the researchers say.The amount of potential slip not relieved last year is enough to generate an 8.8-magnitude quake in the area where more than one million people live along the coast, the scientists said.Such an event would undoubtedly produce great damage in Padang and neighbouring cities and villages while scientific modelling shows that a tsunami would hit the Padang and Bengkulu areas, it added.

These results imply that losses of life and property could equal or exceed those in Aceh province in 2004, the study said.The scientists made their conclusions by examining records of sea level change in coral around the Mentawai islands off Sumatra's west coast. The examination implies that the 700-kilometre (434-mile) section of the fault has generated broadly similar sequences of great earthquakes about every two centuries for at least the past 700 years, the study said.If previous cycles are a reliable guide, Sieh said, we can expect one or more very large West Sumatran earthquakes as the rest of the Mentawai patch fails within the next few decades.Another researcher, Danny Natawidjaja from the Research Centre for Geotechnology at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, said he hoped the findings would encourage governments and humanitarian agencies to accelerate preparations.

DISEASES

REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).

Zimbabwe: Cholera introduced by West DEC 13,08
By ANGUS SHAW, Associated Press Writer

HARARE, Zimbabwe – Zimbabwe on Saturday accused the West of waging biological warfare to deliberately start a cholera epidemic that has killed hundreds of people and sickened thousands.The spread of the disease has focused the world's attention on the spectacular collapse of the southern African nation, which often blames its troubles on the West.The claims in state media came the same day the government issued an official announcement detailing the constitutional amendment creating the post of prime minister. The announcement also set out other changes necessary to go forward with a power-sharing agreement that has been stalled since September.

Saturday's unilateral step by President Robert Mugabe's government could raise political tensions in the battered southern African country.The state-run Herald newspaper said comments by the U.S. ambassador that the U.S. had been preparing for the cholera outbreak raised suspicions that it was responsible.The Zimbabwean government's stranglehold on most sources of news makes such rhetoric an important tool for a regime struggling to hold onto power.After the first cholera cases, U.S. and other aid workers braced for the waterborne disease to spread quickly in an economically ravaged country where the sewage system and medical care have fallen apart. Zimbabwe also faces a hunger crisis, the world's highest inflation and shortages of both the most basic necessities and the cash to buy them.The Herald quoted the information minister, Sikhanyiso Ndlovu, as blaming cholera on serious biological chemical war ... a genocidal onslaught on the people of Zimbabwe by the British.Cholera is a calculated racist terrorist attack on Zimbabwe by the unrepentant former colonial power which has enlisted support from its American and Western allies so that they invade the country, Ndlovu was quoted as saying.

Experts blame the epidemic on Zimbabwe's economic collapse. The World Health Organization said Friday the death toll was 792 and that the number of cholera cases that have been reported since the outbreak began in August was 16,700. The epidemic has reached a fatality rate of 4.7 percent. To be under control it would have to be less than 1 percent, WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib said Friday.Aid agencies have warned that the outbreak could worsen with the onset of the rainy season and that the disease has already spread to Zimbabwe's neighbors.Mugabe claimed Thursday that his government, with the help of international agencies, had contained the epidemic. That sparked accusations he was out of touch with his people's suffering.Zimbabwe's decline began in 2000, when Mugabe began an often violent campaign to seize white-owned farms and give them to blacks; most of the land ended up in the hands of his cronies, and production has dropped. Hungry Zimbabweans scrounge for corn kernels spilled from trucks carrying the harvest to market in a nation that once exported food.Zimbabwe once had among the best health care systems in sub-Saharan Africa. Now most hospitals have been forced to close as they can no longer afford drugs, equipment or wages for their staff. Officials are also unable to afford spare parts and chemicals for water systems.Mugabe has ruled his country since its 1980 independence from Britain. He refused to leave office following disputed elections in March. U.S. President George W. Bush, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have called recently for the 84-year-old leader to step down.Power sharing has been agreed to as a solution to the election dispute. But a bitter disagreement over which party gets key Cabinet posts has kept the agreement from becoming reality. Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is supposed to be prime minister in the unity government, with Mugabe continuing as president.

Tsvangirai's spokesman, Nelson Chamisa, said his party had not seen the constitutional announcement issued Saturday, and that there could be no power sharing without agreement on Cabinet posts. The opposition accuses Mugabe of trying to keep too many of the most powerful posts, including those overseeing the security forces.With the so-called gazetting of the amendment, parliament, which is dominated by the opposition, would have to vote on it after 30 days. If these (Cabinet) issues are not resolved, we cannot guarantee the amendment will have safe passage in parliament, Chamisa said. It is our wish to have this matter behind us. What has caused these months of suffering ... is the lack of adequate political will by ZANU-PF.Repeated attempts to reach Mugabe's spokesman Saturday were not successful.

