DAY 19 IN GAZA ISRAEL 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.

Wind-chill warnings across Western, Central Canada
Updated Tue. Jan. 13 2009 5:36 PM ET CTV.ca News Staff

Frigid winds are blowing across the country as Canadians endure some of the coldest weeks of winter. Environment Canada has issued wind-chill warnings that stretch out from the Prairies, also hitting parts of Ontario and Quebec.In a section of the agency's website that shows weather conditions for Canada, every single province and territory was crimson red Tuesday, with the lone exception of the Yukon. Most of those warnings were for frigid winds.The area bearing the brunt of the cold was Manitoba, which had wind chill warnings across the entire province.Low temperatures combined with northwest winds of 20 km/h will produce wind chills of minus 40 to minus 45 over all southern and central Manitoba tonight and Wednesday, warned Weather Canada.Extreme caution is advised. Under these conditions exposed skin may freeze in as little 5 as minutes.In Fort Chiewyan, located in northeastern Alberta, extreme wind chills near -40 degrees Celsius were reported.In neighbouring Saskatchewan, a northerly breeze gusting at 15 kilometres per hour was bringing even colder wind chills at -45 degrees in the southeastern corner of the province.

Residents in northern Ontario and parts of Quebec were also warned about frigid winds, which were reported to be as cold as -50.Eastern Canada had only a small scattering of wind-chill warnings, but Nova Scotia was mostly expected to be hit by a mixture of heavy rain and snow. Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island were also under various snowfall warnings.

Shocking cold wave drops temps to 40 below zero By AMY FORLITI, Associated Press Writer JAN 13,09

MINNEAPOLIS – Temperatures crashed to Arctic levels Tuesday as a severe cold wave rolled across the upper Midwest on the heels of yet another snowstorm, closing schools and making most people think twice before going outside.Thermometers read single digits early in the day as far south as Kansas and Missouri, where some areas warmed only into the teens by midday.The ice and snow that glazed pavement was blamed for numerous traffic accidents from Minnesota to Indiana, where police said a truck overturned and spilled 43,000 pounds of cheese, closing a busy highway ramp during the night in the Gary area.The bitter cold snap was responsible for at least one death Tuesday.A 51-year-old man in northern Wisconsin died from exposure after wandering from his Hayward home early Tuesday, authorities said. His son reported him missing and said he was prone to sleepwalking, and deputies followed footprints in the snow to find the man about 190 yards from his house, Sawyer County Chief Deputy Tim Zeigle said.Some Minnesotans took it as just another winter day, even in the state's extreme northwest corner where thermometers bottomed out at 38 degrees below zero at the town of Hallock and the National Weather Service said the wind chill was a shocking 58 below.It's really not so bad, Robert Cameron, 75, said as he and several friends gathered for morning coffee at the Cenex service station in Hallock. We've got clothing that goes with the weather. ... We're ready and rolling, no matter what.It's so beautiful. There's not a cloud in the sky, said Keith Anderson, 66. But he said that's not stopping him from skipping town at the end of the week to spend a couple of months in Nevada and Arizona.

Outside, one of the station's gas pumps froze up at least once, and assistant manager Terrie Franks had to go out to apply deicer spray.You definitely have to have gloves on because touching the cold metal — your hands are frozen, Franks said by telephone.The weather service warned that exposed flesh can freeze in 10 minutes when the wind chill is 40 degrees below zero or colder.At about 8 a.m., temperatures were minus 40 in International Falls and minus 35 in Roseau. Farther south, Minneapolis hit 18 below zero with a wind chill of 32 below and black ice was blamed for numerous accidents.Two northern Minnesota ski areas, Spirit Mountain in Duluth and Giants Ridge near Biwabik, announced they would close for a second straight day Wednesday because of the dangerously low windchill.In neighboring North Dakota, Grand Forks dropped to a record low of 37 below zero Tuesday morning, lopping six degrees off the old record set in 1979, the National Weather Service said.Schools were closed because of the cold as far south as Iowa, and authorities in Grand Rapids, Mich., issued an extreme cold weather alert and went out urging the homeless to seek shelter.AAA Michigan responded to 1,450 motorists across the state Tuesday morning, mostly to assist with dead batteries, spinouts and minor accidents after an early snowfall, said spokeswoman Nancy Cain.The leading edge of the cold air was expected to strike the Northeast, mid-Atlantic and South late Tuesday and Wednesday. And meteorologists warned that a second wave could drop temperatures into the single digits Thursday and Friday in the mid-Atlantic region.

The storm that blew through the upper Midwest on Monday dropped 6 inches of snow on Minot, N.D., on top of about a foot that fell late last week, and Bismarck collected 4 inches. Bismarck, Fargo and Grand Forks all broke snow records for December, each with more than 30 inches. They were outdone by Madison, Wis., which accumulated a record 40 inches for the month, the weather service said Tuesday. Road departments have had little time to clear away the snow between storms, and North Dakota officials said snowplows would be pulled off the roads Tuesday night in the central and western parts of the state because of strong winds. Four-wheel drives are useless — people are just snowed in, said Rhonda Woodhams, office manager for Williams County, N.D. People are calling in saying they're out of milk and diapers for their kids, or they have doctor appointments they need to get to. We're doing our best. And we don't need no more snow.It's like a sea of whiteness; people can't see the road, said Rebecca Arndt, a spokeswoman for the Minnesota Department of Transportation in Mankato. When the white fluffy stuff starts to blow, it is not pretty.What was left of that snowstorm was blowing eastward along the Great Lakes, and the weather service posted winter storm warnings Tuesday for parts of Michigan, northern Indiana and Ohio's northwest corner. Up to 11 inches of new snow was possible in Detroit. Winter weather advisories were in effect from North Dakota to Ohio and northeast into northern New England. Associated Press writers Roger Petterson in New York and James MacPherson in Bismarck, N.D., contributed to this report. On the Net:Weather Service warnings: http://tinyurl.com/yfjlyf

Fresh floods in Fiji as heavy rain falls again By PITA LIGAIULA, Associated Press Writer – Tue Jan 13, 12:17 am ET

SUVA, Fiji – Heavy rain sparked fresh flash floods Tuesday in Fiji, where thousands of people huddled in emergency shelters and scores of homes were inundated by a brown tide of rising water.Officials posted the second severe flood warning in five days after a spate of tropical storms killed at least eight people on this Pacific island nation.This is the worst flooding situation in the recent history of Fiji, Meteorological Service director Rajendra Prasad told The Associated Press. Two peak floods one after the other was unprecedented, he said, and heavy rain was forecast for the whole country for the next two days.Prasad said new widespread flooding would be accompanied by strong 55 mile (90 kilometer) an hour winds, and with rivers already spilling over their banks ... I don't expect the waters to recede for several days.Floods have swamped cities, towns, villages and farmland on the main island of Viti Levu since Thursday.Authorities said six people drowned and two were killed in a landslide, while more than 6,000 people forced into emergency government shelters have been warned to remain there over the next few days.Four days of torrential rains inundated the towns of Nadi, Ba, Sigatoka and Labasa on Viti Levu, the nation's disaster management office said. Sugar cane crops were washed out, roads severed, and bridges submerged.The government Monday declared a state of emergency in the hardest-hit western districts of Viti Levu, where dozens of international resorts are located. There have been no reports of tourists in trouble in that area, though thousands have had their travel plans disrupted.Disaster Management Office head Patiliai Dobui said initial damage estimates totaled $12 million, but that figure didn't include the agriculture sector.In towns like Ba on western Viti Levu, floodwaters 10 feet (3.2 meters) deep surged through the area, with many homes submerged up to their roofs, he said.In Nadi, this is the worst flooding in the lifetime of most of the local people living there, Dobui told the AP.

Mozambique floods kill 19; worse may lie ahead Mon Jan 12, 7:28 am ET

MAPUTO, Mozambique – Authorities in Mozambique say torrential rains have killed 19 people in the past few days and worse flooding may lie ahead.Jose Domingos, a disaster management official, says most of the victims died trying to cross a raging river in the central province of Manica. He says hundreds have been given shelter in emergency centers and roads in the area are impassable.Mozambican television showed pictures Monday of people trying to cross the Mweri river with their belongings and domestic animals.Four more people have been killed and 1,000 displaced in the coastal region of Inhambane in the past two weeks.Authorities fear that, as the rainy season in the southern African nation continues, the flooding will worsen.

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.

More quakes in Southern California 9:03 AM, January 10, 2009
Times staffer Jia-Rui Chong reports:LA TIMES

Do you think the ground feels a little shakier these days? It's not your imagination.
Last year saw a significant increase in the number of temblors of magnitude 3.0 or greater in Southern California and the northern portion of Baja California, according to data from Caltech and the U.S. Geological Survey.The region recorded 267 shakers with magnitudes of 3.0 and above last year, compared with 125 in 2007. Seismologists said 2008 had the highest number of such quakes of any year since 1999.

What experts don't know is whether the quake cluster is a harbinger of bigger quakes to come. The 1990s was considered a seismically active decade in Southern California, producing the magnitude 7.3 Landers quake in 1992 and the destructive Northridge temblor in 1994. During the quake cluster of 1999, the region was hit by the magnitude 7.1 Hector Mine temblor in the desert and several sizable aftershocks. There were 828 quakes with magnitudes of 3.0 and above that year.Lucile Jones, a seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, said that although experts can't predict future quake activity, it appears Southern California is waking up from a steep drop-off in seismic activity so far this decade. ...Check out Martin Beck's interactive quake map.

DANNY AYALON ON TUESDAY NIGHT LIVE
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/129013

RESERVISTS MOTIVATION HIGH
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/129417

10,577 ROCKETS,MORTERS SENT INTO ISRAEL SINCE 2001.

Rocket Hits Ashkelon School as IDF Closes in on Gaza City
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu JAN 13,09

(IsraelNN.com) A Hamas terrorist rocket hit a school in Ashkelon Tuesday afternoon, the ninth time its missiles have hit educational facilities since the beginning of the war.The explosion caused light damage to an adjacent high school, where students were learning in a fortified room. They hid under their desks with their hands over their heads when the warning siren sounded, and no one was injured.Precautionary measures of closing most schools and assembling high school classes in bomb shelters have prevented several would-be disasters.Earlier this week, a rocket hit the courtyard of an empty Chabad school in Be'er Sheva, where another empty high school sustained a direct hit in the beginning of the war.The continuing offensive of the Cast Lead counterterrorist operation has brought Israeli tanks into Gaza City neighborhoods, and aerial attacks have wiped out more than 50 percent of its rocket arsenal.Hamas, whose de facto prime minister Ismail Haniyeh said Monday night is winning the war, is trying to inflict as many casualties as possible and win concessions toward a ceasefire.

