911 THE COVERUP THAT WON'T GO AWAY

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politicalbase.com THE FIRST AND SECOND TOWERS ON FIRE ON 911.



IF THIS IS TRUE AND THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT HAS SPILT THE BLOOD OF THOUSANDS UPON THOUNDSANDS OF THEIR OWN PEOPLE WE CAN SEE WHY IT WILL BE JUDGED IN THE FUTURE.1,300,000 overall dead and 15,000 in IRAQ AND AREA,I'D SAY AMERICA HAS SHED INNOCENT BLOOD.

AMERICA (POLITICAL BABYLON)

EZEKIEL 39:21
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.

ISAIAH 18:1-2
1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!

JEREMIAH 50:11,37,12
11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;(BACKSLIDERS)
37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.(A NATION OF MINGLED PEOPLE)
12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed:(MOTHER ENGLAND) behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

JEREMIAH 51:13,7,53
13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.

REVELATION 18:3,5,7
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK ATTACK ON AMERICA)

REVELATION 18:9-11,15-21
9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,(NUKE ATTACK I BELIEVE)
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:
15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,
16 And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

TODAY WE MISS THE 1,000'S KILLED IN THE 911 TERRORIST ATTACKS.NOW LETS GET THE TRUTH OF WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AS 6 OUT OF 10 INVESTIGATERS IN THE 911 INQUIRY SAID IT WAS A GOVERNMENT COVERUP AND SAID THE FACTS DON'T GO WITH THE SITUATION.

CHARLIE SHEENS VIDEO MESSAGE TO OBAMA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyKR2-A0KPU&feature=player_embedded

SHOWS ABOUT CHARLIE SHEEN - 911 COVERUP
http://rss.nfowars.net/20090911_Fri_Alex.mp3 (SEP 11)
http://rss.nfowars.net/20090910_Thu_Alex.mp3 (SEP 10)
http://rss.nfowars.net/20090909_Wed_Alex.mp3 (SEP 09)
http://rss.nfowars.net/20090908_Tue_Alex.mp3 (SEP 08)

911 TIMELINE
http://www.historycommons.org/project.jsp?project=911_project
http://unansweredquestions.org/timeline/
http://www.patriotresource.com/wtc/timeline/sept11.html
http://www.wanttoknow.info/911timeline2pg
50 911 QUESTIONS
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KI11Ak02.html
http://www.infowars.com/911-truth-signatories-stand-by-call-for-new-investigation/
HANNITY TRYS TO LINK SHEEN TO VAN JONES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tedH4UtaJ5M&feature=player_embedded
THERE WAS AN EXPLOTION PRIOR TO PLANES IMPACT
http://www.prisonplanet.com/911-survivor-there-was-an-explosion-prior-to-plane%e2%80%99s-impact.html

Charlie Sheen Demands Obama Reopen 9/11 Investigation In Video Message
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Thursday, September 10, 2009

Actor Charlie Sheen has followed up on his 20 Minutes With The President letter by directly addressing President Obama in a You Tube clip to request he use his executive power to reopen the investigation into 9/11 and its aftermath.On Tuesday, Sheen published a fictional account of a meeting with the President on radio talk show host Alex Jones’ Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com websites in which Obama was confronted about what Sheen alleges is a cover-up surrounding 9/11. In his letter, Sheen requests a real meeting with Barack Obama.Now Sheen has taken his challenge a step further by appearing in a You Tube video that asks Obama to be on the right side of history by reopening an investigation into 9/11, while highlighting that the majority of the 9/11 Commission members have publicly dismissed the official government version of the attacks as a deception, with former Senator and Commission member Max Cleland labeling the government response to the Commission’s questions as disgusting and a scam.Sheen highlights several issues in the video, including the unexplained collapse of WTC 7, a 47-story building that was not hit by a plane yet collapsed in free fall fashion into its own footprint within 7 seconds later in the afternoon on September 11. He also cites multiple reports from firefighters, police, first responders and others who were at ground zero and who all described explosions before the collapse of the twin towers and Building 7.

He also discusses how former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds broke her gag order to go public with the revelation that Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda were working with the U.S. government right up until the day of 9/11.Sheen also demands to know why NORAD’s standard operating procedure was not followed on 9/11, allowing the hijacked jetliners to find their targets, asking, Where were the planes? Sheen expresses his hope that President Obama has read his letter, adding,We have questions Mr. President, lots of questions….people of the United States and the world demand the truth sir,adding that Obama has the power and the responsibility to initiate a truly independent Congressional investigation into the events of 9/11 as well as its aftermath.We want our country back Mr. President, therefore I’m not just calling on you I’m calling on your team, I’m calling on each and every American citizen to wake up, stand up, and demand the truth,states Sheen in the video.Watch the clip below or visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyKR2-A0KPU

LINKS
http://nyccan.org/
http://www.ae911truth.org/
http://www.wearechange.org/ (VIDEOS)

9/11 Commission Members Doubt Official Story
Daniel Taylor Old-Thinker News September 11, 2009
http://www.infowars.com/911-commission-members-doubt-official-story/

Senator Max Cleland (in wheelchair).

On the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, there remain unanswered questions surrounding the events that transpired that day. These questions demand answers, and far from being a fringe movement as cast by the mainstream media, many of the 9/11 commission members themselves doubt the official story.The following are a few examples:Senator Max Cleland, who resigned from the 9/11 Commission after calling it a national scandal, stated in a 2003 PBS interview,I’m saying that’s deliberate. I am saying that the delay in relating this information to the American public out of a hearing… series of hearings, that several members of Congress knew eight or ten months ago, including Bob Graham and others, that was deliberately slow walked… the 9/11 Commission was deliberately slow walked, because the Administration’s policy was, and its priority was, we’re gonna take Saddam Hussein out.Cleland, speaking with Democracy Now, said,One of these days we will have to get the full story because the 9-11 issue is so important to America. But this White House wants to cover it up.In 2006 the Washington Post reported that several members of the 9/11 Commission suspected deception on part of the Pentagon. As reported,Some staff members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon’s initial story of how it reacted to the 2001 terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort to mislead the commission and the public rather than a reflection of the fog of events on that day, according to sources involved in the debate.9/11 Commissioner Bob Kerry also has unanswered questions. As reported by Salon, he believes that there are legitimate reasons to believe an alternative version to the official story.

There are ample reasons to suspect that there may be some alternative to what we outlined in our version,Kerrey said. The commission had limited time and limited resources to pursue its investigation, and its access to key documents and witnesses was fettered by the administration.Commissioner Tim Roemer, speaking to CNN, stated that Commission members were considering a criminal probe of false statements. As quoted,We were extremely frustrated with the false statements we were getting, Roemer told CNN. We were not sure of the intent, whether it was to deceive the commission or merely part of the fumbling bureaucracy.

Russia Today: Stop the 9-11 cover-up Russia Today September 11, 2009

American citizens are pounding the streets, still searching for answers because the official version of the 9/11events has failed to satisfy many people, and there are calls for a fresh investigation into the tragedy.The push for another investigation into the 9/11 attacks grows larger with each passing year, particularly today when the US is commemorating the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, which claimed almost three thousand lives.Manuel Badillo’s uncle died when the Twin Towers came down. He believes the US leaders had prior knowledge of the impending attacks but consciously failed to act.He asks, Why was there no justice yet? Why is there no accountability? Badillo is among roughly 80,000 New Yorkers petitioning for a new, impartial, probe to answer the questions many believe state and federal officials are failing to address.Manuel Badillo says,The majority of family members do not believe the story. First responders do not believe what they were told by the government. All of this turned out to be lies, what we have been told. 60% of the commissioners do not believe the story they received.Critics say the 9/11 Commission Report, presented as the official version of events, failed to hold a single individual accountable for the numerous warnings leading up to, on and after September 11.The NYC Coalition of Accountability Now (CAN) is an organization that is focused on getting a referendum during this November’s mayoral election, to allow New Yorkers the chance to vote for a new 9/11 investigation.

It’s absolutely essential for the world, for the well-being of the world, that we understand why 9/11 occurred; who was behind it,says Ted Walter, executive director of CAN. Because if we have a false understanding, we’re going to be basing policies on that false understanding.Pressure’s even coming from the west coast – Hollywood actor Charlie Sheen has written a 15-page public letter to the president calling for another 9/11 inquiry.But a move like Sheen’s can be quite a gamble in the domain of American public opinion. Just ask Van Jones, Obama’s former green jobs tsar. He stepped down because of hysteria over his support for and association with 9/11 truth-finders.Van Jones should have stuck to his feelings and to his democratic actions that he took, and his intuition, because the majority of Americans, the majority of New Yorkers, all the polls show it, know the government did not tell us the entire story about 9/11, says Manuel Badillo.Eight years ago all New Yorkers were standing shoulder-to-shoulder on the day nearly three thousand people perished from terrorist attacks. Now the citizens are standing on one side, police officers on the other, and many are asking for accountability, a demand from which these Americans refuse to back off.

Badillo: New York Allows Petition for 9/11 Investigation to Go Forward
Rob Dew Infowars September 10, 2009

Today on the eve of the 8th anniversary of 9/11, Alex Jones Show guest Manny Badillo from the New York City Coalition for Accountability Now (NYC CAN) broke major news in the developments of New York City citizens’ redressing their grievances with the current investigation results of 911 attacks.Manny Badillo of the New York City Coalition for Accountability Now.The NY City Clerk reported that the city will accept the original petition signatures submitted on June 24 and will no longer dispute their validity.CAN went to the board of elections to see the referee (judge) and the city called us and said it conceded Badillo said on Thursday.Manny then went on to commend the different groups who are working together on the approaching 8th anniversary to get the word out, including: Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth, We are Change, NYC CAN, Alex Jones and Charlie Sheen and his 20 Minutes with the President letter.On June 24th NYC CAN members submitted 52,000 signatures calling for a creation of a local, independent commission to investigate 9/11. On July 24th the City Clerk reported that only 26,003 signatures were valid leaving them 3,996 signatures short of the 30,000 needed to submit a referendum to the city council and to be included on the November 2009 general election ballot.NYC CAN countered with a lawsuit filed on Thursday, August 27, that submitted a Bill of Particulars cataloging 7,166 additional signatures that NYC CAN contends should be deemed valid.

The system is not set up to hear the will of the people said Badillo,it’s set up for the bureaucracy to continue.The next step for NYC CAN is to win an ongoing court case to determine a legality of their petition. From there it can be put on the ballots as a referendum in November 2009 election.On September 9, Badillo announced that many of the 80,000 plus petition signers will march from Union Station to City Hall to show to the world that New Yorkers are demanding a new investigation into the events around 9/11/01.

Conspiracy theory or hidden truth? The 9/11 enigmas...
Richard Gage, AIA, Gregg Roberts, and David Chandler SEPT 11,09
http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.commentview&comment_id=158 (VIDEOS)

Richard Gage, AIA has been a practicing San Francisco Bay Area architect for more than 20 years, and is a registered member of the American Institute of Architects. Most recently he worked on a $400M mixed-use facility in Las Vegas NV. But he is also the founder and CEO of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, now numbering over 800 A/E’s, calling for a new investigation into the destruction of all 3 WTC high-rises on 9/11. Gage has spoken at over 100 events, reaching 20 U.S. states and 8 countries. He has been invited to present in 14 cities Australia, New Zealand, and Japan before the end of this year. As the anniversary of the events approaches, Gage tells WAN why he thinks there are hidden depths to the destruction of the World Trade Centre...In all likelihood, you are unaware of the most important facts involving the destructions of the World Trade Center buildings. Nearly all the mainstream information sources and government officials have kept crucial information hidden from the public. This brief article will provide a clear explanation as to what actually happened to the Twin Towers and Building 7 (WTC 7) on September 11, 2001.Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth (AE911Truth) is a non-partisan, non-profit organization now numbering over 800 technical professionals and thousands of other supporters dedicated to exposing the facts that point to the explosive destruction of all three World Trade Center (WTC) high-rises.We are calling for a new independent investigation empowered to subpoena and question witnesses under oath. Well-documented facts prove the WTC high-rises were destroyed by explosives. The implications are grave, but we ask that you look at the facts. AE911Truth is also concerned that evidence has been distorted and covered up by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the federal agency assigned to investigate the building collapses.

World Trade Center – Building 7 - 47-storey WTC 7 before destruction

WTC 7 was a 47-story steel-framed high-rise 100 yards from the North Tower. Even though no airplane hit it, it collapsed rapidly and totally on 9/11, in the manner of a controlled demolition. Despite its suspicious collapse, the 9/11 Commission report does not even mention WTC 7. NIST left its analysis of the WTC 7 collapse until 2008, seven years after the events, long after all the rubble was destroyed. NIST claims WTC 7 collapsed due to normal office fires which created a new phenomenon in high-rise catastrophes: collapse caused by thermal expansion of beams. NIST claims this caused the failure of a single column – the rest just followed.

