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:
Firms with Obama ties profit from health push By SHARON THEIMER, Associated Press Writer – Wed Aug 19, 9:45 pm ET
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's push for a national health care overhaul is providing a financial windfall in the election offseason to Democratic consulting firms that are closely connected to the president and two top advisers.Coalitions of interest groups running at least $24 million in pro-overhaul ads hired GMMB, which worked for Obama's 2008 campaign and whose partners include a top Obama campaign strategist. They also hired AKPD Message and Media, which was founded by David Axelrod, a top adviser to Obama's campaign and now to the White House. AKPD did work for Obama's campaign, and Axelrod's son Michael and Obama's campaign manager David Plouffe work there.The firms were hired by Americans for Stable Quality Care and its predecessor, Healthy Economy Now. Each was formed by a coalition of interests with big stakes in health care policy, including the drug maker lobby PhRMA, the American Medical Association, the Service Employees International Union and Families USA, which calls itself The Voice for Health Care Consumers.Their ads press for changes in health care policy. Healthy Economy Now made one of the same arguments that Obama does: that health care costs are delaying the country's economic recovery and that changes are needed if the economy is to rebound.There is no evidence that Axelrod directly profited from the group's ads. Axelrod took steps to separate himself from AKPD when he joined Obama's White House. AKPD owes him $2 million from his stock sale and will make preset payments over four years, starting with $350,000 on Dec. 31, according to Axelrod's personal financial disclosure report.A larger issue is a network of relationships and overlapping interests that resembles some seen in past administrations and could prove a problem as Obama tries to win the public over on health care and fulfill his promise to change the way Washington works, said Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, a government watchdog group.Even if these are obvious bedfellows and kind of standard PR maneuvers, it still stands to undercut Obama's credibility,Krumholz said.The potential takeaway from the public is friends in cahoots to engineer a grass roots result.White House spokesman Ben LaBolt said that Axelrod has had no communications with Healthy Economy Now or with Americans for Stable Quality Care, and his payments aren't affected by the ad contracts. Axelrod's son, a salaried AKPD employee, doesn't work with either coalition or stand to benefit from that work,LaBolt said.David Axelrod has fully complied with the toughest-ever ethics rules for administration officials, including divesting from AKPD before the administration began,LaBolt said.
Ken Johnson, a PhRMA senior vice president, said GMMB and AKPD were the only two firms working on the $24 million in ads. He declined to reveal how much each was paid beyond saying that each received a small percentage of the total. The coalition's campaign team decided to hire the two firms, he said.In a perfect world, it's a distraction we don't need right now, but these are very gifted consultants who have done very good work,Johnson said.And it's also important to remember that at the end of the day, the coalition partners determine the message.Healthy Economy Now spokesman Jeremy Van Ess said the two firms were hired because they are the best at what they do. Period.The coalition didn't seek approval or direction on any of its activities from the White House, said Van Ess, a partner in a consulting firm that has worked on Democratic Senate election activities and a former speechwriter for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.AKPD and GMMB both proudly proclaim their connections to Obama on their Web sites.AKPD has a full page on Axelrod that includes pictures of Obama. In one photo, Obama hugs Plouffe on election night.We are deeply honored to have been part of Barack Obama's historic campaign to change America and the world,GMMB says on its Web site. GMMB's partners include Jim Margolis, a senior strategist for Obama's presidential campaign.Both GMMB and AKPD also have worked for Democrats this year. The Democratic National Committee paid AKPD at least $106,000 for polling, media production, communication consulting and travel costs from February through April. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee paid GMMB roughly $75,000 from February through June for ads. And GMMB took in at least $9,000 this year from Senate leader Reid's political action committee for communications consulting.On the Net:White House: http://www.whitehouse.gov/
WORLD GOVERNMENT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnq5cQMiAB8&feature=related
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2009/07/we-are-already-under-global-government.html#links
EPHESIANS 6:10-13
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,(DEMONIC ANGELS IN HIGH PLACES) against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.(SPIRTIUAL DEMONIC PERSONS)
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
LUKE 4:5-7(BECAUSE SATAN OFFERS WORLD POWER, WORLD ORDERERS HAVE ACCEPTED SATANS GIFT)
5 And the devil, taking him (JESUS) up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
DANIEL 12:4,1
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
REVELATION 13:1-3,7,8,12,16-18
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
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.
REVELATION 17:3,7,9-10,12,18
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950
Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.
GEORGE HUNT-WORLD BANK ,RELIGION&RULERS
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INSIDE VIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BANKERS
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Americans: Serfs Ruled by Oligarchs Paul Craig Roberts Infowars
August 20, 2009
In a little time [there will be] no middling sort. We shall have a few, and but a very few Lords, and all the rest beggars.R.L. Bushman.Rapidly you are dividing into two classes–extreme rich and extreme poor.Brutus.Americans think that they have freedom and democracy and that politicians are held accountable by elections. The fact of the matter is that the US is ruled by powerful interest groups who control politicians with campaign contributions. Our real rulers are an oligarchy of financial and military/security interests and AIPAC, which influences US foreign policy for the benefit of Israel.In the middle of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, Goldman Sachs announced record second quarter profits and large six-figure bonuses for every employee.Have a look at economic policy. It is being run for the benefit of large financial concerns, such as Goldman Sachs.It was the banks, not the millions of Americans who have lost homes, jobs, health insurance, and pensions, that received $700 billion in TARP funds. The banks used this gift of capital to make more profits. In the middle of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, Goldman Sachs announced record second quarter profits and large six-figure bonuses for every employee.The Federal Reserve’s low interest rate policy is another gift to the banks. It lowers their cost of funds and increases their profits. With the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999, banks became high-risk investment houses that trade financial instruments such as interest rate derivatives and mortgage backed securities. With abundant funds supplied virtually free by the Federal Reserve, banks are paying depositors virtually nothing on their savings.
Despite the Federal Reserve’s low interest rate policy, beginning October 1 banks are raising the annual percentage rate (APR) on credit card purchases and cash advances and on balances that have a penalty rate because of late payment. Banks are also raising the late fee. In the midst of the worst economy since the 1930s, heavily indebted Americans, who are losing their jobs and their homes, are to be bled into bankruptcy by the very banks that are being subsidized with TARP funds and low interest rates.Moreover, it is the American public that is on the hook for the TARP money and the low interest rates. As the US government’s budget is 50% or more in the red, the TARP money has to be borrowed from abroad or monetized by the Fed. This means more pressure on the US dollar’s exchange value and a rise in import prices and also domestic inflation.Americans will thus pay for the TARP and low interest rate subsidies to their financial rulers with erosion in the purchasing power of the dollar. What we are experiencing is a massive redistribution of income from the American public to the financial sector.And this is occurring during a Democratic administration headed by America’s first black president, with a Democratic majority in the House and Senate.Is there a government anywhere that less represents its citizens than the US government?John Pilger: Obama is a corporate marketing creation.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C62KAmMzu0E&feature=player_embedded
Consider America’s wars. As of the moment of writing, the out-of-pocket cost of America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is $900,000,000,000. When you add in the already incurred future costs of veterans benefits, interest on the debt, the forgone use of the resources for productive purposes, and such other costs as computed by Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard University budget expert Linda Bilmes, our government has wasted $3,000,000,000,000–three thousand billion dollars–on two wars that have no benefit whatsoever for any American whose income does not derive from the military/security complex, about which five-star general President Eisenhower warned us.It is now a proven fact that the US invasion of Iraq was based on lies and deception of the American public. The only beneficiaries were the armaments industries, Blackwater, Halliburton, military officers who enjoy higher rates of promotion during war, and Muslim extremists whose case the US government proved by its unprovoked aggression against Muslims. No one else benefitted. Iraq was a threat to no one, and finding Saddam Hussein and executing him after a kangaroo trial had no effect whatsoever on ending the war or preventing the start of others.
The cost of America’s wars is a huge burden on a bankrupt country, but the cost incurred by veterans might be even higher. Homelessness is a prevalent condition of veterans, as is post-traumatic stress. American soldiers, who naively fought for the munitions industry’s wars, for high compensation for the munitions CEOs, and for dividends and capital gains for the munitions shareholders, paid not only with lives and lost limbs, but also with broken marriages, ruined careers, psychiatric disorders, and prison sentences for failing to make child support payments.What did Americans gain from an unaffordable war in Iraq that lasted far longer than World War II and that put into power Shi’ites allied with Iran? The answer is obvious: nothing whatsoever.What did the armaments industry gain? Billions of dollars in profits.What about President Obama? A corporate marketing creation,sums up the distinguished British journalist John Pilger.
Obama is the presidential candidate who promised to end the war in Iraq. He hasn’t. But he has escalated the war in Afghanistan, started a new war in Pakistan, intends to repeat the Yugoslav scenario in the Caucasus, and appears determined to start a war in South America. In response to the acceptance by US puppet president of Columbia, Alvaro Uribe, of seven US military bases in Columbia, Venezuela warned South American countries that the winds or war are beginning to blow.Here we have the US government, totally dependent on the generosity of foreigners to finance its red ink, which extends in large quantities as far as the eye can see, completely under the thumb of the military/security complex, which will destroy us all in order to meet Wall Street share price expectations.Why does any American care who rules Afghanistan? The country has nothing to do with us.Did the armed services committees of the House and Senate calculate the risk of destabilizing nuclear armed Pakistan when they acquiesced to Obama’s new war there, a war that has already displaced two million Pakistanis? No, of course not. The whores took their orders from the same military/security oligarchy that instructed Obama.The great American superpower and its 300 million people are being driven straight into the ground by the narrow interest of the big banks and the munitions industry. People, and not only Americans, are losing their sons, husbands, brothers, and fathers for no other reason than the profits of US armaments corporations, and the gullible American people seem proud of it. Those ribbon decals on their cars, SUVs and monster trucks proclaim their naive loyalty to the armaments industries and to the whores in Washington who promote wars.
Will Americans, smashed and destroyed by their government’s policy, which always puts Americans last, ever understand who their real enemies are? Will Americans realize that they are not ruled by elected representatives but by an oligarchy that owns the Washington whorehouse? Will Americans ever understand that they are impotent serfs?
John D. Rockefeller regards John Holdren as a Saint
Jurriaan Maessen Infowars August 20, 2009
In a recent hearing of the Senate Commerce Committee, Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV refers to John Holdren as walking on water - inferring on the current science czar a saint-like status and reaffirming Rockefeller’s admiration of anyone pushing the depopulation agenda his family has propagated for the better part of the 20th century. In the current century, it seems, the family is no less committed to its age-old objectives.Jay Rockefeller: Dr. Holdren, I don’t want to embarrass you, but I sometimes refer to you as walking on water.At the hearing, focusing primarily on the possible creation of a National Climate Service, Rockefeller took off his hat for Holdren, saying: The President, I think, has surrounded himself with some of the most brilliant choices.After this disturbing introduction, Rockefeller addressed the science czar directly, stating:Dr. Holdren, I don’t want to embarrass you, but I sometimes refer to you as walking on water.This disgusting statement just about says it all. It reflects the Rockefeller’s long-time devotion to depopulation and eugenics perfectly well. It also illustrates the prime goal of the Obama administration and its crony’s.Like for example, Frank Alix, CEO of a New Hampshire company specialising in removing carbon from coal-burning emissions, receiving the big contracts in this day of shrouded eugenics and run amok environmentalism. Alix testified before Rockefeller earlier this year, apparently after Holdren suggested having him testify before the Commerce Committee. Alluding to such a backroom deal, Rockefeller stated:
That may be the end of your career. But, you know, we brought that 5 percent carbon guy from New Hampshire and had him sit right where you are and he told us all about it because you told me about it. A really superb technical scientific team. And everything else: The questions we ask and how do Americans understand all of this and react to it is incredibly important. But what we need to know that is already in place and working is the top part of the team—spreading out and coordinating superb thinking, superb arguments and, you know, a superb policy.That John D. Rockefeller felt prone to complement eugenicist John Holdren openly is a telling sign that the elite’s members no longer feel inclined to hide themselves behind stalwart stoicism. The present administration, with all its immoral views on human life, apparently provides these New World Order chieftains with the confidence to applaud each other’s ideas right out in the open. Source: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/52757
Greenpeace Leader Admits Organization Put Out Fake Global Warming Data
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Thursday, August 20, 2009
Greenpeace leader Gerd Leipold has been forced to admit that his organization issued misleading and exaggerated information when it claimed that Arctic ice would disappear completely by 2030, in a crushing blow for the man-made global warming movement.In an interview with the BBC’s Stephen Sackur on the Hardtalk program, Leipold initially attempted to evade the question but was ultimately forced to admit that Greenpeace had made a mistake when it said Arctic ice would disappear completely in 20 years.The claim stems from a July 15 Greenpeace press release entitled Urgent Action Needed As Arctic Ice Melts, in which it is stated that global warming will lead to an ice-free Arctic by 2030.Sackur accused Leipold and Greenpeace of releasing misleading information based on exaggeration and alarmism, pointing out that it was preposterous to claim that the Greenland ice sheet, a mass of 1.6 million square kilometers with a thickness of 3 km in the middle that has survived much warmer periods in history, would completely melt when it had stood firm for hundreds of thousands of years.There is no way that ice sheet is going to disappear,said Sackur.I don’t think it will be melting by 2030.That may have been a mistake,Leipold was eventually forced to admit.However, Leipold made no apologies for Greenpeace’s tactic of emotionalizing issues as a means of trying to get the public to accept its stance on global warming.
