DAY 2 UNDER OBAMA

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

ISRAELS INHERITED LAND IN THE FUTURE

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

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

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

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

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

COMON ISRAEL STOP THE HAMAS INSANITY,HERE THEY ARE ARE TUNNELING WEAPONS ALREADY BACK INTO GAZA. IRAN AND SYRIA WITH RUSSIA LEAD HAS GOT TO BE STOPPED ISRAEL. GO BY YOUR TORAH ISRAEL INSTEAD OF LISTENING AND BEING DECIEVED BY THE USA AND WORLD NATIONS. JUST KEEP IN MIND GILAD SHALIT AND 10,637 ROCKETS HAVE BEEN FIRED AT GOD'S PEOPLE AND HIS LAND HE GAVE USE ISRAEL

Gaza tunnels back in businessBy ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU, Associated Press Writer JAN 22,2009

RAFAH, Gaza Strip – Hundreds of workers toiled in southern Gaza Thursday to repair dozens of tunnels dug under tents or fake greenhouses while smugglers brought in food and fuel just days after Israel ended a barrage of bombs and missiles aimed at cutting off the supply route from Egypt.The renewed smuggling underscored how difficult it could be for the Israeli military to meet one of the key goals of its three-week offensive: preventing Hamas militants from bringing weapons into Gaza through the porous Egyptian border.Some 1,285 Palestinians, most of them civilians, died in the Israeli operation, launched Dec. 27 to end Hamas' rocket fire on southern Israel and to cut the group's suspected arms route from Iran.The military said it had destroyed 60 to 70 percent of the tunnels before Israel declared a cease-fire on Saturday. The smugglers in Rafah, a southern Gaza border town where nearly all smuggling tunnels are dug, told The Associated Press that the destruction was probably even higher.I'd say that only one out of 10 tunnels is still intact, said Abu Rahman, a tunnel manager who asked to be identified by his nickname because of his smuggling activities.

He and other smugglers estimated there were about 1,000 tunnels functioning in Rafah before Israel's offensive. Most were dug after Israel sealed off Gaza from the outside world following Hamas' takeover in June 2007.While some tunnels were used to bring in weapons, many were used to circumvent the Israeli blockade and get basic goods into Gaza. The tunnels, about 15 yards deep and 1.5 yards high, run several hundred yards underneath the border.Abu Rahman's own tunnel was quite seriously damaged, and 10 workers were shoveling underground to get it working again.It should take about a month, we're going about as fast as we can, he said.With so many tunnels out of service, the laws of supply and demand have driven prices up, Abu Rahman said. Sacks of goods like potato chips, clothes or cigarettes that transferred for $40 each before the offensive could now go for as much as $400, he said.Abu Wahda, another smuggler, said he'd been lucky.I fixed the damage in three days, we're functional since this morning, he said, overseeing the winch that hurled a large pack of potato chips 15 yards up from his tunnel.While both traffickers insisted they had never considered bringing weapons for Hamas, Abu Bilal, another colleague repairing his own tunnel, said he wouldn't mind doing so.

But frankly, the resistance never asks us to,he said. I think they've got their own tunnels and don't want to pay us, he said.As the men spoke, hundreds of workers could been seen working near a no-man's land with Egypt, busy fixing dozens of tunnels.The buzz of generators filled the air, and one restaurant owner who had reopened his snack bar amid the digging said he expected at least 200 patrons on Thursday.Clamping down on Hamas' smuggling was a key Israel demand to end its offensive. It says it got guarantees from Egypt, and pledges from the U.S. and Europe, to help prevent Hamas from rearming.Israel had no illusions whatsoever that the Hamas would voluntarily be giving up on the tunneling, said Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev. We do believe, however, that the new situation that has been created will prevent Hamas from successfully replenishing its stores of Iranian missiles, he said.

Member states divided over condemning Israeli attacks on UN
LEIGH PHILLIPS Today JAN 22,09 @ 09:23 CET

European Union member states are sharply divided over whether to condemn Israel for its bombing of UN schools and other buildings during its 23-day war on Gaza.Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Romania are opposed to condemning the shelling of UN Relief and Works Agency infrastructure and do not want the EU to call for an international investigation of alleged war crimes by both Israel and the Hamas governors of Gaza, according to sources close to discussions amongst EU diplomats.At the other end of the table, a coalition of five member states, Belgium, Cyprus, Greece, Ireland and Sweden, is demanding that the bloc call for an international investigation in its conclusions to come out of a meeting of EU foreign ministers next week.Other member states however do not support this position. Despite UK Prime Minister's earlier strong words condemning Israel's shelling of the UN headquarters in Gaza as indefensible, London is reportedly reluctant to back the five as it could set a dangerous precedent for its own military operations elsewhere.The five have, however, managed to win language on the need to respect and comply with obligations under international humanitarian law into the draft text, which was not in the initial version of the document.France meanwhile backs accountability for the attacks on the UN, but is working to achieve this behind the scenes, rather than through a statement by EU foreign ministers.