Free-fall acceleration through 40,000 tons of structural steel? - NIST Forced to Acknowledge Free-Fall of WTC 7

In August 2008, NIST released the draft of its final report on Building 7. In that draft NIST claims that the building took 40% longer than free-fall time to collapse the first 18 stories. In a technical briefing that followed the release of the draft report Shyam Sunder, NIST’s lead investigator, denied that free-fall had occurred and stated that free-fall was incompatible with their analysis. He said, a free
fall time would be an object that has no … structural components below it...And that is not at all unusual because there was [emphasis in original] structural resistance that was provided in this particular case. And you had … a sequence of structural failures that had to take place and everything was not instantaneous.However, one of this article’s co-authors, David Chandler, used video analysis to show conclusively that for 2.5 seconds (about 100 feet) WTC 7 was in complete free-fall. He publicly challenged NIST’s claims at the technical briefing and he, along with others, filed formal requests for corrections.NIST were forced to reverse themselves in their Final Report and acknowledged 2.25 seconds of absolute free-fall. Yet they did not reconsider how this was compatible with their analysis. A network of heavy steel girders had to be forcibly removed suddenly across the width of the building for eight floors. However, a free-falling object cannot exert force on anything in its path without slowing its own fall, so the structural support had to be removed by something else—explosives. The free-fall of Building 7 is a smoking gun.

World Trade Center – Commonalities in all Three Building Destructions - Complete Destruction Through the Path of Greatest Resistance.

NIST claims that the Twin Towers collapsed due to the plane impacts and fire, and that WTC 7 collapsed due to fire alone. However, note that the Twin Towers survived the plane impacts and the jet fuel burned off in the first 10 minutes. Beyond that, all we have are not very large office fires. Over 100 steel framed buildings have suffered major fires, many much worse, yet none have collapsed. All three buildings on 9/11 fell through what should have been the path of greatest resistance – thousands of tons of steel – resulting in total dismemberment. This would require precisely timed removal of critical columns, which office fires cannot accomplish. Furthermore, a small falling top section would destroy itself before it could destroy a larger, stronger, undamaged lower section of the building. The impossible collapse is a smoking gun.

Molten Iron

The temperatures of the fires present a problem for NIST's claim that fire alone was involved. The melting point of steel is about 2800° F. According to NIST's own documents, hydrocarbon fires (e.g., jet fuel and office furnishings) generate temperatures only up to about 2,000° F under ideal conditions. NIST recognizes these fires could not melt steel, so they had to postulate elaborate mechanisms that might trigger collapse due to weakened columns and sagging girders. Yet there is widespread evidence of molten iron in the rubble piles. Photos and numerous witnesses -- including fire fighters, cleanup crews, and structural engineers -- confirm the existence of several tons of molten metal under the debris. Some fire fighters described molten steel flowing like lava. Photos clearly reveal molten metal dripping as material is being lifted by excavation equipment.

Office fires are not hot enough to create the molten metal seen by dozens of witness

A video of the South Tower shows molten metal pouring out, glowing a radiant orange-yellow. Some have claimed this is molten aluminum, which melts at a lower temperature, but molten aluminum would be silvery in these conditions. This is molten iron or steel.

Jet fuel and office fires can’t create molten iron

At least three independent laboratory analyses of the dust that blanketed Lower Manhattan after the destruction of the Twin Towers reveal the presence of iron-rich microspheres.These spheres are formed when molten iron is sprayed into the air and forms droplets that cool before hitting the ground. The iron droplets indicate temperatures during the collapses much higher than hydrocarbon fires, in an explosive environment that could spray many tons of these droplets into the air.

Billions of previously molten iron spheres found in all WTC dust samples

In April 2002, the RJ Lee Company was hired to investigate environmental contaminants in the Deutsche Bank, across the street from the World Trade Center. It reports,Many of the materials, such as lead, cadmium, mercury and various organic compounds, vaporized and then condensed during the WTC Event. The problem here is that lead vaporizes at 3200° F, some 1200° F hotter than is possible in hydrocarbon fires. A study of the WTC dust by the USGS for the EPA observed molybdenum-rich spheres that can form only above 4750° F. The high temperatures are another smoking gun.

Unignited Nano-Thermite in the WTC Dust

NIST did not even look for physical evidence of explosives. In fact NIST did not look at the physical evidence at all, apart from a few selected samples of the steel. The rest was destroyed. However, physical evidence did remain: the dust. NIST did not look at the dust, but independent investigators did. They discovered, along with the microspheres, tiny red-grey chips. They examined samples of WTC dust from different parts of Manhattan. All contained the red-gray chips. They found that the red layer consisted of unignited nano-thermite. Ordinary thermite is an incendiary: it can burn through heavy steel in seconds. The tiny particles in nano-thermite (1/1000 the thickness of a human hair) causes a much faster reaction so it can be used as a high explosive. The discovery of nano-thermite in the WTC dust was published in The Open Chemical Physics Journal in April 2009.

Hundreds of Red/Grey chips of Unignited thermite in every WTC Dust sample

Nano-thermite particle sizes are 1,000 times smaller than a human hair. This material is not made in a cave in Afghanistan.These scientists found not just a smoking gun, but a loaded gun.

Independent lines of evidence prove the official government claims are impossible. We see our role at AE911Truth as exposing the evidence official agencies and the corporate media are covering up. Following up on the implications is the responsibility of every citizen. Every citizen must face his or her own conscience when confronting these difficult facts -- especially when we consider that 9/11 is the foundation for two wars, the launching of an endless war on terror, and the loss of our freedoms due to legislation pushed through amid the fog of war.

Following Up on the Evidence

Here are some starting points for action:

a) Send the AE911Truth.org link to your personal mailing list and every architect and engineer that you can find.
b) Sign the petition and demand a new, independent investigation. Volunteer. Become a sustaining donor.
c) Write your local news media and representatives. Tell them to address the evidence. Send them the DVD, 9/11: Blueprint for Truth.Editorial , London

NAMES OF ALL THE 911 SEPT 11,2001 TERROR ATTACKS
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,62151,00.html

9/11 marked with mourning and a spirit of service By SUZANNE MA, Associated Press Writer – SEPT 11,09

NEW YORK – With familiar rituals of grief and a new purpose to honor those who rushed into danger to help, the nation marked eight years since the Sept. 11 terror attacks Thursday, with volunteers reading the names of the World Trade Center lost.

Memorials in New York, at the Pentagon and at the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93 in Pennsylvania all took place under gray skies, and those reading names at ground zero spoke under tents to protect against rain.We miss you. Life will never be the same without you, said Vladimir Boyarsky, whose son, Gennady Boyarsky, was killed.This is not the rain. This is the tears.President Barack Obama, observing his first Sept. 11 as president, had signed an order declaring it a day of service. He had first lady Michelle Obama marked a moment of silence outside the White House as a bugler played taps.The president said the nation came together after the attacks, united not only in our grief but in our resolve to stand up for the country we love.In Shanksville, Pa., bells tolled for the 40 victims of the fourth hijacked jetliner that crashed there eight years ago.At the World Trade Center site, volunteers — from soup kitchens, advocacy groups, the Red Cross, the United Way — joined relatives of the lost to read the names of those killed in the twin towers.

Renewing what has become a poignant tradition, the relatives called out greetings and messages of remembrances when they reached the names of their own loved ones.We love you, Dad, and we miss you, said Philip Hayes Jr., whose father, long retired from the Fire Department, rushed to the site that 2001 morning and ultimately gave his life.Umbrellas bloomed and whipped inside-out at ground zero, where moments of silence were observed at 8:46, 9:03, 9:59 and 10:29 a.m. — the precise times that jetliners struck the north and south towers of the trade center and that each tower fell.From this day forward, we will safeguard the memories of those who died by rekindling the spirit of service that lit our city with hope and helped keep us strong, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at the ceremony.Vice President Joe Biden, speaking during a break in the list of names, told the several hundred gathered that there's a special fraternity for those of us who've lost spouses and children. Biden's daughter and first wife died in a 1972 car accident.Biden also joined families who laid flowers in a reflecting pool on the site where the towers once stood.Relatives and friends of victims visited a partially built, street-level Sept. 11 memorial plaza that had not been there a year ago. The twin, waterfall-filled pools surrounded by victims' names are expected to be built by the attacks' 10th anniversary in 2011.

George W. Bush, whose presidency was defined in part by that day, had no public appearances planned. A spokesman said he would be working in his office. In a statement, he said he and his wife, Laura, were thinking of the victims and their families.He also honored members of the armed forces and law enforcement.Their courage, service, and sacrifice is a fitting tribute to all those who gave their lives on Sept. 11, 2001. On this day, let us renew our determination to prevent evil from returning to our shores.Associated Press writers Verena Dobnik in New York, Nancy Benac in Washington and Dan Nephin in Pittsburgh contributed to this report.

THEY (THE GOVERNMENT AGENCIES) WERE TRAINING ON 911 WHEN THE TERRORIST ATTACKS OCCURRED,LOOKOUT SOMETHING MAY BE COMING TODAY.

Sept. 11 training exercise sparks confusion in DC By EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press Writer – SEPT 11,09

WASHINGTON – The Coast Guard conducted a training exercise in the Potomac River near the Pentagon amid Sept. 11 commemorations Friday, sparking confusion that scrambled FBI agents and led the nearest airport to briefly ground flights.Coast Guard Chief Keith Moore said Friday no shots were fired as part of the exercise in the river. Media reports suggested shots had been fired in the river and showed vessels circling in the water, near the bridge where President Barack Obama's motorcade passed as he traveled to a Sept. 11 memorial at the Pentagon Friday morning.

Departures from Reagan National Airport were halted as a precaution at 10:08 a.m., then resumed at 10:30 a.m., Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Diane Spitaliere said. The airport borders the Potomac.A law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said federal agents scrambled to the river scene after the initial reports, because the local FBI office had not been told ahead of time about the exercise. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss the incident.Coast Guard spokesman John Edwards said references to shots fired were picked up in radio chatter. As part of its exercise Friday, the Coast Guard aired simulated instructions to participants to fire 10 rounds. But Edwards said there were no shots actually fired and there were no suspicious boats.Obama had traveled to the Pentagon to lay a wreath in a ceremony commemorating the eighth anniversary of the terrorist attacks.The Department of Homeland Security was created in response to the 9/11 attacks. The Coast Guard and the Secret Service were placed within the department. The massive reorganization was designed to promote sharing of information within the department and among other law enforcement agencies.Associated Press writer Devlin Barrett contributed to this report.

Coast Guard conducts training exercise on Potomac SEPT 11,09

WASHINGTON – The Coast Guard was conducting a training exercise in the Potomac River moments before President Barack Obama crossed a nearby bridge for a Sept. 11 commemoration.Coast Guard Chief Keith Moore said Friday no shots were fired as part of the exercise, although media reports suggested shots had been fired in the river. News stations showed video of Coast Guard vessels in the water.Departures from Reagan National Airport were halted shortly after 10 a.m. as a precaution, Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Diane Spitaliere said. The airport borders the Potomac River near where shots were reported fired.Obama had traveled to the Pentagon for a ceremony marking the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Coast Guard was conducting a training exercise in the Potomac River moments before President Barack Obama and his motorcade crossed a nearby bridge.Coast Guard Chief Keith Moore said Friday no shots were fired as part of the exercise. Media reports suggested shots had been fired in the river.Obama had traveled to the Pentagon for a ceremony commemorating the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Aerospace Defense Training Planned Over Potomac
January 23, 2006 - 7:25am

WASHINGTON - Low-flying fighter jets and other military aircraft are scheduled to run a series of training exercises around Washington early Monday morning.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command is conducting the training exercises over the Potomac River and around the city.The exercise is designed to test NORAD's ability to intercept and identify aircraft that could pose a threat to the nation's capital. It involves several small Cessna aircraft and Learjets as well as an F-16 fighter jet and a Blackhawk helicopter.NORAD has conducted such exercises throughout the U-S and Canada since the September Eleventh terrorist attacks. The exercises also help prepare for major events including the president's State of the Union speech later this month.

OBAMAS ADMINISTRATION IS FASCIST.AMERICA OBAMA EVEN SAID HES FOR CHANGE,HE WAS NOT KIDDIN,HES FOR CHANGE OF NO PEOPLES RIGHTS,PEOPLES RIGHT TO DIE BY HIS RULES AND WHOEVER SAYS ANYTHING AGAINST HIM THE ADMINISTRATION SAYS YOU ARE RACIST AND AN EXTREMIST,ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE A GUN AND ARE A VETERAN IN THE ARMY.