He also argued that economic growth in the United States and around the world should be suppressed and that overpopulation and high standards of living should be combated because of the perceived damage they were doing to the environment, eugenicist rhetoric which will be familiar to our readers and anyone who has watched Alex Jones’ Endgame documentary.As the Watts Up With That blog highlights, Leipold’s admission that Greenpeace issued misleading information is a major embarrassment to the organization, which often has been accused of alarmism but has always insisted that it applies full scientific rigor in its global-warming pronouncements.Similar claims that the north pole will be ice free crop up almost every summer yet are routinely disproved.Indeed, it was discovered that during August 2007 to August 2008, Arctic ice had in fact grown by around 30 per cent, an area equivalent to the size of Germany.A new peer reviewed study has also discovered, Total annual precipitation in Greenland ice sheet for 1958-2007 to be up to 24% and surface mass balance up to 63% higher than previously thought.As we reported last year, climate scientists allied with the UN IPCC were also caught citing fake data to make the case that global warming is accelerating, in another shocking example of mass public deception.In November 2008, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), run by Al Gore’s chief scientific ally, Dr James Hansen, announced that the previous month had been the hottest October on record. It later emerged that the data produced by NASA to make the claim, and in particular temperature records covering large areas of Russia, was merely carried over from the previous month. NASA had used temperature records from the naturally hotter month of September and claimed they represented temperature figures in October.Watch a clip from the Sackur- Leipold interview below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC7bE9jopXE&feature=player_embedded
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.
Tornado, storms cause heavy damage in Midwest By NOMAAN MERCHANT, Associated Press Writer – AUG 19,09
MINNEAPOLIS – Powerful winds slammed parts of four Midwestern states on Wednesday, leaving behind shattered windows, toppled power lines and a handful of injuries. At least a half dozen suspected tornadoes were reported.The National Weather Service received reports of a possible tornado near downtown Minneapolis, where winds tore off part of a 90-year-old metal church steeple. Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois were also hit, though the only confirmed tornado as of Wednesday night was in Hastings, about 30 miles southeast of Minneapolis, where a 100-yard-long swath of trees was flattened.Jack Freitag said he was standing in the lobby of the Central Lutheran Church in Minneapolis when he saw a wall cloud from the south coming across the parking lot.Then a very loud roar came through as he saw signs being blown around in the wind.The wind tore off part of the church's 90-year-old metal steeple around 2 p.m. while about 120 people were inside, said church spokesman Joe Bjordal.I was worried about the people then,said Freitag, who told everyone to seek shelter in the church's basement. No one was injured.Outside the church, strong winds ripped apart large outdoor tents and scattered chairs and folding tables across the parking lot that were set up for the national Evangelical Lutheran Church in America convention. The church was scheduled to serve breakfast to guests attending the event at the Minneapolis Convention Center next door.I think we're out of business for entertaining convention visitors, Bjordal said.At the Electric Fetus, a landmark independent music store near downtown, strong winds shattered one of the store's windows and caused the roof to cave in.It was just the loudest crashing noise, said Stephanie Covart, the store's co-owner.We didn't know what was happening.A glass panel on a nearby bus shelter was shattered, leaving scattered pieces of glass on the sidewalk.Meteorologist Dan Luna said it was the sort of storm that meteorologists dread — it didn't look dangerous until it was.
We worry about the really benign thunderstorm that develops a tornado in the metropolitan area,Luna said. These sort-lived ones form very quickly and dissipate very fast. They are very hard to predict.Luna said crews would evaluate the damage in downtown Minneapolis to see if there was more.Mayor R.T. Rybak toured the area later Wednesday to assess damage and saw a hole in the Convention Center's roof that caused water to leak in. Although there were many reports of downed trees and property damage, there were no reports of injuries, city officials said in a statement.It obviously had a significant physical impact but at this point it looks as if we're very fortunate there were relatively few injuries,Rybak said.First responders were going house-to-house in the area looking for victims.About 40 miles north in the town of North Branch, police said the middle school suffered severe water and structural damage from a reported tornado. A large section of the school's roof was damaged and the white bleachers on its athletic field were ripped apart and scattered.A possible tornado also was spotted about 60 miles east of Minneapolis in Emerald, Wis. In northeast Iowa, a barn roof was blown off near Stanley but only minor damage was reported, local officials said. The National Weather Service reported tornadoes may have touched down near Manchester in west-central Illinois and at Loami southwest of Springfield. Trees and power lines were down.Six people were being treated at Springfield hospitals for storm-related injuries. None of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening, hospital personnel said.Associated Press writers Jeff Baenen in Minneapolis, Brian Bakst in St. Paul, Minn., and Christopher Wills in Springfield, Ill., contributed to this report.
Dangerous Hurricane Bill could threaten east Canada By Jim Loney – Wed Aug 19, 5:45 pm ET
MIAMI (Reuters) – Powerful Hurricane Bill, a dangerous Category 4 storm with 135 mph winds, raged across the open Atlantic on Wednesday, days from land but on a path that could menace Canada's eastern provinces next week.Sweeping past the Caribbean islands and posing no threat to U.S. oil and gas installations in the Gulf of Mexico, the first hurricane of the 2009 Atlantic season was expected to charge between the U.S. East Coast and Bermuda, well offshore.Residents of Bermuda, a mid-Atlantic British territory and reinsurance capital, were warned to prepare for the storm. The latest forecast track issued by the U.S. National Hurricane Center would take Bill more than 100 miles to the west.But Bill's massive size -- tropical storm force winds of 39 to 73 mph extend up to 230 miles from its center -- meant Bermuda would get a good dose of heavy weather, forecasters said.All (computer) models keep the storm between the United States and Bermuda. Exactly how close it comes to either of those is up for debate,said National Hurricane Center forecaster Eric Blake.The average error (in the forecast track) is 200 miles at about 3 days.Bermuda is expected to see large swells and areas of heavy rain and high winds. Hopefully the core of the hurricane will stay offshore,he said.The Bermuda Sun newspaper reported that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, planned to fly to Bermuda on Wednesday for a private vacation of three to four days at a beach resort. The State Department declined to officially confirm where Clinton was.
HEAVY SURF EXPECTED ON U.S. EAST COAST
Forecasters said Bill might get stronger. Its top winds were expected to peak at about 145 mph on Thursday.Hurricanes of Category 3 or higher on the five-step Saffir-Simpson intensity scale are considered major storms and are the most destructive type.
The well-defined eye of Bill was located about 970 miles south-southeast of Bermuda at 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT) on Wednesday and the system was moving toward the northwest at 20 mph, the hurricane center said.Its curving forecast track would take it to a position hundreds of miles (km) east of Miami by early Friday, and well off New York by Sunday.How close it gets to the New England coast, there's still the usual uncertainty in that long time period,former NHC director Max Mayfield said. But the core of the hurricane, most of the models indicate it's going to remain off the coast.
Forecasters said dangerous swells and life-threatening rip currents could affect the northern Caribbean islands, the Bahamas, Bermuda and the U.S. East Coast in the next few days.The latest forecast track from the hurricane center would take Bill slightly closer to the U.S. East. It shows the storm just south of Nova Scotia by Sunday afternoon as a Category 2 hurricane and moving directly over Newfoundland after that. But five days in advance, the forecast has an average error of several hundred miles.
(Editing by Pascal Fletcher and Chris Wilson)
Powerful Hurricane Bill puts Caribbean, Atlantic on watch Elliot Abrams AccuWeather Wed Aug 19, 12:19 pm ET
MIAMI (AFP) – Hurricane Bill, the first of the Atlantic season, strengthened to a powerful Category Four storm Wednesday as forecasters warned residents of the Caribbean, Bermuda, US East Coast and eastern Canada to be on watch.The storm surged overnight to a potentially deadly force packing winds near 135 miles per hour (215 kilometers), forecasters said as it moved northwest about 1,000 miles (1,700 kilometers) southeast of Bermuda.Some additional strengthening is forecast during the next 24 hours,the Miami-based center warned.While forecasters do not now see Bill as most likely to collide with the US East Coast, Bermuda and easternmost Canada may not be spared.At 1500 GMT the eye of hurricane bill was located about 610 km (380 miles) east-northeast of the Leeward islands and about 1,735 km (1,080 miles) south-southeast of Bermuda, moving west-northwest near 30 km/hr (18 mph), the NHC said.This general track is expected to continue today and Thursday. A gradual turn to the northwest and northward is expected thereafter,it said. That would take the system well northeast of the string of Caribbean islands.Even for the eastern US, it is too early to let anybody off the hook in terms of being on watch, from North Carolina northward, NHC forecaster Eric Blake told AFP.The cone is pretty large,he noted, referring to the fact that even a slight jog east or westward on the storm's forward track can spell a huge difference in terms of what land mass is ultimately affected or not.Large swells associated with Bill will begin to hit the Antilles later Wednesday, then the Bahamas and the southeastern US mainland on Friday and Saturday, forecasters said.In terms of the current risk for Bermuda, residents will have to pay attention there,Blake warned.
The Atlantic hurricane season began on June 1 and ends on November 30.
Weather experts earlier this month reduced the number of projected hurricanes in the north Atlantic this season to four, two of them major hurricanes with winds above 178 kilometers (111 miles) per hour.After one of the calmest starts to the hurricane season in a decade, the experts from Colorado State University said the development of an El Nino effect in the Pacific had caused them to scale back their projections for the Atlantic.
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.
Earthquake rattles Anchorage, southcentral Alaska
(AP) – AUG 19,09
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has rattled buildings in Anchorage.The temblor at 10:19 a.m. Wednesday was 31 miles west of Anchorage and 15 miles northeast of the village of Tyonek.The West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center says the quake did not generate a tsunami.
Mild earthquake reported in Los Angeles again
www.chinaview.cn 2009-08-19 08:48:21
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- A magnitude-2.9 earthquake was recorded in the suburbs of Los Angeles Tuesday afternoon, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter of the quake which struck at 3:58 p.m. (2058 GMT)was 4.8 km northeast of La Crescenta, a small town located about 40 km in the north of Los Angeles city center, it said.No reports of damages or injuries were received. The quake followed a magnitude-2.6 tremor about 4.8 km southwest of Valencia, a small town 60 km to the northwest of Los Angeles Monday evening.Editor: Pan Yanan
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.
Mubarak urges Obama to back an overall Israel-Palestinian peace settlement - in stages ,Wednesday, 19 August 2009 06:19 News from Jerusalem ,No temporary solution. Mubarak
Addressing the media after his White House talks with US president Barack Obama Tuesday, Aug. 18, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak spoke at length about the need for a final Israeli-Palestinian peace - not temporary solutions.However, in their closed discussions, DEBKAfile's Washington sources disclose, the Egyptian leader urged Obama to put the conflict on a back burner for now and focus on the far more urgent issue of Iran's advance toward a nuclear weapon.The US president listened careful but held off his answer until the Middle East policy review he has ordered is concluded. Until then, all final decisions on policy are in abeyance. There were however indications that Mubarak, who praised Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, persuaded Obama not to insist on a total freeze on settlement construction on the West Bank.Asked about the statement by the Israeli minister of housing early Tuesday that Jerusalem was holding back permits for new construction on the West Bank, Obama said he saw encouraging signs of a softening of Israel's resistance to his call for a freeze. There has been movement in the right direction, he said. All parties have to take steps to restart serious negotiations,he said, including Palestinian efforts to end the incitement of violence against Israel.Our sources noted that the US president did not mention Jerusalem in the context of a settlement freeze.The program Mubarak put before him consisted of four main points, as reported here by DEBKAfile:
1. A US Middle East peace plan will provide a general framework for the peace talks Israel will conduct with the Palestinians and Arab governments - but not go beyond former American statements.
2. A settlement must be sought in stages, with clear-cut steps for executing the peace plan. No time limit should be set for the end of negotiations.Mubarak's program runs contrary to the position taken hitherto by President Obama, who pushed for rapid peace to go forward simultaneously between Israel and the Palestinians, Syria and Lebanon.
3. Haste would be of no avail, in the Egyptian ruler's view, because of the deep internal feud between the Palestinian Hamas and Fatah factions and split between the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
4. Mubarak advised Obama to trust in Netanyahu's good intentions for seeking a Middle East peace. I trust him,said the Egyptian president,after he pledged to me that his government would be a government of peace.DEBKAfile's Washington sources report that it is extremely rare to hear any Arab ruler praise an Israeli leader - certainly in such warm terms.debka.
