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JOHN 3:16-17 (JESUS CAME TO SAVE ALL ON EARTH)
16 For God (FATHER) so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,(KING JESUS)that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son (JESUS) into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
JOHN 1:1-2,14
1 In the beginning was the Word,(JESUS) and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
14 And the Word (JESUS) was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
JOHN 8:44 (SATAN COMES TO KILL,LIE,STEAL,DESTROY)
44 Ye (SINNERS) are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
JOHN 10:10
10 The thief (SATAN)cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I (JESUS)am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
THIS COULD BE A FALSE FLAG OPERATION FOR OBAMA AND HIS RACIST ADMINISTRATION TO BRING ABOUT A RACE WAR AND DECLARE MARTIAL LAW WHEN THE PEOPLE GO AGAINST THE BILLS NO BODY READS BUT FLYS THROUGH THE HOUSE AND SENATE.AND IF THIS DOES NOT WORK OBAMA WILL CONTINUE TO PLAY THE SWINE FLU CARD AS WELL AS FALSE TERROR ATTACKS I BELIEVE.THIS ADMINISTRATION WANTS TO KILL,STEAL AND DESTROY.THESE ARE SATANS CHARACTERISTICS SO IF IT WALKS LIKE A DUCK,QUACKES LIKE A DUCK,THIS ADMINISTRATION IS SATANS PUPPETS FOR SURE.WEB FEETERS IN DISQUISE AS A COOL,CALM ADMINISTRATION AND LEADER.THIS IS A NEW WORLD ORDER EUGENICIST MURDERING ADMINISTRATION TO PUT IT BLUNTLY.OH BUT YOUR A RACIST IF YOU SAY TRUTH,I FORGOT.I SHOULD ADD THE MEDIA IS HELPING THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO PUT OUT THIS RACE HATRED AND BIGOTRY AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE,SO THEY REBELL AND MARTIAL LAW CAN BE INFORCE AND AMERICA GIVIN OVER TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER OFFSHORE BANKER ENVIROMENTAL,NEW AGE OCCULT NUTCASES.
Marc Faber Says America Will Launch More Wars to Distract from Bad Economy
Washington’s Blog August 12, 2009 The claim that America would launch more wars to the help the economy is outrageous, right? Certainly.
But leading economist Marc Faber has repeatedly said that the American government will start new wars in response to the economic crisis:The next thing the government will do to distract the attention of the people on bad economic conditions is they’ll start a war somewhere.If the global economy doesn’t recover, usually people go to war.
Is Faber crazy? Maybe. But top trend forecaster Gerald Celente agrees.As Antiwar’s Justin Raimondo writes: As Gerald Celente, one of the few economic forecasters who predicted the 08 crash, put it the other day, Governments seem to be emboldened by their failures.What the late Gen. William E. Odom trenchantly described as the worst strategic disaster in American military history – the invasion of Iraq – is being followed up by a far larger military operation, one that will burden us for many years to come. This certainly seems like evidence in support of the Celente thesis, and the man who predicted the 1987 stock market crash, the fall of the Soviet Union, the dot-com bust, the gold bull market, the 2001 recession, the real estate bubble, the Panic of 08, and now is talking about the inevitable popping of the bailout bubble,has more bad news:Given the pattern of governments to parlay egregious failures into mega-failures, the classic trend they follow, when all else fails, is to take their nation to war.As the economic crisis escalates and the debt-based central banking system shows it can no longer re-inflate the bubble by creating assets out of thin air, an economic and political rationale for war is easy to come by; for if the Keynesian doctrine that government spending is the only way to lift us out of an economic depression is true, then surely military expenditures are the quickest way to inject life into a failing system. This doesn’t work, economically, since the crisis is only maksed by the wartime atmosphere of emergency and temporary privation. Politically, however, it is a lifesaver for our ruling elite, which is at pains to deflect blame away from itself and on to some foreign target.
It’s the oldest trick in the book, and it’s being played out right before our eyes, as the U.S. prepares to send even more troops to the Afghan front and is threatening Iran with draconian economic sanctions, a step or two away from outright war. A looming economic depression and the horrific prospect of another major war – the worst-case scenario seems to be unfolding, like a recurring nightmare.Forecaster Celente has identified several bubbles, the latest being the bailout bubble, slated to pop at any time, yet there may be another bubble to follow what Celente calls the mother of all bubbles,one that will implode with a resounding crash heard ’round the world – the bubble of empire. Our current foreign policy of global hegemonism and unbridled aggression is simply not sustainable, not when we are on the verge of becoming what we used to call a Third World country, one that is bankrupt and faces the prospect of a radical lowering of living standards. Unless, of course, the crisis atmosphere can be sustained almost indefinitely.George W. Bush had 9/11 to fall back on, but that song is getting older every time they play it. Our new president needs to come up with an equivalent, one that will divert our attention away from Goldman Sachs and toward some overseas enemy who is somehow to be held responsible for our present predicament. It is said that FDR’s New Deal didn’t get us out of the Great Depression, but World War II did. The truth is that, in wartime, when people are expected to sacrifice for the duration of the emergency,economic problems are anesthetized out of existence by liberal doses of nationalist chest-beating and moral righteousness. Shortages and plunging living standards were masked by a wartime rationing system and greatly lowered expectations. And just as World War II inured us to the economic ravages wrought by our thieving elites, so World War III will provide plenty of cover for a virtual takeover of all industry by the government and the demonization of all political opposition as terrorist.An impossible science-fictional scenario? Or a reasonable projection of present trends? Celente, whose record of predictions is impressive, to say the least, sees war with Iran as the equivalent of World War III, with economic, social, and political consequences that will send what is left of our empire into a tailspin. This is the popping of the hyperpower bubble, the conceit that we – the last superpower left standing – will somehow defy history and common sense and avoid the fate of all empires: decline and fall.I certainly hope Faber and Calente are wrong. But they are both very smart guys who have been right on many of their forecasts for decades. Even when their predictions have been viewed as extremely controversial at the time, many of them have turned out to be right.
German health expert's swine flu warning Does virus vaccine increase the risk of cancer? 07.08.2009 - 15:29 UHR
The swine flu vaccine has been hit by new cancer fears after a German health expert gave a shock warning about its safety.
Dr.Wolfgang Wodarg is a politician and a specialist in lungs, hygiene and environmental medicine. He is the chairman of the health committee in the German parliament and European Council.never forgetLung specialist Wolfgang Wodarg has said that there are many risks associated with the vaccine for the H1N1 virus.He has grave reservations about the firm Novartis who are developing the vaccine and testing it in Germany. The vaccination is injected with a very hot needle, Wodarg said.The nutrient solution for the vaccine consists of cancerous cells from animals and we do not know if there could be an allergic reaction.But more importantly, some people fear that the risk of cancer could be increased by injecting the cells.The vaccine - as Johannes Löwer, president of the Paul Ehrlich Institute, has pointed out - can also cause worse side effects than the actual swine flu virus.Wodrag also described people’s fear of the pandemic as an orchestration: It is great business for the pharmaceutical industry,he told the Neuen Presse.Swine flu is not very different from normal flu.On the contrary if you look at the number of cases it is nothing compared to a normal flu outbreak,he added.The chairman of the health committee in the European Council has urged for a careful and calm reaction to the virus.Up until now, the producers of the vaccine did not know how many orders they would have by the autumn, but the German Government is now a guaranteed customer.Even the pharmaceutical companies are trying to exploit the fear of the swine flu pandemic.The anniversary of the construction of the Berlin Wall is approaching, and a new book has been released with pictures we must never forget.Fotogalerie Swine flu crisisNumber of infected passes 2,000 mark in GermanyDr. Helmut Beermann in Hanover has had this sign outside his practise since the start of the week. It reads NO ENTRANCE for people who think they may have swine flu. Please ring four times and wait at a safe distance outside.
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SOMETHING IN THE AIR Silent no more! Voters unleash fury on Congress,Constituents boo, jeer as lawmakers defend Democrat health reform plan August 11, 2009 9:11 pm Eastern By Chelsea Schilling 2009 WorldNetDaily
Sen. Specter warns angry citizen he will be forced to leave while attendee tries to physically direct him out the door.Americans are speaking up and confronting the President Obama and Democrat lawmakers with concerns about their health care reform.
Citizens are flocking to town hall forums across the nation and letting their representatives know where they stand. Meetings are filled to capacity while thousands wait outside for their chance to be heard.
New Hampshire
At a Portsmouth, N.H., high school today, President Obama hosted a health care town hall.An estimated 2,000 proponents and opponents of his plan gathered in the streets with signs and bullhorns, ready to greet the president's motorcade. While groups opposed to the health reform arrived in small groups with hand-made signs, supporters from pro-Obama organizations, such as Organizing for America and Health Care for America Now, spilled out of buses.Let's get this done, Obama shouted to a crowd of 1,800 inside Portsmouth High School.Critics remained calm and polite when the president solicited responses from skeptical attendees, according to the Associated Press.
Pennsylvania
Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Penn., held a town hall meeting this morning in Lebanon, Pa., where constituents booed and jeered him for at least an hour. One man began shouting because he was not given an opportunity to speak. He complained that Specter, a long-time Republican who switched over to the Democratic Party this year, would not listen because he's not a lobbyist with all kind of money to stuff in your pocket.One day, God's going to stand before you,he told the senator to his face.And he's going to judge you and the rest of your damn cronies up on the Hill – and then you will get your just desserts.Other attendees complained about Democrats plans for health reform.CBS News reported that one woman wore a member of the mob T-shirt – referencing Democrat claims that insurance companies and the Republican Party had enlisted angry mobs to disrupt town hall meetings. I don't believe this is just health care. This is about the systematic dismantling of this country,a woman told Specter.You have awakened a sleeping giant. I don't want this country turning into Russia, turning into a socialized country. What are you going to do to restore this country back to what our founders created, according to the Constitution? Her question prompted a standing ovation. Several members of the crowd shouted, You work for us! Meanwhile, a large crowd gathered outside with signs warning of socialism.
Missouri
At an Aug. 6 forum sponsored by Rep. Russ Carnahan, D-Mo., many protesters were turned away at the door while SEIU members were allowed in. A video of the St. Louis, Mo., incident can be seen below:The event resulted in six arrests. Afterward, town hall attendee Kenneth Gladney, 38, was beaten, kicked and called racist names outside the meeting. He was at the forum to sell Don't tread on me flags, but he said he found himself with a Service Employees International Union, or SEIU, member in his face, calling him the N-word and asking what he was doing peddling his message.
Gladney claims he was punched in the face and two other SEIU members jumped on top of him, yelled racial epithets and kicked and punched him. He said he sought treatment for injuries to his knee, back, elbow, shoulder and face.Also in Missouri, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., faced shouts and jeers even in friendly territory at her town hall forum on Aug. 10.At Poplar Bluff, Mo., the report said, an audience of 500 applauded the loudest when Obama was called a socialist.Another audience member asked, Where's the birth certificate? alluding to the dispute over Obama's still-unreleased eligibility documentation.AP reported McCaskill was visibly frustrated and at one point said, You guys are so mean.
Florida
Rep. Kathy Castor's Aug. 6 town hall meeting in Tampa, Fla., ended abruptly after 1,500 citizens attempted to enter an event intended to hold approximately 250 people.
Hundreds of people remained outside, many of whom had been waiting for hours to attend the meeting. Meanwhile, seats remained empty inside while SEIU workers and other attendees distributed flyers and signs for the Democrat health care plan to audience members.One woman outside shouted, This was supposed to be a town hall meeting. Last time I checked, those were open to the public.Finally, some attendees were allowed in, but hundreds waited in line with signs outside. Castor left 15 minutes into the meeting. Just outside the meeting room, constituents chanted,You work for us,Tyranny, tyranny and Read the bill.A businessman with a shredded shirt reported to police that staffers attacked him, twisting his arm and tearing his watch off. Another, he claims, grabbed him by the neck and tore his shirt. I just came to listen and see what I'm missing about this health care thing because it doesn't make sense to me,he told a reporter.Castor later said the event has strengthened her resolve to promote health care reform.It has strengthened my resolve to stand up for families and seniors,Castor told reporters for Tampa Bay Online. Floridians are bearing a great burden in health care costs, more than almost any other state.
Georgia
Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., hosted an Aug. 10 town hall meeting at the Georgia Perimeter College campus in Clarkston. At least 500 citizens showed up in an auditorium while between 1,000 and 1,500 watched the discussion on closed circuit television screens in the gymnasium. Hundreds of citizens stood in an exceedingly long line to have their voices heard while as many as 500 people left the event. Though there was a mix of booing and cheering, attendees stayed calm during the discussion.
Maryland
In Maryland, Sen. Ben Cardin faced booing and jeering constituents at his Aug. 10 forum as he attempted to defend the health care legislation. According to Fox News, when Cardin said details of how the plan will be funded have not been worked out, attendees shouted, Taxes! and Spend, Ben, spend! When one person asked Cardin for a single example of a government-run program that provided services to citizens at a lower cost, Cardin cited national parks system and Medicare.
The crowd booed and jeered in disapproval.
Earlier, Cardin admitted to receiving nearly 1,600 RSVP's for a town hall meeting at a concert hall that only seated only 500. When and estimated 1,500 showed up for the meeting, protesters lined the streets outside with signs and shouts.
Iowa
More than 200 citizens shared their thoughts on government-run health care with Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, today. On several occasions, he was challenged by the crowd after he declared the current health care system unsustainable.During an Aug 8 event, one man yelled:This is not health reform, this is control, control over our lives.Harkin accused the man of being part of a nationally coordinated effort to disrupt these meetings,but the man said no one sent him to the forum.There were no violent. incidents
Michigan
As WND reported, an irate Michigan father worried over what Obamacare would do to his handicapped adult son said he was threatened after trying to get a direct answer from Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich, on Aug 6. In an interview with Fox, Sola explained how he took his wheelchair-bound adult son to the front of the room to confront Dingell, 83.