Birth-certificate seller surfaces as witness-Testifying in case challenging President Obama's eligibility.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=109488
Shocker! Judge orders trial on eligibility issue-Arguments planned Jan. 11 for major Obama challenge
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=109242

CZAR WARS Obama's team socialists with communist background-Prof with ties to radical White House associates says president understands socialism September 10, 2009 7:17 pm Eastern By Aaron Klein 2009 WorldNetDaily

Manning Marable

NEW YORK – Many of the people working with President Obama are Marxists or socialists with backgrounds in the Communist Party, according to a socialist Columbia University professor with strong ties to Obama's radical associates, including Weathermen terrorist Bill Ayers. What makes Obama different is that he has also been a community organizer. He has read left literature, including my works, and he understands what socialism is,wrote Manning Marable, professor and founding director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University. A lot of the people working with him are, indeed, socialists with backgrounds in the Communist Party or as independent Marxists, Marable wrote in a December 2008 piece published in the Socialist Review.In the article, Marable contends Obama is not a Marxist or a socialist – he is a progressive liberal.Obama represents a generation of what might be called post-racial black politicians – by which I mean they espouse a politics that minimizes matters of race. They do not like to talk about race and subsume it under the rubric of poverty and class.

Speaking to WND today, Marable refused to identify the individuals working with Obama he wrote were socialists with Communist Party backgrounds.He said, however, those individuals strongly believe Obama would change the tenor of politics within the Democratic party.I think the point I was making is that there are a number of people with left histories who were early participants in Obama's mobilization. They have a strong belief in Obama as a candidate with the possibility of changing the tenor of politics within the Democratic Party,he told WND. Nine months after Marable's remarks on communists working with Obama, the president's controversial environmental adviser, Van Jones, resigned amid reports Jones was an admitted black nationalist and radical communist.Marable has been teaching at Columbia since 1993, 10 years after Obama graduated from the college.Marable was not commenting as an outside observer. The Columbia professor is intimately connected to many of Obama's radical associates and even was a founding member of the Socialist New Party. WND previously reported newspaper evidence showing Obama was a member of the party. The New Party sought to elect members to public office with the aim of moving the Democratic Party far leftward to ultimately form a new political party with a socialist agenda – a history that might grant substance to Marable's comments to WND today about hopes Obama will change the tenor of the Democratic party.

WND last month interviewed a founder of the New Party, Marxist activist Carl Davidson, who recalled Obama's participation with his group. In 2007, Marable was elected chair of Movement for a Democratic Society, or MDS, an arm of the radical Students for a Democratic Society from which the Weatherman terrorist organization later splintered.Some Weathermen terrorists, including Ayers, participate in Marable's MDS. In November 2007, for example, WND found that Ayers participated in an MDS panel entitled,Resisting endless war.The New Zeal blog, meanwhile, found that Marable held leadership roles in the Communist Party offshoot, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism. Also, Marable in 1998 helped found the Black Radical Congress, where he worked with controversial race scholar Cornel West, an Obama friend who introduced the politician at his first campaign stop in Harlem. WND disclosed that during that 2007 introduction, West first railed on stage against the racist U.S. criminal justice system of the American empire.West, currently a professor at Princeton University, served as an adviser on Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March and is a personal friend of the Nation of Islam leader. West authored two books on race with Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr, who was at the center of a recent controversy in which Obama remarked on Gates' being handcuffed by police outside his home after a report of a burglary. Marable, in the mean time, has been a regular speaker at an annual socialist conference, the Socialist Scholars Conference, which is usually held at Cooper Union in New York. It has been reported that in the early 1980s, Obama attended socialist conferences at Cooper Union and African cultural fairs in Brooklyn.

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.

Hurricanes Fred and Linda both lose steam Thu Sep 10, 6:11 pm ET

MIAMI (AFP) – Hurricanes Fred and Linda both lost their punch Thursday and the sibling storms were expected to fizzle in coming days without threatening land, forecasters said.Fred, the latest storm to cause a ripple over the Atlantic coalesced hundreds of miles (kilometers) west of the Cape Verde Islands off the west African coast, and never had much of a chance of making landfall.Fred weakened to a category one storm in the eastern Atlantic where its maximum sustained winds have decreased to near 90 miles per hour (150 kilometers per hour) and it was expected to lose its forward momentum, the US National Hurricane Center reported in a 2100 GMT advisory.Fred is expected to diminish to a tropical storm by Saturday, according to the NHC.This year's Atlantic hurricane season, which began on June 1 and ends November 30, has seen a handful of tropical storms but just one other major one, Hurricane Bill, which grazed the US east coast and eastern Canada last month.

Meanwhile in the Pacific, Linda also weakened further and was on the brink of being downgraded to tropical storm status, the Miami-based NHC said.Maximum sustained winds are near 75 miles per hour (120 kph),it said, just one mile per hour above the tropical storm-hurricane threshold.Gradual weakening is expected over the next couple of days,the NHC added.Linda, which became the sixth hurricane of the eastern Pacific season less than 24 hours earlier, was at 2100 GMT about 1,325 miles (2,130 kilometers) west of Mexico's Baja California peninsula.

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.

Studies: 1 dose of swine flu vaccine works By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer – SEPT 10,09

WASHINGTON – Good news in the world's flu fight: One dose of the new swine flu vaccine looks strong enough to protect adults — and can spark protection within 10 days of the shot, Australian and U.S. researchers said Thursday.Australian shot maker CSL Ltd. published results of a study that found between 75 percent and 96 percent of vaccinated people should be protected with one dose — the same degree of effectiveness as the regular winter flu shot. That's remarkable considering scientists thought it would take two doses.U.S. data to be released Friday confirm those findings, and show the protection starts rapidly, Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health told The Associated Press.This is quite good news,Fauci said.The dose question has an important ramification: It means people will have to line up for influenza vaccinations twice this year instead of three times — once for the regular winter flu shot and a second time to be inoculated against swine flu, what doctors call the 2009 H1N1 strain.Thursday's swine flu vaccine reports center on adults; studies in children aren't finished yet.But scientists had feared that people of all ages would need two shots about a month apart because the new H1N1 strain is so genetically different from normally circulating flu strains that most of the population has little if any immunity.

Chinese manufacturers gave the first hint a week ago that one dose could be enough. But different manufacturers make different formulations of the vaccine, so more evidence was needed.Thus the CSL study, rushed out by the New England Journal of Medicine late Thursday, is welcome news. In a study of 240 adults, half younger than 50 and half over, one shot prompted the same kind of immune response indicating protection that is seen with regular flu vaccine. And a standard 15-microgram dose — not the double dose that also was tested — was enough.It's really striking how incredibly similar this is to every other study of a seasonal flu vaccine I've ever seen,said Dr. John Treanor, a flu specialist at the University of Rochester who examined the data.CSL, which is one U.S. vaccine supplier, found the same side effects in its study that people experience with regular flu vaccine, which is no surprise since this shot is merely a recipe change from the annual standby. About 45 percent of recipients had mild reactions such as a headache, sore arm or redness at the shot site.On Friday, the NIH is set to release results of its own studies of hundreds of adults that confirm that one shot works, Fauci said. Plus, the U.S. work shows that people are protected between eight days and 10 days after that inoculation, he said.One dose means tight supplies of H1N1 vaccine won't be stretched so badly after all. The U.S. has ordered 195 million doses, based on the hope that 15 micrograms was indeed the right dose. Had it taken twice that dose, or two shots apiece, half as many people could have received the vaccine.

The winter flu vaccine is widely available now, and U.S. health authorities urged people Thursday to get it out of the way now before swine flu shots start arriving in mid-October.Despite all the headlines about swine flu, which has become the main influenza strain circulating in the world, doctors do expect some garden-variety flu to hit this fall too — the kind that every year kills 36,000 Americans and hospitalizes 200,000.Take some individual responsibility to stay healthy during the flu season, said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who scheduled her own seasonal shot for Friday.Waiting to get the first inoculation out of the way is not in anybody's best interest, added Dr. Nancy Nielsen, past president of the American Medical Association. She said busy doctors need to have completed regular vaccinations by the time they have to deal with H1N1 shots.

There's no way to predict how much of either flu strain will circulate.

This year, we are in uncharted territory, warned Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He said some parts of the Southeast in the past few weeks have experienced as much flu as is usually seen in the middle of winter. So far, it's all the H1N1 variety, with schools and colleges experiencing outbreaks almost as soon as classes began. Indeed, a typical school student who catches swine flu will spread it to two to three classmates, says a stark new estimate published Thursday in the journal Science. Flu specialist Ira Longini of the University of Washington in Seattle based the estimate on how swine flu spread through a New York City school in April, and some other schools since. A separate report in Thursday's New England Journal suggested European manufacturers might get away with an even smaller dose. Novartis Vaccines added what's called an adjuvant, or immune-boosting chemical, to its version of the swine flu shot and found a 7.5-microgram dose was effective. It did, however, spark more of those reactions like injection-site pain.Numerous countries allow flu vaccines with adjuvants to sell every year, but the U.S. has never approved an adjuvant-containing flu shot.On the Net:Flu information: http://www.flu.gov

Canada's H1N1 vaccine seen for early November Thu Sep 10, 3:56 pm ET

TORONTO (Reuters) – Canada will likely not have an H1N1 flu vaccine available for distribution until early November, the chief medical officer of health said on Thursday, as officials scramble to prepare for an anticipated worsening of the pandemic later this year.The November timetable lags that of many other countries including the United States, which expects to have a swine flu vaccine ready by mid-October, and Europe which is set to vaccinate some time this month.Early in November is the latest that we would go, David Butler-Jones, Canada's chief public health officer, said on a conference call, adding he was confident that everything would line up.However, he said there is a possibility that vaccinations could begin sooner if there is an earlier surge in the outbreak and if health officials are confident of the safety of the vaccine.All of these things are a classic assessment of the risks of waiting versus not waiting,Butler-Jones said.If it looks like the risk of waiting -- even if there are still some unanswered questions -- is greater, then we would consider going earlier with the vaccine.He also said more than 50 million doses of the vaccine will be available in Canada.

So far 73 Canadian have died from the illness.

Experts predict that a third of the global population -- more than 2 billion people -- will eventually be infected with H1N1. Every year, seasonal influenza infects between 5 percent and 20 percent of the population, depending on the circulating strains.It kills less than a half of one percent of its victims but this adds up to between 250,000 and 500,000 people globally each year. It is not yet clear if the new pandemic H1N1 will be worse.(Reporting by Scott Anderson; editing by Rob Wilson)

Country close to beating swine flu, says official Thu Sep 10, 7:14 pm ET

LONDON (AFP) – Britain is tantalisingly close to beating swine flu, the chief medical officer said Thursday, as figures showed the death toll had risen by five over the past week to 75.Unveiling plans to double the numbers of intensive care beds to cope with an expected surge in cases during the coming autumn and winter months, Liam Donaldson said the death toll for the current pandemic was relatively low.We are tantalisingly close to being able to win the battle against the pandemic virus.Tantalising does not mean we can always get there but we are still fighting, he added.Figures out Thursday showed 504,332 courses of antivirals had been handed out in England, where 132 people are now in hospital with swine flu, of whom 23 are in intensive care.There were an estimated 3,000 new cases of swine flu registered in the past week -- the lowest figure to date.

This is now a very substantial downturn so we're pleased to see it, it doesn't mean that it won't come back in the autumn and winter but it gives us a welcome bit of breathing space to continue our planning,Donaldson told BBC television.Flu viruses behave unpredictably and this one's no different.We're pretty confident that we will see an upsurge in the autumn and winter when our flu season starts.Meanwhile Professor John Beddington, the government's chief scientific adviser, said swine flu could effectively make its last stand in Britain within weeks.You can get infections coming back in a number of waves but it's likely that the next one will be larger than any subsequent ones, he said.What is likely to happen will depend on a number of things, firstly the number of unreported cases,.Whether it comes in October early and at a fairly high level, or in more moderate waves later in the year, is hard to predict.

Rare medieval Hebrew prayer book to go on display By JEN THOMAS, Associated Press Writer – Wed Sep 9, 11:39 am ET

JERUSALEM – A rare Hebrew manuscript written in 14th century Germany is going on display for the first time, just before the Jewish New Year, Israel Museum officials said Wednesday.The text, called the Nuremberg Mahzor, is one of the largest surviving medieval texts in the world. Written in 1331 in Germany, the prayer book remains mostly intact — only seven of its original 528 leaves are missing. Officials said the 1,042-page manuscript will be on display at the Israel Museum starting next Tuesday, days before Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year holiday, which begins Sept. 18.The book has 22 illuminations inlaid with gold and silver.The text includes one of the largest collections of handwritten Ashkenazi, or northern European, prayers and liturgical poems. About 100 have never before been published. Also, rabbinical commentary is printed in the margins.The manuscript is one of the heaviest surviving texts from the period, weighing more than 57 pounds (26 kilograms). It probably took about one year to complete, said Michael Maggen, the head of the paper conservation laboratory at the Israel Museum.