Outposts and the law Wednesday, 19 August 2009 05:50 News from Jerusalem
Conventional wisdom says that Israel promised (the US) to destroy all unauthorized outposts, and, therefore, must fulfill its obligations.If the government is looking for an excuse, this is a poor one.The promise is based on a letter in April, 2004 from Dov Weissglass, Chief of the Prime Minister's Bureau to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. Although submitted on behalf of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon,the letter was not signed by Sharon, nor was it affirmed by the cabinet. It was, simply, diplomatic correspondence.Moreover, the letter contains conditions.The Israeli government believes that further steps by it, even if consistent with the Roadmap, cannot be taken absent the emergence of a Palestinian partner committed to peace, democratic reform, and the fight against terror.Using this letter to justify destruction of Jewish unauthorized outposts raises serious questions:Does Weissglass' letter obligate Israel to carry out its provisions now while ignoring its conditions? Does this letter obligate future governments? Was the letter approved by the full cabinet (since it mentions only the PM)? Why didn't Prime Minister Sharon sign it? Other than Weissglass' letter is there any other binding agreement to destroy Jewish unauthorized outposts? Asked to respond, senior officials in the Prime Minister's Office avoided direct specific answers.This government is committed to the rule of law, and abiding by the law is paramount to maintaining a civil society.They refused to elaborate.This begs the questions and shifts the argument to Israeli law and, vaguely, rule of law.What, in fact, is Israeli law? If Arabs are entitled to acquire property rights by settlement, why can't Jews? Why do Israeli authorities refuse to give permission to develop new neighborhoods, hilltops and outposts? If the application of law discriminates against Jews, what's the meaning of rule of law?
What about the real issues?
The Supreme Court has demanded that unauthorized outposts built by Jews be destroyed immediately, but has given over 100,000 illegal Arab homes a pass. And what about the vast unrecognized illegal Bedouin villages throughout the Galilee and Negev? Rule of law means impartiality above all; it also must make reasonable common sense. Jewish homes in unauthorized outposts built on unoccupied, unclaimed land are examples of Zionist enterprise and idealism.They offer inexpensive places to live. Most received tacit approval from government ministries, including the prime and defense ministers, which provided infrastructure and utilities. They tried to fulfill the necessary requirements. They are citizens and members of Israeli society. How does destroying them demonstrate the rule of law instead of offering legal recognition? If providing legal status to Jewish homes in unauthorized outposts provides more taxes and fees and serves the interests of the State, why not allow it? How is denying the right of Jews to build assert the rule of law? If the Israeli government is afraid of American opposition, then what does that say about rule of law? And, if the rule of law is important, why should it be sacrificed on the altar of American opposition? Focusing on outposts and Jewish building in new neighborhoods of Jerusalem diverts attention from the real issues: the threat of a nuclear Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan's disintegration, the rise of Hamas and Hezbollah – to name only a few. Where Jews can or can't live in their homeland hardly seems to be of such importance, unless, of course, the question is if they should have one at all.But then, there are other, more ancient and sacred promises to keep.The author, a former asst professor of History, is a journalist living in Jerusalem.ynet
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).
DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS
REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.
REVELATION 9:21
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries (DRUGS), nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
DEAD SCIENTISTS LIST OF
http://www.infowars.com/list-of-dead-scientists/
Fall flu season may be a doozy, feds warn By Suzanne Bohan
sbohan@bayareanewsgroup.com 08/19/2009 05:29:19 PM PDT
Federal officials on Wednesday urged business leaders to start taking steps now to reduce the economic and public health toll of a potentially tough flu season.To help busy employers in the effort, the federal government also released guidelines companies can adopt to maintain continuity of operations while also playing a critical role in reducing the spread of a recently-emerged flu strain, now called novel H1N1.It has the potential to affect virtually every aspect of our lives, from our economy and national security to our education system, said Gary Locke, secretary of the Department of Commerce.As such, it will take Americans from every walk of life, all of us, pulling together and doing our part to mount an effective response.
Locke was joined at a news conference by top officials from the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Labor. They urged businesses of all sizes to review human resources policies to ensure they provide the flexibility to maintain critical business functions with a depleted work force. The federal officials also underscored the need to maintain a nonpunitive stance toward employees remaining home while sick, or while caring for a flu-stricken family member.In America, we love to praise the Puritan work ethic, and with reason,Locke said.But this fall it would serve the country better to praise common sense and responsibility. Businesses need to drive home the point that if an employee stays home sick, it's not only the best thing for that employee's health, but also for the health of his or her co-workers and the productivity of the company.Locke, along with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, said companies should consider waiving policies that require sick employees to provide a doctor's note verifying an illness. The medical community, Napolitano explained, will be inundated tending to those who are sick.Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said employers should encourage workers to get the seasonal flu vaccine, which will be widely available in September, or provide vaccinations at the workplace. And when the initial batches of H1N1 vaccine become available, likely in October, key populations should be nudged to get the vaccine, she said. Those include people with underlying health conditions, pregnant women or those caring for babies younger than 6 months, as well as those aged 6 months to 24 years old, because the virus has disproportionately infected those younger than 24.Locke also said businesses should remain apprised of community flu infection rates through local public health departments, as outbreaks vary by region. Should a spike in cases appear, companies can ramp up efforts to stop further spread among employees.
Currently, the H1N1 outbreak is no more severe than it was in the spring, according to the guidelines. Since April 15, the CDC reports there have been 43,771 confirmed and probable cases of novel H1N1 infections in the United States, with 5,011 hospitalization and 302 deaths. Using those figures, 11 percent of those sickened required hospitalization, and less than one percent died from the infection. But the CDC stated that many milder cases were unreported, so the actual percentages of those hospitalized or killed after infection by the virus are far lower.Even if the severity of the virus doesn't worsen, flu infection rates are expected to increase in the coming months, the CDC warned, as seasonal flu viruses make their annual return and the school year also begins.The federal officials, however, advised far more stringent responses should the H1N1 virus become more severe this flu season.Those included daily screenings for symptoms of flu among employees, with those showing signs immediately sent home. The number of face-to-face meetings could be reduced, as well as other social distancing strategies. Those include spacing employees farther apart, canceling nonessential travel, increased teleworking, and using staggered shifts so fewer employees are in the workplace at the same time.
Online
For a free copy of Guidance for Businesses and Employers to Plan and Respond to the 2009 - 2010 Influenza Season and an associated tool kit, visit www.flu.gov.
Federal officials also suggest businesses include a link to influenza information on the home page of their company"s Web site or through social media, using online tools developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For more information, visit:www.cdc.gov/socialmedia/campaigns/H1N1/buttons.html www.cdc.gov/widgets
FLU Q&A
Q: How long can novel H1N1 live on a surface?
A: Flu viruses remain infectious for up to eight hours after being left on items like tables, doorknobs and desks. Frequent handwashing or sanitizing with hand wipes reduces the odds of infection, as does regular cleaning of these surfaces.
Q: What are the symptoms of an H1N1 infection, and how long will they last?
A: The symptoms of novel H1N1 flu are similar to the symptoms of the regular seasonal flu, and include some or all of the following:Fever, lack of energy and appetite, coughing, runny nose, sore throat, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Most people remain infectious up to 7 days after illness onset, and will recover without visiting a doctor. But if you have severe illness or are at high risk for flu complications, seek medical care.
Q: If I've already had the novel H1N1 flu, can I get it again?
A: Exposure to a particular strain of flu virus usually protects you against that strain in the future. (But not other flu virus strains.)
Q: What should I do if I become sick?
A: Get plenty of rest. Drink clear fluids like water or broth, or electrolyte beverages for infants, to prevent dehydration. Cover coughs and sneezes. Avoid close contact with others. Be watchful for warning signs that you need medical attention. Stay home for at least 24 hours after the fever is gone. For more information, visit www.Flu.gov.
Lead poisoning stokes tensions in Chinese town By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN, Associated Press Writer – Wed Aug 19, 8:53 pm ET
CHANGQING, China – Farmer Wang Zhifan jabs a stubby finger toward the sprawling smelter blamed for poisoning hundreds of local children with lead. He bares his yellowed teeth and spits hard.That thing is like a nuclear bomb for us,the 61-year-old says in a voice that seems to carry down the steep slope and into the corn fields that run to the smelter's fence. There's just no saving us.Local anger boiled over this week with a violent protest at the plant in central Shaanxi province, and tensions remain high in a dispute that demonstrates how environmental degradation caused during the charge for economic growth in China is spawning social unrest.For decades, many Chinese firms have dumped poisons into rivers and the ground rather than disposing of them safely, counting on the acquiescence of local governments unwilling to damage their economic lifelines.The resulting problems — from crop losses to cancer — have sometimes prompted violence, but they've also brought a rise in public awareness of environmental safety and health. Since the unrest, the government has promised to close down the Dongling Lead and Zinc Smelting Co. plant in Changqing town until it can be made safe.That offers at least a temporary victory for the villagers, whose outrage came to a head after some 615 of 731 children in two villages near the plant tested positive earlier this month for lead poisoning. Some had lead levels 10 times that which China considers safe.On Sunday and Monday, angry residents battled police at the smelter's gates, and stoned trucks delivering coal to the plant.For now, the plant is closed and security is tight. Associated Press reporters who visited the area on Wednesday were tailed by local government officials, and police officers tried to break up interviews and block access to sick children and their parents.
An apology Monday from Dai Zhengshe, the mayor of Baoji city, which oversees Changqing, seems to have done little to cool villagers' anger. Dai made the promise not to reopen the smelter until it met health standards, according to the official Xinhua News Agency, but villagers said they put little faith in his words.You really can't trust what the government tells you,said He Xiaojun, the father of nine-year-old He Haomin, who suffers from nose bleeds and memory problems — common symptoms of lead poisoning. We want them to move the plant,said He, whose village of Madaokou lies a stone's throw away.Public distrust has been exacerbated over the years by unmet promises and a lack of government transparency.Villagers living nearby were supposed to have been given new accommodation even before the smelter opened in 2006, but so far just a few dozen have relocated. Authorities promised to shut the plant on Aug. 6, but villagers — such as Wang, the farmer who likened the plant to a nuclear bomb — insist production continued for days afterward, with smoke coming from the stacks at night.Officials say that was only to allow time for furnaces to close down without gas explosions. Plans, meanwhile, call for the relocation of all villagers living within 0.6 miles (1 kilometer) of the smelter as soon as possible,local government spokesman Wang Minmin told The AP.Official claims that the plant met national standards for ground and surface water, and soil and waste discharge also prompted derision and disbelief from residents, who question how then their children came to have such high lead levels in their blood.Ma Jun, founder of the non-governmental Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs in Beijing, says that's likely due to outdated standards that don't take into account the cumulative effect of lead and other heavy metals on people and the environment.Therefore, even if a given factory had met all the standards on emissions, there would still likely be damage to human health,Ma said.Lead poisoning can damage the nervous and reproductive systems and cause high blood pressure, anemia and memory loss. It is especially harmful to young children, pregnant women and fetuses, with damage that is usually irreversible, according to the World Health Organization.On Wednesday at the local Fengxiang County Hospital, about 80 children had been admitted for observation and treatment. They lay on beds, many of them on IV drips, with their parents hovering nearby.
Zha Xiaofang, 41, from Madaokou village, said her 8-year-old daughter has lead levels considered mid- to high-level poisoning. Her daughter has had abdominal pain and memory problems for some time. We are anxious because we don't know what will happen next and we don't have any guarantees for the future,she said. Changqing, about 850 miles (1,380 kilometers) west of Beijing, is just one of scores of places in China where pollution and chemical contamination have sparked opposition and protests, embarrassing the ruling Communist Party and its pledges to pursue clean and sustainable development.In Wenping township in central Hunan province, angry villagers blocked roads on July 30 after the government refused to close down a manganese processing plant. But last Thursday, the local government announced that it was shutting down the factory because it was operating illegally and had discharged lead excessively. As in Changqing, local officials offered free lead testing for all children under the age of 14 within three miles (five kilometers) of the factory.
Plans for chemical plants and garbage incinerators in urban areas have also drawn protests including marches and petitions — rare in a country where even peaceful dissenters are often punished.Yet dubious projects continue to receive approval, due in large part to their contribution to local tax bases and employment. According to 2008 media reports, Changqing's Dongling smelter accounted for 17 percent of the county government's revenue and supported more than 2,000 households. A government stimulus plan is also expediting projects, sometimes shortening their environmental approval times, while a tough government opponent of polluters, vice director of State Environmental Protection Agency, Pan Yue, has recently been sidelined for reasons that are unclear.Given the lack of trust, greater transparency about major polluting projects was perhaps the only way to head-off future conflicts, said Hu Yuanqiong, a staff attorney with the U.S. Natural Resources Defense Council's China Program.The best way to ensure social stability and the sustainability of the economy is to make information open and allow public participation in monitoring emissions and to have a mechanism between the public and the factories to talk things out and resolve disputes,Hu said.(This version CORRECTS spelling of plant to Dongling sted Dangling in graf 5)
POISONED WATERS
REVELATION 8:8-11
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:(bitter,Poisoned) and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.(poisoned)
REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
1/3RD OF SHIPS DESTROYED
REVELATION 8:8-9
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
Federal study shows mercury in fish widespread By DINA CAPPIELLO, Associated Press Writer – AUG 20,09
WASHINGTON – No fish can escape mercury pollution. That's the take-home message from a federal study of mercury contamination released Wednesday that tested fish from nearly 300 streams across the country.The toxic substance was found in every fish sampled, a finding that underscores how widespread mercury pollution has become.But while all fish had traces of contamination, only about a quarter had mercury levels exceeding what the Environmental Protection Agency says is safe for people eating average amounts of fish.The study by the U.S. Geological Survey is the most comprehensive look to date at mercury in the nation's streams. From 1998 to 2005, scientists collected and tested more than a thousand fish, including bass, trout and catfish, from 291 streams nationwide.This science sends a clear message that our country must continue to confront pollution, restore our nation's waterways, and protect the public from potential health dangers, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in a statement.Mercury consumed by eating fish can damage the nervous system and cause learning disabilities in developing fetuses and young children. The main source of mercury to most of the streams tested, according to the researchers, is emissions from coal-fired power plants. The mercury released from smokestacks here and abroad rains down into waterways, where natural processes convert it into methylmercury — a form that allows the toxin to wind its way up the food chain into fish.
