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TRUTH OTTAWA RESPONDS TO GLEN BECK
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AUDIT THE FED HAS 226 SIGNED UP AS OF TUESDAY.

Ron Paul’s Bill To Audit The Federal Reserve Now Has 226 Co-Sponsors
By tmartin • June 17, 2009

Ron Paul’s bill to audit the Federal Reserve (HR 1207) now has 226 co-sponsors, and the numbers keep growing! This is history in the making, and victory is within reach. Imagine what will happen if HR 1207, The Federal Reserve Transparency Act, comes up for vote in Congress! With more than 50% of the House of Representatives already co-sponsoring this bill, it has real potential to pass — BUT only if we educate and rally the people to support it and get our Congresspeople to put it to vote and pass it.

Step 1: Your Representative
If your representative is not on the following list of HR 1207 co-sponsors, call their offices, write to them, email them, etc. Let them know they need to support HR 1207. If you live in their district, let them know. Go to their office.

Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

Step 2: Financial Services Committee
HR 1207 is now in the House Committee on Financial Services. This is THE MOST IMPORTANT STEP in this legislation! If it doesn’t get out of committee it will not come to a vote! There are 71 members on this committee and they are all listed below.

We need to let all members of the House Committee on Financial Services know that we want them to allow full House consideration of HR 1207 so it can move forward; we need them to support this. Now is the time.Call their offices, write to them, email them, etc. Let them know they need to support HR 1207. If you live in their district, let them know. Go to their office.

Help with this all important public outreach. NOW REALLY IS THE TIME!
Here’s a sample letter you can use:

Dear Representative,

Please co-sponsor and/or support H.R.1207, an effort to audit the Federal Reserve.

Recently, it has come to light that there is little to no accountability to the people on the part of the Federal Reserve. While the citizens of this country are required by law to give an accounting of every penny they come in contact with, the Federal Reserve has never been held to the same standard. During this time of extreme economic crisis, the people deserve an accounting of where our money is going.

Currently there are 224 co-sponsors for this legislation, and it is enjoying bi-partisan support. Your efforts in supporting this important legislation would go a long way in proving to your constituents that you not only hold the Federal Reserve to the same standard as you do your constituents, but it would also show that you believe in transparency. Anything less than support for this resolution suggests that you are in favor of secrecy and a lack of accountability to the people who pay the bills. We pay the tab; we have a right to know where our money is going.Unlike recent bills that you voted in favor of that had hundreds of pages and just a few hours to read, this bill can be read in under 5 minutes. I encourage you to take the time to read it, and then move to support it.Thank you in advance for your attention on this important legislation. I have every expectation that you will do right by your constituents and support this measure.

Sincerely,

Step 3: The People
Tell everyone you know about HR 1207 and ask them to support it and to contact their representative as well. Link to this page and to CampaignForLiberty.com.This initiative is crucial and we need to redouble our efforts to get HR 1207 passed.

Federal Reserve To Be Given Sweeping New Powers
Steve Watson Infowars.net Tuesday, June 16, 2009

The privately owned and run Federal Reserve is to be handed sweeping new powers under Obama administration proposals in a deal that will please bankers who lobbied for more Fed oversight of their activities.The new rules would see the Fed given the authority to regulate any company whose activity it believes could threaten the economy and the markets.The final plan due to be released on Wednesday — which originally aimed to streamline and consolidate banking and securities regulation in one or two agencies — now is expected to sidestep most jurisdictional disputes and simply impose across the board standards to be applied by all financial regulators, according to administration and industry sources,reports the Washington Times.In other words, the Fed, which is already totally unaccountable to Congress, is to be placed in complete control of the entirety of the US financial system, to do as it wishes without repercussion.As the LA Times reports, the government, in conjunction with the private Federal Reserve, would effectively have the clout to simply seize and take over any company it desires.In order to appease those opposed to the plan, such as Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, chairman of the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, the Obama administration has agreed to create a watchdog council of regulators to advise the Fed.However, as former chairman Alan Greenspan has most recently pointed out, given that the Fed is an independent entity, accountable to no one, it will have the power to simply reject and overrule any advice it is offered.

The mainstream media, for the most part, has reported the oversight plan as a much needed regulatory crackdown on those responsible for the financial crisis. However, the details of the plan constitute almost exactly what lobbyists for leading bankers have been pushing for over the past few weeks.All derivatives contracts will be subject to regulation and all derivatives dealers subject to supervision,Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said at a Time Warner Economic Summit in New York on Monday, also noting When you have too many people involved, there’s an accountability problem.As we reported earlier this month, heads of nine of the biggest banks in the derivatives market, including JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Bank of America, secretly lobbied to keep derivatives under Federal Reserve oversight and away from real scrutiny.As reported by The New York Times, they all met secretly to discuss how to use the lax regulation and institutional secrecy of the NY Fed to shield their credit-default swaps business from prying eyes and attempts at regulation.The banks formed a lobby– the CDS Dealers Consortium– only weeks after accepting TARP funds in October 2008 to protect its interests. Heading this effort was Edward Rosen, who previously helped fend off derivatives regulation. Rosen wrote and circulated a confidential memo to the Treasury Department and leaders on Capital Hill, making their agenda clear, the Times reported.Rosen and his backers propose that derivatives be traded in privately managed clearinghouses, with less disclosure, according to the Times. The clearinghouse of choice for the big banks in Rosen’s CDS Consortium is ICE U.S. Trust, which is in turned regulated only by the Federal Reserve system.So the upshot of all this is that the bankers get what they want, are allowed to carry on as they were, while at the same time the fractional reserve banking system and the federal government are both greatly expanded and empowered, and the compliant corporate media ludicrously tells us that a strict crackdown is underway.This kind of activity is exactly what some leading representatives have warned of in recent weeks.

A fortnight ago, the Democratic Chairman of the Agriculture Committee, Collin Peterson, announced to the press that The banks run the place, in reference to the US Congress.While Peterson is also pushing for legislation to regulate derivatives trading, his proposed bill would limit derivatives trading to public exchanges, rather than private clearinghouses, which are managed by banks.Peterson’s warning mirrors that of Democratic Senator Dick Durbin, who just a few weeks before uttered the same rarely acknowledged truth.And the banks — hard to believe in a time when we’re facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created — are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place,Durbin said.How simultaneously dangerous and ridiculous it is that the Federal Reserve is given more authority to oversee the economy. This is the same privately run entity that refused to comply with congressional demands for transparency and disclose the destination of trillions dollars in bailout funds. It is the same privately owned entity that has withheld internal memos, in spite of freedom of information act requests. It is the same private entity, run for the most part by European banking elites, that has arrogantly refused to tell Senators and Congressmen which banks were in receipt of government loans.The government is ready to hand over everything to a monolithic private corporation and a gaggle of bastard banker offspring, that have gobbled up an amount close to the entire GDP of the country in taxpayers’ money and figuratively stuck the middle finger up regarding questions over where that money has gone.It can be no more apparent than at this time that legislation to audit, repeal and eventually end the Federal Reserve, must be supported by Americans if they want to see their children and their grandchildren grow up without indentured debt and entrenched servitude to a fascistic marriage of private banks and hugely inflated government.

DAVID ICKE ON JONES YESTERDAY
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THE DAY IN THE MARKETS
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Harper, Ignatieff extend productive talks JUNE 16,09

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the main opposition leader, Michael Ignatieff, have finished a first meeting aimed at avoiding an election and will meet again later on Tuesday, a Harper spokesman said.CBC Television quoted a Harper spokesman as saying that the meeting was good and productive.