Mahzor is Hebrew for holiday prayer book.The Nuremberg Mahzor got its name from its home for more than 300 years — the Nuremberg municipal library in Germany. The manuscript was originally commissioned for private study and synagogue use by a Jewish patron and was most likely used by the Nuremberg community after 1499. Sometime during the 19th century, 11 leaves were removed from the prayer book by Napoleon's army, museum officials believe.The Israel Museum spent about six months restoring the text after it was stored for 50 years in the Schocken Institute for Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. Salman Schocken, a German-Jewish publisher and book collector, acquired four of the missing leaves in the 1930s after he fled Nazi Germany. He received the Nuremberg Mahzor as post-World War II restitution in 1951 for property confiscated by the Nazis.Six leaves remain missing, and one is in a private collection.The exhibition is the latest at the museum's Shrine of the Book, where the Dead Sea Scrolls and other ancient manuscripts are displayed.

Israel: anti-assimilation ads yanked over uproar By AMY TEIBEL, Associated Press Writer – Thu Sep 10, 12:25 am ET

JERUSALEM – An ad campaign against Jewish assimilation, co-sponsored by the Israeli government, has been yanked after outraging Jews abroad, an official said Wednesday, laying bare the sometimes fraught relations between residents of the Jewish homeland and world Jewry.The Hebrew-language campaign was launched by Masa, a joint venture of the quasi-governmental Jewish Agency and the Israeli government. It included newspapers ads and TV clips showing mock missing persons fliers emblazoned with Jewish-sounding names and the word Lost.Jews abroad saw the campaign as an attack on intermarriage — the common phenomenon of Jews marrying non-Jews.Statistics show that in the U.S. — home to the largest Jewish community outside Israel — about half the marriages of Jews over the past 25 years have been mixed.A TV ad called on viewers who know young Jews living abroad to contact Masa, warning that they were in danger of marrying non-Jews. Together, we will strengthen their bonds to Israel, so we won't lose them, the voiceover intoned.Religious leaders, bloggers and editorial writers criticized the campaign as an affront to children of mixed marriages, and Jewish Agency officials said hundreds of people contacted the organization to denounce it.

Some deplored imagery that evoked the Holocaust, such as one showing railroad tracks.

In a column in the Jewish-American weekly The Forward, J.J. Goldberg called it one of the most spectacularly knuckle-headed advertising campaigns in modern Jewish history.No one, says Goldberg, is going to win the hearts of young Jews of mixed parentage with commercials implying that their parents' marriage was a form of genocide.Assimilation, or gradual weakening of Jewish identity with immersion in Western culture, is one of the most explosive issues in the Jewish world. One-third of the world's Jews were killed in the Holocaust, and some Jews fear that intermarriage and assimilation now threaten the community's continued survival.On Wednesday, Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky issued a statement saying he ordered the offending ads pulled.There is no doubt that strengthening the ties between Diaspora Jewry and the state of Israel assists in the struggle against assimilation, Sharansky said.At the same time, we must avoid offending Diaspora Jews and find a common language between them and citizens of Israel, he said.Many of the campaign's critics noted that not all Jews who marry outside their faith abandon their religion.Blogger Ed Case said on Interfaithfamily.com that Israeli leaders simply do not understand that many intermarried couples, and the adult children of intermarried parents, are actively engaging in Jewish life.Rabbi Laura Baum, a founder of ourjewishcommunity.org, wrote on her blog that an ad campaign like Masa's will only push people away from Judaism.

MAYBE ISRAEL WILL BE SAVING THE SAUDI OIL FROM THE IRANIANS INSTEAD OF AMERICA ATTACKING IRAN I GUESS ITS BACK TO ISRAEL ATTACKING IRAN AND AMERICA STAYING OUT OF IT.EITHER WAY OBAMA HAS TO BE INVOLVED IN SOME SORT OF WAR I BELIEVE SO THE HEALTHCARE BILL CAN GET PASSED THROUGH FALSE FLAG ATTACKS.

Russian report: Netanyahu may be planning attack
Thursday, 10 September 2009 14:59 News from Jerusalem

PM's rushed visit to Moscow under cloud of secrecy occupies Russian media. Kommersant paper quotes informed Israeli source as saying It can't be ruled out that Israel may be ready to move on to decisive actions with regards to Iran, and Netanyahu decided to inform Kremlin of this' Russian media on Thursday continued to cover Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's mysterious visit to Moscow, that was leaked to the media from his office.Kommersant newspaper quoted experts as saying they believe a visit of this kind could have stemmed from urgent circumstances,for example, in the event that Israel plans to attack Iran.At first, Moscow denied a visit ever took place, but after Netanyahu's office was forced to admit to the PM's Military Secretary Meir Kalifi's lie, a senior Kremlin source also confirmed to Kommersant that the Israeli prime minister did indeed visit the city.

Russian media also directed questions on the visit to the Israeli embassy in Moscow, but embassy sources said that if there was such a visit,We know nothing about it.The paper then quoted what it called an informed Israeli source, who wished to remain anonymous, as saying,Such a visit could be related to new information and could threaten the Iranian nuclear program. It should not be ruled out that Israel may be ready to move on to decisive actions with regards to Iran, and Netanyahu has decided to inform the Kremlin of this.Russian Foreign Minister Spokesman Andrei Nesterenko published an announcement saying, We have no knowledge of a Netanyahu's secret visit to Moscow. We saw reports in various media. They are inconsistent. Other than that, I cannot tell you anything. I have no detailed information in the matter, or any information in the matter. We have seen the reports.On Wednesday, Ynet revealed that Netanyahu left Israel on a private jet belonging Israeli millionaire Yossi Maiman. Earlier Wednesday, Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported that his destination was Russia.The prime minister's aides who published the false announcements of his whereabouts were a loss for words.Wednesday night the Prime Minister's Office published yet another announcement in an attempt to rectify the damage, said,The prime minister was busy with secret, classified activity. The military secretary took his own initiative to defend this activity.ynet

Iran beware: Israel tests secret weapon-Netanyahu's trip to Russia a diversion? September 10, 2009 9:03 pm Eastern By Jerome R. Corsi 2009 WorldNetDaily

The mystery that surrounded Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's unannounced trip to Russia on Monday was created by the Israeli government in a calculation to divert attention from a secret weapons test, according to sources.The test, held at undisclosed Israeli military base while Netanyahu was traveling, was done with top-secret authorization from the White House, the sources reported. Trusted confidential Israeli sources in Jerusalem close to the government told WND the Israeli military conducted the secret weapons test in preparation for a planned pre-emptive strike on Iran.They reported the Israeli government has set no date for a possible strike, but preparations already are in an advanced stage.The plan to create a mystery out of Netanyahu's trip to Russia was deliberate – calculated to transform what in truth was a routine visit by the prime minister into the appearance of a secret mission involving Iran, the sources said.To carry out the subterfuge, the Israeli prime minister's office stuck to the cover story yesterday, telling reporters only that Netanyahu was occupied with secret and classified activities during his unexplained absence of over 12 hours on Monday.Order Jerome Corsi's "Why Israel Can't Wait: The Coming War between Israel and Iran" exclusively for your Kindle from Amazon today.

The National Security Council press office in the White House did not respond to a WND request for comment.WND was unable to learn the exact nature of the experimental weapon that was successfully tested, other than to confirm the Israeli military specifically designed the weapon to be used in a possible upcoming war with Iran.
Today, the Jerusalem Post reported a senior Kremlin official confirmed to the Russian paper Kommersant that Netanyahu did make a secret trip to Russia on Monday.

The Jerusalem Post further reported that the Russian official said this kind of development could only be related to new and threatening information on Iran's nuclear program.Reuters said today that Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko would neither confirm nor deny any meetings were held by Russian government officials with Netanyahu in Moscow. Israeli newspapers were outraged by what was being described as lies issued by the prime minister's office in a major media fiasco surrounding the trip.Glyn Davies, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency, said earlier this week that the U.S. believes Iran is coming close to the break out threshold of possessing enough low-enriched uranium to produce one nuclear weapon, if the decision were made to further enrich it to weapons-grade, according to a report published in the U.K. by the Telegraph.Today, Mojaba Samareh Hashemi, a top aide to Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said in an interview that Iran had no intention of entering into talks designed to halt its nuclear enrichment program, according to the Washington Post.

Washington frustrated by Tehran's proposals for talks with the West, which exclude nuclear issues Thursday, 10 September 2009 06:53 News from Jerusalem

Wednesday, Sept. 9, Iranian foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki finally handed representatives of the six-nation group of nuclear negotiators (P5 + Germany)his government's long-promised reply to the package of incentives it offered for talks to resolve the dispute on Tehran's nuclear program.A few hours earlier, a US diplomat warned that Iran is close to producing its first nuclear bomb.The contents of the Iranian package were not published, but DEBKAfile's Iranian sources reveal that it consists of a long-winded, sanctimonious treatise, with no proposals for solving the nuclear issue, but rather a sermon on the need for a new world order based on Iranian revolutionary Islamic tenets. Iran's rulers offer to discuss reforming the new world order with the big powers and reaching a comprehensive agreement on issues beyond the nuclear file, including the crises in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories.Judging by the document's tone, Iran is putting itself forward as the seventh world power and demands a key role in all important international political, economic, social and cultural policy-making.

The document has only three things to say on the nuclear subject:First, Iran is fully entitled by the Non-Proliferation Treaty to carry out uranium enrichment without interference or limitations.Second, Iran is not ready to discuss its nuclear activities with any foreign power.Third, It is willing to discuss the worldwide nuclear problem.The package follows on Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's public declaration that his country's nuclear rights are not open to negotiation; the UN nuclear watchdog's determination that its interaction with Iran is in stalemate; and the statement by US chief envoy to the IAEA, Glyn Davis, that ongoing enrichment activity is moving Iran closer to a dangerous and destabilizing possible breakout capacity.DEBKAfile's Washington sources report extreme US frustration with the document which bars any discussion of its nuclear issues. It leads the entire controversy into a fresh blind alley. President Barack Obama must now decide on his reaction to Iran's virtual slap in the face in response to his offer of direct nuclear dialogue.debka

Obamacare gives Planned Parenthood entry to schools?
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NRLC: Obamacare does include abortion coverage
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Dems say health care bill to pass this year By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent –SEPT 10,09

WASHINGTON – Democratic congressional leaders predicted passage of health care legislation within a few months despite undimmed Republican opposition, claiming momentum Thursday from President Barack Obama's speech and renewed commitment from lawmakers fresh from a month of meetings with constituents.Increasingly, events in the Senate Finance Committee appeared pivotal, precursor to likely votes in both the House and the Senate by early October.I'm confident the president will sign a bill this year, said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California.While effusively praising Obama's speech from the night before, Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada signaled separately the president may not prevail in his call for legislation that allows the federal government to sell insurance in competition with private industry.Reid said that while he favors a strong public option,he could be satisfied with establishment of nonprofit cooperatives, along the lines expected to be included in the bill taking shape in the Finance Committee.Pelosi, who has long favored a measure that allows the government to sell insurance, passed up a chance to say it was a nonnegotiable demand.As long as legislation makes quality health care more accessible and affordable,we will go forward with that bill, she said.

Democrats are divided over the public option in both houses, liberals strongly in favor and many moderates against it. Critically, though, it appears that any chance for Republican support would evaporate if legislation permits immediate, direct competition between the government and insurance industry.On the morning after his speech, Obama renewed his campaign for passage of his top domestic priority. Declaring that too many individuals are being denied coverage, he said,It is heartbreaking and it is wrong and nobody should be treated that way in the United States of America. Nobody! He also cited new Census statistics showing that the number of uninsured has risen to 46.3 million from 45.7 million in 2007.In general, the legislation would provide new protections to Americans with insurance, help the uninsured afford coverage, require most individuals to carry coverage and aim to slow the growth of medical costs overall. The measure would be paid for through reductions in planned Medicare spending and tax increases.Obama has said his approach will not result in higher deficits, but Congressional Budget Office estimates dispute him.Most Republicans made clear during the day that Obama's speech had done nothing to lessen their opposition. But they were peppered with questions about Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina, who shouted You lie at the president during the speech.Asked if the episode embarrassed him as party leader, Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, said,I think that Mr. Wilson made it clear that he said his behavior was inappropriate, and he apologized for it. And I'm glad he did.