Sola said he demanded information about what Obamacare would provide for his son, and Dingell responded with a statement that there is an amendment to address the needs of the handicapped.However, Sola said that amendment doesn't exist.Dingell tried to explain at a town hall that people don't know how much they're already paying to cover the uninsured, but his reasoning was drowned out by protesters.In an MSNBC interview, Dingell later said the town hall protests remind him of Ku Klux Klan protests.Well, the last time I had to confront something like this was when I voted for the civil rights bill and my opponent voted against it,he said.At that time, we had a lot of Ku Klux Klan folks and white supremacists and folks in white sheets and other things running around causing trouble.As WND reported, legislators coming to their home districts in attempt to sell the health care plan to constituents are being met with fierce opposition and huge crowds:Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., was confronted by self-described Democrats who accused their representative of lying about health reform and protested, Why would you try to stuff a health care plan down our throats in a couple days when the president took six months to pick a dog for his kids? Rep. Tim Bishop, D-N.Y., has called off further events after a June 22 event he held in Setauket, N.Y., in which protesters dominated the meeting by shouting criticisms at the congressman for his positions on energy policy, health care and the bailout of the auto industry.Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., got an earful, too – especially on the health-care issue.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., visited a Denver, Colo., clinic for the homeless to raise support for Obama's health care plan, only to be met by streets lined with protesters opposed to the measure.Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-TX, went out to meet constituents, only to be met with protesters shouting in opposition to the health care bill, Just say no!
At a health care town hall event in Syracuse, N.Y., in July, police were called in to restore order, and at least one heckler was taken away by local police. Close to 100 sign-carrying protesters greeted Rep. Allen Boyd, D-Fla., at a late June community college small-business development forum in Panama City, Fla. Danville, Va., anti-tax tea party activists claimed they were refused an opportunity to ask Rep. Thomas Perriello, D-Va., a question at a town hall event and instructed by a plainclothes police officer to leave the property after they attempted to hold up protest signs.
Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., was chased by a crowd saying the Pledge of Allegiance.
The constituents of Rep. John Tanner, D-Tenn., unable to access their representative through a town hall meeting, created a video charging that Tanner has met with Michael Moore and Fidel Castro, But he won't meet his constituents in the 8th District to talk about health care.The biggest source of protests are the health-care bill, the $787 billion economic stimulus package and the cap-and-trade legislation. They're also angry about Barack Obama's refusal to release his birth certificate to prove he is a natural born citizen and constitutionally eligible to serve in the White House.According to an Associated Press report, Obama's top political adviser, David Axelrod, showed Senators in D.C. video of some of the boisterous town-hall meetings and discussed how to respond to disruptions.It's a challenge, no question about it, and you've got to get out there and make the case,Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., said afterward.This is not the time for the faint-hearted.
Media Floats Talking Point That Gun Owners Are Domestic Terrorists
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Wednesday, August 12, 2009
The establishment media and the Southern Poverty Law Center are again floating the talking point that militia groups and worried gun owners are growing in the United States and that this could portend a violent act of domestic terror, despite the fact that every major domestic terror attack in the 1990’s was carried out by the federal government itself, from Ruby Ridge, to Waco, to the Oklahoma City bombing.Militia groups with gripes against the government are regrouping across the country and could grow rapidly, according to an organization that tracks such trends,reports the Associated Press.The stress of a poor economy and a liberal administration led by a black president are among the causes for the recent rise, the report from the Southern Poverty Law Center says. Conspiracy theories about a secret Mexican plan to reclaim the Southwest are also growing amid the public debate about illegal immigration.The article cites people who own guns and implies that they are domestic terrorists or cop killers in the vein of Richard Poplawski, the Pittsburgh man who gunned down three officers during a domestic dispute earlier this year.The report cites a Homeland Security threat projection which states White supremacists and militias are more violent and thus more likely to conduct mass-casualty attacks on the scale of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.Of course, the irony behind all this is the fact that all the major acts of violence in connection with the militia movement during the 1990’s were committed by the government and federal agents.It was an FBI sniper that killed Randy Weaver’s son and also his wife as she was holding their 10-month-old baby while running for cover during the Ruby Ridge standoff in 1992.It was the BATF that burned the Branch Davidian ranch to the ground, killing seventy-six people including more than 20 children and two pregnant women, during the Waco massacre in 1993.And it was high level FBI officials that groomed Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh in the run up to the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building in 1995.McVeigh’s accomplice Terry Nichols’ revelation that McVeigh was being steered by a high-level FBI official are supported by a plethora of evidence that proves McVeigh did not act alone and that authorities had prior warnings and were complicit in the bombing.
The Deseret Morning News named the FBI agent at Larry Potts, but that information was later sealed by the court.The affidavit was filed in a lawsuit brought by attorney Jesse Trentadue, whose brother Kenneth was tortured and beaten to death in an Oklahoma City federal prison in 1995. Authorities claimed Trentadue had committed suicide but he was being held in a suicide proof cell at the time and autopsy photos of his body showed he had been shocked with a stun gun, bruised, burned, sliced and then hung.Jesse Trentadue has amassed evidence that his brother was mistaken for one of Timothy McVeigh’s alleged bombing accomplices and in attempting to get him to talk, federal agents went too far and then tried to instigate a cover-up of the murder.During the process of his lawsuit, Trentadue was able to receive documents with names blacked out that show the FBI’s OKC bombing informants were conducting armed robberies with Timothy McVeigh in order to fund the construction of the fertilizer bomb used in the attack on the federal building.One of the foreign informants was actually the explosives instructor who taught him how to make the bomb,said Trentadue, confirming that Nichols told him the criminal activities were part of a process of creating a ledger or a storyboard to which the government’s version of events could later be pinned to.The documents also show that McVeigh called Elohim City two days before the bombing asking for help. Four months before the bombing, an FBI informant told his superiors of the attack plan and said that the Alfred P. Murrah building had been scouted.Just like 9/11, the official story of the Oklahoma City Bombing, that McVeigh alone carried out the attack using a fertilizer truck bomb, is contradicted by a plethora of eyewitness account as well as physical and circumstantial evidence.
- In early April 1995 a Ryder truck identical to the one used in the bombing was filmed by a pilot during an overflight of of an area near Camp Gruber-Braggs, Oklahoma. A June 17th, 1997 Washington Post article authenticates the photos as being exactly what they appear to be, photos of a Ryder truck in a clandestine base at Camp Gruber-Braggs. Why were the military in possession of a Ryder truck housed in a remote clandestine army base days before the Alfred P. Murrah bombing?
- In a 1993 letter to his sister, McVeigh claimed that he was approached by military intelligence and had joined an elite squad of government paid assassins. McVeigh often contradicted himself and changed his story on a whim to fit in with the latest government version of events. Is the Camp Grafton footage evidence of McVeigh’s enrollment in such a clandestine program?
- Multiple reports of Arabs at the scene assisting McVeigh were ignored and surveillance tapes were withheld under national security. The likely reason for this was the fact that Bush senior and Clinton were responsible for bringing in nearly 1,000 Iraqi soldiers captured by U.S. forces during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, some of whom were involved in the bombing.
- The FBI claimed McVeigh scouted the Alfred P. Murrah building weeks before the bombing and yet on the morning of the attack he stopped at a local gas station to ask directions, lending credibility to the new claims that he was being controlled by other conspirators and that the target of the bombing had been changed.
- Original reports of two explosions and several failed devices being defused by bomb squads were buried by the establishment as the official explanation that McVeigh acted alone was pushed. Scientific analysis conducted by General Benton K. Partin revealed core columns were blown out from within the building and the extensive damage to the Alfred P. Murrah building was completely inconsistent with the explanation of a single and relatively weak fertilizer truck bomb.
- Many eyewitnesses reported that bomb squads in full reaction gear were seen around the building immediately before the blast. Police officer Terence Yeakey, who helped save dozens of victims, was one such witness. Yeakey compiled extensive files on his observations but was later found with his throat and wrists slashed having also been shot in the head after he had told friends he was being followed by authorities.
- Several individuals received prior warning that the bombing was about to take place. Bruce Shaw, who rushed to the Murrah building to find his wife who was employed there with the Federal Credit Union, testified that an ATF agent told him that ATF staff had been warned on their pagers not to come to work that day.
- The aftermath of the bombing led to the passage of the Omnibus Crime Bill and the demonization of the Patriot Movement, which was spreading like wildfire as opposition to federal government abuse grew following the events at Ruby Ridge and Waco. The consequences of the Oklahoma City Bombing effectively dismantled the Patriot Movement before the turn of the century.
This is the true history of domestic terrorism and the militia movement. In every instance, the terrorism has been carried out by the government and the militia movement or the patriot movement have either been the victims or the patsies. This is key should the Obama administration attempt to stage another false flag and blame it on patriots in an attempt to neutralize the groundswell of grass roots outrage currently spreading like wildfire across the country in response to the march of big government and the loss of liberties.
Florida News Report on Obama Joker Vandalism Kurt Nimmo
Infowars August 11, 2009
Note: WFTV has posted a new video report on the posters in Florida.
WFTV in Florida aired a report today on Infowars Obama Joker posters glued to Post Office mailboxes. A vocal and graphic Internet campaign attacking President Barack Obama just hit Central Florida and one of its first targets was a U.S. Post Office, the news station reports.Several Lake County residents called WFTV when they spotted the Joker posters on stop signs and saw workers scraping them off the post office in Clermont.Many Americans no longer have the stomach for political satire and parody.
See the news report including a video on the WFTV website.
Alex Jones and Infowars have stated that Obama Joker posters should not be posted on government or private property. The posters should be posted only in legal public commons areas where other posters, fliers, handbills, etc., are posted.WFTV claims residents and the postmaster were deeply offended by the posters.I’ve been with the Postal Service for 30 years now,he said.I’ve never seen anything this insensitive, said the postmaster, Willie Montgomery.Mr. Montgomery was not specific, although it would seem he considers the satirical and critical parody of Obama to be insensitive. Montgomery and the residents of Clermont may not realize it, but political satire and parody have a long history dating back well before the author Jonathan Swift wrote his A Modest Proposal in 1729. Political cartoons were instrumental in the American Revolutionary War. Scathing political cartoons appeared in Ben Franklin’s newspaper The Pennsylvania Gazette and the Massachusetts Centinel. In the 1870s, cartoonist Thomas Nast published a series of illustrations lampooning the Tammany Ring, the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in controlling New York City politics.The Obama as Joker meme fits in that esteemed tradition — and may be considered subvertisement of a popular Hollywood movie as well — but then history is lost on a dumbed-down public all too ready to fawn and grovel at the feet of political leaders who betray them at every turn.
Indeed, the point is to deeply offend the sensibilities and get people to think about what Obama stands for and the people he represents.Our rulers were shrewd when they selected Obama to be president — they understood the politically correct mechanism at work in American society, an ethic inculcated over the last three decades. It will now be considered a racist crime to criticize and parody Barack Obama. How long before this criticism and disagreement becomes a punishable crime?
Under Obamacare, The Government Would Indoctrinate Your Kids ,Chuck Norris slams Stalinist home intrusion and indoctrination program Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Tuesday, August 11, 2009
TV star and political commentator Chuck Norris points out in an editorial today that under the Obamacare legislation currently being vociferously opposed in town halls across the country, the government would empower itself to carry out home intrusions and state re-education of children under a Stalinist indoctrination program.Obamacare is about the government’s coming into homes and usurping parental rights over child care and development,writes Norris.It’s outlined in sections 440 and 1904 of the House bill (Page 838), under the heading home visitation programs for families with young children and families expecting children.The programs (provided via grants to states) would educate parents on child behavior and parenting skills. The bill says that the government agents, well-trained and competent staff,would provide parents with knowledge of age-appropriate child development in cognitive, language, social, emotional, and motor domains … modeling, consulting, and coaching on parenting practices,and skills to interact with their child to enhance age-appropriate development.Are you kidding me?! With whose parental principles and values? Their own? Certain experts’? From what field and theory of childhood development? As if there are one-size-fits-all parenting techniques! Do we really believe they would contextualize and personalize every form of parenting in their education, or would they merely universally indoctrinate with their own?,writes Norris, questioning what the government would teach children about religion, morals and basic values, as well as issues like abortion.Do you want government agents coming into your home and telling you how to parent your children? When did government health care turn into government child care?,asks Norris, pointing out that the program has Stalinist overtones in that it gives government the power to shape the very minds of future generations by seizing parental and educational power, legislating preferred educational methods and materials, and limiting private educational options.The program outlined in the Obama health care reform bill sounds almost identical to programs already under way in the United Kingdom where the government usurps parental rights and assumes a guardianship role over the child.
As we reported earlier this month, the UK Labour government announced its intention to fund an expansion of its Family Intervention Projects, a program which is centered around home visits by state social workers whereby agents enter the private homes of citizens to ensure that children go to bed on time, attend school and eat proper meals.Surveillance cameras are also installed in homes as well as state-run dormitories so government spies can keep an eye on whether parents are mistreating kids and whether the kids are fulfilling their obligations to the government under a pre-signed contract.Another key aspect of the program is that parents deemed responsible by the government are handed the power to denounce and report bad parents who allow their children to engage in bad behavior. Such families are then targeted for interventions.As Norris highlights in his editorial, under Obamacare, parents won’t be allowed to make a choice on whether they want government assistance in raising their children, they will be targeted by the state for home interventions, in exactly the same way the program works in the UK.One government rebuttal is that this program would be voluntary. Is that right?, asks Norris. Does that imply that this agency would just sit back passively until some parent needing parenting skills said, I don’t think I’ll call my parents, priest or friends or read a plethora of books, but I’ll go down to the local government offices? To the contrary, the bill points to specific targeted groups and problems, on Page 840: The state shall identify and prioritize serving communities that are in high need of such services, especially communities with a high proportion of low-income families.Quoting Josef Stalin, Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed,Norris warns that universal health care could mean universal hell care if Obama’s health reform is allowed to proceed.
FAMINE
REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)
FAMINE
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
From Times Online August 10, 2009 Food crisis could force wartime rations and vegetarian diet on Britons(Steve Parsons/PA)Britain faces the prospect of a vegetarian diet in the event of a world food shortage Valerie Elliott, Consumer Editor.
The British people face wartime rations and a vegetarian diet in the event of a world food shortage, a new official assessment on the UK’s food security suggests today.