Killed by mistake

On Wednesday night, Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni met informally with her European counterparts over dinner. Speaking to reporters afterwards, she firmly rejected the idea that Israel committed crimes against humanity.Israel is working in accordance with international and this is in accordance with our values that Israel shares with the international community and Europe, she said. The difference between Israel soldiers and the terrorists in Hamas is that we are acting against terror, trying to avoid any kind of civilian casualties, while these terrorists are looking, aiming and targeting civilians as part of their ideology.I would like to be judged by the international community according to the same values by which the international community is working, she continued. There is a huge difference in any legal system ... between a murderer and someone who kills by mistake.After visiting the ruins of the UNRWA compound in Gaza, UN Secretary Ban Ki-Moon on Tuesday (20 January) called for those responsible for bombing UN-run buildings and schools in Gaza to be held accountable.There must be a full investigation, a full explanation to make sure it never happens again. There should be accountability through a proper judiciary system, he said.Despite Israel's insistence that the UN buildings were not targeted, UN officials have said that they furnished Tel Aviv with GPS co-ordinates of all their buildings.Czech foreign minister Karel Schwarzenberg, whose nation currently chairs the EU's six-month rotating presidency, said he trusted the Israeli court system mount a prosecution, rather than the International Criminal Court.

I have heard the declaration of the UN secretary-general, but to tell you the truth, we consider Israel a democratic state, where the rule of law exists, so of course, in the case of such a criminal act, which can happen in any state, especially during the course of war, he said, then the Israeli prosecutor would take the steps that are necessary and then to a court where the case will be decided.The ICC is only a last resort if a country itself doesn't bring forward a case, [and] we are relying on the Israeli courts and the work of the prosecutor there.

ICC jurisdiction

The ICC has no jurisdiction over Israel or the occupied territories because Israel is a signatory but not a state party to the ICC, and the occupied territories are not a state and thus also not state parties to the ICC.The International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia and its counterpart for Rwanda however are ad hoc tribunals established by the UN Security Council. The UNSC is highly unlikely to establish such a tribunal for Israel and the Palestinian territories, as the US would veto such a proposal.However, the UN General Assembly also has the power to do so under Article 22 of the UN Charter.Other legal alternatives for cases brought against Israeli or Palestinian actors would have to be mounted in the four countries recognising universal jurisdiction: Germany, Spain, the UK and Canada.Ahead of the EU meeting, lawyers petitioned a Belgian court petitioned to arrest the Israeli foreign minister upon her arrival in Brussels, Haaretz reports. The Israeli daily said that the complaints filed by families of Belgian and French nationals with relatives wounded or killed in Gaza.The Belgian Foreign Ministry was looking into the report as of Wednesday, although the country does not permit the arrest of senior foreign officials.In a letter sent on Tuesday, human rights group Amnesty International called on EU Foreign Ministers, to make call for investigation of violations of international humanitarian and human rights law, including war crimes, committed by both parties to the conflict.

Humanitarian aid assurances

The EU ministers said that they had won commitments from Ms Livni that Israel would work to let humanitarian aid into Gaza, although the Israeli minister did not commit to opening border crossings.There are clear assurances from foreign minister Livni that everything will be done from the Israeli side to have effective humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip, Mr Schwarzenberg said.French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner was firm that the crossings be opened: Open the gates. It is absolutely indispensable. We cannot continue as if the ceasefire did not exist, he told reporters.Ms Livni was satisfied that she had won EU help in stopping arms smuggling into the occupied territory.She did however warn against opening direct dialogue with the Gaza government, calling on Europe to continue to delegitimise Hamas.Some EU ministers, notably Finnish foreign minister Alexander Stubbs, have said that such dialogue may be necessary.Ms Livni said: What is needed is a coalition against terror and not something that ends by an agreement with them.

Security Council calls for durable Gaza cease-fire By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer – Wed Jan 21, 9:34 pm ET

UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday called for the temporary cease-fire in Gaza to be turned into a durable truce with guarantees to prevent arms smuggling and to ensure that all border crossings are permanently reopened.All 15 council members agreed to a press statement drafted by Britain and France that welcomed Sunday's unilateral cease-fires by Israel and Hamas militants following Israel's offensive aimed at halting years of militant rocket fire by Hamas on its southern communities and arms smuggling into Gaza.The council also expressed grave concern at the humanitarian situation in Gaza, where some 1,300 people were killed and many buildings and neighborhoods destroyed, and urged the unimpeded delivery of aid.The Security Council emphasized the need to fully implement the legally binding resolution adopted by the council on Jan. 8 which called for an immediate, durable and fully respected cease-fire.The council on Wednesday expressed strong appreciation for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's efforts to support implementation of the Jan. 8 resolution.The council also heard a report on Ban's recent Mideast trip aimed at stopping the fighting in Gaza and rocketing of southern Israel. The secretary-general attended the meeting, but his statement was read by someone else because he lost his voice on the trip.Ban said that even with the truce and Israeli troops withdrawal conditions are still fragile, and much more remains to be done on both the humanitarian and diplomatic fronts.

I look to Egypt and others to continue vital efforts to seek understandings and mechanisms to ensure that a durable and sustainable cease-fire is quickly put in place,he said.Ban stressed that for any sustainable political progress to occur and for Gaza to properly recover and rebuild, Palestinians must face the challenges of reconciliation.Hamas wrested control of the Gaza Strip in June 2007 from the Palestinian Authority, which controls the West Bank.The Security Council statement on Wednesday encouraged Palestinian reconciliation as well as stepped up efforts to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and establish an independent Palestinian state.

Riyad Mansour, who represents the Palestinian Authority at the U.N. told reporters, said that Palestinians were united in the field against Israeli aggression.The biggest lesson of this war and aggression against us (is that) we need to be immediately united so that we can form (a) national unity or national reconciliation cabinet to address the monumental task of ... healing the wounds in Gaza and the reconstruction of Gaza.He stressed a need for unity. If that division (is) to continue it would entrench the division between Gaza and the West Bank and would be a huge blow against our dream and aspiration of having a contiguous, viable Palestinian state in all the areas that Israel occupied in 1967 including east Jerusalem.