Obama accepted the apology, telling reporters,we all make mistakes.After months of missed deadlines caused by internal division and GOP opposition earlier in the year, neither Pelosi nor Reid was willing to outline anything more than a broad timetable for action on the legislation. But increasingly, it appeared that events in the Finance Committee would determine the pace.There, Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., has said he will convene the panel the week after next to vote on legislation that would meet Obama's goal of expanding health care, providing consumer protection to those with coverage, and slow the growth of medical spending overall.Baucus long ago embraced the proposed co-ops rather than direct government competition with industry, and it appears unlikely liberals have the votes to overrule him.Democrats account for 13 members on the 23-member committee, but Baucus, Sens. Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico and Kent Conrad, D-N.D., have been involved in intensive bipartisan negotiations that produced the co-op plan, and Sens. Tom Carper of Delaware and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas are part of the party's moderate wing and unlikely to support a liberal alternative. Obama met Thursday afternoon with Carper, Lincoln, and a dozen other moderate Senate Democrats, some of whom have expressed concerns about costs and oppose a public plan.Carper said later that the group welcomed Obama's commitment in his speech to hold down health care costs.He received a lot of reinforcement from those of us there today that we wouldn't vote for a bill that fails to rein in health costs and we wouldn't vote for a bill that increases the deficit, Carper said in an interview.Whatever bill the Finance Committee approves must be blended with legislation approved earlier in another panel, and is expected to reach the Senate floor by early October.Baucus told reporters the president's speech had been confidence-building for those involved in weeks of painstaking bipartisan negotiations.

It's uncannily similar to what we're working on, he said, avoiding mention of the disagreement over government insurance sales.The president's speech kind of breathed new life into what we're doing because this is basically what our proposal is.Obama's speech amounted to an attempt to restart the health care debate after a summer in which Republican critics confronted Democrats at town hall meetings and on television.They hit us with their best shot; distortion, misrepresentation, and obstruction,Pelosi said. But she said Democrats had sustained the effort admirably and now we're in a better place to go forward.Associated Press writers Julie Pace and Erica Werner contributed to this report.

Gay man sues Bible publisher for mental anguish-$10 million sought for negative connotation toward homosexuals September 09, 2009 8:55 pm Eastern 2009 WorldNetDaily

Bradley Fowler (RightPundits.com)

A homosexual man is suing a third national Bible publisher for mental anguish after he says the company published Bibles with a negative connotation toward homosexuals.
Bradley LaShawn Fowler of Canton, Mich., alleges Tyndale House Publishers manipulated Scripture when it published Tyndale's New Living Translation Holy Bible and the New Life Application Study Bible by using the term homosexuals in a New Testament passage, 1 Corinthians 6:9.One Bible dictates homosexuals will not inherit the Kingdom of God, while the other is completely void on the issue altogether, Fowler wrote in a statement on his blog.As WND reported, Fowler, who had a blog on Sen. Barack Obama's campaign website last year, filed his initial complaint against Christian publishers Zondervan and Thomas Nelson Publishing. Fowler, who represented himself in both lawsuits, said in his complaint against Zondervan that the publisher intended to design a religious, sacred document to reflect an individual opinion or a group's conclusion to cause me or anyone who is a homosexual to endure verbal abuse, discrimination, episodes of hate, and physical violence ... including murder.

He told the Grand Rapids' WOOD-TV in 2008 that he wants to compensate for the past 20 years of emotional duress and mental instability.According to JoAnne Thomas on RightPundits.com, Fowler explained his complaint on his blog last year, referencing the I Corinthians 6:9 passage: In 1970, I Corinthians 6:9 read as followed [sic]-
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulteres [sic], nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind. In 1982 ,the same scripture read like this-Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodimites [sic].In 2001 the same scripture reads like this-Surely you know that the people who do wrong will not inherit God’s kingdom. Do not be fooled, those who sin sexually, worship idols, take part in adultery, those who are male prostitutes, or men who have sexual relations with other men, those who steal, are greedy, get drunk, lie about others, or rob thses [sic] people will not inherit God's kingdom.

When Fowler filed his initial claim against Zondervan, he alleged its Bibles' references to homosexuality as a sin made him an outcast from his family and contributed to physical discomfort and periods of demoralization, chaos and bewilderment.Both civil complaints were dismissed because Fowler did not file his complaints before the three-year federal statute of limitations expired.However, Fowler filed a lawsuit against Tyndale House Publishers in January and is still seeking $10 million in damages. Fowler filed a motion for entry of default and a motion of summary judgment in district court, but the judge denied his motions, saying Fowler presented no proof that he served the defendant properly. The judge ordered him to reissue the original summons and complaint to Tyndale. Fowler wrote on his blog that he has a long battle awaiting him.[W]hen William Tyndale Publishing [sic], Inc., Zondervan Publishing, Inc., and Thomas Nelson Publishing, Inc. began revising the scriptures, each publisher implemented the term homosexuals within its Bible, yet failed to follow what the scripture teaches about doing so,Fowler wrote on his blog.As a result, homosexuals have endured a life long struggle of being accepted within the American culture.

Pastor: Christians should mark Feast of Trumpets-These are not Jewish holidays, they are the Lord's holidays' September 10, 2009 8:33 pm Eastern 2009 WorldNetDaily

While some evangelical leaders and politicians are urging Christians to commemorate the Islamic holiday of Ramadan, one pastor is calling on believers to join with Jews around the world next Friday in observing Rosh Hoshana – or the Feast of Trumpets.

Mark Biltz, who specializes in teaching the Hebrew roots of Christianity, says the biblical feasts in the fall and spring calendar are not just, as commonly believed, Jewish holidays.These are not Jewish holidays, they are the Lord's holidays,explains Biltz, who has recorded teaching videos, The Feasts of the Lord,for WND. As gentiles we are also joining in the wakeup call for all Jews to return to the Torah and to Hashem,says Biltz.This is in response to Zechariah 8:23:Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.Biltz adds: We are asking gentiles from around the world to join our global wave of shofar blasts around the world in every time zone honoring Hashem as King.The Feasts of the Lord have special meaning and significance for all believers in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, says Biltz. They were commemorated by Jesus and His apostles – and continued to be observed by Jesus' followers in the first century even after His death and Resurrection. They also have special meaning with respect to the life, death, resurrection and return of Jesus, he points out.There's still time to learn these important lessons before the fall feasts are past.

Rosh Hashana begins Friday night, Sept. 18 this year. It is followed by Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, Sept. 27.I believe these DVDs can profoundly increase the faith of followers of Jesus, giving them a new appreciation of who He is, why He came and what He expects of us,says Joseph Farah, founder and editor of WND and the producer of the video series. I think most people who view these teachings by Pastor Mark Biltz will be stunned by what they learn about the meaning of these feasts in our lives.For instance, is it true the Bible says we cannot know the day or the hour of Jesus' return? On the contrary, says The Feasts of the Lord, the Bible is quite specific about the day of His return – it's just the year that remains a mystery. This misunderstanding of what the Lord said about His return is due to a simple misreading of the Scriptures – partly a result of not understanding the cultural context of the message.

Would you like to know the specific day of the Lord's return?

The spring feasts – or appointed times – were fulfilled by the first coming of Yeshua, the Hebrew name of Jesus, which means Salvation,explains Biltz. The fall feasts will be fulfilled by His Second Coming – in the very near future, he relates in an engaging, informative and entertaining series of teachings you will want to watch again and again and share with your friends, relatives and fellow believers.
Biltz emphasizes that these feasts, described in Leviticus, were not intended for the Jewish people alone. He says they are meant to be observed as well as to serve as signs of the times in which we live – reminders of the greatest events of the past and foreshadowings of the future.Biltz says much of the church is asleep – unaware of the significance of the feasts in God's holy time clock. The feasts were not intended to be abandoned by believers after the coming of Jesus. His followers observed them in the First Century. It's time to rediscover them again as the hour of His return approaches.The fall feasts began Sept. 30 with the Feast of Trumpets, or Rosh Hashana. Christian believers will be stunned by the importance of this feast and all the others to follow when they view this unique teaching video by Biltz, an expert in the Hebrew roots of Christianity.Just as the spring feasts were the dress rehearsals for Messiah's first coming, the fall feasts are the dress rehearsals for His Second Coming, says Biltz.Biltz says far from telling us not to be concerned about the time of the Lord's return, the Bible over and over again commands believers to be watching – and provides some shocking and amazing hints for the discerning student.

The video series pinpoints the specific day on the Hebrew calendar for the return of Jesus. The only unknown, according to Biltz, is which year that return will occur – though he makes the case it is very near.Biltz says most of the church is unaware of this very specific prophetic time clock offered by God to the human race in the Bible. Because of this, he believes many Christians will be surprised rather than watching with anticipation and hope, as the Bible commands.Your faith will be renewed or heightened to new limits by these teachings, I predict, says Farah. These are powerful videos – unlike anything ever produced before.

Does Hollywood have guts to glorify this messiah? Iran asks Tinseltown to produce film on Islamic end-times leader September 11, 2009 12:44 am Eastern 2009 WorldNetDaily

LOS ANGELES – Iran says Hollywood has welcomed a proposal to produce a documentary about the anticipated coming of an Islamic messianic figure known as the Mahdi.The disclosure comes in a commentary piece today in WND by Joel Richardson, best-selling author of The Islamic Antichrist, which shows the similarities between this Muslim figure and the Bible's descriptions of the Beast of Revelation. Richardson points out the U.S. movie production company Cineast has welcomed the proposal,according to a close friend of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The purpose of the documentary will be to prepare for the appearance of Imam Mahdi as the savior of humanity,said an article in the Tehran Times.Understand the significance of the Muslim's Mahdi messiah in Joel Richardson's new book,The Islamic Antichrist:Richardson's book is turning the prophecy world upside down.The first edition of his book has sold out and it is now into its second printing after only one month after its release, where it debuted at the top of the top of the religious charts at Amazon and among all books at Scribd – an online e-booker retailer.

Richardson, a student of Islam and the Middle East, says that after decades of reading popular prophecy books and even best-selling fiction like the "Left Behind" series, millions of evangelical Christians around the world are expecting the Antichrist to emerge from a revived Roman Empire, which many have assumed is associated with the Roman Catholic Church and the European Union.Not so, argues Richardson. His book makes the case that the biblical Antichrist is one and the same as the Quran's Muslim Mahdi.The Bible abounds with proofs that the Antichrist's empire will consist only of nations that are, today, Islamic, says Richardson. Despite the numerous prevailing arguments for the emergence of a revived European Roman empire as the Antichrist's power base, the specific nations the Bible identifies as comprising his empire are today all Muslim.Richardson believes the key error of many previous prophecy scholars involves the misinterpretation of a prediction by Daniel to Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar. Daniel describes the rise and fall of empires of the future, leading to the end times. Western Christians have viewed one of those empires as Rome, when, claims Richardson, Rome never actually conquered Babylon and was thus disqualified as a possibility.It had to be another empire that rose and fell and rose again that would lead to rule of this man of sin, described in the Bible. That empire, he says, is the Islamic Empire, which did conquer Babylon and, in fact, rules over it even today.

Many evangelical Christians believe the Bible predicts a charismatic ruler, the Antichrist, will arise in the last days, before the return of Jesus. The Quran also predicts that a man, called the Mahdi, will rise up to lead the nations, pledging to usher in an era of peace. Richardson makes the case these two men are, in fact, one in the same.Richardson is the co-author with Walid Shoebat of God's War on Terror: Islam, Prophecy and the Bible and co-editor of Why We Left Islam: Former Muslims Speak Out.

Update on the Plans for a National ID Mark Lerner
Campaign For Liberty Thursday, Sept 10th, 2009

Either government controls the people or the people control the government

Once again, security for the country is what we are told is the motivation for allowing the government the capability to listen to phone calls or monitor our emails. We are asked to believe that agencies and departments of the federal government will not use all the tools in the technological cookie jar that Congress has provided.I am bewildered as to why anyone would trust that the NSA, FBI or DHS will start obeying the law. The FBI scripted their own version of FISA (which eavesdropped on American citizen’s phone calls, intercepted emails and monitored financial transactions). The FBI abused National Security Letters. DHS’s Mocny conceded that the DHS can and will ignore federal privacy laws.The Stop Real ID Coalition and the Constitutional Alliance work around the clock attempting to stay current on the laws, initiatives and programs that impact our freedom.If as a country, we make a conscience decision not to accept risk but rather at all costs institute any and all measures that might protect us from a terrorist attack, we will not remain a free country. We must be willing to accept some risk if we are to preserve our liberty, rights and freedom.Make no mistake about it. As a country we are giving the federal government the laws and tools (technology) to control us. We have not learned the lessons of the McCarthy era. We also have not learned from our experience while J. Edgar Hoover was the Director of the FBI. We have not learned from the abuses of power witnessed under the Bush administration or those already taking place under the Obama administration.