Even though the nation is 73 per cent self-sufficient in food production, higher than during the 1950s, the food chain is at risk from global influences such as a worldwide increase in population, climate change bringing extreme weather patterns, higher oil prices and more crops being grown for bio-fuel instead of food. Supplies in future may also be disrupted by animal disease outbreaks, disruption of power supplies, trade disputes and interruptions for shipping and at ports. The UK however has one of the highest cereal production capabilities in the world with seven tonnes grown per hectare, compared a world average of 3.3 tonnes per hectare. In the event of an extreme event, cereal crops would be used to feed the nation and ensure that each person received sufficient daily calories.But people would have to consume less —the average number of calories eaten per day in the early 1960s was about 2,100, whereas the most recent figure compiled by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation is 2,800. Even during the Second World War Britain did not have to rely wholly on domestic food production, but Hilary Benn, the Cabinet Minister with overall responsibility for food policy, has ordered officials to prepare for a scenario where the country could feed itself.In the event of an extreme emergency the most dramatic consequence would be every person eating a predominantly vegetarian diet — more cereals, fruit and vegetables and less meat and poultry. Cereals used to feed farm animals would be shifted into human food production.
A paper setting out the food security assessment states that the food on offer would be a highly restricted, if sufficiently nutritious diet. One of the biggest threats to the supply chain would be restrictions in trade of meat and poultry from Argentina and Brazil or of GM soya, the main commodity used to feed livestock in Britain. The threat of climate change however will also require new growing techniques such as reduced water usage in agriculture.In times of normal trading, however, the Government also wishes to ensure that the nation eats a healthier diet and is particularly concerned that low-income households are able to afford fresh fruit and vegetables.Ministers are also anxious that consumers have confidence in the safety of food and further work is to be undertaken to help reduce the incidence of food poisoning caused by common bugs such as salmonellas, listeria, E.coli and campylobacter. Hygiene inspections at food outlets by local authority enforcement officers is likely to be stepped up.Mr Benn today called for a radical rethink on the way the UK produces food. He also insisted that GM crops in future could help boost food production especially if some varieties were drought-resistant or required less water, fertilisers and pesticides.He backed the need for GM crop trials to find out the facts about the new technology and to use the science to boost production. We need a radical rethink in how we produce and consume food. Globally we need to cut emissions and adapt to the changing climate that will alter what we can grow and where we can grow it. We must maintain the natural resources — soils, water and biodiversity — on which food production depends.And because we live in an interconnected world — where the price of soya in Brazil affects the price of steak at the local supermarket — we need to look at global issues that affect food security here. That’s why we need to consider what food systems should look like in 20 years and what must happen to get there.He is anxious to engage the wider public in debate about the future of the country’s food security as well as how best to help people eat healthier diets and to ensure that new production techniques do not damage the UK’s natural resources.A new UK food strategy is to be published before the end of the year.
DISEASES
REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
LIFE WITH BIG BROTHER-Will Americans follow orders to take flu shots?
Alarmist language sparking fears of mandatory vaccinations, quarantines August 11, 2009 10:56 pm Eastern By Bob Unruh 2009 WorldNetDaily
Avian flu viruses like this one have raised worries in the past similar to those being raised by this year's swine flu .Alarmist language over possible outbreaks of swine flu as well as a series of moves by the federal government are fueling fears federal agents will soon be forcing citizens to be vaccinated – prompting one political party to launch a pre-emptive defense against any such effort. The Constitution Party, a fast-growing alternative to the dominant Democratic and Republican parties in many elections, has come out strongly in opposition to any mandatory injections of potential toxic (H1N1) swine flu vaccine.Citing the Fourth Amendment, which says, The right of the people to be secure in their persons … shall not be violated, Constitution Party National Committee Chairman Jim Clymer said the issue isn't that complex. It comes down to the most fundamental of all freedoms. If government can force potentially dangerous substances into our bodies what, then, can't government do to us?he said. Shots frighten you? Be sure to get SCARY MEDICINE: Exposing the dark side of vaccines.Whether mandated by the federal government, the individual states such as Massachusetts or international organizations like the World Health Organization or the United Nations, forcing potentially dangerous chemicals on a free people is tyranny,Clymer said.
The Constitution Party cited the research of Bill Sardi, who noted the cozy relationship where the WHO prematurely declares a pandemic, forcing dozens of governments to buy flu vaccines. Then, he wrote, public health authorities invoke mandatory vaccination programs for children. The enriched vaccine makers then funnel profits back to the politicians.The party noted the alarmist behavior on the part of the U.S. Departments of Health and Homeland Security, which earlier this year when several people were diagnosed with swine flu, declared a national public health emergency.When that was declared in April, schools were closed, people quarantined and pharmaceutical companies awarded billion dollar contracts, the party explained.
Condemnation also has come from Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, who cited the swine flu vaccination program in 1976. The effort killed more than two dozen people – not from the flu but from the vaccine.Paul said he was concerned that nearly $8 billion will be spent to address a potential pandemic flu which could result in mandatory vaccinations for no discernable reason other than to enrich the pharmaceutical companies that make the vaccine.Clymer also expressed concern about turning over decisions inside the United States to an international organization like the WHO. Adding other pieces to the puzzle, such as the Pentagon's involvement with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, just adds to his worries, he said. According to a Fox report, the Pentagon is planning to make available military troops – if they are needed – to help FEMA respond to a flu outbreak.The report said Defense Secretary Robert Gates is preparing to sign an order letting the military set up regional teams to help FEMA.Americans should be gravely concerned when all the pieces are put together,Clymer said.We have a strain of flu which has produced mild symptoms so far, and yet it appears there's a well-orchestrated world-wide effort to put draconian measures in place for a pandemic.Clymer also cited the WHO recommendations that would provide, essentially, for an indefinite stay in a quarantine camp for those who refuse a vaccination. He said the procedures that follow a Level 6 Pandemic allow international precedent to override U.S. constitutional guarantees of freedom. The party statement said, All liberty-loving Americans should shudder at the WHO directives which state: During a pandemic, it may be necessary to overrule existing legislation or (individual) human rights. Examples are the enforcement of quarantine (overruling individual freedom of movement), use of privately owned buildings for hospitals, off-license use of drugs, compulsory vaccination or implementation of emergency shifts in essential services.No such extraordinary efforts are needed, the Constitution Party said, because according to the Centers for Disease Control,the fear mongering regarding this flu is not warranted by forensic evidence that H1N1 is the potentially devastating plague the hyperbole purports it to be.
According to the Fox report, the bird flu frenzy during 2005 prompted the Bush administration to add influenza to the government's list of diseases for which quarantines are allowed, creating a path through which people who exhibit symptoms could be detained by government order.Governors, however, according to a report from The Hill, are objecting to the potential involvement of the feds.Gov. Jim Douglas, R-Vermont, head of the National Governors Association, and Vice Chairman Gov. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., wrote, We are concerned that the legislative proposal … would invite confusion on critical command and control issues, complicate interagency planning, establish stove-piped response efforts, and interfere with governors’ constitutional responsibilities to ensure the safety and security of their citizens, Douglas and Manchin wrote to Paul Stockton, assistant secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and America's Security Affairs.And the Fox report said even a spokesman for the Defense Department acknowledged the concerns about civil liberties and the use of force.Attorney Robert L. Shannon told the network the military generally isn't allowed to intervene in peoples' lives, But it's important to remember that the president has the option and authority to use federal troops in a national emergency.An ACLU spokesman told Fox that the idea of forced vaccinations or detentions would raise constitutional questions, and Michel Chossudovsky, writing on the Global Research website, said the implications are far-reaching.The decision points toward the establishment of a police state,he said. At Natural News.com, a warning was issued that more and more incidents are being reported involving forced vaccinations in the United States – usually through workplace or school demands.
Attorney Alan Phillips, author of Dispelling Vaccination Myths, … got interested in the subject when he noticed the warning on a vaccination that was about to be administered to his infant child. The warning clearly stated that the odds of death from the vaccination were considerably higher than death from the diseases it was supposed to immunize,the report said. The site even promotes a petition to halt forced vaccinations.As the flu season approaches, a conference also has been scheduled to allow leaders of government and industry to consult on the potential problem.The event in the past has been used to discuss various strains of bird flu, but this year is being called the International Swine Flue Conference. It's Aug. 19-20at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill.Among the topics to be considered are: Unwillingness to follow government orders,Control & diffuse social unrest & public disorder,Protect police forces from falling ill & from being hurt in civil disturbances,and Manage a surge in crime & meet routine requests at the same time.The international flu conference, promoted by New-Fields.com, is being assembled for top leaders and decision-makers from a broad range of industries as well as scientists, public health officials, law enforcers, first responders, and other experts.
The promotional brochure lists topics:Mass fatality management planning,Country report and situations update,Surveillance and data management,Command, control and management, and others.Meanwhile, the Associated Press is reporting that Americans in eight cities are preparing to take a swine flu vaccine that still is in the testing stages, in manufacturers' hopes that the vaccine will be on the market soon.
SEX SINS
1 CORINTHIANS 6:9,14-18
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
GALATIONS 5:19-21
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
SINS OF PEOPLE
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
DECIEVERS WAXING WORSE AND WORSE.
2 TIMOTHY 3:13
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
MORE SIN SIGNS
EPHESIANS 5:5-8
5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
Congo's Rape Epidemic Worsens During U.S.-Backed Military Operation By Stephanie McCrummen Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, August 10, 2009; 4:09 PM
LUGUNGU, Congo -- For the women of eastern Congo, a U.S.-backed Congolese military operation meant to save them from abusive rebels has turned into a nightmare of its own.An already staggering epidemic of rape has become markedly worse since the January deployment of tens of thousands of poorly trained, poorly paid Congolese soldiers, with people in front-line villages such as this one saying the soldiers are not so much hunting rebels as hunting women. And so as the sun dropped behind the soaring jungle here one recent day, little girls, mothers and grandmothers began heading home, some closing curtains and padlocking wooden doors. It was time, they explained, to lock themselves indoors. To avoid getting raped, after 6 p.m., women are not allowed to go out of the house,said Maria Bitondo, who said she was among three women attacked by a soldier last month.With the soldiers here, no woman is safe to go out and walk. We do not even go to the bathroom at night.On Monday, a coalition of 88 aid groups called the operation, which is supported by the United Nations, a human tragedy and urged Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is to visit eastern Congo on Tuesday, to push for better civilian protection. Clinton has vowed to make the prevention of sexual violence a priority in Congo, where the United States pays about a quarter of the cost of U.N. peacekeeping efforts. We have to speak out against the impunity of those in positions of authority who either commit these crimes or condone them,Clinton said at a town hall meeting in the capital of Kinshasa on Monday. She added,There are even some cases of these terrible crimes committed by members of the Congolese military.But U.S officials have also applauded the operation, calling it an important diplomatic step in mending a destructive relationship between Congo and Rwanda. The operation, which is being supported with helicopters, trucks and other logistics by U.N. peacekeepers here, is targeting Rwandan rebels including some who fled here after participating in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Although all sides in Congo's messy 15-year conflict have used rape as a weapon of war -- particularly the Rwandan rebels -- the spike since January is being widely blamed mostly on the army. The number of soldiers roaming these eastern hills has almost tripled to 60,000, and rapes have doubled or tripled in the areas they are deployed. Aid groups said the number of rapes so far this year is probably in the thousands.Though Congolese President Joseph Kabila recently declared a policy of zero tolerance for sexual violence, fewer than a dozen soldiers have been convicted of rape this year. In May, the U.N. Security Council handed Kabila a list of five senior army officials, including a general, accused of rape, but so far none have been prosecuted.After reaching an area, the soldiers are taking everything there as the spoils of war, including the women,said Honore Bisimwa, who works with a nonprofit group, Olame Center, trying to educate soldiers about rape laws.They take them like property.In this jungle-matted territory, about 5,000 soldiers are on the move, including a portion of 12,000 ex-rebels and militiamen folded into the army after a recent peace deal. In February, they set up a base in the territorial capital of Shabunda, where U.N. peacekeepers also have a base, then marched by foot into smaller front-line villages along narrow dirt roads traversed daily by women heading to farms and stooped over hauling jugs of water and stacks of wood. Soon after, villagers began complaining of looting, and women began making their way to health clinics. In less than three months, more than 100 rapes were reported in the area, said Adele Sikanabo, a local activist, adding that there are so many we don't know about.I'd say 99 percent are by soldiers,she said.And every week, it continues I hear them say, You think we'll stay here without women?! We need women! As women here do most mornings, Madelena Ngalya left the village around 9 a.m. one recent day and walked alone along a path through the jungle to her farm. The 56-year-old widow had been planting there for about an hour when she saw a soldier at the edge of the field. He walked toward her.I started trembling when I saw him, she said. I felt unable to cry, even to scream. I said, My son, how are you?
The soldier asked whether she was by herself.
I said,I'm alone here,she said. He said,If you cry, we have many soldiers in the jungle, and when others hear you cry, they will come to you, too.My body was like dead. Then he did what he wanted to do.On the same day Ngalya was raped, in the same area, around the same hour, soldiers raped four more women -- the youngest 18 and pregnant, and one older than 70. Three other women, including Bitondo, narrowly escaped the assault of another soldier while they were out cutting firewood. He started saying, We are suffering. We left our wives very far, we are going to die, and you are here like this,Bitondo said.We started running.The soldier chased after her friend, 20-year-old Rosa Musombwa, who took off so fast she left her flip-flops behind. When the soldier caught her skirt, she twisted out of it and kept on running through the jungle. When he caught her again by her underwear, she ripped them off and kept running, finally jumping into a sandy river. The soldier jumped in after her, but finally gave up.Not one soldier from the 52nd brigade, which is in charge of the area, has been arrested, military officials said.After the spate of attacks, women imposed the curfew, and they now go to their farms only in groups of five or six and accompanied by men.If [soldiers] meet you, they will rape you, Ngalya said.They don't fear anything.She and other women wonder whether their own fiercely patriarchal society is encouraging soldiers to rape. Girls here are often forced to marry as young as 13. In some traditions, a kind of ritualized rape is part of a boy's coming of age. Prostitution is common. And in general, Bitondo said with a sense of exhausted humor, women are expected not so much to enjoy their husbands as service them.