Feilgin: More Than an Election is Taking Place DEC 13,2008(IsraelNN.com)

In a letter to supporters, Moshe Feiglin explained his decision not to fight the Likud tribunal's decision Thursday night to bump him down to the 36th slot on the party's list. You worked very hard, and it appears that I am allowing several suspected criminals to follow Netanyahu's command to lower my ranking without protesting. But I haven't thrown away our achievement; I've turned it into something greater, he wrote to supporters. Everyone realizes that something much more important than a Knesset election is taking place here, he wrote, referring to the media storm over his inclusion on the Likud list. What is to be decided here is whether the State of Israel will return to the control of the people of Israel, or remain in the hands of a secret dictator who will continue to run it down, he wrote.

Although Feiglin is now 36th on the Likud list, instead of 20th, as he was after the party's primary vote, he may find himself placed even lower; according to media reports, Likud chairman Binyamin Netanyahu is close to signing an agreement with members of the Tzomet party. According to the report, Tzomet chairman Moshe Green would be placed on the Likud list somewhere between the 11th and 20th slots, while other party members would be place lower – with the result that Feiglin could be pushed into the fortieth slot, or even lower.

LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS

Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

U.S. draft hails steps in Mideast talks, urges more DEC 13,08 By Louis Charbonneau Louis Charbonneau – Sat Dec 13, 3:53 pm ET

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States handed the U.N. Security Council a draft resolution on Saturday that hails progress made in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks but calls for an intensification of efforts to secure a deal.U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad said the 15-nation council would vote on the resolution on Tuesday at a meeting which Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov and other foreign ministers are expected to attend.

If approved, it will be the Security Council's first resolution on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians since November 2003, when it endorsed the Middle East road map peace plan for eventual Palestinian statehood.Khalilzad told reporters the resolution endorsed the goals of peace talks launched in November 2007 by the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush in Annapolis, Maryland.The Bush administration had wanted an agreement on Palestinian statehood by the end of this year but all sides now say that will not happen. Bush leaves office on January 20, when Barack Obama will become U.S. president.We believe it's very important at this time to recognize the progress that has been made, Khalilzad said.It was crucial for the push for a two-state solution to be sustained and for the council to express its support so there is no pause in the negotiations, he added.Diplomats in New York say the highly unpopular Bush administration hopes this resolution will help draw attention to the good it has done for the Middle East and counter some of the criticism it has faced for its 2003 invasion of Iraq.

NO SPECIFICS

The text, expected to be revised before Tuesday's vote, mentions none of the specific complaints the Palestinians and Israelis have raised.The Palestinians have said Israeli settlement building in Palestinian areas threatens to derail the peace process. U.N. diplomats said Arab delegations wanted settlements mentioned in the text but the Americans do not want to include details of specific disagreements.

Instead, the resolution urges both sides to refrain from any steps that could undermine confidence or prejudice the outcome of the negotiations and calls for an intensification of diplomatic efforts aimed at securing a comprehensive, just, and lasting peace in the Middle East.Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said Moscow backed the text and agreed that the change of U.S. and Israeli administrations should not slow the peace process.We believe it's very important to continue the momentum, he said. Considerable effort has been made over the last 12 months or so, and we believe that the effort has to be pinned down and it has to continue without a pause.French Ambassador Jean-Maurice Ripert, speaking on behalf of the French presidency of the European Union, said the draft text was a very good basis to get an agreement.He said he was optimistic the Security Council would reach a unanimous agreement on the resolution by Tuesday.Libya, a strong supporter of the Palestinians, is the only Arab state on the Security Council at the moment. It has repeatedly clashed with Washington on Palestinian issues.The Palestinian delegation did not comment on the draft.(Editing by John O'Callaghan)

Negotiator: Israel wants 6.8 percent of West Bank By ARON HELLER, Associated Press Writer Aron Heller, – Fri Dec 12, 5:27 pm ET

