EUROPE REJECTS SWINE FLU SHOTS

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).

Barroso unconcerned by Slovak Lisbon statement-Mr Fico (left) and Mr Barroso. Questions remain as to what legal problems the charter might create in the future (Photo: European Commission)ANDREW WILLIS 19.10.2009 @ 17:44 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has said he is confident that the Lisbon Treaty will be ratified shortly, despite comments made by Slovakia's prime minister over the weekend regarding a possible opt-out from the Charter of Fundamental Rights.All the countries of the EU have now approved the Lisbon Treaty, either by referendum in Ireland or by parliament in all the others, said Mr Barroso in Brussels on Monday (19 October).Now we have to complete the procedures of ratification and I'm sure that will be done relatively soon. I'm very confident,he added, with Czech President Vaclav Klaus still to sign off on the pact on behalf of Prague.Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico told national television over the weekend that any special terms negotiated by the Czech Republic regarding the charter - which is attached to Lisbon and will become legally-binding when the treaty comes into force - would also have to apply to Slovakia. Although the Charter of Fundamental Rights was barely mentioned during Slovakia's internal debate on the ratification of Lisbon, a decision last week by Mr Klaus to seek an opt-out or Irish-style legal guarantee on the charter has raised fresh concerns in Slovakia.If one says that the Czechs are exempted from the rule then there is a rule, and Slovaks need to be exempted as well to have parity and to reduce any ambiguity,Radoslav Prochazka, a Slovak lawyer specialising in community law, told this website.The debate surrounds the Benes Decrees – a set of laws issued during and immediately after World War II, under which enemies of the state were expelled from Czechoslovakia and their land was confiscated.

Mr Klaus has said that charter clauses on property rights would open the door to land claims by Germans who lost territory under the Benes Decrees, while in Slovakia any such hypothetical claims would more likely be made by ethnic Hungarians.The Czech Republic's chances of securing some form of opt-out from the charter appear small, but Slovakia's are almost non-existent due to the fact that the country has already ratified the Lisbon Treaty, Mr Prochazka said. Although still part of the body of official legislation in Slovakia, Mr Prochazka explained that the Benes Decrees are now largely redundant in their effect.Most analysts believe that Mr Klaus' sudden decision to raise the issue last week is little more than a new delaying tactic to put off his Lisbon signature for even longer.A nightmare scenario for Lisbon enthusiasts is that the eurosceptic Mr Klaus successfully holds off on signing the document until UK elections next year, which the Conservative Party is expected to win.Conservative party leader David Cameron has promised a referendum on the treaty if it has not already been ratified by every other EU member state when he comes into power. UK citizens would most likely vote against the treaty.

The beginning of trouble?

Whatever the motivations behind current requests for opt-outs, the debate has brought the Charter of Fundamental Rights back into the public spotlight and may signal the first in a long line of awkward situations created by the document. One senior legal Irish figure described the charter as being very poorly drafted, opening up a series of unexplained questions for the future such as how the document will interact with national constitutional law, a point noted by the Czech constitutional court last year.Another is the failure of the authors to fully clarify between the rights and principles listed in the charter.The reality is that a lot of this was drafted by diplomats and politicians who loved the high-sounding phrases and who basked in what they thought reflected Jeffersonian-style glory, but without really understanding what they were doing,said the source.

EUROPEAN UNION ARMY

DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (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.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: 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 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) 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.(3 1/2 YRS)

DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.

DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.

REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)

Poland sets out vision for EU diplomatic corps
ANDREW RETTMAN Today OCT 20,09 @ 07:58 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Poland is keen for the EU's new diplomatic corps to be a unique type of institution, to take half its staff from national capitals and to gobble up parts of the European Commission's development department.The proposals - obtained by EUobserver - were put forward in a two page-long paper dated 5 October and are currently doing the rounds in Brussels together with competing ideas from other member states.The Polish paper calls for the European External Action Service (EEAS) to be a sui generis institution similar to an executive agency instead of a normal EU institution such as the EU parliament or the commission itself. EU executive agencies, such as the European Research Council or the Agency for Health and Consumers, are set up for a fixed period of time, do not have their own section in the EU budget and have their formal seat in Brussels or Luxembourg.In a sign of just how much room for interpretation is left in the Lisbon Treaty, the Polish paper says the EEAS should handle EU foreign, security and defence policy and - at a later stage - some types of consular work such as consular assistance or common visa application centres.It should not deal with trade, enlargement or development.In terms of staff, 50 percent of personnel are to come from member states and 50 percent from the commission and from the Council, the Brussels-based secretariat which prepares EU member states' regular meetings.Despite staying out of development policy, the EEAS should poach the commission's experts on the 79 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries which currently fall under the development portfolio, on top of the 6,000 or so commission staff who work in the foreign relations department.

The Polish paper makes clear who will be in charge despite the commission's sacrifice.Poland is of the opinion that in the process of creation of the EEAS, both in the planning and implementation phase, it is the member states which should play the key role.Quarterly human resources reports and regular staff turnover are to ensure that the diplomatic corps is not run by French, German and British officials to the detriment of smaller or newer EU countries.

The race of the least encumbered

Several names have been linked with the powerful new post of EU foreign minister, who is to head up the diplomatic service. But each one of the unofficial candidates has something going against them.UK foreign minister David Miliband is on the young-ish side and comes from an EU-lukewarm country.Britain's former EU commissioner for foreign relations, Chris Patten, is highly confrontational on Russia and Israel. Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt is guilty of the same crime. And the Dutch former head of Nato, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, oversaw a historic low in Nato-Russia relations.On the other hand, Germany's ex-foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier is too Russia-friendly by half for the former Communist EU states.The candidate with the least amount of negative baggage is Finland's outgoing EU commissioner for enlargement, Olli Rehn. Mr Rehn has upset nobody in the past five years, knows how Brussels works, would reassure pro-enlargement states such as Poland and comes from a country which knows how to get along with Russia.He is not, however, from the centre-left political family, which is claiming the post for one of its own.

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.

Prayers offered as typhoon nears Philippines By HRVOJE HRANJSKI, Associated Press Writer – OCT 20,09

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines put seven northern coastal areas on alert Tuesday for fast-approaching Typhoon Lupit, as the church offered prayers that the storm will spare the battered country still reeling from deadly floods and landslides.Lupit is forecast to make landfall Thursday in the extreme north of the main island of Luzon with winds of 120 miles (195 kilometers) per hour and gusts of up to 143 mph (230 kph), the weather bureau reported.The third storm in a month was projected to slice through northeastern Cagayan and neighboring provinces toward the South China Sea, dumping heavy rainfall in and around the mountainous north where mudslides set off by back-to-back storms since Sept. 26 killed more than 850 people.

The government was moving fast to prevent any loss of life this time, stocking up on food and clothes and moving residents out of harm's way.These days we no longer have a problem convincing residents to evacuate,said Loreto Espineli, police chief in Benguet province where 300 people died early this month.Village heads were using megaphones to warn about the impending typhoon, and sirens will be sounded once it makes landfall, Espineli told The Associated Press.We will force them to leave if they don't want to,he said.It is easier to evacuate people than to dig for bodies after a mudslide.The dominant Roman Catholic Church published a full-page prayer for deliverance from typhoons in a national broadsheet Tuesday.Lamenting that global warming is upon us,the prayer asks God to spare Filipinos from the threat of calamities, natural and man-made.The environment is made to suffer our wrongdoing, and now we reap the harvest of our abuse and indifference,said the prayer, which is mandated to be read at Mass.Lupit — a Filipino word for cruel — will likely spare the capital, Manila, which was submerged in the worst flooding in 40 years after Tropical Storm Ketsana unleashed heavy rains Sept. 26, said the head of the Philippine weather agency, Frisco Nilo.Ketsana and Typhoon Parma on Oct. 3 killed 858 people and inundated the homes of more than 7 million.

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has blamed extreme weather caused by climate change but her critics say the calamity was magnified by poor city planning and millions of squatters living along riverbanks and blocking waterways with their shanties. The urban poor, sources of cheap labor and votes during elections, make up for almost half of Manila's 12 million people.Associated Press writer Teresa Cerojano contributed to this report.

Philippines starts evacuation ahead of new typhoon OCT 19,09

MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines began evacuating thousands of people in northern areas prone to floods and landslides on Tuesday ahead of a powerful typhoon that has gained strength over the Pacific, officials said.Typhoon Lupit, which means fierce in Filipino, was expected to make landfall around the far northern tip of the Luzon region by Thursday and dump more rain on typhoon-weary provinces, said Prisco Nilo, head of the weather bureau.The Philippines is still recovering from two recent typhoons -- Ketsana and Parma -- which brought record-high rainfall that flooded the capital Manila and large swathes of farmland in northern provinces. More than 850 people were killed and hundreds of thousands displaced.Lupit is expected to be a much stronger typhoon than the two weather systems we had in the last four weeks, Nilo told reporters.Lupit, a category 4 typhoon with center winds of 195 kph (121 mph) and with gusts of up to 230 kph, was 890 km (553 miles) east of northern Cagayan province, the weather bureau said.Thousands of residents in northern coastal and mountain areas had started to move to safer areas, said Lieutenant-Colonel Ernesto Torres, spokesman for the national disaster agency.Our troops in the field are assisting local government units in the pre-emptive evacuation of disaster-prone areas in the north,Torres told reporters.The Philippine air force had also airlifted food, water and medicine to remote areas.Ketsana and Parma damaged or destroyed more than 27 billion pesos ($580 million) in crops and infrastructure.(Reporting by Manny Mogato; Editing by Rosemarie Francisco and Dean Yates)

Rick weakens to tropical storm in Pacific OCT 19,09

MIAMI – Forecasters say Hurricane Rick that once had winds up to 180 mph has weakened to a tropical storm as it approaches the southern tip of Baja California.
Meanwhile, forecasters have issued a hurricane watch for an island far south of Hawaii for Tropical Storm Neki.Forecasters say winds from Rick have died down to 70 mph (90 kph). It was once a Category 5 storm.As of 11 p.m. EDT Monday, the center was about 290 miles (465 km) south-southwest of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.Neki was about 700 miles south-southwest of Honolulu and about 670 miles east-southeast of tiny Johnston Island. It is expected to pass very close to the island as a hurricane by Wednesday.Maximum winds were at about 40 mph.THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

LOS CABOS, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Rick was more than a day away from the resorts of Baja California on Monday but the 13-foot (4-meter) waves it kicked up already killed two people in Los Cabos, which lies almost directly in the Category 1 storm's forecast path.State police commander Sergio Castro said a 16-year-old boy swimming at El Medano beach in Cabo San Lucas drowned Monday when a wave dragged him into the ocean.The first victim was a 38-year-old man who was fishing from a rocky point when he was swept away by a big wave Sunday. Bystanders went to help the man, but by the time they got him out of the water he was dead, said Francisco Cota, the Los Cabos civil defense director.We have established patrols on the beaches to keep people from going into the sea,Cota said.Storm shelters were being opened at local schools and patrol vehicles were making the rounds of low-lying neighborhoods with loudspeakers urging people to evacuate.The port is closed ... and people are getting their boats our of the bay,Cota said.Rick's maximum sustained winds decreased Monday to 85 mph (140 kph), down from a peak of 180 mph (285 kph) as a Category 5 storm during the weekend, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said. Rick was moving north-northwest at about 7 mph (11 kph).

