EU CALLS FOR WORLD GOVERNMENT
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4291770489472554607&ei=iaRTSrzHAoqUqQL1gMGqDw&q=EU&hl=en
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EXCELLENT EU REVIEW - WORLD REGIONS,GLOBAL CURRENCY
http://exposureroom.com/members/cybersilence.aspx/assets/d37a8ebc60694cc98173b8f32cfe898d/
EU-NEW SOVIET UNION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM2Ql3wOGcU&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6Cj1b-rp1E&feature=player_embedded
WORLD GOVERNMENT UNDER TREATYS-INTERNATIONAL LAW
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_government
TRANSATLANTIC POLICY
http://www.tpnonline.org/
JOAN VEON ON TAMAR YONAH 2008 (WORLD GOVERNMENT)
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2009/07/we-are-already-under-global-government.html#links
GEORGE HUNT-WORLD BANK ,RELIGION&RULERS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OvpjRglW9U&feature=related
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INSIDE VIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BANKERS
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=36666041
UNDERSTANDING WORLD GOVERNMENT
http://www.womensgroup.org/
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=504526035342184251
BANK OF INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENT PRESS
http://www.bis.org/events/agm2009/pcvideo.htm
HISTORY OF WAR AND THE FEDERAL RESERVE
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1874212534444628577&hl=en
WORLD GOVERNMENT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnq5cQMiAB8&feature=related
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2009/07/we-are-already-under-global-government.html#links
DICK MORRIS-This truly creates a global economic system. From now on, don’t look to Washington for the rule making, look to Brussels.
EPHESIANS 6:10-13
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,(DEMONIC ANGELS IN HIGH PLACES) against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.(SPIRTIUAL DEMONIC PERSONS)
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
LUKE 4:5-7(BECAUSE SATAN OFFERS WORLD POWER, WORLD ORDERERS HAVE ACCEPTED SATANS GIFT)
5 And the devil, taking him (JESUS) up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
DANIEL 12:4,1
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
REVELATION 13:1-3,7,8,12,16-18
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
REVELATION 17:3,7,9-10,12,18
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950
Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
ITS HERE THE BILDERBERGS WANT A SINGLE CURRENCY AND THE WORLD PUT IN REGIONS LIKE KING JESUS TOLD US WOULD HAPPEN.DON'T SAY I NEVER WARNED USE IT WAS COMING.
BILDERBERGERS WANT GLOBAL CURRENCY NOW But nationalists and populists around the world ready to fight to retain financial sovereignty By James P. Tucker, Jr.SEPT 28,09
Bilderberg has had front-men call anew for creating a global currency and establishing major European Union-style regions for the administrative convenience of a planned world government. Both steps were taken in September, one by the new Bilderberg-crowned prime minister of Japan and one separately by the UN.
The Geneva-based UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) called for a global currency in a report made public on September 7. UN countries should agree on a global reserve bank to issue the currency and to monitor the national exchange rates of its members, UNCTAD said. The dollar’s role in international trade should be reduced to protect emerging markets from the confidence game of financial speculation, it said. Heiner Flassbeck, a former German deputy finance minister, is co-author of the report calling for a global currency. He worked with then U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers in 1997-98 to contain the Asian financial crisis. Summers is a longtime Bilderberg luminary and has been photographed by AFP at annual secret Bilderberg confabs.Eliminating national currencies has long been a goal of Bilderberg as a crucial step in its plan to establish a world government. A nation’s currency is a symbol of sovereignty, so Bilderberg wants to divide the world into three giant regions, each with its regional currency, for the administrative convenience of its world government bureaucrats.Bilderberg used its immense power to get Yukio Hatoyama’s Democratic Party of Japan elected over the Liberal Democratic Party, which had led the nation for 64 years. Hatoyama obediently called for an Asian economic bloc, similar to the EU, complete with a regional currency.
Bilderberg’s goal is an Asian-Pacific Union and an American Union, both modeled after the EU. The EU has its common currency, the euro, and a European Parliament that can impose laws on the once sovereign nations of Europe and a European Court superior to the highest courts of member states. The EU is effectively a single super-state.The American Union is to evolve from the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, as it extends throughout the Western Hemisphere. The common currency is to be the amero.Fortunately, Bilderberg’s efforts in the Western Hemisphere have been stalled but the campaign continues using free trade propaganda.
Ultimately, the UN is to function as a world government with the General Assembly serving as a world parliament. Bilderberg, a secret organization of international financiers and political leaders, will serve as a world shadow government that dictates to the UN. AFP correspondent James P. Tucker Jr. is a veteran journalist who spent many years as a member of the elite media in Washington. Tucker is the author of Jim Tucker’s Bilderberg Diary. Bound in an attractive full-color softcover and containing 272 pages—loaded with photos—the book recounts Tucker’s experiences over the last quarter century at Bilderberg meetings. $25 from AFP. No charge for S&H in U.S.Subscribe to American Free Press. Online subscriptions: One year of weekly editions—$15 plus you get a BONUS ELECTRONIC BOOK - HIGH PRIESTS OF WAR - By Michael Piper.Print subscriptions: 52 issues crammed into 47 weeks of the year plus six free issues of Whole Body Health: $59 Order on this website or call toll free 1-888-699-NEWS .Sign up for our free e-newsletter here - get a free gift just for signing up!(Issue # 40, October 5, 2009)
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.
Death toll from Philippine floods hits 100: govt SEPT 28,09
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) – The death toll from devastating floods in the Philippine capital and surrounding areas has climbed to 100, with 32 people still missing, the government said Monday.In its latest update, the National Disaster Coordination Council said the number of people displaced in Saturday's deluge had risen to more than 451,000.The government had said earlier Monday that the death toll was 86.
Philippine storm leaves 86 dead, 32 missing By JIM GOMEZ, Associated Press Writer – Sun Sep 27, 10:06 pm ET
MANILA, Philippines – Many Filipinos tried to rebuild their lives Monday after saving little more than the clothes they wore in a tropical storm and the capital's worst flooding in more than four decades. At least 86 people were dead and 32 missing.Army troops, police and civilian volunteers plucked dead bodies from muddy flood waters and rescued drenched survivors from rooftops after Tropical Storm Ketsana tore through the northern Philippines on Saturday.Ketsana dumped more than a month's worth of rain in just 12 hours, swamping entire towns, setting off landslides and leaving neighborhoods in the capital with destroyed houses, overturned vehicles and roads covered in mud and debris.The government declared a state of calamity in metropolitan Manila and 25 storm-hit provinces, allowing officials to use emergency funds for relief and rescue. At 86 people were killed and 32 others missing, Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro said Monday.People drowned in their own houses, as the storm raged, said Gov. Joselito Mendoza of Bulacan province, north of the capital.Meteorologists say the Philippines' location in the northwestern Pacific puts it right in the pathway of the world's No. 1 typhoon generator. Doomed by geography and hobbled by poverty, the Philippines has long tried to minimize the damage caused by the 20 or so typhoons that hit the sprawling archipelago every year. Despite a combination of preparation and mitigation measures, high death tolls and destruction persist.
We're back to zero,said Ronald Manlangit, a 30-year-old resident of the Manila suburb of Marikina. Floodwaters engulfed the ground floor of his home and drowned his TV set and other prized belongings. Still, he expressed relief that he managed to move his children to the second floor.Suddenly, all of our belongings were floating, Malangit said. If the water rose farther, all of us in the neighborhood would have been killed.President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo toured devastated areas and prodded villagers to move on with their lives. She said the storm and the flooding were an extreme event that strained our response capabilities to the limit but ultimately did not break us.TV footage shot Sunday from a military helicopter showed drenched survivors marooned on top of half-submerged passenger buses and rooftops in suburban Manila. Some dangerously clung to high-voltage power lines while others plodded through waist-high waters.In Marikina, a rescuer gingerly lifted the mud-covered body of a child from a boat. An Associated Press photographer saw rescuers carry away four other bodies, including that of a woman found in a church in a flooded neighborhood.
Authorities deployed rescue teams on boats to save survivors.
More than 430,000 people were affected by storm, including some 115,000 people who were brought to about 200 schools, churches and other evacuation shelters, officials said. Troops, police and volunteers have so far been able to rescue more than 7,900 people, Teodoro said.The 16.7 inches (42.4 centimeters) of rain that swamped metropolitan Manila in just 12 hours on Saturday exceeded the 15.4-inch (39.2-centimeter) average for all of September, chief government weather forecaster Nathaniel Cruz said. He said the rainfall also broke the previous record of 13.2 inches (33.4 centimeters), which fell in a 24-hour period in June 1967.Cruz said cloudy weather with some rains was expected to continue.Ketsana, which packed winds of 53 miles per hour (85 kilometers) with gusts of up to 63 miles per hour (100 kilometers per hour), hit land early Saturday then roared across the main northern Luzon island toward the South China Sea.Associated Press writers Teresa Cerojano and Oliver Teves contributed to this report.
CLOSED FOR YOM KIPPUR
Sunday, 27 September 2009 11:25 News from Jerusalem .News from Jerusalem shall be closed till sundown on Monday in observance of Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)
Israel shuts down for Day of Atonement amid fears By MATTI FRIEDMAN, Associated Press Writer – Sun Sep 27, 1:08 pm ET
JERUSALEM – The start of the Jewish Day of Atonement at sundown Sunday marked the beginning of a day like no other in Israel, on which even Israelis with no connection to religion tend to put their normal lives on hold.This year Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, comes at a particularly somber time following revelations of a previously hidden Iranian nuclear facility and more missile tests by the Revolutionary Guard.That proves to whoever was still in doubt that Iran is the most serious threat today on the peace of the world and its security,said Israeli Deputy Foreign Ministry Danny Ayalon, speaking to Israeli Channel 10.Israel considers Iran a strategic threat due to its nuclear program, missile development and repeated references by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Israel's destruction.When Yom Kippur began at around 5 p.m. local time, TV and radio stations blinked off the air, flights in and out of Israel's international airport ceased, and nearly all businesses closed. The streets emptied of cars and cities and highways were eerily quiet.The country's ordinary bustle receded to the cities and towns that are home to the one-fifth of Israelis who are Muslims and Christians.But the holiday's apparent calm conflicted with many Israelis' fears about the perceived Iranian threat.Israel has long said Iran is seeking nuclear weapons, while Tehran insists its facilities are only for producing fuel for power plants.Many Israelis felt vindicated this week, however, when evidence of a clandestine facility was presented on Friday by President Barack Obama and the leaders of Britain and France at the G-20 economic summit in Pittsburgh.The facility enriches uranium fuel to power nuclear reactors. Highly enriched fuel, however, can also be used to make weapons.Israel is widely believed to have a nuclear arsenal of its own.
Even inside Israel, the run-up to the holiday was less than calm. Israeli police used stun grenades to disperse Palestinian rioters on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, police said.The incident took place during a visit by a Jewish group to the site. Deadly violence has erupted there several times in the past.Police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby said around 150 Palestinians threw stones at the Jews visiting the site, which is open to non-Muslims at certain hours.Police dispersed the rioters using stun grenades, and two policemen were lightly injured.Rabah Bkirat, an official with the Muslim religious body in charge of managing the site, said some of the protesters had come because of rumors of an invasion by Jewish settlers. When a group of some 15 Jews entered the grounds accompanied by police, the protesters began chanting slogans and only threw stones after police used force, he said.
Eleven Palestinians sustained minor injuries in the clashes, Bkirat said.
Sunday's violence did not affect prayers at the Western Wall ahead of Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, which starts Sunday at sundown and ends sundown Monday. According to tradition, Jews must spend Yom Kippur day fasting, praying and repenting for past sins in the hopes of receiving divine forgiveness before God seals their fate for the upcoming year.Israel has a large population of religious Jews who observe all the Jewish festivals, but Yom Kippur is unique among Jewish holidays for its resonance among people who are distant from religion during the rest of the year. Most Israeli Jews say they fast, and almost no one dares drive a car. Many will not even talk on the phone, surf the Internet or turn on a television.For the average secular Israeli, this is a day to connect with his spirituality and his Judaism, even though he is not religious,said Rabbi David Stav, one of the founders of Tzohar, an organization dedicated to making Judaism more accessible to secular Israelis.He fasts, he prays, he doesn't work or watch television — the day is dedicated to matters of the spirit,Stav said.In the days leading up to the fast, some Orthodox Jews perform a ceremony known as kaparot, or atonements, in which a person's sins are symbolically transferred to an animal, usually a chicken, which is then slaughtered and eaten.Fainting, dehydration and other fasting-related complaints are common, and Israeli emergency services went on high alert.While the day is largely solemn, it has its lighter side. The streets, emptied of cars, fill up with children on bicycles and skateboards taking advantage of the rare opportunity to ride down the middle of the road.The Israeli military says the West Bank will be under closure until the holiday's end due to security concerns.A military spokesman said the closure will be in effect from midnight Saturday until after the holiday.Israel has imposed West Bank closures during most Jewish holidays in recent years due to concerns that Palestinian militants could take advantage of the festival to carry out attacks inside Israel.
HAS THE FED EVER MANIPULATED THE STOCK MARKETS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXmNpdYpfnk&feature=player_embedded
AUDIT THAT FED HAS 295 HOUSE MEMBERS SIGNED UP AND 28 SENATE MEMBERS SIGNED UP.
How Well Has The Federal Reserve Performed for America?
Washington’s Blog September 27, 2009
Greenspan acted as one of the main supporters of derivatives between the late 1990’s and the present.Let’s look at the Federal Reserve’s actual performance and determine how bad — or good — the Federal Reserve has really been for America.Initially, Milton Friedman and Ben Bernanke have both said that the Federal Reserve caused the Great Depression through its poor monetary policy.Many also blame the Fed for blowing an unsustainable bubble between 2001-2007 through artificially low interest rates. If this sounds too much like an Austrian economics perspective, that may be true. But remember that Hayek won the Nobel prize in 1974 partly for arguing that artificially low interest rates lead to the misallocation of capital and to bubbles, which in turn lead to busts.Moreover, one of the Fed’s main justification has been that it can provide a counter-cyclical balance. In other words, during boom times it can put on the brakes (take the punch bowl away right as the party gets started), and during busts it can get things moving again. But as economist Jane D’Arista has shown, the Fed has failed miserably at that task: Jane D’Arista, a reform-minded economist and retired professor with a deep conceptual understanding of money and credit [has a] devastating critique of the central bank. The Federal Reserve, she explains, has failed in its most essential function: to serve as the balance wheel that keeps economic cycles from going too far. It is supposed to be a moderating force in American capitalism on the upside and on the downside, the role popularly described as leaning against the wind.By applying its leverage on the available supply of credit, the Fed can slow down a boom that is dangerously overwrought or, likewise, stimulate the economy if it is sinking into recession. The Fed’s job, a former chairman once joked, is to take away the punch bowl just when the party gets going.Economists know this function as counter-cyclical policy.
The Fed not only lost control, D’Arista asserts, but its policy actions have unintentionally become pro-cyclical–encouraging financial excesses instead of countering the extremes.The pattern that has developed over the last two decades, she wrote in 2008, suggests that relying on changes in interest rates as the primary tool of monetary policy can set off pro-cyclical foreign capital flows that tend to reverse the intended result of the action taken. As a result, monetary policy can no longer reliably perform its counter-cyclical function–its raison d’être–and its attempts to do so may exacerbate instability.The Fed is also supposed to act as a regulator for banks and their affiliates, but failed miserably in that role as well.