Its remaining stockpile of thousands of rockets, possibly including missiles that can penetrate the Tel Aviv metropolitan area, is capable of inflicting a heavy blow against Israel. However, the number of rockets has decreased dramatically, from 80 on the third dayof the war to 20 on Monday. As of early Tuesday evening, 19 rockets exploded on southern Israel, including missiles fired during Israel's daily one-sided truce to enable humanitarian aider to flow into Gaza. Three mortars landed in open areas near Sderot.Almost all of the rockets landed in open areas and caused no injuries or damage.

Jews in Muslim Lands Feeling the Heat
by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz JAN 13,09

(IsraelNN.com) Jews living in majority-Muslim countries are in a precarious situation as Israel fights the Islamist Hamas regime in Gaza. While pro-Hamas, anti-Semitic rallies and sporadic attacks are continuing worldwide, Jews in Muslim lands face an additional danger as a vulnerable minority.

Synagogue Shut by Force
In Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim state, that nation's only synagogue was forcibly shut down and sealed. Located in an ethnic Arab neighborhood of Surabaya, Indonesia's second-largest city, the synagogue became the focus of a Muslim mob last Wednesday following a free speech forum held in the city. The small Indonesian synagogue, without benefit of a Torah scroll or rabbi, is in Rivka Sayers' home. She is one of only a handful of Jews living in the Muslim state, most of whom are of mixed European-Asian background. In addition to forcing the sealing of the Surabaya synagogue, protesters called for a boycott of US products. Anti-Israel and anti-American rallies continued this week, with some 20,000 Indonesian Muslims have gathering in the capital Jakarta on Sunday under the auspices of the the Islamic Prosperous Justice Party (PKS).

We Will Kill You
In Turkey, synagogues in Izmir were also shut down, but this time out of serious security concerns, after someone scrawled We will kill you on the door of one of the biggest synagogues in the city. Synagogues in Turkey have been the target of Islamic fundamentalist and pan-Arab terrorist bombings and shootings in the past, including a double car bombing that killed 20 people in November 2003. In Istanbul, a shop owned by a local Jewish family was targeted, as well. A huge poster saying, Do not buy from here, since this shop is owned by a Jew, was plastered on the shop and other posters on the wall said, Jews and Armenians are not allowed, but dogs are.On Wednesday, all Turkish high schools and primary schools will pay homage to Gazans killed in Israel's Operation Cast Lead. Art teachers are instructed to dedicate their classes to the topic, Human Drama in Palestine, and to offer awards to outstanding compositions. A Turkish-Jewish source wishing to remain anonymous reported that Istanbul is filled with anti-Israel posters and billboards, as well as more explicit graffiti saying things like, Kill Jews, Kill Israel, and Israel should no longer exist in the Middle East.

We have previously faced some strong reaction regarding previous operations in Gaza and the West Bank, but this time is really different from former ones. I feel open anti-Semitism and hatred from all these people, the Turkish source commented. Openly anti-Semitic propaganda far exceeds anything happening in Europe, according to his observations. The situation, the source concluded, is becoming much more dangerous day by day.Approximately 26,000 Jews live in Turkey and the country has become a very popular destination for Israeli tourists.

Iranian Jews Protest Israel
Iranian Jews, most of whom regularly claim to be comfortable in the Islamic Republic, have taken part in anti-Israel rallies sponsored by the regime. Openly anti-Semitic propaganda far exceeds anything happening in Europe.On December 30, a protest of Tehran's Jews was held in front of the United Nations' office in the city. Speaking with an Iranian TV station, Rahmatullah Rafii, the chairman of a Tehran-based Jewish organization, said, Jews in the Islamic Republic of Iran condemn Israel's attack on the people of Gaza.However, due to the totalitarian nature of the Islamic regime, the true status and views of Iran's Jews - as well as Iran's other citizens - remain hidden from view. Increasing cases of discrimination, including the closing of Jewish day schools and the banning of Hebrew instruction, have been recorded in recent years. About 200 out of Iran's 28,000 Jews immigrated to Israel in 2007, many of them through clandestine means.

Egyptians Want to Ban Visits to Jewish Tomb
The tomb of Rabbi Yaakov Abuhatzeira has become the focus of Egyptian anti-Israel efforts. The Moroccan-born rabbi, who died in 1880, is the grandfather of the late Israeli Kabbalist Yisrael Abuhatzeira, better known as the Baba Sali. The tomb of Rabbi Yaakov, located in the coastal village of Nekraha, has become a place of pilgrimage for hundreds of Jews in recent years. The largest group regularly comes from Israel in January and is given heavy protection by local security services.

This year, a coalition of Egyptian political opposition parties came together to prevent the pilgrimage of Israelis to the rabbi's tomb. The coalition has brought together unlikely allies, from the far-left Al-Tagamu party to the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. An article in Al-Masri al-Yooum said that the coalition's leader, Gamal Mounib, stated that he holds the Egyptian government responsible for any pilgrims reaching the shrine this year. Only about 60 Jews currently live in Egypt, while the country's synagogues and the Israeli Embassy in Cairo are heavily guarded by Egyptian soldiers. Elsewhere in North Africa, the Al-Qaeda offshoot known as Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (North Africa) has issued explicit calls for Muslims to attack Jews wherever they are found. Jewish communities among Muslim populations constitute the most obvious and immediate targets for incited individuals as well as organized Jihadist cells.

IDF Officer, Soldiers Wounded in Booby-Trapped House
by Hana Levi Julian JAN 13,09

(IsraelNN.com) An IDF officer was critically wounded overnight, and two other soldiers injured as well, during operations in northern Gaza. All three were evacuated to hospital and their families were notified. An explosive device was detonated against the force in a booby-trapped house they were searching for terrorists, smuggling tunnels and weapons.Different weapons were found in the structure, according to the IDF Spokesperson’s Office, including a machine gun and an equipment vest.Prayers are being requested for the soldier Aharon Yehoshua ben (son of) Chaya Shoshanna.IDF ground troops killed 30 armed terrorists during overnight operations in Gaza, while IAF fighter pilots attacked 60 separate targets.

The forces uncovered two booby-trapped tunnels and a large number of weapons, including four mortar launchers, a roadside bomb, bulletproof vests and a surveillance camera. In addition, IAF warplanes bombed 20 smuggling tunnels along the Philadelphi Corridor, a main thoroughfare for bringing in missiles and other weapons and ammunition. The tunnels link Egyptian Sinai with Gaza, allowing weapons to flow to Hamas from the rest of the Arab and Muslim world.

Israeli forces storm Gaza City neighborhood By IBRAHIM BARZAK and CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press Writers JAN 13,09

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Terrified residents ran for cover Tuesday in a densely populated neighborhood of Gaza City as Israeli troops backed by tanks thrust deeper into the city and sought Hamas fighters in alleyways and cellars.On the diplomatic front, Egyptian mediators pushed Hamas to accept a truce proposal and, in a hopeful sign, Israel sent its lead negotiator to Cairo for decisive talks on a cease-fire. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also headed for the region to join diplomatic efforts.Israeli military officials say that depending on what happens with what they described as decisive talks in Cairo, Israel will move closer to a cease-fire or widen its offensive. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were discussing sensitive policy matters.Asked if Israel's war aims had been achieved, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said: Most of them, probably not all of them.

Israeli troops now have the coastal city of 400,000 virtually surrounded as part of an offensive launched Dec. 27 to end years of Palestinian rocket attacks on its southern towns.Early Wednesday an Israeli warplane fired a missile at the former Gaza city hall, used as a court building in recent years, witnesses said. The 1910 structure was destroyed and many stores in the market around it were badly damaged, they said.Palestinian medical officials reported at least 42 deaths from the conflict on Tuesday throughout Gaza.The Israeli military said three soldiers were wounded, including an officer who was searching a northern Gaza house when a bomb exploded.Palestinian hospital officials say more than 940 Palestinians, half of them civilians, have been killed in the fighting. A total of 13 Israelis, 10 of them soldiers, have died.Palestinian rocket fire has dropped significantly since the offensive was launched. Some 15 rockets and mortar shells were fired toward Israel Tuesday, causing no injuries, the army said.Fireballs and smoke plumes from Israeli bombing have become a common sight in the territory of 1.4 million people, who are effectively trapped because of blockaded border crossings. Recent fighting has focused on Gaza City, where Israeli soldiers could be increasingly exposed to the treacherous conditions of urban warfare.The operation in Tel Hawwa neighborhood, one mile (1.5 kilometers) southeast of downtown, matched fast-paced forays into other areas designed to avoid Israeli casualties. Residents said troops entered overnight, reconnoitered the area, and then pulled back to more secure positions.

