ASIAN COUNTRIES WANT GREATER SAY

Picture from Britannia Radio-IRANS MISSLES THEY WILL USE AGAINST ISRAEL IF IRAN ATTACKS ISRAEL FIRST.



Israelis celebrate Jewish New Year By Aron Heller, Associated Press Writer – Fri Sep 18, 1:01 pm ET

JERUSALEM – Israelis celebrated the Jewish New Year Friday evening, grateful for the recent calm spell in the region but skeptical that the coming year would see the achievement of ever-elusive peace.The Jewish New Year, or Rosh Hashana, coincides this year with Eid al-Fitr, a Muslim feast marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.Capping a year that saw Israel battle Hamas militants in a bloody three-week long war in Gaza, followed by elections that brought a more hawkish government to power, Israelis remained doubtful that an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was in sight.We hope that this year will be better, that it will be quiet, that there will be peace, but I don't believe it will happen,said Yosef Cohen, a 40-year-old merchant at Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda open-air market.How many years have we been talking about it?

An editorial in Haaretz newspaper was equally gloomy.On the national level, Israel enters the holiday season without many reasons for levity or celebration,it said. More isolated than ever on the international scene...despairing of a solution to the conflict.However, Israel's 86-year-old president remained optimistic.The international community is keen to support endeavors to move the peace process forward,Shimon Peres said in a holiday greeting,and I am confident that with concerted efforts, the vision of a comprehensive peace can be realized. This will create stability, tranquility, security and prosperity for our children and their children after them.Defense Minister Ehud Barak took a middle course.I am in favor of sober optimism,he told the Yediot Ahronot daily.Rosh Hashana, which begins at sundown, begins 10 days of Jewish soul-searching — known as the Days of Awe — capped by Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. The New Year holiday itself is a time for festive meals, which traditionally include fish, wine and an apple dipped in honey to symbolize a sweet new year.Israelis flocked to markets on the eve of the holiday to stock up on goods, greeting one another with blessings of a happy new year.

The high holiday season, which includes the weeklong Sukkoth, or Feast of the Tabernacles, at the beginning of October, provides a time-out from Israel's pressing problems. People generally take off work and spend more time with family during this period.Israel's military closed off the West Bank on Friday until midnight Sunday, barring Palestinians from entering Israel, a routine measure during Jewish holidays to deter possible attacks by Palestinian militants.Authorities said an exception would be made for men over the age of 50 and women over 45 seeking to enter Jerusalem to pray at the Al Aqsa mosque — Islam's third holiest shrine — on the fourth and final Friday of Ramadan.However, witnesses at the Qalandia crossing between the West Bank and Jerusalem said hundreds of Palestinians seeking entry to the city were turned away by Israeli troops.Elsewhere along the Israel-West bank divide, Israeli and Palestinian security forces have been cooperating for the first time in time in years, often seen conversing and easing the passage of Palestinians from side to side.Muslims in the West Bank and Gaza Strip will begin Sunday the Eid al-Fitr, a three-day holiday marking the end of Ramadan and commemorating the revelation of the first verses of the Quran to the Prophet Muhammad.In Gaza City ahead of the festival, the old market was packed with street merchants hawking their wares and families shopping for jeans, shoes, scarves, sweets and salted fish, traditionally eaten at this time.The holiday atmosphere was strained in Gaza, which has been under an Israeli-Egyptian blockade for two years and is still reeling from January's bloodshed.

People are psychologically worn out since the war,said Midhad Ihmeid, 45.Does someone who lost a family member or had his house wrecked want to go and buy new shoes? Salam Haddad, a 34-year-old vendor, said Gaza's economic decline was affecting holiday preparations, and only the network of smuggling tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border was keeping commerce alive.There's no work here now, so people don't have much money for the holiday,he said.Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics released its annual population figures to mark the New Year. It said 7,465,000 people live in Israel, with 75.5 percent of the population Jewish and 20.2 percent Arab. The rest were mostly non-Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union. Israel's population is relatively young, with 28.4 percent under the age of 14, compared to an average of 17 percent among Western countries, according to the report.The annual population growth rate held steady at 1.8 percent. Unlike in previous years, the report indicated that the number of children per Jewish mother increased, while the number of children per Muslim mother decreased.Associated Press Writer Ben Hubbard contributed to this report from Gaza City, Gaza Strip.

US Mideast envoy fails to bridge gaps By Karin Laub, Associated Press Writer – Fri Sep 18, 1:49 pm ET

RAMALLAH, West Bank – The United States' top Mideast envoy failed to bridge wide gaps between Israelis and Palestinians as he ended his most intensive attempt yet on Friday, raising questions over President Barack Obama's efforts to revive peacemaking.The deadlock could scuttle hopes for a meeting between Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas next week in New York, on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly.The key disputes are over Israeli settlement expansion and whether peace talks should begin where they left off under Netanyahu's predecessors.Israel has balked at a U.S. demand that it freeze settlement construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, war-won territory the Palestinians want for their state. Under a U.S.-sponsored plan from 2003, Israel is required to freeze all such construction.Instead, Netanyahu wants to continue building about 3,000 housing units, while offering to curtail other construction for a period of several months. Nearly half a million Israelis have moved to the West Bank and east Jerusalem since Israel captured the territories in the 1967 Mideast War, and Palestinians fear the growing settlements will make a viable state impossible.Abbas insists on a freeze, his chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said after the Palestinian president met Friday with the U.S. envoy, George Mitchell.We once again reiterated that there are no middle ground solutions for settlements. A settlement freeze is a settlement freeze,Erekat said.

The Palestinians also demand that negotiations resume on the same terms as previous rounds, led by Netanyahu's predecessor, Ehud Olmert. This would include Israel's willingness to discuss all so-called core issues, including a partition of Jerusalem. Netanyahu has said Jerusalem is off-limits in negotiations, and his proposed settlement slowdown does not include the city.Over four days, Mitchell met twice with Abbas and four times with Netanyahu, including twice on Friday before Mitchell left the region.A senior Israeli official said that wide gaps remained, but would not comment on the content of the meetings. The official spoke on condition of anonymity, in line with Israeli briefing regulations.It appears unlikely, however, that Netanyahu would change his mind about settlement expansion. In recent days, his government announced bids for hundreds more homes in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, and his hardline government rests on the support of Jewish settlers and their political allies.U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the administration would keep pushing for a peace deal.I guarantee you that President Obama and I are very patient and very determined,she said in a speech to the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.We know that this is not an easy road for anyone to travel.However, she also indicated that the administration would not try to impose a solution.We are going to do all we can to pursuade, cajole, encourage the parties themselves to make that agreement. The United States cannot make it. The Arab nations cannot make it. It is up to the Palestinians and Israelis, she said.And to that end, we expect both sides, not just one side, but both sides to be actively engaged and willing to work towards that resolution.

In the meantime, a meeting between Obama, Abbas and Netanyahu in New York next week appears to be a long shot.The senior Israeli official said that for now, Netanyahu is set to fly to New York late Wednesday and deliver a speech the following day. If a trilateral session were to be arranged, the prime minister could leave for the U.S. earlier, the official said, adding that a Netanyahu-Obama meeting was not on the agenda.Abbas, meanwhile, is conflicted about whether to meet with Netanyahu as a courtesy to Obama, said senior Palestinian officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the private nature of the deliberations.Several senior aides urged Abbas not to sit down with Netanyahu without having set the terms for negotiations, arguing that otherwise it would be seen as a sign of weakness and hurt his standing at home. Abbas is locked in a power struggle with the Islamic militant group Hamas, which overran the Gaza Strip in 2007, leaving him only in control of the West Bank. Hamas has used lack of progress in negotiations to try to discredit Abbas. In the Gaza town of Beit Lahia, Hamas legislator Mushir al-Masri told a rally Friday that negotiations are a waste of time.The choice of negotiations has proven a failure, and it's time that Palestinian negotiators abandon this worthless and destructive tool and go back to holy war and resistance,al-Masri told a crowd. In other developments, the World Bank warned in a report Friday that donor countries will have to keep giving large amounts of aid to the Abbas government, unless Israel eases access of Palestinian goods to Israeli and world markets.Senior representatives of the donor countries meet next week as part of the General Assembly and review their aid program to the Palestinians.Donor countries have given billions of dollars to the Palestinians since 1993, including $1.8 billion in 2008 and an expected $1.1 billion in 2009. However, the economy has been held back by Israeli restrictions on Palestinian trade and movement, imposed after the outbreak of Israeli-Palestinian fighting in 2000.In recent months, Israel has eased some restrictions inside the West Bank, prompting modest economic growth. However, the West Bank and Gaza remain cut off from each other, and West Bank exports are hampered by slow movement at Israeli crossings.The Abbas government is still short of money, the bank said, citing a $400 million financing gap for this year.