According to our custom, even though he's your husband, when he needs sex, he doesn't have to ask your permission,she said. In this territory, men take women like an instrument that doesn't have any value.The current operation is underway at a moment of limited fighting. At the moment, soldiers around here are mostly waiting, traipsing up and down roads on missions.Occasionally, they attend workshops on rape such as one Bisimwa gave recently in a hot schoolroom in Shabunda. Why do people rape? he began, and passed out little blue booklets explaining Congo's rape laws. An officer grumbled.Today in Shabunda, there are young girls 13 years old getting married,said Narcisse Muteba, 40, a colonel.But when the soldiers come, then they cry, they cry! Later, Bisimwa, who is often heckled during workshops, traveled to the village where the 52nd brigade is based. Around noon, dozens of soldiers were sitting in front of houses, fixing old broken rifles, napping on patches of grass. Bisimwa went to the hospital to visit a sick soldier, whom he asked about accusations against the brigade.We'll pass some women, and someone will say, Oh, I have to take her,the soldier said.It's not just one soldier. It's many. I can't stay when they do that.He and other soldiers interviewed expressed a deep frustration at their pay, which is usually late and only $50 a month; their rations, which were recently a single can of sardines for three soldiers for 15 days; and especially their long deployments, which often keep them away from their families for years.The truth is like this,said one officer, sitting under a shed and sipping a powerful local brew. What is making soldiers to do these bad things is their treatment by the army. Imagine, one can of sardines?! And you send a soldier away for 10 years?! So, I'm hungry, I'm in need of a wife and I have no money to pay for a prostitute, he said.If I see a woman walking on the road, and I love her, I will take her. I will help myself.
The lieutenant, who did not give his name, is in charge of teaching his soldiers about human rights. Now,he said,buy me a beer so I don't have to rob you.Sitting outside a house on a hill, the deputy commander of the 52nd brigade, Lt. Col. Padiri Dieu Donne, denied that any of his soldiers had raped women in Lugungu.We can't say all of us are saints,Donne said.But the problem of rape doesn't exist in the place where we are.
NY Times Reporter: I Was Fired For Criticizing Obama, Goldman Sachs ,Columnist who compared Obama campaign to Hitler’s Nuremberg rallies is expelled
Steve Watson Infowars.net Tuesday, August 11, 2009
A columnist for the New York Times has publicly stated that he believes he was fired last week simply for criticizing president Obama and his policies.Commentator Ben Stein writes in the American Spectator that the real reason for his dismissal was not, as the Times indicated, due to a conflict of interest arising from his role as a spokesperson for credit rating service FreeScore.com, nor for budgetary issues.Rather, Stein states, he was expelled from the New York Times due to recent criticism of Obama.The two main things, as I see them, were that I started criticizing Mr. Obama quite sharply over his policies and practices.Stein writes.I had tried to do this before over the firing of Rick Wagoner from the Chairmanship of GM. My column had questioned whether there was a legal basis for the firing by the government, what law allowed or authorized the federal government to fire the head of what was then a private company, and just where the Obama administration thought their limits were, if anywhere. This column was flat out nixed by my editors at the Times because in their opinion Mr. Obama inherently had such powers.he explains.Stein added, By a total coincidence, I was tossed overboard immediately after my column attacking Obama. (You can attack Obama from the left at the Times but not from the right.)Stein is well known for his controversial 2008 film Expelled, in which he argued that the scientific theory of evolution has contributed to the rise of fascism, communism, atheism, abortion and eugenics.Stein believes that his commitment to this project also contributed to his eventual dismissal, following a barrage of hate mail from those he describes as neo-Darwinists.He also cites his questioning of Goldman Sachs’ activity as another reason for his firing.I made a new set of antagonists by repeatedly and in detail criticizing the real power in this country, the investment bank Goldman Sachs, for what seemed to me questionable behavior. This elicited a mountain of favorable mail but also some complaints by well-placed persons.he writes.Stein was previously criticized in 2008 interview after comparing one of Obama’s major campaign rallies to Adolf Hitler’s Nazi rallies at Nuremberg.
SHOUTED DOWN OVER HEALHCARE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7666ZRdu7ac&feature=player_embedded
OBAMA LYING BACK ROOM DEALS VIDEO
http://www.prisonplanet.com/obama-caught-lying-again-making-back-room-deals-with-pharmaceutical-lobbyists.html
CALLING OBAMA SOCIALIST IS RACISM-MEDIA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3dFh8YYd70&feature=player_embedded
THE ONLY TROUBLE ABOUT THIS STORY IS OBAMA IS 87% ARAB AND 6% BLACK.
MSNBC Host: Calling Obama Socialist Is Code For N-Word ,Orwellian assault on free speech via phony race card accelerates Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
After bizarrely claiming that the Obama Joker posters were somehow racist, despite the fact that George W. Bush was also characterized as the comic book villain during his presidency, the establishment media is now floating the wacky conspiracy theory that calling Obama a socialist is a secret code which really means the n-word.Is there really no end to this madness? How can people criticize Obama if every time they so much as question the great leader, they are smeared in the media as racists?
MSNBC’s Carlos Watson introduced a segment on his show yesterday by wondering whether calling Obama a socialist was becoming a code word, whether or not socialist is becoming the new n-word for some angry upset birthers and others.Watson then said there was a line of responsibility that had to be drawn which extended to the words we choose, including how we use even legitimate words like socialist.Watson’s guest then agreed with the host that the political dialogue has certain boundaries.The Orwellian move to reduce our vocabulary by effectively frowning upon the use of words that in reality have no racial connotations at all is another example of how political correctness and the race card is being used to eviscerate free speech while shielding the Obama administration from growing fury over his big government agenda.
Calling Obama a socialist has all the racial undertones of calling George W. Bush a fascist – ie none whatsoever.Calling Obama a socialist relates to the fact that his administration is introducing an agenda that is infinitely more closely aligned with the political philosophy of socialism and communism than it is with the ideology of the founding fathers, it has nothing to do with racism.The vast majority of those protesting Obamacare are doing so because of what is contained in the different versions of the health care bill, not because Obama, a mixed-race child born of a white mother and raised by white grandparents in a privileged environment, is a black man.Pro-Obama apologists in the media and their brownshirt enforcers on the streets are attempting to crush freedom of speech at every turn by playing the race card over and over again.You Tube recently censored Alex Jones videos which contained the Obama Joker poster, depicting Obama as the comic book villain in Batman, despite the fact that George W. Bush had also been portrayed as the Joker on many previous occasions.
As we reported on Friday, pro-Obamacare union thugs last week assaulted Kenneth Gladney, who was handing out Gadsen flags outside an event in in Mehville, Missouri that opponents of the health care bill were barred from entering. The fact that Gladney is a black man is a fitting rebuttal to claims that Obamacare protesters are motivated by racism. The only aggression amidst the whole town hall rebellion has been on behalf of pro-Obama supporters and a black man was the victim.
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.
Felicia fizzles to tropical depression Greg Small, Associated Press Writer – AUG 12,09
HONOLULU – After a week of hoopla, a once furious Felicia finally staggered into the Hawaiian Islands on Tuesday, exhausted from its passage across the Pacific Ocean.The storm that once boasted Category 4 hurricane force winds of more than 140 mph was downgraded to a tropical depression Tuesday morning with maximum sustained winds of 35mph.The Central Pacific Hurricane Center canceled a tropical storm watch that had remained in effect for Oahu and Maui County. A flash flood watch issued for anticipated torrential rains was also canceled.A high surf warning was replaced by a high surf advisory, with waves along east-facing shores expected to range form 8 to 12feet.Oahu and Kauai could get up to 2 inches of rain Tuesday night and the same amount Wednesday, while an inch of rain was possible Tuesday night and again Wednesday on Maui, forecasters said.Residents of Oahu could expect winds of around 15 mph with bursts as high as 20 mph Tuesday night. The same winds could reach Kauai on Wednesday. On Maui, winds were only expected to get up to 10 mph.As a precaution, state Civil Defense officials said they would remain on alert until Felicia passed all the way through the state.It was the second time in as many years that the islands escaped relatively unscathed from a major storm.In 2007, Hurricane Flossie sideswiped the Big Island with only intermittent rain and moderate winds. Flossie had the islands on high alert as it approached Hawaii with winds of up to 140 mph. But Flossie never got closer than 100 miles of land and petered out as it moved past.
First tropical storm likely in Atlantic: NHC AccuWeather Tue Aug 11, 2:15 pm ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stormy weather is brewing in the Atlantic Ocean, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.The second tropical depression of the season formed over the far eastern Atlantic Ocean early Tuesday, and will likely strengthen into the basin's first named storm over the next day or so, the Center forecast in a report.Most weather models forecast the system would head west-northwest over the next five days toward the Bahamas, the U.S. East Coast and possibly the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico.Energy traders, however, pointed out it was too soon to say where the system might make landfall, if at all.The NHC said the center of the depression was about 350 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands, which are off the West Coast of Africa. The system was moving west over the open ocean at nearly 13 miles per hour with maximum sustained winds near 30 mph.
The NHC forecast the depression would strengthen into the first tropical storm of the Atlantic season with winds of 39 to 73 mph within 24 hours. If the system does reach such storm status, it would be named Ana.After becoming a tropical storm, however, the NHC does not expect the system to strengthen into a hurricane over the next five days.Last year at this time, there were already five named storms in the Atlantic basin.Energy traders watch for storms that could enter the Gulf of Mexico and threaten U.S. oil and natural gas platforms and refineries along the coast.
Commodities traders likewise watch storms that could hit agriculture crops such as citrus and cotton in Florida and other states along the coast to Texas.Separately, the NHC was also watching two tropical waves - one over the Windward Islands in the eastern Caribbean Sea and one over the Atlantic Ocean about 550 miles east of the Lesser Antilles - but gave both a small chance - less than 30 percent - of developing into a tropical storm over the next 48 hours.Tropical Depression One formed in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the Carolinas in late May and petered out hundreds of miles north off the New England coast.(Reporting by Scott DiSavino; Editing by John Picinich)
Stricken Taiwanese airlifted as 70 killed in storm By PETER ENAV, Associated Press Writer – Tue Aug 11, 4:58 pm ET
CISHAN, Taiwan – Military helicopters ferried stricken villagers to safety Tuesday from remote Taiwanese communities hit by Typhoon Morakot that left at least 70 dead, but hundreds were still feared trapped by a torrent of mud and rock that buried their homes.Choppers hovered over affected villages looking for signs of life. While rains were still falling, floodwaters receded Tuesday, and many of the aircraft were landing to send out squads of soldiers to look for survivors, photos released by the military showed. Special forces found more than 900 people who had fled three villages in the south, according to the military.One helicopter crashed into a mountain as it flew on a mission to rescue villagers from the island's heavily wooded south, which was worst hit by the storm. Disaster official Chen Chung-hsien said it was unclear if the two pilots and one technician had survived the crash.Morakot, which means emerald in Thai language, dumped as much as 80 inches (two meters) of rain over the weekend on Taiwan, the worst flooding in 50 years. It then moved on to China, where authorities evacuated 1.5 million people and some 10,000 homes were destroyed.Eight people have died in three provinces in eastern China, the Civil Affairs Ministry said. Taiwanese authorities put the confirmed death toll from Morakot at 62 and listed 57 people as missing, but that does not include residents in the village of Shiao Lin, where several hundred remain unaccounted for after a mudslide buried their farming settlement on Sunday.Officials said more than 300 people were brought out Tuesday on up to 120 helicopter flights to an improvised landing zone at Cishan Junior High School. The people, many looking dazed and bewildered, came from Shiao Lin and surrounding villages.At the landing strip, a Taiwanese army Huey helicopter arrived with three women from the mudslide-ravaged area on one of Tuesday's last flights. They were led to a waiting van and driven off to a shelter housing victims of the disaster.On the fringes of the landing strip, anxious relatives waited for words of their loved ones.
I have seven relatives in Shiao Lin whom I haven't heard from since Aug. 8,said one woman who gave her surname as Chen. I beg the government to do something to help them.
Cishan itself is without water supply and many surrounding communities remain cut off because floodwaters have washed out roads. On the outskirts of the town, soldiers were helping local residents dig the mud from their homes and businesses.Later, army special forces found another 200 survivors from Shiao Lin sheltering in a nearby field, said Major General Hu Jui-chou. Meanwhile, more than 500 from Min Tsu village and 200 from Chin He village were also rescued, according to Hu and Lieutenant Colonel Tai Chan-te. All three villages are near one another.Hundreds may still be trapped in remote villages, though the exact number of people missing, including in worst-hit Shiao Lin, remained unclear. The village's isolation complicated reporting about its fate. Shiao Lin was cut off after floodwaters destroyed a bridge about eight miles (12 kilometers) away. Access to the area is still restricted to the military.Taiwan's National Fire Agency said 100 villagers were buried alive when the mudslide hit, though it did not offer details to back up that assessment. Some of the 30 residents of Shiao Lin who were among those rescued Monday said the figure was far higher — perhaps as many as 600.A woman rescued Monday told Taiwan's China Times newspaper that she fled with her husband and their baby from their two-story Shiao Lin home minutes before the mudslide buried it.We heard two loud bangs, the woman surnamed Chi was quoted as saying. The sky was filled with dust like a volcanic eruption, and flood waters, mud and rocks streamed onto the roads.Television footage showed the streets of another village covered by thick mud and rubble. A 51-year-old man from Jilai village was swept 1.2 miles (two kilometers) away when the mudslides that struck Shiao Lin rushed down a nearby mountain. According to news reports, he survived by holding on to a log.After pummeling Taiwan, Morakot slammed into China's Fujian province, bringing heavy rain and winds of 74 miles (119 kilometers) per hour, according to the China Meteorological Administration.Authorities ordered 1.5 million people to leave the area, sending them to schools, government offices, hospitals and the homes of relatives, where they will remain until the rain stops and waters recede, the Civil Affairs Ministry said. Morakot damaged or destroyed more than 10,000 homes and flooded over 1 million acres (400,000 hectares) of cropland, the ministry said. It said direct economic losses have been estimated at 9.7 billion yuan ($1.4 billion).The heavy rains triggered a massive landslide in Pengxi, a town in Wenzhou city of eastern China's Zhejiang province, destroying seven three-story apartment buildings at the foot of a mountain late Monday, an official surnamed Chen from the Pengxi government told The Associated Press.Xinhua reported that an unknown number of residents were buried in the landslide, though Chen put the number at six. All were pulled out alive but two later died of their injuries, he said. Associated Press writers Annie Huang in Taipei, Taiwan, and Gillian Wong and Christopher Bodeen in Beijing contributed to this report.
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)
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 (TERRORISM) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Powerful quakes strike Japan, India Tue Aug 11, 1:35 pm ET
TOKYO (AFP) – Powerful earthquakes just over 10 minutes apart rattled Japan and India on Tuesday, triggering panic on fears of a tsunami in the Andaman Islands and injuring more than 100 people southwest of Tokyo.The unrelated quakes struck in the early hours, shutting down Japanese bullet train services and a nuclear power plant and causing a landslide that closed a major highway near the Japanese capital.A 43-year-old woman was found dead after the tremor, buried under a pile of books, said a prefectural police official in Shizuoka, west of Tokyo. We are investigating whether her death is related to today's earthquake,he said.At least 110 people were injured, mostly by falling objects such as television sets, including three who were hospitalised in serious condition, prefectural government officials and police said.