Some of the highest levels in fish were detected in the remote blackwater streams along the coasts of the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida and Louisiana, where bacteria in surrounding forests and wetlands help in the conversion. The second-highest concentration of mercury was detected in largemouth bass from the North Fork of the Edisto River near Fairview Crossroads, S.C.Unfortunately, it's the case that almost any fish you test will have mercury now,said Andrew Rypel, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Mississippi who has studied mercury contamination in fish throughout the Southeast. He said other research has shown mercury in fish from isolated areas of Alaska and Canada, and species that live in the deep ocean.Mercury was also found in high concentrations in western streams that drain areas mined for mercury and gold. The most contaminated sample came from smallmouth bass collected from the Carson River at Dayton, Nev., an area tainted with mercury from gold mining. At 58 other streams, mostly in the West, the acidic conditions created by mining could also be contributing to the mercury levels, the researchers said.Some ecosystems are more sensitive than others, said Barbara Scudder, the lead USGS scientist on the study.All but two states — Alaska and Wyoming — have issued fish-consumption advisories because of mercury contamination. Some of the streams studied already had warnings.This is showing that the problem is much more widespread,said Sonya Lunder, a senior analyst for the Environmental Working Group, which has pushed for stronger advisories on consumption of mercury-laden fish and controls on the sources of mercury pollution.If you are living in an area that doesn't have a mercury advisory, you should use caution.Earlier this year, the Obama administration said it would begin crafting a new regulations to control mercury emissions from power plants after a federal appeals court threw out plans drafted by the Bush administration and favored by industry. The Bush rule would have allowed power plants to buy and sell pollution credits, instead of requiring each plant to install equipment to reduce mercury pollution.The EPA also has also proposed a new regulation to clamp down on emissions of mercury from cement plants.On the Net:U.S. Geological Survey: http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/mercury/
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
German political parties agree Lisbon treaty law
LISBETH KIRK 19.08.2009 @ 09:28 CET
Germany's ruling political parties on Tuesday (18 August) reached agreement on how to implement the Lisbon treaty after week's of negotiations. The Bavarian CSU faction of the Christian Democrat party had wanted to bind the government more tightly to seek backing from the German parliament, the Bundestag, and federal council, the Bundesrat, before agreeing deals on new legislation in Brussels.The CSU party had formulated 14 guidelines on how to strengthen the German parliament's influence over EU legislation (Photo: Torkil Sørensen/norden.org)But in the end the CSU gave in to a softer position, under which the German government must hear parliament but is not bound by its opinion.Under the new German agreement, the government must also inform parliament about the details of any EU-level international trade negotiations.We don't feel like the loser, as the position of the parliament has been been strengthend overall,CSU chief negotiator Hartmut Koschyk told Die Zeit.The CSU party had formulated 14 guidelines on how to strengthen the German parliament's influence over EU legislation.Social Democrat whip Thomas Oppermann said the Bavarians had not managed to secure a single one of their demands in the negotiations.The federal government remains unrestricted at the European level. At the same time [parliament] has strengthened its participation rights,he said. Backed by the three governing coalition parties and with support also from the Greens and the Liberals there is an overwhelming majority ready to make the agreement into law.
The left wing party Die Linke is the only one opposed to the deal.
The bill will have to pass a first reading in parliament on 26 August and a second reading on 8 September. The federal council is set to approve the deal on 18 September, before passing it for final approval to the constitutional court in Karlsruhe.The German dispute was originally sparked by a ruling of the country's constitutional court on 30 June that the Lisbon treaty can only be ratified if the national parliament's role is first strengthened.The 147 page-long court ruling suspended the ratification process of the treaty until the new provisions requested by the court come into force.The big question remains whether the judges will be satisfied by the deal agreed among the politicians and whether a new complaint is filed at the courts, further delaying German ratification.Along with Germany, Ireland, Poland and the Czech Republic are the only other EU states yet to ratify the treaty. Irish voters rejected it last year in a referendum, with a second referendum on the treaty to take place on 2 October and with German clarity over the treaty seen as important for securing a Yes majority.Earlier this month former German CSU party MEP Franz Ludwig Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg threatened to file a fresh legal complaint in Karlsruhe if the political deal fails to protect German parliamentary democracy.The possibility for co-determination for the parliament [Bundestag] and the federal council [Bundesrat] in Brussels must clearly be improved. The [German] parliament has not taken itself seriously enough,he said in the Berliner Morgenpost.
The former MEP is the son of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, one of the Germany army officers involved in a failed 1944 plot to kill Adolf Hitler.
Brussels suggests EU-wide tax databases
LUCIA KUBOSOVA 19.08.2009 @ 09:16 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - In a bid to use the momentum of the economic crisis which has strained EU public budgets, the European Commission has proposed a potentially controversial system to boost fight against tax fraud by allowing national authorities to directly access taxpayer data in other countries.In the current economic situation it is more important than ever to fight tax fraud efficiently and a fully functioning administrative cooperation between tax administrations is key in that respect,the EU's taxation commissioner Laszlo Kovacs said in a statement on Tuesday (18 August).Introducing the proposed structure, the Hungarian commissioner said he wanted to provide national tax officers with all technical and legal means to take action and protect other states' tax revenue as effectively as their own.The key element of the blueprint is the creation of Eurofisc - a scheme for rapid exchange of targeted information to which the authorities from all 27 EU member states would have direct access, in order to stop fraud and catch fraudsters,Mr Kovacs said.The idea is to prevent carousel fraud over value added tax (VAT), which occurs when someone gets VAT-free goods in one country and sells them on VAT-included terms in another state, but disappears before paying the tax.To boost the practical effect of the system, the EU executive also suggested concrete rules on which kind of information should be gathered in national tax databases and how it should be registered - to make it easy to compare and use by officers in other states. According to some estimates, Europe's governments lose up to 10 percent in VAT receipts each year, amounting to some €200 billion to €250 billion. In 2006, Germany reported its overall losses in VAT receipts as €17 billion per year, according to Deutsche Presse-Agentur.But the commission's blueprint could still face tough opposition from national capitals. The move requires unanimous support and EU governments tend to carefully guard their tax competences, including access to their national data in this area.
Magnificent Roman mansion uncovered in City of David Wednesday, 19 August 2009 05:26 News from Jerusalem
A magnificent two-story Roman mansion of more than 1,000 square meters has been discovered by archeologists in the City of David Archeological Park outside the capital's Old City, the Antiquities Authority announced on Monday.Previously, archeologist believed 3rd century Roman ruins extended only to the edge of the Ottoman Old City walls. The discovery of the mansion within the Givati parking lot, outside the walls and adjacent to the City of David, however, suggests Roman construction may have stretched to the bottom of the Silwan Valley, Dr. Doron Ben-Ami, the excavation's director, told The Jerusalem Post on Monday.This discovery was very surprising,Ben-Ami said.We didn't expect to find any Roman building remains within the City of David. We were astonished at how huge the structure is. So far we uncovered 1,000 square meters and the structure still extends beyond the limits of the excavation area.The find has already revolutionized historians' understanding of Roman settlement in Jerusalem, he said.The prevailing supposition among scholars that the City of David hill remained outside the area of Roman settlement at the time of Aelia Capitolina is no longer valid,said Ben-Ami.The opulence of the building is apparent in its size and in artifacts recovered throughout the structures, the Antiquities Authority said in a statement.
In the center of it was a large open courtyard surrounded by columns,reads the statement.The building rose to a height of two stories and was covered with tile roofs... Excavators deduced that some of the walls of the rooms were treated with plaster and decorated with colorful paintings.Also found within the structure were a marble figurine in the image of a boxer and a gold earring inlaid with precious stones.The building most likely met its end during a massive earthquake that shook Jerusalem in 363 A.D, Ben-Ami said.The destruction is clearly apparently within the excavation area,he said.The walls of some rooms are caved-in and their stones are collapsed. It seems we have archeological evidence of the results of the earthquake that struck our region in 363 A.D.Meanwhile, controversy continues to swirl around the City of David Archeological Park where archeologists, Jewish new residents and veteran Palestinian residents vie for space on the crowded hillside.Palestinians residents have protested the extent of excavations within the Silwan neighborhood, which is intertwined with the archeological park, claiming the digging has weakened the structural integrity of their houses and is being done for political, rather than archeological reasons.The City of David Foundation, which is funding the dig with the permission of the Antiquities Authority, defines it mission as continuing King David's legacy and strengthening Israel's current and historic connection to Jerusalem.Ben-Ami told the Post he has only conducted his excavation within the open areas of the car park and does not intend to request permits from the Antiquities Authority to extend the digging under the adjacent neighborhood.jpost.
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Peres: Iran nuke flying death camp Tuesday, 18 August 2009 17:43 News from Jerusalem ,Israel's President Shimon Peres with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
President Shimon Peres told Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Tuesday that an Iranian nuclear bomb would mean a flying death camp.During a four-hour-long meeting in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, Peres told Medvedev that the problem with Iran is not only the desire to produce nuclear weapons, but also the character of the regime... From my point of view, a nuclear weapon in Iranian hands has only one meaning - a flying death camp.The fact that Iran is investing billions of dollars in the development of long-range missiles, in parallel to its nuclear project, is clear indication of its intent,Peres told his Russian counterpart.Medvedev assured Peres that Russia was opposed to Iran's attainment of nuclear weapons, saying that he was aware that such a scenario would lead to a nuclear arms race of other Middle Eastern countries.According to a statement released by the President's Office, the two leaders discussed the sale of Russian weapons to countries hostile to Israel, including Iran.President Peres stressed that the sale of these weapons could damage the delicate balance of power in the region, and requested the Russian president, in the name of the state of Israel, to reconsider Russian policy in regard to this, and stressed that Israel has concrete proof of Russian weapons being transferred to terrorist organization by Iran and Syria, especially to Hamas and Hizbullah,read the statement.
Medvedev responded by saying that Russia would reexamine the request.As well as the Iranian nuclear standoff, the two presidents also discussed the Middle East peace process during their talks as well as strategic ties between Moscow and Jerusalem. Medvedev said that he hopes to upgrade relations between both countries to the same level as those Russia holds with European states.Russia aspires to host an international conference to discuss the Middle East peace process.Medvedev welcomed Peres by calling him one of the world's most experienced politicians and said he was ready to discuss both bilateral ties and regional challenges.We can touch on both Russian-Israeli ties and difficult issues related to the Middle East settlement and other regional problems,Medvedev said at the start of the talks. There are more difficulties than we wish, but we still need to discuss them.jpost.
Palestine problem hopeless, but not serious Wednesday, 19 August 2009 14:38 News from Jerusalem ,Don't believe the hype!
The situation for the Palestinian people is intolerable, declared United Sates President Barack Obama in his June 4 Cairo address. Really? Compared to what? Things are tough all over. The Palestinians are one of many groups displaced by the population exchanges that followed World War II, and the only ones whose great-grandchildren still have the legal status of refugees. Why are they still there? The simplest explanation is that they like it there, because they are much better off than people of similar capacities in other Arab countries.The standard tables of gross domestic product (GDP) per capital show the West Bank and Gaza at US$1,700, just below Egypt's $1,900 and significantly below Syria's $2,250 and Jordan's $3,000. GDP does not include foreign aid, however, which adds roughly 30% to spendable funds in the Palestinian territories. Most important, the denominator of the GDP per capita equation - the number of people - is far lower than official data indicate. According to an authoritative study by the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies [1], the West Bank and Gaza population in 2004 was only 2.5 million, rather than the 3.8 million claimed by the Palestinian authorities. The numbers are inflated to increase foreign aid.Adjusting for the Begin-Sadat Center population count and adding in foreign aid, GDP per capita in the West Bank and Gaza comes to $3,380, much higher than in Egypt and significantly higher than in Syria or Jordan. Why should any Palestinian refugee resettle in a neighboring Arab country? GDP per capita, moreover, does not reflect the spending power of ordinary people. Forty-four percent of Egyptians, for example, live on less than $2 a day, the United Nations estimates. The enormous state bureaucracy eats up a huge portion of national income. New immigrants to Egypt who do not have access to government jobs are likely to live far more poorly than per capita GDP would suggest.Other data confirm that Palestinians enjoy a higher living standard than their Arab neighbors. A fail-safe gauge is life expectancy. The West Bank and Gaza show better numbers than most of the Muslim world:
Life Expectancy by Country in Years
Oman 75.6 ,Bahrain 75.6 ,West Bank and Gaza 73.4 ,Saudi Arabia 72.8 ,Jordan 72.5
Algeria 72.3 ,Turkey 71.8 ,Egypt 71.3 ,Morocco 71.2 ,Iran 71.0 ,Pakistan 65.5
Yemen 62.7 ,Sudan 58.6 ,Somalia 48.2 Source: United Nations.
