AMERICA TO SURRENDER TO GLOBAL GOVERNMENT

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.

EU CALLS FOR WORLD GOVERNMENT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7D21rPpBrk&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Feuro%2Dmed%2Edk%2F%3Fp%3D1277&feature=player_embedded
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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

AMERICA TO SURRENDER TO WORLD GOVERNMENT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlTagSZPm7o&feature=player_embedded
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JOHN LOEFFLER ON MARXIST SOCIALISM
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2009/10/10172009-marxist-origins-of-socialism.html#links

Obama Will Surrender America To World Government
NoWorldSystem October 17, 2009

Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective – a New World Order – can emerge. . . Now, we can see a New World Order coming into view. A world in which there is a very real prospect for a New World Order. . .A world where the United Nations, freed from a Cold War stalemate, is poised to fulfill the historic vision of its founders.-George H.W. Bush.The Minnesota Free Market Institute hosted an event at Bethel University in St. Paul on Wednesday evening. Keynote speaker Lord Christopher Monckton, former science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, warned the American people to stop Obama from signing a global climate treaty at the climate change conference in Copenhagen in December that will ultimately surrender U.S. sovereignty to a World Government under the guise of helping the environment.With every passing day it becomes more evident that Obama is nothing more than a globalist, it is obvious from health care reform that he doesn’t care about the middle class, he is in the pocket of the internationalist elite like Kissinger and the rest of the global elite that wish to establish a World Government Dictatorship under the auspices of the United Nations.If this international climate change treaty passes, Americans will have no choice but to pay a global climate tax that will be paid directly to the United Nations, at first the tax will be introduced to the public gradually such as a barely noticeable tax at the gas pump, which will later be increased once it has been officially established.

The Bilderberg Group has discussed this new global tax this year among many other things like creating a fast-but-painful depression to better establish a New World Order. The IMF, a United Nations entity has already declared itself the global central bank that will set regulations and issue a global currency to the nations. People like George Soros, IMF and the World Bank are betting against the dollar and with the help of the Federal Reserve will topple the dominance of the U.S. dollar in the world market to destroy the U.S. economy and force the global dictatorship on the western hemisphere.We are beginning to see the emergence of a New World Order this year, with talks of a new global currency, a global climate tax, a global police force with access to a worldwide database of DNA, biometric and fingerprint records, an international gun-control treaty, an international criminal court treaty, the internet moving towards world government it’s crystal clear what is about to happen in this country.

Czech president says Lisbon too far gone to block
Sat Oct 17, 2009 4:07pm

PRAGUE (Reuters) - The European Union's Lisbon reform treaty has progressed too far to stop, Czech President Vaclav Klaus, the bloc's sole remaining leader to sign the document, said in a newspaper interview on Saturday.The staunch eurosceptic stunned the 27-member bloc this month when he demanded an opt-out clause to shield the Czech Republic from property claims from ethnic Germans expelled from the country after World War Two.But on Saturday, he told Lidove Noviny that, despite his continued opposition to the charter, it was too late to stop it.I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic,Klaus told Lidove Noviny.However, the train has already travelled so fast and so far that I guess it will not be possible to stop it or turn it around, however much we would wish to.Klaus sees the treaty as an attempt to create a European super-state that will rob nations of their sovereignty.He is waiting for a ruling by the Constitutional Court on a challenge to the treaty filed by a group of Czech Senators before signing. The court will hold a hearing on Oct. 27.Last week, Klaus's office said he would demand an exception to the treaty similar to those received by countries like Poland and Ireland.That raised concern that such a change could require new negotiations and ratification among all EU members, an extremely difficult task since the approval process is finished in the remaining 26 EU states.

But on Saturday he indicated that was not his aim.
I never said that is necessary that my footnote would have to be ratified by all member states, along with the whole Lisbon treaty again,he said.Similar to that, I have never said that guarantees similar to those that the European Council gave to the Irish... would not be sufficient for me.Ireland's guarantee reiterated its neutrality, taxation and abortion laws would not be undermined by the Lisbon Treaty.

He said, as in the Irish case, such a guarantee would have no legal force until the next treaty -- expected to be a deal allowing Croatia's accession -- came up for ratification by all member states.Klaus also dismissed speculation that he could be trying to stall approval of the treaty until the next British election so that the opposition Conservatives, who are expected to win, could launch a referendum and topple Lisbon.I will not and cannot wait for the British election. They would have to hold it in the coming days or weeks,Klaus said.His last minute opposition has resounded with voters in the Czech Republic, where anxiety over the post-war expulsion of the 3 million Sudeten Germans still surfaces.A poll showed this week that 65 percent of Czechs backed Klaus because they feared laws expelling Germans could be circumvented.(Reporting by Michael Winfrey; Editing by Louise Ireland)

History Unfolding David Kaiser Infowars
October 17, 2009

I am a student of history. Professionally, I have written 15 books on history that have been published in six languages, and I have studied history all my life. I have come to think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is simply a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these exist, but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus.We have elected a man that no one really knows anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla, Alaska.Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about ten to fifteen years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people we know they can never pay back? Why? We learned just days ago that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has “loaned” two trillion dollars (that is $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom or why or disclose the terms. That is our money. Yours and mine. And that is three times the $700 billion we all argued about so strenuously just this past September. Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was a government of we the people, who loaned our powers to our elected leaders. Apparently not.

We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy.. Why?

We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why we are worth preserving. Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, school boards continue to back mediocrity.. Why? We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (violently in California over a proposition that is so controversial that it simply wants marriage to remain defined as between one man and one woman. Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago?) We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic. To what purpose? Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, social security is nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare and our entire government. Our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and I know precisely what I am talking about) – the list is staggering in its length, breadth, and depth.. It is potentially 1929 x ten…And we are at war with an enemy we cannot even name for fear of offending people of the same religion, who, in turn, cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so.And finally, we have elected a man that no one really knows anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla, Alaska. All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary (Surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for use inside our borders? No? Oh, of course. The media would never play that for you over and over and then demand he answer it. Sarah Palin’s pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe are more important.)Mr. Obama’s winning platform can be boiled down to one word: Change. Why?I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now.This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again.

And that is only the beginning..

As a serious student of history, I thought I would never come to experience what the ordinary, moral German must have felt in the mid-1930s In those times, the savior was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they should have known was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory. Conservative losers read it right now.And there were the promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and frowned and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his brown shirts would bully and beat them into submission. Which they did – regularly. And then, he was duly elected to office, while a full-throttled economic crisis bloomed at hand – the Great Depression. Slowly, but surely he seized the controls of government power, person by person, department by department, bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The children of German citizens were at first, encouraged to join a Youth Movement in his name where they were taught exactly what to think. Later, they were required to do so. No Jews of course,How did he get people on his side? He did it by promising jobs to the jobless, money to the money-less, and rewards for the military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the country, across Europe, and across the world. He did it with a compliant media – did you know that? And he did this all in the name of justice and ……. change And the people surely got what they voted for.

If you think I am exaggerating, look it up. It’s all there in the history books.

So read your history books. Many people of conscience objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and ridiculed. When Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right, though. And the world came to regret that he was not listened to.Do not forget that Germany was the most educated, the most cultured country in Europe. It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And yet, in less than six years (a shorter time span than just two terms of the U. S. presidency) it was rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors. All with the best of intentions, of course. The road to Hell is paved with them.As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust); I can believe what history is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope I am wrong by closing my eyes, having another latte, and ignoring what is transpiring around me..I choose to believe the evidence. No doubt some people will scoff at me, others laugh, or think I am foolish, naive, or both. To some degree, perhaps I am. But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and tell them exactly what I believe — and why I believe it.I pray I am wrong. I do not think I am. Perhaps the only hope is our vote in the next elections.David Kaiser is a respected historian whose published works have covered a broad range of topics, from European Warfare to American League Baseball.

Global banking body may be needed-FSA Wed Oct 14, 2009 5:37pm BST
By Huw Jones

LONDON (Reuters) - A global body with legal powers may be needed over time to enforce the world's new financial rules, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) said on Wednesday.The FSA's newly appointed and first director of international affairs, Verena Ross, said the Financial Stability Board (FSB) was key to ensuring all gaps in regulation between securities, insurance and banking sectors were plugged.

Formerly known as the Financial Stability Forum, the FSB was expanded in April to include central bankers and finance ministry and regulatory officials from all Group of 20 (G20) countries.The G20 has asked the body, chaired by Bank of Italy Governor Mario Draghi, to coordinate global efforts to introduce new financial rules in light of the sector's worst crisis in 70 years.I would advocate to make sure the FSB have a strong secretariat to support their work,Ross told a City and Financial Conference.

The role of the FSB is crucial. We will need to make sure it is able to play its role forcefully... Success depends on real progress over the next six to 12 months, she said.But the board has no legal teeth and there are "real questions" about whether the world can continue with such informal arrangements in the longer term, Ross said.There may be a case for exploring the need for a more formal global regulatory framework, such as a body with legal powers of enforcement like the World Trade Organisation, Ross added.Any move in that long-term direction would have the FSB very firmly at the centre of that global regulatory architecture,Ross said.
Regulators need to be better at checking on the enforcement of the new rules and banks have a role in this, she said.