The storm was expected to continue weakening and near the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula late Tuesday or early Wednesday, forecasters said.Rick was centered about 305 miles (495 kilometers) south-southwest of Cabo San Lucas, one of the two towns that make up the municipality of Los Cabos.At the beach-side SolMar resort in Cabo San Lucas, manager Silvia Carlos said the hotel was taking precautions but had not evacuated guests.We are covering up windows in the entranceway and sealing doors, Carlos said.The waves are starting to get high.Rick also threatened to disrupt a major sport-fishing tournament scheduled to start Wednesday. About 800 sports fishermen were scheduled to gather for the Bisbee's Los Cabos tournament. About 130 boats had been scheduled to set off into the Pacific on Wednesday — the day Rick is projected to hit, but tournament organizer Clicerio Mercado said the start of the event would be postponed in hopes fishing could resume Thursday or Friday.Rick was already whipping Socorro Island, about 300 miles (500 kilometers) southwest of Cabo San Lucas, where about 100 people from the Mexican Navy and other government agencies are based.The mainland base that commands the detachment said Navy personnel on the island reported heavy winds and waves on Monday, but no damage or injuries.At the Los Cabos airport, American Airlines spokesman Alfredo Hernandez said the carrier added an extra flight to Dallas on Tuesday after fielding requests from tourists anxious to get out ahead of the storm.

But Toronto-area traveler Dan Smith said missing his friend's wedding in Los Cabos was not an option.I've been looking forward to it for far too long,said Smith, 23. All you can do is pay as close attention as you can.Forecasters said Rick is likely to continue past the Baja peninsula and hit Mexico's mainland somewhere near the resort city of Mazatlan by late Wednesday. Before losing steam, Rick was the second-strongest hurricane in the eastern North Pacific since 1966, when experts began keeping reliable records, Hurricane Center meteorologist Hugh Cobb said.The strongest was Hurricane Linda, which generated maximum winds of 185 mph (296 kph) in September 1997.Far out in the Pacific Ocean, Tropical Storm Neki formed about 825 miles (1,325 kilometers) south of Honolulu and about 830 miles (1,335 kilometers) southeast of Johnston Island.Maximum winds were at about 40 mph (65 kph), though forecasters said Neki was expected to strengthen into a hurricane by Tuesday. The storm was moving west-northwest at about 14 mph (23 kph), but could shift to the northwest.It was expected to pass near tiny Johnston Island as a hurricane, possibly by Wednesday.Associated Press writer Ignacio Martinez in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, contributed to this report.

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.

DR-FLU SHOTS DANGEROUS,NOT NECCESARY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsVo17-xUlM&feature=player_embedded

Canadian provinces get 2 million H1N1 vaccines Mon Oct 19, 1:18 pm ET

OTTAWA (Reuters) – GlaxoSmithKline Plc has shipped two million doses of H1N1 vaccines to Canada's provinces and more will be sent this week, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq said on Monday.She said the vaccines would be offered to the public once clinical trials have been concluded and the federal regulator gives its approval.Chief Public Health Officer Dr. David Butler-Jones said he expected the public roll out to begin as expected in the first week of November.A handful of countries may have access to some vaccine for some of their citizens before we do. However, we will have vaccines available for every Canadian who needs and wants it, he told a news conference with Aglukkaq.Butler-Jones said 3 million doses or more would be sent out every week. Canada has a population of 33.7 million and has ordered 50.4 million doses from GlaxoSmithKline.Opposition politicians have criticized the government for not starting vaccinations earlier, but Butler-Jones said Canada followed World Health Organization recommendations in beginning H1N1 vaccine production immediately after seasonal flu vaccine production was complete.
(Reporting by Randall Palmer; editing by Rob Wilson)

Europeans Reject Swine Flu Vaccine - Danes, Finns, Germans, French, Spanish, Belgians, Dutch all refusing to roll sleeves up despite government, media pressure
Steve Watson Infowars.net Monday, Oct 19, 2009

People throughout Europe are rejecting the H1N1 vaccine en mass, despite huge campaigns by their governments to get them to take the shot when it becomes available within the next week.In Germany uproar continues to grow concerning the fact that German Chancellor Angela Merkel and government ministers, as well as the armed forces there, will receive a special, additive-free H1N1 vaccine.The soldiers and the German government elites will receive Celvapan, an adjuvant-free vaccine manufactured by Baxter. The German public, however, will receive a vaccine produced by GlaxoSmithKline which contains squalene and the mercury based preservative thimerosal.A report yesterday in the leading German newspaper Die Welt describes the public sentiment towards the news:That throws a treacherous light on the announcements of the German health ministry and the Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI) responsible for vaccines. Why should the government and high-ranking officials get special treatment, the people who they rule over are asking. The dirty word of a two-tier medicine comes to mind. And then thoughts turn to Orwell’s novel Animal Farm where all are equal but some are more equal.Polls in Germany, even before this news, have indicated that only one third of the population are interested in receiving the H1N1 vaccination.Last week Spiegel reported that there has been an open rebellion by general medical professionals and child physicians in Germany over use of the toxic vaccine. Dieter Ludwig, chairman of the drug commission of the German medical profession, told Spiegel that health authorities have colluded with pharmaceutical companies.GlaxoSmithKline itself has issued a press statement in which the company defends the decision by the German government.Across the border in Denmark, public officials and health care workers chosen as primary recipients of the vaccine are declining it, saying that the virus is too mild to warrant taking the shot.

Of 360,000 police officers, nurses, doctors and others identified as holding key positions, only around 30% have applied for vaccination appointments, according to Denmark’s largest vaccination agency.Danske Lægers Vaccinations Service (DLVS, Danish Doctors Vaccination Service) Chairman Karsten Østergaard revealed that under a third of those chosen will take the vaccine.The news comes despite extensive planning for a massive swine flu immunization campaign on behalf of the Danish Government this Fall to inoculate one fifth of the total population.Meanwhile, the vast majority of Scandinavian neighbours in Finland have indicated that they have no interest in taking the vaccine.Results of three major nationwide polls held by Finnish media outlets Ilta-Sanomat, MTV3 and Helsingin Sanomat reveal that up to 75% of people there will refuse to take the H1N1 shot when it becomes available in the next few days.The Finnish government has also launched a mass campaign to vaccinate the public there. Healthcare workers in Finland are due to receive the first inoculations next week.Rejection of the vaccine is also prevalent In the Netherlands, with two thirds of nursing staff saying they do not want to be inoculated against the H1N1 virus. Large portions of the populations of France, Belgium and Spain have also indicated they want no part of the jab.The feeling of the people in Europe reflect those of the populations of the UK, the US and Canada, large portions of which have indicted great reservations over the safety of the vaccine.

REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE (THE EU DICTATORS TEMPLE)

ISAIAH 30:10-15
10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
16 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.

REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

DANIEL 9:27
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.

REBUILT 4TH TEMPLE (THE TRUE MESSIAHS TEMPLE)

ZECHARIAH 6:12-13
12 And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:
13 Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

ISAIAH 60:9-10
9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
10 And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.

ISAIAH 2:1-5
1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.

MARK 11:9-10,15-17
9 And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord:
10 Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.
15 And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;
16 And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.
17 And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.

EZEKIEL 40 TO 48 IS THIS 4TH TEMPLE TO BIG FOR THE MOUNT I BELIEVE TO BE BUILT 25 MILES FROM JERUSALEM.

Record Number of Visitors to Western Wall
by Hana Levi Julian OCT 20,09

(IsraelNN.com) A record number of people - 1.5 million visitors - came to the Western Wall during the Hebrew month of Tishrei, according to figures from the Western Wall Heritage Foundation and the Israel Police.The rabbi of the Kotel (Western Wall), Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitz, commented that these figures are evidence that the Western Wall is the spiritual home for Jews from all around the world, regardless of their background.The Western Wall is the last standing remnant of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, and became a place of Jewish prayer following the Roman destruction in 70 CE. The area was badly damaged while occupied by Jordan, from 1948 to 1967, but was cleaned up and carefully renovated after it was restored to Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War.It is customary for Jews to visit the Wall upon arriving in Israel for the first time, or as soon after arrival as possible. Visitors to the site, considered to be the holiest Jewish sitge on earth, traditionally include all heads of state who come to the State of Israel.For those who are unable to make the trip to Jerusalem, it is still possible to carry out the tradition of placing one prayers in a note between the cracks of the Wall thanks to the Twitter age.The Twitter Western Wall service prints outs prayers sent through the internet by tweets to a special account, and places them in the Wall. Prayers can be posted to the Twitter group at http://twitter.com/theKotel . Alternatively, private prayers can also be sent by email to tweetyourprayers@gmail.com .

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.

Japan's empress appeals for nuke-free world OCT 20,09

TOKYO (AFP) – Japan's Empress Michiko on her 75th birthday Tuesday issued a call for the abolition of atomic weapons and praised US President Barack Obama's push for a nuclear-free world.Michiko said Obama, in a speech in Prague this year, showed a strong determination towards abolishing nuclear weapons and that the initiative had helped him win the Nobel Peace Prize.The horrors of nuclear weapons are not only the magnitude of their destruction but also the serious and tragic effects of radiation that leaves victims suffering long after their exposure, she said.I think Japan, the country that has been hit by atomic bombs, needs to seek broader and deeper understanding of this in the international community,she said in written remarks issued on her birthday.The United States dropped an atomic bomb on the western Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.The blinding blast of Little Boy and the fallout from its mushroom cloud killed about 140,000 people, either instantly or in the days and weeks that followed as radiation and horrific burns took their toll.

Three days after the attack, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, which killed more than 70,000 people in the southern port city.Japan surrendered on August 15, ending World War II in the Pacific.Michiko also said that her biggest recent worry had been the serious economic slump in Japan amid the global financial crisis.Many people lost their jobs and homes, had to give up on higher education or had hiring promises cancelled. This was the most serious concern in this past year,she said.Michiko, a flour magnate's daughter, married into Japan's imperial family 50 years ago. This year marks the 20th anniversary of Emperor Akihito's reign, with ceremonies set for next month.

Bedouin Town Plans to Expel Illegal Arabs: They are a Nuisance
by Gil Ronen OCT 18,09

(IsraelNN.com) The Bedouin town of Rahat in the Negev is suffering from a wave of Arabs who illegally entered Israel from areas of Yehudah (Judea) and Shomron (Samaria) that are under Arab control, and from Gaza. They have rented homes and stores and are primarily employed at trade and construction work. According to Arutz Sheva's Hebrew service, their reputation as a cheap work force tempted the local Arabs to let them into the town.The locals say, however, that the illegal migrants' presence has become a nuisance and is causing a spike in crime, including arms dealing and drug trade. There are about 2,000 illegal Arabs in Rahat, according to police estimates. Rahat elders and leaders are concerned that their very presence could damage the fabric of the Bedouin family unit.Rahat mayor Faez Abu-Sahiban (Islamic Movement) recently announced a total war against the illegals.I have received reports from hundreds of young men and women complaining of harassment of the young women by the illegals,he said.This behavior contradicts our religion and tradition. We will not let those who want to trample our values stay in our town.

Abu-Sahiban announced that he intends to use a heavy hand together with the police and to kick out the migrants in two weeks' time. Anyone who cooperates with them would be an accomplice to a crime, he warned.[Editor's note: The very same complaints that the Bedouins have against the illegal Arabs are often made by Jews against Bedouins and other Arab citizens of Israel, but calls to expel the Arabs from Jewish towns are condemned by Arab spokesmen and certain political groups as racism and incitement to violence.]