The Japanese tremor registered a strong magnitude of 6.4, while the quake off the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean was a huge 7.6, according to the US Geological Survey.Panic-stricken islanders fled their homes, fearing a repeat of the enormous Asian tsunami that devastated the Andamans in 2004 and killed around 220,000 people in the region as a whole.It was very frightening. Everything started shaking and people were running out of their homes,said Mrinal Sarkar, a villager in Diglipur in the northern Andamans.People are afraid to go back inside.But a tsunami alert issued for India, Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand and Bangladesh was later cancelled by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center of the US National Weather Service.The emergency services control centre in Port Blair, the main town of the Andaman Islands, said there were no reports of casualties and property damage had been limited to cracks in some buildings on northern islands.S.N. Jha, who heads the Andaman Islands' Disaster Management Committee, said emergency services had been put on alert across the territory within minutes of the earthquake being felt.In the end there was some panic in Northern Andaman, but there have been no reports of any serious damage to property or loss of life,Jha said.
The quake hit at 1:55 am (1955 GMT Monday) around 263 kilometres north of Port Blair, and was around 33 kilometres deep. Mild tremors were felt 1,190 kilometres away in the eastern Indian port city of Chennai.The Japanese quake struck at 5:07 am (2007 GMT Monday) in Suruga Bay on the Pacific coast 170 kilometres southwest of Tokyo at a depth of 26.8 kilometres.It shook buildings, threw objects from supermarket shelves, and jolted people from their sleep in Tokyo and areas southwest of the capital.
Japan's Meteorological Agency, which measured the quake at a revised 6.5, said there was no risk of a tsunami after initial waves raised the ocean surface by about 40 centimetres (16 inches) at Omaezaki, Shizuoka.A large landslide triggered by the quake damaged a highway in the prefecture at Makinohara, causing long traffic jams.
Early warnings that the nearby Typhoon Etau could compound the damage by bringing heavy rains to the quake-hit region did not materialise when the typhoon veered east, heading away from the Japanese coast.Torrential rains from the typhoon had earlier caused at least 13 deaths from flooding and landslides in western Japan. The quake caused power failures in 9,500 households, utility officials said, while Central Japan Railway Co. suspended Shinkansen bullet trains in the quake-hit region before resuming the services several hours later. A strong earthquake had also hit central Japan late on Sunday. Around 20 percent of the world's most powerful quakes strike the country, which is located at the intersection of four tectonic plates.The Andaman Sea area also witnesses frequent earthquakes caused by the meeting of the Indian plate with the Burmese microplate along an area known as the Andaman trench.
PERSECUSSION,BEHEADINGS
JESUS PERSECUTED BIGTIME
PSALMS 14:1
1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
ISAIAH 53:4
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
MATTHEW 9:34
34 But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.
JOHN 8:41
41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
JOHN 10:20
20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
PHILIPPIANS 2:10-11(JESUS GETS REVENGE)
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.(JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST AND FOR SINNERS, THE GREAT WHITE THRONE FINAL JUDGEMENT).
WE ARE CHRISTIANS WE WILL BE TREATED THE SAME.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5 (WHY WE ARE PERSECUTED BY THE WORLD)
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
MATTHEW 5:10-12
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
MATTHEW 24:9
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
JOHN 15:18-20
18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me (JESUS) before it hated you.
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
REVELATION 6:9-11
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain(BEHEADED) for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
REVELATION 20:4
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
HIPPOCRITE TOVIA SINGER PUTS DOWN THE TRINITY (HIS OWN MESSIAH GOD JESUS)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlD-zWa0ODc&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgA6gyv2ICE&feature=player_embedded
SINGER AGAINST JEWS FOR JESUS
http://www.tangle.com/view_video?viewkey=4612c6b5374587f20524
BENEI NOAH ARE JUST EX CHRISTIANS WHO DEFECT FROM JESUS,NOW DENY HIM,HATE HIM-BUT CLAIM THEIR NOW JEWS REBORN AND LOVE GOD AND OBEY HIS 7 COMMANDMENTS.SEE THE HIPPOCROCY IN THIS MOVEMENT.TRUE CHRISTIANS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS FALSE DENY JESUS MOVEMENT.
http://7for70.net/en/?topic=home
http://www.noahide.com/7laws.htm
http://www.bneinoah.org/
http://www.highcouncilofbnainoah.org/
TAMAR YONAH WILL BE THE FIRST TO ACCEPT JESUS AS GOD AND THEIR MESSIAH FROM ISRAEL NATIONAL RADIO AS SHE AT LEAST DOES PROPHECY SHOWS WHICH SAYS SHE BELIEVES IN TRUTH AND HER EYES WILL OPEN TO JESUS AS GOD AND MESSIAH OF ISRAEL AND THE WHOLE WORLD.TOVIA AND YISHAI WILL BE THE LEAST LIKELY TO ACCEPT JESUS AS GOD AND MESSIAH.
WHAT WILL THE 3RD TEMPLE BE LIKE AND THE FUTURE
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/1281
Slandering Christian Zionists Tuesday, 11 August 2009 05:16
Christian supporters of Israel
It is often said that ridiculing Christians and their beliefs is the last acceptable form of bigotry. Ultra-secular critics on the left, of course, usually scoff at this notion. But sometimes an example of anti-Christian bile comes along that is so blatant, misleading and littered with judgmental smugness, that I find it difficult to remain silent.Consider the left-wing organization J Street, which claims to be a pro-Israel advocacy group, but which, oddly enough, never misses a chance to slam Israeli policies, particularly when the Jewish State dares defend itself against Islamic terrorism. J Street released a bordering-on-hysteria press release last month to coincide with the annual Christians United for Israel (CUFI) conference in Washington, D.C. Here is the most relevant excerpt:J Street opposes an unholy alliance between right-wing Christian Zionist evangelicals and pro-Israel organizations. Besides being out of step with fundamental Jewish American values, Hagee’s so-called support for Israel is actually a means to an apocalyptic end of destruction or conversion for the Jewish people.In our search for allies in the fight to keep Israel secure, American Jews should neither compromise our core Jewish values of tolerance and justice, nor gloss over the reality of the damage the settlement enterprise causes to Israel and the prospects for peace.Where to begin? First off, let’s try a little experiment. Substitute devout, Koran-believing Muslims or Torah-believing Jews for right-wing Christian Zionists.The outcry from leftist groups like J Street would undoubtedly be loud and intense. But slander Christian evangelicals as J Street does in this outrageously bigoted press release, and it registers nary a blip on the radar of the mainstream media or most civil rights groups.
Indeed, J Street’s statement goes far beyond criticizing the views of Pastor John Hagee, who organized the CUFI conference. The group is, of course, perfectly free to criticize Hagee if it disagrees with his personal viewpoints. This is a free country. But by tarring all evangelical Christian supporters of Israel as part of some sinister movement that is unholy,apocalyptic and destructive for the Jewish people, J Street descends into stereotyping and demonization of the worst kind.Since I spent two full days covering the CUFI conference at the Washington Convention Center on July 21 and 22 (watch my report on the event here and read my blog entry here), let me give some personal observations on what I saw and heard-and what J Street is so contemptuous of.Not once-in the course of some 20 hours of coverage and countless conversations with conference-goers-did I hear the terms apocalypse, Armageddon, Antichrist,or End Times,mentioned. Nor did I hear any discussion of the Book of Revelation or of converting Jews. I realize this may come as a shock to J Street, which apparently views such events as fire-and-brimstone hatefests complete with snake taming and calls to nuke Mecca. What I witnessed instead were thousands of attendees, Christian, Jewish and secular, expressing a genuine, deep and heartfelt love for the Land of Israel-its history, beauty and legacy—and especially, its people. As you can see from my report, the place was literally a sea of Israeli and American flags: a true celebration of the Jewish State. There were Hebrew prayers, Hebrew songs, shofars, Torah readings and passionate speeches by Jewish leaders, lawmakers and religious figures. There were also some tears shed. I know it may all sound very kumbaya,but I have covered countless manufactured, shallow mega-events in DC over the past six years and let me tell you: what I saw at CUFI was 100 percent genuine.If this was the kind of doom-and-gloom affair that J Street alludes to, I must have missed it. So must have Senator Joe Lieberman, Rep. Shelley Berkley and talk radio hosts Dennis Prager and Michael Medved: all prominent, proud Jews who spoke at the CUFI gala.Since the folks at J Street obviously have a very narrow view of what it means to be a Christian supporter of Israel, let me enlighten them a bit by sharing my own personal story. I was raised in a heavily Catholic area of working class Philadelphia by a father who was a veteran of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division. Not surprisingly, my Dad was a big military history buff and a close follower of current events. He passed those passions on to my brother and me. By the time I reached my teen years, we would stay up, sometimes into the wee hours, discussing history’s great empires, battles and military leaders.Maybe it was the fact that we Philly guys always love an underdog. But my dad was one tough dude, and there was no country he admired more for its grit and determination than Israel.That tiny sliver of land,he used to marvel.They’re surrounded by enemies on all sides. And yet still they pull off victory after victory. Those are some tough Jews! From Moshe Dayan to Entebbe, from King David to Camp David, through my father, I became well acquainted with Israeli history in my formative years and developed a lasting admiration for the Land and its people. As I reached high school, I was also fortunate enough to develop great friendships with Jewish teammates, teachers and coaches.Nowhere did my religious beliefs factor into those friendships. As a matter of fact, all of this happened years before I even picked up a Bible or began taking my Christianity seriously. Interestingly enough, I found that my buddies from the neighborhood in Philly shared my positive view of Israel. They may not have been big observers of geopolitics, but they were hugely patriotic. common sense told them that the Israelis were fighting the good fight and were kindred spirits: a free, democratic people who were loyal allies of the United States.
When I finally did get around to picking up a Bible about seven years ago, I discovered a startling thing: this Book was essentially a history of Israel and the Jewish people up until the first century AD. Even more jarring to my senses was the realization that Jesus was a Jewish rabbi who fiercely loved his fellow Jews. His mother, Mary, was also a Jew. So were all twelve apostles. In fact, Christianity was founded by—you guessed it—Jews. In addition, Abraham, Moses, Joseph, King David and all the Old Testament heroes who I had grown to love and admire so much were Israeli Jews. I began to realize that Christianity owed a huge debt to Israel and the Jewish people. It may sound crazy to some, but let’s face it: this is both a historically and biblically undeniable fact, and-apologies to J Street-has nothing to do with the end of the world.Bringing it back to the secular level, the friendships I have developed with Israeli colleagues over the past six years, and especially my trip to Israel last November, have solidified my support for the country. As if I didn’t realize it before, walking through the besieged city of Sderot and seeing Hamas missiles literally stamped Made in Iran truly brought home the fact that Israel’s enemies are America’s enemies. We share a common radical Islamic foe that seeks our destruction. That alone is reason enough for mutual understanding and support.I strongly suspect that the vast majority of attendees at the CUFI conference view Israel in a similar way. Or as JTA’s Eric Fingerhut—who also covered the event—puts it:I've talked to enough Christian Zionists over the past few years to believe that for the vast majority of them, their support for the Jewish state is genuinely motivated by Genesis's admonitition that God will bless those who bless the Jewish people, as well as their respect for Judaism as a foundation for Christianity or even their general beliefs about U.S. foriegn policy.In closing, if J Steet truly has Israel’s best interests at heart, why on earth would it seek to alienate an estimated 70 million American evangelical Christians who are strongly inclined towards Israel during a time of great need? What is really going on here? And when will J Street issue an apology to evangelicals for its inflammatory CUFI press release? by Erick Stakelbeck Frontpage.
China urges more global effort for Mideast peace Mon Aug 10, 2:57 pm ET
AMMAN (AFP) – China said on Monday the international community should lend more support to Israel and the Palestinians to help them resume peace talks and end their conflict.A two-state solution does not only require efforts by Israel and the Palestinians, it also needs more international support to help resume peace negotiations as soon as possible, visiting Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi told his Jordanian counterpart Nasser Judeh at a meeting, according to a statement.China backs all efforts to create a suitable environment for a just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East.The Jordanian foreign ministry statement said Judeh and Yang stressed that peace efforts should lead to serious negotiations.China plays a key role in supporting the Middle East peace process,said Judeh, whose country signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994.Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman warned on Monday against attempting to impose a Middle East deal, saying the most peace talks can achieve in coming years is to improve security and the Palestinian economy.US President Barack Obama has vowed to work vigorously to end the decades-old conflict and his administration is attempting to put the faltering Middle East peace talks back on track.
LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
Mideast peace unlikely in coming years: Israeli FM by Leigh Baldwin – Mon Aug 10, 10:58 am ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israel's foreign minister warned on Monday against attempting to impose a Middle East deal, saying the most peace talks can achieve for the coming year is improving security and the Palestinian economy.The Palestinians' radical and uncompromising positions on Jerusalem, the right of return and the settlement blocs create an unbridgeable gap between us and them, Avigdor Lieberman told a delegation of US Democratic lawmakers.Therefore, Israeli policy must be based on reality and not illusion while maintaining the dialogue between us and the Palestinians, improving security arrangements and the economic condition of the Palestinians.This is the maximum we can reach in the coming years, Lieberman's office quoted the ultra-nationalist minister as saying.US President Barack Obama has vowed to work vigorously to end the decades-old conflict and his administration is attempting to put the faltering Middle East peace talks back on track following their suspension in December.The United States is also putting heavy pressure on hawkish Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to freeze settlement construction in the occupied West Bank -- a key Palestinian demand for talks to resume.
But Lieberman warned against any attempt to impose a peace deal.
Any other extravagant goal such as imposing an agreement that is limited in time, would again end in failure, disappointment and even confrontation,he told the US delegation.This is a realistic policy and all the rest is spin, public relations and lack of understanding of the processes taking place at this time.Lieberman on Monday also lashed out at Nadav Tamir, Israel's consul in Boston who had warned in a leaked memo that the government's policies on settlements were harming ties with the United States.Anyone who disagrees with, and is uncomfortable with government policies can resign,his spokesman quoted him as saying.Washington has repeatedly called for a total freeze on Jewish settlement construction.Last week Israel drew the ire of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after two Palestinian families were evicted from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah area of east Jerusalem.President Shimon Peres later told the delegation Israel had agreed to stop building new settlements and that the only unresolved issue was construction within the bounds of those already there.The only point where we disagree with America is on building in existing settlements,he said.I believe this is negotiable.Peres also said Israel and the Palestinians were for now incapable of agreeing over key sticking point Jerusalem.I know that there is a solution for Jerusalem for the future,he said.But right now we cannot achieve it.