Ignatieff said on Monday he would move to bring down the Conservatives on a budget vote on Friday unless Harper gave him answers on four key concerns, including plans to expand unemployment benefits, plans to balance the federal budget and details on stimulus spending.(Reporting by Randall Palmer, writing by Louise Egan; editing by Janet Guttsman)

Israeli envoy hopeful for solution on settlements By ARON HELLER, Associated Press Writer - Tue Jun 16, 9:56 am ET

JERUSALEM – Israel's incoming ambassador to the United States said Tuesday he was confident that his government will soon reach an agreement with Washington to allow some construction in West Bank settlements.President Barack Obama, seeking to restart Mideast peace talks, has called on Israel to halt all construction on captured lands claimed by the Palestinians. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says existing settlements must be permitted to expand to accommodate natural growth in the populations.Netanyahu's designated envoy to Washington, Michael Oren, said there is enough wiggle room to find creative solutions to work out a deal with Washington.I think there is flexibility on both sides and I'm confident that we can work this out. I think that both the Obama administration and Israel want to move forward on the peace process. We don't want to get caught up in this issue,Oren told the Associated Press.The goal here is to remove the settlement issue as an impediment to advancing the peace process, he said. I think on the American side, there's an appreciation of that eagerness.Oren gave no details on how Israel expects to bridge its differences with Washington. Netanyahu is expected to discuss the matter next week with the White House's Mideast envoy, George Mitchell.The U.S. has long argued that settlements are obstacles to peace. Nearly 300,000 Israelis live in West Bank settlements, along with 180,000 Israelis in Jewish neighborhoods of east Jerusalem. The Palestinian seek both areas, captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war, as parts of a future independent state.In a major policy speech on Sunday, Netanyahu for the first time said he supported Palestinian independence, though he attached a series of conditions rejected by the Palestinians.

He said a future Palestine would have to be demilitarized and that the Palestinians must recognize Israel as a Jewish state — in effect rejecting Palestinian refugees' claims to properties lost at the time of Israel's establishment in 1948. Netanyahu also ruled out shared control of Jerusalem and defied the American call to halt settlement expansion.Netanyahu's speech was roundly criticized by the Palestinians, Arab leaders and liberal commentators at home who were disappointed by its many caveats and vagueness. Obama gave it a cautious welcome, noting there were a lot of conditions but that it raised at least the possibility that we can restart serious talks.The Israeli public, on the other hand, has embraced Netanyahu's message, according to polls published Tuesday.The Haaretz daily said 71 percent of Israelis surveyed in a poll agreed with the content of the speech, though 67 percent said they do not think it will bring peace any closer. It said Netanyahu's approval rating jumped to 44 percent after the speech, from 28 percent a month earlier. The poll was conducted by the Dialog company and surveyed 504 people with a margin of error of 4.3 percentage points.A second poll published in the daily Yisrael Hayom found 61 percent support for Netanyahu's position on a Palestinian state, with only 23 percent opposed. In the poll, 58 percent said they opposed the U.S. demands to freeze settlement construction. The poll surveyed 501 people and had a margin of error of 4.4percentage points.I think that if you ask Israelis, its overwhelming across the political spectrum. People want the Palestinians to have their own free, independent lives. We don't wanna govern them. But we wanna make sure they don't have the powers to threaten us,Netanyahu said in an interview with CBS News on Monday.Menachem Hofnung, a professor of political science at Hebrew University, said Netanyahu's speech generated great support because he is perceived to have withstood American pressure and defended vital Israeli interests.He raised his periscope, found the middle ground and aimed at it,he said.His speech pretty much reflects the center of the Israeli political map.

UK plans universal access to high-speed Internet By MEERA SELVA, Associated Press Writer JUNE 16,09

LONDON – About one-third of Britain's population does not have access to the Internet at home — a startling statistic that prompted a government promise Tuesday to overhaul the country's digital infrastructure.Prime Minister Gordon Brown outlined a 200 million pound ($328 million) program that would ensure that every British home can have broadband Internet access at 2 megabytes per second by 2012. That's fast enough to buy products online and download most Web pages.Just as the bridges, roads and railways built in the 19th century were the foundations of an Industrial Revolution that helped Britain to become the workshop of the world, so investment now in the information and communications industries can underpin our emergence from recession,Brown wrote in an op-ed piece for the Times of London.Roughly a quarter of Britain's 61 million people do not use the Internet at all, while nearly 3 million homes have connections that are too slow to download movies, shop online or easily navigate social networking sites. As many as 18 million people do not have any Internet access in their homes.Unlike most other European countries, Britain still relies heavily on copper cables that can only carry data over a few miles (kilometers), instead of fiber optic cables that can transmit data across entire oceans.That means people who live far away from the telephone exchanges that are used to transmit data receive a slow or erratic Internet connection. And most of those households are in rural areas or far from cinemas and shopping malls — exactly the kind of areas that could benefit from downloaded movies and online shopping.

Communications minister Stephen Carter acknowledged that investment in the Internet has not been put on the same level as we have put other pieces of critical infrastructure.We need to start looking at a communications infrastructure the same way we look at a transportation infrastructure,he said.Matthew Howett, analyst with telecommunications consultancy OVUM says the layout of Britain's towns — with its long stretches of row houses — may also be to blame.Britons tend to live in low slung towns and suburbs around major cities, and the country does not have the mass concentrations of people found in many major European countries. Even London is a collection of villages that grew together. This sprawl gives Britain its unique character — but creates huge problems for laying out fiber optic cable.The cost of digging up city streets, together with Victorian-era pipes that once were the envy of Europe, now hamper construction, accounting for 70 percent of the total cost of installing fiber optic cables in an area.Other European countries have a lot more apartment blocks so you can reach several people with one connection. In the U.K. we have lots of low-level houses so these local loops have to run much farther, he said. The government has a role to reduce the civil engineering costs of laying fiber optic cables. Maybe coordinating so that when a water company comes to dig up the road, a telecoms company can put fiber optic cables in as well.Britain is not the only country to try to expand Internet access. Germany announced a similar plan in December, as part of its first economic stimulus package and last year Finland launched program to make broadband accessible to everyone in one of Europe's most sparsely populated countries by end of 2015. India's President Pratibha Patil recently outlined plans to get 40 percent of people in the countryside online over the next five years.There is a problem about people being disconnected from society, if they can't get online, said Howett.There's a whole range of products and services that should be available to everyone, not just those lucky enough to have an Internet connection.The government plans to raise an annual six pound ($9.80) tax on every fixed telephone line to provide subsidies for Internet companies to deliver fast Internet connections to areas where it would not normally be viable. It also aims to get Internet costs down so no one should feel they are unable to afford an Internet connection.

Vatican China envoy to get tough with Beijing By NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press Writer – Tue Jun 16, 11:52 am ET

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican's top envoy for China says the time has come for the Holy See to get tough with Beijing and not compromise over religious freedom, saying relations are taking a worrisome slide for the worse.Hong Kong Cardinal Joseph Zen also said the Vatican shouldn't give so much importance to re-establishing diplomatic relations with Beijing because such a move could trick people into thinking there is religious freedom in China when there isn't.And in an interview Tuesday with the Vatican-affiliated missionary news agency AsiaNews, Zen repeated his call for official bishops in China to not give in to pressure from the state-sanctioned church, saying they have to remain firm in their faith and loyalty to the pope — even to the point of martyrdom.China forced its Roman Catholics to cut ties with the Vatican in 1951, shortly after the officially atheist Communist Party took power. Worship is allowed only in state-backed churches, which recognize the pope as a spiritual leader but appoint their own priests and bishops.Millions of Chinese, however, belong to unofficial congregations that are loyal to Rome. Underground priests and bishops have been harassed or arrested by Beijing authorities.Pope Benedict XVI has made improving often-tense relations with Beijing a priority of his papacy and has sought to unify the country's 12 million faithful under his wing. But there has been little tangible evidence of progress in his four-year effort, and the Vatican recently denounced a new wave of arrests of underground priests and bishops, and accused Beijing of mounting obstacles to a dialogue with the Holy See.The Vatican insists that Benedict alone must appoint bishops; China says such papal authority interferes in its internal affairs. In recent years the two sides have reached a compromise of sorts under which both Beijing and Rome agree on candidates.

In 2007, Benedict sent a special letter to Catholics in China, praising the underground church but also urging the faithful to reconcile with followers of the official church. Zen, an outspoken advocate of freedom of worship and a critic of Beijing, said that letter was supposed to have ushered in a new season of relations with Beijing but hasn't.We've come to the point where it's not possible and just to accept compromise as we did before, he said.In these two years there hasn't be a turn toward clarity. In fact, it seems to me that we're taking a worrisome slide along the slope of compromise.Most worrisome, he said, was a planned assembly of official Chinese priests and bishops this year, which he said would be an insult to the Holy Father because it would completely ignore his letter.At the same time, Zen also criticized the Vatican for not having reinforced the 2007 letter, noting that Chinese authorities have tried to block its distribution among mainland faithful.The Vatican has said it was ready at any time to switch its diplomatic relations from Taiwan to China. But Zen warned against moving too quickly.Sometimes too much importance is placed on diplomatic relations, when these alone don't set things straight, AsiaNews quoted Zen as saying.In fact, sometimes it could be misleading because it can give the false impression that religious freedom exists.

DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS

REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.

REVELATION 9:21
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries (DRUGS), nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

Gunmen kill priest, 2 seminarians in Mexico Mon Jun 15, 6:41 pm ET

ACAPULCO, Mexico – Gunmen ordered a priest and two seminarians out of their vehicle and shot them dead in a drug-plagued region of western Mexico, authorities said Monday.The three were killed as they drove through the town of Arcelia in Guerrero state to nearby Ciudad Altamirano to organize a spiritual retreat, said the Archbishop of Acapulco, Felipe Aguirre Franco.Erit Montufar, Guerrero's director of investigative police, said no arrests have been made and no motive has been determined for the killings, which took place Saturday.But Roman Catholic clergy in Mexico have complained that they are increasingly the targets of attacks and extortion demands as the nation wrestles with a wave of drug cartel-fueled violence.

We have become hostages in this violent confrontations between the drug cartels living among us,Aguirre Franco said.In April, priests in northern Mexico were urged to take extra precautions after an archbishop commented on where the nation's most-wanted trafficker may live.The coastal state of Guerrero, which is used by drug traffickers to grow marijuana and opium poppies, has been mired in drug violence for years.Also Monday, Mexico's attorney general's office said it charged 51 guards and prison officials, including the director, for their complicity in the escape of 53 inmates from a jail in Zacatecas state.Security camera footage showed that guards at the Cieneguillas prison stood by as an armed gang walked out with the 53 inmates on May 16. About a dozen of the fugitives are drug cartel suspects.The office also said it has arrested 9 mid-level military officers and turned over to them by the army for passing information to the Sinaloa drug cartel.President Felipe Calderon has struggled to combat rising drug violence and corruption, sending 45,000 troops to drug hot spots since taking office in December 2006. More than 10,800 people have since died in drug-related incidents.

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).

Influenza A(H1N1) - update 49
15 June 2009 -- As of 17:00 GMT, 15 June 2009, 76 countries have officially reported 35, 928 cases of influenza A(H1N1) infection, including 163 deaths. The breakdown of the number of laboratory-confirmed cases by country is given in the following table and map.Laboratory-confirmed cases of new influenza A(H1N1) as officially reported to WHO by States Parties to the International Health Regulations (2005)
Country/territory-Cumulative total-Newly confirmed since the last reporting period-Cases-Deaths.
Argentina 343-0-0-0
Australia 1823-0-516-0
Austria 7-0-0-0
Bahamas 1-0-0-0
Bahrain 1-0-0-0
Barbados 3-0-0-0
Belgium 17-0-3-0
Bolivia 7-0-2-0
Brazil 54-0-2-0
Bulgaria 2-0-0-0
Canada 2978-4-0-0
Cayman Islands, UKOT 2-0-0-0
Chile 1694 2-0-0-0
China 318-0-130-0
Colombia 42-1-7-0
Costa Rica 104-1-0-0
Cuba 6-0-0-0
Cyprus 1-0-0-0
Czech Republic 4-0-0-0
Denmark 12-0-1-0
Dominica 1-0-0-0
Dominican Republic 93-1-2-0
Ecuador 80-0-13-0
Egypt 18-0-8-0
El Salvador 95-0-26-0
Estonia 4-0-0-0
Finland 4-0-0-0
France 80-0-7-0
Germany 170-0-75-0
Greece 19-0-12-0
Guatemala 119-1-45-0
Honduras 89-0-0-0
Hungary 4-0-0-0
Iceland 4-0-0-0
India 16-0-7-0
Ireland 12-0-0-0
Israel 117-0-49-0
Italy 67-0-11-0
Jamaica 11-0-0-0
Japan 605-0-56-0
Korea, Republic of 65-0-12-0
Kuwait 18-0-0-0
Lebanon 8-0-0-0
Luxembourg 1-0-0-0
Malaysia 5-0-0-0
Mexico 6241-108-0-0
Morocco 1-0-1-0
Netherlands 61-0-26-0
New Zealand 86-0-59-0
Nicaragua 56-0-0-0
Norway 13-0-0-0
Panama 272-0-51-0
Paraguay 25-0-0-0
Peru 91-0-12-0
Philippines 77-0-0-0
Poland 7-0-0-0
Portugal 3-0-1-0
Romania 13-0-2-0
Russia 3-0-0-0
Saudi Arabia 11-0-10-0
Singapore 47-0-29-0
Slovakia 3-0-0-0
Spain 488-0-0-0
Sweden 32-0-13-0
Switzerland 22-0-2-0
Thailand 29-0-21-0
Trinidad and Tobago 5-0-1-0
Turkey 10-0-0-0
Ukraine 1-0-0-0
United Arab Emirates 1-0-0-0
United Kingdom 1226-0-404-0
United States of America 17855-45-4638-18
Uruguay 36-0-0-0
Venezuela 25-0-0-0
Viet Nam 25-0-2-0
West Bank and Gaza Strip 2-0-2-0
Grand Total 35928-163-6259-18

Chinese Taipei has reported 37 confirmed cases of influenza A (H1N1) with 0 deaths. Cases from Chinese Taipei are included in the cumulative totals provided in the table above.

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
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS WED JUNE 17,2009

09:30 AM -0.06
10:00 AM -10.76
10:30 AM -14.51
11:00 AM -30.31
11:30 AM +7.86
12:00 PM +6.95
12:30 PM +31.28
01:00 PM +14.20
01:30 PM +30.00
02:00 PM +49.57
02:30 PM +48.97
03:00 PM +24.41
03:30 PM +0.06
04:00 PM -7.49 8497.18

S&P 500 910.71 -1.26

NASDAQ 1808.06 +11.88

GOLD 937.30 +5.10

OIL 70.89 +0.42

TSE 300 10,067.28 -240.14

CDNX 1115.37 -23.82

S&P/TSX/60 609.22 -16.08

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -3.10%
S&P +0.97%
Nasdaq +13.90%
TSX Advances 649,declines 930,unchanged 259,Volume 2,265,678,986.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 400,Declines 397,Unchanged 369,Volume 319,724,928.

Dow +14 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -30 points at low today.
Dow +30 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $933.60.OIL opens at $69.91 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -30 points at low today so far.
Dow +48 points at high today so far.

DAY TODAY PERFORMANCE - 12:30PM STATS
NYSE Advances 1,519,declines 2,084,unchanged 117,New Highs 7,New Lows 46.
Volume 1,494,033,085.
NASDAQ Advances 1,383,declines 1,255,unchanged 114,New highs 12,New Lows 18.
Volume 1,551,833,208.
TSX Advances 361,declines 1,094,unchanged 254,Volume 1,606,185,926.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 228,Declines 484,Unchanged 317,Volume 204,996,369.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -43 points at low today.
Dow +59 points at high today.
Dow -0.09% today Volume 237,856,731.
Nasdaq +0.66% today Volume -.
S&P 500 -0.14% today Volume N/A

Brazil,Russia,India,China MEETING
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http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1154787345&play=1
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OBAMA A MAJOR REGULATOR
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TEXT-Full text of BRIC countries joint communique Sat Mar 14, 2009 7:54am Market News Wall Street hit by economic, consumer jitters Dollar slides after Russia comments, BRIC summit

March 14 (Reuters) - Issuing their first-ever communique at a G20 finance ministers' meeting, Brazil, China, Russia and India have called for a bigger voice on international bodies - signalling their growing political resolve to influence global
affairs. [ID:nLE152911] Following is the text of the statement:

1. We, the Finance Ministers and their representatives of Brazil, Russia, India and China held our meeting in Horsham, the United Kingdom, on the eve of the G-20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting. We reverted once again to the current situation in the global economy and its latest trends,as well as fiscal and monetary policy responses in BRICcountries.We also discussed the forthcoming G20 Leaders' Summit agenda and the expected outcomes. We consider that the G2O's position as the focal point to coordinate with global economic and financial challenges and to lead international efforts responding to the current crisis should be consolidated.We
exchanged views on the reform of international financial institutions. As a result of our deliberation we deem it necessary to focus the further international efforts in the following areas.