JERUSALEM – Israel proposed to annex 6.8 percent of the West Bank and to take in a few thousand refugees under a peace deal, but it has not revealed its position on the most contentious issue — the future of Jerusalem, the chief Palestinian negotiators said Friday night.Ahmed Qureia said the Palestinian side did not consider the ideas presented on annexation and the return of some Palestinians to be acceptable.Speaking for the first time in detail about yearlong U.S.-backed talks that failed to produce an agreement, Qureia's comments appeared aimed, in part, at providing a record of the Israeli position ahead of leadership changes in Israel and the United States.Barack Obama assumes the U.S. presidency Jan. 20. Israel holds elections Feb. 10, and polls suggest hard-line opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu could become the next prime minister.Netanyahu opposes large-scale territorial concessions to the Palestinians and has said he would not continue the negotiations in their current format. He says he would try to focus on improving the Palestinian economy instead.The office of outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declined to address Qureia's comments. However, aides noted recent speeches in which Olmert said Israel would have to withdraw from much of the land it captured in the 1967 Mideast War, including the West Bank and parts of Jerusalem.Qureia told Palestinian reporters that Israel wants to keep four blocs of Jewish settlements in the West Bank — Ariel, Maaleh Adumim, Givat Zeev and Efrat-Gush Etzion. He said Israel initially proposed to annex 7.3 percent of the territory, then reduced that to 6.8 percent.Israel offered to give some of its own territory as compensation, but not an equal trade in size and quality, Qureia said. He added that some of the areas Israel wants to annex would be crucial to a viable Palestinian state envisioned as the goal of the peace negotiations.Israeli officials have talked publicly about keeping some settlements in exchange for other land, but have not given any specifics. Qureia has said in the past the Palestinians are willing to consider a land swap, but on a much smaller scale than he outlined Friday.

Turning to Jerusalem, Qureia said the Palestinians repeatedly raised their demand for a division of the city but were never given Israel's view.Olmert, who will step down after the elections, has said Israel will have to give up some Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem. However, the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Shas Party, a member of Olmert's governing coalition, has threatened to quit if Jerusalem is discussed in the talks.Qureia said Olmert's offer during talks to take in 5,000 Palestinian refugees over five years was rejected. But he added that the Palestinians do not seek the return of all refugees and their descendants, a group that numbers several million.To say that not a single refugee would be allowed back or that all the refugees should be allowed back is not a solution, he said. We should reach a mutual position on this issue.Israeli leaders have adamantly refused to accept large numbers of Palestinians, saying mass repatriation would destroy the Jewish character of Israel.The negotiations were launched a year ago, at a U.S.-hosted Mideast conference in Annapolis, Md. Since then, Qureia and Livni have met repeatedly, in parallel to talks between Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.Qureia said he hopes the new American president will make solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict a priority. We hope that we will not have to wait for intensive U.S. involvement, he said.Associated Press writer Laub in Jericho, West Bank, contributed to this report.

THIS IS JUST TO MUCH,LIVNI EXPELLS JEWS FROM THEIR GOD GIVEN HOLMES AND LAND BUT WILL NOT EXPELL ARABS....SICK,SICK,SICK.

Livni rules out expulsion of Arabs from Israel Fri Dec 12, 2:15 pm ET

JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who hopes to become prime minister after February elections, on Friday ruled out the expulsion of Arab-Israelis after a Palestinian state is created.The national aspirations (of the Arabs) should be realised elsewhere, but there is no question of carrying out a transfer or forcing them to leave, she told public radio.I am willing to give up a part of the country over which I believe we have rights so that Israel will remain a Jewish and democratic state in which citizens have equal rights, whatever their religion, she said in reference to the creation of a Palestinian state.On Thursday, Livni drew criticism for saying Israeli-Arabs who had national aspirations should move to a Palestinian state when it is established.My solution for maintaining a Jewish and democratic state of Israel is to have two distinct national entities, she told a group of secondary school students in Tel Aviv in remarks broadcast by army radio.And among other things I will also be able to approach the Palestinian residents of Israel, those whom we call Arab Israelis, and tell them: your national aspirations lie elsewhere.

EUROPEAN UNION ARMY

DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (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.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: 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 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) 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.(3 1/2 YRS)

DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.

DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.

REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)

Summit boosts EU security and defence
VALENTINA POP 12.12.2008 @ 17:52 CET

EUOBSERVER/BRUSSELS – The European Union's security and defence policy and a deal dating back to 1999 in which the EU would be able to deploy 60,000 troops within 60 days won a renewed political endorsement on Friday(12 December) by EU leaders, who failed however to establish any deadlines or specific financial commitments. EU leaders decided to pool helicopters and establish a European air transport fleet.