Israel occupied east Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day War and later annexed it, but the Palestinians see the city as the capital of their future state.Interior Minister Eli Yishai said, however, that Israel must continue building in settlements on the outskirts of Jerusalem.I hope we can convince the Americans to allow this construction,Yishai told reporters.
Another Tack: (Trans) Jordan is Palestine
Monday, 10 August 2009 14:52 News from Jerusalem
King Abdullah with Abbas-If anyone can lay claim to consummate mastery of the thriving art of history-forging, it's the Jordanians. Their entire state, nationhood and very identity are counterfeit. Had the international community not been sympathetically predisposed to lap up the lie, Jordan obviously couldn't pull it off. Its wholesale fabrication hinges on a world that contentedly collaborates in hoodwinking itself.So deceit blithely marches on.Its latest installment is the artificially concocted kingdom's decision to strip untold numbers of Palestinians of Jordanian citizenship. Those who were Jordanian for decades suddenly aren't. It's like the infamous Soviet encyclopedias' loose-leaf pages, which were removed and replaced with the latest authoritative versions of what once was.The past is ever-malleable in the service of current agendas.According to Jordanian Interior Minister Nayef al-Kadi, the aim is to preempt the possibility of anyone resurrecting reminders that Jordan is part and parcel of what's called Palestine. It's indeed the largest chunk thereof. That being the case, Palestinians - whether born east or west of the Jordan River - are Jordan's natural citizens (regardless of whatever name it or they adopt). Kadi, under his monarch's orders, is now out to underscore the falsehood that Jordan is not Palestine just as Palestine is not Jordan.Thereby no future peace deal could rubber-stamp Jordanian domicile for so-called Palestinians. Instead they'd be driven to overrun Israel and turn it into the third Arab state in the original jurisdiction of the post-World War I British Mandate over Palestine.
Otherwise Jordan would forfeit all proceeds from the gargantuan deception it labored so hard to market to a world eager to be deceived - i.e., the synthetic Jordanian and Palestinian ethnicities, along with the notion that these recent-vintage nationalities are dissimilar from each other and deserve self-determination in separate homelands: Jordan and Palestine.This cock-and-bull contention begat the image of the stateless Palestinians - aggrieved indigenous inhabitants striving desperately to throw off the yoke of foreign (Jewish) occupation.Until 1948 Palestine was synonymous with the Hebrew Eretz Yisrael. The Palestinian epithet was largely reserved for Jews and used by them. Local Arabs preferred allegiance to Greater Syria or Iraq.Golda Meir used to quip: I am a Palestinian, but don't like the name. Palestine is a name the Romans gave Eretz Yisrael with the express purpose of infuriating defeated Jews... Why should we use a spiteful name meant to humiliate us?... Christendom inherited the name from Rome and the British chose to call the land they mandated Palestine. Local Arabs picked it up as their nation's supposed ancient name, though they couldn't even pronounce it correctly, and turned it into Filastin, a fictional entity.Palestine/Filastin never had an independent existence, cultural uniqueness, linguistic distinctiveness or religious idiosyncrasy to differentiate it from the surrounding Arab milieu.Moreover, the British Mandate in Palestine extended over both banks of the Jordan. In 1921, 78 percent of what the League of Nations designated as the national home of the Jewish people was ripped off and presented as a gift to Abdullah, son of Sharif Hussein ibn Ali, Mecca's Hashemite emir (also self-proclaimed caliph of all Muslims). Hussein later (1924) lost control of Islam's holiest city and surrounding Hejaz to a rival clan, the Saudis. Had he won, we'd be speaking today of Hashemite Arabia. As is, we're saddled with Hashemite Jordan.Out to recompense their Hashemite lackeys, the Brits enthroned Abdullah's younger brother Faisal as king of Greater Syria. After the French expelled Faisal, London manufactured for him a make-believe realm called Iraq. His grandson Faisal II was deposed, executed and his corpse dragged through Baghdad's streets in 1958, but England's unnatural Iraqi fusion remains and continues to disturb the world.Abdullah sought the title of emir of Palestine. Britain made him settle for Transjordan. No Transjordanian nation appears in human chronicles. It was conceived on Palestinian soil by Perfidious Albion. That was the first division of Palestine.
In 1950, Transjordan annexed the West Bank (the name they gave the territory occupied after the Arab invasion of new-born Israel in 1948) and became the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Its leaders, including the late King Hussein, stressed over and over in numerous pronouncements that Jordan and Palestine are one and the same.So did Palestinian leaders, including Yasser Arafat. The Palestinian Covenant, in fact, covets all of Jordan - precisely because it's Palestine.Yet eventually it became expedient, PR-wise, to claim that Palestine exists exclusively west of the mini-river, justifying the campaign for a second Palestinian Arab state.Fearing that his Palestinian subjects would topple their imported Hashemite rulers, Hussein kicked out the PLO in Black September 1970. Too bad. Had he failed, Arafat would have taken Amman over and nobody could today deny that Palestine is divided among Jews and Arabs, with the Arabs owning nearly four-fifths thereof.Now Hussein's son Abdullah II seeks to rewrite history once more in the well-trodden Jordanian tradition. His father dropped the claim to what he branded the West Bank but didn't revive the ludicrous moniker of Transjordan. After 17 years of annexation (1950-67), the Jordan trademark gained global acceptance. It rang authentic. Why then return to the obvious fake? Jordan's population, though, is overwhelmingly Palestinian. The only exceptions are the Beduin who accompanied Abdullah I from Hejaz. Like the Hashemites, they're foreigners. Now these outsiders design to delegitimize the natives. Expectedly, governments and human rights NGOs worldwide are silent.Jordan was born of fraud, which it's fated thereafter to prop up via unremitting retroactive repairs to the past - even the distant past. Not too many years back Jordan TV aired a documentary on Jerusalem portraying ancient Jebusites as Arabs.Of course, were the Hebrews not the People of the Book, those Jerusalem-area Canaanites known as Jebusites would have never made their exceedingly fleeting appearance on the pages of history, or on JTV.
For anyone who forgot the brief biblical references, the Jebusites were the folks from whom King David conquered a wee hamlet he later turned into his capital. The books of Judges and Ezra indicate they intermarried and assimilated among the Israelites.Posthumously Arabizing these Jebusites presumably establishes an Arab claim to Zion. JTV concomitantly magnified the Jebusites' contribution to mankind to proportions that would have doubtlessly astounded them. JTV outrightly expunged Jews from Jerusalem's annals, save for one abrupt but indispensable appearance in the Judenrein city. Villainous Jews arrived suddenly out of nowhere and stayed just long enough to crucify Jesus, described as a Palestinian Arab prophet.JTV even treated us to recipes from the Jebusite kitchen. These would have altogether floored the long-lost Jebusites, as it appears that their favorite ingredients were tomatoes and chili peppers, which, alas, only reached the Old World 2,500 years later, when Spaniards brought them back from America.Perhaps, however, the enterprising Jebusites beat Columbus there, thus establishing an Arab claim to the Western Hemisphere. Any claim that Jordan isn't Palestine is just as unimpeachable.jpost.
Barak brings Torah to synagogue in Muslim Quarter
Monday, 10 August 2009 04:53 News from Jerusalem
Barak (R) and the new Torah scroll (Photo Ariel Hermoni, Defense Ministry)Defense Minister Ehud Barak took part Sunday evening in a ceremony welcoming a new scroll of the Torah at the Ohel Yitzhak Synagogue located on the margins of the Muslim Quarter in Jerusalem's Old City, not far from the Western Wall.The synagogue was renovated from funds donated by Jewish-American millionaire Erwin Moskowitz, who made headlines recently due to his involvement in a construction project in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, where he plans to build 22 housing units for Jewish residents.The Sheikh Jarrah project sparked a row worldwide, with the United States, Russia, France and many other countries condemning Israel's plan to build in the area.
Barak arrived at the synagogue ceremony on the backdrop of harsh protest and pressure by the international community against the government's legitimization for the housing of Jews in the eastern part of the city.An official at Barak's office rejected the claims, saying that the defense minister does not have to apologize for taking part in a ceremony welcoming a new Scroll of the Torah at a synagogue which has existed since 1867.The official said that the defense minister took part in a ceremony at a synagogue located in the Western Wall and that the Torah scroll was donated by friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers in the United states.The synagogue building is sponsored by Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovich, but is physically located within the Muslim Quarter.The synagogue in question was inaugurated last September, after being renovated and reconstructed with a donation from Moskowitz, who helps Religious Zionism associations buy houses and buildings in Jerusalem neighborhoods where the population is mostly comprised of Arab residents.Minister Barak said during the ceremony, We are now several days after Tisha B'Av and remember very well why the First Temple was ruined and why the Second Temple was ruined, also because of unfounded hatred.We should implement the lessons of those days at that time. We bear the responsibility in our country and for the State of Israel's security and for the security of Jews' lives anywhere in the world and we must always remember that despite all the disagreements between us, we are all brothers. We have the land, the security and the knowledge that we are brothers.
The minister need not apologize
The defense minister's office said in response to Ynet's inquiry, Not one of us had an idea that the synagogue is not part of the Western Wall compound. We had no idea that Moskowitz is one of the benefactors of the synagogue renovations.The Torah scroll that was brought there was a donation from the Falik family, a friend of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers. The defense minister need not apologize for attending a ceremony for introducing a new Torah scroll to a synagogue, which was established by Jews already 142 years ago.The area of the Western Wall complex, next to which is the said synagogue, has in recent years been at the heart of another controversy. Israel plans on building a new bridge over Mugrabi Gate. Prime Minister Netanyahu recently rejected these plans out of concern that decisions made on the eve of the Ramadan holiday could ignite Jerusalem streets and cause an international outcry.Another example of the flammable state of affairs in east Jerusalem took place Saturday night when a number of National Union Knesset members toured the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, causing clashes to break out between Arab and Jewish residents there. Five people were arrested on suspicion of throwing stones. Two others were detained for investigation under suspicion that they endangered lives on a major thoroughfare. No injuries or damage were reported in the incident.ynet.
Text of letter 71 senators ask Obama to pressure Arab states
Tuesday, 11 August 2009 05:43 News from Jerusalem
Dear Mr. President:
We write in support of your efforts to encourage Arab states to normalize relations with the State of Israel. In your June 4th address to the Muslim world, you highlighted the key role that Arab states can play in furthering the peace process and called on them to openly recognize Israel’s legitimacy. Secretary Clinton underscored these remarks when she stated that Arab countries have a responsibility to support the Palestinian Authority with words and deeds, to take steps to improve relations with Israel and to prepare their publics to embrace peace and accept Israel’s place in the region.We applaud these comments and agree with you and Secretary Clinton that Arab states must do more to end their isolation of Israel.Over the past few months Israel has taken concrete measures to reaffirm its commitment to advancing the peace process. Notably, Prime Minister Netanyahu has publically expressed support for the two-state solution and called for the immediate resumption of peace negotiations. We have also been encouraged by Israeli efforts to improve the daily lives of Palestinians, through measures such as removing roadblocks, assisting with economic development in the West Bank, and supporting the training of professional Palestinian Authority security personnel. These actions have demonstrated that Israel is willing to back up its words with concrete actions, even in the face of continuing threats to its security.We encourage Arab leaders to take similar tangible steps to demonstrate their commitment to the peace process. Such steps could include ending the Arab League boycott of Israel, meeting openly with Israeli officials, establishing open trade relations with Israel, issuing visas to Israeli citizens, and inviting Israelis to participate in academic and professional conferences and sporting events. We also believe that Arab states must immediately and permanently end official propaganda campaigns which demonize Israel and Jews.
Given these facts, we would like to understand what steps you are urging Arab states to take and what your expectations are from Arab states in the coming weeks and months. We also hope that you will continue to press Arab leaders to consider dramatic gestures toward Israel similar to those taken previously by brave leaders like King Hussein of Jordan and Anwar El-Sadat of Egypt. Such gestures would send a powerful signal that Arab nations are committed to the peace process and could help usher in a new era of peace and security in the Middle East.Respectfully,IMRA.
How Fatah has evolved into the Palestinian Ba'ath party
Tuesday, 11 August 2009 04:58 News from Jerusalem
Fatah's sixth General Assembly has shown that the 44-year-old faction is still not ready to transform itself from a revolutionary movement into a governing body - one that cares about establishing institutions and infrastructure for a future Palestinian state.Instead, Fatah seems determined more than ever to maintain its status as a national liberation movement.In light of the conference, many Palestinians are beginning to draw parallels between Fatah and Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party. As far as they are concerned, Fatah remains part of the problem and not part of any solution.The fiery rhetoric of the delegates and the signs and graffiti on the walls of the conference hall in Bethlehem are testimony that Fatah continues to live in the past and not in the present.Moreover, most of the resolutions that were adopted by the 2,000 Fatah delegates appear as if they were taken directly out of the fifth General Assembly that was held in Tunis two decades ago.The conference is about to conclude its meeting by endorsing almost the same political platform that has been accompanying Fatah since its founding.Delegates spent more time talking about the past than the present or future. They chose to blame Israel and Hamas for almost all the miseries that have hit Fatah and the Palestinians in recent years.The delegates spent more time attacking Israel and Hamas than discussing the reasons behind Fatah's defeat in the January 2006 parliamentary election and its expulsion from the Gaza Strip a year later.
For some time during the conference, one got the impression that Israel and Hamas were responsible for Fatah's financial corruption and incompetence.Had it not been for the security fence and the construction in settlements, Fatah would be less corrupt. And had it not been for Hamas's violent takeover of the Gaza Strip, Fatah would have succeeded in turning the Palestinian territories into the Middle East's Hong Kong.In short, everyone is to blame for the miseries of the Palestinians and Fatah except for Fatah.Instead of forming committees to look into ways of reforming Fatah, injecting fresh blood into its veins and restoring its lost credibility among a majority of Palestinians, the delegates preferred to establish a commission of inquiry to investigate the death of Arafat.Why is there a need for such a commission if Fatah has already (and unanimously) determined that Israel was behind the assassination of the Palestinian leader? And why establish a commission of inquiry into the defeat of Fatah in the 2006 election when every Palestinian knows that Hamas won that vote largely because of the state of financial corruption and anarchy under the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority? Most of the Fatah officials who appeared before the gathering spoke and acted as if they were still in the battlefields of Lebanon and Jordan.In scenes reminiscent of the last Fatah conference 20 years ago, old slogans such as Revolution Until Victory,Long Live Palestine and Fatah Will Liberate Palestine were issued by almost all the speakers who took the podium.