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.

The Nation's Weather By WEATHER UNDERGROUND, For The Associated Press Weather

The forecast for noon, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009 shows more rain and mountain snow are expected from California …AccuWeather Rain and snow were forecast across the Southwest and into the Intermountain West on Thursday, while the East Coast, the Plains and the Mississippi Valley were expected to be mostly clear.Clouds and scattered showers were likely across the Southwest, with California receiving the bulk of the precipitation. Rain could turn to snow in some of the higher elevations.

Mostly cloudy skies were forecast across the Northwest, with scattered snow showers expected in Montana and Idaho. A few inches of snow were possible in central Montana, where winds were predicted to become strong.Mostly clear skies were likely over the Plains and the Mississippi Valley during the first part of the day, though clouds were to invade the regions later. Little precipitation was anticipated, except for a few snow showers that could develop in the far northern portion of the regions.Most of the East Coast was likely to see clear conditions, except for clouds and flurries in the upper mid-Atlantic and New England. Another frosty morning was forecast for the Southeast, where freeze watches and warnings were issued.
Temperatures in the Lower 48 states on Wednesday ranged from a low of minus 22 degrees at Watertown, N.Y., to a high of 84 degrees at Gila Bend, Ariz.
On the Net:Weather Underground: http://www.wunderground.com National Weather Service: http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov Intellicast: http://www.intellicast.com

Study: Antarctica joins rest of globe in warming By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer – Wed Jan 21, 3:35 pm ET

WASHINGTON – Antarctica, the only place that had oddly seemed immune from climate change, is warming after all, according to a new study. For years, Antarctica was an enigma to scientists who track the effects of global warming. Temperatures on much of the continent at the bottom of the world were staying the same or slightly cooling, previous research indicated.The new study went back further than earlier work and filled in a massive gap in data with satellite information to find that Antarctica too is getting warmer, like the Earth's other six continents.The findings were published in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.Contrarians have sometime grabbed on to this idea that the entire continent of Antarctica is cooling, so how could we be talking about global warming, said study co-author Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University. Now we can say: no, it's not true ... It is not bucking the trend.The study does not point to man-made climate change as the cause of the Antarctic warming — doing so is a highly intricate scientific process — but a different and smaller study out late last year did make that connection.We can't pin it down, but it certainly is consistent with the influence of greenhouse gases, said NASA scientist Drew Shindell, another study co-author. Some of the effects also could be natural variability, he said.

The study showed that Antarctica — about one-and-a-half times bigger than the United States — remains a complicated weather picture, especially with only a handful of monitoring stations in its vast interior.The researchers used satellite data and mathematical formulas to fill in missing information. That made outside scientists queasy about making large conclusions with such sparse information.This looks like a pretty good analysis, but I have to say I remain somewhat skeptical, Kevin Trenberth, climate analysis chief at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said in an e-mail. It is hard to make data where none exist.Shindell said it was more comprehensive than past studies and jibed with computer models.The research found that since 1957, the annual temperature for the entire continent of Antarctica has warmed by about 1 degree Fahrenheit, but still is 50 degrees below zero. West Antarctica, which is about 20 degrees warmer than the east, has warmed nearly twice as fast, said study lead author Eric Steig of the University of Washington.East Antarctica, which scientists had long thought to be cooling, is warming slightly when yearly averages are looked at over the past 50 years, said Steig.However, autumn temperatures in east Antarctica are cooling over the long term. And east Antarctica from the late 1970s through the 1990s, cooled slightly, Steig said.Some researchers skeptical about the magnitude of global warming overall said that the new study didn't match their measurements from satellites and that there appears to be no warming in Antarctica since 1980.It overstates what they have obtained from their analysis, said Roger Pielke Sr., a senior research scientist at the University of Colorado.

Steig said a different and independent study using ice cores drilled in west Antarctica found the same thing as his paper. And recent satellite data also confirms what this paper has found, Steig added.The study has major ramifications for sea level rise, said Andrew Weaver at the University of Victoria in Canada. Most major sea level rise projections for the future counted on a cooling — not warming — Antarctica. This will make sea level rise much worse, Weaver said.
On the Net Nature: http://www.nature.com/nature

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

FITNA
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7961200236915885171&ei=Unl3SYqPApPSjgKmzbilDw&q=fitna

YAHOO NEWS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video

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

ABC NEWS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video/2461

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

FOX BUSINESS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video/3045

AP NEWS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video/2529

BBC NEWS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video/2918

REUTERS VIDEO NEWS
http://news.yahoo.com/video/2704

AFP NEWS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video/3091

CNBC NEWS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video/3245

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 THU JAN 22,2009

09:30 AM -33.45
10:00 AM -130.41
10:30 AM -157.94
11:00 AM -179.69
11:30 AM -218.00
12:00 PM -262.92
12:30 PM -228.99
01:00 PM -187.17
01:30 PM -191.43
02:00 PM -118.04
02:30 PM -69.69
03:00 PM -99.92
03:30 PM -142.01
04:00 PM -105.30 8122.80

S&P 500 827.50 -12.74

NASDAQ 1465.49 -41.58

GOLD 859.40 +9.30

OIL 42.95 -0.60

TSE 300 8477.80 -280.09

CDNX 850.21 -1.34

S&P/TSX/60 508.06 -18.99

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

Dow -134 at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow high -168 points today so far.
Dow low - 33 points today so far.