Indeed, the central bankers’ central banker – BIS – has itself slammed the Fed:In a pointed attack on the US Federal Reserve, [BIS and its chief economist William White] said central banks would not find it easy to clean up once property bubbles have burst…Nor does it exonerate the watchdogs.How could such a huge shadow banking system emerge without provoking clear statements of official concern? The fundamental cause of today’s emerging problems was excessive and imprudent credit growth over a long period. Policy interest rates in the advanced industrial countries have been unusually low,[White] said.The Fed and fellow central banks instinctively cut rates lower with each cycle to avoid facing the pain. The effect has been to put off the day of reckoning…Should governments feel it necessary to take direct actions to alleviate debt burdens, it is crucial that they understand one thing beforehand. If asset prices are unrealistically high, they must fall. If savings rates are unrealistically low, they must rise. If debts cannot be serviced, they must be written off.To deny this through the use of gimmicks and palliatives will only make things worse in the end,he said.As PhD economist Steve Keen has pointed out, the Fed has also given money to the wrong people to kick-start the economy.Remember also that Greenspan acted as one of the main supporters of derivatives (including credit default swaps) between the late 1990’s and the present (and see this).Greenspan was also one of the main cheerleaders for subprime loans (and see this).The above list is only partial. And it ignores:
(1) allegations that the Fed has manipulated the markets; and
(2) claims that the Federal Reserve System saddles the U.S. government and American people with trillions of dollars in unnecessary debt (that would not be incurred if the government took back the power to coin money granted to the government itself in the Constitution).Even so, it shows that the Federal Reserve has performed very poorly indeed.
Federal Reserve General Counsel Scott Alvarez Threatens the U.S. with Economic Terrorism Cryptogon.com Sunday, September 27, 2009
Some people may not like my headline. I don’t care. Make up your own headline, if you like. Call it whatever you want.Barney Frank doesn’t want to rock the boat. Oh no. Appearances need to be maintained on the Ship of Fools.Well, the only thing that’s certain is that the Ship of Fools is headed for oblivion. What’s not clear is how much time remains on the journey.
Via: Bloomberg:
Federal Reserve General Counsel Scott Alvarez said audits of monetary policy by the U.S. Congress could lead to higher interest rates and reduced confidence in central bank policy.Congressional audits of monetary policy could cause the markets and the public to lose confidence in the independence of the judgments of the Federal Reserve,Alvarez told the House Financial Services Committee today in response to a question from Representative Dennis Moore, a Kansas Democrat. Alvarez said in his prepared remarks the audits would probably chill the central bank’s discussions on interest rates.Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and his colleagues are trying to persuade lawmakers not to pass legislation sponsored by Representative Ron Paul of Texas that would repeal the central bank’s immunity to audits of monetary policy. Fed officials used emergency powers to protect creditors of Bear Stearns Cos. and American International Group Inc. during the financial crisis, prompting congressional scrutiny.We don’t want to give the rest of the world or, more important, domestic investors the impression that we are somehow in a formal way injecting Congress into the setting of monetary policy,said Representative Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat and chairman of the committee.That could have a very destabilizing effect.Frank added that a lot needs to be done on Fed transparency and said that Congress can accomplish that without interfering with the independence of monetary policy decisions.
Military and Riot Thugs Detain, Dehumanize and TORTURE American Citizens
Jason Bermas Prison Planet.com Sunday, September 27, 2009
In what was possibly the most surreal, horrific, and unimaginable thing I have ever witnessed in my life, 1200 Riot Police and Military Personal rabidly attacked a group of well under 300 American citizens, many of them just students that were unaware there was even a protest going on. They then expanded their perimeter and shut large areas of Oakland down. This is how my last experience at the G20 in Pittsburgh went down, out of control authorities mercilessly attacking an unarmed crowd with batons, tear gas, pepper spray, sound weapons, and rubber bullets. Around 10pm on Friday night, long after the vast majority of dignitaries and protesters had left, it became evident that the outrageous show of force by the Military and Police was not enough to stave off their thirst for blood.When I first arrived on the scene Luke Rudowski of We Are Change and a small group of protesters were peaceably assembling among a much larger number of college students just out for another weekend of fun in Schenley Plaza.Around ten minutes later Rob Dew arrived and we began filming the entire scene, it was evident that the number of police already in the area and the amount who were massing and surrounding the perimeter was extremely alarming.As Luke bull horned that the people in this park meant the police no physical harm, and that they were simply exercising their right to free speech, a couple of masked individuals began to scream He doesn’t speak for us.These few provocateurs and well meaning idiots could have been easily dealt with by a handful of regular police officers dressed in their standard uniform, however that solution does not offer the pretext for over a thousand heavily armed psychotics to encircle and engage the American people.
I began to become extremely frightened as to what the outcome of the situation was going to be as I began to witness LRAD weapons showing up, dogs beginning to circle the perimeter, and then everyone putting on their gas masks.During all of this I was threatened with arrest three times and physically charged and chased by one of the officers. At that point I realized they were about to attack, and they did. Hundreds of armed to the teeth trained professionals began their march towards innocent young men and women, and then took it much further by launching tear gas canisters, battening people trying to leave, and firing rubber bullets randomly into the crowd. Luckily I was able to slip through the cracks of a blockade of only 6 or so riot thugs as they tried to amass more in that area and form another brutal line.
I personally witnessed a young man on a bike being beaten for no reason whatsoever and as he fled the officers then beat his bike. When the young man tried to retrieve his bike his knuckle was broken.Another man was gassed so badly he had to be taken to the hospital.This is how Peace Officers treat us? During the very quick first burst of the madness I lost touch with Infowars Producer and Cameraman Rob Dew, I immediately thought he had been arrested, and I was correct.He was illegally detained and digitally fingerprinted in a separate process for protesters.Rob was cuffed all evening in a room full of other detainees, and was not released until 10:20 am the next morning with no charges being brought against him.Military and Police mocked them as Americans were being detained and processed often laughing at college students that had been beaten for no other reason for being in the wrong place around their campus that evening.Luke Rudowski received multiple battens to his back and legs as the jackals descended on him with force, even though he had made it clear to all of them he wished them no violence.For his peaceful efforts Luke and Lee from We Are Change were separated from the rest of the more than one hundred detainees and sent to State Prison.Luke was strip searched, mocked, and charged with Disorderly Conduct and Unlawful Assembly, and will have to go back to Pittsburgh Wednesday to face charges.The Military and Police laughed as they took note of the Superstar that had been all over the news on channel 11 and even National NBC, taking a sick pleasure in the torture of another human being.Welcome to the New Amerika.
MARTIAL LAW BY DESIGN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c-CBoaAXaM&feature=player_embedded
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Martial Law by Design Banner in Salt Lake City Metro Overpass - As a protest to the rise of the New World Order, nearly fully in place, I went and posted a statement using red cups in a chain link fence on a pedestrian bridge over Bangerter Highway in Riverton, Utah. Yes, this does relate to free energy.PESN.com Saturday, September 26, 2009
Note: We actively encourage others to also post banners such as this.Here I go off-topic again from clean energy coverage . . . but not entirely. This does tie in to free energy indirectly in several ways, which I’ll get to below.I wanted to tell you about a little protesting I did Thursday, posting the phrase MARTIAL LAW BY DESIGN — Infowars.com via red drinking cups inserted into the chain fence on a pedestrian overpass over Bangerter highway near the 134th South intersection in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area of Riverton, Utah.I then added a syringe image yesterday.It took me from 2:15 pm to 9:15 pm — seven hours — to do the initial writing, taping the cups securely in place with packing tape so they wouldn’t blow away or jiggle out of place.I wanted it to last for weeks, hopefully.Then yesterday, I went back to take some photos and add a syringe image, which took me about an hour — a few minutes too long, though, because by the time I was done, a sheriff had come along to take care of things.When I was done with the syringe artwork, with only about 15 cups left from the 1920 I purchased for $40.00 the day before at the Wal-Mart nearby, I started walking down the western ramp to go admire my work and take some photos.That was when I saw the Sheriff at the bottom of the ramp.I turned around and walked the other way, hoping it wasn’t what it looked like.Maybe he was just waiting for the light.I’d seen a good three or four police drive by while doing my art work, and none of them had stopped.People do this kind of art work all the time — mostly cute stuff, such as on the bridge prior:Eddie: Miss You [heart] — E.M..
I had called the city of Riverton earlier in the day to ask about such things, and was informed that it comes under the Utah Department of Transportation because it’s a state road.The guy I talked to said UDOT lightly considers it vandalism, but the tone of voice indicated that it’s a minor infraction and not hotly pursued, so I thought I’d take my chances to go back and add the syringe.Several cops had driven by while I was doing the posting yesterday, so I thought maybe I would get away with just one more thing.I shouldn’t have, because what I had accomplished the night before could have lasted for weeks — maybe.
MUCH ABOUT HISTORY Egyptian paper: Coins found bearing name of Joseph Biblical patriarch ID'd in hieroglyphs, depiction of cow linked to pharoah's dream September 26, 2009 11:30 pm Eastern 2009 WorldNetDaily
An image from the Middle East Media Research Institute revealing Egyptian coins tracked to the time of Joseph.Egyptian coins carrying the name of Joseph, the biblical patriarch whose arrival in Egypt as a slave eventually provided salvation for his family during decades of drought across the Middle East, have been discovered in a cache of antique items shelved in boxes in a museum, according to a new report.The report from the Middle East Media Research Institute said the coins with Joseph's name and image were found in a pile of unsorted artifacts that had been stored at the Museum of Egypt.MEMRI, which monitors and translates reports from Middle East publications and broadcasters, said the original report was in Egypt's Al Ahram newspaper in Cairo.The newspaper said the discovery countered claims by some historians that coins were not used for trade in Egypt at the time the Bible records Joseph and the Jews migrated there.Those historians have argued that trade was done by barter.Get the Adams Chart of History and Annals of the World Casebound Bundle.But researchers told the newspaper the minting dates of the coins in the cache have been matched to the period in which Joseph was recorded to be in Egypt.
A thorough examination revealed that the coins bore the year in which they were minted and their value, or effigies of the pharaohs [who ruled] at the time of their minting. Some of the coins are from the time when Joseph lived in Egypt, and bear his name and portrait,said the newspaper report.The report carried an explanation of the discovery by a team involving researcher Sa'id Muhammad Thabet:Studies by Dr. Thabet's team have revealed that what most archeologists took for a kind of charm, and others took for an ornament or adornment, is actually a coin. Several [facts led them to this conclusion]: first, [the fact that] many such coins have been found at various [archeological sites], and also [the fact that] they are round or oval in shape, and have two faces: one with an inscription, called the inscribed face, and one with an image, called the engraved face – just like the coins we use today, said the report.The newspaper called the find unprecedented and said,The researchers discovered the coins when they sifted through thousands of small archeological artifacts stored in [the vaults of] the Museum of Egypt.The Egyptian newspaper noted that the Quran indicates clearly that coins were used in Egypt in the time of Joseph.
The report continued,Research team head Dr. Sa'id Muhammad Thabet said that during his archeological research on the Prophet Joseph, he had discovered in the vaults of the [Egyptian] Antiquities Authority and of the National Museum many charms from various eras before and after the period of Joseph, including one that bore his effigy as the minister of the treasury in the Egyptian pharaoh's court…The report continued,According to Dr. Thabet, his studies are based on publications about the Third Dynasty, one of which states that the Egyptian coin of the time was called a deben and was worth one-fourth of a gram of gold. This coin is mentioned in a letter by a man named Thot-Nehet, a royal inspector of the Nile bridges. In letters to his son, he mentioned leasing lands in return for deben-coins and agricultural produce.
The report explained that other texts from the Third, Sixth and Twelfth Dynasties also talk about coins.The archeological finding is also based on the fact that the inscribed face bore the name of Egypt, a date, and a value, while the engraved face bore the name and image of one of the ancient Egyptian pharaohs or gods, or else a symbol connected with these. Another telling fact is that the coins come in different sizes and are made of different materials, including ivory, precious stones, copper, silver, gold, etc.the newspaper reported.The museum research uncovered 500 of the coins carelessly stored in boxes.One even had the image of a cow symbolizing Pharaoh's dream about the seven fat cows and seven lean cows, and the seven green stalks of grain and seven dry stalks of grain,the report said. Joseph's name appears twice on this coin, written in hieroglyphs: once the original name, Joseph, and once his Egyptian name, Saba Sabani, which was given to him by Pharaoh when he became treasurer. There is also an image of Joseph, who was part of the Egyptian administration at the time,the report said.
HERES WHOS LAND IT IS ITS ISRAELS NOT THE ARABS,IF USE CAN READ....R..E..A..D. ARABS,MUSLIMS.
ISRAELS INHERITED LAND IN THE FUTURE
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.
ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
EZEKIEL 47:13-23,48:1-35
13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; This shall be the border, whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions.
14 And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another: concerning the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance.
15 And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad;
16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazarhatticon, which is by the coast of Hauran.
17 And the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side.
18 And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border unto the east sea. And this is the east side.
19 And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side southward.
20 The west side also shall be the great sea from the border, till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side.
21 So shall ye divide this land unto you according to the tribes of Israel.
22 And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.
23 And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord GOD.
1 Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazarenan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these are his sides east and west; a portion for Dan.
2 And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Asher.
3 And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Naphtali.
4 And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Manasseh.
5 And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Ephraim.
6 And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Reuben.
7 And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Judah.
8 And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the other parts, from the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.
9 The oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD shall be of five and twenty thousand in length, and of ten thousand in breadth.
10 And for them, even for the priests, shall be this holy oblation; toward the north five and twenty thousand in length, and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south five and twenty thousand in length: and the sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the midst thereof.
11 It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
12 And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.
13 And over against the border of the priests the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.
14 And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto the LORD.
15 And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.
16 And these shall be the measures thereof; the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.
17 And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred and fifty, and toward the south two hundred and fifty, and toward the east two hundred and fifty, and toward the west two hundred and fifty.
18 And the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward: and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy portion; and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them that serve the city.
19 And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel.
20 All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with the possession of the city.
21 And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city, over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east border, and westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the west border, over against the portions for the prince: and it shall be the holy oblation; and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof.
22 Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the prince.
23 As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side unto the west side, Benjamin shall have a portion.
24 And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the west side, Simeon shall have a portion.
25 And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the west side, Issachar a portion.
26 And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the west side, Zebulun a portion.
27 And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto the west side, Gad a portion.
28 And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea.
29 This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the Lord GOD.
30 And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand and five hundred measures.
31 And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi.
32 And at the east side four thousand and five hundred: and three gates; and one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan.
33 And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures: and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun.
34 At the west side four thousand and five hundred, with their three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali.
35 It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.
Arabs and Israelis tell clashing tales of the land By DIAA HADID, Associated Press Writer – Sun Sep 27, 12:00 am ET
RAMOT MENASHE PARK, Israel – Israeli and Palestinian hikers are taking to the hills in the footsteps of their ancestors — deploying maps, holy texts and walking boots in the long-running battle for control of the Holy Land.In Israel and the West Bank, bands of enthusiasts trek over the same paths mentioned in antiquity and past villages abandoned to wars. But Israeli and Palestinian hikers mostly emphasize their attachment to the land and ignore each other's historical footprints.In northern Israel's Ramot Menashe Park, guide Innon Kahalany recently led a group past pungent fig trees, bringing to life characters of the Old Testament, which he calls Israel's first guide book. He vividly described how on nearby Mount Carmel, the Jewish prophet Elijah challenged the priests of the heathen god Baal.But his entranced hikers were not told that they were standing near the ruins of seven Arab villages destroyed during the 1948 Mideast war when Israel became a state and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were driven out or fled.Kahalany said he speaks of those events carefully, if at all.People don't like a history lesson, I try to make it easy, he said.Some 45 miles south, in the West Bank, Palestinian guide Saleh Jawad led a dozen hikers up a grass knoll to the ruins of the ancient village of Khirbet Kfar Ana, now used as grazing lands.