Turkey Warns of Hizbullah Attack Against Israel, US
Reported: 03:50 AM - Oct/20/09

(IsraelNN.com) Turkish intelligence issued a warning Monday that Hizbullah was planning to commit an attack against Israeli and American targets, according to the Haber Turk news website. The warning said, The actions may be aimed against Israeli tourists, ships, and vessels, as well as synagogues in Turkey.The warning is in line with threats by the Lebanese terror group that it is seeking revenge for the assassination of arch-terrorist Imad Mughniyeh in Damascus in 2008.

A Cold War against a Nuclear Iran by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu OCT 20,09

(IsraelNN.com) The recent defection of the daughter of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s film advisor to Germany is the latest clue to a non-military cold war against a nuclear Iran. Iranian filmmaker Narges Kalhor, whose father is Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s cultural affairs advisor and a media spokesman, has applied for political asylum in Germany.After making a film critical of torture in the Islamic Republic, she told Der Spiegel during a film festival in Germany,I was told that it would be better not to come home and that if I went back now, I would be met at the airport by the secret police. There were a lot of people at the festival who are against the Iranian regime. I did not have permission to make my film in Iran either…. I have no options. I cannot go back to Iran.Her defection, along with the suicide bombing that killed six Iranian Revolutionary Guards commanders, is a feather in the hat for Western nations who reportedly are taking a page out of the U.S.-USSR Cold War in the 1950s and are trying to undermine the Iranian regime.Missing documents, unexplained fatalities of nuclear scientists and the disappearance of others, are part of the effort to defuse Iran’s nuclear program, according to Peter Goodspeed of the Canadian National Post.Three months ago, a Tehran physics researcher went missing during a pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, which, along with the United States, has been blamed by Iran for whisking him away to an unknown location. Last month, another scientist, who was visiting the country of Georgia, was arrested and apparently extradited to the United States.The most widely-known disappearance is that of Revolutionary Guards general Ali Reza Asgari, who disappeared two years ago during a trip to Turkey, slightly more than a week after 10 members of his family also left Iran and never returned. Asgari was privy to highly classified information concerning Iran’s nuclear program.One theory has suggested that he was a spy for the Israeli Mossad secret service while thinking his bosses were a Europeans intelligence agency. He also may have been involved in providing information on the nuclear facility in Syria that Israel reportedly bombed two years.Other tactics being used in the war against Iran are currency manipulations and disinformation programs, according to Goodspeed.

93.5% of Jews Say Goldstone Report is Biased
by Gil Ronen OCT 20,09

(IsraelNN.com) Seventy-nine percent of Israel's Jewish public disagrees with the Goldstone report's claim that the IDF committed war crimes in Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, according to a new survey by Tel Aviv University. Only 5% of the Arab sector disagreed with the war crimes claim.The poll found that Israeli Jews familiar with the Goldstone report's main conclusion were almost unanimous in the opinion that the report was biased against the IDF: 61% of the Jews were aware of Goldstone's major finding, and 93.5% of these believed the report was biased. This opinion crossed political lines between Right and Left.

46% justify government decision
The Jewish public is divided on the question of whether the government was right not to cooperate with the Goldstone committee. 46% thought it was right to do so, 20% believed it was mistaken and 34% did not know. The pollsters estimated that those who favored cooperation with the committee did so because they believed that cooperation with the committee could have softened its findings.Among the Arab public in Israel, only 6% thought Israel's decision not to cooperate was right. 22% said it was wrong and about 70% had no opinion.Asked whether Hamas's transfer of a video of soldier-hostage Gilad Shalit improved the chances of success in the negotiations for his freedom, 50% of the Jewish public said that it did not increase the chances, but nor did it decrease them. 37% said it increased the chances and 4% said it reduced them.

Dispute hints at rift in Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood OCT 19,09

CAIRO (AFP) – Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood was swift in its rejection of reports that its leader resigned after a row with conservatives, but the crisis exposed a profound rift among the Islamists, analysts said.The Brotherhood was reacting to front page reports in the Egyptian press on Monday that Supreme Guide Mohammed Mahdi Akef stormed out of a meeting at the weekend, saying he quit.Akef reportedly clashed with conservative leaders over the appointment of senior member Essam al-Erian, who is associated with the Islamist group's reformist wing, to the Brotherhood's politburo.The dispute has been brewing since the recent death of Mohammed Hilal, which opened a seat in the group's politburo. The conservatives reportedly blocked Erian when he was nominated.On the face of it, analysts said, it was a mere power struggle, pitting an old guard that survived the harsh crackdown by former president Gamal Abdel Nasser in the 1960s against relatively new and moderate newcomers such as Erian.There was a conflict, that was for sure,said Diaa Rashwan, an expert on the Brotherhood with the Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies.It is an organisational conflict. There is a group that does not want newcomers, and there could be an ideological aspect as well,he said.But it fed into a widespread discontent among a younger generation that complains of rigid, antiquated command that stifles views differing from the conservative's austere political vision.

There's a problem of ideas. There's a conservative tendency that controls the leadership and does not believe in opening up to society in political work,said Abdel Moneim Mahmud, a journalist associated with the reformist wing.Mahmud said reformists want to see the Brotherhood, which controls a fifth of seats in parliament after it ran independent candidates to get around a ban on the movement, to take on more political action in alliance with the country's leftist and liberal opposition.The reformists were especially appalled by a draft of the Brotherhood's political programme in 2007, which opposed women or Coptic Christians leading the country, and proposed a council of clerics to oversee the drafting of laws, in a manner redolent of Iran's Islamist regime.The conflict is not on strategy in regards to the government,Rashwan said.They have the same strategy of non-confrontation with the regime. But there are differences in ideology, specifically on allowing women to rule, and clerical oversight.Akef, who once told a newspaper he would rather see a Malaysian Muslim head the country rather than an Egyptian Copt, has tried to keep all the factions within his tent.He also seems keen to set a democratic example, being the first leader of the Brotherhood who has promised to step down once his term ends early next year, an unusual move in a country where leaders' resignations are often published in the form of a eulogy.Akef is a balanced man. Without him there will be an explosion in the Brotherhood. He likes different views in his office,Mahmud said.When you say one Brotherhood member discusses dissenting ideas, there's turmoil. What do you think when the supreme guide resigns,he added.Akef, 81, has headed the Islamists since 2004, overseeing their surprise gains in a parliamentary election a year later.He will leave the Brotherhood at a crossroads, with two of his possible replacements in prison -- part of an ongoing police crackdown against the group, which has been banned since 1954.

Israel worried Fatah may resume suicide attacks Monday, 19 October 2009 06:44 News from Jerusalem Doom's day weapon!!!

Sultan Abu al-Ghneim, who represents Fatah in the refugee camps of Lebanon, gave a speech last week at a Ramallah rally and called on Fatah to resume suicide bombings against Israel, according to the report in the London-based Al-Quds al-Arabi. But how reliable the report is remains unclear.Abu al-Ghneim reportedly called on Fatah to use the doom's day weapon that the group used at the peak of the second intifada and has not employed for the past three years.Palestinian sources in the West Bank could not confirm it. The statement being attributed to Abu al-Ghneim is just the latest of a series of statements by Fatah members, some more important than others, who threaten to resume the armed struggle. Similar ideas were heard during the sixth Fatah conference in Bethlehem in August, and also in recent talks between Fatah and Hamas. Such talk is certainly a subject of concern for Israelis.The threat of a third intifada, which was discussed at length during the Sukkot holiday and the troubles at the Temple Mount, incited by third-rate activists of the Palestinian Authority and the Islamic Movement in Israel, apparently died down as the clashes ebbed. There are still plenty of reasons for concern, mainly because of the dead end in which the two sides have found themselves.

From this viewpoint, the situation between Israel and the Palestinians, specifically in the West Bank, may be ready to explode, despite the improvement in the economy there, the relatively effective governance of Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayyad and the improved security coordination between the Israeli Defense Forces and the PA's organs. The relations between all the sides - Israel and the U.S., Israel and the PA, Fatah and Hamas and the various other groups in the PA - are characterized now by seriously bad blood. Herein are some of the more obvious trends:

1. Israeli-Palestinian negotiations are stuck. The PA has climbed up too high a tree; when American pressure managed to force Israel to contain its building in the West Bank, it demanded a complete freeze in settlements as a precondition for resuming the negotiations with the Netanyahu government.The rushed (and quick) about-face on the Goldstone Commission report caused Abbas confusion and embarrassment, and he fears any concession to Israel on this matter will cost him further attacks from Hamas, which will charge he is adding further betrayal to his original selling-out.

2. A dead end between Fatah and Hamas. Even the Egyptian mediators are now refusing to name a new date for a meeting of the Palestinian factions so a reconciliation agreement can be signed. Hamas' list of excuses for refusing is bordering on the absurd. First, it opposed the principles of the agreement, and then based its opposition on the fact that the PA had delayed appealing to the UN on the Goldstone report, and now it's bringing up reservations on points in the agreement. Hamas apparently fears parliamentary and presidential elections, and notwithstanding its declarations to the contrary, it is not convinced it can defeat Fatah at the polls.

3. An internal crisis in Fatah. The situation in Fatah is not necessarily better. A survey published yesterday by the Jerusalem Media and Communications Center shows that only 12.1 percent of those asked trust Abbas. The Hamas prime minister in the Gaza Strip, Ismail Haniyeh, received 14.2 percent support. Many Fatah members are troubled and angered by Abbas' handling of the Goldstone report. The internal criticism may create instability in Fatah and affect Abbas' ties with Israel.Fatah members are, therefore, going to great efforts to distinguish themselves from the PA and Abbas. According to the survey, their efforts are paying off: 34.6 percent of those asked expressed support for Fatah, compared to only 17.9 percent for Hamas. However, their pronouncements may come at a price: Grassroots operatives may take their words literally as justification for violent attacks - first and foremost, for carrying out sporadic shootings in the West Bank.

4. Israeli hesitation. The behavior of the PA on the issues mentioned, along with the improved capabilities of its security forces and the fear this could turn, one day, against Israelis, have raised questions among the political and IDF leadership on the wisdom of further efforts to bolster the PA. So Israel is not eager to authorize the transfer of further security control to the PA, allowing more units to be trained by the Americans in Jordan or the equipping of PA security forces with more sophisticated means.

5. Jerusalem.It's true those were French tourists,said a Fatah activist this week, in a belated acknowledgment on the Temple Mount incident that sparked riots earlier this month. But he immediately played dumb: But how could we have known? The issue of Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount specifically, remains quite sensitive. In Israel, there are concerns the accumulation of pressures from various sources may entice the PA to break ahead and heat up the discourse by ignoring troublemakers in Jerusalem. The ground is far from calm, indicated by the clear increase in stone-throwing incidents aimed at Israeli drivers in the West Bank.haaretz

Netanyahu: Israel and U.S. have resolved settlements row Monday, 19 October 2009 09:36 News from Jerusalem For more details, ask in Washington

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero last Thursday that talks between Israel and the United States over construction in the settlements on the West Bank had ended.We solved the matter of the settlements with the Americans,Netanyahu told his Spanish counterpart.I cannot say more than that. If you are interested in hearing more details, ask in Washington,added Netanyahu.It is not clear what Netanyahu meant and what the details of the solution are, but this is the first time that Netanyahu has said that the issue of the settlements, which is the main bone of contention between the Obama administration and Israel, has been solved.Sources in Jerusalem said that Netanyahu spoke about the matter after his representatives Mike Herzog and Yitzhak Molcho reached agreements in Washington during their talks last week.Zapatero told Netanyahu of his visit to the White House two days before his arrival in Jerusalem. He said he was obsessed with Obama, and that there will never be another chance where a man who professes values such as his will be president, and everyone must help him realize his vision.Netanyahu responded to Zapatero, saying he was willing to start talks with the Palestinians without any pre-conditions.The Palestinians should talk to us already,Netanyahu said.

