DAY 17 ISRAEL IN GAZA PROTECTING ISRAELIS

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.

Storm blankets snow across Midwest, New England By KANTELE FRANKO, Associated Press Writer – Sun Jan 11, 9:16 pm ET

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A weekend winter storm blanketed parts of the Midwest and Northeast with up to a foot of snow, causing a 59-vehicle pileup and at least four traffic fatalities.In New Hampshire, three buses and two tractor-trailer rigs were among 59 vehicles that crashed on snowy Interstate 93, sending a dozen people to hospitals Sunday morning and temporarily shutting down a stretch of the highway's northbound lanes.None of the injuries were life threatening, but it took emergency crews about an hour to remove one man from a car wedged under the back of a tractor trailer, Derry Fire Battalion Chief Jack Webb said.A car that slid on ice caused a 13-car pileup Sunday afternoon near Greenwich, Conn., sending two people to the hospital and closing the northbound side of Interstate 95 for two hours. Police said no serious injuries were reported.A Maryland teen was killed Sunday when he lost control of his SUV on an icy road and ran into a telephone pole near Union Mills. Authorities in Michigan said a 49-year-old man died when his snowmobile collided with a snow plow Saturday in Dorr Township. Motorists also died Saturday in Illinois and Indiana.The snow was a boon to Ohio ski resorts, which called it a stimulus package for their industry.We've been in business for 47 years and — this is what I can't believe — yesterday was by far the best gross sales day we've ever had, said George Shaffer, area manager of the Alpine Valley ski resort east of Cleveland in Geauga County, where 11 inches of snow fell.

Most residents in New England heeded the authorities' warnings to stay off roads after the storm dumped up to 9 inches of snow in some areas in Massachusetts and sleet and freezing rain across Rhode Island. Some communities declared snow emergencies to help cleanup crews plow streets.A transportation department worker in Delaware suffered a broken leg Sunday when an SUV plowed through a section of highway near Wilmington that had been closed because of icy conditions.The National Weather Service reported 8 inches of snow at Blissfield and Morenci in Michigan, and more than 6 inches of snow fell on Detroit. The service also issued a winter storm watch across Michigan for Monday night through Tuesday.The Pacific Northwest remained on alert Sunday with three flooded rivers in Washington, where state officials were assessing the damage from heavy rain and melting snow on roads and property.National Guard troops were deployed in Lewis County, which was one of the state's hardest hit counties by flooding, said Rob Harper, a spokesman for the state division of Emergency Management.

1/3RD OF SHIPS DESTROYED

REVELATION 8:8-9
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.

Storm sinks Indonesian ferry, 250 feared dead By IRWAN FIRDAUS, Associated Press Writer JAN 11,09

PAREPARE, Indonesia – High tides hindered rescuers Monday as they searched for nearly 250 people missing and feared dead after a ferry capsized off Indonesia's Sulawesi island.About 250 passengers and 17 crew were believed to have been aboard the 700-ton Teratai Prima when it sank Sunday morning as it traveled from the western port of Parepare to Samarinda on the Indonesian half of Borneo island.At least 22 people, including four crew members, were pulled from the sea by fishermen Sunday before the military launched an operation at daybreak Monday. Indonesians generally don't know how to swim, and the others on board were feared dead.Another 250 names listed as passengers are still missing, said Junaidi, a port official in Parepare, where some of the survivors were taken to a hospital. He uses one name, which is customary in Indonesia.The ferry went down 30 miles (50 kilometers) off the coast off western Sulawesi.Transport Minister Jusman Syafi'i Djamal said the captain — who was among those pulled alive from the sea — reported that 150 people jumped off the boat before it sank, but he did not know what happened to them.We have prepared a search and rescue operation, but now there are high waves hampering the process, Djamal said.The ship, carrying about 18 tons of cargo, radioed that it was hit by a storm before it went down, said Nurwahida, a port official. He also uses one name.The closest town to the accident site is Majene, about 850 miles (1,370kilometers) northeast of the capital, Jakarta.Boats are a major form of transportation in Indonesia, an archipelago of more than 17,000 islands and a population of 235 million. Poor enforcement of safety regulations and overcrowding causes accidents that claim hundreds of lives each year.In December 2006, a crowded Indonesian ferry broke apart and sank in the Java Sea during a violent storm, killing more than 400 people.

EARTHQUAKES

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

Nicaraguan president saddened by citizens killed in Costa Rica's earthquake
www.chinaview.cn 2009-01-12 10:41:05

MANAGUA, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortegaon Sunday expressed his condolences to the families of the four Nicaraguans killed by Costa Rica's recent earthquake, and ordered Nicaragua's embassy in Costa Rica to offer all necessary help to the Costa Rican government and people. According to the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry, some Nicaraguan diplomats have arrived in Costa Rica to help arrange the burial ofthe two Nicaraguan girls who died in the earthquake. The Nicaraguan embassy in San Jose, capital of Costa Rica, has been distributing food and water to the affected people. A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit the mountain villages some 35 km northwest of the capital of San Jose on Thursday afternoon, killing at least 18 and causing dozens of others missing. Editor: Lu Yanan

OZONE DEPLETION

ISAIAH 30:26-27
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:

MATTHEW 24:21-22,29
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

SCIENCENETDAILY NASA: 2012 space Katrina' may cripple U.S. for months Damages could be trillions from solar perfect storm January 10, 2009 6:42 pm Eastern By Drew Zahn 2009 WorldNetDaily

A recently released NASA report warns that the U.S. has forgotten the power of the sun, creating a technological society susceptible like never before to massive infrastructure damage from solar storms. The study, carried out for NASA by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, doesn't predict some new solar or environmental disaster. Instead, it studies the effects of the sun's normal, cyclical behavior upon modern technology. See for yourself how and why power interests are setting off the false alarm of man-made climate change to suit their own agenda in the DVD Global Warming or Global Governance? Professor Daniel Baker is director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado and chaired the panel that prepared the report. Whether it is terrestrial catastrophes or extreme space weather incidents, writes Baker in a statement released with the report, the results can be devastating to modern societies that depend in a myriad of ways on advanced technological systems.According to the report, the U.S. has grown so dependent on modern technologies without respect of what the sun can and has done, that it's risking major communications, finance, transportation, government and even emergency services meltdowns. And if one of the sun's periodic, catastrophic storms hits the earth the way Hurricane Katrina hit the U.S. coastline, the report estimates that damages from the space weather Katrina could top $1 or $2 trillion.