His route was dictated not by the distant past, but by the reality of the modern conflict: He avoided sealed-off Israeli military zones and checkpoints, and stayed away from the Jewish settlements that dot the area.Settlers are free to roam the West Bank, which is mostly ruled by Israel and which Palestinians hope will be part of their future state. On the other hand, Jawad and other Palestinians would have a hard time getting a permit to enter Israel.At Khirbet Kfar Ana, Jawad described how the village was most likely destroyed a century ago by the Turks who then ruled Palestine and were upset at the villagers for harboring bandits. The conversation quickly fell to tracing a Palestinian connection to the land from biblical times.
This is exactly what this struggle is about,said Jawad.It's the feeling that I'm walking on the land of my ancestors.Many Palestinians assert they are the descendants of the biblical Canaanites, who inhabited the Holy Land before the Hebrews conquered it.We never left the land and they can see that,said George Rishmawi, a hiker who leads a walking group of Palestinian eco-tourists.Hiking — from school trips to weekend getaways — is far more ingrained in Israelis than in Palestinians. Pioneering Zionists established a hiking culture to strengthen the connection between ancient Israel and new Jewish immigrants, said Yael Guter, professor of Israel Studies at Bar Ilan University.The same impulse drives the Palestinians, but their recreational hiking is a nascent pastime, hampered by the Israeli restrictions on movement and their own cultural taboo that regards walking as something only poor people do.Jawad's three-year-old group was established by environmentalists, including Raja Shehadeh, who wrote a book about the diminishing trails of the West Bank.Rishmawi has created the Palestine Trail — part of a larger regional project called the Abraham Path, a planned 1,200-kilometer (750-mile) route that would follow the route of the patriarch revered by both Jews and Muslims from Turkey, where he reputedly first heard the call to God, to his burial place in the West Bank city of Hebron.
Some believe hiking could hold a key to reconciliation, acknowledging the history of the other.Eitan Bronstein is the Israeli head of an organization that tries to educate his countrymen about how Palestinians see the 1948 war, including a campaign to signpost Palestinian villages destroyed in 1948, such as those in the Ramot Menashe Park.It's important to know,he said,because not to know is to continue the conflict without knowing why there is a conflict.
Pope urges Europe to remember Christian heritage By VICTOR L. SIMPSON, Associated Press Writer – Sun Sep 27, 2:12 pm ET
BRNO, Czech Republic – Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday that all of Europe — and not only this ex-communist country — must acknowledge its Christian heritage as it copes with rising immigration from other cultures and religions.The second day of Benedict's pilgrimage to this highly secular country was marked by a joyous open-air Mass that drew tens of thousands of pilgrims and a sober message for the entire continent.History has demonstrated the absurdities to which man descends when he excludes God from the horizon of his choices and actions,Benedict said.Church organizers estimated that 120,000 people packed a field beside an airport in the southern city of Brno for what was expected to be the biggest turnout of his trip. Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi said it was the largest turnout for a Mass in the history of the Czech Republic.Cheering crowd members from the Czech Republic and neighboring countries including Austria, Germany, Poland and Slovakia sang and waved Czech and Vatican flags. Emergency services said 18 people collapsed and were treated for dehydration, and a police officer was hospitalized with injuries after falling from his horse.The 82-year-old pontiff was making the three-day visit as Czechs prepare to mark 20 years since their 1989 Velvet Revolution shook off an atheistic communist regime that ruthlessly persecuted the Roman Catholic Church.
The pope warned that technical progress was not enough to guarantee the moral welfare of society.Man needs to be liberated from material oppressions, but more profoundly, he must be saved from the evils that afflict the spirit,Benedict told the crowd from under a white canopy beside a 12-meter-high (40-foot-high) stainless steel cross. The German-born pope spoke in Italian, and his words were translated into Czech.Later Sunday, in talks with leaders of other faiths and branches of Christianity, Benedict broadened his message to all of Europe.As Europe listens to the story of Christianity, she hears her own,the pope said during the meeting at Prague's medieval Hradcany Castle.Her notions of justice, freedom and social responsibility, together with the cultural and legal institutions established to preserve these ideas and hand them on to future generations, are shaped by her Christian inheritance.Europe's religious roots, he said, supply the continent with the spiritual and moral sustenance that allows her to enter into meaningful dialogue with people from other cultures and religions.Lombardi said the pope shook hands with Jewish leaders at that meeting, but did not mention atrocities against Jews during World War II. An estimated 80,000 Czech Jews perished in the Holocaust, which decimated the nation's Jewish community.Benedict is using the trip to recall communist-era religious repression and to urge Czechs to reconsider a faith many have abandoned.In a meeting with other Christians, he also mentioned Jan Hus, a 15th century religious reformer seen as a forerunner of the Protestant Reformation who was burned at the stake. He is considered a national hero here.
The pope said discussion of the case was important not only in the quest for Christian unity but also for the good of all European society.His predecessor, Pope John Paul II, visited the former Czechoslovakia three times, but this weekend's tour is Benedict's first here as pope. Although the nation of 10 million has given him a lukewarm reception, he received an enthusiastic welcome Sunday in the country's Roman Catholic heartland.The pope's never been here. It's a unique experience to see him,said Daniel Rampacek, a 21-year-old student from the southeastern town of Breclav.Above all, people need hope — especially now at a time of (economic) crisis.
The Czech Republic is one of the most secular countries in Europe. In 1991, 4.5 million of the country's 10 million people said they belonged to a church, but a 2001census showed that number had plunged to 3.3 million. Recent surveys suggest the number of believers remains low; about one in two respondents to a poll conducted by the agency STEM said they don't believe in God. Under communism, the church was brutally repressed. The regime, which seized power in 1948 in what was then Czechoslovakia, confiscated all church-owned property and persecuted many priests. Churches were then allowed to function only under the state's control and supervision.In his traditional Sunday Angelus blessing, Benedict urged the crowd not to forget their rich heritage of faith.Maintain the spiritual patrimony inherited from your forebears ... guard it and make it answer to the needs of the present day,he said. The pope, who has been giving his speeches in either English or Italian, is making his first foreign trip since he broke his right wrist in a fall while on vacation in July. He told reporters aboard his plane that he is finally able to write again and hopes to complete a new book by next spring. Associated Press writers Karel Janicek in Brno and William J. Kole in Prague contributed to this report.On the Net: Pope's visit: http://www.navstevapapeze.cz.
ELECTION 2010 Why can't Christians unite to change America? Study finds faithful can't agree on Bible, government, social responsibility September 27, 2009
9:34 pm Eastern By Drew Zahn 2009 WorldNetDaily
The commonly referenced God gap between Republicans and Democrats is disappearing.
Polls released before the 2008 election demonstrated America's Christian voters are no longer synonymous with the political right: a George Barna survey showed born-again Christians evenly split between John McCain and Barack Obama, and a Public Religion Research study found that even among white Evangelicals, touchstone issues like abortion and same-sex marriage weren't in their top five voting considerations.
If Christian voters share common morals and values, how is it that their voting patterns and priorities aren't more unified? According to a new study, the answer is that Christians don't share a common worldview, their morals and values sprayed across the spectrum by differing views in a handful of key areas.The 2009 Religious Activists Surveys – conducted by Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron in partnership with Public Religion Research – focused on religious activists working on both conservative and progressive causes, and found that while the majority of both types called themselves Christian, they are driven apart by disagreements over social responsibility, biblical authority and the role of government.The statistics reflect that Christians who differ in defining these key areas also differ in political and moral convictions.Join others in discovering how to renew our nation's sovereignty, self-reliance and morality with Joseph Farah's Taking America Back from the WND SuperStore! In the past, said E.J. Dionne, one of the speakers chosen to announce the study,Social and theological differences between denominations and faith traditions mattered a great deal. Those old divisions have largely passed away. Now conservative Catholics, Protestants and Jews tend to ally together against more liberal Catholics, Protestants and Jews.In fact, the study showed that among religious activists aligned with conservative causes, 99 percent called themselves Christians; while among those aligned with liberal causes, 71 percent claimed the same.
Dionne explained the flocking of Christian activists to both the left and the right by quoting popular British author C.S. Lewis:Lewis, of course, writing as a Christian said the following. He said,Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party,Dionne quoted.The study's stats suggest Lewis and Dionne are exactly right.The study data included a combined 3,000 survey responses from political activists associated both with the religious left – working for organizations like the Interfaith Alliance and Sojourners – and the religious right – from groups like Concerned Women for America and the National Right to Life Committee.And while the majority of both groups labeled themselves Christian and affirmed that religion is extremely or very important in their lives (96 percent among conservatives, 74 percent among progressives), some demographic differences did emerge:55 percent of the conservative activists identified themselves as Evangelical Protestants, while only 10 percent of the progressives claimed the same label.Conversely, among the progressives, 44 percent called themselves mainline Protestant, while only 9 percent of conservatives identified themselves as such.Roman Catholics were more evenly split, composing 35 percent of conservative activists and 17 percent of progressives.
How the religious right and left differ .Practically speaking, the differences between the two groups plays out in the causes and the priorities considered important to each.
For example, when asked about the most important issues among a set of eight choices, conservative activists pegged as priorities abortion (83 percent) and same-sex marriage (65 percent). Fewer than 10 percent of their progressive counterparts, however, identified those issues as most important,choosing instead to focus on poverty (74 percent), health care (67 percent) and the environment (56 percent).The activists not only differed on their priorities, but also on the positions they took, despite their professed common religious beliefs.For example, 95 percent of the conservative religious activists responded that abortion should be illegal in all or most cases, while 80 percent of the progressives answered that abortion should be legal in most or all cases.Similarly, only 13 percent of conservative activists supported additional environmental protection at the cost of raised prices or lost jobs, while 87 percent of progressive activists would rather suffer the price in exchange for increased environmental protections.The disparity between the two groups was also reflected on the issues of same-sex marriage (82 percent of conservatives opposed, 59 percent of progressives in favor), government health care, the Iraq war, the use of extreme interrogation techniques and so on.And despite being divided in their voting patterns (93 percent of progressives voted for Obama in 2008, while 90 percent of conservatives report voting for McCain), the majority of both groups affirmed that faith was an important factor in their voting decision.
Why the religious right and left differ.Table from Public Religion Research's 2009 Religious Activist Surveys.To what cause can these widely different politics and priorities among people of common faith be attributed? While the study itself didn't delve into a diagnosis for the differences, it did identify at least three foundational worldview issues that may be contributing factors: biblical authority, the role of government and social responsibility.For example, the religious activists from both stripes affirmed the importance of faith in their lives and their regular attendance at religious services, but varied significantly on their perspective on Scripture.Among conservative activists, 48 percent stated they believe the Bible to be the literal Word of God and another 36 percent accepted the same label without the word literal – a total of 84 percent affirming the Good Book as the Word of God.Among progressives, however, only 22 percent of respondents combined to call the Bible the Word of God. Instead, 36 percent answered that the Bible merely contains the Word of God, and 21 percent called the Bible simply one important source of wisdom.The groups also diverged on the role and function of government, particularly in the area of economics.For example, 86 percent of conservative activists argued the government should provide fewer services and cut its spending; while among progressives, 68 percent believe the government should increase spending to provide more services.Similarly, while 85 percent of conservatives affirmed that large tax cuts are good for the economy because they encourage investment and job creation, three-quarters of the progressive activists argued the opposite – that large tax cuts are bad for the economy because they lead to deficits and prevent necessary government spending.We talk a lot about issues such as gay rights and abortion and those issues are important,Dionne said,but I think the unspoken split, the overlooked schism, if you will, is over attitudes toward the role of government in dealing with major social challenges.The study also found a chasm of difference between the two groups on how they view the best way to solve our nation's problems.To measure how religious activists apply their theology to solving our nation's struggles, the study's authors developed theological ethics scales (each group's slightly different, in accordance with their responses), based on respondents' degree of agreement with the following statements:The main cause of America's problems is moral decay.The main cause of America's problems is poverty and discrimination.Social Justice is at the heart of all authentic religious values.
If enough people were brought to Christ, social ills would take care of themselves.
The answers were then tabulated into a seven-point scale to determine whether the religious activists look to society's individuals as the source and solution of society's ills, or whether activists consider reforming society's structures as the key to positive change.The difference between the groups was significant:Charts from Public Religion Research's 2009 Religious Activist Surveys.Conservative religious activists generally favored an individualist approach to solving social problems, with an emphasis on personal morality,the study found.A distinguishing attribute of progressive religious activists is their strong emphasis on structural rather than individual solutions.In fact, 95 percent of the conservatives surveyed favored at least somewhat individualistic approaches, while only 13 percent of the progressive activists looked to inviduals. Instead, 74 percent of progressive religious activists focused their attention on society's structures.The numbers were driven by the religious activists' responses to the theological statements used to construct the scales:Among conservative religious activists, 92 percent agreed the main cause of America's problems is moral decay, while only about 1-in-4 progressives agreed and nearly half disagreed.Instead, 47 percent of progressives look to poverty and discrimination as the primary causes of America's troubles, while only 4 percent of conservatives agree.When presented with the idea,If enough people were brought to Christ, social ills would take care of themselves,1967 percent of the conservative activists agreed, and 15 percent disagreed. Among progressives, only 13 percent agreed, while 61 percent disagreed.The report itself contains dozens of other questions, statistics and graphs, but one of the study's authors attempted to summarize the study this way:What I think all this implies,said Dr. Robert P. Jones, president of Public Religion Research upon announcing the results of the study,is that in the future what we'll see is perhaps a more balanced set of religious voices in the public square that challenge each other not just on policy points but on the very nature of faith and what it means for the role of religion in the public square.
FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU Jewish tourists attacked in Temple Mount clashes
Palestinians hurl stones in suspected pre-planned aggression September 27, 2009
3:59 pm Eastern By Aaron Klein 2009 WorldNetDaily
JERUSALEM – The Palestinian Authority was behind violent clashes on the Temple Mount today that left 24 people wounded hours before the start of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, according to both Israeli security sources and a source inside the PA.
Earlier today, clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian worshipers erupted at the Temple Mount and at several sites throughout Jerusalem's Old City. The incidents reportedly took place just as a group of Jewish visitors ascended the Mount –the holiest site in Judaism.Much of the Palestinian news media is claiming the Jewish worshipers were right-wing Israeli extremists who ascended the Mount to threaten the site. In actuality, many of the Jewish dozen or so visitors today were tourists and were part of a guided group that regularly ascends the Mount during daily hours when Jewish visitors are permitted. According to multiple witnesses as well as to Israel's police spokesman, Shmulik Ben Ruby, the clashes began as soon as the Jewish group entered the site.Immediately, about 150 Palestinian worshipers hurled rocks at the Jewish group and at policemen who were escorting them, slightly wounding two policemen. Police responded with stun grenades while whisking the Jewish visitors away.Palestinians at several areas in Jerusalem's Old City also began hurling rocks at Jews today.Today's clashes had all the trappings of a pre-planned Palestinian campaign.
Indeed, Israeli security officials told WND they have specific information that Ahmed Rweihi, the chief of the PA's so-called Jerusalem unit, was in touch with demonstration leaders at the Temple Mount the past few days and personally incited today's violence.An official in the PA, speaking on condition of anonymity, did not deny Rweihi helped incite the clashes.The PA has in the past orchestrated riots on the Temple Mount that later escalated into massive terrorist campaigns to pressure Israel into extreme concessions.In September 2000, the Palestinians started their intifada by throwing stones at Jewish worshipers after then-candidate for prime minister Ariel Sharon visited the Mount.At first, the Palestinians claimed the stone throwing was spontaneous. Later, top PA officials, including PLO leader Yasser Arafat and his deputy, Marwan Barghouti, admitted the Temple Mount clashes were pre-planned.The 2000 intifada began after Arafat turned down an Israeli offer of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and eastern Jerusalem.