Abbas meets Mubarak after Mitchell trip Sat Sep 19, 11:17 am ET

CAIRO (Reuters) – Failure to agree a settlement freeze inhibits the resumption of peace negotiations with Israel, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told Egypt's Hosni Mubarak on Saturday, according to state media.Abbas visited Cairo days after U.S. envoy George Mitchell and less than a week after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stopped by to brief Mubarak and other Egyptian officials on efforts to resume stalled peace talks.Mitchell returned to Washington on Friday with little to show for his shuttle diplomacy between Jerusalem and Arab capitals.Israel has blamed Abbas for the impasse, saying Palestinian negotiators showed no flexibility while Israel did.Netanyahu, whose right-wing cabinet includes strong pro-settler elements, had offered a nine-month freeze on building in the West Bank -- longer than the six months Israel previously indicated it would consider, but less than the year-long pause Mitchell had sought.Abbas has said he would not agree to renewed negotiations with Israel unless it agreed to a total freeze on settlement expansion and stressed that the United States must push Israel to comply with the 2003 road map call for a cessation of all settlement-building.

An Abbas spokesman said the Cairo meeting -- which lasted an hour and a half -- was called to coordinate Arab and Palestinian positions ahead of the United Nations General Assembly, which starts in New York on Tuesday.The participants, which included Egypt's foreign minister and intelligence chief and the Palestinian Authority's chief negotiator, also discussed intra-Palestinian developments, Egypt's state-run news agency MENA said.Negotiations could not resume because Israel would not consider including Jerusalem in any settlement freeze, nor would it stop building in settlements to accommodate natural growth, MENA quoted Abbas as saying.
Some 300,000 Israelis live in settlements in the occupied West Bank, and another 200,000 live in Arab East Jerusalem, areas home to around 2.5 million Palestinians seeking independent statehood. Israel has annexed East Jerusalem as part of its capital in a move not recognized internationally.(Writing by Alastair Sharp)

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.

Marty becomes a tropical depression in the Pacific Sat Sep 19, 4:50 am ET

MIAMI – Marty is weakening in the Pacific off the coast of Mexico and is now a tropical depression.The National Hurricane Center says Marty's maximum sustained winds decreased to near 35 mph (55 kph) on Saturday morning. The system is expected to continue to lose strength and should become a remnant low in a day or so.Marty is centered about 445 miles (715 kilometers) west of the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California peninsula. The system is moving west-northwest near 9 mph (15 kph).

Nine die as Typhoon Koppu hits China Thu Sep 17, 2:56 pm ET

BEIJING (AFP) – Nine people died and nine others were missing after Typhoon Koppu slammed into south China, causing torrential rain, mudslides and an oil spill, the government and state media said Thursday.All nine missing had been swept by flash floods, while the other nine had been killed by typhoon-triggered mud-rock flows, landslides, house collapses and flooding, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

Four of the those killed in southern Guangdong province -- a father and son, and two migrant workers -- were buried by a torrent of mud, Xinhua reported.More than 100,000residents had to be evacuated and direct economic losses totalled two billion yuan (300 million dollars), the civil affairs ministry said in a statement.Houses in parts of Guangdong were destroyed by landslides, and a Panama-registered cargo ship ran aground in Zhuhai city's harbour near Macau, spilling 50 tonnes of fuel oil into the sea, Xinhua said.The report, citing provincial maritime authorities, said the spill had been contained.Koppu is the 15th typhoon to hit China this year. Before reaching the mainland, it ripped through Hong Kong, forcing financial markets to shut down for the morning trading session on Tuesday.

EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH

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

EARTHQUAKES

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

Indonesian quake injures 7 on Bali resort island Sat Sep 19, 8:05 am ET

BALI, Indonesia – A strong earthquake shook the popular Indonesian resort island of Bali early Saturday, injuring at least seven people and sending panicked tourists and residents fleeing out of homes and hotels.No tsunami warning was issued and there were no immediate reports of major damage.The magnitude 5.8 quake hit just after 6 a.m. local time (2300 GMT) 45 miles (75 kilometers) south of Denpasar, the island's capital, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Indonesia's Meteorological and Geophysics Agency put the quake at a more powerful 6.4 magnitude.Seven people were treated for head injuries and broken bones at Sanglah Hospital in Denpasar, said Dr. Ken Wirasandi, adding that women and children had run from their homes screaming when the ground began to rattle.I was frightened because it was strong,said Ernst Raynaldo, a tourist from the Netherlands who was staying at the Kuta beach strip.I ran out immediately as I saw many others rushing into the swimming pool,which was the closest open space.

The Bali quake comes just two weeks after a larger tremor on the main Indonesian island of Java killed of left missing nearly 100 people and ruined thousands of homes.Indonesia, a vast archipelago, straddles continental plates and is prone to seismic activity along what is known as the Pacific Ring of Fire. A huge quake off western Indonesia caused a powerful tsunami in December 2004 that killed about 230,000 people in a dozen countries, half of them in Aceh province.

Strong earthquake hits western China Sat Sep 19, 7:39 am ET

BEIJING – Officials say a strong earthquake has shaken western China but there are no reports of injuries or serious damage.The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude-5.4 quake struck at 4:54 p.m. Saturday in the region bordering Sichuan and Gansu provinces. It says it was centered 30 miles (50 kilometers) northwest of Guangyuan in Sichuan province at a depth of 6.2 miles (10 kilometers).China's official Xinhua News Agency says Chinese seismologists measured the quake at magnitude 5.1 and that no casualties or damage were reported.A magnitude-7.9 quake in Sichuan province last year left almost 90,000 people dead or missing.

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.

CDC: First swine flu vaccines may be nasal spray By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer – Fri Sep 18, 5:28 pm ET

ATLANTA – The first doses of swine flu vaccine may all be the nasal spray version, government health officials said Friday.The government has said a trickle of vaccine will be available in early October, but on Friday they defined the size of that trickle — an estimated 3.4 million doses.Currently it looks like all of them will be a nasal spray vaccine that is approved only for healthy people ages 2 to 49, said Dr. Jay Butler, an official with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The nasal spray, called FluMist, is not recommended for some of the people most in danger of severe swine flu complications. That includes pregnant women, children younger than 2, and people with asthma and other chronic respiratory diseases.

However, it's possible that some vaccine shots will become available by the first week of October as well, said Butler, chief of the CDC's swine flu vaccine task force.Flu shots are made of killed influenza virus, while FluMist is a live but weakened strain. The nasal spray is only approved in the United States, and is made by the Maryland-based MedImmune, an AstraZeneca PLC subsidiary. Four other companies are making flu shots for the U.S.The initial vaccine doses will go to up to 90,000 sites, including schools and clinics, across the U.S. State health departments will determine which offices and clinics get the shots, and whether health care workers or others get the first doses, Butler said at a CDC press conference Friday.The government has ordered 195 million doses and may order more if there's enough demand. Butler said it's good news that the flow of vaccines will start soon.When we open the faucet, there won't be a puff of smoke. There will be vaccine,he said.
FluMist was designed with kids in mind, and the company's research suggests it is more effective in youngsters than a shot in the arm against seasonal flu.Studies in adults have found that shots are more effective. Some researchers think that's because adults have had longer exposure to flu viruses and flu vaccines and their immune systems don't respond as dramatically to the live-virus vaccine.