The sun is currently near minimum on its 11-year activity cycle, the report explains, but is expected to produce solar storms that will increase in intensity and frequency as it approaches peak activity levels in 2012. The NASA report warns that if the sun's activity over the next few years flares to the level of the May 1921 superstorm or the so-called Carrington event of 1859, a perfect storm that Space.com called the most powerful onslaught of solar energy in recorded history, the U.S. may not be equipped to handle the damages. The impacts of severe space weather events, the report states, can go beyond disruption of existing technical systems and lead to short-term, as well as to long-term collateral socioeconomic disruptions.The report listed possible cascading effects of a major solar storm as disruption of the transportation, communication, banking and finance systems, and government services; the breakdown of the distribution of potable water owing to pump failure, and the loss of perishable foods and medications because of a lack of refrigeration.In addition, the researchers warn, Emergency services would be strained, and command and control might be lost.

Solar storm history

The impact of the solar storms is widely, and even recently, recorded. In March 1989, a geomagnetic storm took down the power grid over much of Quebec, leaving millions of Canadians without power for hours. In January 1994, the NASA report records, Canada's $290 million Anik E2 telecommunications satellite was knocked out by a solar storm, and it took six months and $50-70 million to get it back in operation.

One of the most dangerous contributors to solar storms is a coronal mass ejection, an expanding cloud of charged particles belched from the sun and sailing through space at supersonic speeds. According to a video on Space.com, a CME impacted the earth in 1998, knocking a communications satellite out of space to crash in the middle of the U.S. and disrupting nearly every pager signal in the country. Coronal mass ejections hit the earth relatively routinely. But in 1859, a CME of extreme intensity, exceptionally high speed and magnetic fields opposite the earth's blasted the planet. The resulting perfect storm temporarily doubled the light of the sun, caused colorful aurora – normally only visible in the polar regions – to be seen as far south as Hawaii and shorted out telegraph wires, starting fires across the U.S. and Europe. In 1859, however, the telegraph was only 15 years old. There was no satellite or television technology, no power grids, no automated teller machines and no global positioning systems helping direct traffic on land, air and sea. A contemporary repetition of the [1859] event, the NASA report concludes, would cause significantly more extensive (and possibly catastrophic) social and economic disruptions.

What can be done

Some technologies, particularly those based on satellites such as global positioning systems, have been combating solar storms and the occasional CME for years, working on backup solutions and bypass plans. The report further mentions technological solutions to many of the possible consequences of a major solar storm, but warns that more work needs to be done to implement safeguards against another storm like those seen in 1921 and 1859. A catastrophic failure of commercial and government infrastructure in space and on the ground can be mitigated through raising public awareness, improving vulnerable infrastructure and developing advanced forecasting capabilities, the report states. Without preventive actions or plans, the trend of increased dependency on modern space-weather sensitive assets could make society more vulnerable in the future.Richard Fisher, head of NASA's heliophysics division added that more research is also needed. To mitigate possible public safety issues, Fisher said, it is vital that we better understand extreme space weather events caused by the sun's activity.

PSALMS 20:1-9 PRAY THIS FOR ISRAEL EVERY DAY OF THIS WAR
1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;
2 Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion;
3 Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.
4 Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel.
5 We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions.
6 Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.
7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
8 They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.
9 Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.

ISRAELS INHERITED LAND IN THE FUTURE

And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.

Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.

ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.

HAMAS AT THERE WORST
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UptNr0v1p3E

WAR COVERAGE
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Special/War/

Audio: Gaza Conceals the True Pathological Nature of Hamas
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/497

Government Processing Hundreds of Claims of Rocket Damage
by Avraham Zuroff JAN 11,09

(IsraelNN.com) The Property Tax Branch of the Finance Ministry intends to handle about 1,300 claims for damage that were caused to structures, vehicles and farm land due to rocket attacks in southern Israel since Operation Cast Lead began. The city to have received the highest number of claims is Ashkelon. Its residents have filed 396 claims for damages to structure and vehicles. In second place is Ashdod, with 290 claims, followed by communities that border the Gaza Belt. Sderot is in fourth place. In Be’er Sheva, which has received relatively little damage compared with Ashkelon and Ashdod, only 22 residents have made claims to date.Residents whose homes have been damaged can choose between fixing the damages themselves and receive compensation or wait for the Tax Authorities to repair their homes. To date, 28 families have been evacuated to hotels from their homes that are unfit for residing. About 17 homes took a direct hit.Since the beginning of Operation Cast Lead, over 683Kassam rockets, mortar shells, and Grad rockets have been fired towards Israel. As a result of the firing by Hamas terrorists, four civilians have been killed, six have been critically injured, eight suffered moderate injuries, 39 have been listed as lightly wounded, and 201 have been treated for trauma.

A 770 Miracle: Rocket Hit Courtyard of Empty Chabad School
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu JAN 11,09

(IsraelNN.com) A Grad rocket exploded in the courtyard of a Chabad school in Be'er Sheva Sunday morning. It was a revealed miracle that classes had not been renewed, Chabad principal Simcha Weitzman said.The long-range missile hit around 7:30 a.m., when dozens of students usually are milling around in the educational facility in the Capital of the Negev.There usually are boys and girls arriving at school with their parents, or on buses at this hour, she added. I have no doubt that the merits of the Rebbe protected us, the principal said, referring to the late Chabad-Lubavitch spiritual leader Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.Many schools in Be'er Sheva, particularly those with sheltered areas and whose students are preparing for matriculation exams, re-opened Sunday morning with the permission of the Home Front Command. Many others, including Chabad, remained closed.By Sunday night, Hamas and allied terrorists had fired 24 rockets at southern Israel in the 16th day of the war. One long-range rocket hit an empty kindergarten in Ashdod, causing damage to the building.Another school, located in Sderot, nearly sustained a direct hit from a Kassam rocket.