One Israeli military officer told The Associated Press that Hamas fighters often operate in small groups of up to four and have largely refrained from confronting Israeli troops at close range.Their strategy has mainly been to use lots of booby-traps, shooting guns and missiles from afar, the Israeli officer said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.Soldiers are taking lots of precautions, they are being more careful than the army has ever been before in any war, he said. Soldiers shoot at anything suspicious, use lots of firepower, and blast holes through walls to move around.Gabi Ashkenazi, chief of staff of the Israeli military, said Hamas militants also have put on Israeli military uniforms to try to approach troops and carry out suicide bombings.Ahead of the U.N. chief's arrival, Israeli U.N. Ambassador Gabriela Shalev wrote him a letter charging that Hamas is deliberately endangering civilians in Gaza. She claimed that Hamas operates a command center under Shifa Hospital, Gaza's largest, and militants routinely fire from inside the houses of civilians who are held as hostages, prevented by Hamas from leaving.Hamas, which is backed by Iran, cannot hope to score a battlefield victory over the powerful Israeli military, but mere survival could earn it political capital in the Arab world as a symbol of resistance to the Jewish state. Lebanon's Hezbollah, another Iran-backed group, largely achieved that goal in its 2006 war with Israel. On Tuesday, a Gaza resident said he saw Hamas militants in civilian clothing firing rockets from the southeastern corner of the territory. He spoke by telephone and requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information. Israel says it will push forward with the offensive until Hamas ends all rocket fire on southern Israel, and there are guarantees the militant group will stop smuggling weapons into Gaza through the porous Egyptian border. Hamas has said it will only observe a cease-fire if Israel withdraws from Gaza. We will not allow our enemy to gain any political achievement from this war on Gaza, said Salah Bardawil, a Hamas envoy in Egypt. Much of the ongoing diplomacy focuses on an area of southern Gaza just across the Egyptian border that serves as a weapons smuggling route, making Egypt critical to both sides in any deal. Israel wants smuggling tunnels along the border sealed and monitored as part of any deal, and has bombed suspected tunnel sites throughout its campaign. One resident, Khader Mussa, said he fled his house while waving a white flag as Israeli forces advanced. He spent the night huddling in the basement of a relative with 25 other people, including his pregnant wife and his parents. Thank God we survived this time and got out alive from here. But we don't know how long we'll be safe in my brother's home, Mussa, 35, said by telephone. The Israeli military said it carried out dozens of airstrikes on squads of gunmen, rocket launching sites and smuggling tunnels along the Egyptian border. The Gaza fighting has raised tensions around the region and galvanized anger toward Israel throughout the Arab world. On Tuesday, at least one gunman opened fire at an Israeli army patrol along the desert border between Israel and Jordan, the military said. There were no casualties, and Jordan said the claim was baseless.

In the southern West Bank city of Hebron, the Israeli military said, a Palestinian was shot and injured after he tried to grab a gun from an Israeli soldier whose patrol stopped him for questioning. The man later died, according to an Associated Press reporter who saw his body. Humanitarian concerns have increased amid the onslaught although some aid is getting through to Gaza during daily three-hour lulls declared by Israel to allow delivery of supplies. In Brussels, the European Union's aid chief said Israel has not respected international humanitarian aid during the war. In Oslo, Norway, the head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, Karen Abu Zayd, urged the Israeli army to do more to allow supplies into the besieged area. We are getting a lot of help from the Israeli Defense Forces on the one crossing that's open to get more and more trucks in, but it's just not enough, she said. Torchia reported from Jerusalem. AP correspondents Diaa Hadid and Ian Deitch contributed to this report from Jerusalem.

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)

U.S. Provides Nuclear Umbrella for 30 Nations, More May Be Added
http://newsblaze.com/story/20090110134305tsop.nb/topstory.html

Professional Palestinian force means peace By J.D. Crouch II, Montgomery Meigs and Walter B. Slocombe • January 13, 2009

When the dust settles in Gaza, the Obama administration will take up the mantle of moving the two sides toward an Israeli-Palestinian peace. American efforts must focus on strengthening the capabilities of the Palestinian party upon whom hope for peace can rest, the Palestinian Authority, and ensuring the stability of the West Bank.Even before the breakdown of the Gaza cease-fire last month, Israelis and Palestinians were exhausted, bitter and skeptical that a genuine partner for peace existed.The trust that the Oslo process intended to build collapsed with the second intifada, the wave of suicide bombings in Israel, the Israeli military’s reoccupation of much of the West Bank and ongoing settlement construction. A major diplomatic initiative pressuring the parties to make concessions – or imposing the terms of an agreement – clearly will not work. Events in Gaza underscore the fact that progress toward peace will not occur without confidence that an agreement will produce lasting security. Unless it commands effective and loyal security forces, no Palestinian government – however well intentioned – will be able to uphold its part of an agreement.Fortunately, there is a path forward. American efforts can forge a basis for security between Israelis and Palestinians by developing a professional Palestinian security system that would help inhibit Hamas in the West Bank and eventually allow the PA to re-establish its authority in Gaza.

The United States already has a framework for supporting this process through the Office of the U.S. Security Coordinator (USSC), headed by Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton. Despite limited funding and support from Washington, Dayton’s mission has made considerable progress over the past year. It has overseen the training of more than 1,000 members of the Presidential Guard and the National Security Force – an armed national police. These units deployed to Jenin, and more recently to Hebron, where they began enforcing order in previously lawless cities. All sides acknowledge the achievements of this effort, yet fundamental security will emerge only when Palestinian security forces target terrorist cells and networks, not just car thieves and other ordinary criminals. And despite some recent progress, counterterrorism efforts by the Dayton-led units remain extremely limited.To develop a professional Palestinian security force capable of conducting counterterrorism operations, Washington must substantially expand and reorient Dayton’s effort as part of the broader institutional reform of the Palestinian Authority. The mission must have a regular budget and an augmented, qualified staff (only 16 Americans are assigned to the USSC, including just two speakers of Arabic). American forces must be given legal permission to directly supervise training and operations of foreign police. Authority for the mission should be transferred from the State Department to the Defense Department, allowing the military to allocate its own equipment, specialized funds and intelligence assets to the effort. Such a change would also improve the teams’ freedom of movement, as they currently must get permission and security protection from the American consulate in Jerusalem when traveling in the West Bank.An effective security force would not by itself guarantee that Palestinians have the will to act against terrorism. Nor would it solve the intra-Palestinian conflict between Hamas and its secular, nationalist rival, Fatah. But providing the PA with a professional and properly equipped security force — supported by Israelis and Palestinians — is a necessary condition for delivering security and an institutional requirement for statehood.Some argue that NATO should replace the Israeli Defense Forces in the West Bank and substitute for Palestinian security forces. There may be a role for international forces to monitor an eventual peace agreement, or even a possible border arrangement in Gaza as part of a cease-fire, but it would be impractical to make the international community responsible for delivering Israeli-Palestinian security before peace is achieved. For one thing, the Israelis would be unwilling to outsource their security to other nations, and Palestinians would be reluctant to accept what would amount to another, at least temporary, foreign occupation.In addition, NATO members and other potential participants in such a force would struggle to provide qualified combat, intelligence and civil affairs specialists for the mission. Many NATO militaries have never performed counterterrorism operations and have eschewed doing so in Afghanistan. Those nations that have sent forces to Afghanistan do not have much additional capability to contribute to another effort.

Peacekeeping forces would face sophisticated attacks by Hamas and groups such as Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad; in such an environment, a NATO force would need the capability and the will to proactively move to prevent terrorist operations, using deadly force when necessary. America’s European partners would be extremely reluctant to participate in such operations without caveats, leaving the United States to shoulder the burden.There are no shortcuts to peace that bypass security. Empowering Palestinians to assume security responsibility and continued measures to enhance the Palestinians’ ability to keep their side of an agreement should be America’s principal contribution to the peace process in the coming months.J.D. Crouch II was deputy national security adviser from 2005 to 2007. Retired Gen. Montgomery Meigs commanded NATO forces in Bosnia from 1998 to 1999. Walter B. Slocombe served as undersecretary of defense for policy in the Clinton administration. They co-wrote the study Security First: Priorities for U.S. Engagement in Israeli-Palestinian Peacemaking, published last month by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

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.

Egypt to host decisive talks with Israel and Hamas
Updated Tue. Jan. 13 2009 4:05 PM ET CTV.ca News Staff

Israel says its top defence envoy will travel to Egypt this week for decisive ceasefire talks with Hamas, as Israeli troops closed in on Gaza City's crowded core Tuesday and clashed with Palestinian militants.Amid mounting civilian casualties and growing international concern, Israeli Defence negotiator Amos Gilad will go to Egypt on Thursday, renewing hopes for a diplomatic end to the 18-day-old offensive.

The diplomatic trip had been postponed for several days as Israeli Defence Forces pounded targets in the Gaza Strip and Hamas continued to fire a barrage of salvos into southern Israel.Still, Israel has said that the ground invasion and air assault on Gaza will continue until Hamas ceases all rocket fire and pledges to end weapons smuggling into the area. Meanwhile, Hamas has pledged to fight on until Israel pulls out of Gaza.The Israeli incursion into the Tel Hawwa area Tuesday, which is on the southeastern edge of Gaza City, marks the farthest point Israel has reached since the beginning of its 18-day offensive. According to The Associated Press, several high-rise buildings were on fire in Tel Hawwa, including a lumberyard. Khader Mussa, a resident in Tel Hawwa, said he fled his house waving a white flag. He spent the night in the basement of a relative's house, alongside his pregnant wife and parents. Thank God we survived this time and got out alive from here. But we don't know how long we'll be safe in my brother's home, Mussa, 35, told AP by telephone.

Haaretz, an Israeli daily, is reporting that some Hamas suicide bombers are dressing up as Israeli soldiers and trying to penetrate battle lines to blow themselves up next to Israeli troops.Overnight, Israel launched 60 air attacks on the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli military said its aerial assault targeted Hamas militants holed up in a hotel, a house and a mosque. Israel also fired on 15 squads of gunmen, rocket launching sites and 15 smuggling tunnels along the Egyptian border. Meanwhile, about 15 rockets and mortar shells were fired into Israel by Palestinian militants, causing no injuries. So far, Palestinian hospital officials say more than 900 Palestinians, half of them civilians, have been killed in fighting since the campaign began. Palestinian medical officials report at least 21 people were killed in fighting Tuesday, although Israel says the death toll could be much higher.

According to Michele Dunn, an analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the inauguration of Barack Obama on January 20 means Israel will likely slow their offensive over the next week.The political calendar in Israel will also force a military slowdown, as the nation is set to hold parliamentary elections on February 10th, Dunn told CTV Newsnet.But Dunn added that Israel will likely keep a military presence in Gaza.I'm not sure that means Israeli troops will withdraw from Gaza, she said, noting that Israel's leaders will want an agreement in place that will prevent Hamas from rearming.

UN chief heads to region

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was headed to the region Tuesday to press for a ceasefire. Ki-moon will meet senior officials in Egypt and Jordan Wednesday, then head to Israel, the Palestinian-controlled West Bank, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria and Kuwait. To both sides, I say: Just stop, now, the UN chief said Monday. Too many people have died. There has been too much civilian suffering. Too many people, Israelis and Palestinians, live in daily fear of their lives.In a speech broadcast Monday, Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh vowed to continue fighting but said his government was pursuing diplomacy to end the conflict. As we are in the middle of this crisis, we tell our people we, God willing, are closer to victory. All the blood that is being shed will not go to waste, Haniyeh said. With files from The Associated Press.

