CHINA TO US-LAY OFF AFTER DALAI LAMA AWARD

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.

Landslides, floods kill over 150 in northern Philippines By Manny Mogato – OCT 9,09

MANILA (Reuters) – Rescue workers pulled out more bodies from a small mountain village buried under mud in the northern Philippines on Saturday, as the death toll from landslides and floods triggered by heavy rains rose to 153, disaster officials said.Relief officials estimated total damage at nearly 2 billion pesos ($43 million), including 1.6 billion pesos in lost crops.Emergency teams, including troops, began clearing major roads in at least 16 northern provinces on the main Luzon island as the skies cleared and floods began to recede, allowing relief workers to gain access to muddied villages and submerged towns.But Baguio City, known as the country's summer capital, in the vegetable-growing mountain province of Benguet 250 km (155 miles) north of the capital, remained totally cut off by boulders and soil loosened by rains brought by Typhoon Parma.I have some bads news today because a total of 153 people have died in floods and landslides in the north, Lieutenant-Colonel Ernesto Torres, spokesman for the national disaster agency, told reporters, adding he expects the number of fatalities to rise because dozens were still missing.Our rescue teams are working round-the-clock to search for more victims as an entire village was buried by soil loosened by heavy rains brought by storm Parma,he said.Parma first hit the Philippines last Saturday and hovered around the northern part of Luzon throughout the week. It has since weakened into a tropical depression and moved out to sea.Torres said Benguet was the hardest hit with more than 130 people killed in landslides, including rescuers trying to pull bodies out of collapsed houses.

Besides setting off landslides in the mountains, the rain has swollen rivers and reservoirs, forcing dams used for hydropower and irrigation to release water and causing more flooding in areas downstream.About 80 percent of the coastal province of Pangasinan in northwestern Philippines were inundated, with 50,000 people evacuated from low-lying areas, Eugene Cabrera, head of the regional disaster agency, said in a radio interview.The floods and mudslides came two weeks after another storm, Ketsana, inundated areas in and around the capital Manila, killing at least 337 people and forcing half a million from their homes.(Editing by Rosemarie Francisco)

Video shows cars, trucks tossed by tsunami waves By JAYMES SONG, Associated Press Writer – Fri Oct 9, 7:35 pm ET

HONOLULU – The FBI on Friday released video footage showing waves rushing in and violently tossing cars and trucks in a parking lot as a deadly tsunami struck American Samoa last week.The dramatic video was taken on the morning of Sept. 29 from a stationary security camera at the FBI office in Pago Pago. The video shows about a dozen cars, ranging from an SUV to a Volkswagen Beetle, being thrown around like whitewater rafts.The two-minute clip also shows three people walking in the parking lot shortly before the wave struck. One man runs quickly in the opposite direction less than 30 seconds before the water enters the scene.The FBI said because of its second-floor location at Pago Plaza, the office suffered only minimal damage. No agents were inside at the time. The building is located about 100 yards from the shoreline.The water hit the parking lot at 7:14 a.m. in American Samoa, about 26 minutes after an 8.3-magnitude earthquake shook the South Pacific.The time stamp on the video is in Hawaii Standard Time. Local time in American Samoa is one hour earlier.

At least 183 people were killed in the Sept. 29 tsunami, including 142 in Samoa. An additional 32 people were killed in American Samoa and nine in Tonga.As someone who lives on a Pacific island myself, it really brought home the level of destruction that a tsunami brings along with it,said FBI special agent Thomas Simon Jr. in Honolulu.The video recently arrived at the FBI office in Honolulu, which oversees American Samoa and other U.S. territories in the Pacific. The FBI released it publicly because the bureau felt there was a public interest.

EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH

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

Montserrat volcano spews ash, residents wear masks By JILL LASTER, Associated Press Writer – Fri Oct 9, 5:11 pm ET

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Rock falls from a spewing volcano stirred up more volcanic ash Friday on the tiny Caribbean island of Montserrat, which lost half its population after a devastating eruption last decade.Dozens of small earthquakes accompanied ash plumes that have billowed up 20,000 feet (6,000 meters) this week, prompting officials to distribute masks to residents, said James White Jr., acting director of the Disaster Management Coordination Agency.A thin layer of volcanic residue now coats several northwestern towns, and ashfall — which can cause respiratory problems and tiny scratches on the eyes — is expected to continue, said Paul Cole, director of the Montserrat Volcano Observatory.Cole said the Soufriere Hills volcano, which stirred to life Sunday for the first time in 10 months, may be creating a new lava dome, a mound of cooled lava that forms at the volcano's opening. It would be at least the fifth time that has occurred since the volcano became active in 1995.There aren't any ways to tell how long it will stay active, but it's been going for 14 years on and off, so my guess is that it will continue doing what it's been doing,Cole said.In 1997, a volcanic eruption killed 19 people and buried much of the island, including its former capital, Plymouth, which is now abandoned. Half the British territory's 12,000 inhabitants left.

EARTHQUAKES

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

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

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

Small earthquake strikes eastern California Fri Oct 9, 1:30 am ET

LONE PINE, Calif. – An earthquake has struck a remote area of eastern California that has been shaken by a sequence of tremors in the past week.The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.4 struck at 9:25 p.m. Thursday, six miles south of Keeler and 17 miles southeast of Lone Pine in the arid Owens Valley below the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada.An Inyo County sheriff's dispatcher says she felt some light shaking from the quake, but received no calls and no reports of injuries or damage.The area about 180 miles north of Los Angeles has been rocked by a series of quakes since last week — the largest a magnitude-5.2 which struck last Friday.On the Net: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/

6.4-magnitude quake hits Pacific, no tsunami alert Thu Oct 8, 9:46 pm ET

PORT VILA (AFP) – A 6.4-magnitude quake hit the Santa Cruz islands in the South Pacific on Friday, seismologists said, a day after a series of huge quakes sparked a region-wide tsunami alert.The quake struck at a depth of just 9.4 kilometres (six miles) about 315 kilometres northwest of the Luganville, part of the Vanuatu archipelago, at 8:16am (2116 GMT) but no tsunami warning was immediately issued.The region has been pummelled by some 20 aftershocks after Thursday's triple tremors measuring 7.6, 7.8 and 7.3 sparked a tsunami warning for much of the South Pacific, sending thousands of residents fleeing from the coast.The Pacific is still recovering from last week's 8.0 magnitude earthquake and huge tsunami which crashed into Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga, wiping out villages and resorts and killing 184.Samoa was holding a national day of mourning including a ceremony at Apia stadium and a mass funeral for 11 of the victims.

US Navy arrives in Indonesian quake zone Fri Oct 9, 9:40 am ET

PADANG, Indonesia – The massive relief effort following Indonesia's deadly earthquake received a boost Friday when U.S. Navy ships and helicopters arrived to distribute aid and help thousands of struggling survivors.Indonesian officials said Friday the death toll from the Sept. 30 quake on Sumatra island had reached 784, with little hope remaining for 242 people listed as missing.Chief Petty Officer Ty Swartz said the USS Denver and USS Campbell arrived late Thursday in West Sumatra province carrying tons of aid and heavy equipment.Four helicopters from the ships arrived Friday at an Indonesian military base in the hard-hit city of Padang, where they would begin flights to distribute aid and evacuate injured people from outlying villages cut off by landslides.At least 180,000 buildings were toppled or damaged in the quake, which also caused landslides that swept away entire villages in the hills.