Political resolutions adopted by the conference also served as a reminder that Fatah has not changed much despite the Oslo Accords and the departure of its founder and leader.
Leaving no room for doubt that Fatah is not headed toward moderation, one resolution stated that the faction remains committed to its status as a national liberation movement whose goal is to defeat the occupation and achieve independence for the Palestinians. Fatah is part of the Arab liberation movement.Regarding the issue of armed struggle against Israel, Fatah chose ambiguity over straight talk. Aware of the sensitivity surrounding the use of the explosive term - armed struggle - and to avoid a clash with US and European donors, Fatah is now talking about its right to pursue the resistance against Israel in all methods and forms. To Western audiences, Fatah leaders can always argue that they are actually talking about a peaceful resistance where Palestinians, together with Israeli and international activists, hold weekly demonstrations and marches in protest against Israeli policies and measures.On the other hand, the Fatah leaders can always defend their decision to replace the armed struggle term with the need to win the backing (and money) of the West. In addition, they can also explain that the resistance they are talking about includes the right to resort to armed struggle against Israel.Fatah after the conference remains the same Fatah it was before the meeting in Bethlehem. The Fatah leadership did not even see any need to provide its delegates with a report about the financial and administrative performance of the faction over the past 20 years. Why bother to do so when Israel is continuing to build in settlements and when Hamas retains its tight grip on the Gaza Strip? jpost.
Israelis warned not to go to Sinai
Tuesday, 11 August 2009 12:09 News from Jerusalem
Sinai, so near yest so far. Photo Ariel Jerozolimski.Counter-Terrorism Bureau warns Hezb'allah wants to avenge Mughniyeh's death by hurting Israelis.The Counter-Terrorism Bureau issued a warning Tuesday against traveling to Sinai at the current time and during the upcoming holidays in September.The bureau stressed that Hezb'allah continues to accuse Israel of the death of Imad Mughniyeh, which increases threats of terror made by Hezb'allah towards Israeli targets abroad.The bureau warns of kidnapping and injury of Israelis abroad, stressing especially the threat to businessmen who have contact with colleagues from Arab or Muslim countries.Among the countries listed under very serious concrete threat are Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Syria, Lebanon, Somalia, Yemen, and Afghanistan. Colombia is considered dangerous only for Israelis rendering security services to the Colombian government. Israelis currently staying in these countries are urged to leave immediately.The list also includes a number of specific regions in countries considered safer for travel, such as Sinai, where a large Hezb'allah cell was recently exposed. Chechnya, Kashmir, and the Mindanao Islands of the Philippines are also listed.The bureau also warns against visiting countries listed under serious concrete threat, which include Algiers, Djibouti, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Pakistan.ynet.
State Department considers Jerusalem outside Israel
Tuesday, 11 August 2009 15:03 News from Jerusalem
U.S. citizens born in Jerusalem have birth certificates which note the city of birth, not the country.A law was passed requiring the State Dept. to list the country, Israel.However, the State Dept. will not do so. U.S. citizens sued for a correction. The D.C. Court of Appeals dismissed the lawsuit as an infringement on executive branch conduct of foreign policy, calling the matter political.Actually, the Constitution grants the executive and legislative branches certain foreign policy prerogatives (press release from Zionist Organization of America, headquartered in NY City and one of the complainants in a suit in behalf of an American born in Israel, 7/15.)I think this is a factual issue.The State Dept. acts contrary to the facts. Why? What does State Dept. action here indicate about U.S. policy? It indicates that, although Israel controls Jerusalem, and every country names its capital within its jurisdiction even if contested, and although Israel annexed eastern Jerusalem as is its rights under two conditions of international law (as heir to the unallocated territory in the Palestine Mandate and as security against repeated aggression), the U.S. does not recognize Israeli sovereignty in the western or in eastern parts.
This means that the State Dept., should it succeed in pushing Israel out of the Territories and the Golan Heights, would then thrust against Israeli retention of all of Jerusalem. It means that the State Dept. want to transfer much of Israel out of Jewish sovereignty into Arab sovereignty, according to the non-viable dimensions that the General Assembly merely recommended in 1947. There is no legal basis for this, just traditional State Dept. anti-Zionism.Non-viable means that the truncated and separated sections could neither contain Israel’s population nor be defended. It means the end of Israel.It means that the Arabs finally would get to slaughter the Jews there. The State Dept. would be facilitating a second Holocaust even more directly than it facilitated the first one. So much for the special relationship between the U.S. and Israel! by Richard Shulman Examiner.
Netanyahu: Lebanon will pay if Hezb'allah attacks
Tuesday, 11 August 2009 06:39 News from Jerusalem
Netanyahu It cannot hide and say It's Hezb'allah, we don't control themI.Israel will hold Lebanon responsible for any future Hezb'allah attack should the Iranian- and Syrian-backed militia be brought into Beirut's incoming government, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday.Though U.S.-backed Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Saad al-Hariri bested Hezb'allah in a June ballot, he is holding talks on a new coalition expected to include the Shi'ite group and its allies. Hezb'allah has a minister in the outgoing cabinet.Israel fought Hezb'allah in its southern Lebanese bastions in a 2006 war but has accused the guerrillas of rearming under the noses of UN peacekeepers and plotting attacks on Israelis to avenge the assassination of top militia Imad Mugniyeh last year.Some analysts believe that Israel, which has hinted it could attack Iran's nuclear facilities, also wants to blunt Hezb'allah's ability to serve as a retaliatory arm of Tehran.If Hezb'allah joins the Lebanese government as an official entity, let it be clear that the Lebanese government, as far as we are concerned, is responsible for any attack -- any attack -- from its area on the state of Israel,Netanyahu told reporters.It cannot hide and say: It's Hezb'allah, we don't control them.Triggered by Hezb'allah's capture of two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid, the 2006 summer war exacted a heavy toll on Lebanese infrastructure. Some 1,200 people in Lebanon, mostly civilians, and 158 Israelis, mostly soldiers, were killed.
Borderline calm
Israel credits the offensive with keeping the border largely quiet since, but Hezb'allah has said it is ready to fight again and is determined to hit back for the Feb. 12, 2008 killing of its military mastermind, Imad Mugniyeh, in a Damascus car-bombing.Israel denied involvement in that slaying, and has warned that Hezb'allah and Lebanon would bear the consequences for any reprisals against Israelis abroad.
Netanyahu's threat followed similar comments by Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon in recent days. The spiraling rhetoric has stirred speculation on both sides of the frontier that a fresh conflict could be in the making.Senior Hezb'allah leader Sayyed Hashim Safieddin said on Sunday that if Israel attacked Lebanon again, the group's response would make the 2006 war seem like a joke, Lebanese media reported.Asked about Netanyahu's remarks, Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor said they were intended to preserve the quiet through deterrence. But he also made clear that Israel regards its neighbor as a potential Iranian proxy.Hezb'allah is a terror organization that has become a semi-army. Basically, it is a branch of Iran on our northern border, with Syria's consent and with Lebanon's consent. This is not a healthy phenomenon,Meridor told Israel Radio.
Assumed to have the Middle East's only atomic arsenal, Israel has questioned the efficacy of U.S.-led efforts to curb Iran's nuclear program through diplomacy. Iran denies seeking the bomb but has stoked regional jitters with virulently anti-Israel statements and support for Hezb'allah and Palestinian Islamist militants similarly arrayed against the Jewish state.Tension continued to mount Monday in southern Lebanon after Israeli forces reportedly advanced to the area of the Shaba farms, forcing the Lebanese army on alert, a Lebanese army source said.The source said three armored Israeli vehicles, accompanied by a civilian car, advanced towards Shaba Farms, located at the junction of south-east Lebanon, south-west Syria and northern Israel.Israel seized the 25-square-kilometre swath of land rich in water resources from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war when it captured the neighboring Golan Heights, which it later annexed.Since then, the Shaba Farms have been caught in a tug-of-war between the three nations. Lebanon claims, with the backing of Syria, that Shaba is Lebanese. Meanwhile, Israel says the area is part of Syria and that their fate should be discussed in future peace talks with Israel.The Lebanese army, stationed on its side of the border, has been placed on high alert, deploying tanks and positioning soldiers inside fortifications, the Lebanese military source added.
haaretz
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
WORLD MARKET RESULTS
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/
HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS WED AUG 12,2009
09:30 AM +1.53
10:00 AM +99.15
10:30 AM +120.89
11:00 AM +127.20
11:30 AM +120.92
12:00 PM +125.07
12:30 PM +118.35
01:00 PM +120.54
01:30 PM +144.95
02:00 PM +122.20
02:30 PM +99.81
03:00 PM +168.30
03:30 PM +170.79
04:00 PM +120.16 9361.81
S&P 500 1005.81 +11.46
NASDAQ 1998.72 +28.99
GOLD 950.50 +2.90
OIL 70.30 +0.85
TSE 300 10,682.11 +52.64
CDNX 1186.02 +9.18
S&P/TSX/60 642.15 +3.18
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +5.30%
S&P +10.09%
Nasdaq +24.90%
TSX Advances 600,declines 937,unchanged 232,Volume 1,681,756,524.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 357,Declines 443,Unchanged 362,Volume 286,000,979.
Dow +10 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +144 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $945.70.OIL opens at $69.58 today.
INVENTORIES
CRUDE OIL +2.5 MILLION BARRELS.
GASOLINE -1 MILLION BARRELS.
REFINERY UTILIZATION -1% TO 83.5%
DISTILLATE +800,000 BARRELS.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today so far.
Dow +144 points at high today so far.
DAY TODAY PERFORMANCE - 12:30PM STATS
NYSE Advances 2,792,declines 813,unchanged 100,New Highs 46,New Lows 31.
Volume 2,776,112,831.
NASDAQ Advances 1,918,declines 675,unchanged 99,New highs 39,New Lows 08.
Volume 905,844,555.
TSX Advances 839,declines 493,unchanged 248,Volume 791,642,952.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 292,Declines 314,Unchanged 286,Volume 137,609,534.
FOMC (FED REPORT) 2:20PM AUG 12,09
http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomc.htm
FED FUNDS UNCHANCHED 0-0.25%
DISCOUNT RATE UNCHANGED 0.50% THESE RATES WILL BE STAYING LOW FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME.
THEY CLAIM THE ECONOMIC LEVEL IS LEVELING OUT (GOOD LUCK TO THAT STATEMENT).
THEY CLAIM HOUSING IS LEVELING OUT (LIES,HOGWASH).TO LOOK AT THE REST OF THE SO CALLED RECOVERY OF THE ECONOMY GO TO THE SITE I GOT ABOVE.THE WORDS STABALIZING AND LEVELING OUT ARE THROWN AROUND PRETTY LOOSLY BY THIS FED.AUDIT THE FED NOW.
THE FED HAS 282 HOUSE MEMBERS SIGNED UP AND 23 SENATE MEMBERS WHILE WERE ON AUDIT THE FED.REMEMBER $23.7 TRILLION GONE FOLKS TO OFFSHORE BANKERS.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +188 points at high today.
Dow +1.30% today Volume 197,404,938.
Nasdaq +1.47% today Volume 1,987,802,293.
S&P 500 +1.15% today Volume N/A
This is No Recession: It’s a Planned Demolition
Mike Whitney Infowars August 11, 2009
Credit is not flowing. In fact, credit is contracting. That means things aren’t getting better; they’re getting worse. When credit contracts in a consumer-driven economy, bad things happen. Business investment drops, unemployment soars, earnings plunge, and GDP shrinks. The Fed has spent more than a trillion dollars trying to get consumers to start borrowing again, but without success. The country’s credit engines are grinding to a halt.Bernanke has pulled out all the stops.Bernanke has increased excess reserves in the banking system by $800 billion, but lending is still slow. The banks are hoarding capital in order to deal with the losses from toxic assets, non performing loans, and a $3.5 trillion commercial real estate bubble that’s following housing into the toilet. That’s why the rate of bank failures is accelerating. 2010 will be even worse; the list is growing. It’s a bloodbath.The standards for conventional loans have gotten tougher while the pool of qualified credit-worthy borrowers has shrunk. That means less credit flowing into the system. The shadow banking system has been hobbled by the freeze in securitization and only provides a trifling portion of the credit needed to grow the economy. Bernanke’s initiatives haven’t made a bit of difference. Credit continues to shrivel.
The S&P 500 is up 50 percent from its March lows. The financials, retail, materials and industrials are leading the pack. It’s a Green Shoots Bear market rally fueled by the Fed’s Quantitative Easing (QE) which is forcing liquidity into the financial system and lifting equities. The same thing happened during the Great Depression. Stocks surged after 1929. Then the prevailing trend took hold and dragged the Dow down 89 percent from its earlier highs. The S&P’s March lows will be tested before the recession is over. Systemwide deleveraging is ongoing. That won’t change.No one is fooled by the fireworks on Wall Street. Consumer confidence continues to plummet. Everyone knows things are bad. Everyone knows the media is lying. Credit is contracting; the economy’s life’s blood has slowed to a trickle. The economy is headed for a hard landing.Bernanke has pulled out all the stops. He’s lowered interest rates to zero, backstopped the entire financial system with $13 trillion, propped up insolvent financial institutions and monetized $1 trillion in mortgage-backed securities and US sovereign debt. Nothing has worked. Wages are falling, banks are cutting lines of credit, retirement savings have been slashed in half, and home equity losses continue to mount. Living standards can no longer be bandaged together with VISA or Diners Club cards. Household spending has to fit within one’s salary. That’s why retail, travel, home improvement, luxury items and hotels are all down double-digits. The easy money has dried up.