Clinton seeks a smart power Middle East strategy By ROBERT BURNS and ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press Writers JAN 13,09

WASHINGTON – Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that she intends to revitalize the mission of diplomacy in American foreign policy, calling for a smart power strategy in the Middle East and implicitly criticizing the Bush administration for having downgraded the role of arms control.At a daylong confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, President-elect Barack Obama's choice for secretary of state sailed smoothly through an array of non-contentious questions until two Republican committee members pressed her to take additional steps to ensure that former President Bill Clinton's global fundraising work does not pose even an appearance of conflict with her role as the chief U.S. diplomat. She balked, saying disclosure rules already in place were carefully crafted and adequate to avoid any conflict.Clinton appeared headed for easy confirmation. She encountered no challenges to her basic vision for foreign policy.Clinton, who will relinquish her seat in the Senate when confirmed, spoke confidently of Obama's intentions to renew American leadership in the world and to strengthen U.S. diplomacy.America cannot solve the most pressing problems on our own, and the world cannot solve them without America, she said, her daughter Chelsea seated behind her in the audience. The best way to advance America's interest in reducing global threats and seizing global opportunities is to design and implement global solutions. This isn't a philosophical point. This is our reality.

In laying out a general outlook for American foreign policy under Obama, Clinton spoke in a clear, unhurried voice and looked at ease. She made it plain, citing policy themes that were familiar from Obama's presidential campaign — and in many cases her own — that the incoming Democratic administration wants to elevate the role of diplomacy. She and Obama contend that the Bush administration relied too heavily on the military to carry out foreign policy and that it leaned too much on ideology and too little on pragmatism.The Foreign Relations Committee planned to vote on Clinton's nomination on Thursday. If it approves her, she could gain full Senate confirmation as early as Inauguration Day.The Senate also held confirmation hearings for other Obama choices for Cabinet and top White House positions. Appearing were Peter Orszag, to head the Office of Management and Budget, and Robert Nabors II, for deputy director of OMB; New York housing official Shaun Donovan, to be secretary of housing and urban development; Steven Chu, to head the Energy Department; and Arne Duncan, as education secretary.Chu promised that if confirmed as energy secretary he will aggressively pursue policies aimed at addressing climate change and achieving greater energy independence by developing clean energy sources. At his hearing, Duncan said that the No Child Left Behind law should stop punishing schools where only a handful of kids are struggling.Obama's choice to run the Treasury Department and to lead the economic rescue effort disclosed to senators Tuesday that he failed to pay $34,000 in taxes from 2001 to 2004, a last-minute complication in an otherwise smooth path to confirmation. Timothy Geithner paid most of the past-due taxes days before Obama announced his nomination in November, an Obama transition official said. The unpaid taxes were discovered by Obama's transition team while investigating Geithner's background, the official said.The transition official requested anonymity because the source was not authorized to discuss Geithner's situation.The Foreign Relations committee's top Republican, Sen. Richard Lugar, praised Clinton, calling her the epitome of a big leaguer whose presence could open new opportunities for American diplomacy.But Lugar also raised questions about the issue of Bill Clinton's fundraising work and its relation to her wife's new post. Lugar said that the only way for Clinton to avoid a potential conflict of interest due to her husband's charity is to forswear any new foreign contributions. The Indiana senator said the situation poses a unique complication that requires great care and transparency.Before the hearing, Lugar made four suggestions to Hillary Clinton's staff on how to improve transparency in her husband's charitable fundraising, said the senator's spokesman, Andy Fisher.But in her testimony, Hillary Clinton made clear that the Obama administration would accept only one of the proposals — that the foundation provide a clear picture of its annual donations, Fisher said.

Lugar also wanted the foundation to immediately disclose donations of $50,000 or more; alert ethics officials when such sizable donations are pledged; and apply the same stringent requirements to foreign businesses. The current plan only subjects foreign governments to scrutiny by State Department ethics officials and would not require a review of contributions by foreign businesses — a loophole that could easily be exploited, Lugar warned.She also was pressed by Sen. David Vitter, R-La., who said the Clinton fundraising posed real and perceived conflict issues for his wife.Few others on the committee pursued the conflict-of-interest issue and it did not appear to be a likely impediment to her confirmation. Clinton sat alone at a small, black-draped desk, with a retinue of advisers behind her. Her husband was not present. Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor said the former president was watching the hearing elsewhere with his wife's mother. President Clinton wanted to make sure the attention was focused on Sen. Clinton, Vietor said. The Senate hearing room was packed with ambassadors, current and former diplomats, supporters and aides sitting cheek by jowl. Dozens of photographers ringed Clinton as she spoke. In discussing the problem of peacemaking in the Middle East, Clinton referred to her husband's extensive, though ultimately unsuccessful, efforts to strike a comprehensive peace deal. As intractable as the Middle East's problems may seem and many presidents, including my husband, have spent years trying to help work out a resolution, we cannot give up on peace, she said. We must also actively pursue a strategy of smart power in the Middle East that addresses the security needs of Israel and the legitimate political and economic aspirations of the Palestinians, she said. Clinton also said that during the Bush administration, Our foreign policy has gotten way out of balance, with the Pentagon taking too large a role at the expense of the State Department. She said she intends to rectify that, with the support of Defense Secretary Robert Gates, whom she praised as a clear-thinking leader. Lugar, who has played a leading Senate role in arms control issues, applauded Obama's stated intention to engage Russia in more arms control talks and pursue efforts to improve international controls of nuclear materials that could fall into the hands of terrorists. He said that during the Bush administration the State Department had been a reluctant or almost nonexistent partner in that effort. Clinton said she intended to bring more arms control experts back into the State Department, where arms control functions had been significantly degraded under Bush. On Iraq, Clinton said ending the war is a priority. The first step will be moving troops out of cities by June, in line with an agreement already established between the Bush administration and the Iraqi government. The agreement calls for all U.S. troops to be gone by the end of 2011. Obama has said he believes the withdrawal can be accomplished more quickly. Associated Press writer Anne Gearan contributed to this report.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH
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YAHOO 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 WED JAN 14,2009

09:30 AM -36.95
10:00 AM -172.91
10:30 AM -239.32
11:00 AM -273.43
11:30 AM -261.64
12:00 PM -245.15
12:30 PM -258.45
01:00 PM -228.75
01:30 PM -257.58
02:00 PM -217.23
02:30 PM -234.21
03:00 PM -234.96
03:30 PM -270.50
04:00 PM -248.42 8200.14

S&P 500 842.62 -29.17

NASDAQ 1489.64 -56.82

GOLD 810.40 -10.30

OIL 37.47 -0.31

TSE 300 8702.96 -258.59

CDNX 849.53 -19.37

S&P/TSX/60 524.96 -15.82

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

Dow -143 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -303 points at low so far today.
Dow -36 points at high so far today.

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -3.74%
S&P -3.48%
Nasdaq -1.94%
TSX Advances 644,declines 506,unchanged 209,Volume 650,602,276.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 315,Declines 334,Unchanged 295,Volume 108,436,760.
2 MILLION EXPECTED TO OBAMAS SWEARING IN NEXT TUESDAY.
HAMAS has shot 10,577 rockets,Mortors into ISRAEL since 2001.

POOR INTERNALS THIS MORNING
10-1 Declining to Advancing stocks today.90% downside day.
Trin:Measurement of stocks on the upside and down side.
Trin:More selling pressure,more volume to stocks on downside today.
Volume moderate this morning.
Will we test the NOVEMBER lows on the Major Industries.
The November low 7450 or so its 8164 currently.700 points difference yet.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS

Dow -303 at low today.
Dow -36 at low today.

TSX STATS 2:30PM
Advances 263,Declines 844,Unchanged 176 (1,283).
VENTURE EXCHANGE
Advances 234,Declines 428,Unchanged 265 (927).

A BAD DAY WITH NO PANIC
-Madoff mania tops earnings worries.
-light Volume.
-Is this the future?

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS

Dow -36 high.
Dow -303 low today.
Dow -3.0% today Volume 354,207,321.00
All 30 Dow stocks down today.
Dow down for 6th sraight day.
Dow falls 9% in 6 days of trading.
S&P 500 -3.3% today Volume n/a.
S&P touches lowest level since SEPT 1,2008.
S&P's lowest close since DEC 1,2008.
Nasdaq -3.5% today Volume 1,809,288,987.00
Nasdaq touches lowest close level since DEC 4,2008.
Nasdaq worst day since DEC 11,2008.
Stocks sink on Bank Worries.
Financials,Energy worst performers today.
Judge keeps Madoff bail,revokes Government.
Madoff remains free on $10 MILLION bail but under house arrest.
3 More HAMAS ROCKETS in ISRAEL today,10,580 since 2001.

EU DICTATOR (WORLD LEADER)

REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

REVELATION 6:1-2
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(PEACE) and he that sat on him had a bow;(EU DICTATOR) and a crown was given unto him:(PRESIDENT OF THE EU) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(MILITARY GENIUS)

REVELATION 13:1-10
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(THE EU AND ITS DICTATOR IS GODLESS)
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(DICTATOR COMES FROM NEW AGE OR OCCULT)
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;(MURDERERD) and his deadly wound was healed:(COMES BACK TO LIFE) and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE WORLD THINKS ITS GOD IN THE FLESH, MESSIAH TO ISRAEL)
4 And they worshipped the dragon (SATAN) which gave power unto the beast:(JEWISH EU DICTATOR) and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?(FALSE RESURRECTION,SATAN BRINGS HIM TO LIFE)
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.(GIVEN WORLD CONTROL FOR 3 1/2YRS)
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,(HES A GOD HATER) to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.(HES A LIBERAL OR DEMOCRAT,WILL PUT ANYTHING ABOUT GOD DOWN)
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,(BEHEAD THEM) and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.(WORLD DOMINATION)
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(WORLD DICTATOR)
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.(SAVED CHRISTIANS AND JEWS DIE FOR THEIR FAITH AT THIS TIME,NOW WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE BUT DURING THE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH, PEOPLE WILL BE PUT TO DEATH (BEHEADINGS) FOR THEIR BELIEF IN GOD (JESUS) OR THE BIBLE.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMANS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he( EU ROMAN, JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:( 7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,( 3 1/2 YRS) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

IF I NEVER KNEW THE EU WOULD CONTROL THE WORLD IT WOULD BE THE UN,BUT I KNOW DIFFERENTLY.