Dr. Daniel Jernigan, deputy director of the CDC's influenza division, said there's not that much difference in effectiveness between age groups.Either is better than nothing,he added.One dose of vaccine should be enough for adults and older children, whether it's a shot or a spray. However, two doses probably will be needed for children younger than 10, CDC officials said.Typically fewer than 100 million Americans get a flu vaccine every year, and it's unclear whether swine flu will prompt more demand. A recent Associated Press-GfK poll found 57 percent of people said they were likely to get it.Twenty-one states are now reporting widespread cases of swine flu, CDC officials said Friday.The CDC says swine flu hasn't proven to be more dangerous than seasonal so far, but it tends hit to younger people harder than traditional flu.Because seasonal flu causes an estimated 200,000 hospitalizations and 36,000 deaths, that's still a serious health threat, officials said.On the Net:
CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/

China warns of stability threat from H1N1 SEPT 19,09

BEIJING (Reuters) – China's public security ministry has warned police to be on guard against any threats to public order linked to the spread of the H1N1 strain of flu, including the spreading of rumors and price-gouging for drugs.China has reported 11,722 cases of H1N1 flu, from which 7,231 people have recovered. No one has died in China, though there are six cases listed as serious by the Health Ministry.But the stability-obsessed government is taking no chances in the world's most populous nation, with its huge disparities between rich and poor and patchy health system.The Ministry of Public Security ... demands all security organs pay great attention to the possible effects on social stability from the virus and work hard at stopping the virus and maintaining stability,it said on its website (www.mps.gov.cn).Strike hard against rumor mongers, the sale and production of fake, shoddy drugs and equipment, and the driving up of medicine prices,it added in a statement issued late on Friday.

Prevent the spread of the virus from disturbing normal social order and anything which may affect the smooth progress of celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the founding of new China.The capital Beijing is already under tightened security ahead of the October 1 anniversary of 60 years of Communist rule.The health minister this month warned that China faced a grim situation in containing H1N1 as schools start up again and the number of cases rises.The government plans to have enough flu vaccine to cover 5 percent of its 1.3 billion population by year-end.(Reporting by Ben Blanchard, editing by Ron Popeski)

Reports: FCC to propose Net neutrality rules Posted on - 11:33AM EDT
The Daily Review Saturday 19th September, 07:13:01 AM

WASHINGTON - The head of the FCC plans to propose new rules that would prohibit Internet service providers from interfering with the free flow of information and certain applications over their networks, according to reports published Saturday.

The reports said the Federal Communications Commission chairman, Julius Genachowski, will announce the proposed rules in a speech Monday at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.The proposals would uphold a pledge Barack Obama made during the presidential campaign to support Internet neutrality and would bar Internet service providers such as Verizon Communications Inc., Comcast Corp. or AT&T Inc., from slowing or blocking certain services or content flowing through their vast networks.Without strict rules ensuring Net neutrality, consumer watchdogs fear the communications companies could interfere with the transmission of content, such as TV shows delivered over the Internet, that compete with services the ISPs offer, like cable television.Internet providers have opposed regulations that would inhibit the way they control their networks, arguing they need to be able to make sure applications that consume a lot of bandwidth don't slow Internet access to other users.The proposed new rules were reported by The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.We are concerned about the unintended consequences that Net neutrality regulation would have on investments from the very industry that's helping to drive the U.S. economy,Chris Guttman-McCabe, a vice president at CTIA, a wireless trade group, told the Post.The FCC began wading into the issue even before Genachowski became FCC chairman. Last year the FCC rebuked Comcast for blocking or delaying some forms of Internet file-sharing. Comcast agreed to stop the practice.

THIS NEW LEADER WILL BE AGAINST FREEDOM OF RIGHTS,FOR-INDOCTRINATION THAT ANYTHING GOES,NO CONTROLLING YOURSELF AND A PROUD AND ARROGANT LIER TO BLEND IN WITH THE OBAMA GODLESS DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION.

UNESCO undecided over new leader SEPT 19,09

PARIS – The United Nations' agency for culture and education remains undecided about who will be UNESCO's next leader.The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization says on its Web site that a third round of voting Saturday at its Paris headquarters was inconclusive, as no candidate won the needed majority of 58 votes cast. A fourth round is scheduled Monday.The front-runner is longtime Egyptian culture minister Farouk Hosni, who is opposed by Jewish activists. He threatened last year to burn Israeli books, although he apologized later.The other remaining candidates are the EU external affairs commissioner, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, former Bulgarian foreign minister Irina Bokova and Ecuadorean politician and diplomat Ivonne Baki.

INVENTION OF THE ATOMIC BOMB.

2 PETER 3:10-11
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

REVELATION 9:18
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.

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

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

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

Global network detects sign of atomic bomb testing By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer – Sat Sep 19, 1:58 am ET

UNITED NATIONS – Iran, Israel and the five nuclear powers that are permanent Security Council members are part of a global network to detect signs of testing of a new atomic bomb, a positive sign of cooperation in the bid to halt the spread of such weapons, the head of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty organization said Friday.The monitoring network has not been widely reported nor have its participants, including Iran, which the West believes is pursuing nuclear weapons, and Israel, which is widely believed to possess a nuclear arsenal but won't say as much.Tibor Toth said at a news conference that a system to detect and verify atomic blasts that was started in 2000 now has 270 monitoring facilities and expects to increase the number to 340.The stations rely on four technologies: seismic, sensing the shock waves of an underground blast; hydroacoustic, listening for underwater explosions; infrasound, picking up the low-frequency sound of an atmospheric test; and radionuclide detection, sampling the air for a test's radioactive byproducts.The data is transmitted to the Vienna headquarters of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization and relayed to its signatory nations, including the U.S., which signed the pact in 1996, only for the Senate to reject it three years later.Toth called the verification system an important step to address concerns of nuclear and non-nuclear states, and noted that it monitored North Korea's nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009 very well.

Toth spoke to reporters ahead of a high-level meeting on Sept. 24-25 on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly's annual ministerial meeting to press North Korea, India and Pakistan to first sign and then ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, and to press the other six countries who have signed it to ratify it.Major nuclear powers, including the United States, have observed moratoriums on testing since the 1990s, but India, Pakistan and North Korea all have tested bombs since the treaty was negotiated and opened for signatures in 1996.The treaty has been signed by 181 countries and ratified by 149, but it cannot take effect until it is ratified by nine key holdouts — the U.S., China, North Korea, Iran, Israel, India, Pakistan, Indonesia and Egypt.I am very much optimistic because during the last 2-2 1/2 years we see a momentum building, he said.We need action, action, action and leadership, leadership, leadership.Toth praised President Barack Obama's April 5 speech in Prague in which he vowed to immediately and aggressively pursue treaty ratification by the Senate and to work with allies and other countries needed for ratification.

He said he was also encouraged that Indonesia's foreign minister indicated the country would ratify the treaty and China's foreign minister said the government was working on the entry into force of the treaty.The ratification by the U.S. will play a leadership role and that leadership role is important,Toth said.I would like to emphasize, if you set aside the United States, the other outstanding ratifications are missing from Asia and the Middle East,he said.It's an important reminder that the security of these regions can be enhanced, in my judgment, by this treaty, which is capping any potential arms races ... through taking the oxygen from the development of new weapons.Toth said the five confirmed nuclear powers on the Security Council — Russia, France, China, Britain and the United States — are providing one-third of the monitoring stations and for the first time they are undertaking legally binding obligations to be exposed to verification.The U.S. is expected to put in place 42 stations, and during the last 8 years has already started operating 39 of them, he added.Iran is contributing with monitoring stations which are installed,Toth said, adding that his organization was working with Iran on getting the stations operational.

Annika Thunborg, spokeswoman for the test ban treaty organization, said Iran has three or four monitoring stations.Toth said ratification of the treaty is a clear indication that countries have no intention to use nuclear energy in any other way than the peaceful use of nuclear energy ... so from that point of view it's important that Iran ratifies the treaty.He said Israel did not say no to ratifying the treaty and is positively contributing with monitoring stations to our work and scientific and technical involvement in our work.It would be an extremely important step-and the right step in the right direction in my judgment — if Israel ratified the treaty,Toth said.India, Pakistan and North Korea have not even signed the treaty and Toth urged them to consider whether the test ban was in their national interests.He welcomed the positive soul-searching in India and stressed that even if a country ratifies the treaty before the United States,it is not risking any strategic security interest because the test ban doesn't come into force until all nine key holdout countries sign it.