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -6.25%
S&P -6.97%
Nasdaq -4.44%
Dow Transports -13.43%
Dow Utilities -1.21%
Russell 2000 -8.55%
Nyse Composite -8.39%
Amex Composite -2.87%
TSX Advances 630,declines 502,unchanged 215,Volume 736,219,471.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 312,Declines 338,Unchanged 317,Volume 98,977,266.

OIL drops $3.00 on new STATS so far today at 11AM
CRUDE OIL INVENTORIES +6.1 MILLION Barrels.
Distillate Inventories +800,000 Barrels.
Refinery Utilization -1.9% to 83.3%
Gasoline Inventories +6.5 MILLION Barrels.
Microsoft comes it at disappointed earnings.

NWO One World Currency To Be Presented In EU Meeting As A Solution For Economic Crisis
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2009/01/nwo-one-world-currency-to-be-presented.html#links

SARKOZY - NEW WORLD ORDER 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLOUbz8j8k4&eurl=http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2009/01/nicolas-sarkozy-nwo-2-here-again-is.html&feature=player_embedded

SARKOZY - NEW WORLD ORDER 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m8Xu9dkT64&eurl=http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2009/01/nicolas-sarkozy-nwo-2-here-again-is.html&feature=player_embedded

KISSINGER - NEW WORLD ORDER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVmtbLc4t6M&eurl=http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2009/01/nicolas-sarkozy-nwo-2-here-again-is.html&feature=player_embedded

GORBACHEV - NEW WORLD ORDER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHN-Mac85A4&eurl=http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2009/01/nicolas-sarkozy-nwo-2-here-again-is.html&feature=player_embedded

GEORGE H W - NEW WORLD ORDER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbRp7xlhgbo&eurl=http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2009/01/nicolas-sarkozy-nwo-2-here-again-is.html&feature=player_embedded

CLINTON - NEW WORLD ORDER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzUkhKaNylM&eurl=http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2009/01/nicolas-sarkozy-nwo-2-here-again-is.html&feature=player_embedded

QUEEN0 LIZ - NEW WORLD ORDER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIF9ebxdld0&eurl=http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2009/01/nicolas-sarkozy-nwo-2-here-again-is.html&feature=player_embedded

MERKEL - NEW WORLD ORDER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unT_MBgavog&eurl=http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2009/01/nicolas-sarkozy-nwo-2-here-again-is.html&feature=player_embedded

ALL ABOVE LINKS ON ONE PAGE
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2009/01/nicolas-sarkozy-nwo-2-here-again-is.html#links

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS

Dow -33 points at high today so far.
Dow -267 points at low today so far.

NOON STATS 12:00PM
Dow Volume this mourning. 142,165,883.00 -242.77 points.
Nasdaq volume tis mourning 737,903,234.00 -55.35 points.
S&P 500 Volume N/A -26.01 points.
TSX STATS Advances 317,Declines 586,Unchanged 216,Volume 264,176,496.
TSX VENTURE Advances 190,Declines 225,Unchanged 251,Volume 33,429,736.

JOHN THAIN OUT(RESIGNS)AT BANK OF AMERICA/MERRILL LYNCH.
Alex Jones - in the next 3 weeks their setting up the world government Bank.
The Biggest banks are merging into a National one,and International EU leaders are at the head of this push.

WHILE WERE ON THE NEW WORLD ORDER TODAY,LETS COMPARE HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE AT OBAMA'S INAUGURATION TO PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THE 2ND WAVE OF WW3 WHEN 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE.

THERE WERE 2 MILLION PEOPLE AT OBAMAS INAUGURATION,THERE WILL BE A 200 MILLION MAN ARMY GOING DOWN TO ISRAEL. JUST THINK ABOUT THIS 2 MILLION IN WASHINGTON TUESDAY ADD 198 MILLION MORE PEOPLE AND SLIP IT INTO ISRAEL WHICH IS ONLY 200 MILES LONG. WOW 200,000 TROOPS PER EACH MILE OF ISRAEL. WOW DOES THIS HIT HOME OR WHAT.

CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL 2ND WAVE OF WW3.

REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).

DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)

REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS

Dow -271 points at low today.
Dow -33 points at high today.
Dow -1.2% today Volume 419,182,136.
Nasdaq -2.7% Volume 2,093,774,186.
S&P -1.5% Volume N/A.
Dow finishes -1.2% after bouncing from 3.3% drop.
Nasdaq finishes -2.7% after bouncing from 4.2% drop.
S&P 500 finishes -1.5% after bouncing from 3.4% drop.
BIG SWINGS IN LAST HOUR OF TRADING.
Google Q4 Revenue $4.2 BILLION.
Google will continue to invest.
Microsoft falls 12% today.
Federal Judge sets bail conditions for accused N.Y Lawyer Marc Dreier.

Gaddafi says looking at oil firm nationalization By Sue Pleming Sue Pleming – Wed Jan 21, 6:08 pm ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Wednesday his country and other oil exporters were looking into nationalizing foreign firms due to low oil prices and suggested Tripoli might not stick to OPEC production quotas.Speaking via a satellite link from Libya to students at Georgetown University in Washington, he called the current price of oil unbearable.Oil was around $44 a barrel on Wednesday, less than a third of the price in July of $147.We would not adhere to OPEC's regulations because our livelihood depends on oil, Gaddafi said, without providing any details of how Libya might not stick to the oil producing organization's quotas.