Clashes follow Obama's demand for 1967 borders
Today's clashes follow a three-way meeting last week between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Obama and PA President Mahmoud Abbas. During his speech to the U.N. General Assembly last week, Obama used strongly worded language to call for the creation of a viable, independent Palestinian state with contiguous territory that ends the occupation that began in 1967.The term occupation routinely is used by the Palestinians as well as some countries hostile to the Jewish state in reference to Israel's presence in the West Bank and Jerusalem. It is unusual for U.S. presidents to use the term, although Jimmy Carter once famously called Israel's presence in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem illegal.Occupation that began in 1967 is a specific reference to the lands Israel retained after the Six Day War of that year, particularly the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount.
Temple Mount: No pray zone
Israel recaptured the Temple Mount during the 1967 Six Day War. Currently under Israeli control, Jews and Christians are barred from praying on the Mount. The Temple Mount was opened to the general public until September 2000, when the Palestinians started their intifada by throwing stones at Jewish worshipers during Sharon's visit.Following the onset of violence, the new Sharon government closed the Mount to non-Muslims, using checkpoints to control all pedestrian traffic for fear of further clashes with the Palestinians.The Temple Mount was reopened to non-Muslims in August 2003. It remains open, but only Sundays through Thursdays, 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., and not on any Christian, Jewish or Muslim holidays or other days considered sensitive by the Waqf.During open days, Jews and Christian are allowed to ascend the Mount, usually through organized tours and only if they conform first to a strict set of guidelines, which includes demands that they not pray or bring any holy objects to the site. Visitors are banned from entering any of the mosques without direct Waqf permission. Rules are enforced by Waqf agents, who watch tours closely and alert nearby Israeli police to any breaking of their guidelines.
Muslim holy site?
King Solomon built the First Temple in the 10th century B.C. The Babylonians destroyed it in 586 B.C. The Jews built the Second Temple in 515 B.C. after Jerusalem was freed from Babylonian captivity. The Romans destroyed the Second Temple in A.D. 70.The First Temple stood for about 400 years, the Second for almost 600. Both temples served as the center of religious worship for the whole Jewish nation. All Jewish holidays centered on worship at the temple – the central location for the offering of sacrifices and the main gathering place for the Jewish people.
According to the Talmud, God created the world from the foundation stone of the Temple Mount.The site is believed to be the biblical Mount Moriah, where Abraham fulfilled God's test of faith by demonstrating his willingness to sacrifice his son Isaac.Jewish tradition also holds that Mashiach – literally the anointed one,the Jewish Messiah – will come and rebuild the third and final temple on the Mount in Jerusalem and bring redemption to the entire world.The Western Wall, called the Kotel in Hebrew, is the one part of the Temple Mount that survived the Roman destruction of the Second Temple and stands to this day in Jerusalem.The Temple Mount has remained a focal point for Jewish services for thousands of years. Prayers for a return to Jerusalem and the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple have been uttered three times daily by religious Jews since the destruction of the Second Temple. Throughout all the centuries of Jewish exile from their land, thorough documentation shows the Jews never gave up their hope of returning to Jerusalem and reestablishing their Temple. To this day Jews worldwide pray facing the Western Wall, while Muslims turn their backs away from the Temple Mount and pray toward Mecca.Muslims constructed the al Aqsa Mosque around A.D. 709 to serve as a place of worship near a famous shrine, the gleaming Dome of the Rock, built by an Islamic caliph, or supreme ruler.Muslims later began to associate al Aqsa in Jerusalem with the place Muhammad ascended to heaven. Islamic tradition states Muhammad took a journey in a single night from a sacred mosque – believed to be in Mecca in southern Saudi Arabia – to the farthest mosque,and from a rock there ascended to heaven to receive revelations from Allah that became part of the Koran.
While Palestinians and many Muslim countries claim exclusivity over the Mount, and while their leaders strenuously deny the Jewish historic connection to the site, things weren't always this way. In fact, historically, Muslims never claimed the al Aqsa Mosque as their third holiest site and always recognized the existence of the Jewish temples.According to an Israeli attorney, Dr. Shmuel Berkovits, Islamic tradition mostly disregarded Jerusalem. He points out in his book How Dreadful is this Place! that Muhammad was said to loathe Jerusalem and what it stood for to the other monotheistic faiths.Muhammad also made a point of eliminating pagan sites of worship and sanctifying only one place – the Kaaba in Mecca – to signify the unity of Allah. As late as the fourteenth century, Islamic scholar Taqi al Din Ibn Taymiyya, whose writings later influenced the ultraconservative Wahhabi movement in Arabia, ruled that sacred Islamic sites exist only on the Arabian Peninsula, and that in Jerusalem, there is not a place one calls sacred, and the same holds true for the tombs of Hebron.
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.
DR ADMITS VACCINE MORE DEADLY THAN H1N1 SWINE FLU
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Venezuela exploring uranium deposits with Russia By FABIOLA SANCHEZ, Associated Press Writer – Sun Sep 27, 3:58 am ET
PORLAMAR, Venezuela – Venezuela's science and technology minister said his country is working with Russia to detect deposits of uranium but withdrew an earlier denial that the country was also working with Iran.Jesse Chacon originally denied the reports that Venezuela is receiving support from Iran to seek uranium, but clarified later Saturday that his comments were only in regard to Russia and that exploration efforts with Iran fall under the direction of Venezuela's Mining Ministry.Mining Minister Rodolfo Sanz said Friday Iran is helping Venezuela to detect uranium deposits and that initial evaluations suggest reserves are significant. His announcement was made the same day world leaders criticized the Islamic republic for secretly building a uranium-enrichment plant that could be used to make an atomic bomb.Sanz declined to respond to reporters when questioned Saturday about Chacon's remarks. President Hugo Chavez said only that Venezuela has a lot of uranium.Asked about how Venezuela will use its uranium reserves, Chacon said that they would be exploited to develop nuclear energy for medicinal purposes, for peaceful purposes.
Chavez had expressed interest in developing nuclear energy as early as 2005, and mentioned Venezuela could discuss it with Iran. He said during a visit to Tehran earlier this month that the two nations agreed to work together on geological studies in the Venezuelan Andes and the foothills in his home state of Barinas, where satellite information indicated the existence of different minerals that are very important for the country's development.He didn't elaborate, and didn't mention uranium.U.S. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly has said U.S. officials have concerns about the possible exchange of nuclear material between Venezuela and Iran. But analysts say Iran, which has its own uranium deposits, doesn't have any immediate need to import the metal.Chavez's project remains in its planning stages and still faces a host of practical hurdles, likely requiring billions of dollars, as well as technology and expertise that Venezuela lacks.Russia has offered to help bridge that gap, but Sergei Novikov, a spokesman for Russian state nuclear agency Rosatom, has said there are no concrete projects and that any joint mining of uranium or the radioactive metal thorium is still a long way off.Both Chavez and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are well-known for their anti-U.S. rhetoric, and have forged ties in everything from finance to factories, provoking concerns in Washington. Iran now manufactures cars, tractors and bicycles in Venezuela.
Iran test fires missiles amid flap over nukes By NASSER KARIMI, Associated Press Writer – SEPT 28,09
TEHRAN – Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard said it successfully test-fired short-range missiles Sunday in drills meant to show Tehran is prepared to crush any military threat from another country.The display of force comes days after the U.S. and its allies warned Iran over a newly revealed nuclear facility it was secretly constructing.Gen. Hossein Salami, head of the Revolutionary Guard Air Force, said Iran had perfected its short range missiles to make them more accurate in tactical battlefield situations and defend the country from any attacks.We are going to respond to any military action in a crushing manner and it doesn't make any difference which country or regime has launched the aggression,state media quoted Salami as saying. He said the missiles successfully hit their targets.The tests came two days after the U.S. and its allies disclosed that Iran had been secretly developing a previously unknown underground uranium enrichment facility and warned the country it must open the nuclear site to international inspection or face harsher international sanctions.The missiles tested weren't the kind that can carry a nuclear warhead. Iran is developing such ballistic missiles, but the U.S. believes that effort has been slowed.But the timing of the missile tests has been widely interpreted as an Iranian show of force in the face of the international storm of criticism over the secret facility.Tehran carried out the missile tests now to show some muscle, show some strength, and say the game is not over for Iran yet,said Alex Vatanka, a senior Middle East analyst at IHS Jane's. He noted that Iran will be meeting with the Western powers in Geneva next week.They felt going into these meetings next week that they needed to have something else to bolster their position, and I think that Iran's Revolutionary Guard showing a bit of military muscle here is part of that,he said.U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she doesn't believe Iran can convince the U.S. and other world powers at the upcoming meeting that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, putting Tehran on a course for tougher economic penalties beyond the current leaky sanctions.The Iranians must present convincing evidence as to the purpose of their nuclear program. We don't believe that they can present convincing evidence, that it's only for peaceful purposes, but we are going to put them to the test,Clinton told CBS' Face the Nation.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates arguing that pressuring Tehran economically and diplomatically would have a better chance of changing the Tehran government's policies than military strikes against the nuclear site.The reality is, there is no military option that does anything more than buy time,he told CNN's State of the Union in an interview broadcast Sunday.The nuclear site was revealed in the arid mountains near the holy city of Qom and is believed to be inside a heavily guarded, underground facility belonging to the Revolutionary Guard, according to a document sent by President Barack Obama's administration to lawmakers.After the strong condemnations from the U.S. and its allies, Iran said Saturday it will allow U.N. nuclear inspectors to examine the site.Israel has trumpeted the latest discoveries as proof of its long-held assertion that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons.The revelation of the secret Iranian facility also demonstrates to even the most skeptical people the evil intentions of Iran,said Danny Ayalon, Israel's deputy foreign minister.The Iran's ongoing military maneuvers including the last one and all their missile tests are a huge challenge to the international community,he added in an interview with Israel's Channel 10 Sunday.By U.S. estimates, Iran is one to five years away from having nuclear weapons capability, although U.S. intelligence also believes that Iranian leaders have not yet made the decision to build a weapon.
Iran also is developing ballistic missiles that could carry a nuclear warhead, but the administration said last week that it believes that effort has been slowed. That assessment paved the way for Obama's decision to shelve the Bush administration's plan for a missile shield in Europe, which was aimed at defending against Iranian ballistic missiles.Salami said Iran would test medium-range Shahab-1 and Shahab-2 missiles on Sunday night and a longer-range Shahab-3 missiles on Monday, during drills set to last several days.Iran's last known missile tests were in May when it fired its longest-range solid-fuel missile, Sajjil-2. Tehran said the two-stage surface-to-surface missile has a range of about 1,200 miles (1,900 kilometers) — capable of striking Israel, U.S. Mideast bases and southeastern Europe.
Iran fires missiles amid nuclear controversy
SEPT 27,09, 12:28 pm Jay Deshmukh
Iran test-fired three short-range missiles on Sunday as the Islamic republic began war games two days after the UN nuclear watchdog disclosed it was building a second uranium enrichment plant. Skip related content.Hossein Salami, air force commander of the elite Revolutionary Guards, said that Monday would also see a test-firing of a long-range missile which Iran says has a range of 1,300-2,000 kilometres (800-1,240miles) and is capable of hitting arch-foe Israel.Tomorrow we will test the long-range Shahab-3 missile,he told state television.He also told reporters, without elaborating, that the Guards tested a multiple missile launcher for the first time on Sunday and that later in the day Shahab-1 and Shahab-2 medium-range missiles would be test-fired.Iran's Fars news agency said the multiple launcher could fire two missiles aimed at separate targets simultaneously.Salami said Iran was also now capable of firing missiles from mobile launchers, and called the manoeuvres an indication of Iran's strong will to defend our values and interests.This exercise has a message of friendship for friendly countries. For greedy countries that seek to intimidate us, the message is that we are capable of a prompt and crushing response to their animosity,state television's website quoted him as saying.
Dismissing Israel as a potential threat, Salami said: That regime is not in a position that we need to comment about threats from it.He said Iran has increased the precision of our missiles... hopefully, these missile tests will contribute to our deterrent and defensive capabilities.Salami said the Guards will not launch any new type of missile during the exercise which is expected to last several days, but he added that Iran has boosted the number of missiles and can contain long-term missile conflicts.Earlier, state media reported that the three short-range missiles fired were of the Tondar-69, Fateh-110 and Zelzal type.All three weapons, powered by solid fuel, have a range of between 100 and 400 kilometres (60 and 250 miles).State-owned Press TV broadcast footages of sand-coloured missiles being fired in desert terrain.
Iran's manoeuvres come after US President Barack Obama earlier this month scrapped his predecessor George W. Bush's plan to deploy missile interceptors in Poland and a powerful tracking radar in the Czech Republic by 2013.He said he had decided to replace the shield with a more mobile system using mainly sea-based interceptors.In taking the decision, Obama emphasised the threat of Iran's short-range and medium-range missiles instead of the potential danger of its longer-range weapons.The White House said the intelligence community now believed Iran was developing shorter-range missiles more rapidly than previously projected while progressing more slowly than expected with intercontinental missiles.US ally Israel, most Arab states and parts of Europe -- including much of Turkey -- are within range of the Shahab-3.Over the past two years, when Bush was still in office, Iran stepped up work on its ballistic missiles, testing a more advanced solid-fuel medium-range missile, and also said it had successfully put a satellite into orbit.
Iran stages regular military manoeuvres in strategic Gulf waters, showcasing its missiles and other weaponry.In the past it has threatened to target US bases in the region and to block the strategic Gulf Strait of Hormuz waterway for oil tankers if its nuclear sites are attacked.Israel and the United States have never ruled out a military option to thwart Iran's nuclear drive, which they suspect of having a military aim despite Tehran's denial.On Friday, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Iran was building a second uranium enrichment plant, sparking concern by Western leaders.Iran's nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi said the new plant on the road from Tehran to the holy city of Qom would operate under IAEA supervision, an announcement welcomed by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.The disclosure of the new plant's existence came just days before an October 1 meeting in Geneva between Iran and six world powers to discuss Tehran's disputed atomic programme.
World reached last opportunity for engagement with Teheran-Sunday, 27 September 2009 05:39 News from Jerusalem .Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
Israeli officials believe the revelation of a hitherto-hidden uranium enrichment facility near the Iranian holy city of Qom will spur the international community to act more forcefully to stop the Islamic republic from developing nuclear weapons, The Jerusalem Post has learned.The free world has reached the last opportunity for engagement with Iran. We believe many Western countries now see that the Iranian mask is slipping,a senior official told the Post on Saturday night.But we don't yet know if Russia and China understand this,the official added, citing two countries that have disagreed with Israel and many Western states on the need for further sanctions.Later on Saturday night, a senior Obama administration official revealed that the US and its five partners - France, Russia, the UK, Germany and China - plan to tell Teheran at a meeting in Geneva on Thursday that it must provide unfettered access to its previously secret Qom enrichment facility within weeks.The six major powers also will present a so-called transparency package covering all of Iran's nuclear activities, the official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss plans that are not yet ready to be announced.The six countries will demand full access for the International Atomic Energy Agency to any and every site, notebooks, computers and documents related to nuclear development, and all scientists.They will demand that Iran prove to the increasingly skeptical group that its intentions with its various sites are peaceful and energy-related, as Iran claims, and not for weapons development, as the West believes.Meanwhile in Israel, a source in the Prime Minister's Office said it was not a surprise to the prime minister that Iran had an additional nuclear facility.The source said that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu discussed Iran and other issues over the weekend with top congressmen, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California); Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) and veteran Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii).