2. We agreed that the stabilization of international financial system through recapitalization, liquidity support and cleaning of bank balance sheets with such governmental action as may be necessary is a priority.These measures are vital to
rebuild confidence, maintain and support credit flow to help restore growth.

3. Presently, as many other countries, BRICs are taking measures to promote domestic demand in their national economies and will continue to do so, as necessary. While recognizing the need of such anti-crisis measures we consider it necessary toensure that they are implemented in such a way that they would not hamper efforts needed to ensure mid-term and long-term macroeconomic sustainability according to the particular conditions of each country.

4. We realize that protectionism is an increasingly real threat to the global economy. We should avoid protectionism of all kinds and not allow it to act as a disruptive force to the global economy. Failure to do so creates risks repeating the mistakes of the past which lead to the Great Depression. World leaders must commit to work towards a prompt and successful conclusion of the Doha round, with an ambitious, comprehensive and balanced result.

5. We stress that major reserve currency issuing economies should step up information sharing and policy coordination and work to ensure that the macroeconomic policy is more balanced,proactive, coordinated and countercyclical with a view to promoting global economic recovery.We also urge developed economies and developmentinstitutions to strengthen their support for the hardest hit developing countries to ensure the achievement of the MDGs.

6. As regards the current G20 policy agenda we realize the need to reduce the gap between the global nature of financial markets and the national character of regulation. In this context we call for achieving greater consistency in the regulatory principles that would apply to similar markets and institutions performing similar activities and strengthening cooperation between national regulators. It seems expedient that activities of such regulators should aim to reduce information asymmetries which have grown due to increasing complexity of financial markets. On the whole we share plans to reduce the procyclical character of existing regulatory practices which may induce the behavior of the financial institutions that amplify the magnitude of economic cycles.

7. We consider that all financial activities - especially those of systemic
importance - must be subject to adequate regulation and supervision, including institutions which are in the shadow banking system.Internationally important financial institutions that are systemically relevant should be effectively
supervised.We therefore firmly support the suggestion broadly discussed within the G20working groups to intensify supervision of hedge funds, and private pools of capital which have made a significant impact on global markets but for a long time had been in a shadow of international regulatory system. Rating agencies should be also subject to adequate regulation and supervision.

8. We note that the crisis has led to a massive withdrawal of private capital in 2009 and this is likely to continue in 2010.It is imperative that multilateral financial institutions should expand their lending to offset the massive decline.

9. We draw our special attention to the reform of international financial institutions. We stand for reviewing the IMF role and mandate so as to adapt it to a new global monetary and financial architecture. We emphasize the importance of a strong commitment to governance reform with a clear timetable and roadmap.We consider that IMF resources are clearly inadequate and should be very significantly increased through various channels.Borrowing should be a temporary bridge to a permanent quota
increase as the Fund is a quota-based institution. Hence we call for the completion of the next general review of quotas by January 2011.We also call for a substantial SDR allocation.We deem it necessary to develop new credit facilities that could assist countries facing financial problems. Those new facilities would bear new and more flexible approaches to the issue of conditionality and have a precautionary dimension.The crisis has demonstrated that the Fund must strengthen its surveillance capability. To achieve this goal, we emphasize the importance of better-focused even-handed surveillance across all IMF members, especially in respect to advanced economies with major international financial centers and large cross-border capital flows.We call for urgent action with regard to voice and representation in the IMF, in order that they better reflect their real economic weights. In the Fund, a significant realignment of quota should be completed not later than January 2011. This is necessary to enable members more equitable and fuller participation in the Fund's efforts to play its mandate role. A rebalancing of representation on the Executive Board and DVIFC would lead to a more equitable representation of the membership.

We call for the study of developments in the international monetary system, including the role of reserve currencies. This would help clarify the role of the Fund in the international economy in light of lessons drawn from the crisis.We also call for the swift activation of the IMF's new income model, including the speeding up of the process required for the sale of a portion of the Fund's gold.

10. We also ask for the speeding up of the second phase of voice and representation reform in the World Bank Group, which should be completed by April 2010. This process should ensure they fully reflect changes in the world economy and in this respect developing countries and emerging economies should have greater voice and representation. This process should be also aimed at equitable representation between advanced and emerging/developing countries without dilution of any individual developing members. Moreover, to fulfil a countercyclical role in the present circumstances, the World Bank should raise substantive resources from the global capital markets in order to enhance its lending capacity, including in support to trade finance. It will also need to relax the present single borrower limit and provide new funding for infrastructure projects in low and middle income countries. It also imperative that the next heads of the IMF and the World Bank be selected through open merit-based processes,irrespective of nationality or regional considerations.

11. We welcome the decision to broaden the membership of the Financial Stability Forum (FSF) and invite as new members the G20 countries that are not currently in the FSF. We also welcome the expansion of the Basle Committee on Banking Supervision announced today.The International Accounting Standards Board and other standard setting bodies also need to become more representative, reinforcing the presence of emerging market economies.

12. We had a fruitful discussion on other actual international financial issues and decided to enhance our collaboration, including through greater exchange of information, in light of deepening of the global crisis. We also agreed to hold our next meeting in Istanbul prior to the 2009 Annual IMF and World Bank Meetings.(Reporting by Gleb Bryanski; editing by Keith Weir)Thomson Reuters 2009.

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June 16, 2009,Yekaterinburg Joint Statement of the BRIC Countries’ Leaders

We, the leaders of the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Russian Federation, the Republic of India and the People’s Republic of China, have discussed the current situation in global economy and other pressing issues of global development, and also prospects for further strengthening collaboration within the BRIC, at our meeting in Yekaterinburg on June 16, 2009.

We have arrived at the following conclusions:

1. We stress the central role played by the G20 Summits in dealing with the financial crisis. They have fostered cooperation, policy coordination and political dialogue regarding international economic and financial matters.

2. We call upon all states and relevant international bodies to act vigorously to implement the decisions adopted at the G20 Summit in London on April 2, 2009. We shall cooperate closely among ourselves and with other partners to ensure further progress of collective action at the next G20 Summit to be held in Pittsburgh in September 2009. We look forward to a successful outcome of the United Nations Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development to be held in New York on June 24-26, 2009.

3. We are committed to advance the reform of international finаncial institutions, so as to reflect changes in the global economy. The emerging and developing economies must have greater voice and representation in international financial institutions, whose heads and executives should be appointed through an open, transparent, and merit-based selection process. We also believe that there is a strong need for a stable, predictable and more diversified international monetary system.

4. We are convinced that a reformed financial and economic architecture should be based, inter alia, on the following principles:

-democratic and transparent decision-making and implementation process at the international financial organisations;

- solid legal basis;

-compatibility of activities of effective national regulatory institutions and international standard-setting bodies;

-strengthening of risk management and supervisory practices.

5. We recognise the important role played by international trade and foreign direct investments in the world economic recovery. We call upon all parties to work together to improve the international trade and investment environment. We urge the international community to keep the multilateral trading system stable, curb trade protectionism, and push for comprehensive and balanced results of the WTO’s Doha Development Agenda.

6. The poorest countries have been hit hardest by the financial crisis. The international community needs to step up efforts to provide liquid financial resources for these countries. The international community should also strive to minimise the impact of the crisis on development and ensure the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. Developed countries should fulfil their commitment of 0.7% of Gross National Income for the Official Development Assistance and make further efforts in increasing assistance, debt relief, market access and technology transfer for developing countries.

7.The implementation of the concept of sustainable development, comprising, inter alia, the Rio Declaration, Agenda for the 21st Century and multilateral environmental agreements, should be a major vector in the change of paradigm of economic development.

8.We stand for strengthening coordination and cooperation among states in the energy field, including amongst energy producers and consumers and transit states, in an effort to decrease uncertainty and ensure stability and sustainability. We support diversification of energy resources and supply, including renewable energy, security of energy transit routes and creation of new energy investments and infrastructure.

9.We support international cooperation in the field of energy efficiency. We stand ready for a constructive dialogue on how to deal with climate change based on the principle of common but differentiated responsibility, given the need to combine measures to protect the climate with steps to fulfill our socio-economic development tasks.

10. We reaffirm to enhance cooperation among our countries in socially vital areas and to strengthen the efforts for the provision of international humanitarian assistance and for the reduction of natural disaster risks. We take note of the statement on global food security issued today as a major contribution of the BRIC countries to the multilateral efforts to set up the sustainable conditions for this goal.