The ships' personnel joined the 69-member U.S. Air Force Humanitarian Assistance Rapid Response Team, which arrived earlier this week and set up a mobile field hospital, which can treat between 250 to 400 patients a day, Staff Sgt, Veronica Pierce said in a statement.Three of Padang's four hospitals were severely damaged by the earthquake, which limited medical services.The U.S. military deployment is the largest in Indonesia since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that killed 230,000 in a dozen countries, roughly half in Aceh.The major role the U.S. military played in the multinational relief effort for tsunami victims improved America's standing here at a time of negative perceptions following the 2003 invasion of Iraq.International aid groups from some 30 nations have rushed to Sumatra to take part in the relief and recovery effort.

DISEASES

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

DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS

REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.

REVELATION 9:21
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries (DRUGS), nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

CDC: 76 children dead of swine flu as cases rise By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer – OCT 9,09

ATLANTA – Health officials said Friday that 76 U.S. children have died of swine flu, including 19 new reports in the past week — more evidence the new virus is unusually dangerous for the young.The regular flu kills between 46 and 88 children a year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That suggests deaths from the new H1N1 virus could dramatically outpace children's deaths from seasonal flu, if swine flu continues to spread as it has.CDC officials say 10 more states, a total of 37, now have widespread swine flu. A week ago, reports suggested that cases might be leveling off and even falling in some areas of the country, but that did not turn out to be an enduring national trend.We are seeing more illness, more hospitalizations, and more deaths,the CDC's Dr. Anne Schuchat said at a press conference Friday.The new virus, first identified in April, is a global epidemic. The CDC doesn't have an exact count of all swine flu deaths and hospitalizations, but existing reports suggest more than 600 have died and more than 9,000 have been hospitalized. Health officials believe millions of Americans have caught the virus.

The virus is hitting young people harder. Experts believe older people are suffering from it less, perhaps because they have a bit of immunity from exposure over the years to somewhat similar viruses.Most healthy children recover and often suffer only mild symptoms. But some have died from it, often from a second infection that moves in while the body is weakened from the flu.Kids with asthma or chronic heart or respiratory conditions also are at greater risk for serious complications.Experts say it's important for parents to watch their children's symptoms carefully. If a child appears to get better, but fever and a cough return, there may be a second infection. Other trouble signs are rapid or difficult breathing or bluish skin color.

Vaccinations against swine flu began this week and so far, states have ordered 3.7 million doses. Demand is exceeding supply, and people seeking the vaccination should ask their state or local health department where to go, said Schuchat, who heads the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.Health officials also said more data is trickling in from several clinical trials of the new vaccine, and so far no serious side effects have been reported.Preliminary results from one study indicate that both a seasonal flu shot and a swine flu shot are effective when given during the same doctor's office visit. However, the government is not recommending that people get the nasal spray versions of the seasonal and swine flu vaccines at the same time.The nasal sprays contain weakened, live virus, and the government doesn't have data on how a person's immune system would react to exposure to both at once, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.On the Net:CDC swine flu update: http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/update.htm

Calif. citrus farmers fear tree-killing disease By JACOB ADELMAN, Associated Press Writer – Thu Oct 8, 4:15 am ET

ORANGE COVE, Calif. – Tom Mulholland is girding for battle against a tiny enemy that could devastate the orange grove he has spent his life cultivating. His adversary: the Asian citrus psyllid, a fruit-fly-sized insect with red eyes and a long, leaf-penetrating beak.The psyllid, which can carry an incurable disease fatal to citrus trees, was spotted in August in Los Angeles, closer than ever before to the ribbon of central California where the state's $1.6 billion citrus-growing industry is concentrated.The feared infestation has prompted Mulholland and other citrus-belt farmers to put screens around their young seedlings, vigorously inspect their mature trees and tax themselves to fund research to stop the psyllid.It's like a war, Mulholland said in his tidy office set amid some 400 acres of radiantly healthy Clementine and Satsuma trees on his farm some 200 miles north of Los Angeles in the San Joaquin Valley at the base of the foothills beneath Sequoia National Park. We're sitting here trying to stop this thing, and it wants to keep pushing in.California growers and agricultural officials are worried the state's citrus industry will be crippled by the disease carried by the psyllid, which devastated Florida's crops. The two states produced about 97 percent of the nation's 12 million tons of citrus during the fiscal year ending in June.The huanglongbing disease, which spoils the flavor of the fruit and ultimately kills the tree, has been found in all of Florida's 32 citrus-producing counties since its discovery there in 2005, causing about $100 million in damages, said Andrew Meadows, a spokesman for Florida Citrus Mutual, the state's grower trade association.Florida officials have warned that their $9 billion citrus industry could be wiped out in a decade if a solution isn't found to the disease, also known as citrus greening because of the sickly green cast it lends to infected fruit.That's why California is so alarmed,said David Hall, an entomologist with the USDA's agricultural research service in Florida who worked on a team that sequenced the genome of the bacteria that causes citrus greening.

Huanglongbing has been found in Louisiana, Mexico, Brazil and China as well.

In California, the insect has so far been found among planted citrus trees in four southern counties, prompting quarantines that prohibit nurseries from shipping seedlings to other areas. Fruit grown in those counties also must be washed before it can be sold outside the quarantine zone.Dogs trained to sniff out the pest found packages of curry leaves with psyllids in FedEx packages this summer in Fresno and Sacramento. Only the Fresno psyllids tested positive for huanglongbing.The psyllid is not the only pest that could threaten California citrus. The state is also home to the glassy-winged sharpshooter, a threat to grapes but also capable of carrying a debilitating disease called citrus variegated chlorosis that has been spotted in Brazil.California agriculture officials have also been locked in a decades-long struggle with the crop-eating Mediterranean fruit fly, which can harm citrus plants and hundreds of other fruits and vegetables.But the potential devastation that could accompany a psyllid infestation is especially troubling for Mulholland and other citrus farmers, who have started building screens around the currently open-air nurseries where vulnerable seedlings are cultivated in rows of inverted plastic cones.Allan Lombardi, who helps oversee 2,100 acres of pink-fleshed Cara Cara oranges, deep-red Fukumoto oranges and other high-value citrus as a manager with Central Valley grower Griffith Farms, said his company is scrambling to enclose its nurseries before the pest reaches the area, but that it's about two years from completion.If the disease shows up sooner than that, we'll have to have a Plan B, and I'm not sure what that will be,said Lombardi as he looked down a mountain slope and into a lush valley planted thickly with rows of oranges.Citrus farmers have also started instructing workers to watch for signs of psyllid infestation, such as wilted-looking leaves or leaves covered in soot-like mold and white waxy deposits.

California's Citrus Research Board, which raises its $5.5 million operating budget by assessing citrus growers a nickel for every 55-pound box of fruit they sell, plans to contribute to the field checks with a team of up to 25 inspectors, operations chief MaryLou Polek said. She said she hopes to poach trained inspectors from the state agriculture department whose hours or pay have been reduced due to budget cuts.The board has also embarked on an effort to lay traps for the insect throughout the state that will be monitored by researchers carrying camera-equipped handheld devices that record the map coordinates where insects are found and take pictures of the damage.That information, along with other data, will be beamed to a database so researchers can better track the insect's movement and deploy insecticides and other resources where they'll be most effective, she said. Mulholland said he doesn't expect a cure to the disease any time soon, so those efforts to keep the disease-carrying insect from moving any farther north represent growers' best hope against the illness.It's like the AIDS of citrus. It's the very worst disease you can have,he said.The question is, how do we keep the disease from spreading? Associated Press writer Greg Risling in Los Angeles contributed to this report.

DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).

From The Times October 10, 2009 Opt-out over EU treaty demanded by Czech President David Charter in Brussels and Richard Beeston

President Klaus of the Czech Republic: his signature is the last needed on the treaty
Families driven from their homes during the Second World War, gay rights and a recalcitrant Czech President emerged as the last hurdles for a treaty to restructure the European Union.Furious EU leaders are determined to prevent President Klaus from delaying or amending the Lisbon treaty before appending his signature, the last needed to complete the document. Mr Klaus said yesterday that he wanted the same opt-outs as Britain and Poland from the Charter of Fundamental Rights, a key section of the treaty, to stop the European Court of Justice from gaining extra powers over Czech judges.Mr Klaus said that he feared the treaty would give thousands of German families expelled after the war the right to reclaim property in Sudetenland. EU officials said that he had not raised the issue during talks and that his explanation for refusing to sign was a delaying tactic to cause disruption to an institution that he detests.The 66-year-old leader’s demands have dampened the delight in EU capitals over Ireland’s yes vote for the treaty in its rerun referendum a week ago and over the agreement of President Kaczynski of Poland to ratify the document in Warsaw today. EU leaders are desperate for the treaty to come into force as soon as possible so that they can appoint a president and foreign minister, created by the treaty, as well as the new members of the European Commission, who are due to start on November 1.Leaders still intend to discuss at a summit on October 29 whom they want as president — Tony Blair is a leading contender — and foreign minister. It is possible that a consensus over the top post will emerge but it will be a provisional choice, a president-elect, pending Czech ratification.

Legal experts from the EU said that, depending on the precise nature of the extra wording demanded by Mr Klaus, the document might have to go back to all 27 capitals for another round of ratifications. New guarantees given to Irish voters were backed by leaders meeting at the European Council and it is possible that a similar arrangement can be made this month over Mr Klaus’s demands. This might enable him to sign the treaty but claim victory at the same time.In an interview with The Times, Gordon Bajnai, the Hungarian Prime Minister, said that Mr Klaus’s tactics were completely counterproductive and hindering Europe’s recovery from the economic crisis.I am one of those European prime ministers, actually the majority of them, who are quite impatient about getting the Lisbon treaty on track. We are obviously doing everything to pursue it,he said.Mr Klaus has showed no sign of a compromise. As you know, I have always considered this treaty a step in the wrong direction,he said.It will deepen the problems the EU is facing today, it will increase its democratic deficit, worsen the standing of our country and expose it to new risks — among other things also because it endangers the legal status of the citizens and the stability of property rights in our country.The row could trigger a political crisis in the Czech Republic. One EU diplomat said: “At no point did the Czech Government ask for this opt-out during treaty negotiations. The ball is now in the court of the Czech Prime Minister, Jan Fischer — he’ll have to decide if he wants to risk reopening the treaty negotiations.Mr Fischer said that his Government will consider its position on Monday.

How to avoid Czech-mate

Option 1: It is decided at home The Czech Government rejects Klaus’s call for an opt-out. If the President then refuses to sign, could the Government find a way to circumvent him, as when he refused to sign a gay rights law?

Option 2: The fudge The Government backs Klaus’s call for an opt-out that could be agreed readily by European leaders at the next EU summit on October 29. Klaus could sign and the treaty would come into force, probably on December 1

Option 3 Return to go The Czech Government backs Klaus’s call for an opt-out but EU lawyers rule that it must be ratified, again, by all 27 member states. This might delay the treaty long enough for David Cameron to call a referendum on it if he wins the next election.

Dialogue with EU key to progress in Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai by Denholm Barnetson – Fri Oct 9, 12:19 pm ET

VALLADOLID, Spain (AFP) – Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Friday that talks with the European Union on normalising relations would help restore international confidence in his country.The EU in June held its first official talks with Zimbabwe in seven years with a landmark meeting in Brussels, followed last month by the visit of an EU delegation to Harare.The dialogue marks a major diplomatic overture with Zimbabwe after years of strained relations due to a series of violent elections and claims of gross human rights abuses by President Robert Mugabe's government.Tsvangirai joined Mugabe in a unity government in February, and quickly made a tour of western capitals in a bid to improve relations and seek desperately needed aid for Zimbabwe's ruined economy.Zimbabwe is emerging from a political and economic conflict. One of the key things that we need to do is to expedite the EU's rapid dialogue,Tsvangirai told AFP.The issues are very clear. The Europeans have their own legitimate concerns, we have our legitimate concerns and therefore I think that only through dialogue are we able to establish a common ground and remove those obstacles that have led to strained relations.He spoke to AFP in the northern Spanish city of Valladolid, where he was to receive a lifetime achievement award from the Cristobal Gabarron Foundation.The EU maintains a travel ban and asset freeze against Mugabe and about 200 of his close allies, but has also provided 600 million euros in humanitarian aid between 2002 and 2009.Xavier Marchal, head of the European delegation in Harare, said Thursday that the bloc was ready to resume massive and full-fledged assistance to Zimbabwe if relations normalise.Even Mugabe, who just last month railed against bloody whites interfering in his nation's affairs, has struck a more conciliatory tone.On Tuesday he said Zimbabwe was ready for "fresh and cooperative relations with Western nations, which have spearheaded global condemnation of his rule.

Washington, which also maintains sanctions on Mugabe and his inner circle, has responded more cautiously, telling Mugabe to first show his commitment to democratic reform and political opening.The power-sharing government aimed to end political violence that erupted after failed elections last year and to halt Zimbabwe's economic freefall, powered by world-record hyperinflation that impoverished the once dynamic country.Tsvangirai said economic stabilisation was critical to the country's recovery, and also called for a "move away from humanitarian support to development needs.The unity government has been rattled by public feuding between Finance Minister Tendai Biti and Reserve Bank chief Gideon Gono, most recently over control of 400 million dollars in resources from the International Monetary Fund.But Tsvangirai said Gono had no choice but to accept Biti's decisions.The fiscal authority in Zimbabwe is the minister of finance. The governor is answerable and subordinate to the minister of finance, so there is no dispute,the former opposition leader said.Biti will set the priorities.He said the IMF funds would be used for social development in all sectors.Hours after the Barack Obama was sensationally awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, he also called on African leaders to do more to help the US president develop the continent.I think he will be sympathetic to Africa but I think he has other priorities. So it now depends on the African leadership ... to do something. Let's facilitate Obama to help us.

African nuns tell Vatican they want more influence By NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press Writer – Fri Oct 9, 11:49 am ET

VATICAN CITY – African nuns told a Vatican meeting Friday they want more of a say in running the Catholic Church on the continent, saying they have special talents and shouldn't be left to clean churches and mend vestments.Women also have an important role to play in forging reconciliation in Africa's many tribal and ethnic conflicts —the main focus of the 3-week-long Vatican meeting on Africa, said Sister Pauline Odia Bukasa of Congo.We, your mothers and religious sisters, ask you — our fathers and bishops in this church-family — to promote the dignity of women,she said, requesting in particular greater emphasis on educating young girls.Sister Felicia Harry of Ghana was more blunt, saying African nuns didn't want to usurp priests' powers but wanted to be part of the church's decision-making process.As well as teach catechism to children, decorate parish churches, clean, mend and sew vestments, we religious women in Africa would like to be part of various parish councils,she said, according to a summary of her remarks to the closed meeting.The role of women in the church has been a recurring topic of discussion among the 300 prelates at the meeting, which is hearing testimony from bishops around the continent about their particular problems and advice from colleagues and Vatican officials on how to deal with them.Ghana Bishop Matthew Kwasi Gyamfi said the Vatican needed to address a particular issue that many African priests face concerning polygamous marriages: A woman who married a man who then took other wives isn't allowed to receive certain sacraments because she is in a marriage that the church cannot bless.