Israeli forces advance deep into Gaza urban areas By IBRAHIM BARZAK and CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press Writers – Sun Jan 11, 9:31 pm ET

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Israeli ground forces made their deepest foray yet Sunday into Gaza's most populated area, with tanks rolling into residential neighborhoods and infantry fighting urban warfare in streets and buildings with Hamas militants who kept up their rocketing of southern Israel.An Israeli army spokeswoman said residential neighborhoods in Gaza are riddled with homemade bombs and booby traps, including mannequins placed at apartment entrances to simulate militants and rigged to explode if soldiers approach.The army is advancing more into urban areas, said the spokeswoman, Maj. Avital Leibovich. Since the majority of the Hamas militants are pretty much in hiding in those places, mainly urban places, then we operate in those areas.Early Monday, Israeli navy gunboats fired more than 25 shells at Gaza City, setting fires and shaking office buildings, including the local bureau of The Associated Press. The military said that in general, the targets are Hamas installations but had no immediate information about the shelling that began just after midnight.Before daybreak Monday, at least one militant was killed in an Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza, where a battle was in progress, hospital officials said.Gaza medical officials say at least 870 Palestinians, about half of them civilians, have been killed in the conflict that began Dec. 27 with Israeli airstrikes on Hamas buildings, as well as suspected rocket launch sites and smuggling tunnels on the Egyptian border. Thirteen Israelis, including 10 soldiers, have died.German and British envoys pressed efforts to negotiate an end to the war even though Israel and Hamas have ignored a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for an immediate and durable cease-fire.Outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israel had made progress in its objectives in the Gaza offensive but was not finished yet.

Israel is nearing the goals that it set for itself, Olmert said. However, further patience, determination and effort are necessary in order to achieve those goals in a way that will change the security reality in the south.While Olmert's comment signaled no immediate end to the offensive, it indicated that Israel is wary of an open-ended conflict with an unclear agenda. Israel wants to end years of rocket attacks by Hamas on its southern population, a complex goal that could require Egyptian or international help in shutting off routes to smuggle weapons into Gaza from Egypt. Israel has been bombing tunnels that run under the Egypt-Gaza border.In an e-mail message early Monday, Hamas leader Ismail Radwan said his group would not consider a cease-fire before Israel stops its attacks and pulls back from Gaza. He also demanded the opening of all border crossings, emphasizing the Rafah crossing with Egypt.That would relieve economic pressure on the destitute territory but also strengthen Hamas' control of Gaza, an odious prospect for Israelis who fear a halt to the fighting will just give Hamas another opportunity to re-arm.Military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin told the Israeli Cabinet Sunday that Hamas' ability to fight has been damaged, the group is suffering from ammunition shortages and has been hard hit by the deaths of senior militants. The military says troops have killed some 300 armed fighters since the ground offensive began and many more were killed in the air phase.But Yadlin said Hamas is not expected to raise a white flag.

In Cairo, Egypt's state-owned news agency reported progress in truce talks with Hamas, but provided no specifics. The Middle East News Agency quoted an unnamed Egyptian official as saying talks between the nation's intelligence chief, Omar Suleiman, and Hamas envoys were positive.Palestinian medical officials reported about 60 deaths on Sunday, including 17 who had died of wounds suffered on previous days. Most of those killed Sunday were noncombatants, medical officials said, including four members of one family killed when a tank shell hit their home near Gaza City, and a 10-year-old girl killed in a similar attack.Palestinian witnesses said Israeli troops moved to within half a mile of Gaza City's southern neighborhoods, and within a quarter mile of the northern neighborhood of Sheikh Ajleen.Firefights in Sheikh Ajleen erupted before dawn as Israeli forces advanced toward Gaza City, home to 400,000 people, Palestinian witnesses said. The battles were still in progress nearly a full day later, though tanks pulled back, with the Israelis in control of some buildings on the neighborhood's outskirts. We are safe, but we don't know for how long, said Khamis Alawi, 44, who huddled with his wife and six children in their kitchen overnight. He said bullets riddled his walls and several came in through the windows. Military analysts say Israeli troops are probing territory, clearing buildings and moving around regularly, rather than digging into positions that would allow Hamas militants to get a fix on their whereabouts and lay ambushes. Israel risks losing the advantage of armor and heavy firepower in urban settings that the militants know well. Israeli military footage showed soldiers walking around a zoo in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City two days ago. The footage showed caged birds and a white cable identified as an explosive detonation cord, part of an alleged booby trap set by Hamas. An Israeli airstrike destroyed a mosque and Islamic school in Rafah, on the border with Egypt. Hours later, men and boys clambered over the wreckage, and one man held aloft the remains of a Quran recovered from the debris. Israeli has accused Hamas of launching attacks from mosques and schools and using them to hide weapons. Israel says Hamas fighters are wearing civilian clothes and endangering civilians by operating in residential areas. The Israeli military said it hit more than 40 Hamas militants on Sunday, but did not specify whether they were killed or wounded. Late Sunday, dense plumes of smoke from explosions rose over Gaza City and heavy gunfire was heard just south of the city. International aid groups say Israel must do more to ensure the safety of civilians. They note that civilians are in many cases unable to flee to safe places in Gaza, and are essentially trapped because the territory's exits are closed. The U.N. agency in charge of Palestinian refugees has resumed operations after suspending them because of Israeli attacks on its convoys. U.N. aid vehicles were moving around Gaza on Sunday and U.N. workers tended to about 30,000 people in shelters, but aid officials warned that the dire security situation made it impossible to operate at full capacity. This is a very small fraction of what we normally do in the Gaza Strip, said Filippo Grandi of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency. Things might get worse.