11. We reaffirm to advance cooperation among our countries in science and education with the aim, inter alia, to engage in fundamental research and development of advanced technologies.

12. We underline our support for a more democratic and just multi-polar world order based on the rule of international law, equality, mutual respect, cooperation, coordinated action and collective decision-making of all states. We reiterate our support for political and diplomatic efforts to peacefully resolve disputes in international relations.

13. We strongly condemn terrorism in all its forms and manifestations and reiterate that there can be no justification for any act of terrorism anywhere or for whatever reasons. We note that the draft Comprehensive Convention against International Terrorism is currently under the consideration of the UN General Assembly and call for its urgent adoption.

14. We express our strong commitment to multilateral diplomacy with the United Nations playing the central role in dealing with global challenges and threats. In this respect, we reaffirm the need for a comprehensive reform of the UN with a view to making it more efficient so that it can deal with today’s global challenges more effectively. We reiterate the importance we attach to the status of India and Brazil in international affairs, and understand and support their aspirations to play a greater role in the United Nations.

15. We have agreed upon steps to promote dialogue and cooperation among our countries in an incremental, proactive, pragmatic, open and transparent way. The dialogue and cooperation of the BRIC countries is conducive not only to serving common interests of emerging market economies and developing countries, but also to building a harmonious world of lasting peace and common prosperity.

16. Russia, India and China welcome the kind invitation of Brazil to the next BRIC summit it will host in 2010.

BRICs Agree to Boost Global Clout at Historic Russian Summit
By Lyubov Pronina, Lucian Kim and Alex Nicholson

June 16 (Bloomberg) -- The leaders of Brazil, Russia, India and China agreed to push for more clout in global financial institutions at an historic first summit, without announcing a common policy on how to flex their $2.8 trillion in reserves. The heads of the so-called BRIC states called for emerging economies to have a greater voice and representation in international financial institutions and for a more diversified global monetary system. The comments were made in a joint statement released to reporters after the meeting today. Before the meeting in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg, Arkady Dvorkovich, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s top economic adviser, said the four leaders would discuss measures to promote regional currencies, including by investing part of their reserves in each other’s bonds, to lessen dependence on the dollar. The statement didn’t mention this possibility. The BRIC summit, which Medvedev hailed as an historic event, comes after Brazil, China and Russia announced plans to shift some foreign reserves into International Monetary Fund bonds, driving Treasuries and the dollar lower. Investors watched the meeting for clues as to how the countries, which are among the biggest holders of U.S. Treasuries, will manage their reserves.This is not something for the immediate future, but rather a direction of movement, Stanislav Ponomarenko, a fixed-income analyst at ING Groep NV in Moscow, said of Dvorkovich’s comments on BRIC bonds.

BRIC Bonds

I don’t think more than a few percent of reserves could be reinvested into BRIC bonds, Ponomarenko said. What we’re seeing is a continuation of discussions to find an alternative to the dollar, yet nobody is going fundamentally to alter anything yet.
The next BRIC summit will be held in Brazil in 2010, according to the statement issued by Medvedev, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Medvedev said the leaders had agreed to continue talks on reforming the global financial system. We have instructed our finance ministers, our central bank chairmen and other interested structures to meet and prepare proposals to this end,he told reporters after the summit. Among such proposals, the leaders’ joint statement mentioned that the heads and senior leadership of international financial institutions should be appointed through an open, transparent, and merit-based selection process.

Supranational Currency

Medvedev hosted back-to-back summits of developing economies today as he seeks to carve out a bigger role for developing nations in the global financial system. At a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which includes China and the four former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, the Russian leader reiterated his intention to push for the creation of a supranational currency to challenge the dollar. He called on other Shanghai group members to use each other’s currencies for trade.There can be no successful global currency system if the financial instruments that are used are denominated in only one currency, Medvedev said. Today this is the case and the currency is the dollar.

Chinese Pledge

Hu pledged $10 billion to help the Shanghai group’s Central Asian members weather the global recession, joining Russia in seeking greater influence in the region through aid. Medvedev in February said Russia would contribute $7.5 billion to a regional fund created by the Eurasian Economic Community, which also includes Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.Today’s meetings show a very strong desire of developing countries to play a bigger role in world finance, especially given the growing insecurity related to the current crisis,said Masha Lipman, a political analyst at the Carnegie Center in Moscow, in an interview with Bloomberg Television today. To contact the reporter on this story: Lyubov Pronina in Yekaterinburg at lpronina@bloomberg.net; Lucian Kim in Yekaterinburg at lkim3@bloomberg.netAlex Nicholson in Moscow at anicholson6@bloomberg.net

Chinese president attends BRIC meeting in Yekaterinburg
www.chinaview.cn 2009-06-16 20:28:29

YEKATERINBURG, Russia, June 16 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao and other leaders of the BRIC countries, namely Brazil, Russia, India and China, met in Yekaterinburg in central Russia Tuesday to discuss the global financial crisis and economic issues.This is the first formal meeting of the BRIC leaders. At the meeting, the leaders of the emerging economies will discuss issues including the current economic slowdown, restructuring of the financial system, energy security, climate change and trade, sources close to the meeting said.We expect the BRIC meeting to expand strategic consensus, consolidate mutual trust, coordinate to cope with the global financial and economic crisis and lay out the blueprint for its future development,said Chinese Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei last Tuesday. Speaking at a meeting of BRIC senior representatives on security issues on May 29, Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo said the BRIC countries should work together to enlarge their consensus, exchange views on major international and regional issues of common concern, strengthen coordination and cooperation, and facilitate the settlement of problems.

At present, Dai said, the countries should reinforce their cooperation in dealing with the economic downturn, enhance coordination on macro-economic policies, jointly oppose protectionism in any form, speed up the reform of the international financial system, and advance the creation of an international cooperation mechanism conforming to globalization and multipolarization.The BRIC countries are all important emerging nations and driving forces for the world's common development. They share the same or similar opinions on many international issues and all have the political desire for further cooperation and communication.In recent years, the four countries have exchanged views on world economic and developing issues of common concern through various channels. The BRIC countries account for 42 percent of the world's population, 14.6 percent of global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and 12.8 percent of the global trade volume in 2008.

Dollar Falls as Housing Gain Encourages Higher-Yield Demand
By Oliver Biggadike and Ye Xie

June 16 (Bloomberg) -- The dollar fell from a three-week high versus the euro as a report showed U.S. builders broke ground in May on more houses than economists forecast, encouraging demand for higher-yielding assets. The greenback declined against major counterparts including the South African rand and Norwegian krone as leaders of the BRIC nations, Brazil, Russia, India and China, called for a more diversified global monetary system. The yen advanced versus all of the 16 most-traded currencies tracked by Bloomberg on prospects for a recovery in Japan’s economy. It’s this old picture that good numbers are bad for the dollar, said Lutz Karpowitz, a currency strategist at Commerzbank AG in Frankfurt.We’re in a transition phase now that perhaps will last a bit longer. There are two groups playing against each other, the dollar bears and the dollar bulls. They’ve both fired off their arguments, and the question is how long it will last.The dollar declined 0.3 percent to $1.3837 per euro at 4 p.m. in New York, from $1.3803 yesterday, after earlier advancing to $1.3749, the strongest level since May 21. The euro dropped 1 percent to 133.65 yen from 134.99. The yen advanced as much as 1.8 percent to 96.08 per dollar, the biggest intraday gain since May 29, before trading at 96.52. The greenback dropped versus the euro on reduced demand for safety as the U.S. Commerce Department reported a 17 percent increase in housing starts to an annual rate of 532,000 last month from a revised 454,000 pace in April. The median forecast of 71 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News was for an advance to 485,000 from a previously reported 458,000.

Dollar Index

The Dollar Index, used by the ICE to track the greenback against the currencies of six major trading partners including the euro, pound and Swiss franc, fell for the first time in three days, decreasing 0.6 percent. The greenback dropped 0.8 percent to 6.4170 kroner and 0.4 percent to 8.0650 rand.The pound rose from a one-week low against the dollar after a report showed U.K. inflation slowed in May less than economists predicted, making it more likely the Bank of England will raise interest rates early next year. Sterling gained 0.7 percent to $1.6429 per dollar after earlier dropping to $1.6215, the lowest level since June 9.The yen posted its biggest intraday increase versus the dollar in two weeks after the Bank of Japan raised its view of the nation’s economy for a second month and left the target overnight lending rate at 0.1 percent.