If not now then when? the official quoted Netanyahu as saying.While Israeli diplomats have been told not to comment on the revelations before they are studied in detail, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman gave an early reaction to the news earlier on Saturday that seemed to echo the American president's reaction.This ends the dispute over whether Iran is developing military nuclear power or not, and therefore world powers need to draw conclusions,Lieberman told Israel Radio.Without a doubt it is a reactor for military purposes, not peaceful ones,he said.He urged immediate action by the international community to overthrow the mad regime of Teheran,according to AFP.Lieberman said that in his meetings with Arab foreign ministers at the UN General Assembly last week, they expressed alarm over Iran's nuclear program.Nobody is worried about the Palestinian problem; everybody in the Muslim and Arab world - and first and foremost in the Gulf states - is worried about the Iranian problem,he said.Iran kept the facility, located underground in arid, mountainous terrain 160 km. southwest of Teheran, hidden from the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency, revealing it only over the weekend.The site is capable of housing some 3,000 centrifuges, according to Western intelligence sources, far less than the 8,000 currently housed at the enrichment facility at Natanz, the only other facility currently known to be operating in Iran.
According to Western officials, and acknowledged by Iran, the disclosure came after Western intelligence agencies had learned of the facility and Western leaders planned to reveal it to the world.Iran's vice president, Ali Akbar Salehi, who also heads the country's Atomic Energy Organization, said on Saturday that by reporting the existence of the site voluntarily to the IAEA, Iran preempted a conspiracy by the US and its allies, who had been hoping to reveal the site as evidence that Iran was developing its nuclear program in secret.Declaring that the new site is inconsistent with a peaceful [nuclear] program,US President Barack Obama on Friday accused Teheran of breaking rules that all nations must follow.He called the newly revealed site a direct challenge to the basic foundation of the nonproliferation regime.Salehi told state television on Saturday that Iran would allow the IAEA to inspect the facility, though he did not give a timeline.Israeli government agencies will be studying the new information, which according to reports has been known for some time by intelligence agencies, and for about three years by the US.However, due to Yom Kippur, the issue won't be brought before the full cabinet until the ministers' next meeting on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, US Jewish groups argued over the weekend that the revelations made a case for the immediate implementation of new sanctions aimed at stopping the Iranian nuclear program.The time is now, not months from now, to determine the most effective and impactful sanctions and implement them,leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations said in a statement.Should the UN Security Council not be able to muster the votes necessary, then Europe, the US and other nations should act outside of the framework of that body,Alan Solow and Malcolm Hoenlein, the Conference's chairman and executive vice chairman, respectively, said in Friday's statement.The American Jewish Committee said it had grave concerns over the revelations, which amounted to further incontrovertible proof that any assurances from Iranian leaders about the nature and scope of their nuclear program are worthless.Whether they are denying the Holocaust or trying to fool us over their nuclear ambitions, it's clear that lying is what Iran's leaders do best,the group's executive director David Harris said in a statement.The discovery of this second facility fits perfectly into the web of deceit which Iran has woven around its nuclear program. Let's recall that the regime also tried to conceal the Natanz facility from the outside world. We are compelled to ask: What else are they hiding? Hilary Leila Krieger, Gil Hoffman and AP contributed to this report.jpost.
How many more secret nuke sites does Iran have? Sunday, 27 September 2009 05:56 News from Jerusalem .Can Ahmadinejad's word be trusted?
Intelligence experts in the West and in Israel assumed for some time that a country that is seeking to acquire nuclear weapons would also develop a secret installation for enriching uranium so that it could hide its activities from the international community.At such an installation, it would then be able to enrich uranium to a sufficiently high level that it would be usable as fissile material in a nuclear bomb. Indeed, what has taken place over the past few days has been the realization of those estimates, with Iran announcing that it had in place an additional installation for uranium enrichment, beyond the one the inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency were aware of in Natanz.Iran's announcement was made so as to preempt the news first being released by the media or foreign governments. However, Iran made no real gain with its admission. On the contrary, it has only aroused additional suspicions regarding its plans, incensed the international community, and embarrassed its few supporters. Even Russia, which has to date backed Iran and prevented the imposition of harsh sanctions against Tehran, appears to be losing patience.Iran's timing was especially bad, with the announcement about the Qom facility coming only days before the scheduled October 1 start of talks in Geneva with the permanent members of the Security Council and Germany. Those talks are intended to resolve the issue of Tehran's nuclear program. The announcement also came a short while after the IAEA's annual meeting, just after the UN General Assembly gathering, and on the day the G-8 met in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In all settings, Iran was topped the agenda.
The announcement resulted in a demand from the leaders of the U.S., France and the United Kingdom that Iran allow international inspectors to enter the site at Qom. Iran confirmed that it intends to do just that and is trying to calm things by saying that only low-level enrichment took place at the facility, just like at Natanz - intended for the peaceful purpose of producing electricity.But the world is now finding it difficult to believe a regime that has in the past been caught lying more than once. According to Tehran, the newly publicized installation is small, and can house only 3,000 centrifuges, which are too few for industrial production. This, coupled with Iran's efforts to highlight the activities at Natanz while constructing a secret facility, leads to only one conclusion: that they were planning to use the installation to produce highly enriched uranium for military use.If Iran does agree to let IAEA inspectors into the site, it will have to build a third enrichment facility - although there may already be one in place. Which raises a major question: How many other secret sites does Iran have for the production of the essential elements for its nuclear program? This is a question of particular importance to the military planners who are considering a military option against Iran.Some analysts have said that the installation at Qom is the smoking gun that proves, beyond doubt, that Iran is seeking to develop nuclear weapons.Nonetheless, global political interests do not seem to be any closer to converging on how to deal with Iran and its nuclear program. Meanwhile, Iran is getting closer to its goal of being in a position to produce nuclear weapons.haaretz.
Germany's Merkel wins 2nd term, new coalition By GEIR MOULSON and MELISSA EDDY, Associated Press Writers – SEPT 27,09
BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel won a second term on Sunday, along with the center-right majority that eluded her four years ago — nudging Europe's biggest economic power to the right as it claws its way out of a deep recession.Voters sent the nation's main left-wing party, the Social Democrats of Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, into opposition after 11 years in government. It was the party's worst parliamentary election result since World War II.The conservative Merkel ended her four-year grand coalition with Steinmeier's party thanks to a record showing by her new coalition partner, the pro-business Free Democrats. Her own Christian Democratic Union performed unimpressively.Tonight we can really celebrate,said a beaming Merkel, greeted by chants of Angie! Angie! from supporters.(But) there are many problems in our country to be solved.A subdued Steinmeier vowed to lead a strong opposition.There is no talking around it: this is a bitter defeat,he said.
Merkel's CDU and its Bavaria-only sister, the Christian Social Union, won 33.8 percent of the vote and the Social Democrats took 23 percent. The Free Democrats captured 14.6 percent, the Left Party 11.9 percent and the Greens 10.7 percent.That gave the conservatives 239 seats and the Free Democrats 93 in the lower house — for a comfortable center-right majority of 332 seats to 290. The Social Democrats won 146, the Left Party 76 and the Greens 68.It was a major shift from the 2005 election, in which Merkel's conservatives just squeaked past the Social Democrats.The White House said President Barack Obama called Merkel to congratulate her and looks forward to continued close cooperation with her.French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown also congratulated her.Merkel's second four-year term will be markedly different from her first, in which she presided over a middle-of-the-road government that was fractious but enjoyed a huge parliamentary majority.
Heather Conley, director of the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies' Europe Program, said the new government is going to place much more burden on Chancellor Merkel to forge an agenda and implement it.Merkel's popularity has been fueled by her consensual approach. She will now lead a narrower coalition with a stronger opposition and a self-confident new partner, but suggested that she will stick to her own style.My understanding was, and my understanding is, that I want to be the chancellor of all Germans,she told supporters, adding that protecting and creating jobs will be my highest aim.Guido Westerwelle, the leader of the Free Democrats, is widely expected to be the next foreign minister. His party is returning to government after an 11-year absence.We are pleased with this exceptional result but we know that above all else, this means responsibility,he said.Merkel vowed swift and decisive coalition talks, likely to be shorter than the two months of haggling that produced the grand coalition in 2005.Merkel and Westerwelle will now have to figure out how to deliver on pledges of tax relief — promises that Steinmeier had said were unrealistic as the government is running up huge debts to tackle the country's economic crisis.Both argued that tax cuts would boost the economy, ultimately leading to higher tax revenue.
Yet Merkel has called for modest middle-income tax relief, while Westerwelle — who successfully portrayed his party as a champion of the middle class and small business — has called for far deeper tax cuts, with significant reductions in both the top and bottom rates.That will be the Achilles' heel of the Free Democrats and the (new) coalition as a whole, because it will not be possible to cut taxes, predicted Heinrich Oberreuter, a political science professor at the University of Passau.One change should be easier: Both the conservatives and the Free Democrats want to halt a plan to shut down Germany's 17 nuclear power plants by 2021, and extend the lives of some until more renewable energy is available. A key challenge for the new government will be to work toward a strategy for the eventual withdrawal of the more than 4,200 German troops in Afghanistan, a mission that has become increasingly unpopular. Conley said there would not be a run toward the exits.What I would suspect is that the new government will take an opportunity to do its own strategic review of where the forces are and how it will continue,she said. Al-Qaida and Taliban militants have threatened Germany over its involvement in Afghanistan, prompting increased security ahead of the election. Authorities on Saturday banned all flights over Munich's Oktoberfest beer festival, which draws 6 million visitors, until it ends Oct. 4.
Germany's mainstream parties all agree on the need to better train Afghan police and soldiers so that NATO soldiers eventually can be pulled out, but have set no withdrawal date.Westerwelle has praised the outgoing government's carrot-and-stick approach to Iran over its nuclear program.The coalition change may eventually mean a tougher approach to Turkey's European Union membership bid, which Merkel's party opposes while the Free Democrats appear noncommittal.Merkel's new government is well-placed in the upper house of parliament, which represents Germany's 16 states and needs to approve major legislation. Several of Germany's most populous states have center-right governments.The result Sunday was particularly painful for the Social Democrats, far undercutting their previous postwar worst — 28.8 percent in 1953. However, Merkel's party also performed poorly.The conservatives' result wasn't much better than their worst performance, 31 percent in 1949. Germany's three opposition parties gained support, with all achieving their best results ever. In 2005, all three parties scored less than 10 percent of the vote each.The attractiveness of the big parties is crumbling and that of the small parties is increasing significantly, Oberreuter said.Turnout Sunday was 70.8 percent — a new postwar low, down from 77.7 percent four years ago.Associated Press Writer Matt Moore contributed to this report.
European Commission criticised over Lisbon leaflet
ANDREW WILLIS Today SEPT 28,09 @ 09:25 CET
Anti-Lisbon Treaty campaigners in Ireland have criticised the European Commission for what they say is illegal interference in the campaign after it placed a supplement in the nation's Sunday newspapers.Former Green MEP and chairwoman of the People's Movement, Patricia McKenna, says the 16-page insert, entitled Your Guide to The Lisbon Treaty, was a clear breach of Irish laws and also a waste of taxpayers' money.The EU Commission, with the massive funds and resources available to it, courtesy of the taxpayer, can influence Irish opinion prior to the vote if they can get away with it,she said.The pamphlet, which Ms McKenna argues is pro-Lisbon in nature, was produced on behalf of the European Commission's Publications Office.A decision by the Irish Supreme Court in 1995 ruled that taxpayers' money cannot be used to promote one side in a referendum, with the People's Movement set to seek legal advice this week.The Irish will vote for a second time on the Lisbon Treaty this Friday (2 October), having rejected the document last June. Since then however, the Irish government has secured legal guarantees from EU leaders that the new treaty will not threaten Irish laws in the areas of taxation, neutrality and certain moral issues such as abortion.The People's Movement also says that placing the Lisbon guide in Irish newspapers contravenes EU law: since the European Commission has no competence whatever in the ratification of treaties.But a commission spokeswoman said it had a duty to inform people about the treaty.The commission has provided information in an understandable form,she said.
Yes vote pulling ahead
A new poll conducted last Friday suggests the Yes side is pulling ahead further in the race to convince Irish voters to back the Lisbon treaty. Around 68 percent of those responding to the latest Sunday Independent / Quantum Research poll say they will vote in favour of the treaty.Of the remaining 32 per cent of respondents, 17 per cent expressed their intention to vote No, while 15 per cent are still undecided.
A previous poll conducted by the newspaper on September 11 showed the Yes vote on 63 percent compared to the No vote on 15 percent and 22 percent undecided.Leading Irish business figures have come out strongly in favour of Lisbon Treaty in recent weeks, saying a No vote would hurt the country's economy by raising doubts in foreign investors' minds.Chief executive of packaging company Smurfit Kappa, Gary McCann, warned that a No in the Lisbon Treaty would be tantamount to a vote for isolationism.
THIS HEADLINE IS A DIRECT PROPHECY BEING FULFILLED SINCE IT WILL BE THE EU GUARENTEEING ISRAELS SECURITY WHEN THE RUSSIA,MUSLIMS MARCH AGAINST ISRAEL SHORTLY AND THE EU AND ISRAEL COMBINED WILL NUKE 5/6TH OF THE RUSSIA,MUSLIMS ARMY WHEN THEY INVADE ISRAEL.
New wave of MEPs more wary of Russia, EU parliament chief says
VALENTINA POP Today SEPT 28,09 @ 09:18 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Members of the European Parliament from central and eastern Europe have brought a different perspective on Russia and energy security to Brussels, the president of the EU legislature, Jerzy Buzek, said in an interview with this website.We are very much interested and sometimes worried about the EU's relations with Russia, he said.It's a very sensitive issue to some countries, especially the Baltic states, which were inside the Soviet Union. We need Russia, of course, but I think Russia needs us as well and we should base our co-operation on shared rules and values.Mr Buzek, a former Polish prime minister and activist in the anti-Communist Solidarity movement, is the first European Parliament head to come from one of the Iron Curtain states which joined the EU in 2004.He said that questions of democracy and human rights should never be omitted when talking to Moscow, as well as other major powers such as China.On the subject of energy security - a phrase which has gained prominence in Europe after several disruptions to Russian gas imports - Mr Buzek warned that bilateral deal-making with Russian suppliers hurts EU interests.He voiced strong belief in Nabucco, an EU-backed pipeline project designed to reduce energy dependency on Russia, while saying that South Stream, a rival Russian scheme backed by Italy and France, is weakening our EU project.We take decisions based on our own interest, but very often that is not in the interest of the whole EU. It would be better if we could take the decision at EU level and negotiate for all member states, taking into account the long term perspective, not just a year or two,he said.Talks on a new EU-Russia Partnership and Co-operation Agreement are proving very difficult because of Russia's refusal to adopt the Energy Charter Treaty, the parliament president added, referring to an old pact to help EU companies invest in Russia's energy sector.But the Pole remained optimistic that the EU's nascent energy policy will bear fruit in the coming years.
Our common market of capital, goods and services took some years to build and function properly. We just started with a common energy policy and we've already taken some important decisions, such as cross-border connections, how to tackle gas and electricity issues inside the EU and help each other in case of emergency.
EU perspective for Moldova and Ukraine
In comments on another prickly area in EU-Russia relations, Mr Buzek made the case for opening the door to future EU membership for countries such as Moldova and Ukraine on the model of the Balkan states.In the Balkans we had a horrible war more than 10 years ago. And now every country - Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia, Croatia - all are queuing for EU membership. And this means no war,he said.The European Parliament's new assembly with MPs from the six countries in the EU's recently-launched Eastern Partnership policy - Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Armenia and Azerbaijan - will help transform the region by fostering civil society, Mr Buzek believes.Civil society is the most important thing. It's the basis for democracy, a real market economy, social reforms, culture, education. We've been through that, in Poland and other central and eastern European states. We have the same task now ahead with the Eastern Partnership.