Spain will assume the EU presidency on January 1.

Molcho and Herzog returned last weekend after meeting with U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell and his staff. The central point of the discussions was the conditions for opening negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, as well as the how the talks will be conducted, their goals and schedule for reaching an agreement.Molcho and Herzog are expected to fly back to Washington this week for another round of talks. A Palestinian delegation headed by Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat will also be there at the same time.Mitchell and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will write their report to Obama after this round of talks has ended. Obama asked the two to report on the chances of the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, and Obama is expected to receive the report next week. After reading the report and consulting his staff, Obama is expected to make a speech announcing his next steps to advance the negotiations.haaretz

Biden to soothe Polish, Czechs on missile defense By Jeff Mason – Mon Oct 19, 5:18 pm ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Joe Biden heads to central and eastern Europe on Tuesday to soothe concerns from Poland and the Czech Republic about Washington's revamped plans for a missile defense system there.The two countries are still smarting from President Barack Obama's decision to shelve a Bush-era plan to install elements of a missile shield on their territory to protect against possible long-range missile attacks by Iran.Obama's plan, which the White House says is designed to face more immediate threats from Tehran, would start by deploying sea-based interceptors and then, in a second phase, land-based systems that would target short and medium-range missiles.The United States has already told Poland it could be one of the sites for the interceptors, and that topic -- along with general concerns about the new plan -- is likely to come up at meetings Biden will hold with leaders in Warsaw and Prague.

Biden will also make a top in Romania.

The vice president will talk about ... a strong commitment to missile defense and to a better system, a more effective system than the one we had originally proposed, Tony Blinken, Biden's national security adviser, told reporters.He acknowledged lingering concerns about the new U.S. plans but said European nations had shown greater support for them as more details had been explained.The more allies have been focused on the details and the specifics, the stronger the support has been, he said.Blinken said the Obama administration was eager to have both nations involved in the new system.What we need to do though is work with Poland to find a role that they find suitable, and then we can discuss how we move forward on it,he said, declining to elaborate on the Polish response to a U.S. offer that Warsaw have the right of first refusal to host the land-based interceptors.The Czech government has expressed a strong interest in continuing to play a leadership role as we work with our NATO allies on this issue. And that's something that we welcome.Russia opposed the original U.S. plan and welcomed Obama's shift. Blinken reiterated the U.S. position that resetting previously strained relations with Moscow would not come at the expense of other allies.U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton returned last week from a visit to Russia where she sought Moscow's cooperation on U.S. missile defense plans.Afghanistan, Iraq, and energy security are also topics likely to be discussed on Biden's trip.(Reporting by Jeff Mason in Washington and Gareth Jones in Warsaw, editing by Philip Barbara)

WORLD TERRORISM

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.

2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men

LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.

JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

Iran vows reprisals after bombing kills dozens By ALI AKBAR DAREINI and BRIAN MURPHY, Associated Press Writers – OCT 19,09

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran vowed retaliation Monday after accusing Pakistan, the U.S. and Britain of aiding Sunni militants who stunned the Islamic regime with a suicide bombing that killed top Revolutionary Guard commanders and dozens of others.A commentary by the official news agency called on Iranian security forces to seriously deal with Pakistan once and for all.And President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told his Pakistani counterpart that his nation must hunt down suspected members of Jundallah, or Soldiers of God.The presence of terrorist elements in Pakistan is not justifiable and the Pakistani government needs to help arrest and punish the criminals as soon as possible,state TV quoted Ahmadinejad as telling President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday.Iran made no specific threats against the U.S. or Britain, but the accusations came as talks began in Vienna over Iran's nuclear program. The U.S. is part of those talks, which observers said made little headway Monday beyond spelling out each side's position.Iran has often claimed that Western powers use groups such as Jundallah to try to destabilize the country. But the direct finger-pointing at Pakistan — and the warnings of a stepped-up offensive — present a different and risky scenario for Iran's leaders.Sunday's attack occurred in a region that is home to several minority Sunni tribes in rugged southeastern Iran. It is one of the country's most restive areas. Until now, authorities have avoided widespread security offensives that could draw in outside extremists such as al-Qaida.

Sharper tensions with Pakistan could severely hurt Iran's efforts to battle drug trafficking and jeopardize important trade deals at a time when Tehran could face more sanctions over its nuclear program. In May, the two countries signed a landmark pact for a natural gas pipeline into Pakistan.Pakistan's president quickly condemned the attack that killed at least 42 people — including five senior Revolutionary Guard officers — in a district near Iran's border with Pakistan. The dry canyons and hills are crisscrossed by smuggling routes and home to Sunni Muslim ethnic groups known as Baluchi.Jundallah gained notice more than five years ago with sporadic attacks and kidnappings, claiming the minority Sunni tribes in southeastern Iran suffer at the hands of Iran's Shiite leadership. Its leader, Abdulmalik Rigi, has been quoted as saying the group does not seek to break from Iran but that violence is necessary to draw attention to discrimination.Most experts estimate Jundallah has no more than 1,000 main fighters from Baluchi clans, whose territory extends into Pakistan and Afghanistan. Iran has claimed the group has ties to al-Qaida and the Taliban, but most analysts say no evidence has been produced.Jundallah has targeted the powerful Revolutionary Guard before, including a February 2007 car bombing that killed 11 members. The group also claimed responsibility for a May suicide bomb that killed 25 worshippers in a Shiite mosque.Sunday's blast was the most deadly. Reports said a suicide bomber ambushed a high-level delegation of Guard commanders arriving for talks on promoting Sunni-Shiite reconciliation with tribal leaders in Pishin near the Pakstani border.

Revolutionary Guard chief Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari vowed to deliver a crushing response and said an Iranian delegation would travel to Pakistan soon to present evidence of links to its agents.Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a statement on his official Web site vowing to punish those behind the attack.Several analysts who have studied Jundallah say the group likely receives inspiration and material support from Baluchi nationalists in Pakistan, but no direct backing from militant factions.Evidence shows that U.S., British and Pakistani intelligence supported the group,state TV quoted Jafari as saying.The State Department and Britain's Foreign Office strongly rejected claims of any involvement.Zardari called the incident gruesome and barbaric and pledged full Pakistani support to fight the militants, according to a statement from his office.

Peiman Forouzesh, an Iranian lawmaker representing the region where the attack took place, called on the Guard to carry out military operations inside the Pakistani soil against Jundallah. A statement in the name of Jundallah said the attack was carried out in retaliation for the Iranian regime's crimes against the unarmed people of Baluchistan.The victims of the attack included the deputy commander of the Guard's ground forces, Gen. Noor Ali Shooshtari, as well as a chief provincial Guard commander, Rajab Ali Mohammadzadeh. The others killed were Guard members or tribal leaders.Associated Press Writers Asif Shahzad in Islamabad and Sebastian Abbot and Maamoun Youssef in Cairo contributed to this report. Murphy reported from Dubai.

OBAMA WATCH CENTRAL U.S. sponsors plan to restrict free speech-Joins Egyptians in proposal to United Nations Human Rights Council October 19, 2009 9:25 pm Eastern By Bob Unruh 2009 WorldNetDaily

A proposal sponsored by the Obama administration at the United Nations that purports to seek protection for freedom of opinion and expression actually is a call for a worldwide crackdown on freedom of speech and a mandate for nations to ensure that relevant national legislation complies with … international human rights obligations a clear threat to the First Amendment, according to critics. The resolution was submitted recently by the United States and Egypt. It was approved by the U.N. Human Rights Council as a first step in its process through the international organization.It demands that all nations condemn and criminalize any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence.Steven Groves of the Heritage Foundation told WND the issue is not about free speech at all but about installing international precedents to stifle any criticism of Islam.Find out how Obama is planning to throttle free speech for America's talk show hosts. Get Brad O'Leary's Shut Up, America! for $4.95 today only, save $21! WND has reported on anti-defamation plans at the U.N., including when a proposal was made that would have made such speech restrictions mandatory on member states.

Groves has written for the Heritage Foundation on the issue, citing the demands from members of the Organization of Islamic Conference that national legislatures pass laws to ensure protection against defamation of religions.Such a ban … could not withstand legal scrutiny in the United States,he wrote.The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects free speech and expression, even when speech is offensive or insulting. Moreover, a religious speech code would disrupt the assimilation of religious minorities that has occurred throughout U.S. history and could breed resentment rather than understanding among America's religious communities.He also cited the need for the U.S. to oppose strongly any such move,given the penchant of some federal judges – including justices on the U.S. Supreme Court – to rely on the decisions and opinions of international courts and organizations.Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice as well as the European Centre for Law and Justice, which has been involved in fighting defamation of religion plans at the U.N., said the free speech resolution itself incites discrimination.The proclamation of the Gospel in Muslim countries has been called incitement of religious discrimination,he told WND.The U.S. backing of this is a mistake. The Universal Declaration of Human rights protects free speech.

I am very concerned the U.S. is co-authoring something like this,he said. Sekulow cited the wording in several parts of the proposal, which was reported widely by other media at the time of its adoption by the U.N.'s Human Rights Council in stories that cited almost exclusively the free speech concept.But Sekulow noted the proposal also raises concern that incidents of racial and religious intolerance, discrimination and related violence, as well as of negative stereotyping of religions and racial groups continue to rise around the world, and condemns, in this context, any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence, and urges states to take effective measures, consistent with their international human rights obligations, to address and combat such incidents.Likewise, in paragraph 6, the U.N. writing stresses that condemning and addressing, in accordance with international human rights obligations, including those regarding equal protection of the law, any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence is an important safeguard to ensure the enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms of all, particularly minorities. The U.N. General Assembly has approved a defamation of religious resolution in each of the three sessions from 2005 to 2007. The text always has been similar, and it always has had major support from Islamic nations with opposition from Western democracies, including the U.S.Groves' evaluation noted that even offensive speech and expression is protected by the U.S. Constitution except in narrow areas such as obscenity and libel.

Blasphemy, sacrilegious statements, and any other speech or expression that insults or denigrates organized religion is, for better or worse, protected by the First Amendment,he wrote.Online critics of the administration were alarmed that it now is the United States pursuing a plan that would protect freedom of opinion and expression by cracking down on statements critical of issues, groups or religions. In a column published on Europe News, Robert Spencer of JihadWatch wrote that while reducing advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred sounds like a good idea, there is plenty wrong with it.First of all, there's that little matter of the First Amendment, which preserves Americans' right to free speech and freedom of the press, which are obviously mutually inclusive. Any law that infringed on speech at all – far less in such vague and sweeping terms – would be unconstitutional,he wrote.