BRIC Statement

The dollar declined as the BRIC nations said in a joint statement released to reporters after meeting today in Yekaterinburg, Russia, that emerging economies should have a greater voice and representation in international financial institutions.Before the meeting, Arkady Dvorkovich, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s top economic adviser, said the leaders would discuss measures to lessen dependence on the dollar including a proposal to invest part of their reserves in each other’s bonds. The statement didn’t mention this possibility. The first BRIC summit came after Brazil, China and Russia announced plans to shift some foreign reserves into International Monetary Fund bonds. The BRIC nations have combined reserves of $2.8 trillion and are among the biggest holders of U.S. Treasuries. The dollar increased 1.5 percent versus the euro yesterday, the most in more than a week, after Russia’s Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said in an interview on June 13 following a meeting in Italy of Group of Eight finance ministers that it’s too early to speak of an alternative to the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. Conviction is dropping,said Shaun Osborne, chief currency strategist at TD Securities Inc. in Toronto, of the foreign-exchange market.No one wants to be caught again in such a big market swing.To contact the reporters on this story: Oliver Biggadike in New York at obiggadike@bloomberg.net; Ye Xie in New York at yxie6@bloomberg.net

State Department Says China to Get U.S. Aid under New Climate Deal
Monday, June 15, 2009 By Matt Cover

Flag of the People's Republic of China (CNSNews.com) - U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern said that there was no question that China would receive both financial and technological assistance from the United States as part of upcoming climate change talks to be conducted in Copenhagen, Denmark.This is a developing country issue, which includes China, Stern told reporters on Friday. I think there is no question that a Copenhagen agreement is going to have to include mechanisms to provide the financial flows and technological assistance to developing countries.The Copenhagen talks are part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), the U.N. body responsible for negotiating the Kyoto Protocol and its successor treaty, negotiation of which will be finalized in Copenhagen this December.

China, called a developing country by the U.N., is being given a special definition by U.S. negotiators who want any final agreement to reflect that despite its vast swaths of undeveloped rural countryside, China is rapidly urbanizing, boasting fully modern cities. Stern outlined this split personality, saying China was both a developed and a developing country.I’ve said on a number of occasions now that it’s accurate that China is in effect both a developed and a developing country at this point, said Stern.They are developed in some of their major cities, Beijing and Shanghai, but they’re still developing and still quite poor in a large part of the countryside.Regardless, the United States will be spreading the wealth China’s way, helping them to meet whatever final carbon emissions reduction goals come out of Copenhagen.It [assistance] needs to focus both on mitigation – the means of producing your CO2 emissions, putting you on a low carbon path – and adaptation, which has to do with dealing with the effects of climate change that has already happened,said Stern, then,yes, there will need to be those [assistance] mechanisms.Stern acknowledged that the details of precisely how the United States would assist China had yet to be worked out, explaining that there were many questions which need to be answered before December.There are a whole host of questions that are important, issues that are important with respect to how to structure a financing mechanism: what institutions to use, what governments to use, where the sources of the money are going to come from, whether it’s between public or private markets, all of those things are under discussion,he said.

In its Input to the Negotiating Text, a skeleton proposal outlining what the United States would like the Copenhagen agreement to say, the State Department introduced a new criterion reflecting its nuanced view of China’s development. With respect to developing country Parties whose national circumstances reflect greater responsibility or capability,the proposal reads, before outlining that these special countries must implement their own, distinct carbon reduction plans like developed states.China is the largest emitter of carbon dioxide in the world and it, along with the third-largest emitter India have been the source of U.S. objection in international climate negotiations, with the State Department arguing that any agreement that did not reflect the two countries’ contributions to greenhouse gas emissions would be unfair.Stern said that China was finally coming around, saying that the Chinese understood that climate change could not be contained without their participation and that the size of their carbon emissions put them in a special category of polluters.The stark reality, though, is that the world cannot contain climate change, we cannot avoid dangerous levels of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, without very significant effort by China, Stern said.We talked very openly and candidly and in a lot of detail about what needs to be done on both sides to advance to a successful outcome in Copenhagen.China, he said, would be expected to reduce their emissions below where they otherwise would be if no actions were taken. Developed countries must generally reduce their emissions below an as-yet-to-be-determined yearly level -- for example, the level of emissions in 1990 used by the Kyoto Protocol.We are expecting China to reduce emissions very considerably compared to where they would otherwise be,said Stern.That’s not an absolute reduction below where they are right now, because they [China] are not quite at that point yet. In that respect, the developed and developing countries are different.

Oil falls near 2 percent on firmer dollar By Edward McAllister – Mon Jun 15, 3:31 pm ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil fell nearly 2 percent a barrel on Monday, extending its retreat from a near eight-month high as the dollar firmed and stock markets tumbled.U.S. crude settled down $1.42 at $70.62, after optimistic signs of an economic recovery that could bolster flagging fuel demand sent crude above $73 a barrel last week.Brent crude for July, which expired on Monday, settled down $1.48 at $69.44 a barrel.Gains in the dollar, which makes oil more expensive for holders of other currencies, helped pressure prices. U.S. stocks slid as the fall in commodity prices drove a sell-off in the shares of natural resource companies. (.N)The slumping factory sector in New York state shrank at a more severe rate than in May, the New York federal Reserve said on Monday, another cautionary note for the markets.The dollar started the early rout for crude futures, followed by the Fed's report of weaker New York state business conditions, said Phil Flynn, analyst at Alaron Trading in Chicago.Oil has risen from around $51 at the end of April to hit near eight-month highs on Thursday on economic optimism, stirring concerns that speculation in the market has pushed oil up too high too fast.French Economy Minister Christine Lagarde said G8 ministers want measures to curb volatility in oil markets, which put at risk growing signs that their economies are heading toward recovery.OPEC Secretary General Abdullah al-Badri said that a too-quick rise in oil prices could harm a global economic recovery, though he said a price of $80 a barrel would not stem growth.

Of course we do not want to see oil prices rising too rapidly and certainly not to harm growth in the global economy, al-Badri said in an email response to questions. We need a stable oil price.The head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, also sounded a cautious tone on Monday, saying the worst of the global crisis was not yet over.Traders were also keeping a close eye on post-election political turmoil in OPEC nation Iran. Armed men fired on a rally supporting defeated presidential candidate Mirhossein Mousavi on Monday, killing one and wounding many, a witness said.Certainly the events in Iran could postpone a correction if they take a turn for the worse,said Edward Meir from MF Global.In Nigeria, the main militant group said on Monday it had sabotaged an oil pumping station in the Niger Delta operated by Chevron Corp (CVX.N), the fifth attack claimed against the U.S. company in less than a month.In a preliminary Reuters poll ahead of weekly U.S. government inventory data on Wednesday, analysts expected a 1.8 million-barrel fall in crude oil inventories, a 600,000-barrel rise in gasoline stocks while distillate stocks likely added 900,000 barrels.(Additional reporting by Gene Ramos and Robert Gibbons in New York, Alex Lawler in London, Chua Baizhen in Singapore; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)

Dow Jones names Wall Street Journal Europe editor JUNE 16,09

NEW YORK – Patience Wheatcroft, a former editor for The Times of London and The Sunday Telegraph, was named Tuesday as The Wall Street Journal's editor-in-chief for Europe.The appointment comes amid a broad reorganization that began with its takeover more than a year ago by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.Next month, Wheatcroft will oversee the relocation of the Web and editorial staff of the Journal's European edition from Brussels to London.The Journal has been looking to more closely target its content for international audiences, launching Web editions tailored for different regions.Wheatcroft will report to the Journal's managing editor, Robert Thomson, her old boss from The Times, where she served as city and business editor. Thomson was the newspaper's top editor before moving to the Journal. Both are owned by Murdoch's News Corp.In a statement Tuesday, Thomson cast Wheatcroft's appointment as part of a broader effort by the Journal to win readers and advertisers abroad. The time has come for the Journal to take on the European market, in print and online, he said.Last week, the Journal appointed Almar Latour as its editor-in-chief for Asia. Rebecca Blumenstein, international news editor for the Journal in New York and its former China bureau chief, was named to succeed Latour as managing editor of WSJ.com.

NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.

PSALMS 97:3
3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.

REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)

ISAIAH 66:15-18
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).

ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.

JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.

EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

REVELATION 9:18
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.

HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)

LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).

MATTHEW 24:37-51
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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)

Obama labels nuclear-armed NKorea grave threat By BEN FELLER, Associated Press Writer JUNE 16,09

WASHINGTON – Declaring North Korea a grave threat to the world, President Barack Obama on Tuesday pledged the U.S. and its allies will aggressively enforce fresh international penalties against the nuclear-armed nation and stop rewarding its leaders for repeated provocations.In a display of unity with South Korea's leader, Obama said the world must break a pattern in which North Korea puts the globe on edge, only to put itself in line for concessions if it holds out long enough.We are more than willing to engage in negotiations to get North Korea on a path of peaceful coexistence with its neighbors, and we want to encourage their prosperity,Obama said in the Rose Garden alongside South Korean President Lee Myung-bak.But belligerent, provocative behavior that threatens neighbors will be met with significant and serious enforcement of sanctions that are in place.Obama's comments came at a time of intensifying concern, with the North stepping up its bomb-making activities and threatening war against any country that blockades its ships. Pentagon officials warned on Tuesday that North Korea's missiles could strike the U.S. within three years if its weapons growth goes unchecked.Emboldened by fresh assurances of protection by the United States, Lee went even further in warning that North Korea's tactics will not be tolerated. Asked if he felt his country was under the threat of attack from the North, Lee said his country's alliance with the U.S. will prevent anything from happening.He said of the North Koreans,They will think twice about taking any measures that they will regret.

Defiantly pursuing its nuclear ambitions, North Korea has posed a major foreign policy challenge for Obama. However, the new president has found support from the international community, including a swift resolution of sanctions imposed by the U.N. Security Council just last week.The new punishments toughen an arms embargo against North Korea and authorize ship searches in an attempt to thwart the Koreans' nuclear and ballistic missile programs. The U.N., however, did not authorize military force to enforce the measures.North Korea provoked that rebuke by conducting its second nuclear test on May 25, following recent missile launches that had already alarmed the world.Beyond enforcement of the new U.N. penalties, Lee said he and Obama agreed on something more — a push for other new policies that will effectively persuade North Korea to irrevocably dismantle all their nuclear weapons programs. The South Korean leader said those measures will be discussed among the five nations that had been working with North Korea on disarmament until talks stalled: the U.S., South Korea, Japan, Russia and China.He did not elaborate, and the White House had no comment on the matter.North Korea has bargained with other countries for more than a decade about giving up its nuclear program, gaining such concessions as energy and economic aid, and then reneging.The North is thought to have enough weaponized plutonium for at least half a dozen atomic bombs and is believed to be preparing for another nuclear test. Deepening the crisis, it responded to the new sanctions by promising to weaponize all its plutonium and step up its nuclear bomb-making by enriching uranium — the first time it had acknowledged it had such a program. Both plutonium and uranium can be used to make atomic bombs.

With all that as a backdrop, Lee's treatment at the White House was meant to underscore solidarity at a perilous time.The South Korean president was the first foreign leader in Obama's nearly five-month-old presidency to get the honor of a joint appearance in the Rose Garden. He spoke repeatedly of his nation's firm partnership with the United States and thanked the American people for their selfless sacrifice in defending my country and its people.Obama said the friendship was anchored in democratic values, and then he turned his words on the country's northern neighbor.North Korea has abandoned its own commitments and violated international law,Obama said.Its nuclear and ballistic missile programs post a grave threat to peace and security of Asia and to the world.Obama said that North Korea's record of threatening other countries and spreading nuclear technology around the world means it should not be recognized as a legitimate nuclear power.At a missile defense hearing on Capitol Hill, Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn pointed to North Korea's recent steps to speed up its long-range weapons program and agreed with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., that the U.S. should be prepared for a worst-case scenario.We think it ultimately could — if taken to its conclusion — it could present a threat to the homeland,Lynn said at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. The House Appropriations Committee Tuesday approved spending $9.3 billion on missile defense for the 2010 fiscal year that begins Oct. 1. That's as much as the Pentagon had requested but marked what Republicans called a $1.6 billion cut from what had been budgeted for missile defense during the Bush administration. The panel's chairman, Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo., said the new spending plans trim some fat from missile defense budgets while still protecting the U.S. against foreign threats. But Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said the Obama administration's cut to missile defense was too steep at a time when North Korea and Iran are ramping up their long-range nuclear weapons programs.At the Defense Department press secretary Geoff Morrell declined to say when interdiction operations might begin under the new U.N. sanctions, but he said the U.S. already has enough ships and other resources in the region to do the job. Morrell was asked what the point of the activity would be — and whether it was only a half-measure — as long as there was no authority to forcibly board Korean ships.I think if the world is in agreement that we are all going to monitor and then attempt to compliantly board and attempt to then direct those ships into a port where they can then be inspected, that is real progress,he said.That is more than what we were doing before.Associated Press writers Robert Burns, Pauline Jelinek, Lara Jakes and Jennifer Loven contributed to this report.

Report: NKorean leader's son secretly visits China By SHINO YUASA, Associated Press Writer – Tue Jun 16, 8:24 am ET

TOKYO – The youngest son — and reportedly heir apparent — of North Korea's ailing leader Kim Jong Il secretly visited China last week and was urged by President Hu Jintao to have the North halt additional nuclear tests, a top Japanese newspaper said Tuesday.During the trip around June 10, Kim Jong Un asked China — its key ally and biggest aid donor — to continue its energy and food aid to the North, the Asahi newspaper said, quoting unnamed North Korean sources in Beijing.It also said that Hu urged the 26-year-old to have Pyongyang refrain from carrying out any further nuclear and missile tests. It did not provide further details.An aide to Jong Un, who accompanied him on the trip along with senior officials, used the occasion to inform Chinese officials that Jong Un would be inheriting power from his father, the report said.South Korea's Foreign Ministry and Unification Ministry said they could not confirm the report. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang told a regular news conference in Beijing on Tuesday that he had no knowledge of any such meeting.

Little is known about Jong Un, who was born to Kim Jong Il's late wife, Ko Yong Hi. He studied at the International School of Berne in Switzerland until 1998 under a pseudonym and learned English, German and French, the Swiss weekly news magazine L'Hebdo reported earlier this year, citing classmates and school officials.South Korea's largest television network, KBS, reported Monday that Jong Un's supporters tried to assassinate his elder brother Kim Jong Nam, but that China sent agents to Macau to move him to an undisclosed location. The report quoted unidentified government sources in Beijing.The South's Yonhap news agency reported Tuesday that North Korea's defense chief Kim Yong Chun secretly visited Beijing Saturday but did not specify his mission. Yonhap quoted an unnamed source privy to the North's affairs.

The South Korean government said it could not confirm the report. Japan's public broadcaster NHK, which carried a similar report, quoted China's Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying that normal exchanges are continuing between Beijing and Pyongyang, without confirming the visit.In protest over the North's May 25 nuclear test, Japan said Tuesday it would ban all exports to North Korea. Prime Minister Taro Aso's Cabinet approved the measure to punish Pyongyang for its blast — its second following its first underground nuclear blast in October 2006.Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeo Kawamura said the export ban is a message to the North.Japan's total ban on exports came on the heels of new U.N. sanctions against North Korea. The U.N. Security Council punished the communist country Friday for the May blast by expanding an arms embargo and authorizing ship searches on the high seas in a bid to derail its nuclear and missile programs.Japan imposed tight trade sanctions against the North in 2006 after Pyongyang fired a ballistic missile into waters between the two countries and conducted its first nuclear test.Since then, bilateral trade has been reduced to minuscule levels. Japan has imported no goods from North Korea since 2007, while its exports to the North totaled just 792.6 million yen ($8.1 million) in 2008, down 26 percent from a year earlier, according to the Finance Ministry.Japans' current export ban covers only luxury goods such as pricey beef, caviar, alcohol, jewelry and cars. Tuesday's decision expands the ban to Japan's main exports to North Korea, including bicycles, machinery, plastic products and fishing nets.Associated Press writer Hyung-jin Kim in Seoul contributed to this report.