Israel has warned Gaza residents of a wider offensive. On Sunday, it dropped leaflets urging Gaza residents to report the whereabouts of Hamas fighters, providing a phone number to call. Israel's chief military spokesman, Brig. Gen. Avi Benayahu, said the army has sent more reserve units into the Gaza Strip. In other fighting, Hamas militants launched at least 24 rockets at southern Israel, lightly injuring three people. Rockets hit an empty kindergarten and a children's playground in the city of Ashdod. The rockets have disrupted life for hundreds of thousands of terrified people who rush into bunkers and basements at the sound of warning sirens. Four people have died in rocket attacks. However, thousands of children in southern Israel returned to school Sunday for the first time in two weeks. Schools had been closed since the beginning of the offensive, but the military said schools that have been sufficiently fortified against attack could reopen. British Mideast envoy Tony Blair and Germany's top diplomat visited Jerusalem Sunday, and Israel planned to send a senior defense official this week to Egypt, which is trying to broker a truce. Blair met Olmert and said a plan to end the fighting must include a halt to weapons smuggling and the opening of border crossings into Gaza. He said urgency was vital because every day this action continues there are more people that die.

Germany's foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, appeared at a news conference with his Israeli counterpart, Tzipi Livni, in Jerusalem. The shooting of Qassam rockets and other weapons must be stopped and the smuggling of new weapons to the Gaza Strip for re-arming, or even to improve the weapons of Hamas, must be stopped, Steinmeier said. Barzak reported from Gaza City and Torchia from Jerusalem. AP reporter Karen Zolka contributed to this report from Jerusalem.

13 ISRAELIS DEAD,820 HAMAS ROCKETERS DEAD SO FAR IN GAZA WAR.
10,552 ROCKETS,MORTORS FIRED INTO ISRAEL BY HAMAS SINCE 2001.
Hezballah deny shooting 4 rockets into ISRAEL from Lebanon last Thursday.

Rights group: Israel uses incendiary bombs in Gaza By JASON KEYSER, Associated Press Writer – Sun Jan 11, 9:10 pm ET

JERUSALEM – Human Rights Watch said Sunday that Israel's military has fired artillery shells with the incendiary agent white phosphorus into Gaza and a doctor there said the chemical was suspected in the case of 10 burn victims who had skin peeling off their faces and bodies.Researchers in Israel from the rights group witnessed hours of artillery bombardments that sent trails of burning smoke indicating white phosphorus over the Jebaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza. But they could not confirm injuries on the ground because they have been barred from entering the territory.The chief doctor at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza said he treated several victims there with serious burns that might have been caused by phosphorus. He said, however, that he did not have the resources or expertise to say with certainty what caused the injuries.The substance can cause serious burns if it touches the skin and can spark fires on the ground, the rights group said in a written statement calling on Israel not to use it in crowded areas of Gaza.Military spokeswoman Maj. Avital Leibovich refused to comment directly on whether Israel was using phosphorus, but said the army was using its munitions in accordance with international law.Israel used white phosphorus in its 34-day war with Hezbollah in Lebanon in 2006. The U.S. military in Iraq used the incendiary during a November 2004operation against insurgents in the city of Fallujah.An AP photographer and a TV crew based in Gaza visited Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis on Sunday and recorded images of several burn patients.One of them, Haitham Tahseen, recalled sitting outside his home with his family in the morning when something exploded above them.

Suddenly, I saw bombs coming with white smoke, said the man, whose burned face was covered with medical cream. It looked very red and it had white smoke. That's the first time I've seen such a thing.His cousin, in another hospital bed, was more severely burned, with patches of skin peeling off his face and body, and had to be wrapped with thick white bandages.The hospital's chief doctor, Youssef Abu Rish, said the burns were not from contact with fire, but he couldn't say what sort of substance caused them. He said information he collected on the Internet indicated it could have been white phosphorus.White phosphorus is not considered a chemical weapon, and militaries are permitted under laws of warfare to use it in artillery shells, bombs and rockets to create smoke screens to hide troop movements as well as bright bursts in the air to illuminate battlefields at night.Israel is not party to a convention regulating its use. Under customary laws of war, however, Israel would be expected to take all feasible precautions to minimize the impact of white phosphorus on civilians, Human Rights Watch said.What we're saying is the use of white phosphorus in densely populated areas like a refugee camp is showing that the Israelis are not taking all feasible precautions, said Marc Garlasco, a senior military analyst for the rights group. It's just an unnecessary risk to the civilian population, not only in the potential for wounds but also for burning homes and infrastructure.Garlasco was among researchers on a ridge about a mile (1.5 kilometers) from the Gaza border who observed the shelling from a 155mm artillery unit on Friday and Saturday.Some of the burning trails of smoke caused fires on the ground that appeared to go out after a few minutes, said Garlasco, who formerly worked at the Pentagon where he was in charge of recommending high-value targets for airstrikes during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Each 155mm shell contains 116 of what Garlasco described as wafers doused in phosphorus that can be spread over an area as large as a sports field, depending on the height at which it detonates. The phosphorus ignites when it comes in contact with oxygen.Human Rights Watch has not been able to confirm whether there have been any civilian casualties from phosphorus. The group has a consultant working for it inside Gaza but he has been unable to move around due to the danger. Foreign journalists have also been barred from entering Gaza. Garlasco said photos published Thursday in British newspaper The Times showed Israeli units handling American-manufactured white phosphorus shells with fuses on them.

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).

Blair reappears as choice to be EU president By Tony Barber in Brussels January 12 2009 02:00

Tony Blair is re-emerging as a possible choice to be the European Union's first full-time president after four momentous crises reinforced the argument for having a high-profile international personality in the job.According to EU officials and diplomats, the impressive performance of Nicolas Sarkozy, France's president, during his six-month spell in charge of the EU last year has strengthened the hand of those who say a big name should guide the 27-nation bloc.In one sense, the discussions are premature. The full-time president will take office next year only if the EU's Lisbon institutional reform treaty, which creates the position, is ratified by all member states - notably, Ireland, which is expected to hold a second referendum on the treaty between September and December.But the sheer scale of the challenges facing the EU - from last August's Russia-Georgia war and the global financial meltdown to the Gaza conflict and the shutdown of Russian gas deliveries to Europe - is redefining the debate.Whereas last year Germany and other countries looked favourably on candidates such as Jean-Claude Juncker, the long-serving prime minister of Luxembourg, more policymakers now feel the EU presidency demands an occupant from a much bigger member state.Sarkozy concentrated minds, said an EU diplomat. He made a lot of us think, When the going gets rough, you've got to have a big person in this job.