Last month, Libya told oil firms to cut output by 270,000 barrels per day from January 1, more than the curb it needs to make under an OPEC deal to pump less.

Gaddafi, who decides Libya's oil policy, referred to recent Libyan newspaper reports over nationalization because of the dipping oil prices.The reports, including in the main state paper widely seen as the mouthpiece of Gaddafi, said this week the Basic People Congresses, Libya's top executive and legislative bodies, should vote to nationalize oil firms when they meet in the next few days.Oil exporting countries may move toward nationalization because of the rapidly declining prices. This is put on the table and is being discussed seriously, Gaddafi said through an interpreter.

Oil maybe should be owned by national companies or the public sector at this point, in order to control the oil prices, the oil production or maybe to stop it, he told the students. We may refuse to sell it at this very low price.

LIBYA HOPES FOR PRICE RISE

Petro-Canada, one of Libya's largest foreign oil producers, said it has heard no talk of nationalizing its interests in the North African country.We continue to have a cooperative relationship with the government of Libya, both signing agreements last summer and implementing contracts, said Andrea Ranson, spokeswoman for the Calgary-based company.In June, Petro-Canada signed six long-term exploration and production deals with Libya's state oil company that it said would lead to a doubling of production there.U.S. companies ConocoPhillips, Hess Corp and Marathon Oil are active in Libya under a consortium called Oasis Group with Libyan National Oil Corp. Other U.S. firms involved there are ExxonMobil, Chevron and Occidental.

Gaddafi said he hoped nationalization could be avoided by a price rise.We hope that the prices will go up again, say $100 a barrel, so that this idea would be discarded, to stop this idea of calling for nationalization, he said. However, with the decline, this would remain on the table.Gaddafi said his country had been tempted by oil prices when they were $150 a barrel and had embarked on ambitious infrastructure and other programs.We entered into billions and billions (of dollars) of contracts, he said, adding they had now become a problem. Reports of nationalization come after Libyan National Oil Corp released a report for 2008 suggesting officials want to modify policy based mainly on production sharing agreements. Some diplomats argue such reports are aimed at putting more pressure on oil firms in upcoming negotiations. Libya earned $5.4 billion in additional oil revenues from changes to contracts with four foreign companies last year, Libyan National Oil Corp said in its report made public last week. (Additional reporting by Jeffrey Jones in Calgary and Tom Doggett in Washington; Editing by John O'Callaghan)

Banks ask ECB for help in eastern Europe
ANDREW WILLIS Today JAN 22,09 @ 09:46 CET

In a fresh plea for aid from the European Central Bank (ECB), nine leading international banks that operate in central and eastern Europe have joined forces in asking for greater help in the region. The banks argue that funds to boost liquidity and restart lending should not be limited to the new EU member states however, but instead should also be offered to states beyond the bloc, such as Serbia and the Ukraine, reports the Financial Times. We fought for 50 years, many of us, to get these countries away from communism and now we have a free market economy in the region, we can't leave them alone when there is an extremely harsh wind blowing, Herbert Stepic, chief executive of Raiffeisen International told the newspaper.The Austrian bank was chiefly responsible for bringing the group together.The other eight banks involved are Italy's Unicredit and Intesa Sanpaolo, Austria's Erste Bank, Societe Generale from France, Belgium's KBC, German Bayern Landesbank, Sweden's Wedbank and EFG Eurobank from Greece.Mr Stepic's remarks come after the European Commission announced fresh economic forecasts on Monday (19 January) that predicted EU GDP would contract by 1.8 per cent this year, while on Wednesday, Portugal became the third eurozone member to have its rating cut by ratings agency Standard & Poor's.

Responding to further calls for a greater ECB supervisory role in Europe's financial sector, the bank's president, Jean-Claude Trichet, reiterated that the present EU treaties already contained a clause enabling member states to ramp up any of the bank's powers. Speaking to members of the European Parliament, Mr Trichet said that he personally stood ready to take on new banking supervision responsibilities but pointed out that the governing council, which includes representatives from all 16 eurozone members, had yet to agree a common position. Former Banque de France governor Jacque de Larosiere currently heads an expert panel in Brussels that has been asked to draw up proposals for a European financial supervisory system. It is due to report its conclusions at the end of February.

China's economy slowed sharply in 4th quarter By JOE McDONALD, AP Business Writer JAN 22,09

BEIJING – Asian economic gloom worsened when China said Thursday growth plunged in the final quarter of 2008 while Japan said exports fell at a record pace in December amid weakening Western consumer demand.Together with news that South Korea's economy shrank in the fourth quarter, the reports highlight export-dependent Asia's vulnerability to global slumps — even as governments roll out big plans to stimulate their domestic markets.It does look like a deeper bottom for Asia's downturn, said Yiping Huang, chief Asia economist for Citigroup.In China, economic growth in the fourth quarter fell to 6.8 percent compared with a year earlier, down from 9 percent the previous quarter, the government said.Especially since October, the impact of the global crisis spread from small and medium-size enterprises to larger enterprises, from eastern coastal regions to China's heartland, said Ma Jiantang, commissioner of the National Bureau of Statistics, at a news conference.Analysts said it was China's weakest quarter since at least 2001, though there was some disagreement, possibly due to Beijing's repeated revisions of past data. Goldman Sachs said it tied one quarter of 1998 for the lowest growth in 17 years. A woman who answered the phone at the statistics bureau said she could not confirm when the economy last grew so slowly.