He said when the women have walked away from such marriages without the consent of their husbands, the church has been cited for injustice, insecurity, breaking up families, fomenting disunity and destroying social cohesion,he told the synod in asking for some special exemptions from Rome so such women can participate fully in the sacramental life of the church.In addition to the role of women, the synod has addressed issues that are increasingly of concern to the broader church: how to deal with the rapid spread of Islam and Pentecostal churches, which are increasingly drawing away many Catholics.Bishop Alfred Adewale Martins of Nigeria said it seemed the aggressive proselytizing of many neo-Pentecostal communities aims at bringing down the Catholic Church both in her influence as well as in the number of her faithful.This intention is captured in the way some of them refer to the Catholic Church as the dead church,he said, urging the Vatican to reach out in particular to young professional Africans who are increasingly targeted by the new churches.While such problems are universal, a purely African problem has also been raised: tribal and ethnic conflicts within the African church hierarchy.Bishop Albert Vanbuel of the Central African Republic said recent months have seen increasingly bitter divisions between priests, bishops and laymen fueled by tribal and ethnic divisions.
Our church is called on to show a witness ... of reconciliation, justice and peace, and above all of communion,he said.

LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS

Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

Netnayahu-Mitchell talks constructive: Israel PM By Douglas Hamilton – OCT 9,09

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had constructive talks on Friday with U.S. President Barack Obama's envoy George Mitchell on advancing efforts to achieve peace with the Palestinians, his office said.A statement said the two-hour meeting focused "on steps for advancing the peace process.Netanyahu, whose refusal to freeze West Bank settlement construction has opened a rare rift with Washington, agreed to further talks in the coming days. The U.S. envoy and his aides were expected to meet a team of Netanyahu aides on Saturday.

Mitchell later met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and, in remarks afterwards to reporters, acknowledged the continued challenges.We do not underestimate the difficulties for us or for the parties, but we all have obligations to do everything we can to help achieve the goal of comprehensive peace that will be good for the Palestinians, good for the Israelis, good for all the people in this region,Mitchell said.He said that Israeli and Palestinian envoys had been invited to continue their consultations in Washington. Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat told reporters that he saw those talks taking place maybe in the next two weeks.Mitchell's mission -- the ninth by the 76-year-old trouble-shooter since his appointment in January -- saw mixed messages from Netanyahu's rightist coalition government.Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said ahead of meeting Mitchell on Thursday that he intended to tell him clearly that Washington's goal of comprehensive peace was an illusion.But center-left Defense Minister Ehud Barak separately told Mitchell he believed the time had come to move determinedly forward toward a comprehensive treaty.

CREDIBILITY PROBLEMS

Netanyahu is the ultimate arbiter of policy in the coalition, whose inherent instability has been cited as one reason for not acceding to a demand by Obama and the Palestinians to suspend all Jewish settlement building on occupied land seen as part of a future Palestinian state.Abbas also has credibility problems, as his Islamist Hamas rivals control the Gaza Strip -- half the Palestinian polity -- and rule out any permanent peace accord with the Jewish state.Low-yield peace talks limped on last year under the previous government of Ehud Olmert, until derailed by the Gaza war.Obama has made resumption of substantive negotiations one of his policy priorities and underscored the goal in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly last month, saying it was past time to stop talking about negotiations; it is time to move forward.Obama arranged a meeting between Netanyahu and Abbas in New York, but with scant results. He said further meetings would be held at lower levels and he would receive a status report sometime in October.The New York encounter was seen as a humiliation for Abbas by many Palestinians, and the pro-Western president now appears weakened politically.Lieberman said there was no chance of a Middle East peace deal for many years.There are many conflicts in the world that haven't reached a comprehensive solution and people learned to live with it,he told Israel Radio on Thursday.The Palestinians say Lieberman has made it clear why there will be no relaunch of negotiations any time soon,Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rdainah said.We need to hear a response to this statement from Mitchell.There was no word from the envoy on Lieberman's views.(Reporting by Dan Williams and Mohammed Assadi; writing by Doulgas Hamilton; editing by Richard Williams)

Israelis bring green power to West Bank village By TIA GOLDENBERG, Associated Press Writer – Fri Oct 9, 5:58 am ET

SUSYA, West Bank – Residents of a West Bank village with no electricity have been helped out of the darkness by unlikely benefactors — a group of Israelis who installed solar panels and wind turbines to illuminate the Palestinians' makeshift homes.The villagers of Susya live in tents and caves with power lines darting right above their dwellings, connecting a nearby Jewish settlement to the power grid while bypassing them entirely.It was this lack of basic services that drew the physicists from Comet-ME, a group of pro-peace Israeli scientists and activists, to this dusty, desolate area. Now the entire village of 300 people has access to power that is reliable, free and green.At night, rudimentary streetlights dot the otherwise pitch-black village and each home is lit by an energy-saving bulb. Villagers have no access to phone lines, but the power allows them to charge their cell phones.Life is easier now,said Susya villagers Widad Nawaja, standing below the solar panel that powers her home.We have light. Children can do their homework at night if they couldn't finish it during the day.The residents also hope the new amenities will help them make more money: an electric butter churner means they can produce butter faster than by hand, and two green-powered refrigerators can preserve their produce until it can be sold.The communities here are in deep poverty. The project is targeted to help them make more revenue from their own work,said Noam Dotan, an activist and physicist with Comet-ME.

Comet-ME says it seeks to use renewable energy to empower Palestinian communities like this one, which is among the poorest in the West Bank.The West Bank, home to some 2.5 million Palestinians, is controlled by the Israeli military, with the Western-backed Palestinian Authority governing some areas. Some 300,000 Israeli settlers also live in the territory. The Palestinians want to make the West Bank part of their future state.Israel provides power to Jewish settlements and military facilities in the West Bank, as well as to most Palestinian cities and towns.But Comet-ME says some 500 Palestinian families in communities not officially recognized by the Israeli military authorities in this part of the southern West Bank are forced to live off the grid. The Israeli military said it never received a request for power from the community and if it did, the army would study it in accordance with the relevant laws.Susya villagers used to depend on diesel generators which were costly and polluted the air.The community has faced a series of evictions by the military and has clashed with Jewish settlers in the past. But the villagers and the activists say the work to set up the new power system — done by both Israelis and Palestinians — helped temper mistrust.This is an example of the coexistence between Arabs and Jews, and this is a very important thing,said Mohammad Ahmed Nasser Nawaja, wearing a traditional Arab robe and carrying the cell phone he charged thanks to the new power system.Meanwhile, word has spread to other villages lacking electricity. Comet-ME hopes to power up the remaining off-grid families in this area over the next four years.

