OBAMA ON CHRISTIANITY

JESUS IS GOD

ROMANS 9:5
5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

1 JOHN 5:20
20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

1 TIMOTHY 3:16
16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

1 JOHN 3:16
16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

PROVERBS 30:4
4 Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou canst tell?

JOHN 1:3,10
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

COLOSSIANS 1:16
16 For by him (JESUS) were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

1 PETER 2:22
22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:(JESUS)

HEBREWS 7:26
26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

JOHN 8:46
46 Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?

JAMES 1:12
12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

CAN'T GET TO HEAVEN BY WORKS

TITUS 3:5
5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

ROMANS 4:5
5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

JESUS THE ONLY WAY TO SALVATION NO OTHER

JOHN 5:39-40
39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.

JOHN 6:47
47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.

JOHN 8:24
24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.

JOHN 10:9
9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

JOHN 14:6
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

JOHN 20:30-31
30 And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book:
31 But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.

ACTS 4:12
12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

ACTS 10:43
43 To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.

ROMANS 1:6
1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,

ROMANS 5:1
1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

ROMANS 6:23
23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

ROMANS 10:13
13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

1 CORINTHIANS 15:1-4
1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

GALATIONS 3:26
26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

1 PETER 2:24
24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

1 JOHN 5:11-13
11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

REV 1:5
5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

GALATIONS 1:8
8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.(DAMNED TO HELL FIRE FOREVER)

YOU CAN'T SAY ALL PATHS LEAD TO SALVATION AND BE A TRUE CHRISTIAN.THE TRUE OBAMA DECIEVER SPEAKING HERE.HE ALSO SAYS NO ONE WILL GO TO HELL.THIS IS THE NEW AGE BELIEF HE HAS INGRAVED WITH HIS SO CALLED CHRISTIAN BELIEF,HES NO CHRISTIAN I CAN TELL YOU THAT OR HE WOULD NOT LIE LIKE HE DOES ABOUT EVERYTHING EITHER.

Obama: I have a deep faith ,Barack Obama credits his multicultural upbringing for his theological point of view.April 5, 2004 BY CATHLEEN FALSANI Sun-Times Columnist

Casually straightening his tie with one hand as he holds the door for a stranger with the other, the young politician strides into the cafe, greeting an employee by name and flashing a big grin at the rest of the room.He grabs a bottled protein shake from the cooler at the back of Cafe Baci on South Michigan Avenue, and settles into a table near the soft-drink dispenser, doffing his suit jacket along the way.

Raised: Christian (nonspecific) Now: Christian, United Church of Christ Attends: Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ.Words to live by: I have an ongoing conversation with God. . . . I'm constantly asking myself questions about what I'm doing, why I am doing it.I'm rooted in the Christian tradition. I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people. That there are values that transcend race or culture, that move us forward, and there's an obligation for all of us individually as well as collectively to take responsibility to make those values lived.Barack Obama is alone on this Saturday afternoon in the city, his press secretary nowhere in sight. He's not carrying anything with him. Not even notes. Yet he appears confident as he answers questions about his spiritual life, a subject that would make many politicians -- on or off the campaign trail -- more skittish than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.If an hourlong conversation about his faith unnerves him, Obama's not letting on.The first question he fields without hesitation: What does he believe?

I am a Christian,the 42-year-old Illinois state senator and Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate says, as one of the nearby customers interrupts to congratulate him on his recent primary win. Obama shakes the man's hand and says, Thank you very much. I appreciate that,before turning his attention directly back to the question. So, I have a deep faith,Obama continues. I'm rooted in the Christian tradition. I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people. That there are values that transcend race or culture, that move us forward, and there's an obligation for all of us individually as well as collectively to take responsibility to make those values lived.It's perhaps an unlikely theological position for someone who places his faith squarely at the feet of Jesus to take, saying essentially that all people of faith -- Christians, Jews, Muslims, animists, everyone -- know the same God.

That depends, Obama says, on how a particular verse from the Gospel of John, where Jesus says, I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father but by me,is heard.Obama's theological point of view was shaped by his uniquely multicultural upbringing. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii to a white mother who came from Protestant Midwestern stock and a black African father who hailed from the Luo tribe of Kenya.Obama describes his father, after whom he is named, as agnostic.His paternal grandfather was a Muslim. His mother, he says, was a Christian. My mother, who I think had as much influence on my values as anybody, was not someone who wore her religion on her sleeve,he says.We'd go to church for Easter. She wasn't a church lady.In his 1993 memoir, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, Obama describes his mother as a lonely witness for secular humanism.My mother's confidence in needlepoint virtues depended on a faith I didn't possess, a faith that she would refuse to describe as religious; that, in fact, her experience told her was sacrilegious: a faith that rational, thoughtful people could shape their own destiny, he says in the book. When he was 6 years old, after his parents divorced, Obama moved with his mother and her new husband -- a non-practicing Muslim -- to Indonesia, where he lived until he was 10 and attended a Roman Catholic school.I went to a Catholic school in a Muslim country, so I was studying the Bible and catechisms by day, and, at night, you'd hear the Muslim prayer call,Obama recalls. My mother was a deeply spiritual person and would spend a lot of time talking about values and give me books about the world's religions and talk to me about them. Her view always was that underlying these religions was a common set of beliefs about how you treat other people and how you aspire to act, not just for yourself, but also for the greater good.Obama earned a degree in political science from New York's Columbia University in 1983 and in 1991 graduated magna cum laude with a law degree from Harvard University. Since 1993, he has been a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School.Those experiences, as much as his multireligious childhood, affect how he expresses his faith, Obama says.

Alongside my own deep personal faith, I am a follower, as well, of our civic religion,he says.I am a big believer in the separation of church and state. I am a big believer in our constitutional structure. I mean, I'm a law professor at the University of Chicago teaching constitutional law.I am a great admirer of our founding charter and its resolve to prevent theocracies from forming and its resolve to prevent disruptive strains of fundamentalism from taking root in this country. I think there is an enormous danger on the part of public figures to rationalize or justify their actions by claiming God's mandate. I don't think it's healthy for public figures to wear religion on their sleeve as a means to insulate themselves from criticism, or dialogue with people who disagree with them.Still, Obama is unapologetic in saying he has a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.As a sign of that relationship, he says, he walked down the aisle of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ in response to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's altar call one Sunday morning about 16 years ago.The politician could have ended his spiritual tale right there, at the point some people might assume his life changed, when he got saved, transformed, washed in the blood. But Obama wants to clarify what truly happened. It wasn't an epiphany,he says of that public profession of faith.It was much more of a gradual process for me. I know there are some people who fall out. Which is wonderful. God bless them.... I think it was just a moment to certify or publicly affirm a growing faith in me.These days, he says, he attends the 11 a.m. Sunday service at Trinity in the Brainerd neighborhood every week -- or at least as many weeks as he is able. His pastor, Wright, has become a close confidant.

So how did he become a churchgoer?

It began in 1985, when he came to Chicago as a $13,000-a-year community organizer, working with a number of African-American churches in the Roseland, West Pullman and Altgeld Gardens neighborhoods that were trying to deal with the devastation caused by shuttered steel plants.I started working with both the ministers and the lay people in these churches on issues like creating job-training programs, or after-school programs for youth, or making sure that city services were fairly allocated to underserved communities,he says.And it was in those places where I think what had been more of an intellectual view of religion deepened. I became much more familiar with the ongoing tradition of the historic black church and its importance in the community. And the power of that culture to give people strength in very difficult circumstances, and the power of that church to give people courage against great odds. And it moved me deeply.Obama says he reads the Bible, though not as regularly as he'd like, now that he's on the campaign trail. But he does find time to pray. It's not formal, me getting on my knees,he says.I think I have an ongoing conversation with God.... I'm constantly asking myself questions about what I'm doing, why I am doing it.The biggest challenge, I think, is always maintaining your moral compass.Friends and advisers, such as the Rev. Michael Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina Roman Catholic Church in the Auburn- Gresham community on the South Side, who has known Obama for the better part of 20 years, help him keep that compass set, he says.I always have felt in him this consciousness that, at the end of the day, with all of us, you've got to face God,Pfleger says of Obama. Faith is key to his life, no question about it. It is central to who he is, and not just in his work in the political field, but as a man, as a black man, as a husband, as a father.... I don't think he could easily divorce his faith from who he is.Another person Obama says he seeks out for spiritual counsel is state Sen. James Meeks, who is also the pastor of Chicago's Salem Baptist Church. The day after Obama won the primary in March, he stopped by Salem for Wednesday-night Bible study.I know that he's a person of prayer, Meeks says.The night after the election, he was the hottest thing going from Galesburg to Rockford. He did all the TV shows, and all the morning news, but his last stop at night was for church. He came by to say thank you, and he came by for prayer.

Obama admits it's not easy for politicians to talk about faith.

Part of the reason I think it's always difficult for public figures to talk about this is that the nature of politics is that you want to have everybody like you and project the best possible traits onto you,he says.Oftentimes, that's by being as vague as possible, or appealing to the lowest common denominators. The more specific and detailed you are on issues as personal and fundamental as your faith, the more potentially dangerous it is.The difficult thing about any religion, including Christianity, is that at some level there is a call to evangelize and proselytize. There's the belief, certainly in some quarters, that if people haven't embraced Jesus Christ as their personal savior, they're going to hell.Obama doesn't believe he, or anyone else, will go to hell.But he's not sure if he'll be going to heaven, either.I don't presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die,he says. When I tuck in my daughters at night, and I feel like I've been a good father to them, and I see in them that I am transferring values that I got from my mother and that they're kind people and that they're honest people, and they're curious people, that's a little piece of heaven.


REVELATION 18:1-24 (USA DESTROYED) (TRIBULATION CONTINUES)
1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
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.
11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:
12 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,
13 And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.
14 And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.
15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,
16 And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
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,
18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!
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.
20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;
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 were all nations deceived.
24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.

WE CAN SEE WHY AMERICA WILL BE DESTROYED IN THE FUTURE,THIS MARKET MANIPULATION,911 MURDERING THEIR OWN PEOPLE IN AMERICA AND EUGENICS KILLING AMERICANS WITH PLAQUES AND DRUGS.

Proprietary Program Used To Manipulate Markets Stolen From Goldman Sachs
Bill Lindner July 09, 2009

A Russian immigrant living in New Jersey was reportedly being held on federal charges of stealing top-secret computer trading codes from a major New York-based financial institution -- which it turns out, is none other than Goldman Sachs.Sergey Aleynikov allegedly tried to steal the secret code to unlocking Goldman Sach's automated stock and commodities trading business -- computer codes and related-trading files that help this major financial institution generate millions of dollars in profits each year.The software appears to give Goldman Sach's an advantage over its competition when it comes to rapid-fire trading of stocks and commodities. It quickly processes rapid developments in the market and uses top-secret mathematical formulas that allow Goldman Sachs to make highly-profitable automated trades. The markets have been manipulated for some time.Aleynikov, who has lived in the U.S. for 19 years, began working for Goldman Sachs in May 2007 as a computer programmer and left in early June according to the FBI.Reuters reports that Aleynikov had a LinkedIn bio that says he joined Goldman Sachs in May 2007 and that he was the vice president for equity strategy for Goldman Sachs and that he was responsbile for development of a distributed real-time co-located high-frequency trading platform, a platform that is decribed as a very low latency (microseconds) event-driven market data processing, strategy and order submission engine.

Someone Could Potentially Outswindle the Swindlers

Federal authorities believe Aleynikov may have had help. Aleynikov allegedly uploaded the stolen information to a German website that is registered to a person in London, leading to speculation that this may be a case of international espionage. It's unknown how many people, if any, accessed the software that was uploaded to the German website but it is still out there.A U.S. Attorney is quoted in Bloomberg News as saying that there is a danger that somebody who knew how to use this program could use it to manipulate markets in unfair ways and it could harm Goldman Sachs if the stolen software that is worth millions is disseminated. As noted by Ars Technica, when U.S. government prosecutors claim that the release of Goldman's program could potentially expose markets to manipulation, what they're really saying is that some unknown party could use it to out-manipulate Goldman Sachs, and possibly even do something more ambitious like frustrate Goldman's platform so that it fails while at the same time finding some way to short it. In other words, someone could potentially outswindle the swindlers.Time will tell what kind of fallout this will have for Goldman Sachs. We need to learn more about the software used by Goldman Sachs, and how it was used to manipulate the market, and if anyone was helping Aleynikov. As noted by Reuters, this case has the potential to shed a light on the inner workings of an important profit center for Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street firms. We also need to find out why the NYSE is helping keep trades made by Goldman Sachs covered up.