At present the EU presidency - held since January 1 by the Czech Republic - rotates every six months.But the balance of EU opinion now favours not letting the vital task of representing the EU to big powers such as the US, China and Russia pass from one capital to another every six months.Mr Blair's name has often cropped up in connection with the job, but last year several factors worked against him, such as his close partnership when he was prime minister with George W. Bush, the outgoing US president, and his perceived talent for publicly supporting the EU without being bold enough to commit the UK to closer involvement.EU diplomats said these reservations still applied but had diminished over time and with the recognition that Mr Blair was one of Europe's few genuine stars on the world stage.In what looked like a rehabilitation of Mr Blair's standing in the Franco-German core of the EU, the former premier shared the spotlight last Thursday with Mr Sarkozy and Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, at a Paris conference on the future of capitalism.

Mr Blair's chances of getting the job - should it ever be created - may improve as a result of an impending re-distribution of powerful jobs among European leaders.Under one scenario, José Manuel Barroso of Portugal would keep his job as European Commission president, and the post of EU foreign policy chief would go to Jaap de Hoop Scheffer of the Netherlands, currently Nato's secretary-general.The Nato job would go to Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Denmark's prime minister, and the European parliament presidency would be shared between Martin Schulz of Germany and Jerzy Buzek of Poland.With France's Jean-Claude Trichet as European Central Bank president and Dominique Strauss-Kahn as International Monetary Fund managing director, the case for having a Briton as EU president would be strong.Mr Blair's spokesman said yesterday: The job [as EU president] doesn't even exist so the question doesn't arise. He's fully focused on his work in the Middle East.The Financial Times Limited 2009.

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)

Egypt presses Hamas on border monitors By Heba Saleh in Cairo and Andrew England and Tobias Buck in Jerusalem January 11 2009 18:01

Egyptian officials are trying to convince Hamas to accept a robust border monitoring mechanism that may include Turkish troops to ensure an end to weapons smuggling from Egypt into Gaza as part of a deal to end the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip.The diplomatic moves came on Sunday as Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, said the military operation was close to achieving its aims. But he added that further patience and determination were necessary in order to achieve those goals in a way that will change the security reality in the south.Israel has been holding off on launching a new phase of the war that would take troops into urban centres and more direct confrontation with Hamas. The Israeli cabinet suggested it wanted to give some time for diplomatic efforts to play out. Sealing the border and preventing the Islamist movement from re-arming is one of the key objectives of the onslaught, which continued on Sunday as Israeli troops advanced to the outskirts of the densely populated Gaza City. Hamas is being asked to accept serious action against smuggling in return for a more orderly opening of the border crossings, said a Cairo-based diplomat.Turkey is understood to have offered troops for Gaza and a delegation arrived in Cairo on Sunday.

Hamas, added the diplomat, would in return see an end to the Israeli offensive and a tacit understanding on the Egyptian side that the war would not remove the Islamist group from Gaza. But it would also have to agree to a return of the Palestinian Authority, ousted in 2007, to help police the border crossing.Israel insists it will not halt its offensive in the territory or agree to a truce until it is certain that Hamas cannot re-arm. Hamas, which has a delegation in Cairo for talks with Egyptian officials, says it wants the Israeli blockade of Gaza lifted. Israel and Hamas resisted last week’s UN ceasefire resolution, but both have been willing to talk to Egypt about its French-backed initiative to end the war.Hamas officials have repeatedly said they would not accept foreign forces in Gaza because the troops would protect Israel more than Palestinians, but the group would be more open to European monitors. Such a system was in place in 2005, when Israel withdrew from Gaza, but collapsed after Hamas’s takeover of the strip two years later.Israel has also demanded a much stronger Egyptian commitment to ending the smuggling on the Gaza border, where Palestinians have dug hundreds of tunnels, and is to hold further talks with Cairo this week. Egypt has categorically ruled out the presence of foreign troops on its 14km border with Gaza.An Israeli official said the Jewish state respected Egypt’s resistance to foreign troops, and was now looking to Cairo to clamp down harder on the smuggling of weapons, either on its own, or with the help of foreign technical advisers. European diplomats said they could offer technical help to detect tunnels and monitoring of the Egyptian side of the border to help meet Israeli concerns. As the war entered its third week, Palestinian medical officials said the death toll had reached 875 Palestinians, many of them civilians. Thirteen Israelis have been killed, including three civilians.Human Rights Watch added to criticism of Israel ’s conduct of its operations at the weekend by calling on the country’s military to stop using white phosphorus in populated areas in Gaza, saying it could cause horrific skin burns. A spokesman for the Israeli military said it had not used the chemical in its operations. The Financial Times Limited 2009

PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH
http://www.pmw.org.il/

YAHOO NEWS VIDEO
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MIDEAST CONFLICT NEWS
http://news.yahoo.com/video/1874;_ylt=A0wNcxFdg6xIgbkAwD6z174F

ABC NEWS VIDEO
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FOX NEWS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video/3074

FOX BUSINESS VIDEO
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AP NEWS VIDEO
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BBC NEWS VIDEO
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REUTERS VIDEO NEWS
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CNBC NEWS VIDEO
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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

WORLD MARKET RESULTS
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/

HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS MON JAN 12,2009

09:30 AM -1.12
10:00 AM -40.30
10:30 AM -57.19
11:00 AM -56.00
11:30 AM -70.17
12:00 PM -103.62
12:30 PM -75.35
01:00 PM -90.00
01:30 PM -82.04
02:00 PM -96.70
02:30 PM -138.67
03:00 PM -143.69
03:30 PM -146.62
04:00 PM -125.13 8474.05

S&P 500 870.26 -20.09

NASDAQ 1538.79 -32.80

GOLD 820.80 -34.20

OIL 37.63 -3.21

TSE 300 8793.33 -291.85

CDNX 878.35 -30.55

S&P/TSX/60 530.67 -18.13

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

Dow -28 points at 4 minutes oftrading today.
Dow -1 point at high today so far.
Dow -70 points at low so far today.
Bernie Madoff to remain on bail with additional restrictions.