Incitement and hatred are in the eye of the beholder – or more precisely, in the eye of those who make such determinations,he continued.The powerful can decide to silence the powerless by classifying their views as hate speech.The Founding Fathers knew that the freedom of speech was an essential safeguard against tyranny: the ability to dissent, freely and publicly and without fear of imprisonment or other reprisal, is a cornerstone of any genuine republic. If some ideas cannot be heard and are proscribed from above, the ones in control are tyrants, however benevolent they may be.The resolution cites the right to freedom of opinion and expression" as one of the essential foundations of a democratic society.It also expresses deep concern over violations of the right to freedom of opinion and expression.But it also cites the responsibility of states to encourage free, responsible and mutually respectful dialogue.The resolution then calls upon all states … to take all necessary measures to put an end to violations of these rights and to create the conditions to prevent such violations, including by ensuring that relevant national legislation complies with their international human rights obligations and is effectively implemented.It also demands that nations promote a pluralistic approach to information and multiple points of view by encouraging a diversity of ownership of media and of sources of information.Egyptian spokesman Hisham Badr told the assembly, according to a U.N. report, that freedom of expression sometimes has been misused to proliferate negative racial and religious stereotyping and incitement to racial and religious hatred.He said every state must condemn and resolve to combat them in according with the obligation stipulated in human rights law,the U.N. said.

Speaking for the United States on behalf of the plan, Chargé ad interim Douglas M. Griffiths said the effort was intended to build on the commitment from President Obama in a Cairo speech that the U.S. was ready to help bridg[e] the unhelpful divide regarding freedom of opinion and expression,according to the U.N.Zamir Akram of Pakistan, speaking on behalf of the Organization of the Islamic Conference noted the duties and responsibilities of nations to fight hate speech. He cited the need to protect not only individuals but religious and belief systems from negative stereotyping.Now no less distinguished a personage than the president of the United States has given his imprimatur to this tyranny; the implications are grave,Spencer continued.The resolution also condemns negative stereotyping of religions and racial groups,which is of course an oblique reference to accurate reporting about the jihad doctrine and Islamic supremacism – for that, not actual negative stereotyping or hateful language, is always the focus of whining by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and allied groups. They never say anything when people like Osama bin Laden and Khaled Sheikh Mohammed issue detailed Quranic expositions justifying violence and hatred; but when people like Geert Wilders and others report about such expositions, that's negative stereotyping.Eugene Volokh, who teaches free speech law, criminal law, tort law, religious freedom law and other subjects at UCLA, and also founded the Volokh Conspiracy weblog, said that the First Amendment protecting speech in the United States isn't so secure all of a sudden.If the U.S. backs a resolution that urges the suppression of some speech, presumably we are taking the view that all countries – including the U.S. – should adhere to this resolution,he said.If we are constitutionally barred from adhering to it by our domestic constitution, then we're implicitly criticizing that constitution, and committing ourselves to do what we can to change it,he said.The administration, he opined, would "presumably be committed to filing amicus briefs supporting changes in First Amendment law to allow such punishment, and in principle perhaps the appointment of justices who would endorse such changes (or even the proposal of express constitutional amendments that would work such changes).I'm worried that it might be a step backward for our own constitutional rights, because of what seems to be the U.S. endorsement of the suppression of any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence and possibly of negative stereotyping of religions and racial groups,Volokh said.

Advocacy of mere hostility – for instance advocacy that people should hate and be hostile to radical strains of Islam (and its adherents), or to Scientology, or to Catholicism, or to fundamentalist Christianity, or for that matter to religion generally – is clearly constitutionally protected here in the U.S.; but the resolution seems to call for its prohibition,he said. Beyond that, I'm worried that the executive branch's endorsement of speech-restrictive international human rights' norms will affect how the courts interpret the First Amendment, so that over time, an international norm against hate speech ... [would] supply a basis for prohibiting [hate speech], the First Amendment notwithstanding,he said.Spencer reported in 2008 the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic States, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, warned,We sent a clear message to the West regarding the red lines that should not be crossed regarding free speech about Islam and terrorism.The official West and its public opinion are all now well-aware of the sensitivities of these issues. They have also started to look seriously into the question of freedom of expression from the perspective of its inherent responsibility, which should not be overlooked, Ihsanoglu continued, according to Spencer's report.On Volokh's Web forum, one participant said,Just another example of how the Chicago Mafia that is now running this country is going to destroy it, in advocacy of their beloved New World Order, in which the USA is secondary to international groups,and indeed is held equal with, let us say, the Congo, or perhaps Belize, or Luxemburg, etc.Added another,Future liberal academics and judges will cite resolutions like this to claim the existence of a compelling interest in banning hate speech that overrides free speech rights. … In practice, hate speech laws are used in most of the world to silence dissent, not protect vulnerable minorities.The 57 member nations of the Organization of the Islamic Conference have lobbied for the anti-defamation plan, which is based on the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam, since 1999. The Cairo declaration states that all rights are subject to Shariah law, and makes Shariah law the only source of reference for human rights. The U.S. State Department also has found the proposal unpalatable.This resolution is incomplete inasmuch as it fails to address the situation of all religions,said a statement from Leonard Leo.We believe that such inclusive language would have furthered the objective of promoting religious freedom. We also believe that any resolution on this topic must include mention of the need to change educational systems that promote hatred of other religions, as well as the problem of state-sponsored media that negatively targets any one religion.

The hapless, clueless media October 19, 2009 1:00 am Eastern 2009

When a daring young man named James O'Keefe and a 20-year-old young woman named Hannah Giles rigged up some hidden video recorders and revealed the true depths of depravity of Barack Obama's ACORN, you might have expected these whistleblowers to be treated like heroes in the media. After all, they were doing the media's work – the work the media had failed to do for so long, as this corrosive and corrupt gangster organization got fatter and meaner while collecting hundreds of millions from taxpayers. Instead of welcoming O'Keefe and Giles into the fraternity and giving them awards for courage and making job offers, the media were downright hostile to the pair.They weren't asked how they did it. They weren't even asked why they did it. They weren't asked about the objects of their sting. There was little outrage or even concern expressed about ACORN officials willingly participating in exploiting under-age foreign girls as prostitutes or their eagerness to break other laws.

What did the media want to know about the ACORN tapes? They wanted to know if O'Keefe, the 25-year-old mastermind of the operation, had been trained at the infamous Leadership Institute, a conservative political organization in Washington.
It was as if his motivations were somehow the issue.Who cares where he was trained? It's not like they taught Obi Won Kenobi Jedi-style mind control tricks at the Leadership Institute.But that's the point. To most of my colleagues in the media, it's perfectly all right to lie about what Rush Limbaugh says and believes. It's just not OK to give ACORN members an opportunity to reveal the kind of monsters they truly are.

I'm ashamed of my profession.At least I'm ashamed of most of those who claim to be practitioners of my profession. The arrogance, self-righteousness and cluelessness they exhibit is truly breathtaking.I saw it again last week when we rolled out the new book Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America.Here is a story about three brave men – authors Paul Sperry, P. David Gaubatz and his son, Chris – who chronicled stunning new details about the secret operations of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an unindicted terrorist co-conspirator, based in part on a covert six-month-long penetration of the group.

And how did the media react?

A typical story is one written by the Politico. It was so biased toward the unindicted terrorist co-conspirators that it was actually posted on CAIR's website.
Nobody at Politico dreamed of talking to the authors to see what they had actually found. The entire story was constructed around the wrongs perpetrated against the innocent bystanders who make up one of the most important American beachheads of the Muslim Brotherhood, the same organization that spawned al-Qaida, Hamas and Hezbollah.It's like a collective madness has overcome my colleagues. They've lost the ability to think clearly, reason and recognize real threats to freedom, justice and decency.The worst threat they can see is an imaginary one – that always comes from that vast right-wing conspiracy.The extremists they see are not people like Van Jones and John Holdren and Cass Sunstein and Kevin Jennings – people serving in the highest levels of government. Instead, the extremists they see are people like me – running an independent news agency on a virtual shoestring, or people like Sperry and the Gaubatzes, or people like O'Keefe and Giles. Let me tell you something. I'm no threat to your freedom. Neither are Sperry, the Gaubatzes, O'Keefe or Giles.But if you want to discourage people like us from doing what we do, who is going to do it? If you want to give carte blanche to the ACORNs and CAIRs of the world to do their thing immune from exposure, where do you think that will lead?

Spanish FM shuns dissidents during Cuba visit By WILL WEISSERT, Associated Press Writer – OCT 19,09

HAVANA – Spain's foreign minister met with Cuban leader Raul Castro and other government leaders Monday during an official visit that has caused a stir for who he wouldn't see: top political opposition leaders on the island.Miguel Angel Moratinos met for nearly three hours with Castro at Havana's convention center, discussing human rights and winning a promise from the Cuban leader to repay nearly $300 million Cuba owes to Spanish companies that do business in the country. The Spanish diplomat declared himself satisfied with the talks.

We have achieved our objectives,he said.Moratinos passed on a chance to visit dissidents, political activists, independent Cuban journalists or members of Havana-based human rights organizations, a break with the past when Spanish leaders often held such meetings and enraged the Cuban government.Critics back home claimed he had stayed away for fear of angering President Castro — and that he had little to show for the effort. But that was before the sit-down with the Cuban head of state, which had not been announced beforehand by either side.Of his decision to skip talks with the dissidents, Moratinos said he had not come to Cuba to meet with any particular segment of Cuban society.Moratinos also held brief discussions with Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez. The Spanish diplomat arrived Saturday for a visit that stretched into Monday evening, but included just one day of work activities.Today, thanks to a new political reality between Cuba and Spain, we have the chance to support and foster efforts at cooperation,Moratinos said, adding later that all relations between the countries were normalized.Madrid and Havana had been on testy terms before the trip. The visit was all but ignored on Monday in Cuba's official press — highly unusual in a country where the resumes and speeches of even low-level guests from tiny or far away nations are reprinted verbatim.News of his visit wasn't in any of the main newspapers Monday, though it was carried on the Web site of the government-run National News Agency and that dispatch eventually was posted on Cubadebate, an Internet page where Fidel Castro publishes opinion columns.

Economist Martha Beatriz Roque, who was among 75 leading dissidents imprisoned as part of a government crackdown in 2003, said Monday that police have stepped up harassment in recent days to ensure activists stay out of sight during Moratinos' visit.Let him come here so he can see what real repression is,she said by phone Monday, speaking from the home of another dissident, Vladimiro Roca, a former fighter pilot and son of a legendary communist leader who has become an outspoken critic of the communist system.Spain's moderate socialist government assumes the revolving European Union presidency on Jan. 1, putting its policy toward Cuba under the spotlight. Moratinos promised Monday to use that post to elevate relations between the EU and the island. In August, several European diplomatic missions in Cuba irked the government by visiting the wife of a jailed dissident physician.

Jorge Moragas, a spokesman for Spain's conservative Popular Party said in a radio interview that Cuba's communist system falls far short of democratic standards.The head of Spanish diplomacy is acting with profound irresponsibility,he said.Moratinos counters that he is holding frank human rights discussions with Cuban officials.

Spanish-Cuban relations have remained chilly since former conservative Spanish President Jose Maria Aznar helped prompt a decision by the EU to impose sanctions on Cuba in 2003, after the 75 dissidents were rounded up on rather dubious charges of working with the United States to undermine the Cuban government.Moratinos visited in 2007, however, and the EU voted to lift sanctions last summer. This year, Spain plans to donate euro34 million ($50.6 million) to Cuban projects.Associated Press writer Jorge Sainz contributed to this report from Madrid.