NYSE Changes Reporting Methodology for Goldman Sachs

Aleynikov's case could explain why the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) decided to alter its methodology for reporting program stock trading -- a move that appears to have been intentionally designed to keep stock market manipulation perpetrated by Goldman Sachs for their own gain covered up.The new rule instituted by the NYSE removes the rule that required any company carrying out program trading -- large computer-automated trades worth more than $1 million -- to report the trades to the NYSE which made the information available to the public. The new rule makes it virtually impossible to track what's going on in the NYSE, and appears to have been designed to shield Goldman Sachs in particular.Goldman Sachs may have asked the NYSE to change its reporting methodology when it was discovered that someone might have cracked the proprietary computer codes used by Goldman Sachs to manipulate the stock market.By making sure that there is no transparency, as noted by Zero Hedge, the NYSE will be able to cover up the complete dominance that Goldman Sachs exerts over the NYSE, ending the weekly Program Trading updates disclosed every Thursday indicating that Goldman Sachs has singlehandedly captured all of NYSE's program trading. That's not good since it means that the NYSE can manipulate the data and release it however they see fit. More on the NYSE's new secrecy rule that highly benefits Goldman Sachs can be found from AlterNet.

Goldman Sachs Could Easily Manipulate the Market

Executive Order 12631 was signed on March 18, 1988 by then-President Ronald Reagan, after the biggest one-day market loss in history -- also known as Black Monday -- when the Dow Jones Industrial average dropped 508 points on October 19, 1987. Executive Order 12631 created the Plunge Protection Team, a working group that was designed to keep the markets operating in the event of a sudden plunge in stock prices.One of the ideas from the Plunge Protection Team was a circuit breaker that would put an immediate halt to trading to give investors time to calm down before liquidating their assets in the stock market. A lot more detailed information about the Plunge Protection Team can be found in this article from Talking Points Memo.The working group is an orchestrated mechanism that attempts to manipulate U.S. stock markets in the event of a market crash by using government funds to buy stocks, or other instruments such as stock index futures -- acts which are forbidden by law. Adding more credibility to the fact that Goldman Sachs has been defrauding Americans out of billions of dollars for years -- with the help of a corrupted, bought off U.S. government -- is the fact that the permanent members of the Plunge Protection Team are Goldman Sachs alumni. Since 1988.Goldman Sachs has also profited greatly from a deal with our Federal government regarding a new program instituted by the Feds called The Supplemental Liquidity Provider Program (SLP) that supposedly provides market liquidity for selected groups of 500 different NYSE stocks per SLP participant. Any guesses on who the only active participant in the SLP program is? Yep! It's Goldman Sachs.Again, Goldman Sachs alumni are at the helm of the Plunge Protection Program,also known as the President's Working Group On Financial Markets, making it feasible that Goldman Sachs could have easily been frontrunning the rest of the market using their secret proprietary program, easily manipulating the market. Putting those in charge who are responsible for defrauding billions from Americans for the past several decades is both pointless and criminal, yet it continues unabated. A lot more regarding the information above can be found in the article from Talking Points Memo.

Time to End the Political-Economic Oligarchy That has Destroyed the U.S.

As Goldman Sachs' fraudulent little world comes crashing down, some of their supporters are calling Matt Taibbi --the reporter who has broken several Goldman Sachs stories -- anti-semitic. Cries of anti-semitism are nothing more than excuses used by those who perpetrated massive crimes against humanity, and those who support them, to try and hide the truth which needs to be exposed. More on the reality of idiots who constantly try to claim someone is anti-semitic can be found at AdamSolomon.org.It remains to be seen how the case of the stolen proprietary software will unfold, but it's painfully evident that our economy will not improve and the defrauding of American will not end until the enablers are finally dealt with and held accountable for their actions. It's time to put an end to the political-economic oligarchy that has destroyed the U.S. at the expense of all who live here.

OBAMA ON NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoB7BLrRumE&feature=player_embedded
OBAMA POPE MEET
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=292_V2H72CQ&feature=player_embedded
OBAMA TAKES QUESTIONS AT G-8
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1177743283&play=1
OBAMA ADDRESSES G-8
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1177700192&play=1

Obama concludes meeting Pope Benedict XVI JULY 10,09

VATICAN CITY – President Barack Obama has ended his first meeting with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican.Obama and Benedict met for about 25 minutes Friday in the Papal Library. The pope was overheard asking about the just-ended Group of Eight summit in Italy. Reporters were then escorted from the room.First lady Michelle Obama joined the president near the end of the meeting with the pope.Obama and the pope exchanged gifts. Then the president headed for a flight to Ghana, the final stop on his weeklong trip.THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.VATICAN CITY (AP) — President Barack Obama is meeting with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican.Shaking hands with the pope, Obama said it was a great honor to meet him.They then sat at the pontiff's desk and exchanged pleasantries before reporters and photographers were ushered out of the ornate room.Obama met first with Cardinal Tarciso Bertone, the Vatican's secretary of state.

PICTURE OF GLOBAL CURRENCY COIN
http://www.futureworldcurrency.com/Default.asp
http://solari.com/blog/?p=3423
UNITED CURRENCY BILL
http://www.futureworldcurrency.com/Documents.asp?DocumentID=191

The long path from Eurodollar to United Currency

History of the name and logo of the United Future World Currency, which began a number of years ago.In 1996, Sandro Sassoli had the brilliant idea that the Ecu, as the Euro was then known, was not the only opportunity for linking different countries together. Dr. Sassoli is an Italian journalist with a number of high-profile projects to his name. He worked on the ITALIA 90 World Cup campaign, promoting a range of products tied to the official mascot and logo, and inventing the Platinum Ball Trophy. As Chief of Special Programs, he developed a Year 2000 Medals project on behalf of the Italian State Mint. He was also responsible for the Gold Books program, which featured pages in real gold, and official celebrations to mark the end of the Italian Lira (The Last Day of the Lira at Rome’s Trevi fountain, and the Monument to the Lira, made by real coins).Against this professional background, Dr. Sassoli believed that another new currency could be possible in the wake of the new European single currency. Giving the new future currency the draft name Eurodollar, Dr. Sassoli believed that the Eurodollar was a natural consequence of the historical ties between Europe and the United States. A centuries-old relationship formed by common roots, views and goals and a similar melting pot of different races. An ideal Manifesto for the program, comprising 10 articles, was drafted in Brussels in 1996. This document has been modified since then, and is now definitive.

As Head of Special Projects for the Italian State Mint and Printing Bureau, in 1997-98Dr. Sassoli came up with the idea of a new project for 2000, entitled Gold for the Third Millennium – The world united by the wings of peace. The project involved the joint efforts of the Italian State Mint, the Royal Canadian Mint, the Cape Mint of South Africa, the Casa de Moneda (Mexico), and the Perth Mint Australia. This would later be considered as a prelude to the UFWC (United Future World Currency) project. A number of Eurodollar samples were created. In 2000, Dr. Sassoli registered the Eurodollar trademark and embarked upon a project for the coin. The coin design featured the DNA helix, mixing the symbols of the US Dollar and Euro. This was followed by other samples and projects over the years…This year, Dr. Sassoli asked Luc Luycx (creator of the uniform side of the Euro coin, from the Royal Belgium Mint) and Laura Cretara, chief engraver of Italian State Mint who created the “500 Lire” dual-metallic coins and the Italian side of the 1 Euro coin (Leonardo’s Vitruvian man), to begin work on a new design for an international currency program.
In addition, Dr. Sassoli asked Rome University’s Engineering Dept. to study the potential for a new coin with a high level of protection against counterfeits. In short, an intelligent coin that can communicate with mobile phones, give and receive inputs and be recognized as fake or authentic.The path we have embarked upon is long, and we have only just started. The future of this project, and its benefits, remain unpredictable.Nonetheless, there is great hope and expectation that truly, one day not too far from now, even if only partially at first, the world really can be United by a Coin.

Manifesto OF THE GLOBAL CURRENCY (GUESS WHO DONE IT THE EUROPEAN UNION LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS THE EU CONTROLS THE WORLD ECONOMIES)

ART. 1

Unity in diversity is the foundation that drives this initiative, which started up in 1996. Its aim is to bring people together and go beyond national stereotypes. Its historical importance is even greater than its economic one; it is a goal built on faith, common hope, and the unification of cultural and spiritual roots.(POLITICAL-RELIGIOUS-ECONOMICAL WORLD SYSTEM)(REV 13:16-18)

ART. 2

The relationship between Europe and America, and between the United States and many Countries from the five continents, is based on common cultural traditions and sustained by a parallel vision of the world. It is driven by the highest concepts of brotherhood and peace. These relations are cultivated through global dynamics whose purpose is to fulfill social, political and economic objectives, in full respect of the values and national identities that found countries' respective constitutions.

ART. 3

It is therefore our wish to bring to life the project for a common currency, which has been given the provisional names, Eurodollar/Dollaeur (initially), United Money, then United Future World Currency. It would symbolize not only the economic, but also the human, social, political, and spiritual bonds between the Nations of different Continents that hold similar ideals.

ART. 4

The common currency project is a highly important step towards bringing people together. It is a means of understanding, provides reference and reinforces different identities that share principle objectives. Competition in respective markets remains free, and the basic principles of participating countries' national identities will be safeguarded.

ART. 5

We are determined to raise awareness of this project among as many people as possible in all Continents. We are focused particularly on the active involvement of young people, especially from schools. Indeed, young people represent the strongest, most concrete vehicle for spreading this initiative. They are also the potential future beneficiaries of this large step forward towards unification and the creation of a world that responds better to the requirements of the new Millennium, as it gradually breaks down social and ideological barriers.

ART. 6

Renewed cultural interest in the Economy comes as a result of shifting perceptions of currency as a whole. This follows on from the debate opened by the introduction of the Euro. Through this Project, students, including from a very young age, can become familiar with basic economic issues. The latter are increasingly important in a new society of widespread wellbeing.

ART. 7

A joint Committee will be selected. It will include experts from a wide variety of disciplines. Everyone will be free to offer their own contribution to the project. This committee will also form the Jury that selects the most interesting ideas, proposals and projects demanded by different initiatives underway.

ART. 8

There will be an information and support campaign to coordinate working groups, committees and clubs, implemented through organizations, bodies and associations. There will be a consideration period for all contributions regarding the expansion, comparison and development of: issues and technical problems; optimizing legislative instruments and procedures; and fulfilling the obligations of the new Currency.

ART. 9

Trials will be carried out at important international events, aimed at awareness, education and promotion. United Money currency (banknotes and coins) trials will be entrusted to the best international professionals and experts in the appropriate fields. Time will be set aside to explore technologically-advanced security and counterfeiting issues, which a future Currency will have to keep in check. This will involve the most prestigious and trustworthy public and private bodies, including universities and companies.

ART. 10

It will be the responsibility of the world's future citizens and the governments they put in place to make our Project a reality. This project is driven by a firm belief in the unification and co-existence of different peoples. It aims to promote an increasingly equal distribution of the planet's resources and human intellect.

Rome and Brussels, March 21st 1996
New York, January 12th 2000.
Milan, February 17th 2009 2009 - United Future World Currency - info@futureworldcurrency.com

ETG System: Tracking and Guarantee Label for the security of New Generation Banknotes of the UFWC project GLOBAL BANKNOTE CURRENCY
http://www.futureworldcurrency.com/Documents.asp?DocumentID=191

AIM: This document provides a brief outline of a system that raises the security level on authenticity for all types of paper documents (e.g. banknotes, contracts, packaging. See areas of application.) and it is inserted in the UFWC program (tests of paper or precious banknotes)

TECHNOLOGY: This system is the integration of two technologies:
1. Cryptography (symmetric or asymmetric) and/or hashing.
1. Barcode.