EU economic solidarity
Mr Buzek hopes that his mandate, which ends in December 2011, will see further softening of the disparities between old and new member states in what will one day be a common Europe.I would like to see the re-unification of our continent and a deep feeling that all member states, despite different levels of development, feel responsible for the whole EU and that we feel solidarity among us, ready to help any region in the EU which needs it,he said.Europe's so-called cohesion policy - which provides aid for infrastructure, sewage systems and energy connections to the bloc's poorest regions - has been important to the new member states, whose MEPs have a special sensitivity to the issue, Mr Buzek explained. With discussions on the EU's next seven-year budget likely to be more tense than ever due to the economic crisis, he stressed that EU cohesion policy remains important not only for the newcomers, but also for some regions in Finland, Portugal, Spain or the former East Germany. Mr Buzek argued that it was natural for national governments to react in a protectionist way in a crisis, when people start to be slightly selfish.But we must explain that it is actually thanks to the integration of member states that the [EU] economy is stronger than it would have been without it,the parliament president said.
Member states holding back social agenda, says Barroso-Close to 80 million people currently live in poverty in the EU (Photo: European Commission)ANDREW WILLIS
Today SEPT 28,09 @ 17:26 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – European commission president Jose Manuel Barroso told a gathering of civil society representatives on Monday (28 September) that the European Union needed to do more to tackle social issues such as poverty. He said member state governments had repeatedly blocked greater European action in this area in the past, choosing instead to look after their own poor.I think now in the face of this economic crisis we should consider doing something at the European level for the poorest,he told delegates of the Spring Alliance, a group of civil society organisations seeking to influence the next commission's work programme.My position is yes [to greater European action]. So far the position of the council [representing member states] has been no. That is the reality,said Mr Barroso, who earlier this month won the backing of the European parliament to carry on for another five years at the helm of the EU executive. At present, 79 million people in the EU live in poverty, despite the fact that they inhabit the richest economic area in the world.Compounding this problem is the fact that EU governments with the highest poverty levels are currently those cutting back the most on social spending, say NGOs such Social Platform.The Swedish government, for example, spends over 30 percent of its annual budget on social issues, compared to less than 10 percent in Latvia where a recent bailout led by the International Monetary Fund came on condition of reduced government spending.The Brussels-based army of people seeking to gain greater prominence for their own agendas is keenly aware that the next few months represent an important policy-shaping window regarding the EU's direction for the next few years.
Member states will approve a new work programme for the commission at a spring summit next year, with Mr Barroso already airing his personal priorities to the European parliament earlier this month.The commission is also set to launch a consultation period for a future European economic strategy that will take over from the much-maligned Lisbon Agenda that expires in 2010.
Sensitive areas
Pointing to the substantial structural funds received by Poland, Mr Barroso said there already were very important mechanisms of solidarity between member states within the EU.But I believe in the current circumstances more should be done, but for that the commission needs the support of the member states and the European parliament,he said.The question of who receives most from the EU budget has continually caused strong debate between net donors and net recipients, and upcoming discussions on funding for the EU's next financial period 2014-2020 are unlikely to pass off smoothly.The question of social spending also touches on the highly sensitive and related issue of taxation, which a number of member states guard jealously.The Irish government for instance secured a legal guarantee from EU leaders last June to reassure its citizens that the EU's proposed new set of rules, the Lisbon Treaty, would not undermine national sovereignty to set taxation levels.
Germany and other higher tax member states complain however that low-tax countries such as Ireland undermine their ability to support expensive social welfare programmes.While calling for greater European action to deal with the regions poor, Mr Barroso ruled out any move on taxation.It is impossible to harmonise this. We are not a federal state,he said.
Opinion Christian Science Monitor.The unseen bias in Middle East reporting By Gilead Ini Gilead Ini – Thu Sep 24, 5:00 am ET
Boston – In journalism, there are three types of statements: objective facts; obvious opinions; and a third, hazier category that can be called judgment terms. This last category, which appears often (but not exclusively) in Middle East coverage, challenges both readers and reporters by testing the boundaries between fact and opinion.Facts, of course, are the building blocks of news stories. Consider the following example of a factual sentence:In August, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas convened his Fatah party in Bethlehem for a major policy conference.This straightforward statement explains who did what, when and where.Opinions, on the other hand, are kept to their own section of the newspaper. If you read that the Bethlehem conference was great or worthless,it's a sure sign you are reading the opinion pages and not the news section.Which takes us to judgment terms. These are the assessments that, although found in news stories, can resemble opinion more than fact. What, for instance, is the difference between security-minded and hawkish? Where are the lines between left-leaning,left-wing and far left, or between nationalist and ultra-nationalist? What must a government believe before it is reasonable to dub it hardline or moderate? There are no universally accepted answers to these questions.
Such language is not only subjective, but also politically loaded. When used in reporting, it allows a journalist's personal views, rather than just the facts, to dramatically influence public understanding of a controversial topic like the Mideast conflict.One especially prominent – and highly questionable – example of a judgment term is the habitual characterization of Mr. Abbas and his Fatah party as moderate. Most major Western news organizations have used this description at one time or another. It is time for them to stop.While there's no doubt that Fatah is, in a number of respects, more moderate than its main rival, the Islamist Hamas party, relative moderation is hardly the same as true moderation. After all, it isn't terribly difficult to be less extreme than Hamas.At any rate, it was not Hamas that recently declared: The Palestinian people's right to carry out armed struggle against the armed occupation will remain an inalienable right....It was Fatah. At its recent Bethlehem conference, statements like this intermingled with contradictory declarations that Fatah has opted for peace, raising serious concerns about what the party sees as a legitimate way to pursue its aims.And what are those aims? Although Fatah has declared its support of a two-state solution, Abbas and other Fatah leaders continue to insist that they do not, and will not, recognize Israel as the Jewish state.
This rejection of a state for the Jewish people, even while the same leaders demand a state for the Palestinians, leaves open the troubling possibility that at some future date Fatah leaders might opt to exercise their inalienable right to violently assault what they continue to discredit as an illegitimate state. And it put no one's mind at ease when, just after it legitimized armed struggle, Fatah explained that the method, timing, and place of struggle will be determined by such factors as the balance of power and the people's ability to carry out revolution.Add to this the conference's endorsement of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, which killed dozens of Israeli civilians during the wave of Palestinian violence that started in 2000, and its warm salute to the Palestinian terrorists responsible for a brutal 1978 massacre in Israel, and the glaring need to avoid describing Fatah as moderate becomes even more evident.This is hardly the only instance of misuse of the term. Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, for example, is often described in mainstream press accounts as a moderate despite the fact that he is wanted by Argentina in connection with the devastating bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish community center that killed 85 people.
On the other end of the spectrum, terms like hardline and hawkish,which frequently appear in news references to the Israeli government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, must also be questioned. Mr. Netanyahu's call for immediate negotiations without preconditions and acceptance of a Palestinian state that would not threaten Israel's security appear more conciliatory than many of Fatah's positions. There is, of course, room to argue about whether Netanyahu should nonetheless be considered hawkish. But news stories should not endorse one side of this debate. There are ways around using this kind of language. For example, rather than labeling Hamas extreme, a reporter could simply explain that the group is responsible for suicide bombings against civilians and is designated by the international community as a terrorist organization. Readers will come to the appropriate conclusion.Still, it's easy to understand why a journalist, faced with deadline pressures and space constraints, would prefer to use quick and easy judgment terms. And sometimes they might be appropriate, unavoidable, or at least harmless. But clearly, they often are not.
Before using any judgment term, then, reporters should stop to consider whether their biases might be unduly influencing their word choice, and search for more objective and accurate descriptions.Will journalists do this? The thoughtful ones will. And since others will not, judgment terms should be a red flag for readers trying to get the straight story from the Middle East and beyond.Gilead Ini is a senior research analyst at the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA).
INTENSE TESTS FOR H1N1 FLU.IF YOU TAKE THE SHOTS,ITS TOO LATE,IF YOU DIE,YOUR JUST ANOTHER STATISTIC.TESTS........SUREEEE.
Intense tracking for swine flu shot's side effects By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer – Sun Sep 27, 3:27 pm ET
WASHINGTON – More than 3,000 people a day have a heart attack. If you're one of them the day after your swine flu shot, will you worry the vaccine was to blame and not the more likely culprit, all those burgers and fries? The government is starting an unprecedented system to track possible side effects as mass flu vaccinations begin next month. The idea is to detect any rare but real problems quickly, and explain the inevitable coincidences that are sure to cause some false alarms.Every day, bad things happen to people. When you vaccinate a lot of people in a short period of time, some of those things are going to happen to some people by chance alone,said Dr. Daniel Salmon, a vaccine safety specialist at the Department of Health and Human Services.Health authorities hope to vaccinate well over half the population in just a few months against swine flu, which doctors call the 2009 H1N1 strain. That would be a feat. No more than 100 million Americans usually get vaccinated against regular winter flu, and never in such a short period.How many will race for the vaccine depends partly on confidence in its safety. The last mass inoculations against a different swine flu, in 1976, were marred by reports of a rare paralyzing condition, Guillain-Barre syndrome.The recurring question is, How do we know it's safe? said Dr. Gregory Poland of the Mayo Clinic.Enter the intense new monitoring. On top of routine vaccine tracking, there are these government-sponsored projects:
-Harvard Medical School scientists are linking large insurance databases that cover up to 50 million people with vaccination registries around the country for real-time checks of whether people see a doctor in the weeks after a flu shot and why. The huge numbers make it possible to quickly compare rates of complaints among the vaccinated and unvaccinated, said the project leader, Dr. Richard Platt, Harvard's population medicine chief.
-Johns Hopkins University will direct e-mails to at least 100,000 vaccine recipients to track how they're feeling, including the smaller complaints that wouldn't prompt a doctor visit. If anything seems connected, researchers can call to follow up with detailed questions.
-The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is preparing take-home cards that tell vaccine recipients how to report any suspected side effects to the nation's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting system.
We don't have any reason to expect any unusual problems with this vaccine, said Dr. Neal Halsey, director of Hopkins' Institute for Vaccine Safety, who is directing the e-mail surveillance.After all, the new H1N1 vaccine is a mere recipe change from the regular winter flu shot that's been used for decades in hundreds of millions of people without serious problems. Nor have there been any red flags in the few thousand people given test doses in studies to determine the right H1N1 dose. They've gotten the same sore arms and occasional headache or fever that's par for a winter flu shot.But because this H1N1 flu targets the young more than the old, this may be the year that unprecedented numbers of children and pregnant women are vaccinated.Then there's the glare of the Internet — where someone merely declaring on Facebook that he's sure the shot did harm could cause a wave of similar reports. Health authorities will have to tell quickly if there really do seem to be more cases of a particular health problem than usual.So the CDC is racing to compile a list of what's normal: 25,000 heart attacks every week; 14,000 to 19,000 miscarriages every week; 300 severe allergic reactions called anaphylaxis every week.
Any spike would mean fast checking to see if the vaccine really seems to increase risk and by how much, so health officials could issue appropriate warnings.Very rare side effects by definition could come to light only after large-scale inoculations begin — making this the year scientists may finally learn if flu vaccine truly is linked to Guillain-Barre, an often reversible but sometimes fatal paralysis. It's believed to strike between 1 and 2 of every 100,000 people. It often occurs right after another infection, such as food poisoning or even influenza.But the vaccine concern stems from 1976, when 500 cases were reported among the 45 million people vaccinated against that year's swine flu. Scientists never could prove if the vaccine really caused the extra risk. The CDC maintains that if the regular winter flu vaccine is related, the risk is no more than a single case per million vaccinated.
So the question becomes, Is the risk of disease greater than that?
Mayo's Poland cites a study in Chicago that found the rate of preschoolers being hospitalized for the new H1N1 flu last spring was 2 1/2 times higher than that possible Guillain-Barre risk. However the flu season turns out, the extra vaccine tracking promises a lasting impact.Part of what we hope is that it will teach us something about how to monitor the safety of all medical products quickly,said Harvard's Platt.On the Net: CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/H1N1FLU/ Guillain-Barre: http://tinyurl.com/db4ck
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
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Budget toll in EU states to continue into 2010
RENATA GOLDIROVA Today SEPT 28,09 @ 10:00 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – European capitals are likely to continue running high deficits in 2010, but the following year should see a very substantial reduction in countries' debt burden, the European Commission has suggested in a strategy document for EU finance ministers.Considering the fragility of the recovery, no consolidation is advocated on aggregate in 2010, as the planned stimulus measures should still be implemented and government revenues remain subdued,reads the paper prepared for a ministerial meeting later this week (1-2 October).The informal meeting in the Swedish city of Gothenburg will centre on how to exit from unprecedented rescue measures for ailing economies as well as how to tackle growing debts.The 27-nation EU believes that its economy - although no longer in free fall - cannot survive on its own and an abrupt withdrawal of stimuli would choke any recovery.According to the commission paper, budgetary support should be reduced from 1.1 percent of GDP this year to 0.7 percent next year and should be largely withdrawn from 2011. European banks should continue having access to schemes such as guarantees on debt issuance or relief on impaired assets until end of June 2010.UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, for his part, confirmed on Sunday (27 September) that his government would maintain public investment as long as we are in recession and as long as there is the need to ensure the economy is strong.
Save and reform
However, doing nothing or acting too late could also backfire, warn critics of the steady-as-she-goes approach, who argue that this could drive up inflation and borrowing costs, with households and firms saving rather than spending.The absence of a roadmap for the future course of policies can make the crisis more persistent, Brussels says. The commission expects member states to start major budget deficits cuts no later than in 2011.From 2011, when the economic recovery is assumed to be on a firm footing, a generalised and very substantial fiscal consolidation will be required to reverse the worrying debt trends,the paper says.In practice, most governments should slash deficits by more than 0.5 percent of GDP - and in many cases by over one percent - for several years, although it is virtually impossible to achieve it by spending cuts alone.Tax rises - most recently announced by Spain - are likely to be seen in various EU states. The Spanish government, for its part, is set to raise an extra €11bn a year with austerity measures that include higher income and value-added taxes.Brussels predicts that without a return to tighter public finances, the EU's debt is set to reach 120 percent in 2020 - twice the maximum allowed under current rules. Ireland alone would have debt of 200 percent of GDP by the end of the next decade.But the fact that the EU is unlikely to return to previous economic growth rates - as a result of the crisis and the ageing of population - could diminish governments' appetite for fiscal discipline, something Brussels warns against.Lacklustre growth rates should not be considered as a reason for delaying the exit strategy.Tax and benefit-system reforms together with pension-scheme reforms and greater emphasis on education, innovation or green technologies, are also among the key tasks for governments.