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

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

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

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

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

WORLD MARKET RESULTS
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/
CNBC VIDEOS
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/site/14081545/?tabid=15839796&tabheader=false

HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS TUE OCT 20,2009

09:30 AM -6.42
10:00 AM -24.56
10:30 AM -46.25
11:00 AM -20.03
11:30 AM -77.54
12:00 PM -83.13
12:30 PM -82.07
01:00 PM -75.40
01:30 PM -73.76
02:00 PM -83.74
02:30 PM -71.95
03:00 PM -57.81
03:30 PM -71.57
04:00 PM -50.71 10,041.48

S&P 500 1091.06 -6.85

NASDAQ 2163.47 -12.85

GOLD 1,056.60 -1.60

OIL 79.09 -0.52

TSE 300 11,536.96 -1.43

CDNX 1339.59 +0.82

S&P/TSX/60 687.29 +0.01

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +14.99%
S&P +21.55%
Nasdaq +38.00%
TSX Advances 864,declines 708,unchanged 207,Volume 432,032,165.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 490,Declines 484,Unchanged 326,Volume 252,968,918.

Dow -11 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -99 points at low today.
Dow +6 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,065.50.OIL opens at $79.67 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -99 points at low today so far.
Dow +6 points at high today so far.

DAY TODAY PERFORMANCE - 12:30PM STATS
NYSE Advances 1,005,declines 2,608,unchanged 108,New Highs 336,New Lows 37.
Volume 2,880,499,585.
NASDAQ Advances 633,declines 1,976,unchanged 95,New highs 101,New Lows 09.
Volume 946,525,869.
TSX Advances 633,declines 683,unchanged 234,Volume 201,828,051.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 385,Declines 337,Unchanged 286,Volume 117,146,642.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -99 points at low today.
Dow +6 points at high today.
Dow -0.50% today Volume 214,482,552.
Nasdaq -0.59% today Volume 2,035,897,630.
S&P 500 -0.62% today Volume N/A

GERALD CELENTE TRENDS JOURNAL 2012 AND HAPPENINGS
http://www.lewrockwell.com/celente/Future-Trends-2012-Celente.pdf
BROWN ON COPENHAGAN CLIMATE SUMMIT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0iDb0gFolY&feature=player_embedded

WILLIAMS ON JONES SINCE JULY 28,2008
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MONCTONS SPEECH AMERICA WILL GIVE UP SOVERIGNTY AT CLIMATE MEETING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stij8sUybx0&feature=player_embedded
FALL OF REPUBLIC 5 TRAILER VIDEOS
http://www.prisonplanet.com/fall-of-the-republic-exposes-how-financial-terrorists-are-imposing-global-enslavement.html

LINDSEY WILLIAMS IS BACK FROM HIS NEW WORLD ORDER PREDICTIONS AGAIN.LETS SEE WHAT HE PREDICTED.

1-The New World Order is not impressed by Obama,They wanted Mccain to win.
2-In 2 years you will not recognise America anymore.
3-You will be to poor to rebell against the NWO.
4-Inflation will get worse over the next 2 years.
5-The dollar will collapse and prices skyrocket.
6-Crude oil will be up and down in price.
7-Gold and Silver will be all you can count on.He better read my verses on that one.
8-By 2012 the dollar will be dead.
9-War to start in Iran and Israel will go worldwide in 2012.
10-When the $2.5 Trillion dollars was givin to the New World order last year,they upt their timeline to 2 years 2012.
11-By 2012 all American companies will be owned by the Government.
12-His NWO nutcase dieing friend told him that Homeland security working throught the churches,decieving them will control the churches and he was always talking about this situation as Satans Messiah.

US COLLAPSE WHEN CHINA STOPS BUYING DEBT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1grSrasToHI&feature=player_embedded

Lightning Rod Lord Monckton's One-World Government
More By John Hudson on October 19, 2009 5:21pm

If President Obama signs the global climate treaty in Copenhagen, he will unravel the U.S. Constitution and usher in a one-world government. That, at least, is the dire warning of global warming skeptic Christopher Monckton in a speech to the Minnesota Free Market Institute. The video of his speech has been circulating through the conservative blogosphere at a breakneck pace.

Clearly, his conspiracy theories struck a nerve:

I read that treaty. And what it says is this, that a world government is going to be created. The word government actually appears as the first of three purposes of the new entity. The second purpose is the transfer of wealth from the countries of the West to third world countries, in satisfaction of what is called, coyly, climate debt - because we've been burning CO2 and they haven't. We've been screwing up the climate and they haven't. And the third purpose of this new entity, this government, is enforcement.While Monckton's words were swiftly dismissed by the few liberals who bothered to react, a slew of conservative pundits approvingly linked to the video, including blogger Michelle Malkin, radio host Alex Jones, birther lawyer Orly Taitz, and that clearinghouse of conservative news, World Net Daily. If nothing else, the burst of reaction illustrates how far right-wing fears about Obama's loyalties have gone, with many playing on the theme of whether the president is planning to cede U.S. sovereignty.

Ron Paul: US Dollar Collapse When China Stops Buying Debt
Posted on | October 16, 2009 |

In February of 2009 Ron Paul warned of a US Dollar collapse when China stops buying out debt in this video. There are many good points that Mr. Paul points out in the video but none were more prophetic then calling for the dollar bubble to burst. When the video was recorded the US Dollar index was around 86. Today the US Dollar Index is currently at 75.5.Another ironic fact about this video is that shortly after this video was recorded President Obama went on 60 Minutes and made the statement that the dollar is still strong.Unfortunately the dollar was not strong and we have seen that as a 10% drop has happened since the president’s statement. For those of you wondering why the value of the dollar continues to decline it is truly supply and demand.The Federal Reserve Bank continues to print money at will. The billions of dollars that have been created out of thin air because of the stimulus package are only decreasing the value of the dollar. Not only is the value of the dollar decreasing, the Federal Reserve Bank is causing people to do things that they normally would not do. With extremely low interest rates people are going to buy homes. There is no problem with people buying homes except that many of these home buyers cannot truly afford homes. For reference to this take a look at the subprime mortgage crisis.

Ron Paul has hope that things will get better though as many Americans are educating themselves to the situation at hand. The book End the Fed by Ron Paul remains on the Amazon.com Top 100 list when is encouraging. If we continue to do the research and better understand what is going on then we are more apt to make the changes necessary to avoid possible disaster.Make sure to return to Subprime Blogger to get your Ron Paul news. We also write columns on Jim Rogers, Peter Schiff and Gerald Celente as these men have done a great job of pointing out some of the problems America faces. Each of these men correctly predicted the decline of the dollar and the subsequent commodity bull market. We will continue to keep you updated on the commodity bull market as well as commentary from these individuals. The columns are located in the Current News section with a link located below.Current News Author: Jesse Wojdylo

The Rich Have Stolen the Economy Paul Craig Roberts
Infowars October 19, 2009

Bloomberg reports that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s closest aides earned millions of dollars a year working for Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and other Wall Street firms. Bloomberg reports that none of these aides faced Senate confirmation. Yet, they are overseeing the handout of hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer funds to their former employers.A record number of Americans, more than one in nine, are on food stamps.The gifts of billions of dollars of taxpayers’ money provided the banks with an abundance of low-cost capital that has boosted the banks’ profits, while the taxpayers who provided the capital are increasingly unemployed and homeless.JPMorgan Chase announced that it has earned $3.6 billion in the third quarter of this year.Goldman Sachs has made so much money during this year of economic crisis that enormous bonuses are in the works. The London Evening Standard reports that Goldman Sachs’ 5,500 London staff can look forward to record average payouts of around 500,000 pounds ($800,000) each. Senior executives will get bonuses of several million pounds each, with the highest paid as much as 10 million pounds ($16 million).In the event the banksters can’t figure out how to enjoy the riches, the Financial Times is offering a new magazine — How To Spend It.New York City’s retailers are praying for some of it, suffering a 15.3 percent vacancy rate on Fifth Avenue. Statistician John Williams (shadowstats.com) reports that retail sales adjusted for inflation have declined to the level of 10 years ago: Virtually 10 years worth of real retail sales growth has been destroyed in the still unfolding depression.Meanwhile, New York City’s homeless shelters have reached the all-time high of 39,000, 16,000 of whom are children.

New York City government is so overwhelmed that it is paying $90 per night per apartment to rent unsold new apartments for the homeless. Desperate, the city government is offering one-way free airline tickets to the homeless if they will leave the city and charging rent to shelter residents who have jobs. A single mother earning $800 per month is paying $336 in shelter rent.Long-term unemployment has become a serious problem across the country, doubling the unemployment rate from the reported 10 percent to 20 percent. Now hundreds of thousands more Americans are beginning to run out of extended unemployment benefits. High unemployment has made 2009 a banner year for military recruitment. A record number of Americans, more than one in nine, are on food stamps. Mortgage delinquencies are rising as home prices fall. According to Jay Brinkmann of the Mortgage Bankers Association, job losses have spread the problem from subprime loans to prime fixed-rate loans. On a Wise, Va., fairgrounds, 2,000 people waited in lines for free dental and health care. While the U.S. speeds plans for the ultimate bunker-buster bomb and President Obama prepares to send another 45,000 troops into Afghanistan, 44,789 Americans die every year from lack of medical treatment. National Guardsmen say they would rather face the Taliban than the U.S. economy.Little wonder. In the midst of the worst unemployment since the Great Depression, US corporations continue to offshore jobs and to replace their remaining US employees with lower paid foreigners on work visas. While jobs decline, high rates of legal immigration continue, bringing more competition for fewer jobs.

The offshoring of jobs, the bailout of rich banksters and war deficits are destroying the value of the U.S. dollar. Since last spring, the U.S. dollar has been rapidly losing value. The currency of the hegemonic superpower has declined 14 percent against the Botswana pula, 22 percent against Brazil’s real and 11 percent against the Russian ruble. Once the dollar loses its reserve currency status, the U.S. will be unable to pay for its imports or finance its government budget deficits.Offshoring has made Americans heavily dependent on imports, and the dollar’s loss of purchasing power will further erode American incomes. As the Federal Reserve is forced to monetize Treasury debt issues, domestic inflation will break out. Except for the banksters and the offshoring CEOs, there is no source of consumer demand to drive the U.S. economy.The political system is unresponsive to the American people. It is monopolized by a few powerful interest groups that control campaign contributions. Interest groups have exercised their power to monopolize the economy for the benefit of themselves, the American people be damned.

Gold at $2,000 Becomes Inflation-Adjusted Bullseye for 80 High
By Pham-Duy Nguyen

Oct. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Gold’s rally to a record means prices are still 53 percent below the 1980 inflation-adjusted peak. While gold rose 19 percent this year to $1,072 an ounce on Oct. 14, consumer prices almost tripled in the past three decades, eroding the metal’s value. Bullion hasn’t kept pace with the cost of bread, fuel or medical care. In 1980, gold hit a then-record $873 an ounce. In today’s dollars, that would be $2,287, according to the U.S. Labor Department’s inflation calculator. Record government debt and interest rates close to zero percent are pushing gold higher for a ninth straight year, and options show investors expect the rally to continue. When prices reached all-time highs, the contract with the most open interest was the December call to buy the metal at $1,200. The contract to purchase at $1,500 an ounce was the third biggest. Gold is not at any peak,said Martin Murenbeeld, the chief economist at Toronto-based DundeeWealth Inc., which manages $58.5 billion in mutual funds and brokerage accounts. The world’s money supply has increased and gold hasn’t kept pace,he said.We’re now in a period where gold is catching up.The U.S. Dollar Index, which measures the currency against those of six major trading partners, fell on Oct. 15 to the lowest level in 14 months, and has dropped about 7 percent this year. President Barack Obama has increased the nation’s marketable debt 22 percent to $7.01 trillion to revive growth.