Literacy in the Palestinian Authority domain is 92.4%, equal to that of Singapore. That is far better than the 71.4% in Egypt, or 80.8% in Syria.Without disputing Obama's claim that life for the Palestinians is intolerable, it is fair to ask: where is life not intolerable in the Arab world? When the first UN Arab Development Report appeared in 2002, it elicited comments such as this one from the London Economist: With barely an exception, its autocratic rulers, whether presidents or kings, give up their authority only when they die; its elections are a sick joke; half its people are treated as lesser legal and economic beings, and more than half its young, burdened by joblessness and stifled by conservative religious tradition, are said to want to get out of the place as soon as they can.Life sounds intolerable for the Arabs generally; their best poet, the Syrian Adonis - Ali Ahmad Said Asbar - calls them an extinct people.Palestinian Arabs are highly literate, richer and healthier than people in most other Arab countries, thanks to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency and the blackmail payments of Western as well as Arab governments. As refugees, they live longer and better than their counterparts in adjacent Arab countries. It is not surprising that they do not want to be absorbed into other Arab countries and cease to be refugees.If the Palestinians ceased to be refugees, moreover, it is not clear how they would maintain their relatively advantaged position. They cannot return to farming; for all the tears about bulldozed olive groves, no one in the West Bank will ever make a living selling olive oil, except perhaps by selling Holy Land products to Christian tourists. Apart from tourism, the only non-subsidy source of income the Palestinians had was day labor in Israel, but security concerns close that off. Light manufacturing never will compete with Asia, and surely not during a prolonged period of global overcapacity.
An alternative is for the Palestinians to continue to live off subsidies. But why should they? Why should Western taxpayers subsidize an Arab in Ramallah, when Arabs in Egypt are needier? The answer is that they represent a security concern for Western countries, who believe that they are paying to limit violence. That only makes sense if the threat of violence remains present in the background and flares up frequently enough to be credible. One cannot simply stage-manage such things. A sociology of violence in which a significant proportion of the population remains armed.To contain the potential violence of an armed population, donors to the Palestinian authority hire a very large proportion of young men as policemen or paramilitaries. According to a February 10, 2008, report by Steven Stotsky [2]:
Overhauling the Palestinian security forces will cost $4.2 to $7 billion over the next five years. What's more, the recent aid package agreed on in Paris committing to $7.4 billion for the Palestinians doesn't contain any provision for the security services.The Reuters report follows a piece in the Jordan Times announcing plans to train a 50,000-person police force for the West Bank. This translates to one police officer for every 42-70 citizens (depending on which population figures for the West Bank are accepted), an unprecedented concentration of police presence. Currently, there are only 7,000 Palestinian police officers in the West Bank (Reuters, January13, 2008), so the new plan calls for a seven-fold increase. The planned expansion would result in a density of police at least three to four times that of major American cities that have to contend with much higher crime rates than the West Bank.Add to this bloated police force the numerous other state security organizations as well as private militias, and it is clear that security is the biggest business in the Palestinian territories and the largest employer of young men. The number of armed Palestinian fighters is estimated at around 80,000 or more than six times the soldiers per capita in the United States. About one out of four Palestinian men between the ages of 20 and 40 makes a living carrying a gun.That is, the economic structure of pre-state Palestine is heavily skewed towards the sort of institutionalized means of violence that is supposed to disappear once a state has been established. This is absurd, and creates a double disincentive for the Palestinians to maintain a low boil of violence. Just how this violence-centered society is supposed to make the transition to an ordinary civil society is an unanswerable question.
Once the problem is diagnosed with this kind of clarity, the solution becomes obvious:
Cut Western support to the Palestinians with the aim of reducing living standards in the West Bank to those prevailing in Egypt, as an incentive for emigration.
Demilitarize Palestinian society: offer a reward for turning in weapons, seize them when necessary, and give newly-unemployed gunmen employment weaving baskets at half pay.Like many obvious solutions, this one never will be put into practice. The problem all along has been the wrong set of expectations. Once Palestinian Arabs adjust their expectations to correspond to levels of income, education and health prevailing in other Arab countries in the region, they can either form a state similar to other Arab states in the region, or simply emigrate to those states as individuals.The Palestinians cannot form a normal state. They cannot emigrate to Arab countries without accepting a catastrophic decline in living standards, and very few can emigrate to Western countries. The optimal solution for the Palestinians is to demand a state and blackmail Western and Arab donors with the threat of violence, but never actually get one.That is why the Palestinian issue is hopeless, but not serious, in the words of my old mentor Norman A Bailey, a former national security official. As long as all concerned understand that the comedy is not supposed to have an ending, the Palestinians can persist quite tolerably in their intolerable predicament.asia times.
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
WORLD MARKET RESULTS
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/
HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS THU AUGUST 20,2009
09:30 AM -2.80
10:00 AM +40.58
10:30 AM +34.46
11:00 AM +35.06
11:30 AM +36.80
12:00 PM +36.60
12:30 PM +32.42
01:00 PM +44.66
01:30 PM +42.55
02:00 PM +53.43
02:30 PM +41.94
03:00 PM +50.48
03:30 PM +76.71
04:00 PM +70.89 9350.05
S&P 500 1007.37 +10.91
NASDAQ 1989.22 +19.98
GOLD 942.70 -2.10
OIL 72.54 +0.12
TSE 300 10,710.35 +23.52
CDNX 1184.39 +7.44
S&P/TSX/60 644.60 +1.08
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +5.73%
S&P +10.32%
Nasdaq +24.87%
TSX Advances 747,declines 750,unchanged 205,Volume 407,664,895.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 395,Declines 401,Unchanged 320,Volume 198,265,688.
Dow -5 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -11 points at low today.
Dow +54 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $941.40.OIL opens at $72.37 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -11 points at low today so far.
Dow +54 points at high today so far.
DAY TODAY PERFORMANCE - 12:30PM STATS
NYSE Advances 2,438,declines 1,090,unchanged 108,New Highs 56,New Lows 30.
Volume 2,171,764,684.
NASDAQ Advances 1,423,declines 1,072,unchanged 133,New highs 44,New Lows 06.
Volume 769,454,592.
TSX Advances 649,declines 517,unchanged 230,Volume 162,669,163.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 262,Declines 252,Unchanged 247,Volume 91,501,803.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -11 points at low today.
Dow +85 points at high today.
Dow +0.76% today Volume 151,706,806.
Nasdaq +1.01% today Volume 1,897,851,460.
S&P 500 +1.09% today Volume N/A
Brussels suggests EU-wide tax databases
LUCIA KUBOSOVA 19.08.2009 @ 09:16 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - In a bid to use the momentum of the economic crisis which has strained EU public budgets, the European Commission has proposed a potentially controversial system to boost fight against tax fraud by allowing national authorities to directly access taxpayer data in other countries.In the current economic situation it is more important than ever to fight tax fraud efficiently and a fully functioning administrative cooperation between tax administrations is key in that respect,the EU's taxation commissioner Laszlo Kovacs said in a statement on Tuesday (18 August).Introducing the proposed structure, the Hungarian commissioner said he wanted to provide national tax officers with all technical and legal means to take action and protect other states' tax revenue as effectively as their own.The key element of the blueprint is the creation of Eurofisc - a scheme for rapid exchange of targeted information to which the authorities from all 27 EU member states would have direct access, in order to stop fraud and catch fraudsters,Mr Kovacs said. The idea is to prevent carousel fraud over value added tax (VAT), which occurs when someone gets VAT-free goods in one country and sells them on VAT-included terms in another state, but disappears before paying the tax.
To boost the practical effect of the system, the EU executive also suggested concrete rules on which kind of information should be gathered in national tax databases and how it should be registered - to make it easy to compare and use by officers in other states. According to some estimates, Europe's governments lose up to 10 percent in VAT receipts each year, amounting to some €200 billion to €250 billion. In 2006, Germany reported its overall losses in VAT receipts as €17 billion per year, according to Deutsche Presse-Agentur.But the commission's blueprint could still face tough opposition from national capitals. The move requires unanimous support and EU governments tend to carefully guard their tax competences, including access to their national data in this area.
AP source: Deficit to be $1.58 trillion this year By PHILIP ELLIOTT and JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press Writers – AUG 20,09
WASHINGTON – The White House plans to announce the federal deficit will be about $262 billion less than officials predicted earlier this year — in part because the administration has provided less aid than expected to Wall Street.The federal deficit this year will total $1.58 trillion, a senior White House official said late Wednesday. That's three times more red ink than last year. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the report before its release next Tuesday while President Barack Obama will be on vacation in Massachusetts.The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is expected to release its mid-session review the same day. It estimated in June that it expected a deficit of $1.825 trillion.The report for the budget year that ends Sept. 30 also will predict Washington to spend $3.653 trillion this year, the official said. Revenue, however, would reach only $2.074 trillion.The new deficit numbers are record shattering, but would give the administration the opportunity to say that its policies have avoided a more extreme financial crisis and eliminated the need for further bank infusions.Still, the deficit amount is a tremendous obstacle for an administration trying to undertake massive policy overhauls in health care and the environment.Whether it's $1.6 trillion or $1.8 trillion, it's pretty bad, said Robert Bixby, executive director of the bipartisan fiscal watchdog The Concord Coalition.I hope no one tries to spin that as good news.But Stan Collender, a former congressional budget staffer, said the White House's new deficit numbers can't be blamed on Obama. Collender, now with Qorvis Communications, a Washington consulting firm, noted that when President George W. Bush left office the deficit estimate for this fiscal year was $1.2 trillion and that didn't include a tax adjustment and additional spending for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, approved this year, that Bush also would have sought.
The midsummer report was supposed to have been released in mid-July, but was delayed, leading to speculation the White House was delaying the bad news until Congress left on an August recess. Other administrations delayed releasing their versions of this report during their first year.Obama's budget had included a $250 billion placeholder for a second bailout of the nation's troubled banks but he did not ask Congress for it amid concerns the administration was spending too heavily. The administration also had anticipated more banks failing, but the survival of most banks saved billions for Washington.The report comes during a rough patch for Obama's presidency. The rancor surrounding the Democrats' proposed health care overhaul came during a monthlong break when much of Washington is in a lull.The administration earlier this year predicted that unemployment would peak at about 9 percent without a big stimulus package and 8 percent with one. Congress did pass a $787 billion two-year stimulus measure, yet unemployment soared to 9.4 percent in July and appears headed for double digits. Most of that stimulus will occur in the coming fiscal year.The nation's debt now stands at $11.7 trillion. In the scheme of things, that's more important than talking about the deficit, which only looks at a one-year slice of bookkeeping and ignores previous debt that is still outstanding.Economists predict that an improved economic climate could help reduce the deficit in the 2010 fiscal year to $1.3 trillion, though White House economists had forecast a slightly smaller figure of $1.26 for the next fiscal year. Obama has promised to reduce the budget deficit to $512 billion in the 2013 fiscal year.The deficit is obviously very large and a problem, said economist Mark Zandi of Moody's Economy.com. But it's not quite as bad as what expectations were a few months ago.Earlier this year, Zandi, whose observations are frequently cited by administration and congressional officials, had predicted that the administration would have to get congressional approval for additional rescue funds for financial institutions.It's working out better than I anticipated,he said.(This version CORRECTS the projected deficit in 2013 to $512 billion, not $533 billion.)
August 19, 2009 LRC Blog How the New York Stock Exchange really works Posted by David Kramer on August 19, 2009 08:34 AM Richard Ney on the Role of the Specialist
The story is told that after he had been deported to Italy, Lucky Luciano granted an interview in which he described a visit to the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. When the operations of floor specialists had been explained to him, he said, A terrible thing happened. I realized I’d joined the wrong mob(1Ney, 8).It was with these words that Richard Ney began his first of three books on the nature of the New York Stock Exchange. Ney wrote over 20 years ago, a time when a 750 Dow was high and today’s volumes were beyond imagining. Some of his material is dated, and must be read in the light in which it was written. But the main premise of his books is still true: that the specialist exists not to ensure the free and orderly trade of stock in a particular company, but to fatten upon the innocence and ignorance of the small investor.The New York Stock Exchange is not an auction market (2Ney, 86), though many investors still hold onto that image. It is a rigged market. Volume is an effect of price. Prices are controlled absolutely by the specialists, the market makers in individual stocks. It was this discovery that led Mr. Ney to eventually give us small investors a priceless gift: enlightenment.Studying the transactions in each stock, I became immediately conscious that, on too many occasion to be a coincidence, a stock would advance from its morning low and then, often during the afternoon, would show an up-tick of a half-point or more on a large block of anywhere from 1,500 to 5,000 or more shares. This transaction seemed to herald a transformation in what was taking place, for immediately thereafter the stock would begin to drop like Newton’s apple. Before I could find out what caused this, another question presented itself: What caused the same thing to happen at the low point in that stock’s decline? For it was also apparent that a block of stock of the same size often appeared on a down-tick of a half-point or more, after which the stock quickly rallied. Together these two facts seemed to give a stock’s pattern continuity. At the end of several days of investigation, I discovered that these transactions at the top and bottom of a stock’s price pattern were for the specialist’s own account. … Clod that I was, I had at last recognized that, although the study of human nature may not be fashionable among economists, it is never out of season(2Ney, 9).