COST OF EXTRA CAPITAL

Banks have urged a coordinated global approach to regulation to stop some countries having an unfair advantage, especially in tougher bank and liquidity rules due to take effect by the end of 2012.Angela Knight, chief executive of the British Bankers' Association, said it was clear the minimum 8 percent of capital banks must hold under the global Basel II accord would rise.The crisis has demonstrated that the Basel international capital rules were wrong. They neither judged correctly the amount of capital that was needed to be in the system nor the amount that banks needed to hold,Knight said.Basel is being toughened up to include a leverage ratio or cap, minimum liquidity levels, capital charges on trading books and improvements in the quality of capital that must be held.Capital, that is the big cost. That will have the greatest consequence on how the industry will be able to perform its business,Knight said.Banks in Britain have already doubled their capital requirements from the 8 percent Basel minimum, she added.A proper impact assessment is therefore needed on the effect of tougher capital rules on lending and economy as well as timing of the new rules, Knight said.FSA Chairman Adair Turner has called some banking services socially useless,but Knight warned against using buzzwords and catchphrases as activities such as securitisation were being maligned even though they provided finance raising.

The securitisation market has just started to reopen after freezing during the credit crunch and must be allowed to continue reviving, she said.Banks are also concerned about global plans for a cap on leverage, saying it should only be a backstop and not interfere with capital requirement rules for normal business as usual.Katharine Seal, a director at the London Investment Banking Association, said: It's an area where an ability to be flexible is absolutely paramount.Knight expects the European Union to beef up consumer protection, such as direct product regulation, which UK lawmakers may support.There is a case for looking at that issue,said John McFall, chairman of Britain's parliamentary treasury committee.(Reporting by Huw Jones; Editing by Victoria Main)

Russia ready to abandon dollar in oil, gas trade with China
RIA Novosti October 17, 2009

Russia is ready to consider using the Russian and Chinese national currencies instead of the dollar in bilateral oil and gas dealings, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.The premier, currently on a visit to Beijing, said a final decision on the issue can only be made after a thorough expert analysis.Yesterday, energy companies, in particular Gazprom, raised the question of using the national currency. We are ready to examine the possibility of selling energy resources for rubles, but our Chinese partners need rubles for that. We are also ready to sell for yuans,Putin said.

He stressed that there should be a balance here.On Tuesday, Russia and China agreed terms for Russian gas deliveries at a level of up to 70 billion cubic meters a year. China also imports oil from Russia.The Russian prime minister said the issue would be addressed among others at a meeting of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) finance ministers, who are to convene before the end of the year in Kazakhstan.
Britain’s Independent newspaper reported last Tuesday that Russian officials had held secret meetings with Arab states, China and France on ending the use of the U.S. dollar in international oil trade.The countries are reportedly seeking to switch from the dollar to a basket of currencies including the euro, Japanese yen, Chinese yuan, gold, and a new unified currency of leading Arab oil producing countries.The Independent said the meetings have been confirmed by Chinese and Arab banking sources.

Council
Statement by Israel's Amb. Leshno Yaar to the Human Rights Council
Saturday, 17 October 2009 07:26 News from Jerusalem .Amb Leshno-Yaar addresses the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva
The political weapon proposed here today has nothing to do with human rights. And when you next wonder why this body does not receive the respect it would like, remember this moment and you will have your answer.

CAIR CONNECTED TO TERRORISM
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OBAMA FROM KENYA ARCHIVED REPORT
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3RD JIHAD TRAILER
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3RD JIHAD MOVIE
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SHARIA LAW IN AMERICA
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Statement by H.E. Aharon Leshno Yaar Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations, Geneva 12th Special Session Human Rights Council 15 October 2009
Transcript:

Mr. President,
Only two short weeks have gone by since we last met. In the real world, absolutely nothing has changed to justify calling all of the respected members of this body back to this hall. Every person here knows that today's meeting is not about human rights but an abuse of the integrity and procedures of this organization to make a point to a domestic Palestinian audience.One might think that the Human Rights Council would seek to build a modicum of credibility by holding fast to the idea that it should be the home for honorable discussions on Human Rights. It should say that such special meetings, like the one called for today, should only be called in the case of a true emergency, where the words from this hall could have a healing power. But here we are today, for another opportunity for the favorite and most infamous subject of some within this Council, Israel bashing. There is a call to pass this on to other fora, to any place where politics, buried under the flag of human rights, can be waged against one state, against Israel.In regards to the question of the situation in Jerusalem, as Prime Minister Netanyahu emphasized earlier this week: Extremist elements tried to undermine quiet and peaceful life in Jerusalem. An extremist minority disseminated lies to the effect that (Israel) intend(s) to dig, or was actually digging, under the Temple Mount. … (T)his is an outright lie.In recent weeks, as has been the custom in the 42 years that Israel has controlled the Old City of Jerusalem, access to the Holy sites of all faiths has remained unfettered. A number of provocations and inciting statements, called for violence, totally fabricated any Israeli step or intent. These violent incitements began, on 27 September, without any connection to recent events in this hall, contrary to claims made by some. Individuals gathered and threw rocks and other projectiles from the area around the mosques on the Temple Mount, and a number of locations in East Jerusalem. All of this was met by extreme restraint by Israeli police and officials. Regular contact, consultations and updates were held with officials from Egypt and Jordan in order to ensure calm.

Visits to the Holy sites by Muslim pilgrims and tourists have been taking place and will continue peacefully and in cooperation. During the recent holy month of Ramadan, over 100,000 Muslims visited the Mosques on the Temple Mount each Friday, all without incident. The Mosques remain freely accessible for Muslims, including Palestinians, without any interaction with Israeli security officials.Internal Palestinian debates about domestic strife have somehow been fed by artificially emphasizing an extremist agenda regarding Jerusalem. And packaging this panic and hysteria here in Geneva, with a reintroduction of the Goldstone Report, also for domestic political purposes, offers a hollow victory for those that want to sow conflict in our region. The moderate forces are weakened, not aided, by these resolutions and conflicts.Earlier this week in Jenin, Mahmud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority made just this point, saying that Hamas is using the Goldstone Report and its ramifications to fight any chance for progress in the peace process and even to cause division within the Palestinian community. Mr. Abbas said that Hamas used the report to sabotage the reconciliation.In that same speech, in Jenin, President Abbas, stated that during the events of Gaza last winter, [quote] the Hamas movement hid in basements. The leaders of Hamas ran away in ambulances to Sinai and left our people to bleed.The Goldstone Fact-finding mission devoted an entire chapter to the allegations of misuse of ambulances and, unsurprisingly, rejected concerns regarding Hamas misuse. Paragraph 485 of the report definitively determines [quote]: (o)n the basis of the investigations it has conducted, the Mission did not find any evidence to support the allegations… that ambulances were used to transport combatants or for other military purposes.This biased and flawed report accuses Israel of war crimes for having taken action to fight against Hamas – war criminals who openly call for our destruction, fired thousands of rockets against us and endangered their own population by hiding and fighting from within densely populated areas.Israel has given a substantive and clear explanation to anyone who was interested in listening, its criticisms with the fact-finding mission. We explained carefully why we believed the Report was wrong both in spirit and in law. Israel openly shared its dilemmas as a democracy fighting against terror along its border, in the most complex of situations, against terrorists who intentionally put their own people at risk. We offered detailed explanations about our security, legal and political policies and concerns. Mistakes that were made are being investigated by Israel’s relevant authorities, as has always been the case within Israel’s democratic system. Israel’s courts remain open to all, including Palestinians and NGO’s who seek redress. Regrettably, the report saw no problems with the actions of Hamas terrorists, using mosques, homes and hospitals for military purposes, even offering explanations why such action could somehow be excusable.

We still do not understand how a report that completely ignored the concept of Israel's inherent right of self defense, Hamas' smuggling of weapons and Israel's genuine humanitarian efforts during the conflict could be seen as anything but biased and irrelevant. It was fascinating, and telling, to hear Justice Goldstone himself tell a journalist about the distinct limits of his report, saying [quote] if this was a court of law, there would have been nothing proven.The supporters of the resolution have no interest in Israel's actions to limit negative effects to civilians, its domestic investigations, the workings of its legal system or the fact that there is no likelihood that this body, or any other, will truly look into allegations of Palestinian crimes. The sponsors of the resolution are not even asking for the smallest amount of introspection from the Palestinian side who are calling on the Council to endorse a report that stated that their own people committed war crimes.There are members that want this Council, as well as the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, to be so preoccupied that there will be no time to investigate human rights in their countries. They are among the auspicious group that supported the call that dragged us back here. None of those states could ever imagine any dialogue on human rights or democracy or complementarity in their countries. So they shift the discussion to Israel. Today's session has nothing to do with human rights but everything to do with Palestinian politics and abuse of the integrity of this body.