Co-operation with NATO is important, but we need our own defence policy together with our allies. The EU cannot remain a midget in defence and a giant economically. This is not possible, French President Nicolas Sarkozy told a press conference after the last meeting of heads of state and government he chaired as EU president.Yet what had earlier been presented as one of the main priorities of the French EU presidency, L'Europe de la defence got left behind in favour of discussions over the Lisbon Treaty, climate change and the financial crisis during the summit. Unlike these three thorniest of dossiers, the defence package was largely uncontroversial, as it was mainly a political statement aimed at giving a fresh impetus to the bloc's security and defence policy (ESDP) without antagonising NATO or touching upon the national competence of member states in this area.President Sarkozy called it monumental progress that the US no longer saw the ESDP as an aggressive policy against NATO, with both outgoing President George W. Bush and incoming President Barack Obama now supporting the EU policy.It's not a choice between the US and the ESDP. The two go together, the French president stressed, mentioning that the next NATO summit would take place in Strasbourg. In June, Mr Sarkozy had announced that France would soon rejoin NATO's military structure, with experts suggesting that this might happen in April 2009, during the alliance's 60 anniversary summit, which would take place on both sides of the River Rhine, in Strasbourg (France) and Kehl Germany).The principle of strengthening the transatlantic partnership by setting up an EU-NATO high-level group was endorsed once again at the EU summit. Yet the high-level group had up until now been so far blocked a row between Turkey – a NATO member – and Cyprus – an EU member – over Northern Cyprus, occupied in 1974 by the Turkish army after an attempt by Greece to annex the island.

Old plans endorsed anew

The EU leaders confirmed at the summit the aim of being able to deploy 60,000 troops within 60 days for an operation – a goal which was initially agreed in 1999 – but without setting a precise deadline or expenditure commitment. They also agreed that the bloc should be able to plan and conduct simultaneously several military and civilian operations, including a maritime one, such as the freshly launched Atalanta naval mission to fight pirates off the Somali coasts.For its operations and missions, the European Union uses, in an appropriate manner and in accordance with its procedures, the resources and capabilities of member states of the European Union and, if appropriate for its military operations, of NATO, the summit's conclusions read.Experts have repeatedly warned that 70 percent of Europe's land forces are unable to operate outside national territories, while both NATO and the ESDP missions require expeditionary forces.Europe's 10,000 main battle tanks would be fine for a re-run of the battle of Kursk, but are little use in Chad or Afghanistan. Figures such as these highlight the extent to which Europeans' combined annual defence spending in Europe of some €200 billion is simply money down the drain, Nick Witney, former head of the European defence agency and an expert with the European Council on Foreign Relations, a European think tank, wrote in July.

Pooling and sharing equipment, aircraft and ships was still a goal to be reached on a voluntary basis ... with priority being given to planning, crisis management, space and maritime security.

No troops for Congo

The French president defended the decision taken by EU foreign ministers not to send troops to Congo, despite a call from the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, to send a bridging transition force until UN reinforcements could be deployed.Mr Sarkozy stressed that there were already 17,000 UN troops deployed in Congo and that it was probably not a matter of numbers, but of problems in the organisation, if these soldiers were not doing a decent job.After having spoken to regional leaders, including Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who said his country is ready to commit more troops to peacekeeping in Congo, Mr Sarkozy asked if it wasn't better to draw on regional forces first of all.He noted that the EU was already in a peacekeeping mission in Chad. You can't be everywhere all the time. You have your limits, he said.

DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).

Second Irish referendum linked to Croatian EU accession
ELITSA VUCHEVA 12.12.2008 @ 17:47 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – Legal guarantees promised to Ireland and paving the way for a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty in the country are to be written into a protocol together with Croatia's accession treaty to the EU in 2010 or 2011, current EU President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Friday (12 December).EU leaders in Brussels this week (11-12 December) agreed to a series of concessions to allow Dublin to make possible a second vote on the bloc's Lisbon Treaty some time in the course of next year.These include a guarantee that each member state will keep a commissioner in future European Commissions – despite the document initially foreseeing a reduction of the size of the institution, as well as a promise that the EU would not impose rules on Ireland concerning taxation, ethical issues - such as abortion, euthanasia and gay marriages - or interfere with its traditional neutrality.All these issues were highlighted by Dublin as the main concerns of Irish citizens when they first rejected the Lisbon Treaty in June this year. In order to make these promises legally binding, they will be written into a protocol in Croatia's accession treaty -that has to be ratified by all EU countries to enter into force. To give a legal value to the engagements made to Ireland by the 26 other member states, we have committed that at the time of the next EU enlargement – whether that will be in 2010 or in 2011, when probably Croatia will join us ... we will use that to add a protocol [on Ireland] to Croatia's accession treaty, Mr Sarkozy told journalists after the EU summit.Croatia has held EU candidate status since 2004 and opened EU accession talks in 2005. Last month, the European Commission said it could conclude accession negotiations with the bloc by the end of next year, if it fulfills the remaining conditions.But the French leader's statement represents the clearest indication so far that the Balkan country could effectively become the bloc's 28th member state by 2011 at the latest.