Preserving Value

Gold bulls say today’s record borrowing and low interest rates mean the government will have to accept faster inflation as the economy recovers. Investors buy bullion to preserve value during times of turmoil and economic stress. Financial institutions worldwide have reported credit losses and writedowns of about $1.62 trillion since the start of 2007, when the credit crisis began. Group of 20 governments have pledged about $11.9 trillion to ease credit and revive economic growth, according to the International Monetary Fund. Gold is the hedge against currency devaluation,John Brynjolfsson, of hedge fund Armored Wolf LLC, said in a Bloomberg Television interview from Aliso Viejo, California, on Oct. 7. He predicted bullion will top $2,000.Banks have raised their gold estimates. On Oct. 9, JPMorgan Chase & Co. said the metal will average $1,006 an ounce next year, compared with an earlier projection of $950. Deutsche Bank AG forecast an average of $1,150, up 32 percent from its estimate in July. Barclays Capital said Oct. 12 that prospects for a run at $1,500 should not be underestimated next year.

Understated CPI

Gold would need to rise more than sixfold to top the 1980 record, using a more accurate inflation-adjustment, said John Williams, an economist and the editor of Berkeley, California- based Shadowstats.com. He said the government has understated the cost of living over the past two decades with adjustments in the way it measures the basket of goods and services monitored by the U.S. consumer price index, or CPI.
Gold futures for December delivery closed Oct. 16 at $1,051.50 an ounce on the New York Mercantile Exchange’s Comex division, gaining for a third straight week. If the methodologies of measuring inflation in 1980 had been kept intact, gold would have to hit $7,150 to be the equivalent of the 1980 record,Williams said.The cost of living in the U.S. rose 0.2 percent last month, the Labor Department said on Oct. 16. Compared with a year earlier, consumer prices fell 1.3 percent. The CPI will drop 0.5 percent this year, before rising 1.9 percent in 2010, reflected by the median estimates of 61 economists in a Bloomberg survey. Annual increases averaged 2.8 percent a year in the past decade.

Purchasing-Power Adjustment

In March 1980, inflation surged to a 14.8 percent annual rate, two months after gold capped a four-year rally. Adjusted for the decline in the dollar’s purchasing power since then, gold’s Oct. 14 record of $1,072 represents the equivalent of $409 in 1980dollars, the Labor Department calculator shows.Since January 1980, the average price of a pound of white bread has risen almost threefold, from about 50 cents to $1.38 in August, and medical care has surged more than fivefold, Labor Department figures show. Gasoline and electricity prices have more than doubled.Today, the gap between gold’s spot price and its CPI- adjusted equivalent is the widest ever.Gold hasn’t been as effective a hedge against inflation as oil since the 1980s, said Matt Zeman, of LaSalle Futures Group LLC in Chicago.

Oil Beats Gold

Crude passed its 1981 inflation-adjusted record two years ago. The cost of imported oil averaged $39 a barrel in February 1981, after Iran cut exports, according to the Energy Department. That’s $89 in 2007 dollars, the Labor Department calculator shows. Oil reached a record $147.27 on July 11, 2008, and closed at $78.53 on Oct. 16in New York trading.If you bought gold in the 1980s, you’re still losing money today,said Zeman, a metals trader. Gold prices in New York languished for two decades after declining from the 1980 record, dropping to a 20-year low of $253.20 on July 20, 1999.While bulls say gold is cheap, the inflation-adjusted price is 15 percent above its 30-year average, Bloomberg data show.The Federal Reserve may limit gains by raising interest rates before inflation balloons, analysts said. Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said on Oct. 8 that policy makers will need to raise interest rates at some point to control inflation.

Prepared to Tighten

When the economic outlook has improved sufficiently, we will be prepared to tighten, Bernanke said in remarks prepared for an Oct. 8 conference in Washington. Fed moves to cool inflation and the government’s revenue needs will stop gold, according to Jon Nadler, a senior analyst for Montreal metals dealer and refiner Kitco Inc. These wild calls for several-thousand-dollar gold are typical of times when gold goes into uncharted territory,Nadler said.The Fed will pull the interest-rate trigger and the Obama administration will, in addition, pull the tax-hike trigger before we get into any serious inflation. Once the man on the street gets in, the gold rally is likely over.Gold held in exchange-traded funds climbed to records this month at Zuercher Kantonalbank and ETF Securities Ltd. Holdings in the SPDR Gold Trust, the biggest exchange-traded fund backed by bullion, are up 42 percent this year. Hedge funds and other large speculators hold their most-bullish position ever in gold futures. So-called net-long positions, or bets prices will rise, increased by 6 percent to 253,955 contracts in the week ended Oct. 13, according to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

Gold Producers

The Philadelphia Stock Exchange Gold & Silver Index jumped 43 percent this year, as Phoenix-based Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. tripled. Toronto-based Barrick Gold Corp., the world’s largest producer, fell 10 percent. Barrick said Sept. 8 it will record $5.6 billion in third-quarter costs to eliminate fixed- price contracts as the company bets gold’s value will climb.At Jersey, Channel Islands-based GoldMoney.com, which held $759 million of gold and silver for investors as of Sept. 30, founder James Turk said bullion can climb eightfold based on the historical relationship between the metal and the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The Dow is up 10-fold since January 1980.Gold and the Dow, which has gained 14 percent this year to 9,995.91, were at about the same level during the Great Depression and the early 1980s, he said. On Jan. 21, 1980, as gold futures surged to $873, the Dow slipped to 946.25.The dollar is constantly being debased and inflated,Turk said.By 2013, gold is going to be at $8,000 and the Dow will be at 8,000.

Gold-Dollar Link

Deutsche Bank said early this month that the dollar will fall to $1.60 per euro next year, a drop of 7.3 percent from last week, because of rising fiscal deficits and loose monetary policy.Gold has moved in the opposite direction of the dollar over most of the past decade. The metal’s correlation coefficient to the U.S. Dollar Index is minus 0.8539, Bloomberg data show. A correlation of minus 1 indicates two assets move inversely to each other, while a 1 would show they move in tandem. A reading of zero shows no correlation.Philip Gotthelf, the president of Equidex Brokerage Group Inc. in Closter, New Jersey, says he expects gold to trade at $1,250 by year-end.Gold has been pushing higher because it’s no longer just a hedge against commodity inflation, it’s also a hedge against a change in world-monetary standards.
To contact the reporter on this story: Pham-Duy Nguyen in Seattle at pnguyen@bloomberg.net.Last Updated: October 18, 2009 19:31 EDT

EU funds still vulnerable to fraud in Bulgaria
VALENTINA POP Today OCT 20,09 @ 09:23 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – Most EU funds are still on hold in Bulgaria due to weak financial supervision and scant follow-up on irregularities, while Romania seems to manage the monies better, a special report by the EU commission seen by this website reveals.The document is a review of all EU financing programmes in Bulgaria and Romania from the date of their accession on 1 January 2007 until 31 July 2009. It was requested by the European Parliament in April, after the EU commission decided to freeze €500 million of payments due to fraud and corruption.The 17-page long update finds that the same problems which led to the suspension of pre-accession funds in 2008 were encountered with the regional and agricultural funds which Bulgaria began receiving after joining the EU: conflicts of interest, no follow-up on irregularities and fraud and lack of efficient oversight in the management of funds.With every financing programme, the EU commission stresses the importance of assuring that lessons are learnt in the transition form pre-accession funds, for instance in beefing up the administrative capacity and following-up on fraud and corruption cases.All the national programmes which need to be in place for securing structural funds worth over €3 billion in 2007-2009 were rejected twice by the commission due to shortcomings in the management system and for lack of consistency between audit findings and the overall audit opinion.The absorption rate of EU funds in Bulgaria is therefore particularly low: only a third of the €1.3 billion of so-called pre-accession funds have been paid out and €109 million are still frozen.

Out of the €1.03 billion Bulgaria was entitled to in the last two years for regional and infrastructure projects under the so-called European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), Sofia only got €288 million as advance payments, but no further funds can be cleared until the national programmes are approved. The commission also found some fraud cases linked to this fund and advised Bulgaria to cancel the launch of a number of inadequately designed grant schemes.As an extra-safety measure, the commission said that its services will make on-the-spot checks before the next payments are made, in order to verify that the Bulgarian authorities have actually implemented all the requested measures.The new centre-right premier, Boyko Borissov, who took office during the summer, has promised to tackle crime and graft and convince Brussels that his country can properly manage EU funds.Former Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev on Sunday (18 October) admitted that together with fellow Socialists we look more like a gang of villains rather than adherents to a cause.He also confessed that public funds and resources were not distributed in the best possible way, that he failed to crack down on corruption and to provide for the absorption of EU funds.The Bulgarian government needs to show a credible and long-term engagement in the management of EU funds and fight against fraud, German Christian-Democrat MEP Ingeborg Grassle told EUobserver.Ms Grassle was the MEP who requested the report. She said it was particularly worrying that none of the fraud cases involving EU money ended in a conviction in a Bulgarian court. Ms Grassle also criticised the commission for paying a lot of money to Bulgaria despite suspicions and criticism concerning the control systems.

Romania better off

Despite similar problems with high-level corruption and lack of criminal convictions, Romania seems to have performed better in the first two years of EU membership when it comes to the management of EU funds.All of its operational programmes for structural funds have been approved and money has already started flowing for different regional and infrastructure projects. Out of the roughly €8 billion it can get reimbursed for payments made in 2007-2009, Romania already received some €2.6 billion in regional aid.When it comes to pre-accession funds, Romania failed to absorb only €169 million out of a total of €3 billion.However, the commission remains concerned over the low capacity for financial management and control at local level and also stresses the importance of applying lessons learnt from the pre-accession programmes to the structural and agriculture funds.

Canada May Keep Key Rate at 0.25%, Say Dollar a Risk to Growth
By Greg Quinn and Theophilos Argitis

Oct. 20 (Bloomberg) -- The Bank of Canada will probably keep its key interest rate at a record low today and say that the Canadian dollar’s rise toward parity with the U.S. currency threatens an economic recovery. The target rate for overnight loans between commercial banks will stay at 0.25 percent in a decision due at 9 a.m. New York time, said all 26 economists surveyed by Bloomberg. Money markets have priced in no chance of a rate increase. The bank will also probably repeat a commitment to keep the rate unchanged through June 2010 unless the inflation outlook shifts, economists said.The Canadian currency has gained as much as 5.1 percent since the bank’s last decision Sept. 10, when policy makers said its persistent strength could delay the return of inflation to the 2 percent target. Governor Mark Carneysaid Sept. 28 that the stronger currency reflects a rebound in commodity prices and a more generalized weakening of the U.S. dollar.The onus is on the Bank of Canada sending a signal that it does not plan on hiking rates in the near term,said Eric Lascelles, chief economics and rates strategist at TD Securities Inc. in Toronto, a unit of Canada’s second-biggest bank.That probably will take a little bit of the wind out of the currency’s sails,he said, adding the effect is likely to be only temporary.The Canadian dollar traded at C$1.03 per U.S. dollar late yesterday, leaving it 18 percent stronger than at the start of this year, and about 10 percent above the exchange rate assumed in the central bank’s July economic forecast. The appreciation makes the country’s shipments of automobiles, lumber and metals to the U.S. less competitive and restrains inflation by making imports cheaper.