Mr. President,
The resolution, as proposed, will be a reward for terror and will send a clear message to terrorists everywhere. They will clearly hear that this new form of warfare, as used by Hamas in Gaza, will offer immunity as countries will be prevented from waging effective responses. This strategy will be repeated in other places, against other countries fighting terror.And finally, and perhaps most sadly, action taken here today will set back hopes for peace. Any chance for a real dialogue and better and more secure future for our region demands confidence. It would not be special sessions or abusing the agendas of esteemed international organizations, but dialogue, that would offer clear benefits and a mutual building of trust that would strengthen the position of the leaders of the Palestinian Authority. Dialogue, not threats, would also build the confidence of the Israeli public for supporting the peace process. The only beneficiaries of today's proposal would be Hamas and their allies who only seek division and conflict and an end to any hope for peace.Mr. President, members of the Council, the political weapon proposed here today has nothing to do with human rights. Nothing. And when you next wonder why this body does not receive the respect it would like, remember this moment and you will have your answer.MFA

Muslims concerned about Israeli settlements: Mubarak OCT 17,09

ROME (AFP) – Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Saturday the entire Muslim world was concerned about Israel's settlement construction in Palestinian territories, ANSA news agency reported.Mubarak, who met with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi during a visit in Rome, also denounced what he described as Israel's attempts to assimilate Jerusalem.Israel's continuation of settlement construction worries not only the Palestinians but the entire Muslim world,Mubarak said.The international community considers Israeli settlements in all of the West Bank including east Jerusalem to be illegal and a major impediment to a Middle East peace deal.The United States has demanded a complete freeze to Jewish settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, land the Palestinians want to turn into a future state. But Israel has so far balked at the call.The fate of Jerusalem, with sites sacred to Christians, Jews and Muslims, is one of the most sensitive issues in the decades-old Middle East conflict.Israel captured east Jerusalem in 1967 and annexed it in a move not recognised by the international community. It considers the entire city to be its eternal, indivisible capital.The Palestinians want to make eastern Jerusalem the capital of their promised state.

Israeli military stigmatized to block strike against Iran's nuclear facilities Saturday, 17 October 2009 16:24 News from Jerusalem .

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The Netanyahu government's slow-moving, lackadaisical handling of the Goldstone commission mandated for accusing Israel of war crimes in Gaza, played into the hands of a coalition formed to strip the Israeli military of legitimacy as a defensive strike force against Iran's fast-moving nuclear weapons program and its Middle East allies' missile arsenals. Those missiles are poised to strike Israel's population centers if Iran is attacked.Israel had - and still has - plenty of moral, diplomatic and strategic tools for defending itself. They were not applied and so this hostile coalition was allowed to strike Israel on three fronts in the last fortnight: Turkish prime minister Tayyep Recip Erdogan's unleashed an unbridled assault on the Jewish state; Muslim riots suddenly flared on Temple Mount; and the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas changed his mind and pushed for a special UN Human Rights Commission session Friday, Oct. 16, to endorse the Goldstone report, after first accepting its postponement to March.This sequence of events came together inexorably in Geneva where a predictable majority of the UNHRC voted to refer Israel's alleged war crimes to the UN Security Council, while omitting to mention Hamas' culpability.

The motivation behind this run of events was verified by its sequel:

Saturday, Muslim and Arab media, notably London-based news organizations, predicted" that Israel would react to its growing diplomatic isolation with a crazy military adventure that would inflame the entire Middle East.Al the region's ills past and present were thus laid at Israel's door and its military discredited from that day on.The British prime minister Gordon Brown and French president Nicolas Sarkozy played along with this trend, first by staying out of the vote and second by then writing a letter to the Israeli prime minister, which smoothly confirmed Israel's right to defend itself - calling it an emotive issue - without explaining why they failed to raise a finger against a UN motion denying this right.In their letter, Brown and Sarkozy, who call themselves friends of Israel, expressed the hope that the international airing of the Gaza report would help promote peace negotiations because peace was the best safeguard for Israel's security. Thus, with typical European hypocrisy, the two leaders committed themselves to helping the hate-Israel ball to continue rolling through international bodies which everyone knows are permanently loaded against the Jewish state by a majority of human-rights violators and tyrants.Israel's emotiveness was first invoked 39 years ago when Leila Khaled of the Palestinian Popular Liberation Front tried to hijack an El Al flight on Sept. 6, 1970, en route from Amsterdam to New York. Her accomplice was Patrick Arguella of Nicaragua, member of the Carlos international terrorist group, then backed by Russian intelligence.The Israeli crew overpowered the two terrorists and the flight landed safely in London carrying Arguella's body, Khaled tied up and a planeload of relieved passengers.

Then too the Foreign Office found the pilot over-emotional. And 24 hours later, the British authorities coolly released the Palestinian terrorist without charge although she had been armed with two grenades ready to detonate in midair. That free British pass for a terrorist endangers international aviation up to the present day. Nothing else appears to have changed in London.Yet the Israeli prime minister continued to believe that calling European leaders in person and a charm campaign among them would be enough to reduce the fallout from the Goldstone report.After the event - and much too late - Netanyahu's office issued a determined statement Saturday: We shall delegitimize all those who attack the legitimacy of our military. We'll be every place where anti-Israel and anti-Semite forces are active.He vowed to mobilize all Israel's best resources for building a task team to combat the fallout from the UNHRC resolution and put its recommendations before a special cabinet meeting - a process that will consume several more wasted weeks.So how will this change the attitudes of the British and French leaders and line Europe up against the anti-Israel resolution? And how will the Israeli government protect its top officials and generals from prosecution in the countries who voted for it or abstained? Those are good questions given the Netanyahu government's tame reaction to the crisis in Turkey's relations with Israel: Not everyone in Turkey is like Erdogan or Relations must be restored to their normal track without delay.They are dreaming. Erdogan's violent anti-Israel and borderline anti-Semitic attitude is no passing phase. Israel must reconcile itself to the loss of this valuable ally and forget the friendly ties between the two air forces because the Islamic party ruling Turkey has gone fishing in extremist waters.Netanyahu must also stop calling on the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to sit down and discuss peace without preconditions. Abbas has lost the Gaza Strip and the support of half of his people. To win them back, he has embarked on a rejectionist course in competition with the extremist Islamic Hamas. Two of the most dangerous powder kegs simmering in the Middle East today are not located in Washington or Paris but in Ramallah, 10 kilometers north of Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip 78 kilometers to the south.

Israel has a boxful of powerful tools for dealing with the two Palestinian governments.If sanctions are legitimate penalties for Iran, why not economic sanctions against the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah for setting the Human Rights Council loose against Israel and its military? Why should Israeli soldiers, called war criminals by Palestinians and copycat Israel Arabs, grant special passes for Palestinian VIPs to exit the West Bank at night and go partying in Israeli towns?

Why does the Netanyahu government continue to release INS 220 million (app. $50 million) every month to the Gaza Strip knowing that the Hamas uses the money to rebuild the smuggling tunnels Israel destroyed in its Cast Lead operation in January?
By charging customs duty on all smuggled goods funneled into Gaza through the tunnels, the Hamas regime has turned the them into a going concern with the help of revenue from Israel. The same income also funds its military operations.After Israel dismantled more than 100 West Bank roadblocks as requested by the Obama administration, the Palestinians proceeded to turn the Goldstone Report and the UN Human Rights Council into one large roadblock for Israeli travelers abroad. At the very least, put the roadblocks back.But most all, the government headed by Netanyahu, Ehud Barak and Avigdor Lieberman is painfully slow-moving and cumbersome in the diplomatic-strategic arena.The Goldstone report did not pop up this Friday. The panel started work on April 3, 2009 under a predetermined UNHRC mandate targeting Israel. The government had seven months at the very least prepare a counter-report documenting 10 years of murderous Palestinian campaigns specifically targeting Israeli civilians, women and children, and their consistent violation of every rule and standard of armed conflict and human rights.This document should have been prepared in good time and handed in to the international court at The Hague with a list of the guilty Palestinian officials, some still in responsible positions with the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah.The Palestinian delegate would then not have dared remark brazenly Saturday: Anybody who kills children for no reason, or civilians should be prosecuted.One reason why the Middle East suddenly finds itself on a hazardous course today harks back to one of Barack Obama's first acts as US president, which was to reach out to the Muslim world, including the Palestinians, in his June 4 speech at Cairo University. His conciliatory words planted high hopes in their minds that he was on their side and willing to squeeze Israel for gains which had eluded them in years of terror and military belligerence.

They misread his intentions: Obama sought to achieve peace for Israel with its Arab neighbors and the Palestinians, a tough call which all his predecessors in the White House had missed attaining, while the Arabs hoped to use Obama's goodwill to neutralize Israel's powerful military strength.Feeling cheated of this hope, they proceeded to enlist the world, so far successfully, for disarming the IDF by having it discredited and criminalized.The Palestinian-led campaign has nearly closed Israel's window of opportunity for striking Iran's nuclear weapons facilities; Netanyahu and his advisers were too slow off the mark. He will have to move fast and hit hard to turn the negative tide back.His government may not be able to avoid establishing a credible panel of inquiry to rebut Goldstone's allegations for the sake of an US veto at the UN Security Council against the report's referral to the international war crimes tribunal. It could have been set up quietly without outside pressure months ago and validated the exhaustive probes carried out by the IDF of every single complaint arising from the Gaza offensive.debka

MURDER

GENESIS 4:8-11 (THE FIRST MURDER)
8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
11 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;

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

EXODUS 20:13
13 Thou shalt not kill.(Murder)

REVELATION 9:20-21
20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils,(OCCULT) and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries,(DRUG ADDICTIONS) nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)

LUKE 21:25
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(OZONE DEPLETION) and in the moon,(FIRST MAN ON MOON) and in the stars;(JUPITER BOMBARDED ETC) and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;
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.