I do not know what the trigger will be the provides government with the excuse/ reason to take full control. The trigger might be an economic collapse, a terrorist event, a pandemic or even a natural disaster. The fact is a number of possibilities real or imagined exist that can be the trigger. What I do know is once government has power it does not relinquish it.We at the Stop Real ID Coalition and the Constitutional Alliance fully support the people in law enforcement, our military and our intelligence community. We recognize the federal government has a responsibility to protect the citizens of the United States. That being said, protecting does not equate to controlling. We support state driver’s licenses with document integrity. We do not want to see counterfeit driver’s licenses used to facilitate any criminal activity including acts of terrorism. We have an alternative to the Real ID Act 2005, PASS ID Act and the REAL ID Repeal and Identification Security Enhancement Act of 2009

UPDATE ON SB1261 AND HR3471

There have been some articles about SB1261 (Providing for Additional Security in States’ Identification Act of 2009) or the PASS ID Act. Very few people if any are talking about HR3471 (REAL ID Repeal and Identification Security Enhancement Act of 2009, short title).What is important for all citizens to realize is the Real ID Act, PASS ID Act and the REAL ID Repeal and Identification Security Enhancement Act of 2009 all either do or will require that Americans be enrolled into a single global biometric identification system. If one supports any of these bills then they support the federal government intervening in the issuance of state driver’s licenses.I am absolutely besides myself attempting to understand why we are so blind about the power we are giving to the federal government. The federal government has set 29% as being an acceptable rate to catch people and goods entering our country illegally through authorized Customs Border Patrol checkpoints.If our government has the biometric information of terrorists then why not focus on terrorists at our checkpoints instead of all U.S. citizens? If we do not have the biometric information of terrorists then why are we collecting the biometric information of American citizens? I get emails and telephone calls everyday asking me about the status of the aforementioned legislation.

1) PASS ID Act has passed with an amendment added, in committee (Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee). It is my opinion that the PASS ID Act will be attached to other legislation before being heard by the full senate. The Real ID Act 2005 was attached to other legislation (military spending and tsunami relief). I believe PASS ID will be attached to an appropriations spending bill. I do not believe the senate will take the time to debate PASS ID on its own merits. Some will see the attachment of PASS ID to other legislation as a way to avoid debate or at least limit debate on PASS ID. Others will argue attaching PASS ID to other legislation is a logical thing to do in order to best utilize the time the senate has to hear legislation. In either case the result will be the PASS ID Act will pass in the senate.

2) REAL ID Repeal and Identification Security Enhancement Act of 2009 (HR3471) has been referred to two house committees, the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary. HR3471 repeals Title II of the Real ID Act 2005 just as the PASS ID Act does. HR3471 will reinstitute section 7212 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004.

Not confused yet? The Pass ID Act calls for a non negotiated rulemaking process while HR3471 calls for a negotiated rulemaking process.The point is there is no way most people are going to understand the many nuances that are a reality when speaking about the path legislation can take to become law. It is equally true that the rulemaking process is not easily understood.While the country is focused on healthcare, cap and trade, immigration and other issues the federal government is pulling the rug right our from underneath our feet. The federal government has gone from protecting citizens to now wanting to control citizens.I have been on the phone all morning working with our contacts to open the door to my testifying in opposition to HR3471. I have been put in contact with the people on the Hill that can make my testifying a reality.

If we need the support of citizens to make calls we will put out an Action Alert.

On a final note-HR3174, Photo Identification Security Act has been referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement. HR3174 mandates that all federal agencies/departments and financial institutions require a Real ID compliant driver’s license. If Real ID (Title II) is repealed then HR3174 will be amended to change from Real ID to PASS ID or whatever replaces Real ID, compliant driver’s license.

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/
CNBC VIDEOS
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/site/14081545/?tabid=15839796&tabheader=false

HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS FRI SEPT 11,2009

09:30 AM -4.46
10:00 AM +11.11
10:30 AM -6.95
11:00 AM -2.49
11:30 AM -9.97
12:00 PM -22.37
12:30 PM -34.16
01:00 PM -37.03
01:30 PM -35.22
02:00 PM -36.88
02:30 PM -31.74
03:00 PM -25.77
03:30 PM -15.57
04:00 PM -22.07 9605.41

S&P 500 1042.73 -1.41

NASDAQ 2080.90 -3.12

GOLD 1007.60 +10.80

OIL 69.27 -2.67

TSE 300 11,253.23 +98.23

CDNX 1261.89 +12.40

S&P/TSX/60 675.78 +6.43

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +9.70%
S&P +15.60%
Nasdaq +32.15%
TSX Advances 917,declines 588,unchanged 235,Volume 510,588,772.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 453,Declines 404,Unchanged 345,Volume 225,566,982.

Dow -4 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -34 points at low today.
Dow +24 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $998.80.OIL opens at $72.74 today.
AS OF 11:12AM GOLD IS AT $1010.80

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -54 points at low today so far.
Dow +24 points at high today so far.

DAY TODAY PERFORMANCE - 12:30PM STATS
NYSE Advances 2,042,declines 1,530,unchanged 114,New Highs 206,New Lows 78.
Volume 2,699,808,236.
NASDAQ Advances 1,156,declines 1,401,unchanged 129,New highs 95,New Lows 02.
Volume 1,068,553,225.
TSX Advances 783,declines 495,unchanged 234,Volume 295,242,216.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 399,Declines 251,Unchanged 284,Volume 121,565,757.
GOLD RALLIES TO 18 MONTH HIGH.
GOLD HIT ALL-TIME HIGH OVER $1,033.00 IN MARCH 2008.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -54 points at low today.
Dow +24 points at high today.
Dow -0.23% today Volume 196,670,777.
Nasdaq -0.15% today Volume 2,225,574,461.
S&P 500 -0.14% today Volume N/A

FRIDAYS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +9.45%
S&P +15.44%
Nasdaq +31.95%
TSX Advances 868,declines 616,unchanged 250,Volume 569,255,866.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 532,Declines 344,Unchanged 358,Volume 258,533,484.

DOLLAR IN SERIOUS TROUBLE
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1250032750&play=1
GREENSPAN MARKET CRISIS WILL HAPPEN AGAIN
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8244860.stm
TAX PAYERS MARCH IN WASHINGTON
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1250120660&play=1
BANKING ON TWINKLE TOES TIM
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1250521510&play=1
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1250096798&play=1
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1250053829&play=1
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1249712106&play=1
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1249608562&play=1
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1249419996&play=1
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1249565530&play=1
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1249587038&play=1
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1249748655&play=1
MILDLY BEARISH ON GOLD
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1249908322&play=1
MORE REGULATION AND TAXES NEEDED
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1250328767&play=1
HOW ARE CANADIAN BANKS FARING
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1250053814&play=1
911 MOMENT OF SILENCE
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1250170995&play=1
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1250153144&play=1
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1250166068&play=1
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1250069324&play=1

Geithner: Confidence has returned to markets By JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press Writer – Thu Sep 10, 7:06 pm ET

WASHINGTON – Citing emerging financial sector stability, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Thursday that a number of government rescue efforts in place since the Wall Street crisis are no longer needed and that banks will repay $50 billion in rescue funds over the next 18 months.Geithner, testifying before a congressional watchdog panel, said the nation still has a ways to go before true recovery takes hold. But he said improved conditions in the banking industry have prompted Treasury to begin winding down emergency support programs implemented after the collapse of Lehman Brothers last year.The financial system is showing very important signs of repair,Geithner said. He added later:I would not want anyone to be left with the impression that we're not still facing really substantial enormous challenges throughout the US financial system.The cautious but upbeat tone reflects a growing push by the administration to present the government financial rescue efforts as a success amid lingering public apprehension about the economy.President Barack Obama will speak to that issue Monday in New York when he makes what the White House described as a major address on steps the administration has taken to mitigate the Wall Street crisis and its commitment to winding down the government's role in the financial sector. Monday is the first year anniversary of Lehman Brothers' collapse.

Geithner was testifying before the Congressional Oversight Panel that monitors Treasury's $700 billion financial bailout that President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama used to shore up not only banks but the auto industry as well.

Banks have already paid back $70 billion of the $250 billion that the government injected over the past year to boost their liquidity. Geithner noted that only $11 billion of that infusion has occurred since he became Treasury secretary earlier this year. He said dividends on those infusions and the repurchase by banks of warrants held by the government has also generated $12 billion for the government. Overall, he said, the government realized a 17 percent return from 23 banks that have paid back the government in full.Geithner said a major Treasury program that had been used to guarantee up to $3 trillion in money market mutual fund assets would be closed down on schedule on Sept. 18. The program had no direct cost to taxpayers and actually earned more than $1 billion in fees paid by the mutual fund industry.That program was established at the height of the financial crisis a year ago after a large money market fund called the Reserve Primary Fund broke the buck — meaning the value of its underlying assets fell below $1 for each investor dollar put in.Still, unemployment stands at 9.7 percent and administration officials say it could rise to 10 percent in the coming months. Foreclosure rates are surging and the mortgage market remains tight. Geithner acknowledged that the economy would still face more than the usual ups and downs.The classic mistake people make is they declare victory too soon,he said.Given the still weak economy, Donald Kohn, vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, said it would be a while before the central bank dismantles all of its emergency lending programs.

That time is not likely to come for an extended period, Kohn said in a speech to the Brookings Institution, a liberal think tank in Washington.The Fed has been developing tools to rein in the money it has pumped into the economy to spur lending and lift the economy out of recession, Kohn said. That's important to avoid a bout of inflation when the economy is on firmer footing.The government's bailouts have not been popular with the public and Geithner's testimony emphasized the positive returns from the various measures.Still, one protester sitting behind Geithner held up a pink sign asking: Where did the $ go? Speaking later at a town hall meeting organized by CNBC, Geithner said people should be angry about the costly bailouts, but that the economic devastation last fall made it the fair thing to do.Elizabeth Warren, the oversight panel's chairwoman, said: Taxpayers still want to know how their money has been used and what difference their enormous investment has made.

The panel has been critical of government steps, arguing that in the past it has not received full value for repaid infusions of money into financial institutions. More recently, the panel contended that a significant portion of the government assistance to the auto industry will likely not be repaid. Geithner pointed out that the number of large financial institutions has grown smaller since the economic crisis. But Warren cautioned that some of the remaining firms were larger than before.Are we more at risk on the question of concentration than we were a year ago? she asked.I don't think so, Geithner replied.But it depends largely on what Congress ultimately decides in terms of financial reforms.The administration has called for a series of regulatory changes, including requiring large, intertwined institutions to have access to more money to cover their risks.Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, has pushed back his panel's consideration of the legislation from September until October.Spokesman Steve Adamske said the committee wanted more time to hold hearings on the issues, as well as draft the bill, which includes more than a dozen major sections.The chairman believes the House is still on track to complete our work and get the White House a final product by the end of the year,Adamske said.Associated Press writers Martin Crutsinger, Jeannine Aversa, Anne Flaherty and Daniel Wagner contributed to this report.

Arctic exploration finds large underwater mountain By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer – Thu Sep 10, 4:23 pm ET

WASHINGTON – Joint U.S.-Canada exploration of the Arctic sea floor discovered an unusual underwater mountain and evidence that could boost the two countries' claims that their boundaries extend farther north. For the past two months ships from the countries have ventured north in icy areas of the Arctic where almost no surface ships have been, in an effort to find out how far the continental shelf extends.The farther out the shelf, the more ocean floor — thought to be rich with oil and gas — that the two countries could claim.The ships haven't had time to thoroughly examine their data. Early indications show more sediment buildup on the northern edges, hinting that the shelf — and thus the countries' borders — extend farther, said Jacob Verhoef, program director for Natural Resources Canada.During the research Christine Hedge, a Carmel, Ind., middle school teacher aboard the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Healy, found the first indications of something unusual jutting up from the flat surface 8,700 feet deep. Further examination showed that it was a mountain almost 3,800 feet high, 12 miles long and 24 miles wide. It's about 700 miles north of Alaska.It's elongated, more ridge-shaped and flat on the top, said Canadian chief scientist David Mosher, who was on the other ship. Further examinations of the mountain may someday help explain key facts about the history of the Arctic Ocean, he said.The ships also saw something that could be a buried and extinct underwater volcano, but it also may just be a ridge, Mosher said.