Fiery talk, lofty ideas at Africa-South America summit By Frank Jack Daniel and Fabian Cambero – Sun Sep 27, 5:33 pm ET
PORLAMAR, Venezuela (Reuters) – Anti-imperialist rhetoric and ambitious ideas flowed on Sunday at a summit dominated by South America's leftist leaders and some of Africa's best-known former anti-colonial fighters.Flanked by the likes of Robert Mugabe from Zimbabwe and Luiz Inacio Lula Silva of Brazil, Venezuela's socialist leader Hugo Chavez, the summit's host, looked in his element as he heard a plethora of proposals to promote poor nations' global clout.The two-day summit on Venezuela's sweltering Margarita island, in the Caribbean, came right after the U.N. General Assembly and the G20 summit and was intended as a counterpoint to Western dominance of global institutions.We have to construct a new alliance, discover opportunities and help ourselves mutually,Lula said, summing up the central theme of speeches by the 28 leaders present.On specifics, Mugabe and Chavez proposed greater cooperation on exploitation of resources like minerals and oil.The Venezuelan, who sees himself at the forefront of a global anti-imperialist movement, urged his fellow leaders to form a multi-state corporation for mining.Africa and South America are rich lands, yet their peoples are poor, because they have been exploited. Let's not allow them to keep exploiting and ransacking our lands. Those riches belong to our people, the garrulous Chavez said, giving a mini-speech himself between every speech by another leader.Let's not waste a day. If we start with just two or three countries, well we'll start with those that can.
LIBYA NEXT HOST
Mugabe, a former guerrilla commander in power since independence from Britain in 1980, echoed the sentiment, saying Zimbabwe could offer minerals and agricultural products for oil and technology.In Africa, greater industrial development has been difficult because of a reliance on the very powers that colonized us, he said.They do not want really to see us industrialized.Some of the summit participants are severely criticized by opponents for abusing rights and democracy at home.On the sports front, Mugabe suggested the ASA (South America-Africa) nations meeting should hold their own World Cup-style soccer tournament, while Lula urged support for Brazil's bid to host the 2016 Olympics.The biggest sporting event after the World Cup cannot be a privilege of rich nations,said Lula.
The United States is also bidding for the 2016 Games.The International Olympic Committee's leadership is like the world's riches -- all concentrated in Europe which has more delegates than all of Africa and Latin America,Lula said.While the summit has included plenty of harsh words in general for the West's past sins and present indifference to global poverty, Venezuela sought to defuse perhaps the most provocative theme to emerge at Margarita.On the eve of the summit, its Mining Minister Rodolfo Sanz said Iran, an ally of Chavez and in the West's bad books over its nuclear policy, was helping Venezuela find uranium in the South American nation.
But Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez sought to calm the controversy caused by that, telling Reuters that Caracas was yet to develop a plan to exploit its uranium, and was only working with Russia to develop nuclear energy for peaceful uses. No plan has been determined,he said. Analysts say Venezuela is more than a decade away from developing nuclear power. A 95-point resolution produced at the summit touched on wide range of global issues. It included a call to reform the U.N. Security Council; proposals for more cooperation in education, technology, mining, agriculture and energy; and condemnation of piracy, nuclear weapons and illegal arms trading.
Libya was nominated to host the next ASA summit in 2011.
Paying his first visit to the Americas, Libya's Muammar Gaddafi -- in power for four decades -- has been holding court in a tent at the summit hotel and gave a fiery speech on Saturday saying a small club of major powers were still trying to run the world on their terms.(Additional reporting by Luis Jaime Acosta in Porlamar, Enrique Andres Pretel and Kevin Gray in Caracas; Writing by Andrew Cawthorne; editing by Chris Wilson)
UN climate talks resume as pressure for pact grows by Rachel O'Brien – SEPT 28,09
BANGKOK (AFP) – UN negotiations for a global climate treaty resumed in Bangkok on Monday amid fears that delegates will fail to agree on a draft text ahead of December's crucial showdown in Copenhagen.The talks are the latest session in nearly two years of haggling -- known as the Bali Road Map -- that have fallen far short of an agreement to tackle climate change beyond 2010.Our children and grandchildren will never forgive us unless action is taken. Time is running out, we have two months before Copenhagen, Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva told around 2,500 delegates as the talks opened.Much needs to be done and much needs to be resolved. Let us use the two weeks in Bangkok to the full to ensure the future.The Bangkok talks, part of the 192-nation UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), run to October 9 and are the next to last negotiations before Copenhagen's deadline meeting.They follow last week's UN climate summit in New York and a G20 leaders' meeting in Pittsburgh, which failed to break the deadlock on either of the two biggest issues -- reducing carbon emissions and meeting the associated costs.
The final talks before Copenhagen are in Barcelona from November 2-6.
UN climate chief Yvo de Boer said on the eve of the meetings in the Thai capital that there was intense pressure on the participants.We're arriving here in Bangkok with about, I think, a 280-page negotiating text which is basically impossible to work with,de Boer told AFP in Bangkok.We've got 16 days of negotiating time left before Copenhagen so things are getting tight and we need to get to a result.Experts warn that global temperatures must rise no more than two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100 over pre-industrial times, a target embraced by the leaders of the G8 nations in July.Scientists also say emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases should peak just six years from now.Without drastic action, they fear drought, floods and rising sea levels could grip the world by the end of the century, causing famine, homelessness and strife.On emissions, developed economies have acknowledged a historical responsibility for global warming. Most have put numbers on the table for slashing their carbon pollution by 2020 and by 2050.But, they say, developing nations -- especially China, India and Brazil and other major emitters of tomorrow -- should also pledge to curb output of greenhouse gases.Poor and emerging economies refuse to take on their own hard targets but call for rich nations to make higher cuts than they have set themselves for 2020.President Hu Jintao did vow at the UN last week to make China's economy less carbon intensive -- essentially promising to use fossil fuels more efficiently -- by a notable margin before 2020. But he put no numbers on the table.
China has overtaken the United States as top carbon polluter, according to several scientific assessments. Together, the two nations account for 40 percent of greenhouse gases. Campaigners are looking to the US to take the lead in pushing for a pact, although it has so far offered much lower targets for emissions cuts by 2020 than other developed economies.Either the US lifts its game, or the next two weeks in Bangkok could go down as just a holding pattern before a fatal nosedive in Copenhagen,said Antonio Hill, senior climate policy adviser at Oxfam International.
Jordan to go solo with Red Sea to Dead Sea pipeline Sun Sep 27, 2:44 pm ET
AMMAN (AFP) – Jordan has decided to go it alone and build a two-billion-dollar pipeline from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea without help from proposed partners Israel and the Palestinian Authority, an official told AFP.Jordan is thirsty and cannot wait any longer,said Fayez Batayneh, the country's chief representative in the mega-project to provide drinking water and begin refilling the Dead Sea, which is on course to dry out by 2050.Israel and the Palestinians have raised no objection to Jordan starting on the first phase by itself,Batayneh said.The first stage, at an estimated cost of two billion dollars, will begin in 2010 and should be completed in 2014 on a BOT (build, operate, transfer) basis,he said.The plan is for the pipeline to draw off 310 million cubic metres (10.5 billion cubic feet) of water each year, of which 240 million will be fed into the desalination plant at the Jordanian Red Sea port of Aqaba, enabling an annual production of 120 million cubic metres of drinking water.Batayneh said the remaining 190 million cubic metres will be channelled towards the Dead Sea, the saltiest natural lake on the planet and the lowest point on the earth's surface.Jordan, where the population of six million people is expanding by 3.5 percent a year, is recognised as one of the 10 driest countries in the world, with desert covering 92 percent of its territory.
The kingdom relies mainly on winter rain for its water needs, which are projected to reach 1.6 billion cubic metres in 2015.Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Jordan agreed in 2005 on the outlines of a project to channel two billion cubic metres of water a year via a 200-kilometre (120-mile) canal in order to restore the level of the Dead Sea, produce fresh water and generate electricity.The total cost of the scheme has been estimated at 11 billion dollars.
PM's party to unveil curbs on bankers' bonuses by Guy Jackson – SEPT 28,09
BRIGHTON, United Kingdom (AFP) – The Labour Party will unveil tough new action on bankers' bonuses at its conference Monday, while attempting to show it will fight for its life in an election.Prime Minister Gordon Brown was forced to spend the first day of his party's annual gathering on Sunday fending off gloomy predictions from his own ministers and persistent questions about his health.With an election to take place by June, Labour is so far behind the Conservatives in opinion polls after 12 years in power that it has little choice but to portray itself as the underdog.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling will insist in his speech on Monday that Labour must take the fight to the Conservatives, and give details of a potentially vote-winning policy to crack down on bankers' pay.Brown will address the conference on Tuesday, but in the face of polls showing the Conservatives have a 15-point lead, he insisted in an interview Sunday: I do not roll over.But the prime minister was forced to deny runours circulating on the Internet that he is taking anti-depressants. Profile: Gordon Brown.Pressed by his BBC interviewer on whether he was dependent on prescription drugs to help him get through, Brown said: No.He did admit his his eyesight was a constant problem -- he lost the use of one eye in a rugby accident as a youth and has required operations on the other -- but denied he had other health problems.With public anger at bankers running high in the wake of the financial crisis, Darling is likely to promise new legislation to end the reckless culture that puts short-term profits over long-term success.Let me assure the country - and warn the banks - that there will be no return to the business as usual for them,Darling is to tell delegates.
So in the next few weeks we will introduce legislation to end the reckless culture that puts short-term profits over long-term success.Any bonuses will be deferred over time so they can be clawed back if they are not warranted by long-term performance.We won't allow greed and recklessness to ever again endanger the whole global economy and the lives of millions of people.Darling revealed his frustration at the sense of gloom in the party in an interview Sunday in which he said Labour appeared to have lost the will to live.We don't look as if we have got fire in our bellies. We have got to come out fighting,he told The Observer newspaper.The polls gave Labour little comfort. A ComRes survey for the Independent newspaper on Monday showed the Conservatives on 38 percent and Labour level with the Liberal Democrats on 23 percent.Brown indicated he will seek to regain the policy initiative by promising to introduce a law requiring the budget deficit to be halved by 2014.It would commit future governments to cutting Britain's 175 billion pound (188 billion euro, 277 billion dollar) deficit.
Brown admitted in the interview he sometimes wondered whether people thought someone else could do a better job as prime minister.But despite the fact Britain remains in recession -- while France, Germany and Japan have all emerged from it -- Brown said he was in no doubt he had taken the right decisions over the financial crisis. He said:I have led the way round the world, spent night after day persuading my colleagues around the world of the action that is necessary. We are now coming out of the recession as a result of the actions that we have taken.I have no doubt that what I am doing is the right thing to take us through all this.
Zoellick Says U.S. Dollar’s Primacy Not a Certainty (Update1)
By Daniel Whitten
Sept. 27 (Bloomberg) -- World Bank President Robert Zoellick said the U.S. shouldn’t take for granted the dollar’s status as the world’s main reserve currency. In remarks set for delivery tomorrow, Zoellick said the next upheaval in the international economic order is under way as emerging nations gain greater influence. The United States would be mistaken to take for granted the dollar’s place as the world’s predominant reserve currency,according to excerpts released by the World Bank. Policy makers from China to Russia repeatedly have called for an alternative to the world’s main currency in foreign- exchange reserves.Zoellick’s speech to the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington echoes his previous comments about the dollar’s standing.The trade-weighted Dollar Index has fallen 11 percent since President Barack Obama’s inauguration in January, in part because of a budget deficit projected to rise to $1.6 trillion this year as the government increases spending to boost the economy. The index measures the currency’s performance against the euro, yen, pound, Canadian dollar, Swiss franc and Swedish krona.
Defense of Dollar
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner last week defended the dollar’s role as the world’s reserve currency. The U.S. has a special responsibility to preserve confidence in its financial system, and sustain the dollar’s role as the principal reserve currency in the international financial system, he said at a press conference Sept. 24 in Pittsburgh, where leaders of the Group of 20 nations met.
Zoellick also will urge intensified coordination among all countries to be sure that economic growth continues while they recognize that there are still 1.6 billion people in the world without electricity.The G-20 should become the premier forum for economic cooperation,Zoellick will say. At last week’s summit, officials agreed to establish a framework for strong sustainable and balanced growth.Countries with significant deficits in their trade accounts promised to save more, while those with surpluses pledged to strengthen domestic demand.
Peer Review
The G-20 also established a peer-review process to monitor efforts to rebalance economies and to hand emerging nations a greater say in managing world growth. The G-20 summit is a good start, but it will require a new level of international cooperation and coordination,Zoellick will say.Peer review will need to be peer pressure.In the U.S., he called for a bigger role for the Treasury Department in pulling together the authority of federal agencies to regulate financial markets. Leading up to the financial crisis,regulators and supervisors of financial institutions were no longer grounded in reality,he said. He also criticized central banks, saying they failed to address growing risks in the economy in the last several years.Central banks argued that damage to the real economy of jobs production, savings and consumption could be contained, once bubbles burst, through aggressive raising of interest rates,Zoellick said.They turned out to be wrong.To contact the reporter on this story: Daniel Whitten in Washington at dwhitten2@bloomberg.net.
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G20 adjusts to new economic landscape
ANDREW WILLIS 25.09.2009 @ 15:38 CET
Leaders from the Group of 20 industrialised and developing nations meeting in Pittsburgh, USA, on Thursday night (24 September) appear to have struck a series of deals that recognise the changed economic landscape of the 21st Century. Agreement was reached on a new framework to reduce world imbalances and on the need to reform voting rights within the International Monetary Fund. A decision was also taken to recognise the G20 as the primary forum for economic decision-making.The package of deals constitute a major success for US President Barack Obama, and are set to grant a greater voice to developing countries on the international stage.Several thorny issues still remain for Day Two (Friday) of the talks however, with discussion on climate change, banker bonuses and bank capital requirements likely to produce heated debate.Separately in Brussels, a meeting of NGOs said the response to the crisis by world leaders had merely been more of the same, while instead a new economic paradigm based on lower consumption was needed.
Reducing imbalances
The G20 deal to prevent future imbalances - referred to as a global compact in draft communiqués - will involve leaders setting the global economic agenda together, with members subsequently monitoring each other's progress in achieving these goals. The aim is to prevent the build-up of trade and budget imbalances that many economists have identified as a key factor behind last year's meltdown.Under the deal, the Chinese will continue their efforts to boost domestic demand, while the world will reduce its reliance on US consumers. The US government will reduce its borrowing overseas and the EU will encourage further investment.The IMF is to play a co-ordinating role in the process, but questions have already arisen as to how effective this system of peer review will be, given the lack of formal sanctions for non-compliance.
IMF reform
A deal also appears to have been struck on IMF reform.We've arrived at an agreement tonight on reform of the IMF to give underrepresented countries more of a say in its governance,European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said late on Thursday night.The agreement – exact details of which remain unclear – is likely to see a five percent shift in voting rights from industrialised to developing nations.
Currently, the split in voting power is 57 percent for industrialised countries and 43 percent for developing countries. The shift would make the split closer to 50-50.
French and UK officials initially baulked at the US proposal, which also includes a cut in the number of IMF directors to 20 from 24, as European states are likely to bear the brunt of the losses.At present, China has 3.7 percent of the vote, giving it less clout than France's 4.9 percent, despite the fact that the Asian giant's economy is one and a half times the size.Brazil carries 1.4 percent of the voting power, less than Belgium's 2.1 percent.
Rise of the G20
Friday's final communiqué also looks set to confirm the G20 leaders' meeting as the primary forum for economic decision-making, with the Group of Eight rich countries now likely to meet only in the sidelines of other meetings.Since the crisis began, the G20 leaders' meeting has become the de facto economic agenda setting forum, with the first ever being held in Washington last November, shortly after the fall of the Lehman Brothers bank.Since 1999, G20 finance ministers have met on a regular basis, but leaders of rich nations had opted to meet in the G7/G8 format.A G8 reunion in Italy this year involved multiple side meetings – the G-8 plus Egypt for example - prompting Mr Obama to declare that the system had to be streamlined.Next year G20 leaders will meet twice, first in South Korea – the next chairman of the group - and in Canada in the second half of the year.