Abortion Practitioner Writes of Doing Abortions While Pregnant With Unborn Baby by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor October 16, 2009

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- In a post that is quickly causing jaws to drop from readers across the world, a Michigan-based abortion practitioner has written of how she does abortions at the same time she is pregnant. Lisa Harris is an abortion practitioner and a assistant professor at the University of Michigan.In a blog post titled Second Trimester Abortion Provision: Breaking the Silence and Changing the Discourse,Harris reveals a terrible hypocrisy that pro-life advocates are calling a cognitive dissonance.Harris' article originally appeared in the May 2008 issue of the journal Reproductive Health Matters but has gained its greatest attention as a blog post at the blog Abortioneers.There was a leg and foot in my forceps, and a thump, thump in my abdomen. Instantly, tears were streaming from my eyes, Harris notes of doing an abortion while pregnant.She calls the experience of doing an abortion on an unborn child at 18 week gestation a brutally visceral experience given she is 18 weeks pregnant herself.Abortion is different from other surgical procedures,Harris admits, calling it violent.Even when the fetus has no legal status, its moral status is reasonably the subject of much disagreement. It is disingenuous to argue that removing a fetus from a uterus is no different from removing a fibroid,she says.

she explains how she was more interested than usual in seeing the fetal parts when I was done, since they would so closely resemble those of my own fetus.I went about doing the procedure as usual,she says in the blog post.I used electrical suction to remove the amniotic fluid, picked up my forceps and began to remove the fetus in parts, as I always did. I felt lucky that this one was already in the breech position - it would make grasping small parts (legs and arms) a little easier.Harris sees a need to cross borders and boundaries (including seemingly inflexible ones like pro-choice and pro-life)so people can reflect seriously on the question of how providers determine their limit for abortion,but admitted that doing so may frankly be too dangerous for pro-choice movements to acknowledge.She says the violence of abortion must be acknowledged and also notes how she once killed an unborn child of the same age as a prematurely born baby she watched struggle to survive.She goes further to challenge the pro-abortion movement's refusal to recognize the violence and, frankly, the gruesomeness of abortion and that it contradicts an enormous part of the experience of abortion practitioners, who see directly the destruction of human life.Of course, acknowledging the violence of abortion risks admitting that the stereotypes that anti-abortion forces hold of us are true - that we are butchers, etc.,she continues.She admits seeing the destruction of human beings for what it is could have negative consequences for abortion backers.We might conclude at this point that a provider who feels that abortion is violent is simply ambivalent, conflicted, is not really committed to women’s abortion rights, and just shouldn't be doing this work,Harris writes.Pro-life supporters may argue that the kind of stories and sentiments I've relayed spell the end of abortion - that honest speech acts regarding the reality of abortion will weaken the pro-choice movement to the point where it cannot sustain itself any longer.

However, she says acknowledging that abortion kills children can be the basis for a stronger movement - one that makes it easier for providers and the teams they work with to do all abortions, especially second trimester abortions.Thomas Peters of the American papist blog noticed Harris' post and said it goes far in revealing the sort of extreme cognitive dissonance that is necessary for someone to perform abortions.And yet, even in this situation, it's impossible for her to avoid her own humanity - and the humanity of the young human person she is destroying,he says.If anything we've ever read has convinced us we need to pray for an end to an abortion, for the conversion of those who perform them, and work with greater self-conviction in the knowledge that our cause is just and desperately-needed in this world ... this was it,he concludes.

Hundreds of thousands protest abortion reforms in Spain by Denholm Barnetson – OCT 17,09

MADRID (AFP) – Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Madrid Saturday to condemn plans by Spain's socialist government to liberalise abortion laws in the overwhelmingly Catholic country.In warm autumnal sunshine, protesters staged an early evening march across the city behind a huge banner reading Every Life Matters to protest the plan, which would allow girls of 16 to undergo abortions without their parents' consent.The crowd, which included many families and people of all ages, rallied in the central Plaza de Independencia, where pop music blared over loudspeakers and 300 white helium balloons were released.The presence of each of you here today in this demonstration is a commitment to the fight for life,Benigno Blanco, the head of the Forum for the Family, one of the chief organisers, told the crowd.Those of you who govern us must listen to the voice from the streets,he said.

A spokesman for another of the organisers, HazteOir (Make Yourself Heard), said 1.5 million people attended the march and rally, while the Madrid regional government estimated the crowd at 1.2 million.Police sources quoted by Spanish media however put the figure at 250,000.Organisers said 600 buses and several planes were used to bring the supporters of 42 Spanish anti-abortion and Catholic associations to the capital for the protest, which is also backed by the conservative opposition Popular Party (PP) and the Roman Catholic Church.The protesters, who included former PP prime minister Jose Maria Aznar, carried red and white banners or flags saying For Life, Women and Motherhood,Women Against Abortion and Madrid 2009, Capital of Life.

This new law is a barbarity. In this country, they protect animals more than human beings,said Jose Carlos Felicidad, 67, a retired naval technician who came to the capital from the southern town of Algeciras with his wife and three grown-up children.The government takes no notice of public opinion,said Alberto, a 17-year-old student who came to Madrid for the rally by bus from the northern city of Santander.It must justify laws that are against human life.Equality Minister Bibiana Aido, who was behind the reforms, voiced her total respect for the protesters but said nobody has a monopoly on morality.No woman can be penalised for taking such a difficult decision as that of abortion,she said.The proposed abortion law, approved by the cabinet last month, would allow the procedure on demand for women of 16 and over up to the 14th week of pregnancy, and up to 22 weeks if there was a risk to the mother's health or if the foetus was deformed.Women could also undergo the procedure after 22 weeks if the foetus had a serious or incurable illness.Spain decriminalised abortion in 1985, a decade after the death of right-wing dictator Francisco Franco, but only for certain cases: up to 12 weeks of pregnancy after a rape; up to 22 weeks in the case of malformation of the foetus; and at any point if the pregnancy represents a threat to the physical or mental health of the woman.The majority of abortions in Spain currently take place in private clinics and are justified on the grounds that the pregnancy posed a psychological risk for the health of the woman.

The proposed new legislation, which is based on laws in place in most other EU countries, is to be debated in parliament in November. Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has passed a series of sweeping liberal social reforms since coming to power in 2004 that have angered the Roman Catholic Church, including measures to legalise gay marriage, allow for fast-track divorces and give increased rights to transsexuals.An opinion poll published in Friday's ABC newspaper said 42 percent of Spaniards believed there was no overwhelming popular support for the abortion reforms, compared to 38 percent who believed there was.A poll released earlier this month in the centrist Catalan newspaper La Vanguardia said a narrow majority of Spaniards opposed the reforms.

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.

Evacuations as new typhoon threatens Philippines By OLIVER TEVES, Associated Press Writer – Sat Oct 17, 11:40 am ET

MANILA, Philippines – Police went door-to-door urging residents to leave landslide-ravaged areas of the northern Philippines on Saturday in a pre-emptive evacuation as a new typhoon loomed after recent back-to-back storms killed more than 750 people, officials said.Forecasters said Typhoon Lupit the Filipino word for cruel had intensified overnight and by late Saturday was packing winds of 87 mile per hour (140kilometer per hour) and gusts of up to 106 mph (170 kph).The Philippines is still recovering from Tropical Storm Ketsana in late September, which triggered the worst flooding in Manila in over 40 years, and the Oct. 3 landfall of Typhoon Parma, which lingered for a week while drenching the main island of Luzon. The two storms killed 773 people and affected more than 7 million.In Benguet province's Cordillera mountain region, Gov. Nestor Fongwan said he had ordered police officers to go house-to-house to tell people to leave ahead of Typhoon Lupit, which could reach the Philippines by Tuesday.Definitely, they must go,Fongwan told The Associated Press. At least 288 died in storm-fueled landslides in the area about 130 miles (210 kilometers) north of the capital, Manila.

While Typhoon Lupit was days away and could still change course, officials said early action was necessary. Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro, who also heads the National Disaster Coordinating Council, said people in areas still recovering would be easier to persuade to leave their homes in a pre-emptive evacuation.Evacuating early might be a much easier endeavor now,Teodoro told reporters in Manila, the capital.Lupit could still spare the saturated northern Philippines and veer north toward Taiwan early next week, or it could track the same devastating path as Typhoon Parma, which lingered for a week and dumped more rain after making landfall in the north on Oct. 3, chief government forecaster Nathaniel Cruz said.He said Lupit was slowing down over the sea east of Luzon, where it could further gain strength. It was about 625 miles (1,000 kilometers) east of Manila at 4 p.m. (0800 GMT, 4 a.m. EDT) Saturday.Disaster officers urged local officials to tell residents to immediately evacuate at the first sign of landslides, Cordillera regional civil defense chief Olive Luces said.Some people are just really stubborn and refuse to leave," she said, adding that survivors of Parma's landslides told of watching water seep from the walls and floors of homes before the ground collapsed around them.