Greenland's melt mystery unfolds, at glacial pace By KARL RITTER, Associated Press Writer – SEPT 10,09

HELHEIM GLACIER, Greenland – Suddenly and without warning, the gigantic river of ice sped up, causing it to spit icebergs ever faster into the ocean off southeastern Greenland.Helheim Glacier nearly doubled its speed in just a few years, flowing through a rift in the barren coastal mountains at a stunning 100 feet (30 meters) per day.Alarm bells rang as the pattern was repeated by glaciers across Greenland: Was the island's vast ice sheet, a frozen water reservoir that could raise the sea level 20 feet if disgorged, in danger of collapse?

Half a decade later, there's a little bit of good news — and a lot of uncertainty.

It does seem that the very rapid speeds were only sustained for a short period of time although none of these glaciers have returned to the normal flow speeds yet, says Gordon Hamilton, a glaciologist from the University of Maine, who's clocked Helheim's rapid advance using GPS receivers on site since 2005.Understanding why Greenland's glaciers accelerated so abruptly in the first half of the decade — and whether they are now slowing down — is crucial to the larger question of how fast sea levels will rise as the planet warms.The issue has gained urgency as scientists rush to supply their latest findings in time for negotiations on a new global climate pact, set for December in Copenhagen.Scientists say the Greenland ice sheet, which is up to 2 miles (3 kilometers) thick and covers an area almost the size of Mexico, is losing about 7 billion cubic feet (200 million cubic meters) of ice a year — the equivalent of 80,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools.That means snowfall on top of the ice sheet is not enough to replace what is lost through surface melting and ice chucked out in the fjords by faster-flowing glaciers. In the process, sea levels rise as towering icebergs plunge into the Atlantic Ocean and displace water — much like an ice cube dropped into a drink.The dynamics of the ice sheet on Greenland — and the much larger ones on Antarctica — were not included in sea level rise projections by the U.N. expert panel on climate change in 2007 because the phenomenon was poorly mapped at the time.The picture of what happened in Greenland is just starting to come together, and scientists are still in the dark about how the underlying causes were set in motion, how much was owed to natural variances and how much to man's tinkering with the global climate system.

This is like medical science in the 15th century, says David Holland, director of the Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science at New York University.It's going to take a while to find out what's going on with the patient here.The most popular explanation is that the patient — Greenland's ice sheet — contracted its ailment not from warmer air, but a warmer ocean.Scientists earlier believed that the biggest factor for the faster flow speeds was meltwater seeping down to the base of the glaciers, lubricating the bedrock. They're now shifting attention to ocean currents believed to have sent pulses of warmer water from southern latitudes to Greenland's glacial fjords.Holland found that such water was reaching the edge of western Greenland's biggest glacier, Sermeq Kujalleq. A team led by Fiamma Stranneo, of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, made a similar discovery last month with probes plunged into the chilly depths of Sermilik fjord, where Helheim Glacier ends.

We've had a confirmation that the waters are really coming up to the glacier, Stranneo says, her voice nearly drowned by engine noise aboard the Arctic Sunrise, a Greenpeace ship that offered her a chance to test her hypothesis.This is the first time that we've seen it in these southeast glacial fjords.In July, the world's oceans were the warmest in almost 130 years of record-keeping. Meteorologists say a combination of factors are at work, including a natural El Nino system, man-made global warming and a dash of random weather.Coinciding with the shrinking of sea ice on the North Pole and the thawing of the Arctic permafrost, the discovery of Greenland's runaway glaciers earlier this decade raised a sense of urgency among scientists studying the impact of climate change on the frozen north. It has also been used by advocacy groups like Greenpeace to stress the importance of reaching a deal in Copenhagen to limit global greenhouse emissions.Fearing that a possible deal is in danger, European foreign ministers announced Thursday they were stepping up efforts to make sure that nations around the world face up to global warming.Even a partial melt of the ice sheet could have a big impact on sea levels, with dire consequences for low-lying areas from Florida to Bangladesh.

The 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects a sea level rise of 7 to 24 inches (20 to 60 centimeters) this century. Adding the potential impact of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, many scientists have estimated the rise will be double.It doesn't sound like a lot but it's an important difference by the way you sort of deal with that issue, says Hamilton, taking a break from his GPS measurements on a plateau overlooking Helheim's styrofoam-like bed of jagged ice.How you engineer for a sea level rise of 30 centimeters is quite different as to how you would ... deal with a sea level rise of 1 meter.His latest measurements indicate that Helheim is flowing at 6.5 miles (10.5 kilometers) per year, slightly down from its peak in 2005 but still 50 percent faster than its normal pace.Other researchers say some — but not all — of Greenland's glaciers have shown similar slowdowns in recent years, suggesting that a sudden, dramatic increase in flow speeds may not be such a cataclysmic and irregular phenomenon after all.

Still, the flows remain fast enough to yield a net loss of mass from the ice sheet. And if the world continues to warm, sudden spurts of glacial acceleration may become more frequent, draining the inland ice until it, eventually, collapses.No one can say with certainty whether that will take 100 years, or 1,000.It's a little embarrassing to know so little,says Ian Howat, a glaciologist based at Ohio State University.We won't know it's going until it's gone. It feels like that a little bit.

Chinese legislator warns against protectionism By FOSTER KLUG, Associated Press Writer – SEPT 10,09

WASHINGTON – China's chief legislator on Thursday called for better economic cooperation with the United States and the removal of trade barriers protecting U.S. industries from foreign competition.Wu Bangguo, chairman of China's Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, met with President Barack Obama and top U.S. lawmakers during what he said was the first visit to the United States by a leader of China's Congress in 20 years.He said China's economic growth was intimately linked with the fortunes of the world. But he also warned that differences should not be used as excuses to interfere in other countries' internal affairs or contain other countries' development.We should remove all forms of trade and investment barriers (and) properly handle economic and trade frictions and disputes between the two sides,Wu said in a speech at a Washington hotel.The United States and China are trying to work through tensions over a host of differences, among them trade spats, occasional clashes by the countries' military forces in the Pacific and U.S. criticism of China's human rights.U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said at a dinner welcoming Wu that China and the United States bear a heavy responsibility to cooperate in solving the world's toughest problems.She avoided U.S. complaints on Chinese trade and human rights practices, focusing instead on the need for better communication and trust between the sometime rivals.

Clinton said the Obama administration considers building a strong relationship with China a central goal. The countries, she said, must cooperate on nuclear standoffs with North Korea and Iran, climate change, nonproliferation, pandemic diseases and poverty reduction.The countries plan counterterrorism and human rights talks later this year.Wu said that China could not achieve development in isolation from the rest of the world, and world prosperity and stability would not be possible without China.He cautioned that China is still a developing country, with millions living in poverty and people on China's coast much more prosperous than those living inland. He spoke of China's huge population, weak economic foundation and development imbalances between urban and rural areas.

Japanese economy grows 2.3 percent in Q2 SEPT 10,09

TOKYO (AFP) – Japan's economy grew at an annualised rate of 2.3 percent in the second quarter of 2009, a smaller expansion than initially estimated, revised official data showed Friday.The government had reported last month an annualised 3.7 percent growth for the quarter.New data also showed the economy grew 0.6 percent in the three months to June from the previous quarter, still the first positive growth in more than a year but down from the 0.9 percent growth initially estimated.For the January-March quarter, the revised report showed the economy shrank by 3.3 percent from the previous quarter for an annualised contraction of 12.4 percent.

Emission targets would hurt economy: S.Africa Thu Sep 10, 12:01 pm ET

CAPE TOWN (AFP) – Coal-reliant South Africa on Thursday said it was unrealistic to expect developing nations to set targets for cutting harmful carbon emissions as this would hamper economic growth.In the lead up to the crucial Copenhagen climate summit in December which hopes to thrash out a new climate treaty, Africa's richest state said it is the responsibility of developed countries to reduce emissions.We think it is unrealistic for us at this stage to set targets. Setting targets now would definitely hamper growth. Developed nations in our view have a much greater responsibility of reducing their emissions, government spokesman Themba Maseko told journalists after a cabinet meeting.They have contributed to emissions for longer than any of the developing nations and their economies have reached a certain level of growth which enable them to actually reduce their emissions, whereas developing nations such as ourselves have quite a lot of way to go in terms of growing our economy.South Africa relies heavily on coal for its energy requirements, and power giant Eskom is embarking on an ambitious project to build more power stations to fuel the country's growing but energy-strapped economy.

Widespread blackouts last year and regular load-shedding revealed an energy crisis as ailing infrastructure failed to keep pace with growth.Maseko said the government was committed to reducing emissions over time, and was putting a lot of effort into exploring alternative energy sources and nuclear options, which remained too expensive to provide an alternative to coal.The continental powerhouse is among the world's worst offenders in terms of gas emissions and joins nations such as India and China in pushing for wealthy, industrialised nations to lead the drive in cutting emissions.Copenhagen is tasked with finding a successor to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol which the United States rejected saying its targets would wreck its economy.

EU not prepared to lift Zimbabwe sanctions ahead of key visit by Fran Blandy – Thu Sep 10, 3:48 pm ET

CAPE TOWN (AFP) – The European Union dug in its heels on lifting sanctions against Zimbabwe Thursday as South Africa insisted that penalties needed to be dropped.I want to be clear: the EU is not prepared (for) lifting the restrictions we have on Zimbabwe,said Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt whose country currently holds the rotating EU presidency.It is not the restrictions that are creating problems in Zimbabwe, it is the mismanagement... not respecting of human rights, he said in response to a question at a public address in Johannesburg.A call by the Southern African Development Community for sanctions to be dropped against Zimbabwe, a diplomatic triumph for the 85-year-old President Robert Mugabe, dominated Reinfeldt's first state visit to South Africa.President Jacob Zuma stressed the need to persuade the European bloc and other western nations to lift targeted sanctions such as a travel ban and asset freeze on Mugabe, his wife and inner circle in protest against alleged human rights abuses.We are saying both of us understand where SADC comes from and where the EU comes from. But we are saying precisely because of that we need to engage so we can try and persuade the EU to lift sanctions, said Zuma.Let us engage our colleagues in Europe, to urge them, they would not do it if they did not hear what is our motivation,said Zuma.Zuma said the call by SADC was aimed at ensuring the success of a unity government formed in Zimbabwe in February.The inclusive government has acted to steer the country back to stability and restore the hyperinflation-ravaged economy and basic services that collapsed under Mugabe's three decades of rule.

But the government has been plagued by power struggles over key posts and claims of continued persecution of Tsvangirai's supporters, with Western states so far proving reluctant to give direct aid without proof of more reforms.Part of what has to happen is that a way should be opened for that agreement to work and one of them is the sanctions,Zuma said of the unity deal between Mugabe and his former rival Morgan Tsvangirai.Once you have got sanctions there are things you cannot do in Zimbabwe, but if the sanctions are not there you give more scope for that agreement to be implemented. That is the point we are making.Reinfeldt said his delegation was here to listen and a high-level delegation will leave for Zimbabwe after a EU-South Africa summit Friday to work on normalising ties, the first such visit since sanctions were imposed in 2002.The EU visit follows the first official talks in seven years, held three months ago, with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai who joined Mugabe in a unity pact nearly a year after chaotic polls pushed Zimbabwe deeper into crisis.I think it is important for the EU... to get it from the horses mouth... so the EU could weigh its decision in relation to the decision what to do next in Zimbabwe,said Zuma.

President Robert Mugabe has blamed the restrictions targeting him and his allies for his country's woes however Zuma said Zimbabwe's problems existed before the sanctions.I don't think sanctions started the problems in the economy I think it was the Zimbabweans who undermined their own system. That got the economy in trouble.Swedish International Development Cooperation Minister Gunilla Carlsson and EU Aid Commissioner Karel De Gucht will meet Mugabe and Tsvangirai, as well as other ministers, officials and representatives of non-governmental organisations. This is a critical time for Zimbabwe and the weight of responsibility falls squarely on the country's leaders to deliver urgent political, economic and social progress for the benefit of all the people of Zimbabwe,said de Gucht.There is an urgent need for all parties to fulfil their obligations,he said in a statement.

Layoff fears as GM picks Canadian buyer for Opel by Richard Carter – SEPT 10,09

BERLIN (AFP) – General Motors' decision to sell its European unit Opel to a Canadian firm backed by Russian finance raised questions Friday on the thorny issue of layoffs.Thursday's deal, struck some two months after the US auto giant emerged from bankruptcy, ensures the temporary survival of Opel, which includes Vauxhall in Britain and employs 50,000 people in Europe.But Canadian auto parts maker Magna and its partner, state-owned Russian bank Sberbank, have said they would likely cut 10,000 jobs as part of the purchase.The deal covers all of GM's European operations except Swedish unit Saab, which is being sold to Swedish sports car maker Koenigsegg and Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Co Ltd (BAIC).Magna and Sberbank will acquire a 55-percent stake in what is to be called New Opel, with the Detroit giant retaining 35 percent. Employees would hold 10 percent.There were strong indications that Germany would be spared the worst job cuts, at other countries' expense.GM vice-president John Smith said Magna and Sberbank were considering winding down Opel's plant in Antwerp, Belgium and shifting some production from Zaragoza in Spain to Eisenach, Germany.German Chancellor Angela Merkel, running for re-election this month, hailed the deal after months of fraught negotiations. Half of Opel's employees are in Germany.I am exceptionally happy about this decision, which is along the lines of what the government wanted, a visibly relieved Merkel told reporters.This was not easy. It is now possible for Opel and GM Europe to start afresh.Britain's Business Secretary Peter Mandelson said he was upbeat about the future for Vauxhall's workforce in Britain.