Thanks to cryptography, even integrated with hashing techniques, the authenticity, integrity, privacy and non-disclaimer of information can be guaranteed. Such a guarantee is made possible by a security code that is associated unequivocally with the information you wish to safeguard. Said security code can take the following forms, according to the application in question: digital signature, ciphering or hashing of information, or any combination of these.The security code generated as described above is codified as a barcode in paper documents. As a result, it can be read and verified rapidly using appropriate devices with optic and/or magnetic readers.

EXAMPLE APPLICATION (Figure 1): Let’s take the example that we wish to prevent a banknote serial number being tampered with. The serial number can be signed or simply codified (given the limited length of serial numbers) using a private key belonging to the authority that has issued the banknote. The result of this operation is a security code, in the form of a barcode, that can be printed on the banknote. The security code is a key element for guaranteeing the security features that we wish to ensure. Indeed, this tool will allow us to guarantee the integrity of banknote serial numbers, in other words, they cannot be tampered with.Serial number authenticity can be verified with a simple barcode scanner and appropriate software to decode the barcode using the public key of the authority issuing the banknote. The barcode scanner, software and issuing authority’s public key can be freely distributed to those requesting them (organisations, businesses or ordinary citizens). It is important to note that this process is entirely analogous with the digital signature process.

NOTE: It must be stressed that this mechanism prevents tampering with serial numbers, but not banknote duplication. Should a counterfeiter produce a thousand copies of the same banknote, all with the same serial number and corresponding barcode, the system would not be able to detect the fraud.On the other hand, inserting the barcode guarantees the detection of fraud that alters the serial number but leaves the barcode intact (and vice versa). It is important to note that it is impossible to print a fake banknote with an invented barcode and serial number, since this would require the counterfeiter to have access to the private key belonging to the banknote issuing authority. This key, by definition, remains exclusive to the issuing authority.In short, this system allows us to guarantee that a serial number has not been tampered with, but not that it has not been duplicated.Nonetheless, the inclusion of the barcode automates verification of any duplicate banknotes. Indeed, once fraud has been discovered, you need only scan the given banknote barcode and consult a database of barcodes for duplicate banknotes to reveal foul play.

FIELDS OF APPLICATION: It is worth noting that a similar mechanism to that described above can be effectively used to guarantee the authenticity of information carried in: medical prescriptions; checks; ID (e.g. passport, ID card); qualification certificates (e.g. driver’s licence, certificates of legal qualification); fiscal documents (e.g. fiscal receipts, invoices); legal documents (e.g. contracts, laws, statutes); financial documents (e.g. financial statements); season tickets for events (e.g. football, concerts, museums) or transport and bus/train tickets; pharmaceutical packaging; and product packaging. In short, any paper document that carried important information.This document provides a brief outline of a system that raises the security level on authenticity for all types of paper documents (e.g. banknotes, contracts, packaging. See areas of application.) and it is inserted in the UFWC program (tests of paper or precious banknotes)

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

REVELATION 13:7-8
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,(BEHEAD THEM) and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.(WORLD DOMINATION)
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(WORLD DICTATOR)

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

THE GLOBAL CURRENCY WILL GO FROM COINS AND BILLS TO A MICROCHIP IMPLANT ALL BROUGHT TOGETHER BY THE EUROPEAN UNION LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS.

THE FASCINATING HISTORY OF WORLD CURRENCY, FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT DAY
From national currencies to the universal currency

Money is the only human invention capable of embodying both dreams and reality in an indissoluble bond; it is the abstract distributor of hope and a concrete means of controlling the lives of human beings and nations. From its first appearance in the Near East in the form of shiny little metal spheres, money has long been entrusted with the fates and fame of great kings, such as King Croesus (hence the saying,as rich as Croesus). The same is true of cities famous beyond the borders of the known world at that time: Athens, Corinth, and Aegina. In a world that measured time against the ancient Olympic games, the Croesus coins, Athenian Owls, Pegasus coins, and Aegean Turtles united different peoples in bonds made permanent by economic interests, often backed up by military force.This period was doomed to be short, flames that soon died out under the ashes of time. With his seemingly unstoppable army, Alexander the Great, had managed to create and implement a single monetary system in Greece, Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt, Babylonia and beyond, which was well organised into three metals (gold, silver and bronze) with coins of identical weight and type for people who were very different from one another. Yet even this dream of his floundered on the banks of the Euphrates river at the end of spring 323 BC. After Alexander’s death, the political break-up of the territories he had conquered led to the unravelling of a monetary system that had not had enough time to grow deep roots in Asia.

Events took a different turn with Rome. The unification of Roman territories, with political and administrative control of provinces in Europe, Asia and Africa, ensured that conditions were in place for Roman currency to become implemented in systematic, profound manner in every corner of the vast Empire. First there were denarii, aurei and later sestertia; these became the tangible sign of a strong, well-organised central power able to control and unify highly diverse territories, cultures, economies and social fabrics. The Legions of the Roman Republic brought the silver denarius bearing the head of the Goddess Roma to newly conquered lands. Subsequently, Roman magistrates were sent by the Roman people and Senate or Emperor (as was the case) to ensure that a well-organised society (where even old, local coins could still be used for minor daily errands) would be centered on Roman currency. This situation held strong for over seven centuries, thanks to a dynamic power that survived pressure from the Barbarians and the transfer of Imperial insignia to Constantinople in 476 AD.Indeed, the gold solidus (or Byzantine coin) – a pure metal coin created by Constantine in the early 4th century AD in order to reverse the free fall of the old, glorious yet unsalvageable denarius, continued to function as an international currency. However, the times had changed for good. It was no longer the unifying authority of a strong State that guaranteed the currency’s success; it was the faith of different peoples and market mechanisms, rather than political rule, that did so.Thus the Byzantine coin continued to perform its role along ancient Mediterranean routes, making its way through the dark Middle Ages and imitated by Goths, Lombards, Arabs and Normans alike.Meanwhile, Europe began breaking up into thousands of small territories controlled locally by castles and monasteries, until the time of Charlemagne.

Under the Carolingian Empire, the European continent returned to conditions which enabled the relaunch of a high Medieval European single currency, as we would label it today: the silver denier. Although different in weight and alloy, and tied to a pound of around 400 grams (of which it was worth 240 parts), this new currency remained based on the old Roman system of the silver denarius. However, as with the Roman denarius, the Carolingian denier was also destined to lose weight and intrinsic quality - to devalue - over time.By the era of the Italy of Communes and great maritime republics, the gold ducats of Genoa, Florence and Venice were reigning in the market places of Europe and the entire Mediterranean basin (conquering the markets of Levant). The old silver Carolingian denier had already gone down other roads, in the various districts in which it had taken root. All later attempts to revive the denier were in vain.History seemed to repeat itself. Like the ancient Greek Polis, so the Italian Communes, which were only formally tied to the Empire, in the absence of a strong centralised power, attempted to organise themselves territorially by forming monetary ties: between 1230 and 1250, Pisa, Siena, Lucca, Florence and Arezzo; and in 1254, it was the turn of Cremona, Bergamo, Brescia, Piacenza, Tortona, and Pavia. In short, the Communes sought local agreements to solve the historical problem of numerous different currencies. However, the geographical discoveries of the 15th century, influx of a large amount of precious metals to Europe, the opening of new mines, and more rational, modern exploitation of ancient metal veins, would soon lead to the radical transformation of the social and political fabric of Europe, whose financial and market centers attempted by all means possible to withstand the weight of competition that was increasingly tougher to face. To counter the lack of coins, existing credit systems were refined. Soon, bills of exchange became a safer instrument for bankers and merchants of the time.

The world had changed dramatically since the time of the ducats issued by Italian cities (Florins, Genoese and gold zecchino coins, the undisputed lords of international trade). Now, under the powerful shadow of Charles V, a new French gold currency, the écu au soleil or Sun above the crown enjoyed conditions in which to reign. Specifically, seven nations united in an agreement of sorts which led them to issue scudo coins whose weight and alloy were very similar: France, Spain, Genoa, Venice, Florence, Rome and Naples. In essence, this heralded the first single international currency of the modern age.More than two centuries later, France again gave birth to a new currency that would radically alter the monetary systems of the countries across Europe, particularly Italy, that adopted it. Named the Franco-Lira, with a centesimal subdivision, it originated during the French Revolution and was exported under Napoleon’s conquest of new lands. From 1861 on, the Lira (divided into 100 cents) became the single currency of a unified Italy. Just a few years later, at a memorable session held on 23rd December 1865 in Paris, Italy, France, Switzerland and Belgium (later joined by Greece) signed an agreement which foresaw the adoption of a single currency, based on gold and silver divisions, which could circulate freely in the signatory countries, known as the Latin Monetary Union.

This was the first step towards simplifying means of payment, something which could be delayed no longer in a world that was bound increasingly by common economic and trade interests.In 1871, the Confederation of Germanic States adopted the gold standard for its own monetary system. In 1873, Denmark signed a monetary agreement with Sweden which would later include Norway (in 1875). In 1892, Austria and Hungary also adopted a gold-standard monetary system.Nonetheless, this too was abandoned in the 1930’s and 1940’s by all signatory countries: France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Poland and Italy, known as the gold bar countries. What modern nation states required was a new platform for exchange that respected national sovereignty. For today’s Europe, this platform is the Euro. Yet global market mechanisms are knocking at the door: the boundaries that divide us today will seem too narrow for tomorrow’s generation. Old national currencies will seem a relic from the past. And the utopia of a universal currency will become reality.Silvana Balbi de Caro

Medvedev sees single currency dream in G8 coin gift
JULY 10,09

L'AQUILA, Italy (AFP) — Even if Russia's call for a global currency failed to gain much traction at a G8 summit, President Dmitry Medvedev took home a coin meant to symbolize that the dream may one day come true.The Russian leader proudly displayed the coin, which bears the English words United Future World Currency, to journalists after the summit wrapped up in the quake-hit Italian town of L'Aquila.Medvedev said that although the coin, which resembled a euro and featured the image of five leaves, was just a gift given to leaders it showed that people were beginning to think seriously about a new global currency.In all likelihood something similar could appear and it could be held in your hand and used as a means of payment, he told reporters.This is the international currency.Russia, along with China, has been a vocal proponent of diversifying the global currency system away from the dollar, which has dominated global finance and commerce since the end of World War II.French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the summit joined the band in favour of dumping the dollar as the international currency of reference, insisting that we cannot stick with just one single currency.

Dollar's dominance under fire at G8 summit
By Leigh Thomas – JULY 10,09

L'AQUILA, Italy (AFP) — Leaders from some of the biggest economic powers put the dollar's continuing dominance of post-war global finance into question at the G8 summit as calls grow for alternatives.At the gathering in Italy, which wraps up on Friday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy joined China and a band of mostly emerging powers in calling for an end to the dollar's reign as the international currency of reference.We cannot stick with just one single currency,the French leader said at the summit in L'Aquila, central Italy.China also used the G8 summit, which was opened up to leaders from major emerging economies, to stage a fresh attack on the dollar after repeated recent calls for the global currency system to be diversified.Speaking on the sidelines of talks between the G8 powers and major emerging economies here, a Chinese official said on Thursday that Beijing adviser Dai Bingguo had urged world leaders to improve the international monetary system.The official said China wants to enhance the reserve currency and regulating regime, maintain a relative stability of the exchange rates of the main international reserve currencies and promote a more diversified and reasonable international currency system.Backed by the world biggest economy, the dollar has enjoyed the status of international currency of choice since the end of World War II, by far the most widely used currency for foreign exchange reserves and business invoicing.