INTRODUCTION UN WORLD GOVERNANCE
http://www.world-governance.org/spip.php?article418

HIGH EXPECTATIONS UN WORLD GOVERNANCE
http://www.world-governance.org/spip.php?article420

60 YRS OF THE UN
http://www.world-governance.org/spip.php?article421

THE SELECTIVE SECURITY PROBLEM
http://www.world-governance.org/spip.php?article426

A PROVISIONAL CONCLUSION
http://www.world-governance.org/spip.php?article430

MILITARY ETHICS FOR A BETTER WORLD
http://www.world-governance.org/spip.php?article378

Pre-eminence of the state Sovereignty A narrow view of security Geopolitics JAN 7,09Arnaud Blin, Gustavo Marin - 7 January 2009.

Pre-eminence of the state - When in the seventeenth century the imperial system that had dominated the Eurasian zone for centuries disappeared, the state, the modern state, became the key element of the international system. The state obtained a monopoly on organized violence, and from then on it was also to characterize all individuals with a nationality defining their rights, privileges, and status in the world. The almighty and legitimate (democratic) state alone is authorized to manage not only its own affairs but also those related to the regional, continental, and global community. The state is what stands against the anarchy of a system having no supranational government. To counter the natural state of the system, nation-states, through their representatives, sign peace treaties and define the rules of the international game. States are also those who are self-appointed to sign a social contract that binds them to other states through the UN Charter.

Since 1648, only states have been considered worthy to address the major problems of the world. Whether competent (for instance in 1648 for the Peace of Westphalia) or incompetent (in 1919, for the Treaty of Versailles), they have always been more or less capable of settling those problems. Now that the world dynamics have changed completely, states seem unfit to settle a whole range of problems that are beyond their jurisdiction or their willingness to do so, which is exactly where the contemporary world’s stumbling blocks lie. The environment, energy, health, water, finance, trade markets, fishing, and terrorism constitute the many complex problems, along with many others, that lie beyond the narrow framework of the state. In a word, due to their very nature—they are designed to defend national, not collective interests—states, even when bound by treaties, are incapable of addressing, and even of identifying today’s problems. States simply cannot handle the collective management of the planet. At best, they can jointly solve a few crises here and there, mood of the moment allowing. On no account do they seem able to get truly involved in a collective effort, where many of them believe they have something to lose. So although the UN exists as such thanks to the states that constitute it, today it is prisoner of its statejacket. Can it transcend its original status? There is no reason to think so. At best, it can define an agenda, as in fact it has done by identifying the major tasks for the twenty-first century. To take action, however, it would have to cross an uncrossable line, no matter what or how many reforms it imagines and implements. How can we move beyond this stage? How can we break out of this statejacket? What proposals can we make for a post-state world? These questions are at the core of world governance. First, it is high time and of the essence that other players come on stage—in fact, some have already done so. Then, the new players’ participation needs to be organized. In other words, it is also necessary to institute a control system for these players—the financial crisis is a cruel reminder in this area. However, the traditional regime of international relations is characterized of course by the absence of a true control system: the UN does not in any way constitute such a system and states obviously have absolutely no interest in setting norms that might limit their capacities to act.

Sovereignty

The principle of sovereignty is connected to the principle of the modern state. It dates back to same period, the seventeenth century. As a response to the wars of religion that had ravaged Europe, the principle of cujus regio, ejus religio was instituted: the prince’s religion is the nation’s religion. In order to avoid devastating conflicts, it was then decided (again, in the Treaty of Westphalia) that no country should interfere in the affairs of another state (for instance, to defend persons practicing the potentially interfering country’s religion). This principle has governed international relations ever since—with the exception of conquests outside Europe through to the twentieth century—and is set in the UN Charter. This Eurocentrist vision can legitimately be criticized, but Eurocentrism is definitely what guided the establishment of modern international norms at a time when Europe was at the peak of its power while the countries and civilizations that had dominated the geopolitical chessboard until the sixteenth/seventeenth century had suddenly, at the same time and for various reasons, moved into the background. Nonetheless, the influence of non-European civilizations on these norms was not negligible, as cross-cultural exchanges in this area were more important than it was generally believed.

In the past years, the incompetence of certain governments and their abuse of power, the weakness and the negligence of political machinery here and there, powers struggles, old resentments among populations have provoked major humanitarian disasters that could have been avoided if the international community had been able to weigh intelligently on the affairs of certain countries whose ruling classes have been incapable of managing extremely serious problems or, even worse, have themselves been directly responsible for disasters.

In view of the fact that today, as opposed to yesterday, sources of conflicts and instability come from within countries and that the humanitarian crises that ensue can take a toll of millions of victims, it is imperative that the international community be able to intervene, at least to save populations from death. What international community? Beyond international public opinion, this community actually exists only in people’s minds, which is why it does not react. For it to be able to do so, it is therefore necessary to strive to make it real. How? At least to start with, by identifying players likely to have an impact, by becoming aware that the problems at hand require concerted action among these players, and by organizing this action effectively. The UN has a role to play in this area, and so does civil society. For an international community to become reality, enduring and sustained efforts will be required in a battle far from being won: the rules of international politics so far have pushed selfishness to its paroxysm, and it will be difficult to let go of this selfishness.

Why not also institute systematic intervention conditions for civil wars, or even for when a state resorts to abuse of power in order to crush its populations (as in the case of Zimbabwe, for instance)? This is obviously a burning subject that is difficult to deal with, knowing how complicated the political situations are of the countries suffering from these difficulties. The duty-of-intervention idea that came forth these past years is no coincidence. Although in the seventeenth century absolute respect of national sovereignty constituted great progress in Human Rights, today the opposite is true. It is high time to put this principle on the floor—as certain people have, such as Bernard Kouchner when he was head of the NGO Médecins Sans Frontières—rather than to remain set in our ways, which today are feeding into a backward-looking, or even criminal attitude when we are dealing with man-made humanitarian cataclysms, or even those subsequent to natural disasters. In this area, UN action is ambiguous because on the one hand, it defends a principle written into its charter, and on the other hand, it parades as the first rampart against Human Rights abuses. To act, it will be necessary either to sidestep the UN or to challenge some of its principles, starting with that of absolute respect of national sovereignty. The members of the Security Council have a considerable role to play in this area. They will only move, however, under pressure from public opinion. Here, well-orchestrated campaigns could produce significant effects.

A narrow view of security

The UN has done a lot in the past few years to expand the concept of security to a concept of human security that involves not only physical security but also includes security against hunger and cold weather, disease and poverty. The UN was established, however, when the concept of security was understood in a narrow and restrictive way. Consequently, the UN’s structures, its charter and its mechanisms were built in terms of this view of security, that of 1945, which made perfect sense after two world wars. The gap between the rhetoric of UN leaders and practical reality is therefore, here too, considerable. In terms of implementation, the UN’s resources simply do not match its ambitions. The first reason for this is the member countries’ absence of will. Security in its traditional sense is easy to grasp and is related to the short run. Human security is a more complex concept, not very well known, which is mostly related to the long run. Politics, we know, is mainly concerned with the short run. This is a flaw in politics in general but mostly, we have to admit, in democracy. Here again, not much can be expected from states.

The UN as an institution (mainly the Secretariat), by promoting this new concept of security, shows that it is a pillar of thinking on new world governance. As a body at the service of its Member States, on the other hand, it often proves to be incapable of implementing its own ideas. There are therefore two solutions to consider: either the UN accepts its limits and refocuses its activities, for instance on the general field of thinking, ideas, and discussion, or it puts its money where its mouth is, which, as we have said, depends on the will of its Member States. By advocating actions it is incapable of carrying out, the UN loses on both counts: the potential impact of its recommendations is basically defeated by its inherent inability to implement them.

Geopolitics

The UN was founded in a context that favored geopolitics, in short, the exclusively political relations that countries could maintain among themselves in the traditional fields of international relations. Geoeconomic and geoenvironmental aspects were either minimized or completely dismissed. Today it is evident that all these dimensions are important in themselves, and also that they are interrelated. The UN was however mostly constructed as a geopolitical building. The various economic, environmental, and other crises that have begun to shake the planet demonstrate that the UN, in these fields, is very poorly equipped to intervene in any way whatsoever to settle crises, not to mention prevent them. Here again, the UN structure is built in such a way that it is difficult to transform it in depth: possible reforms can only be minimal, and in any case insufficient for the United Nations to truly weigh upon these domains. So what can be done? Be content with minimal reforms, which is admittedly better than nothing at all? If the house is flawed and cannot be completely refurbished, it might however be better to build another one (or several others), even if that means keeping the first one but assigning it fewer ambitions.

VIDEO ABOUT STORY BELOW
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=86092

THE NEW WORLD DISORDER Globalists salivating over collapse of U.S. Warning issued over drive for Constitution Convention January 13, 2009 10:21 pm Eastern
By Bob Unruh 2009 WorldNetDaily

Chuck Baldwin

Globalists are salivating over the possibility of a Constitutional Convention at which issues such as the 2nd Amendment could handily be dismissed, according to a leader who warns Virginia likely is the next target for the drive. There is no question in my mind that, should a new Constitutional Convention be called, it would be the end of the United States of America as we know it, and our current Constitution and Bill of Rights would be forever altered beyond recognition, Constitution Party presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin wrote in his latest commentary. The globalists who currently control Washington, D.C., and Wall Street are, no doubt, salivating over the opportunity to officially dismantle America's independence and national sovereignty, and establish a globalist North American Union – in much the same way that globalists created the European Union. A new Constitutional Convention is exactly the tool they need to cement their sinister scheme into law.WND reported when the American Policy Center issued an alert that the plan was under consideration in the Ohio legislature. The proposal was put aside, at least temporarily, because of publicity generated by the organization run by Tom DeWeese. WND later reported some Wyoming lawmakers, alarmed by the prospects, announced they were working to ensure that if a convention is held, it would convene in the face of their opposition. Wyoming previously called for a Constitutional Convention but rescinded the votes in 1999. However, it is unclear whether even a formal vote to withdraw a request for a convention would have an impact or whether any limits could be imposed, according to constitutional expert John Eidsmoe, author of the book, Christianity & the Constitution.