Second referendum in Ireland next year

In exchange for receiving concessions from the other EU countries, Ireland has committed to holding a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty by November 2009.The Irish government is committed to seeking ratification of the Lisbon Treaty by the end of the term of the current [European] Commission, in November 2009, reads the document agreed by the 27 EU leaders.Irish Taoisheach Brian Cowen later confirmed that if Ireland's requirements are met, its citizens will vote again on the document.

On the basis of the agreement today, and on condition of our being able to satisfactory put guarantees in place ... I would be prepared to return to the public to put to them a new package and to seek their approval of it, he told journalists.I am convinced that we are on the right path, he added. The views of the Irish people are being respected.He said he was particularly pleased that the requirement of keeping a commissioner for Ireland had been met. This was very hard fought, and ... it is a major achievement by Ireland. Several member states were strongly opposed, the taoiseach said.He did stress however that there was still a lot of detailed work to be carried out in the months ahead in order to clarify how exactly Ireland would get all its guarantees, but added that he was hopeful the Irish citizens would eventually be satisfied with the outcome of the negotiations and back the Lisbon Treaty.

Climate deal slammed as a mirage
LEIGH PHILLIPS 12.12.2008 @ 17:48 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - European industry and the power generation sector in eastern Europe are the big winners coming out of deliberations between EU premiers and presidents on the bloc's climate package.EU leaders were keen to trumpet that despite hard-hitting negotiations they had committed themselves on Friday (12 December) to maintaining their original target of a reduction of 20 percent of carbon emissions and an improvement in energy efficiency of 20 percent - both by 2020.You will not find another continent that has given itself such binding rules, said French president Sarkozy (Photo: The Council of the European Union)Calling the deal historic, French President Nicholas Sarkozy said: You will not find another continent that has given itself such binding rules.The objectives remain the same, he added. Europeans can say: Look: We delivered. We did it.Deliberately echoing the campaign slogan of US president-elect Barack Obama, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso told reporters: We knew the world was watching us closely and they can now see that yes we can meet our targets, and yes you can too.But on the road to 2020, at the level of detail, much has indeed changed and many of the concessions that member states such as Germany and Poland were demanding on behalf of their manufacturing and power sectors have been delivered.

Carbon leakage

Germany, Europe's manufacturing heartland, was worried that energy intensive sectors such as cement and steel production would be badly hit by the EU emissions trading system, under which originally they would be scheduled to pay for all their permits to emit carbon dioxide from 2013. Such a development would force firms to move outside the EU to produce such goods and emit the carbon elsewhere - an alleged process known as carbon leakage. Figures from environmentalists surveying such sectors dispute that carbon leakage is a significant phenomenon.Under the deal agreed to on Friday, those sectors at significant risk of carbon leakage will be given their emissions permits free of charge. Significant risk is defined as producing a five percent increase in costs. Around 90 percent of European manufacturing thus falls within this category.The quid pro quo is that such companies must first already be using the cleanest technology available in their particular production process. What defines what is the best technology will be benchmarks established by the member states themselves alongside the European Commission.For those not at risk of carbon leakage, four fifths of emissions permits will be allocated for free in 2013, moving down to 30 percent in 2020. Only in 2025 will all such pollution permits be put up for auction.

Electricity in the east

Poland, which produces some 90 percent of its energy from coal, and much of eastern Europe were less worried about the effects of the EU's emissions trading scheme (ETS) on manufacturing than they were that the system would massively increase electricity prices.In a concession to the eastern states, the EU leaders agreed to put up for auction only 30 percent of permits to pollute for their electric companies. By 2020, all emissions permits will have to be auctioned.As an additional cushion for eastern Europe, 12 percent of emissions permits will be allocated to these countries.

Offsets

However, the bulk of emissions reductions will not be made in Europe. Polluters will be able to continue to emit but through Kyoto Protocol mechanisms pay for others in the developing world to make the reductions on their behalf.All told, an expansion in the use by member states of these carbon offsets in the EU summit deal means that around 80 percent of European carbon emissions, say Green MEPs Claude Turmes of Luxembourg and Satu Hassi, of Finland - two of the MEPs who were responsible for shepherding parts of the climate package legislation through the European Parliament. They make their calculations based on European Commission figures.The final figure for the amount of emissions reductions to be made through offsets is however much disputed.Mr Turmes agreed with President Barroso that the world was watching Europe closely, but told EUobserver that in fact, This is an impossible message to send to the third world. We're only going to make a fifth of the effort ourselves at home and get everyone else to do our work for us? He said he and Ms Hassi will try to right this situation in Strasbourg [when the whole sitting of the parliament votes on the deal] next week.We'll see if we can't organise a political majority against it.EU leaders also agreed to funding carbon capture and storage projects by committing revenues from the auctioning of some 200 million emissions permits. UK Liberal MEP Chris Davies, the leading advocate in the European Parliament of the experimental technology - which would see carbon scrubbed from the emissions of coal power plants and steel factories - warned that only an allocation of 350 million permits would be sufficient to test the full range of CCS technologies.For me this is the bottom line, he warned. I will halt the legislation if the Parliament's demand is not met.CCS technology is opposed by the majority of European environmental organisations, who say the technology will not be delivered in time to aid the battle against climate change, encourages the use of coal and is a very water and energy intensive process.