China, which has amassed the world's biggest foreign exchange reserves totalling 1.95 trillion dollars at the end of March, is growing concerned that Washington's exploding debt could threaten the stability of the dollar, and therefore its vast dollar holdings.Beijing and Moscow have repeatedly argued that the dominance of the US dollar as the world's main reserve currency and in foreign exchange is a destabilising factor in the global economy and have called for reform.Sarkozy lamented that we've still got the Bretton Woods system of 1945,referring to the historic conference in New Hampshire that laid the foundation for post-war finance centred around the dollar.Frankly, 60 years afterwards we've got to ask: shouldn't a politically multipolar world correspond to a economically multi-currency world? he said.However, his views were not shared by other rich-world leaders at the summit such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel who said that dropping the de facto dollar standard currently has no practical relevance.British Prime Minister Gordon Brown also played down the upsurge against the dollar, saying on Thursday that there had been no real discussion of the subject at the summit.In this present situation as we're trying to get out of a deep recession, I don't want to give the impression that there is some major change about to happen around the corner that suggests that the present arrangements are destabilised.Investment strategist Christopher Wood at pan-Asian merchant bank CLSA said that growing calls for currency diversification was not so far translating into acts.He said that the dollar's share of official foreign exchange holdings reached a two-year high point of 65 percent in the first quarter of this year according to recent IMF data.

Nonetheless, he predicted with time the trend would be reversed.

The end game of this financial crisis is the end of the US dollar paper standard as investors finally lose confidence in the endless proliferation of government guarantees. But the process will take some time.

JULY 9, 2009, 3:41 P.M. ET UPDATE:G8:France Sarkozy:Global Currency System Needs Overhaul By Gabriele Parussini Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

L'AQUILA, Italy (Dow Jones)--French President Nicolas Sarkozy Thursday delivered an attack to the supremacy of the dollar, urging a revamp of an outdated system hinged upon the U.S. currency.Sarkozy said the current system is outdated, and a result of U.S. political and economic predominance after the end of the Second World War. His comments placed him alongside officials from a number of large developing economies, who have called for a more diverse international system that is less dominated by the dollar.Frankly, 60 years later one must ask oneself the question: shouldn't a world that is multi polar...be mirrored by a multi-polar economic system? Sarkozy said in a press conference at the end of a meeting of the Group of Eight rich countries and the Group of Five large developing economies.Even if it's a difficult subject, we'll discuss this in the coming months, he said.Earlier Thursday, Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo told G8 and G5 leaders that the international currency system must become more diversified, adding to calls from Indian and Russian officials last week. One needs not be an expert to understand that this is necessary for the stability of the economy,Sarkozy told reporters.The French President also said the G8 needs to be overhauled and be made more representative. Clearly, the G8 isn't representative enough to face issues as important as the response to the economic crisis,Sarkozy said. It seems unreasonable to us that the most important international issues are dealt with without Africa, Latin America and China.

Sarkozy said he presented to fellow leaders a common proposal with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to create a new G14 summit, and that the new format should be in place when France next holds the rotating presidency of the G8. To global crisis we must respond with a reform of global governance,he said. The meeting of G8 nations -- the U.S., Canada, Italy, France, Germany, Japan, Russia and Britain -- started Wednesday.-By Gabriele Parussini, Dow Jones Newswires; +33 1 40171740; gabriele.parussini@dowjones.com

President Obama Meets Pope Benedict at the Vatican
As G-8 Summit Wraps Up, Obama Gives Tough to African Leaders
By JAKE TAPPER, KAREN TRAVERS and SUNLEN MILLER
L'AQUILA, ITALY, July 10, 2009

President Obama met for the first time with Pope Benedict XVI today at the Vatican, where the two leaders discussed a number of common ground issues such as combating poverty worldwide and nuclear arms control. Obama and Pope Benedict discussed nuclear arms control among other issues.The two men also confronted issues like abortion and stem cell research, on which Obama's stances stand in stark contrast to the Vatican. The Vatican said the conversation also dealt with the Middle East peace process, immigration, inter-cultural and inter-faith dialogue, the economic crisis, and aid for Africa and Latin America. Pope Benedict greeted Obama in the Sala dei Santi Pietor e Paolo, or The Room of Sts. Peter and Paul, where the walls are adorned with painting by Raphael.The pope escorted the president into his private library where they sat down across from each other at a desk. Mr. President, welcome,the German-speaking pope said in English.As the two sat face to face with dozens of photographer flashbulbs going off behind them, Obama said to Pope Benedict, Your Holiness, I'm sure you're used to having your picture taken. I'm getting used to it.The pope smiled and nodded and said, You must be tired after all these discussions,referring to the week of meetings and summit sessions. Obama presented the pope with a liturgical stole that from 1988 to 2007 was on the body of St. John Neumann in Philadelphia. Pope Benedict gave the president a mosaic of St. Peter's Square and Basilica, an autographed copy of his new encyclical, or papal letter, released on Tuesday and bound in white leather. He also gave Obama the Pontical Medal and Rosaries, typically given to foreign dignitaries.First lady Michelle Obama, wearing a short black veil and a black dress, joined the president after his private meeting with the pope. Several senior White House officials, including Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, and Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough, received a blessing from Pope Benedict and posed for a picture with him and the Obamas.First daughters Malia and Sasha also joined their parents at the Vatican to meet the pope.

White House officials said prior to the meeting that the president would treat it like one with any head of state, but at the same time, he was well aware of the significance and influence the pope has around the world. They emphasized that, despite the focus on the areas where the president and pope disagree -- like gay rights, abortion and stem cell research -- they agree on other key issues like fighting poverty and stopping the spread of nuclear weapons.The president, in both his words and in his deeds, expresses many things that many Catholics recognize as fundamental to our teaching,McDonough said.[T]he president often underscores that dignity of people is a driving goal in what we hope to accomplish in development policy, for example, and in foreign policy.McDonough said the president has spoken about the seamless garment of Catholic teaching,a phrase coined by the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago.That garment speaks to not just taking care of the poor and the needy but also investing in the kind of health care infrastructure that would ensure that people like those on the South Side of Chicago, who the president is very familiar with are oftentimes finding their health care not in publicly funded hospitals but in Catholic hospitals, for example,McDonough added. John Allen, senior correspondent for National Catholic Reporter, said before the meeting there would be a tricky balancing act going on in the room. The pope likely shared his agreement with Obama on some issues, but does not want to be perceived as undercutting the critical position that the U.S. Catholic bishops have taken against Obama. They're going to try to walk a tight rope in this meeting and of course the jury is still about whether they are going to make it across or whether they are going to fall somewhere in the middle,Allen said.President Obama in terms of domestic politics in the states has been a very controversial figure for the Catholic Church.He is loved by a certain segment of the church that focuses on his peace and justice positions, but he is also seen in a very dim light by another segment of the catholic community in the states, the focus is on his positions on the life issues -- abortion, gay marriage, embryonic stem cell research and so on, so I think there is a great deal of drama on both sides of the water,Allen added.

Obama Gives Tough Love To African Leaders
Hours before his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa as president, President Barack Obama delivered some tough love to African leaders, urging them to get their houses in order so they can better provide for their citizens.In a meeting this morning with the leaders of Egypt, Algeria, Senegal, Nigeria, Libya and Ethiopia, Obama spoke about his personal connections to both Africa and poverty challenged them to prioritize economic progress to combat poverty and hunger. According to a top White House aide, you could have heard a pin drop.Obama recounted the exchange at a news conference at the conclusion of the G-8 summit.Political Punch: It Isn't What It Looks Like. Really.G-8 Will Not Call for New Sanctions Against IranWATCH: Sasha and Malia's Superb Summer Adventure The point I was making was that my father traveled to the United States a mere 50 years ago yet now I have family members who live in villages. They themselves are not going hungry, but they live in villages where hunger is real,Obama said.And so this is something that I understand in very personal terms.Obama noted that when his father, Barack Obama Sr., traveled to the United States from Kenya in 1959, the African nation had a higher per capita income and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) than South Korea.Today obviously South Korea is a highly developed and relatively wealthy country and Kenya is still struggling with deep poverty. And the question I asked in the meeting was why is that? the president said.

Obama said that despite talk of the legacy of colonialism, he made the point to the African leaders that while the government of South Korea was able to work the private sector and civil society to set up institutions for economic progress. There was no reason why many African countries could not do the same,he said.Later today, Obama heads to Ghana where he will hold up the West African nation as a model of good governance and a successful democracy.

Modest Results From Summit
Obama leaves the three-day G-8 summit with modest tangible results.There was no unanimity among the leaders of the Group of Eight industrialized nations about whether Iran should be further punished with tougher sanctions, and in the end the group opted for just a toughly-worded statement.Obama denied reports that he was disappointed that the leaders did not issue a stronger message on Iran's nuclear weapons programs or outline sanctions.This notion that we were trying to get sanctions or for which this was a forum in which we could get sanctions is not accurate,he said.What we wanted was exactly what we got, which is a statement of unity and strong condemnation about the appalling treatment of peaceful protestors post-election in Iran as well as some behavior that just violates basic international norms.Obama said a time frame was established and there will be an evaluation of Iran's posture toward negotiating a halt to their nuclear weapons program at the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh in September.The international community has said here's a door you can walk though which allows you to lessen tensions and more fully join the international community,the president said.If Iran chooses not to walk though that door then you have on record the G-8 to begin with, but I think potentially a lot of other countries that are going to say we need to take further steps.G-8 leaders agreed to work toward a 50 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions worldwide by 2050, with a global for developed countries of 80 percent, hoping to limit the rise in global temperatures to no more than 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit. But this was a non-binding goal.We still have much work ahead on climate change. But these achievements are highly meaningful and they will generate significant momentum as we head into the talks at Copenhagen and beyond,he said referring to the United Nations conference on climate change at the end of the year.Additional work was done on nuclear non-proliferation, the global health of the economy, and food aid and safety.After weeks of preparation, and three days of candid and spirited discussions, we've agreed to take significant measures to address some of the most pressing threats facing our environment, our global economy, and our international security, Obama said.We did not reach agreement on every issue.Despite touting modest successes after three days of meetings, Obama allowed that he feels ambivalent toward these large summits and thinks that their shape will evolve over the next several years. The one thing I will be looking forward to is fewer summit meetings. Because as you said, I've only been in office six months now and there're been a lot of these, and I think that there is a possibility of streamlining them and making them more effective,he said.Obama is the host of the next major international summit -- the follow up meeting on the global economic crisis with the G-20 nations in Pittsburgh in September.He acknowledged that it is difficult to determine who to include in these global summits and that every nation wants a seat at an exclusive table. One point that I did make in the meeting is that what I've noticed is that everybody wants the smallest possible group, smallest possible organization that includes them, he said. So if they're the 21st largest nation in the world then they want the G-21 --and think it's highly unfair if they've been cut out.

Obama Finishes Trip In Ghana, First Trip To Sub-Saharan Africa As President
Ghana is the final stop on Obama's six-day trip. There, he will meet with newly-elected President John Atta Mills and deliver a speech to members of Parliament. The president and first lady will visit a hospital in Accra that focuses on maternal and child health care and, weather permitting, are scheduled to take a helicopter to tour the Cape Coast Castle, an old slave fort where hundreds of thousands of Africans were held before being put on slave ships.White House officials said the Ghana stop is meant to show that Africa is not a separate sphere but key part of the administration's overall foreign policy. The White House chose Ghana over other African nations, including Kenya, where Obama's father was from, in order to showcase a successful African democracy. Ghana has held peaceful democratic elections, including Mills' election earlier this year.Ghanaians are eagerly awaiting Obama's visit, but there is some grumbling that the trip is too short and the president is not holding a large public event in Accra, like former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush did on trips to Ghana.I do not believe that there is a way in which we could ever fulfill or assuage the desires of those in Ghana or on the continent on one stop with a public stop,said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.There will be a departure ceremony at the airport in Accra for thousands of invited guests, but it is not open to the public.ABC News' Jon Garcia and Phoebe Natanson contributed to this report.

Date of Barroso vote could be decided next week
HONOR MAHONY Today JULY 10,09 @ 09:12 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - MEPs may next week decide when they will vote on Jose Manuel Barroso's bid for a second term as European Commission president.The political leaders of the groups in the European Parliament will meet once more before the summer break to set a preliminary agenda for the September plenary session.EU member states are keen to have the vote take place as quickly as possible and have slated 15 September as a possible date, after their efforts to get a July parliament vote on Mr Barroso were thwarted by a coalition of the Socialists, Liberals, Greens and far-left.