Teodoro said the government will airlift supplies, including rescue equipment, to remote areas still isolated in the wake of the two earlier storms.Health officials say 1.7 million people exposed to floodwaters in and around Manila were being threatened by leptospirosis, a disease spread by water contaminated with urine of infected animals.The disease has killed 96 of 1,336 people who have been brought to hospitals for treatment since Oct. 1, said Dr. Yolanda Reyes, head of the National Center for Disease Prevention and Control.The Health Department will distribute antibiotics to 1.3 million people in high-risk areas to help prevent infection, she said.

Hurricane Rick reaches Category 5 off Mexico OCT 17,09 6:50PM

MIAMI – Hurricane Rick has become an extremely dangerous Category 5 storm off Mexico's Pacific coast.The U.S. National Hurricane Center says the storm is now packing sustained winds of 160 mph (260 kph) and it could threaten the Baja California peninsula next week.Authorities in the resort of Acapulco closed the port to small craft after Rick kicked up heavy waves and gusts of wind.Rick was centered about 290 miles (470 kilometers) south of the port of Manzanillo, west of Acapulco, on Saturday afternoon and was moving northwest near 15 mph (24 kph).Forecasters expect it to stay well off the coast for several days before bending east over cooler waters and hitting the peninsula as a Category 2 hurricane sometime Wednesday.

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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Rick strengthened into an extremely dangerous Category 4storm off Mexico's Pacific coast on Saturday and forecasters said it could strike the Baja California Peninsula sometime next week.Authorities in the resort of Acapulco closed the port to small craft after Rick kicked up heavy waves and gusts of wind.There are waves of 7 to 8 feet, and gusts of wind,said Victor Cruz Lopez, the watch officer at the port captain's office.The storm had sustained winds near 150 mph (240 kph) and it was expected to grow into a monster Category 5 storm with winds surpassing 155 mph (250 kph), the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami reported, though it said the storm was likely to lose much of that punch before hitting land.Rick was centered about 290 miles (470 kilometers) south of the port of Manzanillo, west of Acapulco, on Saturday afternoon and was moving northwest near 15 mph (24 kph), the center said.Forecasters said it was projected to stay well off the coast for several days before bending east over cooler waters and hitting the Baja California Peninsula as a Category 2 hurricane sometime Wednesday.Meteorologist Jessica Schauer told The Associated Press that warm waters fueled Rick's rapid jump from Category 1 to Category 4 in only about 36 hours.Right now it's over very warm water and the current forecast track keeps it over warm water for quite a while, she said.Rick was forecast to pass near Socorro Island, about 300 miles (500 kilometers) southwest of Cabo San Lucas, on Tuesday. The island is a nature reserve with a small Mexican Navy post and it hosts scuba diving expeditions in winter months.Acapulco's Civil Protection Department had warned that rains from outer bands of the storm could trigger landslides and flooding in the resort city, but no such effects were reported Saturday.

Brazilian rain chaos swamps Button OCT 17,09 5PM

SAO PAULO (AFP) – Torrential rain brought havoc to qualifying for the Brazilian Grand Prix here on Saturday as Jenson Button saw his title hopes suffer a rain-soaked setback.The Englishman, who came to the penultimate race of the year with a 14-point lead over Brawn GP teammate Rubens Barrichello, failed to reach the final qualifying session.Barrichello, however, was into the Q3 top-10 shootout in front of his home crowd.The start of the session, we had way too much understeer and I couldn't do anything with it and then on lap three, the rear started going away, Button told the BBC after a second session which started 70 minutes late.We made a mistake not putting intermediate tyres on at the end. It's all of our decision, it's a team effort.Sebastian Vettel, who had an outside chance of snatching the world title, was eliminated in the first qualifying session when his Red Bull slid all over the rain-soaked surface.Vettel was only 16th fastest in a time of 1:25.009, over two seconds off the pace set by Nico Rosberg in his Williams, who clocked 1min 22.828sec.I feel like I went to the pool today, not the race track,said Vettel.It's disappointing. We would have liked to have qualified higher, but drivers have won from the back before.Earlier, Giancarlo Fisichella spun off in his Ferrari and was left fuming at the conditions before the session was halted.

It's impossible to drive. Crazy. It's dangerous everywhere, even in the pit lane. They need to do something. I aquaplaned and the anti-stall didn't work again," said the Italian.World champion Lewis Hamilton was also a first session casualty as his McLaren, set up for dry running, was only 18th fastest.The conditions were awful, but our car was terrible,said Hamilton.It was a pretty poor performance from us. We couldn't even go flat-out on the straights. That's how bad it was. We didn't have a wet weather set-up, which probably contributed to it.More heavy rain fell as the second session got underway, but that was quickly red-flagged when Force India's Tonio Liuzzi suffered a horror crash which destroyed his car.There was a lot of water. It was pretty dangerous. It was like a big puddle. Somehow I lost control in the middle of the straight,said Liuzzi.

Hurricane Rick dangerous and strengthening: US forecasters Sat Oct 17, 12:00 pm ET

MIAMI (AFP) – Hurricane Rick barreled up Mexico's Pacific coast on Saturday, with the US National Hurricane Center warning it was extremely dangerous and continuing to strengthen.Rick, now 280 miles (450 kilometers) southwest of the resort town of Acapulco, gathered strength as it headed west, parallel to Mexico's southern coast.

At 1500 GMT, the Category Four hurricane -- the second most powerful on a five-point-scale -- was producing maximum sustained winds of 145 miles (230 kilometers) per hour.Rick was moving toward west-northwest near 12 miles (19 km) per hour, according to the Miami-based monitoring center.It was expected to come within around 300 miles (480 kilometers) of Manzanillo, one of the largest ports in the Americas early on Sunday.It was then forecast to take a sharp turn north by Tuesday, cutting toward Mexico's Baja Peninsula.US forecasters said residents in nearby areas should monitor the hurricane's progress.The center said outer rainbands associated with the storm were already approaching Mexico's southern coast and would likely continue to affect the area on Saturday.The seventh hurricane of the eastern north Pacific 2009 season, Rick comes on the heels of Tropical Storm Patricia, which last week placed Los Cabos on Baja's southern tip under a state of emergency, before petering out.The peninsula was battered in early September by Hurricane Jimena, which ripped the roofs off houses and caused floods that killed at least one person.

Samoa tsunamis obliterate some coral, spare others By AUDREY McAVOY, Associated Press Writer – OCT 17,09 4PM

HONOLULU – Scientists surveying American Samoa's coral reefs say Sept. 29's tsunami obliterated some corals and damaged others to the point that they may not recover.

Researchers say more assessments will be needed to get a full sense of how the disaster affected coral in the U.S. territory. But in at least one area, the damage was so severe, and the affected area already in such bad shape before the tsunamis, that the coral may never return.There's an additional threat the surviving coral may suffer secondary damage weeks after the tsunamis if waves drag heavy debris from people's wave-wrecked homes — like refrigerators, tin roofs and other objects — across the reefs. Mounds of household goods dislodged by the giant waves are still sitting in the water off tsunami-torn villages.Corals, which are colonies formed by small, fragile animals called polyps, provide vital habitats for fish, sea slugs, shrimp, sea worms and many other marine species that find food and take shelter among the reefs. This makes measuring the extent of the tsunami-inflicted damage important for understanding the disaster's effect on the broader environment.

Tsunamis generated by an 8.3-magnitude earthquake killed at least 32 people in American Samoa. About 150 were killed in nearby Samoa and Tonga.A team led by Douglas Fenner, a coral reef monitoring ecologist with American Samoa's Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources, has surveyed about 20 sites around the territory so far. The condition of the coral they examined ranged from untouched to destroyed. Several spots lost 20 to 30 percent of their existing coral.Fenner also found unblemished reef next to corals that were wiped out. That was the case near Leone, a town where at least 10 people died and dozens of homes were destroyed. He first saw that delicate corals to the left of the village were in perfect shape.Then I got right in front of the village and man, the coral had just been broken to bits, Fenner said in a telephone interview from the territory's capital, Pago Pago.Paul Brown, marine ecologist with the National Park Service, said the reef off Faga'alu — an urbanized area near downtown Pago Pago — was in poor shape even before the tsunamis hit. Years of pollution and sediment in the area's runoff had led to poor water quality offshore, deprived corals of the sunlight they needed to grow and smothered the reef.Only about 15 to 20 percent of the reef had living coral before Sept. 29. Then the waves tore 70 percent of the remaining away.The reef looks like a nuclear bomb went off. It was pretty catastrophic damage,said Brown.When you have that level of impact, it will be decades, if at all, that that area recovers.In contrast, damaged reefs that were healthy before the disaster should bounce back in three to four years, leaving no scars.American Samoa's corals were generally fairly healthy before the tsunami, particularly compared to reefs in the Caribbean or those off the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Still, Brown said they weren't as pristine as corals in Kiribati, a small Pacific island nation, or the Line Islands, which are tiny Pacific atolls controlled by Kiribati and the U.S.Fenner said he was optimistic for a recovery, given the relative health of the coral. He also noted corals have evolved to cope with tsunamis and other natural disasters.