Outstanding issues
On Friday, the Financial Stability Board is set to present plans on bank capital requirements, with potential disagreement betweent the EU and the US in this area. The Europeans are also adamant that a new framework for banker remuneration be agreed. On Thursday, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt – whose country currently holds the EU presidency - said he was concerned that banks seemed to be returning to pre-crisis remuneration.French President Nicolas Sarkozy has threatened to walk out if a deal is not reached.Tough new language on tax havens is also expected in the meeting's final document, while much remains to be done in the area of climate change.We are very worried about the situation on climate change negotiations,said Mr Reinfeldt, who attended a United Nations meeting on the subject earlier this the week.They are slowing down. They are not going in the right direction.This is not acceptable.
G-20 Plans to End Financial Balance of Terror After Summit
By Rich Miller and Simon Kennedy
Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama and fellow Group of 20 leaders are trying to end what Obama adviser Lawrence Summers has called the financial balance of terror.World leaders, meeting in Pittsburgh last week, adopted a framework for more durable economic growth as they sought to prevent a replay of the worst crisis since the Great Depression. They also acknowledged the growing clout of China and other emerging economies by giving them a bigger voice in decision- making. The aim is to reduce U.S. dependence on overseas capital to finance consumption, while cutting the reliance of China and other creditor nations on American consumers to buy their goods. Summers, head of Obama’s National Economic Council, has singled out the current arrangement as a risk to prosperity since it leaves each major economy a hostage of the other’s policies.Because our global economy is now fundamentally interconnected, we need to act together to make sure our recovery creates new jobs and industries,Obama told reporters in Pittsburgh Sept. 25 after hosting his first economic summit.To help ensure that happens, G-20 countries agreed to give the 186-member International Monetary Fund a role assessing their efforts. The oversight function will be among the topics discussed by policy makers as they head this week to Istanbul for the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank.
Slower Growth
After expanding at a 4.6 percent annual pace in the five years through 2008, the world economy might be in for a spell of slower growth unless G-20 countries follow complementary policies, said Edwin Truman, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington.The U.S. is counting on the crisis and its aftermath to convince countries like China that it’s in their own interest to shift away from exports toward domestic demand as Americans save more and spend less, Truman said. The U.S. savings rate rose to a 14-year high of 6 percent in May before falling to 4.2 percent in July.U.S. consumption is all but certain to be very stagnant for the next few years,said Desmond Lachman, a former IMF official who’s now at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington.You’ve got to find other sources of demand.In the meantime, G-20 leaders acknowledged the recovery remains dependent on emergency government measures, and they pledged to avoid pulling back until the time is right. We will avoid any premature withdrawal of stimulus,their communiqué said.
Stocks Decline
That promise may encourage investors to take on more risk after signs of economic weakness prompted the biggest weekly declines in European and U.S. stocks since July, said Sophia Drossos, co-head for global foreign exchange strategy at Morgan Stanley in New York.The G-20 outcome could lead to a reversal of the selloff, she said.Demand for U.S. durable goods unexpectedly fell in August and loans to households and companies in Europe grew at the slowest pace on record, reports showed last week.The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index has dropped 2.2 percent since Sept. 18, and Europe’s Dow Jones Stoxx 600 Index slipped 2.4 percent in the same period.
Developing-nation equities suffered their steepest weekly decline in more than two months last week, with the MSCI Emerging Markets Index ending 1.2 percent lower.
Lopsided Trade Flows
G-20 leaders pledged to correct the lopsided flows of trade and investment blamed for contributing to the crisis: U.S. consumers borrowed money to finance purchases of Asian-made cars and flat-screen TVs. Asian exporters, meanwhile, invested their surplus cash in U.S. Treasury notes, pushing down borrowing costs and further fueling the credit binge.Some economists cast doubt on the pledges by the G-20, since no sanctions will be used to enforce them and a similar push in 2006 by the IMF petered out.Unless the major surplus and deficit economies actually decide that they really want to go down this route, it’s hard to imagine anything will happen, said Kenneth Rogoff, a former IMF chief economist who now teaches at Harvard University.Obama, Chinese President Hu Jintao and European leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel face plenty of hurdles as they seek to place the world economy on a more stable footing.The U.S. must cut a $1.6 trillion federal budget deficit, while China contends with a record $2.1 trillion in foreign exchange reserves representing years of accumulated trade surpluses.
Central Bankers
Central bankers, who did not attend the summit, may be wary of any suggestion that they sacrifice their independence in the name of worldwide coordination. And global institutions such as the IMF and the Basel, Switzerland-based Financial Stability Board may lack the horsepower to carry out the added responsibilities they’re being given.Chinese officials said they recognize that the country must shift its economic priorities.China also understands that its economic-growth model has some flaws,Ma Xin, director-general of international cooperation at the National Development and Reform Commission, China’s top planning agency, said in Pittsburgh.Change may take time, Ma suggested. He said that his nation’s low consumer spending is something that has accumulated over many years and it is a structural problem.Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner pointed to the increase in the U.S. savings rate as an encouraging sign.
Measured Optimism
After a long period of time living beyond our means, you see people already changing behavior,the Treasury chief said in Pittsburgh. That’s one reason why we can stand here today and express some measured optimism about our capacity to put in place a more sustainable recovery.There are other signs that imbalances are shrinking. The U.S. current-account deficit narrowed in the second quarter to $98.8 billion, the least since 2001. Credit Suisse AG predicts Chinese imports may rise 30 percent to $313 billion in the fourth quarter as the government’s stimulus program spurs domestic demand.While the global rebalancing to date has been significant and broad-based, it remains to be seen whether this process will continue,said Bruce Kasman, chief economist at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in New York.Giving emerging markets such as China, India and Brazil a greater stake in global decision-making may ensure that it does.
Supplants G-8
The broader G-20 will supplant the Group of 8, a club of the most highly developed nations plus Russia, as the guardian of the global economy after last week’s summit. The G-20 accounts for about 85 percent of global gross domestic product. The risk is that the larger group will find it more difficult to make decisions, said Tim Adams, who served as the U.S. Treasury’s top international official in the administration of George W. Bush.The bigger the grouping, the harder it is to get consensus,said Adams, managing director of the Lindsey Group, a Washington-based economic advisory firm.You can’t have the agenda taken over by the favorite hobby horses of each country.The third summit of G-20 leaders in the past year also plotted a road map for revamping the banking industry after the two previous meetings, in Washington and London, focused on fighting market turmoil and reversing the spiral into recession.
Deferred Bonuses
Leaders agreed that banks must avoid multiyear guaranteed bonuses and that a significant portion of variable compensation must be deferred, paid in stock, tied to performance and subjected to clawbacks if earnings flop. They stopped short of endorsing a French proposal to introduce specific caps on pay. Awards must also be curbed if they are inconsistent with the maintenance of a sound capital base,the G-20 said. Regulators should be allowed to modify the compensation practices of key firms. Banks will also have to increase the quality and quantity of capital they hold by the end of 2012.The regulatory overhaul is for real, but there will be plenty of argument over the detail of how it’s done,Leon Brittan, vice chairman of UBS Investment Bank and former European Union trade commissioner, told Bloomberg Television.To contact the reporters on this story: Rich Miller in Washington rmiller28@bloomberg.net; Simon Kennedy in Pittsburgh at skennedy4@bloomberg.net.
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
AMOS 9:10
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
DANIEL 11:40-45
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.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
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)
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
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.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
Turkey, Armenia to sign deal for ties Sun Sep 27, 11:52 am ET
ANKARA, Turkey – The Turkish premier says Turkey and Armenia will sign a deal to establish diplomatic ties on Oct. 10.The two had said last month they would conclude discussions to normalize relations by mid-October, though a major dispute remains over the World War I-era massacre of up to 1.5 million Armenians under the Ottoman Empire. Turkey insists it wasn't a genocide and that the death toll is inflated.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that the deal would be signed by the countries' foreign ministers, but it must be approved by the countries' parliaments before taking effect.The deal also foresees the reopening of the Turkish-Armenian border.The Turkish and Armenian soccer teams will meet in an Oct. 14 World Cup qualifier.
China, Japan, SKorea foreign ministers to meet SEPT 28,09
SHANGHAI (AFP) – Foreign ministers from China, Japan and South Korea were to meet in Shanghai Monday to discuss the North Korea nuclear issue and a Japanese proposal for a European Union-style East Asian community.The ministers were also due to prepare for an October 10 summit in Beijing, likely to bring together Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, officials said.Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi also will meet his Japanese and South Korean counterparts separately on Monday and Tuesday, ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said.Next month's full three-way summit would be only the second ever, and would mark Hatoyama's first visit to China since taking office earlier this month.Leaders of the three nations held their first trilateral summit in December last year in Japan, when Taro Aso was the Japanese premier.South Korea's foreign ministry said topics to be discussed at the summit would include North Korea's nuclear programme, as well as Hatoyama's proposal for an East Asian free trade bloc.Seoul's push to host the next Group of 20 summit would also be on the agenda, the ministry said.All three countries are parties -- along with North Korea, Russia and the United States -- to the stalled six-way talks aimed at Pyongyang's nuclear disarmament.Pyongyang quit the talks in April after the United Nations censured its long-range rocket test, and was further angered when the world body imposed tougher sanctions after its nuclear test in May.But earlier this month, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il told a top Chinese envoy visiting Pyongyang that he was willing to engage in bilateral and multilateral talks on the nuclear issue.
Hatoyama made his global debut as Japan's premier last week at the United Nations in New York, where he met Chinese President Hu Jintao and South Korea's Lee.
Chinese PM to visit North Korea amid nuclear standoff By Jon Herskovitz Jon Herskovitz – SEPT 28,09
SEOUL (Reuters) – China's prime minister will visit North Korea early next week for a trip that could help revive talks stalled for nearly a year on ending Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions.Analysts said China, the closest thing that destitute North Korea has for a major ally, would not be sending such a high profile visitor unless it has won some assurance from Pyongyang that could ease tension over the nuclear standoff.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will pay an official goodwill visit to North Korea from October 4 to 6, the KCNA news agency said in a one sentence dispatch on Monday.The South's Yonhap news agency quoted diplomatic sources in Beijing as saying there could be an announcement during Wen's visit about the dormant six-country talks over the North's nuclear disarmament.There probably will be significant talks between Wen and leader Kim Jong-il not only on their relations, but of events over the Korean peninsula and nuclear arms,said Yang Moo-jin, a professor at the South's University of North Korean Studies.Earlier this month, Kim Jong-il told a visiting envoy from China that he will work to end his state's nuclear arms program through multilateral talks.Statements from the North's iron-leader Kim almost always lead to action and analysts said the latest comments indicate a return to some form of discussions. They also expect Pyongyang will hold true to form by making denuclearization pledges without following through on them.Reclusive North Korea, with its back against the wall, in recent months has reached out to the international community after being hit with U.N. sanctions for a nuclear test in May that were aimed at cutting off a vital source of hard currency from its arms sales.
SPUTTERING NUCLEAR TALKS
Separately, the foreign ministers from China, Japan and South Korea were expected to meet on Monday in Shanghai, with North Korea's nuclear program high on their agenda.
Sputtering talks among the two Koreas, China, Japan, Russia and the United States ground to a halt about a year ago, with Pyongyang saying it will boycott the sessions until Washington drops its hostile attitude.South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said in a joint interview with wire services on Friday that it is important for the international community to work closely so that North Korea will be in a position whereby they will have no choice but to give up all of their nuclear weapons.In a move that has decreased tensions among the rival Koreas, the North allowed for reunions starting at the weekend of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War.Pyongyang had suspended the highly emotional meetings after Lee was elected about two years ago in anger at his plans to cut off unconditional aid and instead tie handouts to moves it makes aimed at defusing tensions.North Korea indicated it was expecting a show of goodwill from the South for resuming the reunions, which the head of the South's spy agency reportedly said was likely a request to resume massive food aid suspended after Lee took office.(Additional reporting by Christine Kim and Yoo Choonsik in Seoul and Paul Eckert in Pittsburgh; editing by Jonathan Thatcher and Sanjeev Miglani)
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.
UN chief, Europeans chide Iran's new atom plant By PETER JAMES SPIELMANN, Associated Press Writer – Sun Sep 27, 9:15 am ET
UNITED NATIONS – Iran's sudden revelation of a formerly secret uranium enrichment plant brought more condemnation Saturday at the U.N. General Assembly, with the Netherlands calling Tehran's presumed weapons program a major challenge to international peace and security.Slovakia's Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak joined the chorus of outrage, rebuking Iran's continued defiance of its international obligations, including the Security Council's demands to suspend its nuclear activities.The denunciations came hours after Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met privately Friday night with Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad about Tehran's nuclear ambitions, and about respect for human rights in Iran.A statement from Ban's office said he expressed his grave concern about ... the construction of a new uranium enrichment facility in the country.Ban emphasized that the burden of proof is on Iran,in an unusually skeptical comment.On Saturday, Iran's nuclear chief said his country will allow the U.N. nuclear agency to inspect its newly revealed, still unfinished uranium enrichment facility.Ali Akbar Salehi didn't specify when inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency could visit the site. He said the timing will be worked out with the U.N. watchdog.Netherlands' Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, speaking Saturday at the U.N. General Assembly, said, The recent revelation of a nuclear facility, which was long kept secret, is additional reason for great concern. It calls for a strong reaction by the international community and for total transparency by Iran.
Iran must regain the trust of the international community, comply with relevant Security Council resolutions, and contribute to peace and stability in the Middle East.In his radio and Internet address, President Barack Obama said Saturday, Iran's leaders must now choose — they can live up to their responsibilities and achieve integration with the community of nations. Or they will face increased pressure and isolation, and deny opportunity to their own people.Slovakia's Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak said in his speech to the General Assembly that.Iran's newly revealed site is said to be in the arid mountains near the holy city of Qom, inside a heavily guarded, underground facility.The pilot plant will house 3,000 centrifuges that could soon produce nuclear fuel — or the payload for atomic warheads.He says Iran has pre-empted a conspiracy against Tehran by the U.S. and its allies by reporting the site voluntarily to the IAEA.The key Western power at the United Nations have given Tehran until year's end to cease enriching uranium or face new sanctions, but resistance from China could undermine any effort to mount new Security Council sanctions.The key to new sanctions would require agreement among all five permanent Security Council members. The United States, Britain and France lean toward more sanctions. Russia now appears open to the measure, but China, which is heavily reliant on Iranian oil imports, still is refusing.The U.S., Britain and France all mentioned Iran, along with North Korea, as obstacles to a safer world during a Security Council meeting Thursday that approved a U.S.-drafted resolution that commits all nations to achieving a nuclear weapons-free world.Washington has been pushing for heavier sanctions if Iran does not agree to end enrichment, which many nations believe is part of Tehran's drive to build a nuclear weapon. Iran says its nuclear program is designed to generate electricity.
The U.S. hand was strengthened Wednesday when Russian President Dmitry Medvedev suggested he could now back such sanctions if they became necessary. But, the prospects of pushing a new sanctions resolution through the Security Council were undercut Thursday when China, one of the veto-wielding permanent members, rejected the idea. Current U.N. sanctions on Iran are meant to prohibit exports of sensitive nuclear material and technology.They also allow the inspection of cargo suspected of carrying prohibited goods, tighter monitoring of financial institutions and the extension of travel bans and asset freezes if linked to its nuclear program. The maneuvering comes ahead of an Oct. 1 meeting of diplomats from Iran, the U.S., Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany on Tehran's nuclear program. The resolution does not mention any country by name but it reaffirms previous resolutions that imposed sanctions on Iran and North Korea for their nuclear activities. It did not call for any new sanctions. Ban also expressed concern about the human rights situation in Iran, with respect to freedoms of association, assembly and practice of religion. He underlined the need to uphold due process and transparency in the trials and treatment of post-election and other detainees, his office said.
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