Many of the MEPs in the these groups consider Mr Barroso to be too economically liberal and too inactive in the face of the global financial crisis. They argued that a July vote would not have given them enough time to thoroughly discuss his policy intentions for the second term.In order to remove a key technical argument of the anti-Barroso camp, national governments on Thursday formally nominated Mr Barroso, a Portuguese centre-right politician, to become European Commission president for a further five years.Prior to that he had only political backing from EU leaders, allowing MEPs to say they could not discuss a candidate that did not formally exist.

The socialists are key

The key question is whether the vote will take place in September or be delayed further until October, when the result of Ireland's referendum on the Lisbon Treaty is known.The position of the Socialists will be crucial at next week's meeting, with the largest group in the parliament, the centre-right EPP, in favour of a September vote.So far, the Socialists have played their cards close to their chest. At yesterday's meeting of political leaders in the parliament, only the Greens and the eurosceptic Europe of Freedom and Democracy Group mooted an October vote. The Socialists did not take the floor on the issue.An October vote would likely lessen Mr Barroso's chances of getting the post as a series of other jobs may also be up for grabs by then, depending on the Irish result. Mr Barroso's bid may get submerged by an overall deal on posts decided according to political affiliation, geography and nationality.It is also opposed by Sweden, the EU presidency country, which fears the bloc will be distracted from real policy issues as it haggles over posts, names and job descriptions.

Commissioner hearings

The parliament's political leaders also agreed to have hearings in September for all the recent new commissioners, including from Poland, Belgium and Lithuania.This will be a light procedure, a parliament official said, as the commission's term is due to end in October and is more about upholding the principle that member states cannot send commissioners to Brussels without having them scrutinised by MEPs.

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

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

Frost has never been reported before in July Watts Up With That? Thursday, July 9, 2009 Prince Edward Island – yellow in the inset Frost in July hits P.E.I. from CBC News

Temperatures dropped to a record low in Prince Edward Island overnight Tuesday, with reports of frost throughout the province.An official record low of 3.8 C was set early Wednesday morning at Charlottetown airport.The previous record for that date was 5.1 C, set in 2005.Bob Robichaud, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, said that to his knowledge, frost has never been reported before in July in P.E.I.That 3.8 we got last night kind of sticks out as being lower than some of the other records for anytime in early July,Robichaud told CBC News on Wednesday.So we’re looking at a significant event,he said.Environment Canada has issued a frost risk warning in low-lying areas of the province for Wednesday night. The temperature is expected to dip to 4 C.The forecast for Thursday, however, calls for sunny skies and a temperature of 22 C for the province.

El Nino conditions return to affect weather By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer – Thu Jul 9, 11:24 am ET

WASHINGTON – El Nino is back.Government scientists said Thursday that the periodic warming of water in the tropical Pacific Ocean, which can affect weather around the world, has returned.The Pacific had been in what is called a neutral state, but forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration say the sea surface temperature climbed to 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit above normal along a narrow band in the eastern equatorial Pacific in June.In addition, NOAA's Climate Prediction Center said temperatures in other tropical regions are also above normal, with warmer than usual readings as much as 975 feet below the ocean surface.In general, El Nino conditions are associated with increased rainfall across the east-central and eastern Pacific and with drier than normal conditions over northern Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines.A summer El Nino can lead to wetter than normal conditions in the intermountain regions of the United States and over central Chile. In an El Nino year there tend to be more Eastern Pacific hurricanes and fewer Atlantic hurricanes.The forecasters said they expect this El Nino to continue strengthening over the next few months and to last through the winter of 2009-2010.Advanced climate science allows us to alert industries, governments and emergency managers about the weather conditions El Nino may bring so these can be factored into decision-making and ultimately protect life, property and the economy,NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco said in a statement.

NOAA officials noted that not all El Nino effects are negative. For example, it can suppress Atlantic hurricanes and bring needed moisture to the arid Southwest.But it can also steer damaging winter storms to California and increase storminess across the southern United States.The warming of the ocean can also lead to a reduction in the seafood catch off the West Coast, and fewer fish can also impact food sources for several types of birds and marine mammals.A recent study by researchers at Georgia Tech suggests there may actually be two forms of El Nino, depending on whether the warming is stronger in the eastern or central pacific.While the current warming seems to be strongest in the east, the more traditional form, government forecasters did not categorize it.If the Georgia Tech study is correct, this would be the type of El Nino that reduces hurricanes in the Atlantic and Caribbean. The other form, centered farther west, reportedly seems to promote Atlantic storms.On the Net:NOAA: http://www.noaa.gov

Mysterious tremors detected on San Andreas Fault By ALICIA CHANG, AP Science Writer – Thu Jul 9, 2:01 pm ET

LOS ANGELES – Scientists have detected a spike in underground rumblings on a section of California's San Andreas Fault that produced a magnitude-7.8 earthquake in 1857.

What these mysterious vibrations say about future earthquakes is far from certain. But some think the deep tremors suggest underground stress may be building up faster than expected and may indicate an increased risk of a major temblor.Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, monitored seismic activity on the fault's central section between July 2001 and February 2009 and recorded more than 2,000 tremors. The tremors lasted mere minutes to nearly half an hour.Unlike earthquakes, tremors occur deeper below the surface and the shaking lasts longer.During the study period, two strong earthquakes hit — a magnitude-6.5 in 2003 and a magnitude-6.0 a year later. Scientists noticed the frequency of the tremors doubled after the 2003 quake and jumped six-fold after 2004.Tremor episodes persist today. Though the frequency of tremors have declined since 2004, scientists are still concerned because they are still at a level that is twice as high as before the 2003 quake.The team also recorded unusually strong rumblings days before the 2004 temblor.Results of the research appear in Friday's issue of the journal Science. The work was funded by the U.S. Geological Survey and National Science Foundation.The fact that the tremors haven't gone down means the time to the next earthquake may come sooner, said Berkeley seismologist and lead researcher Robert Nadeau.Nadeau first discovered tremors deep in the San Andreas Fault in 2005. Before that, the phenomenon was thought only to occur in Earth's subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives beneath another.USGS seismologist Susan Hough found the latest observations intriguing, but said it's too soon to know what they mean.We don't have enough data to know what the fault is doing in the long term,said Hough, who had no part in the research.On the Net:Science: http://www.sciencemag.org U.S. Geological Survey: http://www.usgs.gov

RON PAUL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnx6a5mlM9M&feature=player_embedded

Ron Paul On Fed Audit: We Will Not Be Stopped
Paul Joseph Watson PrisonPlanet.com Thursday, July 9, 2009

Congressman Ron Paul has vowed that he will not be stopped in his effort to audit the Federal Reserve, as he slammed Senate authorities for blocking the bill earlier this week.Appearing on Fox News’ Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano Paul referred to Senate authorities blocking Jim DeMint’s attempt to attach the legislation, which already has 250 co-sponsors in the House, as a provision to a spending bill as a facade.The amendment was blocked by Senate authorities on Monday after they claimed that it violated rules for provisions attached to spending bills.Technicalities are always ignored for things they want – this means they don’t want it and this is their organized effort now to stop us, but we’re not going to be stopped, it’s just going to energize everybody at the grass roots,said the Congressman.Paul said that it made no sense to give the Fed more power when they had already created the bubble that led to the economic collapse in the first place. The Obama administration’s new regulatory reform plan, which will officially hand the Federal Reserve complete dictatorial control over the U.S. economy, will give the Fed the authority to regulate and shut down any company whose activity it believes could threaten the economy and the markets.

Asked what the powers that be were afraid of should the Fed be audited, Paul listed a number of issues that would be brought to light with increased transparency.I think the biggest thing is the cronyism, who got the benefits, who really got some of these Federal Reserve funds as well as TARP funds, and I don’t think they want people to know about it,said Paul, adding, I’d like to know what they’re doing internationally, what kind of agreements they have with international banks, with other governments, and also what they do in the gold market – how they manipulate the value of the dollar by manipulating gold prices.As we have previously highlighted, the Fed has refused to disclose where trillions in bailout funds have gone despite a lawsuit filed by Bloomberg.Paul explained that nobody knows exactly what would be uncovered but that was the whole point of having an audit in the first place.The Congressman concluded that the Washington elite would do everything in their power to dig their heels in and prevent the bill from passing, because it represents the first major step in abolishing the Federal Reserve altogether.When we discover what’s really going on, I think the American people are going to demand the next step, they’re going to demand honest money – it’s happened many times in history,added Paul.

MURDER

GENESIS 4:8-11 (THE FIRST MURDER)
8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
11 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;

GENESIS 6:11-13 (EARTH DESTROYED BECAUSE OF TERRORISM,MURDERS)
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

EXODUS 20:13
13 Thou shalt not kill.(Murder)

REVELATION 9:20-21
20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils,(OCCULT) and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries,(DRUG ADDICTIONS) nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)

LUKE 21:25
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(OZONE DEPLETION) and in the moon,(FIRST MAN ON MOON) and in the stars;(JUPITER BOMBARDED ETC) and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;
26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Obama Administration Resumes Funding of China’s Eugenics Programs
Jurriaan Maessen Infowars July 9, 2009

After the Bush administration in 2001 decided to cut US government funding for the United Nations Population Fund’s China program, the Obama administration is now planning to fill the pockets of the United Nations Population Fund with fresh federal funds once again. Even though recent investigations exposed the UNFPA’s intimate involvement in China’s coercive birth control policies, the new administration apparently cares not, as it allocated $50 million to the eugenicists.The Obama administration has demonstrated an alarming ideological bent in favour of groups like the UNFPA and Planned Parenthood.Only days after his inauguration, President Barack Obama announced he would resume funding for the UNFPA and its family planning activities in China and elsewhere around the globe. State Department spokesman Robert Wood explained the allocation with the following argumentation:The United States is a global leader in promoting voluntary family planning and the health of vulnerable women and children in the developing world.As it turns out, the concept of voluntarism is not easily reconcilable with the Chinese government’s aim of reducing its population. On July 7th, LifeSiteNews.Com reported that UNFPA’s claim that it played a catalytic role in introducing a voluntary reproductive health approach in China is patently false. Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute, explained the policies by the Chinese government- partially funded by the UNFPA:Women continue to be arrested for the crime of being pregnant. They continue to be forcibly aborted. Minorities continue to be targeted. The handicapped are forbidden children. These violations of human rights are occurring right under the UNFPA‘s nose. It is ludicrous to suggest that the UN population controllers do not know about them.These facts are in stark contrast with the claims of the United Nations population control arm, who back in 2001 maintained that reproductive health programs are fully voluntary.The Population Research Institute however travelled to China’s provinces and counties where the UN Population people are active. What they witnessed is heart rendering:

In every village in one UNFPA county, billboard propaganda urges women to help the economy by complying with family planning policies. PRI interviewed dozens of other women and men, all of whom confirmed- without exception- that voluntarism is non-existent in this county where UNFPA operates.Even today, the website of the UNFPA uses the argument of the economic crisis to convince people to cut down on the number of children:In the context of the financial crisis, when resources are limited, investing in family planning is even more attractive – because it is a cost-effective intervention with both short term and long term impact.Based on firsthand observations by the Population Research Institute, to say that the situation is dire would be an understatement:Only about five miles from an UNFPA office- in a county where UNFPA claims that women are free to determine the timing and spacing of their pregnancies- PRI interviewed a young woman who reported that she came under severe pressure to have an abortion. (…) To avoid a forced abortion, this woman fled to a neighbouring town where she went into hiding (…). Unable to locate her, family planning officials attempted to force the woman out of hiding and into an abortion by arresting the woman’s mother, father, brother, sister, and mother- and brother-in-law. They were held in jail for four months. (…) While her relatives were being held in jail, to further increase the pressure on her to have an abortion, their homes were partly destroyed. The attack occurred on April 5, 2000, on the occasion of a major Chinese festival, Qingming. Family planning crews armed with jackhammers attacked this woman’s house, and her brother- and father-in-law’s homes, hammering great holes in the floors, walls, ceilings and roofs of these homes. In addition, they ransacked the homes.UNFPA’s response? In their Draft country programme document for China in 2005, the organisation states that UNFPA will continue to use the results of the systematic monitoring, evaluation and research of its operational project sites to work with key partners to facilitate and advocate programme changes.
Furthermore, the draft explains that: UNFPA and the Government will build on previous experiences in the area of reproductive health in China, including those of partners such as the World Health Organisation, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) and The Ford Foundation.Who could these family planning crews be exactly, as described by the Population Research Institute as thugs looking for pregnant women to intimidate? The UNFPA states that: The UNFPA country office consists of a representative, two national programme officers, two junior professional officers, and national programme and support staff. National project personnel may be recruited to strengthen programme implementation.Reproductive health: the ultimate euphemism. Just like ‘family planning’ (who will do the planning) and cost-effective intervention. These are cold words from cold organisations dedicated to reducing the world’s population, the sooner the better.Documenting these atrocities in great detail within a 2001 report by the Population Research Institute forced the Bush administration to withdraw their support and funding for the UNFPA indefinitely. Despite the alarming reports however, the current administration has shaken the money tree once again, providing the UNFPA with the necessary funding to continue their dubious undertakings in the People’s Republic of China. PRI’s lead investigator Colin Mason:The Obama administration has demonstrated an alarming ideological bent in favour of groups like the UNFPA and Planned Parenthood, groups that have been repeatedly shown a laissez-faire attitude toward human rights and national and international laws.We believe that the evidence is conclusive’, stated the PRI-spokesman.The UNFPA, contrary to its own statements, is participating in the management and support of a program of forced abortion and forced sterilization in China, and should therefore be ineligible for US funds.The Obama administration nevertheless says: so what?- while pouring American taxpayer’s money straight into China’s eugenics programs. Source:http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/jul/09070709.html
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/mar/09032712.html
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2001/oct/011005c.html

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Eugenicist
Kurt Nimmo Infowars July 9, 2009
http://www.infowars.com/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-eugenicist/

In a revealing interview with the New York Times, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says abortion should be used to control useless eaters and unwanted populations.
Ginsberg: Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.She does not say it like that, but she might as well have.Asked out reproductive choice — that is, the choice to kill a fetus — Ginsburg said the Supreme Court ruling on Medicaid surprised her. In 1980 the court upheld the Hyde Amendment, which forbids the use of Medicaid for abortions.Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of,said the Justice (emphasis added).In other words, Ginsberg says abortion is a eugenics tool designed to weed out the undesirable and useless eaters, to specifically control the number of people the ruling elite don’t want to have too many of, i.e., the poor and specifically people of color.

Those least fit to carry on the race are increasing most rapidly, declared Margaret Sanger, a member of both the American Eugenics Society and the English Eugenics Society and founder of Planned Parenthood. Funds that should be used to raise the standard of our civilization are diverted to maintenance of those who should never have been born.Sanger was a follower of Francis Galton, the humanist who believed that inferior races and people should cease to breed or be considered enemies of the State and exterminated. The American and British Eugenics Societies were founded on Galton’s writings. Sanger became a member of the American Eugenics Society in 1930, and a member of the International Congress of Eugenics in 1932.Elmer Carter, an editor of Sanger’s The Birth Control Review, wrote in 1932 about the Negro Problem. He said that the race problem in America is infinitely aggravated by the presence of too many unhappy born, sub-normals, morons, and imbeciles of both races. Therefore, those fighting for birth control must take eugenics into consideration.Roe v. Wade was instituted primarily for eugenics, as James R. Weddington admitted in 1992. Weddington was one of the co-counsels for Roe v. Wade. But you can start immediately to eliminate the barely educated, unhealthy and poor segment of our country, Weddington wrote to then president Clinton. Even if we make birth control as ubiquitous as sneakers and junk food, there will still be unplanned pregnancies and the need for abortion.In May, the London Times reported on the gathering of a secret billionaire club in New York. Attendees included David Rockefeller, Ted Turner, Bill Gates and others who are obsessed with how their wealth could be used to slow the growth of the world’s population,in other words culling the useless eaters.The notion that these elitists merely want to slow population growth in order to improve health is a complete misnomer,writes Paul Joseph Watson.Slowing the growth of the world’s population while also improving its health are two irreconcilable concepts to the elite. Stabilizing world population is a natural byproduct of higher living standards, as has been proven by the stabilization of the white population in the west. Elitists like David Rockefeller have no interest in slowing the growth of world population by natural methods, their agenda is firmly rooted in the pseudo-science of eugenics, which is all about culling the surplus population via draconian methods.

In his film Endgame, Alex Jones documents how David Rockefeller’s father, John D. Rockefeller, exported eugenics to Germany from its origins in Britain by bankrolling the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute which later would form a central pillar in the Third Reich’s ideology of the Nazi super race. After the fall of the Nazis, top German eugenicists were protected by the allies as the victorious parties fought over who would enjoy their expertise in the post-war world (see The Ruling Elite’s Agenda for Global Population Reduction).In the 1950s, the Rockefellers reorganized the U.S. eugenics movement in their own family offices, with spinoff population-control and abortion groups,explains Dr. Len Horowitz.With support from the Rockefellers, the Eugenics Society (England) set up a sub-committee called the International Planned Parenthood Federation, which for 12 years had no other address than the Eugenics Society. This, then, is the private, international apparatus which has set the world up for a global holocaust, under the UN flag.Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, so her opinion about culling the useless eaters is understandable.The eugenicist David Rockefeller, after all, founded the CFR.

POLICE STATE, USA NAACP to governor: Declare martial law
It's time for some real action July 08, 2009 9:52 pm Eastern
By Chelsea Schilling 2009 WorldNetDaily

An NAACP official has demanded the governor of Pennsylvania call out the National Guard, suspend civil liberties and impose martial law to deal with a recent wave of shootings. Stanley Lawson, president of the Harrisburg Chapter of the NAACP, urged Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell deploy the National Guard for at least one month and enforce a curfew after more than a dozen shootings rocked the city, according to the Patriot News.Many of the shots were fired during daylight hours, and one man was killed at a busy intersection in the middle of the afternoon June 24. The Guard is for floods and natural disasters. I don't know any more of a natural disaster than of our young people being killed,he said at a June meeting at Capitol Presbyterian Church.It's time for some real action,he said.Right now the important thing is to stop this madness.We're beyond what the Harrisburg police department can do. We need help,Lawson said.Read Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against An Out - of - Control Government: Inspired by Thomas Paine.According to the report, Lawson referenced the 1968 race riots following the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King in Memphis, Tenn. And the subsequent deployment of National Guard troops. Rather than drugs, robberies and gang activity, Lawson said the shootings were most likely due to fear.The young men, it's fear, it's just fear,he said.They think: I'm going to get them before they get me.But Gov. Rendell's office told WND calling out the National Guard and imposing martial law – a system where military rule overrides civil law in times of war or emergency – is not an option.That action is not currently on the table,said spokesman Chuck Ardo. The governor has ordered the state police to increase patrols in the City of Harrisburg and to work with the city police in whatever way they deem necessary.

Harrisburg Chapter NAACP President Stanley Lawson did not respond to WND's requests for follow-up and comment about the governor's refusal to impose martial law.In addition to bringing in support from state police, the city stepped up law enforcement presence, and the mayor asked officers to work overtime. Members of the Guardian Angels,unarmed civilians trained in self-defense, came from York to help Harrisburg residents create their own civilian force, the Patriot News reported.

Police officers have also rounded up many citizens with outstanding warrants.

Ardo told WND conditions have improved since Lawson initially requested a National Guard presence but that part of the problem lies in the number of firearms on the streets.The situation seems to be much more calm at the moment,he said.Given the number of guns on the streets and violence that seems to follow, there are continued concerns.Attorney Stanley Mitchell told the Patriot News that the local NAACP chapter is asking for a short suspension of some civil rights, but he added: We have the civil rights not to be shot.

LAW OF THE LAND IRS tells pro-lifers to give up 1st Amendment,Requires affirmation they will not protest Posted: July 09, 2009 12:00 am Eastern 2009 WorldNetDaily

The Internal Revenue Service has told members of the Coalition for Life of Iowa they would have to give up their 1st Amendment rights in order to be recognized as a non-profit organization, according to a complaint being pursued by members of the Thomas More Society.The organization incorporated in 2004 as a not-for-profit under Iowa law and has been operating strictly within the guidelines for groups set up for religious, educational and charitable purposes, a letter sent to the IRS last week said.As detailed in its … narrative, the Coalition for Life carries out its tax-exempt work by sponsoring educational forums and coordinating with other like-minded groups to educate the public and otherwise promote sanctity of life principles,the letter continues.The Coalition is aware that from time to time, individuals who may or may not be involved with the Coalition gather for prayer outside of a Planned Parenthood facility. These gatherings are consistently small (ten or fewer people), peaceful, not in any way disrupting, and consist solely of silent and spoken prayers, the lawyer wrote.

However, an IRS agent then contacted the Coalition, through its president Susan Martinek, demanding to know whether the group engaged in any picketing or protest activities at Planned Parenthood. … You then asked Ms. Martinek to have all Coalition Board members sign a statement that the Coalition will not picket or protest outside of Planned Parenthood or similar organizations and will not 'organize' others to do so,the law firm's letter said. Concerned over the sudden restrictions on free speech, freedom of association and freedom of religion rights, the Coalition contact legal counsel, and attorney Sally Wagenmaker said she contacted the IRS about the issue. You expressed the legally erroneous view that the Coalition is not allowed per se to engage in advocacy as a section 501(c)(3) organization,the attorney said. The IRS' requests come perilously close to violating the First Amendment constitutional rights of the Coalition's supporters, and they are not otherwise germane to the Coalition for Life's pending ... application. As you acknowledged verbally to me over the telephone, the Coalition's application is now ripe for approval. The IRS's delay and questioning … constitutes unnecessary and prejudicial interference with the Coalition's legal right to a tax-exempt determination.This is the way government oppression creeps into a society,said Judie Brown, president of American Life League. It starts when the government targets, and attempts to intimidate and silence the grassroots dissenters who will not dance to the tune of the Obama administration’s radically pro-abortion policies.This is not only political intimidation by the Internal Revenue Service but it is a blatant violation of First Amendment rights, Brown said.Neither the Coalition for Life of Iowa nor any other educational and advocacy organization should be subjected to such discriminatory scrutiny. This is a clear case of government repression.

NOW MAYBE THE TRUTH IS COMING OUT,MAYBE THE LAB SWINE FLU MIGHT HAVE A TOUCH OF EBOLA MIXED WITH IT BY THE EUGENICISTS TO KILL US ALL OFF.

Ebola found in Philippine pigs for first time Thu Jul 9, 2:01 pm ET

WASHINGTON – A form of ebola virus has been detected in pigs for the first time, raising concerns it could mutate and threaten humans, scientists report.Reston ebolavirus has only been seen in monkeys and humans previously and, unlike other types of ebola, it is not known to cause illness in people.The discovery of REBOV in pigs in the Philippines is reported in Friday's edition of the journal Science.

Researchers say it is theoretically possible for the virus to mutate in pigs into a form that might sicken people.However, they noted that while some of the farm workers tending the pigs also had become infected, they showed no signs of illness.On the Net:
Science: http://sciencemag.org

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM

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

HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS FRI JULY 10,2009

09:30 AM -5.24
10:00 AM -37.86
10:30 AM -27.81
11:00 AM -40.81
11:30 AM -78.74
12:00 PM -73.68
12:30 PM -61.52
01:00 PM -51.54
01:30 PM -51.99
02:00 PM -43.53
02:30 PM -67.34
03:00 PM -64.62
03:30 PM -56.45
04:00 PM -36.65 8146.52

S&P 500 879.13 -3.55

NASDAQ 1756.03 +3.48

GOLD 912.40 -3.80

OIL 59.89 -0.52

TSE 300 9749.85 -24.07

CDNX 1045.55 +2.73

S&P/TSX/60 590.24 -1.96

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -6.76%
S&P -2.28%
Nasdaq +11.13%
TSX Advances 936,declines 549,unchanged 257,Volume 1,980,160,844.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 386,Declines 325,Unchanged 364,Volume 157,457,502.