Presidents, dictators at Gabon leader's funeral By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI, Associated Press Writer JUNE 16,09

LIBREVILLE, Gabon – Hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets of Gabon's capital Tuesday to say farewell to late President Omar Bongo, whose flag-draped coffin was paraded through the heart of a nation he was accused of pillaging during four decades of rule.The state funeral of 73-year-old Bongo began inside the marble halls of the presidential palace, a towering edifice he spent an estimated $800 million to build. The red carpet leading to his casket was strewn with white rose petals — flown in from France.Nearly two dozen African heads of state, including several of the continent's strongmen who themselves have ruled for decades, lined up to pay their respects.Also on hand were Nicolas Sarkozy and Jacques Chirac — the current and former French presidents and the only Western heads of state to attend. Their presence, critics say, is evidence of France's tacit backing of Bongo's 41-year rule.The pair arrived in a stretch limousine and were quickly escorted inside the palace as a group of people outside yelled, No to France! Sarkozy and Chirac later approached the coffin together and stood before it with their eyes lowered. They laid down a wreath of roses. Then, each signed a condolence book.Relations between Gabon and its former colonial master cooled after a French court two years ago launched an investigation into the late leader's massive real estate holdings in France, which include at least 37 apartments in Paris alone.Although Gabon produces billions of dollars in oil every year, one-third of its people live in poverty. Bongo was accused of using his country's riches to fund not only an extravagant lifestyle, but also the campaigns of past French politicians.

He made his country and his oil industry available as a source of offshore slush funds, said political analyst Nicholas Shaxson, the author of a book on Africa's oil states.These were used by all the French political parties — from the left to the right — for secret party financing, and as a source of bribes in support of French commercial bids all over the world.By the time he died, Bongo had been in power longer than any leader in Africa. Last year, when Cuba's Fidel Castro resigned after a 49-year-rule, that record made Bongo the world's longest serving president.Bongo checked into a Barcelona clinic specializing in treating cancer last month, according to officials there. The government continued to insist that he was well, holding a news conference to say he was fine just hours before his death June 8.His body was flown back Thursday, and thousands of people lined up over the course of five days to pay their respects, some sleeping outside the gates of the presidential palace.On Tuesday, Bongo's casket was placed on the bed of a military truck and driven down Libreville's main, sea-facing boulevard to the airport. It was then flown to his native province for burial on Thursday.Women in colorful head dresses lined the highway and waved flags that said Merci, Papa — Thank you, Father.Billboards carried messages of loss: Father, watch over your children,said one.Great comrade, Gabon is forever grateful to you.Also on hand to pay their last respects: Chad's President Idriss Deby, whose army is accused of using child soldiers. He bowed his head before the coffin. Paul Biya, who has ruled neighboring Cameroon for 26 years, placed a wreath of flowers at the foot of the coffin, as did Burkina Faso's Blaise Compaore, in power for 22 years.Unlike other strongmen, Bongo succeeded in holding on to power without resorting to widespread violence or torture. Instead, critics say he won opponents over with envelopes of cash.Most people in Gabon have known no other president and view him as a kind of king — reacting with a shrug to reports of his wealth.There is enough misery in Gabon that the little people are too busy worrying about where their next piece of bread will come from to spend too much time thinking about the president's apartments in Paris,local pastor Jean Jacques Ndong said.

While many Gabonese are unwilling to criticize Bongo, some also said they would no longer accept unchecked rule.Never again will we give 40 years to a single person, Jean Louis Itsika said.The next person will get seven years. If he does a good job, maybe we'll give him another seven. If not, then we'll show him the door.

MUSLIM NATIONS

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

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

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

DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

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

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

Iran regime faces public anger: will it survive? By SALLY BUZBEE, Associated Press Writer JUNE 16,09

CAIRO – Iran's Islamic regime has survived a devastating war with Iraq, strong American sanctions and international isolation in its 30 years of power. It has seen reformist and hard-line presidents come and go, with barely a flinch.But now, public anger over the disputed election has given Iran's ruling elite a challenge of a new and unsettling kind: A growing opposition movement with apparent broad backing, headed by a leader who is one of their own — and doesn't seem intimidated.Iran's clergy-guided system does not appear in immediate danger. But the ruling clerics are paying close attention to the street anger — the same popular unrest they harnessed themselves three decades ago to bring down the shah in their 1979 revolution.There is a chance — just a chance — that the recent protests could transform into a serious, credible movement similar to an opposition party in another country, fundamentally changing a system now ruled by an all-powerful and untouchable theocracy.There is also a chance, more likely, that to avoid such an outcome, the clerics will either jettison, or at minimum rein in and weaken, the president they have supported until now, hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.For that to happen, the protests would almost certainly need to be sustained, spread to other cities and most importantly, attract enough clerical support to create high-level rifts.No one is very sure where it will go next,said Suzanne Maloney, an Iran expert at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy in Washington. But she says: They have forced the regime to take a step back.

Despite that, the likelihood that Iran's clergy-ruled system will undergo a radical change remains dim.Many Iranians feel strong kinship with the revolution, its heirs and the system they created, and are reluctant to do anything that would trigger bloody upheaval again. Ahmadinejad has broad support among the poor and pious, who also venerate the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.Yet Ahmadinejad's hard-line jousts with the West, his mishandling of the economy and, in particular, what many view as a blatant theft of the election, seem to be turning off growing segments of the middle class.The recent protests are different from the country's last unrest, student-led protests in 1999 that fizzled. In particular, this go-round has attracted some of Iran's middle class, the same group that changed a religious movement in 1979 into a strong revolutionary force.The leader of the street protesters this time, rival presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, is also different from the reformist student leaders of 1999. He is no sideline player or amateur but an experienced politician who was prime minister in the 1980s during Iran's tough war with Iraq, when Khamenei was president.Mousavi does not appear intimidated by the supreme leader or his inner circle. Indeed, he can take his complaints right to them, and he can make their life rough if he begins to criticize the clerical system as complicit in protecting Ahmadinejad.There's no way to know if Mousavi will challenge, or would even want to challenge, the Islamic system itself. He is a product of the revolution, never known as a reformer in the past. Yet he has already gone further than many expected.

The country's clerics may hold the final word.

Iran's power structure has always been opaque. Essentially it consists of a broad base of clerics supporting a ruling elite of high-level clerics, who have the power through various institutions to overturn the decisions any president makes.At their top is the country's supreme leader — Khamenei, who controls the armed forces, other security forces and the nuclear program. He serves as final arbiter.But even Khamenei must be careful lest he lose the support of the clerics who empower him. A rift in the high levels of the clerical structure could endanger even him, the supremacy of his position and the clerical system itself. Some clerics in key institutions like the Guardian Council — which vets the election — are lockstep backers of Khamenei. But others, such as former President Hashemi Rafsanjani, a fierce critic of both Khamenei and Ahmadinejad, are wild cards. The concessions that have already come from the clerics, especially the announcement to re-examine the vote tally, show that at least some clerics want to keep the protests from escalating.

So far, Mousavi has made no direct threat to the Islamic system.

But he hinted at it during a massive rally of supporters Monday, telling them to stand up to this astonishing charade ... Otherwise, nothing will remain of people's trust in the government and the ruling system.In Iran's post-revolutionary history, protesters have almost never crossed that red line and demonstrated against the ruling clerics themselves. If they do, it would leave the clerics in a difficult spot: Choosing between making political concessions to reformists, or watching the unrest grow to ever-more dangerous levels.Revolutionary change like that is still far away and may never come. But the possible contours of the once-unthinkable are now taking shape.EDITOR'S NOTE — Sally Buzbee is the Mideast Editor for The Associated Press based in Cairo.Associated Press writer Brian Murphy contributed to this report.

Syria plays down uranium find by UN nuclear agency Tue Jun 16, 11:29 am ET

VIENNA – Syria's nuclear chief is suggesting the U.N. nuclear agency's discovery of new uranium traces in the country do not harden allegations that Damascus has a hidden nuclear program.Ibrahim Othman's comments are the first from Syria about the International Atomic Energy Agency's recent announcement that it found unexplained traces of uranium at a Syrian site for the second time.Othman played down the discovery Tuesday and described it as only one particle or two particles.The IAEA has been investigating Syria since Israel bombed a Syrian site in 2007 that the U.S. says was a secret nuclear reactor built with North Korean help.The agency's 35-nation board is preparing to debate allegations that Damascus was running such a program.