According to Bloomberg:
Borrowing by U.S. consumers dropped in June for the fifth straight month as the unemployment rate rose, getting loans remained difficult and households put off major purchases. Consumer credit fell $10.3 billion, or 4.92 percent at an annual rate, to $2.5 trillion, according to a Federal Reserve report released today in Washington. Credit dropped by $5.38 billion in May, more than previously estimated. The series of declines is the longest since 1991. A jobless rate near the highest in 26 years, stagnant wages and falling home values mean consumer spending… will take time to recover even as the recession eases. Incomes fell the most in four years in June as one-time transfer payments from the Obama administration’s stimulus plan dried up, and unemployment is forecast to exceed 10 percent next year before retreating. (Bloomberg)What a mess. The Fed has assumed near-dictatorial powers to fight a monster of its own making, and achieved nothing. The real economy is still dead in the water. Bernanke is not getting any traction from his zero-percent interest rates. His monetization program (QE) is just scaring off foreign creditors. On Friday, Marketwatch reported:The Federal Reserve will probably allow its $300 billion Treasury-buying program to end over the next six weeks as signs of a housing recovery prompt the central bank to unwind one its most aggressive and unusual interventions into financial markets, big bond dealers say.Right. Does anyone believe the housing market is recovering? If so, please check out this chart and keep in mind that, in the first 6 months of 2009, there have already been 1.9 million foreclosures.The Fed is abandoning the printing presses (presumably) because China told Geithner to stop printing money or they’d sell their US Treasuries. It’s a wake-up call to Bernanke that the power is shifting from Washington to Beijing.That puts Bernanke in a pickle. If he stops printing; interest rates will skyrocket, stocks will crash and housing prices will tumble. But if he continues QE, China will dump their Treasuries and the greenback will vanish in a poof of smoke. Either way, the malaise in the credit markets will persist and personal consumption will continue to sputter.
The basic problem is that consumers are buried beneath a mountain of debt and have no choice except to curtail their spending and begin to save. Currently, the the ratio of debt to personal disposable income, is 128% just a tad below its all-time high of 133% in 2007. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco’s Economic Letter: US Household Deleveraging and Future Consumption Growth:The combination of higher debt and lower saving enabled personal consumption expenditures to grow faster than disposable income, providing a significant boost to U.S. economic growth over the period. In the long-run, however, consumption cannot grow faster than income because there is an upper limit to how much debt households can service, based on their incomes. For many U.S. households, current debt levels appear too high, as evidenced by the sharp rise in delinquencies and foreclosures in recent years. To achieve a sustainable level of debt relative to income, households may need to undergo a prolonged period of deleveraging, whereby debt is reduced and saving is increased.Going forward, it seems probable that many U.S. households will reduce their debt. If accomplished through increased saving, the deleveraging process could result in a substantial and prolonged slowdown in consumer spending relative to pre-recession growth rates.(U.S. Household Deleveraging and Future Consumption Growth, by Reuven Glick and Kevin J. Lansing, FRBSF Economic Letter)A careful reading of the FRBSF’s Economic Letter shows why the economy will not bounce back. It is mathematically impossible. We’ve reached peak credit; consumers have to deleverage and patch their balance sheets. Household wealth has slipped $14 trillion since the crisis began. Home equity has dropped to 41% (a new low) and joblessness is on the rise. By 2011, Duetsche Bank AG predicts that 48 percent of all homeowners with a mortgage will be underwater. As the equity position of homeowners deteriorates, banks will further tighten credit and foreclosures will mushroom.The executive board of the IMF does not share Wall Street’s rosy view of the future, which is why it issued a memo that stated:Directors observed that the crisis will have important implications for the role of the United States in the global economy. The U.S. consumer is unlikely to play the role of global buyer of last resort— other regions will need to play an increased role in supporting global growth.The United States will not be the emerge as the center of global demand following the recession. Those days are over. The world is changing and the US role is getting smaller. As US markets become less attractive to foreign exporters, the dollar will lose its position as the world’s reserve currency. As goes the dollar, so goes the empire. Want some advice: Learn Mandarin.
SAGGING EMPLOYMENT: A no new jobs recovery
July’s employment numbers came in better than expected (negative 247,000) lowering total unemployment from 9.5% to 9.4%. That’s good. Things are getting worse at a slower pace. What’s striking about the BLS report is that there’s no jobs-surge in any sector of the economy. No signs of life. Outsourcing and offshoring are ongoing, and downsizing is the new path to profitability. Businesses everywhere are anticipating weaker demand. The jobs report is a one-off event; a lull in the storm before the layoffs resume.Unemployment is rising, wages are falling and credit is contracting. In other words, the system is working exactly as designed. All the money is flowing upwards to the gangsters at the top. Here’s an excerpt from a recent Don Monkerud article that sums it all up:During eight years of the Bush Administration, the 400 richest Americans, who now own more than the bottom 150 million Americans, increased their net worth by $700 billion. In 2005, the top one percent claimed 22 percent of the national income, while the top ten percent took half of the total income, the largest share since 1928.Over 40 percent of GNP comes from Fortune 500 companies. According to the World Institute for Development Economics Research, the 500 largest conglomerates in the U.S. control over two-thirds of the business resources, employ two-thirds of the industrial workers, account for 60 percent of the sales, and collect over 70 percent of the profits.In 1955, IRS records indicated the 400 richest people in the country were worth an average $12.6 million, adjusted for inflation. In 2006, the 400 richest increased their average to $263 million, representing an epochal shift of wealth upward in the U.S.Wealth Inequality destroys US Ideals.Working people are not being crushed by accident, but according to plan. It is the way the system is supposed to work. Bernanke knows that sustained demand requires higher wages and a vital middle class. But what does he care. He’s not a public servant. He works for the banks. That’s why the Fed’s monetary policies reflect the goals of the investor class. Bubblenomics is not the way to a strong/sustainable economy, but it is an effective tool for shifting wealth from one class to another. The Fed’s job is to facilitate that objective, which is why the economy is headed for the rocks.The free market is a sham to conceal the crimes of the rich. Read Taibbi. Read Marx. Karl, not Groucho.The financial meltdown is the logical outcome of the Fed’s monetary policies. That’s why it’s a mistake to call the current slump a recession. It’s not. It’s a planned demolition.
EU opens dumping probe against industrial chemical from China Tue Aug 11, 1:34 pm ET
BRUSSELS (AFP) – The EU's competition watchdog on Tuesday opened anti-dumping procedures against imports from China of an industrial chemical mainly used to clean metal and glass.There is sufficient evidence to justify the initiation of an investigation into the complaint by the European Chemical Industry Council which believes that imports of the substance, sodium gluconate are being dumped and are thereby causing material injury to the community industry,the European Commission said in the official EU journal.The action is the latest measure taken by European authorities increasingly concerned about the effect of cheap products from China's massive workforce threatening EU manufacturers.Last month China asked the European Union for talks under the WTO's disputes procedure over one of the biggest anti-dumping cases against China, EU measures on imports of Chinese-made screws and bolts.
The sodium gluconate investigation could last up to 15 months under EU rules and the European Commission could impose tariffs on Chinese exports of sodium gluconate if its finds that the allegations are justified.The EU has already imposed such tariffs on a range of products ranging from steel to candles.
EU state aid to banks is one third of GDP
LUCIA KUBOSOVA 11.08.2009 @ 09:28 CET
The EU's main regulator has approved state aid to banks worth almost a third of the 27-member bloc's GDP - twice as much as predicted earlier, with the highest rescue funds in Ireland and with none paid out in several states of central and eastern Europe.According to a review published by the European Commission on Monday (10 August), between last October and mid-July 2009, the EU's executive approved guarantee measures designed to boost lenders' confidence worth €2.9 trillion and capital injections for struggling banks which amounted to €313 billion.The reaction, seen in Europe and beyond, came last autumn as the world got to grips with the worst financial and economic crisis since the 1930s.According to the principles agreed by EU leaders, the state aid was to restore financial stability and resume credit flows in economy but without unbalancing state budgets or damaging the functioning of the bloc's internal market.Based on these principles, Brussels filed a set of rules which the commission followed when approving national state aid schemes.In its June report, Brussels predicted that public aid to the banking sector would cost Europe up to 16.5 percent of GDP while the current figures suggest that several member states might have undermined future public finances in their attempt to save the banks. This implies increasing explicit future public debt levels or implicit future debt levels. However, it is too early to judge whether thus far the response of governments to the crisis has been disproportionate,the study said.
For most banks in individual countries, a six month period, initially set as the duration of the aid schemes has ended and it is up to the commission to decide which schemes are eligible for extensions for reasons of financial stability.There are deep differences among the member states and the level of their state intervention. Ireland, one of the EU countries most hit by the financial clampdown, received a green light from Brussels for aid representing 231.8 percent of its GDP and banks have taken up almost the whole package.In contrast, nine states - Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania and Slovakia - have not applied for permission to use public funds for such purposes.
Greenpeace dumps boulders in anti-trawling move
LISBETH KIRK 11.08.2009 @ 09:29 CET
Greenpeace boats sailed on Monday (10 August) into Swedish waters and began dumping 180 two-three tonne granite rocks on the seabed to prevent fishermen from using bottom trawling in areas under European Union protection.The area in Kattegat, between Denmark and Sweden, is mainly used by Danish fishermen but is listed under the EU's Habitat Directive because of its unique and rich sea life.Local authorities in Sweden would like to stop bottom trawling in the area, but the decision falls with EU authorities, which have allowed the practice despite the habitat register.Today it is nearly impossible for the responsible authorities in EU member states - in Sweden, the County Administrative Boards - to regulate fisheries which take place in areas designated as marine protected areas,said Greenpeace in Sweden in a briefing.Local fishermen tried on Monday to block the port of Varberg, where a large cargo ship loaded with tonnes of Greenpeace' granite blocks headed out to sea. The head of regional fishermen's association Hallandsfiskarna, Viking Bengtsson, declared at an earlier hearing that the placement of stones was unnecessary,but agreed that reformed fisheries management is needed in the region.The Danish minister responsible for fisheries, Eva Kjer Hansen, said the NGO's action was unacceptable vigilantism and called on her Swedish colleague to stop Greenpeace.It is for the authorities to decide where it is authorised to fish and were it is not authorised. The Greenpeace move is pure vigilantism, imposing losses of fishing opportunities on law-abiding Danish fishermen,Mrs Kjer Hansen said in a statement.She contacted her Swedish colleague Eskil Erlandsson and pointed out that it makes no sense to strike bilateral Danish-Swedish agreements about closing fisheries in certain areas to protect threatened species, if organisations take the law into their own hands and simply close areas to fishing.Sweden's fisheries minister Eskil Erlandsson has not stopped the dumping, however.He said in a comment published by Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter that fish do not recognise any borders and added that problems had to be solved between countries and through internal bodies.The demand from Greenpeace of a unilateral ban in the area concerned is without effect as the areas are covered by the EU's common fisheries policy. It means all countries in the EU hold rights to fish in the area. A ban on just Swedish fishermen would not work, he said.So far only Ireland has managed to introduce local restrictions on fisheries to protect marine environment, while Germany has launched a process to have more areas protected.
EU tries to put aid pressure on Niger
ANDREW RETTMAN 11.08.2009 @ 09:17 CET
The EU has threatened to end support for Niger after a referendum extending the president's rule. But uranium and oil companies could reduce the bloc's leverage. I regret that the recent holding of a referendum in Niger was outside the country's constitutional norms,EU development commissioner Karel de Gucht said in a statement on Monday (10 August).Daily life in Niger - one of Africa's poorest nations, heading to become world number two uranium exporter (Photo: etrenard)A rapid return by president Tandja to those constitutional norms would mean we don't have to open negotiations between the European Union and Niger ...and put our co-operation in danger.The remarks come after Niger authorities said 92.5 percent of people in a recent referendum voted in favour of keeping the president in power until at least 2012 and potentially for life.Opposition groups say just five percent of the population even took part. But pro-democracy campaigner Morou Amadou has landed in jail after calling for a general strike.
Denmark joined the EU commission in criticising events.
A new and more positive development in Niger is necessary in order for the Danish development co-operation to continue as before, Danish development minister Ulla Tornas said.The landlocked and arid Niger is among Africa's poorest countries with a GDP per head of less than €300.European Commission assistance is worth €458 million between 2008 and 2013, along with trade perks under the so-called Cotonou Agreement. Denmark has put on hold a bilateral €21 million water and sanitation project.But the aid sums are dwarfed by large-scale commercial investment in Niger's uranium and oil sector.French company Areva is currently building Africa's largest uranium mine in central Niger at a cost of €1.2 billion. Niger supplies 30 percent of France's uranium needs, with French criticism of its former colony sounding less sharp than Denmark's.Niger should return to its constitutional and democratic framework, a French foreign ministry official said on Monday, AFP reports.China National Petroleum Corporation last year also signed a €3.5 billion oil development deal with the country. China has kept silent on the referendum in line with its policy of non-intervention in sovereign states.
Palestinians get EU, Saudi aid worth $255 mln Mon Aug 10, 3:33 pm ET
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) – The cash-strapped Palestinian Authority has received 255 million dollars in aid from Saudi Arabia and the European Union, prime minister Salam Fayyad said on Monday.Oil-rich Saudi Arabia has ordered the transfer of 200 million dollars the Palestinian Authority, Fayyad told reporters at a ceremony during which the EU signed over to the Palestinians 39 million euros (55 million dollars).Fayyad said the Saudi aid was part of a one-billion-dollar financial assistance package pledged in January by Saudi King Abdullah to help the Palestinians deal with a steep financial crisis.I received a call from the Saudi finance minister, Ibrahim al-Assaf, who informed me of King Abdullah's decision to order the transfer of 200 million dollars to the Palestinian Authority's treasury,Fayyad said.The Palestinian Authority received pledges totalling some 12 billion dollars from international conferences in Paris in 2007 and Sharm el-Sheikh in March this year.But Fayyad has repeatedly complained that international donors have been slow to hand over the promised cash due to the political deadlock in the Middle East.During a visit to Norway in June he said that the PA needs 50 million dollars in international aid per month.And in May the Western-backed Palestinian Authority was forced to take out bank loans worth 530 million dollars to cover its operations.The latest EU aid brings to 207 million euros (around 293 million dollars) the total assistance received by the Palestinians from Europe since the beginning of the year.
According to Fayyad, the Palestinian Authority has received a total of 703 million dollars since the beginning of 2009 in international aid, excluding the 200 million dollars announced Monday by Saudi Arabia.US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced on July 24 that the United States had given 200 million dollars to the Palestinian Authority -- part of a 900-million-dollar aid package announced in March.