MUSLIM NATIONS

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

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

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

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

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

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

Report: Tehran vows to blow up the heart of Israel if Iran is attacked Friday, 09 October 2009 10:25 News from Jerusalem .Iranian missiles could reach Israeli nuclear sites

IRAN would blow up the heart of Israel if it was attacked by the Jewish state or the US, a Revolutionary Guards official was quoted today as saying.Even if one American or Zionist missile hits our country, before the dust settles, Iranian missiles will blow up the heart of Israel,the IRNA news agency quoted Mojtaba Zolnour as saying.
Zolnour is a deputy representative of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the elite Guards force.Iranian officials have previously said Tehran would retaliate in event of an Israeli or US attack.Earlier this year, a senior commander said Iranian missiles could reach Israeli nuclear sites. Israel is believed to be the only nuclear-armed Middle East state.Israel has not ruled out military action if diplomacy fails to end a dispute over Iran's nuclear ambitions, echoing U.S. policy, although Washington is engaged in a drive to resolve the issue through direct talks with Iran.The West suspects the Islamic state is covertly seeking to develop nuclear weapons, which Iran denies.The Zionist regime and the United States cannot risk attacking Iran,Zolnour said in the holy Shi'ite city of Qom, citing Iranian military and technological advances, IRNA reported.The Australian: At talks in Geneva on Oct. 1, Iran agreed with six world powers - the US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany - to give U.N. experts access to a newly-disclosed uranium enrichment plant south of Tehran.News Com Au

Hamas declares day of rage for Al-Aqsa Mosque Friday, 09 October 2009 06:48 News from Jerusalem .Muslim rioters in Jerusalem Old City

The Islamist Palestinian organization Hamas declared Friday a day of rage and called on its supporters to come out and demonstrate at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, on Temple Mount.
The call came Thursday, following days of tension at the Temple Mount compound as Palestinian protesters sporadically clashed with Israeli police patrolling the holy site.Leading religious figures in the Muslim world, such as Sheikh Yousuf al-Qaradawi, dubbed Friday protect Al-Aqsa day.Joining the call to protect the mosque were Palestinian politicians and religious figures, who have been trying to convince the lethargic public in Gaza to come out and demonstrate.Israel's Islamic Movement also joined the calls, urging Muslims within Israel to attend Friday's prayer at Al-Aqsa. The movement explained that they do not intend to confront anyone, but that prayer at the mosque is a basic right which they have no intention of relinquishing.

In efforts to curb the violence, Israel has instituted restrictions on worshippers entering the compound, allowing men only over 50 years of age to enter. However, no restriction has been placed on women. Consequently, thousands of women arrived at the Temple Mount compound on Thursday in organized buses from Arab towns across Israel, and a similar showing was expected on Friday.A spokesperson for the Islamic Movement in Israel told Haaretz that the tension at the site has been created by Israeli police, which has deployed an unprecedented presence around the mosque and in East Jerusalem in general. We repeat,he said.The Al-Aqsa Mosque is a holy place for Muslims and no one else has any right or ownership over it.The Islamic movement has asked not to address comments made recently by Rabbi Yosef Sholom Elyashiv, the nonagenarian leader of the Lithuanian sect of the ultra-Orthodox Ashkenazi community, who told President Shimon Peres that Jews should not make pilgrimages to the Temple Mount so as not to evoke global outrage.According to halacha (Jewish religious law), it is forbidden to ascend to Temple Mount,Rabbi Yosef Sholom Elyashiv is quoted by Israel Radio as telling President Shimon Peres.I've said this in the past, and I am once again repeating this statement that Jews are forbidden to go up to the site,Elyashiv said.The Islamic Movement responded to these remarks Thursday, saying that we don't need halacha quoted by this rabbi or another. We derive our legitimacy from the Koran and from the words of the prophet Mohammed.The Islamic Movement also criticized the indifference displayed by Muslim nations in the face of the clashes in Jerusalem. In a flyer the group disseminated, titled Al-Aqsa will be victorious, they said that anyone who harms Al-Aqsa is disrespecting every Muslim, wherever they are, and that despite the indifference and the incitement against the group and its leaders, the mosque will ultimately prevail.haaretz

Settler leader: Obama, keep your hands off Israel Thursday, 08 October 2009 05:52 News from Jerusalem .Keep your hands off of Israel

Some 3,000 members of Likud, as well as thousands of right-wing supporters gathered on Wednesday in the Samaria National Park in the northern West Bank, to voice their support for further construction in the settlements.Samaria Regional Council leader Gershon Mesika, sent a direct message to the U.S. President Barack Obama in his address to the demonstration:Keep your hands off of Israel,he said.It is outside of your jurisdiction. Netanyahu should stand rock solid to protect his country.
Meanwhile, right-wing MK Danny Danon also passed on a message to Obama in a live interview on CNN and said Israel has no partner for peace, adding that U.S. pressure is causing problems for the Jewish people.

Danon also said, that despite Obama's charisma this is not Hollywood.More than 70 buses stood outside the park as thousands of settlement supporters congregated in the park's amphitheater to listen to the right-wind speeches in a demonstration headed by Danon.We need to remember that our hold on Jerusalem starts here,said Likud MK Tzipi Hatovely, who came to the demonstration with her entire family.We will demand that the prime minister continue to build in the West Bank,she added.

Among the top Likud members in attendance were rightist Moshe Feiglin and Minister Yuli Edelstein, who both said that they hoped the talks on a settlement freeze would finally end.Wednesday was one of the only days during the year that visitors were permitted into the national park due to security problems.The park roads are neglected and littered and the surrounding boasts several illegal construction sites.
Some 20 minutes from the Shomron park, in the settlement Revava, MK Danon organized another rally for non-Israeli supporters.We don't know what the government's policy on the settlement freeze is,Danon told the participants.It's obvious that if the policy changes there will be 5,000 people standing here instead of 1,000.A Likud activist now residing in Istanbul, who asked not to be named, told Haaretz that he was very proud of his country: There are brave people here who don't mind living with the Arabs. They're not afraid of anything,he said.haaretz

ON CAPITOL HILL Will your thoughts be subject to hate crimes law? Emergency campaigns seek messages to Washington October 09, 2009 12:24 pm Eastern
By Bob Unruh 2009 WorldNetDaily

A hate crimes law is looming in Washington, and at least two organizations are urging Americans to contact their representatives and even the president to express their concern over the plan's potential thought control aspects. WND has reported on the proposal numerous times, most recently just weeks ago when a key Senate vote happened in the wee hours when most Americans were asleep and a warning followed. The proposal – which creates federal protections and privileges for homosexuals and other alternative lifestyles but denies those protections to other groups of citizens – has been added to a defense spending bill.The U.S. House voted yesterday to approve the plan, and the Senate has expressed support. Once approved, it would head to President Obama, who is anxious to satisfy homosexual supporters who have complained he has not done enough for them.When the Senate earlier approved a key move, Mathew Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel, said, In … months President Obama and the Democratic-led Congress have forced on the American people the most radical and and immoral agenda.The administration and the Democratic-led Congress are out of touch with the mainstream. They represent the most fringe extreme elements of America. They will not be able to continue their efforts to undermine moral values, socialize the economy and trash American pride and heritage.