CANADA DECEMBER JOB LOSSES
Canada DEC Unemployment rate 6.6%. America 7.2%
Construction worst losers at 44,000 jobs in DECEMBER.
Fulltime 71,000 lost,Part-time 36,000 lost,Total Net Job losses DEC 34,000 jobs.
NOV CAN job losses 71,000,But 2008 overall +98,000 Jobs created.
US had biggest yearly jobless in 2008 since 1945,2.6 MILLION JOBS LOST.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS

Dow -1 point at high.
Dow -153 points at low.

DOUG HAGMANN FACTS-PREDICTIONS
-911 was not a coverup but needs further investigation.
-Arabs exploit Media against Israel.
-Arabs use 2006 footage of Lebanon war this time to get world sympathy.
-This is a war for Global Governance (GOVERNMENT).
-Israel movement in Gaza is part of Global Governance Eugenics movement.
-Set up by global government Elites behind the scenes to destroy ISRAEL.
-These Elites want to reshape the World Map (WORLD TRADE BLOCS).
-Obama backed by the EU,UN,TRILATERAL COMMISSION,BILDERBERG GROUP,COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS,ALL NEW WORLD ORDER OR ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT GROUPS AS WELL AS NEW AGERS I WILL ADD.
-Death of Nations and the institution of Nationalism on a Global level.
-Obama to Assume Power,the situation with ISRAEL will esculate.
-Obama will put US,INTERNATIONAL FORCES IN GAZA.
-Obama will not have ISRAELS best interest at heart as he gradually with the forces in gaza turns against ISRAEl Saying were here to keep the Peace between you and the Arabs but he back stabs ISRAEL.
-This force will dismantle ISRAEL as a Nation (DIVIDE JERUSALEM).
-ISRAEL is the true victims of this Gaza war as it is a media Bias against ISRAEL,the propaganda to get worse the more ISRAEL bombs the HAMAS murderers.
-WATCH SYRIA CLOSELY,WATCH IRAN'S influence with HAMAS,HEZBOLLAH in and around ISRAEL, this will be a key component in the next 30 to 90 days.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -1 high today.
Dow -176 low today.
Dow -1.5% today.
Dow falls 3% in 2009.
Dow drops 6% over 4 days.
S&P -2.3% today.
S&P down 4% in 2009.
S&P down 6.9% over 4 days.
Nasdaq -2.1% today
Dow lower for 4th straight session.
S&P,Nasdaq lover for 3rd of last 4 sessions.
Gold and Oil both down today.
3 to 1 decline to advances in trading today.

Conservatives plan C$40 bln budget: CTV Sat Jan 10, 2:03 pm ET

TORONTO (Reuters) – The Conservative Party plans to present a $40 billion (US$ 34 billion) deficit, the highest since 1993, in the federal budget to be unveiled this month, CTV television reported.Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Thursday that Canada will run a substantial budget deficit in the next fiscal year as it enacts stimulus measures to help shelter the economy from the effects of the global economic downturn.The minority Conservative government is preparing its budget, due to be presented on January 27, and has said it is prepared to end a 12-year string of budget surpluses and inject C$20 billion to C$30 billion of stimulus into the economy.A $40 billion budget shortfall would be $10 billion more than Prime Minister Stephen Harper indicated in a late 2008 interview with CTV, CTV reported late on Friday.We'll take big, comprehensive actions. We'll assume that we're probably going to have to look at a period of three to five years of such actions, Harper said on Friday, adding that it would not necessarily take that long to see an economic recovery.Harper, whose minority Conservative government came close to being defeated in Parliament late last year, called on the opposition parties to work closely with him on a fiscal stimulus plan.(Writing by Alden Bentley)

Quick tapping of unspent $350 billion in works By ANDREW TAYLOR and PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press Writer JAN 11,09

WASHINGTON – Senate Democratic leaders said a vote could come as early as this week on providing a second $350 billion for the financial industry, after assurances Sunday by President-elect Barack Obama and one of his top economic advisers that the money would be better monitored and spent.The Bush administration and the incoming Obama team have undertaken a tag-team effort to obtain the money from reluctant lawmakers, to have it waiting for Obama when he's sworn in Jan. 20.President George W. Bush would request the additional money for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, but the incoming administration would allocate it. Obama's economic adviser, Larry Summers, briefed lawmakers Sunday on the bailout and on the incoming administration's plan for roughly $800 billion in spending and tax breaks to spur the economy.Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., said Sunday that lawmakers were assured there would be fuller accounting of the money spent on the bailout. Banks and other financial institutions have received billions from the government with few rules, and most won't say where the money has gone.Obama, in a taped interview aired Sunday on ABC's This Week, promised to see that more money goes directly to distressed homeowners. When you look at how we have handled the home foreclosure situation and whether we've done enough in terms of helping families ... we haven't done enough, he said.Larry Summers made a very strong argument for why it's important and critical for the overall recovery, said Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. And I think that's an argument that most senators understand.

Summers sought to win over Senate Democrats even as the GOP leader of the House, John Boehner of Ohio, warned that any effort to release the additional money would be a pretty tough sell. Boehner appeared on CBS' Face The Nation.A formal request to spend the second half of the $700 billion bailout would force a vote within days on whether to block the funding, but the deck is stacked in favor release of the money. Congress can pass a resolution disapproving the request, but the White House could veto the resolution; then, just one-third of either chamber would be needed to uphold the veto and win release of the money.Senate leaders would prefer to win a majority vote, Dodd said.The idea is to make the money available to the new administration shortly after Obama takes office Jan. 20. The unpopular bailout has featured unconditional infusions of money into financial institutions that have done little to reveal what they've done with it.Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson originally promised the money would be used to buy up mortgage-related securities whose falling values have clogged up credit markets and brought many financial institutions to the brink of failure.Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid indicated Sunday that Bush and Obama officials are near agreement on submitting notice to Congress about using the remaining $350 billion.We're waiting to hear from President Bush and or President-elect Obama as to what, if anything, they're going to do, said Reid, D-Nev., and that's occurring as we speak.The likelihood is that we'll have some kind of vote on that somewhere in the course of the week, Kerry said.But to prevail, Obama and his team must soothe senators who feel burned by the way the Bush administration has used the TARP.The (incoming) administration ... is going to fundamentally alter how this is being managed, Dodd said. The concept is still very sound and solid and it is needed. But it's not going to pass around here unless there's a strong commitment to foreclosure mitigation.Dodd said lawmakers were demanding other conditions, such as more concrete steps to limit executive compensation and make recipients of the funds be more accountable.