The specialist is part of a system. First, he is part of that rare fraternity of men who are all specialists in an exchange. It is a small private club, to whose membership one can only be born. The specialists of the Dow 30 exhibit the spirit of all for one, and one for all. If one of the 30 is having problems, the other 29 wait for him, before they move onto their next agreed upon campaign (2Ney, 172). The rest of the specialists take their lead from watching the Dow 30.But the system is more extensive and more powerful than just the specialists. The specialists are the heart of the exchange. The exchange, in turn, has practical control of the major corporations, banks, insurance companies, and brokerage houses in this country. These, in turn, influence news reporting and the regulatory agencies.
ADVANTAGES OF BEING A SPECIALIST
The specialist has many advantages, many tools to use to pry dollars from unsuspecting investors and mutual funds. Chief among these advantages is his book. In his book he can see at a glance all the buy and sell orders from the public and the funds. His book tells him of potentially massive sales above and below his current price. This gives him a great advantage when he is trading on his own investment and omnibus accounts.Because of his book, the specialist sees shifts in trends long before anyone else. This gives him a great advantage. The specialist will buy heavily at the bottom of a slide (at wholesale) then advance prices and sell, at heavy volume, at the peak of the rally (retail). He will then sell short and take prices down. The turning points of a rally will be marked by heavly volume in the Dow 30 (3Ney, 85-89).When he desires he can even make large block trades without entering them into his book. In this way the public is never made aware of those trades. Should the specialist want to supply a buy or sell order from his own accounts, rather than from public orders on book, he can and will do so (1Ney, 156). Ney cites specific examples when his customers orders were ignored while the specialist completed orders for his own accounts.When serving as the market maker, the broker’s broker, the specialist trades from his Trading Account, which is to be used to service the needs of the market. However, he also has Investment Accounts (plural). His Segregated Investment Accounts put him directly into competition with every other investor in his stock. The reason for he has segregated investment accounts is that they enable him to convert regular income into long-term capital gains (1Ney, 113).In addition, he also trades on Omnibus accounts, taking orders from a friendly bank on behalf of friends, family, and himself (1Ney, 58). Although he is not allowed to be both long and short in his Trading account, he can take the opposite stance in his Investment or Omnibus accounts (3Ney, 130).
A Specialist will often not have any shares in his trading or omnibus accounts. If public demand for shares suddenly increases, the Specialist is more than happy to supply those shares to the public by short selling. This, of course, forces the Specialist to take the price down soon thereafter, so that he may cover his short sales at the lower price. Or, the Specialist may sell from his Investment Accounts, establishing a middle or long term high (1Ney, 61), and then take the price down. Whichever strategy he employs, a large public demand for stock ultimately drives the price of that stock down, not up.Distribution of large amounts of stock can be done from the specialist’s trading account, usually as short sales. The trading account can then be covered by transferring stock from the long-term investment accounts into the trading account (1Ney, 64).The existence of the specialist’s Investment and Omnibus Accounts is ultimately detrimental to the public. In a stock with only a small capitalization or floating supply, the segregation of large blocks into long-term investment accounts for the specialist further decreases the supply of the stock available to the public(1Ney, 61)The specialist has absolute control over price. He can match the buys with the sells in any way he sees fit. He can raise the price of the stock 3 points in three trades, and open the next day down 5.The seeming unpredictability of stock prices is due to the fact that prices exist at the whim of the specialist. A stock is only worth what the specialist is willing to pay for it at the moment. The fluctuations you see are, in fact, the evidence of how the specialist is working out his inventory problems to meet his short-term, intermediate-term, and long-term goals (2Ney, 172). The specialist will sometimes leap frog his prices up or down, creating a gap. This is done to keep a group of investors from buying or selling at a particular price.Leap Frogs show specialist intent.Ney offers specific examples where specialists opened stocks considerably lower:August 8, 1967 Chicago and Northwestern Railroad opened down 39 points.October 21, 1968 one of the preferred stocks of TRW opened down 28 points.February 4, 1970 Memorex opened down 29 1/2 points (1Ney, 15)
With $8,000, you can buy $10,000 worth of stock, but with $8,000 in stock, any Stock Exchange member can buy $160,000 worth of stock for his own segregated investment account(1Ney, 112).Because most investors have margin accounts, and the margin account agreement allows their brokers to lend their shares, specialists have an unlimited number of shares to borrow and sell short (1Ney, 68).Margin agreements also allow the broker to use their customer’s shares as collateral without the customer’s knowledge or permission. This practice is fraught with dangers. In November, 1963, the Ira Haupt brokerage firm (NYSE), which dealt in both stocks and commodities was caught unwittingly in a scheme by one of its commodities customers to leverage nonexistent salad oil. The failure wiped out the partners of the firm and left it owing some $37 million in debts. To compound Haupt’s and the New York Stock Exchange’s problems, it was impossible to return the stock to customers because the stock (held by the brokerage firm for its customers) had been pledged to banks by Haupt(1Ney, 122).Margin accounts usually allow the broker to borrow any cash in the account to use for his own purposes at no interest, even to lend back to the customer for margin purchases, at interest (1Ney, 119).At the bottom of a cycle of a stock, having panicked customers into selling, the brokers and specialist borrow the customers’ money to make their own long-term purchases; using their advantageous margin to acquire large amounts of stock. At the top of the cycle the process is reversed. Customers are paid back their money by the brokers and the specialist selling their shares to customers at a profit. The insiders even have extra cash to loan customers for margin purchases (1Ney, 136).Another powerful tool for the specialist is the short sale. Though the specialist is responsible for 85 percent of the short selling done in a stock, the Exchanges are loathe to print any timely data on specialist short sales (2Ney, 94)(3Ney, 234). The specialist uses the short sale to control both downward and upward movements of stock (3Ney, 88).The private investor or mutual fund can only sell short on an up- tick. The up-tick rules serves only to trap the public into selling short at the bottom, as the specialist drives the price down without a single up-tick for the public’s use (1Ney, 72). But the specialist need not even create an up-tick to sell short. The SEC has been careful not to publicize its rule 10a-1(d), in which sub-paragraphs (1) through (9) exempt the specialist from the up-tick rule (2Ney, 97)(3Ney, 126, 215).The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 prohibits pegging, the act of artificially holding a stock’s price at a certain level for the advantage of the person or persons doing the pegging. However, SEC rule X-9A6 (1940) allows pegging by specialists in order to maintain an orderly market while a large-block distribution of shares is taking place (2Ney, 117).
THE CORPORATION, THE SPECIALIST, AND THE EXCHANGE
The specialists and brokers hold shares in street name for investors, and therefore can vote the proxies for those shares. Officers in a corporation must report to the SEC any trading they do in the shares of their own company. Yet the Specialist reports his profits in trading the shares in that same corporation to no one (1Ney, 54-55).The specialist, one of his partners, a friendly broker, their lawyers, or their bankers, often sit on the company’s board of directors, which makes the specialist privy to information before the average trader. Where an officer of a corporation is held strictly accountable to the SEC for his use of inside information, the specialist and fellow brokers are accountable to no one (1Ney, 54-55).It is an ideal situation. When you control a corporation’s proxies, everyone is sympathetic to your point of view and your choice of directors. This is the other reason why nearly every major corporation listed with the Exchange (NYSE, M.T.) has a broker or a broker’s banker on its board. It gives the exchange a pipeline to that corporation (1Ney, 90).
Large brokerage houses, large banks, and the New York Stock exchange use dummy corporations as fronts to hold large portions of stocks in corporations. A list from any large corporation of its largest stockholders will be a roll of these very dummy corporations, who show up on list after list of major stock holders in America’s largest corporations (2Ney, 19-23).The intertwining of interests runs even deeper when the relations of Wall Steet’s top Law firms are examined. For example, in 1974 the New York Stock Exchange’s legal counsel also represented Chase Manhattan Bank. Both entities, through their dummy corporations, were large stockholders in scores of major U.S. corporations (2Ney, 26).
THE EXCHANGE, THE SEC, THE FEDERAL RESERVE, AND THE WHITE HOUSE
The bankers’ man, Senator Carter Glass, who steered the Federal Reserve Act through Congress in 1913, had maintained that the Federal Reserve banks would be merely lenders of money. The only collateral they were to accept was notes that could be paid when, in the course of business, goods and services had been manufactured and distributed. However, almost from the day of its inception, the Federal Reserve System set about making loans on common stocks(1Ney, 103).Who sits on the Federal Reserve Board? Chief officers of banks and corporations, all of whose companies are controlled by the Exchange (1Ney, 103-105).Billions, perhaps trillions of dollars worth of stocks are now held by banks as collateral for loans. This too works to the advantage of the specialists. For, to protect their interests, banks will issue stop orders to sell the stock before it falls below a certain price. The specialist holds those stop orders in his book and therefore knows exactly where a large number of shares can be had, and at what price they can be purchased. One quick sweep down those ranges of prices will deliver to the specialist the inventory he desires for short and mid-term purposes (1Ney, 101).On June 30, 1934 President Roosevelt appointed Joseph Kennedy to be the first Chairman of the SEC. Only 4 months before, Kennedy, along with Mason Day, Harry Sinclair, Elisha Walker, and others were found to be responsible for operating pools that were actively manipulating stock. When these, “poolsters withdrew and the boom collapsed the administration denounced the men who operated them” (1Ney, 215). But what’s a little denouncement between friends?
The stock markets had been headed downhill since December of 1968. On May 26, 1969 a party was held at the Nixon White House. In attendance were John Mitchell, Maurice Stans, Peter Flannigan, thirty five guests from Wall Street, fourteen industrialists, seven bankers, five heads of mutual and pension funds, and two heads of insurance companies. The next day a bull rally began on Wall Street. May 27th saw the Dow Jones 30 average rise by 5 per cent in one day (2Ney, 71).On April 17, 1971, President Nixon, who along with Attorney General Mitchell had been a Wall Street lawyer (Maurice Stans was a broker), appeared for photographs with friends from the New York Stock Exchange. Nixon recommended the public to invest in the market. By April 28th the market was in a steep decline. Nixon circulated, to 1,300 editors, editorial writers, broadcast news directors, and Washington bureau chiefs a list of the stocks of ten corporations that had advanced during the past year (2Ney, 32).There is a revolving door between the exchange and Washington. SEC Chairmen ‘retire’ to go to work for the Exchanges or major brokerage houses at many times their government salaries (2Ney, 50-63). SEC Chairman Hamer Budge was found by Senator Proxmire’s investigation to be making frequent trips to Minneapolis to confer with officials of IDS. IDS was under investigation at the time by the SEC. After leaving the SEC, Budge took the position of Chairman of the Board with IDS (2Ney, 56).
NEWS AND FINANCIAL REPORTING
It is highly unlikely that we will see news reports critical of U.S. stock exchanges, or of the specialist system. There is a simple reason for this. All news organizations are corporations and do but reflect their management’s views. Corporations that own media have specialists influencing the choice of management. Newspapers, magazines, and television are but extensions of the corporate world.When Richard Ney’s first book, The Wall Street Jungle, came out it was on the New York Times best seller list for 11 months. Yet the New York Times would not review it. The Wall Street Journal refused to take an ad from a New York bookstore that featured The Wall Street Jungle (2Ney, 30).All three of the major networks were wary of having Ney appear. NBC banned only two people from appearing on the Tonight show with Johnny Carson: Ralph Nader and Richard Ney. Not only do large banks, brokerage firms, and corporations advertise on television, they also are the largest stock holders (2Ney, 33- 34).
SPECIALIST STRATEGY
The specialist should be thought of as a merchant with some rather unique inventory problems and opportunities. His goal, always, is to buy at wholesale prices and to sell at retail. This applies to his actions in the course of trading day as well as a year of trading.At the bottom of a slide the specialist will buy heavily for his trading, investment, and omnibus accounts. His goal then becomes to raise the price of his stock with his wholesale inventory intact. In practice, though, he may have to sell shares to meet public demand. This will cause him, then, to lower the price to re-accumulate his inventory before he can proceed to higher levels.A rally begins while the price of the average stock is still falling. Major rallies begin and end with the unexpected,(3Ney, 184).To stimulate public demand for his stock, near the high the specialist will raise the angle of the rising prices dramatically for the stock. True to one of Ney’s axioms that prices beget volume, the public will rush into the market place at the rally high. The specialist can now sell his accumulated inventory to fill the increased demand. Heavy Dow 30 volume at the high is evidence of heavy short sales by the specialists (3Ney, 113).When the specialist has sold all his inventory, and has sold short, he will then begin a downward slide of prices so necessary to his plans. Slides are a mirror of rallies. Near the bottom, the specialist will increase the angle of price decline, alarming investors, scaring them into selling their shares to the specialist who needs them to cover his short sales, and to build a new inventory at wholesale. The media will remain bullish, or cautiously optimistic throughout a slide, until the last two weeks, when they will turn suddenly bearish (3Ney, 158).