The people will not remain silent forever,he said.The House vote prompted the American Family Association to alert its constituents and create a procedure for them to send e-mails to Washington about the plan.In its never-ending quest to shred America's Judeo-Christian value system, the left is planning to hurriedly push through a thought crimes bill,the alert said.So-called hate crimes laws are really laws that criminalize thought, because they punish an individual not for what he did but for what he thought. Politically incorrect thoughts about homosexual behavior will result in enhanced criminal sanctions under this law.The AFA said,Everywhere hate crimes laws have gone into effect, they have been quickly used to intimidate, silence and punish people of faith who express deeply held religious objections to the normalization of homosexuality.Such laws not only punish officially disapproved speech and thought, they create two tiers of victims. Under hate crimes laws, some victims get more protections than others, which violates the fundamental American principle of equality under the law,the alert said.In fact, such laws actively discriminate against heterosexual Christians who are victims of crime, since they will get less legal protection than homosexual victims.The American Family Association said since sexual orientation nowhere is defined in the law,this law will give pedophiles, voyeurs, and exhibitionists special protections, which is why the bill has correctly been called The Pedophile Protection Act.Also offering an online contact Washington process is the organization Pray in Jesus Name, founded by former U.S. Navy Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt, who was involuntarily removed from the U.S. military after he prayed in Jesus name.His organization submitted via fax almost 400,000 petitions to Washington opposing the hate crimes law.Also, a separate larger Fed Ex campaign to warn U.S. Senate members of the dangers of the hate crimes plan dispatched more than 705,000 letters to senators.The letter-writing effort was organized by WND columnist Janet Porter, who also heads the Faith2Action Christian ministry. It allowed citizens to send individually addressed letters to all 100 senators over their own signature for only $10.95.

Concerned individuals may e-mail their respective senators or call 1(877) 851-6437 or 1(202) 224-3121.Klingenschmitt said,Please call 202-456-1111 today, and tell White House comment line operators: Mr. President, please keep your promise and veto the F-35 second engine in the Pentagon Budget, 2010 Defense Authorization Act.Several months ago, President Obama promised to veto the Pentagon budget if it contained funding for the F-22 or a second engine for the F-35. The Senate killed the F-22, but after receiving nearly 22,000 faxes from us in the last 48 hours, the House ignored Obama's veto threat and voted Thursday to fully fund a second engine for F-35s. The House also sadly attached the pro-homosexual Hate Crimes bill, which had nothing to do with Pentagon spending, to the budget as a poison pill. If President Obama vetoes the F-35 second engine, as he promised when speaking in Phoenix last spring, he will ironically kill the homosexual agenda and their evil Pedophile Protection Act,he wrote.Attempts by Republicans to add amendments stating pedophilia is not protected as a sexual orientation were blocked by House Democrats.In fact, Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., said all alternative sexual lifestyles should be protected.This bill addresses our resolve to end violence based on prejudice and to guarantee that all Americans regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability or all of these philias and fetishes and isms that were put forward need not live in fear because of who they are. I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this rule,he said.Further, the proposal has a broad definition of intimidation,so a Christian pastor's sermon could be considered hate speech if heard by an individual who then acts aggressively against someone based on sexual orientation.The pastor, Klingenschmitt said, could be prosecuted for conspiracy to commit a hate crime or inciting violence against gays for quoting the Bible.As it went through the House, the version was H.R. 1913, or the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009. The Senate then worked on its own version, and it ultimately was added as an amendment to a defense spending plan.As WND reported, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder admitted a homosexual activist who is attacked following a Christian minister's sermon about homosexuality would be protected by the proposed federal law, but a minister attacked by a homosexual wouldn't be.The revelations came from Holder's June testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which was taking comments on the proposal. The measure also was the subject of discussion on talk radio host Rush Limbaugh's July 3 show.This is the question,Limbaugh said.(Sen.) Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) presents a hypothetical where a minister gives a sermon, quotes the Bible about homosexuality and is thereafter attacked … by a gay activist because of what the minister said about his religious beliefs and what Scripture says about homosexuality. Is the minister protected?

No, said Holder.Well, the statute would not – would not necessarily cover that, Holder stated.We're talking about crimes that have a historic basis. Groups who have been targeted for violence as a result of the color of their skin, their sexual orientation, that is what this statute tends – is designed to cover. We don't have the indication that the attack was motivated by a person's desire to strike at somebody who was in one of these protected groups. That would not be covered by the statute.Continued Limbaugh,In other words: ministers and whites are not covered by the hate crime statute because we're talking about crimes that have a historic basis, groups who have been targeted for violence as a result of their skin color, sexual orientation. So hate crimes are reserved exclusively for blacks and homosexuals. Everybody else can get to the back of the bus on this one.The bill was nicknamed The Pedophile Protection Act when Rep. Steve King proposed an amendment during its trek through the U.S. House that would specify pedophiles could not use the law to protect their activities.

Majority Democrats flatly refused.

Erik Stanley, senior legal counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund, told WND the move is alarming because this would be the very first governmental and societal disapproval of a sincerely held religious belief, held by a majority of Americans, namely that homosexual behavior is immoral.It's the first time the federal government is writing into law a disapproval of that belief,he said.While he said he doesn't believe there will be immediate prosecutions of pastors and churches for teaching the biblical injunction that homosexual behavior is sin,I think the effect on speech and religious speech is nonetheless real.He said he does expect that pastors soon will begin being called to testify in hate crime cases in court as to what that pastor preaches, what the church teaches, what the Bible teaches.When this happens, there will be a shock wave through pastorates in America,he said. Ultimately, he warned that the homosexual advocates who have pushed the hate crimes plan consider this law just the first step toward silencing Christians.That development already has been observed not only with the enactment of hate crimes laws in other nations but in the hate crime related speech codes existing on many university campuses in the U.S., Stanley said.President Obama, supported strongly during his campaign by homosexual advocates, has indicated he would like to see the legislation become law.I urge members on both sides of the aisle to act on this important civil rights issue by passing this legislation to protect all of our citizens from violent acts of intolerance,he said.

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

Gold eases from highs as dollar recovers - Fed chairman lifts dollar with hint of monetary tightening October 9, 2009

Gold eased in Europe on Friday, consolidating after hitting record highs for three straight sessions, as an indication from the US Federal Reserve chief that monetary policy may be tightened lifted the dollar.Spot gold was bid at $1 046.10 (R7 720) an ounce at 11:38 SA time against $1 054.00 late in New York on Thursday and opening up a gap on its record this week of above $1 060 an ounce.US gold futures for December delivery on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange fell $8.80 to $1 047.50.Fed chairman Ben Bernanke said at a conference on Thursday he was thinking of an exit strategy from quantitative easing and low interest rates as the US economy improves.The statement lifted the dollar index, which measures the US unit's performance against a basket of six other major currencies, from 14-month lows.The high inflation concerns upon which gold has been soaring until now may start to fade as the Fed (favours) a stronger dollar,said Pradeep Unni, senior analyst at Richcomm Global Services.The dollar's decline had pushed gold to a series of record highs, peaking at $1 061.20 an ounce on Thursday, as investors bought the metal as an alternative to paper currencies. A weak dollar also makes gold cheaper for non-US investors.Despite the dollar's bounce, persistent fears over currency market instability are seen pushing gold to further records this year as funds buy the metal as an alternative asset.It seems people are beginning to realise the real effect of quantitative easing -- not only the threat to inflation, but the threat to fiat (official) currencies,said Nick Bullman, managing partner of hedge fund Bullman Investment Management.If you carry on just printing money, eventually people will start to look for another store of value.