The Congressional Oversight Panel raised detailed questions last week about how banks are spending the first $350 billion, how the money will combat the rising tide of home foreclosures and Treasury's overall strategy for the rescue. In instance after instance, the panel said, the Treasury Department did not offer adequate responses. Obama, on ABC, said he has asked his economic team to develop a set of principles to ensure more openness about how the money is spent. Under consideration by Obama aides and congressional Democrats are proposals to limit executive pay at institutions that receive the money and to force such institutions to get rid of any private aircraft they may own or lease. Work continued through the weekend on Obama's economic recovery plan, which features aid to cash-strapped state governments, $500-$1,000 tax cuts for most workers and working couples, and a huge spending package blending old-fashioned public works projects with aid to the poor and unemployed and a variety of other initiatives. Advocates for using tax cuts to promote alternative energy won concessions and the Obama team promised to make a $3,000 job creation tax credit — which has attracted considerable criticism — more workable. Meanwhile, transition officials were resisting efforts to use the economic recovery bill to address the alternative minimum tax, which has affected more and more middle-income families.

Citi-Morgan talk may spark fresh wave of deals By SARA LEPRO, AP Business Writer – Sun Jan 11, 7:35 pm

NEW YORK – The anticipated combination of brokerage units at Citigroup and Morgan Stanley is seen by analysts as the likely start of a fresh wave of consolidation in the troubled and thinning banking industry.The potential deal between Citi and Morgan Stanley, which could be announced as early as Monday, underscores the problems still facing the industry after a year in which several well-known financial firms toppled under the weight of rising losses tied to bad mortgages.This really shows the continued vulnerability of the banking system, said Keith Springer, president of Capital Financial Advisory Services.During the past several months of financial turmoil, many banks have had to overhaul their business models. Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. became bank holding companies shortly after rival Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection and Merrill Lynch & Co. was sold to Bank of America Corp. in an emergency sale initially valued at $50 billion. Investors had grown concerned that stand-alone investment banks would no longer be viable amid continued weakness in the credit markets.Analysts generally expect 2009 to be another year of multibillion-dollar losses for banks as the forecast for a turnaround in the economy remains cloudy at best. As losses mount, other banks might need to consider selling off parts of their business to raise funds.The industry will need to focus on stemming credit losses and raising capital this year, Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co. analyst Paul Miller wrote in a recent note to clients.Current capital levels, which should be considered inadequate in even the best of times, pose an even greater risk entering 2009, a year that will remain challenging for financials, he wrote. Specifically, analysts foresee rising problems in banks' credit card and commercial real estate portfolios.

Some analysts believe that a sale of Citigroup's brokerage reinforces the progression toward a much leaner industry consisting of a handful of big banks offering many services. And consumers could feel the repercussions.Less competition is never good for consumers, Springer said.Morgan Stanley is likely to pay Citigroup between $2 billion and $3 billion for a 51 percent stake in the brokerage Smith Barney, a person close to the negotiations said Saturday.Morgan Stanley would then have the option to buy the rest of Smith Barney over the next three to five years, the person said. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about the ongoing talks.A spokesman for Citigroup declined to comment on Sunday. Calls to Morgan Stanley were not immediately returned.Citigroup has been hit particularly hard by the housing and credit crises. Though the bank has received $45 billion in support from the government's $700 billion financial rescue fund, its financial footing remains shaky. The New York bank has reported four straight quarters of losses totaling $20.2 billion through September 2008 and is expected to post yet another loss when it releases fourth-quarter results on Jan. 22.

It looks to me like they are rethinking the business model that Sandy Weill had, which was a one-stop shop model, said Chris Probyn, chief economist at State Street Global Advisors, referring to Citigroup's former chairman and chief executive. Now they are thinking about maybe going back to a more streamlined division.Weill built Citigroup into the conglomerate it is today through a series of mergers and acquisitions over the past couple decades before handing the reins to Charles Prince in 2003. The bank has been criticized for years that it had grown too big for its own good, with many investors clamoring for a break-up of its units.But while Citigroup has struggled with its size, its competitors have gotten bigger.Rivals JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp. and Wells Fargo & Co. all made acquisitions in the last year to better diversify their businesses.Bank of America bought Merrill Lynch & Co. and mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp. JPMorgan, meanwhile, scooped up storied investment bank, Bear Stearns Cos., in March, as well as the lucrative deposits of failed thrift Washington Mutual Inc. And Wells Fargo beat Citigroup in its pursuit of troubled Charlotte, N.C., bank Wachovia Corp. A deal to combine the brokerages of Citigroup and Morgan Stanley would not only give Citi much-needed cash, it would also give Morgan Stanley more manpower, analysts said. If Morgan and Citi get together, they would be able to put together a retail brokerage unit that is larger than Merrill's thundering herd, which could position them well in the marketplace, Probyn said. This may be a way of staying competitive.

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).

Salmonella prompts peanut butter recall By KANTELE FRANKO, Associated Press Writer – Sun Jan 11, 2:03 pm ET

COLUMBUS, Ohio – An Ohio distributor says it has recalled two brands of its peanut butter after an open container tested positive for salmonella bacteria.Federal health officials said the company's peanut butter had not been conclusively linked to a national salmonella outbreak.King Nut Companies said in a statement that it asked customers to stop distributing all peanut butter under its King Nut and Parnell's Pride brands with a lot code that begins with the numeral 8.The peanut butter was distributed only through food service providers in Ohio, Michigan, North Dakota, Minnesota, Arizona, Idaho, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Florida. It was not sold directly to consumers.Preliminary laboratory testing found salmonella bacteria in a 5-pound container of King Nut brand creamy peanut butter, the Minnesota Department of Health said Friday.The Minnesota tests had not linked it to the type of salmonella in the outbreak that has sickened almost 400 people in 42 states, but the department said additional results are expected early next week.The federal Food and Drug Administration also is analyzing samples of peanut butter from King Nut and Peanut Corporation, spokeswoman Stephanie Kwisnek said Sunday. The agency has not conclusively linked the peanut butter to the strain of salmonella that has sickened people in the outbreak, she said.King Nut's president, Martin Kanan, said Sunday that the recall involved approximately 1,000 cases of peanut butter. He said he did not know the names of the company's customers, but he planned to release more details Monday.