How ETS revenues are spent

Member states will get to spend the revenues resulting from the auctioning of emissions permits as they wish. MEPs had preferred that a certain percentage of the ETS revenues be dedicated to green measures and adaptation to climate change in the developing world.In the final deal, the member states simply note a willingness to spend half the ETS revenues on green measures, while part of this amount will be spent on third world adaptation, without specifying how much or that countries must do so.Finally, the EU's commitment to make the shift from a 20 percent cut in emissions to a 30 percent cut as long as an international agreement had been reached that would see other western powers making similar cuts has been dropped.Development NGOs said that the EU had in effect abandoned its targets. Matt Grainger, of Oxfam told this website: The 20 percent target is a mirage. Europe is not going to reach its targets by domestic cuts.His colleague, Elise Ford of the group's Brussels office, said: Europe's package looks too much like business-as-usual tied up in a green ribbon.

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.

Saturday, December 13, 2008 Window on Eurasia: Today’s Russia Pregnant with Fascism, Guluzade Warns Paul Goble

Florence, December 13 – Rising unemployment, cuts in the size of the military, drug abuse and alcoholism, corruption, and increasing attacks on ethnic minorities have created [in Russia] a very favorable basis for the development of fascism, according to one of the leading foreign policy commentators in Azerbaijan.Indeed, the situation is so dire and Russia is so pregnant with fascism, Vafa Guluzade said yesterday, that ethnic Azerbaijanis – and presumably members of other groups from other post-Soviet states – now resident in the Russian Federation should leave there before it is too late (1news.az/politics/20081212122453929.html).

Guluzade, who earlier served as Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev’s Arabic translator and as the late Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev’s national security advisor, said that the situation in Russia today resembles the one in Germany in 1933 which brought Adolf Hitler and the Nazis to power there.God forbid that Russia will repeat the fate of fascist Germany, he continued, a danger that could prove threatening to a large number of states given Moscow’s nuclear arsenal. As a result, he said, the entire world should be paying close attention to what is taking place in the Russian Federation now. The present leadership of Russia has led its people into poverty, the Azerbaijani analyst added. In a week, the losses of Russia have amounted to 20 billion dollars and lower prices for oil will only make the situation worse. And Moscow may seek a way out for itself by searching for enemies among the former Soviet republics.Such a search for enemies will lead in the first instance to more attacks against members of these ethnic communities who are now living and working in Russia, Guluzade said. And consequently, he issued a call to our Azerbaijanis who are living in Russia to leave before it is too late.Bad days are ahead in Russia, he continued, and the Russian revolt will be pitiless and cruel. Indeed, so dangerous is the situation now that Guluzade said he would suggest to the former Soviet republics to help Russia get out of this crisis because if it does not then the fascists will come to power there, and this would be a tragedy for all of us.The beheading of a 20-year-old Tajik worker near Moscow a week ago, an action for which a hitherto unknown group – the Military Organization of Russian Nationalists --has taken responsibility, has called attention to the more than 250 attacks on ethnic minorities over the first ten months of this year (grani.ru/Society/Xenophobia/Skinhead/m.145284.html).

And that attack, which has been criticized by the Tajik embassy in Moscow and led to the formation of a special investigative group among the Russian force structures, may represent a new stage in this kind of violence because its organizers say they plan to attack Russian officials if the latter do not reduce the number of Central Asians and Caucasians working in Russia. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin recently promised to cut the quota for the arrival of such workers in half in 2009, and polls suggest there is widespread popular support for reducing the number of new arrivals although not for the expulsion of those already living in the Russian Federation.
But there are three additional aspects to the current case and the situation it highlights. First, some Russian officials investigating the attack have suggested it may have nothing to do with the Russian nationalists but be the product of criminal activities within the Tajik diaspora, a view many Russian nationalists will read as meaning the authorities are on their side.Second, rising unemployment among guest workers in Russia will have an almost immediate and potentially destabilizing impact on the countries of the former Soviet space. In many of them, transfer payments from their nationals who have gone to work in Russia provide a significant portion of the incomes of many within their home countries.And third, Guluzade’s warning that guest workers in Russia are likely to be among the first attacked carries with it the implicit suggestion that Moscow might attack another former Soviet republic, given the boost the Russian authorities got among the Russian population for invading Georgia.Posted by Paul Goble at 1:20 AM