TIPS FROM RICHARD NEY:
Specialists in the most active stocks will require more time than their fellow specialists to move stocks up or down, or to cover at the top of a rally or the bottom of a slide (2Ney, 84-85).Specialists may use a rally as a ’stalking horse’ for a later rally. Price is used like a geiger counter to locate volume (3Ney, 149).
During the typical bear market, or slide, the specialists will usually bring prices up on Fridays, to keep investors hopes alive (2Ney, 92).Leaders of the rally in the Dow 30 will often act as screens for the price declines of the other 24 or 25 Dow stocks.
Each stock exhibits its own distinct pattern or rhythm of price behavior (2Ney, 189).
THINGS OF WHICH TO BE AWARE
How can you spot the nadir of each high and low? Ney says to look at volume very closely. In particular look at the volume of the individual Dow 30 Industrial stocks (2Ney, 171). Get to know these specialists’ habits. Follow what they do. Patterns of behavior will emerge.Ney emphasized that a sense of timing was critical for survival in the market (2Ney, 149).Ney was convinced that detecting Specialist short selling was a key. Specialist short selling at the peak of a rally should be detectable through increased volume.Richard Ney used charts extensively. Ney was quick to point out that what is really being measured in his charts is not the behavior of the masses in the marketplace, but the techniques of the specialist in an individual stock as he maneuvers to solve short-term, intermediate-term, and long-term inventory problems (1NEY, 259).Ney points to the gaps in prices that develop when a specialist is trying to catch up with the market. These gaps, be they up or down, signal specialist intent (2Ney, 172).Investors assume that what happens in the economy or to the corporation in terms of earnings or sales determines the trend of stock prices. … The most misleading element in this type of analysis is that it ignores the basic needs and motivations of the specialist system(2Ney, 150).We, as consumers react to certain critical numbers. Specialists know this. Specialists use the 10’s (10, 20, 30, etc.) and 5’s (5, 15, 25, etc.) in their strategies. They will use these numbers to elicit heavier buying or selling from the public. Often too, though, they will avoid critical numbers to avoid buying or selling stock when they do not wish to do so (2Ney, 155-156 & 163).
NEY’S SMALL INVESTOR TRADING RECOMMENDATIONS (1Ney, 297-301)
1. Do not buy the acknowledged leader in a field. Buy the number 2 or 3 company. These companies are more likely to be subject to bull raids by the specialists (1Ney, 298).
2.Nothing puzzles me more than an investor’s willingness to pay more than fifty dollars a share for stocks. Buy low priced stocks. It’s percentages you’re after and you’ll get them in these stocks in a bull market(1Ney, 298).
3. Invest only in stocks listed on the NYSE.
4. Do not buy secondary offerings from your broker.
5. Buy only stocks whose prices have fallen at least 35 to 50 percent.
6. The rule, Cut your losses and let your profits ride,was invented by a broker(1Ney, 298).
7. The average investor need not worry about tax brackets, so do not hesitate to sell at a profit. A short-term gain is better than a long-term loss (1Ney, 299).
8. Own your stock. Do not use margin.
9. Do not sell short.
10. Do not allow your stock to be borrowed (via a margin account; M.T.)
11. Credit balances should be immediately transferred to your bank.
12. Do not leave your stock with your broker in street name.
13. Invest only in growth oriented, not income, stocks.
14. 4 to 5 stocks in a portfolio is plenty.
15. Make arrangements with your bank to receive your stock.
16. If there has been a major advance from the summer lows, look for the public to begin selling 6 months hence.
17. Big block sales at the end of a run-up (usually marked by heavy volume) marks the imminent decline in price.
18. Look for bull raids in May, up from the April 15th tax low.
19. Never enter stop or limit orders.
20. If you are interested in a stock, learn its specialist’s habits.
21. Stocks that are ideal for bull raids are those that decline as close as possible to an angle of 45 degrees.
Works Cited:
1Ney, Richard. THE WALL STREET JUNGLE, fifth printing. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1970.
2Ney, Richard. THE WALL STREET GANG, third printing. New York: Praeger Publishers, Inc., 1974.
3Ney, Richard. MAKING IT IN THE MARKET. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975
[The source for this essay is here. I posted my version of the entire essay because I edited out comments that the author Michael Templain made that I disagreed with, i.e., I felt he didn't grasp fully what Ney had written. You can read the original essay for yourself in order to make up your own mind. If you decide to read the books, read them in chronological order. They are impossible to find in a library, and are very expensive to buy used.]
Trade figures swell hope of EU recovery
LUCIA KUBOSOVA 18.08.2009 @ 09:23 CET
The eurozone's trade surplus doubled in June, boosting the mildly positive mood over the 16-strong bloc's economic performance. But analysts warn that recent positive signals are still too weak to suggest the beginning of a steady recovery.According to preliminary figures released by Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, on Monday (17 August), the euro area saw a surplus of €4.6 billion in trade balance with the rest of the world in June, up from a zero difference between exports and imports recorded a year before. It is the highest figure for two years.Back in May, the eurozone's trade balance amounted to a surplus of €2.1 billion against a deficit of €3.8 billion in May 2009.The same positive trend has been only partially copied for the whole of the EU's 27 member states, however. The bloc's trade balance remained in the red in June, with a deficit of €4.3 billion, compared with €7.2 billion in May and €19.3 billion last June.A boost in exports came mainly from Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands, while the UK, France and Spain registered the largest trade deficits.
Across different sectors, the EU's trade mainly benefited the energy business while the surplus fell for machinery, vehicles and chemicals, according to Eurostat.in terms of trade partners, the largest drop in EU's exports was recorded with Russia, Turkey, South Korea and Norway. The bloc also imported less from Russia, Japan and Brazil.While still in the red, the EU's trade surplus also fell with regard to the US and Switzerland. At the same time, Europe's performance improved towards China, the world's leading exporter.
EU to monitor Afghan elections despite attacks
VALENTINA POP Today AUG 19,09 @ 00:08 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – EU election monitors in Afghanistan will carry on their mission during the presidential vote on Thursday (21 August) despite intensified Taliban attacks, a spokeswoman told this website.Security forces in Kabul opened fire on Wednesday killing three alleged terrorists, one day after rockets hit the presidential palace and a suicide bomb attack on Western troops killed 10 and wounded over 50 people in the Afghan capital.The Taliban has vowed to disrupt the presidential elections, which had already been postponed for six months due to security concerns.The EU's 120 monitors on the ground will oversee the vote in Kabul and selected other locations throughout the country, Sandra Khadhouri, the spokeswoman for the EU election mission in Kabul, said in a phone interview. Certainly there has been an increase in violence to worry about, but this has happened before. Last year actually, the rocket attacks on Kabul were greater than this year,she said, confident that the Afghan authorities will not again postpone the poll.It will always be difficult to hold elections, even in six months, they would be faced with exactly the same issues.Ms Khadhouri said that the Taliban is internally divided and not as well organised as perhaps people think they are.It's just in the past few weeks that there have been these incidents, but this doesn't stop the functioning of the government or the activity of the people. Unfortunately, they are used to living with this violence – there is an attack and then they carry on with their daily routine. Some internationals have left, to stay out of danger during this period, but the rest of us are here.
Dozens of candidates
This year, 35 candidates are running for the top job, almost twice as many as in 2004 - the first free elections after Nato removed the Taliban from power.Incumbent Hamid Karzai, 51 years old, is tipped to win but needs to get over 50 percent to avoid a second round. Former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah is the strongest challenger.
Twenty three of the 120 EU observers have already been in Afghanistan for two months and will stay one more month to follow the counting process, with final results to be announced on 17 September.Ms Khadhouri said there is potential for fraud, like there would be in any country, but let's wait out and see what happens on election day.
Logistical challenge
Fraud seems like a minor problem compared to the huge logistical challenge of organising normal elections in a country marred by poverty and war, with a hostile geography.Afghanistan is a place where the practicalities, the logistics, are already half of the job – and that's for the government, as well as anyone trying to operate here. Being able to travel around is very difficult, you need donkeys, cars and security forces,the EU spokeswoman said. According to the Afghan government, some 80-90 percent of election materials have arrived to the 6,200 polling stations.The Afghan Interior Ministry says about a third of the country is at high risk of attack. No polling stations will open in eight Afghan districts under Taliban control.
According to Afghan electoral law, women and men will vote in separate polling stations by dipping their finger in permanent ink and marking the candidate they like. In some areas, the Taliban has threatened cut people's thumbs off if they are found with voting ink on their hands.Afghan police has the primary responsibility for the security of the election process, but the army can intervene. Nato troops will be less visible to avoid provocations, but can also help if invited by the Afghan army.
Media ban
The government has ordered the media to stop reporting Taliban attacks on election day, so as not to discourage people from going to polling stations. Journalists have vowed to break the ban, however. It is a democratic day, a very important day for our independence, [and] this type of ban does not sit well with democratic principles, Rahimullah Samander, president of the Afghanistan Independent Journalists' Association, told AFP news agency.
Analyst: Minus deal with EU, Microsoft would still ship Windows 7 with IE
Microsoft could meet Oct. 22 ship date; might have to tweak browser ballot screen plan
By Gregg Keizer August 19, 2009 04:12 PM ET
Windows 7 will run 120 days for free, Microsoft confirmsAnalyst: Minus deal with EU, Microsoft would still ship Windows 7 with IEMicrosoft shutting off Windows 7 RC downloads Thursday FAQ: How to get Windows 7 on the cheapImage gallery: Windows 7 RTM -- a closer lookReview: Windows 7 RTM -- a closer lookWindows 7: How low can you go?Ballmer confirms Windows 7 Starter restrictions for netbooksMicrosoft boosts Windows 7 graphics with hardwareChoosing the perfect notebook for Windows 7 More on Windows 7 Computerworld - If Microsoft can't strike a deal with European Union (EU) antitrust regulators over Internet Explorer (IE) before Windows 7's scheduled Oct. 22 launch, the company will most likely ship the browser with the new OS anyway, an analyst said today.Although Microsoft showed enough confidence in its latest proposal to the European Commission that it ditched the idea of shipping Windows 7 without a browser, there's a chance the two sides won't reach agreement before the operating system goes on sale two months from Saturday.If that happens, Microsoft would most likely still ship IE with Windows 7, said Rob Helm, an analyst at Kirkland, Wash.-based Directions on Microsoft. "But it might have to deliver something more than the ballot screen that they've proposed. Like the current ballot screen proposal, that could be delivered as an update after Windows 7 is released.Earlier this month, Microsoft scrapped plans for Windows 7E, a special edition for the European market that would ship without IE8, the browser slated to be bundled with Windows 7 in the rest of the world. It dropped Windows 7E, Microsoft said, because it was confident Brussels-based antitrust officials would accept its proposal to instead offer a so-called browser ballot screen.
The ballot screen would offer users a choice of at least five different browsers -- IE8, Mozilla's Firefox, Apple's Safari, Google's Chrome and Opera Software's Opera -- the first time they tried to connect to the Internet.EU regulators had been pushing for such a screen since they filed charges in January against Microsoft for tying IE to Windows. The ballot screen, however, is not a slam dunk. Both Opera and Mozilla, the latter just yesterday, have criticized parts of Microsoft's proposal.Microsoft has clearly decided to go with the provisional deal,said Helm, referring to the ballot screen proposal.It intends to ship Windows 7 with IE8, and it's obviously confident that it can find some kind of terms with the EU.But what's Microsoft's move if it cannot strike a deal with the commission? Would Microsoft delay Windows 7? Helm said no.That seems really unlikely,he said.They'll comply with orders, of course, but from all indications the two sides have gotten closer together with the ballot proposal.Rather than delay Windows 7 -- a potentially crippling decision given Microsoft's shaky revenues from its Windows client group the last three quarters -- Helm sees the company making whatever changes the EU demands to the ballot screen, then pushing it out as a software update after the new OS reaches users.They don't want to entomb a legal solution in a product that [antitrust regulators] might not accept,Helm said, talking about Microsoft's current plan to ship the browser ballot as an update to Windows 7 on its launch date, Oct. 22. Windows XP and Vista users, meanwhile, would get their ballot screen updates three-to-six months later, according to Microsoft's proposal.
They might have to put more teeth in the ballot screen,acknowledged Helm.Among concerns expressed Tuesday by a trio of Mozilla executives, including its former and current CEOs as well as its head counsel, were a demand for a guarantee from Microsoft that it wouldn't use the Windows Update service to later coax users into switching back to IE; that it should delete IE's explicit ties to other Microsoft software, particularly Office; and that it would actually disable IE when users selected a rival browser.EU regulators have not set a timetable for a final decision on Microsoft's proposal, but sources close to Microsoft have said they expect a resolution before the end of October, both because of the launch of Windows 7 and because the current commissioner for competition, Neelie Kroes, steps down Oct. 31.