We don't know exactly where they sell to, Kanan said. They could sell cross-state, too.We just want everybody to know that safety is our highest priority, Kanan said. We just wanted to recall it right away.King Nut, based in Solon, Ohio, said it canceled all orders with the manufacturer of its two peanut butter brands, Peanut Corporation of America, based in Lynchburg, Va.Peanut Corporation said in a statement posted on its Web site that it is working with federal food and health officials to determine whether its products are connected to the national outbreak. PCA does not sell its products at grocery stores or directly to the public.The Lynchburg company said the tainted container was found in the kitchen of a nursing facility, leaving it open to the possibility of cross-contamination from another source. The company did not say where the nursing facility was located or when the contaminated product was discovered.Peanut Corporation's owner and president, Stewart Parnell, declined to comment further on Sunday until the FDA and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention complete their investigation.CDC spokeswoman Bernadette Burden said Sunday that she had no new information on the case and did not know when additional test results would be available.The CDC said Friday that 399 cases had been confirmed nationally, with about one in five of victims hospitalized. California has reported the most cases, with 55, followed by Ohio with 53. All the illnesses began between Sept. 3 and Dec. 29, but most of the people grew sick after Oct. 1.The CDC has not confirmed any deaths associated with the outbreak.The report of peanut butter contamination comes almost two years after ConAgra recalled its Peter Pan brand peanut butter, which was eventually linked to at least 625 salmonella cases in 47 states. CDC officials say the bacteria in the current outbreak has been genetically fingerprinted as the Typhimurium type, which is among the most common sources of salmonella food poisoning. On the Net: King Nut Companies: http://www.kingnut.com/ CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/ Peanut Corporation: http://www.peanutcorp.com/

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GLOBAL JIHAD Beware, we are coming! Islamic rule from Alaska and Chile to South Africa January 11, 2009 8:24 pm Eastern By Bob Unruh 2009 WorldNetDaily

Radical Muslims in Somalia are promising Islamic rule from Alaska and Chile to South Africa and from Japan to Russia, issuing the warning Beware, we are coming, according to a media monitor.The Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI, cites excerpts from television reports on the Somali terror organization Shabab al-Mujahideen that aired on Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya in recent weeks. MEMRI monitors, translates and interprets media reports from the Middle East on critical issues including religion, terror and war. The report said Islamic leaders spoke of their world plans in a pre-Christmas broadcast on the Middle East satellite channel Al-Jazeera.See the incredible video on Islam that was banned in Detroit! Obsession shows you what they don't want you to see.We are defending ourselves against those who attacked us, Abu Mansour said in the report. Once we succeed, we will fight to end oppression in other places in the world.Added Ibrahim Al-Maqdasi, We want to inform Bush and our rivals about our real intentions. We will establish Islamic rule from Alaska and Chile to South Africa, and from Japan to Russia. Beware, we are coming.Somalia's move toward radical Islam has raised concern internationally. Officials in the U.S. fear American youth are being recruiting into jihad in the African nation and believe at least one already has carried out at suicide attack.

Said Mansour, We welcome any Muslim from anywhere in the world who wants to join us. We will allow him to marry our daughters and share our crops. Many have died fighting for our cause, and others are here with us.A separate Al-Jazeera report had a reporter describing the work of the Shabab Al-Mujahideen in Somalia, implementing Islamic Shariah law by reducing a Catholic church to rubble. We are a people chosen by Allah to spread the Islamic Shariah throughout Somalia, Hassan Ya'Qoub said in the report.It cited three drug dealers who were sentenced to 40 lashes. A report on Al-Arabiya TV shortly said Somali Islamists resemble al-Qaida in everything, except for swearing allegiance to al-Qaida's leader, Osama bin Laden.An unidentified man said, I'll tell you one thing. I'll put a bullet in the head of the infidels, and I'm ready to do it. Allah willing, the saved sect will lie in wait for each and every dog the infidels bring. … We will put bullets in their heads.On Al-Jazeera, Muqtar Robow, identified as a spokesman for Shabab al-Mujahideen, said his group intends to implement Shariah completely – every single element of it.Our objectives, by the grace of God, are to see the return of the Islamic Caliphate, the last of which was the Ottoman empire that collapsed in the 1920s. We want to bring that system back and govern the world with God's law, he said. Somalia has been in turmoil for decades, and the U.S. has contributed more than half a billion dollars in aid, mostly food, in recent years. The transitional government in recent months has begun to organize. However, the report said Robow considers the new leaders as war criminals.We urge them to just repent and seek forgiveness from the Lord, and then return to the people, take up their guns, and fight the enemy they brought into the country, because the enemy forces will not listen if we ask them to leave today, he said.

WELL THEM PEACEFUL MUSLIMS DON'T ONLY KILL THEIR OWN WOMEN THEY LOVE KILLING HOLLYWOOD WOMEN AS WELL.

Muslims Threaten To Kill Madonna, Britney Spears
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu JAN 12,09

(IsraelNN.com) Muslim extremists have threatened to kill Madonna, the pop star who has expressed admiration for Israel and who professes to study Kabbalah, as well as star Britney Spears.Mohammed Abdel-Al, spokesman and senior terrorist for the Popular Resistance Committees, was recorded as threatening, If I meet these whores, I will have the honor – I repeat, I will have the honor – to be the first one to cut [their] heads off…if they will keep spreading their satanic culture against Islam.

Madonna has visited Israel several times and has visited the Western Wall (Kotel).

Britain's People Magazine reported a source close to Madonna as saying, Madonna is well known for her Kabbalah faith and support for Israel, having visited the country several times. This seems to upset extreme Muslims who forget she respects people of all faiths.She reportedly has beefed up security for herself and her family by hiring two Israeli bodyguards.