Russia Sends in 500 Troops to Disputed Village, Georgia Says
By Helena Bedwell and Denis Maternovsky DEC 13,08

Dec. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Russia sent in more than 500 troops to the disputed Georgian village of Perevi near the separatist region of South Ossetia, forcing the local police out, Georgia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs said. Russian military deployed more troops in the village after ceding it to the Georgian police yesterday in a premeditated provocative behavior, which was witnessed by observers from the European Union and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the ministry said in an e-mailed statement today. The agreements which Russians have signed for need to be upheld, I think the international community needs to focus more on human rights issues, on the issues of police officers who are being shot from across the lines, people who have been displaced against the law, U.S. Senator John Kerry told reporters today in the capital Tbilisi after meeting with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. Russia routed Georgia’s army in a five-day August war over South Ossetia, and later recognized the region’s independence and that of another breakaway, Abkhazia, a move condemned by the U.S. and many European countries. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who brokered the cease- fire that ended the conflict, called on Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in November to pull Russian troops out of Perevi and the Akhalgori valley near South Ossetia. Medvedev countered that the cease-fire had been fully implemented by Russia. To contact the reporters on this story: Helena Bedwell in Tbilisi at hbedwell@bloomberg.net; Denis Maternovsky in Moscow at dmaternovsky@bloomberg.net December 13, 2008 10:07 EST

Russia retakes Georgian village near South Ossetia The Associated PressPublished: December 13, 2008

TBILISI, Georgia: Russian troops retook a village near the breakaway region of South Ossetia Saturday just hours after withdrawing, Georgia's Interior Ministry and European Union peace observers said.The move drew criticism from Georgia, the EU and U.S. Senator John Kerry, who was on a half-day visit to Tbilisi.Georgian police had already moved into Perevi on Saturday to remove Russian-built roadblocks when Russian troops and helicopters unexpectedly returned, said Shota Utiashvili, an Interior Ministry spokesman.They left, and we went in with about 40 people to remove the roadblocks, he said. While they were doing this, the Russians deployed a battalion of special forces with helicopters and armor and told the Georgian policemen to get out immediately, he said.The Russian Foreign Ministry refused immediate comment and South Ossetian officials could not be immediately reached.

Portugal may help U.S. shut Guantánamo prison
The European monitoring mission, which is observing an EU-brokered cease-fire, quickly issued a statement calling on Russia to pull back once more.The renewed Russian military occupation of the Perevi checkpoint, and in addition, the Perevi village, is incompatible with the provisions of the ... peace plan, the statement said.The mission added that it was unacceptable that Russian troops had stopped EU ambassadors from visiting Perevi.The Baltic News Service reported that ambassadors from France, the Netherlands, Lithuania and Romania were among those refused entry.

We saw 20 to 30 soldiers. We don't know the number of troops inside the village, Lithuania's ambassador to Georgia, Mecys Laurinkus, was quoted as saying by the agency.Laurinkus was quoted as saying the diplomats had to return to Tbilisi after waiting about an hour. Laurinkus said the soldiers had not spoken with them, and that that information about their visit had been received in advance, the news agency reported.Kerry, meanwhile — in Tbilisi to meet with the government, the opposition and President Mikhail Saakashvili — addressed reporters at the airport before leaving.My judgment is that Georgia as a sovereign country needs to be upheld and respected, Kerry said. And the agreement that the Russians have signed up to needs to be upheld.Perevi has been under Russian control since an August war that saw Russian forces drive deep into Georgia.EU monitors had welcomed the initial pullback, saying Perevi was clearly outside South Ossetia.Russia and Georgia severed diplomatic ties after the war, recalling embassy staff. The Swiss Embassy in Tbilisi has opened a Russian section to represent Moscow in Georgia.Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held talks in Moscow on the logistics of the agreement Saturday with his Swiss counterpart Micheline Calmy-Rey.Russia removed several military posts and checkpoints from Georgian territory outside South Ossetia earlier this fall under a French-brokered cease-fire agreement. Georgian police and EU monitors moved in to patrol the area.Russia recognized South Ossetia and another separatist region, Abkhazia, as independent nations after the August war and has stationed thousands of troops in the regions — including a swath of South Ossetia that was controlled by Georgia before the conflict.Georgia's government and Western nations say the Russian military presence violates the cease-fire agreement, which called for a return to pre-conflict positions.