Unfortunately, a lot of this is out of our light, noted Helm.It's totally different than if U.S. officials were demanding Microsoft make changes.
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.
Wave of blasts in Iraqi capital kills at least 95 By HAMZA HENDAWI and KIM GAMEL, Associated Press Writers – AUG 20,09
BAGHDAD – Nearly simultaneous truck bombs struck Iraq's Foreign and Finance ministries Wednesday as a wave of explosions killed at least 95 people, bringing the weaknesses of Iraqi security forces into sharp focus less than two months after U.S. forces withdrew from urban areas.It was the deadliest day of coordinated bombings since Feb. 1, 2008, when two suicide bombers killed 109 people at pet markets in Baghdad. More than 400 were wounded in Wednesday's blasts.The new American role was on sharp display as the military said it responded to onsite requests from Iraqi commanders for assistance, providing intelligence to help guide rescue crews and deploying explosives experts to clear areas of potential bombs.U.S. transition teams assisted with security cordons and medics helped the wounded. Helicopters buzzed overhead.We helped the victims when and where we could, in accordance with our Iraqi allies' requests,said Lt. Col. Philip Smith, a spokesman for U.S. forces in Baghdad.
The extent of the carnage shocked the Shiite-led government and dealt a devastating blow to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's efforts to return Baghdad to normal and reinforce his chances in parliamentary elections in January.Al-Maliki blamed Sunni insurgents linked to al-Qaida in Iraq and said the attacks were designed to foil plans to open streets and remove concrete blast walls from Baghdad's main roads by mid-September.He said the Iraqi government must reassess security measures — the first government acknowledgment that his moves may have been premature so soon after U.S. troops left the cities at the end of June.The criminal acts that took place today require us to re-evaluate our plans and security mechanisms in order to confront the terrorist challenges and to increase cooperation between security forces and the Iraqi people,he added in a departure from his usual calls on the public to hold steady in the face of an escalation of attacks.He said an alliance of al-Qaida in Iraq and Saddam Hussein loyalists was behind the attacks, and that the government has placed Iraq's army and police forces on high alert.The violence began when a suicide truck bomber took aim at the Finance Ministry complex in northern Baghdad, causing part of a nearby overpass to collapse. A female employee emerged from the building after the blast in an apparent state of shock, her clothes stained with blood.
Hospital officials said at least 28 people were killed and 117 wounded in that blast.
Minutes later, a truck bomb exploded outside the Foreign Ministry, charring dozens of cars in a parking lot and shattering the facade of the white, 10-story building located near the Green Zone.The massive blast left a 30-by-15-foot crater and knocked down part of the concrete wall surrounding the ministry's perimeter, killing at least 59 people and wounding 250.It blew out windows of the building and left furniture turned upside down inside exposed offices. Wires dangled and air conditioning pipes were ruptured. Slabs of concrete hung precariously from the front of the building.
Firefighters extracted charred bodies from vehicles that had been caught in the explosion.Several of the apartment buildings across the street from the ministry complex were extensively damaged. Satellite dishes were mangled or blown away.Young men complained of partisan politics and the failures of the security forces in anger that echoed across the city. Today's failure is the final straw for me,said Salem Mattar, a 31-year-old construction worker. Government officials have 30-strong security details and don't care about ordinary folks.Suspected mortar shells also slammed into the Green Zone, Iraqi officials said, with one landing near the U.N. compound, briefly delaying a news conference being held to discuss humanitarian issues on the sixth anniversary of the Aug. 19, 2003, bombing at the world body's headquarters that killed 22 people, including top U.N. envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello. The U.S. military, which turned over responsibility for securing the Green Zone to the Iraqis on Jan. 1, said it could not confirm any mortar attacks. Another blast in the commercial area of western Baghdad's Baiyaa district killed two people and wounded 16, while a bombing in the commercial district of Bab al-Muadham killed six people and wounded 24, authorities said.Shiite politicians, including some close to al-Maliki, have been charging recently that Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia and other Arab neighbors were orchestrating a violent campaign to destabilize Shiite majority Iraq.
Speaking at the Foreign Ministry bomb site, Shiite Mayor Saber al-Issawi echoed those charges when he suggested that Iraq's enemies in the region were determined to reverse what he called the government's recent successes. The White House condemned the attacks, with spokesman Robert Gibbs saying they show how far extremists will go to wreak havoc. But he said that the overall number of attacks in Iraq is at or near an all-time low.The U.S. military has warned that militants are trying to provoke new bloodshed to re-ignite retaliatory sectarian warfare and undermine public trust in the Iraqi government.U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq's cities June 30 under a security pact that outlines the American withdrawal by the end of 2011. President Barack Obama has ordered all U.S. combat troops out of Iraq by Aug. 31, 2010, leaving up to 50,000 U.S. troops in training and advising roles. The terrorists are trying to rekindle the cycle of violence of past years by creating a climate of tension among the Iraqi people,President Jalal Talabani said in a statement.Our security forces must be more alert and firm. Also, the political groups must unite.Sunni and Shiite extremists remain active in Iraq, and the U.S. military has detected some political violence ahead of the national elections. But truck bombs and suicide attacks bear the hallmarks of al-Qaida in Iraq.The security forces have failed to protect the government buildings despite tight security measures and advanced equipment and this reflects huge shortcomings,said Saeed Jabar, a 35-year-old government employee.It is a message to Iraqi officials that they should stop their exaggerations about the stability of this country.Associated Press writers Sameer N. Yacoub and Hamid Ahmed contributed to this report.
FALLIN DEMONIC ANGELS (GIANTS)
GENESIS 6:4-5
4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
NUMBERS 13:32-33
32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.
33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
DEUTERONOMY 2:10-11,20-21
10 The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
11 Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
20 (That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
21 A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:
DEUTORONOMY 3:11,13
11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
13 And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.
JOSHUA 12:4
4 And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
JOSHUA 13:12
12 All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out.
JOSHUA 15:8,13-14
8 And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward:
13 And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua, even the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron.
14 And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
JOSHUA 17:15-17
15 And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
16 And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are of Bethshean and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel.
17 And Joshua spake unto the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, Thou art a great people, and hast great power: thou shalt not have one lot only:
JOSHUA 18:16
16 And the border came down to the end of the mountain that lieth before the valley of the son of Hinnom, and which is in the valley of the giants on the north, and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi on the south, and descended to Enrogel,
2 SAMUEL 21:15-22
15 Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed faint.
16 And Ishbibenob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David.
17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel.
18 And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which was of the sons of the giant.
19 And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
20 And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.
21 And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea the brother of David slew him.
22 These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
1 CHRONICLES 20:4-8
4 And it came to pass after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines; at which time Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Sippai, that was of the children of the giant: and they were subdued.
5 And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear staff was like a weaver's beam.
6 And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand, and six on each foot: and he also was the son of the giant.
7 But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's brother slew him.
8 These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
JUDE 5-6,14-16
5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
Afghans vote for president under violence threat By JASON STRAZIUSO and ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writers – AUG 20,09
KABUL – Afghans voted under the shadow of Taliban threats of violence Thursday to choose their next president for a nation plagued by armed insurgency, drugs, corruption and a feeble government nearly eight years after the U.S.-led invasion.
Turnout, particularly in the violent south, will be key to the vote's success — the country's second direct presidential election. Taliban militants have pledged to disrupt the vote and circulated threats that those who cast ballots will be punished.
Early indications in Kabul pointed to a low initial turnout, perhaps as people assessed whether casting ballots was safe. An Associated Press reporter who visited six polling centers in the capital said he saw no lines at any of them.Yes, we are going to vote,Abdul Rahman, 35, said as he stood 50 yards (meters) outside one polling center. He and his friends were waiting to see a line of people vote safely before casting ballots. If anything happens to the polling center, we don't want to be too close to it.President Hamid Karzai, who has held power since the Taliban was ousted in late 2001, is favored to finish first among 36 official candidates, although a late surge by former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah could force a runoff if no one wins more than 50 percent.Scattered reports of minor violence trickled in from around the country, including a rocket that landed near voters in Helmand and an explosion at a voting site in Kabul. Security companies in the capital reported at least five explosions.An AP reporter in southern Helmand province said a rocket landed near voters in the capital of Lashkar Gah, killing one young child. A blast at a high school in Kabul serving as a polling center wounded an election monitor and briefly shut down voting, an election observer named Ezatullah said. A bomb in Kabul ripped through a police checkpoint but injured no one, an AP reporter at the scene said.Fearing that violence may dampen turnout, the Foreign Ministry asked news organizations to avoid broadcasting any incidence of violence during voting hours to ensure the wide participation of the Afghan people.Because of that order, Afghan officials were reluctant to confirm violence reports.Abdullah Azizi, a 40-year-old teacher, said he was at Abdul Hai Habibi school in Kabul when the explosion occurred.We don't care about these blasts. It's just people who want to sabotage the place,he said after voting reopened. My wife, my mother and father are going to come now. The women were afraid when they heard the explosion but now I'm going to tell them come here.International officials have predicted an imperfect election, but expressed hope that Afghans would accept it as legitimate a key component of President Barack Obama's war strategy.At a high school in eastern Kabul, election workers were ready at 7 a.m., but no one was there. A 30-year-old shopkeeper whose store is about 100 yards away said he didn't see the point. I am not voting. It won't change anything in our country,said Mohammad Tahir, 30.
An AP reporter in Kandahar, the south's largest city and the Taliban spiritual birthplace, also said he saw few voters.Karzai, wearing his traditional purple and green striped robe, voted at 7 a.m. He dipped a finger in indelible ink — a fraud prevention measure — and held it up for the cameras.I request from the Afghan people to come out and vote so through their vote Afghanistan will be more secure, more peaceful,Karzai said.Vote. No violence.Preliminary results were expected to be announced in Kabul on Saturday.Violence has risen sharply in Afghanistan the last three years, and the U.S. now has more than 60,000 forces in the country close to eight years after the U.S. invasion following the Sept. 11 attacks of 2001.Karzai, a favorite of the Bush administration, won in 2004 with 55.4 percent of the vote, riding into office on a wave of public optimism after decades of war and ruinous Taliban rule. As the U.S. shifted resources to the war in Iraq, Afghanistan fell into steep decline, marked by record opium poppy harvests, deepening government corruption and skyrocketing violence. Faced with growing public discontent, Karzai has sought to ensure his re-election by striking alliances with regional power brokers, naming as a running-mate a Tajik strongman whom he once fired as defense minister and welcoming home notorious Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum, allegedly responsible in the deaths of up to 2,000 Taliban prisoners early in the Afghan war.Those figures are believed capable of delivering millions of votes among their followers, but their presence in the Karzai inner circle has raised fears in Western capitals that the president will be unable to fulfill promises to fight corruption in a second term.
Voter turnout — especially in the insurgency-plagued Pashtun south — is likely to be crucial not only to Karzai's chances but also to public acceptance of the results. Karzai is widely expected to run strong among his fellow Pashtuns, the country's largest ethnic group which also forms the overwhelming majority of the Taliban. Abdullah, son of a Pashtun father and a Tajik mother, is expected to win much of his votes in the Tajik north, where security is better and turnout likely to be bigger. Abdullah, an ophthalmologist who has railed against government corruption, was a member of the U.S.-backed alliance that overthrew the Taliban in 2001 and would be expected to maintain close ties with the West.One fear is that Abdullah's followers may charge fraud and take to the streets if Karzai claims a first-round victory without a strong southern turnout.The country has been rife with rumors of ballot stuffing, bogus registrations and trafficking in registration cards on behalf of the incumbent, allegations his campaign has denied.It's very difficult in Afghanistan to see perfect elections,Richard Holbrooke, Obama's Afghanistan-Pakistan envoy, said during a news conference in Pakistan on Wednesday. Nowhere in the world (is there) a perfect election. Don't expect perfect elections in Afghanistan.In the south, turnout may be affected by the Taliban campaign of intimidation — whispered threats, posted warnings and a run of headline-grabbing attacks in Kabul — aimed at frightening Afghans from going to the polls.In Afghanistan's two most important and dangerous southern provinces — where thousands of U.S. troops deployed this summer — more than 130 polling stations will not open, officials said. These included 107 out of 242 polling stations in Helmand province, the focus of the most recent fighting, and 17 out of 271 in Kandahar, where the Taliban Islamist movement was born.Underscoring the threat, six election workers were killed around the country on Tuesday while delivering ballots. On the eve of the voting, three gunmen described by police as Taliban militants took over a bank in Kabul. Police stormed the building and killed the three.Anthony Cordesman, a former Pentagon analyst from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said the election is not functional democracy by Western standards but the important thing would be for Afghans to feel the election was legitimate by their standards.If not, he wrote in a commentary, Afghans will see the government as distant, corrupt, and ineffective,and empower the Taliban.Associated Press reporters Amir Shah, Fisnik Abrashi, Heidi Vogt and Rahim Faiez in Kabul and Noor Khan in Kandahar contributed to this report.
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