Read how today's America already has rejected the Constitution, and what you can do about it. Baldwin, the founder of Crossroad Baptist Church in Pensacola, Fla., and a radio talk show host, now is urging citizens to contact their state representatives on the issue, especially residents of Virginia. As I noted in this column a few weeks ago, proponents of assembling a new Constitutional Convention are a scant two states away from achieving that monstrous reality, he wrote. At that time, the state of Ohio was in the crosshairs. Fortunately, enough people from that good state inundated their state representatives with objections, and the matter was tabled (for how long, no one knows). Now it appears that the Commonwealth of Virginia is going to be the next battleground state, he wrote. In all likelihood, the Virginia legislature will be the next state government to take up the Con Con issue. It is imperative, therefore, that the citizens of Virginia begin contacting their various representatives, demanding that they not authorize the call for a new Constitutional Convention.WND's earlier report noted 32 states already have approved demands for the convention, and only two more states are needed to complete the list. If called, a modern Constitutional Convention could declare the U.S. Constitution to be null and void, and could completely rewrite the document. For example, former U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger once declared, There is no effective way to limit or muzzle the actions of a Constitutional Convention. The Convention could make its own rules and set its own agenda, Baldwin wrote. He said in Virginia, lawmakers previously had asked for the convention but rescinded the call in 2004, so this year's debate apparently will be over the rescission. Baldwin said residents of California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin have not yet voted for a new convention.

Since WND's earlier report, two columnists for the news site have renewed statements opposing such a convention. Judge Roy Moore wrote that James Madison himself, the acknowledged Father of the Constitution, once warned, Having witnessed the difficulties and dangers experienced by the first Convention which assembled under every propitious circumstance, I should tremble for the result of a second.Moore wrote: A new convention raises all sorts of frightening possibilities. Would valuable rights like the right to keep and bear arms or the right to worship God be kept intact? … What would stop powerful special-interest groups from influencing the outcome?

Likewise, Phyllis Schlafly, was worried.

It is not credible that politically active groups would pass up the chance to force a Con Con to vote for their special interests. It's not believable that the powerful forces working to take away our right to own guns would overlook a golden opportunity to rescind the Second Amendment, she wrote. Further, she wrote, There is no public support across America for a Constitutional Convention. A flurry of pro-Con Con activity during the Jimmy Carter administration died out. No state has passed a Con Con resolution in the last 25 years. During the 1980s, five states voted down a call for a Con Con, and three states repealed their earlier Con Con resolutions.The warning comes at a time when Barack Obama, who will be inaugurated as the next president Jan. 20, has expressed his belief the U.S. Constitution needs to be interpreted through the lens of current events.Melody Barnes, a senior domestic policy adviser to the Obama campaign, has told Fox News, Obama's view is that our society isn't static and the law isn't static as well. That the Constitution is a living and breathing document and that the law and the justices who interpret it have to understand that.WND also reported Obama believes the Constitution is flawed, because it fails to address wealth redistribution, and he says the Supreme Court should have intervened years ago to accomplish that. Obama told Chicago's public station WBEZ-FM that redistributive change is needed, pointing to what he regarded as a failure of the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren in its rulings on civil rights issues in the 1960s.The Warren court, he said, failed to break free from the essential constraints in the U.S. Constitution and launch a major redistribution of wealth. But Obama, then an Illinois state lawmaker, said the legislative branch of government, rather than the courts, probably was the ideal avenue for accomplishing that goal.

In the 2001 interview, Obama said:

If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously dispossessed people, so that now I would have the right to vote. I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order and as long as I could pay for it I’d be OK But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution, at least as it's been interpreted, and the Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can't do to you. Says what the federal government can't do to you, but doesn't say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf.And that hasn't shifted and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change. In some ways we still suffer from that.

WND also has reported an associate at a Chicago law firm whose partner served on a finance committee for Obama has advocated simply abandoning the U.S. Constitution's requirement that a president be a natural born citizen. The paper was written in 2006 by Sarah Herlihy, just two years after Obama won a landslide election in Illinois to the U.S. Senate. Herlihy is listed as an associate at the Chicago firm of Kirkland & Ellis. A partner in the same firm, Bruce I. Ettelson, cites his membership on the finance committees for both Obama and Sen. Richard Durbin on the corporate website. The article by Herlihy is available online under law review articles from Kent University. The issue of Obama's own eligibility under the U.S. Constitution's requirements that presidents be natural born citizens is the subject of nearly two dozen court cases, including several that have gone to the U.S. Supreme Court. Herlihy's published paper reveals that the requirement likely was considered in a negative light by organizations linked to Obama in the months before he announced in 2007 his candidacy for the presidency. The natural born citizen requirement in Article II of the United States Constitution has been called the stupidest provision in the Constitution, undecidedly un-American, blatantly discriminatory, and the Constitution's worst provision, Herlihy begins in her introduction to the paper titled, Amending the Natural Born Citizen Requirement: Globalization as the Impetus and the Obstacle.

Stocks end mixed on anxiety over earnings By TIM PARADIS, AP Business Writer – Tue Jan 13, 7:16 pm ET

NEW YORK – Stock prices shot up 24 percent from late November to January, fell 7 percent in less than a week — and then stood still.Welcome to the bear market.Wall Street has lost some of the enthusiasm that powered its late 2008 rally. The Dow Jones industrials have taken the biggest hit, falling for five straight days as investors questioned whether they got ahead of themselves when they bet in December that the economy and corporate profits were about to recover.The wind has sort of been taken out of the sails, said Carl Beck, partner at Harris Financial Group. The optimism that we saw at the beginning of the year has sort of been put on hold as people await earnings reports over the next couple of weeks.With companies issuing warnings about their revenue and profit over the past week, the safe play on Wall Street has become to throw out analysts' already lowered expectations and expect results will fall well short.Alcoa Inc. started the reality check. The aluminum producer warned last week results would be bad and that it was slashing production. Then, late Monday, the company said it lost $1.19 billion during the fourth quarter as demand for aluminum plunged. The stock slumped 5.1 percent Tuesday.Investors saw Alcoa's numbers as a troubling sign of the severity of the recession. Alcoa's report marks the unofficial start to the three-week rush when most companies report their results from the October-December quarter.Alcoa is a harbinger of things to come, said Jeff Buetow, senior portfolio manager at Portfolio Management Consultants. It was a horrible report.Investors are worried that economy is punishing even conglomerates like General Electric Co., which has an array of businesses to offset weakness in one area. An analyst warned Tuesday that GE could disappoint investors when it releases results next week.Market veterans aren't surprised by the return of volatility and somewhat heavier selling to the Street after the relative tranquility of December. When the market hit its lows on Nov. 20, analysts uniformly warned that the market's recovery would be uneven, rocky and unpredictable — the hallmark of a bear market.The Standard & Poor's 500 index has given up 3.5 percent this year as investors shift into wait-and-see mode over the health of companies' results. Questions about earnings — in particular companies' expectations for business this year — are likely to dominate trading in the coming weeks. Computer chip maker Intel Corp. and drug company Genentech Inc. are scheduled to report results this week.

The market will get an earlier-than-expected reading on the financial sector when JPMorgan Chase & Co. reports earnings on Thursday — nearly a week ahead of schedule. Investors are fearful of seeing another year of multibillion dollar losses from financial companies, as analysts forecast mounting problems in credit card and commercial real estate portfolios.Since financials led the market lower last year, the fear is that financials are going to have a crummy quarter, said David Katz, chief investment officer of Matrix Asset Advisors. That is going to be bad for the market.Bank of America Corp. tumbled Tuesday after a Sandler O'Neill & Partners analyst became the latest to revise his expectations for the company's fourth-quarter results and predicted a loss. The stock fell 6.8 percent.Meanwhile, Citigroup Inc. and Morgan Stanley announced a deal after the closing bell Tuesday to combine their brokerage operations as Citi struggles to raise additional cash.

Worries about earnings sent the Dow down 25.41, or 0.30 percent, to 8,448.56 on Tuesday. Alcoa, GE, Bank of America and Citigroup are all Dow components.Broader indexes advanced. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 1.53, or 0.18 percent, to 871.79, while the Nasdaq composite index rose 7.67, or 0.50 percent, to 1,546.46. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies rose 4.99, or 1.06 percent, to 473.79.The number of stocks that rose on the New York Stock Exchange outnumbered those that fell by about 8 to 7. After rising on the first trading day of the New Year, stocks last week had their worst weekly performance since November as profit warnings from Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Intel, Alcoa and media company Time Warner Inc. set off investors' fears about companies' suffering under the economy. You've got the lingering shroud of doubt in people's minds, Is it going to be worse than already lowered expectations? Beck said. Some economists say investors have been too quick to predict that the economy will hit bottom sometime this year and begin to show signs of recovery even in late 2009. This recession is nothing like a lot of people have seen, said Robert B. MacIntosh, chief economist at Eaton Vance Investment Managers. Even with the government trying to lift the economy, a recovery will be difficult.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday the stimulus package being crafted by President-elect Barack Obama and Congress could provide a significant boost to the sinking economy. During a speech in London, he also said more capital injections and guarantees may become necessary to stabilize financial markets and spur more lending. Obama is pushing for an economic stimulus that includes big tax cuts and has an estimated price tag of about $800 billion. On the Net: New York Stock Exchange: http://www.nyse.com Nasdaq Stock Market: http://www.nasdaq.com

IMF: Global Meltdown Worse Than Expected
By Stefan Bos Budapest 14 January 2009

International Monetary Fund's Managing Director, Dominique Straus-Kahn in Budapest, 13 Jan 2009 .The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, warns that the world economy will further decline this year. Straus-Kahn says Germany's biggest stimulus package since World War II offers some hope, although he cautions that Europe lags behind the United States in enacting measures to stem the economic crisis. He spoke after meeting officials in Hungary, which has received a multi-billion dollar rescue package. The International Monetary Fund's Managing Director, Dominique Straus-Kahn, offered reporters a grim outlook for the global economy this year.He said the world economy is slowing more than the IMF had predicted and he warned that this will have a severe impact on Central and Eastern European economies.All of us are worried and concerned about the future, said Dominique Straus-Kahn. The reason for that is that the forecasts, the global forecasts, on a global level for 2009 are rather bad forecasts. The IMF is going to release its own, new set of forecasts in a couple of days. I already know that it will show a sharp decrease in the estimates we have for global growth. And a decrease for global growth means a decrease [for] everybody - including in Central Europe and in Hungary.In November, the International Monetary Fund lowered its projections for world economic growth to a little more than two percent, and said industrialized economies were headed for the first full-year of economic decline since World War II.