U.S. and Russia seek U.N. council agreement on Middle East By Claudia Parsons Claudia Parsons – Fri Dec 12, 7:24 pm ET

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States and Russia are pressing the U.N. Security Council to send a strong signal supporting the Middle East peace process at ministerial meeting next week, their ambassadors said on Friday.The 15-nation Security Council has been unable to reach a consensus on anything related to the Middle East for months so a resolution or a statement would be a rare accomplishment.

U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad and his Russian counterpart Vitaly Churkin both told reporters they were hoping to agree a document that would be passed by the council.We have asked for a (Security Council) meeting on Tuesday at the ministerial level to focus on the Middle East, Khalilzad said after a closed-door council meeting.The purpose would be to support the progress that has been made in the peace process and to encourage the sustainment and the successful conclusion of achieving the two state solution and the Annapolis principles.Renewed talks were launched at Annapolis, Maryland, a year ago by U.S. President George W. Bush, but all sides have said the year-end deadline for a deal will not be met. Bush leaves office on January 20, when Barack Obama will take over as president.The Quartet of Middle East peace negotiators are due to meet at U.N. headquarters on Monday and will also meet Arab foreign ministers. The Quartet is composed of the European Union, Russia, the United Nations and the United States.The talks have been hobbled from the start by violence and bitter disputes over Jewish settlement-building and the future of Jerusalem. Political transitions in Israel and the United States have further delayed any progress.The Middle East peace process is now at quite a delicate and important stage, Churkin said, pointing to political transitions in Israel and the United States and the possibility of Palestinian elections.We believe it's very important to avoid any kind of pause in the political process, Churkin said, adding that a Security Council document would be an important political signal.It's been a long time since the Security Council has approved any kind of joint reaction, joint signal on the matter of the Middle East peace process, Churkin told reporters.The Security Council will meet again on Saturday when the United States will distribute a draft document, which could be either a resolution or a nonbinding statement.

Historically, Arab members of the council have pushed for condemnation of Israel over its treatment of Palestinians in Gaza as well as settlement activity -- language that the United States has blocked, insisting on condemnation of Palestinian violence against Israel.Libya, a strong supporter of the Palestinians, is now on the Security Council. It has repeatedly clashed with Washington on the Middle East.(Editing by Jackie Frank)

Nicaraguans divided on arrival of Russian warships Dec 12, 10:46 pm

ETMANAGUA, Nicaragua – The arrival of Russian navy ships at the Caribbean port of Bluefields caused heated debate Friday in an already deeply divided Nicaragua.

Leftist President Daniel Ortega claims he is authorized to approve the visit, but opposition lawmakers say the constitution requires congressional approval for visits by foreign military forces. They presented a letter to the Russian ambassador asking for the ships to stay out of Nicaraguan waters.In a statement issued in Moscow, Russian navy spokesman Capt. Igor Dygalo said the visit has no political overtones and was agreed upon ... in adherence to all necessary procedural norms.Ortega was a close ally of Moscow when he served as president in the 1980s and fought U.S.-backed Contra rebels. Nicaragua was the only country that followed Russia in recognizing the independence of two separatist regions in Georgia after the Russian-Georgian war in August.Nicaraguan army spokesman Gen. Adolfo Zepeda said the Russian ships will deliver humanitarian aid at a ceremony planned for Saturday in Bluefields, but did not provide specific information on the contents of the aid.Local media reported that the ships arrived Friday, but Nicaraguan officials were not immediately available to confirm that.The Russian navy says the destroyer Admiral Chabanenko and two support vessels are scheduled to leave Monday.Ortega and the opposition have been locked in a dispute over Nov. 9 municipal elections, in which his Sandinista party won a majority of the country's mayorships. The opposition has charged that the vote was fraudulent.

Russia to attend OPEC meeting: Cartel president DEC 13,08

ALGIERS (AFP) — Russia, Azerbaijan, Syria and Oman, none of them members of OPEC, will attend a key meeting of the oil cartel in Algeria on Wednesday, Algerian Energy Minister Chakib Khelil announced Saturday.Khelil, the current president of OPEC, said Russia would be represented by Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin and Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko at the meeting in Oran, where OPEC is expected to decide on a major output cut.The Algerian minister said the 13-member Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries had reached a consensus for a sharp reduction of production, according to the APS news agency.Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday Russia was ready to join forces with OPEC to stem the plunge in crude prices and could even become part of the oil cartel if membership were in Moscow's interests.His comments were a clear signal Russia is prepared to agree to OPEC demands for coordinated output cuts to bolster crude prices and also examine its long term political strategy in the oil market.Russia is not an OPEC member but ranks alongside Saudi Arabia, de facto leader of the cartel, as the world's largest oil exporter.