WEAK PHYSICAL DEMAND

Physical demand for gold remains weak as high prices deter jewellers, traditionally the main buyers of gold. Buying in India, the world's largest bullion market last year, has been lacklustre despite the onset of the festival season.The impact of a soaring dollar gold price had been cushioned for domestic buyers by strength in the rupee, but the Indian currency snapped five days of gains on Friday to weaken.Other major centres for physical gold trade have also seen no upturn in sales during the present price run-up, suggesting it is based on large investment rather than broad-based demand.Dubai, a key demand centre for gold, hasn't reported any large rise in demand,said Unni.Retail jewellery units fear the traditional buying quantities will be far less this time during the festive season.Among other precious metals, silver also retreated from the 14-month high at $17.92 an ounce it hit on Thursday, tracking the dollar and gold prices. Spot silver was at $17.56 an ounce against $17.72.Spot platinum was at $1 335 an ounce against $1 344.50, while palladium was at $322.50 against $318. The metal used in autocatalysts hit a peak of $323, its highest since mid-August, earlier on Friday.Palladium, which according to dealers underperformed other precious metals earlier this year, has been lifted by gains in gold, hopes demand will improve as the economy recovers and concerns over the availability of Russian stocks.It is still good value to invest at these kinds of levels,said one platinum group metals trader.Demand will certainly improve, and on the Russian side there is talk of some tightness coming through. That may be the general feeling in the market.- Reuters

Harper says he expects job market to fluctuate Fri Oct 9, 2:20 pm ET

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada's job market could well fluctuate in coming months despite unexpectedly good jobs news in September, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Friday.Employers hired six times more workers than forecast in September, cutting the jobless rate for the first time since July 2008 in another sign the economy is rebounding from a deep recession.We have some good news today. I don't think we're out of the woods. I think in the next few months we could still see a lot of up and down,Harper told a televised news conference in Welland, Ontario.My big concern remains the United States. ... We have to be realistic that these problems in the United States do continue to create real drags on the Canadian economy,he said.
(Reporting by David Ljunggren; Editing by Frank McGurty)

Japan to obtain rights to platinum in Africa Fri Oct 9, 5:49 am ET

TOKYO (AFP) – Resource-poor Japan has obtained rights to develop platinum mines in South Africa and Botswana in a bid to ensure a stable supply of the metal, officials said on Friday.The government-backed Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corp. (JOGMEC) has signed a contract with Discovery Metals in Australia to jointly develop nickel and platinum mines in northeast Botswana, it said in a statement.It has inked another deal with Canadian firm Platinum Group Metals to explore for platinum in South Africa.It will pay three million Australian dollars (2.7 million US dollars) to Discovery Metals over three years for exploration costs, in return for 60 percent of the rights to the metals.JOGMEC will pay 3.2 million US dollars to Platinum Group Metals over four years for a 37 percent share, it said in a statement.Japan has in recent years worked to strengthen ties with African countries to ensure supplies of resources including precious metals.

Nigeria's oil output between 1.6-1.7 mln bpd : minister Thu Oct 8, 4:01 pm ET

ABUJA (AFP) – Nigeria's crude oil output is hovering between 1.6 and 1.7 million barrels per day following an amnesty deal to militants who waged a violent oil war, the petroleum minister said Thursday.Condensate and crude oil, we are doing about two million bpd. Crude oil fluctuates between 1.6 and 1.7 million bpd,Petroleum Minister Rilwan Lukman said in an interview.The figure is a million barrels less from the 2.6 million bpd the world's eighth largest oil producer used to pump in 2005before the onset of the oil insurgency in the southern Niger Delta.Nigeria's oil production fell to about 1.3 million barrels per day recently due attacks by Niger Delta militants, the minister had told reporters at the end of August.We hope output will improve,after the amnesty, the minister said.We have a capacity of producing over three million bpd, the more peace we have, the more stability we have, we should be able to produce more,he said.He said the country has been able to fulfil its OPEC quota.It fluctuates from day to day, (but) we are meeting our quota,he added.

Militant activities in the oil-rich region -- including kidnappings of mostly foreign oil workers and sabotaging oil installations -- have hit output.Nigeria ranked eighth among the 12-nation global oil cartel, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), and is still struggling to regain its position as African leading oil producer having been overtaken by Angola.President Umaru Yar'Adua had in June declared amnesty for all Niger Delta militants who dropped their arms to embrace peace.The amnesty, which officially took off on August 6, ended on October 4.More than 8,000 of the militants who laid down arms have so far been registered but the number could double when the documentation is complete, officials said on Thursday.Figures released by Timiebi Koripamo-Agary, spokeswoman of the government amnesty team, showed that as of Tuesday -- two days after the amnesty deadline -- 8,299 militants had been recorded in seven oil-producing states in the south of Nigeria.

Stocks post their best week since July By Sara Lepro, Ap Business Writer – Fri Oct 9, 5:54 pm ET

NEW YORK – The stock market is keeping its momentum going, giving shares their best week in more than two months.Moderate gains on Friday led by health care and utility companies pushed stocks to a 4 percent gain for the week, their best performance since July. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 78 points, reaching its highest level in a year.Bond prices tumbled, extending the previous day's losses, as the Treasury market struggled to absorb $71 billion of new supply auctioned off this week in the government's ongoing efforts to fund its stimulus programs.The market's performance was a fitting way to commemorate the second anniversary of the record highs set by the Dow and the Standard & Poor's 500 index, which closed at 14,164.53 and 1,565.15 respectively. It was after reaching those milestones that the market began what turned into a cataclysmic slide that ended March 9.This week investors cheered more signs that the economy is healing, including growth in service industries, a surprise profit from aluminum maker Alcoa Inc. and the first gain in retail sales in over a year. That helped put a seven-month rally back on track after two down weeks driven by disappointing economic data.The dollar recovered some of its recent losses against other currencies Friday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke reassured markets that the Fed will wind down its extraordinary stimulus measures when the time is right. Some investors interpreted Bernanke's comments as a sign the Fed might raise interest rates sooner than expected.

The dollar is a double-edged sword for the stock market. The dollar would benefit from higher interest rates but if the Fed tightens credit too soon it could choke off an economic recovery. On the other hand a continued fall in the dollar, which is more likely with lower interest rates, could trigger inflation.What's particularly concerning for investors is if there is a sharp, sustained move (by the dollar) in one direction or another, said Jordan Smyth, managing director at Edgemoor Investment Advisors.The moderate rise in stocks Friday comes two years to the day after the market hit its peak. The Dow is still down 30.4 percent from its high on Oct. 9, 2007, while the S&P 500 index is down 31.5 percent.The Dow rose 78.07, or 0.8percent, to 9,864.94, its highest close since Oct. 6 last year.The S&P 500 index rose 6.01, or 0.6 percent, to 1,071.49, while the Nasdaq composite index rose 15.35, or 0.7 percent, to 2,139.28.For the week, the Dow rose 4 percent, its biggest gain since the week ended July 24. The S&P 500 index rose 4.5 percent, its best performance since the week ended July 17. The Nasdaq added 4.5 percent.Bond prices fell sharply as selling that was sparked by a weak auction of 30-year bonds on Thursday continued. The 30-year bond fell more than 2 points — its biggest one-day drop in nearly three months — sending its yield up to 4.22 percent from 4.09 percent late Thursday. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose to 3.38 percent from 3.25 percent.Despite the big gain in stocks this week, analysts warn that trading could be bumpy in the coming weeks as investors sift through companies' quarterly earnings reports. Major financial firms will report results next week, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., Citigroup Inc. and Bank of America Corp. Better-than-expected earnings from banks this year have been a big force behind the market's rally.Investors, having sent the S&P 500 index up 58.4 percent since March, are looking for reassurance from companies that the economy is growing.The market has factored in good earnings and the market has actually discounted good guidance as well,said Jim Herrick, director of equity trading, Baird & Co. So if we don't see that, the market will retrace.