MUSLIM NATIONS

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

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

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

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

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

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

OBAMA ON MISSLE DEFENCE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj6vpMzuBIs&feature=player_embedded
DEMONSTRATIONS IN TEHRAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-rBXvhksvA&feature=player_embedded
AHMADINEJAD INTERVIEW VIDEO-STORY
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/19/world/middleeast/19iran.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
3RD JIHAD TRAILER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJy9tpGHGXM&feature=player_embedded
3RD JIHAD MOVIE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gt9UGB1-tQ&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbnaWpSS8Dk&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1d0Lx8MPtI&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZdhKcFk5vg&feature=player_embedded
SHARIA LAW IN AMERICA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuEy0uiyvNw&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppTo-TTtJQo&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVqV-CtEVUU&feature=player_embedded
JOHN LOEFFLER INTERVIEWS MAKER OF 3RD JIHAD
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2009/09/john-loeffler-steel-on-steel-third.html#links
EU CORRUPTION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tmthp8rZp0&feature=player_embedded

THIS MICHAEL RIVERO FROM GCN IS A RACIST(ISRAEL HATER),HOLOCAUST DENIER,ARAB,MUSLIM SYMPATHIZER OUT TO LUNCHER.THIS PERSON BELIEVES(IS DECIEVED)TO BELIEVE THE LIE THAT IRAN AND IRAQ NEVER HAD WMD(NUKES)AND THE LIE THAT ISRAEL IS STEALING THE LAND FROM THE MUDERER ARABS.HOW DECIEVED THIS HATER OF ISRAEL IS,HES SATANS PUPPET TO TRY TO DESTROY ISRAEL.AND ONE LAST THING HE CLAIMS HES A BELIEVER IN GOD,WHAT A FALSE DECIEVER.RIVERO BELIEVES AHMADINEJAD,ARABS,MUSLIMS HAVE THE RIGHT TO HAVE NUKES,ITS THEIR RIGHT CLAIMS RIVERO.I WONDER WHAT MOVIE OR DREAMLAND RIVERO BELIEVES HES LIVIN IN.RIVERO MAKES ISRAEL THE MAIN TOPIC OF HATE ON HIS SHOW.

Ramadan brings out Egypt's split personality By SARAH EL DEEB, Associated Press Writer – Sat Sep 19, 6:12 am ET

CAIRO – The holy month of Ramadan has brought out Egypt's cultural split personality, twisting Egyptians into knots over whether their society is secular, Muslim or a muddled mix.Two furious debates have been raging through the season in the Arab world's most populous nation. On one hand, rumors that police arrested Egyptians violating the daily Ramadan fast raised dire warnings from secularists that a Taliban-like rule by Islamic law is taking over.On the other, Ramadan TV talk shows on state-sponsored television featuring racily dressed female hosts discussing intimate sex secrets with celebrities have sparked outrage from conservatives, denouncing what they call the decadence that is sweeping the nation.So is Egypt being taken over by sinners or saints? Egyptians have always been a boisterous combination — priding themselves on their piety, while determined to have a good time.Ramadan, the final day of which is Saturday in most of the Islamic world, shows the contradictions. Egyptians widely adhere to the dawn-to-dusk fast, in which the faithful abstain from food, drink, smoking and sex from dawn until dusk. After sunset, while some pray into the night, many Egyptians party with large meals and a heavy dose of TV entertainment produced specially for the month.

But the confusion comes from the government as well. It has often promoted strict Islamic principles in an attempt to co-opt conservatives and undercut extremists whom the state has been battling for decades. But it also increasingly dominated by businessmen who this year are more heavily than ever promoting Western-style secular culture.There is no explicit law in Egypt to punish those not abiding by the fast, nor are there religious police to enforce Islamic rules as in Saudi Arabia. Many restaurants still serve during the day, and coffee shops can be seen with their doors cracked open, patrons hidden inside sipping tea or smoking water pipes.But independent newspapers reported this month that police arrested more than 150 people for openly violating the fast.Most of the reports have been unconfirmed. But Ahmed, a 27-year old fruit vendor, told The Associated Press he and 15 other people were arrested in a market in the southern town of Aswan on Sept. 5, for smoking in public.

I was slapped, kicked around,Ahmed said, refusing to give his last name fearing further police harassment.They asked me why I am not fasting ... They insulted me and used foul language.Ahmed said he was kept in the police station for nearly six hours, then let go.Now I am fasting, I swear,he said.Police officials refused to confirm if Ahmed and others were arrested for not fasting, saying only they were rounded up for investigation.The reports sparked criticism from Egyptian human rights activists, who called the crackdown unconstitutional. Activists said it appeared some police were acting individually to enforce the fast, a sign of increasing conservatism in the Interior Ministry. Some critics argued that adherence to the fast is traditionally a matter between each individual Muslim and God.The Interior Ministry didn't deny or confirm the reports, but a ministry spokesman was quoted in the press last week insisting the security forces have a right to crack down on violators of the fast.Bilal Fadl, a popular satirical columnist, said the ministry is mimicking big sister Saudi Arabia,adding,can we be so demanding from the sheiks in the Interior Ministry and ask them to postpone their campaign to defend (Islam) ... and start with implementing religious laws that fight corruption?

An Egyptian blogger who goes by the pseudonym Kalb Baladi(Stray Dog) warned,once we start going down the slippery slope of religious fascism, Egypt will become another Afghanistan in no time.But the campaign appeared to have backers among the public. One woman who called into a popular talk show, Al-Qahira Al-Yom (Cairo Today), said fast-breakers were looking for trouble and should be jailed.Television talk shows and soap operas produced especially for Ramadan have sparked their own debates. State television and private channels owned by businessmen close to the government flooded the airwaves with new programs that liberally discussed taboo subjects like extramarital relationships, polygamy, divorce and sex education. Most featured stylish female hosts and often veered into titillation. Ramadan is supposed to be a time of piety and religious reflection. Open talk of sex on TV is frowned upon throughout the year — but it's outright shocking during the holy month, when Muslims believe Islam's holy book the Quran was first revealed to the Prophet Muhammad.

Gehad Auda, a political analyst and member of the ruling party, said the government was intentionally trying to challenge religious extremists by opening the doors to more daring topics on TV.There is a new television logic, not only with images, but also through dialogue, without fear by breaking taboos surrounding many issues to raise social awareness, Auda said.In one espoused of a talk show called The Daring One,the host — a famous female film director with a penchant for short skirts — kept pressing her actress guest about what she and her boyfriend liked to do when they're alone.On the same show, another actress confessed she once had an abortion — which is illegal in Egypt and strictly forbidden by Islamic law. A male guest admitted to extramarital affairs.

The barrage of provocative shows has unleashed heavy criticism.

We should boycott all this absurdity and obscenity and read the Quran,Mahmoud Ashour, an official with al-Azhar, the highest institution of Sunni learning in the Muslim world, told a gathering.Columnist Ahmed Gamal Badawi wrote in the liberal opposition daily Al-Wafd that the government policy to besiege Islamists with obscenity would backfire and only add millions to their ranks.Wael Abdel Fattah, a producer of one of the new talk shows but also a government critic, said the conflicting messages of arresting fast-breakers while challenging religious sensitivities just show the state's determination to impose its power on all sides.
The state is now dressing up in fashion, wearing a suit and tie, talking elegantly, showing pretty pictures but it is still very much in control ... it all fits the traditional tools of oppression,he said.

Friday, September 18, 2009 china confidential
What if Iran Attacks First?

China Confidential analysts say Israeli defense planners are thinking the unthinkable--namely, the possibility of an Iranian nuclear sneak attack on the Jewish State.Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's denial and mockery of the Holocaust and threats to annihilate Israel could signal preparations for an Iranian attack. The Islamist regime cold be trying to condition world opinion ahead of delivering a knockout blow.israel is a one-bomb county, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said. A nuclear hit would be truly catastrophic. Absent regime change in Iran, Israel may soon be left with no option other than launching defensive, preemptive nuclear strikes on Iranian nuclear and missile sites.