But the IMF says Germany's economic stimulus package should help not only Germany, but also much of Western and Eastern Europe.The $67-billion rescue plan, unveiled by German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday, includes investment in schools and infrastructure, simpler rules for creating temporary jobs and up to roughly $130 billion in loan guarantees for struggling firms.But the IMF's Dominique Strauss-Kahn made clear that Europe's response to the economic crisis lags behind U.S. efforts, as President-elect Barack Obama seeks approval to disburse the second half of a 700-billion dollar economic rescue package.As you know, the U.S is planning, the new administration is planning, a huge stimulus plan, he said. And, answering your question, what has been decided on at a European level, is in line, but probably a little behind the curve. Of course, the new German plan, which comes on top of the rest, makes us more comfortable. So I have to see a little more what there is in this 50 billion euro [$67-billion plan]. But obviously, it is a strong effort made by the German government and it would be very much helpful.Strauss-Khan spoke after talks with the struggling Hungarian government about its troubled economy. Hungary has received an IMF-led $25-billion rescue package, but Straus-Kahn said other former Communist countries, including Ukraine, will also need help.He praised Hungary's efforts to jump start its economy, but said Budapest and other regional capitals will need to implement structural reforms.Just outside Hungary's parliament building where Strauss-Kahn spoke, people have mixed feelings about the IMF's role in their country.Banker Bela Viszontaly say he does not expect people's lives will improve soon.I think it doesn't depend on the IMF, said Bela Viszontaly. The life was difficult, and is difficult. This year, we await unemployment of about 10 percent.Attorney Roberta Pal says she believes Hungary's economy can improve only if the billions of dollars in loans from the IMF are spent wisely.I don't know, said Roberta Pal. It depends on the political leadership. But if we don't change our approach on deciding on what we spend, then these amounts, it's just a waste of money and a waste of time.For now, experts say governments across the globe will likely ask for more cash from the IMF to help rescue their struggling economies.

Euro marks 10th birthday amid financial crisis
ELITSA VUCHEVA 13.01.2009 @ 17:35 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – The financial crisis that started in the US, but progressively spread well beyond its borders, is going to present the eurozone economy with new challenges in the months to come, EU monetary chiefs warned on Tuesday (13 January) at a European Parliament event marking the 10th anniversary of the common currency.It is no time for complacency. Current challenges are pressing, and new challenges will arise, European Central Bank (ECB) president Jean-Claude Trichet told MEPs in Strasbourg. The crisis has revealed fundamental weaknesses in the global financial system. We are playing an active part in the global efforts to address these weaknesses and redesign the regulatory and institutional framework. A lot of work remains to be done, he added.For his part, Jean-Claude Juncker, Luxembourg's prime minister and the acting president of the group of countries using the euro, stressed that the current year would be particularly difficult for the eurozone, as well as a test for its cohesion.The real test for the cohesion of the eurozone is still facing us ...2009 is going to be an extremely difficult year for the eurozone and its citizens, and there will both internal and external challenges to face, the eurogroup chairman said.Internally, EU governments will have to increase their co-operation to limit the effects of the crisis and build a bridge to the after-crisis.

Externally, we will have to learn the political lessons of the international political and economic crisis and work on an in-depth reform of the financial system, he added.The eurozone was launched on 1 January 1999 and initially covered 11countries: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. Greece met the convergence criteria in 2000 and joined in January 2001.After Slovenia entered the euro club in 2007 and Malta and Cyprus followed suit a year later, Slovakia on 1 January became the 16th state - and the first one from central Europe - to adopt the euro.Some 330 million Europeans are today using the common currency.

Bastion of stability

The EU monetary chiefs called the euro one of the greatest success stories of European integration saying that it had allowed the countries using it to react effectively to the global crisis. Mr Juncker called the euro an anchor of stability and an unquestionable success, while Mr Trichet told EU parliamentarians: If we had not had a common currency, then we would not have been able to act as quickly and as effectively.We can be proud of the prompt response of Europe [to the crisis], he added.Joaquin Almunia, the EU's economic and monetary affairs commissioner, also underlined the European currency's merits and highlighted its deserved reputation for strength and stability.However, Mr Juncker reiterated his complaint about eurozone countries lacking common international representation and always looking to their national interests first.Despite significant progress, the international representation of the euro is still often too fragmentary and national interests too often take precedence over the common interest that we have, he said.The Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) is an economic project, but a political project as well. Consequently, we will need to [efficiently] use the second decade of the euro to perfect the EMU by strengthening it politically, he concluded.

Russia Quickens Ruble Defense as Oil Drops, MDM Says (Update2)
By Emma O’Brien

Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Russia’s central bank sold about $7 billion to stem the ruble’s decline against the dollar and the euro yesterday, the most since it started devaluing the currency in November, according to Moscow’s MDM Bank. Bank Rossii, which controls the ruble against a basket of dollars and euros to limit swings that hurt exporters, sold $6 billion and 700 million euros ($929 million) in the market yesterday, said Mikhail Galkin, head of MDM’s fixed-income research, citing the bank’s traders. It was the most sold since the central bank started letting the ruble fall on Nov. 11, he said. Policy makers devalued the ruble twice in the past two days, in the first official trading this year, extending the currency’s slump to 18 percent against the basket since mid-November as the price of oil, Russia’s chief export earner, retreated. Citigroup Inc., Troika Dialog and Renaissance Capital expect the ruble to drop at least 11 percent this quarter as Urals crude trades at $41.45 a barrel, below the $70 average needed to balance the 2009 budget. The oil price is edging lower and the speed of weakening is going up, so the trades against the ruble are becoming more profitable, Galkin said. The more than 70 percent drop in Urals crude from a July record has deepened concern that the country’s current account will slip into deficit. It was $98.9 billion in surplus last year, the central bank said today. Investors and citizens have taken more than $200 billion out of Russia since the start of August, according to BNP Paribas SA, deterred by the nation’s worst financial crisis since it defaulted on $40 billion of debt in 1998. Capital outflows were $130.5 billion in the fourth quarter, according to Bank Rossii.

Pent-Up Demand

The currency has lost 14 percent against the dollar since the central bank began devaluing the currency in mid-November, and fell to as low as 31.3725 today, the weakest since March 2003. Russia’s foreign-currency reserves have been reduced by 27 percent, or $160 billion, since August as Bank Rossii uses the funds to support the currency, according to central bank data as of Dec. 26. The ruble has fallen 20 percent versus the euro in the past two months. It rose 0.5 percent to 41.3599 per euro today. Pressure on the ruble was exacerbated yesterday by pent-up demand for foreign currency, said Evgeny Nadorshin, senior economist at Trust Investment Bank in Moscow. Companies and investors were unable to convert rubles from Jan. 1 to 10 because official trading on the Micex stock exchange was closed for the Russian Christmas holidays, he added.

Investors Deterred

Everyone’s been expecting the ruble to depreciate so there was excessive currency built up at the end of last year that they needed to exchange once markets opened, said Nadorshin, who also put yesterday’s currency sales at about $7 billion. It was a case of postponed demand.Russia, which is aiming to free float the ruble by 2011, has managed the currency against the dollar-euro basket since 2005. After surging to a record 29.2843 against the mechanism on Aug. 4, the currency has been allowed to weaken 22 percent as the crisis in global credit markets and Russia’s war with neighboring Georgia deterred investors. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin pledged to avoid a “sharp” decline in the currency last month and both he and President Dmitry Medvedev have urged citizens to keep their savings in local currency. Continually declining oil prices will ensure more depreciation of the ruble is required, Arkady Dvorkovich, Medvedev’s economic adviser, said in an interview Dec. 19.

Russian Gas

Russians withdrew 6 percent of ruble-denominated deposits in October, the most since Bank Rossii started collating the data two years ago. Deposits held in dollars had an average return of 12 percent in 2008, while the profitability on ruble accounts fell 5.2 percent, Moscow-based auditing and consulting company BDO Unicon said in an e-mailed report yesterday. Russia resumed pumping gas into pipes through Ukraine today, after a six-day supply halt that disrupted flows to at least 20 European nations. OAO Gazprom, the Russian natural-gas exporter that provides a quarter of Europe’s gas, suspended shipments through Ukraine Jan. 7 amid disputes over pricing and allegations the former Soviet republic was siphoning gas. The resolution “should improve market sentiment somewhat and relieve some pressure on the ruble,” BNP Paribas emerging- market currency analysts Shahin Vallee and Elisabeth Gruie wrote in a note to clients today. BNP advises placing so-called short positions on the ruble against the basket. A short is a bet that an asset or security it is going to decline.

Blocking Supplies

Ukraine’s currency, the hryvnia, was little changed at 8.80 per dollar today, according to traders at Galt & Taggart Holdings Ltd. in Kiev. Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko said there was a delay in full resumption of gas supplies today because of “technical difficulties. Gazprom Deputy Chief Executive Officer Alexander Medvedev said Ukraine is blocking supplies and that it may declare force majeure. Bank Rossii widened the range it allows the ruble to trade against the basket in the previous two days, an official unable to be identified on bank policy said. The currency can now fall about 17 percent from a target basket rate, from 2.6 percent on Nov. 10. The central bank has devalued the currency 14 times in the past two months. The Russian currency was little changed at 35.8007 against the basket by 5 p.m. in Moscow, after weakening 1.5 percent yesterday and 1.7 percent on Jan. 11. The basket is made up of about 55 percent dollars and the rest euros.