Premier Wen Jiabao, China's top economic official, is due to visit Europe this month to discuss measures to combat the global slowdown.In Japan, the region's biggest economy, exports fell 35 percent in December, surpassing November's 26.7 percent decline, the government said. South Korea said its economy shrank 3.4 percent in the fourth quarter as exports plunged.The figures point toward more cuts in jobs and profits in coming months. Major Japanese exporters such as Toyota Motor Corp. and Sony Corp. have cut thousands of jobs and scaled back factory lines.On Thursday, Sony said it would likely report its first annual net loss in 14 years.Asian governments have to build up domestic demand to reduce reliance on exports, said Kirby Daley, senior strategist at Newedge Group in Hong Kong.Today's data will put to rest forever the notion that Asia could somehow thrive even when the rest of the world slumps, he said. The idea that intra-regional trade will sustain growth within Asia even without U.S. demand has been debunked.China announced a 4 trillion yuan ($586 billion) plan in November to boost domestic consumption through higher spending on construction and other projects. But its effects are not expected to be felt for several months. Other governments have announced their own stimulus plans, and central banks have slashed interest rates.In China, exporters have been hit hardest, but the slump is spreading to domestic industries as demand for autos, real estate and other goods weakens. Exports fell in November and December for the first time in seven years.Sales for the Shanghai Bao Clothing Co. in the eastern city of Nantong have fallen by 25 percent from the same time last year, said general manager Zhao Jun. That was despite efforts to sell more in China and reduce reliance on foreign markets.Zhao said exports are now 20 percent of sales, down from 80 percent of sales two years.We hope sales will gradually recover in the Year of the Ox, Zhao said, referring to the traditional Lunar New Year that starts Monday. But I told myself not to put hope on exports. It's going to be tough in 2009.Thousands of factories have closed in China's export-driven southeast and estimates of job losses exceed 2 million. Spooked by scattered labor protests, communist leaders worry about rising tensions and possible unrest as laid-off workers stream back to their hometowns. They have promised to create new jobs and are pressing employers to avoid more layoffs.

The weak fourth quarter dragged down China's 2008 annual growth to a seven-year low of 9 percent, breaking a five-year streak of double-digit expansion. It was a steep drop from 2007's 13 percent, which saw China pass Germany to become the world's third-largest economy after the United States and Japan. Analysts have cut forecasts of 2009 growth to as low as 5 percent. But some pointed to modestly encouraging signs that are emerging in China. Industrial production grew by 5.9 percent in December, up from November's low of 5.4 percent, according to the statistics bureau. Retail sales rose 17.4 percent in December, an increase over November's growth. Investment in factories, real estate and other assets also was up slightly. Almost all major monthly indicators point to a recovery, said Merrill Lynch economists Ting Lu and T.J. Bond in a report. The rise in domestic demand will likely outpace the fall in external demand, and we expect growth to pick up.China's stimulus depends on persuading consumers to spend more. Analysts say that will be tough to achieve while families still feel compelled to save up to 50 percent of their incomes to pay for health care, education and other necessities. Beijing has promised to create a social safety net to reduce such burdens. It announced Wednesday it will spend 850 billion yuan ($124 billion) to improve health care in an apparent effort to encourage households to save less and spend more. As long as we keep improving the environment and take measures to address people's misgivings about spending by improving social security, I believe we will continue to see an increase in consumption, said Ma, the statistics official. On the Net: National Bureau of Statistics (in Chinese): http://www.stats.gov.cn AP Business Writer Jeremiah Marquez in Hong Kong and researcher Ji Chen in Shanghai contributed to this report.

Sony forecasts first annual net loss in 14 years By YURI KAGEYAMA, AP Business Writer JAN 22,09

TOKYO – Sony Chief Executive Howard Stringer acknowledged Thursday he had not gone far enough with cost cuts and efforts to combine entertainment with electronics as his company projected its first annual loss in 14 years.More has to be done and more can get done, Stringer said at a hastily called news conference at Sony's Tokyo headquarters.We have a long way to go.Sony Corp. said it will offer early retirement to employees at its prized TV division, seeking to trim personnel costs there by 30 percent. It is also slashing jobs at its movies, music and game businesses. Sony did not give a head count target for the reductions. It said it is cutting 1,000 temporary workers when it closes one of two TV plants in Japan.Stringer said he and two other top executives, including President Ryoji Chubachi, will give up their entire bonus, which would halve their annual pay, according to Sony. Other executives and managers will see lower pay.But Koya Tabata, electronics analyst at Credit Suisse in Tokyo, was skeptical about Sony's prospects.There was no change to his strategy. What he said was more of the same, he said of Stringer's remarks. And that's bad.Last month, Sony had already said it would cut 8,000 of its 185,000 jobs around the world and shutter five or six plants — about 10 percent of its 57 factories. It would also trim 8,000 temporary workers who aren't included in the global work force tally.

Stringer said Sony needs carry out management decisions from the top more quickly to fix its problems.There is still a lot of the old Sony, and not enough of the new Sony, he said.Battered by slumping sales and a strong yen, Sony expects to sink into a 150 billion yen ($1.7 billion) net loss for the fiscal year through March, a reversal from 369.4 billion yen profit the previous year.The massive economic upheaval being experienced across the globe is sparing no one in the consumer electronics world, Stringer said, adding that details of the additional steps will be announced in April or May.The last — and only — time Sony reported a loss, for the fiscal year ending March 1995, the red ink came from one-time losses in its movie division, marred by box office flops and lax cost controls.Sony joins some of Japan Inc.'s biggest names in painting bleak outlooks. Toyota Motor Corp. is forecasting its first operating loss in 70 years — although it says it will eke out a small net profit.Sony, which makes the Walkman player and PlayStation 3 game machine, also lowered its sales forecast for the fiscal year through March to 7.7 trillion yen, down 13 percent from the previous year.Welsh-born American Stringer, who in 2005 became the first foreigner to head Sony, has repeatedly promised to get Sony's sprawling businesses to work together to deliver on innovative products that exploit Sony's rich movie, game, music and other entertainment content to sell hardware products.