Ahmadinejad says Holocaust a lie, Israel has no future Fri Sep 18, 2:27 pm ET

TEHRAN (Reuters) – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the Holocaust a lie Friday, raising the stakes against Israel just as world powers try to decide how to deal with the nuclear ambitions of an Iran in political turmoil.The pretext (Holocaust) for the creation of the Zionist regime (Israel) is false ... It is a lie based on an unprovable and mythical claim,he told worshippers at Tehran University at the end of an annual anti-Israel Qods (Jerusalem) Day rally.Confronting the Zionist regime is a national and religious duty.Ahmadinejad's anti-Western comments on the Holocaust have caused international outcry and isolated Iran, which is at loggerheads with the West over its nuclear program.The hardline president warned leaders of Western-allied Arab and Muslim countries about dealing with Israel.This regime (Israel) will not last long. Do not tie your fate to it ... This regime has no future. Its life has come to an end,he said in a speech broadcast live on state radio.

Germany said Ahmadinejad was a disgrace to his country.This sheer anti-Semitism demands our collective condemnation. We will continue to confront it decisively in the future,Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said.White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Ahmadinejad's comment only serves to isolate Iran further from the world.Ahmadinejad won support from Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah which fought a 34-day war with Israel in 2006.Our belief and creed ... remain that Israel is an illegal entity, a cancerous tumor, that must cease to exist,Nasrallah said in a televised address.Ahmadinejad will appear next week at the United Nations General Assembly and Tehran will hold talks on October 1 with major powers worried about the Islamic Republic's nuclear strategy.Western powers are concerned by what they have called Tehran's defiance and point-blank refusal to suspend uranium enrichment and address the issue as demanded by U.N. Security Council resolutions since 2006.Instead of directly addressing those demands, Iran handed world powers this month a proposal that spoke generally of talks on political, security, international and economic issues but was silent on its nuclear program.Diplomats familiar with the Iranian proposal said it was vague and did not appear to pass the smell test.U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said it was time Iran showed it is serious about addressing international concern. There will be accompanying costs for Iran's continued defiance: more isolation and economic pressure,she said.

NUCLEAR PROGRAMME

Ahmadinejad repeated Thursday that Iran would never abandon its disputed nuclear program to appease critics.In an NBC-TV interview, he also offered no direct response when asked whether there were any conditions under which Iran would develop a nuclear weapon.We don't need nuclear weapons,Ahmadinejad said, speaking through an interpreter.We do not see any need for such weapons. And the conditions around the world are moving to favor our ideas,he added.The major powers suspect Iran's uranium enrichment program is a cover for developing nuclear weapons. Iran has repeatedly said it is enriching uranium only to generate electricity, not for fissile bomb material, although it has no nuclear power plants to use low-level enriched uranium.

Next month's major powers talks with Iran offer no clear relief to Israel, which wants world powers to be prepared to penalize Iran's vulnerable energy imports but sees Russia and China blocking any such resolution at the U.N. Security Council. The major powers, which include permanent U.N. Security Council members Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States as well as Germany, offered Iran trade and diplomatic incentives in 2006 in exchange for halt to uranium enrichment.They improved the offer last year but retained the demand that Iran suspend uranium enrichment, something Tehran has ruled out as a precondition.President Barack Obama, who came to office pledging to engage with Iran, has suggested Tehran may face harsher sanctions, possibly targeting its gasoline imports, if it does not accept good-faith talks by the end of September.But Russia, which has veto power in the U.N. Security Council, last week ruled out oil sanctions against Iran.Iran, the world's fifth-biggest crude producer, is seen as vulnerable to oil sanctions because it imports 40 percent of its gasoline to supply the cheap fuel Iranians see as a birthright.

TURMOIL AT HOME

At home, Ahmadinejad is facing strong opposition which erupted into unrest following his disputed re-election in June.Friday, Iranian security forces clashed with supporters of opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi and arrested at least 10 of them during annual anti-Israel rallies in Tehran.Thousands of supporters of Mousavi, wearing green wristbands or shawls, were among crowds marching in the Qods Day rallies.The state news agency IRNA said Mousavi and reformist cleric Mehdi Karoubi, both defeated candidates in June, had been forced to leave the rallies after being attacked by angry people.Reformist former president Mohammad Khatami took part in the rally, but was attacked by hardliners and had to leave after his robe was ripped and his turban fell to the ground, an ally of Khatami who accompanied him told Reuters.The June vote, which was followed by huge opposition protests, plunged Iran into its worst political crisis in three decades and revealed deepening rifts within its ruling elites.Opposition leaders say the poll was rigged to secure Ahmadinejad's re-election. The authorities deny it.The opposition says 70 people died during protests after the vote. It contradicts the official death toll of 36 people. (Additional reporting by Yara Bayoumy in Beirut, Alexandra Hudson in Berlin) (Writing by Samia Nakhoul; Editing by Dominic Evans)

Despite Warning, Thousands Rally in Iran Associated Press Mohammad Khatami, center, a former Iranian president, is attacked as he attends a Quds Day rally.By ROBERT F. WORTH Published: September 18, 2009

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Tens of thousands of protesters chanted and carried banners through the heart of Tehran and other Iranian cities on Friday, hijacking a government-organized anti-Israel march and injecting new life into the country’s opposition movement.The protests, held in defiance of warnings from the clerical and military elite, served as a public embarrassment to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who had hoped to showcase national unity just two weeks before he is set to meet Western leaders for talks on Iran’s nuclear program. He used the annual rally for Jerusalem Day, also known as Quds Day, to deliver a fiery anti-Israeli speech in which he called the Holocaust a lie and impugned the West again for its criticisms of Iran’s disputed June 12 presidential election.But his efforts to recapture the stage were largely drowned out by a tumultuous day of street rallies, in which the three main opposition leaders marched with their followers for the first time in months. Flouting the official government message of support for Palestinian militants, they chanted,No to Gaza and Lebanon, I will give my life for Iran.Coming a day after President Obama announced a revised missile defense system that aims to check Iran’s military ambitions, the rallies underscored the continuing vitality of the domestic opposition movement, which has rejected the election as fraudulent and fiercely criticized the violence that followed it.In a striking contrast with earlier rallies, the police often stood on the sidelines as protesters faced off against huge crowds of government supporters — many of them bused in from outside the cities — and chain-wielding Basij militia members. There were reports of arrests in Tehran and the southern city of Shiraz, but no shootings or deaths, with the police apparently showing greater restraint than during earlier protests.

The protesters, ignoring stern official warnings not to use the annual pro-Palestinian rally as a pretext for demonstrations, showed up in large numbers wearing the trademark bright green color of the opposition.When government men shouted Death to Israel through loudspeakers, protesters derisively chanted Death to Russia in response. Many opposition supporters are angry about Russia’s quick acceptance of Mr. Ahmadinejad’s electoral victory.The three opposition leaders, Mir Hussein Moussavi, Mehdi Karroubi and Mohammad Khatami, joined the crowds in Tehran for the first time in months, drawing cheers.Later, Basij militia members tried to attack Mr. Khatami and Mr. Karroubi, but defenders pushed them back, opposition Web sites reported.The government had largely halted street protests in July, with a harsh government crackdown that left dozens of marchers dead and thousands in jail. But the authorities have been unable to silence the opposition’s leaders, who have kept up their criticism of the election and the government’s violent response.The opposition leaders raised tensions when they leveled accusations that some protesters were tortured and raped in prison. The rape accusations have been especially embarrassing for the government, which has denied them while acknowledging that some prisoners were tortured.There were reports of similar demonstrations and clashes in other cities Friday, including Isfahan, Tabriz, Yazd and Shiraz, where protesters skirmished with Basij militiamen, and freed a group of fellow protesters who were being arrested, opposition Web sites reported.