The reefs have learned to live with it,Fenner said.So as long as we humans are not chronically damaging the reef and putting heavy stresses on it, hopefully it will recover well.Coral reefs surround large parts of American Samoa's islands, which sit in tropical waters about 2,500 miles southwest of Hawaii. The islands, which are home to about 65,000 people and cover roughly the same land area as Washington, D.C., host 2 percent of the coral under U.S. jurisdiction.A report issued earlier this month by the territorial governor's Coral Reef Advisory Group said refrigerators, mattresses, tin roofs and other household materials were still in the water off Poloa, a village slammed by the waves. There's a possibility debris now languishing in streams and shorelines may collect on reefs if it's flushed out to sea, the report said.Charles Birkeland, a University of Hawaii coral reef expert, said coral can grow back if its foundation is in good shape.But if you start grinding them with furniture and things, that scrapes the base. It's much worse, Birkeland said.

DISEASES

REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).

Flood-borne disease leaves 89 dead in Philippines Sat Oct 17, 3:02 am ET

MANILA (AFP) – Massive floods brought by powerful storms have caused an outbreak of the deadly disease leptospirosis that has claimed 89 lives in the Philippine capital alone, the health secretary said Saturday.The incidence of the disease in the Philippine capital and surrounding areas rose to 1,027 with 89 fatalities from October 1-15 this year compared to 769 cases and only 39 deaths in the same period last year, Secretary Francis Duque said.It is largely attributable to the floods, Duque told AFP.Huge floods covered parts of Manila and its surrounding areas after tropical storm Ketsana hit the country on September 26.This was compounded by typhoon Parma which hit a few days later, again bringing heavy rains. In some areas, the floodwaters have not receded.This has caused many people to fall ill of leptospirosis, an infectious disease caused by exposure to dirty, stagnant water.To lessen the incidence of the disease, Duque said authorities had declared an outbreak of the disease in three districts of the capital and were administering antibiotics to some 1.3 million people.It will provide substantial protection,he said. However he warned that people should still avoid exposure to dirty water.The government has said that at least 773 people have already died from storms Ketsana and Parma, mostly from drowning and landslides.

POISONED WATERS

REVELATION 8:8-11
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:(bitter,Poisoned) and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.(poisoned)

REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

EU officials warn of disappearing cod By Raf Casert, Associated Press Writer – Sat Oct 17, 3:45 am ET

BRUSSELS – The European Union's executive body is calling for sharp cuts in the amount of cod fishermen can catch next year, pointing to estimates that the fish is close to extinction in some major fishing areas around Europe.Officials warned Friday that only steep catch cuts will prevent the disappearance of a species prized for centuries for its flaky white flesh.The European Commission said recent studies showed cod catches in some areas are far outstripping the rate of reproduction. It is calling for up to 25 percent cuts in some areas.We are not that far away from a situation of complete collapse,said Jose Rodriguez, a marine biologist with the environmental group Oceana. He and other environmentalists said pressure from the fishing industry had kept quotas at levels too high to sustain a viable populations around Europe, while lack of enforcement meant illegal fishing made the problem worse.Scientists estimated that in the 1970s there were more than 250,000 tons of cod in fishing grounds in the North Sea, eastern English Channel and Scandinavia's Skagerrak strait. In recent years, however, stocks have dropped to 50,000 tons.The European Commission said Friday it would seek in 2010 to cut the catch in some fishing grounds around Britain, France, Spain and much of Scandinavia from 5,700 tons to 4,250 tons.In the Mediterranean, bluefin tuna has been overfished for years to satisfy increasing world demand for sushi and sashimi. The tuna population is now a fraction of what it was a few decades ago, but the EU's Mediterranean nations last month refused to impose even a temporary ban.

Oceana estimated that illegal fishing doubled the amount of tuna caught.

Meanwhile cod, which once sustained vibrant fishing communities from Portugal to Britain to Canada, is increasingly consumed by the ton as salt cod and fish-and-chips.People don't ask for fish and chips, they ask for cod and chips,said Mike Guo, a manager at Great Fish and Chips in Essex, England.It's a traditional dish.The depletion of the species has caused the decay and disappearance of hundreds of fishing villages on both sides of the Atlantic.Overfishing off Canada's maritime provinces exhausted the world's richest cod grounds and forced the government to impose a fishing moratorium. The collapse wiped out more than 42,000 jobs, and 18 years later the fish have still not returned.It was devastating,said Tom Hedderson, minister of fisheries in Newfoundland.This affected whole communities ... all up and down the coast here in Newfoundland and Labrador.He welcomed the EU call to cut catches by 25 percent, but suggested more drastic cuts may be needed.Some Canadian scientists believe the collapse of cod stocks off Newfoundland and Nova Scotia changed the marine ecosystem so dramatically that it may be impossible for cod to recover. Off Newfoundland alone, cod stocks once exceeded more than 400,000 tons but now scale only 5,500 tons, Hedderson said.

There are signs of recovery of Atlantic cod off New England, however, after years of conservation efforts. And international regulators have reopened some areas off Canada for limited fishing, Canada's Fisheries and Oceans Department spokesman Scott Cantin said.The fishing industry in Europe, however, is in decline. The number of vessels in the 15 nations that were part of the EU in 1995 has dropped from 104,000 then to 81,000 in 2006. In Britain, employment in the fishing sector sank from 21,600in 1990 to 16,100 in 2006.The EU Commission's demand for cod cuts will be discussed by the bloc's 27-member states in a Dec. 14-15 meeting, when the fishing quotas for 2010 will be finalized.The scientific prognosis for most stocks is not encouraging, with many in a worse state than last year,Britain's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said Friday.This, combined with the difficult economic climate, will mean that the negotiations will be even more challenging this time around.

Keeping fishermen in port with excessive quotas will add to their economic woes, said Bertie Armstrong of the Scottish Fishermen's Federation. Norway and the EU jointly oversee cod stocks in North Sea, with each party regulating the stocks in its waters.Norway and the EU will begin annual negotiations on cod stock management in November. Ann Kristin Westberg, deputy director-general of Norway's Fishery Ministry, said her country was unlikely to accept a 25 percent quota.We probably want to have it lower,she said.We would like to point out that stock the EU are involved in managing are in terrible shape.The cod harvest from the Georges Bank and Gulf of Maine fishing grounds, the two primary New England fishing grounds, in 2007 totaled 3,868 metric tons, the biggest catch since 2003 but far under the landings of the 1980s when fishermen often caught more than 20,000 tons annually.The Gulf of Maine stock is responding to the recovery plan, and the Georges Bank stock is recovering but not as much,said Teri Frady of NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center in Woods Hole, Massachussets.Associated Press writers Clarke Canfield in Portland, Maine, Rob Gillies in Toronto, Karl Ritter in Stockholm and Rachel Leamon and Maresa Patience in London contributed to this report.

FAMINE

REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)

FAMINE

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

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

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

Some poor nations succeeding in fighting hunger By RAPHAEL TENTHANI and TOM MALITI, Associated Press Writers – Fri Oct 16, 5:48 am ET

BLANTYRE, Malawi – Government fertilizer has made the difference between hunger and plenty for Rodrick Jesitala, a farmer and father of three in southern Malawi.Thanks to fertilizer he couldn't afford without government help, Jesitala harvested enough corn to feed his family this year. A report released Friday praised Malawi's program, saying governments simply making agriculture a top priority and offering financial and other incentives to small farmers have seen some poor countries quickly move from importing food to producing surpluses.In its report, ActionAid International ranked Malawi among the top five successful developing nations, with Brazil taking the lead, for cutting child malnutrition by 73 percent in six years.
Who's Really Fighting Hunger said Brazil succeeded at cutting child malnutrition by investing extensively in small-holder farmers and implementing strong social welfare policies.

In Malawi, the past two growing seasons have ended with impressive surpluses of the staple crop, corn. President Bingu wa Mutharika persisted with his program to help farmers buy fertilizer despite opposition from Western donor nations and agencies that see subsidies as contrary to free market principles.During the 2008-09 growing season, the government spent $183 million on the farm subsidy program, which resulted in Malawi realizing a surplus of 1.3 million metric tons of maize. Under the program, a farming family gets two 50-kilogram bags of fertilizer and packets of seed.Before he started using fertilizer, Jesitala harvested fewer than 15 bags of corn from his one-acre plot. This year, he harvested 40 bags, enough to feed his family for the year.