Sony made important errors in recent years, falling behind in flat-panel TVs and portable music players.Company officials said a reason it was continuously in the red in its TV unit was that it was difficult to adjust the purchasing of panels amid volatile price changes. Sony no longer makes liquid-crystal display panels on its own, and has a joint venture with Samsung to procure panels.The efforts announced Thursday are expected to save Sony 250 billion yen for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2010. Other measures include outsourcing software development in India, signing deals for making cheaper products in emerging markets, and reducing advertising expenses. Sony has taken a beating from the global slump that crimped consumer spending during the critical year-end shopping season. It is particularly vulnerable to the strong yen since about 80 percent of its sales come from overseas. The dollar has dropped to below 90 yen recently from as high as 117 yen last year, eroding with it Sony's foreign income. In October, it lowered its forecast to a 150 billion yen ($1.7 billion) profit. But conditions worsened since then, as profitability worsened not only at its core electronics unit but also at its video game, movie and financial businesses, it said. We must move ahead with reforms, but my mission is to also nurture innovation, Chubachi said. We will become a strong Sony.The company's stock fell 51 yen, or 2.6 percent, to 1,938 yen. The earnings revision was announced after the market closed.

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PESTILENCES (CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS)

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

Al-Qaeda cell killed by Black Death was developing biological weapons.An al-Qaeda cell killed by the Black Death may have been developing biological weapons when it was infected, it has been reported. Last Updated: 6:10PM GMT 20 Jan 2009

The group of 40 terrorists were reported to have been killed by the plague at a training camp in Algeria earlier this month.It was initially believed that they could have caught the disease through fleas on rats attracted by poor living conditions in their forest hideout.But there are now claims the cell was developing the disease as a weapon to use against western cities. Experts said that the group was developing chemical and biological weapons.Dr Igor Khrupinov, a biological weapons expert at Georgia University, told The Sun: Al-Qaeda is known to experiment with biological weapons. And this group has direct communication with other cells around the world. Contagious diseases, like ebola and anthrax, occur in northern Africa. It makes sense that people are trying to use them against Western governments.Dr Khrupinov, who was once a weapons adviser to the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev, added: Instead of using bombs, people with infectious diseases could be walking through cities.It was reported last year that up to 100 potential terrorists had attempted to become postgraduate students in Britain in an attempt to use laboratories.Ian Kearns, from the Institute for Public Policy Research, told the newspaper: The biological weapons threat is not going away. We're not ready for it.

DISEASES

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

Zimbabwe opposition says suffering must end as cholera surges JAN 22,09

HARARE (AFP) – Opposition chief Morgan Tsvangirai said Thursday a regional summit could break Zimbabwe's political impasse and end the suffering of a nation where an unchecked cholera epidemic has claimed over 2,700 lives.The latest alarming report by the World Health Organisation highlighted the failure of health authorities and aid agencies to rein in the deadly but treatable disease, which has infected more than 48,000 people since August.The new death toll of 2,755 marks a nearly 25 percent increase in fatalities in less than a week, with the disease showing no sign of slowing.Many of the deaths have been in Harare, a result of a devastating breakdown in the capital's infrastructure, with broken sewage and water pipes unrepaired while mountains of uncollected refuse line the streets of populous suburbs.Tsvangirai visited a cholera centre in Budiriro, the suburb at the epicentre of the outbreak that has spread across the country and over Zimbabwe's borders.

I am saying that this suffering must end, for all of us, for the good of the nation, certainly this suffering must end, Tsvangirai said.You are also aware that the education system is down, the health system is down, industries are closed, the food situation is in a critical state, he added.Zimbabwe's economy has been in freefall for years, but a humanitarian crisis has exploded since disputed elections last March, when Tsvangirai defeated President Robert Mugabe in a first round presidential vote and his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) seized its first majority in parliament.His victory was greeted with a wave of violence blamed on Mugane's ZANU-PF party which has left at least 180 dead, according to Amnesty International, most of them MDC supporters.Without a functioning government for 10 months, Zimbabwe's already battered economy has plunged to new, bizarre depths -- a nation where cash loses its value by the day and ordinary people use trillion-dollar bills to buy bread.A teachers union Thursday warned that school would not open as scheduled next week unless they receive their salaries in US dollars. This month they were paid 26 trillion Zimbabwe dollars, worth about three US dollars.

Marathon talks Monday between the political rivals failed to find a compromise on a proposed unity government, but now regional leaders are preparing to meet in South Africa on January 26 in a new bid to reach a deal.Zimbabwe is also certain to figure prominently when the African Union opens its summit on February 1.Tsvangirai said negotiations between the MDC, a breakaway faction of his party and ZANU-PF had once again stalled over the failure to address issues related to attribution of key ministries, as well as allocation of provincial governors and the release of detained activists.But he said he was confident that the Monday summit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) would find a way to save Zimbabwe's unity accord.I am sure that we should be able to resolve these issues. I am anxious that we resolve these issues and form the government, he said.The upcoming summit will mark the fourth time that all SADC members have gathered to discuss Zimbabwe's crisis since the March elections.Human Rights Watch said that if Mugabe's government failed to end the political violence and other rights abuses, the African Union should suspend Zimbabwe from the 53-nation group. The international rights body wants the AU, which meets in Ethiopia next week, to step into regional mediation efforts which it says have failed to solve the political stand-off or act against rights abuses.