In the capital, the police and huge crowds of government supporters blocked most protesters from approaching Mr. Ahmadinejad as he arrived in a bulletproof car at Tehran University to deliver a speech before the formal Friday Prayer sermon. But as he began his remarks, chants of Resign! Resign! could be heard, according to witnesses cited on opposition Web sites.Mr. Ahmadinejad said that confrontation with Israel was a national and religious duty and that the Holocaust was a lie that was used as a pretext for the country’s creation in 1948. Although he has called the Holocaust a myth in the past, provoking angry reactions in the West, he has rarely if ever used the word lie in public speeches.The White House responded sharply to the remarks about the Holocaust.We’ve heard that type of rhetoric before, the president’s press secretary, Robert Gibbs, told reporters.Obviously, we condemn what he said.The United States ambassador to the United Nations, Susan E. Rice, said Friday that Mr. Obama would not meet with Mr. Ahmadinejad next week when world leaders gather in New York for the United Nations General Assembly meeting. Mr. Obama, in a major national security reversal, scuttled his predecessor’s missile-shield plan to focus instead on protecting Israel and Europe against short- and medium-range Iranian missiles. Mr. Ahmadinejad made no mention of that in his speech, nor has his government responded.Both the revised missile plan and Mr. Ahmadinejad’s anti-Israel rhetoric are likely to elevate the tensions surrounding his visit to the United Nations.As Jerusalem Day approached, a number of conservative figures, including Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned that the day should not become an occasion for domestic discontent. On Thursday, the Revolutionary Guards issued an especially fierce statement, declaring that all protesters would be treated as Israeli spies.

But the government appears to have treated Friday’s protests with relative leniency. Although tear gas was fired at some crowds in central Tehran — it was not clear by whom — there was no renewal of the fierce crackdown that took place in June and July.Although the marchers celebrating Jerusalem Day generally outnumbered the protesters, there were parts of the city where the opposite was true. Often, the protesters slyly distorted the traditional rallying cries of the pro-government crowds. When the marchers chanted,The blood in our veins is a gift to our leader, protesters countered with,The blood in our veins is a gift to our nation.At one point thousands of protesters chanting death to the dictator as they walked down Valiasr Street, the broad avenue that runs across much of Tehran, collided with an equally large crowd of pro-government marchers chanting slogans against Israel, the United States and Britain.A standoff ensued. Police officers standing nearby refused to take sides, and in some cases even stepped in to break up fights. Finally, several trucks full of government supporters arrived, and the protesters began withdrawing.Iranian state television ignored the protests, showing thousands of marchers clad in checked Palestinian-style scarves, carrying posters of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. Jerusalem Day, held on the last Friday of the fasting month of Ramadan, is an important occasion for the government, which uses its support for Palestinian militants and the Lebanese Hezbollah to burnish its street support in an Arab world that is largely hostile to Iran.Nazila Fathi contributed reporting from Toronto, and Jeff Zeleny from Washington.

Russia says it won't deploy missiles near Poland By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, Associated Press Writer – SEPT 19,09

MOSCOW – Russia said Saturday it will scrap a plan to deploy missiles near Poland since Washington has dumped a planned missile shield in Eastern Europe. It also harshly criticized Iran's president for new comments denying the Holocaust.Neither move, however, represented ceding any significant ground. A plan to place Iskander missiles close to the Polish border was merely a threat. And while the Kremlin has previously criticized Tehran for questioning the reality of the Holocaust, Russian leaders have refused to back Western push for tougher sanctions against Iran.It still remains unclear whether Moscow will make any significant concessions on Iran and other issues in response to President Barack Obama's move to scrap the Bush-era plan for U.S. missile defense in Poland and the Czech Republic.Russia's Deputy Defense Minister Vladimir Popovkin told Ekho Moskvy radio Saturday that Obama's move has made the deployment of Iskander short-range missiles in the Kaliningrad region unnecessary.He described Obama's move as victory of reason over ambitions.Naturally, we will cancel countermeasures which Russia has planned in response, one of which was the deployment of Iskander missiles in the Kaliningrad region,Popovkin said.Popovkin's statement was the most explicit declaration yet of Russia's intention to scrap the plan after Obama's decision, which was announced Thursday.

Popovkin later added, however, that the final decision on the subject can only be made by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Russian news agencies reported. Medvedev hasn't yet spoken on the issue.Russia staunchly opposed the plan by the former administration of George W. Bush to deploy 10 missile interceptors in Poland and a related radar in the Czech Republic and said if the project went ahead it would respond by deploying the Iskander missiles in its westernmost Baltic Sea region.

Obama's decision to scrap the plan was based largely on a new U.S. intelligence assessment that Iran's effort to build a nuclear-capable long-range missile would take three to five years longer than originally thought, U.S. officials said. The new U.S. missile-defense plan would rely on a network of sensors and interceptor missiles based at sea, on land and in the air as a bulwark against Iranian short- and medium-range missiles.Medvedev hailed Obama's decision as a responsible move, but Russian officials have given no indication yet that Moscow could make concessions in other areas, including Iran. Washington is counting on Moscow to help raise pressure on Tehran over its nuclear program.On Saturday, the Russian Foreign Ministry harshly criticized Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his Friday's comments in which he again questioned whether the Holocaust was a real event.Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko called the Iranian remarks absolutely unacceptable and insulting to the memory of the World War II victims.It won't help create a favorable international atmosphere for starting and conducting an efficient dialogue on issues regarding Iran,Nesterenko said in a statement.Officials from the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany are to meet Iranian diplomats in Turkey on Oct.1, for the first time since a 2008 session in Geneva foundered over Iran's refusal to discuss its uranium enrichment program.Russia, which has close commercial ties with Iran and is building its first nuclear power plant, has condemned similar Ahmadinejad's statements in the past. Saturday's statement didn't necessarily mean that Moscow was prepared to toughen its stance on Iran in response to Obama's move to scrap the missile defense plan.The U.S., Israel and the EU fear that Iran is using its nuclear program to develop weapons. But Tehran says the program serves purely civilian purposes.Iran already has defied three sets of U.N. Security Council sanctions since 2006 for its refusal to freeze uranium enrichment. Russia, which holds veto power on the U.N. Security Council, backed those sanctions but used its clout to water down tougher U.S. proposals. Russian officials have said too much pressure would be counterproductive.

Russian intentions could become more clear after Obama meets with Medvedev at the United Nations and the Group of 20 economic summit in the coming week.Medvedev's predecessor and mentor, Vladimir Putin, who is widely believed to be continuing to call the shots as Russia's prime minister, has praised Obama's decision but challenged the U.S. to do more by canceling Cold War-era restrictions on trade with Russia and facilitating Moscow's entry into the World Trade Organization.

Russian navy considering buying French-built ship By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, Associated Press Writer – SSEPT 19,09

MOSCOW – Russia has been negotiating the possible purchase of a military ship built in France, a Russian deputy defense minister said Saturday.Vladimir Popovkin said it's too early to say whether an agreement for buying a Mistral-class helicopter carrier can be reached, but he said it could mark an important step in modernizing the Russian navy.If a deal goes through, it would be the first foreign ship Russia's navy has bought in decades, and the first-ever from a NATO nation.Popovkin told Ekho Moskvy radio Saturday that along with the ship Russia was seeking to acquire technologies that would help raise the level of domestic shipbuilding industries.We are discussing the ship's purchase and, at the same time, we are talking about having facilities to produce such ships in Russia,he said.Officials at the French Defense Ministry would not comment Saturday about the possible sale. French media have reported in recent weeks that Russia is interested in a Mistral-class carrier, and that the Russians are studying different options.Popovkin said French technologies could help Russia build its own aircraft carriers. He said Russian shipbuilders strongly oppose the purchase.

Popovkin said the government has yet to make a decision on whether Russia needs to build costly aircraft carriers.Russia currently has only one Soviet-built aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, which is much smaller than the U.S. aircraft carriers and has been plagued by mechanical problems and accidents.The navy had to scrap numerous relatively new warships for lack of funds and could not properly maintain many others in the 1990s, leaving only a handful of big surface ships in seaworthy condition.Russia's windfall oil revenues of the past decade has allowed the government to pump money into the military, which has continued to rely on aging, Soviet-built weapons.Rearmament efforts, however, have been slowed down by the poor shape of the Russian defense industries which have continued to rely on aging industrial tools and outdated technologies and suffered an exodus of qualified personnel during the post-Soviet economic meltdown.The weaknesses of military industries were highlighted by the bungled development of the new Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile, which failed in seven of its 11 test launches. The failures left a newly built nuclear submarine weaponless and raised doubts about Russia's ability to complete the development of the missile which Russian leaders already had billed as the bulwark of the nation's strategic nuclear forces.Popovkin insisted the Bulava's design was fine and blamed its failed tests on manufacturing flaws, resulting from post-Soviet industrial degradation.The Bulava failures were rooted not in design flaws, but technological faults, such as violations of technological norms and the use of substandard metals,Popovkin said. He added that a team of independent experts has been created to analyze the failures and tests will only resume after it makes its conclusions.He said that Russia lacks some categories of modern weapons, such as intelligence drones. He said that Russia has bought 14 Israeli drones to help train the military how to use them while domestic industries are working to develop such craft.

HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER

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

AMERICANS MUST PREPARE
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END THE FED PAUL
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MAKE MINE FREEDOM
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GOLD $2,000-$3,000
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Regulators seize 2 banks; 94 failures this year By STEPHEN BERNARD, AP Business Writer – Fri Sep 18, 5:50 pm ET

NEW YORK – Regulators shut down two banking units of Irwin Financial Corp. Friday, marking the 93rd and 94th failures this year of federally insured banks.The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was appointed receiver of Louisville, Ky.-based Irwin Union Bank FSB and Columbus, Ind.-based Irwin Union Bank and Trust Co.As of Aug. 31, Irwin Bank FSB had $493 million in assets and $441 million in deposits, while Irwin Union Bank and Trust had $2.7 billion in assets and $2.1 billion in deposits.The FDIC said Friday both bank's deposits will be assumed by First Financial Bank in Hamilton, Ohio.First Financial also agreed to purchase essentially all of the two banks' assets. The FDIC and First Financial Bank reached a loss-share agreement covering about $2.5 billion of the two banks' combined assets.The 27 combined branches of Irwin Union Bank FSB and Irwin Union Bank and Trust will be reopened during their normal business hours beginning Saturday as branches of First Financial Bank.

The FDIC estimates the failure of the two banks will cost its insurance fund about $850 million.Hundreds more banks are expected to fail in the next few years largely because of souring loans for commercial real estate. The number of banks on the FDIC's confidential problem list jumped to 416 at the end of June from 305 in the first quarter. That's the highest number since June 1994, during the savings-and-loan crisis.Last month, Guaranty Bank became the second-largest U.S. bank to fail this year after the big Texas lender was shut down and most of its operations sold at a loss of billions of dollars for the government to a major Spanish bank. The failure, the 10th-largest in U.S. history, is expected to cost the insurance fund an estimated $3 billion.The sale of most of Austin-based Guaranty's operations to the U.S. division of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA, Spain's No. 2 bank, marked the first time a foreign bank has bought a failed American bank during the current financial crisis.The insurance fund has been so depleted by the epidemic of collapsing financial institutions that some analysts have warned it could sink into the red by the end of this year. The fund fell 20 percent to $10.4 billion at the end of June, the FDIC reported earlier this month.That's its lowest point since 1992, at the height of the S&L crisis. The agency estimates bank failures will cost the fund around $70 billion through 2013.

Chairman Sheila Bair said Friday the FDIC would consider tapping a line of credit with the Treasury Department. The FDIC's fund has slipped to 0.22 percent of insured deposits, below a congressionally mandated minimum of 1.15 percent.The FDIC board will meet at the end of the month, when it is expected discuss several options to replenish the fund. Aside from tapping the Treasury credit line, the FDIC could assess fees on banks in advance or again increase the fees banks must pay.Congress in May more than tripled the amount the FDIC could borrow from the Treasury if needed to restore the insurance fund, to $100 billion from $30 billion.

Senate Republicans push for end to bailout fund Sat Sep 19, 12:04 am ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A majority of Republicans in the U.S. Senate on Friday called on the Obama administration to let the authority to tap a $700 billion financial bailout fund expire at the end of the year as scheduled.In a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, 39 of the Senate's 40 Republicans and one Democrat said an extension of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) was not necessary.While we understand that our economy is still recovering, we believe it can function without added TARP funding,the letter said. Additionally, the cost to the taxpayer if TARP authority was extended could be substantial.Geithner last week told a congressionally appointed panel overseeing the bailout fund that no decision had been made on whether to seek approval to extend the bailout program past its scheduled expiry at the end of the year.Congress approved the $700 billion fund in October last year as the financial crisis deepened after the collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers.The fund has been used to strengthen the capital positions of hundreds of banks, to prop up insurer American International Group and U.S. automakers, and to encourage mortgage servicers to modify loans for homeowners facing foreclosure.

The aggressive rescue efforts have deepened the U.S. government's involvement in the financial sector and made taxpayers major shareholders in some of the nation's largest financial institutions.This direct investment certainly was not the intention of Congress in passing this legislation,the lawmakers said, pointing out that Congress specifically rejected legislation to provide federal funds to aid car manufacturers.The Senators said the unused funds and any TARP repayments should go toward reducing the federal debt.Under the law, the authority would expire on December 31, unless Geithner submits a written certification to Congress providing a justification for why an extension is needed.(Reporting by Tim Ahmann and Ayesha Rascoe; editing by Mohammad Zargham)

Obama seeks to reassure G20 on financial reforms By Matt Spetalnick – Sat Sep 19, 6:53 am ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama vowed on Saturday to work with fellow G20 leaders next week to close gaps in financial regulations and insisted reckless schemes that yield fat executive bonuses could no longer be tolerated.Five days before hosting a summit of the Group of 20 nations in Pittsburgh, Obama said steps taken since they last met in April in London had produced real progress toward breaking the back of the global economic crisis.But Obama, in his weekly radio and Internet address, insisted that stopping the bleeding isn't nearly enough.We know we still have a lot to do, in conjunction with nations around the world, to strengthen the rules governing financial markets and ensure that we never again find ourselves in the precarious situation we found ourselves in just one year ago,he said.

Financial market reform will be a central issue at the summit of leading developed and developing nations but progress in Congress on Obama's regulatory agenda has been slow.Seeking to show other countries his administration is serious about tackling U.S. weaknesses and excesses blamed for setting off the global crisis, he said,As the world's largest economy, we must lead, not just by word, but by example.

European G20 members have taken the lead in calling for some restraint on the bonus culture of banking, insisting it must be treated as a key item at Pittsburgh, and the issue seemed to be moving higher on the U.S. agenda as well.Larry Summers, Obama's top economic adviser, said the way that pay for bankers is set must be recalibrated to ensure that the risky behavior that helped fuel the worst banking crisis since the Depression of the 1930s is not swiftly repeated.

FAT EXECUTIVE BONUSES

Weighing in on the compensation issue, Obama said, We cannot allow the thirst for reckless schemes that produce quick profits and fat executive bonuses to override the security of our entire financial system and leave taxpayers on the hook for cleaning up the mess.Federal Reserve sources said on Friday the U.S. central bank was near to proposing wide-ranging rules to apply to any banker able to take risks that could imperil an institution.That would be a step forward for U.S. policymakers who have been reluctant to endorse anything like the caps or dollar limits on pay and bonuses sought by some European officials.At next week's G20 summit, we'll discuss some of the steps that are required to safeguard our global financial system and close gaps in regulation around the world,Obama said.He renewed his call on Congress to approve his proposal for creating a Consumer Financial Protection Agency, which he said would set clear rules on mortgages, credit cards and lending.
Not surprisingly, lobbyists for big Wall Street banks are hard at work trying to stop reforms that would hold them accountable and they want to keep things just the way they are. But we cannot let politics as usual triumph so business as usual can reign,Obama said.(Reporting by Matt Spetalnick; Editing by Peter Cooney)

AUDIT THE FED HAS 282 HOUSE AND 23 SENATE MEMBERS SIGNED UP.