We will also even sell some of the maize,he said.Malawi, which has had acute food shortages in the past, has been a donor in recent times, giving 500 metric tons of corn each to Swaziland and Lesotho and selling some to Zimbabwe in the 2007-08 growing season. Talks are under way to sell to Kenya and Zimbabwe this year.The World Food Program is warning that, because of drought, Malawians in some southern regions will need food aid this year despite the national surplus. But the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security says there's enough stock to respond to any food emergency.The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said in a report released Wednesday that the world's hungry reached 1.02 billion this year, attributing the steady rise in the number of undernourished people to governments reducing their spending on agriculture for more than a decade.It's the role of the state and not the level of wealth, that determines progress on hunger,said Anne Jellema, ActionAid's policy director.Every six seconds a child dies from hunger, but this scandal could easily be ended if all governments took determined action,said Jellema.

ActionAid's report ranks 29 developing and 22 developed nations to compare policies, laws and actions individual governments have taken with the aim of ending global hunger.The report grades rich nations on the measures they have taken to end hunger such as how much agriculture aid they give or what they are doing to reverse the effects of climate change.Luxembourg tops the list of 22 rich nations, followed by Finland and Ireland.Who's Really Fighting Hunger,ranks 51 countries where either ActionAid has a presence or have reliable data that makes comparisons possible. So, for example, Zimbabwe is not included because of doubts about data generated in that country.Maliti contributed from Nairobi, Kenya.

HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM

Iraq approves oil deal with BP-led consortium By SINAN SALAHEDDIN, Associated Press Writer – OCT 17,09

BAGHDAD – The Iraqi government said Saturday it has approved a contract with a British-Chinese consortium to develop a prized oil field in southern Iraq, a significant achievement for a country that has struggled to attract foreign investors despite its vast natural resource wealth.The deal was the only one to emerge from a disappointing bidding round in June offering development rights for six oil and two gas fields. It was Iraq's first such bidding process in over three decades, but foreign firms felt the prices set by the government were too low given continued violence in the country and disputes over natural resource control.But things have been looking up in recent days for Iraq's hope to use increased oil revenue to recover from years of war and sanctions. Earlier in the week, three international consortiums agreed to meet the Iraqi government's price to develop oil fields in the country.Even more important is the Iraqi Cabinet's approval of the bid by Britain's BP PLC and its Chinese partner CNPC to develop the 17.8 billion barrel Rumaila field near Iraq's southern city of Basra. The deal was approved late Friday, Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh told The Associated Press, without providing further details.According to the agreement, BP will hold a 38 percent stake in the venture and CNPC will have a 37 percent share. Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organization will control the rest.It is a very important event ... very promising for Iraq,said Samuel Ciszuk, an energy analyst with the London-based IHS Global Insight.The huge incremental this project alone could bring in a relatively short period of time ... is very important.

Iraq has the world's third-largest known oil reserves, and crude exports are the country's most important source of revenue. But Iraq's current daily output of 2.4 million barrels is far below the country's potential.Iraq's oil industry has been hampered by years of devastating wars, crippling sanctions and sabotage attacks by insurgents after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. In addition, Iraq's oil law, governing natural resources and regulating foreign investment, has been stalled in parliament since 2007, prompting international companies to stay away.The Rumaila deal is the second major one struck by CNPC in postwar Iraq. Last year, CNPC signed a $3 billion deal to develop the al-Ahdab oil field in southern Iraq.The deal also marks the return of BP to Iraq after the British oil giant and other Western companies were pushed out following the nationalization of the oil industry in the 1970s.Daily production from the Rumaila field is at about 1 million barrels a day. BP's targeted production for the oil field is 2.85 million barrels a day within seven years.The BP-CNPC consortium originally bid to take $3.99 per barrel produced, but later slashed the offer to the $2 per barrel payment sought by the Iraqi Oil Ministry. The competing bid in June was from a consortium led by U.S. giant Exxon Mobil, which refused to amend its offer of $4.80 per barrel.Earlier this week, Iraq's oil minister Hussain al-Shahristani said the ministry was revisiting the June bidding after three international oil consortiums submitted revised offers and accepted Iraq's terms for developing two oil fields in southern Iraq.

The two deals could be signed within with two weeks, al-Shahristani said.

A consortium led by Italy's Eni has agreed to develop Basra's 4.1 billion barrel Zubair oil field for $2 per barrel produced based on a target production level of about 1.1 million barrels per day.Two other consortiums, one led by Russia's Lukoil and ConocoPhilips, and the other by Exxon Mobil with Royal Dutch Shell, are competing to develop the 8.6 billion barrel West Qurna Stage 1 oil field in Basra for $1.90 per barrel.The Lukoil-led consortium's targeted production is 1.5 million barrels a day, while the other consortium's targeted production is 2.1 million barrels a day, al-Shahristani said.Italy's Eni had previously bid $4.80 per barrel to develop the field, while the Lukoil consortium submitted an earlier bid of $6.49 per barrel and the Exxon Mobil-led consortium was asking for $4 per barrel. Zubair is currently producing about 230,000 barrels per day, while West Qurna Stage 1 is producing about 280,000 barrels a day. Al-Shahristani said that the three fields' combined output would exceed 6 million barrels a day in six years with a total direct investment from these firms expected to be about $100 billion. The second bidding round is scheduled for December. Forty-five international oil companies are set to bid for 10 oil projects on offer.The overall fall in oil prices since last year has forced the government to slash spending plans for this year from $79 billion to $58.6 billion. The oil sector represents about 65 percent of Iraq's gross domestic product and its revenues account for 95 percent of Iraq's earnings.

ALL BUSINESS: Lobbyists influence financial reform By RACHEL BECK, AP Business Writer – Sat Oct 17, 12:51 am ET

NEW YORK – Get over it, America. Wall Street bankers make too much money. The latest example: Goldman Sachs says it has set aside $16.7 billion so far this year for compensation — or about $530,000 per employee. Not bad for a company that a year ago received $10 billion in federal money as well as $12.9 billion from the government's bailout of American International Group Inc.Maddening? Sure. But forcing Goldman or any other Wall Street firm to pay employees less won't help a single unemployed American find a job. It won't help a single homeowner who can't afford his mortgage. It won't help a single credit card user whose fees keep getting jacked up.If you want something to really make you angry, though, consider this number: $224 million. It's a lot less than $16.7 billion but it could pack far more punch. That's the amount the financial industry spent in the first half of this year to lobby Congress to water down regulations aimed at preventing another financial meltdown. And more money is expected to be on the way.There is so much happening in the financial sector to be upset about. The bonuses are the least of it,said Barry Ritholtz, who writes the popular financial blog The Big Picture" and is the author of the new book Bailout Nation.More importantly, we can't let the banks own Congress.The worry is that the money used for lobbying could lead lawmakers to back down on their promises for reform.The Obama administration and many members of Congress have told the public repeatedly over the last year that a regulatory overhaul was needed to protect us from another financial disaster, and their constituents back home are counting on them. Trillions of dollars in taxpayer funds have been pumped into the financial system to stabilize markets and prevent big institutions from failing.

But the lobbyists' influence can already be seen.Some potential powers have been stripped from the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency, which would be a federal watchdog to oversee areas such as mortgages and credit cards.One requirement that was dropped would have forced banks to make standardized and straightforward plain vanilla mortgages available to customers along with other products. For instance, lenders would have had to offer borrowers mortgages with 30-year fixed rates if they also were going to sell adjustable-rate or interest-only loans.Lenders also would have had to take additional measures to ensure that their communications with customers are not deceptive.The House Financial Services Committee is overseeing the creation of the consumer agency. It also has made certain exemptions in a bill focused on tougher oversight of derivatives.Derivatives are contracts between two or more parties, the value of which is determined by fluctuations in underlying assets like stocks, bonds, commodities and interest rates.Companies use derivatives to hedge against risk, such as when airlines cover themselves against surging fuel prices. But they are also a means for financial speculation. A form of derivative known as a credit-default swap was partly blamed for the crisis that hit Wall Street last year.The House bill would impose restrictions on derivatives, forcing companies for the first time to conduct what had been private transactions on regulated exchanges. That's a positive.But the bill also grants regulatory exemptions to companies that use derivatives for commercial use, which weakens the transparency of those transactions. Big industrial associations, including the Business Roundtable and U.S. Chamber of Commerce, had lobbied for those kinds of exemptions.The House Financial Services Committee is one target of financial industry lobbyists, which have given more than $6 million to its members in 2009.

In fact, 27 of that House committee's 71 members have received more than one-quarter of their total political contributions from the financial industry, according to a study by the Sunlight Foundation, a nonpartisan group that promotes government openness.It's wrong to draw any cause and effect from that,said committee spokesman Steven Adamske, who pointed to other actions taken by the committee this year in areas like credit-card reform and predatory lending. But there is certainly lots more lobbying money being put to work in Congress. The pace that the financial, insurance and real estate industries spent on lobbying during the first half of the year puts them on pace to meet last year's record spending of nearly $460 million, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a political watchdog group. Employees and political action committees in those same industries have contributed more than $53 million this year to members of Congress and the political parties.

Lobbyists for financial industry have defended their actions, saying it is within their constitutional right to petition government leaders. That's certainly true. It's also crucial for lawmakers not to falter when it comes to reforming a financial system that broke last fall.Rachel Beck is the national business columnist for The Associated Press. Write to her at rbeck(at)ap.org.