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South Korea's prophet of doom blogger indicted (Reuters)Thu Jan 22, 2009 9:31AM EST

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean prosecutors indicted a blogger on Thursday who had warned of financial doom for the country with critics saying he was targeted because his gloomy forecasts upset the government battling an economic downturn.The blogger, writing under the pseudonym Minerva, became a household name for his predictions of sharp falls in the won and the local stock market and the collapse of U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers. Prosecutors said he hurt the local currency by posting incorrect information online.The suspect in this case was indicted on charges of false information on two occasions, an official at the prosecutors' office said by telephone.As South Korean markets tumbled late last year amid the global downturn, the main financial regulator warned it would crack down on what it considered malicious rumors and some economic analysts say they have come under pressure from authorities not to voice negative views on the economy.

The prosecution hurriedly went ahead with its investigation and a court readily gave prosecutors a permit to conduct a witch hunt, the liberal Hankyoreh daily said in a recent editorial, calling the case an infringement of freedom of speech.Prosecutors identified the blogger as Park Dae-sung, an unemployed 30-year-old man who faces up to five years in prison if he is found guilty of violating communications laws.

Since his detention earlier this month, legal experts have questioned whether authorities had legal grounds to prosecute individuals. Meanwhile the conservative ruling party of President Lee Myung-bak is pushing for a tough new law on cyber slander.The Minerva case shows that the tradition of rule of law has yet to set root firmly in our society, said Dankook University law professor Ji Seong-woo.Since Park's detention, reports have flooded local mainstream media saying he was a quiet man with a humble educational background. Experts said this may be an attempt to discredit Park in a society that places high value on an elite education and employment at prestigious firms such as brokerages.Should Park be punished, it should be for his conduct and not because he is some thirty-some year old unemployed two-year technical college graduate, Ji said.The South Korean currency fell 28 percent last year and the main share index slumped 40 percent.President Lee reshuffled his top economic officials on Monday, replacing his widely criticized finance minister, to speed up measures to stop Asia's fourth largest economy from sliding into its deepest recession in 11 years.(Editing by Jon Herskovitz and Sugita Katyal)

Russian and Cuban officials discuss boosting ties JAN 22,09

MOSCOW – Russian and Cuban officials met in Moscow on Thursday as part of the Kremlin's effort to project global power and renew alliances that were part of the Cold War.The stated purpose of the meeting was to increase ties before Cuban President Raul Castro's visit to Moscow, scheduled for later this month. Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin told a session of a Russian-Cuban intergovernmental panel that relations between the two countries should reach a new level.The Kremlin has moved to rebuild old Cold War-era alliances with Cuba and Nicaragua — and cultivate new friends like Venezuela — to flex its muscles close to the United States.Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev visited Brazil, Cuba, Peru and Venezuela in November, and Russia also sent a navy squadron to the Caribbean. Russian navy ships held joint maneuvers with the Venezuelan navy and made port calls in several countries of the region, including Cuba.The panel Thursday included officials and businessmen who deal with oil and gas, nuclear energy and metals.

Sechin's Cuban counterpart, Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz, said Thursday the bilateral ties must serve as an example for others in the region.Relations between Cuba, Venezuela and Russia should become exemplary for other Latin American countries, Ruiz said.The Soviet Union provided billions of dollars in trade and annual subsidies to Cuba before its 1991 collapse. The Kremlin has moved to reinvigorate the old friendship with Cuba amid a cold spell in relations with the United States.

Report: Obama should act quickly on NKorea nukes Thu Jan 22, 5:10 am ET

SEOUL, South Korea – President Barack Obama must not continue his predecessor's bad practices in dealing with North Korea and should act quickly to end a standoff over the country's nuclear programs, a pro-Pyongyang newspaper said Thursday.The Tokyo-based Choson Sinbo paper, considered a mouthpiece for the communist regime, also reiterated North Korea's willingness to work with Obama to resolve the nuclear issue.

The old U.S. policy set up an order of confrontation on the Korean peninsula and threatened peace, the report said.If President Obama's inauguration speech means he would abandon the bad practices of coerciveness and arbitrariness, and act positively in the international arena, the peace and security regime in this region is a subject that must be addressed, it said.The U.S., South Korea, Japan, Russia and China have been trying for years to coax North Korea — which tested a nuclear bomb in 2006 — to give up its atomic ambitions.Pyongyang agreed in 2007 to dismantle its nuclear program in exchange for aid, but the process has been stalled since August.Last week, North Korea's Foreign Ministry said it would give up its nuclear weapons only if Washington establishes diplomatic relations with the regime and proves it is not a nuclear threat to the North — an apparent reference to Pyongyang's long-standing claim that the U.S. is hiding nuclear weapons in South Korea.Both Seoul and Washington deny the accusation.North Korea has not officially commented on Obama's inauguration Tuesday but the regime appeared to be using the newspaper to urge the president to take a softer approach when he forms his policy on the country.In his inaugural address, Obama said he was ready to work with old friends and former foes to lessen nuclear threats. In response, the Choson Sinbo said the North also is prepared to make joint efforts with Obama if he accepts the North's conditions.