Dow -52 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -89 points at low today.
Dow +1 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $909.90.OIL opens at $59.20 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -89 points at low today so far.
Dow +1 points at high today so far.

DAY TODAY PERFORMANCE - 12:30PM STATS
NYSE Advances 1,188,declines 2,296,unchanged 105,New Highs 12,New Lows 52.
Volume 2,182,316,789.
NASDAQ Advances 1,006,declines 1,471,unchanged 117,New highs 4,New Lows 28.
Volume 812,563,726.
TSX Advances 462,declines 785,unchanged 262,Volume 863,071,421.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 218,Declines 285,Unchanged 306,Volume 71,004,061.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -89 points at low today.
Dow +1 points at high today.
Dow -0.45% today Volume 174,215,672.
Nasdaq +0.20% today Volume 1,567,146,252.
S&P 500 -0.40% today Volume N/A

RECORD LOWS DOW
-Sept 30,1996 5,882.17
-Oct 30,1996 5,993.23
-Nov 6,1996 6,177.71
-Dec 16,1996 6,268.35
-Apr 15,1997 6,587.16
-Apr 21,1997 6,660.21
-Apr 28,1997 6,783.02
-May 1,1997 6,976.48
-May 7,1997 7,085.65

RECORD LOWS S&P 500
-Sept 5,1996 649.44
-Sept 6,1996 655.68
-Sept 11,1996 667.28
-Sept 12,1996 671.13
-Oct 1,1996 689.08
-Oct 28,1996 697.26
-Nov 4,1996 706.73
-Nov 5,1996 714.14
-Dec 17,1996 726.04

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE,WEEKENDER
Dow -7.18%
S&P -2.67%
Nasdaq +11.35%
CANADA WEEKEND STATS
TSX Advances 676,declines 737,unchanged 315,Volume 1,498,194,048.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 329,Declines 369,Unchanged 387,Volume 166,464,677.

GEITHER WORKS FOR GOLDMAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcQJSFJKvy0&feature=player_embedded
DID NANO THERMITE TAKE DOWN WTC
http://www.prisonplanet.com/did-nano-thermite-take-down-the-wtc.html
IN MIDST OF 2007-2017 STAGNATION
http://www.prisonplanet.com/we-are-in-the-midst-of-the-great-baby-boomers-economic-stagnation-of-2007-2017.html
HOLDER NO EQUALITY UNDER HATE BILL
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CLIMATE TOUGH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN8DRrW0nJ8&feature=player_embedded
GM
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1177885583&play=1
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1177968729&play=1
EITHNER TESTAMONY
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1177803576&play=1

Geithner says derivatives blindsided the gov't By ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press Writer JULY 10,09

WASHINGTON – The huge amount of money tied up in complex derivative transactions helped cripple the economy, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told lawmakers Friday as he laid out a case for greater government control over a generally unregulated sector of the financial markets.Establishing a comprehensive framework of oversight is crucial,Geithner said in his opening remarks to a joint hearing by the House agriculture and financial services committees.Despite apprehension among Republicans, the effort to add government restrictions to these more freewheeling financial instruments has gained support within the Democratic-controlled Congress.Clearly, we're going to be significantly expanding regulation of derivatives, said Rep. Barney Frank, the chairman of the Financial Services Committee.Derivatives are financial instruments whose value derives from something else, such as a mortgage-backed security or a commodity like oil. The allure of the over-the-counter derivative, as opposed to those swapped on exchanges, is that it can be individually negotiated and tailored to meet the specific needs of the buyer.Geithner said the ease with which derivatives were bought and sold in an era of easy credit encouraged financial institutions and investors to take on too much risk. At the same time, government regulators weren't given the proper tools to mitigate those risks and protect the American consumer, he said.The complexity of the instruments overwhelmed the checks and balances of risk management and supervision,he said.The administration's proposal, part of a broader overhaul package, has run up against much of the financial industry, which says it would raise costs and squash innovation.

Some lawmakers and federal regulators say they are skeptical, too.

My fear is that the administration is going down the path of shifting risk not to the investors and the dealers, but ultimately to the taxpayers,said Rep. Spencer Bachus of Alabama, the top Republican on the Financial Services committee.Under the administration's broader plan, which requires Congress' blessing, the Federal Reserve would be put in charge of keeping large, influential institutions in check. A new consumer protection agency also would be created.Additionally, Obama wants to regulate for the first time derivatives that are being privately traded over the counter,or away from an exchange.The influence that derivatives can have on the financial sector was most evident when American International Group Inc. sold so-called credit-default swaps to protect investors against potential losses on mortgage-backed securities. When the housing market collapsed, AIG was unable to make good on its promises and took a $182 billion government bailout to keep from collapsing.But Geithner said many investors used the instruments to evade regulation, exploit regulatory loopholes or minimize taxes.Over-the-counter derivatives grew explosively in the past decade, with the face value of outstanding transactions rising sixfold to almost $700 trillion in 2008, he added.

Rich leaders pledge money while EU looks to cut aid budget
ANDREW WILLIS Today JULY 10,09 @ 17:34 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – Leaders from the Group of Eight industrialised countries agreed to donate $20 billion (€14.3bn) to developing countries on Friday (10 July), $5billion (€3.6bn) more than was originally anticipated. The money will fund a three-year initiative to help poorer countries develop their agriculture.We believe that the purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it's no longer needed, to help people become self-sufficient,said US president Barack Obama after the meeting.

European commission president Jose Manuel Barroso called the decision a clear commitment to food security.The G8 countries are Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, with Spain also attending this time round.The EU institutions are represented by the European commission president and the leader of the member state that holds the EU's six-month rotating presidency.Many development NGOs issued a guarded welcome to the news.The G8 and other leaders upped their game today by committing $20 billion for agriculture assistance. Much of this funding is recycled, but the new money makes a downpayment on eliminating hunger,Oxfam's senior policy advisor Gawain Kripke said in a statement.
With a billion people facing hunger, more new money is still needed,he added.

Controversial claw-backs

Hours earlier on Friday, a meeting of EU finance ministers in Brussels decided to cut roughly €80 million in external aid from a draft EU 2010 budget that was proposed by the European commission in April.The total budget cuts - that cannot be formally approved until the end of this year - exceed €600 million, as member state governments become increasingly concerned over rising budget deficits. Another controversial area where member states are seeking to claw back money is the growth and employment measures budgetary category, with €100million of cuts proposed. If agreed, the cuts will reduce the amount of money member states have to pay into the EU's budget for 2010.We feel it sends a negative message in the priority areas of growth and jobs and in the EU's role on the international stage, particularly during an economic crisis,the European commission's spokeswoman for the EU budget, Cristina Arigho, told EUobserver.She added that the decision to cut all the payment for the emergency aid reserve: only reduces our capacity to react quickly if a crisis situation appears.

Commission to win out?

The commission administers the EU's budget, with the vast majority on money going towards development projects in the bloc's poorer regions and agriculture.Mr Hans Li Dblad, state secretary at the Swedish finance ministry, told journalists after the meeting of finance ministers that he was happy with the outcome, saying it struck: a balance between targeted cuts in some areas and financing political priorities.
However commission officials are confident the final budget for 2010 will be close to their original proposal, as has been the case in previous years despite member state attempts to cut back spending.In a sign of the low importance finance ministers attached to Friday's meeting, less than half decided to turn up, with the lack of a quorum leaving agriculture ministers to sign-off on the conclusions next week. The 2010 budget – likely to be in the region of €140 billion - will be the first time that member states which joined the union in 2004 or later will receive over 50 percent of the EU's cohesion and structural funds.This year the twelve relative newcomers will receive 50 percent of the funds, rising to 52 percent next year.

Fake goods seized at EU borders up 125%
LUCIA KUBOSOVA Today JULY 10,09 @ 09:26 CET

EU authorities more than doubled their seizure of fake products smuggled into the 27-strong bloc at its external borders last year, with pirate CDs, cigarettes and clothes, mainly from China, dominating the list.According to statistics published by the European Commission on Thursday (9 July), national customs officers are increasingly recognizing and detaining counterfeit products, in co-operation with industry.In 2008, some 178 million items were seized compared to 79 million in 2007, up 125 percent. There was a 13 percent increase in products registered as breaking intellectual property rights - over 49,000 cases compared to 43,000 in 2007. European producers themselves filed some 13,000 applications to request customs interventions, this way enforcing 80 percent of all investigations.The pirate list has been for years dominated by the same kinds of products and last year's figures confirmed the existing trends : DVDs and CDs were the most prevalent fake goods, with 79 million disks detained, 44 percent of all items, followed by cigarettes (23%) and clothing (10%).Meanwhile, the highest increases in terms of actual cases of IPR infringement were registered with toys (up 136%), electrical equipment (58%), medicines (57%) and personal care products (42%).Geographically, over half of the fake goods confiscated at EU borders came from China. The European Commission said that a significant part of the confiscated products was potentially dangerous for European consumers.While most fake medicines came from India, Indonesia was the biggest source of forged food and drink products and the United Arab Emirates was the key point of origin for counterfeit cigarettes.

Despite Obama's pledge, G-8 makes little headway on global warming,The president promises at the Italy G-8 summit that the U.S. will lead on climate change, but familiar obstacles -- compounded by the global recession -- produce familiar results.By Jim Tankersley and Christi Parsons July 10, 2009

Reporting from Washington and L'Aquila, Italy -- Addressing leaders of the world's most important economies early Thursday, President Obama wasted no time in proclaiming a new day for U.S. policy on climate change.I know that in the past, the United States has sometimes fallen short of meeting our responsibilities, he said.So let me be clear: Those days are over.But by the end of the day, when the Group of 8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, wrapped up its deliberations on climate, Obama found himself stymied by many of the same roadblocks that plagued previous efforts to tackle global warming.Leaders of the most developed nations again declined to commit themselves to any specific actions now or in the immediate future to curb the greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming -- actions that would require increasing energy prices, raising taxes or imposing other unpopular economic measures on their people.Instead, they embraced the high-sounding goal of reducing their own emissions by 80% and worldwide emissions by 50% by 2050 -- without pledging to take any specific steps to get there. China, India and other major developing countries, which pressed for action in the next decade by the G-8 countries, reacted by rejecting the package.And a side meeting Obama convened Thursday to bring together the nations most responsible for greenhouse emissions ended with only general pronouncements, and no firm financial commitments, to work against warming and share emissions-curbing technologies in the future.Paying the economic and political costs for effective action against climate change has always been a problem. But it was especially difficult this time because of the global recession, even with a popular new leader such as Obama seeking to forge ahead.

There's always a high expectation for what the U.S. can deliver, and higher expectations for Obama, because he's Obama,said Jake Schmidt, international climate policy director for the Natural Resources Defense Council.Those are difficult expectations to meet.Schmidt and other activists said that Obama, by bringing the United States to the table on global warming after what they called foot-dragging by the Bush administration, has given new steam to negotiations that will culminate at a United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen in December.The Italy talks represented small but important progress in the debate, they said.The environmental group Greenpeace, by contrast, derided the package as a missed opportunity for more aggressive emissions reductions and a failure of leadership by Obama and the G-8.