I have had four face-to-face meetings with Magna in the last couple of months. I am satisfied about their commitment to Vauxhall's plants,he said.The government will now discuss our share of the funding of the deal and I expect to tie down the details of this in the near future.But workers at the two Vauxhall plants were less upbeat.We don't know what's going on. We're not quite sure yet. Everybody's quite fed up about it,said one factory worker.I'm absolutely devastated, for the simple reason it doesn't secure the long-term future for this place. The morale is low, said another.Kris Peeters, the head of the government of Belgium's Flanders region, said he hoped for European intervention if the Antwerp plant was closed, adding that about 12,000 people would be affected in all.If Germany says it has put 4.5 billion euros against the promise that no German unit will be closed down but the Antwerp factory will be shut, I hope the European Commission will clearly say that this is not possible.We have also put millions of euros on the table, he said, adding:It has not been totally finalised but the situation in Antwerp is very serious. There is only a tiny bit of hope.Merkel had been pressing GM since May to sell the operations to Magna and the Kremlin-controlled Sberbank. To up the pressure, Berlin went as far as to offer a 4.5-billion-euro (6.5-billion-dollar) financing package -- sweeteners that were not available to a rival bidder, Brussels-based investment group RHJ International.

GM has owned Opel since 1929.

The US auto maker said there were still several key issues to be finalised over the coming weeks, but Merkel expressed confidence the sale would go through. The board of GM -- majority owned by the US government since the company emerged from bankruptcy in July -- also considered keeping hold of Opel.The powerful head of Opel's works council, Franz Klaus, had warned of a cost-cutting orgy if that had come to pass, threatening protests if German factories were closed.Terms were not disclosed, but Magna and Sberbank said the offer contemplates a total equity investment by the consortium of Euro 500 million over time.

Bank of Canada holds rates, sees faster rebound By Louise Egan – Thu Sep 10, 10:10 am ET

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada's economy may rebound more sharply than anticipated in the second half of this year, the Bank of Canada said on Thursday while holding its key interest rate unchanged at 0.25 percent, as expected.In a mostly upbeat statement that triggered a rise in the Canadian dollar, the bank said expansionary fiscal and monetary policies, improvements in financial markets, higher commodity prices and a return of confidence have buoyed the economy.Combined with recent information on inventory adjustments and automotive production, this suggests that GDP growth in the second half of 2009 could be stronger than the bank projected in July, it said in a statement.In July the bank projected average annualized growth of 2.15 percent in the second half, with 1.3 percent in the third quarter and 3.0 percent in the fourth.It won't provide forecasts for next year until October 22, when it publishes its quarterly Monetary Policy Report.Despite the revised outlook, the central bank repeated its pledge to hold the overnight target rate at its historic low level until the end of June next year as long as inflation stays in check.It also once again warned that persistent strength in the Canadian dollar remained a risk to the economic recovery and to inflation, and said it could react by taking unconventional measures as needed to support growth, such as printing money.But its language on the currency was no tougher than in the recent past. Most market players do not believe the bank will intervene to brake the currency's surge from the four-year low it hit in March.I don't think it moves the goal posts in a big way, Doug Porter, deputy chief economist at BMO Capital Markets, said of the statement.If indeed growth does come in quite a bit stronger than the bank expects and the currency doesn't flare higher from here, there may be some pressure on the bank to move ahead of its conditional commitment but I don't think we're there yet.The Canadian rose as high as C$1.0816 to the U.S. dollar, or 92.46 U.S. cents, after the statement, up from C$1.0858, or 92.10 U.S. cents, previously.Governor Mark Carney has been suggesting that at least part of the Canadian dollar's strength has been unjustified. But if commodity prices keep rising and the economy picks up, he may adjust his thinking and consider the appreciation to be appropriate.

I think what they're pointing out are the factors that are keeping them up at night but ones that, so far, have not really kept the Canadian economy from moving from a period of recession to a transition of toward recovery,said Aron Gampel, deputy chief economist at Scotiabank.The forecast of a more robust economic recovery came after the International Monetary Fund said this week that the global recovery may come three months earlier than previously forecast.UBS on Tuesday became one of the first banks to predict a 'V' shaped recovery in Canada, implying a sharp upturn in growth rather than the sluggish, gradual rebound that policy makers have predicted so far.(Additional reporting by Randall Palmer, Jennifer Kwan, Ka Yan Ng and Frank Pingue; editing by Janet Guttsman)

Australia in $60 bln Japan, S.Korea gas deals Thu Sep 10, 2:58 am ET

CANBERRA (AFP) – Australia on Thursday announced liquefied natural gas (LNG) deals worth up to 60 billion US dollars with Japan and South Korea, raising its status as a major energy supplier.Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Chevron Australia would supply three firms from the planned Gorgon field off the country's west, just weeks after joint venture partner ExxonMobil's record 41 billion US dollar deal with PetroChina.These contracts will deliver in the order of 70 billion (Australian) dollars worth of exports to Australia over the next 25 years,Rudd told parliament.

Under the contracts, Rudd said Chevron would supply 1.375 million tonnes of LNG a year to Osaka Gas, 1.1 million tonnes to Tokyo Gas and 0.5 million tonnes to GS Caltex of South Korea.ExxonMobil's earlier deal with PetroChina, the biggest in Australian history, followed a separate 21 billion dollar supply agreement between India's Petronet and Gorgon's developers.It's been a great month for the Australian LNG export industry,Rudd said.Chevron said more Gorgon LNG gas contracts were expected to be signed in coming weeks.These agreements represent a significant milestone in Chevron?s efforts to commercialise our equity natural gas and grow our LNG business,Chevron global gas president John Gass said.Joint venture partners Chevron, Shell and ExxonMobil are expected to finalise development plans for Gorgon before the year's end with production slated to begin in 2014.The plant will be built on Barrow Island, a nature reserve about 70 kilometres (44 miles) off Western Australia. The Australian government approved the project last month, subject to environment safeguards.Gorgon is just one of a clutch of LNG projects planned in the next decade that analysts say will pump tens of billions of dollars into the economy and see Australia challenge Qatar as the world's major gas exporter.These are massive projects that will generate economic growth, income, jobs and prosperity for the nation for decades to come,Rudd said.Australia exported 15.2 million tonnes of LNG worth 5.2 billion dollars in 2006, a figure the government estimates will quadruple to 60 million tonnes by 2015 if all currently planned projects proceed.

IBM, European Researchers Develop Multimedia Search Tool By Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service - Thu Sep 10, 2009 8:30PM EDT

The developers call their technology SAPIR, for Search in Audio-Visual Content Using Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval. It indexes and analyzes low-level descriptors, or attributes such as color, layout, shape and sounds, in photos and videos. The technology then compares those descriptors to other existing photos to help identify what's in the picture. That's different from the approach taken by most existing search technologies, which typically sift through images based on text tags assigned to the photos.In a demonstration video posted on YouTube, the technology doesn't work perfectly. The video shows a man walk into a square in Madrid and take a photo of a statue. He then searches for similar images using SAPIR. He doesn't find a match so he adds the keyword Madrid to the search. The result is a group of photos of landmarks in Madrid, which he scrolls through until he finds a match. With improvements, the technology could produce applications that might let someone take a picture of an item and discover stores that sell the item. Or doctors might be able to use it to assist with diagnoses, IBM said.SAPIR uses peer-to-peer technology, so there's no central point of failure, the company said.The researchers are still tweaking the technology and it will be some time before it's productized by IBM, Ari Fishkind, an IBM spokesman, said. Anyone who participated in the development of the technology is free to incorporate it into products, he said.

A demo of the technology that anyone can try is available, although the site currently appears to be down.SAPIR was created by researchers from IBM in Israel; Max-Planck Institute in Germany; Eurix, the Institute of Information and Science and Technology and the University of Padua in Italy; Xerox in France; Masarvkova University in Czech Republic; Telefonica's research arm in Spain; and Norway's Telenor.SAPIR isn't the only search development project based in Europe. The Quaero project, once called a Google killer by former French president Jacques Chirac, first came to light in early 2006 and is now funded in part by the French government. It was initially a joint France-Germany project, but the two countries have split and now Germany is funding its own search research project called Theseus.In addition, the main search providers and some smaller companies are also working on ways to improve image search. For example, companies including Eyealike and LTU Technologies have developed image-matching technologies.

US-China extend dialogue to cover counterterrorism by P. Parameswaran – SEPT 10,09

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States and China are to expand their dialogue to cover counterterrorism, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced but Beijing cautioned against any interference in internal affairs.I am pleased to announce that the United States and China will be conducting joint talks on counterterrorism this fall,Clinton said on Thursday at a business forum attended by China's chief legislator, Wu Bangguo, the second most powerful man in China's ruling Communist Party led by President Hu Jintao.Now, we will not see to eye to eye on every issue, Clinton said.We have different histories, different experiences, different perspectives, but we must seek to talk honestly and openly, even when agreement is not possible,she said.And we are committed to doing so.The talks disclosed by Clinton may be the first institutionalized dialogue with China on counterterrorism, regional diplomats said. Clinton did not provide details on particular issues to be discussed.The counterterrorism talks may become complicated as Rebiyah Kadeer, the exiled leader of China's Uighur Muslim minority whom Beijing calls a terrorist, is living in exile in Washington since being freed from a Chinese prison in 2005.Chinese authorities have accused Kadeer, head of the World Uighur Congress, of inciting unrest between Uighurs and Han Chinese in the northwestern city of Urumqi in July that left nearly 200 people dead and more than 1,600 injured.Beijing has previously hinted that Washington should rein in the exiled leader, a 62-year-old mother of 11 who adamantly denies Beijing's charges and accuses China of repression against the Uighurs, a predominantly Muslim group who speak a Turkic language.

Wu, in his speech Thursday, made clear Beijing would rebuff any interference in China's internal affairs.We believe that one should not interfere in other countries' internal affairs or impose its own will on others, he said, seeking respect for each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity.He also said that Beijing was against any international support for separatist forces in Tibet or Taiwan.We are against the practice of using differences in perception as an excuse and freedom of religion and speech as a cover to support, or support in a disguised way, separatist forces for Taiwan independence,Tibet independence and other separatist agenda and meddle in China's internal affairs,Wu said.But he agreed with Clinton that differences in history, culture, social system, ideology and development stage should not be allowed to stand in the way of cooperation.President Barack Obama's administration held its first revamped Strategic and Economic Dialogue with China in July, focusing on bilateral, regional and global challenges on economic and foreign policy issues, as well as climate change.The talks were launched under former US president George W. Bush in 2006.Clinton recalled that in July the two countries had a very frank discussion about human rights, a touchy topic for the Chinese government.

Beijing has come under attacks from Western governments for stifling freedom in the world's most populous nation.Clinton also said that the two countries had agreed to hold the next round of the human rights dialogue before the end of the year and also reconvene a bilateral legal experts dialogue.We know that this is an important part of our engagement with China,she said. Obama will make his first presidential visit to China in November to bring fresh impetus to relations as he faces pressure to slap trade sanctions on Chinese goods and save jobs at home as the United States recovers from a brutal recession.The United States has also been grappling with a ballooning trade deficit with China amid allegations that Beijing has been manipulating its currency to make its exports more competitive.

European envoy asks Russia about NGO killing Thu Sep 10, 2:53 pm ET

MOSCOW – The Council of Europe's commissioner on human rights says Russia must prosecute the killers of a human rights activist in Chechnya this year, if it is to break a cycle of violence in the region.Thomas Hammarberg said Thursday that bringing the killers of Natalya Estemirova to justice will help dissipate the atmosphere of impunity that pervades Russia's violent southern fringe.Estemirova worked for the rights group Memorial, and her reports on alleged rights abuses in Chechnya made her unpopular with the region's strongman leader.She was abducted in the Chechen capital, Grozny, on July 15 and found dead later that day.Other rights activists accuse Chechen authorities of being behind her death.Hammarberg spoke in Moscow after a fourth visit to Chechnya.