Weaker Inflation

Consumer prices have been weaker than the bank projected in July, with an average annual decrease of 0.9 percent in the third quarter, compared with the bank’s July forecast for prices to fall 0.7 percent.The Bank of Canada has little to fear from inflation anytime soon,” said Stewart Hall, an economist at HSBC Securities in Toronto.The currency last traded at parity with U.S. dollar in July 2008, and rising commodity prices and a general U.S. dollar decline may take it to a record high, David Rosenberg, chief economist and strategist at Toronto-based wealth manager Gluskin Sheff & Associates Inc., said in an interview in Bloomberg’s Toronto office. The currency closed at a record 92.03 Canadian cents per U.S. dollar on Nov. 6, 2007.

Much More Painful

A Canadian dollar trading above parity may be much more painful to the economy than two years ago, said Doug Porter, deputy chief economist with BMO Capital Markets in Toronto. Last time we were at parity, oil prices were closer to $100 a barrel and commodity prices in general were a lot stronger and U.S. demand was a lot healthier, Porter said.Still, the central bank will probably just stick to its pledge to keep rates low instead of driving down the currency by selling Canadian dollars in exchange markets or doing so-called quantitative easing, Porter said. It probably increases the chance the Bank of Canada will stay on hold until the middle part of 2010,he said.Canada reported an unexpected drop in the unemployment rate for September as employers added 30,600 jobs, and home resales and prices have also increased in the past few months. Prices for commodities that make up half the country’s exports have also risen 15 percent so far this year, after last year’s 31 percent plunge.

Australia’s Rate

Investors increased bets that the central bank will raise borrowing costs within the next year after Australia became the first Group of 20 country to raise interest rates since the global crisis began. Bank of Canada Senior Deputy Governor Paul Jenkins stressed that Australia is more tied to China, where orders are stronger, while Canada’s main customer is the U.S.One shouldn’t draw a very tight comparison between what’s happening in Australia and Canada,Jenkins said. Prime Minister Stephen Harper has called the economic recovery fragile and echoed Carney’s comments about the currency, while fending off Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff’s effort to force an early election. Harper has said an election now would threaten government stimulus spending.The central bank may increase its prediction for growth in the second half of this year. The bank has said there has been progress in reviving automobile production and reducing inventories of unsold goods. Jenkins said Oct. 8 that some of this stronger growth reflects the effects of temporary factors, such as the impact of the U.S. cash-for-clunkers program on Canadian automotive production.

In July, the Bank of Canada said the economy would grow at a 1.3 percent annualized third-quarter pace, ending a recession that began at the end of last year, and forecast fourth-quarter growth of 3 percent.We have seen some recent recovery,Ian Cameron, chief financial officer of methanol producer Methanex Corp., said last month on an earnings call.Demand in Asia has increased and we are seeing some modest signs of recovery in demand also in North America and Europe just recently. To contact the reporters on this story: Greg Quinn in Ottawa at gquinn1@bloomberg.net; Theophilos Argitis at targitis@bloomberg.net.

Oil and gold rise as US dollar's slide continues October 21, 2009 .

OIL rose above $US80 a barrel for the first time since last October in New York early yesterday while gold traded near a one-year high as the US dollar slipped to a 14-month low against the euro, adding to the investment appeal of commodities.The US dollar index, which measures the greenback against six major currencies, fell to its lowest since August last year, declining 0.4 per cent to 75.25 points last night. Other commodities also posted gains, with copper making a six-week high in Shanghai, rubber advancing to the most in a year and corn reaching its highest in three months.

Strong commodities helped to push the Australian sharemarket higher, with the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index climbing 53.4 points, or 1.11 per cent, to 4846.2.Crude oil for November delivery rose as much as US44¢, or 0.6 per cent, to $US80.05 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange, the first time the front-month contract has traded above $US80 since October 14 last year. Gold for immediate delivery was down 0.2 per cent at $US1062.46.In US trading early yesterday, oil advanced 1.4 per cent while gold rose 1.1 per cent as US equities climbed on better than estimated earnings and speculation that the economy was healthy enough for policymakers to unwind efforts to shore up the financial system.

Hedge funds and other large speculators hold their most bullish position ever in futures, helping to propel gold's gains for the year to 21 per cent as a weaker dollar and rising government debt spur concern that inflation may accelerate. Spot gold touched a record high of $US1070.80 last Wednesday.There are long positions building up,said Darren Heathcote, head of trading at Investec Bank in Sydney. There's a pretty good reason for it as we continue to see the US dollar weaken daily. The market is becoming more comfortable with diversification and more people are looking to get gold.According to technical analysis by ANZ, crude oil could rise to $US89.95 a barrel now that it has breached a key resistance level of $US76.28 a barrel. BLOOMBERG

Revised Greek deficit figures cause outrage
ANDREW WILLIS Today OCT 20,09 @ 09:26 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – Senior EU financial personalities expressed deep concern, bordering on amazement, on Monday night (19 October) over recently revised Greek deficit forecasts.At a Luxembourg meeting of the euro area's 16 finance ministers, Greek minister George Papaconstantinou from the newly elected Socialist government gave a presentation on his country's shaky situation.Forecasts released earlier this year by the former centre-right government predicted a deficit of 3.7 percent of GDP for 2009. But new figures released by the country's central bank now say it is more likely to exceed 10 percent of GDP, and could hit 12 percent. I have to say that I am very impressed by the difference between the old and the new figures,said the meeting's chairman, Jean-Claude Juncker, with characteristically dry sense of humour.It happens occasionally but if it happens again we risk putting all Eurostat data at risk of credibility,he added more seriously.Greek deficit forecasts made by Eurostat – the EU's statistic's office – have also been off the mark due to the poor quality of information provided to them by the southeastern European country.The EU's economy commissioner, Joaquin Almunia, was straight to the point in the news conference after the meeting.We want to know what has happened and why it has happened,he said, indicating that the commission, Eurostat and the Greek statistics office would be getting together shortly to discuss the issue.Serious discrepancies will require an open and deep investigation,he added.

Large states told to respect budget pact

While one of Europe's big spenders was given a thorough chastising, France and Germany were also told to get their finances in order. EU economies are bound by the Stability and Growth Pact which limits budget deficits to three percent of GDP. However a 2005 revision of the pact allows government's to exceed this level under exceptional circumstances, an alteration they have taken full advantage of in the current climate.Twenty of the EU's 27 members have now been the subject of some form of deficit action from the European Commission, meaning a report with a timetable to bring deficits down.France expects its overall public deficit to reach 8.2 percent of GDP in 2009, rising to 8.5 percent in 2010. Germany - the euro area's biggest economy - expects its deficit to swell from 3.7 percent of GDP this year to 6 percent in 2010.Mr Juncker said smaller member states would have great difficulty in explaining to their citizens why spending cuts and tax rises were needed to bring deficits down, if their bigger neighbours did not take similar action. Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, agreed. France and Germany have to be treated in the same fashion,he said.Euro area finance ministers now agree that exit strategies to end the current stimulus measures should commence in 2011, assuming commission figures out next month point to economic recovery in 2010.The precondition is that any forecast euro area growth is based on normal economic drivers and not the current stimulus spending which is inflating demand.Once that condition is met, budget consolidation through spending cuts and tax rises will need to exceed the normal 0.5 percent of GDP warned Mr Juncker, while Mr Almunia indicated that for several member states the process will need to start before 2011.

UK's Brown urges progress on climate pact By GREGORY KATZ, Associated Press Writer – Mon Oct 19, 5:27 pm ET

LONDON – The world has less than two months to agree on how to avoid catastrophic global warming whose impact would be felt for generations, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday, a stark warning that puts pressure on the United States to finalize its position before this year's global climate conference in Denmark.Brown told delegates to the Major Economies Forum talks in London that countries need to compromise with one another to reach a deal at December's conference to avoid the catastrophe of unchecked climate change.There are now fewer than 50 days to set the course of the next few decades,Brown said. We cannot afford to fail. If we fail now, we will pay a heavy price. ... If we falter, the Earth will itself be at risk.The U.N. conference in Copenhagen will cap two years of negotiations on a global climate change treaty to replace the U.N.'s 1997 Kyoto Protocol on carbon dioxide emissions. Brown, who plans to attend the U.N. conference, called on fellow leaders to join him in hammering out an urgent agreement.If we do not reach a deal at this time, let us be in no doubt: Once the damage from unchecked emissions growth is done, no retrospective global agreement in some future period can undo that choice. By then it will be irretrievably too late.Despite Brown's grim warning, the Swedish and British environment ministers said progress had been made on figuring out how funds will be handled to help poor countries adapt to climate change and slow the growth of their own emissions.We are more in agreement about how the financial system should be managed, and there is also shared support for the idea that developing countries should be included and have their say in the management of the system, Sweden's Andreas Carlgren told The Associated Press.The financial architecture is a key element of a Copenhagen agreement, though not one of the most contentious issues.

More pressing is the demand by developing countries to know how much money the wealthy countries are prepared to pay. The environmental group Greenpeace said Monday at least $140 billion a year will be needed. European Union finance ministers were to meet Tuesday in Luxembourg to discuss the offer the EU will take to Copenhagen.President Barack Obama revived the small forum of leading economies earlier this year, but details of the discussions usually are kept confidential.The United States' climate envoy, Todd Stern, said after the meeting that it was unlikely that President Barack Obama would heed the call to attend the Copenhagen conference in person.We're not writing anything off ... but we treat this as a ministerial meeting, Stern said.Stern also declined to go as far as Brown in saying the world faced a catastrophe, saying you should ask a scientist.Few other world leaders have said they will go to the U.N. conference, though Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will likely attend.

British Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband said clinching a new pact was proving to be an uphill struggle.This is absolutely not a done deal,he said after the 17-nation London meeting. Still, he said, I feel it's more doable today than I did yesterday.Wealthy nations are seeking broad controls on emissions from all countries in the new pact.Developing countries say industrialized nations should carry most of the burden, saying tough limits on their emissions would likely hamper their economic growth. The British leader appealed to both the industrialized and developing world, saying they each could take advantage of business opportunities in creating new energy sources and improving energy efficiency.The two-day talks in London, ending Monday, were attended by representatives from Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, the European Union, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Britain and the United States.Pressure has been mounting for the U.S. to put together a position before the U.N. conference. The Obama administration says that is tied to action by Congress, where climate bills are slowing moving forward.Stern said the United States was making headway but gave no concrete proposals for emissions reductions.Other nations, including India, China, Brazil and Mexico, have agreed to draw up national programs to slow the growth of greenhouse gas emissions, but have resisted making those limits binding and subject to international monitoring in a treaty.Worries over the U.S. and China have led to mounting pessimism that a deal can be struck in Copenhagen without major policy changes.The prospects that states will actually agree to anything in Copenhagen are starting to look worse and worse,Rajendra Pachauri, head of the U.N. scientific panel studying climate change, wrote in a Friday post on the Newsweek Web site.Associated Press Writers Malin Rising in Stockholm and David Stringer in London contributed to this report.