Fed eyes wide-ranging bank pay rules to fight risk By Alister Bull – Fri Sep 18, 4:41 pm ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve plans new rules on bank pay to curb the type of excessive risk-taking that sparked the global financial crisis and triggered international demands for action.Public outrage at the stratospheric compensation of some bankers has boiled up to the level of the Group of 20 nations, whose leaders meet next week in Pittsburgh.The United States, under pressure to act on pay at the G20 from France and Germany, has already said it aims to curb the culture of excessive risk-taking at the root of the crisis.A Fed source said on Friday that guidelines would be proposed in the next few weeks and would apply to any employee able to take risks that could imperil an institution, not just the executives who have been the main target of popular ire.The rules will be aimed at all firms the Fed regulates and be enforceable under its existing powers, said the source, who requested anonymity. The Fed oversees more than 5,000 bank holding companies and over 800 smaller state-chartered banks.Massive losses inflicted by risky subprime mortgage bets destroyed some of the oldest names in U.S. finance and intensified a recession that has cost millions of jobs, putting both the banks and the regulators under scrutiny.The Financial Stability Board, which answers to the G20 and will issue guidelines at the September 24-25 summit, said on Tuesday that poorly capitalized banks should not be allowed to pay large bonuses.

MULTIPLE TRACKS

The Obama administration has already appointed a pay czar to oversee executive compensation at firms getting taxpayer aid, and has indicated it will take further steps.Properly designed compensation practices constitute an important measure in ensuring safety and soundness in our system,White House adviser Lawrence Summers said on Friday.Industry officials said many financial firms had already reined in pay practices and warned a heavy-handed approach by the Fed could be harmful.What we're worried about is if they place undue restrictions on the sales people because that could weaken the company itself,said Scott Talbott, senior vice president for government affairs for the Financial Services Roundtable, the industry's lobbying group.Some analysts said Washington was bowing to populist pressure.I think that talking about curbing Wall Street pay is emotional and not rational,said Tom Sowanick, co-president and chief investment officer of Omnivest Group LLC.The Fed's proposal would take a two-pronged approach. A top tier of the largest banks, numbering around 24, would get particularly close scrutiny, while all other lenders under the Fed's supervision would receive less-intensive treatment.Larger firms would also be subject to a review that would compare their practices against rivals, and would be required to submit their pay policies to the Fed for its approval.This would put the burden on the big firms to modify existing compensation practices, while leaving them with flexibility to customize compensation to best fit their needs.Practices at smaller banks would be reviewed as part of existing regular bank exams, the Fed source said.

PLACING THE FOCUS ON THE LONG RUN

Goldman Sachs, which set aside $11.3 billion in the first half of the year toward employee bonuses but which has also spoken out against excessive pay at firms that lost money, said excessive risk-taking should not be rewarded. We think it entirely appropriate that people are rewarded for performance, but compensation should correlate directly with the performance of the firm,said Goldman Sachs spokesman Lucas van Praag.The Fed board has yet to vote on the proposal, but the timeline for the guidelines should advance in weeks, not months, the source said.The proposed rules would then face a period of public comment before they could be made final. But the Fed plans to launch the review process for the large firms as soon as the proposal goes out, the source said.The guidelines would not apply a one-size-fits-all prescription to cap pay at any specific level, the source added. Rather, the guiding principle would be to aim for a longer view of profits that squeezes out risk-taking that might lead just to short-term gains.Officials are also discussing the possibility of clawing back compensation when it later becomes apparent excessive risks were taken.It plans to outline ways to defer pay, for example by using restricted shares that take longer to vest, which would give bank management more time to judge if the revenues from a particular activity really lived up to expectations.It will also point out the ability to weigh compensation according to the riskiness of the activity involved, as some already do to internally allocate capital.(Additional reporting by Karey Wutkowski in Washington and Jennifer Ablan and Steve Eder in New York; Editing by James Dalgleish)

Asian countries want greater decision-making role By FOSTER KLUG, Associated Press Writer – Sat Sep 19, 6:26 am ET

WASHINGTON – Asian leaders gathering at next week's economic summit in Pittsburgh will be demanding a greater voice in the way global financial institutions make crucial decisions. Likewise, the world's established powers will have some demands of their own for the rising Asian nations.The Western countries who traditionally have wielded power at the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the United Nations will want Asia to cut greenhouse gases blamed for dangerous climate change and to slash barriers that prevent free trade.China, with its powerful economy and diplomatic and military strength, will be a leading player at the summit. The other Asian-Pacific G-20 nations — Japan, India, South Korea, Australia and Indonesia — believe their growing importance deserves a bigger say in the world's financial decision-making. The G-20, which represents 80 percent of the world's economic output, is where they will make their case.Broadly, they're looking for more input on how the world runs,said Brad Glosserman, executive director of the Pacific Forum CSIS think tank.It remains to be seen how successful Asian countries will be at getting their points across at a gathering that features 20 leading rich and developing nations, all with competing national interests and often with little in common.Asia has done well, comparatively, during the world economic crisis. But the region has been criticized for protecting its trade and agricultural industries from competition. At the Pittsburgh conference next Thursday and Friday, the West will want Asia to help jump-start stalled world trade liberalization talks, to increase imports and to reduce large trade surpluses.Gary Hufbauer, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, said major questions will be:What are you doing to stimulate your economy? — and some of them are doing quite a bit — and What more can you do?

Asia will also face questions over climate change. Many argue that if Asia does not make cuts to emissions, progress will stall. Pittsburgh marks one of the last chances world leaders will have to generate momentum before a U.N. conference in December in Copenhagen, Denmark. Countries hope to forge a new agreement to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.Already some leaders worry that disputes among industrialized and developing nations over cuts to emissions threaten to ruin a deal in Copenhagen. Asia is seen as the key to any progress.Japan also could make a splash on climate change. The Democratic Party of Japan, which won last month's national elections, has made bold promises to reduce the country's greenhouse emissions. The new government will be closely watched to see if it is more assertive than previous administrations, which tended to echo U.S. views.Fast-developing India is seen as key not only in the climate discussions but in world trade talks as well.India, along with Brazil, Russia and China, is hoping Pittsburgh will lead to an agreement on proposed new targets to shift voting power in both the IMF and the World Bank to developing countries.In Australia, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will seek international support for his plan to spend his country deep into debt to keep its economy buoyant. He has pointed to worsening unemployment data and declining retail spending in recent months as evidence that government spending remains critical to future growth.In Indonesia, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, will be eager to show that newfound stability in the predominantly Muslim nation of 235 million will continue.South Korea plans to urge advanced nations to extend greater help to poorer countries in their efforts to overcome the economic crisis.

Han Duk-soo, South Korea's ambassador to the United States, said Thursday that his country wants to host a G-20 summit next year. South Korea, he said in Washington, can bridge the divide between rich and poor countries, having gone, in a matter of decades, from a country devastated by war to one with a vibrant, thriving economy.
Steven Schrage, a former U.S. trade official now with the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank, said it would be a devastating blow to the credibility of the G-20 if South Korea did not host a summit and the outcome is that the old boys' club of the G-8 are the only ones that can host summits.AP writers Yuri Kageyama in Tokyo, Rod McGuirk in Canberra, Australia, and Jae-soon Chang in Seoul contributed to this report.

Canada favors spreading out bank bonuses Fri Sep 18, 12:25 pm ET

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian banks may be required to defer some executive bonuses, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Friday, as he outlined new rules aimed at discouraging excessive risk-taking and preventing future financial crises.Flaherty told reporters that Canadian regulators were in the process of implementing guidelines laid out earlier this year by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) -- made up of G20 central bankers, regulators and finance ministry officials.One of the major things is to spread out bonuses so that bonuses are not paid for short-term profit, which was one of the issues that led to the crisis in the past year, he said.

That's our position.It was not immediately clear whether Canada would make the bonus deferrals obligatory or voluntary.Next week's G20 summit in Pittsburgh is set to focus on tougher financial regulations. European Union leaders agreed on Thursday to seek curbs on bankers' bonuses at the meeting. Canada has been opposed to an absolute cap on bankers' pay.Flaherty said Ottawa was looking forward to another report by the FSB due in coming days, and would study its recommendations on financial regulation.Even though Canadian banks have been famously solid throughout the financial crisis -- and bonuses are not a contentious issue domestically because banks have not had bailouts -- Flaherty said he was committed to fulfilling whatever new global standards emerge.There's always a risk of being complacent. I can tell you we're not complacent. I deal with the regulators very often, including this morning, and I know where we are in terms of our institutions in Canada and it's a good story,he said.Flaherty will attend the Pittsburgh summit along with Prime Minister Stephen Harper.(Reporting by Louise Egan; editing by Rob Wilson)