Outside of earnings reports, the dollar will remain a focus. The slide in the dollar has been a boon to both stocks and commodities this year. A weak dollar makes commodities more attractive to foreign investors. Likewise, it helps boost corporate profits at companies that have a strong presence overseas by making prices of their exported goods cheaper for buyers in other countries.Oil prices rose 8 cents to settle at $71.77 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Gold prices slipped after touching a fresh high of $1,062.70 on Thursday.Three stocks rose for every two that fell on the New York Stock Exchange, where consolidated volume came to a relatively low 990 million shares, compared with 1.3 billion Thursday.In other trading, the Russell 2000 index of smaller companies rose 7.17, or 1.2 percent, to 614.92.Overseas, Britain's FTSE 100 rose 0.1 percent, Germany's DAX index dipped 0.1 percent and France's CAC-40 fell 0.2 percent. Japan's Nikkei stock average rose 1.9 percent.The Dow Jones industrial average closed the week up 377.27, or 4 percent, at 9,864.94. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 46.28, or 4.5 percent, to 1,071.49. The Nasdaq composite index rose 91.17, or 4.5 percent, to 2,139.28.The Russell 2000 index, which tracks the performance of small company stocks, rose 34.72, or 6 percent, for the week to 614.92.The Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Index — which measures nearly all U.S.-based companies — ended at 10,963.48, up 493.93, or 4.7 percent.

EDF, Constellation nuclear venture get US nod Fri Oct 9, 4:55 pm ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) – US regulators have approved a plan for French-based EDF to take a stake in Constellation Energy Group, clearing a key hurdle for a new nuclear power plant in Maryland, the companies said Friday.The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved the investment structure and license transfer related to EDF's acquisition of 49.99 percent of Constellation Energy's nuclear assets, a joint statement said.

The investment was previously reported to have cost 4.5 billion dollars.

The companies said EDF's has now received all necessary approvals at the federal level and clearance from the New York Public Service Commission.They said that completing this nuclear joint venture is critical to the proposed construction of a new nuclear unit at Constellation Energy's Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, which would represent one of the largest industrial development projects in Maryland.It would create 4,000 construction jobs, 400 permanent positions, and enough new, clean energy to power 1.3 million homes, the statement said.This historic nuclear joint venture has the potential to deliver extraordinary value for Maryland and we're eager to complete this transaction and begin delivering those benefits as quickly as possible.It said discussions are continuing with state officials on the plan.
Constellation owns 3,869 megawatts of nuclear generating capacity in the United States.The French state owns around 85 percent of EDF, the world's biggest producer of nuclear energy.

China tells US to back off after Dalai Lama award OCT 9,09

BEIJING – China accused the United States on Friday of meddling in its domestic affairs after American lawmakers recognized the Dalai Lama with an award for his efforts to improve human rights.The U.S. Congress presented the award, which was in honor of the late U.S. human rights activist Tom Lantos, to the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader on Tuesday.China reviles the Dalai Lama and has pressured foreign governments not to meet with the Nobel Peace Prize laureate.We urge some members of the U.S. Congress to respect the history and the facts, recognize the true face of Dalai Lama, stop using the Tibet issue to interfere in China's internal affairs, Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said in a statement posted on the ministry's Web site.The criticism comes even though President Barack Obama did not meet the Dalai Lama during the trip. Obama said he would not meet the spiritual leader until after he visits President Hu Jintao in November.The Lantos Foundation president, Katrina Lantos Swett, called China's criticism unwarranted and commended members of Congress for supporting the Dalai Lama.The Dalai Lama is one of the most highly honored peacemakers of all time, and we are proud to present His Holiness the Dalai Lama with the inaugural Lantos Human Rights Prize,Swett said in a statement.We can only hope that this award brings into public light the continuing human rights violations in Tibet, so that they can be addressed.The Obama administration, which needs Chinese support for crucial foreign policy, economic and environmental goals, must balance efforts to establish friendly ties with China with the desire to support the Dalai Lama, who has called for more autonomy for Tibetans.China says Tibet has been part of its territory for four centuries, and it has aggressively governed the Himalayan region since communist troops took control there in 1951. Many Tibetans say they were effectively independent for most of their history and say Chinese rule and economic exploitation are eroding their traditional Buddhist culture.

East Asia powers show united front on North Korea, economy By Yoko Nishikawa – OCT 10,09

BEIJING (Reuters) – China, Japan and South Korea vowed to seek an early restart to talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear weapons ambitions, and also presented a united front on regional economic cooperation at a summit on Saturday.The broad promises to work together on security and economic issues came at a meeting between Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and new Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, who has made strengthening regional ties a keynote of his foreign policy.We will make joint efforts with other parties for an early resumption of the Six-Party Talks, so as to safeguard peace and stability in Northeast Asia,said the joint statement issued by the leaders at the end of their talks in the Chinese capital.The three countries remain committed to the development of an East Asian community based on the principles of openness, transparency and inclusiveness as a long term goal.The vows to cooperate on North Korea and on economic growth are unlikely to make any immediate difference. But they underscored the growing pull for the three Asian powers to set aside some of their friction and seek common ground.The show of unity may also add pressure on North Korea to return to nuclear disarmament negotiations. Beijing is the closest the isolated North has to an ally.The combined GDP of Japan, China and South Korea accounts for 16 percent of the world's total output, with Japan and China respectively the world's second- and third-biggest economies.In April, a month before its second nuclear test, North Korea said the six-party talks -- among the two Koreas, China, Japan, Russia and the United States -- were defunct. It walked away from those talks last December.

HEAVILY HEDGED

This week, North Korea's top leader Kim Jong-il offered visiting Chinese Premier Wen a heavily hedged statement that his government could return to multilateral negotiations, possibly the six-party talks, provided it first saw satisfactory progress in any two-way talks with the United States.Washington has said it is open to talks with Pyongyang as long as that leads to a resumption of the six-party talks.

Hatoyama, who took office on September 16 after his Democratic Party trounced the long-dominant Liberal Democratic Party, has said he will seek stronger ties with Beijing, which have long been strained by distrust over history, sea boundary disputes and worries over China's growing military and political clout.Tokyo's relations with Beijing and Seoul chilled during then-prime minister Junichiro Koizumi's 2001-2006 tenure when his visits to the Yasukuni Shrine for war dead outraged Japan's neighbors, who see the Shinto site as an unrepentant symbol of Japan's past militarism.All three of Koizumi's Liberal Democratic Party successors refrained from paying respects at the shrine, driven at least in part by a desire for steadier political and economic cooperation with fast-growing China.Wen, Lee and Hatoyama also sought to highlight hopes for deeper economic cooperation and integration.In the spirit of facing history squarely and advancing toward the future, the three countries will explore the potential and expand the area of cooperation,the leaders said.They will step up efforts to improve the quality of economic development, oppose trade protectionism, and seek progress in the Doha round of trade liberalization talks, the leaders said.China is now Japan's biggest trading partner, and the second largest export destination after the United States. South Korea, meanwhile, was Japan's third-biggest export market in 2008. Hatoyama has been seeking deeper ties with Asian partners and has promoted the idea of a regional grouping inspired by the example of the European Union. The joint statement stressed that an East Asia community was a long-term goal.China-Japan-ROK cooperation will have many opportunities for development in the coming decade,said the statement. The ROK is the Republic of Korea, the official name of South Korea.
(Additional reporting by Chris Buckley and Ben Blanchard; Editing by Jerry Norton)