Obama convened the 17-nation climate meeting at a giant circular table, inviting fellow leaders to speak openly about their hopes and concerns. Several acknowledged the new leadership from the U.S., administration officials said.The discussions yielded a consensus declaration that the world should try to limit warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial temperatures, a level scientists say would minimize the dangers of the most catastrophic warming effects.
The 17 major emitters -- the most advanced economies that make up the G-8, plus the nine biggest emerging economies -- also agreed to partner in research on energy technologies that would reduce emissions, such as solar power and the capture and storage of carbon from coal.They set broad principles for financing the effort, but did not pledge specific contributions.After the meeting, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd praised the American president for his role in the sessions.Can I say on behalf of so many of us,he told Obama, how welcome it is to see the return of U.S. global leadership on climate change under your presidency.The warm words did not change the fact that, with the global economy racked by recession and even the wealthiest countries struggling with unemployment and other economic pain, considerable obstacles remain for moving against climate change now -- in the United States and elsewhere.Reflecting the challenge on the home front, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), head of the committee drafting the centerpiece of Obama's climate change legislation, announced that she was pulling back from a promise to act swiftly and would not finish work on a bill until at least September.The House last month passed a climate bill that would gradually impose carbon emissions limits and set up a cap and trade system to encourage industries to reduce pollution. Europe has already created such a system.

During the climate talks, Obama aides said, some developing nations asked why they should sacrifice when other countries have caused more of the damage. Analysts said Obama would have more leverage in dealing with such objections from other countries if the Senate approved a climate bill.The president's clear call for action in Italy could help down the road, too, they said.Michael Oppenheimer, a Princeton University geoscientist and longtime participant in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said that the G-8 meeting was a chance for the heads of state to look at each other in the eye and say, Yeah, we agree about this -- and then the word goes down to the negotiators.That kind of signal then reverberates,he said, and then a deal that seems impossible can be done.The climate discussions dominated a day at the G-8 that saw little other action.Leaders did agree to work toward completing a long-stalled global trade agreement, and Obama became the first U.S. president to shake hands with Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi, whose country has won favor in Washington in recent years since he abandoned its nuclear program.jtankersley@latimes.com
cparsons@latimes.com

G-8 to pledge billions for global food initiative By Jason Reed, Reuters JULY 9,09

President Obama and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd talk before a session Thursday at the Group of Eight Summit in L'Aquila, Italy.By Richard Wolf and Ken Dilanian, USA TODAY

L'AQUILA, Italy — President Obama hopes to win billions of dollars in agricultural assistance for developing nations Friday as he leaves an international summit that failed to make major progress on climate change.His next stops: a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI and his first visit as president to sub-Saharan Africa. While the U.S. commitment of more than $3 billion represents double a pledge he made in London earlier this year, it was unclear Thursday whether other major industrial nations in the Group of Eight would be offering additional aid or reiterating old promises. As a result, some advocates for aid to poor countries withheld praise.Obama will take his fight for agricultural aid to the Vatican on Friday and on to Ghana that night, where he will speak about revamping the billions of dollars the West sends to impoverished African nations. The president wants to place more emphasis on helping those countries help themselves through agriculture, technology and improved access to world markets.

Obama previewed his speech in an interview with AllAfrica.com, a news media website. I'm a big believer that Africans are responsible for Africa. I think part of what's hampered advancement in Africa is that for many years we've made excuses,he said, blaming corruption, racism and colonialism. I'm not a believer in excuses.The exact amount of the summit's aid pledges wasn't made public Thursday, but advocates at Oxfam International and ONE, two anti-poverty groups, said it would be about $15 billion.It may end up being something similar to that,National Security Council spokesman Denis McDonough said.On Thursday, the G-8 concluded discussions on climate change with an announcement from Obama and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd of a new institute to research how to capture and store carbon emissions that are heating the globe. The two leaders said the institute will act as a clearinghouse for the best technological ideas.The institute was the highlight of a meeting Obama led of 17 major economic powers largely devoted to environmental challenges. The group did not agree to the G-8's goals for reducing carbon emissions, because Obama and others couldn't convince developing nations such as China and India.We've made a good start, but I'm the first one to acknowledge that progress on this issue will not be easy, said Obama, who views moving away from fossil fuels as another economic challenge facing the U.S.On Africa, Obama's message of self-reliance put him squarely within a debate about foreign aid effectiveness. The dispute has implications for how Obama will steer about $25 billion in aid U.S. taxpayers send to the developing world each year, said Noam Unger, director of the Foreign Assistance Reform project at the Brookings Institution. Obama wants to increase that to $50 billion.Obama hasn't renounced all foreign aid, but in the AllAfrica.com interview, he echoed skeptics when he said that African governments must reduce corruption and improve the business climate. He also said he wants to fix a system in which Western consultants and administrative costs end up gobbling huge percentages.Obama said he was going to Ghana because he wants to highlight its success. The World Bank lists Ghana as one of the best-run countries in Africa.Obama noted that his father's native land, Kenya, had a higher economic output than South Korea when Barack Obama Sr. left for the USA in the early '60s. Kenya remains one of the world's poorest countries, while South Korea is the 32nd richest, measured by income per person.Development experts are heartened by Obama's fluency on the issue, but they are frustrated that, six months into his term, he has yet to fill foreign aid leadership posts at the State Department or the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

It's so ironic that with all the rhetoric … there's no leadership in the administration on development,said Carol Lancaster, a former USAID official under President Clinton who is interim dean at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.Asked to respond, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly pointed to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's remarks this year that Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq would take priority over development assistance, which she also views as important.The new agricultural initiative sought by Obama won praise at the G-8 summit from Kanayo Nwanze, president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development at the United Nations, who called it a major shift that could lead to sustained economic growth.This has not happened before, Nwanze said. The international fund was created in the 1970s after a drought led to widespread famine in sub-Saharan Africa. Since then, it has invested $11 billion and other relief agencies have come up with an additional $17 billion, Nwanze said. That has helped 340million people, a figure that could be doubled by Obama's initiative, he said.Farming represents 30% of Africa's gross domestic product, 40% of export earnings and 80% of jobs, Nwanze said.Anti-poverty groups hailed Obama for raising the issue's profile but said $15 billion wouldn't be enough.It doesn't smell like new money,said Gawain Kripke of Oxfam International.The economic crisis is casting a shadow on donor commitments.Dilanian reported from Washington

African leaders to ask G8 to honor pledges By Randall Palmer and Paolo Biondi – Thu Jul 9, 6:41 pm ET

L'AQUILA, Italy (Reuters) – Africa takes center stage at the Group of Eight summit on Friday, with wealthy nations eager to reassure critics they will honor past aid pledges and approve a new $15 billion agriculture program.After two days of talks focused on the economic crisis, trade and global warming, the final day of the G8 gathering in Italy will concentrate on the problems facing the world's poorest nations.Development of Africa has become an important item on G8 agendas following promises by world leaders at Gleneagles in 2005 to increase annual aid levels by $50 billion by 2010, half of which was meant to go to African countries.However, aid organizations say some capitals have gone back on their word, especially this year's G8 host Italy, and African heads of state said they would voice their concerns.The key message for us is to ask the G8 to live up to their commitments,Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told Reuters this week before flying to Italy for the half-day meeting.The l'Aquila summit has produced chequered results, making only limited progress in crucial climate talks following the refusal by major developing nations to sign up to the goal of halving world greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.There is a bit of frustration because one would like to convince everyone about everything and obtain all the results straight way, but things are progressing,French President Nicolas Sarkozy told reporters on Thursday night.

FARM AID, CODE OF ETHICS

Besides Meles, the leaders of Algeria, Angola, Egypt, Libya, Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa will discuss food security and farming with their G8 counterparts on Friday, and push their demand for compensation for the ravages of climate change.Rich nations are expected to use the meeting to announce spending of $15 billion over three years to boost agricultural investment in poorer countries, according to a draft statement seen by Reuters on Thursday.The text did not make clear whether it was all new funds, nor did it give details of individual countries' contributions, although the United States, Japan and the European Union are expected to step in with around $3 billion each.The focus on agricultural investments reflects a U.S.-led shift away from emergency aid assistance toward longer-term strategies to try to make communities more self-sufficient.But the $15 billion fund over three years compares unfavorably with $13.4 billion which the G8 says it disbursed between January 2008 and July 2009 for global food security.British charity ActionAid warned in a report last week that one billion people went hungry in the world, saying decisions at the G8 gathering could literally make the difference between life and death for millions in the developing world.Japan and the European Union will also champion a code of conduct to promote responsible international investments in agriculture in the face of growing farmland acquisition or land grabs in emerging nations.The summit wraps up at lunch time and will be followed by a flurry of bilateral meetings that stretch long into the day.U.S. President Barack Obama will return to Rome for a meeting with Pope Benedict, who earlier this week called for a re-think of the way the world economy was run.(Writing by Crispian Balmer; editing by Michael Roddy)

Oil hovers near $60 as traders eye company results By ALEX KENNEDY, Associated Press Writer JULY 10,09

SINGAPORE – Oil prices hovered just above $60 a barrel Friday in Asia as investors braced for a slew of company earnings reports next week that will provide clues on the strength of crude demand.Benchmark crude for August delivery was down 9 cents at $60.32 a barrel by midday Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. On Thursday, the contract rose 27 cents to settle at $60.41.Oil has bobbed near $60 a barrel the last two days after dropping from an eight-month intraday high of $73.38 on June 30 on investor concern that a rally since March wasn't justified by weak global crude demand.All the focus in on demand,said Christoffer Moltke-Leth, head of sales trading for Saxo Capital Markets in Singapore.The second quarter earnings season is going to be very important for crude.
If we see disappointments there, people will say we've gone too far, too fast.
Aluminum maker Alcoa Inc., the first Dow Jones industrial average component to release earnings, reported a narrower-than-expected loss.Results over the next few weeks from multinational mass market retailers — such as Colgate Palmolive, PepsiCo, and Johnson & Johnson — will help investors better gauge the strength of the global economy.These companies have a good feel for how demand is around the world,Moltke-Leth said.What they say is going to be important for the near-term outlook for oil.In other Nymex trading, gasoline for August delivery fell 1.13 cents to $1.65 a gallon and heating oil was steady at $1.53. Natural gas for August delivery jumped 2.2 cents to $3.43 per 1,000 cubic feet.In London, Brent prices fell 9 cents to $61.01 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.

Senators attack carbon tax proposals on US imports By Sarah O’Connor in Washington and Alan Beattie in London Last updated: July 8 2009 20:29

Senior Democrat senators said on Wednesday they would change a provision that imposes carbon taxes on imports following warnings that the clause in the House’s cap-and-trade bill could spark a global trade war.The House’s bill contained tough provisions to impose carbon tariffs, aimed at protecting American companies’ competitiveness against imports from countries without equivalent carbon emission controls to those in the US. Senator John Kerry, who is helping to write the senate’s version of the bill, said in a hearing on the issue on Wednesday: We have already come to the conclusion in working on the Senate bill that we’re going to try and change that provision . . . we haven’t landed yet completely on where we come out.Max Baucus, the Democrat senator who chairs the senate finance committee, said any provisions that provoke retaliation from our trading partners will only hurt the same industries we’re trying to help, adding that he was confident we can craft legislation that strikes the right balance.Differences in the two versions of the bill will eventually have to be reconciled before passing into law. President Barack Obama has warned the House’s carbon tariffs plan could send the wrong signal to trading partners. India called the measures pernicious while China said they would violate World Trade Organisation principles and amounted to trade protectionism in the disguise of environmental protection.A recent report from the WTO said that such border tax adjustments could in theory be made consistent with WTO rules, but trade lawyers stress that crafting such laws is likely to be very difficult in practice.

Gary Horlick, a prominent trade attorney in Washington, told the Senate committee on Wednesday that border measures were likely to pose daunting practical problems and retribution against US exports from its trading partners on other environmental grounds.If we re-interpret WTO rules to allow trade barriers based on how things are made, we open up a can of worms and might permit other countries to block our biotech exports, including major items such as corn, soybeans, and other crops,he said.Mr Horlick said that other means of levelling the playing field, such as financial compensation or giving away permits to US companies, were much less likely to invite legal challenge in the WTO. But they could still be regarded as unfair subsidies if they distorted trade, he said.Lawyers stress the difficulty of working out the carbon content of imports to the US – particularly those that have been through multiple countries in a global supply chain – and then calculating the cost added by different carbon control regimes compared with the US system.Despite support from some trade lawyers, the likely legal position of carbon border taxes in the WTO remains murky. There are no unambiguously clear precedents for such measures, and decisions made by WTO arbitration panels do not in any case create binding precedents for future litigation.The Financial Times Limited 2009