Step-By-Step Devaluation

The central bank probably refrained from devaluation today to maintain a sense of unpredictability and wrong-foot speculators betting on the ruble’s decline, said Nadorshin. They’ve always said this will not be a quick devaluation and that they’re committed to doing this step by step.Non-deliverable forwards put the ruble 8.6 percent lower against the dollar at 35.21 in three months time. The decline expected over 12 months is 20 percent. NDFs are contracts used to fix a currency at a particular level at a future date and companies use them to protect against foreign-exchange fluctuations. Bank Rossii sold $3.4 billion on Jan. 11, according to MDM estimates. Trust Investment puts the amount sold in December at about $75 billion, with $20 billion alone between Dec. 26 to 30, Nadorshin said. The depletion of Russia’s reserves, the world’s third largest, prompted Standard & Poor’s to lower the credit rating of Russian debt last month. Dvorkovich said last month a recession may be possible in Russia this year, after industrial output sank the most for 10 years in November and unemployment rose to 6.6 percent. To contact the reporter on this story: Emma O’Brien in Moscow at eobrien6@bloomberg.net

EU not getting one drop of Russian gas
ANDREW WILLIS 13.01.2009 @ 17:32 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Zero Russian gas had reached the EU via Ukraine as of 17:00 pm Brussels time on Tuesday (13 January), as a Russian-Ukrainian transit deal began to unravel amid allegations of blackmail and cynicism.Nothing, not one drop has reached the EU, a European Commission spokesman told EUobserver. High level [diplomatic] contact has resumed and the situation is changing every minute. But there is no gas so far.Russia says it restarted EU supplies at 8:30 am Brussels time on Tuesday morning, with a 22-man team of EU monitors in Moscow, Kiev and remote pumping stations reporting a slight increase in pressure in the morning followed by decline.The latest problem is linked to technical gas - the residual gas in Ukrainian pipelines required to enable transportation of Russian gas to the EU.

Under an agreement between Kiev and Moscow, Ukrainian state-owned gas company Naftogaz is obliged to provide the technical gas but has not done so.[Naftogaz] declares that these volumes and directions [Russia's renewed EU-bound gas shipments] have not been timely agreed between two operators of the neighbouring gas transport systems, the company said in a statement, calling for a fresh exchange of documents to resolve the problem.The latest glitch threatens to unmake a transit deal signed by Russia, Ukraine and the European Commission on Monday.Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of cynically re-directing Tuesday's gas to Ukrainian consumers. The Russian argument is blackmail, Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko said. European Commission head Jose Manuel Barroso and Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek resumed telephone contact with Moscow and Kiev. The leaders of the worst-hit EU countries - Bulgaria and Slovakia - have announced visits to Moscow.The issue of technical gas is no excuse for the lack of full flow to the European Union a commission spokesman said, adding that Brussels has not been approached to pay for the technical gas. The EU has so far lived without Russia's Ukraine-shipped gas - about one fifth of EU daily consumption - since last Wednesday, in the worst gas crisis since Ukraine broke from Russian influence in the 2004 Orange Revolution.

Brussels blasts Slovak nuclear move

Mr Barroso has also sent a letter to Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic saying Bratislava's decision to turn on a defunct nuclear reactor at the Jaslovske Bohunice power plant is contrary to the country's 2004 accession treaty. President Barroso also asked for more information surrounding the decision, with Brussels holding legal fire for now.The commission has not received an official request from Bulgaria to re-open its Kozloduy nuclear plant, which was also closed as part of its 2006 accession deal.Article 36 of the Bulgarian accession treaty allows it to restart the unit under exceptional circumstances. A similar clause for Slovakia has already expired.

Future lessons

The gas crisis has reignited the debate on future EU energy policy.Of the 18 member states currently affected, Bulgaria and Slovakia have suffered the most due to lack of interconnecting infrastructure enabling neighbouring EU states to pump stocks.
Greece is also heavily reliant on Russian gas, but unlike Bulgaria and Slovakia it has gas reserves to last until the end of the month, with the EU expected to re-examine the question of mandatory gas stocks in the coming months.The crisis is also likely to provide fresh impetus to the Nabucco gas pipeline project, bypassing Russia and Ukraine, with a high-level meeting on Nabucco planned in Budapest at the end of the month.

Falling energy prices shrink trade balance to $1.3B
Updated Tue. Jan. 13 2009 10:05 AM ET The Canadian Press

OTTAWA -- Canada's trade surplus with the world fell to $1.3 billion in November from a revised $2.3 billion in October. Statistics Canada reports both exports and imports declined in November. The agency says more than two-thirds of the drop in exports and almost all the decrease in imports were due to energy products, as crude petroleum prices continued to fall. Exports slid for the fourth straight month, dropping 6.8 per cent to $39.2 billion, the result of falling prices and lower volumes, while the volume of exports fell 2.3 per cent. Similarly, a combination of price and volume reductions pushed Canada's imports down 4.8 per cent to $38 billion, while the volume of imports fell 2.3 per cent. Excluding energy products, exports declined 2.7 per cent while imports increased 0.6 per cent in November.

The trade deficit, excluding energy, expanded to $3.5 billion in November from $2.4 billion in October. Exports to the United States fell 7.4 per cent to $28.9 billion, largely the result of a decline in energy products. The decrease in exports outpaced a 3.7 per cent drop in imports, putting Canada's trade surplus with the United States at $4.5 billion. Imports from countries other than the United States declined 6.6 per cent, the result of falling imports of crude petroleum, while exports decreased five per cent. As a result, Canada's trade deficit with this group of countries narrowed for the second straight month to $3.2 billion.

HOMOSEXUALS.

GENESIS 19:5
5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

ROMANS 1:18-32
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:(HOMOSEXUALITY,AND ALL SEX SINS)
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:(LESBIENS)
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly,(SODOMITES) and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.(AIDS ETC)
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

SEX SINS

1 CORINTHIANS 6:9,14-18
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

GALATIONS 5:19-21
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

U.S. rates of sexually spread diseases up
Updated Tue. Jan. 13 2009 1:36 PM ET The Associated Press

ATLANTA -- Sexually spread diseases -- for years on the decline -- are on the rise in the United States, with reported chlamydia cases setting a record, government health officials said Tuesday. The increase in chlamydia, a sometimes symptomless infection that can lead to infertility in women, is likely because of better screening, experts said. In 2007, there were 1.1 million cases, the most ever reported, said officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Thousands of women become infertile each year because of untreated chlamydia and gonorrhea infections, said Dr. John M. Douglas Jr., director of the CDC's Division of STD Prevention. Syphilis cases, which number only in the thousands, also rose modestly, while the number of gonorrhea cases remained roughly the same. Syphilis can kill, if left untreated, but chlamydia and gonorrhea are not life-threatening.

Chlamydia can infect men as well as women, but rates are nearly three times higher for women. That's at least partly due to 1993 federal recommendations that emphasize testing for sexually active women age 25 and under. That emphasized screening in recent years is no doubt driving the record numbers, said Dr. Jonathan Zenilman, a professor of infectious diseases at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

The issue with chlamydia is the more test, the more you'll find, Zenilman said. The latest numbers translate to a rate of 370 cases per 100,000 people in 2007, up 7.5 per cent from 2006. The reported cases are just part of the picture. Health officials believe as many as 2.8 million Americans may have chlamydia. Many men and women have no symptoms from it. Some women experience pain in their lower abdomen or notice a burning sensation or a pus-like discharge when they urinate. Some men may also feel a burning during urination or have a discharge. Gonorrhea cases appear to have plateaued and are currently at about 356,000 cases. Syphilis was on the verge of being eliminated in the United States about 10 years ago, but lately has been inching up. More than 11,000 new cases of the most contagious form of the disease were reported in 2007. Syphilis is relatively rare but has become a growing threat, particularly for gay and bisexual men, who accounted for about 65 per cent of the 2007 cases.

Obama wants Europe to close Iran loopholes
VALENTINA POP 13.01.2009 @ 17:26 CET

EUOBSERVER/BRUSSELS – The incoming Obama administration will step up its calls on Europe to close legal loopholes allowing Iran to pursue its nuclear activities, outgoing US ambassador to Brussels Kristen Silverberg said on Tuesday (13 January).
Iran is still taking advantage of their economic ties here in Europe, Ms Silverberg said at a conference organised by the European Policy Centre, a Brussels-based think-tank.The Obama administration is expected to raise the problem of Europe's loopholes in its sanctions regime, including transport companies involved in supporting proliferation sensitive activities, stopping export credits to Iran and all financial assistance, she said.Ms Silverberg, a political appointee of the outgoing Bush administration, has been in office for less than six months and will leave her posting next Monday, a day before the inauguration of incoming president Barack Obama.She stressed that the president-elect had endorsed a bill in the Senate providing for very tough sanctions against Iran and that he called on Americans to pressure companies to cut their financial ties with Iran.Europe is really the key to that. What we see around the world is that the financial sector is looking to Europe to see how to apply its sanctions. This will be the high watermark for the international response. I think the new administration will look to Brussels in particular to focus that effort.Ms Silverberg did not see Mr Obama's promise to engage in direct diplomacy with Tehran as a change of policy, but rather as a different tactic, part of the same carrots and sticks diplomacy approach pursued by the outgoing administration.

The broad parameters of US policy remain constant – from the Clinton to this administration and the next. It's not the fundamental policy that's shifting, but tactics and sometimes the tone and the style, she explained.A representative of the Iranian embassy to Brussels, Seyed Alaeddin Vahid Gharavi, was also present at the debate and asked the ambassador why the US was supporting India's nuclear programme, despite the country not being part of the non-proliferation treaty.Ms Silverberg said that India did not try to deceive the international community and was not sponsoring organisations such as Hamas and Hezbollah.

Obama ready for Gaza crisis

The Middle East peace process, especially after the current war on Gaza, was top of the list of the incoming Obama administration, Ms Silverberg said.She pointed to the fact that president-elect Obama appointed General James L. Jones his national security advisor after having served in the Bush administration as a special envoy on Middle East issues.The two state-solution adopted by the outgoing administration would definitely be the basis of the Obama adminstration's efforts, engaging with international and regional partners, she predicted.The US will continue to reiterate Israel's right to defend itself against terrorist attacks – something about which the president-elect has made comments during the transition about the Gaza crisis, Ms Silverberg said.She stressed that the only acceptable ceasefire was a real one, not one that allowed Hamas to acquire more weapons and resume attacks.

Climate change deal

An area where the US diplomat saw no disagreements between Brussels and Washington was climate change. The challenge this time was not for the EU and US to agree, but to get a real global agreement in December at the UN conference in Copenhagen by convincing Brazil, India and China to adopt the climate goals.She rejected criticism that the US did not ratify the Kyoto protocol, arguing that the bill could not have passed the US Congress. Washington was not disrespectful of international treaties, she said, on the contrary, it did not want to adopt something it could not live up to.