OZONE DEPLETION JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH DUE TO SIN

ISAIAH 30:26-27
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:

MATTHEW 24:21-22,29
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake (ISRAELS SAKE) those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

NASA flies over Antarctica to measure icemelt MAURICIO CUEVAS, Associated Press Writer – Fri Oct 16, 3:56 pm ET

ABOVE ANTARCTICA – Hoping to better understand how a melting Antarctica could swamp the planet, a NASA plane outfitted with lasers and ground-penetrating radar made its first flight over the icy continent on Friday.The DC-8 left Punta Arenas, Chile, on a mission to fly as low as 1,000 feet (300 meters) over Antarctica. Like the NASA satellite that has provided shocking data on how quickly Antarctic ice is disappearing, this plane will measure snow cover and ice thickness. But it also has equipment that will enable scientists to see under the ice shelves, measuring the water below.The goal is to understand just how warm ocean currents may be pulling the ice sheets seaward, melting their undersides. These ice sheets are rapidly collapsing — as fast as nine meters (27 feet) a year according to a study published in the journal Nature last month. If they disappear, far greater ice masses that lie on Antarctic bedrock could then melt into the sea, submerging coastal communities around the globe.Until now, the U.S. National Aeronautic and Space Administration has used satellites to track the impact of climate change in the Antarctic, but the satellite will be phased out at year's end. Friday's flight is the first of many planned as part of Operation Ice Bridge, to bridge the gap in data that would otherwise result before the next satellite goes up in 2015.Investigators from the Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, the University of Washington and the University of Kansas also are on board for the 11-hour flights, running their own sets of instruments.On the Net:NASA Ice Bridge blog: http://blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/icebridge Ice Bridge Twitter: http://twitter.com/IceBridge

Biggest economies try again to strike climate deal By ARTHUR MAX, Associated Press Writer – Sat Oct 17, 5:33 am ET

The world's 17 biggest and most polluting nations meet in London on Sunday in an attempt to break a deadlock on financing efforts to contain climate change and reducing harmful gases causing global warming.With a deadline looming, pressure was mounting on the United States to finalize its position before a decisive December conference in Denmark meant to cap two years of negotiations on a global climate change treaty.International negotiators showed little patience with arguments from the Obama administration that it was tied to action by Congress, where climate bills were making their slow way toward legislation.It's important that the U.S. makes as much progress as possible. They must come to Copenhagen with a clear sense of what they want to do,British Environment Minister Ed Miliband told British reporters in advance of the meeting.Negotiators working on a bulky text of an agreement will meet for the last time before the December conference in early November in Barcelona, Spain.But pessimism was mounting that a deal can be struck without policy changes at the highest level.

In recent months, the prospects that states will actually agree to anything in Copenhagen are starting to look worse and worse,Rajendra Pachauri, head of the authoritative U.N. scientific panel studying climate change, wrote on the Newsweek Web site posted Friday.President Barack Obama initiated the Major Economies Forum earlier this year as an informal caucus to quietly deal with the toughest problems. Participants agree to keep the talks confidential.A key issue is helping poor countries adapt to changes in the earth's climate that threaten to flood coastal regions, make farming unpredictable and spread diseases. They also need funds and technologies allowing them to continue develop their economies without overly increasing pollution.Estimates range in the hundreds of billions of dollars needed annually, but negotiators were struggling to find a formula for raising, administering and distributing the funds.Rapidly growing nations like India, China, Brazil and Mexico have agreed to draw up national strategies for slowing the growth of greenhouse gas emissions, but resist making those limits binding and subject to international monitoring in a treaty.Industrial countries agree to reduce their own emissions, but not to the levels that scientists say are required to avert climate catastrophes.

Republican senator says open to U.S. climate bill By Richard Cowan – Sat Oct 17, 11:05 am ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A senior Republican in the United States Senate, conservative Senator Lisa Murkowski, said she would consider voting for a cap and trade climate change bill Democrats are pushing if it also contains a vigorous expansion of nuclear energy and domestic oil drilling.In an interview set to air on Sunday on the C-SPAN cable TV network, Murkowski said cap and trade legislation, which aims to mandate reductions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions, must protect consumers from energy price increases and contain safeguards against market manipulation of pollution permits that would be traded by companies.Some of these elements already are included in Democratic legislation in the Senate and House of Representatives.Count me as one of those who will keep my mind open as we move forward,said Murkowski, the senior Republican on the Senate energy panel and a member of her party's leadership.Murkowski's remarks came after her fellow conservative, Senator Lindsey Graham, published a column in The New York Times with liberal Senator John Kerry, in which they vowed to work together to advance legislation tackling global warming.In signaling her willingness to work on a bill, Murkowski said Democrats must include tangible incentives for building nuclear power plants and stepping up domestic oil drilling, offshore and on land. It has got to be more than just window dressing,she warned.Most Republicans in Congress have dismissed the Democratic initiative as little more than a national energy tax that would kill U.S. jobs at a time when the country is grappling with severe economic problems.While the full Senate probably will not have time this year to debate and vote on a climate change bill, the willingness of some Senate conservatives to consider major environmental legislation could keep the effort in play next year.
Legislation narrowly passed the House in June, but faces a tougher time in the Senate.

ALASKA SEEING CLIMATE CHANGE

Asked about the Kerry-Graham column, Murkowski said,It's a good indicator that perhaps the conversation is changing.As the senior senator from Alaska, Murkowski acknowledged problems that could be linked to climate change.When you see changes to the land coming about ... what is causing the loss of the sea ice that adds to the erosion issues, yes, in Alaska we are seeing change,she said.That's why I have been one of those Republicans who has stepped out front a little bit more on the issue of climate change.President Barack Obama has been urging Congress to pass a bill reducing industries' carbon emissions through a cap and trade system. It would require companies to hold a dwindling number of pollution permits over the next four decades.Companies that find ways to use clean, alternative energy in manufacturing and end up with an excess number of permits could sell them to firms making slower environmental progress.The effort in Congress is intended to be part of an international fight against global warming, which scientists say could bring catastrophic consequences as temperature changes hurt agriculture, especially in poor countries, and create more violent storms and the spread of disease.The problem with weaning the world off of cheap, high-polluting fossil fuels is that they would be largely replaced by wind, solar and other energy sources that for now are more expensive, with some of the technology unproven.(Editing by Chris Wilson)

FEARFUL SIGHTS AND GREAT SIGNS FROM HEAVEN

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

Moscow Mayor Promises a Winter Without Snow By MOSCOW Simon Shuster / Moscow – Sat Oct 17, 9:15 am ET

Pigs still can't fly, but this winter, the mayor of Moscow promises to keep it from snowing. For just a few million dollars, the mayor's office will hire the Russian Air Force to spray a fine chemical mist over the clouds before they reach the capital, forcing them to dump their snow outside the city. Authorities say this will be a boon for Moscow, which is typically covered with a blanket of snow from November to March. Road crews won't need to constantly clear the streets, and traffic - and quality of life - will undoubtedly improve.The idea came from Mayor Yury Luzhkov, who is no stranger to playing God. In 2002, he spearheaded a project to reverse the flow of the vast River Ob through Siberia to help irrigate the country's parched Central Asian neighbors. Although that idea hasn't exactly turned out as planned - scientists have said it's not feasible - this time, Luzhkov says, there's no way he can fail.Controlling the weather in Moscow is nothing new, he says. Ahead of the two main holidays celebrated in the city each year - Victory Day in May and City Day in September - the often cash-strapped air force is paid to make sure that it doesn't, well, rain on the parades. With a city budget of $40 billion a year (larger than New York City's budget), Moscow can easily afford the $2-3 million price tag to keep the skies blue as spectators watch the tanks and rocket launchers roll along Red Square. Now there's a new challenge for the air force: Moscow's notorious blizzards.You know how every year on City Day and Victory Day we create the weather? Luzhkov asked a group of farmers outside Moscow in September, according to Russian media reports. Well, we should do the same with the snow! Then outside Moscow there will be more moisture, a bigger harvest, while for us it won't snow as much. It will make financial sense.

The plan was unsurprisingly rubber-stamped this week by the Moscow City Council, which is dominated by Luzhkov's supporters. Then the city's Department of Housing and Public Works described how it would work. The air force will use cement powder, dry ice or silver iodide to spray the clouds from Nov. 15 to March 15 - and only to prevent very big and serious snow from falling on the city, said Andrei Tsybin, the head of the department. This could mean that a few flakes will manage to slip through the cracks. Tsybin estimated that the total cost of keeping the storms at bay would be $6 million this winter, roughly half the amount Moscow normally spends to clear the streets of snow.So far the main objection to the plan has come from Moscow's suburbs, which will likely be inundated with snow if the plan goes forward. Alla Kachan, the Moscow region's ecology minister, said the proposal still needs to be assessed by environmental experts and discussed with the people living in the area before Luzhkov can enact it.The citizens of the region have some concerns. We have received lots of messages,she told the RIA news agency.With only a few weeks left before winter comes, environmentalists will have to work fast to keep Luzhkov from implementing his zaniest plan to date - and to stop the first snowflakes from wafting down to the city streets.